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GPRN/NSCN clarifies on Sept 1 incident DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 2 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN today clarified on what it termed to be the “capital punishment meted out to Pukhato Aye of Ahoto Village, an informer of the Khaplang boys” on the night of September 1.

A press note from the MIP stated that “Pukhato is directly responsible for the deaths of our members, Deputy Secretary Akato who was murdered on July 22 and Lieut Col Tokikhe, murdered August 18.”

The note further said that “there are many more instances where he had acted as the mole behind shooting incidents in and around Dimapur town.” The GPRN/NSCN added that Pukhato had been “warned to refrain himself from such activities, but continued without paying heed to it.” As such “the GPRN/ NSCN had no option but to award him with capital punishment,” the note said.

It added that many GPRN/ NSCN cadres have been “shot dead without any reasons by the Khaplang boys in the past few months” and that “many families have been rendered widows and orphans, many homes have been raided in the middle of the night by the Khaplang rogues in search of our cadres.” It said that “till date, the GPRN/NSCN has been restraining our cadres from retaliating, keeping in mind the reconciliation process that is painstakingly being motioned by every right thinking Naga.”

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Fuel outlets in Dimapur shut down business unexpectedly on Monday, September 2. The abrupt closure was reportedly a result of unrequited monetary demands.

Sources disclosed that on September 2, unidentified persons claiming to be from the NSCN (IM) directed petrol pumps to shut down indefinitely or face dire consequences. Petroleum dealers said that as a result, fuel retailers in Dimapur were compelled to shut down indefinitely or till such time the matter gets resolved.

The Nagaland state government, it was learned, was informed of this development. The Dimapur district administration said that it received a letter from the Petroleum Dealers Association (PDA) explaining the reasons behind the day’s development. A copy of the letter was also sent to the government officials while asking the government to take up the matter with the CFMG and the CFSB, it was added.

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In the backdrop of unrequited monetary demands, petrol pumps in Dimapur district shut down abruptly on September 2. (Morung Photo)

cently published a statement listing 17 petrol pumps (out of 31) in Dimapur, which according to the organisation were not meeting quality norms.

It was further mentioned in the statement that the defaulting petrol pumps “will be penalised as per the ahza.” Fuel samples from the 31 petrol pumps in the district were collected and tested resulting

in the alleged detection of adulterants in fuel sold by 17 petrol pumps, it was further stated.

In its letter to the state government the PDA informed that in the aftermath of the reported detection of adulterants, defaulting petrol pumps were asked to pay money ranging from Rs. 1 lakh to 3 lakhs as penalty. The petrol pumps had pleaded that

since they have already cleared the yearly tax and other fees for the year, they were not in a position to pay any additional amount.

The explanation rendered reportedly did not go down well resulting in the day’s development.

“Therefore out of compulsion all the petrol pumps in Dimapur are compelled to shut down business. We therefore re-

LUcKNow, SEPTEMBER 2 (IANS): Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav Monday termed the situation in the country akin to the Emergency and blamed the “wrong policies” of the Congress for the worsening economic situation.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, Yadav said the Samajwadi Party has no understanding with the Congress, nor will have

one in the Lok Sabha polls.

Asked about the support the SP has lent to the Congress-led UPA I and UPA II, he contended this was largely done to prevent the communal forces from coming to power. “Our support to Congress government is issue-based but we can say that policies of Congress can never be beneficial to the country,” he said.

Adding that his party was prepared for the gen-

eral elections whenever these are held, the SP leader said though the party has announced a majority of its candidates, the leadership was scrutinizing the candidates and if need be, candidates in some select seats may be changed. “We are gathering information from the ground on how our candidates are performing so far. If they are not living up to the party standards, we will change them,” Yadav said.

Referring to the economic crisis as “grave”, he said it was worrying that the Indian rupee was sliding to a new low every day, the imports increasing and exports shrinking. He also slammed the UPA for bringing the Food Security Bill and the Land Acquisition Bill in parliament at the fag end of its tenure. “The Congress is doing all this with an eye on votes and they are simply not bothered about the poor,” he said.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 2 (MExN): ): Following an inquiry ordered by the State government into the incident concerning Parliamentary Secretary, Torechu Yimchunger’s convoy on August 24 wherein USR NSCN (IM) had alleged that the Parliamentary Secretary was indulging in bootlegging, the State government has concluded that “no such incident of interception of transportation of IMFL by the convoy of the Parliamentary Secretary had taken place nor had been detected by the police or any agency or organization”.

The allegation that the Parliamentary Secretary

“was indulging in bootlegging is therefore incorrect and not substantiated by facts”, stated a press communiqué issued by L Singsit, Special Secretary to the Government of Nagaland. It said that the photograph, which appeared in local dailies alleged to be that of a vehicle seized during the incident, was also false as “no vehicles of the Parliamentary Secretary’s motorcade was seized at any point of time during the said incident.”

The government stated “no unauthorized persons or agencies have any right to intercept or detain any movement of VIP motorcade or entourage and any such ac-

tions will be considered as illegal and treated accordingly as per the provisions of the law”. It said that such interception if done by any of the factions will amount to “violation of the CFGR.” Adding that this statement was issued as the USR has sought clarification from the Parliamentary Secretary; it was informed that the Government had undertaken an inquiry through the SP Kiphire regarding the incident.

As per Police, it was ascertained that some miscreants tried to obstruct the convoy at three locations in Kiphire district on August 24. The first one was at LHEP junction (NH 202)

where two youths on motor cycle had tried to intercept the convoy but the convoy passed on without any untoward incident.

The second occurred at Tuthezu junction (NH 202) where three armed persons, “allegedly working for an organization styled as United Sangtam Region tried to intercept the convoy but ran away when an Assam Rifle vehicle was seen approaching the location”.

The third occurred near a Stone Crusher, below Kiphire town when some miscreants tried to stop the convoy but ran away when the escort opened fire in the air, it stated.

quest the government of Nagaland to kindly intervene at the earliest because we are not in position to resume business with the matter remaining unresolved,” stated the letter written to the district administration.

A fuel retailer speaking on condition of anonymity stated that petrol pumps pay yearly tax to all the groups. Another fee called ‘adulteration fee’ is further paid to two groups. While it is reportedly regarded as deterrent to fuel adulteration, this fee only encourages adulteration, it was added.

On the security of fuel retailers in the backdrop of threats, the district administration and the police chose to play it safe. It was explained that since it involved grave threats to life and property, it would be prudent for outlets to remain shut till such time the matter is resolved by the appropriate authority. It was further explained that it would be humanly impossible to provide round the clock security to the petrol pumps and all the people involved in the fuel retail business.

down by “taxes” Morung Express news Dimapur | September 2

Cabbage farmers in Phek district are groaning under the weight of taxes imposed by municipal and town councils on their way to Dimapur to sell their produce.

Kohima Municipal Council, Medziphema Town Council and Dimapur Municipal Council are reportedly levying Rs. 400 each per truck (407 Tata) and Rs. 200 each per Tata Mobile carrying cabbage.

At the end of the day, the exorbitant tax imposed by the municipal and town councils leave the local cabbage farmers with little or no room for profit margin.

After reaching Dimapur, the cabbage farmers are also not given a fair deal as they dispose the cabbage at a wholesale rate of Rs. 6 per kg whereas the vegetable is sold at Rs. 30 per kg in the market.

“We take all risks to transport our produce from Phek to Dimapur in the hope of getting good profit margin. But the heavy taxes imposed by the municipal bodies hardly leave any room for profit.

After all expenditures are

taken into account, the profit margin per Tata Mobile load of cabbage is between Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 only”, a local farmer from Pfutsero said.

Chairman of Razeba Sub-Marketing Committee (RSMC), Sanyi Dukru, informed that the taxes levied by the municipal bodies are choking the local cabbage farmers of their very livelihood. Sanyi said that while the Nagaland government had announced the ambitious food security for all by 2020, its municipal bodies were discouraging local farmers to take up farming as a profitable profession.

“Perhaps the municipal bodies are levying the highest tax on cabbage.

Trucks carrying imported food items and goods worth crores of rupees are only levied gate entry fee, whereas local farmers carrying Tata Mobile load of cabbage worth a few thousand rupees bear the brunt of taxation”, he added.

The RSMC chairman said that with the raw deal meted out local farmers, many farmers in Phek district are mulling alternative use of their land, rather than grow perishable vegetables.

‘country facing emergency-like situation’ state govt. forms committee

‘Allegations regarding Torechu incorrect’

to address sexual harassment

KohIMA, SEPTEMBER 2 (DIPR): A state level complaints committee has been formed for redressal of sexual harassment complaints of women employees at their work places in Nagaland. This committee has been constituted as per a notification issued by the Government of Nagaland on May 29, 2013.

The committee will receive complaints from any women employee through its Secretary of the State Government and cause an enquiry into the complaint and suggest measures to redress the complaint.

The Committee is also entrusted to create awareness of the rights of female employees by prominently notifying the guidelines

and initiating awareness campaigns.

The committee has been deemed to be the inquiring authority for the purposes of Central/State Civil Services (Conduct) rules and the report of the complaints committee is deemed to be an inquiry report under the rules.

Thereafter the disciplinary authority will act on the report in accordance with the rules. The Committee will also submit an annual report to the department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms with details of the complaints, if any made to it and the action thereof.

It may be noted that Chairperson of the State Complaints Committee, Banuo Z. Jamir at an AHOD/

HOD meeting on August 23 had directed all District offices as well as the Directorates of the Government Departments to form Complaints Committees at their own levels.

She highlighted the guidelines of the Supreme Court wherein as per the Vishaka guidelines, the State Legislature has been directed to enact, legislate and make provisions for protecting the rights of women from being harassed in work places. The Vishaka guidelines require employees at workplaces as well as other responsible persons or institutions to observe them and ensure the prevention of sexual harassment to women.

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Millennium International University (USA) and Eastern Bible College (EBC) officially signed certificate of collaboration on August 28. (Left to right) Rev Thungdemo Lotha, principal Eastern Bible College, Rev Dr TN Lotha, president EBC, Rev Dr Stephen Tee, Director MIU, Ps Dr Catherine Chin, Registrar MIU with the certificates of collaboration.

MIU is an evangelical multi denominational non-traditional university, a non-profit organisation incorporated by the department of the state secretary of the state of Delaware, USA. It offers e-learning bachelor of Ministry, Master of Ministry and Doctorate of Ministry.

EBC will serve as MIU centre for northeast India. For further details contact EBC or visit www.miuedu.us

DDGBA appeal for release of 35th NCRC Sumi govt schools construction fund women conference Dimapur, September 2 (mexN): The Dimapur District GB’s Association (DDGBA) has appealed to the Director of School Education Mission Authority-SSA Nagaland to release fund for construction of GMS/ GPS as per the terms and conditions laid down with respective SMC. The Department of School Education Mission AuthoritySSA Nagaland had issued the work order for construction of GMS/GPS, toilet, drinking water etc on October 2012. With a term mention in the work order Annexure-Ill serial No.2, all the spill over work shall be completed by November 2012 and all the fresh work shall be completed by March, 2013(i.e.. 5 months) and

released 25% from the unit cost.

However, due to non-release of further fund, construction was stagnant and could not accomplished as per the terms (i.e. by March 2013), stated a press release issued by the DDGB’s Association president Shikuto Zalipu.

After the lapse of 10 months (August 2013) from the first installment, the department releases second installment some 15% to 20% only from the unit cost. Thus, the total fund released till date sum upto 40%-45%.

The Association also learnt that SMC of respective schools cannot progress its management due to the shortage of fund and all the buildings are incomplete which was supposed to complete by March 2013 as per the

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order. “According to our survey, almost all the upgraded GPS are running their classes inside the Village Council Hall, Community Hall, Sunday School Building etc. creating a vent difficult environment for the teachers and staffs to implant proper education to the students without proper building and facilities.”

Therefore, DDGB’s Association appeals to the School Education Authority-SSA Nagaland to release the balance amount to the educational institute of the Dimapur District in particular and the state in general in order to solve the fore-said problems faced by the SMC’s of GMS/GPS, teachers and the school going children before the end of this academic session.

pughoboto, September 2 (mexN): The 35th NCRC Sumi women conference will be held at Pughoboto town from November 8 to 10. Speakers for the conference are Tonino Chophy, women secretary, Pughoboto prayer centre, Sara S Jamir, deputy secretary, youth resource & sports, Rev. Kihoshe Assumi, executive secretary, Pughoboto prayer centre and Rev. Kihoshe Chophy, senior pastor NCRC Dimapur town. Special guest will be Y Vikheho Swu, parliamentary secretary, Irrigation & Flood control, and Visheli Shetoi Yeptho. Resource person for the seminar will be Dr. Victo A Wotsa M.D.(OBST) Gynae.

Praise & worship will be led by High way churches worship team /Toluvi NCRC & Kuhuboto NCRC. NCRC SUMI, women department Chairperson, Kahuli Piketo Achumi in a press release has requested all to come and be blessed.

Vipe Enterprises launches Piaggio Vehicles showroom

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Rev. Vitoi and Kuputo Shohe during the inauguration of Vipe Enterprises Piaggio Vehicles showroom on September 2. (Morung Photo)

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Born: 04-04-1949 Died on: 31-08-2013 We praise the Almighty God for the life of Late. Mrs Khumchanbeni Odyuo who is no longer on Earth with us but resting in heaven with God. She left for her heavenly abode on 31-8-2013. In these moments of our grief, words are inadequate to express our profound gratitude to those who stood by us through prayers, physically, financially and materially during the prolonged illness and sad demise of a beloved wife, mother and mother in law.

Even though we cannot thank each and every one of you individually and we deeply regret our inability to do so, it is our earnest prayers to Jesus Christ to bless all of you abundantly for the love and comfort that you have rendered upon us during these difficult times.

Loving husband, sons, daughters, son in law and all her relatives.

Dimapur, September 2 (mexN): Vipe Enterprises has today launched Piaggio Vehicles – the pioneer of 3-wheeler segment in India – with its showroom located adjacent to Purana Bazaar Traffic Point.

Piaggio Vehicles Private Limited (PVPL) is a 100% subsidiary of Piaggio & C s.p.a. of Italy - the inventor of 3 wheelers. By setting global standards in vehicle performance and customer service, it has revolutionized three 3 wheeler cargo segment in India. PVPL commenced its Indian operations in the year 1999 with the launch of the brand apé which was an instant success and has grown from strength to strength over the years.

Today, the company offers a range of passen-

ger and cargo vehicles for many customized applications. Variant in cargo segment included apé Xtra, apé Xtra LD and porter 600 while passenger segment included apé Xtra, new apé city 200. Its superior product features and benefits coupled with world class customer service has earned apé a loyal and growing customer base.

Piaggio vehicles are engineered for higher fuel efficiency, rugged performance and outstanding load carrying capability. PVPL vehicles are conformed to the most stringent emission norms.

Pastor of Sumi Baptist Church, Purana Bazaar, Rev. Vitoi Kappo had said the dedicatory prayer. Vipe Enterprises is owned by Kuputo Shohe.

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Chief Secretary exhorts officers to lead the people

Kohima, September 2 (Dipr): Nagaland Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir on Monday exhorted the 2012 batch of IAS, NCS, NPS and allied services probationers to rise above the context of their backgrounds, existing environments, weak technologies etc and to lead and serve the people. He stated this while gracing the inaugural function of the common induction programme for probationers of IAS, NCS, NPS and allied services on September 2 at ATI Kohima.

Jamir said that although Nagaland would be celebrating 50 years of Statehood this year, yet there still exists identity crisis, confusions, deficiency in good governance and deficiency in the system of administrative structures.

Jamir agreed that 50 years was a long time for any society to have evolved but also reminded that Nagas have only had 50 years to be part of modern administration system, and was under the British colonial imperial system till then. “Since you are going to be part of the system you should understand the deficiencies so that later on as you try to overcome the deficiencies you start shining,” said Jamir to the officers.

Jamir while referring to the Foot Hills Highways

said that it is not just looking for an alternative during Assam bandhs but that linear cities would grow along the highway for urbanisation as an alternative to the hill-top mountains.

The cities would provide industrialization to create opportunities to 5 lakhs students who are in schools and colleges and where the whole process of modernization could take place and at the same time address issues of global climate change by population shifting down and forest and environment could be sustained, he added. He further narrated that along with the linear cities, the SDXs would be set up where land laws would be liberalised, tribal concept of thinking that outsiders cannot hold land in Nagaland could be re-structured and change in the land holding system could be changed.

Talking all these exciting things involved, the Chief Secretary encouraged the probationers for setting some agenda and opined that such setting would be the real foundation for future. “A lot of important changes could happen and how important the changes take place would depend on you”, he maintained.

Additional Chief Secretary, P&AR department, C.J. Ponraj, IAS in his keynote

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Seized assorted IMFL being destroyed at Dimapur on September 2.

GHSS Bhandari career guidance cell inaugurated

bhaNDari, September 2 (mexN): Mhonlumo Kikon, MLA and Chairman MARCOFED, inaugurated the ‘Academic and Career Guidance Cell’ at Government Higher Secondary School, Bhandari on August 31.

In his introductory speech, Nellayappan B, Principal of the school informed that the plight of the loving and affectionate people of the under developed area made him to realize the need to establish the Academic and Career Guidance Cell at the school. He emphasized that today’s children are more vulnerable to the evilness existing in the society and many misguided children are victimized.

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address observed that role of government has undergone tremendous changes and felt State has to confine to its core role. Ponraj pointed out about the dual governance system of Nagaland being a tribal State and exhorted the officers on the need to harmonize these institutions to work efficiently as a public administrator.

Giving the basic outlines of the induction programme, he informed that it has been set with four specific objectives: Relevant areas of foundation skills, exposure to the challenges posed by public management today, to learn to learn and to foster personal relationship with the institute.

Additional Director (Admn) ATI, Kohima delivered the welcome address while Director ATI, Kohima Neihu C. Thur, chaired the programme. Additional Director (Trg) ATI, Kohima, M. Khezhie proposed the vote of thanks. Additional Chief Secretary & Commissioner Nagaland, Banuo Z. Jamir; Director of Prisons, Fire & Emergency, Home Guards & ADG (Admn) PHQ, L. Thechamo Lotha; officers of ATI and 2012 batch of NCS, NPS and Allied services probationers including 4 IAS probationers attended the inaugural programme. The officers will undergo 2 months training starting from today.

More assorted IMFL destroyed in Dimapur

Dimapur, September 2 (mexN): The UT-1 of NSCN (IM) led by its Town Supervisor, Iliading (John), Viyito, Advisor, members of GB union, Dimapur and women leaders raided booze joints at Burma Camp and Railway Bazaar on Sunday and seized over 10 cases of assorted IMFL of different brands.

The seized liquor were destroyed on September 2 in the presence of GBs, women leaders, general public and staff of UT-1, NSCN (IM) at Railway Bazaar.

Meanwhile, Kilonser-cum-Caretaker CAO of UT-1, NSCN (IM) Lt Col (Rtd) Ape Venuh has strictly warned all hotels and restaurants selling liquor to stop immediately. He said that if hotels and restaurants are found selling liquor, it would be seized and heavy penalty would be imposed. He also asked booze joints and wholesale dealers of IMFL to close down immediately.

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has done and most of the times fail to look in to the aspect of why the child has done it. He asserted that it is the duty of the school to protect the young generation from the ill effects of the materialist society and informed that the Guidance Cell would give special attention to understand the problems faced by the children and would help to initiate necessary corrective measures by the teachers and the school authority.

Besides enlightening the students about the various academic avenues available for pursuing higher studies in India and Abroad, the Cell will also provide coaching classes for various competitive examinations such as Staff Selection Commission, Bank & Insurance Recruitments,

Teacher Eligibility Test etc.

MLA Mhonlumo Kikon lauded the initiative of the principal and the teaching faculty of GHSS, Bhandari, termed it as ‘transformative’ and urged them to uphold this ‘missionary’ zeal.

The MLA assured to extend all possible helps for the development of the School.

While appreciating the principal for implementing the policy of zero tolerance for proxy teachers, the MLA expressed resentment over the practice of engaging proxy teachers by few school management committees.

He urged them to stop it immediately. He warned that he would ensure severest punishment for those engaging in this evil practice that deprives the children and the society of their genuine rights. He asked the

government school teachers to be more sincere and dutiful so that the government schools could also produce quality results like the private schools.

The programme was chaired by Zanbeni Humtsoe (PGT) and started with invocation pronounced by Nongothung Ezung, Associate Pastor, BTBE. Welcome address was delivered by Phandemo Lotha, Headmaster, GHSS, Bhandari. Yiphyolumo Mozhi, President, LLRPO and Khonthungia Odyuo, Secretary, Parent Teacher Association, GHSS, Bhandari & Former President LLPRO spoke on the occasion. The programme was concluded with a note of gratitude delivered by Litongpi Ayong (PGT) and benediction by Fr. Amos Kikon, Principal, Don Bosco HSS, Bhandari.

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Competitions on ‘National Integration’ held

Judges and participants of the essay and quiz competition at GHSS, Zunheboto on August 31. (DIPR Photo)

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ZuNheboto, September 2 (Dipr): An essay and quiz competition was held on August 31 at the Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Zunheboto under the aegis of the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Zunheboto, with ‘National Integration’ as its theme. 33 students from various Schools, Higher Secondary(s)/Colleges

took part in the event under three category(s) viz Quiz (14 participants); Essay High Secondary & College level (8 participants) and Essay High School (11 participants).

The results are as follows: Quiz- 1st Ameka K Zhimo & Angukatoli G Assumi (GHSS, Zbto) and 2nd Gihuto & Hika (Immanuel School): Essay- Higher Secondary & College Level- 1st

Abijeet Kumar (Love Dale HSS) and 2nd Hitoka H Yepthomi (Woodland HSS); Essay- High School Level: 1st Kivi N Achumi (Corner Stone School) and 2nd Tovinoli A (Love Dale HSS).

The judges for the Essay competition were Bendangsangla APP, Zunheboto; Kanili I Chishi (JEO) and Advocate. Y Katovi Awomi; and the judges for the quiz competition were Kikum-

sangla SDO (Civil), Zunheboto and Longthai Lecturer (GHSS).

The supervisor of the event was OP Phom, Civil Judge Zunheboto and Dy. Secretary NLSA. He also informed that each winners of the event will represent the district in the forth-coming state level competition, which will be organised by the Nagaland Legal Services Authority (NLSA).

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Newspaper Ban: Manipur CM silent imphal, September 2 (the hindu): About 200 reporters and paper boys representing the All Manipur Working Journalists' Union and the All Manipur Newspaper Sale and Distributors Association met Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Monday regarding the ban on newspapers in Imphal imposed by certain militant outfits. The outfit had threatened the editors and reporters that they would be shot if they published newspapers and also threatened paper boys who deliver newspapers.

The Chief Minister however only told the reporters and hawkers to wait and watch for some days saying that people who were denied their newspapers would revolt against the ban. Newspapers have not been delivered for the past three days in Imphal.

The reporters and paper boys had taken out a silent

Members of All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU) holding a protest rally to condemn the threat to press by one of the underground outfits, in Imphal on Monday. (PTI Photo)

procession from press club at 11.30 a.m. and met the Chief Minister to discuss the situation. Mr. Singh said

though it was not possible beef up security measures. to provide armed guards to The protesting jourall reporters and papers, his nalists and hawkers howgovernment would try to ever, said while politicians

and officials got security round the clock, the people were denied even their newspapers.

Shutdown affects normal life in Meghalaya

Shillong, September 2 (ianS): Normal life came to a standstill in Meghalaya Monday during a 12-hour shutdown called by 10 organisations demanding the introduction of the inner line permit (ILP) system to regulate the entry of outsiders into the state. Almost all government establishments, including financial and educational institutions, remained closed in all the 11 district headquarters.

Two government offices were partially burned in the Ri-Bhoi district while two private vehicles were torched in the state capital in the wee hours Monday by miscreants suspected to be members of the outfits sponsoring the shutdown. On Sunday night, unidentified assailants hurled two petrol bombs at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Meghalaya's

East Khasi Hills, police said. No injuries or damage was reported.

Police said 12 people have been arrested in connection with arson cases in Shillong.

National Highways 40 and 44, the lifelines for landlocked Mizoram, Tripura and parts of Manipur and southern Assam, were also affected by the shutdown.

"Thin attendance was recorded in all government offices," principal secretary in-charge (Home) K.S. Kropha told IANS, adding that there was no report of any untoward incident during the shutdown.

The 10 organisations that have called the shutdown include the powerful Khasi Students' Union, the Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo People and the Hynniewtrep National Youth Front. They have been seeking the introduction of the inner line permit - required by

Indian citizens to enter Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram saying that the number of people entering Meghalaya might get out of control, given the state's proximity to Bangladesh and Assam.

"The implementation of the ILP would help protect the tribal population from being "annihilated" in their own land," Joe Marwein, spokesperson of the agitating organisations, said.

"The influx of illegal immigrants into the state is not only alarming in areas bordering Bangladesh and the inter-state border with Assam but what is also of concern is that the immigrants now outnumber indigenous tribals in certain areas of Shillong," Marwein said. The ILP is issued under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation 1873 by the state governments.

However, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has rejected the organisations' demand to implement the ILP sysyem. Instead, the government would resort to existing and new laws and mechanisms to tackle the unabated influx of migrants, he said. "It is our shared objective to check influx and infiltration and we require further engagement and cooperation of NGOs instead of a confrontational attitude," Sangma said.

On the other hand, the two main opposition parties in the state - the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the Hill State People's Democratic Party - may not attend the all-party meet convened by the chief minister on Tuesday to discuss the ILP system.

The two parties said they have not received any invitation for the meeting.

Assam Petro ties up debt for petchem project Protest to resolve Septem- 2016,” Bordolui said. syndicating the debt, which Manipur border issue KolKata, ber 2 (dna): Assam With natural gas has now okayed raising a

imphal, September 2 (the hindu): A seminar organized by the United Committee Manipur (UCM) in Imphal on Sunday resolved to launch a sustained agitation to safeguard the territory of Manipur which will be lost once the border fence is erected along ManipurMyanmar border.

District and Sessions Court judge (Retd) C. Upendra said it will be illegal to cede Manipur's territory without an approval from the Parliament. He was not happy that the erection of the border fence is being undertaken under the supervision of Assam Rifles personnel.

“When the controversy of encroaching upon Manipur's territory came up, the personnel should have informed the Central and State government,” he said. The resolution also demanded the suspension of erection works till an agreement is reached.

Government officials have been saying that what is being erected is a security wall and not a border fence.

Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam Gangmei has promised an inquiry into this issue. The Manipur government has set up a high powered committee to look into the issue. Gangmei said that once a report is received, Ministers will make an assessment by visiting the disputed areas.

Petrochemicals, in which Oil India has picked up a 49% stake, has achieved financial closure with the firming up of the debt component of its upcoming petrochemical project after a long delay.

With this, the Assam state government-promoted project is likely to commission the country’s maiden gas-based petrochemical project by the fourth quarter of 2016, managing director Ratul Bordolui told dna. “We have achieved the financial closure for the project recently by raising Rs 635 crore of debt from a consortium of bankers led by the State Bank of India. We now hope to complete the project by

Purple Fusion rocks Senapati

Senapati, September 2 (mexn): Purple Fusion from Nagaland rocked Senapati with their melodious renditions of lilting songs on Friday evening here at the mini stadium, Senapati. Their fans danced and joined them in their songs as they mesmerized their fans with their own genre of music call the FolkFusion. The fans were yelling for more of their songs when the curtain came down for the evening.

“Senapati was thoroughly entertained tonight with a splendid performance by Purple Fusion.

In fact, the lead Vocal of the band, Lamtsala H Sangtam is so far one of the most powerful vocalists who have performed in this Indoor Stadium,” said Shylock Taishya, the publicity secretary of the King Solomon Shoe (KSS).

The musical event was organized by KSS, hosted

by Senapati Music Society (SMS) and co-sponsored

by Manipur AIDS Control Society (MACS), with the aim to protect and uplift Naga culture and to create awareness amongst the youth on AIDS, Save Environment, inhuman acts towards women, love & peace

sourced from Oil India, Assam Industrial Development Corporation, a unit of the state government, has been implementing a 500 tonne a day (tpd) methanol and 200 TPD acetic acid project with an estimated project cost of Rs 1,028 crore at Namrup. The financing of the project was initially conceived with a debt equity ratio of 2.5:1 with a debt component of Rs 734 crore.

But with public sector oil and gas explorer Oil India proposing to pick up 49% at Rs 228 crore, the debt part was later brought down to Rs 635 crore or a debt-equity ratio of 1.6:1.

SBI Capital Market was then given the mandate of

14-year tenure loan.

Assam Industrial Development Corporation, which has been holding 88%, will now hold 51% equity in the project and the balance will remain with Oil India. As a result, Assam Petrochemicals, which has some public holding through an initial public offering, would be delisted from the BSE. “A decision has already been taken to delist the shares and a formal communication to the public shareholders would be made soon,” Bordolui said.

Assam Petrochemicals has been producing methanol since 1976 with formaldehyde and a few urea formaldehyde resins as downstream projects.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF STATE LOTTERIES NAGALAND :: KOHIMA

No.DSL/17-10/2010-11

Dated, Kohima, the 2nd Sept 2013.

NOTIFICATION It is hereby notified for the information of all concerned that the Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) for appointment of Distributors for marketing of Nagaland State Lotteries (Paper and Online) issued by the undersigned vide Notification No.DSL/17-10/2010-11 dated 10.12.2011 and all activities undertaken in the connection with this NIT hereby stands cancelled with immediate effect, as approved vide Govt. Notification No.FIN/LOT-02/2013 dated 31/08/2013.

Sd/KENILO APON Director, Nagaland State Lotteries, Kohima.

Purple Fusion performing in Senapati on Friday, August 30.

and Cleanliness.

P.K. Jha, IAS, the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati while gracing the event as the Chief Guest lauded the efforts of the King Solomon Shoe and encourages them to continue promoting music and spread the message of love, peace, harmony and fight against social menace of HIV/AIDS, Drugs, Violence against Women. Isak Shah, superintendent of Police Senapati District, Dr. Loli Mao, District AIDS Control Officer and other dignitaries who were present also applauded the ef-

forts of KSS. Mention may be made here that, King Solomon Shoe (KSS) is an event management group formed by some enthusiastic individuals, Entrepreneur, Educationist, Social Worker, Musician and IT-Professional from different tribes in Senapati District, with the objective to promote Tribals’ rich culture & traditions. The group also intends to create a common platform for young talents and bright minds for a better Naga society tomorrow.

Walk in interview on 4th September

at Hotel Japfu, time: 11-am to 3:00 pm Job Position: Unit Manager/ Development Manager.

Job Description: developing and leading a team of about 30 Life Insurance.

Advisors to achieve insurance policy sales.

Business Generation and subsequent business, Lead Management Qualification: Any Graduate.

Desire candidate: Any graduate /MBA with 1-5 yrs of Frontline sales experience.

For further information please call up to 8415001977 Interested candidate may drop their CV in: talent.hunt500@gmail.com

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‘Arunachal moving towards better connectivity, more employment’ itanagar, September 2 (ianS): All districts of Arunachal Pradesh, including the far-flung ones, would be inter-connected through good quality roads in the next three years to solve major problems of connectivity in the northeastern state that borders three countries, Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has said.

Tuki said that Trans-Arunachal highway project had been started to improve internal connectivity in the state and would link 11 district headquarters in the state through two-lane roads built on accepted quality norms. The remaining 6 districts will have lateral connectivity to the highway.

"Communication, whether it is road, air or through phones, is a big issue facing the state). We are addressing them in a phased manner. There is problem of unemployment, which we are addressing now," Tuki told IANS in an exclusive interview here. Tuki, 49, who became chief minister in November 2011, said the 1,412 km trans-highway project was slated for completion in 2016.

At 83,743 sq. km, Arunachal Pradesh is the largest state in the northeast in terms of area. People travelling from capital Itanagar to some border areas have to take

circuitous routes and spend long hours travelling due to poor road connectivity.

People from interior areas have to sometimes travel more than a day to reach the capital city and take roads passing through Assam. Tuki, a former president of the state Congress and a four-time MLA, said 90 percent of contracts had been awarded for the trans-Arunachal highway project.

He admitted that lack of proper road infrastructure was a major handicap in the state realising its tourism potential.

"The Trans-Arunachal highway project is expected to cost around Rs 7,000 crore," he said. Arunachal Pradesh has a 1,080 km border with China, 160 km with Bhutan and 440 km with Myanmar. Referring to the problem of unemployment in the state, the chief minister said the government was taking steps to equip youth with job-linked skills. "We intend to provide 100,000 employment opportunities by 2017," the chief minister said.

He said that the government organized "job mela-cum-skill development selection rally", which concluded Sunday, saw participation of over 12,000 youth from various parts of the state. Unemployed youth is estimated to be about 200,000 of the state's population of 1.4 million.

‘Open your doors to development’

darjeeling, September 2 (ianS): Accusing the Gorkhaland Janmukti Morcha (GJM) of hindering development, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday appealed for the people of Darjeeling hills to shun shutdowns and open their doors to development. "We want peace in Darjeeling, we want its children to get an education and the poor to get food. We want Bengal to remain united. For political reasons, doors may be closed. But I appeal to the people to open their doors to development," Banerjee said here.

With life in Darjeeling hills paralyzed by the continuous separatist stir led

by the GJM, Banerjee said the separatist movement in the hills has been hampering the development of the region. "First, it was (Subhas) Ghishing (leader of the Gorkhaland National Liberation Front, GNLF) and now (Bimal) Gurung (GJM supremo). I ask: When will development take place?

Do not set your house on fire on provocation from outsiders," Banerjee said at the Bagdogra airport. Banerjee is a on a two-day trip to the Darjeeling hills during which she will attend a felicitation programme organized by the Lepcha community in Kalimpong town.

The Ghising-led GNLF spearheaded the demand for Gorkhaland from the

mid-1980s, launching a series of indefinite shutdowns, as violence claimed many lives. The GJM upstaged the GNLF in 200708, and the outfit has been leading the movement since then. The chief minister also accused the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration - the autonomous hill development council of deliberately not utilising the Rs.300 crore granted to it for carrying out development work in the region.

Banerjee hit out at Gurung, who had recently said the students were willing to sacrifice their studies for the sake of Gorkhaland.

"They are denying education to the children here," Banerjee said.

AFFIDAVIT FOR CHANGE OF NAME By this deed I, the undersigned NEIVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU previously called NUVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU, NEIVISELIE ANGAMI AND N. SIMON DZUVICHU by profession a retired government servant and resident of H. NO 2, SIGNAL ANGAMI VILLAGE SEC-A, DIMAPUR : 797112 NAGALAND solemnly declare: 1. That for and on behalf of myself, and remitter issue, I wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former name/ surname of NUVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU, NEIVISELIE ANGAMI AND N. SIMON DZUVICHU and in place thereof, I do hereby assume from this date the name/ surname NEIVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU, so that I, and remitter issue may hereafter be called, known and distinguished not by my former name/ surname, but assumed name/ surname of NEIVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU. 2. That for the purpose of evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceedings, dealings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever, use and sign the name of NEIVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU as my name/ surname in place and in substitution of my former name/surname.

3. That I expressly authorize and request all persons in general and relatives and friends in particular, at all times hereafter to designate and address me and remitter issue by such assumed name/ surname of NEIVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU. 4. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my former and adopted name/ surname of NUVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU,NEIVISELIE ANGAMI AND N. SIMON DZUVICHU and NEIVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU affix my signature and seal, if any, this 2nd day of September 2013.

Signed sealed and delivered by the above name, Date: 02/09/13 Former name (NUVISELIE SIMON DZUVICHU, NEIVISELIE ANGAMI AND N. SIMON DZUVICHU) In the presence of witnesses Sd/- Judicial Magistrate 1st Class Dimapur; Nagaland

AFFIDAVIT FOR CHANGE OF NAME By this deed I, the undersigned LALDINGLIANI DZUVICHU previously called LALDINGLIANI PACHUAU by profession a house wife and resident of H. NO 2, SIGNAL ANGAMI VILLAGE SEC-A, DIMAPUR : 797112 NAGALAND solemnly declare: 1. That for and on behalf of myself', and remitter issue, I wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former name/ surname of LALDINGLIANI PACHUAU, and in place thereof, I do hereby assume from this date the name/ surname LALDINGLIANI DZUVICHU, so that I, and remitter issue may hereafter be called, known and distinguished not by my former name/ surname, but assumed name/ surname of LALDINGLIANI DZUVICHU 2. That for the purpose of evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceedings, dealings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever, use and sign the name of LALDINGLIANI DZUVICHU as my name/ surname in place and in substitution of my former name/surname.

3. That I expressly authorize and request all persons in general and relatives and friends in particular, at all times hereafter to designate and address me and remitter issue by such assumed name/ surname of LALDINGLIANI DZUVICHU. 4. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my former and adopted name/ surname of LALDINGLIANI PACHUAU and LALDINGLIANI DZUVICHU affix my signature and seal, if any, this 2nd day of September 2013.

Signed sealed and delivered by the above name, Date: 02/09/13 Former name (LALDINGLIANI PACHUAU) In the presence of witnesses Sd/- Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Dimapur, Nagaland.

AFFIDAVIT FOR CHANGE OF NAME By this deed I, the undersigned CHRISTINA DZUVICHU previously called KEVINGUNUO CHRISTINA DZUVICHU by profession a student and resident of H. NO 2, SIGNAL ANGAMI VILLAGE SEC-A, DIMAPUR : 797112 NAGALAND solemnly declare: 1. That for and on behalf of myself, and remitter issue, I wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former name/ surname of KEVINGUNUO CHRISTINA DZUVICHU and in place thereof, I do hereby assume from this date the name/ surname CHRISTINA DZUVICHU, so that I, and remitter issue may hereafter be called, known and distinguished not by my former name/ surname, but assumed name/ surname of CHRISTINA DZUVICHU. 2. That for the purpose of evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceedings, dealings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever, use and sign the name of CHRISTINA DZUVICHU as my name/ surname in place and in substitution of my former name/surname.

3. That I expressly authorize and request all persons in general and relatives and friends in particular, at all times hereafter to designate and address me and remitter issue by such assumed name/ surname of CHRISTINA DZUVICHU. 4. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my former and adopted name/ surname of KEVINGUNUO CHRISTINA DZUVICHU and CHRISTINA DZUVICHU affix my signature and seal, if any, this 2nd day of September 2013.

Signed sealed and delivered by the above name, Date: 02/09/13 Former name (KEVINGUNUO CHRISTINA DZUVICHU) In the presence of witnesses.

Sd/- Judicial Magistrate 1st Class Dimapur Nagaland

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to abrogate even the current ceasefire with the centre. The Naga people and NSCN who could survived without cease-fire for decades can survive for another decades without cease-fire. The Naga political movement is sovereignty issue, it cannot be compromised under any circumstances and the NSCN is ready to sacrifices for it.

The NSCN also equally react on the commence of GOI which pointed out four terrorist groups in Nagaland and asked GOI to come out openly as to who are those four terrorist groups. The Naga people are fighting to restore the past glory of the Nagas and they cannot be branded as terrorist groups under any law and any attempt to brand the Naga movement as terrorist network will be totally condemned and challenge tooth and nail.

Reacting to NSCN IM’s statement appeared in local papers on 28th August 2013, trying to demean the NSCN-K,the MIP warned the former that, it has no binding decision between the two parties (NSCN-K and GOI), anytime anything may happen if GOI and its security forces keep on demeaning the Nagas and their genuine cause and for which, the NSCN-K is ready to sacrifice. Whereas the NSCN-IM who becomes tool in the hands of GOI should not try to portray it as if they are capable forces because their survival depends on GOI’s mercy.

MIP NSCN/GPRN

he NSCN/GPRN through its MIP advised Lt. General (Retd) N.K.Singh Chairman CFSB to act as a gentlemen in dealing with the Naga political issue because the NSCN took serious note on his recent statement prohibiting the carrying of arms by the NSCN functionaries in 51 Noksen A/C till bye election result is over, saying that, the NSCN and its ceasefire with the centre never fall under election law. The MIP reminding him (Chairmen CFSB) that, the NSCN is not Assam Rifle jawans that, he can direct or command as his wishes. The NSCN felt very sorry about lodging serious complains against two former CFSB Chairman for their high handedness and act of ultra-vires, siding with other factions against NSCN, which the NSCN does not want to happen the same thing with the present CFSB Chairman. Imposing Indian law upon the NSCN in highly questionable and the NSCN is compelled to blame both MHA and CFSB for misusing all resources against the NSCN. The NSCN recalled back the illegal action of 6 Assam Rifle who raided and ransacked the NSCN cease-fire Office and its supervisor Y. Wangtin Naga’s residence on 18th March 2012 at Mon without any reason which the NSCN failed to authenticate the brute act till date and warned that, if in future the Assam-Rifle repeat the same act, it will not hesitate to hit back squarely for which the NSCN will not held responsible and it will not hesitate

The Morung Express

Humankind Is A Family

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umankind is a family and all men and women irrespective of races, colours and languages are of human family. So all men and women in the world are brothers and sisters and sons and daughters in the family. All human beings are the children of the Creator and the Creator is the Father and Lord. If the truth is understood and accepted, there will be no confusion in the world. In a family if the children love, respect and obey the parents according to children’s ethics towards parents, the family is normally a good and decent family.

If the children have good relationship with their parents, there is love and respect among the children as brothers and sisters in the family.

All human beings have God their Father. The Father created them, supplies all their needs, sustains their daily lives and cares for them. But why confusion arises in the world? Because many children in human family do not know the unseen Father and they live in their own way and do whatever things according to their own will. It is the cause of confusion and problems in the world. So the primary need of all human beings in the world is truly knowing the true God. Do you really know God? If one actually knows God, he will believe in Him; if he really believes in Him, he will fear Him; if he really fears Him, he will obey Him; if he obeys Him, he will really have relationship with Him and the outcome of having relationship with God is hav-

ing experience of His peace, His joy, His love and His goodness which is the fruit of the Spirit of God. Having relationship with God reflects relationship with fellow human beings. It is a matter of transformation of the heart towards God as well as towards fellow men and women. If God is loved, fellow men and women are loved. The heart which loves God cannot hate fellow men and women. Such men and women are God’s fearing and honouring men and women wherever they are, whatever they do, upon any body and under whatever circumstances.

Does peace depend on civilization? Does peace prevail in the countries which are under the category of first world more than in those which are in the second and third world?

Nowhere in the world is safer zone than any other parts of the world except any where if there are people who really know the true God and have relationship with Him. Can anti-socials be controlled by forces and stringent laws? Anti-socials indulge in lawless activities in secrecy. True believers of God have the fear of God and they refrain from doing evil covertly and overtly.

Can religion save the people?

Religion does not save the people except religious workers guide and help the people to seek God to be changed and saved. Nevertheless, men and women who actually know God and have relationship with Him alone can bring the people to seek God to get transformed.

All human beings are the children

of God and the children of God should honour human ethics towards God the Father, “KNOW GOD, BELIEVE IN HIM, FEAR HIM AND OBEY HIM,” to have relationship with Him. Every human being born to the world has obligation to honour the ethics of the children of God towards God the Father to have relationship with Him. If the people all over the world are serious about human ethics towards God and give utmost importance to it to be honoured by all human beings on the earth, it will be a stepping stone towards bringing about the desired change of the people in all areas of life and thus the hope of the world lies there only.

There is no school of thought, no religion, no philosophy, no wisdom, no human device and plan which is deeper, higher, wider and better than the ethics of human beings towards God the Creator. Ignorance of it has no excuse, skepticism is most foolish and indifference is indicative of shallowness before God. So all individuals, societies, organizations, institutions and Governmental authorities have to spontaneously coordinate with one another to serve the great purpose of translating the dream into reality. As we are all the children of God, let us honour human ethics towards God, “KNOW GOD, BELIEVE IN HIM, FEAR HIM and OBEY HIM.” The more it is given importance and honoured the better.

Rev. L. Suohie Mhasi Email: rev.suohie_mhasi@yahoo.com

A Nightmare of an Unborn Soul Vizo Meyase I had a dream of a life; Last night of a woman Who cradles me in her soft hand Her smile the very first kind I’d seen, Her caresses and joy that I see in her eyes Yet, the only language I could speak Was but cry I would’ve called her mother?

Yet they speak me of other tongue: So was I? For all I could speak was but cry And she tries to ease me with a lullaby; Yet all I can express my joy was but cry, She realized my crying as pain And all she hear was but more cries, Her patience of all against odd for me: O! how tender is your love mother?

And so sweet is your presence; How I wish to call you mother, Saying I love you.

But all I could say to you was but cry, I’d wish to see the outside world And be a part of your family that you share, And make you a proud mother someday Yet all I could share now is but cry Sometimes, yet I am but just a soul now; A flesh living within you: Who dreams of dream waking to find out That I am but just an unborn soul; With a nightmare of being aborted, O! Mother, how I wish yet again If only the dreams I saw was real?

All I could do was but cry I am but just a lost soul now.

Complaints relating to sexual harassment of women employees in Nagaland

Definition of sexual harassment: For this purpose, sexual harassment includes such unwelcome sexually determined behaviour (whether directly or by implication) as: (a) physical contact and advances; (b) a demand or request for sexual favours; (c) sexually-coloured remarks; (d) showing pornography; (e) Any other unwelcomed physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature.

Where any of these acts is committed in circumstances where under the victim of such conduct has a reasonable apprehension that in relation to the victim’s employment or work whether she drawing salary, or honorarium or ‘Voluntary, whether in government, public or private enterprise such conduct can be humiliating and may constitute

tion with her employment. propriate ways. a health and safety problem. It Complaint mechanism: is discriminatory for instance (a) The rules/regulations of Criminal proceedings: Whether or not such conWhere such conduct duct constitutes an offence government and public secwhen the women has reasontor bodies relating to con- amounts to a specific offence under law or a breach of serable grounds to believe that duct and discipline should under the Indian Penal Code vice rules, an appropriate comher objection would disadvaninclude rules/regulations or under any other law, the em- plaint mechanism should be tage her in connection with her prohibiting sexual harass- ployer shall initiate appropri- created in the employer’s orgaemployment or work includment and provide for appro- ate action in accordance with nization for redress of the coming recruiting or promotion or priate penalties in such rules law by making a complaint with plaint made by the victim. Such when it creates a hostile work the appropriate authority. against the offender. environment. Adverse consecomplaint mechanism should In particular, it should en- ensure time-bound treatment quences might be visited if the (c) As regards private employers steps should be taken to sure that victims, or witnesses of complaints. victim does not consent to the include the aforesaid pro- are not victimized or discrimi- Complaints Committee: conduct in question or raises hibitions in the standing nated against while dealing The complaint mechanism, reany objection thereto. orders under the Industrial with complaints of sexual ha- ferred to in (6) above, should Preventive steps Employment (Standing Or- rassment. The victims of sex- be adequate to provide, where All employers or persons in ual harassment should have necessary, a Complaints Comders) Act, 1946. charge of workplace whether in the public or private sector (d) Appropriate work condi- the option to seek transfer of mittee, a special counsellor or tions should be provided the perpetrator or their own other support service, includshould take appropriate steps in respect of work, leisure, transfer. to prevent sexual harassment. ing the maintenance of confihealth and hygiene to fur- Disciplinary action: Without prejudice to the gendentiality.

Where such conduct ther ensure that there is erality of this obligation they The Complaints Committee no hostile environment to- amounts to misconduct in em- should be headed by a womshould take the following steps: wards women at workplac- ployment as, defined by the rel- an and not less than half of its (a) Express prohibition of sexes and no woman employee evant service rules, appropri- members should be women. ual harassment as defined should have reasonable ate disciplinary action should Further, to prevent the possiabove at the workplace grounds to believe that she be initiated by the employer in bility of any undue pressure or should be notified, pubis disadvantaged in connec- accordance with those rules. lished and circulated in apinfluence from senior levels

such Complaints Committee should involve a third party, either NGO or other body who is familiar with the issue of sexual harassment.

The Complaints Committee must make an annual report to the Government Department concerned of the complaints and action taken by them.

The employers and personin-charge will also report on the compliance with the aforesaid guidelines including on the reports of the Complaints Committee to the Government Department.

Workers initiative: Employees should be allowed to raise issues of sexual harassment at workers’ meeting and in other appropriate forum and it should be affirmatively discussed in employeremployee meetings.

Awareness: Awareness of the rights of female employees in this

regard should be created in particular by prominently notifying the guidelines (and appropriate legislation when enacted on the subject) in a suitable manner.

Third-party harassment: Where sexual harassment occurs as a result of an act or omission by any third party or outsider the employer and person-in-charge will take all steps necessary and reasonable to assist the affected person in terms of support and preventive action.

The Central/State Governments are requested to consider adopting suitable measures including legislation to ensure that the guidelines laid down by this order are also observed by the employers in private sector.

These guidelines will not prejudice any rights available under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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Chargesheet filed in Jaipur trafficking case Morung Express news Dimapur | September 2

honda siel Power Products, an authorized honda dealer shop was inaugurated at the high school Junction Kohima on september 2. the shop sells silent generator, water pumps, lawn mower, brush cutter, power tiller, engine, and spare parts of the machines. It also provides maintenance service. (Morung Photo)

ACAUT Phek cautions on prices pheK, sepTember 2 (mexn): The Action Committee against Unabated Taxation, Phek has informed that the Indian Oil Corporation outlet in Phek had been selling fuel at exorbitant rates, Rs. 5 above the normal rate. The committee, on learning this asked the agent to sell the fuel at normal rates, to which they complied. It further wrote to the two other fuel outlets in Phek

urging them to normalize their rates, failing which, the ACAUT would take action against the defaulter. A press note from the Convener of ACAUT, Phek informed that the committee has written to the telecom franchises and retailers (BSLN, IDEA, AIRTEL, CellBiz and AIRCEL) to sell all recharge/top-up coupons at the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) from September 4 onwards.

The note said that “national workers/fraction/ insurgent groups are not only to be blamed,” and that “some of the greedy businessmen establishment and government sector are also involved in these mal-practises.” It strongly voiced out against such acts and asserted that the committee will continue to fight till justice reaches the common people/consumer.

The Jalukie Police Station (PS) (Peren district) has filed a chargesheet against Jacob John, a pastor who held 53 children in illegal homes in Jaipur, Rajasthan. NGOs rescued these children on March 12 this year, eight of whom were detected to be from Nagaland.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jalukie PS informed that the chargesheet was filed and forwarded to the judicial magistrate first class Peren on August 31. Jacob John has been charged under sections 344 (wrongful confinement for ten or more days), 346 (wrongful confinement in secret), 376 (rape) IPC read with 23 and 28 Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.

From here, the case will be forwarded to the District and Sessions Court Dimapur which will set a date for trial in order to start judicial proceedings. The FIR

in this case was registered by the Peren District Child Protection Officer on April 6 after the children were brought back to Nagaland on April 4.

As per investigation, all required evidence has been collected from the victims, i.e. the children, by the investigating agency. According to the OC of Jalukie PS, Mhao Ngullie, the case against Jacob John stands on firm ground with a “willing” witness from Ukhrul, Manipur, who has been personally examined in Ukhrul by the investigating officer from Jalukie PS. One of the children who reported sexual abuse at the illegal home has also been examined; a medical examination has corroborated her testimony.

The accused (Jacob John), however, “could not” be medically examined due to “time lapse.” It has been three years since the sexual abuse allegedly began.

The proprietor of the Mission Orphan Hostel (MOH) in Peren from where the eight children were sent to Jaipur was also initially taken into custody in April and interrogated by the Jalukie police. “It turned out that the agent from Manipur, another pastor, who took the children to Manipur and the proprietor of MOH were both cheated,” informed Ngullie. Them, and the parents of the children, were told that the children will be provided free education through a Christian ministry. The agent from Manipur and the proprietor of the MOH will now be prosecution witnesses, and “will not go hostile,” said Ngullie, who hoped that the trial will not be delayed.

As of now, six of the eight children from Nagaland await justice in children’s homes in Dimapur, and two from their respective homes.

SBI Chozuba to revive KCC AKWWS conducts workshop on sustainable economy sepTem- on August 31 at the Thilixu tion Chumukedima block hands on course on variaccounts; sensitize citizens Dimapur, ber 2 (mexn): Anishek- council hall. A press re- president Alemla Samuel ous types of domestic base

Chozuba, sepTember 2 (mexn): The State Bank of India (SBI) conducted a sensitization programme on KCC accounts revival at Chozuba town on August 19.

Chief Manager SBI Regional, R.K Bhatacharjee in his speech noted how the State Bank of India is more than just a form of giving to store things, but a well rounded enterprise that dates back to over many years. The meeting recognized the importance of KCC loan facilitated by the SBI. The participants, who included village council Chairman, VDB Secretary and public leaders resolved to revive the KCC accounts in the sub-division before the end of September first week, 2013.

The Cash Officer SBI Chozuba, W. Rynjah produced detail names of KCC borrowers and reminded them to work cohesively

with the given rules and objectives of the SBI in order to experience maximum benefit.

The officers’ remarks were respectful and educational in helping the public leaders and KCC beneficiaries understand the cross regional perspective for yielding better results. The meeting however, lamented over the pathetic staff position of the SBI office, Chozuba which is being manned by only three staff without a Branch Manager. Therefore, it urged the higher authorities to depute sufficient staff along with Branch Manager at an early date for the welfare of the people of Chozuba sub-division. This was stated in a press release issued by Dezoto Rhakho, VDB Secretary, Thuvopisu Village and Vesathu Dozo, Chairman, village council, Thuvopisu Village.

Kohima, sepTember 2 (Dipr): College Booth Level Officers of various colleges were informed to attend necessary briefing and performing duty, but only few turned up and none of them submitted reports to the Office of the District Election Officer. ECI is serious on registering all eligible college students in the electoral rolls. Therefore, principals of all government/ private colleges of Kohima

district have been asked to nominate/re-nominate one capable/sincere lecturer or assistant professor to the Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer's Office for appointment as College BLO urgently. It can be submitted in hard copy or mailed at dckma-ngl@nic.in not later than September 12, 2013 with name, designation and contact No. This was notified by the ADC Kohima & ERO.

Nomination of college BLOs

My Dear, Honourable members of CEC and senior leaders God has given us this day of golden opportunity together here and review Naga political situation seriously. NNC as a parent body remains a silent spectator to unite together all the factions of National workers.

At the same time I would like to highlight the very inception of Naga movement History.

From the time immemorial Nagas were enjoying the true freedom of sovereignty under their true democracy and Republican system of government, whether they were under Anghs, Village Headman and village elders (Gaonburas) or leaders of the youth. This peaceful atmosphere in the land of the Nagas was disturbed by the territorial annexation policy of the British Government. From the middle part to the last part of 19th Century AD (i.e. 1832 1879) British Government sent a number of punitive expectations to Naga territory. This threatened the territorial integrity of the Nagas and for the first time the Nagas constituted a union known as Naga Club, with T. Aliba Imti as its first president in October 1918. The desire of the Nagas to live as a separate Nation is deserved and to proclaim this

upu Women Welfare Society (AKWWS) of Thilixu village organized a oneday workshop for women on skill upgradation for sustainable local economy

lease from AKWWS stated that more than 80 women from Medziphema, Thilixu village and Valley View Sumi colony attended the workshop. SHG Federa-

was the resource person of the day. The workshop mainly focused on the sustainable local economy and livelihood for women.

Agenda of the day included

utility soap making and locally feasible vermicompost preparation, the note stated. Earlier, the introductory session was led by Kittoli Chishi.

Kohima, sepTember 2 (mexn): General Secretary, Indian Red Cross Society Nagaland (IRCSN) Zakie Kire formally inaugurated Junior Red Cross Units at Merhülietsa High School, Kohima and Holy Family

High School, Kohima on August 28 and 31 respectively.

A press release received here stated that orientation and awareness programs were also conducted at Merhülietsa High School, Holy Family High School, and St.

Joseph’s College, Jakhama with Dr. S. Imkong Tushi Ao, Vice Chairman, IRCSN, Chovuo Pfuzeh Co-ordinator, IRCSN, Lucy J Tungoe, APO, IRCSN and Bendang Imsong Co-ordinator, RRTC, North-East II Kripa Foun-

dation as resource persons.

Various topics on Red Cross Movement, Drug Abuse and preventative measures on Major Common Diseases were covered during the orientation and awareness programs, it added.

Junior Red Cross units inaugurated in schools

Residents repair road neglected by government

WoKha, sepTember 2 (mexn): The residents of GA Project Colony Wokha and DEF Wokha, on August 31, 2013, undertook a “selfless, noble and commendable job” in repairing the “river–bed” like stretch of road from Wokha Town Baptist Church (WTBC) to SP Office. A press release issued by Khyopenthung Tsopoe, resident of Wokha Town stated that this particular stretch of road is normally left unattended throughout the year and with the onset of monsoon it “literally turns into a river”. Expressing the woes of the pedestrians as even “vehicles face great dif-

Men and women repairing the stretch of road between WTBC and SP Office in Wokha Town.

ficulty in wriggling out of this river”, the note pointed out that this road is the only connecting road for the entire Nyiro Range with

Public SPace

Wokha Town. Therefore, he expressed hope that the authorities concerned “at least try and keep the road motorable”.

a review of naga history Chairman AGS Retd Temjenyanger Aier’s speech at NNC central executive council and seniors annual meeting held on 23rd August, 2013 in Dimapur

truth to the whole world found its passage through this club on 10-01-1929 this club submitted a memorandum to the statutory commission led by Sir, John Simon as its chairman with Clement Atlee. MP and E. Codegan as member visited Kohima. In pursuance of this memorandum the whole Naga area were left as Naga Hills excluded area. Having presented the inspiration and given support to the sovereignty of the Nagas in a format function hoisted the Naga Flag on 1408-1947 at Mission Compound Kohima.

The name of the Naga Club was changed into Naga National Council (NNC). A. Z Phizo occupied this August office on December 1950 as its fourth President.

Prior to Indian Independence in 1947 A. Z Phizo headed a Naga delegation to meet Mahatma Gandhi the father of the Indian Nation in his Bangi Colony House in Delhi to reiterate the stand that the Nagas were sovereign people under British occupation and that

when British left, they wished to revert to this position without joining the Indian Union. Mahatma Gandhi assured them that the Nagas were free to choose their political destiny and that under no circumstances would they be forced to join the Indian Union.

The Government of India refused to recognize the Naga Independence alleging that the whole of the Naga Territory under British occupation would be under Indian dominion. In 1950 the Indian constituent assembly invited the Nagas to join the Indian Union but it was rejected out-rightly by the Nagas and conducted a plebiscite on the 16th May, 1951 throughout Naga territories and voted to 99.6% in favour of Naga sovereign independence.

This plebiscite result was sent to both the then President and Prime Minister of India and the then Secretary General of United Nation Organization (UNO). May 16 every year is commemorated as a red letter day to all the Nagas - A day for remembering the

historic plebiscite day and paying respect to our great leaders who had courageously led and participated in this sacred event. It was on this day that we reaffirmed our pledge through the historic plebiscite declaring to the world that voluntarily we have resolved to be a Nation, to be governed by our own selves. It was under the fourth President A. Z Phizo that this great event of plebiscite was conducted. At the same time, one cannot ignore the decisive declaration of the Naga Independence on 14-08-1747 from British occupied Nagas territories under the pioneering leadership of NNC through eminent former president such as Aliba Imti.

This declaration of Naga Independence on 14th August 1947 followed by the 16th May 1951 plebiscite laid the foundation of our nation and this fact was known to the world. The Government of India taking the advantage of the Naga non-violent attitude of the Nagas, they forcibly conducted the first and

Every year the residents of GA project colony and DEF, and occasionally the Assam Rifles, repair the road at their own expense, it stated, while expressing heartfelt gratitude to the parties involved in undertaking the selfless job for the welfare of the society.

“I wish the authorities concerned could come out of their suffocating shells and enjoy some fresh air touring Nagaland roads and feel guilty that they are not doing their job honestly and responsibly and realize that they are committing an unforgivable sin both in the eyes of man and God,” the release added.

second general elections in 1952 and 1957 whereas the Nagas boycotted both the general elections. This led the Indians to invade Naga Territories beginning from 1954 and set a large contingent of Army to fight against the unarmed Nagas.

The government of India on the pursuit of political strategy convinced some Naga opportunist to sign the sixteen point agreement by which agreement carved out some portion of Naga territory, the present so called Nagaland State in I 963. However, this was rejected by the Nagas. In the midnight of September 5th and 6th 1964, a ceasefire agreement was reached between the Indian Government and the Federal Government of Nagaland in the initiatives of NBCC to pave the way for talks, yet ended in a dead lock in 1966.

To conclude my speech I would like to cite some of my views for our today’s discussion in the meeting: 1. Our Presidentship.

2. To review our movement history.

3. Past and present crisis in our set up.

4. To write and rewrite the uniqueness of Naga history.

KUKNALIM

Chosel Angami Secretary

Temjenyanger Aier Chairman

Dimapur

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BIrthday GrEEtInGs

Dear Punarep,

You came into our world three years back and have brought smiles, dances, songs and joy to our lives every day since. May you continue to spread joy to all those you meet over the years.

Happy Birthday Baby Punarep!

Love, Ama & Baba

MEx FILE

Some routes to be shut on Tuensang bye-poll day Tuensang, sepTember 2 (mexn): In order to ensure smooth conduct of election and to maintain law and order for the 51- Noksen A/C bye-election on September 4, Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Tuensang has informed that the following routes will be restricted from all vehicular movement on the day of the poll: Khudei – Noksen road covering Sangdak and Ngonchung villages; Alisopur Junction to Noksen; The route leading to Yimrup; Tuensang – Longleng road leading to Sangchen. Travellers/public have been requested to avoid these entries on the day of the poll so “no inconveniences is caused”.

ANGCTA suspends third phase agitation

Kohima, sepTember 2 (mexn): All Nagaland Government College Teachers’ Association (ANGCTA) General Body at its meeting held on August 30 in Kohima resolved to keep the third phase of agitation in abeyance in deference to the interest of the student community. New ANGCTA office bearers were also elected at the meeting, with Kavili Jakhalu as president, Dr. T. Jamedi Longkumer as general secretary, and Akhro as treasurer. This was stated in a release issued by ANGCTA Action Committee convener Dr Maongsangba.

SQCB to partake in DPDP meetings

Dimapur, sepTember 2 (mexn): The Nagaland government has directed the State Quality Control Board to take part in the District Planning and Development Board meetings held monthly in every district of Nagaland. A press note from the Chairman of the SQCB informed that the Board vide No SQCB/DPB/201314/126 dated August 26, 2013 wrote a letter to all Deputy Commissioners in the state to spare time for highlighting various steps, methods and public awareness by members of the Board. To cover all the eleven districts in the State within the current financial year at least once, the Deputy Commissioners have been requested to inform the board with an advance notice stating the exact time and date of DPDB meetings.

CAO office informs

Dimapur, sepTember 2 (mexn): NSCN/GPRN Kilonser and Caretaker CAO, UT – I Ape Venuh has informed in a press release that on August 25, an auto rickshaw bearing Regd. No NL-07/F 0931, owned by Uttam Lal Sahu, resident of Burma Camp hit a scooter on NH-29 at 7th Mile, injuring the rider and his friend.

According to the release, the driver fled the spot while the auto was seized by the UT – I staff of Chumukedima area. Therefore, the rightful owner of the vehicle has been informed to contact the office of CAO, UT – I within five days. It warned that the CAO will not entertain anybody after the expiry of the stipulated time. The owner concerned may contact CAO at 9774057292.

Zunheboto DPDB meet postponed

Kohima, sepTember 2 (mexn): The Zunheboto District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of September scheduled to be held on September 8 has been postponed to September 10. Time and venue remains the same. Stating this in a release, K. Sekhamo, District Planning Officer and member secretary DPDB Zunheboto requested all the DPDB members to attend the meeting positively.

Kohima DEF to observe zero case pendency day

Kohima, sepTember 2 (mexn): The zero case pendency day of DEF Kohima will be held on September 5, 10:00 AM at SP Office Conference Hall, Kohima. Besesazo Kezo, IPS, Director General of Police (DGP) Nagaland will give away the awards. Introductory speech will be given by Rothilhü Tetseo, NPS, SP Kohima. Short speeches will be given by Kathu Rengma, Public Prosecutor, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak, NCS, DC Kohima and P.F. Zeliang, IPS, IGP (R). The function will be chaired by M. Rhovisie Tetseo, NPS, Additional SP Kohima.

KSU combine teachers’ day celebration

Kohima, sepT ember 2 (mexn): The Kandi Students’ Union (KSU) will be celebrating its annual combined Teachers’ Day on September 5 at Sishunu Baptist Church at 10:30 AM with Kenilo Apon, NCS, Director of State Lotteries as the chief guest. Stating this in a release, KSU vice president Senpenlo Kath asked all the teachers/staff of respective schools, church leaders, village leaders, public leaders within Kandi village to attend the programme without fail.

Press conference on Sept 4

Kohima, sepTember 2 (Dipr): Commissioner & Secretary , Art and Culture, Himato Zhimomi will brief media persons on September 4, at 11:00 am. The press conference will be held at the Directorate of Tourism office, opposite Indoor stadium Kohima.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TuEsDAy 3 sEPTEmbEr 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 241

An ethical compass

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he first two decades of have demonstrated that humanity has not quite learned the lessons offered by the 20th century. In the last century we have experienced huge scientific and technological leaps made by humankind. We also witnessed the great numbers of wars and violent armed conflicts that caused much human suffering, prompting experts to declare the 20th century to be the most violent in human history with the usual suspects of fear and insecurity as the driving force for survival. This led to State narcissism and the meaningless destructive use of force and power. Any ethical compass to attain a dignified human survival was not visible nor was it used to navigate the conflict situations.

Today, in the 21st century, the greatest impediment to a peaceful and harmonious transformation is the legacy of fear and insecurity that continues to both motivate and enslave the survival of States and the powers that be. There is urgency for both States and Peoples to make a paradigm shift in their thinking and attitude that will motivate them to act in spite of the prevailing fear and insecurity. Humanity can only begin to realistically and effectively address their concerns by bringing them to a ‘new table’ where new realities and new aspirations could be represented. This requires new leaders with new thinking coming to a ‘new table’ with a commitment to give and shape that do not intend to impose and dominate.

The 20th century was the century of State power. However, the current global character and the resurgence of people’s desire for freedom have further strengthened the idea that the 21st century needs to be one of peoples’ power. The events in Egypt, Libya, Syria and the upcoming referendum in Scotland next year are all indications of formal and informal processes to restore power to the people. Given these scenarios, there is a pressing need for leaders from peoples’ movements to come together informally to deliberate design an ethical compass that will guide them for the rest of this century. Their dialogue would include exploring alternative solutions in transforming issues of conflict, self-determination, poverty, political subjugation, globalization, climate change, corruption, and governance, etc.

The ethical compass needs to revolve around the real prospect of global transformation to create a shared humanity. The absence of a shared humanity will mean totalitarianism, consequently, what is required are world values of inclusivity and participation where a peoples’ freely decide and chart their own future in shared responsibility and right relationship with others. Under these circumstances, justice and equality are more likely to prevail and defy any form of imposition, while seeking to foster respectful co-existence and upholding everyone’s dignified existence. In essence, an ethical compass to a shared humanity needs to begin by re-discovering and affirming the essential human spirit.

This process may well begin with an honest self-criticism.

As Amilcar Cabral echoed: “Self criticism is an act of frankness, courage, comradeship and awareness of our responsibilities, a proof of our will to accomplish and to accomplish properly.

To criticize oneself is to reconstruct oneself within oneself in order to serve [humanity] better.”

lEfT wiNg |

Gyanendra Kumar Keshri IANS

India needs a government with 'international outlook'

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he Indian economy and society is at the "tipping point" and needs a strong government with "international outlook" to take the country's progress to the next level, says Sam Pitroda, an advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "We are at the tipping point. The question is how do we tip. If we tip in a wrong way we are in a mess," said Pitroda, who advises the prime minister on public information infrastructure and innovations.

"We have 19th century mindset, we have 20th century processes and 21st century requirements. We got to change things. We need to change the way we do things. We need to bring in technology, we need to change processes," Pitroda told IANS in an exclusive interview.

Pitroda, who has been associated with the central government and some state governments for more than three decades in various advisory positions ever since his friend, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, invited him here from his base in Chicago to usher in a telecommunication revolution, said the Indian economy was passing through a difficult situation and the country needed a strong government with an international outlook.

"Right now everybody is waiting for the next election. Psychologically, everybody will say let's wait for the next election," he said, when asked whether decision-making has taken a hit because of the upcoming general election.

"We need strong government, we need young people in the government, we need government that has international outlook, government that has inclusive mindset," he said.

Pitroda, who shuttles between New Delhi and Chicago and addresses universities and institutes around the world, said the Indian economy has resilience and would soon return to over eight percent growth trajectory.

"We had eight years great, two years are bad. Let's work hard, we will get back to eight percent (GDP growth) and then to 10 percent," he said.

"I can't get depressed because it is not eight percent today.

The economy has the resilience it will go back to eight percent," he added.

Asked what will have the biggest impact on India's development process in the coming decade, Pitroda, who is credited for laying the foundation of India´s technology and telecom leap in the 1980s, said: "it will be internet-based services and technology." "In less than 10 years from now, almost everybody in India will have access to internet and web. It will revolutionise the way we do things and provide social welfare services," he said.

He hoped the recent economic downturn won't have any major impact on innovation, as the government has shown its commitment to pushing forward the process.

On corporate innovation, he said the downturn might have temporary impact, but the businesses must keep innovating in order to be competitive.

"Corporate innovation is a small part. There are bigger challenges in innovating processes, innovation in health, education and other public services," he said.

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Ulrich Beck

The digital freedom risk: too fragile an acknowledgment

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he Prism scandal has opened up a new chapter in the world risk society. In the past decades we have encountered a series of global public risks, including the risks posed by climate change, nuclear energy, finances, September 11 and terrorism – and now the global digital freedom risk.

All these global risks (with the exception of terrorism) are more or less part of technological development, as well as of the misgivings usually expressed in the phases of modernization of any respective new technology.

And now we have Edward Snowden’s disclosures. All of a sudden, something is happening that turns the global risk – in this case the digital freedom risk – into a globally public problem. However, the risk logic at work here is different from what we have known so far.

Whereas the accidents in the reactors of Chernobyl and later on Fukushima triggered a public debate about the nuclear power risk, the discussion about the digital freedom risk was not triggered by a catastrophe, because the real catastrophe would actually be an imposed hegemonic control on a global scale. The self-image of the information hegemony imposed, however, does not allow for this global risk.

In other words: this particular catastrophe would normally happen without anyone noticing. We have become aware of the potential catastrophe only because a single secret service expert from the United States applied the means of information control in order to tell the world about the global risk, and we are faced with a complete inversion of the normal situation.

Our awareness of this global risk is, at the same time, an extremely fragile one, because, unlike the other global risks, the risk we are dealing with does not focus on, result from or repeatedly refer to a catastrophe which is physical and real in space and time. It rather – and unexpectedly – interferes with something we have taken for granted, i.e. our capacity to control information, which has almost become our second nature. But then, the mere visibility of the matter triggers resistance.

Let us try and explain the phenomenon in a different way: first of all there are some features all global risks seem to share. In one way or another they all bring home to us the global interconnectedness in our everyday lives.

These risks are all global in a particular sense, i.e. we are not dealing with spatially, temporally or socially restricted accidents, but with spatially, temporally and socially delimited catastrophes. And they are all collateral effects of a successful modernization, which questions retrospectively the institutions that have pushed modernization so far. In terms of the freedom risk, this includes: scenarios in which the capacity of the nation state to exercise democratic control fails and other cases in which the calculation of probabilities, or insurance protection, etc. do so too.

Furthermore, all these global risks are perceived differently in the different parts of the world. We are faced with a “clash of risk cultures”, in order to offer a variation of Huntington’s concept. We are also faced with an inflation of existential catastrophes, and with

one catastrophe threatening to outdo the other: the financial risk “beats” the climate risk; and terrorism “beats” the violation of digital freedom. This is, by the way, one of the main barriers to any public recognition of the global risk to freedom, which, therefore, has not yet become the subject matter for public intervention.

The latter is, clearly, changing today. Yet, the acknowledgement of this fact is a rather fragile one. Who could the powerful player be, with an interest in keeping this risk alive in public awareness and thus pushing the public towards political action? The first candidate to come to my mind would be the democratic state. Alas, this would be like asking the fox to look after the chickens. Because it is the state itself, in collaboration with the digital trusts, that has established its hegemony in order to optimize its key interest in national and international security. Any movement here could, however, constitute a historic step away from the pluralism of nation states towards a digital global state, which is free from control.

The citizen is the second potential player on our list. However, the users of the new digital information media have, actually, become cyborgs.

They employ these media as if they were senses, and consider them an integral part of their concept of how they understand and act in the world.

The members of the Facebook generation, because of their dependence on social media, are on living within these media, in doing so, relinquish a relevant part of their individual freedom and privacy.

Who, then, could exercise this kind of control? It could be, for example, the Basic Law. Alas in Germany, Article 10 stipulates that postal and telecommunication secrecy is sacrosanct. That sounds like a phrase from a world long gone, and by no means fits the communication and control options provided by a globalized world. In other words: Europe, for example, provides excellent supervisory agencies, a whole range of institutions who try to assert fundamental rights against their powerful opponents, e.g. the European Court of Justice, data protection officers, and parliaments.

But paradoxically enough, these institutions fail, even if they work. Because the means of defence they have at hand are restricted to national territories. While we are dealing with global processes, they are bound to use the tools of intervention developed in the last century. This applies, by the way, to all global risks: The national answers and the political and legal instruments our institutions offer can no longer meet the challenges posed by the global risk society today.

All this might sound very pessimistic. Yet, we must go one step further

and ask, whether we – social scientists, normal citizens, and users of digital tools – know the right terms in order to describe how profoundly and fundamentally these are transforming our societies and politics. I believe that we lack the categories, maps or compasses we need to navigate the New World.

This, again, corresponds to the situation in the global risk society at large.

Successful modernization and an escalating technological evolution have catapulted us into fields where we may and must act, without providing us with the vocabulary we need to adequately describe or name these fields and our options for action.

An example might help explain our position concerning the freedom risk.

We tend to say that a new digital empire is coming into being. But none of the historical empires we know – neither the Greek, nor the Persian, nor the Roman Empire – was characterized by the features that mark the digital empire of our times.

The digital empire is based on characteristics of modernity which we have not yet truly reflected upon.

It does not rely on military violence, nor does it attempt to integrate distant zones politically and culturally into its own realm. However, it exercises the extensive and intensive, profound and far-reaching control that ultimately pushes any individual preference and deficit into the open – we are all becoming transparent.

The traditional concept of the empire, however, does not cover this type of control. In addition, there is an important ambivalence: We provide major tools of control, but the digital control we exercise is extremely vulnerable. The empire of control has not been threatened by a military power, or by a rebellion or revolution, or by war, but by a single and courageous individual. A thirty year-old secret service expert has threatened to topple it by turning the information system against itself. The fact that this kind of control seems unfeasible, and the fact that it is much more vulnerable than we imagine, are the two sides of one and the same coin.

The individual can, indeed, resist the seemingly hyper-perfect system, which is an opportunity that no empire has ever offered before. The brave can resort to counter-power, if they choose to offer resistance on the job.

One of the key questions is, therefore, whether we should not oblige the major digital companies to legally implement a whistleblower union and, in particular, the duty of resistance in one’s profession, maybe first on a national scale, and subsequently at European level, etc.

However, John Q. Citizen – unlike Snowden – does not know much about the structures and the power of this so-called empire. The young Columbus

travels towards the New World and uses social networks as an extension of his communicating body. The world vision of the new generation incorporates the benefits offered – be it with respect to the organization of protest movements, to global communication, or to digital love. From all we can see, the young do not fear being controlled by the system.

An important consequence becomes evident here. How we assess the risk posed by the violation of freedom rights differs from our assessment of a – perhaps health-related – violation as a consequence of climate change. The violation of our freedom does not hurt.

We neither feel it, nor do we suffer a disease, a flood, a lack of opportunities to find a job, and so on. Freedom dies without human beings being physically hurt. The power and legitimacy of the state are based on the promise of security. Freedom comes or seems always secondary. Being a sociologist, I am convinced that the freedom risk is the most fragile among the global risks we have experienced so far.

What should we do? I suggest that we formulate a kind of digital humanism. Let us identify the fundamental right of data protection and digital freedom as a global human right, which must prevail like any other human right, if needs be against all odds.

Is a lesser approach feasible? No, there is no lesser goal. Currently we are being told to apply the new methodologies of encryption in order to protect us from attacks by those who want to track us. This approach, however, implies the individualization of a problem that is, in fact, a global one.

And the true catastrophe is, as we have seen, that the catastrophe disappears and becomes invisible, because the control exercised is becoming an increasingly perfect one. This happens to the extent to which our reaction in view of the imminent death of freedom remains an exclusively technical and individual one.

We lack, indeed, an international body to enforce such claims. In this respect there is no difference between the freedom risk and the risk posed by climate change. The litany has always been the same: The nation-state cannot do it. There is no international player who can be addressed either.

But there is general concern. The global risk has an enormous power of mobilization that goes far beyond what we have ever had before, e.g. the working class. A crucial factor would be to politically combine the unrest that has activated social movements and political parties in different countries to varying degrees, in order to push them towards the idea mentioned above.

But, is this the way to implement standards on a global scale? The permanent reflection about the dangers for friend and foe alike could, indeed, trigger the creation and implementation of global norms. The sense of what is right or wrong with respect to global norms would result ex post from a global public shock about the violation of these norms. We are bound within a historical development that brings us to this point time and again: We need a transnational invention of politics and democracy.

be a formidable one.

It is another matter that by the time the effect of the food legislation is felt across the country, the general election will be very near. Similarly, no one knows how fiscally disastrous will be the gargantuan task of feeding nearly 800 million people with subsidized supplies.

If the economy sinks under the burden of new subsidies - or the country has to import foodgrain - then it will not take time for the political expectations aroused by the initiative to evaporate. Evidently, the food security law is a high-risk gamble which can backfire badly on the Congress, and particularly on its sponsor, Sonia Gandhi.

The prospects for the party will be worse if the industry gives a thumbsdown signal to the new policy on land because of the fear that it will inordinately delay the process of acquisition.

At the moment, however, Sonia Gandhi's "socialism" has enabled her to score several political points via these boom-or-bust ventures. For a start, she has re-established her total control over the party in contrast to the period in 2008 when Manmohan Singh had his way on the nuclear deal despite her reluctance. At that time, the high growth rates had also boosted the prime minister's position.

Now, however, it is just the opposite. As the rupee depreciates and the

economy totters, the prime minister's image has been at its darkest. In fact, as Sonia Gandhi delivered one of her rare speeches in the Lok Sabha on the food bill, Manmohan Singh seemed almost like a forlorn figure. But he partly resurrected his plummeting stock later in the week with a combative speech that held out hope for the economy and blasted the oppositon Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for blocking reforms by not allowing parliament to function repeatedly.

A part of his loneliness all this while might have been because he was known to be unenthusiastic about the profligate move although he reportedly told a cabinet meeting that there was no option but to "bite the bullet". However, it is worth noting that the eyes of the country are now on Chidambaram as he makes a last-ditch attempt to revive the economy, and not on Manmohan Singh.

But it isn't only the prime minister who is down and out. The BJP, too, has had to look on with dismay as its main political adversary pushed through the legislation on food which can be a game-changer, as the Congress believes.

Yet, the BJP had no option but to keep silent as loud "ayes" from the Congress benches ensured the bill's passage.

Like the BJP, Narendra Modi, too, has taken a glancing blow since the party ignored its poster boy's appeal to engage in delaying tactics by calling for

a meeting of chief ministers to discuss the measure, especially its supposedly anti-federal aspects since the new law empowers the centre to direct the states on its implementation.

Unlike Modi, the BJP understood that such filibustering will allow its critics to accuse it of being unsympathetic to the plight of the poor. On the land acquisition bill, too, it wasn't possible for the BJP to be too critical when the alternative would have been to persist with the 1894 law.

Since socialism - fake or not - has a halo of its own, it is difficult to negate its appeal. No one knows this better than the Congress with its long experience in pragmatism laced with cynicism. As long as Manmohanics kept the 250 million middle class happy because of the high "Sikh rate of growth", as Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar once said, the party went along with neo-liberal policies. But once the economy began to descend towards the old, Hindu rate of growth, it is back to socialism again.

In giving precedence to politics over economics, the Congress has chosen to live in the present with little thought for the future. The party is apparently not bothered overmuch if the economy sinks under the weight of food subsidies and domestic industrialists invest abroad because of the difficulty of buying land in India. By the time bad economics takes its political toll, the party hopes to be in power.

At least at first, freedom dies without human beings being physically hurt. The author is convinced that the freedom risk is the most fragile among the global risks we have experienced so far. He calls for a digital humanism

Food security: Sonia's boom-or-bust gamble Amulya Ganguli

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he political fallout from the food security legislation may well prove to be nearly as dramatic as Indira Gandhi's bank nationalisation ploy of 1970 and the "garibi hatao" (banish poverty) campaign of the following year.

In all these cases, the ostensible reason for the measures - food for the poor, the use of banks for public welfare and the articulation of an objective - is suspected to be a moralistic cover for the purpose of winning votes.

Even then, since politics is as much about gestures as about achievements, few will deny the political significance of the food and land acquisition laws.

Arguably, the latest initiatives may not be as successful as the earlier ones since the voters have become more perceptive - and cynical.

At the same time, the cards played

by Sonia Gandhi cannot but invest the Congress with greater confidence to face the electorate if only because of the effectiveness of the slogan that no one will now go to bed hungry and that the old, colonial land acquisition law has been scrapped.

In addition, if Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's 10-point plan to resuscitate the economy achieves a measure of success, then the curious combination of left-of-centre populism and right-of-centre economic policies will

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MeMoirs of Straight From a Legend The Heart

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A.Z. Phizo at 30 years of age

ntil recently, I had always thought that there was no biography of Dr. A.Z. Phizo. I used to think so because I was unaware of any person (Naga or nonNaga) who had written comprehensive, detailed and authentic accounts of the life story of the legendary Naga personality. And I used to think that it was a great injustice to a man who had given and sacrificed so much for his people. But now, I have been proven wrong. Now I know that there is indeed one biography of this great man and leader. I am grateful and indebted to the Phizo family for providing me with this biography. I have been reading this biography for the last two months and it has been an interesting and unbelievable journey so far into the life of the great legendary Naga personality.

The biography is titled “Zapuphizo – the Voice of the Nagas” and it is written by one Pieter Steyn of the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. Amongst others, the book focuses on Zapuphizo’s life, his realism and his collaboration with the Japanese in World War II, and with the years of India’s military suppressions of the nationalist Naga army, giving fresh insight into Zapuphizo’s thoughts and actions as he strove

to regain for his homeland the ultimate goal of sovereign independence.

The biographer also acknowledges that although Nagaland is today considered by many to be a state within the Union of India, the Naga people have never given up their wish to be free. In the years before Britain quit the Indian subcontinent, the Nagas of the far northeast were held to exemplify an exotic and quixotic society. Radically different in culture and beliefs from the better known Hindus and Muslims of the plains, they were renowned for their spirited independence and diversity. The book also gives a history of the Naga nation and surveys its present condition and future prospects.

The biographer Pieter Steyn describes A.Z Phizo as a colorful charismatic personality with an air of mystery about him. He describes Phizo as the force behind the Nagas’ demand for sovereign independence in 1947 at the time when Britain transferred power to India and Pakistan. From then onwards Phizo was a central figure in the turbulent ethnic tapestry of the region. Steyn writes that Zapuphizo’s life was the stuff of which legends are made, and that, to the Naga people he will always be their hero.

In his acknowledgement, Pieter Steyn acknowledges and appreciates Miss Adinno Phizo for entrusting him with his story and also for her assistance in compiling research materials. The biographer writes that Adinno and her brother Kevilevor had been kind and considerate to him in so many ways. Some other names which figure in the acknowledgement are some unfamiliar names like Hon. David Astor, Dr. Oliver Hassleblad, Mrs. Beth Morton, Col. Patrick Montgomery, Prof. Gordon P. Means, Rev. Weprechu Nuh, Prof. Geoffrey Oldham, Miss Priscilla Shaw and Dr. D.K. Zeliang.

For access to the private papers of late Sir. Charles Pawsey, Pieter Steyn thanks Dr. Lionel Carter of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. The biographer also mentions that records held by the United States of America’s national archives in Washington were made available to him under the country’s Freedom to Information Act and some other sources.

Steyn also mentions about the copies of Rev Michael Scott’s unpublished submissions to the Indian government while he was a member of the Peace Mission. These copies

of Michael Scott had been procured many years ago by the biographer.

Further, the biographer also acknowledges the trouble taken by one Norman Galey in researching on his behalf Phizo’s early employment with the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. And most interestingly, the biography is dedicated to the memory of Pastor Pelesato Chase and General Yanpamo Ovung, MM. All in all, there are 28 chapters in the biography depicting the many episodes in the life of the legend. For me, the most interesting ones are the ones mentioning about Phizo’s experiences in Burma during World War II, his encounters with Subhas Chandra Bose in Burma, his escape to the west, his search for accommodation in London, his visit to the USA in April 1967, his joy upon the arrival of his daughter Addino in London in February 1963, the brief accounts of his predecessors Krusietso, Pukahie and Pelhu and of course, the accounts of his first international press conference on 26th July 1960 at Denison House in London’s Vauxhall Bridge Road.

Likewise, it was also interesting to know that when Phizo set out for the west, his real intended destination was not London but the United States. But due to failure to get the necessary travel documents, he settled down in London.

Two years before the death of Phizo, Pieter Steyn suggested to Phizo that it was time that he did something about getting his memoirs in order and down on paper. The biographer saw Phizo as an ageing magnetic rebel who, although he might have made no great impact in the international scene, was essentially the stuff of which legends are made. Phizo gave the writer that enigmatic look of his and as usual Mr. Steyn found it difficult to fathom what he was thinking. The paralysis down the right side of his face made for a wooden countenance.

He seemed mildly amused. He was then an extremely fit man, who even at the age of 80 plus, thought of himself as indestructible.

Phizo shook his head and said ‘there is time enough, it is all here’, touching his forehead.

The biographer felt that it was because of his prodigious ability to recall. But in doing so, Phizo perpetuated the problem with which so many biographers have eventually to grapple. Finally, one day in May 1990, Phizo took many, too many, of his secrets

mal functioning of the family as the family members are worried and are anxious about their dependents when would they come or will they become violent or angry? Where will he be now and what would happen to him? These are some thoughts that linger and preoccupy the minds of the family members. As the days go by the codependents develop a kind of a behaviour parallel to that of the addict and this worsens the situation in family life. Whenever the dependent comes back home there will be a kind of reaction to the normal ways of functioning and starts blaming the unfinished tasks of the family and blame the dependent and find fault with him. This even increases the chances of getting into more drinking but the spouses do not realise it as they do not know how to ventilate their feelings and emotions in a healthy manner. The spouses starts to blame the husbands and at times use abusive words and express unhealthy emotions that affect the normal family life as the children become victim of these unrealised expressions and way of life. Slowly the family begins to function abnormally and for everything there is reaction and blame. These are some of the approaches that family members display as they are not able to accept the addictive habits of their husbands.

Past and current experiences of violence are commonly linked to men’s use of alcohol and other substances. Many women identify the use of alcohol or other substances by their husbands bring violence and unhealthy behaviors in the family life. Domestic Violence harms the woman – physically as well as psychologically. Spouses of alcohol dependent men are subjected to more aggressive and painful sexual experiences, more body marks in more regions of the body that lasted for more than seven days and more biting of body surface than wives of non-alcohol dependent men.

A research examined the impact of alcohol abuse of men on their spouses and on the mental health status of women in a representative community sample by comparing three groups of women- those who were not abused, those who were abused psychologically but not physically, and those who were abused physically. It was found that compared to women who were not abused and women who were abused psychologically but not physically had more somatic complaints as well as more anxiety and insomnia. Physically abused women most of whom were also psychologically abused reported more somatic complaints and had higher level of anxiety and insomnia and more symptoms of depression than non abuse and psychologically abused women.

The impact of domestic violence on mental health in terms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) has been reported in many other studies. Women with a history of abuse had significantly raised levels of psychological distress. It was also shown that mental health problems can persist despite cessation of violence battering was the single most important factor that left to suicide attempts by women.

History, politics, Culture… with him in a casket back to Nagaland.

Yet, perhaps Phizo never had any intention of explaining first-hand exactly what drove him along the road he took; how he became so single-mindedly dedicated to the concept of Naga sovereign freedom. According to the biographer, his voluntary exile in Britain was in itself an act of both self-denial and expediency. He remained in an alien place because the Federal government leaders were unable to capitalize on opportunities as they arose. Being located abroad, Phizo was ideally placed to keep in contact with international bodies: he was thus irreplaceable in the Naga cause where foreign affairs matters were concerned.

It was, therefore, from a position of uncertainty that Pieter Steyn (the biographer) decided to make his own notes after each meeting with A.Z. Phizo. He found him ready to talk, but it was never easy to piece together the disjointed aspects of his life – to reach the man he had known for some years. However, Pieter Steyn rejected the idea that Phizo was being deliberately obtuse or equivocal – it was just that he had crowded so much into his life. After his death in 1990, Phizo’s family had reservations that a non-Naga could sufficiently begin to understand the Naga ethos to write an acceptable memorial to their father.

But in the end they gave their blessing and subsequent cooperation.

The biographer Pieter Steyn first came in contact with the Nagas in 1943 as a newly commissioned young officer in the Assam Regiment which recruited from many of the minority communities of northeast India.

A year later, when the Japanese mounted their final major assault on India’s eastern frontier bastions, Steyn’s battalion was at Jessami to bear the brunt of the enemy’s initial thrust against Kohima. Pieter Steyn also writes that he owed an enormous debt of gratitude for his life, not only to the men of his unit but to Naga villagers, who, when the battle turned against them, cheerfully and at great risk to themselves, guided him to safety. Besides this stint of the biographer in

Kohima, he also later served for another 25 years in eastern India.

The epic siege of Kohima was one of the most remarkable battles of modern history.

And the experiences which the biographer had during the 1944 epic siege of Kohima went on to cement his regard for Zapuphizo, his way of life and his philosophy.

Many gaps remain in the Phizo story.

They could perhaps have been filled had the two men most closely qualified to speak on Nagaland – Zapuphizo himself and Sir. Charles Pawsey – kept detailed journals.

However, their accounts only lie recorded in the writings of other people, not their private papers. And this meant that much of the story of a small but important part of Asia is now poorer. Many a times, Pieter Steyn had to explore down blind alleys and come out empty-handed.

During what proved to be the last meeting between Zapuphizo and the biographer, Phizo spoke of Nagaland as ‘the most beautiful place in the world’. He spoke of the hills and the morning mists, the smell of wood smoke and a Naga yodeling. Phizo regretted that he had met so few people in the West who had bothered to try to understand what Nagaland was all about. In short, he missed Nagaland and truly wished he were back there. In this last meeting, the biographer Pieter Steyn took leave of him hoping to see him again. But they never met again. Zapuphizo was dead within six months while the biographer was away in Hong Kong.

This biography of A.Z. Phizo ends with a very touching note. The note reads; “Nagaland has always known it is ethnically different from the valley cultures of the Indian subcontinent. It knows it was historically free before the coming of the British in the nineteenth century. Its nationalism resurged in 1947, but its freedom has been cruelly suppressed and purloined by India. How much more chivalrous a situation should have emerged had independent India recognized these facts and offered the Nagas the hand of friendship instead of bullets.”

is reinforced through counselling and through group therapy. In environment therapy, the drinker is made to change the environment where his behaviour may be easily controlled. In behaviour therapy, his fears and inhibitions are removed to enable him to develop self-confidence and self reliance. Thus, the following treatment measures are mainly used to treat drinkers and alcoholics: Detoxification in Hospitals: For alcohol addicts, the first step is ‘detoxification’. Alcoholics need medical care and medical supervision. Tranquilizers are used for treating their withdrawal symptoms like convulsions and hallucinations. High potency vitamins and fluid electrolyte balance are also used in their physical rehabilitation. Involving an alcoholic’s family in his treatment and rehabilitation enhances the chance of success by 75 to 80 per cent.

Alcoholics Anonymous: One of the most effective social therapies which use group interaction is Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an organization, a group of people fellowships of ex-alcoholics men and women, who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they many solve their common problem (i.e., alcoholism) and help others recover from alcoholism. In India, the branches exist in all the metropolitan cities, while in some cities; the branches have been established recently.

Some voluntary organizations undertake educational and information programmes to alert the alcoholics to the dangers of excessive drinking. Social workers help the drinkers in coping with life and changing the social values and attitudes about drinking. With the failure of the prohibition model, state governmental control has come to be focused on the regulation of the liquor trade.

Women activists, women’s organizations, and even ordinary housewives in rural areas have started struggling hard over the past several years to convince men against liquor consumption and force governments to introduce prohibition. They are demanding that they will vote only for parties committed to prohibition in their poll manifestoes.

The spouses start to blame the husbands and at times use abusive words and express unhealthy emotions that affect the normal family life as the children become victim of these unrealized expressions and way of life. Slowly the family begins to function abnormally and for everything there is reaction and blame. These are some of the approaches that family members display as they are not able to accept the addictive

habits of their husbands.

When he says “cheers’ she sheds “tears”

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ur deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves and they are hardly heard in the hearts of our beloved ones.” This article is dedicated to women who cry in silence, get frustrated with family life and struggle to find meaning to their very existence. Alcohol usage in any social gatherings has been accepted in our traditional societies and in rituals for a long time. The abuse of alcohol has come alarmingly high in the recent past and many have become victims of addiction to alcohol. Alcoholics can be of any age, background, income level, social, or ethnic group. Several studies even showed that people who lack motivation are more likely to become addicted to alcohol than highly motivated individuals. Alcoholism is also known as a family disease. Alcoholics may have young, teenage, or grown-up children; they have wives or husbands; they have brothers or sisters; they have parents or other relatives. An alcoholic can totally disrupt family life and cause harmful effects that can last a lifetime.

Due to problem drinking the male head of the family may fail to carry out tasks that were previously seen as his responsibility and forces it on his wife. The paternal role of being the chief decision maker, bread winner and being a pillar of strength to the family changes due to alcohol dependence and the function of each member of the family changes. The wife may do the shopping, supervising or disciplining the children, paying the bills as he cannot be trusted to do so and may try to meet the family expenditure with her income. Older children in the family may start taking more responsibilities at home and take care of the younger siblings or work outside the home.

The position of wives of alcohol dependents in a setting like ours especially in rural areas can be particularly very trying.

Our women face gender discrimination and often have poorer access to education, and lower power status when compared to men leaving her with little or no economic independence. Alcohol dependence of her husband can add to her vulnerability. While the western counterpart can consider judicial separation or divorce, the socio-cultural expectations often force our women have to continue in the marriage at great personal cost. It has been experienced by many that the dependents will not accept the fact they are into addiction to alcohol and this brings problem to the family.

It is also possible that the family members fail to accept the fact that their husband or father is into drinking and deny the fact it is not there. This affects the nor-

Some guidelines for women: The vital point that a spouse needs to have in mind is that all change takes time, and it is common to stop and start a number of times before making a sustained change.

Knowing this, it is important to recognize small successes and offer reassurance that your support will be ongoing. A family should realize that addiction is a diseasenot a moral weakness, not a lack of will power, not a deliberate attempt at creating unpleasantness and not done intentionally.

The family needs to accept, change the attitude and approach towards the individual.

Efforts can be initiated to show care, love and compassion. This in turn, is likely to speed up his recovery.

The spouses of the alcoholics need to realize that addiction cannot be overcome in a day or two. It needs time to realize and recover. The spouses need to internalize the fact that their husbands are dependents and accept the fact that it affects their feelings and actions. Consciously or unconsciously these feelings come over and over again to choke them down at different times. Once a person accepts the reality that her husband needs a gentle and firm guidance, the recovery may work better for that individual.

The wives need patience and take things as it comes and not plan too much at a time.

In any conversations the wives should not exaggerate the event and not to dramatize that can trigger relapse. In the recovery process, relapse is expected. It may take place or may not, but the wives need to prepare themselves to accept this reality. Bring the husband into family programmes and involve him in all activities and it may help him take the responsibility that he had lost due to addiction. If the wives can be educated on these factors it will help in the recovery of their husbands in many ways.

There have been many successful treatment programmes. Since there is a continuum between use and abuse, there are various kinds of programmes for different degrees of drinking. Psychotherapy, environment therapy, behaviour therapy and medical therapy are suggested and used for different types of drinkers.

In psychotherapy, re-socialization

Seek help from some trained personnel on addiction and its impact. Don’t feel shy or shun away from the reality.

Speak or share with someone who understands you and accepts the reality of addiction. If you don’t share you will have many complications.

Don’t judge or move too quickly to solutions it might bring harmful effects on you individually and in family. Take time to be with him and try to win his confidence.

Offer support in practical ways such as engaging in activities that do not involve alcohol, caring for the children so that you can have some time out. Go out with him and ask him to do some jobs that need his assistance.

By highlighting strengths and successes of your beloved ones, family and friends can help to increase confidence and the sense that change is possible.

Women with young children need access to appropriate childcare services. Your mental status will affect the growth of your child.

Women are more likely to face economic challenges. Get support from other family members who understand and cares for you.

Take up jobs that can offer you support.

Women are more likely than men to suffer from mood, anxiety, and eating disorders.

It might lead you to disorder and life long suffering.

On the basis of the studies on alcoholism and a survey conducted among women whose husbands were alcoholics, it is clearly evident that alcoholism is a major issue of concern with references to the wives and their normal functioning as wives. Let us work together to redeem our sisters and mothers from this peril of addiction. We can do it at least by strengthening and supporting those who are struggling with this issue. There are places that offer help and support to the spouses of alcoholics and children of alcoholics in our state, approach these centres and receive help to sustain your family life. Your happiness and well being is important for the growth and development of our society for you bring children into this world and care for them till they grow. You are a God given gift to every man on earth and may you enjoy your life in its fullness. As I conclude, I pray that this article will enable someone to seek help, someone to offer help, and someone to change the attitude towards addiction and its impact on women in particular. I shed my tears for you dear women and wish every man sheds his tears for what he has done so that he would realise the value of family life and start a new life.

Fr. Joe Mariadhas St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama - Nagaland

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India’s fury over gang rapes

NeW DeLHi, September 2 (ap): A series of recent high-profile gang rape cases in India has ignited a debate: Are such crimes on the rise, or is it simply that more attention is being paid to a problem long hidden within families and villages? The answer, experts say, is both.

Modernization is fueling a crisis of sexual assault in India, with increasingly independent women working in factories and offices and stepping beyond subservient roles to which they had traditionally been relegated. They are also more likely than their mothers and grandmothers were to report rapes.

“We never used to see so many cases of gang rape, and so many involving groups of young, unemployed men,” said Supreme Court lawyer Kirti Singh. Experts say the trend, along with the growing sense of insecurity it has brought, led to recent outbursts of public anger over the longignored epidemic of violence against women.

The silence broke in December, when a New Delhi student was gangraped from which she died two weeks later. A juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the case, sending a teenager to a reform home for three years for rape and murder.

The sentence, the maximum a juvenile can face, was widely denounced as too lenient, and the girl’s

Signs of a changing nation

Delhi police officers escort a juvenile accused of rape, outside the Juvenile justice board in New Delhi, on August 31, 2013. A series of recent high-profile gang rape cases in India has ignited a debate: Are such crimes on the rise, or is it simply that more attention is being paid to a problem long hidden within families and villages? The answer, experts say, is both. (AP File Photo)

parents vowed to appeal.

The other suspects are being tried as adults and could face execution.

The government , pledging to crack down, created fast-track courts and doubled prison terms for rape while criminalizing voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and trafficking of women. The Tourism Ministry launched a nationwide “I Respect Women” campaign after a Swiss bicyclist was gang-raped in March and an American woman was gang-raped

two months later.

Yet another high-profile gang rape last month, against a photojournalist in Mumbai, renewed public fury. “There is very clearly a class dimension” that is compounding the sudden outrage, women’s rights lawyer Flavia Agnes said.

All five accused in the Mumbai attack had little to no education, and three had previously been arrested for theft. In both the Mumbai and the Delhi cases, “middle-class people identified with these

Asaram Bapu sent to jail for 14 days JaipUr, September 2 (iaNS): A court in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur city Monday sent spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, arrested for alleged sexual assault on a minor, to 14 days’ judicial custody, a police official said. “Asaram has been sent to judicial custody till Sep 15,” a police official told IANS over phone from Jodhpur. The 72-year-old Asaram Bapu was earlier Monday quizzed at a guest house of Rajasthan Armed Constabulary (RAC) in connection with the case of sexual assault lodged against him by a 16-year-old girl, an official said.

The girl lodged a complaint Aug 20, accusing Asaram of sexually assaulting her at his ashram in Jodhpur. Asaram has denied the charge, and his son has claimed the girl was “mentally unstable”. Asaram has been booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Indian Penal Code. According to the allegations of the girl, who studied at Asaram’s ashram in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara and stayed in a girls’ hostel

there, the guru sexually assaulted her on the pretext of exorcism.

Mentally challenged woman raped by ward boy, guard in Pune

pUNe, September 2 (pti): In a shocking incident, a mentally challenged woman was allegedly raped by a ward boy and a security guard in the lift of a municipal hospital at Bhosari near here, police said on Monday.

Both the accused have been arrested.

The 30-year-old woman, who is also speech impaired, had been admitted to the hospital from a shelter home where she lived, following health complaints on August 26.

The accused allegedly took the woman to the lift on the pretext of shifting her to another ward and raped her on August 29, police said. After being discharged from the hospital on August 31, the woman returned to the shelter home where she informed about the crime to the caretaker through sign language.

Following this, a case was filed leading to the arrests, police added.

young girls, aspiring professionals, trying to make their mark in a competitive world,” said Sudha Sundararaman, an activist with All India Democratic Women’s Association.

Experts say the rapid growth cities and the yawning gulf between rich and poor are exacerbating the problem, with young men struggling to prove their traditional dominance in a changing world.

“These are young men in the cities, without prospects, without hope. They

feel rage against those who are perceived to have it,” sociologist Sudhir Kakar said.

Cultural stigmas, police apathy and judicial incompetence have long made it difficult for women to even report rapes.

However, modernization is also giving women the ability to speak up. In the first three months after the December rape, the number of rapes reported in the city more than doubled to 359, from the 143 reported in JanuaryMarch of 2012.

Those numbers are still seen by experts as far below the actual number of attacks, but the jarring increase in just one year appeared to signal a significant change.

“The biggest change is that women in the middle classes are reporting crimes to police,” Kakar said. They are fed up with the landscape of sexual harassment and fear, with the constant barrage of lewd comments and even groping and with being told they should stay indoors

at night.

“Thirty years ago, even uttering the word ‘rape’ was almost taboo. That is changing,” said Ranjana Kumari, a women’s activist with the Center for Social Research. “There are so many cases, each more gruesome than the other, and people have lost patience, especially when no justice is served.”

“What’s wrong with the system?” Supreme Court Justices R.M. Lodha and Madan B. Lokur said in a statement last week, while

hearing a petition from the father of a 15-year-old girl gang-raped by three men in 2012. The girl, who is a dalit, member of the outcast community, has since been barred from school, and her mother was killed for refusing to withdraw a police complaint about the crime.

The court lambasted India’s poor record of conviction in rape cases, saying “Why are 90% of rape cases ending in acquittals?

The situation is going from bad to worse.”

He also said that if some states have schemes that offer more entitlements than the one proposed to be legislated, these should be allowed to continue.

“The present food programmes with states have entitlements, but no rights.

Now the entitlement will become a right (under the food security bill),” he said.

Listing out figures of beneficiaries and money to be allotted under the scheme, Jaitley said: “At present, the food subsidy provided under various schemes is Rs.113,000 crore and subsidy to be provided under the food bill will be Rs.125,000 crore.”

“So there has been an increase of Rs.12.5 crore under the food bill. It is a mere repackaging of all the old schemes,” he said. “You call it a great achievement? You have not extended, but cut down on the scheme,” Jaitley said, as BJP members shouted: “Shame, shame!”

NeW DeLHi, September 2 (iaNS): Parliament members of various political parties Monday staged a walkout in the Rajya Sabha over increase in petrol and diesel prices. The issue was raised during zero hour, following which members from Left parties, the Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party walked out to protest the government’s decision to increase petrol

and diesel prices. Bharatiya Janata Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu said parliament was in session and without taking parliament into confidence, oil prices were increased.

Members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) stood in the house holding posters “Scrap diesel prices”. “This government has declared a war on the common man and ultimately it

will increase the prices of all other essential commodities,” said TMC MP Derek O’Brien. Members of the TMC along with Samajwadi Party staged a walkout. The members demanded reply from the oil minister on increase in oil prices.

“This is the sixth increase in oil prices in the last three months and it will increase misery of common people,” said Commu-

nist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Prasanta Chatterjee. Many members requested the chair to allow them to speak on the issue, which was denied.

“Since we were not allowed to speak on the issue, we are staging a walkout,” said CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury. Petrol price was increased Rs.2.35 per litre and diesel by Re.0.50 last week.

Food bill mere repackaging: Jaitley Political parties stage walkout over oil prices

NeW DeLHi, September 2 (iaNS): Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley Monday said the Food Security Bill was mere “repackaging” of existing schemes in different states, and criticised the “hurry” to push through the legislation.

Jaitley moved a statutory resolution saying the house disapproves of the National Food Security Ordinance.

The Food Security Bill was moved in the upper house by Food Minister K.V. Thomas after being passed by the Lok Sabha last week.

“The BJP supports food security for all, but opposes the way in which it has been introduced and certain contents of the bill,” Jaitley said. He said the bill, which is ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s pet project, would result in cutting down on the number of people benefiting from the food scheme.

Notices for 237 amendments to food bill

NeW DeLHi, September 2 (iaNS): The BJP and several other opposition parties have given notices for amendments, totalling 237, to the Food Security Bill being debated in the Rajya Sabha Monday, officials said.

The government is in minority in the upper house. The officials said that notices for amendments have been given by members from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Communist Party of India, Biju Janata Dal, Janata Dal-United, Samajwadi Party, AIADMK, Shiromani Akali Dal, the Trinamool Congress, and the Mizo National Front.

All are in the opposition, except the Samajwadi Party which supports the United Progressive Alliance government from outside. The bill, seen both as a welfare and a populist move to swing votes for a beleaguered Congress in upcoming elections to state assemblies and parliament, seeks to provide highly subsidised food grain to 67% of population of the country.

“What was the need for such hurry for the ordinance and legislation...

This is misuse of power. It is a political decision, as the constitution does not allow government to invoke the power of ordinance for this bill,” he said. “This is just

a repackaging of existing schemes in states,” he said, and added that it was a “one size fits all” programme.

Jaitley said every state had its own peculiar needs, and it would be better if the states could design the food entitlements separately.

‘Cabinet resolution on Telangana within 20 days’

NeW DeLHi, September 2 (pti): Taking forward the decision on creation of Telangana, the Home Ministry hopes to present in the next 20 days a Cabinet note for initiating the process of carving out a new state. “We are preparing a note to pass a resolution in the Cabinet. After we finalise the note, it will be sent to the Law Ministry for legal vetting.

I hope the note will be presented before the Cabinet within 20 days,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde

Philanthropists make a beeline to sponsor child prodigy

LUCKNOW, September 2 (ageNCieS): It’s raining funds for Lucknow’s 13-year-old child prodigy Sushma Verma who has been enrolled to MSc Microbiology at Lucknow University. After lyricist Javed Akhtar offered financial assistance to the girl, another person settled in USA spoke to Sushma’s father Tej Bahadur on Sunday suggesting ways to help the wonder kid. Another financial aid has come from Abhishek Patil from Kolhapur who runs a charitable organisation SKA Foundation. Working with the Microsoft Corporation, Rafat Sarosh spoke to Manoj Dixit of Lucknow University.

The motive behind Sarosh assisting Sushma lies in the fact that his father, a former LU student, faced similar crisis around five decades back. In his conversation with Dixit, Rafat said when his father was studying in Lucknow University, he went through a tough time till rank strangers came up to help him financially.

“I feel fortunate to help Sushma and her family,’’ said Rafat. If Sushma’s fee is being taken care of by others, Rafat plans to send Rs 5,000 every month for at least a year to bear other expenses. According to Dixit, Rafat has also offered technological help in the form of laptop and other software to the girl. Rafat, on Sunday, also

spoke to Tej Bahadur and sought the real requirement of the family.

Talking to TOI, Bahadur said, “I will appreciate it if all of Sushma’s fees and hostel expenses are taken care of. I sold one bigha land to pay first installment of Rs 25,075 to confirm a seat at Lucknow University.’’

Bahadur also yearns for accommodation in any of the university’s hostels. Till two months ago, he used to live in a room at St Meraj’s Inter College, Kanpur Road and was asked to vacate it.

Now, he and his wife and daughter live in a small room in Barigaha village, close to his old residence.

“It’s a shabby place. We stay in the middle of the village and the atmosphere is bad. It’s very difficult to study here,’’ said Sushma. When asked whether she is aware of the state government’s zero fees scholarship for OBC students having an annual income of less than 1 lakh, she said, “I am unaware of this. University officials didn’t inform me of this facility even when I went to verify my caste certificate.’’

Meanwhile, Sushma said, she is extremely happy with her admissions at LU. “My wait is finally over.

I had applied for the same course at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University but didn’t get any response from there,’’ she said, who aspires to become a doctor. Sushma’s name appeared in the second

selected merit cut-off list for postgraduate courses which was declared on August 26.

Bahadur is hopeful that Sushma’s dreams will come true someday. He met the university vice-chancellor SB Nimse almost 20 days back who assured him of financial aid. Bahadur will meet professor Dixit, who is coordinating the process, on Monday to give a clear picture of his requirement. As far as Patil is concerned, the V-C has already spoken to him and is willing to accept support for the child. Dixit has also approached the finance officer to get an estimate of the total expenses including the fee structure and hostel fee, in case the girl decided to avail the hostel facility.

Daughter of a daily wage labourer and an illiterate mother, Sushma (in 2007), passed class X when she was seven year’s old. She secured a place in the Limca book of records for being the youngest student to pass class X. She passed class XII at the age of 10 and pursued BSc in Zoology and Botany from CMS Girl’s Degree College associated with LU. She finished the course this year securing 66% marks. Sushma’s brother Shailendra holds the distinction of being the youngest computer

science graduate till date. He was 14 when he finished his BCA (in 2007). At present, he is pursuing MCA from a Bangalore-based institute. He also works part time in a company there to make two ends meet.

told reporters here on Monday.

The Cabinet, after giving its approval for creation of Telangana, is expected to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to go threadbare into issues arising out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. This is likely to be followed by a resolution being sent to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly over the formation of the new state. After formation, Telangana will be 29th state of India. The Monsoon Session of Parliament is witnessing strong

protests by both Congress and TDP MPs from the Seemandhra region seeking “justice” and opposing any division of Andhra Pradesh. The protests had repeatedly paralysed proceedings in the Lok Sabha and led to the suspension of 12 members belonging to both Congress and TDP. An AICC committee headed by senior leader and Defence Minister AK Antony and comprising M Veerappa Moily and Ahmed Patel is hearing concerns of all stakeholders.

Indians have 30% weaker lungs than Europeans: Study

NeW DeLHi, September 2 (tNN): In another proof that worsening air quality in Indian cities is affecting people’s health, a study has found that Indians have 30% lower lung function as compared to Europeans. Things could get worse if immediate steps are not taken to curb vehicular emission, doctors warned.

The study was conducted on 10,000 healthy, non-smoking individuals in Jaipur, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Kashmir. “We measured the Peak Expiratory Flow Rate ( PEFR), the rate at which a person exhales, to assess lung function. North Indians fared slightly better than South Indians but overall the results were appalling - we found that lung function in Indians was 30% lower than Europeans,” said Dr Sundeep Salvi, director of Pune-based Chest Research Foundation, who led the study.

Similar results were seen in an international study on lung function in 17 countries, including India,

by Canadian researchers.

Indians were found to have the worst lungs in the study which measured the volume of air exhaled one second after a forceful exhalation. The test is called forced expiratory volume (FEV).

Salvi said the main reason for worsening lung health of India was air pollution. “The number of motor vehicles, a major contributor to air pollution, in India has gone up from 37.2 million in 1997 to 100 million in 2012. In 1951, there were just 0.3 million motor vehicles,” he said. “Even cars and buses running on CNG, which is touted as a green fuel, release ultra fine particles (less than 10 microns in diameter).

These can enter directly into the lungs and other organs and probably causes more harm,” Salvi said.

Dr Randeep Guleria of AIIMS’ department of pulmonary medicine said lung health in metros has deteriorated sharply.

“We are seeing a sharp increase in cases of chronic bronchitis, allergies, persistent cough and inflam-

mation of airways in the last few years.” Dr Guleria said when pollution levels peak, such as on Diwali, the number of emergency admissions for respiratory problems and heart attack increases sharply. “People who smoke are at double risk for compromised lung function. Many smokers - aged between 25 to 30 years - who come to us with respiratory diseases have lung function equal to that of a 70-year-old,” he added.

As per the 2010 global burden of disease report, outdoor air pollution caused more than 6,20,000 premature deaths in India and nearly 18 million healthy years of life were lost that year. Gaurav Bansal, a researcher at International Council on Clean Transportation’s (ICCT) India team said apart from improving public transport, policy instruments to reduce carbon content in fuels were required to improve air quality. “New vehicle emission standards (Euro V/VI and/ or US Tier II/III) must be adopted in India too,” he said.

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Syria dismisses Obama as confused DAmASCUS, September 2 (Ap): Syria derided President Barack Obama’s decision to hold off on punitive military strikes, but also took precautions by reportedly moving some troops and military equipment to civilian areas.

The Obama administration countered that its case for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is getting stronger, saying it now has evidence that the toxic gas allegedly used in strikes on rebel-held areas was the nerve agent sarin.

The administration predicted on Sunday it will obtain congressional backing for limited strikes. After days of edging closer to military action against Syria, Obama suddenly announced on Saturday he would first seek approval from Congress, which gets back from summer break on September 9.

Assad, in turn, tried to project confidence in his escalating showdown with the US, saying in comments carried by state media on Sunday that Syria is “capable of confronting any external aggression.”

From the sidelines, others exhorted the US either to get involved or stay out of the brutal two-and-ahalf-year-old conflict that has claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced millions of people.

The Arab League at an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday called on the United Nations and the international community to take “deterrent” measures under international law to stop the Syrian regime’s crimes, but could not agree on whether to back US military action.

Arab foreign ministers at the meeting in their closing statement held the Assad regime responsible for the “heinous” chemical

Syria asks the UN to stop US strike

A demonstrator holds a placard mimicking U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against possible US forces’ strike in Syria, in Cairo, on Sunday, September 1. A top Syrian government official on Sunday dismissed the Obama administration as confused and hesitant, even as Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington has evidence of sarin gas use by Syria and that the case for a military attack is getting “stronger and stronger.” (AP Photo)

attack, saying the perpetrators should be tried before an international court “like other war criminals.”

At the Vatican, Pope Francis said he would stage a worldwide prayer vigil for Syria on September 7 and called on all sides to lay down their arms.

“My heart is deeply wounded by what is happening in Syria and anguished by the dramatic developments” on the horizon, Francis told crowds in St. Peter’s Square, forgoing the usual religious theme of his weekly address.

The main Syrian political opposition, which operates largely from exile, warned that Obama would give dictators in Iran, North Korea and elsewhere a free pass to commit atrocities if he does not punish Assad.

In the Syrian capital Damascus, some said the reprieve from Washington was only prolonging their

torment.

A 29-year-old city resident said he reinforced his window with tape in anticipation of an imminent attack. “I know people who prepared sleeping pills to give to their kids the night of the attack so they can sleep and not be scared,” said the man, who only gave his first name, Nasib, for fear of reprisals.

Nearly two weeks after the alleged chemical weapons attacks on areas east and west of Damascus, many unanswered questions remain.

Neither the US nor the Syrian regime, which blames rebels for the attacks, has publicly presented proof.

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Faysal Mikdad, claimed on Sunday that Obama stepped back from his threat to attack because he lacks evidence of Syrian government involvement

in the August 21 attacks.

“The hesitation and the disappointment is so obvious in the words of President Obama yesterday,” Mikdad told reporters in Damascus. “The confusion was clear as well.”

In a sharply worded front-page article, the staterun newspaper Al-Thawra, expressing official thinking, said Obama’s turn-about on military action was “the start of the historic American retreat.” Yet despite the official hubris, there were signs the regime was taking precautions.

The main Westernbacked opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the army moved troops as well as rocket launchers, artillery and other heavy weapons inside residential neighborhoods in cities nationwide.

The coalition said Assad ordered detainees to be moved to military targets

for use as human shields against U.S. strikes.

Three Damascus residents, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, confirmed such movements.

One man said two members of the elite Republican Guards broke into an empty house he owns, showing him an official paper stating they were authorized to do so because Syria is at war. He said he bribed the soldiers and they left.

A woman in another area said soldiers moved into a school next to her house and she was terrified.

In Washington, US secretary of state John Kerry tried to sharpen the arguments for military action on Sunday in a serious of appearances on television news shows.

Kerry said he expected American lawmakers to recognize that the “credibility of the United States

beIrUt, September 2 (reUterS): Syria has asked the United Nations to prevent “any aggression” against Syria following a call over the weekend by U.S. President Barack Obama for punitive strikes against the Syrian military for last month’s chemical weapons attack. Washington says more than 1,400 people, many of them children, were killed in the world’s worst use of chemical arms since Iraq’s Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in 1988.

U.S. military action will be put to a vote in Congress, which ends its summer recess on September 9, giving President Bashar al-Assad time to prepare the ground for any assault and try to rally international support against the use of force. In a letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and President of the Security Council Maria Cristina Perceval, Syrian U.N. envoy Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari called on “the U.N. Secretary General to shoulder his responsibilities for preventing any aggression on Syria and pushing forward reaching a politi-

is on the line.”

He said Obama has the authority to launch retaliatory strikes with or without Congress’ approval, but Kerry stopped short of saying the president would do so if the House or Senate withholds support.

“The stakes are just really too high here,” Kerry said. “We are not going to lose this vote.”

A White House draft resolution asks Congress to authorize force to “deter, disrupt, prevent and degrade” the Assad regime’s ability to use chemical weapons. It doesn’t lay out a timeline for action.

Kerry also said the United States has received hair and blood samples from first responders indicating that Syria’s government forces used sarin in the August 21 attacks. It was the first piece of specific physiological evidence cited by the administration.

cal solution to the crisis in Syria”, state news agency SANA said on Monday. He called on the Security Council to “maintain its role as a safety valve to prevent the absurd use of force out of the frame of international legitimacy”.

Ja’afari said the United States should “play its role, as a peace sponsor and as a partner to Russia in the preparation for the international conference on Syria and not as a state that uses force against whoever opposes its policies”.

Syria denies using chemical weapons and accuses rebel groups, who have been fighting for more than two years to topple Assad, of using the banned weapons. At least 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which started in March 2011 with protests against four decades of Assad family rule.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that tests showed sarin nerve gas was fired on rebel-held areas on August 21. Ja’afari said Kerry had “adopted old stories fabricated by terrorists” based on fake photos from the Internet.

Previously, the US only said regime troops fired rockets carrying an unnamed nerve agent at the Damascus suburbs, killing at least 1,429 civilians, including more than 400 children.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that collects information from a network of anti-regime activists in Syria, has said it has only been able to confirm the names of 502 dead.

It has challenged the US to release the information that led to the higher toll.

Obama has said that in making his final decision, he will not wait for findings

by UN chemical weapons experts who collected biological and soil samples in the stricken areas near Damascus last week.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon asked the head of the team on Sunday to expedite the testing of the samples and

report back to him as soon as possible, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. The samples will be sent Monday to laboratories around Europe, he said, adding that he could not say when the results will be in.

Ban has said no action should be taken before the U.N. team has presented its findings. However, U.S. officials have argued that there is no doubt chemical weapons were used, and that it’s not part of the UN inspectors’ mandate to determine who fired them.

In Cairo, at an emergency sesson of the 22-member Arab League, the Saudi Arabian foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, prodded member states to back international measures against the Syrian regime to “deter this aggression by all possible means.” If the world does nothing, the Syrian regime will be encouraged to “go on with its crimes,” he said.

European men grow 11cm in a century Life expectancy gap growing between

LONDON, September 2 (reUterS): The average height of European men grew by a surprising 11 centimeters from the early 1870s to 1980, reflecting significant improvements in health across the region, according to new research published on Monday.

Contrary to expectations, the study also found that average height accelerated in the period spanning the two World Wars and the Great Depression, when poverty, food rationing and hardship of war might have been expected to limit people’s growth. The swift advance may have been due to people deciding to have fewer children in this period, the researchers said, and smaller family size has previously been found to be linked to increasing average height.

“Increases in human stature are a key indicator of improvements in the average health of populations,” said Timothy Hatton, a professor economics at Britain’s University of Essex who led the study. He said the evidence - which shows the average height of a European male grow-

ing from 167 cm to 178 cm in a little over a 100 years - suggests an environment of improving health and decreasing disease “is the single most important factor driving the increase in height”.

The study, published online in the journal Oxford Economic Papers, analyzed data on average men’s height at around the age of 21 from the 1870s up to around 1980 in 15 European countries.

The study only looked at men, the researchers said, because extensive historical data on women’s heights is hard to come by. For the most recent decades, the data on men were mainly taken from height-by-age surveys, while for the earlier years the analysis used data for the heights of military conscripts and recruits.

On average, men’s height had grown by 11 centimeters (cm) in just over a century, the researchers found, but there were differences from country to country. In Spain, for example, average male height rose by around 12 cm from just under 163 cm in 1871-1875 to just under 175 cm in 1971-5, while in Sweden, men’s average height increased by 10 cm from

just over 170 cm to almost 180 cm in the same period.

The researchers found that in many European countries including Britain and Ireland, the Scandinavian countries, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and Germany - there was a “distinct quickening” in the pace of advance in the period spanning the two World Wars and the Great Depression. “This is striking because the period largely predates the wide implementation of major breakthroughs in modern medicine and national health services,” they wrote.

Hatton said one possible reason, alongside the decline in infant mortality, for the rapid growth of average male height in this period was that there was a strong downward trend in fertility at the time - and smaller family sizes have previously been found to be linked to increasing height. Other height-boosting factors included higher per capita incomes, more sanitary housing and living conditions, better education about health and nutrition and better social services and health systems.

rich and poor world women, says WHO

GeNeVA, September 2 (reUterS): Life expectancy for women at 50 has improved, but the gap between poor and rich countries is growing and could worsen without better detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

A WHO study, one of the first to analyze the causes of death of older women, found that in wealthier countries deaths from noncommunicable diseases has fallen dramatically in recent decades, especially from cancers of the stomach, colon, breast and cervix. Women over 50 in low and middle-income countries are also living longer, but chronic ailments, including diabetes, kill them at an earlier age than their counterparts, it said.

“The gap in life expectancy between such women in rich and poor countries is growing,” said the WHO study, part of an issue of the WHO’s monthly bulletin devoted to women’s

health. There is a similar growing gap between the life expectancy of men over 50 in rich and lower income countries and in some parts of the world, this gap is wider, WHO officials said.

“More women can expect to live longer and not just survive child birth and childhood.

But what we found is that improvement is much stronger in the rich world than in the poor world. The disparity between the two is increasing,” Dr. John Beard, director of WHO’s department of ageing and life course, said in an interview at WHO headquarters.

Better Prevention And Treatment Beard, one of the study’s three authors, said: “What it also points to is that we need particularly in low and middle-income countries to start to think about how these emerging needs of women get addressed. The success in the rich world would suggest that is through better pre-

vention and treatment of NCDs.” In women over 50 years old, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cancers, heart disease and strokes, are the most common causes of death, regardless of the level of economic development of the country in which they live, the study said. Health ministers from WHO’s 194 member states agreed on a global action plan to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases at their annual ministerial meeting last May. Developed countries have tackled cardiovascular diseases and cancers in women with tangible results, the WHO study said.

Fewer women aged 50 years and older in rich countries are dying from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than 30 years ago and these improvements contributed most to increasing women’s life expectancy at the age of 50, it said. An older woman in Germany can now expect to live to 84 and in Japan to 88

David Frost’s most memorable interviews

LONDON, September 2 (Ap): Veteran British broadcaster David Frost set a milestone in TV history when he drew extraordinary admissions from disgraced former President Richard Nixon in 1977. Armed with ambition, talent and a remarkable contacts book, Frost sat down with many other world leaders and the biggest names in show business over half a century. Here are some highlights from some of his most prominent interviews.

our system of government and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but will think it is all too corrupt and the rest. .... And I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life.”

Frost: “So what you are saying is that there are certain situations ... where the president can decide that it’s in the best interest of the nation or something, and do something illegal?”

Nixon: “Well when the president does it that means that it is Richard Nixon, 1977 not illegal.”

Over almost 30 hours of interFrost: “By definition?” views with Nixon, who resigned 3 Nixon: “Exactly.” years earlier in disgrace over the Watergate scandal, Frost pressed Muhammad Ali, 1974 the ex-president to acknowledge Frost interviewed the legendand apologize for his wrongdoing ary heavyweight boxer, then 32, in office. Frost managed to get the inside a boxing ring, ahead of his following remarkable responses. landmark fight with George ForeFrost: “I think people need to man, when most people wrongly hear it, and I think unless you say thought Ali would lose. But Ali it, you’re going to be haunted for was animated and brimming the rest of your life.” with confidence in the interview.

Nixon: “I let down my friends.

Ali: “I think it is befitting that I I let down the country. I let down go out of boxing just like I came in,

defeating a big, bad monster that nobody could destroy... Listen David, when I meet this man, if you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned, wait till I whip Foreman’s behind.”

The boxer continued, partly talking directly to the camera, then standing up to caricature Foreman: “Listen, George Foreman, people are afraid of George Foreman. They talk about how hard he hits. The world has been deceived. You listen to me. You listen to me now, I never told you wrong. The man don’t hit hard.”

Margaret Thatcher, 1985 In 1985 Frost grilled the prime minister about the sinking of the Argentine ship Belgrano by a British submarine that killed 323 sailors during the Falklands conflict.

As Frost pressed on with questions about what had happened, a visibly ruffled Thatcher sternly defended her decision to attack the ship. After being confronted with a barrage of questions, Thatcher finally said in

frustration: “Do you think, Mr. Frost, that I spend my days prowling round the pigeon holes of the Ministry of Defense to look at the chart of each and every ship? If you do you must be bonkers.”

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1993 In an interview with the former Soviet Union leader, Frost asked about communism, his legacy, and his relationship with, and views of, Thatcher.

Gorbachev: “It was not too easy to begin with ... but I felt from the start I could deal with her. I regarded her as an outstanding woman and a major political force.

I was far from sharing all her opinions. ... Many sharp words were exchanged. I could never agree to the way she felt about nuclear weapons. She was too attracted to nuclear weapons.”

Frost: “Were you alike in character, do you think?”

Gorbachev, after a pause and a shrug: “That’s difficult to answer.

I think it’s up to you to try to answer that. But she was an inter-

esting human being.”

Tony Blair, 2002 Frost seemed to catch the British prime minister off-guard when he asked an unexpected question about his relationship with President George W. Bush in an interview.

Frost: “Do you pray together?”

Blair: “Pray together? How do you mean?”

Frost: “Do you say prayers together for peace, you and the president.”

Blair: “Well we don’t say prayers together, no, but I’m sure he in his way hopes for peace. I hope for peace too.”

Bill Clinton In an undated clip shown by the BBC Sunday, Frost was seen interviewing the former U.S. president about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

Frost: “Did you love her?”

Clinton responded: “No. I don’t think that’s what that was about.

On either side. But I liked her very much.”

years, against 73 in South Africa and 80 in Mexico.

“That reflects two things, better prevention, particularly clinical prevention around control of hypertension and screening of cervical cancer, but it also reflects better treatment,” Beard said. “I think that is particularly true for breast cancer where women with breast cancer are much better managed these days in the rich world. That also explains the disparity,” he said.

Low-income countries, especially in Africa, offer community services to treat diseases like AIDS or offer maternal care but many lack services to detect or treat breast cancer, he said.

In many developing countries, there is also limited access to high blood pressure medication to treat hypertension, one of the biggest risk factors for death, he added. Women with cardiovascular disease and cancers need the kind of chronic treatment provided to those with HIV/AIDS, he said.

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Gareth Bale jOins real in wOrld-recOrd transfer LONDON, SEPTEMBER 2 (AP): After the year's most drawn-out transfer saga, it's finally official: Gareth Bale is a Real Madrid player. Madrid announced Sunday that Bale has signed a six-year contract, and a person familiar with the deal said the fee was a world-record 100 million euros ($132 million). The person spoke on condition of anonymity because financial details are not being disclosed.

"I am not sure there is ever a good time to leave a club where I felt settled and was playing the best football of my career to date," Bale said in a statement published on the Tottenham website.

"I know many players talk of their desire to join the club of their boyhood dreams, but I can honestly say, this is my dream come true."

Bale will be paraded at Madrid's stadium after undergoing a medical examination.

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Welsh international soccer player Gareth Bale balances a ball on his head during his official presentation at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Sept. 2 after signing for Real Madrid. The Spanish club announced Sunday that Bale has signed a six-year contract, and a person familiar with the deal said the fee was a world-record euro100 million ($132 million). (AP Photo)

Olivier Giroud drives gunners to victory

Bale's move was set to be "the biggest transfer in world football," and the fee eclipses the €93 million Madrid paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009. Madrid, whose annual revenue reaches €500 million, previously broke the transfer record in 2009 when Kaka joined from AC Milan for 65 million euros ($92 million).

All three blockbuster deals came under Florentino Perez, the club president who built the "Galacticos" team that included David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Figo.

The move for Bale, who had around three years remaining on his Tottenham contract, caps a rapid rise from White Hart Lane misfit to one of European football's most exciting players. The 24-year-old Welsh winger has dazzled audiences around the world with swerving free kicks, defense-splitting surges and mesmerizing footwork.

But Bale was frustrated that Tottenham only qualified once for the Champions League, the stage where the world took notice of his talents for the first time in the 2010-11 season. Now he's joining a club that has won the European Cup nine times. "I am well aware that I would not be at the level I am today were it not for firstly Southampton and then Spurs standing by me during some of the tougher times and affording me the environment and support they have," Bale said. "Tottenham will always be in my heart and I'm sure that this season will be a successful one for them. I am now looking forward to the next exciting chapter in my life, playing football for Real Madrid."

Bale was signed by Madrid despite not winning a single title in his playing career. What he does have is a collection of personal honors — and long highlight reel of spectacular goals. In April he won the top two awards in English football after being voted player of the year and the young player of the year by his fellow professionals in English football. The last player to achieve the Professional Footballers' Association double was Ronaldo in 2007, and the pair will now be on the same side in Spain. In Bale and Ronaldo, Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti will have one of

Gareth Bale to be measured against ronaldo and neymar

MADRiD, SEPTEMBER 2 (REuTERS): Gareth Bale will have to find his place within a star-studded Madrid lineup quickly because the world's most expensive player is sure to be compared constantly with his new team mate Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Neymar. As if that were not enough, the name of David Beckham will also be thrown into the mix as the 24-year-old Welshman arrives 10 years after the former England captain and marketing machine left the Premier League for La Liga. Bale lands at the Bernabeu with a hefty 100 million euro price tag and the need to impress one of the most demanding audiences in the world every time he steps out on to the pitch.

Ronaldo sets the standard and is seen to have justified his $125 million transfer fee from 2009, scoring 202 goals in 202 matches. Despite a few run-ins with Madrid fans, no one has ever doubted Ronaldo's voracious appetite for goals and his commitment to win every single game.

Real's arch-rivals Barcelona have splashed 57 million euros to sign Brazil forward Neymar and just as Ronaldo has had to get used to constant comparisons with Lionel Messi, Bale will be expected to outperform the Catalans' new boy. Bale,

the most formidable attacks in football to compete with Spanish champion Barcelona, which boasts Lionel Messi and new recruit Neymar. The recruitment of Bale is Madrid's response to missing out on the 57 millioneuro Neymar. But the move was dragged out

by Spurs wanting to spend the Bale windfall before reluctantly selling their main asset, and was only completed a day before the summer transfer window closes.

"Gareth was a player we had absolutely no intention of selling as we look to build for the future," Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said.

"He is a player whose career we have fostered

Manchester United mustn't lose Rooney John Leicester

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Way out of position for an attacking forward, throwing himself at a task one would more usually expect of a defender, Wayne Rooney hurtled after Ramires Santos do Nascimento, Chelsea's sprightly midfielder better known simply as Ramires.

Nimble Brazilian vs. meaty Englishman, this looked like a race Rooney seemed bound to lose. Not since last April had Rooney started a competitive match for Manchester United, when Alex Ferguson was still in charge of England's most successful club and before suggestions that Rooney wanted to leave developed into a full-blown, summer-long saga.

A bit of rust on Rooney, especially this early in the new season, might have been expected, even forgiven.

After 75 minutes of exertion, Rooney was flushing red. Chunky at the best of times, the 27-year-old has in the past — although, to be fair, seemingly not this summer — sometimes returned from vacations look-

ing fleshier than normal. Ramires is quick and lithe, a handful for even the swiftest of opponents. He had momentum as he sprinted onto Frank Lampard's pass and dangerously spirited the ball deep into United territory.

But just when Ramires would have wanted to cross to teammates lurking in front of United's goal, Rooney caught up with and got to him. His sliding tackle was magnificent. With an exquisitely timed thrust of his left leg, Rooney pickpocketed the ball from under Ramires, scything him down in the process. Turning defense into attack in the blink of an eye, Rooney then leapt back to his feet with his freshly won prize and, on the run, thumped the ball up field to Robin van Persie, launching a counter-attack that, as it turned out, came to naught, like all other efforts by both teams in this cagey 0-0 draw.

This textbook display of commitment, physicality and footballing intelligence from Rooney produced two immediate thoughts: United would be crazy to sell him, especially

to Chelsea, a direct rival for the league title; and if Rooney is bound for London after nine rich and sometimes turbulent years at United, then he is leaving Old Trafford the right way, with his head held high, admirably professional at the end.

So much rubbish, half-truths and outright lies are reported and spoken during football's two annual transfer windows when player trades are allowed that it is hard to know when clubs and their managers are talking fact or fiction. When Ferguson's replacement at United, David Moyes, says Rooney isn't for sale, does he really mean that or is the club simply holding out for more money? Moyes and Rooney have history from two years together at Everton, where Rooney caught Ferguson's eye as a precociously talented teenager and where Moyes built a reputation as an over-achieving manager capable of getting results on a limited budget. In his biography, Rooney said he angrily told Moyes in 2004 that he never wanted to play for him again. This, of course, was long before their destinies crossed again at United.

Messi hat-trick keeps Barca on top

Arsenal's Olivier Giroud, left, competes with Tottenham Hotspur's Etienne Capoue during their English Premier League VALENciA, SEPTEMsoccer match at Emirates stadium, London on Sept. 1. (AP Photo) BER 2 (AFP): A first-half

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 2 (AP): Olivier Giroud settled the first north London derby of the season on Sunday as Arsenal asserted its supremacy over Tottenham on the pitch with a 1-0 victory despite months of lavish spending by its neighbor. Giroud turned the ball into the net from Theo Walcott's cross in the 23rd minute, showing that goals are the only currency that counts in the Premier League. "We didn't give up and showed real togetherness," Giroud said.

While Arsenal has only signed two free agents in the summer transfer window, which closes Monday, Tottenham has spent around 100 million pounds ($155 million) strengthening the squad — money recouped when Gareth Bale joined Real Madrid on Sunday for 100 million euros ($132 million). "I am not against spending — I am ready to pay what we can afford, even if it is a bit over the market (value) and as long as it is not crazy," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. "I want to add super quality to our squad — or not (buy). Tottenham got a lot of money for Bale, they

have to invest it — I understand that. The need is different for us, we need one or two super players and we will try to add that. We have 24 more hours, so maybe we can surprise you."

Spurs' expensive new recruits were frustrated in their route to the net, although goalkeeper Hugo Lloris restricted Arsenal to a single goal after 5-2 losses on the last two visits to the Emirates Stadium. Tottenham, though, hasn't managed to score from open play in three league matches so far, with the opening pair of victories gained through Roberto Soldado's penalties.

"The fairest result would be a draw bearing in mind what we did in the second half," Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said. "We put pressure on their goal, but there were not enough clear-cut chances." But Arsenal's players, who faced intense criticism after opening the season with a shock home loss, have quickly recovered from collapsing to Aston Villa. The relief was clear on Sunday, with players celebrating on the pitch as if a trophy had been won, and some throwing their shirts into the crowd.

hat-trick by Lionel Messi ensured Barcelona maintained their 100% start to the La Liga season with a thrilling 3-2 win over Valencia as Real Madrid also made it three wins from three games on Sunday.

Messi had looked far from his best in Barca's Super Cup victory over Atletico Madrid in midweek, but looked more like his old self as he put Barca 2-0 up inside 39 minutes and was then brilliantly set up

by Neymar to complete his hat-trick.

However, Valencia were amazingly back in the game by half-time as Helder Postiga struck twice in first-half stoppage time.

Barca then passed up a host of chances to put the game to bed in the second-half and were nearly punished when Jonas struck the post four minutes from time.

Neymar had already had a goal ruled out for offside when Cesc Fabregas sprung Valencia's high line with a fine through ball on 10 minutes and Messi evaded challenge from Adil Rami and Diego Alves to bundle home from

Barcelona's Lionel Messi from Argentina shoots the ball with Valencia's Ricardo Costa from Portugal, left, during their La Liga soccer match at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 1. (AP Photo)

close range. Victor Valdes was then forced into a fine save to deny Dorlan Pabon levelling on his debut for Los Che. But just when it appeared Valencia were in control of the game, Barca struck twice in two minutes.

Firstly, Sergio Busquets

robbed the ball in midfield to allow Fabregas to set Messi free again to roll into the far corner. And then a wonderful piece of individual skill from Neymar teed-up the Argentine to side foot home his 23rd hat-trick for the Catalans. Valencia responded wonderfully though and

were back in the game before half-time thanks to Postiga's double. The Portuguese firstly produced a stunning overhead kick to turn Joao Pereira's cross into the top corner. And moments later the former Spurs man rose highest to flick home Ever Banega's corner.

whose versatility is a mixed blessing, is likely to form a formidable front three with Ronaldo and France striker Karim Benzema.

Bale can play down either flank, centrally behind the striker, in a deeper midfield role or even at full back but new boss Carlo Ancelotti has yet to settle on a fixed formation. He will be tussling for a place with the likes of Argentina winger Angel Di Maria, Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil, Real's exciting new attacking midfielder Isco and former Spurs team mate Luka Modric.

Bale excelled at Spurs with his surging runs into space but he will need to adapt to La Liga's slower, more tactical games, against teams who typically defend in numbers against Real. Handling a partisan local media that regards a couple of games without a goal as a 'crisis' is another new concept Bale will need to assimilate, and the intensity of the fervour will be doubled if Neymar and Barca are overshadowing his and Real's progress.

Bale would appear to hold the upper hand in this contest as the 21-year-old Neymar has a steeper learning curve in adapting to European football, and although he is outrageously talented, there are doubts over his slight physique.

and developed and he was only a year into his new four-year contract. "Such has been the attention from Real Madrid and so great is Gareth's desire to join them, that we have taken the view that the player will not be sufficiently committed to our campaign in the current season."

Bale joined Tottenham in 2007 from Southampton for 5 million pounds (then $8 million) but endured a frustrating start to his Spurs career. Although he scored three times in his first four starts, a series of injuries stymied his progress and Tottenham failed to win any of the first 24 Premier League games he appeared in for the club.

Selection for shooting c'ship from Sept 24

DiMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 2 (MExN): The 4th Aries Rifle & Pistol Shooting Championship and selection for the Nagaland State Rifle & Pistol Shooting Competitions, the XXIII All India G. V. Mavlankar Shooting Championship and the 57th National Shooting Championship Competitions 2013 will be held from September 24 to 27 at the Aries Rifle & Pistol Shooting Academy (ARAPSA) Shooting Range, NST Colony, Dimapur. A press note informed that the championship will be conducted in 5 Events: 10M Air Rifle (National Rule- 40 pellets); Senior, Junior & Youth both men & women; 10M Air Pistol (National Rule-40 pellets); Senior, Junior & Youth both men & women, 10M Air Rifle Prone Position (ARAPSA Rule-40 pellets) for Senior, Junior both men & women; 10M Air Pistol Precision Course, Duelling Course (ARAPSA Rule-30 rounds), Senior & Junior both men & women and10M Rapid Fire Pistol (ARAPSA Rule-30 rounds), only Seniors both men & women. It was further informed that any shooter, both men & women can join in any number of events. The Championship carries a total cash award of Rs.11,40,000/- for shooters who score the Minimun Qualifying Score (MQS) of the ARAPSA. T & C will apply for shooters who already participated at Championships Conducted by National Rifle Association of India.

Interested shooters can practice for the Championshiop from September 4 onward from 11.00 am daily.

The Registration fees for seniors will be Rs. 500/- for each event and fees for Junior & Youth will be Rs. 400/. The cost of pellets and targets will be extra for each event. For Registration e-mail merangjamir@ariesfoundation.com or call +919436010820.

NPL Season 2 in September

KOhiMA, SEPTEMBER 2 (MExN): Ten teams will be vying for top honors as the 2nd season of the Nagaland Premier League kickstarts in September this year. This was confirmed in an official meeting between Nagaland Football Association (NFA), 4-4-2 management and the participating clubs of the NPL at Hotel Japfü. Technicalities on how to improve the league as well as future plans for the league were discussed. Major developments like squad arrangements for accommodating local players, inter state transfer and foreign player registrations, referee clinics and disciplinary measures were disclosed. The bye laws for the second season were also handed out to the clubs. The second session of the meeting discussed management and marketing aspect of the game. Overall most developmental measures were penned down and the second season looks to be getting bigger seeing the enthusiasm of all parties involved, eight teams from the last edition have confirmed participation with two new teams joining them. The teams for this season are Kohima Komets, Dimapur United, Dynamic FC, Doyang FC, Naga Tornadoes, Barak FC, Sangpang FC, Zonipang, United Redskins FC and Veda FC.

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‘One Direction: This Is Us’ tops US box office

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'One Direction This Is Us' has topped the US box office after taking $17 million on its opening weekend.

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he film - which documents the meteoric rise to fame of the boy band, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik - took $17 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend, pushing out Lee Daniels' 'The Butler' following the motion picture's

two-week run at the top.

Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures' President of Worldwide Distribution, said ''We are thrilled with our result. It exceeded our expectations not only domestically, but everywhere, worldwide.'' 'This Is Us', which is directed by Morgan Spurlock, is expected to fall just short

of the estimated $22 million in takings over America's holiday weekend.

Spurlock recently admitted it was a ''no-brainer'' for him to take on the project and he hopes people will have a ''different'' view of the boy band after watching the film. He said ''I'm really proud of the movie

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and think it will make people look at them a little differently. They are so grounded and so humble.''

Liam previously told how he gets emotional every time he watches the motion picture because he misses his family so much while on tour with the 'Little Things' hitmak-

ers. He explained ''It is hard being away from our families but it was even harder to watch.

That scene where my dad is talking about wanting to take me to the pub, every time I watch it , it makes me want to cry because we never hear from them what it's like for us to be away from home.''

Michael Jackson's kids visited morgue '10 times'

London Singer-actress Miley Cyrus admits she is messed up and struggles to lead a normal life.

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I have so many issues. Everyone does dumb stuff when they are messed up. I don`t have a normal life. I take a hiatus every now and again but I`m not good at that, she said. The 20-year-old star rose to fame with the lead role in ‘Hannah Montana’ but said she was never like the clean-cut character she portrayed on the Disney Channel show.

During `Hannah Montana` I think people knew I was acting. I`ve never been able to hide anything, a bit like Justin Bieber. Others who have been on kids` shows try to act like their characters - but I`m not like that. I never pretended I was as good as the Disney Channel writes. You will be amazed at some of the notes I got...

It`s crazy. But they can`t make people not grow up, she added.

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The 'Thriller' hitmaker died in 2009 and his mother Katherine - who was appointed guardian for Prince Michael, 16, Paris, 15 and

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For the finale, the Bangalore-based Anjana competed with three other finalists - Nirvesh Sudhanshubhai Dave, Debanjana Karmakar and Anmol Jaswal. The talented young girl was ecstatic upon receiving the trophy from megastar Amitabh Bachchan, and much to everyone’s delight, she made

11-year-old Blanket following his passing - revealed they all struggled to come to terms with the loss of their father.

She told Australian news show '60 Minutes' ''Michael's kids went back to the morgue where Michael was about 10 times.

When I was in the room, I couldn't go there ... [my daughter LaToya] said the

a short acceptance speech in Hindi.

As the ‘Indian Idol Junior’, she went back home with a trophy, a cash prize of Rs.25 lakh and a Nissan Micra car. She was also gifted cheques of Rs.500,000 and Rs.200,000 from Kotak Mahindra and Horlicks, respectively.

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Lady Gaga is back to her kooky best in dress made up of bubble blowing machines.

She has become infamous for her quirky costumes which have included outfits made out of pieces of meat, Kermit the frogs and Hello Kitty toys. And Lady Gaga didn't disappoint her London fans as she stepped out in a white mini dress made up of bubble blowing machines as she leaves The Roundhouse in London on Sunday night.

sad ''She was screaming and crying when Michael died saying 'I want to go with you daddy, I don't want to live without you ... I was feeling so bad for her. ''Paris suffered a lot after his death. She had to have pictures of Michael all over her room. Every picture that was hanging on the wall had to be of Michael.''

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children are all kissing and hugging Michael. ''Even though he is dead they are still doing that.'' Michael's death hit Paris particularly hard, and the teen star tried to commit suicide earlier this year.

Katherine added her granddaughter insisted on having photographs of the singer ''all over her room'' when he passed away. She

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Serena Williams reacts after a point against Sloane Stephens during the fourth round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 1 in New York. (AP Photo)

India to play five Tests in England LONDON, SEptEmbER 2 (aFp): India will play five Tests in England for the first time since 1959 during next year's tour, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Monday. The tour schedule also sees 50-over world champions India, who beat England by five runs in the Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston in June, involved in five one-day internationals and a one Twenty20 international.

Three of the five Tests will be played at southern venues, Lord's and The Oval in London plus Southampton's Rose Bowl although, as the latter is a relatively new international ground, the Test there is still subject to confirmation following an ECB inspection visit. Nottingham's Trent Bridge in the English Midlands will stage the first Test with the fourth at Manchester's Old Trafford in the north of the country.

Bowlers on both sides may be concerned by a schedule which sees five Tests due to be crammed into the space of just over a month. The fact cricket is the leading sport in India, the world's second most populous nation, makes the country the economic powerhouse of the global game. This is reflected in the hugely lucrative television deals the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) can command, as well as its promotion of the Twenty20 Indian Premier League which sees many of the world's top players earning millions of dollars to play for franchise teams.

Meanwhile the large Indian expatriate community in Britain means matches involving the India national side in England usually attract large crowds. This was clearly seen during India's 2011 tour of England when more than 850,000 spectators, a record for an international season saw India defeated four-nil in the Test series and three-nil in the one-dayers, with the T20s shared at 1-1.

NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 2 (agENciES):Defending champion Serena Williams won her much-anticipated US Open showdown with Sloane Stephens, while Li Na avenged a painful loss in Rome to join the world number one in the last eight. Williams defeated 15th seed American Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals, winning eight of the last nine game in avenging a loss that ousted her from the 2013 Australian Open.

“It definitely felt like a bigger match because Sloane is such a great player, but I had to stay focused,” Williams said. “I just tried the whole time to do what I wanted to, stay calm and stay relaxed.”

Williams booked a quarter-final against Spanish 18th seed Carla Suarez

Novak Djokovic roars into US Open fourth round NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 2 (REUtERS): Top seed Novak Djokovic roared into the fourth round of the US Open with a 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Joao Sousa of Portugal under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday. The 26-year-old Serb, who has yet to lose a set, smacked 34 winners to just 10 for the 95th-ranked Sousa in the 100-minute rout. Australian Open champion Djokovic faced just two service breaks, while converting eight of 13 against his opponent. Djokovic, a 2011 winner at Flushing Meadows who fell to Andy Murray in five sets in last year's final, next faces either 43rd-ranked Marcel Granollers of Spain or 109th-ranked American wild card Tim Smyczek.

Navarro, who upset German eighth seed Angelique Kerber 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).

Also booking a quarterfinal matchup were Chinese fifth seed Li, who beat Serbian ninth seed Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-0, and Russian 24th seed Ekaterina Makarova, who upset Pol-

ish third seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-4.

Li, the 2011 French Open champion, matched her best US Open result by reaching the last eight.

“Maybe today was the best match of my whole life,” Li said, saying that her strategy against Makarova would

be to “play aggressive. I wish I can play the same level like today.”

Li improved to 5-4 against Jankovic, motivated by the sting of a loss in their most recent match in a round-of-16 affair last May in Rome. “Last time I lost to her in Rome I was feeling so sad,” Li said. “I was feeling I played so good. I said, ‘You have to remember how you felt after Rome and not have that feeling any more’.”

Radwanska dropped the last eight games and was ousted in the fourth round at the US Open for the fourth time, having never reached the quarterfinals. “I want to know as well what happened,” Radwanska said. “She was a little nervous in the beginning and she started playing better and better and I didn’t do anything to win that first set.”

Li Na, of China, reacts after winning a game against Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, during a fourth round match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament on Sept. 1in New York. (AP Photo)

2nd Nagaland open arm wrestling c’ship

KOhima, SEptEmbER 2 (mExN): The Arm Challenge Organization will be conducting its 2nd Open Arm Wrestling Championship 2013 at Life Pro near IOC Kohima on September 7 in honour or Lt. Vemugou Hoshi (five times state champion and international player). The event will be held for the categories of men 60kg and below, 61kg to 71 kg and 76 kg and above. Medals with certificates will be awarded to the Ist, 2nd and 3rd position respectively. Interested players have been asked to collect form from Star Sports, BOC and Sports World, Main town, opposite Bank of Baroda, Kohima.

Cowboy Morgan Wilde is thrown to the arena dirt for a no-time in the bareback riding finals of the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days PRCA Rodeo, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, in Walla Walla, Wash. (AP Photo)

Rooney injury a Kohima Komets enter finals blow for England 19 CLASSIC CUP 2013

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Match patron, Classic Club officials and match officials with Kohima Komets SC and New Market XI on September 2. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent

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Kohima Komets SC and its supporters erupted in jubilation as it defeated New Market XI today to enter the finals of the prestigious 19th Classic Cup 2013 here at the Kohima Local Ground. The thrilling semi final match witnessed a 1- 1 draw till the stipulated 90 minutes play. Kivi Zhi-

2nd Semi Final (3:00 PM) Elite FC vs Headhunters XI momi opened the account for Kohima Komets in the 5th minutes while the equalizer for New Market XI came through Velukho Rhakho in the 9th minutes.

During the 15 minutes of extra time play, both the team failed to net the goal. The match was decided through penalty shootout, wherein Kohima Komets overpowered New Market XI with a margin of 4-3.

With this, Kohima Komets will now face the winner of the 2nd semi finals at the grand final on September 5. Viu Belho, Class 1 contractor acted as the match patron.

LONDON, SEptEmbER 2 (ap): Wayne Rooney will miss two key World Cup qualifiers after being forced to pull out of the England squad on Sunday with a head injury. Rooney is facing three weeks out after cutting his forehead during a training-ground collision with teammate Phil Jones at Manchester United.

"It's bad," United manager David Moyes said. "It's right down the middle of his forehead and it will take a while to heal. He turned round and Phil Jones just lifted his boot as his head came in." Jones and right back Glen Johnson are also out of England's matches against Moldova and Ukraine after injuring ankles in United's 1-0 loss to Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday.

There is also a doubt over Liverpool goal scorer Daniel Sturridge due to a groin injury, which restricted him at Anfield, according to club manager Brendan Rodgers.

The other strikers in England's squad are Rickie Lambert, Jermain Defoe and Danny Welbeck. Cardiff defender Steven Caulker, who has only played once for England, is the only reinforcement so far added to the national squad. England's World Cup hopes are far from se-

cure, with Roy Hodgson's team second in its qualifying group — two points behind Montenegro with a game in hand and with four matches left. Only the group winner qualifies automatically with the runner-up facing a playoff. England hosts Moldova at Wembley on Friday and travels to Kiev to play thirdplace Ukraine on Sept. 10.

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