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Obama faces worry at home, abroad over Iran

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HEPATITIS C:

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

A public health threat Our Correspondent Kohima | November 12

He is from Hojai Nagaon. It’s amazing, there are so many who want to serve our nation.

Hijacked truck retrieved; 2 held

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 12 (MExN): One truck (AS 01 DC 2583), which was hijacked on November 10 night was recovered on November 11 and two persons were arrested. They were identified as Hussain Ali alias Ahmid (20) and Nasiruddin Ali alias Surjali Ali (20), both residents of Darogapathar, Dimapur and hail from Nagaon, Assam.

According to police, the duo hijacked the truck from 2 ½ Mile after overpowering the handyman. At the time, the driver of truck, identified as Monihar Meitei, was in hospital attending to a colleague, who was injured in a road mishap earlier in the evening. The injured driver was identified as Kohnoi.

The police said that Meitei and Kohnoi were enroute Imphal from Guwahati when the truck (AS 01 DC 6737), driven by the latter, met with an accident at 2 ½ Mile. The hijacking occurred when Meitei was in hospital attending to Kohnoi, leaving the truck under the charge of his handyman. The handyman was found tied up behind a bush, police said. The truck and the hijackers were traced the next day by the Special Operations Team of Dimapur police from 4th Mile.

NSSA protests govt inaction

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KOhIMA, NOVEMBER 12 (MExN): The Nagaland Secretariat Service Association (NSSA) has started its symbolic first phase protest by wearing Black Badges from November 12 to show its resentment over the Government’s “prolonged delay in fulfilling its committed assurances to pending NSS Cadre related issues.” This was stated in a press release from the NSSA’s general secretary. The Association has stated that it will continue donning Black Badges till the afternoon of November 13. The next course of action will be decided at the General Body Meeting, which is being convened on the same day, i.e. November 13, at the Secretariat Plaza at 2:00 pm.

mal resource utility.

Hepatitis C is curable and the treatment lasts from 6 months to 1 year.

However, people continue to die because the treatment is very expensive and the diagnostics for screening and monitoring the treatment is not accessible.

Abou Mere stated that the central and state government has not responded to the epidemic as yet.

Mere informed that government employees can claim reimbursement for the treatment of Hepatitis C; however, people without government employment continue to die because they cannot afford or access the medicines. He appreciated the initiative of Naga Hospital Authority Kohima in collaboration with Merck to provide free diagnostics and preferential pricing for the treatment of the infection. “Yet, even the so called preferential pricing is out of question for many Nagas, especially from marginalized community like people living with HIV or people who use drugs. They have no option but to accept that they will have to live and die with Hepatitis C,” he said.

He urged the Commissioner of Health, medical doctor’s fraternity, civil society and community activist to work together, recognize Hepatitis C as a public health threat to Naga society and work towards access to treatment and further reduction of pegylated interferon- which is considered as the current standard of care.

‘If this situation is not addressed now, there will be a huge burden on healthcare’

Man found dead DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 12 (MExN): In a suspected case of murder, one man was found dead at Super Market, Dimapur on November 12. Police recovered the body at around 9:42 am. The deceased, later identified as Matiso Mao (24 years), was a resident of Purana Bazaar and hailed from Padunamai village, Senapati, Manipur.

Police said that marks of injury were found on the head and on the left elbow.

The body was later handed over to relatives after conducting post-mortem.

The prevalence rate of Hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in Nagaland is 20.8 percent, as documented by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), through the Integrated BioBehavioral Assessment study. “If this situation is not addressed now, there will be a huge burden on healthcare in the years to come,” stated Abou Mere, Convenor of NepCoN during the culmination programme of the Hepatitis C signature campaign at DUDA Guest House, Kohima on November 12. The event was conducted by the Kohima Users Network (KUN) along with HepCoN. Commissioner and Secretary for Health and Family Welfare, Sentiyanger, stressed on the need to spread Hepatitis C awareness, particularly in the villages. He further called for KUN and HepCoN to immediately write to the project director, Nagaland State AIDS Control Society, so that it would be one of the agendas in the next meeting.

Sharing the overview of the signature campaign, Ketholelie Angami informed that the Integrated Bio-Behavioral Assessment (IBBA Round 1 and 2) done by the ICMR showed an increasing trend of HCV among Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) from Phek and Wokha (5.4% to 8.7% and 16.7% to 20.8 % respectively.)

However, he stated, in recent years, not much

has been done by the state government, civil organizations nor the NGOs working in the field of HIV/ AIDS and other health sectors, whereas the epidemic continues to spread rapidly and at an alarmingly rate.

He said that the signature campaign, which started on September 14, aims to provide information on

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Police must register FIR or face action: SC

NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 12 (IANS): The Supreme Court Tuesday said that it is mandatory for the police to register an FIR if a complainant approaches it for the registration of a cognizable offence.

The apex court constitution bench comprising Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice B.S. Chauhan, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S.A. Bobde said action will be taken against the police officer who fails to register First Information Report (FIR) on the

complaint of a cognizable offence.

The legislative intent is for compulsory registration of FIR in case of cognizable offence, said Chief Justice Sathasivam, speaking for the bench. Cognizable offences are those which attract punishment of three years or more in case of conviction and where an investigating officer can arrest an accused without warrant.

However, the court added a rider that if a complainant prima facie does not disclose a cognizable

offence, then the investigating officer is entitled to conduct preliminary inquiry just to ascertain whether the complaint constitutes a cognizable offence. Such a preliminary inquiry should be time bound and not take more than one week.

The court clarified that preliminary inquiry can be conducted in certain matters only to determine if there was cognizable element in the complaint relating to matrimonial family disputes, commercial offences, cases of medical negligence, corruption cas-

es and cases of abnormal delay in the lodging of the complaint. The court clarified that the list is illustrative and not exhaustive.

If a police officer decides to conduct a preliminary inquiry and finds that complaint does not merit registration of FIR, then the same shall be recorded and a copy of the closure report shall be given to the first informant in seven days. Failure to comply with said direction would entail disciplinary action against erring investigating officer.

how Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is transmitted. HCV is transmitted through contact with an infected person’s blood while sharing razor or toothbrush, sharing needles/syringes and other injecting paraphernalia with someone infected with Hepatitis C, having unprotected sex with someone with Hepatitis C, accidental prick by a needle infected with Hepatitis C, skin piercing, tattoo (with contaminated ink or needle), receiving infected blood products for hemophilia, receiving unscreened blood & blood product etc.

The objective is to educate the people who use drugs (PUDs) on HCV by reaching out to them at the various IDU intervention projects and service providers. He added that the drop-in-centre serves as a hub for many IDUs to congregate and where optimum information of HCV can be imparted with mini-

Implement govt assurances: ENSF ‘Deliver justice fairly without fear or favour’ Morung Express News

Restricts movement of all government vehicles on Day 2 of Phase 2 agitation

Tuensang | November 12

Morung Express News Tuensang | November 12

The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) carried out day 2 of its phase 2 agitation on November 12 by restricting the movement of all government vehicles in the four districts of eastern Nagaland. Volunteers were seen placed at strategic points of Tuensang town, stopping government vehicles plying on the road. The vehicles were then parked at the public ground, Tuensang.

A meeting which had been scheduled to take place between School Education Minister, CM Chang and officials of the ENSF did not materialize. ENSF sources informed that the Minister could not attend the scheduled meeting because of the restriction imposed on government vehicles. It may be noted the Minister had earlier failed to attend the meeting on November 11, which had to be rescheduled for November 12.

ENSF, President, Shahsha L Menhahu in conversation with The Morung Express informed that “that day 3 of its phase 2 agitation would be carried out on November 13.” He informed that there will be a bandh on all the four eastern districts of Nagaland and that the restriction on plying of government vehicles will continue. However, the bandh will exempt educational institutions,

Seen here are government vehicles lined up at Public Ground, Tuensang. They were seized by ENSF volunteers as part of their phase two agitation on November 12.

administration, police, medical, fire and emergency services.

The ENSF President asserted that “the agitation will continue till the assurances made by the government are implemented.” “We have heard enough assurances.

Now, we want implementation,” he added. Sahsha stated that the ENSF “is not demanding for something out of other’s share.” He declared that the ENSF “is only demanding our due share.”

In response to communiqués from the home department, stating that the government order for conversion and transfer of eight coys of NAP Battalion would be kept in “abeyance”, the ENSF President said that the ENSF has not accepted this course of action. He stated that the order would have to be cancelled.

Sahshsa informed that the home department’s communiqué had also cited the state’s financial problems as a reason for its inability to create new posts and recruitment. In response, the ENSF President stated that reasons and excuses would not suf-

fice and demanded that fresh recruitments would need to be implemented at the earliest.

Sahsha informed that the Department of School Education had also communicated with the ENSF citing “various reasons” regarding ENSF demands. In response, the ENSF President said, “We don’t want to listen to reasons anymore.” He further stated that the demands and the agitation in the four eastern Nagaland districts can serve as an example for other districts of the State to demand their due rights.

The ENSF has been demanding for full implementation of the Niathu Resort Meeting, the memorandum submitted to the Commissioner & Secretary School Education and SCERT, regular implementation of MDM and Anganwadi, fresh and open recruitment of DEF Personal exclusively for six Eastern Tribes of Nagaland, and to cancel the Government-order for conversion and transfer of eight coys of NAP Battalion from 1st NAP to 8th NAP personnel into DEF Staff.

Parliamentary secretary for CAWD, R Tohanba, has said in the context of Naga society, customary courts play a vital role in dispensing justice quickly and without fear or favour.

The parliamentary secretary said under Article 371 (A), Nagaland state has been granted special status and given the freedom to dispense justice as per Naga customs and traditional practices.

Stating that customary courts are best suited to Naga society, Tohanba also said customary courts

Tohanba inaugurates customary court in Chessore

dispense cases quickly and inexpensively without the hassles of lengthy legal proceedings as in other courts.

The parliamentary secretary was addressing a function after inaugurating the public ground and customary court at Chessore town in Tuensang district on November 11. Addressing the DBs and public of the area inside the newly constructed customary court, the parliamentary secretary urged upon the DBs and GBs, custodians

of Naga traditional laws, to deliver justice in a fair manner without fear or favour.

He also said that DBs and GBs should be men of integrity and moral uprightness and that they should not possess “two tongues.”

Tohanba further reminded that DBs and GBs play a key role in strengthening the arms of the administration.

Earlier, inaugurating the Chessore public ground, the parliamentary secretary said playgrounds

are meeting points of not only sports events but also of other functions and official programmes. He assured to look into the representation of Chessore Area Sports Association, which appealed to the department concerned and the parliamentary secretary to construct a rostrum in the playground and also retaining walls.

District Sports Officer, Tuensang, Tsalise Sangtam, assistant engineer CAWD Tuensang, head DB Chessore, P Helumong and others also spoke on the occasion.

SDO (C) Chessore, Bendanglila, chaired the inauguration programme.

29 Ar apprehends “arms smugglers”

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 12 (MExN): The 29 Assam Rifles (AR) has claimed that it has busted a “pan India” arms smuggling racket from Dimapur. “In a major breakthrough, based on specific input from HQ 6 Sector Assam Rifles, operations were undertaken by 29 AR along with Dimapur police in various localities of Dimapur city namely Burma Camp, Eros Lane, Dhansiri, Darogajan and Chumukedima,” stated Lt. Col. AS Chauhan, PRO of AR in a press release today.

During these operations, the 29 AR has claimed to have found an alleged arms dealer named Sanjay “who was in possession of eight pistols” and was arrested later. Based on his information, “some others involved in this racket were also apprehended.” This include an alleged NSCN (IM)

The 29 Assam Rifles has claimed to have bust a “pan India arms smuggling racket” in Dimapur

cadre named John Longthasa who, according to the AR, “had come to Dhansiri to sell one Berretta pistol and two magazines to Mr. Sanjay Sharma, Mrs. Mary approx 70 yrs of age in possession of one AK series rifle, one suspected lady cadre of NSCN (IM) who was working with Mr. Sanjay Sharma and Mr. Rajesh Gupta, a relative of Mr. Sanjay Sharma and resident of

Bareilly.” Three other persons supporting the “racket” were also apprehended from different locations.

Based on information given by Sanjay, Awon Angkang, another alleged cadre of the NSCN (IM) was located at Chumukedima. The AR postulated that “when the vehicle in which she [Awon] was travelling was searched, Mrs Mary aged 70 years who was travel-

ling in the same vehicle was found in possession of one AK series rifle. It seems near impossible that a senior citizen would be involved in weapon smuggling and in all likelihood, this weapon must have been handed over to her by Mrs Awon Angkang to save herself.”

The AR further suggested that the Berretta, which was brought by John Longthasa, was “identical to the other three Berettas with similar tags that were recovered from Mr Sanjay Sharma. In all nine pistols and one AK series rifle were recovered by the AR personnel. Out of these ten weapons, seven pistols i.e, four Berettas, two Llamas and one Astra are brand new and were to be smuggled out to other parts of country by Mr Rajesh Gupta, the so called brother in law of Mr Sanjay Sharma.”

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148-meter Dikhu Community leaders trained on Child Rights Bridge inaugurated Wokha, november 12 (mexn): The District Child Protection Unit Wokha, under the Department of Social Welfare held Block Level Sensitization Training programme for community leaders on “Child Rights’ and Integrated Child Protection Scheme” (ICPS) at Bhandari under Wokha district on November 8 at Bhandari Town Hall.

The resource persons for the training were Phuleto Sema, Chief Judicial Magistrate and Chairman Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), Wokha and Neinguvotuo Krose Legal Cum Probation Officer, Wokha gave Speech on the topic “Child Right” and Integrated Child protection Scheme (ICPS) and its components respectively.

The objective of organising the training was to raise public awareness about the reality of child rights situation and protection in India where ICPS is contributing to the improvement in the well-being of children in difficult circumstances, to the reduction of vulnerabilities to situations and actions that lead to abuse, neglect,

Changtongya, november 12 (DIPr): Inaugural programme of Dikhu Bridge on Changtongya and Longleng road was held on November 12 with Minister for PWD (R&B) and Parliamentary Affairs, Kuzholuzo Nienu as the chief guest.

Er. Lima Tongdang Jamir Superintendent Engineer PWD (R&B) Mokokchung Circle chaired the programme. Er D. Mero Chief Engineer PWD (R&B) presented a brief technical report. Mero said that the bridge was constructed as composite bridge at girder, tin and RCC by MS Company that the bridge was completed within 57 month measuring 148 meter in length at the cost of 17 crore of which only 95 lakhs was paid to the MS Company till date.

Speaking on the occasion as chief guest, Kuzholuzo expressed gratitude to the MS Company for constructing the bridge despite of all the liabilities,

which he assured that it, will be cleared on time by the Government. He then said that the bridge is the only lifeline for the people of Longleng that the Company has shown utmost concern for the people of Longleng. He also said as per precautionary measure to all the public and villagers not to use any kind of explosive near the bridge or to collect stone which will damage the foundation of the bridge.

Regarding the SRDP project for the construction of road, he said the task has been health at the highest level involving the Chief Minister for the resumption of the work at the earliest. Until date, he said that the maintenance of the road would be entrusted to the MS Company with cooperation and contribution from the local MLA from the LADP fund and from the concern department.

Minister for Industries & Commerce S. Pangnyu Phom speaking on the oc-

DImaPur, november 12 (mexn): An advocacy sensitization programme for barbers under Dimapur Municipal Council was held on November 12 at District Hospital Chapel Hall (DHD) Dimapur. Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS), Kohima, District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU) Dimapur, Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) and Barbers’ Union Dimapur jointly organized the programme.

Paul R. Chawang, Consultant, Mainstreaming,

of basic of HIV/AIDS, STI and condoms, which was shared by Lucy where she highlighted the routes of transmission, sign and symptoms of STI and shared on the topic of stigma and discrimination. Topic on importance of blood testing and services available was shared Atsung, Program manager, Prodigals Home (Migrants), Dimapur.

Altogether 80 particiParticipants during the advocacy sensitization programme for barbers under Dimapur Municipal Council on November 12. pants participated in the program and out of which NSACS chaired the pro- welcome note thanked gramme and for reaching bers’ union under DMC. gramme. Ganesh Sharma, the NSACS and DAPCU out in giving awareness The participants were 25 barbers came forward Liaison Officer, DMC in his for conducting the pro- and sensitizing the bar- sensitized on the topic for voluntary blood testing.

casion appealed to all the landowners to cooperate and to make land for developmental work on behalf of the Government department. He also thanked MS Company for construction of the bridge and completing it at the earliest, which has been a long, cherish dream for the people of Longleng district and for the cooperation shown from both the districts while constructing the bridge especially by the EE, PWD (R&B) Changtongya.

Parliamentary Secretary for Mechanical & National Highway, Nuklutoshi, President Phom People Council and Yachem Village Council delivered short speeches. Yachem Students Union presented special song, T. Yanger Pastor CTBC and Senti Pongen Pastor Unger Baptist Church pronounced invocation and benediction respectively.

Er. T. Nungsangtemjen, EE PWD (R&B) Changtongya Division delivered the vote of thanks.

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Social work day in Kohima on Nov 16

exploitation, abandonment and separation of children from parents.

The target groups of ICPS is Children in conflict with law, Missing and found children, Orphaned abandoned destitute children, differently able children, Children from families at risk, Engaged in substance abuse, HIV/AIDS infected/

affected children, affected by conflict and disaster, street children, working children, trafficked children and abused children.

The training also highlighted about the crucial role of Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in the entire rehabilitation process of children. Effort

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kohIma, november 12 (DIPr): The Home Department General Administration Branch-II has notified that there will be a mass social work on November 16 in Kohima, with the active participation of all Government Employees, Kohima Municipal Council, NGOs and general public in all the Wards. The respective Wards shall carry out mass social work on roads not covered by the Government Departments.

DC Kohima and KMC are requested to issue necessary instructions to all the Wards and coordinate.

Each Department of the State Government hav-

ing government trucks will spare at least 1 (one) truck to be kept at the disposal of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima. The vehicles will be sent to the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima along with sufficient POL and necessary cash to meet incidental expenditure of the departmental personnel’s on duty. The Departments will be wholly responsible for cleaning and disposal in their assigned areas. They shall be responsible for any unfinished work even if it is spills over into next day. Kohima Municipal Council shall identify alternate dumping sites in advance. All dustbins will be taken care of by KMC.

PHSS Dimapur students visit Kohima Orphanage

DImaPur, november 12 (mexn): Class 12 students (Science Stream) of Patkai Hr. Sec. School Dimapur with 56 Students under the guidance of lecturers Mala and Venita visited Kohima Orphanage on Saturday with the theme "To share the Joy and Love". They conducted a fellowship service besides interacting with each other. The students shared about the joy of happiness and exhorted the orphanage family to be happy because every single person whether rich or poor are equal because God loves everyone equally.

They donated two bags

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(L-R) N. Elam, SDPO Bhandari, Neinguvoto Krose, legal cum probation Officer, Ruzonuo Rita Rutsa, DCPO Wokha, Phuleto Sema, CJM and James EAC Bhandari during the training at Bhandari Town Hall, Wokha.

Dimapur barbers sensitized on HIV/AIDS

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should be made to promote non-Institutional support service like adoption, foster care and sponsorship for the child as per their need and availability.

Networking with NGOs is important in this area by seeking their support for promotion of these services to children. Ruzonuo Rita Rutsa, District Child

Protection Officer, Wokha, delivered welcome address and Medoleu Zhatsu Counsellor DCPU, Wokha, pronounced invocation.

The participants were District Administration, Police, village council Chairman, Anganwadi workers, Guanburas, woman organisation, students’ organisation and others.

Chavara Home celebrates advance Children’s Day

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Children with Captain Ramesh Chand of 6 Sector Assam Rifles during the advance children’s day on November 9.

naharbarI, november 12 (mexn): Chavara home celebrated advance children’s day on November 9. Sixty-seven children from neighborhood along with their parents gathered to mark the day as a memorable one.

Chavara Home Director Sr. Agie CMC in a press release stated that Captain Ramesh Chand of 6 Sector Assam Rifles was the chief guest. While addressing the gathering the chief guest invited the Children to become a beacon in the Lecturers and students of PHSS with the family and Director of Kohima Orphanage, Neib- world and said, “As we observe the children’s day anuo Angami. of rice, two water filters The program was ini- Sushant Sharma and was co- every year it is the duty of and some clothes besides tiated by the Class Repre- ordinated by Liangkiudinbo the parents and elders to understand the problems sweets and biscuits. sentatives Viketo Sumi and Remai and Vinotoli Sumi.

of the children and give them proper guidance at the right time. If the elders are there to help them at the right time we can have hope in them.”

He also told the children to make use of every opportunity to grow and do good to the society in the coming days. He advised them to have courage to say no to every vice, in order to grow as mature citizens and stand for the truth at any cost. During the celebration, children put up few cultural items.

Earlier, competitions were conducted on the previous day and the chief guest awarded the winners with prizes on the children’s day.

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Stakeholders sensitized on NRLM Seminar on sustainable eco through local resources

Participants at the village sensitization programme on NRLM at Jakhama on Tuesday.

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Jakhama, november 12 (mexn): A village level sensitization programme on National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) was held today at Town Hall, Jakhama for villages under RD Block, Jakhama, Kohima district.

The programme was attended by key stakeholders including officials of the block administration under RD, representatives from Self Help Groups, village councils, VDBs, Church and organizations from 12 villages.

Giving the keynote address, Visasolie Lhoungu, Chief Executive Officer, NSRLM explained features of NRLM, while informing that Jakhama Block has been selected as the Intensive Resource Block for Kohima district. Elucidating on the implications of being a resource block, he stated that one block has been identified from each of the nine districts under NRLM to be the Intensive Resource Block for the district concerned and pilot programmes would be

anchored in these blocks.

Lhoungu briefed the gathering on how NRLM came about as a result of thorough research by a team of experts on reasons why poverty alleviation programmes were failing to address the actual needs of rural poor, and the solutions thereof. In this context, he stated that under NRLM, focus would be on Self Help Groups comprising of one female member from one family. He explained that this was mandated by the Central

Government under the belief that uplifting a woman would mean uplifting the entire family. He further called for cooperation and coordination among all key stakeholders for the success of the programme.

Presenting an overview of NRLM, Menuoneituo Chadi, State Project Manager, NSRLM the importance of SHGs in this programme, and informed that in the first phase of the programme, 150 new SHGs would be set up under Jakhama block and existing SHGs would be identified.

He stated that SHGs would be nurtured and trainings would be imparted to interested members of SHGs to take up livelihood projects. He also spoke about the RSETI (Rural Self Employment Training Institute) programme wherein, interested youths would receive skill-based trainings free of cost, and also be considered for placements outside the state.

Ruokuozelie Usou, BDO Jakhama, chaired the programme and Rev. Zapovil Sophie led invocation. Area Coordinators NSRLM Kevitisu Yhome and Keneiso Belho gave the welcome note and vote of thanks respectively.

Pughoboto, november 12 (mexn): Seminar on ‘sustainable economy through local resources’ was held on November 9 at Pughoboto Town, sponsored through Local Area Development Fund (LADF) and organized by Kushe Humanity Foundation, an NGO working for the welfare and upliftment of rural people.

Resource persons were Qhutovi Wotsa, District Horticulture Officer, Toivi Swu, Agri Officer, Dr. Illhovi Swu, Veterinary Asst.

Surgeon, Hojeto Sheqhi, Functional Manager SubDivision Industry Centre, Dilli Solomon, MD Naga Fragrance Pvt. Ltd., and Nitoshe Sheqhi, Proprietor of Akhiji.

Topics covered during seminar were horticultural aspect in the region-its prospect and drawbacks, prospect and challenges on agriculture in Pughoboto, livestock husbandary a viable asset, prospect for artisans and small-scale industry. A power point presentation by the Bamboo Mission highlighted success stories from entrepreneurs and enriched the participants. Moreover, participants were encouraged to take up businessoriented trade and cultivation oriented business.

A section of the gathering attending the seminar on ‘sustainable economy through local resources’ on November 9.

Focus was made on selfgenerating income rather than depending on government subsidies. Recommendations were made on the need to cut down on the practice of inviting chief guest in all small function for the next three years i.e.

2014-16 and focus more on economic development in the area.

During the seminar Y. Vikheho Swu, parliamentary secretary, Irrigation & Flood Control stated the meeting was all about selfreliance. “Ideas within us when put to use can make us self-reliant. We should not depend on subsidies

from Government. The people of Pughoboto have an advantage of being near the capital and so must make use of it,” said Swu. Seminar concluded with recommendations/suggestions such as, river conservation, forest conservation, bamboo plantation in area of one agricultural cycle, orchards in area of one cycle of agriculture. Regular policies on preservation and exploitation of resources may be framed in due course. The seminar was attended by GBs, VCC’s, VDBs, SHGs of all 22 villages under Pughoboto sub-division. All together around 300 delegates at-

tended the seminar.

The seminar was chaired by Ayeto Swu, G/T Singrijan GHS. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. Hotokhu Zhimomi, ES, SABAK. Pukhaxu, Asso, Professor, Dimapur Government College and Inavi Swu, Dy. Director Agri (Marketing) chaired the discussion hour.

Concluding with inputs from Nishena Nekha, Head of Dept Education, Wangkhoa College and benediction was pronounced by Rev. Kihoshe Assumi, ES NCRC, HQ. Pughoboto. This was stated in a press release issued by Kushe Humanity Foundation, director, Avitoli A Swu.

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North-East may roll out food law by March

Arunachal seeks Central help for implementing NFSA iTANAgAr, November 12 (PTi): Arunachal Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister Kamlung Mosang has sought the help of Centre in overcoming the challenges in implementing the National Food Security Act in the state, official sources said.

In a memorandum submitted to Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution K V Thomas at Guwahati yesterday, the minister sought funds from the Centre for meeting the expenses of the state food commission, district grievances redressal officers and their staff, besides seeking special allocation of S K oil(kerosene) especially to Tawang, West Kameng, Lower Subansiri, Upper Subansiri, Kurung Kumey and Anjaw districts.

"Due to a blanket ban on felling of trees, the people in the high-altitude districts are forced to rely on S K oil for heating," the minister said. He also requested the Centre to either set up a sugar stockist at the regional level to enable the state to procure sugar for distribution under the NFSA, or enhance the sugar subsidy. Mosang discussed the problems faced by the state during a meeting of Food ministers and secretaries of NE states, including Sikkim on 'Implementing National Food Security Act (NFSA) and augmenting storage capacity' chaired by the Union minister in Guwahati yesterday.

New Delhi, November 12 (PTi): The NorthEastern states are expected to implement the ambitious food security law by March, or latest by the middle, of next year.

This was indicated by the North-Eastern states— Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura -- at a meeting with Union food minister K. V. Thomas held on Monday at Guwahati, an official statement said. “State food ministers informed about the steps being taken to implement the Act in their state.

Almost all states indicated that implementation will begin by March 2014 or latest by middle of 2014,” it said.

The meeting with food

Newmai News Network Imphal | November 12 Three militants were reportedly killed and injured in a fierce gun-battle between the NSCN-IM and the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) cadres in Tamenglong district this afternoon. Bombs were also reportedly used in today's encounter.

Reports said three underground cadres were left dead after the shootout which lasted for about 5 hours near Bhalok village in Tamenglong district.

Bhalok village is around 18 kilometres from Tamenglong district headquarters. It is not clear from

Agarwal was rescued from the jungle at Maldang late last night after the encounter between a joint police team and NDFB rebels in which four police personnel were injured. Among the injured was Sonitpur Superintendent of Police P Kalita, who sustained minor injuries when splinters of a grenade hurled by the rebels hit him, the police said.

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isting foodgrains allocation and financial assistance for intra-state transportation, handling of foodgrains and ration shop dealers’ margin, the statement said.

Assuring the seven states of protecting the existing foodgrains allocation, Thomas said that the Centre is aware of the problems faced by them and all aspects will be kept in mind while deciding norms in this regard.

State food ministers were asked to personally monitor the construction of storage capacity and ensure progress of the ongoing projects is not hampered. That apart, state governments were asked to construct intermediate foodgrains storage facilities with use of funds available under the MGNRE-

Tamenglong gun-battle leaves 3 dead

Top govt official rescued after 51 days in captivity

iTANAgAr, November 12 (PTi): After 51 days of captivity, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) General Manager Anil Kumar Agarwal has been rescued from a dense jungle in the Assam-Arunachal border after an encounter with National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) ultras, the police said today.

ministers of North-Eastern states was held to review the preparedness for implementation of the National Food Security Act. For smooth implementation of the new food law, Thomas and Assam chief minister Taurn Gogoi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for construction of an administrative building of the state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) at Guwahati. About 70 FCI depots are currently operational in the North-East, while another 20 of them are under construction. A full-fledged office will help better coordination.

During the review meeting held Monday, the NorthEastern states raised statespecific issues relating to impact of new law on ex-

Executive Engineer For Regional Officer, MoRT&H Chandmari, Guwahati — 3

which outfit the deceased hailed from.

Meanwhile, the NSCNIM has claimed that the three deceased hailed from the ZUF. According NSCN-IM leaders when contacted, at around 12:30 pm today the ZUF cadres launched attacks on the NSCN-IM cadres from two sides near the hill-lock of Bhalok village.

Explosives were also used in the attacks. Due to the explosions, an NSCN-IM cadre was injured, said the NSCN-IM source.

"However, we retaliated and killed three cadres of the ZUF. We also recovered two weapons of the deceased cadres but

GA, the statement said. Doorstep delivery of foodgrains under the law, and computerisation of public distribution system (PDS), among other issues were discussed in the meeting.

In September, Parliament passed the food law to give 67% of the population the right to subsidised foodgrains. Each eligible person would get 5kg of foodgrains a month at Rs3 per kg for rice, Rs2 per kg for wheat and Re1 per kg for coarse cereals through the state government under the PDS. Congress-ruled Delhi, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh have already announced the launch of the food law. Other states are preparing to roll it out.

could not recover the third weapon of the deceased ZUF cadre," claimed the NSCN-IM source. The injured NSCN-IM cadre has been rushed to Tamenglong district hospital and is being treated.

According to the NSCNIM, their cadres were heading for the Bhalok hills from Khebuching this morning. "And it appeared that these ZUF cadres were pursuing us from two sides and launched attacks near Bhalok," said the NSCN-IM leaders. The shootout ended at around 5 pm.

Several attempts to contact the ZUF leaders by NNN proved futile to ascertain the reports.

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NOTIFICATION NAGALAND TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST (N-TET) 2013 1. It is hereby notified to all concerned that the Nagaland Teacher Eligibility Test (N-TET) will be conducted on 14th Dec.,2013 in all the 11 districts of Nagaland in accordance with the Government notification vide order No.DSE/ENSF-01/2013 dated the 2nd Nov. 2013.

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3. Venue of the TET Examination for Eastern Naga Candidates (ENSF) will be in their respective districts of Kiphire, Longleng, Mon and Tuensang. All the candidates from these four districts will compulsorily be required to appear from their assigned districts only as demanded by ENSF. (VIPRALHOU KESIEZIE) Director SCERT, Nagaland, Kohima.

3 Tripura wants due financial aid Wednesday

13 November 2013

AgArTAlA, November 12 (iANS): The Left Front government in Tripura will ask the 14th Finance Commission not to deprive it of due financial aid from the Centre as was done by the earlier finance panel, a minister said here Tuesday.

The 14th finance commission (2015-16 to 201920) led by chairman Y.V. Reddy arrived here Tuesday on a three-day visit.

During its stay in Tripura, the commission will meet the council of ministers, officials, leaders of various political parties and elected representatives of local government bodies. "Like other states, we would also demand that the commission recommend 50 percent share of central taxes and sufficient funds to give salary and allowances to around two lakh state

government employees at par with central government employees," Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury told reporters.

Chowdhury said the 13th Finance Commission had deprived Tripura to a large extent and put the state government in an awkward position in the matter of providing government employees and pension holders their due financial aid.

Tripura has sought around Rs.27,000 crore from the central government. The 13th Finance Commission had recommended the sanctioning of Rs.16,350 crore in 2009.

"As the 13th Finance Commission had under-assessed the salary and pension liabilities of the Tripura government and reduced the non-plan gap grant to below that of the previous

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The 13-member commission team comprising members and senior officials will also visit some project sites to assess the financial utilisation for the schemes. The finance panel will go to West Bengal Thursday to undertake a similar exercise there.

The commission, which was constituted in January, shall make recommendations to the Centre by October 2014 regarding the sharing of union taxes, principles governing grants-inaid to states and transfer of resources to local bodies.

Before submitting its recommendation to the central government, the commission would visit all the states in India.

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We Need To Dream

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e give much emphasis on action. One can argue and say that speaking much without action is worthless. Yes the importance of action is felt by all. But, if we consider critically, thought itself is an action. Achievements are made possible through dreams. We are able to move on smoothly in a rough road with our endeavors and pursuits because we have dream.

Dr. Abdul Kalam said dream is something that doesn’t make us sleep. It prompts us to persistently strive and work for what we want to achieve. Even fictions and stories help the scientists considerably in inventing innovative and incredible things.

We need to dream how to bring change to our school, college, government, Church, village, town, tribe and society. The students especially need to dream big and work hard. Though the need of analysis and critique on the Government, Church and other organizations cannot be brushed off as unimportant, we should not be too dependent, as we are today. Most of us expect others to do something for us. We are fond of asking and demanding. I don’t mean that we should not ask other’s help or support one another. However, the pace of improvement in developments and other fields, as I think, is slow in our society because, the culture of expecting and demanding from others abound. The Government, the Church and other organizations

might have failed in many ways, but we cannot put the total blame on them for all the existing failures. I don’t state this to side with them or support them because they are spoken against or attacked from various angles. My main intent of bringing this idea is to let us be concerned for the future. We should not always think or expect others to do something for us, but also think what we can do for the society.

As I think over about our society, I come to realize that we lag behind others in many ways because, there are very less people who dream to contribute, but more people to expect, ask and demand. Great change can be brought to a society by an individual who dreams big.

There is need of dreaming more than how to earn for our livelihood. Dreaming to impact the lives of many and bring change to the society is significant. I used to read the story of Respected Sir, Kesonyu Yhome (DC of Kiphire) delightfully. I have not seen him, nor seen his deeds, but as I read from news paper, I am convinced that he has been doing incredibly well. As he works effectively for the people, I believe, more than the practical works that he does, the inspiration and motivation the citizens of Kiphire get from him will be more valuable. It is encouraging learn that he’s branded as ‘People’s Deputy Commissioner’. My challenge is – if we have more people like him, our

Liba Hopeson BTC, Pfutsero society will never be the same.

I also read about Youth Net with much thrill. I believe many persons get lot of inspirations from them, as I do. Indeed it has impacted the lives of many and they are still continuing to impact many. We need to appreciate, support, encourage and praise the leaders involve in such an incredible organization. I pray that more students will be there dreaming, not only to get jobs, but to offer jobs. I have nothing now, but I have dreams to do many things. I have dreams to contribute many things to my village, church and society.

However, I should not just dream, but strive to accomplish them. As I get brighter and bigger dreams, my laziness gets irritated with those dreams. They do not let my lethargy relax and overcome, but shove them away gently. Even the pains, sufferings and difficulties that are in me make enemies with my dreams. The dreams that I have tell them softly, we’ll also not forget you after the accomplishments, but mention your good contributions in the midst of our endeavors. But the dreams that I have should not forget my actions, for actions want to make friend and go with my dreams.

Action is really caring and loving. I learn that accomplishments are waiting for my dreams.

So, I’m going along with my dream and his friend action to meet them.

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Response to Kuvehu Soho & Nuchive Vero

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t pains me to correct the young gentlemen in public for something which they had done by their personal compulsions. As one of the members of the Phekmi Collegiate Forum’s (PCF) Constitution Drafting Committee, I clearly remember that PCF is a nonpolitical body. It is unfortunate that the name of PCF was dragged into something it has no connection at all. PCF should not be misused by any of its members to score political point. Gentlemen, I’m aware of the personal obligation you have towards the Minister but think also for majority of PCF members who are not as lucky as you two.

I would advise you to act in line with the motto

of the forum and keep PCF above party politics. When the PCF invited members to suggest its motto and selected my humble contribution of “Higher & Wiser” as its motto, I had in mind that as the apex body of the village, PCF should exercise its wisdom and maturity in its decisions.

I’m saddened by the contradiction.

I’m a politician and I admit that every air that I breathe out has political overtone. But there’s nothing such as personal dislike, resentment or bitterness as leveled against me by the two gentlemen.

As men of public and for public, there’s no space for such narrow politics.

All that I had raised was an ideological question on policies and programs. I’m

entitled my right to freedom of expression. Also, as an opposition member, I’m entitled to question policy matters of the ruling government which in my opinion I considered superfluous. If the Minister has disagreement to any part of my statement, he has the same freedom to express himself instead of using others like PCF to defend him. He should have the courage to ventilate his own views to prove wrong his political opponents like me in public.

Policy makers should not shy away from public debate on the excuse of time constraint.

Henceforth, I’m neither inclined nor tempted to respond to the expressions of any of his sycophants. dr. K. hoshi

The value of ‘Land’ & and its compensation ‘Laws are made in State Legislative

LAND: In Nagaland, ‘Land’ is the only permanent and precious property of the people. Beside the land, there is no other property, resource or industries to replace the land resource like agriculture on which 80/ of the population depend for their livelihood.

Unfortunately, 50/ of the total areas of land in Nagaland are covered by mountainous, steep rocky hills and deep cliff steams that can be termed as waste lands, useless for human utility. Secondly, we have strict rules of land holding system in Nagaland. Every village have a strict boundary with the neighbouring villages. Similarly, every family also has limited land, see about 2 or 3 acres of land, out of which, some portions are unproductive or uncultivable. At the same time, we cannot increase or expand the land even an inch out our population is increasing day by days. At present, we have educated unemployment problem, but after few

years, there will be an accurate shortage of agricultural land problem among the farmers, who knows it might be the time when all the overaged educated unemployed youth will also seek the opportunity to engage on agriculture for their survival.

Hence, the Article 371 (A) of the Indian constitution protects the right of the land owner. And recent Land Acquisition Act also provides the right to fair compensation and rehabilitation to those whose land has taken away or to be taken by the government or by the company.

Therefore, the land owners have every right to bargain for the compensation or they have right even to refuse to give away their land. What I believe is that, all the state developments are meant for the upliftment of the people of the state and to provide them maximum benefit for their welfare.

Therefore, no one should be exploited for

the sake of development.

But today, we see in Nagaland's developments, whether it is small or big projects, road constructions, infrastructures or any other development taking place, land owners are never benefited, but they are always the losers. Therefore it would be a callous Act to the part of the government to take away the land from the poor farmers those who have hardly 2 or 3 acres of land only and they should not be termed as the stumbling block for the developments instead of considering their grievances.

Compensation: -Regarding the compensation, whether it is high rate or low rate it is only one time payment. Sooner or later they will become the poor landless peoples, as they spent all the money within 1 or 2 years. Then, think about their children, as a poor farmer, they could not afford to send their children to the

reputed standard schools and college. Their children are studying in the Govt.

Primary schools, GMS, and Govt. high schools, where there is no teacher, no infrastructure at all.

And we often about the bad and nil results of the Govt. Schools is the results of their children we talked about. And those who hardly passed by securing the margin marks of 33/ have no chance to get admission into the good colleges. Even though they could hardly graduated, they cannot compete with those who have studied in reputed standard schools right from the nursery Now the only option left for those poor students is to start farming for their survival as a last resort. Hence the rural children that could be the only possible way for them to help their children’s future, if not, the repercussion would be the grievous crime to their part for their children's future.

P dako Phom dimapur: Nagaland

Assembly; not in Convention Centres’

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he NPCC is constrained to dispel the false propaganda unleashed by the NPF Press & Media Bureau to hoodwink the people since their (NPF) leaders have nothing to offer to the people after nearly 11 years in power. Repeatedly calling the Congress leaders as “agents of outsiders” has become the only phrase available with the NPF Press & Media Bureau to parrot around since they themselves are ignorant of what their leaders are scheming to further exploit and make a mess of governance.

The NPCC questions the NPF as to what it really means by coining “agents of outsiders” and who the outsiders are. The NPF as a regional party which is more concerned with issues outside the state rather than for people who elected them have a created a mess of political situation in Nagaland while enjoying the largesse doled out by the centre meant for development of the state. In this context alone, the NPF while pointing finger at congress for being agents of outsiders rather forgets that three fingers are being pointed back towards them only.

The NPF belatedly rediscovering its respect for the constitution should not forget that its own lead-

ers particularly the loudmouthed minister Imkong L Imchen on several occasions had denounced the 16 Point Agreement which led to the formation of the state, conveniently forgetting that the ministerial chair he occupies is as a result of that agreement. The Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on past occasions has spoken out against Article 371 (A) as the main hindrance towards development of the state. Therefore, the NPF obsession with Article 371 (A) with the beginning of their third innings has more to do with their greed of sharing the spoils of oil exploration and usurp the powers of the Hon’ble Governor to tighten their grip on power.

While the Congress has no hesitation in consulting the people and tribal hohos on issues of public importance, the approach of the NPF govt towards calling for repeated consultative meetings to debate on Article 371 (A) and announcing its decision to ignore the office of the Governor on REB was totally wrong.

To put in a proper perspective, the views gathered in consultative meetings can be debated in the assembly before any final decision and not the other way round which the NPF govt

has resorted to.

NPF asserting that the NGOs and civil societies were invited to consultative meetings to solicit their views is an added insult since the meetings were more of imposing the divisive agenda of the Chief Minister to derive a false mandate under the guise of protecting the rights of the people.

The Chief Minister reading out from the prepared script and paper presentations by some bureaucrats to arrive at a conclusion has demeaned the august house of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, since laws are made inside the assembly and not in some convention centres.

The NPCC once again reiterates that the NPF govt is headed for a collision course with the GoI by repeatedly raking up the debate on Article 371 (A) and blindly rushing into an alley with the so called mandate arrived at consultative meetings to force their way through. The confrontational stance adopted by NPF govt with the GoI will even jeopardize the constitutional safeguards provided to the state under Article 371 (A) and for which the NPF govt led by Neiphiu Rio will be held fully responsible. issued by: Media Cell, NPCC

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

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LOCAL Peren campaigns to save wildlife 'Attitude change key MEx FILE ‘VCs and NGOs stepping out for wildlife conservation’ to overcoming Stigma' CM extends Ahuna greetings Wednesday

The Morung Express

13 November 2013

Peren, november 12 (mexn): In line with the campaign to protect the environment and wildlife, with special reference to Amur Falcon in the district, Peren Forest division has drawn up protection plans. The plan aims to check and control hunting, killing, trapping, trade and conveyance of any wildlife species to and from the district with the active participation of the Administration, Police and Local NGOs. Speaking at the DPDB Peren meeting on October 7 last, Samuel Changkija IFS, DFO Peren Division, highlighted on the importance of according a safe passage to the visiting migratory birds to save our national and global image, which has been shown in poor light due to the reported killing of the birds during the previous years.

The DFO Peren in a press release stated that with a clear conscience of a betterpreventive-than-punitive approach, Peren Forest Division has embarked upon a massive awareness campaign exercises during the early part of October this year; successfully reaching

out to all village councils, churches and schools concentrating around Jalukie, Ngwalwa and Barak valley roosting sites. A chain of awareness programs were also in the offing; out of which programs at Jalukie and Ngwalwa were already organized during October, pending programs at other places for the month of November. Visual awareness campaign were also embarked upon conveying the message “Save Amur Falcon-

let us make Peren District safe for Amur Falcon."

Peren Forest Division has intensified its usual wildlife patrol and mobile units by establishing 3 ‘anti poaching cells’ at Jalukie, Ntu and Athibung, comprising of all executive staff of the division.

The unit conducts regular Bazaar raids, vehicle checking, day and night vigil at vulnerable roosting sites thereby seizing and apprehending offenders in the process and adjudication of the same.

“Change can only come about if we change our attitude,” said Dr. Joyce Angami, speaking at a consultative workshop on addressing ‘Stigma and Discrimination’ related to drug use and HIV & AIDS on Tuesday, November 12.

The workshop for ‘Service Providers NGOs/CBOs and Churches’ was jointly organised by Nagaland Drugs and AIDS Organisations (N-Naga Dao) and North East India Harm Reduction Network (NEIHRN) in collaboration with Nagaland legislators Forum on AIDS (NLFA) in Dimapur.

HIV prevalence rate in Nagaland might have shown a decreasing trend but the condescending attitude of the society at large continues to act as a great barrier in helping the people affected by HIV. So is the case with drug use. In such a backdrop, removing stigma and discrimination con-

PHeK, november 12 (DIPr): The celebration of Legal Services Day was observed at Phek Headquarter on November 9 at District Planning Development Board (DPDB), meeting Phek which was organized by the Phek District Legal department services Authority.

In the meeting, the speaker, Mamang Sinsong said on the topic ‘Legal Literacy & Awareness’ and said that, under article 39A of the constitution of India, the state of Nagaland is constitutionally commanded to secure that ‘the operation of the legal system promotes justice, on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or

schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities. For which this provision act makes for giving free legal service to various sections of the society.

He also said that, the Preamble of our country provide us not only justices but also like social, economic, political and equality of status and opportunity.

The country has made tremendous progress and development but at the same time, we need to see the fallen short of many circumstances because million of people are living in the poverty line. He observed and said.

He opined that, legal lit-

eracy is the core weapon for the basic rules of law and in legal literacy means making people aware of their rights what guaranteed to them by the constitution for which we need to spread a massage to the masses.

We should learned how to safeguard our rights regarding the remedies however we need to ascertain our rights to the paths so that we achieve our goal that has given us in the provision of law as our constitution has provided in the eye of law.

The celebration was chaired by Sumet C. Chang, Judicial Magistrate 1st class, Phek while welcome address was delivered G.H. Ramlia, Addl. District & Session judge, Phek.

DImAPur, november 12 (mexn): The Women Cell, Dimapur was functioning without a proper detention cell since its inception. The absence of a lock-up meant that detainees had to be kept in a make-shift cell, which actually was an office room complete with windows and a wooden door. In such a circumstance, detention of suspects always was a problem until November this year when it finally got a full-fledged lock-up. The construction of the lock-up meant one extra room, which will now be used as an interrogation room.

The SDPO, Dimapur, Relo T. Aye inaugurated the newly constructed cell on November 12. Alongwith the lock-up, the officer-incharge’s room and the computer room were shifted to a renovated section. Interestingly, the fund for construction and renovation was generated from goodwill contributions.

It was the first such renovation in more than eleven years.

The first floor of what is now the East Police Station, houses the Women Cell. The police Control Room is also crammed into the

DImAPur, november 12 (mexn): The Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) platinum jubilee planning board has extended open invitation to all Sumi intellectuals to propose the ‘Jubilee Theme’ with reference to the context of social, economic, political, cultural, education etc which has to reach the board convenor Kitoho S Rotokha and

secretary S Zhevihe Sumi before November 23. The selected proposer shall be awarded in the culmination function slated on January 2015 at Zunheboto. The decision for selection of theme shall rest upon the Planning Board, which will prevail as final binding.

The planning board in a press release stated that the

main source of fund generation would depend on the contribution of ex-officio and well-wishers as well. It also informed that the entire sub-committee to prepare the estimate budget before November 15 and present the same on November 23 for discussion and approval.

The creation of other subcommittee shall be consti-

tuted in the next meeting.

The board has convened a meeting of the planning board, sub-committee(s), ex-officio, SKK executives, all units, intellectuals and wellwishers on November 23 at Thahekhu Village Council Hall. Therefore, all concerned are requested to attend the meeting positively with positive inputs.

DImAPur, november 12 (mexn): Hosted by the male folk singing group “Tsashimi Lejo” Aotsakilimi village under Zunheboto district will be celebrating the post harvest festival of Sumi Naga ‘Ahuna’ on November 14 at local ground with Yehketo Shikhu, DB, as the “Ahuna Papuh” (Ahuna Father).

A press note informed that the daylong celebration will see villagers performing different cultural items such as Ahuna folk song by women wolks, war dance

by male youth members of the village, display of newly harvested paddy cooked in bamboo segments by village elders, spear kicking (Angu kupusu) and warrior dance (Aqhekishi) by male folks, and a performance of traditional game called ‘Imuno Pi-Su-Jo-Sujo’ (My older brother said to pull out) by the male members of the village. This will be followed by the grand feast.

In a similar programmed festive event, Aotsakilimi village residents of Dimpaur,

the Aotsakilimi Union Dimapur (AUD) will also celebrate Ahuna festivity at the residence of Khekishe (Martin) Shikhu at Diphupar, 4th mile, Dimapur on November 14.

The programme will take off with Khezheto Achumi, Asst. Pastor, Thilixu Baptist Akukuhou invoking God’s presence and blessing for the event; followed by exhortation by Viniho Achumi, Hd. G.B, Hovukhu village.

Folk song will be performed

by Hovukhu villagers, significance of Ahuna will be

expressed by Er. Kihoto Achumi, Ahuna sakiqhi (An act of casting a lot by using a bamboo vessel that was earlier used to cooking newly harvested paddy) by Inazhe Achumi, vote of thanks by Lashito Achumi, and benediction by Juliet K. Shikhu, Pastor, Dimapur Town Sumi Baptist Church.

This too will be followed by grand feast. The Aotsakilimi Union Dimapur (AUD) has invited all the in-laws of the village to be a part of this symbolic celebration.

With the collective effort of Forest Department along with the District Administration, Police, Tribal Hohos (Zeliangrong Baudi & Kuki Inpi), Churches and NGOs supporting the cause for wildlife conservation in the district, the district is witnessing increased level of awareness amongst the local people.

The DFO said that it is evident from the decreased rate of instances of hunting and wildlife trade in the district since October this year.

Changkija stated that it is indeed very encouraging to witness many village councils and NGOs stepping out for wildlife conservation today, forming themselves into voluntary groups to control hunting in their own village, some villages resolving to cancel NREGS Job cards of wildlife offenders in their village even to the extent of banishment from village if convicted by Govt. authorities. “Today we see a changed Peren District at all levels; village councils roaring laud through their PA systems warning inhabitants about the consequences of hunting and wildlife trade; churches taking special time in their services disseminating message of nature conservation; schools taking extra time in classes to disseminate the topics of nature conservation.”

Morung Express News Dimapur | November 12

tinue to remain a big challenge. The HIV prevalence rate in Nagaland at present is said to be 0.73 percent.

“To enhance a wider understanding on the collective response to address matters related to overcoming stigma and discrimination, to evolve common strategies in complimenting each stake holder’s efforts, and to draw joint action plans and roadmaps in strengthening further linkages” was what the concept note of the workshop stated.

Dr. Angami, who is the secretary of Kekhrie Foundation, Kohima described “Discrimination” as negative thought based on prejudice and “Stigma” as born of ignorance. The fear of being frowned upon and being excluded is what discourages individuals from testing and seeking help, she added.

However, “There is life beyond HIV... people with HIV can live a productive life.” On drug and alcohol abuse, she said that substance abuse is

just like any other ailment that needs attention.

Commenting on the ‘NBCC Declaration of Commitment for PLHIV & AIDS 2007’, she posed, “But have we translated the policy to action? That is what I want to ask.”

Dr. Vinito L. Chishi, state consultant, UNAIDS, who gave the keynote address said that the church can play a vital role in bringing about a collective community response with regard to removing stigma and discrimination.

Sasi Kumar, CEO of NEIHRN, while drawing the attention of church leaders, said that the way forward in reducing drug abuse lies in meaningful involvement from NGOs, CBOs, and all stakeholders; besides, active and unrestrained involvement of affected communities. He further highlighted the importance of state governments setting aside funds and not only depending on fund from the Centre.

Legal service day observed at Phek Dimapur Women Cell finally gets lock-up

loopholes in the execution of duties and in the functioning of various departments. “Such is the difficulty that even for obtaining a mere forwarding letter or a signature or the Scheduled Tribe, Indigenous Certificates, the common person is forced to go all the way to Mokokchung incurring heavy monetary and manpower loses. People come to office from even far-flung villages or towns like Loyong, Yajang C and Aosungkum,” the note added.

Therefore, MALT appeals the concerned departmental heads to send a suitable replacement at the earliest to arrest the numerous grievances creates owing to the absence of the ADC. The MALT urges every departmental heads in the state to take right and prompt steps concerning official decisions and its implementation.

same floor leaving little room for comfort.

The Assam Rifles personnel further occupy a room on the same floor.

Ahuna celebrations at Aotsakilimi & Diphupar

Winners

Kohima | November 12

The state level Painting Competition on Energy Conservation 2013 was held here at IInd World War Cemetery organized by Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India, state government and NEEPCO. Mentionably, the Ministry of Power in association with

has launched the National Awareness Campaign 2013 in order to promote energy conservation in the country, for which painting competition is one of the activities.

Topic set for the competition included ‘energy conservation is the foundation of energy security,’ ‘save one unit a day,’ ‘energy efficiency is a journey not a destination’ etc. Commissioner and

Winners of B category

secretary for art & culture Himato graced the occasion as the chief guest and gave away prizes to the winners of A and B category.

The first, second and third prize winners in both categories pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 10,000, Rs. 8000 and Rs. 5000 respectively, while Rs. 1000 was awarded to the consolation prize winners in both categories.

The winners will represent

the state at the national level painting competition. The official arrangement for the competition was taken care of by North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd. (NEEPCO), a Government of India Enterprise, Doyang Hydro Electric Plant, Nagaland.

The jury members of the competition included Vilalhou Noudi, Taliyanger, Lepden Jamir, Vikhor Tepa and Pollem Tep.

KoHImA, november 12 (mexn): Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio has extended greetings on the occasion of Ahuna festival, which is celebrated by the Sumi community. The Chief Minister, in a press note wished that the festival be celebrated in a peaceful manner, contributing towards harmony and unity of all sections of the people. He also hoped for successful commemoration of the festival everywhere, within and outside the State. The Chief Minister has also wished for a successful commemoration of Muharram festival under a peaceful manner.

Ahuna celebration at Naharbari Village

DImAPur, november 12 (mexn): The Naharbari Village Sumi Council will be celebrating Ahuna on November 14 at the residence of Shikaho Yepthomi, chairman, NVSC. The chairman and his team has requested all the members of Sumi Community of Naharbari Village to attend the celebration. MLA and CLP Leader, Tokheho Yepthomi has consented to be the ‘Ahuna Papuh’ on the occassio.

KVGOA general conference

KoHImA, november 12 (mexn): The Kohima Village Gazetted Officer’s Association has informed all members to attend the general conference on November 23 at 1:00 PM at Christ King Church Jubilee Hall at P. Khel, Kohima village. This was stated in a release issued by the Association secretary Helievio Solo.

PPUK condemns

KoHImA, november 12 (mexn): Poumai Public union Kohima (PPUK) has vehemently condemned the shocking accident of kidnapping a milk supplier from Seitheke Basa village Dimapur on November 8 for ransom. Expressing its strong resentment over such inhuman activity from the community, the union urged the concerned authority to award appropriate punishment as per their deeds and set an example for everyone so that such incidents never happen again. A press release issued by P.H. Shesou, general secretary, PPUK and Ng. Solomon Sha, publicity secretary, PPUK said the union extends its full support to the Poumai Hoho Dimapur for ex-communicating them and also not to bail them out.

KoHImA, november 12 (mexn): Poumai Students Union, Dimapur (PSUD) has strongly condemned the kidnapping of a milk supplier from Seitheke Basa Village, Dimapur on November 8. The union has appealed for the concerned authority in give befitting punishment for such inhuman action and committing such heinous crimes. The Union said the Poumai apex body in DimaThe newly-built lock-up at the Women pur has ex-communicated them and warned anyone not Cell, Dimapur. to bail out the accused under any circumstances.

Students paint for energy conservation in Nagaland

Winners of A category Our Correspondent Bureau of Energy Efficiency

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PSUD condemns

Mangkolemba sub- SKK platinum jubilee planning board calls meeting division without ADC

mAngKolembA, november 12 (mexn): Mangkolemba, a sub-division sharing large part of the state boundary with Assam and where there are frequent border flare ups, is without its administrative head for the last two and half months.

Highlighting the issue in a press note, Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT) President, Imjong Longkumer and General Secretary Lanutemjen stated that the previous Addl. Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Denneng Avenouho Phom, was transferred from Mangkolemba in September 2013 and since then no replacement has been sent to Mangkolemba.

MALT note further stated that the prolonged absence of the ADC poses serious administrative problems and creates

Dimapur

A Category 1st: Sangita Laishram- Livingstone Foundation HSS Thahekhu Village, Dimapur 2nd: Rishiben- Jubilee Memorial School, Mokokchung 3rd: Ruopfuzhazo Dzuvichu- Northfield, Kohima Consolation: Afreena Ali- Holy Care HSS Dimapur, Sakshi Kumari- St. Mary’s Montessori &High School Dimapur, Tekhengou Rabvo- Goraggio School Kohima, Nongoto Lcho- Goraggio School Kohima, Satarupa Saha- Pranab Vidhyapith HSS Dimapur, Nzanthung Odyuo- Don Bosco HSS Kohima, Iziedile- Baptist High School Peren Town, Krishna Kt. Dey- Holy Cross HSS Dimapur, Limainla Imchen- Dainty Buds School Kohima and Lolanbeni N.A Erue- Don Bosco HSS Wokha Town.

B Category Ist: Nandita Biswas- St. Paul HSS Lhomithi Village, Dimapur 2nd: Lentilong Jamir- - Livingstone Foundation HSS Thahekhu Village, Dimapur 3rd: Abhijit - - Livingstone Foundation HSS Thahekhu Village, Dimapur Consolation: T. Changnyei Phom-Lorna’s School Dimapur, Shihrajio Chalai- Christian Memorial HSS Dimapur, Kevimhito Mepfhuo- Merhulietsa High School Kohima, Himesh Sharina- Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kohima, Thelichum- Christian Memorial HSS Dimapur, Dibakar Singh- St.Mary’s Montessori & High School, Dimapur, Neirukrunuo Mepfhuo- Northfield, Kohima, Trisanku Biswas- Pranab Vidhyapith HSS Dimapur, Poulami Ghosh- Pranab Vidhyapith HSS Dimapur and Punan Kumari-Ramjanki HSS Dimapur.

Revision of E-Roll till Nov 20

KoHImA, november 12 (DIPr): The Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland Sentiyanger Imchen IAS has informed that the revision of Electoral Roll is under process and now disposal of claims and objections is going on in all the districts that will be continued up to November 20. In this regard a meeting is convened at 11 a.m. on November 13 at Chief Electoral Officer’s Office, D-Block, Kohima. Therefore, the following are requested to attend the meeting without fail. Shashank Shekhar, IAS; Neihu Thur, IAS; and T. Cholongse, IAS; The President Nagaland Hoho; The President Eastern Naga Peoples Organisation; The President Naga Students Federation; The President Eastern Naga Students Federation; The President Naga Mothers Association and The President Eastern Naga Women Organisation.

Statehood day in all districts

KoHImA, november 12 (DIPr): The Home Department General Administration Branch-II has in an Office Memorandum No. GAB/GEN/1/2012 dated Kohima the 11th November 2013 has informed that the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Statehood shall be observed in all the district headquarters on December 1 at 10:30 a.m. The function will include hoisting of National Flag, Parade and Cultural programme.

All Deputy Commissioners are to make programmes accordingly. The National flag will be hoisted/unfurled

by Ministers, the details of which will be intimated later.

SYO 39th sessions cum cultural day

PHeK, november 12 (mexn): Sakraba Youth Organisation (SYO) 39th sessions cum cultural day will be held on December 11 at local ground. DC Phek, Nieposo Theluo and VDB Secretary Sakraba, Veposu Vadeo will be the chief guest and guest of honour respectively.

SYO president Kukusheyi D Vadeo in a press release has requested all citizens of Sakrabami to attend the programme.

Corruption charge papers handed over to DCC Wokha WoKHA, november 12 (mexn): According to a press release issued

by NPCC General Secretary (Admn) Medokul Sophie, the NPCC Vigilance Cell handed over corruption charge papers of various departments to DCC Wokha for further verifications at district and constituency levels. It was reported during the NPCC State-wide tour to Wokha district was undertaken on November 11.

The meeting was held at Congress Bhavan, Wokha where ACCCs and DCC officials along with PCC members and frontals of the district participated. The team led by Nillo Rengma highlighted in thread-bare

about the corruptions and misgovernance of DAN Government and urge party workers not only to remain vigilant but also to work extra hard. UPA flagship programmes including Food Security Bill were discussed at length.

The need to strengthen the party at all levels, including new enrollment into the party was stressed by all the speakers.

Those who spoke in the meeting includes Nillo Rengma, Vice President, Medokul Sophie, general secretary, Aheto, general secretary, Yankithung, Treasurer, Lucy, Mahila President, Piholi, Secretary, Kedoutsolhi, Member Vigilance Cell.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express WEDnEsDAy 13 novEmbEr 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 309

Simplify. Reduce. Reflect.

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t a time when globalism is rapidly being institutionalized and the line between local and global blurs into a myriad of conveniences, it is alluring to assume homogeneity is a force for good. This assumption however contradicts natural law and is detrimental to indigenous people’s culture and way of life. Homogeneity supports reducing all species’ ability to multiply and celebrate their diversity while erroneously projecting a world of monoculture. Naga culture is a good example of multiplicity and diversity in geography, culture, peoples, languages, plants, animals, and so forth. Do we want to become homogenous and all look, think and act alike?

Advertising and marketing campaigns dominate all forms of the media and public space in the rush to corner the market. This form of campaigning creates a thirst or wanting for something that is lacking and could become the source of unhappiness and dissatisfaction because of wanting something we don’t have. This makes us feel inadequate, as if we are incomplete or unsuccessful when we don’t have the particular things being marketed. This is particularly precarious when children become the primary marketing target. When we don’t say ‘no’ to our children we are actually contributing to the next generation feeling inadequate and unhappy, as well as modeling negative behaviors of consumerism and accumulation.

The danger of these marketing campaigns grossly oversimplifies issues and problems, condensing them into a quick fix. The question of whether to oversimplify has become acute because people are too busy and have insufficient time to analyze the issues beyond buzz words and headlines. The predicament of oversimplifying is compounded by the interplay of State and corporate behavior. Complicity on the part of individual or a people has strengthened this interplay as ordinary people feel pressed because of having little time and wanting to appear successful, as well as please their loved ones.

It is crucial to recognize that general, uniform standardized response models are being promoted to address varying sets of problems. The inherent fault line existing in such a generalizing approach lies in its basic assumption, that, which has been successful in one situation will prove successful in another. This reveals a lack of insight and insensitivity to inherent diversity within indigenous cultures in particular.

Dissenting against such approaches and attitudes is necessary because we need to have the freedom to define and address our circumstances in a way that rightly meets our needs. Yes, learning from the experiences of other people is valuable as long as we engage our critical thinking and ability, and we remain true to our own core values and identity. Having external experts find solutions to local problems may provide immediate or temporary relief, but in the long run, they may prove to be counterproductive and not address the root causes.

Without ownership of solutions, the people will have no power, no land and no voice. The challenge is not to be seduced by materialism and consumerism, but to rise above complicity and to seek local and contextual solutions that promote the quality of life, well being and dignity for all people.

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Lionel Shriver Source: Intelligent Life

The opium Is Food

The novelist Lionel Shriver argues that food induces stupor in the affluent and the impoverished

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or the British and American underclasses, food is a useful distraction from the fact that their income is flat or falling while the cost of that Mac and fries continues to rise. Eating conveniently occupies leisure time that might otherwise be devoted to the overthrow of an unjust economic schema. Caloric satiation induces a convenient stupor. All appetites being ultimately circular, gorging feeds the appetite itself, reinforcing the illusion that what is missing in one’s life is not meaning, purpose and communal regard, but a fudge brownie. Because the source of dissatisfaction has been misidentified and stomachs quickly empty, those on low incomes can be neatly side-tracked onto a treadmill of wanting and getting and wanting again, until death—by cardiac arrest or late-stage diabetes— does the diner and dinner part.

For the affluent, the food-as-opiate equation is more complex. Contemporary social status is fiercely associated with the biological occupation of slight physical space. Primitive self-denial—skipping lunch—now passes for righteousness, obviating previous and potentially troublesome practices of noblesse oblige that might have required giving said lunch to someone else. Unproductive exertions that may incrementally reduce one’s bodily circumference—the tenmile jog that merely returns the runner to the point at which he started—imbue upper-income citizens with a sense of saintliness that in earlier eras might have required the sacrifice of real goods and services. The social order is preserved.

Food also provides the prosperous with a core identity. While the underclasses maximise quantity, well-compensated consumers often define themselves by what they don’t eat: meat, non-organic produce, food coloured white. The majority of food "allergies" are imaginary. Yet in addition to attracting self-reinforcing attention at dinner parties, mythical gluten or lactose intolerance inflames the "sufferer" with a personal “cause” that in times past might have entailed meddlesome religious or political affiliation. Rabble-rousing inclinations are routed safely into food issues: genetically engineered seed, locally sourced ingredients, animal welfare, sustainable fishing. Absorbed by ancillary matters to do with eating, these ersatz activists turn a blind eye to their government’s self-dealing monetary expansion, which so systematically degrades their currency that the huddled masses and middle-classes will soon be equally impoverished.

Another plus: food provides a medium of social exchange. Rather than get irate over inadequate banking regulations, the educated today will happily while away whole hours in earnest debate over whether to add anchovies to a marinade for skirt steak.

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Chingya Luithui

The Language of Rape I

n Tangkhul language and its various dialects, there is no literal equivalent of ‘rape’; instead it is referred to by the term “katuk” which literally means “to capture”. This seems to be the general case with languages of other Naga tribes. In some, rape is described by innocent phrases such as “to hold hands”, “to touch”, or “sleeping with”; it is only when you contextualise such phrases that they take on the sinister meaning of rape.

According to some Nagas this implies, and the opinion has been commonly forwarded, that the Naga society did not have the act of rape. Often, one hears the argument that it was only with the intrusion into and invasion of Naga areas by outsiders, particularly Indian military forces, that Nagas were “shockingly” introduced to rape.

The likelihood that rape did not occur is next to impossible. Maybe rape was not understood in the same manner as it is today but the odds that Nagas did not rape or know of rape are hard to accept.

And while it may be true that no literal equivalent for ‘rape’ exists in the languages of the various Naga tribes, the existence of phrases that describe such acts connote that rape did exist within the Nagas.

Then why this glorification of Nagas as a people who did not rape? Maybe acts of rape were rare; nevertheless if it was there why accuse others of bringing the practice to Naga areas? This ascription of rape to others (the Indian military forces, for example) and our reluctance to admit that Nagas are capable of rape, that Nagas ourselves have committed rape and other sexual violence against women is a classic example of the “us versus them” syndrome where “us” are incapable of any wrongdoing while it is always “them” who do wrong. So in Dimapur rapes are committed by outsiders (non-Nagas) but if you ask non-Nagas it is the illegal immigrants or Bangladeshis; if a rape happens within colony X then it is by someone from colony Y, so on and so forth. This results in a false sense of self-righteousness from where it becomes easier to pass moral judgments.

Perhaps our unwillingness to take ownership and acknowledge the fact that Naga men and women are equally capable of committing sexual violence is one reason why the Naga society is grappling with how to deal with increased cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence.

How seriously did Nagas take the crime of rape in the past? Very seriously, as a quick anecdotal survey of customary practices within different Naga tribes suggest.

The punishment for rape was not less than the price or value of a pig in most tribes. Such penalties, according to modern standards, certainly do not do justice for such a serious crime. Because of this, misconceptions have arisen that women in the Naga society were not valued or respected. At the same time there is a position among Nagas that since this was the customary practice of our forefathers, we have to follow the same even now.

However, such punishments have to be seen in context. We need to understand the rationale of such penalties—it certainly was not equating women to a pig or reducing the value of a woman to that of a pig; quite the contrary. Surprisingly, ignorant misogynistic statements like “women were equal to a pig or a buffalo” is shockingly still pervasive among young Nagas, much more than one would expect.

In the past, an important criterion in measuring the wealth or affluence of a person was the person’s possession of domestic animals, chiefly buffalos, cows and pigs; these were highly valued possessions.

Wealth was closely associated with the enjoyment of respect and honour from peers. The practice of hosting feasts of merit is a good example of the connection between wealth and the gaining of social status.

Even the best warriors, if poor and unable to host feasts of merit, were unable to gain as much social standing as those who had. Therefore, such penalties were deemed very severe; the imposing of a liability shaved respectability and honour away from the culprit. In a society where honour and respect from peers were the most expensive currency, taking it away from someone was certainly grave.

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he was just another regular girl, carefree and full of life. She had a happy childhood, growing up in a neighbourhood nestled amidst the pristine Himalayas. As an adolescent she was not really sure of her life plans or ambitions, but today she has created history and brought glory not just to her family but to her community as well. Meet Jaweplu Chai, 40, the first female judge in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Even before she made the headlines for her appointment as the additional district and sessions’ judge at Basar in West Siang district, Chai had distinguished herself by topping this year’s Grade I Arunachal Pradesh Judicial Service (APJS) examination. This achievement is certainly remarkable considering she belongs to the Miju Mishmi tribe, which is not just dwindling in numbers – it barely constitutes a population of 30,000 – but is generally perceived to be one of the most backward in the state.

Chai, in fact, is the first woman lawyer from this community.

Her journey from being a youngster not quite sure of her abilities or ambitions to a confident and accomplished career woman, has been an interesting one. The youngest of 16 siblings she had never been entrusted with any real responsibilities at home. Moreover, being a sports buff, she was happier spending time outdoors with friends rather than slaving over her school books. What changed her attitude was her mother’s absolute insistence that her children pursue quality education.

Once Chai understood the importance of this, there was no looking back. She reveals, “I had no plans of joining the legal profession. When the time came to pick a professional stream, I was keen on pursuing medicine – an MBBS degree followed by a post-graduate degree in surgery was what I had in mind.

Equally significant is that such penalties were not just about imposing an economic liability but also played other important social roles. What a lot of us fail to note is that the pig, or other animals as the case may be, was not given to the rape survivor alone as such (she may also be rewarded damage exclusively); it was given to the community, its meat would either be distributed or shared in a feast by the community. This served two purposes: one is an acknowledgment of the crime by the culprit as not just against the victim but to the community as a whole, and the other is the ownership and responsibility of the crime and its consequence by the community.

Unlike in an adversarial justice system where parties are pitted against each other, the effort in the customary practices of the Nagas was to achieve just equitable outcomes for the victim as well as the perpetrator, and also for the community. The ownership of the crime by the community is crucial for this.

Unfortunately our ignorance of why our customary practices were the way they were has led to the subversion of their meanings. As mentioned earlier, some Nagas insist on imposing the same punishment for rape that our ancestors followed basing their argument on adhering to custom. In situations of sexual and other physical violence against women, it has led to the disturbing practice of buying impunity from crime. The understanding that rape can be “compromised” with the provision of a pig to the survivor (and no longer to the community) in today’s world counters the very values—of providing holistic justice—on which such customary practices were based. Following a custom without upholding its value system is absolutely meaningless and, in fact, destructive for the society.

An unsettling trend, as evinced in condemnation press notes of rape incidents by Naga organisations, is also the linkages that are drawn between rape and morality. The discussion on rape has often morphed into a debate on sexual morality rather than sexual violence. This shift in focus not only cripples us toward identifying solutions but also perpetuates and encourages sexual violence. A rape is a rape is a rape is a rape. It should not be about whether the victim wore revealing clothes, whether she has “loose character” (who determines what is loose anyway?), whether she is a druggie or sex-worker etc.

Bringing the morality equation into discussions on rape also has the negative effect of blinding us to the fact that sexual violence is symptomatic of the larger problem of gender violence. When linked with the “us and them”

syndrome mentioned above, the morality equation also leads to denial: rape is perpetrated by immoral people on immoral people, we are not immoral, therefore we are not capable of rape or that we are safe from rape.

Most rapes, more than 75 per cent, are committed by individuals known to the victim. A cursory analysis of media reports from Nagaland over the last one year also indicate most rapes had been committed by individuals known to the victim. And according to UN reports, at least 1 in 3 women experience sexual violence in her lifetime. Militarisation and corruption—common experience for Nagas— exponentially increase the numbers.

All this would mean that for every case reported, there must be dozens more. Unfortunately, the Naga society is not very forthcoming when it comes to discussing sexual violence. We get more uncomfortable and offended by discussing it candidly than by the fact that it is happening within us and among us. The silence is so loud that it verges on tolerance and mere condonation of rape. This unwillingness to have open discussions contribute to our rape illiteracy which is even more damaging than all the misogynistic statements for it leads to denial and the urgency to even recognise rape as a problem. Rape illiteracy also contributes to stigma and discrimination of rape survivors.

All these make it extremely difficult for survivors of rape to come forward.

There are compelling arguments—economic, social, political and cultural—to have policies that address sexual violence not just in a reactive manner but proactively. Nations which have the best laws and policies on rape also are those nations which have the most robust democracy, transparent and accountable governance, stable and equitable distribution of wealth. This is not to suggest here that if we address the problem of rape effectively we will have all these advancements, rather the experience of these nations is pointing out that dealing with gender violence in a manner which ensures opportunity for women to be empowered leads to economic equitability, political stability, and social and cultural cohesion.

Ultimately, policies that do not seek to change prejudice and ignorance of sexual violence is not going to achieve much. Just like changing the penalty for rape from a pig to 5 lakh rupees is not going to stop rape.

We have to deal with prejudicial attitudes, misconceptions and myths about sexual violence first. And here, educating ourselves would be the start toward this.

All rise: Arunachal’s First Woman Judge Is In Court Abdul Gani Women’s Feature Service

But when I got admission into law and began college, I realised that I had made the right choice.”

Her various academic achievements over the years only proved that she has indeed made the right decision. For higher studies Chai moved to Shillong, the picturesque capital of the neighbouring state of Meghalaya. She did her Bachelor of Arts from Shillong College followed by a Bachelor of Education from the Post Graduate Training College in that city. She then went on to acquire an LLB degree from Shillong Law College in 1998.

Over the next 13 years, Chai built up a good practice at the Guwahati High Court Naharlagun Permanent Bench and Session Courts, until she was selected as a session’s judge in her home state. She says, “I am glad that through my profession I can help people get justice and that too without inordinate delays. There is nothing more satisfying to me now than this.”

While she is comfortable with the responsibility she now shoulders, developing this maturity to cope with it was not all that simple for her. In fact, when she was preparing for the state law examination Chai felt weighed down by the burden of her family’s expectations. She recalls with a smile, “I was so fearful of letting my family and my people down that the stress began

to affect my mental and physical health.

That’s when I paused, took hold of myself, and decided that I couldn’t buckle under pressure. I needed to be strong and unafraid of what life had in store for me. As a judge I am ready for all the challenges that come my way and hope to make a difference especially in the lives of the local women.”

This long-time resident of Tezu, the headquarters of Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit district, feels that the law has a major role to play in ensuring the safety of girls and women. In fact, she is convinced that it is only through greater awareness on issues related to gender crimes that social attitudes can alter.

As she put it emphatically, “The law needs to be enforced most stringently when it comes to such offences.” Expressing her particular concern at the manner in which practices like witch hunting continue to plague women even today, Chai is of the opinion that only education can be the game changer.

Of course, while ensuring women have greater access to speedier justice is a priority for Chai, she is also committed to being objective and upholding the law, so that people’s faith in the judicial system is restored. She says, “I may have become an example of women’s empowerment in my state and my presence in the courtroom may give women a feeling of security. But as a judge I am conscious

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Chingya Luithui is a Human Rights activist

of the fact that I have to be neutral and enforce the law in that spirit.”

A lot of Chai’s sense of fairness is inspired by the traditional justice system of her tribe. The Kebangs (village councils), which have been dealing with disputes in villages across Arunachal Pradesh for centuries, are known for their success in resolving local disputes with ease. “Many complicated cases are solved through the Kebangs. The best part of this process is that the decision is almost always arrived at with the mutual consent of all parties involved and so there are no grievances that surface later on. Relations remain cordial and the cases get disposed off expeditiously,” observes the woman, who attributes her success to the unconditional support of her family, especially her mother and sisters. At the same time Chai has witnessed, during her career, cases where the opposing parties have approached the Supreme Court for the most minor disputes, leading to great deal of monetary loss as well as personal strife.

Chai knows that she has a tough task ahead as she presides over different cases in her courtroom. But despite the challenges, she continues to be optimistic. “Using my position, I would like to try and eliminate all the biased practices that women are being subjected to in the name of customs. I want to tell those who are fighting against atrocities and injustices not to get bogged down by their suffering. At the same time, I also want to advise them not to take any unnecessary risks and be vigilant at all times. Every woman can’t be a Mary Kom [champion female boxer and Northeast icon]!” comments Chai.

This is one woman who believes that if one is true to oneself and raise one’s voice against injustice fearlessly, God and the law will be on your side!

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7 Economic reform as flawed ideology

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13 November 2013

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theoretical utility of SEZs is clear: zones can foster "a business environment...more liberal from a policy perspective and more effective from an administrative perspective than that of the national territory."

The case for focusing on SEZs as a vehicle for developing industry is lent weight by the fact that prevailing "transaction costs" - or, costs of doing business - offset the savings made in labor costs by foreign firms located in Myanmar. By cultivating a more propitious business environment, it should be possible to "attract foreign capital and technology used for labor-intensive, export oriented production activity... (generating) employment and foreign exchange that by extension would stimulate economic growth."

From the perspective of investors, SEZs are attractive on a number of accounts, not least their removal of almost all vestiges of state-intervention, the limits they place on labor organizations, and the fact that they enable the use of abundant - and hence relatively cheap - unskilled labor. The experiences of Myanmar's regional neighbors in this regard have been used to corroborate the argument that SEZs represent a sensible first step on Myanmar's path of industrial growth.

In this Monday, November 4, 2013 photo, a fisherman lays a net in a stream in Nyaungdon, Irrawaddy, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Source: Asia Times online

ommentary on the scope and limits of Myanmar's recent reforms has already become trite. Those familiar with the endemic corruption and impropriety in the country's governmental and business practices have been quick to celebrate the relaxation of economic strictures, and the unexpected welcome Naypyidaw has given to new mechanisms of accountability. Hope for an end to the human-rights abuses and economic mismanagement, which has characterized the country's political economy for decades, is palpable.

The reengagement of International Financial Institutions (IFIs - including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and ADB, the Asian Development Bank) in these reforms has lent weight to arguments that President Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government has turned a corner. Optimists put stock in the government's contention that with a robust framework for macro and micro economic and social reforms, Myanmar can become a modern, developed and democratic nation by 2030. However, both the ideological underpinnings of this reform process - led by IFIs and embraced wholesale by Naypyidaw - and the consequences for the majority of Myanmar's population have been little discussed.

A cursory look at Myanmar's ranking in the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Human Development Indicators table, and its underachievement in realizing the UN's 2015 Millennium Development Goals, evidences how the gross mismanagement of the political economy has come at huge cost to the country's ethnically diverse people. Understanding where best to begin the reform process, an enormous task in Myanmar's case, is in many ways as challenging as formulating a strategy to deliver the much vaunted targets of macro-economic stability and low levels of inflation.

The most thorough commitment to these goals is the government's Framework for Economic and Social Reforms (FESR) - a document co-authored with the IMF following their Country Report of March 2012, and from which the Naypyidaw Accord for Effective Development Cooperation was formulated.

The FESR is billed as a "roadmap" to "guide the country to succeed not only in her transitional reforms but also set sound foundations for medium and longer-term development transformation". Crucially, this strategy is anchored in the notion that by first achieving these targets, "inclusive growth and poverty reduction" can be realized subsequently.

Given the dire state of Myanmar's economy prior to the reengagement of IFIs, it is not surprising that the scope of reforms amounts to an overhaul of the country's economic and social infrastructure. Both the breadth and content of the reforms are paralleled in many ways by the Structural Adjustment Policies of the 1980s and 1990s pursued

by IFIs across the developing world.

The liberalization of the country's foreign exchange regime under the supervision of the Central Bank of Myanmar, the rapid liberalization of import and custom duties, the privatization of many stated-owned economic enterprises and the proposed implementation of a value-added tax (VAT) are just some of the measures aimed at realizing economic stability and growth.

Despite the approbation of IFIs and the international community for the reform package, little attention has been given to how the prescriptions of the FESR will translate in the context of Myanmar's political economy, and whether they will indeed contribute to the goal of "inclusive growth and poverty reduction". The FESR's focus on the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves and the autonomy of the central bank are two notable examples of the gap that exists between proponents of ideology and Myanmar's political economic reality.

The arguments for accumulating foreign reserves are well-rehearsed. In an increasingly deregulated global environment, foreign exchange committed into emerging economies can supplement domestic savings and help galvanize domestic investment concomitantly. Furthermore, reengagement with international markets generates a precautionary demand for reserves from developing countries - an approach known as "self-protection". These reserves - it is argued - position countries better to withstand the vicissitudes of global financial markets; reduce the costs of foreign borrowing; and result in less exposure to short-term debt.

Given the scope of economic and social reform that is being instituted in Myanmar, however, the lack of discussion regarding this particular aspect of

the FESR is worth noting. Evidently, the arguments of those prescribing increased levels of "self-protection" are only fortified by the FESR's strategy of export-led growth and liberalized import markets, despite recognition that "the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves is rarely sufficient for governments and central banks to prevail over speculative attacks". The absence of debate regarding the costs of such accumulation certainly lends weight to the contention that key aspects of the FESR are heavily influenced by the ideological bent of certain IFIs. The substantial "carry costs" produced by the low-yielding assets into which these reserves are invested are not the only costs of foreign reserve accumulation. The growth foregone: by putting export surpluses into United States treasuries rather than investment and imports" can not reliably be quantified. It is clear, however, that this sum could otherwise be used to stimulate the domestic economy, through investment in the small- and mediumenterprise sector or skills training, for example. It is also clear that the absence of discussion regarding the rapid increase in Myanmar's Reserve Fund indicates how certain economic convictions of IFI's remain as articles of faith in the international community, irrespective of their effect upon "inclusive growth and poverty reduction".

Questionable independence The nature of the FESR's reform package has also been illumined by the emphasis placed on ensuring the independence of the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM). The de jure independence of a country's central bank has become a key signal of credibility to the international financial and business community, taken as demonstrative of its freedom from political interference in achieving price stability and targeting inflation.

Central bank independence can also provide greater leverage for creditors over government policy - an important factor for those international investors who previously suffered from the government's demonetization of the kyat in 1987. Leaving aside such theoretical issues, however, some difficult questions remain with regard to the prospects for genuine central bank independence in Myanmar.

Though the passing of the Central Bank Law earlier this year marked the legal separation of the CBM from the Ministry of Finance and Revenue, the realization of genuine CBM independence is deeply problematic. Thein Sein's recent reappointment of former CBM Chairman Kyaw Kyaw Maung - who presided over a huge increase in money-printing to fund government expenditure and levels of inflation that seldom dropped below 25% between 2000-07 - is clearly cause for concern.

Given the close relationship between the executive and the CBM, it is worth questioning whether genuine CBM independence is as important as the appearance of independence created to appeal to foreign investors. Cognizant that "the support of foreign capital ... is critical because it creates policy credibility rather than simply reveals it", one might ask whether the Central Bank Law has been enacted to satisfy the international business community without fundamentally altering the firmly rooted power dynamics that have limited "inclusive growth and poverty reduction" in Myanmar.

Although the policies outlined above have ignited much debate in universities and policy-making circles through the years, a robust broadside against these aspects of Myanmar's FESR has been lacking. This can be attributed to many factors, not least the seeming morass of venality and humanrights abuses from which the country is struggling to free itself. Much of the international community - uncertain of where to suggest starting on a process of socio-economic transformation that will take decades to realize - has deferred to the counsel of IFIs to "get the fundamentals right" and provide a more secure institutional and economic foundation upon which to build.

This deference has given IFIs, Naypyidaw, and vested business interests greater space to prioritize the stimulation of foreign direct investment (FDI)led private sector growth over social development.

A key element of this has been the promotion of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). The "[pursuit of] an active policy of encouraging the diversification of export products...[ensuring] that incoming FDI will help domestic industries to overcome technological, financial and market barriers" is one of the pillars on which the FESR is built.

There are currently three large-scale SEZs underway in Dawei, Kyaukphyu, and the Thilawa zone south of Yangon, with seven more planned to help realize the FESR's ambitious growth targets. Given Myanmar's low-levels of economic development, the

Too fast, too soon Many of the reforms proposed by the FESR would be familiar to scholars of Vietnam's Doi Moi program, which began in the late 1980s. The roll-out of an extensive land titling program (Land Law, 1993), the drive for rapid development of the private sector (Enterprise Law, 2000), and the Common Investment Law (2005) were some of the most important in the drive for internal and external liberalization from a centrally planned economy, and the growth of industry's share of gross domestic product (GDP).

Central to this was the country's wide-ranging SEZ (or Export Processing Zone) program.

Despite the much-lauded Vietnamese SEZ program's contribution to a vast increase in FDI and export growth, it has done little for job creation among the domestic workforce. It is also noted as an important element in the growth in income inequality throughout the country, especially in ethnic minority regions distanced from growth centers - a point of particular relevance to Myanmar's socially, economically and geographically ostracized ethnic communities.

A cursory look at Cambodia's SEZ development program provides a noteworthy contrast with what IFIs have deemed Vietnam's "success". The dearth of backward linkages created in the domestic economy, lack of technological or knowledge transfer, and the stimulation of conflict over land confiscation resulting from poorly instituted safeguards do little to recommend the adoption of SEZ programs to realize "inclusive growth and poverty reduction".

This all said, it is considered apposite to question the FESR's commitments to ensuring "timely implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) initiatives", and to becoming "fully connected to the various Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) transport corridors". Pledging to realize these goals leaves little scope for discussion of alternative industrial growth strategies with the country's largest investors.

Senior World Bank economist Kwima Nthara has recently noted the dangers faced by Myanmar's domestic private sector in the face of the rapid liberalization required to meet the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement in 2015. To suggest that Myanmar's entire private sector can be galvanized by the institution of SEZs alongside numerous free trade agreements alone shows little cognizance of its emaciated condition following decades of systematic neglect under military rule.

The importance of building a well-functioning private sector to Myanmar's future economic performance is not disputed. However, while it is feasible that a coterie of well-connected private enterprises within Myanmar might benefit from the implementation of SEZs - most notably the Thilawa SEZ - it is demonstrably not the case that the majority of the country's unskilled workforce will see much in the way of socio-economic improvement as a result, either through job creation or an improvement in state welfare provision.

Clearly, the notional benefits of SEZs are compelling in Myanmar's context. An under-funded and deeply corrupt government machinery and judicial apparatus can not begin to implement an equitable nationwide industrial transformation.

It has been contended that limiting Myanmar's industrial growth to specific zones in the early stages is a decent second best option in the circumstances. Yet, this overlooks the scope for malfeasance and venality that SEZs can only but foster in a country whose recent political and economic history is replete with examples of human-rights abuses and misappropriation of funding at every level of government and business interaction.

The institution of deregulated zones of "untrammeled market freedoms for powerful corporate interests" can not realize the FESR's stated aim of "inclusive growth and poverty reduction".

Only by instituting well-functioning regulatory frameworks can the development of SMEs begin, and - in the wider ASEAN context - regional developmentalism be realized.

As noted by academic Robert Wade, the potential for SEZ-led regional developmentalism lies in its capacity to develop the internal economies of individual less-developed countries; primarily, dense input-output linkages between sectors. It is unclear how trans-national corporations' (TNCs) access to the manifold incentives outlined in Myanmar's Special Economic Zone Law can help to achieve this.

The wider development of Myanmar's domestic economy will be underpinned by the growth of linkages between the sectors in which SMEs dominate.

Ensuring that these linkages are fostered in a regulatory and institutional environment which is supportive of domestic enterprise is vital to achieving a more equitable future for the vast majority of Myanmar's people. The FESR's strategy of attracting foreign capital through SEZ-led private sector growth falls far short of taking meaningful steps in this direction.

David Baulk is a candidate for the Masters of Science in Globalization and Development degree at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.

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"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." – Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill stated this quote in 1945 after losing the elections.

Even though he was responsible for guiding Britain to victory in World War II he still lost the elections. Naturally, he was bitter with the ungrateful British public when they voted against him. Fortunately, he took it like a gentleman and wryly remarked, “They have a perfect right to kick me out. That is democracy.” The system of Government in India and Nagaland is democratic so that the leaders who are elected are the representatives of the people. Our experiences with democracy have not been perfect. Democracy as an ideal form of government has complex demands but it also requires the protection of liberties and freedom, respect for legal entitlements, and the guaranteeing of free discussion and fair comment. When this happens, the right people can say the right things and the right people come to power.

Churchill recontested in 1951 and came back to power.

True Democracy?

Zuchano Khuvung, Asst Professor Political science hen we look back at what happened in the twentieth century, we encounter many events and developments – the downfall of the European empires, rise and fall of Fascism and Nazism, rise of Communism and its fall, and we even witnessed two terrifying world wars. However, we cannot deny giving primacy to the ‘rise of democracy’ as the most preeminent development in the twentieth century. No doubt the idea of democracy originated in ancient Greece and was seriously put to practice, though on a limited scale, before it collapsed and was replaced by more authoritarian forms of government. We might as well find its traces in the contributions made by the contractualists like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Rousseau in the 17th and 18th centuries. The basic assumption of their theory was that, the existence of political authority must be based on the consent or will of the people. This reflects the contemporary concept of democracy.

Thereafter, democracy emerged gradually and it was in the twentieth century that the idea of democracy became established as the ‘normal’ form of government to which any nation is entitled.

We are all aware of the fact that India adopted a democratic system of government. So, the question here is what really the implications of democratic government are? When we try to analyse that, I want the rational faculty to relate it with India in general and Nagaland in particular. How well have we adapted to this system. The basic implications underlying democracy is popular sovereignty which implies popular opinion is sovereign or the basis of government authority is the will of the people. Popular sovereignty and representative government are the terms that we use synonymously for democracy. Can we say that “Popular opinion is sovereign in our society” and “We have a government that represents our thoughts, opinions and our values”? Whatever means the governing authority adopts, the end must ultimately be “welfare of the people.”

Equality is another important implication of democracy. It is a principle that a democratic government will always uphold.

Taking political equality in particular, it implies the equal distribution of political rights. The citizens must enjoy their political rights like the right to vote, the right to participate in public deliberations, right to public offices etc., on equal basis. If the citizen of a state has access to all these rights, then, we may comfortably say that that particular state has achieved one of its fundamental democratic ideals. Democracy as an ideal form of government has complex demands, which certainly include voting and respect for election results, but it also requires the protection of liberties and freedoms, respect for legal entitlements, and the guaranteeing of free discussion and fair comment. Even elections can be deeply defective, if they occur without the different sides getting an adequate opportunity to present their respective cases, or without the electorate enjoying the freedom to obtain news and to consider the views of the competing protagonists.

Thus, we have the following different ways in which democracy can enrich the lives of the citizen. First, political freedom is a part of human freedom in general, and exercising civil and political rights is a crucial part of good lives of individuals as social beings. Therefore, to be prevented from participation in the political life of the community is a major deprivation. Democracy also has to act as an important instrumental value in enriching the people’s expression and support their claims to political attention. The practice of democracy in any state must give the citizens an opportunity to learn from one another and help society to form its values and priorities. Even the idea of needs, whether it is economic or social needs, requires public discussion and exchange of information, views and analysis.

Our society has not been able to achieve all these requirements. We can always find a common answer to this i.e, inequality of opportunities and resources. In states where decentralised market economies are not sufficiently regulated, they will eventually produce large inequalities in economic and social resources, from wealth and income and education to social status. Generally, what happens is those with greater resources tend to use them to influence the political system to their advantage and the existence of such inequalities constitute a persistent obstacle to the achievement of a satisfactory level of political equality.

Social justice is another inevitable feature of democracy.

It simply implies the balance between individual’s rights and social control ensuring the fulfilment of the legitimate expectations of the individuals under one existing law. Therefore, if a state is professing social justice, it must be efficient enough to maintain the balance between the distribution of individual’s rights and the obligations laid on them. But unfortunately, in a society like ours, the latter is weighing us down. In addition, social justice also relates to the eradication of social evils like unemployment, poverty, diseases, etc., which have their stigmatic expression on the face of the developing countries.

Having analysed the implications of a democracy or what it takes to be a democratic set up, we may undoubtedly mention that we do have a democratic system but it is related to the elitist notion of democracy. Expressions like “voice of the people” or “rule of the general will” are discarded and instead we have a democracy that stands for “the rule of the chosen few”, implying minority rule. We are now left to decide what kind of democracy we want and need – a democratic government which represents the privileged minority or the one that will represent the toiling majority. It is high time to stop the blame game and start acting positively, as responsible citizens. We are gifted with the power of reasoning and this is what should determine our decisions, even on political issues. What we should be asking ourselves is whether we are pushing hard enough to bring about positive change in our society. In the light of these challenges, amongst some countries that have made the transition to democracy, the new democratic institutions will probably remain weak and fragile, and others might even lose their democratic governments and revert to some form of authoritarian rule. Therefore, if we are to survive in this system of governance, first, we have to fulfil every requirement of having a democratic system and second, we must equip ourselves to meet the challenges, both old and new.

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Wednesday 13 November 2013

Four earthquakes in three hours shake Delhi

New Delhi, November 12 (PTi): Four slight intensity quakes shook the national capital in the early hours on Tuesday, jolting many people out of bed.

However, there were no reports of any casualty or damage to property due to the tremors. The quakes measuring 2.5 to 3.3 on the Richter scale hit the city within a span of three hours, between 12.41am and 3.40am and the epicentre was in south Delhi.

The epicentre of all the four quakes were at a depth of 10-11km and situated at 28.4 degree North Latitude and 77.4 degree East Longitude, Indian Meteorological Department said.

The first quake, measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale occurred at 12.41am, while three more tremors of 3.3, 2.5 and 2.8 magnitude on Richter scale occurred at

1.41am, 1.55am and 3.40am respectively, the IMD official said.

“Since the depth of epicentre of the quake was just 10 to 11km below the surface so people felt the tremors but there were no reports of damage,” said M Shashidhar Reddy, vice chairman of National Disaster Management Authority.

According to the fire department, they did not receive any report of damage in the city. Many people ran out of their homes when the tremors shook buildings. “I was sleeping when I felt the house was shaking, I got up and woke my family members and ran out of the house, but as soon as we returned another tremor hit,” said Rajan Rishi, residing in Paryavaran complex area. “This is for the first time I had experienced four successive tremors in my life,” said Ram Adhir, who is in his 50’s.

AArushI murDer CAse: Air India employees threaten strike; Verdict on November 25 flights may be delayed, cancelled

GhAZiAbAD, November 12 (PTi): A CBI court on Tuesday reserved for November 25 the verdict in the sensational 2008 double murder case of teenager Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in which her parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar are accused. Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal reserved the order after the defence completed its final arguments and the CBI submitted its rebuttal in the case which has seen several twists and turns. CBI on Tuesday maintained its stand that it was the dentist couple who had killed their teenaged daughter Aarushi and their servant as circumstantial evidence was against them. On the other hand, the defence lawyers alleged that Talwars had been framed in the case. Trial in the AarushiHemraj murder case began 15 months ago at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh after the court rejected the closure report filed by CBI. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered in her apartment in Noida on May 16, 2008.

The next day, the body of Hemraj was discovered on the apartment’s terrace. Rajesh and Nupur were in the house on the night the crime was committed.

Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland, second left, poses for photographers with Indian businesswoman Nita Ambani, second right and Bollywood actors Sonakshi Sinha, left, Bipasha Basu, right during the opening of their biggest store in India, Mumbai on Monday. Marks and Spencer Reliance India, a joint venture between Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries and UK retailer Marks and Spencer Plc, intends to open 15 stores in two-years, mainly in the metros, local news reports said. (AP Photo)

India Mars mission back SC grants bail to tribal teacher Soni on track after engine glitch

New Delhi, November 12 (AFP): India’s Mars spacecraft was “successfully” raised into a higher orbit around Earth early on Tuesday, after a brief engine failure during an earlier attempt, the space agency said. The Mars Orbiter Mission, which blasted off on November 5 for a 11-month trip to the Red Planet, is being launched on its way via an unusual “slingshot” method for interplanetary journeys. Lacking a large enough rocket to blast directly out of Earth’s atmosphere and gravitational pull, the Indian spacecraft is orbiting Earth until the end of the month while building up enough velocity to break free. On Tuesday, the spacecraft completed a fourth repositioning to take it 100,000 kilometres (62,000 miles) from Earth, after the thruster engines failed during an attempt on Monday, leading the autopilot to take over.

“Fourth supplementary orbit raising manoeuvre of

Mars Orbiter Spacecraft... has been successfully completed,” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement.

The first three manoeuvres, which involve firing additional fuel into the rocket’s engine, were successfully performed last week. The ISRO said the brief engine failure on Monday was not a setback to the ambitious low-cost mission.

India has never before attempted interplanetary travel and more than half of all missions to Mars have ended in failure, including China’s in 2011 and Japan’s in 2003. The cost of the project, at 4.5 billion rupees ($73 million), is less than a sixth of the $455 million earmarked for a Mars probe by NASA which will launch later this month.

ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan has called the mission a “turning point” for India’s space ambitions and one which would go on to prove its capabilities in rocket technology.

rAiPUr, November 12 (TNN): The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to tribal activist Soni Sori and her nephew Lingaram Kodopi who were detained in Chhattisgarh since September 2011 on charges of being couriers between the Maoists and the Essar Group.

Sori was accused of receiving “protection money” on behalf of Maoists from the Essar Group.

But she claimed she was falsely implicated in a number of cases linking her to Maoist activities. Himanshu Kumar, member of the Chhattisgarh chapter of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) in New Delhi, told TOI over the phone, “It comes as good news to all those who have been fighting for the cause for the last two years but the battle is not yet over.”

Soni Sori who is presently in Jagdalpur jail has been granted interim bail and the apex court has ordered Sori and Kodopi not to enter the Chhattisgarh

9.84 percent in September and 9.52 percent in the previous month.

Vegetable prices rose 45.67 percent in October from a year earlier, compared with a 34.93 percent increase in the previous month, according to government data released

today. Fruits were dearer by 12.84 percent. CPIbased inflation remained in double digits for several months until March this year before it declined to 9.39 percent in April.

Inflation in the food and beverages segment was 12.56 percent in October compared with 11.44 percent in September. The data showed that the corresponding provisional inflation rates for rural and urban areas for October were 10.11 percent and 10.2 percent, respectively.

For CPI inflation, price data are collected from select towns by the National Sample Survey Organisation and from select villages by the Department of Posts. Data on inflation based on the wholesale price index will be released later this week. Last month, the Reserve Bank hiked the key lending rate (repo rate) by 0.25 percent to contain inflation in continuation of its hardline stance.

Retail inflation hits double digit at 10.09% in October

New Delhi, November 12 (PTi): Costlier vegetables and fruits, such as onions and tomatoes, drove retail inflation to 10.09 percent in October, entering double digits after seven months. Inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) was at

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SC has ordered Chhattisgarh police to accompany Sori from Jagdalpur jail to New Delhi where she will have to report to the nearest police station every Sunday.” “It is now proved with the bail granted to this tribal teacher and the Supreme Court’s decision, that tribals like Sori, her husband and Kodopi are tortured and tagged as Maoist supporters. Soon, she will be acquitted in all the five charges she has been accused of,” Himanshu said. Sori, who was a tribal school teacher in Dantewada and her relative Lingaram, a journalist, had allegedly faced torture in police custody on October 8 and 9 in 2011. The issue raised alarm across the globe and many human rights activists came together and were providing legal help to Sori who claimed she was allegedly sexually tortured in police custody.

Sori in her letters mentioned she was raped.

“Stripping me naked, giv-

ing electric shocks, shoving stones inside me-is this going to solve the Naxal problem?” she wrote in letters to Supreme Court.

Activists all across the globe raised campaigns after it came to light that a senior police official who Sori alleged had ordered her torture was conferred a gallantry award by the President of India in January 2012.

Sori had recently lost her husband Anil Futane who was a paralytic patient for which Sori was granted bail to perform his last rites on August 2 this year.

Futane was also in jail for four years on the charges of supporting Maoists. Sori has two daughters and one son who stay with family relatives in Dantewada while her son is studying in a hostel.

Recently on September 28, Amnesty International had submitted a petition to Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh urging him to drop all charges against Sori and Kodopi.

mUmbAi, November 12 (TNN): A substantial number of Air India’s international flights may be delayed or cancelled on Tuesday with a section of cabin crew members, operating on wide body planes, threatening to launch an agitation. Post-noon, domestic flights from Mumbai could also be hit.

After sternly handling the strike by pilots of Air India (international) last year, the airline has again decided to take stern action against crew members who participate in the demonstration and delay or disrupt flights. The airline has also got a restraining order from the Bombay high court, forbidding protesting staffers from going within a 500-m radius of the airport.

The main threat of agitation is in the city where the protesting cabin crew members are backed by a local party. “Like all airlines, we want our cabin crew members

to report according to their duty time stipulated by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). But some among the cabin crew union are citing an old agreement of theirs with AI, under which they were supposed to work much less than the industry norm. At a time when we are expanding our network, AI needs its crew to work as according to DGCA norms,” said a source. “Cabin crew members have been disrupting flights. They do not report for flights or call in sick at the last minute, affecting a large number of flights. Things came to a head around Diwali when a section of unions backed by the party threatened to resort to violence and manhandle the chairman,” said the source. So far, the AI has derostered 18 cabin crew members and issued showcause notice to 24 others, demanding to explain why they should not be grounded.

Don’t question policy, Chidambaram tells CBI New Delhi, November 12 (iANS): Describing the CBI as a “caged bird or the Congress Bureau of Investigation” is incorrect, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Tuesday, noting the investigative agency must confine itself to policing and not question the laid out policy.

Speaking at the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) international conference on ‘Evolving Common Strategies to Combat Corruption and Crime’, Chidambaram cautioned the investigating agency to respect the line that divides policy making and policing.

Chidambaram’s remarks came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was not proper for probe agencies to sit in judgement over a policy decision taken in good faith.

Chidambaram also differed with the Supreme Court’s observations in May this year, describing the CBI as a “caged parrot”.

He said investigating agencies, including the CBI, should be constructed in new India on pillars of “clearly defined objectives, precisely enumerated powers and carefully designed accountability mechanisms”.

Chidambaram said an offence is committed when a prescribed rule of conduct is violated and if there is no prescribed rule or its violation, there is no offence. “It is not the business of the investigative agency to lay down a rule of conduct; nor is it the business of the investigating agency to presume a rule of conduct,” the former home minister said.

Chidambaram said the investigative agency must confine itself to the question whether there has been a violation of a laid-down rule of conduct.

“Even where a rule has been prescribed, there is a policy behind that rule. It is not the business of the investigative agency to question the wisdom of that pol-

A resident of Mumbai’s Campa Cola housing colony folds her hands and pleads for her home not to be demolished, as residents block the gate in Mumbai, Tuesday, Nov. 12.

Residents of the colony locked and barricaded themselves inside the compound, refusing to let civic and police officials enter for a demolition drive after a court deadline to vacate the flats ended, according to news reports. The Supreme Court had declared the buildings illegal. (AP Photo)

UPA government trying to intimidate CBI probes: BJP

New Delhi, November 12 (iANS): The BJP Tuesday said the UPA government is trying to intimidate CBI investigations, and termed as “flawed” the stance of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram that it was not proper for probe agencies to sit in judgement over policy decisions taken in good faith.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said the remarks of the prime minister and the finance minister were “disappointing, to say the least”. “The attempt appears to somehow intimidate the investigation.

In several crucial cases, investigation is at an advanced stage,” Jaitley told reporters here. He said policy formulation was indeed in the domain of the executive but it cannot be immune from criminal investigation.

“What if the policy is flawed, is framed with collateral objective to benefit a few peo-

icy or to suggest a different policy that would be better in the view of the investigating agency,” he said.

Last month, the Prime Minister’s Office came under the lens after the CBI filed a fresh set of charges on the coal allocation case, this time finding fault with the actions of then coal secretary P.C. Parakh in allocating some blocks to private player Hindalco. Both Parakh and the Prime Minister’s Office clarified later that the decision on the award of coal block to Hindalco, taken in 2004-05, was fair and taken in good faith and no ulterior motive was required to be attributed on the matter.

Chidambaram also rejected allegations of the central government’s interference in the investigative agency’s working.

“There are several myths about the CBI, ranging

ple,” Jaitley said.

Referring to the 2G spectrum allocation controversy, Jaitley said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had decided in 2008 to allocate the scarce spectrum at 2001 prices. He said the policy was flawed and faulty. Jaitley said some applicants were leaked out information pertaining to “first come first pay” policy in allocation of 2G spectrum and had bank drafts prepared even before the opening of allocation. “Should it not be investigated?” he said.

Referring to coal block allocations, Jaitley said the government decided to allocate the blocks through screening committee and not through auctions and some of the allocations had to be cancelled. He said the prime minister’s remarks and the finance minister’s support to them were “a flawed argument”. “Law does not accept it. CBI should not accept it,” he said. from the celebrated epithet ‘caged bird’ to the abusive nomenclature ‘Congress Bureau of Investigation’.

None of the descriptions is correct or even well meaning,” said Chidambaram.

“Some myths are carefully fostered and propagated in order to serve an immediate or narrow self-interest.”

“In lighter vain, I may say that sometimes the CBI itself pretends to be a helpless victim when it pleads for powers and greater autonomy,” he said. Lauding the work of CBI, Chidambaram said: “In my view, the CBI is as good an investigation organisation as any other in the world.

We are proud of the achievements of the CBI.” In May this year, the Supreme Court termed the CBI a “caged parrot” that “speaks in its master’s voice” in a case related to the irregularities in the coal block allocation.

India calls for collective action to counter terrorism

GUrGAoN, November 12 (iANS): India Tuesday highlighted terrorism as one of the foremost concerns of the international community and called for enhanced collective action to counter the menace with zero tolerance. Speaking at the closed-door retreat session of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) here, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid highlighted terrorism as one of the foremost concerns of the international community.

According to well-informed sources, Khurshid in a very spirited intervention emphasised that international terrorism continues to grow in sophistication and reach, confronting many of our countries as a trans-national menace. All terror is unacceptable and must be tackled comprehensively, sources quoted him as stressing. Over the last few years, we have seen greater understanding amongst members of the interna-

tional community that segmented approaches will not work, he said.

He called for “increasing the effectiveness of collective action to counter terrorism with zero tolerance”. “We need concerted and cohesive global action against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,” Khurshid said, the sources said. Foreign ministers of 36 Asian and European countries, deputy foreign ministers of 12 countries and two vice ministers are participating in ASEM - a gathering of 49 countries and two international organisations - the European Commission and the ASEAN Secretariat.

Intervening at a closeddoor discussion on regional and international issues, Khurshid highlighted that the principal threat to Afghanistan’s security and stability even today emanates from terrorism.

Peace and stability in Afghanistan is in the interest of all of us, he said, according to diplomatic sources.

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Obama faces worry at home, abroad over Iran WASHINGTON, NOvember 12 (AP): President Barack Obama's hopes for a nuclear deal with Iran now depend in part on his ability to keep a lid on both hard-liners in Congress and anxious allies abroad, including Israel, the Persian Gulf states and even France.

Each of the wary parties is guided in some measure by domestic political interests. But they also share concerns that Obama may want a breakthrough with Iran so badly that he would be willing to accept a deal that prematurely eases economic pressure on Iran and gives the Islamic republic space to pursue a nuclear weapon.

"All of us want to see diplomacy," Republican Sen. Bob Corker told NBC News.

"But we're also concerned about an administration that seems really ready to jump into the arms of folks and potentially deal away some of the leverage we have."

Indeed, there's little question Obama desires a deal with Iran, which could give him a boost during a shaky stretch in his presidency that has included the deeply flawed rollout of his signature health care law, new revelations about U.S. government spying and falling approval ratings.

Successful negotiations with Iran also could validate Obama's long-held belief that the U.S. should be willing to talk to adversaries without preconditions.

Obama and his advisers reject the notion that they are naive about Iran's intentions. And they insist the world must test whether new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is serious about his announced desire for improved relations

President Barack Obama places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, November 11, during a Veterans Day ceremony. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

with the West.

Colin Kahl, who served as a top Pentagon Middle East official during Obama's first term, said the very fact that the success or failure of a nuclear agreement would be so critical to Obama's presidency ensures the administration won't sign off on a subpar agreement with Tehran.

"The president sees preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as not only central to vital U.S. national security interests, but also to his own legacy," said Kahl, now a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. "They're not going to accept a bad deal."

Talks between Iran and six world powers — the U.S., France, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and Germany — ended over the weekend without an agreement on a preliminary deal that would have set

the stage for broader talks.

Diplomats said talks broke down in part because the international powers refused to formally recognize Iran's right to enrich uranium.

France also expressed concerns that proposed limits on Iran's ability to make nuclear fuel don't go far enough. France also sounded alarms over a planned heavy water reactor that would produce greater amounts of byproduct plutonium, which can be used in nuclear weapons production. Western officials later tried to gloss over the French concerns, but their public comments raised questions about cracks in the international coalition.

Iran insists it is not pursuing a bomb and only wants to enrich uranium for energy and medical applications.

Negotiations are due to resume in Geneva on Nov.

20. In exchange for nuclear concessions from Iran, the U.S. and world powers are offering Tehran limited and reversible relief from economic sanctions that have strained its economy.

In the days leading up to the next round of Geneva talks, Obama is likely to confront renewed skepticism from congressional lawmakers and allies overseas.

Some U.S. lawmakers oppose the president's willingness to ease sanctions on Iran, even temporarily, and instead want to layer on new economic penalties. At the Obama administration's request, a sanctions bill in the Senate Banking Committee was put on hold, but it's unclear how much longer lawmakers are willing to wait.

Obama personally placed a call last week to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, a key sanctions drafter, to ask

that legislation be stopped.

Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough have all talked with lawmakers in recent days. And the White House is dispatching Kerry to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to implore the Senate Banking Committee to pause the legislation once again.

The U.S. also is being squeezed abroad by allies, most notably Israel, which sees Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon as an existential threat. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterized the outlines of an agreement that had appeared to be emerging last week as "the deal of the century" for Iran.

His comment prompted a call from Obama to reassure the Israeli leader that the U.S. still agrees about the need to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Wendy Sherman, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator, also traveled to Jerusalem following the Geneva talks to try to assuage Netanyahu's fears.

And there are certain to be more high-level discussions between the U.S. and Israel over the next 10 days.

The Obama administration also is trying to ease concerns among allies in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have expressed wariness about interim agreements that would allow Iran to keep enriching uranium. Kerry visited Saudi Arabia last week and stopped in Abu Dhabi on Monday. After decades of frozen relations, Obama has rapidly ratcheted up diplomacy with Iran in recent months, making little secret of his desire to test the waters for nuclear negotiations.

Experts: Man, nature share Resistance to malaria typhoon tragedy blame drugs has spread in South East Asia

Survivors move past the damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Monday, November 11. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

WASHINGTON, NOvember 12 (AP): Nature and man together cooked up the disaster in the Philippines.

Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser degree, climate change combine to make the Philippines the nation most vulnerable to killer typhoons, according to several scientific studies.

And Typhoon Haiyan was one mighty storm. Haiyan slammed the island nation with a storm surge two stories high and some of the highest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone — 195 mph (314 kph) as clocked by U.S. satellites, or 147 mph (237 kph) based on local reports. An untold number of homes were blown away, and thousands of people are feared dead.

"You have a very intense event hitting a very susceptible part of the world. It's that combination of nature and man," said MIT tropical meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel. "If one of those ingredients were missing, you wouldn't have a disaster." The 7,000 islands of the Philippines sit in the middle of the world's most storm-prone region, which gets some of the biggest typhoons because of vast expanses of warm water that act as fuel and few pieces of land to slow storms down.

Half the storms on an in-

formal list of the strongest ones to hit land in the 20th and 21st centuries ended up striking the Philippines, according to research by Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the Weather Underground. Storms often hit after they've peaked in strength or before they get a chance to, but Haiyan struck when it was at its most powerful, based on U.S. satellite observations, Emanuel said.

Humans played a big role in this disaster, too — probably bigger than nature's, meteorologists said.

University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy figures that 75 to 80 percent of the devastation can be blamed on the human factor. Meteorologists point to extreme poverty and huge growth in population — much of it in vulnerable coastal areas with poor construction, including storm shelters that didn't hold up against Haiyan.

More than 4 out of 10 Filipinos live in a stormprone vulnerable city of more than 100,000, according to a 2012 World Bank study. The Haiyandevastated provincial capital of Tacloban City nearly tripled from about 76,000 to 221,000 in just 40 years.

About one-third of Tacloban City's homes have wooden exterior walls. And 1 in 7 homes have grass roofs, according to the census office.

Those factors — especially flimsy construction — were so important that a weaker storm would have still caused almost as much devastation, McNoldy said.

"You end up with these kind of urban time bombs, where cities have doubled, tripled, quadrupled in size in 50 years" without good building standards, said Richard Olson, director of the Extreme Events Institute at Florida International University. "It is, I hate to say, an all-too-familiar pattern."

Scientists say manmade global warming has contributed to rising seas and a general increase in strength in the most powerful tropical cyclones. But they won't specifically apply these factors to Haiyan, saying it is impossible to attribute single weather events, like the typhoon, to climate change.

A 2008 study found that in the northwestern Pacific where Haiyan formed, the top 1 percent of the strongest tropical cyclones over the past 30 years are getting on average about 1 mph stronger each year — a phenomenon some scientists suspect is a consequence of global warming.

"The strongest storms are getting stronger" said study co-author James Kossin of the National Climatic Data Center. Haiyan "is what potentially could be a good example of the kind of the things we're finding."

WASHINGTON, NOvember 12 (AP): U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually.

While the communicable disease wreaks its heaviest toll in Africa, it's in nations along the Mekong River where the most serious threat to treating it has emerged. The availability of therapies using the drug artemisinin has helped cut global malaria deaths by a quarter in the past decade.

But resistance to it emerged on the Thai-Cambodia border in 2003, and has since been confirmed in Vietnam and Myanmar too. It has also been detected in southwest China and suspected as far away as Guyana and Suriname, according to a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

The report warns that could be a health catastrophe in the making, as no alternative anti-malarial drug is on the horizon. The U.N. World Health Organization, or WHO, is warning that what seems to be a localized threat could easily get out of control and have serious implications for global health. "Absent elimination of the malaria parasite in the Mekong, it is only a matter of time before artemisinin resistance becomes the global norm, reversing the recent gains," writes Dr. Christopher Daniel, former commander of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center, in the report for a conference at the Washington think tank Tuesday.

Mosquitoes have developed resistance to antimalarial drugs before. The same happened with the drug chloroquine, which helped eliminate malaria from Europe, North America, the Caribbean and parts of Asia and South-Central America during the 1950s.

Resistance first began ap-

pearing on the Thai-Cambodia border, and by the early 1990s it was virtually useless as an antimalarial in much of the world.

Nowhere are the challenges in countering the threat to drug-resistance greater than in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Some 70 percent of its 55 million people live in malaria-endemic areas, and as a nation, it accounts for about threequarters of malaria infections and deaths in the Mekong region, the report says.

Myanmar's public health system is ill-equipped to cope, as government spending on health dwindled to the equivalent of just 60 U.S. cents per person under military rule, although it has been increased significantly under the quasi-civilian administration that took power in 2011. In a third of townships, there been virtually no public health presence for years.

It's an issue of regional concern as Myanmar has large transient populations in its border regions, including ethnic minorities displaced by fighting and migrant workers who cross borders. "It is clear that this country with its chronically under-resourced health system needs urgent additional attention," Daniel said.

Resistance to artemisinin can be driven by various factors: delays in giving treatment, use of counterfeit or substandard drugs, and prescribing artemisinin on its own rather than in combination with another longer-acting drug to ensure that all malaria-carrying parasites in a patient's bloodstream are killed off.

Cambodia and Laos have banned the use of such monotherapies, and Myanmar's military, which manufactures pharmaceuticals, announced in June it would cease production of them by early 2014. That comports with the global push by the U.N. for proper testing, treating and tracking of malaria cases to prevent the disease spreading.

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DIRECTORATE OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS NAGALAND : KOHIMA

Dated Kohima the 12th Nov 2013

NOTIFICATION NO.ES/FAHM-CRS/2013: In continuation to Advertisement No.ES/FAHM-CRS/2013 dated 1st Oct 2013, the shortlisted candidates as listed below in no particular order are hereby called for personal interview/viva voce for the post of State Coordinator & Data Processing Assistant on the 4th and 5th Dec '13 at the Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Nagaland, Kohima from 9 A.M. onwards. No separate calling letter will be issued and the candidates are asked to bring their original documents. Personal interview/viva voce for the post of State Coordinator as listed below and SI. No. 1 to 40 for the post of Data Processing Assistants will be conducted on 4th Dec '13; and SI. No. 41 to 111 for the post of Data Processing Assistants will be conducted on 5th Dec '13.

The shortlisted candidates may also be viewed from the office notice board.

State Coordinator-4th Dec’13 Sl. Name Form No. No 1 Tseibulie Zatsu 25 2 Yapangkla Longkumer 102 3 Tovika T Jimo 569 4 Temsuchiba Amer 14 5 Virokono Alphonsa 73 6 Vivino Seleyi 426 7 Medieno Kiso 536 8 Kezhasetuo 227 9 Toshisungla Ao 56 10 Vituozonuo Keditsu 243 11 Vibuntü 301 12 Aosangla Pongen 74 13 Vithoselie Chasie 410 14 Y Seroba Sangtam 323 15 Medoseno Genevieve Thapo 242 16 Vithono Sale 483 17 Keneisonuo 316 18 Temsuwapang Jamir 522 19 Tsenchithung Murry 564 20 Tovili Ayemi 4 21 Nokenketba 26 22 Lanuienla M Jamir 177 23 Imtimenla I Pongen 244 24 Velavolti Theluo 439 25 H Aloto shohe 135 26 Asat Haokip 190 27 Ngukato Zhimomi 496 28 Pungjasoba Walling 510 29 Nevolti Rhakho 95 30 I Shapong Longkumer 8 31 Toketo Shohe 136 32 Kejalhuto Punyti 18 33 Nungsangtemjen 428 34 K Alibo Achumi 465 35 Nunghothung Odyuo 442 36 Kekuolhuno Nakhro 215 37 Ponam Thapa 42 38 lmtichiba Jamir 22 39 Litoli Achumi 46 40 Alokali N 200 41 H Wophyomo 5 42 R Mhao Humtsoe 225 43 Niwale Apon 373 Data Processing Assistant — 4th Dec '13 1 Moalemla 2 L.Panger 3 Chibenthung A. Kithan 4 Saroba 5 Rongsentenjen Pongener 6 Shasinlo Khing 7 Athuvi Ringa 8 Tsusola T. Yimchunger 9 Kekhruvonu Catherine Neikha 10 Atovi Achumi 11 Khriesakeduo 12 Tseibulie Zatsu 13 Chubathung N. Kithan 14 I. Wabang 15 Longshi Lotha 16 Achila Jamir 17 Vili Swu 18 Vizo Sieti Rilpreo 19 Tochumong 20 Tiasenla N.Jamir 21 Wabangtemjen Longkumer 22 Medieno Kiso 23 Temsuwapang Jamir 24 Noulevituo Zumu 25 Rüvuokhrietuo Robert Suohu 26 V. Lumpise 27 T.Akum Jamir 28 Pritam Ghosh 29 Chomben N.Ezung 30 H Aloto shohe N. Anungla 31 N.Anungla 32 Anthea N. Chishi 33 Toshilemla Pongen

285 304 599 49 305 374 241 413 107 189 144 25 185 111 87 287 346 105 233 104 178 536 522 213 419 412 286 308 486 135 572 7 207

34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Moameren Metsete-U L Thungchamo Mozhui Toketo Shohe Susangmanen Pongener Yapang Aier Longritemjen

Data Processing Assistant - 5th Dec '13 41 Iloto Zhimo 42 Temjenngangted Jamir 43 Bijoy Mech 44 Alokali N 45 R Mhao Humtsoe 46 Kevicazelie Sekhose 47 Maongtoshi Longkumer 48 Imlinokcha Longkumer 49 Suwatemjen 50 Imtisunep 51 M Yanthungo Ngullie 52 Bendangmeren T. Jamir 53 Velavolii Theluo 54 I Imnatangit Jamir 55 Y Seroba Sangtam 56 Thothungo Tsopoe 57 Manto Konyak 58 Yashewati Longkumer 59 Imnanenla Pongener 60 Lanusunep Longchar 61 Neikope Marhu 62 K Chubakatila Longkumer 63 Atsusangba 64 Stirhosie 65 Lamzaibe Haikam 66 Lijanthung Y Shitio 67 Lily Achumi 68 Dziesekhonuo Yhome 69 Akumnaro 70 Haichenlo Kath 71 Nevolü Rhakho 72 Neizovoü 73 Thungbeni L. Shidio 74 Kiukhumla R Yimchunger 75 Zaremo Ngullie 76 Sano Koza Yhunsinlo Lorin 77 Yhunsinlo Lorin 78 Keneitsizo 79 Jonah Domeh 80 Renbeni L. Shidio 81 L Asenla Jamir

557 501 16 136 487 495 466

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Sl. Name Form No. No 82 Zupenthvu Nuni 103 83 Neinuo 39 84 Sohile Keppen 362 85 Hanpongo Tsopoe 384 86 Vinoka N Assumi 272 87 Moalemla Aier 468 88 Muwase Sangtam 12 89 Sashimar Aier 397 90 Tovili Ayemi 4 91 Vekho Ruho 155 92 Chubamaong Pongen 449 93 Nuneno Vakha 160 94 k Inoto Ark 436 95 T Wangai Konyak 517 96 Nyichutho 567 97 Boansenla Pongener 174 98 Gwato Koza 97 99 Sangkong 210 100 Thiputo Kezo 503 101 Philip Somba Chang 401 102 Apang Phom 168 103 Punameren 463 104 Moatemsula Longkumer 157 105 C.Shellem 520 106 Y Renbenthung Ovung 112 107 S.Yanpong 86 108 Imtimenla I Pongen 244 109 A. Benathung Tsanglao 538 110 Chenio Kikon 488 111 Benedic T. Humtsoe 551

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Novak Djokovic beats Nadal to win ATP Finals LoNDoN, NovEmBER 12 (AP): Novak Djokovic capped off a phenomenal autumn by defending his ATP World Tour Finals title with an impressive 6-3, 6-4 win over Rafael Nadal in a duel between the two dominant players of the season on Monday night.

There's no doubt Djokovic is the man to beat on indoor hard courts. And just for the record, his 22 consecutive wins to finish 2013 matched top-ranked Nadal's best stretch of the year. Djokovic's winning run started after a U.S. Open final defeat to Nadal, and during a span when the Spaniad replaced him atop the rankings. "The most positive thing that I can take from those 2 ½ is the fact that I managed to regroup after a few big losses against Nadal, especially in Roland Garros, U.S. Open final and Wimbledon final," said Djokovic, who became the seventh player to win the elite season-ending tournament at least three times. His victory in London denied Nadal the only big trophy missing from his glittering CV. Having produced one of the most memorable comebacks in tennis, Nadal lost in a deciding match for the second time at the tour finals and missed the chance

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Nadal not downhearted

LoNDoN, NovEmBER 12 (REutERS): Rafa Nadal refused to let a good old-fashioned beating at the hands of fierce rival Novak Djokovic on Monday take the gloss off a sensational year. The Spaniard's hopes of winning the year-ending showpiece for the first were crushed by a clinical Djokovic, who brought the curtain down on the ATP World Tour Finals with an emphatic 6-3 6-4 win.

Nadal was always playing catch-up after losing the first three games and at times he was given the runaround by the man he replaced at the top of the world rankings in October. While defeat no doubt dented his pride, Nadal thought there was very little to choose between he and Djokovic, who now leads their personal duel 22-17. "The thing that made the difference in today's match was the serve, I didn't serve well, he served well," Nadal told reporters. "For the rest I felt that when I was playing, I was not far away off his level.

"At the beginning he was playing much better than me. After that I didn't see the difference. "I felt that I was playing enough well to be little bit closer than the score. But at the end, I lost 6-3 6-4. I lost 6-3 6-4 because the opponent played better than me." Despite ending the year with a defeat, Nadal is deservedly ranked number one in the world after reaching 14 finals in his 17 tournaments this year, winning 10 of them, and putting together a 75-7 match record.

His return to the summit after a seven-month injury lay-off has been a superhuman effort. "Winning or losing today was not going to change my career," Nadal said. "I am not very disappointed. I know that I was not the favourite for the match, even if I tried with the right attitude, fighting for every moment, even if the match was not going the way that I would like. "It's very special what happened this year."

to join Andre Agassi as the only players to have won all four Grand Slams, Olympic gold, the Davis Cup and the year-end tournament.

"It's not going to change my career, winning or losing today," Nadal said. "I am not very disappointed.

I know that I was not the

Novak Djokovic of Serbia, left, holds the ATP World Tour Finals tennis trophy as he stands next to Rafael Nadal of Spain photographers after defeating Nadal at the O2 Arena in London, Monday, Nov. 11. (AP Photo)

favorite for the match, even if I tried with the right attitude, in my opinion, fighting for every moment, trying to be positive in every moment, even if the match was not going the way that I would like." Monday's defeat was a strong warning to Nadal, who overhauled Djokovic for the No. 1 ranking last month, that his Serbian rival will be ready to extend his form into next year's Australian Open, where he is the three-time defending champion.

Djokovic has now beaten Nadal 10 times in 19 finals and is unbeaten since losing at the U.S. Open in September. "After the US

Open final, of course, I needed to take things slowly and see and analyze what I did wrong, especially in the matches against him, to understand what I need to do in order to win against him," Djokovic said. "I think the results are showing that we had a great improvement in the last 2 ½ months."

Djokovic returned superbly from the start to move his Spanish rival around the court and prevent him from dictating the points. Nadal, playing on his less favorite surface, hit only nine winners and was broken three times.

"If I can say about one

thing that makes the difference in today's match was the serve — I didn't serve well, he served well," Nadal said. "So in this kind of court, first shot is very important, and he did that first shot much better than me." Nadal return to the No. 1 ranking came on the back of a stunning comeback from a career-threatening knee injury. Since returning in February, the Spaniard has won 75 matches —losing only 7 —to win 10 titles including the French Open, the U.S. Open and five Masters 1000 events.

But Djokovic proved again that he still has the upper hand on hard courts

by extending his head-tohead winning record to 13-7 on that surface against Nadal.

"Year-end No. 1 is deservedly in Nadal's hands because he had two Grand Slam wins, the best season out of all players, the most titles," Djokovic said. "I think that's no doubt, cannot question that. I tried to put aside the calculations and the rankings after U.S. Open and just tried to focus on one tournament at a time, one day at a time. That kind of attitude has helped me to get to where I am at this moment."

Djokovic made an impressive start, hitting pow-

erful groundstrokes to keep Nadal well behind his baseline while limiting his own mistakes. Returning well, the Serb made the most of two of Nadal's backhand errors to break in the second game. He had another chance in the fourth game after Nadal double-faulted, but was unable to convert.

Nadal got into the match from that point. He put Djokovic under pressure with his huge forehands in the next game and two unforced errors from the Serb allowed him to break back and then level at 3-3. But Nadal faltered in his next service game as he served a double-fault at 30-30.

to his league-leading total (35), George Hill finished with 13 points in his third game back from a hip injury and Luis Scola added 12 points off the bench.

Indiana could be making things even tougher for opponents soon, too.

Vogel said before the game that former All-Star Danny Granger, who once led the Pacers in scoring for five straight seasons, will begin working out Tuesday and could return to practice as soon as Wednesday. Vogel did not say when Granger would return to the rotation. Granger has not played this season because of a strained left calf.

For now, though, fans seem content with the way things are going. During the final minutes, they even serenaded Pacers players with chants of "unde-feat-ed." But the Pacers aren't content with that.

"We are not looking at this 8-0 start," said George, the NBA's Most Improved Player last season. "We want to enjoy it, but we must let our strengths continue to lead us to victory. Everybody helps, everybody is doing their job."

CLAIREFoNtAINE, NovEmBER 12 (AP): Coach Didier Deschamps has urged his France team to play without fear and think only of getting a victory away to Ukraine in the first match of their World Cup qualifier on Friday.

France fumbled its way through the playoffs four years ago, edging past Ireland after a nerveshredding game at Stade de France was settled by a controversial goal as Thierry Henry handled the ball before crossing it to scorer William Gallas. Deschamps wants a far more positive approach this time around and has no intention of settling for a draw.

"There's no place for doubt or uncertainty," Deschamps said Monday at France's training camp.

"We'll go there with the intention of getting the best result possible. It's important to score away, given the fact we're at home for the return match. They're not an easy team to move about, but I hope we force

them to defend."

The message has been received loud and clear. "We can't go over there and play timidly, or tell ourselves there's a second match to come," winger Franck Ribery said. "We've got the team to go and get a result there. I'm not scared of anything." In a bid to stamp out complacency or over-confidence, Deschamps refuted the notion that his team had been given an easy draw by avoiding Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal team or Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Sweden side.

"We could have drawn a team that's stronger on paper. But we're not up against a team of tourists. They're on a good run of form, and they concede few goals," Deschamps said. "They have less (standout) individuals than Portugal, but they play well collectively."

He wants a full-blooded committed performance against a team that has 10 players who risk missing the return match in Paris four days later if they pick up a yellow card.

"All of the players are competitors and you feed off competition. Nervousness and anxiety won't affect our performance," Deschamps said. "The highest level is about aggression and intensity, physical commitment. You can't walk on your tiptoes. It's exciting, there's adrenalin and you have to take that in a positive way. You can't think 'if, if, if.' France will need a strong performance to qualify." France has a difficult relationship with its fans, particularly when it plays at home — where the notoriously hard-to-please Parisian crowd often jeers the players — but Deschamps is confident of their full backing this time.

"There'll be many fans in Ukraine from what I've heard and the Stade de France will be full," he said.

"We could have filled more than the 80,000 places. We'll need their support." France will stick with one center forward, with the No.9 jersey going to either Olivier Giroud or Karim Benzema.

Pacers roll past Memphis to stay unbeaten Deschamps urges France to be fearless in Ukraine INDIANAPoLIS, No vEmBER 12 (AP): Eight straight wins isn't enough for the perfect Pacers. They have far bigger plans. The NBA's last unbeaten team remained undaunted Monday night, getting 23 points from Paul George and the first triple double of Lance Stephenson's career to run past Memphis 95-79 and complete a brutal fivegame in seven-day stretch with a sweep. Indiana extended its franchise-best start to 8-0, becoming the seventh team to achieve the feat since 2000.

"Everything we're shooting for is attainable, but we've got a long way to go, a lot of work to do," coach Frank Vogel said.

"It was probably our most complete game." The Pacers made no secret of this season's plan — dethroning two-time defending NBA champion Miami. The best way to do that, they figured, was earning the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference and so far, nobody has been able to touch Indiana.

The Pacers already have a 3½-game lead over Miami and Atlanta in the East.

Indiana is showing no

Indiana Pacers forward Paul George, left, and Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley go for a loose ball in the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. The Pacers defeated the Grizzlies 95-79. (AP Photo)

sign of slowing down, either. Rather than look fatigued after back-to-back wins last Tuesday and Wednesday and two more back-to-back wins Friday and Saturday, something Vogel said he had never been part of previously, the Pacers appeared to get stronger Monday.

They again dominated

Australia's opening batsman David Warner speaks to the media in Brisbane Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 after he was selected for the first Ashes test against England, starting Nov. 21.

Warner, who missed the opening matches of the last Ashes series due to disciplinary issues, has scored four centuries in domestic cricket in Australia in the last month and says he’s ready to score runs against England. (AP Photo)

the glass, outrebounding Memphis 30-15 in the first half and finishing with a 4532 advantage. They again relied on suffocating defense, which held Memphis (3-4) to a season-low point total and nearly 20 points below its season scoring average (98.5). And again they were content to share the honors. George scored

seven of his game-high points total during a key 9-3 stretch to close out the third quarter. That gave Indiana a 72-55 lead.

Stephenson, who is playing the best basketball of his career, finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds, a career-high 12 assists and only one turnover. Roy Hibbert added five more blocks

Leaner, in love; Warner raring for Ashes

BRISBANE, NovEmBER 12 (AP): David Warner is lean, he's in love, and he's ready to score runs against England. It's only been five months since the last Ashes series started in England, when Warner was on the outer from the Australian team after punching a rival player in a barroom incident, yet the opening batsman's preparations couldn't be any more different.

While the Australian limitedovers squad was touring India recently, Warner was scoring centuries in domestic cricket for New South Wales, spending time with his family, his new girlfriend — surf lifesaving 'Ironwoman' Candice Falzon — his batting coach and a sports psychologist who he attributed with guiding him back onto the right path.

On Tuesday, his position in Australia's 12-man squad for the first test starting Nov. 21 was confirmed, and he spent the day at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane talking about how he made his way back into the good books of selectors.

"The last six to 12 months

hasn't been ideal for myself, but the last six to eight weeks have been fantastic, scoring runs for New South Wales and putting my hand up for selection," he said. "And now I'm here, I'm ready to go."

The 27-year-old opener missed the first two Ashes tests in England and was sent to South Africa to play for the secondstring team after a run of off-field problems, including a Twitter rant against two veteran journalists and the incident with thenEngland opener Joe Root. Warner didn't return to top form and was later dropped from the national ODI squad, leaving him plenty of time to think about life inside and outside of cricket.

He has lost weight — a result of an improved diet and more exercise — and has had encouragement from family, some wise counsel from Cricket Australia's sports psychologist Michael Lloyd and one other thing.

"I put it down to love, mate," he said, only half joking despite the chuckle. "I needed a change of approach with cricket, so I took the other path and went for life-

style change. Then there's little things I've worked on with my batting coach — things are working at the moment. "I've found a balance at the moment and I'm really happy."

Warner has scored four centuries in the last month for New South Wales, and chief selector John Inverarity described a firstclass hundred at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as "a fine knock."

Warner has three centuries and eight half centuries from 22 tests, including an unbeaten 123 in his second test in 2011 and 180 against India in January 2012. But he hasn't reached triple figures in a test since his 119 against South Africa last November, and knows he is overdue to score a hundred after missing out in consecutive series against Sri Lanka, India and England.

Australia captain Michael Clarke said Warner was picked on form, and deserved his opportunity against an England team which came to Australia seeking a fourth consecutive Ashes series win — something it hasn't achieved in more than a century.

"His attitude has been outstanding on and off the field," Clarke said. "Once we welcomed him back into the group after the incident in the UK, he's been great around the team. He's gone out of his way to try to earn the respect back from his teammates and he's certainly done that. It's great to see him back in the team."

Warner said he started working with psychologist Lloyd "When I was going through the rough patch and couldn't score a run." "I had to call him in. He's been fantastic for me," Warner said.

"He's calmed me down a little bit in the way that I process things."

And that doesn't just apply to technical issues with the bat.

Warner says he doesn't take negative thoughts onto the field with him, and actually enjoys the kind of banter and taunts that the traveling England fans, collectively known as the Barmy Army, chant at him. He was at the center of a few original songs in England, some relating to his pre-series incident with Root, the young England batsman who went on to score a century in the first test.

Warner knows that he and Root will be linked in plenty of stories ahead of the return series, and says it doesn't bother him.

"That's probably 10 seconds of my life I'd like to take back," he said. "From there, we've moved on. If both our names get dragged along because of that incident, then again, everyone can keep talking about it but we're well past it. "We're about playing for our country and getting ready to get out there and talk them on."

Warner said the 10 weeks had home after more than 18 months of solid traveling for cricket had been "fantastic," helping him get over the disappointment of being dropped from the ODI team.

"In the back of your mind, you always want to play for Australia every time you get the opportunity, and it was disappointing that my form let me down," he said. "But I had the opportunity to stay at home with my family and Candice and do things at home that I wouldn't have had the opportunity to do. You lose sight of that when you're away. "I'm just glad to be back in form, back with the Aussie boys."

11 Entertainment Miss Peren beauty Pageant 2013 Wednesday

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he Peren District Beauty and Aesthetic Society (PDBAS) is organizing its 9th edition of Miss Peren Beauty pageant on November 15, at Peren town.

The thirteen aspiring beauties vying for the coveted crown represents six circles of the district- Tening, Mbaulwa, Peren, Jalukie, Ahthibung and Ngwalwa.

Former guitarist for Michael Jackson, Jennifer Batten planting a Banyan tree at Tsumang Lake, in the heart of Wokha town on November 12, in the presence of Shaying Sheu, EAC Wokha; officials of Green Foundation, Sky Entertainment, Aisle on Fire and fans of the visiting artist.

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om Cruise's attorney has compared a journalist to a Nazi in a series of shocking letters. Documents obtained

by RadarOnline in conjuction with the actor's court battle, show Bert Fields using intimidation tactics in attempt to quash a story by The Hollywood Reporter's Kim Masters, which discussed the effect a Vanity Fair article on Scientology would have on Cruise's career. This latest information has come as the Hollywood megastar continues his $50million legal battle with Bauer Media in respect of stories published in In Touch and Life & Style magazines for defaming his parenting skills. In Septem-

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Tom Cruise’s career. published on the Church of 'It is old tabloid lies Scientology. He then went spewed before by bitter on to offer to check the reex-Scientologists. Your porter's upcoming book for suggestion that Tom may facts relating to the church. have to quit the Church Fields wrote: 'If you let to save his career be- me know in advance what, gins to sound like Ger- if anything, you are saymany in the 1930s, ing about Mr. Cruise in the where a man’s profes- book, I’ll be glad to advise sional career could be you whether or not it is ended because of his true. religion. 'You’re too 'If you do not take adgood a reporter to let vantage of this opportunity your feelings about to avoid false and defamaScientology, which tory statements about Mr. you and I discussed Cruise, that, of course, will years ago, cause you be evidence of reckless disto hurt Tom, who’s regard. 'Of course, if the a haCh very good guy and book does contain libelous PATTON who doesn’t deserve assertions about Mr. Cruise, it.' But the threaten- we will, at the appropriate It’s magical, powerful and awesome. Naing and intimidating time, file an appropriate gas and their love for music are but a tapletters to journalistsestry. andIt isaction.' to the inherentIn toaddition both the old and media organisations didn't emails and letters to methe young.

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sure you that, if we are to complete with the rest of the world.

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

Naga musician have taken their passion for music all across the world and have made great impressions. Some mention can be made about the indomitable spirit of the Abiogenesis, Divine Connection, Alobo Naga, Neise Meruno, Nagaland Chamber Choir and the new teenage sensation the Polar mind-blowing to get so And for the record it wasn’t Lights. Talk about Goa and Jamaica and you think of music and m u ‘musicos’. c h a Rita diss!taken ‘She’s a mate good times. So, Naga You have Nagaland to l oabout v e . time andyou I meant that I’dtolike to the world. Now, it is bring the world Nagaland and let them feel our love and passion for good music.

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have come to light as a result of Cruise's $50million lawsuit against Bauer Media for claiming he 'abandoned' his daughter Suri following his divorce from Katie Holmes on June 29 2012.

During the bitter legal process, it has already come to light that the 51-year-old actor didn't see his daughter for 110 days after the split. But the Top Gun star defended himself during a deposition, claiming he would have been there for Suri's first day of school had she asked him to be. He said: 'I think parents sometimes think it’s (a big day).

You know with Suri, if she had asked me to be there, I would have been there. I would have tried to make it work out in any way I could.

Cruise added that he had agreed with his ex-wife Katie Holmes that it would be best if he did not attend, so as to avoid a media circus.

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But while James Arthur’s romantic dalliance with songstress Rita Ora appeared to end amicably, the former X Factor winner has slammed his old flame in a new rap. The 25-year-old singer referenced Rita during a pre-recorded session on BBC Radio 1Xtra over the weekend, aired as a feature on Charlie Sloth’s Saturday hip-hop show. With his swear words bleeped out well in advance James blasts: ‘I’m giving 10 million f **** less than Rita does and that’s a lot of f****.

Yeah tha’s a lot of f****.

‘Some people’s Oras and demeanours can deceive us, but what they really want is a piece of your p****.’ Curiously, the Teesider also took aim at Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, adding: ‘I am cold, fearless sticking this thing in Z listers. And I don’t want to aim this venom at a f****** hater’s cranium, blow the load of broken Britain on Iggy Azalea’s crazy area.’ His

performance was part of Charlie’s Fire in the Booth rap session and comes as James continues to promote his eponymous debut album. The singer, who claimed last year’s X Factor crown, previously hit out at Rita in October when he referred to her brief romance with football agent Dave Gardner. ‘Who hasn’t had interest from Rita Ora?’ he said.

‘She was out with me one night and then coming out of a club with David Beckham’s best friend the other night.

‘I was like, ‘Oh, f *** you then. A lot of attractive women are d********.’ Despite the apparent criticism, James – who received a barrage of comments on Twitter following his performance – has insisted that his recent rap was actually paying the Shine Ya Light singer a compliment. ‘I was bowled over by my FITB on Twitter yesterday,’ he told the Mirror. ‘A big risk for me and

Kailash Kher's 'Sachin anthem' free online for month

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The song will be available on his website for free download for a month. The 40-year-old said the video of the song will be available on his YouTube channel from Nov 14, the day Sachin will star playing his last match in Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.

We are presently shooting for the video of the song.

The song will be available online from Nov 13 and the video can be seen on our YouTube channel from Nov 14. We want to celebrate this moment as a festival for a month, so the song will be available for a free download on our website for a month, Kailash told IANS in a telephonic interview.

I finished the song in three days. From composing to recording and production, it was all complete in those three days. I am a big fan of Sachin and this song has Kailash`s love and emotions for him, he said. When Sachin made his 100th international century against Bangladesh in 2012, even I was present in Dhaka during that time. I had planned to write a song for him since then, but got busy with something or the other. About two-three weeks ago, I was talking to Suresh Raina who told me that this will be Sachin`s last Test match. That`s when I decided to pen down the song and show what I feel about him through it, he said.

give less of a f*** than she does! It’s something I really respect.’ Recently the singer performed while switching on the Christmas lights with band The Vamps in Manchester, and event that was witnessed by 17,000 fans.

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Hornbill motor rally & WW 2 peace rally

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 12 (MExN): In commemoration of 50th state anniversary of Nagaland, the 7th edition of Hornbill Motor Rally will also be an integral part of the mega celebrations and it will be held on the of December 3 and 4. The motor rally is organized by the Nagaland Adventure & Motor Sports Association (NAMSA) which is supported and sponsored by the Government of Nagaland and JK Tyre. The Hornbill Motor Rally will be held under License from the Federation of Motor Sports Council of India (FMSCI). The format for the motor rally, both four and two wheeler categories will be Time, Speed and Distance (TSD). The Motor Rally will be flagged from IG Stadium, Kohima and participants will traverse around 100 kilometers and finish at IG Stadium.

On December 3, there will be documentation and scrutiny and December 4 will witness the TSD Rally and the prize distribution ceremony. This year, there will be two categories of competition, viz professional and novice. The

NAMSA office at 116 Duncan, Opposite Morung Express, Dimapur is already issuing entry forms and SR and the standard closing date will be November 16 and the late entry date is November 28.

WWII Peace Rally is also organized by NAMSA and sponsored by the Department of Tourism, Government of Nagaland. JK Tyre will be sponsoring the trophies for the event.

The WWII Peace Rally programme will flag off at 8:00 AM at the War Cemetery, Kohima after a Wreath laying Ceremony and will culminate at WWII Museum, Naga Heritage village, Kisama; where the prize Distribution Ceremony will also be held.

The main objective of the peace rally is to promote motor sports, tourism and Nagaland as a tourist destination and peace.

This is also to promote the history of one of the fiercest battles that was fought during WW-II. Competitors for both the TSD Rally and WWII Peace Rally can also log in to namsa.co.in for more information or email at info@namsa.co.in

4th SATBALL tournament begins

Chief Guest Nizheto Awomi (Morung photo)

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 12 (MExN): Organized

by Emporia Sporting Club and supported by Nagaland SATBALL Association, the 4th SATBALL running tournament was inaugurated on Tuesday by Nizheto Awomi, Assistant Director, Directorate of Youth Resources and Sports, Kohima at GHSS Ground, United Colony Dimapur.

Nizheto lauded the members of the SATBALL Association for bringing up the Naga indigenous game and encouraged them to further popular-

ize the game in all the district headquarters. He was hopeful that the game would gradually become an international game on the lines of Kitido.

Towards this effort, Nizheto urged the members to put their heads together to internationalize the game so that outside people would know more about the Nagas. The chief guest offered his support and cooperation to help popularize the indigenous game. An exhibition match was played between DDVFA and DABA Youth Ministry.

India set for emotional Sachin Tendulkar finale NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 12 (AFP): Sachin Tendulkar is set for an emotional farewell when he plays his 200th and final Test at home in Mumbai from Thursday, exactly 24 years after he began his record-breaking career. Former team-mates, one-time opponents and even his mother will join fans at the Wankhede stadium to acclaim the world's leading Test and one-day batsman, and the only one to score 100 international centuries.

Speaking at a function on Monday to celebrate his career, Tendulkar gave some insight into the famous work ethic that has enabled him to play on to the age of 40, long beyond his contemporaries. "I think every step was different, every tournament required different type of preparations," he said in Mumbai. "Without preparations, things wouldn't have been the same."

Since making his debut as a 16-year-old in Karachi in 1989, Tendulkar has become almost a deity for the billionplus population of India, helping the country win the 2011 World Cup and reach the top of the world rankings. After racking up a staggering 15,847 runs in his 199 Tests, even his rivals acknowledge that Tendulkar is second only to Sir Donald Bradman in the pantheon of batting greats.

In his final interview before he died MUMBAI, (TNN): Several tribin 2001, the Australian utes are being devised for cricketer said that Tendulkar Sachin Tendulkar ahead of his last was the one modern test match coming up in Mumbai player who came clos- from November 14. Travel website est to his own legendary Musafir.com, that is endorsed by batting style. "It was just Tendulkar, will offer free rides from his compactness, his stroke designated points to Wankhede Staproduction, his technique, it dium during the test. The portal has all seemed to gel as far as I was hired 200 taxis from fleet operator concerned," Bradman said in TABcabs that will ply from November 14-18. the 1996 interview.

Fans will have to show their match Brian Lara, one of Tendulkar's tickets to avail this service. The cabs few rivals at the highest summit of will pick them up from 7.00 am onthe modern game, has flown into wards and drop them back from 5.00 India to watch the Indian's final pm. Designated points are Shivaji farewell against the West Indies. Park, Borivli National Park Crossing, "When I speak about cricket, I will speak Goregaon Oberoi Mall, Andheri flyabout Tendulkar," the former West Indian over, Bandra Kala Nagar Junction, batsman said. "Just like you mention Moham- Ghodbunder Road and Majiwada, mad Ali when you mention boxing and Mi- Thane, Mulund Check Naka and chael Jordan when it comes to basket- Suman Nagar. Transport is also availball." Some television channels have able from Shivaji Park, Vashi Station, R been showing wall-to-wall high- K Studios, Chembur and Powai. lights of Tendulkar's greatest moments since the weekend, and the build-up to his last match has dominated the front as well as the back pages. Billboards and murals of Tendulkar have been sprouting across India as the country prepares to bid goodbye to a man whose off-pitch humility as well as his on-field achievements are a source of national pride.

Such has been the clamour for tickets that the main online vendor collapsed within minutes of sales opening on Monday. Organisers say they could have sold out many times over. "Basically Sachin means everything to me because cricket has been my life," said Yatin Joshi, a self-styled "Sachin Superfan" who lives in Tendulkar's hometown. "And as we say cricket has been my religion and Sachin is my God. So everything revolves around Sachin, so any, all happiness, sadness, you know, go along with how he does on the field and off the field," he told AFP.

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NAGALAND PREMIER LEAGUE Match day 15 previews

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aga Tornadoes held title-chasing Dimapur United to a draw and dent their hopes at the weekend. They are currently placed 6th on the table and will look to climb up when they take on Dynamic in Dimapur on Wednesday. Despite having a good game last Saturday against Sangpang Dynamic walked away with nothing from the game.

A young Dynamic side are still in pursuit of their first victory of the season.

Dimapur United failed to extract maximum points from their last game and in the process slipping down to 5th on the table. Inconsistency has marred their game of late as they could manage only a point from their last two outings. United Redskins have got a tough game on their hands on Wednesday as they face a strong Dimapur United side aiming to prove a point after a disappointing week.

Doyang hosts Sangpang in the first game in Kohima on Wednesday. Doyang will look for an improvement after they were thrashed by Barak in their last match.

Sangpang are in brilliant form and they take the field looking to win their fourth game on the trot. They are currently 7th on the table and level with Naga Tornadoes on 20 points and a the Mokokchung outfit will be keen to climb up the ladder as only one point separate four teams from 4th to 7th.

Kohima will witness a high profile derby in the second match on Wednesday when Kohima Komets clash with Veda at the IG stadium. Kohima Komets are currently placed 3rd on the table and are behind leaders Veda by 7 points with a game in hand. Komets need maximum points to keep up with the pace setters keeping in mind the one game advantage they have in their favor. Veda on the other hand will look to bounce back from the defeat last week and consolidate the top spot and put themselves in a good position to lift the title in their debut NPL season.

Zonipang take on a resurgent Barak side in Mokokchung who are in the hunt for a second consecutive NPL title. Zonipang are in terrific form and last week’s win over league leaders Veda was another high profile victory and they will look to gun down another powerhouse team in the league in front of a very vocal home crowd. Barak’s surge for a second League title was helped after league leaders Veda went down to Zonipang on Saturday. They dispatched Doyang with ease last week and they will be eager to keep the pressure up on their rivals with another win when they make the tricky away trip to Mokokchung.

By NPL Pundits

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Dimapur, DDSC Stadium FC Naga Tornadoes vs Dynamic FC Kick-off: 11 am Dimapur United FC vs United Redskins FC Kick-off: 1 pm Kohima, IG Stadium Doyang FC vs Sangpang FC Kick-off: 11 am Kohima Komets vs Veda FC Kick-off: 1 pm Mokokchung, Imkongmeren Sports Complex Zonipang SA vs Barak FC Kick-off: 12 noon

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