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NSF notifies CM on “stranded” Naga students DIMAPUR, AUGUST 27 (MExN): The Naga Students Federation has submitted a representation to the Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio regarding the “untold hardship and problems” faced by students “stranded” in Maharashtra. The representation appended by NSF President and General Secretary stated that students are unable to get admission in various technical institutes under the Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra. It said that this is due to lack of proper communication between the Ministry of Human Resource, Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra and the Directorate of Technical Education, Nagaland. The representation informed that the Federation has met the Technical Education department several times and is still in touch with the concerned authority. However, it lamented that till date, there has been “no concrete outcome or any positive response” from the department as well as the competent authority to resolve the issue. Therefore, the NSF has urged upon the CM to immediately intervene in order to deliver justice to the students whose academic careers are at stake.
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Landslide cuts off Tobu sub-division [ PAGE 02]
‘Nagas aspire to live together’
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rupee hits life low below 66 Ceasefire coming Posts biggest fall in 18 years to a “dead end”?
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, AUGUST 27 (REUTERS): The rupee hit a record low and posted its biggest percentage fall in 18 years on Tuesday after Lok Sabha’s approval of a $20 billion plan to provide cheap grain to the poor renewed doubts about government resolve to control spending ahead of elections due next year. The alarm over the fiscal deficit eclipsed an announcement by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram that the government had approved infrastructure projects worth 1.83 trillion rupees, a step aimed at reviving economic growth and shoring up investor confidence. Instead, the rupee plumbed new depths while shares plunged after Chidambaram spoke as his promise that the government will meet its fiscal deficit target failed to turn sentiment. “I have already said that 4.8 percent of GDP and the absolute number that was indicated in the budget is a red line. The red line will not be breached,” Chidambaram told a news conference. “I think we’ll simply have to be patient, be firm, do whatever is required to be done, and the rupee will
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A shopkeeper makes a garland with Indian 10-rupee banknotes for sale in Jammu on August 27. Currency garlands are in demand during marriages and other ceremonial events. The rupee has lost a sixth of its value against the dollar since the start of the year. (AP Photo)
find its appropriate level.” Traders said the currency market was working in a climate of fear as repeated efforts by authorities to turn the markets around failed to have a holding impact. The rupee has lost 17 percent against the dollar so far this year - making it the worst performer by far among Asian emerging market currencies tracked by Reuters despite frantic attempts by the government and central bank to support it and repeated comments by the finance minister that the
1948 ‘No Tax Campaign’ Martyrs remembered SENAPATI, AUGUST spin into confusion.” Mao 27 (MExN): The 65th an- Council president, Chakho niversary of Martyrs Day Romeo called for Nagas in honor of those killed not to dry their tears unduring the ‘No Tax Cam- til integration is achieved. paign’ of 1948 was held The ‘No Tax Campaign’ was on Tuesday at launched by the Mao gate. Rep- Detailed news Naga National r e s e n t a t i v e s report on Page 3 League in 1948, from the UNC, soon after Nagas ANSAM, MC, and NPMHR in Manipur had boycotted paid tributes to the mar- the electoral polls. The camtyrs and expressed the paign was an act of defiance Naga people’s aspiration against the state, under to live under a common which the Nagas of Manipur umbrella of unity. UNC had been placed “without President, L Adani stated their consent.” It was also a that “We must be firm as a means of putting pressure people. The Naga boat, the on the Indian Government UNC boat should not be for securing the unification rocked and endangered. of the Nagas in Manipur It must not be allowed to with the Naga Hills district.
rupee is oversold. The partially convertible rupee slumped to a record low of 66.30 to the dollar, despite central bank intervention to ease the pace of the decline, surpassing its previous all-time low of 65.56 hit last Thursday. Shares also slumped, sending the benchmark BSE index down more than 3 percent and benchmark 10year bond yields up 44 basis points. Despite measures to address these concerns, including a slew of steps to attract dollar inflows, Indi-
an policymakers are struggling to instill confidence. “It’s not out of choice, but out of compulsion that the finance minister is announcing so many things,” said G. Chokkalingam, managing director and chief investment officer of Centrum Wealth Management in Mumbai. “The trinity of the fiscal deficit, slowing growth and an unstable currency is hitting us badly. In addition to these, the government has passed the food security bill which may put fear in the mind of rating agencies.”
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 27 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation while acknowledging the grievances of the All Nagaland Government College Teachers’ Association has urged teachers to be “cautious” and have concern for the students’ community pursuing their studies. A press note from the NSF Vice President and Education Secretary expressed “anguish” over disruption of normal classes due to the phase wise agitation called by the ANGCTA.
“ANGCTA showing their resentment for not fulfilling their demand as assured by the government of Nagaland is genuine, but why at the expense of students’ academic career and future?” the NSF queried. It expressed concern that Kohima College has postponed the scheduled date for mid-term examinations due to the ongoing pen-down strike. It informed that Mid-term examinations in Phek Government College were conducted by the Grade IV staffs
Indian agriculture laborers replant paddy saplings on the outskirts of Guwahati on August 27. The lower house of Indian Parliament Monday approved a landmark bill that proposes to provide cheaper grain to more than 800 million across the country. (AP Photo)
per house and approved by the president, it will reform India’s existing food distribution system, providing five kilograms of heavily subsidised food grain per month to more than 800 million people. “After providing for the food security bill, we will remain within the limit I have set for myself in the budget,” Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters at a press conference in the capital. The government has budgeted an additional 230 billion rupees annually for the programme, taking the
total food subsidy bill in 2013-14 to 1.25 trillion rupees according to a government statement. Critics of the food programme say India can illafford a costly new welfare scheme at a time of slowing economic growth and see it as a cynical ploy to win votes ahead of national elections next year. India’s economic growth has slumped to 5.0 percent on an annual basis, its slowest rate in a decade. New data for the first quarter of the fiscal year is due on Friday. Opponents also argue
that the extra resources required by the programme -- another 5 million tonnes of food grains a year - will be funnelled into the notoriously corrupt Public Distribution System. Kris Gopalakrishnan, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, said that the public spending burden was worrying but “the larger concern is regarding the effective implementation of such a high profile and critical social agenda”. About 240 million families already have ration cards entitling them to 35 kilograms of subsidised grains - rice, wheat-barley and maize - which they buy at low prices at 500,000 government-run Fair Price Shops across the country. Nationwide 75 percent of rural citizens and 50 percent of urban dwellers will be covered by the Food Security Bill, with state governments required to identify those eligible. The bill also includes provisions for extra food for pregnant women, children and lactating mothers who are entitled to a maternity benefit of at least 6,000 rupees.
stituency till the by-poll results are officially announced. Chawang said that the agreement to have the cease fire was signed between two entities, i.e. the NSCN (IM) and the GoI. Pulling out a copy of the cease fire agreement he said, “Ones own law cannot be imposed on the other,” reiterating that it is a bilateral agreement. He added, “Since the Indian Constitutional law is not applicable to us, the Cease Fire Ground Rules are made because
ones laws cannot be applied on others.” Chawang added, “Since NSCN is an armed resistant force there is cease fire. If that is not the case then there is no point of cease fire.” Chawang said that the GoI is interpreting the CFGR as per its own convenience. On ID card holders, he explained, “Those ID cards are given to the cadres who are frequently moving.” “We are not intruding into the airports with arms nor do we move about with arms to market places,” he added. He claimed that, “By issuing such directives, the CFMG chairman himself is violating the Cease Fire Ground Rules.” According to Chawang, if things are not resolved at the Cease Fire Monitoring Cell/Group or Board level, then the matter should be put up at the Ground Rules Review Committee in New Delhi. He lamented that the CFMG Chairman has not done so yet.
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 27 (IANS): The Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed a bill to amend the Representation of People Act to allow a person in police custody to file nomination to fight an election. The house passed The Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013 with a voice vote. Replying to the debate on the bill, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said the political class has furthered the process of accountability but an environment prevailed where it is looked upon with suspicion. “We need to address
the issue,” he said. He said right to vote and right to be on electoral rolls were statutory rights. He said provision was being added to the RPA that a person who may not be entitled to vote can still file his nomination papers. The amendments have been brought in view of a Supreme Court judgment upholding an order of Patna High Court that a person who has no right to vote is not qualified to contest the election to parliament or state assembly. The government has already filed a review petition in the court.
people jailed,” he added. CFMG Chairman, NK Singh had written to all three NSCN groups engaging in cease fire terms (with the government) that their cadres, including ID card holder are not allowed to carry arms in Noksen Assembly Con-
“GoI is interpreting the CFGR as per its own convenience”
• Urges Nagaland state government to address teacher’s grievances • Calls upon ANGTCA to adopt “alternative mode of showing their resentment”
India “can afford” food-for-poor plan
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 27 (AFP): India’s finance minister insisted on Tuesday the government could afford a vast new food programme for the poor designed to “wipe out” malnutrition despite concern about its impact on the public finances. The Food Security Bill, a flagship programme of the ruling Congress party with a budgeted annual cost of around $19 billion, is intended to “wipe out” endemic hunger and malnutrition in the aspiring superpower. Once passed by the up-
Convener of the NSCN (IM) ceasefire monitoring cell, Kraibo Chawang today said that “the ongoing cease fire between it and New Delhi is coming to a dead end” and accused the GoI of not abiding by the Cease Fire Ground Rules. Addressing media persons on Tuesday at the NSCN (IM) Cease Fire Monitoring Cell office in Diphupar, Dimapur; he said that they are “very seriously thinking about it now.” Chawang said that the NSCN (IM) has become a victim of the cease fire. “Our cadres have been tortured, killed or jailed. Almost all the houses of the NSCN, especially in Dimapur have been raided by the Indian security forces. In search of peace and in search of solution, the NSCN has been maintaining maximum patience at the cost of our men being killed, our houses raided and many of our
NSF concerned by teacher agitation
NLA Speaker to attend 59th CPC
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 27 (MExN): NLA Speaker Chotisuh Sazo is scheduled to leave for Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the 59th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference from September 1 to 6 as part of a delegation led by the Lok Sabha Speaker. The conference will be attended by delegates from 53 commonwealth countries. A press note from the NLA Speaker informed that the conference will discuss on effective solutions to commonwealth development challenges and parliamentary responses to the commonwealth charter. Workshops on various subject matters are also scheduled to be organized. After the conference, the NLA Speaker is scheduled to visit Italy, Germany and France as part of a post conference study tour.
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and contract lecturers due to absence of teachers. It asserted that NSF “cannot tolerate such a shameful act as it illustrates total negligence and insincerity on part of the teaching community.” As such, the Federation has urged upon the state government to look into the grievances of ANGCTA with a rational approach based on the assurance given to them. It also called for the ANGCTA to adopt an alternative mode of showing their resentment, so that students’ are not put at stake.
RS passes bill to allow jailed people to fight polls
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Landslide cuts off Tobu sub-division ROADS BLOCKED, TELANGSAO HYDRO MINI PROJECT DAMAGED
A portion of the road washed away by heavy landslide between Keymeang Nalla and 71 GREF Camp in Tobu sub-division.
tobu, august 27 (mExN): General public of Tobu sub-division is facing unfold hardships due to blockage of TMN GREF road (BRO) by huge land-
slide at various places in Keymeang Nalla and 71 GREF Camp which is the only life line for the people of this area. A large portion of roads
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): All the members of Directorate & District Stenographers are informed that the Directorate & District Stenographers’ Association (DDSA) Nagaland has been formed on April 26, 2013. Therefore, those nominated departmental and district representatives are requested to nominate one representative from each department and one from each district. Annual membership fee is Rs. 200 per head. DDSA Nagaland representatives meeting will be intimated later. All representatives concerned are also requested to collect name and contact of their respective members and the membership fee in advance which should be submitted in the general meeting. This was informed in a press release issued by DDSA Nagaland president Vilakuolie Mere.
Kohima, august 27 (Dipr): A book titled Moonlight Tales and Fables of the Kyong Nagas, authored by Francis Kikon was released by Commissioner & Secretary, Urban Development and Planning, Mhonbemo Patton on August 27 at Hotel Vivor, Kohima. Speaking at the simple yet impressive programme, Patton said that release of the book Moonlight Tales and Fables of the Kyong Nagas is a giant leap in the history of Lotha Nagas and the Nagas in general. Observing folktales and folklores as an integral part of worldwide civilisation, Patton reminded that Naga folklores and folk tales has also been part of our history and civilisation and said, “This is the beginning and we can foresee that such beginning made today will have large impact on the way we think about ourselves.” Mentioning about the recent contemporary history of Mughal era, where stories of great Birbal are part of our school and college curriculum even today, Mhonbemo Patton desired that a day should come where our folklores and folktales be imbibed as part of the school curriculum, to be read
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under TMN GREF road under 100 RCC has been washed away by landslide. As per the spot verification report from Adhoc Town Committee lead by KC
Commissioner & Secretary, Urban Development and Planning, Mhonbemo Patton releasing the book titled Moonlight Tales and Fables of the Kyong Nagas at Hotel Vivor, Kohima on August 27. (DIPR Photo)
by the Naga boys and girls. “Due to the advancement of technology, perhaps it can be put straight into digital history in the form of comic scripts, cartoons, computer games based on our folklores and folktales, Patton said and was optimistic that days are not too far off where all our stories could be digitalised by linking up with the talented young Nagas. The author who was a former journalist and editor of Lotha
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Alemtemshi Jamir, Chief Secretary along with the participants and others during the inaugural function of the Grassroots Comic Making workshop in Kohima on August 27. (Morung Photo)
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“The skill and art of drawing has really impacted human minds. There is huge power behind the ability to draw and communicate,” said Alemtemshi Jamir, Chief Secretary during the inaugural function of the
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Yithen, Francis Kikon said that the realisation of the vanishing Naga culture especially the folklores while on tour to many villages during his short stint as a journalist, made him venture out into writing the book Moonlight Tales and Fables of the Kyong Nagas. Terming folklores and folktales as the initial schooling of our forefathers Francis Kikon felt that it was important to collect and bring out a book especially for the Lothas.
Alemtemshi inaugurates grassroots comic making workshop
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roads and at three location concrete culvert was badly damaged. The landslide also damaged one ha. of Holock plantation, paddy fields, fishery pond, two
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Moba, former Vice Chairman, ATCM Tobu, landslide occurred at various places measuring to 150 mts, 80 mts and 70 mts at different spot, washed away all
khedi hut and one house worth lakhs of rupees. M. Wanmai Konyak, CSC Tobu Block in a press release said that due to this blockage, the general public, Government staffs and officers under Tobu sub-division are facing unfold hardships due to lack of essential commodities in the market. Moreover, electricity supply is totally cut-off due to heavy landslide at Telangsao Hydro Mini project leaving the entire Tobu sub-division in darkness. The landslide washed away 40 mts of concrete water channel at one place and 10 mts at another place. Due to this problem, school students could not go for their computer class and the offices could not do their office works. Therefore, the Government is urged to look into this matter at the earliest for the welfare of the people.
Grassroots Comic Making workshop on August 27. Alemtemshi asserted that the workshop would help communicate images to young people and influence the whole issue of sustainable development. The grassroots comic making workshop is a three-day programme
organized by the Sustainable Development Forum of Nagaland (SDFN) from August 27 to 29 with is facilitators from India Water Portal. The workshop aims to help participants to use comic making as a medium to spread issues in the grassroot level. Altogether 18 participants
from all the districts and different professions will be participating at the workshop. Usha Dewani from India Water Portal, one of the facilitators at the workshop says, “We work with communities and highlight issues through visuals, images, articles, illustrations. This workshop is a precursor to the coming summit. And hopefully, the output will be displayed and try to get these voices heard.” SDFN is a forum of the civil society, academia, media, government and entrepreneurs that aims to facilitate dialogues, researches, and sustainable policy making keeping in mind with the State’s economy, environment and development. India Water Portal is a website that shares knowledge and build communities around water and related issues in India.
Explaining that each village has a different version of the same story with addition and distortion, Francis said that it was a daunting task collecting stories from all the hamlets and villages, after which it was refined, crossed examined from many people and ultimately refined for final compilation and publication, which took him 16 years. The story collection process took not less than 8-9 years, he informed. He thanked God for giving him good health and also expressed gratitude to his intellectual friends for their unceasing support and for enabling him to come out with the book. The book, which contains 78 spell bounding stories of supernatural and mystifying events, myth, tales and fables, is in demand even in Kolkata and Delhi. Priced at Rs. 350/- per copy, the book will initially be available at Catholic Publication Centre, D. Block Kohima. In the programme, Associate Pastor KLBC, Rev. Sankilemba Kikon invoked God’s blessing while senior news reader AIR, Jonas Yanthan chaired the programme. Rev. Fr. Philip Humtsoe said the benediction.
ANPSA Kohima talent expo today
Kohima, august 27 (mExN): The All Nagaland Private Schools Association (ANPSA) Kohima unit will hold 3rd talent expo cum competition on August 28 at Little Flower Higher Secondary School Kohima from 10:00 AM onwards. Vipralhou Kesiezie, director SCERT will grace the occasion as the chief guest. ANPSA advisor Pheluopfelie will also exhort the gathering.
ACL training held at Phek and Kiphire
Kohima, august 27 (mExN): Two (2) day training on Activity and Competency Learning (ACL) conducted by State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) was held at Phek on August 19 and 20 and in Kiphire on August 22 and 23. Vikedono, research assistant, SCERT and Thunchibemo, training research assistant, SCERT were the resource persons. The training was conducted mainly for the primary teachers of ACL expanded schools to stress the importance of compe-
tencies as its goal. It may be mentioned that ACL is a system+ method + pedagogy where the role of a teacher is a facilitator, students were not chain to textbook, and most of the components of right to education were taken care of in the system. Altogether, there were 137 expanded schools all over in Nagaland and for the academic year, two teachers in the entire pilot schools have been trained in which the expanded schools will start the ACL class for classes one and two in the year 2014.
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Kohima, august 27 (mExN): The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) informed all the organizing committee, sub-committee for the upcoming ANCSU 16th Biennial Conference 2013 that there will be a meeting on August 31 at ANCSU office, Kohima at 11:00 AM. Stating this in a release, ANCSU general secretary Kivigho K. Yeputhomi requested all the committee to attend the meeting without fail.
CSUD 24th Freshers’ Meet on Sept 14
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): Chakhesang Student’s Union Dimapur (CSUD) 24th Freshers’ Meet cum Social Gathering is to be held on September 14 at 10:00 am at Chakhesang Hoho Building, Chakhesang Colony on the theme ‘Progression Focussed’ with Mezivolü T. Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dimapur as special guest. All the students, senior members and any concern members are invited to attend the programme.
Dimapur District Level Science seminar held
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): The District Level Science seminar was held on August 26 at Bethesda higher Secondary School, Dimapur under the topic ‘Water Co-operatio: issues and challenges.’ The judges of the seminar were AK Das, PGT (Chemistry) St John Hr Sec School; Tanu, science graduate teacher, Chumukedima Hr Sec School and Niru, PGT (Chemistry) Greenwood Hr Sec School. Azila Sangtam, class 10, Bethesda Hr Sec School and Siraj Uddin, class 9, St Thomas Montessori & High School were selected as first and second respectively. DDEO Dimapur R Amongla Jamir in a press release informed that the two will represent the district at the State Level Science seminar 2013 on September 18 at Kohima.
Electronic weighing scale mandatory in Tsg
tuENsaNg, august 27 (mExN): ADC & Administrator Tuensang Town Council, Sushil Kumar Patel, IAS has informed that electronic weighing scale is mandatory on all the shops in Tuensang town, where weight is required to be measures. He also informed that if anyone is not satisfied with weighment of shop, they can do the same from the Tuensang Town Council office.
LLRPO elects office bearers
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): The Lotha Lower Range Public Organisation general meeting was held on August 24 at Bhandari Town where after deliberation on the recommendation of the search committee, members elected by the representing villages to lead the organisation for the tenure 2013-2016. A press release received here stated that LLRPO will be lead by president-Yipholumo Mozhui, vice presidentChenirao Jami and Abel Tsopoe, general secretary-Kemerio Yantha, finance secretary-Mhonchan Tsanglao, education & statistical secretary-R Victor K Lotha, joint secretary-Wopansao Tungoe, press secretary-Francis Kikon and treasurer-Nzamo Patton.
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PBBYO formed
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): The youth of Purana Bazar ‘B’ village has formed a youth organization under the nomenclature “Purana Bazar B Youth Organization” (PBBYO). A press release issued by PBBYO general secretary Limachan Kikon and president Asher Kath informed that the organization was formed at the youth general meeting held on July 20, 2013, after getting permission from the village council. The aims of the organization are to check anti-social activities, and educate younger generation in various fields, the release stated. The organization has urged all the citizens of its village to co-operate with them for the welfare of the common people. The team is led by the president and general secretary along with 13 other executive members.
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PNTMK freshers’ meet on Sept 7
Kohima, august 27 (mExN): The Poumai Naga Tsüdoumai Me Kohima (PNTMK) ( Poumai Students’ Union Kohima) will hold its 30th Freshers’ meet cum annual get together on September 7 at 10:00 AM at Poumai Baptist Church Midland, Kohima. Khriehu Liezietsu, MLA and adviser New & Renewable Energy and Music Task Force Nagaland will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Union's president L. Peacemark invited all the PNTMK students, advisers, well wishers and public leaders to attend the programme.
RSU organizing committee meet
Kohima, august 27 (mExN): The meeting of the organizing committee of the 37th Rengma Students' Union (RSU) General Conference 2013 is scheduled to be held on August 29, 1:00 pm at the residence of its member Konyi Seb at Keniezou colony Kohima, near Broad Way Men’s Hostel. Therefore all the Organizing Committee members and RSU executives have been requested to attend the meeting positively.
Consultation on clean election campaign conducted
tuENsaNg, august 27 (mExN): Nagaland Baptist Church Council organized a state level clean election campaign consultation at Rivenburg Memorial Chapel, ABCC on August 27. A press note received here stated that representatives from Naga Hoho, Naga Mother’s Association, Eastern Naga Peoples’ Organization, Naga Students’ Federation and Associations under NBCC were present at the consultation. Dr. Hukashe Zhimomi, Director, NDO led the first session. Welcome and introduction speech was delivered by Rev. Dr. L. Anjo Keikung, General Secretary, NBCC. He said that the objective of the consultation was to do a reflective study of the campaign in the past election and to continue the movement until it has
Participants of the state level clean election campaign consultation at Rivenburg Memorial Chapel, ABCC on August 27.
spoken to the conscience of every citizen of the land. An overview of the clean election campaign was given by Dr. Hovithal Sothu, Convener, Working Committee on Clean Election. Niketu Iralu, Chairman, Peace Committee, NBCC shared his observations on the past and the present activities of the clean election campaign. He said
that the campaign has to be understood by every Naga as a part of a bigger project of building God’s Kingdom on earth. With this understanding if, every individual participates in the movement it will bring about clean election and clean governance. Dr. Pangernungba, Member, Working Committee on Clean Election presented a
working objective to effectively execute the campaign, “Way Forward.” Colo Mero member, Working Committee on Clean Election was the leader of the second session. Members of Civil Societies and church leaders presented short speeches and observations. A resolution committee was formed in the beginning of the consultation
and the following resolutions were put forward: Appreciation to the working committee members on clean election for their hard work; Appreciation to the Angami Baptist Church Council for hosting the consultation; To continue political education at all levels in partnership with various institutions; The Naga Civil Societies have in principle agreed to support NBCC’s initiative on Clean Election; An interim working committee for the campaign was proposed with steering committee at district and association level; Reaffirmed to continue the Clean Election Campaign. Rev. C. Lima Sangtam, President, NBCC delivered the vote of thanks and Rev. Tenga Seb, Executive Secretary CRBC pronounced the benediction.
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groups threaten ‘Nagas aspire to live together’ Manipur agitation over border People pay homage to martyrs of 1948 ‘No Tax Camaign’ Chizokho Vero Mao Gate | August 27 People from different walks of life gathered today at the 65th anniversary of Martyrs’ Day (27th August 1948) organised by Mao Council (MC) under the aegis of the United Naga Council (UNC) and paid homage and salute to those martyrs for their sacrifice for the integration of all Nagas. UNC president L. Adani said the Nagas of Manipur were independent of the Manipur Raja before the advent of the British, adding that even after the British came, they were administered by the political department of the British Crown. The Manipur Raja and his darbar administered only the valley area till 15th August 1947. In September 1946, he said, the Naga National League (NNL) was organised to consolidate the Nagas of Manipur in order to bring together the Naga people separated by colonial boundaries. After 15th August 1947, on transfer of paramountcy to the Maharaja of Manipur without the consent of the hill people, the NNL stated the Nagas of Manipur will not remain with the Meiteis since the latter had never conquered the Nagas and declared that it would be impossible for the Nagas to preserve the best of their culture, tradition, customary laws and political practices should the Naga people and their
land be split up and placed under different influence and politics. Adani stated that the NNL expressed their strong desire to merge with the Naga Hills district of Assam through the boycott of the preparation of electoral rolls in Naga areas. The first general election under the Manipur state Constitution Act held in June 1948 was boycotted by the Nagas in Manipur. They thereafter launched the “No Tax Campaign” when Maharaj Kumar Priyobrata Singh was the chief minister of Manipur. The campaign was spearheaded by A. Daiho (Mao) and N. Modoli (Poumai), president and secretary respectively of NNL. The Nagas in Manipur refused to pay the annual House Tax to the Government of Manipur and instead submitted their annual house tax to Charles Pawsey, DC of Naga Hills of Assam at Kohima. Adani said that it was an act of defiance against the authority of the state, under which the Nagas of Manipur had been placed without their consent. On 27th August 1948, he said, the Manipur Maharaja, Budh Chandra sent a combined force of Assam Rifles and Manipur Police to arrest A Daiho and other leaders. They indiscriminately fired at the volunteers/students of the Mao-Maram Tribal Council (Now Mao, Maram, Poumai, Thangal and Upper
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‘Students ready to sacrifice studies for Gorkhaland’ Darjeeling, august 27 (ians): Claiming that the Gorkhaland issue was more important for students, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supremo Bimal Gurung Tuesday said the learners were ready to sacrifice their education to secure their demand for a separate state. "The students of Darjeeling are ready to sacrifice their education for Gorkhaland. The truth is that the issue of Gorkhaland is more important for the students right now," Gurung said on a social networking site. "Their (students) participation is entirely of their own choice. We in the GJM, while welcoming it, would like to remove all misgivings and reiterate that the party has imposed no instructions to students to join in the ongoing movement," he said.
Northeast India’s biggest museum to open Sep 25
agartala, august 27 (ians): Vice President Hamid Ansari will Sep 25 inaugurate northeast India's biggest museum, set up in Tripura's royal palace, which was the command hub until the erstwhile princely state's accession to India in October 1949. "The vice president will arrive in Agartala Sep 25 and inaugurate the museum at the Ujjayanta Palace on the same day," an official of the Tripura government told reporters here Tuesday. "The museum set up at the renovated Ujjayanta Palace will showcase northeast India's art, culture, history and ethnic diversity. This is the biggest museum of the region," the official said.
MNF demands Mizoram health minister’s ouster
aizawl, august 27 (Pti): Opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) on Tuesday urged Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla to sack state minister Lalrinliana Sailo for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking. In a letter to the chief minister, MNF general secretary Zosangliana alleged the Health, Labour and Employment, and Trade and Commerce Minister issued drug licence to his under-aged son. Rampanmawia, a Myanmarese national and a drug trafficker, was using that drug licence to smuggle pseudo-ephedrine from India to Myanmar, he said in the letter. "Rampanmawia was arrested by the state Excise and Narcotics department last year in connection with pseudo-ephedrine, a precursor for illicit manufacturing of Methamphetamine," he said.
Zeliang) who were blocking the road leading to the residence of A. Daiho. In the firing, the following were killed/grievously wounded: Asiisii Hepuni (Punanamei), Mahriili Lohrii (Kalinamei), Medo Kholi (Kalinamei) killed on spot while Daikho Hesho (Chowainamei Khullen), Obow Adani (Punanamei) succumbed to injuries. Kaisii Mathibo of Punanamei expired on August 12, 2013 and Obow Ashino (Punanamei) (still alive). Many more were injured. Two leader A. Daiho of Song Song village and N. Modoli of Tungam village along with Kaikho Dili of Tadubi and Athikho Sibo of Song Song were finally arrested. The arrested leaders, all the dead bodies and injured persons were herded away to Imphal in Assam
Rifles convoy. After being kept at Imphal central Jail, A. Daiho and N. Modoli were shifted to Dum Dum (Now Kolkata) jail as political prisoners. “The political aspirations of the Nagas in Manipur that found strong expression during that critical time grew with time. Many have followed the valiant ways of the heroes of that day. The martyrdom of Loshou and Chakho on May 6, 2010 stands testimony to this,” he said. UNC also said on July 1, 2010 (NPC) Naga People Convention, “we had declared that we will sever all political ties with the communal GoM and demand an alternative arrangement pending settlement of the Indo–Naga issue, because of the unmistakable facts that we cannot live with
dignity and honour and protest our rights to life & property, our identity, our land & resources, our traditional institutions and customary practices under the Government of Manipur.” Adani said the movement for securing an alternative arrangement outside the Government of Manipur has been registered in history with the tripartite talk between the GoI, GoM and the Nagas in Manipur. “We have placed our position based on our history and democratic rights. This dialogue process will now be entering into the 6th round of talk that will be held on the 30th August 2013 at Delhi. Let my Naga people be informed of the need to be prepared for what could happen in the days to come, depending on the response
of the GoI in taking forward the process already put in place to its logical end,” said UNC president. “Our martyrs to whom we pay homage today will be our guiding force and refuge,” said Dr. Gina Shangkham, secretary general Naga Peoples Movement for Human Right. She said that there are artificial walls and boundaries in “our land aiming to divide us but we do know that it will not last and we are definitely on our way to live as one people in one nation.” She stated that there are forces “who will not want us to be united but we have time and again made them see reasons and that we mean no harm to them and we believe they will in good time realize the vanity of their actions with the intention to suppress us. We do respect and honour the aspirations and concerns of our neighbours. We express to all concerned our willingness to live as good neighbours and in peace,” adding that this is possible only when there is mutual respect and concern for each other. “ Naga Women’s Union Manipur president Aram Pamei in her solidarity message said our Naga people always have the aspiration to live together and enjoy their freedom of life under one administrative mechanism. ANSAM president Seth Shatsang said “Today is our time,” and further challenged the gathering to give its best to achieve the common vision and as live as one people. Earlier, Mao Council president Lokho delivered the welcome address. A moment of silence was also observed in respect and remembrance of the martyrs.
guwahati, august 27 (et): Assam government has finally started the process of setting up of Assam State Civil Supplies Corporation. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi gave the go-ahead to the setting up of the Assam State Civil Supplies Corporation following a meeting with senior Government officials and faculty members of Indian Institute of Management, Shillong.
Gogoi met Prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh recently in New Delhi and made a strong pitch for continuation of existing system of supply of sugar under PDS through FCI for at least a year till the formation of the State Civil Supplies Corporation. However centre did not relent to state government's request. Presently distribution of sugar through the PDS is stooped in Assam.
Union Ministry of food and agriculture has directed that the supply of subsidized sugar through ration shops has been withdrawn, the Ministry would allow Rs. 18.50 subsidy to state government that will allow sugar through rationing system at Rs. 13.50 per Kg. Gogoi while giving the go-ahead with the proposed Assam State Civil Supplies Corporation
said the new structure should be robust and vibrant and able to withstand the pressures and overcome them. "The design concept by IIM, Shillong seems to be innovative with fresh ideas and thinking. It's good that the best model has been adopted for hassle-free implementation down to the producers' level, the main stakeholders in the corporation coming up."
UNC president L. Adani lays a wreath during 65th anniversary of Martyrs’ Day at Mao Gate on Tuesday, August 27. (Morung Photo)
Assam to soon have civil supplies corporation
Workshop on capacity of indigenous women held
DimaPur, august 27 (mexn): A five-day workshop on ‘Documentation and Advocacy Capacity of Indigenous Women for the Advancement of their Rights and Welfare on Land’ was organized by the Indigenous Women Forum of North East India (IWFNEI) in collaboration with Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and funded by United Nations (UN) Women from August 22 to 26 at Social Forum, Kharguli, Guwahati in Assam. A press note informed that the workshop focused on empowering indigenous women to advocate their rights by developing skills on human rights documentation through data gathering methods, fact finding and data analysis and imple-
Zoramthanga promises 3 new districts aizawl, august 27 (nnn): Mizo National Front (MNF) will create three new districts if the party comes to power after the next assembly elections. Former Mizo militant leader and ex-chief minister of Mizoram Zoramthanga pledged that three new districts namely Hnathial, Saitual and Khawzawl will be created if the MNF comes to power. "We must form the next government," said MNF president while delivering a speech at South Tuipui MNF Block-I Conference. It can be recalled here that the MNF had announced to create the new three districts during its
last regime but failed to materialise it. "This time, we will not fail to create the three new districts," Zoramthanga said. The former militant leader said during the MNF regime, it was in the process of creatingthethreenewdistricts"but our tenure got over." Meanwhile, the ruling Congress party is heavily depending on the state government's pilot project, the New Land Use Policy (NLUP) as its vote plank in the run-up to the forthcoming assembly polls likely to be held in November. Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla has been making claims of relieving the poor farmers in
the state by the New Land Use Policy (NLUP). NLUP is a pilot project of the Congress led Mizoram government under the leadership of chief minister Lal Thanhawla. Under this scheme, the government of Mizoram attempts to provide alternative means of livelihood to the farmers who are heavily dependent on jhumming which is detrimental to the environment. Piggery, bee-keeping, fishfarming, grape-cultivation etc., etc., are some of the fields the government is encouraging the local people to pursue by providing financial assistance.
menting the documentation for advocacy through the preparation of case studies, briefing factsheets. The participants were introduced to human rights concepts, Indigenous people’s rights to Land Territories and Natural Resources (LTNR), UN human rights mechanisms, Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) mechanisms. They were also briefed on land alienation and its impact on indigenous people particularly women in the North East India. 35 participants from ten organizations from the North east India attended the workshop. Karbi Ningso Chimgthur Asong, All Deori Women Association
Majuli, Zeme Mothers Association Haflong, All Tiwa women Association, Dimasa Women Association North Cachar, Zomi Mothers Association Manipur, Naga Women Union, Tuensang Mothers Association, Arunachal Women’s Group, Borok Women Forum were the organizations present. The resource person for the training was Chingya Luithui, Human Rights activist. Participants shared their feedbacks on how they learned data gathering methods, human rights advocacy skills, land alienation and its linkage to human rights violation and understanding the commonality of problems faced by indigenous people, particularly women in the north east.
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To, 1. Smti.Lakshmi Das 2. Smti. Sumati Bala Das 3. Shri.Sonrendra Mohan Cooner 4. Office copy. Sub: - SUMMON Reference application submitted by Smti. Lakshmi Das regarding cancellation of the above referred succession certificate and Jamabandi Patta issued in favour of Lt. K.P. Kumar & Sonrendra Mohan Cooner. You are therefore summon to appear in the court of the undersigned on 18th Sept' 2013 at 1:00 P.M. along with your original documents. (B.HENOK BUCHEM) Revenue Officer Dimapur: Nagaland
fence issue at Moreh
imPhal, august 27 (the hinDu): Protection of Land in Border, Manipur and some other groups including students' organisations have threatened to launch agitations in Manipur to protect Manipur's land which is likely to be usurped once the erection of the border fence is completed. Talking to journalists Brozendra Ningomba, convener of Protection of land in Border said that people cannot simply accept the oversimplified and misleading statement of Suresh Babu, the principal secretary (Home), Manipur. Babu who led an official team that visited the two tribal villages and one temple constructed by Tamil Sangam Moreh told journalists that what is being erected is a "security fence" and not border fence. Ningomba told The Hindu that it cannot simply be accepted. “If it is a security fence to ward off militants and foreigners trying to sneak into Manipur from Myanmar, then where is the need to bifurcate almost all the 14 tribal villages?” Besides the Choro vil-
lage in Ukhrul district will be completely left out to Myanmar side. It has never happened in other parts of India's border - there is no security fence and border fence side by side. Mr. Babu has declined to react to this frontal attack from the NGOs. Meanwhile the several NGOs have condemned the "misleading statement". Ningombasaidthattheofficial team seems to have gone there merely to give a stamp of approvaltotheerectionworks undertaken by the Border Roads Organisation. All NGOs are demanding suspension of the erection works till a final settlement is brought about. He said that boundary pillars 81, 82, 89 were "missing" only to reappear some time later deep inside Manipur. He said that it was one of the reasons how Manipur's territory is whittled away. On the other hand, the Manipur unit of the BJP says that state and Union governments had hatched out a conspiracy to gift away Manipur's land to Myanmar through the erection of the border fence deep inside Manipur.
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1. Shri- Rajesh Sharma 2. Shri- Issac Chishi 3. Shri-Hushito 4. Shri- Ms. Chubayangla In compliance with the direction of the Hon'ble Guwahati High Court Order Dt. 11/07/13, the undersigned had through local media intimated you to present yourself on 20/08/13 at 10:30 am for spot joint verification. In spite of the direction/information on 17/08/13 you have willfully absented yourself from the same without showing any cause or reason. You are therefore directed to submit the reasons of your absence and further directed to appear before the undersigned for joint verification of the same on 31/08/13. This notification shall be the last and final notice. In default of your non-appearance, it shall be deemed that you have not implemented the work. Therefore you shall be liable to re-imburse the advanced 50% of the amount for recasting before to DP & DB. (N.HUSHILI SEMA) IAS Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland
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PRESS RELEASE To,
1. Shri- Avi Angami. 2. Shri-Limasunep 3. Shri-Atha Angami 4. Shri-Tohoshe. In compliance with the direction of the Hon'ble Guwahati High Court Order Dt. 11/07/13, the undersigned had through local media intimated you to present yourself on 20/08/13 at 10:30 am for spot joint verification. In spite of the direction/information on 17/08/13 you have willfully absented yourself from the same without showing any cause or reason. You are directed to implement the work as specified in the work order without, duplication or overlapping within a period of one (1) month. Upon failure to comply with the direction, you shall be liable to reimburse the 50% of the money advanced to you. And the same be recasted by the DP & DB for implementing of genuine work in the District. (N.HUSHILI SEMA)IAS Deputy Commissioner Dimapur : Nagaland
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artin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech was delivered on 28 August 1963 in Washington D.C., United States of America. Fifty years ago, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C to mark the protest March for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King delivered the iconic and inspiring speech which has ever since become a seminal event in the history of Civil Rights movement in USA. The speech I Have a Dream was delivered to a crowd of thousands: young and old, black and white, men and women from across America who had marched to Washington D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist pastor and activist for Civil Rights Movement for African-American, who served as at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, where he was baptised as a child. Even today, a visit to and worship at the Ebenezer Baptist church is an experience in itself, the wonderful music, the powerful sermon and the friendship of the people are inspiring and the historic significance of the church is marked with gallery exhibits of the Civil Rights Movement. It was in the same church, where Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral was held following his assassination on April 4, 1968 at Memphis, Tennessee. Today, it cannot be denied that Martin Luther King Jr.’s ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, USA is different today from the days of racial segregation, lynching, and racial discrimination. America has a descendent from Africa as President. The election of the first black president:
Barack Obama, in America’s history has its roots in the courageous dream of Martin Luther King and the many passionate people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream has changed America’s and even the world’s history, where equal rights and freedom are cherished, if not completely become a reality yet. The following is part of the famous speech: “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be selfevident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a
dream today. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little while boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.” While, there are still challenges of racism and discrimination in the Land of Freedom, certainly, America has seen changes and equal rights granted to every citizen. Marking the 50th Anniversary of
the I Have a Dream speech, there are global events of marches, gatherings and reflections abuzz in all forms of the media, as a Naga of this time in history: I cannot help recalling the divisions, resentments, hatred, exclusion, corruption and fear that are part of Naga society today. I recall the painful narration by a fellow Naga of an incident: a Naga pastor in a city ignored another fellow Naga (who was also a deacon in the Naga service), just because he came from a different state! Today Naga society is one where truth is not spoken for fear of intimidation and gun; where justice is not delivered because mammon is worshipped; where equality is denied because of lopsided understanding of cultural customs; where the church has become ritualistic and materialistic; where a few powerfully corrupt rules the society. Naga society need a dream, a vision, where truth can be spoken without fear, where freedom of persons is granted, where dignity of every individual is respected, where peaceful living is possible, where guns do not silence the prophets, where resources meant for the poor are not squandered by the powerful, where every individual’s gift is appreciated for the good of the community, where the church is a guiding light for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Naga society need a dream, a vision: who will dream, who will ensure that that dream comes true? Atola Longkumer, Bangalore
Clarification On Collection Of Parking Fees
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he collection of parking fees as per Sec. 120, 303 and 304 of the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001 was started by the Kohima Municipal Council w.e.f November 2011. Background: A series of meetings were held at the level of the Home Minister, Nagaland and the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima In the year 2011 where it was felt that the Municipality should start the collection of parking fees by identifying certain zones. The objectives behind this initiative was mainly to ease traffic congestion, minimize random parking of vehicles on the roads and improve upon vehicular traffic challenges faced by citizens. A press release Dated 29th Oct’2011 by the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, was issued. Whereby parking lots were identified and the implementation on parking fee started on trial basis for 9(nine)months with the KVYO in the month of Nov’2011.This parking fee system was discontinued on the expiry of the trial period. Meanwhile, as per the direction of Urban Development Department, Govt. of Nagaland, a press release on the collection of taxes, fees and giving a 1(one) month’s notice to the public for submission of claims and objections was issued on 24th July, 2012 through all the local dailies. No claims and objections were received from the public and the Urban Development Department issued a Notification NO.UDD/MAC-13/2009 dated Kohima the 16th Oct, 2012 according sanction for the imposition of the taxes, tolls and fees under sub-sec (8) of Sec 121 of the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001. New paid parking zones were identified at BOC and High School Junctions and public notice was issued in the local dailies on May 16th 2012, giving a month’s notice for any suggestions, objections from the public. Here also no suggestions, objections were received. A meeting was held in August 2012 in the office chamber of the Home Minister with the Police, the Administration, KMC and other related departments to discuss
issues relating to traffic management in Kohima. It was decided that the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, convene a meeting with the Police, KMC and related departments to identify locations for Paid Parking as well No Parking Zones or areas and issue relevant orders. After proper inspection of the areas/zones and working out of the Paid Parking Zones and No Parking Zones ,the Regional Transport Authority(RTA), Kohima notified the public on the three zones i.e. Zone 1: covering Kezieke to High school area, Zone 2: covering Razhu point to TCP gate and Zone 3: covering Classic Island to Dzuvuru (Mohonkhola) up to MHHSS (Agri-Forest). This Notification was published in the local dailies and the Nagaland Gazette on 29th Aug’2012 and also seeking for claims and objections to be submitted to the DC and Chairman, RTA, Kohima within 30(thirty) days from the date of publication. Here also no claims and objections were received. Hence, KMC issued press release on 23rd Nov’ 2012, that it would start collection of parking fees in all the allotted public parking space within KMC’s jurisdiction w.e.f Nov 26th ,2012. Tender was floated and the collection of parking fee was allotted to M/S Pele Khezhie Enterprise in all the 3 zones. However after a few months, Zone I and Zone 3 was withdrawn on 12/03/2013 as per the letter of withdrawal written to KMC by M/S Pele Khezhie Enterprise. NIT( notice inviting tender) was floated in the local dailies for Zone I and 3, as per letter No. KMC/ Parking - 01/2012-13 /681 dated Kohima, the 11th April, 2013. After following the standard process of neutral selection criterion and on the selection committee’s recommendations, the work for Zone 1 and Zone 3 was allotted as under for the benefit of the citizens. 1. M/S T.G. Enterprises was selected for Zone I covering Kezieke to High School area. 2. M/S Ace Builders concord was selected for Zone 3 covering Classic Island to Dzuvuru (Mohonkhola) up to MHHSS (Agri-Forest) . The implementation of parking fees for Zones1 & 3
The Morung Express
An Open Letter to Khekiye K. Sema
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e are aware of your writings appearing in the Nagaland dailies which could make our people confuse and also make a gap between you and the Naga nation. Therefore, we want your valuable time to have free and frank discussion on 2nd September, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in Transit Peace Camp, Kohima. You may not have much knowledge about the Naga historical background of the Naga nation because from your youth till your retirement, you were in the service of Government of India. It is natural that the amount you devote your life in another nation’s service the deeper you ought to understand the policy of that nation, likewise the more the Nagas suffered in the hands of India and its Armed Forces the deeper we understand the Naga nation. The struggle for Naga freedom is more than six decades, still than by God’s grace there are some few national leaders who can share with you the facts and historical background of the Nagas without any reservation. The Naga nation is not saved by man but it is the purpose of God’s plan to be a nation among nations. Many a time we desire to have an open discussion with intellectual Naga people like you and share the love of God that God had shown to our people doing miracle things in this long journey. We eagerly well-come you to meet us on the appointed date which will bring benefit to both of you and the people of Nagaland. The Naga nation does not belong to only one person but is a common property of every Naga and Nagas as a whole. Thihü Khamo Asst. Secretary Federal Government of Nagaland
NSCN/GPRN on August 24 incident
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he NSCN/GPRN (USR) strongly condemned claiming that the Parliamentary Secretary T. Torechu on 24th August 2013, around 2 pm was halt at Thuthezu junction on public consequently pleading and hearing the information of T. Torechu carrying illegal liquor on his convey, the NSCN/GPRN regional authority halt those vehicles at Thuthezu junction and found there were five vehicles fully loaded with illegal liquor, however the vehicles were sped away from the scene to escape, wherein on the last location the truck was laying stuck nearby stone crusher at Pungro road that led to convey to stop, in time the escort security Mr. Akhum fired five rounds with his Govt. A.K Assault Rifle to attempt the NSCN/GPRN regional authority, pelting stones which injured 3 (three) NSCN/GPRN regional authority staffs. The injured victims were rush to the nearest District Hospital Kipheri, the attempted made to the NSCN/GPRN regional authorities by security personal is direct challenge to the NSCN/GPRN .therefore this intention act of personal security is intolerable and unacceptable at any cost. A vehicle which carries the illegal liquor are listed below: 1. Bolero bearing registration No:- NLO7- 3856. 2. Bolero ” ” ” NLO7- 4097 3. Bolero ” ” ” NLO7- 5150 4. Scorpio bearing registration No:- NLO7- 8254 5. Scorpio ” ” ” NLO7- 2647 Apart from the above vehicles the NSCN/GPRN regional authority seized along with 105 cases of (IMFL). So when the other Nagas are yearning for dry state, Parliamentary Secretary instead of controlling the anti-social elements in the society transporting on his own escort convey, should Nagas consider him as ‘‘true leader in the Naga society”? It should be seriously view that the NSCN/GPRN (USR) with an objective to impose total prohibition of anti-social and immoral activities in the areas. The NSCN/GPRN regional authority condemned such act and demands the authority to intervene into the matter and Elizabeth Ngully take necessary action against those involved in the incident. Chief Executive Officer, Kohima Municipal Council. Simon, Secretary (USR) through MIP
started on 6th May, 2013 after the signing of MoU’s with these private parties. The implementation of parking fee by KMC through PPP mode was not only for collection of revenue but, as is the Municipal’s responsibility, to provide better services to its citizens. In the course of its implementation, if the private parties/firms to whom it is tendered out fail to abide by the terms and conditions as specified in the MoU for regulation of parking, then the contract will be terminated and fresh notice inviting tenders will be issued. At present, road space gets allocated to whichever vehicle occupies it first. The focus is, therefore, the vehicle and not people. If the focus of the principles of road space allocation were to be the people, then much more space would need to be allocated to public transport systems than is allocated at present. It is a fact that certain people park their vehicles in the streets from morning till night irrespective of whether they have work or not. Shopkeepers and owners also follow in that category. This makes it very inconvenient for the public to go and take care of their immediate needs. Therefore, one of the main objective is also to prevent people from parking for long periods than is necessary. The citizens of Kohima are requested to co-operate with KMC in establishment of this new system where in due process, vehicle movements can be regulated and citizens will soon get customized parking as per their needs. Citizens are also requested to abide by the Rules and Acts of the Municipal and not be misguided by any propaganda promoted. Citizens are free to come and clarify any doubts during Office hours on any working days. KMC will be pleased to assist citizens for clarification and would also request the citizens for positive feedbacks so as to provide a better and more efficient parking services.
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moKoKchuNg, august 27 (mExN): Oneday workshop on “Mental Health” for People with Disabilities (PWDs) and their parents was conducted by Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) at Mokokchung Compound Baptist Church on August 27, 2013. Altogether 40 PWDs and their parents attended. A release received here said that resource person Dr. Aka, MS TB Hospital speaking on mental health highlighted the types of mental illness and its causes. As parents and rela-
the person with concern and sincerity, he said. “Acceptance and support for the mentally ill person is vital for their existence.” Meanwhile, Imchawati Kichu, Chairman (C & SS) highlighted the “Rights of PWDs” and encouraged the mass to constructively advocate in order to access their given rights. Rights should be used as means to empower the PWDs, he added. dr. aka speaking on “Men- The workshop was led by tal health”. Bendangmongla CBR worktives or neighbors, one need er and Narola Associate Pasto accept mental illness as tor MCBA pronounced the any other illness and treat invocation prayer.
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): Dimapur Kyong Students’ Union (DKSU) has demanded for the re-arrest of one of the accused in the Bor-Lengri triple murder case. In a press release appended by DKSU president S Chenithung
Kithan, the Union questioned why the accused was released without proper trial from Diphu court. It stated that releasing the accused has set an example to the “murderers and rapists etc”. It urged the authority to
DKSU demands re-arrest of murder accused
re-arrest the accused and put him behind the bars “if law prevails in the society”. DKSU further warned that if any untoward incident occur to the accused, the authorities concerned will be held responsible for the eventualities.
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) organized a send-off prayer programme-cum-orientation for meritorious and needy students selected under the Federation’s Education Initiative (EEI). The send off programme was held Tuesday at Phom Baptist Church, Dimapur, with commissioner of Excise, Maongwati Aier, as chief guest who in his address said, “Education is the greatest tool for self reliance.” The Excise commissioner lauded the bold initiative of ENSF and said that EEI would go a long way in reducing school drop outs and unemployment. Dwelling on love of “freedom” in Naga society, Aier said that in order to be free, one needs to sweat as “behind every success story there is sweat”. He urged upon the students to make
good use of EEI and to work hard till the goal is achieved. Reminding the students of US president Barack Obama’s quote, “People will judge you by what you work and not by what you destroy”, the chief guest encouraged the students to help build a better society and nation through quality education. It may be mentioned that ENSF in collaboration with the All Assam Students Association (AASA) and Neo Royal Education Society (NRES) Hyderabad, initiated EEI to facilitate meritorious students from backward and poor background to study outside the state. The EEI scheme includes fee reimbursement, i.e. semester fees are being reimbursed through scholarships for the poor meritorious backward students. DIG (Wireless) and Eastern Naga Gazetted Officers Association (ENGOA)
president, Changkai Konyak, who also spoke on the occasion, encouraged the students to bear good fruits by taking full advantage of the ENSF initiative. AASA vice president Kausar exhorted the students to think only of the word “can” and added, “If you think you can’t, then you can never do it.” Pastor of Sangtam Baptist Church Dimapur, Dr. Apesi, who was also the guest of honour also exhorted the students. Earlier, the federation inspected educational institutions in Hyderabad and after thorough counselling selected 158 students for pursuing higher professional studies (Medicine & Engineering). The parents of the students expressed gratitude to the federation and AASA for taking this initiative and giving their children opportunity to pursue higher education.
NSCN (IM) repatriates Condemnation for alleged harassment of MLA Torechu NPF Kiphire condemns two drug peddlers
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): Office of the Union Territory -1, NSCN (IM), has decided to repatriate two habitual drug peddlers from Dimapur. The two peddlers would be sent back to their respective villages with stern warning against repetition of their conducts. Officials of the UT-I apprehended one Raju, son of Chatelal of Hojai town in Assam, from Railway Bazaar this afternoon while the latter was on a look out for prospective client to dispose the drugs. The officials recovered a total of 288 capsules of contraband Spasmo Proxyvon from his possession. Meanwhile, a woman peddler namely Laisabi had also surrendered before the UT-I office with a plea that she would cease her activities in peddling drugs. Laisabi was earlier served warning on her activities. She would also be repatriated to her native village. Kilonser cum CAO UT-I, Lt. Col. (Rtd) Ape Venuh, informed that the outfit would continue in its effort to cleanse the society from “immoral” activities.
NBSE conducts workshop on evaluation and question setting
Kohima, august 27 (mExN): Nagaland Board of School Education conducted two days workshop on "Evaluation and Question Setting" in the Board's office on August 22 and 23. A press release issued by NBSE chairperson Asano Sekhose informed that 65 secondary teachers representing all districts participated in the workshop. Presentations on "A question and its faces" and "Preparing questions of higher order" were made. The note stated that since the aim of the workshop was to hone the skills of the
teachers on evaluation and question setting, the teachers were oriented on the evaluation and assessment practices being adopted in the school system. Preparation of blueprint of question papers and developing questions of higher order/thinking skills were important activities of the workshop. The next workshop is slated to be held on August 29 and 30, where the participants will be teachers teaching Humanities subjects at the higher secondary level. Resource persons from outside the state will address and interact with the teachers.
Naga People’s Front (NPF) Kiphire division has condemned in the strongest term, the alleged abuse and harassment intended to T.Torechu, parliamentary secretary for Economics and Statistics, Excise, Legal Metrology and Consumer protection Nagaland, and his entourage reportedly by some underground cadres on August 24, in three different locations while he was heading for an official meeting in Pungro town. The party in a condemnation note has urged the administrator to take adequate measure to book the culprits at the earliest. The party also stated that it “views this unwarranted and ghastly act very seriously and term it as against the DAN, Government, NPF Party and more so, to the people of Kiphire.” It further termed the incident as “out rightly intolerable” and wondered “whether this is a part of a broader conspiracy to defame the state government.”
ety.” Condemning the incident, WYH has appealed both Naga groups and law enforcing agency to trace the culprits at the earliest and reward befitting punishment as per the law of land.
Yimchungrü Union Kohima
The Yimchungrü Union Kohima has issued a statement condemning the “action of NSCN (IM) cadres who were involved in frisking and harassing the convoy of Parliamentary Secretary T.Torechu at three different locations near Kiphire." The release mentioned that Torechu “is not only a leader for Kiphire people, but a leader for all Nagas.” Hence, it said, harassing a leader inspite of showing respect and honour is “totally unlawful and has no place for such unscrupulous persons in this civilized society.” The Union has appealed to the authorities concerned to find out the culprits at the earliest and award befitting punishment as per law of the land. It further appealed to all right thinking citizens/ Western Yimchungru Hoho organizations to condemn such act Western Yimchungru Hoho to avoid future occurrences. (WYH) has expressed discontentment at the “uncivilized activity” Yimchunger Students’ Union Yimchunger Students’ Union meted out to Parliamentary Secretary Torechu and his convoy in three 3rd NAP Sector Tuensang has condifferent locations by “some miscre- demned the August 24 incident ants” near Kiphire town. Stating in Kiphire, where parliamentary that the “reason/motive” behind secretary Economic and Statistic, such move should be unearthed, Excise legal Metrology and conWYH said “when the Naga political sumer Protection T. Torechu was process was looking forward with allegedly “harassed”. In a condemstrong initiatives by Forum for Naga nation note appended by the presiReconciliation (FNR) and Naga civil dent, YSU questioned the "motive societies as well, such heinous act and intention" of the alleged NSCN and targeting on innocent leaders (IM) cadres from Kiphire District has ghastly impact on Naga soci- “on the incident at three different
locations in Kiphire District.” The note reiterated that, such kind of arbitrary acts should not be done in a civilized society. “Harassing and torturing the innocent leader would not bring peace, but promote mistrust and atrocities among Naga brethrens.” The Union while expressing its resentment on the law enforcing authority for “failing to maintain peaceful vivacity," appealed to the law enforcing authority to book the persons involved at the earliest and award them befitting punishment.
Appeal to investigate MLA’s harassment case
Joint Forum Convenor & Chairman of Naga Customary Law Dimapur District Pikuto Shohe GB's & DB's has appealed to the higher authority of “underground/overground” to seriously look into the matter regarding alleged harassment of parliamentary secretary Torechu, and . In a statement, Pikuto said, “Before 2009 there were some misunderstandings among the factions and there was no peace and harmony in Nagaland, so Nagaland GB's Federation took the initiative and reconciled the factions at the Nagaland Red Cross Office Kohima, and some few ‘wolf in a sheep clothing’ is creating the same problem,” giving example of the harassment meted out to the parliamentary secretary by some unidentified miscreant. “If a capable leader of our land like Torechu is harassed then how can we except the civil organizations to work for our betterment when they have no assurance of this safety?” it queried.
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BIrthday GrEEtInGs Dear Zechento ( Jembo)
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Tongmeth Wangnao mourns Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): NSCN Collective Leadership member Tongmeth Wangnao has expressed pain over the untimely demise of his co-worker T Tanwang Yanlem on August 23, “who served the nation for the last ten years in both regional and central levels”. In a condolence note, Tongmeth acknowledged that the deceased was “honest, faithful, and loyal towards both high authorities and fellow workers.” The note further stated that he showed sympathy to both general public and co-workers. He was named after late W. Tanwang Yanlem who served the nation during 1950s as the first Konyak regional president, it informed. Further acknowledging those who stood by in times of “trouble, sorrow, and sadness”, he prayed for the late person’s family members and loved ones for their early recovery from sorrow and pain.
Electronic weighing scale mandatory in Tsg Town
tuENsaNg, august 27 (mExN): Additional Deputy Commissioner & Administrator, Tuensang Town Council Sushil Kumar Patel has informed that electronic weighing scale is mandatory in all the shops in Tuensang Town, where weight is required to be measured. He further informed that unsatisfied customers can weigh their purchased products at Tuensang Town Council Office.
DEOSWA condemns vehicle theft
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): District Education Office Staff Welfare Association (DEOSWA), Dimapur has vehemently condemned the theft of Dimapur DEO's vehicle in broad daylight inside the office complex on August 23. A release issued by DEOSWA chairman stated the incident “shows the highhandedness and callousness of the thieves in our present society”. Such actions must be contained with exemplary punishment, it said. DEOSWA has strongly appealed to the police department and authority concerned to nab the culprit at the earliest with all possible effort.
Catholic leaders attend retreat for spiritual renewal
Dimapur, august 26 (mExN): A five-day long spiritual renewal cum retreat was held for the Catholic leaders of St. Mary’s Parish, Lozaphuhu from August 21 to 25 with Rev. Fr. George Rino, Secretary, Commission for Education, Diocese of Kohima as the resource person. The retreat began with a short introduction and welcome address given by Rev. Fr. Anthony Rozu, the Parish Priest. Altogether 33 leaders from Lozaphuhu, Lanizo, and Phek Town participated in the retreat. The highlights of the retreat included six talks on effective Church leaders, Holy Mass, Eucharistic adoration, confession, holy rosary, family prayer and movies on the lives of saints. The leaders were also blessed by the visits of Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil DD Bishop of Kohima along with Rev. Fr. George the Diocese Finance Administrator, Rev.Fr. Jose Sebastian the Diocese construction in charge and Rev.Fr. Thomas Toretkiu, secretary to Bishop. Rev. Fr. James Thsipongkiu Sangtam in a press release said that on the last day of the retreat, eight couples were given a special instruction and prepared them for their marriage rectification. Some among them were newly received into the Catholic faith. The Catholic community warmly received them with great joy. The resource person Rev. Fr. George Rino rectified their marriage during the Holy Eucharistic celebration in the presence of the community.
Sümi 'pioneer' Kawoto Sukhalu laid to rest today
Dimapur, august 27 (mExN): The funeral service of late H. Kawoto Sukhalu, Head GB of Kawoto Village and father of KT Sukhalu, IAS, Commissioner & Secretary was held on August 27, 2013, 09:00 am at his residence in Kawoto Village. Late H. Kawoto Sukhalu was born on July 1, 1925. He served as a Dobashi from July 19, 1943 (British regime) under CR Pawsney, Deputy Commissioner till he was promoted as PA to DC Zunheboto on December 19, 1971. He served in the same capacity till his retirement on October 31, 1983. For his distinguished service, a certification of mention – the name of Kawoto Sema was published in the London Gazetee on July 19, 1945, by the order of the King of England. The funeral service was attended by hundreds of people from all walks of life including Sümi Hoho, Sülimi Hoho, Kükami Hoho, GB & elders, Reverend, Pastors and Church leaders; Shetoyi Sumi, Parliamentary Secretary, Soil & Fisheries; dignitaries like Banuo Z. Jamir, IAS, Commissioner; Temjen Toy, IAS, Home Commissioner; Y. Kikheto Sema, IAS, Secretary, Finance; Deputy Commissioner, SP, Zunheboto and senior officers of the district; former Minister
condoLEncE MEssaGEs Parliamentary Secretary Dr Nicky Kire
the casket of Kawoto sukhalu, (inset) Kawoto sukhalu.
Kakheto Kinimi, former Parliamentary Secretaries Dr. K.C. Nihoshe and S. Heno; prominent public leaders of the Naga society and the Sümis. Many Condolence messages were read out including that of Chief Minister, Home Minister, Roads & Bridges Minister, Forest Minister, Commissioner, Nagaland, Additional Chief Secretary & Development Commissioner, Additional Chief Secretary & Finance
Commissioner, Kohima Sümi Hoho, Hukavi, MLA and Kitovi Zhimomi, Ato Kilonser, GPRN-NSCN. The funeral service was chaired by Rev. Picuto Yeptho, SBAK Aizuto and condolence messages were delivered by District Hd. DB, Sümi Hoho, Kükami Hoho, Yepthomi Union, friends, villagers, in-laws and family members. The speakers mentioned his contributions to the Naga society and particularly
to the Sümi community for his valour, honesty, integrity and his upright judgement, which will be remembered as a legacy even in the days to come. He also worked tirelessly for the unity among the Sümi Baptist Akukuhou Küqhakulu (SBAK) in the capacity of Chairman, Executive Council. The funeral rites were performed by Rev. Yevito Sumi, Executive Secretary, SBAK, Nito Mount.
Kawoto Sakhalu. In a condolence message addressed to Kawoto’s wife and family members, I Imkong said he had known Kawoto for over three decades and his contributions towards the Nagas, the Sumi community and particularly Zunheboto Township had been outstanding and admirable. “His devotion to various services will continue to hold as a legacy to his fortitude and commitment,” he said. I Imkong further extended sincere and deepest condolences to the bereaved family on behalf of his family.
Parliamentary Secretary Dr. Nicky Kire has extended deepest condolences to Hoyili Sukhalu, and KT Sukhalu, wife and son respectively of Kawoto Sukhalu, who died on August 25. Expressing sadness over the death, Dr Niky Kire acknowledged, “In his (Kawoto) demise, we have lost an elderly and principled Naga, a pioneer, who in his prime had actively participated and contributed to the progress and advancement of Sumis and the Nagas in general as a Dobashi Kejong Chang under the British administration and Parliamentary Secretary Kelater as PA to Dc Zunheboto after jong Chang has expressed sadness independence.” over the demise of Kawoto Sukhalu, terming it a loss of popular leader Tokheho Yepthomi and pioneer. Kejong in a condolence Mourning the death of Kawoto note stated that the deceased was a Sukhalu, Head GB of Kawoto village man of words and a popular person and former PA to DC Zunheboto, CLP who could shoulder the responsibilleader Tokheho Yepthomi has said ity of the people. His contribution that Kawoto’s “illustrious and distin- of service towards the Naga Peoguished service to the government, ple Convention as a representative the Naga community and to his vil- from Sumi community was remarklage have touched many lives and able, the parliamentary secretary his absence will be felt.” Tokheho acknowledged while conveying his further conveyed his condolences to heartiest condolences to the wife, Hoyili Sukhalu, wife of Late Kawoto children, grandchildren and family Sukhalu, and the family members. members of the dead. “May they find solace in the fact that Late Kawoto Sukhalu had a long and Western Sumi Kukami Hoho purposeful life,” he wished. Expressing sadness over the death of Kawoto Sukhalu, Western I Imkong condoles Sumi Kukami Hoho (WSKH) has exLeader of Opposition and presi- tended condolences to the bereaved dent of Nagaland Pradesh Congress family. A condolence message issued Committee I Imkong has expressed by WSKH president Isawoto Y Zhimodisbelief at the news of the death of mi acknowledged that late Kawoto
was a huge mentor of Naga traditionalism, and particularly a torch bearer of the Sumi customary institutions, “whose honesty, sincerity and hard works have not gone unrecognized.”
Food & Civil Supplies field staff express sadness
Nagaland Food & Civil Supplies Field Staff Association has expressed deep sadness at the demise of Kawoto Sukhalu, retired P.A to Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto, and father of Commissioner & Secretary, Food & Civil Supplies KT Sukhalu on August 25. The Association has extended its prayers and thoughts to KT Sukhalu, while praying for God to grant the bereaved family courage, strength and peace.
SOUN expresses sadness
Sumi Officers Union Nagaland (SOUN) has expressed sadness over the death of Kawoto Sukhalu, Head GB of Kawoto village and father of KT Sukhalu, Commissioner & Secretary, member and former president of SOUN. In a release SOUN acknowledged the contributions of Kawoto and said he was a prominent figure among the Sumis. Even after his retirement from government service, he devoted his valuable services to the Sumis Hoho for the unity and reconciliation of the Nagas and Sumis in particular, it stated. While declaring that his demise has created a huge vacuum particularly in the Sumi society, it conveyed its deepest condolences to the bereaved family members.
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The Curriculum
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urriculum is an expression of the broader policy that reflects decisions relating to selecting and organizing content, pedagogy and learning experiences. Curriculum cannot be seen in isolation as it results from the interplay of existing structures, the systems that sustain them, the educational policies’ objectives and values. In most cases, the powers are responsible for policy making which directly impacts building curriculum. While in the pure sense, the curriculum reflects educational goals and policies, however, in practice education reflects societal differences including values, beliefs, and educational priorities, etc., within their cultural context; and the curriculum serves as a mechanism to establish priorities, balancing between available information and the time available for learning that is essential in order for learners to optimize their learning experience. Further, because inherent tensions exist between a learnercentered approach and needs-of-society approach the Curriculum seeks to balance and harmonize these two approaches regardless of the academic disciplines such as sciences, language arts, history, and so on. Curriculum are multifaceted, for instance, the Hidden Curriculum includes all those things in a school setting that send learners messages regarding how they should be thinking and what they ought to be doing. In other words it is a subliminal process that is transmitted through the school’s every day, normal activities. These greatly influence student’s attitudes towards knowledge, skills, practices and values. The Taught Curriculum is the actual intended officially recognized course work. However, very often there is a gap between the curriculum design and implementation, or, in other words, a gap in quantity and quality between the prescribed and taught curricula usually referred to as the relative autonomy of teachers’ vis-à-vis structural constraints. This may occur for different reasons including an individual teacher’s personal approach, beliefs, or political position, as well as the learning institution’s policies. Then there is the Missing Curriculum, which refers to what is excluded, whether deliberately or not from the course. Content that is missing may include issues that may be censored; the ideas that are silenced are usually as relevant for developing an informed, active, multicultural and politically aware citizenry. The Missing Curriculum varies according to context, but generally includes those issues that are referred to as ‘controversial’. The Missing curriculum does not only refer to the content that may include presenting historical narratives or social events and using methods that avoid participatory or democratic methods. This effectively stifles nurturing and developing critical thinking processes. In the Naga context it is essential that a serious assessment is made in relation to the Hidden, Taught and Missing Curriculum. It is by critically reflecting on these three facets of curriculum that the incompatible nature of formal curriculum and the political realities affecting all agencies and structures involved in formal and informal socialization can be addressed. Hence, the political, economic and educational realities make it necessary for educational authorities to address not only the issues relating to curriculum, but also create multidimensional processes that examine the various aspects of the educational system.
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Vincent Verma, Musician & philosopher
Being in your twenties......
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t is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you t...hought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you. You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward. You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you're doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person. You want to settle down for good because now all of a sudden that becomes top priority. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You begin to think a companion for life is better than a hundred in the shack and for once you would not mind standing tall for that special someone which otherwise you had never thought of until now. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that every one reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. We call it the "Quarter-life Crisis"
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Annie Leonard
How to Be More than a Mindful Consumer The way we make and use stuff is harming the world—and ourselves. To create a system that works, we can't just use our purchasing power. We must turn it into citizen power
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ince I released "The Story of Stuff " six years ago, the most frequent snarky remark I get from people trying to take me down a notch is about my own stuff: Don't you drive a car? What about your computer and your cellphone? What about your books? (To the last one, I answer that the book was printed on paper made from trash, not trees, but that doesn't stop them from smiling smugly at having exposed me as a materialistic hypocrite. Gotcha!) Let me say it clearly: I'm neither for nor against stuff. I like stuff if it's well-made, honestly marketed, used for a long time, and at the end of its life recycled in a way that doesn't trash the planet, poison people, or exploit workers. Our stuff should not be artifacts of indulgence and disposability, like toys that are forgotten 15 minutes after the wrapping comes off, but things that are both practical and meaningful. British philosopher William Morris said it best: "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
Too many T-shirts The life cycle of a simple cotton T-shirt—worldwide, 4 billion are made, sold, and discarded each year—knits together a chain of seemingly intractable problems, from the elusive definition of sustainable agriculture to the greed and classism of fashion marketing. The story of a T-shirt not only gives us insight into the complexity of our relationship with even the simplest stuff; it also demonstrates why consumer activism— boycotting or avoiding products that don’t meet our personal standards for sustainability and fairness—will never be enough to bring about real and lasting change. Like a vast Venn diagram covering the entire planet, the environmental and social impacts of cheap T-shirts overlap and intersect on many layers, making it impossible to fix one without addressing the others. I confess that my T-shirt drawer is so full it's hard to close. That's partly because when I speak at colleges or conferences, I'm often given one with a logo of the institution or event. They’re nice souvenirs of my travels, but the simple fact is: I've already got more T-shirts than I need. And of all the T-shirts I have accumulated over the years, there are only a few that I honestly care about, mostly because of the stories attached to them. My favorite (no eye-rolling, please) is a green number from the Grateful Dead's 1982 New Year's Eve concert. To me this T-shirt, worn for more than 30 years by multiple members of my extended family, is both useful and beautiful, not only because I attended the concert but because a dear friend gave it to me, knowing how much I would treasure it. The label even says "Made in the USA," which makes me smile because so few things are made in this country anymore, as brands increasingly opt for low-paid workers in poor countries. Who sews those Tees? And that takes me back to a day in 1990, in the slums of Port-au-Prince. I was in Haiti to meet with women who worked in sweatshops making T-shirts and other clothing for the Walt Disney Company. The women were nervous about speaking freely. We crowded into a tiny room inside a small cinderblock house. In sweltering heat, we had to keep the windows shuttered for fear that someone might see us talking. These women worked six days a week, eight hours a day, sewing clothes that they could never save enough to buy. Those lucky enough to be paid minimum wage earned about $15 a week. The women described the grueling pressure at work, routine sexual harassment, and other unsafe and demeaning conditions. They knew that Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner, made millions. A few years after my visit, a National Labor Committee documentary, Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti, revealed that in 1996 Eisner made $8.7 million in salary plus $181 million in stock options—a staggering $101,000 an hour. The Haitian workers were paid one-half of 1 percent of the U.S. retail price of each garment they sewed. The women wanted fair pay for a day's work— which in their dire straits meant $5 a day. They wanted to be safe, to be able to drink water when hot, and to be free from sexual harassment. They wanted to come home early enough to see their children before bedtime and to have enough food to feed them a solid meal when they woke. Their suffering, and the suffering of other garment workers worldwide, was a major reason the end product could be sold on the shelves of big-box retailers for a few dollars. I asked them why they stayed in the teeming city, living in slums that had little electricity and no running water or sanitation, and working in such obviously unhealthy environments instead of returning to the countryside where they had grown up. They said the countryside simply couldn’t sustain them anymore. Their families had given up farming since they couldn't compete against the rice imported from the U.S. and sold for less than half the price of the more labor-intensive, more nutritious native rice. It was all part of a plan, someone whispered, by the World Bank and U.S. Agency for International Development to drive Haitians off their land and into the city to sew clothes for rich Americans. The destruction of farming as a livelihood was necessary to push people to the city, so people would be desperate enough to work all day in hellish sweatshops.
“Consumerism, even when it tries to embrace ‘sustainable’ products, is a set of values that teaches us to define ourselves, communicate our identity, and seek meaning through accumulation of stuff, rather than through our values and activities and our community.”
Their proper place The next day I called on USAID. My jaw dropped as the man from the agency openly agreed with what at first had sounded like an exaggerated conspiracy theory. He said it wasn't efficient for Haitians to work on family farms to produce food that could be grown more cheaply elsewhere. Instead they should accept their place in the global economy—which, in his eyes, meant sewing clothes for us in the United States. But surely, I said, efficiency was not the only criterion. A farmer’s connection to the land, healthy and dignified work, a parent's ability to spend time with his or her kids after school, a community staying intact generation after generation—didn’t all these things have value? "Well," he said, "if a Haitian really wants to farm, there is room for a handful of them to grow things like organic mangoes for the high-end export market." That's right: USAID's plan for the people of Haiti was not self-determination, but as a market for our surplus rice and a supplier of cheap seamstresses, with an occasional organic mango for sale at our gourmet grocery stores. By 2008 Haiti was importing 80 percent of its rice. This left the world's poorest country at the mercy of the global rice market. Rising fuel costs, global drought, and the diversion of water to more lucrative crops— like the thirsty cotton that went into the Disney clothing—withered worldwide rice production. Global rice prices tripled over a few months, leaving thousands of Haitians unable to afford their staple food. The New York Times carried stories of Haitians forced to resort to eating mud pies, held together with bits of lard. But that's not all Whew. Global inequality, poverty, hunger, agricultural subsidies, privatization of natural resources, economic imperialism—it’s the whole messy saga of the entire world economy tangled up in a few square yards of cloth. And we haven't even touched on a range of other environmental and social issues around the production, sale, and disposal of cotton clothing. Cotton is the world's dirtiest crop. It uses more dangerous insecticides than any other major commodity and is very water intensive. Cotton growing wouldn’t even be possible in areas like California's Central Valley if big cotton plantations didn't receive millions of dollars in federal water subsidies—even as some of the poverty-stricken farmworker towns in the Valley have no fresh water. Dyeing and bleaching raw cotton into cloth uses large amounts of toxic chemicals. Many of these chemicals—including known carcinogens such as formaldehyde and heavy metals—poison groundwater near cotton mills, and residues remain in the finished products we put next to our skin. Well-made cotton clothing—like my 30-year-old Grateful Dead T-shirt—can last a long time, providing years of service for multiple wearers before being recycled into new clothes or other products. But most retailers are so intent on selling a never-ending stream of new clothes to their targeted demographic that they quickly throw away clothing in last season's style. And here’s one more problem with stuff: we're not sharing it well. While some of us have way too much stuff—we’re actually stressed out by the clutter in our households and have to rent off-site storage units—others desperately need more. For those of us in the overconsuming parts of the world, it's increasingly clear that more stuff doesn’t make us more happy, but for the millions of people who need housing, clothes, and food, more stuff would actually lead to healthier, happier people. If you have only one T-shirt, getting a second one is a big deal. But if you have a drawer stuffed with them, as I do, a new one doesn’t improve my life. It just increases my clutter. Call it stuff inequity. One billion people on the planet are chronically hungry while another billion are obese.
Citizens, not consumers The problems surrounding the trip from the cotton field to the sweatshop are just a smattering of the ills that not only result from the take-make-waste economy but make it possible. That’s why striving to make responsible choices at the individual consumer level, while good, is just not enough. Change on the scale required by the severity of today's planetary and social crises requires a broader vision and a plan for addressing the root causes of the problem. To do that we must stop thinking of ourselves primarily as consumers and start thinking and acting like citizens. That's because the most important decisions about stuff are not those made in the super-
market or department store aisles. They are made in the halls of government and business, where decisions are made about what to make, what materials to use, and what standards to uphold. Consumerism, even when it tries to embrace "sustainable" products, is a set of values that teaches us to define ourselves, communicate our identity, and seek meaning through acquisition of stuff, rather than through our values and activities and our community. Today we're so steeped in consumer culture that we head to the mall even when our houses and garages are full. We suffer angst over the adequacy of our belongings and amass crushing credit card debt to, as the author Dave Ramsey says, buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have, to impress people we don't like. Citizenship, on the other hand, is about what Eric Liu, in The Gardens of Democracy, calls "how you show up in the world." It’s taking seriously our responsibility to work for broad, deep change that doesn’t tinker around the margins of the system but achieves (forgive the activist-speak) a paradigm shift. Even "ethical consumerism" is generally limited to choosing the most responsible item on the menu, which often leaves us choosing between the lesser of two evils. Citizenship means working to change what’s on the menu, and stuff that trashes the planet or harms people just doesn’t belong. Citizenship means stepping beyond the comfort zones of everyday life and working with other committed citizens to make big, lasting change. One of our best models of citizenship in the United States is the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It’s a myth that when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus it was a spontaneous act of individual conscience. She was part of a network of thousands of activists who mapped out their campaign, trained to be ready for the struggles to come, then put their bodies on the line in carefully planned civil disobedience. Consumer-based actions, such as boycotting segregated buses or lunch counters, were part of the campaign, but were done collectively and strategically. That model has been used, with varying degrees of success, in the environmental, gay rights, pro-choice, and other movements. But consumer action alone—absent that larger citizen-led campaign—isn't enough to create deep change. So yes, it is important to be conscious of our consumer decisions. But we're most powerful when this is connected to collective efforts for bigger structural change. As individuals, we can use less stuff if we remember to look inward and evaluate our well-being by our health, the strength of our friendships, and the richness of our hobbies and civic endeavors. And we can make even more progress by working together—as citizens, not consumers—to strengthen laws and business practices increasing efficiency and reducing waste. As individuals, we can use less toxic stuff by prioritizing organic products, avoiding toxic additives, and ensuring safe recycling of our stuff. But we can achieve much more as citizens demanding tougher laws and cleaner production systems that protect public health overall. And there are many ways we can share more, like my community of several families does. Since we share our stuff, we only need one tall ladder, one pickup truck, and one set of power tools. This means we need to buy, own, and dispose of less stuff. From public tool lending libraries to online peer-to-peer sharing platforms, there are many avenues for scaling sharing efforts from the neighborhood to the national level. We can't avoid buying and using stuff. But we can work to reclaim our relationship to it. We used to own our stuff; now our stuff owns us. How can we restore the proper balance? I remember talking to Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, at the end of his year of living as low impact as he could manage in New York City: no waste, no preprocessed meals, no television, no cars, no buying new stuff. He shared with me his surprise at journalists calling to ask what he most missed, what he was going to run out and consume. What he said has stayed with me as a perfect summation of the shift in thinking we all need to save the world—and ourselves—from stuff. "They assumed I just finished a year of deprivation," Colin said. "But I realized that it was the prior 35 years that had been deprived. I worked around the clock, rushed home late and exhausted, ate take-out food, and plopped down to watch TV until it was time to take out the trash, go to sleep, and start all over again. That was deprivation." Fortunately for the planet and for us, there is another way.
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28 August 2013
PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
Open borders for a sustainable future
The Newspaper with an Opinion The Morung Express
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way” - Frank Smith
say It Right!
Anjan Behera, Assistant Professor of English e live in a post-modern society, a society that transcended all imaginable developments and feats. We can now talk long distances for free, and geo-tag locations from our mobile phones. Satellites can track stolen cars, and tiny responders can control pacemakers. All this development has two effects on our society- first, it has greatly improved our way of life making living all the more comfortable, and second, it has compacted the world into a global village. Distances earlier thought to be perilous and incredibly far have now been shrunk, thanks to advances in the fields of technology and communication. This can only mean one thing, we as human beings need to polish our communication skills in order to express ourselves, be heard, and make a difference in the world. Our speaking abilities greatly depend on the society we belong to. Our cultures shape our vocabulary, and our community shapes our accent. Being rooted and proud of one’s heritage is vastly important, but so is speaking English in a neutral accent, such that everyone understands us. English as a language has come from England. It is important to respect the language and pronounce the way the words were meant. Speaking in a neutral accent has many benefits. One would be more welcome in every corner of the world, since the lack of a localized accent would prevent others from identifying the person as an outsider. A research conducted by Lam T. Nguyen, a research candidate in San Jose University, showed that “people with ety (as suggested in Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkin- strong regional accents were perceived as having a lower chance son's recent book about inequality, The Spirit Lev- of being promoted to a managerial position, and were hired less el). Scrapping anti-immigrant laws, and following frequently compared to the Standard English-accented applicant”. through the implications, could lead us to the sus- Speaking in a good accent also helps a person gain confidence and be bold in their workplace, as well as be respected in the society. tainable future we all supposedly aspire to. There can be no doubt about the popularity of English these But surely I am talking about socialism? Or comdays, be it the business world, or academics. Nagaland alone has munism or anarchism? My modest demand is a politics that respects more than 300 English medium schools. Why then do people still people, which will not harm people without a very have a strong mother tongue influence on their English? A number good reason. In fact, this is already supposed to be of factors could be responsible for this. The instructors in primary a basic principle of law. As the Royal College of Sur- level schools teach pronunciation based on the spellings. Letters in geons says on its letterhead: "First, Do No Harm". Or English sound differently when used in different words, and these as the wise prince in Shakespeare's The Merchant of distinctions must be taught in the primary level itself. A lot of peoVenice put it (I paraphrase): "Do what the hell you ple are too casual about pronunciation. Just knowing words and having a good vocabulary does not mean one is good in English. like, as long as you do not spill one drop of blood". Is this 'politically realistic'? 'Hard-headed realists' Pronunciation is a very significant part of learning and using any often tell us that opposing immigration controls is po- language. India as a country has an abundance of regional languaglitically impossible, because public opinion is now so es, dialects, and creoles, which further give rise to many regionally implacably hostile to immigration. Indeed, the steady inspired English accents. The lack of attention to neutralizing acstream of anti-immigrant yarns over the years by the cents and abundance of many variations of accents has stumped likes of the Daily Mail and the Murdoch press have had the ability of the people in general to nurture a good accent. A few have however learned and converse in a good and strong some effect: 'immigration' is now at or near the top of neutral/British accent. Researches conducted in the fields of behavpublic concerns in public opinion surveys. ioral psychology have found that human beings learn best through This brings up two questions: first, since when imitation. Watching the news regularly on channels like CNN, BBC does a grownup democracy crucify people 'by World, CNN-IBN, and Headlines Today will help as one gets to hear popular demand'? And second, do these polls re- correct accent and pronunciation, and will eventually apply them ally reflect what people think? when speaking. The same goes for watching American and British We often ask the people we meet in shops, air- sitcoms and dramas. A lot of good shows are telecast on television, ports and elsewhere what they think about immigra- and watching them regularly would be a fun way to improve one’s tion controls. Almost always we get answers like: 'we accent and pronunciation. Of course, the process would take a long ought to be able to go where we like: we're all hu- time, and is unsuitable for those who lead busy lives. mans!' We wondered whether perhaps the biggest A study was conducted by Dr. Dogan Yuken on the effects of political grouping in Britain might be the people who watching captioned English movies on students who were learnthink they're the only ones in Britain who think im- ing English as a foreign language. The results, which were pubmigration controls are mad. lished in The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, Two years ago, the extraordinarily principled found that students learned the language much faster when they company Lush Cosmetics financed a YouGov poll, saw the movies, read the captions and imitated the pronunciations to test a proposition drafted by No One Is Illegal: they heard in the movies. Although a long and time-consuming "People should be free to live and work wherever mode of learning, it is considered an effective method in the long they wish, and enjoy all the same rights as all oth- run. One would get to see the words, and hear the pronunciation. If er residents. No One Is Illegal." 54% either agreed we spent less time watching Korean movies and more time watchor strongly agreed. 31% had no clear opinion. Only ing English movies, it would definitely have a positive effect on our accent and vocabulary. Korean movies are undoubtedly extremely 16% either disagreed or strongly disagreed. YouGov designed a subsidiary set of questions to entertaining, but offer nothing other than the entertainment quotease out people's feelings about controls, and wheth- tient. The English captions for most of those movies are painfully er they should apply to everyone or just to other peo- wrong, and as such, may interfere with the chances of a person ple. This showed somewhat higher support for con- wishing to improve her/his language skills. There are many other ways in which one’s accent and pronuntrols, but with only a slight bias against foreigners, and nothing like the blanket opposition to immigration ciation skills can be improved. Being part of a drama fraternity or promoted by the media. So, at the very least, the pub- club can do wonders. In theatre, enunciating words is enormously lic is much less clear on this issue than the media and fundamental. Unless one does this, the drama will not be clear to the politicians say they are. There is room for debate. the audience. Thus, actors get a chance to polish their speaking during the practice sessions and the effects are seen during And it suggests that in spite of everything they've skills final performances. Several colleges and schools have drama clubs. been put through these last thirty or so years, British Joining them would not just help improve accent and pronunciapeople are still normal, sane people; not savages or tion, but would also aid in learning poise, intonation, and delivery fascists. That is consistent with the sense that many skills; all of which would polish one’s mastery over the language. people have, that politics has left the people behind, This was confirmed recently by the Drama Club of Tetso College in a whirl of heavily-armed paranoia and high-im- who enacted an adaptation of Ben Johnson’s Volpone. Besides enpact fantasy. An Open Borders politics could be the hancing acting skills, the entire theatre experience on student acstart of public re-engagement with politics and a cent and intonation showed a significant level of improvement. transformation of our political system. The best way to improve one’s accent and intonation would however be to take up a course in phonetics. A specialized course in phonetics employs all the previously mentioned methods, as summary since 01 Jan 2003 well as conversational exercises, and the IPA alphabet which is a 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 7 Years 10 Years full proof and time efficient way to work on one’s pronunciation. Average Return (%) 27 19 16 17 19 The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used as the basis for Max Return (%) 76 45 43 26 19 the phonetic transcription of speech. It is based on the Latin alphaMinimum Return (%) -51 0 -1 11 19 bet and is able to transcribe most features of speech such as conThe table show the returns of the Sensex for past sonants, vowels, and suprasegmental features. Every documented 10 years. What you’ll observe in 2008 it gave a nega- phoneme available within the known languages in the world is astive return of -51% and immediately in the corre- signed its own corresponding symbol. Once a learner gains knowlsponding year it gave the return of 76% which is the edge of the IPA alphabets, speaking in a good accent would not be highest in the whole decade. What is more interesting a problem. Certificate courses are time efficient and speed up the if you look at the column in the right hand side sowing learning process, as well as provide a valid certificate which would add worth to one’s resume. Greater opportunities for availing such the return of 10 years the volatility is nonexistent. Suppose you are driving from Guwahati to Shilling, you courses need to exist in Nagaland as well. Recently, Tetso College will encounter lots of twist and turns in the hills. But if you has come up with a three month certificate course on Communilook at the Guwahati-Shillong road from an aircraft flying cation Skills, and English Language Proficiency. The course, which high, it will almost look like a straight line from North to deals extensively with pronunciation skills, is aimed at producing South. Understand Equity is a long term investment. If you confident and proficient speakers of English. Likewise, Nagaland more professional centres of English language proficiency think it is a get rich quick scheme, than you are at a wrong needs so we can equip our younger generation with skill sets that are inplace. The biggest problem is when you have a market rid- valuable for every professional individual in the world today. ing high, many people join the club and when it turns dry We are living in a world that follows the canon of ‘survival they simply run away. And in the process lose money and of the fittest’. There are thousands of students graduating colmiss the opportunity of a superior return in the long run. lege each year. One needs to make a distinction for oneself to be successful in life. Speaking in a good accent and pronouncSummary: • When your ability to remain invested is higher, you ing words correctly gives one that edge. Be it the professions involving medicine, journalism, research, military, banking, or lower the probability of loss. academics, good pronunciation skills are vital. Having a certifi• While there is a risk of negative to low returns in cate in phonetics, and speaking in good English could also open the short to medium term due to the volatile na- up newer job opportunities, especially in the field of hospitality. ture of equities, you are likely to achieve superior We have had the privilege of being educated in an international returns over the long term. language, let us make the most of it, and say it right. The writer is the Principal Financial Planner “Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought will delve into the at EconPenny. You can chat-twit-mail him at @ in partnership social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. Tetso College dipankar.jakharia | @d_jakharia | dipankar. is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College. For feedback or comments please email: admin@tetsocollege.org” jakharia@ .com
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Bob Hughes illings and deaths as unbearable as Jimmy Mubenga’s, in front of the passengers and crew of a British Airways aircraft, at Heathrow in 2010, are not only common in the ‘war on immigration,’ they are inevitable. His was one of at least 20 deaths in Britain’s immigration system; a figure dwarfed by the 17,000 who have died at Europe’s borders since 1993 - the year when immigration detention first began to grow in Britain. In September 2003, five of us set up No One Is Illegal, UK, to denounce claims made by the British Government that this system could be made ‘fair’ or ‘humane.’ The brutal language of politicians like Home Secretary David Blunkett openly belied any real concern to be humane. Moreover, it is physically impossible to stop people moving when they need to, without harming them or their families, especially if they are not rich. And incredibly, nobody has ever come up with a clear reason why this cruelty is necessary. To us, these laws are explicable only by racism, driven largely by the media, which successive governments have sought to appease. They have ended up undermining the rule of law itself, a fact which should concern everybody. As our manifesto puts it: 'Under all other laws it is the act that is illegal, but under immigration law it is the person who is illegal.' Literally and explicitly, people are now arrested and imprisoned, deported and abused and killed, or simply left to die in whatever way happens to befall them, just for being who they are, not for anything they may have done or even might do. Failing to challenge this nonsense involves failing to challenge a force that will happily destroy society and is doing so, and which we all recognise and were taught about in school: the force of arbitrary, authoritarian power; the mindset that believes that rules are more important than lives, and that defers to power and holds the weak in contempt; the 'hard-headed realist', 'cruel to be kind', 'tough choices' brigade that is also happy to cut benefits for the sick, drive down wages and destroy jobs—and then blame the poor for their own poverty, while pouring our money into aggressive foreign wars (and creating further refugees to demonise). Their hypocrisy cries out to be exposed. The tougher they talk, the further they distance themselves from the dirty work. The bigger the stench, the longer the chain of departments, directorates, sub-directorates, agencies, contractors and subcontractors separating the upright politician from the racist thugs with the shaved heads, enthusiastically implementing their policies. How can any society thrive which harbours and nourishes such an industry? The prison companies, the deportation companies, the special 'courts' (sonamed only recently) where well-paid careers are to be had by the morally-confused but ambitious. And so on ... a monster that must be fed and fed and fed, as long as the tough-talking hypocrites continue to play the game they've embarked upon and now couldn't
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henever Sensex shades some major weight, in a short span, I start getting frantic calls from my friends. “My God! Should I exit?” asked my friends Dr. Borgohain. The Doctor’s call was not the only one that day. I had to charge my mobile twice before reaching home. Everybody was in a panic mode. And rightfully so! Watching your hard-earned money vaporizing in a single day, can be a shocker. “Doctor, are you in need of any money?” I asked my doctor. “No..!” “Then why are you thinking of withdrawing?” “Because, it is going down!”.........Doctor in deeper voice. “Doctor, when you prescribe medicine, do you expect results in a single day?” “Certainly not, sometimes we’ve to wait for months to see any results !” “Investing in Equity, also is a benefit you have to wait, for years, to see its fruits”, I reiterated. Let me try to say the same with numbers. After all numbers don’t lie! Return of sensex in last 10 years Date sensex 1 year 3 years 01 Jan 2003 3390 01 Jan 2004 5915 74.49 31 Dec 2004 6603 11.62 30 Dec 2005 9398 42.33 40.48 29 Dec 2006 13787 46.70 32.58 01 Jan 2008 20301 47.25 45.41 01 Jan 2009 9903 -51.22 1.76 31 Dec 2009 17465 76.35 8.20 31 Dec 2010 20509 17.43 0.34 30 Dec 2011 15455 -24.64 15.99 01 Jan 2013 19581 26.70 3.89
Should people be deported for being who they are? What if we were to scrap all antiimmigrant laws? An Open Borders politics could kick-start the transformation of society get out of even if they wanted to. What would happen, if we said ‘This emperor has no clothes’? What if we were to scrap these anti-immigrant laws? It’s extraordinary how little hard evidence anyone has found to justify the hysteria. We should be ashamed! Millions could probably have been raised from poverty with the money that's been spent on reports and books and articles debating whether the impact of scraping the laws would be beneficial to the economy or not, or if not to the economy, to 'social cohesion', or some other newly-discovered precious item that might possibly be affected. Let's just say it would probably be copeable-with. After all, we coped with foreigners before all these laws came along, which wasn't all that long ago. The problem, insofar as there has ever been one, is the racists, and the inequality that feeds racism. If we cannot quite bring ourselves to think of a world without borders, how about a world where borders do something useful? I would be proud to belong to a country within whose borders anybody who could get themselves here could feel safe at last, and cared for; a country where the hospitals and doctors treat you because you are ill, not because you are a national citizen; where the schools and universities educate you because you want to learn; a country whose representatives speak out clearly and forthrightly against tyranny and warmongering and the destruction of people's livelihoods wherever they are, and who use our collective resources to help people and fight injustice. If we are concerned about how much such an 'idealistic' setup would cost, why not question why so many things that used to be available when needed now have a financial cost? Let's take everything that is important to life, to people's health and happiness, back out of the money economy. To a surprisingly large extent, this would only mean going back a few years to the time before our public services acquired 'internal markets' - a time when the British National Health Service, for example, gave almost the best value for money in the world in terms of health outcomes. Which raises the exciting thought that a society with fewer price-tags is a lower-impact soci-
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Food Bill: It’s a political gimmick, says BJP
New Delhi, August 27 (AgeNcies): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murali Manohar Joshi termed the National Food Security Bill, 2013 as a “vote security” Bill while Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav wanted the Bill to be put in abeyance and the proposed legislation discussed with the State Chief Ministers. Replying to the debate, Food Minister K.V. Thomas assured the Lok Sabha that loopholes in the National Food Security Bill would be plugged as the scheme for the distribution of cheap food grains was implemented. Asserting that the Centre would protect the federal system, he said that the Centre and the States would “go hand in hand” in implementing the measure. Brushing aside claims that the government had not had enough consultations on the legislation, he said: “There was no dearth of consultation ever since the original Bill was drafted last year and it was sent to the Standing Committee.” He said the government had accepted all the recommendations of the Standing Committee barring one on universalisation of the scheme. Referring to suggestions offered by several members during the debate about storage and transportation of food grains, Thomas said that storage facilities had undergone major improvements and the capacity stood at 75 million tonnes which would go up to 85 million tonnes by 2014-15. Agreeing that storage facilities were not enough, he favoured construction of intermediate godowns by the States to tide over the problem. The Minister assured members that the off-take of States for ongoing schemes like Targeted PDS and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) would be protected and the additional burden on account of the implementation of the Food Security Bill would be to the tune of Rs. 5000 crores. On modernisation and computerisation of PDS by States, he said the Centre would bear 50 per cent of the cost incurred by the States but in the case of the NorthEastern States and Jammu and Kashmir the Centre would bear 90 per cent. He also assured the House that the Minimum Support Price would be protected and food grains coming to mandis would be taken over by the Food Corporation of India. Seeking to bring all parties on board, he said that food grain supplies to the States would not be reduced with the implementation of the Food Security Bill. His reference was to Tamil Nadu as the AIADMK had raised concerns that the Bill would result in reduced food grain supplies. “Total food grain requirement for the Bill is estimated to be around 62 million tonnes and 75 per cent of villages would be targeted as a priority sector,” Thomas said.
Industry says Food Bill ‘Keep Food Bill in abeyance till CMs consulted’ Delhi, August 27 to 75% of the rural and half of the urban will harm fiscal deficit New (AgeNcies): A day after Samapopulation, with Congress president
MuMBAi, August 27 (AgeNcies): The morning after the Lok Sabha passed Sonia Gandhi’s pet Food Security Bill, industry is raising concerns about the effect this massive subsidy will have on the country’s economy. The project is expected to cost the exchequer Rs 1,25,000 lakh crore per annum, and growing. CII president Kris Gopalakrishnan said, “There are concerns (about the Bill). Such a large outlay at this point in time will definitely have a negative impact on the fiscal deficit. This needs to be managed. The larger concern is regarding the effective implementation of such a critical social agenda of the government.” Gopalakrishnan said the use of ration shops to channelise the subsidy raises question about the efficacy of the model. Targeting is another area that will need special attention. “CII hopes that the government will put proper focus on these aspects, mainly targeting the needy so they can benefit from this subsidy,” he said. CII agreed that food security is extremely important in a country like India where a significant section of the population lives below the poverty line.
jwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav reluctantly supported the Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha, which was eventually passed in the Lower House, he on Tuesday called for keeping the proposed legislation in abeyance till all chief ministers are consulted on it. The Upper House, or the Rajya Sabha, is expected to take up the Bill for debate on Thursday. Mulayam yesterday said in Parliament that the Food Security Bill would put additional burden on states and that it was being brought with an eye on elections. He further said that the Bill would badly hurt farmers as there was no guarantee in the provisions that all the produce would be bought by the government. “It is clearly being brought for elections...Why didn’t you bring this Bill earlier when poor people were dying because of hunger?...Ev-
ery election, you bring up a measure. There is nothing for the poor,” he said participating in the debate on the Bill. Yadav said he would support the bill, which provides for highly subsidised foodgrains to two-third of the country’s population, if certain amendments are moved. “This bill is neither for the poor, nor for the farmers.” The Lok Sabha yesterday unanimously passed the path-breaking Bill, which seeks to ensure subsidized food
Sonia Gandhi asserting it will “transform the lives of tens of millions”. After scores of opposition-backed amendments to the legislation were rejected or withdrawn, the Lok Sabha passed the Bill that is expected to cover twothirds of India’s 1.2 billion people -- the mass of the poor and the impoverished. The legislation, which virtually makes food a fundamental right in a country teeming with millions of poor, would involve an intake of 612 lakh tonnes of food annually and is expected to combat widespread hunger. As envisaged in the Bill, eligible households would get five kg of foodgrains per person every month – Rs 3 a kilo for rice, Rs 2 a kilo for wheat and Rs 1 a kilo for coarse grains. PM Manmohan said after the passage of the bill: “It is yet another step of the UPA government’s pro-poor policies.”
Lok Sabha rejected 305 opposition amendments to food bill
New Delhi, August 27 (iANs): The Lok Sabha Monday passed the National Food Security Bill, rejecting all the 305 amendments moved by the opposition and adopting the 11 introduced by the government, said government sources Tuesday. The bill aims to provide subsidised foodgrain at prices much below the market rate to around 67 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people. The bill would thus benefit about 800 million people who would get rice at Rs.3
per kilo, wheat at Rs.2 per kilo and coarse grain at Re.1 per kilo. The states have been allowed to identify the beneficiaries and the centre will bear the cost of transporting the grain, said the sources. But there are four major changes in the bill after it was passed by the lower house late Monday night. The current grain allocations of 18 out of 35 states which were to get less grains will be protected at the prices applicable for the above poverty line
beneficiaries. This amendment would cost the government over Rs.5,000 crore additionally. The second amendment gives the states 360 days, in place of 180 earlier, as preparatory period before it starts implementing the bill. The third amendment stipulates that ready-to-eat meals will not be provided to the children in schools under the schemes being run by the central government. Instead, they would be given hot cooked meal which would be more nu-
tritious, said the sources. This change has been done after the social activists said that multi-national companies would benefit if readyto-eat meals were given to school children. The fourth amendment allows the state governments to set up grievance redressal commissions. The Food Security Bill is Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s pet welfare legislation. The bill will cost the government around Rs.124,723 crore and will entail an additional burden
of only Rs.23,800 crore. Government sources said Rs.5,000 crore may be added to the cost after the recent amendment. The bill, part of the Congress manifesto for the 2009 polls, is expected to bring electoral benefits, just as the rural job plan, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, is credited with the second term that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won in the 2009 polls. The Food Security Bill was first introduced in par-
liament in December 2011. It remained with a standing committee of parliament for a year. Later the government brought an ordinance for the same which has been replaced by the bill in parliament now. The bill is now expected to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha next week as procedural issues would take a few more days, said the sources. Once passed by both the houses, it would go to the president for his assent before it becomes a law.
No compromise in rape cases: Supreme Court Sonia Gandhi back home from hospital
New Delhi, August 27 (iANs): In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court Tuesday held that there cannot be a compromise between victims and accused in rape cases and the culprits’ act could not be condoned even if the victims forgave them. An apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi ruled that such compromises, if entered into, are per se illegal and the provision for lesser punishment for heinous offences in exceptional cases cannot be treated in a casual or a cavalier manner by the trial court. The apex court expressed grave concern that in recent times, despite a spurt in rape cases, there has been an increasing tendency amongst trial courts to permit compromises of such offences on the ground that a settlement has been entered into between the rapist and the victim. The court described such an approach by the some trial and high courts as “insensitive” holding that the punishment should always be
proportionate and commensurate to the gravity of the offence. Chief Justice Sathasivam, who authored the judgment, said: “Religion, race, caste, economic or social status of the accused or victim or the long pendency of the criminal trial or offer of the rapist to marry the victim or the victim is married and settled in life cannot be construed as special factors for reducing the sentence prescribed by the statute.” “This is yet another opportunity to inform the subordinate courts and the high courts that despite stringent provisions for rape under Section 376 IPC, many courts in the past have taken a softer view while awarding sentence for such a heinous crime”, the court said The judges said the apex court in the past had noted that “few subordinate and high courts have reduced the sentence of the accused to the period already undergone to suffice as the punishment, by taking aid of the proviso to Section 376(2) IPC”. The court described this trend insensitive and said: “The
above trend exhibits stark insensitivity to the need for proportionate punishments to be imposed in such cases.” “The power under the proviso should not be used indiscriminately in a routine, casual and cavalier manner for the reason that an exception clause requires strict interpretation,” the judgment said. The court said that “a compromise entered into between the parties cannot be construed as a leading factor based on which lesser punishment can be awarded. Rape is a non-compoundable offence and it is an offence against the society and is not a matter to be left for the parties to compromise and settle”. Since the court cannot always be assured that the consent given by the victim in compromising the case was genuine, the court said: “There is every chance that she might have been pressured by the convicts or the trauma undergone by her all the years might have compelled her to opt for a compromise.” “In fact, accepting this proposition will put an additional
burden on the victim,” the court said, saying as a consequence the accused “may use all his influence to put pressure on her for a compromise”. “So, in the interest of justice and to avoid unnecessary pressure/harassment to the victim, it would not be safe in considering the compromise arrived at between the parties in rape cases to be a ground for the court to exercise the discretionary power under the proviso of Section 376(2) of IPC,” the judgment said. The apex court judgment came as it dismissed an appeal by two gang rapists of a the victim in village Nangal Durgu in Haryana. The two convicts had sought a lenient view of their heinous crime on the plea that the victim was living happily with her husband and four children. The two had appealed against the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court which had dismissed their plea. The victim had herself in 2011 filed an affidavit saying that she did not want to pursue the matter further as she had forgiven the accused.
Maoist rebels kill 5 soldiers in eastern India
New Delhi, August 27 (AP): Maoist rebels ambushed a paramilitary patrol in eastern India on Tuesday, killing at least five people and wounding two others, the home minister said. The soldiers were traveling through Koraput district in Odisha state when the rebels set off a bomb, blowing up their vehicle, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said. He said reinforcements were sent to the remote area and were searching for the rebels. The two wounded soldiers were being treated at a nearby hospital. The rebels have been fighting in
many Indian states for more than 40 years. They claim inspiration from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. They demand land and jobs for poor tribal communities that they say are ignored by the government. The rebels, also known as Naxalites, have ambushed police, destroyed government offices and abducted government officials. They have blown up train tracks, attacked prisons to free their comrades and stolen weapons from police and paramilitary warehouses.The insurgency began in 1967 as a network
of leftwing ideologues and young recruits in the village of Naxalbari outside Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state. The Naxalites are now estimated to have 30,000 fighters and have pledged to violently overthrow the Indian government. They control vast swaths of the so-called Red Belt in central and eastern India, where troops and officials rarely venture. The rebels are thought to operate in 20 of India’s 28 states. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the rebels are India’s biggest internal threat.
65 terror groups active in India: Govt New Delhi, August 27 (Pti): The government has identified 65 terror groups active in the country, out of which a maximum of 34 are in Manipur, the Lok Sabha was informed today. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh said available intelligence inputs show that militants/terrorists active in India are often supported and funded by their parent outfits based abroad, particularly in Pakistan, in terms of shelter, training, weapons and finance. “The existing statutory and legal structure provides adequate provisions to deal with funding of terrorism,” he
said in a written reply. The list of terrorist groups active in various states shows Jammu and Kashmir has five such organisations, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, HizbulMujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-e-Mujahidden and Al Badr. In the North-East, Assam has 11, Meghalaya four, Tripura two, Nagaland four, Mizoram two and Manipur 34. Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force and Khalistan Commando Force are the three militant groups active in Punjab, the statement said. “… various terrorist groups like LeT, IM, HM, HuJI,
Al Badr are active in the hinterland of the country, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi,” the minister said. To a supplementary, Singh said the government has banned 36 outfits and 9 organisations in the country. “As regards the initiatives taken in the Left Wing Extremism (affected) regions, we have a two-pronged approach in the LWE states. One, we deal very effectively as far as the Naxalites are concerned. The approach of the central government is to deal with LWE in a holis-
tic manner in terms of security, development, good governance and public perception management,” he said. Ministry of Home Affairs has banned the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War, all its formations and front organisations, the Maoist Communist Centre, all its formations and front organizations in LWE hit areas. In reply to another supplementary he said while some states are doing extremely well in tackling Naxalism, some are doing moderately well and some are lagging behind. “This is a matter of great concern,” he said.
New Delhi, August 27 (ReuteRs): Sonia Gandhi, president of the ruling Congress party who is widely seen as the country’s most powerful politician, was back home from hospital on Tuesday after she took ill during a marathon parliament debate, officials said. Gandhi, 66, was led limping out of the Lok Sabha on Monday evening by her son and colleagues, and then taken by car to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in New Delhi. A Congress party official said Gandhi had a touch of viral fever and was fine now. “Madam Gandhi is home now. She is perfectly fine,” the official said. The Italian-born politician, who has led her party to two successive terms governing the world’s largest democracy, has played a slightly reduced public role since being treated abroad for an unknown illness in 2011. Still, she is the world’s sixth most powerful woman, Forbes magazine said last year. The party is usually very secretive about Gandhi’s health,
but several media reports said in 2011 that she had been treated for cancer at New York’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. On Monday, Gandhi participated in a parliament debate on a scheme to provide cheap food to more than two-thirds of India’s poor - one of her pet projects - when she felt unwell. Gandhi and her son, Rahul, are banking on the nearly $20-billion food security programme to boost the Congress party’s prospects ahead of a difficult election next year and the party’s campaign is built around the two members of the NehruGandhi dynasty. Television images showed the normally strong-looking leader trembling as she read out from a clutch of papers a short speech on the food security bill, one of the world’s largest welfare programmes and one that Gandhi has insisted on to ensure India’s poor are not left behind in its emergence as an economic power. “It’s time to take the historic step,” she said. “It is my fervent appeal that we shall pass this unanimously.”
Critics say the programme will strain government finances further at a time when the economy has slowed and the country’s external imbalance has deteriorated, with the rupee currency languishing at record lows. The food security bill was passed two hours after Gandhi and her son left parliament. It must now go to the Rajya Sabha. Gandhi became Congress party president some years after the 1991 assassination of her husband, former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. She declined to become prime minister despite pressure from the party after the first victory in 2004, and chose the quiet economist Manmohan Singh for the top job. However, she arguably wields more power over policy than the prime minister. Her son is now leading the party’s preparations for a national election due to be held in less than a year. The Gandhi family, descended from India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, enjoys a status similar to royalty in the country of 1.2 billion.
"Government of Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission, Kohima" The following candidates are declared selected for the post of Area Coordinator under NSRLM, Kohima. The appointment letter may be collected in person on the 2nd of Sept'2013 between 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM at the SRLM Office. Sl. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Name Eyingbeni Ngullie Tiasenba Ao Akhotso Kehe Vitsu Yhome Selabeituo Keneiso Belho Imtisangla jamir Moatoshi Temjenyangla Yaden Mary Chungkhang M. Bendangmongba T.limei Sangtam Dr. A.T Poangba S.Yatao Konyak W. Konwang Konyak Veluhu Vero Lhuveto Keyho Besuvoto Veswuh Helen N.Ezung Samuel Kithan Chibeni Ngullie
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Zunheboto Zunheboto Zunheboto Kiphire Kiphire Kiphire
Waiting List Renthungo Lotha Dimapur Imlimongla Jamir Dimapur Vitsituo Mepfhu-o Kohima Peteneinuo Kehie Kohima Moanungsang Mokokchung Lanutula Mokokchung Y.Wangchang Kyonak Mon Sekhozo Kezo Phek Anita Kapüh Phek Nzanbemo Y.Patton Wokha Myingthungo Ezung Wokha Shihani Tsuipu Zunheboto Vinoholi.H.Chophy Zunheboto Rongsenlila Ao Kiphire Kilumba Yim Kiphire
Note: For Longleng District, only three candidates appeared in the exam, hence NIL waiting list candidates. Sd/MOTSUTHUNG LOTHA Mission Director Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission
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‘US military stands ready to strike Syria’ WASHINGTON, AuGuST 27 (AP): The U.S. military stands ready to strike Syria at once if President Barack Obama gives the order, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday as the United States prepared to formally declare that chemical weapons had been used in the Syrian civil war. U.S. officials said the growing intelligence pointed strongly toward Bashar Assad’s government as the culprit — a claim Assad called “preposterous.” The U.S., along with allies in Europe, appeared to be laying the groundwork for the most aggressive response since Syria’s civil war began more than two years ago. Obama has not yet decided how to respond to the use of deadly gases, officials said. The president said last year that type of warfare would cross a “red line.” Two administration officials said the U.S. was expected to make public a more formal determination of chemical weapons use on Tuesday, with an announcement of Obama’s response likely to follow quickly. The officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the internal deliberations. On Monday, as he sought support from allies, Secretary of State John Kerry called the evidence of a large-scale chemical weapons attack “undeniable.” And he said that international standards against chemical weapons “cannot be violated without consequences.” The Obama administration’s tougher language marked the clearest justification yet for any U.S. military action in Syria, which most likely would involve
This Monday, August 26, 2013 image taken from amateur video footage provided by the Media Office Of Moadamiyeh purports to show medics assisting a man lying on a bed who appears to be shaking uncontrollably as a UN inspection team visits a makeshift hospital in Moadamiyeh, a suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus. Doctors Without Borders said 355 people were killed in an artillery barrage by regime forces on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 that included the use of toxic gas. The media office of Moadamiyeh is a loosely organized Anti-Assad activist group based in Moadamieyh which posts video and still images of violence and other developments from the region. (AP Photo)
sea-launched cruise missile attacks on Syrian military targets. Hagel told BBC television on Tuesday that the Defense Department has “moved assets in place to be able to fulfill and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take.” The Navy has four destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea within range of targets inside Syria. The U.S. also has warplanes in the region. “We are ready to go,” Hagel said. Hagel said “to me it’s clearer and clearer” that the Syrian government was responsible, but that the Obama administration was waiting for intelligence agencies to make the determination. Hagel was interviewed during a visit to the Southeast Asian
nation of Brunei. While there, Hagel spoke by phone about Syria with his counterparts from Britain and France. Hagel’s press secretary, George Little, said, said Hagel “conveyed that the United States is committed to working with the international community to respond to the outrageous chemical attacks that have claimed the lives of innocent civilians in Syria.” In London, Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament for an urgent discussion on a possible military response. Cameron said the crisis session will be held Thursday for a clear government motion and vote on the British response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The British government said its mili-
tary is drawing up contingency plans for a possible attack. Italy, meanwhile, is insisting that any strike must be authorized by the U.N. Security Council. Assad was defiant. In an interview published Tuesday on the website of the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, Assad accused the U.S. and other countries of “disdain and blatant disrespect of their own public opinion; there isn’t a body in the world, let alone a superpower, that makes an accusation and then goes about collecting evidence to prove its point.” Assad warned that if the U.S. attacks Syria, it will face “what it has been confronted with in every war since Vietnam: failure.” The international commu-
nity appeared to be considering action that would punish Assad for deploying deadly gases, not sweeping measures aimed at ousting the Syrian leader or strengthening rebel forces. The focus of the internal debate underscores the scant international appetite for a large-scale deployment of forces in Syria and the limited number of other options. “We continue to believe that there’s no military solution here that’s good for the Syrian people, and that the best path forward is a political solution,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said. “This is about the violation of an international norm against the use of chemical weapons and how
‘Mandela remains ‘UN to raise new spy claims with US’ NeW YORK, AuGuST 27 The measure also involved the NSA broke the encryption in in critical but (AFP): The United Nations will the UN’s International Atom- mid-2012 and within weeks, had the US government ic Energy Agency, the report dramatically increased its surstable condition’ approach over a report by a German mag- said quoting NSA documents. veillance of UN communications.
CAPe TOWN, AuGuST 27 (IANS): South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela is still in hospital undergoing treatment and remains in a critical but stable condition, President Jacob Zuma said Tuesday. “While wishing him good health, we also have to celebrate his legacy and learn from it, in order to build a better world,” Xinhua quoted Zuma as saying in a statement issued by the presidency. Since Mandela was rushed to a hospital in Pretoria June 8, the presidency has repeatedly declared his condition as critical but stable. Mandela’s daughter Zindzi Mandela Aug 9 gave the most encouraging news when she said the anti-apartheid icon managed to sit up. “He’s fine, Tata (father) now manages to sit up, like now he sits up in a chair for a few minutes in a day, every day you know he becomes more alert and more responsive,” Zindzi said. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been suffering from a recurring lung infection, which is the result of tuberculosis developed when he was imprisoned during the apartheid period.
azine that US intelligence spied on video conferences by top UN officials, a spokesman said Monday. “We are aware of the reports, and we intend to be in touch with the relevant authorities on this,” a UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, told reporters, adding that this meant the US administration. Haq told reporters the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations has become “well established international law, therefore member states are expected to act accordingly to protect the inviolability of diplomatic missions.” A report by Der Spiegel magazine said the US National Security Agency (NSA) had broken the encryption code to allow US intelligence to listen in to UN video conferences.
The IAEA has played a key role monitoring Iran’s suspect nuclear program. It was the latest in a series of revelations about US spying on embassies and UN agencies made since former US analyst Edward Snowden started revealing details of US intelligence tactics. “Whenever we have received this information in the past we have taken it up with the relevant authorities,” Haq said. Asked about the issue, the US State Department said “the US government will respond through diplomatic channels to our partners and allies around the world when they raise concerns.” Spokeswoman Marie Harf insisted the US values and cooperates with the UN, often to “share information, including intelligence.” Der Spiegel said
The NSA once allegedly caught the Chinese secret services eavesdropping on the UN in 2011, it added, quoting an internal report. Der Spiegel also claims that the US agency kept tabs on the European Union after it moved into new offices in New York in September 2012. Among documents provided by Snowden were plans of the EU’s premises, which the NSA codenamed “Apalachee.” Earlier reports in Der Spiegel and Britain’s Guardian newspaper have detailed alleged widespread NSA surveillance of EU offices, including diplomatic missions in Washington and at the United Nations in New York. Revelations about NSA snooping made by Snowden have sparked outrage in Europe.
Famed ML King speech almost didn’t include ‘I have a dream’
PALO ALTO, AuGuST 27 (ReuTeRS): Clarence Jones was sitting 50 feet behind his boss, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on the brilliant, sunny day in 1963 when King delivered the speech that would forever change the course of race relations in the United States. Now, 50 years later, Jones recalls how the words “I have a dream,” were not written in the text that King prepared and began to read that day. Instead, King improvised on the spot, reviving a phrase he has used previously with little impact, according to Jones, King’s lawyer, speechwriter and confidant. “I have a dream,” King shouted to the crowd, his voice reverberating with emotion, “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Delivered 50 years ago on Wednesday, King’s image of his dream for a better America still inspires the United States. The speech was delivered to more than 250,000 people who came to Washington, D.C., to march for civil rights at a time when it was still illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states, and just months after protesters in Alabama were set upon with police dogs and fire hoses. King had spoken before about having a dream for his children, and for America, but the phrase had never really resonated with an audience and the idea was left out of the text for that day’s speech altogether, Jones said in an interview with Reuters near his home in Palo Alto. He also recounted the
story in his most recent book, “Behind the Dream,” which was published in 2011. King had prepared a text that started with several paragraphs of Jones’ writing. As King began to read it, Jones tracked the paragraphs as they went by. The first seven were as he had written them. One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed U.S. slaves, “the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination,” King intoned. A Baptist preacher with a stirring and charismatic speaking style, King went on, reading parts of the text that he had added to the first few paragraphs by Jones. Then came the change in script. The gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who had earlier performed the song, “How I Got Over,” yelled from the stands. “Tell ‘em about the dream, Martin,” she said, ac-
cording to Jones. “Tell ‘em about the dream!”
‘Everything thereafter was spontaneous’ Jones said he could not see Jackson because she was sitting below him, but he heard her voice. He also saw King, who had been reading from the text in front of him, look up. King nodded to where Jackson was sitting, Jones said, adding he saw King take hold of the pages of his speech and move them to one side. “He moves the text of the speech to the left side of the lectern, grabs the lectern, looks out on those more than 250,000 people assembled and thereafter begins to speak completely spontaneously and extemporaneously,” Jones said. “Everything thereafter was spontaneous,” he said. “That was the ‘I have a dream’ speech.” From that moment on, King’s cadence changed as sentences and
ideas built on one another to reach powerful crescendos. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood,” King said. “I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” Jones, who is the author of two books about King, teaches at both Stanford University and the University of San Francisco. He was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and he met King in 1960, remaining close to him until King’s assassination in 1968. He said he believes a number of conditions that day helped make the moment historic: the beautiful weather; the presence of more than 250,000 people; a powerful speech that preceded King’s by Joachim Prinz, then president of the American Jewish Congress; the location at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, and the centennial anniversary of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which freed black slaves in the United States. Anger among black Americans was also at a tipping point, Jones said. Images of police dogs and fire hoses used against peaceful demonstrators, including children, at protests in Birmingham, Alabama, enraged African-Americans and shocked many around the world. “You can’t understand about the ‘I have a dream’ speech,” Jones said, “unless you pause and reflect about the historical circumstances that were taking place in the country at that time.”
we should respond to that.” The Obama administration was moving ahead even as a United Nations team already on the ground in Syria collected evidence from last week’s attack. The U.S. said Syria’s delay in giving the inspectors access rendered their investigation meaningless and that the Obama administration had its own intelligence confirming chemical weapons use. The U.N. team came under sniper fire Monday as it traveled to the site of the Aug. 21 attack and on Tuesday delayed a second inspection. A U.S. official said the U.N. team’s delay would not affect the Obama administration’s timeline for releasing its own intelligence assessments. It’s unlikely that the U.S. would launch a strike against Syria while the United Nations team is still in the country. The administration may also try to time any strike around Obama’s travel schedule — he’s due to hold meetings in Sweden and Russia next week — in order to avoid having the commander in chief abroad when the U.S. launches military action. The president has ruled out putting American troops on the ground in Syria and officials say they are not considering setting up a unilateral no-fly zone. On Capitol Hill, bipartisan support for a military response appeared to be building, with some key lawmakers calling for targeted strikes. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said the Ohio Republican had “preliminary communication” with White House officials about the situation in Syria and a potential American response. Speaking to reporters at the
State Department on Monday, Kerry was harshly critical of chemical warfare. “By any standard, it is inexcusable and — despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured — it is undeniable,” Kerry said, confirming the attack in the Damascus suburbs that activists say killed hundreds of people. The U.S. assessment is based in part on the number of reported victims, the symptoms of those injured or killed and witness accounts. Administration officials said the U.S. had additional intelligence confirming chemical weapons use and would make that information public. Officials stopped short of unequivocally stating that Assad’s government was behind the attack. But they said there was “very little doubt” that it originated with the regime, noting that Syria’s rebel forces do not appear to have access to the country’s chemical weapons stockpile. It’s unclear whether Obama would seek authority from the U.N. or Congress before using force. The president has spoken frequently about his preference for taking military action only with international backing, but it is likely Russia and China would block U.S. efforts to authorize action through the U.N. Security Council. More than 100,000 people have died in clashes between forces loyal to Assad and rebels trying to oust him from power over the past two and a half years. While Obama has repeatedly called for Assad to leave power, he has resisted calls for a robust U.S. intervention, and has largely limited American assistance to humanitarian aid.
Venezuela foils plot to kill president Nicolas Maduro
CARACAS, AuGuST 27 (AFP): Venezuela said it derailed a plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro, arresting two hitmen it said wanted to execute the leftist leader on orders from a Colombian expresident. Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez said at a briefing that Caracas arrested the alleged hitmen, two Colombians, on August 13. The two, Victor Johan Guache Mosquera and Erick Leonardo Huertas Rios, were part of “a group of 10 men who were coming to carry out the murder of the president,” working with former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, Rodriguez charged. They were part of a support team for a “highly experienced hitman” identified by the alias David, whom they reported to directly and who was to personally carry out the killing, the minister said. David, Rodriguez charged, was taking orders from a Colombian who is in
prison, Oscar Alcantara Gonzalez, alias “Gancho Mosco”, who allegedly works for Uribe. “We have no doubt that Alvaro Uribe Velez has knowledge of all these things ... And we are not the least bit surprised that he is the one giving orders through operatives,” Rodriguez alleged. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who lost the April presidential vote and is contesting the results, shrugged off Monday’s alleged plot, saying: “Nobody believes that tall tale.” Rodriguez in June alleged that Maduro was targeted by a separate assassination plot launched from Colombia and the United States. Venezuela made frequent allegations of assassination plots against the late leftist President Hugo Chavez and has continued to do so under Maduro, his handpicked successor. Official results gave Maduro, 50, a razor-thin margin of just 1.5 percent over Capriles, 41, in the April 14 election.
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DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND:: KOHIMA
NO.DTE/TECH-A/24/2010
Dated, Kohima, the 26th August 2013.
NOTIFICATION It is hereby informed to all students who had undertaken Nagaland Sponsored training at LAMBENCY CHRYSALIS ACADEMY, NOIDA and have not been issued certificates to submit application with details as given under to the Directorate of Technical Education Kohima Nagaland before the 15th September 2013. 1. Name 2. Father’s Name 3. Year of Training 4. Department 5. Employer details 6. Contact number. Details may also be sent by e-mail at dirtech.edu-ngl@nic.in. No claims will be entertained after 15th September 2013 under any circumstances. (A. Kathipri)
GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND: KOHIMA
Dated Kohima, the 26th August 2013
NO. EDS/HTE/24/91 (Pt) : : : In continuation of this office notifications of even number dated 24.08.2010 and 24.05.2012, the Governor of Nagaland is pleased to release arrears of pay of Govt. college teachers from 01.01. 2006 to 31 .03.2010 consequent upon the implementation of the revised UGC Pay Scheme under the UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education ) Regulations 2010 in the following manner : i) Payment of arrears in cash to those Govt. College teachers who have retired from service or have expired; ii) Payment of 20% in cash as State share and the remaining 80% of the arrears which is the share of the Govt. of India shall be impounded/credited into the GPF accounts of the respective serving Govt. college teachers/librarians which shall be allowed to be withdrawn from the GPF accounts only as and when Govt. of India releases its' share. 2. This issues with the clearance of Finance Department vide their U.O. No 196 dated 26.08.2013 and with the approval of the Chief Minister. (ALEMTEMSHI JAMIR) Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland
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ManU, Chelsea draw 0-0 in Premier League
Mokokchung district inter school tournament begins MokokCHuNg, AuguST 27 (DIPR): A three-day Mokokchung district Inter Government Higher Secondary and High School tournament began on August 27 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Mokokchung. Delivering the introductory note, Deputy DEO, Mokokchung, Rowainla stated that it is an important annual event which enables students and teachers from different schools within the district to come together to compete and learn from each other. She asserted that not all can win but can also be a winner by giving our best in every event that we participate. She therefore called upon the participants to take this as an opportunity to try learning important lessons for life. Altogether eleven schools of Mokokchung district are participating in the tournament.
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Mourinho calls on Wayne Rooney to decide on future
Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, right, attempts a bicycle kick past Chelsea's Ramires during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Monday Aug. 26. (AP Photo)
MANCHESTER, AuguST 27 (AP): Wayne Rooney's headline-grabbing presence couldn't inspire Manchester United to victory over Chelsea on Monday as the title rivals played out a dull 0-0 draw in the Premier League's first blockbuster match of the season. David Moyes marked his first home game in charge of United with the bold selection of Rooney against a club that has twice lodged unsuccessful offers to sign the England striker this summer. That selection added extra spice to a game that is always eagerly anticipated but, despite a standout performance from Rooney in his first start of the season, neither team created a clearcut chance in a disappointing stalemate at Old Trafford. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho opted surprisingly to start with no recognized striker, only bringing on Fernando Torres after the 60 minutes, and was happy to leave with a point that keeps his team unbeaten after three matches in
his second spell in charge. Chelsea is top of the early standings on seven points. "I think for us, after two home victories, to come to the champions in their first match at home and get a point, I think it's fine, it's positive," Mourinho said. Continuing the traditions of his predecessor Alex Ferguson, Moyes fielded an attacking lineup that contained three strikers — including Rooney — but his team lacked the attacking spark that lifted it to a season-opening 4-1 win at Swansea last weekend. Danny Welbeck wasted the home side's best chance, scooping over from 10 yards out in the second half, but United found Chelsea center backs John Terry and Gary Cahill an impenetrable barrier. It was United's first 0-0 league draw at Old Trafford since 2009. "I thought if anyone created the chances, it was us," Moyes said. "It was a tight game and we just didn't have the final cross or the final pass tonight. But I thought we played very
well." Standing shoulder-toshoulder with Mourinho in the technical area and opposite an overbearing stand bearing Ferguson's name, Moyes was given yet more indications of the size of his daunting task at United. His decision to start with Rooney, however, showed he will be his own man at United and he was treated to an impressive display from a striker who was serenaded with chants from both sets of fans. While United supporters belted out "Rooney, Rooney" throughout, Chelsea's traveling contingent replied with: "We'll see you next week" and "Sign him up." It must have been a strange evening for Rooney, who indicated to United toward the end of last season that he wanted to leave and has been relentlessly — and openly — pursued by Mourinho. He coped well, though. Neat and tidy throughout in his role behind Robin van Persie, he linked up play well, tracked back, showed a good range of
passing and had two shots saved by Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech. In the final moments, Rooney attempted a bicycle kick from eight yards out but he failed to connect. "He's been great in training and anybody who was watching might have seen a slightly leaner-looking Wayne," Moyes said. "I thought he worked back, he tackled, he chased ... I think Wayne has a positive mind at the moment. "I think his performance tonight said enough." Robin van Persie has replaced Rooney as the leading striker at United but he had a quiet night up against Terry and Cahill, with a 23rd-minute shot into the side-netting the Dutchman's only real chance. At the other end, Oscar had two low efforts easily saved by United goalkeeper David de Gea in the first half but Chelsea's counter-attacks were sporadic and ineffective. Despite fielding a plethora of playmakers and attacking midfielders, Mourinho — strongly
MANCHESTER, AuguST 27 (AP): Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho called on Wayne Rooney to decide in the next two days whether he wants to move to the London club or stay at Manchester United. "The person that starts the story has to finish the story," Mourinho said Monday after Chelsea's 0-0 draw in the Premier League against a United side that contained Rooney. Rooney indicated to United toward the end of last season that he wanted to leave, and the English champions have turned down two bids from Chelsea for the striker. United's stance all summer has been that Rooney is not for sale. "If now he does not want to leave, we are out of the scene," Mourinho said, "but we need to know what is happening." "We are going to (sign) another player if he is not coming," added Mourinho, who has also been heavily linked with a move for Anzhi Makhachkala striker Samuel Eto'o. When asked directly if he wanted Rooney to come out and make a declaration about his future, Mourinho said: "Yes," adding that he needed an answer in "24 hours, 48 hours." Rooney played the full match against Chelsea in his first start of the season and was given superb encouragement by United's fans, despite having officially asked for a transfer request in 2010 before again questioning his future at the club in the final days of Alex Ferguson's reign last season. "This club must be a very special club because at every club in the world, when the player wants to leave they don't support him," Mourinho said. "When a player wants to leave they give him a hard time but (here) they support him all the way, so I think this is a real special club with special fans so he decides that he wants to stay. If that is his decision then we will be the first to respect that." Mourinho said Rooney played like a "real professional" and was "fantastic."
linked with the United job before Moyes replaced Alex Ferguson — tellingly chose not to start Juan Mata, who has been linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge. The Spain interna-
tional — one of the league's top performers last season — was on the bench with compatriot Torres, who was introduced on the hour to finally give Chelsea an attacking outlet.
DIMAPuR, AuguST 27 (MExN): The United Baptist Churches Association, North East India is organizing the first united T20 open cosco ball cricket tournament at DDSC stadium from September 9 to 20 on the theme, ‘Cricket for Christ.’ A press note informed that registration fee for the event will be Rs 40000. The winners, runners up and two semi finalists will receive Rs 50000, Rs 20000 and Rs 5000 each. Man of the match, best batsman, best bowler and man of the series awards will also be given. Interested teams can contact 977494877 and forms are available at Kiran sports, Dimapur.
Saina Nehwal, Sindhu to skip China Masters
NEW DElHI, AuguST 27 (IANS): Top Indian shuttlers, including Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu, will not participate in the upcoming China Masters Super Series to be held from September 10 to 15, an official said on Tuesday. Only men’s singles shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and Anand Pawar will be going for the Tier-II event to be held in Changzhou. “We took a decision on this some time back and did not send our entries. The international calendar is packed with several tournaments and our shuttlers need time to rest.
“They will be training during that time and will play in the Japan Open Super Series. The players who are participating in China are going in their own capacity,” Badminton Association of India (BAI) vicepresident T.P.S. Puri said. The Japan Open Super Series will be held in Tokyo September 17 to 22. World Championship bronze medallist P.V. Sindhu said it was the decision of the chief national coach P. Gopichand. “Our coach decides which tournaments we are to play and he decided we won’t be going to China,” said Sindhu.
Real secure victory against Granada Don't pity me, says cancer
gRANADA, AuguST 27 (AP): Karim Benzema scored to give Real Madrid a 1-0 win at Granada in the Spanish league Monday amid growing speculation the club is close to a blockbuster deal to sign Wales winger Gareth Bale. Madrid started brightly thanks to the playmaking of Angel Di Maria which led to Benzema's goal in the 10th minute, but left Granada with the chance to snatch the draw late. Madrid joined defending champion Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal as the only teams to win the first two rounds of the season. Madrid's offer to English club Tottenham for Bale is reportedly similar to Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, left, is held by Granada's Manuel Iturra the record 80 million pounds from Chile during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium in (then $131 million) it paid for Granada, Spain, Monday Aug. 26. (AP Photo)
Mongmong football tournament commences
kIPHIRE, AuguST 27 (MExN): The 10th Mongmong Football Tournament organized by Kiphire Town Students’ Union (KTSU) on the theme “Football for a new tomorrow” kicked off today at public ground Kiphire with Kesonyu Yhome (IAS) Deputy Commissioner Kiphire as the chief guest. The tournament is being organized in commemorating the age old Sangtam Mongmong festival with altogether 18 teams from Kiphire district enrolled for the tournament. Addressing the gathering, the deputy commissioner of Kiphire said that nagas lack professionalism and discipline, which he said has destroyed the present Naga
society. He said, “you may be a government servant, sportsman, students or in any field, without discipline you will be a failure.” Therefore he appealed for the gathering to cultivate self discipline in order to adjust in the present society. The chief guest also appealed for all the participant teams to maintain discipline, unity and peace throughout the festive season. Tsaropi Sangtam President KTSU, Lisecho Executive Chairman KTSU and Yangkhaba Vice President USLP also spoke at the opening programme. Singrep Union Kiphire Town, AST (Women) presented a folk dance and the chief guest declared open the tournament.
survivor Alisa Kleybanova
Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009. And while it appeared the transfer was close to being done over the weekend, Bale remained a Tottenham player and is expected back with his team after a two-day break to rest a hurt foot he used to visit the southern Spanish resort town of Marbella. If Bale's possible arrival wasn't enough to distract from the action on the pitch at Los Carmenes Stadium, there was also the sight of Spain and Madrid captain Iker Casillas sitting on the bench for a second consecutive match under coach Carlo Ancelotti. Despite a week of pressure by Spanish media to see Casillas returned to Madrid's goal, Ancelotti stuck with Lopez Alisa Kleybanova, of Russia, returns against Monica Puig, of Puerto Rico, during the first in goal. round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament on August 26 in New York. Kleybanova, a
Team captains taking oath at public ground Kiphire.)
former top-20 player, is recovering from cancer. (AP Photo)
NEW YoRk, AuguST 27 (AFP): Cancer survivor Alisa Kleybanova enjoyed a winning return to Grand Slam tennis at the US Open, but pleaded with fans not to pity her after her courageous battle for survival. The 24-year-old Russian was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphona in 2011, an illness which forced her off tour until May this year. Kleybanova, who once reached 20 in the world but now stands at 363 in the rankings, marked her first major appearance in over two years with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 win over number 44 Monica Puig of Puerto Rico on Monday. "I'm happy that all those things are over for me now. I went through them. I came as a
winner in that battle," said Kleybanova. "I hear a lot from people that I'm a big inspiration for them. A lot of people now look up to me. I mean, I think it's great. But I don't want to be an example. "I'm not trying to show anything or whatever. I do it for myself. I want to play tennis. I'm not trying to pretend anything. But if my story inspires people and gives them more belief, makes them feel stronger at some point, that's great." Kleybanova came off the tour in the middle of 2011 and played just one tournament in Miami in 2012 before launching her comeback on a full-time basis in May this year. It began with baby steps at second-
tier tournaments before Kleybanova returned to the big time in Toronto, where she lost first round, and then at Cincinnati, where she won one match before heading for New York. It was a comeback she was already dreaming of when she was first diagnosed. Back then she announced the bombshell news on her website under the headline: "Alisa Kleybanova defeats Hodgkin's Lymphoma 6 Love, 6 Love." "I just wanted to come back on the court so much. I wanted to play tennis again so much that it wasn't a question for me," said the Russian. "I wanted to be back healthy and play again. I was very patient. I wasn't so stressed about those things."
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Naga’s Next top model 2013 Season-1: The 21 Finalist after a tremendous competition of talent & catwalk rounds held on August 14 and 15 will have the 1st Elimination round on August 31 at I.M.C Hall from 6 pm onwards. Two female models and one male model will be eliminated basing on the 60% value points from the Judges and 40% value points from the public voting. Tickets will be available on that particular day at the venue.
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hey may have been booed at the VMAs but that won't have taken the sheen off the latest booking for One Direction. The boys have been booked to perform at the Victoria's Secret show in November. According to the Sun, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne will follow in the footsteps of Justin Bieber and Jay-Z when they take to the catwalk during the annual fashion extravaganza. Although the band's management are yet to confirm
Barbara Palvin - much to the disgust of then girlfriend, Selena Gomez. At least the One Direction boys will have some familiar faces around them on the night, with modelof-the-moment Cara Delevingne - who has been linked to Harry Styles - due to strut her stuff during the show. Other big names set to take to the runway include Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio. One Direction are currently riding high in the charts with new single,
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reports, the performance is set to be the latest in a line of triumphs for the quintet, whose behind-the-scenes film This Is Us arrives in cinemas on Friday. Last year, performances from Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Bruno Mars helped the televised Victoria's Secret show rack up seven million viewers, although proceedings weren't without controversy. Justin Bieber reportedly made the most of his appearance on the show, ending the night backstage with 19-year-old model,
ollywood beauty Monica Bellucci today announced that her marriage to star actor Vincent Cassel was over. It follows weeks of speculation about the couple’s increasingly tempestuous relationship. In April, 48-year-old Bellucci, who shot to fame in films like The Matrix Reloaded and The Passion of the Christ, told Grazia magazine: ‘Marriage, we never know how long it will last...Today, it works, but in a year, I don’t know.’ In April, Cassel told Closer magazine: ‘My wife and me are very different animals. This is probably the key to our relationship after 18 years together… We don’t seek other people’s approval.’ The former model met Cassel, 46, in 1996 on the set of Gilles Mimouni’s film 'l’Appartement'. They were together for three years before marrying in a quiet ceremony in Monaco, on the French Riviera. Cassell is hugely popular in his home country of France, where he first
leapt into the public imagination in ‘La Haine’ (Hate), a film about delinquents on a troubled Paris housing estate. Both actors said they had split by ‘mutual agreement’ following 14 year of marriage which produced two daughters, seven-year-old Deva, and three-yearold Leonie. Cassel and Bellucci, who was born in Italy, had been leading independent lives for a number years, keeping their own respective apartments in Paris and Rome. Cassel also spent a great deal of time alone in Brazil. The split marks the second marriage failure for Bellucci, who was with Italian photographer Claudio Basso for four years, before divorcing him in 1994. The actress is currently away working in Serbia, while Cassel is thought to be in France. His spokesman told AFP, France’s national news agency, that ‘Vincent Cassel confirms that he has agreed to separate from his wife Monica Bellucci.’
Best Song Ever, and last week saw their debut fragrance, Our Moment, rack up an impressive waiting list ahead of its launch at Harrods last Friday. 'Their global superstar status will be solidified with this booking,' a source told the Sun. 'Bigwigs at the Victoria's Secret and the televisión network CBS, which broadcasts the show, have been having meetings with the band and management. 'It's being said they pretty much have it in the bag as they were sold on their personalities.'
Ricky Martin admits that he had 'internalised homophobia'
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inger Ricky Martin memorably came out as a gay man back in 2010. However, the star has admitted he used to struggle with his sexuality and even bullied gay men whilst growing up in Puerto Rico. 'I look back now and realise I would bully people who I knew were gay,' Martin tells the September/October edition of GQ Australia. 'I had internalised homophobia. To realise that was confronting to me. I wanted to get away from that.' Martin, who got his start with the boy band Menudo nearly three decades ago, tells the magazine that becoming a father to twin boys Matteo and Valentino, whom he is raising with partner Carlos Gonzalez Abells, changed his view on life. 'I didn’t want them (his twin sons) growing up in a house of lies… or thinking that there was something wrong with being gay.' The 41-year-old also opens up about his latest job, as a judge on Australia's version of The Voice. 'I felt the outpouring of love, and I could feel the criticism, too, but I loved that,' he tells the publication. 'I love the honesty and the truth. People tell it like it is in Australia.' In fact, the sexy performer proved so popular on the competition reality show that it has led to a career resurgence for him. He will embark on a tour in October, giving a
whole new generation of fans the chance to experience La Vida Loca. After years of speculation, the singer came pout as a gay man back in 2010, via a long statement on his
website. 'I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man,' he wrote. 'I am very blessed to be who I am.' And later that year he expressed no regrets with his decision during an in-
terview with Larry King. 'Today, I am a gay man,' he said. 'And everything about saying this feels right… if I’d know how good it was going to feel, I would have done it ten years ago.'
agents, managers, producers and others to calculate its estimates for each celebrity's entertainment-related earnings. The figures do
not reflect tax deductions, agent fees or "the other expenses of being a celebrity." Madonna's top spot compares with her previous peak of $110 million in 2009, but falls short of the $165 million taken in by Oprah Winfrey in the previous year, Forbes said. Talk show queen and media mogul Winfrey took a big pay cut this year according to Forbes, falling to No. 13 on the list with earnings of $77 million. At No. 3 with earnings of $95 million in the past year was a threeway tie among "50 Shades of Grey" author E.L. James, radio shock jock Howard Stern and music and television producer Simon Cowell. Others in the top 10 earners included TV host Glenn Beck, director Michael Bay of the "Transformers" franchise, and thriller novelist James Patterson, who Forbes said was now the best-selling author of all time. Both Spielberg and Bay also made last year's top 10, though with significantly larger earnings.
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Madonna when it come to raking in money," Forbes said, with her $80 million in earnings largely from the singer's "Born This Way
Ball" world tour, placing Gaga 10th on the list. Forbes compiles its annual list of celebrity earnings using input from
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Champion Deepika Kumari in tears due to media harassment
First the smiles and then media made her cry: Rimil Buriuly (left), Deepika Kumari (second left) and Bombayla Devi (right) show their gold medals to President of Archery Association of India VK Malhotra and share a light moment in New Delhi on Tuesday.
NEW DElhi, AUGUST 27 (AGENciES): The competition among TV journalists to get an exclusive interview brought India's champion woman archer Deepika Kumari to tears here on Tuesday, according to a report. She was "harassed" for oneon-one interviews by several reporters. 19-yearold Deepika and two of her team-mates arrived here from Poland after winning the World Cup Stage IV. Deepika, Bombayala Devi and Rimil Buriuly claimed the World Cup title by beating the mighty South
Korean team in Wroclaw, Poland, on Sunday (August 25). It was second successive World honours for the Indian women recurve team. Last month, they had won in Medellin, Colombia. When they returned home on Tuesday morning, there were no officials from the Archery Association of India (AAI) to receive the champions. However, later they were honoured by association president Vijay Kumar Malhotra, where the media pressure made captain Deepika break down. "Reporters from leading
national networks insisted on doing one-on-one interviews with her while she wanted to offer soundbytes as the team had a flight to catch. The argument finally ended with her in tears," a report on "CNN IBN" website ibnlive. in.com said. "We all knew the Korean team was tough and it is hard to compete against them. On top of that the weather was bad, it was pretty windy. It was a tough match. We were tied for 3 matches and then we beat them in the end," Deepika was quoted as saying in the report.
Zimbabwe stun Pakistan for first win in 15 years
Nadal cruises into second round NEW YORK, AUGUST 27 (AP): The slips and slides of the soft clay have been replaced by the squeaks of shoes on the hard courts. Nobody is handling the switch better than Rafael Nadal. Nadal improved to 16-0 this year on the hard surface Monday, defeating American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the U.S. Open. "It's difficult to analyze now," Nadal said, when asked if he's playing the best hard-court tennis of his career. "I am playing well. Happy the way I was playing. I don't know if it was the best or not, but it was very good because I was able to win." The victory in front of a half-full Arthur Ashe Stadium marked the first for second-seeded Nadal on any Grand Slam surface other than clay since the first round of Wimbledon in 2012. Since then, Nadal has fallen to Lukas Rosol at the All England Club, withdrawn from the 2012 U.S. Open (knee) and 2013 Australian Open (stomach ailment), won the French Open and fallen to 135th-ranked Steve Darcis in the first round of this year's Wimbledon. Nadal answered that unexpected loss with 11 straight wins, all on hard court, to improve to 16-0 on the surface this season. He won titles at Montreal and Cincinnati in the leadin to the U.S. Open, which he won for the only time in 2010. "We go day to day," Nadal said. "Two tournaments before winning is great for my career because both tournaments are very important ones. But that
Rafael Nadal, of Spain, returns a shot to Ryan Harrison during the first round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament Monday, Aug. 26 in New York. (AP Photo)
(doesn't) mean I will play great here. That means that I am doing the right things." Harrison won't argue that point. The 21-yearold American got bullied around the court by Nadal, who hit 28 winners and forced Harrison into 32 errors. About the only thing to slow Nadal was a 15-minute break caused by a brief spit of rain that began just as Nadal had broken to go up 2-1 in the second set. The players stayed on the court and when they
resumed, Nadal won 10 of the next 13 games. Serving down 2-0 in the third and facing break point, Harrison followed a 131-mph serve into the net and put a volley deep into the corner on Nadal's backhand side. But Nadal answered with a clean passing shot and Harrison walked toward the sideline for the changeover and spiked a ball into his chair. "From what I see, and what I gather, these top guys are really, really good
Headhunters win, Kohima Komets, Orion enter quarter finals
at peaking at the slams," Harrison said. "They know how to get their best out of it." Harrison, meanwhile, keeps getting the worst of these Grand Slam draws. Ranked 97th and still looking to make his first decent run in a major, he has drawn Nadal once, Juan Martin del Potro once, Andy Murray once and Novak Djokovic twice in the first or second round of four of the last eight majors. He's 0-5 against them, 4-3 against everyone else. The Nadal
match was never close, but Harrison said he isn't losing hope. "If you're 30 years old and you've only got a number of Slams left, then maybe you're upset with it," Harrison told The Associated Press on Sunday, when asked about his draw. "I'm 21. I'm excited. Every single time I get to play a match like this, it's hard not to be excited. ... And if I don't want to play the top guys in the first round, then that's kind of an incentive to get seeded."
19TH CLASSIC CUP 2013
Zimbabwean player Sean Williams, right, jubilates as Pakistan's Mohammad Irfan reacts, as the host nation Zimbabwe beat Pakistan by 7 wickets in their One Day International in Harare, Tuesday, Aug, 27. (AP Photo)
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hARARE, AUGUST 27 (AFP): Zimbabwe held their nerve to complete a chase of 245 at the loss of three wickets to beat Pakistan in the first One Day International of a threematch series between the two countries being played here in Harare, on Tuesday. This is the first time in 15 years that Zimbabwe has beaten Pakistan in an ODI. Their last win came when Alastair Cambell led them to a comprehensive victory in Sheikhupura in 1998. After Pakistan set them a target of 245, Zimbabwe’s openers Hamilton Masakadza and Vusi Sibanda opened in commanding fashion to establish a century partnership.
The Pakistani bowlers seemed clueless as both openers struck them freely all over the ground. Sibanda fell soon to Saeed Ajmal soon after completing his half-century, but his partner Masakadza dominated his way to 85, an innings featuring nine fours and one six. Pakistan could manage only one more wicket after that as captain Brendan Taylor and an aggressive Sean Williams easily reached the target with 10 balls to spare. Williams sealed a historic victory for his team with a six off Mohammad Irfan in the penultimate over. Hamilton Masakadza was awarded Man of the Match. Earlier, Pakistan
won the toss and elected to bat first. A topsy-turvy innings saw Zimbabwe miss five chances in the field but still hold Pakistan to 244 for seven – a decent but achievable score on a dry Harare Sports Club surface. Misbah shared in a 99-run stand for the third wicket with Mohammad Hafeez, who made 70, and finished unbeaten on 83 after holding the innings together as Pakistan’s middle and lower order failed to fire. It could have been far worse for the tourists had Zimbabwe held their catches – both Nasir Jamshed and Ahmed Shehzad were put down during an opening partnership of 56, while Hafeez was let off on 10 and 55.
Orion FC and Prege FC players in action at the ongoing 19th Classic Cup at Kohima Local Ground on August 27. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent ter defeating Prege FC 4-2. Chisie Nyusou
fetched a hat-trick for Orion while Thukho Rhi added another goal for the team. SenyKohima Komets SC and Orion FC today ilo and Lhouviphrelie netted a goal each moved into teh quarter for Prege. With this, finals while HeadhuntOrion will clash with ers XI placed their pre- AUGUST 28 MATCHES Kohima Komets SC in Pre-quarter finals quarter finals berth the Ist quarter final on at the ongoing 19th August 30. Ist Match (12:00 noon) Classic Cup 2013 here In the last leg of secNew Market vs Meriema FC at the Kohima Local ond round today, Head2nd Match (1:30 PM) Ground. Kohima Komhunters XI blanked HQ (IGAR) (North) vs ets downed Vision FC Marvel FC 4-0 to enter Adroit Boyz Zubza 2-0 in the pre-quarter the pre-quarter finals. 3rd Match (3:30 PM) finals match today and Tiayanger netted two Nagaland Police vs Elite FC confirmed a ticket for goals for Headhunters quarter finals. K. Thopi while Khampani and and Kivi Zhimomi netted a goal each for Tiakaba contributed a goal each. HeadhuntKohima Komets. ers will now clash with 4th NAP FC in the Orion FC also entered quarter finals af- pre-quarter finals on August 29. Kohima |August 27
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