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NPSC prelim successfully conducted in Tsg [ PAGE 02]

Buddhists in Myanmar torch Muslim homes and shops [ PAGE 09]

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10-year old’s body found in Kohima

Kohima, august 25 (mExN): 10-year-old Robin Kumar Rumtel’s dead body was found in a river here on Saturday morning, at around 10:30am. The boy had gone missing last Sunday evening (August 18) from Kohima’s Upper Midlane. His decomposed body was found in a river below AG Colony here on Saturday. According to Rumtel’s parents, the boy’s body had a broken arm, broken skull and a back injury, and the body was decomposed beyond recognition. His parents, as per sources, had decided not go ahead with the post-mortem of the deceased. The Kohima police, as per its inquest, stated that there was no sign to suggest foul play. Nonetheless, the police said they will further investigate the case. Robin Kumar Rumtel was a class IV student of Government Middle School, New Market and the only son of Raj Kumar Rumtel and Shanti Kumar, who hail from the Nepali community. He used to attend Sunday school at a nearby church. His body was buried in the AG war cemetery.

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Vettel wins Belgian GP to extend overall lead [ PAGE 12]

shutdown at likimro, no power generation

reflections

Is the print media in Nagaland exercising responsibility to ensure ‘spirit of inquiry?’

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Ferry service across River Chathe: A migrant farmer on his way to Chumukedima Saturday weekly bazaar sits on an improvised ferry to cross River Chathe. The improvised ferry is made up of an inflated truck tyre tube; the ferryman uses two pieces of thermocol as flippers or oars to navigate the ferry on the rough and muddy river, which flows on the outskirts of Dimapur, nagaland’s commercial hub. (Morung Photo)

chumukedima bazaar to get facelift Morung Express news Dimapur | August 25

Two independent consultants entrusted by the Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation to evaluate projects in North East Region (NER) funded under “10% lump sum scheme for NER,” completed the evaluation of two projects in Nagaland state. The two consultants, Abhinav Gupta and Rashid Khan, from the Delhi based firm Ernst & Young LLP evaluated the completed shopping complex in Mokokchung and the ongoing shopping complex project in Chumukedima. “The main idea behind the evaluation is to

understand whether the objective of a project has been fulfilled or not, what can be the learnings from these projects and how to improve upon them in the 12th Five Year Plan,” the consultants told media persons prior to their meeting with public leaders and Market Management Committee (MMC) of Chumukedima weekly bazaar, Saturday afternoon. Khan said the evaluation of projects is based on five viewpoints – relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. Asked on their assessment of the completed shopping complex in Mokokchung, the consultants said that they cannot pres-

ently comment as they have come only to collect data. “After we go back we will do the analysis part including cost-benefit analysis based on the data collected and thereafter we will submit our report to the Ministry,” Khan said. The two consultants will be visiting all seven north eastern states and Sikkim and evaluate 2-3 projects funded under the “10% lump sum scheme” and hold consultations with various stakeholders including contractors, departments concerned, beneficiaries and implementing agencies. During the meeting with Chumukedima public and stakeholders, public lead-

countries and continents – vouch for his generosity. When he invites friends over for lunch or dinner, the spread will most likely be a thoughtful, eclectic one where he personally mulls over every dish served. Much of it would be familiar to Naga tastebuds, but then, in true Abraham Lotha style, there would be a California style salad made entirely from ingredients sourced around Dimapur. “Abraham’s generosity and wit are great for a person who is looking for good food and better conversation,” says an academic friend based in Guwahati. Then those close to him talk about his wit and quirky sense of humour. Whether his are parishioners in Nagaland, or New Jersey, their love for his personal style comes largely from having been at the other end of his good-natured jokes. These are qualities that make him an important interlocutor

for Nagas spread across different parts of the world and their kith and kin back home. The eldest sibling among a family of eight, Fr. Abraham chose to become a priest because he felt that God had called him not just to serve the church but the Nagas as a priest. Currently serving as the Principal of St. Joseph’s College Jakhama, he says, “Youngsters today have a lot more options and many of them are anxious about making a profession outside government jobs. They are also looking for guidance.” At St. Joseph’s College they aspire to strive for academic leadership and academic excellence in higher education. “We want to make students globally competent where they can be able to compete globally and not just in Nagaland. We also want to be an inspiration to other academic institutions in Nagaland,”

ers and MMC members of the weekly Saturday bazaar apprised the two consultants on the need for better marketing infrastructure in Chumukedima since it is one of the fastest growing towns in the state and also soon-to-be district headquarter of Dimapur district. The weekly bazaar MMC members also informed that theweeklybazaar,thebiggest weekly bazaar in Nagaland with around 1200 vendors, would soon be converted to daily bazaar. The members also highlighted on the infrastructural needs of the bazaar including cold storage godowns and a bridge over Chathe river to connect neighbouring villages on to other side of the river.

State-owned Likimro Hydro Electricity Project (LHEP) has been temporarily shut down. The shutdown was necessitated to make way for maintenance work. The Chief Engineer, Power Department, K. Miachieo, speaking to The Morung Express on Sunday, disclosed that siltation (accumulation of sediment) had reached danger level at the forebay prompting engineers to shut it down. Forebays are used in hydro project sites to trap sediment in order to keep the main reservoir free from debris. If left unattended, the accumulating silt would pose threat to the turbine seriously affecting generation, Miachieo said. Workers are now in the process of removing the silt and the cleanup exercise is likely to take a few more days, it was added. The shut down has to some extent affected distribution. The quantum of

power generated at Likimro is distributed within the state through the three load dispatch centres located at Kohima, Mokokchung and Dimapur. The peak generation capacity of LHEP is 24 mega watts (MW), that is, during the monsoons. With no contribution from LHEP, the state is now entirely dependent on the North East Load Dispatch Centre for meeting its electricity requirement. Queried on the frequent power cuts, Miachieo said, the frequency of distribution is dependent on whatever amount of power is transmitted from the regional load dispatch centre, which in turn is dependent on the output of the generating stations. With regard to the power situation in Nagaland, the peak demand is projected at 110 mega watts. On the other hand, the frequency of supply hovers between 5070 mega watts during the monsoons, going as low as 40 mega watts during the lean or dry season.

The frequent power cuts in Dimapur are attributed to ‘load shedding’ and also ageing transmission equipments getting overloaded. With the district consuming a major chunk of the received quota of power, it is not unusual for transmission equipments to go kaput in Dimapur often resulting in blackouts in certain locations on any given day. To remedy this, the Chief Engineer said that the department has put up a proposal to the government for replenishing the existing transmission infrastructure in Dimapur. Called ‘System Improvement Scheme,’ it is envisaged to upgrade the existing equipments to meet an ever growing demand for power in a phased manner. However, putting up a proposal is one thing but getting it approved by the policy makers is an altogether different story. The first phase of the proposed scheme is projected to cost around Rs. 40 crores.

Maharashtra bans black magic

mumbai, august 25 (iaNs): Maharashtra has approved a comprehensive law banning black magic, witchcraft and other superstitious practices. Governor K. Sankaranarayanan signed an Ordinance Saturday evening which will curb all these practices, and award stringent punishment for practitioners. Maharashtra is the first state in the country to enact such a law. The state government is likely to notify the law, which stipulates a maximum sentence of up to seven years in jail for various

practices, by Monday. The move comes five days after the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, the founder-head of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), which was at the forefront of the movement against these blind and often harmful practices. Among other things, the new law will ban inhuman practices, human sacrifice, rituals to enable sex selection by pregnant women, and all forms of acts known as ‘Jaadu-Tona’ in common parlance.

More than a Priest: a writer and educationist, Abraham Lotha

Morung Express Feature Kohima | August 25

Labeled as a ‘good mixture of tradition and contemporary’ by the Governor of Nagaland, Fr. Abraham Lotha is not just your usual priest. His recently released book, The Raging Mithun: Challenges of Naga Nationalism, has received good reviews. It is, according to him, a critique of Naga nationalism, religion and culture and performances of Naga identity through festivals. Besides his newly released book, Fr. Abraham is the author of History of Naga Anthropology. He has also edited the book Responses to Climate Change 2011, translated hymnals and prayers in Sangtam, Yimchungrii, Tenyidie and Lotha, as well as translated and edited the Deuterocanonical books in Lotha. Those who know him well – and there are many spread across several

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he further adds. “When I started, journalism was very raw in Nagaland. Times were rough but challenging. You didn’t have to go far to report. Everywhere you went, things were happening,” says Fr. Abraham who started his career as a journalist in 1990 after completing his diploma in journalism from British institute in Mumbai. He has worked for The Observer, Nagaland Times,

Nagaland Post and The Morung Express, of which the former two no longer exists. He says, “Basically I wanted our people to get proper news, receive media education and also be a responsible journalist.” Fr. Abraham has three bachelors degree, the first from Dimapur College and the latter two pursued in Pune, where he received his bachelors in Philosophy and Theology respectively. In 1995 he moved to the US where he studied video production for one year after which he pursued his Masters in Social Cultural Anthropology at Columbia University. He further pursued his PhD in Social cultural anthropology from City University of New York (CUNY) which he completed in 2009. On the intellectual scene in Nagaland, he says, “There is growing interest and appreciation for excellence in academics. Young people need to be nurtured and en-

couraged to be creative and analytical in their studies.” As an anthropologist, Fr. Abraham has a penchant for documenting Naga culture. He is perhaps the first to release Naga folk music in 1990, when he released an album called ‘Riinichen.’ In Lotha, this means an offshoot of a tree, signifying for him Naga culture that was “cut off like a tree but like an offshoot, it still grew.” Fr. Abraham currently serves as the Director of Chumpo Museum in Dimapur. Chumpo is now part of the itinerary for every traveller from across the world. They come to share his passion for his culture and in doing so, become invested in his drive to tell the story of the Naga people in a way that does justice to their proud history. “During the colonial days, we were not allowed to appreciate our own culture. However more and more realized that there is

a lot of good in our culture,” he says, which marked the beginning of Naga “cultural renaissance.” He has also been a constant critic of the present Naga political situation. “People appreciate peace. They are tired of the conflict and would like to resolve it one way or the other. Our leaders should respect that desire of the people. Nobody wants to live in fear.” When he is not busy being a journalist, Principal and a Priest he enjoys listening to Blues, classical music and Naga music during his spare time. At one time he was also part of a high school band in the 1980s called The Crossbearers. Fr. Abraham plays many roles but for him, most importantly, he is a priest. He attributed all his successes to God and his priesthood. He says, “Being a priest is like being a shepherd whether it be in the parish churches or educational institutions.”

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candidate revealed he had come from Kiphire to appear the exam. He stated that though some candidates from Kiphire went to Kohima, he and his friends came to Tuensang as it was much nearer and economically more viable. He was also happy to have visited Tuensang for the first time. A teacher from a High School, who appeared the exam, stated he spent Rs.20 as taxi fare which, otherwise, would have cost around Rs.1000 if he went to Kohima or Dimapur, explaining related expenses. He would also need to take a few days’ leave instead of a single day. All the candidates who were spoken to expressed happiness to NPSC for opening a center in Tuensang. District Observer, T. Mhabemo Yanthan along with his administrative staff and security personnel were at the venue during the whole time of the examination. He observed the successful conduct of the examination and exclaimed

The state’s labour department successfully launched the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) in Dimapur district in 2008. Under this scheme, schools are established specifically for children below the age of 14 who are employed in occupations & processes which are listed under hazardous category in the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986. According to the an-

lakhs of Rupees were saved with the opening of the new NPSC center in Tuensang. Ritse expressed her total satisfaction in the manner the exam was con-

ducted and thanked all the functionaries for the logistic help. She was accompanied by Nungsanglemba Chang, Member, NPSC. The exam was held at St. John’s

Higher Secondary School. While enquiring about the exam conducted at the school, Father Joseph Kath exclaimed, “It’s a joy for us to help the people.”

IRCSN elects first woman chairperson

KohiMa, augusT 25 (Mexn): Abeni TCK, wife of late TCK Lotha, IAS, Chief Secretary Rtd. has been elected the chairperson of Indian Red Cross Society Nagaland (IRCSN). Abeni is the first woman Red Cross member elected to the post of Chairperson since IRCSN's inception in 1982. A press release issued by IRCSN general secretary Zakie Kire acknowledged that Abeni TCK is a very active and prominent Red Cross member of imminence who has contributed her “unreserved services” towards the Red Cross movement in Nagaland. It further informed she is a recipient of Distinguished Work Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. The State Managing Committee members, staff and all ranks of IRCSN have conveyed their profound happiness in Abeni TCK being elected to the “most prestigious posi-

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File photo of Abeni TCK.

tion” in the IRCSN. Under her “dynamic leadership”, the IRCSN State Branch expressed confidence in carrying forward humanitarian services to reach out to every nook and corner of Nagaland. The State Managing Committee members and all ranks of IRCSN has wished her the very best in her future endeavors.

Expedition Naga Hills: A Review

DC encourages farmers and agriallied dept to work cohesively

DiMapur, augusT 25 (Mexn): During a one-day review programme of ATMA activities and future strategies, Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur N Hushili Sema encouraged the farmers to make best use of facilities provided, which she felt will immensely help in the advancement of agriculture, especially in regard to better connectivity between the department and the farmers. The DC, who is also the chairperson of the governing board of Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Dimapur, was speaking as chief guest at the programme, Exhibition in Kohima under the theme “ Wonders of science” organized by organized by ATMA Dimapur on Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) Nagaland. (Morung Photo) August 23 at State Training Hall,

Fishery Department here. Pointing out that ATMA-Dimapur has been extensively helping the farmers’ community, DC also urged the farmers to extract as much as possible when the door of opportunity is open for them to avail. Mentioning that Nagaland has plentiful resources and a very fertile land, she noted that the agri-allied department would be able to advance along with the world, if only the departments concerned and the farmers work cohesively to bring in positive changes. She also lauded ATMA Dimapur for its constant efforts to the district farmers over the year and also encouraged them to continue to work hard for uplift-

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ing the farming community. Tonikali Dy Project Director, ATMA-Dimapur, briefly elaborated on ATMA’s objectives and activities during the orientation hour and also the duties and responsibilities of Farmer friends. A brief presentation on review of ATMA activities was highlighted by Janet Chishi Dy. Project Director, ATMA. Toluvi and Kahuto, progressive farmers under ATMA shared their achievement on how ATMA has assisted them. Altogether, 107 farmers’ friends representing different villages under four blocks in Dimapur district participated in the programme. This was stated in a release issued by DAO & PD (ATMA) Dimapur.

Naga fresh flowers earn prestigious name among floriculture world

DiMapur, augusT 25 (Mexn): All Nagaland Private Schools’ Association (ANPSA) Nagaland has requested all its associated member schools to extend co-operation to the State Education Department in selling the Teachers’ Our Correspondent Day tokens. However, in a press release it has strictly directed the members to sell the tokens only within the premises Kohima | August 25 of the schools concerned. The quality of flowers in Nagaland is of international standard and Naga fresh th flowers are well-known and prestigious among the of floriculture world today, according to the horticulture department. Commercial cultivation of flowers has been flourishing, opening a huge prospect for state to emerge as a major producer of fresh cut flowers, according to the annual administrative report of the horticulture department. Before the introduction Dear Dad, of Horticulture Mission in Eleven long years have passed, the state, floriculture was since you left us broken hearted on merely confined to kitchen this day, the 26th Aug. 2002; yet, gardens in small patches. A flower blooming in a home garden overlooking Kohima Town. But with the active support your memory still lingers on. of Technology Mission for commercially in the state located. mercial scale was initiated recognized as one of the Loved & missed the North East, floriculture under the farmers’ field Also stating that cultifrom the year 2004-2005, main thrust areas for trade Family members activity has been taken up through various funds al- vation of flowers on com- the report said “It is now within and outside the

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the exam was conducted in the fairest manner without any disturbances or any unwanted incidences, either from within or outside. He also remarked that many

nual administrative report of the department, already 44 NCLP schools are functional in the district. Each NCLP school is for 50 children and is fully funded by the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India. The schools are run by 17 selected NGOs in Dimapur district. The schools are meant for working children withdrawn from work, and the main objective of the project is to mainstream these children to proper formal Students of GHS Dungki under Peren district demonstrate their exhibit entitled “Improvised model of JCB” at the just concluded State Level Science schools, the report said.

ANPSA on Teachers’ Day tokens sale

Sarah R Ritse, (fourth from right), Secretary, NPSC, Nungsanglemba (fifth from left) and T. Mhabemo Yanthan (third from left) along with other officials after the successful conduct of the NPSC prelim in Tuensang.

44 NCLP schools functional in Dimapur, says Report

Kohima | August 25

KohiMa, augusT 25 (Mexn): Nagaland Adventure Club (NAC) has become a household name in the Northeast for every motorsport and adventure sport enthusiast for their innovative, heart pounding and exhilarating events, and on August 23 and 24, the club scripted another major milestone through its Expedition Naga Hills, as 22 4x4 SUVs and a bike thundered their way through the slippery hills across the borders of Nagaland and Manipur. Driving through some of the most treacherous and slippery road conditions where one small error meant the end of the trip, these bravehearts displayed sheer grit and flair to conquer the mud and dirt that the roads offered. The first day saw the motley crew of riders traverse through Senapati through katomei village where after a brief stop they crossed through khabung and then to the mountains. After a night's halt at their hosts’ in Senapati town, pitching their tents under the starry night, the team then proceeded towards the Barak valley and then towards Kalinamei, kidima, kezocha, mima and then Kohima Photographs from Expedition Naga Hills. where the participants were treated Winners of painting and photography competition organized by DABA Youth Ministry on August 25 with their creations. (From Left) Imtener Jamir, Tali Longkumer, Ati Nokdir – first, second, and third winners respectively of painting competition; to a sumptuous dinner at Life Pro Cafe. ful initiative of the NAC and its well place in November, motorsport enThe trip altogether was a great wishers. Meanwhile, with the 4th thusiasts can be assured for more Kikameren Longchar, and Pur – first and second winners respectively at photography. The third place in photography was bagged by Imlitongzuk (not in the photo). (Imcha Jamir Photo) success courtesy of the wonder- Horsepower Challenge set to take torque and power.

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NPSC prelim successfully conducted in Tsg

Tuensang, augusT 25 (Mexn): NPSC prelim exam was conducted in Tuensang on August 24, which Sarah R Ritse, Secretary, NPSC observed as “peaceful, successful, and satisfactory”. Tuensang, along with Mon, was one of the centers where NPSC prelim exam was conducted for the first time. Previously, the prelims were conducted in Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung. NPSC has now established five centers and 20 venues across the state. Out of the 14,894 applicants all over the State, 12,923 appeared the examination. Tuensang had registered 526 candidates, out of which 62 did not turn up, while the remaining 460 candidates sat for the prelim. Expressing gratitude, a candidate from Tuensang town remarked he would not have appeared the exam if the examination center in Tuensang was not opened, citing economical difficulty. Another

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state.” The progress of business in the flower sector has been very rapid as well as very satisfactory, the report stated. Holding of annual flower shows in the state is also one the major events of the horticulture department. Besides, opening an avenue for display and exhibit of choicest array of flowers and greens, the show serves as a window for buyers and sellers. Organizing seminars and workshops by bringing in policy makers and renown floriculturists, both from within and outside the country, also serve as a vehicle for creating publicity and interest in the people’s mind to take up floriculture on commercial basis, but more importantly, as an alternative means of earning one’s livelihood, the report added.

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‘No land demarcation problem NPO shocked over proposed re-verification between India and Bangladesh’ AgARtALA, August 25 (PtI): There is no land demarcation problem between Bangladesh and India and all pending issues between the two countries have been resolved, top executives of land records departments of the neighbouring countries announced here on Sunday. The 82nd India-Bangladesh joint border conference began here on Thursday to settle various disputes along the border shared by the two neighbours which concluded

here yesterday. "India and Bangladesh have resolved all border issues including the problems of enclaves in West Bengal, Chandan Nagar enclave in Tripura, Char dispute at river Muhuri in South Tripura district and all boundary problems," Abdul Mannan, director general of Bangladesh land records and N R Biswal, Director of Survey of India, East zone said in a joint press conference. In the three-day border conference, the six-member

Northeast Briefs

Senior citizens express concern over border fencing

'All the problems are now solved but those need to be ratified in the Parliaments of both the countries.' Indian side was led by NR Biswal while the six-member Bangladesh side was headed by Abdul Mannan. When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led a delegation to Bangladesh in September, 2011, Foreign Ministers of Bangladesh and India, Dipu Moni and

SM Krishna respectively, signed a MOU to resolve all disputes on the borders of the two countries, Mannan told reporters. "All the problems are now solved but those need to be ratified in the Parliaments of both the countries. However, we are not

aware about the time when those things would be ratified," the executives said. Reconstruction of damaged pillars in right places and demarcation of the boundaries between the two countries were the main agenda of the meeting. The meeting decided that survey of borders in South Tripura-Khagracherri district and Chittagong, GomatiKhagrachheri, Khowai-Habiganj and Moulabi Bazaar, West Tripura-Brahmanbaria and Sipahijala-Brahmanbaria would be started in next

DIMAPuR, August 25 (NNN): It has been almost nine months now that dialogue between the government of India and the NSCN-IM has not been resumed. NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah had come to Nagaland on December 18 last for Christmas and ever since he has been confined to the outfit's base Hebron, off Dimapur. "Whatever to be discussed has been done. Whatever that was needed to be talked had been done. We have no more to talk. We are just patiently waiting for the response of the government of India for the last nine

months or so," said a senior NSCN-IM leader today. This comment of the senior NSCN-IM functionary echoed what Thuingaleng Muivah had said a couple of months ago, when some Nagaland based journalists had met him at Camp Hebron. "The ball is in the court of the government of India. We have done whatever thing to be done from our part," was what Th Muivah had said. It may be pointed that in the last interview with Newmai News Network, NSCNIM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah had said that they have done whatever was to be done and they are

waiting as to what decision the government of India will take in this connection. Th Muivah also said that though the outfit 'is not in the position' to tell the timeframe when the settlement would be made. "What we want is solution to the Naga political issue. And what the government of India wants is the solution to the Naga political issue. So given this point of situation we are hopeful of the settlement. However, it is hard to say when," NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah had stated. Late last year, speculations had climaxed to the zenith that the protracted

ZUF to observe Malangmei’s 82nd death anniversary Zeliangrong Nagas and the brethren tribes living together in a compact geographical area should now assert to find out a logical political situation in this contemporary world of the 'survival of the fittest.” A Dangmei stated that the Zeliangrong people along with other Nagas had fought against the British intrusion in 1832 onward and the struggle for self determination is going on till today. "The creation of Nagaland statehood in 1963 excluded Zeliangrong region where Naga raj movement originated under Haipou Jadong Malangmei, Pamei Rani Gaidinliu and others. Haipou Jadonang proclaimed the establishment of a Naga raj in his version 'Makam gong tu puni' (our people shall reign) and he started preparation for arm revolution since 1927. He collected fire arms, traditional weapons and organized man-power in the military training from all the willing participants of the entire Naga hills," the ZUF leader said. According to A Dangmei, Jadonnang had boycotted payment of hills house tax

and porter system which had angered the British authorities. "He had sought the blessing of god 'Khanglinlung' (western god-Vishnu or Bhuvon cave) in Cachar, Assam and had founded 'Heraka' cult. He had made contact with Mahatma Gandhi who was leading the non-cooperation movement in India against the British without violence," A Dangmei stated. He then said Haipou Jadonang Malangmei was the icon of Nagas' struggle for independence and also the pioneer vanguard of his people. "His dimensional resistance against the colonial power can be inclusive as to cover the scope of revolution i.e., Zeliangrong, Manipur, Nagaland, India and Asia," the ZUF leader further said."The Zeliangrongs in particular be urged to observe the 82nd Death Anniversary of Haipou Jadonang Malangmei like a genna without venturing out from their respective home/village till sunset when homes shall be illuminated with candles or any bright lights such as conventional fire lit," he added.

BELHO COMPLEX P.R HILL KOHIMA Come & Leave with satisfaction

IMPHAL, August 25 (NNN): A woman was arrested by police in Imphal for possessing Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs). Police said one Sanasam Bijenti, wife of one S Loken of Pisum Oinam Leikai, Imphal West was found carrying IEDs. It is not mentioned how many IEDs the woman was carrying. Police said Bijenti was arrested at Nambul dumping area today. On being interrogated, the woman said the explosives were handed over to her by one Sanasam Ravi, alias Suraj (31), cadre of PREPAK (pro).

6 militants surrender

guWAHAtI, August 25 (PtI): Six hardcore militants, including five belonging to anti-talk faction ULFA (Independent), today surrendered before the Army in Assam's Sibsagar district. The militants gave themselves up at the Army's Ranghar camp and besides the ULFA militants, a NDFB ultra also laid down arms at the camp, defence sources said. The militants also handed over two 7.65 mm pistols with six rounds of ammunition, four .22 mm pistols with four rounds of live ammunition, nine gelatine sticks and a bomb. The militants have been identified as ULFA's Bipul Saikia, Kamal Saikia, Dipankar Rajbongshi, Raktin Bora and Biki Roy along with NDFB'S Guibar Basumatary.

Naga political problem was about to be settled in a few months time. The speculations were even fueled by the comment of Union Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde who had said that "settlement" to the Naga issue would be brought about by March, 2013 or before the Nagaland assembly elections. That situation was buttered by the concerted show of the now-unheard Joint Legislature Forum (JLF) formed by the 60 MLAs of the Nagaland legislative assembly of the previous tenure to push for the early settlement of the Naga political problem.

NSCN (IM) waiting for GoI response

IMPHAL, August 25 (NNN): Manipur senior citizens have expressed their concerns on the ongoing border fencing works along the Indo-Myanmar border where many villages from Manipur had gone to Myanmar side wherever the fencing work got completed. Talking to reporters today, Khaidem Mani, a member of Senior Citizens for Society (SCS) asked, "What is the political agenda of the government with regard to the border fencing work?" Khaidem Mani then wondered if the ongoing border fencing work was done after having had approved by the Parliament. He said that once the border fencing works get completed there are so many more villages from Manipur that will be included in Myanmar. According to Khaidem Mani, the border fencing works also violated the United Nations' indigenous rights, 2007 which became an Act in 2009. The SCS regretted that the border fencing works were done without thorough discussion by the authority's concerned. It may be recalled here that in the first week of August, the Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India in a statement had said, "Without the settlement of the International Boundary along with Boundary Pillars on Indo-Myanmar border, it is not possible to arrive at a definitive conclusion that a particular village or land is going to be lost. For the benefit of readers, it is further clarified that the on-going fencing work is restricted to only 10 km for the present and no further work will be undertaken unless all the Boundary Pillars are finally settled through joint inspection by the National Survey Authorities of the two countries as well as the IMPHAL, August 25 Survey & Settlement Officers and Staff of the State." (NNN): The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) is all set Food Security Ordinance to to observe the 82nd Death Anniversary of Haipou cover 2.52 crore people in Assam Jadonang Malangmei on NALBARI, August 25 (PtI): Assam government to- August 29 by organising a day said that the Food Security Ordinance, 2013, to be im- lecture on the Zeliangrong plemented in the state soon, will cover a population of 2.52 vanguard at its 'general crore belonging to 52 lakh families. "The state government headquarter' Dilung. has intensified preparation to cover 84 per cent population According to ZUF inforof rural areas and 60 per cent of urban areas in the state mation secretary A Dangunder this scheme," state minister of Food and Civil Supply mei, the event is being Nazrul Islam said while addressing an awareness meeting organised to recall the moorganised by Nalbari District Congress committee here. Is- saic of struggle and herilam said that at present 39,60,000 families in the state have tage drawn from the 'Nagabeen getting rice at subsidised rate under various schemes. raj movement' of the 1920s He, however, pointed out that though foodgrain production and to explore communal had gone up but there was lack of equitable distribution for duties relating to the twiwhich the government has been compelled to introduce this new act only in the interest of the poorer section. The state light years of the veteran government under its Chief Ministers' Anna Surakshya Yo- fighters. A Dangmei added jana provided rice at Rs 6 rate to 20 lakh BPL families. In the that befitting homage will implementation of this scheme, 65 cases were registered at be paid to Haipou JadonGauhati High Court but later all the cases were disposed off nang, “the man who had laid down his life on the galin favour of government, the minister stated. lows of the British colonial regime at Imphal jail at 6:30 Human traffickers still am on Saturday, 1931.” The active in Mizoram: Study Zeliangrong United Front AIZAWL, August 25 (tNN): Despite several steps (ZUF) and its armed wing taken by the Mizoram government, human trafficking is Zeliangrong Tigers Force very much active in the state, revealed a latest study con- (ZTF) have then urged for ducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime candles to be lit on the eve(UNODC). Human traffickers, the report says, employ ning of August 29 in every agents in rural areas of Mizoram to lure Myanmarese na- Zeliangrong home to mark tionals living near the border into India through the porous the “important day and sigboundary. The UNODC report, while praising the efforts of nify renaissance of duty the Mizoram government on the issue of human trafficking, and patriotism.” The ZUF then said, "The said the traffickers have accomplices in villages and lured in rural folks from Myanmar by promising them lucrative jobs outside the state. The traffickers also have agents inside Myanmar, especially those near the Mizoram border, to help people cross the 404-km-long porous international border, the report said. The report added that many Myanmarese nationals trafficked via Mizoram are either forced to work as unpaid domestic helps or sex workers. Mizoram is the first state in the northeast to formulate a 'Victims of Crime Compensation Scheme', the UNODC report said. It added that the scheme was formulated in 2011 to ensure that the victims of human trafficking were rehabilitated. The burden of financial assistance for the victims of human trafficking is shared by the Centre and the state government. The government also constituted anti-human trafficking units, which organize workshops and trainings to create awareness on the issue. The officials of these units have rescued several victims of human trafficking from different places including Goa, Mumbai, Haryana and Delhi.

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seNAPAtI, August 25 (tHe HoRNBILL exPRess): The Naga People’s Organization (NPO) in a meeting held on August 24 has expressed shocked over the recent decision of the State Government to conduct another random Census re-verification exercise for 48 villages in three sub-divisions of Senapati District for “Abnormal population growth”. The apex body stated it is questionable of the hidden motive of the State Government to conduct such exercise even as similar re-verification process has been done for three days in 2011 in the presence of RGI officials, District Administration and State Census Operation Director Y. Thamkishore. It warned that the repeated rejection of the census of Senapati District since two decades directly implies that, the District is not part of the State and that, any consequences arising out of the present Census issue will solely lie with the responsibilities of the present State Government. The NPO added, it is ready to invest any resources or it own course of action in the coming days to achieve the justice and rights denied to the people for consecutively two decades. It may be noted that, on 22nd August 2013 the Chief Minister had convened a high level meeting

to jointly verify the 3 subdivision of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul census 2011 which faced a major criticism from the people of Senapati. The NPO noted that the decision of the Government surprised the people of Senapati after all revalidation as per the order of the DC on February 1, 2011. Physical re-verification has been carried out on May 9 2011 till May 11 2011. Despite sincere support and cooperation extended to the census of 2011 at all Levels, the CM of Manipur seeks another reverification of 2011 censes. It questioned, “Is the policy and attitude of the Government towards the 3 sub-division meant that the population must tally the fixed estimation as per the wish of the State Government at any cause? The NPO further questioned if a Government official or an individual has the authority to just fix an estimation of the growth of the demography, why is there the need for Census survey that deploys heavy human resource and finance? The then Deputy Commissioner Nidhi Kesarwani, IAS also the Principal Census Officer revealed that 46 villages out of the 138 from the 3 sub-divisions, were suspected to have had ‘abnormal growth’ and consequently re-verification of the population enumeration was conducted from May 9 to 5, 2011.

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NAGALAND TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST (NTET) - 2013 The State Academic Authority of Nagaland SCERT, will be conducting the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) for a person to be eligible for appointment as a teacher for Classes I to VIII on 26.10.2013 (Saturday), IMPORTANT DATES: 1. Issue of Nagaland TET Guidelines & Syllabus alongwith application forms at SCERT from 26th Aug.13 onwards (during working hours). 2. Last date for submission of Application forms: 21st Sept.13 at SCERT Kohima, (during working hours) Candidates may send the filled-in application either by hand or by post to SCERT Kohima Nagaland. 3. Collection of the Admit Card on 18th, 19th & 21st Oct, 13 (during working hours.) For candidates who cannot come and collect admit card personally, may authorize someone to collect the same with an authorization letter to the concerned officer duly signed by the candidate. SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATION DATE OF EXAMINATION 26.10.2013 26.10.2013

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ELIGIBILITY The candidates having the following minimum educational qualification are eligible for appearing NTET, Minimum Educational Qualifications for becoming Teacher for Classes I-V (Primary)

Passed Senior Secondary / 10 +2 with at least 50% marks for general categories, 45% marks for SC/ST/OBC and 40% marks for backward tribes. Minimum Educational Qualifications for becoming Teacher for Classes VI-VIII (Upper Primary)

Passed BA/B.Sc with at least 50% marks for general categories, 45% marks for SC/ST/OBC and 40 % marks for backward Tribes, Note: (I) Preference will be given to the professionally trained candidates with D.El.Ed/ C.P.T.E./B.Ed/ECCE/ELTI (or its equivalent) with at least one year professional training certificate. (II) Only professionally trained candidates will be eligible to appear TET after 31st Mar, 2014.

AGE RELAXATION • Minimum age for appearing TET - 21 years (as on 26-08-2013) • Upper age-limit for the SC/ST candidates - will be relaxable by 5 (Five) years. But for general candidates, the Upper age-limit will be 30 years only (as on 26-08-2013). Further, age concession for serving Government employees will be allowed, the equal number of years they are in service subject to a maximum of 5 years. • The Uipper age-limit for the Physically Handicapped persons will be relaxable by another 10 (ten) years, PATTERN OF EXAMINATION • There will be 2 papers of NTET • (i) Paper I will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V. • (ii) Paper II will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII. • The NTET examination will be of objective type Multiple Choice Question (MCQ), • There will be no negative marking. • A person who intends to be a teacher for both levels (classes I to V and classes VI to VIII) will have to appear in both the papers (Paper I and Paper II), FEES FOR NTET, 2013 EXAMINATION (i) TET Guidelines & Syllabus and Application Form Rs. 300/- (Non – Refundable) (ii) Examination Fee Rs. 300/- (Non – Refundable) for each paper. (To be paid while issuing admit card) Note: • Candidature of any candidate may be cancelled at any stage if found incomplete and any information on declaration mentioned by him/her found false or incorrect. • Candidates applying for more than one post should submit separate application. Additional application form will be supplied free of cost. • Canvassing directly or indirectly, will disqualify his/her candidature. • Application received after the last date of submission will not be entertained. But if the application form is posted before the last date through the postal services, may be accepted. • Any Government teachers who are appointed under the following categories: - Adhoc/ casual/contract teachers have to regularize their service through TET Candidates qualifying NTET will not be required to appear in any other written examination but they have to appear oral interview. Final selection will be based on the combined weightage of written test and oral interview. (VIPRALHOU KESIEZIE) Director SCERT, Nagaland, Kohima

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Oil-rich South Sudan looks to India addIs aBaBa, august 25 (Ians): South Sudan is looking to India to improve its agricultural and food security practices and hopes the New Delhi visit of Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of the world’s youngest nation, will “lay a solid foundation to further promote bilateral relations”, a senior minister of the oil-rich African nation said here. “We know the Indian government is preparing to give the president a warm welcome. We are looking forward to the outcome as it would strengthen the ties between the two countries”, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, South Sudan’s minister for foreign affairs and international cooperation, told IANS during a visit here. Mayardit, accompanied by a large delegation comprising ministers, officials and business leaders, will be in India Aug 26-28 at the

invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The invitation was delivered to Mayardit Aug 9 by India’s special envoy to South Sudan P.S. Raghavan, a special secretary in the external affairs ministry. “We believe our economic future is not in our minerals but in agriculture. So our strengthening relations with India will assist us in enhancing our agricultural production to guarantee food security for our people,” Benjamin said. “Indian technology in food production would help promote agriculture in South Sudan,” he added. South Sudan is the size of France but with only 8.5 million people. As a Food and agriculture Organisation report noted, only 84 per cent of the country’s arable land is cropped. If farmed efficiently, it calculated, South Sudan could feed all of Africa or India.

India was the first countries inAsia to open a consulate in South Sudan capital Juba in 2007. On July 9, 2011, when South Sudan achieved independence, India was among the first countries to formally recognise Africa’s 54th nation. The minister said that since India is the biggest democracy in the world with a very deep and well established system, South Sudan could immensely benefit from that. He noted that South Sudan has sought India’s assistance in the fields of horticulture, animal husbandry, rural development, health and education, technical training, human resource development (HRD) and and hydrocarbon development. “We have agreed with the Indian government on some major development projects for finance that we would like their support for,” the minister said.

very national magazine worth reading publishes cover stories on the best colleges, universities, medical and engineering colleges, etc. at least 4 to 5 times in a year. There are hundreds of medical and engineering colleges and universities spread all over this country. There are medical and engineering colleges in the northeastern region too and they have been performing well and even the Indian Institute of Technology based in Guwahati is among India’s top 10 engineering colleges. Medical colleges in Assam and Manipur have been doing well and they have been producing dozens of medical graduates every year and they have been successfully practicing in many hospitals in the region. The medical colleges in the region are not enough to accommodate students. The total medical colleges of the entire northeastern region are not even half of the number of medical colleges of Tamil Nadu State. When Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad recently tabled a statement in the Lok Sabha, he said four southern States account more than 41% of all the medical colleges in the country. He informed the Parliament that Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu together have 159 of the country’s 387 medical colleges (both government and private). When it comes to Government-

GPRN/NSCN condemns & asks to release its member

he GPRN/NSCN is shocked to learn about the abduction of one of its functionary by NSCN (IM) on 22nd August for reason best known to the abductors especially at this crucial juncture when the Naga reconciliation process is moving ahead with strong determination under the banner of FNR. Mr. VERIPA CHAKHESANG, a member of GPRN/NSCN from Chakhesang Region was recently kidnapped by NSCN (IM) boys on 22nd Aug.2013 from Toulazou village around 3 PM. Before he was forcefully taken away, it is learned that the NSCN (IM) boys physically tortured him on the spot right after his arrest, as per eyewitness account. The GPRN/NSCN therefore strongly condemns such cowardly acts of kidnapping despite the request and wish of the Naga people longing for peace and reconciliation. The GPRN/NSCN also brings to the notice of the higher-ups authorities of the NSCN (IM) to release its functionary at the earliest who is still held captive in their hands. Issued by The Ministry of Information & Publicity, (MIP), GPRN/NSCN

India had played a “great role” for ensuring the stability of the newlyborn African nation, the minister stated. India is also training officials and diplomats at New Delhi’s Foreign Service Institute. An Indian Army battalion serves with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). On April 9, five Indian Army personnel, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed in an ambush while escorting a convoy. ONGC Videsh, the overseas arm of India’s biggest explorer, has a 25 per cent share of South Sudan’s 350,000 barrels of oil production per day. Mahindra tractors were shipped out to the South Sudan region from 2007, starting four years before the country came into being. There are around 450 Indian nationals living in South Sudan, mainly working in private enterprises.

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Infosys seeks government nod for Rohan Murty’s appointment Bangalore, august 25 (Ians): Software major Infosys Ltd has sought the approval of the union ministry of company affairs (MCA) on the appointment of Rohan Murty as executive assistant to his father, chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy, a spokesperson said Sunday. “We have sought the approval as appointment of relatives of board members needs to be approved by the ministry. As Rohan has joined as an employee, we sought the approval, though not mandatory, to avoid any controversy in future,” a company spokesperson told IANS here. The 30-year-old Rohan joined the company June 1, when his father, the 67-year-old Murthy, returned to steer the IT bellwether as chairman, almost two years after he stepped down from the executive post. Since Murthy also returned to the board as a whole-time director, his son’s appointment as his executive assistant in the chairman’s office required a formal ap-

proval of the ministry. The spokesperson, however, declined to comment on media reports that Rohan would be redesignated as vicepresident. “Rohan’s new designation, if any, will be notified after the process of his appointment as executive assistant to the chairman is completed,” the official added. The appointment of Murthy and his son for five years with a token salary of Re.1 per annum was ratified by the company’s shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) Aug 3 here. Rohan, who holds a PhD from Harvard University in the US, took a sabbatical from that university, where he is a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows, to join the

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run medical colleges, Tamil Nadu tops the list with 21 colleges, which produce 2,715 medical graduates every year. Karnataka has the highest number of private colleges at 34, followed by Andhra Pradesh (28), Maharashtra (25) and Tamil Nadu (24). Even the smaller States like Manipur, Sikkim, Goa, Meghalaya, etc. got their share of medical colleges and sadly, Nagaland State is yet to get a medical college till today. The State is fully geared to celebrate its “Golden Jubilee” this year. Nagaland was formally declared as the 16th State of Indian Union on December 1, 1963. Many in the past had unsuccessfully fought with the Center to have a medical college. But of late, the tempo of the fight increased. The present Governor Dr Ashwani Kumar as soon as he became the State’s Governor in March this year had shown his unhappiness on seeing the State blank from the medical map of India. He immediately called on Union Medical Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and had a detailed discussion for the establishment of a medical college in Nagaland. Besides this, even apex Naga students’ body, the NSF was also very vocal for the medical college issue. In the meantime, there was a move for converting the Kohima District Hospital to a Medical College and for which even Medical Minis-

ter Imkong L Imchen had discussion with the Kohima Village people for their support and cooperation. Surprisingly, all these hopes and dreams of getting at least a medical college this time were dashed all of a sudden when the Union Medical Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad informed the Parliament few days back that Nagaland’s proposal for a medical college was rejected. He said he received a total of 275 applications for establishment of new medical colleges from various State Governments. But the Center could grant only 66, he informed the Parliament. Why is this happening? Where does the fault lie? Whether our approach to the Center is lacking something or the political will is lacking. I would not be wrong to say that we lacked the political will as far as medical college issue of the State is concerned. States like Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya attained Statehoods much after Nagaland. These States have at least one or two medical colleges. And the fact is the State (Nagaland) had got an opportunity to establish its first medical college in the 70s but because of the lack of political will, it missed it. Again the saddest part is the present Christian Institute of Health Sciences Research (CIHSR) was initially constructed for State’s only

Referral Hospital. The construction started in mid 80s in an area of 133 acre with the assistance from the Ministry for Devolvement of North East Region (DoNER). But it had never become as expected and finally when the DAN Government came to power, it handed over to CMC, Vellore and EHA through a tripartite agreement--- the Nagaland Government, the CMC, Vellore and the EHA. This development was the first manifestation of the State Government that they still lacked many things as far as medical related activities are concerned. In reality, this Referral Hospital, if not handed over, could be a strong bargaining factor for establishment of a new medical college too. And today, the scenario is not much different. Our state appears to be still lacking a political will. It appears that the Center is not fully convinced. Now the issue is as to how we go about and get what we deserve from the Government of India. How long are we going to send our children for pursuing higher studies, medical and engineering studies or any other technical studies outside the State even after 50 years of Statehood? How much resource do we have to continue sending our children for pursuing their higher studies? Do we ever think that thousands of students qualified for pur-

company his father co-founded 32 years ago with four others, including vice-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan and chief executive S.D. Shibulal.

suing any given streams could not afford going outside the State lost their careers along the way? Time has come for the State Government and the policy makers to come up with ideas as to how we can also have various required educational institutions in the State. If once such plans are achieved, we can not only save hundreds of crores of rupees spending on our children’s educations outside the State but also their security will be guaranteed. Are we not learning any lesson from the recent incident that many engineering students from our State, after being denied their admissions in Maharashtra, were stranded? How much their parents much have labored for them to be there far away from Nagaland for getting admission in various engineering colleges in Maharashtra. If we have these educational facilities in our State, such problem would not have been there. Let us fight together to get at least a medical college and stop blaming on the ongoing unresolved Naga political issue for the failure of development in the State. What a fool we are for making the political issue messed up sometimes with every major developmental failure in the State? What has got to do with the State’s developmental activities with that of Naga political issue? Let us not forget that there is State Government for the development of the State of Nagaland. Oken Jeet Sandham

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DimaPuR, august 25 (mExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) while welcoming state Home Minister, G Kaito’s statement on “factional killings and kidnappings” has said that the statement “may have come late in the day.” A press note from the NPCC media cell stated that “many lives could have been saved had the state government taken firm stand to prevent factional clashes.” It may be noted that on August 20, the Home Minister had said that “state government will not remain mute spectator to all acts of continued factional kidnappings and killings and might have no option but to intervene in the larger interest of the people.” The NPCC stated that the Home Minister’s statement has “provided an escape route to warring factions by reasserting that direct use of force to contain factional clashes could lead to unwanted situation and hinder the hard earned peace process.” It asserted that neither the congress nor the public are for direct confrontation between state forces and armed cadres of the various factions. The note

said that the demand is rather for state government intervention “to rescue people burdened by unabated taxations and lives threatened with continued presence of armed cadres belonging to various UG factions in public places leading to frequent factional clashes.” The NPCC also said that the Home Minister’s repeated appeals to non Naga armed groups operating particularly in Dimapur to “vacate the areas is unbecoming of his position.” It stated that making appeals have “become the hallmark of the NPF led DAN government” and that this “rather emboldens the nefarious elements to take advantage.” The NPCC therefore urged upon the Home Minister to “come down with a firm hand to root out other armed groups who have made Dimapur a safe haven and major transit hub to carry out illegal activities, taking advantage of the ongoing Ceasefire between GoI and various Naga UG groups.” The NPCC further termed that Home Minister’s advocacy for “counseling UG cadres of different groups” as a “hilarious idea which has found no takers.”

Health & Family Welfare officials visit Kiphire

The note informed that during a the Nagaland State Commission for Women seminar on August 23 at Chumukedima, the Home Minister had said that “the persons who are involved in such groups are mostly illiterates and at times they have no idea what they are doing, and so more priority should be given to educate them and not to punish them.” It said that the in Minister’s zeal to propagate the idea of counseling, “the UG cadres are now termed as mostly illiterates.” However it added that this “cannot be an excuse for continued factional activities and violence as there are many educated and qualified people in various UG groups who are well informed and are aware of the consequences.” The NPCC said that “the fear of punishment” is the “only deterrent” in order to maintain the rule of law and lamented that law and order has been compromised by continued advocacy for counseling. In view of this, “the NPCC said that the Home Minister and the NPF government have failed miserably in its bounden duty to protect the rights and lives of its citizens.”

Monday 26 August 2013

NoKsEN, august 25 (mExN): Nagaland Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Imkong L. Imchen has asserted that the Naga political issue tops all agendas for the Naga People’s Front (NPF). “NPF is the only party with uncompromising Naga patriotism,” he said, adding “NPF has always stood for the rights of the Naga people and will never compromise resolution of Naga political issue.” Imkong said this while campaigning for CM Chang in Noksen village August 24. He along with Parliamentary Secretary for Urban Development Zhaleo Rio and leaders of NPF, BJP and JDU campaigned in Litem, Noksen Village and Noksen Town on August 23 and 24. The minister accused the Central Congress government of betraying the Naga people saying, “Keeping the Naga issue pending for the last 60 years cannot be taken as an achievement.” He added, “It is an insult to the Nagas”. Meanwhile, to the State Congress workers, he said, they “should feel ashamed of themselves over the Naga political issue because their masters in Del-

Minister Imkong L Imchen campaigning for CM Chang at Noksen village August 24.

hi are not paying any heed to them.” He also charged that despite being the Prime Minister of India for last 10 years, “Dr. Manmohan Singh has refused to recognize the Nagas” saying, “Except for election campaign, Manmohan Singh though has visited other parts of the North east region has not made any official visits to Nagaland.” Imkong added, “Manmohan

Singh has refused to pay even few hours for the Nagas,” while citing examples of other PMs like IK Gujaral and Devegowda who had visited Nagaland even in their short period as PM. He also accused the state Congress leaders for the decrease in the state plan allocation for 2013-14. On the other hand, Imkong declared that CM Chang is al-

HYLE general meeting held Nagaland to launch DlHS-4 today

Dr. Nyan Kikon, chairman and Janbemo HMT, Gen. Secy, HYLE during the meeting at Hotel Vivor, Kohima on August 24.

Kohima, august 25 (mExN): The Kohima High School Yankho Lotha Ekhung (HYLE) held its annual general meeting on August 24 at Hotel Vivor, Kohima. During the meeting, the Ekhung deliberated on the celebration of the forthcoming Tokhu Emong festival to be held in the month of November and also discussed on various social issues for the uplift

and welfare of the society. The members resolved to abide by the Ekhung Constitution which was adopted by the general body earlier, and to be a good and responsible citizen and live a truthful life to bring a positive change in the society. Janbemo Humtsoe, Gen. Secy, HYLE extended gratitude to Dr. Nyan Kikon, Chairman, HYLE and his family for hosting the meeting .

tive and sexually transmitted infections. The Clinical, Anthropometric and Biochemical (CAB) component has also been introduced for the first time in DLHS in order to obtain data on nutritional status and information on prevalence of certain lifestyle disorders like diabetes and hypertension at district level, some elementary tests for measurements like length/ height, weight, and blood pressure, estimation of hemoglobin and fasting plasma glucose and testing of salt used by households for iodine. Assessment of the availability and quality of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services and contribution of public-private sectors to RCH services are also the key information points of the survey. Moreover, the availability of critical inputs in public health care establishments through Facility

New Delhi | August 25

SPELL THE WORD ‘Naga’ and the image of headhunters with tattooed-faces brings on a strange feeling. Nevertheless, the minute one mentions Naga food, mouth starts watering with the thought of smoked meat and dried fish boiled to perfection and cooked in herbs from the North Eastern part of the country. The taste of food is as relishing as the thought at Nagaland’s Kitchen, situated in the heart of Green Park Extension Market. In addition to authentic food from Nagaland’s cuisine, a pleasant surprise is the inclusion of Chinese and Thai dishes on the menu. This makes the place popular not just among North easterners but also those Delhiiites who have developed a taste for this cuisine. Beware of the drinks and restrict yourself to only food, which is worth every penny. From the appetisers to the mains, all deserve a thumbs up. Especially the appetiser Sliced pork with coriander roots and fresh green chilli which is pan fried succulent slices of pork tossed with coriander roots and bell peppers in a mix of red chilli sauce, soya sauce, sesame oil and Chinese wine. The skilled preparation adds to the exquisite recipe. A similar experience is to taste Chick-

en dragon roll that has Thai roll sheets with filling of well-boiled minced chicken, mixed with veggies and chilli paste. It makes one salivate over each bite in contrast to the bland Fish banana leaf. The latter is not as impressive as its name because the steamed Sole fish lacked the spice suited to the North Indian palate. When dunked in the lime juice served along with it, it tasted better though. The vegetarian appetisers - Chilli mushroom with baby corn and Crispy Thai veg in Nam Jim Sauce, are prepared with common vegetables but stand true to their authentic cuisines, that is, Chinese and Thai. While the former gets its taste from oyster sauce and Chinese wine, the latter gives it fierce competition due to its garlic sauce base. In mains, the Nagaland cuisine comes into play as Metrolife tries out Chicken Bamboo shoot with Naga Ginger and Fish Robu. Both dishes are plain boiled but the presence of Naga herbs make them peculiar to the place. The aroma of mustard leaves and Naga ginger in fermented chicken tickle the nose while dried yam leaves and Naga pepper make the fish a must try! The accompaniment, Akhuni chutney is average but the Dry fish chutney is an interesting blend of dry fish and yam leaves. Inclusion of a lot of herbs and absence of oil makes these dishes quite authentic

Waiters at Nagaland Kitchen clad in Naga waistcoats.

but Metrolife couldn’t resist trying the other cuisines too. Hence, the discovery of Crispy noodle salad, made of fried noodles, tossed in lemon juice and light soya sauce - an extremely tangy version of bhel puri. With no option to try a Nagaland dessert, one must pop in the crisp Date pan-

ready a minister and “it purely depends on the people of the area to decide whether they want to retain the cabinet or join the opposition bench” after the September 4 bye-election to 51-Noksen Assembly Constituency. He assured that once CM Chang comes back, the NPFled DAN will fill the gap created in all aspects during the last 10 years, when their MLA H. Chuba Chang sat in the opposition bench. Imchen further asserted that NPF “does not have any leadership crisis as the party has distinct and dynamic leader in Neiphiu Rio, who has brought about stability and unity in the state as the Chief Minister.” Meanwhile, he accused, “Congress is rich in their infightings for leadership, because of which the Naga people have lost faith on them.” Parliamentary Secretary for Urban Development, Zhaleo Rio, NPF candidate CM Chang, leaders of DAN alliance partners - NPF working president Huska Yepthomi, BJP Nagaland Unit general secretary Vihoshe James and JDU president Mhonjan also spoke on the occasion.

MEx FILE CMO Kiphire informs nurses

KiPhiRE, august 25 (mExN): Chief Medical Officer, Kiphire informs all the nurses i.e., GNM & ANM and Lab technicians under NRHM of Kiphire District that “Competency Test” will be held on August 29 at the conference hall of Chief Medical Office, Kiphire.

Kiyanilie to attend conference in South Africa

Kohima, august 25 (mExN): Nagaland’s minister for social welfare Kiyanilie Peseyie, who is also an executive member of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is representing India for the CPA conference which will be held at Johanesburg, South Africa from August 29 to September 6. The minister will be leaving today from Dimapur accompanied by his wife.

Naga Shisha Hoho Lord’s prog

Kohima, august 25 (mExN): Naga Shisha Hoho Prayer Centre Prüzie Kohima has informed that “The Lord’s Programme” will be held from August 30 to September 1 at Naga Shisha Hoho Prayer Centre Prüzie Kohima. Pastor Moaba, Konyak Baptist Church Kohima and Rev. Imtiba Sangtam Baptist Church Kohima will be the speakers. Phezuocha Nagamese Baptist church Kohima will be the advance prayer group with Sepfuzou Prayer Fellowship Kohima as choir. The services will be led by Krushuyi, chairman Lower Kitsubouzou Prayer Fellowship and Mugavi Chishi, music secretary, Call of God Ministry. The advance prayer group has been requested to come on or before August 29.

Survey will also be brought together, the release stated. Further, it informed that the data will be gathered from head of the households and eligible women in the age group of 15 to 49 years. A team of investigators under one supervisor will visit selected villages and towns to collect information at selected household level. The results of CAB tests, except hemoglobin will be provided to the household by a health card for the first time through this survey. The note his corrigendum is being issued apropos the exalso said that the data collected isting ban on sale of Teachers’ Day Token and Car through this survey is expected to Flags outside the premises of educational institube used by the Central and State governments for planning vari- tions but erroneously reported as otherwise in this ofous programme for the benefit of fice’s earlier notification of even number dated the 16th mothers and children and people August, 2013. of the state at large. Sd/The release has requested all Senthan to participate and extend all posDistrict Education Officer sible cooperation for successful Kohima, Nagaland completion of the survey.

Nourishment from the kitchen of Nagas in Delhi Henna Rakheja

'Naga political issue tops all agendas for NPF'

KiPhiRE, august 25 (mExN): Commissioner& Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Sentiyanger Imchen, along with Dr. Takunuksang Lemtor, Additional Director, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare and Dr. Kikameren, Deputy Director, NRHM visited Kiphire District on August 23 and 24. A press release issued by Media Officer, Chief Medical Officer’s office Pezaguno Celine Secü informed that the team inspected the ongoing construction of District Hospital Kiphire. They also visited Anatonger Sub-center and also visited Meluri CHC under Phek District. During the visit to health units, they also had brief interaction with the Village Health committees. Commissioner& Secretary and his team also had a review meeting with Medical Superintendent, Chief Medical officer, District Program Officers, Medical Officers under Medical Superintendent Office and Chief Medical Office of Kiphire District. Various issues were discussed with the officers regarding health service delivery, availability of equipments, man power and infrastructure. Commissioner& Secretary called upon the officers for Members of Renchen Self Help Group cheerfully pose for a photograph amongst their eatable products during a effective execution on service delivery, the note stated. sales day in Wokha.

DimaPuR, august 25 (mExN): District Level Household and facility Survey- 4 (DLHS-4) in Nagaland will be launched on August 26, 2013 starting from Dimapur district. It will eventually lead to all the 11 districts of the state. The survey is being conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India in association with the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai as the nodal agency and Nielsen India Pvt. Ltd, as the field agency. A press release received here informed that the objectives of the survey are to estimate or assess the Ante-natal care and immunization coverage, extent of safe delivery and coverage of JSY, the contraceptive prevalence and to evaluate the awareness about HIV/AIDS and reproduc-

Dimapur

cake that has a slightly chewy filling of dates in a sheet, deep-fried and coated with honey and sesame seeds for a perfect finishing! Lest we mention, the service is not very appetising. Thankfully, the food is! (Source: Deccan Herald)

Public SPace Corrigendum

SVYO on bailing of triple murder case accused

he Senjum Village Youth Organization (SVYO) also condemned the bailing of main accused and architect of May 16 Bor-Lengri triple murder case. A statement made by SVYO Convener action committee Elanthung Yanthan and the President of the SVY0 M. James Lotha furnished that it was a great surprise to know that Wobenthung Humtsoe, S/o Tsalamo Humtsoe of Humtso village under Wokha District, the main accused and mastermind of the triple murder of Bor-Lengri on 16th May, 2013 has been released on bail by the Assam police without finding out the facts and figures and bringing the culprit into justice who committed inhuman act in the forms of devil. As to why the law enforcers have released such a satanic person without proper judgment? Such kind of person should be hanged to bring justice to the decease family and to show the society that murderer/ rapists are repay with capital punishment. The SVYO has also said that, if the law enforcer deny to justice, they are encouraging the criminals to destroy the society. Therefore, the SVYO demand the law enforcer to book the culprit as per the law of the land without fail. Failing of which any untoward incident occurred to the murders the law enforcer will be held sole responsible in near future. May I therefore, request the entire concern right thinking citizen to condemn such act defaulting by the law enforcer sheltering the criminals. Elanthung Yanthan Convenor Action Committee SVYO

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Political Wisdom Rio eyes Delhi role in 2014?

o the surprise of many, a news report recently published in The Telegraph (Rio eyes Delhi role in 2014) mentioned about the possibility of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio contesting in the next Lok Sabha election and shifting base to Delhi to dabble in national politics. The news report was given credence by the fact that Rio himself was quoted as expressing his desire to make this political move. “We are still discussing it within the party but I would like to come to New Delhi,” Rio told The Telegraph. Till date, there has been no rebuttal either by the ruling NPF party or by the Chief Minister’s Office to this news item thereby indicating that Rio is indeed not ruling out the prospect of contesting the next Lok Sabha polls. Off course, such a course of action will depend on a lot of things, especially the outcome of the next general election and the post-poll situation. Perhaps Rio’s calculation is based on the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning power in Delhi and in that case, the NPF (if it wins the seat) joining the NDA with the hope of a ministerial berth. Whatever may happen, the plan of Rio to vacate his high office of Chief Minister and instead choosing to be an MP/ Union Minister is going to be unprecedented. Usually it is the other way around where people in national politics quit their position in order to return to the helm of affairs at the State. A CM quitting midway to join the Union government (i.e. if it happens) is indeed going to be a rare case. But the question is why would Rio leave such a big responsibility at home and move to Delhi? Even if we are to assume that the BJP led NDA comes to power and Rio is inducted into the Union Ministry, the latter may not be in a position to lobby for a portfolio of his choice as the Prime Minister will use his discretion to allocate office based on the pulls and pressures of coalition politics. Nagaland cannot be considered a political heavyweight in national politics. With just one MP seat, Rio should not be that ambitious to expect some plum assignment. The other thing to be noted is that even though Rio may have a genuine desire to help the State, how much can he expect to do with a single portfolio under his wings? Nagaland requires overall development not just in one particular area. Wouldn’t it be therefore a better option for Rio to continue as CM and oversee the political benefits to Nagaland accruing from a friendly NDA (or UPA) government at the Centre? Off course, it goes without saying that Rio must take an honest assessment of his government’s performance in the last ten years or so and have the courage of conviction to undertake course correction wherever needed. The present Nagaland Chief Minister must also take into consideration the massive mandate he has received during the last Assembly elections. If this mandate of the people is indeed genuine as claimed by the ruling NPF party, it is therefore even more important for Rio to fulfill the expectation of people who elected the NPF-DAN alliance based on the knowledge that Rio will be their CM. Also, several challenges and problems accumulated over the last ten years and more of the NPF government remains. Rio cannot shirk responsibility midway and leave people of the State in peril. There is the prospect of a political settlement in the near future. The mounting deficit and the weak financial position of the State is another cause for concern. The demand for a Frontier Nagaland by the ENPO requires deft handling. The development and governance deficit are the other issues that will need strong and stable leadership. The other worry if Rio indeed decides to go is who will replace him as the next CM? Is there anyone who will be able to take along everyone and someone who is acceptable to all section? Will it lead to political instability and more uncertainty in the State? Rio is not just any individual but a Chief Minister elected by the people of Nagaland and he should therefore prayerfully seek political wisdom and direction about the decisions he will make in the days, weeks and months ahead. (Feedback can be send to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)

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Nury Vittachi Source: IANS

When piloting aircraft, try to avoid hitting Jupiter

n Indian soldier stood at the window of a Ladakh lookout point and peered into the darkening sky. There it was again! Low on the horizon, a spy ship flew directly into Indian airspace. By now, the soldier knew The Enemy's modus operandi. It would hover most of the night until it was relieved by a second spy plane at about 4 am. Over six months, he and his colleagues recorded 329 airspace violations by this pair of drones, which they were convinced had been sent by China. Earlier this month, astronomer Tushar Prabhu pointed out that they were actually Jupiter and Saturn. India's army chief responded: "I don't care if they are planets. We're still going to shoot them down." No, actually I made up that last quote, but the rest is true, as reported by the Telegraph newspaper of Kolkata earlier this month. You can't really blame the soldier. Last year, an Air Canada pilot mistook the planet Venus for an oncoming aircraft, and took evasive action, diving 180 meters and sending passengers hurtling to the ceiling. Only after crew assured him that chances of actually hitting Venus were on the lowish side did he return to his regular flight path. Still, one might wonder how the two get mixed up. I mean, planes are small, thin, metal things, while Jupiter is an astonishing large round ball of gas, think of Oprah Winfrey naked. (Sorry, I don't mean to put you off your food.) Readers I consulted pointed me to the writings of UFO debunker Tim Printy, who has recorded many reports of planets allegedly visiting earth. Airmen piloting planes over Japan have reported being "chased" by planets, Mr. Printy says. (Japan being Japan, this is probably some sort of prototype Nintendo toy.) In the US state of Georgia in 1967, a pair of police officers were spooked by the planet Venus following their patrol car. "It gained on us and was going about 75 mph (120 kph)," one of the officers said. "After the object caught up with us, it pulled into the sky." (I didn't make those quotes up.) One reader said that if we took the reports at face value, it would mean that "the planets are much smaller than we think they are and their inhabitants are steering them to earth to have a look-see at what we're up to". The discussion reminded me of a flight I once took over Laos where the pilot swerved the plane so much that I think Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, etc., were all violating our airspace. A colleague reading over my shoulder interestingly pointed out that in every case, the witness was a man in uniform. "They make the collars too tight; it addles their brains," she said. Could be true, although an even wiser comment came from a retired pilot. "Some planets are low in the sky, just where aircraft appear," he said. "An air traffic controller at Detroit airport once famously asked: "Do you know how many times we have cleared Venus to land?" One day, perhaps it will.

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Violence & responsibility in Myanmar

fter a brief lull in Buddhist-Muslim conflict in Myanmar, there are reports of renewed violence and unrest in western Rakhine State, where Muslim Rohingya and Buddhist Rakhines remain forcibly separated. A law that would restrict interreligious marriage is gaining in popularity, while Buddhist monks associated with the 969 movement continue to preach anti-Muslim sermons. At the same time, they rely on a particular interpretation of Buddhist teachings to deny responsibility for the violence committed in the name of 969 and the protection of Buddhism. However, others have argued for a different interpretation of Buddhist philosophy rooted in the teaching of ''right speech'' and an awareness of the effects of our actions on others. Many factors fuel persistent religious and communal tensions in Myanmar, including longstanding prejudice against Muslims in the country. Despite government pledges to prosecute those who contributed to recent violence in accordance with the law, Muslims have thus far been disproportionately sentenced. Many Buddhists believe that Buddhism in Myanmar is not only under threat from Islam but are also frustrated by Western dismissals of this threat and the perception that the global community is demonizing Buddhism while only acknowledging Muslim grievances. While the plight of the Rohingya has received the bulk of international media coverage, Rakhine Buddhists have felt that their own conditions of poverty and denial of rights have been ignored. Images of monks leading mobs in attacking Muslims and the ways in which this wave of violence could turn back the country's current political transition are no doubt disturbing. However, the brave and effective efforts of certain individuals and groups in defusing tensions and preventing the violence from spreading should also be acknowledged. It has taken time for the stories to emerge, but it is clear that there are still many people in Myanmar dedicated to inter-religious harmony and tolerance. In Mawlamyine (Moulmein) city, for instance, leaders from Buddhist and Muslim communities met in contentious but ultimately productive meetings to debunk rumors and pledge to work with their own groups to limit extremist rhetoric. In other places, neighbors formed groups that would communicate with and support the much-maligned Myanmar Police Force to assist in maintaining law and order. In the former capital of Yangon, one Muslim leader told this writer that he was able to call on groups of Buddhist monks who would immediately come to protect mosques or religious schools that were being threatened by angry mobs. A recent youth-led campaign has featured t-shirts and stickers denouncing racial or religious violence. But while some Burmese citizens have responded admirably in restraining further communal violence, many of the factors that have enabled local tensions to be framed as religious conflicts still remain. Specifically, the 969 movement and its leaders and advocates are powerful voices in the country's politics. They remain visible and influential and at least one monk has been audacious enough to threaten elected officials who oppose 969 policies. The movement's advocates continue to believe that its purpose is merely to defend Buddhism and that any violence is the responsibility of "others" who are defaming an otherwise holy symbol. The challenge in connecting the 969 movement to violence and making Buddhists realize its harmful effects lies in the particular ways in which many Theravada Buddhists (in Myanmar and elsewhere) understand action, intention and karmic effects. Karmic intention One of the Buddha's primary doctrinal innovations was to fundamentally alter the then prevailing notion of karma in Indian religious thought. While the word "karma" simply means "action", the Buddha virtually redefined the term from ritual action to volitional action. The effect was to ethicize the concept, making intention central to the karmic results of any deed. In some instances, intention itself is sufficient to bear some degree of karmic consequence. So, for example, simply thinking unwholesome thoughts will have negative karmic effects. Those effects, of course, are magnified by actually committing the deed. The important alteration in the Buddhist theory is the distinction between action in general and intentional action (the latter of which bears karmic consequences). Among Myanmar's Buddhists, it is a relatively common belief that if an action or its result is not intentional there is no moral or karmic culpability. For example, in one of the Jataka tales (one of the hundreds of stories of the Buddha's past lives), a king and his advisors discuss the king's deeds and the merit or demerit that follows from them. As part of his royal duties, the king has shot four ceremonial arrows into the air. He loses track of one of them and is concerned that it could have errantly struck and killed some living being. However, his advisors reassure him that since he had no intention to take life, even if his arrow had killed someone or something, he would not have technically taken a life. The implication is clear: without intention there are no karmic consequences. The rhetoric from 969 spokespeople and the monks who spearhead the movement reflects this interpretation that separates intention and results through willful ignorance and denial. U Wirathu, the most prominent of the 969 monks, has vehemently denied any responsibility for the riots in Meikthila, Lashio, or other cities in Myanmar. Similarly, Ashin Sada Ma, one of the monks who takes credit for creating the movement in its current form, has pointed to the fact that there has been no violence in Mawlamyine, the city where 969 had its genesis, as evidence that the movement bears no responsibility for the anti-Muslim violence that

occurred in other places. In fact, both monks have placed the blame squarely on Muslims, alleging that they were the instigators of the worst incidents. U Wirathu has claimed that he has consistently been misquoted by Western journalists, but there is ample video evidence of his anti-Muslim sermons. Similarly, many of the pamphlets distributed with the 969 logo contain what are in essence calls to arms for Myanmar's Buddhists to defend their religion and country. Yet even Myanmar President Thein Sein has pushed back against critics of U Wirathu and the 969 movement, echoing their denials of responsibility for violence committed against Muslims. Employing the logic described above, U Wirathu can effectively separate himself from any of the results connected to his actions, denying culpability simply by stating that he does not directly advocate or commit violence against Muslims. When presented in an interview with evidence that rioters had spray-painted "969" on destroyed buildings in some towns, he made a clear distinction between what he saw as his intention to protect Buddhism and the violent actions of others who may or may not have been influenced by his preaching. "I don't have any contacts in [the areas where violence occurred]," he stated in one interview, "so I have no idea ... In our community, the real 969 [campaigners] do not use violence." There are, however, cases where sermons by other 969 monks do appear to have incited an increase in inter-religious tension and violence; their denials of responsibility are equally rooted in a particular interpretation of Buddhist doctrine.

Responsible Buddhism Buddhism in general, and the Theravada Buddhism that is practiced in Myanmar in particular, has a relatively underdeveloped social theory. The common Mahayana critique of Theravada practice is that it is self-centered, focused primarily on the process of liberating oneself from desire and suffering. Theravada practitioners usually respond by pointing out the futility and arrogance of believing that one can help others along a moral path without having first perfected one's own morality. The implication is that ultimately each individual is solely responsible for the results of his or her own actions and that one person cannot be held responsible for the actions of another. This is not to deny some degree of interconnectedness, which is emphasized more in some interpretations of Buddhist doctrine than others. But this reasoning is incomplete, at least as it applies to monks in Myanmar who continue to use derogatory language and dehumanizing metaphors when preaching about Muslims. Monks are almost always treated with respect - if not worshipful deference - in Myanmar, where their traditional role is to be moral guides for the Buddhist community. Their sermons are understood as blueprints for proper moral conduct, and when these sermons are peppered with sensationalized rumors of Muslim violence or sinister plots to destroy Buddhism in Myanmar, their listeners (most of whom are still apprehensive and conflicted about the country's whirlwind political transition) take their words as reflections of the Buddha's teachings. Additionally, in a world where a monk's sermon to 50 people can be recorded and quickly distributed to tens of thousands via DVD and instantly to hundreds of thousands more online, a monk like U Wirathu can no longer disassociate himself from the violence committed in the name of his movement or the nationalist ideals that he preaches. His awareness of the potential consequences of his words and actions (consequences that he appears to welcome, even as he insists that he is "non-violent") is enough to make him culpable in spreading violence despite his protestations as to his actual intentions. It is thus well past the time for Myanmar's Buddhists to acknowledge the broader effects of their actions and not allow themselves or their leaders to deny responsibility for ongoing communal violence by hiding behind a particular interpretation of the Buddha's teachings. Some Myanmar Buddhists have rejected the claims of U Wirathu and others that because their intentions are to promote the non-violent defense of Buddhism, their nationalistic sermons have

nothing to do with Buddhists who attack Muslims. Most notably, the former U Gambira (one of the monastic leaders of the 2007 "Saffron Revolution" who has since disrobed due to government harassment and medical problems) has registered his opposition to U Wirathu and 969 by arguing that "what he preaches deviates from the Buddha's teachings''. More recently, some punk rock musicians have been vocal in denouncing what they see as obvious hate speech from individuals who they don't consider to be "real monks''. Another way to respond would be for monks (the only ones with the moral standing to at least implicitly criticize other monks) to characterize U Wirathu's denials of responsibility as not only irresponsible but also as examples of ignorance that will ultimately compound the negative karmic effects of his actions. Ignorance and evil According to one interpretation of Buddhist philosophy, the worst type of action is committing an evil deed without an understanding that it is wrong. In the Buddhist text Milindapanha, a monk gives the example of two men grasping a burning hot iron ball; one knows that it is hot and the other does not. The one who knows will be more restrained in grasping the ball, trying to minimize the pain, while the other will grasp it with vigor and consequently will be more seriously burned. Thus acting from ignorance multiplies negative karmic effects. An additional response could be to invoke the Buddhist idea of "right speech". The Buddha urged his followers not to speak words that harm others, as one element of his Eightfold Noble Path, a guide to moral perfection. Whatever the intentions, the rhetoric of the 969 movement undoubtedly includes divisive speech, seen in its advocacy for a boycott of Muslim-owned businesses, for legal restrictions that target Muslims, and for the expulsion of the Muslim Rohingya population. Grotesquely abusive 969 speech has referred to Muslims as "mad dogs", while false speech has preyed on Buddhist suspicions and prejudices by spreading discredited rumors about Muslims. Speech that brings suffering to others is not part of a Buddhist's path and as such actually does violence to the very religion that the 969 movement claims to protect. U Wirathu's comments regarding the "real" 969 movement, as well as his pointed criticisms of other Buddhist leaders who he believes have been passive in countering the supposed Muslim threat, are examples of divisive speech even within the Buddhist community. To be sure, the inclination of Buddhists in Myanmar to protect and propagate their religion is not necessarily something to be condemned. In times of relative peace it manifests itself as parents urging their children to follow the Buddha's teachings and in monks preaching that Buddhists ought to emulate the Buddha's example of tolerance and compassion in their everyday lives. But in times of transition and uncertainty, when insecurities are violently directed against others considered to be a "threat" to Buddhism, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to separate the positive implications of the number 969 from its destructive manifestations. A strong reason to reject the anti-Muslim rhetoric of the 969 movement is the damage it has done to the international reputation of Buddhism. Myanmar authorities, both political and monastic, need to recognize hate sermons and anti-Muslim propaganda for what they are: not a benign "defense" of Buddhism, but acts that fan the flames of fear and misunderstanding. Myanmar's monks and others who speak out against Muslims must be reminded that by denying the influence of their preaching on others they are ignoring the Buddha's teachings to practice right speech and be mindful of the broader impact of our words and actions on others. Myanmar's Buddhists should not only reject the hate speech of monks like U Wirathu, they should also reject the reasoning that allows him to maintain his innocence as Buddhists take his calls to "rise up" and "stand up for themselves" for what they really are: an incitement to violence in the name of religion. Matthew J Walton is the Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford.

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Do you support the NagalaND goverNmeNt’s DecisioN to exteND the horNbill Festival to teN Days? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • It’s a very wise decision indeed. Remember we are living in the Land of Festivals. Hornbill festival happens to fall in winter. It will be good to have a similar event during summer are well. We can have a Road Repairing Festival where everyone can participate. • Yes. 7 days on the ground remaining 3 days on the river and streams which we fondly in our state refer them as roads ... boating, deep pot hole diving will be fun... • Why not declare the month of december as the month of hornbill.. Why postpone the inevitable? Yes, and we should encourage it because it not only reminds us who we are and where we come from but also lets others know what we are not in their prejudiced minds. • YES pls.. Eiffel tower size "YES". Common man its da only thing we got wat else do we have. Extending 3 days wont do any harm. Its just a fest... which we r proud of... n its a season of holidays . Pple deserve to have fun atleast in holiday season to relax etc etc. One should work hard n enjoy responsibly in time thts it.We should not get mixed up wit the political thing . Cos it is also a part of development. Its one of da biggest tourist attraction in whole North East that's means a lot. If u don't wanna have fun pls don't go, let other pple have fun. Its no point complaining abt it. • Yes, Public demand & giving space 2 outsiders but let it b more colorful • Yes because it's the only festival celebrated by all tribes together and where old people or youths spend together. so its a yes! • Yes, Its the pride of being a Naga. Some of those who voted no had this to say: • Hats off to Nagaland government’s decision. Nagaland government has rightly coined Nagaland as ‘Land of Festival.’ It sounds great. Hornbill festival is an avenue to promote our culture, civil societies, SHGs, entrepreneurs; it is a platform for the music artiste. No doubt, more inflow of foreign as well as domestic tourists would definitely enhance revenue to the Tourism department and to the private entrepreneurs, tour agencies, etc…. initially it was five days, extended to seven. This year ten. Later it might extend to twenty or even a month! Why don’t make it seven. Seven days is enough. Make it shorter and make it sweet and sound. I am saying this because we are ‘yet’ to become a refined society. Nagaland government should see both side of the coin. I will say No. • No, we are becoming a land of sports and festival, no work culture but sports and fun culture. That is all our elected leaders seem to do. have fun fun and let the rest rot. • No! 100% No! The nomenclature of land of festival does not contribute to work culture. During hornbill all office works are affected. • No i dnt suprt … people deserve quality road not 10 days Horbil festival.. • Wastage of govt money, diverting funds from different dept just for the fest which doesn’t boost the revenue except the business of the particular area. • Not at all. Revenue is not everything and tourism is not the important thing for a state. Nothing should be done at the expense of human morality. The longer the festival the more destructive although more material gain is certain. Hornbill festival benefits only a few and have reverse negative effect on the mass. A ten-day fun centered festival can ruin the whole life of many Nagas. Nagaland govt should know that Kisama is not the whole Nagaland, tourist will have to travel through river-like roads to reach Kisama. When will our legislators, bureaucrats and contractors learn to feel ashamed of their irresponsible behavior? • A definite NO. How can we go on merry making when the State lacks development in many ar-

he philosopher Tzvetan Todorov argues that, notwithstanding its many varieties and fuzzy boundaries, the Enlightenment centres around three radical ideas: ‘autonomy’, or the idea that individuals should be free to be the authors of their own life stories; ‘universalism’, a recognition of the dignity of all human life from which emerges the idea of human rights; and ‘humanism’ which in this context can be taken to mean the possibility of progress defined in terms of increased human welfare. Much of what matters in politics comprises explicit or implicit debate about how to interpret and rank these enlightenment values. Furthermore, drawing on the work of Mary Douglas and her followers, these ideas can be linked to three active ways of thinking about and pursuing social action, which can be seen at play, and in tension, whenever people try to do stuff together; the individualistic (linked to autonomy), the solidaristic (linked to universalism) and the hierarchical (linked to humanism and the imperative of progress). The goal of transformation can be grounded in both a critique of the way in which enlightenment principles have come to be interpreted, and also by fostering a debate about alternative, more progressive, forms of interpretation. In this task we are aided significantly by the insights into human nature that are offered by a range of disciplines including behavioural economics, neuroscience, social psychology and anthropology. The transformative project bemoans the shrinking of the idea of autonomy into the

eas? Just trying to artificially impress the tourists • Instead of spending such a huge amount of govt möney on a festival .its better to invest it on our for extra three days won't do any good to the people. Instead, the Government will do well if it does hospitals n road that the common men maybe something more constructive with the money benefited which it intents to spend on those three additional • NO NO.... Instead make it one day, thats enough... days by improving the basic daily amenities such We the public don't have money like ministers and MLAs. Safe Money and repair the Roads... as; roads, electricity, water supply, drainage etc. • I don’t support the Government decision to ex- • nop.....its just a waste of time... sometimes i tend the hornbill festival because even in (seven) wander... what happen to the slogan " Nagaland 7 days many teenagers lives are being destroyed for Christ"??? is it now change to "nagaland land by alcohol. Not only that even accidents occur in of festival",? and when i say festival it include all that ‘seven days’ so if 3 more days are extended the substance that was banned including "prohibition act"... isn't our Government suppose to then what will happen? • A big No to it...coz i've seen hw d festival usually be based on truth and prosperity and not in personal development??? go... • No!!! What??? Extend 3 more days of drinking • govt shud start developing, instead of extending and merrymaking? No way, instead use those hornbill, simply wasting money on festival... 3 days to think and evaluate where governance • DAN govt. always like festivals and merry making and without it i think none of them would like has gone wrong and so what measures to be taken to be honest, bold and Zaban ka pucca man to survive. There are so many rooms to be developed so, what is yeah??? I think so the reason for extend• No. It's simply useing the Hornbill Fesless and a wastage tival for ten days? Its of money. Do somegood that it attracts thing worth for the so many tourists durwelfare of the people ing the festival but that with the money. alone cannot bring any • Ten days too much. changes in Nagaland. And what the reaFirst we have to begin son behind extendfrom grassroot level ing the number of but so far no changes days? You are giving has been seen in Natoo much important galand. So, for me its to hornbill? Cant una BIG NO for extending derstand ho….! the Hornbill Festival for • No, and it’s the most 10 days. immature decision • Instead of envsting our leaders have crore of rupes in Hornmade. Its simply a bill festival, why dont reflection of their that money goes to MISPLACED PRIpoor Nagas. Here poor ORITIES. Our “ship” Nagas are striven to is sinking with the death. whole Naga popu• I say big NO. Instead lation on board but of celebrating we need oblivious to the threat to emphasis on infrawe want the party to structural developgo on? Man, its no ment. talking about the time to party! Yes, revenue, there exist a we need to promote huge expenditure. tourism but that’s not • No, it is just a mockour priority now. We ery without a hornbill in should be setting up the state the basic things of • NO....why is our govour house in order ernment spending so first. 7 days is more much money in useless than enough to earn activities, when there is some revenue and no development in our double the damage. state, can't they spend • No way. As though those money's for the there are no other ardevelopment instead of eas to invest the exYES no OTHERS hornbill..?? tracted resources. In• Sometime NO is also vestment in all these Good for the Health of the Naga Society. extravaganzas is a total waste. • No, Nagaland government had lots work to do • Extension would mean more expenditure, tantamount to miss-allocation of valuable material and apart from this stupid festival. • No … I view the festival as a kind of paganism, human resource. I think that it is time the governwhere too much of emphasis is put there … and ment adopt fiscal consolidation measures in ora tourist may come and visit but for the layman der to make available resource and capital for – Nagaland, its unaffordable to visit … if it’s the infrastructure development. festival of Nagas, whats the point if majority of • No, We need to build our road first before exNagas have never participated/seen and its only tending. We need to fix our road first before we extend. It's a big shame to show that kind for the rich and affluent? And what about the accidents that happen? Shall we just pretend that of road to foreigners who came from far to go through that road! nothing is wrong morally? • No! because its just wastage of state's money, • Hornbill festival is a waste of tax- payer's money. Only a few people close to those in power are which suppose to be used in other basic develearning crores & crores of rupees, organizing this opmental works. • Nagaland government knows only entertainment, not so healthy event year after year. The organizers bring-in those poor, illiterate villagers from they are fun oriented politician. We need developfar- flung frontier areas and showcase their backment no big name please.

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wardness and not so good to watch war dances (exposing their posteriors) to the tourists. Is it not shameful to advertise our backwardness? What significant strides have we made by this festival? Increase in footfall of tourists, Battle of guitars, sins? What about developments? Ten days of Hornbill will be a merry making time for those itching for sport. I request the organizers to put in place free condom-vending machines in strategic locations. Also, those organizations that are against a Wet State should go into overdrive mode to ensure it remains Dry. And PLEASE do not bark too much and I beg you, no more pictures of your booty-catch and lighting raids in the local papers. Everybody knows you are doing a great job- kudos!!! Give some peace to those poor photographers. • Instead of just celebrating n enjoyment, Govt. should spend that money for road, water & electricity development which are in pathetic condition. No meaning in Entertainment without Development. • Even the present festival is too much and a waste of resource we borrow. • No, 10 days Hornbill fest and 12 days Christmas holidays imply a total of 22 days Off practically as you would find thin attendance during the fest. When Offices do not function for 22 days in a month, how do we expect progress. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: • Be it ten days or 30 days it has nothing to do with a farmer like me who lives miles, miles away from Kohima.!.. Enjoy Hornybill! fellas.. • cut it down to five days and celebrate it whole year. know what it is the legacy of the then congress govt. and this govt has done nothing worth appreciating.... • What is the total revenue earned from the 'Hornbill Festival' since inception? If the showcase of the festival is positive, extend to even one month, if not, govt of Nagaland need to seriously think over, forget about 10days. reduce or completely stop it. Any events other than national events/ festival should be economically feasible. • we need to attract tourism but let us first do the ground work: take initiative to improve our Airport-which is dying, make good road so that tourist have positive image of our land, improve health service- govt is not only for promoting music!, and ya why not organize investors meet instead of organizing a festival for 10 days. it will only show that we are just fund loving nation devoid of hard work. • Seven days has drained the Nagas, ten days will zonked everyone except people who loves pleasure more than values. • if govt. really wants to extnd till 10 dayz.. why dn't they made the whole month of Dec. as a Hornbill festvl???? rather avoid x.mas n led all the people attend Hornbill with purely tradition. • May be they should start Bullock cart festival... for 2013...... considering the road condition... for God sake........... • Glad to see the govt pro-active initiatives to lengthen the duration of the Hornbill Festival as it developed into the cultural landmark of our state where the multi-tribal melting pot of Naga society can annually assimilate into Naga Heritage Site to proudly showcase their respective unique cultures and rich traditions to one another and the rest of the world to an extended period of time. But the bottom line is what makes me feel uncomfortable is whenever the pressing social issue of prevalent work culture and back-lying attitude of our by and large contemporary Nagas come to the fore. And it would be equally important if not more not only on the part of the govt by the concerned public too to make a concerted effort by putting our heads together to really revive the work ethics of the Nagas in the present context.

Enlightenment values & politics of transformation pursuit of preferences in the market, or – worse still - preferences outside the market (in relationships or in politics) that are described as if they were akin to market choices. The “homo economicus” idea of freedom rests on populism – ‘what right does anyone have to tell me that being able to pursue what I want right now is not true freedom?’ and economic theory in the form of the hidden hand that turns individual choices into economic and social progress. Drawing on evidence of the fallible and idiosyncratic nature of human decisionmaking and the disastrous unrealism of free market fundamentalism, a different account of autonomy insists that while ‘negative freedom’ (or ‘freedom from’) must be protected, autonomy (or ‘freedom to’) must involve self-awareness and self-discipline, on the one hand, and the cultivation of a benign social and institutional context on the other. In contemporary societies the goal of freedom has tended to become rhetorically associated with the political right but the questions ‘what is individual freedom?’ and ‘how is it attained?’ should be questions that progressives confidently explore both philosophically and empirically. If autonomy/freedom has tended in recent times to be the domain of the right, then universalism/fairness has tended to be the natural territory of the left (although in its toughness on criminality and welfare ‘scroungers’ the right has successfully privileged procedural notions of fair-

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Transformation implies renewing the core values of the enlightenment and placing them at the centre of political discourse ness - playing by the rules - over distributive ones). It is important to assert fairness as an essential aspect of the good society and to debate which entitlements or capabilities could and should be universal. However, the project of transformation can add a new question to the fairness debate: what is it that inclines us to behave fairly? In an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, the capacity for ‘empathy’ is a vital human capability, defined by Roman Krznaric as ‘the art of stepping imaginatively into the shoes of another person, understanding their feelings and perspectives and using that understanding to guide your actions.’

The definition of fairness is inherently contested, for example in the procedural/ distributive dichotomy or in debates between global and nation-state based models of entitlement. In most circumstances it is possible to offer a reasoned case against compassion based on an appeal to fairness. Indeed, we can use notions of fairness in order to legitimise either a lack of empathy or simply narrow self-interest - for example, justifying cuts in benefits to the working poor through a distinction between ‘strivers and skivers’ based on procedural or ‘just dessert’ ideas of fairness. Transformative politics sees that the case for progressive action cannot be furthered simply by appealing to fairness; it must add the weight of human empathy to win the case for more inclusive and generous interpretations. This in turn means understanding empathy - what it is and how it differs from sympathy, where it comes from, and how it might be heightened. Finally comes humanism, the very idea of progress. Whatever its philosophical limitations, utilitarianism is the common sense way in which we think about progress: as Martin Kettle famously said, ‘common sense is the clitoris of middle England.’ In the pursuit of the greatest happiness of the greatest number we have climbed on board a chariot pulled by three horses: science and technology, business and markets, and bureaucracy. Without this horsepower we would not have enjoyed the many fruits of modern

living. However, while scientific advances, market innovations and bureaucratic management are not incompatible with ethical debate, for each such debates can seem marginal: ‘if it can be discovered it should be discovered;’ ‘if it can be sold for a profit it should be sold for profit;’ and (pace Weber) ‘what matters is the observance of the rules and not whether the rules make sense.’ The transformative project does not try to stop these horses, but it seeks to whisper in their ear: ‘in what direction are you taking us and why?’ In doing this it is reinforced by the growing evidence that human beings are inherently receptive to ethical concerns. Recognising the vital importance of institutions as the places where people learn and practice norms and behaviours, the transformational imperative in all institutions is to insist on a living and continuously interrogated account of the ethical ends to which the institution is in service, the means by which they are to be achieved, and whether its institutional form is compatible with those ends and means. Freedom, fairness and progress are ideas and ideals deeply rooted in human evolution. The enlightenment freed those ideas from the bounds of fatalism and traditionalism, and made them unstoppable forces for human development. But, partly as a reflection of their success (enlightenment hubris) those ideas have been narrowed, distorted and made inflexible. The transformational project involves recovering the core values of enlightenment, renewing them, and placing them at the centre of political discourse.

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All 5 accused arrested in Mumbai gangrape case, cops hunting mobile used to film act MuMbai, august 25 (agencies): Three days after a young photojournalist was gangraped in a mill here, all the five accused in the case have been arrested even as Mumbai Police was grappling to trace the mobile phone used to shoot pictures of the crime that triggered outrage across the country. Mohammed Kasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali, a resident of Agripada in central Mumbai, was arrested at 4.15 AM from Mumbai Central while his accomplice Siraj Rehman Khan (24) was arrested last night. Both were remanded in police custody till August 30. Another accused, Salim Ansari was arrested from Delhi by the crime branch sleuths today. He is being

brought to Mumbai and is expected to be produced before the court on Monday for remand. 27-year-old Ansari was arrested from Bharat Nagar in NorthWest Delhi when he was on his way to a relative’s house in the capital. “A team of Mumbai Crime Branch today reached Bharat Nagar police station and enquired about a locality about which they had inputs that Ansari will be visiting.He was then nabbed when he was on his way to a relative’s house here,” said a senior Delhi police official. He was then taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial hospital in Delhi for medical examination.He would be taken to Mumbai later in the day. Two others involved in

the case were arrested earlier. Vijay Jadhav and Chand Babu Sattar Shaikh were yesterday produced before the court which remanded them in police custody till August 30. The 23-year-old victim, working as an intern with an English Magazine, was gangraped in the premises of the defunct Shakti Mills Compound where she had gone along with a male colleague on an official assignment to shoot pictures on August 22. The accused had tied up her colleague at a little distance away from the scene of the crime and gangraped the girl after threatening her with a broken piece of a beer bottle which they placed near her neck. They shot pictures of the shameful act and warned

the victim not to disclose it to anyone or else the pictures would be circulated. Police told the court today that Kasim Bengali was not cooperating with investigations. He was not disclosing where he and his friends had kept a mobile phone which was used to shoot pictures of the victim, who was subjected to the brutal crime. In the remand application, police said Kasim had admitted to his alleged role in the crime. Police also told the court that they had recovered a broken piece of a beer bottle which the accused had used to threaten the victim. The article was picked up by them from the scene of the crime. The accused have been

booked under various sections of IPC such as 376(D) (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention). Kasim Bengali and Siraj Khan were produced today before a magistrate who asked them whether they had any complaints against police and whether they had hired any lawyers to defend them. Both replied in the negative. The duo were brought to the court with their faces covered with a black cloth. Police informed the magistrate that the identification parade had not been held so far and they needed the custody of the accused to interrogate them and find out their exact role in the crime.

new Delhi, august 25 (the hinDu): “This is not the end of my life. I will fight it out and am looking forward to getting back to my work as soon as possible,” the 22-year-old photojournalist, who was gang-raped on Thursday evening in the Shakti Mills compound and is at present under medical care at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai, told National Commission for Women (NCW) member Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar.

Talking to The Hindu on Saturday, Prabhavalkar said: “The victim is under trauma and is shocked, but in a positive frame of mind.” The meeting took place after the victim consented to it, and the interaction, the NCW member said, took place in the presence of the victim’s motherandateamofdoctors. The NCW has initiated suo motu action in the case and has formed a three-member committee chaired by. Prabhavalkar to look into it.. Giving details of her

meeting with the victim, she said: “The girl told me that she will cooperate fully with the police and she hopes that enough evidence is put together to ensure that the severest punishment is awarded to the accused.” The victim, the NCW member said, was worried about the fact that the five men who assaulted her took her pictures along with her personal details. They had even threatened her with dire consequences if she told anyone about the incident.

“The victim wants the men to be punished in a manner that they are unable to ‘trouble’ any other girl/women. She also wants the case to be wrapped up fast and not be dragged in court for years together. We have assured her of NCW’s full support,” said Prabhavalkar, adding: “We wanted to tell her [the victim and her family members] that NCW is with them. I did not ask her anything that would remind her about the incident as she is still recuper-

ating. When I was with her she seemed composed and responsive but the trauma was visible in her eyes. She was tearful.” “The message that she wanted to send out to all supporting her and following the case was — ‘I am brave. I will be fine. But the accused should be severely punished.’” The NCW also met the police team investigating the matter and is scheduled to submit its final report on the incident by early next week.

lucknow, august 25 (ians): The Uttar Pradesh government put in place a massive security build-up across the state and foiled a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) bid to stage a religious event in Ayodhya Sunday. While hundreds of VHP activists and seers were arrested from different parts of the state for trying to carry out the “84 kosi parikrama yatra”, VHP’s top leaders were detained in Lucknow and Ayodhya. Home department officials told IANS the situation was peaceful across the state. Over 700 persons were detained for breaching prohibitory orders. The police took VHP leader Ashok Singhal to an undisclosed

location when he refused to return to New Delhi after being detained at Lucknow’s Amausi airport. Meanwhile, Pravin Togadia of the VHP, seer Mahant Nritya Gopal Das and politician Ram Vilas Vedanti were arrested in Ayodhya when they tried to go ahead with the “yatra”. Togadia, after his arrest, told reporters that the Akhilesh Yadav government had unfairly clamped down on saints and added that as a mark of protest, VHP would stage sit-ins across the country Monday. Das accused the state government of ‘daman’ (oppression). The Aug 25-Sep 13 “yatra” seeks to construct a Ram temple at the site of the razed Babri mosque in Ayodhya.

new Delhi, august 25 (ians): The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday urged the Indian government to come out against what it said was a planned military intervention by the US and NATO in Syria. The CPI-M said in a statement that an attack on Syria would be discussed by the military chiefs of the US and its allies in Amman. “The government of India should

come out against any military intervention and advocate a political solution for the conflict in Syria.” The CPI-M said the US and its allies had been planning a military intervention in Syria against the Syrian government -- a la Libya. “But they were thwarted because the UN Security Council did not approve such an action. “The current pretext for the military

study published this year. Christians number 2.2 billion and Muslims 1.6 billion, the study showed. Many Hindus who settled around the world have found that they need a comprehensive source of information on the religion for their children, said Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, managing editor of the encyclopedia and a secretary of the India Heritage Research Foundation. She explained that the encyclopedia project took more than 20 years because “it began in pre-computer days”. “If we started today, it might just have taken a few years,” said Sadhvi. All proceeds from the encyclopedia are going to a charitable organization dedicated to environmental cleanup of rivers in India, she said.

This is not the end… I’ll fight it out, says rape victim

Police officials escort an accused, head covered with black cloth, in the gang rape of a photojournalist after producing him before a court in Mumbai, India on August 25. Police on Sunday arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fueled debate over whether women can be safe in India.(AP Photo)

Food Security Bill to provide minimum support price to more farmers

new Delhi, august 25 (Mexn): In the wake of the increased requirement of foodgrains for implementation of the proposed Food Security Act, procurement operations will be further extended, stated a press release from the Press Information Bureau of India. Foodgrain requirement for the implementation of the bill is estimated 614.3 lakh tonnes as against the existing requirement of 563.7 lakh tonnes for Targeted Public Distribution System. After implementation of the proposed Act, about 75 % persons in villages will get wheat at the rate of Rs. 2 and rice at the rate of Rs. 3 per kg. But farmers will get more for their produce i.e. Rs.12.85 per kg for wheat and Rs.12.50 per kg for paddy as minimum support price. Access to highly subsidized foodgrains to small farmers under the proposed Food Security Act and assured MSP for their produce will “ease the burden on their earnings and allow

them the option to spend the money so saved on other necessities,” informed the press note. It also claimed that contrary to dissuading farmers from producing more, the Act will encourage them to produce more. Two-third of the population will become legally entitled to receive highly

subsidized food grains after the enactment of the Food Security Bill. Each entitled person will receive 5 kg of food grains per month i.e. rice, wheat or coarse grains at Rs.3, Rs.2 and Re. 1 per kg respectively. The poorest of the poor will continue to get 35 kg food grains per household per month under AAY. The bill, claimed the

press note further, has special focus on nutritional needs of women and children. The eldest woman of the household above 18 years is considered the head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration cards as per provisions of the Bill. Pregnant women and lactating mothers will get maternity benefit of Rs. 6000 besides nutritious food. Children below 14 years of age will get food with higher nutritional norms. On the issue of redressing grievances that may arise in implementation of such a massive programme, it has been planned to give an increased role for Panchayati Raj institutions and women’s self help groups in programmemonitoring and social auditing. There will be provision for internal grievance redressal mechanism including call centres and helplines; and District Grievance Redressal Officers and State Food Commission for expeditious and effective relief to the people.

coluMbia, august 25 (aP): A Comprehensive encyclopedia of one of the world’s major religions is set to be unveiled next week in the United States. The 11-volume work covers Hindu spiritual beliefs, practices and philosophy, and is the culmination of a 25-year academic effort. The encyclopedia is written in English and includes about 7,000 articles on Hinduism and its practices. The work also deals with Indian history, languages, art, music, dance, architecture, medicine, and women’s issues. The entire encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 illustrations and photographs. Brightly coloured images of Hinduism’s deities fill entire pages, with footnoted explanations of the forms and powers God can

take in the religion. “The goal was to have something pretty definitive — not just about Hinduism, but about the whole South Asian tradition,” said University of South Carolina professor Hal French, who met a small group of scholars in 1987 to offer academic support for the project. “This hadn’t really been attempted before,” said French, 83, a distinguished professor emeritus of religious studies at the school and an associate editor. “It is a milestone of research that brought together both Eastern and Western scholarship.” French, who specializes in the religions of Asia and served as an associate editor of the encyclopedia, said a primary inspiration is one of India’s most revered spiritual leaders, Swami

Chidanand Saraswati, who is coming to the University of South Carolina conference that will celebrate the work’s launch. Swami Chidanand founded the India Heritage Research Foundation, which became the parent organization behind the encyclopedia effort. He is president of Parmarth Niketan Ashram spiritual retreat in Rishikesh. The encyclopedia’s volumes run from 600 to more than 700 pages. Some 3,000 copies are being issued in the first printing and will be of interest to libraries, religious institutions, and those studying Indian culture around the world, French said. Hinduism is the world’s thirdlargest religion, with 1 billion followers, according to a Pew Research Centre

“ The bill has special focus on nutritional needs of women and children”

Massive security foils ‘yatra’, hundreds arrested

Indian policemen try to stop the marching activists of the Hindu right-winged Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or World Hindu Council (VHP) at Ayodhya on Sunday, August 25. Indian policemen detained more than 500 VHP activists as they tried to take out religious procession, which aims at expediting the movement for construction of the Hindu Lord Ram Temple in Ayodhya. (AP Photo)

India urged to oppose military intervention in Syria Climate change worries attack is the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government forces near Damascus. “There has to be an independent investigation to substantiate this claim and if so who has used the neurotoxic agent. “The US and the Western powers have no credibility in making this charge as they used a similar pretext of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to attack Iraq.”

25 years in the making, Hinduism encyclopedia is now complete

In this August 21, photo provided by the University of South Carolina, Dr. Meera Narasimhan, vice dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, sits with an 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism that is to be donated to the university’s library. Narasimhan is planning the USC celebration of the publication of the landmark work, which is being unveiled at a university conference of international scholars and Hindu religious leaders on August 26. on the Columbia campus. (AP Photo)

affect mental health of Sunderbans residents

sunDerbans, august 25 (Pti): A number of environmental threats including that of climate change and mananimal conflict are driving villagers in Sunderbans islands towards madness and even suicide. Putting stress on the mental health of the villagers, the ill-effects of abject poverty and deprivation in the remote islands of the UNESCO World Heritage site are compounded by acute struggle against ecological hazards, experts say. Psychiatrist Arabinda N Chowdhury, who worked with the Institute of Psychiatry in Kolkata, studied how eco-stress is affecting the mental health in Sunderbans, famed for its large mangrove forests and the Royal Bengal tiger. Findings from mental health clinics reveal that patients reported mental problems like major depressive disorder (14.6%), followed by somatoform pain disorder (14%), post traumatic stress disorder (animal attack related) and adjustment disorder. Around 11.2% of the cases had history of attempt to suicide, of which 55% used pesticides to kill themselves. Causing loss of land, sea levels in the Sunderbans area have been rising at an alarming rate of 3.14 mm per year due to global warming. Two is-

lands have already disappeared under water while almost all the 54 inhabited islands are reported to be shrinking due to erosion. Climatic shocks in the form of cyclonic storms and floods breach the banks, inundate the localities, render people homeless and damage the fertility of agricultural land. Besides the salinity level in the rivers and creeks surrounding the islands has also increased in the last few years making agriculture and fishing all the more difficult. Prof Barun Kanjilal of The Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) says under the given circumstances mental health problems threaten to be one of the most critical public health issues in the Sunderbans. ”People here are living under continuous stress due to various environmental challenges and frequent climatic shocks like storms or cyclones. It is because of a complex set of psycho-social stress creators which are closely linked to the gripping livelihood challenges in the region and may trigger a pandemic of mental health problems,” he warns. An absence of mental health clinics in the region is aggravating the problem as people opt for ‘ojhas’ to ward off evil spirits whenever anyone reports falling mental health.

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Buddhists in Myanmar torch Muslim homes and shops

YANGON, MYANMAr, AUGUST 25 (AP): Fresh sectarian violence struck northwestern Myanmar early Sunday when a 1,000-strong Buddhist mob burned down dozens of Islamic homes and shops following rumors that a young woman had been sexually assaulted by a Muslim man, police said. There were no reports of injuries. A crowd surrounded the police station late Saturday and then went on an hours-long rampage after authorities refused to hand over the assault suspect, a police officer from the area told The Associated Press. About 35 houses and 12 shops — most belonging to

Muslims — were destroyed before calm was restored, he said, asking not to be named because he did not have the authority to speak to reporters. The radical monk Wirathu, whose anti-Muslim rhetoric has placed him at the center of rising religious violence in the predominantly Buddhist nation, posted news of the riot in the outskirts of the town of Kantbalu on his Facebook page. Myanmar has been grappling with sectarian violence since the country’s military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government in 2011. The unrest — which has killed more than 250 people and left 140,000

others displaced — began last year in the western state of Rakhine, where Buddhists accuse the Rohingya Muslim community of illegally entering the country and encroaching on their land. The violence, on a smaller scale but still deadly, spread earlier this year to other parts of the country, fueling deep-seeded prejudices against the Islamic minority and threatening this country’s fragile transition to democracy. Almost all of the victims have been Muslims, often attacked as security forces stood by. Myint Naing, an opposition lawmaker who represents constituents in Kantbalu, was outraged by the latest violence. He said Muslims and

Buddhists have lived sideby-side in the area for many years. “There is a mosque in almost every village in our township and we live a peaceful co-existence,” he said as he headed to the scene, adding that at least one mosque was burned down in the violence. “I cannot understand why the authorities were unable to control the crowd when it originally started,” he said. Details about the riot were still being collected Sunday afternoon. The local Daily Eleven newspaper, which had a reporter at the scene, said 1,000 people were involved in the violence.

In this June 13, photo, controversial Buddhist monk Wirathu, center, who is accused of instigating sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims through his sermons, performs Buddhist rituals during an assembly of Myanmar’s powerful Buddhist clergy in Hmawbi, outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Wirathu is a charismatic speaker and supporter of the fundamentalist 969 movement. His following is growing as he crisscrosses the country calling for boycotts of Muslim-owned shops and a ban on marriages between Buddhist women and Muslim men, and warning that a higher birthrate could one day bring Muslims from 4 percent of the population to a majority. (AP Photo)

UN human rights chief visits Sri Lanka

Syria warns US, says intervention would burn entire Middle East DAMAScUS, AUGUST 25 (AGENcIES): Frowning at the US, Syria on Sunday warned that any possible intervention will set the entire Middle East ablaze and attack on Syria would be “no easy trip”. Syria’s word of warning comes as the American naval forces continued to inch nearer to Syria and the Obama administration weighed various options including that of military intervention in Syria after the purported chemical attacks claimed 355 lives in Syrian suburb of Ghouta on Wednesday. Speaking in an interview, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said any attack on Syria would risk escalating violence across the Mideast. “The basic repercussion

would be a ball of fire that would burn not only Syria but the whole Middle East. An attack on Syria would be no easy trip,” Zoubi said. Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Abbas Arakji, echoed similar warning when he said that an American military intervention in Syria will “complicate matters.” “Sending warships will not solve the problems but will worsen the situation,” Arakji said in comments carried by Iran’s Arabiclanguage TV Al-Alam. He added that any such US move does not have international backing and that Iran “rejects military solutions.” A top military official from Iran said that US will have to face consequences if it crossed the red line.

“If the United States crosses this red line, there will be harsh consequences for the White House,” armed forces deputy chief of staff Massoud Jazayeri was quoted as saying. Interestingly, US President Barack Obama had used the term “red lines” for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, warning that it would evoke tough action. Iranian military official also accused the US and Israel of planning the war in Syria. “The terrorist war underway in Syria was planned by the United States and reactionary countries in the region against the resistance front (against Israel),” Fars quoted Jazayeri as saying. “Those who add fire to the oil will not escape the

vengeance of the people,” added Jazayeri. Meanwhile, Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet Sunday that “this situation cannot continue.” Justice Minister Tzipi Livni told Israel Radio that a U.S. response to the alleged poison gas attack would help discourage future chemical weapons use, but also have security implications for Israel. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz told Army Radio the attack requires a response. He said the chances that Syria would attack Israel as a result of U.S. action were slim but that the army should be prepared for such an eventuality. Syrian rebels claim that the attack was carried out

by the government’s forces but the regime has hit back by counter-alleging that the rebels were behind the attack. Syrian state TV also showed images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts Saturday. An army statement issued late Saturday said the discovery of the weapons “is clear evidence that these gangs are using chemical weapons against our people and soldiers with help from foreign sides.” Top Syrian rebel commander Salim Idris refuted government’s allegations saying that opposition forces did not use chemical weapons on Saturday and that “the regime is lying.”

STOcKHOLM, AUGUST 25 (AP) : Top editors of the largest Nordic newspapers say that Britain’s use of anti-terror legislation to “harass” the Guardian newspaper and people associated with it could threaten news media around the world. The editors-in-chief of Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter,

Norway’s Aftenposten, Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat and Denmark’s Politiken said in a joint letter Sunday that they are surprised and concerned “that a stout defender of democracy and free debate such as the United Kingdom uses anti-terror legislation in order to legalize what amounts to harassment of both the

paper and individuals associated with it.” British officials have been criticized after using the legislation to confiscate data being ferried to journalist Glenn Greenwald by his partner, David Miranda, and ordering the destruction of computer equipment belonging to Greenwald’s newspaper, the Guardian.

cAIrO, AUGUST 25 (IANS): The trial of top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which ousted EgyptianPresidentMohamed Morsi hails, will begin Sunday, media reported. The Muslim Brotherhood’s general guide Mohamed Badie, who was arrested Tuesday, would apA court spokesperson announced the adjournment of the trial of former politician Bo Xilai to Monday near the words "Jinan Intermediate People's pear at criminal court SunCourt, Trial briefing" at a hotel in Jinan in eastern China's Shandong province on August 25. The trial of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai resumed Sunday, a day after he said he made mistakes that prompted his top aide's embarrassing U.S. defection bid, but denied criminal respon- day, Xinhua reported citing some media reports. sibility for the incident that triggered the country's messiest political scandal in decades. (AP Photo)

“Badie, along with his two deputies, Khairat alShater and Mohamed Saad al-Katatni, will appear before court tomorrow (Sunday), they face criminal charges including inciting violence and killing anti-Morsi protesters outside the Muslim Brotherhood’s guidance bureau,” a statement from the prosecutor’s office said. Badie’s detention was renewed for another 15 days

pending investigations over new charges of killing and torturing opponents of Morsi at two major protest sites where the Islamists had rallied. Since the military’s dispersal of the two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza Aug 14, nearly 1,000 people, including some 100 policemen, have been killed in the ensuing clashes between Morsi’s loyalists and the security forces.

The government has flown small contingents of the immediate family members of people killed in the attacks to each of the hearings. They are given tours of the base, though they do not see the inside of the prison, and have private meetings with officials, including the detention center commander and prosecutors. They began to meet with defense lawyers last summer as well, an experience some approached with reluctance. “I thought ‘How could anyone defend the five guys who killed our families?’” said Francine Kaplan of Framingham, Massachusetts, whose daughter, Robin, was on one of hijacked jets. “You know what? They are really nice people. They are doing their job.” Gerhardt said he is glad the lawyers for the men, both civilians and military, are waging an aggressive defense. “They want to do it right and we want them to do it right,” he said. “Yes they

are posturing, yes they are putting out motions to get as much as they can accepted and that’s how the process works and it’s a good process so let’s let it work.” There was a sign during this week’s hearing that yet another delay could be looming for the proceedings. The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, warned prosecutors Friday that he might suspend further hearings if the government cannot resolve technological issues with the Pentagon computer network. Defense teams have complained that the network prevents them from doing any work involving their clients that must be kept secure. Pohl is expected to rule on that issue in September, when the court convenes for its sixth round of pretrial hearings. Prosecutors submitted a motion to set a tentative trial date of July 2014 but the judge did not take it up this week as had been expected.

cOLOMBO, AUGUST 25 (IANS): The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived in Sri Lanka Sunday on a week-long visit during which she will study the post war situation in the country. Pillay, who has been highly critical of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, will visit the island’s north which has been battered by 30 years of war between the Tamil Tigers and the military. The rebels were defeated just over four years ago but rights groups have accused the military of committing many abuses in an attempt to defeat the Liber-

ation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Chief of Defence Staff General Jagath Jayasuriya said the government will be giving Pillay three separate

briefings. One of the briefings will come from Lalith Weeratunga, secretary to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on a plan on implementing the recommendations of

a reconciliation committee. Pillay is scheduled to call on President Rajapaksa and meet government ministers and officials. She will also hold talks with senior judicial figures, members of the National Human Rights Commission and representatives of the civil society. Some Sinhalese groups have said they will stage protests outside the UN office in Colombo Monday against Pillay’s visit. Pillay’s impression of Sri Lanka at the end of her visit will be all the more crucial as the UN Human Rights Council will meet in Geneva next month and she is expected to make a statement on Sri Lanka.

Nordic editors protest moves against the Guardian

Muslim brotherhood’s leaders to be tried in Egypt

12 Yemeni air force cadets die in Al Qaeda attack

SANAA, AUGUST 25 (IANS): Al Qaeda affiliates Sunday launched a bomb attack on a bus near the air force base in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, killing 12 air force cadets, officials and witnesses said. “A bus carrying 24 air force cadets was blown up on a main road while heading toward the air force base, killing at least 12 cadets,” an officer told Xinhua, saying Al Qaeda carried out the attack. “Initial investigations show that an intensified explosive device was either planted inside the bus or thrown on the road in front of the bus which totally destroyed it,” the official said. Security forces cordoned off the bomb-

ing area and sent the wounded to a military hospital. Many of the cadets were seriously wounded and the death toll could go up. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attack. “It was the first response from us to Yemeni President AbdRabbu Mansour Hadi’s remarks in which he glorified the US drone criminals in Yemen and promised more killings,” a statement received by Xinhua said. On Thursday, Hadi said 40 suspected Al Qaeda members had been killed in counter-terrorism operations and vowed to keep fighting the Islamists till they laid down their weapons.

Relief in Guantanamo as 9/11 trial edges forward

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, cUBA, AUGUST 25 (AP): The visitors getting VIP treatment from the U.S. military sat through days of legal debate so dense that even lawyers yawned and at times the terrorist mastermind in the front row of the courtroom appeared to be on the verge of falling asleep. Still, there was something closer to relief than frustration for the guests of honor, families of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks who have decided that even glacially paced proceedings at Guantanamo Bay are better than none at all. “I think everyone is glad it’s moving forward,” said Denise Dillard, whose brother, Eddie, was killed in the attacks. “It’s going to be tough but everyone’s at it,” Dillard said Friday as a round of pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 war crimes case came to an end. To Dillard, a hospital administrator from Gary,

Indiana, the hours of often arcane motions hearings were welcome signs that the government is being cautious. “We don’t want anything overturned,” she said. It was a concern shared by others in the small contingent of families chosen by lottery to come to this isolated U.S. base on the southeastern corner of Cuba to watch the week of hearings, the fifth since the five defendants were arraigned in May 2012. “This is going to take a while,” said Stephan Gerhardt, a Washington D.C. business owner whose brother, Ralph, was killed in the World Trade Center. “We are going to be here until the end.” The U.S. is prosecuting five prisoners, including self-styled terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, on charges that include terrorism and nearly 3,000 counts of murder for planning and aiding the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001, in which hijackers crashed passenger jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. They could get the death penalty if convicted. After years of legal and political delays, the case is deep into the pretrial stage. The prosecution and defense are litigating scores of preliminary issues that must be resolved before a trial that participants frequently call the most complex in U.S. history. This week’s hearing featured more debate over the rules for handling classified evidence and legal mail. Defense teams say the rules are overly restrictive and make it too difficult for them to prepare cases that center around the harsh treatment — which they call torture — that the prisoners endured in CIA custody. The judge also heard arguments on a motion to dismiss some of the charges, including conspiracy and terrorism, which law-

yers for the men say are not traditional war crimes that can be prosecuted by a military commission. The judge allowed the defendants to skip parts of this week’s sessions, but the families did get their first chance to see the men accused of orchestrating the attacks, including Mohammed. At times, the man who has said he planned the attacks “from A to Z,” appeared to nearly doze as he sat in court in his camouflage vest, his flowing grey beard dyed a burnt orange. “I was terrified thinking how I would feel looking at the detainees ... knowing they were part of the reason my daughter isn’t here anymore,” said JoAnn Meehan of Toms River, New Jersey, whose 26-year-old daughter, Colleen Barkow, was killed in the World Trade Center. Seeing the defendants gave her new perspective. “When I did see them I had this empty feeling that they weren’t worth my time.”

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NEW HAVEN, AUGUST 25 (PTI): Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza notched up her third title of the season and 17th overall as she lifted the women's doubles trophy at the WTA New Haven Open along with new partner Jie Zheng. Playing just their fourth event together, third seeds Sania and Jie pipped the second-seeded pair of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Katarina Srebotnik 6-3 6-4 in the summit clash. Mirza and Zheng fell behind an early break but quickly got back and from 3-3 in the first set, they won six of the next seven games to capture the first set and take control of the second. They did have a bit of trouble closing it out, as at 5-2 in the second set, Medina and Srebotnik won two games in a row and then got to deuce on Mirza's serve before the Indo-Chinese duo finished off the triumph on their fifth match point. "We didn't start the tournament too well, winning a couple of what you might call ugly matches," Mirza said. "But we kept getting better with each match. It was great to play our best match in the final. "It's tough with this for-

mat. It's relentless. There's really no margin of error with the deuce points, the super tie-break. It's just a toss-up sometimes. Even today's match was 63 64, but it was much tighter with the deuce points. The last set we won three deuce games."

It was Sania's fourth final of the year and 25th overall. Sania, the only Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title, had won two titles this season before this triumph. Both the previous titles came with American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

with headers in the 30th and 53rd. "There's no better way to start the season," Verona midfielder Massimo Donati said. It was a disturbing result for Milan ahead of Wednesday's return-leg match with PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League playoffs. Milan also gave up a lead in the opening leg, drawing 1-1. Last season, Milan never lost in Serie A after establishing a lead, winning 21 matches and drawing four. "The explanation is simple: we played bad football and we played poorly as a squad," Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said. "We needed to control the ball better. We played poorly and they deserved the victory. "We need to play with more nastiness and more attentively," Allegri added. "After we scored we stopped playing. Even though he's 36, Toni fought like a lion." The other eight matches of the opening weekend will be played Sunday, with last year's runner-up Napoli hosting Bologna and Inter Milan facing Genoa at the San Siro. Also, Lazio opens against Udinese with one end of its stadium closed as punishment for fan racism in the Super Cup.

S oNoMA, AUGUST 25 (AP): Although Dario Franchitti hasn't won an IndyCar race since last year's Indianapolis 500, he's in prime position to snap that unpleasant streak when he starts on the pole Sunday in an excellent Honda at Sonoma Raceway. But if he can help Scott Dixon by stepping off the gas a bit, Franchitti would be happy to follow team orders. Franchitti won't put his personal success ahead of Target Chip Ganassi Racing's fortunes. That means Dixon will get every chance to gain ground on IndyCar points leader Helio Castroneves (453 points), who leads second-place Dixon (422) with five races to go. "I want to win the race, obviously," Franchitti said after turning a lap in 1 minute, 17.5271 seconds to win his 33rd career pole. "But the big picture — and we say this every year in our team — we sit in the first meeting of the year, and our two goals are to win the 500 and win the championship. We didn't win the 500, so we've got to win the championship. Scott is our best shot at that, and whatever I can do to help him win that championship, I will." Will Power also hasn't won an IndyCar race since early last season in Sao Paulo, yet he feels the same way about Team Penske

BERLIN, AUGUST 25 (AP): Defending champion Bayern Munich ground out a hard-fought 2-0 win over Nuremberg to maintain its winning start to the Bundesliga on Saturday. Franck Ribery met Philipp Lahm's cross with a fine header to break the deadlock in the 69th, and Arjen Robben sealed the result when he eluded three defenders and scored through the goalkeeper's legs in the 78th. Bayern toiled to break down the Nuremberg defense, however, in what was the 187th derby between the sides. "Nine points from three games. Everything's wonderful," Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said. Schalke's poor season start continued with a 2-1 loss at Hannover, where the visitors finished with nine players and the hosts 10. "Three games and only one point is definitely not we expect at Schalke," said the team's under-pressure coach Jens Keller. Bayer Leverkusen beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-2 to win eight Bundesliga games in a row for the first time. Freiburg drew 3-3 at Hoffenheim, where three players and the Freiburg coach were sent off.Wolfsburg midfielder Luiz Gustavo was sent off in a 2-0 defeat at Mainz, with

Bayern's Franck Ribery of France celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and 1. FC Nuremberg, in Munich, southern Germany on Aug. 24. (AP Photo)

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Nicolai Mueller scoring for the home side. Later on the day the Bundesliga celebrated its 50th anniversary, Hertha Berlin defeated Hamburger SV 1-0 to increase the pressure on visiting coach

Thorsten Fink. "HSV would be a lot better if people calmed down a bit," Fink said after the game. Colombia forward Adrian Ramos scored in the 74th, stroking the ball in from close range after Nico Schulz burst into the Hamburg penalty area

Verona shocks AC Franchitti takes IndyCar pole at Sonoma Raceway Milan; Juve wins opener

teammate Castroneves, who needs a strong finish in the waning weeks of the IndyCar season to earn his first championship. "Anything to help Helio win the championship," said Power, who finished second in each of the last three years.

Dixon finished qualifying in second place at 1:17.7196, while Castroneves starts back in fifth behind Power and Ryan Hunter-Reay. That distance isn't much, but it's a bit tougher to make up at Sonoma Raceway, a 2.385-mile road course in Northern Califor-

nia wine country. Passing is uncommonly difficult on the winding, 12turn Sonoma track, which makes qualifying particularly important. Four polesitters have won the race, and nobody has moved up to win from farther than fifth. It's tough even under ideal conditions, but the Bay Area wind has been unpredictable this week, its direction changing 180 degrees over the course of many afternoons. The wind also blows Sonoma sand onto the track, creating unpredictable tire conditions and general uncertainty with every turn. "It was all over the place," Castroneves said after qualifying. "You really have to expect the unexpected all the time — and then the sun is really beautiful right now, and actually no (wind). It was very difficult for everyone." Charlie Kimball continued his impressive recent work with a sixth-place run Saturday, easily his highest qualifying position in Sonoma. Ganassi's Kimball earned his first career victory in IndyCar's most recent race in Ohio. "The wind does totally change the track," said Power, who set the track record in qualifying last year. "Our car was quite tough. I'm pretty happy. I think the Ganassi guys have definitely got a leg up on everybody here."

NEW YoRK, AUGUST 25 (AP): The numbers are not the sort that Roger Federer likes to see beside his name. One of them — his age, 32 — he cannot control. The other — his ranking, No. 7 — he insists he can. "People are going to say what they like," Federer said Saturday, two days before his first-round match at the U.S. Open. "Important is that I concentrate on my game and that the passion is there, that I work the right way, that I'm prepared, and that I feel like I can win a tournament." The five-time U.S. Open champion is seeded seventh, the biggest number next to his name at a Grand Slam tournament since 2003, the year he started on his recordsetting run of 17 majors. In June, Federer exited Wimbledon in the second round, the earliest he'd been dismissed from a major tournament since the 2003 French Rafael Nadal, left, of Spain,, Serena Williams, center, and Roger Federer, of Switzerland, cheer Open. Starting with that loss, for Kyle Seelig, during a competition at the 18th Annual Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day, the unofficial his season has included a kickoff to the 2013 US Open tennis tournament on Aug. 24 in New York. (AP Photo) steady diet of defeats that

would have once been considered freakish and a withdrawal from a tournament that went unexplained. All these factors point toward an obvious conclusion: Age is taking its toll on the most decorated men's player ever. Not since Pete Sampras captured the trophy in 2002 has a man over 30 won the U.S. Open. But Federer doesn't envision quite such a grim picture. A bad back that might help explain some of his summer doldrums is no longer bothering him. A new racket that confounded him over the summer has been shelved for the time being. His ranking, and corresponding seeding, may have dropped from third to seventh in the nine weeks between Wimbledon and the Open, where his firstround match is against 61st-ranked Grega Zemlja, but Federer considers himself fit enough to contend. "Now I can really say I'm really just focused on the point for point, and that's

why I'm not concerned," he said. "My back problem is not that major. I just need to make sure I don't have any bad moments in the future." He would love to wipe away most of this 2013 season. He has a grand total of one tournament title, won at a small event in Halle, Germany — a grass-court tune-up for Wimbledon. In addition to his second-round Wimbledon loss to 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky, Federer has fallen to No. 114 Federico Delbonis and No. 55 Daniel Brands, the sort of players who used to feel beaten by Federer before they even walked on the court. That air of invincibility is gone, and small cracks in a once-impenetrable facade have cropped up. Federer withdrew in Montreal early this month without giving a reason, though he had been complaining about his back through the summer. He expanded on his health Saturday, saying the back was no problem as he heads into this, his 58th appearance at a major.

RoME, AUGUST 25 (AP): Luca Toni scored twice as Hellas Verona beat AC Milan 2-1 Saturday to celebrate its return to Serie A after an 11-year absence as the Italian league opened with a shock. It was more to form, meanwhile, as Juventus kicked off its bid for a third consecutive title with Carlos Tevez scoring in the 58th minute of a 1-0 win at Sampdoria, which beat the Bianconeri in both league meetings last season. Juve didn't quite dominate like in its 4-0 rout of Lazio in last weekend's Super Cup but Antonio Conte's men showed the same poise and discipline of the past two seasons. Tevez, Juve's big offseason acquisition from Manchester City, only had to tap in after taking a pass from Paul Pogba at the edge of the box on a rainy night at the Juventus Stadium. At the other end, Juve's corp of quality defenders — Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini — cleared any danger. It was a different story in Verona, where Andrea Poli put Milan ahead in the 14th minute following a pass from Mario Balotelli before the 1.96-meter (6-foot-5) Toni struck back

Dario Franchitti, of Scotland, displays the flag he received for being the top qualifier for Sunday's IndyCar auto race, Saturday, Aug. 24 in Sonoma, Calif. (AP Photo)

Age, seeding are only numbers to Federer

to set him up. Hertha withstood the visitors' desperate efforts for an equalizer to ensure the club's best start to a Bundesliga season.Bayern coach Pep Guardiola opted to hand Mario Goetze his competitive debut for the

side, with fellow off-season signing Thiago Alcantara also starting.Despite claiming three-quarters of the game's possession and outshooting the visitors 25-5, Bayernlacked the cutting edge to turn chances into goals.

Braca coach criticises money spent on Bale

MAdRId, AUG 25 (IANS): Barcelona coach Gerardo 'Tata' Martino criticised Real Madrid for the money they are set to spend on signing Tottenham Hotspurs' Welsh international winger Gareth Bale. Bale reached in Marbella to end the long-running transfer saga, which has captured headlines all summer, reports Xinhua. The Bernabeu, Real Madrid's ground, has already been prepared for Bale's presentation. Asked about the reported world record transfer fee which Madrid is reported to have agreed to sign for the player, Martino was strongly criticised the amount for bringing Bale to Spain. "I think he is a very good footballer. But the (money shows) a lack of respect considering the situation the world is in," said the Barcelona coach. Neymar announced his arrival with Barcelona' s equalising goal in the Spanish Supercup Wednesday night and Martino was pleased with his progress since arriving in Spain.

Sindhu tames Tine, Warriors beat Masters 3-2

BANGALoRE, AUGUST 25 (IANS): A week after Tine Baun said that P.V. Sindhu is still going through a learning curve, the Indian beat the Danish great in straight games in an Indian Badminton League (IBL) match at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium here Saturday. Sindhu, the Awadhe Warriors icon player, led her team to a much needed 3-2 victory over the Mumbai Masters. In the process, the Lucknow-based team bagged four points and are fourth in the team standings with 12. The Masters, on the other hand, are tied-first with Hyderabad Hotshots with 15 points. In the opening men's singles match, Masters' Vladimir Ivanov, who has had an outstanding IBL so far, again came out on top beating World No.20 R.M.V. Gurusaidutt in a tough encounter. Guru managed to save a matchpoint and pushed the rubber into the decider but the Russian eventually won 21-18, 20-21, 11-9. In women's singles action, a very aggressive Sindhu led from the start and was 7-4 ahead at the first break of the first game. The Hyderabadi completely outplayed her 34-year-old opponent and was 14-9 ahead at the second break. A couple of wrong line decisions by Tine led her to lose the first game 12-21. However, the three-time All England Open champion came back strongly in the second game matching shot-for-shot against her 16 years younger opponent. Ahead 17-16, the 18-year-old Sindhu gave away the lead to a forceful Tine, who went on to clinch the game 21-19 and push the match into the decider. Both the World Championships medallists fought brilliantly in the third game but an extremely destructive Sindhu kept attacking and took the game away from the Dane, winning 11-8 in the third game. The scoreline between the two sides was tied at 1-1. The Indian was much more aggressive than her usual self pumping her fists after winning points and fell flat on the court in joy after she defeated the retired Dane. Sindhu used her jump smashes to good effect and was supreme at the net making Tine run amok on the court.

Simona Halep, of Romania, kisses the trophy after her 6-2, 6-2, victory over Petra Kvitova, of the Czech Republic, in the final of the New Haven Open tennis tournament in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday, Aug. 24. (AP Photo)

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M Visedelhou Theruja presents special number during the closing ceremony of 13th Nagaland State Chess Premier (State ‘A) Championship 2013 at Kohima on August 24. (Morung Photo)

ike Tyson has revealed that he is on the verge of dying from alcohol and drug abuse after years of lying about being sober. The former heavyweight champion made the startling revelation while at a press conference to promote ESPN’s Friday Night Fights at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York on Friday. ‘I’m a bad guy sometimes,’ he said. ‘I did a lot of bad things, and I want to be forgiven... I wanna change my life, I wanna live a different life now. I wanna live my sober life. ‘I don’t wanna die. I’m on the verge of dying, because I’m a vicious alcoholic.’ After realizing what he had shared, he paused before adding that he has not consumed alcohol or drugs in

six days, which he called ‘a miracle’. ‘I’ve been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I’m not,’ he admitted. ‘This is my sixth day. I’m never gonna use again.’ Tyson’s struggle with alcohol and drugs has been well documented; he has been in and out of rehab three times. He has also admitted that around five years ago he was contemplating suicide and overdosing - just before his four-year-old daughter Exodus died on May 26, 2009 when she was strangled by a cord while playing on a treadmill. He said that the tragedy served as a wake up call. ‘I didn’t think I’d be here much longer,’ Tyson said. ‘I was planning on killing myself. I was overdosing every night. I couldn’t believe it - that I was wak-

ing up. Living life is different for me. ‘I had to change my life. It’s been hell, but I’m happy to be alive.’ In an interview with Nightline in July 2012, Tyson claimed he had been sober for three years. ‘I’m just constantly working on turning. It doesn’t happen overnight,’ Tyson said in the interview. ‘I may have a good few years in me but it’s still not out of me. You still have to work consistently. Every moment of the day you have to work because your demons always - that’s who you are.’ His comments on Friday came as he spoke

about trying to make amends with Teddy Atlas, his former trainer whom h e f a -

Madonna’s son plans to follow in her footsteps

is mother is one of the biggest- selling singers in the world. So no wonder Madonna’s son Rocco Ritchie is trying to become a rapper – at just 13. He has been busy in one of Madonna’s studios recording six demo tracks with best friend Dom Sesto, a keen gymnast. The pair plan to release some of the music they’ve made together and are eager to present it to industry friends of Madonna in the next few months. ‘Rocco has formed a rap duo with his best friend Dom,’ a source revealed. ‘They are called Modoccor – which is their names

spelled backwards – and they combine rapping with street dance, gymnastics and break dancing. ‘The pair are virtually inseparable and have recorded six demo tracks to send to record bosses. Madonna is obviously helping them as much as she can.’ Perhaps Rocco’s love of rap has influenced his mother who, despite being 55, has in recent weeks been parading a set of gold ‘grills’ – teeth-moulded jewellery usually reserved for hip hop artists with a penchant for bling. Madonna and Rocco’s father, film director Guy Ritchie, are being supportive. But Madonna has told

mously fell out with in the early 1980s. Tyson said he knew Atlas was going to be at the Fight Night Fights event and described how he initially struggled with how he would handle seeing him again. ‘I didn’t have a good thought in mind about that at first, because I’m negative and I’m dark,’ Tyson said. ‘And I wanna do bad stuff. I wanna hang out in this neighborhood alone [pointing to his head]. ‘That’s dangerous to hang out in this neighborhood alone up here, right? It wants to kill everything. It wants to kill me, too.’ He added of Atlas: ‘He has to k n o w this is sincere.

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I don’t wanna fight you no more. I was wrong. I’m sorry.’ Last month, Tyson announced he’s teaming with director Spike Lee to bring Tyson’s one-man Broadway stage show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, to HBO later this year. Tyson’s wife, Kiki, wrote the script for the stage show, which toured the country earlier this year. Tyson said it reflects his life’s journey from Brooklyn street tough guy to happily married father, and credits his wife for his foray into promoting. ‘I’m incredibly grateful to HBO for partnering with me and for believing in my story,’ Tyson said. ‘It is an honor and a privilege to be working with them to bring my one-man show, ‘Undisputed Truth,’ to live on the television screen.’

get VERY close during This Is Us press conference in New York

friends she suspects Rocco and Dom’s enthusiasm for hip hop could be just a fad. The source added: ‘Both Madonna and Guy are behind them but think it’s just a childish phase. Dom and Rocco are totally serious about it though and continually document their time in the studio.’ Rocco has posted a clip of himself rapping to his Instagram feed and is said to have absorbed as much of his mother’s ambition as his sister Lourdes, 16. She already designs for her own fashion label – Material Girl – while studying at the world-renowned LaGuardia Arts school in New York.

Film and TV actress Julie Harris dies at age 87

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auded stage and film actress Julie Harris, who won innumerous honors over her 50-year career, died Saturday at her West Chatham, Massachusetts home. She was 87. The cause of Harris’ death was congestive heart failure, according to the Associated Press. Harris was renowned first and foremost for her work on Broadway, and the actress garnered an unprecedented five Tony Awards for best actress in a play. Her accolades came for a wide array of roles, including First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Hamlet’s Ophelia and Joan of Arc. Harris de-

buted on Broadway in 1945 in It’s A Gift, and though the play didn’t last long, it was an auspicious beginning for the young actress. At the age of 24, Harris thrilled critics as the lonely teenager Frankie in 1950’s The Member Of The Wedding, inspiring The New York Times to declare that she was ‘extraordinary vibrant, full of anguish and elation,’ according to the AP. Just five years later, the actress won her first Tony for portraying Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera. It didn’t take long for her to win a second Tony, this time for her performance as Joan

of Arc in 1955 Broadway production of The Lark. More Tonys came for her work on French comedy Forty Carats, period piece The Last Of Mrs. Lincoln and The Belle Of Amherst; the audio recording on Amherst led to a Grammy Award, as well. Harris also was a brilliant film actress, and her 1952 screen debut - reprising her role in an adaptation of The Member Of The Wedding - resulted in an Oscar nomination for best actress. Fitting considering her sheer talent, Harris starred opposite other film legends of the era, including

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James Dean on Elia Kazan’s East Of Eden and Paul Newman on Harper. And she impacted the small screen as well, most memorably starring as a Southern belle in the 1980s soap opera Knots Landing. She also won three Emmys for other roles, including as Queen Victoria on the Hallmark Hall Of Fame production of Victoria Regina. Harris was born on December 2, 1925 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where she was raised by a father who was an investment banker and a mother who worked as a nurse. Her stage debut came at

boys who have also been playing to hundreds of thousands of fans on their world tour. And it seems that their time on the road has made them even more comfortable with one another. Earlier this week, an estimated as many as 18,000 Directioners gathered around Rockefeller Center, completing filling two New York City blocks outside the show’s studios. The show’s weatherman Al Roker confirmed: ‘It seems to me this is the biggest crowd we’ve ever had.’ The boys had tried and failed to sneak into the city via New Jersey’s more low key Newark airport. However, when the biggest boyband in the world attempts to do the same, their fans well and truly have them sussed.

Arriving in the U.S. on Thursday night ahead of their concert the following day, the One Direction boys didn’t stand a chance and were promptly mobbed by their adoring fans. Harry Styles, the band’s undisputed heartthrob, looked effortlessly stylish in his usual attire of faded black jeans, white T-shirt, brown boots and black peacoat. Sporting a golden tan and with his brown hair in a messy, unkempt ‘do, the singer appeared tired and nervously ran his hands through his hair when he didn’t have them in his jacket pockets. His expression changed to one of sheer horror when he was accosted by an older fan brandishing a placard that read, ‘I’m 79 and I love 1D’.

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age 14, when she performed in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame at the Grosse Point County Day School, according to the AP. That start inspired her to pursue acting for the rest of her life: She continued to study the craft at Yale University and, later, the Actor’s Studio. Her last accolades came in the form of a life-achievement Tony in 2002 and Kennedy Center Honors in 2005. But her trophy case only says so much about her career and ability; indeed, her legacy continues in the form of a shining standard of what an actor can achieve in a lifetime.

are in the of promoting their new film This Is Us. And it seems that One Direction have been getting very comfortable spending time with one another. On Saturday the band held a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York for the movie, and at one point appeared to be sitting on each others laps. While Harry Styles sat on Zayn Malik, Niall Horan appeared to be perching on bandmate Louis Tomlinson. It seemed that the four boys were larking around while they waited for the fifth member of the band, Liam Payne. Liam was seen earlier in the day greeting a happy fan as she approached him in the street. It’s a busy time for the

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Prominent local band Divine Connection performing on the last day of 5th Children Event held at IMC hall, Dimapur on August 25. The two-day event was jointly organized by Little Vessels (IMC) and Kids Worship Centre. (Manen Aier photo)

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Marquez wins Czech MotoGP

Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates to win the MotoGP race at the Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Czech Republic at the Masaryk circuit in Brno, Czech Republic on Aug. 25. (AP Photo)

BRNO, AUGUST 23 (AP): Rookie Marc Marquez edged his Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa to win the Czech MotoGP on Sunday for his fourth straight victory to stretch his lead in the overall standings. The 20-year-old Spaniard covered 22 laps of the 5.403-kilometer (3.358mile) Brno circuit in 42 minutes, 50.729 seconds to become the youngest rider to claim four consecutive races. In his maiden MotoGP season, Marquez leads the standings with 213 points, followed by Pedrosa with 187. Jorge Lorenzo is third with 169 with seven races to go. Pedrosa, who won in Brno last year, was 0.313 seconds behind while Lorenzo finished

third on a Yamaha, 2.277 behind Marquez. Starting third on the grid, Marquez chased defending world champion Lorenzo until he made the decisive pass with seven laps to go and stayed ahead for his fifth victory of the season. With the win in Brno, Marquez broke Kenny Roberts' single-season rookie record set in 1978. Seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi finished in fourth place, 10.101 seconds off Marquez's pace. Finland's Mika Kallio won the Moto2 race for his first victory in this category while Briton Scott Redding retained his overall lead despite an eighth place finish. Luis Salom won the Moto3 category to increase his overall lead.

Vettel wins BelGian GP to extend oVerall lead

BELGIUM, AUGUST 23 (AP): Sebastian Vettel overtook Lewis Hamilton on the first lap and comfortably held on to win the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday and extend his overall championship lead. It was Vettel's fifth win of the season, second from three GPs, and 31st of his outstanding career. Fernando Alonso drove brilliantly from ninth on the grid to take second place ahead of Hamilton and move back into second overall in the title race. Speculation heading into Spa was of Hamilton emerging as the biggest threat to Vettel's bid for a fourth straight title, but within one minute Vettel dismissed that talk with a slick passing move inside Hamilton's left. The German was never troubled after that. Vettel started from second on the grid after Hamilton secured his fourth straight pole position. Vettel, who finished 16.8 seconds ahead of Alonso and nearly 30 clear of Hamilton, pumped his right fist and then wagged his finger aloft — reminding everyone who really is No. 1 and admonish those who had doubted him. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg finished fourth ahead of Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber. Hamilton become the first Briton since Damon Hill in 1995 to achieve four straight poles and sat on the front row for the seventh consecutive race and eighth in nine. Vettel has not se-

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany holds the trophy on the podium after winning the Belgium Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, Belgium on Aug. 25. (AP Photo)

cured a pole since winning the Canadian GP in June. But it made little difference. Within one minute he was in front as the much-anticipated rain around the Ardennes forest stayed away. Although Hamilton made a good start

and held his line at the first turn into La Source turn, Vettel moved into the slipstream of his Mercedes and surged past him down the Kemmel straight. Alonso, meanwhile, looked like he was on a mis-

sion as he carved through the field, zooming past last year's Spa winner Jenson Button and Rosberg to move into third. After earning a onerace ban for reckless driving at last year's Spa GP,

where his dangerous driving sent three drivers off the track at the first turn, Frenchman Romain Grosjean made a noticeably conservative start and seemed desperate to avoid even the slightest contact. Shortly after, Sergio Perez was given a drive through penalty for forcing Grosjean wide. "He pushed me completely off the track," said Grosjean, who is trying to repair his reputation after several dangerous driving incidents last season. Hamilton was the first of the front-runners to pit for new tires, followed by Alonso, but Vettel stayed out three laps longer than Hamilton — who was held up by traffic when he came out, enabling Alonso to move past him into second. Halfway through the 44-lap circuit — the longest in F1 at 7.004 kilometers (4.352 miles) and the most difficult along with Monaco — Vettel led Alonso by more than eight seconds. Kimi Raikkonen, second overall heading into the race, had to abandon on lap 26 with smoke coming from his front right brake, finishing the Finn's remarkably consistent run of scoring points in 27 consecutive races. Shortly after, Paul di Resta and Pastor Maldonado crashed into each other. The nose of Maldonado's Williams nudged into di Resta's Force India, sending it spinning off the track. Maldonado continued after minor repairs and was given a 10-second stop and go penalty.

India retain No. 3 spot in T20 rankings

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DUBAI, AUGUST 25 (PTI): India managed to retain their third spot among T20 teams while Virat Kohli has held on to his sixth spot in the ICC rankings for Twenty20 batsmen issued on Sunday. India are placed at third with 121 rating points in the ICC T20 Championship table which is headed by Sri Lanka and followed by Pakistan. Pakistan's 2-0 series win over hosts Zimbabwe have helped them gain one ratings points to finish at 125. Pakistan, which started the series in second place with 124 ratings points, have now reduced the gap with number-one ranked Sri Lanka to three ratings points. The Indian batsmen figuring in top-20 list have also managed to cling on to their respective positions. Star India batsman Kohli has 731 points while Suresh Raina remains at eighth position with 719 points. Other Indians in the list includes Yuvraj Singh (16) and opener Gautam Gambhir at the 19th position. New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum leads the T20 batting chart with 818 points, followed by England's Alex Hales (777) and Australia's Shane Watson (752). In the T20 bowlers category, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, ranked 16, is the only Indian to have found out a place in the top-20 list. West Indies' mystery spinner Sunil Narine leads the bowlers' table with 817 points followed by Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal (721) and his countrymate Mohammad Hafeez (689).

india defeat Korea to win gold in archery wC

NEw DELhI, AUGUST 25 (AGENcIES): Indian women recurve archery team of Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Rimil Buriuly has won the gold medal in the World Cup in Wroclaw. It’s their second successive gold after Medellin meet. Indian team defeated the top seeded Koreans to win the medal. In the finals, Indian team earned 219 points overall, four points more than the Koreans who managed to score 215. At one point of time the match was evenly poised as both the teams tied at 163-163 by end three. Windy conditions also forced the archers to change their strategy. It’s a big achievement for the Indian team as in the finals they got the better of Yun Ok-Hee, Ki Bo Bae, and Joo Hyun Jung, who had never scored lower than 222 points in the tournament with convincing victories over the United States, Italy and Russia to storm into the final. This Indian pair of Bombayala, Deepika and Rimil had also won the World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia last month. The Danish women won the bronze medal by defeating the much stronger team of Russia by 210-194. The World Cup Finals will be take place in Paris next month.

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