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Singh & Sharif meet in New York
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New York CitY, September 29 (AGeNCieS):Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday held his first talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. According to sources both the leaders shook hands and exchanged greetings in Punjabi language before entering closed-door talks with aides. Addressing media persons after the meeting, India’s National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon said the meeting had helped both sides “have some amount of understanding of how to move forward.” “We strongly raised the issue of cross-border terrorism, and said that peace on the LoC (in Jammu and Kashmir) has to be a precondition for normalisation of the relationship,” he said. “My impression from the meeting was that it was useful. We need to work hard in the next few months to take it forward,” said Menon. “Today’s meeting dealt with the relationship as it is today... we had to deal with what is overwhelmingly happening on the Line of Control... we dealt with the issue of getting it out of the way,” he said to a question. He said both prime ministers spoke of the desire for better relations, and the difficulties that are in the way. Menon said Pakistan had raised the issue of violence in its Balochistan province and of India’s alleged interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs. “There is no proof of any export of terror from India... wish I could say the same for the other side,” said Menon to a question on India allegedly fostering terrorism in Balochistan. Related news on page 8
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In a “belated” visit by any central Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, India’s Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Praful Patel, addressed NCP party workers and others in Nagaland on Sunday at Niathu Resort here. He was welcomed by State NCP President, Neiba Ndang. Nagaland MLA and NCP legislature party leader, Dr. TM Lotha, greeted the union cabinet minister, acknowledging that the visit by a central leader of the NCP was due both before and after the election to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly earlier this year. The NCP, said Dr. Lotha, has large scope of expansion in Nagaland but much guidance and encouragement is needed from central party leaders for this. After joining the DAN alliance with four seats in the treasury bench, he stated that NCP party workers are now being “side lined” by the ruling party.
“A conscious decision was made from Delhi to support the DAN alliance in Nagaland,” admitted Praful Patel, in his speech, but also that such a relationship is a matter of “two-way traffic.” Patel, who is also NCP in-charge for Northeast States, expressed satisfaction that the NCP won four seats of the 14 that it contested from Nagaland State, amidst apprehension of the party’s performance after PA Sangma left the party. On the revival of the Tuli Paper Mill, Patel said that Rs. 100 crores of the total revival cost of Rs. 489 crores had already been “parted with” by the Centre, and the process for revival had been set in motion. “It is through the enthusiasm of NCP legislators and party workers in Nagaland that the mill is being revived. No one else can take credit for it,” said the cabinet minister, adding that only “half hearted” efforts and vague promises were made earlier with no genuine attempts to actu-
Praful Patel addresses Nagaland NCP workers
Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Praful Patel, is seen here flanked by NCP MLA Mmhonlumo Kikon (L) and State NCP President Neiba Ndang (R) at Niathu Resort on Sunday. Photo by Caisii Mao
ally start it. “I have stressed that of the 600 people to be employed at the Tuli Paper Mill, 500 should be from Nagaland,” announced Patel, amidst loud cheer. To
create more industry, the State has to become investment friendly, with desired social and economic infrastructure, he noted. The Tuli Paper Mill, for Patel, should send a “strong mes-
sage” to attract investment. The NCP, he said, is a secular party and believes in “taking everyone along” for its stated objective of national integration, as well as its belief that “peo-
ple all over the country should be better off.” He expressed worry over the financial condition of Nagaland State, and that “people expected the government to perform better” but found “dissatisfaction.” Stressing that opportunities should be opened up within the State for its citizens, Patel said that “Economic development is the only key to success for future generations.” He added that sectors such as agriculture and related activities like food processing can open up many opportunities for the people of Nagaland given the number of central subsidies available. Praful Patel categorically mentioned that the NCP supports the “peaceful and early” resolution of the “Naga issue” as it is an “emotional” subject, and a resolution should meet the aspiration of the people— only then, he said, “peace and prosperity” will foster. Development can come only when a “positive sentiment” has been built vis-à-
vis the Naga issue, he added. Patel encouraged his Nagaland counterparts to work to “make sure NCP is the party of the future,” for which the central NCP leadership will make sure that the party comes out “stronger and grows and meets the aspirations of the State.” In that, the cabinet minister asserted that NCP units in all districts have to be strengthened and in the next Legislative Assembly elections, the party should contest in all 60 seats. On the sidelines, when asked on being a former civil aviation minister, if he can do something about Nagaland’s sorry state of aviation affairs, Patel, the ex-director of Jet Airways, said that he will take a “personal initiative” to rectify the situation. When informed of the lack of any Engineering or Medical colleges in Nagaland, Patel, also known as the ‘bidi king’ of India, assured that he will write to the concerned ministries in Delhi as well as talk to them about the matter.
GoI urged to release ‘political prisoners’ ‘not mandatory for employees to donate’
New Delhi, September 29 (mexN): The Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) on September 27 submitted a memorandum to the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh requesting “unconditional release” of NSCN (IM) leader, Anthony Ningkhan Shimray. The memo was submitted in the backdrop of a candle light vigil organized by the NPMHR in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on September 27 to mark the 3rd anniversary of Shimray’s detention. It may be noted that Shimray was arrested on September 27, 2010 from Kathmandu International Airport on allegations of procuring arms to “wage war against the Government of India.” The memorandum appended by the Convener and
Co Convener of NPMHR, Delhi stated that imprisoning peace negotiators “weakens the credibility and integrity of the peace process and invalidates much needed efforts at trust and confidence building among all parties.” It informed that Shimray is a “key leader in the peace process,” and as such urged the Government of India to release him and all Naga political prisoners. It appreciated the PM’s “continuous pursuance of peace” through cease-fire and political negotiations with various Naga groups. However it lamented that “during this period of cease-fire, Naga people have seen and experienced various incidents that question the sincerity of the Government in the ongoing peace process.” It cited the “disturb-
‘Heart disease kills 17.3 million each year’
New Delhi, September 29 (iANS): Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including heart disease and stroke, cause 17.3 million deaths each year worldwide, and by 2030 it is expected that 23 million people will die from CVDs annually, a report released Sunday said. Sunday is being observed as World Heart Day. Every year since 2000, Sep 29 has been observed by the World Heart Federation as World Heart Day to spread awareness about the rising instance of heart disease. “Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including heart disease and stroke, take lives prematurely. In fact, they cause 17.3 million deaths each year and the numbers are rising. By 2030, it is expected that 23 million people will die from CVDs annually,” said Rishi Sethi, associate professor, Department of Cardiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow. The intervention cardiology data compiled by Rishi Sethi revealed that over 4,500 lifesaving angioplasty procedures and almost 2,000 lifesaving pacemaker implantations have been performed in 2011-12
in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The number of these procedures has increased by almost 30 percent over the last year, he said. “Children are vulnerable too, the risk for CVDs can begin before birth, during foetal development, and increase further during childhood with exposure to unhealthy diet, lack of exercise and smoking,” the doctor said. The doctor also underlined how simple lifestyle changes like giving up tobacco could make a big difference to cardiovascular health. “The tobacco industry interference in public health policy has been recognised as the biggest obstacle in enforcing tobacco control laws. Strengthening tobacco control is one of the evidence-based ways to reduce CVDs,” said Ehsaan Latif, director, Tobacco Control, at the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. It is an international voluntary scientific organisation working in low- and middle-income countries to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, lung disease, tobacco-related morbidity and non-communicable diseases.
ing trend of many Naga leaders being arrested by Indian state agencies in the past few years.” The memo mentioned that during the time of his arrest, Shimray was on his way to New Delhi to participate in the IndoNaga peace talks between the GOI and NSCN (IM), scheduled to be held on September 29, 2010. Many Naga organizations and other solidarity groups, including the Democratic Students’ Union of India, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights and Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Manipur participated in the candle light vigil in New Delhi event. Apex Naga organizations such as the Naga Hoho, United Naga Council and Naga Mothers’ Association who could not participate physically, expressed solidarity with the NPMHR through solidarity messages.
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A recent proposal to deduct certain amounts from government employees’ wages have stirred up angst among employees of the Nagaland State government, prompting the Confederation of All Nagaland State Service Employees’ Association (CANSSEA) to express concern. According to unconfirmed reports, on account of Nagaland celebrating 50 years of statehood, grade II and above employees are required to contribute three days’ worth of wages, while grade IV employees a day’s wage. There is however no standing directive from the State government in this regard. Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir, said on Sunday that the State government has not issued any instruction as such,
but a “purely voluntary” contribution could be made. “It is not a government decision, therefore, it is not a government order,” said Jamir speaking to The Morung Express. Jamir said that the issue was brought up at a meeting of Administrative Heads of Departments and Heads of Departments, held in July. It was discussed how government servants could contribute towards the golden jubilee celebration, Jamir disclosed of the meeting. That was how the proposal of deducting certain amounts from employees’ monthly salary came about, Jamir said. There was however no conclusive decision to that effect. “There is no imposition (on employees),” Jamir stated, reiterating that it is not mandatory for employees to contribute from their salary. Queried
further, the Chief Secretary could not substantiate if all the AHoDs and HoDs took prior consent of subordinates from their respective departments. The plan was that the money thus collected could be contributed towards the construction of a ‘commemorative golden jubilee gate’ at the State Secretariat and setting up of an educative ‘Museum of Naga History’ in Kohima. On the plan to construct the gate, Jamir said that the Secretariat requires a second security gateway. If the employees willingly contribute, the proposed ‘commemorative gate’ will be erected; if not, the government will have to construct a normal security barricade purely from government funds, Jamir said. It also means that the question of building the proposed museum would be shelved.
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Dimapur’s newest restaurant ‘Le Bistro’ opens its door today
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There’s another new restaurant in town! This time, its ‘Le Bistro,’ a fine dining restaurant specializing in Naga, Indian, Thai, Chinese, and Continental Cuisine. Interacting with The Morung Express at a soft launch held today for family and well wishers, proprietors Akum Langur and Aren Langur said they were ready to start dishing out food that is definitely different from the rest of the eating joints in Dimapur. The sister duo hails from Lirmen Village under Mokokchung. They also own “Velvet Café” in Dimapur which was launched in 2012. “We have tried to create something different, and we e have so many different variety for our customers to choose,” they said. The restaurant offers both non-veg and veg food and will soon be introducing brunch dining, buffet, and events catering. The sisters maintain that their Frogs, which are a delicacy among the Nagas, are seen for sale at a market in Tuensang. Frog legs are one of the better-known delicacies of French and Cantonese cuisine and eaten at many foray into food entrepreneurship is “self trained” and wishes to serve parts of the world. Indonesia is the largest exporter of frogs in the world. (Imojen I Jamir)
as inspiration to others as well. The logo of le Bistro, they point out also bears the insignia of a woman’s head which they state is a reflection of their ideology that “Girls Can do it”. “We are foodies and we love different cuisines. We hope to bring that same love to our customers in our own style,” they chime. And what they mean by their style is reflected in one of their house specialty called “Mayungtsu” which is taken from Ao cuisines. The dish is chicken cooked with rice flour and promises to be a big hit. Also other attractions are five spice rib stickers, kebabs, satay just to name a few. The girls summarize that the name of the restaurant Le Bistro is French which means “The Restaurant.” The restaurant is located at Circular Road, Dimapur (near Eastern Publications). Le Bistro will open seven days a week. Timings are 10:30 am to 9:30 pm on weekdays and 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm on Sundays. The duo promises that Le Bistro’s food and service will live up to its tagline “…Where Food Meets Satisfaction”.
Onam Festival celebrated with great enthusiasm
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kohima, September 29 (mexN): Malayali Samajam Kohima (MSK), the apex body of the Keralites living in Kohima celebrated ONAM festival with great enthusiasm at Highland Park, Near IG Stadium, Kohima, on September 28, 2013. Onam is the harvest festival and the festival of rain flowers of Kerala, which fall on the first month of the Malayalam calendar. The rich cultural heritage of Kerala comes out in its best form and spirit during the ten day long festival. A press note received her stated that the celebration started with the light-
ing of the lamp by K.M. Geevarghese, President of MSK and other office bearers. Thiruvathira, the traditional dance of Kerala was presented by the Mahila Wing of the MSK. Single and group dances, skit and cultural shows presented by the kids of the MSK, music concert, tug of war, entertainment games etc were the highlights of the celebration. The note also mentioned that awards for the highest rank holder and the best student in Mathematics were given to the children of the Members of MSK in the HSLC examination-2013 conducted by the NBSE.
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‘Le Bristo’ proprietors Aren Langur and Akum Langur. (Morung Photo)
NSCN (K) informs Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): It has been informed that for expedient financial administration, the selected subjects/items earlier entrusted to L. Tuccu in Dimapur District are being relieved off to avoid excessive workloads. Henceforth, Lt. Col. Akaho Zhimo, the official Finance In-charge of Dimapur shall assume responsibilities with immediate effect. This was informed in a press note issued by Lt.Col.Akaho Zhimo, Finance In-charge, Dimapur NSCN (K).
SJC to start coaching classes
Members of Mahila wing who performed ‘Thirvatira’ Dance during Onam celebration at Highland Park, Kohima.
Jakhama, September 29, (mexN): With many Nagas preparing for the civil service exams, the prohibitive cost of coaching centers, however, deters many aspiring candidates from economically disadvantaged families from preparing well to achieve their dreams. A press note received here stated that to provide such candidates, a more level playing field and better chance to succeed, St. Joseph’s is extending its outreach program by starting coaching classes in Kohima and Dimapur at a very affordable rate. The coaching classes in Kohima will begin on October 1 at the Catholic Center, D’Block and October 3 at Holy Cross School, Dimapur. The note mentioned that the coaching classes are open to all.
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‘Serving is the heartbeat of the Christian life’ DVYO condemns assault on police constable
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Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): A seminar on “Equipping Church leaders for Mission Today” was organized by Abundant Life Ministry (ALM). A press note received here stated that Dr. T. Lima Jamir, Chairman, Impact Foundation, in his speech said that serving is the highest level of living, and people who have a serving spirit are some of the most positive people. He also added that all Christians are called to serve and that “Serving is the heartbeat of the Christian life. Serving people is the only way by which we serve God. Nothing has such a positive impact on a person as serving others”. “Discipleship is service”, he said and contemplated that most people when looking for a church are looking for a church that needs and blesses them, rather than looking for a church with which to serve and be a blessing. He also said many people are in the ministry for what
Dr. T. Lima Jamir, Chairman, Impact Foundation and other participants at the seminar on “Equipping Church leaders for Mission Today” organized by ALM.
they can receive from their people, instead of what they can give. ‘Serving’ does not come naturally, and in our selfserving culture with “MeFirst” mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular
concept, he said, and that today a large portion of the church world does not properly understand the New Testament concept of servant hood. He said that God determines our greatness by how many people
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and how well we serve, not by how many people serve us. This is so contrary to the world’s idea of greatness that we have a hard time understanding it, much less practicing. He exhorted, “It is of
utmost importance for all leaders to realize that you have an important calling from God. We are called to be partners, so labourers with God in ministry”. Preaching on the theme “Empowering The Leadership”, he stated that We were placed on earth not just to breathe, eat, take up space and have fun. “God fashioned and formed us to make a unique contribution with our lives. God designed us to make a difference. God designed us for service to him and others,” he said. He also counselled that the world calculates greatness on the scale of lordly dominion and authority, the only greatness Christ recognizes in his kingdom is lowliness of service. However, he maintained that spiritual, passionate church leaders should be driven by the Bible, spirit and focus on to win the lost souls. He urged, “Let us try to be an empowering leaders-listening, doing the will of god”.
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): The Dihoma Village Youth Organisation (DVYO) has condemned “the beastly act” of the uniformed personnel against their own comrade, serving as Constable under 4th NAP and a bonafide citizen of Dihoma Village on September 25, 2013. A press note issued by Khrieliezo Tsűkrű President, Zhavizo Yashü, Information & Publicity Secretary DVYO mentioned that Thepfusalie Thomas, OC Traffic North Police Station, Kohima physically assaulted the victim Lhouvizo Yano beyond the degree of torture for a mere offence of traffic rules violation while parking his car on the roadside at High School Area Kohima. DVYO stated that the OC on duty manning the traffic on the day took the victim to lock-up and not only kept him behind bars but was physically manhandled beyond imagination, including his private parts leading to his unconscious in the North PS. “Such an inhuman act from a uniformed officer was extremely uncalled for and unexpected as he was penalising his own subordinate more than a hardcore criminal. The brutality of the OC becomes more grievous as did not listen to humble pleas made by the victim’s wife and family, but remanded him in the custody for almost two-days. The victim was released only after the intervention of Adjutant of the 4th NAP Bn as requested by the victim’s wife,” the Youth Organisation stated in the note.
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Seen here is the assaulted Police Constable.
DVYO also mentioned that consequent upon the severe injuries due to the brutality, atrocities and high handedness of Thepfusalie Thomas, the victim is undergoing serious medical treatment at Civil Hospital Kohima. In this regard, DVYO urged the concerned authority to award befitting punishment against the North Traffic OC Thepfusalie Thomas at the earliest so as to avoid “further unwanted confrontations”.
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Model walks the ramp during the Northeast India Performing Arts (NIAPA) Designer Award 2013 at Dimapur, on Saturday, September 28. Ikali Sukhalu, winner of the best designer award will showcase her designs at the New York Fashion week to be held February 14, 2014. (Photos by Caisii Mao)
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Mizoram sets up election watchdog AizAwl, September 29 (NNN): Mizoram election watch dog the People Forum (MPF) has previewed on the upcoming assembly elections in the state and decided that all the candidates must co-ordinate with the poll watchdog. The Mizoram Peoples' Forum (MPF) is floated by the Synod, the largest Church body in Mizoram as an election watch-dog. This time round, the MPF has formulated its agenda to be applied in the next assembly election due in the next few months' time. On Saturday, the MPF in
its meeting held here had invited the various recognised political parties in Mizoram and had discussed over the setting up of party campaign offices in the wake of elections and about the participations of the candidates in the MPF joint platform. Last month, the Mizoram Peoples' Forum (MPF), had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with major political parties in Mizoram so that free and fair elections could be held. The memorandum of understanding is nothing but rule for co-operation by the political parties with the
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Bru families repatriation to resume from today AizAwl, September 29 (pti): The return of Bru people from two relief camps in North Tripura district to Mizoram would resume from today with 121 families deciding to go back this week, a senior Mizoram official said on Sunday. State Home department Joint Secretary Lalbiakzama told PTI that all necessary arrangements have been made by the Mamit district administration on Mizoram-Tripura border to receive the 121 families at two facilitation camps - Kanhmun and Zomuantlang. He said that those who were returning to Mizoram would be verified at the facilitation camps and once identified as bona fide residents, would be given Rs 5,500 per family as travel expenses. "We have requested the Tripura government officials in Kanchanpur Sub-Division to help the Bru families hire vehicles," he said. The Bru families had agreed to return to Mizoram on their own were from Naisingpara and Asapara relief camps, he said. On arrival at the facilitation camps, the Bru families would be each given a certificate and Rs 80,000 as rehabilitation and resettlement package. The Bru Coordination Committee headed by leaders like Elvis Chorkhy would coordinate and help the officials at the facilitation camps and also in their resettlement in the designated 15 villages, he added. The Mizoram government and the Union Home Ministry opted for self-repatriation as many Bru leaders in the relief camps were opposed to the return process. Also the government had spent a huge amount of money in making arrangements for their return but only a few families decided to go back last year.
MP panel arrives in Manipur
impHAl, September 29 (NNN): An 11 member Parliamentary panel has arrived in Imphal mainly to assess the ongoing railway line construction in Manipur. The team will also collect the reports on the national projects being implemented in the state. The Estimate Committee of the Parliament comprising 11 MPs including Lok Sabha MP from Manipur Thokchom Meinya arrived in Imphal at 1:30. The team is being led by the Committee chairman Francisco Sardinah. The team will meet the officials of Northern Frontier Railway and State Transport department, Forest department at Classic Hotel, Imphal on Monday. The meeting will also discuss on textiles. According to sources, the Estimate Committee will minutely study how Northern Frontier Railway is implementing the project regarding the Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal rail line.
Jawan injured in attack by insurgents in Manipur
impHAl, September 29 (pti): An Assam Rifles (AR) jawan was seriously injured when armed insurgents attacked an AR post at Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur's Ukhrul district, the police said today. About 100 insurgents, who allegedly crossed Indo-Myanmar international border, attacked the post of 44th AR Battalion (D-Coy) at Komkang area by opening fire from different directions while the jawans were participating in a drill last evening. A jawan was seriously injured, they said, adding that the exchange of fire between the two lasted for more than two hours. In a statement signed by Bang Kim, the chief of the publicity section of insurgent outfit Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), political wing of People's Liberation Army (PLA), the attack was carried out by 'tactical command' of the PLA. He said the attack was carried out with sophisticated weapons like RPG M-79 and others and claimed that all the PLA activists who took part in the attack have returned to their camp safely. Official reports from Ukhrul district said it was not yet known whether the insurgents crossed the international border or not after the attack. Police forces could not reach the spot immediately due to heavy rain late last evening, they said, adding that ambulance was seen moving to the spot from Ukhrul district headquarters. Senior AR officials were not immediately available for comment.
Meghalaya govt readies tenancy bill to check influx
SHillONG, September 29 (tNN): The state government will place the proposed 'Regulation of Landlords and Tenants Verification Bill' to address the issue of illegal immigration and influx before the public consultation scheduled to be held next month. "We have given a timeline to the department concerned to complete the whole process and then notify it for public consultation to be held on October 3," chief minister Mukul Sangma said after chairing a cabinet meeting here on Friday. Sangma said the name of the proposed bill will be the 'Regulation of Landlord & Tenancy Verification Bill'. He, however, said it might change after the public consultative meet. The CM, however, emphasized: "Legislating is not enough. Enforcement (of the legislation) is also required". Sangma said the definition of landlord would be much more exhaustive and capable of covering all those people who provide accommodation on their premises. "Even if you own an industry, coal miner...who all are staying will also be regulated. It is much more inclusive. It will regulate even those who facilitate people who come and stay whether illegally or whatever. Illegal immigration and influx is not confined to cities and towns but goes beyond," he said.
Mizoram People's Forum. The parties which had signed the MoU with the state election watchdog are Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), Mizo Peoples Convention (MPC), Zoram National Party (ZNP), Mizo National Front (MNF) and the BJP for co-operation at Synod Committee Hall in Aizawl. About 27 rules have been made by the MPF for the political parties to abide. Among the 27 points, one is that the political parties should only make an election manifesto which they can imple-
ment. If any political party violates any one of the 27 points, the MPF will "invalid" that party. Meanwhile, Mizoram corruption watchdog the People's Right to Information and Development Implementing Society of Mizoram (PRISM) has started its spade-work as to what extent the present Congress government has implemented regarding the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC)’s election manifesto of 2008. The PRISM said it will put its findings in public domain. Like in the previous
2008 assembly elections, the PRISM in its executive meeting recently had declared that as soon as the date and time of 2013 state assembly elections is declared, it will have temporal halt on its ‘Anti Corruption’ campaign but will start an exclusive study of the background of different candidates in different respects and exposed the same before the public. In case of any faulty or wrong information in the nomination paper (self declared affidavit) filed for the assembly election, PRISIM decided to take stern mea-
sure against the illicit candidate to bring right judgment over the case. PRISIM further requested any interested person to report himself/herself to PRISIM office if he/ she wishes to talk about the status of implementation of election manifesto by the present government. Earlier on September 1, PRISM had issued ‘Peoples' Manifesto’ to eight different political parties in Mizoram for the upcoming Mizoram assembly elections due in either October end or November. The manifesto contains 20 chapters in which there
are 87 duties and obligations where any political party that comes to power after the poll must implement them. Of the 87 duties, 43 are to be done within a specific time, while the other 44 duties do not have a time limit. Earlier, 'Peoples' Manifesto' had been submitted to different parties including Bharatya Janata Party (BJP), Hmar People’s Convention (HPC), Maraland Democratic Front (MDF), Mizo National Front (MNF), Mizoram Peoples Conference (MPC), Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC),
Mizoram Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) to use as their manifesto in the upcoming election. The same copy was given to 20 organizations including AMFU general headquarters, Aizawl; Chhim Bial Chhantu, Lunglei; Central Young Mizo Association (CYMA), Aizawl;FOMTU Gen. Hqrs., Aizawl; LDDVF, Lawngtlai; MHIP Gen. Hqrs., Aizawl; MJA General Headquarters.,Aizawl; MKHC, Aizawl; MPF Hqrs., Aizawl; MSEWC, Aizawl; MSU Gen. Hqrs., Aizawl; and MUP.
GUwAHAti, September 29 (tNN): BJP's leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, on Saturday said while the wounds caused by the partition in 1947 have healed over the years, Assam is still bearing the brunt in the form of illegal migration from Bangladesh. Addressing a function on illegal migration in the northeast here, he added that the demographic, cultural and economic character of Assam has been
compromised because of unabated infiltration. Jaitley also released a booklet titled 'The Truth About Illegal Migration in Assam and Northeast' brought out by the New Delhi-based Confederation of North Eastern People (CONEP). The function was organized by Northeast Policy Institute (NPI). Without naming any political party, Jaitley, however, claimed that vested political interest has led to the "import of vote bank"
by allowing influx from the neighbouring country. "The desire for enlarging vote-bank has been encouraging illegal migration. I am not sure whether such a strategy will always be beneficial to the vested political group which has been encouraging influx. Today, we are seeing assertions from the migrants to be part of the state's power structure," he said. The BJP leader said the grievances of the people of the northeast were primar-
ily because of the region's "neglect" in terms of development and distance from the rest of the country. He added that the northeast is still lagging behind in respect of infrastructure facilities and connectivity. Jaitley said the two regions in India that need the first rights over its natural resources are the northeast and central India. He added that the two tribal regions have suffered the most because of long neglect. "If two regions in India de-
served the first right over natural resources, it will be the northeast and central India. Both the regions are tribal-dominated and have suffered long neglect," added Jaitley. The leader of the opposition has also dwelt on the overall political and economic scenario of the country, saying that cynicism and anger have been prevailing among the people because of loss of credibility of political life due to a large number of scams
and economic slowdown. "From 1991, we have showcased our country as a fast-growing economy. Today, stagnation and inflation have hit the country. There is policy paralysis. Today's slowdown is dangerous because there is stagnation on one side and inflation on the other. Even the security aspect is not assuring as we have seen how terrorists from Pakistan attacked police stations and army camps in Jammu," Jaitley said.
i tA N A G A r , S e ptermber 29 (AGeNCieS): The sensitive border state of Arunachal Pradesh inhabited by culturally rich hospitable tribals would be focused in right perspective globally with the launch of North East Live, the first 24X7 satellite news channel from the state on September 30 next, said Chief Minister Nabam Tuki. After inspecting the preparation of the stage at Indira Gandhi Park today for the launch, Tuki said this is first of its type event in the state and would bridge the communication gap by speedily feeding the happenings of this landlocked hilly state. Extending his hearty congratulation to the North East Live team, Tuki assured all possible cooperation of his government for the channel to grow. Tuki accompanied with his principal adviser T N Norbu, Chief Secretary Harikrishna, education commissioner C B Kumar and tourism secretary Sonam Chombey, interacted with CMD Takam Moni and organizing committee members Lika Taji, Kipa
Kaha and R N Lalum, expressed his happiness at the preparations. He inquired the minute details of the launching programme which would witness the participation of union ministers, half a dozen MPs, besides the 'Who's Who' of the state and a battery of media persons. Union Road Transport and Highways Minister is likely to lay foundation stone of construction of a highway, as well as take part in inauguration of North East Live. It may be mentioned here that an AIDS awareness campaign, a collaborative programme of APSACS and NACO, is scheduled to be conducted at the same
venue on October 3. Itanagar will also witness Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, who is expected to show up at the same venue on October 4, as curtain raiser for India's second edition of International Tourism Mart (ITM) to be organized by the Union Tourism Ministry at Tawang from October 18 to 20. It would be for the first time that a national or global level reigning beauty queen would be visiting the state.
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‘Games, apps market in India to touch Rs 2,700 crore by 2016’
mUmbAi, September 29 (pti): Mobile games and applications in India are expected to be a Rs 2,700-crore market by 2016, driven by strong smartphone growth and expanding 3G userbase, a report by Avendus Capital said on Sunday. “The digital content market (other than caller ringback tones) in India has been sub-scale due to large-scale piracy. Mobile Internet is opening the doors for largescale monetisation of digital content through paid apps which is expected to grow to become a Rs 2,000-crore market in the next 3-4 years,” Avendus Capital Executive Director and Head (Digital Media and Technology) Ashish Bhinde said.. According to the report, smartphone users in India are expected to grow to 67 million this year and 382 million by 2016. Similarly, 3G subscriptions are also expected to rise from 11 million in 2011 to 56 million
this year and touch 266 million by 2016, it added. More than 50 per cent of mobile Internet traffic and paid content revenues come from smartphones, dominated by Google and Apple app stores. Google Play and Apple App store revenues are expected to cross Rs 800 crore by 2016, the report said. While the average revenue per user for paid apps is expected to come down from Rs 132 in 2012 to Rs 78 in 2016, the growing 3G sub-
scription base (11 million in 2011 to 266 million in 2016) will help the overall revenues from paid apps to touch Rs 2,065 crore. The report estimates the paid apps market in India to be worth about Rs 300 crore in 2012. Five categories that dominate Indian content landscape on mobile phones include cricket, music, news, video and games. Facebook, Google and Whatsapp lead in terms o f time
share, the report said. Feature phones with Internet capabilities will too help the apps and games ecosystem to grow. “Feature phones will continue to play a key role as they continue to maintain a substantial market share. Indian players have a stronghold in this segment and the opportunities for them are in the area of (developing) hyper-local models like browser content, entertainment and m-commerce,” the report said. The number of smartphone users in India was only 36 million as of March 2013, while the number of Internet-supported mobile devices stands at 431 million, the report said. “While smartphones are driving traffic to third-party app stores, there will still be a significant mobile user base on feature phones going forward, which in itself will provide a large potential market for telco app stores,” Bhinde said.
Foreign tourist influx, festive season may see airfares soar this winter
mUmbAi, September 29 (tNN): Airfares will be sky-high during the festive season, especially on flights to and from Mumbai, as airlines have not planned to add many flights for the forthcoming winter schedule. What is worse, the domestic flights’ demand will be high as the weak rupee has turned India into an attractive destination this winter. Currently, the Mumbai airport handles 700 aircraft movements a day, ie that is almost 350 landings and an equal number of take-offs in 24 hours. “During the winter schedule, from October end to March, the flight movements will go up to 750, which means 25 more flights out of Mumbai in a day,” said an airport official. That roughly adds up to about 3,400 extra seats on departure flights per day, which is not a huge number for Mumbai during the Dussehraasshera, Diwali and Christmas X’mas weeks. Last
winter, Kingfisher Airlines suspended its flight operations. The consequent drop in capacity has kept airfares high, except during the lean travel months of June and July. “This year with the dollar staying strong, we expect a heavier rush of NRIs and foreign tourists into India from Diwali onwards till February. Consequently, the demand for domestic flights will increase greatly,” said Jay Bhatia, chairman, Travel Agents Association of India. The booking trend in India is such that about 30% per cent of bookings for winter holidays are done in advance. “The rest generally begin around Navratri. So a perceptible rise in fares will be seen from October 5 onwards,” he added. That would be a spoiler as fares are already high. On Saturday, the lowest one-way MumbaiDelhi fare for travel on November 1, the Diwali weekend, was Rs 9,000. John Nair, vice presi-
dent, business travel, Cox and Kings said: “In view of the busy winter season, it is better to book early and take advantage of lower fares rather than wait, as the number of flights out of Mumbai this winter is not very high.” For the winter schedule, low-cost airline GoAir is slated to add the largest number of flights to/from Mumbai. Among the daily flights to commence from October 27, will be Go Air’s eighth Delhi-Mumbai flight, fourth MumbaiBangalore return flight, and second return flight on routes like Mumbai-Kochi, MumbaiJaipur and Mumbai-Lucknow. etc. The winter schedule is yet to be approved by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. In the last winter schedule, airlines nationwide all over the country operated 10,935 flights/week. In the year prior, that number stood at and in the year before that it was 13,541 flights/week.
‘Tata-Singapore Airlines will be good for consumers, industry’
New Delhi, September 29 (pti): Tata Group’s move to set up a full service airline in collaboration with Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be good for consumers as well as the industry, say Finance Ministry officials. “It is good that Tatas are setting up a full service airline. It will increase competition, something which the government wants,” said a senior official. The proposal of Tatas and Singapore Airlines for a new joint venture, entailing a foreign investment of USD 49 million, is likely to come up before the Foreign Investment
Promotion Board (FIPB) for approval on October 18. Headed by Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram, FIPB is an inter-ministerial panel for approving Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) across sectors. Tatas already have a JV with Malaysian carrier AirAsia for a low cost carrier which is likely to start India operations later this year. “We are of the view that more players the merrier. Also preliminary study of Tata-SIA proposal shows that representation of JV partners on board is as per the Companies Act,” the official said.
The substantial ownership and effective control of the JV will be with Tatas, holding 51 per cent stake, the proposal said, adding that SIA would have a minority representation on the board and “will not be in a position to have ‘de-facto’ control over the Board”. While Tata Sons will hold 51 per cent stake in the new venture - Tata SIA Airlines Ltd - Singapore Airlines (SIA) will hold 49 per cent. The proposed venture will also require approvals from agencies like the DGCA and tax department as well as other ministries.
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The companies had last week announced a pact to set up a new full-service airline with an initial investment of USD 100 million. “High foreign investment inflows would further strengthen the civil aviation sector,” the two partners said in an application to the FIPB, while seeking approval for the USD 49 million worth FDI by SIA. Attempting an aviation venture for the third time, Tatas and SIA have also said that the JV will create significant job opportunities in India.
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ren’t meritorious and deserving entrepreneurs or youths of caliber for white collar jobs born in middleclass and BPL families of Nagaland..? It is absolutely huge big NO, NO, NO etc(s)…. The only visible differences are offspring from high class families gets education from reputed institutes in metros (inland or aboard), secondly they have parents in high offices or biz with huge bank balances and even own the skies but the other majority from families with less privileges are unfortunate with none of the above blessings….but that doesn’t gives the right to deprive the later who can even do much
better indeed. Citizens are thrilled when government or for that matter any agencies announces rich packages to salvage the unemployed, farmers or any underprivileged class and pours in rains of acknowledgements. But when the beneficiaries are selected showers of blessings falls on the golden bowls of the highly privileged people... huh!! If the government honestly in Christian spirit browse through the profiles and background of the selected beneficiaries in PMEGP,RKVY schemes, CM corpus fund ,CM special development funds etc. it would utterly proj-
ect examples of broad daylight robbery and We will be ashamed to say “I am a Christian from Nagaland” perhaps the LAND of unimaginable corruptions!!! As they say, Good tree bears good fruit, I am highly optimistic that the project “Impact 5000 by 18” under the patronage of Merentoshi Jamir, Hon’ble Minister,YR&S will be a turning point for Nagas to appreciate the best deserving lots irrespective of physical colors by selecting only the best genuine entrepreneurs on 8th Oct. Anyway, there’s single PIT of HELL for all sinners (Beggers/VVIPs) Samuel Sumi
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otanicals are derived from plants. Many plant products are said to have pesticidal properties. They are natural products and most of them break down quickly on the leaves or in the soil. However, there is very little information on their effective dose rates, their impact on beneficial organisms or their toxicity to humans.Garlic extracts is also one of the most important botanicals derived from Allium sativum plants. Garlic is widely cultivated and easy to grow in field, garden or backyard. It is appreciate as a seasoning or condiment for cooking and due to its medicinal properties. Its value as a pesticide is also appreciated particularly in organic farming and cultivation in the backyard garden. There are commercial pesticides containing garlic as an active ingredient, and homemade extracts are widely used. Garlic has anti-feedant (insect stop feeding), bacterial, fungicidal, insecticidal, nematicidal and repellent properties. Garlic is reportedly effective against a wide range of disease-causing pathogens and insects at different stages in their life cycle (egg, larvae, adult). This includes ants, aphids, armyworms, diamondback moth and other caterpillars such as the false codling moth, pulse beetle, whitefly, wireworm, khapra beetle, mice, mites, moles, Epilachna beetles, and termites as well as fungi bacteria and nematodes. General recommendations for preparing and using garlic extracts: 1. Select plant parts of garlic that are free from diseases. 2. Store garlic bulbs in a cool, dry shady place. The most common practice for storing garlic is to braid the dry tops and let the bulbs cure while hung up in the tops. Another method is storing in a single layer in a well-ventilated shady
and dry place as practised for onions. 3. Use clean utensils and make sure they are cleaned again directly after use 4. Do not have a direct contact with the crude extract while in the process of the preparation and during the application. 5. Make sure that you place the plant extract out of reach of children and house pets while leaving it overnight. 6. The taste of garlic will remain on sprayed plants for some time after spraying so it may be best to avoid spraying near harvest time, or to harvest all the mature and ripe fruits on the crop to be sprayed before plant extract application. 7. Try out different strengths of the garlic extract to determine effective dosages for specific pests. 8. Always test the plant extract formulation on a few infested plants first before going into large scale spraying. When adding soap as an emulsifier, use a potash-based one like laundry soap (e.g gun soap). 9. Wear protective clothing while applying the extract. 10. Wash your hands after handling the plant extract. Liza Barua Bharali SMS (Plant Protection) KVK, Phek, Nagaland
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NPCC tours districts to ‘Catholic Church has vastly contributed in education’ re-strengthen party setup Our Correspondent
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Kohima, September 29 (mexN): A team of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) toured Kiphire, Phek and Kohima districts on September 26, 27 and 28 respectively, as part of the party statewide program, and interacted with all the ACCC and DCC leaders. According to a press release issued by NPCC general secretary Vaprumu Demo, the tour was undertaken with the primary objective of re-strengthening the party set up at every level and to bridge closer the party functionary at the grass root and state level in order to work together in a renewed cohesive and coordinated manner. This was considered imperative in the light of the last Assembly election and by-election held, and the ensuing Lok Sabha election, it read. The team also delivered recorded facts and evidence of “unabated misgovernance and corruption and em-
phatically the financial plight of DAN III for any possible eventuality.” The release stated that the workers in the districts “unequivocally agreed” that the “NPF had once more snatched the electoral victory purely through money and muscle power.” The party also noted that within few months of government formation, the people by and large had publicly protested against “tribe recognition, unauthorized taxation, nonpayment of teachers’ salary, proposed deduction of employees’ pay for Hornbill Festival etc etc,” adding these “categorically negate the tall claim of DAN that it is peoples’ mandated government.” It asserted, “The fact that it had bought the votes and butted the voters it apparently has no obligation to the voters; that a government formed on money power is apt to collapse due to financial crunch any time.” Further, sharing “deep concern
over the predicament of the state on all fronts be it development, employment, political uncertainty and social unrest”, the party workers reaffirmed its commitment to sincerely work for the common welfare of the people in the state as an effective opposition. They, the note said, particularly renewed their commitment to ensure that the UPA flagship programs and the incoming Food Security Scheme are honestly delivered to the targeted section. The party workers also visualized the comeback of UPA III and avowed to work together with full vigor. The team members to undertake the tour consisted of Apok Jamir, MLA; Imtikumzuk Longkumer, MLA; Vaprumu Demo, General Secretary; Jonathan, Secretary; Tsapikiu Sangtam, Secretary; Joshua Swu, President NPYC; Sevotso, PCC Member and Tsasepi Sangtam, former INC candidate.
Naga Hoho offers solidarity to NPMHR, observes ‘Black Day’
Kohima, September 29 (mexN): As a solidarity gesture to NPMHR, Naga Hoho observed September 27 as a “Black Day”. A press release issued by Publicity Wing, Naga Hoho informed that on this day, three years ago, Anthony Shimray, one of the peace negotiators of NSCN (IM) was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Kathmandu airport “in gross violation of Cease-fire agreement between Government of India and NSCN (IM).” Following the “arrest and illegal detention” of Naga National workers, enough representations/memorandum have been submitted to the Government of India by various Naga people’s representative organizations, civil societies and political parties from all Naga areas, the note stated. Occasional meetings with various Prime Ministers of India to expedite the Indo-Naga talks for a peaceful settlement to the long vexed Naga political problem and to release all the political prisoners unconditionally supplemented the representations.
Minister Y Patton addressing during CAN anniversary in Kohima.
wards spreading education and elevation of its standard in Nagaland. The minister further congratulated the association on attaining thirty years marking its existence in the service of the laity, needy, and downtrodden in the state. He called upon the members of the association to retrospect on the past three decades and rededicate themselves to the service of the people. The minister said Na-
However, Naga Hoho lamented that the GOI has so far shown a “lackadaisical attitude” towards the Naga political problem and no conclusive political resolution has been taken till date. It expressed that mere periodic holding of political talk without a definite conclusion will only deepen the political predicament. The Naga Hoho also stated that a vital setback, which may weigh down the peace process is the detention and arrest of Naga National workers by different Indian Government agencies under various Acts and laws. “This is a matter of great concern that deeply hurt the sentiments of the Naga people as it is against the spirit of ceasefire agreement.” Further, it urged upon the Indian leaders to immediately see that the peace process is carried forward with all sincerity to bring out a logical conclusion at the earliest. It also appealed for unconditional release of Naga political prisoners/ detainee Chairman of NSMDC Ltd, Thomas Lotha, releasing the Unity College annual magazine arrested during the cease-fire period. on the college freshers’ social cum annual day on Saturday, September 28.
1st religious profession & vestition of SABS novices
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): Novice Angela Magh of Rengma tribe from Tesophenyu village, Novice Francy Tigga of Adivasi tribe from Halem village Assam, Novice Lucina Rabha of Rabha tribe from Tephakat village, Assam and Novice Genevieive Myamiai of Poumai tribe from Liye village, Manipur had their religious profession and vestition during a solemn Eucharistic celebration presided over by Most Rev. John Thomas Kattrukudiyil bishop of Itanagar and concelebrated by many priests. A press release received here informed that the solemn ceremony was attended by many religious personalities, the parents, relatives, friends, well-wishers and parishners of St. Joseph parish, Chumukedima as the novices dedicated themselves to God and His people. The Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (SABS) family, which the novices have become members by their religious profession and vestition, is
NAGALAND'S MINISTER for forests & border affairs Y. Patton asserted that the Catholic Association of Nagaland (CAN) could play an effective role in public life and make full contribution to national unity and welfare by engaging in serving the people without any discrimination as envisaged in its aspirations. Speaking at the inaugural programme of the 30th year anniversary of CAN here at Don Bosco Higher Secondary School on Saturday, the minister acknowledged the efforts and achievements of the pioneers of CAN. He said that ever since the inception of the Catholic faith in the state, the Catholic church has made vast contributions to-
GPRN/NSCN clarifies
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): Ministry of Information and Publicity (MIP) GPRN/NSCN has issued a statement regarding a news item, which appeared in some local dailies on September 25, where it was mentioned that personnel of West Police station apprehended two persons claiming to be cadres of GPRN/NSCN on charge of extortion from Nepali Bosti area. MIP has clarified that there is no person in the GPRN/NSCN, either in the Army or Civil set-up by the name and rank of Lt. Col. Khehoto Yeptho or ‘supervisor’ Huto Awomi. The MIP has warned that any individual or group trying to tarnish the image of the Government by impersonating as cadres of the GPRN/ NSCN shall be awarded befitting punishment hence.
GPRN/NSCN extends condolences
The four novices with the bishop after their vestition ceremony.
engaged in reaching out to people through their Eucharistic Apostolate in various parts of Northeast. Following the directives of their Founder Venerable Thomas Kurialacherry, who believed that through women education we will be able to transform the society, the release said, the novices are
engaged in education of women and preparing them for life. The bishop during Holy Mass congratulated the novices and their parents for the great sacrifices they have made, while stating that religious are icons representing the presence of Christ in the world, the release noted.
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): The GPRN/ NSCN has deeply mourned the untimely demise of two “brave Naga soldiers” – 2nd Lt. Sukhan Tikhir of Vapour village from Tikhir region and Serg. Major Tovishe Assumi of Sitimi village from Kiphiri district “who lost their lives in the hands of NSCN (K)” on September 26, 2013 around 1:30 am near Avangkhu (Burma border). The GPRN/NSCN while extending its sorrow to the bereaved family members prayed that the Almighty God give solace in their time of grief. “The nation shall always remember their invaluable service and sacrifice,” stated a condolence note issued by MIP, GPRN/ NSCN.
gas are presently at a crucial juncture where the society is being riddled with numerous factionalism, with unabated taxations and extortions. “We cannot shy away from these social ailments and unrest,” he said, maintaining it is the responsibility of all to collectively and proactively strive to bring about peace and understanding amongst different sections of Naga society. Urging upon prominent
leaders, bureaucrats and personalities of CAN to attend to the call of the people, he said the government of the day and the people of Nagaland need its human resources, wisdom and visions to bring about acceptable and honourable solution as far as Naga political settlement is concerned. All India Catholic Union (AICU) president Eugene Gonsalves also graced the occasion as the guest of honour.
NBCC Youth Department’s 29th annual session
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): The 29th annual session of Nagaland Baptist Church (NBCC) Youth Department, which started September 27 under the theme “Identity in Christ”, concluded yesterday. The session hosted by the Angami Baptist Church Council (ABCC) was held at Shalom Bible Seminary, Sechu, Zubza. A press release informed that 182 delegates from different associations under NBCC attended the session. The speakers were Alongla Aier, Associate Professor, Oriental Theological Seminary, Dimapur, Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, President Kohima Baptist Pastors Fellowship and Achu Chang, Pastor, Naga Christian Fellowship, Pune. The speakers spoke on - “Identity in Christ,” “Identity and youth culture” and “Issues young people face today.” Rev. Dr. L. Anjo Keikung, General Secretary of NBCC also exhorted the gathering of youth leaders from different parts of Nagaland to be alert and deeply rooted in the word of God. Talichila from YouthNet conducted a workshop on “Professionalism.” On the second night, various artists like Divine Connection, Ayim Longchar, Powerfaith and bands from Shalom Bible Seminary performed. The Youth Secretary of NBCC Vikuo Rhi has expressed his gratitude to all the delegates, participants, ABCC and Shalom Bible Seminary.
Salesian College Youth Meet 2013: Youth & Faith
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): Youth Department of Salesian College held its long awaited annual Youth Fest on September 29, with the theme Youth and Faith. The youth gathered were from various hostels and villages of Dimapur, whom the students of Salesian College catered to as part of their Sunday ministry. A press release informed that the day’s celebration began with the youth gathering for prayer and the Holy Mass presided over by Rev. Fr. Nestor Guria, Provincial of the Salesian Province of Dimapur. In line with the theme of the Youth Fest, Fr. Nestor stressed on the importance of a strong faith in God and living according to the precepts of the Gospel to transform our society. After the prayer session, the youths were animated by the students of Salesian College on the relation of Youth and their Faith, and the proprietors and wardens of Hostels animated by
Rev. Michael Arockiasamy on the Preventive System of Education. The entertainment hour had Fr. (Dr.) Joseph Cherian, Director of Bosco College of Teacher Education as chief guest and Rev. Fr. Thomas, Parish Priest of Holy Cross Dimapur as guest of honour. Speaking on the theme of the meet, Fr. Joseph Cherian said, “Faith is to believe in the Sun even when it does not shine, to believe in life even when there is death and decay around, to believe in smile even when it hurts and to believe in love even when the whole world hates us.” God never abandons us, God’s love is eternal, he reminded. The prizes for the Bible Skit and Bosco Singout competitions that was conducted on the August 25 was given away. Fr. Christudoss, Director of the Youth Department of Salesian College has extended a gratitude to all who contributed to the success of the programme.
Officers trained on reporting & recording system Er Swuro recognized for his social activities
Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): Chairman of The North East Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Lovers Forum Er Vekho Swuro received an award from The All India Legal Aid Forum at Bangla Bhavan, New Delhi, in recognition of his pioneering work “Delhi Chalo: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Last Camp in Nagaland”, and for his contribution towards social activities in India on September 28. Swuro, addressing the crowd said that during World War II, the INA and Subhash Chandra Bose intruded into Naga land, particularly in Phek district region where his first meeting with Naga public and weaponry display was held at Ruzazho village. The last camp was in Chesezu village and last footprint in Thenyizumia village. He also said that the villagers gave away their resources to Netaji and his INA troops in the form of paddy, animals and other items necessary for their survival. They helped the man and his troops escape from an advancing British army towards their camp at British Bungalow, Chesezu Mr and Miss Fresher along with student official pose for photograph at the 28th Fresher social of the Tang- Village. The INA under Netaji khul Students' Union Dimapur on Saturday, September 28. (Morung Photo) Subhash Chandra Bose ap-
pheK, September 29 (mexN): District Health Society Phek conducted two days training on recording and reporting system for SMOs, BPMs and BAM at CMO conference hall Phek, on September 25 and 26. Dr. Kevichusa Medikhrű, CMO Phek directed all the block officers and staff to be regular in reporting all the different national programmes. He also advised the MOs to monitor and supervise the health units under their block on
monthly basis, informed a press note received here. Dr. John Sweyievisa, Joint Director & State Program Officer (RCH) graced the training as a moderator. He highlighted the gaps in reporting on JSY, JSSK, and SBA etc. in the district. Meanwhile, Dr. Ritu Thurr, Deputy CMO gave a PowerPoint presentation on different reporting and recording system. He highlighted on the three golden rules of reporting- regularity, timeliness
and completeness. Keneingutuo, DPM Phek was also a resource person during the training. The topics touched during the training were HMIS, MDR, MCTS, JSY, JSSK, Communitization, SBA, Referral Transport, VHND, Financial management, Family Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation. Laptops along with data cards were provided to the Block Program Manager to improve the communication and reporting system, the release added.
Er Vekho Swuro with Naga students in Delhi. proached the Nagas with love and sincerity, Swuro stated. “There is no record of atrocities against women or torture and abuse of the Naga public by his troops; the rights of Nagas were respected.” There was no discrimination or division based on race, caste, religion or gender, he added. Further, Swuro stated that the Indo-Naga talks have not come to a conclusion or to the acceptance of the Nagas, despite decades of round after round peace talks. He appealed
to all INA, Subhas Chandra Bose lovers in particular, and citizens of India in general to come forward and urge the government to bring an honorable solution to the historic talks without further delay. Swuro also asserted that The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Memorial Development Society is relentlessly working to build ‘Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Memorial Military School’ in Nagaland and to make ‘INA and Subhash Chandra Bose’s memorial Park’ in Phek district.
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Clear Choice Modi for BJP
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rom being appointed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign convenor for the 2014 General Election to its Prime Ministerial candidate, it is now official that Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister, will lead the saffron party on the national stage. There is no doubt that Mr Modi had emerged as the most popular leader from within the rank and file of the party and the groundswell of support from its workers could not be ignored. What is more, Mr Modi’s successful tenure as CM of Gujarat and the leadership demonstrated especially in the area of governance and development throughout the over ten years of rule has to be duly acknowledged whether or not one agrees with Mr Modi’s political ideology. That the BJP has taken a conscious decision to project Mr Modi as the party’s PM candidate is something that is well within the rights of the BJP and no one, including the media or opposition parties, should make such a commotion about this decision. In fact it’s good for the country’s politics that there is a clear choice being projected by the BJP for the coming General Election. Every party or leader has the democratic right to contest for political office and this should not be denied to anyone. As for the other major political party, the Indian National Congress (INC), it is also within its rights whether it wants to name its PM candidate or not. The BJP or the media cannot force the INC on its PM candidate. Ultimately, the people of India will vote for whichever party, leadership or ideology. Coming back to Mr Modi, credit or blame where due will have to be both acknowledged. He is currently into his fourth consecutive term as Chief Minister and going by his record Mr Modi has proved himself to be an able administrator and someone with mass appeal. Off course the Godhra riots in 2002 is a blot on Mr Modi’s leadership. The question is whether Mr Modi can go beyond Gujarat and replicate his successful models of development and governance at the all India level. Given the diversity of the country’s socioeconomic-religious-ethnic landscape, Mr Modi’s appeal and acceptability as a national leader will be truly tested. It is a known fact that Mr Modi has been described as a Hindu nationalist, not only by the media or his detractors but he has himself done so. In this regard, Mr Modi and the BJP need to come clear on some of its earlier core agenda. These include its demand for construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya, abrogation of Article 370 (special provision for Jammu & Kashmir) and implementation of Uniform Civil Code across India. Before voting or supporting for any political party, whether it is the Congress or BJP, people of India, including in Nagaland, will need to know their respective vision and ideology. It will be interesting to wait and watch, but perhaps this column can gauge that the coming 2014 election could be, not so much about voting in or voting out the Congress led UPA regime but, about Mr Modi’s acceptability or failure as a truly inclusive national leader for all Indians. Also with the INC and BJP as the major national parties, 2014 could present to the people, clear choices of political ideology, leadership and vision for the country. Closer home, one will have to wait and see whether the ruling NPF in Nagaland will align with the BJP and endorse Narendra Modi’s leadership or remain uncommitted keeping its option open based on a post-poll political scenario. Whatever it may be, with 2014 General Elections drawing near, the time has once again come to make important political choices. (Feedback can be send to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)
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y ordering that voting machines in future should have an additional provision for voters to record a ‘none-of-the-above’ (NOTA) option to reject all candidates in the fray, the Supreme Court has ushered in a key electoral reform that has found favour in the past with the Election Commission of India and even the Law Commission. The idea of according to a negative vote the same sanctity and secrecy as a vote in favour of a particular candidate is indeed laudable in a parliamentary democracy. Advocates of electoral reforms have encouraged voters to make greater use of Rule 49-O, the provision by which one can record a ‘no-vote’ option by signing a form in the presence of election officials, in the hope that a large number of such negative votes would induce political parties to field candidates known for their integrity. The verdict holds that the rule violates election law and the voters’ freedom of expression alike by denying voters who exercise that choice the required secrecy. The Court believes that the extra provision in the voting machines would promote free and fair elections, ensure greater voter participation and reduce bogus voting. In recent times, the Supreme Court has struck down a provision to prevent immediate disqualification of convicted legislators and, more controversially, barred those in custody from contesting elections. The NOTA ruling fills a significant lacuna in electoral law, and is a welcome addition to the series of decisions it has rendered to protect the integrity of our elections. A doubt arises as to what will happen if a very large percentage of voters go in for the no-vote option. Even a meagre turnout is considered good enough to declare a valid result now, but a heavy quantum of negative votes may affect the legitimacy of the election process. Perhaps, the EC could fix a limit beyond which the percentage of NOTA votes would entail re-polling. All this raises a question: why has Parliament left electoral reforms to the courts instead of deliberating over and passing appropriate laws? Thanks to an assertive EC, the potential for irregularities by the political class has been effectively kept under check, but this inherently adversarial relationship may have prevented the ushering in of sweeping reforms through legislation. There is no agreement on some reforms mooted by the Election Commission, such as making the framing of charges in serious criminal cases the basis for disqualification instead of conviction. Ranging from the need to check money power and paid news to the need for transparency in the funding of political parties, there are a host of issues that ought to be addressed through comprehensive legislation rather than ad hoc adjudication.
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The OslO ‘Peace accOrds’: a psycho-political perspective
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he central and most profound Israeli convention is that 'we' cherish and crave peace. At the same time 'we' are convinced that all others, especially the Arabs (Palestinians) are warmongers. Facts, naturally, must not be allowed to confuse 'us'. The Israeli-Jewish self-image as spiritually superior and peace-loving is a cardinal element in Israeli society's high self-esteem, and has made possible thousands of cases of state-sponsored killings, injuries, torture, abuse, and dispossession. It justifies the devaluation of the Palestinian enemies and permits the disregard of their human rights. In remembering my grandparents and their generation, I recollect thinkers like the members of Brit Shalom, who lived their lives according to Jewish ethics, that is to say, ethics which dwell on how to live, what values should guide us in life. These values contrast starkly with the Israeli Zionist ethics of the last one hundred years, which dwell on the question ‘Will I live?’ Living and staying alive, no matter what and how, is the goal. When this is the guiding principle, there is no place for moral questions; there is no place to “love thy neighbor as thyself”. The first question - how do I live? - is a moral one. The second - will I live? - is merely functional. In referring to the Israeli-Jewish community, we are referring to a 'large group' in Wilfred Bion's terms. The group that describes Israel best is the fight-flight group. The fight-flight group’s basic assumptions (which are subconscious) are that it must preserve itself at all costs, and that this can be done only by fight or flight. This group does not tolerate weakness and expects casualties since the survival of the group is more important than the needs of its individual members. The group may be characterized by aggressiveness and hostility. The leader must lead the group against a common enemy. If an enemy does not exist, the leader will create one. Simultaneously, the group has a group-work mentality that agrees on its common tasks. In Israel's case the group-work mentality is about peace: the group is profoundly convinced that peace is its primary concern and goal. The result of the enduring co-existence of these two contradictory mentalities (power veneration and peace volition) is the inevitable tension between them. The basic assumption interferes with the group task mentality and generates a dysfunctional group culture. In order to protect group cohesion in the face of group dysfunction, the leader and the group members must take measures to ensure a firm consensus. When consensus, a general “truth” held to be so by all, is fundamentally at issue, this leads to a mental state whereby the group, tribe or nation, assumes priority over individuals. When consensus becomes both an ideology and a policy, individual freedom is forced to surrender to the will of the group, the nation. In Israel, great pressure is exerted on everybody to be a part of the national consensus, whatever the price of this. Criticism of the national consensus is hardly tolerated inside Israel, and totally condemned abroad. As mentioned above, one of the main pillars of the Israeli consensus is that we are peace lovers. Peace is what we want and desire most. For example: in 1980 following the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel and the impending peace with Lebanon, I observed a great anxiety within Israeli society. When I pointed out that the prospect of peace was being viewed as a threat - or as I named it, the trauma of peace - I experienced much hostility in my society, my large group: "How dare you say, even think, things like that? We want peace more than anything else. Are you not an Israeli?" Still, one must ask why peace, which is the declared aspiration of Israelis, provoked such a collective anxiety. I have to conclude that Israel does not yet have a mature definition of itself. In other words, it is not evident to “us” who we are. Israel demands time and again that its neighbor states recognize it - as if Israeli statehood were not a solid fact. Having difficulty figuring out one’s identity from within leads to the need to receive an answer from without. The ultimate "not me" is an enemy. Therefore an enemy as defined by the large group is an absolute need. Losing this solid definition through a peace agreement is a real psychological threat. Another reason for needing an enemy and war is the severe fragmentation of Israeli society into vari-
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re “human rights” an elite or mass concept? Ron, Crow, and Golden’s data on four countries suggests they are an elite phenomenon in Mexico, India, Morocco and Colombia. Why should we care? One reason, unstated and empirically untested, is the assumption that when a state’s citizens have more human rights consciousness, the state will be more likely to adhere to human rights principles. And yet, elites often violate rights, even when they know what human rights are. Alternately, they may hold the rights of the community over individual rights. In recent years for instance, some of the United States’ (U.S.) legal elite constitutional and international lawyers - spearheaded and rationalized serious violations at home and abroad, based largely on the claim that these violations would secure the U.S. from threat. Conversely, mass movements can also perpetrate abuses. Recent events in Egypt--“liberal” protesters aware of rights principles helping topple a democratically elected government with predictably bloody consequences--underline this. Similar “liberal coups” against democracy have occurred elsewhere in recent years. In other words, although it is certainly of intellectual interest that elites and masses differ in rights awareness, it is uncertain that mobilizing the masses around rights, or further informing elites about them, will in fact improve rights in practice.
An Israeli border policeman aims his weapon towards Palestinian stone throwers, not pictured, during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, September 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
ous sectors, which requires war as a tool for inner cohesion, a remedy for social disintegration. The impending peace with Lebanon in the north following the peace treaty with Egypt in the south (1979) exposed the inner threat of fragmentation and disintegration until this took on the scale of a psychological trauma. I could not help but predict a war that would “save” Israel from the trauma of the peace. The war in Lebanon started in June 1982. In general, people love to be reassured in their conventions and hate to be confronted with ideas and facts that disrupt their adherence to them. The ideas that 'we' are basically afraid of and reject peace cannot be tolerated because this transgresses the rules of the community, betraying its tribal culture and mentality. In Flaubert’s words – this is an illustration for 'Modern Foolishness'. Several years later, in one of his political speeches during the July 1984 election campaign, the extreme right wing Rabbi Meir Kahane declared: “We will kick out all of the Arabs. The few Arabs which I will permit to stay here will have to be slaves to the Jews, as it is written in the scriptures. But that is not all. I will force them to take an oath not to the Israeli state, but to the Jewish state." 26 years went by. Kahane was disqualified from running for membership of the Knesset because of the bluntness of his racist views. But his ideas did not disappear; on the contrary. Since 2010, the Knesset and the Israeli government have been dealing with at least three different bills that define Israel as a Jewish state. The revival of Kahane's ideas in Israel's current politics is the clearest realization of the segregation concept so far. Sharing power If the power principle is at the core of a policy of disengagement from the other, then sharing power is the core of an engagement based on respect. Separation (disengagement), in contrast to segregation, is possible only if the partners are equal. In other words – it can work only if the partners are acting with mutual respect – which means sharing power. Otherwise – separation is a euphemism for segregation, which serves only the more powerful partner, which in the case of Israel, means creating and maintaining the occupation. I firmly believe and hence want to argue here that the genuine meaning of respect lies in readiness to share power. In fact, disengagement-separation-segregation has been the policy of successive Israeli governments ever since the establishment of the state. Such a policy maintains the imbalance of power and prevents reconciliation. With this policy there is no need for decency and common goals for the two national groups. The powerful side can and will dictate one-sidedly the rules of the game.
In the last twenty years, the name of the game is the Oslo Process, the outgrowth of the Oslo Peace Accords. The Oslo Process is an 'as if' reconciliation/peace epoch. In fact it is the ethnic segregation epoch. Closing the gates separating Israel from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has turned out to be a daily reality for the Palestinians since the '90s and has become the main manifestation of the Oslo agreements: establishing a separation wall between the two nations. The Oslo Process and its intermediary agreements implemented, de facto, the process of segregation between Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs, and allowed Israel to shed its responsibility for what it had done in the occupied Palestinian territory for over almost three decades. This segregation includes most aspects of life: infrastructure planning as well as concrete segregation in the sewage infrastructure and water supply, all according to ethnic criteria. Peace can be just the condition of no war. It is not necessarily a just peace, nor is it necessarily a relationship based on respect. Some might even consider the relationship between the Americans and the Native Americans “peace”. These relationships are frequently characterized by an extreme imbalance between two sides, who are not really partners at all. One side is strong and the other weak. In a situation like this, respect is replaced by diktat. This suggests that genuine reconciliation is far more difficult to achieve than peace. (The reconciliation process deserves a specific discussion). The Oslo Agreement did not die and peace was not born. We, the Israeli-Jewish group, continue to believe what we say to ourselves and the world: that we want peace and that they, the Palestinians, are refusing it. It is easy for us to believe ourselves since the collective subconscious rules and fulfils all its demands – the leader allocates the enemy, the group follows him and supports aggressive militarism on a daily basis by deepening and expanding the segregation and avoiding any chance of reconciliation. For us Israelis, equality is an impossible mental mission. The Oslo Process and the endless peace negotiations that have followed it are powerful because they help to shrink the gap between the subconscious demands and the group-work mentality. It is so efficient because the Oslo Agreement actually serves war (the basic assumption) while declaring peace (the group-work mentality). The documents of Oslo didn't deal with human rights or with equality. Maybe this fact is the primal sin of those accords. The actual beginning of a peace process - apart from the ceremonial signing, demonstrations, and media attention - will have to be reflected in the creation of a different emotional and cognitive system. Perceptions of Palestinians as equal, worthy of human and civil rights just like their Israeli Zionist counterparts – that is the real meaning of the peace process.
Fighting abuses in existing powers Clifford bob
An alternative approach requires a better theory about why violations occur. “Elites” may still matter greatly, although a different term, “political powerholders”—those who establish and coercively enforce policies within a jurisdiction—is more useful. Why do powerholders sometimes violate rights? Often, they seek to maintain power by repressing their citizens directly. In other cases, they spark or stoke fear among one portion of their population to justify violations against another or against foreigners, often as a means of maintaining power. The first reason occurs primarily in authoritarian societies, the second in both authoritarian and democratic societies. The modern human rights movement began with a focus on authoritarian states, but has since supplemented this with a focus on democratic states, notably those in which major NGOs are themselves based. Although violations in democratic countries may be smaller in scale, this refocusing makes sense
because campaigners have greater ability to shape their own democracy’s policies than they do a distant society’s. As Prakash argues, emerging powers such as India have much work to do at home before they can be considered global rights leaders. The same goes for existing powers such as the U.S. and United Kingdom (U.K .), which like to portray themselves as today’s world rights leaders. Although NGO campaigners should not only focus inward, there is still a great deal of work to be done at home. In campaigning at home, the mass/elite division is again not useful. Masses and elites are themselves divided on such issues as Guantanamo, drone strikes, interventionism, prior press restraints, whistleblower prosecutions, and surveillance. It is unlikely that greater rights consciousness among more Americans or Britons will change these practices, particularly because rights-like arguments are often used to justify them. It is also unclear that the work of
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rights NGOs alone can turn the tide. To fight abuses at home, particularly those related to the Global War On Terror (GWOT), a broader political movement is needed, one challenging the pervasive paranoia ginned up to justify state secrecy, spying, coercion, and violence. Such a movement would undoubtedly need to focus as much on the costs of the GWOT in blood and treasure, as on rights violations alone. It would also need to find an effective way of informing the public about how minuscule the risk of terrorism actually is. Whether that will be possible is another matter, although there may be grounds for hope, given bipartisan Congressional anger over NSA spying and British backlash against the detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner. A partisan realignment against foreign policy overreach and fearmongering, as well as its effects on rights, lives, and the economy, might even be possible, unlikely as that now seems. Purists might insist that this would not be a rights movement. Indeed, its agenda would almost certainly be broader. But rights are inherently political, and those who support a rights agenda cannot eschew politics. Such a movement would enforce stronger checks, greater transparency, and increased accountability on powerholders. If successful, this new movement might reclaim some of the rights lost in our futile quest for absolute safety--even if hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars are gone forever.
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7 From ego-system to Ladakh faces new scarcities eco-system economies T Monday
THE MORUNG EXPRESS
30 September 2013
NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
athar Parvaiz
Inter Press Service
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e live in an age of profound disruptions. Global crises in finance, food, fuel, water, resource scarcity and poverty challenge every aspect of our societies. These disruptions also open up the possibilities for personal and societal renewal. To seize these possibilities we need to stop and ask ourselves some basic questions: why do our actions collectively create results that so few people want? What keeps us locked into old ways of operating? And what can we do to transform the root problems that keep us trapped in the patterns of the past? Here’s a clue to the answers to these questions: the root causes of today’s global crises originate between our ears, in our outdated paradigms of economic thought. The symptoms of these crises can be summarized in three divides that disconnect us from each primary source of life: ecological, social, and spiritual. The ecological divide manifests in symptoms like environmental destruction. We currently use one and a half times the regeneration capacity of planet earth in our economic activities. The social divide manifests in increasing rates of poverty, inequity, fragmentation and polarization. And the spiritual divide shows up in increased rates of burnout and depression, and in an increasing disconnect between GDP and people’s actual wellbeing. These structural disconnects indicate a broken system. But what is the root cause that produces them? I believe it originates directly from the ways in which we currently think about economics. Like most things on earth, economic frameworks have their own life-cycle of birth, development and growth, before they finally outlive their usefulness. Modern economic theory is no exception. For example, after the global depressions of the 1930s, mainstream economic thinking evolved by opening up to Keynesian macroeconomics, which then shaped policymaking for the better part of the remaining century. Then, after the stagflation crisis of the 1970s, the mainstream moved to adopt Milton Friedman’s articulation of monetarism, which influenced policy-making for the next 30 years. How has this lifecycle continued? Has mainstream economic thinking changed as a result of the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008? Unfortunately, not much: economic debates are still shaped by the same frameworks, faces, and false dichotomies that ushered in the crisis. The successful intervention of Wall Street banks after 2008 to prevent effective banking regulation and the collapse of the global climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 are prime examples of the systemic failure of capitalism in its present form to deal with the major challenges of our time. The main shortcomings of conventional economic theory can be summarized in two words: externalities and consciousness. Economic externalities - the costs of economic activity - have been discussed at length by policy-makers and researchers. They have been dealt with, at least in part, through successive attempts to regulate and incentivize corporate behavior in order to reduce pollution and the
Two words summarize the shortcomings of mainstream economics: externalities and consciousness. The solution to global crises begins between our ears
exploitation of human beings - small first steps, though much remains to be done. By contrast, consciousness is completely ignored, not even registering as a legitimate category in economic thought. Why is it so important? The current capitalist economy is fundamentally ego-centered: it is structured to satisfy my wants as an individual and to privatize or even atomize decision-making. Most attempts to deal with this problem (like corporate social responsibility) do so by extending the awareness of consumers and producers beyond themselves to take in the welfare of other stakeholders. But this process is inadequate to deal with the size and complexity of the crises that we face. What’s really needed is a deeper shift in consciousness so that we begin to care and act, not just for ourselves and other stakeholders but in the interests of the entire ecosystem in which economic activities take place. Otherwise, there is a danger that these externalities will be mitigated while the consciousness that creates them is left untouched, allowing the same costs and inefficiencies to re-appear in a different guise. There is little point, for example, in arguing for commons-based property rights and shared ownership if people’s consciousness is still stuck at the individualist, self-interested, ego-driven level. Therefore, the economic imperatives of our time call for an evolution of our consciousness from an ego-based system to an eco-based system, from one state of awareness to another. To paraphrase Einstein, the problem with today’s capitalism is that we are trying to solve problems with the same consciousness that created them. How can we construct pioneering pathways into a co-creative, eco-system economy? The shift from ego- to eco-system awareness requires a journey that involves walking in the shoes of other stakeholders, and finetuning the instruments through which consciousness is created: namely an open mind, an open heart, and an open will. An open mind represents the capacity to see the world with fresh eyes and to suspend old habits of thought. An open heart means the capacity to empathize, to see any situation through the eyes of someone else. And an open will is the capacity of letting-go and “lettingcome:” letting-go of old identities (like “us versus them”), and letting-come a new sense of self and what that shift can make possible. Moving the economic system to an ecocentered model is impossible without this shift in consciousness, but on its own it will not be enough. What’s really required is a threefold
revolution: an individual, relational, and institutional process of inversion, or turning current practice inside-out and outside-in. Individual inversion means opening up our thinking, feeling, and will so that we can act as instruments for the future that already wants to emerge. Relational inversion means opening up our communicative capacities, and shifting from a focus on conformity and defensiveness to generative dialogue, so that groups can enter a space of thinking together, of collective creativity and flow. Institutional inversion means opening up traditional geometries of power that are characterized by centralized hierarchies and decentralized competition, and re-focusing institutions around co-creative stakeholder relationships in eco-systems that can generate wellbeing for all. Fostering these inversions requires new types of innovation infrastructures that can build collective leadership capacities on a massive scale. Many people think that what’s missing in order to move societies towards a new economy is just a set of ideas and policy proposals that are better than those we have already. But that’s not the case. We also need new structures and technologies that enable groups to move from their habitual thinking and practices to co-create an eco-centered economy. These infrastructures include spaces for convening stakeholders in efforts to co-initiate new systems, and also: • “co-sensing,” or going to places that allow us to see the system from the edges - if listened to with one’s mind and heart wide open, they hold the golden keys to the future; • “co-inspiring,” or creating channels for connecting to the sources of creativity; • “prototyping,” or exploring the future by doing things in the present in very different ways; and • “co-shaping” the spaces in which these prototypes can be embodied and scaled-up.
Of these various infrastructures, those for co-sensing and co-inspiring are particularly underdeveloped in society today. Trying to advance societal innovation through prototyping and scaling-up alone is like building a house without foundations. That’s why so many current efforts fail, because they ignore the deeper conditions of the social field (the mindsets, attitudes and intentions), and focus only on the superstructure of incentives and institutions. Without a fundamental shift in consciousness it will be impossible to sustain an eco-centered economy. A profound renewal of this kind at the personal, societal and global levels is crucial for our planetary future. What’s needed to underpin these renewals are change-makers who are willing to lead from the emerging future: leaders who are willing to open up to, learn about and practice the journey from ego-system to eco-system thinking. We already have much of what we need to hand in the form of living examples, tools and frameworks. What’s missing is the co-creative vision and the common will to make this revolution a reality.
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he Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken for granted the breathtaking beauty of its landscape, the purity of the cold mountain air, and the sweet taste of water in its streams. Today, at 47 years of age, this resident of Tukcha village in Leh district in the north of Kashmir cannot believe they are digging borewells for water, using water to flush toilets in their homes in place of dry toilets, and having to cope with sewage flowing right up to their houses. Climate change, booming tourism and modern practices are wreaking havoc in this high-altitude cold desert in India's Jammu and Kashmir state. The average elevation in Ladakh is 11,000 feet (3,352 meters) above sea level and temperatures swing between minus 35 degrees Celsius in winters to 35 degrees in summer. Annual rainfall in the region is less than 4 inches (10.16 centimeters). Earlier, water from the melting glaciers would be enough to cater to the needs of the locals, Namgiyal tells IPS. But with less snowfall and warmer summers, some of the glaciers have vanished altogether while others too are fast melting. "Look at Khardongla," says Namgiyal's neighbor Tsering Kushu. "It used to be a huge glacier. It is not there anymore." GERES India, the Indian wing of the Paris-based environmental organization, in 2009 carried out a baseline survey of Ladakh, based on an analysis of meteorological data from 1973 to 2008 and interviews with older villagers. Its results showed glacial retreat in every part of Ladakh, most notably in Khardongla and Stok Kangri, the first north of Leh and the latter to its southwest. "Trend analysis clearly indicated a rise of the order of nearly one degree Celsius for all winter months," says the survey. "Snowfall and rainfall too have showed a decreasing trend in the studied period," Tundup Angmo, under whose guidance the survey was carried out, tells IPS. Kushu has another barometer for gauging the hotter summer. "Now you can see people using refrigerators and ceiling fans in their homes," he says. Ladakh itself has a population of 280,000, according to the 2011 census. In addition, tourist arrivals have vastly increased from the trickle that began when the Indian government first opened the region to tourism in 1974. According to figures with the state tourism department, Leh had received 100,179 tourists by the end of August 2013. "The number of arrivals has been less this year because of the increase in air fares," Mehboob Ali, assistant director for tourism in the Ladakh region, tells IPS. To cater to its visitors, Leh has 511 hotels and guest houses. "It is growing very fast," says Lobzang Sultim, executive director of the environmental NGO Ladakh Ecological Development Group (LEDeG).
LEDeG is conducting a survey titled Urban Water Health Project which was started in October 2012 and will end by March 2014. According to the initial findings of the survey, 375 hotels in the town are extracting 852,000 liters of water a day. Sultim also says that almost 60% of Leh's 20,000 households are using borewells to draw water. "We have no choice but to draw water from borewells as the piped water supply is available for just one hour in the morning," Manav Thakur, the general manager at Hotel Lingzi in Leh, tells IPS. All this is putting pressure on Ladakh's already scarce water resources, and with no means to replenish them, the water table is falling rapidly. "We are already aware that precipitation in Leh is quite nominal," says Sultim. "And with the decrease in glacial melt, stream discharge is also decreasing, making the recharging of the water table very difficult." LEDeG is working on means to conserve water and regenerate groundwater resources. "We are planning a project in which we will divert some of the surface water and allow it to travel slowly to ensure seepage of water to the water table," says Sultim. Another negative trend that is straining Ladakh's water resources is the replacement of traditional dry toilets with water flush toilets. All of Leh's hotels and guest houses have water flush toilets now, though a few also have dry toilets. A few households too have installed water flush toilets. Dechen Chosto, a housewife in Leh town, is not one of them; her family is happy using a dry toilet. "They need no water, don't stink and the compost can be used in our agricultural fields," Chosto tells IPS. Dry toilets, indeed, are ideally suited for Ladakh's cold climate, says Sultim. "They are easy to use in the winter here when everything else except the blood in the body freezes," he adds. "We cannot afford the luxury of water flush toilets," says Tashi Tundup, an executive engineer in the public health engineering department in Leh. "Though I am all for change and want people to benefit from modern facilities, I am a strong votary of continuing with dry toilets in Leh," he tells IPS. Leh had so far not felt the need for a sewage system. However, with the growing number of hotels and guesthouses, sewage and waste from these establishments is flowing right into people's backyards and even into the Leh stream which runs through the town. "They not only cause problems for people living in the lower parts, but are also contaminating our water," says Rigzin Dorge, a resident of Sheynam, a village in the area. "We were better off with our own dry toilets." LEDeG is now urging people to return to eco-friendly ways. "During our interactions with foreigners, we found that some of them had actually used dry toilets," says Sultim. "This made us realize that our guests will respect our traditions if we ourselves retain them."
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Should VIP SecurIty be reduced and InStead be redePloyed towardS PublIc SecurIty? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • VIPs dont need that much manpower to protect them or rather running after/behind them. The security personnel should be deployed to maintain law and order in every corner of the state. We are hearing enough of mushrooming of criminals and their activities and how peace and tranquility had been disturbed in this once a peaceful land. • Yes. Its another matter whether these personnel will be deployed for law and order duties but at least unnecessary expenditures will be curtailed and vehicles be freed for patrolling duties. Hope its not just a temporary measure due to the govt. running short of money but because it has good intentions. • Yes, hats-off to our honorable Home Minister for what he did is a fine commendable job … what the held are they going to do with high security cover. They should not worry about their life … no one will harm them I can guarantee. Instead, there are women who feel unsafe, factional killing, extortion, rape, murder, deplorable roads, unemployment rates, and yes empty state exchequer …? So dead VVIPS, VIPS … better keep on solving all the above problems smoothly than worry about your life safety…? • Yes, not only for public security but also to maintain law n order so that there wont b chaos, • Of all the people, the politicians should be the last to be provided with personal security … forget about having escort vehicles. Why should the police waster their precious resources to protect the most corrupt and notorious criminals in our society. • Yes, the recent factional clashes is making life of public more vulnerable and tense in addition to the so called ‘Public Taxes,’ ‘Underground Taxes’ … for what? Time has come to deploy security guards in some of the VIP i.e. not very important person, but Very Important Public institutions like schools, colleges, shopping markets … and church for that matter. After all it is the public that matters and not the ‘very few’ moving in fancy bulletproof cars. • Yes … they should be redeployed towards public security. You are elected for people to serve not for heavy police protection. With maximum 2/3 AK-47 personal guard is enough for you to serve this public if you are truly/ honestly dedicated leader. Save us from poverty, killing, extortion, rape, unemployment, etc instead of worrying about your security. God bless all VIPs. • True leader never ever roam under the shadow of fear and threat. if / she is truly represented by the people and for the people. Thus, the home minister moved for public security should be understand and appreciated by one and all of Nagas for preservation of future generation( let us give a chance to survive our children in a vibrant and progressive which culminate to modern Naga civilization).
• Yes, when politician and insurgents work together hand common people is in peril. in glove where is the threat? • Yes, let their proxy private army guard them....I mean the • VIP's are vip whom to fear; but public are quite insecure guys they armed them with guns during election. today due to raise in crime rate. • Yes, priority should be given to the public rather than the • Seriously?? who poses a threat to out vips now..? so called VIP for security. • Certainly. True security comes from a society that feels • Yes, when was the last time some VIP got attacked? it is secure. Saddam Hussain had his elite guards, Assad of always vip escorts and the vips cause problems. remove Syria is being protected by his own tribal guards. But does the security and the vip will act and behave more civiit give them true security? lized. why should the public • Yes .... wastage of public not be protected? money do they really need • At the first place, can so much escorts ... burnwe assign the term VIP to ing public money daily at these guys? Do they rethe expense of security. ally deserve to get the VIP Security for public first Tag? Some are just mithen VIP next. rages of their father and • Yes. First ask them why do brother. I will call them they need security? Ask da proxies instead of VIPs. reason what wrongs have Others are a gang of rethey committed n put them tired corrupt officials who behind bar instead of the were not noticed by the security. Let the innocent public then and could not nagas live peacefully. get much needed recogni• Yes security should be tion & publicity in the local removed and deployed dailies. I will call them desfor other duties. Is it reperadoes. The third group ally necessary that one belongs to a category that VIP, say, a minister need need not be defined. They more than 10security are there by default. The guards??? What are they next Generation politicians afraid of?? Do they get that we are likely to see threatened?? If they want are the coal miners who so much security let them are sweating out day and hire from some secunight to contest the coming rity agency and pay from elections. All are in cahoot their own pocket. And one with the mobsters. more annoying thing is, • Yes, without the public these security personnel there would not be any VIPs threatens and abuses othso the public needs to be er car drivers when they protected from the Vips are going somewhere • Yes, in tamil nadu, the with their so called SAHIB MLA travels in bike and cyand the cars in front don't cle. a minister once came give them way. How do to our college in just a sinthey expect them to give gle ambassador car with no YES no OTHERS guards or escorts. guards way when there is none have become a status symat all?? All the roads in bol in nagaland. when the PM of england can travel in Nagaland are two lane roads only. Lets hope Nagaland the subway train, that also standing, what is so special Gov't will stop wasting money on these kind of things but or threatening to our nagaland VIPs that they travel focus more on development. with 2 escorts to visit their own village.lol. also i won• Yes. Nobody will touch our VIPs but the safety of the
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der whats so special about ex chief secretary that he gets 2 escorts. the secretary and above also should not be given personal guards. the government should outsource security guards and let those VIPs pay from their own salary if they really need security guards. they are not VIPs but public servants, and servants dont need security guards. Since they are serving the public, the public should be given security guards first. • Not all VIPs merit security and escort cars. All 60 MLAs and all top bureaucrats do not deserve body guards. They should be immediately withdrawn and redeployed. Some of those who voted no had this to say: • No, it is protocol for key leaders to have security. Therefore the some independent body such as the Nagaland High Court should identify the key political figures who should be given security on the basis of their position. Other than that, all security from Parliamentary Secretaries, MLA, and Bureaucrats and so on should be immediately withdrawn. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: • VIP security and escort cars have become some status symbol of sorts. This practice should be done away with completely. Every tom, dick and harry should not be provided security on their whimp and fancies. It is time for a stringent policy to do away with the elitist practice, which should have no place in a democratic society. • I'll go for the "Other" option as an alternative. Let them pay for their own security. Tax payers money could be saved for the public good. • Do thieves require police to guard them? its paradoxical ..... • If, we public need security than, how about our VIP? • Practically speaking VIPs need not require that much security guards unless their life is at risk. We need maximum man power to maintain law and order problem. • Let their Supporters guard them. • Now days because of the cease-fire the question of threat perception does not arise, and so security on this ground does not hold any water at all. In fact these days it’s the common public who faces the greatest risk. In Nagaland, who is not threatened? Everyone’s life is always in danger. • The Naga public seems to have no problem at all seeing their ministers, designated legislators and top bureaucrats with their bodyguards and where as it is for their safety and protection or conveniences for that matter. But what perennially makes the people like me feel nothing but cringe worthy is their conspicuous penchant for status symbol. That is something which the aforesaid, bit by bit, need to be eschewed. And the proactive steps initiated by our state Home Minster are by any modern standard, worth to be emulated.
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India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi applauds to cheer supporters during a public rally in New Delhi, India on September 29. The BJP had earlier named Modi as its candidate for prime minister if it wins national elections next year. (AP Photo)
New Delhi, September 29 (iANS): BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday attacked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for “insulting” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and asked people to choose a “dream team” in 2014 by junking the “dirty team” of Congress-led UPA. Addressing his first - and a mammoth - rally in Delhi in his new avatar, Modi also hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for reportedly calling Manmohan Singh a “dehati aurat” (rural woman). There was a huge turnout -- the crowds estimated at between two and five lakh -- at the sprawling Japanese Park in north Delhi, with the Gujarat chief minister cheered by an army of young supporters who kept a steady chant of “Modi! Modi!” Several diplomats also turned up to hear Modi. Like elsewhere in the country, Modi overshadowed the local leaders of the BJP including Delhi president Vijay Goel and veterans Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Vijender Gupta. Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari was also present. “When his own party leader calls the PM ‘nonsense’, how can he (PM) get respect abroad?”, the Bharatiya Janata Party star asked, triggering a wild round of applause and sloganeering. Modi was refer-
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paralysis” and that its “non- ing she only “cut ribbons” governance” was akin to and passed the buck if and diabetes. “For 10 years when things went wrong. Attacking Sharif for dethe nation has tolerated scribing Manmohan Singh as a “dehati aurat” (rural woman) in New York, Modi asked, raising his Major controversy breaks out over Modi’s allegations on Sharif’s alleged remarks voice: “Nawaz Sharif, how dare you say this? What New Delhi, Sep 29 woman. Story ended with right you have to say this?” (iANS): Did Nawaz Sharhow fights should be set- He said that while he was if call Manmohan Singh tled between parties,” she ready to take on Manmoa “dehati aurat” (rural said in a tweet. han Singh within India, he woman)? If yes, did the Modi went on to hit would not tolerate any atPakistan prime minister out at Sharif over the re- tack on the prime minister mean to insult his Indian ported remark. by a foreigner. “There can counterpart? “Nawaz Sharif, how never be a greater insult to Once BJP’s prime mindare you say this?” Modi the Indian PM. There canisterial candidate Narasked, raising his voice not be a greater insult to endra Modi made the al- Supporters scramble next to a barricade as they listen to at a BJP rally here. “What India,” he said of Sharif’s India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader Naleged remark public at a rendra Modi as he addresses a public rally in New Delhi, right you have to say reported remark. huge rally here, journal- India on September 29. The BJP had earlier named Modi as this?” Modi’s comments came ists Hamid Mir of Pakistan its candidate for prime minister if it wins national elections Modi called Sharif’s hours before Manmohan and Barkha Dutt of India next year. (AP Photo) remark an insult to In- Singh and Sharif are set to claimed that no offence ingly told Barkha: ‘Looks all about how disputes dian prime minister. He meet on the sidelines of was meant. like Manmohan Singh should not involve third also demanded to know the UN General Assembly. Mir told Geo TV that went to Obama not like parties. Not once was a why the Indian journal- Modi did not spare ManSharif had told him and India’s prime minister but slur passed by him against ist -- whose name he did mohan Singh either, doubtBarkha Dutt over breakfast like a dehati aurat to com- the PM. not take -- at the breakfast ing his ability to raise tough in New York that Manmo- plain to Obama’. “Sharif was upset that meeting with Sharif did questions with Sharif -- on han Singh had complained, He later tweeted: “PM Pakistan (was) raised by not storm out in protest. Jammu and Kashmir and like a “dehati aurat”, about Nawaz never said any- India with Obama. In this Manmohan Singh and on the killings of Indian solPakistan to US President thing derogatory against context, he told an allegor- Sharif are in New York to diers by Pakistani troops. Barack Obama. Mir felt Manmohan.” attend the UN General As- “I doubt if you will be able ical tale... Sharif was unhappy with NDTV’s Barkha Dutt “In Sharif’s tale, there sembly. They are to meet to meet Nawaz Sharif with Manmohan Singh. added that “Sharif’s al- was a dispute between later Sunday to discuss bi- your head held high beMir said: “Sharif smil- legorical account was two villagers, one was a lateral issues. cause in the past few years you have lost your habit court ruling disqualify- choose between democra- ing the prime minister but UPA. In 2014, the country of speaking. “The nation ing politicians convicted of cy and dynasty in the next insulting the constitution, needs a dream team, not a doubts if you will be able to crime. Gandhi had called it Lok Sabha election. “There the parliament and democ- dirty team. This dirty team discuss when the Pakistanneeds to be uprooted,” he occupied Kashmir will be “complete nonsense”. Refer- is a war between dynastic racy,” he added. Modi targeted grow- thundered, as the crowds returned to India. The naring to Gandhi as “prince”, rule and democracy,” he Modi said: “If I may use a ru- said of the Gandhis. “The ing corruption and said roared. Modi also made tion doubts if you will able ral terminology, then Con- dynastic rule is trying to the Congress-led United fun of Delhi Chief Minister to discuss when Pakistan gress upadhyaksh ne prad- strangle democracy. Will Progressive Alliance gov- Sheila Dikshit but with- will stop supporting terrorhan mantri ki pagdi uchhal the country function on the ernment was hit by “policy out taking her name, say- ism in India.” ring to Gandhi’s outburst di (Gandhi has insulted the Friday against an ordinance prime minister).” In his 65-minute passed by the cabinet that sought to overturn an apex speech, he urged people to
basis of constitution or on the whims of the prince? “The dynastic rule and the prince are not just insult-
Did Sharif insult Manmohan Singh? Journalists say ‘no’
Manmohan, Sharif set to talk 5 killed as private chopper crashes near Mumbai peace in shadow of terrorism
New York, September 29 (iANS): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif are set to meet later Sunday amid relentless warnings from India to its neighbour to shun terrorism if it really wants to make peace. After winning support on the issue from President Barack Obama at their Friday summit on “eliminating terrorist safe havens and infrastructure, and disrupting terrorist networks” Manmohan Singh Saturday made the same call before the UN general assembly using strong language, he reasserted what he had told Obama about Pakistan being the “epicentre of terrorism” and how little progress could be expected in peace talks without a shut down of Pakistan’s “terrorist machinery”. Noting that Sharif speaking at the same forum had spoken of “making a new beginning”, Manmohan Singh said he reciprocated the Pakistani leader’s sentiments, and looked forward to meeting him Sunday. “However, for progress to be made, it is imperative that the territory of Pakistan and the areas under its control are not utilised for aiding and abetting terrorism directed against India,” Manmohan Singh said. “It is equally important
that the terrorist machinery that draws its sustenance from Pakistan be shut down.” The Indian leader, who had told Obama Friday that the expectations from his upcoming meeting with Sharif “have to be toned down given the terror arm which is still active in our subcontinent”, in fact went a step further before the world body. “State-sponsored cross-border terrorism is of particular concern to India, (also) on account of the fact that the epicentre of terrorism in our region is located in our neighbourhood in Pakistan,” Manmohan Singh said. Calling “for concerted, cohesive and continuing global action against terrorism,” he asserted that “there can be no tolerance for states sheltering, arming, training or financing terrorists.” “Nor can they absolve themselves of the responsibility to prevent their territories from being used to launch acts of terrorism,” Manmohan Singh said in a barely veiled stern warning to Pakistan. Meanwhile, Sharif who will drive down Sunday morning to the Indian leader’s hotel for their much awaited first meeting made some conciliatory remarks to an Indian TV channel about how dialogue process between the two neighbours
should not be derailed because of the “extremely unfortunate” Thursday’s terror strike in Jammu. The increased tensions along the line of control (LoC) were a matter of concern for Pakistan too, he told NDTV and he would propose a joint mechanism to monitor the situation there. Islamabad was even “open to an independent investigation, even one by the UN.” Saying that two countries need to pick up the threads that were broken in 1999 when he was overthrown in a coup by Gen Pervez Musharraf, Sharif said, he would invite Manmohan Singh to pay a “long overdue” visit to Pakistan and see his native village. Asked whether his mood was optimistic, pessimistic or pragmatic on the eve of the meeting Sharif told the channel with a laugh: “I will only say I am meeting Manmohan Singh for the first time and I want to repair the threads broken in 1999.” Earlier, Sharif told the Pakistani American community in New York that he was “ousted from power” by the military because he had initiated a process of peace and friendship with India and asked “What mistake did I make?” The real question is whether history would repeat itself and who would have the last laugh this time around.
Mumbai building collapse death toll hits 61, one arrested
mumbAi, September 29 (pti): The death toll in the Mumbai residencial building collapse has risen to 61 as more bodies were recovered from debris on Sunday morning. Due to weather constraints, the rescue operations were called off early Sunday. The police on Saturday arrested the owner of a decoration company for illegally carrying out renovation work at hisofficeratthegroundfloor of the ill-fated structure. It is suspected that the renovation and alteration works carried out on the ground floor led to the collapse of the four-storey building owned by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Mazgaon
area, police said. Part of the ground floor had been leased out for commercial activities. “Ashok Mehta, the owner of Mamamiya Decorators, was arrested for renovating his office-cumwarehouse on the ground floor of the building, thus causing the collapse,” said an officer at Sewree police station, where a complaint has been registered. Mehta had taken the office space on lease from BMC. According to the complaint by a Deputy Superintendent of BMC, Mehta had carried out alteration and renovation works without prior permission from the civic body and this had triggered the tragic incident, said Addition-
al Police Commissioner Krishna Prakash. Mehta and his associates were booked under IPC Sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), among others. Around 21 families, which were BMC’s tenants, lived in the 30-yearold structure which caved in yesterday morning. It was categorised as a C-2 building, which meant it was in need of urgent repairs.
mumbAi, September 29 (pti): Five people were killed when a private chopper crashed in Thane rural area near Mumbai on Sunday after it came in contact with high tension wires. Thane Rural Superintendent of Police Anil Kumbhare said that there were no survivors and all five persons on board the ill-fated chopper have been killed in the mishap. The identity of the deceased was yet to be ascertained. The accident occurred at around 7.50 AM near Tokawade village in Murbad taluka of Thane,
police said. The chopper belonging to private operator United Heli Charters had taken off from Juhu aerodrome here in the morning and was going to Aurangabad for fuelling from where it had to go to Nagpur, Air Traffic Control sources said. The accident occurred due to the chopper coming in contact with high tension electric wires in Murbad taluka of neighbouring Thane, police said. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has rushed a team to the accident spot to investigate the cause of the mishap, a DGCA official said.
People stand near the remains of a private helicopter that crashed in Murbad, about 60 kilometers (38 miles) northeast of Mumbai, India on September 29. All five people on board were killed according to local news reports. (AP Photo)
Low treatment costs attract foreign heart patients to India
New Delhi, September 29 (iANS): Low treatment costs and high levels of expertise have made India a leading destination for heart treatment for people from West Asian and African countries, doctors said. According to doctors, the rates of heart treatment are 1/10th to 1/15th times lower as compared to the United States and Britain. “India has now become a hub for heart treatment in Southeast Asia and people have been flying in from foreign countries and undergoing treatment for various cardiovascular diseases here,” Subhash Chandra, associate director (Interventional Cardiology), Fortis Escorts Heart Insti-
tute, told IANS. People visiting India for treatment are not only from neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal but also from far off countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Kazakhstan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Oman. Subhash Chandra said close to 500 patients had undergone treatment in Delhi alone in the last one year. “Compared to global standards, the rates for any kind of cardiovascular surgery are very minuscule in our country,” said Anil Bansal, chief cardiologist at Columbia Asia Hospital. Coronary angiography (a test that uses dye and special X-rays to show the
insides of coronary arteries, the tube that carries blood to heart) costs around Rs.10,000 to Rs. 15,000 in India and around 500 dollars (Rs. 32,000) in the US. “I underwent an implant here in just Rs.7 lakhs, while I was quoted Rs. 30 lakhs for this in Europe,” said Bardhan Sarkar from Bangladesh, who was treated by Bansal. The most popular treatments availed of by people who come to India are angioplasty, where the blockage in the coronary artery is opened and a thin coil, called a stent, is implanted; open heart surgery where the heart holes are closed and narrow valves opened; and the installation of artifi-
cial pacemakers for slower heart rates. Low treatment costs are definitely one of the major factors attracting people to India, but the expertise and trust in the quality of treatment is another reason for the growth of foreign patients. “All the latest high quality treatment is available in our country and with high expertise we have been able to establish trust among foreign patients,” said Chandan Kedawat, senior consultant cardiovascular disease at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute (PSRI). Similarly, even for treatment of congenital heart disease (diseases affecting infants and children and present
since birth) several hospitals are attracting a lot of patients from abroad. “Treatment of heart disease in children costs 10 to 15 times less here than that in any European country,” said Shreesha Maiya, pediatric interventional cardiologist at Bangalore’s Narayana Hrudayalaya. In private hospitals, open heart surgery costs Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.2.25 lakh; for children, open heart surgery costs Rs.1.25 lakh to Rs.2 lakh; valve surgeries cost between Rs.2.5 lakh and Rs.2.75 lakh. The treatment is even cheaper in government hospitals, with the difference being usually between Rs.75,000 a nd Rs. 1 lakh.
CheNNAi, September 29 (AgeNCieS): In search of concrete proof to establish the antiquity of the Tamil civilisation, historians in Chennai have again turned to the familiar guiding figure from Alexandria — Claudius Ptolemy. A team of professors and students from the Centre of Underwater Archeology of Tamil University, Thanjavur, is combing the coastal villages of Tamil Nadu in search of the ancient ports mentioned by Ptolemy in Geographia, a compilation of the known world —based on the chronicles of explorers and mathematical calculations. It was Ptolemy who first used latitudes and longitudes to mark a place— placing the grid system on a map and using it for the entire planet. In his tome, believed to have been compiled
around 140 CE, the geographer-astronomer-mathematician mentions ports in south India, of which only a few have been discovered. Researchers believe that some of these ports could be the same as the ones mentioned in Sangam literature, an anthology of ancient classical Tamil poems believed to have been written between 600 BCE and 300 CE. The text Akananuru of the Sangam era suggests that some 20 to 25 ports had existed in the region. Ptolemy’s geographical accounts mention some 15 ports. “Ptolemy mentions many ports, including about eight on the east coast. Some, like Poompuhar (now known as Puhar) were found after finding similar references in Sangam literature. Our survey aims to find some indicators about the other
lost ports. If there are significant reasons to believe that a particular site could be one among them, we will conduct deep marine intensive search,” said N Athiyaman, one of the two faculty members leading the survey. The first step is a simple land-based survey where the researchers are visiting coastal villages looking for pot shreds and other remains. They will also be carrying samples of ancient pottery in order to make it easier to ask villagers about similar objects. “Ceramics vary according to culture. If they identify any, we will be able to put an approximate date. Experienced fishermen can also tell us about sunken vessels or strange structures at the bottom of the sea,” Athiyaman said. The survey is being done in two sectors. Athiyaman is leading the team in the Kan-
yakumari-Rameswaram stretch, while his colleague Rajavelu is looking after the Rameswaram-Poompuhar leg. It is not only Ptolemy who mentioned the once buzzing port towns of south India of which little history remains. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, believed to be written sometime in the first century CE, reportedly has references to Tamil kingdoms. “However, the names of the coastal towns mentioned by Ptolemy and Periplus are often in their own language, which differ from what they were known as locally. So we have to check the references for similar places in Sangam literature,” said S Rajavelu. The investigations, if successful, could add a great deal of information about culture, trade, aesthetics, science and technology of both the inhab-
itants and their visitors. But for an ardent Tamilian, this could mean a lot more than that. Tamil ideologues argue that the civilisation is one of the oldest in the world (the original culture and language of India before the Aryans arrived), and Sangam literature is the strongest evidence that backs the claim. The set of over 2,000 poems, many of them said to be over two millennia old, contains references to kings and palaces, but these are often shrouded in metaphors and allegories. Thus, if Ptolemy’s references could be verified though archaeological evidence, it could thereby corroborate the accounts found in Sangam literature as well, which in turn could lead to more research into the texts. As Rajavelu puts it, “we should understand our own history”.
The hunt for the lost ports of India
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‘Iran’s shift toward West is serious’
UNITED NATIONS, SEpTEmbEr 29 (Ap): Iraq’s foreign minister said Saturday that the new Iranian government led by President Hassan Rouhani offers “the best chance after 34 years of animosity” to improve relations with the United States and should be taken seriously. Hoshyar Zebari also told The Associated Press in an interview that he is working behind the scenes to try to unite disparate Syrian opposition groups ahead of a November peace conference and to promote a thaw in Tehran’s relations with the United States. Zebari said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked Iraq at their meeting Saturday to press the opposition to come with one delegation and one position. The U.N. chief also told him he heard no opposition to Iran, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, participating in the upcoming Geneva peace conference. “Before he would hear outright rejection,” Zebari said. “This time, everybody was quiet. Nobody objected.” Iraq is in a unique position in the Middle East. Its Shiite-dominated government has comfortable ties to Shiite Iran — an important ally of Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime. And according to Zebari, Iraq also has good relations with both sides in the Syrian conflict. It also has strong ties to Washington following the 10-year, American-led war that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. Zebari said Iraq had nu-
merous discussions with the Americans and the Iranians after Rouhani’s June election. “Our role I would not claim to be decisive or instrumental, but it was helpful,” he said. When Rouhani won by a landslide in the first round, he said Iraq understood before many other people “that this is real, this is genuine, because if the regime wanted to scuttle it, they could have forced a second round election. They didn’t.” Iran’s hard-line Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who calls the shots on all important matters of state, appears to be giving his critical backing to Rouhani’s rapprochement with the West. On Friday, President Barack Obama and Rouhani spoke on the phone for 15 minutes, the highest level contacts between the two countries since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. It capped Rouhani’s debut on the world stage this week at the U.N. General Assembly, where he repeatedly advocated for moderation and an easing of tensions. Iraq’s Prime Minister said in a statement Saturday that he welcomed the latest development between Tehran and Washington as a “big breakthrough to the deadlock,” expressing his country’s readiness to play any role to succeed the dialogue between the two countries. We are optimistic about what happened recently at the United Nations,” Nouri al-Maliki said.
SyDNEy, SEpTEmbEr 29 (AFp): Australia Sunday insisted it provided “all appropriate assistance” to an asylum-seeker boat that sank off Indonesia, as the toll mounted to 28 and survivors claimed their calls for help had gone unheeded. The vessel, packed with asylum-seekers from Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen, sank in rough seas Friday, with estimates of between 80 and 120 people on board and about 25 rescues. Indonesian search teams recovered seven more bodies in a sweep of the coast on Sunday -- six adults and a boy -- taking the official death toll to 28, with dozens more unaccounted for and steep waves of four to six metres (13 to 20 feet) hampering operations. It is the first fatal sinking since conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s election win and
comes ahead of his arrival in Jakarta on Monday on his first foreign trip as leader where Australia’s controversial new people-smuggling policies -- including plans to turn back boats to Indonesia -- are likely to dominate talks. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann defended the government’s response to the disaster Sunday after survivors claimed they had repeatedly called Australian authorities to request assistance and were promised help that never came. “Tragically, I mean, the events occurred in an area that was under Indonesian jurisdiction, and of course, Australia did provide all appropriate assistance,” Cormann told Meet the Press. Cormann said reports that Australian officials were first notified that the ship was in distress on Thursday morning were “incorrect”, insisting the first con-
After historic call, hard work begins
A supporter of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, holds a local newspaper with a headline that reads, "historic call from a return flight," upon his arrival from the U.S. near the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran on September 28, Iranians from across the political spectrum hailed Saturday the historic phone conversation between President Barack Obama and Rouhani, reflecting wide support for an initiative that has the backing of both reformists and the country's conservative clerical leadership. (AP Photo)
Ahead of the General Assembly, Zebari said he told the Americans and Europeans: “Take this leadership more seriously. Don’t think that they are the same, that they are just playing games. ... We see they are serious.” Zebari said another important indication of Rouhani’s seriousness was that he appointed Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as lead nuclear negotiator, taking that key role out of the hands of security agencies with the apparent blessing of ruling clerics. Iran’s eagerness to resume stalled negotiations over its disputed nuclear program
is another sign of a real shift, Zebari said. He said he told the Americans and Europeans that “before you were after them to have these talks ... just to give the impression you are doing something. Now they are eager also, and primarily because of the sanctions, because of the isolation.” Tehran insists its nuclear activities are purely peaceful but the U.S. and its allies believe it is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. The U.N., the U.S. and Europe have imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Iran for its refusal to curb suspect nuclear ac-
tivities and Iran’s economy has been devastated by the measures. If the U.S.-Iran relationship develops, Zebari said there should be direct talks. “I think this could be more helpful, and I think on the American side they embrace that idea, but I think it’s too early,” he said. Zebari said Iraq has tried to help end the 2 1/2-year Syrian conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people. But the growing power of jihadists fighting among Syrian rebel groups is complicating any solution. The highly fragmented opposition is increasingly
tact was on Friday morning. “It was a report that related to an event in the Indonesian search-andrescue zone. And of course, all of the immediate action that was required was taken, in particular, Australian authorities immediately contacted Indonesian authorities,” he said. “There was very close cooperation, as is appropriate in those circumstances, to deal with the unfolding event as quickly as possible.” Survivors told journalists in Java that they had called the Australian embassy for 24 hours after their boat foundered and were told to send through GPS coordinates to assist rescuers. “We did, and they told us ‘OK, we know where you are. We’ll come for you in two hours’,” Abdullah, from Jordan, told Fairfax newspapers. “And we wait two hours, we wait 24 hours, and we kept calling them
(saying) ‘We don’t have food, we don’t have water for three days, we have children, just rescue us’.” “And nobody come. Sixty person dead now because of Australian government.” Cormann said the full details of the sinking and Australia’s response would be provided by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on Monday during the new government’s weekly briefing on its military-led operation against peoplesmugglers -- a practice that was condemned by refugee rights protesters rallying in Sydney on Sunday. “The government cannot be allowed to use its media blackout to cover up the role of Australian authorities in this tragedy,” said refugee rights activist Ian Rintoul, adding that Canberra “well knows that Indonesia does not have the capability to carry out significant rescues at sea.”
Abbott’s “Stop the Boats” plan, which also involves buying up rickety fishing vessels to keep them from the hands of people-smugglers and Australian police running intelligence operations in Indonesian villages, has rankled Jakarta. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa warned his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop that Indonesia “cannot accept any Australian policy that would, in nature, violate (our) sovereignty”. Human Rights Watch urged Abbott to abandon his towback plan. “If Australia really wants to address the problem, then it should help Indonesia develop its capacity to assess asylum claims and process refugees,” said Elaine Pearson, Australia director at HRW. “That’s a better policy than schemes such as paying bounties and buying boats to deter sea travel.”
Australia defends response as refugee sinking toll rises
dominated by jihadists and al-Qaida-linked militants, many of them foreign fighters. But it has never been able to form a coherent united front against Assad. “They have grown in power and in control,” he said of the jihadists fighting among the Syrian rebels. Iraqi officials have said that cooperation between jihadist groups on both sides of the country’s border with Syria is also escalating violence within Iraq. “Many people claim they are providing arms, they are good guys and bad guys, but believe me the picture from where we sit in Iraq is very blurred,” Zebari said.
pArIS, SEpTEmbEr 29 (AFp): With a simple telephone call, Barack Obama and Hasan Rouhani achieved an initial thaw in relations but the two presidents face an uphill task in convincing their entourages to follow suit, analysts say. The historic 15-minute call between the US president and his Iranian counterpart on Friday marked the first contact between leaders of the two nations in over three decades -- since the 1979 Islamic revolution. It heralded a “new tone” in relations, said Shashank Joshi, research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London. Stateside, the optimistic New York Times wrote: “It?s hard not to be swept up in the euphoria, especially when an adversary begins to seem not only reasonable but personable.” But now begins the hard task for Obama and Rouhani of persuading hostile diplomats and advisers that normalising relations is desirable. Tehran’s nuclear programme and the opposition of Israel, the US ally and Iran foe, are likely to make full rapprochement difficult. “Hardliners on both sides are the big elephant in the room,” said Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at London’s School of Oriental and African Stud-
A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan on September 29. A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. (AP Photo)
Syria vows to abide by UN resolution
In this image taken from on September 25, video obtained from the Sham News Network, Syrian opposition fighters fire at government forces near Daraa customs in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Russia offered on Thursday to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria's chemical weapons would be destroyed, as U.N. inspectors prepared to continue their probe on the use of such agents in the country's civil war. (AP Photo)
bEIrUT, SEpTEmbEr 29 (Ap): Syria will cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors charged with securing and destroying the country’s chemical weapons stockpile, the nation’s prime minister said Saturday. The comments from Wael al-Halqi came a day after the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to purge Syria of its chemical weapons program. The U.N. resolution, passed after two weeks of white-knuckle negotiations, marked a major breakthrough in the paralysis
that has gripped the council since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011. “This resolution is in line with Syria’s approach toward joining the chemical weapons convention,” al-Halqi said in an interview with Lebanon’s Al Manar TV. “Syria will stand by what it promised. We will cooperate and facilitate the work of the inspectors. We have provided lists with the chemical weapons we have and they can check all our institutions.” The U.N. resolution allows the start of a mission to rid
Syria’s regime of its estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal by mid-2014. It also calls for consequences if President Bashar Assad’s regime fails to comply, although those will depend on the council passing another resolution in the event of non-compliance. The vote also enshrined a plan adopted by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog that lays out benchmarks and timelines for cataloguing, quarantining and ultimately destroying Syria’s chemical arms, their precursors and delivery systems. The diz-
zying diplomatic developments of the past two weeks are rooted in the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in a Damascus suburb. The U.S. blamed the Assad regime for the attack, and threatened to launch punitive missile strikes. That set in motion a flurry of diplomatic maneuvering that led eventually to Friday’s Security Council resolution. For the first time, the council also endorsed the roadmap for a political transition in Syria adopted by key nations
ies. “Rouhani has to tread a fine line,” he warned. “The issue of relations with the United States is emotive, charged with historical memories that are personal and immediate. There will be situations when he has to backtrack because of domestic constraints.” Obama and Rouhani risk the wrath of their respective entourages and allies as they move to restore diplomatic relations which broke down after the hostage-taking at the US embassy following the 1979 revolution. “For Obama this will open him up to criticism from Israel and hardliners in Washington. He is taking a brave step in doing this,” Joshi said. “Rouhani is also taking a brave step as we’ve seen from the demonstrations upon his return. He will have angered many, many hardliners,” he added. As Rouhani arrived back in Tehran from the UN General Assembly in New York, a protester threw a shoe at his motorcade while others in a crowd of several dozen chanted “Death of America”. But another larger group of supporters turned out to thank Iran’s new president -- a moderate who replaced the firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June -- for taking the important step. The Iranian press has also lauded the renewed contact.
in June 2012, and called for an international conference to be convened “as soon as possible” to implement it. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has set mid-November as a target date for a new peace conference in Geneva. Speaking to Al Manar, alHalqi said the Syrian government is ready to “negotiate with opposition forces both inside and outside of Syria — if they’re willing to.” But he also questioned whether the main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, can bring armed groups on the ground to the negotiating table. The Coalition’s control over the myriad rebel factions fighting in Syria has always been shaky, but that fact was laid bare on Wednesday after nearly a dozen of the most powerful rebel groups formally broke with it. Inside Syria on Saturday, rebels including members of an al-Qaida-linked group captured a military post on the border with Jordan after four days of fighting. The Britainbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group said 26 soldiers were killed in the battle as well as a number of rebels, including seven foreign fighters. The post, which once served as a customs office
before being turned into an army outpost years ago, is on the outskirts of the southern city of Daraa where the Syrian uprising began 2 ½ years ago. The revolt later turned into a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people. Rebels control multiple areas along the borders with Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Also Saturday, a group of U.N. inspectors left their hotel in Damascus in one vehicle to an unknown location, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. The U.N. said Friday its team of weapons experts currently in Syria will investigate seven sites of alleged chemical attacks in the country, four more than previously known. The team initially visited Syria last month to investigate three alleged chemical attacks this year. But just days into the visit, the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Ghouta was hit by a chemical strike, and the inspectors turned their attention to that case. The inquiry determined that the nerve agent sarin was used in the Aug. 21 attack, but it did not assess who was behind it. The U.N. says the team expects to finalize its activities in the country by Monday.
Diana made secret tape for William’s family? LOS ANGELES, SEpTEmbEr 29 (IANS): Princess Diana reportedly recorded secret tapes for her elder son Prince William and his future family because she feared for her life. According to reports, Diana made the tapes with her parental advice in case she would not be around to guide her boys, reports dailystar.co.uk. The existence of the tapes was revealed by US magazine Globe, which quoted a source, who is said to be one of Diana’s “closest friends”. The tape suggested Diana had a chilling premonition about her death because of worries that she had made some dangerous enemies. Her decision to make the recording will add weight to the arguments of those who believe her car-crash death in the year 1997 was no accident, but the outcome of a dark conspiracy, the US magazine says. Diana’s messages urged her oldest son and his future wife to: “Cherish your children for me ... let them know I’ll love them and watch over them ...” Although Diana never met Kate Middleton, now Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William, the US magazine claimed the tapes show Diana imagined William’s bride to be “beautiful, smart and independent”. The voice of the tape stated: “I know I’d adore you and we’d be fast friends. You’d have to be someone truly special. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be my William’s wife.”
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Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos, right, jumps for the ball with Atletico de Madrid's Gabi Fernandez, second from right, Raul Garcia (8), center, and Cristian Rodriguez from Uruguay, third from right, as Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata, left, watches, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 28. (AP Photo)
FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, scores a goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Almeria, in Almeria, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 28. (AP Photo)
BARCELONA, SEptEmBER 29 (Ap): Atletico Madrid's record-setting 1-0 win over Real Madrid brought an emphatic end to its crosstown rival's 14year unbeaten league run in their Spanish capital derby on Saturday. On-form Diego Costa struck in the 11th minute and not even Gareth Bale in his home debut for Madrid could help it rally. Atletico's big win came after Lionel Messi scored before being substituted due to injury to help Barcelona win 2-0 at Almeria. Barcelona and Atletico set club records by staying perfect through seven rounds to start the season, opening up a five-point gap over Madrid. Messi and Diego Costa have guided their teams to their milestones and lead the league with eight goals each. "We are having a great
year and we have to keep it going," said Atletico's Jorge "Koke" Resurreccion, who set up Diego Costa's goal. "Diego Costa is in a spectacular moment. He has helped us a lot." Bale, Madrid's 100-million-euro man, went on at the start of the second half, finally playing in front of his new home fans after straining his left thigh while warming up before last weekend's match. Yet neither the Wales winger in 45 minutes nor Cristiano Ronaldo in 90 were able to target Atletico's goal. "Atletico was more aggressive and ran more. It wasn't our day," said Ronaldo. "We have to understand that we need to improve. I played poorly and many of my teammates did so as well. Our coach had nothing to do with it. It's our fault." Atletico's last
13th state ITF Taekwondo C'ship
DimApUR, SEptEmBER 29 (mExN) : The 13th State Level ITF Taekwon-Do Championship is to be held from the State Indoor Stadium, Dimapur on 1st & 2nd of October, 2013, With the total number of 250 participants, different school, clubs and institutions from all over the State will be participating in the event. The two day event will highlight competitions from different age groups starting from individual sparring i.e. below 13 years,13-18 years and 18 years above; group sparring i.e. below 13 years, 13 years above, individual patterns, special technique and individual sparring black belts & group patterns. The entire event would be abided by its rules and regulations of ITF norms. As such, participants have been asked to get themselves prepared for the event. Meanwhile Nagaland Taekwon-Do Federation has also welcomed all its sports lovers and spectators to be an eye witness to the most thrilling event of its kind.
Recruitment for boys sportscompany mechanized infantry regimental centre
KOHimA, SEptEmBER 29 (mEXN): The Mechanized Infantry Regimental Centre (MIRC) will hold a rally to select young boys to train them for National & International Sports Competitions in Archery and Rifle/Pistol Shooting from 21 Oct 2013 to 23 Oct 2013 (0900h to 1400h) at Ahmednagar. Eligibility criteria : Age from 11 year to 14 year, Education : 5th class on wards and aptitude for Sports. Free lodging & boarding of high standards will be provided along with education upto 12th standard and boys will be enrolled in Indian Army after 10th OR 12th class. This was stated in a release issued by Lt.Col. Emron Musavi, Defence PRO,Kohima.
Atletico beat Real in 1st league win since 1999
minutes later after hurting a muscle in his right leg. Adriano sealed the result for Barcelona in the 56th from a pass by Cesc Fabregas while Messi watched from the bench. Messi's injury leaves him in doubt for Tuesday's Champions League match at Celtic, when Atletico plays at Porto. Madrid hosts Copenhagen on Wednesday. Barcelona said the Argentina forward would undergo more tests on Sunday. While Barcelona may be missing Messi for the trip to Glasgow, it should have Neymar well rested after the striker didn't play a minute at Juegos Mediterraneos Stadium. Barcelona's first-year coach Gerardo Martino has guided Barcelona to its best start in 82 leagues. Five other managers, including Pep Guardiola (2009-
10) and predecessor Tito Vilanova (2012-13), had reached six wins. "I have only latched on to one of the records that these players have broken and continue to break," said Martino. "They have been doing so for years both individually and as a team. The fact that I formed a part of this one is circumstantial." Elsewhere, Jonas scored his third winning goal for Valencia this week to secure a 1-0 victory at home over Rayo Vallecano. Jonas netted the decisive goal in recent wins against Sevilla and Granada, and he stepped up once again to produce the 36th-minute winner after intercepting a poor pass by Rayo's Saul Niguez. Real Sociedad, meanwhile, was held to 1-1 at home by Sevilla before its Champions League game at Leverkusen on Wednesday.
DimApUR, SEptEmBER 29 (mExN): The 2nd Pfutsero Town Sports Association Inter Ward Football Tournament kicked off on September 23 at Pfutsero town local ground with Colo Mero, Director, Life Sports as the Chief Guest. All 11 Wards took part in the tournament. Tese Ward emerged as the Champion bagging the running trophy of lt. Neikhrope Ritse and won Rs25,000 and certificates by defeating last Inter Ward champion, Seed Farm Ward who also bagged Rs15000 and certificates. Cash of Rs.1500 and certificates each are also awarded to Posehu Kezo-Golden Glove, Timothy Letro-Golden Ball, Most Promising Player Adonis Stevenson, right, from Montreal, and Tavoris Cloud, of the United States, exchange blows during their boxing bout Wesheko Mero and Golden Boot - Senowe Khutso. The in Saturday night in Montreal. Stevenson retained his title. (AP Photo)
Prizes were given away by Major Lalit Chahali, Post Commander, A.R. Pfutsero. The PTSA in a press note appreciated all Wards for their unconditional support and co-operation during the tournament, INNOVATIONS, Kohima for all the banners, certificates, linesman flags and advertisements, Post Commander AR Pfutsero for the chairs, tents and tournament footballs, all the individual sponsors - Zewete Mero, Kowe Kronu, Zechelo Wetsah and Kupelhi Losou, Champion Stationery for all the supplies, official commentators - Kowe Lohe, Wepekhro Wetsah, Thepureyo(Ayo) Tetseo, Chief Umpire and his team, Recorders - Kove Lasuh and Redi Kronu and the Board of Trustees.
Messi scores for Barca Before getting injured league win against Madrid had come in 1999, and since then it had gone 23 games without a victory. But Atletico's victory over Madrid in the same Santiago Bernabeu Stadium last May to claim the Copa del Rey had apparently given it the boost in confidence it needed to break its horrendous streak. While Atletico squeaked out that cup win in extra time, Diego Simeone's side simply outplayed Madrid
Moyes needs response after worst united start in 24 years mANCHEStER, SEptEmBER 29 (REUtERS): If David Moyes wondered how difficult it would be to replace Alex Ferguson at Manchester United then the scale of the task was brought home by a stinging Premier League defeat to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. The United manager, who stepped into the shoes of the club's most successful servant in the close-season, put a brave face on their third loss in their opening six league games but must now rebuild morale on the back of their worst start in 24 years. "You're always going to have bad results in football, it is how you deal with them," he told the BBC after the shock 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford. "We will move on and look forward to the next one. There are lots of games here and you get ready for the next one. I'm concerned after the game but only because we didn't play well. We can put it right." While Moyes can rightly play down talk of a crisis, he will be aware that the boos heard around the stadium at the final whistle were a rare occurrence under his predecessor. Moyes was hand picked by Ferguson to assume the reins and Saturday's defeat comes on the back of media reports in Spain that Jose Mourinho was
devastated to be overlooked for the job. While Chelsea manager Mourinho's CV is studded with success, Moyes's achievements are more modest, having helped Everton punch consistently above their weight in his 11 years at Goodison Park. He was rightly praised for steering them to high Premier League finishes, but the Scot never managed to add any silverware to the trophy cabinet. In contrast to United, where success is now commonplace, he was also never expected to play open expansive football. His Everton team were hard to beat and physically imposing but not always easy on the eye. An accusation levelled against his United side, who had already been beaten by rivals Liverpool and crushed by neighbours Manchester City before Saturday, is that they lack the rapier thrust of Ferguson's title winners. They have looked vulnerable at the back, conceding eight times in their opening six league games and have struggled to turn periods of dominance into chances. "We did not defend well at all but we did not attack well," Moyes added. "We had a lot of the ball in the first half but didn't make the most of it."
on Saturday, creating many more shots and deploying a swarming defense that kept Madrid in check until the final minutes. Simeone pumped both fists on the final whistle as he left the dugout, deservedly satisfied with his team's effort. "We can play better or worse, but our commitment to working hard is nonnegotiable," said Simeone. "The team is above everything else. The economic power of Barcelona and
Madrid is superior to ours. We give it our all in each game." Diego Costa, who also scored in last season's cup final, took the game's sole goal when Filipe Luis stole the ball from Madrid's Angel Di Maria and Koke placed a throughball for his goalscorer to coolly fire it in. As the Brazilian forward soaked up the dismay of Madrid's supporters, Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti turned away and
slapped his leg in frustration. "We are not playing well. We have to solve this by having a better attitude, staying concentrated, and playing with more speed and pace," said Ancelotti. "It's true that five points behind Barcelona and Atletico isn't a little amount. But that's not the problem." Messi netted his goal in the 21st with a left-footed shot after combining with Pedro Rodriguez, but he asked to be replaced eight
2nd PTSA Inter Ward Football Tournament Concludes
ManU, City lose as Arsenal marches on
mANCHEStER, SEptEmBER 29 (Ap): The two Manchester clubs slumped to shock defeats and Arsenal moved two points clear with a win at Swansea on Saturday, extending the unpredictable start to the English Premier League. Five months after capturing a 20th English title, Manchester United is languishing in 12th place in the 20-team standings after losing 2-1 at home to West Bromwich Albion in the latest setback to hit David Moyes' troubled first season in charge. Amid its worst six-game start to a league season since 1989, United slipped eight points behind Arsenal after the London club beat Swansea 2-1 for an eighth straight away victory in the league. The only solace for United on an action-packed day was neighbor Manchester City enduring similar misery by sinking 3-2 at Aston Villa. With the Manchester giants showing fluctuating form, their rivals from London are taking full advantage. Tottenham is two points behind in second after drawing 1-1 at home to third-place Chelsea in an entertaining match that saw Fernando Torres sent
off for the visitors. "I'm concerned after today's result, but only because we didn't play well," said Moyes, whose team took another blow six days after losing 4-1 to City in the derby. "But there are a lot of games to go and I'll try to put it right." Even promoted teams Cardiff and Hull are above United after six games. Cardiff won its first away match of the season, 2-1 at Fulham, and Hull edged West Ham 1-0. But another newcomer, Crystal Palace, lost 2-0 at Southampton, which is adding to the surprise factor this season by sitting in fourth place. Sunderland is lodged to the bottom on one point ahead of Sunday's game against Liverpool. Unbeaten Everton hosts Newcastle on Monday. Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey maintained his stunning start to the season by setting up Serge Gnabry's opener in the 58th then scoring himself four minutes later at Liberty Stadium. Ben Davies cut the deficit in the 81st but Arsenal held on and is confounding expectations. "We have a lot of quality," said Ramsey, who has scored eight goals in nine matches
this season. "We've had a lot of injuries recently but we've managed to dig in and put a load of wins together and hopefully now we get players back and we're in with a shout (of winning the title)." West Brom fully deserved its first win at United in 35 years, with Saido Berahino clinching victory with a 67th-minute strike from the edge of the box that finished off a flowing team move. Wayne Rooney's free kick score canceled out Morgan Amalfitano's stylish solo goal, but a United side missing several regular first-team stars with a Champions League match at Shakhtar Donetsk in mind struggled throughout. Moyes' team hasn't scored from open play since the first day of the season. City was toasting derby glory last weekend, but was brought to earth by the loss at Villa to drop to fifth. City twice threw away the lead given by Yaya Toure and Edin Dzeko before Andreas Weimann struck Villa's winner to leave the visitors without an away win this season. "We played very well and deserved to win, but in five minutes (when Villa scored twice) we threw
Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey celebrates scoring his side's second goal, during their English Premier League match against Swansea City, at the Liberty Stadium, in Swansea, Wales, Saturday Sept. 28. (AP Photo)
away everything good we did in the rest of the match," City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. "The way we lost this game was incredible." Tottenham showed it should be held up as a
genuine title contender by holding Chelsea to a draw at White Hart Lane, although it will be disappointed the team couldn't kick on after Gylfi Sigurdsson opened the scoring in the first half.
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Kate Moss’ £10 million home is flooded Building work at a north London mansion has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to homes in the immediate area – amongst them a property owned by Kate Moss and husband Jamie Hince. Extensive repairs to the tune of £50 million are currently being made to 65-room Witanhurst House close to a luxury home owned by the couple in leafy Highgate. Building work at the site has coincided with water damage to local houses, with Kate and Jamie’s £10 million home bearing the brunt after her basement was flooded. Residents have since pointed the finger of blame at Witanhurst – the former home of BBC talent show Fame Academy. A London home belonging to supermodel Kate Moss has been flooded ‘I know Kate’s basement flooded,’ one angry neighbour told The Sun. ‘It cost thousands in repairs to fix the lining.’ Other residents close to
the property off Highgate West Hill claim the ambitious renovations have caused similar damage to their homes since work began at the site
in 2010. ‘We had awful flooding when water came up and flooded the cellar,’ said Lady Gillian Sergeant, 86, a Highgate resident for more than 60-years. She added: ‘We had to get the builders in. We’ve had it ever since they’ve
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been working on Witanhurst. We don’t want it to go on but how can we stop it?’ The extensive renovations include a two-storey underground extension that will feature a 70ft swimming pool as well as a bar, gym, cinema and car park big enough to hold 25 vehicles. Kate’s home was previously flooded with raw sewage less than week after it was burgled in 2010. At the time the 39-year-old model stayed with friends while more than £100,000 of repair work was carried out following the incident, during which three rugs, furniture, a costly show collection and three portraits by Mario Testino were all destroyed. A source told the Mirror: ‘Trouble started following heavy rains over the last bank holiday and culminated in her basement flooding and the pump system clogging up. ‘Kate is absolutely gutted. Not only is her house a complete disaster zone, with mud, gunge and sewage everywhere, she recently had some walls repainted in Farrow & Ball paint at great expense. These are ruined. ‘She has been told she is looking at a bill of around £100,000 to replace her outside deck, plus kitchen units, furniture and flooring.’
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Ranaut is all set to take on the combined might of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh. Come November 15, Kangna’s new film Rajjo will clash at the box office with Bhansali’s ambitious biggie Ram Leela, starring Deepika and Ranveer. Dropping a surprise bomb, the makers recently revealed a passionate trailer of Rajjo on YouTube. It was also confirmed that Rajjo will be opening on the same day as Ram Leela. The decision has taken most in the industry as well as the media by surprise, since Rajjo is a small film directed by debutant Vishwas Patil and has no major male star in its cast. However, the first-look trailer of Rajjo, featuring Kangna as a mujrewaali in skimpy and seductive attire, definitely sets off the warning bells for Bhansali and Co. While no one expects a small-budget film like Rajjo to match a biggie like Ram Leela at the box office, a good show by Kangna’s film could definitely dent the business of Bhansali’s magnum opus. The release date of Rajjo was undecided till the makers saw the finished product. “The concerned people, after watching the trailer, felt a sense of confidence after seeing the film’s final cut. It was then decided that releasing the film on the same day as Ram Leela would not harm its prospects. The stage was set for Rajjo versus Ram Leela,” a member of the film’s unit said.
Debutant director Patil seemed glad about the release date, calling it the “apt time”. A lot of brainstorming reportedly went in before zeroing in on a face-off with Bhansali’s film. The trade, though, is not wholly convinced. “The situation will affect the box office numbers of both films,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh said. Kangna, however, seems confident competing with flavour-ofthe-season, Deepika. “Rajjo is really close to my heart and I am glad it is being released during the festive season. “I am particularly proud of my work in the film, which should fetch an audience of its own. Competition will be there every week. I am sure my producers have taken a good call and it comes from the trust and confidence they have in the product,” Kangna said. The actress portrays a mujra dancer named Rajjo in her new film. The trailer displays a mix of Nineties’ music tracks with Kangna gyrating in revealing, ethnic outfits. The film is said to be about the plight of nautch girls in modern times and the gradual demise of the kotha culture. It also has a subtext love story between Rajjo, a Muslim girl, and a Hindu boy. “Even though the main character is a mujrewaali, the film isn’t depressing by any means,” Patil said.# Rajjo features Mahesh Manjrekar and Prakash Raj in pivotal roles while Paras Arora makes his debut opposite Kangna as her lover. Veteran composer Uttam Singh returns to Bollywood with the soundtrack of this film.
Direction star Louis Tomlinson has sparked fears he will miss the band`s upcoming concert after being struck down by an illness. The British boyband is all set to perform in Perth, Australia, reported Contactmusic. The 21-year-old singer took to Twitter to inform fans about his illness saying, `Lost my voice.` The `Best Song Ever` hitmaker previously revealed he was struggling to get over his jetlag after flying Down Under. “Still not managed to get into the time zone, feel like a zombie,” he had posted. Australian police investigated One Direction earlier this week after their entourage allegedly sped through three red traffic lights. The incident is said to have happened during a night out in Perth, and the Western Australia Assistant Commissioner Nick Anticich revealed an investigation is underway. The group, which also includes Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Harry Styles, kicked off the Australian and New Zealand leg to their Take Me Home World Tour on September 23 and will wrap up their tour dates there on October 30 in Melbourne before moving on to Japan.
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Ranbir Kapoor, who turned 31 Saturday, refused to reveal what gift he received from actress Katrina Kaif, who is reportedly dating him. “There is a phrase in English `Mind your own business`,” Ranbir told reporters at an event here. Recently, the rumoured lovers made headlines when their pictures while holidaying together in Spain were published. There are reports that Ranbir and Katrina will go on a holiday again, but he chose to keep mum on this too when asked. “Jab pictures chhap jayenge, tab tum log hi bata dena yaar. What should I say? (When pictures get published, you only inform)...” The actor is currently busy promoting his next film `Besharam`.
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Looking forward to work with Shekhar Kapur in ‘Paani’: Rahman
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winning music composer AR Rahaman feels Shekhar Kapur`s upcoming directorial venture `Paani` is a film with a good intention and he is looking forward to working with the filmmaker. “It is finally happening. I think it is a very exaggerated project. Shekhar is the thinker, a visionary. I have learnt so much from him. I think `Paani` has a very good intention as a movie. Looking forward to that,” said Rahman, who has previously composed music for Kapur`s 2007 film `Elizabeth: The Golden Age`. `Paani` is set in the future where wars over water have broken out. The plot revolves around how international corporations use thirst as a weapon of control. In one such future city, a young couple breaks all the rules and in the ensuing war, water flows back to its people. The film will be shot in India and overseas. The film produced by Aditya Chopra, is likely to go on floors by mid-2014. Rahman is also excited about his next international venture, an animated movie, which will also mark his debut as a producer. “The one I am doing right now is a animation movie by Dreamworks. I am actually there as the executive producer of the movie and composer,” he said. Rahman is currently in the city for his concert `Rahmanishq`, which is on October 1. The composer is performing in Kolkata after a gap of 10 years, and he said he loves to perform in front of the people here. “I first came to Kolkata in 2003. The energy that Kolkata gave me still rings in me. Whenever people ask me which is the best place, where I had performed, I always say it is Kolkata,” he said.
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Kipsang sets marathon world record in Berlin
Wilson Kipsang from Kenya celebrates winning the 40th Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 29. Kipsang set a new world record of 2h 3min 23sec. (AP Photo)
BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 29 (AP): Wilson Kipsang of Kenya set a world record in winning the 40th Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 23 seconds on Sunday. The 31-year-old Kipsang knocked 15 seconds off compatriot Patrick Makau's previous mark of 2:03:38 set in Berlin in 2011. Kipsang was just four seconds short of the record when winning in Frankfurt the same year. It was the eighth world record in Berlin in 15 years, strengthening its reputation as the world's fastest course. Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya was second in 2:04:05, improving his personal best by a minute and a half in his second marathon, while Kenya's Geoffrey Kipsang — no relation to Wilson — was third in
2:06.26. Florence Kiplagat of Kenya won the women's race in 2:21:13, a minute and a half slower than her personal best, with compatriot Sharon Cherop second in 2:22:28. Germany's Irina Mikitenko finished third with the 41-year-old runner setting a new over-40 world-best of 2:24:54, almost a minute quicker than the previous mark. Conditions were cool, but dry and sunny, with only a light breeze. The race was started by four-time winner Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, who twice set the world record in Berlin. All eight runners who previously set world records in Berlin were on hand to wave 41,120 runners from 119 nations off at the start.
Serena Williams posts first-round win in Beijing
BEIJING, SEPTEMBER 29 (AGENcIES): World No. 1 Serena Williams was among the first-round winners Sunday at the WTA's China Open. Williams, who won the inaugural China Open in 2004, got by Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-2 despite three double faults and dropping her serve twice. However, Williams did have five breaks and took more than half (36-of-70) of the points off Vesnina's serve. Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska needed three sets to advance while No. 4-seeded Li Na raced through her firstround win. Radwanska edged Stefanie Voegele 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 by fighting off 13 of Voegele's 17 break opportunities. Radwanska dropped her serve at least once in each set but had two breaks in both the second and third sets to advance. Li, the local favorite, beat Daniela Hantuchova 6-0, 6-4. Li had five breaks and won more points (3534) than Hantuchova when Hantuchova served. She dropped only 16 points in the first-set shutout. No. 13-seeded Sabine Lisicki took out Chanelle Scheepers 6-3, 6-2 in Sunday's final match. Other results Sunday saw Maria Kirilenko defeat Zheng Jie 7-5, 6-2; Madison Keys come out ahead of Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 6-3; Laura Robson outlast Klara Zakopalova 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-1; Misaki Doi rout Silvia Soler-Espinosa 6-1, 6-1 in 47 minutes; and Lauren Serena Williams of U.S. reacts after winning a point against Elena Vesnina of Russia during Davis beat Mona Barthel their first round of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Bei6-0, 5-7, 6-4. jing, China Sunday, Sept. 29. (AP Photo)
14th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy MATCHES FOR SEPTEMBER 30 1st Match: Kuki SU Kohima vs Jakhama SU @ 11:30 am 2nd:Match: Koubru SC Mnp vs 4th NAP FC @ 1:00 pm 3rd Match: Jotsoma Students’ Union vs Arena Kings XI @ 2:30 pm
Royal Wahingdoh SC, Kohima Komets to play exhibition match
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Good news for football lovers of Nagaland. Come, October 13, a football exhibition match between Royal Wahingdoh Sports Club (Meghalaya) and Kohima Komets (Nagaland) will take place at the Kohima Local Ground at 1:30 PM in aid of Late Kekuojalie Sachu and Late Vikhozo Yhoshu Memorial Trust. Announcing this to media persons here today, event coordinator Roko Angami along with Angami Students’ Union (ASU) president Zakie Khate, ASU sports secretary Mathew Yhome and co-convenor 14th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial trophy Neinguvotuo Krose informed Exhibition match event coordinator Roko Angami, ASU officials and organizing that the exhibition match is being committee of 14th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy at the press conference on Seporganized to sustain the memorial tember 29. (Morung Photo) soccer tournament. the title on debut after beating Shillong Roko told the media persons ROYAL WAHINGDOH Lajong FC through tiebreaker. Another CLUB, SHILLONG: that sole purpose of this exhibition Historically known as Royal Wa- record was set in August, 2012 when the match is to enhance fund for Late Kekuojalie and Vikhozo Memorial hingdoh Sports Club was founded in Royals won their third consecutive ShilTrust for the sustainability of the 1946 before winning numerous titles long Premier League finals after beating slowly making its mark in the Shil- Rangdajied United FC. Royal Wahingmartyr’s trophy in the coming years. and long football scene. However, as the doh FC is currently competing in national Through this event, he said, we years progressed, more professional tournaments including the 2nd Division I also want to expose the local talents clubs began making their entry into the League and the Federation Cup. beyond the boundaries and pro- leagues organised in Shillong, making mote them to the higher level. the competition stiffer than it already KOHIMA KOMETS ASU president Zakie Khate said was. The amateur club found it difficult to Kohima Komets is a premier sportthe fund generated from the exhibi- cope with the younger clubs and slowly, ing Club based in Kohima, Nagaland. tion match would not only help to its downfall began. In 2007, Wahingdoh The Club was established with the obsustain the memorial soccer tour- Sports Club nearly faced relegation to jective of setting up a professionally ney but it would also use for edu- the 2nd Division League, and as a result managed Football Team which can cational activities and social issues of inconsistent performance, the Wa- compete at International Level. This will concerning the Angami students hingdoh community felt the need for a create career opportunities for Local under the banner of ASU. younger and more innovative approach. Naga youths and strengthen the econKhate maintained that orga- The club finally turned professional in omy of the State. nizing the tourney as a student’s 2008 after merging with Royal FootThe club is backed by Businessmen, body for the last 26 years has been ball Club. Thereafter, the club was re- Contractors and Professionals from a tough journey burdening well- named Royal Wahingdoh FC under the varied field both financially and techniwishers of the community ranging able leadership of the club's new owner cally. The involvement of the patrons from politicians, contractors, bu- Dominic Sutnga Tariang. Several dra- are mainly as a Social Service towards reaucrats and businessmen. But, he matic changes were made in and within the Society. There is immense potential said, “we hope to make some fund the club, and in the same very year of in the Field of Sport especially Football available for the tournament and its reformation, the club unexpectedly among the Naga Youth however with bounced back to claim Third spot in the the absence of Professionally managed other concerned activities of ASU”. Khate said around 10,000 spec- 2nd Division Regional League. Royal Clubs, Players are unable to pursue it as tators are expected to witness Wahingdoh FC fans still remember a career. The Club is in the process of the match. ASU sports secretary the team's stupendous performance in setting up a private academy to groom Mathew Yhome said that besides the First Division 2009 season where and train younger players also provide established a record by winning all free training facility for the Naga Youth. the football festivity, there will also they games besides scoring 52 goals It also played in the 2nd division in be an entertainment and fanfare their en route to lifting the title and along with I-League in 2013. It finished 6th place featuring “Fusion Flippers and local it, an entry into the top tier of Megha- in Nagaland Premier League 2012 and artists. Parliamentary secretary for laya football, "The Shillong Premiere is currently played in Nagaland Premier rural development and REPA C.L. League." The club created history in League 2013. John will be the chief patron. Kohima Komets is the current the Shillong Premier League 2010 seaGallery ticket has been fixed at son by becoming the first team to win champions of Classic Cup Kohima. Rs. 100 and Rs. 1000 for donors.
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