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NPCB directs telecom service providers DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 4 (MExN): The Nagaland Pollution Control Board has informed telecom service providers operating in Nagaland to comply to set standards in relation to noise and emission levels from Diesel Generators (DG) attached to mobile towers and the health hazards of mobile tower radiations. A press note from the Member Secretary of the NPCB said that the Central Pollution Control Board has received numerous public complaints regarding the aforementioned health hazards and the noise and emission standards. The note stated that it is required for service providers to ensure that under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the noise and emission norms of the DG sets attached to mobile towers are adhered to. The service providers have been directed to contact the NPCB office and added that public complaints regarding the aforementioned emissions can also be intimated to the office.
Civil Society, Excise dept resolve to act on NLTP
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DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 4 (MExN): A meeting between various civil societies and Nagaland Excise officials on September 4 resolved to work towards effective enforcement of the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act. It was resolved to urge the government for professional support to alcohol and drug rehab centers in Nagaland and to inform associations, churches and institutions on the “evil menace” caused by alcohol intake. It informed that surprise joint raids would be conducted in hotels and shops. It was further resolved that any house/shop owner allowing sale of liquor in their shops or godowns will be equally held responsible and penalized under the NLTP Act. A press note from the Excise Commissioner informed that the NBCC General Secretary during an earlier meeting had assured all moral support and assistance to the department and that the NBCC have decided to go for fasting and prayer all over the state so as to bring positive results. Naga Council Dimapur, Dimapur Chamber of Commerce, GB Union Dimapur and the GB DGBA were present in the meeting.
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After deliberations with the NSCN (IM)’s CAO of UT1, the Petroleum Dealers’ Association (PDA) agreed to open 28 of the 31 fuel outlets in Dimapur on September 4. The two parties have reached an “amicable” settlement after “miscommunication” between them was sorted out following a meeting held this morning. They have now decided to “forgive and forget” the happenings of the past two days on certain conditions. “As a union, we were not striking because we support adulteration,” clarified Vice President of the PDA, Atoulie Kengs at a press conference today, also announcing the decision to re-open the fuel outlets. “We were left with no alternative but to shut down. Now it is clear that a lot of damage was done due to misunderstandings,” he added. The issue of adulteration, said the PDA, and the reason for the shut down are unrelated. Petrol pumps in Dimapur remained shut on September 2 and 3 after the NSCN (IM) detected adulteration of fuel in 17 of the 31 petrol pumps in Dimapur, and they were asked to shut down or face dire consequences.
• 28 of the 31 fuel outlets re-open in Dimapur • SIT formed to look into fuel adulteration
A security personnel looks on as vehilces line up at a petrol pump in Dimapur on September 4. Petrol pumps in Dimapur resumed business on September 4 evening after they had remained closed for two days. (Photo by Caisii Mao)
“The public or the government is allowed to check the quality of petrol but there is a stipulated method by the Government of India to do so under the Marketing Discipline Guidelines (MDGs),” said Kengs, which the NSCN (IM) did not follow while checking the tested fuel. The NSCN (IM) and PDA arrived at a settlement wherein the PDA will support future initiatives to check adulteration of fuel if done through the MDGs by authorized personnel in exchange for re-opening 28 fuel outlets. Three ES-
SAR petrol pumps (in Duncan Bosti, Walford and DC Court Junction), however, continue to remain shut as they have been unable to produce in-voices for the petrol they buy. The Home Minister of Nagaland, G. Kaito Aye, intervened to end the imbroglio and had a meeting with PDA members in Dimapur, as well as other stakeholders. Dimapur DC, Hushili Sema, issued an order at 12.30pm today for re-opening petrol pumps. She acknowledged the “active intervention” of the Home Minister in solv-
ing the issue. The 17 petrol pumps that are suspected to be adulterating fuel will be kept under the scanner by the district administration. Additionally, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been set up to look into the adulteration business in Dimapur. “Adulteration mostly happens in godowns and with government-distributed kerosene. It is the government’s duty, not ours to put a check on it,” stated Akokla, a PDA member. Asked about the “zero solvents” used to adulterate fuel, she replied that it is
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ensang Government High School for another six years where her husband had been transferred. “Teaching is very different today. Students were more obedient, disciplined and respectful back then. We didn’t have much trouble with our students because they were all very sincere. But we had very less materials to teach.” she says and adds that everyone walked to school from a long distance back then and didn’t find much trouble in it. After coming back to Kohima from Tuensang, she left teaching to look after her children. In 1982, she joined the National Open School where she taught for almost five years. Neilakuoii is also a pia-
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the government that issues licenses for procurement of these solvents, which are predominantly used in paint factories. This, she said, should be checked and curbed by the government itself. The PDA has Morung Express news forwarded a memoranDimapur | September 4 dum to the Nagaland state government and the NSCN (IM), wherein they have 24-year-old Dori teaches at a private school in Dimastated their grievances. pur. She wakes up at around Dimapur administration 5:30 am and gets ready for raids fuel adulteration sites her 7:45 am class, which The Dimapur District extends till 2:00 pm in the Administration and Po- afternoon. Teaching a maxlice on Wednesday con- imum of five classes each ducted raids on three sus- day for six days (sometimes pected fuel adulteration five) a week, for a paltry sum sites in Ghorapati, Padhum of Rs 4000 a month, Dori Pukhuri and 4th Mile, Dima- admits it is not worth the pur. Sources informed that labour and the time she inat Ghorapati, a makeshift vests. It’s a very “hectic” job fuel adulteration unit com- with no time for anything prising of three fuel tankers else, she says, “with very and eleven plastic barrels less salary.” It is not just the were found. It was also in- hours, but also the different formed that twenty to thirty subjects she teaches which thousand liters of a liquid takes a toll. A humanities “suspected to be adulterat- graduate, she has to teach ed fuel” was also recovered English, Science and other from the site. However no additional subjects. people were found. Hers is not an excepIn Padhum Pukhuri, the tional case. In her school, raiding party apprehended there are some teachers two persons suspected to who teach six or seven be involved in fuel adulter- classes a day to about sixation. In 4th Mile, sources ty-seventy students in one said that the site appeared classroom. Some classto be an abandoned fuel rooms have about eighty adulteration unit where students. Seven to eight the raiding party found classes of forty five minutes tankers and drums. each a day is a standard routine in most private schools in Nagaland. Private schools are in demand, and they produce the best results in the nist, a skill she learned at the state, as opposed to their age of fourteen from Ruth government counterparts. Supplee – daughter of the However the plight of the G.W Supplee. “The only pia- teachers is a different stonos we had belonged to the ry. With very little scope missionaries. We would go of private sector employto church to practice the pi- ment in industry deprived ano and come back home.” Nagaland, many educated In the 1960s she bought unemployed people turn to a piano from Jorhat and teaching at private schools. taught her children the basic Some take to entreprecourses. She along with her neurship, but for many who daughter gave piano lessons cannot afford that, private to more than 30 students. schools are the options, Recently she met one of her former student who told her while they look for governthat he learned Tenyidie be- ment jobs. As is the case, cause of her. “When a teacher many do not see it as a long understands his/her subject term profession. “Not everybody is gomatter well, the students uling to remain single fortimately learn. It is a pleasure to see your students under- ever. And the salary they stand whatever you teach (schools) provide is not enough to run a family,” rethem,” says Neilakuoii.
Overworked, Underpaid; teachers seek changes
imbibing knowledge: A teacher’s zeal Vibi Yhokha
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“Nothing gives you more joy in being a teacher than when your students learn whatever has been taught and becomes somebody,” says 79 years old Neilakuoii Peseye, a teacher of English and Angami (today the subject is known as Tenyidie) who taught during the 1950s. Neilakuoii was born in 1934to a generation which she says have seen a lot of changes and too much of war. “I was 10 years old when the Second World War began. When we heard that the Japanese were approaching we ran and hid in the forests. One of my sisters died in the forest,” she re-
calls after which she joined school at the then Mission school. The school was run by the Supplees, a Missionary family in Kohima; who were made to leave when the Naga political movement began. She started teaching in 1955, where along with her sister Beilieii, their mother and others taught at the Naga High School, Seikhazou. It was a time when the Naga National Movement had started and she along with her sister, mother and other teachers were arrested by the Indian Army and kept in jail for 2 months. The Army also burned down their houses while they were in jail. The school was soon closed
down. “We had wonderful church services while we were in jail and had a lot of dal,” she recalls smilingly. In 1959, she started teaching at the Riizhiikhrieii Government Higher Secondary School till 1960. She then taught at the Tu-
plies Mhayani, who used to teach six classes a day for three years in a private school in Wokha. Employed as a Graduate Teacher with the Nagaland government now, she recounts her past experience as taxing, and “beyond comparison” with government school, while also acknowledging the inefficiencies rampant in the government setup. She now earns more than three times she used to earn. The issue of underpaid, overworked private schools teachers is not restricted to few places. It is prevalent in all the districts of the state. In Kohima, one teacher has been working in one of the most expensive and elite schools for over two years, and she considers herself relatively fortunate to be teaching four classes a day for a salary of little more than Rs 8000. However, she says, “Comparing to the students’ fees, we are also underpaid.” She adds, “Except for one or two schools, the scenario is the same in Kohima.” ‘ With introduction of the Right to Education’s non-detention and non-exam policy, there are more tests and re-tests. This adds to the strain of the teachers. Eyingbeni Humtsoe, an academic observes, “We see that more labor, time and knowledge are imparted to students in private institutions, but teachers are not fairly acknowledged; or rather it is not reflected in their salaries or returns.” She suggests that the government authority concerned send minimum salary recommendation to private schools, so that salary and work overload issues do not compromise the quality of education or students-teacher relationships. This suggestion may also very well prevent the likelihood of teachers being exploited by proprietors/authorities.
one cadre shot 70.03% participate in noksen bye-polls reported in dead in Kohima “Scuffle” Longra, security forces
KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 4 (MExN): One Lieutenant James Poumai of the GPRN/NSCN was shot dead while travelling in a taxi at Officers’ Hill, Kohima near hotel 2K on September 4. The deceased was shot inside the taxi by an unidentified number of gunmen, where he died on the spot. According to the Superintendent of Police, Kohima the deceased was previously serving in the police force but had “deserted and gone underground.” The SP further said that he was arrested in 2011 and booked under the National Security Act, while another case regarding the remains pending in court. Meanwhile, the People’s Army of Nagaland, Urban Command, Kohima of NSCN (K) through the MIP issued a statement “to bring to light the nature of circum-
stances that led to inevitable elimination of Lieutenant James Poumai on September 4 in Kohima.” In the statement the MIP said that the Urban Command “accosted James at Officers Hill and asked him to surrender so that he would be handed over to the Kohima Police unharmed since James has been on the look-out notice in connection to earlier assassination attempt on Asst. Gen. Secy. NSF.” However, the MIP stated, “when pulled inside the Van, James resisted and pulled off a live grenade pin.” This in turn, according to the MIP, “prompted the cadres to resort to shooting in order to avoid co-lateral consequences since the place of incident was live with innocent civilians.” It added that “witnesses to the episode may also corroborate the same.”
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Bye-election to 51 Noksen Assembly Constituency was conducted successfully with a total voter turnout of 70.03 percent. Chief Electoral Officer, Sentiyanger Imchen informed that 8493 of the 12074 voters cast their votes. Polling in all twenty-one polling stations in the nineteen villages under the constituency was conducted smoothly, except for a “scuffle” which occurred in Longra and security forces resorted to firing to contain the situation. The incident occurred at around 12:30-1 PM, where the public and the polling officials (sector magistrate and presiding officer) had a ‘scuffle’. Security forces fired 30-40 rounds into the air to contain the situation, informed SDO (C) Noksen, Chubatemjen. It was informed that he rushed to Longra Polling Station with some IRB personnel; however by
An elderly couple waiting for their turn to cast votes during the bye-elections for 51 noksen A/C at noksen town, Tuensang on September 4. Due to implementation of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) and the use of Photo electoral roll in this election, many voters and especially the elderly came out to vote in large numbers as the VVPAT, seemingly curbs proxy voting. (Morung Photo)
the time he reached, the situation had been brought under control. Polling at the Longra had to continue forty five minutes past the 5 PM deadline due to the incident. The SDO said that there is a provision that “genuine voters queued up within a 100 meter parameter of the polling station could be allowed to cast their vote even after the expiry of the deadline.” He asserted that the public had no right to take the law into their hands and that security forces had
“no option but to open fire to contain the situation.” While he could not delve into the cause of the scuffle, Chubatemjen however maintained that the public, if they had any grievances, should have complained to the officials instead of creating problems. There were pre-poll “minor scuffles” between NPF and Congress party supporters at Litem and Longtang villages last night. However, polls were reportedly conducted in these two villages peacefully to-
VVPAT and Photo electoral roll The bye-election saw a step towards the concept of ‘one man, one vote’ with introduction of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) and Photo Electoral Slip. Central Paramilitary Forces (CPMF) secured the inner perimeter while IRB personnel secured the outer perimeters of the polling stations. CPMF personnel checked photos of the voters, while party workers were seen urging or taking even the elderly to cast their votes. “People have come from far and near to cast their votes, because of this VVPAT and Photo electoral slips. Otherwise, during earlier elections, one man cast the votes for their entire family…,” said a lady resident of Noksen town. But it is hard to positively ascertain whether the concept of one man one vote was implemented strictly or not. The SDO (C) Noksen, Chubatemjen informed that they are “trying their best to enforce it (one man, one vote) as far as possible.” The effectiveness of the VVPAT and Photo Electoral Slips in curbing proxy voting remains to be seen.
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Nagaland State AIDS Control Society scales up intervention
Kohima, September 4 (mexN): Advocacy with jail inmates and jail health care personnel: A one-day sensitization workshop was organized and conducted by NSACS at District Jail, Kohima on August 30. The resource persons were Ainato Yeptho, (Youth Consultant, NSACS), Tarepnokcha Jamir (GIPA Coordinator, NSACS) and Lanu, senior consultant working in the field of HIV/AIDS. Discussion on basics of HIV and the mode of transmission was thoroughly discussed where common misconceptions were clarified. Voluntary testing, where seven inmates came forward for testing, followed the advocacy programme. Similar advocacy programme in the District jails of Dimapur, Tuensang and Wokha have been planned in the next few weeks. A one-day advocacy cum consultation with Block Development Of-
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Participants of the one-day advocacy cum consultation with BDOs on mainstreaming HIV at Kohima on September 3.
ficers (BDOs), on mainstreaming HIV, was held at Hotel Japfü, Kohima on September 3. This advocacy/consultation with Block Development Officers (BDOs) was held with the objective of increasing the understanding and clarity on the role of BDOs in HIV prevention, care and support, and to garner com-
mitment for coverage of programmes/schemes at the block level; making it accessible to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). Dr. N. L. Changkija, Project Director, NSACS, in her keynote address, encouraged the BDOs to be an ambassador in bringing socio- economic and equal upliftment of the community.
Ayieno Kechu, Deputy Director (IEC) NSACS, presented district-wise HIV/ AIDS scenario in Nagaland & intervention programs in each of the Districts. She also highlighted the blocks (nine) which are not covered by NSACS’ intervention programme where convergence with RD department and, in particular,
with the BDOs was needed. An overview of “Schemes under Rural Development Department” was presented by Jenny Kath, Rural Development Officer, Dept of RD. Tarepnokcha Jamir, GIPA Coordinator, NSACS, shared the intervention areas of NSACS in mainstreaming with various departments. M. Rollan Lotha, State
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Program Manager for National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) made a comprehensive presentation on NRLM and possible areas of convergence of NSACS and NRLM for the HIV+ community. Discussion on the way forward was facilitated by Jongpongchiten, State Program Officer, UNDP - NSACS.
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The following action who were present would points were drawn: be considered priority for • Proposal for induction of awareness program Blocks Mission Director, NRLM with high HIV prevalence in the NSACS’ Executive to be shared and accordCommittee and Project ingly prioritize intervenDirector (DRDA) in the tion by including VDBs DAPCC to facilitate Na- • Regular consultation tional AIDS Control Proand coordination meetgram (NACP) and NRLM ing with NRLM team to convergence. facilitate convergence • The blocks under BDOs with NACP.
Constitution of complaints committee Hornbill 2013 to promote Naga cuisine on sexual harassment within 2 weeks
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Kohima, September 4 (Dipr): The P&AR (Administrative Reforms Branch) Department has stated in a notification that, Complaints Committee Should be set up in all the Directorates and Districts having a staff of more than 50(fifty) employees for the redress of complaints relating to sexual harassment of women employees of the State Government at their work places. The complaints Committee may consist of 5(five) or more members including a member secretary and not less than half of its members should be women. Further, the Committee should be headed by a woman officer in all the Directorates and the District. The Committee should also involve NGO or other body who is familiar with the issue of Sexual harassment. For the Directorate, the HODs should constitute the Committee and the District Committee should be constituted by the respective Deputy Commissioner. The notification was issued in continuation of the Department’s notification of even number dated 29th May, 2013 and in pursuance of the supreme Court directives in Writ Petition (Crl) No. 173-177 of 1999, Smti Medha Kotwal Lele & others vrs Union of India, The notification further stated that all the Directorates and the respective Departments should set up the Committee within a period of 2(two) weeks and such notification should be sent to this Department for record and further neces-
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Terms and conditions of the Complaints Committee: 1. The Committee shall receive complaint from any woman employee, through its Member Secretary, who is a victim of sexual harassment at her work place, and cause an enquiry into the complaint and suggest measures to redress the complaint. 2. The Committee will take measures to create awareness of the rights of female employees in this regard by prominently notifying the guidelines in a suitable manner and other suitable awareness campaigns. 3. Complaints Committee will be deemed to be an inquiry authority for the proposes of Central/State Civil Services (Conduct) Rules and the report of the Complaints Committee shall be deemed to be an inquiry report under the Rules. Thereafter the disciplinary authority will act on the report in accordance with the rules. 4. The Complaints Committee shall submit an annual report to the Secretary, Women Development Department who is the Nodal Department to deal such cases with details of the complaints, if any made thereof for necessary action by the concerned Disciplinary Authority. This Notification vide No.AR-3/ GEN-28/98 dated 3rd September 2013 was issued by Additional Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland, C.J. Ponraj.
Kohima, September 4 (Dipr): Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio has mooted the idea of awarding the Hornbill Chef Award to the best Naga cuisine, in a bid to promote the Naga culinary skills during the Hornbill Festival. This was disclosed by the Commissioner & Secretary Tourism, Art & Culture, Himato Zhimomi while briefing media persons on September 4, 2013, at the directorate of Tourism office Kohima. Himato also informed that the Hornbill Chef Award will recognize the cooking talents in a standardized manner where the Chef awardees would have the ability to pursue their recognition in
the booming food and beverages industry. He further said that the government will provide various incentives to the Awardees for setting up model business platforms in the ever expanding food service industry. The Government will establish the Naga Foodcrafts Institute in the next few years to institutionalize the vast potential of the famous Naga cuisine. “This institutional establishment will be the final goal to this fledging start, at the end of which Nagaland will become a centre for a world famous Naga Cuisine much like Vietnamese, Thai food and Chinese food,” he maintained. The Commissioner and
Secretary for Tourism said that Hornbill 2013 would also promote shopping of Naga products and handicrafts and observed that the 10 days of Hornbill festival would give ample opportunities to both the entrepreneurs and the tourists. Any registered shop would register with the Tourism department and coupons for raffle draw will be issued, he added. Further, explaining the reasons for extension of Hornbill Festival to 10 days, Himato Zhimomi said that due to the popularity of the Festival with tourists, the inflow of visitors has now crossed over one lakh and opined that extension of the Festival would allow more tour-
ists to attend it. E expressed the need for promotion of the tourism sector by the Government and viewed that extension of the Festival would benefit every conceivable section of the Naga society. Informing that the estimated turnover was over Rs.20 crores during the last Hornbill Festival, Zhimomi expressed optimism for a larger turn over this year, due to the extended Hornbill Festival. Re-iterating that Hornbill Festival was not a holiday time for the Government, Himato said that concern government departments including the Music Task Force, Horti, industries and Commerce, Art &
Culture led by the Tourism department works overtime for the preparations and smooth running of the Festival. He also said that although Tourism department is the main organizer of the Hornbill Festival, most of the events are outsourced to private entities in a bid to promote and encourage private talent and entrepreneurship. On the new seating arrangement, Himato informed that VIPs would be seated in the gallery and the morung will be the stage performing arena oriented towards the tourist as per international practice and thereby the format of the photographers would also be shifted.
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IYF World Camp in Nagaland Call for Peace Channel Award nominations
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): International Youth Fellowship (IYF) one of the registered NGO (s) under Government of Nagaland will hold its first ‘IYF World Camp’ in Nagaland at Dimapur Town Hall, from September 28 to October 1, 2013. The IYF in a press release stated that with the aim, to cooperate and train the youths as leaders of tomorrow – and to lead the era of globalization by enhancing their global
mindset and sound values through strong foreign exchange programmes. As per the event coordinator, IYF aims to cultivate the college students as well as the youths to become the leaders of the upcoming generation who are endowed with humble character and global leadership by guiding them to accept people who are different from themselves. Its ultimate vision is to realize a brighter and healthier society founded on Christian
perspective. The camp is being organized mainly to realize a comprehensive global outlook through various mutual understanding among the youths. The main programme at this event will include “Mind education lectures, Notable Guest lectures, International Cultural performances and exchange, Sports activities, Talent show, Academies and Registration for 2014 Good News Corps overseas volunteers from India”.
MMC reminds ward authority on dogs
moKoKchuNg, September 4 (Dipr): Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) has reminded all ward authority of Mokokchung town to take necessary steps with regard to confinement of dogs by the Masters as per MMC order dated August 2013. The MMC in an order stated that, in spite of its order asking all concern to confine their dogs, they “are still found roaming day and night on the streets without any control”. The MMC however said Capital punishment to innocent dog should not be awarded simply “because of its master’s negligent” stating that such actions are violation of Animal Protection Law.
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN); Peace Channel, a youth peace movement would be facilitating and conferring the 6th Peace Channel award to individuals who have made exceptional contributions in peace building and related issues in Nagaland. The Award will be given away during the 6th North East Youth Peace and Cultural Festival- 2013 scheduled from September 21to 23 at Holy Cross Higher Sec. School, Dimapur. The award is opened to all the people irrespective of religion, sex, age and tribe. All nominations are expected to be submitted with a full bio data and a write up of the
person’s achievements/contributions to the society with some photographs (Both hard & soft copy). The information provided must be duly supported with adequate verifiable evidence and signed by the nominator; a person can be nominated by more than one nominator. The decision of the award committee will be final and binding in all circumstances. Nomination should reach the peace channel office latest by September 15 at the following address, Director, Peace Channel, Bishop’s House, Circular Road, Post Box-03, Dimapur; contact-9436260435, 9856145629 or email: peacechannel05@gmail. com, cpanto@gmail.com.
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Kuholi Chishi (L) and Imolangla (R) during their farewell programme at Fazl ALi College.
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moKoKchuNg, September 4 (mexN): Fazl Ali College bid joint farewell to its outgoing Principal Kuholi Chishi and retiring Head Assistant Imolangla on September 3. A solemn programme was organized for the outgoing officers with Limatola Zulu, Vice Principal, as Chairperson. Farewell speeches were delivered by the newly appointed Principal Chubayangla Longkumer, Tiarenla, President of the Fazl Ali College Teachers’ Association, Maputoshi on behalf of the Non-Teaching Staff and Aoinsa, General Secre-
tary of the Fazl Ali College Students’ Union. While the Principal, Chubayangla said that her association with Kuholi dated back to her College days and that she had learnt much while serving under her, Tiarenla, President FACTA, lauded the outgoing Principal on the immense contribution made by her during her almost 30-years service in the College as lecturer in English, President of FACTA, Vice Principal and subsequently Principal for 5 years. Kuholi Chishi, who is transferred as Principal to Dimapur Government College, delivered an
emotional speech reminiscing on her first arrival at the College as a young lecturer of 22 in 1984. She expressed her happiness at being able to contribute the best years of her life to Fazl Ali College and the people of Mokokchung. Imolangla on her retirement as HA, remarked that in her 27 years of service in the College, she had witnesses the College growing by leaps and bounds in every area, be it academics or infrastructure. She also exhorted her colleagues to give their best for further uplift of the College.
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Mizoram may restart refugees' rehabilitation AizAwl/AgArtAlA, September 4 (iANS): The Mizoram government is likely to initiate the return of the 37,000 tribal refugees sheltering in Tripura for almost 16 years from this month, officials said Wednesday. "I have called a meeting of officials concerned Sep 9. In the meeting, the schedule of repatriation of refugees would be finalised. We want to restart the repatriation from this
month," Deputy Commissioner V. Lalremthanga of Mizoram's Mamit district told IANS over phone. In an earlier round of repatriation of refugees, nearly 4,500 people were rehabilitated in Mizoram from Tripura. That process was stalled after differences arose over the terms of the repatriation. Mizoram home department joint secretary Lalbiakzama told reporters in Aizawl Monday that
the Mizoram government has approached the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to allocate additional quantities of rice for the returning refugees. "Unless we get the additional quantities of rice for the tribal refugees, how can we provide them free ration for one year?" Lalbiakzama asked. Talking to IANS, district civil supplies officer K.P. Mathew said that the quantity of rice needed
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would depend upon how many refugees return to Mizoram. The tribal Reang refugees, locally called 'Bru', had fled their homes in several villages in Mamit district in western Mizoram in October 1997 after ethnic clashes with the majority Mizos over the killing of a Mizo forest official. Tripura's revenue department secretary Swapan Saha told reporters in Agartala that the union
home ministry has recently once again asked the Mizoram government to take back all the 37,000 tribal refugees, living in six makeshift camps in Kanchanpur sub-division of north Tripura, 180 km north of Agartala. He said: "In a separate letter, Tripura Chief Secretary Sanjay Kumar Panda requested his Mizoram counterpart (L. Tochhong) to take suitable steps so that refugees could go
cern for Tripura". "The long stay has its own socio-economic and law and order problems. The state government is providing necessary support for early repatriation of these families. However, the process has been extremely slow," said Sarkar. The refugees have been insisting that without a formal agreement between the central government and the state governments
of Mizoram and Tripura and also the tribal leaders, their rehabilitation will remain uncertain. The leaders of the refugees have sent several memoranda to the prime minister and the union home minister in support of their 18-point charter of demands, which include safety and security of the returning refugees, free rations for one year and financial assistance to restart cultivation.
‘Save Mizoram Long March’ concludes
imphAl, September 4 (the hiNdu): After six days of the ban on publication in Manipur, newspapers will resume from Thursday. Editors of newspapers and publications New delhi, September 4 (pti): The Press said though they had not Council of India (PCI) has asked Manipur Chief Minheard from the militant ister Okram Ibobi Singh to take steps to ensure that outfit that enforced the newspapers in his state, which have been receiving ban, they would go ahead threats from militants, can function normally. with publication. In a letter addressed to Singh, PCI chairperson However they declined Justice (retd) Markandey Katju said that he had to comment on the issue of the press release from been informed that newspapers in Manipur have the outfit not being pub- stopped publication since the last few days due to lished which had sparked threat by a certain militant group. He said the militant group had threatened to disthe threats and the ban. They said the issue would turb distribution of newspapers in Manipur and combe discussed later in an mit violence unless its statements are published in the emergency meeting of the newspapers. The All Manipur Working Journalists Union Editors' Committee. The newspapers had (AMWJU) has reportedly staged a demonstration in ceased publication follow- Imphal, demanding protection from the authorities, ing death threats to jour- Katju said. "I, would, therefore, request you to kindly take all nalists and hawkers by an underground organisation necessary steps to ensure press freedom in Manipur whose press releases were and restore normal functioning of newspapers in the ignored. State," Katju said in his letter to the Manipur CM. While representatives The PCI chief said that as per the Constitution of of women vigilantes, civil India, freedom of the press is a guaranteed fundasociety organisations on mental right. Wednesday staged a sitHe said that two Press Council members Kosuri Amin protest in Imphal de- arnath and K S Sachidananda Murthy have written to manding non-inference him about the threats faced by newspapers in Manipur. to the newspapers, some It is the duty of the PCI to ensure press freedom, he said. activists said that distriKatju also attached news clippings about threats bution of newspapers to the media along with his letter to the Chief Minister. should not be banned and the people should manded that the newspa- Journalists took out a not be denied their copies pers should be allowed to silent procession and of newspapers. They de- publish without threats. staged a sit in protest.
AizAwl, September 4 (NNN): The Zoram Nationalist Party’s (ZNP) ‘Save Mizoram Long March’ campaign concluded on Tuesday at Lunglei in Mizoram after having covered 175 km. The march was flagged off on August 26 from at Vanapa Hall, Aizawl. The purpose of the march was to save Mizoram from its bondage, to heal the wounds that cripple the state, to free the state from corruption. The concluding function was held at Art & Culture Auditorium, Lunglei. Addressing the programme, Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) chief Lalduhawma asked the people to make their choice between two options. He said, the people of Mizoram are dissatisfied with the performance of the past successive governments in the state. "Now is the time to make a bold decision to choose between the good which will rescue the Mizos and the bad which will lead to extinction.” Addressing the people at various places during the 9-day march, ZNP Vice President K. Liantlinga said Mizoram has several
illnesses, and “we are encircled by a number of miseries.” "Thus, Mizoram needs to be saved. It has to be saved from poverty, corruption, malpractices and injustice. People have to be delivered from these bondages and our land should be saved from recession", he said. The Chief Minister according to K. Liantlinga is
SeNApAti, September 4 (NNN): Even as the Naga Peoples Front (NPF), Manipur State unit has requested the Registrar General of India (Census) accept the 2001 and 2011 census in respect of MaoMaram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Sanapati district, Manipur so that the matter is settled once and for all, re-verification of 3 sub-divisions of Senapati district namely MaoMaram, Paomata and Purul census 2011 is underway. Altogether 19 officials
It alleged that the state government had rejected 'the physically counted' census data both 2001 and 2011 and that too after the provisional census data was published which amount to violation of fundamental rights of the concern citizens. "As the officially verified and accepted figures of the population were rejected by the Manipur government, a joint re-verification of census 2001 and 2011 were carried out by S.K Chakrabarti, DDG and Dr. MC Mehanathan, Director
Ministry of Home from May 9-10 in 2011 and found hundred percent correct," the NPF pointed out. "However, the state government has rejected all these genuine data. The state government estimated the population at 40% done randomly. Such discriminatory attitudes of the state government have to be checked. The justifications of high rate population in the hilly tribal areas of those three blocks were clearly made by the concern SDOs and the deputy com-
missioner," the NPF stated. "The Manipur state government is determined to reduce forcibly the citizen’s population of the tribal dominated Sub-Divisions namely Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul. It is another form of genocide penetrated to the minority tribal by Manipur government. Tribals in the said blocks are living death in this planet and both the government of India and Manipur government treated them as persona nongrata", It added.
imphAl, September 4 (NNN): With an aim to create awareness, the Zomis or the Zo community settling at various parts around the globe will converge at the 3rd World Zomi Convention at Lamka, Churachandpur district in Manipur between October 25 to 27 under the theme, 'Marching on ....' , and reason together on the means to be followed by the community in order to make them stand more united in the face of challenges generated by technological advancement. According to the organising committee of the 3rd World Zomi Convention, Union minister of Surface Transport Oscar Fernandes; Chief Minister of Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh and his cabinet ministers including MLAs and high ranking officials from the Zo-descendents have confirmed their participations as chief guest
and in various capacities. The program will start from Lamka Public Ground, Hiangtam Lamka and wind up there in a grand concluding function. Various cultural dances will be showcased by troupes of different tribes in addition to another cultural extravaganza by troupes of othertribesandcommunities. A fellowship programme under the theme, "Be a Blessed Nation," will be held during the night at selected churches. A seminar under various topics will be con-
ducted by scholars and intellectuals with knowledge in the field at Hiangtam Lamka. During the convention, a traditional heritage house will be set up and inside it various traditional costumes and clothes in addition to traditional tools and implements of the Zo people will be deposited and displayed. This is done with an aim to make the Zo descendants realize of their “pristine traditions and glory and thereby drawing them closer to each through such a show.”
Participants of the ‘Save Mizoram Long March’ campaign on Tuesday, September 3. (NNN Photo)
How many verifications are needed: NPF Manipur of the Registrar General of India (Census) led by deputy director SK Chakarbarti arrived here on Tuesday. In a memorandum submitted to Dr. Chandermolly, director of the Registrar General of India, the NPF questions, "How many verifications and re-verifications are needed?” According to the NPF, even if re-verifications are done hundreds of times, it appears that the Manipur government will never accept unless its target is achieved.
back home." Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in New Delhi in July and requested their intervention. Sarkar, also holds the home portfolio in Tripura, told both the prime minister and the union home minister that "continuous presence for over 16 years of refugees from Mizoram has been a matter of con-
constantly talking about Mizoram as a served state and that the people are sluggish. "But he is wrong, we are not a sluggard, instead we are not getting equivalent shares and profits", he said. "Political parties who ruled the sate played party politics and vote bank politics. Instead of doing good deeds and making a re-
markable treasure for the country, they only cared for their career. They exercised nepotism ignoring the qualified and talented one. We have to liberate Mizoram from this defective political system", asserted K. Liantlinga He further added that ZNP would not follow ‘Disbursement Policy’, but rather “follow the pol-
icy of reaping the fruit of hard work’. The disbursement of New Land Use Policy (NLUP) according to Liana is a mere fool. "As soon as people receive it, it comes to smoke and people remained at the same precarious state without making any progress. Therefore, free gift brings no good result", he added.
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In Assam, a rising World Zomi Convention next month trend of murders on GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND allegations of witchcraft DEPARTMENT OF POWER
KoKrAjhAr, September 4 (NdtV): Just a day after eminent rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead in Pune last month, a killing that ironically forced the Maharashtra government to pass the long-pending anti-superstition ordinance, two people were killed in a remote village in Assam's Kokrajhar district, allegedly by villagers who suspected them of practicing witchcraft. On the night of August 21, Sukhushree and Biren Basumatary were hacked to death; they were dragged out of their house and attacked by around 15 men armed with axes and spears. Villagers say allegations of witchcraft against the couple first surfaced at a local gathering six years ago, and since then accusations against them never stopped. The couple's daughter-in-law, Rimola, was present during the time of the murder. "Their (the attackers') faces were covered. They were shouting something and were carrying trishuls. They killed them right before my eyes," said a terrified Rimola. The police say eight men have been arrested so far and charged with murder. Surjit Singh Panesar, Additional Superintendent of Police at Kokrajhar, says, "When the killings happened, all the people, who did it, were drunk. They spread stories about the couple in the evening and then murdered them." According to the Assam government, about 105 cases of 'witch-hunting' have been reported across the state from 2006 to 2012, with the highest number, 29, in 2011. Kokrajhar alone has accounted for 20 of these cases. Activists point out that the last two decades have seen a rise in such killings across Assam, and very few have survived these accusations. After the August killings, the Assam government has said it will enact a new law against witch hunting. A help line will also be opened - measures that have perhaps taken too long and cost many lives in Assam.
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New Delhi, September 4 (ageNcieS): The new governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, said on Wednesday the country’s economy was “fundamentally sound” and had a “bright future” in his first remarks after taking the helm at the central bank earlier in the day. Rajan, the renowned economist, said he will come out with RBI’s first credit policy statement on September 20. Rajan also stressed that monetary stability is the prime role of RBI. Addressing a press conference at the RBI headquarters in Mumbai, Rajan said: “This is not an easy time...We have to be careful of not injecting more uncertainty than economy can handle...we have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.” Rajan also outlined several measures to support the Indian rupee. “As our trade expands, we will push for more settlement in rupees. This will also mean we will have to open up our financial markets more to those who will receive rupees so that they can invest it back in,” Rajan said at a news briefing on his first day in office. Allowing importers to rebook 25 percent of cancelled forward contracts, offering swap windows for
dollar deposits and new bank licences were among the slew of promises made by the new RBI chief. The central bank will offer a swap window to banks for fresh dollar deposits mobilised from non-resident
Indians, which will be available to lenders till November 30, 2013, he said. The central bank will offer the swap for dollar funds mobilised for three years and above at a fixed rate of 3.5 percent per annum. The RBI
will also provide swap lines at a concessional rate of 100 basis points below the market rate to banks for their overseas borrowing, he said. Rajan also said the Reserve Bank of India would allow the introduction of cash settled 10-year interest rate future contracts and will issue inflationary index saving certificates. He also said that the S&P statement of one-third chance of India rating downgrade is nothing new. “Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil,” Rajan said. Rajan said the government would look to reduce investments by banks in government bonds “in a calibrated manner”. He added the RBI would work together with the government and the market regulator to steadily liberalise markets. Rajan, 50, an economics professor who also served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, took charge from D Subbarao. Rajan will have to plunge straight into a fire-fight situation as the country battles a rapid fall in rupee, high inflation, low growth and burgeoning current account deficit (CAD). Known for his frank views, Rajan was acclaimed for predicting the 2008 global financial crisis.
In fact, all are not involved in corruption. There are some who stand for truth and fight for it. They give their best to tackle the corrupt systems of governance, corrupt leadership, businesses etc. But sadly, many do not fight boldly till the end. They relinquish on the way. Why do they give up? Were they not really truthful? Were they simply fighting to gain fame, appreciation and praise from the people? No, many were truthful initially. They did not fight for their personal gain, recognition, popularity or acclamation. Then, why did they give up on the way? Why did they let their foe, ‘corruption’ overcome them and trample over them? Why did they sell their truth? Many reasons could be there, but I would like to point out only two here. Firstly, those who stand for truth fall because they accept the ‘feedings’ of those they oppose or go against. I have heard many stories that those who fought against corruption were given money, vehicles and other things by the corruptors. And that gives a big ‘full stop’ to those who stand for truth and fight against corruption. If one of our family members is at the point of death due to serious illness, and a Pastor heals him/ her with the power of God, thereafter, we’ll not be free to speak against
the pastor though he’s considered to be a bad pastor by the society, right? Likewise, when a man fight against another man who is corrupt and the man who is corrupt gives him 10 lac rupees and a new splendid vehicle, the ‘war of truth’ comes to a ‘halt’. The man who stands for truth is no more free or comfortable to speak or go against the one who is corrupt. The offers of the man who is corrupt is not out of love and willing heart to assist, but simply to gratify the one who is against him to stop him from opposing. This policy or game, I call, ‘take and stop’. Many of our leaders who work and fight for our society and nation have stumbled being trapped by this policy. Of course, there are some who pretend or masquerade to fight against something. But when they are given something by those who they oppose, they give up instantly, for it is their intention to get through it. We have seen many such things in our society today. It is just like a baby crying, asking for food. It is just a game to feed one’s stomach by emptying somebody’s stomach. This phenomenon is ever occurring in many places. Those who involve in this game are clever in an idiotic way and they can be called truthful cheaters and liars. Are you a person
who stands for truth? When you fight against corruption or someone who is corrupt, and you are given a briefcase with full of money, are you going to take and give up what you stand for and do? If you are very poor or need money at that situation, can you refuse it? Can you hold on to what you stand? Many sell their identity and prestige by letting ‘wealth overcoming them’. That is why someone aptly remarked, in money matters, don’t trust even yourself. If I were offered or given something by a man to stop me from speaking or writing against him as he is going wrong, I should not accept it. However, it doesn’t mean that I will not accept anything from anybody for any reason. Of course, a situation may come to us, where we may find hard to refuse somebody because their approach is very good and words are very sweet, but we have to have second thought. Let’s pray that we’ll not face such attractive yet lethal temptation in our life! Another reason why those who stand for truth fall is the influence of environment. Suppose a truthful man gets a new job and starts working in the office, and he finds that all his colleagues cheat or take bribe, what happens? He is gradually influenced by the situation. He becomes uncomfortable to behave or live like
Reserve Bank of india’s (RBi) newly appointed governor Raghuram Rajan, left is greeted by outgoing governor Duvvuri Subbarao after taking charge, at the RBi headquarters in Mumbai, on wednesday, September 4. Rajan took over as the country’s central bank governor wednesday. (AP Photo)
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nce there was a cruel and strong gang in a community. Everyone feared and obeyed them. Interestingly, some would invite them to their house and provide delicious food. Moreover, some would give money and some other stuff to those notorious persons. So, after the gang had delicious meals and receive money and things, they didn’t treat harshly to those people as they did to others. Indeed, the kind gestures of those who treated the gang were just to let them be good to them. It was not done out of respect and honor, but out of fear. Evidently, there is rampant corruption in our society today. Those who are corrupted are very smart in speaking about truth in front of others. When they give speeches, they feign themselves to be persons who detest corruption, and share their views and ideas on how to combat and weed out corruption. In our society today, there are truthful liars, righteous killers, honest stealers, faithful destroyers, clean fraudsters, considerate bribers and committed lame-duck leaders. Corruption is at the peak and common people are at stake. Many wonder and question how they are going to live in this corrupt world. They are panic-stricken. Who will allay their apprehensions and mitigate the pains and sufferings in this wretched society? Who will ameliorate this awful and vulnerable situation?
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birThday grEETings Dear Sis Aren, I’m so thankful that I not only have a magnificent sister, but an amazing friend that stands by me and supports me, You are one person that knows all my weaknesses yet you always love me. A heart that it’s so huge that can fit both the best and the worse side of mine. Thank you so very much. Happy Birthday sister! I am thankful to god who gave a loving sister, an amazing friend. Today is your birthday and let it remain as special as you are. Wish you tons of happiness and good fortune in your life. Happy Birthday to the Most wonderful sister in the world!! Sister Akokla Jamir
Hello! In this special day here are the best wished for you. May all your life be happy and exciting, and all your dreams come true. May all the best things come to your life and all the happiness be yours for the rest of your life. On this special occasion wishing you many more happy returns of the day. Loving Parents, inlaws, sisters ,bro nephews and neice.
Dear Sunepzungla (Chuchuyimlang) Our God Almighty has led you to complete eight years with all thy blessing. Your smile brings us joy and enlighten us. May God bless you and grant you a long life. From, Oba Tambo, Tanutsu,Baby Ajung,Odi Achet,Onu Naro
Dear, Kekru Medom Wishing you a very very happy bornday.......on this very special day, I wish you to have the best day ahead and may it bring you all the happiness and success in life. Once again many many happy returns of the day and may God bless you. Always JP (Kovid Klas) before. He begins to think and feel that it’s not good to be very different from others. The idea that, others will not feel good if I behave very differently, overcome him and drives him to the wrong path. Thus, he also becomes the servant of deceit and bribery. That’s how he falls down like a tree that falls as blown by the strong wind. When a truthful person is exposed to any environment where corruption is rampant, situation is vulnerable and morality of the people is deteriorated or tainted, he/she has a big challenge. The philosophy that even if all are dishonest in the community, I’ll be truthful should guide us. One should remember that all the attractive offers are like bait in a hook. If you take it happily, you will be hooked. Of course, if the one who offers give in a very good manner, we may be in a position that we cannot refuse. So, one suggestion for those who stand for truth and fight for it is, ‘pray that such luring offer will not come to you’! If we are too much concerned of pleasing somebody, though we know that our act of pleasing is not good, then, there is danger of selling our identity and life. Is your stance for truth only for a short period of time, or is it to end with what you are fighting for? If we fall from what we are fighting against, we become its slave. Liba Hopeson, BTC, Pfutsero
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he decision of the state Urban Development department to terminate the order of CEO of DMC Orenthung Lotha allowing 41 lessees to collect “toll tax” at “toll gates” is timely though fulfilling only a small part of the memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister on 30th September. ACAUT has been crying hoarse that illegal DMC toll gates is the reason for price rise in Dimapur and its stand has been vindicated. The Parliamentary Secretary, Zhaleo Rio and his subordinates have taken a step in the right direction. Nagaland is in serious want of politicians who can take bold and decisive decisions. For far too long self-interested politicians and malleable civil servants afraid to take correct postures has brought this state to a standstill. ACAUT expected a young officer like the DMC CEO to change the muddied DMC but that he allowed himself to toe the line of vested persons is disappointing to say the least. ACAUT demands that the 41 lessees still collecting toll tax in utter regard of public opinion be arrested immediately by the police without fear or favour. DMC is not a playground for politicians to reward their loyalists. It is a serious institution to collect garbage and any role beyond garbage collection, such as toll fee collection is ultra vires and the CEO is liable to be suspended. Issued by media cell, ACAUT
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The Morung Express
Thursday 5 September 2013
‘Expedite investigation after a long ride, Slow loris of July 4 murder’ finds new home at NZP Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): The Watsu Mungdang has reminded law enforcing authorities to deliver justice with regard to the July 4 murder of a woman on September 4. A press note from the President and General Secretary of the Watsu Mungdang said that it has been two months since the murder happened and the case is still undecided, while investigation is still on. It expressed anguish at “such a slow judicial process on such a brutal crime” and has called upon the judiciary and lawmakers that the suspected persons must not be granted bail unless they are proven innocent. The Watsu Mungdang has written memorandums and representations to different authorities including the Governor for speedy delivery of justice. The Watsü
Mungdang also expressed concern over the delay in forensic and other laboratory test which were sent for examination. It felt that such delay will tamper the investigation and the perpetrator will escape as innocent people. It asserted that as the apex Ao Women organization, it will not be a silent spectator until true justice is done and the right and security of women in our society is assured by speedy delivery of justice and perpetrators are held by the hands of the law. It appealed for the Police, investigating agency and the Court to immediately speed up the investigation and bring the laboratory and forensic evidence without delay and make the verdict public so that the people know that justice is done in accordance to the law of the land.
Kohima, September 4 (Dipr): ADC & ERO Kohima, Asangla Imti has informed all concerned that
schedule for the Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls with reference to January 1, 2014 as qualifying date
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): The staff of Nagaland Zoological Park, Rangapahar today received one Slow Loris from a group of wildlife conservationists who had spared no efforts to safely bring the Slow Loris to the Zoological Park. A press note issued to the Media stated that the Slow Loris was brought to the Zoological Park at around 9:30 am by Shilu Pongen of Longjang Village who is presently a resident of 5th Mile Dimapur, and employee of Electrical Department posted at Tuli and handed over to the staff of the Park. On enquiry about the origin of the Slow Loris by the staff for official record it was revealed that the animal was actually rescued from Zunheboto
Seen in the image is the new additon to Nagaland Zoological Park, a Slow Loris, which was rescued by a group of wildlife conservationists
by two Friends namely PHED posted at Zunheboto Lanu Akum of Akhoya Vil- and Achi Lkr of Longjang lage, a Junior Engineer in Village, a Havildar under
Schedule of summary revision of electoral rolls Sl No.
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Reading of relevant Part/Section of Photo E/Rolls in Gram Sabhas/ Local Bodies and RWA meeting etc & verification of names Special Campaign Dates with Booth Level Agents of Political Parties for receiving Claims and Objections Disposal of Claims and Objections by
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Updating the database, merging of photographs, updating the control tables and preparation and printing of supplementary list Final Publication of E/Rolls
In order to hold special has been received from the Election Commission of In- campaigns on October 12 dia with the detail schedule (Saturday) & 26 (Saturday) all Political Parties have as follows: been informed to appoint one (1) BLA per polling Period station in prescribed ‘Form ID-BLA-2’ to be produced 3 to BLO on campaign dates. 1st October 2013 The constituency’s con(Tuesday) 1st Oct. 2013 (Tuesday) to solidated list in plain paper 31st oct. 2013 (Thursday) should be submitted to office of ADC & ERO Kohima 5th Oct. 2013 (Saturday) & beforehand and get brief19th Oct. 2013 (Saturday) ing on the functions of BLA. The services of Booth 12th Oct. 2013 (Saturday) Level Officers (BLOs) en& 26th Oct. 2013 gaged during the recently (Saturday) concluded Pre-Revision Activities in the month of July20th November 2013 August 2013 would also (Wednesday) 2nd December 2013 (Mon- be performing duties in day) & 31st December the forthcoming Summary Revision of E/Rolls. Neces2013 (Tuesday) sary briefing/trainings will 6th January 2014 be imparted in the later (Monday) part of September 2013.
Wireless Department also posted at Zunheboto. What was really touching and encouraging is that the Slow Loris was send by bus from Zunheboto to Dimapur by Lanu and Achi. The Slow Loris was collected in Dimapur bus station by Shilu and brought to the Zoological Park. The animal was examined and found to be dehydrated and a little weak. It is being kept in the park’s temporary rescue centre under observation. The Director and staff of Nagaland Zoological Park in the note stated that they are overwhelmed by such efforts in order to safe or wildlife species and stated, “We thank the team for their concern and appreciate the efforts they made to bring the animal safely to the Zoological Park”.
Orgs express solidarity and concern over petrol pump closure Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): The Naga Business Owners Association Dimapur District (NBOADD) has expressed its solidarity with PDA. Concerned by the “Adulteration Fee” charged by the CAO, UT-1, as well as the adulteration itself, the NBOADD has urged the state government to “take strict action against those guilty and cancel license of those petrol pumps selling adulterated fuels.” It has additionally questioned why kerosene meant for the poor make its way to adulteration depots, or how huge quantities of zero solvent makes it into the state when there is no paint factory in it. The association has urged the Government of Nagaland to go into the “root cause” of the problem
and “close down all adulteration/mixing depots spread across Dimapur district, which is one of the main reasons for proliferation of adulterated fuel into petrol pumps rather than fire fight from outside.” The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), meanwhile, has also expressed its concern over the issue as the “closure of school and colleges or missing classes in the middle of academic session is a great lose for the students which will surely hamper their academic career.” The Federation has also urged the State Government to “pull up the sleeves” and intervene in “such challenging situation to settle the matter amicably and also to bring the situation back to normal.”
nual magazine of the Society. The BOTANICA will feature popular and semi-technical articles on topics in all fields of plant sciences. Prof. C.R. Deb, H.O.D welcomed the freshers to the department, 27 M.Sc 1st Semester and 8 Ph.D Coursework Students. Zubenthung P. Kikon (Research Scholar), Angunuo (M.Sc 3rd Semester), Toshinungla (Ph.D Coursework) and Gloria (M.Sc 1st Semester) delivered short speeches. Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor delivered a lecture on “IPR and Patents in Indian Context”. He talked about the importance of Intellectual
Property Rights, Patent applications and Patenting of microbes in Indian context. M.Sc 3rd Semester students presented enchanting voices and entertained the gathering with lighter moments. Dr. M.R. Singh, Assistant Professor proposed the vote of thanks. The Botanical Society will continue to observe the annual day and fresher’s welcome programme every year, where new students will be introduced to the department and the eminent faculty members will deliver important and relevant lectures on various topics, stated a press release received here.
27 join GPRN/NSCN
Young entrepreneurs conducts social work Botanical Society NU launched Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): In view of the deplorable road condition in Dimapur, Route 29, a club comprising of young entrepreneurs conducted a social work by filling the potholes in National Highway 29 from Aramile to 4th mile stretch on Wednesday, September 4. The club decided to conduct this voluntary social work as the road condition in Dimapur, especially, the National Highway 29 is in a bad condition. This initiative is taken up to create awareness on deplorable road condition in the state. Club members of Route 29 filled the potholes
with sand gravel along the stretch on Wednesday evening. The social work was conducted with support from Diphupar Village Council. It may be noted that, the club aims to create platform to the youths by organizing various ac-
tivities and to kick start the same Route 29 will be organizing Summer Sprint Challenge during the last week of September. The club aims to promote the talents of the youths by organizing such events in future.
Lumami, September 4 (mexN): The Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami organised annual day cum fresher’s day programme on August 30. The Botanical Society, Nagaland University was also launched with Prof. C.R. Deb, Head of the Department as the president. The Botanical Society was introduced by Dr. Neizo Puro, Assistant Professor, Botany Department. The society also launched its official logo, designed by Zubenthung P. Kikon, Research Scholar. The Society will engage in the activities beyond the course curriculum. One of the main purposes is to publish the BOTANICA, an an-
meDziphema, September 4 (mexN): Five days intensive farmers training on ‘high density planting & canopy management of fruit crops’ was organized by Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), DAC, GoI, Medziphema at the conference hall of CIH, from August 26 to 30. A press note received here stated that the objec-
tive of the training was to give individual attention to the trainees for imparting theoretical and practical knowledge on the subject and to upgrade the skills to increase fruit production with enhanced quality. Resource persons Dr. Chandan, Associate Prof, Department of Horticulture, SASRD: NU, Dr. A Thirugnanavel, Scientist
(Hort), ICAR Jharnapani, AK Singh, Technical consultant, CIH, Medziphema and coordinated by Sentiyangla, Training i/c CIH, Medziphema imparted training. Hands on demonstration on planting densities and canopy management along with demonstration on preparation of Bordeaux paste, application of manures and fertilizer, spray-
ing and blitox application after pruning were conducted at CIH farm. Field visit to Molvom village, Dimapur was also undertaken. The participants were apprised on the various propagation activities of the institute. Altogether, 25 fruit growers from Tuensang, Longleng, Mon and Mokokchung district attended the training programme.
Young entrepreneurs are seen filling potholes along the Aramile to 4th mile stretch of road, National Highway 29 on September 4.
Intensive farmers training concludes
AR recovers cache of arms and ammunition
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): A press note issued by Lt Col AS Chauhan, PRO, Assam Rifles Kohima has stated that the 21 Assam Rifles based on specific information carried out a search operation in a safe house belonging to Ilhoto Yeptho and recovered three rifles along with a huge cache of ammunition and other warlike stores. The note also stated that Ilhoto Yeptho along with recovered arms and ammunition was handed over to Zunheboto Police after a FIR was lodged.
GPRN/NSCN Cadre apprehended
The arms and ammunition seized by AR in Zunheboto on August 29.
The note also mentioned that Ilhoto Yeptho was later released on bail after NSCN (IM) Town Com-
mander at Zunheboto claimed the responsibility of forcefully hiding the weapons in the house.
Based on a specific information atroops of 29 Assam Rifles apprehended one SS Lt Shkato Sumi of GPRN/NSCN along with one 7.65 mm Pistol and ammunition in the Blue Hill. The cadre is a resident of Zunheboto presently working for Dimapur Town Command of GPRN/NSCN. The apprehended cadre along with recovered weapon and ammunition were handed over to the East Police Station, Dimapur. This was informed in a press note received here.
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A book “Mera Tasen” meaning “New Step” in Ao-Naga language authored by Dr. T.Temjen Ozüküm, Pastor, Indisen Baptist Church, Dimapur was released today at his residence by Tir Yimyim Editor, K. Temjen Jamir in a simple function in the presence of Church leaders of Indisen Baptist church. The author Dr.Temjen Ozüküm (Right) is seen with the Editor, Tir Yimyim.
Two caught at railway station Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): Two persons, namely Boto and Anito, were caught “red handed” by the Dimapur railway police on September 3 for trying to steal a motorbike of a Railway Police Force (RPF) jawan at the Dimapur railway station. A case has been registered against them for further investigation.
Catholic Church in Nagaland to pray for peace in Syria
Kohima, September 4 (mexN): Heeding the call of the Pope Francis for a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, in the entire Mideast region, and throughout the whole world on Saturday, September 7 from 7:00 pm until midnight, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, the Bishop of the Diocese of Kohima has invited all the Catholic faithful to observe the day in a fitting manner. The day will be spent in prayer, in a spirit of penitence, to ask from God the great gift of peace for the Syrian nation and for all the situation of conflicts and violence in the World, stated a press note. The Catholic Church in Nagaland will join the rest of the Catholic world in praying for the gift of peace.
CBCK sales day on Sept 7
Kohima, September 4 (mexN): The Chang Baptist Church Kohima is organizing a one day sales day on September 7 at Super Market Kohima in front of Union Baptist Church Kohima from 7:00 am in aid of church building construction. Items to be made available at reasonable rate include: fresh vegetables, furniture, clothing, jumble sales etc.
NE Region Cultural Competition from Sept 6
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): Dimapur Bangali Samaj (DBS) is organizing its 2nd Annual North East Region Cultural Competition 2013 from September 6 to 8 at Shree Shree Ram Thakur Mandir, Railway Colony Dimapur. DBS Information Secretary Rajesh Choudhury in a press release stated that in this cultural programme, nearly one thousand participants would take part from various states of North East Region. This programme is based on Indian music like songs, dances, recitation, fine arts, tabla etc with a motto to create brotherhood, love, peace and unity in the society. K.K Paul, President of the society has extended invitation to all the masses irrespective of caste, creed and religion to be the part of the programme and make it a grand success.
Justice Nishitendu Chaudhury appointed as executive chairman, NSLSA
Kohima, September 4 (Dipr): The department of Law and Justice has notified vide No. LAW/ACT-3/96 dated 29th August 2013 that, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 of the Legal Service Authorities Act, 1987 (Act No. 39 of 1987) read with Rules 3 of the Nagaland State Legal Service Authority Rules, 1998, the Governor of Nagaland on recommendation of Hon’ble Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court, Guwahati has appointed Justice Nishitendu Chaudhury, Judge Gauhati High Court as Executive Chairman, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority with effect from 12/08/2013.
Public SPace
The GPRN/NSCN held a short reception program in honour of the 27 homecomers from different Naga Political groups who had joined its fold unconditionally on Tuesday, the 3rd of September, 2013 at Designated camp Kheoi. The home comers in their speeches stated that they had joined the GPRN/ NSCN fold to strengthen tal reconciliation and unity gap among brothers, hence, to come together with one the common ground firmly of all Nagas. Adding that, it to bring solution to the de- voice to expedite and forgeand accelerate the process is the time to be realistic for cades old Naga political is- out mutually acceptable of political journey of com- Nagas. As separations and sue and achieve the aspired solution at the earliest posmon hope and to achieve to- killings will only widen the common goal, Nagas need sible time. Listed below are the names, rank and designations of the homecomers Sl. Rank/designa- Previous 15. Kevishe Khapur NSCN (IM) Name No tion org. 16. Mughavi Zhimomi Razou Peyu NSCN (IM) 1. Akato Aye Secretary NSCN (K) 17. Kughato Awomi Razou Peyu NSCN (IM) 2. Eleazar Under Secretary NSCN (K) 18. Akheto Razou Peyu NSCN (IM) 3. Lopong Major NSCN (K) 19. Tokugha Brigadier NNC/FGN 4. Ajitsu Major NSCN K) 20. H. Hokivi Yeptho Leacy NNC 5. Athong Lieutenant NSCN (K) (N/A) 6. Atsatho Lieutenant NSCN (K) 21. Kiyekhu Chishi Leacy NNC (N/A) 7. Thsipentsu Lieutenant NSCN (K) 22. Abote Lieutenant FGN 8. Hupeto Aye 2nd Lieut. NSCN(K) 23. Ghunavi Razou Peyu FGN 9. K. Athong Tikhir Corporal NSCN (K) 24. Hoqhevi Razou Peyu FGN 10. Akeimu Corporal NSCN (K) 25. Pitor Leacy FGN 11. Jhalainu Leacy NSCN (K) 26. Kughavi 2nd Lieut. FGN 12. Khekishe 2nd Lieut. NSCN (IM) 27. V. Shinihe Razou Peyu FGN 13. Avito Leacy NSCN (IM) Issued by: 14. H. Ahovi Awomi Leacy NSCN (IM) Ministry of Information & Publicity, GPRN/NSCN
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express THursDAy 5 sEPTEmbEr 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 243 by Aheli moitra
An essay for the teacher
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
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― Jacques Barzun
he week before last, I came across a teacher in protest. He walked with the help of a six-foot long pole. A disc in his backbone had slipped but the resultant pain, clearly swimming through his limbs, did not deter him. There he was, protesting the government’s apathy towards a section of teachers whose dues remained unhonoured. He spoke and delivered the message on behalf of all teachers, not once slipping into the prejudices his pain could have brought. With his near broken back, he braved the winding road to Kohima—on one occasion, he drove a car all the way there so the government could be conveyed the right message in an appropriate manner. I would like to be taught by a teacher like that. Why, I stand enlightened already. Often we, the students, do not remember the carbon bonds and medieval history teachers teach us. But we remember our teachers. We remember those that stood up for us; that stand up against injustice. While some have set an equally bad example, we have always been rescued by those who have taught us to remember context. They have given us the gift of controversial ideas, and they have taught us to question authority and structure when necessary. But much of this debt is forgotten often. The government college teachers’ agitation towards the end of August showed this ugly side of the forgotten debt. While the representatives of the Nagaland state government first tried to make it into a narrow issue of tribal politics, the government flattered itself later by pretending that it had done the teachers a favour by applying a revised pay scale in the state. A section of the teachers withdrew solidarity to the movement due to their proximity to the state’s capital. The apex students’ body that does not shy away from using strikes as a method to secure rights brought itself down to reprimanding the teachers for agitating by citing one instance of an aberration. Or two, was it? The silver lining was the students of individual colleges, and a sole students’ union, that stood by their teachers. They did not forget that a student is null without her teacher—one’s right void without the other’s secured. A large percentage of teachers in Nagaland teach through the medium of shoddy infrastructure. A morung of yore was far better built than most colleges of the day. Government colleges located on the peripheries of Nagaland do not inspire the generation of knowledge—it is partly through the grit of teachers that students make it through their degrees. The determination of these teachers to question authority when faced with a wrong should be held in high regard. It is through their agitation that thousands of students have been taught to stand up against the daylight theft of our rights. Perhaps this has been taught outside the classroom, situating our learning in a context of the state we inhabit, but isn’t that where we pick most of our lessons from? Want to share more out-of-class teachings? Write to moitramail@yahoo.com
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Stories of Partition from unheard voices
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tories about Partition are plenty, but they have never been seen from the lens of the times we live in. Giving a fresh perspective to how generations have negotiated these marked boundaries and its repercussions is a graphic novel, "This Side That Side:Restorying Partition" that lends voices to young, unheard stories from the Indian subcontinent and sees the event from their eyes. This black-and-white anthology consists of 28 narratives in which 65 artistes from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have come together to tell stories - part memories, part observation - of the milieu they are living in. Credit for connecting and convincing these people to come together on board goes to graphic novelist Vishwajyoti Ghosh who has curated this project. "One of the myths we also try to break in this book is that Partition is a chapter in history. No, it's something we still live with and negotiate with in our daily lives, in many different ways. So getting young and unheard voices is an important step to highlight that," Ghosh told IANS in an interview. And Ghosh breaks this myth beautifully in this 366-page novel by carefully choosing stories that are emotionally laced with an undertone of sarcasm and wry humour. "There are as many undertones in the stories than just sarcasm. Not to say there isn't sarcasm at all, but it is not the only voice I am sure. There is as much curiosity, speculation, dialogues as well and all this together creates the larger platform for discussion among the young minds of all three sides," said Ghosh, who is also the author of graphic novel "Delhi Calm". Even the 'marked lines' change their forms and shapes in this novel, published by Yoda Press in partnership with Goethe Institut and priced at Rs. 595. For instance, in "Noor Miyan" story boundaries are marked as footprints. An emotional tale told through third person narrative, it is about a man called Noor Miyan who used to sell the best surma (kohl) in India till he went away to Pakistan. "Milne Do" highlights the myths we have fed ourselves on about the life across the border. Set in 1995, two journalists from India and Pakistan meet at a conference and they ask typical stereotypical questions to each other about life on the other side. "A lot of these stories actually try and explore and not address many such curiosities that exist on all sides," said Ghosh. "When I went to Lahore I was asked the same questions like 'do you eat meat?' 'Is booze freely available', questions about daily lives that have no international diplomatic or political significance. As nations whether we like it or not, our engagement with people will forever continue and the young voices in this book prove that once again," he added. The contributors come from diverse backgrounds: film makers, illustrators, theatre artists, poets, miniature painters and also graphic novelists. Choosing Partition as a subject was an obvious choice for Ghosh as he has narrated his personal tale of growing up in a refugee home in Delhi with his story "A Good Education". His second narrative "Cabaret Weimer", a collaboration with singer Rabbi Shergill, is a futuristic tale set in 2047 celebrating 100 years of Indian independence. "The call for contributions welcomed any sort of a narrative that engaged with partition in any way. Memory as one, but dialogues, rethinking perspectives and stereotypes were as important. It is only then we can come together to restory Partition rather than merely restore it," he concluded.
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Michael Zakaras Lennon Flowers
IntroducIng empAthy
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ore than twenty years ago, scientists made a breakthrough that altered our understanding of human behavior in fundamental ways: they discovered empathy. While observing a group of monkeys, they noticed that certain brain cells were activated both when one member of the group grabbed a peanut and when other monkeys did the same. Later found to exist in human beings, these “mirror neurons” explain why we wince when we see someone fall off a bike or stub a toe. The discovery of mirror neurons has challenged our understanding of everything from language and philosophy to psychotherapy. According to neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran, they are the source of the first forays by human beings into complex social beh a v i o r, a n d thereby form “the basis of civilization.” Today, empathy seems to be everywhere. There’s an entire field dedicated to empathic design a n d a g rowing movement in the medical field to teach empathy, based on studies that link it among doctors to improved health outcomes. Empathy has been touted as a solution by everyone from Twitter founder Biz Stone to Arianna Huffington, and it played a pivotal role in the outcome of the most recent U.S. presidential election, which Barack Obama won in part because he was seen to understand and connect with other people more easily and effectively. What should we make of all this? Is empathy just the latest passing fad, or are we right to pay it more attention? Even if empathy is a prerequisite for good design and a healthy bedside manner, does that mean it is also essential for social transformation? In simple terms, empathy is the ability to understand the feelings and perspectives of others, and to use that understanding to guide one’s actions. We’re probably most familiar with it in our relationships with family, friends and colleagues. Empathy encourages us to look beyond ourselves and to consider those around us, and to take on new perspectives – to understand not just what someone is doing but why they are doing it. “Empathy conjures up active engagement – the willingness of an observer to become part of another’s experience and to share the feeling," says author Jeremy Rifkin. In this way it can help us to see problems with greater clarity, and to design solutions with more humility and inclusiveness. It’s the key ingredient that helps us move from working for people to working with them. Of course, empathy has its critics. In May 2013, Paul Bloom made his case against empathy in the New Yorker magazine, arguing that this concept is too soft, too emotional, and ultimately too unreliable to make tough choices or solve complex problems. Others like Stephen Asma contend that we’re naive to think that we can extend empathy beyond our immediate circles: there’s only so much of your pain I can feel before my brain is overwhelmed.
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hen I think of food, I think of queues. I was a child of rationing, and a big part of my education about the world and the people who inhabit it came from queuing for food. This was Beijing in the 1970s, and most of the things on our table—rice, flour, oil, pork, fish, eggs, milk, sugar, sesame paste, tofu—were rationed. What was not rationed were the marvels a child could find in the world. Every Sunday I went shopping for food with my father. There was always more than one queue, and my father would install me in the longest one before joining a shorter one himself. The queues moved at the speed of a worm. It took courage and faith for a child of four or five to stand in line alone with people several times their size threatening to cut in. To secure my place I learned the trick, much to the frustration of whoever was in front of me, of pressing myself tightly to their backside. And then there was the fear that would never go away: what if I reached the front and my father didn’t show up? What if I were abandoned in that line forever? But he did always come back in time, so I learned to enjoy the wonders in the shop. It had an overhead transit system with motorised lines zig-
Is the “empathy revolution” just a passing fad or the key to peace and social justice?
These challenges are useful, but they misrepresent empathy in some important ways. While we may be hard-wired to wince when we see that someone else is in pain, cognitive empathy – the kind that demands that we use our imagination to see the world from another person’s perspective – involves more than an unthinking emotional reaction. It takes real practice. It asks us to listen deeply and openly, without formulating what we’re going to say next while the other person is still speaking. It demands that we put aside our preconceptions, our projections, and our unspoken prejudices, and that we look beyond what we think is “obvious” or “common sense.” Across much of rural Africa, for example, access to water is a well-documented problem. Girls and women bear the responsibility for fetching it, traveling long and occasionally dangerous paths to do so. The fix? Build wells closer to villages and cut down on the time that girls and women take walking to the nearest water source, enabling them to spend more hours in school, work, play and income-generation. It's a strategy that countless aid organizations have employed. But for many girls and women, these treks are also important bonding opportunities – among the few hours they can be outside the spheres of men. The erection of nearby wells may disrupt this possibility, and in at least one documented instance, the women involved deliberately damaged the new pipes. Even the most obvious ideas may fail when they ignore the voices and perspectives of those who are most affected by the problems they seek to solve. Contrary to the critics, what plagues today’s culture of mainstream do-gooding is not an excess of empathy but a deficit. Instead of seeking
to understand what we are doing in social change we rush to judgment. We pity and we patronize. And we end up by wasting billions of Dollars in international aid and philanthropy that are poured into efforts in which communities have no voice. Empathy is part of what separates effective problem-solvers from their well-intentioned peers. Without it, even the best laid plans fall victim to misguided motivations and overconfidence, to simplistic thinking and mere sympathy. It’s a lesson that today's class of MBA-carrying self-defined world-changers would do well to remember, especially those who go from conference to conference proclaiming the merits of for-profit social enterprise, or who seek out the latest technological advances and tout the forecasts of their social business models without understanding the cultural contexts in which they work. Over the coming week, we'll be interrogating these ideas through a series of articles on Transformation that explore the role of empathy in schools, community organizations, politics and the economy. We’ll hear from Mary Gordon, a pioneer in making empathy as much of a priority in education as mathematics or reading. We'll look at the implications for political systems and meet a group of Congressional leaders who refuse to play the game of "he said, she said," committing themselves instead to work together to solve contentious issues. We'll examine what an alternative economic system might look like if it were built around compassion, and hear from others who are more skeptical, arguing that “radical connection” is much more important than empathy to the achievement of social justice. We’ll explore the relationship between empathy and action, and what it takes to cultivate not just the capacity to understand others, but also the moral identity and backbone required to act on that understanding, especially among young people. As Mary Gordon puts it, empathy is “caught not taught.” It must be modeled, propagated and reinforced by the institutional cultures and environments in which people live and work. Today however, too many institutions inculcate greed, selfishness, competition, and shorttermism – all of which dampen empathy rather than encourage it. Faced by this situation it is easy to dismiss empathy's moment in the limelight as a fleeting trend that has little hope of overcoming the entrenched problems, power structures and value systems that we face. Yet when we reflect on the greatest triumphs along the march to social justice – in civil rights, women's rights and gay rights; in worldwide movements for nonviolent protest and revolution; and in the work of millions of social entrepreneurs and activists – it is hard to ignore the role that empathy has played in forging deep bonds of human connection and solidarity that have pushed societies forward. Nurturing empathy in ourselves and each other can help to give us the will and the tools to become transformative social actors.
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zagging around. The shop assistants would attach the payments to metal clips, the money would travel to the cashier and later the change would travel back. There was an apparatus fixed to the giant jar of cooking oil, and when each person handed a bottle to the assistant, he would only need to raise a lever to release the right amount of oil through the funnel into the bottle. On the counter were huge chunks of pork that looked inviting, though the slice the assistant cut for us always had more fat than lean meat—but don’t ever think of complaining, because the moment you opened your mouth he would withdraw the meat, and others would ask for it. Rationing didn’t mean you could always get your share. Among the marvels, there were glimpses of grim reality. A man walked from line to line, saying he had lost his family’s ration book: had anyone picked it up? But no one would meet his pleading eyes. Another time, a crowd gathered to watch
two women calling each other nasty names. One was foxier than the other, and stood accused of using her charms to get a better slice of pork. From time to time the shop assistants, reigning from the other side of the counter, would stop to have a long chat about a movie, just so they could keep everyone waiting. One day the line spilled outside the shop, and I watched a bus pull in. The conductor leaned out of the window, looking at an old man running to catch the bus. The moment the old man reached the door, panting, the conductor hit the button and banged the door shut, waving goodbye with a wide smile. If you were a child of the rationing system, sooner or later you learned that it wasn’t just food that was rationed. So was hope, dignity, comfort, love. When my mother heard that I had cried for the old man, she dismissed my tears as shameful, saying my heart was too soft. But even that soft-hearted child
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could find the goddess of fortune smiling on her. Standing in the queue one Sunday, I noticed a basin of eggs on the counter. It can’t have been the first time it had happened, as I already knew that one lucky customer would get that basin of eggs, sold off cheap and—best of all—not recorded in the ration book. We waited for the shop assistant to point her magic finger. It picked out my father and she said the eggs would be ours if we wanted. I trailed home a step behind my father, watching more than a dozen eggs, yolks and whites, floating in a clear plastic bag. It was a warm day and we didn’t have a refrigerator, so my father cooked them right away, and I found myself tucking into a plate of scrambled eggs. If you were that child of the rationing system, you’d have never seen such luxury. You would grow up and always feel hope when you see a full plate of scrambled eggs. That feeling is still there 30 years later, but it comes with another shadow. The day you were lucky enough to get a basin of eggs, you also watched a long line of strangers eyeing you with jealousy, even hatred. You were not who you were, but what you were rationed to be. Yiyun Li moved to America from China in 1996. Her books include the award-winning collection of stories "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers"
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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
Your Success The decline of the Welsh language Honey, is Shrinking Me
The Welsh language is steadily declining and yet, the amount of Welsh-speaking schools are on the rise. Are the facts being ignored in order to keep stoking the embers of nationalist myths?
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Belinda Luscombe Source: healthland.time.com
new study suggests that men don’t enjoy their wives’ or girlfriends’ victories. Men’s self-esteem can take a beating if their wives do well, while women’s egos aren’t as affected by their partners’ victories. Even when the woman is successful at something her man is not really engaged in — say, hosting a party — husbands feel personally threatened, according to a new study from the American Psychiatric Association, which also found that a woman’s success “could alter men’s perception about their romantic relationship in the future.” Evan Harris The research, published in August in the Journal of Perthink it’s time that I took ‘Welsh (fluent)’ off my CV. sonality and Social Psychology sounds at first like it would fit Yesterday my housemate asked me to say somemore neatly in The Annals of Duh, (newsflash: Men Don’t Like thing in Welsh. I tried to say ‘I’m in my flat, frying to Lose), but the details prove to be more counterintuitive. vegetables’ but couldn’t think of the word for vegFor example, the five different experiments in the study exametables, or flat and the verb ‘to fry’ is adapted from the ined not just heterosexual couples in the U.S. but also those in English ‘ffrio’. All my education from age 3 to 16 was the Netherlands (which often serves as a model of gender eqin Welsh – I scored top marks in Welsh language and uity), and revealed little difference in the way men felt about literature exams – but I can no longer speak it. their partners’ success. Dutch men may see more successful Last week, I learned my atrophied tongue is women around them and have more females on their corponot alone; I am part of a trend. A report published rate boards and in their government, but they still feel a bit by the Welsh Assembly shows only 50% of Welsh smaller when their wives or significant others do well. speakers aged 16-24 consider themselves fluent. And interestingly, the men subconsciously felt worse Only a third use it socially. about themselves whenever their romantic partners scored Mainstream political support for the language is a win, no matter if they were competing in that area or not. Welsh road signs. now reflexive and uncritical. Welsh politicians and That is, a man doesn’t just feel worse about himself when he’s the commentariat are alarmed at the failure to make reason for punishment was speaking English; that is, you better employability in the private sector is weak. shooting for the same goal, Welsh a “living language”. Their solutions to the are most likely to be punished for speaking the language These negligible benefits for a minority of the he feels worse whenever Women like it when his woman succeeds. And problem are inspired, considered, informed: speak in which you best express yourself. This is punished by population – a minority which is likely to anyway be it more, make it more relevant, use it more on Face- verbal aggression, humiliation and sanctions such as the socio-economically advantaged – occur in the conthis is a woman he likes. their husbands are book and Twitter. The Welsh Assembly announced loss of break time. There is a paranoid, aggressive siege text of the 2nd worst employment figures in the UK, “It makes sense that a successful. Men, the allocation of three quarters of a million pounds mentality to the promotion of the language in schools. the least productive UK regional economy and a per man might feel threatened to develop Welsh technology apps. Whether you think that the language is under siege by capita GDP decline. This is despite continued EU Obmaybe not so much, if his girlfriend outperDespite significant funding and policy efforts, the a cultural imperialist or not, you must wonder whether jective One funding in South and West Wales, fundforms him in something says a new study they’re doing together, language is in decline. Between the 2001 and 2011 this is the best environment for children to learn not only ing designated to the areas of the EU most in need such as trying to lose census, the proportion of Welsh language speakers Welsh but other languages such as maths, science and of development. Wales has appointed the UK’s first fell by 2%: 19% of the Welsh population now claims all the skills that provide students with a productive fu- ever poverty minister, as between a third and a quar- weight,” said the study’s lead author, Kate Ratliff, PhD, of the they can speak Welsh. I stress ‘claims’; it is possible ture. Imagine the English equivalent: two children, for ex- ter of citizens live below the breadline and besides University of Florida. “But this research found evidence that that these figures are inflated. Welsh nationalist rhet- ample first generation British-Iraqis, in a London school London, Wales has the UK’s worst child poverty. In men automatically interpret a partner’s success as their own oric creates aspiration to speak the language; the punished for speaking Arabic at break time. What does this context, Welsh nationalism is the old man in his failure, even when they’re not in direct competition.” One of the ways the researchers tested this theory included population is told that it is part of their identity, their authoritarian language prohibition do to a child’s per- shed busy with a hobby only he can appreciate whilst heritage (“the very essence of who we are” - Heritage ception of language, culture, education, authority? Does his family starves at the dinner table. Language advo- giving couples what they called a “test of problem solving and soMinister Alun Ffred Jones speaking in the EU Council it facilitate or inhibit the social use of the language? For cates are not responsible for Welsh poverty, but they cial intelligence.” They told participants that their partners had of Ministers). This is demonstrated in the WA report: some in my school, speaking English was a defiant act, do not help as they persist with myths that the lan- either scored in the top or bottom 12% of all people who took the participants’ reported desire to more frequently an assertion of an identity independent of prescribed na- guage has instrumental value to learners. It doesn’t. test. This news did not affect the way the participants said they felt. However, in a subsequent test of “implicit self esteem,” which speak Welsh is stoked by aspirations to stronger cul- tionalism; for most it was just more functional. Williams, in 1989, the period leading up to the measured how they actually felt, a different story emerged. tural, historical and personal identity. 2. Bilingualism makes children more intelligent. Welsh Language Act, wrote: Men who believed their partner aced the test exhibited sigIf identity is the populist vehicle for the Welsh lanYes, it does, sort of. There is no academic consenThus we are faced with a generation of bilingual nificantly lower subconscious self-esteem than men who beguage, at the wheel is, in fact, ‘status’. Fevre, Denney and sus, but there is research supporting the claim. How- school-leavers who have been socialised into be- lieved their partner had flunked. This was true even though the Borland identify a small middle-class status group, the ever, there are two types of bilinguals: simultaneous lieving that their bilingualism is prized by society, men had no idea how they had done in the test. Welsh Class, as the promoter and beneficiary of Welsh and sequential. Simultaneous bilinguals acquire two which on examination turns out to be a rather nar(Incidentally, the test for subconscious self esteem, which can nationalism. This status group is socio-economicallanguages from birth and speak both at home. They rowly constructed, middle-class public sector soci- be found here, measures what words people associate with the ly advantaged and is concerned with the honour and have native-level language structures, and their con- ety, which rewards its own purveyors of information word “me.” If they associate it more with positive words, such as prestige of its language and culture. It is the community trol of both can give certain cognitive benefits. How- and knowledge. There are clear class implications in “good” or “great,” their subconscious self esteem is deemed high; at the heart of Welsh nationalism, and has succeeded in ever, only 7% of Welsh-language primary school chil- the development of an administrative bureaucracy, if they associate “me” more quickly with pejorative words, it’s low. normalising the aspiration to belong to an amorphous dren are simultaneous bilinguals, a tiny minority. which is both the principal agency for change and the If you’re curious about how you are affected by your mate’s victonational community whilst remaining aloof as the arbiries, you might like to try it after you’ve celebrated one with them.) The majority of Welsh-language students, half of principal net beneficiary of change. ter of its high culture. To justify the political and finanAfter repeating the experiments in the Netherlands and whom lose fluency when they leave school, are seWe are now twenty four years later; twenty four cial investment needed to expand the language, to rhequential bilinguals i.e. they acquire their second lan- years of policy and investment in the language. Plus ça getting the same results, the researchers did two more tests, torically extend it to everyone in Wales and to facilitate guage in a formal setting. There are no clear cogni- change. Use of the language has increased and has per- this time online, among people who were not Dutch or college its use in all public spheres, the Welsh Class and policy tive benefits for sequential bilinguals i.e. there are haps peaked, but benefits to those who have learnt the students. More than 650 U.S. participants, 284 of whom were makers promote myths about the instrumental benefits no clear cognitive benefits for the vast majority of language have not followed its growth. Rhetorically, the men, were asked to think about a time when their partner had of learning the language and inscribing its public use in Welsh-language students. Further, bilingualism is Welsh people have been invited to join the Welsh Class, succeeded or failed. It was scientific deja vu: the men felt bad statute. Politically, this instrumental discourse has been shown to restrict vocabularies in both languages - but few have achieved that social movement. The eco- when their wives beat them at something, but they also subsuccessful, as it has received significant funding and this can be overcome by better education; again, in nomic benefits of bilingualism are limited, and limited consciously lost confidence when their wives got any wins. policy commitments. However, the instrumental myths Wales this is shown to be sub-standard. to this already advantaged group of people. So too the Women’s self esteem was not affected either way. that legitimate funding and policy are based on naïve Why this difference between men and women? The researchprestige of speaking Welsh and the aspiration to speak or willful misinterpretation of research. Uncritical par- 3. Bilingualism makes easier the ers offered several theories: men are more competitive than it, is now widespread, but few are fluent and even fewents internalise these myths; Welsh-medium education acquisition of other languages. er use it in a way that the Welsh Class can. Welsh lan- women generally — which makes sense, except that in many of continues to expand, but the language is still in decline. There is evidence suggesting that bilingualism inguage education does not, and perhaps will not, give these areas, they weren’t actually competing. So men may just be Last week’s Welsh Assembly report demonstrates that creases metalinguistic ability – the awareness of lanstudents access to the benefits the Welsh Class enjoys really competitive. Another is that men may feel they have to be Welsh education does not create Welsh speakers. If, guage structures and sounds – which better facilitates – what gives students access to these benefits is class more successful to hold on to their partners — and women may then, all this funding and policy doesn’t benefit the lan- further language acquisition. There is no consensus movement, something the Welsh education system and be guilty of feeding into this, at least partially, according to the reguage or culture, who does benefit? Sayers notes that however; this claim is contested. Further, in research searchers: “Women do indeed feel more satisfied with their reeconomy facilitates for few. Welsh language policy is a social policy that does not where this claim is made, education and native language Let’s be clear, for intrinsic reasons, I am not advo- lationship when they think about a partner’s success compared improve people’s capabilities and does not instrumen- proficiency are factors controlling language acquisition. cating the death of the Welsh language. When a lan- to when they think about a partner’s failure.” Or, it may be that tally benefit society – it benefits a small status group, it Again, Welsh students, on average, perform worst in the guage dies a history and culture goes with it, a unique cultural pressures still run deep, and they’re subconsciously conis a conservative policy. UK. Further again, any metalinguistic ability is squanhuman subjectivity is lost. But if nationalism adopts forming to old-school partnership models of the male provider dered if there is no interest in, or sufficient provision for, Here are the instrumental myths used to promote instrumental rhetoric then it must be repudiated – the and devoted dependent woman he has rescued/ is supporting. Another explanation could have to do with the fact that the acquisition of foreign languages. Welsh students are the language: literature shows that the language and culture is not women tend to be more communal, so they look for reasons below the European and UK average for language quali1. Welsh-medium schools perform instrumentally beneficial to learners. What reasons to connect with other people, while men look for differences. fications, and the number of Welsh students studying a better than English-medium schools. remain for its policy support are status and identity. “One possibility to test in future research is that men are foreign language is in decline. Gorard and others have published refutations of But speaking Welsh does not, should not, connote a more likely than women to focus on dissimilarity and womthis claim. This claim is based on a comparison of raw 4. Welsh bilingualism makes you more employable. more prestigious or authentic ‘Welsh identity’. The en are more likely than men to focus on similarity,” says the data. When adjusted for factors such as socio-economResearch suggests the contrary. Compared to An- idea that a middle-class bilingual from Gwynedd or study. “This would be consistent with previous findings that ic background - the factor most likely to affect educa- glophones, in Wales, Welsh speakers better achieve Cardiff Bay is more authentically ‘Welsh’ than a work- women are more concerned with communal behavior and tional achievement - Welsh medium schools perform educational and occupational attainment, but are ing-class anglophone from Merthyr is self-evidently with smoothing social interactions than men are.” no better than their English-medium equivalents. comparatively underpaid for those attainments. A repugnant. Those who will claim this is not the Welsh Regardless of what is driving their low-self-esteem, men’s More generally, the Welsh education system performs suggested reason for this is that bilingual workers nationalist rhetoric are naïve, but this is the rhetoric bruised egos can have lasting effects on relationships. Subpoorly – below the EU average: Michael Davidson, of are immobile their advantage exists only in a small used in schools, in political chambers, is implicit in conscious feelings of low self-worth affect behavior, and may the OECD and responsible for PISA – an international enclave and employers exploit this immobility. When policy documents and is evident in people’s reported make the men feel less optimistic about the relationship. evaluation of 15 year olds’ maths, reading and science there is a shortage of bilingual jobs in the enclave, desire to use the language so as to feel more ‘Welsh’. (Previous studies have shown that men whose wives earn achievement – described education in Wales as ‘bleak’. workers migrate and lose their advantage. The preservation of the language and its minority more than they do are more likely to cheat, for example.) On A further point that is rarely considered: the Welsh There is no evidence of increased workplace pro- culture may not be mutually exclusive with an egalitar- the other hand, the authors also say that while men subconlanguage survives because of coercion and punishment ductivity in bilinguals, but there is a small premium ian, social politics, but currently contributes very little or sciously felt smaller by their partners’ success, they usually in schools because there are few, if any, economic, cul- for bilingual workers, which is accounted for by em- nothing to the lives of an economically and educationally have the cognitive wherewithal to get over it. That’s why they tural or social incentives to speaking it – the WA report ployers’ needs to comply with government policy. disadvantaged majority. Patriots like to think of Wales as don’t report feeling any worse when their partners do well. demonstrates that funding and policy have failed to cre- That is, there is a small premium for a small propor- a nation of story and song; these are not attributes that Plus, having a wife who is successful has its advantages. As econate these incentives. The carrots are rotten so they resort tion of the population because some public sector create good policy. The country is in a mire, the elites tell omists have noted, the people who have benefited most from the into sticks. In my Welsh-medium school the most likely jobs must comply with bilingual policy. Evidence of tales and point at dragon shadows in the mud. creasing earning power of women are the men who married them.
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he ‘saint of the gutters’, ‘angel of mercy’, an inspiration and a role model for the modern society, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on August 26, 1910 at Skopje in former Yugoslavia, in a devout catholic family. God chose her for a particular mission and at an early age itself Agnes wanted to become a nun. In 1928, she joined a convent and later she was sent to India, first to Darjeeling and then to Kolkata to teach at the Loreto School in the city. On the 10th September, 1937, during a train journey to Darjeeling, she heard the voice of God telling her to leave the convent and to go out and serve his abandoned children. She left her sheltered life of the convent on 18th August 1948 and started her new mission. She began her work with a school for slum children of Kolkata. She adopted as her dress a simple white sari with blue borders and with a cross pined at the shoulder. Gradually, many young girls came to be part of her work. She organized them into a dedicated group of sisters ready to serve the poor in any form. They are known as the Missionaries of Charity. She breathed her last on the 5th September 1997.
A Tribute to “Saint of the Gutters – Mother Teresa”
for us to follow her footprints has to be relived in our midst. Mother saw the image of God in the poor, the orphan, the sick, and the abandoned and so served them whole heartedly as if she was serving God himself. Her self-less service to the cause of the poor and the sick won her international recognition. Our society is not seeing the image of God in our fellow brothers and sisters, the poor are becoming poorer while the rich enjoy all benefits of life. There are people sick without love, forgiveness and charity. We are selfish and we do not want to share our resources with others. Even in our attitudes and actions we have become coarse and cold that we do not feel the pain of the sick and the suffering. We are weary of making our lives miserable and we search for things that do not give us lasting happiness. She is a challenge to our modern leaders.
A Visionary: Mother Teresa was one woman, one mission and that's all it took care, comfort and to change the world. Mother Teresa, an Angel of Mercy, was God's greatA Leader: The legacy that mother has left est gift to humankind. Her life was a true
Fr. Joe Mariadhas
St. Joseph’s College Jakhama - Nagaland story of love and compassion. It was she who brought shine on the faces of millions who were sick and poor. She has to be imitated in the lives of young people who aspire to achieve great things in life. She has taught each one of us with her very life and she is the role model for the modern society. How many of us really know her and her contribution to the humanity.
A Role Model: Throughout her life she did the service of the 'poorest of the poor'. She had firm belief that through serving the poorest, she was serving the God. We have people today in our society who serve the poor, the downtrodden, the weak and the marginalized and yet their voices are not heard and the vices are on the increase. We are losing our vision to reach heaven while we are all comfortable with the benevolence of God and show a little gratitude by offering help to the needy.
A Patriot: She was a woman of vision, courage and foresight. She was a sincere daughter of motherland. We need leaders who have vision for the promoting human values, developing human resources, building intellectual capacities of young men and women. We need leaders as role models and not as models without personal integrity. She lived and showed by her very life and we have leaders who tell us live according to their wishes and not according our human concerns. She is a challenge to the modern leaders and her service was an example of serving our society. We cannot forget her and her contribution in the progress of our nation. A Woman of Faith: She found prayer to be essential in her life and spent many hours in prayer communicating with God. Mother Teresa brought great awareness not only to the people but to many countries on the concerns with the poor and terminally ill. She brought the equation of love and compassion to the world, causing people to take a closer look at themselves and how they treat one another. I believe her faith in God that gave her the cour-
age to bring such awareness, during those very difficult times. She is an incredible role model to follow in helping others and her strong beliefs in God. By her actions alone, people started to reach out and help the needy who were in distress instead of ignoring the problems they faced. Mother Teresa was an incredible individual that showed the world many things about religion, love and compassion for humankind. God raises men and women of outstanding quality and holiness with indomitable spirit to guide the society. To see her was to love her and to know her is a source of inspiration. Mother will be remembered for her courage, determination and specific qualities of leadership. Today on the 5th September on her death anniversary, not only the church admires her saintliness, noble virtues, depth of dedication and selfless service but the whole world considers her as a ‘symbol of the poor and an ever shining light’. In a world engulfed by gross materialism and ‘survival of the fittest’ she remains as an ever shining beacon, showing us the true path of living. Mother Teresa showed us the path of service. Our best tribute will be to follow that path. “In this life we cannot do great things, we can only do small things with great love”. – Mother Teresa
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The Morung Express
Rich nations must not harm emerging economies: PM
ST. PeTerSburg, SePTember 4 (IANS): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in this north-western city of Russia Wednesday to join other leaders at the 8th G20 Summit and find ways to tackle the challenges faced by the global economy, especially the turmoil in currency markets, and ask rich nations not to pursue policies that harm the growth prospects of emerging economies. Apart from attending the summit and holding bilateral talks, the prime minister during the visit will also avail an opportunity to meet with leaders from Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa, which collectively form the BRICS grouping. The prime minister returns to New Delhi Saturday. Among the bilateral meetings, officials confirmed one with French President Francois Hollande Friday and said others -- which may be in the nature of a structured talks or a pull aside -- were being worked out. Ahead of the summit, the prime minister said rich nations, which are showing signs of recovery, must not pursue policies that hurt the growth prospects of emerging economies and that the collective focus must be on job
In this photograph provided by the G20 host broadcaster, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, greets unidentified members of the Indian delegation as he arrives in St. Petersburg, Russia on Wednesday, September 4. U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to bolster international support for a strike against Syria during talks with world leaders this week at the Group of 20 summit. Those efforts will pit him against Russian president and summit host Vladimir Putin, who has perhaps done the most to stymie international efforts to oust Syria’s Bashar Assad. The G20 summit begins on Thursday, September 5. (AP Photo)
creation and investment promotion in a bid to spur growth and sustain it. “Though there are encouraging signs of growth in industrialised countries, there is also a slowdown in emerging economies, which are facing the adverse impact of significant capital outflows,” he said.
“I will emphasise in St. Petersburg the need for an orderly exit from the unconventional monetary policies being pursued by the developed world for the last few years, so as to avoid damaging the growth prospects of the developing world,” he added. “It is also important that
Lok Sabha passes Pension Bill
NeW DeLHI, SePTember 4 (PTI): In a relief to the UPA government, Lok Sabha passed the Pension Bill on Wednesday despite vociferous protests over missing coal files and petrol price hike casted a shadow over the debate. The government had been pressing hard for its passage given just two days remain for the Monsoon Session to conclude. Even as BJP members stormed the Well demanding the Prime Minister’s resignation over missing coal block allocation files, Speaker Meira Kumar took up the consideration of the controversial measure. Participating in the debate, Shailendra Kumar, whose Samajwadi Party is a key outside supporter, opposed the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2011, which provides for establishment of an authority to promote old age income security by developing pension funds, among other things. As Kumar opposed the measure saying there was no provision to provide assured returns to the employees, Ministers Kamal Nath and Kapil Sibal approached SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav apparently to seek his party’s backing to the bill, which the Left parties staunchly opposed. The SP member, along with those from Trinamool Congress, DMK and the Left parties, opposed the measure on several counts, especially on putting the “social security moneys” in the volatile stock market and allowing FDI to manage these “hardearned” funds. Sougata Roy (TMC) wanted the Chair to ensure that the bill, which would affect lives of millions of people, should not be passed in a hurry and in din over missing coal ministry files and hike in petroleum prices. Interestingly, Gurudas Dasgupta (CPI) called back the pro-
testing Left members from the Well as Roy was speaking to oppose the bill. TKS Elangovan (DMK) also used the opportunity to draw government’s attention to the agitation planned by bank employees’ unions on pension and other issues and said his party opposed the measure because the hard-earned savings of the people would be invested in private securities. Sanjay Nirupam (Cong) supported the measure saying it would go a long way to help the aged in their post-retirement life. Earlier, Finance Minister P Chidambaram moved the bill for consideration amidst slogan-shouting. While BJP members were shouting ‘PM isteefa do’ (PM resign) and ‘koyle ki dalali hai, poori Congress kaali hai (Congress is blacked by the coal scam), their Left counterparts shouted ‘rollback petrol price hike’. The Speaker’s appeals to those in the Well to return to their seats went unheeded. “Do not insult the Chair. We are trying to run the House, you should cooperate,” she pleaded. At one point, BJP member Yashwant Sinha was heard saying “this is no way to run the House, I am sorry to say. This is an important bill which can’t be passed like this.” He was supported vociferously by his party colleagues. The disruptions continued despite the Prime Minister’s last ditch effort to resolve the deadlock over the missing files. He had invited top BJP leaders for dinner last evening before he left for the G-20 Summit on Wednesday. The pension bill has been pending ever since it was introduced in 2011. Besides promoting old age income security by establishing, developing and regulating pension funds, the bill seeks to “protect the interest of subscribers to schemes of pension funds” and related matters.
G20 encourages and promotes policy coordination among major economies in a manner that provides for a broad-based and sustained global economic recovery and growth.” He was alluding to the talks of US Federal Reserve looking at successively reducing the fiscal stimulus that was being in-
jected since 2008 to overcome the financial crisis. This and other reasons have led to the Indian rupee dipping to a historic low of 68 to a dollar. This apart, India’s quarterly economic growth is also at four-year low and stock markets have taken a hit, among other gloomy signs. On its
part, the prime minister said, India has taken steps to pursue reforms, create a more investment-friendly environment, stabilise the rupee and strengthen macro-economic stability. “At the same time, a stable and supportive external economic environment is also required to revive economic growth,” he said. “The G20 Summit, therefore, is an important forum to seek an international climate that is beneficial for all countries.” The main theme of the 8th G20 Summit is starting a new cycle of growth through quality jobs and investment, trust and transparency and effective regulation. The past summits were held in Washington, London, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Seoul, Cannes and Los Cabos. Besides India, the G20 comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the UK, the US and the EU. Originally formed at the level of finance ministers and central bank governors in 1999 after the East Asian economic crisis, the G20 assumed significance after its elevation to a summit-level forum in 2008, following the global financial crisis.
100 schoolkids taken ill after eating midday meal bADAuN (uP), SePTember 4 (PTI): As many as 100 students of a primary school were today taken ill after eating ‘kheer’ (a sweet dish) served to them in the midday meal. The children in Agori village of the district complained of vomiting and stomach ache after eating the dish this afternoon, DM Chandra
Prakash Tewari said. While 18 children were taken to the nearby health centre, others were given primary treatment at the school itself, he said. The dish and the utensil in which it was cooked have been seized, and a team comprising the Chief Medical Officer and others has been constituted to probe into the matter.
PATNA, SePTember 4 (PTI): An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Bihar is trying to set an example on how to save fuel — by not using his official vehicle and going to work on foot or on a bicycle. Arvind Kumar Singh, district magistrate of Kaimur, around 150km from Patna, has decided not to use his beacon-fitted car to go to his office to save fuel. “I am going to office — a distance of nearly two kilometres — on foot or by cycle for the last few days. It is a small step to reduce domestic demand of crude oil as import of oil is bad for the already crisis-ridden economy of the country,” said Singh. Singh has also ordered that generator sets should not be used in government offices for at least two hours from 1pm to 3pm every day to save fuel.
He said the idea came to him when he was reading a newspaper. “What bothered me was that the Indian economy is in deep crisis, due to huge outflow of foreign currency to meet growing oil demand,” he said. The officer has inspired several district officials not to use their official vehicles. Singh said his move was serving two purposes as it was good for health also. “I have appealed to all district officials to cut down on oil consumption in all possible ways and use official vehicles only when necessary,” he said. “I have begun a small move. Now it is for people to follow it,” he said. However, Singh in an honest admission said he was forced to use his official vehicle while going for a visit to interior areas outside the district headquarters.
How to save fuel: Bihar IAS officer sets example
1984 riots: US court summons Sonia Gandhi
sued summons against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi for shielding party officials allegedly involved in inciting attacks on Sikhs in November 1984. A class action suit against Sonia Gandhi has been filed by “Sikhs for Justice” (SFJ), a US-based human rights group, along with victims of 1984 anti-Sikh violence under Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA). In the September 3 lawsuit filed before Eastern District of New York (13 CV 4920), SFJ and victims are seeking compensatory and punitive damages against ConJALANDHAr, SePTember 4 gress party president for her role (TNN): On a complaint by a Sikh in shielding and protecting Kamal group, a US federal court has is- Nath, Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler
and other Congress party leaders from being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity. The complaint has also cited discovery of mass grave at Hondh Chillar village of Haryana in February 2011 to drive home the point that it showed that cover up continued for all these years. The 27-page complaint against Gandhi alleges that between November 1 and 4, 1984 about 30,000 members of the Sikh community “were intentionally tortured, raped and murdered by groups that were incited, organized, controlled and armed” by the ruling Congress party. According to attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal ad-
visor to SFJ, the lawsuit against Sonia Gandhi under the ATCA and TVPA is motivated by an interest in seeking some form of justice for the victims of November 1984 massacre, will raise awareness to the international community regarding denial of justice to the victims and is a mean of holding parties in power accountable for their gross violations of human rights - while also offering the potential to deter future abuses. He argued that Sonia Gandhi’s conduct of protecting the perpetrators of November 1984 massacre gave rise to liability under applicable international and domestic laws, international treaties and federal common law.
SC refuses to review its order on convicted politicians
NeW DeLHI, SePTember 4 (AgeNcIeS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the Centre’s plea seeking a review of its verdict on disqualification of MPs and MLAs on being convicted in a criminal case. The apex court, however, agreed to hear the Centre’s petition seeking review of its judgment barring arrested persons from contesting elections. Earlier, the Union Cabinet
on August 22 had cleared the proposal to allow convicted lawmakers to retain their membership till an appeal is pending before a court while suspending their voting rights. According to the law ministry’s proposal to amend the Representation of People Act, an MP or MLA can retain membership even after conviction if his or her appeal is pending before a court and sentence is stayed, but
he or she shall neither be entitled to vote nor draw salary and allowances. The move was necessitated after the Supreme Court ruling disqualifying a legislator in the event of a conviction for an offence attracting a sentence of more than two years. The proposal also suggests adding a new clause to the Constitution to say that a person can contest elections even if he can’t vote. It states that a per-
son cannot cease to be a voter while in detention as his or her right is only temporarily suspended. It was argued that as the name of the person in jail continues to be on the electoral role, he or she also continues to be an elector and can file nomination for election. The amendment to the RP Act shall come into effect from July 10, 2013, the day the Supreme Court gave the landmark judgment
which was seen as a big step towards cleaning up the political system. At an all-party meeting, political parties across the board opposed the apex court order, arguing it could be misused to settle scores. Political parties voiced concerns about “judicial overreach” and argued that the supremacy of Parliament must be maintained and if required, amendments must be brought in the Constitution.
Plans for new Indian state spark demands for more
NeW DeLHI, SePTember 4 (AP): India, a nation of 1.2 billion people, has 28 states. Some would rank among the world’s most populous countries. So when India’s ruling coalition endorsed a 29th state last month, millions of people who have felt ignored and marginalized living far from their state capitals had the same reaction: Why not us? In West Bengal state, for example, tens of thousands of indigenous Gorkhas demanding their own state — Gorkhaland — have barricaded streets in Darjeeling, the town best known for its prized tea gardens. Strikes have shut down businesses. Police arrested dozens of activists and clamped a curfew in the worst-hit districts last week. Demands for more than two dozen new states have burst into mutinous life, and the strikes and protests could redraw India’s political map. There are no immediate signs of widespread instability, but the localized rumblings could deflect government attention from its most pressing task: improving the struggling Indian economy. It’s unclear whether the ruling coalition will accept more states. Even
the proposal it endorsed, for carving the state of Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh state, is a long way from implementation. India has always been a political patchwork of astonishingly diverse humanity. Since independence from Britain in 1947, the sprawling country of different religions, distinct cultures and hundreds of languages has been bound together into a cohesive if chaotic democracy. The Indian system gives broad power to states, which were drawn broadly along linguistic lines, most of them by a state reorganization commission in the mid-1950s. But many states are so large they have become difficult to govern, leaving politically marginalized regions out of India’s economic boom. Some larger states have already been split apart, most recently with the creation of three new states in 2000. If Telangana clears numerous legislative hurdles, it will become the country’s 29th state. Telangana would be composed of the mostly poor, inland districts of Andhra Pradesh state. While its people are ethnically the same as most in Andhra Pradesh, they have long felt ignored by a state govern-
ment that appeared to divert most resources to the more prosperous southern and coastal districts. For years, the region has been churned by violent protests and hunger strikes. People in Telangana celebrated when New Delhi backed the creation of the new state, but the decision also triggered counterprotests from supporters of a united Andhra Pradesh. A key point of contention is that the proposed Telangana would include Hyderabad, a wealthy IT and industrial hub. In New Delhi, angry lawmakers on both sides of the Telangana debate repeatedly disrupted the lower house of parliament this week, and nine parliamentarians were suspended. The decision on a new state faces several hurdles. The home ministry must decide how to divide Andhra Pradesh’s resources, waterways and employees. The federal Cabinet, India’s president, the state assembly and parliament would have to approve the plan. Parsa V. Rao, a political analyst in New Delhi, said the process will take several months at least. The abrupt decision on Telangana by the Congress party, the most powerful member of the rul-
ing coalition, was made with next year’s general elections in mind, but it has given new life to other longstanding demands for new states based on ethnic or linguistic lines. Claimants to more than two dozen potential states feel their demands now stand a greater chance of success. Aside from Telangana, however, the government has answered most demands for new states by suggesting exploratory talks but making no commitments. Activists in the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra state are demanding statehood, arguing that the impoverished, water-scarce region has been ignored in favor of the coastal areas around Mumbai. In central India, economically deprived Bundelkhand, currently split between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh states, has convulsed with demands to separate. The western part of Uttar Pradesh wants to break away to form Harit Pradesh, a prosperous enclave close to the national capital. In India’s northeast, a cauldron of ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity, calls for a multitude of separate states have been simmering for decades. Apart from the Gorkhas, there
are demands from the Bodo, Karbi, Dimasa, Kuki and Naga ethnic groups, all seeking new states. The Gorkhaland and Bodo movements, two of the most prominent splinter groups, are much older than the efforts to create a Telangana state, and the leaders of those groups see the Telangana decision as nothing short of a betrayal of their own dreams. “If they can give Telangana, then why can’t we have Bodoland? We want a similar kind of justice,” said S.K. Bwismuthiary, a member of parliament from the remote northeastern state of Assam. “Our struggle for a separate Bodoland will be relentless,” said Pramod Boro of the All Bodo Students Union. The demand for smaller states is spurred by hopes that they would bring more government funds and better governance. Behind the scenes are the corrupt politicians and hangers-on anticipating the money that flows when entire state governments are created. But the status quo carries its own consequences in large states such as Uttar Pradesh, which has 200 million people and some of India’s worst literacy, health and poverty statistics.
An Andhra Pradesh state government employee listens to a speech during a protest against the move to carve out a new state out of the existing state at Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad, September 4. (AP Photo)
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Putin warns West on Syria action
NOVO - OGARYOVO, SeptembeR 4 (Ap): President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia “doesn’t exclude” supporting a U.N. resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press and Russia’s state Channel 1 television, Putin said Moscow has provided some components of the S-300 air defense missile system to Syria but has frozen further shipments. He suggested that Russia may sell the potent missile systems elsewhere if Western nations attack Syria without U.N. Security Council backing. The interview Tuesday night at Putin’s country residence outside the Russian capital was the only one he granted prior to the summit of G-20 nations in St. Petersburg, which opens Thursday. The summit was supposed to concentrate on the global economy but now looks likely to be dominated by the international crisis over allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the country’s civil war. Putin said he felt sorry that President Barack Obama canceled a oneon-one meeting in Moscow that was supposed to have happened before the summit. But he expressed hope the two would have
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to John Daniszewski, the Associated Press’s Senior Managing Editor for International News, during an AP interview at Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, September 3. (AP Photo)
serious discussions about Syria and other issues in St. Petersburg. “President Obama hasn’t been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn’t been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either,” he said of their relationship. “We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to
StOCKHOLm, SeptembeR 4 (Ap): President Barack Obama is seeking to use a 24-hour visit to this Swedish capital to show a softer side of American diplomacy even as the world’s gaze remains fixed anxiously on Syria. He intends to focus in the Nordic nation on climate change, trade and technology, a trio of issues on which there is broad consensus with European allies. The topics are a marked departure from the thorny, pressing matters he’s facing back home on national security and the economy. He also plans to pay homage to a Holocaust-era hero whose name is commemorated on street
our problems,” Putin said. He also denied that Russia has anti-gay policies — an issue that has threatened to embarrass the country as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics in February. The Russian leader, a year into his third term as president, appeared to go out of his way to be conciliatory amid a growing chill in U.S.-Russian relations. The two countries have sparred over Syria, the Edward Snowden affair, Russia’s treatment of its opposition and the diminishing scope in Russia for civil society groups that receive funding
from the West. Putin said it was “ludicrous” that the government of President Bashar Assad — a staunch ally of Russia — would use chemical weapons at a time when it was holding sway against the rebels. “From our viewpoint, it seems absolutely absurd that the armed forces, the regular armed forces, which are on the offensive today and in some areas have encircled the so-called rebels and are finishing them off, that in these conditions they would start using forbidden chemical weapons while realizing quite well that it
could serve as a pretext for applying sanctions against them, including the use of force,” he said. The Obama administration says 1,429 people died in the Aug. 21 attack in a Damascus suburb. Casualty estimates by other groups are far lower, and Assad’s government blames the episode on rebels trying to overthrow him. A U.N. inspection team is awaiting lab results on tissue and soil samples it collected while in Syria before completing a report. “If there are data that the chemical weapons
have been used, and used specifically by the regular army, this evidence should be submitted to the U.N. Security Council,” added Putin, a former officer in the Soviet KGB. “And it ought to be convincing. It shouldn’t be based on some rumors and information obtained by special services through some kind of eavesdropping, some conversations and things like that.” He noted that even in the U.S., “there are experts who believe that the evidence presented by the administration doesn’t look convincing, and they don’t exclude the possibility that the opposition conducted a premeditated provocative action trying to give their sponsors a pretext for military intervention.” He compared the evidence presented by Washington to false data used by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “All these arguments turned out to be untenable, but they were used to launch a military action, which many in the U.S. called a mistake. Did we forget about that?” Putin said. He said he “doesn’t exclude” backing the use of force against Syria at the United Nations if there is objective evidence proving that Assad’s regime used chemical weapons against its people. But he strongly warned Washington against launching mili-
tary action without U.N. approval, saying it would represent an aggression. Putin reinforced his demand that before taking action, Obama needed approval from the U.N. Security Council. Russia can veto resolutions in the council and has protected Syria from punitive actions there before. Asked what kind of evidence on chemical weapons use would convince Russia, Putin said “it should be a deep and specific probe containing evidence that would be obvious and prove beyond doubt who did it and what means were used.” Putin said it was “too early” to talk about what Russia would do if the U.S. attacked Syria. “We have our ideas about what we will do and how we will do it in case the situation develops toward the use of force or otherwise,” he said. “We have our plans.” Putin called the S-300 air defense missile system “a very efficient weapon” and said that Russia had a contract for its delivery of the S-300s to Syria. “We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn’t been completed. We have suspended it for now,” he said. “But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world,” he said.
The statement could be a veiled threat to revive a contract for the delivery of the S-300s to Iran, which Russia canceled a few years ago under strong U.S. and Israeli pressure. Putin praised Obama as a frank and constructive negotiating partner and denied reports that he had taken personal offense at remarks by Obama comparing Putin’s body language to that of a slouching, bored student. Putin said appearances can be deceiving. Putin also accused U.S. intelligence agencies of bungling efforts to apprehend Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, who is wanted in the U.S. on espionage charges. He said the United States could have allowed Snowden to go to a country where his security would not be guaranteed or intercepted him along the way, but instead pressured other countries not to accept him or even to allow a plane carrying him to cross their airspace. Russia has granted him temporary asylum. Putin also gave the first official confirmation that Snowden had been in touch with Russian officials in Hong Kong before flying to Moscow on June 23, but said he only learned that Snowden was on the flight two hours before it arrived. Putin once again denied that Russia’s security services are working with Snowden, whose stay in Russia has been shrouded in secrecy.
WASHiNGtON, SeptembeR 4 (iANS): Did you know that while you sleep, there are genes in the brain that are actually turned on? Scientists now say that these genes are vital for the repair and growth of brain cells. Scientists in the US have now established that adequate sleep boosts the production of specific brain cells, called oligodendrocytes, that produce the protective layer around the organ. Oligodendrocytes make myelin (the protective layer) in the healthy brain and in response to injury. Much like the insulation around an electrical
wire, myelin allows electrical impulses to move rapidly from one cell to the next. According to an animal study published in the Sep 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, these findings could one day lead scientists to new insights about the role sleep plays in brain repair and growth, reports Science Daily. Scientists have known for years that many genes are turned on during sleep and off during periods of wakefulness. In the current study, Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, measured gene activity
in oligodendrocytes from mice that slept or were forced to stay awake. The group found that genes promoting myelin formation were turned on during sleep. In contrast, the genes implicated in cell death and cellular stress response were turned on when the animals stayed awake. “These findings hint at how sleep or lack of sleep might repair or damage the brain,” said Mehdi Tafti, PhD, who studies sleep at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Tafti, however, was not involved in the study reported in the Sep 4 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Obama to showcase common global goals Sleep deep to boost brain function
signs from Paris to Tel Aviv. The president arrived Wednesday morning in Stockholm after an overnight flight from Washington, where lawmakers are weighing whether to approve Obama’s request for a military strike against Syria. A day later, Obama was scheduled to travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, to meet with foreign leaders at the Group of 20 economic summit. Greeting Obama on a mild, sunny morning at the Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport were Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and leaders of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s center-right coalition government. Obama’s trip to Sweden will mark the first bilateral visit by a sitting U.S. president to the northern European nation. While in Stockholm, Obama will meet with Reinfeldt and King Carl XVI Gustav and dine with Nordic leaders from Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark. He’ll also stop at Sweden’s premier technical university to call attention to Sweden’s goal to phase out fossil fuels by 2050. The White House hastily ar-
‘Peace talks with Israel going nowhere’
RAmALLAH, SeptembeR 4 (ReuteRS): Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are proving pointless and will not bear fruit without much greater pressure from Washington, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday. In the most damning Palestinian assessment to date, Yasser Abed Rabbo said that the negotiations, which kicked off in late July after a three year hiatus, had made no progress. “These negotiations are futile and won’t lead to any results,” Abed Rabbo told Voice of Palestine radio. “I don’t expect any progress at all unless there is huge and powerful American pressure, such as the one we are seeing from America to deal with the Syrian issue,” added Abed Rabbo, one of just two officials authorized by Abbas to discuss the talks. An Israeli official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on the remarks, saying the two sides had agreed that only the United States should speak about the talks. “We are abiding by that agreement,” the official said. The US state department said on Sunday that Israeli and Palestinian delegations had been meeting continuously since direct talks resumed on July 29, adding that a US envoy had taken part in one of the encounters. US secretary of state John Kerry has given the two sides 9 months to work out their differences, with meetings going on in both Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Little information has leaked about the focus of the initial talks, but Abed Rabbo said continued Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on land the Palestinians want for their future state, had undermined the negotiations. “Israel did not commit to stopping settlements and we see the continuation of the settlement policy as destroying any possible chance of (a deal),” he said. Israel announced tenders for, or advanced the planning process on about 3,100 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem last month. In a message marking the Jewish New Year, Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he wanted “real and enduring peace ... not an agreement that we celebrate for two minutes and then collapses”.
ranged the Stockholm visit after Obama, incensed when Russia granted asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, scrapped a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The cancellation created a two-day scheduling void when Obama was expecting to be overseas but had nowhere to go. The White House added Sweden to his itinerary. Administration officials previewing Obama’s trip offered little in the way of a specific rationale for the visit, other than to say that the country had extended him a written invitation some time ago. They added that Nordic nations are important partners in development, global security and promotion of democracy. Many of Obama’s global priorities — like energy, global trade and science training — parallel his second-term domestic goals as he seeks to ready the U.S. workforce for a higher-tech economy, increase demand abroad for American products and tackle climate change. But those priorities have at times been overshadowed by
global outrage over massive U.S. surveillance programs revealed by Snowden and by Obama’s efforts to persuade nations to take a tougher tack against Syria. A sobering moment was expected Wednesday afternoon when he honors the late Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited for saving at least 20,000 Jews during World War II before being arrested by Soviet forces in 1945 and then mysteriously disappearing. Wallenberg’s family planned to present a letter to Obama asking for help in pressing Russia to shed light on Wallenberg’s fate. Amid tight security, protesters were already gathering in the streets of Stockholm, including a small group from Amnesty International that held a demonstration outside the royal palace to demand that Obama close Guantanamo Bay prison. Thousands of armed police are deployed on city streets, many roads and parks are closed in the downtown area, concrete barriers and steel fences have sprung up in many locations near where Obama will stay.
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Kaholi Piketo Achumi, Chairperson, Management Board and Co-Founder Asian Institute Of Higher Education and Research,6th Mile ,Sovima, felicitating one of the faculty member.
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eacher play an important role in building the nation. Children learn their teaching and grown up as a good talented person. Children are the hope of tomorrow. hence, pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India said that, “Children are the wealth of Nation”. Moreover, teachers is important role to bring up them to brightening up the future. The good schooling of children with good teachers molding their career that help in rising them and become good learned person, a great leader, and good responsible citizen of the nation. Children starts development both physically and mentally after going to school. They learned differ-
ent ideas and knowledge other than their lessons, the teachers organizes many activities in the school, like, music, dance, debate, lectures, art and crafts cultural programme, writing and competition and sports etc. For example, Participating in Scouts & Guide and NCC learn the military activities, with good discipline, punctuality and good behavior. Such activities help in building his personality and to serve the nation in future. It is the teacher who shows dreams to a child for his future. The teacher treating the students like his own children, they award them for good work at the same time punishes for fault to improve the students to the better way. A child from nursery classes to a higher classes or higher studies, there is need an important
GREETING A Tribute
Today, we say thank you to teachers to whom society had given one of the most responsible and sensitive tasks in the world. Thank you for the positive expectations you have of your pupils who bring their problems but also their hopes and aspirations into their class room. Students of Class-9 Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur
Message To Our Teachers
and constructive role of a teacher towards the students’ .A teacher take interest in teaching the students with a good vision and dreams that his students would do the best in their future life. Therefore teachers should be talented, because the teaching profession is a noble profession. . The popularity of a Educational institution whether, technical or arts stream depend on the qualities of the faculty members and good talented teachers. Then, only such a popular educational institution can produce good students, who can shine in life and also bright the nation in future. It is due to sacrifices made by the teachers. There is a saying that, “Teachers are like a candle, lighting the others, by burning itself” Hence, it is said, Teachers are
asset of the nation. The great leaders, the renown scientist, the politician, the great writers, the scholars, and even the teachers, they were students of yesterday. It is through a teacher who developed the mind of the students by his teaching and grown up to such a capable person. Therefore it is called the teachers are the builder of nation. Today, the world become a very competitive in every aspects, in such, we need the dedicated and potential teachers to contribute their service for the advancement and growth of the nation. Therefore, it is most important and necessary to make the teaching profession more attractive to ensure more competency and professionalism.
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents. Poems are the perfect way to express the deepest feelings of your heart to someone special. My Five Teachers Gratitude to Old Teachers My poetry teacher taught me How to cry. My philosophy teacher taught me How to dream. My religion teacher taught me How to bind life. My yoga teacher taught me How to find Love. My liberation teacher taught me How to create Peace.
When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake, We place our feet where they have never been. We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy. Who is down there but our old teachers? Water that once could take no human weightWe were students then- holds up our feet, And goes on ahead of us for a mile. Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness By Robert Bly (from "Eating The Honey of Words")
By Sri Chinmoy
We congratulate all our dearest teachers and express our sincere gratitude and appreciation for their tireless and relentless efforts to enlighten us and to help us realize our potentials not only intellectuality but also all other essential domains. We also pray that our Almighty God bless all teachers abundantly for their selfless service to humanity. Wishing you happiness always, long live teachers! Students of Class-12, Dimapur, September 4 Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur
Nagaland Education Mission Society greet teachers
Remembering My Teacher... Time doesn’t remember anybody and so it goes on. But I’ll remember you as my best teacher even if time goes on... I’ll remember the days you taught us to go to way of success Those beautiful moments will be Unforgettable And those smiles will be forever Remarkable Every heart beat is shedding its tears Remembering my teacher I promise there will be a day When I will be like you said Millions of new memories may make me forget you But I tell you your memories may be old, But still be like a Gold Remembering you my teacher. Happy Teachers Day... -Paul Kath Bethesda Hr.Sec.School Walford Dimapur
(Dipr): The Department of School Education, Nagaland Education Mission Society, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Nagaland extended its greetings to all teachers on the occasion of the Teachers’ Day 2013. The State Mission Director, O. T. Chingmak Chang appreciated the tireless effort of teachers for their role towards moulding the present day children into better generations with dedication against all hurdles. He greeted all teachers on behalf of the staff of SMA and SSA for a Happy Teachers Day and a prosperous life.
n the 5th of September, schools throughout the country including Nagaland enthusiastically celebrates 'Teachers Day' to commemorate the birthday of Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan —a leading light, forceful orator, an author and a voracious writer, a patriot and philanthropist, wellknown as diplomat, a philosopher, an educationist and an international scholar, and above all, a great and renowned teacher associated with various universities within the country and abroad. It is the only day perhaps for the students to congratulate the teachers and express their sincere gratitude and appreciation for their tireless efforts, to enlighten them and to help them realize their potentials not only intellectually but also other essential domains. They also leave no stone unturned to greet the teachers by their astounding, encouraging, exhilarating and rejuvenating words like 'teachers handle the most responsible and sensitive tasks in society' , 'teachers are the majestic pillars of tomorrow' , ‘no teachers , no progress' . May God bless you abundantly on this special day and to be blessed more in the years to come! It is also a window of opportunity for the parents to show their veneration to teachers. Even the government recognizes the labour of teachers for rendering their benevolent and untiring social services. Naturally the teachers feel happy and elated at least for the day as if they are the descendant of Rad-
hakrishnan. In connection with observing the 'Teachers Day' it has been pointed out by our ministers, leaders, politicians and educationists that in respect of great change in present day educational system, the teachers are to make the requisite provisions so that the children can acquire the essential experience of life. Moreover, a balanced development of the child is to be affected his activities and experience at home must also be equally regulated in the same planned manner as they are done in school. It is also emphasized that for the successful working of democracy, the students should be trained in the democratic ideals and organization. Now, the government is going to implement Quality Education ' as it is the need of the hour in to-days advanced world and hence it must be harnessed to built students life and career to cope with the advanced countries of the globe. These are some of the burning problems and for which it's a crying need to ponder over the issues and find proper and specific ways and means to eliminate perplexities from the mind of teachers to be effected properly. Now the questions arise will it be possible to maintain a balanced development of a child activities and experience. At home and school? How the teachers will train the children in the democratic ideals and organization? Previously, people were ashamed or afraid of corrupt practices. Now it has become a part of life and accepted by most people. Even children are
well aware of widespread incidence of corruption as it is prevalent in the various forms in the society in every facet of life. How will the children be imbibed with the idea of dignified social life and social services in a contaminated society? So far as Quality education' is concerned and to harness it immediately , the feasibility of the plan is doubtful as it lays stress on the more practical aspects , the productive aspects and skill-oriented aspects which relate to the benefit of the students in terms of using the education for future , to get a job and earn a living. It is an arduous task for an underdeveloped agricultural country like ours where there are still a large number of illiterates and poverty-striken people to march forward with the advanced countries of the globe, where science and technology are moving very fast and economic development takes place much more rapidly than ever before. For ours we have to look forward for the advancement of the country before it is materialized. Moreover, needless to mention, ours is still prescribed 'book-centered' education and we are following the same where examinations help to assess the extent of knowledge of pupils, their receptive power and educational standard of a particular class. At the same time, the performances of the students in the examinations directly assess the efficiency of the students as well as the teachers.
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): The All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) hereby extends its due respect and honour to all the teachers on this Teachers Day in recognition of their sacrificial services being rendered to humanity. While pay-
ing sincere tribute to all the teachers, it also appeals them to take this pledge of rededication on the day. “The Teachers being the moulder and maker of future generation, on this Teachers Day -the 5th September 2013, I do hereby solemnly declared that
I will rededicate myself to be more faithful to my profession.” Meanwhile, the Association in a press note extended its hearty congratulations to all the awardees and wishes them to be a positive role model for teaching community in particular and society in general.
unity college of Teacher education ANSTA Peren greet observes its first Teachers Day on Teacher's Day
“Thanks for being a true mentor of our hearts. Thanks for making us what we are today. Happy Teachers Day!" Students of Class-6 Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur
The way you teach... The knowledge you share... The care you take... The love you shower.. Makes you... The world's best teacher... Happy Teacher's Day! Alumni Bethesda Hr. Sec. School
aNsTa pledge on Teachers day
The GMS Sukiur 'A' celebrated its Pre-Teacher's day on September 4, 2013 at the school premises along with the VEC's and village elders. A press note issued by T. Chipong, Teacher Incharge stated that the programme was chaired by Yimtila of class 7. Teacher's Day speech on behalf of the students was delivered by Vilenthong of Class 5. The speakers Yutsu VCM and Yanhokiu, VEC chairman thanked the teachers and encouraged them to give their best efforts in their endeavours. The programme ended with a benediction by the pastor Sukiur 'A' Baptist Church.
Teacher is a person who always helps everybody to get the knowledge and always stands beside the students when they have problems Thanks for being there Madam/Sir. Happy Teachers Day Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Hostel
The World's Best Teachers
S. Ghose, Teacher Carewell School, Dimapur
Unity College of Teacher Education observing its first Teachers Day programme today.
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): Unity College of Teacher Education held its first Teachers Day Programme on September 4, 2013 with the theme “Autumn the years last loveliest smile”. The programme was chaired by Aosungkum, followed with an invocation prayer by Renthunglo. The Teachers were entertained with a melodious song by the B.Ed
Trainess. Tiajungla delivered a speech on behalf of the Teachers trainees, Durga Malakar, HOD extended the vote of thanks. An enlightening speech was given by Paulina, Assistant Professor of UCTE. The programme ended with the participation of teachers and students for some fun filling moments followed by a light refreshment.
Dimapur, September 4 (mexN): The All Nagaland School Teachers' Association Peren District (ANSTA) has greeted the teacher's Head of the department and their families on this special occasion teacher's Day. A press note issued by Kailadinbo Nchang, President ANSTA Peren stated that Teachers Day is celebrated on September 5th all over the country every year to mark the birthday of Dr. S. Radha Krishnan the first vice president of our country. He also stated that today is a special day on which the teacher's should feel proud of being a teacher of this great and glorious Indian teachers'. He said all Teachers have been working together with the local civil Administration and
the people of the land to bring greater growth in the field of education and prosperity in the state. While expressing his deep appreciation to the dedicated effort of each teacher toward this noble cause and the cooperation extended by the parent's body, he also stated that education was the only instrument for transforming society and the teacher has been a source of inspiration and has contributed to the development of the society in a number of ways. Therefore, Teacher's are rightly to be called as 'Nation builder'. The ANSTA Peren wishes and prays almighty God to give good health and long life to all the Teacher's who have made the supreme sacrifice in the performance of their duty.
TRIBUTE TO MY TEACHER I stand today saluting the nobility and greatness of our teacher. "What the teacher is, more important than what he teaches." God bless my teacher. Arvin, Class-8 Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur “We will always be thankful to you For all the hard work and efforts You have put in, for educating us. Happy Teachers Day!
Students of Class-9 Bethesda Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur
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Hukupa Thulu-o: Mister International India 2013 Chizokho Vero
HT: It is due to lake of proper career guidance and inadequate means of proMeet Hukupa Thulu-o, Mister Internationmoting development and potentials of al India 2013. His win has brought fame young people. and pride to the state of Nagaland a well as the north eastern states. He is all set to vie ME: How do you think you can help in prefor the forthcoming grand finale of Mister vention of AIDS and HIV? International to be held at Jakarta, Indone- HT: By creating more awareness about the sia in November 2013. issue and promoting healthy lifestyle. Morung Express (ME): Who or what in- ME: What contribution you want to make spired you the most? for the betterment of the society? Hukupa Thulu-o (HT): My parents. HT: By promoting quality education, creating environmental awareness, Gender ME: What makes you confident? equality. HT: My positive attitude. ME: If you had a magic wand, what is the ME: What or who motivated you to contest for the Mister International India? one thing you would ask for? HT: Apart from the challenges to live a HT: would like to eradicate hunger. healthy and discipline lifestyle, my zeal ME: What do you think money cannot buy? to be the first Mister International InHT: Happiness & Love. dia was a great motivation and a challenging opportunity which I could not ME: Tell something about healthy body effort to miss it. and mind? HT: Good Diet, Exercise regularly, think ME: How do you feel about winning the right and Keep believing. coveted title? ME: Everyone has a mission in life, what do HT: I feel very proud but really humbled by the great responsibilities and challengyou think your mission is? es that came along with it. HT: Upliftment of the underprivileged section of the society ME: Would you accept if any offers from the Bollywood Industry? ME: What is your view on unemployment HT: Yes, since I have been offered to play the problem in the state?
lead role by the Find Studioz Production House, Mumbai to be produced by Rebecca Changkija, but at the moment I want to concentrate more of my time for the forthcoming Grand Finale of Mister International to be held at Jakarta, Indonesia, in the month of November 2013.
ME: What message you want to convey to the youngsters? HT: Nothing is impossible if you Work hard and have faith in God. ME: Please share something about your past achievements? HT: 2009- First Mr. Nagaland. 2010- Top 5 finalist Mr. North East and Mr. Personality held at Guwahati. 2013- First Mister International India and Mister Congeniality.
Happiest Moment: Winning Mister International India Favorite Animal: Dog Favorite Actor: John Abraham Favorite Singer: Enrique Iglesias Favorite Movie: The Lady and Udaan Favorite Song: Hero Favorite Place: Kohima Favorite Magazine: Men’s Health Favorite Dish: Golden prawn and chicken roast Favorite Phrase: Faith is the root of all success A place you want to visit most: Rio de Janeiro and Paris A person you want to meet most: Nelson Mandela Hobbies: Workout in Gym and Travelling Aim in life: To be a renowned model, successful entrepreneur and a successful social reformer
Meanwhile, Hukupa Thulu-o thanked Mister International India organization Name: Hukupa Thulu-o headed by Alempokba Imsong for giving Age: 28 yrs him opportunity to represent the counBirth place: Phüsachodü Village try. He also acknowledged his personal (Phek district) designer Thejasilie Sekhose and personal Height: 5’11.6” photographer Vevozo Vero. Weight: 85kg Further, Thulu-o thanked Nagaland Educational Qualification: Graduate Legislative Assembly (NLA) Speaker ChoStrength: My parents tisuh Sazo and his wife and parliamentary Most unforgettable Moment: Winning secretary for horticulture Neiba Kronu Mr. Nagaland and all the well wishers.
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Hukupa with actress Christie Bourcg during Mister International India contest in Dimapur recently
I felt insecure about singing : Jennifer Lopez
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The Cosmos Entertainment Inc. on September 3 evening went for an exposure trip cum concert for the Rock Reign contestant at Alichen with Vodafone as event partner. The 2nd NAP Commandant Alichen was the chief guest. All the participating bands from Rock Reign participated in the concert singing their originals and covers from Deep Purple to modern alternative Hard Rock bands. Alichen which is 20 kilometre away from Mokokchung a sub-urban town with family majority of the Nagaland police has experience the heart dropping experience of Rock Music.
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because I wanted to tell all young moms about my journey and what I really, truly believe motherhood is," Karisma said. She has an eight-year-old daughter Samaira and three-yearold son Kiaan Kapur, with businessman Sanjay Kapur.
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Azarenka, Na advance at Open NeW YorK, September 4 (ap): Victoria Azarenka refused to complain about playing her fourth-round US Open match a day later than the rest of her half of the draw. She won't wallow in misfortune, and that's why Azarenka is still alive in the quarterfinals after dropping the first set in two straight matches. The second-seeded Belarusian rallied to beat Ana Ivanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday. "I'm a fighter at heart," she said. "I never, never give up. Whatever the score is, I'm going to try to do my best because there is always an opportunity. There is always a way. You just have to make up your mind and try to find that way." Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open champion, was whipping forehand winners in the first set. But then her serve deserted her, as it has before, and the 13th-seeded Serb was broken in nine of her last 11 service games. "This was the big difference because I felt like
I could break her, but it was very frustrating that I was losing my serve constantly," said Ivanovic, who had eight double-faults. Indeed, Azarenka wasn't much better, with nine double-faults of her own. Unable to serve out the match at 5-3 in the third set, Azarenka finally clinched the victory on her fourth match point. On Wednesday, she'll face unseeded Daniela Hantuchova, who played her fourth-round match Monday. The meeting between Azarenka and Ivanovic was the only one of four women's matches that day to be postponed to Tuesday because of rain. Asked if anything could have been done differently to keep everybody on the same schedule, Azarenka wouldn't bite. She just smiled and said, "Mother Nature could have done something." A few hours after Azarenka made the quarterfinals, the first woman reached the semis. Fifth-seeded Li Na beat No. 24-seeded Ekaterina Makarova 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2 in 2 hours, 20 minutes. Li became the
first woman from China to reach the US Open semifinals. Li, the 2011 French Open champ, was up a break three times in the second set, then led 3-0 in the tiebreaker, but couldn't close the victory. From 2-2 in the third, though, she won four straight games to reach her first US Open semifinal. Li joked that she'd lie down with a bag of chips to watch the night match that will determine her next opponent. No. 1 Serena Williams then defeated 18th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-0. Li has only won one of nine career matches against Williams heading into Friday. ''Tough, tough opponent,'' Li said. ''But is (a) good challenge to play against her.'' Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champ, insisted she's not concerned by two straight slow starts. She also lost the first set in the third round to 26th-seeded Alize Cornet before rallying for a 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-2
win. She's gotten into it with the chair umpire in two straight matches, as well. On Tuesday, it was over Ivanovic being awarded a winner, instead of the two replaying the point, after a delayed out call was overturned in the first set. Azarenka looked sluggish after a late-morning start and didn't make her first winner until the sixth game. But Ivanovic has often wilted under pressure since her lone Grand Slam title more than five years ago; she hasn't been back to a major semifinal since. Azarenka started winning points on drops shots — she said she's always had that in her repertoire but just hadn't needed them much before.
Djokovic dominates to reach US Open quarters NeW YorK, September 4 (ap): Showing the sort of beginningto-end focus he'll need to win the U.S. Open, top-seeded Novak Djokovic strung together 13 straight games to close out a 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 thrashing of Marcel Granollers on Tuesday and advance to his 18th straight Grand Slam quarterfinal. With such imperious form, Djokovic could be forgiven for taking for a quarterfinal win — over Mikhail Youzhny — for granted and be looking forward to a semifinal clash with defending champion Andy Murray. Murray was less convincing in his win over Denis Istomin, beating the unseeded Uzbek 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 to set up a last-eight clash with Stanislas Wawrinka. On Tuesdays form, Djokovic will present a formidable hurdle to Murray's hopes of going back-to-back at Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, after defeating Marcel Granollers, of Flushing Meadows. "Today, second Spain, in straight sets during the fourth round of the 2013 U.S. and third set have been some of the best tennis that I've played on ArOpen tennis tournament on Sept. 3 in New York. (AP Photo)
NFA coaching camp on Sept 10
DimapUr, September 4 (mexN): The Nagaland Fencing Association is scheduled to conduct a coaching camp starting from September 10 for the upcoming National Fencing Championship. All fencing players have been requested to attend the camp.
thur Ashe in my career," said Djokovic, who has made the final here the last three years and won it in 2011. "It all comes at a great time for me. It was something I was wishing to be more aggressive as the tournament progresses and to be able to stay committed to play every point, to win every point, regardless of the score." Murray had a poor firstset tiebreak — losing the last four points after having led 5-3 — but reasserted his command over Istomin with a break in the first game of the second and swept to victory. Next up for Djokovic is Youzhny, who was two points from defeat but came back to edge two-time major champion Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5. Hewitt, the former world No.1, looked like booking his first grand slam quarterfinal berth in four years after a wretched run of injuries. The Australian was within two points of winning at 5-2 in the last and served for the match at 5-3.
"It's one of the hardest games to win — the last one," Hewitt said. While Youzhny and Hewitt slugged out a grueling five-setter, Djokovic needed only 79 minutes to beat Granollers, and had embarrassingly large advantages over the last two sets in points won (50-15) and winners (22-3), and he even won on 21 of 22 moves up to net, which isn't his normal style. "It's all coming together for me right now," Djokovic said. "I'm aware of the fact that as the tournament goes on I'm going to have bigger challenges, better quality players, higher ranked players, but I'm ready for that challenge. I look forward to it."
Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, reacts after scoring a point against Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, during the quarterfinals of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Sept. 3 in New York. (AP Photo)
KPC lifts Challenger Cup 2013
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Players of Kohima Press Club and Classic Club Kohima with match officials during Challenger Cup 2013 at the Kohima Local Ground on September 4. (Morung Photo)
Kohima, September 4 (mexN): The Kohima Press Club (KPC) today lifted Challenger Cup 2013 by defeating Classic Club Kohima 2-0. Victor Dzuvichu and Ketu Viluo netted a goal each for KPC. KPC pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 which was handed over by parliamentary secretary for labour & employment, justice & law and land revenue Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire. Minister for roads and bridges Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu also witnessed the match. In order of excellence in individual category included; Best goal keeper – H. Chishi (KPC),
on September 5 at 2:30 PM. Elite FC will clash with Kohima Komets SC in the finals. Minister for youth resources & sports Merentoshi R. Jamir will grace the closing ceremony as the chief guest. Senior journalist Xavier Rutsa will compere the proceeding while vote of thanks will be proposed by Pudil Tsükrü, general secretary ClasClassic Cup grand sic Club, Kohima. The champion will pocket a cash finale today prize of Rs. 1 lakh while the runnersThe grand finale of the prestigious up will fetch Rs. 50,000 along with Classic Cup 2013 under the aegis of running trophies and certificates. Our Correspondent Classic Club Kohima will take place
player of the match –Narain B. Sagar (KPC), best defence – Kapelo (KPC), best midfielder – Keduozenyü Whourie (Classic Club). Highest scorer: Victor Dzuvichu and Ketu Viluo (KPC) Thinomolhou acted as main referee with Kelhouzasie and Thehous as assistant referees.
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