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Police caution on red beacon DIMAPUR, AUGUST 28 (MExN): The Superintendent of Police, Dimapur has informed that as per the government notification issued earlier, Dimapur traffic police will conduct strict checking on private and unauthorized vehicles using red beacon light/siren in and around Dimapur with immediate effect. The SP in a press note cautioned that offenders will be penalized as per provision of the law and the red beacon light/siren shall be seized accordingly.

KSU to lock down Mon DEO

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 28 (MExN): The Konyak Students Union has decided to lock down the District Education Office, Mon on August 29, as there are no Math and Physics teachers at the Mon Government Higher Secondary School. KSU President, T Methna Konyak informed that since the start of this academic session students have “suffered” due to the lack of teachers in the school. He informed that the examinations scheduled for September 6 “cannot be held as there are no teachers.” The KSU had approached the District Planning Board to address the issue, “but no action has been taken.” He revealed that elected members were urged to deputize two teachers (one from Tobu and one from Longwa) to GHSS, Mon. However, he lamented that the members were “reluctant to do that.” The KSU President further said that despite approaches to the higher authority, there has been no action. The KSU has resolved that the lockdown of the DEO’s office would continue until the matter is resolved and the welfare of the students is taken care of. The KSU President lamented that in the present scenario, the current batch of 55 students would all fail due to negligence of the authority.

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MUMBAI, AUGUST 28 (PTI): The rupee on Wednesday collapsed to a lifetime low of 68.85 against the dollar and closed at 68.80, registering its biggest single-day loss of 256 paise, as global oil prices jumped, deepening concerns about the current account deficit and capital outflows. Consistent dollar demand from banks and importers, mainly oil refiners, following higher crude oil prices, kept the rupee under pressure. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 66.90 a dollar against 66.24 previously and dropped to 68.75 in late morning deals. It recovered some ground in the afternoon after the central bank was said to have intervened but dropped to an all-time intra-day low of 68.85 before ending at 68.80, a fall of 256 paise or 3.86 per cent. “There is a shortage of dollars in the market as participants are expecting the rupee to fall to 70-72 level,” said Naveen Raghuvanshi, associate vice-president

Naga Country heading towards United Council stresses economic emergency: CPI on Naga rights

This file photo shows a bank employee counting Indian rupee notes, in Mumbai. The rupee plunged more than 3.6 percent to a new record low of 68.85 against the dollar on Wednesday.

at Development Credit Bank. “Even corporates are not willing to sell dollars at these levels. Whatever small supply of dollars is seen today, it is coming from the nationalized banks.” The finance ministry described Wednesday’s sharp fall in the rupee value as a reflection of “irrational sentiment” and said there is no need to panic. As the rupee continued its free fall against the dollar, cars, TVs, washing machines and other home appliances are set to cost

more, with companies set to hike prices to offset the impact on their margins. Foreign institutional investors continued their selling spree and withdrew a net Rs 1,120.43 crore of stocks on Wednesday. “Foreign investors sold $1 billion of equities in the past eight days,” said Pramit Brahmbhatt, CEO of Alpari Financial Services (India). “Dollar demand from oil importers as well as foreign investors will force the rupee to trade towards 70 levels in coming days.”

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28 (PTI): With the rupee breaching an all-time low of Rs 68 against the US dollar and fears of mounting fiscal deficit, the opposition on Wednesday targeted the UPA government. While the BJP said the government has run out of ideas and should quit, the Left parties said the country was heading towards an economic emergency. The BJP asserted the UPA should step down charging that it has “completely run out of ideas to deal with the crisis”. “I have been saying that the only thing that will stabilize rupee and market at this point of time is for the government to resign and go for fresh elections,” BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha said. “Indian economy under Manmohan Singh is on ventilator in the ICU,” Ravi Shankar Prasad deputy leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha said. “Why is the Prime Minister silent,” he asked, saying in the prevailing crisis, it was for the economist PM to assure the country of the steps being taken to deal with it. Making a veiled remark on enhanced public expenditure envisaged by the government on account of the proposed Food Security Bill, Prasad said “...in this scenario you keep doing reckless expenditure and populist measures. These will only aggravate the problem.” CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta said the country is heading towards “economic emergency.”

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 28 (MExN): The United Naga Council has resolved that no land in Naga areas will be allowed for development projects or exploitation of natural resources by Government agencies or companies without the free, prior and informed consent of land owners, respective tribe councils and the UNC. A press note from the UNC informed that this was decided through deliberation of the UNC Presidential Council at the town hall, Mao gate on August 27. The UNC said that Naga people are not against development of infrastructure or facilities in Naga areas. It claimed that ‘No Objection Certificates’ have been obtained from “simple minded villagers surreptitiously through back doors without their informed consent, as in the case of seismic survey for oil and natural gas.” It added that the “development aggression through mega projects” has sowed seeds of discord among the people and traditional ownership of land have been “disre-

spected.” The UNC asserted that such “mischief” will not be allowed henceforth and the tribe councils will closely monitor such attempts in their respective jurisdictions. The UNC said that forcible encroachment upon traditional territory through physical intrusion, transfer of land to other administrative units and attempts to barter away our land” while carrying out the Indo-Burma boundary fencing will be opposed without compromise. It further expressed concern at the “mushrooming of social and cultural organisations bearing umbrella names suggestive of membership and constitution, but without actual and due mandate of the people who are suggested/included in the nomenclature used by such organisations.” The UNC said that such organisations have been “used by the adversary to dilute our issues by creating confusion.” As such, it has decided that respective tribes council will check, disallow and derecognise any such organisation and individual behind such formation. The UNC informed that the 6th Tripartite talk between GoI, GoM and the Nagas in Manipur will be held in Delhi on the August 30.

son) of Chingmeirong, Tangkhul Avenue, Imphal, Manipur to suffer RI for two years U/s 468, 471 of IPC and fine of Rs. 10,000/- each on each count. They have also been sentenced to RI for one year U/s 120B and 420 of IPC each on each count and fine of Rs.10,000/- each on each count. In default of fine, to Simple Imprisonment (SI) for 3 months each on each count on 27/08/2013. In addition accused Jagjibon Chakraborty has

been sentenced to RI for one year and fine of Rs.10,000/- U/s 13(2) r/w13(1)(d) of P.C. Act 1988. In default of fine, SI for 3 months. The sentence of imprisonment will run concurrently. The Special Case, registered in 1990 and charge sheeted in 1992, was first heard in the Court of Ld. Deputy Commissioner (Special Judge), Dimapur and later transferred to the Ld. Court of Special Judge, Assam in 2003.

campaign to save CBI court awards punishment in Nagaland case the Amur falcons

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 28 (MExN): In response to the mass killing of Amur Falcons recorded last year, a campaign to protect the migratory birds has been launched in Wokha district. The ‘Friends of the Amur Falcon’ campaign will include nature education, creation of Amur Falcon Ecoclubs, patrolling and enforcement as well as scientific study of the birds. Thousands of Amur Falcons migrate through Nagaland every winter on their 22,000 journey from Siberia to South Africa. Nagaland Wildlife and B i o d ive r s i t y Conservation Trust, a Dimapur based NGO has taken the principal lead in this campaign. The campaign is supported by conservation institutions like Wildlife Conservation Society, Birdlife, Bombay Natural History Society, Raptor Research and Conservation Foundation and Wildlife Conservation Trust. There is also support from the Government of Nagaland. The local administration (Deputy Commissioner) as well as Department of Forests, Ecology, Environment and Wildlife will step up vigilance to prevent any hunting this season. Expressing his support, Chief Minister, Nephiu Rio

stated, “The state government is committed to end the unfortunate killings of the migratory Amur Falcons in Nagaland.” The CM added it is “our duty to protect the Amur Falcons and, in true Naga tradition of hospitality, treat them as honored and esteemed guests.” The NWBCT has kicked-off an education initiative covering areas visited by the falcons. A press note informed that this programme “opens a window into the world of nature education as a tool for conservation.” A ‘training the trainer’ workshop will prepare participants to help educate kids in the villages. The formation of Ecoclubs in specific villages will focus on nature and wildlife education, fieldwork, creative arts and photography. Bano Haralu, Managing Trustee of the NWBCT said that “local communities respond better when the youth are educated and this can only happen through intensive grassroot education.” In 2012, NWBCT documented the massacre of thousands of the Amur Falcons in Wokha district. The birds descend along the banks of the Doyang River, where hunters set up nets to catch them. These findings were published in Conservation India, resulting in national and international outcry.

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28 (MExN): The Special Judge, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Addl. Court No.1, has convicted two persons to Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) along with fines. The case relates to alleged fraudulent withdrawals of Income Tax Refunds amounting to Rs.5,32,987/- by Jagjibon Chakraborty, the then Tax Assistant, in “criminal conspiracy” with Keishing James on the basis of “fake/forged Income Tax De-

duction at Source (TDS) Certificates in the name of fictitious assesses and thereby cheated the Government of India.” According to a press release from the Addl. Director General (Media) of CBI headquarters in New Delhi, Ld. Special Judge, CBI, Addl. Court No.1, Chandmari, Guwahati convicted Jagjibon Chakraborty, the then Tax Assistant, Income Tax Office, Ward-Dimapur, Nagaland and Keishing James (Private per-

school hostel warden state govt should stand by held for raping 14 girls its commitment: AnGctA

ITANAGAR, AUGUST 28 (PTI): A shocking case of 14 minor girls allegedly raped by the hostel warden of a private school in Likabai in West Siang district has come to light after students reported the matter to police. The rape of the girls in the age group of 4 to 13 for over three years has triggered protests with local residents, students and members from the civil society hitting the streets last evening in protest. They gheraoed the Likabali Police Station, demanding capital punishment for the culprits. Vipin Wisvan, a teacher in the school, who also serves as warden of the hostel, was arrested yesterday in this connection. The school

principal and two other staff were also detained for interrogation. A case had been registered at the Likabali Police Station and an investigation was on, the police said. According to police, the molestation and rape of students were going on for three years. After committing the offence, the accused threatened the girls with dire consequences if they disclosed his act to their parents. It was alleged that when the matter was brought to the knowledge of the school principal by the students yesterday, the principal tried to hush up the matter. Then a few students mustered courage to scale the boundary wall and reported it to the police.

DIMAPUR , AUGUST 28 (MExN): The Action Committee of the All Nagaland Government College Teachers’ Association (ANGCTA) has said that the Nagaland state government’s decision to release the teachers’ pay arrears in 20% cash and 80% GPF is “in direct contravention of the instructions of the MHRD…which clearly directs the state govt. to pay the arrears in cash and to get the 80% central share reimbursed after producing the arrears payment evidence.” This was stated in a press release from the Convener and Member of ANGCTA’s Action Committee, formed to look into the issue of non-payment of arrears as per the 6th revision of pay from January 2006 to March 2010. The body also noted that the Higher and Technical Education Commissioner & Secretary’s state-

ment about that UGC pay scale implementation not being automatic but a “conscious decision” made by the Nagaland state government is “superfluous” because the UGC norms have already been accepted and being implemented in the state. “Our demand is merely that the state government stands by what it has already committed to,” it stated, also explaining why their demands are “reasonable.” While hoping that “our students” will continue to support the teachers, ANGCTA reiterated that the ongoing agitation has been “forced on us since all other alternate channels of redressal have been exhausted over the past couple of years.” The government college teachers have expressed their commitment to ensure that “lost time will be made up in full without any academic loss to the students.” Full text on page 4

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The Cloud Room inaugurated D. Block appeal for proper drainage Our Correspondent Kohima | August 28

Banuo Z Jamir, Additional Chief Secretary and Home Commissioner inaugurated the Cloud Room, a centre for counseling and psychological assessment, at the Orchid Hotel Kohima on August 28. “There have been so many changes in our society due to information technology, consumerism, affluence and poverty, fashion, television and internet accessibility. Most of us do not realize but it takes time for the mind to assimilate and adjust to these changes. Because of these effects, it creates tension in the mind. The state of the mind affects the body,” said Banuo Z Jamir during the inauguration. The Cloud Room with its statement Come and

A centre for counseling and psychological assessment

See aims to promote psychological health and well being which according to the founder of the Centre, Themmungla (Athem) Raman means “to find out and see who we really are in the light of God and learn our purpose.” Athem who is also a visiting consultant for the State Mental Health Institute says, “The need for psychological intervention (which many are not aware of) is what motivated me to start the centre. I've always wanted to but was scared to take a leap of faith. But after interacting and meeting with patients, I felt the

urgency even more.” Athem is particularly interested in providing mental health services and educational programs to population groups raised in Nagaland and around as she sees tremendous need for professional psychological care within our own unique social, political and economic set up. The Cloud Room offers counseling and psychotherapy for adults, psychological assessment for children and adolescents, group therapy and workshops for teachers and adolescents. Athem Raman is a Clinical Psychologist who has completed her M.A in Clinical psychology from Delhi University, and M. Phil from Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal with several years of experiences in the area of mental health.

Kohima | August 28

To avert second disaster, the residents of D. Block, Kohima made a fervent appeal to the concerned authority/department to construct a proper drainage system at the stream side. Talking to media persons, Avilie Angami said the people of Nagaland were relief for the good work of PWD for construction of retaining wall at the sinking area of D. Block, the lifeline road of Kohima. He however said that it do not know how long this road will be able to sustain as sinking started already just below the retaining wall. It expressed an apprehension that without proper drainage system at the bottom i.e stream side, this may create another second disaster at the same spot. Meanwhile, the citizen of D. Block appealed to the concerned department urban development or Nagaland Disaster Management Cell to immediately take up the matter with seriousness and construct proper drainage system at the stream side. Unless proper drainage system is done at the bottom i.e stream side the much effort put on upper side will not fetch a desirable result, said another citizen of D.Block.

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Vipralhou Kesiezie, director SCERT addressing ANPSA Kohima talent expo on August 28. (Morung Photo)

unfortunate that our educational system has given a premium to the academic workload and pushed the so called co-curricular activities to the fringed area of the school curriculum. The child therefore rarely gets the opportunity to showcase or proof the talents he/she has where he/ she could excel in life.” Kesiezie said the academic performance and records is no doubt the most essential records the child required in his/her life for further studies and seeking for jobs. Subscribing

Development consultation at Kohima today Kohima, august 28 (mExN): The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) in partnership with Development of Human Potential, Imphal is organizing a development consultation on August 29 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima at 9:00 AM. Chief secretary Alemtemshi Jamir, IAS will speak on “Nagaland Development Vision 2025: Government perspective” while Youthnet director Hekani Jakhalu will take second session on “Nagaland Development Vision 2025: Youth Perspective.” Rev. Dr. W. Pongsing Konyak, director MMI will talk on the topic “Nagaland Development Vision 2025: Church perspective.” Welcome address will be delivered by NBCC general secretary Rev. Dr. Anjo Keikung. Moderators for the consultation include; Dr. Botoholi, secretary education and communication NBCC, Nuklu Phom, executive secretary PBCA, Dr. Atsi Dolie, executive director ABCC and Rev. Dr. Thamthing Ruiva, director DHP.

BJYM Nagaland meeting on Aug 31

Dimapur, august 28 (mExN): BJYM Nagaland has convened a meeting on August 31, at 2:00 pm BJP state office super market Dimapur. BJYM Nagaland, General Secretary Organisation, Mathew K Janger in a press release has requested all the state BJYM both executive and office bearer to attend the meeting without fail.

music as an important part of our lives and culture, he stressed on the need to preserve and promote the same. In education, he said, besides getting a degree, the application of knowledge is rather more important when it comes to competition. He cited an instance, besides the knowledge you have of the subject matter the skills you have in expression, presentation of your points or arguments more importance are given on those aspects when it comes to competi-

Sinking visible below retaining wall at D Block, Kohima. (Morung Photo)

tion for jobs. It is not at all surprising that generally the most successful persons in any professions are good in oratory/speaking (politicians, lawyers, teachers, preachers, bureaucrats etc. Having realised the importance of these skills and talents of the students, he said the department of SCERT Nagaland has organised the Ist state level spelling bee competition last year with an objective to provide the students to hone their skills in spelling and its meanings and also

building their confidence in facing the public. He also stated that the 2nd edition of spelling bee competition along with extempore speech and elocution will take place from September 26 to 28 at Kohima. “We anticipate that through these literary activities we will be able to produce young confident strong leaders for our society who will be able to compete with anybody even at the national level,” he said. The director invited one and all to be part of this mega event. ANPSA advisor Phe-

luopfelie also exhorted the gathering. ANPSA Kohima unit president Chumchano delivered welcome address. The talent expo was marked by extempore speech and solo competition. Judges for extempore speech were Tsukjemkala, Baptist High, Nyanbeni Dorothy, St. Joseph School Chandmari and Urmila Rasaily, Chandmari HSS. Judges for solo: Meribeni Zares, choir director LBCK, Melekhoto Pucho, prop of Symphony School of Music and Moses Khruomo youth pastor Cross Wonder Church. WINNERS Extempore speech Ist –Norhievito Nagi- Baptist Mission School Jotsoma 2nd – Tolino Chishi- Little Flower HSS 3rd- Jyoti- Baptist High

Solo Ist –Vizunu, Model HSS 2nd – Wingamkamliu- Little Flower HSS 3rd- Menuoseu SorhieNorthfield Special award for upcoming talent sponsored by Symphony School of Music: Azila, Baptist High

Solomon Khiam in a press release said that the visiting officials inspected the development of the health centre and the activities carried out by the health workers in the district. Commissioner & Secretary H&FW Sentiyanger (IAS) while interacting with the medical staff urged to streamline the functioning in all the sector and to maintain communication interlink age among the staff. He also stressed that MCH, ANC, Immunization and

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Kohima, august 28 (mExN): The Northern Angami Students Union (NASU), having seen the non-compliance by some city buses, unawareness of students in particular and public in general of the existence of revised rate of city bus fare in Kohima undertook an awareness drive in the form of checking on August 27. NASU President Kehounei-o Thernuo and General Secretary Ruokuovizo Chiese in a press release said that during the checking many buses were not implementing the revised rate. Therefore, the Union with its volunteers enforced the compliance by the defaulters of the directive. “Taking into consideration the plight of the students’ community in particular and the public in general, the union will continue in its endeavour to enforce the compliance of the directive,” NASU officials said. It further added that in the near future, if any city bus were found violating the fixed rate and the directive, the Union would resort to the course of action. The Union also appeals to the authority concerned

to implement the fixed rate and directive, and to penalize the defaulters as per provision of law. Earlier, the Regional Transport Authority under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner had fixed the revised rate of city bus fare in Kohima as follows: NPSC Officer to New Secretariat-Rs. 5; New Secretariat to Govt. Hr. Sec. School Junction-Rs. 5; Govt. Hr. Sec. School Junction to Razhu Point-Rs. 10; Razhu Point to PHQ Point-Rs. 10; PHQ Point to AG-Rs. 10; PHQ Point to Lerie-Rs. 10. In this revised fixation, a clause was contained directing to charge only half of the fixed fare for students in uniform, disabled persons and old aged people. Subsequently, it was further learnt that the City Bus Owners Union Kohima had issued a directive for compliance and charge only 50% of fare for people who board or dropdown halfway of the designated points. For grievances or complaint, students or public may contact the NASU Office through Mobile No. 9774412415/ 9862977797.

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Commissioner & Secretary H&FW Sentiyanger (IAS) inspecting District Hospital Tuensang during supervision visit.

Ungru Agri Link Road at Chungtia Village inaugurated moKoKchuNg, august 28 (mExN): I. Panger Imchen, Director of Agriculture inaugurated Ungru Agri Link Road at Chungtia Village, Mokokchung district on August 28. Temjensoba, Deputy Director chaired the programme while Lipok, Pastor Longjenkong Baptist Church invoked God’s blessings. Er. Achakbou Newmai Senior Agri Engineer presented technical report, Y. Temsu Ao Village Council Chairman,

WoKha, august 28 (mExN): The Wokha District Legal Services Authority organized a one-day legal awareness seminar for the students and teachers of Vivekananda Kendra Vidalaya, Doyang, Wokha. A press note from the WDLSA stated that the resource persons were penal advocates including Phuleto Yeptho, civil Judge, Wokha and Oren Humtsoe, R. Limhathung Ezong, Alemwapang, Zuchumpeni Ngullie and Athunglo Humtose. Some of the topics discussed were on FIR, rights when arrested, Domestic Violence Act, Juvenile Justice, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties, Consumer Rights, RTI, Right to Education, NLSA Act and Para-legal volunteers.

MCTS should be strictly administered by the medical staff and expect improvement in service delivery and record keeping. The officers also express concern over irregularity and non-performances among some medical staff and called upon to perform the duty diligently and provide best services in their assign health unit.

Chungtia thanked the Department of Agriculture & NABARD for constructing 5.20 KM Agri link road covering potential areas. Officers from the Department of Agriculture, Kiyevi Sumi DAO, Zunheboto, Dikhalo SDO (W), K. Among Junior Engineer, T.Wathy Junior Engineer, Thomas K. Abraham Junior Engineer, Hepito Sectional Officer, Village Council members and villagers attended the inaugural function.

Teachers and church workers trained on AEP

Dimapur, august 28 (mExN): Training on Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) was conducted for school teachers and church workers under Peren district from August 19 to 27. The two-day training was conducted in three batches for teachers of government higher and high school, private high schools, government middle schools as well as youth director and presidents of different churches under Peren district. According to a press note received here, altogether 90 teachers and 25 representatives from churches were trained. The District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU), Peren district organized the training funded by Nagaland State Control Society (NSACS) with support from the Medical Department, Peren district. The resource persons during the AEP training Students and teachers of Vivekananda Kendra Vidalaya, Doyang, Wokha were Smita Sarangi (IAS) ADC Peren, Bodeno S Colo attending the legal awareness seminar.

WDLSA organises legal awareness seminar

NASU conducts checking for non-compliance of bus fare rate

Health and Family Welfare officials visit Tuensang

tuENsaNg, august 28 (mExN): As part of yearly monitoring and supervision visit, department of Health & Family Welfare headed by Sentiyanger (IAS), Commissioner & Secretary H&FW, Dr. Taku Lamtor, Additional Director H&FW and Dr. Kika Longkumer, Deputy Director (NRHM) visited District Hospital Tuensang, Longkhim CHC, Kuthur PHC, Noklak CHC and Samator PHC on August 22 and 23. DPMU (NRHM) Tuensang District Media Officer

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ANPSA Kohima talent expo cum competition concludes

The All Nagaland Private Schools Association (ANPSA) Kohima unit today conducted its 3rd talent expo-cum-competition under the theme ‘Believe and achieve’ here at Little Flower Higher Secondary School Kohima. Gracing the occasion as the chief guest, Vipralhou Kesiezie, director SCERT said that the achievements of humanity in various fields such as works in music, literature, painting, architecture, sculpture etc are impressive and amazing. He added that the recent developments in the field of science and technology have added new dimensions in our lives making radical changes in things we do and create. He said the ultimate goal of education is to bring about all round development of the child personality through various activities, adding that setting life goals and challenges and providing opportunities to individuals is the greatest responsibility of education for growth and progress. He, however said, “It is

ADC Peren, Dr. Hedungkiebe MO & Nodal Officer NPCB, Dr. Asape MO DH Peren, Khriethonuo Tungoe DPO DAPCU and Ngauzeulungbe DIS DAPCU. The resource persons took up topics on Life skills education, Understanding Adolescents, Gender and Gender roles, Substance Abuse, Sexual Abuse, teenage pregnancy and its consequences and use of the question box technique. The AEP training was concluded successfully with positive responses from the trainees who were eager to take up the topics in their respective schools and churches to educate the students/youths and help guide them with the right information as well as enhance their life skills. Each of the trainees prepared plan of Action in the concluding session. The participants shared that the training has not only capacitated them but has also been very educative for them.

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Myanmar Army intrudes into Manipur border village

New Delhi, August 28 (heADliNes toDAy): Still grappling with a season of incursions by Pakistan and China in Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Army now has to deal with the Myanmar Army after it intruded into Manipur. Headlines Today have confirmed that the Ministries of Home Affairs, De-

fence and External Affairs are aware of the intrusion and at various stages of dealing with it. The intrusion took place around 5 km from Moreh Police Station in Chandel district of Manipur’s. The area falls under the 9 Assam Rifles unit, which reports to the home ministry. The fresh territorial problems arise from a 10km border fence on the

North East power woes to be tackled

Indo-Myanmar border in Chandel district. According to Indian Army sources, Myanmar Army’s 87 Light Infantry was found laying groundwork for a platoon base camp in Holenphai, a frontier village that Myanmar claims is within their territory. Holenphie village is located around 100 km south-east of Manipur capital Imphal. Last week, village chief

Lalkholun Haokip was on an inspection round in the area when he chanced upon Myanmar Army’s preparations. The Myanmar Army soldiers they saw working in the area refused to answer their questions and asked the Indians to contact their seniors. The following day, an IAS officer from the area, Robert Kshetrimayum, conducted a spot inspection.

The Commanding Officer of the Myanmar Army’s 87 Light Infantry met with Indian officials but refused to stop the work claiming two things: the territory they were building the platoon base on was Myanmar’s and the instructions to build the camp had come from higher authorities and therefore it was not a local level decision that could be negotiated. Official sources say the

AgArtAlA, August 28 (iANs): Power ministers and top officials of the north eastern region will meet in Agartala next week to finalise the strategy to complete the power projects under construction in the region and to deal with transmission problems, a Tripura minister said here Wednesday. The two-day meeting of the North Eastern Regional Power Committee (NERPC) comprising Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura will be held here September 4-5. “The northeastern region has been facing numerous problems in the power sector. The NERPC would take some specific steps to complete the under construction power projects in the region in their re-scheduled time frame,” Tripura Power Minister Manik Dey told IANS. Dey, who is the chairman of the NERPC, said that the region can produce more than 60,000 MW of power if the resources available in the region can be utilised properly. “The region has also being facing numerous problems on power transmission among the seven states,” he added. Power ministers of the seven northeastern region and representatives of power sector PSUs under the central government are the members of the NERPC. According to an official document of state-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO), the hydro-power potential alone of the northeastern region is estimated at about 58,971 MW, but only less than two percent (1,200 MW) has so far been harnessed till early this year. The thermal and other natural resource based power projects can generate several thousand MW more electricity in the power and industry starved region. According to the NEEPCO document, 19 power projects, including twelve 3,918 MW capacity hydel power Indian agriculture laborers replant paddy saplings on the outskirts of Gauhati, India on projects and four thermal power projects with installed August 27. The lower house of Indian Parliament Monday approved a landmark bill that capacity of 5,595 MW, are now in various stages of com- proposes to provide cheaper grain to more than 800 million across the country. (AP Photo) missioning and planning in the northeastern region by different organisations, including NEEPCO. The power plants either being set up or would be set up are in Running Succesfully Since 2002 Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Mizoram A-TOZ COACHING CENTRE and Tripura. (An ISO 9001-2008 certified institute)

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Myanmarese Commanding Officer also showed the Indian officials a detailed Myanmar map which depicted Holenphai village falling within neighbouring country’s territory. Sources indicate that the 87 Light Infantry of the Myanmar Army and the 9 Assam Rifles are in touch over the issue, though construction work has apparently not ceased at the village.

A senior Army official from the Kolkata-based Eastern Command said the dispute on the border village arose after the disappearance of three pillars demarcating the boundary between India and Myanmar. However, he said the issue had been amicably resolved after a post-level meeting between the Myanmar and Indian Army near the village on August

26.

imphAl, August 28 (the hiNDu): Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam Gangmei who holds the Home portfolio has said that the government takes a serious view of the reports that some areas of Manipur may be usurped by Myanmar after the erection of the border fence. Talking to journalists in Imphal on Wednesday, Gangmei said that there is no Indian who will be happy when some areas are lost to a neighbour. He said that the Manipur government is keeping its eyes and ears open and is certainly not remaining

silent over the issue. “The government had set up a high powered committee to look into the issue. The committee members had visited the border areas and government is waiting for its report. As soon as the government receives the official report a ministerial team will visit the border areas to make an on-the-spot inquiry,” he said. He further said that the Manipur government is sending reports of all developments on the border issue to the Union government. The government committee headed by Principal

Secretary (Home) Suresh Babu had visited the border areas on Monday. Babu told journalists that it was a security fence and not a border fence. But he was silenced by activists who wanted to know which part of India’s border has both security and border fences side by side. Why should a security fence bifurcate most of the tribal villages along the border, they wanted to know. Governor Ashwani Kumar also visited the border areas on Tuesday. He assured the people that he will take up the matter with the Union government.

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CONDEMNATION The mental harassment meted out and which is a sustain one in nature to a respected senior citizen of Dimapur Shri M.Longri Pongen and his family in the form of unimaginable use of language tone in the letter threatening for bloodshed is out rightly contempt. The Mangmetong Union Kohima hope and prays that a wisdom for compassion and peace conceives in the mind of those responsible and with this entails a closing of such harassment prevails. -Sd(I.KIKUM LONGCHAR) President, MUK

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A Response to the Open Letter to Thihu Khamo Asst. Secretary, Federal Government of Nagaland Mr. Assistant Secretary, selves which of the view is Federal Government of Na- correct, rather than issue galand, SIR, an ‘invitational’ summons with a rigid date , time and thank you for your place to teach me history ‘invitation’. While do- lessons. I was never too ing so, may I also full keen in attending class heartedly endorse what during my collage years you have said that “Naga and that habit has still not Nation does not belong to waned. However, since only one person but is a this is a common issue that common property of ev- concerns all the Nagas, I ery Naga and Nagas as a would gladly participate whole”. It is precisely be- should you call for such a cause of this reason that I meeting of all the Factions have been making efforts (which should invariably within the limits of my un- include the Accordist and derstanding to generate a the Non- Accordist facfair open minded public tions of the NNC and the discourse to establish clar- FGN), all the Tribal Hohos ity rather than confusion and all the other NGOs so for all our sakes. If you are that together we can have a confused by my points of full fledged debate to clear view it is your responsibil- our heads. ity to come and have it clarThank you for humified, otherwise express bling me about my lack of your own in the public do- “much knowledge about main for the people living the Naga historical backin the ‘common Naga Na- ground of the Naga nation” tion’ to decide for them- because from my “youth

till my retirement”, I “have been in the service of the Government of India”. I would assume that with your numerous sacrifices for the Nation made from your Transit Peace Camp, Kohima, you would have attained the status of a demi-God by now to know and impose who has and who has no knowledge of the Naga history, especially with a gun in hand. Yes, I readily agree that I don’t know much and have an open mind to always welcome an opportunity to learn more, but certainly not under unhealthy environment. Let me just say this as simply as I can for you to understand that I consider myself as being a thorough Naga with all my limitations. Let me also tell you this, that having served under the Government of India did not necessarily involve a dilution of my

pride of my identity as a Naga. Every bit of that service period has been spent to render the best I can for the welfare of the people of Nagaland not any place else. Neither have I served with a closed up mind not to see the blatant hypocrisy within the once proud united national movement and the mockery we have made of the sacrifices of the generation that went before us. It is very sweet of you to want to “share the love God” with me. Personally I am a God fearing man and I have yet to get over it. Besides, enlightening me alone in some quiet secluded corner would not solve the Naga confusion or problem. It is your privilege to invite me and it my privilege to humbly decline your invitation. So thank you again. Khekiye K. Sema

Vibgyor Vehicles showroom inaugurated in Dmr Dimapur, august 28 (mExN): To the delight of motorcycle lovers in Nagaland, Vibgyor Vehicles – one of the strongest arms of the Vibgyor Group of companies – has introduced its brand motorcycle in Dimapur. A press note informed that Vibgyor Vehicles, located opposite Reliance Petrol Pump, near City Tower Junction, was inaugurated on August 28 evening. The showroom is owned by Nagali Chishi. The note said that Vibgyor bikes have an edge over other varieties due to its affordable pricing and superior features, high level fuel efficiency, flawless and immaculate build and easy availability of spares and services. It first product ‘Gallop’- a 100 cc motorbike in attractive designs and colors – has captured sizeable share of the motorbike market of the country in less than a year of its commercial launch. It has also caught the attention of countries like Bangladesh

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ANGCTA responds to news items

graduate+NET +Ph.D.” The UGC he attention of the Action 26th August 2013, the government norms clearly state that the criteria committee ANGCTA has been has declared the release of pay arfor recruitment of lecturers is Postdrawn to the contents of the rears of government college teachGraduate + NET, which has been several news items and news reers with “payment of 20% in cash as maintained since implementation leases which appeared in the local state share and the remaining 80% of the UGC norms in 2010. Ph.D is media on 26th and 27th August 2013 of the arrears which is the share of not mandatory, but several incenin which several misleading and erthe Govt. of India shall be impoundtives are given to those teachers roneous statements have been made. ed /credited into the GPF accounts” who acquire this degree. Prior to 1. In the press release by Commisand which shall be allowed to be this, the requirement for recruitsioner & Secretary HE&TE, condrawn as and when the central govment was Post-graduate, prefercerning the on-going agitation of ernment releases its share. This is in ably with NET. The question of govt. college teachers, he has made direct contravention of the instructeachers being appointed without a reference to the Supreme Court tions of MHRD vide letter no.F.1following UGC norms, therefore, judgments, concerning the fact that 2/2012 —U.II dated 14.11.12 does not arise. This also begs the the “retirement age and pay scale which clearly directs the state govt. question of who appoints the lecfixed by the U.G.C.” are not subject to pay the full arrears in cash and turers, since the lecturers do not to “automatic application.... withto get the 80% central share reimappoint themselves. Perhaps the out any conscious decision being bursed after producing the arrears government should do some introtaken by the state in this regard”. payment evidence. spection on itself. This statement is superfluous, givIn conclusion, ANGCTA reiterates en the fact that the said UGC norms 3. In the same news item, a reference that our on-going agitation has been has been made to the UGC recom- forced on us, since all other alternate has been accepted and is already mended retirement age which “the channels of redressal have been exbeing implemented by the state, state govt. was not inclined to in- hausted over the past couple of years presumably following “conscious crease from the current 60 to 65 and this last resort has been taken in decisions” taken by the state govt. years which would open the Pan- the hope that the govt. may give sein this regard. Certainly, it is the dora Box…” ANGCTA would like to rious thought to our legitimate and prerogative of the state to adopt clarify that this demand was not genuine demand, instead of the usual or not adopt these norms and we originally on the agenda for the on- evasive and myopic attitude that we cannot, nor do we “claim these fagoing agitation. It was inserted into have encountered so far. We sincerely cilities as a matter of right”. Our the minutes of the ANGCTA meet- hope that our students will continue demand is merely, that the state ing by certain ANGCTA function- to support us and in turn, we are fully government stands by what it has aries, without the sanction of the committed to ensure that lost time already committed to. general body, for their own vested will be made up in full without any 2. In a news item which appeared interests. The demand of ANGCTA academic loss to the students. in Nagaland Post on 27th August is simply that the government re2013, the government “has asked leases our ROP arrears as commitANGCTA to be reasonable with Dr. Maongsangba ted by them on several occasions. their demands since the governConvener, To any objective observer, surely ment has appointed teachers ANGCTA Action Committee this demand comes well within the without following the required realm of being “reasonable”? UGC norms” and that “UGC norms Amos Ovung require a teacher to be a post- 4. In the government notification date Member, ANGCTA Action Committee

Condemnation and reaction to USR (NSCN-IM)

Vibgyor motorcycles being displayed in the showroom located opposite Reliance Petrol Pump, near City Tower Junction in Dimapur.

and Nepal. The company has also planned to come up with new bike models in 100cc, 125cc, 250cc and 350cc in near future. Vibgyor Vehicles has previously launched three vehicles in the three wheel-

er segment, namely Vibgyor Auto (passenger carrier), Vibgyor Cargo (carrier with cabinet) and Vibgyor Van (open carrier) priced between Rs 1.75 lakh and Rs 1.75 lakh. The three wheelers

have extra-long (30%) deck in the Vibgyor carrier, extra volume in Vibgyor Cargo. Besides, it has extra strong chassis, extra strong fork, extra strong body and extra mileage over others in the segment.

he Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) strongly condemn the 24th August incident in Kiphire District where T. Torechu Parliamentary Secretary for Excise, Economic & Statistics, Legal Metrology &Consumer Protection, Nagaland and his entourage were frisked reportedly by some suspected cadres of United Sangtam Region (USR) of NSCN (IM) in three different locations without any valid reason. It is highly questionable to the higher authorities of the NSCN (IM) as to whether its armed cadres were assigned to harass or attack the elected member of the State and under what circumstances the life attempt has been meted out. If a person like Parliamentary Secretary who is escorted by police personnels is not secured, then there is no security and safety for mere public. Such barbaric acts of our Naga National workers has created

fear psychosis in the minds of the public and disrupted the peaceful atmosphere. The recent heinous act is a clear violation of ceasefire ground rules by NSCN (IM) cadres who are supposed to remain at their respective designated camps. It may be stated that as soon as the information is received about the incident, some of the officials of YAA stationed at Pungro Town rushed to the Parliamentary’s residence before he and his entourage reaches to take note of the reasons behind and if any illegal things were carried. However, in non of the vehicles found carrying banned liquors as alleged by NSCN (IM) USR through the press statement. The YAA strongly term the statement as character assassination and an attempt to tarnish the good image of Yimchunger leader. Furthermore, it would have been so wise on the part of any responsible National workers to punish

the erring cadres instead of misleading the general public by making false allegation. It is deeply regretted the regional authority had only dragged such a reputed leader into their hands by accusing him of “transporting and supplying” liquor which is unbecoming and does not bear any valid reason. The YAA therefore, strongly condemn the life attempt of Parliamentary Secretary T. Torechu by our Naga National workers and demanded the higher authorities of the NSCN (IM) to handover those cadres involved in the incident to law enforcing agencies at the earliest. T.M Susang Vice President Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako

M. Shophu Joint Secretary Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako

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The Morung Express

Thursday 29 August 2013

Trust in DAN government: Zeliang

NokseN, August 28 (MexN): Minister of Planning and Coordination, T.R. Zeliang while campaigning for NPF candidate CM Chang for Noksen assembly constituency bye-election called upon Nagas to believe and have trust in the NPF led DAN government, as it is the only government that can deliver maximum benefits to the Naga people. Addressing the public at Kumpung and Yokumsang village on Tuesday, Campaign team leader T.R. Zeliang said that NPF party is spreading its wing in the north east and gaining popularity in the country as the oldest and the most performing regional party. He said that it is committed to deliver maximum goods to the people in the next five years. He stated that the achievement of NPF led DAN government in the last ten years is much more than the achievement of any other government dur-

Minister for Planning t.R. Zeliang, deputy Chairman sPB, P. Longon and party workers at Yokumsang Village on tuesday while campaigning for nPF candidate CM Chang.

ing the last forty years of statehood. He said that a major achievement of NPF led DAN government is the successful protection of Naga rights by reigniting

NPA informs on enrolment DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The Nagaland Press Association has informed media persons in the state that the process of enrolment to the Nagaland Press Association (NPA) had begun based on an earlier circular dated November 25, 2011, which had been issued to all Nagaland based RNI registered newspapers. A review meeting of the NPA Interim body was held on August 27-28, 2013 wherein it was decided to complete the enrolment process by September 15, 2013 and after which a General Body meeting will be convened for the purpose of electing new office bearers. This was informed through a press note from the President of the NPA, K Temjen Jamir. The note said that while quite a good number of media persons have submitted their forms and membership fees, many have still to enroll themselves and for which this press statement is being circulated as a reminder for “all concerned media friends.” The NPA has requested the respective Editors/Publishers to ensure that those who have not yet enrolled to do so on or before September 15, 2013. For those working as a freelancer, correspondent, photo journalist or as media practitioner, the prescribed membership forms can be collected from Dilip Sharma, Assistant Editor, Nagaland Page , Dimapur (9436003433) or H. Chishi, Correspondent, The Telegraph, Kohima (9436011581).

and defending the clauses of Article 371 (A) of the Indian Constitution, which according to Zeliang is almost equivalent to achieving sovereignty. Zeliang while address-

ing people in Kumpung and Yokumsang stated that the DAN government will comfortably complete its five years term. Therefore, be prepared to join the ruling party by voting for DAN

candidate, he added. He said that even if the Congress party wins the Noksen AC seats, it will never be able to form the government as the party fall shorts of legislators

by a large number. “They (Congress) don’t reach the required number even to have Opposition leader in the assembly because they have only eight members and even if they win the Noksen, seat they will not get the required number”, he added. Deputy Chairman, State Planing Board, P. Longon, who also spoke during the campaign, asserted that voting for the DAN candidate will benefit the people of Noksen in particular and state in general as the DAN is ruling the state. “We (DAN) love Noksen public. We want them to join us in the government and not in opposition side so that they get maximum benefit in the next four and half years”, said P. Longon while addressing people in Kumpung and Yokumsang. He added that the only way for the public of Noksen assembly constituency to progress is to join the ruling party.

86 % milk samples from Nagaland flout FSSR

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): A national survey conducted by the Food Safety and Standards of Authority of India shows that 86 percent of milk samples collected from Nagaland did not conform to the Food Safety and Standards Regulations (FSSR), 2011. This denotes that Nagaland registered the sixth highest percentage of milk samples

that did not conform to the aforementioned regulations. This was revealed by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare at the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, August 27. Overall, 68.4 percent of milk samples collected from all states did not conform to the safety standards and regulations. Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Daman and Diu, Jharkhand,

Orissa, West Bengal and Mizoram registered 100 percent of non conforming samples while Goa and Puducherry registered zero percent of non conforming samples. A communiqué from the Press information Bureau, Government of India informed that implementation of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 rests with

State/UT Governments. Random samples of food items including milk are drawn by the State Food Safety Officers and sent to the designated food testing laboratories for analysis. It added that penal action is taken against the offenders, in case samples are found not conforming to the provisions of the FSS Act and Regulations.

Officers and Staff of Administrative Training Institute, Nagaland, Kohima who had a full working day on the August 28 to clean and rearrange the whole office complex, viz- Administrative Block, Training Block and Hostel block. This was necessitated because on all working days the institute is always busy with different training programmes. The day ended with a working lunch.

NZP receives 10 foot Python Janmasthami celebrated in Dimapur

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): A Python measuring about 10 feet in length and weighing around 15 Kg was rescued and brought to the Nagaland Zoological Park today. On receiving report of the python’s capture, the Director of Nagaland Zoological Park, Tongpangzemba Ao personally rushed to the spot and brought the python to the Zoological Park. A press note from the Officer in Charge of NZP informed that the Python was rescued in Khova Nalla in 50

the ten foot python which was recovered at the Chief Secretary’s field and subsequently handed over to the nagaland Zoological Park.

Pura area by attendants in the Chief Secretary's field. On getting the report from the attendants in the field, it was immediately reported to the Zoological Park after which the Director brought the py-

thon to the Zoo. The Director expressed gratitude to the Chief Secretary for the initiative shown in conservation of wildlife and urged the people to preserve the wildlife of the state.

whose lifeless mutilated body was found at a river between AG Colony and Assam Rifles Helipad, Kohima on Saturday. This ghastly act of murdering of an infant who most certainly would have done no harm to anybody deserves the strongest condemnation from all sections of the society. NGA and KGMS request the law enforcing agencies to do all within their powers to seize the senseless, mindless criminals and bring them to justice. They also offer their deepest condolences to the bereaved family and pray that the soul of the deceased boy would find eternal peace.

never repeat such crime in the future. The Association also condole the death and prays that God may give strength to the family members to overcome the loss of their only son.

CondEMnatIons

GPPK kohIMA, August 28 (MexN): The Gorkha Public Panchayat, Kohima (GPPK) today expressed shock to learn about the abduction and subsequent murder of ten year boy Robin Rumtel, son of Raj Kumar Rumtel a resident of Midland, Kohima. GPPK while condemning the incident in a press note said, “Time has come for everyone to be alert and come forward to control such crime in the State, so that incident of such nature may not occur in future.” The Panchayat also appeal to all right thinking citizen to condemn the incident and support the law enforcing agencies to seize the culprit at the earliest. Further, the Panchayat express heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family and pray to the almighty for the soul of the child to rest in peace.

NGA, KGMS

The Nagaland Gorkha Association and Kohima Gorkha Mahila Samity in a joint condemnation note said that they are deeply shocked by the murder of Robin Kumar Rumtel

NERSA

The North Eastern Region Service Nepali Association (NERSA) Kohima has vehemently condemned the brutal murder of Robin Kumar Rumtel in Kohima, where his body was found on Saturday. NERSA appeals everyone to condemn such inhuman crime committed on a minor boy and request the law enforcing agencies to seize the culprit and award exemplary punishment so that people

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The Hindu Seva Samiti, Dimapur celebrated Janmasthami, the Holy Birth Anniversary of Bhaghawan Sri Krishna on the August 28 at Bharat Seva Ashram Sangha. A press note informed that many Hindu organizations of different denomination of Hinduism like Bhojpuri Samaj, Bengali Samaj, Gorkha Samaj, Mawrari Samaj, indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland etc participated with full enthusiasm. The celebration started with a

Procession (Rath Yatra) at 8 am in the morning from Bharat Seva Ashram Sangha covering the main roads of Dimapur, which was coordinated by Manoj Bhattacharjee, Principal Pranab Vidhyapith H.S. School. A religious congregation started at 10:30 am, where Acharya Santosh Kumar Shastri graced the occassion as chief guest. He spoke on the significance of the Bhaghavat Gita, which is considered to be one of the Main Scripture of Hinduism. Samir Kumar

Saha, Vice President of HSS delivered the welcome speech, Dr. A.B. Chowdhary, President HSS, Tek Bhadur, President, Gorkha Hindu Milan Sewa Sangha, Jetmal Daga, President Hanuman Mandir also spoke on the occasion. Some student of PVHHS recited the slokes of Sri Gita with full devotion. Vote of thanks delivered by Ashim Sarkar. The whole program was conducted by Yogendra Gutpa, Advocate. All the devotees were distributed Prasad at the end.

MEx FILE

SDO (PHE) Peren informs DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The office of the Sub Divisional Officer PHED, Peren sub division has informed the public of Peren Town that the main line water supply has been damaged by a tree that fell on the pipeline owing which the water supply has been temporarily disconnected. A press note from the SDO (PHE) said that the department ensures the earliest repairing of the damaged pipeline and restoration of water supply. The SDO also called for the public to bear with the inconvenience.

District GB Association informs

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): All the District GB Association are informed to initiate the clearance of paper works from DC’s office to furnish detail report of GB’s corpus fund last payment along with the list and submit ACS & Commissioner Nagaland at the earliest. DGBA general secretary A Taku Longkumer in a press release informed that only after receiving the payment report from all districts only the current payment which was decided on last GB’s corpus fund board meeting has to be disburse from the Commissioner office.

ZPO print out customary law in booklet

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The joint consultative meeting of Zeliang People’s Organisation (ZPO) was held with Liangmai, Zeme Council, Chairman Union and GB’s Union at Jalukie Administrative Rest House on August 27. ZPO, secretary, Kerang Dumtta in a press release said that the meeting discussed various issues concerning the people with the district including the Zeliang Customary laws and practices. The house resolved to print out in booklet the complied Zeme and Liangmai customary law in the next meeting for future references and settlement of dispute. The meeting also strictly wary new self vested interest groups as organisation mushrooming in the district, trying to create confusion in the society.

Namri Nchang calls for change of mindset

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): MLA from 6th Tening AC, Namri Nchang convened a consultative meeting with frontal organisations, GBs, village councils and NGOs of Nkio-Khelma and Ahthibung area on August 28. According to a press note Nchang said, “we should change our mindset for progress and development” even when all the people of Nagaland are looking forward to celebrate 50th year of statehood. He added that “if we don’t change our mindset and mentality, our area will remain dormant and undeveloped.” Requesting the people of the area to co-operate for maximum development he urged the public to be competent in any activity and move forward to pioneer exemplary acts for other areas of the district. Revealing that the NPF led DAN government is all set to develop the area in the coming days with solidarity support from the Chief Minister Shri. Neiphiu Rio, he however maintained that misunderstanding and narrow-mindedness could lead to obstacle and hindrances to the projected developments of the area.

Households survey in Dimapur underway

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): All the village council chairman and GBs under Dimapur district are informed that the fourth round of district level households survey with the objective of estimating reliable indicators of population, maternal and child health and family planning is being undertaken from August 26. DC Dimapur N Hushili Sema, IAS in a press release has requested all concerned to extend all possible assistance to the field survey team for the smooth conduct of the same.

MAPO nomenclature changed

kIPhIRe, August 28 (MexN): The village councils under Mimi area, Kiphire district held a joint meeting on August 21 at Mimi Hq and unanimously decided to changed the nomenclature of Mimi Area Peoples’ Organisation (MAPO) to Mimi Circle Joint Council (MCJC). MCJC president Paul Azho in a press release has requested the public concerned to note the changes of this nomenclature to avoid any confusion.

ESSU condoles

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The ESSU has deeply mourned at the sudden demise of its former leader Khejheto Zhimo of Viyixe Village , Inspector of School Under Aghunato SDEO who served the ESSU Community in the capacity of Vice- President during 1978-79. A press note stated that the union would always cherish the unselfish service he had rendered towards its Students' cause and further conveyed condolence to the family members.

Demise of Tanjan Konyak mourned

GHS, New Market

The students, staffs and WEC members of GHS New Market, Kohima strongly condemn the murder of Robin Kumar Rumtel, a student of class IV. The School in a condemnation note issued by the Headmaster Kekudenuo said that late Robin was a very well behaved and obedient student. This incident has created shock to the entire community. Therefore, the school community earnestly appeals to the administration concerned and law enforcing authority to investigate into the matter, arrest the culprits involved in the murder and award them the highest befitting punishment in order to eradicate such inhuman anti-social activities in the days to come. While conveying condolence, the School also prays to God Almighty to grand solace to the victim’s parents.

Dimapur

Nagaland Civil Service officers of the 2010 & 2011 batch with the Director & faculty of the Meghalaya administrative training Institute (MatI), shillong on their “Bharat darshan” tour.

Public SPace Paddy fields and irrigations are washed away by flood and landslides Y. Anner Village is the first ancestral village of the Yimchunger tribe. It is surrounded by four rivers – On the west side, one river is called Chukeke River, another river is called Klusoke River. The two rivers join together form Yimkhiungkepeak River. On the East side, one river is called Chitke River and other river is called Phodungke River, which both join together form Langaketo River. These four rivers are the main sources of Zungki River. Y. Anner Village is living as an Island

village surrounded by four rivers, getting more local fish from the rivers mentioned above, in the temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees. Among the Yimchunger community, Y. Anner village has highest paddy field cultivations in which every family has three to four hectares of paddy field. But due to flood and landslides from the months between May and August, all the irrigations and paddy Fields are washed away, and hundreds of families are crying for surviving their life for the upcoming years. So, the public are crying for help from the Government for their livelihood. The hundreds of field cultivators badly need flood control protection. H Tokiu Yimchunger Senior citizen of Shamator Town Tuensang district

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): Lieut Col (Rtd), Ape Venuh, Kilonser cum Caretaker (CAO) UT-I has mourned the sudden demise of late Tanjan Konyak, tatar under UT-I. The CAO in a press release said that late Tanjan Konyak gave his best for the Naga political cause and worked tirelessly till his last breath. His untimely demise is a great loss for the Nagas in general and the NSCN in particular. The CAO further conveyed condolence to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

ENGOA condemns

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The Eastern Nagaland Gazetted Officers’ Association has condemned the unprecedented incident of harassment meted out to Parliamentary Secretary, T Torechu by “an underground outfit” at Kiphire district. A press note from the ENGOA stated that the incident was regrettable and that such treatment is an insult to the leader in particular and the Nagas in general. It said that Torechu is a leader elected by the people and as such he should be respected. “Peaceful co existence with mutual respect should be upheld by all Nagas,” he added.

STKK felicitation prog on August 31

DIMAPuR, August 28 (MexN): The Satoi Range Students’ union (STKK) will be organising its student’s felicitation programme on August 31 at 10:00 am followed by 2nd Assembly at Crown Hotel conference hall, Dimapur. STKK speaker Mughakato Zhimo in a press release has requested every successful students and other students in general of Satoi range, elders, former leaders of SRSU, Satoi Range Public Union Dimapur, Unit representative to attend the programme without fail.

The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor.

IN-FOCUS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express THuRsDAy 29 AuGusT 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 236 By Aheli Moitra

Rumour has it

nd we, as journalists, write it. Publishers print it, and rumour in Nagaland is easily paraded as the truth. Rumours begin with ambiguity and spread panic. This is especially true of places where people are weak and vulnerable, faced with disinformation or none at all. In 2005, a notice was put up on the wall of the Avnstrup refugee center in Denmark. It stated that all Iraqi asylum seekers must return to Iraq on a specific date. This led to worry, anger and fear among those at the center; angry asylum seekers rioted inside the center itself. Later, it turned out that the information had been incorrectly translated and the message was a mistake. In a febrile society like Nagaland where truth remains elusive as an intentional part of the political agenda, rumours have far reaching consequences. This week, newspapers published a news item on the “brutal murder” of a 10 year old boy based on fabricated tales. The report suggested that the child’s “mutilated body” was found “dumped” in a river—that someone had taken his eyes out and indirectly implicates someone wearing a red T-shirt and shorts with whom the boy was last seen. The report is not the result of an official investigation nor is it a collection of facts. It is a hearsay version of the aggrieved family and neighbours, as confirmed by the journalist who wrote the report. In the absence of a post-mortem, the police had found nothing to suggest that the boy, who had been missing for a week before his body was located in a river, was killed. Should we believe the police in a state like Nagaland? Probably not, but this is not a matter of belief, it is a matter of evidence. Did the journalist investigate beyond hearsay to find evidence? Not. Could the body have accidentally drowned and decomposed over the week? We don’t know. Instead of looking for facts, the report projected an “unusual” mystery, extrapolating a random collection of things that could have been the by-product of a picnic into a human sacrifice. Predictably, popular blogging sites picked up the news and few hundred comments poured in, some linking the murder to “anti christ” activities. This rumour piles on the existing rumours, and surrounding fear, of satanic practices. Say the persecution of a person/community ensues in the aftermath—who should be held responsible? As a community of journalists who shape opinion through information, we should. Journalistic ethics are not a term to be learnt in school and discarded at will. They shape our identity, and thus responsibility, to practice the freedom of speech. It is the selfill-treatment of media space that has made a vulnerable lot of journalists in Nagaland. We might function without security of any kind, threatened and bullied by politicians, bureaucrats, contractors and their foot soldiers, but it is when we lose the core of basic journalistic (or common) ethics that we finally crumble, becoming tools for propaganda. This story is a mere case in point. If you know of more, please write to moitramail@yahoo.com

lEfT wiNg |

Lester R. Brown Inter Press Service

Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices

griculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural system is becoming more out of sync with the climate system. In generations past, when there was an extreme weather event, such as a monsoon failure in India, a severe drought in Russia, or an intense heat wave in the U.S. Corn Belt, we knew that things would shortly return to normal. But today there is no ‘normal’ to return to. The earth’s climate is now in a constant state of flux, making it both unreliable and unpredictable. Since 1970, the earth’s average temperature has risen more than one degree Fahrenheit. If we continue with business as usual, burning ever more oil, coal, and natural gas, it is projected to rise some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (six degrees Celsius) by the end of this century. The rise will be uneven. It will be much greater in the higher latitudes than in the equatorial regions, greater over land than over oceans, and greater in continental interiors than in coastal regions. As the earth’s temperature rises, it affects agriculture in many ways. High temperatures interfere with pollination and reduce photosynthesis of basic food crops. High temperatures can also dehydrate plants. When a corn plant curls its leaves to reduce exposure to the sun, photosynthesis is reduced. The earth’s rising temperature also affects crop yields indirectly via the melting of mountain glaciers. As the larger glaciers shrink and the smaller ones disappear, the ice melt that sustains rivers, and the irrigation systems dependent on them, will diminish. The continuing loss of mountain glaciers and the resulting reduced meltwater runoff could create unprecedented water shortages and political instability in some of the world’s more densely populated countries. Scientists also expect higher temperatures to bring more drought – witness the dramatic increase in the land area affected by drought in recent decades. A team of scientists at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in the United States reported that the earth’s land area experiencing very dry conditions expanded from well below 20 percent from the 1950s to the 1970s to closer to 25 percent in recent years. As the earth’s temperature rises, scientists expect heat waves to be both more frequent and more intense. Stated otherwise, crop-shrinking heat waves will now become part of the agricultural landscape. Among other things, this means that the world should increase its carryover stocks of grain to provide adequate food security.

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C O M M E N T A R Y

‘I Believe You’

Catherine Woodiwiss Sojourners

The Silence and the Shame of Sexual Violence in Church

everal years ago, Amee Paparella was an eager student at a state university in Ohio. A conservative Christian, she quickly signed up to join the campus ministry. What she found in the group surprised her. “It was so misogynistic,” Paparella recalled. “My leaders perpetuated this hyper-masculinized idea of God as physically a man.” Over the years, Paparella wrestled to reconcile this image of God with her own faith, often to the discomfort of her peers. But an incident of sexual abuse within the ministry proved the breaking point. When it was discovered that a young man had been abusing his female partner, also in the group, the campus minister and student leaders responded by encouraging the young woman to stand by her man and to pray with the other students for his healing. Paparella was horrified. “I realized, they don’t want me to think. After that, I just didn’t see how faith and women’s empowerment could be reconciled.” From that point on, she said, “the women’s movement really became my new church.” Several months ago, a young woman in Steubenville, Ohio, suffered a series of horrific, and horrifically public, violations. After being raped by two classmates, her abuse continued as photos of the incident were spread throughout social networks and ultimately to the national media. Not only did she suffer violations of her body, of her dignity, and of her privacy, she later suffered skepticism and blame from victim-shamers both online and in her community, and had her identity broadcast on cable news. As aggressive and hurtful commentary raced through the airwaves, few sought out faith leaders for their response. When members of clergy gathered in Steubenville for a prayer service, they urged those gathered to “bring unity to our community … and show we are a better place,” through “self-reflection and prayer,” but failed to directly condemn the rape as a crime. In fact, the purest public extension of grace towards the victim — the words “I believe you” — came not from a pastor, but a host on MSNBC. What has changed, from Amee’s experience twenty years ago to Jane Doe’s earlier this year? In many respects, very little. Unfortunately, stories of abuse even within the faith community are rampant. The church — society’s moral heartbeat and compass for centuries — too often has been hopelessly irrelevant at best and damnably complicit at worst. Surveys show more than half of women who experience sexual violence are churchgoers. But as gender equality transforms the workplace, the government, and the home, the church stands apart as a largely closed system to reform. For decades, abortion and homosexuality have been the political tentpoles of sexual controversy within Christian communities, built on an established undercurrent of premarital purity and abstinence. Discussion about sexual violence among Christians is rare. When it does happen, it is akin to AIDS and

human trafficking in its “otherization” — it is a tragedy that happens “somewhere else.” In the dirty swampland of human sexuality, sexual violence — rape, abuse, and the behaviors that lead there — remains the darkest, most shameful stain. Todd Akin’s imbecilic comment last August that when raped, women’s bodies have “ways to just shut that whole thing down” revealed his deep misunderstanding of women’s anatomy and a tone-deafness to the trauma of rape. As a former divinity student from a theological seminary in the Presbyterian tradition, his statements also shed light on a particularly potent combination of male-centric theology, patriarchal culture, and a fixation on prudishness. This strain persists in various articulations across denominations, from the numerous abuse scandals in the Catholic Church to popular Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll's cringe-inducing sexposés and tips for wives pleasuring husbands. The bad apples in leadership, distressingly, are plentiful enough. What’s arguably more distressing is the vast relative silence of otherwise-trustworthy faith leaders on this front. What explains their reluctance? According to sexual violence advocates, activists, and clergy members themselves, there is extreme pressure in church leadership against calling out sexual violence in their own communities. “Many just don’t want to believe it happens,” said Paparella, now Director & Organizer for Women’s Advocacy at the United Methodist General Board of Church & Society in Washington, D.C. Reverend Harry Knox, President of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, agreed. “It’s real for the pastor. We know when preaching whom we are preaching to, or about. It’s easy for clergy to don clerical garb and make speeches — it’s much harder to talk with our own congregants about our children, our norms; whether our practices make churches places of safety. Many do not feel equipped to properly take on the weight of these questions for their parishes. And well, if we can’t do it — who can?” It may be an emotional challenge for clergy to tackle, but a degree of professional loyalty also contributes to systemic inertia. “Most [denominations] don’t want to open their congregations up because of the Catholic Church’s horrific track record,” Paparella said. “They don’t want to be seen the same way. But this silence is what’s killing the church.” Indeed, issues like sexual violence can be “so fraught with moral and emotional tension” in congregations, Knox said, that church leaders tend to choose the path of least resistance. “What can our congregation do that won’t be controversial?” What’s taught from the pulpit extends to the pews, and stories of sexual violence within a faith community often feature the silence or tepid response of fellow parishioners. “Survivors don’t tend to go to faith communities for help,” Victoria Ferguson, founder of Kindred Moxie, a faithbased domestic violence advocacy network in Atlanta, Ga., said. “Clergy have not been their allies. There’s not

a history of support. Where else do they go?” In a culture that emphasizes victim-skepticism and self-doubt (“I always thought the victims of domestic violence were people who struggled with low self-esteem,” Ferguson said. “I had no idea it was happening to women just like me”), speaking up requires not only gumption, but education. “There is just a tremendous amount of information that faith communities do not have,” Ferguson noted. In many communities, the same skittish blueprint for sex (to wit: don’t do it until you’re married, and then all sex is good) is applied without much nuance or elaboration to youth, young adults, and 30-somethings alike. In others, factual misconceptions, even well-meaning, are promulgated in youth group culture and last well into adulthood. For example, the myth that rape is what happens when you make bad choices — the logical consequence of walking home alone, or showing too much skin, or hanging around the wrong friends — is pervasive, but incorrect. In reality, abuse is widespread across all demographic lines: 1 in 6 women will experience sexual assault. And the vast majority of abuse comes at the hand of acquaintance: 60 percent of rapes and 73 percent of sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim. More broadly at issue is how churches understand rape. In public society and secular institutions, rape is talked about as a power issue, more than a sexual one. Rape, intimate partner abuse, and other forms of sexual violence are couched in the language of distorted masculinity, or entrenched hierarchy, or domination and control, or creating healthy gender empowerment. When it comes to Christian institutions, however, rape tends to fall into the ample “sex is sin” bin, and gets swept away from conversation. Without mentorship or honest conversation about sex, generations of Christians are growing up with no guidance for engaging others with frankness and compassion in the inev-

itable complexities and compromises of real life. Combine a proclivity for silence about sexual contact with a belief system that has yet to reconcile men and women as fully equal, and what results is a church struggling with abuse, sexual intimidation, and rape. But the winds are starting to change. And it is lay people, along with church leaders, who are driving this change. Movements like Kindred Moxie are gaining steam within faith communities, and advocacy initiatives from groups within denominations (like Paparella’s) and from without (like Knox’s) are beginning to demonstrate long-term impact. Increasingly, where clergy are silent, individuals like Rachel Held Evans and Ann Voskamp have used their influence to share stories and begin speaking into the void. Platforms like these, to share stories and support, help survivors find each other and their own voice, Knox said. “Women and young adults are feeling more empowered. They’re not in isolation the way they used to be.” What’s needed to further nurture these voices? “Diligence and creativity,” Paparella said. “That’s the nature of social justice work. It’s not sexy. It’s a tedious ongoing effort to change culture.” For Ferguson, the best thing is encouragement. “Community leaders respond when we talk positively about what we want to happen; what healing looks like and how to get there. We [have to] ask, ‘How do we create what’s positive and right?’” After Steubenville, Christians within the church asked: When a young girl gets raped at a party, where are the faith leaders? But we cannot ask that question without its partner: When a woman in our faith community is abused and told by fellow believers to stay with her partner but pray for his recovery — where, too, are the faith leaders? “We just have to be there, and keep putting one foot in front of the other,“ Paparella said. “We’re moving. Slowly — but this change has roots. And I believe in resurrection.”

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The numerous atrocities suffered by the Eelam Tamils under the IPKF, the murders, tortures, rapes and disappearances, do not form part of his confession. Thus, no mention of the same in the film. On the other hand, the reel LTTE are shown as fanatics, who even murder the wife of Vikram in India in their attempts to get to him. I am yet to hear of a single case where the real LTTE has deliberately targeted the family of officers or soldiers of even the genocidal Sri Lankan military. The LTTE, shown in the film as Liberation of Tamils Front (LTF), are shown as some intransigent armed rebel group that has support of the local population. Why did the armed struggle come about, what did the Sinhala state do to create such a situation, why did the Tigers oppose the Indian solution of 13th Amendment, why did the Tamil people stand with the ‘rebel group’, and what did the IPKF actually do in the course of its intervention – these are questions not even considered by the filmmaker. But the words “provincial council elections” are repeated to the point of being a slogan throughout the movie. Contrast this with the bare minimal usage of the word ‘Sinhalese’ in the movie – it is as if they had no role to play at all. The tagline for the movie was “Intercept the truth”. The first half of the film is concerned with the RAW agent’s covert operations in Jaffna. These include

scenes that allude to RAW’s role in supporting Tamil groups antithetical to the struggle for Tamil Eelam, the Mahattaya split and so. Of course, the intelligence failure in the famous ‘Jaffna University Helidrop’ is underplayed, though the filmmaker grudgingly acknowledges the superior intelligence of the Tigers at that time. The second half of the movie, concerned with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, is actually banal. Other movies like ‘Mission 90 Days’ have covered the subject with more intensity, and with far more venom. Madras Cafe tells us that its LTF was a foot-soldier of foreign forces in carrying out the plot. "Corporations, big countries, big organizations," in short, "economic hitmen" supported the LTF, we are told. The purpose is "economic control, business deals and large arms contracts," it is asserted. An intelligence officer informs Vikram that the war is for Trincomalee, that the foreign forces wanted the LTF in power so that they can get the harbour, and that this would be a threat for India. Last time I heard however, it was the US that gave Sri Lanka effective advice in counterinsurgency strategy to remove the LTTE from the coveted harbour. “At no stage did we ever consider India as an enemy force. Our people always consider India as our friend. They have great expectations that the Indian super power will take a positive

stand on our national question,” LTTE leader Velupillai Pirapaharan said in his Heroes’ Day address on 27 November 2008. He has never referred to any other country in such terms. However, Anna Bhaskaran, the movie’s celluloid version of Pirapaharan, tells in an interview to British journalist Jaya (a sad allusion to the Indian journalist Anita Pratap) that he will even consider taking help from the West to wage their struggle. This is the other subtext of the movie. India is justified in assisting unitary Sri Lanka, irrespective of what the latter does, else foreign powers will intervene and that will be against India’s ‘national interests’. To be fair to the movie, it has its share of laughs. For instance, the scene where Jaya interviews Anna in English and the leader of the Tamil struggle responds to it – in Hindi. The climax was dark comedy. Vikram ends his confession and walks out of the church muttering lines from Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem from Gitanjali “Where the mind is without fear...” The poem is a utopian vision of an ideal democratic country. Unitary Sri Lanka, which India has been supporting till now, is the perfect antithesis of the spirit of the poem. The line best suited for the context of Madras Cafe, however, is Alfred Tennyson’s "That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies". The author is a research scholar at the University of Essex, UK

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Some sections of the Indian media may be going gaga over the ‘realistic’, ‘nondramatic’ film ‘Madras Cafe’ of Shoojit Sircar. Some have, rather shamelessly, compared it to Zero Dark Thirty - in reality, GI Joe: Retaliation is a more gripping watch. While the poor sense of aesthetics of these pseudo-critics is lamentable, their contempt for history as it happened leaves much to question. Selective history, grand conspiracy theory, not-so-subtle Indian patriotism all go into the making of a movie that principally exonerates India from all culpability of the brutal war crimes committed against the Tamils by the IPKF. From the start till the end, the subtext of the movie is to project India, a nuclear power state with the fourth largest army in the world, as a victim of the LTTE. For the record, at the height of the IPKF-LTTE war, over 100000 Indian soldiers armed to the teeth confronted about 3000 LTTE cadres. Despite this, India lost. "They were powerful. In this game, we lost our prime minister, and the Lankan Tamils, their future," confesses RAW agent Vikram Singh (played by John Abraham) to a Christian priest. The entire movie is the confession of Vikram to the priest, from his activities as a RAW agent in IPKF occupied Jaffna, to the failure of the RAW to break the LTTE, to their failure to stop Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination.

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7 How ‘I have a Dream’ took the world THURSday

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

29 August 2013

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Nicholas Wapshott

Martin Luther King, Jr: A Dream in Progress

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t would be easy to assume that the stirring words of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech affected Americans most of all. His goading of a nation to live up to the democratic principles of its founders was a sharp display of America’s private grief. The wrongs he set out to right were internal and shaming — American sins that stretched back to the days of slavery. When he rose to speak, King was clearly aiming his remarks at his fellow Americans. But King’s dignified appeal to the better nature of his countrymen had a resonance far wider than just the United States. When he addressed what he called “the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,” he would inadvertently set off a worldwide movement for racial emancipation. Tangible evidence of the long march he set off on 50 years ago can be found in the endless roads and civic facilities around the world to which the name Martin Luther King has been appended — celebrating the American civil rights leader’s universal cry for a more generous and humane world. Africans found a particularly poignant message in King’s plea for racial tolerance and his declaration that “the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” It is no surprise that there is a Martin Luther King Road in Lusaka, Zambia, and a Martin Luther King Street in Mpumalanga, South Africa. King’s appeal to the goodness in Americans and the struggle for black liberation in South Africa led by Nelson Mandela were made of the same cloth. King’s insistence on non-violence stemmed from his devotion to the ideas of pacifist civil disobedience preached by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to throw off British rule in India. The link between the two strands of dignified, peaceful, powerful dissent can be found celebrated all over India, as in the naming of Martin Luther King Sarani, or Street, in the fancy Park Street area of Calcutta. Harder to fathom, perhaps, is the plethora of Martin Luther King public monuments in France, places like Parc Martin Luther King in the tony Parisian neighborhood of Batignolles, once the home of the Impressionist painter Édouard Manet, and the Collège Martin Luther King in Villiers-le-Bel. King could not have imagined how readily his name would be commandeered by liberal white politicians to boast the impeccability of their progressive credentials. How else to explain the Martin Luther King Adventure Playground in Islington, North London? The power of King’s message 50 years ago can be seen in the way the BBC in London is celebrating what most Americans think of as a purely domestic event. The British national broadcaster has distilled the essence of King’s lasting appeal with a broadcast that has recruited dissident world leaders, peacemakers and protesters to each read aloud a part of King’s speech a more earnest iteration of the “We Are The World” format previously used by pop musicians to raise money for disaster relief. It will be heard by the BBC’s audience of 239 million worldwide. Among those chosen to speak King’s hallowed words are the Dalai Lama, exiled from Tibet by the Communist Chinese occupation; Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for daring to go to school; Maya Angelou, the American poet, and Joan Baez, the precentor of the American civil rights movement. In the absence of the great Mandela himself, his granddaughter, Ndileka Mandela, will speak. Gwyneth Williams, head of the network that orches-

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (C) leads other civil rights leaders and marchers during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in this August 28, 1963 file photo shot by U.S. Information Agency photographer Rowland Scherman and provided to Reuters by the U.S. National Archives in Washington on August 21, 2013. In the coming week, Washington will play host to an array of events marking the 50th anniversary of the march and speech. REUTERS

trated this program, put the speech in its global context when she said, “Martin Luther King’s words constitute one of the most passionate political statements of the 20th century, a source of inspiration in the quest for freedom in so many different countries around the world.” So what was it about the speech and the time it was delivered that ensured that “I Have a Dream” went instantly into the worldwide pantheon alongside President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself,” British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s “We Shall Never Surrender,” and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address? Spoken in tones of hushed deliberation, in barely 1,600 words, King dared the racists to diminish the meaning and importance of his message. He pitched his appeal for tolerance and fairness by stressing the historical dimensions of the eternal grievances of AfricanAmericans left unrectified by the Civil War. By stressing that “1963 is not an end but a beginning,” however, he understood that equally important to the meaning of the words he chose was the age in which they were spoken. The exact date of the speech, Aug. 28, 1963, is important. The early ‘60s was an optimistic time when anything seemed possible. It was the tail end of an Age of Innocence for America, but also the blossoming of the Age of Aquarius. The ‘60s social revolution had started, but not yet turned sour. The United States had not yet caught Beatlemania. On the pop charts, “Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!” by the comedy writer Allan Sherman, rubbed shoulders with Peter Paul and Mary’s more ominous “Blowin’ in the Wind.” The young president, John F. Kennedy, still had two months to live.

Television was never more powerful. Suddenly the real life of news broadcasts from Selma, Alabama, seemed more immediate and exciting than the artificial dramas of the endless soaps and game shows. The United States was going through a growth spurt and was just about to shed its 50s naïveté for the complexities of the high 60s with its Summer of Love, its Generation Gap and its overindulgences and overdoses. Thanks to new TV satellites like Telstar, fired into space the previous year, the full drama of the King speech was seen and felt around the world in real time. The United States, once isolated by two oceans and its deliberate decision to remain free from the troubles of the Old World, was opening up. As John Lennon recalled of the British invasion in the spring of 1964, “We were all on this ship in the ‘60s, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest.” The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, whose pinnacle was King’s speech, was part of a new strand of political protest, the mass demonstration, which was soon picked up and used to great effect in student revolts worldwide. For those watching from afar, King’s noble words represented the best side of a troubled country about to be wracked by assassination, rioting and war. The clear sense of foreboding in his speech was resolved less than five years later — when he was shot dead. With John Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, he took his place as one of a trio of martyrs whose deaths testified that the dream he longed for would not easily become reality.

insisted that the United States lagged behind European countries in social legislation because of the exclusion of African-Americans. King envisioned the black vote as a means of advancing democracy in the South. “A new era would open to all Americans,” he said, that would “enlarge democracy for all people, in both the political and social sense.” The March on Washington and King’s speech were clarion calls that marked an era of dramatic civil rights legislation, altering the nation’s political and social fabric. In the half-century since, we have passed innumerable milestones in the fight for racial equality in nearly every aspect of American society. The United States has witnessed greater inclusion, improved substance and notable transformation both within and as a result of its democracy. The year after King’s speech, President Lyndon B. Johnson was able to pressure Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He followed this with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This bill, in particular, was born out of profound violence and deep-seated resistance, which King described as a “century of terror and evasion.” Not surprisingly, the Voting Rights Act has been amended numerous times over decades to account for the complexity of discriminatory tactics. It now protects not only against intentional discrimination, but also voting laws that result in the denial or curtailment of the right to vote on account of race. It also now includes provisions to protect Latinos and other language minorities — a crucial detail given the increasing diversity of our electorate. The Voting Rights Act has remained a beacon of racial progress in a stormy sea of retrenchment. Several Supreme Court cases, however, have narrowed the legal advances that the civil rights movement had ushered in. A decade after the act was passed, for example, Washington v. Davis (1976) ruled that even compelling evidence of a disproportionate racial impact is not sufficient to prove a race discrimination claim. Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1977) ended the power of affirmative action to remedy past discrimination and set in motion the current evisceration of affirmative action policies. Yet the Voting Rights Act remained remarkably resilient. Beginning in the late the 1990s, however, threats to the act went from rumored to real, culminating in the Shelby County decision. In striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which provided a formula for deciding which jurisdictions with histories of virulent voting discrimination required federal oversight of any changes in their election law, the Supreme Court effectively ended automatic federal government pre-clearance in voting.

Indeed, King’s view of disenfranchisement as a burden on democracy is lost on today’s Supreme Court as well as for lawmakers in far too many states. Already this year, 31 states introduced 80 restrictive voting laws. By contrast, there have been only ten actual cases nationwide of impersonation fraud — which these new laws claim to prevent — among the more than 120 million voters. Yet, this phantom bogeyman of voter fraud is the standard justification for these measures that mean a disproportionate number of minority, young, elderly and poor cannot vote. Many of these measures originated in the South, with Texas, North Carolina and Florida leading the charge. Most pernicious are laws that require limited forms of voter identification, so older voters without a driver’s license or students with only a college identification card cannot go to the polls. But other tactics are also used, such as reducing early voting periods, which leads to overcrowding at the polls, and permitting voter roll purges, which has already resulted in the removal of legitimate registered voters. These voting restrictions threaten the inclusion achieved through the Voting Rights Act — which is still far short of what could be achieved with automatic voter registration for all eligible citizens. Another key reform would be to abolish felon disenfranchisement, which has barred a generation of young African-Americans convicted under harsh drug laws that our attorney general recently called into question. Despite these obstacles, we’ve made tremendous progress as a nation since the March on Washington. The first black family’s residence in the White House for two terms and the electoral gains that enabled President Barack Obama’s historic wins are a testament to America’s evolution as a society. Sitting in the Oval Office, however, was never the end goal. King’s tripartite dream of a democracy that is inclusive, substantive and transformative will not be fully realized until race and class have no correlation with access to the ballot — and until those two burdens on equality can be meaningfully addressed through the political process. Commemorating King’s speech and the March on Washington is a crucial step in bringing national attention to the aspects of King’s dream that remain deferred. To quote the dreamer himself: “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” We have lived with this charge for 50 years. It is now time to make King’s deferred dream a reality and prevent the impending nightmare that this new wave of voting restrictions may well produce.

Nicholas Wapshott is the author of “Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics.”

King’s deferred ‘Dream’ of democracy Janai S. Nelson

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n the midst of current retrenchments on voting rights, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech provides an important opportunity to consider whether his “dream” has been realized. Or, is it now, in the words of the famous poet Langston Hughes, a “dream deferred.” In that speech and many others, King lays out a powerful vision of democracy “deeply rooted in the American dream . . . ‘that all [persons] are created equal.’” King also articulated a three-pronged vision for American democracy — inclusive, substantive and transformative — throughout his struggle for civil rights. The promise held in King’s dream is to wake up one day to its reality — not to slumber while discrimination marches on. The immediate step we can take is to reverse the continuing assault on voting rights and expand participation in our democracy. Rehabilitating the Voting Rights Act of 1965, following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down one of the law’s most important provisions, should be at the top of this agenda. In June the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the act’s requirement that the federal government pre-approve all election changes in specific districts or states with a history of racial discrimination in voting. No longer bound by this federal oversight, several jurisdictions with substantial records of discrimination rapidly began enacting laws that will undermine minority voters’ ability to vote. King envisioned that all Americans, including racial minorities, would not only have unfettered access to vote, but, more important, have an urgent reason to go to the polls. “We cannot be satisfied,” King said, “as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.” This view of both an inclusive and substantive democracy calls for access beyond the mere act of casting a ballot. It envisions informing the content of the ballot and demands access to the halls of power in government. The Voting Rights Act has served both these goals by eliminating direct barriers to the franchise and providing for more equitable redistricting and fairer election systems. King knew the transformative power of democracy. In his 1957 speech “Give Us the Ballot — We Will Transform the South,” he paints a picture of the stronger, better and more democratic America that would emerge if diverse voices were included in the electorate and permitted to influence legislation and office-holders. He lamented that democracy in the South had stagnated, and

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s a person born after the signing of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, I was not a witness to the loud calls for justice that took place in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Like many generations that followed, my knowledge of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. primarily came from what I was taught in school and from archival film clips of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington. With that rote knowledge, I, like many others, felt that I had a good idea of who Dr. King was and what he stood for. My idea of him was a noble, calm, and wellspoken civil rights leader. Indeed, he was all of those things, but he was also so much more. He was fire and brimstone, determined, strategic, and human. Reflecting upon his life and career, he was an individual who willingly became a foot soldier for equality, during a Vesuvius explosion of cultural, political and social change. This period of time in American history could easily be classified as the rebirth of a nation. MLK’s most daring acts of faith were his strategical acts of nonviolence. His stance to fight physical power with soul power, was and still is, a radical choice of weapons. At a time when black people were not legally guaranteed basic human rights in the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. had the audacity to demand that America be true to its commitments on paper, as was written in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He prophesied, “If this problem of racism does not get solved, the soul of our nation will be lost. The only way to redeem the soul of America is to eradicate racism in all of its dimensions.” Dr. King often referred to himself as the drum major for justice, peace and righteousness. At this time, anyone choosing to be an advocate for change was routinely met with fire hoses, police beatings and attack dogs. Being the national face of the civil rights movement did not provide Dr. King a reprieve from the violence in an ivory tower. His house was firebombed, he was stabbed in the chest, and jailed over 20 times. In the face of such brutal attacks MLK’s insistence upon nonviolent strategies was met with admiration and ridicule from both blacks and whites. His definition of nonviolence clarified that nonviolence is not the same as nonresistance. During the movement, the strategy of nonviolence was used as a form of Agape love that was organized, direct, and intended to disturb the oppressor’s consciousness, and shift them into a more just way of being. In essence Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to achieve moral ends through moral means. By the late 1960s Dr. King began to publicly denounce the war in Vietnam. He noted that prior to his comments about the war, he received praise from the press for his stance of nonviolence tactics against whites in the South, however, he did not gain favor from the press by advocating for nonviolence tactics against people of color in Vietnam. Although he was certainly not alone in his criticism of the war, he was very vocal in articulating the war’s immorality, disproportionate number of blacks being drafted, and the diversion of money for war, that could have been used for domestic social programs. He stated that America had a moral obligation to de-escalate the war, because our government was responsible for escalating the war. He later publicly called for a unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam, which was a hard pill to swallow for a nation that prided itself on winning wars. Throughout this period MLK’s popularity with white Americans greatly decreased and some civil rights leaders advised him to just stick to civil rights issues. He was often publicly denounced as a communist and agitator. MLK’s response to his critics was, “A man of conscience can never be a consensus leader.” and “Peace is not a goal, it is the means in which we arrive at the goal.” In conjunction with his demands to end the war in Vietnam, MLK was began mobilizing a moral crusade against the economic inequities plaguing the United States. With the initiation of his 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, he was very aware that it was much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it was to end poverty, guarantee an annual income, and eradicate the slums. Never the less, he marched forward with a conviction to expand the framework of civil rights to include the working poor. What became his final speech, for striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, is a haunting and foreboding allegory about his courage to face death. What is truly remarkable about the ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech is his water-filled eyes, his shaken tone of voice, and the courage he musters to speak beyond his visible fears. It is obvious that as a young man, with a wife and four small children, he knew that his time to live and love, was soon coming to an abrupt end. In MLK’s brief time as a public figure (1957-1968), he delivered 2,500 speeches, wrote five books, traveled six million miles, became Time Magazine’s Man of the Year, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and was the keynote speaker for the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation -- The 1963 March On Washington. However, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatest legacy is not his long list of accomplishments, but rather his answer to a call of action, which required faith, morality, and courage, from ordinary people facing injustice on all levels. This year Dr. King would have been 84 years old. If he had lived over the past 45 years, one can not help but to wonder what his perspective would have been regarding some of the most pressing issues of this time. What would have been his opinion about the women’s liberation movement, the nuclear arms race, the war on drugs, gay rights, immigration laws, the prison industrial system, war drones, the Wall Street banking scandals, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Arab Spring protests? My guess is that his opinions about these issues would have continued to push the comfortable boundaries of our consciousness. Dr. King’s unwavering demand for justice and equality was deeply rooted in his spiritual beliefs and the ideals of the American Dream. As fate would have it, his personal dream for America is still a dream in progress, which continues to inspire and challenge the world today. Lauri Lyons is the author and photographer of Flag: An American Story, and the Founder of NOMADS Magazine.

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Cheating the hungry: India’s food scheme corruption

NEW DELHI, August 28 (AFP): The Indian government’s new $19-billion food scheme to feed two thirds of the population, as well as the ruling party’s political fortunes, depend in large part on hundreds of thousands of shopkeepers such as Brij Kishore. The 52-year-old has been running his Fair Price Shop, a government food dispensary, for more than 30 years from a one-storey warehouse in the northern district of Jahangirpuri in New Delhi. Rough-hewn sacks of wheat, rice and sugar, which are sold for as little as two rupees (3.0 US cents) per kilo, are piled ceiling high, bearing the markings of government warehouses in neighbouring Haryana state. Several bags are emptied out on the floor by Kishore’s assistant, who in between serving customers with a large scoop, kicks back the tide of grain with his dirty sandals. Under new legislation passed in the lower house of the national parliament on Monday, about 800 million people will be entitled to five kilograms per month of subsidised grains from shops like these. But the current distribution system is dogged by complaints from custom-

ers that they are routinely shortchanged on their rations by shopkeepers, who then sell the extra grain on the black market to help compensate for their own thin earnings. “We are working on a non-profit basis,” complains Kishore, estimating his monthly income at about 8,000-10,000 rupees (less than $150). “But it’s forced on us because we don’t have a choice.”

As a result, corruption “happens everywhere... In some places, it’s worse than others,” he says. The scheme -- which will add 230 billion rupees ($3.8 billion) to India’s annual food subsidy costs -- is designed to tackle deep-rooted malnutrition which still afflicts an estimated 42 percent of Indian children. Deaths caused by starvation are rare but still a reality in contemporary India

and images of stunted and malnourished children have become a source of shame for the government of an aspiring superpower. But as Kishore’s customers leave his shop, often carrying one large sack by hand and balancing another on their heads, they are eager to share their frustrations with the public distribution system. Santosh, a 35-year-old mother who feeds four chil-

dren and an unemployed husband at home, says she is routinely deprived of 10 kilograms of grains which she says are then sold on the black market. “We have been getting 20 kilos of wheat and five kilos of rice and the wheat is full of dirt,” she spits. Her complaints are echoed by others, who say that their grievances go unacknowledged by local administrators.

CHANDIgARH, August 28 (AgENCIEs): Cops in Haryana are notorious for wielding the power of their gun. And now, footage from a CCTV camera at the Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and Hospital in Haryana’s Karnal district reinforces that trigger-happy perception. An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police allegedly shot at a doctor from the hospital early on Wednesday for refusing to prepare a false medical report. The ASI, Kashmira Singh, who was allegedly in an inebriated condition, reached the cabin of Dr. Nipun Kalra at the trauma centre of the hospital asking him to prepare a false report, Kalra said. The newspaper also has a video of the incident, which can be seen in the YouTube video above. The footage captured on the hospital’s CCTV shows Singh opening fire at Dr Nipun Kalra with his service pistol. Kalra escaped

unhurt. Kalra said that Singh, who was in uniform, wanted him to prepare a false medico-legal report to implicate someone. “Singh was accompanied by his son and wanted me to prepare a false medical report of his relative which would help him (Singh) to nail someone in a case of attempt to murder. As I objected and told the ASI that there was no grave injury, Kashmira Singh got angry and shot at me,” Kalra was quoted as saying. Alleging inaction on the part of the police when he went to make a complaint, Kalra said, “After the incident, I immediately called the police emergency number (100) for help. But the police team took about 25 minutes to reach the spot. I and my subordinates were terrorised as the ASI was moving around the hospital with the weapon in his hand. Even the cops on duty at the hospital did not make any attempt to stop Singh.”

persons were killed, several injured and forty feared to be trapped in the debris of two buildings collapsed in Madhavnagar area of Vadodara on Wednesday. Two multi-storey buildings, constructed under a housing scheme for economically weaker sections, collapsed in the early hours in Atladara on Wednesday. The housing was planned by the Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA). “Eleven persons died and three sustained injuries in the incident. We are focusing on rescue operations as the priority is to save as many lives as possible,” said Vadodara BJP MP, Balkrishna Shukla. The residents blamed inferior quality of the construction for the incident and said that the other buildings in the colony, constructed in 2001, were also in a bad condition. “We have been making representations to the VUDA for

Valand, a resident. Most of the residents are either engaged in labour work or middle-level jobs. “We had approached VUDA and informed them about cracks in the building walls and ceilings. But, no one responded and instead we were driven out of VUDA office,” said Manish Jadhav, resident of block 15. The incident took place at around 4:30 am in Madhavnagar. The settlement has around 450 houses in 33 blocks. According to the residents of the colony, one of the two collapsed buildings had 14 apartments of which 11 were occupied. The residents of the adjacent block vacated it as it was in a precarious condition after the collapse of the first one. The second block collapsed subsequently. The rescue operations were conducted by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) fire and emergency services, National

personnel. The rescue action has been mounted to locate around 40 other victims who are feared to be buried under the debris. Senior officers of the district administration, VMC and the city police rushed to the spot. Gujarat health minister Nitin Patel and energy and petrochemicals minister, Saurabh Patel, who is MLA from Akota assembly seat in Vadodara, also visited the spot and discussed rescue operations with the authorities. Vadodara district collector Vinod Rao said that the priority was to rescue those trapped in the debris. “The incident has been taken very seriously and investigations will be conducted,” Rao said. Victims were rushed to the BAPS Shastriji Maharaj Hospital. Chief minister Narendra Modi announced a relief of Rs two lakh for the kin of the deceased and asked the state minister in

Beggars with their children seek alms outside a wholesale shop in Bangalore on August 27. (AFP Photo)

Kishore admits that he sells the “surplus” rations left behind each month, which he says is a necessary addition to his meagre income. He cuts a dejected figure as he explains how the commission he receives for selling 35 kilos of produce to a client is about 12 rupees and it hasn’t budged in years. The shopkeeper is part of the world’s biggest food distribution system for the poor, which already covers 100 million “below poverty line” families and another 140 million “above poverty line” families, official data shows. Any Indian family can apply for a ration card at present and receive 35 kilos of subsidised grain, an official in the food ministry explained, adding that the new legislation will cover 67 percent of the total population. “So the coverage will be more targeted,” he said. As well as changing the criteria for the entitlements -- hand-outs will be mostly per capita instead of per family -- the prices at Fair Price Shops will be reduced to as little as one rupee per kilogram. Indian consumers have been reeling from rocketing food prices for most of the government’s term and voters have told pollsters

that the cost of basic goods is foremost among their concerns ahead of elections next year. But the popularity of the programme, which was temporarily activated as an executive order by the president in July, will depend on the inefficient national network of public granaries, transporters and 500,000 ration shops. One widely quoted study published in 2005 by the Planning Commission, a government advisory body, found that 58 percent of grains in the Public Distribution System (PDS) failed to reach their intended destinations. Ashok Gulati, chairman of government’s Commission for Agriculture Cost and Prices (CACP), describes the PDS as like “carrying a bucket full of water that is 40 percent broken.” “The biggest challenge is not restructuring, the biggest challenge is plugging the leakages,” he told AFP. An additional five million tonnes of publicly procured food grains will be pumped into the PDS to meet the new demand in the current year. Arvind Subramanian, an economist, wrote recently that “it’s as if an emaciated, old man struggling to carry a load of stones is

asked to carry another load because that will strengthen his muscles.” Other recent surveys have found improvements in the system, however, with the central state of Chhattisgarh emerging as an example for the rest of the country on how to make changes. A large study in nine states in 2011 found that 97% of eligible respondents received their quota there, compared with just 18% in impoverished northern Bihar. Economist Jean Dreze, who advised the government on the legislation in the early stages, agrees it could have forced more reforms of the PDS. The fact the system it is not computerised he says is a “scandal.” But he says people will be more aware of their entitlements and the system will make better use of the millions of tonnes of food grains which the government is already committed to buying from farmers. “The state governments are coming under a lot of pressure. I think there’s a chance that it will lead to huge improvements in the effectiveness of the PDS,” he told AFP. “It addresses a huge thing that is holding back the country economically and in terms of human welfare,” he added.

Cop shoots at doctor for Eleven dead after two buildings collapse in Vadodara August quite some time now, but Disaster and Rescue Force refusing to prepare fake report VADODARA, 28 (tNN): At least eleven to no avail,” said Suresh (NDRF) as well as Army

A man tries to remove a motorcycle trapped in debris after two adjacent apartment buildings collapsed at Vadodara in Gujarat state, August 28. At least 11 people were killed, police and firefighters said. (AP Photo)

charge of Vadodara district to rush to Vadodara. An inquiry commission will probe the incident. Gujarat Congress leaders blamed the BJP for the

deaths and said that poor quality of the construction led to the collapse. “One can easily make out that the construction material was of inferior quality. How else

can 12 years old buildings collapse? The VUDA that is chaired by a BJP leader is responsible for the incident,” said Vadodara Congress president, Narendra Rawat.

‘Action against Asaram if found guilty’ India’s first defence satellite all set for launch NEW DELHI, August 28 and law should take its own probe into the matter. The is(IANs): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Friday strict action will be taken against Asaram if he is found guilty of sexually abusing a minor girl, a charge denied by the spiritual guru who has millions of devotees worldwide. “Police should not come under any pressure while conducting investigation and it will not happen. Strict action will be taken based on the outcome of the probe,” he told reporters after apprising Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde about the progress in the case. The chief minister said saints should maintain sanctity in society so that there is no scope of raising fingers aggainst them. “I have already said no one is above law

course,” Gehlot added. Asaram has been accused of molesting a minor girl in Rajasthan. The victim filed a complaint at a police station in New Delhi Aug 20 accusing Asaram of sexually assaulting her at his ashram in Jodhpur city. A first information report (FIR) was also registered against Asaram in Jodhpur the following day. Asaram has been booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Indian Penal Code. Rajasthan Police have also initiated formalities to get a look-out circular issued against the spiritual guru so that he could not leave the country. The victim’s father has demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

sue has rocked the Indian parliament and has led to public protests. Although, political parties have demanded strict against Asaram, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uma Bharti has sprung to his defence. Attacking the BJP for its “double standards”, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said : “Death penalty to others but pardon to fake god men.” “Double standards of BJP on crime against women,” he tweeted, without naming Asaram. The BJP has been demanding, inside and outside the parliament, the death penalty for rapists. The spiritual guru has denied meeting the girl alone. “It is completely false,” he has told a news channel.

28 yrs on, betel nut pulled out of man’s lung PAtNA, August 28 (IANs): Seventy-fiveyear-old Krishna Kant Jha is now a relaxed man. After 28 years of suffering from chronic cough and regular bouts of fits, a piece of betel nut was found to be cause of his problems and was finally extricated from his lungs. Jha, an advocate in Samastipur district, said he suffered for more than two and half decades. Dozens of doctors treated him but failed to discover the betel nut in his lungs. “It was a betel nut that was embedded in my lung, and used to obstruct my airway. It was like life in hell but now I am happy and healthy,” Jha said. Jha said he consulted several doctors in and outside Bihar since 1985. “But all of them treated me for different ailments, including chest infection to pneumonia and tuberculosis and also for epilepsy. They failed to trace the betel nut, and never diagnosed it,” he said. Finally, chest specialist Sudhir Kumar discov-

ered the betel nut lodged in Jha’s lungs. “When I consulted him for treatment, he found the betel nut in my lung and said it was the cause of my health problems for years,” he said. Sudhir Kumar along with anaesthetic Subhash Kumar, both based in Patna, successfully performed bronchoscopy on Jha to extricate the betel nut. Bronchoscopy is a non-surgical procedure in which an illuminated fibre optic cable is inserted into the wind pipe of the lungs. “We extricated a betel nut, measuring 10 mm in diameter, from Jha’s lung,” Sudhir Kumar said. Jha no longer suffers from severe cough and bouts of unconsciousness that he suffered three-four times a day. Jha said he was a habitual betel-nut chewer and had swallowed the nut over two-and-a-half decades back that proved painful for him for so many years. “Thanks to Dr. Sudhir, I will enjoy my life now,” Jha said.

BANgALORE, August 28 (PtI): India’s maritime security will get a fresh impetus as the stage is now set for the launch of an exclusive home-built satellite for the Navy by European space consortium Arianespace from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Friday. GSAT-7 is India’s first dedicated spacecraft for defence applications. “It has frequency bands that will help marine communications”, an official of Bangalore-headquar-

tered Indian Space Research Organisation, which built the satellite, told PTI here. “It has coverage over India landmass as well as surrounding seas. It’s important from security and surveillance points of view”, the official said on condition of anonymity. A senior space scientist in the know said: “So far, Navy had limitation from line of sight and ionospheric effects etc. It was thought essential to have

an integrated platform for their exclusive use. Earlier, satellite communication in ships was through Inmarsat (a major provider of global mobile satellite communications services). Now, India will have its own set up” ISRO shies away from calling it an exclusive satellite for the Navy on record, but privately admits exactly that. The Rs 185 crore state-ofthe-art satellite carries payloads operating in UHF, S, C and

Ku bands. GSAT-7 has a lift-off mass of 2625 kg and is based on ISRO’s 2500 kg satellite bus with some new technological elements, including the antennae. Its solar arrays generate 2900 W of electrical power. A108 Ampere-Hour LithiumIon battery enables the satellite to function during the eclipse period. The propulsion subsystem has a 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) and thrusters.

No sanction needed to probe top babus in court-monitored investigation: CBI

NEW DELHI, August 28 (tNN): In a forceful counter to the Centre’s stand that top bureaucrats cannot be probed without its prior sanction, the CBI on Tuesday reiterated in the Supreme Court that in courtmonitored investigations, the agency must be free to probe everyone without having to take any statutory sanction. Just two days before the scheduled hearing in the ‘Coalgate’ case before a three-judge bench, the agency said, “There is no requirement of sanction for prosecution in cases where the court has either directed investigation or is monitoring investigation of case.”Section 6A of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act provides that no officer of the rank of joint secretary and above can be investigated in a case without prior sanction from the government and the Centre had strongly defended it saying it was meant to protect bureaucrats from harassment. The court had repeatedly asked, during the hearing on coal scam, about relevance of ‘prior sanction’ in court-monitored investigations. In its affidavit settled by senior advocate Amarendra Saran, the agen-

cy said in court-monitored investigations, the court acted as guardian of the rights of the citizens and there was no room for bureaucrats under the scanner to fear harassment if they had taken honest decisions. “Therefore, the objectives of Section 6A of DSPE Act are fully achieved when a case is monitored by the court, more specifically constitutional courts of the country,” it said. If one understood that prior sanction from the Centre was needed even in court-monitored investigations, “it would amount to suspension of the power of the constitutional courts to monitor investigation”, the CBI said. It would also be discriminatory since it could mean that the court had power to monitor investigations into cases only against officers who were below the rank of joint secretary, the agency said and feared that such an interpretation would be contrary to the legal principle that “no person is above the law”. “It is therefore necessary to read down the provisions of Section 6A of DSPE Act to mean that prior sanction under Section 6A is not necessary in cases where investigation is monitored

by a constitutional court,” the CBI said. The agency also reiterated its demand, in the light of the court’s attempt to insulate it from political interference and make it an independent investigation unit, seeking more powers for the CBI director. What appeared to rile the CBI director was the Centre’s refusal to grant him ‘ex-officio powers of secretary to the government of India’. “It may be mentioned that already three police officers - secretary, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), secretary (internal security) in ministry of home affairs and secretary, security - are vested with powers of secretary to the GoI,” the CBI said. “Chairman of railway board and other members of railway board are also vested with the powers of secretary to the GoI,” the CBI said and demanded greater financial powers to the CBI director. While seeking a separate budget for itself, the CBI suggested that its director be independent of the ministry of department and personnel as far as investigations were concerned while remaining accountable to the minister concerned for administrative and financial matters.

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UN in Syria mission as West prepares to strike BEIRUT, AUgUsT 28 (REUTERs): U.N. chemical weapons investigators crossed Syria’s front line into rebel-held territory on Wednesday for a second visit to the scene of a poison gas attack that has triggered Western plans for war. U.S. President Barack Obama and his European and Middle East allies have already blamed President Bashar al-Assad for last week’s killing of hundreds of civilians. But the U.N. experts, who were first allowed to cross the front line by Assad’s forces on Monday, are still engaged in gathering evidence. As long as inspectors remain in Syria, Western attacks are improbable, given the risk they would pose to the team’s safety. A Reuters journalist saw U.N. cars leave a hotel in government-controlled central Damascus. An opposition activist later said they were starting work in the eastern suburb of Zamalka. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stressed that the inspection team must be given “time to do its job”. With the price of oil and gold soaring and world stock markets hit by fears of an unpredictable new phase of the Syrian civil war, which has split the Middle East on sectarian lines, only the timing of air strikes still seems in much doubt. The aim, governments say, is to punish Assad’s use of banned weapons but not,

US and allies readies for military action

DAMAsCUs, AUgUsT 28 (AFP): The United States and its allies built their case Wednesday for likely military action against the regime in war-torn Syria over alleged chemical weapons attacks, despite stern warnings from Russia. The ground for a military intervention was set out by US Vice President Joe Biden, who for the first time said last week’s attack, thought to have killed hundreds, could only have been perpetrated by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Britain joined the US in saying regime forces were behind the strikes, and Prime Minister David Cameron said London and its allies had to consider whether targeted military action was required to “deter and degrade the future use of chemical weapons”. But senior officials in Washington told NBC news that possible strikes

the White House insists, to impose “regime change” and end a conflict now in its third year. But Russia and China, set on blocking U.N. backing, warn that what they see as an illegal assault on a sovereign state could inflame the war. Having demanded that Assad end his family’s four-decade rule since Syrians rose up against him during the Arab Spring of 2011, Western powers have hesitated to arm the rebels, fearing the rise of Islamist militant groups in their ranks. In a mark of the complexities of the region, Assad faces not just retri-

against targets in Syria could take place as early as Thursday. Biden said the United States was certain Assad’s forces were responsible for the deadly gas attacks on August 21. “There is no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria -- the Syrian regime,” Biden said. “The president believes and I believe that those who use chemical weapons against defenceless men, women and children should and must be held accountable.” Analysts expect to see cruise missiles launched from US and allied submarines, ships and possibly planes, firing into Syria from outside its waters and airspace. US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the American military was already prepared to act if President Barack Obama gave the order -- though White House aides said no final

bution from neighbouring countries and the West but from al Qaeda. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said it was launching an operation called “Volcano of Revenge” that would strike Syrian security forces in Damascus.

Timing No Western attack, expected to involve cruise missiles fired by U.S. ships in the Mediterranean, is likely before Obama has a U.S. intelligence report on the August 21 gas attack on rebel-held suburbs of the capital. Its conclusions, however, are scarcely in

decision had been taken. “We have moved assets in place to be able to fulfill and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take,” Hagel told the BBC. “We are ready to go, like that.” A military campaign in Syria is expected to be limited in scope, likely to last only several days and to target military sites but not the chemical weapons stocks themselves, sources in Washington said. An official in Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said the group expects a Western military intervention and it has been consulted over targets, which included airports, military bases and arms depots. “It’s a question of days and not weeks,” said Ahmad Ramadan, adding that “there have been meetings between the Coalition, the (rebel) Free Syrian Army and allied countries.”

doubt. Numerous officials have already blamed Assad. “There is no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria,” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday. “The Syrian regime.” A spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said he and Obama spoke on Tuesday and had “no doubt” of Assad’s guilt. Air strikes are unlikely before Cameron has given the British parliament an opportunity to be seen to support his policy, in a debate scheduled for Thursday. Like the United States, Britain has warships in the

Mediterranean. It also has an air base on Cyprus, 200 km from the Syrian coast. The British government is not obliged to win a vote but with voters wary of new military entanglements after over a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Cameron, like fellow Western leaders, has no wish to be accused of defying public opinion. Many British lawmakers across the political spectrum uneasy about the prospect of air strikes. A YouGov poll published on Wednesday showed 50% of the British public opposed a missile strike on Syria, with just 25% in favour.

after his police chief reported his suspicions. In the short term, a light sentence could undermine President Xi’s pledge to go after corrupt political heavyweights and lightweights respectively. “If Bo is not executed, ‘tigers’ and ‘flies’ will not be afraid of Xi and will not listen to him,” the first source with leadership ties said, using Xi’s own metaphor for high-ranking and low-ranking offenders. But Bo, a “princeling” or “red aristocrat”, as the children of China’s revolutionary leaders are termed, still has many supporters and sympathisers in the Party, government and military.

A Party source familiar with legal cases said former Railway Minister Liu Zhijun and Bo’s wife Gu were spared capital punishment, signs that Bo would not be given a death sentence. “Liu Zhijun accepted more than 60 million yuan in bribes and was way more corrupt than Bo,” the party source said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case. Liu was given a suspended death sentence that typically amounts to life in prison. Still, prosecutors argued for strong punishment because Bo did not turn himself in, confess or inform against others.

China leaders fear Bo comeback if sentence is not harsh want to sentence Bo Xilai you will lose credibility saying this is a country of rule of law. But if you let Bo Xilai go free, who can handle Bo Xilai as a free man?”

Tigers And Flies The 64-year-old former Party chief of the southwestern city of Chongqing and one-time commerce minister cultivated a loyal following through his charisma and populist, quasi-Maoist policies. His fall from power stemmed from accusations his wife, Gu KaiIn this image taken from video, former Chinese politician lai, had murdered a family Bo Xilai looks up in a court room at Jinan Intermediate friend, the British businessPeople’s Court in Jinan, eastern China’s Shandong prov- man Neil Heywood, and that ince, on August 26. (AP Photo) Bo had sought to cover it up BEIJIng/sHAngHAI, AUgUsT 28 (REUTERs): Senior figures in China’s ruling Communist Party fear ousted politician Bo Xilai could stage a political comeback one day if he is not dealt a harsh sentence in his trial for corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power, according to sources. Bo was a rising star who analysts say was seen as a potential rival to President Xi Jinping for leadership of the Party and country before his career was spectacularly derailed by a lurid murder scandal involving his wife. Chinese courts are controlled by the Party and do not generally dismiss its charges against defendants, especially in politicallysensitive cases, so Bo will almost certainly be found guilty. But the unprecedented openness of his five-day trial, approved by those at the top of the Party, may ironically limit the ability of the court to mete out the tough sentence many of those same leaders favour, analysts said. “Bo is the biggest threat to Xi. If Bo is not executed or does not die of illness, the possibility of Bo staging a comeback one day cannot be ruled out,” a source with ties to the leadership, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. State broadcaster CCTV said a verdict was expected in early September. The five-day trial closed on Monday. China’s Communist Party has a rich history of purges and rehabilitations, with perhaps none as spectacular as that of Deng Xiaoping, architect of the market reforms that remade the country. Deng was ejected from government during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, but after Mao Zedong died in 1976 he engineered a comeback and went on to rule as

China’s paramount leader for almost two decades until his own death in 1997.

Feisty Defence In an unprecedented effort to show Bo’s trial was fair, the Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern city of Jinan posted near real-time updates of the proceedings on its microblog on the Twitter-like Weibo platform. There was evidence of some redactions but an observer in the courtroom who also declined to be identified said the web postings captured the essence of the trial, in which Bo denied all wrongdoing and mounted a feisty defence that surprised many. Bo stuck largely to addressing the charges and avoided politics, a strategy that a second source with leadership ties said consolidated his position as “China’s leftist leader” and showed he was playing the long game. “Bo is betting on political reform (one day) to make a comeback,” the source said. Much of the minutiae of the trial focused on how illicit payments went to Bo’s wife and son, rather than directly to him. In a poll on Weibo, more people who had a negative view of Bo before the trial said their impression had improved than those who said their impression of him had deteriorated by a margin of about three-toone. Of those who said they had a positive impression to begin with, five-in-six said their view became even more positive. “From a common sense judgment there is no evidence against Bo Xilai, and so the leadership’s dilemma is what to do,” said Bo Zhiyue, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore, who is not related to Bo Xilai. “If you still

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‘Broccoli could help prevent osteoarthritis’ LonDon, AUgUsT 28 (IAns): A compound found in broccoli could be key to preventing or slowing the progress of the most common form of arthritis, according to new research. Results from laboratory studies showed that sulforaphane could slow down the destruction of cartilage in joints associated with painful and debilitating osteoarthritis, a new research published in the Arthritis & Rheumatismon journal Wednesday said. In the research, mice fed with a diet rich in the compound had significantly less cartilage damage and osteoarthritis than those that were not, Xinhua reported. Ac-

cording to researchers, sulforaphane is released when eating cruciferous vegetables such as Brussels sprouts and cabbage, but particularly broccoli. Previous research suggested that sulforaphane has anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties. The researchers discovered that sulforaphane blocks the enzymes that cause joint destruction by stopping a key molecule known to cause inflammation. The study involved researchers from University of East Anglia, along with the University of Oxford and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

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Bolt: I’m impressed by Brazil

LoNdoN, AUGUST 28 (AGeNcieS): The fastest man on earth visited FIFA on Wednesday. Usain Bolt, who holds the world record for both the 100 and 200-metre sprints, dropped in on the Home of FIFA in Zurich ahead of the IAAF Diamond LeagueWeltklasse Zurich meeting on Thursday evening at the Letzigrund Stadium. The Jamaican, a huge football fan who has often flirted with the idea of playing professionally after he retires from the track, was greeted by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and Fuleco, the official mascot for the next FIFA World Cup™. President Blatter handed ‘Lightning Bolt’ a FIFA No9 shirt and personally invited the man who recently turned 27 to Brazil 2014. “For years, he has dominated speed events,” said the FIFA President. “I’m very proud that this great gentlemen is here today. He also showed again recently Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt, right, meets with FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter, left, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. The get-together took place in the run-up to the IAAF Diamond League meeting that the 4 x 100m is very important to him, which in Zurich tomorrow Thursday. (AP Photo)

NSA informs on East Zone Softball Championship

dimAPUR, AUGUST 28 (mexN): The Nagaland Softball Association (NSA) will be taking part in the East Zone Softball Championship at Jharsuguda (Orissa) from September 27 to 29. All senior players of the Association interested to take part are informed that coaching camp will be held from September 1 to 20. This was informed in a press release issued by NSA general secretary T Alem Aier.

FIFA receives complaint of racism against Keshi

ZURicH, AUGUST 28 (AP): FIFA has received a complaint of racism against Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi after he described a rival as "a white dude" who didn't know about Africa and who should go back to his native Belgium. FIFA declined to comment further Wednesday and only said it had received the complaint against Keshi, who led Nigeria to this year's African Cup of Nations title in South Africa. Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet said the Football Association of Malawi reported Keshi for comments apparently made on an African TV show, where Keshi said Saintfiet was "crazy" and "mad" for suggesting the southern Nigerian city of Calabar was unsafe for a World Cup qualifier between the countries next month.Keshi went on to say the Belgian "is not an African person, he is a white dude. He should go back to Belgium." Saintfiet said that if FIFA is serious about tackling racism in football, it has to "take it seriously in both directions." FIFA toughened its punishments for racism at its recent annual conference in Mauritius in May after incidents in England and Italy where black players were targeted, but a white coach accusing a black coach of racism is rare. "If a European said something of this nature about an African, you would have a huge problem. I am against racism in all directions," Saintfiet told the BBC. The Nigeria Football Federation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

CAS expels Fenerbahce from Europa League

LAUSANNe, AUGUST 28 (AP): Fenerbahce has been expelled from the Europa League and barred from qualifying for next season's Champions League in a match-fixing case. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday it dismissed the Turkish club's appeal against a two-year competition ban imposed by UEFA. "Pursuant to the UEFA decision, which is now confirmed by the CAS, Fenerbahce is excluded from two editions of the UEFA club competitions," the court said in a statement. CAS also confirmed Metalist Kharkiv's expulsion from the Champions League in another years-old fixing case involving national league matches. The CAS ruling immediately removes Fenerbahce from the group stage of the Europa League. Fenerbahce was due to join the second-tier competition after being eliminated by Arsenal in the Champions League playoffs on Tuesday. UEFA expelled Fenerbahce in June after judging that club officials helped fix matches to win the 2011 Turkish league title. UEFA rules bar clubs which are implicated in fixing matches played since April 2007. UEFA agreed to let Fenerbahce play Champions League matches pending the CAS verdict. Metalist was disqualified by UEFA this month after advancing to the playoff round. Its previous opponent, PAOK Thessaloniki, was reinstated and then eliminated on Tuesday by Schalke. PAOK now enters the Europa League. UEFA acted upon a CAS verdict which confirmed a five-year ban from football for Metalist's sporting director, who was implicated in fixing a match in April 2008.

proves that he is a team player, just like in football.” Bolt was pleased to visit the Home of FIFA for the first time. “For me, it’s an honour to be here today,” he said. “I follow football and today I saw the World Cup Trophy for the first time.”

it at home. A lot of teams have figured out how to win against Spain.” Bolt would love to see Jamaica at Brazil 2014, but his home nation are currently propping up the six-team group in the final round of North, Central

During the press conference, Bolt took time to answer questions from FIFA Facebook users, like Kevon Gordon from Montego Bay in Jamaica, who asked the six- time Olympic gold medallist which team he is tipping to win the FIFA World Cup. “I’ve been watching a few matches this year and I’m impressed by Brazil,” was Bolt’s response. “They have a young team and can win

America and Caribbean Zone qualifying. The Reggae Boyz have, though, reacted to their situation by appointing Winfried Schafer as coach. First up for the experienced German is a trip to Panama on 6 September, and you can follow that clash live on FIFA. com’s MatchCast. “I’ve been watching Jamaican football a lot over the past years”, Bolt said in response to a question

I would like to become a legend like Pele, Maradona, Muhammad Ali or Michael Johnson

from @FIFAcom Twitter user Angky Abdika, a Barcelona fan from Indonesia. “There is a lot of talent in Jamaica, natural talent just like in athletics. It’s important to try to teach them skills though. Football is more difficult and it takes a lot more time [to develop] than in athletics, but if we are getting the young guys and teaching them properly, it would be great.” FIFA has invited the IAAF Diamond League organisers to hold their premeeting press conference, in which the eight-time world champion in 100m, 200m and relay will partake, in the auditorium of the Home of FIFA, where all the football governing body’s important media events invariably take place. Bolt, meanwhile - already an all-time great in his sport - would like to follow the footsteps of legendary figures in other disciplines. “I would like to become a legend,” he said, “like Pele, Maradona, Muhammad Ali or Michael Johnson.”

Bayern held to 1-1 draw in Freiburg

FRANKFURT, AUGUST 28 (AP): Defending champion Bayern Munich conceded a late goal and had to settle for a 1-1 draw at Freiburg in a Bundesliga match Tuesday, dropping its first points of the season. Bayern paid the price for some complacency in the end despite controlling most of the match, which was played ahead of the weekend because Bayern plays Chelsea on Friday in Prague in the UEFA Super Cup. Bayern won the Champions League and Chelsea is the Europa League champion. "We played well, we attacked, but we didn't use our chances," said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, who made seven changes from the lineup that beat Nuremberg 2-0 on Saturday. "All players played well. In the Bundesliga, you can concede a late goal." Xherdan Shaqiri put Bayern ahead in the

33rd but Nicolas Hoefler notched the equalizer in the 86th. "We didn't use our chances and failed to score the second goal that would have secured the victory," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said. Freiburg finished fifth last season but had earned only one point from the previous three rounds. Bayern's important midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger limped off the field in the second half with a leg injury. Shaqiri collected a cross from Thomas Mueller and drove home at the far post with his left foot. The ball shaved the post and bounced into the net. Although Bayern had most of the possession, Freiburg's Charles-Elie Laprevotte hit the outside of the post early in the second half, his last touch of the match before being substituted. And it was Freiburg's

substitutes who combined for the equalizer. Sebastian Freis crossed from the right and Hoefler tapped the ball from close range at the far post although Bayern had six players defending in its area. "When you play Bayern you have to be incredibly mentally strong and that's what we were," Freiburg coach Christian Streif said. Before Freiburg's goal, Bayern missed chances from Mueller and Franck Ribery, who had come on for Schweinsteiger. Dante had a late chance but his shot from 10 meters (yards) went high. Guardiola sent on striker Mario Mandzukic late in the game but to no avail. Freiburg goalkeeper Oliver Baumann also had a strong performance to deny Bayern a second goal. "We fought all the way but it's still funny how Bayern's Thomas Mueller, left, and Freiburg's Fallou Diagne of Senegal challenge for the the game turned around," ball during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between SC Freiburg and FC Baumann said. Bayern Munich, in Freiburg, southern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 27. (AP Photo)

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Will win gold in 2016 Olympics: Mary Kom

BHoPAL, AUGUST 28 (PTi): Olympic bronze medal winner in boxing, MC Mary Kom has expressed confidence that she would win a gold medal in the next Olympics in Rio and said she will start regular training after six months. "I am confident that I will clinch a gold medal in the 2016 Olympics," the boxer told reporters here last evening after she arrived to take part in a function to be held on Wednesday. Mary Kom will be felicitated at the function along with former volleyball player, Ram Lal Verma and 25 other sportsmen. The boxer, the chief guest for the function, will be given a cheque of Rs 50 lakh by state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. She had been unable to come earlier when the other five medal winners of the London Olympics were felicitated.

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KoHimA, AUGUST 28 (mexN): The annual sports week of the Higher secondary section of Baptist high got underway today with Principal Baptist High Kohima Keviseto as the chief guest. Addressing the students the principal stressed on firm commitment with what one does as the key to success in life , adding that the main important reason of sports was for physical fitness and good health. He said discipline is a must in the sports and

ones should stick to that to win the game. He challenged the students not to give up their commitment but work with a never say die attitude. The Principal also encouraged the students to join in sports as profession if they are talented as it has lots of avenues. The opening ceremony was led by P.H. Shesou, special song was presented by Alohito and oath taking was administered by Dili sports convenor. Later, the chief guest declared the sports meet.

New deLHi, AUGUST 28 (iANS): The International Boxing Federation (AIBA) has decided to extend the Indian federation`s suspension to its boxers and coaches. However, the Indians would be able to compete in the Oct 11-27 World Championships as AIBA had already "authorised" their participation. AIBA, which had suspended the Indian Boxing Federation (IBF) in December for "possible manipulation" in its elections, says it is still doesn`t know when the IBF plans to hold fresh polls. "At its annual meeting held on July 16 in Jeju Island, Korea, the AIBA executive committee decided

to ask the IBF to organise new elections as soon as possible (within 3 months, thus no later than Nov 4) according to the AIBA statutes and bylaws as well as to the AIBA election guidelines, and in the presence of a returning officer who will oversee the whole election process," AIBA communications director Sebastien Gillot said on Tuesday. "The IBF Constitution was also recently revised by AIBA and sent back to the IBF for its comments and approval. No communication has been received so far from the IBF." Gillot made it clear that IBF will remain suspended until it gets its house in or-

der and now the suspension also applies to the athletes. "Until the election process is completed, the IBF is still provisionally suspended. All its membership rights have been suspended including the participation of Indian boxers and coaches in any AIBA competition from now on, except for any competition for which an authorization to participate has already been granted, which is the case in respect of the World Boxing Championships in Almaty," he added. In February, AIBA had allowed Indian boxers to compete in international tournaments despite IBF`s suspension.

Inter GHSSs & GHSs Tournament gets underway

Participants of the Kohima District Level Inter GHSSs and GHSs Tournament at Kigwema Ground, Kohima on August 28.

KoHimA, AUGUST 28 (mexN): Er. Vikho Yhoshü declared open the Kohima District Level Inter GHSSs and GHSs Tournament here at Kigwema Ground, Kohima today, as thirteen schools gathered to battle it out in different disciplines of sport. Results of Day 1: Boys; shotput 1st- Kikrusale (GHS Kigwema)

2nd- Menuosieto Sane (GHS Jotsoma) 3rd- Kelhousilie (TMGHSS, Kohima) 1500 mtrs 1st- Vizale Theyo (John GHS) 2nd- Sede Vizo (TMGHSS) 3rd- Vichüto (GHS Kigwema) long Jump 1st- Vevo (GHS Seikhazou) 2nd- Nechüto (GHS Kigwema) 3rd- Kvühulo (GHSS Tseminyu) 200 mtrs

1st- Khriesaketo (GHS Viswema) 2nd- Kuchohu Curha (RGHSS Kohima) 3rd- Neiphrekuo (TMGHSS) 4th- Kelengol (GHS Viswema) Girls Discus throw 1st- Senelü Koza (GHS Jotsoma) 2nd- Vihangle (TMGHSS) 3rd- Neiphrekhonuo Ngukha (John GHS) 800mtrs 1st- Kelesenuo (RGHSS KOhima)

2nd- Keneivinuo (GHS Kigwema) 3rd- Mhasikhonuo (RGHSS) shotput 1st- Senelü Koza (GHS Jotsoma) 2nd- Shekrolü (TMGHSS) 3rd- Vezhotsolü (GHS Seikhazou) 200 mtrs 1st- Zevotuonuo Mezhü (RGHSS) 2nd- H. Shangki Konyak (RGHSS) 3rd- Dziesengunuo (TMGHSS) 4th- Ruokuovono (GHS Kigwema)

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Jolie's breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk talks about her double mastectomy

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er decision to undergo a double mastectomy sent shock-waves around the world when it was revealed earlier this year. Now, Angelina Jolie's doctor - the renowned breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk - has spoken out about the star's brave decision for the first time. Dr. Funk, who has also treated singer Sheryl Crow, spoke to Mario Lopez in an interview with Extra revealing that Angelina's decision was not based out of 'fear'. 'She didn't have [the double mastectomy] right away, but probably knew with her family history that it was a choice she would eventually make,' she said. Adding: 'Her decision was not made overnight. It wasn't based in fear.' Angelina made her decision to undergo the operation after she was found to be carrying the BRCA1 cancer gene, which also gives her a 50 per cent risk of ovarian cancer. When asked how Angelina is doing now, she replied 'perfect' describing husband Brad as being 'the coolest' throughout the treatment. Dr. Funk revealed that Angelina knew that she was at some stage going to go public with the news in order to raise awareness about breast cancer amongst women. She explained: 'I knew that was her intention. She is just philanthropic to the core. She could never keep this a secret, and be who she is! She is someone who wants to save lives and she is doing that every day!' Asked whether Dr. Funk feels more pressure working with celebrities such as Angelina, she explained that she delves into a 'slightly more creative mode'. She revealed: 'Knowing that it would be publicly scrutinized…I developed some really new and beautiful changes to both the preparation for surgery, and the actual operation.' However she also explained that the mastectomy was 'not necessary even if you have the BRCA gene and you have breast cancer.' Talking about alternative options, she said: 'High risk surveillance. MRI's, mammograms, ultra sounds…Combine it throughout the year so that at any given month or two, something is happening to look at your breasts.' In a written piece about her decision, Angelina praised her fiancée Brad Pitt for his support throughout the ordeal and revealed she'd made the difficult decision so her children - Maddox, 11, Pax, nine, Zahara, eight, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne wouldn't have to see her get ill with cancer. The Salt star lost her own mother Marcheline Bertrand at the age of 56 to ovarian cancer in 2007.

Norwegian woman and former member of the Scientology has claimed that the church had put her through a secret audition to check if she was worthy of being Tom Cruise's wife. During an interview with Australia's Women's Day,

Anette Johansen revealed that in early 2005 she was contacted by the church to film a training video, Radar Online reported. Johansen, 27, said that the people, who had contact her for the tape, asked her so many questions about her life, family background

and everything she had done in Scientology. Johansen said that she remained in the dark about her true audition tape, until she read an article by former Scientologist Paul Haggis' about the church's search for a new wife for Cruise following his divorce from Nicole

Kidman. The report further revealed that Marc Headley, a former senior Scientologist, who was in charge of putting together a reel of women for Tom to review, confirmed her claim, saying that Johansen was indeed auditioned to be Cruise's wife.

Rumer Willis: 'Don't Be Too Tough On Dad, He Can't Hear'

ruce Willis' actress daughter Rumer has defended her dad from critics who have blasted him for appearing awkward in interviews, revealing he probably can't hear the questions properly. She insists the Die Hard star doesn't go out of his way to be less than talkative when promoting movies, but a hearing loss issue means he is always struggling to make out what is being said by interviewers. Rumer, who is Willis' eldest daughter with ex-

wife Demi Moore, explains, I think part of the problem is sometimes he can't hear... because he shot a gun off next to his ear when he was doing Die Hard a long time ago, so he has partial hearing loss in his ears. If me and my sisters get together and he's at a dinner table and we start talking about fashion and things, the poor guy... Willis' daughter also feels her dad has a reputation as an edgy, cool guy to keep up I think he just has this vibe where he feels like he's gotta kinda do a cool man (thing).

Om Puri Speaks Out After Amazing digital trickery puts the Beatles - and

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ollywood superstar Om Puri has hit back at allegations he assaulted his wife Nandita, insisting his estranged partner is a compulsive liar. The East Is East actor has been booked on three charges after his wife of 20 years filed a domestic violence complaint in Mumbai, India last week. The allegation from Nandita centred around an argument she had with her husband over the maintenance of their Mumbai flat. Police in Versova had initially been unable to locate the actor, who has claimed his lawyer told him not to appear in court. Now Puri has reached out to slam the accusations levelled against him. He tells The Times of India, My lawyer told me that I need not be present in court. (My wife) has been alleging that I don't pay her maintenance, which is a complete lie. I have proof

of every payment I made to her... She wanted most of my property, which I was ready to give because I want peace. She is a compulsive liar. I have never been involved in any kind of violence. Earlier, she accused me of trying to kidnap her son. Her allegation proved to be a lie.

In a separate statement to The Indian Express, he adds, I have been working in the industry for 35 years, have acted in over 250 films here in 20 films abroad but no complaint of abuse or beating or misbehaviour or anything negative has ever come out against me. It shows she is lying.

i can afford to stay at home: Kajol

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ctress Kajol, who will return to the big screen with her husband and actor-filmmaker Ajay Devgn's production venture, says she has become a homemaker because she can afford it. The actress was last seen in a full-fledged role in My Name Is Khan and Toonpur Ka Superhero in 2010 and made a special appearance in Student of the Year last year.

Ask her why she takes long sabbatical, and the actress says spending time with her two children daughter Nysa and son Yug - is most important for her. "I have the financial reason not to work. I don't need to work and I can afford to stay at home and take care of them (kids), which is why I do!" the 39-year-old told reporters on Tuesday at the launch of a campaign

to promote handwashing. "I think it's everybody's personal decision that whether you have to work or not. As long as you spend time with you children, is most important," she added. Asked her about the project with Ajay, she said: "We have locked on a script. I liked the idea and the concept, but nothing is finalised yet. It is too early to talk about it."

rowing up in 1960s Liverpool and it would have been hard not to get swept up in Beatlemania. But now a digital image expert has brought the Fab Four up to date by superimposing them into today images of their home town. Mike Price merged old photographs of John, Paul, George and Ringo with present day scenes to create these fascinating montages spanning half a century. His father, also called Mike who remembers Liverpool in the 1960s well, helped his son recreate the images. Mr Price said: 'Over the last few months I’ve done a series of 'then and now' pictures. 'My dad

is great. He remembers everything in great detail where everything was and what all the shops were called. 'It’s harder than it looks getting the angles right in each photo. 'I have to take a copy of it with me and try to stand in the exact same spot for the ‘now’ photograph as the photographer must have been for the ‘then’ image. 'Then it’s a case of trying to match the two images up in Photoshop. It’s nice to think of the history in each image as I’m putting it together. 'Liverpool is so rich in local history that there’s inspiration around every corner.' In 1981 plans were revealed to excavate the buried remains of the Cavern Club cellar.

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Michael Buble welcomes a baby boy with wife Luisana Lopilato

ichael Buble has become a father for the first time. The 37-year-old singer and his wife Luisana Lopilato have welcomed son Noah into the world after the 26-year-old beauty gave birth in the early hours of this morning in Vancouver, Canada. The It's a Beautiful Day hitmaker wasted no time announcing the news, taking to Instagram to post a pic-

ture of the happy couple and their newborn baby in the hospital. He wrote: 'Overjoyed and filled with gratitude at the arrival of our son.' Michael previously said the day he found out he was going to be a father was the 'greatest day' of his life, and the couple discovered in March they were expecting a boy. Earlier this month, the crooner revealed he was sticking

close to Luisana – who is from Argentina - just in case she went into labour. He said: 'I'm about 15 to 20 minutes away from home. Just in case anything happens, I'm there. 'It's scary for her. She's in a country that's not her country, people are speaking a language that's not her first language. 'So, you know, I've got her whole family here so there's a good support system.'

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Big guns ruthless on day two at US Open New YOrk, AUGUST 28 (reUTerS): Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic blasted their way into the second round of the US Open on with ruthless efficiency, crushing their hapless opponents in straight sets on an action-packed second day at Flushing Meadows. Defying the sceptics who had dismissed his chances of winning a sixth title in the Big Apple, Federer was in vintage form as he brushed past Slovenia's Grega Zemlja 6-3 6-2 7-5 in a delayed afternoon match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Djokovic then lit up Tues-

day's (local time) night session with a dazzling combination of power and precision to defeat Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis 6-1 6-2 6-2. The world No 1 hardly broke sweat on a balmy New York night as he took the first step toward a possible fourth straight appearance in the final. A tournament previously bereft of upsets also saw its first major casualty when Australia's Sam Stosur, the champion just two years ago, was sent packing by American teenager Victoria Duval 5-7 6-4 6-4. With chants of "U-S-A!"

ringing out on Louis Armstrong Stadium, Stosur lost her way after winning the opening set, committing 56 unforced errors in her defeat to the 17-year-old. "I'm not going to be a sore loser and say she didn't do anything," said Stosur. "But, you know, I think I certainly helped her out there today, that's for sure." The 32-year-old Federer won the last of his five US Open titles in 2008 but the Swiss master said he had lost none of his love of the game, ripping 35 winners in his win over Zemlja. "I'm in a good spot right now. I want to enjoy it as long

as it lasts," Federer said after the match was moved to Tuesday after being washed out on Monday evening. Former world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki survived a tough examination to join grand slam winners Petra Kvitova and Ana Ivanovic in the second round. And Italy's Sara Errani, the fourth seed, showed why she is looming as a real contender with a rare double-bagel 6-0 6-0 win over Australia's Olivia Rogowska. Errani showed no mercy against her 151st-ranked opponent, who got into the draw as a

lucky loser replacement following the withdrawal of Japan's Ayumi Morita, and romped to victory in 51 minutes. Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, also had to put in some overtime before winning her clash with Japan's Misaki Doi 6-2 3-6 6-1 while a grieving Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open winner, cruised to a 6-2 6-0 win over Georgia's Anna Tatishvili. Ivanovic arrived in New York with a heavy heart after learning about the drowning death of a childhood friend back in her native Serbia.

"It's been very sad news," Ivanovic told reporters. "It was very hard because it was almost like my relative. We grew up, and I knew him since we were kids. It's very, very sad." With her boyfriend, golfer Rory McIlroy, watching from the stands, Wozniacki had to dig deep to beat Chinese qualifier Duan Yingying 6-2 7-5. Wozniacki raced through the opening set in just 35 minutes then reeled off five games in a row to seal the win after falling behind 5-2. "It's not about being pretty," Wozniacki said. "It's about just getting the job done. I did

that, so I'm happy about that." Wimbledon semi-finalist Jerzy Janowicz was booed for serving underhand during a petulant display in his 6-4 6-4 6-2 loss to Argentina's Maximo Gonzalez, who is ranked 247th in the world. Hampered by a painful back injury he suffered training three days ago, the Polish world number 14 was in a foul mood, arguing with the chair umpire and throwing his water bottle on the court. "I was in really good shape before this happened," he growled. "That's why I'm fricking disappointed."

Arsenal in CL for 16th straight year

LONDON, AUGUST 28 (AP): Arsenal will play in the Champions League for a 16th consecutive season, and Schalke scraped into the group stage along with them after beating PAOK Salonika in a thrilling encounter on Tuesday. With a 3-0 lead over Fenerbahce from the first leg, Aaron Ramsey netted twice to ensure Arsenal comfortably won the playoff 5-0 on aggregate. "At the top level, the most difficult thing is to be consistent and of course it's an achievement," to qualify again, manager Arsene Wenger said, "but our ambition is much higher than that." Arsenal has never won European football's biggest prize or any trophy since the 2005 FA Cup. It was a nervier night for Schalke, which overcame U.S. midfielder Jermaine Jones being sent off to win 3-2 at Salonika and advance 4-3. Steaua Bucharest will be in the group stage for the first time in five years after drawing 2-2 at Legia Warsaw to go through on away goals after the first leg finished 1-1. Basel, already leading Ludogorets Razgrad Rebecca Sereda of USA performs with a ball during the 32nd 4-2, won 2-0 on home soil rhythmic gymnastics world championships tournament in to cruise into Thursday's draw where it will be joined Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo)

nal early in the second half when Lukas Podolski was carried off on a stretcher with a left hamstring injury that is expected to sideline the Germany forward for three weeks. "We paid a heavy price on the injury front," Wenger said. The result ended concerns about the chaos awaiting UEFA if Fenerbahce advanced while appealing a two-year Champions League expulsion over a 2011 Turkish match-fixing case. That appeal verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport is scheduled for Wednesday. In Greece, Adam Szalai put Schalke in front before half time after Atsuto Uchida squared the ball to him. Stefanos Athanasiadis

blasted in an equalizer for the resilient Salonika at the start of the second half, and their chances of advancing appeared to have been boosted by Schalke being reduced to 10 men when Jones received his second booking for fouling Dimitris Salpingidis in the 64th. In Poland, Steaua appeared to be cruising after Nicolae Stanciu and Federico Piovaccari scored inside the first nine minutes to put the visitors 3-1 up on aggregate Legia Warsaw pulled one back in the 27th through Miroslav Radovic's header and Jakub Rzezniczak netted in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but it came too late to prevent Steaua progressing on away goals.

Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, center, competes with Fenerbahce's Moussa Sow during their Champions League qualifying play-off second leg soccer match at Emirates Stadium, London, Tuesday, Aug. 27. (AP Photo)

by Austria Vienna, which squeezed through 4-3 on aggregate despite losing 3-2 at home to Dinamo Zagreb. In London, Fener-

bahce gifted Arsenal the lead after 25 minutes, with Ramsey providing the finish from close range. The Wales midfielder,

who scored in Istanbul last week, volleyed in another in the 72nd after being set up by Kieran Gibbs. There had been a blow for Arse-

New Market XI, HQ IGAR, Elite enter quarter finals

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New Market XI, HQ IGAR (North) and Elite FC today found quarter finals berth after registering win in their respective pre-quarter final matches at the ongoing 19th Classic Cup 2013 here at the Kohima Local Ground. New Market XI blanked Meriema FC 3-0 in the first match of the day. Rhetso Mero brought a consecutive goal for New Market XI in the 18th and 20th minute while Kenei added another goal in the 70th minute. In the second match, HQ IGAR (North) also confirmed quarter finals berth after defeating Adroit Boyz

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Match in action between Nagaland Police and Elite FC on August 28.

Zubza 2-0. E. Zofa and Seilela contributed a goal each for HQ IGAR in the 3rd and 50th minute. With today’s win, HQ

IGAR (North) will clash with New Market XI in 2nd quarter final match on August 30. Elite FC overpowered

strong opponent Nagaland Police 1-0 in the last match of the day. Graceson netted a wining goal for Elite FC in the second half.

AUGUST 29 MATCHES Pre-quarter finals Ist Match (12:00 noon) Tyrant’s FC Khuzama vs Billy Graham FC

2nd Match (1:30 PM) Addax FC vs Tsieyama SA Jotsoma 3rd Match (3:30 PM) Headhunters XI vs 4th NAP FC

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