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Nagaland does a turnaround…!
North East India International Model United Nations conference from Dec 15 Morung Express News Kohima | November 5
Dozens of governments, hundreds of people organizations and we, we`ve to solve our own tribal problems? Thank God!
ENSF rejects redeployment TUENSANg, NOVEMBER 5 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students Federation agitation began today in the four eastern districts. ENSF President and General Secretary informed that day one of phase 1 of the agitation saw complete shutdown of all GPS and GMS in all four districts, where students took out a procession to the offices of each respective DC & SDEO. The ENSF further declared “total rejection to the redeployment policies of the government and stated that no new policy/policies of the government should affect the demands of the Federation.” Phase-1; Day2 of the agitation will continue on November 6. Full report on page 5
The migratory Amur Falcons at their roosting sites near the Doyang reservoir. A concerted effort to save the birds has started on an optimistic note, with no reports of birds being hunted in the area. This marks a remarkable turnaround considering that thousands of birds were hunted indiscriminately last year, drawing severe local, regional and international criticism. (Photo by Ishaan Raghunandan/WTI) Story on page 5
Defendant can stand as witness: Sessions court Morung Express News Dimapur | November 5
During the October 28 hearing, Public Prosecutor, Imtiakum had moved for the inclusion of Yapang in the witness list. The defence opposed the appeal on grounds that a person standing trial cannot testify against himself. The court had set October 30 to decide on the matter. “The defence submission under Article 20 of the Indian Constitution is that an accused cannot be allowed to depose as prosecution witness against himself,” stated Sessions
The argument over legality of whether T. Yapang Ao, one of the defendants in the July 4 murder case at Landmark colony, Dimapur, be included in the prosecution’s witness list has been laid to rest. Additional Sessions judge, Dimapur through an order dated November 4 ruled that defendant T Yapang Ao, also the complainant in the case, can stand as a prosecution DIMAPUR, NOVEM- witness in the trial. BER 5 (MExN): The central office bearers of the Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees’ Association called on Nagaland Governor, Dr Ashwani Kumar on November 5 and appealed for him to look into the CANSSEA representation submitted to the Chief Secretary. A press note issued by CANS- DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 5 SEA said that the represen- (MExN): With the theme, ‘Mission tation included reservation Possible,’ the Nagaland Missions of IAS quota for other ser- Movement is initiating an event to vices, release of ADAs by highlight and facilitate mission opstate government effective portunities. A press release from from 1st January and 1st Rev Wati Longkumer, Director of stated that this endeavor will July 2013 @ 8 and 10 % for NMM facilitate the call and challenge of state employees in unifor- sending out ten thousand missionmity with central employ- aries from “Naga soil to the field of ees. It also sought clarifica- the world.” He informed that the tion on deduction of 10 % Mission Fair has been proposed to of salaries NPS in respect address the lack of opportunity and of fresh employees since the lack of awareness about mission 1st January 2010 and their fields in India and abroad. It further matching grants by state aims to introduce to church memgovernment, besides call- bers the current trends in mission, ing for decentralization of mission opportunities and mission executive and financial cog- agencies that “we can partner/minnate powers to HoDs. Allo- ister with.” Rev Wati stated that “This is a cation of adequate fund by mega-event in the calendar of the the 14th Finance Commis- Nagaland Baptist Churches. It’s sion for award of 7th RoP my prayer that through this, many with uniform effective date more from our churches would go of 1/1/2016 to state em- out as missionaries to the world.” ployees and adoption of NMM stated that experts will be Maternity Leave provided available to share the challenges in 6th RoP package for fe- and new frontiers in missions and male employees in Naga- to present the best practices in misland was also put forward. sions. Aspirants can choose the misCANSSEA stated that in sions of their liking based on their spite of representations to aptitude and natural inclination. government, no responses “Various mission agencies that we have been seen till date and have already partnered with or are for which it appealed to the potential partners will share about areas of work and also on how Governor, to impress upon their one could join their agencies,” the the authority to address NMM said. It added that once the the aforementioned issues. choice is made, this endeavor would It further informed that equip individuals with the best the Governor has agreed to available training in their respective grace the CANSSEA’s silver areas of interest. jubilee on November 22 at The NMM affirmed that the ulNBCC Convention Center, timate objective is to “produce highly trained soldiers to achieve Kohima as chief guest.
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judge, Y. Maongkaba Imchen in the ruling quoting the defence’s position. The judge quoting two cases (Natasha Vs CBI, 2013 and Nisar Ali Vs. State of UP AIR, 1957) heard by the Supreme Court stated, “Fair trial is the main object of criminal procedure and it is the duty of the court to insure that such fairness is not hampered or threatened in any manner. Fair trial entails the interests of the accused, the victim and of the society and therefore, fair trial includes the
grant of fair and proper opportunities to the person concerned...” It was stated in the Nisar Ali Vs. State of UP AIR case that an FIR can only be used to corroborate or contradict the statement of the complainant under sections 157 and 145, respectively, of the evidence Act. “It cannot be used as evidence against the maker (complainant) at the trial if he himself becomes an accused nor to corroborate or contradict other witnesses.”
A thought in 2012, a participant in the Model United Nation (MUN) conferences at UK and US and a few Skype calls was what it took to initiate the North East India International Model United Nations (NEIMUN). This venture is now taking concrete form, with the first NEIMUN conference scheduled to be held in Kohima from December16 to 18. With an objective to sensitize future young leaders on global policy making, world economy, social Issues, multilateral diplomacy, peace studies and conflict resolutions; one of the core objective of NEIMUN is to train delegates on effective public speaking, negotiating skills, mediation, lobbying and leadership skills. NEIMUN emphasizes on the ‘Voice of the Youth’ in bringing about change in society. Through the upcoming conference, NEIMUN believes that young leaders will understand things from different perspectives and that their young voices will find ways to produce novel and effective solutions to world problems. “MUN creates a network of next generation leaders equipped with skills at par with the rest of the country and the world. And with MUN’ers from across the globe sharing and exchanging ideas and finding solutions to global problems,”
says Limabenla, SecretaryGeneral NEIMUN, who joined MUN during her undergraduate. She was involved in MUN as part of the Diplomatic Society and United Nations Associations, UK during her Masters at the University of London. “MUN has been an eyeopener because global issues affect our daily life beyond our limited understanding, while we remain unconscious of it. This is the platform for like-minded youth to come share and learn and go back home realizing that there are people out there who want change and are looking for it,” says Keyitiakpeu Ndang. Imkumsungla Longchar, a participant of IIMUN 2013 asserts that MUN helped her learn how to lobby, deliberate and make a stand not only for oneself but for the country one represents. “My MUN experience was fruitful and that is why I am here today with my team to provide the opportunity to the people from the NE to get the same character building benefits as we did.” she adds. Asked why the need to start MUN in the North East, Limabenla says, “The concept of Model UN has been steadily growing in Indian universities for about 7-8 years now but still very new in the North East. Our ultimate goal is to introduce Model UN Associations across universities and states in the North East. We believe the North East is a strategic location
to bring together young leaders from the NE region, mainland India, South Asia and South East Asian countries.” NEIMUN aims to be a part of an ongoing process to reform the educational system across the North east and to produce effective leaders. The upcoming conference in Kohima, with its theme based on the three UN pillars (Peace and Security, Human Rights and Development), will involve young people taking on the role of UN Ambassadors and debate, deliberate and draft resolutions on issues concerning child soldiers in armed conflicts, the post 2015 development goals, right to self determination and nuclear disarmament. Christina Humtsoe, member, NEIMUN organizing committee adds that the vigorous negotiations, debates and expository writing relating to world issues develops a sense of responsibility in young people as global citizens. “The first session of Model UN in Nagaland, will be amongst the first Model UN in the world to follow the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) rules of procedure introduced earlier this year. We hope young people will come out of this conference more aware of issues of global importance, on the history of UN resolutions, understand the complexities of policy making and come out as sensible global citizens,” adds Limabenla.
‘Mission Possible’ Rio shares dream for development “A mega-event in the calendar of the Nagaland Baptist Churches”
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tasks beyond the scope of ordinary expectations; in short, to make the impossible a reality.” It further stated that those with “a heart for Missions will be greatly blessed by attending this Mission Fair,” and added that this Fair will “help one pray more specifically” by knowing more about the mission works around the world. “For those ‘called’ to mission, by interacting with these Mission agencies, you will be able to find your specific niche in mission,” it asserted. The programme will begin at 4:00 pm on November 7 and will end November 10 evening. From November 8 onwards, the programme will begin from 7:00 am for registered participants with breakfast, lunch and dinner served at no additional cost. The Evening service is scheduled from 4:00 – 6:00 pm and is open to all. A world renowned Christian leader will be the evening speaker, informed the NMM release. The programme is scheduled to be held at the Dimapur Rengma Baptist Church and the Neingulie Memorial School. Registration will continue till November 7. Fourteen Mission Agencies have confirmed their participations, which include the Bible League Thailand, Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT), Christ For the City International (CFCI), Friends Missionary Prayer Band (FMPB), Global Connections Associates, India Church Growth Mission (ICGM), Indian Evangelical Mission (IEM), Interserve India, Maharashtra Village Mission (MVM), Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF), Serving In Missions (SIMNEI), Trans World Radio (TWR), Wycliffe, and Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
MOkOkchUNg, NOVEMBER 5 (MExN): Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio on November 4 shared his dream of starting the Nagaland Special Development Zone in the foothill area for economic development of the state. In order to make this dream a reality, he solicited the cooperation of the people. Rio stated this while formally inaugurating the Echahaba Tea Estate at Merangkong (near Tuli town). Rio also stressed on the need to change the land law system and also relax the ILP system so that the non-Nagas can
Assures to make Tuli into a commercial hub
come and make our land investor friendly. Rio termed the inauguration of the tea estate and factory as a part of history in Nagaland. He expressed happiness that the Echahaba Tea Estate will be growing their own tea and that the people will be consuming tea made in Nagaland. Affirming that the state government will give all support to the Echahaba Tea
Estate, Rio promised to donate two tractors for use in the tea estate and added that the government is keen buy the tea produced in the tea estate for consumption during state programmes, so that visitors to the state can enjoy the tea made in Nagaland. Talking about the economic potential of Tuli town area, Rio said that the area can become another commercial hub of Nagaland, especially for the northern and eastern part of Nagaland. He therefore declared that the government will do what is possible to make Tuli into a commercial hub.
Morung Fest ends on high note Morung Express News Dimapur | November 5
It is being touted as a “mini hornbill festival,” and Nagaland Minister for Roads and Bridges, Kuzholuzo Nienu, has termed it a “grand success.” The Morung Festival 2013, however it may be termed, brought good cheer at its grand finale held tonight as five choirs ended the festival on a high note. The Festival is a production of the Ao Students’ Union Diphupar, hosted and co-hosted by Nienu and Jacob Zhimomi, MLA and Chairman of Development Authority of Nagaland, respectively. “Some festivals should definitely be brought to Nagaland’s commercial capital, Dimapur, and we will speak to the cabinet to help make this an annual event,” said Nienu, speaking at a press conference at the Agri Expo here today, highlighting the event’s objective to achieve “unity, peace and reconciliation.” The ‘Morung Fest’ saw participation from various Naga tribes, and had judges going
Tangkhul Student Union performs during the Choral competition at the Morung fest at Agri Expo site in Dimapur Nagaland on Tuesday, November 5. Photo by Caisii Mao
through 112 dishes on November 4-5 for the indigenous food contest hosted by it. Today’s closing ceremony saw prizes given away to winners of the various contests—literary, volleyball, art, choral— that defined the two day indigenous celebration held for the first time here. “It is imperative for us to know our roots; we have to be dynamic, but at the same time remember and respect our culture so others will respect us too,” said Jacob Zhimomi, speaking at the closing pro-
gram. Naga Students’ Federation President, Tongpang Ozukum, in his solidarity message at the program, highlighted the need for such a “mega fest” to help Naga youth transform the “disorder” in Naga society and uplift it through unity and “dignity of labor” so that Naga people become hardworking citizens of the world. The morning session had witnessed the literary contest, which was inaugurated by former Congress Legislature Party leader, I Imkong. Twenty three students
from 12 colleges took part in the extempore competition on the theme ‘Ground Zero’, the recently concluded multimedia campaign on HIV/AIDS awareness conducted by Nagaland AIDS Control Society (NSACS). In the collage completion, 20 students from 10 schools participated. Earlier, declaring the literary contest open, Imkong in his address said participation in co-curricular activities would go a long way in enhancing the future career of students as well as boost their confidence.
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: TNCC poise to make a bigger impact
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The Nagaland Chamber Choir (TNCC) in conversation with The Morung Express contemplates on their decade long musical journey. Members Aroko Nagi, Dr. Lima Pongen, Jethro Merry, and Akie Merry talked about the 10 years Anniversary concert, their commitment to Sacred music and on leaving a memorable mark in the hearts of people everywhere. Akangchila Longchar Morung Express Feature
The Nagaland Chamber Choir (TNCC), a choral group that emerged from Nagaland in August 2003 is best remembered for their highly polished musical performances. The choir, then, under the influence of Conductor Kughaho Chishi, captivated audiences with a unique blend of sacred songs that were tinted with hints of indigenous Naga harmony. In the span of a decade, the journey for TNCC has been momentous and a bit sketchy at times. The departure of TNCC Director and composer Kughato Chishi left a resounding impact and the question if the choir should continue was raised. Dr.Lima Pongen explained that it was easy when the choir had a leader and with his departure (Chishi), we certainly had the doubt if we should continue. But as we began to meet more frequently, with each
Bringing sacred Music to Life: The Nagaland Chamber Choir (TNCC), formed in 2003 will celebrate its 10th Anniversary with two concerts scheduled on November 10 at IMC Hall Dimapur and the other at State Academy Hall Kohima on November 16. (Photo Courtesy: Mireuyi Herie)
time, deep down our heart our love of music made us to realize that we had to continue. And so the journey began. The Choir shot to fame from 2003- 2007 for their spectacular musical performances, and performed in the UK, US, South Korea and India. The Choir consisting mostly of dedicated Naga
music professionals, boasting of composers, conductors, singers, musicians, and teachers. It aimed to promote and bring a high level of professionalism to church music in Nagaland. During such a short stint, and holding so much promise, it was a bigger jolt when the members decided to put the Choir
on hold for a while. As the TNCC family grew in numbers, their personal commitments also started to expand. However with renewed commitment and new found vigor, the group in 2012, staged a comeback. With much more success than ever. TNCC genre is primarily western classical, spiritual,
folks, contemporary music, and its members profess to be influenced by artistes like Mark Hayes, Moses Hogan, John Rutter, Ronald Staheli, Cindy Berry and Eric Whitacre. Even after ten years, for Dr. Lima, the magic of being a part of TNCC hasn’t rubbed off. “I love Choral music, but never expected
to be in a choir. I consider myself an ambassador, representing Nagas through music”, he said. Meanwhile, Aroko feels grateful that with immense support and encouragement of churches and family members, the group has been successful. Many families have also helped us over the years, and for
that we are very grateful, for their continuous support. And after a decade, the group is still steadfast in their belief that Music is from God to inspire and touch the hearts of people. Jethro also asserts the fact that TNCC was essentially formed to promote church music. “We just love music. We have always
wanted to enforce music in youth ministry and encourage the churches to do so. Music is more meaningful when we give it back to God. Because God is the giver of all music and all that we do is glorify God”. Coming full circle to the man who originally formed TNCC, The Choir expresses hope that Kughaho Chishi will return to Nagaland and to the Choir soon. “We learned so much from our Director. It was him who always talked to us about committing to music. And that is what keeps us going”, they chimed. TNCC is organizing concerts, at IMC Hall Dimapur on November 10, 2013 and the other at State Academy Hall Kohima on November 16, 2013. Most of the proceeds will go towards sponsoring the school fees of selected orphans and underprivileged children. TNCC requests everyone to come and witness the concert and celebrate the 10 years Anniversary concert.
R&B ups road improvement work Hearing Aids and Spectacles for World War-II Veterans
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State Minister for Roads & Bridges (R&B), Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, inspecting the road improvement work at Khermahal junction, Dimapur, today. (Morung Photo)
Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): The State minister for Roads & Bridges (R&B), Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, inspecting the road improvement work in Dimapur in the presence of Executive Engineer, Vizotuo on Tuesday informed that work will be put in full swing starting next week.
A press note issued to the Media, stated that the R&B minister inspected the drainage construction from Hotel Tragopan point till Khermahal junction. He urged all department officials to be mentally prepared and be at the work sites when work is put in full swing. The note also said that
construction of drainage, a pre-requisite for quality road will go side by side with pre-mixed carpeting starting next week, he said and appealed the department officials to be all geared up to inspect the work so that quality is not compromised. Nienu also announced that for the first time, the department will be engaging state of the art technology to insure that the face of roads improve in Dimapur. ‘We are using road paver and hot mix plant for the first time,’ he informed. Meanwhile, the minister inspecting the drainage repair and up-gradation work has appreciated the quality work put in by the department officials led by the EE R&B. He has also appreciated the cooperation extended by the land owners, shop keepers and general public for extending fullest cooperation to the department. Special mention may be made here that public in general have been pointing fingers at poor drainage system as a result of poor roads. The note further added, taking a serious note of the concern expressed by the public, the department has taken up improvement of drainage as a priority.
Kohima, November 5 (mexN): In a simple ceremony, Lt Gen SL Narasimhan, GOC 3 Corps gave away “Hearing Aids and Spectacles” to World WarII Veterans at Kohima on November 5, 2013. A press note issued by E Musavi, Lt Col, PRO (Defence) Kohima, informed that the event was organized by IGAR (N) during which informal interaction of GOC 3 Corps with World War-II Veterans facilitated in obtain-
ing first hand information regarding the welfare of old aged veterans. The note also mentioned that Hearing Aids and Spectacles presented, boosted the morale of the World War-II Veterans. Those present during the event were Maj Gen MM Naravane, IGAR (N), Brig KK Roy Choudhury, Director Sainik Welfare & Resettlement and other senior Army officials.
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Lt Gen SL Narasimhan, GOC 3 Corps greets a World War-II Veteran at Kohima on November 5.
1st North East conference on “AntiCorruption Difficulties & Challenges”
Kohima, November 5 (Dipr): The first North East Conference of Heads of Vigilance & Anti-Corruption Bureau on “AntiCorruption-Difficulties & Challenges” will be held at Capital Convention Centre, Kohima on November 7 and 8, 2013. Governor of Nagaland & Manipur Dr. Ashwani Kumar will grace the inaugural function as chief guest who will also release the ‘Nagaland Vigilance & Anti Corruption Police Hand Book’. Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland Alemtemshi Jamir IAS will chair the inaugural function. The Plenary Session - I will be addressed by Pradeep Kumar IAS (Rtd),
Central Vigilance Commissioner and Punitive Vigilance’ and R. Sri Kumar IPS (Rtd), Vigilance Commissioner, Central Vigilance Commission Delhi . There will also be a State Presentation from Nagaland and Assam. The Plenary Session - II will be addressed by Rajiv Singh IPS, Joint Director CBI, Head of Zone NE on the theme ‘InteractionACBx&CBI’ and State Presentation from Sikkim, Arunachal, Manipur and Meghalaya followed by general discussion & adoption of Resolution. Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio will grace the valedictory function as the chief guest on November 8 at 2:00 p.m.
State Level Youth Festival 2013 concludes
Results of Morung Fest
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Winner of Collage Competition, Michael. (Right) The winning entry. (Vithono Neikha Photo) Collage Competition Winner- Michael from Livingstone Higher Secondary School. First runners up- Nungshimeren from Vision Home Higher Secondary School. second runners up- Shanipong from Eklavya Model Residential School.
Winner of Extempore Speech, Sangleyenla. (Roseline Phom Photo) Extempore Speech Winner - Sangleyenla from C-Edge College First runners up- Stella Sherpa from Servanthood Bible College second runners up- Imliakum from C-Edge College
(Left) Winner of the folk song competition- Longleng district. (Right) Sara S. Jamir, Deputy Secretary Youth Resources & Sports gives away the prizes during the closing function. (Morung Photos) Our Correspondent the same time challenged the youth to preserve Kohima | November 5
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A two day 14th State Level Youth Festival 2013 held under the aegis of the state’s department of youth resources & sports concluded here this evening at Indira Gandhi Stadium with Sara S. Jamir, deputy secretary Youth Resources & Sports as the guest of honour. Speaking on the occasion, she was appreciative that the youth festival provides an opportunity to the youth to know each other and celebrate together the vibrant culture and traditions of the Nagas. She also stressed on the need to know the identity and roots through such event and at
and uphold the rich culture and traditions of the Nagas. Chairing the function, K. Libemo Jami, PIO DYRS said the winners in each category of folk dance, folk song, elocution and guitar recital will represent the state at the national level, to be held sometime in January 2014. He stated that the office of the Directorate of Youth Resources & Sports will intimate the date for the same. Winners FOLK DANCE Ist: Zunheboto District 2nd: Tuensang District 3rd: Kiphire District
FOLK SONG Ist: Longleng District 2nd: Dimapur District 3rd: 1. Kohima District. 2. Zunheboto District
ELOCUTION Ist : Likokoba Sangtam – Dimapur District 2nd: (i). Monthung J. Ngullie- Wokha District. (ii). Wekhrope Akami- Phek District (iii): Wonchibemo Ovung- Mon District GUITAR RECITAL Ist: Vilhouvotuo Kezo- Kohima District 2nd: Kihoto Mure- Tuensang district 3rd: Zito Nyekha- Phek District
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Winners of Morung Volleyball Tournament "S P Dimapur". (Aosenla Photo) Morung Volleyball Tournament Winner- S P Dimapur second runners up -Tangkhul Students Union, Diphupar
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Five cops shot dead in M'laya ShIllONG, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): Security forces Tuesday launched a major search operation in Meghalaya after tribal militants gunned down five policemen in the troubled Garo Hills region. A group of 15-20 Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) guerrillas led by "area commander" Rakkam ambushed a police team in Banjakona area in South Garo Hills district bordering Bangladesh. Banjakona is located about 400 Km from Shillong, the Meghalaya capital. The attackers snatched away three AK-47 rifles and a carbine from the dead men. The rebels hurled two grenades, one which didn't explode, before firing indiscriminately at the policemen who were proceeding to Tura in West Garo Hills district to bring a prisoner from Tura jail to South Garo Hills. Though the GNLA has not claimed responsibility for the incident, Meghalaya's police chief Peter James Pyngrope Hanaman said: "The GNLA is behind this cowardly attack." "We had intelligence inputs that they (GNLA) were A young tourist touches a baby elephant inside the Kaziranga National Park, about 250 kilo- planning to carry out retaliatory attacks following the meters (156 miles) east of Guwahati, Assam. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Simmering tension in Goalpara district GuwAhATI, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): Simmering tension prevailed Tuesday in areas along Assam's border with Meghalaya where tribal militants killed seven people two days ago, officials said. The Assam government has deployed 28 companies of additional security forces in Goalpara district and sent soldiers to help police to maintain law and order. The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) attacked civilians Sunday night killing seven people and injuring nine others. Four Assam ministers - Nilamoni Sen Deka, Rockybul Hussain, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Rajib Lochan Pegu - visited Gendabari area and met the victims' families. They distributed interim ex-gratia payment to the distraught families. "We also met police and district officials and reviewed the situation," Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said. "The Assam government had told police and the district administration to deal with the militants firmly. Steps will be taken to provide security to the innocent civilians," he added. The families of the deceased will get Rs.6 lakh each and those seriously injured will receive Rs.50,000 each. Those who got minor injuries will receive Rs. 25,000 each. The Assam government decided Sunday to launch a relentless counterinsurgency operations against the militants in the area and have imposed night curfew along the Assam-Meghalaya border. "The situation has been improving in Goalpara," Assam Home Secretary G.D. Tripathy said.
raid on the residence of the outfit's military wing chief Sohan D. Shira," Hanaman said. "Today may be their day but they (GNLA) should remember that we are not far from them," Hanaman told IANS before rushing to the South Garo Hills. Sohan. D. Shira, the military wing of the outlawed GNLA, had threatened to carry out retaliatory attacks against security forces after a combined team of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and Combat
Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) commandoes raided his residence in East Garo Hills district Oct 27. The commandoes had seized Indian and Bangladeshi currency, satellite telephones, a pistol, ammunition, 50 metres of safety fuse wire, 39 detonators and 23 mobile phones from Shira's residence. They also arrested Shira's 15-year-old brother-in-law for his "active involvement" as an overground worker for the out-
South Korea imports 1,500 tonne of Darjeeling tea
KOlKATA, NOVEMBER 5 (ET): The Korean chaebols like LG, Samsung and Hyundai have already won over the hearts of millions of Indians. It's now the turn of Darjeeling tea to make inroads into the Korean market, which is largely dominated by green tea. South Korea, for the first time, has imported 1,500 tonne Darjeeling tea with a promise to buy more in the coming days. Talking to ET, SS Bagaria, chairman of Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA), said:
"Korea is a new market for us and they have evinced interest to taste Darjeeling tea. We have sent first flush and autumnal teas to the Korean market." According to international media reports, tea had a -2% decline in offtrade value sales, reaching Won220 billion in 2012. Though the market declined, the negative growth rate became slower. Black tea remained stagnant whereas green tea shrunk at a moderate pace. Fruit/ herbal tea and instant tea
Northeast Briefs
NWU opposes bail appeal SENAPATI, NOVEMBER 5 (MExN): The Naga Women’s Union has strongly objected to the second bail appeal of one Sanayai (25), accused in the rape of a sixty year old woman on July 7 at around 2:00 pm. A press note from the NWU informed that a charge sheet from the concerned Police Officer has been submitted to the Sessions Court of Thoubal, Manipur at Thoubal. It asserted that the accused should not be given bail and added that “instead he should be awarded a befitting punishment as per the Law of the Country.” The NWU called for the court to take stringent action against the culprit.
BJP flays Arunachal government for non-commissioning power project
ITANAGAR, NOVEMBER 5 (PTI): BJP today alleged that the Arunachal Pradesh government was not commissioning a hydro project in remote Anjaw district even after its completion. "The Maipani Micro Hydel project, started in 2007-08 and completed in 2009-10, is yet to be commissioned," the party said in a statement. If the project had been commissioned timely there would have been no scarcity of electricity for domestic consumption in that area, it said. "The state hydro power department is supposedly executing 11 hydro power projects in the district since 2004 and it is ridiculous that even after huge funds have been pumped into the projects, most of them are yet to be commissioned and are rusting," it said.
45 fall ill in Tripura after eating 'prasad' AGARTAlA, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): Forty-five people were taken ill and admitted to hospitals after eating 'prasad' (sacrament) in Tripura Monday night. The condition of 15 people is critical, an official said here Tuesday. "A total of 45 people, including children and women, were taken ill after eating 'prasad' at a religious function in Kanchanpur in northern Tripura. Out of them, the condition of 15 people is serious. The sick people were admitted to hospitals," a health department spokesperson told reporters here. Two medical teams were also rushed to the Kanchanpur village, 185 km north of here, for providing medical support. According to doctors, the illness was caused by food poisoning. A sample of the 'prasad' has been collected for testing.
contributed to the segment with a value growth of 3% and 5%, respectively. "We are aware that Korea is predominantly a green tea market. But the teas that we are sending to South Korea have almost equal taste of green tea. We are hopeful that the Koreans will definitely develop a palate for Darjeeling tea just like the way we have developed a preference for Korean electronic goods and cars," said Bagaria. The Korean interest has come at a time when
6,86,305. The ruling Congress, which promised to nominate more woman this time around, fielded only one candidate, president of the Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee TBC Tlangthanmawii. Tlangthanmawii would take on the Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) chief Lalduhawma and former Transport Minister K Sangthuama of the Mizo National Front (MNF), the senior partner of the
'Darjeeling tea' mark as a 'protected geographical indication' (PGI). "There may be some old Darjeeling tea stocks with the packeteers or blenders, which they may be clearing off. That may be one of the reasons why offtake is less this year. However, we have got 10 Euros for a kg from the European buyers this year. The Koreans are offering lesser price than the Europeans," the DTA chairman said. The rising demand of Darjeeling tea in non-tra-
ditional markets like Korea and China reflects a new global trend among the younger consumers to experiment with different varieties of the beverage just as black tea gains ground in China and green tea becomes popular among Indians. Globally, the market share of green tea has risen to 31% from 17% over the past decade. This year, 87 tea estates in Darjeeling have produced 9 million kg tea. But rains during August-September had affected the quality of tea.
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Two border markets coming up in Tripura
AGARTAlA, NOVEMBER 5 (PTI): Two border markets will be opened at the zero point along the Indo-Bangla border in Tripura by next year, official sources said today. The border markets would be opened at Kasba in Sipahijala and Srinagar in South Tripura districts for trading by local producers living within five km of the border of the two countries. Construction work for the Srinagar border market began on Sunday last in the presence of officials of South Tripura district and Feni district of Bangladesh. The market is likely to be completed within the
next three months. The border markets will be allowed to sell among others local agricultural and horticultural products, spices, minor forest products (excluding timber), fresh and dry fish, dairy and poultry products, cottage industry items, wooden furniture and handloom and handicraft items, a government official of the state Industries and Commerce department said. Trading in these markets will take place once a week and one person will be allowed to spend an equivalent of 50 US dollars, he said. Temporary identity cards will be
issued by border security personnel of both sides to enter the market. No tax would be imposed on traders and both Indian and Bangladeshi currencies will be accepted. In future, two more markets will be set up at Dharmanagar in North Tripura district and Kamalpur in Dhalai district as agreed by the two countries, Tripura's Commerce Minister Jitendra Chaudhury said. If infrastructure is upgraded, the volume of trade between Bangladesh and north eastern states of India will increase five to six times of the current level, President of Tripura Chamber of Commerce M L Debnath said.
'Bru community voters should be allowed to vote in Mizoram'
AIzAwl, NOVEMBER 5 (PTI): Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or the Mizo students' association today submitted a letter to Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath during his visit to Aizawl and demanded that the Bru community voters residing in Tripura should be allowed to exercise franchise in Mizoram during the state Assembly polls scheduled for November 25. The MZP, in a letter expressed anguish over the recent conduct of special registration drive for the Brus lodged in the six relief camps in North Tripura district, while the
Mizoram polls: Very few women candidates in fray AIzAwl, NOVEMBER 5 (PTI): Women voters outnumber male voters in Mizoram but not a single woman has been elected to the Mizoram Assembly in the last 25 years. The situation does not appear different for the November 25 state polls as the two main parties - Congress and MNF - have named only one woman candidate each. Women voters outnumber male voters by 12,707 in the electorate of
Darjeeling tea is facing a drop in exports. Producers feel that a number of reasons has impacted exports this year. While the agitation launched by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha demanding a Gorkhaland has impacted exports to some extent, the adherence to geographical indication for Darjeeling tea in European markets might have some influence on exports. In 2012, the EU recognised the authenticity and uniqueness of Darjeeling tea and had registered
lawed outfit. On Sunday, the SWAT commandos foiled a major plot to carry out explosions and attacks on police personnel in Tura, the headquarters of West Garo Hills district by nabbing four GNLA rebels and seizing three powerful improvised explosive devices. Condemning the killings, Home Minister Roshan Warjri said: "This heinous attack by the rebels on an unsuspecting police team reflects their cowardly act.
"I deeply mourn the loss of life of our men in uniform." Warjri said police personnel in Garo Hills had been asked to remain extra vigilant. "We (Meghalaya government) had requested the union home ministry to provide an additional 10 companies of paramilitary forces to the state to counter the insurgency in Garo Hills," she said The GNLA, fighting for a separate Garoland, is headed by Champion R. Sangma, a former deputy superintendent who deserted Meghalaya Police owing to alleged harassment by his superiors. He floated GNLA in 2009. Sangma was arrested July 30, 2012 near the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya. The government terminated his services in July 2010. The outfit, outlawed by the central government, forged an operational alliance with the United Liberation Front of Asom and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, gaining access to arms and ammunition. GNLA rebels, who number around 100, unleashed terror in three impoverished districts of Garo Hills in the last one year and killed over 40 people, including security personnel.
Mizoram Democratic Alliance (MDA) in the Aizawl West - I seat. The main opposition Mizo National Front (MNF), which inducted the first and only woman minister in 1987, also managed to nominate only one woman, Lalmalsawmi, a well-known local TV personality, who would take on the state Home minister R Lalzirliana in the Tawi constituency in Aizawl district.
same drive was not undertaken for many Mizo youths who had attained 18 years of age and whose names were not enlisted in the voters lists. MZP president Lalhmachhuana said 326 new voters enrolled during the special drive were not properly verified to determine whether they were bona-fide residents of Mizoram. The MZP also protested against the EC's proposal to make arrangements so that the Bru voters could exercise their franchise from their respective camps in Tripura through postal ballots and demanded they
should come to Mizoram and cast their votes in their respective polling stations. The MZP leaders also expressed apprehension that there would not be free and fair polling in the Bru relief camps. Lalhmachhuana said they appealed to Sampath to enable students from the villages lodged in hostels to exercise their franchise in the Mizoram University Campus as it would be impossible to go home to cast their votes as they were having their examinations in early-December. "The CEC agreed to look into our pleas and said he would pursue the matters
in consultation with the state Chief Electoral Officer," the MZP leaders said. Earlier, the MZP members greeted the CEC donning traditional 'puandum' a dark and red coloured shawl which traditionally signified mourning or unhappiness and carried placards condemning special registration drive for the Bru refugees. Sampath, two Election Commissioners - H S Brahma and Dr Nasim Zaidi and top officials of the EC arrived here for a two-day visit today and discussed the poll preparedness with officials engaged in the electoral process.
GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND
DIRECTORATE OF NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY NAGALAND KOHIMA
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ADVERTISEMENT This is to inform the general public that the Department of New & Renewable Energy will be providing Solar Power Pack/ Plant of 1 KW capacity with 50 % subsidy ( Rs. 1.15 lacs as beneficiary share ), 30 % subsidy from MNRE & 20 % State subsidy as renewable energy promotional incentives. Apart from normal home lighting, the Solar Power Pack have the capacity to power up Tv, Fan, Computers & Printers etc. Interested person/party can apply for the same to this office, thereafter allocation will be made as per number of balance from the previous applications on first come first basis. The offer expires on 30th Nov 2013. (Er. T.S Angami) Director New & Renewable Energy Nagaland, Kohima.
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NO.TOUR (REGD)-2/2013-14/254 Dated Kohima the 5th Nov, 2013
CALLING THE ATTENTION OF THOSE APPLICANTS WHO HAVE APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION OF GOVERNMENT RECOGNISED PRIVATE TOURIST GUIDE This is to notify that those candidates who have already submitted their applications for registration of Government Recognised Private Tourist Guides that, screening test/interview will be conducted from 14th-16th Nov. 2013 at the conference hall of the Directorate of Tourism from 10: 30 a.m. onwards. Details like Name, Serial No and their interview date are notified in the Notice Board of the under mentioned Office. (Purakhu Angami) Addl. Director (HOD)
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No justification can save the NSCN-IM: NNC
he Naga nation had never fallen into foreign domination in human history and neither did surrender to the enemy in the running history of fighting against the aggressor India. Thus, the Nagas have nothing wrong to say the truth that the Naga nation does not surrender by signing any accord with the enemy. The Nagas are therefore proudly and joyfully observing their Independence Day every year. Even the NSCNIM joyfully celebrated Nagaland Independence Day on 14th August 2013 in this year itself. They also joyously celebrated the Golden Jubilee of the NNC (Independence Day) in 1997. Because they know the fact that the NNC did not surrender the sovereignty of Nagaland by signing an accord with the enemy in the past more than fifty years. They however wanted to justify the formation of NSCN and killing innocent Nagas which they have been committing till date for their own interest since 1979, they always telling lie that the NNC has surrendered. When they said the NNC surrendered, they are saying the Naga nation has surrendered. May be, in their own wrong conception of this, they have been demanding a political solution within the Indian Union,
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an you imagine a correlation between consultation and confusion, especially when more consultation creates more confusion, not vice versa? There is. Former Assembly Speaker Z. Lohe rightly remarked that only (and sadly) in the 50th year of statehood Nagas of Nagaland gave birth to (belated) NTC. In reverse order around this time of years DAN Govt and allied non-governmental bodies are hectically consulting time and again on something which otherwise has always been there undisputed/unconfused for the past 50 years or so of statehood. I said allied because the (say) non-allied but actual stakeholder- the (state-centred or intra state) NTC is not even invited to the state level consultative meeting on Art. 371(A) on 6th Nov. Is it necessary to remind the State Home Ministry that Art 371(A) is basically, a subject matter of competent authority and concerned community but certainly not a thing to be bartered in a common place nor is it everyone’s cup of tea? It may sound comical but it will be a futile exercise to keep the involved (NTC) out and involved unrelated group to talk on unrelated issue or involved some related group to discuss a related issue with unrelated group. But by doing so more confusion is being
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and called the NSCN as a revolutionary group. In fact the Nagas are not revolutionary or freedom fighters but sovereign and independent people. The fact everyone knows that when the Accord was signed Th. Muivah was General Secretary of the NNC, and yet he alone, former NNC General Secretary, has been telling that the NNC has surrendered. Late A.Z. Phizo, late Imkongmeren, former NNC President and Vice President, and also other NNC/FGN leaders did not say such disgraceful word against the Naga nation. I therefore have been asking Th. Muivah to give explanation to the nation, how the NNC faced its misfortune to surrender the sovereignty of Nagaland under his leadership, if he truly says the NNC has surrendered. However, he doesn’t give any explanation to the nation, instead he and NSCN leaders have been continued to justify the formation of NSCN or killings by telling lie. But no justification can save the NSCN. Because wrong is wrong, and wrong cannot become right by justification. The Naga people have the right to speak the truth and stand for the truth. No one can deter them from their stand. Thomas, NNC Member
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aga Nationalism was borne out of our wise Naga elders’ hearts. Their vision to let the Nagas stay a free people should remain as what our elders intended it to be. But what has become of our movement for freedom today? We have so many groups claiming to represent the Nagas’ aspiration. There is no denying the fact that multiple - taxations needs to stop sooner than later. We have divided ourselves into different groups, fighting each other to the advantage of our adversary. All the groups need to get back on same track as one single entity to deliver the so called final lethal upper cut to the opponent’s jaw. When can all the groups get back on track to do that? The sooner the better no question about that. Who will do the necessary ground works for such a venture? Will it finally be FNR which has tirelessly been pursuing for reconciliation of the different factions and the possibility for the formation of a Naga National Government? Or will the recently formed ACAUT’s initiatives in some ways force the different groups to come to some kind of understanding amongst them? Can one Naga National Government be formed and one Naga Nation and the One -Tax slogan become a reality? The recently held rally by ACAUT in Dimapur was attended by thousands of people which included a large number
of youths. The youths are the pillars of tomorrow, so the saying goes and the youths today are rightly worried about their economic survival tomorrow. So, when multiple -taxation was imposed, they rose up as one protesting against the perceived wrong. However, except for this show of emotional outpouring at the rally, our youths today seem to lack the knowledge of how the Nagas’ struggle for political sovereignty was necessitated and the reason why the Nagas had to take up arms to defend themselves from the aggressor India and this lack of historical perspective among the young participants may well become a contributing factor for many a participant who might opt out of ACAUt’s movement in the future as the phrase “little knowledge is dangerous” dawns upon them. When one is familiar with the historical background of an issue, it becomes easier to surmise the cause of a problem and the remedial measures thereof needed to solve it. However, the -inter- factional Naga -family issue is complicated because blood has been spilled and many lives have been lost. Today, I think parents have a duty to educate their children on the issue of Indo-Naga conflict. Parents would be failing in their duty as a Naga if our Naga history which is a story of suffering and sorrow is not made known
and told to our children so that they can know the cause of the problem and be in a better position to solve the problem. The past has led to the present and the present will lead to the future. Therefore, for the future to be good the present will have to be corrected by looking at the past mistakes. Without historical knowledge of the Naga movement our children would be ill-equipped to fight the good fight and mere knee-jerk reactions would just be short term remedies at best. As narrated to me by some elders, during the 1940s to the 1960s Naga nationalism was at its peak and the majority of Nagas supported the Naga National movement in one capacity or the other. A good number of the educated Nagas in the 1940s and 50s had joined NNC then, as it was the political body of the Nagas at that point in time. However, from the 60s onwards, the educated class became more inclined towards joining the new government of the newly created state for jobs, as avenues for jobs became available after Nagaland attained statehood. Today, we often tend to shrug off and ignore our brothers – in - arms as a bunch of illiterates who are good at nothing except at extorting and sometimes brand them as misfits of society. But, are we justified in branding them so, although we sometimes do so un-
Article 371(A) too has ownership
generated from more consultation and around the 50th year of the State’s existence we seem to be pondering whether we are rightly or wrongly asserting Article 371(A) as a matter of guaranteed right. Assertion of Art 371(A), whether in part or in entirety, whether by individual or by organized group as a matter of guaranteed right is a simultaneous affirmation of the legality of the statehood of Nagaland as a constituent unit of the Indian Union. Notwithstanding the peculiarity of past politics or uncertainty of present politics, statehood possibly could not have been created outside a constitutional provision nor could the special provision in the constitution be granted for a stateless people or a state rejected. By saying this I mean to pin point the fact that the one who challenge the legality of a long existed statehood do not have the legitimacy to claim the given constitutional provision as a matter of inviolable right, so is vice versa. For those (now much fewer) who still treat statehood as a sell-out or imposed arrangement, Art 371(A) whichever way it is interpreted might not be a thing of botheration because
their politics go beyond statehood and constitutional provision of the present type. But for the much larger number of people, especially the social and political activists in the State, the Article appears to have become contentious not necessarily because the GOI has disputed the pre-eminence of Art 371(A), for that matter ownership of land and resources but apparently because DAN Govt has misconstrued that the Article gives an unrestrained right (on P&NG) to act unilaterally in total disregard of the very existence of a central government in the country. For the sake of clarity let me put it this way. If I strike gold in my private land and on the basis of Art 371(A) on land and ownership I floated tender and allotted the work to reputed firm/agency on my own, will the State Govt allow it? Will the State Govt likewise allow the actual landowners to drill oil by inviting firm/agency of their choice? No one will dispute my ownership yet there is an established system of working where I need prior permission/licence and fulfilment of terms and conditions with the State Govt. The Govt cannot extract any gold from my private land without
my approval and yet I cannot use it in my own way in disregard of a government above me. What makes Art. 371(A) more attention-grabbing lately is that the erstwhile regionalists, rather the sceptics of 16 Point Agreement and statehood have surprisingly emerged as the arbiter and guru of the Article. That certain vital but excluded points of the 16 Point Agreement be embodied in the Article and guaranteed as well could have been well appreciated, in fact more realistic from day one had DAN government instead not wasted ten past precious years farcically facilitating an unknown demand and an uncertain future. Like a habitual apologist DAN has been repeatedly saying that it is only a facilitator, not a party to the negotiation thereby expressing its helplessness in many warranted situations; otherwise also it is well known even to the commoners that without such self-acclaimed facilitation the negotiation as it is, will continue until some logical conclusion is arrived at. This reminds us of the cheer girls who are not players, whose role do not determine the game, only keep the spectators in high spirit and the game lively.
The big difference in the present political game is that neither the cheer team nor the spectators know what exact game is being played in the field. The point of contention here is that towards the setting of the sun DAN government has pitifully realised the real beauty and value of the constitutional status which it had mercilessly trampled upon all day long. Art. 371(A) is not only exceptional but it is also exclusive for specific reason that the provision is both legally and technically restricted to a defined group of tribes (aborigines as T. Solo aptly used) in the State; therefore, the assertion of the special provision inevitably become the prerogative of the actually benefited or affected. Art 371(A) is unquestionably not meant for all the Nagas to claim or dispute or politicize. Indeed 16 Point Agreement requires political interpretation because it is an agreement between two entities but Art 371(A) is a constitutional provision to be interpreted, if needed only in the context of Nagaland. At most it may require legal interpretation, which several legal luminaries have done so in our favour, else we can approach a competent court in case
derstandably at the spur -of -the -moment emotion or in a fit of anger? As is the case in every organization there are bound to be rotten apples in the basket, no doubt about that. However, to all those National Workers who are and have been tirelessly sacrificing everything for the just cause of the Nagas, they will be rewarded one day for their sacrificial service. We the Naga public would be failing in our duties if we also only look and point at their mistakes (no doubt mistakes should be pointed out and ultimately rectified) but we also do need to acknowledge the sacrifices of the National Workers. The hardships faced by them in the line of duty will never be able to be comprehended by us the public. Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches and therefore both the Public as well as the National Workers only knows where their shoe pinches them! In the end, let both the Public and the National Workers learn to understand and appreciate each other’s difficulties and begin to respect one another’s point of views in the days to come: On the other hand, let bygones be bygones and may all the different Naga factions forge into a single Naga National Government for a brighter future of all Nagas as per the wishes of the Naga people. D. Neli Koso, Kohima
of dispute but it does not merit a non-legal or political interpretation in the manner the State Govt is repeatedly stirring the allied non-governmental bodies to build up sort of pressure. It appears DAN Govt has lost confidence on the ability of its own and supporting MLAs who actually represent 52 of the 60 assembly constituencies in the State. If this is not so why the vital issue is not thoroughly deliberated in the Assembly which is actually the highest decision making body in our democratic set up? And now consultation with the NGOs on Rule of Executive Business? What can be sillier than this? Are we questioning or lamenting the integrity and capability of the Assembly, elected members, bureaucrats- generalists & specialists, intelligentsia etc in the art of governance? Where is the government taking the government to? Viewed from the other angle, if and actually every apex and other non-governmental groups have been asserting Art 371(A) as a matter of guaranteed/inviolable right of the State in every consultative meeting; therefore, their assertion simultaneously give legitimacy to the status quostatehood of Nagaland. Indeed
without the State of Nagaland and without a defined group of tribes there cannot be the special provision of Art 371(A). If and actually Art 371(A) is taken as a right, statehood cannot be questioned or challenged. Nagaland is a reality. In which case where is the legal basis or political justification for the asserting groups to demand, as a matter of their right, certain status above statehood or alternative arrangement outside the state or even separate statehood apart from the existing state of Nagaland? The other way round, the moment those groups demand or insist for something beyond or outside the existing statehood they automatically disown (and should) every bit of right on Art 371(A). The logic is simple, gracefully accept the reality of status quo or silently give liberty to the actual stakeholders to assert their exclusive and guaranteed right. Else one cannot assert Art 371(A) as a right only to break it. Yet to take things in the right direction the right man, not the wrong man is required. It is also to be considered seriously whether central government will eventually listen to the voice of the actual stakeholders or the shareholders. Mind you, Art 371(A) too has ownership. Vaprümu Demo Kohima
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Wednesday 6 November 2013
Nagaland does a ‘turn around’ No bird reported killed in their roosting sites till now Wokha, November 5 (mexN): The continuous efforts in Nagaland to save the Amur Flacons appear to have started on a successful note. The Amur Falcon Protection Squad reports that over a month since the migratory birds arrived in the state, not a single bird has been reported killed in their roosting sites at the Doyang Reservoir. This marks a massive conservation success considering that scores of Amur falcons reportedly hunted last year. This turnaround was brought about through joint initiatives implemented by local communities, the Nagaland Forest Department and NGOs, which included the Natural Nagas and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). The Amur Falcon Protection Squad
Migratory Amur Falcons at roosting site near the Doyang Reservoir. (Photo by Ishaan Raghunandan/WTI)
(AFPS), which includes groups of former hunters, along with forest department personnel, have been patrolling the areas daily in order to keep the birds safe. “Nagaland is a safe haven for Amur falcons,” declared T Lotha, Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland. “This year too, millions have come
in the Doyang roosting area, and we have taken appropriate steps to ensure that no killing takes place, working together with various agencies – the local communities, the police, administration, Forest Department and NGOs. And we succeeded,” Lotha stated. WTI and Natural Nagas
Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) chief executive officer Elizabeth Ngully in her keynote address called upon the barbers to adhere to the “Do’s and Don’ts” issued by the KMC earlier. Regretting that most of the salons are lacking neat and clean, she asked them to stick to the safety measures in salons. She said that a clean environment of the salon will not only bring safety and healthy atmosphere but would also attract more customers. It may be recalled the KMC in its “Do’s & Don’ts” to salons in Kohima earlier insisted that every barber must be neatly dressed, clean and use a surgical mask, each barber must have three sets of instruments and cloth, every salon must be equipped with first aid kits which includes proper antiseptics
and disinfectants, betadine, surgical gloves, band aids, cotton wool/swap, tissue papers etc. Cut hair must be properly disposed and shops should remain dry and clean. After every job, all instruments must be soaked in bleach or Sodium hypochloride. Hands should be properly washed. When shaving, barbers should not put the shavings on their hand, but use paper. Earlier, Lanu from Kekhrie Foundation told the barbers that HIV is spread through four routes- by having unprotected sex, receiving HIV infected blood or blood products, using unsterilized needles/syringes/lancets and from an HIV infected mother to her baby. He also called upon the barbers to follow the directives of the KMC by delivering neat and clean services.
have been working with the local communities and the Forest Department since November 2012, through a sustained Rapid Action Project. The project is being supported by CAFIndia Limited, to help save the birds. “Our first initiative was to spread awareness
among the local communities on the issue,” said Sunil Kyarong, Regional Head for WTI. “For months, beginning in November last year, numerous meetings and consultations were held with the people of Pangti, Ashaa and Sungro - three villages around the Reservoir, where the birds come to roost,” he added. These discussions resulted in signing of an agreement between the village councils, Natural Nagas and WTI, in August 2012. The village councils accordingly declared hunting of Amur falcons illegal in their jurisdiction, imposing a fine of 5000 rupees for offenders. The creation of the Amur Falcon Protection Squad subsequently followed to assist the Forest Department and the village councils to ensure effective enforcement. “What we are doing here is being done right at the grass roots, interacting with the people here including hunters and the village council members who are also the represen-
tatives of respective groups of public, and in coordination with the Forest Department. The benefits are being given to people who need it and who have supported the conservation of the falcons. This way, we have created a successful model, which we are sure will be replicated in other areas within the state too,” said Ronchamo Shitiri, Chairman of the Pangti village council. “The villagers are sacrificing their land for the falcons, so we are working to extend the livelihood support,” added Lotha. “This will not happen overnight, as this requires proper planning to ensure that this is sustainable as the birds will return again, and we need to arrange for resources. Once this season is over, we will work on analysing the villages’ strengths and weaknesses and continue our efforts to improve the economic status of the local people, so that the falcons are safe in the coming years too,” he stated.
Barbers asked to keep salons neat & clean High speed chase ends in ganja seizure Our Correspondent Kohima | November 5
The Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) and Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) today jointly conducted an advocacy sensitization for barbers of Kohima in Kohima at the LCS Building. A large number of barbers from Kohima town turned up at the programme. They were briefed about the basics of HIV/ AIDS, STI & condoms, stigma and discrimination, importance of blood testing & services available etc. etc. On query whether they had hear about HIV/AIDS earlier or not, almost all the barbers present replied that they were very much aware of it and were attentive to the speeches of the resource persons throughout the session.
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MEx FILE NSCN (K) responds DImaPUr, November 5 (mexN): The NSCN (K) has stated that the “rhetoric of Khehoi-Indians as in connection to Zunheboto jail break incident in itself is clearly evident of Khehoi-Indian leaning toward India against Naga nationalism.” A press note from the Naga Army said, “It is expected of Khehoi-Indian to sabotage any Naga nationalistic demonstration either in action or fervor.” It further reminded that “a coalition of businessmen (Khehoi-India) expelled from NSCN and surviving through sub-let ceasefire arrangements borrowed from NSCN should be concerned about its subsistence so long India is willing to use them as bait.”
Governor to grace AIR Golden Jubilee
kohIma, November 5 (DIPr): Governor of Nagaland & Manipur, Dr. Ashwani Kumar will unveil the Golden Jubilee Monolith at the All India Radio Complex on November 7, 2013. The Golden Jubilee program will be held at Hotel Japfü with Governor, Dr. Ashwani Kumar as the chief guest. Highlights of the program include songs by various artist and short speeches by AIR officials.
Parliamentary Quiz Competition
kohIma, November 5 (DIPr): The Department of Parliamentary Affairs is conducting State Level Parliamentary Quiz and Youth Parliament competition to be held on November 7 and 8, 2013 at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) Imagine Hall. Minister for PWD (Road & Bridges and Parliamentary Affairs) Kuzholuzo Nienu (Azo) will grace the occasion as Chief Guest on November 8, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. The competition will be from among the students representing different districts.
PDMS organize ‘Music Fest 2013’
DImaPUr, November 5 (mexN): The Peren District Music Society (PDMS) is organizing ‘Music Fest 2013’ on November 14, 2013 at Peren Town to commemorate its launching programme. Therefore, any interested musical band may contact Ilungsing Mbung, President PDMS at 9436677779 or VK Joseph, publicity information secretary at 9402867771 for participation in the Music Fest 2013 which will be the biggest music event of the District. The public of Peren district may come and participate in the progarmme.
Salomi Baptist church’s Golden Jubilee SE K. Yangpongkyu Sangtam (Standing centre) and his subordinates display to the media the arrested men along with the seized contraband and vehicles. (Morung Photo)
DImaPUr, November 5 (mexN): Two ganja-laden vehicles were intercepted following a brief high-speed chase at NH 29, Chumukedima, Dimapur on November 5. Two persons indentified as TH Shela (41) and V. Thowo (25) were arrested and the contraband confiscated by the district Excise, Dimapur. According to the Superintendent of Excise (SE), K. Yangpongkyu Sangtam, the contraband were found concealed in
fabricated chambers of both the vehicles (Maruti Gypsy). The seized ganja weighed 170 kilograms in total and is approximated to be worth around Rs. 3.5-4 lakhs in the illicit drug market. It could not be ascertained if the vehicle papers produced by the duo were genuine. Assistant Inspector of Excise, Jungti Jamir, in-charge of the Excise check-post at Chumukedima, said that the vehicles sped off towards
Dimapur when signalled to stop at the check-post for routine frisking. It could not get away that far as the Excise team caught up with one of the vehicles at the Patkai Bridge, while the other was intercepted about a km from the bridge near the NAPTC entrance gate. The district Excise head, Sangtam, while commending the personnel on the day’s catch said that the Excise department continues to remain alert.
kohIma, November 5 (mexN): The State Level 21st National Children's Science Congress 2013 will be held on November 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm at NIHESW Conference Hall, Commissioner, Kohima on the focal theme, “ENERGY; Explore, Harness & Conserve”. The State Coordinator, NCSC, in a press note informed that Nagaland Children from the age group of 10 -17 years from the state will participate and present (Left) Dr. C. Tarep Ao inaugurating M/S Aka Drugs & Distributors. (Right) The proprietor Rongsenkala (second from right) with Rev. Kari Longchar, Rev. Maong Lemtor (Asst. Pastor DABA), Tiatoshi Amer (Asst. Drugs Controller, Di- their projects. Children’s mapur) and others at the grand opening of the store located at Circular Road, Khermahal, Dimapur. (Morung Photos) Science Congress is tar-
geted to spread the concept of the method of science among the children through their project activities adopting the principle of ‘Learning through doing’. Among the participants, eight best projects will be selected to represent the state to the 21st National Children's Science Congress, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh to be held from December 27 to 3, 2013 and two more best projects will be selected for the Indian Science Congress, Jammu to be held from January 3 to 7 2014.
State Level 21st National Children's Science Congress
kohIma, November 5 (mexN): The Salomi Baptist Borii is celebrating its golden jubilee from November 15 to 17 under the theme “Praise God.” The Yimchungrii Baptist Borii Amiikhiungto (YBBA) Council will also hold its general session at the time of the celebration. The bonafide citizens of Salomi village have been informed to come and be blessed in a glorious occasion. Rev. Z. Thsankiu, executive secretary YBBA, Hankiu Joshua, mission secretary YBBA, Shojila women secretary YBBA and M. Khalimew youth secretary YBBA will be the main speakers of the celebration. Further, the Salomi Baptist Borii extended invitation to all the churches under YBBA, VIP from entire societies, department to grace the occasion.
SBI ATM booths at subdivisions in Mkg
mokokchUNg, November 5 (DIPr): Mokokchung town has now become a place where financial transactions could be done at ease with the installation of more ATM booths by the State Bank of India (SBI) and other banks. With the installation of few ATM booths recently at different locations in the town, altogether there are 9 (nine) ATM booths (SBI) in Mokokchung which is much beneficial for all section of people. According to the Assistant General Manager (AGM) SBI Regional Office, Mokokchung, A.S. Khound SBI is planning to install more ATM booths in the district so that people living in other parts of the district could also enjoy the facilities like those in Mokokchung town. The AGM also mentioned that SBI would install ATM booth at Mangkolemba town, Tuli town and Tuli Paper Mill by the end of the year 2013.
Corrigendum
An error on our part has been made with reference to "Assam Rifles Raid on Yanger Pongener's residence" wherein the timing and place of the raid was given as Sovima 7th Mile, from 4:00Pm till 9:00 PM, whereas it should read as Sovima 6th Mile from 4:00AM till 9:00 AM. MIP, GPRN
ENSF rejects redeployment policies More Results of The Morung Fest 2013
TUeNSaNg, November 5 (mexN): Phase-1/ Day-1 agitation of the ENSF in all the four eastern districts was held successfully on November 5 under the theme “WE WANT FOOD” with a complete shutdown of all GPS & GMS in all the four eastern districts. A press note from the ENSF informed that students from GPS & GMS gathered holding plates/cups and placards took out a procession to the office of DC & SDEO in the entire respective jurisdiction. The note stated that the ENSF “declares total rejection to the Redeployment policies of the government and state that no new policy/policies of the government should affect the demands of the Federation.” All the six federating units as per the directives from the Federation had submitted a letter to the district administration to convene an emergency meeting with all the signa-
tories of the Mid Day Meal in the region. The ENSF stated that it is also not satisfied with the response letters from the government (Department of Home & School Education) dated Kohima 2nd Nov, 2013. The Federation asserted that it wants to be firm in all its demands and further cautioned the government not to misinterpret or game around the bushes. “Government has always fooled the eastern backward tribes with many assurances in the past. Today, the Federation will not compromise with any more assurances but only through real action of implementation,” it stated. The ENSF asserted that the government should understand the backdrop of all the issues.It demanded for restoration of all those posts “which were illegally transferred out from the region along with the incumbents for the past 3 decades
or more.” It added that such practices had been done without the approval from the Central government and “therefore do not require the same for restoration/recruitment or in fulfilling the Niathu resort assurance.” The ENSF further reminded the government that “no new policy should effect in the recruitment process of those assurances listed during the Niathu resort meeting on 3rd Feb 2012.” “In simple word, Redeployment policy of the government (any department) and even TET issues shall stand invalid,” the ENSF stated. It iterated that such policy can be accepted by the Federation only after the complete fulfilment of all the assurances made during the Niathu Resort meeting. The Federation also reminded the government to seriously ponder upon its Point (2) demand made to the SCERT regarding TET &
the recruitment procedural demand, without which the Federation is not ready to compromise. It also “out rightly rejected the redeployment policy of the Home department” and demanded for nothing but fresh recruitment. “It is to be mention that due to random and excess backdoor appointment in the NAP, those surplus staffs is creating chaos and confusions to the present situation when the state is in financial crunch,” it stated. The Federation also rejected the assurance from the government for better implementation of Mid Day Meal in future. However, it stated that the final agreement will be finalised only after all the judicial procedures are being completed legally with all the implementing agencies. Phase-1; Day-2 of the agitation is scheduled to be held on November 6 in all the four eastern districts of Nagaland.
(Top) Winner of Morung Indigenous Food Contest. (Photo by Vevozo Vero) (Right) Winner of Morung Choral Contest: Servanthood Bible College. (Photo by Susanna Ezung)
Morung Indigenous Food Contest Winner - Tangkhul Cuisine First Runners up - Sumi Cuisine Second Runners up - Sangtam Cuisine
Morung Choral Contest Winner - Servanthood Bible College First Runners up - Withee Bible College
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n Nagaland state, the infrastructure support for transportation, power/electricity and water have been sadly neglected and inadequate for decades with irregular electricity and water supplies and neglected road conditions. Summer after summer, monsoon after monsoon, year after year, immediate interventions and responses has been raised consistently to the government. For whatever reason, the government continues to be slow in its response to addressing the very things that directly impact the people’s overall health, welfare and productivity. Ironically, the government employees at all levels are all affected by the same conditions, so it is in everyone’s best interest to upgrade the basic infrastructure. Even though successive parties which formed the Nagaland state government have made promises in the name of ‘development and progress,’ the most basic infrastructure areas of water, power/electricity and roads remain sadly neglected. This inaction is an indicator that the governments do not support or respect the people’s need to improve their quality of life and well being. Historically, successive governments, irrespective of political party affiliation, have failed to sincerely respond to these areas in an equitable and sustainable manner. Whatever measures have been taken thus far suggest a band-aid response; one that is superficially pleasing and aimed at temporarily pacifying the public. The fact that these particular infrastructures which are so critical to our quality of life have not been addressed raises significant questions about good governance and its intentions. Let’s look at the transportation infrastructure; for years now, small sections of roads have been given a superficial facelift and usually by the time one section of the road is complete the other section begins cracking up. What does this really mean? Is the present technology for road construction faulty? Are the people responsible for building the roads not doing a good job? Is the government not allocating sufficient resources that are required for the building and maintenance of roads? Who benefits out of this? While these questions remain unanswered, the impact drains the economy through misspent funds, effects productivity and commerce with travel time being impaired, as well as ordinary people’s lives. However, it is a simple fact that the road conditions are pitiful and no amount of repair seems to help develop a road system that is efficient and one that remains in good condition for any length of time. While the voice of public dissent against the government’s indifference to addressing the adequacy and availability of water, electricity and roads goes unheeded, the tragedy multiplies as its negative impact increases with the spread of waterborne diseases, untimely deaths due to accidents, reduced efficiency and productivity while sitting in the dark, and so on. We can all relate to these scenarios. The voices of dissent can no longer be ignored as they are an indicator for positive change that needs to be recognized by the government.
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xperts say the ranks of missing people are swelling around the world, including Muslim men murdered and dumped into mass graves in Bosnia, victims of Asia's 2004 tsunami, people killed in Mexico's drug wars, and asylum seekers who drown as they flee conflicts in rickety boats. Academics and others meeting in The Hague to discuss the plight of missing people called on Friday for more to be done to tackle the problem, saying that would contribute to more stable societies around the world. Professor Jeremy Sarkin, a member of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, told a three-day conference that peace will be threatened in nations emerging from armed conflict "if issues relating to the missing continue to exist." The conference was organized by the Sarajevo-based International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), which was formed in 1996 to help trace and identify thousands of people who went missing during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. It has grown into a repository for expertise on using DNA to identify missing people. The organization is currently working in the Balkans, Iraq, Libya, Cyprus, Chile and El Salvador as well as helping Interpol identify victims of the recent Westgate Mall terror attack in Kenya. In the former Yugoslavia, it has built up a database of blood samples from more than 90,000 relatives of 29,500 missing people and 54,000 bone samples exhumed from mass graves. Using DNA analysis, the group has identified some 17,000 people killed in the wars, bringing a measure of closure to their relatives. ICMP Chairman Thomas Miller said exact numbers of the missing worldwide are almost impossible to gauge, but he said thousands of people disappear each year. "The world needs a global mechanism that has the strength and backing of the international community to successfully address this painful issue," he said. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans appealed for the ICMP to be given a formal status under international law. "I call upon national governments to support our efforts to make it easier for this organization to operate around the world," he told delegates. People disappear daily around the world for a variety of reasons, experts say. In Mexico, the government's war on drugs has triggered a surge in disappearances, said Consuelo Morales, one of the founders of Citizens for Human Rights Support. She recalled the case of a 3-year-old boy left screaming in a street after his father was abducted by a street gang because he had witnessed a robbery. "This child lost his father, security," Morales said. "In 15 years, can you imagine what will be in the heart and mind of this child?" Efforts to track down and identify such victims will help heal the family's wounds, she said. "Without truth, without justice, there can be no peace," Morales told The Associated Press. In Syria, thousands of people have disappeared in the country's civil war and opposition groups already are planning how best to identify remains after the conflict. Radwan Ziadeh, executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies and a prominent opposition figure, said his group wants to enlist the help of the ICMP in visiting refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan to collect samples from relatives of people who have disappeared during the civil war so their DNA can be used later for identification tests. "The ICMP has done great work on building a central database, we want to take lessons from them," he said.
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Elliot Brennan Source: Asia Times Online
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recent spate of bombings in Myanmar was attributed by police to local mining businessmen intent on stopping foreign investment. These rogue commercial elements were seemingly worried of the impact on their business interests. The shadowy assaults, including a bomb that detonated in a room occupied by an American in the Traders Hotel, demonstrates just how complex the climate for investors is in Myanmar. It also reveals how opaque mining interests could derail the peace process underway between the government and armed rebels and jeopardize the country's democratic transition. Hype persists over Myanmar's resource wealth, with the country gearing up for new waves of investment and new mining laws predicted to shortly come into effect. A recent Asian Development Bank study noted that Myanmar could become Asia's next "rising star" if it can leverage its rich resource potential. However, regardless of much optimism, difficulties remain and if not addressed could unsettle the peace process. The most important issue for investors, but also populations living near resources, is the reform of legal and regulatory frameworks. The current uncertainty in these frameworks has undermined the investment climate. Similarly, land tenure must be defined and a sustainable agreement reached with armed ethnic groups for their greater inclusion into the democratic process. Greater transparency is also needed to boost confidence in local actors that remain entangled with military powerbrokers. If such a prudent approach is not achieved, resources could become more of a burden than a boon in the country's transformation. Myanmar is rich in minerals, including nickel, gold, bauxite, copper, coal, and gemstones. After the energy sector, mining is likely the second biggest sector for potential foreign direct investment. Unlike the energy sector, which is largely controlled by the majority Burman ethnic group, high-value minerals are found across the entire country, including in areas controlled by other ethnic minority groups. Despite the potential stored in mineral wealth in Myanmar, the population is still tied to the agricultural sector. Around 70% of the country's labor force is engaged in agriculture, while only 7% is engaged in industry. Making the shift to engage a greater share of the population in the mining industry could, at least in the short-term, provide valuable sources of income to rural communities. Most importantly, mining in remote rural and ethnic areas could pay for key infrastructure - including electricity, transport, water, and wastewater facilities - in hitherto neglected areas of the country. Yet Myanmar, with numerous simmering conflicts between the central government and armed ethnic groups must walk a perilous path to avoid falling deeper into an already palpable "resource curse." Resources in Myanmar are spread over many ethnic regions, many of which have limited central government control. The country is split, according to government data, into eight major ethnic races which comprise 135 distinct ethnic groups. Ac-
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he cheap mobile phone is the most disruptive device to hit humanity since shoes. It’s no accident that “barefoot” comes even before “pregnant and in the kitchen” in the male chauvinist’s trinity. Today, keeping mobile phones out of the hands of women has become a crusade for graybearded chauvinists in India. The cheap mobile is particularly troublesome in India to those who want to preserve old controls, as Ellen Barry wrote recently. “The mobile plays a main role,” a male elder in a village near New Delhi told her as he described the temptations that personal communications posed for unrestrained young women. “A girl sits on a bus, she calls a male friend, asks him to put money on her mobile. Is he going to put money on her mobile for free? No. He will meet her at a certain place, with five of his friends, and they will call it rape.” In West Africa and the Caribbean, people have been putting credit on other people’s phones for 15 years, as the anthropologist Daniel Miller has written. But in India, the old-style moral guardians assert that such demonstrations of autonomy lead to rape and murder. India’s struggle with mobiles and morality began in 2004, just as mobile phones were becoming affordable for the middle class. Two New Delhi highschool students used a cell phone to make a video of “an intimate moment,” as the police and the Los Angeles Times
cording to survey maps from the Ministry of Mines (MoM), the energy belts of hydrocarbons (oil, gas, and coal) are centered in Burman ethnic areas, the majority and governing ethnic group. Lead, zinc, silver and cooper belts are found in the center and northeast of the country - much of it in ethnic-controlled areas, including by Shan, Mon, and Wa peoples, according to the MoM's maps. The Kachin control or contest much of the northeastern mineral belts of gold, cooper, iron, as well as lead, zinc, silver and copper. Mineral belts of precious stones can also be found in the northeast Kachin and north-central Shan regions. While the mountainous central-western regions, home to the least developed infrastructure in Myanmar and dominated by the ethnic Chin, hold belts of hydrocarbons and minerals such as nickel, chromite, copper, platinum, and gold. Unsurprisingly, government-controlled and often ethnically Burman areas continue to hold the majority of investments in the mining sector. Non-Burman Divisions, where significant mining projects are underway, are notably fewer, but include Kachin State, Kayah State, and Shan State. The uneven weight of commercial mining ventures between Burman and non-Burman Divisions is not surprising. Until recent ceasefire agreements were signed, Myanmar was a hotbed of ethnic conflicts with dozens of armed ethnic groups operating across the country, making ethnic areas "no-go zones" for investment. Additionally, the policy of ethnic assimilation "one race, one language, one religion" - pursued by U Nu, Myanmar's first prime minister following independence in 1948 - remained under successive ruling military juntas who sought to keep ethnic minorities marginalized and poor so they would yield to the Burman-run government. The policy significantly reduced the economic development of ethnic areas. While this policy has now officially changed, deep-seated resentments remain. Development of mineral resources in Myanmar's ethnic areas will thus also be challenged by a need to change discriminatory mindsets.
Commercial Peace As official negotiations with armed ethnic groups are ongoing, other expeditious movements are also occurring, led by private sector individuals. In contested areas, where resources are rich, there has emerged a growing peace economy. According to a 2012 International Crisis Group report, Dawei Princess Company, which holds mining and logging concessions in Karen National Union (KNU)controlled areas, funded peace talks and facilitated contacts for ceasefire discussions in Karen State. A similar case was seen in Kachin State where Yup Zaw Hkawng, a prominent businessman in the trade of precious stones, facilitated dialogue between the government and the Kachin Independence Organization. Such examples of the emergence of a peace economy continue. Companies see commercial benefits in brokering peace from which they can later command dividends
from their involvement, thereby monetizing the peace process. Access to logging activities offer the most immediately accessible of such dividends, and were reportedly used as a bargaining tool by Karenni groups in ceasefire talks. Such a peace economy, if the approach is transparent, can have a positive effect on incentivizing the peace process and allowing a win-win outcome for conflicting parties. However, as this becomes more entrenched, it will be harder to dislodge these business interests from further negotiations. Armed ethnic groups, such as the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), know that they are sitting atop precious resources that could foster significant wealth creation. Currently the extraction of such minerals is based primarily on manual labor, which apart from being wildly uneconomical also includes unethical practices of child labor. The modernization and industrialization of the mining sector could drastically increase the profitability of extraction, remove illegal practices, and improve infrastructure and services to remote areas. Indeed, building infrastructure that allows for greater interaction with ethnic groups, and that provides greater access for ethnic groups to bring their goods to market, should lead to a greater inclusiveness in the overall development of the country. However, in order for armed ethnic groups in Myanmar to allow such developments - as infrastructure would almost certainly diminish their control by diluting their monopoly in access and power in their respective territories - they must see some greater benefit and a significant degree of trust between government, local populations and business actors will need to be fostered. Despite the difficulties, resource profit-sharing offers one option for cooperation and trust building, if done right. Yet this remains the problem. Fundamental questions in the peace process remain and must be resolved before any resource profit-sharing can occur. Indeed, answering such questions may in fact be the sine qua non to sustainable development in Myanmar. The core issues, by no means exhaustive, are: Who are the legitimate actors in negotiations and legitimate recipients of profits? Will representatives of ethnic organizations agree to partnership deals that would guarantee local trickle down of revenues? Or should integration into the political process be a precondition before such investments take place? These questions will need to be negotiated with individual interest groups. Indeed it would not be surprising to see the reemergence of a debate on a federal system, once put forth by independence hero Aung San in the Panglong Agreement in 1947, to place a governance framework on the management of resource riches. However, the issue remains sensitive for Naypyidaw, particularly for much of the old guard of the previous ruling junta and the Union Solidarity and Development Party who see federation as ceding central power and harming solidarity within the Union. While the establishment of a federal system would not be a panacea to all Myanmar's ills, it would allow for greater engagement of Naypyidaw with ethnic groups at a political level rather than at a military-to-military level. States could then be held accountable for their development and the management of their resources. In the country's complicated peace process, there are numerous "hard questions" that remain unanswered. However, some reforms in the mining sector are relatively straight forward and may pave a smoother road for other more complicated issues. In the shortterm, improvements to legal and regulatory frameworks should be prioritized, as should the joining of the Global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative; the privatization of state-owned enterprises should be persistent but gradual to ensure stable growth; resource-sharing agreements between ethnic groups and government or private companies should be arrived at as transparently as possible; and, foreign investors should be sensitive to underlying tensions and the potential for political violence. Despite other progress that may be achieved, investment in the mining sector will remain fraught with problems until the peace process is further ensured. Yet if reform is persistent and patience prevails, the windfall can be shared by all. Elliot Brennan is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (Sweden) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Pacific Forum-Center for Strategic and International Studies (USA).
Morality & Mobile Phones in India Assa Doron and robin Jeffrey Source: NYT
described it. The clip quickly sped round the digital universe through multimedia message service (MMS). India beat its breast about threats to traditional values. And porn entrepreneurs who download pornography on phones for a fee added it to their growing repertoire. In 2004, phones and talk time were still relatively expensive in India, though prices were falling rapidly, and the country had a mere 34 million mobile subscribers. Today, official figures show more than 900 million subscribers – 75 percent of the country. Perhaps a third of these may be inactive numbers, but it still averages one phone for every two Indians. You can buy a secondhand phone for less than $10, and a dollar will let you talk for three hours if you choose your plan carefully. A phone is not far away from anyone any more – even from young women and low-caste people. And for high-status men who have been accustomed to obedience and deference from these quarters, cheap phones are a menace. The cheap mobile unsettles longstanding gender relations because it intro-
duces a means of autonomy that was not present before. The sociologist Manuel Castells exquisitely captured the essence when he wrote that, “mobile communication is not about mobility but about autonomy.” It’s autonomy that makes a personal, private communications device so disruptive of old social structures. The phone also gives a gentle judder to power relations. In 2007, Bahujan Samaj Party, the lower-caste political party, won an outright majority in India’s largest state. It had a large, dedicated but poor cadre of workers and it anticipated, in a low-budget, low-tech way, some of the techniques that the Obama campaign deployed in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Previously, such low-status people had communicated through postcards, bicycle processions and telegrams. The cheap mobile phone in the hands of dedicated cadres put metaphorical jet engines on their organizational bicycles. But it’s in gender relations that the cheap phone so relentlessly challenges old ways. Daily decisions have to be made about who is to have a phone and how it is
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to be used. A new bride coming to live in her husband’s household in north India, for example, may be required by her inlaws to surrender her phone. Stories are common of village councils declaring (without any legal right to do so) that no woman under 40 should have a mobile phone. Mobile phones, according to this view, are especially dangerous in the hands of young people who can engage in clandestine courtships, which could lead to elopements or resistance to marriages arranged by family elders. The mobile phone’s ancestor—the landline telephone-was also controversial when it debuted 130 years ago. “Telephone-company managers,” wrote Michele Martin in her study of gender and the early days of the telephone in North America, thought that, “women’s use of men’s technology would come to no good end.” In India, where scarce landlines were the privilege of elites until 10 years ago, the arrival of the cheap cell phone is sending chills throughout society, challenging old relations of domination across gender, age and caste. For women and oppressed classes, the autonomy of the cheap mobile phone presents new possibilities for emancipation and change. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey are authors of “The Great Indian Phone Book. How the Cheap Cell Phones Changes Business, Politics and Daily Life” (Harvard UP). Mr. Doron works at the Australian National University, Canberra. Mr. Jeffrey is at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore.
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obert Young Pelton thinks he can do what no one else has done: find the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony. And he wants your help in doing it. Pelton, a journalist-cum-adventurer, has traveled the world tracking down and interviewing the world's most dangerous men. He was in Grozny hanging out with Chechen rebels while the city was getting pounded by Russian forces. He linked up with Liberian rebels during their assault on Monrovia. And he tracked down and interviewed Francis Ona, the leader of a separatist movement on the island of Bougainville in the South Pacific. Now he's turning his attention to the most wanted man in Africa. Together with two filmmakers, Pelton is planning an expedition to central Africa, where he will attempt to track down Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), in the jungle wilderness. Where activists and African troops -- aided by U.S. Special Forces -- have failed, Pelton believes he can succeed and find the man responsible for the kidnapping as many as 66,000 children and pressing them into service in his rag-tag army or as sex-slaves. So is Pelton completely crazy? Or is he, maybe, just crazy enough to pull it off? Joseph Kony isn't just any African warlord. His brutal insurgency in central Africa and a nasty habit of kidnapping children and forcing them into service in his guerilla force have made him an international pariah. And that, in turn, has made him a celebrity of sorts. The destruction he has left in his wake and the deeply emotional pull of the damage he has inflicted on children and their families have spawned an energetic relief effort and a campaign to capture a man that many view as the head of a personality cult. Last year's viral video campaign, Kony 2012, aimed at raising awareness about the warlord and advocating for his capture only raised that sentiment to a fever pitch. But a viral Internet campaign has done little to bring authorities closer to apprehending Kony, who is wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court. It is Pelton's intention to show the legions of do-gooders who have flocked to the cause how it should have been done from the start. "What I'm hoping to be is the lightning rod, in other words the guy that points out that it's actually quite easy to get these people if you don't draw lines around how far you can travel or where you can go," Pelton told Foreign Policy. As Pelton sees it, previous efforts to find and capture Kony have been hopelessly limited and crippled by the intentions of the groups involved. "All these actors have an agenda and they have limitations to what they are prepared to do, and they after a while start to benefit from the existence of Kony," Pelton says. "It becomes a self-licking lollipop." The United States has deployed Special Forces troops to the region with the ostensible purpose of helping to capture Kony, and while those troops have in recent weeks intensified their effort to find the warlord, he remains conspicuously at large. But their failure, Pelton says, should come as no surprise. The real reason for the presence of U.S. troops, he says, has as much to do with the rise of Islamic extremism in the region as it does Kony. Deploying Special Forces to capture Kony is merely an effective cover story. As for Invisible Children, the group behind Kony 2012, it remains based in Uganda, a country Kony has long left behind. Hopelessly limited by geographic boundaries, the group has become limited by its own infrastructure and its simplistic argument that Kony's capture will suddenly solve all Uganda's serious problems, critics say. (Nevermind the fact that the group has raised millions of dollars off Kony's back for an organization with deep ties to anti-gay, creationist groups and was co-founded by a man whose celebrity took on a life of its own
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y flamboyant uncle reached home at two in the morning. The Diwali fever had gripped him so tight that he was happily playing cards until two with his friends and my poor aunt was beside herself with worry. Since I enjoy a special relationship with him, I was summoned by my aunt. “Is it his age to gamble till two? “ “Thanks God his grandchildren are too young, otherwise what example is he putting?” She almost spilled some tea from her cup saying it. “Why Gamble, when you can invest?” asked my smart aunt. The concept of investing for many is as close as gambling. And it is gambling if you invest your money randomly, without any planning. Investing is an Art, that we all need to learn. If you read the list of world’s richest people, Warren Buffett is not the only one who’s become rich by investing, there are many more. In India we have Rakesh Junjunwala, a self made billionaire, who rose to dizzy heights by investing in Indian stock market. Why is it that some terms investing in stock market as gamble and yet others make millions out of it? There must be something incredibly right that winners do and terrible wrongs losers commit in stock market. One thing for sure that to be a winner at stock market you needs “time” apart from the Gyan. But in our busy life when we don’t have time should we be denied of it’s fruits? I have a simple mantra! If you are short of time and want to enjoy the beautiful Life of Pi by Yann Martel, why not watch the movie instead. At least, you will not be denied of the experience of Pi’s incredible journey with Richard Parker. The Movie version of the stock market is the mutual fund. Mutual funds offer professional investment management for individuals at an affordable cost. However, it is important that we analyze the following factors before choosing a mutual fund investment.
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after he suffered a breakdown and paraded naked through the streets of San Diego.) Pelton's message to these groups is that it's time to put up or shut up -- and by finding Kony he's aiming to point out the essential phoniness of those who have so far failed to locate him. For a similar reason, Pelton is crowdfunding the trip. (You can find his IndieGogo page here.) "The reason I'm using crowdfunding is to see whether the world gives a shit. Do you really want to get rid of Kony? Give me five bucks," Pelton says. "So it's almost like a very Shakespearean play, you know. We are going to see who's more evil -- the people who want to get rid of Kony and do nothing about it or Kony himself." If Pelton sounds deeply cynical, it's because he is. After fleeing a mind-numbing marketing career for the thrills of war reporting, Pelton has been to just about every hot spot imaginable. And his encounters with rebels and terrorist leaders -- the full list of which reads like a virtual who's who of revolutionary fronts, armies, guerillas, and movements of one radical flavor or another -- has taught him that the popular images of these men are usually off the mark and lack nuance. "You think of them as icons of evil and then when you dig into their story there's a very different story behind them," Pelton says. In the case of Kony, he says, while the LRA has committed horrific crimes, it was founded on a set of political grievances that rarely receive any attention. That instinct -- to go and talk to rebel leaders and terrorists where they live and fight -- has also put Pelton in a strange nexus of careers: both a journalist and an alleged intelligence contractor. In 2008, Pelton teamed up with Eason Jordan, a former CNN executive, to create a site called AfPax Insider, a journalistic entity that sought to help U.S. officials better understand the region. But that outfit became caught up in an off-the-books intelligence operation run by a rogue Pentagon official. "We were providing information so they could better understand the situation in Afghanistan, and it was being used to kill people," Pelton told the New York Times, which exposed the official, Michael Furlong. Another Pelton initiative, International Safety Networks (ISN), pitched potential clients on its ability to "create sustainable solutions for clients who operate in high risk areas." Pelton told Mother Jones that ISN was an effort to capitalize on his work in war zones, and with "successful programs" in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Colombia, Myanmar, Liberia, and Yemen the outfit carried an unmistakable whiff of a private intelligence agency. "I have a history of being in multiple war zones doing multiple things," he told the magazine. "What commercial value is there in that?" To complete his tumultuous relationship with the world of military contracting, Pelton is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Erik Prince, the founder of the infamous contractor Blackwater, over the rights to Prince's memoir, which Pelton says he ghostwrote. The Kony project, then, is something of a return to his roots for Pelton. "If you watch the movie Apocalypse Now, what I'm doing is I'm get-
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ting on the boat, and the journey is going to be a lot more fascinating than when I meet Mr. Kurtz at the end," says Pelton, who, with his prominent moustache, looks like a man sent by central casting to play an extra on a Francis Ford Coppola riverboat heading upriver. "By the time we meet up with Kony you understand exactly why we found Kony and why for 20 years we couldn't find bin Laden and all these international fugitives." In comparing Kony to bin Laden, Pelton isn't so much comparing the scope of their crimes but the ways in which they evaded capture. Popular imagination -- and the consensus opinion of American intelligence agencies -- held that bin Laden was in all likelihood sequestered somewhere in a cave along the AfPak border, a primitive hiding place that lined up with views of bin Laden himself as a primitive, retrograde man. A similar line of thinking applies to Kony, who, for example, was described by the Washington Post as using "Stone Age" tactics to evade his pursuers in the jungle. Those pursuers, Pelton thinks, probably wouldn't be surprised to find him swinging from tree to tree in the jungle while subsisting on bananas. By documenting his journey, Pelton plans to trace the tribal and ethnic politics that Kony has used to evade capture. Like bin Laden, Kony has received shelter from states in the region, a fact that Pelton believes can illuminate the ways that tribal politics could be the key to the warlord's continued survival. "It's not so much just an exercise to find somebody as a publicity stunt or an exercise in what badass bounty hunters we are," Rob Swain, a filmmaker and aid worker who will be one of Pelton's companions on the trip, told Foreign Policy. "It's about what got us here. How come he's still free?" But the question still remains, how will Pelton and his team actually find the man? In theory, Kony could be anywhere in an area approximately the size of California. "The first thing you do is you announce to the world that you're looking for Joseph Kony, and that your mandate is zero. I have no law enforcement mandate, I have no military mandate, I only have a moral mandate to find out why people can't find him and where he is," Pelton says. "I can't arrest him; I can't shoot him." Already, the tips have started to pour in, and Pelton says he has a decent idea where Kony is hiding -- and the U.S. Special Forces, by the way, are looking in all the wrong places. As Pelton sees it, finding men like Kony is actually a lot easier than you might think. "The logic that goes into their hiding is usually formed at the local level, meaning that the local smugglers, the local militias know exactly where the planes are flying, where the army is searching," Pelton says. The key is getting inside that circle, and once that happens, the questions start answering themselves. It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for the U.S. Special Forces hunting Kony. They just can't go where Pelton does; if they did, they'd get killed in a heartbeat. For Pelton, the Kony case reminds him of the time he tracked down Francis Ona, the leader of the Bougainville separatist movement. In his book, The Hunter, the Hammer, and Heaven, Pelton tells the story of when he went to find Ona on the island of Bougainville. During his first attempt, he was rebuffed after locals became convinced that he was in fact a mercenary out to kill Ona. Not eager to wander into the camp of a rebel leader who believed he had orders to kill him, Pelton retreated. But after several years of stalemate, Ona got around to reading the faxes that Pelton had sent him and changed his mind about the journalist. Pelton returned to the island and travelled to Ona's mountain refuge -- the place the word "Heaven" refers to in the title. There he told him of his struggle to achieve independence. Persistence, a healthy dose of empathy, and a bizarrely successful track record of interviewing the world's villains all added up to success for Pelton. For $450,000, Pelton thinks he can do the same thing with Kony. Do you believe him?
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They say the pen is mightier than the sword. However, the pen can only be mightier than sword if people read what has been written by the pen. Nagaland has a lot of literature that not only tells us of our past but also pulls us into their worlds of sorrow, happiness and love.
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t was the summer of 2010, and I was in the Kolkata airport, waiting to board my flight to Dimapur. A delay of 3 hours prompted me to pull out a copy of Easterine Kire’s Mari from my backpack. Totally engrossed in the book, I was almost taken aback when a voice asked me what had I been reading. Turns out he was an English Lecturer who had belonged to the state, and yet, had never heard, or read of Kire. The remaining two hours of waiting time was thus spent in telling him all about the wonderful works of Kire. However, my surprise continued even later when I moved back to Dimapur. It was a struggle to find anyone who had read novels and literary works from our own state. People are blissfully unaware of the rich and diverse literature that our state has begun to produce. There are a couple of factors that have been behind this. Easterine Kire in her interview with CNN-IBN stated, “About thirty years ago, there wasn’t much literary production from the Northeast in the sense that we were not getting published, we had very little translated literature in English and whatever was available was poetry and writings by anthropologists on the region. So, the mainland universities cannot be blamed for ignoring literary input from the Northeast.” Things have changed drastically in recent years and more Naga authors have been published. But Naga Literature, still being a fairly new phenomenon, remains largely unknown to the readership population. Needless to say, the westernised mindset also plays a role here, where in local works are deemed biasedly as inferior. It is true that Mainland-Indian academia has ignored literary work from the state in the past. But how is it that most of the universities still do not have any literature from Nagaland in their syllabus? Nagaland has produced several notable works like A Terrible Matriarchy, The Gift of the Sand Castle, These Hills Called Home, and Monsoon Mourning. Passing off works by Assamese writers as ‘Literature from the Northeast’ is a brutal attempt to wrongly equalise the diverse literary tradition of the eight states. Novels from Nagaland usually have a very subtle anti-Indian stance. Could this be the reason that Mainland-India has ignored the literary tradition of Nagaland? Probably. But in a democracy, shouldn’t everyone be allowed to express their views and opinions? If controversial works of Ismat Chughtai and Taslima Nasreen are welcomed in academic circles, why aren’t works from Nagaland? Although this does not explain the scrawny popularity of these works in Nagaland itself. Whatever the reasons maybe, one cannot deny the fact that these literary works are art, art which should be judged on its aesthetic appeal. Literature is the reflection of the society that is written about. Hence, these works cease to be just works of fiction, but transcend into becoming a record of the glorious culture and society. A general characteristic of fiction from Nagaland is the harking back to the past, and presenting the deep impact and importance of the days gone by. The past has taught us valuable lessons, and these works remind us of the struggles our society has undergone; from the World War, to the forceful occupation of the terrain by Indian forces, and from alcoholism, to the changes in culture and religion. How can we then ignore these faithful representations of our heritage and our past? Naga writing in English is still a relatively new phenomenon, but we do have many works in local dialects. Kongshir Ken by S. Longkumer, is a wonderful fictional work in Ao, but has a limited readership since they have been composed in the Ao dialect. To make sure these works have a larger readership, and a stronger influence, they should be translated into English as soon as possible. I realise translated works lose their originality to an extent, but well, something is always better than nothing at all. The writers and publishers need to promote their works better so more people come to know of it. More of these works need to be included in academic courses around the country. Enough of the ignorance! Kudos to the Department of English, Nagaland University for including many works from the state in their syllabus for the Bachelors Degree courses. We live in a society where people are losing touch with their roots and traditions, their customs and its values. These literary works are all that remain that have the power to tie us back to the magnificent past. The literary works of Nagaland is something that should be read by all people of the state. The budding writers need encouragement, and an increase in readership would encourage the evolution of a rich and powerful Naga Literature. It would also ensure the past is always cherished and treasured, and the sacrifices made by the ancestors of this land is remembered. In times when people are more familiar with Korean culture than Naga culture, these literary works can be a Shangri-La for the legacy of the days gone by, as well as provide wonderful insight to outsiders about the evolving culture of the state. So the next time you want to read something, skip the Vogue and the Sidney Sheldon, and instead, pick up works by Easterine Kire, Aaron Kikon, Monalisa Changija, and Temsula Ao. “Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. Tetso College is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College. 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India launches first mission to Mars
New Delhi, November 5 (AP): India on Tuesday launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies for space travel. Hundreds of people watched the rocket carrying the Mars orbiter take off from the east-coast island of Sriharikota and streak across the sky. Many more across the country watched live TV broadcasts. Officials at the space center described it as a “textbook launch.” If the mission is successful, India will become only the fourth nation to visit the red planet after the Soviet Union, the United States and Europe. “Capturing and igniting the young minds of India and across the globe will be the major return from this mission,” mission director P. Kunhikrishnan said from the launch site. After 44 minutes, the orbiter separated from the rocket and entered into an elliptical path around Earth. Over the next 20-25 days, it will perform a series of technical maneuvers and short burns to raise its orbit before it slingshots toward Mars. “With teamwork and the kind of dedication we have today, any mission is not beyond our capability,” said S. Ramakrishnan, head of the space center and launch authorization board. The 1,350-kilogram (3,000-pound) orbiter Mangalyaan, which means “Mars craft” in Hindi, must travel 780 million kilometers (485 million miles) over 300 days to reach an orbit around the red planet next September. “The biggest challenge will be precisely navigating the spacecraft to Mars,” said K.
Prez, PM congratulate ISRO
New Delhi, November 5 (PTi): President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday congratulated ISRO for the successful launch of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, and said it was a significant milestone that will inspire more scientists to make greater strides in achieving goals. In his message to Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K. Radhakrishnan, the President said, “This launch of India’s first dedicated Mars Orbiter Spacecraft is a significant milestone in the progress of our space programme and space applications. “This day shall go down as a landmark in our space programme, a day which will inspire our scientists to make even greater strides in achieving our national goals in the field of space.” He congratulated Dr. Radhakrishnan and asked him to convey his greetings to the members of the team of scientists and others involved in “greater mission” of successful launch of the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft powered by PSLV-C25 rocket. PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday hailed the launch of India’s Mars mission. ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan told the media here that the prime minister had telephoned him to express his happiness. In a separate tweet, Manmohan Singh congratulatPIC 1: The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25) rocket lifts off carrying India’s Mars spacecraft from the east coast island of Sriharikota, on Tuesday, November 5. India on Tuesday launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies for space travel. PIC 2: Indian ed scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation Space and Research Organization Chairman, K.Radhakrishnan, poses for the media with a model of the Mars orbiter after its successful launch at Sriharikota. (AP Photo) for the successful initiation of Mars mission.
Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space and Research Organization. “We will know if we pass our examination on Sept. 24, 2014.” He congratulated the scientists for putting the mission together “in a very limited time.” The project began after the space agency carried out a feasibility study in 2010 after successfully launching a lunar satellite in 2008. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the planned voyage to Mars only last year during his annual address to the nation. “It’s a really big thing for India!” said 13-year-old Pratibha Maurya, who gathered with her father and about 50 others to watch the launch at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi. Some have questioned the $72 million price tag for a country of 1.2 billion people still dealing with widespread hunger and
poverty. But the government defended the Mars mission, and its $1 billion space program in general, by noting its importance in providing high-tech jobs for scientists and engineers and practical applications in solving problems on Earth. Decades of space research have allowed India to develop satellite, communications and remote sensing technologies that are helping to solve everyday problems at home, from forecasting where fish can be caught by fishermen to predicting storms and floods. “These missions are important. These are things that give Indians happiness and bragging rights,” said Raghu Kalra of the Amateur Astronomers Association Delhi. “Even a poor person, when he learns that my country is sending a mission to another planet, he will feel a sense of pride for his
Lalu turns gardener in jail, earns Rs 14 per day in jail
rANChi, November 5 (AgeNCieS): Serving time for the multi-crore fodder scam, RJD president Lalu Prasad earns Rs 14 a day for gardening and is apparently happy with tending lawns, flower beds and vegetable patches at the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Hotwar. Jail wardens allotted gardening to scam convicts around a week ago but Lalu started work only a day after the Jharkhand high court rejected his bail plea on October 30. Three IAS and one IRS officer, also convicted in the scam, have turned teachers inside the jail.
Jail sources say Lalu appears to enjoy the hours supervising work and instructing other gardeners. He will get a day-off each week. Spread over 52 acres, the jail boasts of wellmaintained lawns, gardens and vegetable plantations. The influential Bihar politician, who was railway minister between 2004 and 2009, has JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma and ex-RJD MLA R K Rana - who allegedly conspired with Lalu to siphon off money from the Chaibasa treasury - as co-workers. Though Lalu holds a political science degree
and was invited by Harvard Business School and IIM Ahmedabad to speak on management, jail authorities decided not to allot him teaching due to security reasons. Jharkhand police had recently alerted the jail about a possible threat to Lalu and asked for adequate security. Around 30% of 3,000-odd prisoners at Hotwar are hardcore criminals and 10% Maoists. Lalu violates Jharkhand jail manual everyday to meet scores of people. “It all amounts to security threat to Lalu,” the alert had warned.
Priority should be women and child health: NHRC
New Delhi, November 5 (iANS): There are a large number of problems in India associated with women and child health, so their healthcare should be a priority for the government, the NHRC’s chairperson said Tuesday. “A large percentage of the child population suffers from malnutrition and stunted growth. There is prevalence of widespread anaemia among both women and children,” said K.G. Balakrishnan, chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Addressing an NHRC national conference on healthcare here, he added: “The government has been implementing several schemes for providing supplementary nutrition, but there are problems associated with its design and implementation. So we have to ponder on other steps to address issue related to women and child health.” Highlighting the government’s plan towards providing universal health coverage, an official at the ministry of health and family welfare expressed the need to
increase public expenditure on improving healthcare in the country. “Around 70 percent of the health expenditure is out of the pocket and over 2.2 percent of the population gets impoverished at the time of paying hospital bills. So there is a need to increase the per capita public expenditure on health,” said Manoj Jhalani, joint secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The conference also raised the issue of increasing the seats in medical colleges so that the ratio between doctors and patients can be improved. “In India, there are only 12,500 postgraduate medical seats as against 32,000 in the US. The number for super-speciality seats are even lower,” said Devi Prasad Shetty, chairman Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital. “The other cause of concern is the nursing profession in India which could face extinction due to the lack of dignity of labour. Further, in the past few years the admission to nursing colleges across the country has come down by 50 percent.”
Smokeless tobacco use rising in India
New Delhi, November 5 (iANS): The use of smokeless tobacco is on the rise in India, especially among women, since it does not have the stigma of smoking attached to it, a release said here Tuesday. As more and more women chew “gutka”, “khaini” and “zarda”, serious health problems like cancer of the mouth and neck and still births are increasing at a rapid pace, according to a factsheet released by the World Lung Foundation (WLF). According to the WLF, there are many factors, including socio-economic and cultural, behind the increasing use of smokeless tobacco by women. India has one of the highest rates of smokeless tobacco use in the world. However, although 275 million Indian adults are tobacco users, 75% of them consume smokeless tobacco products, the release said. To create awareness about the perils of smokeless tobacco, the government launched a new campaign ‘Tears You Apart’ with technical and financial support from WLF and the Bloomberg Philanthropies in July. The campaign graphically depicts the adverse effects of smokeless tobacco consumption through personal testimonials of victims suffering from cancer.
country, and he will want to make it a better place.” The orbiter will gather images and data that will help in determining how Martian weather systems work and what happened to the large quantities of water that are believed to have once existed on Mars. It also will search Mars for methane, a key chemical in life processes that could also come from geological processes. Experts say the data will improve understanding about how planets form, what conditions might make life possible and where else in the universe it might exist. The orbiter is expected to have at least six months to investigate the planet’s landscape and atmosphere. At its closest point it will be 365 kilometers (227 miles) from the planet’s surface, and its furthest point will be 80,000 kilometers (49,700 miles) away.
12 key facts about India’s Mars mission
SrihAriKoTA, November 5 (AP): India’s first Mars orbiter on Tuesday successfully began a 400 million-km long journey to Mars, making it the first Asian country and the fourth in the world to undertake a mission to the red planet. Here are some key facts about Isro’s Mars mission: 1. This is the first time the national space agency is aspiring to send a mission to study a celestial body outside Earth’s sphere of influence. 2. India’s Mars Orbiter is expected to reach the red planet’s orbit by September 2014 and look for the presence of methane, an indicator of life there. 3. ISRO has put in place an extensive network of stations worldwide to track the Mars Orbiter Mission after launch from the first launch pad here at 2.38pm. 4. Unlike other PSLV missions, PSLV C25 will take more than 40 minutes to inject the Mars Orbiter into Earth’s orbit as it has a long coasting phase (1,700 seconds) for the launch and has to achieve an “argument” of perigee of 276.4 degrees. 5. The vehicle trajectory will be tracked by monitoring stations at the Space Centre here, Indian Deep Station Network at Byalulu near Bangalore and Down Range Station at Port Blair in India and also from Biak in Indonesia and Brunei. 6. Two sea-borne terminals equipped with a 4.6 metre antenna and a 1.8 metre antenna on board Shipping Corporation of India’s SCI Nalanda and SCI Yamu-
na (some 2500 km between them) in South Pacific Ocean will track the vehicle as it injects the Mars Orbiter mission into Earth’s orbit. 7. Once injected into orbit by the launch vehicle, the spacecraft trajectory post separation would be tracked from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory facilities at Goldstone (U.S), Madrid (Spain) and Canberra (Australia). 8. The Mars Orbiter carries five scientific instruments to study the red planet - Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP), Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA), Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS). 9. While LAP and MSM would help in atmospheric studies,MENCA would focus on studying particle environment.MCC and TIS would contribute to studying the surface imaging of the red planet. 10. After having received 33 ideas for instruments to be flown to Mars, Isro shortlisted nine, of which the Advisory Committee of Space Sciences headed by Prof U R Rao finalised five instruments as only these were mature enough for the flight. 11. The 1,337 kg Mars Orbiter with 852 kg fuel and 15 kg of scientific instruments is expected to reach Mars’ orbit on September 14, 2014. 12. Though there have been 51 missions to the red planet by some countries, only 21 have been considered successful, according to Nasa.
President for quickly containing communal tension
hyDerAbAD, November 5 (iANS): Voicing his concern over communal violence in parts of India, President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday called for measures to contain communal tension quickly in the initial stages. Speaking at the passing out parade of Indian Police Service (IPS) probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, the president said times were challenging for the police forces. “These are challenging times for our police forces. There has been a worrying bout of communal violence in some parts of our country, accompanied by deterioration in inter-community relations. There is need to strengthen the ability of our district and local administration to notice such tensions in their initial stages and take necessary measures to contain them quickly,” he said.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, second left, presents a sword of honor for the Best Outdoor Officer Trainee to Bhaaskaran R, during the passing out parade of Indian Police Service (IPS) probationers of the 65th batch march at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, on Tuesday, November 5. 148 trainee officers passed out Tuesday. (AP Photo)
Stating that there was no room whatsoever for complacency, Mukherjee said the nation had great expecta-
tions from the police forces. “My vision of the police He said the police should be a for future India is not that partner in growth, develop- of a law enforcing body but ment and peace. of a pro-active service pro-
vider, a partner in growth, development and peace. “As police officers, you should always ensure that the grievances of the common man are redressed. This would require a change of role of the police from a reactive to a pro-active agency, which, in partnership with other stakeholders, will create a peaceful and secure atmosphere conducive to the growth and prosperity of our nation.” Describing police constables as the visible face of the government, the president stressed the need for paying enough attention to their training and development and improvement in their service conditions. Pointing out that atrocities against women and children had shaken the conscience of the nation, Mukherjee called for effective policing of the urban areas and protecting the vulnerable.
India’s foreign policy trapped between its borders: Jaswant Singh
New Delhi, November 5 (iANS): India’s foreign policy is “trapped” between the four lines outlining its boundary with neighbours and there is need to find an answer to this strategic confinement, says former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP also feels that the “disarming of India”, or Indian men being made to give up the age-old practice of carrying arms during British rule, has had a negative effect on the self-reliance of citizens. Talking about his new book, ‘India At Risk: Mistakes, Misconceptions and Misadventures of Security Policy’ (Rupa) Singh told IANS: “India lies at the crossroads of four collapsed empires - the Qing dynasty of China; the great Ottoman empire, the consequences of collapse of that empire were diverse, which are never taken into account; the British empire and the collapse of great Soviet empire. Each of these have left a consequence which distilled itself into India’s confinement between four lines - the Line of Control, the Line of Actual Control, the McMa-
hon Line and the Durand Line. The book is an attempt to identify the consequences.” Singh, who held the portfolios of defence, external affairs and finance during the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, feels that the disarming of India and its debilitating effect needs careful study. “Post-1857 followed a great disarming of India - the carriage of arms, or personal weapons was never as a weapon of offence but as a male adornment and also in a sense a necessary identity,” said Singh, sitting in his 15, Teen Murti Lane small study, full of books, paintings and artefacts. He recounted his mother referring to his carrying ‘shastra’ or arms as a matter of routine enquiry. “When I pay a visit to my mother, she asks ‘Shastra to hai, beta’ (you have your arms, son). Why did she ask that, not because I am threatened or anything, but it was routine in my part of the world for anyone to carry a shastra. The British post 1857 disarmed the whole of British East India’s occupied territory, but not the pejoratively
so-called native states. There we kept our weapons, till almost the 1960s.” Singh explains that Indians don’t really follow Mahatma Gandhi. “His non-violence was not really a debilitating creed, it was in reality an empowerment. Still, do we really feel empowered by nonviolence.. We say we are essentially non-violent, but when you look around at India today or in the past six years we are an extremely violent land,” he says. The disarming “is having a negative effect on self-reliance of citizens. It is my personal view. During the Vijayanagar empire, six million men were available for instant recruitment,” he says. Would not arms lead to more violence in society, with people resorting to using them at the drop of a hat, like in cases of road rage? “That is a perversion. Road rage is an urban sickness, 70-75 percent of Indians are rural,” he says. “What is that we need to do to make our countrymen and women’s spirit more robust? That is the question to be asked. All of us have been brainwashed into thinking,
should we go down this path India will go down into violence. I lived my life, in a part of India in west Rajasthan, where people still carry swords,” said Singh. Singh also terms the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army as a “great sin” which should not have been done. “I am not a Sikh, but I really truly think to send the army to attack Harmandir Sahib, Darbar Sahib, was a great sin. It should never have been done. It had never been assaulted after Nadir Shah. Were these (Sikh militants) aliens we were dealing with? They were our own citizens,” he said. “Who promoted Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale? You plant the seed - ped boye babool ke, aam kahan se khaye (you plant the seed of a prickly thorn bush then how can you expect to reap mangoes)?” he asked philosophically. In the 292-page book, priced at Rs.595, Singh dwells on the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu, which he terms as a “painful chapter of my life, something that I don’t want to revisit.”
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Vietnam releases dengue-blocking mosquito
TRI NGUYEN ISLAND, NovEmbER 5 (AP): Nguyen Thi Yen rolls up the sleeves of her white lab coat and delicately slips her arms into a box covered by a sheath of mesh netting. Immediately, the feeding frenzy begins. Hundreds of mosquitoes light on her thin forearms and swarm her manicured fingers. They spit, bite and suck until becoming drunk with blood, their bulging bellies glowing red. Yen laughs in delight while her so-called “pets” enjoy their lunch and prepare to mate. The petite, grandmotherly entomologist — nicknamed Dr. Dracula — knows how crazy she must look to outsiders. But this is science, and these are very special bloodsuckers. She smiles and nods at her red-hot arms, swollen and itchy after 10 minutes of feeding. She knows those nasty bites could reveal a way to greatly reduce one of the world’s most menacing infectious diseases. All her mosquitoes have been intentionally infected with bacteria called Wolbachia, which essentially blocks them from getting dengue. And if they can’t get it, they can’t spread it to people. New research suggests some 390 million people are infected with the virus each year, most of them in Asia. That’s about one in every 18 people on Earth, and more than three times higher than the World Health Organization’s previous estimates. Known as “breakbone
fever” because of the excruciating joint pain and hammer-pounding headaches it causes, the disease has no vaccine, cure or specific treatment. Most patients must simply suffer through days of raging fever, sweats and a bubbling rash. For those who develop a more serious form of illness, known as dengue hemorrhagic fever, internal bleeding, shock, organ failure and death can occur. And it’s all caused by one bite from a female mosquito that’s transmitting the virus from another infected person. So how can simple bacteria break this cycle? Wolbachia is commonly found in many insects, including fruit flies. But for reasons not fully understood, it is not carried naturally by certain mosquitoes, including the most common one that transmits dengue, the Aedes aegypti. The germ has fascinated scientist Scott O’Neill his entire career. He started working with it about two decades ago at Yale University. But it wasn’t until 2008, after returning to his native Australia, that he had his eureka moment. One of his research students figured out how to implant the bacteria into a mosquito so it could be passed on to future generations. The initial hope was that it would shorten the insect’s life. But soon, a hidden benefit was discovered: Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes not only died quicker but they also blocked dengue partially or entirely,
In this photo taken on September 2, 2013, specimens collected from traps are taken back to the lab in Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam, for analysis to determine how well Wolbachia mosquitoes are infiltrating the native population. The Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes not only died quicker but they also blocked the dengue virus partially or entirely, sort of like a natural vaccine. New research suggests some 390 mn people are infected with the virus each year, most of them in Asia. That’s about one in every 18 people on Earth, and more than three times higher than the World Health Organization’s previous estimates. (AP Photo)
sort of like a natural vaccine. “The dengue virus couldn’t grow in the mosquito as well if the Wolbachia was present,” says O’Neill, dean of science at Monash University in Melbourne. “And if it can’t grow in the mosquito, it can’t be transmitted.” But proving something in the lab is just the first step. O’Neill’s team needed to test how well the mosquitoes would perform in the wild. They conducted research in small communities in Australia, where dengue isn’t a problem, and the results were encouraging enough to create a buzz among scientists who have long been
searching for new ways to fight the disease. After two and a half years, the Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes had overtaken the native populations and remained 95 percent dominant. But how would it work in dengue-endemic areas of Southeast Asia? The disease swamps hospitals in the region every rainy season with thousands of sick patients, including many children, sometimes killing those who seek help too late. The Australians tapped 58-year-old Yen at Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, where she’s worked for the past 35 years. Their plan
was to test the Wolbachia mosquitoes on a small island off the country’s central coast this year, with another release expected next year in Indonesia. Just getting the mosquitoes to Tri Nguyen Island was an adventure. Thousands of tiny black eggs laid on strips of paper inside feeding boxes had to be hand-carried inside coolers on weekly flights from Hanoi, where Yen normally works, to Nha Trang, a resort city near the island. The eggs had to be kept at just the right temperature and moisture. The mosquitoes were hatched in another lab before finally
being transported by boat. Yen insisted on medical checks for all volunteer feeders to ensure they weren’t sickening her mosquitoes. She deemed vegetarian blood too weak and banned anyone recently on antibiotics, which could kill the Wolbachia. “When I’m sleeping, I’m always thinking about them,” Yen says, hunkered over a petri dish filled with dozens of squiggling mosquito pupae. “I’m always worried about temperature and food. I take care of them same-same like baby. If they are healthy, we are happy. If they are not, we are sad.”
Hong Kong threatens ‘Doctor demand will grow by up to a third by 2025’ YoRK, NovEmbER 5 (RE- crease by 9.5% between 2013 and are subject to change based on healthsanctions against Philippines NEW UTERS HEALTH): Driven by an 2025. The Congressional Budget Of- care delivery systems and behaviors.
HoNG KoNG, NovEmbER 5 (AFP): Hong Kong’s leader threatened sanctions against the Philippines on Tuesday over a row involving the deaths of its tourists in a 2010 hostage crisis in Manila. The southern Chinese city is demanding a formal apology for the incident, which saw 8 of its citizens killed and 7 others wounded after negotiations broke down between Philippine authorities and a former police officer who hijacked a tour bus. “Unless, within a month, there are concrete steps taken to resolve this issue, the government will take necessary actions to apply sanctions,” chief executive Leung Chun-ying told reporters Tuesday morning. “I urge the Philippines government and/or the Manila municipal government to quickly come up with a proposal to respond to the families of the deceased and the requests of the injured,” Leung added. The apparent incompetence of the police outraged the residents of Hong Kong, a city accustomed to low crime rates, and saw relations with the Southeast Asian country nosedive. Hong Kong has maintained a travel warning to the country since the episode, while the city’s lawmakers have mooted a cancellation of its visa-free arrangement for visitors from the Philippines as well as possible trade sanctions. More than 160,000 Philippine nationals reside in Hong Kong, with most working as domestic helpers. Bilateral trade between the two totalled some $8.2 billion in 2012. In October, Manila mayor Joseph Estrada offered to issue apologies for the hostage-taking incident. But Philippine President Benigno Aquino has refused to make an apology on behalf of the country, insisting the deaths were primarily caused by the actions of the hostage taker.
aging population and increased access to health insurance, the U.S. will need more doctors by 2025, says a new study. The expected rise in demand varies by state and medical specialty, according to the study’s lead author. “What’s happening at the state level can be very different than what’s happening at the national level,” Timothy Dall told Reuters Health. He is a managing director at the research and information service firm IHS in Washington, D.C. The new study, published in Health Affairs, looks at future demands for primary and specialized healthcare providers. Those specialists include cardiologists, neurologists and urologists. The researchers used a computer model to estimate future healthcare demand by taking into account a growing and aging population and increased access to health insurance due to the Affordable Care Act - commonly known as Obamacare. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the country’s population will in-
fice also estimates that an additional 28 million people will have health insurance by 2023. The researchers found the expected increase in doctor demand was largely attributed to a growing number of diseases among an older population. Obamacare, on the other hand, was only linked to an increase of a few percentage points. Overall, the researchers found the demand for primary care or family doctors will grow by 14 percent by 2025. That’s less than the expected growth among some medical specialties. Dall and his colleagues estimate that demand for vascular surgeons who perform bypass surgeries and insert stents, for instance - will increase by about 31 percent and demand for cardiologists will increase by 20 percent. But those estimates vary by state. For example, though the demand for cardiologists is estimated to grow by 51% in Nevada, demand in West Virginia is only estimated to grow by 5%. Dall cautioned that the estimates
For example, Dr. Reid Blackwelder, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, said conditions that would drive people to see specialists are largely preventable with adequate primary care. Focusing on prevention and primary care would be expected to shift demand toward family doctors. “As we start to recognize the foundational nature of true primary care and prevention, we’re going to need more primary care providers to be that foundation,” Blackwelder told Reuters Health. Blackwelder, who was not involved with the new study, is also affiliated with East Tennessee State University’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City. “The bottom line is that care delivery patterns will change,” Dall said. He told Reuters Health the new study can’t say whether the U.S. will experience a shortage of doctors by 2025. Previously, the Association of American Medical Colleges estimated that the U.S. doctor shortage will grow to more than 130,000 by 2025.
8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets
WASHINGToN, NovEmbER 5 (AP): Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life. Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone. The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. For perspective, that’s more Earth-like planets than there are people on Earth. As for what it says about the odds that there is life somewhere out there, it means “just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, that’s 8.8 billion throws of the biological dice,” said study co-author Geoff Marcy, a longtime planet hunter from the University of California at Berkeley. The next step, scientists say, is to look for atmospheres on these planets with powerful space telescopes that have yet to be launched. That would yield further clues to whether any of these planets do, in fact, harbor life. The findings also raise a blar-
This artist’s rendition provided by NASA shows Kepler-69c, a superEarth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun, located about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. (AP Photo)
ing question, Marcy said: If we aren’t alone, why is “there a deafening silence in our Milky Way galaxy from advanced civilizations?” In the Milky Way, about 1 in 5 stars that are like our sun in size, color and age have planets that are roughly Earth’s size and are in the habitable zone where lifecrucial water can be liquid, according to intricate calculations based on four years of observations from NASA’s now-crippled Kepler telescope.
If people on Earth could only travel in deep space, “you’d probably see a lot of traffic jams,” Bill Borucki, NASA’s chief Kepler scientist, joked Monday. The Kepler telescope peered at 42,000 stars, examining just a tiny slice of our galaxy to see how many planets like Earth are out there. Scientists then extrapolated that figure to the rest of the galaxy, which has hundreds of billions of stars. For the first time, scientists calculated — not estimated —
what percent of stars that are just like our sun have planets similar to Earth: 22 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus 8 percentage points. Kepler scientist Natalie Batalha said there is still more data to pore over before this can be considered a final figure. There are about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, with 40 billion of them like our sun, Marcy said. One of his co-authors put the number of sun-like stars closer to 50 billion,
meaning there would be at least 11 billion planets like ours. Based on the 1-in-5 estimate, the closest Earth-size planet that is in the habitable temperature zone and circles a sun-like star is probably within 70 trillion miles (113 trillion kilometers)of Earth, Marcy said. And the 8.8 billion Earthsize planets figure is only a start. That’s because scientists were looking only at sun-like stars, which are not the most common stars.An earlier study found that 15 percent of the more common red dwarf stars have Earth-size planets that are close-in enough to be in the not-too-hot, not-toocold Goldilocks Zone. Put those together and that’s probably 40 billion right-size, right-place planets, Marcy said. And that’s just our galaxy. There are billions of other galaxies. Scientists at a Kepler science conference Monday said they have found 833 new candidate planets with the space telescope, bringing the total of planets they’ve spotted to 3,538, but most aren’t candidates for life. Kepler has identified only 10 planets that are about Earth’s size circling sun-like stars and are in the habitable zone, including one called Kepler 69-c.
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‘Saudi Arabia must decide on women drivers’ RIYADH, NovEmbER 5 (AFP): US Secretary of State John Kerry said it was up to Saudi Arabia to decide when the time was right to allow women to drive. “It’s no secret that in the United States of America we embrace equality for everybody regardless of gender, race, or any other qualification,” Kerry said at a press conference in Riyadh. “But it’s up to Saudi Arabia to make its own decision about its own social structure and other choices, and timing,” he added. Last week the United States said it supports the “universal rights” of women to drive in Saudi Arabia, after an October weekend protest there saw several women defy the law by taking the steering wheel. “We support the full inclusion of women in Saudi society. People throughout the world share the same universal rights to assemble and express themselves peacefully,” said State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki. “So certainly, we would support their ability to drive,” Psaki said when asked about the Saudi campaign, in which women were encouraged to get behind the steering wheel on October 26 even if it meant confronting authorities. But Kerry said after talks with Saudi leaders: “There’s a healthy debate in Saudi Arabia about this issue, but I think that debate is best left to the Saudi Arabian people who are engaged in it.” He added however that everyone knew where the United States stood on this issue. At least 16 women were stopped by police during a protest last month and were fined and forced along with their male guardians to pledge to obey the conservative-kingdom’s laws. A Saudi video mocking the kingdom’s unique ban on female driving has gone viral, featuring a male performer singing “no woman, no drive”, an adaptation of Bob Marley’s “No Cry” hit.
Saudi activist Manal Al Sharif, who now lives in Dubai, flashes the sign for victory as she drives her car in the Gulf Emirate city, on October 22, 2013, in solidarity with Saudi women. (AFP/File Photo)
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Excise dept training course on Nov 7 and 8 DimaPur, November 5 (mexN): The Nagaland Excise department in collaboration with NCB (Zonal) Guwahati is organising a two-day capsule training course for the Middle Level Law Enforcing Officer on November 7 and 8 at the Excise Directorate, Dimapur. Commissioner of Excise Maongwati Aier in a press release has stated that the training intends to upgrade the skill and technique of investigation and update with various provision under NDPS ACT.
Kiphire observes Global IDD day
KiPhire, November 5 (mexN): Observing the Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day, a program was held at Conference Hall, Chief Medical Office Kiphire District on November 2. The resource person was Dr. Dheni, Medical Officer, IDSP Kiphire. Kukieheto Tase, DPM, CMO Office Kiphire chaired the programme. Brief introduction about the Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day was shared by District Media Officer and special number presented by the Red Ribbon Club of Zisaji College, Kiphire. The resource person gave a power point presentation on the importance of Iodine and the problems it causes due to its deficiency. Thereafter, demonstration on salt testing to check the presence of iodine was also done and test kit was provided to all the participants. Participants of the programme were from 12 different churches Women Department in Kiphire Town and Red Ribbon Club, Zisaji College. Also present were District Program Officer, RCH/UIP, Medical Officers from District Hospital, PHC Sitimi and staffs of Chief Medical Office Kiphire.
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Barca missing Messi mojo before Milan clash
maDriD, November 5 (reuters): Lionel Messi has set the bar so high for himself that when he does not score for a few games it prompts an outburst of speculation and head-scratching about what might be ailing the Argentine World Player of the Year. That is the situation Messi's club Barcelona find themselves in as they prepare to host AC Milan in Champions League Group H on Wednesday. At home to Espanyol on Friday, the 26-year-old failed to score for a fourth successive La Liga match in which he played the full 90 minutes, his most barren run in almost six years. Messi's season was disrupted by a minor muscle strain at the end of September and since his return he has also failed to score against Osasuna, Celta Vigo and Real Madrid. That said, he did net the equaliser in last month's 1-1 Champions League draw at Milan, his fourth goal of the competition in two outings this season following his hattrick against Ajax Amsterdam in September. His record in La Liga is
also one most players would be delighted with - eight goals in 10 appearances - yet still the alarm bells are ringing in the Catalan capital and beyond. Barca's four club captains Xavi, Carles Puyol, Victor Valdes and Andres Iniesta - are so worried that they have offered to meet Messi to see if he needs their help, Sport newspaper reported on Sunday. Messi himself has said little about the situation, although he posted a message on Chinese social networking site Weibo at the weekend saying he was not yet back to full fitness. "I am still not at 100 percent physically but for sure with each passing match I will pick up more rhythm," he said. Barca coach Gerardo Martino, who like Messi hails from the city of Rosario, played down concerns about the player's form after the Espanyol game. "Messi does not seem worried to me," he told a news conference. "It's just a coincidence that he has not scored in three or four games. "Messi has raised the bar so high that when he doesn't score it's FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi from Argentina, center, duels for the ball against Espanyol´s Juan Fuentes, right, suddenly a problem." during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain on Nov. 1. (AP Photo)
7th Peren Dist Legislators Football Trophy
Life Skill training prog held
chaNgtoNgya, November 5 (DiPr): A seminar on Life Skill training programme for the youth under Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Government of India through the department of Youth Resources Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangatham was held on November 2 at Educational Block Resource Centre Changtongya. The programme was organised by Longpantsung Ward Union Changtongya town. Resource person was John Makhabo, District Youth Coordinator Mokokchung. Mapurenla and Lipokumla volunteers NYKS Mokokchung were also present at the training programme. Welcome speech was delivered by Bendangakum Jamir, Youth President LWYU while vote of thanks was given by Arenba Jamir Youth Sports committee LWYU. Altogether 45 youths attended the training programme.
PVC to celebrate golden jubilee
PeDucha, November 5 (mexN): Peducha village council is scheduled to celebrate 50 years of village establishment on December 6 at Peducha (Kiruphema local ground). Meanwhile, Minister for social welfare will be the chief guest during the Golden Jubilee celebration. The village falls under Western Angami area with a distance of 20 KM away from the state capital Kohima. Peducha village is well known for being awarded the National Award for receiving Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) organized by the Water and Sanitation Support Organization (WSSO) PHED. The programme will be chaired by Thepfülhouto Zenyüu, Convenor Organizing Committee of the Jubilee, invocation by Pecüvilie Kruneilie, pastor Peducha Baptist church and welcome address Thepfüyiengu Vilie, chairman Peducha village council. A brief history of the village will be provided by Thepfülhouca Kinyü , special number by Peducha village youths and vote of thanks will be delivered by Neimehel Neikha, vice chairman of peducha village council. The youths of Peducha Baptist Church has also informed all members to participate in the forthcoming sanitation day to be held on November 30, which is a yearly event and also for the coming village Golden Jubilee celebration.
School sanitation competition in Kohima
Kohima, November 5 (mexN): In continuation with the ongoing initiative for creating a healthy competition amongst the schools of Kohima town and village with regards to sanitation , the co-ordinator pastor Rev Phomlee Van, co-ordinator , NBCC environment & sanitation committee for Kohima town has stated that two more schools, in addition to the earlier notified 45 schools, namely Christ King Higher Secondary School , Kohima village and St. John School , Merhulietsa Kohima , will be covered in the competition. It further stated that the assessment work will be carried out by the authorized persons during the period November 5 to 15 and awards given to the top 10 cleanest Schools in a grand function by the end of November at NBCC Conference Hall, Kohima. The Committee hoped that all the listed 47 high schools and higher secondary schools would participate with great interest and enthusiasm for the interest of all concerned, a release received here said today.
district in the field of sports. The Minister also appreciated the work of present Legislators of Peren District for trying to bring in all round development. The Minister also assured that he would try to work for the upliftment of the youth by setting up standard Indoor and Outdoor Stadium in the entire district of Nagaland in the days to come. Later on, he visited the sites of the ongoing project under their department and left the district.
DimaPur, November 5 (mexN): Sainik School Punglwa (SSPN) basketball team participated in the CBSE (Cluster-I) Basketball Championship 2013-14 at Kaziranga English Academy from October 28 to 30. Seventeen schools under the CBSE East Zone participated in the Championship.
The SSPN team defeated four times Champion Kaziranga English Academy and finished 3rd in the Championship. The team with its manager Joseph Raja shared the joy of the team bagging the best March-Past and Cadet Neiketounyu bagging the Most Valuable Player Awardin the Championship.
SSPN finishes 3rd in CBSE (Cluster-I) Basketball C'ship
Professional soft skills training for EACs held
Kohima, November 5 (mexN): A four day Professional Soft Skills Training for the EAC batch of 2011 and 2012 was conducted by the Nagaland Career Development Centre (NCDC), a Youthnet and Smarter Nagaland initiative at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) from October 31- November 3, 2013. The resource persons for the training were Talichila Imchen, Training Consultant and Lezo Putsure, Chief Strategist, Youthnet. A total of newly inducted 26 Extra Assistant Commissioners participated in the training, wherein sessions on Positive Attitude, Confidence, Effective Communication, Assertiveness, Conflict Management, Time Management, Decision Making and Problem Solving were covered. Meanwhile, a talk on Emerging Issues and Challenges for Young Officers was also given by PVC NU Meriema Campus, Prof. Lanunungsang during the course of the training. Under the initiative of Addl. Director ATI Lithrongla Chishi, a first of its kind Sunday Devotion for the NCS Probationers was also held with David Walling as the Speaker. Youthnet also thanked Additional Chief Secretary C.J Ponraj for the opportunity given for them to learn and share together.
PereN, November 5 (mexN): The 7th Peren District Legislators Football Trophy’2013 was inaugurated with Merentoshi R Jamir, Youth Resources and Sports, Nagaland as Chief Guest at Jalukie town on November 5 in presence of Kelie Zeliang, Director YR&S, Nagaland. During his speech, the Chief Guest appreciated the work of the organizer (PDRA) for taking the trouble and pain by organizing the event to provide opportunities to the young talents of the
Keeping in tune with an aim to foster friendship and promotion of football, the Nagaland Premier League (NPL), Mokokchung management played a friendly football match with the staffs of PWD (R&B) where the NPL management team won the match by 4 goals to 3. Executive Engineer PWD (R&B) Imnameren expressed his appreciation to the NPL management for coming forward and engaging all the cluster of the society in the promotion of football in Nagaland.
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‘Glorify God with our cultures’
Pfutsero, November 5 (mexN): The Baptist Theological College held its 24th cultural day on November 4 with the theme ‘Unity through Diverse Cultures.’ Guest speaker, Rev. Dr. Choi Han Zu encouraged the participants to accept one another’s culture, imbibe good cultures and be careful with those cultures which distort the truth. He said, “We must glorify God with our cultures”. Ideuraibe Putlang, Social and Cultural Secretary, Baptist Theological College Students Association (BTCSA)
led the programme. The programme was made alive and captivating with different splendid cultural exhibitions. Ao students, Angami students, Arunachal, Assam, Nepal and Garo Students, Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS) Staff and CBCC Staff presented beautiful folk songs. Chakhesang Students, Zeliang Students, Myanmar Students and students of Chakhesang Mission High School, displayed magnificent folk dances. Noknai Konyak dem-
onstrated a striking way of Naga traditional fire making. Naga Legion accompanied him, who chanted beautiful songs and made the demonstration alluring. It was followed by the exhibition of handcrafts made by the students. Many were impressed seeing the things and commented that they (students) were skillful and talented. There were also exciting traditional games such as tug of war and Bamboo Pole Climbing. It was a historic and memorable day for the BTC Community.
Kohima, November 5 (mexN): Sazolie College held its first parent-teacher meet on November 2. Ako Whiso, Managing Director, CD King School, speaking on behalf of the parents, expressed his appreciation and thanked the college for providing a very strong foundation to his children who studied in the college. He opined that education should not emphasize simply on acquiring very good grades or 100% results, but that it should give due importance to personality development of students.
He also emphasized on the moral obligation of parents in education and expressed concern about the evil effects of technology, especially internet technology, on children. Dr. Kangzangding Thou, the Principal, speaking on behalf of the college, emphasized on the need for a concerted effort of all stakeholders in education. He highlighted the various activities undertaken by the college. He also briefed the parents about the semester system. Parents also expressed the need for updating par-
ents of the progress of students, maintaining good rapport between parents and teachers and nurturing the potentials of students. Dr. Luke Rymbai, Vice-Principal, chaired the programme, invocation prayer was said by Nzanthung Kikon, Chaplain and Jamkhanmoi, Academic Dean, gave the vote of thanks. The participants were presented a glimpse of the college since its inception and the male teachers presented a special song. The programme concluded with a brief informal interaction between parents and teachers.
Kohima, November 5 (mexN): A one day sensitization programme on Juvenile Justice System and Integrated Child Protection Scheme was organized by the District Child Protection Society, Peren on October 31. The eventwas held at DB court Tenning Town for the village and town councils, women and youth society leaders. Khehoto Sema, State Child Protection Society Director and Joint Director SW Nagaland, Kohima graced the programme and delivered the keynote address. In his speech, he
highlighted the programme of ICPS and appealed for the leaders to communicate to the society where children need protection. He said that institution for child care existed in the state but this cannot replace the family which is the best institution to mould a child. He further cautioned the people not to send their children outside the state for education without having proper information about the institution. Raitale Zeliang Programme Manager State Child Protection Society was the resource person,
wherein she outlined the role and function of SCPS, District Child Protection Society, Child Welfare Committee, Juvenile Justice Board and Special Juvenile Police Unit. Asungbe, Legal cum Probation Officer spoke on Legal and Child rights. The programme was chaired by Eneingulou while K.Lailu Pastor TVBC invoked God’s Blessing at the programme. The programme concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Paule, according to a release issued by Samuel Kapu, District Child Protection Officer, Peren.
Government orders transfer & posting of NCS probationers
Kohima, November 5 (DiPr): The 7. Tiayanger Jamir, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as EAC, Tuensang. Government of Nagaland has ordered transfer and posting of the following NCS 8. Thejakhrienuo Nisa, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as EAC, Mokokchung. Probationers as under: 9. L.Samuel, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as EAC, Tuensang. 1. Rongsenmenla, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as EAC, Aqunnaqa. Zuring Madeliang, 10. Kemciyile, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as EAC, Zunheboto. NCS, EAC, Nuiland is relieved of the Ad11. H.Berimong, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as ditional charge of EAC, Aqunnaqa. EAC, Mon. 2. Hotulu Sema, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as 12. C.Phuniang, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as EAC, Longkhim. EAC, Kohima. 3. Shelley Katiry, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as The notification also stated that the ofEAC, Zunheboto. 4. Kikato Chishi, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as ficers should take over charge on or before November 11. This notification dated NoEAC, Mokokchung. 5. Kevelituo Nisa, NCS, EAC (P) is posted as vember 2 was issued by the department of P&AR (Personnel ‘A’ Branch) in the interEAC, Peren. 6. Meyazungba Jamir, NCS, EAC (P) is post- est of public service and on completion of the NCS induction training at ATI. ed as EAC, Longleng.
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The congregation offering prayer during the Tenyimia Church Mokokchung golden jubilee celebration on November 3. (DIPR Photo)
moKoKchuNg, No vember 5 (DiPr): Tenyimia Church Mokokchung celebrated its golden jubilee on November 3. Fifty years ago in 1963, the year when Nagaland attained its Statehood, the Tenyimia Church Mokokchung came into birth by the faith of a man name Khelhoukhielie Angami of Kohima village. It was Khelhoukhielie, a government servant (Police department) posted in Mokokchung, who sowed the seeds of having a fellowship of Tenyimia. It was in June 1963 under the faithful leader-
ship of Khelhoukhielie, the regular Tenyimia Church was reported to have been started at Cheiriakhanaa L.P. School in Khasia Line with Khelhoukhielie himself as the founding Pastor. Established by a handful of dedicated people, mostly government servants, there are now hundreds of Tenyimia, permanently residing in Mokokchung town and are active members of the Church as the Church completed its fifty years of service to the glory of God. The main function was held at the Church near Mokokchung town Hall under the
theme “Hitherto the Lord has helped us.” Reverend Rudilhou Rio, President Angami Baptist Church Pastor Deacon Kehou was the main speaker while Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Murohu Chotso released the Jubilee Souvenir and greeted the people on the occasion. Special songs, scripture reading, presenting Souvenir to participants and Jubilee feast were the major highlights of the celebration. The celebration was attended among others by pastors from various churches and Tenyimia under Mokokchung town.
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Sky Entertainment: What made you decide to come to Nagaland? Jennifer Batten: To the west, India seems like a place of higher spiritual evolution. Also, I’ve been interested in different cultures for many years which reflects in my music. There’s nothing like being immersed in a culture to really appreciate it way beyond what a film can give you. SE: Since this will be your first visit to Nagaland, what kind of experience you are anticipating? JB: Adventure. I haven’t had time to look into information about the area, so I expect surprises daily. I’m really looking forward to hearing local musicians. SE: Tell us about your music training? JB: I took lessons since I was 8 years old, and eventually graduated from Musicians Institute in Hollywood. I also studied with some private jazz players. My father always had jazz playing in the house. He also took us to a lot of concerts. SE: How many hours do you still practice? JB: It depends on what projects are looming. So, it’s anywhere from 1 hour to all day. SE: In the 10 years you have worked with Michael jackson, what was the best part? JB: The best was everything that was so new to me on the Bad tour in 1987. I got to see the world in style. We had time to really get to see the sights and absorb where we were. We played to 50,000 people or more every show. Getting to experience the excitement is something that will always be burned into my brain. SE: From your experience, how was Michael as a person? JB: He was kind, thoughtful, considerate, and enormously talented. It gave him joy to be able to present innovative fresh material and stage shows to people. SE: What does it take for an artist to make it big in Music Industry? JB: There is no formula. I think in the end it’s a combination of your personality, talent, and energy. In general, people that are famous are pretty driven to do what it takes. Having a good focus on your goals and working non-stop are key. But in the end, the audience can feel your level of love for the music, so that has to be number one. By the time I got the gig with M Jackson, I was playing in 6 different bands, and teaching guitar 6 days a week. So, music was pretty much all I did.
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mates. I do everything normally but obviously Zayn is really famous so it`s harder for him, but we still do what we want to do," she added. The blonde beauty insists she hasn`t let her success get to her head and she doesn`t see herself as a star. "We like to stay grounded and be normal people and not act like divas. I`m not like, `Oh I am going to be so mobbed today and everyone is going to take my photo.` I don`t see myself like
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An Opinion haCh PATTON It’s magical, powerful and awesome. Nagas and their love for music are but a tapestry. It is inherent to both the old and the young. It is inexplicably still usic produceris available for theintense. rest ofIthe fine end morning guitar singer Jay remember Z is USone at the of thethe month, Ren Merry telling his music stulaunching hismaestro, first reports femalefirst.co.uk. dents at Patkai Christian College about the fragrance for men Nov 20. "We are to make Nagas love for music andgoing its prospects. The 43-year-old`s men`s big noise. 30are days In his awords. “I findFor thatthe Nagas infragrance will be launched it will credibly talented in whateverbefore they do.Christmas, But as of now I canbe assure you if we are to complete with the restto ofknow the world. exclusively atthat, luxury departimpossible not he through our music”. Thathas wasacirca 1994. Almost 20 years mentIts’ stores Barneys, which fragrance," Jay Z`s fradown the line he has not been proven wrong. he collaborated with as part grance licensee, Donald J. Naga musician have taken their passion for music all of hisacross fashion line, before Loftus, wwd.com. "Jay the world and haveitmade great told impressions. Some mention can be made about the indomitable spirit of the Abiogenesis, Divine Connection, Alobo Naga, Neise Meruno, Nagaland Chamber Choir and the new teenage sensation the Polar Lights. Talk about Goa and Jamaica and you think of music and good times. So, Naga ‘musicos’. You have taken Nagaland to the world. Now, it is about time you bring the world to Nagaland and let them feel our love and passion for good music. Nagaland here we come. Tis the land of music and festivities.
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stressed that he didn`t want to do what had been done before," Loftus added. The singer reportedly rejected 3,200 possible names for his perfume before finally deciding that he wanted to name it Gold. The product is expected to be released internationally in 2014.
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in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. Perry is in Tokyo to promote her new album "PRISM". (AP Photo)
ki racer Lindsey Vonn says her boyfriend and golfer Tiger Woods is funny, just like her. The couple has been dating for about eight months now, and Vonn thinks that the two have very similar personalities, reports eonline. com. "He`s funny. He`s really laid-back. He`s a great guy. He`s always making jokes. Very competitive, just like me," the 29-year-old said. "We have very similar personalities. But yeah, if there`s one thing I could say... He`s funny. He`s goofy, like dorkygoofy," she added.
Victoria Beckham upset at not getting Vogue job inger-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham is reportedly disappointed after losing the opportunity to become Contributing Fashion Editor at Vogue to supermodel Kate Moss. Moss was announced as Britain's Vogue contributing fashion editor recently and
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she will help style shoots and choose models starting next year, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "Vic has always had a good relationship with Alexandra Shulman, Vogue's editor, and expressed an interest in working for them two years ago during a work
the Metro newspaper. "I do whatever I want. I go shopping all the time. I go out for food. Go out with my
that," she said. The couple got engaged in August this year and haven`t made any decision about marriage.
lunch in London," a source revealed to Heat magazine. "It has always been Victoria's dream to work for a fashion magazine, so when this came up and they approached her about it a few months ago, she was beside herself with excitement," the source added.
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Clippers demolish SaCHin'S faRewell SeRieS Houston Rockets India-Windies to battle it out in unique Test Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard, center, puts up a shot as Los Angeles Clippers' Jared Dudley, bottom left, and DeAndre Jordan watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Nov. 4, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
LOS ANGELES, NO vEmbEr 5 (rEutErS): Center Dwight Howard was back in Los Angeles for the first time as a member of the Houston Rockets on Monday, and an old nemesis made sure his return to Tinseltown was as difficult as possible. The Los Angeles Clippers, who swept Howard and his Lakers last season, were up to their old tricks against him in a 137-118 victory at sold-out Staples Center. The Clippers had an explosive, 78-point first half, getting Howard into early foul trouble. Los Angeles built and maintained a double-digit lead. "They got off to a great start, and it's hard to play catch-up to that team," Houston backup point guard Aaron Brooks said. "That's a good team." Shooting guard J.J. Redick led the Clippers with a game-high 26 points. Point guard Chris Paul added 23 points and 17 assists, and power forward Blake Griffin had 18 points and seven
rebounds. All five starters reached double digits in points for Los Angeles (31). Howard, who picked up three fouls in the first quarter and played just 6:27 in the first half, finished with 13 points and nine rebounds in 26 minutes. It was his first game in Staples Center since getting tossed from Game 4 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs last season while playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. The defeat set the stage for a contentious summer in which Howard spurned the Lakers in favor of the Rockets. "It was fun," Howard said of his return. "I saw a lot of old faces and people I made connections with." The game was another story, as the Rockets allowed the Clippers to shoot 52.1 percent from the floor on 49-of-94 shooting. Los Angeles 15 of 38 3-point attempts (39.5 percent). "It happens. We're upset about
it, but we have to move forward," Howard said. "They had a great game tonight, they came out and did what they needed to do and got a win." The Clippers did an effective job neutralizing Rockets shooting guard James Harden, limiting him to 15 points on 6-of-16 shooting, and point guard Jeremy Lin, who had 14 points. Omri Casspi scored 19 points off the bench for the Rockets (3-1). While the Clippers weren't happy with giving up 118 points, they'll take the win knowing their point total set a fast-paced tone. "I thought we did a pretty good job of containing guys, but the game sort of got going that way, and that's how it turned out," Griffin said. Added Paul: "It's funny because we haven't held a team under 100 points in four games, but I promise you our defense is better than it looks. What has to get better is our transition defense.
land skipper said. "It is what happens when England play Australia. It hasn't changed since the summer and we don't expect it to change over the next couple of months," Cook told reporters in Hobart on the eve of England's warm-up match against Australia A on Tuesday. "I've always said I'm trying to learn on the job from experience and there will be times where I could be slightly more imaginative ... "We've had a pretty good run so far as a test side. In my first year as a test captain we've won away in India which we hadn't done for a long time and won a series against Australia. "I think those are things we can be very proud of as a side." Cook has recovered
from the back problem that ruled him out of England's opening tour match in Perth and is expected to lead his team in the fourday match at the Bellerive Oval. On the 2010-11 tour of Australia, Cook scored three centuries, including an unbeaten 235, and 766 runs at average of 127 as England won an Ashes series away from home for the first time in a quarter of a century. The 28-year-old lefthander failed to score a century in the 3-0 series win over Australia in England earlier this year, however. The memory of his rich run of form three years ago would therefore make him a tad more comfortable at the Australian test venues, he said, but would not be a factor once the first test starts in Brisbane on November 21. "It doesn't count for anything now, you always have to prove yourself as a batter," Cook added. "There's always someone saying 'last time he didn't score runs'. Situations don't change. The difference is probably that I'm now responsible for the team." That responsibility had two distinct sides to it, Cook said, the private manmanagement in the dressing room and the team hotel and the very public tactical decisions on the pitch.
KOLKAtA, NOvEmbEr 5 (PtI): Cricket has been left overshadowed by the farewell carnival surrounding the iconic Sachin Tendulkar and India will have to keep emotions in check to ensure that they are not distracted from the task at hand against the West Indies in his swansong two-Test series starting on Wednesday. The centre stage will belong to Tendulkar, who will begin pulling the curtains down on his glittering career. The 40-year-old veteran will call it quits after his 200th Test with the one starting on Wednesday being his 199th. Amid an upsurge of emotions among fans and administrators of the game alike, Tendulkar would look to make it memorable through his bat against a team, which has promised to steal the limelight by thwarting him. Given the hype and hoopla surrounding the series, it would take a herculean effort from the West Indies to avoid being just bridesmaids. Tendulkar's imposing presence will dominate the series and why not? In a controversy-free career spanning 24 years, Tendulkar has been the most worshipped and followed cricketer who has against his name, almost all the batting records including most runs and hundreds in international cricket. Treated like 'God' by his fans, it will be one nostalgic moment for sports-mad Kolkata when Tendulkar comes on to bat in his penultimate Test on the hallowed Eden Gardens. The majestic ground has been witness to many of Tendulkar's ups and downs since his Eden odyssey began in an ODI against Sri Lanka on January 4, 1991. His miserly three-run last over that had denied South Africa the winning six runs in the Hero Cup semifinal on November 24, 1993 is part of cricketing folklore here. At the same time, the 1996 World Cup semifinal against Sri Lanka when fans hurled bottles and set the stands on fire after an Indian collapse began with Tendulkar's dismissal would also remain etched in the memory. Having played 25 matches in both
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'Tendulkar's retirement biggest in cricket history' NEW DELHI: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has termed Sachin Tendulkar's retirement from international cricket as the "biggest" the game has ever seen, while another former great VVS Laxman feels that CAB's farewell arrangements won't cause "distraction" to him. Asked if Tendulkar's impending retirement after two-Test series against the West Indies is the biggest farewell that the world cricket has seen, the veteran replied, "I think so. Any retirement is greeted with sadness. After November 18, there will be no Tendulkar in action. So the frenzy is understandable. He is the biggest cricketer after Sir Don Bradman and his retirement is the biggest of them all." Gavaskar even took a dig at the media, who, according to him made endless speculations about Tendulkar's retirement till the cricketer himself made it official.
Test and ODI formats here, the most by any, Tendulkar will appear in his 13th Test at the Eden and the fans would pray that the batting stalwart bids adieu to the historic ground on a high. Adulation and admiration aside, Tendulkar has been subjected to criticism in recent times. He has had a tough time especially in the last couple of years when he took 21 Tests and 12 ODIs to get to his 100th International centuries that came against minnows Bangladesh on March 16, 2012. But in Tests, Tendulkar is stranded at 51 tons and is yet to score a century in 21 matches since his 146 in Cape Town on January 2, 2011.
"I used to tell you guys that you don't know what you will miss once he (Tendulkar) retires." Laxman said Tendulkar's innings against Haryana in the Ranji opener at Lahli should act as a confidence booster for the legendary batsman as it came under tough conditions. "He played a match-winning knock in the second innings but I was more impressed with the amount of time he spent out there in the middle," said Laxman. Both Gavaskar and Laxman spoke in the same vein about Tendulkar remaining unaffected by CAB's grand farewell arrangements, which many think could cause distractions for him. "I don't think, these things (farewell celebrations would be a distraction). The moment he landed, he made it clear that he would like to concentrate. As far as the arrangements goes, Kolkata has always shown love for its
Tendulkar's farewell aside, India will start the series as firm favourites with the young batsmen rising up to the challenge even though the bowling is a worry. On the other hand, despite their big claims of playing hard cricket and spoiling Tendulkar's farewell series, the Windies did not quite show quality in a three-day practice match against Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association last week. This will be a perfect dress rehearsal for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men before the tough away challenges in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia next year. India's batting is in the groove and the return of Shikhar Dhawan will strengthen the middle-order.
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SYDNEY, NOvEmbEr 5 (rEutErS): England's Alastair Cook admits Shane Warne's criticism of his captaincy raised his blood pressure a notch but is happy to let his record speak for itself going into the second Ashes series of the year. Since the stylish batsman took the job in August last year after the unexpected retirement of Andrew Strauss, England have lost one test in 14 and triumphed in series against India, New Zealand and Australia. Warne's claim that Cook was unimaginative by comparison with his opposite number Michael Clarke and could cost England the Ashes with his onfield leadership was only to be expected from a former Australian great, the Eng-
cricketers. Sometimes, it can be overwhelming but you don't get this kind of love anywhere in the country," Gavaskar told an English news channel on Tuesday. Laxman on his part said, "Eden Gardens is a special ground. In Kolkata, right from the time you land at the airport till you board a flight back, the love and affection you get is unimaginable. People come up to you and speak about the game." Another subject on which both Gavaskar and Laxman were of the same opinion was Rohit Sharma being fully ready to make his Test debut. "Yes, absolutely. He (Rohit) is ready to make his Test debut. It is great to see his consistency since he has started opening the innings for India in ODIs. Not only is he playing those match-winning knocks but also the aggression that he has shown has been heartening to watch. I think he also wants to play Test matches now," Laxman opined.
The left-hander struck a rollicking 187 in his debut innings in Mohali only to sit out in the second essay picking up an injury and going on to miss the last Test against Australia earlier this year. After his comeback in the IPL, Dhawan was in blistering form in the recent ODI series and the southpaw would look to lay the foundation at the top with Murali Vijay, while Cheteshwar Pujara will play the sheet-anchor role. India's middle-order would see a new face in Rohit Sharma when he makes his a Test debut at the Eden. More than three and after 108 ODIs and 3049 runs, Sharma has a new-found approach as showed by
becoming only the third batsman ever to score an ODI triple-hundred in the recent home series against Australia. Sharma was due for a Test debut against the touring South Africans in 2009-10 but a freak injury kept him on the sidelines. In fact, it is the bowling attack which has left India in a bit of a quandary. Dhoni is likely to go for a three plus two pace-spin attack in the absence of an injured Ravindra Jadeja. The return of Umesh Yadav will bolster the new-ball attack with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma being the other two pacers while Bengal-lad Mohammad Shami may just have to wait for a Test debut.
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Players of Indira Gandhi Stadium Football Academy (Girls) Kohima and Kohima District Veteran Football Association in action on November 5. (Morung Photo)
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