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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it

Lalu Prasad, Jagdish disqualified from Lok Sabha

Johansson Forms Girl Band The One & Only Singles

NSACS undertakes IPC campaign in rural areas [ PAGE 02]

Amnesty criticizes US drone program in Pak [ PAGE 09]

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ACAUT undertakes signature campaign DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 22 (MExN): The Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) is undertaking a ‘Signature Campaign’ to muster public support for its activities.

This was informed through a press release from the ACAUT media cell. Since its inception on May 27, with the coming together of Naga civil society including student and youth organisations and business community, the ACAUT claims to have garnered “tremendous public goodwill and support” from all over Nagaland. Therefore, the ACAUT is “desirous to take this public support to another level and a signature campaign has been mooted,” which will start from Dimapur. Any citizen concerned about change has been encouraged to append their signature in ACAUT’s support starting October 23, 1pm onwards, for which a flex/banner will have been put up at the Clock Tower roundabout here.

NU examination routine on web

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 22 (MExN): The Nagaland University examination for the 1st and 3rd semester has been announced to begin from November 25th, 2013. The Assistant Registrar (Exams) of Nagaland University has informed that the details of the examination routine can be accessed from the NU website: www.nagauniv.org.in

Nagaland Child Rights Commission constituted

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KOhIMA, OCTOBER 22 (DIPR): The Social Welfare Department, Nagaland, has stated in a notification that in pursuance to Section 17 of Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act 2005 and as per the State Cabinet approval, vide O.M. No.CAB-2/2013 dated 11.04.13, the Government of Nagaland has constituted the Nagaland State Commission for Child Rights (NSCPCR) with Meilemla Pongener as the Chairperson, and Fashion Konyak and Diethono Nakhro as Members. The terms of reference of the Commission are that it will exercise power and perform functions assigned to as conferred under the Act. The Headquarter of the NSCPCR shall be in Kohima. The Chairperson and Members shall hold office for a term of 3 (Three) years, from the date on which s/he assumes office.

The service conditions of the Chairperson and Members will be regulated as prescribed in the Act.

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freedom of thought vital foothill road will change towards human progress dynamics of naga society AT LAST: Aung San Suu Kyi accepts Sakharov Prize 23 years later

Looks like the NGOs didn’t fail us, okay. We failed the NGOs.

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STRASBOURg, OCTOBER 22 (AAP): Freedom of thought is yet to become the birthright of every Myanmar citizen, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said as she collected a European Union democracy prize awarded 23 years ago when she was under house arrest.

The Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been handed out annually by the European Parliament since 1988.

“Freedom of thought is essential to human progress,” Suu Kyi said on Tuesday during a ceremony at the legislature’s plenary in the French city of Strasbourg. “Our people are just beginning to learn that freedom of thought is possible.” “We need still to make a lot more progress before we can say we are where Professor Sakharov would have wished us to be ... a place where freedom of thought was the birthright of every single citizen of our country,” she added.

Suu Kyi got caught up in Myanmar’s 1988 prodemocracy protests when she returned to care for her ailing mother after years of living and studying abroad.

She became a leader of the pro-democracy move-

the very fact that we have been able to make our people understand that they can improve their own lives has been worth it.”

Today, Suu Kyi is a member of parliament after the 2010 elections brought to power reform-minded President Thein Sein. She has expressed hopes of becoming Myanmar’s next president, although this would require constitutional changes ahead of the 2015 elections. The Nobel laureate is a “great symbol

the public will be a part of it.

In this direction, reports compiled by experts, covering various indicators of development in Dimapur district, were presented for public evaluation on Tuesday, October 22. People representing various strata of society attended the meeting.

“The HDR of Dimapur District is an endeavour to encompass and bring out an accurate status of

that Dimapur district lags way behind Mokokchung in terms of literacy. The poor performance of government schools was also highlighted and the absence of colleges offering degree courses in science.

The ‘no-detention policy’ attracted much criticism from the audience to which the department concerned responded that it was implemented as enshrined in the Right to Education Act. Education in Dimapur, with 19,850 registered unemployed (as on 2012), requires drastic improvement, the author observed as it is intrinsically linked to employment as well as unemployment.

The health sector in Dimapur also falls short. The urgent need for round-theclock emergency medical response service, upgrading of the dilapidated 150-bed district hospital, shortage of manpower, particularly in the rural areas, were highlighted.

The urban-rural divide in terms of health services was brought to the fore. Despite 47 medical sub-centres spread across the district, its rural populace still has to come to Dimapur for availing basic medical care.

While the district hospital does not have a dialysis machine or intensive care unit, there are six multi-specialty private hospitals and 10 nursing homes offering better services, albeit at greater costs.

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of freedom and democracy,” European Parliament President Martin Schulz said before handing Suu Kyi the 1990 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.

Suu Kyi is on a twoweek tour of Europe that will also include stops in Britain and Italy. Her main message is about the need for the EU to push more strongly for changes to the Myanmar constitution, which she says is hampering a full democratisation of the country.

Nagaland Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir, has said the proposed Foothill Road which will interlink six districts in Nagaland State is going to change the dynamics of Naga society and hasten the process of urbanization, already taking place at a very fast rate.

The Chief Secretary was sharing his perspectives on agriculture in the context of the Foothill Road at the inaugural function of the 3-day ‘Naga Kheti Mela’, a mega farmers’ fair, held under the theme ‘Towards Sustainable Agriculture’ at School for Agriculture Science & Rural Development (SASRD), Medziphema, on October 17, 2013.

The Chief Secretary said once the ambitious Foothill Road materialized, urbanization and industrialization would follow resulting in sweeping demographic changes in Nagaland.

“Like other developed countries, if the Foothill Express Highway comes up and special development zones come up and urbanization process is expedited, we may see a total reversal of the demographic trends in the State where the present rural population of 70% could be reduced to 30% in the

BEIjINg, OCTOBER 22 (IANS): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India and China are committed to maintaining peace and tranquillity on the border which is an “important guarantor and a fundamental basis” for future growth in bilateral ties.

In an interview to Chinese media ahead of his three-day visit to China, the prime minister termed the boundary question as “complex and sensitive”, but the leadership of both countries are “united” on

the issue of commitment to maintaining peace and tranquillity on their 4,000km boundary. He said that as long as both sides follow the principles and procedures set out for peace “and improve upon them where necessary to take into account the changing reality of India and China and enhance dialogue and friendly exchanges of border troops, I am confident that the strategic consensus between leaders will continue to be reflected on the ground”.

He said India and Chi-

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, finally collects the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights from European Parliament President Martin Schulz at the European parliament in Strasbourg, France on Oct 22. (AP Photo)

ment and spent a total of 15 years under house arrest between 1989 and 2010, while the country was ruled by a military junta. “I made a choice, I made it out of my own free will, this is why I’ve never thought of it as a hardship or a sacrifice,” Suu Kyi told journalists after the European Parliament ceremony.

“It’s certainly been worth it, because I think our movement gave our people hope,” she added. “Of course hope is not enough, ... but

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Re-emphasising the points made by other dignitariesandagricultureexperts on theneed to hasten transfer of technologies to farmers for Nagaland to attain food selfsufficiency, Jamir however reminded that the priorities of the farmers should not be confused.

He said farmers have often been confused by the number of new crops and new production systems introduced by different departments and mission mode programmes, thereby affecting commerce and their competitiveness.

“Competitiveness has been brought very rudely and sharply into focus, at least for me where I had to

see with my own eyes ginger being destroyed in the Agri Expo area (in 2006-7) because of dumping of ginger by China. Global competition is real and the agriculture systems which we have to transfer and extend to the farmers, therefore, have to be in the context of global competition,” the Chief Secretary said.

Jamir suggested that in terms of competitiveness and commercial scale production, departments concerned and agricultural scientists should “simplify and focus on the kind of crops that Nagaland is going to produce.”

He said that if Nagaland can have a State Bird (Tragopan), State Animal (Mithun) and State Festival (Hornbill Festival), it should also have a crop with which the State can be identified.

“I am yet to see any crop that has been developed over the last 50 years that we can say is a crop to Nagaland, like apple is to Kashmir or rice to Punjab. Therefore at a juncture like this, keeping in view the shape of things to come and the dynamics of society which is already changing as evident by the rural urban population shift, the agricultural thinking and philosophy will need to change,” the Chief Secretary said.

na special representatives have “worked hard and arrived at the political parameters and guiding principles for a boundary resolution”. “In the present stage of their negotiations, they are seeking a framework for a boundary resolution,” he said referring to the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement.

Manmohan Singh said during his nine years as prime minister, he has “attempted to put IndiaChina relations on a stable growth path”. “Working with the Chinese leader-

ship, my attempt has been to create a forward looking agenda for our bilateral relations.” He said both sides have “also managed our differences and have kept our border region tranquil.

At the same time, we have not allowed our differences to come in the way of expanding our cooperation in diverse areas”. “Stability and predictability in our relations has proved invaluable as both India and China address their internal priorities, particularly growth and development of 2.5 billion people.”

next 25 years or 30 years,” Jamir said.

“It could even be reduced further because there are countries like Canada and Australia where the rural population constitutes hardly 1015%,” he added.

The Chief Secretary said agriculture development in the State has to be seen in the “context of the society that we perceive in the future” and “we have to know the direction in which we are going.”

Chief Secretary asserts ‘priorities of farmers should not be confused’

HRD Nagaland seeks Peace on indo-china border “voices of the people” basis for growth in ties: PM

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The Government of Nagaland is currently in the midst of preparing a comprehensive report on the status of human development in the State. The Human Development Report (HDR) is being prepared with assistance from the Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme.

The report encompasses the present status of agriculture and its allied sectors, education, health, gender issues, economic livelihood, infrastructure and connectivity, basic services like water and sanitation, and the informal job sector.

Chasing an October deadline to complete the report, set for a December release, the State Planning and Coordination Department along with the district administration of eight districts had employed academicians and experts from within and outside the government to compile data.

The HDRs of Kohima, Mon and Phek were compiled in 2011. At present, reports from Dimapur, Kiphire, Zunheboto, Longleng, Mokokchung, Wokha, Tuensang and Peren are getting the final touch.

An added feature of this report will be the incorporation of “voices of the people,” which means that the views of stakeholders or

‘The HDR is an endeavour to encompass and bring out an accurate status of human development of its inhabitants’ human development of its inhabitants, not only in the context of economic growth but also in the matter of choices available...” said Home Commissioner, Temjen Toy, IAS, at the interactive meeting today.

Toy, who is the district coordinator, added that the key objective is to quantify development sector-wise, thus throwing light on areas that need improvement.

The report on the status of education, for instance, highlighted the need for improvement of literacy rate. Despite its 427 government schools, 119 private schools, 23 secular colleges (one government, one law college), 13 theological colleges, 3 colleges for Teacher’s Education, 15 technical institutes, the author of the report observed

AABY scheme for the poor

Call for more coverage of social security schemes in Nagaland

BENEFITS OF AABY SCHEME

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• Natural Death: Rs. 30,000 • Accidental Death: Rs. 75,000 • Permanent total disability (Loss

There is good news for building and other construction workers, and poor families of Nagaland. By enrolling with the “Aam Admi Bima Yojana” (AABY) scheme, eligible people can now connect with different kinds of welfare packages.

AABY, a special life insurance scheme for 48 vocational groups and Rural Landless Households (RLH) living below poverty line or marginally above poverty line, was briefed about at the social security awareness camp as part of Social Security Month Celebration (October 1-31) here at the Directorate of Labour today.

It is a joint venture of the central government, state government, union territories and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).

Resource person Abdul Malik, Deputy Manager, LIC of India, P&GS

Unit Jorhat Divisional Office, said LIC ventured into social security schemes in 1987 when Government of India (GoI) entrusted it with the task of administering them.

AABY is a major scheme sponsored by GoI, and administered by LIC, for the benefit of the weaker sections.

Previously there were two schemes namely Janashree Bima and AABY for RLHs. On January 1 this year, the Ministry of Finance, GoI has merged these two schemes to form AABY. Malik said total lives covered, as on 31.3.2013, by social security schemes stands at 4,81,18,653. LIC has claimed to have paid about Rs. 430 crore by way of claims to 1.39 lakh families below or marginally above poverty line during the last fi-

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of 2 eyes or 2 limbs): Rs. 75,000

• Permanent partial disability

(Loss of 1 eye or 1 limb in accident) Rs. 37,500

nancial year.

Malik informed that LIC has contributed towards the education of children of BPL families by paying 28.25 lakh scholarships amounting to Rs. 264.88 crore during the last financial year.

Under Jorhat unit, during 201213, it covered 32648 lives under new enrolment and 24527 under renewal in Assam and 7716 new lives in Nagaland and 3744 new lives from Arunachal Pradesh. The eligible age to enroll into AABY is between 18-59.

Malik said that NGOs can play a big role in linking poor people with the scheme. In this, he requested them to give their effort so that poor people can be covered by AABY. Stating that Nagaland has very small coverage of the AABY, he said the LIC is targeting 10,000 beneficiaries in Nagaland. He called upon NGOs to spread the message and enroll maximum number of people.

T. Chubayanger, project officer, Directorate of Labour, Nagaland, stressed on the need to work together so as to enable building and other construction workers of the State to avail different schemes.

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NSACS undertakes IPC campaign in rural areas

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To inform, educate and motivate women groups on HIV and AIDS

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): As part of reaching out to the rural areas, Nagaland State AIDS Control Society is conducting Inter-Personal Communication (IPC) campaign with Kyong Eloe Hoho, Konyak Nyupuh Sheko Khong (KNSK) and Yimchunger Women Organization this month.

Through the IPC campaign, NSACS envisage to inform, educate and motivate women groups to start talking about HIV/AIDS, to begin seeking information related to prevention, access available services and to adopt healthy and safe lifestyle. The fact that this campaign is conducted for women organizations adds

Master trainers of Yimchunger Women Organization along with NSACS officials and resource persons at Pungro.

to the effectiveness of the campaign.

A press release received here stated that toolkits and IEC materials are translated

into local dialects and flexes (with messages of mode of transmission, prevention and myths & misconceptions) are being provided to

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Re-verification of 2 Lane Highway

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): As directed by the Chief Engineer R&B (NH) Nagaland, a re-verification of the damaged land/properties (Located 2 Lane Highway) will be conducted by a team led by ADC, HQ and EE (NH) Mokokchung on the following dates: October 22 at Yachem, Alayong, Yaongyimchen and on October 29 at Orangkong. The Village Council Chairman of the above villagers is directed to inform all the affected landowners to stand and be present in their respective plot of land from 8:00 am onwards. This was informed in a press note issued by K. Libanthung Lotha, Deputy Commissioner, Longleng.

The Nagaland Parents Association in collaboration with the Health and Family Welfare, Social Welfare, Government of Nagaland organized a medical cum health mela for People with Disability (PWD).

The mela, which has been sponsored by the National Trust, started on October 22 will continue till October 26 where ID cards and

certificates are also being distributed.

“These ID cards and certificates are important they can use them while travelling or obtaining financial assistance,” said Dr. Atha Vizol State Commissioner for Disability.

Vizol further added that this would help the differently abled people to reveal their identity to the society and government.

Dr. Vizol further hoped that these awareness pro-

ANIEF adopts resolutions

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): The All Nagaland Industrial Entrepreneurs Federation (ANIEF) held its general body meeting on October 17 at the Red Cross Complex Conference Hall Kohima under the Chairmanship of its President, Povotso Lobe who welcomed all the members present and called the meeting to order.

A press note issued by Povotso Lohe President, ANIEF, and Orenbomo Humtsoe General Secretary, ANIEF stated that the meeting after thorough deliberation had adopted several resolutions. It unanimously re-affirmed its full, support and confidence in the leadership of the present State office-bearers of ANIEF for a five year term till December

within the community for sustainability.

After giving training for three days to selected 25 women leaders under each

ID cards and certificates for People with Disability distributed in Kohima

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In its efforts to curb the sale of liquor, the Excise Mobile Squad led by S. KakihoYeptho and VithoselieTerhuja both Inspectors along with T. Meren Head Constable and Ihoto, Subash and Lilanthung all constables conducted raids at different pockets of Dimapur town on October 21 evening.

During the raids, 363 bottles of assorted liquor were seized and seven (7) persons were arrested and booked under NLTP Act ’89’ said Superintendent of Excise (MS) GhokihoYeptho.

be displayed in prominent places in the villages covered. The IPC campaign also facilitates the identification of a pool of resource team

organization, the leaders are covering at least 25 “media dark villages” in their respective regions October 21. Aetipyong Range, Sanis, Bagthy, Bhandari and Ralan Ranges will be covered and completed by November 17

by Kyong Eloe Hoho.

Konyak Nyupuh Sheko Khong (KNSK) will cover blocks of Tizit, Wakching, Naginimora, Mon, Chen, Aboi, Phomching, Longshen, Tobu and Longchang.

KNSK will carry out their fieldwork from November 16 to 22. Yimchunger Women Organization will cover 10 villages under Shamator sub-division and 15 villages under Pungro sub-division, which will start from October 29 to November 6.

2015. The house also approved for expansion of the State office-bearers wherever necessary. The meeting further authorized the State office-bearers to reorganise the District representatives of all 11 District.

The note also stated that with regard to the non release of funds to the selected beneficiaries under Transport subsidy and Capital Investment subsidy for the year 2007, 2008 and 2009, the meeting strongly urge the Vigilance Commission of Nagaland to give its final clearance over the queries raised by the Government of India in this regard and at the sometime urge the State department of Industries & Commerce to expedite for early submission of Action Taken Re-

grams will enable people to come and get themselves registered.

The inauguration was held on October 22 at the Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) with Dr. Neiphi Kire, Principal Director, Health and Family Welfare, as the chief guest. Marlong Longkumer, President NAPAD chaired the programme while Rev. Dr. Toshi Associate Pastor, Kohima Ao Baptist Church invoked

prayer. Chumremo Kikon presented a special number while a choreography performed by Jo Foundation School. Dr. Atha Vizol, State Commissioner for Disability, Menuokhrielie, Dr. Vikeyie Losou, Managing director NHAK and Dr. Neiphi Kire gave brief speeches. The vote of thanks was given by Zalekhrulu Lohe, Coordinator, NAPAD. 86 people attended the mela on October 22.

NSDMA informs on Village Disaster Management Authority

port to the Ministry of Commerce & 1ndustry GOI for early release of payment to the selected beneficiates.

This meeting appeal to all concern to extend their support and strengthen the hands of the ANIEF .Which is the apex body of industrial enterprises in the State vide Registration No. 'HOME/SRC-6008 dated 08102/2010 and to make a concerted efforts for achieving economic self reliance and creating self employment avenues for the educated unemployed in the State through SST units. Therefore, the ANIEF in the note also appealed to all the industrial entrepreneurs including the concern authorities not to be confused with other Organizations.

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (Dipr): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) has notified for the formation of Village Disaster Management Authority (VDMA), vide No. NSDMA/SEC/ MTG/2011, dated September 23, 2013.

The Village Council Members with inclusion of VDB Secretary shall be the VDMA, headed by the Chairman of the Village Council.

The VDMA shall set up a Village Disaster Management Core Committee (VDMCC), which shall comprise of five to ten members of regular residents of the village. The Core committee members should preferably be from existing village committees

for health, power, water & sanitation and education.

The Core Committee Members must be between age of 30 to 50 years, without tenure. There should be at least one woman member in the Core committee, but there should not be two members from the same family. The Core committee shall device Disaster Response mechanism for the village and co-ordinate with government authorities and neighbouring villages. The power and functions of VDMA, shall be as per the Section 32 and 34 of the NSDM Rules 2008. The VDMA and VDMCC are nonremunerative welfare establishment of the village, to manage disaster events.

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): The office of the Sub Divisional Agriculture Officer, Jalukie formally launched season long IPM on vegetable crops in three different farmers field schools at Old Jalukie, Mhainamtsi and Lamhai on October 7 last, 8 and 14 respectively. Topics on introductory speech of integrated pest management on vegetables crops and

importance of vegetables crops for our health were highlighted in all the three field schools by Santsu Kithan, SDAO Jalukie and Renbomo Odyuo, an agriculture officer, SDAO office Jalukie.

The programme was chaired by I. Lucklee Chang, agriculture field assistant.

Altogether, 90 selected progressive farmers participated in the launching pro-

gramme. After the training programme, an interactive session was held where many farmers expressed the field problems with regard to the pests and diseases while cultivating winter vegetable crops. At the end of the training programmes in all the three centres, winter vegetables seeds and IPM kits were distributed to all the participants.

Acknowledgement IPM on vegetable crops launched

CM Chang donates ambulance to IRCSN

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As we remember our most beloved Mother Late Tochu-u Krome on her first Death Anniversary on this day the 23rd of October 2013, we are deeply reminded of all the love and support that was extended to our family.

This year too, when our Father Wezulhi C. Krome, passed away at our home in Midland Colony, Kohima on the 15th of October 2013, just a week ahead of our Mother’s 1st Death Anniversary, the amount of love and support in the form of prayer, cash and kinds and voluntary services of various forms that were extended to us by high dignitaries, organizations and people from all walks of life are beyond our ability to express and acknowledge through words. And we really do not know what to say, except that your love and generosity cannot be measured.

But we do know that, when our father was on this earth, he was a very active person, a wrestler, sportsperson, businessman and contractor, national worker, politician, social worker, head of many organizations, church goer and active speaker in many churches and functions. And therefore, he might have hurt so many people while performing his responsibilities as a public leader and even as an active individual engaged in so many activities, including settling of disputes between individuals, families, clans or villages and intercommunity disputes of various kinds.

Please forgive him for any of the hurts that he might have inflicted on anybody be it individuals or organizations through his action or words of mouth.

If he also has made any tall claims and given big assurances to which he could not fulfil till the time of his last breath – Please Forgive Him. Our heartfelt thanks to each and every one. We have nothing to repay you for your kindness, love and support. We only pray from our humble hearts that GOD will richly bless each and every one of you abundantly.

- Children and Grandchildren Midland – 251, Kohima, Nagaland.

Rev C Teyong speaking during Sunday devotional Service during the youth spiritual awakening programme organised by Mangkolemba Baptist Church Youth Department and sponsored by Mission Board at Mangkolemba. The camp held from October 17 to 20 under the theme ‘Clay in the hands of the Potter’ was attended by around 150 youth.

The speaker was Rev C Teyong, Khensa Senso Missionary while the counselors were T. Alem from Mokokchung and Moa Aier from Generation Countdown Youth Ministry.

Crucial NFHRCC meeting on Oct 24 Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): All members of the Nagaland Foot Hill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) have been requested to attend its meeting to be held on October 24 positively. It will be held at 4pm at the NFHRCC treasurer’s residence. It was stated by the Convenor of NFHRCC, Supu Jamir, that no leave will be entertained as the proposed meeting will be crucial to decide the next course of action.

5th NPCM foundation day held at Changtongya

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (Dipr): 5th Nepali Baptist Church Mission Foundation Day programme was held on October 20 at Nepali Baptist Church Changtongya town with I Ali, Home Evangelist CTBC as speaker. Speaking on the occasion, the speaker said that mission means, “Giving for a purpose at the right time with whatever we can”. He said that one should serve with humility and kindness to spread the word of God to everyone. He further said that through prayer, one can overcome from all evil things and added that through our work one will be rewarded at the time of judgment. The programme was chaired

by K.B. Limbu. The highlights of the programme were Bible reading by Dveley Thapa, special song presented

by NBC Youth and from Mongpu ketener CBCA and benediction by Alemla, Women Pastress NBCC.

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KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): All the affiliated colleges of All Nagaland College Students’ Union are informed that there would be 1st Union Assembly for the tenure 2013-2015 on November 1 at 11:00 am at NSF Conference Hall. ANCSU assembly speaker C Nzanthung Odyuo in a press release has directed all the colleges to attend the Assembly without fail.

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Bidders for NH works informed

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): All interested bidders for National Highway works are informed that from henceforth all the National Highway tenders will be floated from tenderwizard.com. As such, training will be held in the conference room of the Chief Engineer PWD (NH) on Thursday, October 24 from 11:00 am onwards to familiarise the interested bidders to the new tendering system. This was informed in a press release issued

by Er. Peter Solo, Chief Engineer PWD (NH).

Free coaching classes for army recruitment rally

KOhima, OctOber 22 (Dipr): In view of the Army Recruitment Rally at IG Stadium Kohima from November 14 to 14, 2013 Brigadier K.K. Roy Choudhury, SM, VSM (Retd), Director of Sainik Welfare & Resettlement Nagaland has informed that free coaching classes will be organised at the Directorate HS Road above Alder College Kohima from October 25 to 29 for youth of the State. He therefore informed all the interested candidates to register their names at the Directorate by October 24 during office hours.

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IMFL and banned drugs destroyed at Bhandari

bhaNDari, OctOber 22 (mexN): The district administration and police of Bhandari sub-division destroyed IMFL and banned drugs on October 18 in presence of various NGOs of Bhandari town. ADC Bhandari Lungheising in a press release stated that the destroyed items consists of 6900 tablets of Relipen, 424 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon, 68 tablets of Nitrosin, 1351 bottles of MC Dowell (Rum), 24 bottles of MC Dowell (Whisky), 528 bottles of beer and 300 bottles of canned beer.

LTBC youth revival held

LONgLeNg, OctOber 22 (mexN): The Longleng Town Baptist Church (LTBC) organized youth revival on a theme ‘New Step with the Spirit’ from October 18 to 20. Rev. David Jamir was the speaker and the host of Eastern Nagaland Fellowship Shillong (ENFS) was the worship team. Many youths were touched by the word of God and enlightened their spirit through praise and worship. The. Further the Longleng town Baptist Church expressed their gratitude to the speaker and the ENFS.

New Director of Postal Services

Minister for School Education, CM Chang along with the members of the Indian Red Cross Society, Nagaland State Branch on October 22.

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): Former Lok Sabha MP and presently the Minister for School Education, CM Chang donated one tata sumo ambulance to the Indian Red Cross Society, Nagaland State Branch on October 22.

Abeni TCK, chairperson, IRCSN along with the managing committee members received the ambulance during a function held at the minister’s residence in

Kohima. CM Chang handed over the ambulance after a prayer pronounced by Rev Dr Vevo Pheso, members MC IRCSN. In his short speech, the minister expressed happiness over the fact that he could do something to help the IRCSN in carrying forward the humanitarian services to the poor and needy, though in a small way and further assured that he would extend all

possible support within his capacity even in the days to come.

The team of IRCSN led

by Abeni TCK, Chairperson, and Managing Committee Members - Dr. Seyieketuo Angami, Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, Dr. Vikato Kinimi, Dr. Kepelhousie Terhuja, C.R. Lotha and Zakie Kire, General Secretary, IRCSN conveyed profound gratitude to the minister for donating the much-needed ambulance.

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): Som Kamei, has taken over as Director of Postal Services, Nagaland. He took over the position on October 7 at Kohima Headquarters. In a press release, Superintendent of Post Offices R Kumar informed that the officers and staff of Nagaland Postal Division extended warm welcome to the new officer in a solemn function. The note also mentioned that Som Kamei completed his tenure on deputation as Director, NEZCC under the aegis of Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India recently.

Residents of Tsiepfu Tsiephfe (AG) colony informed

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): It is herby informed to all the residents of Tsiepfu Tsiephfe (A.G) colony Kohima to clear the dues of sanitation fee till the month of December, 2013. Any one applying for residential certificate or beneficiary schemes are required to proof their residency by providing Sanitation Fee Card to the concerned authority. This was informed in a press note issued by Akhrie-o Sorhie, Chairman, Tsiepfu Tsiephfe (A.G) colony Kohima.

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East ‘Innovative changes needed NSCN (IM) accused of Jonathan's death yet'North to recover from Partition' in higher education system’ Newmai News Network Imphal | October 22

Shillong, october 22 (Pti): Maintaining that delivery of higher education in India cannot be allowed to continue in a “routine fashion”, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said there has to be an “elevated level of urgency” among administrators and academicians to introduce innovative changes. He also regretted that no Indian university has found place in the top 200 global ranking list and said they have to be “careful” in positioning themselves among the top institutions in the world.

The President emphasised on better coordination among various departments of the universities to achieve excellence and help them to be among the best in the world. “Our academic syllabus is not upto the highest standards as recognised by world universities.

We are not emphasising on ranking ourselves. We have

Pranab Mukherjee (File Photo)

to be careful,” the President said while addressing the convocation function of the North Eastern Hill University. He inaugurated an innovation club on the occasion which seeks to facilitate in-house research activities in various disciplines.

Mukherjee said Indian universities have to foster greater linkages with international universities for student and teacher exchange programmes.

He also stressed on improving facilities in the various departments of the universities and said though Nobel laureates like Amartya Sen, PV Chandrasekhar and Hargobind Khurana passed out from Indian universities, they won their respective Nobel prizes after going abroad.

The President suggested fostering endowment culture in the campuses, saying most of the top-league universities like Harvard

and Cambridge excelled over the centuries largely because of the endowment received. He said the delivery of higher education in India cannot be allowed to continue in a “routine fashion any longer”.

There has to be an elevated level of urgency among administrators and academicians to introduce innovative changes in the institutions. “Core problem have to be addressed expeditiously and a culture of excellence has to be promoted by allowing adequate flexibility in different aspects of academic management,” the President said. Calling upon the institutes to retain meritorious students and give enhanced focus on research activities, the President stressed that universities get international exposure in terms of having visiting professors from abroad and student and faculty exchange programme.

Awon Kashung, wife of late Jonathan Kashung has accused the NSCNIM of killing her husband with “vested interest”.

Jonathan Kashung, one of the presidential candidates of Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL), the apex body of the Tangkhul tribe, was abducted by unidentified armed men from Phungreitang area in Ukhrul town on September 13 at around 9:40 am apparently in connection with the TNL presidential election.

Since then he was traceless. His decomposed body was found at Tolloi Junction, around 4 km northwest of Ukhrul district headquarters on September 17 evening.

One month after the incident, the wife of late Jonathan Kashung said the NSCN-IM had killed her husband on false charges.

"My late husband Jonathan Kashung, a

WAD rally to draw attention to ATSUM pose suggestions on age relaxation “Crimes Against Humanity”

imPhal, october 22 (mexn): The Women Action for Development (WAD) today organized a peaceful mass rally on "Crime against Humanity” with special reference to women and children, to draw the attention of the Prime Minister of India and Manipur Government. The mass rally cum public meeting was organized with the representatives from different NGOs, CBOs, Pos, Victim families from different districts of Manipur. WAD also submitted a memorandum to Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, requesting for “Urgent Action to arrest the rapist and criminals”.

The memorandum which was appended by Sobita Mangsatabam, Secretary WAD also stated, “For the last 10 years, we the victims and suffers of the violation continue to request our government and for your kind attention”. WAD in the memo said that it is very unfortunate that the killing of women, raping and killing of people by “unknown” are becoming seri-

Tribal bodies’ demands to get more stringent

ing in civil services examination has been increased from 35- 40 years and above and as the age limit of the recently conducted MPSC has been relaxed from 30-35 as a onetime measure, Manipur Forest under MPSC may also be relaxed as above," ATSUM information secretary Micah Kamei suggested.

The ATSUM leader also appealed that considering the increasing number of educated youth in the state with remote chances for job application due to absence of private sector in the state and irregular conduct of such examination in Manipur, relaxation of upper age limit should be 35 and above.

"This will certainly generate more opportunities for maximum number of educated youth to participate in the up-coming Manipur Forest Service 2013," Micah Kamei suggested.

According to ATSUM, the genuine demand of the 'sons and daughters of the soil' may therefore be kindly considered and do the needful in the larger interest of the educated youths irrespective of all communities living in the hills and plains of Manipur.

"To this end, the ATSUM is once again constrained to bring the grievances of the aspiring candidates before the state government," Micah Kamei stated.

Goods train derails in Dima Hasao guwahati, october 22 (Pti): Six oil tanker bogies of a goods train derailed between Harengajao and Migrandisa in central Assam's Dima Hasao district on Tuesday disrupting rail traffic movement.

Northeast Frontier Railway officials said the tankers carrying petroleum products jumped the tracks this morning on the Lumding-Badarpur section. However, none was injured. The engine of

the train was not damaged as the tankers were six bogies behind it, they said.

The derailment disrupted movement of trains, including Agartala-Lumding Express, Barak Valley Express and other local trains at different places.

The train services are expected to be restored tonight with the removal of the derailed goods train from the tracks, the officials added.

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imPhal, october 22 (nnn): As a follow up to the demands made regarding police district boundary jurisdiction and the 48-hour bandh called for the same from October 14 midnight in Senapati district, the Kuki Inpi Saikul Gamkai (KISG) and Saikul Area Naga Peoples’ Organisation (SANPO) have resolved to take up more stringent agitations if their demands are not met.

The demands of the KISG and SANPO have been made through a memorandum submitted on September 25 for the immediate cancellation of Home department's notification of June 14, 2011, and to withdraw all the villages of Saikul sub-division included in the police stations of Imphal East district regarding the Police district boundaries and police stations under the jurisdiction of Saikul Sub-Division, Senapati district.

The two organizations said that a joint meeting will be taken up with Senapati MLAs, ADC members, public leaders and tribal social organisations after the Kut and Diwali festivals to discuss how to proceed to get the demands. The union said that it is very unfortunate of the government to disrupt the boundaries by not maintaining the law and order. They also urged the Hill Area Committee (HAC) to start taking action to maintain the hill regions from destruction as they are the ones to protect their area instead of remaining silent spectators.

ous concern for all the people in Manipur. It also cited importance to understand why the government is allowing police to protect such criminals. It also further cited importance to recognize that the cases are taken up after huge pressure from the public. The memorandum also recommended several points for the urgent attention of the prime Minister of India which narrated the incident of several rape crimes and cases in detail. It also urged the Government of India and Manipur to expedite the cases in Supreme Court of India under extrajudicial execution. It was also mentioned that the AFSPA should be repealed.

WAD in the memo stated, “Today, we the civilian population is raising the issue of VAW, Killing, raping of women and civilian population because you have called for the public cooperation and participation to stop crime. As well as, it is also our responsibility to stop crime and build a better future of all of us”.

imPhal, october 22 (nnn): The All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) has drawn the attention oftheGovernmentofManipur in the matter pertaining to the relaxation of upper age limit from 30 years to 35 years in the up-coming Manipur Forest Service-grade-II (assistant conservator of Forest) Manipur examination.

The tribal student body expressed that many aspiring candidates have already barred the age limit due to periodical recruitment which in fact is expected to be conducted every year like UPSC. “Most significantly in most of the states of India, the upper age limit for appear-

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presidential candidate of Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) was abducted and murdered on September 13 by the NSCN-IM on several false charges, one of which was that he was sponsored with a sum of Rs 50 lakhs by Chief Minister of Manipur O Ibobi Singh to contest the TNL presidential election," said Awon Kashung.

According to her, the NSCN-IM had also accused Jonathan Kashung of the chief advisor of Manipur Naga Revolutionary Army (MNRA).

Jonathan was also accused by the NSCN-IM as a card holder intelligent agent of India, said Awon.

"All the allegations against my husband were cooked up so that they could eliminate him in order to fulfill their wish," said Awom Kashung. She dismissed those allegations as baseless and unfounded saying no sensible persons will believe such wild allegations of the

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NSCN-IM. Awon Kashung then said that the NSCN-IM through the frontal organisations had agreed to prove the allegations with evidences and by taking the witness account within 15 days time counting from September 18.

"But till date, even the lapse of one month, the NSCN-IM could not give any proof on their allegations charged against my husband, late Jonathan Kashung," said Awon Kashung, adding, "As the NSCN-IM could not give even a shred of evidence on the cold-blooded murder of my husband, I declare before God and man that my late husband Jonathan Kashung was murdered with vested interest by the NSCN-IM".

Awon further said that the inability of the NSCN-IM to prove their allegations vividly shows that 'my late husband had not committed anything wrong against the NSCN-IM’.

Shillong, october 22 (ianS): Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Monday said India's North East is yet to fully recover from the ill-effects of Partition in terms of dislocation of trade and commercial ties, disruption of access to nearby markets, and breakdown in connectivity.

"Fresh infrastructure to restore connectivity with the rest of the country is still not fully in place. Inter-regional and intra-regional connectivity remains a major constraint even now," Sangma said. Noting Meghalaya has huge potential in tourism, horticulture, floriculture, but these sectors has remained untapped as yet due to dislocation of trade and commercial ties, he said that restoration of trade and commercial links with neighbouring countries is of prime importance for Meghalaya and investments in infrastructure and connectivity acquire the foremost priority.

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NO.DET-7/20/2001 (Vol-IV): The result of All India Trade Test (Final) held in the month of July-August 2013, at Government Industrial Training Institutes, Kohima, Dimapur, Mon, Mokokchung, Wokha, Tuensang, Zunheboto and Phek is hereby declared and the Roll Numbers of successful Candidates are given below: 1. Govt.ITI Kohima: KM – 02, 03, 04, 06, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 23,24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83,84, 85, 86, 87, 88,89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 117, 120, 122, 123, 124, 127R1, 128R2, 129R3, 130R4 132PR1, 137, 138, 139, 145, 146, 150R1, 153P Automobile sector: AAT02 - 01R1 ABTK – 03, 05, 06, 07 2. Govt. W.ITI, Dimapur: DM-01, 02, 03, 04, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38.

Apparel Sector: AAT02- 01, 02 AAT03 – 01, 02, 03, 04 3. Govt. ITI Mon: MN – 01, 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 20, 23R1, 24R1, 25R1, 26R1, 27R1, 28, 37, 38, 53R1, 54R2, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81,96, 87, 88, 93R1, 94R1, 95R1, 98, 99, 100.

4. Govt. ITI Mokokchung: MK- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 08, 09, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47R2, 48P, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56.

5. Govt. Wokha: WK- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16P, 17P. 6. Govt. ITI Phek: PK- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 7. Govt. ITI Tuensang: TS- 02, 05, 06, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21R1, 22R1, 25, 26, 27, 31, 34, 35, 37, 43R1, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 54.

8. Govt. ITI Zunheboto: ZN- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12P. Total appeared : 465 Total passed : 311 Passed % : 66.88 Note: Marksheet, etc, will be issued after 15.11.2013 from respective ITI. Sd/- MUTHINGNYUBA SANGTAM Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland, Kohima

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Government moves to privatize six Kaito rejoinder to “Gambling Clarification To airports, AAI employees begin strike On 2014 Lok Sabha Election” Unknown Writer NNC

NEW DElhi, OctObEr 22 (Pti): Thousands of employees of Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Tuesday started a relay hunger strike across the country to protest against the government’s move to privatize six airports. The employees associated with various unions of AAI have formed a joint forum and started the three-day-long strike in front of the civil aviation ministry at Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan here and at AAI offices across the country.

“We are protesting against the civil aviation ministry’s move to privatise six airports of Chennai, Kolka-

ta, Guwahati, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Lucknow. These were being after the AAI invested crores into modernization of these airports,” said BS Ahlawat, general secretary of Airports Authority Employees’ Union, which is leading the agitation. The government in early September had decided to allow private parties to pick up 100 per cent equity stake in operation and management of the six airports through the public-private partnership (PPP) mode.

The successful bidder is supposed to enter into partnership with the state-run airport operator AAI

on a 30-year lease to operate, manage and develop facilities at these airports. The scope of the project includes the entire airport, including the airside and city side facilities.

Ahlawat said civil aviation ministry’s move is unwarranted as employees at the Delhi and Mumbai airports are still to be deployed after both the airports were privatized.

“And the government is again trying to destabilize the employees of these six airports,” he said, adding “if they fail to listen to us, then we would be forced to intensify our action by going on strike or gherao of AAI officials.”

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HAPPY BIRTH DAY BABY (MATHOLU) Dear Baby!!!

On this Day the 23rd October, you have entered into our family and had crossed many odds and obstacles till this day. We really felt glad and proud that you have been keeping yourself like a blooming Rose even in the midst of the thorns since you make your entry into this World. Your entry in to our family has brought Love, Peace, Oneness, Trustworthy etc. that we deserve for a long time.

May you continue to live like a blooming flower that generously feeds insects with its enlightened fragrance at all free. “A Very Happy Birth Day Baby”.

-Lots of Love from loving Dad, Mum, Brothers & Sisters.

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he article written by one, Kekhrie Yhome, under the “Title” “Gambling on 2014 Lok Sabha Election” appeared in sections of local dailies on October 22, 2013 came as a rude shock when he dragged me in the article that “Imaginations became real when NSCN –K’s (Part II) Supremo Kitovi gave a courtesy call to Nagaland Home Minister Shri Kaito, not necessarily on a Mughal style, but as the possibly hopeful next, in line to the political throne of Chief Ministership.”

It is very unfortunate that the writer has made wild imagination of my political status by linking with NSCN-K’s Kitovi that I am in the line to the political throne of Chief Ministership. It is not true.

At no point of time had such development taken place nor had I ever had such idea in my mind.

Since day one when I took over Home Ministership of the State, I have declared that my priority would be for “peace and reconciliation” among the Nagas. We all know that political dialogues are going on between the Gov-

ernment of India and the Naga underground leaders to find a lasting and honorable solution to the longstanding Naga political issue.

Yet such dream and aspiration can only be possible when all sections of the Naga people come together and for which I have been always working so as to reach a logical conclusion.

We all know that the ongoing peace process between the Government of India and the Naga underground leaders has entered into an unprecedented crucial phase needing guides and supports from all sensible people so that the hard earned peace process does not get bogged down.

We have also been urging all the Naga underground leaders that they should find way to come together for the larger interest of the Nagas. When I honestly rendered my service as Home Minister to bring all groups together should be taken as “Plan-B”.

G. Kaito Aye Home Minister Nagaland.

(NA) Lotha Region

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hereas, I Ajamo Ezung was appointed as Lieutenant Colonel of Naga National Council bearing Army No.20829 in the interest of Naga National Council on Dated 12/ 12/ 2012 to promote and protect the sovereignty of Naga Nation in Lotha Region in particular which is on the contrary to your write up in local paper/media on Dated 18/10/2013 of your wishful thinking as money monger.

It is clarified herein that neither I nor the said organization has levied any form of taxation from individual / establishment which is a serious crime for the said organization.

It further inform you that your write up in the local paper /media in the form defamation without any prima facia evidence to humiliate my humble reputation is amounted to committing an serious offence against the national interest and for which you are liable to justify the consequence before the competent authority of the said organization.

Ajamo Ezung Lieutenant Colonel Naga National Council

Clarifications On The Kuzhami Baptist Churches Issue

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he undersigned is constraint to issue this statement on the recent debate in the mass media as a result of an article “If a kingdom is divided: A Reflection ……” which was published in some local dailies recently. We recognize and appreciate the sincerity of the writer who took the initiative to enlighten the public on the seriousness of the issues prevailing within the Chakhesang Church community over the years. We recognize that the author has put in his personal views supported with theological insights which deserve appreciation. While appreciating his views, we are obliged to supplement and also make some clarifications on some of the statements made by him. It is evident that some of the statements in the writings created some confusion on the minds of the general public. For instance, the formation and establishment of Kuzhami Baptist Churches, in the towns, over the years appears to have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. It also appears to have failed in understanding the core issues of the so called Kuzha - Chokri Issue.

The Kuzhami Baptist Churches would like to make our stand clear that it is more to do with the ministry of the Church and nothing to do with the tribal or community issue.

“The ego-centricity and callous words or deeds on the parts of a few people” which the author claimed as the reasons for division of the church” is a misconception. The bone of contention is that the Chakhesang Churches in towns failed to recognize the inclusive nature of the Church ministry - after all, the gospel is for the whole people/congregation and not for a particular language group. The Church would emerge to become a communal church if it does not minister to the needs of all believers irrespective of language groups.

God forbids, the church become the monopoly of a particular language group and thereby depriving others of the needed spiritual nourishment. No one should have any hidden agenda to impose the dominant language over others in the guise of Church ministry or Church unity.

Failure to understand the inclusiveness of the nature of

the Church ministry and refusal to create facility in the local churches led to the formation of many inter-tribal churches as pointed out by the author. It is a fact that besides others, the Chakhesang Community is composed of two major language groups mainly Chokri and Khezha. Both the languages have its own distinctiveness with separate literature duly recognized by the Government. Therefore the author is right when he said, “why not services in different languages? Not only in Chokri or Khezha but we must introduce English service or Nagamese service if the church is to be the church for all”. If these views are taken with seriousness and the concerned local churches realized the importance of inclusive nature of the church and its ministry the present division within the local congregation could have been avoided.

One of the more important issue confronting the Chakhesang Church community is the Bible Translation and Gospel Hymnal. For reasons best known to leadership of CBCC over the years, the living Word of God, The Bible is still kept

out of the heart language of the people, stating that Bible translation would divide the Chakhesang Community. Nowhere in the world have we heard that the Bible had divided any community. It is strange but true! It was in 1979, some 35 years ago, the CBCC Executive resolved to publish both Chokri and Khezha Bibles and hymnals but the resolution could not be executed, for fear of bringing divisions in the community. Till today, the CBCC is contented with using Angami Bible and Hymnals for the sake of Chakhesang Unity. It is still in practice that a certain church under CBCC is using Angami as their official medium for the sake of Church Unity, whereas many members of the same church, particularly the younger age group do not understand the Angami language well. Is it the church turning to be a social institution advocating social unity rather than meeting the spiritual needs of the believers? It is like sacrificing the rights and privileges of learning and hearing God’s Word at the altar of Social Unity. The standing resolution of the CBCC therefore is to some

extent responsible for the local congregation being systematically deprived of God’s Word leading to starvation of God’s word and denial of God’s love.

Under such circumstances, and having realized the importance of Bible translation into the language of the people and sensing the felt needs of the believers, the Kuzhami Churches have brought out the Kuzhami Bible and Hymnals as against the standing resolution of CBCC. These are some of the reasons that led to the “big bang” leading to the formation of Kuzhami Baptist Churches.

Therefore, the Kuzhami Baptist Churches stand clarified that the so called ChokriKhezha issue is nothing to do with separation / division of the Chakhesang Community as a tribe. The Chakhesang Tribe which came into being purely on volition and in the greater interest of all language groups should remain intact, so long as the collective wisdom of Chakhesang public prevails.

It should not in any way fall prey to the pressures of some so called leaders who look at everything from the commu-

nal perspectives, be it church or politics?. Let the church rise above community and political interest. Let the Church be the Church. The Kuzhami Baptist Churches stand clarified that the formation and establishment of its Churches/Fellowship /Association over the years is but a reformation of Church ministry in tune with the Biblical mandate that every tongue, every tribe, every language shall worship God (Rev. 7:9). It is a revival movement born out of the prayers of the few faithfuls with the sole intention of meeting the spiritual needs of those who have been deprived of understanding the Word of God in the heart language of the people.

Therefore the CBCC is expected to address this issue specially prevalent in the town churches based on the theological and Biblical mandate of giving God’s word in the language of the people and facilitate all language groups to worship God in truth and in spirit and not be influenced or dictated by the sociopolitical forces of the day which is a deviation of Biblical principles.

The Kuzhami Baptist Kehou

Tro (Kuzhami Baptist Churches Fellowship), hence, after deliberating, for the last few years, this issue of these spiritual deprivations, especially in the town Churches and in the mass gatherings, found that to solve the issue, it is best to have our own separate Churches Association. Thus it resolved to form a separate Association under the nomenclature of Kuzhami Baptist Churches Association. It was also resolved that this formation would be purely on voluntary basis, as per the respective decision of the local Churches. It was further resolved that those Churches opting for the newly formed Association would start functioning from January 2014.

The Chakhesang Baptist Church Council have also been duly informed of this decision vide this office letter dated 2nd September, 2013.

It is hoped that the confusion that is prevailing will be cleared with this statement.

Ngupelhou Lomi President Kuzhami Baptist Churches Association Pfutsero

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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Financial literacy prog for villagers ZubZa, OctOber 22 (mexN): A one day Financial Literacy Programme cum Joint Credit Camp was conducted at the Village Council Hall of Sechu–Zubza on October 22, 2013. The programme was organized

by United Bank of India (UBI), Kohima branch with financial assistance from NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) for the benefit of all villagers under Sechu-Zuba block.

Mahmud Ali, IAS, SDO(C) graced the programme.

A press release issued

by Chief Manager (Lead Bank), SBI informed that the programme aimed to create demand for financial products & services, thereby accelerating the pace of financial inclusion as it enables the common people to understand the needs and benefits of the products and services offered by banks. All bank branches having Service Area in Sechu–Zubza block along with Lead District Manager and District Development Manager of NABARD participated.

The other highlight of the programme was credit counselling and generation of loan applications.

During the month of October 2013, six more programmes covering the remaining blocks of Kohima district will be conducted: Chunlika block on October 23, Jakhama block on October 25, Tseminyu block on October 28, Botsa block on October 29, Chiephobozou block on October 30 and Kohima block on October 31.

Wednesday 23 October 2013

‘Excessive compensation demands’ a ‘stumbling block': BJP asserts

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): In its office bearers’ meeting held on October 22 here, State BJP declared that Nagaland today faces the major hurdle of procuring land for public infrastructures, especially road widening “due to the excessive compensation demands by the land owners in the process of exerting their rights”. This, according to a press release issued by Secretary, BJP Nagaland Jaangsillung Gonmei has become the “stumbling block” for any central agency to implement several modern infrastructural development

projects that are implemented in other states.

While discussing issues concerning the hurdles faced by the government to procure lands for developing important public infrastructures like roads and their widening, new market complexes, offices etc, the meeting unanimously opined that “the people need to know that the loss is theirs because of their non co-operation and not the central government’s”.

The release also enlightened that central government has a fixed compensation rates at current

market values for several items applicable nationwide, which in itself “over and above sufficiently covers the loss incurred to the land owners”. The meeting viewed that that the people have to pave the way for further development by claiming reasonable rates of compensation as fixed by the centre and not otherwise. “Only then will the state move forward qualitatively.”

Meanwhile, the release also informed that the party will be organizing Lok Sabha 2014 Election Rally as well as a Party Convention shortly. A “Statue of

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Faith Christian Fellowship (FCF) held its annual conference from October 15-18, 2013 at Grace Covenant Church, Lengrijan, Kuda wood products Dimapur with Rev Garfield Deans, FCF Jamaica President as the main speaker.

Rev Deans spoke about the keys to advance the Kingdom of God and shared on the principle of relationship and leadership. 46 Ministers from 14 denominations attended the meet.

A press release received here stated that the goal of FCF International is to help individual ministers, churches and evangelistic ministries successfully fulfill their God given vision and call. FCF prioritizes developing covenant relationships which provide

acceptance, understanding and encouragement.

Five ministers were licensed and three ordained during the last evening service and certificates handed over by the Relationship Representative Northern India Rev Nikko Mero and Rev Garfield. Through credentialing service for Licensing and Ordination, FCF recognizes the call of God upon individuals. FCF is an organization without the legalism of denomination, it added.

Faith Christian Fellowship International also offers a strong foundation by being committed to and established in a biblicalbased theology. It aims to provide ministers, churches, and ministries of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with fellowship, information, inspiration, and relationships, the release stated.

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Unity”, a mega statue of the “Iron Man of India” Vallabbhai Sardar Patel, the then Union Home Minister under Nehru Ministry would be erected at Narmada, Gujarat. The statue, deemed to be called the “Statue of Unity” would be double the height of the Statue of Liberty, New York, it added.

As per the directive of BJP National President Rajnath Singh, the BJP National has requested every citizen to contribute a piece of iron towards the making of the statue; the contribution symbolizing that every citizen is a part

of one whole nation built strong and tall. BJP Nagaland has also constituted a three member committee comprising David Zeliang, President, Kisan as Convenor, and members James Vihoshe Gen. Secy. (Adm) and Imsu Yaden, Secretary, to organize the collection through district committees. At the same time, the party has requested every citizen of the state to contribute a small iron piece with any of the BJP officials in their districts to have it submitted with the State committee that would be sent to Gujarat before January 1, 2014.

FCF’s annual conference held Physical verification of local taxis Kohima | October 22

The Kohima district administration is undertaking a physical verification on the authenticity of the local taxis plying here at the Indira Gandhi Stadium since October 21.

There will be a break on October 23. The verification will resume on October 24 till 25.

Talking to media persons, Kohima SDO (C) Wennyei Konyak said the physical verification has been necessitated to prove the genuineness of the local taxi plying in and around Kohima.

He warned that the district administration will be compelled to cancel the permit against those failing to turn up at the physical verification.

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District administration undertaking physical verification on genuineness of local taxis at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima on October 22. (Morung Photo)

that there are approximately 1000 plus local taxis plying in Kohima.

Earlier, the All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Kohima Unit asked all the taxi owners and drivers to extend co-operation to the Kohima district administration for physical verification.

ANTA Kohima Unit president R. Robert Kire requested all the taxi owners to be present with their respective vehicles, drivers and all relevant documents.

ANTA Kohima Unit should not be held responsible for any action initiated against the defaulters, Kire added.

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of animal feeds.

The release informed that the driver abandoned the vehicle and fled, while the duty personnel were checking the vehicle. The duty personnel chased the driver, however, the accused managed to escape in the dark. The vehicle was seized and brought to Diphupar police station where the seized illegal goods were unloaded. A case has been registered at Diphupar PS and efforts are on to arrest the driver and the owner of the consignment, it added.

Kiphire | October 22

S ensitization programme on National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) for Village Council Chairmen, VDB Secretaries, and Self Help Groups in Kiphire district was held at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall, Kiphire today. The State Rural Livelihood Mission (SRLM) team led by the Mission Director is on a tour to all the districts of Nagaland (except Tuensang and Peren) for the sensitization campaign on NRLM. Addressing the pro-

Commissioner, Kiphire said that non-recovery of loan in the bank is the main problem that hinders the development activities and therefore asked the gathering to pay the loans on time. He said that government is making a number of schemes for poverty alleviation, but due to the improper use of the schemes and funds, the condition of the poor remains the same.

While acknowledging the government for introducing policies to make the citizens equal, he said,

therefore you must utilize appropriately for development.” Requesting the village leaders and elders, DC said that unless mindset is changed, development will not go forward. Thus, he asked them to have broader sense of thinking in the society so that development goes swiftly in the district. The DC also said that proper identification of beneficiaries should be me made in all the schemes so genuine ones are not left out. He appealed the officials of Rural Development

and passion for the uplift of the citizens.

Mission Director, SRLM, Nagaland highlighted the programmes and activities of NRLM and asked the gathering to have passion for development in the district. He also encouraged setting up Self Help Groups (SHG) in the villages for self reliance. Further, he appealed the DRDA officials to help one another for betterment of the department. The programme was chaired by Project Director, DRDA Kiphire.

Bamhum selected at national innovation fair DNSU condemns firing and rape

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Bamhum, a new wind bamboo musical instrument invented by Moa Subong from Dimapur was selected by Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) at the National Fair finale of the India Innovation Initiative (i3) at The Lalit Hotel, New Delhi on October 17.

A press release received here stated that Bamhum was selected along with 5 other innovations by TIFAC, Department of Science & Technology on the basis of technical feasibility and market potential of the innovation. The bamboo musical instrument was first unveiled by the then Governor of Meghalaya M.M. Jacob during the International Bamboo Festival at Shillong on May 3, 2005. TIFAC will assist and support technology refinement and marketing of these 6 innovations.

Overall, i3 2013 saw more than thousand plus innovation entries this year. The entries were further shortlisted to participate in the Regional Fairs organized at NOIDA (North), Mumbai (West), Kolkata (East) and Chennai (South) in September.

Bamhum was the only entry selected from the North East for the Fair at Kolkata.

Bamhum was also one of

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MEx FILE 37 AR apprehends a suspected ‘UG cadre’ Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Based on “specific information” about presence of a suspected “underground cadre” at Nagaland Tourism Amenity Centre at Patkai, troops of 37 Assam Rifles launched an operation and apprehended one Shezo Chakesang, aged 31 years from Phek district along with one .22 pistol and a magazine. According to a press release from the Assam Rifles, the apprehended individual was handed over to the Diphupar Police Station.

Electricity line clearing work on October 24

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): The public of Dimapur and Chumukedima area are informed that Dimapur Electrical Division and Chumukedima Electrical Division will be carrying out “jungle cutting operation” on October 24, between 6:00 am to 1:00 pm for all the electricity consumers of the said two divisions. In this regard, all the consumers and the public have been requested to extend co-operation in cutting down the trees obstructing the transmission line and distribution line within their premises.

DCCI condemns firing incident

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry has condemned the firing incident at M/s. Alok Bhandar at G S Road here on October 21 around 4:15 pm, in which one person was injured. The DCCI in a press release has requested all to maintain peaceful and harmonious atmosphere in the city at all times. It further requested the law enforcing agencies to nab the culprits and book them under the provisions of law.

KGPO changed to Kuhuboto Ghukhu Kukami Kuqhakulu

Dimapur Police seize huge Sensitization programme on NRLM held in Kiphire gramme as a special guest, “NRLM is now brought at department to work with consignment of IMFL Kesonyu Yhome, Deputy your own doorsteps and enthusiasm, commitment Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Dimapur police personnel manning Chumukedima check gate intercepted a 10-wheeler truck bearing registration MN 04A 8012 on the night of October 21, which was smuggling a huge consignment of illegal IMFL. According to a press release issued by Addl Superintendent of Police/ PRO, Dimapur, the illegal IMFL consisted of 400 cases of Old Monk rum, 100 cases of whisky, 35 cases of Gin and 15 cases of Tuborg beer. They were found concealed under bags

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Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Recounting the attack on Shanti Prakash Pareek, a tea trader, in his shop at G.S Road on October 21, Dimapur Naga Students’ Union has vehemently condemned “such kind of devilish act who has an evil design to create fear psychosis and earn their livelihood with the sweat of the hard earned money of the businessmen and public.” It stated that such kind of “treacherous act” in a public area, and whoever is patronizing the act of “goondaism” should be stopped once and for all.

The Union, in a release

issued by its president K Mhachio Lotha and general secretary Kambuiga Rongmei has urged the authority concerned to trace and book the culprit(s) without showing mercy, and also urged to depute more security in a civic populated area in and around Dimapur town for the safety of the public.

Meanwhile, DNSU also condemned the “rape and attempt to murder” of a woman reportedly by Adani Chithuyio at a forested area near Viola Colony, Dimapur.

“Rape has been considered as taboo in our Naga society in past days, but now it has become a household word

in present days, no more safe place is left for our mother and sisters,” it asserted. Also, stating that it is a shameful act, DNSU called every individual and organization to voice out without any reservation and barriers. “This kind of person who has done a dreadful act should not be given a space in our society.” The Union also expressed dismay that the victim’s family’s plea for intervention was denied by the Colony authority concerned. Further, the Union appealed the law enforcing agency to deliver justice to the victim and prayed for the girl’s recovery from the trauma.

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Sumi Council, Dimapur has strongly condemned the firing incident at G.S. Road on October 21 evening where one person was injured. A press statement appended by the chairman of the Council Kuhoi Zhimo expressed concern that untoward incidents are taking place in the commercial hub of Nagaland “spoiling the festive mood by creating fear psychosis in the minds of the people.” The Council appealed the peace-loving

citizens of the town to “put their heads together irrespective of caste, creed or community and work to avert these sorts of incidents by extending their co-operation to the law enforcing agencies to nab the culprits and give befitting punishments to the perpetrators.” The Council also urged the security agencies to be more alert and vigilant and deploy their personnel at strategic locations to apprehend the criminals before they get away scot-free.

Further, the Sumi

Council, Dimapur appreciated Khrimtomi Union Dimapur Area (KUDA) for expelling two of its members for indulging in “anti-social activities”. The statement read, “This bold decision by the KUDA has been something the Council has been propagating for quite some time so as to curb social menaces.”

Hence, it stated, the trend should be emulated by other villages as well to discourage activities detrimental to the Naga society in general.

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): The Kukamis of Kuhuboto Ghakhu held meeting at Khehokhu village on October 22 and resolved to change the nomenclature of Kuhuboto Ghukhu Public Organization (KGPO) to Kuhuboto Ghukhu Kukami Kuqhakulu (KGKK) as per the directives of Western Sumi Kukami Hoho (WSKH). A press release issued by the meeting reporter and its convenor informed that the house also resolved to hold the next meeting at KGPO hall, Kuhuboto Town on October 28 at 10:00 am to elect/ nominate the office bearers of the organization.

Therefore, all the Kukamis of Kuhuboto Ghukhu have been requested to attend the said meeting without fail.

MCKAA informs alumni to register

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): Office of the Modern College Kohima Alumni Association (MCKAA) has informed all the past students of Modern College Kohima to register under Alumni Association (MCKAA). The registration can be done on any working days from the College office, or one can contact any of the following office bearers: Vice President - Thungpang (9856891160) or General Secretary Ashim (9862157548). For details, Email: nmckaa@gmail. com and Facebook: modern.alu.9@facebook.com

RBC general body meeting

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): The general body meeting of River Belt Colony, Ward-No-11, Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) will be held on October 26, 2013 at 3:00 pm at the residence of Akang Ao, Treasurer, RBC. A press note issued by Joseph Nenio Mao, Secretary River Belt Colony Dimapur has informed all the residents, establishments, institutions including house/plot owners to attend the meeting without fail. It also directed executive members to ensure that all the shops, establishments, institutions; garage etc within the Colony remains closed during the period. The note warned that necessary action will be taken against absentee members as per resolution adopted by the colony. The meeting will also discuss celebration of Silver Jubilee which will be held in May 2014.

WACBCC to organize Teens’ Retreat

Dimapur, OctOber 22 (mexN): Western Area Chakesang Baptist Church Council (WACBCC), Children Ministry will be conducting Teens’ Retreat under the theme, “In his grip” on October 26 at Chakesang Baptist Church, Dimapur, near Eros Lane at 9:00 am. Dr Chekrovei Cho-o, Assistant Professor and Chaplain, Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS); Vemuriyi Vadeo, Lecturer, OTS; and Niepukhrienuo P Vadeo, Lecturer, OTS will be the resource persons for the event.

WQMS workshop on Oct 24

mOKOKchuNg, OctOber 22 (Dipr): Executive Engineer, PHED, Mokokchung Division Er N. Yanger Pongen has informed that an orientation workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance (WQMS) cum Distribution of Field Testing Kits (FTK) will be conducted on October 24 at Longkumer Kilem from 10:00 am. In this regard, two (2) representatives from all WATSAN Committee have been requested to attend the workshop positively.

PWDYO seizes expired goods

Sumi Council, Dimapur condemns

Moa Subong (left), his wife Arenla and the Bamhum at the National Fair.

the 7 best entries selected to represent the East at the 5th National Fair. The finale saw 45 best-in-class innovation entries. i3 is the successful partnership between Agilent Technologies, Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to create and sustain an ecosystem of innovation and encourage innovators of all ages and backgrounds, the

release noted. A jury panel comprising eminent industrialists, reputed incubators partners, scientists, business management experts and government representatives came together to evaluate each of the finalists' entries. The initiative is being supported by government and nongovernment incubator and investor associations for incubation, entrepreneurship and marketability.

Members of PWDYO with the seized items on October 22 in Kohima.

KOhima, OctOber 22 (mexN): As per its resolution, the office of PWD Youth Organization (PWDYO) along with PWDYO Colony enforcement team conducted a surprise checking with regard to sale of expired goods and incorrect weight & measures, sale of LPG cylinder in black market within the colony jurisdiction on October 22.

A press release issued by PWDYO informed that the organization seized goods, food items, LPG cylinders, weight balance amounting

to huge quantity from shops, butchers and hotels. The PWDYO office has warned all the shops and hotel owners, butchers that in future if any expired goods, black LPG cylinders, incorrect weight balance are found, defaulters will be dealt as per the organization’s resolution.

It also appealed the colony residents to report any matter regarding the mentioned malpractices to their own sector youth organisation and appealed all shopkeepers for co-operation.

The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper.

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The Morung Express WEDnEsDAy 23 OcTObEr 2013 vOl. vIII IssuE 289

Water & Governance

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ll living beings are absolutely dependent on water for survival as it is the original elixir of life. The preciousness of water cannot be under estimated as an essential natural resource that will absolutely define the destiny and quality of human, plant and animal life. It is true that natural water sources are decreasing rapidly and with wasteful human practices contributing to poor sanitation and water pollution have elevated the need to safeguard the water supply. The issue here is not just the lack of safe drinking water, but the water borne diseases that contribute to low productivity and death, especially among young children. According to the United Nations there are currently more than 768 million people without safe drinking water and over 2.5 billion without adequate sanitation worldwide.

Experts and analyst have time again reminded us that the next major conflict with global implications will be fought over water. The fact remains that water has been the cause of many conflicts throughout the course of human history. Most of these conflicts were confined to local and regional levels.

However, with growing population, decreasing natural water sources and the increasing value attached to water, the potential for a major conflict over water is very real and immediate.

Hence, those having ownership over natural resources hold the power and the access to this vital elixir of life that nourishes all life forms on the planet. Eventually, water could become the balance point among all human relationships.

The backdrop of this very compelling global situation helps contextualize the Naga experiences with water. As people dwelling in hill tops and mountains, the Nagas have been blessed with water that is fresh and pure because it originates directly from the sources high in the mountains. In fact, people often exclaim how sweet our water is and declare that it is a ‘God given gift, not to be found anywhere else.’ The question is whether we are being stewards to this sweet gift. Do we treat it with the respect it deserves and are we taking steps to ensure that the water sources are protected against pollution. Our practices and habits show that often we take this source of life for granted as if it is a never-ending resource.

Ironically, in spite of living near water sources, many of our towns and villages face acute water shortages. These shortages are not necessarily because they lack a water source, but because they are not being tapped and managed in a way that would benefit a village or a town. Our method of water distribution lacks strategic planning and the technology used is very rudimentary and basic distribution systems that could meet the growing demands of an ever increasing human population. In effect, the absence of good governance has greatly affected managing natural resources such as water. Subsequently, in many areas natural resources, such as water, are being sold at very high rates.

In the face of dwindling natural resources around the world and in Nagaland there is growing need for a more effective management, conservation and distribution of our natural resources and bi-diversity. Hence, in the case of water, using a people-centered approach is fundamental to ensure people’s participation when it comes to protecting all of our natural sources. This approach will also reduce the rampant deforestation and destruction of our ecology.

Nagas can begin by collectively find common solutions to the pressing issue of conserving our precious water supply.

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John Scales Avery Source: Countercurrents.org

Racism, Colonialism And Exceptionalism

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t seems to be possible for nations, and the majority of their citizens, to commit the worst imaginable atrocities, including torture, murder and genocide, while feeling that what they are doing is both noble and good.. Some understanding of how this is possible can be gained by watching the 3-part BBC documentary, “The History of Racism”.

The series was broadcast by BBC Four in March 2007. and videos of the broadcasts are available on the Internet. Watching this eye-opening documentary can give us much insight into the link between racism and colonialism. We can also begin to see how both racism and colonialism are linked to US exceptionalism and neocolonialism.

Looking at the BBC documentary we can see how often in human history economic greed and colonial exploitation have been justified by racist theories. The documentary describes almost unbelievable cruelties committed against the peoples of the Americas and Africa by Europeans. For example, in the Congo, a vast region which which King Leopold II of Belgium claimed as his private property, the women of villages were held as hostages while the men were forced to gather rubber in the forests. Since neither the men nor the women could produce food under these circumstances, starvation was the result.

Leopold's private army of 90,000 men were issued ammunition, and to make sure that the used it in the proper way, the army was ordered to cut off the hands of their victims and send them back as proof that the bullets had not been wasted. Human hands became a kind of currency, and hands were cut off from men, women and children when rubber quotas were not fulfilled. Sometimes more than a thousand human hands were gathered in a single day.

During the rule of Leopold, roughly 10,000,000 Congolese were killed, which was approximately half the population of the region.

According to the racist theories that supported these atrocities, it was the duty of philanthropic Europeans like Leopold to bring civilization and the Christian religion to Africa. Similar theories were used to justify the genocides committed by Europeans against the native inhabitants of the Americas. Racist theories were also used to justify enormous cruelties committed by the British colonial government in India. For example, during the great famine of 1876-1878, during which ten million people died, the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, oversaw the export to England of a record 6.4 million hundredweight of wheat.

Meanwhile, in Europe, almost everyone was proud of the role which they were playing in the world. All that they read in newspapers and in books or heard from the pulpits of their churches supported the idea that they were serving the nonEuropeans by bringing them the benefits of civilization and Christianity. Kipling wrote: “Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed, Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild, Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and halfchild.” On the whole, the mood of Europe during this orgy of external cruelty and exploitation, was self-congratulatory.

Can we not see a parallel with the self-congratulatory mood of the American people and their allies, who export violence to the whole world, but who think of themselves as “exceptional”?

"What makes America different, what makes us exceptional, is that we are dedicated to act" (Barak Obama, speech, September, 2013)

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C O M M E N T A R Y

Louis Yako

Academia deserves its crisis

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arlier this year, I was invited to be part of a student panel to welcome all new PhD students to the large research university I am currently attending and to share with them my words of “wisdom,” so that they can learn more about the upcoming challenges of graduate student life. The student panel was the last on the list of speakers, so we had to wait for and listen to people with impressive titles - most of us did not even know what they exactly do at the university titles like “provost”, “associate” to this, “assistant” for that, “co-director” of this center, and “under-secretary” for such and such affairs. It was clear from these presentations that graduate students (future educators and researchers) are being encouraged to think of themselves as at-will employees who are expected to simply do the job and do it “well”, according to the norms of corporate thinking.

Administrative panelists at this event rarely used words like “students”, “education”, “creativity”, or “dissidence”. Instead, they constantly reminded new students to behave themselves, to maintain “a good academic standing”, and to “work hard”. More interestingly, they also shared that, upon graduation, there is a big world out there awaiting newly minted PhDs. They stressed the fact that more than 50% of students in this field or 60% of students in that discipline have gotten jobs outside of academia upon graduation. This sounds nice and encouraging, but the real wisdom lies not in just paying attention to what is being said, but in what is being omitted from their speeches. In this case, what is not being said is that many PhD holders are seeking non tenure-track jobs upon graduation simply because academia has become so alarmingly corporate that it would rather hire adjuncts to do the job cheaply and without the hassle of having to provide educators with any respect, basic services, or permanent positions within academia. However, academia does not seem to have any problem hiring business managers, project managers, or, more specifically, an executive director for “globalizing” this university, or an executive director for “reaching out” to that “third world” country (usually a polite term of postmodern colonization). Now, isn’t it quite ironic - and frightening - that we may be coming to a day when we may find all kinds of full-time, steady and secure jobs at universities, except jobs for educators?

Does this tell us anything about the nature of the corporate plan attempting to strip academics and intellectuals of their voices? Does it tell us anything about a potential scheme to turn teaching into a pure form of slave labor that forces educators to behave themselves and not dare to exasperate the big corporate bosses ruling them, lest they lose the little money they earn from adjuncting? Equally, we ought to ask, does this tell us anything about the degree of passivity and inaction academics have reached in accepting such pressures, humiliation and insecurity in the first place?

I think the latter question is more important for us to reflect upon as the future generation of academics and intellectuals. As such, we have to bear in mind that oppression is almost never imposed on people in one big dose, because that could trigger an immediate uprising on the part of those affected by it. Instead, oppression is given in small doses in such a way that each dose in itself is insignificant or negligible, but it is the total amount of these small doses that creates a great state of oppression and injustice.

It is noteworthy and maybe promising to note that the five-minute speeches given by us, the student panel members, differed from the previous speakers. For example, most of us emphasized the fact that living in a cut-throat environment is really not healthy for anyone; that if we are to produce any meaningful and powerful works, it is through collaborating with each other rather than ruthlessly competing against each other. We all emphasized

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N EARLY SEPTEMBER, President Obama told the American people that the use of chemical weapons

by Bashar al-Assad of Syria was a moral atrocity that required international consequences.

Religious leaders agree with the necessity of a determined response to the Assad regime, which is responsible for the deaths of 100,000 of his own people, including the brutal use of chemical weapons on civilians. But many faith leaders are asking tough moral questions about what that response should look like.

We fundamentally reject the assumption that refraining from military action is “doing nothing.” We need more imagination and a deeper response than the traditional one of military strikes, which haven’t proven effective and almost always have serious unintended consequences, risk dangerous escalations, and consistently create more suffering for innocent civilians.

As religious leaders, we are called to peacemaking, not just peace loving, which requires harder and more imaginative work than merely falling into old habits of military “solutions.”

Our priorities should be to mobilize global support for the many vulnerable Syrians—including the millions of refugees—and to do the hard work of conflict resolution that could lead to a political solution.

BUT THE CRISIS in Syria also gives us an opportunity to rethink how we respond to conflicts. The “war fatigue” in America is deeper than just the national tiredness of war. It is also the result of the failure of military responses

Competition and wisdom are two different paths that will never intersect. As future academics and intellectuals, we need to seek wisdom rather than playing games and politics against our peers to get status and power

that the whole concept of “competition” needs to be revisited. In my view, competition and wisdom are two different paths that will never intersect, and as future academics and intellectuals, we need to seek wisdom rather than playing games and politics against our peers to get status and power.

Indeed, other people need not to fail for us to succeed, and being a graduate student (or a professor for that matter) should be an opportunity to dig for knowledge rather than to dig intellectual graves for our colleagues and fellow scholars.

Now that the new students have made it through their first day of speeches about life in graduate school, their next step will almost certainly be to start hearing similar corporate rhetoric from their respective departments about “professionalization,” which has become one of the biggest buzz words on US campuses, as if lack of professional-

ization and publications are the actual causes of the market crisis in academia. Instead of wasting their breath on professionalization, our professors should help us envision a way to abolish the state of corporatization and greed that tirelessly works to strip academics of any dignity and decent pay to pursue knowledge and independent research.

They should help us rethink and change the wornout concept of the “job market” under capitalism, which is designed to dispose of people in a second if deemed unprofitable to the system. As most of us know, US academia has long operated under the mediocre slogan of “publish or perish”, not taking into account that very often writers may perish the minute they publish if they do not have something meaningful and earth-breaking to say.

As though adding to human knowledge can occur simply by killing some trees and publishing (mostly recycling) a couple of articles a year or one book every few years. Many academics that operate according to this shallow slogan do not seem to remember Dostoyevsky’s words that the most difficult thing in life is to actually say something new, or those of George Orwell, who once stated: “Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.” In other words, it is not the quantity of publications, but their quality and the effects they have on the real world outside of academia that determines whether we shall live way after we exit this life, or perish while we are still 30! As one of my Chinese friends profoundly puts it, “Great books are few. A great book is like a finger pointing to the star; once you see the star, you do not need the finger anymore!”

The question we are left with here: can we really reach the star, and are we worthy of it?

I will conclude by sharing with you a secret joy that rushes through my blood: I am happy about the current crisis in academia, because, as I see it, academia is the mirror of society, and the ugly academic reality we are witnessing nowadays is an indication that we have let society down, and that we have not done a good job in being part of people’s struggle for justice.

The corporatization of academia in the western world is not new, but it seems to me that it is reaching quite an alarming point that should make us act swiftly against the inhumane institutionalization of knowledge and creativity for the interests of the powerful few.

Given the current pace of this corporatization, academia may well become the worst institution for indoctrinating and subjugating many brilliant minds that may otherwise have great potential for dissidence and creating a new worldview, which is much needed amid the global turmoil we are experiencing internationally.

In fact, I believe that what is happening around the world is not simply an economic or political turmoil, but a turmoil that is interconnected and intertwined on so many levels, and its primary cause is the corporate, capitalist and greedy mentality that is neither working nor sustainable at its current rate.

Simply put, it was not enough for the US to alienate its own people within its borders, and now, along with the so-called “world powers,” it is spreading alienation and greed all over the place. The massive upheavals we are witnessing are a consequence of the capitalist mindset that encourages people to seek infinite possessions and materials in a world with finite resources, which has in turn reached a pace much more dangerous in its behavior than that of cancer cells.

This is precisely where academia is needed to help people find the vision that we all need to save the sinking ship of capitalism and greed, rather than cooperate with power to maintain the status quo and the fat big paychecks for the few “fortunate”, while leaving the overwhelming - and overwhelmed - majority of people to suffer the consequences.

Waging Peace in syria Jim Wallis Source: Sojourners

The words of Jesus are either authoritative for us or they are not in answering the real threats of terrorists and brutal dictators such as Assad.

It’s time for more creative and courageous “prophetic imagination” in terms of nonviolent solutions. What does it look like to wage peace? As we learned from Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark about Assad turning over chemical weapons, there are often diplomatic solutions to the problems that war pretends to solve—but how can governments foster this type of creative problem-solving? And how can faith communities challenge them to do so?

Pope Francis was one of the first to speak out against the use of chemical weapons in Syria and also one of the first against military strikes. The pope said, “Violence begets violence.” That is not merely an idealistic religious statement; it reflects the reality of failed military responses to terrorism over the past decade.

Investing early to prevent conflicts from escalating into violent crises is, on average, 60 times more cost effec-

tive than intervening after violence erupts. But the world spends just $1 on conflict prevention for every $1,885 it spends on military budgets. That stems from the habit of war, not from any demonstrated effectiveness—a habit we need to break.

While governments often turn to force to maintain security and bring perpetrators to justice, it will take much more creative strategies to defeat terrorists. This goes back to Paul’s strategy of feeding one’s enemies to “heap burning coals on their heads” (Romans 12:20). For example, the Muslim world needs assistance from the West in education, especially of its young women, the building of technology and infrastructure, and a focus on economic development—not more weapons and money poured into the coffers of corrupt regimes.

In a world wracked with violence, the words “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9) are not only challenging, they are daunting. The hardest saying of Jesus, and perhaps the most

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controversial in our post-9/11 world, is “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). How many U.S. churches have heard sermons preached from either of these texts in the years since America was attacked? Shouldn’t we at least have a debate about what the words of Jesus mean in our world of terrorist threats and wars of occupation?

The words of Jesus are either authoritative for us or they are not. They are not set aside by the threats of terrorism and dictators or by our habits of war. Other alternatives have proven to be effective, such as responding to crisis early, promoting preventative actions, using diplomacy, strategically deploying development aid, strengthening civil institutions, and prioritizing international actions, especially in working together to prevent atrocities.

The civil war in Syria, with its ethnic/religious and geopolitical roots, clearly will not be easily resolved by U.S. missiles. Understanding such conflicts and employing the tools of conflict resolution is much more likely to be effective than the old, simplistic habits of military actions.

Modern warfare with missiles and drones makes it much easier to kill from a distance without “boots on the ground,” but the violence continues to destabilize societies already devastated and unstable. When we respond to violence with more violence, the cycle of retribution continues to grow.

It’s time to challenge the calculus of war with a deeper and smarter moral equivalent to violence.

Jim Wallis is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine.

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PERSPECTIVE

7 Afghanistan: An All-Time Struggle For Women

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23 OctOber 2013

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

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Massouda Jalal t has been twelve years since Afghanistan began a journey towards democracy, peace and reconstruction. It has been a journey fraught with uncertainty, but filled with enduring optimism and incomparable determination. And if there is one important thing that has to be said over and over again, it is the fact that in all our success and failures, the international community never left us alone.

Four country scenarios and women's prospects Today, our people stand again at a precarious crossroad. After 12 years, the international security support that once helped us drive away the Taliban, is preparing to leave. And our government has been negotiating with the Taliban, purportedly, to bring back national peace and reconciliation. At this point in time, there are four scenarios that may happen after the departure of the international security troops at the end of 2014 The first scenario is the Afghan scenario. It implies a negotiated peace based on consensus between different Afghan power factions with a consolidated oligarchy in power.

Among Afghans, this is termed as “Afghan solution” because it is based on the country’s tradition of consultations to reach a consensus. This is a solution that will be owned by most, although not all, of the many opposing interests and factions in the country. In Afghan’s own version of democracy, it is seen by participating factions as a good solution because it is based on negotiations and trade-offs.

This is also the scenario that is being pursued by the government and the factions that used to be its enemies, most notably, the Taliban. This is the most dominant scenario and the likely outcome of all the events going on in the political scene of the country.

In such a scenario, however, only the powerful have a voice and only the powerful will benefit from the new political set up. In the present context, those who are powerful are the ones who have guns, money and international support. The people do not matter, especially the most powerless and marginalized. In such a scenario, democracy will be challenged as a foreign imposition; and extremism will dominate politics and the mindset of the people. The Constitution and laws of the country may be changed, rule of law will take a back seat, and we will return to square one, where gains of the past 12 years will be erased and the powerless returns to a state of submission and hopelessness.

Where do women stand in this scenario? We are already experiencing the dominance of this scenario in our life. We see the clawing back of the rights that women began to enjoy during the past 12 years. We see women’s agenda becoming a mere token in public policy, where women’s voice is either silenced, distorted or divided; and where extreme Taliban-style violence against women spreads once again across the country with unbridled impunity.

In this scenario, it will be an uphill, all-time struggle for women leaders and activists like me once again.

As we have already witnessed, defenders of women’s rights will fall one by one as targets of assassination, aggression and brutality by the oligarchs.

But no matter how many women leaders are killed, new ones will emerge because we have tasted liberty and nothing will ever be a substitute for it.

The status quo scenario The second scenario is a status quo scenario which implies a stalemate with durable disorder, contested elections in 2014, and a continuation of present or more intensified levels of conflict. The legitimacy of the government in Kabul will be undermined, ethnic tensions may result to armed conflicts in many parts of the country, and regional threats from different parts of the country towards Kabul may develop and escalate.

Within this scenario, the agenda of development, democracy and women’s rights will be held hostage

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tarting a busy Wednesday with my usual Morung Express in hand and a hot cuppa on my table, I muttered, “so they are quoting CTC , now things will be understood easily !”

“But you like orthodox tea green” said my confused wife, looking at me vaguely, holding her morning masala CTC. “No dear, it is a different CTC I am talking about.”

Showing her the page with a big bright advertisement calling our youth, man and women, to join the Arm Forces.

“Do you see this line mentioning the pay of our brave officer?”

Lieutenant Pay Rs. 15,600, CTC Rs. 65,000.

The Lieutenant may be in the pay band of Rs. 15,600 but the cost of his employer is Rs. 65,000 .

CTC means Cost To Company. Corporate India is calculating employee remuneration through CTC for better understanding but now Govt. has also joined the bandwagon. And it is a welcoming change!

What is Cost to Company? How is it calculated? If your CTC package is so high, why do you get so little in hand?

Your employer offered you a salary of Rs. 6 Lakhs per year. That means you should be getting Rs. 50,000 in hand every month. But you get only Rs. 32,000 in-hand every month! Why? You’ll understand this better while we discuss the various components of your salary!

Components of your in-hand salary are: • Basic • Dearness Allowance (DA) • Incentives or bonuses • Conveyance allowance • House Rent Allowance (HRA) • Medical allowance • Leave Travel Allowance or Concession (LTA / LTC) • Vehicle Allowance • Telephone / Mobile Phone Allowance • Special Allowance All the above are a part of your in-hand salary Now let’s look at some of the other components of your CTC pay – the parts that inflate your CTC package but may not be actually given to you!

– unable to progress or move forward. The seeds of solidarity within the women’s movement could be ruined by ethnic politics which, from the very beginning, has been stronger and more valuable to society than sisterhood and solidarity around women’s advancement. In such a scenario, it will be increasingly difficult for government and women NGOs to reach out to women who need economic and social services in remote areas. As threats to the Kabul-based government intensify, it will be more and more difficult for international agencies that support women’s projects to operate in the country. Life will therefore be more difficult and punishing for Afghan women throughout the country and there will be very little that can be done about it.

The negative scenario The third is the negative scenario, a more fearsome situation of state collapse within an intensified regionalized civil war. This will return the country to a scenario similar to the 1990s with open war between and among different contending power holders with direct and indirect involvement of different neighbouring countries. This is a scenario of chaos which none of us would even want to think about.

Women have already experienced how to live in a situation like this, where life expectancy regresses back to 44 years and nobody dares to worry about getting old. Eyes of women never get dry, widows are created every day, and every minute brings a chance to be an orphan. This is a profoundly depressing scenario.

The developmental scenario I would like to call the fourth scenario the 'developmental scenario', even if others call it a 'donor-desired scenario'. This scenario implies a developmental and partially democratic state that serves as the basis for a unified and peaceful country. One that develops democratic governance, fights corruption, and grants the female population the same rights and opportunities as men. This is the ultimate goal of the international development cooperation. The international community remains committed to this goal and this is a scenario that women and majority of Afghans hope for.

Within such scenario, women may still continue to experience oppression, violence, and denial of rights, especially in remote areas of the country.

But activism for women’s empowerment and gender equality has a better chance of flourishing in this scenario. The international community will also be in a better position to continue assisting gender equality initiatives, and push for the implementation of laws and policies that protect women’s rights. Women leaders and activists will multiply, the women’s movement will blossom to the fullest, and all these will form the basis of an enduring, inter-generational change on the status of women in Afghanistan.

How do we get there?

Faced with these four scenarios, where do we go from here? We need to collectively take a stand to choose the scenario that we want to happen and frame our actions around it. In my opinion as a woman, it is clear that the developmental scenario will bring out the best results, not only for women, but for the entire country. We need to give peace, development, democracy and women’s rights a chance to improve our lives. And we need to say “enough!” to the leadership of people who foster oligarchy and treat our nation as a playground of their own selfish interests. The challenge, however, is how do we influence the current political scene to be able to sway the Afghan scenario towards a developmental scenario? I think that the peace process has opened a floodgate for many powerful factions to assert their own interests in the leadership of the country.

It is like a feisty scramble for the great bacon. So, while we only have the government today to bleed our coffers dry, we see a future situation where every powerful faction cooperates with each other to collectively squeeze every drop of resources that

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are meant for our people. They will not be stealing only our peoples’ money, but also the money that taxpayers of many countries of the world worked hard for. This is why we are in this together.

It is important for us to offer an alternative. If all the major players in the current political field are oligarchs, we can be assured that our country will go nowhere but into the hands of the oligarchs. To me, therefore, the biggest battlefront is the election. We should be able to put up a candidate who will be overwhelmingly supported by the Afghan people, no matter in which part of the world they live. We need to create a different version of people power to turn the table against the oligarchs by mustering an overwhelming victory for a peoples’ Presidential candidate who is backed by the general population in the 2014 national election. Maybe we need to pick out and bring back a brilliant, charismatic, visionary and principled from the many Afghans living abroad - put him or her in the President’s seat and help him or her use the tremendous natural resources underneath our desert to give our country an economic miracle.

And to do this, we should be able to consolidate the votes of the youth, the women, the disabled, the elderly and the ordinary citizens who are tired of being pawns and victims of the problems created by our oligarch leaders. Our people have suffered long enough, and it should not be impossible to sway votes and protect the integrity of the election through a silent revolution in the 2014 polls. To me, a good leader and a great people working together is the best antidote to the messy situation that we are in.

My second idea is for us to strengthen international lobbying to tie up international aid with the human rights agenda. We saw this work during the past twelve years. When the international community made it clear that it was in favour of promoting women’s rights, incredibly positive things happened. We ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) without any reservation; we enshrined women’s rights in the Constitution; we positioned gender equality as a cross cutting agenda of the Afghan National Development Strategy; we adopted an EVAW decree; we brought women in public offices and put Afghanistan in the top 30 countries of the world with the highest representation of women in the Parliament. We also put women in local councils; we won women’s right to get inside the mosque and practice their freedom to worship. These are not small achievements, and we Afghan women know that without the help of the international community we would not have been able to achieve that much. In short, the international community should use the power of aid to influence the political scene of Afghanistan towards a scenario that will benefit the general population and make oligarchy an anachronism.

My third idea is to help the women’s movement in Afghanistan to organize their voice and obtain a space in the current political process. There are current talks on whether there will be an election or an interim administration, or whether the government should be presidential, parliamentary or federative. Whatever change may happen, if women’s perspectives are not taken, it will make no difference to the lives of women at all. We therefore need an intervention that will constantly keep the women’s agenda alive in the midst of these talks which are likely to take place very soon. We want at least 30 percent of women’s representation in any form of government that may be established. We want at least a 30 percent share of the development resources being used for the women’s agenda in the country. We want reforms that are based on gender equality, particularly in the legal system, so that women can enjoy protection under the law. And we want an across-the-board 15-year moratorium in the repeal or amendment of laws and policies on women that were adopted in the past 12 years.

I endorse gender equality as an axial theme of the post Millennium Development Goal agenda. I know that my government will make no statement about it, but this is what women of Afghanistan want.

pendents. Some companies also provide life insurance for their employees free of cost.The premium amounts paid for such insurance on your behalf can be included in your CTC salary.

• Medical Facilities Many companies and PSU have in-house health centers, hospitals or other health care facilities where medical care is provided free of cost to employees.

Companies work out a per-employee cost for such facilities, and can include that in your CTC pay package.

• Transport Facilities Many companies provide free transport facility to their employees from their place of work to the job location. The cost of such transportation can be added to your CTC package.

• Subsidized Meals Many companies run canteens or cafeterias for their employees, which provide subsidised meals to the employees. Such subsidy can be included in your cost to company package.

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basic) to your PF account.

So, although this amount is not given out to you every month, for your employer, it is an expense that it incurs on you every month! Therefore, this forms a part of your CTC pay.

Various reimbursements that you get from your company can also form a part of your CTC package.

This includes: • Medical bills • Phone bills • Magazine subscriptions • Company’s contribution to Provident Fund (PF) • Book purchases, etc.

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The most inspiring people are not always the rich and famous, the celebrities or the well known preacher. Sometimes they are closer home and impact us more then we realize

Lessons From My Grandmother

Loina shohe, Assistant Professor sociology ot too long back, on my profile page on Facebook, there was a spot to write our list of inspirational persons. I had put mine up as Leo Tolstoy, Queen Rania and Khuzhuli Shohe.

In life we all have persons we look up to, persons who influence us through their work and lives they live, the ethics they believe, the qualities they possess, their fight for a cause. Some we meet, some we don’t, some lived even before us, some don’t even know we exist and yet we find inspiration, motivation and consolation through them. In my case the former two are well known personalities but you may be wondering who the latter one is and how she got to be mentioned along the likes of Tolstoys and Queens. Well, she is my maternal grandmother (that is her maiden surname by the way).

Grandma was not well educated as compared to today’s standard. Mom told me she attended only middle school. She did not possess an imposing personality, she was neither much of a talker, nor did she do anything scientifically or literally- exceptionally brilliant. I can’t even think of any artistic extraordinary skills or talent she had. And yet, till today she has been the one person whom I look up to, with all sincerity. For me, her life and the way she lived has been an inspiration, a consolation, a conviction that it can happen in this life too. She taught me and all who cared to know her through the quality of life she lived. And the beauty of it is that it she has never taken credit nor does she acknowledge how much impact she had in the lives of people who had known her.

At this stage I think it would be better if I can cite one by one some of the greatest lessons I ever observed from her life.

Ability to forgive- “To err is human, to forgive is divine”. Probably one of the most common quotes that is so frequently pronounced and so rarely followed, but if there ever was a person who can be so divine, then anyone who knows my grandma can attest to her divinity in forgiving. Grandma went through a very hard time once in life. She was married with three daughters when grandpa wanted a divorce. As per the Sumi custom with the divorce, the children were to remain with the father; she was not to remain in the village, or to meet her children. I heard people telling stories about how her neckpiece was broken into two and the beads scattering. The village people sang songs in the fields lamenting for her and her children. The divorce was done on grounds of some rumors that have never been proven till today. It wouldn’t have been strange if she had gone on with life bitter and vengeful, but she overcame it all through her ability to forgive. In fact, in later years when grandpa remarried she became more like a sister to his wife (my step grandmother).

She was called back to the village once to pray for a certain person who was undergoing some difficulty with life. She did go, the one and only time she returned to her village after they tore her life apart and drove her away. If it were for most of us the first thought could probably have been ‘let them come to me’. But she was not most of us. She had moved on, she had forgiven them all.

Impartial courtesy towards all- People tend to have a way of dealing with people differently. One of the most interesting phenomenon, we can observe in this materialistic world is that most people tend to be sweet or kind towards people who they feel can help them in one way or the other. In other words, many of us practice partial kindness. That means we are not kind to all but only to certain people. My grandma was an exception. I never saw or heard her treat anyone differently.

She had no special favor for a particular grandkid. She treated all of us equally. For her there was no richer or poorer, or fairer or darker, or wiser or foolish, or older or younger. No one who knew grandma would say that she treated them differently.

Respect for other’s differences and ability to accept them as they are- There was this uncle of mine who was really into one particular local leaf we add to chutneys. He liked it so much he used to say, ‘Anyone who doesn’t like this leaf is probably a fool’. Well, he meant it as a joke, but in reality I think I can safely say that many of us often have that attitude. We tend to think that people who are not doing what we are doing or like what we like are probably fools. We keep telling people to do things our way, advising them, and sometimes exclaiming and wondering behind their backs.

Grandma never had this type of attitude; in her colony there was this drunkard and even though she was not a drinker she would be talking politely to him, just as she talks with any other decent person. She never questioned why he was drinking or advised him not to drink. She accepted him just as he was. That was the way she accepted all of us. She just loved us, accepted us - as we were.

Diligence for work and self sufficient- Grandma never had a government job (which is the definition of financial security in our Naga society). She never owed anyone anything nor depended on others for her needs. Most of what she needed was met by working with her own hands. She weaved, ran a shop for some years, and then she started cultivating fields. Even after all her daughters were well settled and could have easily supported her, she was always busy working. Her gardens were weed free and they say her fields were more like gardens, so carefully tended to.

Maybe one reason for it is also because her fields were never too big; she only cultivated an area which she could manage by herself. She rested only on Sundays and special occasions.

Presentable appearance at all times- Grandma was a pretty woman, though she never used sunscreen or lipstick or put on anything too fanciful. She was always perfectly dressed - in her simple mekhalas and feminine blouses, with a light shawl draped over it, paired with sweaters and heavier shawls in winter. She was always clean and proper, whether she was home or came from the field or was just about to go to church.

Contentment with life- She minded her own affairs, lived independently as much as possible. And all through the years I knew her there was never even a single complaint about her life. She never gave the impression that she wished it otherwise or ever heard her pray for it to be different. I never saw her sad or depressed or angry or bitter with her life. She had gentleness, calmness, a happiness that came from within – one such that can never be achieved unless one is truly contented with one’s own life. For if one is not, surely one can break down sometimes, no matter how hard one puts a mask on.

Our grandma had all these qualities, and so much more.

She passed away in the spring of 2009. Since then our lives have been lonelier without her, but we have kept on learning from the life she showed us to live. Her epitaph reads, “You were a true lady”, for indeed she truly was one. I wonder how many of us can expect people who are dear and near - people who know us well enough - to say the same about ourselves some day, with conviction and with no apology.

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‘Hafiz Saeed at LoC to help infiltration’

JAmmU, OCtObeR 22 (IANs): Intelligence reports suggest that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed could be visiting areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir to facilitate cross-border infiltration, said union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Tuesday as Pakistan continued to fire at Indian posts. Pakistan opened fire at Indian posts in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on a day when Shinde was visiting the International Border in the region.

Shinde told reporters in Samba town on the sidelines of a Border Security Force (BSF) Sainik Sammelan: “It is true that information suggests Hafiz Saeed could be visiting areas of LoC to abet infiltration.”

Shinde added: “We can’t say that we are always on the receiving side.” “We have to compromise sometimes, but if they (Pakistan) take an uncompromising position, we will deal with them accordingly.” He said India has always maintained that Kashmir is an integral part of the country. “No third party thing can work. Anything that has to happen has to happen bilaterally,” he said.

The home minister said the matter has been taken up in flag meetings. “I have surveyed areas along the border today, even those from where infiltration took place recently.” “Yes, there is more infiltration as compared to past times. But, the forces are ready to face any situation,” he asserted. Shinde added: “We can’t be tougher by only saying so.

We are taking action to that effect.” On providing security to residents of border areas, the home minister said shelters have to be created by the state government for the civilians when they feel threatened and frightened.

Asked about the reasons for the recent spurt in border firing by Pakistan, he said: “We don’t know what has led to the spurt in ceasefire violations, but we are discussing the matter and will find out.” Shinde said a cordial atmosphere was essential for bilateral talks between India and Pakistan. “Let us see what happens,” he added. Earlier, Shinde made an aerial survey of the International Border in Samba, Akhnoor, Ranbir

Whole country stands by you, Shinde tells BSF in J&K

JAmmU, OCtObeR 22 (AGeNCIes): Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Tuesday interacted with Border Security Force and the Central Armed Police Force in Samba district of Jammu Kashmir, reviewing the situation along the international border with Pakistan. Accompanied by Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Shinde assured the Border Security Force that the government was firmly behind them, assuring them of their continuous support. “We have come here to promise you that we stand by you, the PM and the whole country stands by you,” he said.

Shinde expressed the government’s “full support” for the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and said they have been granted the status of ex-servicemen like their counterparts in the defence services.

“The CAPF are not given the status of ex-servicemen like the defence forces. When I said this to the PM, he asked me to bring a note regarding this in the Cabinet. You all will be happy to know that CAPF have been granted the status of ex-servicemen,” Shinde said. “You’ll are the brave ones fighting at the border to keep our country safe,” he said.

Earlier on Monday, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked the Centre to respond appropriately if talks between the two nations do not work. “The Centre should look at other options if talks are not helping put an end to ceasefire violations along the LoC,” Abdullah had said.

Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde interacting with BSF personnel in Samba sector of Jammu on Tuesday.

Singh Pura (R.S. Pura) and Hira Nagar sectors. He took a security meeting with top BSF field commanders at the Samba headquarters of the paramilitary force.

Shinde, accompanied by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other senior officials, also visited the Hira Nagar police station where four policemen and two civilians were killed by three terrorists Sep 26 this year. The terrorists had later stormed an army camp in Samba where they killed three soldiers and a Lt. colonel, before being gunned down by army commandos. On a day when Shinde was in the region, Pakistan again violated the ceasefire.

Defence spokesman Col. R.K. Palta told IANS: “Pakistan Army has violated the cease-

India starts production at Kudankulam nuclear plant

fire in Hamirpur area of Bhimber Gali today (Tuesday) morning. “They have used mortars, automatics and small arms to target our positions. Our troops have effectively retaliated Pakistan firing using equal calibre weapons,” the spokesman said. “The firing started 10.35 a.m. today (Tuesday) and firing exchanges continued in the area till 11.15 a.m,” he added.

The ceasefire violation came barely hours after an earlier firing exchange when Pakistani troops indulged in heavy shelling of Indian positions in R.S. Pura sector of the international border in Jammu district late Monday night. A senior para military Border Security Force (BSF) officer said Pakistani troops used 82 mm mortars and other heavy weaponry to target positions

Lalu Prasad, Jagdish Sharma disqualified from Lok Sabha

NeW DeLHI, OCtObeR 22 (ReUteRs): India started pumping electricity for the first time from its much-delayed Kudankulam nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, with an initial output of 160 MW, the government said in a statement.

The Russian-built plant has been dogged by opposition for a quarter of a century and last year witnessed violent protests by local villagers, who said the plant was a threat to their safety.

The start of production at the plant comes in the same week as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Russia. Indian media have reported that legal wrangles have prevented an agreement on new reactors being set up at the site. Unable to rely on a coal sector crippled by supply shortages and mired in scandals, India is pushing ahead with constructing nuclear reactors despite global jitters over safety. Hundreds of millions of Indians still live without power and factories suffer frequent blackouts -- an embarrassment to India’s aspirations as an emerging economic powerhouse.

NeW DeLHI, OCtObeR 22 (IANs): Lalu Prasad and Jagdish Sharma were Tuesday disqualified from the Lok Sabha following their conviction in the fodder scam, a Lok Sabha Secretariat official said. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, an MP from Bihar’s Saran district, and Janata Dal (United) MP Jagdish Sharma from Jahanabad in Bihar are the first Lok Sabha members to be disqualified after the Supreme Court order.

The July 10 verdict of the apex court mandated immediate disqualification from parliament and state legislatures of lawmakers convicted for criminal offences punishable with a jail term of more than two years. Congress leader Rasheed

PAtNA, OCtObeR 22 (AP): A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder after 23 children died from eating pesticide-contaminated lunches in July at the school in eastern India, police said Tuesday. The trial of Meena Kumari and her husband was expected to begin soon, said police officer Varun Kumar Sinha. They were arrested and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Investigating police officer Raj Kaushal said the principal’s husband, opposition lawmaker Arjun Rai, stored pesticide at the school that was for use at his agricultural farm. The charge sheet filed in a court in Bihar state on Sunday said the chef cooked with it by mistake.

Both denied the charges and told police there was no deliberate act on their part.

The school’s cooks have told authorities that the principal controlled the food for the government-provided free daily lunch. One of the cooks told police investigators that the cooking oil appeared different than usual, but that the principal told her to use it anyway.

The children who died were between ages 5 and 12.

NeW DeLHI, OCtObeR 22 (PtI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to monitor and conduct periodic checks of all carbonated soft drinks as the issue relates to citizens’ fundamental right to life guaranteed under the Constitution. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri passed the direction while disposing of a PIL that had sought constitution of a separate panel to regulate soft drinks to protect citizens from their “deleterious effects”.

“The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India will conduct periodic checks of the carbonated drinks,” the bench said, adding the matter relates to the

Murder charges filed in school poisonings

in Nikkowal and Abdullian areas of R.S. Pura sector. “The firing started at 9.45 p.m. Monday. We have retaliated strongly to Pakistan shelling,” the official said.

Since the beginning of this year, Pakistani troops have been frequently violating the bilateral ceasefire which was signed

by India and Pakistan in November 2003.

A modicum of normalcy had returned into the lives of thousands of people living close to the Line of Control (LoC) and the international border in Jammu and Kashmir after the ceasefire agreement. But since the beginning of this year, because of repeated Pakistan ceasefire violations, many families living in border villages have been forced to flee to safer places.

NeW DeLHI, OCtObeR 22 (PtI): CBI on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister’s Office seeking all the records related to allocation of coal block to Hindalco, three days after the top office said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had approved it on the basis of ‘merits’ of the case placed before him. CBI sources said the move came after filing of status report before the Supreme Court where the agency has informed the apex court about the latest case registered by it against Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Manglam Birla and former Coal Secretary P C Parakh.

The agency has also mentioned about ‘competent authority’ in the FIR which the PMO had explained in its statement is the Prime Minister who was holding the charge as Coal Minister in 2005 when the decision was taken. PMO has termed the decision to allot Talabira coal block to Hindalco as ‘appropriate’. Meanwhile, reacting to CBI’s action, Minister of State for PMO V Narayanasamy said, “we have nothing to hide and have already given thousands of documents to the agency.”

CBI has said in a statement that it would probe every aspect of the case mentioned in its FIR before taking any call on the future course of action. “As of now, the investigation is going on. We will probe every aspect of the FIR before a future course of action is decided,” CBI has said. The FIR alleges that while the recommendations of the Screening Committee, which had rejected Hindalco’s application citing “valid reasons”, were being approved by the “competent authority”, it received letters dated May 17, 2005, and June 17, 2005, from Birla requesting allocation of the Talabira II coal block, which were forwarded to the Ministry of Coal.

It said Birla met Parakh in July, 2005, requesting allocation of the block. “Pursuant to these letters and the meeting between Parakh and Birla, the former abused his official position and recommended the allocation of Talabira II along with Talabira III to Hindalco Industries without any valid basis or change in circumstances and with the sole intention to show undue favours,” it alleged. Parakh has contended that while he did make the recommendation, it was the Prime Minister who took the final decision on it.

Masood was Monday disqualified from the Rajya Sabha, following his conviction in a corruption case. On Sep 30, a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court convicted Lalu Prasad, Jagdish Sharma and others in a case of fraudulent withdrawal of Rs.37.70 crore from Chaibasa treasury in the then undivided Bihar during 1994-95 when Lalu Prasad was the chief minister.

Special CBI Judge Pravas Kumar Singh sentenced Lalu Prasad to five years’ imprisonment and slapped a Rs.25 lakh fine to him. The RJD chief is lodged in Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi, the Jharkhand capital An Indian woman carries freshly made earthen lamps to dry at a potter’s workshop at the Dharavi where the special CBI court tried and slum area ahead of the Diwali festival in Mumbai, on Tuesday, October 22. Diwali, the festival of convicted him. lights will be celebrated on Sunday, November 3. (AP Photo)

SC directs food safety authority to conduct periodic checks of soft drinks fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. The apex court had on December 13, 2012, reserved its order on a PIL filed in 2004 for setting up a committee to evaluate the alleged harmful effects of soft drinks on human health and to properly label the beverages, detailing their ingredients.

The plea had alleged that the ingredients of carbonated drinks have “serious deleterious effects on human health” and no action has been taken to test and assess the risk posed by such beverages.

Soft drink major Pepsi’s counsel, however, had opposed the PIL, saying the Food Safety and Standards Act aimed at regulating the standards of beverages was “suf-

ficient” and all the regulations were in place.

The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), in its petition filed in 2004, had also sought directions to cola firms to disclose the contents/ingredients on the label of their bottles and to regulate “misleading” advertisements targeting children. The apex court had earlier asked FSSAI to file “records” relating to proceedings of its panels, formed following a judicial order on the PIL filed by the NGO. The court’s direction came after Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO CPIL, had alleged that instead of an expert panel, another FSSAI panel on labelling and claims/ advertisement should consider the grievance of additives in

‘Chargesheet aimed at humiliating me’

CHANDIGARH, OCtObeR 22 (AGeNCIes): With Haryana government set to slap a second chargesheet against him, whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who shot into limelight for questioning controversial Robert Vadra-DLF land deals, has alleged that he was being victimized and publicly humiliated without being heard for exposing “open public loot”. In an 11-page letter to the chief secretary PK Chaudhery, he attacked chief minister’s principal secretary SS Dhillon and alleged that he along with senior officers had “ganged up” against

Coal Scam: CBI seeks Hindalco files from Prime Minister’s Office

him and he was facing action for failing to toe the line of the political masters.

Dhillon was not available for comment despite repeated attempts to reach him while sources in the Haryana government maintained they were yet to receive the letter from Khemka. “My biggest ‘crime’, of course, was my cancellation of the mutation by Shri Robert Vadra’s Sky Light Hospitality to DLF Universal on 15th October, 2012,” said Khemka, who had a year back sparked a controversy by cancelling the mutation of the land deal between Sonia Gandhi’s sonin-law Vadra and real estate major DLF in Gurgaon.

The Haryana government is in the process of serving the IAS officer a second chargesheet for alleged irregularities in wheat seeds sale during his tenure in Haryana Seed Development Corporation as its managing director from October 15, 2012 to April

4 this year. “If anything adverse was held against me for the unsold seed stocks, the minimum expected was to at least afford me an opportunity to explain before publicly humiliating me with the announcement of a second chargesheet in the media,” Khemka, who has been transferred over 40 times during his career so far, said in his letter on Monday.

Meanwhile, Khemka said that he had not received any chargesheet so far. Three weeks back, the Haryana government had decided to charge Khemka for alleged administrative misconduct in cancelling the mutation of the land deal between Vadra and DLF in Gurgaon. The 1991-batch IAS officer has been held liable for alleged administrative misconduct for overstepping jurisdiction in passing orders to cancel the mutation of 3.5 acre land in Gurgaon’s Shikohpur village. The land was sold by Vadra to DLF. Khemka claimed that the motive of charging him without an opportunity of hearing and announcing the same in the media “is to publicly humiliate me for conscientiously doing my duty and to instill a sense of fear in others

as to what would happen in the event the desire of the political masters is not fulfilled.” He alleged that the favours dispensed to colonizers in the Town & Country Planning and Urban Estates Departments by way of granting change in land use permissions, colony licenses, tweaking town development plans, acquisition and release of land is too well known and need not be further elaborated here.

“My position is like the batsman in a cricket match who is asked to bat in a match where the umpire is totally biased and he knows that the umpire will raise the dreaded finger on any frivolous appeal by the fielding team. The umpire in this matter is not neutral, but is the mentor of the fielding team continuously goading the players of the opposing team to appeal so that he can raise his dreaded finger,” he wrote. Khemka said he was facing action “for daring to speak out in the course of my official duty against the open public loot and conflict of interest by public servants in the release of land, change in land use permissions, grant and transfer of colony licenses....”

carbonated drinks. The apex court, on February 8, 2011, had asked FSSAI to reconstitute independent scientific panels to look into the harmful effects of chemicals in carbonated beverages.

FSSAI had passed an order after examining various ingredients of carbonated beverages such as artificial sweetener, phosphoric, malic and citric acid, carbon dioxide, colouring agents, benzoic acid and caffeine. FSSAI’s panel had said these ingredients, under prescribed limits, would pose no health hazards. Scientific Panel on Labelling and Claims/Advertisement of FSSAI, in its order, had said, “The expert group reviewed the scientific studies and Food Safety Standards(FSS) Regulations, 2011

and confirmed the following: “All ingredients mentioned above are within the levels as prescribed in the FSS Regulations, 2011 as per the ‘Analytical Data on Carbonated Beverages’, produced by Food Research and Standardisation Laboratory, Ghaziabad. “Based on updated scientific reviews, if these ingredients are consumed within the prescribed levels, no health hazard would be caused in humans,” Earlier, counsel appearing for FSSAI, had said the PIL be disposed of as all reliefs claimed

by CPIL “stand satisfied.” He had said that the Food Safety and Standards Act which came into effect in 2006 took care of all the issues raised in the petition.

Angry ex-followers of Asaram set fire to part of his ashram VALsAD, GUJARAt, OCtObeR 22 (PtI): A portion of selfstyled godman Asaram Bapu’s ashram was burnt down in Pariya village at Pardi taluka here by a group of ex-followers, who are upset after allegations of sexual assault surfaced against him, police said on Tuesday. On Monday, some people who had provided land to Asaram Bapu for building his ashram in this remote tribal area burnt down a part of the structure, they said. They had earlier donated land to Asaram, but are no longer his supporters after the allegations of sexual assault resurfaced against him and his son Narayan Sai, they said.

Surat Police had recently registered complaints filed by two sisters - one against Asaram and another against his son Narayan Sai - of rape, sexual assault, illegal confinement and other charges. The complaint against Asaram was transferred to Chandkheda police station in Ahmedabad as the incident took place in his ashram here.

The case is going on in Gandhinagar court as Chandkheda area falls in Gandhinagar district.

The elder of the two sisters, in her complaint, had accused Asaram of sexual assault between 1997 and 2006 during the time she had been living in his ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The younger sister had filed a complaint against Sai, accusing him of repeated sexual assault between 2002 and 2005 when she was living in their Surat ashram. The whereabouts of Sai are not known. Both Asaram and Sai had filed petitions in the Gujarat high court seeking quashing of sexual assault complaints against them. Sai has already filed for anticipatory bail in a court in Surat.

Earlier, Asaram was arrested by Jodhpur police in a sexual assault case filed against him by a school girl studying in his ashram. The 2 sisters had come forward to register case against Asaram and Sai after the family of the schoolgirl registered a case against the senior.

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Amnesty criticizes US drone program in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, OctOBer 22 (AP): Amnesty International called on the US to investigate reports of civilians killed and wounded

by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan in a report released Tuesday that provided new details about the alleged victims of the attacks, including a 68-year-old grandmother hit while farming with her grandchildren.

Mamana Bibi’s grandchildren told the Londonbased rights group that she was killed by missile fire on Oct. 24, 2012, as she was collecting vegetables in a family field in the North Waziristan tribal area, a major militant sanctuary near the Afghan border. Three of Bibi’s grandchildren were wounded in the strike, as were several others who were nearby, the victims said.

The U.S. considers its drone program to be a key weapon against insurgent groups that it says stages cross-border forays into neighboring Afghanistan.

But the belief, widespread in Pakistan, that the strikes kill large numbers of civilians sparks resentment and complicates the two countries’ ability to coordinate efforts against militants based in the country, including al-Qaida.

An even deadlier incident noted by the report — titled “’Will I be next?’

U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan”— occurred in North Waziristan on July 6, 2012.

Witnesses said a volley of

In this Friday, December 10, 2010 file photo, Pakistani tribal villagers hold a rally to condemn the U.S. drone attacks on their villages in border areas along the Afghanistan border, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Amnesty International calls on the U.S. to investigate reported civilian casualties from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and compensate victims in a report providing new details about innocent citizens allegedly killed in the attacks. (AP File Photo)

missiles hit a tent where a group of men had gathered for an evening meal after work, and then a second struck those who came to help the wounded, one of a number of attacks that have hit rescuers, the rights group said. Witnesses and relatives said that total of 18 male laborers with no links to militant groups died, according to Amnesty. Pakistani intelligence officials at the time identified the dead as suspected militants.

The U.S. did not respond to request for comment on the strike. President Barack Obama said during a speech in May that the U.S. does not conduct a drone strike unless there is “near-

Bottle feeding may increase stomach obstruction in infants

WAShINGtON, OctOBer 22 (IANS): Infants who are bottle-fed are more likely to develop hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, than those who are breastfed, according to US researchers. The risk appears to be magnified when mothers are older and have more than one child, researchers from the Seattle Children’s Hospital in Washington reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, Xinhua reported.

HPS typically occurs during the first two months of an infant’s life. Surgery is needed to correct the obstruction, which occurs due to thickening of the smooth muscle layer of the pylorus, the passage between the stomach and small intestines.

The researchers used birth certificates and date of discharge to examine births between 2003 and 2009 and found 714 infants were admitted with HPS and had surgery. The findings indicated that the incidence of HPS decreased from 14 per 10,000 births in 2003 to 9 per 10,000 births in 2009, while breastfeeding prevalence increased from 80 percent in 2003 to 94 percent in 2009.

The researchers said that about 19.5 percent of infants who developed HPS were bottle fed, compared to 9 percent of babies who were breastfed. The number of infants developing HPS also increased when mothers were aged 35 years or more and had given birth more than once.

“These data suggest that bottle feeding may play a role in HPS etiology, and further investigations may help to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the observed effect modification by age and parity,” the researchers concluded.

Assad casts doubt on peace conference

BeIrut, OctOBer 22 (AP): Syria’s president cast doubt Monday on the chances of holding a long-delayed international peace conference to end the country’s civil war, saying the factors that would help such talks succeed do not currently exist.

The United States and Russia have been trying for months to convene a conference in Geneva to negotiate a political solution to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and forced some 2 million more to flee the country.

The U.N. chief has set mid-November as a target for the proposed gathering, but both Damascus and the opposition are skeptical and no final date has been announced.

President Bashar Assad brushed aside the renewed efforts to coax the government and its opponents to the negotiating table, telling Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV in an interview that “the factors that would help in holding it (the conference) are not in place if we want it to succeed.”

He said it’s not clear who would represent the opposition, or what credibility the opposition’s representatives would have inside Syria.

“Who are the groups that will participate? What is their relation with the Syrian people? Do they represent the Syrian people or they represent the country that made them?” Assad asked, alluding to his government’s claim that the rebels are agents of Western and Arab powers.

“There are many questions about the conference.” For its part, Syria’s fractured opposition has yet to decide whether to attend the proposed Geneva conference.

The main Western-backed opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, is scheduled to meet Nov. 1-2 in Istanbul to decide whether to take part in the talks. One prominent faction within the Coalition, the Syrian National Council, has said it has no faith in negotiations with Assad’s regime and won’t participate in any Geneva negotiations.

The ability of the Turkey-based Coalition to speak for the broader rebellion has long been in dispute, and fighters inside Syria — many of whom reject negotiations with the regime — have accused the opposition leaders in exile of being out of touch with reality on the ground.

certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.”

But Amnesty said the U.S. is so secretive about the program that there is no way to tell what steps it takes to prevent civilian casualties.

They say it has “failed to commit to conduct investigations” into alleged deaths that have already occurred.

Several different organizations have tried to track the number of civilian casualties from nearly ten years of drone strikes in Pakistan, including the Long War Journal website, the New America Foundation think tank and the Bureau of Investigative journalism.

These groups indicated that the attacks have killed

between 2,065 and 3,613 people, the report said. Between 153 and 926 were thought to be civilians.

Amnesty said it is concerned that the attacks outlined in the report and others may have resulted in unlawful killings that constitute extrajudicial executions or war crimes, even though the U.S. insists the strikes are legal.

“We cannot find any justification for these killings. There are genuine threats to the USA and its allies in the region, and drone strikes may be lawful in some circumstances,” said Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International’s Pakistan researcher. “But it is

hard to believe that a group of laborers, or an elderly woman surrounded by her grandchildren, were endangering anyone at all, let alone posing an imminent threat to the United States.”

Amnesty called on the U.S. to comply with its obligations under international law by investigating the killings documented in the report and providing victims with “full reparation.”

The U.S. carried out its first drone strike in Pakistan in 2004 and has carried out nearly 350 more since then, the majority of which have been in North Waziristan. President Barack Obama significantly ramped up attacks when he took office in 2009, and the number peaked the following year with over 100 strikes. The frequency has steadily dropped since then, partly because of growing tension between Pakistan and the U.S. There have only been around two dozen strikes so far this year. Pakistani officials regularly denounce the attacks in public as a violation of the country’s sovereignty, but senior members of the government and the military are known to have supported the strikes in the past. “Amnesty International is also extremely concerned about the failure of the Pakistani authorities to protect and enforce the rights of victims of drone strikes,” said the report.

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BeIJING, OctOBer 22 (reuterS): China has no intention of altering its “correct” policies in the restive region of Tibet as they have brought unprecedented achievements, a government white paper said on Tuesday, slamming the romanticised notion Tibet was once an idyllic fairyland.

China has long defended its iron-fisted rule in remote and mountainous Tibet, saying the region suffered from dire poverty, brutal exploitation of serfs and economic stagnation until 1950, when Communist troops “peacefully liberated” Tibet and introduced “democratic reforms” in 1959.

When President Xi Jinping took office earlier this year there had been expectations in some quarters he may take a softer line on Tibet, partly because his late father, a reformist vice premier, had a close bond with the Dalai Lama. But Xi has shown no sign of changing course in Tibet.

In a lengthy policy paper carried by the official Xinhua news agency, the government said that Tibet under Chinese rule had achieved a great deal. “Today’s Tibet is developing economically, making progress politically, has a flourishing culture, a harmonious

society and a good environment; its people are happy and healthy,” it said. “Tibet’s development cannot be separated from this correct path,” the white paper added.

Tibetan exiles and rights groups say that China tramples on Tibet’s culture, religion, language and environment, and has committed grievous abuses to ensure Beijing’s rule. Tensions in China’s Tibetan regions are at their highest in years after a spate of self-immolation protests by Tibetans, which have led to an intensified security crackdown.

More than 120 Tibetans have set themselves alight since 2009. Most have died.

The white paper rejected the criticism, saying that “any fair-minded person would be filled with amazement” at the advancements China has bought to Tibet.

“There are some others in the world who intentionally distort the past and present of Tibet due to their ideological bias or out of consideration for their self interests. They created a ‘Shangri-La’ myth, wishing to keep Tibet in a backward primitive state forever,” the white paper added.

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Catholic leaders’ exposure trip to Shillong

DImAPur, OctObEr 22 (mExN): Catholic leaders of St. Mary’s Parish, Lozaphuhu undertook an exposure trip to Shillong on October 15 and 16. Altogether, 15 leaders from Phek Town, Lanizho and Lozaphuhu visited some of the important tourist sites in Cheerapunjee and Shillong, museums, theological colleges, cathedrals and Archbishop’s house.

The most thrilling, beautiful and informative experiences, according to a release were the visits to Mawsmai cave and Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Culture. The group also had a “Thanksgiving Mass” at Oriens Theological College, Mawlai. For most of them, it was a first trip outside Nagaland to see and experience other cultures and beliefs. The note stated that an

elderly man among the group with great excitement said, “I never knew such a beautiful world beyond Nagaland.”

The trip was organized for the leaders as part of “The year of Faith” programme.

Chiekhupa Robert, the local Catechist of St. Mary’s Church, Lozaphuhu on behalf of the pilgrimage group has expressed gratitude to Rev. Fr. Antony Rozu Dukru, the Parish priest for organizing the trip and Rev. Fr. James Sangtam, the Associate priest for accompanying the group. The leaders also acknowledged sincere gratitude to Rev. Fathers of Bishop’s House, Dimapur, Rev.Fr.Jose (Rector), Rev. Fr. Isaac (Professor) and Community of Oriens Theological College, Shillong for providing them accommodations.

kIsAmA, OctObEr 22 (DIPr): The Southern Anagami Women Organisation (SAWO) Day was held on October 12 at Kisama, Naga Heritage Village with Minister for Social Welfare, Kiyanilie Peseyie as the chief guest. Exhorting the women gathering, Kiyanilie reminded them that Naga women are more empowered as compared to the women of the sister States and encouraged them to come to the forefront. Stating that the government was not averse with the issue of women empowerment, Kiyanilie advised the women to work harder showing their capability, ability and asked them to work harder in all the areas availing the opportunities offered by the government. On the occasion, the Minister also highlighted on the various programmes offered by the

Social Welfare Department like old age pension, programme for teenage girls etc.

Parliamentary Secretary for Housing and Treasuries and Accounts, Er. Vikho-o Yhoshu and Parliamentary Secretary for IPR, Printing & Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu showered praises on the women gathering for their love and perseverance and for shouldering responsibilities for upkeep of a harmonious family and society.

Highlights of the programme included folk song presentation by Mima Women Society and Jakhama Women Society and special song by Neiba Bio. Advisor SAWO, R. Rita Chaya delivered the welcome address while Advisor SAWO Avono Kere proposed the vote of thanks.

President SAWO Lekhone Leno chaired the programme.

DImAPur, OctObEr 22 (mExN): Business Association of NAGAS (BAN) held its meeting on 0ctober 19, 2013 along with all the advisors. In a press note received here, it stated that Dr Khekugha Muru (gen secy) highlighted the works and progress of BAN. Joseph Mero convenor of fact finding committee on fuel

adulteration presented the findings to the Members of BAN. The note also stated that the House further asked the committee to also submit an action plan in this matter. BAN also reaffirms its support to ACAUT. BAN also sincerely thank Mongkum Jamir (treasure BAN) for hosting and providing dinner.

Southern Anagami Women Organisation Day held ADELAIDE, OctObEr 22 (AP): Former captain Ricky Ponting has urged Australia's cricket selectors to show faith in batsmen David Warner and Phil Hughes, saying he would pick both for next month's Ashes opener against England.

Ponting said he was sure that after a number of disciplinary issues, opening batsman Warner had learned his lesson and was ready to take his place in the Australian lineup. He rated Hughes as one of Australia's best young batsman and also called for the selection of erratic fast bowler Mitchell Johnson Ponting recently has been outspoken in his opin-

ion of Australian cricket and said the inconsistent treatment meted out to Hughes by the selectors highlighted one of its greatest faults. "He is clearly our best young batsman in the country," Ponting told the Australian Associated Press. "The guy knows how to bat. He knows how to score runs.

And he's just the sort of character that you love to have around your team.

"He would be somebody that I would give a spot in the order and let him go about making that his own ... if you give him a bit of love and a bit of stability around his game, I'm sure he'll come good."

Though only 24, Hughes

has already been dropped three times from the Australian test team. Warner has also been unable to establish a regular place and both have been moved up and down the batting order.

"I'd like to see the selectors pick who they believe their best six batsmen are for the first test and then actually stick when them for the whole series," Ponting said. "Give them a bit of confidence and a bit of security, knowing that they're not playing for their spot each time they walk out on to the field. And then, at the end of the five (Ashes) tests, if some of the batsmen haven't done it, then it probably is time to move on

and look for someone else."

Australia has lost four of the five Ashes since 2005, when Ponting's squad lost in England to end an almost two-decade period of domination. That included a home series defeat in 2010-11 and the most recent series that finished in England in August.

Warner was suspended from the Australian squad for a month for punching young England batsman Joe Root in a nightclub prior to the last series in England. He was disciplined for a Twitter tirade against two Australian journalists and more recently punished for missing a Sydney club match.

Ponting said Warner's behavior might be a reflection of his cricket predicament. "To me, some of the things that have happened have just been almost telltale signs of someone just under extreme pressure," Ponting said. "The thing about Davey, he hasn't had a break from any cricket for about two years ... and it's such a high-pressurized environment, you need to be able to get away and let a bit of steam off here and there.

"Whenever he has tried to do that, he has got himself in a little bit of trouble.

He would have learnt from that and it will make him a better person and hopefully a better cricketer."

Fulham beats Crystal Palace in EPL

LONDON, OctObEr 22 (AP): Pajtim Kasami and Steve Sidwell both scored with spectacular volleys as Fulham came from behind to beat Crystal Palace 4-1 Monday in the Premier League.

Palace took an early lead through Adrian Mariappa in the seventh minute, but Kasami brought Fulham level with one of the best goals of the season so far when he controlled a long ball with his chest and volleyed in with his next touch from the right edge of the area.

Sidwell then added another highlight goal just before halftime when a free kick was blocked by the Palace wall and bounced into his path, and he unleashed another volley from outside the area past goalkeeper Julian Speroni.

Dimitar Berbatov headed in the third in the 50th and Philippe Senderos added the fourth with another volley from close range five minutes later. The win lifts Fulham into 14th place with

DKSU informs

DImAPur, OctObEr 22 (mExN): The Dimapur Kyong (Lotha) Students’ Union has informed the runners up (Bro Lengri Lotha Youth Club) of the 18th ND Running Trophy namely late Nyamo Lotha & late Daniel Lotha Memorial Football Trophy 2012 and the champions, runners up of 3rd Tokhu Emong Volleyball Trophy 2012 to return the trophy. The fixture will be held on October 30 at 3:00 pm at DKSU office Lotha Hoho Ki, which also will be the last date for submission of forms. For further information contact 8014480207 or 9615670127. This was informed in a press release issued by DKSU games & sports secretary R. Elis Lotha.

Inter-Ward Volley Tourney Medziphema

mEDzIPhEmA, OctObEr 22 (mExN): The 2nd Inter-ward Volleyball Tournament 2013, Medziphema, is scheduled to be held on November 5 and 6 at Thehouba Ground, Medziphema Town. Zhaleo Rio, Parliamentary Secretary for Urban Development will grace the opening ceremony as the chief guest.

The organisers, Thehouba Youth Organisation, has invited everyone to witness the games and at the same time, requested youths of all the wards to be prepared for an action-packed tournament.

Crystal Palace's Adrian Mariappa, top left, scores a goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Fulham at Selhurst Park Stadium in London, Monday, Oct. 21. (AP Photo)

10 points from eight games and eases some of the pressure on manager Martin Jol after a poor start to the season. Palace remained second to last, with just three points in its first season

back in the top flight.

"It was unbelievably important to get a result," Jol said. "We needed the three points, so now ... that's a better position for Fulham." It was only the

second time that Fulham scored four goals away in the Premier League, and the first two will be talked about for some time.

Kasami's was the most impressive, as he ran onto

a long by Sascha Riether and chested the ball ahead of him as he broke into the area. Before the ball had time to land, he struck a perfect volley — with his weaker right foot — that sailed past the flailing Speroni and into the far corner.

"Yeah, that was an unbelievable goal and I'm very pleased," Kasami said. "I saw I could run in the space, and it came perfect for my chest and I took it direct with my right foot." Jol said even he was stunned by Kasami's strike, "because I haven't seen him do it before" in training. "It was a real good goal from a talented boy," Jol said. "It could be one of the goals of the season." Sidwell's strike may have earned similar praise, had it not come shortly after Kasami's. After Bryan Ruiz's free kick slammed into the wall, the ball dropped to the 30-year-old midfielder who thrashed a dipping volley into the top left corner to put the visitors in front.

Stage set for Naga Style WrestleMania 2 KING OF THE RING SERIES 2013

wrestling warriors from Angami, Chakhesang and Lotha tribes but also 9 wrestlers from Mizoram and 27 Poumai wrestlers from Senapati.

Minister for Roads & Bridges Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu and Minister for Youth Resources & Sports Merentoshi R. Jamir will grace the occasion as the chief guest and guest of honour respectively.

The inaugural function on October 24 will start from 10:00 am onwards.

Seasonal tickets (includes lucky draw) are priced as follows: Gallery – Rs. 100/- (valid for 3 days) Chair – Rs. 400 (valid for 3 days) Daily tickets will be Preparation underway for Naga Style Wrestle Mania 2 in Kohima. (Morung Photo) priced as follows: GalleryOur Correspondent which will be contested by reaching pre-quarterfinal Rs. 50 and chair – Rs. 200. the best wrestlers selected and quarterfinal stages will Spectators may avail parkKohima | October 22 ing facility in the premises at from all the three categories. be entitled to cash prizes.

One of the biggest sporting The champion in each cateThis event is being or- Rs. 100 per vehicle. events of the year, Nagas- gory will receive Rs. 50,000 ganised with an aim to take tyle WrestleMania 2 (King each, while the King Of The indigenous (Naga) wresFIXTURE Of The Ring Series 2013) Ring 2013 will receive a tling forward through a 24th October – 1st Series organised by 3E (Elite En- cash prize of Rs. 75,000 and professional system so as Lightweight tertainment Enterprise) a brand new bike. to provide wrestlers of dif- Championship – Starts Nagaland under the aegis of 10:00 am Cash prizes will per- ferent physiques with equal Nagaland Wrestling Associ- colate from the title win- opportunities to compete 25th Oct. – 2nd & 3rd ation (NWA) will take place ners down to wrestlers for their respective category Series at the Kohima Local Ground who reach the round of 32 titles and at the same time, Middleweight from October 24 to 26. & Heavyweight for Lightweight category. take a shot at the ultimate This mega sporting However, since the number open title ‘King Of The Ring’ Championships – Starts event will see 156 wrestlers of registered wrestlers in which conforms with our 10:00 am battle it out for their respec- Middleweight and Heavy- traditional system of pick- 26th Oct. – Final Series tive category championship weight categories does not ing the best among the best.

King of The Ring titles followed by the ulti- meet the required miniThis year’s event will Championship – Starts mate King Of The Ring title mum limit, only wrestlers witness not only local 11:00 am

BAN holds meet with advisors

Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day observed at Mkg

mOkOkchuNg, OctObEr 22 (mExN): The Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day was observed at IDSP Hall, Imkongliba Memorial District Hospital Mokokchung. The GNM Students of School of Nursing and the Health Officials attended the programme. The resource person Dr. Kibang Dy. CMO & Dist. Nodal Officer NIDDCP Mokokchung highlighted the gathering on Iodine deficiency and diseases. He stressed the Nursing students to be the torch bearers on awareness of the use of iodised salt.

The sharp wittedness and with good literacy of the Bengalis and Keralites could be due to their increase intake of iodine, he also added. Demonstration of Iodine contend in salt by using salt testing kit was demonstrated by Shri. Merenlemba, Food safety Officer CMO Office Mokokchung. This was followed by

group discussion with good response from the students. The programme was chaired by Miss. Tongpangkokla PHN & Tutor School of Nursing IMDH Mokokchung.

DImAPur, OctObEr 22 (mExN): Winter Vegetable seeds distribution cum training programme was conducted by the District Horticulture Office Wokha Nagaland on October 17, 2013 under HMNEH 2013-14 at Yanpha Vegetable Village covering an area of 10 hectares.

A press note received here stated that the resource persons for the training were Meyasashi, DHO Wokha, Nyanbemo, JFA, Imkong HEA. It was also mentioned that 20 beneficiaries attended the

programme.

The main objective of the scheme is to encourage the farmers to adopt vegetable cultivation as a year round activity both winter and summer so as to meet the requirement of local market and also to send out the surplus produce outside of the district. The department of the Horticulture has adopted four vegetable villages under Wokha district namely Longsa, Wokha Village, Baghty and Yanpha which covers an area of 40 hectares.

Resource person Dr. Kibang speaking at the Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day observed at IDSP Hall, Imkongliba Memorial District Hospital Mokokchung.

Winter vegetable seeds distribution cum training programme held

Reaching out to the villages on health issues

kIPhIrE, OctO bEr 22 (mExN): Village Health Nutrition Day (VHND) is held every month in the villages; it is an effective platform for providing primary health care at the grassroots level. Initiated under National Rural Health Mission, VHND has been an effective way in reaching out to the people in the villages to bring about the much needed behavioural changes and in inducing health seeking behaviour Health workers immunizing a child during the VHND at Kiin the community leading setong village, Kiphire district on October 20. to better health outcomes. tee (VHSC) on Reproductive Child Health Therefore, in Kiphire, a team com- (RCH) programmes and maintenance of prising of Chief Medical Officer, District reports, the importance of IEC materials: Program Offficer, NVDCP, Medical officer, Citizens Charter, Demographic profile of Amahator PHC, DPM, IEC personnel, Dis- the respective Health units, Sign boards trict Community Mobilizer, BPM NRHM & posters needs to be displayed in proper had a monitoring and evaluation visit location, and VHND to be conducted comto the Health Units and villages: Chomi, pulsory every month in all the villages. In Zhimkiur, Longmatra Town, Longmatra the course of duty, the team interacted with village, Kisetong, Old and New Risethsi, the medical staff and provided inputs in upAmahator village, Kuisam area starting scaling the services catered to the people. from October 8 till October 21, 2013.

Basic health care services and mediThis is an ongoing process which will be cines were provided to the villagers. IEC carried out in all the villages, with teams materials- leaflets and posters were also divided in 9 groups, stated a press note distributed. Health talks on importance issued by District Media Officer, CMO Of- of Immunization, Family Planning serfice, Kiphire Pezaguno Celine Sechu. vices, JSY & JSSK, were also given. InteracDuring the visit, the team monitored tive session (inter personal communicaand evaluated the various activities un- tion) was also held with the participants der Village Health & Sanitation Commit- regarding health issues.

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opstar Rihanna was asked to leave an Abu Dhabi mosque because she did not have permission for a Photoshoot, it emerged today. Staff at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque say they asked the singer to leave the compound after her actions were considered to be at odds with the 'sanctity' of the site.

Photos posted on her Instagram account at the weekend show the 25-year-old posing on white marble wearing a head-to-toe hooded black jumpsuit. She is known for her raunchy outfits so the Photoshoot was deemed conservative for the Bajan singer, although she made sure she had bright

red lipstick and large gold accessories. But today it emerged that Rihanna and her team was not given permission to take photos at the mosque, the main place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers.

The mosque, which is the largest in the UAE and can hold more than 40,000 people, released a statement, and although it does not name Rihanna, it refers to a 'recent incident, involving a singer.' 'In the event of behaviour that violates the moral codes of access to the mosque, or other visit regulations – such as taking inappropriate pictures, posing in ways that are improper in the context of sacred place, talking loudly, or eating –

the violators are directed in a polite manner that reflects the civilisation and tolerant attributes of Islam,' the statement read.

'Here, the Centre refers to a recent incident, involving a singer who came for a private visit to the mosque, at a gate that is not reserved for visitors, without prior coordination with the Centre’s management and without identifying herself,' it said reported The National. It said the singer 'left without entering the mosque, after being asked to do so, due to the fact that she had taken some pictures that do not conform with the conditions and regulations put in place by the Centre’s management to

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fter close to a year of being engaged to each other, the pair were wed in secret over the weekend. Kelly Clarkson and her long-time beau Brandon Blackstock have gotten married; tying the knot in an intimate ceremony held over the weekend in rural Tennessee. The two managed to keep the ceremony on the down low and their union wasn't revealed until Monday evening (21 October), when the new Mrs Blackstock tweeted about the big Sunday (20 Oct.) ceremony.

Clarkson and Blackstock managed to keep their union quiet from the press until Monday's revregulate visits in a way elation, although we did that takes the status and know it was coming when sanctity of the mosque into consideration.'

Many of her fans attacked the singer for the photos which have since appeared on websites across the world. 'Rihanna may look gorgeous and all but she’s covering her head out of fashion not out of respect for the mosque,' wrote one user. Rihanna hasn't publicly responded to the actions by staff at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque which is a major tourist site in the United Arab Emirates' capital. Rihanna is currently on her Diamonds world tour, having just arrived in the country after playing shows in South Africa.

the two showed up in person at a Sumner County (TN) clerks office to apply for a marriage license last week. Considering these only last for thirty days then most were suspecting that the big day was imminent.

The ceremony itself was a low key, intimate affair, attended by only a handful of close friends and family, including Brandon's children from a previous marriage.

As stated in Clarkson's first tweet, the pair were married in Blackberry Farms, TN, describing it as "the most beautiful place ever!"

She also used Twitter to name the designer of her dress - Temperley London - and even shared a few glossies from the big day.

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Justin Bieber superfan from Los Angeles has spent more than $100,000 (£67,000) on cosmetic procedures to look like his pop idol. Toby Sheldon, 33, has undergone hair transplants, face and lip enhancements, Botox injections in his forehead and temples, chin liposuction, an eyelid lift, so he resembles the teenager, according to Britain's Daily Mail.

The wannabe tells the publication, Once Justin shot to fame, his face was everywhere and I all I kept thinking when I saw his picture was, 'I want to look like him'. By using Justin's charming baby face as my inspiration, I've been able to restructure my entire look to maintain a much more youthful appearance through plastic surgery.

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A chief of Heat, said: “One Direction are young, talented, staggeringly good looking and adored by millions. To that we can now add ‘rolling in cash’. No one said

ceelo Green pleads not guilty to ecstasy charge rammy-winning R&B singer and "The Voice" TV judge CeeLo Green pleaded not guilty on Monday to a felony charge of giving the drug ecstasy to a woman without her knowledge while the two were dining, prosecutors said. Green, whose real name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, was charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with one count of furnishing a controlled substance.

Green entered the plea in a Los Angeles court and faces up to four years in state prison if convicted.

The singer "slipped" ecstasy to the 33-year-old woman while the two were dining at a Los Angeles restaurant in July 2012, according to prosecutors. The woman said she did not know that Green had given her the drug, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Ecstasy is a lab-produced drug that acts as a stimulant and can cause hallucinations. Green, 39, and the unnamed woman went back to her hotel room after dinner, prosecutors said. Celebrity website TMZ.com reported last year that the woman had filed a police report accusing Green of sexual assault.

Robison said the alleged victim had contacted the police. Prosecutors, however, said there was insufficient evidence to charge Green with rape of an in-

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eart-throbs One Direction have topped another chart - toppling Daniel Radcliffe from the number one spot in a rich list of young stars. The singers have shot to the summit of Heat magazine’s Rich List for under-30s with combined earnings estimated at £59.33 million.

One Direction - soon to release their third album Midnight Memories - were included as a single entry for their total earnings, rather than individually, because the money has been generated by the group rather than for any solo work.

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Green's attorney, Blair Berk, said she was happy the "evidence did not support the false and unfounded claims made over a year ago." "Mr. Green encouraged a full and complete investigation of those claims and he was confident once conducted he would be cleared of having any wrongful intent and it would be established that any relations were consensual," Berk said in a statement.

"As it relates to the one charge of furnishing or sharing ecstasy, Mr. Green will responsibly address that matter in a court of law but not comment on it further out of respect for the process," she added. The singer was ordered to post $30,000 to remain free on bail, and is due back in court on November 20, Robison said. Green, a Georgia native, is best known for his 2010 hit song "Forget You," and is a judge on "The Voice," NBC's reality singing competition. He is also half of soul music duo Gnarls Barkley, best known for songs such as the 2006 smash hit "Crazy." He has won five Grammy awards including three as a solo artist.

life was fair.” The stars’ financial dealings, including TV shows, movies, record sales and product endorsements, were examined by a panel of industry experts.

ctress Scarlett Johansson has formed an all-girl band called The One & Only Singles. The Avengers star, who received acclaim for her 2007 Tom Waits covers album and a collaborative 2009 effort with singer songwriter Pete Yorn, has revealed her new act came together about a year ago and she has already recorded a bunch of singles.

She tells America's Malibu magazine, I've just been slammed with work, and we just haven't been able to finish them. I write music sometimes in my trailer when nothing else is happening. I wish I could do that full time. I would love to have that gift. But I don't. So, for me, it has to be more of a collaborative process. Because I'm

not a songwriter. I can understand lyrics, I understand melody, but it's something that I would have to dedicate myself to, and I don't have the time.

Asked to describe the group, she adds, I would say it's superpop... It's like unabashed pop.

The idea was to write superpop dance music written and performed by girls.

Like Grimes... Something like that. I love Grimes.

And I love the Bangles.

And I love the Go-Go's.

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‘Nagas have potential to excel’ Neiphiu Rio iNauguRates fiRst NagalaNd aRcheRy champioNship

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 22 (MExN): Nagaland chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, today reiterated that since 2003, DAN government has laid special emphasis on the youth, especially in the field of games and sports.

Besides declaring the “Year of the Youth”, the government brought out the sports policy and prioritise some sports disciplines including archery so the Naga youth can excel in these disciplines, Rio said.

The chief minister was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the first Nagaland Archery Championship organized by Nagaland Archery Association (NAA) here at Sovima Cricket Stadium, Tuesday.

Rio who is also the president of NAA said Nagas have raw talents and potential to excel in archery and cited the case of ace Naga female archer and Olympian Chekrovolu Swuro who was conferred the Arjuna Award this year and who has become a youth icon.

Indian Formula One grid girls pose with designer Mandira Wirk, center, during a promotional He said sports is one arena event ahead of the Indian Formula One Grand Prix in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 22. The where a person, irrespecthird edition of the Indian Grand Prix will be held on Oct. 27. (AP Photo) tive of background, can

In Focus: Nagaland chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, aims for the bull’s eye at the inaugural of the first Nagaland Archery Championship at Sovima Cricket Stadium, Tuesday. Rio was recently nominated convenor of the North East Regional Political Front (NERPF), a conglomeration of ten regional political parties, which plans to set up joint candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. achieve fame, riches and recognition.

“But you have to take sports seriously if you want to become a professional. You have to have consistency, discipline and

focus if you want to excel in sports. There is no short cut”, he said.

Commissioner & secretary and vice president NAA, KT Sukhaku, chaired the inaugural programme.

ceptable to WADA and we're not going to take it lying down, their suggestion that they'll talk to us next year," said Fahey.

"To suggest to WADA they're not ready to meet with us to talk about their problem until sometime next year is unsatisfactory, it's totally unacceptable to me and we shall act appropriately within an appropriate time frame."

Asked if Jamaica would be declared 'non-compliant', Fahey replied: "There are a number of options. "You can read into that exactly what those words are likely to mean but I don't want to flag it up," added Fahey, a former premier of the Australian state of New South Wales, whose mandatory maximum six-year term as WADA president ends this year.

"And Anil hasn't said anything about being angry or anything like that, it's just about moving on and 'wait until my book'.

Ponting, however, maintained that Tendulkar changed his stance during the scandal a couple of times. "I didn't have any problem with them. Sachin was trying to look after his mate and changed his story a couple of times

to suit. "Harbhajan was the one there was a problem with, but we got to Mumbai, looked each other in the eye and shook hands and said we'll make this work for the next couple of months.

"That's well and truly gone," he said. But Ponting said the pain of allrounder Andrew Symonds, who alleged that Harbhajan racially abused him, has remained. "The worst of it all was the impact it had on Symmo (Symonds)," Ponting wrote in the book.

"I had tried to protect him from most of what was going on in the lead-up to the hearing, but when it was done I reckon it took the wind out of his sails.

In many ways Symmo was gone from this moment on and it still makes me angry."

CAPE TOWN, OCTOBER 22 (AP): South Africa's cricket board suspended new chief executive Haroon Lorgat on Tuesday pending an ICC inquiry into his conduct, and agreed to a shortened home series against India, with the decisions both taken under pressure from Indian cricket bosses.

The two boards announced that Lorgat, a former International Cricket Council chief executive, would be investigated over his "role" in recent comments made by a former legal adviser to the world body that was critical of the BCCI and its leadership.

In a joint BCCI-CSA statement, the boards said Lorgat, who was appointed

by CSA in July despite heavy Indian opposition, had been withdrawn from any business related to the ICC and also "from having involvement in any aspect of CSA's relationship with the BCCI, including but not limited to the upcoming tour."

Despite an ICC inquiry being announced, the world body has so far made no public comment and left the two boards, led by India, to release details.

The joint statement also suggested India agreed to tour South Africa, an important financial windfall for the host country, only after Lorgat was dealt with.

CSA's new chief executive has a long history of bitter disagreements with the BCCI stretching back to his time at the ICC. South Africa initially announced

MOkOkChUNg, OCTOBER 22 (MExN): Group stages of the ongoing MDFA Trophy 2013 came to a close today. The final group stages match between Sports Society Suyim (SSS) and Youth Association Marepkong, ended with SSS registering a comprehensive 3-1 victory. With the win, SSS secured a place in the last eight of the championship. They move on as second placed winners of Pool D with former champions Fusion SC topping the group. Earlier today, strong title contenders Fusion SC were held to a goalless draw by minnows Eastern Wings Salangtem.

The draw however did not do much to alter the points table and Fusion SC

remained at the top of the table, and will meet second placed winners of Pool C, dark horse Arjusanger FC in the quarter finals.

In Pool A, debutants Retsüng SA from the ‘football village’ of Salulamang topped the points table followed by former champions Moanungsang Memorial SC in the second place. Retsüng SA will clash with defending champions Shooting Starz in the first quarter final match scheduled for Wednesday, October 23, a match that will test the real strength of Starz.

The defending champions were beaten by debutants United Boyz in their first outing of the tournament, and they will not want to be beaten again, this time

in the knock-out stages, by another debutant. However, it may be recalled that Shooting Starz lifted the coveted trophy last year as debutants and the story can well be repeated. Three debutants have made it to the last eight – Retsüng SA, United Boyz and Arjusanger FC, keeping the hope of a debutant team lifting the trophy this year too.

Pool B sees defending champions Shooting Starz trailing behind debutants United Boyz at the top of the points table. United Boyz will face off against former giants Moanungsang Memorial SC, winners during 2007 and 2008.

Moanungsang Memorial SC scrapped through to the last eight round on goal

Minister for Roads & Bridges, Kuzholuzo Nienu, Minister for Youth Resources & Sports, Merentoshi Jamir, parliamentary secretary for Justice & Law and Labour & Employment, Dr.

Nicky Kire and other dignitaries also attended the programme. A total of 162 archers from all 11 district, Territorial Army and Nagaland Police are taking part in the championship.

'usain Bolt's Jamaica facing olympic ban' india agrees to tour sa

LONDON, OCTOBER 22 (AFP): Jamaica's athletes, including sprint star Usain Bolt, could be banned from major events like the Olympics due to the island's handling of recent drug scandals, according to Tuesday's Daily Telegraph.

World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey, in an interview with the paper, accused Jamaica of "farcical" behaviour in its attempts to defer an extraordinary audit of its anti-doping programme until next year. This followed an invitation to WADA

by Jamaica's prime minister to investigate revelations from the former executive director of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) that it conducted no drug tests in the five months leading up to last year's London Olympics.

But JADCO's suggestion that they would talk to WADA next year infuriated anti-doping chiefs.

If Jamaica is deemed to be noncompliant with the WADA code, their athletes could be banned

from major competitions until the situation is resolved even though the likes of multiple Olympic champion Bolt have never failed a drugs test.

"The current position is unac-

Kohima Dist Ward/Block sachin changed his stance couple of Volleyball Tournament times during 'monkeygate': ponting

Our Correspondent Kohima | October 22

The draw for fixture of the forthcoming 1st Kohima District Ward/Block Volleyball Tournament under the aegis of the Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) will take place on October 24 at Congress Bhavan, Kohima at 3:00 pm.

The team representatives have been asked to be present on the day as scheduled. The decision to this effect was taken at the joint meeting of the organizing committee held here this evening. The meeting also approved Nivia Splash as the official ball for the tournament and the same is available at Sports World, Old Taxi Stand, Kohima.

The tournament is sched-

uled for October 29 to 31 at the Kohima Local Ground.

The champion in men’s category will pocket a cash prize of Rs. 30,000 while the runners- up will be awarded with Rs. 20,000.

The prize in women’s category stands at Rs. 20,000 (champion) and Rs. 10,000 (Runners-up). Losing semi finalists for both categories will get Rs. 5000 each.

Besides, there will be cash prize of Rs. 2000 for best spiker and best setter for both categories. Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire, Parliamentary Secretary, Justice & Law, Land Revenue and Labour and Employment will grace the inaugural function as the chief guest. The inaugural function will start at 11:00 am.

NEW DELhI, OCTO BER 22 (PTI): After questioning Sachin Tendulkar's conduct during the 'Monkeygate' scandal in his autobiography, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting now says he has made peace with the key Indian characters of the ugly drama during his IPL stint. Ponting, who in his book said that he was taken aback by Tendulkar's statement which backed Harbhajan Singh in the furore, said the matter is behind him now. "I had to captain Harbhajan and Sachin, and (the then Indian captain Anil (Kumble) was the mentor/coach. They wouldn't have had me there if that ( Monkeygate) hadn't passed over," Ponting told ESPNcricinfo.

Nagaland University Shooting Championship 2013 underway

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The 5th Nagaland University Shooting Championship 2013 was inaugurated by Prof. T. Lanusosang, Registrar, Nagaland University on October 22 at the Indoor Shooting range of Nagaland University. He declared open the championship with an inaugural shot. Altogether 60 participants from different colleges are participating in the 4 days event. The inaugural was led by the National Shooting Medalist, Hito Swu. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. B.S. Sekhon (Organizing Secretary) “who appealed to the participants to give their best so that they can go ahead for pre national, All India University and national championships.”

South Africa Cricket Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat. (AP Photo)

a tour consisting of three tests, seven ODIs and two Twenty20 games over two months from November through to January, but India immediately expressed its unhappiness with that schedule. CSA has agreed to only two tests and three ODIs, while Lorgat was sidelined from having any involvement in the tour.

"The agreement to tour was concluded by the two boards after various concerns were raised around the recent ICC board meeting in London about the alleged conduct of CSA's chief executive, Mr. Haroon Lorgat, and recent comments made about the ICC board by a former legal adviser to CSA, Mr. David Becker," the statement said.

The ICC will investigate Lorgat's role in former legal adviser Becker's recent public statement criticizing India and BCCI President Narainswamy Srinivasan.

In a statement released to the media, Becker said India was flouting ICC guidelines by, among other things, ignoring the Future Tours Program and deciding unilaterally how many games and where it wanted to play.

"When the ICC allows one of its directors to blatantly disregard an ICC board resolution, it becomes more than questionable governance — it becomes improper," Becker was quoted as saying in his statement. It was not made clear by the BCCI or CSA what involvement Lorgat may have had in Becker's public criticism of India.

The boards said the investigation "will be carried out in private."

"The ICC and CSA have already refuted the comments made by Mr. Becker, and the ICC is now considering its legal options in respect of the same," the BCCI and CSA said.

difference after they were tied with NU Lumami in the points table, both securing 4 points each. United Boyz on the other hand are one team that cannot be written off to lift the trophy and they have sent the message loud and clear by defeating the defending champs 3-2 in the group stages and thrashing Government ITI Mokokchung by a whopping 9 goals to nil.

Pool C, certainly the group of dark horses, saw minnows Phalanx FC topping the points table followed by debutants Arjusanger FC. Phalanx will meet SSS in the second quarter final match scheduled for October 24. Perennial underachievers SSS will see this as yet another opportunity to move

forward in the championship, hoping to finally lift the trophy after all these years. In football, the unexpected can happen but as far as tract records go, Arjusanger FC will have a hard day on October 26 when they play 2010 and 2011 champions Fusion SC from Chuchuyimlang.

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MDFA 1st QF Match today The first quarterfinal match of the XIX MDFA Trophy 2013 will be played between Retsüng SA and Shooting Starz at Imkongmeren Sports Complex on Wednesday, October 23.

The match will kick off at 1:00 PM with Executive Engineer of PWD (NH) Mokokchung Division, Er.Chubatoshi as guest of honour.

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