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Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was Govt making all efforts to tackle Naxalism: Shinde

Kanye West finds marriage outdated

Nagaland bikers set out to Aizawl with a message of friendship [ PAGE 02]

Maldives police block attempt at presidential vote

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–Richard L. Evans

Sangwan banned for 18 months

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‘Precision farming,’ a way forward for naga farmers

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

• Naga Kheti Mela promotes agriculture as business, not development • Dependency on imports is hurting local economy and creating domestic inflation Morung Express news Dimapur | October 19

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Pranab laments violence in NE neW Delhi, october 19 (ians): President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday lamented that India’s scenic northeast region has been witnessing conflict and violence. “Northeast India is a rich region full of scenic beauty, flora and fauna, high culture, dance and music. Unfortunately for some time, it has witnessed conflict, clashes and violence,” he told a group of 42 students from Assam’s Kokrajhar and Chirang districts (Bodo region) and Manipur’s Shangshak (Ukhrul region) when they called on him at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here.

Mukherjee said the history of Delhi reflects the character of the people of India, which includes the people of the northeast. “This is a history of people never being cowed down and emerging from difficulties, despite downturns from time to time.” The students were part of a national integration tour for students of the northeast.

Brain cleans itself during sleep: experts

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Washington, october 19 (ians): The brain cleans itself of toxic metabolic by-products while one is asleep and this cleansing could be the basic purpose behind the state of rest, say experts.

The brain’s unique method of waste removal, dubbed the glymphatic system, is highly active during sleep, cleaning toxins responsible for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders, revealed the US journal Science. Researchers from the University of Rochester, New York, also found that during sleep the brain’s cells reduce in size, allowing waste to be removed more effectively, Xinhua reported. “This study shows that the brain has different functions when asleep and awake,” said Maiken Nedergaard from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Recent findings have also shown that sleep can help store and consolidate memories.

Nagaland Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Dr. Benjongliba Aier, has underscored the need for Nagaland State to adopt and practice ‘precision farming’ in order to achieve sustainable agriculture.

The Parliamentary Secretary said precision agriculture can provide precise inputs like water, fertilizers and plant protection measures at the right time, which will help in bringing higher productivity and achieve food and energy security.

“We are importing almost all food items, which we can also grow, and this dependency on imports is hurting our economy and creating domestic inflation. Practicing precision farming can increase the productivity and thus, the farmers will get more remuneration from the same piece of land with less laArsenal’s Olivier Giroud, tries to score against Norwich City, during their English bour,” Benjongliba said.

The Parliamentary SecPremier League soccer match, at the Emirates Stadium, in London, Saturday, Story on page 12 retary was speaking at the October 19. (AP Photo)

valedictory programme of the first ‘Naga Kheti Mela’, a mega farmers’ fair held under the theme “Towards Sustainable Agriculture” at School for Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development (SASRD), Nagaland University, on Saturday.

Benjongliba said the existing agricultural scenario in Nagaland is characterized by small farms with land holdings of less than 2 hectares and that the lands are mostly rain-fed with hardly 30% irrigated areas.

In addition, poor availability of funds, farm inputs, poor marketing support for agricultural produce and almost no farm insurance have made farming in the State non-remunerative.

He said in the modern era, the way forward is to stop treating agriculture as a development project and to stop implementing isolated projects which do not clearly develop the sector in a well structured and measurable way. “Instead we should now start treating agriculture as a business” by focusing on inte-

grating food production, processing, storage and manufacturing by value addition chains, the parliamentary secretary said.

Benjongliba also stressed using agriculture to create jobs, wealth and ensure food security. “Sustainable agriculture development rests on the principle that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Thus, sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals - environmental health, economic profitability and social and economic equity,” he said.

Director, ICAR Research Complex for NER, Dr. SV Ngachan who was the guest of honour said that as per statistics, production of food grains and horticulture produce in Nagaland have increased four-fold in the past three years. He also mentioned that Nagas are taking the lead role in floriculture export trade. Stating that farmers should be given due recognition for

their contribution, the ICAR director also said that the State Government should further encourage the farmers by extending minimum support price to them.

Farmers, innovators, SHGs and officials from the Veterinary & Animal Husbandry and Horticulture also gave their feedbacks on the mela. Organizing secretary of Naga Kheti Mela, Prof. Akali Sema gave a brief report of the mela and director, SAMETI and organizing committee member, Ahovi Sema proposed vote of thanks.

Secretary, Agriculture, Government of Nagaland, Benjamin Newmai chaired the valedictory function.

Certificates were also awarded to best farmers’ exhibits, processed products, state government departments and NU departments.

Advisor, Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, Dr. Longriniken, MLA, and vice chairman, Nagaland State Agriculture Managing Board, S Chuba Longkumer, MLA, also attended the closing ceremony.

Zeliangrong areas face continued army abuse Make a Green Choice: gear

iMPhal, october 19 (Mexn): Following continued military action against people of the region, the All Zeliangrong Students’ Union (AZSU) has drawn the attention of the Chief Minister of Manipur, the Unified Commander for all the security forces operating in Manipur, to the current situation.

“The high handedness of security forces particularly army and paramilitary forces operating in Zeliangrong areas has gone beyond its limitation with detention of innocent persons on mere suspicion

reasons without properly verification from the concern police station, harassment, physically torture after taking into custody has exhibit that the army has taken law into their own hands,” informed the President of the AZSU, Pamei Tingenlung, in a press release issued today.

Keeping any person in army custody without handing them over to the nearest police station within 24 hours, not giving arrest memo whenever any person is arrested or not informing their respective family members regarding

any arrest is total violation of law, reminded the AZSU. In that, it asserted, “The illegal activities of army and para-military should be reigned and stopped at the earliest by the Govt. or else the people would start widespread protest to register their objection to these kinds of disturbances caused by the security forces donning security forces.”

Stating that the “peaceful environment” in the Zeliangrong areas has been transformed into a disturbed zone by the “illegal activities” of the security forces, the AZSU has registered strong objec-

tion to detention by “picking up innocent persons” who are allegedly being kept in custody without informing the police about their detention in an “attempt for elimination.”

“The Zeliangrong people civil organizations on various occasions have highlighted to the Govt. regarding excessive activities of the security forces and for giving necessary and proper direction to stop such activities. However, there is continuity of such activities by the army and para-military,” affirmed the AZSU.

DiMaPur, october 19 (Mexn): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has asked of the Advocate General of Nagaland, K.N. Balgopal, to “use his knowledge of jurisprudence” to look into the “illegal” Advisory Committees to the 19 Municipal and Town Councils in Nagaland constituted during the DAN II government. It has asked for these not to be reconstituted in this tenure, but instead hold elections to the municipal bodies.

“In the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001 there is no provision for appointment of Adhoc Advisory Committee,” explained the NPCC in a press release issued today by its Press Secretary. “However,” it continued, “during DAN 2, the NPF government has appointed Advisory Committee members in all the 19 Municipalities.” This, alleged the NPCC, has been done to “satisfy the desires of the party workers to earn extra income.”

According to the NPCC, immediately after these “illegal” appointments

were made the “self styled” Chief Advisors “usurped the powers of the ADC and Administrators of the Municipal and Town Councils and started collection of Toll Tax. Their knowledge of Municipalities was limited to collection of Toll Tax and cleaning of garbage.

Therefore all of them collected Toll Tax and pocketed whatever they could and emptied the accounts of the ULBs. Interestingly, one of them has taken away the Truck which was used for collection of garbage.”

This was derived by the NPCC from a report of “the Accountant General of Nagaland dated 18.09.13 para 2 wherein it is shown that collection of Railway Cement and four other items alone from 1st April, 2011 to 31st March,2012 collected by the advisor revenue incharge of Dimapur Municipal Council worked out to the tune of Rs. 95,82,988.00. Out of this the advisor has deposited only Rs. 17 lakhs.”

There was, stated the NPCC, a “clash of power” between the Administra-

tors and the members of the “illegal” Advisory Committee, incurring heavy loss of revenue to the Municipal and Town Councils.

“As a result, the government realized the mistake and dissolved the illegally constituted Advisory Committee vide Notification No UDD/MAC-1/2010 dated 04/04/2012,” it was informed.

The DAN III cabinet, as per the NPCC, has now decided to reconstitute the Advisory Committee and referred to the Advocate General of Nagaland in New Delhi for advice. “If the illegal Advisory Committee is re-constituted, it is likely that the employees of Municipal and Town Councils will go on agitation because they want their salary regularly,” the NPCC notified.

To avoid this, the NPCC has requested the Advocate General of Nagaland to advice the Government of Nagaland not to make the same mistake again which will “ruin the nascent municipalities in Nagaland” and hold early Municipal elections instead.

neW Delhi, october 19 (ians): The level of happiness among Indian children growing in cities has reduced due to weakening bonds with parents, experts said Saturday. “These days the bond between child and parents are not very strong and the level of interaction is reduced which is causing this trend,” child psychologist Ann Simi John. Addressing a workshop on raising happy children, the experts advised parents to have a structured family time and exclusive mean time between each child. “As there are lesser child-parents interaction, the children look for seekouts in terms of friendship, drugs and other indulgences,” said John.

Nitin Pandey, a child education expert at parentune.com - a support platform for the urban parents, said: “During our time, we used to have grandparents who were always there but it is not so these days and hence the child is devoid of affection.” However, some experts feel that it is not the fault of the parents, because there is greater economic pressure in this time.

nPcc urges AG to look into ‘illegal’ advisory committee

Indian urban children are ‘less happier’ now

up for Hornbill Cycle Rally

Endorse cycling, help the environment and get fit Morung Express news Dimapur | October 19

There was once a time when Nagas took the forests and its fauna for granted; seldom realising the key position it held to the survival of the natural order and the continued existence of the human race.

Now the times are a-changing as more Nagas begin to realise the magnitude of a balanced environment.

Deforestation and hunting of wildlife may continue yet there is hope that such destructive acts will cease soon. Seemingly insignificant individual deeds, such as handing over rescued (or captured) wildlife to safe custody, efforts to protect migratory birds, villages demarcating forests as sheltered areas, and most importantly, spreading environmental consciousness hold the key in the road to a healthy environment. One such event, the 2nd Annual Hornbill Cycle Rally slated for December 8 is focused in that direction.

Dimapur-based Alaphra Tourism, a division of Alaphra Group, is organising the event in association with the Nagaland Cycling Association (NCA) and sponsored by the department of Tourism. Its objective is to promote Go Green initiative and tourism at the same time introducing cycling as a professional sport in Nagaland. This year’s event is based on the theme ‘See Green See Life – Save the Hornbills’ and further aims to create awareness and draw attention to the importance of environmental conservation, a healthy lifestyle and energy conservation.

“Hornbill Cycle Rally is a

In this December 2012 file photo, participants are seen here at the first Hornbill Cycle Rally- Ride to Recharge 2012, which was successfully held on December 2 during the Hornbill Festival under the theme “See Green See Life”.

non-profit event, organised strictly to create and support environmental awareness and conservation. By supporting this rally you can highlight community responsibility or corporate social responsibility, thus taking an active role in protecting the environment and encouraging others to do the same,” read a handout from the organisers of the event.

Ricky Ozukum, Managing Director of Alaphra Group, told newspersons on Saturday that more participants are expected to take part this year. “We received tremendous response last year,” he said, while stating that this year, it has received interest from participants from other states as well.

There is no age bar (but not less than 15 years of age) to take part in the rally, which will be flagged off at Kisama Heritage Village on December 8 at 8:00 am. It will be mandatory for all riders to wear approved protective cycling gear. Emergency personnel will be on standby to

respond to any unforeseen event. The rally will cover two routes. One, a 14-kilometre route from Kisama to Old DC Bungalow, Kohima, while the other will cover an adventurous distance of 30 kilometres from Kisama and stopping at the IG Stadium along the way traversing scenic mountain trails, valleys, fields and forest trails. Registration for participation will start by next week, which will be free of any charges.

President of the NCA, Yashi Longkumer, said that through its association with the event, the NCA plans to promote cycling as a sport, and, cycling for fitness and the environment. It was informed that at present, the NCA is going through procedures to get affiliated with the Nagaland Olympic Association and the Cycling Federation of India. With certification will come the opportunity to hold competitive cycling events, Longkumer further said.

Winners of such events will get the breaks to take part in national-level events.

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from December 1-10 at Kisama, Naga Heritage Village, Kohima, where a day called “Friendship Rally” is planned to take place. The

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Governor of Nagaland & Manipur, Dr. Ashwani Kumar dancing with the students of St. Joseph's College during the SJC, Jakhama Graduation Day on October 19. (DIPR Photo)

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JaKhama, october 19 (DiPr): Governor of Nagaland & Manipur, Dr. Ashwani Kumar graced the St. Joseph's College (SJC) Graduation Day on October 19 at Jakhama. Congratulating the graduates, the Governor called upon the students to plan for their future. Advising them to have self confidence in life, Dr. Ashwani also gave a formula of success, referring to chemical formula H2O, in which he projected H as Hard Work, H-Honesty and O-Obedience.

He reminded that there is no substitute for hard work and no short cut to success. Further, he also wished the graduates good health, prosperity and bright future and also the Catholic Institute a success.

He also thanked the principal and the management for inviting him to grace the Graduation Day and said that students studying in this college are lucky to get the opportunity to study in one of the most reputed colleges in the North East, where students are imparted higher education The Governor also gave away the prizes which included cash prize and a citation to the five best

rally will have “Royal Enfield Riders” participating from all over India as well as abroad.

The team will reach

Aizawl via Kohima-ImphalJiribam-Silchar. It expects to reach Silchar within 1213 hours. On Day 2, that is October 20, the team will

travel from Silchar to Aizawl; on October 21, Aizawl to Champai. In Champai, Bullet Riders from all over the country will conduct an adventure ride from October 21-26 during which the participants will be heading into Myanmar. Their destination in Myanmar will be Tahang, where more than 300 Royal Enfield Riders are expected to turn up for the event. The NMC members are expected to be back in Nagaland by October 29.

The note mentioned that the 4th North East Riders Meet (NERM), 2012 was hosted by Nagaland where more than two hundred Bullet Riders participated from all over India.

The motto for North East Riders Meet (NERM) is: “When We Meet, We Grow”.

It added that every Bullet Rider is called “Naga Chief”.

WoKha, october 19 (mexN): Wokha Forest Division along with Pangti Village Students’ Union (PVSU) today organised ‘The Save Amur Falcon Marathon’ today at Pangti village for conservation of the migratory bird, Amur Falcon.

Supongnukshi Ao, IFS, DFO, Wokha Forest Division flagged off the marathon race. “The pain of a short distance marathon would make us realise the conservation significance of 22,000 km Marathon Migrant - the Amur Falcon,” he said.

PVSU president Mathew Jami acknowledged that the real credit for the conservation of the Amur Falcons goes to the villagers, who by abstaining from the age old tradition of hunting and life sustaining economic gains contributed to conservation

more than anybody else.

“The Government should urgently acknowledge the sacrifices made by the people and in return address the livelihood issues of the people,” he added.

The race was limited to Sungro Range. For the senior category, the track length was 6.5 km and 5 km for the junior as well as women categories. The track consisted of crisscross lanes of Pangti and Sungro villages maximising the awareness effect.

A total of 180 enthusiastic participants joined the race belonging to all age groups.

Mhono Odyuo (40) was the oldest participant for the event and commendably won a consolation prize.

Senchumo Ngullie won the marathon while Zubenthung Shitiri and Nchumbemo Shitiri stood first and sec-

ond runners-up respectively in the senior category. In the junior category, Vanthungo Shitiri won the marathon while Phyobemo Shitiri and Lanbenthung Shitiri stood first and second runners-up respectively. Amongst the women, Lothungbeni Shitiri won the marathon while Mhonchoni Odyuo and Rabeni Yanthan stood first and second runners-up respectively. Along with these, there were ten consolation prizes in each category.

T-shirts made from recycled materials carrying relevant environmental slogans were provided for all the participants which were sponsored by the State Pollution Control Board, Nagaland.

This marathon is one of the events organized in a row following the target group consultative aware-

Members of NMC geared up to leave for Aizawl to take part in the 5th North East Riders Meet.

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Nagaland bikers set out to Aizawl with a message of friendship

Kohima, october 19 (mexN): Nagaland Motorcycle Club (NMC) with a slogan “Ride Safe, Reach Early, Rest Early” has left for Champai, Aizawl to participate in the 5th North East Riders Meet (NERM) 2013.

The team of 28 Bullet Riders left on October 19, 6:00 am at TCP Gate, Kohima after a short mass prayer.

A press release issued

by NMC president Paul Rutsa asserted that NMC, formed in 2010 with its motto: “One Machine, One Mind, One Road” will carry the message of friendship and represent Nagaland.

It will also convey to the people of Northeastern states as well as the rest of the country about the news of 50 years of Nagaland Statehood Celebration, coinciding with the “all important” Hornbill Festival

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students: Governor Gold Medal for best Graduate – Tolivi Sumi BA Economic Honour; Avika Memorial Awards to best B.Com. – Imkum B. Com. Honour; Chikrophuyo Memorial Awards to best BA students – Lulumei BA Sociology Honour; Alumni Association Awards to Best Degree students – Khongalu Dukhru; Youth Net Award to Best BBA students – L. Mathia.

Parliamentary Secretary for Housing, Treasuries & Accounts, Vikho Yhoshu, government officials, DBs and others attended the programme.

HOD Commerce Department Timothy exhorted the graduating students, while Principal SJC Jakhama Fr. Abraham Lotha presented the annual report. Other highlights of the programme included Conferring of Awards; welcome song by the College Choir; folk dance by Khiamniungan students, SJC, Jakhama; dance; presentation of musical piece and songs. President Students Council, Menosele Yhoshu delivered the welcome address while vote of thanks was proposed by Vice President Students Council Medovonuo.

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The Night Before Christmas, written by Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho and forwarded by Dr. Hukashe A Zhimomi has been released by Pastor Yabang Longkumer at Covenant Baptist Church, Dimapur. The book is being distributed by Sridhar and is available in all the leading bookstores in Northeast India.

Human Rights seminar at Japfü Christian College

Kohima, october 19 (mexN): Japfü Christian College organised a UGC sponsored Human Rights seminar on October 19, 2013 with Dr. N. Venuh, Dr. R.K. Behera, Hepuni Liba and Kezhokhoto Savi as the resource persons.

A press release stated that Hepuni Liba whose basic Human Rights were violated during Operation Blue Bird at Oinam pre-

sented a word for word account of his tortures and experiences. Twenty six years back, as a young boy of 13 years old, he was caught by security forces “for no reason”.

The seminar deliberated at length the need for protecting one’s own human rights as well as respecting the rights of others. The State’s need for ensuring the rights of

its citizens with proper mechanism such as establishment of State Human Rights Commission or even setting up of Special Human Rights Court can go a long way to prevent human rights violations, it suggested. The seminar was the final culmination of a yearlong learning of Human Rights Education and Awareness Programme undertaken by the college.

A marathon race to save the Amur Falcons

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A young runner captures the attention of onlookers at the Marathon race on October 19.

ness programmes, school programmes, church programmes, signature campaign, community programmes like seminars and wildlife movie screenings, etc. As a result of continuous efforts for awareness by the Forest Department

and NGOs combined, with the effective day and night patrolling, camping and surprise checks by the Forest Protection Force, no incidents of hunting have been reported so far, said a press release received here.

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authorities and NGOs like Natural Nagas and Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust graced the event. Supongnukshi Ao congratulated everyone for the successful event and thanked all concerned for their help and support.

Mao Students' Union Dimapur celebrates ‘Ashu-Kopfo’

DimaPUr, october 19 (mexN): Mao Students’ Union Dimapur (MSUD) celebrated ‘Ashu-Kopfo’ on Saturday, October 19.

Er. Levi Rengma, Deputy Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) graced the event as the chief guest.

A. Ashikho retired Joint Director of Cooperative Societies, Nagaland was guest of honour at the occasion held at the IMC Hall.

The event was a symbolic celebration of ‘AshuKopfo’, which falls on the 24th day of ‘Sale Khro’ (June-July). Ashu-Kopfo is part of the traditional Saleni festival of the Mao, which is celebrated just after the culmination of the sowing

Deputy Speaker of the NLA, Er. Levi Rengma alongwith Makhrai Rabu Students’ Union, Makhel village cultural dance troupe at the Ashu-Kopfo celebration in Dimapur on October 19. (Morung Photo)

season. By tradition, AshuKopfo – a ceremonial event to invoke divine protection and blessing for a good harvest, was performed before

the start of festivities.

Speaking at the occasion, Er. Rengma, described tradition as a link providing connection to one’s roots

ultimately giving value and meaning to the present.

“Tradition is an emotional fabric which binds us to our forefathers and makes us

distinct from one another,” he said.

In the age when science and technology has taken hold of life, he said that there

are people who feel that tradition must be broken. “But tradition must be kept and upheld, because when you reject the past, you reject the essence of the present.”

Stating that culture and tradition are but subject to change, he said that Nagas at present are going through a transitional phase, which might endanger the continuance of age-old tradition. As such, he called for a healthy balance between tradition and modernism.

“Being modern is important so that there is a future but if there is no tradition who or what will direct that future.

The Mao Naga, he said is one tribe, which is strongly grounded in tradition.

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Alobo Naga: State icon for promotion of voters' participation

Kohima, october 19 (mexN): The Election Commission of India has approved musician Alobo Naga as one of the State icons for promotion of Voters Participation under Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Programme. This was stated in a press release issued by Chief Electoral Officer, Kohima Sentiyanger Imchen.

Proposed job oriented skill development mela postponed

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Kohima, october 19 (DiPr): In view of the ensuing Diwali, many training providers/ employers have been expressing inability to participate unless the date is changed. Many have also been sending request for deferment to enable them to participate in the Job Mela. Therefore, Additional Director, Employment and Craftsmen Training Y.Vandanshan Lotha, has informed all concerned that the proposed date for the Mela has been postponed to November 20-21, 2013 to ensure maximum participation of employers and corporate houses which would benefit the job seekers. All details, including arrangements, programme, invitations etc. would remain the same. Registration for Job seekers willing to participate will, however, continue in DCs and Employment Exchange Offices. Confirmed VTPs/Employers need not send a fresh confirmation except otherwise. Inconvenience caused to the public and particularly to those VTPs, who have confirmed for participation, is regretted.

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Stir over anti-influx law cripples Meghalaya ShillONg, OctOber 19 (iaNS): For over a month now picturesque Meghalaya has been under severe stress after a disagreement surfaced between the state government and more than a dozen pressure groups over a mechanism to prevent the influx of "outsiders" - euphemism for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants as well from the rest of the country - into the tiny border state of barely three million people.

Over a dozen pressure groups have been insisting

that the Inner Line Permit (ILP), a British-era law, be introduced to contain the migration of outsiders to the state. The ruling Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance is however firm in opposing such an "archaic" step that it feels will hinder the state's economic development by blocking investment from business.

Even Indians from the rest of the country currrently require an ILP to enter northeastern states like Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram and now it is being

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demanded by Meghalaya.

The agitations, in the form of shutdowns, picketing of government offices and night road blockades have had a major impact on the state's serenity, which has been unblemished for the last few years.

Meghalaya, particularly the Khasi-Jaintia Hills region, had witnessed several cases of arson since Sep 2 after talks between Chief Minister Mukul Manda Sangma and the pro-ILP pressure groups reached a dead end as the two sides viewed the

issue differently.

It is another matter that in some of the arson cases, vested interests were found to be involved and not members of the pressure groups.

Everyone agrees with the pressure groups that illegal migration into Meghalaya is a reality, which, if not promptly tackled, might change the state's demography and the three indigenous tribes - the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo - might soon find themselves in a minority, as has happened in Tripura.

Meghalaya shares a

443-km border with Bangladesh, part of which is porous, hilly and unfenced and from where several Bangladeshis are believed to be entering into the state's coal belt - the Jaintia and Garo hills districts - to work in the mines. The state also shares a 696-km boundary with Assam.

Government statistics reveal that in the last five years (2008 to Sep 2013), 18,951 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were detected in Meghalaya, of whom 978 were prosecuted and

17,973 were pushed back.

Sangma could not have agreed more to the "threat perception" to Meghalaya's three indigenous tribes as he had in 2012 constituted a committee on the issue headed by Bindo Mathew Lanong, the then deputy chief minister and president of alliance partner United Democratic Party (UDP).

The committee had recommended the possibility of implementing the ILP besides other mechanisms.

Ironically, when the pressure groups walked

out of the meeting with Sangma on Aug 29, it was not so much on the issue of influx and illegal migration but on the mechanism to be introduced to prevent this.

While the pressure groups want the ILP, Sangma wants the Tenancy Act to be implemented as a deterrent.

According to the chief minister, the ILP is an archaic law imposed by the erstwhile British rulers and, if implemented, might adversely affect the tourism industry and the state's economic development.

The ILP issue had figured prominently during the recent autumn session of the Meghalaya assembly. However, a resolution tabled by opposition Hill State People's Democratic Party legislator Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit to introduce the ILP was overwhelmingly defeated as the government was completely averse to the idea.

Once the ILP is imposed, every individual, whether Indian or otherwise, will have to obtain a permit to enter Meghalaya.

imphal, OctOber 19 (iaNS): A National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) team will visit Manipur next week to assess the rights violations in this insurgency-ravaged state, a commission official said Saturday. "The team, headed by NHRC chairperson Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, will be holding a camp Oct 23-25 to discuss the human rights violations committed by the armed forces and rebels on innocent civilians," the

NHRC official said. The visit of the members of India's apex human rights panel follows complaints lodged by human rights groups of Manipur of rights violation by government agencies.

Human Rights Alert - an Imphal-based rights group, and Extra-judicial Execution Victim Families' Association, Manipur, demanded the setting up of a Special Investigation Team to probe more than 1,500 cases of staged killings, pending in the Su-

preme Court. "The Supreme Court issued a directive during the course of the hearing of the fake encounter cases to the national commission to visit Manipur and assess the situation," Babloo Loitongbam, the Executive Director of Human Rights Alert, told IANS. On their arrival, the members of the human rights panel would meet Irom Sharmila, a human rights activist, who has been on indefinite strike for nearly 13 years in Ma-

nipur, demanding the withdrawal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, widely known as AFSPA, from the state.

Irom Sharmila has been on an indefinite fast since November 2000, demanding the lifting of the AFSPA. She was arrested by Manipur Police shortly after she began her hunger strike and charged with attempting to commit suicide - a criminal offence under Indian law.

Human Rights Alert had

lodged a complaint with the NHRC against the Manipur government's restriction on visitors seeking to meet Sharmila. Loitongbam said the government also did not allow members of Sharmila's family to meet her.

AFSPA, which was passed in 1990, gives Indian armed forces arbitrary powers in the states that have been declared "disturbed areas" riddled with militancy. Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur are

among the states under the act. Several human rights groups, including the North East Students' Organisation, have also been demanding withdrawal of AFSPA. Amnesty International has campaigned vociferously against the legislation, which it sees as a violation of international human rights laws. However, army officials maintain that it is for the central and the state governments to decide whether to revoke or continue AFSPA.

of all human rights defenders of Manipur and allow them to continue their legitimate human rights work without fear of harassment, torture and deprivation of right to life.

Further, it appealed to stop targeting all Manipur human rights defenders, referring to “harassment and degrading treatment, and torture” of Jiten Yumnam, a human rights defender of Manipur, Mandir Laishram etc. It also resolved that all emergency laws, which impacts on the security of innocent people and human rights defenders of Manipur, especially, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 and the National Security Act, 1980 should be repealed. The convention also demanded to drop all charges against internationally renowned human rights defender, Irom Sharmila. Further, it urged for full functioning of Manipur Human Rights Commission, Manipur Information Commission and all ombudsman of welfare schemes, with due appointment of competent and com-

mitted members through a transparent process.

It also asked the Manipur and Central government to ensure right to information, free exchange of human rights information, freedom of expression for all human rights defenders of Manipur, while appealing them to fully implement the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Saggakya in February 2011 during her visit to India. Also, it asked for establishing a policy for protection of human rights defenders of Manipur with their due consultation in accordance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, 1998. Further, it was resolved that the two governments should formulate policies to end all practice of torture, ill treatment, intimidation, reprisal, harassment, degrading treatment, clamping false criminal charges of all human rights defenders and other members of the community in accordance with the UN Convention against Torture.

The participants fur-

ther resolved to apprise all officials concerned of the two governments. It also resolved to talk to the National Human Rights Commission of India, during it sessions in Manipur from October 23 till 25. It will urge NHRC to accord special attention to the situation of human rights defenders of Manipur.

National Human Rights Commission to visit Manipur

Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): Regarding the demand of Students Union Movement of Arunachal Pradesh (SUMA) to impose sanction on NPF, NPF Arunachal Pradesh unit has called the demand "totally unconstitutional". In a statement, NPF AP unit spokesperson stated that NPF AP is a registered regional party of India vide notification No. 56/48/2005-J.S. III/PPS-II, dated September 22, 2009 Election Commission of India (ECI) to contest elections and operate in Arunachal state. The statement appealed SUMA to “stop false propaganda” against NPF, “do not mislead the general public through baseless demand in the name of Students Movement”. Instead, the statement said, SUMA should focus on genuine problems of the state, like the decades old Chakma/Hajong imbroglio which still remains unsolved.

The NPF further stated that SUMA must understand that the Naga problem is a pre-independence political struggle of the Nagas, and it has nothing to do with Arunachal territorial integrity. “One should not have misgivings about NPF with NSCN, NPF is a political party having a vision for social and economic uplift for its people.” The NPF added, “We are all citizens of India be it Nagas or Arunachalees, everybody imphal, OctOber 19 has got right for political choice, if SUMA thinks something (mexN): The Committee on the Protection of Natuotherwise, we are open for free debate and discussion.” ral Resource in Manipur, North East Dialogue Forum, Arunachal Pradesh unit All Tribal Students Union of NCP merges with PPA Manipur, All Zeliangrong itaNagar,OctOber19(pti):TheArunachalPradesh Students Union, Citizens unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has merged with Concern for Dams and Dethe People's Party of Arunachal (PPA), the only regional party velopment, Human Rights in the state. Commenting on the merger, former state unit Initiative, Naga Women’s president of NCP Kahfa Bengia said the dissolution of the NCP Union, Centre for Research state unit was done as per the meeting held by its executive and Advocacy, Manipur, members. "The NCP was dissolved due to gross negligence of Sinlung Indigenous Peoples the party’s central high command towards the state unit ever Human Rights Organizasince it was formed in Arunachal Pradesh. This decision was tion organized “Convention taken by the executive body of the party’s state unit here on on the Protection of Human October 17 last," Bengia said. "We have full faith in PPA as it is Rights Defenders of Manithe oldest regional party in the state and we will work for the pur” at Manipur Press Club, greater interest of the tribal people," he added. PPA Working Imphal on October 19.

A press release issued by Committee chairman Kamen Ringu today said that the PPA would work for the greater interest of people of the state. He the organizers informed that also appointed Nikh Kamin and Kahfa Bengia as president the Convention unanimously resolved that Government of and working president respectively of the PPA. Manipur and Government of India should recognize the President to visit Assam, Meghalaya importance and legitimacy New Delhi, OctOber 19 (aNi): President Pranab of the works of human rights Mukherjee will visit Assam and Meghalaya from October defenders, i.e anyone who 21 to October 22. In Meghalaya, President Mukherjee will “individually and in associaaddress Members of the Meghalaya Legislative Assem- tion with others, promotes bly on October 21. He will also inaugurate the innovation club and attend annual convocation of North-Eastern Hill and strives for the protection University on October 22 at Shillong. In Assam, he will and realization of human inaugurate the National Seminar on 'Continuing Legal rights and fundamental freeEducation' and 'Children and Protection of Children from doms at all levels." It also stated that the two governments Sexual Offences Act, 2012' on October 22 at Guwahati. should ensure the protection

Manipur Human Rights defenders meet

Mizoram refugees to get postal ballot agartala/aizawl, OctOber 19 (iaNS): The Reang tribal refugees, lodged in seven makeshift camps in Tripura the past 16 years since they fled their villages in neighbouring Mizoram, would cast their votes through postal ballots in the Dec 4 assembly polls in Mizoram, officials said here Saturday.

"At least one facilitation centre would be set up in each of the seven refugee camps in north Tripura so that the eligible refugees could cast their votes for the Mizoram assembly polls," North Tripura's Kanchanpur sub-divisional Deputy Collector Anupam Chakraborty told IANS over phone. He said: "The facilitation centres would be set

up under the guidance of the Election Commission of India (ECI). The commission would supervise the work of these centres.

Tripura government might provide the logistical support like security to these facilitation centres."

Director General of the ECI Ashish Srivastava, accompanied by Mizoram's Chief Electoral Officer Ashwini Kumar and other state officials last week visited the refugee camps in Northern Tripura to finalise the voting of the refugees.

Of the 37,625 Reang tribal refugees, locally known as 'Bru', living in the refugee camps in Kanchanpur and Panisagar in North Tripura since 1997, only 11,311 were listed in

agartala, OctOber 19 (pti): A CPI(M) leader in Marxist-ruled Tripura who lay on a bed of cash withdrawn from his own bank account to fulfill a long cherished dream, is in deep trouble with his party.

Jogendranagar committee member of the CPI(M) in Agartala, Samar Acharjee, a contractor by profession, was shown lying on bundles of currency notes on television footage.

Acharjee was heard in the footage saying "I have withdrawn 20 lakhs from my bank account and fulfilled my long cherished dream of sleeping on a bed of money."

But more damagingly, the CPI(M) leader said in

the telecast last Thursday "I am not a hypocrite like other party members who depict themselves as proletariat, yet have a huge amount of money."

CPI(M) state secretary Bijan Dhar told PTI today "Preliminary investigation by the party shows that Acharjee himself took the footage on his own mobile phone which was leaked to a television channel by his friend."

Dhar said, the Agartala sadar divisional committee of the party has completed investigation and the matter would be discussed at a meeting which would suggest action against Acharjee. He said, "We do not support this kind of immoral work.

'A bed of cash': Tripura CPI(M) leader fulfills long cherished dream

Mizoram's electoral rolls.

The refugee leaders complained to Srivastava that there were many eligible voters in the camps who were not included in the voters' lists of Mizoram.

A Mizoram election department official told IANS: "Following the directives of the ECI, the officials of three Mizoram districts - Mamit, Lunglei and Kolasib would soon start a special drive in the refugee camps in Tripura to include names of eligible voters in the electoral rolls of the state."

After a two-year break, the repatriation of the tribal refugees resumed Sep 30, with around 600 people making up 90 families going back to their homes in western Mizoram.

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Rejoinder to October 3 statement I

n a joint consultative meeting held between the Naga Hoho, the Naga Mothers’ Association and the Naga Students’ Federation on the 19th of Oct 2013 at Kohima is constrained to issue publicly reflecting the 3rd Oct 2013 which appeared in all the local dailies questioning the Organisations for failing to protect the rights and interest of the Naga people.

As human, there will be errors on the part of any

Organisations or Governments. In this regard, we strongly re-act to the statement of Thepfulhouvi Solo which has appeared on 3rd Oct 2013 stating that “the Naga Hoho, the NMA, the NSF and the NPMHR could not protect the interest of the Nagas of Nagaland”. We would like to know from the author to bring out in detail in which way we could not protect the interest of the Naga people.

We do appreciate and

welcome any constructive criticism and corrective measures to lead the people forward but we shall not accept total condemnation of the existing organizations.

Thepfulhouvi Solo as a responsible citizen, we wish that he will be able to protect the rights and interest of the Naga people in totality.

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for making headlines has become a joke amongst our Naga family. However, the constant distortion of historical facts in their own terms has become a serious irritant and menace for other Nagas who had settled in the plain sectors of Dimapur on the strength of the pattas issued by the East India Company.

Thirdly, the constant media bragging of these organizations/councils of their so-called territorial boundary is aimed at undermining the very existence/inherent rights of other Naga tribes which is very dangerous trend and is aimed at bringing disharmony in our Naga society. The history cannot be re-written despite these organizations/ councils resorting to every trick in and out of the books. The Sumi’s of Western area are not recent settlers and it is reminded that none of the Western Sumi villages had ever obtained permission from any other Naga tribe to establish our villages. If certain tribe can claim birth right in extensively twothree states, it is unwise to undermine the birth right of other tribe(s) from that perspective.

The constant highlighting of the purported Zeliangrong Baudi (Nagaland, Assam, Manipur) in an act of intimating the other Naga tribes

and their inter-meddling into the affairs of territorial or any other issues pertaining to the Nagas of Nagaland cannot and shall not be allowed nor tolerated.

The instigative articles published by the s a i d o rga n i z a t i o n s / councils indicating some person to be unscrupulous people from outside Zeliang country has raised the eye brow of the undersigned as to which community or group of people has been referred to as unscrupulous people? And also which Naga community/ tribe has been referred to as the people from outside Zeliang country?

Moreover, the prognosticate assertion by the said organizations/councils that ‘the situation could flare up if no solution was arrived at the earliest’ is totally uncalled for, and therefore any situation arising out of the same shall be attributed to these organizations/ councils.

The said organizations and councils are therefore advised to respect other tribes’ traditional boundaries instead of making unwarranted claims and demands which will never be acknowledged by the Nagas.

Keviletuo Kiewhuo President, Naga Hoho Joseph Ngouri vice President, NsF

A rejoinder to a news item

he undersigned on behalf of the Aqahuto Area GB’s Union (ATKK) are compelled to issue rejoinder against various fallacious articles published in local dailies by some leaders of tribal organizations and village councils in connection with KMA-DMP proposed inter-district boundary demarcation vide dated 25th Sept. 2013

by Zeme Council Nagaland, 28th Sept. 2013 by Old Jalukie Village Council and Jalukie Pumling Nko and 2nd Oct. 2013 by Lamhai Village Council respectively.

At the very outset, the audacity of the said organizations and village councils in proclaiming the better half of Dimapur district as their territorial boundary is an aggressive assertion which aims at creating animosity and chaos in our Naga society. Secondly, the said village councils and organizations have no documental basis over their claims except their own concocted tales which reflects the immaturity of their organizations/councils.

There is no doubt that these organizations/ councils have been trying to get the attention and make their presence felt amongst our Naga family by dragging every minor issues into the media for the past few years. In fact, their love

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vekuto swu secretary, Aqahuto Area GB’s Union (ATKK)

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CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NAGALAND OBSERVES WORD MISSION SUNDAY T

he Catholic faithful of the Diocese of Kohima along with over one billion Catholics all over the world will observe 20th October as World Mission Sunday. World Mission Sunday, organized by the Propagation of the Faith, is a day set aside for Catholics worldwide to recommit themselves to the Church's missionary activity through prayer and sacrifice. This annual observance was instituted 87 years ago in 1926 by a Papal decree issued by Pope Pius XI. Every year since then, the universal Church has dedicated the month of October to reflection on and prayer for the missions.

On World Mission Sunday, Catholics gather to celebrate the Eucharist and to contribute to a collection for the work of evangelization around the world. The offerings that will be collected [on World Mission Sunday] are destined for a common fund of solidarity distributed, in the Pope's name, by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith among the

missions and missionaries of the entire world. Mission dioceses - about 1,100 at this time - receive regular annual assistance from the funds collected. In addition, these mission dioceses submit requests to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples for assistance, among other needs, for catechetical programs, seminaries, the work of Religious Communities, for communication and transportation needs, and for the building of chapels, church-

es, orphanages and schools.

These needs are matched with the funds gathered in each year.

This annual celebration gives the faithful a chance to reflect on the importance of mission work for the life of the Church. It reminds her faithful that they are one with the Church around the world and that they are all committed to carrying on the mission of Christ, however different our situations may be.

Holy Father Pope Francis on the occasion of the

World Mission Sunday released a message in which he challenges the Christians to proclaim courageously and in every situation the Gospel of Christ, a message of hope, reconciliation, communion, a proclamation of God's closeness, his mercy, his salvation, and a proclamation that the power of God’s love is able to overcome the darkness of evil and guide us on the path of goodness.

It may be mentioned according to the Second Vati-

can council, the Church is "missionary" in her very nature because her founder, Jesus Christ, was the first missionary. God the Father sent God the Son into the world with a message of God’s love and salvation. Thus, the evangelizing mission of the Church is essentially the announcement of God's love, mercy, forgiveness, and salvation as these are revealed to mankind through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Every Christian is called to share the message of Christ not by force but by exemplary and transparent Christian life, by prayer and by financial support. On the occasion of the World Mission Sunday, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, the bishop of the Diocese of Kohima exhorts every Christ’s faithful to appreciate our missionary obligation and support the Church’s missionary activities by leading transparent Christian lives, by fervent prayers, and by generous donations.

- Fr. sojan Xavier, Bishop’s House, Kohima

businEss India’s first monorail service to be launched in Mumbai soon

MUMBAI, OCTOBER 19 (ET): India's first of its kind mono-rail service will be launched in Mumbai in a matter of days. The mass transport systemconsists of several airconditioned rakes that run on an elevated corridor ferrying passengers between Chembur and Wadala in the first phase and between Wadala and Jacob Circle in central Mumbai in the second phase.

When the two phases are complete, the Mumbai mono-rail will be the world's second longest Mono Rail corridor in the world after Japan's Osaka mono-rail corridor which is 23.8km long. Other well known monorals are the Tokyo mono rail, the Tama mon rail and the Star LRT in Malaysia.

The Mumbai corridor will have 17 stations, two less than the Osaka Mono Rail corridor which has 19 stations. The mono rail has been built by the Mumbai Metropoli-

tan Region Development Authority and the contract to build it was awarded to the consortium of M/s L&T and M/s.Scomi from Malaysia. The total cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 2460 crore.

The Fare, The Design Mumbai mono rail fare will range between Rs 8 and 20 for a single trip. The rakes are in three colours - green, pink and sky blue.

The National Institute of Design has designed the exterior.

On the design elements, Kanesan Veluppillai, Chief Executive Officer, Scomi Engineering said, "In terms of the interiors, each rake is designed with composite seats and grab rails for easy maintenance and protection. The well lit, light coloured interior and large tinted window panels provide maximum natural light inside the car."

"The advantage over a Metro rail system is that mono requires a one meter wide space for the el-

block less sunlight thus promoting natural landscape of the city. The Mumbai train will be delivered in 4-rake formations with capability to extend to a maximum 6-rake formation in future.

So as per the plan set out by MMRDA, a monorail with four cars will have a capacity to ferry 562 passengers, while one with six cars will be able to accommodate 852 commuters, according to Veluppillai The Infrastructure Apart from the elevated infrastructure, the monorail has other assets. The 6.5 hectare Wadala car depot provides parking facility for commuters of 21 trains.

There is also an operation control centre, a training center and a power station, a receiving traction substation and a full-fledged administrative facility. The mono-rail will be integrated with all three lines of the Mumbai suburban railways.

evated track and it rests on a single pillar of height 6.5 meter. This causes least disturbance to traffic running below the elevated path.

It is also less noisy, eco-friendly and easily accessible in comparison with Metro rail," an MMDRA spokesperson said.

The coaches move on rubber tyres on concrete beams designed to create less noise and vibration during operation. The system is powered by electric motors that are silent and also control emission.

"The monorail project is anticipated to reduce over 50,000 private and public vehicles which are petro-chemically fueled thus resulting in an estimated reduction of 200 tonnes of CO2 emission a day in Mumbai," Veluppillai added.

The challenge was the narrow corridors available to construct the mono-rail as Mumbai is a densely populated city. The slender tracks have been designed to

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Sunday 20 October 2013

The Naga Chef Season One participant line-up revealed Kohima, october 19 (mexN): Naga Chef Competition kick-started with an overwhelming and enthusiastic response at the screening round held at Hotel Vivor here today. A press note issued by the organizers of the show stated that a total of 24 participants of varied ages turned up from different parts of Nagaland. Out of these, 20 were selected for the next round.

The event was judged by a panel of experts including Rovi Chasie, Sentila T. Yanger, Himato Zhimomi and Joel Basumatary. The note mentioned that the contestants presented a full Naga platter each which included a wide selection of indigenous food items ranging from crab, river fish, snails, smoked meat, cherry wine, pumpkin desserts and an assortment of salads with local herbs. The selected candidates will face the first elimination round on Cooking Skills at The Heritage which will be held on October 26th.

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Article Credit

Apropos the article titled “Translating the ‘Right to Education’: Assumption & reality”, which appeared Ocotober 19 on Page 7 of The Morung Express, it is clarified that the article was published by “Ideas For India” and the credit goes to them.

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Kohima, october 19 (DiPr): Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day would be observed on October 21, 2013, with Commissioner & Secretary Government of Nagaland Sentiyanger Imchen (IAS) as the chief guest. Organised by the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare (IDD Cell) the function will be held at the conference hall, Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima at 1:00 pm. In the program, senior specialist NHAK, Dr. Wathsutho Nguthe will speak on the topic, “Role of Iodine in Human Body and its Deficiency disorder”. Principal Director Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Neiphi Kire will exhort the gathering while Joint Director and Programme Officer NIDDCP (H & FW) Dr. I. Sungit will deliver the keynote address.

KNO general meeting

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): Kyong Nchumchio Okho (KNO) has convened its general meeting at Achum Jami, Treasurer (KNO) residence at oriental Colony, Dimapur on October 21, 2013 at 3:00 pm. It has informed all its members to attend the meeting positively as various agendas pertaining for the welfare of Okho will be deliberated.

(Top) The twenty selected participants for the Naga Chef competition. (Right) The panel of experts Rovi Chasie, Sentila T. Yanger, Himato Zhimomi and Joel Basumatary during the screening round held at Hotel Vivor.

Kevitsu Doze along with Alemjungla Jamir as show chair, Ela Susan James as hostess and Media and Publicity Coordinator, Aren Jamir as Information Assistant, Sentizung Jamir as Kitchen Assistant and Khriethonei-o Kense in Operations and Logistics.

The documentation team includes, Zevi Keditsu, Ro-

kovor Vihienuo, Loreni Tsanglao, Diethobu Liegise and Abokali Jimomi.

The Naga Chef sourcing partner is Organic Nagaland and Wardrobe Styling

by Precious Me Love and make-up and hair styling partner by Salon Blue.

The names of the selected candidates are: Ayang Imchen, M. Gilbert Humtsoe,

Police Commemoration Day celebration on Oct 21

Asi Kera, Hahao Chongloi, Supongla Lemtur, Yenrothung, Jenny Thong, L. Changsuba Jamir, Keneiyienuo, Asano Angami, Bendanglemla, Temjenba Imsong, James Chemben Ngullie, Limala Sangtam, Aketoli Zhimomi, Nzano Tungoe, Kigomchube Heraang, Jubitoli Ayemi, Viholi Sema, Imnanungsang Longkumer.

Kohima, october 19 (DiPr): Police Commemoration Day will be celebrated on October 21, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. at New Police Reserve, Tennis Court Phesama, Kohima. DGP Nagaland will take salute on the occasion which will also include presentation of Roll of Honours, Reading of Roll of Honour, collecting and placing the Roll on cenotaph by Angrakshak Toli and laying of wreaths.

Power dept to carry out raids

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): DimaPur, october ment of School Teachers soring a private Science As per the directive of the CAO(care19 (mexN): The Rengma in various Government teacher at its GHS. Taker) UT, NSCN/GPRN, Lieut.Col.(Rtd) Students Union (RSU) con- Programmes like Electoral The Union appeals to Ape Venuh, Kilonser-the Supervisor of cluded its Annual School roll, Census, and different the Department officials super market area along with his staffs touring programme on enumerating process, stu- to thoroughly checked and on October 18, 2013 had intercepted a October 17, 2013 at Reng- dents are being victimised intervene into such genumaruti car (white) bearing Regd No ASmapani (Njophen) village. as the teachers are engaged ine cases where there is 01R-1692 and arrested the occupants The touring was scheduled with other Government as- shortage of teachers .The of the car after having found carrying from September 9 to Octo- signment for the whole Union also appealed to illegal drugs. This was stated in a press ber 17, 2013, where eight year which the Govern- the Teacher in charge and note received here. different groups were dis- ment should take immedi- VECs, VCCs to utilise the The note stated that the accused are persed into different Reng- ate measure to rectify the Government fund judiJoseph Sumi (Drug User), resident of ma villages covering 64 system in involving the ciously for the better in5th Mile, Lutoyi Chopy (drug peddlers schools under Tseminyu Teachers in any enumerat- frastructure development & user), resident of super market, ToSub-Division. of the schools. ing process. kiho Sumi(Drug User), a government A press note issued by In a joint meeting with It also acknowledged teacher at GPS , Singrijan, resident of Caleb Magh President RSU that with the intervention Teachers, village leaders in Medical Colony, Dimapur. For any inand Gwatilo Kent, General of Government and initia- various Schools the RSU formation/complaints contact to the The accused three after having found carry- Secretary RSU stated that tive of SSA and RMSA most stated that it shall not tolerCAO office 97744057292. during its intensive tour- of the schools have better ate with any “Ghost Teaching illegal drugs. ing, the union identified a infrastructures, but to its ers” reminding the VEC number of discrepancies dismay the quality educa- and VCCs to implement the associated with education- tion is deteriorating. There- VEC guidelines strictly to al system. The union stated fore RSU in the note lauded strengthen the educational that it found that different all the Village Education system. kind of teaching methodol- Committees, Village CounThe union stated that ogy framed by the Govern- cils and parents to uplift the all the schools within its ment from Delhi are some- Schools by supporting the jurisdictions are considLoNgLeNg, octo- instructed all the concern regularizations of House time not applicable to the teachers in imparting qual- ered as its resources thereber 19 (mexN): The Dep- Village Council Chairmen tax payments in proper rural areas and therefore ity education to the rural fore any malpractices in uty Commissioner, Long- to take up the following format, and also the inclu- pointed out that the State childrens. implementing of school leng held a meeting with actions on priority: Village sion of photographs while government should ponder It also stated that short- funds and insincerity of the the Village Council Chair- Council resolution on ban- submitting APR (Actual and see the feasibility of the age of teachers are detect- teachers the union shall men of Longleng District ning of hunting and fishing, Payment Receipts) of any new systems. ed in most schools, where not tolerate and approprialong with the concern De- protection of Amur falcon schemes.

The union also opined Government High School ate action shall be initiated. partment represented by and to submit action taken Apart from these, the that despite RTE guide- Sendenyu one of the re- Concluding with a serious EE PHED Longleng, SDEO report at the earliest time Deputy commissioner, lines on students-teachers mote village having good consultation on implemenLongleng, CMO, Longleng possible. Conduct of social Longleng instructed the ratio, one class room with number of students have tation of RTE in the rural and Administrative Offi- work in the respective vil- Village Council to maintain one teacher is required be- no Mathematics and Sci- areas, the RSU resolved to cers on October 17, 2013 at lage on or before October close co-ordination with cause a single teacher can- ence teacher ,the union ap- put forward its comments DC Conference Hall to dis- 25, 2013 and to submit ac- District law enforcing agen- not teach the whole Classes preciated the Headmasters and recommendation to cuss some of the pertinent tion taken report to DC of- cies in maintain peaceful even though it have a less and staffs, VECs and VCCs of the Department of School issues like law and order fice Longleng. atmosphere in the village/ enrolment. On involve- Sendenyu village for spon- Education. and developmental activiThe DC also banned area. Lastly, the Action plan ties in the District. use of fire crackers during for TFC/RLB for the period A press note received festive seasons, and advo- 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014here stated that the Deputy cated control of forest fire 15 was taken for discussion Commissioner, Longleng during dry seasons and with feedbacks and suggeshighlighted and discussed during burning of paddy tions from Village Council on general Law and Order field, strict adherence of Chairman and departmenproblems, ban on hunting Nagaland Village Council tal representatives/offiand fishing, Protection of Act and VDB Model Rule in cers. The meeting on thorAmur falcon, Forest fires, the Village administration, ough deliberations and Preservation of historical preservations of historical clarifications decided that monuments, traditional ar- monuments, traditional the all the Village Councils tifacts, dress and Costumes dress and costumes, tradi- will submit the schemes as etc and Action Plan for tional artifacts, ornamental per the guidelines given to TFC/RLB, 2012-13, 2013- plants within the respec- the Deputy Commissioner 14, 2014-15. tive village, control of cat- office on or before October On thorough discussion tle grazing area especially 21, 2013 for onward sub- The CEO, KMC Elizabeth Ngully, along with KMC officials, Ward GBs and Ward Panand deliberation, the Depu- Mithuns in plantation area, mission to the higher au- chayat during an inspection on improper disposal of waste and parking issues at High ty Commissioner, Longleng farms, cultivated areas etc, thority for necessary.

School, Ward No.1, Kohima on October 19, 2013.

DC Longleng discusses law and order and developmental activities

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): An emergency meeting of Thuvopisumi Students Union (TSU) executive members has convened on October 21, 2013 at 2:00 pm at general secretary Reseidnce, Keneizou colony. All the concerns members, advisors and elders are requested to attend the meeting without fail. This was stated in a press note issued by Vetsuta Khusoh, vice president

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Global IDD Prevention Day to be observed

3 arrested for possession of drugs RSU identifies discrepancies in edu system

TSU executive members meeting

Dimapur

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): This is to inform all our customers that, the Department is carrying out raids in all the premises, establishment whether energy meter is tempered, by passes or meter seal missing. According to Electricity Act 2003, Part IXV, Section 135, theft of electricity is punishable. Therefore, you are requested to inform the department and rectify the defective meters or seal damaged to avoid paying fines or penalty for misuse of electricity. This was informed in a press note issued by Er. Moameren, Executive Engineer, Dimapur Electrical Division.

SDO (Elect.) Sub-Division No.III office shifted

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): This is to inform all our customers that, the office of the SDO (Elect.) Sub-Division No.III under Dimapur is shifted to new location near Deputy Commissioner Office, Dimapur. This was stated in a press note issued by Er. Moameren, Executive Engineer, Dimapur Electrical Division.

Urban Development Department (MAC) notifies

Kohima, october 19 (DiPr): Dr. H. Inato Jimomi whose service has been placed at the disposal of Urban Development Department, has been attach as Veterinary Assistant Surgeon to the Dimapur Municipal Council for a period of two years with immediate effect. A notification issued from Urban Development Department (Municipal Administration Cell) stated that Dr. H. Inaho Jimomi shall in addition to his normal duties render his services for Kohima Municipal Council and Mokokchung Municipal Council respectively till further order.

STKK felicitation programme

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): Saptiqa Tokukujo Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (Saptiqa Area Students Union) on Saturday organized a felicitation programme for successful students and candidates of competitive examinations at Town Hall Dimapur. Er. Akheto Shohe, Executive Engineer PWD (R&B) Longleng who was the chief guest urged those who succeeded in studies and competitive exams to advise and help fellow friends in achieving success. Lauding the successful persons for their achievement, the chief guest told them to ‘stoop and fear God’ as they go higher in life.

He asked those who could not find success this time not to lose hope but to keep trying with the help of God. Er. Akheto also talked about preserving culture and tradition for posterity. Dimapur Sumi Students’ Union President, Hutoshe Kits also spoke at the programme. Lino Awomi presented a special number.

Black Ice, a shop dealing exclusively in ladies’ handbags and shoes was inaugurated on Saturday by Parliamentary Secretary for IT&C, Science &Technology, Technical Education and Taxes, Tovihoto Ayemi. The shop is located at Church Road Dimapur near Christian Higher Secondary School. Black Ice has branches in Kohima, Mokokchung and Zunheboto. (Morung Photo)

Chief Minister meets State AHODs & HODs DHYO resents Sept 25 brutal assault

Kohima, october 19 (DiPr): Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio addressed the AHODS and HODS meeting held on October 18, 2013 on some important issues pertaining to good governance of the state. He expressed concern for the overall growth and development of the state and the people as well. The meeting was held at the Nagaland Civil Secretariat Conference Hall under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Alemtemshi Jamir (IAS).

The meeting reviewed the last and previous meeting minutes and discussed

Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio addressing AHODs and HODs meeting held at the Nagaland Civil Secretariat Conference Hall.

mainly on matters relating to the 50th year Statehood celebration. The State Chief Secretary reminded all the AHODS and HODS to contribute their write-up on

activities of their departments to ensure that no department is left out in the report/record which is to be published on commemoration of the 50th year of

Statehood. In this connection, Home Commissioner Nagaland, Temjen Toy also requested the departments who have not yet submitted the write-up to make it as

early as possible.

Alemtemshi Jamir also reiterated about the Job Mela which is scheduled to be held at Agri Expo site Dimapur, and asked all the departments to gear up for the ensuing mega event.

In the meeting, the department of Economics and Statistics distributed a report on Housing condition and amenities in Nagaland: National Sample Survey 65th Round (July 2008 – June 2009). OSD Planning, Kevileno said that it was the first report after 38 years and the department was contributing it in commemoration of the 50th year of Statehood.

DimaPur, october 19 (mexN): The Dihoma Village Youth Organisation (DHYO) has expressed resentment on the case relating to the brutal physical assault perpetrated on one of its members Lhouvizo Yano, Constable, 4th NAP Bn. Thizama by Thepfusalie Thomas, OC Traffic, North P.S. Kohima, on September 25, 2013 allegedly on the pretext of Traffic rule violation at High School area, Kohima. A condemnation note issued by Zhavizo Yashű, President and Khrielezo Tsűkrű Information & Publicity Secretary stated that it is pertinent to know the type and the degree of

punishment that a person violating traffic rule while stopping his/her car by the road side should receive.

Also, DHYO stated that it is constrained to know from Thepfusalie Thomas why he has so much grudges ‘on our villagers’. DVYO stated in the note that as the Village Youth Organisation of Lhouvizo Yano, it have no right to pardon Thepfusalie Thomas on behalf of the Government at any other platform. “Let the Government give the befitting punishment to Thepfusalie Thomas. We will deal with Thepfusalie Thomas to let him know our resentment,” it said in the note.

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to be an asexual being incapable of experiencing emotions and feelings as normal people do.

What all these boil down to is that perfectly capable and superbly intelligent persons with disabilities exist in isolation and loneliness unable to live up to their potential or even any kind of social life purely because of the physical and attitudinal barriers that our society shut them out with.

agnificent, stunning, exciting, spectacular – there are apparently not enough superlatives to describe Nagaland’s grand annual tourist event called the Hornbill Festival, the Festival of Festivals. It may have its share of critics and detractors, but I hear that it has become such a huge attraction and success that it has been decreed that the festival will now be a ten-day affair from the 2013 edition onwards. As a proud Naga, I do rejoice when I hear such positive news which, if I may say so, is few and far between these days. But you will have to excuse me if I don’t have an opinion to offer since I have never had the pleasure of experiencing the sights and sounds and tastes of this great festival. You see, I’m a member of a group of people that our Naga society likes to pretend does not exist.

I am a person with a disability. Let me repeat that – I am a person with a disability, but not a disabled person. I emphasise this because this is the mindset that I have had to battle daily since I acquired my disability in a car accident nearly eight years ago – that having a ‘disability’ is equal to being ‘less able’ or ‘unable’.

I fought back from a possible complete quadriplegic situation and tossed off my wheelchair along the way only to discover that the world I have to live and work in is going to continually define me by the mobility impairment that I am left with. And it is this mindset that disables me rather than my physical impairment. I am disabled by a society that places social, attitudinal and architectural barriers in my way. This world we live in disables me by thinking and treating me like I am ‘unable’ just because I have a mobility impairment.

DISABILITY IS A SOCIAL ISSUE Please bear with a brief discourse on the disability issue. There are two distinct models of disability: (i) The medical model and (ii) The social model.

According to the medical model of disability, ‘disability’ is a health condition dealt with by medical professionals. People with disability are thought to be different to 'what is normal' or, in other words, considered ‘abnormal’. ‘Disability’ is seen to be a problem of the individual. The medical model sees a person with disability as being in need of being fixed or cured. From this point of view, disability is a tragedy and people with disability are to be pitied. The medical model of disability is all about what a person cannot do and cannot be.

The social model sees ‘disability’ as the result of the interaction between people living with impairments and an environment filled with physical, attitudinal, communication and social barriers. It therefore carries the implication that the physical, attitudinal, communication and social environment must change to enable people living with impairments to participate in society on an equal basis with others.

A social model perspective does not deny the reality of impairment nor its impact on the individual. However, it does challenge the physical, attitudinal, communication and social environment to accommodate impairment as an expected incident of human diversity. The social model seeks to change society in order to accommodate people living with impairment; it does not seek to change persons with impairment to accommodate society. It supports the view that people with disability have a right to be fully participating citizens on an equal basis with others.

(Ref: http://www.pwd.org.au/)

UNCRPD: The social model of disability is now the internationally recognised way to view and address ‘disability’. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) 2006 marks the official paradigm shift in attitudes towards people with disability and approaches to disability concerns. People with disability are not ‘objects’ of charity, medical treatment and social protection but ‘subjects’ with rights, capable of claiming those rights, able to make decisions for their own lives based on their free and informed

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iolence and brutality against women is not a new case, it has been in the past and it still continues today, even after more than 50 years of independence.

The fight for women’s rights as such is not something that has happened only in the modern era, of course with widespread education we can’t deny that awareness has taken a bigger toll today. However, the recent news in one of the leading national newspaper states India to be the world’s child marriage capital, and the refusal to sign the first-ever global resolution against child marriage, makes the whole question of improvements in the condition of women sceptical.

Women have been victims of several violence be it domestic, work place, public places, educational institutions or society at large. The notion of patriarchy is deeply embedded in the norms, everyday practices and entrenched in the minds of both men and women. Rajput women in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan are not allowed to attend marriage ceremonies, or go out without their heads covered.

The notion that males are superior have led to widespread practice of female foeticide and infanticide, which has led to an imbalance in male-female ratio in places like Haryana, Rajasthan and other parts of India. Honour killings are widespread in various parts of India. The patriarchal mind set and inability of a man to accept a ‘no’ from a girl, for instance, we all know what happened in Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, where a school of language student

A foreign tourist cheers Naga performers during the annual Hornbill Festival. (File Photo: Caisii Mao)

consent and be active members of society.

It may be mentioned here that India ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Disability Convention) in October 2007. Unfortunately, as we are all aware, appending your consent to a document or laying down a law does not guarantee its implementation nor does it ensure a change in collective mindset.

NAGALAND To focus on Nagaland, the social model of disability is still far beyond the imagination of our law makers and the society at large. Even many individuals and groups purportedly working for the welfare of persons with disabilities have scant understanding at best. If I may be blunt, persons with disabilities are huge fund generators for a large group of people. Let me be clear here that I am not painting all in the field with the same brush. There are a genuine few who are doing excellent work despite the obstacles, including financial constraints. But it is a fact that for every genuine person, there are always several other individuals and groups with vested interests.

In Nagaland, I, as a person with disability, live in a world where I am made ‘disabled’, a world where I am prevented from functioning. Since we are all so websavvy these days, let me take the example of the internet connection in a computer. When you turn it off, it says that the connection has been ‘disabled’. Does this mean that the internet service has suddenly broken down or become unable to perform? Certainly not. It just means that it has been prevented from functioning by an external force. This is similar to the way I am disabled by the environment and the attitudes around me.

I have a disability, and, believe me, I’ll be the first one to admit my physical limitations which are quite obvious. But that does not make me ‘less able’ than the ‘normal’ person next to me. In fact, it may just turn out that I am ten times more able in all aspects except in my physical movement capabilities. However, despite

my ability, I am eventually rendered disabled because of inaccessibility and negative attitudes which effectively ensure that there are few things I can do and even less places I can go to or events that I can participate in. I am disabled by long flights of stairs, uneven and congested areas, lack of toilet amenities……in other words, zero access everywhere. I am disabled by the assumptions and preconceived prejudicial notions about persons with disabilities – conclusions about what I cannot do and places I cannot go to are constantly made by ablebodied persons without ever consulting me. I am able but ultimately I become disabled by the environment and the attitudes of the people around me.

For Naga society in general, persons with disabilities continue to be objects of charity needing welfare assistance to survive. The focus remains on what a person cannot do rather than what he or she can do. To be precise, we still follow the medical model, and this is reflected in people’s attitudes and associated negative outcomes. Persons with disabilities are viewed as ‘different’ from ‘normal’ people, as a class of people incapable of being fully participating citizens. Hence, all areas of life remain inaccessible to those who have various kinds of disabilities.

Government offices (including the Civil Secretariat), schools, hospitals, churches, commercial buildings and all public places are inaccessible to persons with disabilities. Making our roads and public transport (buses, taxis) accessible and disabled-friendly do not even come under the realm of consideration. Provisions for those with disabilities to participate are never part of the scheme of things in the numerous events, programmes and celebrations that are routinely observed, state sponsored or otherwise.

All these stem from a mindset that says that persons with disabilities are a different species incapable of doing what ‘normal’ people do. Because I have a disability I am considered incapable of functioning in an ‘able’ world, incapable of socialising, incapable of actually living a real life. Because I have a disability, I am supposed

Revisiting women in India

from Korean centre axed his classmate after she refused him. There are multiple cases regarding rape, molestation, abuse, eve-teasing towards minor girls and women by boys, men, politicians, various institutional heads, religious leaders etc., and sadly even by policemen who are supposed to be the protector of our rights. Out of the many cases, we can take the example of the Mathura rape case in 1972, where a young tribal girl was allegedly raped by two policemen. And because of this incident amendments were made in the law. If we look back, we find that most laws are enacted or reformed only after an incident leads to mass outcry and protest. The question of women’s safety is one which needs serious attention. For if the law regulators themselves break it, how can we expect others to follow it?

Not only rape and sexual assault but women are victims of trafficking, acid attacks, witch hunting and murder. And in all these, instead of condemning the accused and delivering justice, women are often questioned and blamed about the way they dress, live, talk or behave. Most victims of violent crimes are brutalised not just by their attackers but thereafter by the system they appeal to or live with. Out of the many incidences made known, a lot of cases are not filed due to fear, threatening and some, for protection of their image and family honour. Women in

Tepuhopino Kikhi M.a (center for Study of Social Systems) Jawaharlal nehru university, new delhi

India also tend not to appeal to the legal and criminal system because, far from being protected they find the system makes them even more vulnerable to abuse. From the cases that are made known, is justice being delivered to these victims? It is ironic to say that the kind of justice been given and the type of punishment is one which does not shudder

the mind of the violators nor strongly discourages them from such activities but rather the justice being delivered is questionable. Because had the former been the case, there won’t be as much violence around as we see today. For example, we can take the case of 16th December, 2012 gang rape, where the juvenile escaped severe punishment just be-

AN INCLUSIVE HORNBILL FEST To come back to what I started with, I do love being regaled with all the exciting happenings surrounding our famous Hornbill Festival. But to be honest, I would rather be experiencing the joys of it myself than only getting a second-hand report of it from others who’ve been there and done that.

Let me say here that it would be incorrect to say that I have never been to the Hornbill Festival. Last year, 2012, I had the pleasure of finally setting foot into the main venue, Kisama Heritage Village, for the first time when I was invited to speak at a Disability Day programme on Dec 3 which was held at the Children’s Park. I arrived on time only to find that the entrance to the ground was blocked by ticket counters leaving only a narrow opening for people to walk through. Had the road leading down to the venue was good and smooth it would have been perfectly alright to walk that short distance. However, it was steep and rough and covered with free rolling sharp stones and pebbles. For a person like me on a walker, it was an unbelievably torturous walk down with my unstable feet twisting and slipping even as the two persons accompanying me struggled to hold and keep me steady.

We finally reached the bottom all hot and sweaty only to find that the programme was being held in a congested corner of the ground with barely any room to move. And, of course, toilet provisions were out of the question though the programme was designed to be quite a lengthy affair. It also involved a large group of differently-abled children, I might add. Frankly, I was amazed that such an absolutely unfriendly venue had been chosen to hold a programme where persons with disabilities were expected to come and participate. I was somehow able to determinedly struggle and negotiate my way to my seat without the ultimate humiliation of being bodily carried by someone, but what about wheelchair users and others with worse mobility impairments or other disabilities that need a reasonably even space and enough room to move around?

It would have been impossible for some to reach their seats without being stripped of all their dignity.

After the programme was over, I visited the Tourism Dept centre at the invitation of a dear friend which luckily had a toilet that I could use. The building was all stairs, of course, which I negotiated at a snail’s pace with plenty of assistance, enjoyed a hot cup of coffee and cakes in their lounge, and then battled another flight of stairs till I was standing on their balcony overlooking the performance arena. From there, I was able to get a glimpse of tiny dancing figures. Therefore, strictly speaking, I cannot say that I’ve never seen anything of the festival. But that was the extent of my Hornbill experience revolving around what I presume to be the entrance area of the Heritage Village. There was not even the slightest question of attempting to visit the many stalls or any of the buzzing activities going on. I wouldn’t have been able to get too far.

My beautiful Nagaland has miles to go before it comes even remotely close to being an inclusive society. There’s so much to do that sometimes one does not even know where to begin. But begin we must and what better place to make a start than at the annual ‘Festival of Festivals’ extravaganza, particularly in this 50th year anniversary of our statehood? Make the currently exclusive Hornbill Festival an accessible inclusive event that can be experienced and enjoyed by one and all. Famous as it may have become, only when local citizens and tourists with disabilities can participate on an equal footing will it become a truly great event that we can rightfully be proud of.

cause he was days short of turning 18 and therefore punished under juvenile laws. There are many cases filed on the basis of atrocities committed towards women but whose cases languish in the Indian courts for years, if not decades. There are also various loopholes in the system in the sense we find a lot of criminals escape punishments because of their socio-economic status, caste, political stand or because of their linkages with the higher authority.

It is a regret to inform that despite all the various reforms, education, laws we are still unable to fight the problem of women subjugation and the behaviour towards them as something inferior than the male species. When we talk of women we put them under the category of ‘mothers’ and their sole purpose of existence is for reproduction and to serve men. The idea, ‘boys don’t cry’, that crying as being effeminate and a sign of weakness. The sexual division of labour reinstates that men are for the larger or more important works while women are for household duties and that they should not interfere in the larger arena which are supposed to be for men. This, itself breeds hierarchy and inequality and women often lost their say in matters important to them. In some marital cases, men expect women, or in other words, women are expected to study or

accomplish lesser than the men in order to find mates suitable. There are also several incidences regarding marital rape, but not regarded as rape. The entire idea of male dominance, inequality, superiority and inferiority are results of socialization; children themselves are not born with this idea. We can talk of women’s participation in political affairs, law formation in spite of reservations and ask how many women get represented and their opinions taken?

Emancipation of women from all injustices is the need of the hour, because women are not able to either speak their minds out due to various social barriers or move freely because of various prohibitions and also due to various atrocities incurred towards them. Patriarchal mind set and beliefs held by both men and women should be reformed. Women should be made aware of their rights, laws should be reformed, they should be given freedom to make decisions of their own, education should be equally sought and primary education should be aimed at socializing and instilling several values. We live in a modern era where equality, freedom and rights are sought, for the constitution does not differentiate men and women, although there are several provisions for women in order to protect them.

Let us not forget before being ‘a man’ or ‘a woman’, first of all we are human beings, social in nature with equal importance as the other. And any attempt of violence towards women then, is a violation of human rights.

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The OTher Six DayS “Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. That is where he died, and what he died about.”

Kedo Peseyie here is a little song that says “everyday’s gonna be Sunday on the other side”. This is supposed to be a happy song. But not for me. If I find it depressing, then it must be terrifying for other church members. Preparing sermons, and even worse, listening to sermons. We are so concerned about observing Sunday with all religious piety. But is there less emphasis on the other six days as equally important spiritual days? It is what we do and how we behave in the other six days that determines whether we really honour God. Let’s get this straight. The church is not for good people. It is for bad people like you and me, and bad people in the jungles and in the streets where common people dwell. It is for people in the market place who speak vulgar language. It is for young people who prefer to come out only at night. It is for the Samaritan woman who had five husbands, and the one caught in adultery. It is also for the person who goes to office five days a week, and for the confused teenager in the college.

But we have simply created a system where well dressed people come to church on Sundays to listen to sermons, sing hymns, and on the other week days they don’t give a damn.

George MacLeod powerfully drives the point home: “I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the centre of the

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market place as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town garbage heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek…at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble.

Because that is where he died. And that is what he died about.”

When I was in fulltime student ministry, I encountered students on campus six days a week and often saw a lot of discrepancies between church behaviour and college behaviour. Sadly, many of them will carry on these discrepancies when they enter a Government office or a business.

I often challenge them saying, “If you cannot be a Christian in the college, don’t be a Christian in the church”. If we cannot live our lives meaningfully and exemplarily in the other six days, then let us also not harp on the importance of Sunday by bringing out all the theological implications of why there should be no business transaction on Sunday, etc (as we often do).

It is important that we seek to develop an action plan for the other six days of the week. Our faith should define our behaviours, actions and thoughts each day. We believe in the Christian creed and that it points us to eternity. But eternity has obligations too. And many times we fail to realise

s a family with one married daughter and son-in-law, one newly engaged son in college and two teenagers still at home, it can be difficult finding activities to share as a family. Add to that being a frugal mom and the challenge is on!

Last fall I purchased a buy one get one free Groupon for the local corn maze in our area.

Thinking I was being smart, I bought two deals, which provided me four tickets. These were set aside for us and our younger two teenagers. I had already talked to our married daughter and she and her husband wanted to come. Not sure what I was thinking, but when Living Social came out with the same deal I bought two more deals (four more tickets).

Knowing my son would be home for fall break, I now had a total of eight tickets. We invited his girlfriend to come stay with us so were set for a fall adventure to the corn maze!

I had seen pictures of the maze and understood the general idea. I had even thought through assuring each group had a cell phone (so the youngest two could have access if necessary) in case someone got lost.

I even reminded everyone to wear tennis shoes and bring water. (I’m such a good scout leader. Not.) Telling everybody to wear sunscreen was way too much mothering though.

What I didn’t think about was how long the actual maze was. Several miles as it turned out (depending on how lost you got).

It was a beautiful hot fall day. Can you picture it?

Here is a slightly more elaborate that these obligations are the ones we face everyday in our work place, our description of these roles as given by R. Paul Stevens: Prophets: discernschool and in our homes. ing, communicating truth, exposing, ensuring that justice is done, revealing How then shall we live?

It is not the duty of the church to in- outcomes, studying to guard against struct a government servant how his errors. Priests: bridge building, mework should be done. He knows best. diating, expressing meaning, evoking But it is the duty of the church to lay faith in others, blessing, bringing grace down some Biblical principles each and forgiveness. Kings: ruling justly, believer can follow as he or she seeks organising, planning, providing, nurto make a difference in the workplace. turing, integrating, settling arguments, In the Old Testament we find that solving problems, co-ordinating. the offices of the prophets, priests These are roles we play in the so-called and kings were the most important “secular” workplaces, market places, ones. No individual held all these colleges, etc. These problems we face offices together. Jesus was the only in our workplace arise because someone who was called “prophet, priest one has failed to fulfil these roles.

Jesus was the prophet, the priest and king”. We who are called to partake of the privileges, blessings and and the king when he walked the responsibilities along with Jesus can streets of Galilee exposing the Pharialso share in the roles of the proph- sees and communicating the Kingdom ets, priests and kings as we seek to of God; when he entered the temple do our daily work wherever we are and confronted the authorities; when placed. We are sent by Jesus into the he went to the home of Zacchaeus to world to continue his work. We can befriend him; when he forgave the be the prophet speaking the truth, women caught in adultery; when he admonishing people who are in the wept with Mary and Martha; when he wrong and standing up for what offered his own blood for us. And here is righteous. We can be the priest is one of the most amazing words of Jecommunicating God’s presence, ac- sus: “I tell you the truth, anyone who knowledging the omnipresence of has faith in me will do what I have been God, and bringing people before God doing. He will do even greater things in works of evangelism. We can be than these…” (John 14: 12).

To all the prophets, priests and the king extending the rule of God to all creation and making sure that kings out there in the other six days, people are governed in righteous- keep going because we have this wonderful promise. ness, truth, peace and justice.

Editor's Note: Bo Stern's husband is fighting a rare disease called ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

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couple of weeks ago, I was grabbing some groceries at Safeway when I noticed a man in a wheelchair who was in very bad shape. His pale face shook from tremors and from working to keep his head steady. At first I thought maybe it was ALS, but his healthy weight made me think otherwise.

Steve had just gotten his wheelchair, and I noticed this man’s chair was red instead of blue, and I wondered what brand he had chosen and why, and just as I looked up, I caught the eye of the woman behind him. I don’t know if she was his wife or not, but it was clear from her angry expression that I had been looking too long. She rolled her eyes at me in disdain, clearly sick of feeling gawked at by countless passersby and protective of the man she loved.

My stomach sank. I wanted to talk to her—to apologize and explain that I wasn’t staring out of curiosity or even sympathy, but empathy. I’ve been in her shoes.

In fact, her shoes are my regular footwear. I know how it feels to

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hen you stand in front of Him, who is going to stand behind you?”

That is the question that led to John “Smokey” Reaves' transformation. Though Reaves had it all in the early 1980s—five nightclubs, seven restaurants and other businesses—he still felt a void. However, when a friend posed that question, Reaves began reading his Bible and attending Bible study until conviction occurred. In 1982, he stopped selling alcohol and no sooner closed down all his nightclubs. His decision cost a lot of money, but brought him unsurpassed peace. He opened “Big John’s” restaurant in 1976 on the corner of Mockingbird Road and Lemmon Avenue in Dallas. It was an instant hit and Reaves earned the nickname “Smokey” because of the hickory smoke from his kitchen. After a fire incident, he changed the restaurant name to “Smokey John’s BBQ.” For over 32 years, Smokey John’s’ BBQ serves what The Dallas Morning News coined a “beefed-up Bible study” every Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. Delicious home cooked meals and an out-of-thebox Christian fellowship are offered in a room that reflects the demographics of heaven: black, white, million-dollar homeowners, homeless, men and women from different cultures and backgrounds. “This is what heaven looks like,” says Reaves, “and I want to get a glimpse of heaven here on earth so when John “Smokey” Reaves' I get there, I don’t have culture shock.”

1n 1983, Reaves started a Tuesday fellowship at noon now known as The Holy Spirit Clinic. Although he was the only attendee for two years, he believed people would come. Three decades later, the fellowship is packed. People are hearing the Word, sharing testimonies, praying and encouraging each other. He also started a fellowship on Thursday evenings where he feeds and mentors recent parolees and ex-convicts.

After a 43-year marriage to Gloria, Reaves lost his best friend and business partner on June 13, 2010. In the immediate aftermath, he remembers praying: “Don’t let me live the rest of my life as a person without hope. Lord, I want you to be honored—even in her dying. Do not let me question or have resentment toward you.” Reaves then added: “What has sustained me is God’s Word. I know one day I will be discharged and be in His presence.” When asked about his secret of running a successful restaurant, he shared several points. “I first worked free so I could learn how to operate my own restaurant,” he says. “I took what I learned and put a spin on it and today it is my secret recipe. Learn to manage your food costs. Have a quality product and serve it with smiles and great customer service. Lastly, always have an attitude of gratitude.”

Today, his son Brent and other family members run the restaurant's daily operations. Meanwhile, Reaves is on another mission. “I am a man on a journey with one purpose—to let everyone know that this is not it,” he says. “We are just passing through. Life is not a destination, but a transformation.”

(Source: Manna express)

Lessons Learned in a Corn Maze

One husband promising not to complain at my crazy idea of family togetherness.

One married couple bickering (and it wasn’t mom and dad!)

One couple with a sick patient (my son home from college).

One person carting around a heavy camera (yeah, that was me).

After quick instructions from the tour guide there was a quick pair up at the start that left me with my youngest teenaged son.

“Mr. Impatient/I will win if it kills me/oh no, I’ve got Mommy on my team” son is off to the races and I’m looking around to see where everybody went.

I didn’t even know you could get scared in a corn maze because I’m the “Rule Follower/Can’t possibly cheat and go through the cornstalks/Now I’m hyperventilating/ Mom.” Really. There was a moment where I felt like the kid that had been left behind in a department store. So I hollered for my son and gave him a lecture talking to about working together as a team.

We proceeded into the maze and wandered around for a while until someone else told us a clue was around the corner. Oh, did I forget to tell you the object of the maze was to find clues at six different stations, allowing you to answer the riddle (something about

Marty Walden

Source: crosswalk somebody killing somebody and where? To be precise, it was a farm animal killed and you were supposed to find the weapon, the suspect and the location). Hmmm. Who cares? One guess. My son does and he’s on a pursuit to find every single clue.

Did I mention it was hot? And I’m way older than my youngest? Yes, we wandered around…….and around…….and around. We had four clues and I needed to rest. Or at least catch my breath.

Every other word out of son’s mouth was, “I know where we are. We’re not lost.”

Well, of course, son. There’s the map.

Piece of cake.

It was all good until I committed the deadly sin.

I asked for help.

For my attachment challenged adopted son this is pretty close to treason. Kids that have a trauma background believe they don’t need any help, because they weren’t taken care of or had their needs met in their early months/years. Asking for help is a sign of weakness to them.

We had come to a point where the maze owners had employees stationed to guide

A prayer to see behind the battle Bo Stern | Charisma Magazine

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Later, I thought about how easy it is to look at someone and imagine we know their motives. I have done it a million times. I’ve settled for a surface-level understanding, which is often more dangerous than no understanding at all.

I need to remember that behind every face is a backstory, a history, a struggle. And those stories make some more beautiful and some more broken (and maybe, for some, a little of each). And so I wrote this prayer, and I’m committing to pray it often so I can learn to see people more clearly: Father of all who are breaking beneath the weight of war, straighten and strengthen my vision to see past skin and shell, beneath bravado and bluster, and into the long-buried story.

Focus my heartsight on what eyes can’t see to love without reason, hope without limits, and truly believe that everything possible with You is dwelling in me.

Bo Stern Christ, want to scream that the man you the Hope of Glory, love is so much more than his conlet me see. dition or his wheelchair. And I hate (Bo Stern is a blogger and author of the that I made her feel like an oddity newly-released Beautiful Battliefields (Navinstead of what she was: a fellow- Press). She knows the most beautiful things can come out of the hardest times. Her Goliath came soldier, living on the battlefield of in the form of her husband’s terminal illness, a battle they are still fighting with the help of their sickness and disability and trying four children, a veritable army of friends and our to function in a world that doesn’t extraordinary God. Bo is a teaching pastor at always understand.

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people to clues or the way out. I asked for help while I was stopped, and my son got very mad at me. We had tense words with each other in the middle of a row of corn, which was compounded by the fact that I had received a call saying one of the other teams had finished first. I later found out they took a cellphone pic and were gathering clues by looking at the map on their phone (Hey, that was cheating!).

The great thing about this adventure for my youngest son and I? We worked through it. In the middle of the cornfield. I told him how tired I was and the fact that I was getting a migraine. He was upset that I didn’t tell him earlier because he would have slowed down and not been so anxious to win.

This is progress for us. Serious progress. I told him I was proud that he was able to work together as a team with me and if he would give me a moment we could get those last two clues.

God revealed some amazing lessons through our shared experience, and I believe they can apply to raising children, especially teenagers.

Here’s what I learned during our corn maze adventure: Being a part of a team means leading at times and following at others. It can be difficult to think of your teenager as capable of being a leader, but let him prove that he is

ready to accept that responsibility.

Asking for help may be humbling but often will be part of the solution. Model for your children the act of asking for help. It doesn’t mean you’re a loser but instead allows you to know your strengths and weaknesses better.

Finishing the race can be just as important as winning. My son and I crossed the finish line together with a better attitude and relationship.

Time spent together is a reward in itself.

Our immediate family unit no longer lives under the same roof so whatever the activity, time is a precious commodity and not to be taken for granted.

Letting go of control and letting your family into your heart is worth the struggle and pain. For my adopted children, this has been a journey of 13 years with both struggle and triumph. I am grateful for every single step forward they have made because I know it has been hard fought.

God gives us opportunities to learn through every single situation if we let Him. I learned even more than my son that day in the corn maze and the lessons will forever be etched in my memory.

Parenting, like running the race, requires an investment of time and heart, but it will yield rich blessings in the end.

(Marty Walden is passionate about sharing her life, faith, dreams and adventures as a DIY, crafty, bargain hunting, homeschooling, memory keeping mom of both biological and adopted children.)

book review

‘Beautiful Battlefields’

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o Stern’s account of the war declared on her family the day after she celebrated her fortyfifth birthday demands to be read cover-to-cover, then slowly savored in weeks to come. The Bend, OR teaching pastor writes about the day her and her husband Steve met “…an enemy so fierce and foul…” they named him “Goliath.” Their opponent’s appropriate name forecast the difficult challenges that lie ahead. Where they would learn “…the most beautiful things come out of the hardest times.” Their yet unfinished true story is told in—Beautiful Battlefields.

They met “Goliath” in the doctor’s office when Steve returned for additional neurological tests after initial treatments hadn't changed his condition. When they entered the room Bo thought it would be something minor, yet she soon felt a sense of dread creep into the room as the doctor probed Steve. She quietly texted her sister “…Steve’s not okay. Please pray.”

Eight months and multiple tests later the doctor gave their “Goliath” a name— “Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis—Lou Gehrig’s disease” more commonly known as ALS. The terminal motor neuron disease would affect Steve’s muscles and eventually his ability to eat, swallow, speak or breathe. The devastating diagnosis was “…an emotional and psychological minefield…” that sent Bo to her knees with the enormity of what she, her beloved husband and family faced.

Emotionally charged decisions, whether to pay for an expensive drug that might “buy Steve an extra three months of life “or how to “bank” Steve’s voice for use with a “speech device” and when to meet the “director of the ALS center” became primary concerns.

Though their story is devastating, Bo sends a message of hope as she recounts “…countless miracle moments of unexpected joy and supernatural strength.” Moments she came to call “supernatural notes” of encouragement from God who extended His Hand through family and friends.

Perhaps most important were the moments God showed

up in the midnight hours when it was just Bo and her “… tears and fears…what ifs and why me’s.”

The first half will bring tears as readers learn how Bo discovered “Beauty in the Hard Places.” The second part is about the strategies Bo used to grow” stronger through every battle. Chapters end with reflective questions, “Thoughts worth pondering” and actions “Worth Doing.” The book, available as an eBook or paperback, concludes with categorized “Scriptures for Battle.”

Bo writes with warm authenticity as she relates an amazing account of her walk through the “valley of the shadow of death” with Christ by her side.

(Book review by Gail Welborn. Source: Examiner)

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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Fear grips Jammu villages aFter shelling

JAMMu, OctOber 19 (iANS) : More than 40,000 people living in villages close to the International Border in the Jammu region are tense with fear after a night of shelling by Pakistan Rangers at 25 locations. They said Saturday they haven’t seen such fierce firing in 10 years.

“There has been no firing since this (Saturday) morning. But Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing at 25 places on the international border during the night,” a senior Border Secuirty Force official said.

“We have also killed an intruder during the night in Suchetgarh sector of the border”, a senior BSF official said.

In Jammu district, people living in Pargwal area, which is situated 40 km from here, on the banks of the Chenab river, are worried they might have to leave their homes and villages for safety reasons.

Worried and tense with fear, they did not sleep through Saturday night as

shells exploded in nearby areas.

The last time people living in this area left their homes was during the 1971 and 1965 wars between India and Pakistan.

Some residents of Najwal, Markoola, Jaman Bela, Maljodha, Matkoola and Nikkowal in the larger Pargwal area fear the worse is till to come.

“We haven’t seen such shelling in a decade. Smoke covered our village for hours yesterday because of Pakistan shelling,” said Surjeet, 39, a resident of Nikkowal village.

“Schools are now closed in the village and we fear the time for migration has already come,” he said.

In the larger Pargwal area, there are at least half a dozen villages with a population of over 40,000.

Residents have been restricting children and even cattle from venturing out for the last five days.

“Working in the fields has become impossible Activists of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party shout slogans and burn a Pakistani national flag during a protest rally in because of the shelling by Jammu, India on October 18. Pakistani troops again violated ceasefire and fired on Indian posts along the Line of ConPakistan Rangers”, said an- trol (LOC), the line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, local report said on Friday. (AP Photo)

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (ANi): Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that that the Government has adopted multi pronged strategy in partnership with the states affected

by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) through different interventions in the areas related to security, development, rights and entitlement and improvement in governance .

Addressing the Consul-

tative Committeeof Members of Parliament attached to the Ministry of Home Affairs here yesterday to discuss the State of Naxalite problem, Shinde stated that the Government has taken a number of steps to improve the capacity building of the State Police Forces through various schemes such as Security Related Expenditure (SRE), Special Infrastructure Scheme (SIS), the Fortified Police Station Scheme, Civic Action Programme,

other villager living close to the International Border.

India and Pakistan signed a historic bilateral ceasefire agreement in November 2003. As guns of the two armies and paramilitary forces guarding the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border fell silent following the ceasefire agreement, a modicum of peace and normalcy had returned to the lives of thousands of people living close to the borders in divided Kashmir region.

After ten years, this luxury of peace for these people appears to be withering.

Since the beginning of this year, Pakistan troops have violated the ceasefire around 150 times in Jammu and Kashmir, and have done so at least 130 times in the Jammu region alone.

Two women and four children were injured in Pakistan shelling in these areas earlier this week.

Some villages in Pargwal area are situated barely 800 metres from the International Border, while oth-

ers are less than a kilometer way from the border.

Vehicular traffic on roads close to Pargwal has also remained suspended fearing a mishap because of shelling from across the border.

State Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand visited the area Friday to boost confidence among the villagers and also take steps to ensure their safety.

He directed the district administration to buy speed boats to cover distances in the Chenab river for timely evacuation from the villages in case of any casualty. But ensuring safety of the residents is a difficult task for the civil administration.

“The only thing that can ensure our safety is silencing the guns from across the border. The BSF is doing a great job protecting the borders, but the central government must take up the issue with Pakistan so that the ceasefire agreement is respected,” said Ranjit Singh, 54, a resident of the area.

Govt making all efforts to tackle Naxalism: Sushil Kumar Shinde India’s Mars mission setting up of Counter Insurgency and Anti Terrorism Schools (CIAT) and raising India Reserve Battalions (IRBs).

He also informed that the Planning Commission is implementing the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) since 2010 for creation of public infrastructure and services in 82 districts of the country, the majority of which are affected with LWE problem.

Shinde told the mem-

bers that there had been constant endeavour of the Government to bring all the State Governments to the level of good performing states so that there is a uniform, well coordinated and synergized response to this problem.

He informed that the CPI (Maoist) still has the capacity to launch spectacular strikes in its stronghold areas, especially against soft targets.

Shinde further said that the security agencies have

a lot of ground to cover in neutralizing the armed capability of the CPI (Maoist). The role of the Central Armed Police Forces is of great importance in this regard since 90 Battalions have been deployed for Anti Naxal Operations.

The members discussed the Maoist ideology of armed struggle and militarization, Violence Profile, Government Policy and approach to deal with Naxalism, monitoring

mechanism, security and development related measures taken by the Central Government.

Mullappally Ramachandran and RPN Singh, Ministers of State for Home Affairs, HK Dua and Dr Ashok Shekhar Ganguly from Rajya Sabha, MV Reddy and K Sudhakaran from Lok Sabha, senior Officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs and Central Armed Police Forces attended the meeting.

19 (NDtV): The Centre’s high-profile Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to look into the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh discussed various issues concerning the sharing of river water, power, distribution of assets and boundaries at its second meeting in New Delhi today.

Home Minister and head of the panel, Sushilkumar Shinde, said the government has received around 2000 emails related to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh which would be placed before the Group of Ministers.

Mr Shinde said the government has also directed “the secretaries of various min-

report related to the terms of reference of the GoM which will be taken up in the next meeting on Nov 7.”

Sources said the ministerial panel looked into the legal and administrative measures to ensure that both Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh function efficiently from Hyderabad as their common capital for the first 10 years. After its first meeting on October 11, the GoM had said that it would address all concerns of the people of Andhra Pradesh with “fairness and objectivity”.

The absence of two key members of the GoM

dambaram and Defence Minister AK Antony - had reduced the first meeting of the panel to a “preliminary discussion” on carving India’s 29th state. Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh is witnessing massive protests against the Centre’s decision to split the state with coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions - together called Seemandhra vehemently opposed to the blueprint for their future.

Curfew was lifted today from Vizianagaram town in Visakhapatnam, two weeks after it was imposed following violence over the state’s bifurcation.

luckNOw, OctOber 19 (iANS): The toll in the illicit liquor tragedy at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh rose to 39 Saturday as two more people died during treatment, officials said.

The police arrested two people for supplying the toxic stuff to local vends.

The spurious liquor was supplied to three villages -Chakia, Naranv and Adampur -- of Azamgarh district Thursday night. The state

government has already suspended 11 officials, including five policemen and six excise department officials, and charged them with dereliction of duty for not being able to check the supply of illicit liquor.

Meanwhile, one more person died in neighbouring Mau district after consuming the spurious liquor. Three others in Mahmoodabad have taken ill, and are being treated

at a government medical facility.

Senior government officials said Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has taken serious note of the incident, and was personally monitoring the situation. A close aide of the chief minister told IANS that senior officials have been instructed by the chief minister to take action against all errant excise and police officials.

realization comes when the bones start fracturing.

“Some fractures may escape detection for years.

The patients may not be aware of their osteoporosis problem until they suffer painful fractures so we strictly advise people above the age of 35 years to go for a routine bone density check up, “ said Rajeev K. Sharma, senior orthopedic and joint replacement surgeon, Apollo Hospital.

Doctors said as part of the aging process, both men and women lose their bone density by 0.3 to 0.5 percent after the age of 35.

“People who consume alcohol and smoke cigarettes (which are high calcium stealers) run a higher risk of acquiring bone dis-

eases. Quitting is the best option than to suffer from fractures later in life,” Sharma added.

With physiotherapy being the treatment for osteoporosis, many rehabilitation centres have come up in the capital to provide effective treatment.

“The services that we offer are orthopedic rehabilitation, back-and-neck pain therapy, pain management, medical fitness and osteoporosis program,” said Gerd Mueller, managing director, AktivOrtho, which has introduced state-of-the-art, German designed rehabilitation equipment together with a team of experienced and certified medical professionals.

In sum, doctors said that both men and women should exercise and eat healthy to avoid bone diseases at a later stage.

Seer claims another 2,500 tonnes of Telangana: Ministerial panel meets in Delhi, says has received 2000 emails on bifurcation gold waiting to be excavated at Unnao New Delhi, OctOber istries to prepare a detailed - Finance Minister P ChiASI will require one month to find the truth behind the 1,000-kg-gold claim by the seer

luckNOw, OctOber 19 (DNA): The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) began gold digging for a fabled treasure in Daudiyakheda (Unnao), about 150 km from here, on Friday. But at the end of the day, there was no encouraging news about any precious metal or object being unearthed. What further dispirited the mediamen and thousands of curious onlookers from nearby villages was word from the officials that there was no clue of any treasure and the excavation could go on for a month.

However, the saint, Shobhan Sarkar, who reportedly had the divine vision or dream about 1,000 tonnes of gold being buried under the Daudiyakheda fort, has sparked off more sensation with the prediction of an even bigger gold deposit at another fort.

In his letter to the district magistrate (DM) of Fatehpur, Sarkar has said that about 2,500 tonnes of gold

was buried under a dilapidated 500-year-old fort in Adampur village of that district.

That’s not all. He has also written to the Kanpur DM to get a survey done for treasure in the Chaubeypur and Parade Ground areas of Kanpur. The saint, known to have divine powers, has also sent the related information to the Reserve Bank of India. To assert his credibility, he has even written in his letter that he is willing to make a deposit of Rs10 lakh. He has stated that the deposit be forfeited and legal action taken against him if the treasure is not found. “We are only doing our duty towards this country. We are not obliging anyone,” Swami OmJi Maharaj, one of the saint’s oldest disciples, told mediapersons. He asked curious journalists not to be in a hurry.

“You just wait and see, each and every word of his (Shobhan Sarkar’s) predictions will come true. He

communicates with divine powers,” he asserted.

At the Daudiyakheda site, a 12-member ASI team headed by deputy director SP Mishra started digging at around 10 am after an elaborate havan and puja as directed by Sarkar. Sources said the mysterious saint who strictly shuns cameras and media attention had himself started the ‘puja’ at 4 am and left before other people arrived. About 20 labourers are engaged in the digging in a 30 square feet area marked by the ASI. The fort is heavily barricaded and guarded by a heavy deployment of police and PAC men. No one is being allowed near the excavation site.

ASI official SP Mishra told reporters that the entire exercise is likely to take about a month. “At this stage, I can not comment on whether there is any treasure buried here on not.

But we are indeed hopeful of finding articles of historical value during the excavation,” he said.

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (iANS): Bone diseases among women are a common occurrence, but of late these problems, especially osteoporosis, are fast affecting men, mostly after they turn 60, experts say.

“Osteoporosis, which was earlier associated with women, has now risen among men as well.

The problem affects them mostly after they reach the age of 60 years and above,” Hemant Gopal, consultant (Rheumatology) at the Max Super Specialty Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, told IANS. Osteoporosis occurs when there is a loss in the peak bone mass and loss of calcium, leading to hip, knee and shoulder fractures.

Osteoporosis is ranked as the second most common health-related risk in the world after coronary heart disease. Around

93 percent of women are aware of it, but of them, only 8 to 10 percent know they have it.

It is estimated that there would be around 36 million people suffering from the disease by the end of 2013.

“The development of the bone mass occurs between the age of 15 to 25 years.

However, these days, with changes in lifestyle, less physical activity leads to bone problems at a later age,” Gopal added.

Experts feel physical exercise should be done in the right manner, with focus on activities like jumping, running and walking.

“When one is jumping, the load falls on the body and it is useful in developing bone mass. The load

should fall on the hand, knees, joints so that they grow stronger,” Dhananjay Gupta, of the orthopedics department at Fortis Hospital, told IANS. A deficiency of vitamin D and lack of mineral-rich

“The patients who are on steroids should stop this if they are diagnosed with osteoporosis. Patients who are on long-term medication for conditions like epilepsy should also immediately consult doctors as

food are the other causes of calcium loss in the bones.

For this, doctors advise exposure to sun.

Similarly, people suffering from arthritis, liver diseases or who sweat excessively too are prone to bone diseases, doctors said.

the steroids for these diseases lead to tremendous calcium loss in the bones,” Gupta added.

Ironically, the symptoms of osteoporosis are present in the body long before one gets to know about the problem. And the

Toll in UP hooch tragedy rises to 39

Not just women; men too get affected by bone diseases

delayed by a week

cheNNAi, OctOber 19 (iANS): India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled for launch Oct 28, has been delayed and the fresh date will be announced later, said the space agency chief.

“Of the two ships Nalanda and Yamuna, only Yamanua has reached Fiji.

Nalanda has not reached there. It is expected to reach Fiji only around Oct 21. So the Mars mission will not happen Oct 28. As the launch window is between Oct 28Nov 19, we will decide on the revised date after the ship reaches Fiji,” Indian

Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K.Radhakrishnan told IANS. He said the delay will be by a week and by Oct 22, the launch date is expected to be known.

The ship has terminals to track the rocket, which has a coasting period of around 20 minutes beyond the visibility of existing ground stations.

Radhakrishnan said the rocket has been assembled and the satellite integration is on now. “In two days it will be over and then there will be checks on the rocket and satellite systems,” he said.

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (iANS): Over 150 delegates from 33 Asian countries, including India, will discuss the rights of adolescents and children at a meeting here from Oct 23, a release said Saturday.

The three-day meeting will be inaugurated by Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath, whose ministry is hosting the event.

A similar meeting on cooperation on child rights among Asian countries was held in Beijing in 2010. The meeting will bring together delegates from countries in the Asia-Pacific region, regional organisations and the UNICEF (United

Nations Children’s Emergency Fund).

It will assess the progress and advances on cooperation among countries of the region, support governments and other national partners to include the promotion of child rights and encourage the development of networks for knowledge exchange, peer learning and coordination.

Adolescent rights and fulfilling child rights are among the themes identified for the meeting. It will also come out with a declaration that will identify key issues, conclusions, recommendations and commitments for future action, the release said.

MOScOw, OctOber 19 (Pti): Hinting at the clinching of a deal for setting up of two more reactors in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project during his visit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed confidence that it would be “finalised shortly”.

Asserting that cooperation in nuclear energy production will continue between the two countries, he has also offered to Russia an additional site in West Bengal for location of a reactor in case the originally proposed site in Haripur was not found feasible.

“Indian and Russian companies have been holding negotiations on finalising arrangements for Kudankulam Units 3 and 4 and I am confident that these contracts would be finalised shortly,” Singh told the Russian media ahead of his twoday visit to Moscow beginning tomorrow.

Hectic negotiations are on between the two sides on clinching a deal on the two new reactors in

Kudankulam against the backdrop of the Russian concerns over the civil liability issues arising out of the nuclear liability law in India.

Russia is opposed to liability provisions claiming it has an inter-governmental agreement on Kudankulam, which precedes the law.

India has suggested some parameters that will govern the liability issues on Kudankulam and has asked the state-owned insurer General Insurance Corporation (GIC) to work on an insurance policy that will also lay down guidelines of liability for suppliers equipment.

Officials are confident that the deal would be signed between the companies of the two countries during the visit.

Singh said India remained interested in expanding nuclear power production in cooperation with Russia and was committed to the full implementation of the Roadmap signed during the visit of President Putin to Indian in March, 2010.

Delhi to host international meet on child rights

PM confident on deal over two new reactors in Kudankulam

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Maldives police block atteMpt at presidential vote

MALE, OcTObEr 19 (AP): Maldives sank further into political disarray Saturday when police blocked officials from conducting a presidential revote, saying that holding the election would violate a Supreme Court order.

It’s the latest blow to this young Indian Ocean democracy, which has only about three weeks before the end of the current president’s term. If his replacement is not elected by then it will spark a constitutional crisis.

The top court annulled the results of the Sept. 7 presidential elec-

tion, agreeing with a losing candidate that the voters’ registry included fictitious names and dead people, but it set conditions for a revote that police said elections officials did not meet.

Elections Commissioner Fuwad Thowfeek attempted to hold the election as scheduled, but on Saturday morning he said the ground floor of his building was full of policemen stopping his staff from carrying election material outside. He then called the election off.

Officer Abdulla Nawaz, speaking for the police, said

the election was stopped because the commissioner did not comply with a court order to have the voters’ list endorsed by all the candidates. Thowfeek accused the police of overstepping their legitimate role.

“We are very much concerned about what is going on in this country. The Supreme Court decision does not ask police officers to look into the voters’ list and check what is there ...” he told reporters. “They kind of think they can be our bosses and we are an institution below them, and that they can dictate to us and

control us,” Thowfeek said.

Nawaz said police acted after consulting with President Mohamed Waheed Hassan, the security council, the attorney general and the Home Ministry.

“We are not as an independent institution stopping someone from doing something. We can’t just support the Elections Commission against the ruling of the Supreme Court,” Nawaz said.

The Maldives’ capital, Male, appeared calm early Saturday, with people still waking up to the news.

Two of the three presidential candidates did not

sign the voters’ list Friday, saying it needed to be verified for any irregularities, but Thowfeek had said their demands for doublechecking the list were impossible to meet in time for the election. The Supreme Court said in its ruling annulling the September election that a revote must take place before Sunday. It likely will need to issue a new ruling in order for an election to be held before Hassan’s term ends Nov. 11.

Thowfeek had announced earlier Saturday that he would hold the election on the court’s advice, despite the fact that not all candidates had endorsed the list of voters. However, he said later that the court did not specifically advise that he conduct the election, but instead asked him to follow the original guidelines, which is open to interpretation. The Maldives became a democracy five years ago after 30 years of autocratic rule and has had a difficult transition.

Its first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced to resign last year midway through his term after he ordered the arrest of a senior judge he perceived as corrupt and partial. Nasheed says he was forced out of power by a coup, though an inquiry commission has dismissed his claim.

The country’s institutions such as the judiciary, police and public service are often perceived as par-

bEIJING, OcTObEr 19 (rEUTErS): A senior Chinese official has denounced the Dalai Lama’s long-standing pursuit of autonomy for Tibet, describing it as equivalent to advocating Tibetan independence, state media said on Saturday.

The comments by Zhu Weiqun, chairman of the ethnic and religious affairs committee of the top advisory body to parliament, signal that China would probably refuse to pursue a compromise with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

The Dalai Lama, who

fled China in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, is considered a violent separatist by Beijing.

The India-based Dalai Lama says he is merely seeking greater autonomy for his Himalayan homeland.

“In the fundamental sense, ‘high-level autonomy’ means Tibet’s independence,” Zhu was quoted as saying in the China Daily newspaper. “It is separated into two steps. The first step is so-called autonomy.

The second one is actual independence.”

The Dalai Lama’s brand of autonomy “is against

China’s autonomy system and does nothing but insert secessionist elements into China’s regional ethnic autonomy law”, Zhu was quoted as saying.

The Dalai Lama’s approach, called the “Middle Way” by Tibetans, seeks a Hong Kong-style autonomy for the region, with Tibetans to respect Chinese sovereignty over their homeland but have a greater say over religious and cultural affairs.

Some Tibetan activists have expressed frustration with the “Middle Way” and have pressed for indepen-

dence, not just autonomy.

Years of autonomy talks between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government broke down in 2010.

Tensions over the issue are at their highest in years after a spate of self-immolation protests by Tibetans, which have led to an intensified security crackdown.

More than 120 Tibetans have set themselves alight since 2009, mainly in heavily ethnic Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces rather than in what China terms the Tibet Autonomous Region. Most of those who set them-

selves on fire have died.

China defends its ironfisted rule in Tibet, saying the region suffered from dire poverty, brutal exploitation of serfs and economic stagnation until 1950, when Communist troops “peacefully liberated” Tibet and introduced “democratic reforms” in 1959.

On Monday, China denounced a decision by a Spanish criminal court to indict former Chinese president Hu Jintao for genocide as part of an investigation into whether his government committed abuses in Tibet.

UNITED NATIONS, OcTObEr 19 (AP): The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday renewing its commitment to promote women’s leadership and participation in all negotiations to resolve conflicts and bring peace to wartorn countries.

The council said it remains deeply concerned at the “exacerbated vulnerability” of women in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, and the abuses, threats and human rights

violations they suffer. It noted that girls and women who become pregnant as a result of rape should have “access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services ... without discrimination.”

The resolution stressed the need to increase women’s participation “in all discussions pertinent to the prevention and resolution of armed conflicts, the maintenance of peace and security, and post-conflict peace-building.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

told the council the resolution makes the point that “women’s participation in peace efforts is a matter of gender equality and universal human rights.”

The resolution was adopted 13 years after a landmark U.N. resolution calling for women to be included in decision-making positions at every level of peacemaking and peace building. It calls for a highlevel review of the implementation of that resolution in 2015. Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka, the new

head of UN Women, told the council that women must be invited to help mediate and negotiate ceasefires and peace accords to ensure that women’s issues are addressed.

“This resolution puts the onus on all of us — the Security Council, the United Nations, regional organizations and member states to create the space and provide seats at the table for women,” she said. “I know for sure that there are women who are adequately trained for these roles.”

Mlambo Ngcuka said a report by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shows that gains in women’s participation “are neither as consistent nor sustained as they should be.” This year, she said, three out of 10 peace agreements in U.N.supported efforts included provisions for women’s political participation or protection — but seven didn’t.

The number of women at senior levels in U.N. field missions also remained relatively stagnant over the past year, she said.

PAKSE, OcTObEr 19 (AP): Teams of French and Thai experts plied the vast and muddy Mekong River with high-tech sonar equipment Saturday, ramping up the search for a Lao Airlines plane, 19 bodies still missing from the crash and clues to why the aircraft went down three days earlier. On the riverbank, a group of orangerobed Buddhist monks performed a prayer ceremony for the 30 victims whose bodies have been recovered and those still missing.

Lao Airlines flight QV301 crashed Wednesday as it prepared to land in stormy weather at Pakse Airport in southern Laos.

The plane then skidded into the Mekong River, the largest in Southeast Asia, and disappeared. All 49 people on board, more than half of whom were foreigners, are presumed dead.

By Saturday morning, 30 bodies had been found and authorities were still trying to identify several of them, Lao Airlines said in a brief statement that offered no update of the ongoing investigation. The ATR-72

aircraft was delivered in March, raising questions into why a virtually new plane crashed.

Until Saturday, the search for bodies and the plane’s flight data recorder had been stalled by lack of manpower and equipment in the poor Southeast Asian country, which lacks capabilities in disaster management. France’s air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said it sent four investigators to help Laos with the probe. It said the team would work with technical advisers from ATR, the French-Italian manufacturer of the aircraft.

Thailand, meanwhile, sent a C-130 military transport plane with specialists and equipment, including several high-tech sonar systems, to locate objects on the river floor. The French and Thai teams set out on small boats scanning the water’s surface with the sonar equipment Saturday, a stark contrast to previous days of searching that included Lao villagers peering into the murky water from long-tail boats.

Experts say the flight

Supporters of former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed protest cancellation of a presidential revote in Male, Maldives on October 19. Maldives sank further into political disarray Saturday when police blocked officials from conducting a presidential revote, saying that holding the election would violate a Supreme Court order. (AP Photo)

China rebukes Dalai Lama for seeking Tibetan independence

UN pledges to promote women in peace talks

Experts search for lost plane in Laos

A Laotian Buddhist monk prepares to pray for victims near wreckage of a crashed plane in Pakse, Laos on October 19. On the Mekong riverbank, a group of orangerobed Buddhist monks performed a prayer ceremony for those whose bodies were found and those still missing. Lao Airlines flight QV301 crashed Wednesday as it prepared to land in stormy weather at Pakse Airport in southern Laos. (AP Photo)

data and voice recorders could help determine if the crash was caused by human error or a technical problem. The chief pilot has been identified as 56-yearold Young San of Cambodia, who had more than 30 years of flying experience.

Cambodia’s civil aviation security director, Mak Sam Ol, said he was briefed by Laotian authorities on a

final instruction from the control tower.

“Due to a storm and strong winds, as the plan approached landing, the air controller told the pilot to change course,” Mak Sam Ol said in a telephone interview. “He followed instructions but the plane faced strong storms and couldn’t get through.”

According to the air-

line, 44 passengers and five crew were on the flight.

The passengers included 16 Lao nationals, seven French, six Australians, five Thais, three Koreans, three Vietnamese and one person each from China, Malaysia, Taiwan and the United States. A person who had been listed as a Canadian was instead added to the list of Vietnamese.

tial and dominated by those loyal to the country’s former autocratic leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who lost to Nasheed in 2008.

Nasheed, who finished first in the September balloting but did not win the majority of votes needed to avoid a runoff, had endorsed the voter list. The other candidates — Yaamin Abdul Gayoom, a brother of Mau-

moon, and businessman Qasim Ibrahim, who challenged the first-round result in court — did not.

After Saturday’s revote was called off, Hamid Abdul Ghafoor, a spokesman for Nasheed, accused the judiciary and police of being the pawns of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and called for international engagement to have an election soon. Others also

decried the canceled vote.

“This clearly undermines the democracy and violates the people’s right to vote,” said Mohamed Visham, editor of local daily Haveeru. But he added that the election setbacks won’t discourage Maldivians from believing in democracy. “All hope is not lost. There is still time to have an election before Nov. 11,” he said.

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMISSION KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 19th Oct.2013

ADDENDUM NO.NPSC/ADVT/EDS-2012:: In continuation to the Nagaland Public Service Commission Advertisement No.NPSC-3/2013 dated 18th Sept. 2013, applications are invited for filling up the following vacancies under the Government of Nagaland.

Post Graduate Teacher under School Education Department.

Item Nos Item No 18 Item No 19 Item No 20 Item No 21 Item No 22 Item No 23 Item No 24

No. of Post & Subject Educational Qualification 3(Three) posts of Botany Post Graduate 2nd Class 1(One) post of Chemistry Degree of a recognized 6(Six) posts of English University on specific sub1(One) post of Geography ject with minimum 50% 7(Seven) posts of Mathematics marks with BEd. and re2(Two) posts of Physics laxable by 5% for ST/SC 2(Two) posts of Zoology candidates.

RELAXATION: Candidates not possessing the prescribed BEd. qualification, relaxation shall be admissible as per Notifications NO. EDS(A)-5/2002 dt 27.10/08, 09/01/2009, 18/11/2009, 10/01/2010 and 18/02/2010 provided the shortlisted candidates belonging to the Backward Tribes of Konyak, Chang, Khiamnuingan, Yimchunger, Sangtam, Phom, Chakhesang, Pochury, Zeliang and Sumi of Kiphire complete the said course within 5(Five) years and within 2(Two) years in respect of the other Naga tribes.

Note: 1. Candidates are advised to access the Commission’s Notice Board or Website at www.npsc.co.in for relaxation and other terms and conditions.

2. Candidates who have already applied may give post preference in plain paper addressed to Secretary, on or before the last date of submission.

3. Rejected list for Asst. Professor/PGT(Hindi) is displayed in the Notice Board and Commission’s website. (Eligible candidates for PGT may apply again in plain application) 4. The written examination is tentatively scheduled to be held in the early part of December, 2013 to be notified later.

5. The last date for submission of Application Form is 31.10.2013.

For Applications submitted by registered post, a relaxation of 5 (Five) days is granted, provided it--is dispatched by post on or before the last date of submission and addressed to the Secretary, N.P.S.C. 6. Application Forms will be issued from 21.10.2013 on working days from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

7. Other terms and conditions remain the same.

Sd/- SARAH R. RITSE Secretary, Nagaland Public Service Commission, Kohima.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF AGRICULTURE NAGALAND: KOHIMA AETC RESULTS The result of the 2 year Agriculture Extension Training Course (2011-2013) conducted at I.E.T.C. Medziphema, Nagaland is hereby declared in order of merit: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

Roll Division No. CHUMJANBENI MURRY 13 1st TEMJENNUNGSANG ATSONCHANGER 17 1st SAHABO 43 1st LIDENO 47 1st RAHEN LUHO 42 1st NZANBENI 14 1st RUOVITUONUO THEÜNUO 50 1st BENDANGNUKSUNG 2 1st A.CHULE PHOM 31 1st BERILA K.JANQUNGER 32 1st S.MERENTULA 9 1st VENEYILU 36 1st ABOUNUO VIMERA 51 1st SUBONGSANEN 18 1st HEAWANG KONYAK 30 1st T.WANGYUH KONYAK 37 1st A.ORENPONI EZUNG 15 1st KIKALI YEPTHO 29 1st GLORIA OVUNG 3 1st L.YONGCHAI 23 1st LIJUNGSE .P 40 1st ROSEMARY AYE 20 2nd KHEKA YESCA 22 2nd NOYINGO Z.YANTHAN 10 2nd PUTO KHIAMNUNGAN 46 2nd M. ABENTHUNG ERUI 49 2nd BENTO CHISHI 33 2nd ZUBEMO.P.EZUNG 8 2nd GRACY K.YEPTHO 7 2nd TACHUMONG T. CHIRR 12 2nd LALJASEI CHONGLOI 5 2nd CHENCHULO MAGH 16 2nd ELONTHUNG KIKON 21 2nd ACHIBA LKR. 25 2nd ZUBEMO 1 2nd TIABA O CHANG 19 2nd THANGTINNGAM SINGSIT 52 2nd OHITO K.CHOPY 28 2nd LIBENTHUNG N.YANTHAN 48 2nd M.TONGMETH KONYAK 44 2nd KEDIGWELIE KIN 26 2nd W.CHANBENI MURRY 6 2nd AVUNGO LOTHA 41 2nd PITHUNGO PATTON 27 2nd YINGKAM ANGH 38 2nd N.KASHILI SUMI 11 2nd NEISAKUOLIE 35 2nd HOTO CHISHI 34 3rd YÜTACHU TRAKHA 4 3rd VEKHWUTA RINGA 39 3rd Name

Sd/N. TEKATUSHI AO Director of Agriculture Nagaland : Kohima

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Faulkner, Voges snatch win from India Sam Stosur reaches

mohaLI, october 19 (tnn): Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's blistering unbeaten 139 went in vain as Australia came from behind to pull off a sensational four-wicket victory over India in the third cricket one-dayer to take a 2-1 lead in the seven-match series on Friday.

Chasing a stiff target of 304, the Australians rode on James Faulkner's brutal unbeaten 29-ball 64, which was studded with two fours and six sixes, to dramatically change the complexion of game and take his side home with three balls to spare.

Adam Voges made a valuable contribution of 76 not out from 88 balls, which was studded with seven fours. A hugely costly over by out-of-form pacer Ishant Sharma who gave 30 runs in the 48th turned the tide in Australia's favour after the Indians seemed cruising comfortably. It was a commendable show by the Australians and the Indians paid the price of the lack of quality death bowlers in a high scoring match on a good batting track at the PCA Stadium.

Earlier, Dhoni produced a magnificent late onslaught as he rescued

India from a precarious 76 for four at one stage to single-handedly take the score to 303 for 9 after the home side were asked to bat. His unbeaten knock came from 121 balls with the help of 12 fours and five sixes. Virat Kohli was the other notable contributor with a 73-ball 68.

But it was not the day for the Indians as Faulkner hit four sixes and a four in the 48th over bowled by Ishant to turn the match on its head. R Ashwin bowled a very good penultimate over just giving away five runs as Australia needed nine runs from the final over.

Faulkner ended the match in style with a six in the third ball of the final over as Australia reached 304 for six to win the match to the disappointment of the capacity crowd.

The two sides now moved to Ranchi for the fourth ODI on October 23.

Australia made a solid start in their run chase with the openers Phil Hughes and Aaron Finch sharing 68 runs in 12.2 overs but seemed to have lost the plot after that.

Pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar, R Vinay Kumar and Ishant bowled a tight line and length that squeezed the runs and built pres-

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sure on the Australians who were reduced to 88 for three in the 20th over.

Captain George Bailey (43) and Voges then stitched a 83-run stand for the fourth wicket before Australia were dealt a blow in the 37th over as they lost two wickets in the same over. Bailey and Glenn Maxwell (3) departed in the space of five balls to leave the visiting side at 174 for five.

Four balls later, Shikhar Dhawan came up with a gem of a fielding effort as his direct throw led to the run out of Maxwell who was involved in a mixedup with Voges.

Haddin (24) was out ion the 42nd over and Australia seemed to be heading towards a defeat with the asking rate having shot up 10 an over before Faulkner and Voges saw took them home.

Earlier, Dhoni led from the front by smashing an unbeaten 139 as India recovered from a poor start to post a massive 303 for nine. The Indian captain was seen as having some sort of discomfort initially after he apparently twisted his ankle in the 14th over while turning for a second run when he was yet to faced a ball. He

limped for some time early in his innings but played a blinder of any innings with a late onslaught.

Dhoni rescued India after early jitters as he played a responsible and sensible innings that came off just 121 balls, including 12 fours and five sixes.

The skipper also shared two significant partnerships -- putting on a solid 72-run stand for the fifth wicket with Virat Kohli (68) before joining hands with Ravichandran Ashwin (28) to put up 76 runs for the seventh wicket.

For Australia, Mitchell Johnson was the pick of the bowlers with figures of four for 46.

Put in to bat, India did not make an ideal start as openers Rohit Sharma (11) and Shikhar Dhawan (8), both of whom were instrumental in setting up a great platform for the team's massive 360 run chase in the previous game, today fell cheaply.

With India two down for 37, the onus was on Suresh Raina and Kohli to bail the hosts out of trouble. But in the 13th over, Johnson struck back to see off Raina caught at the slip

by Shane Watson before dismissing comeback man

Yuvraj Singh off his very next delivery for a first-ball duck.

It was heartbreak for the fans of local hero Yuvraj, who edged an away going delivery to wicketkeeper Brad Haddin. Raina and Yuvraj's dismissals in consecutive balls led to the run flow drying up.

Both Kohli and Dhoni also adopted a cautious approach as the duo confined themselves to scoring just in singles and twos. There was no boundary or a six hit for as many as eight overs.

Kohli broke the shackles in the 24th over and slowly but steadily completed his half-century to help the team rebuild. Although Kohli and Dhoni failed to accelerate the scoring rate, they kept the scoreboard ticking before Glenn Maxwell returned the latter for a patient 68 off 73 balls, laced with nine fours.

Johnson then left the hosts reeling at 154 for six with all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja's wicket. With the top and middle-order back in the pavilion, Dhoni showed a lot of character as he played with responsibility. He waited patiently for the loose deliveries to go for the fours and sixes.

final at Kremlin Cup

moscoW, october 19 (aP): Samantha Stosur advanced to her second straight final by beating her doubles partner Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals of the Kremlin Cup Saturday.

Kuznetsova couldn't hold serve once in the first set, winning just six of 23 points when serving, while Stosur was broken twice as well. Stosur took a 5-1 lead in the second but then failed to serve out the match twice.

"At the start we were both struggling to hold serve and she had love-40 again on me and my second service again and I was able to get out of that," Stosur said. "And I think that gave me a little bit of a head up and to win that first set 6-2 was good. It was still pretty tight all the way through with who was going to hold."

Stosur sealed the victory on her second match point when the Russian sent a shot wide.

"We know each other's games pretty well. So I guess you've got to take your opportunities when you get them," she said.

Stosur won her second

Sangwan banned for 18 months by BCCI anti-doping tribunal

neW DeLhI, october 19 (PtI): Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Pradeep Sangwan was on Saturday slapped with an 18-month ban from cricket after being found guilty of consuming a banned anabolic steroid by the BCCI's anti-doping tribunal. The ban on the 23-year-old Delhi cricketer has been imposed with retrospective effect from May this year when the IPL took place. "The anti-doping case initiated against the Player Pradeep Sangwan by the BCCI before the AntiDoping Tribunal constituted under the BCCI Anti-Doping Code, was concluded on 1st October 2013, and the written Decision issued by the AntiDoping Tribunal was received on 18th October 2013," the BCCI said in

a statement. "The tribunal has found that the Player has committed an Anti-Doping Violation under Article 2.1 of the Code for the presence of the Prohibited Substance Stanozolol, an Anabolic Steroid," it added.

The tribunal heard him out on October 1 during which he claimed that he consumed the steroid accidentally when his gym instructor offered it to him as a remedy for fat reduction. Sangwan is only the second cricketer in the history of IPL after Pakistani speedster Mohammed Asif to have been found guilty of consuming banned drugs.

"The Tribunal has declared the player ineligible for a period of 18 months, commencing on 6 May 2013 and expiring at midnight on 5 November

2014, from participating in any capacity in any event or activity (other than authorised anti-doping education or rehabilitation programmes) or competition authorised, organised or sanctioned by the BCCI or any of the other bodies referred to in Article 10.10.1 of the Rules," the BCCI statement read.

Sangwan, who played a stellar role in India's victorious U-19 World Cup campaign back in 2008 represented Kolkata Knight Riders during the last two editions of the IPL. He has taken 123 wickets in 38 first-class matches. Sangwan, who hails from Najafgarh, played two matches in the IPL against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. He could not get a single wicket during the two games.

Hocus Pocus lifts M.Noke trophy 2013

Chief Guest Zheito Chophy (right) addressing the participating teams.

DImaPur, october 19 (mexn): The 4th Men’s Volleyball Championship organized by Satakha Range Students’ Union (SRSU) was held from October 17-18 at Satakha town, Zunheboto. It was held based on the theme ‘Serve with Participation’ with the motive to encourage the youth to take up sports.

Sixteen teams from as many villages participated in the competition carrying a total cash prize of Rs. 45, 000 for the champion and runners-up and cash incentives to semi-finalists and outstanding individual performers.

A press release received here stated that Zheito Chophy, Manager, Nagaland Aluminum Industry, who attended the opening

ceremony as chief guest, declared the tournament open. In his address, Chophy lauded the effort of the SRSU to promote sports, while stating that the students’ body should endeavour to take up the common interests of students and the youth at large, the release said. He further said that the SRSU has the important responsibility of taking the area forward to the future.

Chophy further pointed out the important role sports play in the society. He said that sports, apart from helping to keep one’s body and mind balanced, bring people together irrespective of age and class. He thus urged the people of Satakha area to always give importance to promote sports.

mon, october 19 (DIPr): Hocus Pocus of Tizit successfully defended the M. Noke Trophy for the second consecutive year defeating Bulls FC by 2-0 in the final. CM Young Star settled for a third-place finish beating Shenmei Club 3-1.

With 7 goals, Samson of Striver FC, received the Highest Scorer award. The Best Keeper tag was bagged

by Nchum of CM Young Star.

Ngamchoak of Hocus Pocus was declared the Best Player of the tournament. Champion Hocus Pocus retained the M. Noke Trophy and walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 80,000. Bulls FC was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 40,000 and third-placed CM Young Star won Rs. 20,000.

The closing ceremony was graced by Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development & REPA C.L. John as the Chief Guest.

John, in his address, expressed gratitude to the

drawn about what you're going to do. "'Am I going to miss this?'

My attitude was, 'I'm not going to miss it. My time has come.' I'd picked the right moment. The successes were mind-boggling, to think what had happened to me in my career at United. Forget the past. It's no use to me." Moyes, 50, has endured a difficult start to life at Old Trafford, losing three of his first seven Premier League games, but Ferguson, who is now a United director, said he was on hand to provide help and support. "My life as a United person continues," said Ferguson, whose new autobiography is released next week.

"And that means winning; enjoying watching them winning. I don't need to worry about refereeing decisions, agents or the press any more.

"We've got a young manager and I'm there to help

title of the season and fifth of her career in Osaka, Japan, last Sunday. The Australian was a runner-up to Caroline Wozniacki here

last year, and will face either fifth-seeded Simona Halep or local favorite Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Sunday's final.

Nadal pulls out of Swiss Indoors tournament

Johannesburg, october 19 (anI): World number one Rafael Nadal has pulled out of next week`s Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel, saying that his tiring schedule in recent weeks is the reason for this decision. According to Sport24, the Spaniard has had a remarkable year, winning 10 titles including the French and US Opens to reclaim his spot as the number one player in the world. He wrote on his Facebook page that he was sorry to announce that he would not travel to Basel in Switzerland as after some very exhausting weeks, he had to regroup his fitness and his body, adding that he would do his best to come back to the Swiss Indoors next year. However, the first signs that his demanding season may be starting to take its toll came in his recent tour of China where he was beaten in the final of the China Open by Novak Djokovic and then comprehensively defeated by Juan Martin del Potro in the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters last week, the report said. Nadal is expected to return to action at the Paris Masters at the end of the month ahead the season ending World Tour Finals in London in November, the report added.

FIFA orders Juventus, Livorno to pay Chelsea

C.J. John graces closing ceremony of M. Noke trophy

Friends Club for its initiative to uplift the younger generation through sports, while urging the club to continue doing so. Underlining the importance of sports, John reminded that sports promotes global unity, builds friendship, creates the spirit of oneness and advocates peace and harmony in the society.

He further appealed upon the players to foster the spirit of camaraderie and sportsmanship. He donated Rs. 100000 (One lakh) to the organizing Committee of M. Noke Trophy.

An interesting feature of the tournament was the participation of Mon Users Network (Shansham Organization). The team, made

of reformed former drug users, lost to Shenmei Club in the quarter-final stage.

The M. Noke Trophy ‘Inter Club Football Tournament’ is an annual football tournament organized by the Friends Club, Mon annually with the aim to promote sports and sporting talents.

18 teams participated in the competition this year.

Ferguson has no regrets about retirement

LonDon, october 19 (aFP): Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson says that he does not regret his decision to retire and is happy to provide assistance to his successor, David Moyes.

Ferguson retired in May after a record-breaking 26-anda-half-year spell at United in which he won 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups. It made the 71-year-old Scot the most successful manager in the history of the British game, but he said he knew that the time had come for him to step down. "My reaction was that I knew it was the best thing for me. I knew I'd done my time," Ferguson told Saturday's edition of British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

"My attitude was: 'The only way I could really enjoy my life was to forget it,' because you can become with-

Australia's Samantha Stosur returns a ball to Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova during a semi final match at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Russia on Oct. 19. (AP Photo)

him. We've had a lot of dialogue, David and I, over the last few weeks and he's been very, very good. He's been very open about what his plans have been. Any help he's needed or wanted, he's got it there." Ferguson also described the England manager's position as a "horrible job" after current national coach Roy Hodgson became embroiled in a racism storm over a joke about a monkey that he told his players during a half-time team talk.

Hodgson apologised for any offence caused and was given the full backing of the Football Association. "I don't think the manager's job with England is a good one. I think it's a horrible job," Ferguson said. "For instance, (FA chairman) Greg Dyke comes out and says they're going to win the World Cup in 2022. He may know something about football -- and I'm sure he's

trying to learn what's going on -- but from grassroots levels right up to the national team, that is a massive job."

Ferguson expressed surprise that Hodgson had been angered by criticism from former England striker turned television presenter Gary Lineker over England's performance in a recent 0-0 draw in Ukraine.

"Now, I scan papers more than I did in 20-odd years," he said. "I was interested in reading all the things about Roy Hodgson and the game in Ukraine, the angles they (journalists) take. "Some are pro, some are against, some are middle-of-the-road. Roy's reaction was interesting. Roy's a manager of great experience. I was surprised he got annoyed

by Gary Lineker. "Gary always comes across with wee throwaway lines. I was surprised Roy got himself annoyed with that."

rome, october 19 (Ians): Football world's governing body FIFA has ordered Italian clubs Juventus and Livorno to help Adrian Mutu pay the more than 21 million euros he owes English side Chelsea. FIFA considered the Italian clubs "are jointly responsible" as Mutu went to Juventus via a licensing technicality with Livorno to get around limits on non-EU players during his suspension by English FA over a positive cocaine test, reports Xinhua. Chelsea sacked Mutu for the doping case in 2004 with more than four years on his deal and FIFA ruled in 2008 that Mutu needed to pay 17.7 million euros in compensation to Chelsea for contract infringement. But the amount has gone up with interest.

Kallis slips down to No.2 in ICC all-rounder rankings

Johannesburg, october 19 (anI): South African star Jacques Kallis has been demoted from his position as the world`s leading all-rounder following his batting failure in the first Test against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi, according to the latest ICC rankings. According to Sport24, Kallis, who scored five and a duck in his two innings in South Africa`s seven-wicket defeat on Thursday, has come down to No.2 in the rankings, behind Bangladesh`s Shakib Al Hasan. The report mentioned that Kallis` bowling figures in Pakistan`s first innings were 13-2-44-0, adding that he did not bowl in Pakistan`s second innings where the sub-continent team chased down the required 40 runs for victory for the loss of three wickets. According to the rankings, Al Hasan is leading the list, followed by Kallis at No.2, India`s Ravichandran Ashwin (No.3), South African Vernon Philander at No.4 and England player Stuart Broad at No.5.

Injured Saina Nehwal goes down in Denmark Open

Alex Ferguson. (AP Photo)

hYDerabaD, october 19 (tnn): Saina Nehwal's wait for the elusive title in 2013 continues. The Indian ace was dethroned at the Denmark Open Super Series Premier in Odense on Friday. World No. 6 Ji Hyun Sung, who had never won against the Indian, defeated Saina in a nailbiting one hour, six minute contest in three games 13-21, 21-18, 21-19. Saina, who lost a lot of practice time due to injuries this year, suffered an ankle slip in the third game.

The South Korean girl, who has won two titles this year, had lost to the Indian four times in the past but Friday brought the best out of her. Saina was off to a brisk start taking the first game in just over 15 minutes. She looked good even in the second. With Saina leading 6-2 in the second, Sung, who is famous for her retrieving skills, secured four consecutive points to catch up at 6-6. It was here that Saina started losing momentum. And once Sung moved ahead at 14-11, the Indian ace lost the contest. From 14-12, Sung came up with another sizzling five-point burst to move to 1912. Though a valiant Saina saved three game points at 15-20, the lead was too big to stop Sung.

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Hugh Jackman

named Micromax brand ambassador

Jackman is known for films like “Les Miserables”, “The Wolverine” and “Prisoners”. His association with Micromax will start with its new smartphone Canvas Turbo, which will be launched in India soon. “Phones are genuinely time saving devices that can help you live a better life while juggling around with different situations,” he said in a statement. He is convinced about the features offered by the brand’s new Canvas range.

“The new Canvas phone from Micromax is a leap in innovation with great sense of fun and amazing features that helps me balance my work with all the different roles that I play in my everyday life,” added the 45-yearollywood super- one of the most exciting old. The Micromax famstar Hugh Jack- countries in the world and ily believes Jackman “truly man has been we also share our love for embodies the aspirational, c h o s e n ove r a Bollywood star as the brand ambassador of Indian mobile handset brand Micromax. He says he is a “huge lover” of India. “I am extremely thrilled and honoured to be part of the Micromax family. I am a cricket,” Jackman said in a reinventing and fearless huge lover of India as it is statement. persona of the brand”.

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Friends of Late Sensomeren presenting a song at the second Sensomeren Tribute Concert at Town Hall Mokokchung on October 18 evening. Many local singers, who were friends of Late Sensomeren, presented songs at the tribute concert. Late Sensomeren, born 27th June 1966, was a guitar building/making guitar in the town, and contributed immensely. He died in the year 2011, and since from last year the friends of Late Sensomeren has been organizing tribute concert in memory of their departed soul. (Morung Photo)

Oprah Winfrey auctions personal items for charity

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Winfrey is auctioning personal items from her various residences for charity. The collectables include signed poster prints from her movies, a marble bathtub and a doll. The legendary talk show host is hoping to raise funds for her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation College Fund - which benefits graduates of her school for girls in Africa as they try to get into universities around the world - by selling collectables from her homes from all over the United States, including residences in Chicago, California, Indiana and Hawaii.

Among the items up for auction are poster prints from her hit 1985 film ‘The Color Purple’, which the 59-year-old star has autographed, electric bikes, several paintings, a children’s doll and even a British-inspired post box.

Oprah is also auctioning off numerous home furnishings such as glamorous chandeliers, a marble bathtub, and a side table which is thought to be from the late 18th Century or early 19th Century. The items will be sold by Karminski auction house on November 2.

It was recently reported that Oprah has reached out to troubled basketball player Lamar Odom and offered to help him get his life back on track amidst rumours his marriage to Khloe Kardashian Odom is on the rocks and allegations of a cocaine addiction. Oprah previously took troubled actress Lindsay Lohan under her wing upon her release from court-ordered rehab in August.

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Kristen Bell Usher to co-produce weds fiance documentary Dax Shepard Singer

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Bell took to Twitter to confirm that she had married her fiance Dax Shepard Last Thursday. The 33-year old actor wrote that coffee made by wife tastes way better than regular coffee in the morning and tagged Shepard’s twitter handle, Contactmusic reported. The post came just one day after the pair got married in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. They had been dating since 2007 and already have a seven month old daughter called Lincoln.

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Usher will co-produce a documentary titled `Undroppable`, which will explore the US education system. The singer with co-produce the film with his business partner Scooter Braun along with Adam MCKay, Sharon Chang, Alex Soros and John Powers Middleton. I knew Usher was very passionate about the issue of education, so I felt this was a great project to bring him into. His expertise will be invaluable as we continue this film and movement, Billboard magazine quoted Braun as saying. A social media campaign, which will allow students to speak in video form about issues they face in school, will also be launched to coincide with the documentary. The film, directed and written by Jason Pollock, is due to release in 2014.

Kanye West finds marriage outdated Rapper

Twelve models were selected for the finale of The Nagas Next Top Model at a semi final contest held today at O.J Modeling, Grooming and Training Agency, Burma Camp, Dimapur. (Morung /Manen Aier Photo)

‘I’ve got your wrecking balls right here!’

Dolly Parton turns to rap... and finds inspiration in ‘goddaughter’ Miley Cyrus

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won numerous awards for her country music. But Dolly Parton conquered a new genre as she delivered a frequently hilarious rap on The Queen Latifah Show, where she referenced both her own and the host’s impressive assets. Dolly, 67, who donned a blonde afro for her performance, even alluded to her controversial goddaughter Miley Cyrus’ infamous nude Wrecking Ball video, where she pointed to her breasts and quipped, ‘Hey Miley, I’ve got your wrecking balls right here!’

Parton started off the rap, which will air on Queen Latifah’s show on Monday October 21, by shouting ‘Hey, Ho’ and then joking, ‘I ain’t calling nobody no names I’m just saying “howdy”’. She then launched into her humourous rap, frequently referencing both her and Latifah’s large bosoms.

Dolly rapped, ‘She’s the queen of her own hood …..I’m the queen of Dollywood. ‘I don’t hip and I don’t hop, I’d black both eyes with this big top…Now this queen she’s got ‘em too but she don’t work ‘em like I do. Look at them go.’ Dolly also brought up Miley’s love of twerking, singing, ‘I’m working, I’m twerking,’ as Latifah laughed.

Although Dolly isn’t Miley’s official godmother, she became an honourary godparent due to her close relationship with Miley’s dad Billy Ray Cyrus. She previously told Anderson Cooper on his chat show, ‘[I told Billy Ray], I don’t know if I’ll be around to where I can actually do all the duties that a godmother. So let me be her fairy godmother.’

Dolly has also been one of Miley’s staunches defenders as she moved away from her clean-cut Disney image and adopted a raunchier look. ‘If you think I’m going to sit here and pass judgement on Miley, you’re wrong,” she told Access Hollywood in 2010.

‘She’s precious. I love her and I have nothing but wonderful things to wish for her and wonderful things to say about her.’

In 2012 she added to In Touch, ‘I love Miley to death and people are mean about her all the time. She’s just trying to grow up and find her spot. It grieves me when people talk bad about her. I wanna smack them! Knock it off and let the kid grow up.’

Dolly told Parade last year that Miley reminded her of herself but cautioned her to make wise decisions, saying, ‘I remember myself at her age. We’ve all been a bit too hard on her. ‘I hope she holds it together because there’s a world of things she can do. She should keep an eye on things and make wise decisions.’

Kanye West reportedly does not believe in the institution of marriage, and so, he may not wed girlfriend Kim Kardashian. The couple is dating for almost a year and has a four-month-old daughter North West.

“Kanye is telling friends that he’ll never marry Kim. He has no need or desire to make their relationship official in the eyes of the law,” radaronline.com quoted a source as saying. “Kanye prefers the idea of them as partners. He sees marriage as outdated and he’s all about embracing the modern and the new. He doesn’t feel like he has to marry Kim just because they have a daughter together,” the source added.

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Jugal Hansraj returns to acting

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-filmmaker Jugal Hansraj is gearing up for another stint before the camera after a long time for a TV show `Yeh Hai Aashiqui`, where he will be playing a badminton coach.

I am really excited to be a part of Yeh Hai Aashiqui since I will be facing the camera after a while now. I have been behind the camera and directing films for some time. So I decided to take it up because its a very popular show among the young audience. The love story I am doing is really nice and my character is of a badminton coach, Jugal said. This particular episode will go on air from October 27.

Jugal is best remembered as the child actor from `Masoom` and later featured in `Mohabbatein` and `Aaja Nachle`. He subsequently turned director with films like `Roadside Romeo` and `Pyaar Impossible`.

Complaint against Salman, Bigg Boss-7 for ‘insulting religion’ An

activist has filed a complaint with the magistrate`s court against producers of a TV reality show `Bigg Boss-7`, anchored by actor Salman Khan, alleging that it hurt religious sentiments by insulting a religion. Bandra magistrate`s court would hear the complaint filed

by Hemant Patil on October 29. Khan and TV channel Colours and producers of the show are named as respondents in the complaint.

Patil claims that the show divides its participants in two teams Angels and Devils. The `Devils`carry tridents, which is infact the weapon symbol of Lord Shiva as per the Hindu mythology, so it hurt his sentiments, he says. Bones were tied to trident, which too was offensive, the complaint claims. Patil is seeking that police should file and probe a case under section 295 (insulting religion) of the Indian Penal Code.

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Nagaland Police became the champions of the14th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy for the fourth time defeating Naga United by 2-0 in the final. Saku and Namdaibonang scored the goals.

The champions received a cash award of Rs. 1.20 lakh along with the prestigious rolling trophy. The cash prize for Naga

United was Rs. 70, 000. Winners of outstanding individual performance awards received Rs. 3000 each, while the player of the tournament won a two-wheeler.

MLA and Advisor New & Renewable Energy and Music Task Force Khriehu Liezietsu was guest of honour at the valedictory function. Angami Students’ Union organized the tournament under the theme – ‘Goal for Peace’.

Player of the tournament Kezevituo Angami of Naga United Best GoalkeePer Bechung Bhutia of HQ IGAR Best DefenDer Kornan Rongmei of Naga United hiGhest scorer Lima Kumzuk (13 goals) of Nagaland Police Best miDfielDer Ninja of Nagaland Police sPectators choice Player of the final match Saku Temjen from Nagaland Police

Komets rout Sangpang 4-1 matchday 8 results Dimapur Barak fc defeat fc naga tornadoes 2-0 Veda fc defeat united redskins 1-0 Doyang fc defeat Dynamic fc 1-0 kohima kohima komets defeat sangpang fc 4-1 mokokchung Zonipang sa draw with Dimapur united 1-1

Komets Captain Ating celebrates after scoring his team's second goal. (Photo/Pebu Belho)

Kohima, oct 19 (mExN): Nigerian Eric Aningo made it three goals in two matches as Kohima Komets proved too mighty for an in form Sangpang FC on Matchday 8 of the NPL here at Kohima today. The Komets midfield looked sharp and their three forwards contributed a goal each, with captain Ating adding another as Komets humbled Sangpang FC 4-1 to climb up to second in the points table and narrow Veda FC’s lead at the top by three points with a game in hand.

Ating and Samuel dominated the midfield right from start till the final

whistle giving no room for the Sangpang midfielders to create chances for their forwards in their first away match at Kohima on an untested pitch. Komets were unlucky of not having taken the lead in the 16th minute after Kivi put Aningo through from the left flank.

Sangpang custodian’s outstretched hand blocked the header from Aningo from three yards. Yhunshalo found the net for Komets in the 20th minute with an 18 yard volley sending the keeper in the opposite direction as Komets led 1-0 till the end of the first half.

Aningo was unlucky not to have found the net in the

52nd minute after his shot from the edge of the box hit the woodwork.

Sangpang restored parity through a brilliant 25 yard free kick from Chuba after a foul from Komets right back Simon. Ating restored the lead for Komets in the 57th with a thumping pile driver from inside the D-Box after the ball rebounded off a Sangpang defender. Komets were awarded a penalty kick in the 68th minute and Kivi coolly put the ball into the net taking his goal tally to five in seven matches. The 88th minute saw Aningo score the fourth goal for Komets after a brilliant assist from Kivi.

Sangpang tried to get back into the game in the last 20 minutes. However the Komets defence comprising of Simon, Zhavilie, Davikho and Puyem stood their ground showing their aerial superiority as their forwards depended mostly on long balls from the centre after failing to break the midfield duo of Ating and Samuel. It was indeed heartbreak for Sangpang after impressive victories against defending champions Barak FC and secondplaced Naga Tornadoes.

Komets do look a revived side with their forwards managing to find the back of the net in six matches.

The inclusion of Aningo has added sting to the Komets Manchester United's Robin van Persie, right, scores as Southampton's Jose Fonte looks on during their English Premier strike force.

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League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Oct. 19. (AP Photo)

LoNdoN, octobEr 19 (agENciEs): Arsenal opened up a twopoint gap at the top of the Premier League after thrashing Norwich City at home as Manchester United stuttered again in their wobbling title defence. Sunderland boss Gus Poyet endured an afternoon to forget in his first match in charge, while Steven Gerrard scored a landmark goal as Liverpool drew at Newcastle United.

Chelsea striker Samuel Eto'o finally got off the mark in a home win over Cardiff City, Everton edged past Hull City and Stoke City were held at home by West Bromwich Albion.

Arsenal claimed the outright lead in the Premier League as Mesut Ozil scored a second-half brace in a 4-1 win over Norwich at the Emirates Stadium. Quick passing and clever improvisation brought Arsenal's opener on 18 minutes as Olivier Giroud and Jack Wilshere combined for the England midfielder to side-foot past John Ruddy.

Another excellent move led to Arsenal's second goal on 58 minutes when the leaders broke from outside their own penalty before Giroud crossed for Ozil to head beyond Ruddy. Norwich pulled a goal back with 20 minutes to go when Arsenal could only clear a cross to the edge of the area where Jonny Howson collected the ball and drilled a low shot past Wojciech Szczesny.

But any hope of an equaliser was snuffed out seven minutes from time when substitute Aaron Ramsey bamboozled a clutch of Norwich defenders before guiding his shot past Ruddy. Ramsey was involved in Arsenal's fourth goal two minutes from the end when he laid Tomas Rosicky's cross back to Ozil to finish first time. Manchester United's frustrating start to the season continued after Southampton scored a late equaliser to earn a deserved 1-1 draw at Old Trafford. United went ahead on 26 minutes when Adnan Januzaj's superb pass sent Wayne Rooney through on goal. Rooney's shot was saved by Artur Boruc, but the ball bounced out to Robin van Persie and he skipped past the stranded Saints keeper be-

fore rolling his shot beyond a sliding defender. Rooney struck the crossbar with a thumping volley moments later and Van Persie headed against the bar in the second half before Southampton snatched a deserved equaliser a minute from time.

A corner was curled in from the left which United failed to deal with and Dejan Lovren got some sort of touch before the ball trickled past David de Gea. Cameroon striker Eto'o scored his first Chelsea goal and Eden Hazard notched a brace in a 4-1 home victory over promoted Cardiff. Cardiff stunned Stamford Bridge after 10 minutes when David Luiz left Ramires' back-pass and Jordon Mutch nipped in to dink the ball over the exposed Petr Cech.

Chelsea equalised in controversial circumstances on 33 minutes when Eto'o kicked the ball away from David Marshall as the Cardiff keeper bounced it.

Hazard fed possession back to Eto'o and, after the former Barcelona forward had dithered six yards out, the ball broke to his Belgian teammate to score.

Eto'o then finally broke his duck for Chelsea on 66 minutes as he controlled Hazard's pass before firing a low shot past Marshall.

Jose Mourinho's side put the game beyond Cardiff with two goals in four minutes as Oscar hammered a 25-yard effort beyond Marshall before the visiting keeper failed to keep out Hazard's low shot.

Liverpool captain Gerrard scored his 100th Premier League goal as his side twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with 10-man Newcastle United at St James' Park. Newcastle took the lead midway through the first half when Yohan Cabaye's dipping shot from 35 yards bounced beyond Simon Mignolet's dive.

But Liverpool equalised three minutes before half-time when Gerrard scored from the penalty spot after Newcastle defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa was sent off for pulling back Luis Suarez.

Alan Pardew's side regained the

lead on 56 minutes when substitute Paul Dummett took advantage of poor defending to side-foot home Cabaye's free-kick at the far post for his first Newcastle goal.

Liverpool hit back for a second time on 72 minutes when Daniel Sturridge headed home Luis Suarez's cross before the Uruguayan clipped the crossbar with a volley three minutes later. Steven Pienaar made an instant impact as a substitute to hand Everton a 2-1 victory over Hull City at Goodison Park.

Everton enjoyed a flying start by taking the lead on eight minutes when Kevin Mirallas' low shot from outside the area crept inside the post.

Hull responded with the equaliser on the half-hour mark when Sone Aluko pulled the ball back from the right-hand side for Yannick Sagbo to slam home his first goal for the club.

The home side regained the lead on 57 minutes when Pienaar steered the ball home with his first touch from Mirallas' cross into the box. Poyet suffered a miserable start to his Sunderland tenure as the recalled Phil Bardsley's own goal set Swansea on the way to a 4-0 win at the Liberty Stadium. A flurry of three goals in seven minutes started on 57 minutes when Jonathan de Guzman's corner from the right was diverted past Sunderland keeper Keiren Westwood by defender Bardsley, who was making his first appearance of the season.

Within a minute, Swansea had taken a 2-0 lead as De Guzman received the ball 25 yards from goal and curled a brilliant shot beyond the reach of Westwood. And on 64 minutes, Swansea had a third goal to celebrate when Wilfried Bony scored from the penalty spot after Leon Britton had been fouled by Craig Gardner.

Swansea made Poyet's afternoon even worse 10 minutes from time when Chico Flores' header from another De Guzman corner bounced past Westwood off Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher.

Stephane Sessegnon missed golden opportunities in each half as West Brom drew 0-0 with Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.

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