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Thursday, October 24, 2013 12 pages Rs. 4

Katy Perry kept Taylor Swift & Miley Cyrus’ Hair in her Purse

A cop with unique taste for handicrafts [ PAGE 02]

Church whistleblower says she ‘didn’t do enough’

F1 needs India, says McLaren’s Perez [ PAGE 12 ]

A signature revolution? nsf meets PM hopefuls on

What do you mean I don’t have enough money to buy a kilo of onion, huh?

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 23 (MExN): The roads of Dimapur Town will finally undergo repair. The Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, N. Hushili Sema, has informed through a press release that the first phase of work: cleaning, reconstruction of drainage and removal of unserviceable materials from the road surface will be carried out from October 24, along “proposed stretch” for which the cooperation of the general public, Colony Council Chairman, Civil Societies and NGOs is necessitated till the completion of work, stated the release. All concerned have been requested to extend their “full cooperation.”

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People queue up to extend support to ACAUT

Dimapur town roads to undergo repair

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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

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A citizen from Dimapur endorses the ACAUT’s Signature Campaign that began today at the City/Clock Tower to gauge public support for its activities. It will culminate in a public rally on October 31. (Morung Photo)

Morung Express News A non-Naga business person has been trading in Dimapur for the past 35 years.

It is unfathomable for him to move his business anywhere else, yet circumstances are pressing. Taxation from Naga groups has only increased ever since the 1990s, and business looks morbid every day. Its development is farther still.

Ever since the Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) began its campaign against excessive taxation, all the groups have started to levy an additional tax. Yet the business person, along with others he knows, will lend their names to the

Signature Campaign started by the ACAUT today that will culminate in a public rally on October 31.

“The level of taxation has become unbearable. We support all of ACAUT’s demands,” he says. Though he seeks for the ACAUT to succeed in some manner, things have not looked up since ACAUT started its campaign in May this year. “All (Naga) groups levy a rate control tax ever since ACAUT began, apart from the existing yearly tax, godown tax, trade license tax and festival tax.

We’re being unable to make any profit at all.”

“For the past 7 years, I have been paying tax to 4 groups,” informs another signatory Naga business

person while signing the ACAUT banner put up at City/Clock Tower here.

“But it is not just that. The harassment never ceases.

They come in for random favours in the name of the underground, and every other boy wants to be associated with them. We have no security,” she laments, frustrated. “There are too many individual agendas for reconciliation to happen. It is better if the ceasefire is lifted; it will be a relief for the people,” she adds, looking both sad and angry.

A group of young entrepreneurs, also signing the flex, remain averse to starting their own enterprises in Nagaland. Prices of goods remain inflated in Dima-

ening and black topping of the 11 km road stretch from Konya village to C/ Saddle undertaken by King Coal & Energy Pvt. Ltd., at Konya village, around 40 kms from Tuensang district headquarter.

It may be mentioned that Nagaland State has witnessed mushrooming construction of roads like agri link roads and approach roads under MGNREGA over the past 10 years. Most of these roads are built by village councils without proper technical specifications. Azo said roads should be constructed in a professional manner and in tune with the environment.

He suggested that King Coal & Energy Pvt. Ltd., which is undertaking the repair and blacktopping of the Konya-C/ Saddle stretch, should sign a MoU with the State PWD to avoid any misunderstanding since the road belongs to the PWD. Lauding King Coal & Energy Pvt. Ltd. for taking the bold step to extract coal in Konya village, Azo however urged the company to extract coal in a systematic and scientific manner in order to maintain ecological balance. He also requested the company officials to visit Mon district, rife with unorganized extraction of coal, to create awareness

on hazards of unorganized and unscientific extraction of coal.

Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, Mhabemo Lotha, in his address, urged the coal company to draw up comprehensive and acceptable modalities in order to safeguard the environment as well as benefit the villagers. Representatives from the apex Chang tribal organization (Chang Khulie Setsang), Confederation of Chang Students’ Union, Konya Village Council chairman also spoke on the occasion. The minister was accompanied by chief engineer R&B, D Mero and additional chief engineer R&B.

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pur, and the Naga groups maintain extensive data on who does what business.

ACAUT’s campaign is a necessity.

“Our trucks have to merely pass the Nagaland Gate for us to get the call.

They know whose truck passes by, with what. Non Naga business persons are frequently ill treated,” reports a signatory. “Even road side vendors are not spared. And why just the groups? We don’t mind paying donations to legitimate students’ unions but there are so many to cater to these days, we are only shelling money out, getting nothing in,” he asserts.

“For now, the only option is to increase the rate of the product by at least 5%, which the consumer will have to pay,” another business person iterates, though he says that Naga consumers today know their prices well, and could procure the same item from Guwahati instead. Business does not develop, nor does the local environment.

“We need a revolution,” says the entrepreneur, steppingherfootdowninsupport of the ACAUT, as do the others who came slowly, hesitant at first, but sure to endorse the ACAUT’s campaign.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 23 (MExN): A delegation of the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) met Rahul Gandhi, Vice President AICC at 10 Janpath, New Delhi on October 22 and apprised him of the ongoing peace process as well as establishing a national or regional technical institute in Nagaland. According to a press note from NSF President Tongpang Ozukum and Assistant General Secretary Christopher Ltu, the Congress leader “assured the NSF that he will take up the matter with the concerned ministry for establishment of the institute without much delay.”

Gandhi stated that the Indo-Naga political issue is complex as it involves many stake holders but the present Congress led

UPA Government was seriously working to resolve the issue.

Later, the NSF delegation went to Ahmedabad to meet the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, also BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, at his office in Gandhinagar. The delegation while wishing him luck also briefed him about the “step-motherly treatment” of the Government of India towards the Nagas in many aspects, especially the Naga political issue.

The delegation raised the need of establishing technical institutions in Nagaland with him. Further, the delegation reminded Modi that Nagas have sentimental attachment with the people of Gujarat given that it was Mahatma Gandhi, the only Indian leader so far,

who understood the rights and desire of the Nagas to be an independent nation.

Modi gave a half-hour “patient hearing” and assured the NSF delegation that he will do whatever he can in ventilating the genuine issue raised by the NSF. Considering both as future leaders of the Indian Republic, the NSF “strongly urged” them to pay special attention to the only airport in Dimapur. “Dimapur Airport with a single flight, plying 4 days in a week with exuberant fare charges, is becoming a liability for the Nagas, particularly the students’ community, studying in mainland India.”

The NSF questioned the intention of the Government of India and its “apathy even in the present arrangement within the Indian Union in regards to the transferring from erstwhile external affair to home ministry, funding allocation to the present state of Nagaland and most importantly the continued effort on the part of GoI to forcefully take away the inherent and legitimate rights of the Nagas.”

The NSF will submit a memorandum each to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Civil Aviation to address the issues.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 23 (MExN): The Phom Students’ Conference (PSC) has issued an ultimatum to the Department of PWD Roads & Bridges on what it stated was the “lack of progress and lackluster attitude of the Department” with regard to the Longleng-Ladigarh NEC Road. The Conference has decided to agitate against the Department from November 4, 2013. All its Federating and Sub-ordinate units have been told to be mentally and physically prepared for the agitation

besides seeking co-operation from all corners.

In a press note from its President Chaupong Leinak and Speaker Hongkam D Ngonyen, the PSC reminded of the joint meeting with the PWD (R&B) held on October 27, 2011 in the presence of District Administration led by DC, Longleng on the issue of LonglengLadigarh NEC Road.

A 9 point agreement was arrived at, it was stated.

Point 1 stated that “work to be completed within 31st March 2013”. Point 6 stated that “Department will

blacklist contractors on non completion or unsatisfactorily workmanship.” Point 8 further states that “If the Department fails to implement as agreed at para 1 to 7, the PSC shall be compelled to resort to any democratic agitation against the Department”.

The PSC stated that it had served a reminder letter on March 28, 2013 to the Chief Engineer, PWD (R&B) on the October 28, 2011 agreement and urged the Department to cancel the said work against the concerned contractors

and further action initiated immediately as per the agreement. After justification on “fund constraint” and some action taken by the Chief Engineer, the PSC sent more reminders in September this year but no response has been elicited from the Department yet.

The PSC served its final reminder on September 17, 2013 to the Chief Engineer, PWD(R&B) and requested them to respond on or before September 30, 2013. “The Department unfortunately did not respond”, stated the PSC.

A delegation of the NSF met BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at his office in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on October 22.

Too many roads leading us nowhere: Azo Phom Students’ ultimatum to PWD (R&B) Morung Express News Tuensang | October 23

Nagaland Minister for Roads & Bridges, Kuzholuzo Nienu (Azo), today said the R&B department will focus on maintenance and upkeep of existing roads instead of constructing new ones.

“Construction of too many roads has led us nowhere. On the other hand random and haphazard construction of roads has upset the ecological balance leading to destruction of flora and fauna,” the minister said.

The minister was addressing a public gathering after laying the foundation stone for repair, strength-

Boxer, Mother, Achiever : Mary Kom visits nagaland Morung Express News Dimapur | October 23

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Dressed in pants and tshirt resembling the Indian National flag, Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom awkwardly smiled as she was introduced and showered with accolades of her achievements. The 30-yearold mother of three, and five-time world boxing champion was at Niathu Resort to address the media, a day before the inauguration of the Niathu Sports Festival, for which she is here on the invitation of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio. Expressing happiness on her maiden visit to Nagaland, Mary Kom today asserted she is here to encourage the youngsters. “I am the example for the North East,” was Mary’s message for the youngsters. “If men can do, why women can’t do,” she asked, herself having debunked the assumption that boxing is a “man’s game.” She advised the youth, especially women, to take up the challenge.

The way to success

Mary Kom speaking with the media at Naithu Resort on October 23. (Manen Aier Photo)

has not been easy, as Mary Kom recounted. She had to leave behind her twins, while they were only oneyear-old, to participate in national and international competitions. However, her family’s “full support” and regular practices have

been her driving force. She admits “it is different after marriage,” but her husband’s “support” has always been with her.

The fierce and sweaty Mary Kom in the ring is also a doting mother. She beamed with joy as she

showed off the photo of her third son, who is only fivemonth old.

Apart from boxing for herself, Mary Kom is also dedicated to training young sportspersons. She has a boxing academy set up in Langol, Imphal. Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation plans to expand not just in the North East, but the rest of India. “I am going to make next Mary Kom from any state in the North East,” affirmed the pugilist.

Accompanying Mary Kom was her husband K Onkholer Kom. As somebody who has extensively travelled the North Eastern states, Onkholer, on the scenario of sports said, “I have seen the potentials of the North East.” The only thing lagging behind, he said, is hard work and determination to go with the profession.

Mary Kom’s next goal is gold at the 2016 Olympics scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro. The schedule is “tough,” she said, with many event invitations.

But she is determined and practicing regularly.

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A father, a craftsman and a policeman, S Pangyang Ozukum is a fifty-two year old man who produces exquisite crafts out of wood during his off time, and his products are so good that it is in huge demand in the society.

Hailing from Mopungchuket village, S Pangyang Ozukum is a Sub-inspector in the Police Wireless Department. A father of five four grown-up children, Pangyang started making handicrafts during the eighties to substantiate his family income. “I first started off making handicrafts as a hobby with dao (machete), a chisel and hammer,” said the non-assuming craftsman while interacting with The Morung Express at his private residence in Mopungchuket village.

He is now posted at Kiphire and is currently at home on vacation. His products consists of traditional ornaments like traditional earnings, hairpins, loincloth, armlets etc. he also creates house-

S Pangyang Ozukum with display of some of his creations. (Morung Photo)

hold items like wooden ladles, tongs, cups, forks and plates. His products are priced from Rs 200 to Rs 20,000. The most expensive item is the wooden beating drum which is priced at RS 20,000. The drum, which is carved out from a single block of wood, takes nearly

a month to finish.

A man of few words that he is, Pangyang disclosed that he prepares his products out of a particular kind of timber locally called ‘Atsu-yimpang’ which is found in the forest in the village. Those who have seen the products of

Pangyang commented that his products have the trademark smooth finish and exquisite designs and creativity which make a buyer feel satisfied in buying the products. “I don’t sell in the open market,” said Pangyang, “people come to my place to buy

my products, and at times I take orders from customers.”

On being queried about his future plans, Pangyang simply said that being a government employee he takes to handicrafts as a means of killing time and also to earn some money. However, he expressed his hope of dedicating full time to handicrafts if he retires from government job in good health in the years to come.

Pangyang confessed that he is an ardent lover to culture and tradition and added that he founded a cultural club in the village called Tazu Lenden Cultural Society in the year 1982. This cultural society has been performing traditional dances and songs in different parts of the country. His son-inlaw disclosed that Pangyang not only produces the items but also teaches the art of making handicrafts to those youngsters who are willing to learn the art.

For those interested customers or those interested in traditional ornaments, one can contact the artisan at mobile number 09612128719.

KMC for cleaner and Imtisenla launches debut music album “First Flight” garbage free Capital city Morung Express News

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KOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has informed all shops and business establishment of Kohima that a schedule for proper maintenance of sanitation and as part of cleanliness drive for Kohima town has been worked out.

This move is supported by the NBCC Sanitation Committee, which comprises of PHED, KCCI, KVC, KMC and other organizations and Churches for a cleaner and garbage free Capital city.

The schedules for the vehicle time at different location are as follows: Two trucks will be stationed at high school area-one near KMC pay and use toilet and other opposite Star bakery; Three trucks at main town area-one near North PS, one at Old NST and one at TCP Gate; One trucks at BOC area-one near PHQ Junction. One more truck will be provided after wid-

ening of' the road below Japfu Hotel is completed.

Timing for collection will be from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm. The vehicles will remain stationary at the mentioned locations due to traffic congestion. All the traders are directed to dispose off their waste/garbage in the mentioned locations at the particular time.

The carton boxes/ bottles should be collected separately and kept aside for rag pickers to collect it in the evening hours, The traders are also directed not to dispose off their waste/ garbage on the roadsides from morning time till the vehicle reaches the mentioned locations.

This will come into force from November 1.

KMC CEO Elizabeth Ngully in a press release has requested all concerned to comply with the directives.

“Checking will be conducted and necessary action will be taken against the defaulters,” the CEO added.

Singer Imtisenla today launched her debut music album, “First Flight” at an inaugural programme held at Bambusa Restaurant, 5th Mile, Dimapur.

Imtisenla who was the first runners-up at the 2011 Naga Orpheus Hunt, has lately been carving a niche of herself in the music circuit. She recently released two tracks ‘Rain Down’ and ‘Walk away’ on YouTube and Reverbnation which was met with rave reviews.

At the programme, Dr. Nicky Kire, Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice, Land Revenue and Labour & Employment formally launched Imtisenla’s album. Kire acknowledged that even though Imtisenla was not the winner of the Naga Orpheus Hunt 2011 edition, yet, she today she emerges as the real winner.

Congratulating the singer on the release of her debut album, Kire also stated, “I am very fortunate to be here in this programme, and share

mON, OctOber 23 (Dipr): The Mon District Planning & Development Board meeting was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner & Vice Chairman DPDB Angau I Thou, IAS on October 22 at DC’s conference hall.

LT Konyak, member of Nagaland State Quality Control Board and former Deputy Commissioner, Mon briefed the house about roles and responsibility of NSQC Board. He informed that during the last 50 years of statehood, Nagaland has tremendous achievement in the field of development.

However, he lamented that due to poor workmanship and lack of quality construction, the roads and buildings in the state are in

deteriorating conditions. For these reasons, the Government under the leadership of Neiphiu Rio felt the need to have a quality control board and was constituted in the year 2011.

He apprised the house that the role of the board is to suggest and advise the state Government for improvement of workmanships in all developmental works undertaking by the Government as well as public undertaking, to inquire and investigate on construction of projects and supply of materials, public awareness for maintenance of quality works, etc.

Emphasizing on urgent need of engineer’s supervision for quality construction of any projects, he

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Purana Bazar Village Council (PBVC) authority on the request of the East Dimapur Business Association and in the interest of the public service, allows barbers shops and bakeries to open on all Sundays from next Sunday onwards. PBVC Chairman N. Hozheto Achumi in a press release informed that in view of the coming Deepwali festival for the Hindu Community and to facilitate those devotees and worshippers of Goddess Maa Kali, the council authority grant all business establishment within its jurisdiction to open on two Sundays i.e. October 27 and November 3. After, the festival previous council order will strictly enforced.

Dr. Nicky Kire releases the debut album of Imtisenla at Bambusa Restaurant, Dimapur on October 23. (Morung Photo)

this moment with you”. He also encouraged the singer to continue singing and produce many more albums.

Contemplating on ‘music’, Kire also shared that music knows no barriers, whether in good or in bad times.

He also said that music is a medium to put our feelings across to people.

Appearing excited about the launch of her debut al-

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said, “any construction done on the advice of the civil engineers are safe, economical and durable, where as architecture is for convenience and beauty.” He said many beautiful buildings in the state are constructed without assistance of the engineers and are not earthquake resistance. He also said that lack of systematic development and giving less priority to the existing roads, buildings, etc, preparing DPR without spot verifications and verification of projects without verifying the specification are some of the factors responsible for poor quality construction.

Exhorting the officers, he said, “Quality of workmanship depends on the quality of the of-

bum, Imtisenla shared, “Everyone has a dream and today is the day mine comes true”. “First Flight”, the singer said is named so because a first flight is never without its share of doubts and apprehension about what lies ahead. She thanked Dr Nicky Kire for his relentless support and also thanked God for the gift of life and music. She also assured

that people will be hearing more music from her.

The singer explained that in order to reach out to different people with different music tastes, there are many elements in the tracks in what may be called as a very bold move. The CDs will be available in the market soon and posters will be put up indicating the places where they will be available to purchase.

ficers” and urged the officers to give awareness to the people on quality construction of both private and public properties.” He also lamented that many officers neglect to read the enforcement of the rule of laws. He urged the HoDs that APAR is a confidential official reporting and it cannot be reported based on the personal/ private relationship.

The DC Mon, on behalf of the District, bid farewell to G. Panicker SDO (Power), Mon Division who is retiring on October 30. The DC informed the board about the DC’s conference at Longwa scheduled in the month of November 2013 and celebration of 50 years of statehood and

Hornbill Festival in the state. The board constituted verification committee for the LADP 201314 for the 9 constituency of Mon. SDO (Civil), Mon Sadar Keyirangding Hegui and Principal ITI, Mon Alongshe Sangtam also informed the board about the forthcoming second Inter Departmental Tournament Mon, which is tentatively scheduled from November 19 to 23. Officers club Mon organizes the tournament.

They informed the board about the financial position, renovation of the Officers Club office and category of competitions. They also appealed to all well-wishers to contribute both cash and kind towards the tournament.

Fernwood School completes 25 years milestone

KOhima, OctOber 23 (Dipr): The Fernwood School Kohima upper Agri colony celebrated its Silver Jubilee at their school premises on October 23.

Fernwood School Managing Director Koko Vizotha in her report of the School achievement said that, Fernwood School was established in the year 1988 with 18 students from nursery to class B. Koko Vizotha expressed her thankfulness to the Lord for completing 25th year of its establishment and further praises God for lavishly pouring out blessing upon the Institution and its staffs and students.

The Managing Director also thanked all those who supported them in their prayer and who have toiled hard and rendered their selfless services to make the School to what it is today. She stated that over the years many students have passed out from the portal of the school and the school is joyfully honouring them for making them successful in different walks of life. She also stated

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CSDD executive meeting on Oct 26 Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Consumer Society Dimapur District has convened an emergency executive meeting on October 26 at its office at 11:00 am. CSDD publicity & information secretary Jehoshaphat Wotsa in a press release has requested all the executive members and other members concerned to attend the meeting without fail.

Jungle cutting postponed

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Superintendent Engineer (Electrical) Dimapur Er G Chishi in a press release has informed that the shut down for jungle cutting scheduled on October 24 has been postponed to October 26 on account of unavoidable work in the Grid Sub-Station at Nagarjan.

KGPO emergency meeting on Oct 25

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): All executive members of Kuhuboto Ghakhu Public Organisation (KGPO), frontal heads, head GBs, GBs, village council chairmans and public leaders of Kuhuboto Area are informed that there will be an executive emergency meeting on October 25 at KGPO Hall at 9:00 am to discuss the issue pertaining to the a news item that was published on local dailies. KGPO president K Kakiye Zhimomi in a press release has requested all members concerned to attend the meeting without fail.

KSU election on October 31

mON, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) election for the next tenure will be held on October 31. The dates of election processes will be as follows: Date of Nomination: October 26; Date of Scrutiny: October 28; Date of Withdrawal: October 29.

The time will be between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM. The intending candidates are informed to come and collect the required documents from Y.Pongba Konyak, Election Commissioner (KSU) at Wakem Ward, Mon town and contact at 9612348268, 9436242774.

NCSU Dimapur unit informs

Mon DPDB meeting centers on quality construction

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Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers Union (NCSU) Dimapur unit has invited interested persons for registration of new membership. The Union Vice President Hotoshe Sema in a press release informed that the Union office would remain open on every Wednesday for issue of membership form and necessary recommendation in the district level. The Union informed that prior recommendation or approval from the district unit office is mandatory for any new registration to the Union without which, the Dimapur district unit shall not entertain or consider as members from the district. For other necessary information contact 9856160383 or 9856121996.

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NPCC calls meeting on Oct 29

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): There will be a joint meeting of the NPCC Office bearers, CLP Members, PCC Members, INC Candidates, DCC Presidents, Frontal Chiefs and ACCC presidents on October 29 at 10:00 am in Hotel Japfü, Kohima. NPCC General Secretary (Admn), Medokul Sophie has requested all members concerned to attend the meeting without fail.

Training on library management

KOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): The inaugural programme of training cum workshop for rural libraries on library management was held at the State Library Kohima with K.K. Yeputhomi, Director of Art and Culture as the chief guest on October 22. A press release informed that the chief guest encouraged the participants to make full use of the training period and become equipped with the basic skills of library management so as to be able to provide effective services to their users. He also acknowledged the noble deed of Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata for sponsoring training programs for rural libraries in the State over the years. This five days training cum workshop will impart training on Accessioning, Classification, Cataloguing and Book Binding. The program was chaired by Meseno P. Liegise, Librarian, State Library, Kohima while a brief note on the training cum workshop was highlighted by Dr. Talitemsu Ao, Planning Cum Reference Librarian, State Library.

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YAA planning committee informs

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The meeting of Yimchungru Akheru Arihako (YAA) golden jubilee planning committee and history committee will be held on October 30 at Shamator town. YAA planning committee convenor R Thsanso Yim in a press release has requested the committee members to reach Shamator town on October 26 positively.

Review of communitization on health

KOhima, OctOber 23 (Dipr): The State Level Review of the Communitization programme under the Department of Health & Family Welfare was held at IDSP Conference Hall, Director of Health & Family Welfare on October 22. The Chief Medical Officers of all the districts presented their reports on the communitzation programme during the meeting.

Awareness prog on banking system at Observation Home

Jubilee choir of Fernwood School, Kohima performing during the Silver Jubilee celebration at their school premises on October 23. (DIPR Photo)

that, the school is affiliated to NBSE and offer various courses approved by the Board. She said that the School has experienced and well qualified teachers performing their duties with full responsibilities and are also constantly exposed to new development and trends in the field of education and often they were updated through seminars, workshops, in-service training,

orientation programmes in and outside of the school.

The Managing Director also stated that the School has adopted more emphasis into new technology teaching tools and smart class and further said that the School has being consistently securing 100 passed percentage result for the last 13 years in HSLC results.

Newlife Church Pastor Azhato Kibami who also

exhorted the gathering said that, teachers can mould up the children both physically and spiritually with the wisdom and knowledge of God. Pastor said that to raise up a child with great future vision, God would surely pour his blessing to those who does the good deeds. Former Chairman Managing Board, Daisy Mezhür, proposed vote of thanks.

WOKha, OctOber 23 (mexN): With the aim to enhance awareness level on banking system and its significance, office of the Superintendent, Observation Home Wokha organised a day programme for its staffs and people around. The resource persons were officials from both Axis Bank and ICICI Bank Wokha. A briefing was made with regard to its banking institute and objectives to reach out the people and directly enhance thier economy and raise the living present standard. Adding that the habit should be cultivated among the common people to start saving which for the future. ICICI officials spoke on basic saving, recurring deposit, fixed deposit, difference of saving and current account, rate of interest and tips for saving an amount. The officials of Axis Bank Wokha highlighted emphasis on Insurance and its benefits. Wobenthung J Patton, Superintendent Observation Home Wokha in a press release stated that he thanked staffs and officials from both the Banks for the close coordination and made the people aware on banking system.

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Less rain may impact farming in North East AgArtAlA/guwAhAti, OctOber 23 (iANS): India's northeastern region, where the economy is mainly based on agriculture, has witnessed around 40 percent deficit rainfall during the current monsoon season, threatening farming and water availability, said experts. According to agricultural scientists and experts, the monsoon rainfall this year was unfavourable to the farming of crops in the mountainous region.

Meteorologists said during the current monsoon season (June to September), Manipur experienced the maximum deficiency of rainfall with 70 percent followed by Meghalaya (50 percent), Nagaland (40 percent), Mizoram (34 percent), Arunachal Pradesh (31 percent), Assam (25 percent) and Tripura (24 percent).

"Lesser number of depressions this season was the key reason for the shortage of rainfall in the monsoon period. Those depressions caused in the Bay of Bengal moved to Od-

isha, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh due to upper wind patterns," Dilip Saha, meteorological department director in Tripura, told IANS. He said: "Compared to last year, there were very less number of low pressures generated this year.

Whatever depressions and clouds formed in the Bay of Bengal (this year), very few of them moved to this hilly northeastern region." According to meteorologists, the southwest monsoon withdrew from the northeastern region Oct 21 with some days' delay this year.

The southwest monsoon had withdrawn from the region Oct 16 last year and Oct 13 in 2011.

According to the regional meteorological centre in Guwahati, the number of monsoon rainfall deficient years in the northeast India has been increasing since 2001. The Arunachal Pradesh meteorological sub-division has since 2001 recorded five monsoon rainfall-deficient years, while the Assam-Meghala-

In this file photo, Mishing women work in a paddy field at Jengraimukh in Majuli, a 421-square kilometer (163 square-mile) island, about 352 kilometers (220 miles) east of Guwahati, Assam. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath/File)

ya meteorological sub-division recorded six monsoon rainfall-deficient years and the Nagaland-ManipurMizoram-Tripura meteorological sub-divisions recorded four monsoon rainfall- deficient years.

According to agricultural experts, less rainfall during monsoon affects the seasonal cultivation while

heavy rainfall during the post monsoon period affects vegetable farming and horticultural crops. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) scientist Mrinmoy Datta said the monsoon this year was not favourable for agriculture of the northeastern region as a whole.

"However, for one or two states like Tripura and

‘Ensure peace in Darjeeling, allow development’ KurSeONg, OctOber 23 (iANS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday urged people to desist from organising shutdowns and maintain peace in the hills so the development process continued unhindered.

Banerjee said she wanted Darjeeling to acquire a prime place in the international tourism calendar.

"If there are only bandhs (shutdowns), then how can development take place? If Kanchenjunga (third highest peak of the world in the eastern Himalayas) smiles, I feel great. But if Kanchenjunga cries, then I feel pain," Banerjee told a gathering of the Lepcha community in this sub-divisional town of the Darjeeling district.

The chief minister said many tourists are willing to come to the hills if there is peace. "But if issues are

raised every three or six months and life is brought to a standstill with shutdown calls, then tourists get afraid," Banerjee said at the rally after attending a meeting of the Lepcha Development Council (LDC).

The LDC was created by the Mamata Banerjee government earlier this year to weaken the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) after it upped the ante for a Gorkhaland state to be made out of Darjeeling and parts of Jalpaiguri districts.

While expressing her indebtedness to the Lepchas for inviting her to the hills in August when the GJM announced a shutdown, Banerjee exhorted the people to maintain peace.

"I have only one request to you. Quarrel as much as you want with me. But keep peace in Darjeeling. Help us

in making Darjeeling beautiful." "Allow me to usher in development. Do not think that since there was no development in the past, nothing will happen in the future," she said.

Banerjee also sought support of the media in the hills in developing Darjeeling. "I urge the media to help me in making Darjeeling beautiful. Don't support me.

But support development of Darjeeling," she said.

Without naming the GJM during her speech, the chief minister referred to the destruction of public property allegedly by Gorkha activists over the past few months.

"Whatever is built, don't destroy. We don't have much money. We have a huge outgo in repaying loans. My heart is filled with love for the hills. Don't break my

guwAhAti, OctOber 23 (iANS): The central government will sign a formal ceasefire agreement with a National Democratic Front of Bodoland faction led by its chairman Ranjan Daimary, Nov 9.

Assam's additional director general of police (law and order) A.P. Raut said this Wednesday after taking part in a meeting at the Special Branch headquarters of Assam Police at Ka-

hilipara in the city.

The meeting was attended by Daimary and home ministry joint secretary (northeast) Shambhu Singh besides top brass of security agencies like the Central Reserve Police Force and the Sashastra Seema Bal. "Today (Wednesday) we held a discussion on the various clauses of the Suspension of Operation and other related issues. It was

a cordial discussion with all agreeing the formal ceasefire agreement with the Daimary faction of the NDFB will be signed Nov 9," said Raut.

It may be mentioned Daimary, a prime accused in the serial blasts that rocked four districts of Assam Oct 30, 2008, killing close to 100 civilians and injuring several others, was released on bail in June this year for the peace talks to succeed.

Govt, Bodo faction to sign ceasefire accord

Mizoram Assembly polls advanced to November 25

New Delhi, OctOber 23 (AgeNcieS): The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday advanced the date for Assembly Election in Mizoram to November 25 from December 04. As per the revised schedule for Mizoram polls, counting will now take place on December 09 instead of December 08.

Political parties, NGOs and religious organisations had requested for a change in the date for polls to elect the 40-member State Assembly.

The earlier dates of polling and counting of votes had coincided with the time when the Mizoram Synod, the highest decision-making body of the Presbyterian, would hold state-wide conference in Aizawl and the counting day fell on Sunday, a sacred day for Christians.

heart... give me love so that we can return your love," she said.

Banerjee asked why she should be unwelcome in the hills when people of the hills also go to other areas.

"Don't you have to go to Siliguri for work? If you go to Siliguri, why can't I come to Darjeeling? Don't you go to Delhi, Kolkata, Bihar?" she asked.

Earlier, to cries of "Mamata Banerjee zindabad", the chief minister walked alongside top bureaucrats and Hill Affairs Minister Gautam Deb to the venue from the bungalow where she was put up for the night.

She is scheduled to address the Trinamool Congress' first political conference in the hills Thursday at the famed Darjeeling mall. Friday she will hold a meeting with the state assembly's GJM members.

Assam, the shortage of the monsoon rainfall would not affect so massively. We expect winter crop and vegetables would be better in the region this year...," Datta told IANS. As only a small percentage of the state's cultivable farm land has access to irrigation facility, cultivators' organisation in Assam this year raised

an apprehension over the shortage of rainfall situation and urged the state government to undertake emergency remedial measures to tackle the possible 'drought like situation'.

According to Assam agriculture department officials, 17 of 27 districts had deficient rainfall, affecting paddy cultivation. "It is

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good that there was no major flood havoc this year in Assam, but deficit rainfall might affect the seasonal rice productions and vegetable cultivation. The Assam government must ensure a reasonable quantum of irrigation to maintain its annual crop productions," agricultural expert Hemanta Bora told IANS. Sohra, one of the wettest places in the world and previously known as Cherrapunji, in southern Meghalaya, has also suffered a rain deficit of 15 to 16 percent during the monsoon, with only 3,749 mm of rain recorded, as opposed to the normal of 4,455 mm. However, with the rainfall situation showing signs of improvement after the monsoon season, the crop production might not affect so alarmingly as was apprehended earlier.

In Tripura, around onethird of the 308,501 hectare cultivable farm lands so far came under irrigation, resulting in the dependence of the majority of cultivable land on rain water. Agricul-

tural expert Baharul Islam Majumder said that insufficiency of monsoon rainfall would affect the northeast on a state-to-state basis.

"As the rainfall during monsoon varies from state to state in the region, the effects would also be differential. However, after the monsoon any major rain might affect the winter crops, vegetables and horticultural harvest," Majumder told IANS. In the mountainous northeastern region, except Assam, other states have mostly hilly areas where extension of irrigation facilities is very complex.

A large number of families among the tribals practises 'jhum', or the slash and burn method of cultivation.

This shifting form of farming usually involves cutting down of entire forests in the hills, allowing the slashed vegetation to dry on hilly slopes prior to burning.

Rice is intercropped with vegetables, maize, cotton, mustard and so on. Tribals constitute 27 percent of the northeastern region's 45.58 million people.

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n my rejoinder under caption “GAMBLING ON 2014 LOK SABHA ELECTION” published in all sections of the local dailies on October 23, 2013, the last line should be read as “When I honestly rendered my service as Home Minister to bring all groups together should not be taken as “Plan-B” and not as published.

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‘Mobile economy to add $400 bn to India GDP’

New delhi, OctOber 23 (AgeNcies): The mobile phone industry in India is likely to contribute $400 billion or about Rs 216 lakh crore to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and has the potential to generate about 4.1 million additional jobs by 2020, Anne Bouverot, director general of the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), said here, on Wednesday.

GSMA, which is the global association for mobile companies, today released an India specific report ‘Mobile Economy India 2013’, in association with the Boston Con-

sulting Group. According to the report, the mobile ecosystem generated approximately 5.3% of the GDP for India, directly supported 730,000 jobs in 2012.

However, Bouverot added that the regulatory environment in India is detrimental to the growth of the industry.

“The Indian mobile industry is fast-paced and innovative, but it currently lacks the regulatory environment to support its ambitions. An absence of predictable, longterm policies in areas such as the allocation of radio frequencies is acting as a brake on investment,” she added.

Bouverot also said availability of spectrum is also very low in India. Given India’s population density, there should be more spectrum available, she added. On Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), the report noted India has one of the world’s highest USOF at about five% of operating revenues of telcos. “The government should look at public-private-partnership or the implementation of projects and seeking alternative funding sources, rather than constraining industry development with ineffective financial mechanisms, said Bouverot.

‘Onion prices may remain high for 2-3 weeks’

bANgAlOre, OctOber 23 (Pti): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today indicated that onion prices — which have shot up to Rs 80-90 per kg — might remain high for 2-3 weeks, and asked states to crack down on hoarders to help tame the rates. “... next two to three weeks will be tough and ultimately we have to find a solution,” Pawar said on onion prices that have reached alltime high levels.

Asked whether he meant that the prices would come down in the next two to three weeks, he said, “No, no. I am not an astrologer. But I know something about crops.

On my own assessment, this situation will continue for the next two to three weeks.”

Speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of the Eighth National Conference on Krishi Vigyan Kendras 2013, Pawar also ruled out the possibility of traders exporting onions to other countries where prices are less than India.

“Nobody is exporting because in other countries price of onions is somewhere near $ 500 and in India, it is $ 900. So in such a situation there is no export,” he said. He asked the Chief Ministers of all states to invoke the Essential Commodities Act against hoarders. Pawar said he would inform Food Minister K V Thomas that the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd is ready to import some quantity.

“We have to import as early as possible.

I have instructed the Managing Director of NAFED (that) if there is a request from any state we should be ready,” he said. “Fortunately, there is ample onion (stock) available in China, Egypt and neighbouring countries and have collected figures and prices yesterday. The prices in these countries are cheaper compared to India,” Pawar added. Pawar said the monsoon has been good this year but extensive rainfall has hit supply.

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NSCN (IM) violating spirit of Reconciliation: GPRN/NSCN

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espite the cited above declarations and ongoing historic reconciliation movement being supported by various Naga Political Groups and Nagas in general, the NSCN (IM) cadres based at Thungbo Brigade HQ in Wokha District have been continuously violating its very spirit by arresting, abducting, torturing and imposing heavy fines on our members.

The latest heinous crime committed by an NSCN (IM) cadre has been that of Captain Benri Lotha of Champang village who abducted our cadre Sergeant Nzanchumo Lotha of Bhandari village on 19th Sept, 2013 at Baghty town without the Knowledge of the NSCN (IM) Kyong Region Civil and Town Command authorities.

Now, it has been learnt through our reliable sources, that Sergeant Nzanchumo Lotha was inhumanly tortured, stripped off his skin and mercilessly murdered at Thungbo Brigade HQ. Sergeant Nzanchumo Lotha’s relatives were neither allowed to meet/see him when they went to Thungbo Brigade HQ nor were they given his dead body till date for performance of last rites as per our Christian religion.

The Kyong Hoho office bearers lead by its Chairman Yansathung Jami also went

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his representation is addressed to your authority with utmost urgency to immediately initiate necessary measures. You are well aware about the under mentioned matter even without bringing this matter to your notice. However, allow us to draw your attention to the condition of the National Highway which is under your authority.

The National Highway 29 is in pitiable condition and particularly the area stretching from NSF Martyrs Park, PR Hill to Lierie Colony is in pathetic condition. Your apathetic attitude and lack of concern even when the pitiable condition is right under your nose is noted with great caution and disappointment. You are also aware that the State Hornbill Festival will be held at the same time of the year and with the festival, many tourist and outsiders will be visiting Nagaland.

Kindly also note that the President of India is coming to the Kohima during this period of time and His Excellency will be travelling through this road to the Hornbill Festival at Kisama. It is a big embarrassment that the National Highway is in this condition. Perhaps, the whole highway needs your attention. However, as in this short period of time, the particularly mentioned stretch of road has to be addressed by any means without any justification.

In follow up to the representation, within a period of a week, we look forward that your authority would initiate some urgent austerity measures to address this matter. Failure or non-compliance to this genuine and urgent representation would be a very unfortunate invitation of avoidable complications.

Zakie Khate President, ASU

Ekyimsao Kikon Regional Administrative Officer, Lotha Region, GPRN/NSCN

Khriezelhou Vitso Secretary, Publicity Affairs, ASU

hundred of crores of rupees for the upkeep of the national highway continue to use mud and pebbles on those very rare occasions when they make their appearance making the citizens choke on dust during dry seasons and muddy slime and puddles during the rainy season. It is an affront to the citizens of Kohima that there can be presence of such a deplorable road right in the heart of the capital city. There are hundreds of villages even in the interior districts which have approach roads which are far better that this “’National Highway” operated by the BRO/ BRTF. The road has become so dilapidated that the BRO/BRTF no longer use this road of thefts but have resorted to using the Billy Graham Road via the Secretariat road! What could be more indicting!

Repeated requests both ver-

the matter saying that it has bal and written, to the powers taken up the issue with the that be in the BRO/BRTF has alBRO/BRTF but that nothing ways been met with false assurhas come out of it, The BRO/ ances and promises which have BRTF are not a sacrosanct ordeeply insulted the intelligence ganization-above the law of of the people. No more amount of the land. explanations or justifications including any possible response to 3. Lastly, the BRO/BRTF is served a public notice that this Press Release will satisfy or if by the 31st of October placate the public any more. The 2013, no developmental protime for talking is past, the time gramme is initiated by them, for action has begun. the public reserves the right In view of the points enumerto resort to any democratic, ated above, the citizens would legitimate wars and means to like to put forward the following redress their grievances. demands to the State Government and the BRO/BRTF in no Meguoselhou Mechulho uncertain terms.

Chairman 1. We demand that this stretch of the National Highway be Ziekezou Colony Welfare Board Chairman handed over immediately to the State PWD as we are convinced that it would do a much Keduo Zumvu better job.

Chairman 2. The State Government should Kenuozou Colony also not wash off its hand over Welfare Board

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aving waited patiently all this while, hoping against hope that some ameliorative action would be taken by the BRO/BRTF to at least put together a decent road for the public to ply on the collective patience of the citizens of Kenuozou and Ziekezou colonies of the National Highway 150 also popularly known as Don Bosco Road has run out and we see no reason as to why we should tolerate the denial of our basic right to good roads any longer and be content traversing on roads which are no different from riverbeds.

The pathetic and style of the BRO/BRTF in the planning, construction and maintenance of the stretch of this National Highway beginning from Pezielietsie/ Teenpati to BSF Camp, Keyake has to be seen to be believed in this age of modern technology, the BRO/BRTF, inspite of getting

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down to Thungbo Brigade HQ for amicable settlement on the basis of reconciliation but were told that Sergeant Nzanchumo Lotha was not there.

An Appeal to the Naga Public: Killing among our brothers shall not solve our Naga problems. Therefore, we appeal the Naga public to distinguish those national workers who work dedicatedly for the nation d who work for their own vested interests.

An Appeal to the Lotha Public: Thousands of Lothas have sacrificed, been killed and murdered in the name of Naga freedom struggle. But what we have achieved so far in our land? What profit do we get by killing our own men? It is time the Lotha public to realize the truth for the falsehood being preached by some socalled national workers who work only for themselves and their own vested interest.

Also, the Kyong Hoho, being the apex body of Lotha Tribe, should ponder over the matter seriously as to how they cannot exercise their authority justly and effectively.

ASU representation to 15th BRTF

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Delay over govt decision on shifting to new Dist HQ Peren Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): With further delay in shifting of the Peren District Headquarter to its new site, there appears to be confusion.

According to a report, the shifting was proposed to have been done from October 28, 2013.

As per documents made available to the media by the Zeliang People Organization (ZPO), the DC Peren had in a circular dated October 8, 2013 informed and directed all Head of Departments that “in pursuance of the Chief Secretary’s direction”, the shifting to the new district headquarter was to commence from October 28, 2013.

According to the ZPO, the DC Peren in response to a letter issued by the former on October 15, 2013, had stated that “no directive was received for shifting of the district headquarters”.

This according to the ZPO was made in the “noting” over the ZPO’s application by the DC while also terming this as “contradictory” to the DC’s own statement made in the circular dated October 8, 2013.

The ZPO wrote another letter to the DC Peren on October 17, 2013, seeking clarification as to how such a circular for shifting to the new headquarter could be made, defying the direction of the Honorable Guwahati High Court. The ZPO has provided details of the court verdict of September 7, 2012, which had clearly directed the Chief Secretary not to shift Peren District Headquarters till such time the infrastructures are made available at the new site to his satisfaction.

Meanwhile, the DC Peren in supersession to the October 8, 2013 circular issued another circular

on October 17, 2013 informing that the “tentative date fixed for shifting of offices to the New District HQ, be kept in abeyance till further order”.

The ZPO has also disclosed the earlier reports of DC Peren and Additional Chief Secretary & Commissioner, Nagaland made in the first week of September 2012 “expressing impossibility of shifting the Headquarters at the moment for not fulfilling creation of minimum infrastructure”.

As such, the ZPO has stated that shifting to the proposed new site is “completely insanity on the part of the concerned authority except evidently succumbing to the political pressures of vested interest and ulterior motives”. The ZPO press note was issued by N. Azu Newmai, President and Kisamyi Iranggaung, General Secretary.

Mhainamtsi villagers trained in Bamboo Mat Weaving

ing conducted by resource persons Khubui and Angam and also Members of the NBDA, Kevin Solo, Kichung Phom and Alemla Aier.

The note also mentioned that the enterprising feature of the training has included the use of dyed bamboo strips for making the finished mats which can be readily sold in the market. The Agency has identified the prospects of mat weaving

Orgs condemn rape and In a press note, Loli Athiattempt to murder sii, President MSUD, and H. Joyson Khrasi General SecDimapur, OctOber retary MSUD stated out23 (mexN): The Ememei rage to have learnt about (Mao) community of Gu- the response of the authoriwahati strongly condemns ties in the aftermath of the the rape of a Mao lady by crime. It also stated that the Mr. Adani Chiithuyio (NSCN NSCN (IM), as a responsible (IM) cadre) on the night of organization a member of October 14, 2013 at Dima- whose personnel is the alpur. A press note issued by leged culprit, is expected to Mao Community, Guwahati show its solidarity with the stated, “We appeal to the larger society to take stern concerned authorities to action against the guilty ensure prompt and stern and provide justice to the action against the culprit victim.

However, the victim’s which will serve as a deterrent against such inhuman complaint has been denied acts. We deeply share the any consideration so far. pain and agony of the vic- Instead, she and her famtim along with her family. ily, individuals and orgaWe pray that the lady finds nizations who have stood courage, hope and deliver- in her support, have been ance to face the future with humiliated and threatened renewed spirit and opti- by people who should be mism”. responsible for providing The Mao Students’ whatever remedy to the Union, Delhi (MSUD) also victim. stated that a brutal crime “It should be noted that of this nature deserves rape is a savage attack on condemnation from all the dignity of an individual sections of the society. It that results in irreparable warrants prompt action on mental, social, and psythe part of the competent chological damage, apart authorities, whether the from physical injury. It is police or the NSCN (IM), to also a grievous assault on go into the case and award the moral fabric of the socibefitting punishment to the ety,” MSUD stated and that therefore, Naga society has guilty without delay.

Two cadres join NSCN (K)

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): Two men from GPRN/NSCN, namely second lieutenant Wangyu Konyak and lance corporal Yingnyim Phom, have joined NSCN (K) with two sophisticated arms, respectively called HK 33 and MQ. This was informed in a press release from the MIP of NSCN (K). “They came to GHQ, NSCN (K), located in Eastern sector of Nagaland,” stated the press release, adding that the two are not against anyone, but they long for Naga sovereignty. They opposed the division of Naga people into East and West by the Government of India, Myanmar or anybody else.

The release also informed that the two men used to be with Khaplang till but were “misused” and made to join GPRN/NSCN at the time of the split. They are now happy to “come back home,” the release said.

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Kuhoi Zhimomi, chairman Sumi council dimapur tries a Bike Ride as G. mughahito Zhimomi, Proprietor of Gamerz Galaxy (m) looks on after the inaugural function of the Gamerz Galaxy in dimapur, nagaland on Wednesday, october 23. Gamerz Galaxy, a game station zone located at nagarjan junction was inaugurated today by Kuhoi Zhimomi, and is one of its first kind in Nagaland and offers Bike Rides, Shooting, car Ride, Fighting, toy catching, air Hockey, mini Hammer game etc. G. mughahito Zhimomi, proprietor of the Gamerz Galaxy, young dynamite businessman has also brought the “Game Station”. (Morung Photo)

Kuholi urges students’ to have a clear direction Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): City College of Arts & Commerce Dimapur on Wednesday held its 21st Freshers’ Day cum Annual Social Day at Town Hall with Principal Government College Dimapur, Kuholi Yepthomi as the chief guest and ANCSU president Tsukjem Longkumer as the guest of honour.

Addressing the students, Kuholi focused her speech on 3Ds – Direction, Determination and Discipline. According to the chief guest, many students blindly set out without any sense of direction and gets into a dilemma when they reach an inter-

section. “We must have a clear direction in life to be successful in our goals,” Kuholi said.

She encouraged the students to be firmly determined in what they strive for as without determination many are bound to stop half way of their goals. “In order to keep determination, you have to be strongly focused,” she added.

Kuholi then identified discipline as an important ingredient for the students to succeed in life. She urged them to always be disciplined as the particular quality would make them learn various

lessons in life leading to success.

The Principal also encouraged the students not to let their dreams and visions be weakened by failures and disappointments but get up stronger and more determined to achieve their goals.

Tolino V Tuccu of B.A 1st year was announced as Miss. Fresher's 2013 and Roshan Pradhan of B.A 1st Year, as Mr. Fresher's 2013. During the programme, a demonstration was displayed by the students of Taekwondo for Christ while Pongchai Konyak presented a special number.

among the local communities as an uprising industry, the products of which have potentials of reaching even the mainland Indian market. The techniques of dyeing the bamboo strips will also be imparted in the following trainings which will be conducted in specific locations by the agency.

It may be noted that training on Bamboo furniture making was also the teaching faculty and students of modern academy Kohima with the staff of SBi recently organised by the Lerie Branch Kohima after getting water purifier to the school under Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme from SBi. NBDA in Mhainamtsi.

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traditionally considered such a crime with the most serious concern, either in preventing it or punishing those who are guilty of it.

In light of this, the MSUD observes sadly that crimes of this nature have become increasingly common in Naga society. More and more cases of sexual assault, and murder thereafter to weaken evidence, have been reported in our land. Therefore, the MSUD appealed to the competent authorities to bring the guilty to justice and not to delay the case any further.

It also appealed to all rightthinking individuals and responsible organizations to condemn the crime and to stand in support of the victim. “The victim needs all kind of support – material, moral, mental and psychological – to heal the ghastly wounds inflicted upon her by a beastly criminal,” MSUD concluded.

The Mao Community in Delhi is also deeply shocked and anguished to learn that one of our Mao sisters was brutally raped by one underground cadre, Adani Chiithuyio, and thereafter attempted to murder her at Dimapur

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mhainamtsi villagers seen during the two-days training held by nBda on ‘Bamboo mat Weaving’.

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) has organised a two-days training on ‘Bamboo Mat Weaving’ on October 23 to 24, 2013, at Mhainamtsi, Peren district.

A press note issued by Dr. Tolto Metha, Member, NBM-IT, Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, Government of Nagaland stated that altogether; ten trainees are participating in the training which is be-

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on October 14, 2013. A condemnation note issued by Peter Pukeho, President MWAD and Dr. Athikho Kaisii, General Secretary MWAD stated that committing such inhuman and brutal act by a brother and national worker, who is supposed to be a protector, deserve strongest condemnation by one and all, the MWAD finds no adequate words to condemn this inhuman act and demand that the culprit be given the severest and exemplary punishment under the law to act as strong deterrent against committing such heinous crime in future. “However high or powerful one may be, no one is above the law and the nation. An underground cadre connected to high profile people should not get away with such crime without punishment,” MWAD stated.

Therefore, MWAD appealed to all concerned and right thinking people to condemn such heinous crime in one voice irrespective of villages, communities or Groups. MWAD also earnestly appeal to all concerned authorities to take appropriate

action(s) against the cul- NHRA, Dimapur in a conprit and let justice be done demnation note stated that without delay. it is just an act of “goondaism” and extortion, which Orgs condemn attack and does not have any place robbery in today’s society. NHRA urges the businessman Dimapur, OctOber and traders to be brave and 23 (mexN): Business As- courageous enough to resociation of Nagas (BAN) port any cases of demand strongly condemned the at- and extortion to the law tack on businessman Alok enforcing agency and ask Bhandar at G.S Road and them to help us. NHRA also yesterday’s daylight rob- request the law enforcing bery of Rs 6.20 lacs on busy agencies to deploy their traffic jam by unidentified officers in plain clothes at gunmen. BAN, information strategic points, so that publicity, Mar Longkumer the 'goondas' are nabbed in a condemnation note unaware. NHRA prays and stated that the Association wishes Shanti Prakesh paworries, “the law and order reek a speedy recovery. seems to be going from bad Consumer Society Dito worse and actions of anti mapur District (CSDD) social elements are getting as well as the public has more bolder by making bra- strongly condemned the zen and daring attacks not firing incident at G.S Road only on business commu- on Alok Bhandar. CSDD nity but also on the general has urged the law enforcpublic with total disdain ing to nab the culprits and for law enforcing agencies.” book under the provision BAN urged authorities con- of law. In a release issued cerned and public to be ex- by its president, T.Hetoyi tra vigilant and cooperate in Yeptho, CSDD has urged fight against such menace. the authority concerned to Nagaland Hotels & trace out without showing Restaurant Association mercy and also urged to (NHRA) also strongly con- depute more security in a demned the firing incident Civic populated area in and at Alok Bhandar, where around Dimapur town for Shanti Prakash was injured. the safety of the public.

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) has expressed its deepest condolences to the bereaved family of late Wezülhi Krome. In a condolence note, CBCC acknowledged, “Indeed, he was a true pioneering leader and iconic leader of Chakhesangs and Nagas as well who had sacrificed his entire life for the welfare of the people.” Stating that his demise is a great loss for them, CBCC prayed that the legacy left behind will always be source of blessings and continue to guide them through. It further prayed to God to grant peace to the bereaved family.

NSCN/GPRN Chakhesang region offers condolences

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): All the ranks and files of NSCN/GPRN Chakhesang region led by Kedetsu Tsuzuh, member, Collective Leadership have expressed sorrow and conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family of late Wezulhi Krome. A condolence note issued by Huphuyi Venuh, Dy Kilonser cum Caretaker CAO, Chakesang Region stated that Wezulhi Krome was a “towering figure” respected by all, while adding “Chakhesang region will not forget his elderly advice to remain united in our struggle for the Naga common goal.”

Farmers advised not to use chemicals

Jalukie, OctOber 23 (mexN): Agriculture department of Jalukie under Peren district organized a Farmer Field School (FFS) on vegetables at Lamhai village on October 14. A press release issued by Namgong, VCC Dungki informed that the Agri officials explained in details the stages of cultivation of crops in different seasons. They told the trainees not to use chemical in their crops as that will invite varieties of diseases. Further, SDAO Jalukie told the farmers to totally eliminate inorganic food/crops and encouraged organic food. 33 farmers from Lamhai and Dungki villages attended the training.

KohimaYouth Parliamentary Competition & Quiz

kOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Directorate of School Education (DEO), the Kohima District Level Youth Parliamentary Competition and Parliamentary Quiz involving students of Class-12 will be conducted on October 25, 2013at 11:00 am at the auditorium of Alder College, Kohima. A press note received here stated that in this regard, the following selected Educational Institutions (both Colleges and Schools) are directed to compulsorily depute one student of Class-12 to participate in the competition: Kohima College Kohima, G.Rio Higher Secondary School, Northfield Bethel Higher Secondary School, Alder College Baptist College, Mezhür Higher Secondary School, Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Model Higher Secondary School, St.Mary’s Cathedral, Chandmari Higher Secondary School, Modern College, Ministers’ Hill Baptist Higher Secondary School, Stella Higher Secondary School, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School. The note also mentioned that a total of six students selected from the district level competition shall be sent up to compete at the State Level to be held on November 8, 2013. Further, as rehearsal shall be held on November 7, 2013 all participants will be required to reach on 06/11/2013 at Kohima.

ACAUT to organize public awareness rally on Oct 31 Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) is organizing a “Public Awareness Rally” on October 31st, at City Tower junction, at 9:30 am.

“All citizens having concern for the dismal affairs of our state are urged to attend the rally without fail”, stated a press note issued by the Media Cell ACAUT. “The harried citizens of this state coming out in large numbers will send a strong message to the concerned authorities and organisations that Nagas are ready to set our house in order”, states the ACAUT. Though the organizers are not setting a target, a turnout less than 10,000 will be nothing short of a disappointment, the press note states. In this regard, the ACAUT appealed to members of every churches of every denomination, tribal hohos, youth organisations, all colonies and villages between Dimapur and Piphema, every businessman, every business organisation, members of every student union, all members of the organisations representing the Ti-

betans, Nepalis, Biharis, Bengalis, Marwaris, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu and Indian Muslim community, etc., under Dimapur district, all mass-based organisations including Naga Hoho, NTC, NSF, ENPO, ENSF, NMA, to take this press release as an open invitation and attend the rally.

Since the issue of taxation hits womenfolk the hardest, they have been requested to make their presence felt. The schools and colleges are also requested to send the appropriate numbers. The 30,000 plus members of The Naga Blog representing the future leadership are specially requested to take the starring role and attend the rally in not less than thousands.

Leaders of the massbased organisations and frontal tribal hohos of Nagaland wishing to address the issue of taxation and illegal collections shall be given time to speak. Chamber of Commerce of other districts are requested to send 2 members each and express solidarity. Citizens are requested to show support for ACAUT and sign on the banners put up at Clock Tower roundabout.

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by Aheli Moitra

The dandy horse and the bicycle

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id you know? The Dandy Horse was the first human‑ powered vehicle that used the two-wheeler principle to enhance human mobility. It is the bicycle’s older stepsister, also known by its German name, Laufmaschine, which means ‘walking machine’ but closely resembles a different-meaning English word.

Last week, some of Nagaland was full of cycles. And the next couple of months will be the same. On October 12, students of Sainik School, Punglwa, under the banner ‘Alacritas Cycling Club’, led a team of young boys from Kohima to Dimapur covering 73 km on their bicycles. October 18 saw Sievituo Solo and Ruokuo Kire embark on their 3000 km expedition from Kohima to New Delhi via Bhutan and Nepal, aiming to cover it on their cycles in 45 days. The Niathu Sports Festival 2013 will see a race that takes cyclists from Noune to Niathu for the first time on October 25 this year.

The Hornbill Cycle Rally is slated for December 8.

It is the season to cycle long and strong. And everyone’s mantra is: reduce pollution, be conscious of the environment, protect it and spread the message of ecofriendship. Be fit.

Dandy, but not quite enough. To achieve even one of these objectives, cycling has to supersede the notion of season-cycling and become a regularized affair. Let us be honest: very few, on a regular basis, will have the courage to ply down from Kohima to Dimapur though 73km on a cycle is no great distance in, say, Norway. Forget the Kohima-Dimapur stretch, try cycling around Dimapur town on a regular basis and you will know why it is an unpleasant affair. Roads are battered, there is dust, mud or smoke in your face and related shafts, motor vehicles are hostile, no street lights, women cyclists are teased and not a single bicycle parking or safety provision exists in town. Your bicycle is always a theft, a pickup, away.

At a university in Great Britain, one could see the head of the school of politics and international relations, almost a decade back, cycle from his residence to his office every day in a suit.

The campus of the university, thanks to many other professors and students like him, remains green, filled with ponds, swans and trees. The town sets an equally high precedent. This is made possible through the cycle-related infrastructure put in place by the government, like cycle lanes, small but wholesome roads and cycle parking facilities in front of every solid structure.

The good news is that this is all achievable on a planned budget and sincerity. There is no doubting the sincerity of Nagaland’s cyclists towards their stated objectives. But they cannot be expected to repair roads, create bicycle lanes or parking slots. They can inculcate the ethics of lesser fuel consumption, shedding motor vehicle obsession, which they are doing, and need to continue to. A wider campaign to promote cycling is quite obviously on its way to Nagaland. As for the rest, a little more than flagging off seasonal cycle rallies will be necessary, for concepts like “urbanization” today include carbon reduction through sustainable methods of public transportation and bicycling. The dandy horse needs to progress into a bicycle, to start with.

Did you know? Greater Manchester (city) has a 12-year vision and plan to increase the proportion of cycle trips by 10% of all commute within the city. It is called Vélocity 2025.

Interested in sharing a cycling story? Write to moitramail@yahoo.com

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Amit Agnihotri Source: IANS

Rahul taking tried and tested route for 2014

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aking a leaf from the Congress' 2004 campaign that saw it storming back to power, party vice president Rahul Gandhi is focussing on rural voters and the poor - historically the core support group of the Congress - by highlighting the UPA-II government's social welfare agenda ahead of the 2014 general elections.

The Congress under Sonia Gandhi focussed on and benefited from its rural strategy in 2004 at a time when the then ruling BJP was harping on its "India Shining" plank. Since then, the Congress has been devoting considerable attention to the rural segment through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in 2006 and the mammoth Rs.70,000 crore farm loan waver in 2008, both during UPA-I. As the UPA-II's term draws to a close, the Congress is going to the people with its flagship National Food Security Act that aims to provide cheap foodgrain to around 800 million of India's 1.2 billion people, the largest social welfare initiative in the world. Simultaneously, it is also talking about the land acquisition act which provides right to fair compensation and rehabilitation to those whose land is taken away.

Over the past weeks, Rahul Gandhi has been carefully taking the message of the two pro-poor and pro-reform laws to the voters while addressing rallies, whether in assembly poll-bound Rajasthan (Salumbar and Saran), Chhattisgarh (Jagdalpur) and Madhya Pradesh (Shahdol and Gwalior) or in Gujarat (Rajkot) and Uttar Pradesh (Aligarh and Rampur). He even made an emotional pitch while addressing a rally in Gwalior where he spoke how his mother Sonia Gandhi wanted to vote for her pet food bill in parliament despite being unwell. Experts believe focussing on rural India is a good electoral strategy for the Congress, whose leadership right from the days of former prime minister Indira Gandhi has been identified with pro‑poor programmes.

Zoya Hasan, a professor in JNU, told IANS: "It is a good strategy to focus on disadvantaged sections. They need to focus on rural poor and highlight UPA's inclusive growth as they are down in urban areas over corruption and price rise issues."

According to Badri Narayan, who teaches at the GB Pant Social Science Institute, Jhusi, near Allahabad, both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have been focussing on the masses through poverty reduction programmes. "This is a good strategy and has worked well for them," Badri Narayan told IANS. "Two classes of haves and have-nots emerged from the liberal economy in the past two decades," he said. Says Pradip Dutta, a political science professor at Delhi University: "The Congress has been consolidating its rural strategy in the past nine years." This, said experts, is in contrast to the strategy of the BJP's prime ministerial nominee and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who finds support in sections of the urban middle class, youth and corporates. "Modi is targeting the urban middle class, youth and corporates," Dutta told IANS. Agrees Badri Narayan. "Modi is addressing issues of urban voters' concern like nation state and security," he said.

But Modi will have to be careful since the entire middle class is not with him as it is fearful of his "divisive"agenda. "The middle class has not fully shifted towards Modi as there is a fear among them of his being a divisive leader. There is anxiety in the Modi camp due to this," said Dutta.

According to Dutta, this has compelled Modi to try "an image makeover as a secular leader whose priority is development over religion." Modi's recent remark, that he preferred constructing toilets to temples, was a case in point, Dutta pointed out.

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Cynthia Cockburn

What now for the women's movement?

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arlier this year, an archive was lodged in the British Library that contained hours upon hours of recorded voices - the rememberings of sixty elderly women looking back on our lives. We were women selected (and who knows how, out of the hundreds and thousands) as having participated in that upsurge of feminist activism from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, commonly referred to as 'the second wave'.

The archive of recordings and transcripts, titled Sisterhood and After, is the outcome of The Women's Liberation Oral History Project, a partnership between the British Library, the Women's Library and the University of Sussex.

On Saturday, 12 October 2013, ten of us oldtimers were invited to take part in a series of panel discussions in front of a 250-strong audience in the British Library's conference centre. The invitation came from the History of Feminism Network, whose members Sarah Crook and Signy Gutnick Allen (both PhD students at Queen Mary College, University of London) hosted the day.

The programme was structured around five themes, each addressed in a 45-minute session wherein two second-wavers held the stage accompanied by two younger women historians with a research focus on the earlier movement. The latter posed some questions. We neatly re-shaped them into the questions we really wanted to be asked (or was this just me?). Then the discussion rolled on with issues raised from the floor.

Here I'll touch briefly on the themes and end with a few thoughts about the final session, on 'work and class', in which I myself took part.

The intention of the organizers had been to 'both celebrate and critically examine' British second wave feminism, and the day did indeed hear expressions of sharp divergence as well as solidarity - no surprise to those who lived through the turbulent seventies and eighties. The two historic-historians invited onto the first panel were Catherine Hall and Sally Alexander. The history of women, and history as retold by women, have been foundational in feminist theory - and not least the works of these two. They are just as valued, it seems, by today's generation of feminists, represented on stage by Lucy Delap and Rachel Cohen, as when we first read them.

The consciousness-raising process in which so many of us, almost half a century ago, began to dig out a new understanding of our own personal origins and early lives often led us on to collective self-questioning about women's place in history and our absence from the mainstream record.

Sally pointed out how feminism always asks questions about the individual, and values the personal voice. So 'history' for a woman is first and foremost our mothers, our grandmothers. We are the products of our lived circumstances, and our own trajectories and the bigger sweep of history are inseparable. Oral history is a natural mode for us therefore - and indeed in this respect the Sisterhood and After archival project is characteristic.

'Not the Church and not the State, women will decide their fate' we used to chant on those National Abortion Campaign marches, tirelessly renewed each time they tried to curb our rights. But in discussion with Denise Riley and Jocelyn Wolfe here at the British Library, we found reproductive 'choice' soon morphing into 'choices'. Yes, we were talking about the contraceptive revolution, defence of a woman's right to choose, and custody (especially in the case of lesbians), but also the more ambivalent issues of in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and sterilization.

Jocelyn had come to Britain from Trinidad in the sixties. She pointed out how, for black women, the contraceptive pill wasn't always an unqualified blessing. She remembered being put on the pill by her GP, without requesting it, as a cure for heavy periods. That had made her wonder, even then: would this have happened to a white woman, or is there

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ith the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised as a stubborn underlying obstacle to development.

In recent decades, despite steady economic growth, inequality has risen in most countries and in nearly every region of the world. It takes various forms, from income gaps to unequal political access. And it originates in a variety of factors, such as gender, ethnicity, disability, legal status, caste, skin colour, language and economic status.

Yoke Ling Chee of the Penang-based Third World Network (TWN) told IPS that the problem is worsening not only within the richest industrialised countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but also some developing countries with rapid economic growth.

Continuing structural inequities and flaws in the global trade and financial systems are a major cause, she said. “The highly inadequate regulatory [and] policy responses to the last rounds of financial crises means that systemic weaknesses continue which make countries vulnerable to more financial instability,” she said.

Chee also said developing countries that have put in place financial reforms but are export-dependent found themselves equally vulnerable in the 2008 crisis and workers in export sectors suffered as a result.

According to a statement in May by a group of 17 U.N. human rights experts, inequality often triggers social problems that further marginalise groups already left behind and neglected, while unequal access to wealth allows runaway resource use by the wealthy, leading to environmental deg-

Cynthia Cockburn reports on a lively day of discussion at the British Library at which women of the 1970s Second Wave Feminism encountered a young generation of feminist historians.

Debating racism, reproductive rights, sexualities and much besides, the aim was to imagine: 'What now for the women's movement?'

some eugenic policy at work here? We all remembered Depo-Provera, the unsafe injected contraceptive distributed and promoted with clear political intent among the poor black population of the USA, in Zimbabwe and elsewhere. From this panel discussion, involving April Gallwey and Freya Johnson Ross, there emerged a feeling that the rights and wrongs of reproductive choice were at any moment strongly dependent on the quality of current social, welfare and health provision, and that today in that respect we might well see ourselves as moving backwards.

Amrit Wilson and Gail Lewis, with younger contemporary historians Nydia Swaby and Terese Jonsson, comprised our third panel, on race and racism.

There were probably few women of the older generation in the room at this event who haven't got dogeared copies on their bookshelves even now of Amrit's Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978), a long-needed work that won her the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, and Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women (1988), a warmly-welcomed volume published by Gail and three other authors a decade later.

Together these two women had broken through the racist neglect of 'race' afflicting early second wave feminism. But this wasn't just a flaw in the past. Even now it's hard, they said, to gain recognition of the fact that racism exists within our movement, not only in the world outside. Race, besides, is persistently seen as something to do with blackness: 'white' is never deconstructed. White women can perhaps evade the issue, but as black feminists they have no choice but to engage. Who will challenge imperialism, who will address state racism? And in the post-millennial decades, with the 'war on terror', anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism is rampant. Religion is often used as a surrogate.

The session on sexualities was delayed until Beatrix Campbell could leap the short distance from Kings Cross platform (delayed train) to the British Library, where she joined Sue O'Sullivan in an animated account of our loss of orgasmic pleasure in the course of those years in the 1960s when the invention of the pill and the coil signalled a shift from clitoris to vagina, from those delightful erotic non-penetrative fumblings to the straightforward disappointing fuck.

After this, the afternoon's discussion, though ably managed by Amy Tooth Murphy and Charlotte Jeffries, like our sexual satisfaction, could only go downhill. But Sue reminded us how significant

had been the publication of Our Bodies, Ourselves for demystifying our own and each others' corporeality - despite, as Beatrix added, being a framework in which desire and fantasy were scarcely sayable. The Women's Liberation Movement, it seems, looking back, had opened two pathways, one of pleasure - the joyful shock of falling in love with women, women-as-such, roomfuls of women - and one of profound anger and pain in a sharper, politicized consciousness of male violence and sexual exploitation of women and children.

At the end of this lively day, Lynne Segal and I were up there on stage as two women who've insisted for four decades that we are socialist feminists - while, to be strictly honest (and I think I can speak for both of us in this), having been disappointed by the rather limited productive space for feminism within actual left organizations. The questions initially posed by Kate Hardy and Bridget Lockyer, our younger discussants, had asked: what of women and employment? what did second wave feminism achieve for the working woman?

Lynne broadened the issue to class, and spoke of the devastating effects of 35 years of neoliberal politics, initiated by Margaret Thatcher, eroding manufacturing, decimating public housing, squeezing welfare, to give free reign to corporate capital, especially finance capital. With unemployment and inequality soaring, social mobility plummeting, working-class women and ethnic minorities were hit hardest by the triple whammy of lower pay, shrinking welfare, and reduced advocacy on their behalf, as trade union and support networks were weakened. Class differences between women deepened, as professional women benefited greatly from the mainstreaming of an aspirational post-feminism, even as the situation of poorer women everywhere deteriorated. Nothing could be further from the egalitarian goals of Seventies feminism, with our desire to rethink ‘work’ itself, valuing care, community building and all that lay outside market forces.

For my part, I chose to stress how the unequal and exploitative relations of class are intertwined with and shaped by those of patriarchy (or shall we abandon this tired archaism and call it phallocracy?).

Employers super-exploit women, but are able to do so because women's labour market position is weakened by its prior exploitation, unpaid, by men in domestic life and in the wider provision of social care.

For me, socialist feminism thus has to be a project of resistance to both capitalism and male dominance.

Furthermore, and more contentiously perhaps, I believe that, in engagement with-and-in the left, socialist feminists need to go beyond economic issues to invite and expect men to organize, as men with men, and alongside women, against systemic male dominance - including sexual exploitation and violence.

But do we need to be 'in' the left, in order to do socialist feminism? I recalled how, while struggling on in environments such as local councils and trade unions, back then, we had invented an autonomous socialist feminism too. For ten years from 1985 to 1995, Lynne and I had both belonged to a lively European Forum of Socialist Feminists that drew its membership from Western and Southern Europe and Scandinavia, and eventually, with the advance of glasnost and collapse of the Soviet Union, also from Russia and the countries of East and Central Europe.

If the concluding question of the day was, 'what now for the women's movement?' I think Lynne and I were saying: let's get a socialist feminist current rolling again. And let's interpret that as a movement that both engages with existing organizations and has autonomous expression; that doesn't renege on 'equality' but insists on transforming power; that challenges neoliberal capitalism but simultaneously sexism, racism, nationalism, militarism and religious dogma; and which reaches far beyond the borders of one country.

Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net Thalif Deen Source: Inter Press Service

radation and climate change, whose impacts fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable.

The group of U.N. experts pointed out that the rise in inequality has severely undermined the hard-won achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It called for a post-2015 economic agenda that will include both a stand-alone and crosscutting goals to eliminate inequalities.

An Open Working Group (OPW) of U.N. member states is scheduled to meet May 22-24, 2014 to discuss the contours of the proposed new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) which will succeed the current MDGs, whose target date is 2015.

The experts say making equality a cross-cutting priority would mean every new goal will confront head-on the systemic injustices that drive inequalities – from institutional discrimination against minority groups to uneven investments in social services in different regions of a country.

They singled out social protection as “an indispensable part of the policy toolkit for tackling inequalities, to ensure that the post-2015 agenda leaves no group, community or region behind.”

As many as 80 percent of families today have no access to social protection, despite clear evidence that social protection systems can contribute sig-

nificantly to reducing poverty, creating social cohesion, realising human rights and protecting people from shocks such as food price spikes, the experts say.

They also say the post-2015 agenda should be linked to the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) recommendation on social protection floors, which will help create a funding mechanism for developing countries.

The group includes Verene Sheperd, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent; Alfred de Zayas, independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order; Magdalena Sepulveda, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights; and Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

In an op-ed in the New York Times early this week, Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize winning economist, said it is well-known by now that income and wealth inequality in most rich countries, especially the United States, have soared in recent decades and, tragically, worsened even more since the Great Recession.

But what about the rest of the world? he asked. Is the gap between countries narrowing, as rising economic powers like China and India

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have lifted hundreds of millions of people from poverty? And within poor and middle-income countries, is inequality getting worse or better?

Roberto Bissio, director of Social Watch, told IPS the World Bank has also claimed that Goal One of the MDGs – reducing by half the proportion of people in extreme poverty – was met in 2010, five years in advance of the 2015 deadline. Yet that optimistic statistical conclusion in fact hides much more complex realities, he said.

Between 1990 (which is the starting date of Goal One) and 2010 total world exports multiplied almost five times, growing from a total value of 781 billion dollars in 1990 to 3.7 trillion dollars in 2010.

Over the same period, the world’s average inhabitant more than doubled his or her income: from 4,080 dollars a year in 1990 to 9,120 dollars in 2010.

Yet that growth in trade and wealth is not reflected with a similar momentum in the evolution of social indicators.

TWN’s Chee told IPS a significant degree of investment profits and value‑added continue to be taken out of developing countries. Those countries that are food commodities exporters now face speculation as an added vulnerability.

Countries that depend on mining controlled by transnational corporations (TNCs) are characterised by environmental destruction, social problems and regressive tax structures for those industries.

“All these contribute to inequalities,” she argued. “The austerity policies that many European governments now impose on their society that impact on the lower income, even the middle income, are a repeat of what developing countries have been suffering under conditionalities imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for decades,” Chee said.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Why It’s Time for a Kind Phone!

Our throwaway electronics harm people overseas, but new trends in responsible design are not just smart—they’re kind

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Chris sweeney

hen Ted Smith looks at a smartphone, he doesn’t see a multipurpose gadget. He sees faces. He sees the face of the Indonesian or Ugandan miner who unearthed the raw materials. He sees the face of the factory worker who lives on a corporate campus in China and works long shifts, exposed to hazardous chemicals while assembling miniscule components. He sees the face of the salesperson at Best Buy or Target, and the face of the customer. He sees the faces of those who encounter the product after it’s been jettisoned and shipped halfway around the world to regions awash in electronic waste.

Smith, 67, began tracking the electronics industry in the early 1970s. Seemingly overnight, a swath of California morphed into an epicenter of new technology. As massive semiconductor and consumer electronics manufacturers sprang up and churned out cutting-edge products, Smith rounded up community members to take a stand against the industry’s lack of transparency about the chemicals used along the production line and the threats these substances posed to workers, the environment, and nearby residents. In 1982, Smith founded the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Twenty years later, he expanded his activist scope and co-founded the International Campaign for Responsible Technology.

“We realized early on that this industry was going to be a major engine of the future,” Smith says. “And we had broad-based concerns. It wasn’t just environmental.

There were labor-rights issues, health issues, the need to preserve neighborhoods.”

Over the past 40 years, Smith’s worries have manifested on a global scale. The consumer electronics industry is now a multibillion-dollar juggernaut that churns out new products year-round. In 2012, sales of electronics in the United States topped

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$200 billion, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, an industry group that represents 2,000 companies, including Sony, Samsung, and Apple. The average American household now owns 24 electronic products, many of which will be rendered obsolete within a few years.

So it should be no surprise that consumer electronics is the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. waste stream, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2009, the most recent year for which the EPA has data, 2.37 million tons of electronics were ready for “end-of-life nearby city with no e-waste processing.

Meanwhile, the ill effects of e-waste may management,” yet only a quarter of them be circling back to U.S. dinner plates. Rewere collected for recycling. searchers at Monmouth University released a study this spring that found high levels of It doesn’t just disappear Every year, heaps of American e-waste, lead in U.S. rice imports. One possible cause from smartphones to computers to stereo is the electronic waste industry, the lead ausystems, are shipped to India, China, Gha- thor said in an interview with the BBC. na, Pakistan, Peru, and other developing countries. By some estimates, 80 percent Benign by design But to make meaningful progress on of the U.S. e-waste collected ends up on foreign shores, where regulations are lax the e-waste crisis, Smith says, we can’t just focus on the waste. From mining to manuand incentive for risk high.

The goods are generally auctioned off facturing to recycling, consumers, corporain bulk to scrap companies and smelters. tions, and governments need to rethink the These companies pay locals—often includ- life of our devices from beginning to end.

Imagine a phone that’s made using ing children—meager wages to strip smidgens of gold, copper, and palladium from the conflict-free minerals and is encased in a discarded devices. Sometimes, this involves shell made of nontoxic chemicals. Imagine concocting a noxious stew of cyanide and ni- if that same phone, which looks and works tric acid, then burning the remaining plastic like every other touchscreen smartphone in crude firepits. Throughout the process, on the market, was manufactured under workers are exposed to lead, mercury, and the supervision of labor-rights organizacadmium, among other toxic substances. tions and in close collaboration with an esOne place our waste ends up is Guiyu, tablished, reputable e-waste recycler that China, a port city of 150,000 on the South made sure every reusable and recyclable China Sea. As documented by the Basel Ac- component was recovered safely. tion Network, Guiyu is home to more than That’s the ambition of Fairphone, a 5,000 small, mostly family-run businesses Dutch startup that’s currently producing its that trade in e-waste. A study published in first batch of 20,000 phones—half of which the Journal of Environmental Health Per- have already been pre-ordered. The Fairspectives found that children living in Gui- phone is one of the most palpable examples yu had significantly higher levels of lead in of “benign-by-design,” a school of thought their blood than children from Chendian, a that aims to make products less harmful

he so called 16 Points agreement proposal of 1960, and the subsequent birth of Nagaland as the 16th State of Indian union on 1st December, 1963, had sown seeds of contentions by politicians dividing the house of the Nagas. The people and the land of the Nagas were arbitrarily drawn apart to suit and serve the purpose to the advantage of those who wanted to exploit the people, land and resources of the Nagas.

The Nagas are scattered in Assam, Arunachal, Manipur and Nagaland of Indian Union and a similarly large chunk of Nagas are left out in the neighboring country of Myanmar. Unfortunately, these physical divisions have adversely affected the unity of the Naga people. The present deplorable shambles and fragments of evil design are at work benumbing the minds of the people with honey laden words and enticing false hope. No matter how sweet or needful, the formation of Nagaland Tribes Council appears to be, It is seen as a bowl of discrimination, to further break apart the fragile Naga society. Let us analyze and reason what went wrong with the Nagas.

The truth is, Nagas by name as a people are not Indian either by blood or by looks. Therefore, NNC was politically formulated and stood against the foreign forceful occupation and imposition on Nagas’ land and the people. Nevertheless, the Nagas were hypnotized, befooled or made drunk with the wine of Indian political gimmick. Consequently, the 16th Point Agreement of Bondage has made the Nagas, Indian since then.

Now Nagas are accustomed to Indian political ethics and fully baptized as Indian-Nagas. That is the point where the Nagas fall tumbling into the Indian political dungeon/pitch. Here, the Nagas’ vision and aspiration for Freedom is lost sight-of or laid-off by some NagaIndian politicians, not of willing decision but of compulsion under the spelled circumstance of India.

Reasoned that, the recent creation of NTC is seen as a good tool and ground to divide and confuse the Nagas at the expense of the good-willed Naga citizens and aspiration to live together. The rationale of NTC formation, as put forth by Solo is childish and outright denial of the left-out Nagas as per/by act of 16th Points agreement of bondage. The seed of separatism sown by Naga People Convention (NPC) has grown to a full stature in favor and wisdom of the husband; Indian. The rest of the Nagas outside the Nagaland state were detached to their own fate.

Many Nagas within the purview of the 16th points Agreement were maddened with the alluring and appeasement provisions and captivating prospects in the form of article 371(A). With so much expectations and assumptions, from the given Article, some few Nagas of Nagaland are bewildered and blinded by greed-based attitude. They don’t care or bother about oppressed fellow Naga brothers who are struggling and suffering in great pain and humiliation under superior and dominant powers in the neighboring states. No right word can be found to adequately express the heartless and blindness of the Nagas. It’s too inhumane and shameful to describe the state of Nagas as a people. The eyes of reasoning, the heart of discernment and the ears of conscience must be opened to see, feel and hear the voice of God if Nagas want to live in peace, harmony and prosperity under the unfailing provision of God in their land. The fate of the Nagas outside the present Indian state of Nagaland is determined and

throughout their entire life cycle.

So far, the most significant benign-bydesign achievements have been in the field of green chemistry, buried in academic journals. A small tweak in how a plastic is produced could make a product safer to build and disassemble. Fairphone is an instance where the benign-by-design mentality is helping meet a blossoming demand for sustainable electronics.

While Smith sees promise in Fairphone’s approach and the sustainable electronics movement, major manufacturers “living under the dictate of the quarterly profit” remain the largest obstacle. He says, “To really develop benign-by-design, we have to change the business model.” And that includes compelling manufacturers to devise effective takeback programs that are widely publicized and easy for consumers to access.

States lead the way One persistent barrier in the United States, however, is the lack of federal legislation to make sure e-waste is properly recycled. Compare that with the European Union, which last year imposed a strict directive requiring that by 2019 member countries collect 65 percent of the weight of all electronics put on sale in the preceding three years or 85 percent of all e-waste generated per year. Under the EU’s policy, retailers will be required to take e-waste from consumers. Companies—retailers,

Ntc: A tower Of Naga babel G. Gwangphun Social Activist/researcher

left to themselves. The treacherous act of denouncing the Nagas by Nagas at the face is expressively displayed at the recently created platform of segregation. The motive of NTC is judged as a matter of antagonistic, sheer defensive, apprehensive, arrogancy, and unquenchable greed based political initiation. Should the face of the whole Nagas of Nagaland be carried by NTC? It is taken that the NTC has drawn the line of distinction and barred the Nagas outside the state by the divisive state boundary. The fate of the Nagas of Nagaland is determined before God and He will judge and deal accordingly.

Understood that, the Price of Nagaland state was paid not only by the so called Nagas of Nagaland. God knows. The precious lives, blood, sweats and tears and the pangs of the past Naga dreamers, patriots and National fighters from all the sections of the Nagas was the ransom, the cost and the price paid for their land; The DREAMED NAGA SOVEREIGN HOMELAND. Shri. Lt. Hokise Sema the then Chief Minister of Nagaland noted that the state of Nagaland was realized by Nehru to be given at the earliest as a solution to the Nagas’ insurgency problems. He stated that, “the Nagas also fought in the freedom struggle…

Gaidinliu is the living witness to the fact”. Nehru also once mentioned that Nagas also took part in the freedom struggle of India in the figure and person of Gaidinliu, “ Rani of the Nagas”. therefore Nagas deserved to be treated as part of India and protected.

She was then put in the heart of the state capital and cared for by India till her last breath. However, the changing political climates have defaced the mind of India and even Nagas dimming the history into misty clouds of corruption of all kinds. Sad to mention that the Nagas are dividing among themselves on the basis of Indian state boundary and Indian classified scheduled tribes’ provision. Now the Nagas’ mentality is engrossed and subjected to thinking in term of getting bread and butter from India, never think of producing or developing the resources within for sustainable and self reliance development. The Nagas are still failing to make their History proud and firm. Funny to picture that, today Nagas are repeating the history of ignorance, obscured living and a culture of Head hunting in the modern form of tribal distinction, classification, factional fights among themselves. All these ugly dramas are greed based motivated politics. We must shun it soon or we will soon be overwhelmed by it. What amazed me most is that, the general publics and many Naga leaders are seemingly being hypnotized and are silent by the drum beat and magical propogation spell of Thepfulhouvi Solo and Azu Newmai ‘s politic culminating to the formation of NTC. The concept sounds good but the motive spells corruptive and divisive.

Should the Nagas subscribe to such projection? Let the concerned Nagas answer. Many innocents Naga leaders are being beguiled by his twisting and hypnotizing words. Many have been drawn toward his line of thinking. Solo said in his 8th commandment,

that NTC is non-political Organization. What then is political organization?

The Motive behind his masterminding NTC is to oppose the Govt. of Nagaland under whose Govt. he has been working for long, fed and nourished by it.

His own people’s Organization APO and now seemingly getting along with again, Tenyimia Organization where he belong earlier but condemned it recently, Naga Hoho because Naga Hoho knows him to be the clandestine player unstable in his principle, ENPO because ENPO stands contradict to his Interest in the state affairs and now gathering them around his ideology, NMA on women rights issues, NPF where he could not go well with, Nephiu Rio the CM he knows him to be trouble maker, NSCN IM, K, Unification or even his closely attached NNC because they knew him well to be self styling in his irrational confrontation against the Naga Nation. The last refuge is now to bloom in full, his resentful motive against the Govt. and people’s Organizations in the disguise spirit of welfare concerned for his branded termed word, “The Nagas of Nagaland”. In this term and spirit, there are many logics one can establish to form a mood or mind against any established understanding on unity, integration and solution of the whole Nagas irrespective of arbitrary state boundaries that divides the Nagas into pieces. The sweet sounding word of division, “The Nagas of Nagaland” the child of 1963 impregnated by Indian politicians is now shaping to form a separatist organization against all established Nagas organizations. Now gaining his ground, he has also established the rationale of NTC formation. His directives; “Membership should be from the tribe directly and not from the tribal Hohos” “NTC should not be political body…”, “The Nagaland Govt. could not safeguard the interest of the Nagas of Nagaland”, “The Naga Hoho, NSF, NMA, NPMHR could not protect the interest of the Nagas of Nagaland”, “Disgusted with the behavior of Naga Hoho…”( Quoted; Nagaland post dt. 3/10/2013). I don’t know why, ZPO the composed tribe organization dividing at home and is seen in the picture of NTC as piloting figure. Let us reason together on the above points and know for ourselves.

Regret and sorry to state that, NTC was impregnated by such cheap grumbling words consonant with some logical ideas and born as the legitimate child of the state of Nagaland in such a time they think timely. The reality is that, No govt, or NGOs be it DAN Govt, Naga hoho, ENPO, NSF, NPMHR, NMA or tribal Hohos cannot please every individual interest or for the matter all the people in every issues. Even the new formed NTC can never do so. God knows, the time for every right action to be attended to or blessed. No better Govt. or Organization can come up in such a climate of peoples who act irresponsibly, making good citizens silent in fear of confrontations.

Any good govt. cannot run properly when popular opinions take the place of wisdom and insightful reasoning. In such climate, the ruin is in sight.

The Nagas see their stomach-size world demar-

manufacturers, and recyclers—found to be in violation could be hit with stiff fines.

Further complicating matters is that the United States isn’t a signatory of the Basel Convention, an international treaty regulating how hazardous materials, including e-waste, are transported and disposed of. Fortunately, a growing number of states are implementing e-waste recycling programs. If done properly, they can steer millions of pounds of potentially harmful electronics into sustainable, regulated channels rather than overseas where there’s minimal oversight.

“Every state is very different and poses unique opportunities and challenges for increasing electronics recycling,” Sarah Murray, coordinator of E-Cycle Wisconsin, said in an email.

Wisconsin’s program, launched three years ago, has already collected more than 100 million pounds of e-waste. With budgets tight across the country, however, she warns that some states may not have the resources to staff and implement an e-waste program. “We were … fortunate that the legislation gave us dedicated positions for this purpose. That has meant we’ve had enough manpower to do necessary administrative tasks, educate stakeholders and the public, provide compliance assistance, and conduct inspections.”

As the piecemeal push to alleviate the effects of e-waste becomes more cohesive, Smith and the International Campaign for Responsible Technology are homing in on a handful of specific objectives that could usher in a future of sustainable electronics. One of their biggest ambitions is to see a requirement that companies disclose all of the chemicals used in a product’s lifecycle.

“Nobody I know knows the number of chemicals used in the manufacturing of electronic products. It’s probably in the range of several thousand. Some are very standard, run-of-the-mill chemicals, but others are exotics … and many are extremely hazardous,” Smith says. “We need disclosure of the entire chemical footprint. Until we understand that better, it’s difficult to push.”

But perhaps the biggest catalysts for change are the faces Smith sees. He mentions the possibility of building an app that shows the faces of all the people who’ll encounter the phone along the supply chain, from the miners to the factory workers to the smelters.

“I do believe if people could see the harm, they wouldn’t support it,” he says.

cated as Nagaland state fed by Indian appeasement provision. What a sorrow to know that the Nagas of Nagaland have blindly forfeited the God given resources within and lazily feeding on the husk of Indian production or the crumb or leftover portion given them. Further, the Nagas till today are still blind to the fact and even goes on to roar or barking like dogs over the little left over portion even refusing to share with the marginalized and underprivileged group or communities of the same Naga family in the state of Nagaland. Apprehending that, their share of food would be eaten away by others whom they think are better-of than they are. What an absurd notion. The world outside the Nagas are looking at Dogs eat dogs culture displaying on the platform called Nagaland state.

The Character of NTC is seen as message or index of who the Nagas are at home. At the appearance of NTC, the omen of ruin of Naga society is made more visible. Nagas’ attitude toward fellow human being is made to be misread. It is viewed as devoid of morality and the distant past savage era of head hunting culture returned. Lament over the fact that the Naga society is suffering the pain and pang of destructive politics blindly being played against the conscience and moral of Naga humanity and society. NTC reflects the depth, the height and quality of Naga people; its immaturity and shortsighted politics. The motive behind the formation of NTC is purely political and not a tint of morality is considered. When one think seriously on it, he or she will conclude that, it is against the Govt. of Nagaland, the good will of the respective tribal Hohos, the Naga Hoho, the ENPO and the Christian Church at large. My question is what if these leaders are given the place, power and free hand to lead the Govt. and the people? If our Naga Hoho and Naga Govt. or NGOs cannot function or administer well as expected for the welfare of the Naga people, do you think NTC or any other Organizations or political party can? If the Naga society is ringing the bell of alarming because of the present Govt. or Organizations, we all must act responsibly to correct and strengthen the hands instead of toppling or dragging our own established Govt. and Organizations. Where does pragmatic logic gone out from the Nagas?

How can we grow and progress together as a people under wrong mental perception about humanity?

Sorry to state that NTC reflects the social classification, discrimination, political dissatisfaction and conservative outlooks within and among the Nagas. It’s too narrowing a word or term to state by ourselves such as Nagas of Nagaland, Nagas of Manipur, Assam etc when we are all living defeated as Nagas of India and Myanmar. My opinion may hurt some readers, but this is how I am prompted to speak out the truth cautioning the Naga society of the impending grave danger posing the Naga society.

Concerned Naga thinkers and citizens are appealed to consider the matter as serious, implicating and endangering the Naga present society and future generations. Let us see farther and perceive the beauty of living together in Freedom as a humane people with the rest of the civilized world. It is possible and indispensable. The article is solely the personal view of the author. The intention is to strengthen the fiber of social growth, unity and to foster integrity, creating a conducive environment for early, lasting and acceptable settlement of the Naga political problems.

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China, India sign pact to ease border tension “We account for 2.5 billion people on this Earth and when India and China shake hands, the world notices”

beijiNg, OctOber 23 (aFP): China and India signed an agreement Wednesday on border defence cooperation after a stand-off along their disputed frontier in April fuelled fears of conflict between the Asian giants. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, visiting Beijing to seek a breakthrough in the territorial row that has soured relations for decades, witnessed the signing of the pact alongside Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

The agreement will “help to maintain peace, tranquillity and stability in our border areas”, Li said following the ceremony. No further details were immediately available. It was expected to include provisions for better communications between the two armies, although analysts played down its significance.

Singh told reporters: “We account for 2.5 billion people on this Earth and when India and China shake hands, the world notices.” The frontier agreement “will add to the existing instruments to ensure peace, stability and predictability on our borders”, he added.

China and India fought a brief war in 1962 and the border between them has never been properly demarcated, although they have signed accords to maintain peace.

Harsh Pant, of the defence studies department at King’s College London, said the agreement was a “significant takeaway” for Singh, but was not likely to resolve substantive differences between them. “Anything that restores normalcy on the borders is a

welcome development though this pact is unlikely to resolve the border row,” he said in emailed comments.

Li said the two would hold joint counter-terrorism training in southwest China and “strengthen cooperation to combat terrorism”. China blames “terrorist” groups for incidents in its far western region of Xinjiang, home to Muslim Uighurs, and has in the past linked clashes to groups trained in neighbouring Pakistan.

Delhi and Beijing signed nine agreements in total on Wednesday, including separate memorandums of understanding to strengthen cooperation on transborder rivers and transport. China is India’s biggest trading partner, with two-way commerce totalling $67.83 billion in the last fiscal year, up from $2.1 billion in 2001-02. But India’s trade deficit with its neighbour soared to $40.77 billion last year from just $1.08 billion in 2001-02, Indian figures show.

Singh - on probably his last trip to China as prime minister - called the deficit “unsustainable” after his meeting with Li, who said the two countries “agree to pursue trade and mutual investment in a parallel fashion”. “China stands ready to work with India to strengthen cooperation on infrastructure, especially railway construction, and to push forward the establishment of a Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor,” Li said.

The proposed land corridor, dubbed a new “southern silk road”, would pass through Myanmar and Bangladesh to connect the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming with Kolkata, one of India’s largest cities.

India, China ink key accord on common river information

beijiNg, OctOber 23 (iaNs): India and China agreed to exchange more hydrological information on common rivers and also discuss “other issues” in a tacit acknowledgment of India’s concerns over China’s dam building activities on the Brahmaputra.

The Memorandum of Understanding on trans-border rivers was inked after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

According to sources, the agreement is a “major diplomatic achievement” as it is the first time that China has agreed to acknowledge India’s rights as a lower riparian state. India’s consistent raising of the issue of China’s dam building activities on the Brahmaputra river, known as Yarlang Tsangpo in China, has helped in Beijing becoming more accommodating this time, they said.

This time the agreement takes into account the environmental concerns of India on the Brahmaputra. According to the agreement, the two sides “recognized that trans-border rivers and related natural resources and the environment are assets of immense value to the socio-economic development of all riparian countries”. Both sides also agreed to flood-time exchange of hydrological data on 15 more days - from Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, talks with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, during a meeting at the “May 15 instead of June 1 to Oct 15th”. Advancing the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Wednesday, October 23. China and India sounded a new optimistic tone in date by 15 days, at a time when the melted glacier ice their relationship Wednesday as they signed an agreement to boost meetings between their militaries to avoid any of the Tibetan plateau begins to flow downstream, is repeat of a tense standoff this year along their disputed Himalayan border. (AP Photo) also a major achievement, the sources said.

Indian, Chinese troops to exert restraint; new steps for border peace

beijiNg, OctOber 23 (iaNs): Troops of India and China will not tail each other’s patrols and, during faceoff situations, both sides will exercise maximum self-restraint. These are two major points of the key agreement India and China inked Wednesday to establish peace on their 4,000-km disputed border.

The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA), signed after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiant, also envisages a hot line between the headquarters of the two armies, right to ask for clarifications about the other side’s troops activity and getting the troops into “more friendly” interactions with each other.

The BDCA was signed by Indian Defence Secretary R.K. Mathur and China’s People’s Liberation Army deputy chief

Lt.Gen. Sun Jianguo. It contains 10 clauses that seek to maintain peace, tranquillity and stability along the 4,000-km long Line of Actual Control.

It reiterates that “neither side shall use its military capability against the other side and their respective military strengths shall not be used to attack the other side”. The agreement basically puts together the past mechanisms for establishing peace along their disputed boundary that has seen frequent intrusions, especially by Chinese troops, causing concern in India.

According to the agreement, it will facilitate exchange of information on military exercises, on unmarked mines, on aircraft and also in the non-military field on activities related to smuggling of wildlife and other contraband. Both sides are also to respond to natural di-

sasters and work with each other.

According to Indian Ambassador S. Jaishankar, there would be an increase in the frequency and the level of meetings - from the border level between military personnel, to the command level and at the level of their respective defence ministries.

Both sides would also continue with their existing mechanisms - the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs and the Meetings of the India-China Annual Defence Dialogue, he said.

Both sides are to establish personnel meetings between their border troops “in all sectors”. Earlier, there was contact betweenpersonnelonlyatonepointalongthe boundary. There would be contact on the hotline between their military headquarters, which would be “more structured”.

Both sides would “get the troops more comfortable with each other”, through joint celebrations and joint exercises.

One major clause is that “they shall not follow or tail patrols of the other side in areas where there is no common understanding of the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas”.

In case the troops “encounter doubtful situations, each side is to seek clarifications” and in case of a face-to-face situations “both will exercise maximum self-restraint”, said the ambassador.

The BDCA would “become operationsal institution to forces on the ground” and help to avert incidents when forces encounter each other on the border, said Jaishankar, who is due to take over soon as India’s ambassador to the US.

I may also be killed but I don’t care: Rahul India will give befitting reply to Pak: Shinde

churu, OctOber 23 (iaNs): “My grandmother was murdered. My father was murdered. Now I may also be killed one day.

I don’t care about it,” said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, making an emotional pitch for Rajasthan’s ruling party at an election rally here. Gandhi accused the BJP of sparking communal tensions in the country for political benefits, and equated the plight of Uttar Pradesh’s riot-ravaged Muzaffarnagar district’s people with himself.

He said that he can understand their sorrow and grief as his grandmother and father were also murdered. Gandhi, 43, was referring to the communal riots that took place in Muzaffarnagar that claimed more than 40 lives and rendered thousands homeless.

“My grandmother was murdered. My father was murdered. Now I may also be killed one day. But I don’t fear being murdered. I don’t care about it...I see my face in the plight of Muzaffarnagar’s people,” Rahul Gandhi said while addressing the mammoth rally.

His grandmother, then prime minister Indira Gandhi, and his father, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, were both assassinat-

ed. While Indira Gandhi was gunned down by her Sikh bodyguards in Delhi Oct 31, 1984, Rajiv was assassinated by a Tamil Tigers suicide bomber at a political rally in Tamil Nadu May 21, 1991. Gandhi referred to his speech as “dil ki baat” (A talk from the heart) and said he wanted to share his story with the people.

“I was in classroom at my school when someone approached my teacher and whispered something in her ears. The teacher told me to go home immediately. I called up home from principal’s office. I heard a scream from our housemaid. I was told something wrong had happened to my grandmother,” recalled Gandhi.

Gandhi said he and his sister Priyanka were taken home, hidden under the passenger seats of a car by bodyguards. “When I reached home, I saw blood of my grandmother on the road and the blood of two security guards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in a room. They had always been like my friends. The incident filled me with a rage. It took me 1015 years to calm down my anger,” said Gandhi. Gandhi added that recently a legislator from Punjab was sitting in his room.

“The legislator told me that had he met me 20 years ago, he would have murdered me. But now he wanted to hug me. The point I want to drive home is that nobody has in-built anger. Anger is instilled by political parties. It takes years to calm down the anger, but a minute to ignite it. That is why I am against BJP and its politics,” said Gandhi. He accused the BJP of causing bloodshed for political benefits.

“I am against the kind of politics BJP does as they spark fire of tension for political benefits... they hurt people for political gains.”

“They will go to Muzaffarnagar and set fire in it. They will go to Gujarat and set fire in it. They will go to UP and Kashmir and will do the same. We have to run from pillar to post to douse the fire.” He said he wants “India to stay together, stand

New DeLhi, OctOber 23 ing on R S Pura, Arnia, Ramgarh and violations since October 14, in which (ageNcies): With ceasefire viola- Akhnoor sectors along the Inter- two jawans have been killed and 18 tions continuing along the LoC and national border on Tuesday night. people injured. Shinde had said ‘stern International Border (IB), Union ThePakistani Rangers, had on Tues- action’ would be intiatied in the matHome Minister Sushilkumar Shinde day opened fire and heavily shelled ter as he asserted that the issue of on Wednesday said that India will over 50 border outposts along the In- ceasefire violations would be taken give befitting reply to Pakistan. The ternational Border overnight, in the up with Pakistan at a meeting of the Home Minister further said that ad- biggest-ever provocative act from Directors General of Military Operaditional BSF troops are being rushed across the border during the last few tions of the two countries. to Pakistan border. years. BSF jawan, M L Meena of RajasThe Home Minister had also Shinde’s statement comes a day than was killed in the firing. blamed the Lashkar-e-Toiba for after what may be called the biggest The heavy shelling and fresh the spurt in infiltration attempts ever ceasefire violation in recent ceasefire violation come close on the from across the border as he said times in which a BSF jawans was heels of Shinde’s visit to areas long that LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was together”. “The BJP divides killed and three others got injured the IB on Tuesday to review the secu- learnt to have visited forward areas people, but I want the peo- as Pakistani mortars continued rain- rity situation arising out of ceasefire in Pakistan. ple of India to be united.”

He said anger is not only generated by murder, but also by lack of basic amenities. “Unemployment and hunger also create anger. New DeLhi, OctO- companies are making is being projected as life- the ban by selling tobaccoWe are working towards ber 23 (Pti): The Centre mockery of rules by selling style and desirable prod- less pan masala and saeradicating these things. on Tuesday made a strong pan masala and tobacco uct. They are sold as mouth chets of tobacco separately.

That is why we brought in plea before the Supreme separately as they cannot fresheners. Burden is on On April 3, the apex court employment guarantee Court for passing an appro- manufacture gutka with industry. They have to stop had asked all states and scheme and food security priate order to ban all kinds tobacco. He submitted that manufacturing,” the Centre Union Territories to file bill,” said Gandhi. He added of gutka in the country say- 35 per cent of adult popula- had contended. compliance reports on the that the Congress wants to ing they are addictive and tion is addicted to tobacco In spite of the regula- implementation of the ban develop an infrastructure harmful even if they don’t and it is a big problem for tion, companies subvert on gutka products. to promote manufacturing. contain tobacco. the country.

The Gandhi scion said he Appearing before a Earlier, the Centre had wants the youth to have po- bench headed by Justice G said that money spent by litical rights in their pockets S Singhvi, additional solici- the government on controljust like they have mobiles.

Rajasthan CM Ashok tor general Indira Jaising ling disease caused due to Gehlot, AICC general sec- made a forceful submission tobacco products far outretary Gurudas Kamat and against manufacturing and weigh the revenue generated to it from such products. several other senior party selling of gutka products.

Senior advocate Gopal “It is important to stop proleaders addressed the rally. Voting for the assembly Subramaniam, who is as- duction and sale of gutka.

All kinds of paan main the state is slated for Dec sisting the bench as amicus 1 and counting will be on curiae, also supported the sala and gutka contain adCentre’s stand saying that dictive substance which Dec ember 8.

Centre to SC: Ban all kinds of gutka

Over 9.3 lakh TB patients in India undetected: Report

LONDON, OctOber 23 (ageNcies): Over 9.3 lakh Indians with the world’s most dangerous air borne disease – tuberculosis, are currently going undetected and being ‘missed’ by the country’s health system. Around 3 million people - equal to one in three people falling ill with TB are not being detected globally. What is bad news for India is that 31% of those are in India. India is presently home to around 26% of the world TB patients – 1 in 4 globally.

World Health Organisation’s World TB Report 2013 released on Wednesday said 75% of the estimated missed cases – people who were either not diagnosed or diagnosed but not reported were in 12 countries. In order of total numbers, India led the list followed by South Africa, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Philippines and Myanmar. There were an estimated

4.5 lakh new cases of multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) worldwide in 2012. More than half of these cases were in India, China and the Russian Federation.

Around 94,000 TB patients eligible for multi-drug resistant (MDR-TB) treatment were detected in 2012: 84,000 people with confirmed MDR-TB (resistance to both rifampicin, the most powerful TB drug and isoniazid), along with 10,000 with rifampicin resistance detected using Xpert MTB/RIF. This was a 42% increase in detected cases eligible for treatment compared with 2011. Another bad news for India is that the largest increases between 2011 and 2012 were in India, South Africa and Ukraine.

India saw 2.7 lakh deaths caused by TB in 2012. India and South Africa together accounted for about one-third of global TB deaths. The five countries with the largest number of incident cases

in 2012 were India (2 million), China (0.9 million), South Africa (0.4 million), Indonesia (0.4 million) and Pakistan (0.3 million).

India and China alone accounted for 26% and 12% of global cases, respectively. Of the 8.6 million incident cases, an estimated 0.5 million were children and 2.9 million occurred among women.

Dr Mario Raviglione, WHO director of the Global TB Programme said “far too many people are still missing out on such care and are suffering as a result.

They are not diagnosed, or not treated, or information on the quality of care they receive is unknown. WHO estimates that 75% of the three million missed cases are in 12 countries”. WHO recommends priority actions that could make a rapid difference between now and 2015.

“Reach the 3 million TB cases missed in national notification systems by expanding access to

quality testing and care services across all relevant public, private or community based providers, including hospitals and NGOs which serve large proportions of populations at risk”. WHO also calls countries to “address with urgency the MDR-TB crisis.

Failure to test and treat all those ill with MDR-TB carries public health risks and grave consequences for those affected. Intensify and build on TB-HIV successes to get as close as possible to full antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage for people co-infected with TB and HIV,” the report says.

TB treatment has saved the lives of more than 22 million people, according to the WHO. The report also reveals that the number of people ill with TB fell in 2012 to 8.6 million, with global TB deaths also decreasing to 1.3 million. While the number of people detected worldwide with rapid diagnostic tests increased by more than 40% to 94

000 in 2012, three out of four MDRTB cases still remain without a diagnosis, warned WHO. Even more worrying, around 16000 MDR-TB cases reported to WHO in 2012 were not put on treatment, with long waiting lists increasingly becoming a problem.

“The unmet demand for a full-scale and quality response to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a real public health crisis,” says Dr Raviglione. “It is unacceptable that increased access to diagnosis is not being matched by increased access to MDR-TB care. We have patients diagnosed but not enough drug supplies or trained people to treat them. The alert on antimicrobial resistance has been sounded; now is the time to act to halt drug-resistant TB.” A further challenge identified relates to the TB and HIV co-epidemic with less than 60% receiving antiretroviral drugs in 2012.

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Church whistleblower says she ‘didn’t do enough’ ST. PAUL, OcTOber 23 (AP): After she made her First Communion as a little girl, Jennifer Haselberger was distraught to learn the Catholic church had no saint Jennifer, and she had no saint to call her own. So her mom opened up a book and pointed to Joan of Arc. “There. That’s yours,” she said. Years later, Haselberger is in a fight of her own after going public with claims that archdiocese leaders in St. Paul mishandled allegations of clergy sexual misconduct.

Turns out, Haselberger may have borrowed a little bravery from the headstrong French heroine she has long admired.

Haselberger, a former canon lawyer for the archdiocese, took on leaders of the church she loves after she felt her warnings about troubled priests were being ignored, setting off a firestorm in the local church. “If a child was hurt, Jennie would do everything within her power to stop that. The lengths that she went to were probably heroic,” said Anne Maloney, Haselberger’s former college adviser.

Haselberger resigned

in April after she says Archbishop John Nienstedt and others did not respond appropriately when she found pornography, including images of possible child pornography, on computer disks that once belonged to a priest who was still in ministry. This came after she says church leaders ignored her repeated warnings dating back to 2008 about another priest who went on to molest two boys in his camper in 2010.

“I can never undo what happened to those boys, and that hangs incredibly heavy on me,” Haselberger told The Associated Press.

“I didn’t do enough.” Haselberger said she resigned because church leaders weren’t listening, and she went to authorities and to the media because they wouldn’t change. Since then, Nienstedt’s top deputy has stepped down, and the church set up an independent task force to review its policies. Police are also investigating.

“I came to the conclusion that I was going to do whatever it took, that this was not acceptable ... and let the chips fall where they may,” she said. Haselberger

has gone to law enforcement about two priests, and she says she had brought concerns about others to church leaders.

She declined to elaborate, but said she expects more details will emerge.

Jim Accurso, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, said he could not comment on Haselberger or her resignation because it is a personnel matter. Accurso has said the information portrayed in the media is incomplete because it has been presented without context. Tom Doyle, founder of the Catholic Whistleblowers group, said it is still rare — and risky — for someone from within the church to come forward and challenge bishops, who he likened to absolute rulers.

“Everyone I know of who has been a whistleblower has sacrificed their career,” said Doyle. Haselberger, a hockey fan and equestrienne, grew up in a Polish-Catholic family with a great uncle and a great aunt who both went into religious life. Although she never considered that herself, she calls the church her “home,” and still stands be-

hind it and the many clergy she respects and considers heroes.

While an undergrad at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, she earned a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy. She also became a leader of a student group that opposed abortion and advocated for valuing human life, Maloney said. “I never once saw Jennie back down from a conversation or dispute,” Maloney said. “She believed being anti-abortion was the best way to be a feminist.”

Inspired by a religious sister, she also began writing to a man on death row in Angola, Louisiana. She is against capital punishment and became his spiritual director. The man’s death sentence was vacated when Hurricane Katrina destroyed prison records, but she said the experience taught her about striking a balance between caring for offenders and protecting the innocent, something she says could also apply to accused clergy.

“I despise the acts that they committed, but I don’t hate them,” she said.

Haselberger earned her

A new idea for space tourism: Balloon over rocket

WASHInGTOn, OcTOber 23 (AP): The latest space tourism venture depends more on hot air than rocket science. World View Enterprises announced plans Tuesday to send people up in a capsule, lifted 19 miles (30 kilometers) by a highaltitude balloon. Jane Poynter, CEO of the Tucson, Arizona-based company, said the price for the four-hour ride would be $75,000.

While it’s not quite space — that starts at 62 miles (100 kilometers) — the plan requires approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees commercial space.

Poynter said the plan uses existing technology and the first launch could be as early as the end of 2016.

“There are balloons this size that have already flown up many, many

Abbott denies climate change link to bushfires

Sydney, OcTOber 23 (AFP): Prime Minister Tony Abbott denied Wednesday that devastating bushfires in Australia were linked to climate change, saying the UN climate chief was “talking through her hat” on the issue. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said Tuesday that while the latest fires raging west of Sydney could not yet be linked to global warming, there was “absolutely” a connection between wildfires and rising temperatures.

“The official in question is talking through her hat,” Abbott told radio station 3AW. “Climate change is real, as I’ve often said, and we should take strong action against it. “But these fires are certainly not a function of climate change - they’re just a function of life in Australia,” he said.

The vast country’s hot and dry weather makes it particularly prone to bushfires and they are a regular feature of summer. But the current blazes, which have razed more than 200 homes, have inflamed debate about whether there is a link to climate change and Figueres, executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), weighed in during an interview with CNN. “The World Meteorological Organization has not established a direct link between this wildfire and climate change yet,” Figueres said. “But what is absolutely clear is the science is telling us that there are increasing heatwaves in Asia, Europe, and Australia, that there these will continue, that they will continue in their intensity and in their frequency.”

Abbott rejected the connection saying “fire is a part of the Australian experience”.

times for decades,” Poynter said.

“From a technical point of view this is incredibly doable, low risk.” The selling point is the view of the Earth and seeing its curve, she said. The venture isn’t designed for passengers to experience weightlessness.

The flight would take 90 minutes to go up at about 1,000 feet (300 meters) a minute, set sail up high for 2 hours with an emphasis on smooth riding, and then come back down in 40 minutes, Poynter said. The capsule’s interior will be roomy enough for its eight passengers to walk around.

Outside space expert Scott Pace, a former NASA associate administrator now space policy director at George Washington University, agreed that this is technically feasible. He said the issue is whether there’s enough of a

market for it to be financially doable, calling it “an interesting market test.”

Pace said the while there are many space tourism ventures, it is not quite right to call the field growing. It is still embryonic. A few people have paid tens of millions of dollars to fly to the International Space Station and others have paid to fly in high altitude jets. But how many people will pay for near space experiences, he asked.

Poynter said she has no doubt that there’s a market with other firms like Virgin Galactic selling so many tickets for yet-to-fly rides. “Space tourism is here to stay,” said Poynter, who also runs the space firm Paragon Space Development Corporation.

She and her husband earlier this year proposed a private venture to send a married couple to Mars in 2018.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF TREASURIES & ACCOUNTS NAGALAND: KOHIMA

NO.DTA/PEN/NPS/3-1/2012/4417-20

Dated Kohima the Oct' 2013

NOTIFICATION The Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts has started uploading the subscribers' contribution for National Pension System (NPS). Therefore all the Head of Departments are requested to submit the subscribers' (employee's) detail contribution statement (as in Annexure I & II) received from the sub-ordinate Officers (DDOs) along with challans as per Finance Department Office Memorandum No.FIN/ESST-3/04 (pt-) dt. 22.09.2010 to the Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts on monthly basis before 15th of every month for uploading to NSDL. Any submission after 15th will be carried over to the next month for uploading to NSDL and the concern Head of Department will be held responsible for delay in uploading. The Head of Departments should submit the subscribers' detail contribution statement along with challans only for those employees who have obtained the Permanent Retirement Account Number (PRAN), (Z.MESEN) Principal Director

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 23rd October, 2013

NOTIFICATION NO.NPSC/CON-35/2009:: It is hereby notified for information to all concerned that the written results of the NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2013 conducted by the Commission has been declared.

1. Written examination for Mains will be held on 23rd, 25th & 26th November, 2013.

2. Admission Certificates will be sent individually by post. Those who do not receive may collect from the Commission’s Office from 18th November, 2013 onwards.

3. The results and other information related to the above examination will also be made available on the NPSC website at www.npsc.co.in Note 1: After declaration of Mains result, selected candidates will be required to submit attested copies of the following documents as listed below:(a) HSLC/Matriculation Admit Card for proof of age. (b) Mark Sheets and Pass Certificates from HSLC onwards till required qualification.(In absence of Pass Certificate, Provisional Certificate of Institution/ University must be submitted). (c) I.I., SC/ST, BT & Phy.Handicapped certificates (if applicable).

Note 2: Reference to the Commission’s Addendum/Corrigendum of even number dated 30th September, 2013 the post of Research Assistant (Item No. 9) under Art & Culture Department has been cancelled from the current advertisement and shall be re-advertised in the subsequent recruitment as requested by the Department vide No. AC/ESTT/ R.A/69/2011 (PT)/25 dated 3rd Oct, 2013.

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

This Sept. 10, 2013 file photo shows former canon lawyer for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Jennifer Haselberger. (AP File Photo)

doctorate of philosophy at the University of London. While waiting to defend her thesis, she began taking classes at Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium, where she earned her licentiate in canon law and graduated with highest honors in 2004.

While living in a prestigious academic community in London, Haselberger organized a lecture about a woman who went to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated atrocities committed during the apartheid era, to seek amnesty not for violence or any other crimes — but for her apathy in apartheid-controlled South Africa. Her example inspired Haselberger.

“That really resonated with me at the time ... it’s such a phenomenal example of personal accountability,” Haselberger said. When Haselberger began working for the archdiocese in 2008, Nienstedt called her “studious” and “thoughtful.”

That contrasts with statements made after her allegations. Archdiocese attorney Tom Wieser said in a recent court hearing that Haselberger was a “dis-

gruntled former employee” who was unauthorized to investigate allegations of child pornography but did so anyway, something he called “unsophisticated and imprudent.” According to a court transcript, Wieser said Haselberger decided for herself that the images were illegal, and went to authorities, who found no evidence of child pornography.

St. Paul Police have since reopened their investigation.

Now outside the chancery walls, Haselberger is a consultant, available to help victims of abuse, or others, navigate the ins and outs of canon law. She knows she’ll likely never work for the church again, and her eyes get watery when she talks about how much she would have loved serving in the church of Pope Francis. But she said her only regret is not speaking out sooner.

“I certainly always attempted to make my points using facts and reason and to do so respectfully,” she said. “But I would hope that people would say that ‘She was incredibly passionate about this.’ Because I would be disappointed in myself if I wasn’t.”

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‘Music can help reduce chronic pain’ LOndOn, OcTOber 23 (IAnS): Listening to music helps in relieving persistent physical pain in four out of ten people, a new study has found. Out of the 1,500 people surveyed, 66 percent of the 16 to 24-year-olds said music has helped them to soothe pain, reported the Daily Mail Tuesday citing a study conducted by LloydsPharmacy.

Among the various types of music, pop music was the most popular, helping 21 percent of people, followed by classical music at 17 percent and rock or indie music at 16 percent, the report said. Simon and Garfunkel’s song ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ helped most in reducing pain, which was followed by Robbie Williams’ ‘Angels’, Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Albatross’, Elton John’s ‘Candle In The Wind’ and ‘Easy’ by The Commodores, it added.

“People in pain should try to find some activity to get fully engaged in,” the Daily Mail quoted David Bradshaw of the University of Utah Pain Management Centre as saying. “Listening to favourite music is excellent for that because it can involve both thoughts and feelings. No matter how anxious you may feel, if you can get absorbed in the music, this can help with your pain,” Bradshaw said.

MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS GOvERNMENT OF INDIA Request for Pre-qualification of Civil work contractors for National Highways Inter-Connectivity Improvement Projects (NHIIP) under Phase-I Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) invites eligible contractors having proven track record in construction of similar Highway works involving modern equipment and construction techniques to submit the proposal for pre-qualification for construction works as Rehabilitation and upgrading to 2 lane/2 lane with paved shoulders configuration and Strengthening of BankuraPurulia Section (Km 0 to km 84) of NH-60A (New NH-314) in the State of West Bengal, under Phase-I of National Highways Inter-Connectivity Improvement Projects(NHIIP) to be implemented with Word Bank loan assistance.

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Wrestlemania 2 in Kma today Torres hits brace in Chelsea victory Nagastyle KING OF THE RING SERIES 2013 geLseNKircheN, october 23 (aP): Fernando Torres scored twice as a clinical Chelsea won 3-0 at Schalke to replace the German club at the top of Group E in the Champions League on Tuesday. On his 100th start for Chelsea, Torres scored with a simple header after being left unmarked at the far post to meet Branislav Ivanovic's flick on from a corner in the fifth minute.

Torres effectively sealed the result on a counterattack in the 69th, and Eden Hazard wrapped up the scoring three minutes from time on another breakaway. "The score is too high. It's very, very annoying to concede so ear- Chelsea's Fernando Torres, right, scores the opening goal past Schalke defender Roman ly," said Schalke coach Jens Neustaedter during the Champions League group E soccer match between FC Schalke 04 Keller, who rued the "three, and Chelsea FC in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Oct.22. (AP Photo)

Arsenal’s unbeaten run broken by Dortmund

LoNDoN, october 23 (aP): Robert Lewandowski scored in the 82nd minute to give Borrusia Dortmund a 2-1 Champions League win at Arsenal on Tuesday, ending an unbeaten run for the Premier League-leading Gunners that stretched back to midAugust. Lewandowski met a cross from right back Kevin Grosskreutz to side-foot past Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny at the far post for the winner.

"We have to fight for the moments," Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp said. "I saw my team fighting. I saw them fighting for this one situation. It was the best attack in the whole game.

It was a brilliant cross and a brilliant finish from Lewandowski." Dortmund scored first when Henrikh Mkhitaryan drove in a low shot in the 16th that beat Szczesny after Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey lost possession when he was tackled from behind just outside the area. Lewandowski pounced on the ball and set up Mkhitaryan.

Arsenal equalized in the 41st when Olivier Giroud fired into an empty net from a yard out after a cross

21st Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship Khulioh King FC to take on Kongkai San FC

from Bacary Sagna caused confusion in the box as Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller and center back Mats Hummels attempted to clear the danger. The ball deflected off Weidenfeller's torso and looped up perfectly for Giroud. Both teams have six points after three matches in Group F and are equal with Napoli. The match appeared to be heading for a draw in the rain before the late counterattack from Dortmund down the right ensured Arsenal's first defeat since Aug. 17.

"I felt that we started a bit hesitant," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said.

"We gave them confidence.

I believe our movement going forward wasn't quick enough. It can happen if you play many games. We weren't at our best tonight."

Wenger questioned whether Lewandowski should have been on the pitch after elbowing Arsenal center back Laurent Koscielny in the face, but the Poland international escaped with a yellow card. "It looked like that (a red card)," he said.

"The referee was in a better position than I was and he didn't give it."

four missed chances." "A team like Chelsea doesn't allow more," he said.

Steaua Bucharest drew 1-1 at home with Basel in the other group game, meaning Schalke is second behind Chelsea on goal difference. Chelsea had been playing catch-up after starting the group with a surprise defeat at home to Basel. "It was an important victory for us," said Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho, who won the Champions League at Schalke's stadium with Porto in 2004.

"I told the players after the Basel match that the performance was garbage and we had to correct it, and we have with two consecutive victories away from home," Mourinho said.

NPL Match Day 9 report

Komets FC beat Doyang 2-0

Goals in the 17th and 25th minutes of the first half helped Kohima Komets overcome Doyang FC on the first match of day 9 of the NPL here today at the IG Stadium Kohima. Nigerian striker Eric Aningbo yet again found the net for the third consecutive match for Komets as he increased his goal tally to 4 in three matches after a brilliant assist by Yhunshalo Kemp inside the D-Box to open the scoring for his team in the 17th minute. Eight minutes later, midfielder Lalhinlova increased the tally for Komets with a mesmerizing dipping shot from the edge of the box that put the crowds on their feet.

Despite leading the match by 2 goals till full time, Kohima Komets lacked the sting unlike their 4-1 win against Sangpang FC with playmaker Samuel serving a one match suspension and Kivi out injured with an ankle injury, and their replacements failing to produce the spark unlike previous matches.

Ating and Yhunshalo were yet again in domineering form as the Doyang defence struggled to keep the

duo at bay. The match also witnessed brilliant footwork from new foreign recruit Eric who showed his prowess in feeding the ball to his teammates. Coming back from their first win against Dynamic FC in Dimapur last week, Doyang FC forwards failed to find the net despite brilliant assists from the midfield duo of Nribemo and Alfred. The second half saw both the teams make rueful misses as Komets held on to take full three points thereby consolidating their position behind leaders Veda FC with a game in hand.

Veda FC thump Dynamic FC 4-0 The second match of the day in Kohima saw League leaders Veda FC consolidate their position at the top. Three points ahead of second placed city rivals Kohima Komets thumping bottom placed Dynamic FC by a margin of four goals.

With frontman Khwethelhi Thopi scoring a hat-trick in the 24th, 34th & 37th minute and assisting Rhitso Mero to add another in the 41st minute, it was a clinical win for Veda FC after three matches which saw them lose against Dimapur United, draw against Zonipang and defeat fellow debutants United Redskins

FC by a solitary goal.

K. Thopi opened the scoring for his team heading in from two metres after Velukho free-kick from 28 yards. He added the second for his team after a brilliant assist from Rhitso Mero from inside the box in the 34th minute. Thopi then completed his hattrick scoring from the spot kick in the 37th minute after a Dynamic defender handled the ball inside his box. Rhitso rounded the scoring for Veda FC scoring from close range after a brilliant assist from K. Thopi in the 41st minute.

It was a morale boosting win for the league leaders as they failed to find their tempo in their last three matches. The loss condemned Dynamic FC to yet another week at the bottom, inspite of showing signs of life in the Second half, Dynamic struggled to thwart the Veda FC defence of Velukho, Apam, Neikupre and Taliakum who remained rock solid till the final whistle giving little less for custodian Vekuto to sweat about.

With city rivals Komets breathing down their hair with a match in hand, the upcoming fixtures promises a lot of excitement as the race for the top continues.

Retsüng SA beat Shooting Starz

moKoKchuNg, october 23 (mexN): Defending champions Shooting Starz were knocked out of the ongoing MDFA Trophy 2013 by debutants Retsüng SA in the first quarter final match played here today.

Starz went into the match as the favourites but the debutants held their nerves in a game that was nothing short of fully charged football match. Starz got the first clean opportunity to net the ball when they were awarded a spot-kick in the 25th minute of play in the first half but they failed to convert it.

Later, in the 45h minute of the first half, Retsüng SA got were also awarded with the spot kick as penalty for foul play by the Starz defense.

tueNsaNg, october 23 (mexN): Khulioh King Football Club will take on Kongkai San Football Club in the final match of the 21st Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship on October 25 at 12:30 pm. The second semi final match was played today between Kongkai San FC and Sangzi FC in which the former won by 3 goals to one. The first goal of the match was netted by Samuel (10) of Sangzi FC early in the 6th minute. An equalizer was scored by Povil (15) just 5 minutes after the first goal. The 2nd and 3rd goals for the Kongkai San FC were scored by Yemben (5) in the 34th and Kohima, october 23 83td minutes. (mexN): St. Mary’s Cathedral Hr. Sec. School, Kohima inaugurated its events of annual sports and games 2013, in a solemn ceremony held at the school ground on October 22. RomoKoKchuNg, octo- vilatuo Mor, joint secretary ber 23 (DiPr): The first for housing and works, and all Nagaland Veteran Bad- James Liezietsu, chairman minton Tournament will of Lerie Panchayat, graced begin at Indoor Badminton the occasion as the chief Stadium in Mokokchung guest and guest of honour, on October 24 with C. Apok respectively.

The inaugural cereJamir MLA to formerly declare the tournament mony began with a prayer open as the chief guest at led by Rev. Fr. Neisalhou 9:00 am while welcome Caralus, chairman of the address will be delivered school, and the welcome

by Chubawati Chang, ADC address was proposed by Mokokchung. According Rev. Fr. Johny, principal of to the organizers, players the school.

The chief guest in his from various districts and associations are expected message asked the stuto take part in the tourna- dents to be victors in sports ment. The tournament is and games as well as in life. being organized by Mokok- He quoted words of Vinchung District Badminton cent Churchill at the world Association. Parliamentary war and said that, without Secretary, RD & REPA C.L victory no survival and he John will be attending the asked the students to be closing on 25th October as relentless to reach victory.

He urged the pupils to be chief guest.

Action from the first quarter-final match of the ongoing XIX MDFA Trophy 2013 played between defending champions Shooting Starz and debutants Retsüng SA.

Bendangmeren of Retsüng SA converted the penalty kick, which was the lone goal scored in the whole of the game but enough to take them over the line.

Both sides played the second half of the game in

the most positive manner but the score line remained the same in favour of Retsüng SA, who will meet the winner of tomorrow’s game between Sports Society Soyim and Phalanx FC in the semi-finals. The sec-

ond quarter-final match will kick off at 1:00 PM here at Imkongmeren Sports Complex with Executive engineer (Roads & Bridges), Mokokchung Division, Er. Imnameren Imchen as the guest of honour.

good time managers and avoid over indulgence in anything. He unfurled the school flag and received the salute of the school parade.

The guest of honour lit the sports torch, and in his message praised the school for its marvelous works, in the academic and co-curricular activities, rendered to the students and in par-

ticular to Lerie colony. The March -past led by Master Ponalemba, school captain, drill display by classes five and six, cultural dance by higher secondary students and special number by tiny tots were other highlights of the ceremony. The function was attended members of School board, Pachayat Council, PTA, Alumni Asso-

ciation and parents.

The sports events began by kicking off of the ball by Shürho-o Sebastian Solo who was a renowned footballer in Nagaland. Five days long events would include all the major games, sports and athletic events and other interesting competitions for the lower primary students.

Cathedralite School inaugurates sports week

Veteran Badminton Tournament from October 24

Kohima, october 23 (mexN): A three day long Nagastyle WrestleMania 2 (King of the Ring Series 2013) organised by 3E (Elite Entertainment Enterprise) Nagaland under the aegis of Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) will start from October 24 at the Kohima Local Ground. Minister for roads & bridges Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu will grace the occasion as the chief guest at 10:00 AM and the welcome address will be delivered by 3E Nagaland managing director Kethosituo MepHEAVYWEIGHT CATEGORY Sl. Name F/Name 1 Pfusato Tetseo Revusu 2 Thepukhoyi Swüro Mahi 3 Besühveto Chüzho Zunieyi 4 Surhoneyi Soho Niekhuhu 5 Swedevil Vitsu Vitsol 6 H. John Poumai Hraiba 7 Vitsoto Vitsu Zemetsul 8 Kekhriengulie Whuorie Ruokuozolie 9 Zasevikho Meyatsu Methalhouvi 10 Nükuta Medeo Pukroyi 11 Vechita Khesoh Sülüyi 12 Hukupa Thulu-o Dozhohu 13 Sahovi Phinyo Vitan 14 Keduovilie Zumu Razouvolhoulie 15 Vekuzo Vezuh Vecuta 16 L. Th Paul L.V. Thoho 17 Zasituo Tsükrü Vivilhoulie 18 Kelhouvakhrie Kire Neisetuo 19 Dosanyü Zhale Khriezo 20 Vepozo Dozo Seveyi 21 P. Mhombemo Patton Phyokhamo 22 P. Lalchamliana Lalrozara 23 Zosangzuala Lalchhanhima 24 Lalsangliana Lalrinmawia LIGHTWEIGHT CATEGORY Sl. Name F/Name 1 Pozo Lohe Venetso 2 Vikedozo Yashü Seyiechütuo 3 Neituozolie Solo Nouleo 4 Thejozo Kezo Ngorunyu 5 Rükuzo Rhakho Pulehi 6 Neisakuolie Nipu Sabou 7 Thekrusevi Meru Vigwelhuto 8 Megovizo Visienyü Silietuo 9 Vikehiepie Sirie Tsiachülie 10 Kevilhusa Chase Megojato 11 Thekrusevi Chase Selie 12 Dzühiehol Thatso Thinuzakü 13 Thinozakie Sale Neikolie 14 Cüzokho Rhakho Varwrümü 15 Vikeduzo Tepa Hiebu 16 Sabou Tepa Vikhalie 17 Kolierie Kuotsu Chajü 18 Kehousalie Kiekho Neichümo 19 Veduto Theyo Vepozoyi 20 Thupu T. Vadeo Veshesa 21 Thejao Khezhie Purhumo 22 Velasa Shijoh Mudoi 23 Neisazo Dzüvichü Guoneio 24 David Kire Razoulhoulie 25 Kikruvilie Khawakhrie Vihulie 26 Mutuve Chizo Thupungoyi 27 Lalo Lomi Senongulo 28 Kope Lomi Senongulo 29 Kevisobei Mets Pfüsovi 30 Keviselhou Sirie Pelhoubeizo 31 Neitseilie Zhünyü Pfükrungulie 32 Khrutatso Rhakho Veprazo 33 S. Rokhu Poumai K. Sanü 34 P.L. Romeo Poumai P.V. Linu 35 P.S. Tasounü P.T. Sahnü 36 P. Lao Poumai Punü 37 Kuzoto Phesao Kuvemo 38 L. Moses Poumai Lao 39 L. Thekho Poumai Lao 40 P.V. Süpinü S. Veio 41 A. Roben Poumai Ashe 42 Ciefutso Cürhah Hüshetso 43 D. Tennyson Poumai Daishrü 44 Mhalezotuo Mechülho Dzieselhoulie 45 D. Rakevei Dani 46 L. Kh. Thozü P. Khani 47 Th. Apao Tho 48 Ng. Theo H. Ngaopuni 49 Vizayieto Thokhwe Viphil 50 Seketoukho Nipu Rokomekho 51 Ng. Alexander Poumai Vgaorai 52 D. Puloumi Poumai Daikho 53 Kh. Papunü Poumai Khizü 54 Thepuzo Nienu Züveyi 55 Venuzo Vadeo Pukrocuyi 56 Vipitha Rhetso Bodel 57 Razukhruto Nyekha Sothilhu 58 Kethozelhu K. Kuotsu Rokolhulie 59 Vikhotuo Tsotshu Dicha 60 Thepfulhoulie Neiphi Lhoupecalie 61 Visüto Khanyo Zeneiho 62 Thuyenuyi Luru-o Zasepra 63 Vekhwüta Shijo Kaprümu 64 Petevikho Kitshü Terhükuolie 65 We Deinu Wepetsholo 66 Beduhü Khamo Dusüsa 67 Küvelüzo Chüzho Razuveyi 68 Küduvoyi Sanuh Hüveta 69 Peleviko Chase Vitsü 70 Zasepo Puro Kukukro 71 Seyiekhe-o Yano Vilapi 72 K.S. Peter Poumai Salunü 73 P.R. Peter Poumai Raile 74 Venuo Medeo Veli 75 Kuvethito Rhakho Tsonuyi 76 Vizoseo Metha Kevipunyü 77 Chikrove Kezo Vekroyo 78 Aaron Poumai Thole 79 Vikuosieo Chakrüno Medovilie 80 Kevilezo Phira Neiu 81 Vecuta Kezo Vemohu 82 Tseivilie Sopfünuo Dievilhou 83 Zorelliana Hrangthuama MIDDLEWEIGHT CATEGORY Sl. Name F/Name 1 Viwhezolie Thorie Kedingulie 2 Vilhoubei Mezhü Pelhouvituo 3 Krüzoto Tetseo Zale 4 Khoveto Lala Vehüta 5 Vizobilie Punyü Peto 6 Rüüzetuo Visienyü Silietuo 7 Sweyiekhü Gilbert Thao Thinuzakü 8 Kevizhalhu Gwirie Sato 9 Thepfusalie Kets Yachütuo 10 Vecuta Cukhamu Thupusheyi 11 Phulucuyi D. Vadeo Veswuvo 12 Khriesaveku Chizo Chivove 13 Vetazo Veswüh Cekuolhu 14 H. Dow Poumai Hraiba 15 Yunüo Sanabvüna Panü 16 P.S. Kholourai Shekho 17 Sakhoveyi Cürhah Hüshetso 18 Visevo Zashümo Solahie 19 Sounü Poumai Veisü 20 L. Rocky Poumai Lao 21 Vimhazo Tsira Sosielhou 22 Nourhesetuo Rutsa Vitomo 23 Dziesetuolie Sote Krunhieo 24 Tsuvilie Punyü Nikiezoto 25 Khuthayi Vadeo Ciekhusuh 26 Vezhopo Chuzho Tsoveyi 27 Besuto Nienu Thepupra 28 Kelevi Yongo Zakitso 29 Kekhriezo Nagi Videtuolie 30 Kevilezo Rhetso Sokese 31 Thejavituo Khawakhrie Vihulie 32 Mülüsüyo Kezo Khriesadu 33 Thepfukhotuo Medom Thino-o 34 Mhasirielie Khezhie Vilazotuo 35 Medo Tünyi Veduhü 36 Menuobeilie Yiese Achu 37 Neingusalie Chakrüno Medovilie 38 Vekhota Chiero Husori 39 Kikruvilie Zumu Sasietuo 40 Vevota Riga Vesapra 41 Dojolhu Shijo Veprasa 42 Victor H Hrani 43 Nutso Dozo Besuhtroyi 44 Nuto Tetseo Vepota 45 F. Vanlalsiama F.Ainghinglova 46 Zodinsanga Lalrinawma 47 Lalrinawma Dengvunga 48 C. Vanlalruata C.Liankhuma

fhüo. Lightweight Championship as Ist Series will take place on October 24, followed by 2nd & 3rd Series (Middleweight & Heavyweight Championships) on October 25 and Final Series (King Of The Ring Championship) on October 26. This mega sporting event will see 156 wrestlers battle it out for their respective category championship titles followed by the ultimate King of the Ring title which will be contested by the best wrestlers selected from all the three categories.

Village K. Bawe Chetheba Phusachodu Phek Viswema Saranamai Viswema Kohima Mezoma Rünguzu Yorüba Phusachodu Kedima Tuophema Khomi Maiba Dihoma Kohima Dihoma Thüvopisü New Akuk Chanmari Lunglei Kolasib U. Republic Veng

Tribe Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Poumai Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Angami Chakhesang Poumai Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Lotha Mizo Mizo Mizo

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Kg 82 88 85 98 96 83 106 87 80 79 106 89 83 94 87 82 94 94 104 90 79 96 95 98

Ft 6 5.9 6 5.10 5.8 5.7 5.10 5.7 5.11 5.10 6.2 5.11 5.8 5.10 5.11 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.10 5.10 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.11

Village Sakraba Dihoma Kohima Khulazu Basa Khulazu Basa Sechü Khonoma Kiruphema Sirhi Khonoma Khonoma Jakhama Kigwema Khulazu Mima Mima Khonoma Kijumetuma Thenyizumi Porba Gariphema Chozuba Kohima Gariphema Mezoma Phek Leshemi Leshemi Gariphema Mezoma Sechüma Sethozu Saranamai Shomai Shomai Saranamai Suthozu Saranamai Saranamai Thingbakhunou Tunggam Phusachodu Saranamai Kohima Tungjoy Tungjoy Tungjoy Tungjoy Kidima Sechü Phuba Phuba Phuba Chetheba Porba Viswema Suthozu Khonoma Mima Mezoma Viswema Rünguzu Rünguzu Sechü Pfutsero Lozaphuhü Gidimi Upper Khomi Khonoma Kikruma Kigwema Lakhamai Thinbakhunuo Pholami Chozuba Chiechama Kikrüma Koide Chedema Kigwema K. Basa Seiyhama E. Lungdar

Tribe Chakhesang Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Angami Angami Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Poumai Poumai Poumai Poumai Chakhesang Poumai Poumai Poumai Poumai Chakhesang Poumai Angami Poumai Poumai Poumai Poumai Angami Angami Poumai Poumai Poumai Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Chakhesang Angami Poumai Poumai Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Chakhesang Poumai Angami Angami Chakhesang Angami Mizo

Yrs 17 21 17 17 19 24 20 22 26 20 20 18 24 18 22 25 20 25 19 19 18 34 21 18 21 20 19 17 18 25 17 21 26 21 21 24 22 24 21 20 31 18 20 18 20 18 21 21 21 22 25 25 27 24 18 20 20 22 27 25 26 23 20 25 20 22 18 23 16 19 23 24 24 18 24 21 19 19 29 21 22 22 33

Kg 64 59 61 60 64 64 64.5 64 60 60 57 61 63 58 63 62 60 62 64 57 61 55 61 58 64 64.5 63 63 56 60 64 62 63 61 61 55 64 62 64 63 62 61 62 58 64 56 62 62 62 64 59 60 54 56 63 63 57 63 62 64 64 59 63 63 63 64 59 64 59 64 63 64 63 64 64 59 64 64 64 64 63 63 60

Ft 5.5 5.7 5.2 5.7 5.10 5.7 5.5 5.6 5.4 5.4 5.6 5.7 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.6 5.5 5.8 5.6 5.4 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.9 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.8 5.7 5.5 5.5 5.6 5.3 5.9 5.8 5.7 5.4 5.6 5.7 5.3 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.7 5.6 5.4 5.8 5.3 5.4 5.1 5.4 5.7 5.6 5.4 5.4 5.7 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.4 5.6 5.6 5.9 5.2 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.3

Village Kigwema Rüsoma Khulazu Basa Middle Khomi Khonoma Kiruphema Jakhama Jotsoma Kijümetouma Sakraba Sakraba Phek Süthozü Saranamai Saranamai Tungjoy Phüsachodu Phesama Saranamai Saranamai Chedema Kohima Kohima Khonoma Sakraba Phusachodu Suthozu Kezo Town Sechü Viswema Mezoma Kikrüma Chedema Kohima Kikrüma Kohima Chedema Porba Tuophema Runguzu Chozuba Tungjoy Thevopisu Thevopisu Tachhip Venghlui E. Lungdar Mission Veng

Tribe Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Poumai Poumai Poumai Chakhesang Angami Poumai Poumai Angami Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Chakhesang Angami Angami Angami Chakhesang Angami Angami Chakhesang Angami Angami Chakhesang Angami Chakhesang Chakhesang Poumai Chakhesang Chakhesang Mizo Mizo Mizo Mizo

Yrs 29 20 19 23 24 25 23 19 26 20 24 24 21 35 28 22 18 28 24 38 25 27 19 22 26 25 23 21 22 24 25 19 24 24 27 26 35 27 25 20 21 18 23 24 32 26 22 30

Kg 72 74 68 65 74 77 73 72 69 69 72 69 66 75 68 76 70 75 68 72 78 72 67 69 65 77 70 66 69 73 73 69 75 74 78 76 68 67 74 65 77 65 71 67 65 77.5 77.5 75

Ft 5.9 5.6 5.11 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.5 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.8 5.7 5.9 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.3 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.9 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.8 6 5.10 5.5 5.9 5.5 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.8 5.5 5.5 5.8 5.7 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.7

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NSACS ZERO : CRUSH & BURN wins Kiphire audition

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Winners of NSACS ZERO Kiphire, Crush and Burn pose with DC, Shri. Kesonyu Yhome IAS, Deputy Director, NSACS, Dr. Neiwang Zeliang, and brand ambassadors, Clueless Attention.

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SACS ZERO auditions for Kiphire district held at the town hall yesterday witnessed three remarkable bands from Kiphire compete with each other. Crush & Burn was adjudged the winner to represent the District at Dimapur for the grand finale that will be held on October 28. Sacristy and Multicity came in second and third respectively.

Kesonyu Yhome, IAS DC Kiphire who was the special guest on the occasion

called upon the young people present to live healthy and disciplined lives so that they may achieve their dreams and aspirations, and challenged them to take the message home.

Sharing his concern, the DC also said, Kiphire is categorised under ‘A’ in HIV/ AIDS, which is very alarming, and urged the youth not to indulge in unwanted practices so that the gift of live is lived to the fullest.

Lauding the effort of the NSACS, Yhome also said

that the initiative of NSACS such as MMC is reaching the masses and assured his full support. Later, the DC gave away prizes to the winners of Kiphire NSACS campaign.

D e p u t y D i re c t o r, NSACS, Dr. Zaiwang Zeliang gave a short speech on the basic principles of living a clean life, which are, to abstain from harmful habits, to be faithful in everything, and to make the right choices in life.

NSACS Brand Ambas-

sadors, Clueless Attention keeping to their trademark mesmerized the audience with performances of common musicals hits and a few of their originals.

Inavito from IBAPWO User’s Network Kiphire shared his testimony. Red ribbon club from Zisaji Presidency College volunteered for the event.

Earlier, in the morning, NSACS ZERO crew visited Loyola Higher Secondary School, Saramati View Modern School and Zisaji

Presidency College. Youth Co-ordinator, Red Ribbon Club, Ainato Yeptho and Deputy Director, NSACS Dr. Zaiwang Zeliang shared about the goals of the ZERO campaign and challenged the students to be responsible in their work, abstain from drugs, alcohol and other harmful practices.

Brand Ambassadors, Clueless Attention, gave special acoustic presentations at all the three venues, Britain's Prince William, Kate Duchess of Cambridge with their son Prince George arrive which was appreciated and at Chapel Royal in St James's Palace in London, for the christening of the three monthenjoyed by all. old Prince George, Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013. (AP Photo)

“Flavours of Nagaland" show Steroids turned me into a man! female in aid of differently abled children The bodybuilder whose drug habit left her A with male 'bits' and

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chen Imchen and the Band will be performing at a show called "Flavours of Nagaland" in aid of Silver Lines Academy, organized

by Hope Foundation at Rudraksha Health Resort & Spa, Assam on October 26, 2013. The band comprises of Achen Imchen on Vocal, Atsa Lang Roths on Lead Guitar, Meren Imsong on Bass and Yangkum on Drums.

So join them to an evening of music and dinner, benefitting the students of Silver Lines Academy (a school for differently abled children). For any enquires with the band, kindly contact: 9856318709 or mail us at achen@bn- Achen Imchen and the Band are seen here during a Jam Session at Hill Praise Music Acadshost.com emy Jamming Room.

Third season of Mr. Wokha Contest

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he 3rd season of Mr. Wokha 2013 Contest will take place at Wokha Town, “The Land of Plenty” on December 17 based on the theme “Men’s Pions and Strength.” The event will be organized by the Campaign Modeling Agency (CMA), Wokha. The pageant is in association with

Mr Nagaland, Mr Northeast and Mr. International.

Director CMA, Thunglamo Yanthan in a press release informed that any Lotha or indigenous candidates of Wokha desiring to vie for the coveted title has been invited.

It is further informed that candidates having the minimum height of

5.5 feet and above between the age group of 16 to 26 years and single can dully filled the forms along with full length photograph. Thunglamo, further encouraged all interested candidates that the experience would help boost the confidence and social etiquette as this is the only

male oriented platform to expose themselves into the fashion world. For any queries and to avail the forms one may contact the given numbers: +91-8416064019/+919862950681/+919612634454 or for more information one can visit Mr. Wokha 2013 (3rd Season) page on facebook

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or many, Hollywood actors and bodybuilders among them, anabolic steroids have become a regular part of life. But with side-effects that range from excess body hair to liver damage, using them can result in serious health issues as well as bigger muscles - as the stars of a new documentary fronted by former reality TV star Jodie Marsh prove.

Among the performance-enhancing drug users to feature on Jodie Marsh On...Steroids, is former barmaid Candice Armstrong, 28, from Walthamstow in London, whose steroid abuse has effectively turned her into a man. Once a slender, pretty blonde, Candice is now a hulking brunette with muscles that wouldn't look out of place on Arnold Schwarzenegger and body hair that sprouts from her back, chest and upper lip.

Candice had no intention of becoming so masculine when she began taking the drug, but says that it's too late for her to stop. 'No,

it wasn't my plan,' she tells Marsh in a scene from the documentary. 'You could argue that when I wanted big arms and broad shoulders, a bigger back and small hips, that that was a masculine look but I didn't consciously decide I want to change from a woman into a man.'

The side effects have been severe. Along with excess body hair and acne, her clitoris has swelled so much, it has become a mini penis. 'That has gone significantly bigger, yes,' she reveals. 'About an inch [long] and it's shaped like a little penis. It looks like a little penis, you can roll back the

foreskin...'

Her breasts have also suffered and now hang lifeless from her hugely overdeveloped pectoral muscles. Surprisingly, Candice is sanguine. 'They've gone empty and they're not particularly nice but I'm cool with that - they were never my best feature anyway.'

What's more, she has no intention of putting an end to her steroid use. 'I think it would do more harm than good,' she explains.

'I'd lose all the muscles but I wouldn't lose all the masculine qualities like the facial hair and the deep voice... It doesn't really go back. 'If I was to try and

reverse that, I'd need the same sort of procedures as a male becoming a woman.'

Despite her drastically altered appearance, Candice says the pros outweigh the cons and have allowed her to do something else she loves - a drag act.

'It's opened doors and enabled me to develop myself the way I want to,' she says. 'It's given the opportunity to live out one of my dreams. I've started doing a bit of drag and I love it. I've always wanted to do a bit of drag!' She adds: 'If I get called a tranny and a faggot when I walk out on the street anyway, I think why not make something of it!'

her waist, while a fringe partially covered her eyes, which were played up with a slick of kohl liner. Her make-up was otherwise neutral and understated, not that she needed anything detracting from her flawless complexion. The busy young actress is currently starring in a new Romeo And Juliet remake, while Ender's Game is set to

hit cinemas on November 1.

Hailee stars in the sci-fi adventure flick alongside Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley. She also has a further five movies set for release in 2014. Being that she's still a minor, Hailee is regularly accompanied by various family members as her job takes her all over the world.

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Katy Perry Kept Taylor Swift 'Kaphal' kids set Hailee Steinfeld transforms from & Miley Cyrus' Hair in her Purse for first theatre carefree teenager to stylish glamazon

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he 'Roar' singer cut the tresses from their heads as a memento to mark one of her first ever appearances at the Grammy Awards, after she shared a dressing room the pop sensations in her earlier career but looking back she admits it was a ''creepy'' thing to do.

The confession came during Q&A session with fans at an iHeartRadio listening party for her new album 'Prism', where Katy performed on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old beauty recalled ''One of the first times I went to the Grammys, I got to share a dressing room with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift and I asked them for a lock of their hair from each one of them, which is totally creepy, but awesome. ''I put little bows on them individually and put them in my purse. And that was my little secret I'm a freak!''

During the interview and concert which was broadcast live online, Katy also said Miley is the tioned being in love mul- to current boyfriend John most famous person in tiple times throughout the Mayer by name. her phonebook, and men- show but never referred

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he child artists of Batul Mukhtiar's "Kaphal" will get a chance to watch a film in a theatre for the first time at the forthcoming 18th International Children's Film Festival.

"Kaphal" is selected for the Competition Live Action category at the seven-day festival, popularly known as The Golden Elephant, commencing Nov 14 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Coming from the villages of Garhwal region in Uttarakhand, child actors Harish Rana, Pawan Negi, Anuraj Negi, Ajay Rana and Anjali Negi, never got an opportunity to watch a film on the 35mm screen.

It is very important for them to get the chance to view their film on a big screen, said Amole Gupte, chairman, Children's Film Society, India (CFSI).

"The 'Kaphal' kids have never been to a cinema hall before. They only had an access to a television set in

their villages. For the first, time they will see films on a big screen at the 18th Golden Elephant," said Gupte who has directed children film "Stanley Ka Dabba" and scripted "Taare Zameen Par".

The director further added: "We have invited them to the festival not only because they are the lead actors of 'Kaphal' but also because we felt it was really important to provide them with a first-hand experience of what they deserve."

"Kaphal" is the story of two brothers, who join forces with an alleged witch of the village, and come up with a plan to make their father disappear.

The film's selection for the competition section comes as a source of encouragement for Mukhtiar.

"It gives me a lot of hope that there will be more platforms available for children's films and this will give them the importance they deserve," Mukhtiar said.

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ailee Steinfeld has proved to be quite the chameleon as she hits the promotional trail for new movie Ender's Game. On Monday, the 16-year-old was accompanied to New York by big brother Griffin, wearing no trace of make-up and her brown hair in a messy 'do, clad in skinny jeans, black boots, a white and blue striped T-shirt and a navy blue coat - the only exception to her otherwise modest outfit being the pricey black Prada handbag she toted. The following evening, however, it was a sophisticated and perfectly groomed star that graced screens during an interview on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The Oscarnominee looked tall and willowy in her unusual white and cream dress that featured a pretty lace design as well as criss-cross pattern, along with a plain cream panel at the front that gave the impression she was wearing a highwaisted skirt, teamed with black opaque tights and black patent leather stilettos with ankle straps.

Her long shiny chestnut tresses hung down almost to

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It was the seventh time in three seasons the two teams had met in the Champions League, with Milan's 2-0 home win in last year's quarterfinals its

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best result. Barcelona humiliated the Italian side 4-0 in the return leg. "In these kinds of games you need a lot of focus, especially against Barcelona because if you don't have a million eyes on them, you risk letting a goal in and the lads were really good tonight," Milan coach Massimiliano

Allegri said. "This squad is slowly improving, we're getting players back from injury, other players are getting fitter."

Messi, who had scored five times against Milan, started for Barcelona after recovering from a minor injury. Milan was missing Stephan El Shaarawy

and Giampaolo Pazzini up front, both out injured.

Mario Balotelli had a thigh problem and was only fit for a place on the bench so Kaka — who had only just returned from injury — started alongside Robinho and Valter Birsa, with Alessandro Matri dropped to the bench.

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Barcelona's Lionel Messi, second left, scores during a Champions League, Group H, soccer match between AC Milan and Barcelona at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 22. (AP Photo)

MILAN, OctOber 23 (AP): Lionel Messi scored a first-half equalizer to earn Barcelona a 1-1 draw against AC Milan in Group H of the Champions League on Tuesday. Robinho gave Milan a deserved lead after only nine minutes at a packed San Siro, shortly after Sulley Muntari's

strike had been ruled out for offside.

The Brazilian forward linked up impressively with compatriot Kaka, who showed flashes of his old form after a disappointing few seasons at Real Madrid, and steered the ball home from close range. Messi

leveled in the 23rd from a similar range after being left in space by Milan's rearguard, taking advantage of a mistake by Milan defender Kevin Constant.

Barcelona remains atop of Group H after two wins and a draw. Milan is second, two points behind. I the

other group match, Celtic picked up its first points with a 2-1 victory over Ajax.

"There's two analyses to be made about tonight," Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino said. "With regards to the group, I think it's a good point. With regards to the 90 minutes, I think we de-

F1 needs India, says McLaren's Perez

NeW DeLHI, OctO ber 23 (PtI): McLaren driver Sergio Perez believes that Formula One is getting highly popular in India. He says the sport certainly "needs India" and hopes the race returns in 2015 after giving the next season a miss.

"It is a shame that the Indian Grand Prix is not happening in India next year. I think Formula One needs India and it is getting more and more popular every time we come here.

I really hope we can come back," Perez said in an interview on Wednesday.

The Indian GP was taken off the 2014 calendar as it did not make sense to host the race in late 2014 and early 2015, when the Grand Prix is scheduled to return to the Buddh International Circuit (BIC).

"The interest is growing in India. More and more people are taking notice, so it is getting better. It will be good if we can keep the race from 2015," added the 23-year-old on the sidelines of his team's tie-up with Gillette. The customs and tax issues notwithstanding, the organisers of the Indian GP, Jaypee Sports International, have a five-year contract and the

McLaren Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Mexico is flanked by Bollywood actresses Neha Dhupia, left, and Aditi Rao Hydari during a promotional event in New Delhi on Oct. 23. Perez is in the country for the third edition of the Indian Grand Prix which will be held on Oct. 27. (AP Photo)

race is on the provisional 2015 calendar. Whether the race will return to India, is another question.

"India is a difficult place to get in, to get out, to get things and to get any updates during the weekend.

It's got more to do with that kind of stuff than anything else. Otherwise we all enjoy coming to India. It is

India-Australia fourth ODI called off due to rain

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NeW DeLHI, OctOber 23 (tNN): The fourth oneday international between India and Australia was called off due the persistent rain and resultant water logging of the field at Ranchi on Wednesday. Umpire's inspection at 8:40pm has determined that the ground is too water logged to continue the match. Therefore, Australia preserved their 2-1 lead in the series over the hosts India.

Chasing 296-run target, India were 27/0 in 4.1 overs when rain interrupted the match again. Play has to start by 9:15pm for a 20-over innings to happen, which is required to comprise a full match and the target for India would be 150 in that case. Rohit Sharma (9*) and Shikhar Dhawan (14*) were on crease for India at the time of the rain interruption.

Sent in to bat, Australia rode on a record 153-run partnership between George Bailey and Glenn Maxwell to recover from a jittery start and post a challenging 295 for eight against India in the fourth ODI on Wednesday.

Skipper Bailey (98) and Maxwell (92) missed their respective centuries but ensured that Australia recover from a difficult 71 for four to 224 for five through the team's highest partnership against India for the fifth wicket. Brought in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Shami's fiery first spell (6-1-21-3)

a great country and it is a place which we will miss next year. About 2015?

Well you never really know in Formula 1." As for this season, Perez, also known as 'Checo', said it has been one of their worst seasons for a top team like McLaren, who have not won a single race the entire year.

"Being in a team like

McLaren you expect a lot more. The car was looking good before the season started, but things change very fast in F1. I don't see us getting better in the remaining four races. I am disappointed as it has been quite a painful season for us. I hope we will be strong next season with the new regulations," said Perez.

ripped apart the Australian top order after India put the visitors into bat. But the Aussies hugely benefited thanks to the butterfingered Indian fielders who dropped as many as six catches and the ground fielding was equally sloppy.

Bailey was dropped twice (on zero and 35) in what could have been regulation catches, while Maxwell too got reprieve on two occasions (on 44 and 69) at the JSCA Stadium.

As if it was not enough, Mitchell Johnson, on 15, was dropped by Raina, while in the last ball of the innings Shikhar Dhawan let one loose from James Faulkner as Australia posted a competitive target under overcast conditions.

With his personal best figures of 3-42, Shami was the pick of the Indian bowlers, while Vinay Kumar and Ravichandran Ashwin took two apiece and were expensive with economy rates of 6.50 and 6.33 each.

Jaydev Unadkat, who replaced the struggling Ishant Sharma, went wicketless. Shami extracted swing from the pitch, bowling at around 140-145kphs to trouble the Aussie openers.

He castled Aaron Finch (5) with an inswinger that went through the gap between bat and bat in the second over, while left-hander Phillip Hughes took an outside edge with the India skipper taking a fine catch.

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