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Dimapur VOL. VIII ISSUE 229

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Monsoon downpour causes Watson soil sinking in Mon ton steers Australia [ PAGE 02] to 183-3 Japan nuke watchdog may raise leak to ‘serious’

Simon Cowell looking forward to fatherhood

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reflections

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

LoC ceasefire violation: Pak blame Indian Army

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Damascus ‘Massacre’ Declare foothill road

as a ‘national project’

Minister distinguishes between Foothill Road and foothill connectivity Chizokho Vero Kohima | August 21

We are raiding this place for the third time today!

Rupee dips to 64.54 against US$ MuMbAI, August 21 (IAns): Despite interventions from the central bank and the government, the rupee Wednesday continued its free-fall mode, hitting a new record low of 64.54 against a dollar and benchmark Sensex slipped below 18,000 points mark for the first time in almost a year. The rupee, savaged by large dollar demands from banks and importers, has plunged to new lows for the fourth session in a row. According to Deutsche Bank, the rupee is expected to touch a low of 70 against a dollar in a month’s time.

“We now believe that the rupee could touch 70 to the USD in a month or so, although we expect some revival of the currency by the end of the year,” the German bank said in a report.

Prohibitory orders in border areas

Mokokchung, August 21 (DIPR): In order to check the movement of anti-social elements and as a precautionary measure for prevention of untoward incidents, the Additional District Magistrate, Sivasagar has promulgated prohibitory order O/S 144 Cr.P.C, reinforcing night curfew from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. in the areas of Assam side bordering Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. The order in place prohibits movement of a person or group and vehicular traffic in the 5 Km belt in Assam side of Sivasagar District. However, security personnel and officials on duty are exempted from the purview of the prohibitory order. This was informed by Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil) Mokokchung, Vekhoyi Chakhesang.

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This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens mourning over the dead bodies of Syrian men after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists in Arbeen town, Damascus, Syria, on August 21. (AP Photo)

bEIRut/AMMAn, August 21 (REutERs): Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar alAssad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people - by one report as many as 1,300 - on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical weapons attack in decades. Western and regional countries called for U.N. chemical weapons investigators - who arrived in Damascus just three days ago - to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war.

Images, including some taken by freelance photographers and supplied to Reuters, showed scores of bodies including of small children, laid out on the floor of a clinic with no visible signs of injuries. Reuters was not independently able to verify the cause of their death. The Syrian government denied that it had used chemical arms.

George Sabra, one of

the leading opponents of Assad, said the death toll was 1,300 killed by poison gas rained down on suburbs east of Damascus. “Today’s crimes are ... not the first time the regime has used chemical weapons.

But they constitute a turning point in the regime’s operations,” he told a news

Bayan Baker, earlier told Reuters the death toll collated from medical centres was at least 213. “Many of the casualties are women and children. They arrived with their pupils constricted, cold limbs and foam in their mouths. The doctors say these are typical symptoms of nerve gas victims,” the nurse said. Exposure to sarin gas causes pupils in the eyes to shrink to pinpoint sizes and foaming at the lips.

A Syrian military officer appeared on state television and said the allegations were untrue and a sign of “hysteria and floundering” by Assad’s opponents. Information Minister Omran Zoabi said the allegations were “illogical and fabricated”. The head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition said Assad’s forces had carried out a massacre: “This is a chance for the (U.N. inspectors) to see with their own eyes this massacre and know that this regime is a criminal one,” Ahmed Jarba said.

Syria opposition claims 1,300 dead in chemical attack conference in Istanbul.

“This time it was for annihilation rather than terror.”

An opposition monitoring group, citing figures compiled from medical clinics in the Damascus suburbs, put the death toll at 494 - 90 percent of them killed by gas, the rest by bombing and conventional arms. The rebel Syrian National Coalition said 650 people had been killed.

A nurse at Douma Emergency Collection facility,

college teachers to go on mass casual leave today Morung Express News Dimapur | August 21

College teachers of Nagaland will be on a mass casual leave on August 22, though the leave is not so much casual as it is political. These college teachers have had an enhanced salary, as per the 6th pay commission, approved and to be paid for the period January 2006 to March 2010. But this has not come till date. Having followed various channels of negotiations with the Nagaland state government and failed, the teachers, under the aegis of the All Nagaland Government College Teachers’ Association (ANGCTA), have decided to embark on agitations to have their rights fulfilled.

To recap, based on a state government order in August 2010, the pending arrears were to be cleared in the financial year 2010-11, to which effect pay slips were issued to the college teachers in October 2010. In December that year, the government passed another order to stall the payments even before all teachers could

avail their arrears. Though a central government notification in 2012 asked for the state government to pay the college teachers their deserving arrears for the said period, the state government continued to keep silent.

In May this year, the ANGCTA met higher officials of the Nagaland state government when they were asked to wait till July 31, 2013 for positive action from the government. The date came and went without any such action. Through consensus drawn among the teachers, they decided to start their first phase of agitation by going on mass casual leave on August 22, after informing the state government. If the government continues to remain silent, the teachers will go on a “pen down strike” on August 26-27. Further, the agitation will reach the Chief Minister’s office in Kohima on September 5 if inaction continues.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio, has been informed of the issue, and has given certain positive assurances, which are perceived to be non-concrete as of now.

Minister for Roads & Bridges Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu has asserted that the Nagaland government is urging the Government of India to declare the Foothill Road project as “national project.” The Minister stated that even if Nagaland is set to celebrate its golden jubilee this year, not a single national project has been allotted to Nagaland state till date. “This is a sign of step motherly treatment to the state of Nagaland,” Azo said.

He also said that the people should not misunderstand the matter of foothill connectivity and Foothill Road. Talking to The Morung Express, the Minister made it clear that foothill connectivity falls under the category of an immediate plan, which is solely for the purpose of maintenance and upgradation of the existing roads in the state

High Power Committee to study Dimapur roads

kohIMA, August 21 (DIPR): The Government of Nagaland, in pursuance of the Cabinet decision taken on August 8 has constituted a High Power Committee to study the road system in Dimapur and to draw up an action plan for implementation of various road construction projects.

The projects include construction of a service lane between Purana Bazar and Chumukedima; widening of the road to CIHSR from NH and the encroachment matter thereof; two laning of the road from Green Park to Sovima Circuit Stadium; two laning of the road to Nagaland Zoological Park; dismantling of buildings at the Agri Expo entrance gate; two laning of the road to Multi-purpose Sports Complex, Dimapur and two laning of the road from NH to

whereas the Foothill Road is a long term four lane project, which will involve Rs. 7000 crores.

For foothill connectivity, the minister said that all the tender processes will be completed by September/October, adding that the work should start latest by November this year.

Earlier, the minister while passing through Changtongya- Longleng road had last week expressed deep concern over the pitiable road condition. He said that the SARDP-NE project along this road, executed by

ICSAI (6th Mile).

The committee includes the Commissioner and Secretary for Works & Housing as the Convenor and the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur as Member Secretary.

Other members include the Chief Engineer, PWD (R&B); DIG Range, Dimapur; SP, Dimapur; Chief Executive Officer, DMC; Advisor to the Chumukedima Town Council; President of the Nagaland Council Dimapur; President of the Naga Women Hoho Dimapur; President of the Dimapur Naga Students Union; President of the GBs Association Dimapur district. Co-opted members of the committee include all elected representative from Dimapur District; President of the Chakhroma Public Organisation and Chairman of the concerned Village Councils.

M/S Maytas & Gayatri, was a total failure and added that instead of developing the road it caused damages to the existing roads causing hardship to the commuters. The Minister continued that the GoI should cancel the work order and hand it over to the state.

Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio in his Independence Day speech last week said the Nagaland state government is committed to the task of constructing a super highway along the Nagaland foothill areas, from Tizit in Mon District,

via Tuli and Dimapur town upto Khelma in Peren District with a perspective to connect this to Khonsa in Arunachal and to Haflong and Silchar in the south.

Rio said that side by side, a parallel railway line has also been projected, which the Railway Ministry has approved and included in the Railway Budget since 2011. He further added that linear cities are envisaged to evolve along this road and railway line, which will facilitate urbanization and industrialization in Nagaland.

nscn (K) vows to Special Branch nab arms continue struggle

DIMAPuR, August 21 (MExn): The NSCN (K) has asserted that a day would come when the “Nagas in India” will flock to the East (Myanmar occupied Nagaland) to grab a share of its natural resources, as and when political stability and a political solution is achieved. “Visionless and materialistic Nagas may continue to decry SS Khaplang’s pan-Naga political approach as of now in order to justify their eager preparedness to give up Naga’s birth right for a pittance from India, but time and history shall be the witness,” stated a press note from its Military Supervisor, Lt Gen Niki Sumi.

The NSCN (K) said that it “practically holds sway over the entire stretch of unexplored virgin landlocked mineral rich area.” It added that Myanmar governance in this area is “only symbolic” in nature, and that the NSCN (K) has been maintaining deep rooted de-facto rule for decades.

It also said that the NSCN (K) holds the “key to India’s North-East political

problem, India’s look East policy and her National Security as well.” It added that “the need for India and Myanmar to seriously engage the NSCN is not a mere political hypothesis but drawn from the factual political assessment lest the issue is exploded to international controversy.”

It added that its stand on the Naga struggle should not be a cause of apprehension to any other Naga political group engaged in political process with India. It stated that the NSCN (K) would not stand in the way to “any settlement that may arrive between India and other Naga political groups.”

It said that the Naga struggle for freedom has endured for more than half a century and that the NSCN (K) would continue with the struggle “no matter how illusive or distant the destination may appear.” It added that the “legacy passed on to us shall be handed over to posterity without blemish and betrayal.”

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The weapons seized by Dimapur Special Branch near Golaghat bus station, Dimapur on August 21. (Morung Photo)

DIMAPuR, August 21 (MExn): The Dimapur Special Branch has made a seizure of two 7.65mm country-made pistols and three magazines from three young men here today. Following information received of a case of “arms smuggling” in Dimapur, the Special Branch team seized the small fire arms from the youth at around 1:30 pm near Golaghat bus station. The trio—Hokavi Yepthomi (30 years), Hokato Awomi (19 years) and Akaito Awomi (25 years)— were waiting there for the arms to be picked up by “one Karbi person,” who was supposed to be pay them Rs. 30,000 each for the pistols, according to the

Special Branch. This deal was arranged by one Kohuxu, an acquaintance of Akaito—they are all residents of Purana Bazar, Niuland. The apprehended have been handed over to the East Dimapur Police Station, where an FIR under the Arms Act has been filed against the three.

GRPS nab ganja GRPS personnel have apprehended one person named Manuranjan Sarkar of Darjeeling at 1:30am on August 21 for possession of ganja while he was about to board a train to a the contraband to another state.

A case has been registered against the accused and investigation is on.

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MEx File AHODs and HODs meeting on Aug 23 KohIMA, August 21 (DIPR): The Chief Secretary Nagaland, Alemtemshi Jamir has in a circular convened a meeting of all the Administrative Heads of Department and Heads of Department on August 23 at 1 p.m. in the Secretariat Conference Hall. All AHODs and HODs are requested to attend the meeting.

DNSU 3rd Union Assembly on Aug 24

DIMAPuR, August 21 (MExn): The Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has informed all the members concerned of the constituent units, president, general secretary, representative to DNSU that 3rd Union Assembly for the tenure 2012-2014 will be held on August 24 at 10:00 am at Book Marc Conference Hall, Bank Colony, Dimapur. DNSU union assembly speaker Petevito Nakhro in a press release has requested all concerned to attend the assembly without fail.

DRDA office building inauguration

KohIMA, August 21 (DIPR): Parliamentary Secretary for RD & SIRD Nagaland, C.L. John will grace the programme for inauguration of District Rural Development Agency office Building, Kohima as the chief guest, on August 23 at 10:30 a.m. In the programme Commissioner & Secretary RD, V. Sakhrie and Director RD, Metsubo Jamir will deliver short speeches.

The new office building premises is located adjacent to DC’s Office, Kohima.

GNMs and ANMs competency test

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Monsoon downpour causes soil sinking in Mon Mon, August 21 (DIPR): Deputy Commissioner, Mon Angau I Thou along with SDO Sadar, Keyirangding Hegui, GBs and ward executives of Tanlao ward inspected the land sinking and landslide areas of Tanlao ward at Edith Douglas Colony on August 21.

The land sinking and minor landslide started during previous monsoon causing numerous craters in the areas affecting houses and classrooms of Edith Douglas School. Since then the craters in the soil are increasing day by day during the current monsoon affecting many families.

According to the GBs of the ward, around 70 houses and Edith Douglas School have been affected by the land sinking while the landslide in the same area also affected 10 other houses.

Interacting with the ward leaders, the Deputy Commissioner assured to extend all possible assistance to the badly affected families for relief under natural calamity after door-to-door verification by the DBs and approaching the Government. She also appealed to the School management committee to arrange alternative classrooms for the student to accommodate and to ensure secure learning. The ward leaders while appreciating the Deputy Commissioner and his team for their concern requested to depute the expert form Geology and Mining to study the cause of the soil sinking.

Deputy Commissioner, Mon Angau I Thou and others inspects the cracked wall of a classroom of Edith Douglas School on August 21. (DIPR Photo)

Building towards an AIDS free environment

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SCTE-K informs students

KohIMA, August 21 (MExn): All the students concerned of IGNOU B. Ed and MA (edu) SCTE-K are informed to collect their assignments, SBA and lesson plans submitted upto 2012 from August 28 to 30.

SCTE-Kohima Assistant Professor Runi Nakro in a press release has informed that any authorised person may collect the same on behalf of the candidate.

No claim will be entertained after the due date.

KMC revise market rates of meat

Students of Baptist Higher Secondary School, Mangkolemba during the sensitization programme on HIV/AIDS and STI on KohIMA, August 21 (MExn): The Kohima Municipal Council has revised and re-fixed the local market rates August 20.

MAngKolEMbA, August 21 (MExn): The fight against the most dreaded pandemic disease- HIV/AIDS continues tirelessly. The Drop-in-Centre (DIC) at Mankolemba, a branch of the Jerremen Youth Society, organized

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DAO Zunheboto G Kiyevi Ayemi distributing tools and implements under National Food Security Mission to beneficiaries at DAO’s office Zunheboto on August 14. The main beneficiaries were from Vekuho Old, Asukhomi, Natha Old and New, Lizu Aviqato, Bhaimho, Sheipu, Zungti and Suruhuto.

Students listen attentively to one of the resource persons during the awareness programme on Biodiversity Conservation, Pollution, Littering, etc and what each individual can do conducted at Baptist Mission School, Jotsoma, on August 20, through audio-visual aids (video clips, quiz, colouring, puzzles and a movie). Resource persons were Hemant Kamdi, IFS, ACF (Hq); Zuthunglo Patton,IFS, ACF, Kohima and Beizo Soukhrie, ACF,Kohima Range.

Illegal intoxicants destroyed in Mon

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Justice Magistrate, N. Kano with DBs police and his team with the seized assorted liquor and other illegal substances.

DIMAPuR, August 21 (MExn): Lotha Colony Council (LCC) Dimapur will be conducting a mass social work within its colony jurisdiction on August 24 from 6: 00 am9: 00 am. The residents are informed to compulsorily participate in cleaning the colony and a penalty of Rs. 50 will be imposed to all the absentees (household).

KohIMA, August 21 (DIPR): The Government of Nagaland has changed the village name of Molungyimsen ‘B’ village to ‘Luyong village’ under Mokokchung with immediate effect. This is issued with the approval of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India vide their letter No. 11/15/2010-M&G dated 21st June 2013.

This notification vide order No. GAB-2/50/98 dated 20th August 2013 was issued by Chief Secretary of Nagaland Alemtemshi Jamir IAS.

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Mon, August 21 (MExn): For the second time this year, Office of the Judicial Magistrate, Mon in coordination with Mon Police Station carried of destruction of assorted liquor and other illegal substances at 7:00 am this morning. Led

by Class I Justice Magistrate, N. Kano, Officer Incharge of PS, Mon, DBs and NGOs, the team from Mon destroyed 1026 bottles of MC rum; 398 bottles of beer; 2164 SP capsules and a host of other substances like Nitroson, opium, Brown Sugar etc.

LCC social work on Aug 24

Molungyimsen ‘B’ is now ‘Luyong Village’

Orientation on clean business at Mkg

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Around 80 houses And 1 school Affected

KohIMA, August 21 (MExn): The competency test for GNMs and ANMs employed under NRHM for Kohima district has been set on August 27 at Paramedical Training Institute (PMTI) at 10:00 am and for the Lab Technicians on August 29 at Naga Hospital Authority Kohima. Therefore, Dr Avino Metha, Chief Medical Officer, Kohima district in a press release has directed all concerned to attend the test without fail.

MoKoKchung, August 21 (DIPR): An orientation programme on clean business organized by Mokokchung Municipal Council will be held on August 23 from 1:00 p.m. at MMC Conference Hall. All Meat, Fish and Chicken vendors are informed to attend the programme along with their employees.

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a one-day sensitization programme on HIV/AIDS and STI at Baptist Higher Secondary School, Mangkolemba on August 20.

DIC, Mangkolemba Programme Manager, Along Longchar in a press release said that the purpose of the

programme was to educate and create awareness among the students about HIV and AIDS and STI thus build an AIDS free environment. The six resource persons from DIC sensitized on the topic using visuals followed by an interactive ses-

KohIMA, August 21 (MExn): A joint meeting of CANSSEA with finance, planning and souvenir committees of silver jubilee was held on August 20 at Heritage, Kohima.

During the meeting, CANSSEA president Dr. K. David Sema requested all bonofide members of CANSSEA to prepare for Jubilee celebration slated to held during November 2013 at Kohima. A press note received here stated that on behalf of the Confederation, the president expressed appreciation to jubilee committee members who took pains and hardship on Resource Mobilization Tour to all the district head quarters and had thorough deliberation on matters relating to welfare of employees association including forth coming CANSSEA Silver Jubilee Celebration with unit office bearers.

The Association resolved to initiate and activate collection of membership fee of Rs. 50 per head for per year from districts head quarter as well as sub-

divisions (wef 2010-2013) and one time contribution of Rs 200 towards Jubilee fund from each member of CANSSEA. It also insisted that payment of membership fee by every department/confederated units be made along with list of employees for maintenance of data base record.

To this effect, Limameren, Addl. Director and the Convener, Finance Committee, was authorized to collect membership fee and Jubilee Contribution.

It may be noted that the respective districts units/ confederated units are authorized to retain one third of the collected amount of membership fee for office maintenance; that is out of Rs. 150 collected for three years, Rs. 50 may be retained by units and release the remaining amount of Rs. 100/- to the Authorized Official/s.

The motto ‘Forging Ahead’ along with Logo brought by the Editorial Board of Souvenir Committee was selected by the house as CANSSEA Silver Jubilee Motto.

sion with the students. “We are delighted to know from the survey conduct today that the students are aware of the causes and the disease,” said Asenla of DIC. Altogether, 181 students from class 8 to class 11 participated in the programme.

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of Mutton (without water) at Rs 300 and Pork meat at Rs 160. KMC CEO Elizabeth Ngully in an order has directed all butchers and meat sellers within the jurisdiction of KMC to provide quality meat and proper weight to the consumers. They are also directed to hang their weighing scale at least half feet above the table. The CEO also stated that price has been revised taking into consideration the petition submitted by Butcher’s Union Kohima Town on August 7 citing their difficulties and the enhanced rate of whole sale of pigs etc.

cAnsseA silver jubilee JF-IP School celebrates parent’s day committee meeting held

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N. Thong (seated center) along with teachers and support staff during the parent’s day celebration of Jo Foundation-Inclusive Play School on August 13.

KohIMA, August 21 (MExn): Jo FoundationInclusive Play School Kohima celebrated parent’s day on August 13.

The celebration started with pastor Tiatoshi pronouncing the invocation prayer followed by a welcome address by the administrator Daniel Thong Seb. While welcoming the parents he appreciated the efforts taken by the children and teachers to put up the

show and said that the special children were eagerly waiting to take their turn to participate. The children delighted the parents by presenting songs, choreography, poem and skits.

Chief Guest on this occasion N. Thong, a grandparent encouraged the parents and management to work closely and bring the children to the feet of Jesus as wisdom and knowledge comes from Him alone.

A press release from the school stated that Jo Foundation-Inclusive Play School was started in 2010 with ten students out of which two were special need children. Gradually, the enrolment increased and the classes were upgraded to class-I and will continue to be upgraded every year. At present, 2013 enrolment shows 32 children out of which eight are special need.

Farmers advised to strive for self-sufficiency

WoKhA, August 21 (MExn): The Department of Agriculture along with ICAR, KVK Wokha jointly organised distribution function of agri tools and machineries cuminteraction session under National Food Security Mission on Rice, at Yanpha Village on August 20 with Mhonlumo Kikon, MLA & Chairman MARCOFED as special invitee.

A press note received here said that Mhonlumo Kikon while sharing his thoughts invited the participants to have a clear mind and vision which ultimately will lead to sincerity and honesty while discharging one’s own duty be it Government service or private sector.

He assured his co-operation and support towards the Department.

Orenthung Lotha Chief Executive Officer, DMC, called upon the farmers to set a target, strive for self-sufficiency, and do away with dependence on others. He

Some of the beneficiaries with the tools and machineries distributed during a function held on August 20 at Yanpha Village.

also discouraged the trend of ru- and society. ral masses moving towards urban During technical session, C. areas, which has adverse effect in Peter Yanthan District Agriculture the economy of one’s own family Officer in his power point presen-

tation highlighted NFSM implementation in Wokha District for the year 2013. Khumdemo Ezung Programme Co-ordinator ICAR, KVK Wokha presented on integrated farming system with emphasis on Model IFS Farm at Liphanyan Village.

The farmers while taking part in the interaction session appreciated the concerted efforts of the Department towards the upliftment of their area by way of technical Support as well as providing various inputs. They also requested the Department for timely supply of seeds as is being done now.

Later, the special invitee gave away tools and machineries to the beneficiaries. Altogether 112 farmers from six Villages attended the function. Earlier, Mhao Lotha SDAO, Baghty delivered the welcome address and vote of thanks offered by Liyani Ezung AFA.

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Delhi police assault North East students

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 21 (MExN): The North East Forum for International Solidarity has informed that two Delhi Police subinspectors brutally beat up two male students near Delhi University’s (DU) Satyawati College. A press note said that the two male students belonged to the North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) that spearheaded the struggle against the compulsory Hindi language requirement envisaged under DU’s FYUP program. The two students were on their way to Satyawati College to speak to other students about the problems faced by students under FYUP and about the general problems faced by North-East youth in a city like Delhi. As they alighted from a DTC bus and were

Ruwngthung Hrangbung Chandel | August 21 The All Tribal Chiefs and People Grievances Forum (ATC&PGF), Chandel District has condemned and rejected the order of the Thoubal DC/Collector vide order No. 27/42/LA/DC (TBL)/2011/660, dated Thoubal the 20th July 2013, allegedly claiming village No. 91-Sugnu and 93- Toupokpi

to be within Thoubal district.

According to the press release issued by its President, Sng Lumdil, the decision to reject the said order was adopted following a meeting of ATC&PGF Chandel district held on August 20 at Gunpi Area Chiefs’ Association Hall, which was attended by 206 members including chiefs, ADC members and Social workers of the district.

The members present in the meeting accused the DC/Collector, Land Acquisition, Thoubal districts for not sending out intimation to the complainants for hearing and discussion on the matters. It is stated that the members also claimed the order to be void and baseless for which they cannot accept it.

IMPHAL, AUGUST 21 (NNN): The leaders of the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) and leaders of 'Bodoland' will start their joint indefinite hunger strike from August 22 and for which reason the Kuki leaders have left for Assam's Kokrajhar district.

According to KSDC information secretary George Guite, the KSDC team led by its chairman Hejang Haokip and its secretary K. Gangte have arrived Kokrajhar today.

Meanwhile, the KSDC has slammed the Independence Day speech of Manipur chief minister O Ibobi Singh and termed it as 'provocative and unconstitutional'.

Ibobi Singh had rejected the demands for an ‘Alternative Arrangement’ for

Joint Kuki-Bodo indefinte hunger strike

Mizoram to get 210 MW power plant

AIzAWL, AUGUST 21 (IANS): The commissioning of the 210 MW capacity Tuivai hydro-electric project in Mizoram, a much-anticipated event, would begin soon as the union finance ministry has approved funds for it, an official said here on Wednesday.

"The union finance ministry last month gave its endorsement to provide necessary funding for the 210 MW capacity Tuivai hydro-electric power plant," an official of the Mizoram power and electricity department said. "The biggest ever power project in Mizoram would be set up at a cost of Rs 1,750.60 crore on the banks of Tuivai river in Champhai district in the eastern part of the state," he said.

The project would be executed on the public-private partnership (PPP) mode.

Seven private companies have been shortlisted, after applications for requests for proposals were invited in September 2011.

According to an official document of the Mizoram government, the Tuivai project, conceptualised in 1995, will have a 155-metre dam across the Tuivai river to generate power.

The official said that this power project would be the first of any projects in Mizoram requiring no compensation for takeover of land. He said the necessary environment clearance for the project had also been obtained from the union ministry of environment and forests.

ter they were stopped by the Indian troops, the two sides showed banners to each other to leave the area, sources said here.

However, the two sides held to their positions and the Chinese soldiers left after staying put for twothree days, they said. The area falls under the 2 Division of the Army and the

the Nagas in Manipur and a ‘separate state’ for the Kukis in the state and said these are 'not achievable.'

The Manipur chief minister had also re-affirmed to protect the territorial integrity of Manipur saying any attempt to split Manipur will be a 'futile effort.'

Reacting to this today, the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) termed it as 'the provocative and unconstitutional statement' of the Chief Minister of Manipur, which is without substance and, in fact, is a violation of the Constitution of India. The State Government should concentrate on development of its people, rather than clamour over issues not within its ambit.

It will be wise not to refer to the history of Manipur be-

deputy commander of the formation had also intervened to resolve the issue, they said. The sources said paramilitary force Indo-Tibetan Border Police is also present in the area to guard the LAC. In April, Chinese troops had entered 19 km inside Indian territory and pitched their tents in Ladakh.

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fore the advent of the British colonialists in India, in particular about Manipur, the Kuki body said.

According to KSDC statement, Manipur was a tiny landlocked kingdom comprising the valley surrounded by hills inhabited mostly by Kukis. The KSDC then said it never demands the land of others, rather they demand recognition of Kuki ancestral lands, to be accorded Kuki statehood, within the Constitution of India under Article 3.

"Creation of new State is a central list, for which the State has no say. The KSDC never demand fullfledged status for Sadar Hills District. However, denying the rights of the people for development for such a long time expos-

es the lackadaiscal attitude of the State Government, who claims commitment for the development of the hills. The statement of the Chief Minister has no valid base; it is hogwash to camouflage the state Government’s inability to develop the hills, particularly the Kukis areas. Since the Signing of Suspension of Operation (SoO) with Kuki undergrounds, peace returned in the hills, while development has been kept at bay," the Kuki State Demand Committee said.

It then rued that the Kukis have no future in Manipur.

Their life and property could not be protected. The Government was a mute spectator to the 1990s massacre and the mass raping of our women in 2000s, the KSDC stated.

ZION HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE Change of Consultation Date Due to unavoidable circumstances, we regret to inform you that Dr. Ganesh Das will be available for consultation on 25th August 2013 (Sunday) instead of 24th August 2013.

NEUROLOGIST FOR CONSULTATION Dr. R.R. Das MD DM (Neurology) from Guwahati will be available for consultation on 31st August 2013 (Saturday).

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SHILLONG, AUGUST 21 (IANS): One person was shot dead and three were injured in two separate incidents carried out by outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels in insurgency-ravaged Garo Hills in western Meghalaya on Tuesday.

Heavily armed GNLA rebels shot dead Jenipar K. Sangma and assaulted his son Arsen Marak at their residence in Rangmai area under South Garo Hills district allegedly for extorting money in the name of the outlawed outfit, police said.

In another incident, a GNLA rebel lobbed a grenade at a wine store in Jaddigittim market area injuring two people and damaging the wine store. Police said the grenade attack was to mount pressure on businessmen to comply with the extortion demands. Police have regisA forest guard looks at an one-horned rhinoceros in a paddy field at Rajbhoral village in Sonitpur district of Assam on Tues- tered a case and a man hunt day, August 20. The Rhino was strayed out of the nearby Kaziranga National Park as the villagers try to chase it back to the is on to nab the rebels.

speaking with a DTC busticket checker, the two subinspectors intervened and started intimidating the male students, the note informed.

The note added that since the students resisted the policemen’s intimidation tactics and argued back, the two sub-inspectors of Bharatnagar Police Station decided to pick them up and take them to the police station. “At the Bharatnagar Police Sta-

area and such incidents keep taking place as both sides enter areas claimed by the other side while patrolling the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC).

People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops had come over 20 km inside Indian-claimed territory in Chaglagam area of Arunachal Pradesh and af-

Dimapur

Garo rebels kill one, injure three

Chinese troops intrude into Arunachal

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 21 (PTI): Chinese troops came more than 20 kilometres inside Indian territory in Chaglagam area of Arunachal Pradesh on August 13 and stayed there for over two days. However, Army headquarters sought to play down the incursion, saying the Chinese troops have gone back to their

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tion, the two sub-inspectors not only thrashed the unsuspecting students but also passed several racist comments on the physical features of the students,” it said. The note added that the two students were only released once the policemen had forcefully made them sign on a statement saying that they were not assaulted by the Police but by another party.

Angered by this incident, the NEFIS has decided to approach other student/ youth organizations and North-East groups, and to file a formal complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). It has also been decided that a representation will be made to the DCP (Ashok Vihar) and to initiate legal action against the sanctuary. Assam is home for the world's largest concentration of rhinos. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) Bharatnagar Police Station.

NEFIS to file a formal complaint with National Human Rights Commission

Tribal Chiefs against inclusion of land to Thoubal District

ATC&PGF claims order to be void and baseless

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Dt. Tuensang the 16th Aug. 2013

INFORMATION This is for general information to all the beneficiaries of IGNOAP/ Widows/Disabled persons/totally blind under NSAP, Department of Social Welfare that the payment for the current year 2012-13 will be made from the office of the District Welfare Officer (DWO) Tuensang.

The payment will be made as per the schedules given below in project wise during office hours.

NAME OF PROJECT DATE OF PAYMENT 1. Sangsangnyu Project 9 to 11 Sept 13 2. Longkhim Project 12 to 13 Sept 13 3. Chare Project 16 to 17 Sept 13 4. Noksen Project 18 to 19 Sept 13 5. Noklak Project 20 to 21 Sept 13 6. Thonoknyu Project 23 to 24 Sept 13 7. Shamator Project 25 to 26 Sept 13 8. Chessore Project 27 and 30 Sept 13 Therefore all the CDPO under Tuensang District are directed to inform and circulate the information to all village council under theft respective areas to receive/collect the payment accordingly on stipulated dates.

It is further informed that if any individual/Beneficiary is unable to come personally they may send their payment-cum- identity cards through the respective/Council Chairman/authorized person to receive the payment. It is also inform that the age and address of the beneficiaries will be updated during the payment for onward submission to the directorate.

(S. MAKOKBA SANGTAM) District Welfare Officer, Tuensang: Nagaland

FELICITATION

The Tesophenyu Group Officers Forum (TGOF) heartily congratulates Dr.Sinilo Magh; s/o Mr.Chiniwa Magh and Er. Robinson James; s/o Lt.Renilo Jemu, who got through the NPSC exams and qualified as Medical Officer (Cl-I gazetted Officer) and Junior Engineer in Irrigation Dept. (Cl-II gazetted Officer) respectively. The TGOF also wish them good luck in all their future endeavors.

Sd/ (Dr.Tinelo Jemu) Gen. Secretary, TGOF

Sd/ (Er.Chengato Kath) President, TGOF

Welcome to the 6th Kohima District Table Tennis Championship 2013 Organised by Kohima District Table Tennis Association & Royal Club Kohima.

In commemoration of Royal Club Silver Jubilee Date: 23rd-24th August 2013 Venue: Indoor T.T. Stadium, P.R. Hill, Kohima Chief Guest: Shri. Merentoshi Jamir, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Resources & Sports, Govt. of Nagaland Note: Entry forms are available at Indoor T.T. Stadium P.R. Hill Kohima, Sports Inventory, P.R. Hill, Sports World Taxi Stand Kohima.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER LONGLENG : : NAGALAND NO.LLG/REV-1/2011-12/ 440

Dt. LLG, the 19th August 2013

PUBLIC NOTICE Whereas the Villagers of Sanglu Village under Longleng Circle of Longleng District, have applied for recognition of their village which is having the following boundary schedule.

1. North :- Thampom & Ala Tekong 2. South :- Losa Ailem & Link Road 3. East :- Pento Ayong 4. West :- Dikhu Rivers Now, therefore, a Public notice is hereby, issued for filing of claims/ objection if any, so as to report the Office of the under signed within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice Sd/- K.LIBANTHUNG LOTHA. Deputy Commissioner Longleng: Nagaland

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Balance public interest, right to privacy: Tata New Delhi, Aug 21 (iANS): Former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata Wednesday appeared in the Supreme Court and said that while ordering electronic surveillance on citizens allegedly under cloud, the government must strike a balance between public interest and the right to privacy.

“The government has to balance two pivotal dimensions - public interest and privacy of the citizens” while ordering wire surveillance, counsel for Tata, who was personally present in the court, told the court.

An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice V. Gopala Gowda is hearing Tata’s plea seeking a probe into the leak of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia’s tapped conversations.

According to a statement issued by Tata Sons, the holding firms of Tata Group, Tata appeared in the court and showed keen interest in the progress of the “right to privacy petition”

filed by him.

“Ratan Tata has filed this writ petition on a matter of principle.

He believes privacy is an important right for every individual and is keenly following the progress of this case,” a Tata Sons spokesperson said. Radia’s phones were put under surveillance by the Income Tax department after the finance ministry Nov 16, 2007 received an anonymous letter alleging

Apollo Tyres to sponsor Manchester United

New Delhi, Aug 21 (iANS): Tyre manufacturer Apollo Wednesday became the second Indian company after telecom major Bharti Airtel to sponsor highly popular English Premier League (EPL) side Manchester United.

As a part of the three-year deal, Apollo will create footballbased play zones, using recycled rubber, in local communities in Britain and India to encourage healthy lifestyles among youngsters. Apollo has also become the club’s official tyre partner in Britain and India.

Apollo will build “Go The Distance” football pitches made from recycled tyres in local communities across the UK and India, with the first being on site (as part of a fan zone/play zone) at Old Trafford.

During Wednesday’s launch event, Manchester United first team players Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand and Jonny Evans participated in the “Go The Distance” skills challenges that will be similar to those featured on the new pitches.

Manchester United Group Managing Director Richard Arnold, said: “Apollo Tyres is a leading player in the tyre industry and its rate of growth and development into new territories made it an attractive partner for the Club.

With a combined fan base close to 46 million followers in both the

that in a short span of few years she had built a business house of Rs.300 crore. The complaint had also alleged foreign connections of Radia.

The Income Tax department had put Radia’s phone under surveillance thrice for 60 days each between 2008-09. Appearing for Tata, senior counsel Harish Salve said that privacy was a constitutionally guaran-

UK and India, we are confident in providing Apollo with a highly engaged audience, not only to promote its brand, but also to engage and communicate with our fans.

“This partnership also allows the Club to continue its on-going commitment to investment in and the development of young people, whether through our Academy or via the work we do in the community.”

Onkar Kanwar, chairman, Apollo Tyres said: “This is a very significant partnership for us as a company and clearly demonstrates our global ambitions for our business, and the brand.

Very few sports platforms deliver such global profile and awareness and we look forward to working closely with Manchester United over the coming years.

“It is a matter of great pride for us to introduce a new healthy living initiative under our corporate social responsibility (CSR), to create new play zones for the youth in the UK and India. In its aim to stimulate the next generations to ‘Go the distance’, this campaign really brings to life our brand values of high performance, quality and excellence.”

Apollo Tyres is headquartered in Gurgaon and has a manufacturing presence in Asia, Europe and Africa. With revenues of over $2.34 billion, the company exports to over 100 countries.

teed right and it was incumbent upon the government to protect from public gaze the information it had gathered by resorting to electronic surveillance.

The government could not raise its hand and say that it did not have the mechanism to protect the tapped information after it was leaked and printed by media, Salve said. Referring to the publication of parts of the transcripts of the tapped conversations of Radia, Salve said if a person could get Radia tape transcripts then he could also access details of terror related intercepts. He said the government did not have any statutory backing for undertaking such surveillance.

The provision of keeping a watch on an undesirable person was not the same as resorting to electronic surveillance, the senior counsel told the court. The publication of the CBI’s report, that was given to the apex court in a sealed cover, by a newspa-

per was in violation of the Official Secrets Act and in such a situation the government not only had the power but the duty to launch prosecution, he said.

Salve said that after electronic surveillance, the concerned department should segregate actionable information from the rest and later should be destroyed. If an officer sits over the actionable information then such an officer should be hauled up for dereliction of duty.

At the same time, the senior counsel said that if nothing was found and it was discovered that the surveillance was done for extraneous reasons and malicious intention then such officers should be proceeded against for violating citizen’s right to privacy. Salve pleaded for replacing the existing review committee by a permanent independent body entrusted with the task of auditing tapping of telephones by different agencies. The hearing will continue Thursday.

Maruti launches Stingray at Rs 4.10 lakh

New Delhi, AuguSt 21 (AgeNcieS): Looking to beat the slowdown blues, country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today launched a compact car Stingray, priced at Rs 4,10,000 (ex-showroom Delhi). “With Stingray, we carry forward our focus to make our best sellers even more attractive,” MSI Managing Director and CEO Kenichi Ayukawa told reporters.

Stingray, which is powered by a 998 cc petrol engine, is available in three variants, with price ranging between Rs 4,10,000 to Rs 4,67,000. In July, MSI posted 10.88% increase in its passenger car sales at 63,O40 units. Car sales in India have fallen for a record ninth month in a row in July, posting 7.4% decline. According to the latest data released by the SIAM, domestic passenger car sales declined to 1,31,163 units in July this year from 1,41,646 units in the same month of 2012.

indian women sort potatoes at a wholesale market in Ahmadabad, on Wednesday, August 21. the Indian economy, Asia’s third largest, grew 5 percent in the financial year ended March, its slowest in a decade and well off the 8 percent pace it had averaged over those 10 years. the indian rupee has plumbed new lows against the dollar on a near daily basis, showing the pressure of a current account deficit that has swelled from high import costs. (AP Photo)

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Nagas Never Recognise Imposed Artificial Boundary: NSCN (K)

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he Naga struggle for freedom has endured for more than half a century. The Nagas across the length and breadth without territorial demarcation or geographical distinction has concertedly been waving the liberation flag so far.

Despite application of overwhelming draconian militarism by Myanmar and India to subdue Naga’s struggle, the struggle has progressed from strength to strength rather than being extinguished.

The unwavering commitment of the Nagas in pursuit of its national goal and the futility of India and Myanmar to militarily suppress the struggle has obliged even these two invading nation to acknowledge the issue as “Political” requiring political solution.

After the political fiasco of India orchestrated 1975 Accord with NNC/FGN, the national mantle passed on to NSCN. The political process with the GOI thus was revived through the initiative of NSCN(s) in 1997 and 2001 respectively and was followed by another landmark political achievement under the aegis of SS. Khaplang- the establishment of political breakthrough with the most hostile Myanmar Junta.

Regardless of frustrated rhetoric targeting SS. Khaplang and NSCN as having connivance with Myanmar and giving up of Indo-Naga issue, the historic signing of ceasefire between Naga and Myanmar in the year 2012 without doubt scripted new chapter in the history of Naga political sojourn. This event do brings to the fore the international significance of Naga issue and in particular it’s crucial implication to regional peace and stability in South-East Asia.

The South Asian countries look East enthusiasm and the fact that Naga’s strategic geo-political location being inevitable for connectivity between these landmasses and the more significant relevance to Indo-Naga-Myanmar political situation is the undeniable truth that NSCN under SS.Khaplang practically holds sway over the entire stretch of unexplored virgin landlocked mineral rich area. Myanmar governance in this area is only symbolic in nature, else NSCN has been maintaining deep rooted de-facto rule for decades altogether.

The need for India and Myanmar to seriously engage the NSCN is not a mere political hypothesis but drawn from the factual political assessment lest the issue is exploded to international controversy. It may therefore be concluded that NSCN/ GPRN under SS. Khaplang’s leadership holds key to India’s North-East political problem, India’s look East policy and her National Security as well.

Where as for the Nagas in India, though utopian in concept as it may appear now, a day would come when they would flock to the East (Myanmar occupied Nagaland) to grab a share of it’s natural resources dispensation as and when political stability and political solution is achieved. Visionless and materialistic Nagas may continue to decry SS.Khaplang’s pan-Naga political approach as of now in order to justify their eager preparedness to give up Naga’s birth right for a pittance from India, but time and history shall be the witness.

As for the NSCN/GPRN, the struggle shall continue no matter how illusive or distant the destination may appear, no matter the solution comes in our time or never, the legacy passed on to us shall be handed over to the posterity without blemish and betrayal.

The stand of NSCN on Naga struggle therefore should not be a cause of apprehension to any other Naga political group engaged in political process with India.

Any settlement that may arrive between India and other Naga political groups, the NSCN/GPRN would never stand in a way nor would be to deterred to give up the Naga cause.

Lt. Gen. Niki Sumi Military Supervisor NSCN/GPRN Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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GHS baghty wins state level science exhibition Our Correspondent Kohima | August 21

Government High School, Baghty under Wokha district today bagged the first position at the State Level Science Exhibition under the theme “Wonders of science” held at GHSS Kohima under the aegis of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) Nagaland. Represented by Rhonben Kikon with a project titled “Indigenous water filter,” it fetched a cash prize of Rs. 15,000 along with certificate.

Government High School Lengrijan, Dimapur district with project “Laser Security System” and represented by Pangertoba, Bendangchuba and Beyim Konyak won the second prize and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 along with certificates.

Government High School Chandmari, Kohima, represented

by Pinoli Zhimomi, Subhash Kumar and Athisü James with a project “Wind Turbine” made it to the third position and walked away

Winners of the state level science exhibition with M. Patton and Thejao Vihienuo in Kohima on August 21 (Morung Photo)

with a cash prize of Rs. 5000.

Other projects/models from the rest of the eight districts at the exhibition included; improvised JCB model (Peren district), multiple electricity generator (Mon district), cultivation of pleurotus eryingu (Mokokchung district),

a crane fitted with an electromagnet (Longleng district) , DNA (Zunheboto district), solar cooker and periscope (Phek district), wind mill generating electricity (Tuensang district) and electric quiz board (Kiphire district).

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Nagaland Zoological Park receives support

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The Nagaland Zoological Park received five green pigeons today from Amenba Yaden, MLA and Chairman of the Nagaland Pollution Control Board. A press note from the Officer in charge of the Nagaland Zoological Park informed that while giving the birds to the Park, he urged that

nagas should all come forward to safe our wildlife wealth and stop killing of wildlife.

Earlier on August 14, one Python measuring around 10 feet was rescued from Chungtia Village and brought to the Zoo by the villagers. Further one deer fawn and two Civets were donated by Er. Levi

, Deputy Speaker NLA on August 19. One Leopard cat was also received Divisional Forest Officer, Peren Samuel Chankija on 16th August 2013. An Owl was also received at the zoo on 17th August. The Park officials through the press note for the overwhelming support to the cause of wildlife conservation.

GOC-in-C Eastern Command visits Nagaland

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): Lt Gen Dalbir Singh, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, GOC-in-C of the Eastern Command visited Nagaland from August 21 to 22.

A press note informed that during the visit, the General Officer reviewed the emerging security situation in the state and was briefed by Maj Gen MM Naravane, SM IGAR (North). Later in the day he held detailed discussions with Lt Gen (Retd) NK Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM Chairman CFMG. The note informed that Lt Gen Singh appreciated the overall efforts of HQ IGAR (North) for their contribution towards maintaining peace in Nagaland.

He also appreciated the unstinted cooperation being extended by the State Government officials, Nagaland

chief guest, M. Patton (IAS) Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Department of School Education gave away prize to the winners. He stressed on the need to develop scientific education in the state to ensure that Nagaland sails in the right direction.

RMSA state mission director Thejao Vihienuo said that the objectives for the conduct of science exhibitions at school, district and state levels is to inculcate scientific spirit in the school children and thereby to stimulate interest in science and technology and to popularize the study of science in schools.

He said that this would encourage encourage creative thinking and promote psychomotor skills among school children through self designed models using locally available materials. He hoped that this exhibition would not only inspire every visitor and encourage the participants but would become a milestone in making science education in schools more meaningful and more popular.

The function was chaired

by Marius N. Lotha, joint director RMSA. The panel of jury for this event included Daniel Thong, Lima Aier, Keneisalie Nakhro, Pelengulie Chucha and Ayie Yhome.

NVCO submits representation against KMC parking fee collection Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The Nagaland Voluntary Consumers Organization has submitted a representation to the Deputy Commissioner of Kohima asking him to stop the present practices of KMC parking fee collection in Kohima town and take action against “illegal taxation, unfair means of trade practices” and also to control and maintain the prices at reasonable rates.

A press note from the President of the NVCO, Kezhokhoto Savi informed that prior to the conduct of a civil rights awareness camp at Diet Chiechama scheduled on August 22 organised by Chiechama Students' Union, a representation was submitted under the caption - "NVCO's representation against illegal taxation, price-rise in goods and service charges in the state of Nagaland.

The representation was also against the present practices of KMC parking fee collection in Kohima town, with a demand to stop it till such a time when proper facilities/amenities and parking places are provided to users. It was submitted with a copy to the Chief Executive Officer, Kohima Municipal Council, Director General of Police and the Presidents of Angami

Public Organisation(APO), ASU, AYO, AMK, Kohima Chamber of Commerce & Industries(KCCI) and SAPO. Through this representation, the NVCO has demanded that the present practices of KMC parking fee collection in Kohima town be stopped in the interest of public welfare “as we are all aware that many citizens have put their grievances through, which was substantiated

by NVCO.” It added, “It is not good for public, which is almost amounting to forceful collection as no payer is happily paying for it.”

The note said that the vehicles are parked both sides of the highways and that collectors are collecting money from all vehicles without consideration for parking and no parking zones. It said that this practice “amounts to ensuring the wrong parking as legal parking and thus creating more traffic congestion.”

“KMC does not provide any facilities and more than 80% of collecting point did not even put up any demarcation and literally collects parking fees in all the main roads under KMC jurisdiction,” it added.

The note asserted that fees are the amounts paid for privileges, and are not

an obligation. “Fees are nothing but payment for some special privilege granted or service rendered,” it said.

However it said that in the case of KMC, “no services was rendered to the payer/users and the parking fee collection is simply collected in both sides of the roads including in no parking zones, which is wrong.”

The NVCO also highlighted the “illegal collection of cash” at the checkgates and on highways by police and others despite the state government standing order banning collection of cash in the check-gates or in any part of the highways. The President of NVCO kezhokhoto Savi stated that the conduct of illegal taxation is everywhere in the state and ultimately all these illegal taxation are realised by consumers by way of pricerise in goods and services.

He added that these illegal practices are of different forms “such as several taxations imposed upon the business community, government employees, contractors, developmental project money, etc by different groups/factions, deduction of huge percentages by way of popularly called "Commission" in the name of political party, etc.”

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The newly elected Vice Chairman of the Nagaland State Co operative Bank, I Tali Lonkumer held an interactive meeting with the bank officers on August 17 in the Bank HQ. A press note informed that the Vice Chairman exhorted the officers to transform their frame of mind and evolve themselves to a corporate mindset in order to compete in the global financial arena. He added that this is

an era of globalization and liberalization “where only the fittest survive.”

Longkumer set out his agenda that if recovery of loans are not made in due time, the overdue loan of the bank would mount and the net worth of the bank’s capital would be adversely affected. He said that this would adversely affect the health of the bank and prevent it from extending efficient service to the people.

Longkumer in-

formed that out of the total credit portfolio of the bank amounting to Rs 179,47,28,050 as on March 31, 2013, an amount of Rs 3530 Lakhs or 19.67 per cent of the loan account are classified as nonperforming assets.

He added that all efforts will be made to address this negative trend which includes persuasion, administrative and legal action against the defaulters. He further said that he

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GPRN/NSCN terminates

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The office of the GSO-1 GPRN/NSCN today informed that it has terminated one sergeant Khekato Kibe Army No.17206 S/o Nikhuyi, Homeland Village UT- 1 from the “national service with immediate effect on account of indulging anti GPRN/NSCN activities and the violation of guiding principles of the government.” The termination order by Brig Vihoto Chopi, GSO-1 Naga Army was issued to the media through the MIP.

AND& BGPF Kohima foundation day

Kohima, august 21 (mExN): The All Nagaland Drivers’ & Bodyguards’ Prayer Fellowship Kohima will celebrate its 11th Foundation Day on August 24 under the theme “Protection of life” at Yimchungru Baptist Church, Opposite IOC Kohima. Minister for youth resources & sports Merentoshi R. Jamir will be the guest of honour while Neikko Mero, Pastor, Kuzhami Chakhesang Baptist Church Kohima will be the speaker. L. Kapfo, chairman AND& BGPF Kohima will be the leader of the programme.

CLCSUD Seminar on Aug 23

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The City Law College Students’ Union Dimapur (CLCSUD) is organizing a Seminar on August 23 at 10:00am in College Campus. A press note has directed all the students to compulsory attend the seminar, failing which the union shall take its own course of action. Former students and any concerned persons are also requested to attend the seminar.

Distribution of wheelchairs to disabled people

Kohima, august 21 (mExN): The distribution of wheelchairs, water mattress and walking sticks to the disabled people under the ADIP scheme sponsored

by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment will take place here at State Academy Hall on August 24 at 11:00 AM. Minister for social welfare Kiyanilie Peseyie will grace the function as the chief guest while Dr. Atha Vizol, commissioner disability Nagaland and Nyusietho Nyuthe, joint secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Department of Social Welfare will be the guest of honour. Kohima deputy commissioner W. Honje Konyak, Indian Red Cross Society Nagaland branch general secretary Zakie Kire, social welfare director Khevito Shohe and Kapochuo Naleo, secretary NAPAD will also speak on the occasion.

NPBCA extends support to ACAUT

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The Nagaland Police Baptist Churches Association (NPBCA) in its emergency Executive Committee Meeting held on August 20 has resolved to extend “moral support” towards ACAUT. A press note from the Executive Secretary of the NPBCA said that the Executive members after thorough deliberation felt that Nagaland “being a Christian domain state must cease from practices of illegal taxations and all sorts of anti-social elements prevailing today.” The Executive committee also resolved to conduct a fasting and prayer program on September 1 from 06:00-12:00 noon throughout the NPBCA churches and “ask forgiveness from God and invoke his grace upon the people of Nagaland.” Meanwhile, all Unit churches are requested to comply with the Executive members’ resolution and make the program a successful one.

ZBN informs

Dimapur, august 21 (mExN): The Zeliangrong Baudi Nagaland has requested the district administration and educational institution, both government and private to observe the 83rd death anniversary of Haipou Jadonang (1905-1931), who started the Naga Raj Movement against the British, as martyr day “in a most benefiting way.” A press note informed that this is in compliance with the Zeliangron Baudi (AM$N) directive. It may be noted that Jadonang was arrested in February 1931 and was hanged at Imphal on August 29.

Develop a corporate mindset: NSCB Vice Chairman

Lt Gen Dalbir Singh, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, GOC-in-C of the Eastern Command during his visit to Nagaland from August 21 to 22.

Police, NGOs, Churches, GBs and the local population. The General Officer left for Manipur this morning, where he is scheduled

to visit Army and Assam Rifles formations as well as hold discussions with the Governor and Chief Minister of Manipur.

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has discussed the issue of recovery of personal loans (service loans) with the Additional Chief Secretary & Finance Commissioner and Chairman of NSTCB. Longkumer added that he would personally contact the Deputy Commissioner all districts seeking help from the bank to recover loans from government employees.

Earlier, BK Thadani, Managing Director of the bank while welcoming the

Vice Chairman said that although NPAs of the bank have been drastically reduced during the last few years, it is yet to be reduced to the tolerable limit of 5 per cent and that more effort would be required to contain the same.

Others who also spoke on the occasion included S Atovi Sema, GM (Administration), Imtilemba Longkumer, GM (Corporate) and Heera Chetri, General Secretary, (NSCBEU).

Young people as catalysts of change for sustainable development

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oung people, they say, are the hope of any nation.

They are the new generation that will go on to inherit the earth. The same earth which is already confronted with several environmental challenges, and is in danger of losing more of its rich natural resources, as globalization continues to take place at a rapid pace.

The world over is also trying to prioritize issues of environment because of the fact that it has now become a global issue that needs to be dealt with seriousness. And when we talk about a global issue, it involves people from every walk of life, people from every age group and people from every nook and corner of the world.

At such a juncture, it is also pertinent that our young people are empowered with knowledge, skills and visions, as it is equally important to listen to their voices because the future ultimately belongs to them.

The hope to have a greener and healthier environment will, to a large extent, also depend on the contributions made by the younger generation and how they translate their knowledge into actions.

Youth and Sustainable Development

The core underlying belief behind the concept of Sustainable Development is that future generations have as much of a claim over the earth and its re-

sources as present generations do. They have the right to access to these resources and also benefit from this use. But while this concept of trans-generational equity usually refers to the unborn millions who will inherit this planet, the pace of environmental degradation and exploitation of natural resources have reached such a pace that there is a danger that many of the youth today would not be able to enjoy the same opportunities we do today.

Therefore, as those who, in the future, will bear the consequences of our actions today, the voice of the youth plays a crucial role towards the development of the country, notwithstanding the fact that this im-

portant stakeholder has often been sidelined and given very little importance. However, as has been the aim of the Indian Mountain Initiative to “be the platform for networking, sharing and bringing issues of the mountains for the benefit of all stakeholders”, LEAD India in partnership with ICIMOD, Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland, and YouthNet will be spearheading a youth conference on sustainable mountain development, prior to the Kohima Summit on September 22 and 23, 2013.

their perspectives on sustainable development, the Youth Summit will focus on the development priorities of the youth; their concerns, and how they think these should be addressed.

In this regard, some of the main objectives of the summit are as follows: • Developing a shared understanding of sustainable development in mountain states; • Identifying the youth specific challenges vis-à-vis the themes (Water, Forests & Agriculture) Youth Summit • Outlining their concerns Primarily conceptualized and perspective on how to with the view that the youths address these challenges; also get a chance to present and

• Providing the youth with layan States and 2 hill districts specific leadership skills. of Darjeeling and West Bengal.

About 100 participants includThe findings that emerge ing youths from Nagaland are from this youth programme expected to take part in the will feed into the main sum- Conference scheduled to be mit deliberations (Indian held at the Naga Heritage VilMountain Initiative- Sustain- lage, Kisama. The summit can able Mountain Development also be viewed as a platform Summit) while the conference for young people to come and is expected to come up with discuss, share their perspeca Common understanding of tives and learn as there will be what sustainable development lots of group learning and skills is, develop a document stating sharing. The Summit will furthe development priorities of ther have field visits, drawing the youth and a set of recom- the attention of young people mendations on how the youth to nature while apart from believe IMI themes should be these activities, a plenary sesapproached. sion with the young politicians The Youth Summit will have of the state is on the pipeline. at least 5 participants each Media Cell, from all the 11 Indian HimaSDFN

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Bill McKibben

A Step Toward Healing You can't hide this kind of debacle forever—people are finding out.

Environmental activist Bill McKibben took part in the July 5-6 Healing Walk, a spiritual gathering in northern Alberta, Canada, focused on the destruction—to the immediate environment and to the climate itself— caused by tar sands oil extraction and the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.

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O WALK, SLOWLY, across the tar sands complex of Alberta is to see our real-life equivalent of The Lord of the Rings’ Mordor. It really is as bad as everyone says.

On this one eight-mile loop, we saw vast stretches of muskeg turned into dry, sandy desert; we saw dry-sandy desert that had been further converted into inky tailings lakes; and we were never out of earshot of the cannon that fire all day and all night to keep ducks from landing in the toxic waters.

This goes on forever. The most comprehensive way to see it is from the air, I guess, but the best way to feel it is on foot.

Especially if you’re walking with the people who know this land best—have known it for thousands of years. Each year since 2010, local First Nations groups have organized a Healing Walk through the tar sands, and this year’s fourth iteration was by far the largest. Hundreds of people from around the continent camped for several days in a stretch of nearby boreal forest, held workshops and ceremonies, and then emerged for the hike through the industrial barrens.

The Healing Walk was designed to be almost post-political, though most of the people there—Clayton ThomasMuller, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Crystal Lameman, Gitz Crazyboy, Bill Erasmus, and many more—had been leaders in the indigenous fight against the Keystone pipeline and the whole tar sands idea. For a weekend, though, fighting took second place to connecting, to figuring out how to help the communities devastated by this crazy bid for the dirtiest energy on earth and how to help the leaders and volunteers strung out by the never-ending battle.

The spirit was rich and deep. Minutes after midnight on the first day of the walk, a baby was born in the teepee at the campground—an event hailed as auspicious by everyone.

And as we walked, the hundreds of trucks that passed by in a never-ending stream were far more likely to honk in welcome than to wave a fist. In fact, one of the things that struck me was how hard this place is on workers—we went by one “upgrader” refinery belching a stink of sulphur, and 50 feet from it were the hundreds of barracks used by the workers who come for 21-day shifts moving this oil.

One of the doctors walking with us said that none of the workers were ever tested for chemical exposure—the companies, and the Canadian government that acts as their subsidiary, simply don’t want to know. The workers are dispensable, the landscape is dispensable, the people who lived there for millennia are dispensable. And of course the planet is dispensable too—that’s why they’re willing to pump such volumes of carbon into the atmosphere.

But people are finding out. The Keystone battle was a way to help people find out. You can’t hide this kind of debacle forever—and once the wound is out in the open, maybe it really can start to heal.

Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and founder of 350.org.

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It’s the democracy!

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Chinese premier-elect once stated that urbanisation is not simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it is about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security. In Nagaland, as people rapidly abandon the rural, the urban remains elusive.

Nagaland faced a 69% rate of “urbanisation” in the past decade. Number of urban residents might have increased, new urban areas might have been included in statutory towns and urban population might have naturally grown, but “urbanisation” remains a big word to apply to Nagaland.

Infrastructure, water supply, good education for all children, waste disposal, transportation or law enforcement that corresponds to a real sense of urbanisation is a far cry.

Yet plenty is being built. Gravel and sand is taken out consistently from the Chathe and Dhansiri rivers respectively to feed Dimapur’s construction—so consistently that the rivers have taken lives and are eroding the soil around so quickly that existing infrastructure is under threat. With this gravel and sand, people are not just building buildings but also building over drains. There is no planning and citizens show complete disregard for sanitation. This will increase the number of sick people, but institutes like the Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (on the bank of River Chathe) will probably be eaten up by constant erosion of its embankment before help can be offered.

As more Naga people move to hubs like Kohima and Dimapur, more claim a “customary right” to land they settle on. Many then use this guarantee for individual benefit sidelining the fact that customary laws exist for the community to move forward together—when in a city, this rule should apply to all sections of the populace, irrespective of origin. Yet majoritarian arm-twisting is commonplace.

With values placed neither in the rural nor urban, people are irresponsible towards the city. When confronted with the problem, the government shrugs in the face of “rains and landslides” that are destroying “mini india,” not corruption and ignorance. The gods must indeed be crazy.

Roots are a good place to go back to. Instead of taking farmers away from their fields with the lure of cash through 100-days random labour, the attempt should be towards the opposite. Simple things can be instated, alongside rural confidence, like better internet connectivity for the young, better healthcare for the old. Nagaland does not need mega cities and a mega economy—it needs to sustain its people in the longer run and following India’s urbanisation pattern might not be the most incredible idea. A delicate geography needs a delicate idea; if it is imported plans we are after, why not simple ones like car-free zones in town, cycle ways, cycles for poor children to go to school on or a ceiling on mining rivers and owning cars?

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Anti-government demonstrators set on fire a puppet representing Sao Paulo's Governor Geraldo Alckmin during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday, August 14, 2013. People gathered to demand the resignation of the governor and complain about corruption in the public transportation system. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A comparative analysis of recent protests in Brazil and Turkey reveals that the economy is far from the only motor of these social developments. The challenge staring both governments in the face is one of political inclusion

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n 1992, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist, James Carville, coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid”, emphasizing the importance of the struggling economy issue in the US presidential campaign. It became a catchphrase used in many contexts thereafter, mainly meaning that, at the end of the day, the economy is the core issue that moves people’s concerns. It is not different in the case of mass mobilization in the streets. Whether you are talking about protests in Mediterranean countries amidst the financial crisis in Europe, or public outcry in Egypt, the economy is often cited as the reason why people go out of their way to protest.

In spite of that, the economy is far from the only motor of social developments. Perceived economic growth may not stop people from organizing large, national anti-government protests, nor is the analysis of these public outcries solely from an economic perspective adequate. The cases of recent protests in Brazil and Turkey show that even in relatively stable economic environments, people exhibit discontent about the way their political systems or governments make decisions and carry out policies.

Both countries are reported as economic success stories. In the Turkish case, it is true that the Turkish economy tripled in size from 2002 to 2011, but its biggest weakness, the current account deficit, continues to exist. The AKP, the single-ruling party, implements policies of economic growth dependent on foreign debt and import. As of March 2013, Turkey had an external debt of $350 billion, which has tripled since 2002 when the AKP came to power. The main contribution of the government to the economy, therefore, has been the maintenance of stability, which attracts foreign investment. It is hard to say that the AKP’s economic policies have generated an unprecedented income rise in lower and middle classes. Rather, they have facilitated borrowing through credit cards and loans. Consumption has been growing faster than is sustainable.

This forms a parallel to the Brazilian case, where the country’s growth has been based on financial and credit incentives focused on a few areas of economic activity, such as the automobile industry. The Brazilian economy has started to show some signals

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echnology is claiming yet another relic. Remember those big fat books that made us proudly proclaim in the 1970s and 1980s that we owned a telephone? Alas, with the advent of the internet and smartphones that can store hundreds of numbers, the telephone directory got lost in the clutter of most households and offices to the extent that the majority of the current generation is unaware that such a publication once existed.

Old-timers will remember that the telephone directory often doubled up as a pillow whenever there was an unexpected guest at home or that it may have been used to kill cockroaches. Others will recollect how frantically they had searched for the address of their heart-throb's house through the name of the girl's father in the directory. Life has come a long way in the last two decades and with handheld devices and internet, the thick volumes have gone into oblivion - indeed, become redundant. The telephone directory has died a natural death, silently.

Now, queries for numbers get channelised through services like Justdial, which addressed 364 million search requests across various platforms in 2012-13. The voice component comprised 40 percent, whereas the other 60 percent came in via the internet and mobile internet sources. "Today, the Justdial is shifting gear towards more sophisticated technology, as the voice component is becoming less dominant by the day, with just 34 percent of search queries coming via the medium, whereas Internet and mobile internet now accounts for 66 percent of the overall traffic," Justdial chief financial officer Ramkumar Krishnamachari told IANS. Thus, those long meandering queues in front of telephone exchanges

of distress, such as an insignificant growth rate and worryingly, growing inflation: in 2012 GDP growth was slightly under 1 per cent. But although neither of these two countries have reached an economic paradise, their economies are also not at a point that would easily explain such a public outcry. If not the economy, what is the problem?

The Gezi protests in Taksim, İstanbul, initially triggered by environmentalist concerns, have transformed into unprecedented civil disobedience against the AKP. The protesters accuse the Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdoğan, of pursuing authoritarian ruling practices in two ways: the containment and subversion of the public space of debate and interference with all aspects of private life.

Therefore, what is at stake in the Gezi protests is not only the privatization of public assets and the demolition of parks and forests but also the perception of Erdoğan’s increasing self-entitlement to decide what to do and how to proceed in state policy. The Turkish Parliament, with its absolute AKP majority, has passed laws giving the government more authority for decision-making by removing the checks and balances provided by autonomous institutions. This signals the centralization and monopolization of power, which has been crystallized in the prospect of a change from the parliamentary regime to a presidential regime under Erdoğan’s leadership. It is not uncommon to come across many secularists, leftists, and atheists who feel excluded under the AKP regime. In fact, the AKP’s politics and the Prime Minister’s rhetoric constantly produce and reproduce the ‘us versus them’ paradigm within the Turkish public.

On the other hand, none of the opposition parties have the position or strength to provide a counterweight. The lack of pluralism in the parliament is perhaps the most challenging problem due to Turkey’s 10 per cent election threshold, which distributes the seats of parties with less than 10 per cent of the total votes to the remainder. Civil society seems to be the only instrument available for checks and balances under the present circumstances. Hence, the movement appears to be calling for a more responsive and accountable government. The protesters do not question the legitimacy of AKP rule and Erdoğan as an elected leader, but his way of making public policies and addressing the public.

Brazil, on the other hand, is not witnessing such a consolidation and monopolization of political power under a single-party rule. However, here too the public outcry is about democracy - if not its existence, its quality. It has become common for political analysts to convey the idea of a crisis of representation in the country. The current system is not able to express people’s preferences adequately and respond to their needs. Although that is almost a truism, what seems at stake is more than simply

the government not being able to deliver what people want, but rather the virtual disappearance of the opposition. Democratic systems differ from autocracies largely due to the fact that they possess a channel through which circumstantial minorities can be represented and vocalized and can present themselves competitively in frequent elections.

Brazil’s “Coalition Presidentialism” has long been seen as an institutional design that facilitates governability, avoiding political deadlock. On the other hand, this process has crystallized a system of the prevalence of the executive over the legislative, impairing the ability of the parliament to fulfil its representation role and to act as an accountability tool of the democratic system. There is an overwhelming number of non-ideological, nonprogrammatic parties, all of which want to be part of the government (no matter what party the President belongs to) not for the purpose of influencing the implementation of policies, but to seek profit.

The opposition parties (Social Democrats, Democrats and PPS) have not only withered, but have become practically voiceless, waiting every four years to unsuccessfully compete for the popular vote. The opposition not only lost the last three presidential elections, but has seen a progressive decrease in their representation in Congress. The three main opposition parties have less than 100 congressmen (out of a total of 513), which makes it the smallest opposition in almost 20 years. More serious than shrinkage in numbers is the virtual disappearance from public debate. Projects proposed by the executive are frequently approved by Congress without a proper debate. Consequently, while the Brazilian government propagates the rhetoric of economic inclusion, the system is failing to provide institutionalized representation channels for the political inclusion of alternative and dissident voices. There is no possibility whatsoever to connect with the common citizen.

When this channel withers, what are left are the streets. Symptomatic of this feeling was the protesters’ rejection of party flags. The sentiment carried not a rejection of the institution of parties themselves (as some claimed) but rather of the existing ones and the way they (don’t) represent themselves.

In Turkey it was an environmental issue that initiated the protests. In Brazil it was a protest against public transportation tariffs. But in both cases these issues only catalyzed feelings of unrest with the respective democratic systems. Indicative of the similarity of what is happening in both countries are the characteristics of demonstrators. According to surveys conducted with the protesters, in Brazil as well as in Turkey, there is a prevalence of young people (around two thirds under 30 years old in both countries), mainly from the middle class (although not exclusively). About half of the respondents in each country had not participated in any protest before.

More importantly, in neither country is there strong party sentiment. In Turkey 70% of the respondents do not feel sympathetic to any political party, while 14.7% are indecisive about this matter. In Brazil 83% of protesters do not feel represented by any politician, and 89% by any political party.

The challenge to the governments of both countries, therefore, is that of inclusion. Not an economic one, of which the governments boast and which has more of a rhetorical nature. Including more people in the consumer market, as protests have shown, is insufficient for people’s content with the way their governments and political systems work. In any democracy, there needs to be an institutionalized channel through which people voice their demands and display their dissatisfaction. 11-year single party rule in Turkey and Brazil’s political system and party developments have left out a large proportion of their citizens from the institutionalized spaces of the public sphere. What is at stake is more pluralism and responsiveness, not only in the governments, but in the political system as a whole. There is no complete inclusion if it is not political inclusion.

Telephone directories die a silent death Aparajita Gupta Source: IANS

when the voluminous telephone directories were issued have vanished.

Many people feel that search engines like Google have killed the telephone directory, once a bible for many.

The last time Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd-Delhi published a directory was in 2000 in two volumes. "A policy decision was taken in the late 1990s to stop printing directories as they had become too voluminous and were becoming too costly to print, considering they had to be distributed free to all "subscribers," an official of the Department of Telecom told IANS. "The printing stopped at various times in various cities due to commitments to "advertisers," the official added.

A retired banker in his late 1970s, R.R. Pandya of suburban Vile Parle has carefully preserved the final three bulky volumes published by MTNLMumbai. Though the directory - running into over 4,000 pages - is dated 1999, it reached subscribers only by mid-2000.

"At times, I still go through this MTNL directory, but it's practically useless as more than 75 percent of the numbers have changed, many people have surrendered their MNTL lines, and the new numbers have not been listed," Pandya told IANS. According to a top MTNL Mumbai

official, the first Bombay (as Mumbai was then called) Telephones Directory was published way back in 1933, during the British era. Since then, the directories were published annually and virtually without a break till the last one in 1999, the official said.

The final volume listed 2.15 million subscribers and cost MTNL a whopping Rs.37 crore to print. "The last time Chennai Telephones brought out a directory was in 2007. On the other hand the Chennai Telephones website is updated and people find it easy. Chennai Telephones has also stopped supplying the directory on CDs," G. Vijaya, spokesperson, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Chennai Telephones, told IANS. "Our usage of the telephone directory has come down a lot. However, we do use it to locate the numbers and address of government offices or officials," Jayalakshmi Srinivasan, a housewife, said.

In Bangalore, BSNL has stopped printing a telephone directory from this year following a circular from its head office in New Delhi, as many of its subscribers have stopped using them. "The last directory we have printed in three volumes was in 2012 with landline numbers up to September 2012. Prior to 2012, we released directory in two or three volumes in alternate years," Ban-

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galore Telecom district assistant general manager K. Ranganayaklu told IANS. As the number of subscribers declined to 690,000 from 10 million over time due to increasing use of mobiles, the service provider has reduced print order to 200,000 from 500,000 to avoid stock piling. "Of the 200,000 copies we printed last year, only 100,000 subscribers had exchanged it for the previous directory issued in 2011 with numbers up to December 2010. We are clearing the stock by giving it to new subscribers taking our service, a majority of them for broadband connection," Ranganayaklu said. "As most of the tech-savvy subscribers use landline to access internet, they log into our website and browse for numbers or call our toll free number for other details," BSNL spokesman B.S. Ravindra said.

The public directory was discontinued five years ago in Kolkata. "The call centre service is really popular among senior citizens. Since they are used to the directory in text format, many find it difficult to surf through the web. For them calling up is the option," said a spokesperson of Calcutta Telephones. For Namita Ghosh, a 72-year-old widow, writing down important numbers in a diary is a convenient way. "The helpline is engaged many times.

I have jotted down important contacts like hospitals, doctors, relatives, etc. I still have the old directory," said Ghosh.

The last telephone directory by BSNL in Jaipur came out in 2008-09.

"Oh I don't carry a mobile; I only have a landline and directory used to help me in finding numbers I desired. Now I have either to call JustDial or Getit to get the number and, mind you, for calling these numbers I have to pay call charges; it does not come free. What a pity!" lamented Rameshwar Singh, 80, who lives in Jaipur's walled city area.

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fter my graduation in the year 1999, I went to Delhi for further studies. That year the graduation results were declared rather late by the Nagaland University and so I could leave for Delhi only in the second week of September. After landing in Delhi I stayed with a Sema friend for about six weeks in a flat in Malviya Nagar (South Delhi). Near this flat was situated one college named Aurobindo College which was one of the many colleges under Delhi University.

As I got admission in Delhi University for my post graduation course in Political Science, I shifted up to a two-room flat in Mukherjee Nagar (North Delhi) which was quite near to the Delhi University campus. This two-room flat was procured for me by a senior friend of mine through a property dealer. This flat was situated in the second floor of a five storied building in Mukherjee Nagar just a few yards away from the famous Batra cinema hall.

The house number of this building was 216A Mukherjee Nagar. I rented this flat in the last week of October 1999 and this was to become my address for the next five years. The house landlord was one Ranveer Singh Chauhan (a typical Delhite) and he stayed in the first floor of the building with his family.

As mentioned, it was a five storied building and there were 7 – 11 rooms in every floor. Apart from the flat occupied by the landlord’s family, all the other rooms were rented out. The tenants were all outsiders who had come to Delhi for studies. Most of these tenants were civil service aspirants, some were IT professionals-cum-students, some were students of Delhi University while some were medical students. I was the only NorthEast guy in the building and the rest were from states like Bihar, UP, MP and Punjab.

I think one fellow-tenant was even from Rajasthan and his father was a senior IPS officer serving somewhere in South India.

Besides, all the tenants were males except for two lovely medical students from MP who stayed in the ground floor – their names were Meghna and Neetu.

The rooftop of this five storied building was about 2000 sq. feet in area and it was fenced by some well designed railings. And this rooftop provided a spectacular view of the entire Mukherjee Nagar colony of North Delhi especially the area surrounding the famous Batra cinema hall. In the evening, it was always a magnificent experience to be able to stand in the rooftop and take a look at the city life of Delhi with all the bright lights lighting up the skyline of this historic city.

In this way, during the course of my five years stay in this building, the roof top became the most happening and interesting place for the tenants. Inadvertently but invariably, it became a routine for the tenants to gather up here in the evenings after dinner and have conversations and interactions on varied topics and issues.

Of course, there was never a pre-planned or pre-arranged program that we would meet every evening in the rooftop. But it became a spontaneous daily routine

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Straight From The Heart History, Politics, Culture… that we would meet every evening in the rooftop for rendezvous after our day’s assignments were done. These gatherings usually started around 6:30 to 7:00 pm and lasted well beyond 10:00 pm. And of course, anybody could come and leave anytime without permission.

It was during these soiree sessions in this rooftop that I was literally introduced first-hand to the Indian mind-set. We discussed many things. As all of us were students, studies and careers were often the rallying point of our discussions. However, as all of us were also bachelors and in our early and mid 20s, I would say that the most interesting and hottest topic often discussed was undoubtedly ‘GIRLS’.

As mentioned, I was the only NorthEast guy in the building and therefore I was often made the target of many questions. They asked me about the political unrest in the North-East, they asked me about the political scenario in Nagaland, they asked me about the Naga national movement which literally rocked the new Independent India in the 1950s and 1960s and they also asked whether Nagas still preferred to be independent and separated from India. Of course, it was a wonderful platform for me to voice out my views and opinions to them and I fully tried my best. But I wonder whether I was ever able to answer them convincingly and satisfactorily. One of the most unforgettable questions that were asked was about the Morung of Nagaland that was prevalent in some Naga villages in our forefathers’ time. Somehow they must have read somewhere that young Naga boys and girls were made to live together in the Morung house in our forefathers’ time. Therefore their question was ‘Were the girls safe there in the Morung?’

There was also one big temple

called the ‘Om Mandir’ in the vicinity and this temple was quite visible from our rooftop. In the evenings, many a times we saw devotees thronging the temple to offer their prayers. And it was this sight which often prompted us to talk about God and religion. Of course, most of them were very liberal and understanding towards Christianity – they had nothing to say or do against it. But understandably, for them Christianity was just another religion and nothing more. In fact, one fellow-tenant there was one Nishant Mandilvar from Bihar and he even commented that the Nagas and the Mizos were most probably brainwashed by the western missionaries who came to their lands decades ago.

My fellow-tenants never saw me praying or reading the Bible. But on Sundays, they often saw me going to church and many a times on Sunday evenings, they questioned my faith. I told them all that I knew about Jesus and also about the stories in the Bible. But their reply was, “If Jesus is the only way to salvation and eternal life, what about all those Nagas who lived and perished in the 1900 years before the American missionaries could bring the gospel to us?” They also said, “If somebody hears the gospel message of Jesus and does not accept it, then they may be liable to condemnation. But what about those who lived and died without even hearing the name of Jesus - not to speak of the gospel message?” I knew their questions were very valid and genuine from the human point of view. But I guess these are questions which can be answered only by God himself.

I read Indian history in high school and even in college. So it was not that I didn’t know anything about Indian cul-

ture. But it was my conversations with my fellow-tenants on the rooftop of House No.216A Mukherjee Nagar that reaffirmed my belief that the Indian culture had been a culture that was literally obsessed with the naked female body. In temples and historical monuments all over India, we can see sculptures and statues of naked women with robust breasts and hips. We can also see many statues of couples in copulation positions adorning many temples across the length and breadth of India. Even today, ‘Pyar mein Jeena aur Pyar mein Marnaa’ seems to be the philosophy of many Indian men. Therefore, it is understandable that for a nation and society that does not know about the divine and unfathomable love of a true living God, the only ‘LOVE’ they can perceive and imagine is the sexual love between man and woman.

In the early part of 2002, there was a news report in a national daily that a young Naga woman was caught naked in a car at midnight with a Nigerian national in central Delhi. This Nigerian was someone who worked in one of the foreign embassies in Delhi. It was also reported that the Naga girl was a law student of Delhi University and that when the Delhi police accosted them that night, she replied that she knew the man and that it was none of the business of Delhi police to question them. This news report literally rocked our building and made my fellow-tenants to ask me many uncomfortable questions about the mentality and morality of the Naga girls studying and living in Delhi.

Even before this incident, their views, opinions and regards on the young Naga boys and girls living/studying in Delhi were not very positive. And it was this news report which somehow reaffirmed their views and opinions on our Naga students. They asked me ‘Are all Naga girls like that in general?’ I knew I had to answer them diplomatically here. So I said, “Certainly not. I know many Naga girls here in Delhi who are from good families, who are God-fearing and who are morally and spiritually upright. It is only through a few that the image of our community is getting spoiled and damaged.”

I guess the best part about these evening soirees was that there was no alcohol involved. Of course, I am not saying that we had a revival meeting there. We did have fun but the encounters were very gentle, informative, enlightening and all in free and good spirit. Moreover, it was even more interesting for me because I was the only one from the NorthEast and this made me a rare commodity many times. On many occasions, some of the fellow tenants even shared their hand-made curries with me on the roof top. The two lady-tenants who occupied a flat in the ground floor did not regularly join us in the rooftop. They probably did not feel that comfortable to be in the midst of guys every evening. But there were times when these two lovely medical students did come up and it was always special and interesting whenever they showed up………..

What Five-letter Word Can't you Live Without?

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Frances Moore Lappé

ere it is: Power. Now, quick, before reading further, close your eyes. What associations come to mind? If your list is full words like coercion, force, guns, oppression, domination, money, you could be in big trouble.

Turns out, our very idea of power can rob us of it. In its Latin root, posse, means simply the capacity to act. If to turn our planet toward life we need more and more of us to exert power, even more energetically and thoughtfully, but our associations with the very concept of power are all negative...then that's a problem. A big one.

So let's rethink. What is power?

Power is creating. It is making things happen. And it is perhaps the most under-appreciated human need. Most experts on what we need to be happy, beyond physical needs, stress the importance of satisfying personal relationships, security, and meaning. But Erich Fromm gets it right in my view. Of humanity he writes, "[Man] is driven to make his imprint on the world, to transform and to change, and not only to be transformed and changed..."

And if we can't make our imprint positively, says Fromm, we try something else: "If... man is not able to act [he attempts] to restore his capacity. . . . One way is to submit to and identify with a person or group having power. . . . The other way... [is] to destroy."

And in today's world, proof of his wisdom feels ever more evident.

So the pressing question for our species: Can we consciously reframe this deep need for agency in ways that align with life? Can we shift from control as the primary expression of power to experience power as co-creating with nature?

Co-creating power takes discipline. And I don't mean just getting oneself to the voting booth or installing a solar panel. I mean mental discipline--continually examining our own assumptions and refusing to go on repeating messages that aren't working: Messages that simply blame corporations, for example, without also offering practical pathways to remove them from their controlling political role. "Anti-bad-guys-messages" can help us feel virtuous and release justifiable anger, but alone they can't work.

Co-creating power means staying open and keeping in touch with our inner two-year-old's "Why, why, why?"

Such co-creating power is expanding in part through largely unseen but growing citizen organizations, including Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC), whose 5,000 plus members take on challenges from toxic dumping to making government more open; in 2010, they were key to halting a

new coal plant in their state. Jean True, a KFTC leader in the 1990s, told me, "I was home raising kids for ten years. I didn't know anything about politics.

I thought my only job was to vote."

When I asked Jean to tell me why she joined KFTC, she responded, "It's just the fun! That you can get together some regular people, go to the capitol, and make changes in state policy...We have a great time going toe to toe and head to head with state legislators. We sometimes know more than they do! It's the fun of power -- the ant knocking over the buffalo."

On the other side of the world in the year 2000, I danced with women in a Kenyan village, feeling the exuberant happiness in their new found power as village

tree planters -- part of the Greenbelt Movement that has planted over 50 million trees.

So, accomplishing humanity's biggest-ever feat -tackling both poverty and climate chaos via real democracy -- may just depend on our shedding the myths now stripping us of power and, with the exuberance of dancing Kenyan tree planters, joining in Jean True's kind of power.

We can do it.

We can do it if we do the work -- the good work of checking our failing frames at the door and walking into a new space: There, in our ecological home, we're all connected. So, guess what?

We're all implicated. That might not sound good, but it is.

For the notion of power as a divisible pie -- "If he has it, I don't" -- dissolves and we see that no one is every utterly powerless. Even entities as vast as the U.S. Penta-

gon or as wealthy as Exxon, with its $30,000-a-minute profit, are being shaped moment to moment through our own assumptions about what's possible and by our daily roles in this magnificent life-and-death drama.

"Thinking like an ecosystem," what I love to call "ecomind"--and realizing our interconnectedness, suddenly, we see the sources of power available to almost all of us at any moment. Here are ten to mull: • The power of curiosity: What most piques my curiosity and inspires me to learn more? How can I best pursue my curiosity?

• The power of connection: Whom can I reach out to right now -- friends, strangers, groups--to help keep me going?

• The power of frame and language: What is one piece of my current mental map-my core assumptions about life--I can reframe to free myself? What words do I use that keep my thinking mired in the world of separateness, lack, and loss? And what new words will allow me to see connection, strength and possibility?

• The power of action: What is one act I can take right now to align my life with the world I want and make me more powerful?

• The power of agitation: What disturbs me?

How can I transform that disturbance into energy for action?

• The power of self-awareness: What is an important strength I already have -- knowledge, contacts, moral courage -- that I can share?

How do I grow my strengths? How do I use my strengths to empower others?

• The power of daily attention: What is one change I can adopt right now that enriches my life because it reminds me every day of my embeddedness in nature?

• The power of inspiration: Who are my heroes -- my everyday heroes -- and how can I bring them more fully into my life? How can I myself act in a way that I can become a hero to myself and inspire others?

• The power of embracing fear: What is one risk I could take now to enhance my creative power?

• The power of organization: How can I join and strengthen groups that aligned with a frame of possibility?

In other words, with an eco-mind, the only choice we don't have is whether to change the world. We are changing it every day. Recognizing our power, we can be tough. We can challenge any message telling us we can't have real democracy so just give up on government, or scolding us for being greedy or apathetic, when most of us want to be part of the solution.

Claiming our power as co-creators, we can together speed an evolving and immensely liberating ecology of hope.

More out of Africa amit singh

There is a current global environmental crisis and Africa is part of it. But as aggressive resource extraction ravages the African environmental landscape, can the answer to Africa’s ‘crisis’ lie within?

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ew people, except the most extreme global warming sceptics, can deny that there is a current global environmental crisis, of which Africa is a part. A combination of natural and human activities such as exploration and the aggressive exploitation and extraction of natural resources is taking its toll on African communities as well as the African environmental landscape.

Conversely, it is often European based companies who are extracting resources in an aggressive manner that is so detrimental to the local communities where mining is undertaken, such as in war torn regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The recent pursuit of oil in DR Congo’s UNESCO Virunga National Park is a prime example of how companies put profit over Africa’s environmental landscape.

Projects such as this typically lead to profit being held in the hands of a few, whilst the local community barely benefits and all of this is undertaken at huge cost to the environment. This results in the loss of the agricultural land that the poor rely upon and significant pollution of the surrounding areas. Virunga National Park, for example, is inhabited by over 3000 animal species.

Often this exploitation of resources such as water, land and air is at odds with African indigenous environmental ethics. African communities have traditionally lived in respect of nature, rather than using it for personal gain and profit. Africa’s entry into a global capitalist economy has contributed to the acceleration of environmental degradation as western capitalist value systems impose a negative effect on traditional African land ethics, particularly with regard to resource extraction.

But environmental policy has long been shaped by western political actors at the United Nations and beyond, often imposing a top down environmental policy that does not resonate with local communities. These views have shaped international policy for the last few hundred years and will continue to do so in the near future. That is not to say that the views on the peripheries are not important. UNESCO recently partnered with the World Views project, to help understand environmental ethics from around the world, as a conscious counterforce to the dominant tradition of universal knowledge.

Professor Kaya, the Research Leader of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, confronts the claims underlying these universal approaches to environmental issues: ‘The traditional Western theology and philosophy is not only different from the traditional African perspective, but has limitations from the Ubuntu perspective because it puts man above other forms of creation, whereas Ubuntu promotes respect for diversity and for other forms of creation.’ This is pertinent in the context of resource extraction as Ubuntu would promote a more sustainable way of mining, rather than a wanton pursuit of profit that is currently the status quo within Africa.

Given such a divergence in world views it is now becoming increasingly accepted that culture is an important element in inspiring people to participate widely in environmental conservation.

With the marginalization of traditional African beliefs and with an urgent need to protect Africa’s environmental landscape, the World Views project has moved towards a proposed ‘African Convention on Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Livelihoods’, spear-headed by academics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban and others from across Africa. The project does not only rely on the support of academics and government officials, but it will also incorporate civil society actors from across Africa to promote a more afro-centric environmental outlook that can help mobilize ordinary African people to protect the environment through interpretations of appropriate environmental ethics.

At the heart of the planned convention is the idea that Africa’s poorest people should be empowered if they are to become savvy political actors and principal architects of their own sustainable development, with bottom-up solutions far more likely to succeed than top-down solutions promoted by donor agencies and western governments.

The convention will follow on from a conference aptly titled ‘Conference Towards an African Convention on Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Livelihoods,’ scheduled to take place in March 2014 in Durban. Central to the conference and the convention itself are the following themes: environmental governance and justice, knowledge systems and environmental ethics, science and technology in environmental ethics, rural development and sustainable livelihood, and indigenous languages and power relations.

These areas will be critical in explaining why the African Convention is necessary and why it can help contribute to a change in discourse at an international level as well as regionally. Other conventions such as the Rio Declaration do make fleeting reference to indigenous values. But that is all it is - fleeting - with no real commitment to acknowledge or engage with local communities on these issues. The African convention in contrast is aiming to be a bottom up initiative empowering all relevant stakeholders.

The future of Africa lies ultimately not so much in slavishly emulating western models, skills and ideas, but rather in developing and implementing homegrown, specific, corrective responses. This is what the Convention on African Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Livelihood hopes to achieve by shifting discourse and inspiring people through the prism of their own indigenous beliefs to protect the environment.

The project is not so much a post-colonial rejection of western beliefs or an out-right rejection of universalism, but more a movement for plurality both within the African context and beyond. The ‘Conference Towards a Convention on Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Livelihoods’ aims to bring together indigenous knowledge practitioners, academics and government officials from across the continent and from the diaspora to contribute to a new discourse on environmental ethics that celebrates and promotes Africa’s unique environmental ethical value systems in order to tackle the growing environmental crisis that faces us all.

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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LoC ceasefire violation: Pak blame Indian Army

islAMABAD, August 21 (ReuteRs): The Pakistani military said on Wednesday one of its officers had been killed in “unprovoked” firing by Indian troops across the border in the disputed Kashmir region but an Indian official said his side had only responded to initial Pakistani fire. The incident was the latest in a series of clashes that began this month which has undermined a push by Pakistan’s new civilian government to improve ties with old rival India. A Pakistani military official said that as well as the officer killed, a soldier was seriously wounded in the “unprovoked Indian shelling”.

The violence came two weeks after the killing of five Indian soldiers along the so-called Line of Control that separates the two sides in the Himalayan region. India said the five were killed by Pakistani forces but Pakistan denied involvement. The nucleararmed rivals have fought three wars since 1947, two of them over Kashmir.

Both control a part of the Muslim-majority region but claim it in full. A truce along their Kashmir border has held for nearly a decade even though it has been broken every now

Pakistan-trained terrorists planning to attack south India

Rainwater stays stagnant on either sides of the fence near the India-Pakistan border area of Ranbir Singh Pura, about 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Jammu, on August 16. The Pakistani military said on Wednesday one of its officers had been killed in “unprovoked” firing by Indian troops across the border in the disputed Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

and then by tit-for-tat artillery fire and the occasional cross-border ambush.

An Indian army official said Indian troops came under heavy mortar and light-machine gun fire from the Pakistani side on Tuesday night in the Kargil region, where the two sides fought an undeclared war in 1999. The Kargil region had been peaceful since then until shooting began again last week. “Under intense pressure ... we

fired back,” the Indian official said. India has faced an insurgency in its part of Kashmir since 1989 and had long accused Pakistan of supporting the militants fighting Indian rule. Pakistan denies arming the militants, saying that it only offers moral support to the Muslim people of Kashmir who are living under what Pakistan criticises as harsh Indian rule.

Eyes on Afghanistan Nevertheless, despite

Pakistan’s denials that it helps the militants, fighters have for years slipped from the Pakistani side of Kashmir into the Indian side to battle Indian forces. India says that this year it has seen a spike in attempts by militants to infiltrate into its part of Kashmir. Many analysts expect the trend to continue as the two countries jostle for influence in Afghanistan as a NATO force prepares to withdraw by the end of 2014. Both na-

tions fear the other is trying to install a proxy government in Kabul.

Pakistan’s government, has tried to be conciliatory over the latest outbreak of border violence. On Monday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who made better ties with India a theme of his election campaign, said Pakistan and India should be fighting poverty and illiteracy instead of each other. He has also asked for talks with Indian officials.

MuMBAi, August 21 (AgeNcies): The Maharashtra police have received a terror alert from central intelligence agencies warning that eight militants are undergoing training in Pakistan-based camps to attack targets in south India from Sri Lanka. Sent by the joint director of VIP Security (under the Union home ministry) in New Delhi in mid-August, the nine-page alert states that four of the terror trainees are “Punjabis and the remaining Kashmiris or Pathans”. Their “drop-off point” is expected to be around 28km off Jaffna and their target could be Mayiladuthurai or Madurai in Tamil Nadu, according to the alert.

The warning asks security agencies across the country to be on high alert since the attack may come in “a few months”. Following the notice’s receipt, the Mumbai police have activated all their sources of information. A passage on the alert’s third page reads, “Sri Lankan agen-

cies are reported to have arrested three suspected Pak nationals on February 2, 2013, who confessed to having visited Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram on Sri Lankan passports.”

It continues: “An unconfirmed input suggests entry of such elements in Kerala or Tamil Nadu through sea route with the connivance of Sinhalese fishermen. It has been reported that LeT ( Lashkare-Taiba) is working on a plot to carry out attacks in India and eight terror suspects are being trained in Pakistan”. The alert expresses concern over the attempts of several terror outfits—including LeT, Babbar Khalsa International, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jamat-ud-Dawaa, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, AlUmer Mujahideen, Hizbul-Mujahideen—at joining hands to organize strikes in India. It also points to several Pakistan-based groups’ efforts to use Sri Lanka as the launching pad for their operations in India.

The warning mentions various intelligence inputs gathered over time. One such input suggested the LeT is plotting to target the Wagah border crossing, particularly during the flag-lowering ceremony. Another bit of information—received in September 2012 and uncorroborated—said that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is planning a 26/11-style attack in New Delhi. Yet another input was of a meeting, “organised by LeT commander Habib ur Rehman”, of commanders of several militant outfits in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan this year. During the meet, the alert says, Rehman pressured the commanders to push maximum possible cadres into India to carry out “small targeted actions” in different parts of the country.

The warning also speaks of an input of a meeting of terror groups where they decided to avenge the execution of Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru, by striking Tihar jail in New Delhi.

Cyber security: Cabinet Maharashtra clears anti-superstition law Alarming 80% rise in August 21 (iANs): hat. Its leader Jayant Athavale said Secretariat warns Central MuMBAi, A day after anti-superstition activthat birth and death are pre-des- dengue cases this year ist Narendra Dabholkar was shot tined and everybody gets the fruit of New Delhi, August 21 (AgeNcies): Dengue ministries, States dead, the Maharashtra government their karma. cases have risen alarmingly across the country this year, New Delhi, August 21 (AgeNcies): Alarmed by the delay on the part of various Central ministries, departments and State governments in formulating crisis management plans (CMPs) for “countering cyber attacks and cyber terrorism,” the Cabinet Secretariat has shot off a letter, asking them to take “urgent time-bound action” in the matter. This is the third such letter in as many months that the Cabinet Secretariat has despatched.

“Detailed Cyber Security Plan along with name of Chief Information Security Officer has not been received in this Secretariat … All Ministries/Departments/State Governments/ UT Administrations are … once again requested that present status of appointment of Chief Information Security Officer [if not yet appointed] and preparation of their Cyber Security Plans may be furnished to this Secretariat on priority basis,” said the letter, issued late last month.

The letter talks about the recently prepared National Cyber Security Policy 2013 “for facilitating creation of secure computing environment and enabling adequate trust and confidence in electronic transactions and also guiding stakeholders’ actions for protection of cyber space,” and asks all ministries and States to come up with their CMPs attuned to the policy.

“The policy talks about preparing sectoral and organisational CMPs separately. In the sectoral CMP, it is mandated to set up a ‘sectoral crisis management committee’ on the lines of National Crisis Management Committee along with a 24X7 control room to monitor crisis situation, besides designating a member of senior management as ‘Chief Information Security Officer.’ Similarly, the organisational CMP comprise a ‘Crisis Management Group’ with the head of the organisation as its leader besides preparing a detailed security plan and implementation of security control measures, among others,” said a senior government official.

Social media alone cannot help win elections: Tharoor

New Delhi, August 21 (AgeNcies): At a time major political parties are fighting to outdo each other on the social media, Twitter-savvy Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has said that this alone can’t help win elections - it is just a new way of reaching out to people. “We can’t give up traditional politics because of social networking, we still have to hold rallies, go for door-to-door meetings, mass meetings... But we can’t ignore the social media either - a lot of people in India are active on the social media because they are easily available on phones,” Tharoor said at the launch of a social networking website in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Tharoor’s comments come ahead of Thursday’s scheduled Congress workshop in New Delhi on using the social media to build up the party’s communication strategy and to set up a framework across India ahead of Lok Sabha elections due in May next year. A number of Union Ministers and senior party leaders will address the workshop. Ahead of the high-stake polls, social media has become the new political battleground with both the Congress and the BJP trying to outsmart each other with new ideas to woo the web-savvy generation.

Last week, the BJP launched what it called its “chargesheet” on the “dark decade of UPA’s mal-governance” with a website that attempts massive outreach through social media. Senior party leaders showcased the new site at http://bjp.org/upachargesheet, where people can also use tools like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and SMSes to give feedback and complain about the UPA. A day before that, Congress supporters had targeted Narendra Modi, the BJP’s chief election strategist and presumptive Prime Ministerial candidate, with a website ‘www.Fekuexpress.com’ ahead of Modi’s visit to Hyderabad. Congress supporters have often used “feku” - slang for one who makes tall claims - as a hashtag on Twitter to attack Modi, while the Gujarat Chief Minister’s supporters have retaliated with the hashtag “Pappu” to target Congress number 2 Rahul Gandhi. Modi is seen as one of the most social-media-savvy politicians in the country with over two million followers on the micro-blogging website Twitter.

Wednesday decided to promulgate an ordinance to enact a long-pending bill to eradicate black magic, blind faith and superstitious beliefs.

The law will be the first such in the country. The development came a day after the killing of Narendra Dabholkar, 69, who spearheaded a campaign against these social evils for the past three decades.

The chief proponent of the law, Dabholkar was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants near the Omkareshwar Temple in Pune Tuesday morning, sparking outrage across the state. He succumbed at the government-run Sassoon Hospital. The Maharashtra cabinet decided unanimously to promulgate the Ordinance for enacting the Maharashtra Eradication of Blind Faith Bill as a law. The development came as a fitting finale to a day of protests across the state, with Pune observing a spontaneous shutdown to condemn Dabholkar’s killing.

The bill, first introduced in 1995 in the state legislature, was redrafted at least 29 times. It passage was de-

This undated photograph shows Indian activist Narendra Dabholkar who was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding attackers on Tuesday, August 20 as he was taking a morning walk in Pune. (AP Photo)

layed several times due to stiff opposition from various quarters, especially Hindu groups which claimed it to be “anti-Hindu”. A prominent right-wing Hindu organisation, Sanatan Sanstha Wednesday appeared to gloat over Dabholkar’s killing in its daily mouthpiece Sanatan Prab-

“Instead of dying bedridden through illness, or after some surgery, such a death for Dabholkar is, in a way, a blessing of the almighty,” Athavale said. This immediately resulted in a clamour by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) seeking an immediate ban on the organisation, though a Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson denied that there was anything wrong in the statement. “We are also equally shocked by his (Dabholkar) killing. We have nothing to do with it,” Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Vartak said.

The new measure will empower the government to bring under its ambit social and religious evils, human or animal sacrifices, rituals to drive out evil spirits or ensure a male progeny, perpetrated by self-styled godmen, witchcraft and wizardry practitioners, often cheating the gullible public. Now, in the wake of the statewide angst against Dabholkar’s murder, the state government has adopted the ordinance route since the next winter session of the legislature is in mid-December.

with data showing an 80% rise in the disease till July 31 as compared to the same period last year. India has recorded 15,983 dengue cases so far in 2013 as compared to 8,899 cases in the corresponding months last year, latest health ministry data shows. But the good news is, while the cases have risen sharply, fatalities have actually declined - 56 as compared to 76 last year.

Kerala reported most dengue cases at 5,801, followed

by Karnataka (3,775), Tamil Nadu (3079) and Maharashtra (961) till end-July . Delhi witnessed a sharp rise in cases over the last few weeks, with the total this year touching 54. No one has died due to dengue in the capital so far.

‘Several factors for spread of dengue’ “There is no single reason for the increase in dengue cases. It is governed by various man-made and environmental factors including unprecedented growth in population, unplanned and rapid urbanization and inadequate waste management,” union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad stated in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Increasing mobility of the population and poor infrastructure to monitor mosquito breeding were some other reasons cited by the health minister.

Azad said guidelines for clinical management of dengue cases have been sent to the states for circulation in hospitals and rapid response teams have been formed.

Experts say construction sites are a major area of mosquito-breeding followed by government buildings and water tanks.

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Japan nuke watchdog Egyptian court orders release of Mubarak may raise leak to ‘serious’ TOKYO, AUGUST 21 (AP): The Japanese nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said they are taking the leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant seriously, and proposed raising the rating to describe it from “an anomaly” to a “serious incident.”

The operator of the plant said about 300 tons (300,000 liters, 80,000 gallons) of contaminated water has leaked from one of hundreds of steel tanks around the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. hasn’t figured out how or where the water leaked, but suspects it did so through a seam on the tank.

The leak, the fifth since last year involving tanks of the same design, also raised concerns that this could be the beginning a new disaster — contaminated water leaking from storage tanks one after another.

“That’s what we fear the most.

We must remain alert. We should assume that what has happened once could happen again, and prepare for more,” watchdog chairman Shunichi Tanaka told a news conference. “We are at a situation where there is no time to waste.”

The watchdog proposed at a weekly meeting Wednesday to raise the rating of the leak to level 3 from an earlier level 1 on an International Nuclear and Radiological event scale of eight.

The watchdog, however, plans to consult with the U.N. nuclear regulatory agency over whether it is appropriate to use the INES evaluation scale on the already wrecked Fukushima plant.

The watchdog urged TEPCO to step up monitoring for leaks and take precautionary measures.

During the meeting, officials also revealed that plant workers apparently have overlooked several signs of leaks, suggesting that their twice-daily patrols were largely just a walk. They have not monitored water levels inside tanks, obviously missed a puddle forming at the bottom of the tank earlier, and kept open a valve on the anti-leakage barrier around the tanks.

TEPCO spokesman Masayuki

CAIRO, AUGUST 21 (ReUTeRS): An Egyptian court ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, a judicial and a security source said, meaning he could leave prison later in the day as there is no longer any legal grounds for his detention.

Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall. However, he has already served out the maximum amount of pretrial detention permitted in that case. Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to prevent the killing of demonstrators. But a court accepted his appeal earlier this year and ordered a retrial.

Mubarak could be freed from prison on Thursday, his lawyer told Reuters, after a court ordered his release in a corruption case that was the last remaining legal grounds for his detention. Leaving the Cairo prison where the court convened, Fareed El-Deeb said: “The court decided to release him.” Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.

Ministry of Road Transport & Highways Request for Annual Pre-Qualification- RFAQ 2013 (Part-II) International Competitive Bidding

In this Tuesday, August 20, 2013 aerial photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. The Japanese nuclear watchdog proposed Wednesday to define a fresh leakage of highly radioactive leak from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at Japan’s crippled atomic power plant this week, its worst leak yet from such a vessel. The operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant said Tuesday said about 300 tons (300,000 liters, 80,000 gallons) of contaminated water have leaked from a steel storage tank at the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. TEPCO hasn’t figured out how or where the water leaked, but suspects it did so through a seam on the tank or a valve connected to a gutter around the tank. (AP Photo)

Ono said the leaked water seeped into the ground after largely escaping piles of sandbags added to a concrete barrier around the tank. He said that because the tank is about 500 meters (1,650 feet) from the coastline, the leak does not pose an immediate threat to the sea.

But watchdog officials have cautioned that water could reach the sea via a drain gutter, urging the plant to step up water sampling.

Four other tanks of the same design have had similar leaks since last year. The incidents have shaken confidence in the reliability of hundreds of tanks that are crucial for storing water that has been funneled into the broken reactors to keep melted radioactive fuel cool.

The plant suffered multiple meltdowns following a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 — a level 7 “major accident,”

the highest on the INES rating and the worst since Chernobyl in 1986.

About 350 of some 1,000 steel tanks built across the plant complex containing nearly 300,000 tons (300 million liters, 80 million gallons) of partially treated contaminated water are less-durable ones with rubber seams.

TEPCO says the tanks that have leaked use rubber seams that were intended to last about five years. Ono said TEPCO plans to build additional tanks with welded seams that are more watertight, but will still have to rely on ones with rubber seams.

Figuring out what to do with the radioactive water is among the most pressing issues affecting the cleanup process, which is expected to take decades.

“The growing contaminated water has been one of our biggest concerns since the March 11 acci-

dent,” said Zengo Aizawa, TEPCO’s executive vice president. “The contaminated water remains a problem that could lead to a crisis.”

The leaked water’s radiation level, measured about 50 centimeters (2 feet) above the puddle, was about 100 millisieverts per hour — the maximum cumulative exposure allowed for plant workers over five years, Ono said.

Contaminated water that TEPCO has been unable to contain continues to enter the Pacific Ocean at a rate of hundreds of tons per day.

Much of that is ground water that has mixed with untreated radioactive water at the plant.

Workers were pumping out the radioactive puddle on the plant and the remaining water in the tank and will transfer it to other containers. By Tuesday afternoon they had captured only about 4 tons (4,000 liters, 1,000 gallons), Ono said.

Manning sentenced to 35 yrs in WikiLeaks case

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court martial. The military judge overseeing Manning’s trial sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 yrs in prison for giving US secrets to WikiLeaks. (AP Photo)

FORT MeADe, MARYlAnD, AUGUST 21 (AP): US soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the largest such leak in the country’s history. In a brief hearing, the military judge didn’t offer any explanation for the sentence. Manning stood at attention and appeared not to react. The closely watched case has seen the 25-year-old called both a whistleblower and a traitor.

Prosecutors wanted at least a 60-year prison sentence, saying it would dissuade other soldiers from following in Manning’s footsteps. The defense suggested a prison term of no more than 25 years so that Manning could rebuild his life. Manning leaked more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department diplomatic cables in 2010 while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. He was convicted last month of 20 offenses, including six Espionage Act violations, five theft counts and computer fraud. Prosecutors were unable to prove that he aided the enemy, a crime punishable by life in prison.

Manning has apologized and said he wanted to expose the U.S. military’s “bloodlust” and generate debate over the wars and U.S. policy. “I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people,” he said last week. His defense team said he was under severe mental pressure as a young man struggling with gender identity issues at a time when openly gay people were not allowed to serve in the military. Among the evidence was a photo of him in a blond wig and lipstick. Prosecutors said the leaks endangered the lives of U.S. intelligence sources and prompted several ambassadors to be recalled, reassigned or expelled. They did not present any evidence in open court that anyone was physically harmed as a direct result of Manning’s actions.

A potentially more explosive leak case unfolded as Manning’s trial was underway, when former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was charged with espionage for exposing the NSA’s Internet and telephone surveillance programs. Prosecutors requested a far longer prison term for Manning than other soldiers have received in recent decades for sharing government

secrets. Albert T. Sombolay got a 34-year-sentence in 1991 for giving a Jordanian intelligence agent information on the buildup for the first Iraq war, plus other documents and samples of U.S. Army chemical protection equipment. Clayton Lonetree, the only Marine ever convicted of espionage, was given a 30-year sentence, later reduced to 15 years, for giving the Soviet KGB the identities of U.S. CIA agents and the floor plans of the embassies in Moscow and Vienna in the early 1980s.

Amnesty International and the Bradley Manning Support Network have announced an online petition asking President Barack Obama to pardon Manning Military prisoners can earn up to 120 days a year off their sentence for good behavior and job performance, but they must serve at least one-third of any prison sentence before they can become eligible for parole. Manning will get credit for about 3 1/2 years of pretrial confinement, including 112 days for being illegally punished by harsh conditions at a Marine Corps brig. His lawyers asserted he was locked up alone for at least 23 hours a day, forced to sleep naked for several nights and required to stand naked at attention one morning.

1. The Ministry of Road Transports & Highways (MoRT&H) intends to take up improvement works of Roads and Bridges on various sections of National Highways across the country on EPC mode of contract. The Ministry of Road Transports & Highways (MoRT&H) invites Applications for Annual Prequalification-RFAQ 2013 (PartII) for participating in the Bid Process of Individual National Highway Projects under Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) mode to be implemented through Ministry/ NHAI / State PWD /BRO etc.

2. Under the proposed prequalification, individual entities and also the joint ventures are allowed to participate. While applying, the applicants are requested to indicate the upper limit of their Eligibility (in Rs. crores) for which they wish to get pre-qualified, At the end of RFAQ process, the prequalification with Eligibility limit of the applicant shall be announced in financial terms and applicant shall be eligible to bad for those works/ projects, whose Estimated Project Cost is within their Prequalified Eligibility Iimit.

3. The objective of this Annual Pre -qualification- RFAQ 2013 (PARTII), at this Stage is to evaluate, pre-qualify and register the Eligibility Limit of the Applicants who will be entitled to make simplified applications at the RFP stage. The Eligibility of the applicant will be declared as on 17th September, 2013 with its validity upto 30th June, 2014. The successful applicants, who have already submitted their application for RFACI 2013, need not apply again. The left out applicants and the applicants who wants to update their Eligibility Limit (validity upto 30.06.2014) may apply online during the period from 1st -18th November, 2013.

4. To participate in the aforesaid process, the applicants shall have to pay Rs.10, 000 towards the fee for RFAQ document (non-refundable) in the form of Demand Draft issued from the scheduled bank in India in favour of Pay and Account Officer MoRT&H payable at New Delhi and necessary cost inclusive of all taxes towards tender i-processing fees to e-procurement agency. Detailed Annual Prequalification document can be downloaded from e-tender portal of MoRTH from 16.08.2013 to 16.09.2013 (upto 1700 hrs). The Prequalification application should be submitted online by 17.09.2013 (upto11.00 hrs). The applicants should ensure the physical submission of desirable documents (DDs, PoA etc.) by 24.09.2013.

5. The RFAQ document is available on the MoRT&H (http://www. morth.nic.in) NHAI (http://www.nhai.org) & e-tender portal of MoRT&H (https://www.tenderwizard.com/MORTH) websites with effect from 16.08.2013.

6. In case of any enquiry, please contact Sh. Vivek Jaiswal, Superintending Engineer (EAP)-II, in Room No. 136, 1, Parliament Street, Transport Bhavan, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi-110001, PHONE NO,: 011- 23314353, FAX NO.: 23314353 E-MAIL ADDRESS : vivek.rth@nic.in.

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Saina thanks Sachin for supporting IBL MUMbAi, AUGUST 21 (AGencieS): A day after Sachin Tendulkar made an appearance at the ongoing Indian Badminton League (IBL), Indian badminton sensation Saina Nehwal thanked the master blaster for his support. “…Thank you for coming out and supporting IBL & Badminton,” Saina tweeted.

Sachin Tendulkar was seen at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday at the Krrish Delhi Smashers vs Mumbai Masters tie along with cricketers Ajit

Agarkar and Sunil Gavaskar.

Tendulkar met world no.1 Lee Chong Wee and interacted with him for a while.

Saina Nehwal is a part of the Hyderabad Hotshots team and has been quite excited about the badminton league right from the start.

Saina, a die-hard fan of Shah Rukh Khan also congratulated the star for the success of his latest movie Chennai Express. "Congrats on the smashing success of Chennai Express! Hoping to catch the blockbuster soon!!" she tweeted.

MUMbAi, AUGUST 21 (PTi): World number one Lee Chong Wei, who interacted with senior India cricketer Sachin Tendulkar after his singles match in the Indian badminton League, said he has never seen a cricket match in his life and wants to witness the game one day.

"I just spoke to him (Tendulkar) socially. This is the first time I met him. I am very happy because he came to watch my match and hopefully one day I can see a cricket (match).

I have never seen a cricket match," Lee told reporters last night.

Lee, who joined Mumbai Masters after missing the team's first two away ties, eased his way past his compatriot Daren Liew in the first men's singles. He wrapped up his opening match under 35 minutes as he defeated Liew 21-12 21-16. The winner of two

Olympic silver medals, Lee said he has played against Liew on a lot of occasions and hoped his compatriot would do well in the upcoming Japan open.

"Daren played well last year. He won super series in France Open. This year he lost in World Championship. I hope he can play well in the coming Japan open,"

NAA lauds Swuro on Arjuna Award

DiMAPUR, AUGUST 21 (Mexn): The Nagaland Athletic Association has congratulated Chekrovolu Swuro for being selected for the Arjuna Awards 2013.

A press note from the NAA President Aby Metha stated that Chekrovolu will become the first ever Naga to be bestowed with this prestigious award and her selection is a moment of pride for the entire State, especially the sports fraternity. He added that her achievements have been reached on the back of several sacrifices and tremendous hard work that she has made over a glittering career that began when she was a child.

The note said that Chekrovolu’s career is indeed inspirational and will surely motivation the younger generations to strive for their dreams. It is a matter of great pride that Nagaland has given the country a role model for the youth, especially those who belong to the weaker sections of society, it added. The Nagaland Athletic Association also extended its appreciation to the State Government and the Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio in leaving no stone unturned in supporting her and the sports fraternity. “Chekrovolu’s selection for the awards is most deserving and timely, and as mentioned earlier it has brought great pride to all of us,” it stated. The NAA expressed hope that her achievements will inspire a new generation of Naga youth to achieve success and excellence at the highest levels.

August Football Gold Cup in Mon commences

MOn, AUGUST 21 (DiPR): The 23rd August Football Gold Cup 2013 kick started on August 20 under the theme “Unity through Sports” at Tobu local ground. The event was graced by MLA & Chairman, Honey Mission, Yollow as the chief guest. In his speech, Yollow reminded the participants that earlier people played games to maintained physical fitness but in the present context, sports has become profession where people can earn their living. For this, he said that Nagas have the potentials to perform better in sporting activities and encouraged the participants to play through sporting spirit and discipline while competing with one another. He also lauded the organiser Seong Club Tobu for the noble service.

The programme started with invocation by Chaplain Police Baptist Fellowship Tobu (PDFT), N. Naiba Konyak, welcome address and short speech were delivered by Y.C. Lnagsao, Chairman, Seong Club and Vice President Konyak Union Tobu Branch, Nyaubu Konyak. A special number and band display was presented by Unity Neinlong Club Muknyukshu village and New Life Band Tobu village.

Serena Williams given top seed at US Open

new YORk, AUGUST 21 (ReUTeRS): World number one and defending champion Serena Williams has been given the top seeding for the US Open, organisers announced on Tuesday. Belarussia`s Victoria Azarenka, who beat Williams in Sunday`s final of the Cincinnati Open, is the second seed ahead of Maria Sharapova of Russia and Poland`s Agnieszka Radwanska. Williams heads into the Open, which starts on August 26, looking to add to her French Open title from this year, her 16th Grand Slam singles triumph, which includes four championships at Flushing Meadows.

Williams` sister Venus, a two-time US Open winner but currently ranked 60th in the world, was unseeded.

Serbia`s Novak Djokovic is the top seed in the men`s draw which includes five-times U.S. Open champion and 17-times grand slam winner Roger Federer as seventh seed - his first time the Swiss has been placed outside the top three in a grand slam in over ten years.

Spaniard Rafa Nadal is the number two seed, ahead of Britain`s Andy Murray, the defending champion and this year`s Wimbledon winner. The draw for the tournament will be held on Thursday.

High demand as World Cup ticket sales begin

the Malaysian said.

Lee paired up with three-time All England Champion Tine Baun for the mixed doubles match and overcame Delhi's pair of V Diju and Prajakta Sawant 21-18 15-21 11-5.

"I just play (doubles) in the local tournaments.

Sometimes just play for fun in the training. This is

a combination and internationally this is the first time (I have played) in the league. "This is the first time I played with Tine Baun. I just reached a few days before. I have just practiced and tried very hard." Lee's exponents in both the formats helped his side to register a 4-1 victory over the Delhi Smashers.

SAO PAULO, AUGUST 21 (AP): It was a frenzied start to FIFA's attempt to fill the stands for next year's World Cup in Brazil as fans applied Tuesday for more than 1 million tickets in just seven hours.

But it will be some time before they know whether they'll be among those lucky enough to get seats to football's signature event.

Applicants won't hear back until October, after FIFA holds a random selection draw on all the requests.

More than 163,000 people requested the tickets online in the first seven hours. At the end of the first day of sales, the website of football's governing body FIFA showed that there were more ticket applications than the number of seats available in all four price categories for 12 of the 64 matches, including the opener in Sao Paulo and the final at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium.

Demand was also high in all price categories for the semifinals, and 44 matches had too many requests at least for the cheaper category tickets which are only available for Brazilians.

FIFA said the highest amount of applications so far has come from Brazil, Argentina, the U.S., Chile and England.

"The respective ticket product is already heavily oversubscribed and therefore, at that point in time, the success of the applica-

new HAVen, AUGUST 21 (AP): Defending champion Petra Kvitova recovered from a set and a break down to beat Annika Beck 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the New Haven Open on Tuesday.

The third-seeded Kvitova dropped the first set and was broken in the first game of the second before staging the comeback in a match that was delayed due to rain on Monday.

"I wasn't great, for sure," the 2011 Wimbledon champion said. "I wasn't feeling very well. I wasn't positive during the game and then I had to fight and try to come back in the match." Beck entered the draw as a lucky loser when Poland's Urszula Radwanska withdrew Monday.

While Kvitova narrowly survived, No. 2-seeded Angelique Kerber lost her second-round match 6-2,

6-4 to Russia's Elena Vesnina. Seventh-seeded Sabine Lisicki fell 7-5, 6-3 to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final match of the night.

Vesnina, a 2009 finalist, won the first three games to take control of the first set and converted six service breaks in the match.

Kerber hit a forehand just wide on match point and threw her racket in disgust.

The call was upheld after a challenge. Vesnina, seeking her third singles title this year, said the win over a top-10 opponent bodes well for her heading into next week's U.S. Open.

"Maybe it's just my time to play good," she said.

Kerber, who lost in the third round in Cincinnati and the second round in Toronto, had hoped to get in a couple more hardcourt matches to improve her game before the Open.

"It's, of course, not easy to

lose a match like this when you are not feeling so good and you couldn't find your rhythm," she said. "Next week is a big tournament, but I will try to go on the court tomorrow and work and try to improve my game more. I will try to take my rhythm back."

Vesnina will face Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals. Zakopalova upset eighth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova in the first round before beating 19-year-old Monica Puig 6-4, 6-1 on Tuesday.

Her recent strong play earned her the 32nd and final seed next week at Flushing Meadows. "I have never passed the first round at the U.S. Open," she said. "So, my goal is to play a good first round there and then we'll see."

Former top-ranked singles player Martina Hingis

'I have never seen a cricket match'

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tion appears very unlikely," FIFA said of the high demand categories. "There are vastly more ticket applicants seeking tickets than there are tickets presently available for the general public."

Prices for the final will go from $440-$990, although Brazilian fans will pay $165 in the cheaper category. Brazilians over the age of 60, local students and members of some social programs will be allowed to pay about $82 for a ticket. Prices for the opener in Sao Paulo go from $220-$495, with Brazilians paying $80 and discounted tickets costing $40.

About 500,000 tickets in total were set aside for the category available solely to Brazilian citizens.

Applications quickly started pouring in after tickets went up for grabs at 1000 GMT Tuesday. Some fans had to be placed in a virtual queue "due to an exceedingly high demand for access to the ticketing page," FIFA said on its website.

FIFA's press office said that in the first hour of sales there were 14,104 requests for a total of 81,821 tickets. Each applicant can request for up to four tickets for a maximum of seven matches. The organization expects a total of nearly 3.3 million tickets to be available for the tournament in Brazil, but only about 1 million are offered in the first stage of sales.

FILE - In this file image released by FIFA shows the logo for the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament that will be held in Brazil. Tickets for next year's World Cup have gone on sale online on Tuesday, Aug. 20. (AP Photo)

FIFA said before sales opened that it expected a demand for tickets similar to that seen for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, when there were about seven applicants for every ticket of the monthlong tournament attended by more than 3.3 million fans.

Almost 2 million tickets were sold to the general public for the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, although the number of applications during the first ticketing phase was significantly lower.

Sales of leftover tickets will begin Nov. 5 on a firstcome, first-served basis.

Another phase will begin Dec. 8 after the World Cup draw determines where and when each nation will play. The tournament begins June 12, with Brazil playing in the opener.

Nearly 800,000 fans attended the Confederations Cup in Brazil earlier this year, with ticket sales easily surpassing those for the warm-up tournament in South Africa in 2009 and in Germany in 2005.

Kvitova advances, Kerber upset at New Haven Open

Petra Kvitova. (AP File Photo)

and Daniela Hantuchova lost in a first-round doubles match 6-3, 6-1 to Cara Black and Vania King.

It was their fourth tournament together since Hin-

Zenit closes in on CL with big win

LOnDOn, AUGUST 21 (AP): Roman Shirokov scored a hat trick Tuesday to put Zenit St. Petersburg on the brink of the Champions League group stage, while former European champions AC Milan and PSV Eindhoven are locked at 1-1 in their playoff. Shirokov's treble came as Zenit easily overcame Pacos Ferreira 4-1 in their first leg. At Eindhoven, Stephan El Shaarawy headed seventime European champion Milan ahead after 15 minutes but Tim Matavz nodded in equalizer on the hour.

Tuesday's other matches saw teams claim twogoal advantages going into next week's second legs.

Kazakhstan champion Shakhter Karagandy stunned Scottish club Celtic 2-0, Real Sociedad won at Lyon by the same score and Viktoria Plzen beat Maribor 3-1 in the Czech Republic. A further 10 clubs are in action on Wednesday as they chase a spot in the lucrative 32-team group stage, which starts in September. Zenit can already start glancing ahead to the draw in Monaco later this month. Shirokov, the Russia midfielder, took 27 minutes to find the net in Portugal, striking into

gis announced her comeback, and the Swiss star said she is not planning to expand her return to singles play.

"I have always said that

I don't want to play singles anymore, for sure," she said. "And after tonight, it's definitely 200 percent, no way. Because, you just have to be so hungry."

kOHiMA, AUGUST 21 (Mexn): The 6th Kohima District Table Tennis Championship 2013 under the aegis of the Kohima District Table Tennis Association (KDTTA) and sponsored

by Royal Club, Kohima will take place from August 23 to 24 at the Indoor Stadium, Kohima. Minister for youth

resources & sports Merentoshi R. Jamir will grace the inaugural function as the chief guest on August 23 at 10:00 AM. The inaugural ceremony will also witness speech from Atuolie Mepfhuo, president Royal Club, Kohima and welcome address by Dr. Asalie Khezhie, president KDTTA.

beiJinG, AUGUST 21 (AP): China's anti-doping agency says eight athletes have been caught using performance-enhancing drugs in the run-up to the country's key national sports competition. The athletes represented sports including athletics, body building, boxing and kayaking, and were split evenly between men and women, the China AntiDoping Agency said on its website. They included one athlete caught via the biological passport program which monitors an athlete's blood profile over time to detect signs of doping. The new cases from the second quarter of the year bring the 2013 total to 12, equal to the total number of doping cases found in

the whole of last year. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted China Anti-Doping Agency head He Zhenwen as saying the large number of second-quarter cases was likely a result of the coming of the prestigious national games that kick off Aug. 31.

"There always will be someone who risks doping for unfair advantage when the return is lucrative," He was quoted as saying. "History taught us that the national games could well be the reason for cheating."

The competition is held once every four years and winning performers can reap rewards from provincial, city or army teams even more valuable than those offered in international competition.

6th Kohima dist TT championship 2013

8 Chinese athletes found doping pre-national games

Zenit St Petersburg's Roman Shirokov, right, challenges Pacos Ferreira's Paolo Hurtado, from Peru, during their Champions League play-off soccer match at the Dragao Stadium, Porto, Portugal, Tuesday Aug. 20. (AP Photo)

the bottom of the net from Danny's cross. Although Andre Leone volleyed Pacos Ferreira level in the 58th, Shirokov was on target again from close range at the back post two minutes later to restore Zenit's lead.

After Aleksandr Kerzhakov's free kick went off the crossbar and in off goalkeep-

er Matias Degra in the 85th, Shirokov completed his hat trick in style in the 90th, blasting the ball into the top right corner. It was a far tighter encounter in the Netherlands as Milan and PSV played out the night's only draw. PSV gifted Milan possession for the opener, with Ignazio Abate seizing the ball from Mem-

phis Depay before whipping in a cross that El Shaarawy met with a free header. But the 1988 European Cup winner leveled on the hour, with Jeffrey Bruma unleashing a dipping, swerving shot that goalkeeper Christian Abbiati spilled, and Matavz was alert to pounce and send a downward header into the net.

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One Direction movie Taylor SwifT This Is Us: First review

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breaks record

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by selling out eleven shows in a row

1,650,000 people will be singing along to We Are Never Getting Back Together

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eople really like Taylor Swift. No, we mean they REALLY like her - she's just broken a record set by Madonna for a run of sell-out shows in LA. While Madonna, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake have all previously managed to sell every single seat in the 150,000 capacity Staples Centre in Los Angeles for EIGHT shows in a row, Taylor's just broken that record by selling out ELEVEN shows in a row. That means 1,650,000 people will be singing along to We Are Never Getting Back Together - that's like the entire population of Birmingham going to a concert. Aka a LOT of people.

So congratulations to Taylor Swift, and that also explains why Taylor's worth around £35 million - because that's a lot of tickets.

And to celebrate, last night on her RED tour, Taylor wore an "I love LA" t-shirt onstage and bought out Cher Lloyd for a duet.

The pair sang Cher's Want U Back together, and it's hilarious because Taylor's about a foot taller than Cher, and while the 22 singer is dressed as a wholesome American girl, Cher seems to be dressed as Rihanna. Taylor even does a British accent at the end (look away now Harry Styles) to "make Cher feel at home" - obviously. The crowd go INSANE at that point.

Simon Cowell looking forward to fatherhood

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imon Cowell has spoken for the first time about becoming a dad. Asked on the red carpet at One Direction's This Is Us premiere on Tuesday about whether he was prepared for the “biggest role in his life”, he replied: “I’m ready for that role, I’m very happy and very excited.” He added: "Things are changing in my life right now, for the better. I'm proud to be a dad. It's something I hadn't thought of be-

fore, but now I know I feel good about it."

Cowell, who is expecting a baby with pregnant Lauren Silverman who he describes as "a very special girl", also joked to reporters about the band, saying: "This is a dream. I feel like a father.” The music mogul turned up on the carpet with ex Mezghan Hussainy and Sinitta in tow.

He also addressed the crowds and said: “I always dreamt when I

was kid one day I could produce a movie so this is fantastic. “It’s the first one and hopefully won’t be the last, I wasn’t the only producer there were lots of people involved and the band produced the movie as well. "It was an incredible experience. Anyone who wants to know what it’s like to be in a band needs to watch this movie." He ended by saying: “I’d like to say a special thank you to the fans without you we wouldn’t be here.”

Naga’s Next Top Model 2013

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n the Naga’s Next Top Model 2013 season-1 “First Elimination Round” 18 finalists will be selected from the 21 contestants basing on the 60% value judges points, and 40% value public voting. Two female models and one male model will be eliminated during the August 31 show. The highest public voted contestant would be saved from the elimination and will be getting a gift hamper. In addition, the highest judge’s point achiever contestant will be directly saved from the elimination zone.

The selected 18 Finalist of Naga’s next top model 2013 Season-1 will be doing a official outdoor photo-shoots on September 5 and 6 with Himakshi Agrawala “Femina Miss India East 2012 winner, Top 10 Finalist Femina Miss India 2012 on the theme “Garden of God's”.

Himakshi Agrawala is a very prominent and successful North-Eastern Model who made our North-East proud at the Femina Miss India 2012. She is enthusiastic and keen to assist the 10 female and 8

Official outdoor photo-shoots with Himakshi Agrawala

male models in their official photo-shoots which will be a competition. The best male and female photogenic will be saved from the elimination zone on the second elimination round to be held at somewhere in the later part of September.

The first elimination round of Naga's Next top model will be held at IMC Dimapur, from 6:00 pm with special chief-guest, ADC Meluri Senti Aier. Tickets are at the price of Rs-300 Single Entry, Rs-1000 double entry.

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hots of Harry Styles curly locks up close?

Check. Footage of Liam Payne in his pants?

Check. Zayn Malik looking brooding on camera?

Check. And Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson paying pranks on the gang? Yep, it’s in the bag. And This Is Us is all in 3D so fans will feel so close to the band that if it had smellovision you would discover Harry’s shampoo of choice.

Thanks to Super Size Me creator Morgan Spurlock understanding of 1D’s female fan-base there’s definitely only One Direction the boyband’s film is heading and that’s straight to the top of the box-office charts.

Bookmakers expect This Is Us to rake in as much as £5million in the UK alone when it is finally released next on August 29.

The glossy documentary takes fans back to the beginning where - dodgy hair

come courtesy of the 1D mums. Harry’s mum Anne Cox and Liam’s mum Karen get all weepy when talking about missing their boys.

But Karen has a crafty plan and keeps a cardboard cutout of Liam in his bed much to the surprise of the singer when he makes a rare trip home. And Zayn’s mum Tricia sobs down the phone after she explores her family’s brand spanking new pad courtesy of her superstar son. With slick concert footage, no mention of girlfriends or groupies and the group PG confessions round a camp fire there is plenty to keep the fans happy. After smashing the music charts, selling out arena tours and now undoubted silver screen success it seems that 1D's worldwide domination is complete.

1D3D will hit cinemas in the UK on August 29 before infecting the US the next day.

Petition against SRK for Zayn Malik 'makes endorsing fairness cream perfect proposal to

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Tickets are available at the following points: 1. Maverick Boutique, Notun Basti junction 2. Giggle Dolly, near St Mary Montessori & High School 3. Cafe Destination, opposite Super-Market 4. Hairy Poppins, Duncan Junction 5. Rishab Collection, Arcade Complex 6. Hoks Collection, Arcade Complex.

7. Little Store Namos Complex, half Nagarjan junction Dimapur.

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n online petition has been filed against Shahrukh Khan for endorsing a fairness cream brand, Fair and Handsome.

The petition is filed on website change.org with the campaign 'Dark Is Beautiful' that

has reached to 10,000 supporters signing the petition.

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cuts aside - you reminisce about how it all started for the boys back in 2010 on the X Factor. Simon Cowell makes a fleeting appearance and tries to explain the phenomenon behind 1D. And fails. “These girls are crazy about One Direction and I have no idea why. I’m not a neuroscientist.” There are plenty of screaming fans in the UK, America, Japan and Mexico featured and the band and their critics try to explain that it’s the girls and their twitchy-fingers on Twitter that have made them as big as they are today. And just to prove it Niall stops midinterview and runs to his hotel window to deafening screams. This really is Beatlesmania for the 21st century.

But it’s also tough being at the top and the band admit it’s hard being away from their friends and family. The weepy moments

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t looks as though there may very well be a pop wedding on the horizon with a source appearing to confirm that Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards are engaged, claiming that the One Direction heartthrob's proposal was “romantic and perfect.”

Little Mix star Perrie, 20, attended One Direction's 'This Is Us' movie premiere at London's Leicester Square last night, and attention was quickly diverted to the singer when a sparkly threestone diamond band was spotted on her ring finger.

Following intense speculation that Zayn popped the question to his girlfriend of two years, a source now claims that the smitten couple are indeed set to tie the knot.

“It was so romantic Zayn popped the question over the weekend when they were alone together,” the insider told The Mirror.

“It's one of the first weekends they've spent with each other, as they've both been on tours with their bands. He wanted to wait for the perfect moment. All her bandmates were at V Festival, and she

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couldn't wait to tell them.

They're all really excited for her, as the rest of One Direction are for Zayn.”

While Perrie walked the red carpet with her Little Mix bandmates Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirwall, the pretty songstress reportedly made sure to sit with her 1D beau during the screening of the film and they were later seen making their way to the after party together.

Zayn, 20, made a drastic statement of his love for Perrie last month when he had her face tattooed onto his right arm, a move which the singer appreciated.

She loved it, she thinks it's good. It's a good sign,” Zayn told The Sun recently of the tattoo.

“She was shocked at first but loves it now. She thinks I'm crazy, like everyone else does. To be fair, I am a little bit crazy... I'm happy to be labelled the crazy one of the group.”

Proving his dedication to the pretty star, Zayn continued: “I'd fly 10 planes to go home and see her. It's difficult to see your girlfriend 24/7, when you do get to see her you really make the most of it.”

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Watson ton steers Australia to 183-3 Akram marries Australian girlfriend

London, August 21 (AP): Shane Watson hit his first century in 25 tests to help Australia move to 1833 at tea Wednesday on the first day of the fifth and final Ashes test against England.

Under pressure following his poor form all series with the bat, Watson smashed 18 fours and a six to reach 121 not out from 157 balls at The Oval. He batted on after taking a fierce blow to the head from a bouncer by Stuart Broad and was dropped on 104 by Alastair Cook in the slips.

Two wickets fell in the afternoon session after Australuia reached 112-1 by lunch. Graeme Swann had Chris Rogers caught by Jonathan Trott for 23, and James Anderson bowled Michael Clarke for 7, leaving Steven Smith as the other not out batsman on 15.

Anderson has England's best figures with 2-21.

Australia won the toss and chose to bat but had to endure a hostile opening spell from Anderson and Broad before Watson hit debutants Chris Woakes and Simon Kerrigan out of the attack. Warner lasted only 18 minutes before getting an outside edge to Anderson for wicketkeeper Matt Prior to accept the catch.

However, England's decision to release fast bowlers Steven Finn and Chris Tremlett from its

Australia's Shane Watson celebrates scoring 100 runs not out against England during play on the first day of the fifth Ashes cricket Test at the Oval cricket ground in London, Wednesday, Aug. 21. (AP Photo)

squad and go without experienced back-up for the opening quicks backfired when Watson gave the new boys a harsh introduction to test cricket.

Watson hit both Woakes and Kerrigan for six fours, but he also smashed Graeme Swann for a six over the sightscreen and brought up his 50 from 61 deliveries when he nudged a single from Kerrigan. Australia reached 100 when Watson

hit Kerrigan for 18 in the 25th over, forcing England captain Alastair Cook to bring back Broad in a bid to stem the flow of boundaries.

Broad responded with a maiden over, but the century partnership was reached in the final over before lunch when Rogers flicked Broad for three runs through midwicket.

Rogers fell for 23 early in the afternoon session when he edged Swann to

Sharapova won't change name to Sugarpova

Jonathan Trott, who took a low catch at first slip. Watson was on 91 when he was hit on the back of the head by a Broad bouncer. The blow struck the batsman just below the helmet, but after a two-minute delay he continued. Michael Clarke looked vulnerable throughout his 39-ball innings and was bowled off his pads

by Anderson in the 43rd over. In the next over, Watson, having slowed slightly

since lunch, reached his first century in 48 attempts with a stroke for three from Anderson. England then squandered the momentum when Cook dropped Watson after he edged Anderson to first slip.

The debutants returned at the end of the session.

Woakes improved, but Kerrigan's final over before tea began with a rank, headhigh full toss that Smith swatted for four.

KARACHI, August 21 (PtI): Famed Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram on Wednesday announced that he had married his Australian girlfriend, Shaniera Thompson, saying he has started a new life on a happy note.

"I married Shaniera in Lahore last week in a simple ceremony and this is the start of a new life for me, my wife and for my kids," Wasim said. The 47-year-old's first wife Huma died in 2009 after multiple organ failure. Wasim proposed to the 30-year-old former public relations consultant on bended knee last month and they married on August 12. Thompson came to Karachi earlier this month before going to Lahore to see Wasim's ailing father.

There the marriage was solemnized in the presence of immediate family and a few close friends.

Wasim said Thompson had converted to Islam and is learning Urdu. "She has embraced Islam and is learning our language.

She has been close to my sons and they form a very

good bond," said Wasim of his two sons from his first marriage.

He said his new wife was eager to settle quickly in Pakistan. "I sincerely hope the people of Pakistan and our friends and supporters across the globe will give us their blessing and support," he said. Wasim played 104 Tests and 356 one-day internationals for Pakistan in a career

lasting from 1984 to 2003.

He was regarded as one of the best left-arm fast bowlers to have played the game and remains a major celebrity in Pakistan.

Wasim was player of the tournament in the country's only triumph in the World Cup, in Australia in 1992. He captained Pakistan to a runners-up finish in the 1999 World Cup in England.

London, August 21 (AgenCIes): After investigating whether it was feasible and ultimately desirable, Maria Sharapova will not temporarily change her last name to "Sugarpova" during the U.S. Open. The Times of London reported that Sharapova had planned to do so to match the name of her candy company but ultimately, according to her agent Max Eisenbud (who is also the CEO of Sugarpova) it became “too much of a hassle.”

However, they were investigating the possibility of the name change and Eisenbud did tell TENNIS.com “We were really considering it.” The Russian Sharapova would have had to jump through a a number of legal hoops in Florida in order to do so.

She does have a U.S. green card, but was facing a background check, fingerprinting and eventually a hearing before a judge in order to make the change. “Sugarpova is about having fun and we don't want to do the traditional boring marketing like a billboard,” said Eisenbud. “I think you need try new and fun things.” Sharapova had a Sugarpova event scheduled in New York on Tuesday.

19TH CLASSIC CUP 2013

Nagaland Police, Tyrant’s FC, Addax FC emerge victorious

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Match in action between Addax FC and Mekylidvnt United at the ongoing 19th Classic Cup at the Kohima Local Ground on August 21. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent

each for Nagaland Police while Toshi Longkumer added another goal for the team.

Tyrant’s FC Khuzama defeated ChakNagaland Police, Tyrant’s FC Khuzama roma Sports Association 1-0 in the second and Addax FC today emerged victorious match. Meziezo Sale scored a winning goal in their respective for Tyrant’s. match at the ongoAddax FC AUGUST 22 MATCHES ing 19th Classic Cup downed Mekylidvnt Ist Match (12:00 noon) 2013 here at the KoUnited, Daklane 3-1 Headhunters XI vs Crusaders XI hima Local Ground in the last match of 2nd Match (1:30 PM) Nagaland Pothe day. The scorers Elite FC vs Young Boys FC Jotsoma lice blanked Silver for Addax included 3rd match (3:30 PM) Fox, Kohima 5-0 Ketoulhouvi KheBilly Graham FC vs Arsenic in the first match. zhie, Keviphretuo Seyiekhrietuo Victor Kire and Sedevilie and Along Joseph contributed two goals Kire. Rotobe netted a goal for Mekylidvnt.

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