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Urgent need for Nagaland State government to constitute State Law Commission: TR Zeliang Our Correspondent Kohima | November 13

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ENSF phase 2 agitation ends TUENSANG, NOVEMBER 13 (MExN): The third and final day of the Eastern Naga Students Federation’s phase 2 agitation saw all government offices shut down and restrictions imposed on movement of all government vehicles. The agitation was carried out in all the four eastern districts of Nagaland. Administration, police, medical, Para military and fire and emergency services were however exempted from the purview of the agitation. Sources informed that the ENSF is scheduled to hold a high level meeting on November 14 at Tuensang with representatives from the government. The ENSF expects the government to fulfill assurances made by it in various areas concerning Nagaland state’s four eastern districts. The federation has remained firm on its stand that unless government assurances are practically implemented, the ENSF agitation would continue.

NCSU demands release of pending govt bills

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 13 (MExN): The Nagaland Contractors and Suppliers Union has written to Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio, appealing for release of pending bills amounting to Rs 25, 83, 68, 952 (twenty five crores, eighty three lakhs, sixty eight thousand, nine hundred fifty two).

The letter appended by the President of NCSU, Pele Khezhie and its Secretary, Imsunok Jamir informed that the NCSU had on February 10, 2012 submitted a representation to the CM for release of pending bills amounting to Rs 35, 83, 68, 952. It added that the state cabinet had constituted a Departmental Technical Committee and state level committee headed by then Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commission, Alemtemshi Jamir. NCSU stated that the committee had verified all the pending bills. However, it lamented that the state government had released only ten crores to NCSU members during December 2012. As such, the union has urged the Nagaland CM to consider release of the remaining pending bills at the earliest.

Sumi men enact the harvesting of paddy rice during the celebration of Ahuna festival in Dimapur on november 13.

Ahuna is a post harvest destival celebrated by the Sumi nagas. Photo by Caisii Mao

nPcc demands imchen’s removal Our Correspondent Kohima | November 13

The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee on November 13 submitted representations to Governor of Nagaland and Chief Minister of Nagaland for removal of Imkong L. Imchen from the council of ministers.

Addressing a press conference at Congress Bhavan, NPCC president S. I. Jamir said that the representation informed the Governor that Imkong L. Imchen has already been charge-sheeted by the Wokha Police for his criminal conduct during the recently concluded state assembly.

Threatens to boycott 50th statehood celebrations “With enough prima facie evidences available against the minister, his continuance in the cabinet has become untenable with the filling of chargesheet against him,” the representation stated. It added that the NPF government has however sheltered the minister from prosecution for the past nine months and still remains non committal whether in asking for his resignation or removal from the cabinet.

NPCC stated the delay-

ing tactics employed by the NPF government will jeopardize the outcome of the entire trial hearing process.

Stating that “Imkong L. Imchen is already a criminally tainted person who has lost all moral authority to cling on to ministerial chair,” the NPCC sought the intervention of Governor as the constitutional head of the state to prevail upon the chief minister for removal/dismissal of Imkong L. Imchen as minister without further delay.

In a separate representation to the Chief Minister, the NPCC strongly reiterated that Imkong L. Imchen has lost all moral authority to cling on to the ministerial chair and demanded “ for his immediate removal from the cabinet so that the entire trial hearing process does not get influenced by his position as Minister.” “Failure to remove the charge-sheeted minister within the next fortnight would invite NPCC to undertake mass agitation on the streets to the extent of boycotting the 50th anniversary celebrations of statehood,” stated a representation signed by NPCC president SI Jamir.

‘Diabetes and tB interlinked’ NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 (IANS): In more bad news for people diagnosed with diabetes, the lifestyle disease has now been linked to an increased incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in patients. According to the government-run Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), people with diabetes have a two-three times higher risk of TB compared to people without diabetes and about 10 percent of TB cases globally are linked to diabetes.

Diabetes, which is characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood and the inability of the body to regulate blood sugar levels, is an independent risk factor for all lower respiratory tract infections,

doctors said. “The link between diabetes and tuberculosis is a recent knowledge and the subject of much research.

Studies show that diabetes can lead to TB and the reverse is also true,” Anoop Mishra, chairman Fortis Centre of Excellence for Diabetes Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology (CDOC), told IANS. People with diabetes who are diagnosed with TB, an infectious disease of the lungs, have a higher risk of death during TB treatment and of TB relapse after treatment is over.

“Diabetes is complicated by the presence of infectious diseases like TB,” Mishra added.

The reason behind diabetes patients easily contracting TB is the low immunity in them

that results in high chances of infection. According to Rajeev Chawla of the North Delhi Diabetes Centre: “Diabetes and TB can be seen to co-exist in many cases.” “If a patient develops diabetes, it can also lead to reactivation of his or her TB which has been cured earlier.”

Chawla told IANS. Mishra said diabetic patients should maintain their blood sugar level in the best possible manner, exercise regularly, have proper diets and ensure that they get enough of Vitamin D. People with diabetes often feel extremely thirsty and need to urinate often. In addition to extreme hunger and unexplained weight loss, diabetes causes fatigue, blurred vision and high blood pressure.

Minister for planning & co-ordination, evaluation and geology & mining, T.R. Zeliang, today asserted the urgent need for the State Government to constitute a State Law Commission for complete review and reform of State laws, besides justifying course for correcting laws and procedures for suitably incorporating traditions and customs as part of the legal regimen.

“This will offer lawyers and law students a platform for continuous research on this subject,” the minister said while addressing the 33rd parting social cum magazine release of the Kohima Law College at the State Academy Hall.

The minister also opined that a Special Assembly Committee must be constituted to trace Naga customs for codification and wider dissemination.

For this, he suggested the Committee co-opt various Hohos, lawyers, judges and law students for more efficiently carrying out its task.

Lamenting that the Indian Constitution, which is the lengthiest in the world, despite recognizing Naga customs, has no chapter on the principles and values of

the customary laws prevalent in “our pluralistic society,” the minister suggested law colleges develop a curriculum on customary laws as well as train youths in the basic postulates of Naga customary law.

“If need be and if it is in overall interest, efforts must be made to steadily codify the customary law for being prescribed as a subject of study in our legal institutions,” he maintained. He stressed on the need for reorienting legal education in the country which lays emphasis equally on training men and women to become better judges.

Opining that the quality of justice in the country is far from satisfactory, he felt it the responsibility of all State governments and State legislatures to pass appropriate resolutions for immediately inducting merit into the higher judiciary by prescribing fair, objective and merit based selection of judges.

The minister pointed out that Nagas, who have adorned the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India, at different points of time, have marked the annals of Indian Jurisprudence with distinction.

Nagas who are members of the Bar in Kohima and in other states are also leav-

ing a distinguished trail of merit, competence and hard work.

In Naga society, he said, more than law, customs play an integral role. “To my mind, justice in a tribal society like ours is based upon the trust we place in our leader, the chieftain, who is closely knit to us by blood, by kinship. We do not allow third party interventions for justice.”

“On the other hand, in law, in the modern world, utmost faith is placed in third party intervention since, in the modern world, closeness by blood has no place, only strangers seek to adjudicate,” he said.

Also stating that customary law is critical to social integrity, Zeliang commented that more the modern laws and legal procedures are thrust onto tribal societies, more the chances of their disintegration.

In this, he asserted that time has come that all those conscious of reliving the customary order must reunite to reignite the glory of our heritage. The minister also released a magazine of on the occasion.

Earlier, Kohima Law College Principal Akang Ao exhorted the students while Wekhrope Marhu delivered the presidential address.

Sodomy case: Judicial inquiry finds prima facie Morung Express news Dimapur | November 13

The judicial inquiry into the alleged sodomy of an inmate in Dimapur’s Central Jail has found a prima facie case of “unnatural offence.” The case that came to light towards the end of October was ordered to undergo a magisterial inquiry by the District and Sessions Judge, Dimapur.

Shockingly, the inquiry has found that the accused, one Sajjan Ali, allegedly sodomised more than one person in jail, and is suspected of having put more inmates through the ordeal in the past.

The inquiry was conducted by the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Dimapur, on November 5, 6 and 8th, informed sources today. The CJM took the deposition of the two victims, 8 other inmates in knowledge of the re-

ported abuse and an assistant jailor of Central Jail. The magistrate also visited the place of occurrence, i.e., the Central jail cell where the inmates were lodged.

The inquiry report was submitted to the District and Sessions Judge, Dimapur, on November 8, suggesting a prima facie case under section 377 (unnatural offence-- sodomy), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 511 (attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) IPC. The sodomy was allegedly committed several times over a period of time starting August this year.

The victim, under intimidation of the accused, had not reported

the case until September, which then led to a riot-like situation in Central jail. The accused and his fellow inmates were shifted to Dimapur’s sub-jail following the incident. The case was not reported to the police or judiciary by jail authorities either.

The District and Sessions Judge, having taken note of the inquiry report, instructed the jail authority to file an FIR of the case immediately. As per sources, this has already been done, and a chargesheet has also been submitted to the Judicial Magistrate First Class under the said sections. The latter has taken cognizance of the case, and committed it to the District and Sessions Court for trial. If convicted, the accused stands to face an imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Cable cars to connect places in Kohima CBI Director under fire for rape remark

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 (IANS): Cable cars could connect parts of Nagaland capital Kohima, ferrying people from one place to the other in the city. The project will be implemented in association with a local partner under the guidance of architect Alfredo Brillembourg, who chairs architecture and urban design at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich.

“We are trying to facilitate commuting for the people of Kohima with this project. In an hour’s duration cable cars can carry upto 1,200 people in a single direction,” Brillembourg told IANS in an interview.

Brillembourg said these cable cars will serve as the metro rails of other cities.

In 2011, the state gov-

ernment asked the partners to conduct a feasibility study of the project. “The state government (Nagaland) had been extremely helpful regarding the project. They have seen it and now it is lying with the central government for funds approval,” he added. Satish Pathania of Leading Edge Adventures & Airparks, a developer in regional airlines, air taxi, adventure tourism and metro cable, is the local partner for the project.

Brillembourg said he has also carried out a study in a fishermen’s village in Mumbai. Talking about the scattered slums in the financial hub of India, Brillembourg said he did not favour tall vertical structures for Mumbai slums as they will rob the

people of sunlight and air.

He said going vertical by one or two floors would be fine. “By going up one or two floors more, Mumbai can attain the same densities as Paris.”

Brillembourg, who is here to attend a symposium on architecture, design and engineering organised by the Embassy of Switzerland, claimed that he had been approached by other Indian states to execute projects. “These exchanges by Swiss architects are not meant for replicating Swiss architecture but about adapting the planning from there,” said Swiss Ambassador to India Linus von Castelmur.

“Planning tools by various architects play an important role.”

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Rights campaigners on Wednesday demanded that the head of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) resign after he said during a panel discussion on sports ethics that “if you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it”. Ranjit Sinha, director of the CBI, which tackles corruption and other high-profile cases, apologised for the remark, but it was roundly criticised.

The issue of sexual violence has been in the spotlight since the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a Delhi bus last year sparked nationwide protests. “Do we have the enforcement?”

Sinha said at a CBI conference in New Delhi on Tues-

In this Dec. 3, 2012 file photo, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha addresses a press conference at the CBI headquarters in new Delhi.

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day about whether sports betting should be legalised.

“It is very easy to say that if

you can’t enforce it, it’s like saying if you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it.”

Sinha sought to explain his comments, which civil campaigners and opposition politicians said risked trivialising rape and raised questions over the CBI’s ability to investigate serious sexual assault cases.

“I regret any hurt caused,” Sinha said in a statement after the original remarks dominated news channels.

“I gave my opinion that betting should be legalised and that if the laws cannot be enforced, that does not mean that laws should not be made. “This is as erroneous as saying that if rape is inevitable one should lie back and enjoy it. I reiterate my deep sense of re-

gard and respect for women and my commitment for gender issues.”

Kavita Krishnan, an activist with the All India Progressive Women’s Association, called for Sinha to step down. “How can he remain the head of India’s premier investigation agency?” she said. Nirmala Sitharaman, spokeswoman for the main opposition group, the Bharatiya Janata Party, called the remarks “shocking”. “Wonder if his colleagues in the Bureau, his family and well-wishers approve of his view,” she wrote on Twitter.

There were more than 24,000 reported rapes in India in 2011, but activists say the real number is many times higher.

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PheK, November 13 (DiPr): The Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS), Phek students held a procession on November 13 against the land encroachment by the individuals. The students of GHSS, Phek took up the silent rally to show their resentment to the public and the district administration and submitted the memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, Phek.

The memorandum submitted were on the following points: to protect the land of GHSS, Phek; that GHSS, Phek is the only Government Higher Secondary School at the District Students of Government Higher Secondary School, Phek participate in the procession staged against land encroachment HQ Phek where as the students are mostly from edby the individuals on November 13. (DIPR Photo)

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moKoKchuNg, November 13 (DiPr): Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Chubawati Chang has informed that National Lok Adalat for Mokokchung District will be held on November 23 from 9:00 a.m. at the Conference room of ADC, Planning Officer, Mokokchung to settle the bank dues under special onetime settlement on defaulter loan accounts. All defaulter borrower having loan outstanding of Rs.1 lakh are asked to contact their respective branches for details of the account and avail the special onetime facility so as to avoid default in repayment. It is to note that relief will be provided from 20%, 30% and 50% on outstanding default amount and depending upon other criteria on case to case bases. Payment of minimum 10% of settled amount must be paid at Lok Adalat subject to payment of the remaining 90% within 30 days, failure to pay entire settled amount within the period settlement will be stand null and void. Borrowers are asked to contact their respective branches for details of payment well in advance of attending the Lok Adalat.

DC Kohima notifies on mass social work

Kohima, November 13 (DiPr): In view of the mass social work to be held on November 16 at the State Capital, Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak has informed all departments concerned having departmental trucks to assemble at the DC Office premises on November 16 by 6:00 AM with sufficient fuel. They are to report to the SDO (Civil), Kohima (Ph. No. 9436011575) and Senior Sanitary Inspector (Ph. No. 9402481869). DC also stated that the assigned vehicles should see to it that the garbages/waste materials are collected and disposed off even if it continues till the next day.

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Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung speaks at the seminar for police officers at Rhododendron Hall, Nagaland Police Officers’ Mess, Chumukedima on November 12.

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ucationally and economically poor background of Phek Area and the illegal land encroachers without due permission from the government are taking over lands by force for their own development process.

The District Administration should take immediate action to evict the land encroachers within the school demarcated area for the larger interest of the present and future generation.

It may be recalled that, in the event of the failure or delay in taking the said action by the district administration, the student union of GHSS, Phek will initiate its own course of action to protect and safe guard the demarcated area of school land.

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Kohima, November 13 (DiPr): Parliamentary Secretary for IPR, Printing & Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu will grace the National Press Day programme as Chief Guest at Kohima Press Club on November 16, at 11:00 noon. Editor, Eastern Mirror, Bano Haralu will speak on the theme ‘Role of Media in Serving Public Interest’. The programme will be chaired by General Secretary, Kohima Press Club, Rita Krocha while Deputy Director, IPR, Tokishe Sema will propose the vote of thanks. Athe Rhi will also present a special song.

The programme is jointly organised by the IPR and Kohima Press Club.

E-Roll observer to hold meeting at Kohima

Kohima, November 13 (DiPr): In connection with the ongoing Revision of Electoral Rolls, the E/Roll Observer Shashank Shekhar, IAS shall hold meeting with all political parties, all Administrative Officers and interested NGOs on 16/11/2013 at 2:00 pm in the DC Conference Hall, Kohima. Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak has therefore requested all concerned to attend the said meeting for necessary interactions.

DimaPur, November 13 (mexN): A seminar for police officers was held at Rhododendron Hall, Nagaland Police Officers’ Mess, Chumukedima on November 12. Organised

by Police Headquarters, Kohima, the speaker at the programme was Apostle Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung, Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Prayer Network, Australia, and Initiator and Ambassador at large of the Overseas Naga Association.

Addressing a gathering that included officers of different units and districts from all over the State, he spoke on the theme “key factors of leadership”, Sumi man folk perform a dance during the celebration of Ahuna festival, a post harvest festival of the Sumi Naga at Dimapur dwelling at large on the fundamental qualities of on November 13. (Caisii Mao Photo)

Financial Literacy Prog cum Joint Credit Camp conducted

TsemiNyu, November 13 (mexN): On November 12, a daylong Financial Literacy Programme (FLP) cum Joint Credit Camp (JCC) was conducted at Council Hall, Henbenji village. The programme was organized

by Kohima branch of ICICI bank for three villages under their service Area viz Khonibinzun, Kashanyishin and Henbenji in Tseminyu block of Kohima district.

Th. Tunglut, Lead District Manager of Kohima district and Bendang Aier,

AGM (NABARD) attended the programme as resource persons and sensitized the villagers about the importance of developing long-term relationship with banks for sustainable development. They also discussed the objective of financial literacy, financial inclusion, latest developments in banking technology and role of banks.

During the course of the meeting, the participants were also sensitized about their role and responsibility towards bank to enable it to provide uninterrupted

banking services. The Deputy Branch Manager of ICICI bank conducted the programme and also discussed the various products and services available through their bank for the benefit of the participants.

The other highlight of the programme was the interactive session where queries raised by the participants were responded.

The programme was supported under Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF) managed by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

leadership. Motivating the police officers to imbibe and put into practice the traits of good leaders, the speaker elaborated on the facets of what successful people should self-manage, and how to build a winning team while being able to identify and exclude the categories of weak players of a team.

The conclusion of the interesting and well received discourse saw Shri Bendang Lemtur, IPS, DIG (Training and Border) thanking the speaker and also encouraging the officers gathered to rise up to the challenges of providing the positive and effective leadership which the organisation needed from them.

In order to eliminate the expired goods from Phek Town, the District Administration along with Police personnel carried out surprise checking on November 12 in all the shops and business establishments for prevention of health hygienic/hazardous of the people, which were sold to the public. Huge quantities of items with expiry dates were seized and cautioned the shop owners of the legal provisions to be taken. The seized items amounting to around lakhs of rupees was destroyed in front of public leaders, GB’s along with police personnel’s as well as administrative officers. In this image, Phek district authorities and leaders seen with the seized expired consumable items on November 12. (DIPR Photo)

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Dmr observes Water Conservation Year

DimaPur, November 13 (mexN): To commemorate the Water Conservation Year 2013 as declared by the Government of India, the water users department in Dimapur consisting of Agri and allied departments along with PHE, Industries and I& FC have taken up mass awareness campaign.

A press release issued Withee Bible College inaugurated its ‘Kim Jin Won Chapel’, which was dedicated by Rev. Dr.

by AS Hovuto Zhimomi, Hevukhu Achumi, first Board Chairman, Withee Bible College on November 13.

District Soil Conservation Officer, Dimapur stated that the campaign is undertaken with aid of pamphlets, leaflets, folders etc in which a brief write up on the ways and means of the department’s contribution in conserving water through their different technologies are being compiled. These materials are disseminated to all the masses, which has been sponsored by ATMA

and distributed by Department of Soil & Water Conservation in collaboration with ATMA to all the different blocks of the district.

As the nodal department in the State, the department of soil & water conservation has been conducting on importance of water Conservation awareness programme at block level in collaboration with ATMA, Dimapur.

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Kohima, November 13 (mexN): Nagaland Career Development Center (NCDC), a YouthNet and Smarter Nagaland initiative conducted a four-day training programme on Professional Skills Devel-

opment for staff of tourism department from November 6 to 9.

The resource persons for the training were Training Consultant Talichila Imchen, Chief Strategist, Lezo Putsure and Ruokuokhri-

enuo Vizotha from YouthNet. Total 25 participants attended the training programme. The topics for the sessions included understanding self through assessments, balance wheel, motivation, communica-

tion, assertiveness, time management, and conflict management through the AEIOU model. The programme also facilitated SWOT for Tourism and Team Work through business games.

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NE lawmakers learn to perform their role better Shillong, november 13 (iAnS): A northeast legislators' conclave here Nov 11-12 sought to bring together lawmakers from the northeast to enable a holistic discussion on the issues confronting the region and challenges and issues facing them in order for them to perform

their duties better.

State legislatures pass a number of laws each year addressing complex issues such as education, agriculture and health in thne region. Legislative matters have become increasingly technical and require inputs from specialists to be framed as

effective public policy, according to organisers.

Unlike other large democracies, organisers of the conclave noted, legislators in India do not have access to any institutional research support. Access to formal support from the civil service is available only to ministers. This

makes it difficult for members of legislatures to prepare for debates on a wide range of issues.

However, in every state, there are MLAs who are proactive and are willing to seek out information which will help them perform their role better. To reach out

to MLAs, PRS Legislative Research in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, organised the two-day conclave for MLAs. The conclave schedule had a mix of sessions by academicians and senior bureaucrats.

The conclave was held

at the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, and was attended by 14 MLAs from the states of Meghalaya, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.

The conclave covered topics such as economic development of the northeast, effective leadership in the present social and

Tripura govt announces pension for women deserted by husband

AgArTAlA, november 13 (pTi): Tripura government has announced a new social security pension scheme for the women deserted by their husbands, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said. "The new scheme has provisions of Rs 500 as monthly pension for deserted women from APL category. Earlier the scheme was prevalent for deserted women living below poverty line (BPL) category only," Sarkar told reporters at the civil Secretariat last evening.

He said this decision was taken in the cabinet meeting yesterday. The initiative would incur an additional annual financial involvement of Rs 26.70 crore. The cabinet meeting has also decided to raise all social security scheme Indian Air force personnel perform a drill during raising day celebrations of the Sainik School at Goalpara, Assam on Tues- awards in the state from Rs day, November 12. The Sainik Schools are a system of schools established with the objective of preparing students to lead 400 to Rs 500 and altogether 3,877 deserted women as officers in the Defense Services of the country. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

in the state would be benefited. The state government has been awarding social security pension to deserted women from BPL category among 21 social security schemes operational in the state.

These include three Centrally sponsored and 18 solely state sponsored schemes. The state government has initiated a number of schemes for rehabilitation of the shifting cultivators as the shifting cultivation or otherwise known as Jhum cultivation affects environment, he said. Department for Rural Development and the Gram Panchayats were asked to conduct survey to find out real number of jhumiya population. "We are planning to provide pensions to the hardcore Jhumiyas which would be finalised after getting the real numbers," the Chief Minister said.

Villagers flee in fear of fresh clashes between NSCN (IM) & ZUF

TAmenglong, november 13 (nnn): The situation continues to be volatile at Bhalok village area (Phailong) a day after the shootout between the cadres of NSCN-IM and Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF). Fear gripped villagers of Bhalok refused to return to their village after they had fled following the shoot outon November 12.

According to reports, NSCN-IM and ZUF are con-

solidating their position for further confrontations making villagers to flee to the safe places.

Meanwhile, the three slain cadres of ZUF have been identified. The deceased ZUF cadres have been identified as one sergeant major Pougailung Kamei (28), sergeant major Khongailung (26) and corporal Niamthaipou Kamei (20).

Meanwhile, the ZUF has refuted to the claim made

Mizoram Polls: politics of religion

AizAwl, november 13 (The indiAn expreSS): A huge poster of the late Laldenga, founder-president of the main opposition Mizo National Front, on a wall of Congress Bhavan in Aizawl takes one by surprise. So do the posters of state Congress chief Lal Thanhawla at the MNF headquarters, Hnam Run. With the battle to form Mizoram's seventh government taking a turn towards identity politics, the two main parties — Congress and Mizo National Front — have tried to outdo each other in a curious way; show through pictures that leaders of the other party have worshipped in and attended ceremonies of other religions.

One of the MNF's main poll planks this election is based on exploiting sentiments of the largely Christian Mizos against four-time Congress Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, who has on several occasions taken part in pujas while visiting other states, sporting a tilak on his forehead at one ceremony he attended with his wife.

The MNF began work on the strategy months ago, even taking out a massive rally in Aizawl to protest the CM's "bowing before other gods" and has since not missed any opportunity to take potshots at the CM, constantly exploiting the Christian belief that idol-worship is unacceptable.

Lal Thanhawla, who teaches at Bible classes each Sunday during church services in his home neighbourhood of Zarkawt oin Aizawl, unwittingly fed himself to the cannon by telling a TV talk show host that even Christian pastors sport tilaks when they go outside the state. Church leaders, whom politicians take care to have on their side were outraged, publicly condemning the CM's statement.

Sensing the mood, the MNF, while announcing its second and final list of candidates for the November 25 polls a week ago, distributed

brochures carrying photographs of the CM and his wife attending Hindu ceremonies, including lighting a lamp in front of an idol of Durga, cracking open coconuts at a ceremony and the CM's mugshot with a tilak on his forehead. "We are not condemning the CM following another religion, it is his right. But he must keep in mind that it is because the leader of this land has committed a sin against God that the land has seen many tragic incidents. As the Bible says, the sins of the leader will lead to tragedies for the land," the brochure reads, subtly referring to the natural disasters that have hit the state over the past few years.

by NSCN-IM that the former had launched attacks on the latter outfit.

According to A Dangmei, information secretary of ZUF, the gun battle of November 12 was nothing but triggered by the attacks launched by the NSCNIM on the former group. A Dangmei said the gun-battle which started from 12 :30 pm had lasted till 8:30 pm.

According to A Dangmei, the cadres of Zelian-

grong Tigers Force (ZTF), the armed wing of ZUF were proceeding towards Bhalok (Phailong village) on their assignment but they were ambushed by NSCN-IM men who rained bullets killing three cadres of ZUF. "The NSCN-IM spread false information to draw public sympathy and support putting the blame on the ZUF. It was the NSCN-IM that stealthily ambushed our boys who

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retaliated with heavy gunshot killing one NSCN-IM and injured four of them", the ZUF leader claimed.

A Dangmei also stated that the NSCN-IM did not get any arms from the fallen soldiers.

The ZUF leadership then sent heartfelt condolences to the family members of the slain Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) cadres. The ZUF leadership then expressed profound gratitude to the

people from different walks of life including Namboliu and colleagues, Women Join Acton Committee, ZSUTD, ZYF-TD and all the local people of Tamenglong. The Peace Committee, Tamenglong headquarters also extended token of condolence to the bereaved families, clothes and money to the bereaved families. The ZUF Leadership shall value the public and support and sympathy, A. Dangmei added.

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Children’s’ Day celebration An Appeal for the Release of Kew Onkham

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have met Kew Onkham Yimchunger, the Education Kilonser of the NSCN K only once in my life. I therefore do not know anything about his political background or why he has been detained by the Kehoi campers of the NSCN. I however want to state the following facts of our national history for every concerned Naga so that we, as a nation and people, will not commit any further blunders that would mar our splendid national record. It was indeed a very black day for all of us when Captain Vileto Nagi of Jotsoma village was murdered in fratricidal killings in Dec. 1979. He was the only son

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n 1989 the United Nations wrote down the basic rights that all children - boy or girl, healthy or ill, black or white, rich or poor, with different kinds of families and different abilities – all children must have access to these rights. Even our country India, too has signed this convention. The rights are as follows: 1. Right to life 2. Right to expression 3. Right to equality 4. Right to participation 5. Right to a good education 6. Right to legally registered name and nationality 7. Right to be protected from all kinds of abuse, neglect and exploitation 8. Right to good nutrition, health and care 9. Right to development 10. Right to special care if they have special needs 11. Right to rest and leisure But do all children get this right???

In Mathew 19: 14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for such is the kingdom of heaven.” The Lord loves the little children because they are innocent, weak and dependent.

They need someone for support, someone to love and to take care of them. As a responsible citizen, let us all look around and check if these rights are being given and practiced because: 1. Out of 1000 children born in India, 31 die before they are one year old. In contrast, in Japan and Singapore only 2 to 3 out of 1000 children die before they are one year old.

2. Girls particularly are neglected and many die early. For every 1000 men in India, there are only 933 women!

3. About 40 million children in India work as child labourers, never going to school and having no chance to develop.

4. Thousands of children each year are bought or kidnapped by agents from poor rural areas, and sold as domestic workers or exploited in many others ways.

5. Children are sometimes abused by adults within their families, they are not safe!

So, as we celebrate “Children’s day” let us celebrate along with the children by giving them their rights and fighting for them for these rights.

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Cecilia Katasi M. Sc (Nursing) in Child Health Nursing CIHSR, Dimapur

Unanswered Questions Of Faith Happy Children’s Day To My “Mom, when will we be happy?, Beloved Daughter, Ayelyn & Be- Happy together again” loved Son Nisuvi.

And I’d cry always because..

That I just don’t know..

And I can’t promise you and fail For I don’t have answer to that Lord, I wish I know, but I don’t

And I wonder what you’re doing And how you’re both living life And the new things you’ve learned And how you both slept last night

But God, He knows my dearest ones, And He knows what we all yearn And when it rains, for Do you feel raindrops on your face? Trust in him, we’ll be together And when it shines, No matter how long it takes, and Do you see sunshine in your face? seems!

All the questions left unknown The biggest one is, ‘Why? Why can’t we be together?

Why can’t I watch you grow?

For now, all you need to know My dearest, precious ones, Is that you’re always in my heart And always in my dreams

And why can’t I guide you By my hand through this world!

And I’ll pray to God tonight too, For Him to bring us together soon.

And then you’d ask me, innocently,

Yours loving Mom Aghali

the jungles, thousands died from starvation, disease and battles with the Indian army. As for Huker village, from 1955 to 1958, three hundred sixteen of them were imprisoned. The lists of other villages are too long to be stated here. (Source: The Naga nation and its struggle against Genocide, a report by I.W.G.I.A.) The Yimchunger tribe, like all other tribes of Nagaland is a wounded and marred tribe. God forbid that we inflict any more agony on these wounds and scars. Hence, this humble appeal for the release of Kew Onkham.

Dear Ayush, We were so happy today is your birthday, new number 5. When we saw the sun smiling, we all now know why! Happy 5th Birthday! The past four years have been so nice. We loved sharing them with you. You’re turning five and were excited to share that with you too.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY”

Loving you, Chaudhary Papa, Family, & Relatives

Kaka. D. Iralu

Accept the truth and denounced false

he so-called NSCN is the brain child of Th. Muivah but not Isak or Khaplang. As Mr. Isak Swu totally rejected wrong policy of Muivah, he diligently instructed us on March 22, 1978 not to support Muivah’s policy when we were gathered together to celebrate 22nd anniversary of Nagaland Republic Day on March 22, 1978 at our temporary Camp between Tsonkhao and Kingphu village, Khiamniungan Region. But later he himself supported Muivah. Mr. Khaplang also vehemently rejected Muivah’s policy and therefore we made him President of the FGN on March 12, 1979 after he signed merger of Eastern Naga Revolutionary Council (ENRC) with the NNC on March 10, 1979. That has had happened because he rejected Muivah’s policy.

Though Muivah has wrong policy, he never denounced the NNC as it has failed or surrendered before the formation of NSCN but maintained the NNC General Secretary office intact up to January 30, 1979. His expressions and deeds are recollected as follow, especially in the interest of Naga young generation of today.

On November 21, 1975, the Naga Army Goodwill Mission to China issued a statement from abroad concerning on the Accord, stating that “…we will no means be a party to any settlement that may entail the loss of Naga people’s right of sovereign existence”. Again after reaching Home in Eastern Nagaland, another statement was issued signed by Mr. Th. Muivah as General Secretary of the NNC on 15th August 1976, from where, we have celebrated 29th anniversary of Nagaland Independence Day on 14th August. The statement condemned FGN President Eno Zashei Huire’s Ministry on the ground of false allegation as his Ministry accepted the Accord. Nevertheless, Muivah mentioned no word against the NNC in these two important statements, instead a Centralized government was formed on 16th August 1976 under the banner of the NNC and made A.Z. Phizo (the then President of NNC) as President of the FGN as well.

The NNC General secretary Eno

HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY!!!

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of the first Naga political martyr Zasibito Nagi.

As for the Yimchunger tribe, this was the tribe who launched the first counter attack on the Indian army at Huker and Pangr villages on 25th March 1955.

After their successful victory, to quote their own records: “ The aftermath of the fight left several hundred Nagas dead including innocent village women and children who were butchered in the villages in retaliation by the Assam Rifles.” The names of the villages are Huker, Pang, Kiutsukiur, Shiponger, Tsasher, Longtuk etc. As these villages were burnt and the survivors fled into

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Th. Muivah led again the Federal Naga Army Goodwill mission to China in 1977. In foreign land he strongly advocated to form socialist government and overthrow Phizo’s leadership, but except few of Tangkhul and Sema Naga Army officers, the other Naga Army officers blatantly rejected Muivah’s policy. Thus they returned Home with totally divided mind because of Muivah’s wrong policy. The division among them did not base on Accord or other issue but purely on Muivah’s lust for power and his socialism.

Again after reaching Home in 1978, Muivah has more openly advocated for forming a socialist government and to overthrow Phizo’s leadership, but he never expressed a word against the NNC, instead he said; the NNC had never deterred here and there though it faced ups and downs political situation of Nagaland, and he further asserted that there is no short cut way to achieve our national goal without the NNC. On 2nd August 1978, the Central Committee Meeting was convened at Sector 2 Naga Army Camp, where a resolution was arbitrarily adopted to overthrow Phizo’s leadership without counting the votes of majority. The said resolution exasperated tension among the Naga national workers and triggered to declare Martial Law on 30th August 1978 in Eastern Oking, and the two leaders (Isak-Muivah) were kept house arrest, but released unharmed in May 1979. I met them in June 1979 at Nuk Law Naga Army Headquarters in Heimi Region after they were set free, and also together with Eno Isak we have celebrated 32nd anniversary of Nagaland Independence Day on 14th August 1979 at Hasik Pongshom village. That was the last meeting with him. Even they were kept house arrest, the two leaders did not go against the NNC. On 29th January 1980, merger of ENRC with the NNC was signed by Isak and Muivah as Vice President and General Secretary of the NNC, Khaplang and Brig. Thungbo as President and Vice President of the ENRC. According to this record the office of the NNC was up-

holding intact by them (Isak, Muivah) and regarded A.Z. Phizo as President of the NNC up to 29th January 1980. This was the second time for Eno Khaplang to sign merger with the NNC within a year. The first time, he signed with Eno T. Venuh, NNC Vice President as mentioned above.

However, it was amazing that one day after signing of the merger, Isak Swu, Th. Muivah and SS. Khaplang defected from the NNC and formed NSCN on January 31, 1980. Also in order to justify the formation of NSCN and killings they started to tell lie that NNC has failed and condemned A.Z. Phizo as arch-traitor. Moreover they stopped observing Nagaland Independence Day from 1980, saying; that Independence Day was sold out by the NNC when the Accord was signed in 1975. They however, resumed observing it again from 1996 and in 1997; they celebrated the Golden Jubilee of the NNC (Independence Day) on 14th August respectfully.

Their records tell the fact that they have attempted to justify the formation of NSCN and killings by telling lie.

From 2004, Th. Muivah directly or indirectly admitted they have been telling lies against the NNC, when he said: “The foundation was not laid by the NSCN but by the NNC and we follow them to reach the destiny shown to us. Let us understand together again the issue of the Nagas. It is the NNC that gave us the leeway, not me nor Isak. It was the NNC, it was Phizo. And who can deny that. The NNC leaders had laid the foundation.

God had given rights to the Nagas to determine their own future. If the Naga people failed to understand the reality of our existence it would only make the Naga people weaker in spirit and resolve. What is your independence if this God given right is being doubted? Let us save our right and our fate.” Th. Muivah had explicitly expressed these words to the Naga people on 14th December 2004 when he landed Nagaland soil Dimapur as GoI brought him to Nagaland along with Isak Swu under the cover of Z+full Proof Security.

On 20th January 2005, at 4th con-

sultative meeting in Hebron Camp, Muivah said; “I have the courage to admit the weakness of the NSCN. Let us also have the courage to declare the truth now, than we can still be saved. When we do not realize the truth, our weakness will pull us down, and the sins/weakness of Nagas will destroy us. Are we to perish together with the NSCN? No, that is not possible. Then who will save us? He asked. Through expression of these, Muivah admitted he/NSCN has done wrong, but he has reluctant to say the formation of NSCN was wrong.

Also on July 11, 2010, Muivah visited Phizo’s graveyard and paid rich tribute, placed a wreath in regard and respect to the Father of the Naga Nation, and said; “A.Z. Phizo is the Guiding Star of the Naga nation. The Naga National Council (NNC) under the leadership of A.Z. Phizo had taken the right decision to save the Naga nation and laid the national foundation. Under the leadership of Phizo did the best for the Nagas and there is no greater than that. We are proud of them, and he prayed for eternal glory to NNC and Phizo”.

The above mentioned Muivah’s expressions and deeds revealed the truth that they have been telling lie against the NNC/FGN and the nation. Therefore, the NSCN cadres need not to be confounded on the Naga national stand henceforth for false propaganda of NSCN leaders, but accept the truth and denounce false without delay.

Keeping aside his mischievous false propaganda, Th. Muivah gave a salute to A.Z. Phizo regarding him as a Guiding Star and founding Father of the Naga nation, which is amounting to admit his misdeed. Knowing this fact, no one should try to glorify the killings and evil deeds of the NSCN by reiterating their false propaganda time and again. Also no one should believe the said false propaganda of NSCN as gospel truth till date, but must learn what truth is and stand for the truth, because telling lies and killings will lead the Nagas nowhere.

Thomas, NNC Member

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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Thursday 14 November 2013

JYO 1st Foundation Day observed Merentoshi call for strategy

Dimapur, November 13 (TYo): Japukong Youth Organization (JYO) observed its first foundation day on Tuesday at Longchem in Mokokchung district with Dr.N.Benjong Aier, Parliamentary Secretary, Agriculture as the chief guest, and K.Temjen Jamir, Editor, Tir Yimyim as the main speaker.

Addressing the gathering as the Chief Guest, Dr.N.Benjong Aier encouraged the youth to get involved themselves in shaping their future conducive to peaceful and prosperous society. “Naga youth are capable and vibrant to create a better society free from unemployment and economic problems, so they must participate in politics and socio-economic development,’ he said.

Stating that the proposed foothill road will be reality soon, the Parliamentary secretary exhorted the youth of Nagaland and Japukong youth in particular to get prepared them-

selves to fully participate in the process of urbanization and economic development along the foothill road. He also assured all the possible help and guidance to the youth who commit themselves to work and make our land a producing state. He also advised the youth to take in entrepreneurship and industrialization process since the chance of employment in government service is being exhausted.

Speaking on the conference topic, “Valiant Youth”, the Tir Yimyim Editor, K.Temjen Jamir defined that a Valiant Youth must be the one, who could identify the opportunities and obstacles in and around us and differentiate between good and evil.

He said that our land is land of opportunities and resourceful, however we remained ourselves unemployed and frustrated because we are nor even trying to identify the opportunities that surround

us and neither willing to work with the resources available with us. This are the problems and obstacles for us that retard us to grow and exhibit ourselves as a real youth of valiant.

He also suggested that a youth must look forward to develop farming and industrial culture with sense of enthusiasm and belongingness. Whatever we do, one must have his own interest in the job he does and provide personal touch and leadership for gainful production, he added.

Earlier, the president of Japukong Senso Senden and Mr.Bendangtoshi, Assistant General Manager, NST, Dimapur exhorted the youth in the conference and Er. Lanu, Advisor, JYO pronounced vote of thanks.

A DVD Music album produced by Sashi, Temsü and Tsüpong was also released by the Chief guest during the conference. The music album was sponsored by Er.Lanu to promote the talent of the youth.

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): Tangkhuls in Nagaland marked the ‘Raising Day’ of the Tangkhul Hoho, Nagaland (THN) on Wednesday with Sword Vashum, former Addl Deputy Comptroller & Auditor General of India hoisting the Hoho flag for the first time at the THN community plot at Darogojan, Dimapur.

Addressing the gathering, Vashum urged upon the Tangkhul community living in Nagaland to build a friendly relationship with every community and be a messenger of peace in building a peaceful Naga-

land. He talked on citing examples in the Bible and made a strong appeal to learn to be humble and forgiving as they (Tangkhuls) continue to live together with diverse section of people in Nagaland.

He also pointed out the division appearing everywhere even among the churches and frontal organisations of the Tangkhuls back home. “If the members of the THN who are from different Tangkhul regions and areas can come together here like this as today, why can’t the organizations back home do it?” he questioned.

He therefore appealed

every member gathered to be ‘mending agents’ for rebuilding the organizations.

This has to be one objective of the Tangkhul Hoho here.

You have a big responsibility towards this end even as you live apart, he added.

Earlier, THN president, NA Kasar delivered the presidential speech and highlighted the history of the past 20 years of the Hoho. Tangkhul elders from Kohima and Meluri also exhorted during the programme.

Former THN president, PA Job de-hoist the flag and the programme ended with a community feast.

Tangkhuls in Nagaland marks THN ‘Raising Day’

to face parliamentary elections Our Correspondent Kohima | November 13

Minister for youth resources & sports Merentoshi R. Jamir and minister in-charge NPF youth wing today called for framing a strategy to face the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

Stating that parliamentary elections are around the corner, he said “We need to start working our strategies” as to how we can address the need of the people.

Speaking at the NPF central youth wing introductory programme here at the NPF central office here, Jamir recalled that in the last parliamentary elections, MP from Nagaland state went Parliament with the highest margin in the country.

He called upon the party workers to work harder to get even bigger margin this time.

Touching on 50 years of the regional party in Naga-

land, to be celebrated this year, the minister said the success of the NPF for three consecutive terms shows that the party was growing stronger and stronger. He however, said that we should be over confident and we should not be complacent.

Stating that the people had reposed their faith to the NPF party for the third time, he stressed on the need to do more effort even than before and work towards the upliftment of our society and for our people.

Appreciating the activities of the youth wing, the minister also maintained that the success of the party is all due to the effort put up by them.

He also told the gathering that as for party workers everyday is like an election campaign and for which it should be the endeavor of the party workers to bring as many people to the party fold.

NPF central youth wing president Kakuto Shohe

said the youth wing will continue to do its best to strengthen the party, adding “We are going to be loyal servant to the government and the party.”

He said the NPF, unlike the other parties is “morally very strong,” for which it will last long.

Sharing his analysis on the leadership, Shohe described Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio as the best chief minister in India and at the same time termed the NPF President Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu as “morally very strong, most learned and most experienced” and the best among in the region in heading the party.

Earlier, Tali Sangtam, general secretary NPF Central Youth Wing chaired the function while welcome address was delivered by John Wanth, general secretary NPF Central Youth Wing. Vote of thanks was proposed by Neisatuo Keditsu, spokesman, NPF Central Youth Wing.

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for 45 years as ‘Gaon Burra’ and now aged 90 years, expressed happiness “to see The ongoing free medical specialist doctors at one’s camp at Imkongliba Me- doorsteps”. An 80 year old femorial District Hospital male cardiovascular patient, (IMDH), Mokokchung ini- who has been treated in the tiated by local MLA C.Apok medical camp, expressed Jamir has paved the way for gratitude to the visiting doca brighter future in health tors. Both the elderly citizens care services in Mokokc- explained that such healthhung, many observe. The care services were not availmedical camp is being or- able locally and that it was ganized by the MLA in col- impossible for them to travel laboration with Medhar- to other places to have their bour and IMDH, scheduled ailments treated. for November 11-14, 2013.

Imkongliba MemoA team of Super specialist rial District Hospital, Modoctors from Max Super kokchung regarded as the Specialty Hospital, Delhi first referral point for at led by Dr. Bajaj, Chief Spinal least four districts, have Surgeon, including a prac- re-established itself as the ticing doctor from England premier medical facility joined the four day free in the region through this medical camp. medical camp. Local docThe man behind the tors at IMDH expressed apcamp, MLA C.Apok, said preciation at the sacrifice that the made by p u r p o s e Free medical camp under- the visitbehind ing docthe free way at Imkongliba Me- tors. One m e d i c a l morial District Hospital d o c t o r camp is (IMDH), Mokokchung on ano“not for nymity any political mileage but disclosed that the doctors a contribution as a con- at IMDH are also hardcerned citizen of Mokok- working but the hospital chung.” The free medical lacks many facilities and camp was planned at Mo- infrastructure. He said that kokchung in order to pave the on station doctors have way to the needy from the learned a lot from the visneighboring districts of iting doctors and hoped Mon, Tuensang, Zunheboto to see more such medical and Longleng. camps in future.

Dr. Bajaj on their comOne of the visiting doctor ing to Mokokchung said observed that the local peothat their sole intention is ple need to urgently check to help people. “It is not the their lifestyle. Many cases sum and amount that mat- were related to “psychologiters,” he said. cal issues”, it was disclosed.

The first three days of He also expressed optimism the medical camp has seen to participate at such media flow of patients from vari- cal camps in future. The ous places including neigh- free medical camp will be boring districts. Special culminating on November emphasis is given on Or- 14. Medical supplies for the thopedics and Cardiology. needy are also being providMore than 800 patients ed by the MLA free of cost. have been examined as of The visiting doctors at day three, and the needy the camp are Dr. HN Bajaj, given free medical supplies. Chief Spiral Surgon MedHarAnother 300 patients have bour New Delhi, Dr. Pushkar been registered for the last Chawla, Orthopedics, Dr, day of the camp.

Sumit Sefi, Cardiologist and A senior citizen of Mo- Dr. Sudir Kumar, General kokchung, who has served Practitioner, England.

Mokokchung | November 13

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GREETINGS Dear Brother (Chiben Tungoe), You deserve nothing but the best: Congratulation.

Congratulations on your marriage and best wishes for your future together. Enjoy every moment of your love life.

Happy married life!

From, K. Renbemo Tungoe. (brother)

MEx FILE GPRN/NSCN recovers Bike Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): The Crime Control Cell of GPRN/NSCN has recovered a Bajaj Platina Bike with Chassis No: MO2DDDZZZUPO95850 and Engine No: DZUBUD00617. The GPRN/NSCN has through the MIP stated that “the rightful owner is informed to claim the Bike within 5 days of time by producing the necessary documents.”

College students informed

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): All the Colleges under Nagaland University are informed that the examination fee for regular students is Rs 850. These students having backlog will be changed with Rs. 100 per backlog, Rs 20 for admit card, Rs 40 for mark sheet and Rs 120 a Non Collegiate fee. As such, all the students are requested to take note of examination fee fixed and charge by the Nagaland University authorities. The students are further informed to report to the ANCSU if the college authorities are arbitrarily charging the exam fees in excess to the amount fixed by the University. This was informed in a press note issued by Tsukjem Lkr, president, ANCSU and Kito Achumi, vice-president, ANCSU.

KMC meeting on Sanitation

Samaro launch Christmas music album: A very popular local gospel band, Samaro released a Christmas album with the title “Christmas Ronem” (in Ao-Naga language) in the Wednesday evening church service at Merali Fellowship under Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo (DABA). The Christmas album was formally released by the Associate pastor, DABA, Wati Kichu (2nd from right) with mass prayer in the service. The SAMARO group presented four songs in the service. (Photo Courtesy by TYO)

Residents provided free Chozuba ACCC deliberates on pertinent issues medical camp at Mkg Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): A meeting of the 18th Chozuba Assembly Constituency Congress Committee along with Vaprumu Demo, PCC Member and also General Secretary, NPCC was held on November 12, 2013 whereby the members deliberated on pertinent issues relating to the party and the constituency and resolved to submit its observations to the DCC for further endorsement to the NPCC and AICC. A press note issued by Vedunyi Khesoh, President and Vesapra Rhakho, General Secretary (Adm) stated that during the meet, the House deliberated on the serious matter when the government is taking out all the legislation powers and constitutional matters from the Assembly either to the close Cabinet or to the public in the street for decision. It also questioned whether the Speaker is sitting like a lame duck on such vital matters which actually fall under his constitutional purview. The ACCC appealed the CLP members to take up this matter in appropriate forum.

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The House also expressed deep anguish on the virtual abandonment of the mega MGNRES in the constituency and resolved to take up the matter seriously with the concerned department and program officials. It also cautioned the concerning officials that in the event of detecting any default in the implementation they should bear full responsibility.

Also, seriously considering the abandoned 2 lane road construction, with particular reference to that of Chakhabama via Chozuba to Zunheboto, the House reviewed the letter submitted by M/s MaytasGayatri to the State CM on 10/10/13 wherein it was stated that out of total Rs. 969.45 crores released by the central ministry only Rs. 596.46 crores was paid to the company by the State.

As a result the company has abandoned the work. Thus, the ACCC demand that the state government immediately release the remaining amount to the company to resume the work without further delay.

Pertaining to the ongoing black-topping work of

CAO on anti-social activities

the road from Chetheba to Pfutsero, the ACCC demands that the concerned department depute experts and competent staffs to oversee that the work is being done honestly by the contractors strictly according to the given specification.

The House expressed its deep concerned and dismay for the non-posting of EAC to Sekruzu and EAC to Chetheba by the government for years together. In this regard the ACCC has questioned as to what the sitting MLA is doing for his own constituency. The Committee demands that the MLA clarify this matter to the public.

The ACCC extends full support to the NPCC demand for the resignation of the accused Imkong L. Imchen, present Medical Minister Nagaland who is charge sheeted by the law enforcing authority. The ACCC resolved to launch party membership drive at all levels hereafter and invite every able citizen, man woman in the constituency to join INC which is the biggest political party not only in the country but in the entire world.

The House also condoled

Public SPace

Lieut.Col. Rtd. Ape Venuh, Kilonser cum caretaker CAO, UT like to once again stress on the stand of the government regarding restricting of various anti activities such as selling of alcohol, peddling, smuggling and prostitution etc. That, it will not compromised its stand with any forces or manipulation from any source, rather it state that it would initiate more stringent step to totally clean out our city in order to let our citizens enjoy better and brighter livelihood as those few mentioned were directly or indirectly the causes of social evils and curse such as broken, families, disease like HIV/AIDS, VD short life etc.

It further state that it will also not allow the functioning of disco’s which is viewed one of the most danger activity spoiling the life of our Naga youths. Adopting foreign cultures

which helps us to grow and develop could be accepted to some extend however, cultures like disco’s can never be accepted as this are otherwise destroying our society.

Festive season ahead, Venuh like to cautioned persons involved in robbing and extorting travelers that it will not be spared from punishment if caught. Further, it urged its citizens to see that partying under the influence of alcohol are checked that this festive invites Christ in our midst as stated in the word of God. Ape Venuh

Mao Hoho Dimapur Condemns

Mao Hoho Dimapur, vehemently condemn the murder of Mathibo Matiso 24years old, resident of Purana Bazar, Dimapur by unknown miscreants on November 8, 2013 at Super Market Area, Dimapur. Late Matiso was attached to Central Income Tax

on the recent tragic death of a person in a truck accident for the pathetic road condition below Thenyizu Village and held the Company responsible and should be made accountable.

In the note, the ACCC expressed sincere appreciation to the leadership of Madam Sonia Gandhi, President AICC for initiating and making it a success numerous flagship programs under the Congress-led UPA Government. It also mentioned that rural & urban poor-oriented schemes have mitigated the sufferings of millions in the country. But the Committee in the note also registered its resentment with the state government for large scale misuse of the schemes in the state. It stated that the Food Security Ordinance pioneered by the President AICC is particularly focused on the welfare and empowerment of every deserving woman irrespective of placement in the society.

The ACCC in the note stated that it commits to adhere to the principle of the innovative scheme and ensure its effective implementation in the constituency.

Office, Dimapur as Casual Assistant.

The Hoho was shocked to learn the act of crime committed upon the innocent denizen of Dimapur. Dimapur city cannot afford to equate human life to mere animal’s world. The taking away of Mathibo Matiso’s life cannot be justified in the sight of man and in the sight of the Divine Creator. The Mao Hoho appeal to every right thinking citizen to condemn such madness of murdering innocent man in the society and called upon the law enforcement authorities to investigate into the matter and book the culprit as per the law of the land. If such a barbaric act is not checked and controlled in the society today, the same crime will be committing to any person tomorrow.

The Hoho pray for the departed soul of Lt. Matiso and convey its deepest condolence to the bereaved families and relatives.

K. Lokho President, MHD K.A. Khrasi Gen. Secy.,MHD

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Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): A meeting is hereby convened with all the Ward Panchayats, Youth & Women organization on November 20, 2013 at 11:00 am in the Conference Hall of Kohima Municipal Council to discuss urgent matters regarding decentralization of Sanitation in the wards. There will be important discussions on distributions of vehicles to the remaining wards in the months of November, 2013 and also on the competition of the cleanest wards. All are requested to attend the meeting without fail. This was stated in a press note issued by Elizabeth Ngully, Chief Executive Officer, Kohima Municipal Council.

KSUD informs Konyak students to register

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): The Konyak Students’ Union Dimapur has convened a meeting on November 16 at its treasurer Noklem Konyak, ex-minister’s residence, located opposite to DC court at 1:00 pm. KSUD general secretary K Aman in a press release has directed the representatives of various colleges and schools to attend the meeting without fail. It further stated that the genuine Konyak students staying out of contact in various institutions have to come and register their name in the Union office during office hour on or before November 22 without fail. The general meeting will be held on November 22 at 10:00 am at its treasurer’s residence. Therefore, all the senior leaders, former officials and representatives of various institutions are informed to attend the meeting positively.

KSUK elects new office bearers

Kohima, November 13 (mexN): The Konyak Students’ Union Kohima (KSUK) elected new team of office bearers for the term 2013-2015. The team consists of president-AB Phaiba, vice president-Kanwang, general secretary-Methan Konyak and finance secretary-Anei.

For other details contact: 9862818283 or 9402434312.

Open Gospel music contest

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): The Pfutsero Town Christian Revival Church Youth Fellowship is organizing an Open Gospel music contest for Phek District on December 27 and 28, 2013 under the theme “Jesus at the Centre”. A press note issued by Medovelo Sono, Convener, organizing committee and Neipe-II Kreo, secretary, organizing committee stated that the first prize will be awarded Rs 50000, 2nd prize Rs 30000, and 3rd prize Rs 20000. Individual prizes will also be given for best vocalist, best lead guitarist, bets rhythm guitarist, bets bassist and best drummer. Interested bands/groups can contact the following mobile numbers for details: 91985607145 8/8731822956/9089548164. The note also stated that the main objective of the contest is to give a common platform for Gospel musicians and artists to expose their talents in praising and glorifying the name of the Lord.

Registered functioning industrial units informed

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): All the registered (MSME filed EM-II) functioning industrial units under Dimapur district are informed to submit their monthly progress report in terms of production during the month, name of the item(s) produced or service rendered, quantity in appropriate unit, monthly production value or service rendered (Rs. in lakh). The report has to be submitted to the office of the general manager, District Industries centre, Dimapur on monthly bases starting at the earliest for onward submission to the ministry.

This was informed in a press release issued by DIC Dimapur general manager P Tokugha Achumi.

SKK 2nd Union Assembly

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): The 2nd Union assembly of All Sumi Students’ Union (SKK) is scheduled to be held on November 23, 2013 at 10:00 am at Thahekhu Village Council hall. Therefore, all the Unit presidents, representatives and senior leaders are informed to attend the Assembly without fail. This was stated in a press note issued by Kawoto K.Chishi, Deputy Speaker, SKK.

WCYO leadership prog on Nov 15

Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): The Western Chakhesang Youth Organisation (WCYO) is organising a programme on leadership with the ‘Adaptation’ on November 15 at 10:00 am at Western Chakhesang Hoho Building, Chakhesang Colony Dimapur. The resource persons are Zhothisa Dawhuo, additional deputy commissioner, Mezivolu T Therie, chief judicial magistrate and Vekhosayi Nyekha, president Western Chakhesang Hoho. The organising committee convenor Abel Tureng in a press release has invited all Chakhesang GBs, village council & management members and public leaders in and around Dimapur to attend the programme.

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Jiwan Kshetry Source: Asia Times Online

IndIa and the Poor Heritage of fraud T THursDAy 14 NovEmbEr 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 310

by Aheli moitra

he State economy, claims a former minister and NPF office holder, is being drained through revenue outflow of crores of rupees. To exemplify, he quotes a study done in 2007 by the State’s evaluation department on employment of non-locals in the unorganized sector in Nagaland.

Collectively, non-locals in the unorganized sector were able to make Rs. 450.60 crore in 2007 alone. The number of non-locals in Dimapur, Kohima and Mokokchung (where the study was conducted) as well as their income, according to the former minister, has risen ever since.

Revenue outflow or capital flight, i.e., money escaping the economy when non-locals send their earned money back home, have been quoted as problem factors for Nagaland’s economy to grow. Naga people should be earning this money instead. Do Nagas not know how to work?

Perhaps; but the drift is quickly changing. In places like Mokokchung, locals have started acquiring skills (of, say, constructing concrete buildings) which non-locals brought to Nagaland previously, laying the stepping stone for the State’s pet word: urbanization.

The economy today is far worse affected by the “game changer” Naga people living in glass palaces. And the key to that secret lies in the current YouthNet report titled ‘Post Election Watch 2013’. The 184 candidates contesting for the 60 seats in the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly spent more than 937 crore rupees to buy votes, claimed the report.

The Election Commission of India has much to answer on its sincerity, intent and capability to conduct elections in the region.

On the home front, of the 937 crore, NPF alone spent more than 486 crore. They have harpooned the people with their “people’s mandate.” Other political parties have followed suit. And a large part of this money is routed through illegal hawala and benaami transactions wherein hard cash flows through the State with the help of non-locals in the organized sectors of Nagaland’s economy. The rest comes from the State's pocket. This money is used by Naga opportunists to fill up private coffers, or get into debt, and buy votes (which is then spent on other frivolity) instead of profiting and progressing the Naga community. This is how the economy is drained. For non-locals, investing in elections is a great way out of the ethnic conundrum and into affecting policy in a polity that renders them generally voiceless.

Locals are not far behind. Political parties have gifted local contractors with high end positions within their party set up—these contractors tickle the relevant side of candidates before election; after election, the laundered leaders have to favour the contractor of soap for a contract on supplying computers which never get supplied.

Naga people outside Nagaland have often held the opinion that whatever the corrupt case may be, at least, in Nagaland, the money circulates among the Naga people. False. The money circulates among the rich, going into the pockets of international brands that the rich in Nagaland are now in a position to buy.

This does not make them any more Naga—ethnicity here does not matter as the identity of these people is defined by their cash filled bellies. This belly is unmoved by the jagged roads, the garbage and the ever increasing poverty of the Nagas.

On Children’s Day today, Naga children have little to celebrate. Left with a heritage of fraudulent practices, the children will grow up in an imaginary world where they are unable to place why the “lazy Nagas” will not work. Or how a world of disaster was handed down to them as heirloom.

What have you passed on to your children today?

Tell us at moitramail@yahoo.com

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Sahana Ghosh Source: IANS

‘Indian filmmakers should not ape West’

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ndian film songs and dances have had a huge impact on Indonesian films over the years, but their popularity has dwindled lately as more films take the western approach, awardwinning Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho has said.

Nugroho feels that Indian filmmakers, when inspired by their own country's rich culture and heritage, produce films that resonate better with Southast Asian filmgoers.

He was here as a delegate at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) that began Sunday. Seven of his criticallyacclaimed movies are being screened at the festival that this year, which has south-east Asia as its special focus.

"And if you see competition with Indian cinema 20 years ago, it was very popular, but now it is decreasing and decreasing because nowadays they are going the way of the west, and that has become a problem," Nigruho told IANS in an interview.

"India has a big market in Asia... they were strong before, but now they are losing the Asian market."

Among Nigroho's films chosen for the KIFF is the 2006 musical "Opera Jawa (Requiem from Java)" inspired by the abduction of Sita (wife of lord Rama), from the Ramayana.

Screened in several prestigious film festivals across the world, including the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival, the movie was also one of six nominees for best film at the 2007 Asia Film Awards.

Nugroho explained that the film is proof of the appreciation of Indian (Hindu) epics Mahabharata and Ramayana among Indonesians.

According to the director, because of the prevalence of Hinduism in the archipelago, the cultures of the two countries share similarities which reflect in the love for Indian films in Indonesia.

"People love it, the films come from a place with the same roots. Indian films are very popular in my country and have influenced our cinema deeply. The Mahabharata, Ramayana and the song and dance are loved there... the heroism of people in Mahabharata and Ramayana is specially appealing," he says.

Nugroho said the blockbusters of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan find a huge fan following in Indonesia. The choreography, with bright costumes and innovative steps, are key attractions.

"Of course they (Indian dance sequences) are influenced by Hollywood, and then transformed in a new perspective for Indonesian dance."

However, he points out that currently, audiences in his country are bereft of the parallel cinema of India, which according to him is "a true reflection of human expression."

"With the current films, the problem is that we know only the popular films from India. We don't see much of the alternative films. India needs to tap into its own culture... there is so much there and that will find a greater acceptance across Asia," said Nugroho, a fan of masters like Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak.

had two choices. One, he could have delved into the practical ways of emancipating the 'Dalits' or untouchables from their miserable lives like the reservation. That would also demand referring to Dr B R Ambedkar, the most prominent Dalit leader in history of India. Instead, predictably, Khan chose the alternative of jettisoning the parts of interviews that referred to Ambedkar.

What was more flabbergasting was an interview on the show. As corroborated later by the interviewee herself, Kaushal Panwar, an emerging Dalit thinker and intellectual, was interviewed in total isolation, in an empty studio. Close-ups of fretful, anxious, pained and agonized faces of members of the studio audience were shown as Kaushal was narrating her story. All this turned out to be was faked - with clever editing and splicing of shots. The end result: the middle class audience could congratulate themselves for "having heard and seen firsthand the plights of the untouchables", yet without having to express their militant displeasure towards the potential measures like reservation that could actually emancipate some Indian vendors try to protect their vegetables from a stray cow at a market in Allahabad on Wednesday, November 6, of the Dalits but at some cost for themselves.

2013. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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he Global Slavery Index released by the Walk Free Foundation on October 16 claimed India is home to nearly half the world's modern-day slaves caught headlines. Its unlikely the findings surprised close observers.

Consider the findings alongside the fact that India is home to estimated one-third of world's poor, with 32.7% of Indians surviving on a meager US$1.25 a day and a 68.7% living on $2 a day, according to a 2010 World Bank report, and an ominous picture of the state emerges. How are these statistic possible in a country that see itself as an aspiring world power? How do high GDP growth rates of the past 15 years square with the appalling living conditions of so many? The index listed India as the country with by far the most slaves, with an estimated nearly 14 million, followed by China (2.9 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million). The presence of Nepal in fifth place in the ranking makes South Asia the deepest and most recalcitrant pocket of poverty and slavery in the world. Amid the persistently high poverty and slavery, it seem the Indian middle and upper classes are living in denial about their role in sustaining the status quo. While the people actually suffering from perpetual hunger and misery can't afford to think about lofty things such as India's image abroad, the middle and upper class seem to think of little else.

Though not exactly balanced, a section of the Indian media has been paying increasing attention to the plight of the poor and the downtrodden. Western media have also robustly covered these issues. A series of documentary films have explored different facets of the life of the poor people of various kinds in India. Movies like the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, did a lot to present the dark side of India's story. There have been some more comprehensive Indian works dealing with society in India. In his elegant 2008 novel The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga vividly illustrates the dichotomy between the "dark" India and "bright" India with emphasis on how the progress of the people in the light is inseparably linked to the lack of progress or relentless downward mobility of the people in the darkness.

Reality and perception Ask an average Indian, rich or poor, about the root cause of the country's woes and you are likely to get back another question: Politicians are corrupt, they enrich themselves by stealing money meant for the poor, they stifle institutions meant to serve the people, how can poverty decrease? But is that all? Does the apparently straightforward link between the high level of corruption at every level of governance and the failure of the government's poverty-alleviation measures explain everything about the poverty and backwardness in the country?

While being popularly believed and mostly true, this explanation is incomplete at best. I feel there is a parallel socio-cultural narrative involving the subtler but equally important role of many more players in society. While the economic policies and their immediate repercussions impact the lives of the people immediately, this is followed by a protracted process

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n 139 years of Scottish Cup finals, Dundee United vs. Motherwell in 1991 was unquestionably one of the most thrilling. Not simply because of the seven goals or Darren Jackson's last-minute equalizer that forced extra time, but because Motherwell goalkeeper Ally Maxwell played through the pain barrier with two cracked ribs and a perforated spleen.

After colliding with Dundee's manmountain of a defender John Clark early in the second half, Maxwell lay in agony on the Hampden Park turf, sucking in great mouthfuls of air like a hooked fish.

Today, in a telephone interview from Phoenix, Arizona, where he coaches, Maxwell still recalls "hearing funny noises" coming from inside his broken body when he moved. He was also seeing double and feeling so dizzy that he told an interviewer after the game that he couldn't remember anything that happened after the collision: "It was all a blur."

Back then, teams were allowed just two substitutions. Because Motherwell didn't want to waste one of those on a goalkeeper, it didn't even have a backup for Maxwell on its bench that day. So gritting his teeth, he soldiered on. In extra time, Maxwell made two saves that won the cup for Motherwell, preserving its by-then 4-3 lead, including an acrobatic leap to tip Dundee captain Maurice Malpas' half-volley over the bar.

Each time, Maxwell gingerly clambered back to his feet. He clutched his side collecting his winner's medal and then spent 10 days in a hospital recovering.

Football's industry of insta-critics and health and safety crusaders would have a field day if something similar was repeated today. Airwaves would buzz with angry accusations that

through which people adapt to them socially and culturally. A closer look at this process gives crucial insight on why the problem of poverty and backwardness is so intractable in India.

This adaptation - or "maladaptation" in India's case of people towards stagnation and even regression in society has two components. First, the poor, having tried and failed to rectify every anomaly in the life with the legal means at their disposal, adapt to their hopelessly depressing lives by seeking refuge in distractions like alcoholism, delinquency or religiosity. Second, the rich and the middle class develop a notion about poverty and backwardness that plausibly explains the cause of the ailments yet exonerates them from any responsibility towards sustaining the status quo. Leaving everything aside, hereafter I shall focus on the process of maladaptation to the maladies that Indian society is going through. Let's connect some dots from the recent and not-so-recent news pieces from India.

The adaptation of the poor and the middle class In mid-October, media reported a remarkable disaster management feat in India's history - with reported casualties of just around 20 in the wake of a powerful cyclone that displaced around 1 million people. However, in the same week there was also the more depressing news of the deaths of more than 100 people in a temple stampede. This paradox amply illustrates the dilemma of India as the state of both encouraging progress based on scientific and technological prowess, and a disappointing social retreat caused by social dynamics that propels increasing number of people towards blind faith.

Indeed, the incidents of large numbers of people being killed in stampedes are so frequent in India that they no longer arouse the concern in society other disasters do.

This is also because most of the people who die in such incidents are the abjectly poor and destitute who throng to the temples in a vain hope of being "liberated" from their miserable life. The increasingly assertive middle class in India has adapted to the whole scenario differently. Their efforts aim at absolving themselves of their responsibility towards sustaining such an inequitable society. Let's take one example to make this point clear. A talk show named Satyameva Jayate aired by many television channels in India last year enjoyed runaway popularity. Presented by popular Bollywood actor Amir Khan, the 14-episode program dealt with some of the most unpalatable issues in India like female foeticide, child sexual abuse, dowry, honor killings, alcoholism, and untouchability.

The praise showered on the program was so intense and cacophonous that some voices of criticism were simply drowned out. But as the astute anticaste crusader S Anand noted in a piece in Outlook magazine, a particular show on untouchability involved a strange interplay of omissions to make it palatable to the dominant section of the audience, thereby revealing the peculiar form of adaptive process that the Indian middle class engages in.

While displaying the plight of the untouchables by adequately shedding "tears with practiced ease", Khan

The real forces at work There was a strange coincidence on August 20.

The so called spiritual guru Asaram Bapu was booked that day by Delhi and Jodhpur police for allegedly raping a minor girl from Jodhpur. On the same day, two unidentified gunmen assassinated Narendra Dhabolkar, the rationalist and the anti-superstition crusader from Maharashtra. The followers of Asaram, who has been thoroughly disgraced by now, were prompt in resorting to vandalism in protest and one of his followers even castrated himself apparently to protest his arrest. Even politicians blamed the authorities for having acted on behalf of their rivals to tarnish the image of Bapu. But the response to the assassination of Dhabolkar was entirely different. Both the national and international media covered the incident well but not everyone was exactly surprised by the news. He had been receiving death threats since 1983 itself and many wondered how he had survived these three long decades with one of the most difficult tasks in India.

The reality is that both the increasingly pauperized lower class and the increasingly wealthy but insecure middle class have little faith in the political and other social institutions in the country. In a country of 1.2 billion people - characterized by some as an ocean of poverty with islets of wealth - with such a vacuum of dependable institutions of faith, a string of self-styled godmen have done everything to attract people to them through a clever manipulation of their spiritual instincts. This gives them name, fame, wealth and power while altogether disempowering and literally looting the devotees. The fact that one former premier of India was among the disciples of the disgraced Bapu illustrates the hold of these men in the society. As people throng to these godmen in their hundreds of thousands, people like Dhabolkar, who flay the superstitions and debunk the myths of their black magic, come to be seen as the mortal threats to their empires of wealth and power. Putting some bullets in the head of this man thus helped secure much of their future business in the country.

Conclusion Amid all the talk about the impending world power status of India, much of the vocal Indian middle and upper classes have got the diagnosis of the nagging problems of Indian society wrong. Their confusion is between the symptoms of the disease and the disease itself, and they are reluctant to acknowledge their own - albeit indirect - role in the whole fiasco. This, along with the poor Indians persistently resorting to lifelines like alcohol and godmen, forms one of the largest cohorts of people maladapting to their adversities. The complacency and even reverence shown towards people like Asaram and the neglect and even hindrance shown towards those like Dhabolkar from people across the spectrum of prosperity is, to me, the perfect explanation to why Indian society is like it is.

Jiwan Kshetry is a Kathmandu-based freelance writer.

His primary areas of interest are corruption, violence and instability, particularly in South Asia.

Health, safety mustn't suffocate football John leicester

AP Sports Columnist Motherwell played Russian roulette with Maxwell's life — just as they did last Sunday after Tottenham allowed its goalie, Hugo Lloris, to play on after he was briefly knocked unconscious in a collision with Romelu Lukaku.

With Lloris, critics were right.

Keeping the France international on the pitch was not only foolhardy but unnecessary, given that back-up Brad Friedel was ready. Lloris subsequently made important stops, throwing himself into a thicket of players and rushing from his goal to block Everton's Gerard Deulofeu. Brave stuff. But had Lloris taken another whack on the head, repeated blows could have made any brain damage far worse.

Tottenham said a post-match scan on Lloris was clear. Manager Andre Villas-Boas defended his medical staff against what he called "lots of incompetent people, with absolutely no experience on the pitch," who criticized the decision not to substitute Lloris. Still, that Villas-Boas then left Lloris out of a Europa League game on Thursday, instead using Friedel for just the fourth time this season, certainly reinforced the idea that Tottenham should also have rested Lloris immediately after

his head smashed into Lukaku's knee.

The quick conclusion to draw from the Lloris incident is that football needs clearer head-injury rules. But there also must be balance. In wanting to make football safer, the long tradition of players battling through injury and pain for the good of the team shouldn't simply be dismissed as antiquated. Bravery, by definition, isn't logical or even wise. It overrides our instincts, the voice that says, "this is nuts."

As misguided as Lloris seemed to some by insisting that he play on, that disregard for personal safety will always seem courageous to others.

Epic injuries are part of football lore.

Franz Beckenbauer playing extra time of the 1970 World Cup semifinal with his right arm strapped to his body after Italy's Pierluigi Cera hacked him down, dislocating his shoulder. Gerry Byrne — described as Liverpool's hardestever player by teammate Ian Callaghan — enduring the 1965 FA Cup final with a broken collarbone. Terry Butcher and Paul Ince bleeding over their England shirts from head wounds. Maxwell refusing to abandon Motherwell's goal despite what he still remembers as "serious pain through my abdomen."

Shorn of physicality, football would

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lose much of its soul, purpose, interest and value as a school of hard knocks. Already, players tumbling over at the merest whiff of physical contact and referees too quick to whistle at raised studs are chipping away at the art of hard tackling. Physiotherapists rush on with cold spray, interrupting play, for players near death one moment, miraculously better the next. Between Lloris and cheats who dive and otherwise feign physical contact to hoodwink officials, there's simply no contest about who sets the better example. "I do applaud his bravery, 100 percent," Maxwell said in the phone interview. "I'm pretty sure the fans don't want to see guys, you know, who get a hair follicle pulled out of their leg and they come off, because they think, "Oh, I've got a bit of knock, coach."

Kids, of course, must be protected.

Maxwell coaches youngsters from 6 to 18 and notes that concussion rules in the United States leave him absolutely no wiggle-room. "When it involves a child we don't have an opinion, we have to take the kids off," he said.

But "when we're talking about a grown man, half the time I look at the TV and cringe." Like many of us, he finds himself muttering at players who fall over like feathers. He's concerned that the Lloris incident could lead to toughened medical rules and "then you're going to lose that great British bulldog spirit that we all love, that never-say-die attitude."

"The last thing England needs or Scotland needs is to become a nation of 'Oh, doctor says I've got to take two aspirin and come off," he said. "We've got to be careful that it doesn't go down that road."

So safety, absolutely, but football overly wrapped in cotton wool would no longer be football.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM:

What is the opium Why it matters and why it's not happening of the people?

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audi Arabia’s announcement on October 18th that it would not take up its hard-won seat on the UN Security Council is unlikely to increase the impetus towards change. Despite mounting pressure to revise its membership and the way it operates, the UNSC has successfully resisted lobbying aimed at modernisation. Ultimately it is the granting of the precious veto to any new member which is proving the biggest stumbling block to change. But amid warnings that unless the UNSC does reform, it risks becoming irrelevant, what are the barriers to and options for this?

This is the most recent example of how domestic politics can derail policy seemingly unconnected to the UNSC—in this case, Russia’s problems with restive Chechnya asserting its separate identity and demanding independence, which makes Syria’s conflict uncomfortably close to home for Vladimir Putin.

In addition, Russia’s influence in the middle east has dwindled since the Cold War. It is strongly supportive of Mr Assad who is one of its last remaining allies in the region and so is committed to backing his regime.

Meanwhile China is renowned for blocking intervention in the ‘internal affairs’ of strategic allies, making it a powerful player on the council.

Two and half years of diplomatic deadlock was finally broken in September 2013 when a US-Russia brokered deal to encourage Syria to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal emerged. Previously, Russia and China had vetoed three resolutions at the UNSC aimed at pushing the Syrian president, Bashar al Assad, from power.

It is unlikely that national interest, this very human flaw in the mechanism of the council, will be countered, though its impact could be mediated by stipulating that for a resolution to be vetoed, the UNSC must have a majority vote. In the case of Syria, this would have seen the resolutions passed by three to two.

Competing claims The major criticism of the five permanent members (or P5) is that the panel lacks representation from Africa and Latin America, provides a platform for waning rather than rising powers and does not have a place for economically powerful nations such as India or Germany. Overall global influence is now pivoting towards Asia and away from the West, meaning the composition of the UN Security Council reflects a post-World War II colonial system that is woefully outdated but still powerful.

Groups have formed to lobby for permanent positions on the UNSC or at least to make the council more representative. The G4—Brazil, Germany, India and Japan—want to expand the Security Council to 25 members, which would comprise an extra six permanent and four non-permanent members. The new permanent seats would guarantee two places for Africa, two for Asia, one for Latin America and the Caribbean (GULAC), and one for western Europe and other states.

The UN’s rules however state that changing the composition of the P5 involves changing the UN’s charter—making this, and other similar moves, difficult. To succeed, it would also require the backing of two-thirds of the General Assembly - including the current P5 and, as we have seen, this in itself is a huge hurdle.

The difficult relationship between China and Japan, most recently severely tested in an unresolved sovereignty row over the Senkaku / Diayou Islands, is turbulent to say the least. Would China be minded to agree to its neighbour being admitted to such an exclusive club? It is at best doubtful, especially since 2005 when China sought to block Japan’s membership, largely over longstanding animosities stretching back to the 19th century.

Equally, given their rivalry within the European Union, would France like to see its neighbour and former enemy, Germany, sitting shoulder to shoulder with it on the Security Council?

On too many issues of global concern, the United Nations faces gridlock.

The Security Council, embodying as it does the post-war oligopoly in its permanent membership, desperately needs reform to empower the wider world and to improve its effectiveness. But those with their feet under the table are reluctant to give way Germany’s claim highlights another question at the heart of bids for Security Council permanent-member status—what should define eligibility. Germany’s contribution to the overall UN budget is pegged to the size of its economy and that puts it in the top five donors.

The G4 has specified that the contribution a state makes to peacekeeping operations should play a determining role in P5 membership. Yet if economic power is to be a determinant of membership, financial imperatives could drive the organisational agenda—meaning richer nations would benefit. It would also sideline states whose balance sheets are unhealthy but whose need for help with security is desperate and it would put them at the mercy of more powerful, wealthy nations.

Nominally though, the major advantage of the G4 candidates’ case rests on its trajectory towards a fairer representation of regional interests. Adding its proposal of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan would bring the totals on the UNSC to Asia three, Europe (including Russia) four, south America one and north America one.

But the veto, so jealously-guarded by the P5, may not be granted to new members. So although permanent seats for them would be an improvement on the present state of affairs—the longer term would enhance the collective institutional memory—it does not appear to be materially different from having a seat on the current rotating Security Council membership.

Plan B? In 2004 at the behest of the then UN secretary general, Kofi Anan, the 16-member High Level Panel On Threats, Challenges, and Change convened to produce a blueprint for Security Council reform.

Two options were proposed by the panel: one suggested adding six new permanent members without veto power, with a further three non-permanent seats; the second would add eight seats, renewable every four years, also without veto power and with one new non-permanent seat.

Another plan along similar lines, although bureaucratically more complex, came from a group within the organisation known as Uniting for Consensus (formerly known as the Coffee Club). This includes Italy, Spain, Turkey, South Korea, Mexico and Argentina and it has put forward proposals which again seek a more representative UNSC. In 2005, the group called for expansion of the non-permanent membership while retaining the current permanent composition; there would

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also be no expansion of the veto. The additional members would be elected by the General Assembly, with due regard to ‘the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution’.

Within that, there would be six from African states, five from Asia, four from Latin American and the Caribbean, three from western European and ‘other’ states and two from eastern Europe. The nonpermanent members would be elected for two-year terms by their regions and there would be the possibility of immediate re-election. This plan was refined in 2009, suggesting further seats which could be occupied for an extended term of three to five years.

The benefit of this system would be that the new seats would be allocated by region, with the actual state occupying the position decided by the regional group. Again while not reforming the P5 it would give more security to the rotating group, providing longer terms in office, building up confidence and institutional memory and therefore providing a better service regionally and globally.

From an African standpoint, the African Union has formulated what has become known as the Ezulwini Consensus, within which it would seek at least two permanent seats on the P5—crucially with veto—and a further five non-permanent seats to be decided by it. The document notes, reasonably, that although Africa is opposed in principle to the veto, while it exists it should be available to all permanent members of the Security Council.

Africa’s claim also benefits from being almost universally supported in principle.

The future The inherent paradox is that for the Security Council to reform the five nations holding ultimate power have to vote to give some of it up. Also, looking to the future, would new members of an expanded UNSC be willing to forgo their status if global power dynamics were to shift decisively in another direction, as they surely will?

The organisation has, in terms of participation, been a huge success and its involvement in international affairs does carry significant weight. But the divide between the General Assembly and the Security Council is marked. GA delegates complain of a lack of transparency in the Security Council and even the non-permanent members can find themselves literally locked out when the P5 wishes to discuss matters alone.

Political will among the more senior states is what is delaying the advancement of any of these plans and problems unrelated to UN reform continue to cause friction among the rest of the UN’s members. For example, Saudi Arabia’s recent actions may be at least in part driven by more prosaic annoyance at Iran’s tentative moves towards rapprochement with the west via the UN than frustration at reform inertia.

But there is a precedent for significant change.

In the 1960s, the Security Council’s rotating membership was expanded from six to ten. Although the permanent members made their objections to the move clear, ultimately they ratified it and it became UN law. Whether this success could be replicated in very different global conditions and with a much-expanded UN is another matter.

What may happen is that if organisations such as the EU, the AU or the Arab League become stronger, they may take on even more of the peacekeeping and security role being played by the UN— with or without its express direction. If states do not see their grievances addressed in New York or Geneva, they may be minded to take their quest for justice to their regional representatives. Should this happen, then the pressure to reform the UNSC may decrease but such an eventuality could arguably diminish the status of the body too. Perhaps this vista is what may herald a change.

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Intelligent Life

arl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people", had a quiet genesis. He wrote it in 1843 as a passing remark in the introduction to a book of philosophical criticism he never finished. When he did publish it the following year, it was in an obscure radical journal with a print run of 1,000. It was not until the 1930s, when all things Marxist were in vogue, that the maxim entered the popular lexicon.

Yet it still resonates. In many parts of the world organised religion remains the most powerful force in society: more than 4.5 billion people identify with one of the world's four biggest religions, and that figure is rising. In Europe, though, religious faith and expression have collapsed in the past 170 years. It's hard to think of anything that has taken their place—except perhaps, for a while, Marxism itself.

Marx was not exactly against religion. For him, faith was something that "the people" conjured for themselves, a source of phoney happiness to which they turned to help numb the pain of reality. It was "the sigh of the oppressed creature". Organised religion with its churches, doctrines and priests followed on from that, a useful tool by For Marx, it was which the ruling classes religion—but that kept the masses supine. was 170 years ago, Now it may seem elitand now our society is ist, even sneering, to ask the opium of the largely secular. What’s what people is, what keeps our opiate now? us—or, worse, "them"— down when we could be up, soporific when we should be fighting for a better world.

Are we really dim animals, willing ourselves into submission?

The question is uncomfortable. Yet there is something in it that speaks to a niggling sense in most of us that were it not for time and energy wasted in some direction—be it a penchant for pints, an obsession with runs, goals or tries, even too long spent at work—then we too might have changed the world, staged a revolution, or even just written that novel.

So what do we drug ourselves with today? Society is more diverse than it was in Marx’s time. Our writers reflect that here in their intriguing selection of obsessions that distract us from reality’s dark truths.

The list could have been far longer. Though traditional opium smoking has largely died out, its modern form, heroin, remains a minority but far more dangerous and deadening sport.

Other drugs now fight for popularity: 180m people worldwide have smoked weed in the past year; Prozac, an anti-depressant that takes the edge off in a rather different way, has had more than 35m users in the past 25 years. The merriment and oblivion of alcohol have been a comfort for millennia—and in Britain and parts of northern Europe people binge more often now than they used to. One billion people still smoke, butts that help to dim the ifs of life for a precious five minutes or so.

Myriad alternative religions flourish. Football fans flock to stadiums in rain or snow and spend thousands on season tickets. Celebrity-gossip magazines thrive while other forms of print struggle to survive.

Money must be another contender—so many lives are filled with dreams of it, pursuit of it, spending it. It's a faith with many faces: credit cards that let us buy more than we can afford; houses for which we borrow and borrow; lottery tickets that we know make little sense. Perhaps this is Marx's ultimate defeat: is capitalism now the opium of the people?

There is also the ever-expanding realm of mass distraction. In 1957 Edward R. Murrow, an American journalist who helped to fell McCarthy, labelled television the opiate of the people, in despair at its passive audience and poor programmes. Americans still watch more than four hours a day, despite being equally addicted to other screens.

More than a billion people use Facebook, and mass communication by phone, text and e-mail means we are never alone, always "in touch"—or perhaps, as Marx might see it, forever out of touch with our true selves.

One day, Marx argued, man would wake up "as his own true sun". If the world were reordered—through revolution, of course—we would have no need for religion. In fact, our consolations have multiplied in glorious technicolour. If Marx were writing today, that snappy soundbite might be rather more cumbersome.

Rosie Blau is associate editor of Intelligent Life and a former books editor of the Financial Times

Literature, Empathy and the Moral Imagination Great works of literature are often love-letters D to the form itself, but

heather McRobie oes literature make us more human?

Great works of literature, from Ulysses to The Famished Road, are often love-letters to literature itself: self-conscious replies to story-telling and the humanity involved in embracing a plurality of voices.

While literature can be seen as engaging in a dialogue with itself, however, moral philosophy has rarely taken story-telling seriously. In defiance of this tradition, philosopher Martha Nussbaum draws on the 19th century novel, envisaging it as a building-block of social justice due to the role that novel reading plays in developing our moral imagination.

Echoing Simone Weil’s conception of the core needs of humans in The Need for Roots, Nussbaum emphasizes empathy as part of a capability approach to human flourishing.

Capability theory holds that a core group of entitlements – particularly including goods such as education and participation in cultural life - must be fulfilled for each person to exercise their full humanity.

Nussbaum uses the concept of disgust to illustrate the necessity of empathy for social justice. She shows how disgust has been deployed to deny the full humanity of marginalised people by constructing taboos around issues such as menstruation, or through policing rigid frameworks of sexuality, which limits the scope of those who are considered worthy of humane treatment. If those we dehumanise exist outside the circle of our empathy, beyond the concern of state or society, empathy must play a role in engendering humanity.

The importance of empathy feeds through into Nussbaum's defence of literature as one of the nutrients that feed our human needs. Novels, she argues, are nourish-

ing because they expand our empathy and develop our moral imagination. Empathy is something we practice, and literature helps us to flex these muscles. By encouraging us to exercise our moral imagination, we develop our capacity to put ourselves in another person’s situation so that those who are different to ourselves in circumstance, identity or practice can no longer be dehumanised.

It could be argued that this centralising of empathy has always been crucial to literature. The aim of encouraging readers to engage their own moral compass was the goal of many writers including George Eliot. Virginia Woolf saw Eliot as a rare English writer for 'grown-up people', perhaps because in her work Eliot helps us to feel empathy for complex characters that are at odds with one another. As they brush past in their own narrative orbits, the imperfect, inner, human world of each character is revealed for readers to meet with their own humanity, even as they warp one another’s lives like magnets.

Similarly, the 18th century literary emphasis on ‘sentiment’ celebrates sensitivity - to the realities, emotions and mood-states of those around us, which in turn shapes our own feelings and responses. Sensitivity is exalted as an ideal because it indicates a high level of moral imagination.

Here the endurance of Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary come to mind. It's true that both Tolstoy and Flaubert problematically ventriloquize women's largelysilenced experiences through the literary equivalent of the ‘male gaze’, both perpetuating – through worn tropes and through silences – some of the prejudices of their period even as they seek, in various ways, to unpick them. Even so, if Bovary and Kareni-

moral philosophy has rarely taken story-telling seriously. The work of Martha Nussbaum shows that the novel is key to social justice, through the role that reading plays in developing our moral imagination

na initially drew contemporary readers because they touched on the 19th century fascination with female sexual infidelity, they have perhaps endured as figures of the cultural imagination instead because, through the cumulative building of the inner worlds of their heroines, they allowed the reader to travel through the protagonists’ experiences, feeling the constraint of their circumstances from within.

Through literature we can live more than one life. Our imagination takes us to times, places and realities that we have not personally lived. By entering the viewpoints of others from within, we can experience their experiences through our reading. And after we have ‘lived’ people through literature, it is harder to find them alien or dis-

gusting, however much governments and media may try to make them so.

Does it follow that literature should also be ‘moral’? This question makes us uncomfortable, because we do not want literature to be moralistic. Arguments about literature’s moral value have been deployed by many interests that run counter to social justice, conceiving of writers as patrician figures who speak in code to one another as members of a poet-caste.

Perhaps it helps to differentiate between the author and the writer, whose conscience as a moral agent is real. Writer Susan Swan speaks of the role of the writer's conscience as a responsibility to preserve the humanity of the stories they tell. In a similar vein, Susan Sontag uses the post-war rehabilitation of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to demonstrate that morality applies to artists and writers as people, just as it applies to everyone else. In Nussbaum’s reading of the role of literature as a device for developing our empathy, the duty of the writer is always to write with humanity.

A related criticism is that Nussbaum elevates literature only in terms of the western canon, a position that is necessarily at odds with social justice if it implies that western voices are more valuable than those of the rest of humanity. The canon of western literature (the 'Dead White Men Books' as they could be described), variously silences, ignores, sidelines or essentialises most of the globe. How could looking at the world through such narrowly-focused eyes expand our empathy for others?

Now, however, much literature, from Joyce to Atwood to Rushdie, works as a reply to the silencing of voices by the western canon. The diversity of literature selfcorrects when it is allowed to thrive. And

a better way to think about Nussbaum’s argument is to think of story-telling as a central facet of our humanity, not something limited to a body of literature defined as worthy of literary merit by one group or another. It follows from this that literature which perpetuates dehumanising depictions fails not merely on the social justice score-card, but also as literature. Stories that harm are bad stories.

The loss of bodies of literature and story-telling is a loss to humanity because it hinders our ability to stretch our empathy through our experience of a multiplicity of voices. Nussbaum’s argument for the moral imagination hints at how stories can form the collective voice of humanity. There is no such thing as a perfect novel or a single story, as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reminds us: it is the vast ocean of stories that, taken as a whole, articulates humanity. And it is through our engagement with these stories that we continually stretch our empathy muscles.

In this context, the censorship of literature and the destruction of libraries from ancient Alexandria to Sarajevo in the 1990s are dehumanising acts because they rob us of the range of stories we can hear and tell. Through the loss of cultural heritage they diminish potential points of affinity and cross-pollination. We can see this damaging process enacted in more subtle and structural ways, such as in the widespread closure of public libraries under the British Coalition government or the marketisation of higher education that severs the function of education as a social good.

Such measures act against our humanity by depriving us of avenues through which we can develop our moral imagination and recognise each other’s inner worlds.

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Campa Cola case has human angle: SC

New Delhi, November 13 (AGeNcieS): Hours after the Supreme Court stayed demolition of flats at the Campa Cola complex in Mumbai, the apex court said that it will take up the matter on November 19. The apex court said that apart from legal issues there is an human angle to this problem. “I was badly disturbed by Campa Cola development on Tuesday evening we slept at 11:30 pm and woke up at 3:30 am,” said a Supreme Court judge where taking up the case sou moto.

Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati told the court that he will come out with a proposal to find a permanent solution to the Campa Cola society problem. The AG has to summit the proposal by November 19.

The AG has proposed that there is floor space index available in a particular area where a new building can be constructed and these residents can be shifted there and the Campa Cola flats can be demolished. “We are studying the order. Many buildings in Mumbai don’t have Occupation Certificate. It is not given because of violation of FSSI and other issues,” said Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.

“The SC order was very harsh. Legal options were being discussed. We discussed the issue with the Attorney General. AG is the lawyer in this case. Now we have got some time. We are

What is the issue?

Who is at fault?

• According to reports the flats were built by one of Mumbai’s original underworld don’s Yousuf Patel.

• The flats were sold at 1/3 of the market value.

• Architect says some of the owners were aware of the fact that it was illegal.

• Some others were fooled by the builders and some may have got forged documents.

• Residents felt that they can get the flats regularized later.

• Original architect’s license was cancelled by the BMC in 1984..

• An Ordinance can save the flats from demolition.

• The Maharashtra government is hesitant to promulgate an ordinance fearing similar demands from other illegal colonies.

• The builder, who built and sold the flats.

• The BMC, which registered flats.

• Some occupants who bought it even after they were aware of the illegality.

• The Maharashtra government which failed to act earlier.

A policeman stands guard in front of a gate blocked by residents of Mumbai’s Campa Cola housing colony in Mumbai, on Tuesday, November 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. (AP Photo)

finding out more options.

We are also looking into the matter of why building was allowed to be constructed despite the BMC notice. Who is responsible for it? Was residents were aware that building is illegal? I have asked Urban Development Department to find out options,” he added. Earlier, the stand off between the BMC officials and the residents of Campa Cola housing society ended on Wednesday after the Supreme Court stayed the demolition of all illegal flats in the complex till May 31, 2014. Following the Supreme Court, the residents

have got seven months to vacate the society.

The apex court took suo moto cognizance of the matter and passed an order after media reports on the demolition. Soon after the order was passed, Campa Cola society residents started celebrating and got emotional. Since morning the atmosphere in the society was very tense and the residents had clashed with the police and BMC officials who had come for the demolition.

Taking lessons from Tuesday’s stand off, BMC officials came prepared and managed to break down the society’s gate and entered

Election Commission pulls up Rahul

New Delhi, November 13 (AGeNcieS): The Election Commission has pulled up Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for having violated the model code of conduct with his “communal” remarks during poll speeches in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh last month. The commission has advised him to be more circumspect in his public utterances during election campaigns. The commission, in an order issued on Wednesday, said it took exception to the “tone, tenor and content” of Gandhi’s speeches, wherein he had accused the BJP of instigating one community against the other and suggested that Pakistan’s ISI was in touch with youth affected by Muzaffarnagar riots.

“Having regard to totality of facts and circumstances of the case and submissions and contentions made by you in your reply ... the commission hereby conveys its displeasure and advises you to be more circumspect in your public utterances ...” the EC conveyed to Rahul in its order. Stat-

the complex. The residents tried their best to stop the demolition drive by putting up barricades and parking cars to slow down the work.

Earlier, in October 2013 the Supreme Court had ordered the residents of over 90 illegal flats to vacate their houses by November 11. However, Only 10 out of 96 unauthorised flats in the Campa Cola society have been vacated till now.

The residents and police entered into a fight after the BMC officials and police were not allowed to enter into the society on Tuesday to demolish the illegal flats as the Supreme Court

deadline ended on Monday.

Union Minister Milind Deora who met Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan earlier demanding a stay on demolition and also warned him of dire consequences if legal opinion is not taken in the matter. “The force being used today is very wrong.

These are innocent people, they are not violent. I will take this issue to the Centre and would complain it to the Congress high command if proper action is not taken,” said Milind Deora.

The BMC had issued eviction notices to residents of the illegal floors under Section 488 of the

Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act last week warning them not to obstruct the civic staff when they initiate demolition. The residents of the Campa Cola compound have had a long legal fight since 2005 when they first went to court for water connection and regularisation and the court ordered the then municipal commissioner to take time-bound action on the case. The municipal commissioner instead of taking action against the builders served demolition notices to over 60 flats above the fifth floor. The builders of the society - PSB Construc-

tion, Yusuf Patel and BK Gupta - were granted a permission to construct the residential towers of not more than five floors. They, however, went ahead and flouted the norms by constructing 35 illegal floors.

According to reports the flats were built by one of Mumbai’s original underworld don’s Yousuf Patel and were sold at the 1/3rd the market value. The demolition notices were challenged in the civil court which granted a stay. The residents, however, lost the case in the High Court in 2011 and subsequently in the Supreme Court in Feb-

ing that the commission was not satisfied with Gandhi scion’s explanation that his remarks were only a criticism of BJP’s policies and progammes and that the emphasis of his speeches was on maintenance of communal harmony rather than creating hatred or communal tension, the EC held that his utterances were not in consonance with the spirit of the model code.

The model code prohibits speeches that aggravate differences between religious communities and restrains politicians from criticizing rival parties based on unverified allegations. Rahul had, in his reply to the EC notice over his Churu and Indore speeches last month, denied any violation of the model code, claiming that he was only criticising the BJP’s policies. He said his contentions linking BJP to communal riots were based on facts established by various judicial commissions and by the guiding philosophy of the party as reflected on its website. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama laughs while attending a seminar on Nalanda Tradition The EC however rejected his explanation. of Buddhism in New Delhi, on Wednesday, November 13. (AP Photo)

Modi poster child of India’s failure to punish the violent: US panel

wAShiNGToN, November 13 (PTi): Two top members of a US Congress-constituted commission on religious freedom have expressed sadness over nomination of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as BJP prime ministerial candidate, terming him as the “poster boy” of India’s failure to punish the violent. “It was another son of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi, who once offered a broad, tolerant vision for the country and its multireligious society,” wrote Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon, in a special oped Special to CNN. “So, as 2014 draws nigh, whose vision will be embraced? Which India will prevail? that of religious

What is next?

• The SC has extended the deadline till May 31, 2014.

• Residents can continue to stay till May 31, 2014.

• If the government finds a way out, demolition can be stopped.

• The Maharashtra CM is under pressure to find a solution.

• Residents hope that the government will something to resolve the issue.

• SC says Campa Cola society case has human angle, to hear case on Nov 19

EC notice to Modi over ‘khooni panja’ remark

New Delhi, November 13 (iANS): The Election Commission Wednesday issued notice to BJP prime minister candidate Narendra Modi over remarks he made at a rally in Chhattisgarh, terming the Congress election symbol, the hand, the “khooni panja” (bloodied paw). The remark was made Thursday last during an election rally at Dongargarh in Chhattisgarh.

Modi has also used the term “jalim haath” (cruel hand) to describe the Congress symbol. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, maintained there was no violation of the election code of conduct. “The Election Commission notice has reached us. We will go through the details and respond,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.

She added she wished to clarify that there was “no violation of the code of conduct in his (Modi’s) statement”.

The Congress complained to the Election Commission that Modi’s comment was “intemperate, malicious and defamatory”. “The use of the expression ;khooni panja; is extremely significant and deplorable and has an effect of terrorising the public at large against the Congress,” the party said in its petition.

freedom or religious intolerance? Time will tell,” they wrote. While Swett is vice chairwoman of the US Commission on International Re-

ligious Freedom (USCIRF), Glendon is a USCIRF commissioner. The op-ed “The two faces of India” was published on the blog of the pop-

ular CNN program “Global Public Square”, which is run by eminent Indian-American Fareed Zakaria.

“The poster child for In-

dia’s failure to punish the violent remains Narendra Modi, who is Gujarat’s chief minister, a post he held during the 2002 riots,” they wrote. “Gujarat’s high court rapped the Modi administration for inaction and ordered compensation for religious structures that suffered damage. In 2005, the US State Department agreed with the recommendation of USCIRF and others to revoke Modi’s visa,” they said.

“True, in April 2012, the highest court’s Special Investigative Team failed to prove guilt against Modi and others in a case involving the deaths of nearly 70 people. But he remains implicated in other Gujarat-associated cases that have yet to be investigated or

adjudicated,” the op-ed said.

“That is why, more recently, 65 members of India’s parliament wrote to President Barack Obama, requesting that he not issue Modi a visa.

Sadly, despite all this, Gujarat’s most controversial resident is the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in India’s 2014 prime ministerial election,” Swett and Glendon wrote.

It was at the recommendation of USCIRF that the then Bush administration had revoked the US via of Modi, based on the allegation about his involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

USCIRF has maintained that the Obama administration should continue the same policy.

Discard myths to successfully manage diabetes New Delhi, November 13 (iANS): Does consuming too much sugar cause diabetes? Is diabetes a disease of the elderly? India’s diabetes population is dangerously on the rise and set to cross 100 million by 2030 and yet misconceptions and myths about this lifestyle disease that is linked to various other health complications are in abundance. Prevention, as doctors say, can be practised with knowledge and therefore awareness is an important tool to fight this health monster.

One of the most popular myths associated with diabetes, according to S.V. Madhu, secretary, Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI), is that it is caused by consuming too much sugar. “Eating sugar does not cause diabetes per se, although it is recommended to limit your sugar in-

take,” Madhu told IANS. “Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the glucose level in the blood rises beyond the normal limit which damages tissues in the body and can lead to a host of complications like cardiac problems, kidney problems and even blindness”.

Another common myth is that once you start taking insulin you become dependent on it for life.

“People often think that insulin is like a drug that you get addicted to, but the truth is that diabetics are not so much bothered about insulin itself as the process of daily injecting themselves with it,” Pradeep Chowbey, vice chairman, Max Healthcare, told IANS. “Insulin, in fact, reduces the complications that come with diabetes and helps

you lead a better life,” he added.

S.K. Nagrani, senior consultant, Diabetology at Max Hospital, concurred. “People think that insulin may drastically reduce their blood sugar level and harm them, but the truth is insulin is the best way to control diabetes,” he said.

Most people also still have a notion that diabetes is the disease of

sters, children, even newborns.

When it comes to children and youngsters, lifestyle plays a big role in preventing this disease”.

Less outdoor activity and junk food are the two main culprits of childhood obesity in kids these days - a point of concern by itself - which in turn makes children vulnerable to diabetes at an early age. “ O u r lives are becoming busier than ever, and that has started reflecting in our food habits and lifestyle.

When it comes to children, in the rush of daily life and the need for something attractive enough to eat, parents pack ready-to-eat food stuff like burgers or crisps and fried snacks in their lunch box which is hardly healthy,” said nutritionist Esha Verma. “In this

November 14 is World Diabetes Day the elderly, and that people whose parents are diabetics will, in turn, suffer from the disease too - both of which are not true.

“That diabetes is the disease of the old is the most common myth in the Indian scenario,” Madhu said. “Although the chances of type 2 diabetes increases with age, diabetes is being detected in young-

context, it’s a good idea to take reference from our traditional Indian food that offers a perfect balance of nutrients in the simple roti-subji, and improvise it.

School and college canteens too should encourage healthy eating options,” she added.

Like in children, obesity in adults too can lead to health complications like diabetes. According to Chowbey, almost 50 percent diabetics are obese. “Diabetes is a chronic disease which cannot be cured but can be controlled, and a diabetic can live a healthy life with proper medication and regular check-ups. A healthy diet is one in which 40-60 percent calories come from carbohydrates, 20 percent from proteins, and 30 percent or less from fats. Anyone who says that ‘special diabetic food’ is good enough is wrong,” Madhu said.

ruary 2013 when it refused to regularise the structure.

The BMC then issued a demolition notice on April 27 asking the occupants of the illegal flats to vacate within 48 hours. However, the Supreme Court intervention ensured that the residents got a five month window to vacate their houses. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government, who has been slow in solving the case said that it was just following the Supreme Court’s order. The state government is hesitant to promulgate an ordinance fearing similar demands from other illegal colonies.

Speedy probe, trials of high & mighty: States told to respond

New Delhi, November 13 (PTi): The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from all the states on a PIL seeking framing of guidelines for speedy probe and subsequent fast-track trials in cases involving influential public functionaries who manage to prolong the investigation and judicial processes. A bench of justices AK Patnaik and V Gopala Gowda, after considering a report of the Law Commission on fast-tracking trials involving influential persons, said apart from the Centre, it would also like to hear from all state governments.

The court, which issued notices to the states, has now listed the the PIL, filed in 2004 by lawyer VK Ohri, for hearing in January, next year. Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Ohri, referred to the report of the Law Commission and gave suggestions for speedy probe and the trial involving important public functionaries. “The influential persons, who have committed gruesome crimes against the common man, have gone scot free due to the delay in process manipulated by them by virtue of their influence,” he said.

“The investigation of all criminal cases involving influential persons should be monitored by the DGP (head of the police) of the state/UT. “There should be a fixed time period (maximum 3 months) for completion of the investigation. “One police officer should be identified in every case who would be held responsible for delay in the investigation or failure in completing the investigation within the fixed time period,” he said, while referring to the suggestions mooted by Ohri.

Referring to the Law Commission’s suggestions, he said, “A copy of the FIR concerning the involvement of influential public men in cognizable crimes, apart from being sent to the magistrate, should also be forwarded to SP/SSP concerned.”

Radia Tapes: SC asks Centre, CBI and Ratan Tata to reply on plea

New Delhi, November 13 (PTi): The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and CBI to file replies on a plea seeking to direct the government to take action on findings of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) which found “irregularities” in some business transactions after examining Nira Radia tapes. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda also asked former Tata chief, Ratan Tata, who has filed a plea for not making public tapped conversations of Radia, to file reply within a week.

Immediately after the order was passed and the matter was adjourned for December 2 for hearing of cases arising out of Radia’s tapped conversation, senior advocate Rajiv Dhawan, appearing for Open Magazine, strongly objected for deferment of hearing. Dhawan pleaded that the court should hear the case on Wednesday itself and he be allowed to argue on behalf of the magazine against Tata’s petition but the court turned down his plea.

An agitated Dhawan said, “It is highly unfortunate. I don’t want to say this at a time when my lordship is retiring but I have to say it is highly unfortunate.” “You are denying me an opportunity to respond on the plea. It is highly arbitrary,” he further said. Taking exception to Dhawan’s submission, Justice Singhvi recused himself from the case and said the matter be listed before another bench.

In the plea filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), referred to a purported letter written by the investigating officer to the Director of SFIO and submitted that cases of serious corporate fraud were allegedly brought out against them which need to be probed.

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Looting, gunfire break out in typhoon-hit city TACLOBAN, NOvemBer 13 (AP): Mobs overran a rice warehouse on the island worst hit by the Philippine typhoon, setting off a wall collapse that killed eight people and carting off thousands of sacks of the grain, while security forces Wednesday exchanged gunfire with an armed gang.

The incidents in or close to the storm-ravaged city hosting international relief efforts add to concerns about the slow pace of aid distribution and that parts of the disaster zone are descending into chaos.

Five long days after Typhoon Haiyan wasted the eastern seaboard of the Philippines, the cogs of what promises to be a massive international aid effort are beginning to turn, but not quickly enough for the some 600,000 people displaced, many of them homeless, hungry and thirsty.

“There’s a bit of a logjam to be absolutely honest getting stuff in here,” said U.N. staffer Sebastian Rhodes Stampa against the roar of a C-130 transport plane landing behind him at the airstrip in Tacloban, one of the hardest-hit cities.

“It’s almost all in country — either in Manila or in Cebu, but it’s not here. We’re going to have a real challenge with logistics in terms of getting things out of here, into town, out of town, into the other areas,” he said. “The reason for that essentially is that there are no trucks,

A survivors carries water in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Wednesday, November 13. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record, slammed into central Philippine provinces Friday, leaving a wide swath of destruction. (AP Photo)

the roads are all closed.”

Planes, ships and trucks were all on their way to the region, loaded with generators, water purifying kits and emergency lights — vital equipment needed to sustain a major relief mission.

Airports were reopening in the region, and the U.S. military said it was installing equipment to allow the damaged Tacloban aiport to operate 24-7.

Tacloban’s mayor, Alfred

Romualdez, urged residents to flee the city because local authorities were having trouble providing food and water and maintaining order, The New York Times reported. He said the city was in desperate need of trucks to distribute relief shipments that were accumulating at the city’s airport as well as equipment to pull decaying corpses from the rubble.

Eight people were crushed to

death when the mob stormed a rice warehouse around 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Tacloban on Tuesday and carried off thousands of sacks of grain, according to National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez.

On Wednesday, gunfire broke out close to the city’s San Juanico bridge on Wednesday between security forces and armed men, but the circumstances were unclear, according

to footage on local TV. Since the storm, people have broken into homes, malls and garages, where they have stripped the shelves of food, water and other goods. Authorities have struggled to stop the looting. There have been unconfirmed reports of armed gangs of robbers operating in a systematic manner.

An 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew was in place across the region.

Despite incidents, police said the situation was improving.

“We have restored order,” said Carmelo Espina Valmoria, director of the Philippine National Police special action force. “There has been looting for the last three days, but the situation has stabilized.”

The death toll rose to 2,275, according a national tally kept by the disaster agency. That figure is expected to rise, perhaps significantly, when accurate information is collected from the entirety of the disaster zone, which spreads over a wide swath of the eastern and central Philippines but appears to be concentrated on two main islands, Leyte and Samar.

The congressman for Eastern Samar province, a coastal region that bore the full force of the storm, said 211 had been killed there and 45 were missing.

He said some villages have been wiped out, with practically no structures standing. In one town, bodies remain lying on the road because help has not come to retrieve or bury them. Other towns have conducted mass burials.

“The situation there was horrible,” Ben Evardone told a local television station. “Some communities disappeared, entire villages were wiped out.

They were shouting ‘food, food, food!’ when they saw me.”

U.S. Brig Gen. Paul Kennedy promised a response akin to the widely praised U.S. military one after the 2004 Asian tsuna-

mi, when fleets of helicopters dropped water and food to hundreds of isolated communities along the coast.

“You are not just going to see Marines and a few planes and some helicopters,” Kennedy said.

“You will see the entire Pacific Command respond to this crisis.”

A Norwegian ship carrying supplies left from Manila, while an Australian air force transport plane took off from Canberra carrying a medical team. British and American navy vessels are also en route to the region.

At the Tacloban airport, makeshift clinics have been set up and thousands of people were waiting for a flight out. A doctor said supplies of antibiotics and anesthetics arrived Tuesday for the first time.

“Until then, patients had to endure the pain,” said Dr. Victoriano Sambale. Relief officials said comparing the pace of this operation to those in past disasters was largely pointless because each posed unique challenges.

In Indonesia’s Aceh, the worst-hit region by the 2004 tsunami, relief hubs were easier to set up than in Tacloban. The main airport there was functioning 24-7 within a couple of days of the disaster.

While devastation in much of the city of Banda Aceh was total, large inland parts of the city were undamaged, providing a base for aid operations and temporary accommodation for the homeless.

Heavy but healthy people still at risk of heart disease Caroline Kennedy sworn in as ambassador to Japan

NeW YOrK, NOvemBer 13 (reUTerS HeALTH): Some researchers believe people who are overweight but otherwise healthy don’t have a higher-thannormal risk of heart disease.

But a new report suggests extra weight can be harmful alone, regardless of whether people have a cluster of risk factors known as metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is a group of conditions linked to heart disease. It includes a large waist circumference, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, low “good” cholesterol and diabetes. Although each of those conditions is closely tied to extra weight, some researchers think metabolic syndrome - and not the weight itself - is what causes heart disease. “There’s been so much about that in the literature over the last many years, that it’s only the ones with metabolic syndrome that are at risk,” Dr. Børge G. Nordestgaard said.

For their study, Nordestgaard and Dr. Mette Thomsen of the University of Copenhagen recruited 71,527 Danish adults without heart problems. The researchers weighed, measured and checked participants for the five components of metabolic syndrome.

People were considered to have metabolic syndrome if they had at least three of those conditions. Forty-four percent of the participants had a normal weight, 40 percent were overweight and 16 percent were obese when the study started. Rates of metabolic syndrome ranged from one in ten among normal-weight people to close to two-thirds of obese participants.

Over the next three to four years, 634 people in the study had a heart attack and 1,781 were diagnosed with heart disease. The research duo found people’s chances of developing heart problems went up as their weight went up, whether or not they had metabolic syndrome.

Obese people without metabolic syndrome were almost twice as likely to have a heart attack as normal-weight people without metabolic syndrome, for instance.

The results suggest only a fraction of the extra heart risks seen among overweight and obese people can be explained by more of them having metabolic syndrome, the researchers write in JAMA Internal Medicine. “There could be other factors in obesity and overweight that also contribute, like inflammation for example,” Nordestgaard told Reuters

Health. But, “I’m not saying these cardiovascular disease risk factors are not important,” he said.

Blood pressure and cholesterol contribute to a person’s chance of getting heart disease, Nordestgaard said. But the label of metabolic syndrome, which is used by some doctors as a clear dividing line, may not be what’s critical.

“Whether you call someone as having or not having metabolic syndrome as kind of a yes/no variable, is not helpful clinically and it doesn’t make sense biologically,” Dr. Meir J. Stampfer said.

Stampfer, from the Harvard School of Public Health, co-wrote a commentary published with the new study. The idea that people aren’t at risk unless they meet the criteria for metabolic syndrome is “really flawed,” he told Reuters health. “It’s basically just that the metabolic syndrome is waiting to happen to those people.” Based on this study, extra weight and metabolic problems may have a “cumulative effect” on a person’s risk of heart disease, Dr. Jiang He told Reuters Health in an email. He is the chair of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Department of Epidemiology in New Orleans and wasn’t involved in the new study.

WASHINGTON, NOvemBer 13 (AP): Caroline Kennedy, the new U.S. ambassador to Japan and daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, leaves for Japan on Thursday to begin her work to strengthen the critical bond between the U.S. and the Asian nation.

Kennedy, who was confirmed by the Senate last month, was nominated for the ambassador’s job by President Barack Obama after playing a role in his re-election campaign. Secretary of State John Kerry hosted a swearing-in ceremony for Kennedy on Tuesday afternoon at the State Department. “We just had a tea ceremony which was a wonderful introduction to the Japanese culture,” Kennedy said at a reception later at the Japanese ambassador’s residence.

“My husband and I and my children are so excited to be going to Japan,” she said in brief remarks to reporters.

“We look forward to meeting as many people as we can, to making new friends, visiting and studying the history and culture of this beautiful country that is such a strong partner to the United States in so

Bosnia’s leaders fail to move forward

UNITeD NATIONS, NOvemBer 13 (AP): Bosnia’s international administrator accused the country’s leaders Tuesday of being more interested in “personal political and financial advantage” than in moving forward with the rest of the region to become part of the European Union and NATO. Valentin Inzko. the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressed regret that with less than a year left until the next general elections the country’s elected leadership has failed to make “a serious effort towards progress on Euro-Atlantic integration.”

Inzko addressed the U.N. Security Council shortly after it voted unanimously to renew the mandate of the 900-member European Union peacekeeping force in Bosnia, known as EUFOR, for a year.

Inzko’s position was created in 1995 immediately after the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the vicious 1992-1995 civil war between Bosnia’s three ethnic groups — Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs — to oversee the civilian implementation of the accord.

The country was split down ethnic lines into a Serb part - Republika Srpska - and another shared by Bosniak Muslims and Croats after the war that killed an estimated 100,000 peo-

Japanese Ambassador to the United States Kenichiro Sasae, left, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and her husband Dr. Edwin Schlossberg take part in a tea ceremony at the Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Washington, November 12. (AP Photo)

many important efforts.” At the reception, Kerry noted that Kennedy’s father battled Japanese forces as a Navy officer in World War II. “The daughter of a heroic lieutenant in World War II will be the first woman, in the next generation after the war, to represent our country in a

relationship that symbolizes so much more than just a normal diplomatic relationship,” Kerry said. “This is a symbol of reconciliation, symbol of possibilities, a symbol of people who know how to move past ... look to the future and build a future together.” “So I am really excited, as the president

is, that Caroline is going to be heading over there to represent this relationship at a critical time — with the rebalance to Asia, global marketplace and competition therein, the efforts to deal with North Korea ... challenges of the South China Sea, challenges of climate change.”

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In this photo taken Thursday, October 31, 2013, Bosnian technical worker Zlatan Music walks alongside bodies exhumed from the Tomasica mass grave at the Sejkovaca identification center, near the Bosnian town of Sanski Most, 260 kilometers (162 miles) northwest of Sarajevo. Two decades after Serb soldiers conducted house-to-house searches in a campaign of ethnic killings in Bosnia, forensic scientists are digging up what could turn out to be the largest mass grave from the 1992-95 war. (AP File Photo)

ple. The two semi-autonomous mini-states each have a president, government and parliament — and they are linked by a joint parliament, government and a three-member presidency.

Inzko said Bosnia’s leaders have failed to make changes required by the European Court of Human Rights to the constitution, which now bars minorities from running for parliament or president. Similarly, he said, progress has been “elusive” on the question of the ownership of military property, which has kept Bosnia from activating its “Membership Action Plan” with NATO. “The failure of the ruling

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Pacquiao dedicates next fight to typhoon victims John Pye

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FILE - In this March 23, 2011 file photo, Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, left, trains with coach Freddie Roach in Baguio, northern Philippines. Pacquiao is dedicating his comeback fight against Brandon Rios to the victims of the devastating typhoon that has left hundreds of thousands displaced in his native Philippines. The eight-division champion is in camp in the southern Philippines - only about 320 kilometers (200 miles) from where Typhoon Haiyan caused the most destruction - for the Nov. 24, 2013 bout in Macau. (AP Photo)

Manny Pacquiao believes the best way to bring inspiration and hope to the victims of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan in his native Philippines is to win his comeback fight against Brandon Rios. To do that, he has to limit the distractions ahead of the Nov. 24 fight in Macau. So that rules out a visit to the areas most devastated by the deadly typhoon to the north of where he's in a training camp at General Santos, in the southern Philippines.

It's a heart-wrenching decision but his handlers, including veteran trainer Freddie Roach, have insisted it is for the best. Instead, the Filipino congressman is dedicating the fight against Rios to the people.

In what he called a "statement to his people," the 34-year-old Pacquiao

said: "I really want to visit the area and personally do what I can to help our countrymen who have suffered so much in this terrible tragedy. But I'm in deep training for a crucial fight so I regret I cannot go."

"I will send help to those who need it the most," he added, "and I enjoin all of you to pray for our country and people in these trying times." Pacquiao's adviser Michael Koncz told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday that the former poundfor-pound champion was hoping to visit devastated parts of the Philippines after his fight at The Venetian Casino's Cotai Arena in Macau, on the morning of Nov. 24, and wants to cheer them up with a victory.

Authorities have confirmed at least 1,700 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced by the typhoon.

Koncz, who is in camp

Saina Nehwal, Sangpang FC trash struggling Doyang FC 5-2 Kashyap win ceding a goal Veda FC restored parity following a in China Open NagalaNd stupendous drilled shot SHANGHAI, NOvEmby midfielder Chiyuh from Premier bEr 13 (PtI): Top Indi22 yards that caught James an shuttlers Saina Nehwal napping. The first fifteen league minutes of the second half and Parupalli Kashyap advanced to the second round of the China Super Series Premier after notching up straight-game victories in the women's and men's singles competition, respectively on Wednesday. The sixth seed Indian, Saina overcame Japan's Nozomi Okuhara 21-14, 2119 in a 39-minute opening match, while world number 12 Kashyap recorded his fourth victory over the eighth ranked Thai Boonsak Ponsana when he beat him 22-20, 21-15 in men's singles opening round match that lasted 46 minutes. Olympic Bronze medallist Saina relied on her net game to outclass Nozomi as she registered 19 net winners compared to 11 by the Japanese. The 23-year-old Indian will next take on China's Sun Yu in the prequarterfinals.

Saina, who had beaten Nozomi in Malaysia Open earlier this year, didn't give the Japanese any chance in the first game as she jumped to a 5-2 lead and then kept extending it to zoom ahead.

In the second game, Saina enjoyed a 10-6 lead but Nozomi reeled off four points to catch up with the Indian.

What ensued next was a tough battle for supremacy but it was the world number seven Indian who had the last laugh in the end.

Kashyap matched his higher ranked rival with his smashes and outdid him in net play to earn a place in the second round, where he will meet Japan's Kento Momota on Thursday. From 1-4 deficit, Kashyap turned the tables on Boonsak, opening up a slender 9-8 lead.

KOHImA, NOvEmbEr 13 (mExN): Mid Table team Sangpang FC poured more miseries on an already struggling Doyang FC as they thrashed the Kohima outfit 5-2, on the first match of Matchday 15 of the NPL played here at IG Stadium Kohima today.

Inconsistency yet again plagued the Doyang squad as Sangpang netted in 4 goals in the second half to condemn the Kohima outfit to another defeat in a match that saw a young Doyang squad, wasteful in front of goal. The visitors shot into the lead after Arennungsang delivered a slick pass from the edge of the box to Sangpang defender Khayi, who neatly collected the ball and side footed the ball from close range in the 39th min.

Both teams had equal opportunities in the first half as the defence of both the teams looked leaky allowing the forwards to sneak pass them with ease. Doyang FC defender Ketho gave some hope for the home team with a neat piledriver from the edge of the box in the 54th minute of the game. But Sangpang bounced back with two goals in two minutes as Moakaba and Munzingkai scored in the 59th and 60th minutes of the game for Sangpang FC. The last seven minutes of the game saw as many as three goals as Sangpang FC forwards Chubangangnen and Munzingkai slotted in for the visitors in the 85th min and 1 min into injury time, Doyang FC forward Chüsie reduced the margin for his team with a goal in

mADrID, NOvEmbEr 13 (rEutErS): Lionel Messi will be working "full time" to shake off the hamstring injury sustained on Sunday that will sideline him for six to eight weeks, Barcelona's Argentine World Player of the Year said on Tuesday.

In his first public remarks since he was forced off early in Barca's 4-1 La Liga win at Real Betis, Messi said his priority was to return as soon as possible so he could contribute to the Spanish champions' quest for silverware.

"As many of you know, over the next few weeks I will be working full time on the recovery from this latest injury," Messi said on his Facebook page. "For me it is a pity not to be able to play with my team right now," added the 26-year-old.

"Now the most important thing is to recover well so I can help my team mates and reward all the support you've given to me in the

best way I know how to do, playing football."

Messi was substituted in the 19th minute in Seville after pulling up following a sprint for possession and a tangle with his markers. It was his third thigh injury of the campaign and followed a similar muscle problem towards the end of last season. His absence is perhaps not as serious as it might first appear as he will likely return before Barca face title rivals Atletico Madrid in January and they have already qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League.

In Brazil forward Neymar, signed from Santos in the close season, Barca have a player with a similar ability to turn a game and the 21-year-old will be expected to justify his 57 million-euro price tag while Messi is out. The Argentine will miss Barca's final two matches in the group stage of Europe's elite club competition, against Ajax Amsterdam and Celtic.

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saw both teams play attacking football, with forwards of both teams coming close to finding the net. The 64th minute of the game saw Veda FC reduced to 10 men was sent off for a second yellow card after an altercation between the goal scorers of both the sides; Yhunshalo also received a yellow card.

Komets had themselves to blame for not having taken the advantage of having all 11 players on the field as the last 25 minutes of the game saw them make faulty passes, allowing the league leaders to dominate till the final whistle.

Komets certainly felt the absence of playmaker Samuel who was ruled out serving a suspension, with a messy midfield performance in the final 25 minutes posing hardly any threat to a reduced Veda squad. Veda was resurgent in their attack as Thopi constantly threatened the Komets defence with his swift runs into the Komets box. Nigerian Eric had a quiet day with very few assists from the midfield making it to him, as he remained a silent figure throughout the match.

Kohima Komets need to bring on their A-game in the next four fixtures to keep their title hopes alive with defending champions narrowing down the gap on current league leaders Veda FC by 2 points.

Early pace setters Veda FC also have to keep on their pace ahead of crucial fixtures against Barak FC and Dimapur United to maintain their lead at the top in their upcoming fixtures.

with the boxer in General Santos, said he is declining interview requests for Pacquiao in a bid to lock out any distractions. He said Pacquiao's camp had been watching developments and getting frequent updates in the wake of the typhoon, and it was difficult for the former champion not to go out and help. "Manny's desire was to go to that area and to visit them and lift the spirits," Koncz said. "But we have the most important fight of his career.

"His heart and prayers go out to the survivors and the victim's families. Absolutely, he is dedicating this fight to the victims of this."

Pacquiao and his entourage leave for Macau on Monday. "It's been one of the best camps I can remember. No tensions within — everyone dedicated to our jobs and working hard," Konzc said. "Manny's in the best physical condition he

can be in. His mindset is on showing the world he can still compete to the highest level." Pacquiao has said the Rios fight, his first of the year, will be the start of his intended return to his peak form and to show that consecutive losses to Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez are not the start of a decline.

"The fans are going to be in for a fight, for a treat," Koncz said. "If Manny sticks to the game plan, I truly don't believe the fight is going to go more than four or five rounds. "He's determined to show the world nothing has declined in his skills and abilities. He's very motivated for this fight." Koncz said if anyone was able to put the outside distractions on hold, at least for the duration of a bout, it was Pacquiao.

"Manny knows how to manage himself. He's been in the game a long time and

Heat bounce back to roll past Bucks

Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo (34), of Greece, shoots as Miami Heat's Chris Andersen, second from left, and Rashard Lewis, right, defend during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 12 in Miami. The Heat won 118-95. (AP Photo)

mIAmI, NOvEmbEr 13 (rEutErS): If you are a Miami Heat fan, you can release your fingers from the proverbial panic button. Heat forward LeBron James finally seems recovered from a nagging back injury, the Heat's defense seemed more focused, and Miami outrebounded an opponent for the first time all season.

The result was an easy 118-95 victory over the injury-plagued Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena.

"I told (point guard Mario Chalmers), I'm getting back - I'm almost there," James said after the Heat improved to 5-3, bouncing back from a stunning home loss to the Boston Celtics on Saturday.

"I feel my spring starting to get back. My back is feeling better. Once I told him that, he said: 'Alright, I can start throwing it to you anyway I want.'" James scored 33 points - two off

his season high - while another one of the world's most famous athletes was watching court-side. That would be Brazilian soccer star Neymar, who will lead his national team against Honduras in a Miami friendly on Saturday.

James scored 17 points in the third quarter, when the Heat took an 85-62 lead.

The Heat had led 56-45 at halftime and 32-23 after one quarter.

It was a season-high point total for Miami, which shot 58 percent from the field. James played a big role in the shooting percentage, making 13 of 21, including 4 of 7 on 3-pointers.

Forward Michael Beasley also contributed, scoring 19 points off the bench.

"I got Beas under my wing," James said of Beasley, who made 8 of 12 shots, including 2 of 3 on three-pointers.

The Bucks (2-4), who were held to 42 percent shooting by the revived Heat

defense, lost their second game in a row. This was the first Miami-Milwaukee matchup since the first round of last season's playoffs, when the Heat swept the Bucks in four games.

But the Bucks revised their lineup extensively since then, bringing in Drew and 11 new players.

One of the newcomers is guard Brandon Knight, a guard who played his high school ball locally at Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest. He scored six points off the bench in his second game back from an ankle injury. Another Bucks newcomer is rookie secondround pick Nate Wolters, a point guard who entered Tuesday leading the NBA with 6.2 assists per turnover. On Tuesday, he had nine points, three assists and no turnovers. Forward John Henson led the Bucks with a seasonhigh 18 points, and guard Gary Neal also scored 18 points.

With both members of the Lakers' decorated backcourt sidelined, Hill shined in his chance to join the Lakers' latest starting lineup. Steve Nash is out for at least two weeks with nerve problems in his back, while Kobe Bryant still hasn't returned to practice after surgery on his torn Achilles' tendon in April.

Jodie Meeks and Xavier Henry scored 15 points apiece for the Lakers, who led by 20 points in the first half before coasting to their 12th win in their last 13 regular-season meetings with New Orleans. Los Angeles' current lineup isn't festooned with stars, but coach Mike D'Antoni is hopeful his collection of role players will stay competitive in Kobe's absence.

"This is a good group of guys, (and) I think today they realized what it's going to take to win," D'Antoni said. "And they did it. I think Jordan Hill being in that first group helped everybody with his New Orleans Pelicans guard Eric Gordon, left, awkwardly passes the ball behind him as Los energy ... and then every- Angeles Lakers center Jordan Hill defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, body picked it up."

Tuesday, Nov. 1 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

DImAPur, NOvEmbEr 13 (mExN): The much awaited fourth SATball Running Tournament 2013 got underway with Assistant Director, Department of Youth Resources & Sport Nizheto Awomi on November 12 at GHSS ground, United Colony, Dimapur (Nagaland). He congratulated Nagaland SATball Association for organizing and bringing out indigenious game into sport. He said that the Department would try its best to promote and reach every district of Nagaland and beyond. The game witnessed many rounds of play with several clubs till the evening. Meanwhile, Finance Secretary, Chakhesang Hoho, Peren, Veiisii Khamo attended as match patron on November 13. He appraised the gathering to utilize talent from God and do well in the field of sport.

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the 45 secs before the end with the two teams equally of injury time. poised. Komets forward Kezhose had an opportunito put his team forward Kohima Komets ty early in the game after a draw Veda FC 1-1 beautiful layoff by Ating Playing the last 26 min- but his wide shot barely utes of the game with one troubled Veda custodian man down, a resurgent Vekuto.

Veda FC held on to a 1-1 Komets midfielder draw against local rivals Yhunshalo broke the deadKohima Komets in the 2nd lock for his team with a match of the day at Kohima. brilliant header following With second placed a free kick from counterBarak FC winning 2-1 part Lalhinlova in the 14th against Zonipang SA in minute of the game. TrailMokokchung earlier in the ing by a goal, Veda FC had day and closing the gap a powerful header by deon the league leaders by fender Taliakum collectjust a point. It was a de- ed by Komets custodian cisive match for Veda FC James who replaced an ill who couldn’t afford to drop Peisudibe with the gloves points. The match start- for the local derby. ed on an impressive note Eight minutes into con-

Lakers display dominance with rout of Pelicans

LOS ANGELES, NOvEmbEr 13 (AP): The Los Angeles Lakers' sixth starting lineup in nine games clicked from the opening tip, and Jordan Hill was the biggest reason for the flow. Hill had a career-high 21 points and 11 rebounds in his first start of the season, and Pau Gasol added 14 points and eight rebounds in the Lakers' 116-95 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. Nick Young scored 17 points for Los Angeles, which lost five of its last seven before trouncing the Pelicans, who beat them handily last week.

The Lakers left New Orleans embarrassed by their effort, but they made up for it back home with likely their best all-around performance since a season-opening win over the Clippers.

"We've just got to do this every night, because we're not good enough to take any plays off," Hill said.

"We've got to have that energy every time we step on the floor. That's what I try to bring whenever I'm there. I don't care if I'm starting."

knows his body better than anyone else. He's in that zone right now, he's ready.

If he had to go tomorrow, he'd be ready."

By the time Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 Kos) gets into the ring against Rios, it will be about two years since his last victory. Pacquiao's loss to Bradley was widely lampooned as a poor judging decision, but his knockout loss to Marquez was much more sobering.

Koncz said he took nothing away from Marquez, but it was the result of a defensive lapse by Pacquiao and "we don't view that as a loss." "He fought with a lot of energy and threw a lot of punches. Unfortunately he got careless and walked into a punch from Marquez and got knocked out," Koncz said. "We view that as a mistake in the last seconds and (he) walked into a good punch. "We have to erase that memory for the fans."

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lec Baldwin erupted in tears as he sat in the witness stand on Tuesday morning (November 12, 2013). The actor broke down following a heated exchange of words between himself and the defendant, Genevieve Sabourin, over the nature of their relationship, TMZ reports.

Sabourin is hearing charges of stalking and harassment, with Baldwin claiming that he and his

wife had undergone years of hardship as a result of her incessant obsession with the actor. He claims that she inundated him with tweets and emails and even claims that she has shown up at his home and harassed his wife in the past.

On the contrary, Sabourin says that she has history with Baldwin, claiming to have met the actor in 2002, before having dinner with him in 2010. She also claims to have slept

with the actor at some point in the supposed period of knowing each other, something that Alec vehemently denies.

As Baldwin gave his testimony in the New York courtroom, he described Sabourin as a woman with a deep-seeded obsession with him, a woman who has made life hell for him and his wife. As he broke down in tears at the end of his statement - tears that some observers have ap-

parently questioned in regards to their authenticity - it also ended a series of back-and-forths between the actor and his accused stalker.

As Baldwin recalled the apparent instances of harassment during his statement, Sabourin repeatedly challenged every instance Alec could come up with, and when he denied that they ever had sexual relations, she apparently fired

back by screaming REALLY!! She also accused Alec of having a lying disease as he testified. Following the hearing, TMZ go on to report that Alec was his usual cheery self when confronted by the press outside the courthouse, telling reporters I hope you choke to death.

Geneviene explained herself outside the court, claiming, After my first arrest, I became very well

known and vilified across the world. A lot of people made a lot of fun out of me behind my back, and they created FaceBook accounts and Twitter accounts some in support and some very humourisitc [sic] and some very bad - about me... right now I think there is eight or ten fake Twitter and FaceBook accounts.

When asked why she kept interrupting Alec during his testimony, she ex-

plained, at the preliminary hearings, the judge gave me one of two options to have a French translator, and then I would only have to rely on that version of the truth, which is from the translator, and I was concerned that I was going to lose the content of everything.

The other option was that I could go without a translator and I could interrupt, asking my lawyer, at any time about the process..

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Any time I could ask 'what does it mean,' 'is that true,' 'what is it,' because I have a need of translation. I'm not fluent, so that is why people would say I interrupt, when actually I have the right [to interrupt] by the judge. I can prove I had a relationship with him, but he's lying, she continued. he's lying to the court, which is perjury, and he's probably lying to his wife in order to save his marriage.

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my-winning singer since who my celebrity crush 2008, but his adoration was, and I was like, `Mariah for Carey began long be- Carey. Watch, one day I`m fore the two ever became going to meet her`. And an item. then it happened. We were In an interview with backstage at an awards Queen Latifah on her new show. The first thing she talk show, Cannon con- said to me was, `I heard all fesses he`s always had his those nice things you`ve eye on Carey, adding mar- been saying about me in ried lifehaCh with her seems interviews`.

PATTON like a fantasy. She was I saw her a few years my dream girl. Literally I later when she wanted me It’s magical, powerful and awesome. Nawas 12 years old... I knew in her music video. We sat gas and their love for music are but a tapMariah was the one when to to talk about what estry. It isdown inherent both the old and young.

It iswanted inexplicably I still her poster was on mythe wall. she in intense. her music remember one and fine from morning guitar Like, `I`m gonna marry her video thatthe day on, maestro, Ren Merry telling his music stuone day`. I spoke it into exwe`ve been together ever dents at Patkai Christian College about the istence. People asked melovesince, he said.

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

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

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

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

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However, it is not yet clear how the beloved film's story, will be effectively adapted into a TV series spanning a number of episodes. Ghost became famous for its erotic pottery scene between Molly and Sam to the tune of Unchained Melody, along with medium Oda Mae Brown's (Whoopi Goldberg) memorable sassy lines.

'I was thinking about being a young actress and getting this script that Joe Rubin

had written and finding it so fascinating and different,' Moore said about the film earlier this year. 'It’s a love story, and it’s a guy - a dead guy - trying to save his wife - and there is a comedy part, but really it’s a love story.

'And I thought, "Wow, this is really a recipe for disaster.

It’s either going to be some-

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ron T. Assumi, music teacher and a performer and is a promising talented young artist from Zunheboto is recording a debut album titled “Tomorrow Awaits” at Pheto Music Digital Studio, Padumpukhuri, Dimapur.

“Tomorrow Awaits” is an instrumental album featuring eight piano pieces, all composed and performed by Aron T. Assumi. The album is dedicated to Jesus, the creator of Music. For the first time in Nagaland, all his compositions will be produced in music scores (Staff Notation) which can be

used by performers and music teachers in music schools, churches, weddings, etc.

Aron T. Asumi is a self-taught musician who holds Eighth Grade in piano, Fifth Grade in violin and Fifth Grade in Music Theory. Presently, he is the Director of Immanuel Music Academy, Zunheboto. Some of his compositions are - Tomorrow Awaits, Unfailing Love, My Secret World, Song for Olive, Journey of Love, Faith, Pure in Heart, Fountain of Life. So, watch out musicians and music lovers for his productions which will be released soon.

thing really special, really amazing, or really an absolute bust."'

Ghost grossed more than $500 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $22 million. 'What’s interesting is that I learned one really big lesson on this film, which is that I went to see it and everyone was moved,'

Moore added. 'It's something that touches people's heart, it transcends and has comforted people's soul in great loss and it has instilled a sense of hope and magic that those we love are always still with us. ' The film also inspired a stage show - Ghost: The Musical premiered back in 2011.

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MUMBAI, NoveMBer 13 (reUTerS): Cricket-crazy India will have a lump in the throat as its favourite son, Sachin Tendulkar, walks out for one last time this week to play the game he has dominated for nearly a quarter of a century. The 'Little Master' will bring the curtain down on a glittering 24year career at the age of 40 when he plays his 200th Test match, against West Indies, at his home ground starting on Thursday.

Among the 32,000 present will be his wheelchair-bound mother Rajni, for whom Tendulkar has managed to get a ramp at Wankhede Stadium so she can watch her idolised son bat for the first time.

"Mother has never seen him play. This will be the first time. Also it will be a very emotional moment," his elder brother, Ajit, told a television programme. For the last time, the superstitious Tendulkar will put on his left pad first, and walk out to bat in India's colours, having long secured his place among the game's greats.

"In terms of stats, you're going to have players with better stats (in the future), you never know," West Indies batting great Brian Lara said of the Indian. "There are boxers who have a better record than Muhammad Ali but if you talk about boxing you've to mention Muhammad Ali, basket-

ball you have to mention Michael Jordan. When you speak about cricket, you'll speak about Tendulkar."

Tendulkar's career has dominated the pages of national dailies with figures from politics, sport and the corporate world all contributing to the frenzy surrounding his final match. The website selling the meagre 5,000 tickets available for the public to attend the test crashed within minutes of opening on Monday under what it called "unprecedented pressure", with 19.7 million hits in the first hour. The frenzy was hardly a surprise given it will be the last chance to watch a player whose place in the batting pantheon is second only to Australian Don Bradman.

Bradman's Test average of 99.94 is nearly 40 runs ahead of any of his nearest rivals to have played at least 20 matches.

All other major runscoring records belong to Tendulkar, who made his debut for India against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989 as a curly-haired 16-year-old.

He has scored the most runs in Tests and one-day cricket and his 51 Test centuries and 49 ODI hundreds are also records.

Even Bradman once asked his wife Jessie to watch Tendulkar on television to confirm his own impression that the pair had similar styles. Ten-

Sachin is a true ambassador of the game, says Shaun Pollock

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Indian students stand near giant banners showing Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar, right, and the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru put up on a wall of their school in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Tendulkar will retire from international cricket after playing his 200th test match in Mumbai from Nov. 14-18. The birth anniversary of Nehru, also celebrated as Children’s Day in the country, will be marked on Nov. 14. (AP Photo)

dulkar probably shouldered a more difficult task in living up to the expectations of 1.2 billion cricketcrazy fans every time he walked out to bat.

"Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders," team mate Virat Kohli said after India's players completed a lap

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New DelhI, NoveMBer 13 PTI): Former South Africa captain Shaun Pollock has paid rich tributes to Sachin Tendulkar and termed the retiring batting great as "a true ambassador of the game".

Tendulkar will be bid adieu to his 24-year-old glorious career after playing in his 200th Test match against the West Indies, starting at Mumbai on Thursday and MUMBAI, NoveMBer 13 Pollock hoped the (AgeNcIeS): As the nation champion bats- waits with bated breath to watch man ends his ca- Sachin Tendulkar play the last test match of his 2 decade long career, reer on a high.

"I think 200 Kailash Kher salutes the God of Tests is an amaz- cricket is his own unique musical ing achievement way. The singer-composer, who & Sachin has been launched an anthem on Sachin, a wonderful crick- took to Twitter to express his eter to watch and take on the song dedicated to the play against. A sportsman. He tweeted, “First live true ambassador performance of SachinAnthem at Ganga Mahotsav in Varanasi toof the game," the night Kailasa excited to join this former Protea all- Sachin Festive Spirited Momenrounder wrote on tum”. The master blaster, who his twitter page. began his cricketing career at a "I wish Sa- tender age of 16, has now become chin well in his an international celebrity, a brand 200 game being a people can vouch for and look up cricket romantic I to for inspiration. He is an epitome hope he produces of sheer confidence, perseverance a performance and dedication. His contribution that is a fitting fi- to Indian cricket is matchless and nale 2 an excep- his position irreplaceable. tional career," Pollock wrote. Pollock lauded Tendulkar for his conduct on and off the field during his illustrious career.

"Credit goes to him for the way he conducted himself under the weight of expectation & extra attention he has dealt with everyday in India," he said.

of honour with Tendulkar on their shoulders following their World Cup win at home in 2011. 'The God of cricket', as fans call him in India, has not been in prime form during the last few years with his last Test century coming against South Africa in January 2011.

Some believe the master batsman has played on for too long and should have

retired after the World Cup victory.

"If I was Sachin, I would have quit a year ago," Sourav Ganguly said. "Last twothree years haven't been good for him and only because he is Sachin Tendulkar he has been given the run for three years. "Nobody in world cricket or Indian cricket would have got that rope."

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series has been marked by a nostalgia-laden celebration of his glittering career. In the last fortnight, a ground in Mumbai has been named after him, his wax statue has been unveiled at Kolkata's Eden Gardens, singers have produced a music album and countless banners, murals and paintings of him have sprouted up across India.

Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control and his wife flanked by members of the Pughoboto Sub-Division Badminton Association at Pughoboto badminton indoor stadium.

PUghoBoTo, NoveMBer 13 (MexN): The first Pughoboto Sub-Division Badminton Association (PSBA) two-day open badminton tourney got underway with 134 participants representing Dimapur, Kohima, Wokha, Zunheboto and Mokokchung registering for the premiere title.

Kicking off the tourney, Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control (I&FC), Vikheho Swu extended his sincere appreciation for the overwhelming response from participants from various districts.

Terming badminton as one sports discipline that Naga youth can perform well if pursued sincerely, he informed that PSBA was formed with that end vision in mind. The I&FC parliamentary secretary further acknowledged the shuttlers for coming to exhibit their skills and talents to the youth of Pughoboto.

‘I took up badminton as a sport to keep myself fit and encourage the youth,’ he said while encouraging the youth to turn to sports and look at it as an industry. The Parliamentary secretary also acknowledged

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The tournament will culminate with Minister for Youth Resources & Sports, Merentoshi and Khriehu Liezitsu, Advisor MTF and NRE gracing the morning and evening functions on Thursday as chief guest and guest of honor respectively. The first PSBA two-day open tourney will be played in two categories – thirty five years and above and forty five years and above.

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