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LaGOS, OctObeR 3 (aP): A chartered airplane nosedived into the ground and burst into flames meters (yards) from tanks of aviation fuel Thursday, killing 14 people, Nigerian officials said. Six survivors have been rushed to the hospital, two in critical condition, Joe Obi, spokesman for Nigeria’s Aviation Ministry, told The Associated Press. He said the aircraft was carrying 20 people — 13 passengers and seven crew members. Federal Aviation Agency spokesman Yakubu Dati said the Brazilian-made turboprop Embraer-120 crashed at 9:20 a.m. (0820 GMT) shortly after taking off from Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
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Ranchi, OctObeR 3 (ianS): Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was Thursday jailed for five years for his role in the Rs.950 crore fodder scam that surfaced 17 years ago, effectively ending the electoral career of one of India’s best known politicians. These mysterious signs The sentencing -- the and symbols appeared the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) moment the govt junked the founder was also fined ordinance! Rs.25 lakh -- takes away Lalu Prasad’s membership of the Lok Sabha, where he was a familiar face, occupying one of the front benches. Lalu Prasad’s lawyers vowed to Morung Express appeal in a higher court. News “When I have not done Dimapur | October 3 any crime, how have I been A suspected electric punished?” a dazed Lalu spark led to a fire break- Prasad, 67, asked at the ing out at Circular Road Birsa Munda Central Jail here on Thursday eve- here when the special CBI ning at 6:10 pm. The fire court announced the senthat started in a garage tence. Judge Pravas Kumar and adjoining hotel also Singh retorted: “You can led to a gas cylinder burst appeal in the higher court.” Lalu Prasad’s lawyer that fuelled the fire. It earlier pleaded for a lenient threatened to engulf a nearby godown be- sentence, citing his age and fore the fire department health issues. The judge reached the spot and was also told how the Indimanaged to douse the an Railways had performed fire within an hour. The profitably when he headed godown faced minimal the ministry. CBI lawyer B.M.P. Singh demanded loss as a result. The fire deterrent punishment. department informed Among a total of 37 conthat a vehicle’s paint was victs who were sentenced partially burnt but no inThursday, former chief juries were reported. Fur- minister Jagannath Mishra ther investigations will be and Janata Dal-United leadcarried out tomorrow to er Jagdish Sharma were reveal the extent of dam- jailed for four years each. age and exact cause of fire. While Mishra, who was admitted to a hospital Wednesday after injuring himself in the bathroom, MUMbai, OctObeR 3 (tnn): The Bombay high court has directed a Juhu tenant, the lone occupant of a dilapidated building, to vacate her flat within one month. The tenant, Esther Manickam, who has been paying a monthly rent of Rs 50 for decades, was offered Rs 1 crore by the owner to move out of old building but she had refused. Justice Anoop Mohta refused to grant the tenant any relief against the demolition notice served by the BMC for the old building which has been declared dangerous. “The structure if it is required to be demolished and as except Esther all have already vacated, there is no reason that the building in question (should) be repaired by the owner only to permit her to occupy one flat in question,” said Justice Mohta.
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FILE- In this Dec. 18, 2006 file photo, Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav gestures as he greets his supporters in Patna, India. Former chief minister Prasad, a current member of India’s Parliament, was sentenced Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, to five years in jail and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine after he was convicted earlier this week of embezzling funds intended to buy food for cattle during his tenure as Bihar’s top elected official in the mid-1990s. (AP Photo)
was fined Rs.2 lakh, Sharma was fined Rs.5 lakh. There was a hushed silence as the judge sentenced Lalu Prasad for conspiracy. With only lawyers allowed in the court, an army of journalists and some Lalu Prasad supporters were massed outside. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which for years was a favourite target of Lalu Prasad, was elated. BJP’s M. Venkaiah Naidu
remarked: “Though justice has been delayed, it has not been denied.” In Patna, Lalu Prasad’s wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi alleged “a conspiracy” against her husband for which she blamed both the BJP and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Although RJD leaders claimed that Lalu Prasad would continue to guide them even from prison, he would not be able to con-
DiMaPUR, OctObeR 3 (Mexn): An elderly person was assaulted and robbed in the Dimapur Super Market area at around 4:30 am on October 3, Thursday. This incident comes only two days after Nagaland along with the rest of the world observed a day to promote honour, respect and care towards the elderly. Sixty five years old Lolao Ezung was on his way
to the State Bank of India for withdrawal of his monthly pension, when three unidentified miscreants robbed the pensioner of various documents. The miscreants even robbed him of his shoes, informed separate press notes by the Dimapur Longsa Ekhung and Dimapur Longsa Youth Forum. Lolao Ezung, a former ABSI of Longsa Village and presently residing at
Seithekidema (C ) Lotha Colony was robbed of his Pension Payment Book No 2974, Treasury token No 0842, Pension ID Card and a pair of shoes. The Dimapur Longsai Ekhung informed that the victim lodged an FIR at the East Police Station, Dimapur on the same day. The DLE while condemning the incident has urged upon the investigating agency to trace and book the culprits
DiMaPUR, OctObeR 3 (Mexn): The Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) of India will be visiting Nagaland from 4th-6th October 2013. The visit assumes significance as the Commission will be making recommendations regarding fund requirements of the State of Nagaland for the period 2015- 2020 which will be effective from 1st April 2015. According to a press note issued by Y. Kikheto Sema, Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, the members of the FFC will review the state of finances, deficit and debt levels of the State keeping in view, in particular, the fiscal consolidation road map recommended by the Thirteenth Finance Commission. The Commission will have an official meeting with the Chief Minister and officials of the State on 5th October 2013 and discus-
Tribal Hohos, Visit of Fourteenth Bodies, Trade Industries & the FFC will FC to Nagaland Commerce, also meet Representatives from Oct 4-6 of Political Parties.
test elections for six years from the date of his release. Lalu Prasad was the Bihar chief minister when the CBI filed a charge sheet June 23, 1997 accusing 56 people of fraudulently withdrawing Rs.37.70 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in 1994-95 on the strength of forged and fabricated documents. Oftheaccused,sevendied and two were pardoned after they turned approvers. Another man confessed while the then deputy commissioner of West Singhbhum district was discharged for his role in another case. A former RJD legislator, R.K. Rana, got five years’ jail and was fined Rs.30 lakh. B.N. Sharma, who supplied fodder to the Bihar government’s animal husbandry department, was asked to cough up Rs.1.5 crore -- the maximum fine imposed on anyone in the case. On Sep 30, the CBI court held all 45 accused guilty. It sentenced eight of them to three years in prison and slapped them with fines up to Rs.50 lakh. Lalu Prasad became the second politician this week to lose membership of parliament in line with a Supreme Court ruling. On Tuesday, Congress MP Rasheed Masood was jailed for four years for his role in illegally giving MBBS seats to undeserving medical students. Lalu Prasad stepped down as chief minister in 1997 when his name figured in the CBI investigation in the fodder scam.
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DiMaPUR, OctObeR 3 (Mexn): The ban on the sale of so-called “inorganic, non-branded and loose unsealed mushrooms” in Dimapur and other parts of Nagalim by the NSCN (IM) “is in all sense of the term an anti-Naga economic policy,” stated a press note issued by the Media Cell of Action Committee against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT). According to the ACAUT, in the first place, the NSCN (IM) is not the competent authority to decide which product is hygienic and which is not. The ACAUT stated that only trained professionals of Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Department are responsible for all food safety matters and that Food Safety Officers (FSO) under the CMOs of all the districts are the implementing authorities. Secondly, ACAUT said that the NSCN (IM) order is “an admission of the syndicate system patronized by the organisation” and that the latest order vindicates the stand of the ACAUT. Also that a product should be banned because it is inorganic is ridiculous, according to the ACAUT. “If we take this criterion to its logical conclusion, even tea and coffee should be banned in Nagalim including tomatoes, potatoes, vegetables and fruits and everyone would starve. Shouldn’t the slaughter and sale of meat be banned too since their feeds are inorganic?” questioned the ACAUT in its press note.
The ACAUT has also pointed to the unorganized sector where agri and allied products including local mushrooms can be marketed “non-branded, loosely and unsealed”. The ACAUT reminded that the vast unorganized sector of the Indian economy is still the “engine of the country’s growth”. As such, the ACAUT has described as “unjustified”, the demand of the NSCN (IM) asking farmers “to meet the standards of industrialized organised sectors requiring lots of capital investments and technical knowhow.” This according to the ACAUT is not only “naïve and unjust but economy-killing”. Further the ACAUT claimed that the NSCN (IM) is not equipped with labs or trained food safety inspectors to gauge the toxicity of the mushrooms. It stated that any infringement of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) guidelines “shall be gauged under standard conditions by FSOs under the CMOs of the districts”. The ACAUT has questioned as to whether the packaged and sealed “Hygienic Mushroom” of Bokajan have the license and registration of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). “And what sort of scientific rigor and test was done by NSCN (IM) to determine that the locally produced mushrooms are unhygienic and that mushrooms from ‘Hygienic Mushrooms’ (Bokajan) are hygienic and safe
for consumption?” The ACAUT has also questioned whether the “Hygienic Mushrooms” of Bokajan have the mandatory license from district Food Safety Office (FSO) under CMO, Medical department to sell its product in Nagaland. “Under what expert authority is the NSCN (IM) claiming that loose mushrooms sold in open markets contain high level of ‘fungicides’ when a mushroom itself is a fungus?” The ACAUT goes on to question as to how the NSCN (IM) can “hijack the economic interests of thousands of Naga farmers all over Nagalim for the interests of a handful of unscrupulous people in neighbouring Bokajan, Assam”. “The NSCN (IM) instead of helping the growth of Naga economy is directly destroying the livelihoods of Naga farmers and women vendors”, stated the press note. “At its core, the Naga issue is also about self-reliance on the economic aspect too. Therefore, any deviance from this core tenet qualifies as anti-Naga and the order of the NSCN (IM) is nothing but an anti-Naga economic policy. As a body representing Naga aspirations of international repute, the NSCN (IM) would do well not to belittle itself handling petty things for petty gains,” the note added. In light of the above, ACAUT felt that this was nothing but promotion of the syndicate system and market monopoly and nothing to do with concern for public health.
Pensioner assaulted and robbed Education as a positive enabler
and award them befitting punishment as per relevant sections of the law. In a separate press release, the Dimapur Longsa Youth Forum condemned what it termed as the “senseless inhumane and cruel act of the miscreants.” The forum called upon the law-enforcing agency to Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio releasing a souvenir of the ANCSU during 16th biennial genbook the culprits under rel- eral conference at Phek on October 3. (Morung Photo) evant sections and award He further stated that a cus beyond white collar jobs. befitting punishment at the Rio advocates use of civilized society needs se- He emphasized on the need earliest. education as a means curity, justice and harmony. to adopt modern agriculture Referring to Nagaland systems and enhance manuto bring positive state government’s move to facturing activities. Rio said impact in society brand Phek district as ‘The there is no dearth of job if land of tradition,’ Rio said one is willing to work. Chizokho Vero that people in Phek district Rio affirmed that the Phek | October 3 possess traditional facets of government would do its neW DeLhi, OctO- Nagaland Chief Minister, hard work, sincerity, integ- best to give opportunities beR 3 (Pti): Congress Neiphiu Rio on Thursday rity and focus. He expressed and assured to attend to vice president Rahul Gan- advocated the use of educa- hope for these ideals to exist the grievances of the studhi on Thursday spoke tion to bring about positive in all Naga inhabited areas. dents and teachers. “We about his sensational out- impact in society. He said He further urged the youth want to bring change to burst against the govern- this while addressing the to display sincerity and in- our state,” he stated. Minment’s questionable bid to 16th biennial General Con- tegrity while working for ister for Roads & Bridges and Parliamentary Affairs shield convicted lawmak- ference of the All Nagaland the future. ers. “My mother (Sonia College Students’ Union at Referring to the confer- Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu in Gandhi) told me words I Phek Town Hall. ence theme; ‘Synthesizing his speech called upon the used were wrong, but my Stating that education is education and culture,’ Rio student community to be sentiment was not,” Rahul the most important element called for modern education an agent of change in soGandhi said about trashing in human society, he urged and Naga culture to be syn- ciety. He asserted that the the ordinance as nonsense. both young and old to con- chronized, “so as to preserve government and students “I have the right to voice tinue with a zeal for learning. our culture and tradition.” need to work together. my opinion; a large part of Rio asserted that education Also speaking on the He also expounded on Congress party wanted it,” is a priority for the govern- the importance of develop- occasion, Naga Students’ Rahul Gandhi said on the ing a work culture and an Federation President, withdrawal of the ordinance ment and informed that the industrial culture. Tongpang Ozukum said the government has taken up onconvictedlawmakers.FacReferring to the service Federation had shared the colleges in all districts and ing rising public anger and bowing to Congress leader sub divisions in the state, as sector, Rio said that job ave- problem of illegal immigraRahul Gandhi’s wishes, the per demand and require- nues in the government sec- tion in the entire north east tor have reached saturation at the recent NESO meeting Union Cabinet on Wednes- ment of the people. point. He added that there held at Guwahati. He said Rio lamented that techday took barely 20 minutes to junk the contentious ordi- nical and quality education are excess government em- the NSF was proposing the nance protecting convicted is still lacking in Nagaland. ployees. Informing that initiation of appropriate lawmakers from immediate He regretted that the state there are around 60,000 ed- measures to check the indisqualification. The Cabi- is yet to have medical, en- ucated unemployed youth in flux of illegal immigrants. net not just scrapped the or- gineering and technical in- the live register of employ- “We cannot afford to sacridinance but also decided to stitutions worth the name ment exchange in Nagaland, fice our future for any cost,” Rio called for the youth to fo- he added. withdraw the bill. till now.
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sion with representatives of rural and urban local bodies, trade, industry and commerce, Tribal Hohos and political parties of the State on 6th October 2013. As per the scheduled programme made available to the local media, the highlight of the visit will be the meeting on October 5 wherein the FFC will meet with the Chief Minister, his cabinet colleagues and State government officials at the Chief Secretary’s Conference Hall. The State government will be making a power point presentation. Both the Chief Minister and the Chairman of the FFC will also address the meeting. On October 6, besides meeting with representatives of Local Urban, Rural
The members of the Fourteenth Finance Commission include Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy, former RBI Governor as Chairman. The others are Prof. Abhijit Sen, currently Member of the Planning Commission; Sushama Nath, former Finance & Expenditure Secretary; Dr. M. Govinda Rao, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; Dr. Sudipto Mundle, Honourary Emeritus Professor& Member of the Board of Governors of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi and Ajay Narayan Jha, a senior serving Bureaucrat who is the Secretary of the 14th Finance Commission. The FFC members will also be accompanied by top ranking officials from the Centre.
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Kesonyu Yhome, IAS (Morung File Photo)
Citizens call him “People’s Deputy Commissioner” and civil societies call him “capable administrator with a heart for the society.” Over the last one year, since his posting in Kiphire district as the first Indian Administrative Service officer, Kesonyu Yhome has ushered in many developmental works and positive changes. Overcoming many setbacks, Yhome is now becoming a trendsetter and making his presence felt with the stupendous growth starting from the basic development of the district.
Young and energetic officer, Kesonyu Yhome, IAS, who in his maiden posting as the Deputy Commissioner of Kiphire has been actively participating in bridging the gap in developmental works, talking law and order situation to the utmost care and making the citizen feel safe under his administratorship. Located on the eastern part of the State, Kiphire district has hardly seen any or very few benefits of central programmes like Border Region Grant Fund program. Border Region Grant Fund (BRGF) is a central scheme introduced during
2006-07 by the GoI, Ministry of Panchayat Raj to redress the developmental gap and bail out the backward district, which is an ongoing program that includes five districts in Nagaland viz Wokha, Tuensang, Kiphire Longleng and Mon of the 250 district across India. Most of the developmental activities undertaken in this programme are recorded only in paper or in a marble stone neatly engraved as BRGF. However, this year with the personal initiative of Kesonyu Yhome, Kiphire is harvesting the fruit of BRGF programme. The en-
tire stretch of road nearing 9 kilometer in the town area has been black topped making the citizens miss the potholes and bumpy rides that they have been living with for the past many years. This progress has made people realize that there are enough funds available for developmental activities for backward regions. Giving priority to healthy environment, Kesonyu Yhome (IAS) is an advocate of proper sanitation, drainage and preservation of nature and ecosystem. The DC Kiphire as a campaigner of preserving flora and fauna strongly speaks about this concern wher-
ever he visits. The Deputy Commissioner is also hardly seen out-station, making people more comfortable to make plans to visit for any official works any time during office hours. Institution like IRCS, NYK and BS&G have revived and schemes like public distribution system and other central flagship programmes are seen visible. It may be mentioned that he is also the first Deputy Commissioner in Kiphire to tour the whole villages under the district within a short time after his posting. He has travelled to some villages on foot due to non-availability of road
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connectivity. Members from different civil societies has expressed gratitude to the Deputy Commissioner for taking personal initiative in completing developmental works for the benefit of the citizens. Some members of civil societies commented that if funds were utilized judiciously like this year from the initial years, the face of the district would not be the same. They also wish that Kesonyu Yhome would serve the district for some more couple of years and expressed satisfaction in his integrity in all works he undertakes.
Naga churches pray to Art & painting competition held in Tsg ‘Be responsible govt servants’ uphold Prohibition Act Zhaleo Rio graces 16th general body
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KOhiMa, OcTOber 3 (Mexn): A day of fasting and prayer organised by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) was observed on October 1 in all the Baptist churches in Nagaland. The rationale behind the programme was to pray for the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 (NLTP). It was a time when the churches prayed for the Government of Nagaland to continue to uphold the Prohibition Act both in letter and in spirit. On this day, the Baptist churches also prayed for those who are struggling to overcome addiction to alcohol, families victimized by alcohol and people who are supplying and selling liquor that God will free them from the bondage of
alcohol and that they will be restored in Jesus Christ. It was also a time when the churches prayed for the leaders from different sections of the society who are members of our churches that they will not indulge in drinking liquor but will set an example before the public by strengthening and committed to uphold the prohibition Act. The churches also asked for God’s wisdom and direction for the church leaders in order for them to responsibly carry out the very role of moral and spiritual guardian of the land. NBCC in a press release stated that the Council is grateful to all the associations and the local churches in Nagaland for observing the fasting and prayer programme.
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Student participants at the 1st Inter-District GMS level Art and Painting Competition held at GHSS, Tuensang along with the chief guest, organizing staffs and judges. (Morung Photo)
Tuensang, OcTOber 3 (Mexn): The 1st InterDistrict Art and Painting competition organized by the Sub-Divisional Education Office was held on October 1 at GHSS, Tuensang under the theme ‘Social Awareness’. Suraksala from GMS Yangli bagged the first prize. Moalong from GMS Thonger and Shikiula from GMS Sotokur were adjudged the second and the third places respectively. Speaking on the formal
programme, chief guest Sashi Ao, DDEO, Tuensang maintained that we can express our feelings and thoughts through painting and encouraged students to take up this art seriously and contribute in creating social awareness through art and painting. Lithrong P/T GMS Angangba conducted the programme. Welcome address was delivered by Temsula, SDEO, Tuensang who stated that the competition was initiated seeing that there was no
programme for the Middle Schools though there are different activities for the High Schools. She revealed that 21 students from 7 Blocks, who won in the previously held Block-level competition, participated in the contest. Chubala, Head Teacher, GMS Hakushang also spoke on the occasion. The judges for the competition were H.P. Gupta, G/T GHS, Thangjam, R.P. Gurung G/T GPS DC Hill and N. Asenla G/T GHSS Tuensang.
TseMinyu, OcTOber 3 (Mexn): The 16th general body meeting of Rengma Officers Forum (ROF) was held on October 2 at Town Hall, Tseminyu Town. Zhaleo Rio, Parliamentary Secretary Urban Development was the chief guest. Addressing the gathering, Zhaleo Rio called upon the Rengma Gazetted Officers to work with utmost sincerity and dedication, become a responsible government servant and an agent of upliftment of the society. In Nagaland, he said, “there are many irresponsible government servants who never discharge their duties well but remain dormant, stay only in one place and become very active only at the time for collecting their monthly salaries. Such government servants are not only a liability to the state government but also to the public as well.” He expressed sincere appreciation to the retired government officers for their valuable service rendered during their service period. He encouraged them to carry on with their good work and share their vast experiences, knowledge and resources for the upliftment of the society in the rural areas. He called upon the Rengma community to work together for the unity and harmony for the Tenyimis community with the rest of
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the people of Nagaland. He appealed to the parents of young generation to learn Tenyidie language, which is a common language of Tenyimia as Tenyidie language, can bring oneness and brotherhood among the Tenyimia community. “For development, peace, unity and equal participation of the people is a must,” however, he said, “at the present scenario there are more faction, division and fragmentation not only among the underground but in the over ground as well.” In this regard, he fervently appealed to all union, various organisation and forums to come forward and become a catalyst for peace and unity and should not allow tribalism and groupism to come in the way and resolve the Naga political issue. He highlighted the ob-
stacle faced by the government to bring development and change because of the landowners. In this regard, he appealed to Rengma hoho, student leaders, and church leaders, public leaders to come together, resolve the problems, and pave the way for development in Tseminyu subdivision. Zalio assured the people to do his utmost for development of housing for urban poor and infrastructure development of Tseminyu town. During the meeting, special felicitation programme was held to honour the Rengma students who toped in the HSLC & HSSLC exams 2013 and the retired Rengma Officers, for their valuable service rendered to the Forum and the people. Er. Njilo Kemp, President, ROF in his presidential speech said that one of the main objectives of the ROF is to safeguard the right and interest of its members and impress upon the members for professional excellence. Earlier, Haiwalo Apon, Pastor Tseminyu Town Church, pronounced invocation prayer and A. Khekiya Rengma, Finance Secretary ROF delivered vote of thanks. This was stated in a press release issued by the press secretary to the parliamentary secretary Vilasielie Nakhro.
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Pastor Seok Jeon Yoon and his team from Seoul, Korea with CBCC officials at Dimapur Airport during their arrival for the CBCC Spiritual Festival 2013 scheduled to be held at Agri Expo from October 4 to 6, 2013.
Kipili assure better facilities Onam Festival to power dept field staffs celebration
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ZunhebOTO, OcTOber 3 (DiPr): The Parliamentary Secretary for Power, Kipili C. Sangtam visited Zunheboto district on October 2 and 3. On his visit, he attended the departmental co-ordination meeting at executive engineer, electrical division office Zunheboto where he said that his purpose of visit to the district was to see the maintenance and management of the department, revenue and discipline & co-ordination of the department staff. He encouraged the staff to maintain strict attendance and to work for the service of the people of the district in particular and the people of Nagaland in general, and added that an appropriate award according to ones performance will be given to the performing staffs. Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto Akato Sema and Addl. Chief Engineer, Power, Er. Imlikumzuk also gave exhortations. Er Tiameren, EE Power chaired the pro-
gramme. Later, the Parliamentary Secretary visited the power house Zunheboto and held an interaction with the field staffs where he said that the revenue target for the district should be achieved. He assured that better facilities would be provided to the field staffs like transport (motorbike) and better safety kits and further warned that action against illegal connections and power theft will be taken. The Parliamentary Secretary also had a meeting with the administration, SP Zunheboto and Power department officers at DC’s Chamber where he said that important issues pertaining to land, anti theft and power revenue target etc were discussed. He also announced to provide 20 nos of street lights at Zunheboto town as a mark of his visit. The Parliamentary Secretary was accompanied by departmental officials from Kohima and party workers.
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DiMaPur, OcTO ber 3 (Mexn): Kerala Samajam Dimapur will be celebrating Onam Festival with a grand cultural event in Town Hall, Dimapur on October 6 at 2.30 pm onwards. Tovihoto Ayemi, Parliamentary Secretary for IT, Science & Technology, Technical Education and Taxes will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Kerala Samajam Dimapur has made all the arrangements for the programme, which is an occasion for all the Malayalees living in and around Dimapur to come together and share the joy of Onam festival. Highlights of this year’s Onam celebration will be cultural presentations, songs, dances and one-man comedy show by Sajeesh Kuttanellur, a renowned TV Stage performer from Kerala.
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Manipur bandh on Indo31 killed in Assam road accident Burma border fencing fracas
A boy, injured in the road accident, is rushed for treatment at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital in Guwahati, Assam on Thursday, October 3. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Guwahati, OctOber 3 (iaNS): In one of the worst road accidents in Assam this year, 31 people were killed and 16 others injured Thursday as a
speeding truck hit a small passenger vehicle and dragged it backwards, hitting another small vehicle, in Barpeta district. Both passenger ve-
hicles turned turtle under the impact of the collision, leading to the death of 28 people on the spot. Police said three others died later in hospital. Among the de-
ceased were 12 children, eight women and the drivers of the two passenger vehicles, police said. The accident occurred at Dahlapara in Barpeta,
around 150 km from state capital Guwahati, at about 4.30 a.m. Thursday. "The 16 injured people are under treatment at hospitals in Guwahati, Barpeta and Bongaigaon. The condition of five is critical," police said. Police said many of the victims were workers at brick kilns and hailed from Dhubri district. They were on their way to Rangia, 60 km west of Guwahati. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi ordered an inquiry into the accident and announced ex-gratia payment of Rs.1 lakh to the kin of each of the victims. Gogoi also visited some of the injured at the Barpeta Medical College and Hospital. The chief minister directed authorities to strictly enforce speed limits, prevent rash driving and overloading of passengers and goods on vehicles. He also sought that proper and periodic verification of driving licences be made to prevent such accidents in future.
imphal, OctOber 3 (NNN): Irked by the Manipur Government’s alleged lack of concern over the Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing issue, the Committee on Protection of Land in Border Fencing, Manipur has called for a 12-hour state wide bandh on October 7. CDLBF coordinator Ngachonmi Ranshang while talking to media persons at the Press Club here on Thursday, said the decision to impose the general strike was taken after the state Government turned down the committee’s ultimatum served to it. He said the committee had urged the Government to give a positive answer to the boundary issue by September 27 last however it has turned a blind eye to it till date. “Since the Government has refused to give the response even after the
Manipur tour service revisits forgotten Battle of Imphal imphal, OctOber 3 (DNa): The year was 1944. A battle was raging across Manipur, with the British-led Allies defending themselves against the Japanese invasion. The ultimate defeat of the Japanese at Imphal and Kohima, halted their progress to Delhi and proved to be a turning point in the Burma Campaign in World War II. For Japan, this loss marked the end of its invincible era and imperialist ambitions. The battle of Imphal, which will complete 70 years next year, and the battle of Kohima, were recently voted “Britain’s Greatest Battles” in a contest run by Britain’s National Army Museum. And yet many Indians are unaware of these battles, which involved soldiers of
the Indian National Army (INA). To change this, Eastern Heritage Trails (EHT), founded by Hemant Singh Katoch and his friends, introduced the Battle of Imphal and four other tours. “It is a half or fullday tour that takes you to all the important sites in and around Imphal that are related to the Battle,” shares Katoch. The Victoria Cross Tour takes you to the battlefields where five Victoria Crosses (the highest British military award for bravery) were won in Manipur, and includes stories of the men who displayed outstanding courage. It ends with a visit to the graves of two Victoria Cross recipients in Second World War. The Imphal Walk goes through Mapal Kangjeibung, the world’s oldest
forces had estab- enormous advantages beThe Battle of Imphal Tour is a British lished defensive positions cause the battle was mosthalf-day excursion that covers to prevent the Japanese ly in the countryside and advancing towards the hills still look the same. Second World War-era sites from the Imphal Valley. Trees maybe fewer and one
polo ground where the game is still played; Khwairamband Keithel or Ima Market, one of Asia’s largest markets run entirely by women; the Kangla Fort, seat of an ancient Manipuri kingdom for 2000 years; and the lanes of Paona Bazaar. The Tiddim Road Tour visits the only Japanese War Memorial in India, battlefields such as Ningthoukhong’s where two Victoria Crosses were awarded in June 1944; Loktak Lake, the largest freshwater lake in north east India; Keibul Lamjao National Park, the only floating national park in the world, and INA’s only
Memorial Complex in the world at Moirang. The Battle of Imphal Tour is a half-day excursion that covers a Second World War-era airfield (Koirengei or Imphal Main), two war cemeteries, a battlefield (Nunshigum) and the colonial-era Slim Cottage, which was once the headquarters of the British 14th Army in charge of operations in Burma. The Shenam Saddle Tour treats people to trenches and spectacular views from Shenam Saddle, a series of hills, between the villages of Shenam (Sinam) and Tengnoupal, along the road on which
Court cancels bail order in Pallel drug case
imphal, OctOber 3 (NNN): The Manipur High Court today cancelled the bail order issued by NDPS to release the seven accused in the Pallel drug haul case and at the same time the High Court ordered all the accused to surrender before the NDPS within one week. Justice N Kotiswar of the High Court of Manipur cancelled the bail order. The ruling of the court said the bail has been cancelled as per the Supreme Court directive that says any individual arrested in connection with psychotropic drugs smuggling case cannot be granted bail. State Government’s petitioner in the case, advocate RS Reisang said the seven accused were released on bail in July last by the Special Court Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances after they were lodged in judicial custody for 120 days. He said, “Drug smug-
glers can be given bail after 180 days of judicial custody. However the accused in the Pallel drug haul case cannot be given bail because the drugs which were seized from their possession were mostly psychotropic substances.” Col Choudhry, Ng Brojendro and RK Babaloo were released on bail on July 12 by NDPS while Lunkhohao Haokip, Seikholen Haokip, Zangminthang, Tuboi and Letminlan Haokip were released on July 17. After their release, Manipur Government filed a case in Manipur High Court against the bail order of NDPS on August 20 this year. The hearing of this case was held in the court on September 24 and again on September 26. However, the ruling was announced by the court on Thursday after reserving it for one week. Reisang further said psychotropic drugs which
aGartala, OctOber 3 (iaNS): The Tripura government has ordered a probe against an NGO which reportedly enrolled housewives as sex workers to manipulate funds sanctioned to campaign against AIDS, a minister said Thursday. "The government has ordered an investigation. If the NGO is found responsible for any wrongdoing, the government will take stern against perpetrators," Health and Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said. Congress leader Birajit Sinha had raised the issue in September. The NGO, in north Tripura's Kailashahar area, had allegedly enrolled around 600 housewives as sex workers and siphoned lakhs of rupees,
Sinha told the House. He said that housewives, tea workers and women belonging to minority groups had been enrolled as sex workers without their knowledge.
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contained ketamine worth over Rs 24 crore were seized from the seven accused and therefore further serious investigation into the case is highly needed so that the kingpins in the drug smuggling case can be arrested. Col Choudhry along with his accomplices were nabbed
by a team of Thoubal police commandos when carrying the drugs in three vehicles at Pallel in Chandel district on February 24, 2013. Social organizations including student bodies and NGOs in the state had strongly opposed the bail plea of the seven accused.
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Also included are the Kakching Garden and a visit to the Khongjom War Memorial. Katoch, previously a project manager in a research organization, is the only guide and has permanently moved to Manipur from Delhi. He researched about Manipur and the battle for years, poring over dozens of books related to the state, and visited all the places to see their current condition. The research made him realise the enormity of the war and inspired him to start the tour. He says, “It seemed like the right time to put a spotlight on it, and a heritage tour in Imphal has
may sight the odd mobile phone tower, but the sites are largely untouched.” EHT has conducted nine Battle of Imphal tours, for 50 people, including a man whose brother fought in Kohima and an old Japanese man who was knowledgeable about their side of the war. Katoch plans to encourage and train more locals to carry out the tours. At present, Leishangthem Chengleinganba Meetei, pursuing Masters in History, takes people for the Imphal Walks. If you know of someone linked to the battle, Katoch will try and “retrace their steps.”
clear demarcation can Medical be carried out for erection of fencing. related India shares a 349 km activities, long border with Myanmar. the Manipur section of the education, On border, the Pillar Numbers falls under Churachanwater supply 32-48 dpur district, Pilllar Numbers and media 49-89 are in Chandel district and Pillar Numbers 90-130 excluded in Ukhrul district.
dateline has ended, we’ve no any other option but to enforce the strike from 5 am to 5 pm of October 7 to put further pressure”, Ranshang said. He, however, said medical related activities, education, water supply and the media will not be within the purview of the strike and appealed to the public to extend support in enforcing it. CDLBF has demanded the Government for a resurvey of the Indo-Myanmar boundary so that a
CDLBF has maintained that a total of 43 villages inhabited by about 2,969 households numbering about 18,000 people on the Manipur side will be affected by the Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing. Abijiast Seiyao, also coordinator of the committee, demanded that if the Government of India has to conduct a re-survey on the Indo-Myanmar boundary, the Rangoon Agreement of March 10, 1967 should be invoked and done everything according to the agreement.
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Banks to offer cheaper loans to NTC rebuts to stimulate consumer demand: Govt Naga Hoho
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 (PTI): Ahead of the festival season, the government today decided to enhance capital infusion into the PSU banks over and above what was provided in the budget to enable them to extend more credit to auto and consumer durables sectors to stimulate demand and combat slowdown. The decision to increase the quantum of capital infusion was taken at a meeting between Finance Minister P Chidambaram, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram here. “This amount (Rs 14,000 crore provided for capital infusion in Budget) will be enhanced sufficiently. The additional amount of capital will be provided to banks to enable them to lend to borrowers in selected sectors such as two-wheeler, consumer durables, etc at lower rates in order to stimulate demand,” a finance ministry statement said. It further said the additional fund infusion would help in combating slowdown and boost output. “While this will bring relief to consumers, especially the middle class, it is also expected to give a boost to capacity addition, employment and production,” it added. As per the latest industrial output data, the output of the
consumer durables sector declined by 9.3 per cent in July, from a growth of 0.8 per cent in the same month last year. The segment saw a 12 per cent decline in output in April-July compared with growth of 6.1 per cent. Consumer durables, a reflection of demand for manufactured products, include TV, fridge, washing machine. The two-wheeler sales recorded a flat growth of 0.72 per cent in April-August period current fiscal, as against a growth of 6.8 per cent in the corresponding period last year. The meeting, which lasted for over an hour, discussed credit growth in different sectors. The quantum of additional capital infusion, however, was not disclosed by the government. “At the end of September 2013, growth of gross bank credit stood at about 18 per cent Y-o-Y basis. However, credit growth is sluggish in some sectors leading to conclusion that demand in this sector remains subdued,” the statement said. “Based on the discussions, government has decided in principle to enhance the amount of capital to be infused in PSU banks,” the statement added. The decision to enhance additional capital infusion comes ahead of the central bank’s board meeting tomorrow in Raipur,
which would be attended by Mayaram and Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Takru, among others. The RBI board meets at least once every quarter to discuss key economic and financial developments. The four deputy governors are the official directors on the board and two government nominees. There are also 11 nonofficial directors on RBI board. The board meet assumes significance in the wake of economic growth falling to a four year low of 4.4 per cent and current account deficit (CAD) at an elevated level of 4.9 per cent in the AprilJune quarter. While the government has been emphasising on measures for incentivising growth, the RBI in its policy review last month had hiked interest rates by 0.25 per cent. The RBI is scheduled to announce its second quarter policy review on October 29. Although Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other government functionaries are expecting the growth to improve in the second half of this fiscal, Asian Development Bank in its recent report lowered India’s growth projection for 2013-14 to 4.7 per cent. The economic growth rate slipped to a decade’s low level of 5 per cent in 2012-13.
Skoda introduces new Octavia in India at Rs.13.95 Lakh
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NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 (LIvEmINT): Skoda Auto India Pvt. Ltd, a Volkswagen Group company, introduced a new variant of the Octavia sedan, priced atRs.13.95 lakh. The diesel variant of the car starts at Rs.15.55 lakh. All prices are ex-showroom, Delhi. “This car is heart of our brand. This is the best possible offering in the segment,” said Paul Szuflak, director (marketing and sales), Skoda India. Skoda India’s managing director Sudhir Rao said the company is starting a five-year growth strategy with this car.
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“We are doing it in stages. We are enhancing customer service. We are working on enhancing product. We are setting the stage for value-luxury brand,” Rao said. The firm launched a service package for the Octavia that includes roadside assistance, service and maintenance and a warranty programme. When asked if Skoda has plans to bring smaller cars to India, Rao said, “We will come out with additional products. We have development plans for small cars and small cars are not off the shelf.”
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TC once again reiterates that the formation of Nagaland Tribes Council clearly defines the ambit of its jurisdiction as within the state of Nagaland. It has on several occasions categorically declared its aims and objectives to continue to promote, protect and preserve the social fabric and the cultural heritage of its communities, fostering a sense of unity, fraternity and brotherhood among the Naga tribes of Nagaland. In this regard, it is hereby clarified to all Nagas that by its formation, NTC will in no way dilute nor deter the Naga struggle for social and political fraternity. NTC goal is to strengthen the already existing bonds within the Nagas of Nagaland and to cater to the needs of the Nagas at this juncture of diverse and multifarious expectations. Formation of NTC has been made after wide ranging consultation with various leaders of the tribes in Nagaland which yearns for such a platform of the Nagas of Nagaland. Therefore, it is in no way an infringement or downgrade upon the authority of already existing and recognized organizations. It is simply a fulfillment of the peoples aspirations. As stated in several of its publications, NTC is a purely Civil Organization of like-
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minded Nagas of Nagaland who have deliberated minutely and brought about collective agendas to address the social upliftment of all concerned Naga citizens of Nagaland. Therefore the Naga Hoho which is a Pan Naga organization should not obstruct the formation of NTC. NTC once more reiterates that by its formation and through its agendas and objectives, we in no way hinder, disturb or impede any existing social organizations. NTC will work in a manner to foster cooperation and solidarity with all recognized groups and organizations uplifting and strengthening the all round capacity of all Nagas of Nagaland. To this end we remain committed.
“On corruption another form of head hunting”
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hile appreciating the enlightening article “Corruption another form of head hunting appearing in newspaper on 25.09.2013, I have this to say :- Everyone must have realized how the approval or otherwise of the society can change the age old habit of head hunting and that the same is also capable to change any bad habit including corruption in Nagaland. The truth is, it is the word of God that
changes the mind of the Society. The question therefore is are we ready to take the decision and repent instead of merely shout slogans and continue to practice corruption. While we are happy to call ourselves decent, brave and honest Nagas should we not take renewed decision to believe Christ and be in His righteousness. So far apart from passing pious resolutions, holding rally and shouting slogans against corruption, taxes, rapes, etc., we do nothing according to the word of God — i.e. ‘Resist the devil and it will flee from you.’ Political parties are fun of taking every opportunity to criticize its opponent but will lead the State to more corruption with every change of Government. Therefore, the solution does not call for cosmetic change of Government but deepest change of heart called ‘Repentance’. We need Revival of the Holy Spirit. Thus, the article of “Head hunting of corruption” is a call for the Churches to lead the people to give up corruption at every level of the Society. Surely if head hunting practiced for ages could be done away with the introduction of Christianity in the 19th Century, the same is still more than powerful enough to do away with corruptions and all evils of the Society after we return to God from all of our wicked ways. To God be glory, Amen. T.L.Angami
Opinion On How To End Racism In Indians
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remember the first time I became uncomfortably aware of people staring at me, was in 1962 when I was the lone Fresher from a North-East State at Gwayer Hall, Delhi University. I was descending the Stairs from my Room No 9 on the First Floor and was walking down the Stair to the Dining Hall on the Ground Floor across the Rooms; when a very lanky Student who sat at the door of his room stared at me the moment I became visible to him at the foot of the Stairs. His Skin was butter white; arms hairy and he had two very fine pencil thin jet black eyebrows. Below the memorable eye brows was two of the largest, whitest, Eye-balls, as big as a flawless Table Tennis Ball I ever saw in whole of Stephen Hawkin’s Cosmos, I still remember vividly to this day 51 years after. All the teases and the taunts of Chinkis, pokes, peers from the corner of the eyes, the gawking at Public Places and the sudden withdrawals of inquisitive infants in the Airports, Gardens and the staring, of any person from South of the Sahara and the North
East, is an Indian, not others. Nowhere in the Selfridges or Marks & Spencer in London or at Omega Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich or other places exhibit petty discriminations on the dark skinned or the yellow Skinned than the differential Services at Tables in Hotels, Airplanes, Shops Counters and many others places, revealing a common behavior in many Indians. Nagas have the habit of using not very beautiful terms for Tribes other than his or her own. The Angamis, when talking in distinctive terms for other Tribes say: ‘Se tala mezha’, commonly for formerly Loin clothed Nagas; ‘Mezhaamie’, in low bass tone for Zeliangs; ‘Dzütsüko’: ‘Neuters’ for Khasis and ‘Thevoko’: Pig for the Mizos for their stout hefty appearances. The Aos describe Angamis as: ‘Azü Achirtem’, Dog eaters’; Trans-Dikhu Tribes as ‘Meyir’ and Sümis as ‘Moyar’. These Terms Identity Tribes than derogatory ones unlike the Scheduled Caste ‘Chamars’ are viewed in the Indian social hierarchy. In the educated Naga society today,
the earlier uglier Terms are progressively replaced by the actual name of the Tribe, like Angamis, Aos, Lothas, Konyaks, Mizos, Khasis and Tangkhuls etc for a person from the Tribe. Nagas often, very regrettably mistreat laborers from mainland India not giving thought they are agents for increasing our economy. We are now slowly realizing Indians are much more ‘chalak’ than us but they do for us what we cannot do and increase our Income. In everything there is a limit but in peaceful civility and decency the limit should stretch very long. Everywhere people, particularly small children, are curious at strangers with uncommon looks, but ‘looking at’ or using the Eyes to see something is not ‘staring’ which is looking fixedly at something often without goodwill. If the stare is at something uncommon in the Sky or at a big Great Dane in the Shop in wonderment and admiration; it is natural but if it is at a stranger Human Being who has conscience and sense of propriety, it reveals a degree of civilized
insensitivity of the perpetrator. The solution to this insensitivity should start from the Perpetrators who know best why they do it; than from others like the North Easterners or from people of other Continents. A Kenyan student friend in the University confided to me shockingly that he was taunted “Buffalo” by “Indian” children outside the Hostel! Perhaps the single most important step in the search for solution is: ‘Not To Stare At Strangers; whether black or green or yellow or white’ many Indians seem to feel no hesitation to. The endeavor should start from the Home and teaching our children not to stare at Strangers is the first step. If one wants to see a Stranger very closely, why not extend a Hand for a Handshake and say: ‘Hello’ and then start a short conversation sizing him or her to one’s heart content instead of Staring at him or looking sideway queerly at him/her. Thepfulhouvi Solo
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Biking to promote Govt set rules for coal mining Peace and Harmony
niously in Dimapur which she termed as ‘a mini India’. “I wish and pray that we continue to live in harmony.” She also called for everyone to bring a sense of affinity and also create bonding between different social groups among Indians. She wished a successful journey ahead and fulfillment of the cause. The group will be leaving on Friday morning to Imphal via Kohima.
Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): In a bid to make the Nagaland Coal Policy effective, the Directorate of Geology and Mining of the Government of Nagaland has put together a revenue collection system for the control of mines that will be applicable with effect from October 1. The Directorate has informed all licensees, village councils and stake holders that “coal royalty shall be collected based on the actual quantity of coal being carried by the coal carrying truck as per the prescribed rate of the Govt.” Further, it informed that the “Authorized Officer” and staff shall take proper measurement of the coal carrying truck body and “after calculation of the quantity of coal or referring to the ready reckoner kept for the purpose; revenue shall be collected at Rs. 290/- per tonne from the Licensees and Rs. 435/per tonne from the non-Licensees respectively.” While stating that the authorized Officer and
staff shall have the power to seize coal carrying truck, which are transporting without having valid Mining Lease and coal Challan, the press release from the Director of Geology and Mining, S.K. Kenye, made clear that “those seized coal carrying trucks shall be imposed with ten times penalty of the normal rate of royalty.” Further, the press release informed that “The Licensees/Mining lease holders can deposit advance royalty to the Director through the District In Charges. The Director or his authorized officer shall issue Transit Pass (T.P.) against such advance royalty deposited and the same shall be monitored and regularized with coal challan at the mines or gates by the District In Charges (DIC).” The designated DICs shall enforce policy and rules in their respective districts for effective control of mines, transportation of coal and revenue generation, stated the Directorate.
“Therefore, all grievances, correspondences and necessary action pertaining to official matters at the district level may be addressed to the concerned DICs.” They are: Er. Tsuknung Jamir, Mining Engineer and DIC Longleng; Er. Vikiye Sema, Mining Engineer and DIC Mon, Er. Tesinlo Semy, Mining Engineer and DIC Mokokchung and Er. Posatho Ngouri, Drilling Engineer and DIC Wokha. Setting up some measures for accountability, the release also informed that “Joint surprise checking of illegal coal mines and transportation shall be conducted regularly. And those illegal mines along with mining machineries shall be seized and confiscated. Therefore, those operators operating their mines without valid Mining Lease are requested to obtain Mining Lease from the Department of Geology and Mining, Govt. of Nagaland with immediate effect.”
Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): To enhance the agricultural scenario in the state, School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development, (SASRD) Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus, in collaboration with state Department of Agriculture and ICAR, Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre is organizing Naga Kheti Mela 2013 from September 17 to 19 at SASRD, Medziphema campus. The Mela, under the theme “Towards Sustainable Agriculture” aims to create a platform for effective transfer of modern technologies to the farming community, to showcase quality produce of the Officials of Tesophenyu Group Mothers Union (TGMU), farmers/growers, to faciliKohima with the members of Old Age Home, Meriema on tate interactions of farmers with experts in agri and alSeptember 28.
lied sectors, to address issues of farmers on crops/ livestock production and protection related problems, according to a press release issued by the Mela Organizing Secretary Dr Akali Sema. The Mela will also showcase exhibits and products and will be a platform to promote entrepreneurs, Self Help Groups, innovators and dealers of agricultural inputs. The exhibitions and agri clinics will be regular events during the entire Mela and there will also be sales of agri inputs at subsidized rates. On October 17, the Mela will start at 8.00 am with registration of the farmers. Various exhibitions/demonstrations along with video show on modern agriculture technologies will be
carried out by the different departments of SASRD, NU, ICAR, State agri. & allied departments, CIH, KVKs, and ATMA etc. On the second day, there will be a visit to various institutions/ farms like CIH, Bio Control Lab, Bio Fertilizer Lab & ICAR, Jarnapani. This will be followed by two parallel Farmers- Scientists interactive sessions on “Sustainable Crop production” and “Livestock – A sustainable livelihood”. Post lunch, there will be a Farmers-Scientists interactive session on “Agricultural Schemes for empowering farmers”. On October 19, there will be various method demonstrations at SASRD farm for the farmers to learn practically. This demonstration will encompass
integration of all related departments for focus crops of the state (Paddy & Banana) and important livestock of our state “piggery”. This will be followed by valedictory function. The Mela is expecting to host farmers from all over Nagaland along with state government officials from 11 districts as well as other organizations working in the sector. Besides, any farmers interested to see the demonstrations, interact with the scientists, consult experts for various problems, know about different schemes available for farming community, learn about various inputs in agriculture crop production have been invited to visit the Mela between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm everyday from October 17 to 19.
Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): In a gesture to promote National Peace and Harmony and to create awareness that the Northeast is an integral part of India, 35 bikers reached Dimapur today. Travelling all the way from Pune on bikes, the delegates are on an expedition under the theme “West meets and greets East and Northeast”. Led by Dr Sandeep Mahind, the motorcyclists taking part in the tour are from different parts of India, and carrying the message of 'Sashakt Bharat' (Strong India). The initiative is taken to remember 50 years of India-China War, to reconnect with the brothers and sisters of Northeast and initiate a sustained relationship with them, and also to pay tributes to the martyrs and heroes of Northeastern states and maintain National Peace and Harmony. The rally which began on September 21 would com-
memorate in Guwahati on October 9. The Dimapur Rotary Club members accorded a warm welcome to delegates of Shashakt Bharat and received them at Nagaland Gate around 4:30 pm. Later, the group was felicitated at a program held at Rotary Centre Midland, Dimapur. Rotary Club also acknowledged the presence of three young children, who are also part of the rally. Welcoming the bikers and support staff on behalf of Nagaland, Chief Guest of the programme, Hushili, Deputy Commissioner appreciated the yatra undertaken for a better cause. “The kind of challenge you have taken up coming all the way is admirable, and I hope you all serve as an example to others in the country,” she said to the bikers. She also explained that people from different religions are living harmo-
Dr. Sandeep Mahind, who led the bikers from Pune, speaking at the felicitation program hosted by Rotary Club, Dimapur (Morung Photo)
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MEx FILE CM extends festival greetings KOhima, OctOber 3 (mexN): Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has extended greetings on the occasion of Yemshe and Tsokum festivals which are celebrated by the Pochury and Khiamniungam tribes respectively. The Chief Minister desired that the festivals are celebrated in a peaceful manner under a spirit of unity, understanding and oneness of Naga society. He also wished successful conduct of all the programmes and functions held to commemorate the festivals.
ASA offers condolences
KOhima, OctOber 3 (mexN): Angami Sports Association (ASA) has expressed deep sadness over the sudden and untimely demise of Vimetsule, wife of Thepfukha-o Chupuo, Property Secretary of ASA on October 3. “Because of her dedication and sincerity at home, our colleague Thepfukha-o Chupuo could spare many of his valuable times in the service of the youth and for the Angami Sports Association,” ASA stated in a condolence message appended by its general secretary. Further, stating that her death has created a great vacuum in the Association, ASA conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that the almighty grant them solace and comfort.
KPC annual sports meet
KOhima, OctOber 3 (mexN): The Kohima Press Club will hold its annual sports meet on October 5, 2013 (Saturday) from 9:00 am onwards. In this regard, all its members have been informed to take note of the time and be present for the event. There will be four different games, including chess, carom, table tennis, and Chinese checker exclusively for women.
DPDB Peren meeting
pereN, OctOber 3 (mexN): All the District Planning & Development Board members of Peren are informed that the monthly DPDB meeting for the month of October will be held on October 7, 11:00 am at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner at the New District Headquarters. All the members have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.
IMFL seized at Heritage Village
KOhima, OctOber 3 (mexN): The Phesama Thenumia mechü krotho and Kigwema Women Society in a combined operation, aided by volunteers from the two villages seized IMFL amounting to more than 1 lakh from stalls at Kisama Heritage Village and destroyed the same today morning in front of the Heritage gate, Kisama in the presence of SDO (Civil) Jakhama. The women bodies were joined by members of the Phesama and Kigwema villages, Southern Angami Women Organization, SASU, Kigwema YO, Phesama YO, the students' bodies of the two villages among many. Speaking at the destruction of the seized IMFLs, leaders of the organizations that attended expressed concern over the sale of IMFL within Heritage village despite repeated cautions from various bodies of the two villages. The organizations also further requested the government to come up with stringent laws to punish the defaulters who were selling IMFL within Heritage Village. With reference to indigenous drinks being sold during the Hornbill festival, the organizations appealed to the Government for allocation of permits with proper regulation.
Mkg DPDB on Oct 10
OctOber 3 (Dipr): Deputy Seminar held to promote and Training on future trading of agri commodities mOKOKchuNg, Commissioner, Mokokchung, Murohu Chosto has in-
preserve Lotha cultural values WOKha, OctOber 3 (mexN): With an objective to revive and educate the younger generation and also to promote and preserve the cultural values of the Lothas, Kyong Naga Cultural Society (KNCS) Governing Body, for the first time organised a one day seminar on ‘Ete Yi’ (Our dialect) and ‘Ete Tokhu jiang’ (Our festivals). The seminar organized under the theme, ‘Ete Jüli; Ete Cheka’ (Our Culture; our identity) in collaboration with KNCS Oking Kohima, Wokha Unit and Dimapur Unit was held on October 2 at DC’s conference hall. A press release issued by Cultural Convenor, KNCS Oking Richard Murry informed that the seminar was graced by Dr. TM Lotha, MLA as the chief guest. Stating that our culture is our identity and our life, Dr. TM Lotha appreciated the organizing committee for taking up such a challenging step with objectives to promote, research and to preserve culture. Further, emphasizing on dignity of
labour and hard work, the MLA said though Indian central government is sanctioning crores of rupees to our state, there will not be development until and unless the Naga people strive and work hard. Referring to Geneses 11: 1, 7, 8 and 9, the theme speaker Rev. Dr. L. Tsanso, E-Evangelist SEA shared that Lotha language is in the verge of extinction because of invasion by other languages. He also projected a brief classification on the culture and tradition of the Lothas. Meanwhile, speaking on the topic ‘Our dialect’, Fr. Dr. Abraham Lotha, Principal St. Joseph’s College Jakhama said that Lotha dialect is unique from other Naga tribes. He called upon the crowd to preserve and promote the cultural values. A senior citizen T.C. Kithan spoke on the topic ‘Our festivals’. Sharing on the ways the forefathers celebrated Tokhu Emong, the senior citizen lamented the loss of cultural practises of the Lotha Naga.
KOhima, OctOber 3 (Dipr): ATMA Kohima in collaboration with Institute of Co-operative Management Imphal conducted a training programme on future trading of agriculture commodities on September 28 at ATMA conference hall, Kohima.
Topics on ‘Price Discovering and Risk Management’, ‘History of Future Trading and Regulators of future trading’ were presented by resource persons APPO, DAO Kohima, Kekhrieletuo Yhome and Dy. PD, ATMA Kohima, Rosalane Kithan respectively. Earlier
Director of Institute of Co-operative Management, Imphal, K. Joychandra Singh gave the keynote address. Altogether there were 45 participants comprising of District Farmer’s friends, Village Marketing Committee members and ATMA functionaries.
Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): Rongmei Baptist Association Nagaland (RBAN) inaugurated its Project Facilitation Team (PFT) office – Tening Block of North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) under Ministry of DoNER, Government of India, which is funded by World Bank on October 2. A press release issued by RBAN Development Secretary Akeina Gonmei informed that the inaugural programme was held
under the leadership of Rev. H.M. Gonmei, Executive Secretary, RBAN and in the presence of Lungchuibo, Chairman, Tening Town Council. NERLP Project Manager, Peren district Rovile highlighted the implementing procedures and fund flow system of NERLP. Besides, according to the release, he sought cooperation of the people to develop Peren district in particular and Nagaland state in general.
Further, the release informed that the office has been established with a vision to help the poor. Earlier, Rev. H.M. Gonmei thanked Lungchuibo, Chairman, Tening Town Council and his colleagues, Liangmei Baptist Association (LBA), Rovile, District Project Manager, NERLP and his team, church leaders and G.Bs Union, Peren District for their cooperation towards Rongmei Baptist Association Nagaland.
NERLP project facilitation team office opened
formed all the members of Mokokchung District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) that the DPDB meeting for the month of October 2013 will be held on October 10 at DC’s conference hall from 11:00 am.
SSUK 30th annual freshers’ meet held
Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): Sangtam Students’ Union Kohima celebrated 30th annual freshers’ meet at State Academy Hall on September 28 with Changkei Konyak, DIG (NPTO) Kohima as the chief guest and Thsapong Thongrü as guest of honour. While addressing the students, the chief guest stressed on the state of affairs of Nagaland and encouraged them to adopt truthful and honest life from the beginning in order to avoid being a corrupt bureaucrat and Government servant in the future. Quoting Rabindranath Tagore, the chief guest said that offering, taxes and donation received from the name of various organizations and societies would contribute very less for the welfare and smart function of the society. Meanwhile, the guest of honour encouraged the students that “just as a fish cannot live without water; a student cannot live without books.” He added, “The shield for better person tomorrow is the love of books today.” ENSUK president delivered the vote of thanks and SUK president Seopi exhorted the gathering.
Rock for a Change: Initiative to empower youth Python rescued and housed at NZP
KOhima, OctOber 3 (mexN): Come November 9, Khuzama will be ushering a new form of youth empowerment as The Dream Team, a group of three young and enthusiastic youths – Asi Kera, Zhovito Tsükrü and Razouvikhol Lüho give wings to their dreams of awakening their fellow generation to new hopes and dreams. Interacting with media persons at the launch of the Rock for a Change mega concert at Orami, Kohima today, Razouvikhol, counsellor with NACO and the PRO of The Collective termed the mega concert as the first event for the team's Touch Khuzama project which has been initiated to provide a viable source of ready avenue towards self empowerment and generate a sense of entrepreneurship among the youths of Khuzama. The project aims to create
(L-R) The Dream Team members Razouvikhol Lüho, Zhovito Tsükrü and Asi Kera
self-employment, promote tourism and culture, sustainable development, dignity of labour, talents and skills of the younger generation. Razouvikhol explained that Touch Khuzama would work first among the youths of Khuzama and then slowly towards other
regions of the state. Zhovito, a student leader and also the second member of the team cited the example of the recent Arab uprising due to unemployment and expressed his concern of a similar collapse in the Naga society. "If we wait too long we will
indeed collapse,” he said. “Our state needs to move out from the government salary economy to an entrepreneurial economy and with lots of avenues available the Team envisions to create awareness among the younger generation about the need of self employment.” Meanwhile, Asi Kera, a budding entrepreneur and proprietor of Orami, a Naga cuisine restaurant explaining the visions of the group stressed on the need to promote and encourage local entrepreneurship. He stated, "The level of frustration due to unemployment among the youth today is high and searching for alternate means of employment other than a government job is the only means to curb the frustration." He added, “We consider the Touch Khuzama project
as an opportunity for us to impress upon the younger generation and a time for us to give back to the society." The time has come for us to stop depending too much on the government and play the blame game, he asserted. “It’s time we did something to stand on our own feet.” The Dream Team intends to promote self employment through tourism and entrepreneurship in Khuzama through their maiden Touch Khuzama project, while trying to spread their wings to different parts of the State gradually. And, to start it with showcasing young local artists seems only fair. The Rock for Change concert will feature prominent local artists like Divine Connection, Mengu Suokhrie, Kenei Chale, Azeena Kahmei, Diethozo Thakro and Asi Kera.
The python which was rescued and brought to Nagaland Zoological Park on October 2.
Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP), Rangapahar added to its family of wildlife a python measuring about 7 feet and weighing about 8 Kgs on October 2. According to a press release issued by the NZP Officer-in-charge Obed Bohovi Swu, the python was rescued by NZP staff along
with local residents from Imkong Lenden, Block B-3 area. It is presently housed in a temporary enclosure and is under observation. The Director has conveyed sincere thanks to the people of the locality for assisting the department in rescuing the python and further urged everyone to help conserve and protect our wild-
life wealth, the note read. Meanwhile, on September 26, one Indian porcupine was donated to NZP by Z. Temsu from Signal Basti. Later the same day, one Rhesus Macaque was also donated by some people. Deputy Commandant 10th NAP (IR) Zhadima also donated one adult small Indian civet to the Zoo on September 29.
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express FrIDAy 4 OcTObEr 2013 vOl. vIII IssuE 272
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wo major infrastructure projects for Nagaland related to connectivity—one road and the other rail—have been approved recently at the highest level of the Government of India. In fact both of them—the four laning of the Dimapur-Kohima National Highway 29 and the Dimapur to Zubza railway line—had been announced quite some time back. The four laning project goes back to the days of the Atal Behari Vajpayee led NDA government when this project was first announced. The railway line was approved during the UPA-I government when Laloo Prasad Yadav was the then Union Railway Minister. In between, we have had other ambitious projects coming to Nagaland but failing to take-off. One of them is the airport project at Chiethu in Kohima district, which obviously has not got the green signal yet from Delhi. According to earlier reports, the high cost factor is supposed to be the reason. Then recently, there was the grand announcement of the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme (SARDP) for the Northeast under which two laning of several stretches of road was to have taken place in Nagaland. This project has now been stalled. The point is that Nagaland has got several opportunities in the past to build its connectivity. However, going by our track record, our efforts have been a failure. Why? There could be several reasons why these projects have failed to take off. We need to learn our lessons from past failures so that we can make better use of our present opportunities. The four laning of the Dimapur-Kohima section of NH-29 and the Dimapur-Zubza railway line must be taken up in right earnest. We cannot afford to fail again because that will mean huge losses not only in terms of money but our economic well being as well. It is quite obvious that the four laning project is directly related to building better road connectivity as part of Delhi’s Look East Policy. We need to make full use of the opportunity presented, through regional integration leading to economic cooperation, between the Northeast States and countries of Southeast Asia. It is perhaps for this reason alone that the GoI has been generous in funding this project. Whether we deserve it or not, the approval of this project comes against the backdrop of Nagaland commemorating 50 years of Statehood. Right from our ruling politicians, bureaucrats, engineers, contractors and national workers, let us take this as an opportunity to reverse our past failures and prove that we are capable of building a world class road. If we can do this with honesty, such a road, build with others money, can serve not just our present generation but our children’s children and their children too. All of us know the importance of roads—as the lifeline of the people, bringing countless benefits. If we look closely, some of our roads and bridges were constructed during British times and we are still using them. This is the long term benefits of quality infrastructure. Lack of proper infrastructure will limit the prospects of Nagaland both within the State and also without. Before we talk of our so called potential as the bridgehead of India’s Look East Policy we need to first of all improve our own connectivity within the State. In fact as a State going to turn 50 years, we should by now be having good road network at least between all the district headquarters. This is still an illusion though. Also, after almost forty years, we are suddenly waking up to the need for a Foothill Road. Enough time and money has been wasted to corruption and self enrichment. This is the time to transform and rebuild for a brighter future. (Feedback can be send to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)
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A Revolution of Rising Expectations
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HE PHRASE “a revolution of rising expectations” is now part of the social science literature. When people who are not oppressed have a belief that life is getting better as economies improve, their expectations often outstrip the pace of actual change. Those rising expectations lead to unrest as demands for improvement continue to grow. This summer we have seen that play out in several countries. As living standards increase, people are less likely to tolerate corrupt and inefficient governments. Washington Post reporters Anthony Faiola and Paula Moura recently wrote, “One small incident has ignited the fuse in societies that, linked by social media and years of improved living standards across the developing world, are now demanding more from their democracies and governments.” In Turkey, it was the government’s plans to destroy the only public green space in the heart of Istanbul, a park that was to be replaced with a shopping mall. Protests against the plan soon grew into broader concerns about what is seen as increasingly authoritarian rule by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They turned violent when peaceful demonstrators were attacked by police, and ultimately an Istanbul court ruled against the plan, although it is not finally settled. In Brazil, protests that began over a proposed rise in bus fares brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets. The protests soon escalated into opposition to the large amounts of money the government is investing in facilities for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, while neglecting basic health care and education. President Dilma Rousseff has promised political reforms and increased spending on public transportation and other social needs. With an approaching presidential election in Chile, students again took to the streets with a demand for free education rather than a for-profit system. They were joined by workers and fishermen with broader demands for reform of the political system. There, too, promises of reforms are being made. And, in perhaps the most dramatic change, growing street protests brought about the military overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist government. In the year since the election that brought him and the Muslim Brotherhood to power, the economy has not kept pace with demands, unemployment has climbed, and social services declined. The events this summer follow on the strikes and demonstrations that have occurred in Europe—in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, and elsewhere—as austerity budgets have taken hold while unemployment and falling standards of living affect more and more people. All of this raises the obvious question: Why are the people of the U.S. seemingly so acquiescent to what is happening here? Unemployment, especially long-term, is still high; our infrastructure is crumbling; the social safety net is being shredded, at both the state and national levels; our education system is now ranked 17th among the top 40 developed countries. Despite all that, there are not thousands of people in the streets demanding change. The closest the U.S. has come in recent years was the dramatic birth and growth of the Occupy movement. Two years later, that has largely disappeared at the national level, in part due to its active suppression by the police. But more important, the activists involved have been putting down local roots, organizing at the community level against foreclosures and for jobs, protesting growing income inequality, and getting involved in many other struggles around the country. One day, there may be that “one small incident” here that will spark the kind of nonviolent prophetic protests that are now occurring around the world. Duane Shank is an associate editor of Sojourners.
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Rethinking Social Movements
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evolutions are rare. In between these “exceptional episodes” of uprising and game-changing street-based action, social movements grow, thrive, or stumble. Over the past century feminist mobilisation and women’s movements have led waves of sustained questioning and restructuring of the patriarchal ordering of societies, rewriting the past, reshaping the present, and imagining egalitarian futures. Still, at this historical juncture many involved in mobilisations for women’s rights feel stuck particularly in the context of formal policy and law. As Ireen Dubel, Senior Advisor on Women’s Rights at Hivos voices, “over the years dissatisfaction has crept in given the persistent gap between the normative frameworks and on the ground realities of women’s lives”. In mid-September a group of activists from all global regions came together for the Movements Rethink convening, organised by Dutch humanist funder Hivos. At the centre of the dialogue were these questions: What roles are social movements and citizen activism playing in reshaping the world against oppression and towards justice, inclusive of feminist visions? And how do we, as activists in these movements, help ‘rethink’ our strategies, constituencies and politics towards this transformative goal? Rethinking the world In order to rethink we need to recalibrate our understandings of the historical moment that we are in. The 24 contributors to Movements Rethink come from diverse social movements and included people from the rising economic powers of Brazil, India and South Africa. Despite these varied backgrounds, our analysis of the global context is remarkably similar. Today the structures that sustain oppression exhibit an impressive level of transnational collaboration. Take debates on internet governance: there governments, internet service providers and companies behind social media platforms and search engines are all in discussions around ways to collaborate on surveillance and censorship. Religious fundamentalisms of all leanings are harnessing the power of the popular within and across borders, while growing strategic collaborations with key actors in governments to influence law and policy. The triad of state-citizen-market on which almost all of our nation-states are built is itself being transformed with the increasing militarisation of society by both public and private actors, notably with the continued legacy of the “war on terror” and its gendered impact, and very - dramatically in the context of the “war on drugs”. Speaking from the experience of women activists in Mexico and Central America, Lisa VeneKlasen, Executive Director of Just Associates describes how states are being reshaped and captured by the “shadow forces” of organised crime. She points to an alarming shift towards a “wild west” where globalised organised crime meets corrupt governments and their newly militarised police forces trained as part of the ‘war on drugs-war on terror’ nexus. This coincides with governments’ retreat from providing basic services and basic protections. Although Mesoamerica is an epicentre of cocaine trafficking in particular, we also know that the drug economy extends well beyond that region to the Caribbean and Africa’s east and west coasts, into Asia, and to the primary source of demand in North America and Europe. Women are positioned in these economies in complex ways –rarely as drug lords, more often as drug mules, murdered bodies and mothers of the disappeared, and as sisters, daughters and girlfriends facing new forms of insecurity in the re-entrenchment of gendered violence that frames organised crime. Violence against women has become a tool to create fear and claim territory. It is also, unsurprisingly, women who are mobilising community response. In Mexico for example, there is now a thousandsstrong network of mothers and other family of the disappeared, organising communities despite the threats against them. And the threats are substantial. A 2012 fact-finding mission by JASS and the Nobel Women’s Initiative showed that women human rights defenders in Mesoamerica are themselves under sustained attack with murders, physical violence and police harassment common. Here again,
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ow often have you heard it said: the independence referendum is a non-event and as boring as paint drying? This has become the uncontested view of part of mainstream Scotland and many in public life and the media. Last week ‘Newsnight Scotland’ anchor Gordon Brewer stated as fact that the whole thing was ‘dull as dishwater’, while others regularly pronounce that it is ‘turning off voters’, ‘deadening’ and ‘never-ending’. It is a cliché, caricature and articulating a world-weary, cynical, Paxmanesque attitude of condescension. It also just happens to be deeply and utterly wrong. Interestingly, this ‘its all boring’ perspective hasn’t learned from the recent past. Two years ago in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election campaign a chorus of the mainstream media, often the same people as today, called the whole thing predicable and dull with Alf Young dismissing it as ‘the biggest yawn in living memory’ and ‘depressing’. During that contest some of us, myself included, attempted to present a counter-view, sensing that something profound was going on in that election campaign and that Scotland was changing under our feet. Events proved this view right. The independence referendum is a major challenge to how Scottish society sees itself, talks, debates and listens. Those who say it isn’t exciting are often those holding positions of influence and power in society or the media. And what they don’t do is contextualise where and how this debate is unfolding and how we got to this point. Scottish society, public culture and the media have for decades been tightly controlled, hierarchical and with the voices and opinions that speak carefully managed and orchestrated. This was a culture filled with no-go areas and
activists have responded by forming MesoAmeriRethinking the frames we use to organise: Feminisms can Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders. across the world have incited a call to re-imagine ways of being gendered that do not presuppose the domination Rethinking our movements within it of women by men- and all the other axes of oppression Mobilising in shifting terrain is not easy, but then such as heterosexism, racism and classism that intersect movements are by definition kinetic. And in order to with this. Movements around sexual orientation and genbe successful, they need to move. der identity have added to this call, and are increasingly Rethinking the market. Like it or not, the capitalist visible, framed very often by identity-based claims for receconomy and the inequities it thrives on are ubiqui- ognition. While these claims are powerful they also have tous. What to do? The answers even amongst the group their limits. The focus on individual identities (for example at Movements Rethink are varied. Kristen Palland- “the survivor of rape in conflict” and “the lesbian or gay Oosterbroek argues for engagement. Her initiative – person”) obscures both the full context within which these the Dutch consumer-activist group Stoere Vrouwen – people live, and the interrelated, collective oppressions using positive messaging to encourage consumers to that expose them to marginalisation in the first place. be more aware of the products that they buy and ulti- Kwezi Mbandazayo a Pan-African feminist from the 1 in 9 mately change their consumption practices. Increased Campaign describes humorously: “now the new buzz [in consumer demand in turn creates greater incentives South Africa] is around the ‘black lesbian from the townfor companies to shift their labour and environmental ship’. There we are sitting in a bar and some person from practices towards ethical production and fair trade. BBC wants to interview you and assume some kind of poOn the other side of the spectrum, Fora do Eixo, a litical consciousness and activism just because of who you collective of cultural producers and communicators are. So subjectivities are key in organising but only with a from across Brazil have crafted a playful subversion of process of positioning that subjectivity in the world and the market, constructing a parallel ‘solidarity economy’ naming the politics behind my assertion of that idenbased on collectivist principles. Driade Aguiar, a me- tity”. She sees this is as part of a deeper problem, saying dia activist and Fora do Eixo member explains that the that “what neoliberalism has done is to break it down collective earns some money in the mainstream cash to one: one person, one vote, one right, one house”. economy – mainly through hosting festivals where they Is it possible to ‘do’ identity in ways that challenge profile underground and emerging artists and provide structural power inequalities? The Challenging Male new forums for political debate. Money is placed into Supremacy initiative in New York, co-developed by a collective pot which is used to support further initia- Alan Grieg, has managed to. The initiative takes the tives, to pay rent and bills across the network’s 100 res- question of mobilising men beyond the idea of getting idential houses and pooled into a collective fund which men ‘involved’ in women’s rights to rigorous interrocan be accessed by members if they need to purchase gation of people’s own masculinities and ways to craft anything in the mainstream economy. Within Fora do new terms of reference for what it means to be a man. Eixo, people use a different currency- the “Fora do Eixo They have also created mechanisms for men to hold card”- based on the exchange of services and products each other to account for sexist attitudes and practicrather than cash, and enabling people to access high- es, while interrogating how masculinities are shaped quality support for the creative production. by race, class and heterosexist narratives. This is deep Rethinking the digital: Digital spaces have present- politicised work, and offers a model for ways to ened a mixed opportunity for social movements and citi- gage identity that remain politicised and contextual. zen activism, on the one hand enabling an explosion of While we speak of movements, not everyone aruser-created content, and at the same time elevating gues for a collectivist framing of activism. Indeed to the simplified story through the 140 character mes- Rebecca Gomperts, founder of abortion rights group sage and the meme. Working against soundbyte-cul- Women on Waves calls for considering the role of ture, Mana Sadat of digital activist platform MidEast catalytic individuals saying that “in the end a lot of Youth is committed to finding ways to “better harness the changes and transformations happen on an inthe ecosystem of the internet” through curatorial and dividual level, and sometimes people can make difeducational interventions. She manages Crowd Voice, ferences for themselves outside movements”. a site that features curated content and fact-checked Rethinking violation: Uniting our diverse organisdata emerging from social movement mobilisations ing in a desire to confront the structural and interperand political protests across the world, and provid- sonal violence caused by inequities in power. But are ing an alternative to mainstream media analysis. She we just here to ‘end the harm’? Many argued for emhas also worked on The Making of a Century- an inter- bracing the power of affirmative framings as both poactive app that documents social and political move- litical demands (freedom ‘to’, not just freedom ‘from’) ment histories and leadership across the world. He- and as ways to communicate and organise our work Jin Kim, a trans activist and avid blogger believes that - including through a refocus on pleasure rather than this kind of people-driven documentation is powerful. violation, and reshaping political space by taking it to To her, “collective ownership of knowledge is the big- the street in music festivals. This kind of serious fun gest triumph of engaging in social media”. holds transgressive potential. Anouka van Eerdewijk, Access is an issue as infrastructural and economic a researcher at the Royal Tropical Institute considers gaps influence who can be active in digital spaces. Even that “If it is hard to live outside of normative power there changes are underway. Eddie Avila of Rising Voic- then how do you get to the ‘edge’? I think pleasure and es- a citizen media initiative focused on under-repre- fun can sometimes help us get to the edge”. sented communities, explains that many telecommuRethinking what change means: While the movenication companies are working in partnership with ment for change is collective, the impact of challengsocial media platforms such as Twitter and Wikipedia, ing oppressive power structures is often felt in very to enable some degree of access through cheaper ana- personal ways. “We are warriors” Njoki Ngumi, a log phones. While their aims may be commercial, the medical doctor and activist artist at The Nest in Naiinfrastructure itself provides mechanisms for more robi acknowledges, “but warriors have a home, they marginalised voices to engage in online debate. have people who love them and get affected by what The digital is of course deeply political. As Jac sm they are fighting”. Change in the personal and intimate Kee points out, “The digital is not a tool… This space, realms is as critical as change in the public domain, and it is a very political space, has its particular his- as we work of chipping away at systems of structural tories and it has its power structures as well in terms power. As Alan Grieg puts it “We can’t think our way of who is defining it, who is shaping it and what the out of it. We have to practice it differently”. rules of engagement are.” Although feminists have And what about where we plan to end up? While yet to become and active force in debates on internet we carry an affirmation of women’s rights and an end governance there is still scope for collective interven- to injustice in our hearts, we are also surprisingly open tions. This includes as users, given that “the way that to positive surprises on the journey. Indeed if we agree the internet has been shaped and has changed is actu- that power in all forms is in constant production, then ally quite determined by how we are using it, and the transforming oppressive power becomes a process rathways that we put value onto particular aspects of it. In er than a destination. And as much as we attempt to plan a way that speaks to its promise- we actually do still change, Jac sm Kee argues “if you really believe in creathave a lot of power and capacity to be able to decide ing the conditions that enable the exercise of autonomy what kind of space that we want it to be”. then the end result is not something that you can expect”.
The independence debate is not a non-event but changing Scotland Gerry Hassan
taboos. There was a near endless list of subjects which weren’t meant to be raised in polite society or family gatherings. These ranged from sectarianism to sexism, racism and anything to do with sexuality and gay rights. Now the referendum comes at a point where much of this has changed. Scotland has experienced its own version of what could be called a quiet revolution where the gridlock and conformity of that past has dramatically eroded. Not only is Scotland a different country from that of 1955 when the Tory Party and Church of Scotland enjoyed their highest ever box office appeal, it is also a very different country from that of 1979. Then a majority of people lived in council housing while trade union membership covered over half the workforce. The independence referendum is a product of that changed society and it is acting as a catalyst transforming it further. First for all the limitations of the SNP’s version of independence even to many of its supporters, this debate is normalising the very idea of independence. By this I mean two things. One shift is that all sensible political opinion now accepts that Scotland would be a viable, successful independent country: the debate having shifted from the ‘could we’ to the ‘should we’. The other is that what independence entails is the subject of all sorts of public debate: Trident, social justice,
welfare benefits, currency, and the role of the Treasury and Bank of England postindependence. This is a seismic shift from the Scotland of only a few years ago when the likes of every Tory or Labour politician would patronise Scotland with the ‘too wee, too poor, too cold, and just too plain Scottish’ to stand on its own two feet and embrace self-government. A second change is that this debate is slowly democratising parts of Scottish public life as that institutional power and authority slowly weakens. It is not happening quickly or comprehensively enough for some, but this is a dramatic change. Most importantly, power is shifting in society and culturally. For decades Scots people knew the reach of omnipotent authority from the Kirk to the Labour council. There was a tangible feeling that if you looked the wrong way in public you would be told off seen in the potency of ‘the Scottish tut’. A growing group of people are now saying ‘I have authority’. They feel they don’t need to wait for permission from institutional opinion, and instead have the confidence to stick their heads above the parapet. There seems to be a generational aspect to this as a significant group of twentysomethings become politically active and literate in groups such as National Collective and the Radical Independence Conference. There is also a gender shift happening in a society which is still in too
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many places male dominated and where male only zones of debate are still too commonplace. And there is also an explosion of energy, enthusiasm and passion in a plethora of social media sites and platforms. Much of this is happening under the radar from official Scotland without them seeing or recognising it. But what this entails is a reconfiguration of the notion of who has and what is power, and it seems that part of society is shifting from the traditional idea of hard, formal power to a more fluid, open, soft notion of power. There are limitations in this emerging Scotland: its financial resources are often small and fragile, and institutional Scotland’s power while weakening is still much stronger. But what this unleashing of energy, hope and optimism is saying is we want to have a say in a debate which is about what kind of Scotland we live in. This is profoundly challenging the simple, lazy habit of parts of the media from just portraying this debate as an ‘official’ Yes versus No as presented in the recent shouting match on STV’s ‘Scotland Tonight’ between Nicola Sturgeon and Anas Sarwar. Something is stirring in part of Scotland. This is the slow ebbing of official power and with it such related ideas as ‘civic Scotland’, which gave such impetus to anti-Tory Scotland in the 1980s. It is being superseded by a ‘third Scotland’, one less institutional, more diverse, creative and disputatious. This ‘third Scotland’ does not want to be fed a pre-prepared debate between an abstract Yes or No. Instead, it is looking to debate and discuss the kind of society we live in, challenge the status quo and galvanise imagination. This is far away from ‘dull as dishwater’ cynicism, as slowly and fundamentally Scotland is changing in ways we are only beginning to fully understand.
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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
JHUM PARK: A NEW DIMENSION IN ECOTOURISM Bidyut C. Deka and Tasvina R. Borah Joint director and Scientist IcAr research complex for NeH region, Nagaland centre
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ortheast India has diverse ecological habitats ranging from mountains to valley with rich diversity in flora and fauna. The region has been in focus for its high biodiversity and is a priority for leading conservation agencies of the world. There is also ethnic diversity having variety of culture in the region. Ethnic communities of the North Eastern hill region traditionally practice slash and burn, organic like agriculture. In many of the places, the village elders/head man locates large stretches of dense forest areas mostly at the top of the hills for jhum cultivation and distribute among the families of the tribal village. The thick forest canopy is slashed in the premonsoon period (during the month of January) and is usually allowed to dry for some time. After this, the entire area having the fallen canopy along with the ground vegetation and the remaining tree trunks except the bigger trees are set on fire (in the month of March). Before the onset of monsoon, the terrain is prepared for sowing according to the contour of the hillock. With the first flash of timely monsoon usually during the month of April seeds of cereals, vegetables, oil seeds etc are sowed as sole or mixed crop on the jhum land by dibbling. In the same field for the first 2 to 3 years of slashing, usually 2 or 3 consecutive cropping are done and thereafter, the productivity starts decreasing and the cultivation is shifted to another forest area. In typical practice in olden days, the jhum cycle ranged from 20 to 30 years and therefore, it was sustainable. The overwhelming population growth in last 3-4 decades has however led to reduction in jhum cycle to 3 to 5 years and this has ultimately resulted lot of ecological imbalances in many parts of the region. 1. Jhum park: A new dimension in eco-tourism Jhum cultivation has been recognized as one of the main culprits of land degradation and environmental backlashes. However, jhum with a long fallow cycle by itself does not cause much depletion and causes relatively low damage when it takes place in secondary forest areas. Modernization of this system with appropriate concept and technologies is of paramount importance in the present context of demographic pressure and with the locals aspiring beyond subsistence livelihood. Over and above subsistence jhum farming, a clear felt need of the hour is the intrusion of modern concepts in to the indigenous base for value addition to the primitive jhum farming. Concepts of ecotourism and conservation parks in abandoned and threatened jhum areas will give a new outlook and perspectives along with creating new avenues in the farming system. The concept module can be – a. Jhum and ecotourism: Eco village tourism denote the new type of green travel to experience low impact living and community. The endeavor is to provide the visitors with a greater understanding of the village life and livelihood, rural realities, nature in its organic way and need to protect what is left of our wilderness. Development of jhum areas as tourist spots needs prior planning to raise the farming system in various integrations or combinations to make the model viable, sustainable and profitable. Accordingly integration of farming components like agro forestry/ agri-silviculture, horticulture, pastural, livestock, fisheries, apiculture, etc. if planned judiciously in to the system, can produce a complete planned and picturesque tourist spot for travelers, researchers, academicians or common people from far and near (Figure 1).
North Eastern region is evident from the figures as depicted with 51 forest types found in the region broadly classified into six major forest types that harbor 80,000 plants out of 15,000 species of flowering plants. Out of the 9 important vegetation types of India, 6 are found in the North Eastern region (Hegde 2000, FSI, 2003). In the context of faunal diversity, the extent of endemism in birds, mammals, reptiles and vertebrates (except fish) is exceptionally high and is to the tune of around 25% in this ‘hotspot’( Chatterjee et al. 2006). High biological diversity is often related to the forest cover of a region. Nature thus provide ample opportunities to create many a biodiversity parks in fusion with jhum ecotourism in states like Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and such other jhum affected areas for overall development of that area besides conserving the natural resources, creating employment and ensuring livelihood security in the locality. The biodiversity parks can be varied (Figure 2) and spread out there by conserving the indigenous species of the locality. Conservation or diversity parks may be – i. Butterfly parks– these places will be brimming with colourful butterflies of all shapes, sizes and varieties to conserve and maintain the indigenous ones in their natural habitat as well as exotic species which can adapt and thrive in the region. ii. Reptile parks– various reptiles are found in the area. These could be maintained in a protected area within the tourists’ spots. iii. Mushroom parks– the hilly terrain is rich with many species of wild edible as well as poisonous mushrooms. Many a mushroom species are valuable resources which have been proved to have treasure of medicinal properties. The wild mushrooms are seasonal and location specific, such areas can be conserved and the cultivated species can be grown organically throughout the year. iv. Medicinal and aromatic plants hub – the state is rich in plant species which are having medicinal values. There are also many flowering and non-flowering plants known and used by the locals for the aroma. All such plants can be identified and grown for commercial and asthetic value. v. Crop hubs - Jhum cultivation, the primary agricultural economic activity reflects the usage of not less than 35 varieties of crops. Thus, there exist a forced natural diversity of the food crops and this gives the opportunity of creating crop hubs in conjunction with jhum. vi. Orchid gardens – some rare wild orchids are available in the forest, these can be domesticated to add value and beauty to the surroundings. vii. Apiary centers – Bee keeping have been an age old traditional practice with some of the tribes. This can be part of ecotourism activity in the jhum areas with apiculture development with all the thriving species of bees in the area.
Figure 3. Jhum and ITK Park
c. Jhum and societal activities: This remote hilly state of the Northeast offers rich incomparable traditional and cultural heritage. The distinctive character and identity of each tribe in terms of tradition, custom, language and dresses is clearly discernible to the visitors. In this ‘land of cultures’ respective tribal festivals are celebrated at short intervals all over the state. jhum cultivation is an intrinsic part of the Naga culture and one of a community farming system. Paddy is one of the main crop in jhum and paddy harvesting is also a societal event usually done during September to October. On a co-operative basis, the different tribes of the state (s) may come together to create a central window and show cause their incredible culture and customs (Figure 4). In the areas adjacent to jhum fields, few centers of the following nature can be created – i. Food courts – places where people can relish the taste of ethnic tribal food. ii. Traditional dress and accessories display centers. iii. Handicrafts display centers, where some artisans can display the weaving of the different tribes shawls and other attires. Forest
Crops Food Court Traditional attires Games & sports
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Handicrafts
Mushroom Park
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Medicinal & aromatic plant hubs Reptile Park
Deciduous trees
Butterfly Park Crop hubs
Coniferous trees
Orchid garden
Evergreen trees
Figure 2. Biodiversity and conservation parks Flowering trees
b. Jhum and ITK parks: Traditional jhum cultivation is a practice indigenous to each particular tribe or locality, who or where it is done Crop component in its own unique way. Likewise, there are indigenous tools and implements of each tribe to cultivate the land. Certain varieties of crop are indigenous to a locality where they are grown best. Cucumbers Livestock from Mokokchung, Nagaland area are well known for their quality. There are breeds of livestock that are indigenous to the region like the animal ‘Mithun’ is glory for Nagaland. Some stretches of land can Fishery be put under traditional jhuming along with maintaining the indigenous technological knowhow incorporating the indigenous varieties Figure 1. Jhum (agroforestry+farming components) and ecotourism of crops, implements as well as breeds of animals (Figure 3). This will restore and provide to the visitors an insight to the true essence of b. Jhum and conservation parks: Biodiversity significance of the jhum cultivation in this hilly terrain.
Huts for guests
Figure 4. Jhum and socio-cultural activities
iv. Traditional games and sports centers where the visitors can witness and participate in these games and sports during their stay. v. Jhum cultivation is closely associated with the festivals of the tribes. The colourful festivals can be depicted time to time in the jhum fields activities to amuse the visitors in the splendid way.
2. Sustainability of Jhum eco-tourism The minimum requirements for sustainability of ecotourism in the abandoned and threatened jhum areas which are usually remote would require proper development of road and communication facilities. Every component of the cultural heritage like festivals, traditions, customs etc. should be taken care of to depict the richness and natural essence of the region to attract visitors from far and near. Presentation of the best comfort, culture and customs in the region should be the mantra of successful and sustainable ecotourism in jhum lands. While jhum expansion is blamed as a root cause of forest and land degradation, it is often merely a reflection of farmers’ needs to secure their livelihood in context of the changes in food prices and population growth. Thus, a proper blend of traditional or improved jhum cultivation situations with modern hospitality facilities and amenities may pave the path towards establishment of the best ecotourism spots in the country as well as restoration and conservation of the rich natural heritage along with employment generation. Over all development of the region is possible if this concept is exercised from the grass root level. The rich resources and the weaknesses posed by the prevailing situations can be converted to the best opportunities made by the wisdom of the old and energy and zeal of the youth.
Tips for reducing/removing pesticide Soil testing- A tool for managing soil fertility residues in fruits and vegetables
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armers use pesticides to protect crops from pests and enhance productivity. Even following good agricultural practices, residues of pesticides may still end up in the food we eat. With an increasing concern about fresh water shortage due to rapid urbanisation, the practice of using wastewater for irrigation of food crops in urban fringe (peri-urban) areas is encouraged and this sometime results into contamination in the food system. Likewise, indiscriminate use of pesticides in food crops more particularly in fruits and vegetables has already created a panic among the health conscious people. Therefore, there is an urgent need to make awareness among the people about the precautions to be taken for reducing/ removing the pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables. The following are some of the tips to reduce/ remove the pesticide residues.
is common household practice. Many examples show that most of the residues concentration is located in or on the peel. Peeling of the fruits/vegetables wherever possible may remove more than 50% of the pesticide residues present in the commodity. Thus, removal of the peel achieves almost complete removal of residues, so leaving little in the edible portions. This is especially important for fruits which are not eaten with their peels, such as bananas or citrus fruits.
3. Dipping in salt solution Common Salt or Sodium chloride 5% (50 gm salt/litre of water) solution is largely used to decontaminate the pesticide residues from different fruits and vegetables; there are several studies to prove the efficacy of salt water washing to dislodge the pesticides from crops. In this process, sample of chopped fruits and vegetables is put in a beaker containing 5% sodium chloride solution. Af1.Proper washing of fruits and ter 15 minutes the plant samples are vegetables before consumption Household washing procedures are gently rubbed by hand in salt solunormally carried out with running or tion and alt water is decanted. standing water at moderate temperatures. Detergents, chlorine or ozone can 4. Cooking Cooking procedures at different tembe added to the wash water to improve the effectiveness of the washing pro- peratures, the duration of the process, cedure. If necessary, several washing the amount of water or food additives, and the type of system (open or closed) steps can be conducted consequently. may have an impact on the residue level. Normally, residues are reduced during 2. Proper Peeling The outer leaves of vegetables the cooking process by volatilization in often contain residues of pesticides open systems or by hydrolysis in closed applied during the growing season. systems. In any case, adding cooking liqTherefore, peeling or trimming pro- uid dilutes the residues. Dr. Anamika Sharma cedures reduce the residues levels in Programme Coordinator, KVK Dimapur leafy vegetables. Peeling of root, tuICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, ber and bulb vegetables with a knife Jharnapani, Nagaland
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om, I am hungry, please give me some food”- A hungry child can say to his/her mother but, a soil cannot. He/she can ask for rice, dal, or pork, as per his/herpreference, but a soil cannot express what it requires, N or P or K. For this, it is required to bringthe soil samples to a soil testing laboratory, where an expert can say what is required forthat soil to maintain its health. Soilis basically the weathered material of the rocks and it is highly enriched with all sorts of nutrients. Due to continuous cultivation,soil gradually depletes and become unhealthy and unsuitable for cultivation. Recently, farmers are cultivating high yielding varieties whose nutrient requirement is much higher than the traditional one. Therefore, to keep the soil healthy, supplementation with fertilizers, organic manure, compost, bio-fertilizers etc., either alone or in combination, are required. Definitely,one question may be raised: how much to add? This can be answered precisely by testing the soil.
Why to test soil? i. Soil testing will give the current status of nutrients as well as the amount to be added to get a bumper yield. ii. It will detect whether the soil is suffering from any deficiency or toxicity. iii. Provide information whethersoil requires any amendments like lime or gypsum to rectify its problem like acidity or alkalinity, respectively. How to collect sample? Selection of appropriate site: The most important but commonly ignored step of soil testing is selection of appropriate soil sample. Selection of non-representative site will provide erroneous results. Some sites which should be avoided are the placesnear to a composts pile, shaded areas, area near to border of the plot etc. In case of hills, as in Nagaland, the soil may be collected from different slopes like low, medium, and high to get more representative results.From fields having standing crops in rows, draw samples inbetween rows.
Collection of soil:The best method of soil collection is collecting from 15 to 20 well distributed spots in a field in a zigzag manner. Always collect the soil in a new polythene packet and donot use the second-hand polythene packet to avoid any chance of contamination in the sample. Carry a spade, marker, pen, and tag for collection and proper labeling on the packet. The recommended depth is 0-15 cm for most of the agricultural crops, but for perennial fruits or plantation cropsdepth may be upto 90 cm depending upon the age of the plant and their nature of nutrient feeding. For plantation crops or fruit trees, prepare composite sample fromsoil collected at depths of 0-30, 30-60 and 60-90 cm from 4 to5pits dug in about 0.5 ha field at the time of planting. Making composite soil sample: Mix the soil properly and spread in the form of a circle, followed by its division into fourequalparts (say A, B, C, D). Take the opposite two parts (say A and D) and mixed them well. Follow this method until the weight of the samplewill be around 500g. This method is known as quartering. After that, bring the sample to a soil laboratory with proper labeling. The label should have the information like the name of the farmer, date of collection, village, block, district, previous crop grown, and next crop(s) to be grown. Label it from both inside and outside. Label it with acardboardcarrying identification details inside the samplebag and another label with details tied/ pasted at outside of the sample bag. In case ofwet sample the label should be written bya pencilor permanent marker.
What can be tested? pH: This parameter is used to categorize the soil as acidic or neutral or basic. If the soil is acidic, as observed in Nagaland soils, lime is generally recommended, either by testing its lime requirement or from the published standard chart. Electrical conductivity (EC): This is measured to determine salt hazards. In Nagaland salt hazards are rarely observed. Oxidizable organic carbon (OC): Carbon is the
central for all living things. Presence organic carbon in higher amount indicates the soil is healthy and biologically active. Less than 0.5, 0.5-0.75 and greater than 0.75 per cent is considered as low, medium and high, respectively. In Nagaland, organic carbon content is found to be in high range Nitrogen (N): This is the most important element involved in protein synthesis. If soil contains 272-544 kg ha-1 N per hectare, then this is in the medium range. If less than 240 kgha-1 then low, and if more than 560 kg ha-1, it is considered as high. Urea is used to supplement nitrogen. Phosphorus (P): Like human, plant is a living thing and it requires energy currency (ATP) for several physiological functions. This is essential for synthesis of energy-rich ATP. 34-68 kg ha-1 is considered as medium. Fertilizers like SSP and DAP are used to supplement phosphorus. Potassium (K):It helps in the enzyme activation, photosynthesis by regulating stomata, fruit quality and reduction of diseases.113-280 kg ha-1 is considered as medium. MOP is added to maintain the level of potassium in soil. Micronutrients: Some micronutrients like iron, manganese, zinc, copper, boron, molybdenum can be analyzed in some lab having atomic absorption (AAS) spectrophotometer instrument. Charge for analysis The charge per sample in ICAR research complex for NEH region, Nagaland Centre is Rs. 100 which will provide you the information regarding pH, EC, OC, N, P, K. Micronutrients are not analyzed here due to lack of facilities for its analysis. How often to test? Test each field at least once every 2 years
Where to analyze? • ICAR research complex for NEH region, Nagaland Centre • Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland • Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat
The Morung Express in collaboration with the ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Nagaland Centre will be publishing articles with regard to Agriculture and the farming community on the first Friday of every month. Readers may please note that, the contents of the articles published on this page do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.
Dr. DibyenduChatterjee, Scientist (Soil Science) ICAR Nagaland Centre
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No change in leadership, says RJD
New Delhi, OctOber 3 (Pti): RJD on Thursday alleged a political conspiracy by BJP and JD-U behind the sentencing of Lalu Prasad but ruled out the possibility of a change in party leadership, saying its chief will be out on bail soon. “Lalu ji has become a victim of a political conspiracy and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (of JDU) and BJP has an important role in this conspiracy. We will go to people and apprise them of the conspiracy and hobnobbing between BJP and JD(U) against Lalu ji,” party MP Ramkripal Yadav told reporters after a special court in Ranchi sentenced Prasad to five years imprisonment in a 17-year-old fodder scam case. “Lalu is innocent. He has been punished because he was voicing the concerns of the poor and strengthening secularism. Those who made money are moving outside freely and the person, who lodged the case, got 45 FIRs registered, has been jailed,” Yadav, a close aide of Prasad, said. Senior party leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh trashed talks about the possibility of a change in RJD’s leadership saying it was not required as Prasad will be out on
‘Sir, I am innocent’
rANchi, OctOber 3 (Pti): Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad, who was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 25 lakh in a 17-year-old fodder scam case, on Thursday claimed that he was falsely implicated. “Sir, I am innocent. I have been falsely framed in the case,” Prasad pleaded during a video conference from the Birsa Munda Central Jail to special CBI Judge Pravas Kumar Singh, who pronounced the quantum of sentence for 37 of the 45 convicts. The video conferencing was held on security grounds, a court official said. Prasad had on September 30, 2013 and during his previous appearances claimed that there was a political conspiracy against him. JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma also pleaded innocence. With the conclusion of 45 of 53 AHD cases, Prasad still has 4 more cases against him in the Rs. 950 crore scam, which was unearthed during his regime in the 1990s.
bail. “Lalu is himself available. What crisis if somebody is absent for five-ten days? Yes he has been sentenced for five years but will he not get bail? We will move an appeal in high court,” he said. “I have given him the Gita. By the time, he reads up half of the scripture, he will be out of jail. If somebody goes somewhere for 10-20 days, should we make another appointment in his place. This
Eight policemen injured in Srinagar gunfight
SriNAgAr, OctOber 3 (iANS): Eight policemen were injured in the overnight gunfight Wednesday between a holed up guerrilla and the security forces in outskirts of Srinagar. A senior police officer said eight policemen including an assistant sub-inspector were injured in the exchange of fire between a guerrilla and the security forces in Ahmad Nagar area, 10 kilometres from city centre Lal Chowk. “The holed up militant lobbed grenades and fired from an automatic rifle at the police after we zeroed on him in a residential house in Ahmad Nagar and challenged him to surrender,” a senior police officer told IANS. Police had a tough time ensuring that no civilian in the residential area gets injured because of the exchange of gunfire. All the civilians from the house in which the guerrilla had taken shelter and adjoining houses were safely evacuated before the operation against the guerrilla was launched, the senior police officer said.
36 teenage offenders escape from reform house in MP
bhOPAl, OctOber 3 (AgeNcieS): Taking cues from the daring midnight jailbreak by six alleged members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from a district prison in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh (MP) on Monday, 35 teenage offenders escaped from a juvenile reform house in Rewa district of the state after knocking out a guard and three constables on Wednesday night. Nine of them were captured a few hours later. Authorities say they had planned a violent escape that left the guard and constables at the facility injured and police searching for them in the city and surrounding forest. The offenders, aged 15 to 18-year-olds, were serving time for offences including rape, murder, assault, possession of firearms, and burglary, said police. However, eleven of the inmates in the unit decided to stay, and went to the aid of the injured constable. The eleven who stayed and helped will be honoured in some way for their actions; also a recommendation would be made to reduce their term, said police. It has been learned that the plan to escape the facility came from wide media coverage about escape of SIMI activists from district prison in Khandwa by stabbing two constables on patrol, before fleeing with their wireless sets, rifles and motorcycle.
Lalu is a hero and will remain one: Rabri Devi PAtNA, OctOber 3 (Pti): “Lalu Prasad is a hero and will remain a hero in future too,” said his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi soon after a CBI court in Ranchi on Thursday sentenced the RJD president to five years in jail in a multi-crore fodder scam case. Rabri Devi was quoted by RJD secretary general and close confidante Ramkripal Yadav as having also said that her husband has fallen victim to ‘conspiracy’. The CBI court besides sentencing him to jail for five years also ordered him to pay a
is totally impractical,” he said. He also sought to make a difference between Prasad appointing his wife Rabri Devi as chief minister, when he was first sent to jail long back and the situation now. “There is difference between the headship of the government. At that time, he was the head of the government. The head of government has to be changed, if the incumbent head of the government is going to jail.
That is the technical thing. There is no such technical requirement as far as party headship is concerned,” Singh said. Singh, whose name was also being speculated as the possible next president of RJD after Lalu’s conviction, asserted that there is “no need” to make somebody else as party chief. The senior RJD leader also saw some “game” in the way the ordinance on convicted lawmakers was opposed
penalty of Rs 25 lakh. She remained inside her official 10 Circular Road residence, barely a stone’s throw from the Chief Minister’s residence, watching the entire proceedings on TV. While elder son Tej Pratap Yadav is with his mother the younger Tejaswi Yadav, considered heir apparent of the RJD chief, is still in Ranchi. Ramkripal Yadav came out of the residence and told reporters that the family was ‘not demoralised’ by the court order which would disqualify Prasad as MP and debar him from contesting elections in near future. “We were expecting this; we are not demoralised,” Yadav, RJD Rajya Sabha member said and blamed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP for ‘conspiring’ against the RJD chief in the fodder scam. “The party rank and file have taken this as a challenge which we are committed to fight strongly,” he said adding a meeting of RJD leaders has been called on October 6 at Patna to chalk out its future strategy. The RJD office wore a deserted look after the court verdict against party supremo. Majority of the senior leaders are out of the state capital.
leading to its withdrawal finally. “In the all-party meeting in July, there was a consensus among all parties that the Supreme Court verdict on the issue needs to be overturned and that a law should be made for this. “When the bill came in Parliament, then the case of Lalu Prasad came in focus. BJP saw a good opportunity sensing that the RJD chief could become the first victim of the or-
Cabinet clears formation of Telangana
New Delhi, OctOber 3 (AgeNcieS): In a significant development, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the formation of Telangana as a separate state by bifurcating the state of Andhra Pradesh. The big decision was taken during the Union Cabinet meeting held at the residence of the Prime Minister. According to reports, the cabinet approved the formation of GoM to look into the process of bifurcation of the state. Another important decision taken by the union cabinet was that Hyderabad will remain the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Even as the Union Cabinet met at the PM’s residence, the pro-Andhra Pradesh supporters protested outside the 7, Race Course Road Residence. The members of the United Andhra Pradesh Students Association tried to broke the barricade outside the Prime Minister’s residence, which forced the police to use mild lathi-charge to disperse the protestors. After the Cabinet’s approval the Group of Ministers (GoM) will go threadbare into the issues arising out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. That is likely to be followed by a resolution being sent to Andhra Pradesh As-
sembly regarding the formation of the new state. After formation, Telangana will be the 29th state of India. Calling bifurcation a loss for the state, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy said, “I believe the Cabinet note is not on the agenda. It may come as a table item. But we will wait for the Cabinet decision. The party may win or lose an election, but the bifurcation will be a big loss for the entire state and all people. There will be a severe power shortage. Naxal movement might see a return. Water distribution will be a problem. Hyderabad is a hub for health facilities and education.” On Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said the issue of creation of separate state of Telangana was receiving the government’s attention in the right earnest. Speaking to reporters on board his special aircraft while returning from New York after attending the UN General Assembly session, the Prime Minister had said the government was seized of the issue. “The Telengana issue is receiving the attention of the government in right earnest. As soon as I go back I will find out from the Home Minster what stage he has been able to reach up to. But this is very much on our minds,” he said.
der and then they began chanting another mantra. “Changing tune, it was the BJP, which first said that there should be a consideration on it and then the JD(U) also expressed its disagreement. BJP and JDU joined hands on the issue,” Singh said. He, however, said that after the crisis, all partymen have come together and expressed confidence that the present circumstances will strengthen the party.
Lalu Prasad Yadav: Student leader to railway minister New Delhi, OctOber 3 (Pti): “Get back on track,” Lalu Prasad joked in the Lok Sabha when a fellow MP once complained that interruptions were making him lose his train of thought during a noisy debate. After being consumed by the Fodder scam on Thursday, the question being asked is will Prasad’s own humourous advice early this year in a reference to his former Railways portfolio hold good for him in his derailed political career. But the next time Parliament is in session, it will be short on humour and miss the wisecracks of the irrepressible Prasad who has enlivened many a proceeding. Arguably one of India s most colourful politicians, 65-year-old Prasad, son of a milkman, is an unique figure in the hurly-burly of Indian politics and a phenomenon in his hey days. He is one politician who defied stereotypes. Known for his quirky style and mass appeal, in his prime, there were few leaders in India who could rival Prasad’s charisma and popularity. Prasad, who rose from a clerk to become a two-time Chief Minister of undivided Bihar and then as Union Railways Ministere, has in essence, provided a perfect example of true Indian rural sophistication. His trademark lungi, short and stout body, and sprouted ears have endeared him, in both ways, to the masses of India. His lustrous career kicked off at a tender age of 29, when he got elected to the 6th Lok Sabha, one of the youngest members in the Lower House. In a short span of 10 years, Prasad, a canny political operator, went on to become a formidable political force in Bihar, and became the Chief Minister for the first time in 1990. During his second term, he was charged in the Fodder Scam of 1996 and resigned as Chief Minister in 1997, He elected his wife Rabri Devi, with whom he has nine children, as his successor. Prasad was prone to wise-cracks and theatrics and often livened up India s Parliamentary proceedings with puns and other jokes. In his 2008 presentation of the Railway budget, Prasad appeared to make the most of his country-bumpkin image, translated his Hindi remarks into English. “Lalu Yadav has planted a fruit tree,” in particular, elicited many laughs.
India's ruling Congress Party Vice President, Rahul Gandhi greets a supporter during his visit to Ahmadabad, on Thursday, October 3. Rahul had recently caused his party and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh great discomfort by openly trashing a controversial ordinance passed by the Indian Cabinet headed by Singh, that would have protected convicted lawmakers from disqualification. The ordinances has since been withdrawn by the Cabinet. (AP Photo)
Compromises & settlements can change Indian polity: Rajmohan Gandhi
New Delhi, OctOber 3 (iANS): Noted historian Rajmohan Gandhi sees a parallel between the lack of leadership in undivided Punjab that led to the horrific massacres during the partition of the sub-continent in 1947 and the current upheaval in the Indian political system, saying course correction can happen only when different groups make “honourable” compromises and settlements. “Partition could have arrived with proper settlement and talk. It all arrived with a bit of uncertainty and terrible violence that uprooted millions,” Mahatma
Gandhi’s grandson told IANS during a visit here to promote his new book “Punjab: A History From Aurangzeb to Mountbatten” that throws light on the land of the five rivers. “Some people say Gandhi did this or Jinnah did this, even Punjabis from both the sides tend to blame people from outside, but the real failure was from the Punjab leadership. Punjabi leaders who were Muslims and Sikhs didn’t come together to find a solution,” he added. These tremors of uncertainty are the core ingredients of Indi-
an polity today, and the 78-yearold feels “understanding” has to come from all fronts to inject stability into the system, “Course athe top. They to come from the ground level with equal participation from people who are more responsible towards electoral process,” he explained. “It is important for representatives of different groups to come together and make some honourable compromises and settlements of give and take on some acceptable grounds,” he noting that once these compromises lead to understandings,
the country will benefit. Apart from throwing light on the history of undivided Punjab and the people who ruled it. There is another important facet this 432page historical repository, published by Aleph, brings out - the Punjabi Muslims. “Stories of Punjabi Muslims have been neglected by historians, included by those in Pakistan. They are almost unrecorded” said Gandhi. His work covers almost 250 years of undivided Punjab from Mughal, to Sikh to British rule. “They were of incredible variety and their Punja-
bi was of a different dialect. They were very practical and pragmatic and their relationship with the Sikhs and Hindus was quite cordial and satisfactory. There was coexistence of all these people at the ground level,” he pointed out. Being a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern University at the University of Illinois, Gandhi’s love for history and research unarguably puts him into a comfort zone. His last two works: “A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857” and “The American Civil War” further cement this association.
non-profit foreign universities in the top 400 worldwide would be able to open campuses. The rules need a final sign-off from the law ministry, which will take up to three months, according to R.P. Sisodia, joint secretary for higher education at the Ministry of Human Resources and Development. While India has dithered, other Asian countries have moved ahead, with foreign universities in Malaysia and Singapore attracting Indian students. Spokespeople for Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Duke University and the U.K.’s University of Northampton told Reuters they had no plans for a campus in India, even though they all have or plan to have research centres or offer courses on a local campus. “The environment has not been a welcoming one thus far and people have looked elsewhere,” said Vincenzo Raimo, the director of the international office
at Britain’s University of Nottingham, which has campuses in China and Malaysia. “Anyone who’s going to open there (India) needs to be brave.” Foreign colleges would only meet a tiny portion of India’s demand for places, but their presence would put pressure on domestic counterparts to improve, higher education experts say. To be sure, India’s planning commission has set a target of creating 10 million more university places in the next few years and boosting funds for the top domestic universities to try to elevate them to the ranks of the world’s top 200 by 2017. If India fails to harness its population boom over the next two decades, its demographics could be “a disaster - not a dividend”, Espirito Santo said. “A major shortage of jobs in the economy, or a skills mismatch, would create a young, angry and frustrated population,” its report said.
India woos foreign colleges as population clock ticks
New Delhi, OctOber 3 (reuterS): When 19-yearold Pavitra Singh, one of 20 million students at India’s universities and colleges, gets her degree in two years’ time, she fears it will not be enough to secure a job. Indian employers tend to agree. Many say graduates from homegrown universities are often unemployable because job seekers do not have the skills they want, one reason why New Delhi is trying to fasttrack legislation to allow foreign colleges, until now largely shut out of India, to open their own campuses in the country. On the cusp of a boom in its working-age population, India is racing against time to raise the quality of its education to prevent a demographic dividend turning into a demographic curse. “It is absolutely urgent,” said Tobias Linden, the World Bank’s lead education specialist in India. “The people who will make up the youth bulge have already been born.
This is not a hypothetical situation. They might just be one, or two, or three years old now, but taking action to help them when they become 18 - those moves have to start now.” Over the next two decades, Asia’s third-largest economy will add up to 300 million people - the equivalent of almost the entire population of the United States - to its workforce. That prospect offers hope that India, struggling now with its weakest economic growth in a decade, can finally follow in the footsteps of the likes of China and the Asian Tigers. A generation ago these countries made good use of their growing workforces, training young people and putting them to work in export-orientated manufacturing, to generate economic growth that was the envy of the world. BEST CHANCE India’s working-age population will not peak until 2035, in contrast to China, where
the working-age population topped out this year, brokerage Espirito Santo Securities says. Labour forces in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore will peak in the next five years. Such demographic factors offer India “the most compelling conditions for economic growth the country will, we argue, ever have”, the brokerage said in a report. “Yet demographics are not destiny.” Attracting foreign colleges to open campuses in India is one solution for a university system that India’s planning commission says is “plagued by a shortage of well trained faculty, poor infrastructure and outdated and irrelevant curricula.” Despite a surplus of workers, employers across sectors say local universities do a poor job of preparing graduates for working life. None of India’s universities feature in the world’s top 200, the 2013/14 rankings by the London-based education group Quacquarelli
Symonds show, versus seven from China. Many homegrown universities rely on rote-learning and fail to teach the “soft skills” that are increasingly important in India, where the services sector has driven the economic growth of the last two decades, recruiters and students say. “We don’t learn here - we are just taught to mug up, so it’s hard for us when we go out to find jobs,” said Singh, an undergraduate at one of the country’s largest private colleges, Amity University, referring to the teaching style across India. “I’m worried that when I get to my first internship, I won’t know how to do anything.” Foreign universities have been largely shut out of India, allowed only to open research centres, teach non-academic courses or offer degree courses with a local partner. Now, the government wants to offer them the more lucrative option of opening their own campuses.
CATCH-UP India’s ministry of human resources and development is trying to issue what is in effect an executive order, which would leapfrog a bill stuck in parliament since 2010, one casualty of a legislative logjam that has paralysed Indian policymaking over the last two years. Despite scepticism from many institutions that India will be able to change its game with elections looming by next May, some foreign universities are keen to push ahead with campuses. “A campus in India has always been our vision and that is our plan,” said Guru Ghosh, the vice-president for outreach and international affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, known as Virginia Tech. It is due to launch a research centre near Chennai in spring 2014 and hopes to set up a campus within 3-5 years if the rules change, Ghosh said. Under the proposed rules,
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No nose-picking: China Obama, congressional leaders chides its ‘unruly’ tourists fail to solve impasse
WASHINGTON, OcTOber 3 (AP): A fruitless meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders deepened the impression that the government shutdown could persist into mid-October and become entangled with an even more consequential battle over raising the nation’s borrowing limit to avoid a disastrous debt default. The shutdown limped into its third day Thursday, keeping hundreds of thousands of federal workers home and affecting Americans in ways large and small. Scores of government programs, from feeding pregnant women to staffing call centers at the federal tax agency, were disrupted. Obama was forced to truncate a long-planned trip to Asia. Funding for much of the government has been cut off since Tuesday, when a Republican effort to thwart the nation’s new health care law stalled a shortterm, normally routine spending bill. At the White House meeting Wednesday, Obama reiterated his demand that the Republican-controlled House of Representative pass the bill without threatening his health care overhaul. “The House could act today to reopen the government and stop the harm this shutdown is causing to the economy and families across the country,” the White House said in a written statement after the session. In a jab at the Republican-led chamber, it added, “The president remains hopeful that common sense will prevail.” Republican leaders criticized the president for refusing to nego-
Employees of the Crow Tribe line up to receive their paychecks at the tribal offices in Crow Agency, Mont., on October 2. These are some of more than 300 tribal employees being furloughed after the federal budget impasse and government shutdown stopped payments due to the southeastern Montana tribe. (AP Photo)
tiate and insisted on some changes to the health law. The lack of progress comes as the U.S. is running up against a crucial deadline on raising the borrowing limit. The Obama administration has said Congress must renew the government’s authority to borrow money by Oct. 17 or risk a firstever federal default, which many economists say would threaten the world economy. Republicans have indicated they could move their campaign against the health care law to the debt fight. The shutdown itself is estimated to trim only about 0.2
percent of the U.S. gross domestic product each week. But that could grow worse if the impasse begins to erode consumer and business confidence. U.S. stock futures fell again Thursday as the crisis dragged on. The mood in the rest of the world was cautious, with European and Asian stock indexes mixed. Europe’s top central banker, Mario Draghi, called the shutdown “a risk if protracted.” The partial shutdown closed national parks and forced 800,000 employees — nearly a third of the federal workforce —
off the job, amid mounting anger from the public. For two dozen couples, the shutdown meant they may be forced to cancel their October weddings scheduled for closed off monuments in Washington. Prospective home owners applying for mortgages were facing delays because many need government confirmation of their financial data. For American Indian tribes, the effects were more immediate. Programs including health care for the elderly and disabled and bus service for rural areas were suspended indefinite-
ly for Montana’s 13,000-member Crow Tribe. “We’re already taking calls from people saying, ‘Who’s going to take care of my mom? Who’s going to take care of my dad” said Shar Simpson, who leads the Crow’s home health care program. People classified as essential employees — such as air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and most food inspectors — continued to work. Republican House Speaker John Boehner complained to reporters that Obama said anew that “he will not negotiate.” Boehner made clear that curbing the health care overhaul that Obama pushed into law three years ago remains part of the price for returning federal workers to their jobs. On Thursday, Republicans planned to continue pursuing their latest strategy: muscling bills through the House that would restart some popular programs. Votes were on tap for restoring funds for veterans and paying members of the National Guard and Reserves. On Wednesday, the chamber voted to finance the national parks and biomedical research and let the District of Columbia’s municipal government spend federally controlled dollars. Democrats demanded that the entire government be reopened, and the White House and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made clear that the Republicans’ narrower bills have no chance of survival. They said the strategy showed that Republicans were buckling under public pressure.
beIjING, OcTOber 3 (AFP): Chinese tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal airplane life jackets, China’s image-conscious authorities have warned in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly behaviour. The National Tourism Administration publicised its 64-page Guidebook for Civilised Tourism -- with illustrations to accompany its list of dos and don’ts -- on its website ahead of a “Golden Week” public holiday that started on October 1. As Chinese tourists increasingly travel abroad, they have developed a stereotype of “uncivilised behaviour”, which Vice Premier Wang Yang said in May had “damaged the image of the Chinese people”. Several countries, including debt-laden European nations, have eased visa restrictions to attract increasingly affluent Chinese tourists, but reports have also emerged of complaints about etiquette. A mainland Chinese woman who in February had her son relieve himself in a bottle in a crowded Hong Kong restaurant sparked an outpouring of anger online, with some locals deriding mainlanders as “locusts”. The government has previously issued pithy guidelines telling tourists how to behave, but the latest booklet elaborated in great detail. It warned travellers not to pick their noses in public, to keep their nose-hair neatly trimmed and, if they had to pick their teeth, never to use their fingers. It also urged them not to occupy public toilets for long periods of time or leave footprints on the toilet seat. Nor should they pee in swimming pools. Travellers should not drink soup straight from the bowl or make slurping sounds when eating noodles, it warned. And after taking a flight they must leave the life jackets underneath their seats, the rulebook said, explaining that “if a dangerous situation arises then someone else will not have a life jacket”. A tour guide surnamed Zhang who was in Hong Kong on Tuesday said his company had given him a copy of the rules at the start of the seven-day October holiday. Before this he said they had distributed a much briefer set of guidelines -- which fit on a single sheet of paper. “I feel things need to be improved,” he said, standing in the city square packed with mainland tourists. “If we bring chaos to other places, it’s our image -- the Chinese image -- that suffers.” The handbook also dispensed country-specific advice: Chinese visitors to Germany should only snap their fingers to beckon dogs, not humans. Women in Spain should always wear earrings in public - or else be considered effectively naked. And diners in Japan were instructed not to play with their clothes or hair during a meal.
At least Ninety-four dead in Brazilian police stop native Indians from storming Cong migrant shipwreck off Italy
rOMe, OcTOber 3 (AP): A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, killing at least 94 people as it spilled hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but some 200 others were still unaccounted-for. It was one of the deadliest accidents in recent times during the notoriously perilous Mediterranean Sea crossing from Africa for migrants seeking a new life in the European Union. “We need only caskets, certainly not ambulances,” Pietro Bartolo, chief of health services on the island, told Radio 24. He gave the death toll of 94 but told Sky TG24 he expected that to rise as search operations continued. “It’s an immense tragedy,” said Lampedusa Mayor Giusi Nicolini, adding that the dead included at least one child of about 3 and a pregnant woman. Blue, white and black tarps covered the bodies at the port. Coast guard ships, local fishing boats and helicopters from across the region were combing the waters trying to find survivors, said coast guard spokesman Marco Di Milla. The boat left from Tripoli with migrants from
Eritrea, Ghana and Somalia, Di Milla said. Antonio Candela, the government’s health commissioner for Palermo, said 159 people had been rescued, but the boat is believed to have been carrying as many as 500 people, the LaPresse news agency reported. Nicolini said the ship had caught fire after those on board set off flares so it would be seen by passing ships. The ship apparently then capsized, spilling the passengers into the sea near Conigli island. Lampedusa is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland - a mere 70 miles off the coast of Tunisia - and is the frequent destination for smugglers’ boats. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano canceled his appointments Thursday and headed to Italy’s southernmost island to oversee the rescue operations. Pope Francis, who visited Lampedusa in July, quickly sent condolences. It was the second shipwreck this week off Italy: On Monday, 13 men drowned while trying to reach southern Sicily when their ship ran aground just a few meters (yards) from shore. Hundreds of migrants reach Italy’s shores every day, particularly during the summer when seas are usu-
ally calmer. They are processed in centers, screened for asylum and often sent back home. Those who aren’t usually melt into the general public and make their way to northern Europe, where immigrant communities are bigger and better organized. In Italy, migrants can only work legally if they have a work permit and contract before they arrive. According to the U.N. refugee agency, 8,400 migrants landed in Italy and Malta in the first six months of the year, almost double the 4,500 who arrived during the first half of 2012. It’s still a far cry from the tens of thousands who flooded to Italy, especially through Lampedusa, during the Arab Spring exodus of 2011. The numbers, though, have spiked in recent weeks, particularly with Syrian arrivals. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees had recorded 40 deaths in the first half of 2013 for migrants arriving in Italy and Malta, and a total of 500 for all of 2012, based on interviews with survivors. Fortress Europe, an Italian observatory that tracks migrant deaths reported by the media, says about 6,450 people died in the Canal of Sicily between 1994 and 2012.
brASILIA, OcTOber 3 (reuTerS): Brazilian police used pepper spray to stop hundreds of protesting Indians from storming Congress on Wednesday, clamping down on the second day of indigenous rights marches. Tribes across Brazil blocked highways and occupied government offices to oppose what they see as a steady undermining of their rights to ancestral lands by farmers supported by politicians in disputes that have occasionally turned violent. “We have lost lots of land and they want to take away what we have left,” said Mayalu Txucarramae, a young Kayapo leader from the Xingu reservation in Mato Grosso state, one of about 1,000 indigenous demonstrators camped out in front of Congress. Indians wearing headdresses and body paint and carrying spears, bows and arrows expressed their anger in war dances outside ministry buildings in Brazil’s capital and then tried to invade Congress, before being stopped by police. During a similar protest in April, members of some 70 tribes barged into the lower house of Congress, delaying a debate on indigenous policy. Brazilian police, who have faced bouts of social unrest since the country experienced massive protests in June against corruption and poor government services, were less permissive this time. But the deputy speaker of the lower chamber of Congress, Andre Vargas, agreed to meet with a
Security agents stop an indigenous man demanding the return of his bow outside Planalto presidential palace during an ongoing National Indigenous Mobilization in Brasilia, Brazil, on Wednesday, October 2. Indians are protesting a proposed constitutional amendment that would let lawmakers participate in the demarcation of territories because they believe the proposal would allow agricultural interests to encroach on their lands. (AP Photo)
delegation of Indians, including the Kayapo leader, and vowed to try to stop a constitutional amendment from reaching the floor that would weaken native land rights. On Tuesday, Speaker Henrique Eduardo Alves said he would delay forming a committee to study the proposal, which would give Congress, rather than the federal government’s Indian affairs office, the power to create indigenous reservations. President Dilma Rousseff, accused by the Indians of siding with farmers in the disputes over native lands, said on Twitter she op-
posed the amendment and would encourage her supporters in Congress to vote against it. “She is just trying to look good,” said Txucarramae. The protests that shook Brazil in June may have helped the Indian cause by making the country’s politicians more sensitive to popular demands, the Indian leader said.
‘Under unprecedented assault’ The Indian protests were occurring on the 25th anniversary of Brazil’s constitution, which is considered one of the world’s most generous in terms of allocating land to natives. But an article
Uruguay’s first lady like no other
MONTeVIDeO, OcTOber 3 (AP): Lucia Topolansky is a first lady like no other. An outspoken senator, former Tupamaro guerrilla and key member of her country’s ruling coalition, she is more than qualified to follow her husband Jose Mujica into the presidency. But would she? “No way,” she told The Associated Press in an interview in her Senate office. “Now that I’ve seen the presidency up close, I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. Look, I remember well how in your country Barack Obama didn’t have a single gray hair in his first term, and now he’s totally gray!” Topolansky is, however, being talked about as a potential vice president for Tabare Vazquez, who preceded Mujica in office and is a likely front-runner to retake the presidency in 2014. Now 69 and gray herself, Topolansky still speaks with the intensity of the young, blond militant who tried to change her country through armed revolution in the early 1970s, organizing jailbreaks and
even crawling through sewers to escape from prison. Recaptured just before Uruguay’s 1973 military coup, she suffered torture during her nearly 14 years in prison. With democracy’s return in 1985, she and Mujica were among the former guerrillas granted amnesties. They eventually got married and kept working for change, achieving through the ballot box what bullets couldn’t. Mujica won the presidency through his charisma and common touch, but credits his wife for his political backbone — missing her birthday while visiting the United Nations last week, he called her his “hard drive.” Topolansky has focused on lawmaking, and shows little patience for ceremonial roles. Her small Senate office lacks any national symbols or signs of political power. She sits among piles of documents, books and several framed pictures — iconic images
of tango singer Carlos Gardel and Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and a faded blackand-white photo of her husband with Tupamaro leader Raul Sendic during their revolutionary days. She spoke with the AP as the Senate was preparing to give final approval to an unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market with the government at its center, licensing growers, sellers and users in an effort to fight organized crime. Uruguay also legalized abortion and gay marriage recently, putting the country and its first couple on the map. “We have been granted the luxury of setting this agenda of individual rights” because Uruguay already took care of more basic problems like increasing education funding and creating jobs, she said. “The country is ready now for this rights agenda.” But as Mujica nears the end of his term and the Broad Front coalition of leftist parties, unions and
social organizations aims to put Vazquez back in the presidency, unemployment among Uruguay’s 3.3 million people is 7.1 percent and nearly 800,000 workers take home less than $650 a month, according to the country’s PIT-CNT union coalition. Some other former leftist revolutionaries think the current government’s policies are a luxury Uruguay still can’t afford. “This is an agenda they pursue in the U.S. and in Europe’s social democracies, which invented women’s lib and the gays and this and that so they don’t have to talk about what’s really important,” Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro told the magazine Caras y Carateras. “This agenda doesn’t bother anybody and we’re so naive that we don’t see it ... They’ve forgotten about class war. To the war between classes and nothing less!” Topolansky’s brother Carlos, one year older, recalled the fam-
ily’s shock when police showed up in 1969 looking for Lucia the guerrilla. “It was as if they told you there was a Martian at the door,” he said. She was seen as timid girl and her father never accepted her choice. “They tricked her,” he always said. But Topolansky makes it clear that she has made her own choices, accepted the consequences, and has no regrets or bitterness — not even for being tortured, or not having children. “I had certain ideas about freedom. And when I made certain political decisions, I didn’t want any attachments,” she said. “Later, I was jailed for a thousand years, and then the kids didn’t come, so it doesn’t bother me now, because I have a lifelong project.” Asked whether the Tupamaros were justified in killing unarmed prisoners, she said: “History is what it is. We’re not going to change it by trying to go back and analyze it.”
in the document stating that Indians have the right to occupy their ancestral lands is under fire from the country’s powerful farm lobby, which is arguing for the popularly elected Congress to have a say in the creation of reserves. “The Indian rights enshrined in the 1988 constitution are under unprecedented assault today by the Brazilian Congress, aided and abetted by the Rousseff government and the farm lobby,” said Christian Poirier, an activist with Amazon Watch, a human rights and environmental organization based in California. Indian land rights are also threatened by other legislative proposals in Congress that seek to facilitate investment in resource industries and agribusiness in Brazil, Poirier said. Tensions between farmers and Indians have run high since the government evicted 7,000 farmers and their families from an Indian territory in Mato Grosso state earlier this year, spurring violent protests. In May, two Terena Indians were shot and killed when police tried to remove them from a congressman’s cattle ranch on disputed property in Mato Grosso do Sul. In other parts of Brazil on Wednesday, Pataxo and Tupinamba Indians blocked roads in the state of Bahia, and Guarani demonstrators stopped traffic in Parana state and occupied the government’s land reform office in Porto Alegre. An Indian protest snarled traffic on a main avenue of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.
In this Aug. 26, 2013 photo, first lady and Senator Lucia Topolansky speaks during an interview at her office in Montevideo, Uruguay. Topolansky spoke with the AP as the Senate was preparing to give final approval to an unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market with the government at its center, licensing growers, sellers and users in an effort to fight organized crime. (AP Photo)
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Teachers and students of B.A. III, Sao Chang College, Tuensang posing for the lens before playing a football Exhibition Match on the third day of their College Week from 1-5 October. Teachers won the match by 4 goals to 3. A seminar on the theme “Statutory right of women” that will see delegates from Nagaland State Commission for Women will be held on the fourth day at Conference Hall, Sao Chang College, followed by a flower arrangement competition. The week-long function will culminate on October 5 with a 'Cultural Show' at Town Hall.
Players in action at the final match during at the 1st Senior Volleyball championship at DDSC Stadium in Dimapur on Thursday, 03 October 2013. (Morung Photo)
MANCHESTER, OCTObER 3 (AP): Barely four months after winning the Champions League at Wembley Stadium, Bayern Munich returned to England on Wednesday and showed it is in no mood to give up Europe's most coveted trophy. With an ominous display of swagger and authority, Bayern humbled Manchester City 3-1 to signal that things may get even better under Pep Guardiola than they were under its treble-winning coach of last season, Jupp Heynckes. "We were so dominant against a big team in Europe," said Arjen Robben, one of the goalscorers on a calamitous night for City. "We didn't expect an easy game like that." Franck Ribery kicked off what proved to be a footballing exhibition in the seventh minute, albeit thanks to another goalkeeping error by City's Joe Hart, before Thomas Mueller and Robben administered more punishment in a four-minute span just before the hour. Bayern could feasibly have been seven or eight goals ahead by the time substitute Alvaro Negredo grabbed a 79th-minute consolation goal for bedraggled City, which was run ragged and humiliated
Manchester City's Alvaro Negredo, second right, scores his side's first goal past Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, left, during the Champions League group D soccer match between Manchester City and Bayern Munich at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 2. (AP Photo)
in front of its own fans. Not even the sendingoff of Bayern defender Jerome Boateng four minutes from time for bringing down Yaya Toure could stop Guardiola celebrating his team's "best game" in his few months in charge of the Bavarian giants. "I'm lucky to be here and training these players," said Guardiola, who won the Champions League in
2009 and '11 with Barcelona. No team has retained the Champions League since the format's inception in 1992. On this evidence, it will take some stopping Bayern breaking that record. The scoreline flattered City, whose 4-1 victory over Manchester United in the Premier League 10 days ago must seem like a distant memory. After starting its Group D campaign
by beating CSKA Moscow 3-0 at home, it was thought Bayern would be given a stern challenge at the Etihad Stadium by a side which has title pretensions of its own and which also opened up with a 3-0 win, at Viktoria Plzen. Not a chance. At times, it got embarrassing onesided. City's fans even clapped Bayern's players midway through the sec-
ond half and applauded the untouchable Robben when he was substituted in the 78th. "That is why they are champions," City defender Micah Richards said. "It felt like they had an extra man." Playing with Thomas Mueller in a withdrawn role on his own up front, Bayern always had extra numbers in midfield — just as Guardiola craves — and was first to every ball.
13th state Taekwondo NPL matches rescheduled 14th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy New Market (B), Naga United championship concludes and Twenty XI moves ahead DIMAPUR, OCTObER 3 (MExN): The match in Mokokchung which was cancelled between Sangpang FC and United Redskins FC on Matchday 1, dated September 21 will now be played on October 7 in Dimapur at 10 am. Likewise, the match between FC Naga Tornadoes and Kohima Komets which was cancelled on September 28 due to unplayable conditions is rescheduled to be played on October 7 at 12 noon.
DNSU sports week inaugurated
Members of the St Josephs team that emerged overall champions.
DIMAPUR OCTObER 3 (MExN): The two day event for the 13th State TaekwonDo Championship, 2013 came to an end here at the State Indoor Stadium, Dimapur. A total of 231 participants from different schools and clubs of Nagaland participated in the event. The main attractions for the entire two day event was the competitions from different age groups starting from individual sparring i.e. below 13 years,13-18 years and 18 years above; group sparring i.e. below 13 years, 13 years above, individual patterns, special technique and individual sparring black belts & group patterns. The overall unbeatable champions were St Stephen higher secondary school, dimapur with 18 Gold,12 Silver and 10 Bronze. At the closing ceremony Yimkongniken Aonok, Organizing Secretary, Nagaland Taekwon-Do Federation (NTF) conveyed the vote of thanks message to all the parCATEGORY OVERALL CHAMPION’S
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Parliamentary Secretary, Tovihoto Ayemi being felicitated by DNSU president, Mhachio Lotha. (Morung Photo)
DIMAPUR, OCTObER 3 (MExN): Parliamentary Secretary for IT&C, Science & Technology, Technical Education and Taxes on Thursday inaugurated the 7th Inter High School Sports Meet of Dimapur Naga Students’ Federation (DNSU) at Government Higher Secondary School Dimapur. Tovihoto lauded the DNSU for its contribution towards the welfare of the students and the society and encouraged them to continue rendering its yeoman services. He specifically pointed out the initiative of the student body during last year’s NE exodus from South India by setting up help desks at Railway Station, Airport, Bus stations etc. Tovihoto also recognized the efforts of the DNSU in taking up other socials issues with utmost interest. On the occasion, he said
education alone was not enough to make someone a responsible citizen but that it takes a lot of other things such as sports and personality besides numerous other traits. He said both studies and physical fitness were important in the life of a student. According to Tovihoto, sport enables a person to learn discipline, time management and build self-confidence. He also said the DNSU sports week was one platform where students from different schools could come together and spread the message of peace and unity by getting to know each other in a positive manner. Dimapur Chamber of Commerce, president, Hokivi Chishi, NPF party workers, Miss Dimapur 2012 and the two runners’ ups were also present during the inaugural programme.
ANKA team wins 7 medals
DIMAPUR, OCTObER 3 (MExN): The All Nagaland Karate Do Association team has won seven medals in the South Asian Karate Championship 2013 at Thimpu, Buthan on September 28-29. A press note informed that Sempai Piputo G Kiba won 2 golds in Ind Kumite; Sempai Abhijit Rabha won silver in Ind Kumite; Mater Lirangse Sangtam won bronze in Ind Kumite; Sensei Dharmender Singh won 2 silvers and 1 bronze in Ind Kumite, Kata and India Team Kumite and Sempai Akuminla L Imchen of the 15th IRB won bronze in Ind Kumite. It is the first time in the history of the association and the state that an individual has won two gold medals in a tournament
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New Market (B), Naga United Club and Twenty XI moved ahead in the pre-quarters of the ongoing 14th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy played at Kohima Local Ground. In the first match, New Market (B) defeated Tangkhul Students’ Union (TKC) by solitary goal scored by Tosovi Khape. New Market (B) scored a goal through Tosovi in the 49th minute to win the match. He also received a yellow card along with Mashunthung Phirei of TKS. In the second match of the day, Naga United Club defeated Adroit Boys FC by 7-2 Kornan Rongmie scored for Naga United in the 10th minute, Avilhou Angami
scored in the 15th minute. Azo in the 36th minute, Kobu Angami and Punoro Chakhesang in the 54th and 57th minute while Avilhou Angami netted two more in the 67th and injury added time. In the third match, Twenty XI defeated Meriema Village Youth Organization (VYO) by 4-3 via tie-breaker as the teams were locked in 1-1 draw during the stipulated game time. Meyiho Sothu scored for Twenty XI, Viswema in the 24th minute while equalizer for Meriema VYO netted the equalizer. However the tie breaker favoured Twenty-XI as they converted 4 while their rivals managed only 2. Matches for October 4: 1. DEF Kohima vs Kohima Bible College @ 11:30 am 2. Nagaland Police vs Ablazers FC @ 1:00 pm 3. Capital College of Hr Education vs Tyrants FC @ 2:30 pm
Greenwood School sports meet begins
Juniors of Yellow House giving the salute during the march past at the inaugural ceremony of the 33rd Greenwood School sports meet.
DIMAPUR, OCTObER 3 (MExN): The 33rd Greenwood School sports meet got underway on Thursday at the school playground with superintendent of police, Dimapur, VZ Angami gracing the inaugural ceremony as chief guest. The chief guest in his address said that sport is one of the most important physical activities that can keep a person healthy, fit and smart. VZ Angami said
studies have shown that 70% of middle aged people who had never participated in sporting and other physical activities during their youth suffer from a host of complicated ailments including high tension and pressure. “Our forefathers were relatively healthier and fit as they were always engaged in physical and outdoor activities. It has also been reported in the media that exercise is
as good as medicine, if not better,” he said. He also said that sport has come to play a major role in the market and economy of a country. He exhorted young players to develop sportsmanship and a sporting spirit of winning through fair play and accepting defeat gracefully. A ‘Torch Run’ march past by students of the four houses preceded the declaration of the sports meet by the chief guest.
and also winning three medals by a single individual Karateka. Sempai Piputo G Kiba is the youngest Shodan Ho (Blackbelt) in the state and has brought many laurels to the state in the field of sports Karate, stated the press note. Sensei Dharmender Singh is an instructor of ISKF India Main Branch Dojo of the state and has won many medals for the state in the past as well. The state team was led by Sensei Thsathriba, Karate Instructor and Chief Instructor of the Main Branch Dojo, ISKF-India. The association has congratulated the winners and also extended its gratitude to Shito Ryu Seiko Kai Karate-Do Bhutan for or- Indian team that won a silver and bronze medal in the World Sepaktakraw championship ganizing such international from Sept 16 to 22 at Udonthani, Thailand. Three players from Nagaland namely, Puleno championship. Neikha, Keneileno Nakhro and Viseyie Koso were also a part of the Indian team.
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Angelina and breast cancer copycat surge O W omen inspired by Angelina Jolie are demanding breast removal surgery – even if they don’t need it - a leading doctor has warned. After Miss Jolie, 38, who is in a high-risk cancer category, announced this year she had had a double mastectomy, a surge of women in the UK have sought to follow suit. A quarter of women who develop cancer in one breast are now asking for both to be removed, according to figures from the London Breast Institute. But Professor Kefah Mokbel of the London Breast Institute has said surgery would be pointless for women who are not in the same category as Jolie. Dr Mokbel said: ‘It’s obviously a great step forward that Angelina Jolie has increased awareness of breast cancer. ‘But we’re seeing a large number of women requesting a preventative mastectomy for peace of mind, women who’ve been diagnosed but don’t have a genetic predisposition so wouldn’t benefit. ‘These are patients who say, “Can you do for me what Angelina Jolie had done?” They’re on the increase. Miss Jolie received praise after announcing her decision to have both breasts removed following the deaths of her aunt from breast cancer and her mother from ovarian cancer. London Breast Institute figures showed genetic testing for BRCA mutations at their clinic had risen by 67 per cent since Jolie went public, and preventative mastectomies have risen fourfold.
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the grand plan. The event is organised by Eclectic Publications, publisher of the most popular monthly English magazine of the region – Eclectic Northeast. Registration of contestants is on-going and auditions will soon begin to get the hunt started. For the first time a contest of such nature going beyond the seven sisters and hosting audition in Gangtok. This time around, the auditions will start from Dimapur (Jumping Bean Café) and Gangtok (Lounge 31A) on October 5. Next stop for audition will be Jorhat (Hotel Nikita) on 17th October followed by Guwahati, (Hotel rains Inn, Paltan Bazaar) on 19th October and Shillong
(Centre Point) on October 22. Registration can be done at the venue itself. The contest is open for girls from the northeast. Interested contestants can also fill up registration form and send their entries with at least 3 recent photographs to Eclectic Model Hunt 2013, Eclectic Publications, Saraswati Market, 2nd Floor, Above SBI, Six Mile Branch, Suruj Nagar, G. S. Road, Guwahati – 781022. Interested contestants can contact Ms Tandraat 08811025589 for more details. The event is managed by Tattva Creations, part of Eclectic Group and one of the premier event management company based in Guwahati.
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ger and better with every edition. Honourable personalities like Late T G Baruah, AshutoshAgnihotri, IAS (DC Kamrup Metro), His Excellency R. S. Mooshahari, (Governor of Meghalaya), H. S. Das, IAS (Principal Sec. Finance, Govt of Assam) have been part of the event as Chief Guest in the past. The event has also seen celebrity judges in the likes of Dipannita Sharma, Mark Robinson, BaichungBhutia and celebrity performers like Soulmate, JoiBarua, Lou Majau and others. With such a glorious past, the 6th edition promises to be no different. Fresh and talented faces, captivating performances and popular personalities are all part of
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`Boogie Woogie` was the brainchild of TV personality Naved, his brother Javed Jaffrey and actor Ravi Behl. It was also one of the longest running dance reality show on Indian Tv.
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e is one of the few Indians to have won two Grammy awards and two Academy Awards, yet he retains the humility of a common man. Celebrated Indian singercomposer AR Rahman, also known by the sobriquet `Mozart of Madras`, says he can never let stardom consume him. I was a common man and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right, the 46-yearold said. The music maestro made history when he became the first Indian to win two Oscars in a year, 2009, for Danny Boyle`s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, the rags-to-riches story of a Mumbai slum-dweller. Rahman had also bagged two awards at the 52nd Annual Grammy for his song ‘Jai ho’ from the same film. The success has not gone to his head. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. Ego is `Edging God Out`. Success is important, but it doesn`t always drive creativity. The integrity and passion of music is what ultimately drives me, with the unconditional blessing from the Almighty of course, he said. He got his first international break when Andrew Lloyd Webber invited him to compose music for the Broadway musical ‘Bombay Dreams’, which won him immense fame. Rahman also credits his success to his family, which always stood by him and helped him stay rooted. My wife (Saira Banu) and my children are my roots who keep me grounded at all times, said the musician, who considers himself like a boat without an oar. I let life take its own course. I know only my work and god. I pray a lot. You get dejected if you plan something and it does not happen, he said. His family, he said, has been my pillar of stimulus and given me infinite love and support without ever expecting anything in return throughout his journey. Today, even though I have so much I will never be able to repay the emotional debt, he added. He also attributes his success to his mother. After the death of his father, it was his mother who encouraged him to take his passion for music to another level. Today, he is making the country proud with his art. My mother is the person I owe my success to.
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Real's Cristiano Ronaldo, right scores with a header during the Champions League group B soccer match between Real Madrid and FC Copenhagen at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Wednesday, Oct. 2. (AP Photo)
Portugal forward Ronaldo followed up his hat-trick in Istanbul with another sparkling display and Argentina winger Di Maria also turned in a fine performance in the absence of injured world record signing Gareth Bale. "It was a good match," said coach Carlo Ancelotti who came under fire after Real were beaten 1-0 at home by Atletico Madrid at the weekend. "There was some good intensity and balance at the beginning," the Italian told reporters. "We were trying to score until the final minutes and the attitude of the team was good." Ancelotti made a few tweaks to his formation for the visit of the Danish side who held Juventus to a 1-1 draw in Copenhagen in their opening game. Luka Modric, Sami Khedira and Asier Illarramendi were
deployed in a three-man midfield, with Karim Benzema up front alongside Ronaldo and Di Maria and fullbacks Marcelo and Dani Carvajal providing width. With their fans providing impressive encouragement high up in Real's giant arena, Copenhagen made a bright start but the hosts quickly asserted themselves and Benzema headed narrowly wide from Marcelo's left-wing cross in the sixth minute. Just as the home supporters were starting to grow restless, Ronaldo opening the scoring in the 21st minute when goalkeeper Johan Wiland failed to deal with Marcelo's floated cross and he nodded in from a tight angle.
then needed treatment to a head wound after clashing with Daniel Braaten before Copenhagen went close to an equaliser from a corner five minutes before the break. Nicolai Jorgensen beat keeper Iker Casillas to the ball and his header bounced down off the crossbar before appearing to strike Modric's hand on the line. The Croatia midfielder was able to clear the danger but there were whistles of discontent from the home fans as the players trooped off at halftime. Ronaldo, however, settled the nerves in the stands with his second 20 minutes into the second half, his 55th goal on his 94th appearance in Europe's elite club competition and his 26th in his HEAD WOUND last 21 Champions League Real centre back Pepe outings.
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MADRID, OctObeR 3 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo took his Champions League tally to five goals in two outings this season when he scored with two headers to help Real Madrid to a thumping 4-0 victory over FC Copenhagen in Group B on Wednesday. Angel Di Maria also struck twice at the Bernabeu and set up Ronaldo's second goal as Real put a couple of poor performances in La Liga behind them with another emphatic display in Europe following their 6-1 drubbing of Galatasaray last month. The home team's firepower proved too strong for a stubborn Copenhagen side who despite struggling domestically put up some stiff resistance in their first meeting with the ninetimes European champions.
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