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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ‘One-fifth of deaths of children under five worldwide occur in India’
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Modi is BJP’s PM candidate NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 13 (IANS): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was Friday named the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. The announcement was made here after the meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary board, one of the party’s top decision making panels. The day saw hectic parleys with party president Rajnath Singh trying to get all leaders, including senior leader L.K. Advani, on board. Modi, 62, heads the party’s campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
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Petrol price hiked by Rs 1.63 per litre
NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 13 (IANS): Petrol will cost Rs.1.63 more a litre, excluding state taxes, from midnight Friday, state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) announced. The IOC said it had to hike prices due to volatility in the rupee against the dollar and hardening of international motor spirit prices. Currently, the partially-convertible rupee stands at Rs.63.36 against the dollar. The IOC said it will reduce petrol prices if rupee-dollar exchange rate and international motor spirit (MS) prices stabilise. “The movement of prices in the international oil market and rupee-dollar exchange rate are continuously under watch and developing trends reflected in future price changes,” it said in a statement. The government had deregulated petrol prices in June, 2010. However, it subsidies the retail selling prices of diesel, kerosene and cooking gas to insulate domestic users from the impact of a rise in international oil prices and to contain domestic inflationary conditions.
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Judge shows no mercy nagaland wants peace: Ashwani
four men sentenced to death for ‘gruesome crime’
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NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 13 (Ap): An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the gang rape and murder of a young woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the rampant mistreatment of women and the government’s inability to deal with crime. Issuing his decision, Judge Yogesh Khanna said the attack “shocked the collective conscience” of India. “In these times, when crime against women is on the rise, the courts cannot turn a blind eye toward such gruesome crimes.” After the death sentence, the wail of one of the four men, 20-year-old Vinay Sharma, filled the tiny courtroom. Sharma, an assistant at a gym, then broke down in sobs. As Khanna walked from his bench, defense lawyer A.P. Singh, who has defended all four men at various times, began to shout at him: “This is not the victory of truth. But it is the defeat of justice.” Like all death sentences, Khanna’s order must be confirmed by the High Court. The men can appeal their case to the High Court, as well as to the Supreme Court, and ask the president for clemency. The victim’s family was in the courtroom as the sentence was announced, and were relieved at the results. “I am very happy our girl has got justice,” said the victim’s father, who cannot be named under Indian laws guarding his daughter’s identity as a rape victim. The 23-year-old victim and a male friend were
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An Indian student displays “NO RAPE” message painted on her hands during a demonstration to demand death sentence for four men convicted of rape and murder of a student on a moving bus in New Delhi bus last year, in Hyderabad on September 13. (AP Photo)
coming home last December from an evening showing of the movie “Life of Pi” when the men lured them into boarding a bus they were joy-riding through the city. They quickly beat the friend, held the woman down and took turns raping her. They also penetrated her with a metal rod, causing the injuries that led to her death in a Singapore hospital. India’s Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty should be used only in “the rarest of rare cases,” though what defines those cases remains highly debated. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde welcomed the sentence. “The victim and her family have got justice,” he
told reporters. “The judge has set an example for anti-social elements that they would meet a similar fate if they committed such crimes.” If India’s chaotic judicial system is supposed to be independent of politics, Singh, the defense lawyer, saw a political hand in the judge’s decision. “The judge has given the death sentence under political pressure,” he said. “The punishment has been given at the government’s insistence.” Rapes are regularly blamed on the victims. Many rape victims are shunned by their families, fired from jobs and driven from their home villages. As a result, most rape victims are still thought to re-
main silent. “Too often the pressure is on the girls to stay safe. But parents need to take responsibility for their sons,” said protester Satvinder Kaur, a 40-year-old mother. “The culture will only change when mothers stop their sons from going out late at night, when they make it clear they will not stand behind them if they do something like this.” Kaur said the sentence sent “a very positive message to the ladies in India that the government is standing behind them.” The young woman at the time of the attack was awaiting exam results for a physiotherapy degree. The results came after her death. She had passed.
Nagaland and Manipur Governor Dr. Ashwani Kumar today asserted that during his discussions and interactions with the people of Nagaland in the last 5 months have revealed that the common people of Nagaland desperately want peace and are desirous of making progress for the sake of their children. Speaking at a public reception programme in Phek, he said that all Nagas want the best education for their children. He revealed that there are five priorities for people in Nagaland. Stating that the first is education, he said “we have education but there is a question mark on its quality. We have schools but no teachers. The results of government schools require improvement.” The second priority, he said should be good hospitals and health services, adding that Nagaland needs a medical college immediately. Para medical institutions and pathological laboratories are required, he added. He also stressed on the need to win the fight against TB, HIV and other serious diseases. The third priority has to be roads and electricity, Dr. Kumar said, adding “We all require supply of electricity and good quality roads.” He said that the fourth priority is employment of youth. He stated that there is a mismatch between what is being taught in schools and colleges and the skills required by the youth to earn a livelihood. “They do not want to work in agriculture sector, so we have
to immediately re-align our courses and curriculum to issues of livelihood and self-employment.” “The fifth issue most important for Nagaland and the future of our children is socio-economic development. Government of India is giving enough money. More than 90% of our budget comes from Government of India every year,” he said. The Governor lamented that the Tuli paper mill and the cement plant in Phek district are now closed. “Our Sugar mill is closed. Our railway line and road projects are proceeding at a snail’s pace,” he added. “Unless our youth take up these projects, unless we make dramatic changes in socio economic and infrastructure sector how will our living conditions improve and how will our youth get employment?” he questioned. Referring to a memorandum submitted by various organizations, the Governor assured that he would do everything in his power to act on their demands. Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education and SCERT, Deo Nukhu spoke on behalf of legislators of Phek district. Earlier, the Governor visited District Hospital, Phek College and Lozaphuhu village. He also interacted with the Pochury Public Forum, Pochury Mothers’ Association, Pochury Students Union and GBs Association. The function was chaired by Phek Deputy Commissioner Nepose Theluo while welcome address was delivered by Sovenyi, President of the Chakhesang Public Organization. Vote of thanks was proposed by Ghachu Trakha, President of the Pochury Public Forum.
Governor highlights priorities for the progress of Nagaland
foothill road: clock is ticking Pollution: the burning question! Morung Express News
Dimapur | September 13
With the clock ticking nearer towards the October deadline to start work on the Foothill Road, the Nagaland Foothill Road Construction Committee (NFHRCC) had another sitting with engineers from the Roads & Bridges (R & B) wing of the PWD on September 13 in Dimapur. The R & B team was led by the Chief Engineer, D. Mero. It was resolved at the meeting that no other kinds of deductions will be allowed, except for the statutory deductions as mandated by the Nagaland state government in the rules. This particular resolution is intended as a deterrent to the all too frequent practice of government departments and legislators deducting commissions from projects
awarded. On the mandatory deductions, the Chief Engineer stated that it will not disturb the ‘actual work component’ or the amount sanctioned for the project. It was agreed that the engineers and NFHRCC will jointly survey the route as per the route map submitted by the NFHRCC on
amount will lapse, further delaying progress. Keeping this in mind, the NFHRCC reiterated that work must start by October. The additional amount of Rs. 42 crores promised by the government will likely be sanctioned only in the next financial year. Connecting the existing roads in the foothills also require clearing of forested areas. In this regard, the NFHRCC assured that it will shoulder the responsibility. In the meantime, the R & B have been asked to expedite technical aspects of the work. It was estimated that the route will require at least 15 major bridges and 600 cross drains. With regard to bridging the Doyang River, the Chief Engineer assured that engineers will be deputed by the coming week to start technical study.
Expectations rise as deadline nears August 8. September 23 and 24 has been tentatively fixed for the survey. Another important point discussed was the utilisation of the Rs. 40 crores sanctioned by the government for the initial phase of the project. There was apprehension that if the amount is not utilised within the ongoing financial year, the sanctioned
NPCB advocates alternatives to burning of wastes
DImApUr, SEptEmbEr 13 (mExN): The Nagaland Pollution Control Board has come out strongly against the pollution caused by burning municipal wastes in the state. A communiqué from the NPCB stated that burning wastes in community bins or in street corners is one of the most visible sources of air pollution in Nagaland’s context. It informed that the board has received complaints against some community bins and street corners that are burnt regularly. At the outset, burning of wastes might seem to be a valid course to take. It reduces waste and gives the place a cleaner look. However, the NPCB states that people living near such “active volcanic bins, where regular burning of municipal waste takes place,” are vulnerable
Ways to protect the environment Reduce: Avoid disposable items. Buy products in bulk instead of individually wrapped or single-serving sizes. Buy durable products and products that can be recharged, repaired, or refilled. Reuse: Donate items you no longer need such as clothing, furniture, books, magazines, and toys to relatives, friends, or charities. Mend and repair rather than discard or replace. Recycle: Separate the recyclable items from your garbage and sell them off to the kabariwallas for recycling. Compost: Install a backyard compost bin for composting your kitchen and yard waste. Dispose: Put your garbage in the community bins/area marked by the concerned municipal authority for waste collection.
to many hazards. The composition of municipal waste has changed with modern consumption patterns, causing today’s wastes to contain a large percentage of plastic and rubber. The note said that plastic and rubber wastes when burned produces furans, dioxins etc in the environment, which are in-
visible. Their health effects are not immediate; however continued exposure can lead to accumulation of such toxins in the body. The note stated that when smoke from burning municipal waste is inhaled, it results in nausea followed by slight migraine. Over time it can increase the risk of developing tumours, can-
cer, heart diseases, learning disorders, infertility, impairment of the immune system, asthma, sinusitis and other diseases. The NPCB has encouraged people to raise concerns with persons habitually burning wastes, thereby causing health concerns. It added that the law also prohibits burning of municipal wastes under the Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2000 Schedule II Sl. No.1 (viii). “In case you are the culprit who burns wastes regularly without caring for your neighbours, please give up the habit and think of your neighbours,” advocated the NPCB. Informing that safer alternatives are available to dispose waste, the NPCB has encouraged people to reduce, reuse and recycle waste products.
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Governor urged to expedite peace talk
Nagaland and Manipur Governor Dr. Ashwani Kumar and his wife are seen here with others during a visit to Phek College on Friday. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Phek | September 13
The Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) and Pochury Public Forum (PPF) today requested Nagaland and Manipur Governor Dr. Ashwani Kumar to press the GoI to expedite the peace talk and bring it to a logical conclusion within a time-frame. In a joint memorandum submitted to Governor during his maiden visit to Phek today, CPO president Sovenyi and PPF president Ghachu Trakha said that Phek
district, as one of the politically conscious districts have concerns with regard to the ongoing political talk. The memorandum said the protracted talk for over 16 years without conclusion has brought about great hardships on the general public due to reason best known to all. Stressing on global warming, the importance of developing new technologies to protect and the need preserve and promote the standing forest resources; the CPO and PPF said that the scopes for
forest research in Phek district is immense. In this, it requested Dr. Kumar to take up the matter with GoI for setting up of a Central Institute of Forest in the district. On the road sector, it urged for the Governor to recommend upgradation of the single lane road from Akhegwo to Avankhung (107 kms) to two lane and for maintenance and improvement of National Highway 150. It stated that NH 150 is the only BRO road connecting the Phek district with the state capi-
tal and Manipur state. This road with approximately 750 kms in length, the longest in NE India, has been proposed for its upgradation to two-lane. Chakhesang Mothers’ Association (CMA) in its memorandum to the Governor demanded for the Governor to see that the “implementing agencies are revitalized and no effort is spared to make the prohibition a total success.” CMA president Zaposhelu Venu and general secretary Kuthoselu Vasa
said the CMA is consistently committed to successful implementation of the Nagaland Total Prohibition Act and ever prepared to render all possible cooperation. Phek Government College in its memorandum submitted to the Governor also prayed for the need to upgrade the college library, science laboratory, college computer laboratory and establishing a Smart class-room. Meanwhile, Governor will visit Glory Peak and Pfutsero College on September 14.
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Seminar on importance of Media and Disaster Management held
Kohima, September 13 (mexN): The Alder College Alumni Association (ACAA), Kohima today organized a one day seminar on “Importance of Media and Disaster Management” for the final year degree students at Dr. Setu Memorial Hall. This was informed in a press note issued by Loreni Tsanglao, General Secretary ACAA, Kohima. Senior News Reader, AIR, Kohima Jonas Yanthan deliberated on the “Role of Media and a brief account of Nagaland Media”. Speaking as a resource person Jonas highlighted on the Press as the “Fourth Estate” and the important role played by the media in the society. He further urged the students to do freelancing work and highlight the developments and problems faced in their own areas which will help to ensure good governance and wholesome development of our society. Earlier, Aja Zinyu, alumni of Alder College, shared a power point presentation on the safety measures to be taken during earthquakes. De-
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Principal and lecturers of Alder College along with resource persons and alumni’s.
liberating on the topic “Disaster Management”, Aja informed that every educational institution it is necessary to create awareness to the students by giving them pre and post disaster trainings and conduct mock drills to keep one safe from any natural calamities. The programme was
chaired by Ketoulenuo Belho, Lecturer, English Deptartment while welcome note was proposed by Vekhozo Khamo, Principal, Alder College. Neilhou, final year student enlightened the participants with a special number and Loreni Tsanglao, general secretary ACAA proposed the vote of thanks.
‘Appreciate the value of mountains’ DABA new office building inaugurated
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Nagaland Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir briefing media persons about the third Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) Sustainable Mountain Development Summit in Kohima. (DIPR Photo) Our Correspondent
The Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) Sustainable Mountain Development Summit III is scheduled to be held in Kohima from September 25 to 27. The host organization for the Summit is Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland (SDFN) in collaboration with ICIMOD, Ministry of Environment and forests (MoEF), Swiss Development Corporation (SDC), United Nations Development Programme, Sir Rata Tata Trust, Government of Nagaland, GIZ, Leadership for Environment and Development India (LEAD), India Water Portal, YouthNet and YARD. “People all over the world do not really appreciate the value of mountains. The mountains are places where the biodiversity moulds. The government located in the plains does not really take the mountains into consideration when policies are made,” Alemtemshi Jamir, Nagaland Chief Secretary stated during the press conference. The main objective of the Kohima Summit IMI will be in line with the objectives of the previous two other SMDS; which was to provide a platform for the Himalayan states to come together for discussing issues of development priority and find ways for influencing national and state public policies.
The Chief Secretary also revealed that the Kohima Summit proposes to initiate the process of cultural and social exchanges among the different mountain states and communities which would be supplemented by site visits based on the themes, home stays, culture, and music. Food festival projecting Naga food as sustainable food would also be organized as part of the Kohima Summit, he added. The main themes for the Summit are Sustainable Mountain Agriculture (small scale farming), Water (rivers, streams and springs) and Forests (governance, challenges and opportunities). The sub themes are ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and gender and climate change adaption for mountain development. The core aim of the Summit is to look at, share and understand policies and governance issues based on the mentioned themes and suggest key interventions based on field experiences and intellectual inputs. The summit also includes site visits in Kohima and side events on critical issues such as technologies for mountain development and disaster risks. The side event will also include Legislators Meeting on Mountain Development and Collective Action and Policy Makers Dialogue on the appropriateness of Cen-
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): “When you give your best time to your children... rest assured that your children will come out good,” stated Parliamentary Secretary for Veterinary and Animal Husbandry, Yitachu on Friday, September 13. Yitachu was speaking at the annual Parents Day programme of Assisi Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, which he attended as the chief guest. While doing so one must also practice what one preaches or teaches as children follow adults, he added. Continuing, he stated that healthy parentchild and teacher-student relationship are the most
important elements in the upbringing of children. Commenting on the ‘No detention policy’, Yitachu said that this particular policy as enshrined in the Right To Education Act may be effective in some but not in all places. According to him, ‘passing’ for a student has now rather become a right and not a challenge, while giving rise to complacency. The apparent weak points of the policy notwithstanding, he said that government policies will be there, yet, it must be taken as a challenge. To the students, he said, “When we have the desire to perform there’ll always be a way but your desire has to be sincere and truthful.”
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tral Sponsored Schemes and their guidelines for the mountain regions. Indian Himalayan Youth Summit will also be organized as a pre-summit activity from September 22 to 23at Kisama, Bamboo Hall. The Youth Summit will involve the participation of selected young people from across all 11 states and the Darjeeling hills district of west Bengal. Their discussions will also be based on the main themes of the summit to be fed into the deliberations of the Sustainable Mountain Development Summit. Another side event of the Kohima Summit will be the 3rd All Indian Himalayan Photography Contest to be held in Kohima from 25th to27th September 2013 under the aegis of Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland and the Indian Mountain Initiative. The competition is expected not just to highlight the salient features of the Indian Himalayan Region but to encourage photography as a medium to speak for and about mountains, its people, their challenges and to celebrate life as it is. It was informed that the photography contest would comprise of two sections- general category and for students. Till date 36 entries has been received (30 general and 6 students) from various states. Selected photos would be exhibited during the Kohima Summit. (With inputs by DIPR)
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): It was a moment of celebration, as the newly constructed office building of Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo (DABA) was dedicated today. The dedication service was held at the new DABA Office Complex, Duncan, Dimapur. Built for the full time working staff of DABA, the office building consists of three floors. It houses a reception area, modular kitchen, Naga kitchen, committee rooms, establishment office, and a separate floor for youth department, counseling and evangelism. It also hosts a hall which can accommodate around 300 people, another titled ‘Sophia Hall’ for smaller size meetings with capacity of approximate 30 people, and a covered terrace to be used for all purposes. There is also provision for lift which is yet to be installed. Senior Pastor Rev. Tzudir welcomed the DABA of-
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DABA senior Pastor, Rev.Tzudir inaugurates the newly constructed office building of Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo (DABA). The Building Committee members at the new DABA Office Complex, Duncan, Dimapur today. (Manen Aier Photos)
fice members, invitees and building committee member. Recognizing the work and efforts of everyone involved in the building of the new office complex, he expressed gratitude and happiness for the participation. The Building Committee Convener in a report stated that the plan for a new DABA office building
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LKG tots present choreography during the annual Parents Day programme of Assisi Higher Secondary School, Dimapur on September 13. (Inset) Yitachu speaking at the function.
venture and the journey which started as a dream has come to reality today. Addressing the staff of DABA at the dedication service, he said “I hope you will enjoy working here, and serving the Lord under this office. It is also our prayer that there will be more cohesion, unity, love, sharing and more transparency among you”. He also
encouraged to work with renewed determination and added, “May you make new strategies to conquer new frontiers for God”. The dedication service was led by Amongla Aier, invocation by Rev.I. Zulu, special song by the DABA staff Rev. Dr. Nuklu LKR also presented a word of challenge to the gathering.
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Anglers’ general meeting
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): Organizing committee for constituting an association for anglers in Nagaland has convened a general meeting cum get together of all the anglers in Nagaland on September 15 at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur from 3:00 pm onwards. Therefore, all the anglers and those who have passion for angling have been informed to attend the meeting.
JMYCHM revival program from Sept 21 to 23
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): John Mission Youth Church and Hostel Ministry (JMYCHM) Revival Program will be held from September 21 to 22, 2013 at Lotha Hoho Community Hall under the theme “Breakthrough”. The speaker for the program will be Alemsunep Jamir.
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Students of GMS Kushiabill having Mid-Day Meal today, September 13.
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was raised when the old office at the Khermahal DABA Church was not accommodative enough anymore to meet the various spiritual needs of the people. “This became a barrier itself for the Church to reach out to more people and offer more help then it wanted to,” he said. He also shared that initially the plan was a faith
Head of schools informed Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): As per earlier notification about painting competition on energy conservation 2013, to be organized by Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India, Director of School Education Zaveyi Nyekha has informed every head of schools, both government and private of Nagaland to conduct painting competition and select two best students from each category, and send to the Nodal Officer along with their paintings and list of participants. For any further information, call the Nodal Officer at 8416054822, 94024811884.
Kohima, September 13 (mexN): The Kohima Chakhesang Students Union (KCSU) will be holding its 52nd general session cum freshers’ day on September 21 at State Academy Hall, Kohima. Parliamentary secretary for higher education & SCERT Deo Nukhu will grace the occasion as the chief guest, while Kudecho Khamo, managing director Entrepreneur Development Agency (EDA) Kohima will be the guest of honour. All the bonafide students of KCSU have been asked to attend the programme positively.
Kohima DPDB meeting on Sept 16
Kohima, September 13 (Dipr): ADC Planning & Member Secretary DPDB Kohima, Ketoho Luho has informed all the Kohima DPDB members that the monthly meeting for the month of September 2013 shall be held on September 16, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. in the Conference Hall of DC Kohima. Sr. Medical Officer, NHAK, Dr. Viketoulie Pienyu will delivered a case study on Healthy Life Style. Therefore all the members are requested to attend the meeting positively.
NGHSSEA emergency meeting
Kohima, September 13 (mexN): An emergency meeting of Nagaland Government Higher Secondary School Employees Association (NGHSSEA) will be held on September 16 at 11:00 am at the Directorate of School Education, Kohima. In this connection, all the executive members, DDEOs and principal of GHSS have been asked to attend the said meeting compulsorily. No separate invitation will be made, a release received here said today.
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Kuki Black Day observed in Manipur
Newmai News Network Imphal | September 13
ThE 18TH KUKI Black Day anniversary was widely observed across Manipur, including several states and foreign countries to remember the over 900 Kukis killed during the Naga-Kuki ethnic clashes that took place in the 1990s. One anniversary function was also held at Kangpokpi under Sadar Hills in Manipur’s Kuki majority Senapati district under the theme “Justice and peace” at Brigadier M Thomas Ground under the aegis of Kangpokpi Town Committee. Thousands of people from different parts of the state paid homage to the de-
parted souls amidst prayers. Kangpokpi Town Committee general secretary Haokholun Chongloi made a speech during the function at Kangpokpi. He maintained that the Kuki Black Day is observed every year since 1995 by the Kuki community as the Central and state Governments have not yet delivered justice to the victims “slaughtered by the NSCN-IM.” He, however, said the anniversary intends to remember the innocent, not for settling of scores. Chongloi said, “We don’t want re-
turn of such carnage in future. Yet we are regret that the Centre and the state have not shown mercy to the Kuki innocents.” He accused the two Governments of show-
Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) vice-president Haojakhup Lupho said that the NSCN-IM killed 87 unarmed Kuki civilians on this day, September 13, 1993. He said that NSCN-IM should understand that history cannot be modified so the outfit’s articulate language on the carnage is worth nothing. Lupho demanded that the Indian Government should punish the NSCN-IM since the Kuki innocent killed were citizens of the country. He further demanded that the Centre suspend the ongoing peace talks with
People pray for the departed. Anniversary intends to remember the innocent, not for settling of scores. ing negligence on the Kuki community. "Over 900 people were killed in the ethnic clashes, destroyed more than 300 villages and over 1 lakh families suffered," Chongloi further said.
the NSCN-IM and resolve the issue first. Leaders of Kuki State D e m a n d C o m m i t te e (KSDC), KIM, Kuki Women Human Rights Organisation (KWHRO) and other social organizations were also present on the occasion. Kuki National FrontNehlun (KNF-N) also observed the day at Bongbal Khulen. It was also observed in several places in Imphal like Manipur University, New Lambulane and Langol. Kuki NGOs observed it in Moreh in Chandel district, Hojai and haflong in Assam, Shillong, New Delhi, Banglore, Gujarat, too. It was also observed in the USA, UK and Singapore.
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Mizoram gears up for polls
aizawl, September 13 (ianS): The state election machinery is being geared up for polling to the 40-member state assembly, expected to be held November, Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ashwini Kumar said. "Training of state- and district-level officials, checking of electronic voting machines, apprisal of political parties about the Election Commission guidelines were being conducted as per the instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI)," Ashwini Kumar told reporters here Thursday evening. He said: "Some new methods like restriction on the election campaign and strategic deployment of security would be taken up to ensure free and fair polls in the state." The official said that static surveillance teams, flying squads, expenditure and accounting monitoring cells and video surveillance teams would be pressed into service before and during the elections. The CEO said Mizoram's international border with Myanmar and Bangladesh would be sealed well ahead of the polls. The mountainous northeastern state will go to polls to elect its new legislative assembly in November along with Madhya pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The poll panel has fixed Rs.8 lakh as the maximum limit for election expenses to be incurred by individual candidates during polls.
blockades caused great miseries and hardships to the people and affected the economy. Such agitations are detrimental to the state's march towards the path of development and we cannot allow this to continue," he said. Road and rail blockades have been the most popular modes of public protest in Assam, and the state had been witnessing a series of such protests, particularly after the central government's decision to create a separate Telengana state. While the Bodos and the Koch Rajbongshis have been demanding creation
of separate Bodoland and Kamatapur state respectively in the lines of Telengana, the Karbis and Dimasas have also stepped up agitation in Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts demanding a separate autonomous state including both the hill districts. The Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri, the Karbio Anglong and Dima Hasao districts and several other districts of lower Assam have witnessed over a dozens of rail and road (National Highways) blockades since July.
Newmai News Network Imphal | September 13
EIGHT pEOpLE WERE killed and 13 injured when a powerful blast occurred in the heart of Imphal late Friday evening. Three of the injured are in critical conditions. Reports further said that one of the injured is a local man. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast as yet but sources said it could be the handiwork of some militants apparently targeting the non-locals (people from mainland India). The incident happened at around 7:30 pm at Khoyathong area in the heart of Imphal.
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trolling along the UkhrulImphal road in Imphal East district made a narrow escape when a powerful IED planted in the roadside exploded damaging a waiting shed. The incident occurred at around 10:30 am near Khurai popular High School at Khurai Thongam leikai in Imphal East district. An autorickshaw driver identified as one Ningthoukhongjam Robin (35) of Keibi Makha Leikai was injured in the incident. Meanwhile, peoples Liberation Army (pLA), the armed wing of Revolutionary peoples Front (RpF) has claimed responsibility for the morning blast.
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All the deceased were laborers from mainland India. The identities of the deceased and the injured were being detailed by the media at the time of filing this story. Reports said the suspected militants might have used IED in the incident. The deceased and the injured have been rushed to the Regional institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal. Top police officers are rushing to the hospital, when this report was being filed. The Director General of police was on his way to the hospital, said a separate source. Meanwhile, earlier in the morning, personnel of the 40 Assam Rifles pa-
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Guwahati, September 13 (ianS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Friday asked various groups of agitators in the state to withdraw road and rail blockades immediately, warning them that the government would be compelled to take "appropriate steps otherwise". He said that the government cannot remain a passive spectator to the series of road and rail blockades which have caused great inconvenience to people and hit development. This file photo shows Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia "We cannot allow the (Right) in a Dhaka court. situation to deteriorate Guwahati, Septem- said Chetia, who accord- further. The rail and road ber 13 (the indian ing to the Bangladesh meexpreSS): ULFA gen- dia had smuggled his letter eral secretary Anup Che- through another prisoner tia, lodged in a Bangladesh who was released earlier prison for the past 16 years, this week. wants to return to his home Currentlly lodged in a state Assam as early as pos- Bangladesh prison pendsible to spend the rest of his ing disposal of his applicalife here. Currently lodged tion seeking political asyin Kashimpur central pris- lum in that country, Chetia on, Chetia alias Golap Barua was arrested in Dhaka sent out a letter to some along with two others in Bangladesh media houses December 1997. on Wednesday expressing New Delhi has been this desire. trying to get the ULFA lead"Seeking political asy- er back in the country so lum in Bangladesh was that he could join the ona political strategy that I going peace talks between had adopted several years the ULFA faction led by its ago and I have succeeded chairman Arabinda Rajkin it. The government of howa and the government India has repeatedly failed of India. On Wednesday, in its attempt to extradite Shambhu Singh, joint secme to India. But now I have retary (Northeast) in the decided to my own initia- Home Ministry, had said tive to go back to Assam. that Chetia was expected How long can I live in such to be handed over to India a state of uncertainty?" by the end of this year.
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The Morung Express 4 public discoursE Jhum Cultivation -Nagaland’s Green Gospel ‘True and complete nation is Dimapur
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ertain mistaken belief seems to enjoy an amount of certain elite assumption about Jhum Cultivation in Nagaland. They are: i. Due to increase of Population, Jhum Cycle is increasingly becoming shorter and shorter in Nagaland. ii. ‘forest cover’ has decreased in Nagaland due to Jhum Cultivation. The Image of the face of a 28 year old Youth with facial features of a Han Chinese is the constructed Average of 7 Billions of the World Population today. India, with a population increased to over 1.3 Billions would probably overtake China in 2030 and the face will likely be replace by an Image of a 28 year old looking more Indian than a Hun Chinese. Nagaland’s population is 19,78,502 according to Mrs. V. Hekali IAS, Director Census figure 2011. Jhum Cultivating Population in Nagaland has however, decreased (not increased) for the following underlying facts and reasons: i. The almost entire Work Force of every Family, of every Village, of every Tribe has gone to Schools, Colleges and Universities. Nagaland has become the 10th most Literate State in India with Literacy percentage of 79.6 (O:82.8%, O+:76.1%) within one and half Generation. ii. Most of the able bodied Youths of the Village are migrating
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to Cities and Urban Areas in search of better employment opportunities. iii. Opportunities for jobs have increased in the Urban Cities. iv. Only the old Father and the old Mother of the family is available in the Village for Jhum Cultivation. * most Families now are unable to cultivate their jhum Plots in the Village Annual Coupe their forefathers cultivated; today for lack of work force in the family many jhumland Areas lie uncultivated, even Terrace Cultivation in Angami Areas increasingly abandoned due to dire impracticality. • As a result, ‘forest cover’ has increased in Nagaland if Clouds have not covered FSI Satellite Imageries!? All over the world, Jhum Cultivation is today mentioned as the Mother of Forest Destruction: the promethean task of replenishing the lost vegetation at the earliest and easiest, is done through the marriage of Jhum Cultivation with TREE FARMING to give birth to Timber, the costliest renewable economic Resource of the Subsistence level Agriculture of Nagaland Mountains. The ‘destructive force of Jhum Cultivation’ is TRANSFORMED into a ‘generative force of Wood Production’ by Tree Farming together with the production of normal agriculture Rice. This is the ultimate Solution to the necessary evil of Jhum
Cultivation. This is not a beautiful Theory or a surprisingly attractive Hypothesis: This is the proven GREEN GOSPEL OF NAGALAND. Nowhere in India; not from Ladak to Kerala, not from Jaisalmer in the extreme West Rajasthan to extreme North East, has the Writer seen the Public individually and privately planted so much Trees than in Nagaland! This is not because the Forest Department lectured them to do so; the Jhum Cultivators themselves have found it out practically. Farm Forestry, which in practice is a good, if half-baked Agriculture Idea at its best; it is only a side-income for the Rice Cultivator. The Final Yield aimed is Rice (O. sativa) only. Rice production is not the economic solution to his subsistence level Agri-Economy of Nagaland. No one in Nagaland can purchase even a Nano Car from the sale of his Rice product! Farm Forestry tags the Economy of the Cultivator no better than before in the clutches of the Soil. Farm Forestry can not transform mountain Jhum Cultivation into an Economic Power House for a People. It has been so before Animal Backbone replaced Human Backbone for Agriculture since the dawn of Human Civilization. Mountains have never provided the foundation for Agriculture Economy for a People in History of Man!
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he ACAUT would like to respond in its defence that in our press release dated 5th September we never favoured or supported the appointment of 37 new lessees by the Urban Development Department (UDD) who have been allowed to collect toll taxes after the latter terminated the previous 41 lessees appointed by the present CEO, DMC of which Huska Sumi was one of the lessees. Therefore, the accusation of Huska Sumi is a blatant lie with malicious intent. Any doubting Thomas’s can check the 5th September ACAUT PR in all the local papers and verify the facts. Inorder that the general public understands what the issue is all about, the ACAUT would like to reiterate once again that as per Nagaland Municipal Act (NMA) 2001, section 120, the municipal bodies are empowered to collect taxes on entry of goods into its jurisdiction, including essential commodities. However, at no point of time has the ACAUT questioned the legality of this act. That the state is
The Herculean task of TRANSFORMING the Jhum Cultivation from a Subsistence level Agricultural in Nagaland to an economic Power House lies in TREE FARMING through JHUM CULTIVATION. In This is a proven practice in Nagaland and is named the GREEN GOSPEL OF NAGALAND. This surprisingly refreshing Idea is applicable in any other mountainous regions of India. This is not a Theory or a Hypothesis: Nagaland has developed it and practices it in creating TREE FARMING. Nowhere in India has Tree Planting become like a Movement than the Nagas in Nagaland has. The only requirements are: i. Availability of a subsistence level Agriculture Practice of Jhum Cultivation in a people. ii. Every Cultivator has his owns land as in Nagaland. iii. Availability of Vast vacant jhum lands as in Nagaland. iv. Availability of root-shoot Cutting of Tree species, or extraordinarily fast growing SEEDS. Unlike exhaustible Minerals; Biodiversity and Timber are Renewable Land Resources and must seek the Constitutional Protection of Article 371A of the constitution of India for Nagaland. Thepfulhouvi Solo, IFS Retd. (RR -68) Retd. Principal Secretary, Forest , Environment and Wildlife, Nagaland
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rue and complete nation is called Naga inhabited area. Only over this the Rainbow flag is used. Genesis 9: 13. “I am setting rainbow as a sign of Covenant between men and me”. In the flag, along with the rainbow there is a star. Mathew 2:2, the star of the east. This signified Lord Jesus the prince of peace. We should be reminded about one nation one flag so long as Nagas have a nation. Specially the Naga leaders should remember the scripture in Proverbs 14:35 which says “Righteousness exalts the nation”. Similarly I believe that; if all the leaders of Nagas unite and stand for the common goal, our dreams and desires will be fulfilled. I am born of so called Nagas of Myanmar (Naga Base area) so I want to share my views, to the Naga leaders of Naga inhabited areas. The harsh war that took place in 1964 between Indian army and Naga army during Federal Government of Nagaland cannot be forgotten. The after-math of this is that those who were not able to tolerate surrendered to India. And the remaining went back to the jungle. This was the time when was a bilateral ceasefire, where even if the enemies met they had
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empowered to make laws is unquestionable but is the NMA 2001 a good law? When laws result in rampant misuse and contribute to general harassment, isn’t it right to amend the law or even scrap it? Section 120 of NMA is an anomaly conferring legality on what is essentially an unjustified collection and unless the UDD stops the present trend of leasing toll gates to selected individuals, Dimapurians will continue to suffer. This has directly led to abuses in the system, leading to price rise. For instance, parking tax lessees have devised ingenious means such that a passenger autorickshaw has to pay the so-called ‘parking tax’ multiple times in a day; at GS Road, at New market, at Ghorapatti, at Super Market, at railway station and at Circular road. Nagas seems to have internalized all the wrong trends but the irony is that individuals or organisations raising voices against such disgraces are viewed as harbouring hidden agenda
and viewed with jaundiced eyes. For the reasons cited above, the ACAUT distributed its booklet to all the 60 members of Nagaland Legislative Assembly in the Monsoon session so that Section 120, that is, the power of municipal bodies to levy taxes under NMA 2001 be abrogated. This demand is one of the points included in the memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister on 30th August. Therefore, the question of ACAUT favouring the 37 lessees over the other 41 lessees is simply incongruent with ACAUT’s activities so far. As per UDD press release (4th Sept), the 41 terminated lessees still collecting tolls and fees were doing so in “complete defiance” which was described as an offence punishable by law. Also, the order of DMC CEO dated June 25, 2013 issuing work order to “41 unauthorised lessees” for collection of tolls and fees was defined by UDD as “illegal” and “in total violation
a conduct of “barrel down”. This was when both sides respected each other. Then almost all the Naga leaders stood in the name of NNC/ FGN. But some section of the leaders signed the infamous shilling accord in 1975. This was because they were willing to accept the solution of Indian Constitution. But the ones who refused it were His Excellency S.S. Khaplang the present President, Ino Issac Chishi Swu and Ino Muivah. They kept the flame alive and showed that Nagas have not died; and they formed NSCN. National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Issac Muivah) signed the unilateral ceasefire in 1997, led by Issac & Muivah. But holding on to the rope of Sovereignty Khaplang also agreed for bilateral ceasefire in 2001. And in Myanmar he obtained on 9th April 2012 at Khamti town (Naga headquarter). This was in the name of Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Nagaland and National Socialist Council of Nagaland. Nagas settled in Nagaland, didn’t the eastern Nagas work together with the western Nagas till 1975? So, why should there be a confusion in following a leader from the east today? Some reactionary groups sheltering around Dimapur use to say, “Khaplang leadership is the right one
of section 199 of NMA 2001.” Basing on the above subject, the ACAUT, devoid of any hidden agenda lauded the move of the department and demanded the arrest of those unathorised lessees since their activity is now illegal. However, much to the surprise and dismay of ACAUT, 37 lessees gave a press release clarifying that the UDD termination order is for the previous 41 lessees appointed by the present CEO, DMC. Therefore, the ACAUT totally condemns this latest order of UDD and reiterates its stand against toll fees being collected on contractual basis. Regardless of whether tolls and fees are being collected by 41 or 37 lessees, the present system under which DMC is allowed to operate causing much harassment to citizens is unjustified and therefore, the state government should abrogate Section 120 of NMA 2001 through an ordinance immediately. What are the services offered by
for Nagas. But if we join them what will we eat?” Hence, is the feeding machine available only with some other group? Truly if you understand the truth, then you will be fed from where you are working, and who will come and cover you. But you should stand for the sovereignty and the right of the Nagas. The soldiers with the badge symbol of Nepal khukuri (knife), Kachari police became Assam Rifles; know as friends of hill people or enemy of the hills people their ideology is not known to us. Hence, when they say Khaplang party is fighting against them so Khaplang group should be washed out is what they mean. But is it right? But the meaning (literal) of ceasefire is not issue of India or Naga but English. And it exists with separate nation and not within friends. Early during 1964 ceasefire, barrel down was observed strictly. But today violation by the Indian army has become the order of the day when we hear about various raids by the Indian army. So is it right? Talks are held between enemies and not between friends. Ino. Thom Dy. Kilonser Law and Justice NSCN (K)
DMC? What is the basis of NMA 2001 empowering local bodies to collect toll fees and toll taxes? Vested interested persons justify that unless toll tax is levied, the salary of DMC sanitation workers cannot be paid. Dimapurians are being held to ransom raising the bogey of livelihood whereas for every trade license issued, Rs. 600 is paid as sanitation fees. There’re 10,000 plus business establishments under DMC jurisdiction all having paid one-time sanitation fees for the whole year. In addition, sanitation fee is also levied on every household. The DMC cannot collect toll fees for sanitation purpose nor should the DMC cannot go on collecting toll taxes and fees unless it is prepared to offer services, utilities and infrastructure, such as parking lots, modern abattoirs, and other developmental activities. Also the DMC should explain what is meant by toll fees and toll tax? If roads are maintained by state PWD, does DMC have the right to collect toll tax?
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BJP gears up for Lok Sabha election HM’s order to withdraw VIP
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): Nagaland State BJP Unit President Dr. M.Chuba Ao has appointed K. Medom Angami, national executive member as guardian in-charge and R Sopu Angami as the convener for the forthcoming Lok Sabha Election Committee of Nagaland State. All the 18 committee members have been requested to coordinate with the guardian in-charge and the convener, and submit the reports
to the State BJP head office Dimapur. A press release issued by the state BJP general secretary and spokesperson K James Vizo also informed that Rajnath Singh and Ram Lal, BJP national president and general secretary (Org.) respectively will be visiting Guwahati for a meeting related to the forthcoming Lok Sabha election, with the NE States BJP leaders which is scheduled to be held on Septem-
ber 18 and 19. In this regard, nine-member delegation of BJP from Nagaland led by its president will be attending the said meeting. Meanwhile, the party appreciated the bold steps initiated by the home minister G.Kaito Aye to withdraw escorts and security of VIPs whereby, it said more police forces can be utilized for maintaining law and order in the state, and at the same time, cut down on State exchequer.
Creative writing workshop concludes in Dmp
escorts and security lauded
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): East Dimapur Tribal Council has lauded the “bold and commendable” directives given by the Home Minister Nagaland to withdraw all vehicle escorts and police personnel attached to the ministers, parliamentary secretaries, MLAs and VIPs while in station. “It is very commendable job on the part of the Home Minister to take such initiatives when the state is in need of more forces for maintaining the law and order in the state
and also when the world is facing economic crisis at this present junctures,” stated a press release issued by East Dimapur Tribal Council president Vihoto Yeptho and secretary Athungo Ovung. “The bold steps taken by the Home Ministry will surely help the state exchequer where the funds can be diverted for developmental purposes.” The Council further lauded all the ministers, parliamentary secretaries, MLAs who had voluntarily heeded to the directives
authority concerned not to bail out the culprit at any cost. STU further asserted that the case was “clearly” a case of hit and run and “attempted killing” as the indident happened due to “reckless driving” by the owner, who it said was in an “inebriated” state. The union also extended its condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace. Meanwhile, in a separate statement, it has been informed that Sedenyu Chip-
pose, where there may be cross reactions and positivity due to past infections. Therefore, the results have to be correlated clinically. Facility for confirmatory test is being made available in select referral laboratories, it added.
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): Indian Women in Ministry (North East) organized a Creative Christian Writers’ Workshop from September 11 to 13 at Youth Oasis Centre, Eralibill village. Dr. Beulah Wood from New Zealand, who works at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) Bengaluru was the resource person of the event. Aspiring Naga writers from different professional backgrounds participated in the event and shared the art of writing with one another. According to the Programme Coordinator of IWIM NE, Ahimsa K. Jimo, the three-day long workshop was held successfully with active participation of talented Naga writers.
Resource person Dr. Beulah Wood along with the participants on the concluding day of the workshop, Friday.
During the course of the programme, resource person stressed on various topics such as ‘reason to write’, ‘avoiding the boring style of writing’, ‘how to write about people’, ‘interviewing people’, ‘writing news and news letters’, ‘guidelines for editing’ etc. Dr. Beulah Wood has
authored many international selling books, besides teaching and editing books and articles in India and Nepal since 1968. The organizers have expressed gratitude to Kuhoi Zhimo, former DMC member, who is also the president of Sumi Council Dimapur for supporting the event.
Kohima, September 13 (mexN): Sendenyu Tegwenkinyu Union (STU) has expressed anguish and utter resentment over the tragic killing of Shalozu Semp of New Sendenyu village in a “hit and run” case. A press release issued by STU president and its general secretary informed that an i20 car (NL01-C-9607) driven by its owner Mhao Khuvung hit the victim on September 8 at Jharnapani. The union vehemently condemned the incident and urged the
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): Directorate of Health and Family Welfare officials from National Vector Borne Disease Control Progam (NVBDCP), comprising of Dr. L. Yanthan, Joint Director; Dr. Limalemla Jamir (Public
Health Consultant); Dr. Sao Tunyi (Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant) and Sempirong toured the districts of Wokha, Mokokchung , and Zunheboto districts from September 3 to 5. A press release issued by Dr. Sao Tunyi informed
that Joint Director spoke on the importance of indoor spray of DDT for mosquito control. DDT is a poisonous chemical if incorrectly used and villagers were urged to co-operate with the technical guidelines for indoor spray.
In Mokokchung, a meeting was held on Scrub Typhus. There have been many positive cases of Scrub Typhus detected in Mokokchung in the last few months, the release said. However, the test presently used is for screening pur-
of the Home Ministry and also requested the rest of the legislators to follow suit and work for better Nagaland as “promised by them than worrying about their security.” Meanwhile, the Council appreciated the Purana Bazar Village Council for filling up the pot holes along national highway 29 through the expenses of the village, while encouraging other villages along the national highway to take up such initiatives without any reservation of it being a national highway.
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NBOADD invites Naga business owners to its meeting today Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): Naga Business Owners Association Dimapur District (NBOADD) has invited all Naga business owners to attend its emergency general meeting on September 14, 11:00 am at ANAKI complex Khermahal, Dimapur without fail to discuss and deliberate the issues of pressing urgencies of NBOADD. It has expressed regret over its inability to invite individually. NBOADD includes representatives from different fields of business and representatives of Dimapur. NBOADD attempts to provide a forum for the exchange of information, education and ideas among its members. Its emphasis is on working together to better understand new and emerging business practices and challenges of today’s anti business activities that are subversive to a vibrant economy and well being of our society, stated a press note issued by NBOADD Information &Publicity Secretary Mar Longkumer.
Tsg SDRF beneficiaries informed
tueNSaNg, September 13 (mexN): Tuensang district has received the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) individual case for the year 2012-13 from Home Department and the list of beneficiaries is pasted on the notice board of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Tuensang. Therefore, DC Tuensang has informed all the beneficiaries to collect the amount from his office from September 15 onwards. All concerned have been rewen Union, the apex body of quested to come along with identity card and authentithe people of Sendenyu, New cation from gazette officer. Sendenyu and Thongsunyu villages, in its emergency NAPAD condemns executive meeting held on September 9 in Kohima ex- Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): Nagaland Parpressed anguish and resent- ents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) has strongly ment over the same inci- condemned the alleged rape committed by Phongpa dent, which it asserted as a Konyak on a differently abled girl at her residence in Chumukedima on September 3, 2013. A press note issued by hit and run case. The Union Kapochu-O Naleo, general secretary NAPAD urged the while condemning the inci- government to “show no mercy” to the perpetrator and dent has urged the authority “punish vigorously” for the “inhuman act”. concerned to hand over the “culprit” to the union for any Kipili Sangtam attends “settlement from its end.” It has also extended its deepest power ministers’ conference condolences to the bereaved Dimapur, September 13 (Dipr): Parliamentary Secretary for Power, Kipili Sangtam attended the family members. 7th conference of power ministers in Delhi on September 10, 2013. He was accompanied by Secretary Power, K.I. Yanger and Chief Engineer Power, K. Miachio. The conference was chaired by the Union Minister of State, Jyotiranditya Scindia. The conference discussed power related issues of Access to Electricity for All - with focus on rural areas; Intervention to reduce of AT&C loss in distribution sector; Distribution Sector Reform; ProDimapur, Septem- curement of Power to meet the demand; Planned and ber 13 (mexN): NSCN secure Transmission; Tariff Policy; Utilisation of Strand(IM) Kilo Kilonser TT ed Capacity; Compliance of Renewable Purchase ObliAmong Sangtam, on be- gation and Promotion of Energy Efficiency Initiatives. half of the national work- Kipili Sangtam raised the issues of sustaining power ers has expressed great projects, power affordability by rural poor, extension sorrow over the news of of fixed management period from one year to five years the death of Imsutemjen for ‘RAPDRP’ and allocation of 25 MW of power from Aier, Central Administra- the NTCP (ER) round the clock for the State. tive Officer, Ao Region. In KDCC urges NPCC to pursue a letter addressed to the wife of the deceased, the Imkong Imchen’s case Kilo Kilonser conveyed Kohima, September 13 (mexN): Kohima Dissympathy to her and oth- trict Congress Committee (KDCC) in its executive meeter members of the family, ing held on September 13 expressed serious concern while acknowledging the about the deplorable road condition in the capital town, remarkable services the unabated taxation, and excessive taxation and excessive uncontrolled price rise. A press release from the deceased had rendered. KDCC informed that the meeting also thoroughly deliberated about the former Home Minister Imkong L Imchen’s case. The KDCC further urged the NPCC to take up the case seriously without hesitation, while assuring its fullest co-operation even to the extent of organizing agitation/dharna in the near future.
Unions say September 8 incident at Jharnapani was a hit and run case
Scrub Typhus cases detected in Mokokchung NSCN (IM)
during the cooler season in southern India. What is Scrub Typhus? • Scrub typhus is an acute, febrile (fever), inWhat are the clinical symptoms of scrub fectious illness that is caused by Orientia typhus? tsutsugamushi. • The chigger bite is painless and may be noticed as a transient localized itch. How is it spread? • Scrub typhus is transmitted to humans • Bites are often found on the groin, axilla, and rodents by some species of trombicugenitalia or neck. lid mites (“chiggers”,Leptotrombidium de- • The bite of the mite leaves a characteristic liense and others). black eschar that is useful to the doctor for • The mite is very small (0.2 – 0.4mm) and can making the diagnosis. only be seen through a microscope or mag- • Patients develop sudden fever with chills nifying glass. with severe headache, weakness, myalgia, • Humans acquire the disease from the bite of generalized enlargement of lymph nodes, an infected chigger (larva). photophobia, and dry cough. • A week later, rash may appear on the trunk, Where is it commonly found? then on the extremities, and turn pale with• In India, scrub typhus has been reported in a few days. However, maculopapular rash from Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Himare seldom observed in indigenous patients. achal Pradesh, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Nagaland • Symptoms generally disappear after two & Manipur. weeks even without treatment. • Scrub typhus is found in scrub jungle. It is • However, in severe/untreated cases, complifound where forest is re-growing after being cations like Pneumonia and Myocarditis cleared. Certain areas such as forest clearings, riverbanks, and grassy regions provide How is it diagnosed? optimal conditions for the infected mites to • Clinical presentation, especially detection of thrive. black eschar on the body is very useful for suspecting Scrub Typhus. Is it a seasonal disease? • Rapid Diagnostic Test kits are being used for • It occurs more frequently during the rainy seascreening of Scrub Typhus. son. However, outbreaks have been reported • The most commonly used test for diagnosis
Phek DPDB meeting held Discusses governor's visit, improving BSNL service & providing bus service Dimapur, September 13 (Dipr): The monthly District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) meeting of Phek district was held on September 10 , 2013 under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner & Vice Chairman DPDB, Neposo Theluo. The chairman urged the members to give their cooperation and best services as entrusted in different work distributions in view of Governor’s visit to Phek district. Reviewing the last meeting minutes on the issue for immediate clearance of landslide from Chouzuba-Phek road, the board discussed and requested the concern department to restore immediately for clearance of landslide. Financial assistance towards ANCSU conference at Phek Government College was also discussed at length where the Chairman appealed all Head of Offices to extend financial support to the students’
community to organize the conference successfully. The board also discussed to improve telecommunication (BSNL) network at Phek and bus services from Phek Hq to other subdivision. As entrusted by the board in the last meeting, Agriculture & Horticulture department presented their departmental activities. The house was impressed over the successful story of developmental plans and performance of the respective departments, and further encouraged them to give more efforts for the uplift of the people. The department of Labour also distributed a pamphlet regarding Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) scheme, where the objective of the scheme is to improve access to health care and protect the beneficiary families from the catastrophic (disastrous) expenditure on health. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks from the chairman.
is Weil-Felix Test. It is a serological test to detect specific antibody or specific antigen in a patient’s serum. • Immuno Fluorescent Antibody test is the gold standard. What is the treatment? • Scrub Typhus responds well to antibiotic Doxycycline or Chloramphenicol, given for 7-14 days. • In resistant cases, Rifampicin can be used. • In children and pregnant women, Azithromycin is the drug of choice. • Sulfonamide group of drugs are contraindicated.
What can be done to prevent Scrub Typhus? • As Scrub Typhus is found in distinct areas (Typhus Island), control measures can be carried out by treating the ground and vegetation with residual insecticides, reducing rodent populations, and destroying limited amounts of local vegetation. • Protective clothing, applying of mite repellent containing dibutyl phthalate, benzyl benzoate, diethyl toluamide, and other substances to exposed skin, and chemoprophylaxis can be considered for persons in infested terrains. Scrub Typhus is curable. If you have similar complaints (clinical symptoms) as described above, report to the nearest health centre.
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Nian village turns Nyang
Dimapur, September 13 (Dipr): The name of the village ‘Nian’ has been changed to ‘Nyang’ with immediate effect. The notifications to this effect was issued by Home Department, GAB-1, Government of Nagaland vide No. GAB-12/LLG/24/2013, dated September12, 2013
Head of schools informed
Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): As per earlier notification about painting competition on energy conservation 2013, to be organized by Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India, Director of School Education Zaveyi Nyekha has informed every head of schools, both government and private of Nagaland to conduct painting competition and select two best students from each category, and send to the Nodal Officer along with their paintings and list of participants. For any further information, call the Nodal Officer at 8416054822, 94024811884.
Mokokchung & Wokha get observation homes for children
moKoKchuNg, September 13 (mexN): ‘Observation Home’ for children, an institution to provide temporary care, protection and rehabilitation to children who are in conflict with law and require inquiry before the Juvenile Justice Board was inaugurated in Mokokchung on September 13, 2013. The Observation Home, Mokokchung became the third such Home in the State after Kohima and Wokha and it would be manned by 12 staff, comprising of some specialized in child care, headed by a Superintendent and it is ideally located at Sangtamla Ward. It was inaugurated by T. Kiheto Sema, Chairman, SCPS and Secretary Social Welfare. Kiheto said that the Observation Home is a temporary reception of any juvenile in conflict with law during pending of any inquiry before Juvenile Justice Board and Child Welfare Committee. He informed that one more Observation Home will soon be set up in Mon and one special Home at Chozuba under Phek district for which Ministry of Women
T. Kiheto Sema, Chairman, SCPS and Secretary Social Welfare along with DC Mokokchung, Murohu Chotso inaugurating the Observation Home at Mokokchung. (DIPR Photo)
and Child Development has already sanctioned. He also said that the Ministry has approved setting up of three more Observation Homes for Zunheboto, Peren and Kiphire, which would be opened soon. Kiheto said that those children in need would be kept in the Observation Home for a maximum of four months after which they will be either sent to Children Home or Special
Home, depending on the nature of their cases. The Secretary called upon the people of Mokokchung district, particularly NGOs to co-operate with the institution and department concerned to ensure that children who are in need of care are not neglected. He also said that Mokokchung district should have at least one Children Home and suggested to discuss the matter at the District
Planning and Development Board, saying Social Welfare department would extend all help. The DC Mokokchung, Murohu Chotso expressed gratitude to the Social Welfare department for making Observation Home a reality in Mokokchung and assured full cooperation from the administration. Also, the newly established office of the Superintendent of Observation
Home in Wokha was inaugurated on September 12, 2013 at the office premises in Zuvotong Colony. Chairman SCPS & Secretary Social Welfare, T. Kiheto Sema and Society Director (SCPS) Kohima graced the inaugural function as the chief guest and guest of honour respectively. The chief guest, Kiheto said that the intention of the Government in opening the Observation Home was
to transform the lives of the children through counselling, advice, education and imparting training. He said that many children have become victim of law or in contact with law for many reasons, like child labour, child trafficking, sexual exploitation, dropout students, unemployment etc. Stating that these are some of the factors our society is facing today, Kiheto appealed all to be very careful. Any problem in the district relating to juvenile cases should be reported to DCPO or either Juvenile Justice Board/Child Welfare Committee so the welfare of the children should be protected and their welfare should be taken care of, he added. Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner, Wokha Vyasan R thanked the department of Social welfare for choosing and including Wokha in the first batch for opening the Observation Home. Short speech was also delivered by Additional SP, Wokha Tokavi Achumi. The inaugural function was chaired by Probation Officer, OH Wokha, Abeni Murry, while vote of thanks was delivered by Jenithung.
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Nagaland: A Misinterpreted Society
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ike many other societies in the world, Naga society is known as patriarchy oriented society. In a patriarchal society, people commonly prejudice or interpret the society as men dominated or discriminated society upon women. In such interpretation, every single woman is traumatized both in theory and praxis that she is subjugated and dominated by a man. My to every single Naga is, how best or worst was the patriarchal society in the past among the Nagas? Was the premodern Naga patriarchal society different from the modern Naga patriarchal society? Social evolution is a part of social phenomena because no society remains static. Robert Bellah says religious evolution leads to social fragmentation and more complication. Modernity plays a significant role in social change in different parts of the world; however, for the misinterpretation of the Naga society, I would not nail evolution and modernity in between the bones of the Nagas. The hunter-gathering egalitarian society which human being maintained 100,000 years ago (Boehm, 2011) and patriarchal society originated ten to twenty thousand years ago and people lived in more genderegalitarian and anarchist/communist hunter-gatherer societies(Lionel, Sim, 2013) might have been found among the Naga people until 1950. Naga people in the past, I would speculate it till 1950s;lived in hunter gathering society where no individual could live separated from the entire community (Harvey, 2000). Both in a larger or smaller group or community, Naga people expressed their feelings and desires for a better life in the past. Everyday people woke up with the purest minds and hearts for the pursuit of healthy, wealthy and happiness that were understood from one community to another and from one family to another family. People both in the family and society had legitimate thought to express their desire and possession of good way of life. Ferdinand Toennies calls such society as Gemeinschaft which means people who are more in favor of living together with a sense of oneness; meanwhile, Durkheim calls such society as traditional society (Baum, 1975). In such society, the role of men and women were significantly practicing equal sharing responsibilities in villages and families. What the modernity calls gender inequality did not prevail therefore, early Naga society did not even know what gender inequality was. Anything between men and women were taking place more in terms of sharing responsibilities. There was nothing such as this is men’s work that cannot be touched
by women or vis-a-vis. For instance, every household had food store/Godown at village; this food store was exclusively in the hands of a wife. Therefore, a wife became the owner and controller of utilizing any food from the store. Men were not allowed to enter a food store or even to peep from the outdoor of a store. In a house, women were responsible for food supply. In a feast and every meal in the house, unless a wife said let us eat, no one had any authority to touch a rice pot. Every early morning before a cock crows women went to fetch water from a distance pond and men went to collect birds and wild animals from traps they made in the forest to catch birds and animals. When the early morning duties were done both men and women got ready to go to field before the second cock crows. In hunting, men went to forest and women were responsible for supporting men from a distance, preparing to welcome men return from hunting because without the help of women, men alone could not do hunting. Women could not go for hunting because of the biological constraint that they could not chase animals to attack or would face more dangerous situation when animals attack them. In this role, there were nothing such us one was not given a privilege to obtain equal status; but it functioned more in terms of sharing responsibilities. Many people intent to justify the issue of gender inequality in ancient Nagas based on a single issue of household ownership which the first son in the family got household property. It is in fact sounds women not been given privilege to own the property in the family, however, such practice would not be misinterpreted in the modern era as women as under privilege in the family. There was a deep reason in why women were not given household properties. When a woman owns property, she will leave the property behind when she goes away from home to marry a man. She could not take the property with her because the man with whom she got married already had owned property. Wherever a woman goes, she always has a share of property indirectly through a husband. A man owned property at home not for his own benefits but for the wealthy living of a wife and children. Such goal and aim of a man owning property had been misinterpreted as women’s discrimination in the modern Naga society. On the other hand, there was culture of men giving the best and biggest paddy, the healthiest Muthun, double barrel gun and the biggest gong to a wife’s family if a man canceled the engagement or mistreat a wife in the family. Such
huge punishment was not available when it came to women rejecting men in the village. Again, such culture did not mean to keep men under privilege from obtaining what women could get, but that was a sharing own belongings. When a woman went away from a home to marry someone, she was well cared, protected, accompanied and shared the best property by a families, relatives, clans and even the entire village as a sign of respect and honor to a female child. In the modern era, people may misinterpret this culture as what the Hindus called Dowry, which is not at all the Dowry in the Naga context. Even after been away from home, a woman belongs to man’s family but in any feasts, festivals, etc, there was always a portion of the best meat for a women (In Konyak it is called Shoaksamei/tamkoh), i.e the entire thigh of any animals. Some even argue in the modern Naga society that why not the head of an animal was given to a woman? I found this argument very weak because head was not considered as the best portion in animals but more considered as the hardest part to eat and the hardest job was given to men so that they struggle to get a flesh from the head of an animal. This sharing portion of meat was nothing to relate to gender inequality among the ancient Naga society. The misinterpretation of the role of men and women in the Naga society began in the modern era (1950s) when few Naga scholars adopted non contextual feminist theories from the western and European countries. I would say “When there is no problem within the culture, do not bring any alien culture to create problem in the culture”. Feminist theory and the concept of women empowerment started in the western country in three phases: The first, started in 18th century by Lucrecia Mott, when she found that no women took part in the Seneca Falls Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York (Martin Kelly), The second was, in 19th century when African women were discriminated in America (Femi Lewis), and the third was in 1920s when women fought for the rights to vote (Johnson Lewis). Beside these three movements, women in the Western society gradually began to fight against women prostitution. Since then many women rights organization boom rapidly. Today there are theories like Radical Feminism; which focuses on gender inequality in a group of men dominate a group of women, which closely refers to patriarchy. Marxist Feminism refers to women who have been discriminated at work place for the profit of men and Liber-
alism focuses on women’s subordination in terms of overarching social structures (Walby, 1990). One should ask few very important questions such as “were the preceding theories exist among ancient Naga society?” Was there a culture of women who had been exploited sexually in the ancient Naga society? Were there women who were not given opportunity for decision making in the family? Was there women exploited in the work place for the profit of men’s labor in the ancient Naga society? Before I further the usage of the word ‘discrimination’, I would like to give prior information that, I do not intent to aggravate that there was no discrimination at in the Naga society. Discrimination exist everywhere in different ways, however, the discrimination in this context refers to what the western world attributes as ‘men discrimination of women’. I believe that the western theories of gender inequality did not exist in the ancient Naga society. As I have mentioned above, the problem began when these western theories were brought to the Naga society as an intellectual ideology by few Naga scholars and later it became a trend among the minds of both men and women debating about the gender inequality. I called such adoption of western feminist theories in the Naga society in the modern era as “Non-Contextual imposition theory”. It is non-contextual because Naga society did not have gender discrimination as such it was in the western society. In fact, some tribes among the Nagas might have been living under a decision making of women constructively than discriminating men. In the modern Naga society, such misinterpretation of non-contextual western feminist theories and patriarchal society, among the Nagas becomes less significant. Instead, it leads to conflict and violence between men and women. One of the crucial and ignition roots adopted by the Nagas is the Language that men folk use in the society. Sara Mills analyses on the role of language, gender and culture where patriarchy has been misinterpreted as men forcing women to speak in subservient way before men. In this way language became a tool for discrimination of women. On the other hand women themselves recognized that their way of approaches to men should be tender and soft that does not cross the limit of men’s voice (Mills, 2003). These two mindsets among men and women in the modern Naga society become the weakest point toward gender inequality. Perhaps, modern Nagas are so naïve to believe in whatever the western scholars say about such gender issue, which
in reality should be non-contextual ideology. One thing that needs to bring into the issue of gender inequality in the modern Naga society is religion which also intrigued to gender discrimination. I strongly argue that western religion has also added another ideology of how men should behave in the society and how women should remain obedient to men. If we go back to the early Naga culture, there might not have such roles or obligations that women should serve men, women should remain under men, women should submit themselves to men and women should bow heads before men. But one cannot deny that there were many responsibilities that men and women shared according to what they could do based on biological condition. For instance, man could climbed a tree and women could not, men could go for hunting at midnight but women could not go, women could become the best person in handling the household economic but men could not and so on. In such culture, women were not allowed to do men’s work and men were not allowed to do women’s works. This culture prevailed more in terms of sharing own responsibilities and not as a theory of discrimination between men and women. Therefore, in the post-modern Naga society, it is important to reinterpret and redefine the role of gender from the early Naga culture and deescalate the ideology of western feminist theory to eliminate gender discrimination in the society. The role of gender from early Naga culture here refers to a culture of sharing responsibilities according to their competencies. The western feminist theory needs to be eliminated in the Naga society because the ideology of women discrimination according to them is a misleading idea from sharing responsibilities which was found in the early Naga culture. For this possibility I would like to propose two ways of educating men and women: 1. Men vs Men Education, Women vs Women education. 2. Women vs Men Education and Men vs Women education on understand the responsibilities of men and women in the Naga society. In this education, one need not exclusively strict to the early Naga sharing responsibilities but it can be added or changed in a way that any men’s responsibilities that women can do be shared and vis-à-vis. The fear of losing our identity like men washing dishes, knitting, weaving and women climbing on a tree, will lead to destruction but the courage of sharing responsibilities will lead to peace and harmony between men and women. Lemwang Chuhwanglim Research Scholar & Activist
Pig nesting in my village The iPhones of Fall Witoubou editor Newmai News Network
My grandmother would wake up early in the morning if her pregnant pig did not return home the previous evening. She would often ask one of my uncles to also get up and get ready to trace the pig. In the 1970s, the village Langmei (Nchiang by the locals) near Tamei in Tamenglong district of Manipur enjoyed the thick forest areas. By nature, free pigs never give birth in the house. They choose to build their nests in thick jungle, often few kilometres away from the village. Locating the nest of a pig is a painful and highly tactful task. People who are swift and strong are heaped upon the responsibility by the elderly women of the village, irrespective of the family relation. One of my uncles, short and swift fitted the bill and so he was a super-star for the elderly women in the village when came to tracking the pig's nest. However, random search of the pig's nest is a herculean job in the vast, thick jungle. A nesting pig normally comes to the house normally in the morning for food. My superstar uncle would pull up his loin while the pig was having its food. The pig would rush back to its nest immediately once it completes its bowl of food. In the blink of an eye, my uncle would run after the pig steep down the hilllock braving the thorns, creepers and leeches with his eyes glueing to the pig. After the diehard race with the pig for about a kilometre or more, he would see the pig disappears in a small thick bush. It is actually not a bush but twigs and leaves gathered by the pig to give birth. An expectant pig bites off twigs and tender leafy branches and gather them in a favourable spot where it feels safe, usually under a big tree or nearby a huge stone. After gathering enough of them, the pig would bull-doze itself into the middle of the heap of leaves and branches and then twirls its body. Minutes later, it becomes a cosy cocoon of leaves and branches where the pig gives birth. Nesting pigs are ferocious and the Liangmai tribe elders often compare the mercurial persons with the nesting pigs. My uncle would observe the nest from a safe distance for few minutes and returns home and deliver the first hand report to my grandmother who would be listening the narration with relieving face and joy.
The job of my uncle would not complete there. He would be there again with my grandmother when the pig comes again for food, probably the following day. This time, the affairs would be bigger as more members of the family have to be involved. The moment the pig comes home for food, my uncle and others would rush to the nest. The operation has to be fast and superefficient. While the hungry mother pig is devouring its food the operation has to be completed---rushing to the nest with a basket and collect the piglets. After collecting the piglets, they have to choose a different route this time, for encountering with the fiery mother pig on the way back would be a big fatal. The piglets would be kept in a makeshift cabin often made of logs. My joyous grandmother would be counting the piglets and also identifying their gender. This too, in short duration. Anyone around the piglets when the mother pig returns home looking for its babies, is in great danger for fiery mother pig would not compromise on anyone for 'stealing' its youngs from the natural nest. My grandmother would serve boiled sweet potatoes or boiled tapioca along with red tea (without sugar and milk) to the family members as a token of appreciation and for their service. Once this news got spread in the neighbourhood, villagers would come requesting my grandmother for the piglets. A piglet, in those days worth at least three days of hard labour by a grown-up person in my grandmother's paddy field. My grandfather had no affairs here for this was solely the 'affairs of the home ministry' of the family. A male piglet's value used to be higher than that of the female. So anyone going for a female piglet had to go and work in my grandparents' paddy field for at least two days. The piglets should not be separated immediately from the mother pig even though they are sold. One had to wait till the time the piglets are able to feed by themselves. When the piglets got matured enough to be separated from the mother pig, my grandmother would inform the people who had bought the animals. The following day, usually in the morning, the people would come with food in small containers and lure the piglets to their respective homes.
Ian Bogost
When Apple launched the iPhone 4 in 2010, the company's website featured large images of the device with the text "This changes everything. Again." Change has been a constant refrain in Apple's marketing over the years. The famous 1984 Macintosh ads framed the computer as an agent of revolution. And the "Think Different" ads of the 1990s implied that purchasing one of these underdog machines put you in the same company as other misunderstood genius underdogs. But it goes back further than that, too. Ads for the Apple II and the business-oriented Apple III in the early 1980s compared their power to that of famous inventors of ages past, including Henry Ford, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin, among others. If you watch the original 2007 iPhone announcement, you'll be hard-pressed to deny the device's overall revolutionary claims. But the "change" associated with subsequent models has been fairly modest, despite Apple's frequent claims to the contrary. The iPhone 4 or 5S hardly compare to the Apple II, the Macintosh, or even the original iPhone in their implications and impact. They have offered small but important updates: high-resolution displays, more sensors, increased battery capacity, faster processors, better cameras. Fingerprint security in iPhone 5S is an interesting advance, but it's hardly an innovation akin the printing press or the airplane or the personal computer. Indeed, it's not an innovation at all, but merely a refinement and systematic roll-out of an old idea that hadn't yet caught on, but might be ready to do so. Why does Apple try to pass off a predictable (and easily predicted), gradual evolution of their existing platform as change of the more revolutionary kind? Hyperbole is one possible answer. "Change" has become an idea so synonymous with Apple that it must be perpetuated through its branding and marketing even when real change may be lacking. Another might be hubris. In his push to get products done just his way, Steve Jobs had a history of making missteps into evolutionary dead-ends. Just take a look at this print ad for the 1983 Apple Lisa. It uses the same sentence construction as the iPhone 4 spread three years ago, with these same full stop after "Again." But neither of those explanations are complex or subtle enough to characterize NB-The writer is not highlighting the tradi- Apple's approach to consumer electrontional aspect of the Liangmai tribe. He is re- ics product launches. Change is no longer calling his childhood memories political nor social nor industrial, as in the
These days, Apple is more properly thought of as a fashion label, not an electronics company. case of 1984 or Henry Ford. Instead, it's commercial and aesthetic. For Apple, "change" no longer refers to revolution. It refers to fashion. Apple is becoming more like Prada and less like Edison. This has been the case for some time, it was just harder to notice as the iPhone was undergoing large-scale adoption. But in retrospect, Steve Jobs's keynotes functioned more like catwalks than like product demos. And the Apple Store has always been a boutique as much as an electronics shop. But now that Jobs is gone, we can see this shift from futurism to fashion more clearly. Take this week's iPhone announcements. Instead of promising change and revolution, the iPhone 5C offers itself "For the colorful," a slogan we'd be more likely to see from Benetton or J. Crew than from Apple. The company (maybe we should start calling it a "label") is releasing a new line, seasonally, and needs to train its audience to feel increasingly comfortable dropping hundreds of dollars each season. The "change" in question is not regime change, but a change between tennis at the club and dinner downtown. For its part, The iPhone 5S dispenses with the false promise of revolution in favor of the modest and sensible slogan "Forward thinking." The device's black, silver, and gold colors signal the elegance and simplicity we associate with choosing a finish for a Mercedes or a bezel for a watch. It points even further into Apple's future than does the iPhone 5C's affordable couture seasonality: like an automobile, the top-end iPhone is becoming a necessity, even if a luxury one. Even the wealthy don't buy a new car every
year. But w h e n needed or strongly desired, a new model helpfully designates itself, along with a set of modestly novel features and styling choices that will be replaced soon enough. Hip fashion and elegant necessity aren't revolutionary, and it's dishonest to pretend they are. Some have lamented the latest salvo in Apple's product arsenal, blaming Tim Cook for betraying the company's commitment to the "revolutionary" ideals Steve Jobs seemed to embody. Even The Onion weighed in: Apple Unveils Panicked Man With No Ideas. But Apple's transition from computers to clothier began long before Jobs' death -- he just managed to avoid its consequences by establishing himself as legend. The most impactful and lasting revolutions don't fetishize revolution itself, but establish a new regime that lasts over time. That's the legacy of the Apple II (personal computing), the Macintosh (computing for everybody), and the iPhone (computing in your pocket). We can't handle seasonal revolutions, even if it were possible to produce meaningful upheaval that rapidly. Just think of how we relate to Apple's laptop products: We treat them as necessities and ponder when to upgrade based on the urgency of our needs as regulated by the appeal of an incrementally improved model. The personal computer was once a revolutionary device, but now it's just a device. So too the iPhone, hereby transitioned from ingenious novelty to ordinary instrument, in only six year's time. Apple now deals in haute couture, not in high tech.
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It's the faculty, stupid! just power. The academy needs to be reformed because it fails to train The Naga Blog is a forum on facebook where Nagas from Nagaland and around the world network, share ideas and discuss a wide range citizens to question authority - beof topics from politics and philosophy to music and current events in cause rich boards of directors want to make more and more money. Nagaland and beyond. The blog is not owned by any individual, nor is Higher education today, as Kend- it affiliated to or associated with any political party or religion. The only zior critiques, "is less about the ac- movement it hopes to stir is the one raised by the voices of the Nagas every step of the way, amassing perhaps to mass consciousness one cumulation of knowledge than the day. http://www.facebook.com/groups/thenagablog demonstration of status - a status conferred by pre-existing wealth and connections. It is not about the degree, but the pedigree." This ideology often leads universities to promote their brand over their faculty, ignoring the fact that their very brand is a consequence of the faculLarry Imti: Please don’t just walk into my establishment and act like you ty, not the other way around. This is why we must welcome in- own the place!! You want my money? I’ll give you my hard earned money dependent institutions such as the but ask me politely, and you ain’t gonna get that stupid imaginative figure EGS (European Graduate School) that you just quoted! Don’t forget that you are supposed to be working and the GCAS(The Global Center for for the Naga people and not against them! Advance Studies), where the primary Anok Jamir: The so called freedom fighters are no more our brothers concern is the quality of the faculty now...Revolution is soon to be started if the present day scenario continrather than the institution's brand. ues. Although there are a number of differences between these and other Charles Mhonthung Ezung: On a more serious note. If they are truly independent institutions, they all working for the cause of the Naga nation, then their approach should choose their faculty in order to pro- have been more humble and apologetic. On our part we would have conSantiago Zabala brilliantly explained, colleges must will go unchallenged. vide their students with academics tributed most willingly and honoured them for their sacrifice. The fact of be "reformed, not replaced". How The fear here is that colleges and who will not simply "teach in order the matter is that the true breed of Naga freedom fighters have vanished. Al Jazeera can we reform our higher education universities have jumped too quick- to educate", but rather "educate in Today joining the movement is considered as an opportunity to make a e all remember when system? And why is it necessary? ly onto this "shallow and fragment- order to think". The difference be- living. Democratic strategist Soundbite culture ed" trend, in which the very framing tween both principles is particularly James Carville coined One of the most critical challenges of learning communities is geared evident in the humanities, where stu- Aoyimsen Jamir: 10,000 Extortionists on the rise instead of 10,000 Missionaries. the famous phrase "it's to serious education is the soundbite. to constant interruption, structurdents are often requested to become the economy, stupid", for Bill Clinton's Although the soundbite was coined ally and environmentally subvertMordi G Chase: Is it legitimate for the Nagas to request the National 1992 presidential campaign. It quick- in the 1980s during Ronald Reagan's ing a serious learning environment consumers of information rather workers to repair the roads, open up schools, hospitals and ensure food ly became a slogan often repeated in presidency, its logic emerged in the in which the virtues of critical think- than autonomousinterpreters. While promoters of the first security for the poor?? Taxpayers money has to be put to good use.. Do US political culture. Together with 1960s, in the merger between the ing are severely compromised. principle will invite students to the taxpayers ask why they are paying tax to the National Workers and the economy, he also emphasised the advertising industry and politicians, In other words, colleges and uni- choose Ivy League universities re- where and how the money is being utilized? significance of "change" and "health- with the sole purpose to sum up com- versities are actively undermining care". While Obama seems to have plex political platforms with a single one of their basic tenets - to edu- gardless of the discipline that inter- Bendang Jamir: Forget about the National workers, we Nagas' are so taken these latter two items to heart, fragment. Jeffrey Scheuer's 2001 cate and equip a citizenry to make est them, those of us who focus on timid even to asked our representative of such developments. The whole education (in particular in the hu- book, The Sound Bite Society, argued society a better place, in great part the faculty will invite students to system is in jeopardy, we need a whole new leader in the capacity of a manities) still seems to be a marginal that television damaged a society's by challenging unjust and abusive follow particular economists, scien- lion to lead this pack of dogs; who will fight like a lion. But right now all issue among his priorities. This also ability to discuss complex political is- power. When you combine this un- tists and philosophers, regardless of we have is a whole lots of dogs as a leader and lots of lion as a followers. occurs with other politicians. But why sues, replaced it with the instant sat- reflective and shallow environment where they teach. Creston Davis, the co-founder of the GCAS as well as a is it so common today? isfaction of titillating turns of phrase. with the corporate takeover of the serious philosopher, explains how: For those of us who had the good The fragment thereby hijacked seri- academy, you turn the education The aim of the GCAS is not to refortune to be educated by teachers ous social discourse through insult- process into a means to make more place established universities or colwho guided our intellectual interest ingly simplistic phrases. and more profit. A profit mental- leges, but rather to offer an alternative and social wellbeing regardless of But suppose we take Scheuer's ity driving the educational environ- for those students who wish to study Kevitho Nightwing Kera: The Naga Blog has its share of critics. I have where we were enrolled, we know thesis to its limit and claim that this ment will necessarily ignore buildwith internationally recognised acait's always the faculty that makes same reduction has equally limited ing a conscious community that is demics in the same MA or PhD pro- come across people saying not very encouraging things about my bethe difference, not the institution. the ability to reflect deeply about any intentional about learning, and seri- gram. These programs will take place loved Blog. They say we are just virtual tigers roaring the whole day in If, as Noam Chomsky once pointed issue at all. Dr Michael Rich, the ex- ous about forming citizens who can in a series of locations throughout the the internet world and doing nothing in reality. They say we waste our out, "our kids are being prepared ecutive director of the Center on Me- think critically and question society. world giving them the opportunity to time by being in the blog saying this and that or arguing in the internet for passive obedience, not creative, dia and Child Health in Boston, says To do that, learning environments interact with local academics and in- world. Some say TNB is just a virtual fight Club for the Nagas. Some say independent lives", it's because we young people's "brains are rewarded must be intentionally formed so tellectuals. We do not want to gener- TNB is filled with losers. I am sure you guys have your side of story to tell live in a corporate world where not for staying on task but for jump- that students can learn to focus on ate students, but rather disciples able too. Well these are just some few I have come across. most institutions are ranked ac- ing to the next thing" and so, "[t]he serious and sustained reflection. to develop the thought, views and I want to ask the critics what have done in reality too? TNB donated cording to criteria that too often ig- worry is we're raising a generation of Reforming higher education money during the Sikkim Earthquake Tragedy, there was the Mon Fire projects of our great faculty. nore the essence of the discipline in kids in front of screens whose brains One way to shape students is to If we agree with Philip G Altbach, relief trip, TNB cleaned up and refurbished the Dimapur Civil Hospital, are going to be wired differently". favour of the job market. set standards high. But this is only the director of the Center for Inter- then there was the Mission Pot Hole, TNB also organized a protest Rally This trend is not necessarily a as effective as the faculty. If the fac- national Higher Education of Boston against AFSPA, TNB has the Online Blood donors list for those who needs It is also interesting to notice how the failure of MOOCs (massive open bad thing because the focus is on ulty is bullied by administrators to College, when he says: "It's the facul- Blood in emergency, promotes our local musicians & artists, carried out online courses, which represent cor- connection-making, which trains the "make a buck" in the classroom, that ty, stupid!", then the EGS, GCAS, and the campaign during elections “Don’t ask for money, Ask for developporate universities' latest develop- mind to be open to new thresholds university will fail at its basic mis- other independent institutions are ment” etc. This just to name a few, were the critics part of any of those ment), lies in the impersonal nature and new concepts. There is a politi- sion. But if you have a faculty that probably the right way to begin re- listed above? of the courses - because students are cal dimension to a soundbite culture is bold and creative about learning, forming our higher educational sysunable to meaningfully interact with that shapes how we think about the then you will have students who tems. These institutions represent Yes we debate and argue the whole day but not just without a cause. We their professors, one of the funda- world. And if we are trained not to will emerge from university with ways we can reform and overcome bring out important political, economic and social issues; we make peomental aspects of any serious educa- think in a sustained and serious way, a determination to make society the soundbite culture and promote ple aware of stuffs. There was this instance of one member bringing out the corrupt practice of the Taxes department official. As we debate and tion. This is why, asSarah Kendzior then the underlying power relations more democratic by challenging un- emancipation through education. argue we are moulding the minds of future EAC’s, DSP’s, IAS & IPS Officers, Engineers, Doctors, Teachers, Politicians, etc. All of us are frustrated with the mess that Nagaland is in; the nepotism, the corruption, etc. As we debate and argue about it we are raising our voices and our voices from TNB are sending noises down the corridors of power. All in all we are changing the mindset of our people especially young people. People Roger Cohen on military action that Pres- ment that, “I don’t think we me of the farce during the defers to Congress but seems from TNB are and will be part of those who is and will run Nagaland ident Obama seemed set should remove another dic- Bosnian war that involved happy enough with Congress in the future. TNB is a Revolution and a Movement; a Movement of the New York Times to lose is indefinitely post- tator with force.” It might the Serbs handing over “all” ambling back into session mindset of the people. And as I mentioned in one of my comment in a t dinner the oth- poned; Obama uses an awk- even be that Putin, having their heavy weapons to the more than a week later; who thread “Once the Mindset has changed; Action always follows.”So Bloger night, perusing ward prime-time address to made an impassioned case United Nations to avert air notes that for “nearly seven gers let the critics bark, let us keep on blogging. the debacle that say dictators “depend upon for international law, will strikes — and then resum- decades the United States is Syria, a German the world to look the other rise above his Libyan hang- ing their bombardment of has been the anchor of global friend observed: “It’s the way” when they commit over and allow a Western- Sarajevo. security,” and then declares post-American world — and atrocities — and so he will, drafted Security Council A State Department “America is not the world’s Lemwang W. Chuhwanglim: As far my International and National airthat means chaos.” We were well, pursue a “diplomatic resolution framing the deal spokeswoman had it right policeman” — the sight of all port experienced is concerned, I have met almost all airline employees joined by John Kornblum, path” for now. when she ini- this has marked a moment with kind heart who help any passengers starting from a baggage scanthe former U.S. ambassador “The ogre,” tially described when America signaled an to Germany, whose verdict as W.H. Auden 'The United States, through its secre- Kerry’s pro- inward turn that leaves the ning, ticket confirmation till security check in and if any errors found in e-ticket, they help at their best to give comfort to passengers. However, was similar: “What you’re wrote, “does posal as purely world anchorless. tary of state and president respectivefew Naga employees at Dimapur airport do opposite to those employees seeing is the steady break- wh a t o g re s “ r h e t o r i c a l ,” The president has re- highlighted above. I booked my online flight ticket with 20 Kg baggage, up of the postwar system.” can.” It is safe ly, promises an “unbelievably small” because “this flected the mood in America. The United States, to say that no military response to the gassing of brutal dictator Almost two-thirds of people based on that I carried 20 Kg bag. A woman at ticket counter said that my baggage accessed above 15 kg and I should pay for the extra 5 kg. I said I through its secretary of state ogre the world with a history of surveyed think the United followed what had mentioned in the e-ticket (20 kg). She replied, "This is hundreds of Syrian children by Presiand president respectively, over, least of all playing fast and States should not take a leadpromises an “unbelievably in Damascus, dent Bashar al-Assad, then vows that loose with the ing role in trying to solve for- impossible and you need to pay for the extra baggage". small” military response to trembles today. cannot be eign conflicts,according to a Then I started to claim my rights. I asked her, "Does Indian airline has “the United States military doesn’t do facts the gassing of hundreds of There are trusted to turn recent New York Times/CBS connections with all the travel agents who issue Indian Airline tickets?" Syrian children by President always rough pinpricks,” and then backs away. Brit- over chemical news poll. Principle backed If yes, then the issue is between the travel agents and the Indian Airline Bashar al-Assad, then vows edges in a cri- ain abandons its closest ally at crunch weapons.” by credible force made the but not with a passenger in the airport at the last minute. I also said to that “the United States mili- sis. But mesThe hesi- United States the anchor of her to give a peaceful mind to any passenger and avoid making trouble, tary doesn’t do pinpricks,” sage discipline time. The European Union is divided, tancy since the global security since 1945 therefore, I will follow what is mentioned in the e-ticket, I will not pay and then backs away. Britain on Syria from Germany silent, France left dangling, chemical at- and set hundreds of millions any extra charge and I requested her to issue my ticket. She, with a Naga abandons its closest ally at the careening tack has high- of people free. Obama has ego said, she will not issue the ticket. I finally asked her to call the Airport crunch time. The European Obama admin- and NATO an absentee... In Berlin, lighted a lack of deferred to a growing iso- authority or any Airport officer to whom I can make him/her understand Union is divided, Germany istration since which survived as a free city because U.S. leadership lationism. His wavering has my rights. She then called the Indian Airline officer, the officer seeing the silent, France left dangling, Assad’s devas- of a U.S. red line, the change has been throughout the looked like acquiescence to information in the e-ticket "baggage up to 20 kg", he calmly said to the and NATO an absentee. If tating chemical Syrian conflict. a global power shift. woman "give him the ticket". The egoist woman could not hide her face there are other pillars of the weapons at- noted. It has also been noted in Teh- The just cause In Berlin, which survived at the end and gave me the ticket even without looking at me. The only trans-Atlantic alliance, do tack more than ran, Moscow, Beijing and Jerusalem.' of rebels fight- as a free city because of a word I could say to her was "My apology if I have created any problem". let me know. three weeks ing the 43-year U.S. red line, the change has I then smile and left for the security check in. Our final meeting was at Vladimir Putin steps into ago has been tyranny of the been noted. It has also been the boarding check in and she again couldn't face me. The best thing was the Western void, spurred hard to discern. As anoth- under Chapter 7 of the Unit- Assad family was never noted in Tehran, Moscow, that I understood her little knowledge of being employed in the airlines by an off-the-cuff remark er former U.S. ambassador ed Nations Charter, which backed by arming them; Beijing and Jerusalem. to serve passenger than not to be served. in London from John Kerry noted, “If these guys were allows for military inter- and when Islamist radicals A letter this week on (that he himself seemed building cars, you would not vention in the event of Syr- moved into Syria, their pres- the Syrian gassing to the Be it employed at Airport/any airlines, companies, govt service, churches to dismiss), and sudden- buy one.” ian noncompliance. (With- ence was used to justify the German news magazine etc, you and I are to serve people at our best then to be served. Such heart ly Assad’s Syria promises Now it just may be that out this, any agreement is very Western inaction that Der Spiegel from Dr. Tewes automatically reveals your inner beauty to anyone who sees you wherto give up to international Assad, who traffics in decep- meaningless.) had fostered their arrival. Wischmann of Heidelberg ever you are planted. HELP PEOPLE AND SEEK HELP FROM PEOPLE supervision the chemical tion and slaughter, will hand If this occurs Obama will The sight of a president read: “We will be asked by ACCORDINGLY and SERVE PEOPLE AND SEEK SERVICES FROM PEOPLE weapons whose existence it over his sulfur mustard and have dug himself out of the who draws a red line on our children what we did ACCORDINGLY. Let us be a problem solving employee than a problem has previously denied. all the rest, sign the Chemi- hole he dug himself into and chemical attack and then says against this mass murder, creator employee. A war-weary America cal Weapons Convention, something will have been “I didn’t set a red line” (the as we asked our parents clutches at this Syrian straw shake hands with Putin and gained. (The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. world did); who has Kerry about Nazism. We will then and defers to Russian medi- get back to his civil war, havThis column in The Morung Express will be a weekly I am more than skepti- plead a powerful case for mil- lower our eyes and have to ation; a congressional vote ing pocketed Obama’s state- cal. The scramble reminds itary action only to stall; who remain silent.” feature)
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Death penalty is short-term revenge: Amnesty International on rape verdict
New Delhi, September 13 (AgeNcieS): Farreaching procedural and institutional reform, and not the death penalty, is needed to tackle the endemic problem of violence against women in India, Amnesty International India said today after four men convicted of the December 2012 gang-rape were sentenced to death by a court in New Delhi. The court found the four men guilty of gangrape, murder and other related charges on 13 September. A 17-year-old convicted in the same case was sentenced to three years detention in a juvenile home on 31 August. Another accused was found dead in his prison cell on 10 March. “The rape and murder of the young woman in Delhi last year was a horrific crime and our deepest sympathy goes out to the victim’s family. Those responsible must be punished, but the death penalty is never the answer,” said Tara Rao, Director, Amnesty International India. “Sending these four men to the gallows will accomplish nothing except short-term revenge. While the widespread anger over this case is understandable, authorities must avoid using the death penalty as a ‘quick-fix’ solution. There is no evidence that the death penalty is a particular deterrent to crime, and its use will not eradicate violence against women in India.” “Addressing this issue requires legal reform, but also sustained commitment by the authorities to ensure that the justice system responds effectively at all levels to reports of rape and other forms of sexual violence,” said Rao. The attention that authorities have given to this case must extend to the thousands of other pending cases of sexual violence in India as well. Authorities must take steps – including appointing more judges to ensure swift but fair trials in all these cases.” The organisation has pointed out that crimes against women are still underreported. Authorities are yet to fully implement several progressive recommendations made by the Justice Verma Committee, including around police training and reform, and changing how reports of sexual violence are registered and investigated. “There must be concerted efforts to change the discriminatory attitudes towards women and girls which lie at the root of the violence. These measures will take hard work, but will be more effective in the long run in making India safer for women,” the organisation said in a statement. “Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception, regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime; guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual; or the method used by the state to carry out the execution.”
‘Court has set new example for criminals’
Indians hold a placard outside a court after a judge sentenced to death four men for the December rape and murder of a student on a moving New Delhi bus, in New Delhi, India on September 13. The case has been closely followed across India, seen as a reflection on rampant mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime. (AP Photo)
Our daughter has finally got justice: Delhi gang-rape victim’s parents
New Delhi, September 13 (pti): Parents of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim today expressed happiness over a court ordering the four convicts to the gallows for the brutal attack, saying their daughter has finally got justice. “We are happy with the verdict. Our daughter has finally got justice. I would like to thank all those who supported us,” the girl’s mother said at the Saket court complex, with her husband by her side. A Delhi court has awarded the four convicts death penalty for the brutal assault on the 23 year-old girl on a moving bus on December 16, 2012, a case that had triggered nationwide outrage and massive protests forcing the government to bring stringent anti-rape laws. The father of the girl also expressed satisfaction over the verdict. “I would like to thank all those who stood by us. I
am happy,” he said, minutes after the fastrack court pronounced the verdict in the case. The parents of the girl have been demanding death sentence for the convicts. The court said the offence committed by Mukesh (26), Akshay Thakur (28), Pawan Gupta (19) and Vinay Sharma (20) falls under the rarest of rare category warranting capital punishment. The parents of the girl were present in the court room when the court pronounced the verdict. The mother of the girl said though justice has been done to her daughter, the fight was not yet over. “Our fight is not over. We will always stand with the people in their fight against crimes against women.” One of the accused Ram Singh was found hanging in his prison cell in high- security Tihar Jail on March 12 while the juvenile involved in the crime was given three years’ term by the Juvenile Justice Board 10 days ago.
mumbAi, September 13 (pti): Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday hailed as exemplary the death sentence awarded to four convicts in the Delhi gangrape case, saying the victim and her family have got justice. “This was the rarest of rare crime...Victim and her family have got justice. I welcome the court ruling,” Shinde told reporters here. “The ‘nyay devta’ has set a new example for such culprits that if you commit such a heinous crime, then you will get a stringent punishment,” the minister said. Shinde was speaking after the four convicts – Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta - in the December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student inside a private bus in Delhi were sentenced to death by the Saket fast track trial court. “There was an atmosphere in the country after this incident..We expected such a punishment,” he said. Referring to Defence Counsel A P Singh’s claim that the verdict was delivered under political pressure, Shinde said,”The judiciary follows the law and not political pressure. Shinde referred to the new legislation based on the Justice Verma Committee report which recommended amendments to the criminal law so as to provide for quicker trial and enhanced punishment for criminals accused of committing sexual assault against women. The panel headed by former Chief Justice of India J S Verma was formed in the wake of the shocking Delhi gangrape incident. “The new law has provision for hanging in rarest of rare cases,” he said. “We took note of lacunae in police.. We have made provision for appointing a woman police officer in each police station to enable women victims to lodge FIR,” Shinde said. “Women feel confident to register the complaint when there is a woman officer,” he said. On last month’s Shakti Mills gang rape case in Mumbai, the minister said, “I am quite confident that the state government will also expedite the case. (But) There is no need to pressurise any state government.”
Narendra Modi pledges 2014 victory
New Delhi, September 13 (iANS): Despite patriarch L.K. Advani’s opposition, the BJP Friday formally declared Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi its prime ministerial candidate, and he promptly vowed to lead the party to victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. There were joyous scenes at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters here as Modi, 62, one of the youngest in the country’s political establishment, drove in to attend a meeting of the parliamentary board which decided to name him as its general for the parliamentary battle. BJP president Rajnath Singh made the formal announcement at a media conference, and Modi pledged to do everything to ensure that the BJP again got to rule the world’s largest democracy. “I promise that in the 2014 election, the BJP will emerge victorious,” a confident sounding Modi said flanked by a galaxy of senior colleagues, the notable absentee being his former mentor Advani. “For this, the party will work hard and we will leave no stone unturned,” said Modi in a brief speech after
accepting sweets, bouquets and garlands from senior and junior colleagues. He said the country was passing through a crisis and the party. “I am sure that people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari will vote for the lotus symbol,” Modi said of the BJP’s election symbol. But like in June, when Advani had revolted against the BJP’s decision to name Modi its election campaign chief, the former party leader stayed away from the parliamentary board meeting to express his displeasure over the decision to make Modi the prime ministerial candidate. Modi, who once sold tea in a railway station in Gujarat, said it was a matter of pride that the BJP had catapulted him -- despite his origin from “a humble family” -- as the prime ministerial candidate. In his four-minute speech in Hindi, Modi made it a point to pay tributes to Vajpayee and Advani. Modi also underlined that he had the “blessings” of the BJP’s allies, including the Akali Dal and Shiv Sena.
New Delhi, September 13 (iANS): The Supreme Court on Friday said that the nomination papers of a candidate would stand rejected if he does not disclose the details of his assets or his criminal antecedents in his nomination papers. The apex court bench headed Kashmiri Muslims run for cover from tear gas shells thrown at them by the Indian policemen during a protest march in Srinagar, India on Septnber 13. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik and his supporters by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said that the returning ofwere detained Friday as police used tear gas shells to foil a protest march against the killings of five Kashmiri civilians ficer had the power to reject the nomination papers on the grounds that the affidavit disclosing his assets and his in a recent paramilitary firing. (AP Photo)
criminal antecedents is not complete or is not in proper form. The court judgement came on the plea by NGO Resurgent India which had contended that a large number of candidates were leaving the columns concerning their assets or criminal antecedents, if any, blank. The NGO had contended that such nomination papers are liable to be rejected.
AhmeDNAgAr, September 13 (pti): Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Friday said he will start a ‘satyagraha’ in New Delhi on the first day of winter session, for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament. The Prime Minister had assured to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the last monsoon session. But the central government did not present the Bill in Rajya Sabha as assured, Hazare said at his Ralegan Siddhi village about 40km from here. “I will start a hunger strike at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi and the people must agitate in their tehsil, DM’s offices,
till we get a strong Jan Lokpal,” said the activist, who is busy making micro plans for his forthcoming nationwide agitation for the anti-corruption bill. Hazare appealed to the nation and the youth to organize a non-violent ‘satyagraha’ along with him, similar to the one he took up on August 16, 2011. The subsequent popular agitation had forced the government to convene a special meet of Parliament which passed a resolution, agreeing with three of his crucial demands. The septuagenarian demanded that the Prime Minister should urge the President to convene a special
session of Parliament as the bill is pending for close to two years after being passed in Lok Sabha. After being passed in the Lok Sabha in December 2011, the bill was referred to a select committee of the Rajya Sabha, which is yet to submit its report. The government lacks the will to stop corruption and bring in Jan Lokpal Bill, while it has passed lot of other bills like on food security, land, election reforms, pension, etc, Hazare lamented. The activist had earlier this year toured the country after the formation of Jantantra Morcha.
geNevA, September 13 (pti): India alone accounts for more than one-fifth of deaths worldwide of children under the age of five, according to a new UN report released Friday, which said nearly 6.6 million kids died globally, last year, before reaching their fifth birthday. India (22 per cent) and Nigeria (13 per cent) together account for more than one-third of all deaths of children under the age of five, the report said. The report by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division, also found that global child deaths decreased by almost half since 1990. In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children under five died worldwide. This is roughly half the number of under-fives who died in 1990, when more than 12 million children died, the report said. “This trend is a positive one. Millions of lives have been saved. And we can do still better,” said Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director. “Most of these deaths can be prevented, using simple steps that many countries have already put in place. What we need is a greater sense of urgency,” said Lake. The leading causes of death among children aged less than five years include pneumonia, prematurity, birth asphyxia, diarrhoea and malaria. Globally, about 45 per cent of under-five deaths are linked to undernutrition. About half of under-five deaths occur in only five countries: China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan,
according to the report. “Care for mother and baby in the first 24 hours of any child’s life is critical for the health and wellbeing of both,” said Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General at WHO. “Up to half of all newborn deaths occur within the first day,” said Chan. The report said that lives of most of these babies could be saved if they had access to some basic health-care services. These include skilled care during and after childbirth; inexpensive medicines such as antibiotics; and practises such as skinto-skin contact between mothers and their new- A new report by UN said that about 1/5th of death of children under 5 occur in India.(AP) born babies and exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. While the Goal 4 which aims to reduce the under-five mortality rate global average annual rate of reduction in under-five by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, the report said. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, faces significant mortality accelerated from 1.2 per cent a year for the period 1990¿1995 to 3.9 per cent for 2005¿2012, it re- challenges as the region with the highest child mortality mains insufficient to reach Millennium Development rates in the world.
Reject nomination papers if criminal past not disclosed: SC
Soldiers smoke to stay alert, kill boredom: Study
New Delhi, September 13 (iANS): Most Indian soldiers smoke to stay alert at the border and kill boredom, according to an internal study by the armed forces. The study by the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMC), Pune also revealed that two-three decades ago, there was high prevalence of smokers in the armed forces but it is changing fast. “The image of an Indian soldier has been more or less projected in our cinemas as one always with a cigarette or tobacco pipe. There were high prevalence of smokers in the armed forces two-three decades back but it is changing,” said Col A.K. Jindal, professor, Department of Community Medicine, AFMC. Jindal was speaking at the “International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: the Endgame for Tobacco”, held Sep 11-12 here. The study found most soldiers who smoke do so to relieve stress and boredom while many have picked up the habit before joining the services. “When a soldier is guarding the border for eight to 10 hours, he has the urge to smoke to kill boredom. So we have to find an alternative which can help him in this,” he said. According to Jindal, easy availability of tobacco and to stay alert at the border are two important reasons behind soldiers continuing smoking. “We know that hypertension, diabetes and many other lifestyle diseases are linked to tobacco, so we need to have a standalone tobacco policy,” he said. Jindal said the seriousness of armed forces to tobacco usage could be seen from the fact that the smoke allowance was stopped in 1995. “Now, most areas like training academies and messes are tobacco-free zones,” he said. Jindal said following AFMC’s concerted efforts in the form of IEC (Information Education and Communication), tobacco use in the services has declined considerably. However, there is no room for complacency. “Civilian campaigns have helped a lot in curbing tobacco usage in the armed forces. There is a need to have a standalone tobacco policy to specifically have an endgame for tobacco as regards soldiers,” he added.
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Syria peace prospects ride on weapons talks
GENEVA, SEptEmbEr 13 (Ap): — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday the prospects for resuming the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day. As American and Russian chemical weapons experts huddled in a Geneva hotel to haggle over technical details that will be critical to reach a deal, Kerry and Lavrov met a short distance away at the U.N.’s European headquarters with U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to examine political developments and plot a new international conference in Geneva to support the creation of a Syrian transitional government. Brahimi acknowledged the high stakes when he told the diplomatic pair that their chemical weapons negotiation “is extremely important in itself, and for itself, but it is also extremely important for us who are working with you on trying to bring together the Geneva conference successfully.” Kerry, flanked by Lavrov and Brahimi, told the Geneva press corps after an hour-long meeting that the chances for a second
peace conference in Geneva will require success first with the chemical weapons talks, which have been “constructive” so far. “I will say on behalf of the United States that President Obama is deeply committed to a negotiated solution with respect to Syria, and we know that Russia is likewise. We are working hard to find the common ground to be able to make that happen. We discussed some of the homework that we both need to do,” Kerry said. Kerry said they agreed to meet around Sept. 28 on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly high-level meetings in New York. But, he said, the future of peace negotiations depends on the outcome of the weapons talks. “And we are committed to try to work together, beginning with this initiative on the chemical weapons, in hopes that those efforts could pay off and bring peace and stability to a war-torn part of the world,” he added. Brahimi also met privately with Kerry at a Geneva hotel on Thursday to explore ways to resume international negotiations last held in Geneva in June 2012 aimed at ending the Syrian civil war. Lavrov said Russia has supported the peace pro-
cess from the start of the Syrian conflict but that “it is very unfortunate that for a long period the Geneva communique was basically abandoned.” Lavrov said he, Kerry and Brahimi discussed ways of preparing for a second conference along with the document, which “means that the Syrian parties must reach mutual consent on the transitional governing organ, which would come with full executive authority. And the communique also says that all groups of Syrian society must be represented.” When the talks began Thursday, Kerry bluntly rejected a Syrian pledge to begin a “standard process” by turning over information rather than weapons — and nothing immediately. The American diplomat said that was not acceptable. “The words of the Syrian regime, in our judgment, are simply not enough,” Kerry declared as he stood beside Lavrov. “This is not a game.” Salem Al Meslet, a senior member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, said he was disappointed in the outcome of the Kerry and Lavrov meeting. “They are leaving the murderer and concentrating on the weapons he was
exceptional case and that Syria should face tougher standards than other countries. “We proceed from the fact that the solution to this problem will make unnecessary any strike on the Syrian Arab Republic, and I am convinced that our American colleagues, as President Obama stated, are firmly convinced that we should follow a peaceful way of resolution to the conflict in Syria,” Lavrov said. The distrust in U.S.-Russia relations was on display
even in an off-hand parting exchange at the news conference. Just before it ended, Kerry asked the Russian translator to repeat part of Lavrov’s concluding remarks. When it was clear that Kerry wasn’t going to get an immediate retranslation, Lavrov apparently tried to assure him that he hadn’t said anything controversial . “It was OK, John, don’t worry,” he said. “You want me to take your word for it?” Kerry asked Lavrov. “It’s a little early for that.”
DUbAI, SEptEmbEr 13 (rEUtErS): Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged small-scale attacks inside the United States to “bleed America economically”, adding he hoped eventually to see a more significant strike, according to the SITE monitoring service. In an audio speech released online a day after
the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, Zawahri said attacks “by one brother or a few of the brothers” would weaken the U.S. economy by triggering big spending on security, SITE reported. Western counter-terrorism chiefs have warned that radicalised “lone wolves” who might have had no direct contact with
al Qaeda posed as great a ue in its massive expendi- expenditure,” he said. ed it in the gang warfare in or a few of the brothers.” risk as those who carried ture on its security, for the Keeping America in such Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Af- At the same time, Muslims out complex plots like the weak point of America is a state of tension and antici- ghanistan, so we should fol- should seize any opportunity to land “a large strike” on the United States, even if this took years of patience. The Sept 11, 2011 attacks, in which hijacked airliners were flown into New 9/11 attacks. “We should its economy, which has al- pation only required a few low it with ...war on its own York’s World Trade Center, bleed America economical- ready begun to stagger due disparate attacks “here and land. These disparate strikes the Pentagon in Washingly by provoking it to contin- to the military and security there”, he said. “As we defeat- can be done by one brother ton and a Pennsylvania
field, triggered a global fight against al Qaeda extremists and their affiliates. Almost 3,000 people were killed in the attacks. In his audio speech, Zawahri said Muslims should refuse to buy goods from America and its allies, as such spending only helped to fund U.S. military action in Muslim lands.
LOS ANGELES, SEptEmbEr 13 (Ap): Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles (18.51 billion kilometers) from the sun, cruising through interstellar space — the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, the space agency said Thursday. Voyager 1 actually made its exit more than a year ago, according to NASA. But it’s not as if there’s a dotted boundary line or a signpost out there, and it was not until recently that scientists with the space agency had enough evidence to say that the probe had finally plowed through the hot plasma bubble surrounding the planets and escaped the sun’s influence. While some scientists remain unconvinced, NASA celebrated with a news conference featuring the theme from “Star Trek.” “We got there,” said mission chief scientist Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology,
adding that the spacecraft was “setting sail in the cosmic seas between the stars.” While Voyager 1 may have left the solar system as most people understand it, it still has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years to go before bidding adieu to the last icy bodies that make up our neighborhood. Voyager 1 will now study exotic particles and other phenomena in a never-before-explored part of the universe littered with ancient star explosions and radio the data back to Earth, where the Voyager team awaits the starship’s discoveries. The interstellar ambassador also carries a gold-plated disc containing multicultural greetings, songs and photos, just in case it bumps into an intelligent species. Voyager 1’s odyssey began in 1977 when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets of the solar system. After beaming back dazzling postcard views of Jupiter’s giant red spot and Saturn’s shimmering rings, Voyager 2 hopscotched to Uranus
and Neptune. Meanwhile, Voyager 1 used Saturn as a gravitational slingshot to power itself past Pluto. Voyager 1, which is about the size of a subcompact car, carries instruments that study magnetic fields, cosmic rays and solar wind. Last year, scientists monitoring
using,” he said of Assad. “It is like stabbing somebody with a knife then they take the knife away and he is free.” He spoke on the sidelines of a two-day opposition conference in Istanbul. The talks were the latest in a rapidly moving series of events following the Aug. 21 gas attack on suburbs in Damascus. The U.S. blames Syrian President Bashar Assad for the use of chemical weapons, although Assad denies his government was involved and instead points to rebels engaged in a 2-year-old civil war against his government. President Barack Obama began building a case for support at home and abroad for a punitive military strike on Assad’s forces, then changed course and asked Congress to give him explicit authority for a limited strike. With the campaign for lawmakers’ building to a vote — one that he might well lose — Obama said Tuesday he would consider a Russian proposal calling for international control of Assad’s chemical weapons and their eventual destruction. Obama dispatched Kerry to Geneva to hammer out the details of the proposal even as he kept alive the possibility of U.S. military action.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, during a press conference before their meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria, in Geneva, Switzerland on September 12. Secretary of State John Kerry and his team have opened two days of meetings with their Russian counterparts in Geneva. Kerry is hoping to come away with the outlines of a plan for securing and destroying vast stockpiles of Syrian chemical weapons. (AP Photo)
“We believe there is nothing standard about this process at this moment because of the way the regime has behaved,” Kerry said on the opening day of talks. The turnover of weapons must be complete, verifiable and timely, he said, “and, finally, there ought to be consequences if it doesn’t take place.” Lavrov seemed to contradict Kerry’s negative view of Assad’s offer to provide details on his country’s chemical arsenal beginning 30 days af-
ter it signs an international convention banning such weapons. Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations said that as of Thursday his country had become a full member of the treaty, which requires destruction of all chemical weapons. The Russian said the initiative must proceed “in strict compliance with the rules that are established by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.” That suggests Russia does not agree with the U.S. that this is an
Al Qaeda calls for attacks inside US “We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its massive expenditure on its security
Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system
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This artist rendering released by NASA shows NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft barreling through space. The space agency announced on September 12. that Voyager 1 has become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, or the space between stars, more than three decades after launching from Earth. (AP Photo)
Voyager 1 noticed strange happenings that suggested the spacecraft had broken
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through: Charged particles streaming from the sun suddenly vanished. At the same time, there was a spike in galactic cosmic rays bursting in from the outside. Since there was no detectable change in the direction of the magnetic field lines, the team assumed the far-flung craft was still in the heliosphere, or the vast bubble of charged particles around the sun. The Voyager team patiently waited for a change in magnetic field direction — thought to be the telltale sign of a cosmic border crossing. But in the meantime, a chance solar eruption caused the space around Voyager 1 to echo like a bell last spring and provided the scientists with the data they needed, convincing them the boundary had been crossed in August of last year. With the new data, “it took us 10 seconds to realize we were in interstellar space,” said Don Gurnett, a Voyager scientist at the University of Iowa who led the new research, published online in the journal Science. The new observations are fascinating, but “it’s premature to judge,” said Len-
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AWARENESS CAMP CUM — LOAN MELA FOR ST's ARTISANS & WEAVERS IN THE FOLLOWING DISTRICTS. Sl Place of Awareness Camp Date for conducting Time Cum-than Mela Awareness Camp-cum Loan Mela 1. JALUKIE (Dist Peren) Town Hall, Jalukie 19/9/13 11.00 am 2. DIMAPUR (Dist. Dimapur) Conference Hall, NHHDC Complex Half Nagarjan, Dimapur 7/10/13 11.00 am 3. MOKOKCHUNG (Dist. Mokokchung) Sales Emporium Complex, Mokokchung 18/10/13 11.00 am 4. KOHIMA (Dist. Kohima) Sales Emporium Complex Nagaland, Kohima 23/10/13 11.00 am 5. LONGLENG (Dist. Longleng) Town Hall, Longleng Town 29/10/13 11.30 am Organized by: - NAGALAND HANDLOOM & HANDICRAFT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. HALF NAGARJAN DIMAPUR NAGALAND. Sponsored by: - National Minority Development and Finance Corporation, Delhi
nard Fisk, a space science professor at the University of Michigan and former NASA associate administrator who was not part of the team. “Can we wait a little while longer? Maybe this picture will clear up the farther we go.” Fisk was bothered by the absence of a change in magnetic field direction. Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell said he would like to see more data and Voyager 1 “solidly outside for a while.” Voyager 2 trails behind at 9 1/2 billion miles (15.29 billion kilometers) from the sun. It may take another three years before Voyager 2 joins its twin on the other side. Eventually, the Voyagers will run out of nuclear fuel and will have to power down their instruments, perhaps by 2025.
GOVERNMENT OFNAGALAND
DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND::KOHIMA
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Dated, Kohima, the 13th Sept,2013.
In continuation of this office notification No.DTE/ESTT-108/2013,Dt:13th June, 2013, the interested candidates belonging to indigenous scheduled tribes of Nagaland to undergo 1(one) year training at Vision University College of Jeongju, South Korea, in the branches of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Automotive Engineering/Mechanical Engineering, under the following criteria laid down: • Eligibility : Diploma with 3 years/Degree(4 years) pass out from recognized institute approved by AICTE, in the relevant branch with 55% pass percentage and above. • Age limit :18 -25years • Selected students will have to undergo 6(six) months Korean language training at Dimapur, right after the selection is confirmed. • Candidates should be willing to serve anywhere in the world after one year training at Korea. • 100% placement is assured for a successful candidates. • The total cost for the training including to & fro flight fare from Dimapur to South Korea per head, is Rs.3147,000/-- of which 10% of the fees is to be borne by the students. • The expenses for boarding and lodging during the six months Korean language training at Dimapur shall be borne by the students. • The registration fee of Rs.10,000/- shall be collected from the selected candidates which will be refundable after the successful completion of Korean language training. Application with complete bio-data, correspondence address with Tel/mobile, email etc, along with attested Photostat educational qualification certificates from HSLC onwards should reach the Deputy Director, Technical Education, Nagaland, Kohima latest by 21st Sept, 2013, during office hours. (Er. ARJUN SINGH) ADDL.Director.
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Villarreal out to upset Gareth Bale
mAAdRid, SEptEmBER 13 (AFp): After a prolonged transfer saga that reportedly made him the world's most expensive player, Gareth Bale could finally make his debut for Real Madrid on Saturday when Los Blancos travel to Villarreal. Bale's move from Tottenham Hotspur finally went through on September 1, but due to the international break the 24-year-old has had to wait another two weeks for the opportunity to dawn the famous white shirt for the first time. The break did however give Bale some valuable time on the field to regain match sharpness as he played the final half hour of Wales' 3-0 defeat to Serbia on Tuesday in what was his first game since mid-July. It is not expected that coach Carlo Ancelotti will start his new star at El Madrigal, but Bale is hoping to be involved at some point. "I have had two good training sessions and I am improving. I hope to be up to speed as soon as possible," he said at a promotional event on Thursday. And should Bale be involved there has been much conjecture as to where he will fit into Madrid's system with Cristiano Ronaldo occupying his preferred spot on the left side of the attack.
Wales' Gareth Bale, right, competes for the ball with Serbia's Luka Milivojevic during their World Cup Group A qualifying soccer match against Serbia at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
BARCELONA, SEptEmBER 13 (Ap): Gareth Bale is ready to make his debut for Real Madrid following his world-record transfer when the Spanish club visits Villarreal on Saturday. The match at El Madrigal Stadium comes three days before Madrid travels to Turkey to play Galatasaray in its Champions League opener. "We have to wait until the match day to see whether I'm picked or not," Bale said Thursday. "But hopefully I can get my fitness up straight away and get a place in the team." Bale practiced for the first time with Madrid on Wednesday, the day
after making his first official appearance this season as a substitute for Wales in a 3-0 loss to Serbia. Madrid said forward Cristiano Ronaldo was the first to greet Bale on his arrival to the club's training facilities. "He's a nice guy," Bale said. "He made me feel welcome just like everybody else did. They made me feel settled straight away, and I'm just looking forward to getting on the pitch and doing well." Bale will likely still need time to get fully fit after not playing during the drawn-out negotiations with Tottenham that ended in Madrid breaking its own transfer
KDVA 1st volleyball tourney
KOhimA, SEptEmBER 13 (mExN): The Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) will be organizing the 1st Kohima district volleyball tournament for men and women for October 28 to 30 at local ground Kohima under the theme “transcending through games’. Interested local teams from all the 19 wards and 7 RD blocks of Kohima district can participate in the tournament. The organizing committee also informed that payers should be strictly local and permanent residents of Kohima district and that selection will be conducted for the KDVA team. For further details, persons can contact president KDVAV Visasielie Suohu (9436001978) and Dzüvichüto Khale convener organizing committee (9436001178)
record for Ronaldo with a 100 million euro ($132 million) payout for the Wales winger. Madrid has won its first three games of the Spanish league season, but it faces a Villarreal which has also made a perfect start in its return to the topflight after one season in the second division. "This is a chance to show that we can compete with anyone and fight with a team like Madrid," Villarreal captain Bruno Soriano said. "Last season we dreamed of playing against teams like this. Now our chance has arrived and we want to play a great match." Madrid coach
Carlo Ancelotti will still be without injured midfielder Xabi Alonso and will now also be missing defender Marcelo after he picked up an injury with Brazil. Madrid midfielder Asier Illarramendi could also make his debut after recovering from injury. Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Real Sociedad also play on Saturday to warm up for their Champions League openers. Barcelona hosts a Sevilla side looking for its first win of the season. "Playing against Sevilla is always special for me," said defender Adriano, who joined Barcelona from Sevilla in 2010. "(Coach Unai) Emery's teams
Armstrong returns Olympic bronze medal
AuStiN, SEptEmBER 13 (Ap): Lance Armstrong has returned his Olympic bronze cycling medal, the latest fallout from his confession to using performance-enhancing drugs. Armstrong won the medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The International Olympic Committee in January vacated the medal Armstrong won in the road time trial. Armstrong tweeted on Thursday that he gave it back and a U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman released a statement confirming its return. Armstrong's tweet included a photo of the medal and its blue ribbon along with the message: "The 2000 Bronze is back in possession of @usolympics and will be in Switzerland asap." Armstrong declined further comment. The IOC has said it will not reallocate Armstrong's bronze medal, just as cycling's ruling body decided not to declare any winners for the Tour de France titles once held by the American. Spanish rider Abraham Olano Manzano, who finished fourth in Sydney, will not be upgraded and the bronze medal will be left vacant in Olympic records. Armstrong denied
Gareth Bale ready to make Real Madrid debut always give us a hard time, home or away. This time will be no different." Lionel Messi has scored a leagueleading five goals in two appearances to have the Catalan club in first place on goal difference. He also scored two more goals for Argentina in the past week. Barcelona hosts Ajax on Wednesday in the Champions League. "(Camp Nou) is one of the toughest grounds to visit in the league, but we are going there with hope that we take away a positive result," Sevilla midfielder Jairo Samperio said. "We can't try to fight them for possession of the ball. We have to be well positioned in defense
Bayern bosses turn up heat on Guardiola
muNiCh, SEptEmBER 13 (AFp): Bayern Munich's bosses have put pressure on coach Pep Guardiola ahead of Saturday's Bundesliga home match with Hanover 96 as the European champions enter a tough few weeks. Bayern are second in the Bundesliga behind rivals Borussia Dortmund and launch the defence of their Champions League title against CSKA Moscow next Tuesday. Then follows an away trip to Schalke 04, home matches against Hanover, again, in the cup, Wolfsburg in the league, then a Champions League away trip to Manchester City before facing Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga -- all in the next three weeks. Despite their punishing schedule, Bayern's top brass expect their side to prove they are just as strong under Guardiola as they were under his predecessor Jupp Lance Armstrong Heynckes. "We have to im(AP File Photo) mediately go full throttle and tackle our work with hunger, as we did so phenomenally last season," doping for years until his president Uli Hoeness told confession in January in a TV interview. The confession came after a U.S. AntiDoping Agency report detailed widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs by Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service team. NYON, SEptEmBER Armstrong also has been 13 (REutERS): As far as stripped of the seven Tour referee Alberto Undiano is titles he won from 1999- concerned, diving by play2005. The IOC previously ers is comparable to dopstripped Tyler Hamilton, a ing because it is becoming former Armstrong team- more sophisticated and difmate, of his time trial gold ficult to detect. In a continumedal from the 2004 Ath- al battle of wits, referees in ens Olympics after he ac- turn spend hours studying knowledged doping. teams, arming themselves Armstrong won his with information on which medal two months after winning his second Tour de players are likely to dive France title. His USPS team- and generally make life difmate, Vyacheslav Ekimov ficult, said Undiano. The Spaniard, who will of Russia, won the gold and Jan Ullrich of Germany won be officiating in the Champisilver. Ekimov was Arm- ons League this season, said strong's teammate during detecting simulation was the time period in which one of the biggest challengUSADA outlined wide- es facing match officials. The spread doping on the team. 39-year-old Undiano said Ullrich, who was a chief ri- that, until recently, it was val of Armstrong and fin- relatively obvious when a ished second to him in the player had dived. Tour de France three times, "Simulation used to be confirmed in an interview with a German magazine like a dive into a swimming in June that he used blood- pool but today there are doping treatments during situations where the player his career. The IOC has not practices how to provoke brought charges against ei- contact," he told Reuters during an interview at ther Ekimov or Ullrich.
Bayern head coach Pep Guardiola (AP Photo)
German daily Bild. Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge also said there can be no more excuses. "We're at the stage where you can't allow for any more weaknesses", he said, refering to Bayern's 1-1 draw at Freiburg a fortnight ago. Stern-faced director of sport Matthias Sammer also described the result as "reckless and annoying" after Guardiola
fielded a weakened side. Dutch winger Arjen Robben believes Bayern must quickly turn their attentions back to the league, having had a host of players on recent international duty. "We have to hit the ground running and switch back to Bundesliga mode, Hanover won't give us time to settle," said Robben. "We must be careful they don't hit us on the counter-at-
UEFA headquarters. "You see the contact but it's not always simple to see who provoked this contact. The simulation is increasingly hidden, like doping. "There are products which mask doping and in simulation the same happens, there are ways of making simulation difficult to detect for the referee and it's one of the most difficult things we have to do," added Undiano. "On the television you see it perfectly well but when you are running it's more difficult." Undiano, however, said the referees were starting to fight back. "In the same way teams have information to prepare for the game, the referee has to try and be ready and have all the information he can get about the teams who are playing," he explained. "We read about the players, what systems they use, if there were problems in a previous match, if there were any problems
between particular players and which players can create problems, and all of this can help you. "On the other hand it's important not to say 'the number seven on this team dives all the time and I'm not going to give any free kicks in his favour'. That's wrong," said Undiano. "You have to be very cautious with this player especially when he gets into the penalty area ... you mustn't pre-judge but you have to be aware." Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers added that officials often made decisions based on the way footballers fell, meaning players who were fouled could cut their chances of being awarded a free kick if they reacted theatrically. "Sometimes when there is a small contact it's easy to blow but if the player makes it look worse, it makes it look like simulation," said Kuipers. "Players should not overact when there is
"I will play in the position that the coach tells me and I will give 100 percent for the team. I hope that my integration into the team will be good and that you'll be able to see that on the pitch." Ancelotti is expected to have Ronaldo and Isco available as they trained on Thursday after picking up slight injuries whilst on international duty. However, the Italian has a problem at left-back with both Marcelo and Fabio Coentrao out injured so Nacho, who won his first Spanish cap on Tuesday, could be handed a start in an unfamiliar position. After a somewhat unconvincing start to the campaign despite winning all three of their games so far, Madrid will be in for a real test against a Villarreal side who have also made a 100 percent start to the season on their return to the top flight. "Last year we dreamt about playing against these teams and now this opportunity has arrived we want to play a great game," Villarreal midfielder Bruno told the club's website. "We know that it is a difficult match against a very hard opponent that nobody thinks will be easy, but this doesn't mean that we don't believe we can win and we will have our opportunities."
tack, they'll be strong." Bayern have a few injury problems with central midfielders Mario Goetze, Thiago Alcantara, plus defensive midfielders Javi Martinez and Jan Kirchoff on the sidelines. But they expect to have Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger back as their vice-captain trained on Thursday after spraining his ankle at Freiburg. With four games played, Bayern are two points behind leaders Borussia, something which does not bother Robben. "Dortmund is not the most important thing for us, we have to deal with ourselves," said the Dutch winger. "Of course, we want to be at the top of the league, but you can only do that if you win." Dortmund, the only team with a 100 percent record, host Hamburg on Saturday with concerns over Poland midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski, who injured knee ligaments on international duty. "It has got better, but it's still not good, it'll be close," said Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp.
and look to hit on the break, that's their weak spot." Atletico hosts a frisky Almeria side looking for its fourth win in as many rounds. It then welcomes Zenit St. Petersburg in its return to the Champions League on Wednesday. Sociedad, meanwhile, visits Levante before the Basque club plays Shakhtar Donetsk in Europe's top tier club competition on Tuesday. On Sunday, it's: Granada vs. Espanyol; Getafe vs. Osasuna; Malaga vs. Rayo Vallecano; and Real Betis vs. Valencia. Athletic Bilbao inaugurates its new San Mames Stadium against Celta Vigo on Monday, while Valladolid plays at Elche.
DDFA meeting on Sept 18
dimAOuR, SEptEmBER 13 (mExN): The Dimapur District Football Association has informed all members that there will be an emergency meeting on September 18 at 4:30 pm in its office premises at the DDSC stadium. A press note informed that the meeting will deliberate on appointment of a new post i.e Working President. It informed that members may bring other agendas and suggestions for discussion in the meeting.
Leo Club TT tournament
dimApuR, SEptEmBER 13 (mExN): Leo Club of Dimapur is organizing the 26th Leo Club Inter-School TT tournament on September 14 and 15 at Leo Park Lions Centre, Midland, Dimapur. A press note informed that on September 14 the championship would be inaugurated by Dimapur Superintendent of Police V.Z.Angami, Dimapur, at 9 a.m. .
'Kimi not an anti-Alonso choice'
LONdON, SEptEmBER 12 (REutERS): Ferrari say their decision to bring 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen back to the Formula One team next season will help and not hurt Fernando Alonso's chances. "For anyone thinking that the choice of Kimi is somehow an antiAlonso choice, I can put their minds at rest," team principal Stefano Domenicali told the team website (www. ferrari.com). "At Ferrari, everyone knows the interests of the team come first and only then those of the individual. Fernando is a key asset for this team and he will be for a long time. "I'm sure he is the first to be happy with a choice made to strengthen the group, because he is too intelligent not to realise that a stronger team can only be an advantage," added the Italian. Double world champion Alonso had made clear before the appointment that he would be happy to continue with under-performing Brazilian Felipe Massa as his team mate.
Diving's like doping in terms of detection Portugal's Joao Pereira (21) falls after colliding with Brazil's Paulinho (18) during the first half of an international friendly soccer matchin Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo)
a foul ...(sometimes) he is too eager to go down, that is sometimes why there is not a good decision." Big Difference Kuipers, another Champions League official, said referees ran about 12-km
and made around 300 calls in a typical match but only got noticed when they made one wrong decision. "We can referee a match for 90 minutes and we can do it without problems but if there is one moment that
we miss, then we do not speak about the 90 minutes of good refereeing, we only speak about this incident," he added. "If a forward in the same match does nothing for 90 minutes but scores a goal, he is the big hero.
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Lang Roths debut single video “Only You” is scheduled to be released on Saturday the 14th of September. Inspired to pick up the instrument after watching his college roommate play the guitar at Patkai Christian College, Atsa has never stopped himself from playing and learning more about the guitar. His professional career as a musician kicked off when he along with some few friends formed the band “Frequency” in 2005 along with fellow INCIPIT band member, YangkumJinger. Later, Atsa also became part of yet another famed Rock Band from Dimapur, “XTC” in 2007 with whom they won
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the 1st runners-up at the National Hornbill Rock Contest 2007. Satriani, Vai and Randy Rhoads, are the guitar players who inspired and continues to inspire Atsa. This talented guitarist had also won the prestigious EpiphoneZakkWylde Guitar Contest 2008 held at Dimapur, Nagaland. Giving a glimpse into the instrumental guitar track, Atsa says that this song has always been very special to him and this song came to life with the help of his friends at TL Entertainment and Element Indie Records. He said the song was recorded two years back with Kevi Pucho, Proprietor and recording engineer element Indie Records, and the video was shot a few weeks back by Toshi Longchar TL Entertainment.
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ormer Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is preparing to launch a new assault on the charts when she releases an album next month (Oct13). The singer will put out her new single Half of Me on 25 October (13) through a record deal with Sony Music Australia. In a statement, Halliwell says the song is about love, hope and optimism with a splash of humor. Hal-
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF POWER TO GRACE THE KIDS FOR FAME- 4 SINGING CONTEST TODAY.
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heto Music Association promotional event Kids For Fame Kids singing contest aged 10 to 15 years in Nagaland season 4 Elimination round will be held today Sat 14th September at IMC Hall. KIPILI Sangtam Parliamentary Secretary of Power has consented to grace the Mega contest as Chief Guest. The show will begin at 4 PM with top 18 contestants performing Live on the stage this time out of 18 contestants top 12 will be selected to go through to the next round based on public Voting and judges’ point. Next elimination round to chose the 6 finalists will be held on 5th October, than to the Grand Finale to be held at Dimapur open air ground to choose the ultimate winner of Kids for Fame season 4. The Ultimate Winner will walk away with Rs 2 lacs along with prestigious proficiency award certificate with one year career contract with PMA.
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as something against Cyrus. He has no surprise at all for her continued success. That is one of the things Miley had that originally attracted him, showbizspy.com quoted a source as saying. He is very proud that she is doing the thing that she
loves and he supports her, he just doesn’t broadcast it with a parade for the whole world to see. He likes being private with her and their relationship, where as she doesn’t. But you know what they say, opposites attract, the source added.
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or Jean-Claude Van Damme working in a Bollywood venture seems like a good career move but the Hollywood action star jokes that he is too expensive for Indian movies. The 52-year-old `Universal Soldier` star is on his maiden visit to India. But his connect with the country dates back to the early `90s with his friendship with Hollywood producer Ashok Amritraj and recent appearances at two Indian award ceremonies. Indian cinema is big for me as a career move. It would be good for me for exposure. I could be one actor in a film around a full cast of Indian actors. I feel it would be good for my career here, in terms of being known, Van Damme said. In Macau, this year at IIFA, I was in talks with some people. But the price is too high, I think, he joked. Van Damme, who is in the capital to attend the CII Big Picture Summit, said he is intrigued by the idea of making a global film of sorts with actors from all around the world including India. We can make a global film with actors from Europe, India, China and myself in it and of course with a good script. I think it can be unusual and be a one of a kind international film, he said. Van Damme says he is happy to help his son navigate Hollywood, something that he lacked when he started out. He is working very hard on his own, he is doing small projects. But it is good to have family on the set. He is doing medium budget films, he is not bad in acting, so why not him. In India a lot of actors are supporting their daughters and sons in the business and they are doing well, Van Damme said.
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orget life as a pop megastar - what Michael Jackson really wanted was to be immortalized as a bigscreen idol after his death. The late entertainer admired song and dance stars from the golden age of Hollywood, including his heroes Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, and wanted to emulate their success. The 50-year-old singer revealed his deepest desire in his secret diary, writing: ‘If I don’t concentrate (on) film, no immortalization.’ He added that he wanted to be ‘better than Kelly and Astaire… the greatest ever.’ The entry was made just months before Michael died of a drug overdose on June 25, 2009 at his home in the posh Holmby Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The diary reveals just how much the star depended on his now discredited doctor, Conrad Murray, to administer the prescription drugs that helped him to sleep. ‘Conrad must practice now,’ Jackson wrote. ‘I can’t be tired after procedure to important Rim (sic) sleep.’ Michael also wrote about his plans for the future. The King of Pop wanted Broadway theater producers to create a play about his life so he could become the ‘first multibillionaire entertainer-actor-director.’ In fact, Michael was billions of dollars in debt due to U.S. tax authorities at the time. Jackson also planned to launch a line of merchandise, including soda and cookies, according to the diary. Lawyers for Michael’s mother Katherine Jackson are now trying to get passages of the diary admitted as evidence to back up a wrongful death suit against London concert promoter AEG. Michael was rehearsing for an unprecedented 50 gigs planned at AEG’s O2 Arena in London in the weeks before his death.
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NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 13 (PTI): Cracking the whip on corrupt players, the BCCI slapped life bans on Indian Test pacer S Sreesanth and spinner Ankeet Chavan for being involved in the IPL spotfixing scam while handing out lesser punishments to some others in the scandal which rocked the Twenty20 league this year. Amit Singh, a former Rajasthan Royals player, was handed a five-year ban while another RR cricketer Siddharth Trivedi got away with a lighter one-year suspension after the BCCI disciplinary committee met to discuss anti-corruption chief Ravi Sawani's report on scam. "After considering the evidence on record and hearing each of the Players in person, the Disciplinary Committee has passed the following order...Mr Amit Singh is banned for a period of five years from playing any representative Cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates," BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in a statement on Friday. "Mr. Siddharth Trivedi is banned for a period of one year from playing any representative Cricket or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates. "Mr. Ankeet Chavan is banned for life from playing any representative Cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates. "Mr. S. Sreesanth is banned for life from playing any representative Cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates," the statement added. Young spinner Harmeet
Singh was, however, let off for lack of strong evidence against him. "The case against Mr. Harmeet Singh has been closed in the absence of evidence against him." The release had no mention of Ajit Chandila, who allegedly lured the cricketers into the spot-fixing net, but a BCCI official said a decision on him will be taken at a later stage. Since Chandila has just been released on bail, the
BCCI would like to give him an opportunity to depose in front of the committee before deciding the quantum of punishment. The life bans on Sreesanth and Chavan were expected after Sawani had found them guilty of spot-fixing and had himself recommended a life ban. The scandal, which broke out in May, had shaken the cash-rich Twenty20 event and led to a massive churning within
the Board. "All the disciplinary committee members were very cooperative and it went off well. I gave them my side of the story. All I have dreamt from childhood is to play for India and I will never cheat the game," Sreesanth said on Friday after appearing before the committee. "I have full faith in the judiciary as well as the BCCI and I will come clean
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 13 (IANS): India's football fans can catch a glimpse of the 2014 FIFA World Cup trophy that will be coming for the second time to the country in football-mad Kolkata from Dec 22-24. It is part of its world tour to 88 countries over nine months. FIFA's main sponsors, Coca-Cola, in partnership with All India Football Association (AIFF) will be bringing the coveted trophy to India again, the first time being in early 2010. Fans can catch a glimpse of the solid-gold trophy in person. The arrival of the trophy also coincides with the celebration of 20 years of Coca-Cola's presence in In-
dia. "We are thrilled to once again bring the FIFA World Cup trophy to India and what better venue than the city of football lovers - Kolkata. We are sure that the trophy tour will provide a great impetus to the nation's passion for football. We are planning a host of activities across the spectrum to amplify this experience for our consumers and hope the entire nation will join us in this unique celebration of the sport," Coca-Cola India vice-president - Marketing - Anupama Ahluwalia said. AIFF secretary general Kushal Das said: "We're elated to join hands with Coca-Cola again to stage the FIFA World Cup Trophy
Tour 2013. This year the tour is bigger and better and will help bring football fans across India closer to the greatest prize in football. The trophy tour is the ultimate ode to the glory of football and we are proud to be associated with this initiative." In 2010, when CocaCola and FIFA took the trophy to 94 cities in 84 countries, it provided more than 500,000 fans across five continents an opportunity to be a part of the trophy tour celebrations. FIFA World Cup winners including Pele, Lothar Matthaus and Christian Karembeu shared their World Cup experience during the tour. Forty-four heads of state made time in
their schedules to greet the trophy's arrival. The iconic trophy measures 36.8 centimetres high, weighs 6,175 grams and is made of solid 18-carat gold. The World Cup winners retain it until the next tournament and are awarded a replica that is gold-plated, rather than solid gold. The base contains two layers of semiprecious malachite while the bottom side bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974. Coca-Cola has had a formal association with Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) since 1974 and an official sponsorship of the World Cup that began in 1978.
CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 13 (PTI): The BCCI could explore the possibility of hosting an ODI tri-series involving Pakistan and Sri Lanka later this year and the modalities are likely to be discussed during the Asian Cricket Council meeting on Friday. The officials from the three boards will be present at the meeting and there is a strong chance that the BCCI might propose to have a tri-series sometime in December in India. PCB chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed, SLC secretary Nishantha Ranatunga and CEO of ACC Syed Ashraful Haq have arrived in the southern capital of Tamil Nadu for the meeting. The ACC is headed by BCCI's president-in-exile N Srinivasan. The ACC meet assumes significance as it has been scheduled just two days before the proposed meeting between Cricket South Africa chief Haroon Lorgat and BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel in Dubai on the sidelines of Britain's Andy Murray serves to Croatia's Borna Coric, dur- an ICC board meeting to ing their Davis Cup play-off tennis match in Umag, Croatia, resolve the impasse over India's tour of South Africa. Friday, Sept. 13. (AP Photo)
The BCCI is presently in disagreement with Cricket South Africa over the number of matches to be played in the series in NovemberDecember. India will play a short series against the West Indies in November and New Zealand tour will start from January 19. If the tri-series takes place in between these two tours, then the South African board would be left with no other option but to host India for two Tests, three ODIs and a Twenty20 international from December and ending with the New Year's Test. The tri-series would lead to rescheduling of Pakistan's home series against Sri Lanka in the UAE in December-January. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are set to play two T20 internationals, five ODIs and three Tests from December 11 to January 20. The limited-overs series concludes on December 27. The PCB wouldn't mind such series involving India and Sri Lanka as it would generate a huge amount of advertisement revenues and benefit all three boards.
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on this whole issue," added the 30-year-old former Test pacer, who was clad in a white shirt and blue denim jeans and was accompanied by a friend, Manoj. The five players' deposition came even as Sawani's report was discussed by the BCCI committee, headed by N Srinivasan and comprising Board vicepresidents Arun Jaitley and Niranjan Shah. Sawani has held
Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan guilty of conceding a "pre-determined number of runs per over in exchange for bribes." Trivedi and 21-year-old Harmeet were cleared of the spotfixing charges, but were found guilty of not reporting the approaches made by bookmakers. Sawani has recommended bans ranging from five years to lifetime for the players, who even served jail time before being granted bails. "The disciplinary committee may consider my report and impose such sanctions as considered appropriate to send out a strong signal indicating the zero tolerance policy of the BCCI to any corruption in the sport that is so dear to millions of Indians and fans abroad," Sawani has said in the report. "Obviously, the anticorruption education given to the players had no impact on the conduct. Therefore, the players deserve no leniency whatsoever," he asserted. A fourth player who did not appear before the committee but was found guilty is Amit Singh. Singh, part of the IPL till last year, was described by Sawani as "the bad fish that spoils the entire pond". The meeting also assumed significance because of the presence of Srinivasan, who stepped aside as BCCI president after his son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings team principal Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested for alleged betting. Srinivasan's company India Cements owns CSK. The day-to-day functioning of the BCCI is currently being handled by former Board President Jagmohan
Dalmiya but Srinivasan has rarely missed an opportunity to make his presence felt. By chairing Friday's meeting, he has once again tried to assert his position in the Board. The spot-fixing scandal broke out when Sreesanth, Chavan and Chandila were
arrested on May 16, along with 11 bookies, and were charged under the Indian Penal Code section 420 and 120B, which deal with fraud, cheating and criminal conspiracy. The scandal led to an overhauling of the guidelines for players and owners in the IPL.
Emmanuel Hospital Association Axshya Project –The Global Fund Round 9 Tuberculosis Project Position –District Coordinator
Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA) is one of the approved Sub-recipients (SR) of the Global Fund Rd 9 TB grant's Principal Recipient (PR) The Union. EHA is implementing the Civil Society Components of the grant in 25 districts across 8 states of North, Central and North-east India. For this project EHA seeks to appoint District Coordinators in various locations. This post is offered under EHA's terms and conditions on a contractual basis from 1st August 2013 to 31st March 2014, with possibility of further extending the contract based on funding and performance of the person. Positions Available : 2 Locations : Phek and Wokha Essential Qualification - Masters in Social work/Rural Development orpostgraduate in science/social science - Atleast 3-5 years of workexperience in any publichealth programor development sector in asupervisory capacity. Highly Desirable - Good Networking skills - Ability to plan and execute district level activities - Good communicationskills in local language - Willing to travel extensively in thearea of work - Proficiency in computer skills – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) Job Specification/Responsibilities 1. Work directly under the Project Manager/Assistant Project Manager and have overall responsibility for planning, training, implementation, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of all the ACSM activities for Sub-recipients under the GFATM Rd 9 Project through NGO/ CBO groups, rural health providers and TB forums in the assigned districts. 2. Is to identify and sign MoU with 4 NGOs in the district to implement the project activities throughout the district, with especial focus on poor performing DMC. EHA Unit/ CHDP as one of the four NGOs in the district 3. Establish linkages and work closely with the district health and TB officers- DTO, MOTCs, STSs and STLSs, and DMCs in the assigned districts - be visible to the RNTCP as a person for Project Axshya in the district and for coordinating with NGOs. 4. Will network with other related offices/departments/personnel – CMO, DPM-NRHM, DACO, WHO Consultant for the district - and participate in their regular monthly/quarterly meetings 5. Collect and utilise baseline data/district profile. 6. Prepare and maintain a directory of a. TU, DMCs, PHIs, ICTCs, and existing DOT provider network in the assigned districts b. NGOs, CBOs, SHGs and rural health providers c. Information on existing RNTCP master trainers, existing health staff, existing district TB forums, DLNs, and community groups 7. Prepare Individual Quarterly District action plan with guidance from Project Manager for the assigned districts and ensure that the plans are prepared along with the NGOs and District TB officers and their solicitation sought. 8. Identify and train NGOs, CBOs, rural health providers, and health staff to help the RNTCP program reach the communities. 9. Facilitate the formation of TB forum groups at the district, sub-district and field level 10. Facilitate events around advocacy, awareness 11. Facilitate sputum collection, transport and retracing initial defaulters from the communities 12. Supervise and monitor the NGOs/ CBOs implementing the activities in a planned and regular basis. Attends at least 1 CBO sensitization of each NGO per month and does a monthly monitoring plan. 13. Visit and collect data from all the DMC at least once in a quarter 14. Facilitate regular meetings between various stakeholders at the district, sub-district and field level. 15. Participate in/facilitate regular Quarterly Review Meetings of the RNTCP both at District and State levels 16. Generate timely and quality quarterly and annual performance based reports on the given formats and send to the Project Manager 17. Prepare accurate and timely periodical financial and administrative reports and ensure that internal control systems are functioning and all relevant records are maintained as per EHA norms 18. Reporting on the web based reporting site Axreal on a regular basis. 19. Any other job assigned by the PM and APM as per the project need Interested candidates are request to email their Curriculum Vitae to estherghosh@eha-health. org by 16th September 2013.
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