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When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes Judith is crowned Miss Peren

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MOKOKCHUNg, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): The people of Kangtsüng village in Mokokchung today have brought forward the shocking news of a man “repeatedly raping” a minor girl child. In that, the Kangtsüng Putu Menden, Village Council Kangtsüng, Watsü Unit Tuli, Watsu Unit Kangtsüng, Ao Students’ Union Tuli (ASUT) and Kangtsüng Students’ Union have condemned the “barbaric and inhuman act” allegedly perpetrated by one Imliakum. The organizations further reported that the 4 ½ year-old girl child who was allegedly abused lived at the ‘Binah Hostel’ which is a facility run by the accused. “We request the concerned authority to act without any bias and punish the rapist as per the law,” stated a press release from ASUT and Kangtsüng Village Council today.

Further, the ASUT demanded the “immediate ban” of ‘Binah Hostel,’ adding that “ASUT will not tolerate this kind of anti-social crime and that this is one of the most serious and rarest cases. Hence, the culprit should be awarded ultimate punishment.”

The ASUT also stated that “more such crimes take place due to the negligence of the concerned authority in delivering unbiased and timely judgment.”

Meanwhile, around 1000 people gathered at the Tuli police station early evening today, informed SP of Mokokchung, Vikram Khalate. The mob demanded the accused person be handed over to them. Eventually Tuli Police resorted to lathi charge, tear gas firing followed by blank firing in the air. The SP has appealed that the public should trust the police as they are trying to do their job as per provisions of law.

The accused was arrested within two hours after the incident was reported, stated the SP, adding that the situation has been brought under control by the Tuli police.

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AgARtAlA, NOVEMBER 16 (IANS): Despite repeated requests, several states are yet to constitute panels to deal with the human rights violations, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Justice K.G. Balakrishnan said Saturday. “I have written personal letters to the chief ministers to constitute state human rights commissions, but the response is not encouraging,” Balakrishnan told IANS.

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Rape of minor alleged in Mkg

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China unveils boldest reforms in decades

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Where is everybody? Stocking up salt!

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Chüluzhü Chache (24), Mhachio Ngullie (20), Bhupender Sharma (19) and Chanu Sanglikhum (23) are an eclectic team of sportspersons—they pray together just as hard as they play on the field, or crack jokes otherwise.

Chüluzhü can aim a football almost perfectly into the goal post, Mhachio is hard working enough to wake up at 4am for practice, Bhupender is an ace athlete and Sanglikhum has a flair for badminton. All of them were born with physical or intellectual disabilities, and on November 27, they will leave for Sydney with 400 others from India.

Their team will represent Special Olympics Nagaland (SON) at the upcoming Special Olympics 2013 Asia Pacific Games to be held in Sydney, Australia, from December 1-7. Each of them will take part in two sporting events as per their ability.

Born with conditions out of their control, each of them is able to draw a picture of inspiration.

Chüluzhü laughs the most of the lot though he didn’t stop crying for 9 months after birth. Doctors could not fix it—he was born with Intellectual Disability. He studied till class 4, but could not keep up with academics there on; there is a dearth of teachers and schools in Dimapur with the skill to impart education to many like Chüluzhü. His mother now helps him pick up bits of writing at home; in turn, he helps his mother out with chores through the day. Oldest of three children, Chüluzhü can speak Mao, Nagamese, English and Hindi, and loves to watch the Discovery Channel.

“Dimapur nishina hobo [it might be like Dimapur],” says Chüluzhü, when asked about his imagination of Australia. He and his mother, who broke into tears while praying at the team’s send-off prayer ceremony at the Bethel Prayer Centre today, have a good laugh at this.

“There will be big roads. It will be nice,” chips in Mhachio, who studied till class 9 at a government

Special Olympics Nagaland to participate in Special Olympics 2013 Asia Pacific Games, Australia

(L-R): Mhachio Ngullie, Chanu Sanglikhum, Chüluzhü Chache and Bhupender Sharma are seen here at their send-off at Bethel Prayer Centre today with their parents and coach Imliwati Lemtur (centre back). (Morung Photo)

school in Burma Camp.

Lack of infrastructure and facilities for children like Mhachio forced his parents to take him out of school though he would’ve liked to study more of, he specifies, “English II.” One of three siblings, Mhachio was born with Cerebral Palsy, and is aware of his physical weakness. So he

puts in extra hours of work into sports. And his guitar, on which “I can play everything,” he says, with an omnipresent smile.

Bhupender is the sharpest of the team—he has an innate passion for motor vehicles and is a stubborn chap, shares his Marx-lookalike father. His parents moved to Naga-

land from Bihar in 1980; his father runs a garage and a family of five. Though deaf and mute, Bhupender can drive two and four wheelers, is a good athlete and assists the coach whenever the team travels for sporting events. His parents tried their best in hospitals around the country to seek a solution for his

torn eardrums, but to no success. Today, Bhupender felt the vibrations at the prayer centre, and clapped along with the rest to the prayer tune. He is most excited to take the flight out to Sydney.

Not so for shy Sanglikhum. Sometimes he is excited about the “good food” awaiting him in Sydney; sometimes the thought of the long journey worries him. One of six siblings, he was born in Sibongsang village in Tuensang district with Down Syndrome. Having learned to walk at the age of 8, he can speak Chang, Yimchung, Nagamese and English today.

“Sometimes it was irritating to have him around,” admits his sister, Chubalemla, who accompanied him and their mother to the prayer cum send-off. She is proud to see her brother achieve as a sportsperson today—“he plays badminton well,” she beams. Sanglikhum’s possessions are stored by him in prim and proper condition; he likes to keep his clothes, bed, bag, hair and desk neat and clean. It makes his mother’s

hard job that much easier.

Sanglikhum studied in a Montessori from 2004 to 2012 with his classmate Chüluzhü. Now he studies at Silver Line Academy with Bhupender. The coach accompanying their team to Sydney, Imliwati Lemtur, is a young cricketer who has offered voluntary services to SON since 2009.

Similarly enthusiastic young people have fuelled the movement.

Organisations like SON have facilitated these, and many more, children and adults to find confidence in a society that is infrastructurally disabling. SON has stepped in where the State has failed to take a step to equalize society. Simple enablers like funds to travel (to Australia in this case) could not find a “budget” in any State department, leaving SON’s members to “somehow” gather funds through loans. Despite the odds, the sportspersons and their mentors are about to create history through participation at an international sporting event—a dream many of us have and can now live through SON.

declining revenue reclamation. While these are regarded as commercial losses, technical losses are those which are incurred during transmission, as electricity is transformed from one frequency to the other.

These two factors put together, which is known as Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT & C) losses, the power sector in Nagaland is said to be losing around 60 percent at present.

“In order to bring about reform in the power sector and to reduce the AT&C losses, the state government has taken up the initiative to install pre-paid meters in a phased manner,” stated the Power department handout given to the media on Saturday, November 16. Marwari Patti in Dimapur has been selected as the pilot project site for executing the first phase

of the project. Around 715 consumers will be covered in the first phase, followed by 200 consumers in the second phase, the department said.

Parliamentary Secretary for Power, Kipili Sangtam, inspected the project site at Marwari Patti on November 16. He said that the department is planning to complete the pilot project within this month.

Stating that it is envisioned in the interest of Nagaland, he said that it is a new concept (in Nagaland) being put to practice. The project is envisioned to address dwindling revenue, malpractices such as false meter-reading, theft, metertampering, and customer complaints with regard to improper billing, reducing queues at payment centres and importantly, inculcating a sense of responsible power usage.

Kukis and Nagas of Chandel reconcile Power Reforms: Pre-paid meters in Nagaland

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Dimapur | November 16

The long cherished dream of the Kuki and Naga people of Chandel to reconcile was fulfilled when thousands of people from both communities gathered today at Chandel Christian Village and celebrated the Chandel District Kuki Naga Reconciliation Day in the spirit of forgiveness and the desire for peace and unity.

The historic event, jointly organized by Kuki Peoples’ Forum (KPF) and the Chamdil Naga Peoples’ Organization (CNPO), to celebrate the renewed relationship and to usher peace and prosperity in Chandel, began on November 15 with Pu Ngamkholet, Chief of Kotlenphai, and Chapa Nl Warngam, Chief of Rungchang village, performed ancient rituals.

President of Chandel

The Department of Power, Nagaland has been running on financial deficit due to rising consumption without revenue increase.

The revenue-expenditure gap is widening by the year and is currently hovering at 50%, i.e. revenue collected is half the amount expended on purchase.

To cite an instance, the department spent Rs. 160 crore on purchase during the financial year 201011, whereas revenue collected was a little over Rs. 80 crores. For the ongoing financial year, the expenditure is projected at around Rs. 221 crores, while the estimated turnover is around Rs. 80-90 crores.

Pilferage, theft, skewed billing and inefficient use by consumers are some of the reasons attributed for the

Leaders of Kuki and Naga communities from Chandel took part in the Reconciliation Day on November 16 to renew good relations between the communities.

District Christian Forum (CDCF) Rev L Deaconson invoked God’s blessing after which four animals, two Mithuns and two pigs, were slaughtered as sacrificial offering to clear past misunderstanding between the two communities.

The celebration of reconciliation was held at the indoor stadium of the district Sports Complex in

Hiking salt prices a punishable offence

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Following rumour, panic and high pricing of salt in the State, the Government has stepped up its act. “The sale of any packaged commodities above the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) is an offence punishable under Rule 32 of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, constituted by the Central Government under section 52 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009,” informed a press release from the Joint Controller and HoD of Legal Metrology and Consumer Protection, Bizo M. Kuotsu, today.

Recent rumour on the shortage of salt has led to the escalation in the price of salt sold by retail outlets in the State, much above the printed MRP on the packages.

“Packaged commodities such as packages of salt, cereals and pulses, edible oils, etc. are manda-

tory to be packed in standard quantities and should bear the declarations on the packages as specified in rule 6 of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011,” stated the press note, adding further that “Declarations on packages such as the name and address of the manufacturer or packer or importer, the net quantity, month and year of manufacture or packaging or import, and the retail sale price of the commodity. Whoever manufactures, packs, imports, sells, distributes or delivers any non-standard package without the mandatory declarations violate Section 18 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009. The Retail outlets selling packaged commodities such as salt etc. above the printed MRP would be penalized under Section 36 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 by the enforcement officers of the department.”

Chandel. Speakers at the event spoke on the need for reconciliation and the value of coming together as children of God. The ‘act of reconciliation,’ was administered by Rev Sr Tourngam, President of the CDCF. During the reconciliation act, leaders from KPF, CNPO, KWHR, NWUC, KSO, NSUC, Church leaders and Chiefs representing their

tribes exchanged gifts followed by the declaration of a peace pact signed by the President of KPF, Jammang Baite, and President of CNPO, Gabriel Chinir.

Doves and balloons were later released with hope that the future be blessed with peace and prosperity. The celebration was attended by more than 3500 delegates.

IMFL, Codeine seized; two check-posts to be disbanded Morung Express News Dimapur | November 16

Humans have the uncanny ability to come up with ingenious plans to go round barriers, legal statutes in particular. Bootleggers in “dry” Nagaland also have varied ways and means to cater to the endless demand for liquor irrespective of the consequences.

But not all schemes and contraptions are foolproof.

A soft-top Maruti Gypsy was intercepted on Saturday with 10 crates of illicit rum and 1000 bottles of codeine-based prescription cough syrup at the Chumukedima Excise check-post. The illicit consignment was found concealed in customised chambers carved out in the floor of the vehicle and in an audaciously designed compartment wedged beneath the top.

The vehicle (NL 07 5439) was enroute Kohima

Customised false chambers in the top and floor of the Maruti Gypsy where the consignment was found hidden. (Morung Photo)

driven by one Arun Mahato. He is suspected to be a transporter and, as per his statement, was supposed to hand over the consignment to an unidentified buyer in Kohima.

The Maruti Gypsy, according to the Excise, is a “government disposed vehicle” and registered to one Imlikaba. The authenticity of the vehicle papers can be verified only after inquiry,

it was added.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Excise, Maongwati Aier informed that the department has decided to disband two Excise checkposts in Kohima and Dimapur. According to Aier, the decision was made on November 16. Following November 16, the Excise check-posts at Peducha, Kohima and Chumukedima, Dimapur will no longer ex-

ist. Aier explained that it was necessitated to make up for the shortage in manpower, while the personnel withdrawn from the disbanded check-posts will be requisitioned to strengthen vigilance within town, both in Kohima and in Dimapur.

It will further make way for setting up mobile checkposts regularly. The Excise will man only inter-state check-posts, Aier added.

On the department’s performance, Aier said that the Narcotics Control Bureau has formally acknowledged the performance of the Nagaland Excise in the detection of illicit drugs.

He further stated that the Election Commission of India will bestow commendation certificate to the department in recognition of its performance during the February elections.

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informed citizens, media should know that a more informed society is better equipped to participate in democracy and make educated decisions on matters of public policy. He further called upon on the media to promote diversity where a range of views and opinions are presented and is independent from influences that are uncalled for.

Guest speaker on the

theme, Bano Haralu said that the National Press Day is a day for reflection in the society for the press. We should appreciate the freedom of press because it was only achieved after a long struggle. She said that it is the duty of the press to impart news or information in the interest of the public. Stating that Press in Nagaland need to be more informed not just about the state but also in

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Golden Jubilee of Noksen Thangjam Tuensang Town was celebrated on November 15 at Town Hall under the theme ‘Achieved Freedom through Unity’ with CM Chang, Minister for School Education as the chief guest.

He reminded the Noksen citizens that Jubilee is a time to retrospect, forgive and reform oneself to make the society a better place.

He called to make changes in one’s lives so that others would observe and remark, “Yes, they have done well”.

In his short speech, T. Mhabemo Yanthan, DC, Tuensang, stated that peace Minister for School Education CM Chang during the Golden Jubilee of Noksen Thangjam Tuensang Town on No- cannot be obtained without obedience to the law vember 15. (Morung Photo)

and that any problems in the society should be solved peacefully. He also congratulated the Noksen people of Tuensang, both of the past and present, for contributing to the welfare of Tuensang Town and encouraged in continuing to be role models for the district.

S. Ato Chang, President, Chang Khulei Setshang, L. Ongmang, Executing Secretary, Chang Baptist Lashong Thangyen, N.Y. Choba, President, Tuensang Village Citizen Union and L. Langachu, Chairman, Noksen Village Council delivered short speeches. Noksen Saoshuong Thangjam Tuensang and Longra Union, Tuensang Town presented special songs. Welcome address

was delivered by I. Alemba, Convenor, Planning Committee and Vote of Thanks conveyed by M. Nungsang, President, NTTT. Comperes for the function were Limasangla and P. Soba Imlong.

The programme was followed by Jubilee feast.

Second session was held later in the evening with T. Among, Missionary, Umrangso, N.C. Hills, Assam as the speaker.

It was told that amongst all organizations, Noksen Thangjam Tuensang Town is the first organization in Tuensang Town to celebrate Golden Jubilee. Mention may also be made that Noksen is the first village amongst the Chang to have accepted Christianity and thereby the first village to receive education.

DimaPur, November 16 (mexN): “Law must be interpreted to meet the ends of justice.

Solution through compromise formula may not work in every case because it neither acts as a reformative measure or deterrent.

Forced compromise emboldens the criminals to do more wrongs,” Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dimapur Muzivolü T. Therieh said.

Speaking on ‘legal rights and entitlements’ during the Western Chakhesang Public Leaders Meet, 2013 Therieh opined that the village authorities derived its power from the Rules of 1937 in-

Hoho Building, Dimapur with the theme ‘Adaptation’ Zhothisa Dawhuo, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Medziphema Designated spoke on the ‘Role of District Administration, NGO’s and Civil Societies.’ He said that everyone plays an important role in maintaining the tranquility of the society whether is it the district administration or the NGO’s/ civil society. He brings the closeness of the district administration and the NGOs or civil society by saying that though the functioning might differ yet the end objectives is the same.

Each institution is run

by man alike for their own good therefore the need to foster co-relational work should be maintained.

NGO’s and civil societies plays an important role in the proper functioning and channelization of various program, However due to a large number of NGO’s /civil societies, the need to be the best among all should be kept in spirit.

People are of diverse interest and thereby people who are socially motivated should be allowed to lead the people and not the other way round. Unity foster growth and development of oneself and the society at large. The rich culture and

Parliamentary Secretary Er Korpol Vitsu addressing on National Press day on November 16. (DIPR Photo)

vive by bringing the businessman and the consumer together. Media has a lot of responsibility on its shoulders as today's society is very much influenced by the role of media and considering the fact that media has the power to influence society, it should know its responsibility towards the public he added. Stating that the strength of a democracy depends on

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the periphery since it has a big impact on the public, she felt that there is a need for more vernacular papers in the State so that even people in the grass root level are informed about the activities that are happening around them. She said an informed public is very important in the development of the society and the need to keep everyone informed is a major role of the press.

She further challenged In a statement to the media, the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur informed that “illegal structhe media persons to in- tures and illegal settlers” at Dikoi Village were evicted by the Dimapur District Administration volve more ‘voice’ in to their and Police on November 15 as per the directives of the District and Session Judge Dimapur. writings and do stories for the development on the society. She said that the guiding light for the media is the truth and one should work on that principle.

The programme was chaired by General Secretary, KPC Rita Krocha while a special song was presented by Athe Rhi. Deputy Director, IPR Tokishe Sema delivered that vote of thanks. The programme was jointly organised by the Department of IPR and Kohima Press Club.

Noksen Thangjam Tsg Town celebrates Golden Jubilee

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Kohima, November 16 (DiPr): National Press Day was celebrated under the theme ‘Role of Media in Serving Public Interest’ at the Kohima Press Club on November 16 with Parliamentary Secretary for IPR and Printing & Stationery Er. Korpol Vitsu as the chief guest and Editor, Eastern Mirror Bano Haralu as the guest speaker.

Addressing the gathering on the occasion Er Kropol Vitsu said that media plays a significant role in the society and can contribute a lot to a society. It can change opinions because they have access to people and this gives it a lot of strength that can be used constructively by educating the people or destructively by misleading the innocent people. He also felt that media must realize that news is an evolving process and should be covered as it evolves.

He also said that media has long served as a watchdog for the public and has helped the economy sur-

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In an historic event, six surviving Ex IBM’s (Interim-Body Members), the founding members of Nagaland State also know as De-facto MLA’s of Nagaland State 1961-1963 came together at one of the members place for fellowship and prayer time in the month of October, 2013. Seen in the picture (sitting left to right): M. Hepong Phom (Longleng), Khupan Yimchunger (Samator) Lutjakai Kuki (Athibung) Tokeho Sema (Zunheboto), Lothi Rengma (Tseminyu) T. Kikon (Wokha).

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Dreamz Unlimited in collaboration with NEZCC Dimapur conducted a series of theatre and drama workshop in government schools in Dimapur from November 4 to 15. Altogether 49 students from Government Middle School, Notun Bosti, Government High School, Burma Camp and Government Middle School, Aoyimti participated in the workshop. The resource persons from Dreamz Unlimited covered the topics from acting, theatre art form and on personality development. (Photo Courtesy: Dreamz Unlimited)

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corporated under Article 371.

She said that the law of the jungle of the might is right is of the past and therefore, in a civilized society we should let the rule of law prevail. Regular courts manned by judicial officials and the customary courts manned by the village authorities must know its shared responsibilities.

She added that in this context, the village authorities need to work within the power as laid down under the rule. It should not be a threat factor but should cohesively exist to deliver justice to the people. The need to re-

adjust with the changing times and evolving with a change mindset should be emphasized. The legal service authority provides free legal services and aid to all having an income of less than 1 lakh per year.

She dwelt on the need of the leader to be more responsible and accountable for the use of public funds.

MGNREGA, the most important flagship program must be utilized in the best possible way to achieve its objectives of poverty alleviation and rural development.

Also speaking at the Meet held on November 15 at Western Chakhesang

its proper ways of practicing it are important in uniting the people. It is therefore essential to promote the rich cultural heritage for it promotes good morality among its citizen.

Organized by Western Chakhesang Youth organization the meet was sponsored by Western Chakhesang Hoho. A press note received here informed that the participants of the meet includes Public leaders, Government officials, Village leaders and elders, Youth representatives, delegates from students bodies, Women, Churches and members of various NGO’s and civil societies.

‘Belongs To You’,

debut music album of Meshak Kath released

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ERO seek cooperation to ‘Govt officials should give back to the village’ produce accurate E-roll

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KiPhire, November 16 (DiPr): “Nagas are not respecting even the death during electoral enrollment by failing deliberately to delete their names. This is also one of the reasons why our state could not produce accurate E-roll,” said visiting Electoral Roll Observer TC Sangtam IAS, Commissioner & Secretary DUDA. He was interacting with political parties, all tribal bodies, administrative officers and public leaders of Kiphire district pertaining to the ongoing Special Summary Revision 01/01/2014 as the qualifying date at the Deputy Commissioner’s Conference Hall on November 16.

He said the state government along with election department is doing its best to give accurate Eroll, however, multiple inclusion, mismatch of photography, inaccurate birth certificate and inclusion of illegal and migrant electorates were some of the factors the state machinery could not achieved to conduct free and fair election

in the state.

While stating this visiting observer appeal to the political parties, all tribal bodies, student bodies and public leaders of the district to give full cooperation to the district administration and its functionary to produce accurate E-roll to ensure clean election.

DC & District Election Officer, Kiphire Kesonyu Yhome IAS in his keynote address said that the dominant objective of summery revision is to enhance the quality of the E-roll by ensuring that only eligible electorates were enrolled which is the first and major step towards a free, fair and clean election is being conducted. While stating this, Kesonyu said that all political parties, tribal bodies, student bodies, NGOs and public leaders of the district have crucial role to play in the quest for this exercise a the district election machinery is not the only institution responsible for the same. AEO Kiphire, Chisho K. Swu, delivered the vote of thanks.

Chairman, DPDB Kohima, Advisor Khriehu Liezietsu, releasing a newsletter of the Department of Soil & Water Conservation titled 'Towards Conservation'. It was released in the presence of parliamentary secretaries Dr. Niky Kire, Er Vikho-o Yoshu & Er Kropol, on November 15 at District Planning & Development Board's "Day Out" program at Seikhake, Khonoma.

KhoNoma, November16(DiPr):TheKohima District Planning & Development Board had its ‘day-out’ at Seihake, Khonoma on November 15 with participation from all the DPDB members, elected representatives and invitees.

Speaking on the occasion, Parliamentary Secretary, Law & Justice, Land Revenue & Labour Employment, Dr. Nicky Kire said that the Kohima DPDB is improving over the years and lauded the various activities being taken up by the Board including the Vil-

lage Vision Cell, Back to the Roots Programme etc. He said that as government officials we should give back to the village and not forget over roots. He said that visiting villages is a noble idea and such visitations should be continued. He also stated that villages would be benefiting a lot from such programmes.

Referring to the attendance in DPDB meetings, Dr. Nicky said that the attendance is improving and every officer should give importance to such forums.

He also spoke on maintain-

ing dustbin free zones and proper garbage collection.

Referring to DPDB dayout, Dr. Nicky said that it is a good platform to get to know and understand each other better. Parliamentary Secretary, IPR & Printing & Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu remarking about his first ‘day-out’ experience stated that the programmes of the Kohima DPDB is very encouraging and felt the need to further give importance to the various schemes being taken up. He said that he is still in the process of learning more about the

Board and would support the DPDB in all its endeavours. Commenting on the road widening taken up in Khonoma and neighbouring areas, Kropol said that it would emerge as a very good connectivity not only for nearby areas but with other districts as well.

Parliamentary Secretary, Housing, Vikho-o Yhoshu also spoke on the occasion.

Advisor, Music Task Force, Khriehu Liezietsu released a newsletter on development and environment, “Towards Conservation” published by the District Soil Conservation Officer, Kohima. District Forest Officer, Kohima spoke on the importance of forest conservation while Zuthungo Patton IFS gave a short briefing on the importance of amur falcon conservation.

Bio-diversity projects taken up in Khonoma were also highlighted.

Earlier, welcome address was delivered by SDO (C) Sechu, Mohammad Ali Shihab IAS while vote of thanks was tendered by ADC Planning, Ketoho Luho. The programme was chaired by DC Kohima, W. Honje Konyak.

Speacial songs and folk tunes were the other highlights of the programme.

(Right) Joel Kath, Finance Secretary, of Naga Council Dimapur officially releasing the debut album of singer (Left) Meshak Kath. (Morung Photo)

DimaPur, November 16 (mexN): Debut music album ‘Belongs To You’ by singer Meshak Kath was launched today at an album release ceremony held at Hiyo Cafe, Dimapur. The album priced at Rupees 150 with eight tracks is primarily of Ethnic Fusion Genre. The singer who named Alobo Naga and Alo Wanth as his inspiration stated that he had been composing songs since 2010 but waited to finish his music training from School of Music Dimapur. The singer elaborated that his debut album contains an eclectic mix from different music genre and two tracks in Rengma dialect.

Joel Kath, Finance Secretary, of Naga Council Dimapur officially released the album. Congratulating the debutante artist on his

first album launch, he encouraged to concentrate on long term strategy and not instant success.

He also complimented the artist on his ability to write powerful songs containing social message.

Opining that the best creative stage happens during youth, he said that ‘Nagas are changing’ and opportunities are starting to be available. He stated that the time ‘to wonder’ if a career in fields like sports and music should be taken or not has passed, and added that Nagas have made great strides in such matters. Also conveying a message to struggling young Nagas, he said, “To our young Nagas struggling out there, credit is given, inspite of all barrier, you are still forging ahead”.

Family and well-wishers attended the launch.

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3 Regional UNC condemns violence among Naga brethren Tangkhul Naga Long condemns Sunday

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Ta h a m z a m , N o vember 16 (mexN): The United Naga Council (UNC) has stated that it is “greatly disturbed” by the violent exchange among “Naga brothers” at Phailong in Tamenglong on November 12. “The incident has resulted in loss of precious lives and injuries. Villagers have fled the villages in panic as the confronting sides

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are reported to be gearing up for another showdown. The atmosphere in the area is vitiated with insecurity,” noted a press statement from the UNC’s publicity wing.

“We condemn any form of violence because it silences the voice of reason within society and within oneself. We appeal to the armed groups as we have always done in the

past, to allow space for dialogue to come in place so the noble cause that they espouse may be upheld unitedly in spirit of brotherhood,” stated the apex body of the Naga people in Manipur.

The UNC also condemned the bomb attack on the office of the Tangkhul Naga Long, in the heart of thickly populated Ukhrul town on the

Tea stall owner set on fire

ShiLLoNg, November 16 (iaNS): A tea stall owner was Saturday set on fire by masked men in this Meghalaya capital. He sustained 50 per cent burns.

Saturday's incident is the second such incident when unidentified assailants have set a trader on fire.

"A group of two to three masked men set Bishashwar Das, 45, on fire after hurling a petrol bomb at his tea stall in Bishnupur Bazaar in Shillong," Mariahom Kharkrang, the district police chief of East Khasi Hills, told IANS.

One injured in grenade attack

imphaL, November 16 (pTi): One person was seriously injured when suspected militants hurled a powerful bomb at a house in Lilong area of Thoubal district on Saturday, police sources said. The bomb (improvised explosive device) was hurled at the house of Abdul Salam allegedly by suspected militants at around 10 am at Lilong area, sources said, adding that a labourer identified as Ayah Uddin, who was working in the house of Salam was seriously injured in the blast.

The suspected militants, who came on a two-wheeler, escaped in broad day light towards Thoubal side after hurling the bomb, they said.

The spot was about one km from Lilong police station.

Monetary demand could be reason behind the explosion as Salam is a businessman but no group or individual has claimed responsibility for the explosion so far, sources said. Udin was in serious condition at a hospital here, they said.

Meanwhile, in another incident a powerful bomb (improvised explosive device) planted allegedly by militants exploded at the office of Tangkhul Katamnao (a social organisation) in interior Ukhrul district bordering Myanmar last night damaging some portion of the office but no casualty was reported, police said. No individual or group has claimed responsibility.

night of November 15. The UNC reiterated that “such abominable acts are alien to the culture and social values of the Naga people. While it is the moral obligation of every Naga to uphold the traditional institution of the people, some mindless force have once again attacked and insulted the same.”

On behalf of the civil society, “which upholds

the unity and oneness of the people,” the UNC appealed to all concerned to “refrain from violence, use of terror weapons and indulging in self inflictions which reduces our hopes and aspirations as a people.”

UKhrUL, November 16 (NNN): The Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) has unequivocally condemned the blatant and dastardly act of terrorism by bombing its office on November 15 night in Ukhrul district headquarters. The attack on the TNL office is an at-

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Magazines have also been struggling, with Newsweek recently closing its print edition and Time Warner preparing to spin off its Time Inc unit, which includes Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated and People next year.

Perlis, the CEO, said an investment bank was hired after the company received "serious" overtures and now "expects interest from numerous suitors."

A representative for Deutsche Bank declined to comment.

Forbes's online presence might make it attractive as a business brand at AOL or Yahoo, as opposed to a traditional magazine publisher, said Peter Kreisky, a former senior adviser to Time Inc and chairman of media strategy firm Kreisky Media.

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The Forbes family is exploring the sale of its eponymous magazine title and Web publications, becoming the latest prominent media family to bow to the realities of an industry in turmoil.

While it follows signs of digital growth at Forbes Media, best known for its rankings of wealthy individuals, a sale for an estimated $400 million to $500 million still amounts to an acknowledgement by its founding family that a traditional publishing business is a tough one to turn around.

Chief Executive Mike Perlis, in a memo to employees on Friday, said the company had hired Deutsche Bank to explore a sale of the company founded by financial newspaper columnist B.C. Forbes in 1917.

The move comes after years of changes for the privately held, family-controlled company that has made a push to expand its online presence and which, in 2006, sold a 45 percent stake to Elevation Partners, the private equity firm that counts U2 singer Bono as a co-founder and managing director.

A source familiar with the matter said on Friday that Forbes is hoping to fetch between $400 million and $500 million in a potential sale. The proceeds would help repay a $264 million investment Elevation Partners made in Forbes, which it expects to be repaid in the next several years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources. Elevation valued its stake at about $30 million last year, the newspaper said.

An outside spokesman for Elevation did not respond for a request for comment.

The move follows the decision by the Graham family earlier this year to sell the Washington Post to Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos, as well as the Bancroft family's sale of the Wall Street

The North East India International Model United Nations is gearing up for its first session in Kohima from 16th -18th December 2013, bringing the world to the North East with the conference being the first of its kind.

The conference will host young leaders between the ages of 18-25 years. NEIMUN is supported by UNDP, Government of Nagaland and Best Delegate, USA. The theme of the conference is the UN 3 Pillars “Peace and Security, Development and Human Rights”.

The NEIMUN secretariat zeroed down on four committees of the United Nations General Assembly which will be simulated during the three days conference. Namely, Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC), Economic and Financial Committee (ECOFIN), Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM) and Special Political and Decolonization Committee (SPECPOL). Here is a brief insight on each committee, their aims, speciality, challenges and propositions.

FAMILY CHANGE A Fortune magazine article in 2011 detailed the family's financial struggles with the asset and said the company had defaulted on some of its loans. In response to the magazine article, Steve Forbes, who has campaigned unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination twice, sent a note to employees in 2011 saying that "Forbes Media is profitable and in full compliance with all bank loan covenants."

But there is no doubt the company's core business has undergone upheaval as the traditional publishing industry has contracted. Forbes Media's U.S. advertising sales were $275 million last year, down 19 percent since 2008, according to the Publisher's Information Bureau.

In 2010, Steve Forbes and his brother Tim Forbes stepped down on the business side to make way for Perlis to become CEO and the first-ever outside executive to run the company. Steve Forbes remained editor in chief and chairman of the company and still writes a column.

About three years ago, Forbes reinvented itself as a web destination when it acquired a startup called True/Slant founded by Lewis D'Vorkin. It unveiled a new model focused on contributors, featuring more opinion pieces alongside news that gave prominence to non-journalists. Like many magazines, it has also built up a conference business.

Forbes Media now maintains that of total ad revenues, digital ad revenues now make up about 55 percent versus print at 45 percent.

"They became much more a creature of the web and learned how to master the web in ways other publishers haven't," said Outsell news industry analyst Ken Doctor.

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1. Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC): This committee is also referred to as ‘The First Committee’ of the UN General Assembly. The committee deals with disarmament, global challenges and threats to peace that affect the international community and seeks out solutions to the challenges in the international security regimeworking in close cooperation with the United Nations Disarmament Commission and the Geneva-basedConference on Disarmament. In the three days conference the committee will be focusing and deliberating on Nuclear Disarmament(Peace & Security).

This is a "classic" MUN topic that introduces students to peace and security theme and International Relations concepts around the security dilemma, deterrence, etc. The primary source for this topic is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT/1968). This treaty (NPT) is a landmark international move with the objective of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament ,general and complete disarmament.Thereby striving to fulfill the first and foremost purpose of the United Nations ie "to maintain international peace and security." With more than 22,000 nuclear weapons in existence worldwide, the threat to peaceful existence escalates higher and bigger. Yet, various states refuse to disarm itself of nuclear weapons and others race for it.

By debating on "Nuclear Disarmament," delegates will learn the various issues and policies in play that makes disarmament a complex issue though the affects are well accounted and acknowledged for, the structural studyof the works of the General Assembly, the framework

set by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and larger international relations themes of deterrence and the "security dilemma." Can the world achieve the goalof a nuclear free existence?

2. Economic and Financial Committee (ECOFIN)

The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) deals with issues relating to economic growth and development such as financing for development, sustainable development, human settlements, poverty eradication, globalization and interdependence, operational activities for development and issues relating to Groups of Countries in special situations - such as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs). The committee will be working on the topic Eradication of Poverty (Development).

This topic will introduce delegates to the Millennium Development Goals and the development agenda post-2015.

Billions of people live in extreme poverty and hunger around the world with an estimated population of over 1.2 billion people living on less than US$1 a day. The United Nations has made the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger one of its highest priorities, specifically through the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs). By studying, discussing and deliberating about "Eradication of Poverty," delegates will learn how the UN works with governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to achieve the MDGs and eradicate extreme poverty and hunger worldwide.

The structural study of the works of the General Assembly Second Committee will be: Economic and Financial, the MDGs, and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The question, is the "end of poverty" truly possible?

3.Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM): The General Assembly allocates to its Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs Committee(SOCHUM), commonly referred to as the "Third Committee", agenda items relating to a range of social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues that affect people all over the world. In the first session of NEIMUN the topic for the third committee will be focusing on the topic “Child Soldiers”.

The agenda item is about the protection of children's rights. It combines all 3 pillars because it concerns human rights (Rights of Children), peace and security (children and armed conflict), as well as development (child soldiering has been linked to issues of poverty). This topic will introduce delegates to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its second optional protocol against the use of children in armed conflict. There is an es-

timate of over 300,000 child soldiers around the world. These are children who have been abducted by national militaries or paramilitary groups and dragged into the world of arms and bloodshed. They are forced to participate in hostilities or serve in support roles, and are subjected to physical violence, sexual violence and ultimately death. This is a horrifying and inhuman practice that the United Nations aims to end. By discussing and finding solutions to this problem(Child Soldiers) delegates will learn how the UN works with member states to end the use of children in armed conflict.

The structural study of the work of the General Assembly, Third Committee will be: Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian, the Convention of the Rights of the Child and its Second Optional Protocol prohibiting use of children in armed conflict, and the Six Grave Violations. Do we care enough to save the children of the world?

4. Special Political and Decolonization committee (SPECPOL): The Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) deals with a variety of subjects which include those related to decolonization, Palestinian refugees and human rights, peacekeeping, mine action, outer space, public information, atomic radiation and University for Peace.The agenda Right to self determination (Human Rights) has actually been assigned to the Third Committee but it is still highly relevant to the Fourth Committee's agenda, which mainly concerns decolonization and the Palestinian territories. This topic could be particularly relevant to the Nagas. Theagenda will introduce delegates to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which begins by affirming the world's "faith in fundamental human rights," including the rights of people to determine their own destiny. Exercising these righst to self-determination has led to the independence and creation of many modern-day states. Yet, millions of people around the world still struggle to exercise their human rights and they fight for their independence each passing day, denied of their freedom to Human Right of Self Determination. By studying and discussing about "Right to Self-Determination," delegates will learn about struggles for independence around the world and how the United Nations helps the world in realizing and exercising their fundamental human rights.

The structural study of the works of the General Assembly,Fourth Main Committee will be: Special Political and Decolonization, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Is it right to be subjected, bounded and denied of one’s own destiny?

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

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Job oriented skill development mela NPF Chozuba responds to allegations

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): For the first time, the Government of Nagaland is organizing a mega Job Oriented Skill Development Mela where tens of hundreds of Naga youths would get opportunity to develop their skills, acquire training, explore career opportunities and be accordingly placed both within and outside the state.

The mela is being organised by Department of Employment & Craftsmen Training, Kohima in collaboration with Government of India, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Directorate of General Employment & Training and would be held from November 2021 at NER Agri Expo site Dimapur.

More than 100 firms and companies from both within and outside the state would be conducting direct as well as indirect recruitment of candidates with requisite qualification and skills. For indirect recruitment, the companies

would first train the selected candidates for a maximum of 6 months and place them in different parts of the state and country.

After being selected, the entire cost of the training programmes including

PhEk, NOVEMBER 16 (DIPR): District Hospital, Phek's Newborn Week began November 15 to be concluded November 21 with the theme “Quality issues and accreditation in newborn healthcare delivery system”. In this regard, a continuing medical education on “Latest guidelines on newborn care and newborn resuscitation” was held on November 14 at Seminar Hall, District Hospital Phek.

Dr. Kevichusa Medikhru, the Chief Medical Officer, Phek expressed happiness at the initiative of officers in conducting CME from time to time. He

called upon all health care personnel to keep oneself updated.

Resource person Dr. Wethselo T. Mero, Pediatrician highlighted the vital statistics of newborn in India, Nagaland and Phek.

While infant and childhood mortality has declined, the newborn mortality is still high accounting for 50% of all under 5 year’s child mortality in India. In order to reduce infant mortality rate it is imperative to focus on preventing newborn deaths which accounts for 2/3rd of all infant deaths. The causes of newborn deaths are largely preventable by cost effective interventions

to and fro fares would be borne by the central government. Besides this, the selected candidates would also be given an amount of Rs 300/- per day till the completion of training.

These details were re-

vealed by a team of officials from the Department of Employment & Craftsmen Training led by Parliamentary Secretary for Labour and Employment, Law and Justice, and Land Revenue, Dr Nicky Kire during a press conference at Agri Expo site Dimapur on Saturday. Representatives of YouthNet and Confederation of Indian Industry which are also a part of the mela were present during the press conference.

Dr. Kire said the mela was a right place for the youths who intend to secure a job. He encouraged all unemployed youths to come forward, register themselves and identify their area of interest for appropriate placements. He was optimistic that thousands of youths would be selected for direct and indirect placements.

Commissioner & Secretary, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Y. Kikon said

that the objective of organising the mela was to encourage the educated unemployed youths to attend the programme and look for job and career opportunities.

Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, M. Sangtam said the government was targeting 7080% placement of candidates after their training by the c o m panies.

He said there was no strict qualification criterion and that even those under matric candidates could come and explore opportunities.

Additional Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Vandanshan said vocational training providers have also been invited for the mela and urged the youths to seize the opportunity. Entrepreneurs would also be showcasing their activities, he added.

ChOzUBA, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): NPF 18th Chozuba A/C today accused 18th Chozuba Assembly Constituency Congress Committee (ACCC) of being ignorant and “misplacing” their “contentions”. Responding to the press statement of 18th Chozuba ACCC which appeared in local dailies on November 14, the NPF stated that suggesting the Speaker of being “lame duck smacks of ignorance of the proceedings of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly,” as “ample discussion on issues of public importance have already taken place and necessary legislations have been made in the past Assemblies held.” Consultations with mass based organisation is only part of the process of ushering in consensus on issues of public importance and is an essential step to democratization of policy formulation, it added.

On the allegation that the mega MNREGS has been virtually abandoned

like optimum care at birth, skilled resuscitation, prevention of infection & hypothermia, and early initiation of breastfeeding.

Dwelling on Newborn Week 2013 theme “Quality issues and accreditation of newborn healthcare delivery system” he shared on the concerns of infrastructure and facility-based care but stressed at the same time that sincerity and commitment to quality care can bridge the gap in newborn healthcare delivery system.

He urged all health care providers to make newborn healthcare delivery system into one that “we all want for our babies”.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Lotha Hoho Dimapur (LHD) held its general meeting on November 16 at Hoho Ki, wherein various agendas, covering vast range of subjects were discussed, deliberated and resolutions were adopted. According to a press release issued by the Hoho chairman and general secretary, the meeting decided to amend the LHD Constitution. It also resolved to register LHD as NGO under the Home Department, Govt. of Nagaland. LHD also favoured extending support to Naga Foot Hills Road Construction Committee

(NFHRCC). It also decided on LHD membership to Naga Council Dimapur. Further, the meeting resolved that “the present name Lotha shall be used for all purposes till such time that authentic confirmation for any change is officially arrived at.”

The meeting, being the first general meeting under the current team of office bearers which took over in August last, the LHD Executive body was constituted with members to represent the different colonies / sectors and organizations under LHD for the current tenure. The release assured that the office bearers will

strictly adhere and work in consonance with the LHD Constitution in discharging responsibility and, “in every matter of concern, the wisdom and opinion of the Executive Body shall be sought and the executive shall be the guiding institute for decision making.”

LHD Executive body was constituted with members including, Ex-Chairmen, senior Lotha residents, intellectuals from different backgrounds, unit leaders and GBs. LHD has thanked all the members for their attendance and enthusiastic participation in the deliberations throughout the marathon meeting.

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Parliamentary Secretary, Dr. Nicky Kire addressing media persons in Dimapur on Saturday. (Morung photo)

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Kidnapped victim Tovihoto honours late litterateur Indira Goswami rescued; one arrested

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Dimapur Police personnel, on November 15, arrested a person identified as Akashe Shohe (26) of Lukhuyi village under Aghunato PS of Zunheboto district, present resident of Purana Bazar, and rescued one kidnapped person from Tolouzama area.

This, informed a press release from the Addl. SP/ PRO of Dimapur, was in response to a complaint lodged by the victim’s brother that some miscreants had abducted his brother (a businessman) and taken him to an unknown place. Thereafter, he started receiving a ransom call, directing him to hand over Rs. 50,000/(negotiated down from Rs. 1,50,000/-) for his brother’s safe release.

Consequently, a combined team of Women Cell personnel and Special Police Team of DEF Dimapur “swung into action” in different locations to locate and rescue the victim. At around 7:40 pm on November 15, the kidnappers were located in a jungle (teak plantation) at Tolouzama. When an attempt was made to release the

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Parliamentary Secretary, Information Technology & Communication, Technical Education, Science & Technology and Taxes Tovihoto Ayemi attended the 72nd birth anniversary celebration of Jnanpith Awardee litterateur, Late Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami (Indira Goswami) at ITA Centre, Machkhowa, Guwahati on November 14. Gracing the occasion as guest of honour, Tovihoto expressed delight that the South East Asia Ramayana Research Centre has been established fulfilling the wish and dream of Late Dr. Goswami.

Stating it was very rare

country, all the states should come together as one and put up a united voice expressing the concerns and needs of the region.” He also appealed all to continue to maintain neighbourly relations and foster in brotherly and friendly relations with mainland India.

Altogether, a 15-member delegation from Nagaland attended the programme, stated a press release issued by press secretary to Tovihoto Ayemi.

NPF general secretary, Basu Damani also spoke at the programme while NPF Minority Cell president, Bishnu Bhattacharjee felicitated Assam Governor, J.B. Patnaik.

victim, the police Rescue Team were fired upon by the kidnappers, prompting the police team to fire back.

After a brief exchange of fire, the victim was rescued and one kidnapper arrested while the other two kidnappers managed to escape “under the cover Parliamentary Secretary Tovihoto Ayemi (right) with Governor of Assam, J.B Patnaik in Guwahati on November 14. of darkness.”

One Magazine with 8 for the people of North East as outstanding although (eight) live rounds of M-20 Region to produce the likes she considered herself as Pistol (dropped by the kidof Late Dr. Indira Goswami, an “observer.” nappers) and 2 (two) empTovihoto acknowledged “Today, our region needs ty cases of 9 mm pistol were her immense contribution more of such Goswamis,” recovered from the place in the field of Assamese lit- Tovihoto asserted. “Toof occurrence. The victim erature and her role as the wards this effort, our North was immediately taken to mediator between ULFA East Region being segrethe hospital for medical exand Government of India gated from the mainland amination and later handed over to his relatives. On preliminary interrogation the arrested kidnapper revealed that “he was an NSCN (U) cadre” and that on November 15, “he along with three others- AKATO (Leacy of NSCN-U), Johnson (Lieutenant of NSCNU) and Viloto carried out the abduction of the businessman,” the police stated.

In this connection a criminal case has been registered and the accused forwarded to court for remand. Investigation is on to ascertain the involvement Women executives of United Baptist Church Association (UBCA) along with children of Neighborhood Orphanage of other persons involved pose for photograph during their maiden visit to the Orphanage home in Dimapur on Saturday, November 16. The UBCA women executives donated cash along with bags of rice, dal and sweets to the children. (Morung Photo) in the case.

Be like an Eagle: Sharp, Focused, Tenacious, and Fearless Bureaucrats reshuffled

PhEk, NOVEMBER 16 (DIPR): Pfutsero Government College held its 31st parting social on November 16 with the theme “Learn, Lead and Excel”. C. Khalong Ao, Director, Higher Education, Kohima, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and the Principal of the College, Dr. Watijungshi Jamir as the Guest of Honor.

Khalong exhorted that being raised in the Chakhesang community, where talents are immense, the students should accept all challenges with perseverance and excel in all areas.

Speaking from his experiences as a Principal, he

mentioned the changes that he brought with the help of sincere teachers, thus encouraging all the staff to serve sincerely, and bring great changes to the students’ life and the community. To keep one’s spirit alive, to explore creative possibilities, to remain tenacious, and to learn, excel and lead should be what a student should always strive for. He mentioned seven main mantras for success in life: To have the spirit of curiosity, To work hard, To involve in co-curricular activities to hone leadership skills, To stay motivated to learn, To be

disciplined, To be trustworthy, To be right with God and yourself, and to cease every opportunity. He added, “An opportunity missed is an opportunity taken by someone else.” He concluded by asking the students to learn from the life of an Eagle and li ve like one; tenacious, sharp, focused and fearless.

The Principal released the second edition of the College annual Magazine with the Chief Guest. Dr. Watijungshi also mentioned that in order to assist and monitor the smooth academic functioning of the college, seven differ-

ent academic committees were formed. In addition, two more teaching faculty have been added and the college aspires to introduce three more honors course in Pol. Science, History, and Education, and has future plans of introducing Sociology and Geography.

Earlier, the Vice Principal Lalboi Singsit gave the essence of the college anthem that was written by him and composed

by Meso Kapfo, after the song was sung for the first time by the students. The session was followed by an evening of music, and dance extravaganza.

kOhIMA, NOVEMBER 16 (DIPR): The GOI, has recently assigned new placements to bureaucrats under various Ministries/ Departments, as in the month of November 2013.

Some of the changes might be of public interest for official purpose. The names and the post appointed to are: Devendra Bhushan Gupta (IAS) - Secretary, UPSC; Gauri Kumar (IAS) – Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment; Ajit M. Sharan (IAS) – Secretary, Department of Sports; H. Singh (IAS) – DG, National Productivity Council, Department of Industrial Poli-

cy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry; S.K Sarangi (IAS) – Secretary, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA); S. Bisariya (IRAS) – Joint Development Commissioner, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME); A. Dulloo (IAS) – Joint Secretary, Rural Development; S.K Mishra (IRS) – Joint Secretary, Home Affairs; S. Shrivastava – Chairman, NABARD in addition to Additional Secretary Finance Department; P.K Sakia- Judge of Guwahati High Court.

in Chozuba constituency, the rejoinder, appended

by NPF 18th Chozuba A/C president Pusahu Tetseo and general secretary Vetsulhu read “it voluminously speaks of the ignorance of the 18th Chozuba ACCC”. It mentioned that the villages of 18th Chozuba Assembly constituency are spread across three Rural Development blocks of Kikruma, Sekrezu and Chetheba where in turn the Sekrezu and Kikruma Rural Development Blocks also covers villages from 19th Phek and 16th Pfutsero Assembly Constituencies and carrying out of MNREGS programme under the three blocks are “uniform and abandonment or for that matter discrimination of constituencies does not arise”.

NPF 18th Chozuba A/C further accused the ACCC of being a mouthpiece of M/S Myatas – Gayatri for asking for release of money rather than putting pressure to the Company for doing the unfinished work.

“It will not augur well with

the 18th Chozuba ACCC, how the Company has withdrawn excess money to the works executed and the works abandoned leaving the general public high and dry.”

The NPF asserted that the blacktopping of Chetheba to Pfutsero road, the lifeline of the Constituency has been the fulfillment of “our long aspiration of our people”. While the work is in progress, it said, casting aspersion on the abilities of the Department is uncalled for.

Further, it stated, there is acute shortage of EAC‘s all over Nagaland and despite repeated request made by “our” representative to the Government, no EAC has been posted to the two EAC Headquarters. However, an EAC has been transferred to Chetheba who is currently on leave and will join the station soon and “indifference of the Representative” as “speculated by the 18th Chozuba ACCC is contrary to the initiative carried out,” it added.

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WDCCI tells public not to panic about salt rumour WOkhA, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): In light of the salt scarcity rumour and subsequent hike in its price, Wokha District Chamber of Commerce & Industries (WDCCI) held an emergency consultative meeting with KSU, WCSU, KYI, TM on November 15 at its office. A press release issued by WDCCI president Abenthung Ngullie informed that the above mentioned NGOs have visited certain godown. Therefore, it has directed general public not to panic for any shortage for the same. It further asked the general public/consumers to lodge a complaint in written against any outlet/shop to WDCCI Office during office hour from 10:00 am-2:00 pm on or before November 19, where the case will be forwarded to the Administration for further course of action.

CCM warns against salt price hike

MON, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): The general secretary of Chamber of Commerce, Mon (CCM) Anok Prince has warned the shops in Mon against selling of salt above the written MRP, taking advantage of rumour about salt scarcity. He informed that action will be taken against any shop found doing so. According to Anok, there have been reports of shops selling a packet of salt at a price ranging from Rs 30 to 50, though CCM has made no physical verification of the shops yet.

KMC informs traders

kOhIMA, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has acknowledged the business community within its jurisdiction for adhering to the KMC’s order of putting up proper signboards in front of the shops, painting of shutters in Venetian grey (5711) Dulux paint, proper maintenance of green colour dustbins with disposable plastic linings. KMC has reminded other businesses who are yet to finish the paintings to complete it within November 24, 2013. KMC CEO Elizabeth Ngully has also directed all traders to whitewash the buildings in view of the festive season and celebration of Statehood golden jubilee. She further asked them to renovate/ put up signboards and one CFL bulb outside the shops as directed earlier. Defaulters will be penalized, she cautioned.

Sumi Shikipivi Hoho underway

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Sumi Shikipivi Hoho started with the dedication by Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu ES WSBAK. Many people from Sumi Community attended the service. Rev Dr. Ed. Citronnelli, was the speaker of the service. During the service, many people re-dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ and many people were healed. Among them was a person who was paralyzed for the last four months and could not walk. He was healed and could walk again on his own. WSBAK through a press release has invited and informed all Sumi community to attend the Sumi Shikipivi Hoho and be blessed. The services will continue for next two days at Ikishe Village, Dimapur. On Saturday, thousands of people attended the programme and scores were healed of various long term ailments. Many people also renewed their lives and accepted Jesus Christ as their personal saviour. There will be two services on Sunday at 9:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Campaign for people with disability

kOhIMA, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Nagaland Parents Association for the Disabled (NAPAD) is organising flag off program of national mass awareness campaign for People with Disability “Badhte Kadam” at Kohima State Academy hall on November 19, 10:00 am. It will be followed by second session, cultural cum talent show at 2:00 pm. Therefore, parents of PWD (People with Disability) have been requested to bring their children to attend the program.

AR apprehend NSCN(K) cadre

MON, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Based on specific information, 33 Assam Rifles carried out search operation in a suspected house at Walo Ward Colony of Mon Town on November 12, and apprehended an active NSCN (K) cadre who reportedly had returned from GHQ, Throillo, Myanmar. According to a press release issued by the AR, one Pt 22 Pistol, one 12 Bore Gun, ammunition and “incriminating” documents pertaining to NSCN (K), GPRN were also recovered from him. Apprehended cadre along with the recovery was handed over to the police at Mon, it added.

Meeting of Healing Ministry for Handicapped People

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): A meeting of Healing Ministry for Handicapped People will be held on November 17, 4:00 pm at the residence of Pastor JB Gurung, near Cambridge School, House No. 26 for the final discussion of the upcoming advance Christmas programme.

Therefore, all the ministry board members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

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s per 2011 census, the urban population of Nagaland stands at 5,73,731 out of the total population of 19,80,602 which is 28.97%. Dimapur has the highest urban population with 1,97,277 people i.e. 51.95%. Besides this, there are many floating populations from both within and outside of the state. Because of the human pressure and economic activities, the environmental conditions are affected. This has given rise to various problems as well because the infrastructural development is unable to keep pace with the population pressure.

The aim of the campaign is to improve the overall environment of Dimapur City which is fast deteriorating due to population and development factors; creating awareness among the people and seeking the cooperation of all Dimapurians to make Dimapur a clean city.

SOURCES OF AIR POLLUTION: (I) DUST Dusty roads, vehicular emission, small scale industries, viz. stone crusher, sand collections (mahals), Constructions etc.

(II) SMOKE AND GAS EMISSION Smoke from burning of wastes and vehicular emission

Environmental Concerns: Municipal Waste Management, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Plastic Waste Management and Noise Pollution

1. Municipal waste management: Municipal solid waste consists of household waste, construction and demolition debris, sanitation residue, and waste from streets. These wastes are generated mainly from residential and commercial complexes.

The rate of waste generation had increased rapidly in Dimapur City with rising urbanization and change in our lifestyle and food habits. We generate waste each day and the waste generated are collected and are supposed to be thrown in the right designated place i.e.

Community bins, however, most of the wastes are generally seen lying along the roadsides, drains, streams etc, clogging up the drains and polluting the streams and creating not only an eyesore but also posing grave health hazard to the people living around. Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000 are applicable to every Municipal Authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solids.

Mitigation Measures: Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2000 should be strictly followed: I. Segregation: For efficient management of waste, it is important to segregate the wastes at the source.

Citizens may thus be encouraged to segregate their waste at the source of production into biodegradable and non biodegradable waste before disposing off into community bins. a) Source segregation is usually practiced by Nagas where the vegetable wastes and food wastes from homes are collected separately and used for preparing animal feed such as pigs which is a good way to reduce waste. b) Vegetable wastes generated from markets are usually sold for animal feed which reduces the bulk vegetable waste from the market area. The above methods can be encouraged for significant reduction of food and vegetable wastes. c) Recyclable materials both from homes and commercial establishments may be segregated and sold to scrap dealers for recycling. Wastes which have no resale value and are hazardous should be kept separately and be handed over to municipal bodies for safe disposal.

II. Collection and management by the municipal bodies should be efficient to avoid accumulation and overloading of community bins. Throwing of wastes into the streets should be avoided.

Bio-medical produced from hospitals and health care units often find their way into community bins because of negligence causing severe effects on human health as well as the environment and therefore, should be handled separately as per the Bio Medical Waste (management and Handling) Rules.

COLOUR CODED BINS FOR BIO MEDICAL WASTE AND THEIR USES Yellow: Human Anatomical Waste, Animal Waste Microbiology and Biotechnology Waste, Wastes from the laboratory cultures etc and Soiled Wastes e.g. Cotton, Bandages, items contaminated with blood and body fluid.

Red: Soiled waste-Infected Plastics wastes generated

not settle down quickly. The increasing population and increase in number of automobiles and other small scale industries such as stone crushers, sand mahals, tyre vulcanization unit, and improper waste management may be other reasons for the increased air pollution in Dimapur City.

from disposable items other than the waste sharps ing April, 2012 while the least was found to be 2.1mg/l such as tubing, catheters, intravenous sets, plastic during January 2012. In river Chathe, the highest value of 9mg/l was found during July, 2012 while the least syringes etc. was detected as 8mg/l during April and October, 2012.

In river Dzu, the highest BOD was observed as 10mg/l Blue: Blue/White Puncture Proof container waste sharps- during July, 2012 while the least was found to be 7mg/l needles, scalpels, blades, glass etc that may cause punc- during October 2012.

As per designated best use, BOD should be below ture and cuts. This includes both used and used sharps.

Collection should be done by the municipal body in 3mg/l however, the high levels of BOD (above 3mg/l) in a separate vehicle and disposed off safely as per rule. all the three rivers may be attributed to the discharge of domestic wastewater mostly in untreated form and the III. Waste dumping site: municipal waste thrown directly into the water bodies a) The site for dumping waste should be away from without treatment. The relatively high levels of BOD can human habitation. also be attributed to the presence of decaying organic b) The area should be large so that it can be used for matter. The other reason for high BOD level may be due many years without conflict. to increased runoff from urban and agriculture fields c) Proper fencing to avoid entry of animals etc.

(II). GROUND WATER POLLUTION: d) Green belt around the periphery.

Sources-Seepage from drains, discharge of spent oil from automobile workshops and soak pits.

IV. Bio-Medical Waste: WATER POLLUTION MITIGATION: Bio-Medical waste should be handled as per the a. Develop systematic sewage system for the city: BMW rules. At present, the BMW is mixed with other The present drainage system is unable to drain the waste and disposed in the open dumping site which is waste water safely out of the city before entering into not as per rule and is dangerous. Waste in the Health care the natural streams. A proper sewage system with sewunits and hospitals should be segregated and the BMW age treatment plant is required to bring down the polportion should be separately transported in a closed ve- lution level of the river Dhansiri. hicle and disposed of by deep burial till such time when modern incinerators etc are set up by the DMC. DRAIN CHOKED WITH WASTE b. Direct disposal of faecal matter to the drains V. Land for cemetery: Burial ground for general pub- should be prohibited: disposal faecal matter directly lic is becoming scarce and therefore the government into drains is a common sight. Such practices will remay purchase land and set aside for use as cemetery sult in the spread of diseases and hence should be in the future. Burial should not be done close to water prohibited. source. Cremation sites should also be set up scientifiLATRINE DISPOSING FAECAL MATTER DIRECTLY cally away from residential areas.

IN THE DRAIN c. To avoid the spread of disease through contami2. WATER POLLUTION: nation of groundwater, ring wells should not be lo(I). Surface water pollution: cated near septic tanks. A minimum distance of 30ft Source: Domestic wastewater, latrines discharging should be maintained. to the drains.

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is a measure of 3. AIR POLLUTION: the oxygen consumption of a water sample. BOD is one Air pollution increase in dry season especially beof the most important indicators of pollution. In river cause of the bad road condition: raises dust by vehicDhansiri, the highest BOD was observed as 16mg/l dur- ular movement or wind and particulate matters do

AIR POLLUTION MITIGATION MEASURES: a. Improving the road condition to reduce dust: It is observed that due to the bad road condition, the roads are muddy during rains and dusty during the dry season. Most of the roads are without proper drainage and the roads serve as drains leading to destruction of the metalled roads. Therefore roads should be properly designed with camber, side drains and culverts. b. Construction of link road and bridges, expansion of roads etc should be done to reduce vehicle congestion in the main city area. c. Check vehicular pollution: The number of vehicles has increased and traffic jams within the city are frequent.

In order to reduce the vehicular pollution vis: smoke, NO2 and So2, the vehicles need to be kept under control. d. Relocating polluting industries to outside the city limits: Due to rapid expansion of human inhabited areas and our landholding system, many polluting industries such as stone crushers, vulcanizing industries are located in close proximity to residential quarters giving rise to conflicts.

It is therefore, necessary to relocate polluting industries to safe locations away from residential areas: which the government may demarcate for such purpose for specified number of years and provide connectivity and power. e. Urban forestry: Trees play a major role in purifying the air. Urbanization has given rise to deforestation as trees are being cleared to give way to concrete structures. While development is unavoidable, the greenery of the city should not be overlooked in the process. In this regard, the government mayi. Protect existing trees. ii. Set up recreational areas such as parks where greenery maybe maintained. iii. Encourage citizens to plant and protect trees. iv. Proper selection of tree species suitable for urban areas.

4. PLASTIC WASTE MANAGEMENT i. Plastic below 40 microns is banned and needs to be enforced. ii. Recycling of plastic waste may be encouraged. iii. Use of plastic material in sachets for storing, packing or selling gutka, tobacco and pan masala has been banned. iv. Plastic wastes is also used in road construction which is proved to be water resistant, durable and eco-friendly. v. Carry bags made of compostable plastics shall confirm to the Indian Standard: IS/ISO: 17088:2088 titled as “Specification of compostable plastics” vi. Burning of waste especially plastic and rubber should be strictly prohibited. vii. Paper bags to be encouraged through micro level production.

5. NOISE POLLUTION Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Sound which please the listener is music and that which causes annoyance and pain is noise. Increasing ambient noise levels in public places from various sources such as industrial activities, generator sets, and fire crackers during festive seasons is a matter of concern.

(Source: ‘Clean Dimapur City Campaign’ brought out by the Nagaland Pollution Control Board and launched by MLA & Chairman Amenba Yaden on October 9, 2013 at the Board meeting.)

MITHUN (Bos Frontalis): Production and Management INTRODUCTION Livestock sector plays an important role in Indian economy and is contributing 5.22 percent to gross domestic products and 28 percent of the value of output of agriculture.

As per the recommendation of ICMR the requirement of milk, eggs and meat/day/ capita is 250 gm (milk), 180 nos.(egg) and 11 kg (meat). As per the data available for Nagaland State there is a deficiency of 9.1% of meat: 55% milk and 85.8% eggs. Based on the data we can see that there is a huge deficiency of all these items in the state. In this regard, the urgent need of the hour is to find an alternative source of meat production from other species of animals like Mithun (Bos frontalis) which can play a pivotal role in augmenting the total meat production of the country in general and North - Eastern Hill Region (NEHR) in particular.

Mithun (Bos frontalis), the cattle of mountain, probably originated more than 8000 years ago, is considered to be domesticated from wild gaur. The Mithun and Gaur are considered to be different species earlier; however, at present taxonomically mithuns and gaur are grouped into the same species “Bos frontalis”. Mithun and gaur are identical in karyotype and both of them contain 29 pairs of chromosomes. At present there are four defined strains of Mithun in India, namely Arunachal, Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland named after the North - Eastern Hilly State where they have originated and defined on the basis of phenotypic characters.

DISTRIBUTION This free - range bovine species has a limited geographical distribution and mainly found in the North - Eastern Hilly Region of India and in many locations of South East Asia like Myanmar, Bhutan, China and Bangladesh. Mithuns are distributed on mid altitude hills from the Patkai in the North East and Arkan and Chin hills of Myanmar through Chittangong tracts of Bangladesh and Lushai, Manipur and Naga hills in the South - East. In India, it is mainly found in

the tropical rainforest of the North - Eastern hill states (Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram). Livestock census of 2007 shows that out of the total population of mithun in India (0.26 million), 81.9 percent is found in Arunachal Pradesh followed by 12.63 percent in Nagaland, 3.8 percent in Manipur, 0.7 percent in Mizoram, 0.01 percent in Jammu and Kashmir and 0.01 percent in Himachal Pradesh. The mithun population has declined by 4.9 percent over the last census.

HABBITAT Mithuns are generally found at an altitude between 1000 - 3000 m MSL and are quite adaptable in that range. This animal thrives well in hot humid and hilly terrain.

At higher altitude, the territories of Mithun are shared by Yaks, while at lower altitudes domestic cattle and Mithun cohabit.

The peculiarity of this animal is its ability to browse on steep slopes of hills or forest where other animals cannot reach. Mithun has got nibbling habit like goat and utilize mature forages, which are not preferred by other species of livestock. They plays a vital role in the economy of its rearers as the scope of arable agriculture is limited in these areas because of steep topography, prolong and severe winter, shallow soil and lack of irrigation facilities.

IMPORTANCE The mithun is reared primarily for meat and its ownership is considered to be the sign of prosperity and superiority of individual in the society. On important occasions, mithuns are sacrificed for communal feast. The value of mithun differs from one tribe to another tribe and from place to place. In olden days, mithuns were used for barter system of trade, but now a day, they fetch a good price in the market.

In some places, they are exchanged for purchase of land, paying tribute, fine and for bride price. Now a day’s people are able to utilize the milk as well as can sell

the hides of Mithuns which fetches a very the flush season they get abundant of green good price in the market when compared grass, fodder, herbs and shrubs, while durto Cattle and Buffalo hides. ing the lean period there is scarcity of available local fodders. However, if farmers can Physiological parameters of Mithun provide shed to the mithuns they will be 1. Body temperature : 100.3-100.50F able to feed the mithuns with concentrate 2. Pulse rate (per minute) :71.4-73.8 rations fortified with salt and mineral mix3. Respiration rate (per minute) :25.2-30.6 ture to overcome the stress during lean season. It is advisable to follow, scientific Growth rate in Mithuns: An average feeding in mithun for better production and growth rate of 350-600 gm/day has been reproductive performance. recorded under farm conditions in Mithun at different age.

Reproduction in Mithun Mithun bred throughout the year and no Production parameters definite breeding season is observed. Mithun Milk Production: Mithun produces is polyestrous animal. The adult female shows about 0 .87-1.5 kg /day and contains 7.72- repeated estrus cycle after every 19-24 days 10.25% fat, 6.31-6.78% protein, 20.94- interval with silent estrous without bellow22.62% total solids and 13.41-13.70 SNF%. ing and having standing heat period ranging Milk can be used for daily consumption as from 4-16 hours. The length of the gestation well as for preparation of different dairy period is 290-310 days. The service period products such as lassi, rasgullas, ghee, burfi is 49-114 days. The age at first heat and age etc. at first calving varies from 505-762 days and Meat production: Mithun meat is a 996-1230days, respectively. The inter-calving delicacy and is slaughtered during festive period is 343-248 days. The expression of esseasons and ceremonies and fetches a pre- trus behavior is silent in mithun unlike cattle mium price in the market. Dressing per- and is difficult to detect heat in female mithun centage varies from 58-62%. by clinical symptoms. In jungles it becomes Leather production: Superior qual- very difficult to know which bull has cross ity of leather is obtained from mithu hide therefore inbreeding is generally seen which which fetches a good price in the market. should be prevented for maintaining better Leather can be used for the production of germplam of this unique animal. goods like shoes, garments, bags, jackets and purses.

Common diseases in mithun Housing Management: In Nagaland Some of the common disease which is Mithuns are generally kept in the jungles prevalent in Mithuns is without any proper shed and the owners 1. Viral disease: Foot and mouth dismaintains the bond with animals only dur- ease (FMD): It is a highly communicable ing offering of salts. Proper housing if provid- disease and causes a huge loss to the farmed will help the farmers to reduce mortality ers which are mainly attributed due to non in mithuns especially during harsh climatic vaccination of FMD vaccine in time. The condition, detection of disease, identification disease characterized by blister like leof mithuns and administration of oral medi- sions on tongue, nose, muzzle, teats and cines to prevent /treat the disease mithuns. between the toes. The blisters cause flow of Feeding of mithun: Since, Mithuns are sticky and foamy saliva that hangs from the not kept in confined conditions feeding of mouth. Vaccination of mithuns with suitMithuns entirely depends on the pasture able FMD vaccine is the best control mealand and available jungle fodder. During sure. Other viral disease like IBR, Coronavi-

rus infection,Papillomatosis and Malignant catarrhal fever are also common.

2. Bacterial disease: Some of the important bacterial disease of mithun is Tuberculosis, Johne’s and Brucellosis which causes economic losses.

3. Parasitic disease: Several ecto and endo parasitic infestation have been recorded in mithuns. For ecto parasitic infestation such as ticks farmers can spray butox @2ml in 1 litre of water or give Ivermectin injection@1ml /50 body weight S/C. For endo parasitic infestation broad spectrum anthelminthic drug should be used i.e. Albendazole, Fenbendazole, Menbendazole bolus @7.5 mg/kg body weight.

4. Other disease. Leech infestation in nasal cavity is a major problem in free range mithuns. The common symptoms of nasal leech infestation are inserting tongue into nasal orifice, presence of house flies around nose and muzzle and frequent sneezing. There is no specific treatment for leech infestation however spraying Ivermectin solution (2ml Ivermectin and 3 ml water) or saturated salt solution of common salt (10 ml) into nasal cavity with the help on syringe is sometimes useful.

Conclusion: In India, Nagaland stands second in terms of mithun population and has a National Research Centre on Mithun at Jharnapani where lot of work has been done for increasing the productivity and reproductivity of the mithuns which can serve as resource centre for the Mithun rearers.

Till today mithuns are reared in free grazing system and contributions of Mithun farmer’s remains very inadequate in terms of feeding, housing and healthcare practices. If Mithun farmers can follow some of the managemental techniques it will surely help to increase the performance of Mithun and reduce the disease occurrence in Mithun their by uplifting their socioeconomic conditions.

For more details please contact: Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaurasia Programme Coordinator (Animal Science) KVK, Zunheboto, Nagaland University

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he title of this article could be a little misleading. While there is nothing wrong in having money, even lots of it, loving it is a root of all evils. But in Nagaland having lots of money always raises a lot of suspicions. For an economy that depends largely on a small government salary, some of us manage to live in disproportionate luxuries, like CEOs of Multi National Companies. It may take years (or centuries) for MNCs to come to Nagaland, but the lifestyle is already here. Talk about having the cart before the horse. Granted, we are a unique people with a unique history and a unique income source. Throw in a little distortion of the prosperity gospel into this curious mixture and—hallelujah—we don’t have to feel embarrassed about our uniqueness anymore. We can flaunt it. And we have.

I recently read an article in Christianity Today (I’m Rich and I’m Sorry) that called for a new conversation about money. Perhaps we need that new conversation here too. This article talked about stewardship, but for us we need to go deeper than that.

As mentioned above, there is nothing wrong with having lots of money, but in Nagaland where corruption rules and the honest guys gets kicked around, it really becomes very difficult to discern what is sin and what is not especially when it comes to money.

Perhaps this new conversation should begin at the most basic and secret—in the closet and under the table—level where most of the sources of our money may be coming from. After all, how can we talk about stewardship and giving that is Christian and Biblical if the source of our money is from an “unknown god”.

I would not consider myself a rich man, but I am definitely not poor either. All my needs and many of my wants are sufficiently provided for. That places me in a small section of our society and I take no pride in this. In fact, I have often been ashamed and disturbed by it because I have not fully embraced this privilege and thereby the responsibility that comes with it. There are many in our society richer than me, and I have absolutely no problem with that. But what troubles me is that many of them have no shame. Then there is the other majority poorer than me who seems to be equally shameless when it comes to money. Of course this is an over generalisation but the point is that we desperately need to have this new conversation about money. I suspect that many will not like this article as much

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ou can start over. Just do like Nehemiah did and refuse to give up.

When I broke my leg at age 7 and wound up in a full body cast, I had to learn how to walk all over again. It was a painful process and took what seemed like an eternity for a kid who wanted to go out and play. When I broke my leg, again, a year later—and ended up in a body cast again—I had to repeat the entire process.

When I left home at 18, I had to make a fresh start in life away from all my family.

When my husband ran out on my baby and me 12 years later, I had to start all over again.

When I was born again some months later, I made another completely fresh start in life. And after I went to jail on a false accusation, was vindicated and ultimately set free, I started all over again with just a few dollars in my pocket and no job. When I obeyed the Holy Spirit and moved to Alabama, I had to start over again in a whole new state without knowing a single soul.

Some years later, when I left a spiritually abusive church, I lost almost every friend I had and all my ministry positions to follow the Holy Spirit into the new thing He ordained for me. And when I took on this assignment at Charisma magazine, I started all over again. I could go on and on, but I’ll stop there. The point is, I’ve had to start over again time and time again— sometimes by force and sometimes by choice. Either way, it’s tough.

Maybe you can relate. In fact, I’m sure you can because setbacks and start-overs are the story of most people’s lives. Maybe you are in a place right now where you have to start all over again. Maybe you

E as I disliked writing it. Like sex, we like to keep it under covers, but the results in both cases are the same: families are affected, marriages are broken and diseases are spreading.

So where do we start? The Bible sees nothing wrong in having lots of money. In fact the Bible encourages the rich to enjoy their wealth assuming that this wealth is from a legitimate source. God “... richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment” (1 Timothy 6:17). But that’s not the command. The command is for the rich not to be arrogant; not to put their hope in wealth but in God; to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will “set up treasures for themselves as a firm foundation in heaven” (1 Timothy 6:18-19). This command is not negative or against the rich, but rather it is highly positive as it affirms the rich.

There is always a fine thin line between having money and loving it. According to Jesus, the love for God and the love for money is always related. “No one can have two bosses. He will hate the one and love the other. Or he will listen to the one and work against the other. You cannot have both God and riches as your boss at the same time” (Matthew 6:24). Most of us may not admit to loving money, but if money makes us do things; things or activities which otherwise have no value in itself; we are probably loving it too much. Money is good so long as it remains a useful tool in our hands to be used for good works.

This good works includes everything from personal grooming, family maintenance and saving for future, for ministry and helping the poor. But if all our hopes

are placed in it, then it becomes a god that runs our lives and activities and it ceases to be a useful tool in our hands. Sometimes, concern for family can be a reason why people acquire and store up money through dubious means. But concern for family is not a virtue in itself. In a story Jesus told (rich man and Lazarus), a rich man dies and goes to hell where his concern for his family increased. Even though concern for family increased, his vision remained as narrow as ever. He could not see beyond the need of his family and was willing to break all ethical standards, trampling over poor Lazarus to get his family saved.

Who cares about ethics as long as I fulfil my duty toward my family, he might have thought. Yes, he had concern, but he was already in hell.

Then there is the issue of stewardship. Some of us have too much money to waste on a lot of unnecessary luxurious from cars to weddings, and even to church buildings. Perhaps it’s time we rethink these kind of spending too. Someone said our spiritual lives and spiritual growth could be measured by our use of money. How true.

There is a lot of talk in the grapevine these days about our State heading toward a financial crunch. I cannot help but think that this situation could actually be better for us. A little respite from our vulgar excesses may be good for our souls.

“Keep your lives free from the love of money. Be happy with what you have. God has said, ‘I will never leave you or let you be alone.’ So we can say for sure, ‘The Lord is my Helper. I am not afraid of anything man can do to me.’ (Hebrews 13:5-6)

Jennifer Leclaire were abused or cheated. Maybe someone you love passed away or ran away. Maybe the enemy has set out to destroy everything you build. Maybe you laid it all down to obey God. Or maybe you just blew it— maybe it’s your own fault. Let me assure you that even though you may have lost everything, God is still with you and has a new beginning for you that’s greater than anything the enemy stole—or that you walked away from in obedience to Him. You’re in Good Company The Bible is full of stories about people who were forced to start all over again. Think about Rahab the harlot.

Rahab graciously hid the Israelites who were sent into the Promised Land to spy it out. When destruction came upon Jericho, Joshua spared her entire household for blessing the Hebrews (Josh. 6:25).

But she and her family were suddenly in an entirely new place with entirely new people. God gave her a second chance— but in the process she lost everything she had. She had to start all over.

Then there’s Ruth. Her husband died.

She walked through pain, grief and financial struggles. She was forced to start all over again in a new land (Ruth 1:6) and eventually married a new husband.

Here’s how you can discover true success: Look at success the way God does.

Success, from God’s perspective, isn’t about what you may be able to achieve or how much praise others give you for doing so.

True success is becoming the person God wants you to become. God’s intention is for you and every other human being to become more like Jesus Christ during your lifetime on Earth. When you make that your ultimate goal and base all of your decisions on that, you’ll become successful no matter what circumstances you encounter along the way.

Stop trying to be the master of your own universe. In this fallen world, every man makes mistakes and struggles with weaknesses. It’s freeing to admit that you can’t handle every problem or control every situation in your life; doing so removes the pressure of trying and the discouragement of inevitably failing. Instead, focus on

This Will Transform EVERY Relationship You Have- No Kidding Scott Wilson

phesians 5:21 says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ,” but I think there is some misunderstanding about what it means to submit to each other.

If we misunderstand what Paul is saying here, and what God is asking of us, I worry we might resist the idea of submission.

On the other hand, if we correctly understand godly submission, I believe it can influence and transform every relationship in our lives.

When you’re forced to start all over again-again

Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Richard Simmons' book, The True Measure of a Man: How Perceptions of Success, Achievement, and Recognition Fail Men in Difficult Times, (Evergreen Press, 2011).

Our society constantly pressures men to achieve and seek recognition in order to feel successful. But when they fail to meet all of their goals or gain the attention they’ve been seeking, men can easily feel depressed and even worthless. If you’re a man who’s frustrated with the never-ending pressure of how to succeed in this world, God has good news for you. You’ll never fail to achieve success if you pursue it the way God intends.

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Don’t forget Nehemiah. He had the daunting task of rebuilding the decimated walls of Jerusalem all over again. He faced plenty of spiritual warfare but with God’s grace completed the task.

And how about Jacob? He served his uncle Laban for seven years for the right to marry his heart’s love, Rachel, only to be tricked into marrying her sister Leah instead. He was cheated and mistreated. He had to start all over again and work another seven years for Rachel’s hand (Gen. 29).

Moving on to the New Testament, we find plenty of other examples. There’s Saul, the persecutor of the church who had climbed to high-ranking status as a Pharisee. When he came to Christ, he lost all his titles and recognition—and became a hunted man. He had to start all over again. Even his name changed.

But Saul-turned-Paul counted it all loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ (Phil. 3:8). He later wrote twothirds of the New Testament.

And what about John Mark, who abandoned his first mission with Barnabas and Saul (Acts 15:37-38)? John Mark had to resolve his personal issues and start all over, but he climbed back into the grace of God, and Paul later called him profitable for ministry (2 Tim. 4:11).

Here are seven things I think we must do in order to submit to one another.

1. Carry each other’s burdens.

Burdens can be failures, anxieties, fears, sins, temptations and so much more.

Galatians 6:1-2 says that if a brother is caught in sin, those who “live by the Spirit” should “restore that person gently.” This requires more than just a simple rebuke. This requires walking with a person through their trial, mourning with them as they mourn, celebrating as they celebrate.

Judgement is easy. Friendship is hard.

Carry each other’s burdens, and you will (as Paul says in Galatians) “fulfill the law of Christ.”

2. Challenge each other.

Hebrews 10:24 says it best. “Consider how we might spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”

I love that word consider. It’s as if Paul is inviting us to get creative. Think of ways you can inspire and motivate each other. This will look different for each person and each relationship. But consider how you might help your kids and parents and co-workers grow into who they were made to be in Christ.

3. Speak truth in love to each other.

Proverbs 27:6 says, “Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.” In other words, your true friends will be the ones who tell you the truth.

The key here is that truth happens within the context of relationship.

Often, we think we see the “truth” about a person, but we don’t see the whole circumstance because we aren’t in relationship with them. Submitting to a person involves both getting close enough to see the whole picture, and being willing to speak the truth we see.

4. Sharpen each other.

Often, we sharpen each other simply by being in relationship and staying in relationship. The people who drive you crazy at work, who rub you the wrong way at church, and the child who gives you the most grief— they’re sharpening you (and you’re sharpening them).

Stay in relationship with people, even when it’s hard.

God’s Prophetic Words to You Look to Jesus for strength and wisdom. This is subWhether you’ve faced death or loss, mission. whether you’ve sinned or pulled back from an assignment—no matter what 5. Encourage each other.

For some of you, encouragement comes really natuhas happened or what you’ve done, you can start all over again. If you’ve sinned, rally. Perhaps “words of encouragement” is one of your repent. If you find yourself in a new love languages (how you give or receive), like I displace in life, believe God has a blessing cussed the other day.

For others of you, giving or receiving encouragefor you there and rejoice. If you’re facing opposition, press into God’s will and ment feels uncomfortable and unnatural.

Either way, keep encouragement simple. Less is let Him battle for you. If you’ve been cheated and mistreated, pray for your more.

A simple, “You’re doing a great job,” or, “I really apenemies. If you’ve made mistakes, work with God to correct them. preciate you,” can go a long way.

You can start over. You can find significance. You can be an inspiration to oth- 6. Don’t envy each other.

Nothing will steal your joy more quickly than envyers. Just do like Nehemiah did and refuse ing other people. to give up. Do what Paul did and count Not only does it prevent you from enjoying what is really it all loss for the sake of Christ. Do what John Mark did and work through your is- good about your own life and circumstance, but it causes sues so you can be profitable to the king- you to fantasize about their life and circumstance, and, the truth is, your fantasy is likely untrue. Most of the time, you dom. Just don’t give up.

God would say to you, “And we know just don’t know the details. Nobody’s life is perfect.

Don’t waste your time with comparison and envy. that all things work together for good to Instead of envy, practice celebration and love. those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Rom. 7. Confess your faults.

8:28). God would say to you, “For I know James 5:16 says, “Therefore confess your sins to each the thoughts that I think toward you ... other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effecyou a future and a hope (Jer. 29:11). God tive.” Did you catch that? Confess, that you might be healed. would say to you, “Do not remember the Confession is hard, but confession is healing. former things, nor consider the things of Do you have people in your life who you feel safe to old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it share your secrets with? If not, find these people (godly shall spring forth; shall you not know it? people), confess to them and ask them to pray for you, I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” (Is. 43:18- that you might be healed.

Scott Wilson is the Senior Pastor of The Oaks Fellowship, ministering 19). Amen. to about 3,000 people every week in Dallas, TX. He is a frequent conference Jennifer LeClaire is news editor at Charisma. She is also the author of several books, including The Spiritual Warrior's Guide to Defeating Jezebel.

speaker, and provides mentorship for dozens of pastors and church leaders through Scott Wilson Consulting. Scott is a loving husband and proud father.

Scott and his wife, Jenni, have three boys: Dillon, Hunter, and Dakota.

True Measure of a Man

trusting God, who actually is the master of the universe. Rather than trying to deal with your concerns by yourself and despairing when you fail, rely on God to give you the strength you need to deal with any situation successfully.

Change the way you try to answer the question “What will people think about me?” That’s a natural question for you to ask yourself as a man. But don’t answer it by trying to project a successful image of yourself to others through what you do, who you know, or what you earn or own. That type of image shows the appearance of success, but doesn’t necessarily reflect excellence. The only way to show others that you’re truly successful is to develop excellent character so others will be inspired by the type of person you are.

Consider what your legacy to be. Every day, keep in mind how you’d like people to remember your life after it’s over. Make choices from an eternal perspective. Do your best to contribute as much as you can to the world in the ways God leads you to do so. Keep in mind that people will ultimately remember you for what type of person you became – not for your achievements alone.

Base your identity on your relationship with Jesus. Don’t allow your achievements, income level, or anything else in this world to determine your worth as a person.

Instead, embrace the deep, unconditional love that God offers you through your re-

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lationship with Jesus. Remember that no amount of worldly success can cause you to earn God’s love, and no amount of worldly failure can cause you to lose God’s love.

Become courageous. Realize that the object of life isn’t to have comfort, pleasure, and prosperity. Instead, it’s to mature your soul so you become more like Jesus, which involves cooperating with God’s work to bring good purposes out of your pain. So

pray about the fear you feel when you face challenges, and invite God to give you the courage you need to deal with them successfully – by emerging from them as a better person.

Develop a stronger character. Become more like Jesus by pursuing character traits such as self-restraint, honesty, integrity, diligence, fairness, and selflessness.

Grow in wisdom. Become more like Jesus by asking God to teach you how to distinguish between ideas that are true and ideas that are false so you can develop sound judgment and make good moral choices.

Build strong relationships. Become more like Jesus by focusing on what matters most: relationships. Do all you can to build stronger relationships with God and other people. Learn how to express love and compassion as God wants you to in all of your relationships.

Become humble. Overcome the sin of pride (which leads you farther away from God) by realizing that all that you have is a gift from God and the result of other people contributing to your life. Make a habit of noticing the many blessings you regularly receive from God and the help that constantly comes into your life from others. Express your gratitude to God and other people often. Perform for an audience of just one – God alone – since God’s opinion of your life is the only one that ultimately matters. In the process, you’ll become humble, which is a position of strength, since God gives grace

only to humble people.

Become content. Stop comparing your life with other men’s lives and instead focus on discovering and fulfilling God’s unique purposes for you. Accept the invitation that Jesus offers you to find rest, peace, and joy through your relationship with Him, which can’t be shaken by any circumstances.

Adapted from The True Measure of a Man: How Perceptions of Success, Achievement, and Recognition Fail Men in Difficult Times copyright 2011 by Richard E. Simmons III. Published by Evergreen Press, Mobile, Al., www.evergreenpress.com.

Richard E. Simmons III received his B.A. from the University of the South (Sewaneee) in Economics in 1976. He later studied Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State prior to beginning a 25year career with Hilb, Rogal, and Hamilton, a property and casualty insurance firm. He was CEO of that firm for 10 years. He has devoted much of his life to giving back to the community by working with youth, as well as advising businessmen and other professionals. Through these experiences, he discovered that he had a gift and inclination for teaching and public speaking. In December 2000, he founded the Center for Executive Leadership, a nonprofit, faithbased ministry. When he’s not spending time with his wife and three children, he’s teaching, counseling, writing, or speaking to men’s groups across the United States.

Whitney Hopler is a freelance writer and editor who serves as both a Crosswalk. com contributing writer and the editor of About.com’s site on angels and miracles (http://angels.about.com/).

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

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Cong slams modi over snooping allegation

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 16 (PTI): Targeting Narendra Modi and BJP over alleged snooping on a young woman in 2009, Congress on Saturday said

candidate over the accusation of illegal surveillance

by Cobrapost and alleged that “dirty tricks wing” of Congress was behind the controversy.

Through another tweet, he sought to know “would All Modi lovers pl react and condemn it or as a true loyalist defend Modi and Amit Shah.”

Another Congress gen-

in which you and I, our family members, every man, woman on the street will be subject to stalking by state apparatus. Is this the BJP’s definition of freedom and

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 16 (TNN): The Election Commission on Saturday granted four more days to BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to reply to its notice over his ‘khooni panja” and “zaalim haath” remarks made during a poll rally in Chhattisgarh.

Modi, who was required to file his response to the EC notice by 5 pm on Saturday, is believed to have sought an extension of the deadline in

view of his preoccupation with campaigning for the current round of assembly polls. The EC has now asked him to submit his reply by 11.30 am on November 20.

In its notice to Modi served on Wednesday, the EC had held that his ‘khooni panja’ and ‘zaalim haath’ remarks had prima facie violated the model code of conduct.

The EC notice cited sub para (2) of Para 1 of the model code, which pro-

vides that “criticism of other political parties, when made, shall be confined to their policies and programme, past record and works...criticism of other parties and their workers based on unverified allegations and distortions shall be avoided”.

The Commission asked Modi to explain why action should not be taken against him for violation of the model code.

Modi had, during a campaign speech in Ra-

jnandgaon on November 7, asked the people if they wanted to vote for a “khooni haath” (killer hand).

Alleging that the three years of Congress rule in the state were marked by misery, the BJP star campaigner claimed that “it was chief minister Raman Singh who saved Chhattisgarh from this cruel hand”.

Outraged over the apparent references to its poll symbol, the Congress had on November 9 moved EC seeking action against Modi.

Modi gets 4 more days to reply to EC notice

it was “brazen assault on civil liberty by state sponsored stalking” after the “Gujarat pogrom” and “fake” encounters.

Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari alleged that it reflected the kind of state the BJP wanted to make and asked if this was its definition of freedom and liberty.

His remarks came as BJP president Rajnath Singh ruled out a rethink on its prime ministerial

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh also took a potshot at BJP, wondering whether supporters of Narendra Modi would condemn or defend the “spying on an innocent girl” by the Gujarat police.

“Modi and Amit Shah use Gujarat Police to spy on an innocent girl! Didn’t Gujarat Police and then home minister violate the Law of the Land?”, Singh said on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

eral secretary Shakeel Ahmed tweeted: “For “Saheb” Amit Shah, then MoS Home, used cops to snoop on a young woman from Gujarat. Everyone asking who is the “Saheb”? Media speculating!”. Sharpening attack on Modi, Tewari said “first the Gujarat pogrom, which was followed by fake encounter and now the brazen assault in civil liberty by state sponsored stalking.

“What kind of state do these people want to create

liberty? Is this the respect they have for core constitutional value? “ He was speaking at the sidelines of a function here.

“I think first of all the BJP president should have given a cogent explanation to the expose by Cobrapost. com and Gulail with regard to state sponsored stalking. You see it raises a larger question and the larger question is not only as a woman but as a civil libertarian,” Tewari said.

Modi and his close aide and former minister of state for home Amit Shah were on Friday accused of misusing powers and police machinery for illegal surveillance of a young woman in 2009.

“The BJP has recently expressed outrage over an alleged case of telephone tapping,” Tewari said and questioned why same people are silent now. He said, “The intriguing part of the this entire business is that if reporters are correct, the expose did not name the alleged ‘sahib’. It is the BJP which has come up with trumped up clarifications and what is even more intriguing that statements have come from the revered father of the lady in question who was also not named in the expose. “Therefore is that the revered father knows something which nation needs to know.”

I&B minister said “It raised some very fundamental question with the regard to the Orwellian state which the esteemed gentleman who heads Gujarat has sought to construct.”

Orwellian state relates to the satirical novel 1984 of George Orwell, which depicts a futuristic totalitarian state. “I think India needs to reflect very seriously on this,” Tewari added.

New recruits of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) participate in a graduation parade ceremony in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India on November 16. A total 535 recruits formally inducted into the BSF will join Indian soldiers fighting separatist Islamic guerrillas in Kashmir to help end an insurgency that started in 1989. (AP Photo)

A Greenpeace activist dressed as a Polar bear and other activists hold placards inside a cage during a protest against the arrest of Greenpeace activists and freelance journalists, portraits displayed, in New Delhi, India on November 16. The 28 Greenpeace activists and 2 freelance journalists have been held since their ship, the "Arctic Sunrise" was seized by the Russian coast guard after protesting outside the oil rig belonging to Russia's Gazprom state energy giant on September 18. (AP Photo)

22 die in Karnataka road accident ‘Level of political discourse going down’

bELgAum, NovEmbEr 16 (IANS): At least 22 people were killed early Saturday when a minitruck in which they were travelling toppled on a highway near Belgaum, police said.

“The accident occurred around 5:30 a.m.

when the mini-truck overturned after its driver lost control and hit a roadside kerb at a junction on the state highway,” Belgaum Superintendent of Police Chandra Gupta told IANS. Belgaum is about 500 km from Bangalore. The victims include nine women

and five children.

“Of the about 35 people on board the ill-fated goods vehicle, 12 were injured and have been admitted to a local hospital for treatment at Murgod,” Gupta said. Murgod is 5km from the accident spot at Halki cross and 30 km from Bel-

gaum. The victims were going to Saundatti, a border town in the northwest region from Surpur in Yadgir district in northeast of the state, about 540 km from Bangalore.

“The elderly victims were labourers who were on way to work in agriculture fields to harvest crops on daily wages. They were travelling in a transport vehicle (which is)illegal as they can’t afford to pay for the costly bus tariff,” Gupta said. Police registered a case against the driver and the vehicle’s owner under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for rash and negligent driving resulting in deaths.

“The driver was drowsy and was driving fast when the vehicle hit the kerb and skidded off the road before overturning on the wayside,” one of the victims, who survived with injuries, told police.

bANgALorE, No vEmbEr 16 (PTI): BJP on Saturday flayed reported moves by the government to effect steep cuts in funds for social sector schemes and budgetary support for six flagship programmes, saying the Prime Minister and finance minister should “come out of the slumber” and think out of the box.

The Union finance ministry was reportedly trying to cut funds for social sector schemes to keep the

fiscal deficit within the targeted 4.8 per cent and also six flagship programmes meant for employment, health, water, housing, electrification and developing rural roads, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.

He said the budgetary allocations themselves for the current year were meagre and either they were reduced or stagnant but the government wants to cut them further.

The retail inflation had

touched the double digit at 10.09 per cent, private investments had dried up and the fiscal and current account deficits were almost as bad as in 1991, when India faced severe economic crisis, he said.

Indian investors were running away and global investors afraid to invest and there was unprecedented corruption in every major decision of the government, he said, adding, “Now you are planning to impose cuts in public expenditure as

well. Where is the country being taken to? The country needs answers.”

“Prime Minister and finance minister should come out of the slumber and think out of the box solutions,” Naidu said.

With ever increasing inflation breaking the backbone of “aam admi”, the proposed cut would affect growth and hit welfare of the commonman. “People will not excuse you. They are just waiting to teach you a befitting lesson,” he said.

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 16 (IANS): The level of political discourse has come down in the country in the personal jibes that politicians, especially top ones, are taking at each other ahead of the assembly polls to five states and the 2014 national polls, say political analysts.

While the Congress and the Samajwadi Party are also to be blamed for the situation, it is the BJP’s poster boy Narendra Modi whose personal remarks and innuendos are particularly tasteless and “below the belt”, they said.

“All sides are guilty but Modi is beating all records.

The campaign has come to a very low level,” Kuldip Nayar, media commentator and former MP, told IANS. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was recently asked by the Election Commission to exercise caution in future after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) complained his speeches violated the model poll code.

Gandhi had charged the BJP with fomenting communal riots to gain electorally while addressing rallies in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. He even suggested disaffected Muslim victims of these riots were being taken advantage of by Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, The Election Commission has also issued notice to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his “khooni panja” (bloody hand) remark aimed at the Congress.

Samajwadi Party lead-

moScoW, NovEmbEr 16 (AgENcIES): The much-awaited USD 2.3 billion aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya was inducted into the Indian Navy on Saturday. The mammoth 44,500-tonne warship was commissioned into the Indian Navy at the Sevmash Shipyard in this northern Arctic port at a handing over ceremony attended

by Defence Minister A K Antony and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and senior government and naval officials of the two countries.

The Russian flag on the vessel was lowered and the flag of the Indian Navy was INS Vikramaditya stands tall in all its majesty minutes ahead of its commissioning into raised in its place. In a tradithe Indian Navy, at the Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk on Saturday. The induction of the carrier, formerly Admiral Gorshkov, was attended by Russian Deputy Prime Minister tional Indian ritual, a coconut was broken against the Dmitry Rogozin and Defence Minister A.K. Antony.

ship’s side.

The commissioning papers were signed by deputy director of Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport, Igor Sevastyanov and the ship’s captain Suraj Berry, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported.

AK Antony arrived in Russia on Friday for the commissioning of the aircraft carrier at Russia’s nuclear submarine building centre Sevmash Shipyard.

Antony, accompanied by a high-level delegation including Defence Secretary R K Mathur and other officials, arrived on a fourday visit to the country. Naval Chief Admiral DK Joshi is already here.

Indian Naval Ship Vikramaditya is the country’s

A truck lies mangled after it overturned on a potholed road near Belgaum, in the western Indian Karnataka state on November 16. Police inspector Ashok Malage said 22 people were killed and 32 others injured in the pre-dawn accident Saturday. (AP Photo)

Come out of slumber, BJP tells PM and FM

er Naresh Agarwal also came in for sharp criticism over his jibe at Modi when he said that a tea seller cannot have a national perspective.

But analysts and commentators were united in their criticism of Modi’s recent jibes against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over her illness and his use of the term “shehzada” (prince) for party vice president Rahul Gandhi. Modi is the BJP’s candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

“Modi is not raising issues but abusing people. He is getting personal,” said Nayar.

Both Nayar and Zoya Hasan, a political science professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, expressed apprehensions of what will happen if Modi became the prime minister.

“It would be unfortunate if he becomes the prime minister. Modi’s campaign is all about attack, abuse and distortion.

The attack is not only personal but vicious,” Hasan told IANS. “I shudder to think that he may become prime minister,” Nayar told IANS. Speaking on Thursday at Raipur, Modi said “Agar Madam beemar hain to bachche ko kaam do (If madam is unwell, hand over the work to her child).”

Responding to Con-

gress charge that the state government did not properly use central funds, he said, “Kya aap apne mama ke ghar se laakar de rahe ho( Are you getting the funds from your maternal uncle’s home.”

Without naming former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi, who is wheelchair bound after an accident, Modi spoke of an Hindi film analogy where a family introduced their beautiful daughter while finalising a marriage proposal but actually switched sisters by bringing in the one with disability for the marriage ceremony.

Stepping up his attack on the Nehru -Gandhi family, Modi said in Raigarh Friday that Rahul Gandhi was talking of changing the system when it was his father and grand-mother who created it and allegedly distorted and misused it for their personal gains.

Modi continues to refer to Rahul Gandhi sarcastically as ‘shehzada’ despite a strong objection from the Congress.

“Modi should show some maturity and discretion,” said Nayar.

According to Mridula Mukherjee, who teaches social science at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the personal attacks “show the low cultural level of the

person.”

“They can criticise the Congress on its policies, but personal attacks (on Sonia Gandhi) are meaningless.

The use of such language is vitiating the political discourse” Mukherjee said.

Public pressure could be a deterrent in checking such malicious campaign, said the experts.

“If people make it clear they don’t like such language, it would put some pressure on people who use it,” said Mukherjee adding “the Election Commission should take note of it.”

“People will have to make a judgment,” said Hasan. Modi’s confidence she said stems from the fact that he is allowed to get away with it.

B.R.P. Bhaskar, a political commentator in Thiruvanathapurm, said what is happening in politics is but a reflection of the general deterioration in standards in every sphere of life. But thanks to round-the-clock media vigilance, the public is getting to know about these things almost instantly.

Talking about Modi, he said that the “in the politics that Modi represents, there has always been an element of name-calling and villification” but these have generally been at the lower level while the top leadership has largely been refined in their rhetoric.

“But when the top leadership of a party indulges in such low-level politics, it is shocking,” Bhaskar told IANS.

second aircraft carrier and the navy’s biggest warship.

INS Vikramaditya will not have any air defence systems on board to protect itself from aerial attacks while coming home from Russia and the Navy has sent warships to escort it safely.

The escort group of warships has been sent to Russia to bring the carrier to India through a classified route to bring it to its home base in the Arabian Sea, they said.

INS Vikramaditya’s commissioning is being described as “a game changer” in naval circles, and is expected to project India’s maritime power far beyond its shores.

The aircraft carrier is expected to reach India by early next year. Vikramad-

itya is 284 meters in length, and with its beam of about 60 meters, it stretches to an area as large as three football fields. It has 22 decks and will have over 1,600 personnel on board.

The warship can carry over 30 aircraft, comprising an assortment of MiG 29K/Sea Harrier, Kamov 31, Kamov 28, Sea King, ALH-Dhruv and Chetak helicopters.

Long range air surveillance radars and advanced electronic warfare suite makes the ship capable of maintaining “a surveillance bubble” of over 500 km around the ship.

The ship is equipped with state-of-the-art launch and recovery systems and computer-aided

Action Information Organisation (CAIO) system, which is the heart of the operational network that infuses life into the combat systems onboard the ship.

Negotiations over acquiring Admiral Gorshkov (which was re-named INS Vikramaditya) started in 1994. A memorandum of understanding was signed in December 1998, and the deal was made January 2004.

The warship, which was given for ‘free’ to India in 2004, is ultimately going to cost more than Rs 12,000 crore to the nation.

The Navy has plans of bringing the warship to India and deploy it at the newly-developed Karwar naval base called Project Seabird.

“Modi is not raising issues but abusing people.

He is getting personal”

Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya inducted into Indian Navy

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China unveils boldest reforms in deCades

BEIJING, NovEmBEr 16 (rEutErs): China unwrapped its boldest set of economic and social reforms in nearly three decades on Friday, relaxing its one-child policy and further freeing up markets in order to put the world’s second-largest economy on a more stable footing.

The sweeping changes helped dispel doubts about the leadership’s zest for the reforms needed to give the economy fresh momentum as three decades of breakneck expansion shows signs of faltering. However, the reforms may take years.

A document released by the Communist Party following a four-day conclave of its senior leaders promised land and residence registration reforms needed to boost China’s urban population and allow its transition to a westernstyle services- and consumption-driven economy.

Pricing of fuels, electricity and other key resources - now a source of major distortions - would be mainly decided by markets, while Beijing also pledged to speed up the opening of its capital account and further financial liberalisation.

“The reforms are unprecedented,” said Xu Hongcai, senior economist at the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, a well-connected Beijing think tank.

“Reforms in 1990s were limited to some areas, now reforms are all-round.”

Analysts suggested the plans are the most significant since Deng Xiaoping led a series of reforms in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Those changes eventually opened up the country to the outside world and set it on course to become the champion economy of emerging markets.

President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, appointed in March, announced several breakthroughs in social policy, pledging to unify rural and urban social security systems and to abolish controversial labour camps.

The 60-point plan, more comprehensive and specific than initially thought, also eased concerns that Xi would need months if not years to take full charge of China’s vast party and government bureaucracy.

China-watchers took the establishment of a working group to lead economic reform and a new State Security Council as further signs of how effectively Xi had managed to consolidate power just eight months after he officially took over.

“This is much more of a top-down, systemic leadership compared to the 1980s and 1990s. Compared to previous generations, this is a remarkably robust leadership,” said Dali Yang, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.

CoLomBo, NovEmBEr 16 (AFP): David Cameron put Sri Lanka on notice Saturday to address allegations of war crimes within months or else he would lead a push for action at the United Nations.

Speaking at a troubled Commonwealth summit in Colombo, the premier warned his hosts that pressure over alleged abuses at the end of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict was not about to go away. He also told of how he had “frank” exchanges with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse after he returned from a historic visit to the war-torn Jaffna region.

“The Sri Lankan government needs to go further and faster on human rights and reconciliation,” Camer-

on told a press conference.

“I accept it takes time but I think the important thing is to get on the right track.

“This issue is not going to go away, it’s an issue of international concern.”

The UN and rights group say as many as 40,000 civilians may have been killed in the final stages of the civil war in May 2009 when Tamil Tiger rebels were routed.

However Rajapakse has denied any civilians were killed and has also blocked all calls for an independent probe into claims of war crimes committed by government forces against the Tamil population in the Jaffna region.

Cameron said Rajapakse wanted more time to address the claims but put

gave themselves until 2020 to achieve “decisive” results - a tacit acknowledgement of the risks involved in Beijing’s balancing act between letting market forces eventually take over and preserving financial and social stability and the Communist Party’s political monopoly.

The experience of the past decade is also a reason why many economists and international observers view Beijing’s bold reform plans with guarded optimism.

Just like Xi and Li, the previous leadership promised to overhaul China’s economy and kick its addiction to rapid, investment and credit-fuelled growth, but left it saddled with more debt, industrial overcapacity, pollution and financial strains.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew echoed that caution during a stopover in Beijing on his Asian tour, describing the plans as “ambitious” and noting that key was how soon they would become reality. “The direction is significant, but the character and the pace of change matters,” Lew told reporters.

The initial brief reform outline published on Tuesday triggered a stock market sell-off, with investors taking its scant details as a sign of a lack of commitment on Xi’s part or his failure to overcome resistance of vested interests, such CAUTION Still, Xi and his team as powerful state-owned

In this on August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects a guard of honor outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China’s plan to create a new security committee demonstrates Xi’s success in cementing his authority as Communist Party leader, analysts said on November 13. Chinese academics for decades have advocated a body to oversee coordination among police, intelligence, military and other security organs, which have sometimes appeared out of step with each other or with the party’s civilian leadership despite their emphasis on discipline and unity. (AP File Photo)

companies.

But a raft of specific policy plans ranging from interest rate and currency regime liberalisation to residence registration and land reforms and the pledge to allow more competition seemed to put such concerns to rest.

According to the document, the government had decided to work toward an independent judiciary courts would be “appropriately” separated from local

governments.

Under government reform, it relaxed the need for government approval on projects and said the performance of local officials would be rated on measures other than just economic growth, such as in environmental protection.

The commitment to abolish re-education through labour camps was also remarkable, given that several political sources had told Reuters this was an area

Jaffna since Sri Lanka, a former British colony, gained independence in 1948.

While Sri Lanka had hoped the summit would showcase its revival since troops from the mainly Sinhalese government crushed the Tamil Tigers in 2009, Cameron’s visit and boycotts by several leaders have torpedoed its strategy.

In a sign of Sri Lanka’s anger at Cameron’s visit, a senior minister said Saturday that the Commonwealth “should not be an international policeman”. “No country should be allowed to impose their thinking on another country,” Irrigation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told reporters.

“We want the president to uphold the principle of non-interference” in sov-

ereign affairs. “We are not economically strong but we have our national pride.”

Cameron received an emotional reception in Jaffna from locals who were desperate to tell him of their plight during the war and in its aftermath.

During his tour, Cameron met the editor of a newspaper whose printing presses have been torched several times, including in April.

The same paper has lost five staff in attacks since Rajapakse came to power in 2005. The desperation of locals was underlined when two women tried to hurl themselves in front of his convoy, clutching pictures of loved ones who were killed in the conflict which claimed more than 100,000 lives.

to earth, willing to be blunt when needed, and gracious at managing the daily challenges that come with nurturing her father’s legacy.

“Every day, people walk up to her and say, ‘I’m such a big fan of your father, he inspired me to do this,’ and she’s handled that so well,” Grayson said.

Asked in 2012 if she ever felt overwhelmed by the legacy of the Kennedy years and the carefully cultivated image of a modern day Camelot, Kennedy said simply, “I can’t imagine having better parents and a more wonderful brother.

So I feel really fortunate that those are my family, and I wish they were here.

“But my own family, my children, my husband, are really my real family and so ... we’re just us.”

Raised in privilege on New York’s Upper East Side, Kennedy earned a Columbia law degree but rather than practice law, she chose to write and edit books about the right to privacy, poetry and other subjects. While her brother made a public splash and earned the label “sexiest man alive” from People magazine, Caroline limited her public appearances and tried to be just another parent shepherding her kids to adulthood, working as an unpaid fundraiser for the city’s school system once they got older. She is married to exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg.

For all the days that felt

just ordinary, though, there were moments when recollections of the trials of her life would come crashing through.

“You don’t think about it all the time,” Kennedy once said, in a comment cited in Christopher Andersen’s biography “Sweet Caroline.” ‘’Sometimes you’re just walking down the street and it just hits you ....”

Over the years, she has gradually edged back into the spotlight, and stepped more deeply into politics.

Early in 2008, she endorsed Barack Obama in the presidential campaign, a pivotal moment in his primary race against Hillary Rodham Clinton; Kennedy later served on the team that helped Obama select his running mate.

But she abruptly withdrew after flirting with the idea of seeking appointment to the Senate seat vacated when Clinton became secretary of state, citing personal reasons.

Kennedy had been harshly criticized for giving halting interviews and limiting her interactions with reporters, and some critics questioned whether her background had prepared her for the Senate.

Kennedy seemed far more comfortable with the job description when Obama last summer nominated her to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan. She was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in October.

where Xi was facing much plans on Tuesday had afresistance. firmed those firms’ strategic role in the economy. But LONG PROCESS the longer report on Friday Few commentators raised state firm dividend had also expected any sig- payments, allowed private nificant attempts to take on firms to enter some of the powerful state monopolies, protected sectors and eneven though many econo- couraged them to take mists argue that loosen- part in reforming the stateing the stranglehold of owned firms. big state-owned firms’ on All in all, the proposed markets from banking to reforms are part of Chienergy was key to success na’s grand transformaof other reforms. tion design: retooling the The initial outline of the economy towards greater

reliance on consumption, services and moving up the manufacturing value chain, while tackling deepening inequality and discontent, a source of great anxiety for a leadership that prizes stability over everything else.

Chinese leaders are acutely aware of what is at stake as years of rapid growth come to an end. Having been the factory to the world, they want to avoid the so-called middle-income trap, where wealth creation stagnates as market share is lost to lower-cost rivals.

The World Bank says China’s per capita GDP was $6,188 last year, compared with $22,590 in South Korea, $36,796 in Hong Kong and $51,709 in Singapore - Asian peers that have succeeded in making such a transition.

What appeared to be a leak of the document on Chinese social media earlier on Friday set off a rally in Chinese stock markets .CSI300 hours before its official release, with investors cheering its relatively detailed language on reforms.

Still, economists said that having a good plan was only part of the success and making the ambitious agenda a reality would be the new leaders’ true challenge.

“Based on the headlines ... they are moving in a positive direction,” said Jan von Gerich, fixed income chief analyst with Nordea Bank in Helsinki. “But one should not get too carried away as this will be a long process.”

Cameron puts Sri Lanka on notice over war crimes Israeli PM tweets over ‘bad deal’ with Iran him on notice to deliver

by March or else he would push for an international investigation through the auspices of the UN human rights council.

“Let me be very clear, if an investigation is not completed by March, then I will use our position on the UN Human Rights Council to work with the UN Human Rights Commission and call for a full, credible and independent international inquiry.”

Cameron upstaged the first day of the three-day meeting Friday by travelling to the Jaffna region which bore the main brunt of the 37-year civil war, meeting with local ethnic Tamils who lost loved ones or were left homeless. He was the first foreign leader to visit

‘keeper of family flame, diplomat’

New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy gives a statement shortly after her arrival in Japan at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo on November 15. Japan hopes the 55-year-old daughter of late President John F. Kennedy will work closely with President Barack Obama to tackle some urgent U.S.-Japan matters, analysts said. (AP Photo)

WAsHINGtoN, NovEmBEr 16 (AP): She is the little girl riding her pony Macaroni around the White House lawn, the big sister hiding under the president’s desk with her little brother John. And in a heartbreaking childhood photo, she is the whitegloved daughter kneeling with her mother at the coffin of her slain father, John F. Kennedy.

Flash forward 50 years and here is Caroline Kennedy again: author, lawyer and mother of three, tending to the Kennedy flame as her family’s sole survivor.

And, finally, after decades protecting her privacy, she’s stepping into a more

public role as U.S. ambassador to Japan, arriving there Friday to take up her position as U.S. ambassador Kennedy, 55, was five days short of her sixth birthday when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.

The family’s nanny gently informed Caroline that her father had been shot “and they couldn’t make him better.”

With that, Caroline’s world was shaken, not for the first time or the last.

Three months earlier, a little brother, Patrick, had died shortly after birth.

Then Robert F. Kennedy, the uncle who stepped in to serve as a sort of surrogate

father after JFK’s assassination, was himself shot and killed five years later. After losing her mother to cancer in 1994, Caroline lost her brother John in a 1999 plane crash at age 38.

Through it all, levelheaded Caroline soldiered on, lending her support to the causes and ideals her parents and brother had championed. She’s served as president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and chaired the senior advisory committee of the Institute of Politics at Harvard, set up as a memorial to Kennedy, Trey Grayson, director of the institute, describes Kennedy as quiet and down

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Sde Boker, Israel on November 10. Netanyahu said that Israel would do all it could to keep world powers from striking a "bad and dangerous" deal with Iran over its nuclear program. (AP Photo)

JErusALEm, NovEmBEr 16 (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter on Friday to keep up pressure on Western powers over negotiations with Iran on its contested nuclear program and to warn against rushing into a “bad deal.”

In his latest salvo against making concessions to Iran, Netanyahu’s Twitter account featured a cartoonlike ad that detailed what he said the pending agreement included.

“The proposal enables Iran to develop atomic bombs and build longrange missiles to reach the U.S. and Europe,” it read.

“Iran is getting everything and giving nothing.”

Netanyahu has been increasingly vocal in recent days about his opposition to a potential deal between six Western powers and Iran that would lift some sanctions while still leaving Iran with uranium-enrichment capabilities. Netanyahu has said he utterly rejects the brewing agreement and has been lobbying American allies in Congress to keep up sanctions.

The approach has strained relations with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, which has asked Congress to hold off

sanctions while negotiations are underway.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said she saw the tweet Friday but had no response to it. She reiterated though that Israel and the United States had the same goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“The place where we diverge a bit is on the tactical level, where we believe we need a first step that halts Iran’s program to give us time to negotiate this long-term agreement and they believe we should just keep upping the pressure on Iran to get them to capitulate all at once to a long-term agreement,” Psaki said. “We don’t, obviously, think that’s a path that is possible.”

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Netanyahu three times last week in Israel to discuss the negotiations and Obama followed up with a phone call to try and ease the Israeli leader’s concerns. Israel considers Iran an arch-enemy and has vowed to do anything, including a military strike, to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

But the soothing attempts seem to have done little to quell Netanyahu’s concerns.

On Thursday night, he told a group of visiting Jewish youths that he was not impressed by reports that Iran has not expanded its nuclear facilities and said further sanctions were needed to pressure it into dropping its nuclear program entirely.

“People say: ‘If we don’t strike this bad deal with Iran, Iran will walk away from the deal.’ Well, I have news for you. They’re not going to walk away from this deal. It’s a dream deal for them,” Netanyahu said.

“But I guarantee you one thing. Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.”

Israeli President Shimon Peres, the country’s elder statesman, has tried to tone down the tensions, stressing the importance of Israel’s relationship with the U.S. and saying it should never be taken for granted “We must not underestimate the importance of this friendship. There can be disagreements, but they must be conducted with a view to the true depth of the situation,” he said. “If we have disagreements, we should voice them but we should remember that the Americans also know a thing or two. We are not the only ones.”

Police officers inspect the wreckage of a helicopter which crashed in Seoul, South Korea on November 16. The helicopter belonging to the LG Group plunged to the ground on Saturday, killing the two pilots after its propeller clipped the side of a 38-story luxury apartment building. (AP Photo)

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chile too hot to handle as alexis sinks england

Chile's Alexis Sanchez, right, scores a goal past England's goalkeeper Fraser Forster during the international friendly soccer match between England and Chile at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, Nov. 15. (AP Photo)

LoNDoN, NovEmbEr 16 (rEutErs): Chile confirmed they are likely to pose a serious threat at the World Cup with a 2-0 win over an experimental England side thanks to an Alexis Sanchez double as the visitors largely dominated Friday's friendly at Wembley. Alexis scored with a superbly timed header after seven minutes and added the second in stoppage time to stretch Chile's unbeaten run to 10 games and inflict fellow finalists England's first defeat for a year and a day after 10 matches undefeated.

"It will make everyone in Chile very happy and it was a memorable performance from Alexis Sanchez. He showed tonight he can be a real star of the World Cup," Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli said of the Barcelona man's possible impact next year in Brazil.

"A performance like this at Wembley tonight stands him in good stead to have a really good tournament. He showed his class tonight."

England coach Roy Hodgson gave debuts to Celtic keeper Fraser Forster and Southampton

team mates Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez. With his captain Steven Gerrard and other regulars missing, England played well in patches but lacked the harmony of the South Americans. Hodgson, though, was not too disheartened, telling reporters: "It is going to be hard to make too many immediate judgements, but it was very positive because of what we learnt from the game. One thing we learnt was that we have to play better against Germany on Tuesday."

England, who also lost 2-0 on Chile's last visit to Wembley in 1998, were the first to settle and visiting goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was forced into making two important saves in the opening 15 minutes from Phil Jones and Frank Lampard. Chile gradually took control, though, and were the deserved winners, with the victory wrapped up by Alexis when he lobbed Forster a minute from the end.

SUPERB ALEXIS Chile went ahead when Alexis, in superb form for Barca this season, nipped in front of left back Leighton

Baines and twisted himself to meet a cross from Eugenio Mena to head low and wide of Forster, who had no chance of stopping the effort.

The goal came after Bravo had shown his athleticism at the other end as early as the third minute, when he palmed a Jones header over the bar, but he was also swift to react to a powerfully struck Lampard free kick that took a deflection off the wall after Chile went ahead.

However, with Marcelo Diaz, Eduardo Vargas and the impressive Alexis forcing England on to the back foot, Chile, who finished third in the South American qualifying group, took a grip on the match. Although Forster could do little to stop the goal, he did well to prevent Jean Beausejour doubling the visitors' lead when he smothered the Wigan Athletic player's shot in the 31st minute. England were not without ideas, and they came close to an equaliser shortly before the break when Rodriguez shot narrowly wide after a wellworked counter-attack that split Chile open.

ronaldo puts Portugal in sight of WC finals

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Sachin Set to remain a man in the middle

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 16 (rEutErs): After spending nearly a quarter of a century shouldering the burden of a cricket-crazy nation's expectations, Sachin Tendulkar should not expect life to get any easier following the last of his 200 test match appearances on Saturday. Since his 1989 debut as a mop-haired, shrill-talking teenager, Tendulkar has been required to win matches, save them or at least lend some respectability to potentially embarrassing defeats. His 34,000-plus international runs and countless batting records suggest the 'Little Master' more than lived up to those expectations.

Scores of companies have reaped handsome reward from 'Brand Tendulkar' over the last two decades. Given that quite a few of those associations will continue after his retirement speaks volumes of the stylish batsman's almost invincible aura. Bonded to his prowess with the bat came an additional responsibility to act as the perfect role model for an expanding population disillusioned with the nation's politicians.

Tendulkar's largely controversy-free, even inscrutable image would indicate he conducted that aspect of his duties with skill and aplomb. It would be fair to assume that after three decades of relentless cricket, Tendulkar is entitled to a life away from the glare of publicity, without any further pressure, but that alternate future appears remote to say the least.

POLITICAL FUTURE? Already, many are predicting a smooth transition into the role of a sporting administrator. "He should become the Sports Minister, only then sports will benefit (from his experience)," wrestler Sushil Kumar said at a recent India Today Group programme to celebrate Tendulkar's career. "He has given 24 years to the country...

He knows what sportsmen need and what they should get," added the double Olympic medallist, whose opinion was echoed by former cricketer Chandu Borde.

Tendulkar, who has remained apolitical throughout his playing career, has already heard the call of a political future beckoning him when was nominated to the upper house of the Indian parliament last year.

However, former team mate Javagal Srinath believes Tendulkar will take a break before returning to cricket as an administrator. "He will feel a huge void the moment he wakes up (after his final test). It's like a big part of his life has been taken away and this void won't be filled in a hurry," the former pace bowler wrote in a Hindustan Times column this week.

"There are plenty of avenues open to him but I strongly feel that he should get into administration. "...it's my firm belief that Sachin can contribute a lot to Indian cricket if he aspires to become an administrator at some time in the future," the 44-year-old said. Great players rarely make good coaches, often failing to teach what comes naturally to them but Srinath would not be surprised if Tendulkar turns his attention to mentoring son Arjun, who was part of the Mumbai under-14 team last year.

BROADER SPECTRUM "The joy and delight that he experienced while raising his bat after scoring a hundred, that will never be replicated," Srinath added in his column. "I suppose the only consolation he will get is if he coaches Arjun to a place in the India team, or if he mentors him in a way that Arjun goes on to become an India player."

Retired athlete P.T. Usha insisted Olympic sports needed Tendulkar more than cricket to help spread India's focus evenly across the sporting landscape. As an entire nation spends each day eating, drinking and breathing all things related to bat and ball, Indian athletes are poor cousins of their rich cricket counterparts used to pop-star status. While India has emerged as cricket's financial superpower, the country has been kicked out of the Olympic fold for handing power to tainted office-bearers in controversial 2012 elections for the country's Olympic committee.

"After his retirement, I would like him to change track and take up a lead role in promoting Olympic sports disciplines in our country in a big way," Usha, who won four Asian Games gold medals in 1986, told the Hindu newspaper.

"His personal involvement would be a great boost to Indian sport and I am hopeful that he would give due consideration to this request," added Usha, who came agonising close to taking a 400 metres bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

April 24, 1973 (Mumbai, India).

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Mumbai vs. Gujarat, Mumbai, 1988. vs. Pakistan at Karachi, Nov. 15, 1989. vs. Pakistan at Gujranwala, Dec. 18, 1989.

119 not out vs. England at Old Trafford, Manchester in 1990 (9th test appearance).

110 vs. Australia, Colombo, 1994 (79th ODI appearance).

Sachin tendulkar trivia • Tendulkar was named after his father Ramesh Tendulkar's favorite music composer Sachin Dev Burman.

• Tendulkar was a ball-boy during the 1987 World Cup. • On being selected in the Mumbai under-15 team, he was presented with a 'Gunn and Moore' bat by former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar.

• Australia pace great Dennis Lillee rejected Tendulkar at the MRF Pace Academy at Chennai in 1987, before Tendulkar created waves with his batting.

• Scored 326 in a 664-run partnership with former India player Vinod Kambli

during an inter-school game in 1988.

• Is the youngest Indian to play English county cricket, at 19, and was also Yorkshire's first overseas professional in 1992.

• His favorite sports star is not a cricketer but a tennis player — John McEnroe.

• Batted in his debut test at Karachi wearing pads presented by India's famous opener Sunil Gavaskar.

• Used a very heavy bat throughout his career — usually around 1.5 kilograms (3.2-3.3 pounds).

• Tendulkar appeared in an Australian reality television series 'An Aussie Goes Bolly' on FOX8 channel in 2008.

underdogs ukraine stuns France

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, foreground, scores the opening goal past Sweden's Martin KIEv, NovEmbEr 16 Olsson, right, and goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson during a World Cup qualifying playoff first(AP): Ukraine stunned leg soccer match Friday, Nov. 15 at the Luz stadium in Lisbon. (AP Photo)

LoNDoN, NovEmbEr 16 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo 1, Zlatan Ibrahimovic 0. In a World Cup playoff billed as a duel between two of Europe's top players, Ronaldo stole the show in the first leg with a late goal that gave Portugal a 1-0 win over visiting Sweden on Friday. After a muted performance in Lisbon, Ibrahimovic will get his chance to shine in the return leg at the Swedish national stadium on Tuesday as the two countries fight for a berth at next year's tournament in Brazil. "We've got the minimum advantage, but it's better than a draw. It would be better if our lead was bigger," Ronaldo said.

"We have a big battle in Sweden next week."

Ronaldo saved the day for his misfiring Portuguese team with a diving header eight minutes from the end as he beat his marker Martin Olsson to the ball and nodded in from short range for his 44th international goal. The game didn't live up to its billing as the

marquee matchup of the European playoffs, though, especially in a mostly dull second half.

The Swedes looked happy with what looked likely to be a draw, and the Portuguese once again looked mediocre going forward until Ronaldo struck.

There was no fancy footwork from Ronaldo, and no jaw-dropping shots out of the blue from Ibrahimovic who, as a lone striker in a defense-minded team, had little impact.

"We knew it would be close," Portugal coach Paulo Bento said. "We've now got to go and win in Sweden. We won't be playing defensively there." This is the third time in a row Portugal has fallen short of automatic qualification for a major international tournament. It also went through the playoffs to reach the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012. Sweden lost its unbeaten record in Portugal after seven previous unbeaten visits.

The game started bright-

ly, as Joao Moutinho ran into the Swedish area to meet a Raul Meireles pass and rounded goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson before the shooting angle became too tight. Immediately after, the Swedes caught the home defense napping, with Mikael Lustig crossing from the right for Johan Elmander to poke the ball just wide.

The 61,000 home crowd roared in anticipation after 15 minutes when Rasmus Elm fouled Ronaldo close to the penalty area, setting up the Real Madrid striker for one of his trademark free kicks. Sweden pulled every man into defense but Ronaldo blasted his shot against the wall.

But with Ibrahimovic consuming the attentions of the Portuguese defense, Rui Patricio needed to produce a spectacular save in the 20th, diving sharply to his right to deny Sebastian Larsson from the edge of the area. Kim Kallstrom's curling free kick flew just wide of Patricio's net two minutes later.

France with two secondhalf goals on Friday to win the first leg of their World Cup playoff 2-0 and put the heavily favored visitors in real danger of missing next year's tournament. Roman Zozulya patiently took his time in the 61st before placing a shot past goalkeeper Hugo Lloris' grasping fingertips, and Andriy Yarmolenko added the second from a penalty in the 82nd. Both teams were reduced to 10 men in injury time as Laurent Koscielny and Oleksandr Kucher were sent off.

"We took a hit today.

This was a bad result, but there's a second match and we shall see what happens in that one," France coach Didier Deschamps said.

"We didn't come to play for a draw or just defend."

France, which hasn't missed a major tournament since 1994, frequently tried to attack down the left wing through Franck Ribery and Samir Nasri, but couldn't find the final touch going forward. The

Ukraine's Roman Zozulya, right, shoots to score during their 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against France at the Olympiyskiy national stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 15. (AP Photo)

best attempt came in the 36th when Nasri broke into the area and layed the ball off to Ribery, but he tapped his effort straight at Andriy Piatov. Samir Nasri struck a bouncing volley that was saved 20 minutes into the second half, and Piatov had to dive to the far post to save Moussa Sissoko's shot. Franck Ribery's effort

in the 77th that met another diving save from Piatov.

France enjoyed nearly 60 percent possession, but Ukraine had the best scoring chances.

Yarmolenko tested Lloris in the seventh but the goalkeeper was perfectly positioned. Yarmolenko's cross in the 25th then sailed over two teammates

in the area.

Yevhen Konoplyanka presented a frequent danger down the left side for Ukraine, but his two attempts five minutes apart in the second half missed their mark. Koscielny had a bad day as he fouled Zozulya in the box to set up the penalty for the second goal, and the defender was

then sent for hitting Kucher in the face in injury time.

Kucher was given a second booking two minutes later.

"The match wasn't easy.

When the score was 2-0, emotions got in the way, not all the players were doing what they were supposed to do and conceded a few fouls," Ukraine coach Mykhailo Fomenko said.

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Sunday 17 November 2013

Judith is crowned Miss Peren 2013

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9th Miss Peren Beauty Pageant 2013 organised by Peren District Beauty and Aesthetic Society was held on November 15 at Local ground Peren with Ping Levis Chawang IDBI Manager Kohima, as chief guest.

Chawang speaking at the beauty pageant lauded Julie Morely for wonderful job, she started organising Miss World in the year 1972 under the theme “beauty with purposed”. He also said that whoever wins this competition became the property of soci-

eties, so keep up doing good work and carry the message of love and peace. He wished all the participants good luck and expressed his appreciation to the organiser for organising Beauty Pageant.

Miss Judith from Mbaulwa circle was declared Miss Peren 2013 and Miss Ireuyile from Peren as 1st runner up and Miss Ibagongle from Nkialwa as 2nd runner up.

The Sub-Title winners were (1) Miss Beautiful Hair – Miss Judith (2) Miss Beautiful Skin – Miss Keyichile (3) Miss Photogenic – Miss

Izilungle (4) Miss Perfect 10 – Ibagongle (5) Miss Congeniality – Miss Rebecca. All together 13 Contestants, the winner was given cash prize of Rs.30,000/- while the 1st and 2nd runners received Rs.20,000/- and Rs.10,000/- respectively.

The sub-title winners also received cash Rs.3000/e a c h . I n c e n t ive s o f Rs.1000/- each to all the participating contestants.

The judges for the Beauty Pageant were (1) Nungshimenla Terie (Former Miss Dimapur) (2) Re-

zulule Zeliang (DSP) (3) Er.Rainbow Zeliang (4) Judicial Magistrate, Ajongba Imchen and (5) Smita Sarangi (IAS) ADC Peren HQ. Kangzang was the host of the show, the announcer was Puilambale (Abungna). Choreographed by Keyizeu, Designer –Bangdwa and Music: D.J. – R.James Zeliang. All the 13 contestants were made to walk on ramp in traditional attire and designers wear.

The highlights of the night

Miss Peren Beauty Pageant 2013 winner Judith with Ireuyile 1st Runners up (left) and Ibagongle 2nd Runners up (Right). The Peren District Beauty and Aesthetic Society (PDBAS) organized its 9th edition of Miss Peren Beauty pageant on November 15, at Peren town. (Photo Courtesy: Mireuyi Herie)

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(Top). The four finalists to participate at the Grand Finale of Naga Chef Season 1. (Bottom). Contestants of Naga Chef present their dishes to the judges during the fifth round.

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were instrumental ballad, songs, choreography, dances entertained the gathering.

Queens Ball was hosted by Karaiba Chawang (Press Secretary to T.R. Zeliang).

A host of officers, public, young men and women were present to witness the beauty pageant of Miss Peren 2013.

Guitarist Jennifer Batten performing with other musicians on Friday Night at Upstairs Lounge (Walford Road), Dimapur. Pop legend Lt. Michael Jackson’s former guitarist, Jennifer Batten is currently in Nagaland performing at different places.

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fifth round (Pressure Task round) of the Naga Chef, Season 1 was held at the Hotel Legacy, Kohima. The Pressure Task was to create and bring out the anxiety from the contestants, where the eight semi finalists were given a mystery basket each, with ingredients ranging from Chicken, Beef, Smoked Pork, Perilla, Fish and varieties of indigenous herbs and spices.

The contestants began their cooking with a lot of enthusiasm once they saw what ingredients they had been allotted to work with. There was an ambience of nervous energy as they set out to the task of creating on the spot recipes from the ingredients in their mystery baskets.

The Judges for the day were Sentila.T.Yanger, Chef Joel Basumatari, and Guest Judge Chef Shangreiwon Multhou. There were mixed reviews from the judges as they tasted each of the dishes, creating an air of tension for the contestants. The authenticity of the dishes was the defining factor at the end of the day. Amidst great suspense and with emotions running high, four contestants were eliminated. The top four finalists who have made it to the final round are Imnanungsang Lkr, Aketoli Zhimomi, James Chemben Ngullie and Gilbert Humtsoe. The Grand Finale will be held at the Hotel Vivor on November 23, 2013.

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

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days after serenading Dimapur with their scintillating, melodious voices, The Nagaland Chamber Choir travelled up to the State capital to sing to a jam packed State Academy crowd this evening. The Kohima Concert organized under the theme “As Long as I have Music’” on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the TNCC was co-hosted by the Kohima Baptist Youth Fellowship (KBYF) at the State Academy Hall. The night commenced with the Choir indulging the audience to Morten Lauridson’s “O Magnum Mysterium,” followed by My soul’s been anchored, a traditional spiritual song arranged by Moses Hogan. Choir members Azeena Kahmei, Azo Keyho, Meripeni and Alhile enthralled the crowd with solo pieces. While the trio groups of David, Jethro and Limawati and Azi, Renthunglo and Sorin performed the Holy city and Trust His heart respectively. Nohonu and Canato completed the lineup with a duet of His eye

is on the Sparrow. The night also witnessed a beautiful shadow dance performance of C.V. Standford’s When

Styles has been sending Miley Cyrus flirty text messages since they met at the VMA awards in August.

The One Direction womaniser is said to have set his sights on the ‘Wrecking Ball’ singer after her wild antics and racy Twerking at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in August, striking up a flirty text relationship with her. A source told the Mary through the Garden Daily Star newspaper ‘’It’s

by Thejano Ngullie, Tsun- no secret in Harry’s circle gomLam, Vikiehienu Zhot- he’s obsessed with Miley. so and Vimetuonuo Rutse. It started when she cheek-

ily pinched his bum at the VMA awards. Afterwards he made a few jokey comments about her on TV and then dressed up as her for Halloween. ‘’So he decided to message her to make sure she wasn’t offended by any of his remarks or actions.

She wasn’t - and they’ve been texting since.’’

The ‘Story Of My Life’ hitmaker - who has previously dated Taylor Swift and TV presenter Caroline Flack - has been in constant contact with Miley and plans to party with her when he

visits Los Angeles this December. The insider added ‘’He cheekily asked her, ‘Can I come and drive your Maserati [car] sometime and naturally he also reminded her they are both currently single, which is very typical of him and his flirty ways.’’

Harry donned a nude-coloured bikini for Halloween to impersonate Miley and her infa-

mous VMAs performance with Robin Thicke, and the ‘Wrecking Ball’ singer was impressed with the 19-year-old star’s courage to bare all. She said at the time ‘’I think Harry might have been one of my favourites.

Those shorts were very revealing. Much more revealing and aggressive than my costume; I’m just saying!’’

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Sachin Tendulkar to be cannot imagine Sachin without cricket: anjali awarded Bharat ratna

NeW DeLHI, NoveMBer 16 (PTI): In a fitting finale to what has been a glorious career, batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was on Saturday chosen for the prestigious Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, making him the first sportsperson to be bestowed with the honour. The 40-yearold icon, who called time on his glittering international career today, was chosen for the top award soon after his farewell Test against the West Indies ended in Mumbai.

A brief statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson Venu Rajamony said the President has awarded the Bharat Ratna to Tendulkar, who retired from the International cricket today. Tendulkar bows out as the most successful batsman in international cricket with 15,921 runs in 200 Tests. In his ODI career, which he needed last year, Tendulkar amassed 18,426 runs in 463 matches. The Mumbaikar is the

only batsman in international cricket to score 100 centuries. He was the first batsman to get a double hundred in one-dayers.

The award is a perfect send off gift to Tendulkar whose career spanned 24 years making him an inspiration for an entire generation of cricketers.

There have been continuous demands for him to be conferred the honour for a long time and the eligibility criteria of the award was revised last year to accommodate sportspersons as well.

Tendulkar, who became the first active sportsperson to become a Rajya Sabha member last year, is being given the honour along with Professor CNR Rao, the man behind India's maiden Mars mission. Prof CNR Rao is an eminent scientist and a well recognized international authority on solid state and materials chemistry. He has published over 1,400 research papers and 45 books.

Prof Rao's contributions have been recognized by most major scientific academies around the world through conferment of memberships and fellowships. He has been honoured with several national and international awards. The Bharat Ratna is being conferred after a gap of years with classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi being the last recipient.

india crush Wi to win Sachin's last Test

The curtain came down on Sachin Tendulkar's storied Test career with one of India's most comprehensive victories, as a hapless West Indies crumbled on the third morning in Mumbai. Tendulkar walked off the field with a tear in his eye and to a fluid guard of honour from his teammates, soaking in the cheers of the Wankhede crowd one last time.

Pragyan Ojha took his second five-for of the match, and Ashwin finished with seven in the match, but the only spin bowling Indian fans wanted to see was the all-sorts of Tendulkar. Ten minutes before the scheduled close of the first session, by when West Indies had lost eight wickets in another inept batting performance, Tendulkar was brought into the attack. Though the crowd was desperate for a wicket, Tendulkar's final two overs produced no breakthrough. MS Dhoni brought back his main bowlers and within a handful of overs, the Test was brought to an end with Mohammed Shami flattening the middle stump of the West Indies No. 11 Shan-

non Gabriel.

West Indies' batsmen hadn't shown much aptitude for a fight earlier in the day either, as the spinners enjoyed the bounce and turn on offer. In the sixth over of the morning, Marlon Samuels charged out to Ojha, was nowhere near the pitch of the ball, and was yards out of the crease when Dhoni took the bails off. Soon after, another player who has had a rough series, Chris Gayle, was caught-behind for 35 off Ojha and West Indies were five down. With those two big wickets, the question was whether West Indies would last the session.

The man brought in to strengthen the batting in this Test, Narsingh Deonarine, fell for a duck, bringing in another player whose critics will only get louder after this game. Darren Sammy had played an atrocious shot in the first innings to bag a duck and he nearly fell first ball this time, a leading edge just landing short of mid-off. The relief for Sammy didn't last long, though, as after an over in which he was tormented by Ojha, he missed an arm ball to be trapped lbw.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the only West Indies batsman to have shown the wherewithal to grit it out consistently this series, resisted with 41, and Denesh Ramdin went on to a halfcentury but given the mammoth lead India had, it was only a matter of time. Chanderpaul was the man to depart, with Ashwin getting him lbw and running off in celebration.

MUMBAI, NoveMBer 16 (IANS): Anjali Tendulkar said on Saturday that it would be difficult to imagine her husband Sachin without cricket as the legend is all set to end his 24-year fairytale journey here at the Wankhede Stadium after the second cricket Test against the West Indies. "The last one month have been difficult for us.

Whenever we thought of this day we became emotional. It will be difficult for us to imagine Tendulkar without cricket. Cricket can be without Tendulkar but hard for us to believe that Tendulkar will be without cricket," Anjali said in a rare TV interview.

Anajli said Tendulkar can never switch himself off from the game.

"I have never seen him switching him off from the game. Even when we are holidaying in England he is always in the switch on mode. He is very conscious about the game and will never eat too much. We will always hit gym and practice with Arjun (son) to stay fit whenever he gets a chance," said Anjali in an interview to host broadcaster Star Sports.

Anjali said her husband is good at hiding emotions and it would highly unlikely that the cricket legend will allow his emotions get the better of him. Tendulkar, however, became emotional and tears rolled down his eyes when India lifted the World Cup here at the same venue in 2011.

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tional! It's hard to believe my wonderful journey is coming to an end.

• I have got a list of people to thank because sometimes I forget.

•I would like thank everyone who has made this possible.

• Its getting little difficult to talk but I'll manage.

•I would like to thank my father. Without his guidance, I don't think I would be standing here. He told me never to take shortcuts and never give up. And above all he told me to be a better human being.

•Every time I held my bat up, it was for my father.

•I thank my mother for taking care of me and praying for me. A big thank you to my mother for all the sacrifices. I don't know how she managed a naughty child like me.

She just prayed and prayed from the day I started playing the game.

•I'd like to thank my aunt and uncle who fed me while I was living with him.

•To my siblings for their encouragement, advice and support.

•My eldest brother Nitin doesn't like to talk much but he said, 'whatever you do, I know you will give 100 per cent'. My first cricket bat was presented to me by my sister Savita. It was a Kashmir willow. She still continues to fast while I bat.

•My brother Ajit has lived this journey with me. I don't know how to thank him enough.

•The most beautiful thing that happened to me in my life was in 1990 when I met my wife Anjali. She took a backstep from her career as a doctor and she looked after my family. Thank you for bearing with me. You're the best partner.

• Two precious gems of my life Sara and Arjun.

and hide her emotions, Anjali said: "I am also good at hiding emotions. Maybe if not today but tomorrow."

So how difficult would it be for their kids Sara and Arjun, Anjali said: "Sara is very much like her father. She never shows her emotions. Before they were born Tendulkar was already a cricket star. So while growing up they were still figuring what there father was."

Anjali also said that Tendulkar was pleasantly delighted to see his son as a ball boy on the second day of the Test match here Friday. Tendulkar himself was also a ball boy at the same venue here during the 1987 World Cup. "Arjun is among the Mumbai U-14 probables. He had a Harris Shield match on Friday and his father told him that he cannot miss the match at any cost. So Arjun went to the play his school match but found that the other opponents haven't turned up. And so he rushed to the stadium and in the meanwhile his coach had already got the accreditation. So Tendulkar was pleasantly surprised to see Arjun as a ball boy," said Anjali.

Anjali also said that now he would give some household responsibilities to Tendulkar. "Tendulkar is always worried at the paint come out here and there in the house.

Hopefully now I will give him some more household responsibilities," she said.

I'm sorry for missing your annual day, sometimes your birthdays. Thank you for understanding that. I know for 14-16 years I've not spent enough time with you. But I promise you that the next 16 and the many more after that are yours.

• I'd like to thank my in laws and my friends.

• In the last 24 years my friends have made terrific contributions. They have been with me while I was stressed. They have been with me even at 3am when I was injured. Thanks for being there for me • My cricket career started when I was 11, turning point came when Ajit took me to my coach Ramakant Achrekar.

• I would like to thank the Mumbai Cricket Association for taking care of me.

• For 29 years my coach Achrekar has never said 'well played' to me as he thought I would get complacent. I was extremely delighted to see Achrekar sir in the stands. I used to ride on his scooter and play two matches a day. Sir took me along to make sure I played.

• You are like my family away from home...my teammates. I know you will serve the country effectively. I have full faith in you guys.

• It is going to be difficult not be part of the dressing room, not to share the special moments • I thank my physios, doctors for keeping me fit. My first manager, Masceranhes for all his support and encouragement.

• I understood what it requires to play for the country. I understood the gravity of it. Thank you to everyone who shared my vision.

• I thank the media for supporting me. I thank all the photographers as well for all the wonderful photographs.

• Lastly, i want to thank all the people here who have flown from all over the world for supporting me. Whether it was a zero or a century, you've always been there for me. You guys have faste for me and done many other things. Memories like these are going to stay on with me forever.

Thank you being there for me. I would not be the person I am if it wasn't for you.

• I'm sorry if I have forgotten someone. Goodbye.

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