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PWD informs travelers KOhimA, AuGuSt 23 (mExN): The Public Works Department (PWD) has informed travelers not to travel the 33/300 Km of NH-2 (NH-61), near Botsa, which has been affected by incessant rainfall and landslides. A press note from Kumdang Longchar, Executive Engineer, Division No.1, PWD NH, Kohima, requested travelers not to ply the particular stretch of road at night from 6:00 am to 6:00am in order to facilitate the department in the clearance operation.

Heavy vehicles have especially been cautioned not to use the road till the clearance operation is completed. The department further assured that it is engaged in round the clock clearance operations and have requested cooperation from the public.

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Nagaland Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources and Sports and Advisor to the Music Task Force, Khriehu Liezietsu today informed that rock band, Smokie and internationally renowned guitar virtuoso, Vinnie Moore, will be featuring at the Hornbill International Rock Contest 2014. Smokie, hit-makers of ‘Living next door to Alice’ will play on December 3, while Vinnie Moore, member of rock band UFO, will feature on December 4. “I personally welcome the rock music lovers of Mokokchung to this mega contest,” stated Liezietsu, while addressing the launch of Rock Reign 3.14 here at Cosmos Entertainment Hall.

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The ‘Public rally against social evils,’ jointly organized by The Watchman, Naga Council Dimapur, Churches, Bible colleges and Christian organizations, today resolved that the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLPT) Act 1989 should be enforced with immediate effect and with “no compromise in order to save the young generation.”

This was contained in a memorandum submitted to Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, after the rally was held on Saturday morning here at Clock Tower. The resolutions of the rally submitted in the form of a memorandum, urged the Nagaland state government to “strongly enforce the NLTP Act 1989” by empowering the district administration and the police to shutdown, arrest, seal and cancel trade licenses issued by the respective municipal and town councils, of all the shops, restaurants and lounges, which are selling alcohol and prohibited substances.

In order to enforce the NLTP Act rigidly, the rally resolved that the state government should enforce heavier penalty for violators and repeated offenders and rigorous imprisonment of not less than one year which in non-bailable, as is the case in the Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substance act. The memorandum also urged for enforcing and checking the inflow of the prohibited substances and liquor by increasing stricter vigils and taking punitive actions against personnel accepting bribes.

“We strongly urge the Government of Nagaland to empower the Excise department by creating more personnel with proper

Participants hold placards during a public rally against what the organizers termed as “social evils” in Dimapur, Nagaland on Saturday, August 23. Photo by Caisii Mao

training and equipments to show the sincerity and seriousness of the enactment of the NLTP Act 1989. We reiterate that the Government being a guardian of the law that as per the NLTP Act 1989 ‘Drinking Liquor in official functions and public places is an offence.’ Hence it should be strictly adhered to as it demoralizes the Officials, Police and Excise personnel and shows a bad precedence to the younger generation”, the memorandum stated.

The memo to the Chief Minister also strongly urged the government to deploy police squads to check prostitution in hotels and lounges, which it stated not only increases sexually transmitted diseases but also lures and entices “our teenagers and minors, which is destroying our Christian social fabric and families.”

Further, the memorandum urged the government to ad-

dress the alarming rate of illegal abortions being conducted and performed daily. “We view that Life is sacred and no one has the right to murder defenseless babies which is Godgiven. We urge that any doctors and pharmacists using their profession to do such illegal practices be penalized and licenses be cancelled”, the memorandum added.

A press note from The Watchman further informed that various church leaders and members of civil society met with the Nagaland CM today. According to the note, the CM assured not to go “against the wishes of the public,” and further stressed on the “need to change our mindset and especially the Police in discharging their duties.” The note further cited the Nagaland CM as informing that “most of the legislators of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly were in favor

of Lifting the NLTP Act 1989.”

Earlier, speakers at the rally against “social evils” including Naga Council President, Bangerloba Ao; Naga Women Hoho Dimapur President, Hukheli Wotsa; WSBAK Executive Secretary, Rev. Vitoshe Swu; NCRC President, Rev. Dr. N Paphino; Rev. Dr. Shiwoto Swu and NBCC General Secretary, Rev. Dr. Anjo Kiekung, zeroed down on alcohol and said it was the source of all social evils.

The speakers also concurred that the failure of the NLPT Act was mainly due to the fault and weaknesses of both the state government and the Naga political groups.

Concluding the rally, which witnessed thin attendance, apart from students or various theological colleges, the rallyists shouted the slogan “We want Dimapur city to be free from all social evils.”

AGArtALA, AuGuSt 23 (iANS): The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is committed to resolving the Naga problem and this can only be done through talks, Nagaland Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya said here Saturday.

“Only through talks, the Naga problem can be resolved. The NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to resolve the long pending problems,” he told reporters.

“The central government has recently appointed R.N. Ravi (a retired Special Director of Intelligence Bureau) as an interlocutor to initiate the peace talks between the union government and the separatist NSCN (IM) and other Naga groups.

“There is some dilemma about the new interlocutor as a Naga group has expressed some reservations against him. This is a minor problem to be sorted out soon,” Acharya added.

The Naga Hoho, an apex body of the different tribes in Nagaland, in a statement in Kohima recently, said Nagaland needs a neutral interlocutor without any prejudices.

“Ravi’s article - Nagaland: Descent into chaos - which was appeared in newspapers Jan 23, has clearly affirmed his bent of mind and his preset notions of different Naga underground groups,” the statement added.

Ravi was appointed interlocutor last month after former Nagaland chief secretary R.S. Pandey, who was chief negotiator for talks with the Naga rebel groups, resigned and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to contest the Lok Sabha election from Bihar’s Valmikinagar.

Acharya, 83, a former BJP

leader in-charge of northeast India, also holds additional charge of Tripura governor, said the northeastern region has huge human and natural resources and these must be tapped for the development of the entire mountainous region.

He said Modi has already announced that the NDA government’s first and foremost priority is northeast India.

“China is not accepting Arunachal Pradesh. Due to infiltration, Assam is in danger.

The previous NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee has constituted the DoNER (Development of the North Eastern Region) ministry for the all round development of the region,” Acharya said.

He stressed the need for expansion of scope in the educational sector in Tripura, Nagaland and other northeastern states. “I have initiated educational exchange programme between the universities in Maharashtra and New Delhi, Tripura and Nagaland. Through the sharing of experience in academic sector between the mainland universities and educational institutions in northeast, national integration and value addition in education would be further intensified.”

He said that the NDA government has already asked the banks and corporate and public undertaking sectors to spend two percent of their income in the social sector.

The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (IsakMuivah) has been fighting for an independent Nagaland for over six decades. The central government and the NSCN-IM entered into a ceasefire agreement in August 1997.

Use of fake video footage Scotland Independence: “Yes” or “No” in Assam concerns centre

NEW DELhi, AuGuSt 23 (DNA): Telecast of a fake and undated footage unrelated to disputed area belt (DAB) of Golaghat district in Assam by a national and a regional news channel has perturbed the Centre, raising a fresh debate whether there should be a check on the unbridled freedom given to the media, especially news channels, that at times ignites violence.

The footage supplied by a regional Assamese news channel was also shown by an English national news channel on August 19 leading to fresh spurt in violence on August 20 and 21 in Golaghat. It resulted in 3 people getting killed and several persons including policemen get-

ting injured.

The footage, sources said, belonged to some Bodo unrest that happened much earlier. The authorities noticed it when they saw that the women and men were wearing Bodo dresses and the background had no similarity with the violence hit Golaghat region. “The footage was also grainy, apparently not taken by sophisticated cameras in use nowadays that capture high quality pictures,” sources said.

The unfortunate events forced prime minister Narendra Modi to intervene and seek a report from the home ministry and ask home minister Rajnath Singh to take steps to douse tension.

Top official sources said the

Assam government is initiating a probe into the matter as it amounted to inciting unrest and violence between communities that resulted in loss of life and destruction of property worth crores of rupees.

If the probe manages to establish that use of wrong footage led to the violence, it can also lead to cancellation of licenses of the news channels. Besides being just a ploy to increase TRP ratings, the agencies are looking at a deeper design in the fake video footage. Sources said, the channel that supplied the footage to the national news channel is run by a prominent Assamese politician who may have stakes in destabilising the current government.

Un body appeal for AfsPA repeal

GuWAhAti, AuGuSt 23 (tNN): A UN body, which works on crime against women, has appealed for the withdrawal of the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from the northeast states, lending strength to the cause of human rights crusader Irom Sharmila, who was arrested yet again on Friday.

The UN report, which was presented in Geneva, suggested that violence against women by armed forces should be tried under ordinary criminal law and all the pending cases be disposed of.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has also come up with ‘General Recommendation 30’ to address the problems of the country. “AFSPA should be repealed so that violence against women, perpetrated by the armed forces, be brought under the purview

of ordinary criminal law of the country and all pending cases be settled,” the CEDAW report said.

It also urged the Centre to review the continuation of AFSPA in accordance with Justice Verma Commission recommendations.

Babloo Loitongbam, a noted human rights activist from Imphal, said women have always remained vulnerable under such circumstances. Twelve rape cases have been committed by armed security forces in Manipur in the last seven years, he added. Loitongbam expressed concern over extra-judicial killings in the region.

CEDAW stressed on the need for registering cases of all the victims even when the perpetrators are from the Army, paramilitary or other state and central security forces.

“India has been the focus

of the recent human rights discourse in the United Nations. It has presented an unprecedented opportunity to the Government of India to re-examine its human rights performance with reference to women’s rights,” said Babloo.

Rashida Manjoo, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women who visited India recently, said she was not informed about any such measures to ensure accountability of the perpetrators and justice for the victims in her report.

The AFSPA does not meet the international human rights standards, including provisions of treaties, to which India is a state party and is inconsistent with India’s international legal obligations to respect and protect the right to life, liberty and security of a person, to freedom from torture and other ill-treatment.

GLASGOW, AuGuSt 23 (AP): Scotland’s long debate over whether the country should become independent has proved a bonanza for printers of bumper stickers, posters, balloons and even umbrellas.

Nationwide the words “Yes” and “No” can be found emblazoned on everything from street lights to shopping bags. Posters proclaiming “Proud to be Scots.

Delighted to be United” and “Yes to a better, fairer Scotland” adorn the windows of homes sharing the same street.

On Monday, it’s showdown time. Scotland’s pro-independence First Minister Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling, leader of the “No” campaign, will face off in their last televised debate before the Sept. 18 referendum.

Both sides claimed victory when the two clashed Aug. 4 — and interest from outside Scotland was so high it caused the Internet platform streaming the event to crash. This time the 90-minute debate will be shown on the BBC across Britain, and on C-SPAN in the United States.

At stake is the support of thousands of voters who, despite a campaign lasting two years, have yet to make up their minds.

Up and down the country activists have held thousands of town hall meetings, coffee mornings in private homes, and passionate discussions in pubs, clubs, town squares and on public transport.

People who have never been involved in politics before have come together and created a truly grassroots national debate about a vote that could affect everything from Scotland’s economy, passports, currency and military to its sense of national pride and its role in the European Union and other international organizations.

FILE - In this March 15, 2014 file photo, a demonstrator carries a sign during a pro-independence march in Edinburgh, Scotland. A Sept.

18, 2014 referendum will determine if Scotland becomes independent of the United Kingdom. (AP Photo)

“Wherever you go somebody is talking about it,” said Mairi Campbell, 38, a hairdresser from Glasgow who says she’s definitely voting against independence. “I used to spend a lot of my time talking to customers about whether they had a good holiday or were planning a night out. Now the conversation might start that way but ends up with something about the referendum and what it means,” she said. “Almost everyone has an opinion and different reasons as to which way they will vote.”

Politicians from both sides have toured Scotland’s cities, towns and villages to address the public, often out in the open, distributing miniature flags — the blue and white Saltire of Scotland, or the red, white and blue of the Union Jack — while standing on modern equivalents of the corner soap box.

“This is the biggest grassroots campaign Scotland has seen and it has encouraged more people to engage and get involved with politics than at any point in my lifetime,” said Robin McAlpine, 41, director of Common Weal,

which was set up to promote the ideals of a fairer society.

On the pro-independence side stand more than 350 independent groups. Not one is centrally controlled, organized or funded. The “No” campaign, which claims to have the support of the silent majority, has brought together a wide range of unionists from Labour and Conservative party members to socialists and members of the right-wing U.K. Independence Party.

Opinion polls suggest voters are narrowly divided on whether to break up Scotland’s 307-year-old union with England or remain alongside the English, Welsh and Northern Irish inside the United Kingdom. Voter turnout in the referendum is expected to be high, possibly topping 80 percent.

That would be the highest-ever figure in Scotland and much greater than the 50 percent who voted in Scotland’s last parliamentary election. But with a positive mood on the streets, both sides hope the debate will provide a final push to capture wavering voters.

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Poor BSNL service irks subscribers in Peren dist

Peren, August 23 phone users, BSNL Com- posal has been made dur(Mexn): The All Nchan- pany under Government ing the meeting between gram Students' Union of India is the sole service the Union office bearers (ANSU) Peren has ex- operating in the area and and the officials on Aupressed resentment over therefore serve as the life- gust 20 at the DGM Office the lack of adequate net- line for the area people. It Chamber, Dimapur.

ANSU informed that work connectivity of BSNL has detected negligence the plight of tower in Tening Sub-Division unANSU Peren urges officials many villages Tening der Peren district. assigned for the area to be under sub-Division in It has taken keen concern on responsible and dedicated to accessing proper network connecthe difficulty faces by the people of provide satisfactory service tivity cannot be ignored since it the neighboring Tening Villages and villag- on the part of the officials depend solely on the BSNL es located in the hilly areas as it has ignored the issue network. Therefore, it urge under Peren district. ANSU knowingly for the last two upon the officials assigned for the area to be responstated that many villages months.

The Union has forward- sible and dedicated to proare out of network coverage ed proposal to the Deputy vide satisfactory service. since the month of June.

The Union has placed ANSU president Dithu- General Manager (DGM) ibo Newmai and Gen- BSNL Company Nagaland the demand to the authoreral Secretary Pelamdibo to continue providing sat- ity concerned for necessary Nchang in a release said isfactory service to the pub- measure within a week time, that in this fast changing lic and urge the authority to so that the official and comglobal village and with the look into the concern prob- pany is exculpated from the increasing number of cell lem at the earliest. The pro- public of the area.

EPFO makes Digital Signature mandatory

DiMAPur, August 23 (Mexn): The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has now embarked upon its next phase of e-governance reforms with a view to make its services available to its stakeholders in an efficient, transparent and reliable manner and at low costs. In order to make the same successful it is necessary that establishments furnish electronically authenticated records using Digital Signature while submitting statutory returns, claim forms and other information requests etc.

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made it mandatory by order, for registration of employers/its authorized signatories with Digital Signature with the EPFO. It is therefore, requested to all the respected Employer covered under the EPF & MP Act, 52 to register Digital Signature of the authorized signatories of the establishments by 30-09-2014.

For further information and assistance, contact Nodal Officer at Regional Office, Guwahati Contact No. 0361-2451511 & Enforcement Officer, Dimapur M. Newmai 9402286802 (M) I 03862-234847 (0).

This was stated in a press release issued by SK Sangma, regional PF Commissioner –I (NER).

Hopeful of early and permanent solution of border dispute: MCCI

DiMAPur, August 23 (Mexn): The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MMCI) today expressed optimism that the present border conflict between Assam and Nagaland will soon be resolved and a permanent solution acceptable to both sides will be arrived at the earliest. In a press note received here, MCCI President Moasangba Jamir emphasized that, the Naga and Ahoms have been coexisting harmoniously as good neighbors M

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since time immemorial and it would be a blunder to destroy such bonding over the recurring but unresolved border issue.

Urging for mutual respect and engaging in dialogue at the earliest, he maintained that, dragging the issue will only encourage “opportunist adversaries to exploit and benefit” from the situation. Appreciating the Union government for their timely intervention to contain the conflict, the MCCI said that, the

violence would have escalated further if such steps were not implemented.

While expressing relief over the lifting of economic blockade imposed on Nagaland by various Assam-based organisations, MCCI contended that, such blockade by “non-state actors”, apart from causing huge monetary loss, is a “serious violation of human rights” and urged the concerned authority to take necessary steps to prevent such occurrence in future.

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CIHSR’s College of Nursing inaugurated Morung Express News Dimapur | August 23

The Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR), or the Referral Hospital, inaugurated its College of Nursing building here today, the first Health Science institute of the State to receive recognition from both the University as well as the Indian Nursing Council.

Set in a total area of 4500 square meters, the building can accommodate 50 students per class for the BSc, GNM and Post Basic BSc students, has 10 classrooms, laboratories for the specialties, a library and a computer science room. A 50% subsidy in fees is being offered to students. The BSc Nursing course was started in 2011 with the hope that an MSc course will be started by 2015-16. “We hope it will be possible to consider CIHSR as a post graduate institute for the North East which can then also support the Kohima medical college,” said Dr. Abraham Joseph, Director, CIHSR, in his welcome address.

Encouraging students and staff at the inauguration program, Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang, the chief guest today and patron to CIHSR, said that the Government has not given up on the thought of setting up a medical college in Dimapur. He asked the students not to be discouraged by the lack of jobs in the State, as there is good employment for nurses in the State, in India and abroad.

Recounting the history of the Referral Hospital, and how the Government of In-

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backward regions to help them catch up.

Prayers at the inauguration were offered by Pastor I. Pamme, a vote of thanks proposed by Bharathy Jacob, Principal of the College of Nursing, with a song of dedication by the staff and students of CIHSR.

EROSION The visiting Government officials were apprised of the erosion of land embankment on which the CIHSR has been built, which has brought the Institute under considerable threat. Chief Secretary, Banuo Z Jamir, noted that action should be taken by the Government of Nagaland to check this problem.

“We assure you that we will take care of it,” stated Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang today while taking note of the problem. He further said that the Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation and Flood Control would look into the matter, and purChief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang, waters a tree planted at the inauguration of the Col- sue the required sanctions from the Government of Inlege of Nursing building at the CIHSR, Dimapur on August 23. (Morung Photo) dia to tackle the erosion. dia was reluctant to con- ance and active function- ing CIHSR on its discipline tinue funding the project ing of the Referral Hospital, (timely completion of the NRHM (under the Government of the Nursing College and the College building without Minister for Health and Nagaland) in the 1990s due Regional Institute for Allied cost escalation), she en- Family Welfare, Nagaland, to “excessive cost escalation Health Sciences. couraged government de- P. Longon today stated that and slow progress,” the Chief Chief Secretary to the partments to learn from it. NRHM employees who are Minister asked for this to be Government of Nagaland, Speaking at the inaugu- on a strike demanding their a lesson for the State. “Let us and President of the CIHSR ration, Minister of Health salaries be paid (unpaid not repeat such mistakes in Society as well as chairper- and Family Welfare, P. Lon- since April 2014) have the the future. Projects should son for the event, Banuo Z gon, stated that 50% of the “right to agitate” given their be completed on time with- Jamir, acknowledged that seats at the learning insti- circumstances. He also said out cost escalation,” he said. the CIHSR, Dimapur, is tute is reserved for Naga- that their salaries will be “reTo take the project for- one of the most successful land, but asked the insti- leased immediately”, though ward, a public-private part- examples of a PPP mode tute to take care of students not specifying a date. The nership (PPP) between the project not just in the North from outside as well. He irregular pattern of paying Government of Nagaland, East region but also in the appealed for it to maintain NRHM employees, he inEmmanuel Hospital Associ- whole country, as also rec- high standards in educa- formed, was due to the Govation and the CMC, Vellore, ognized by the Planning tion, and to provide special ernment of India not providin 2005, led to the further- Commission. Commend- assistance to students from ing funds on time.

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‘Sarga Jyoti’ held at Saint Savio School

ChuMukeDiMA, August 23 (Mexn): Saint Savio School, Chumukedima organized ‘Sarga Jyoti’(Youth Festival), an arts and literary competition from August 21 to 23 in its campus. A press release stated that it was an inclusive attempt to tap young talented children and to give a vital stage for them in all the fields.

The objective of the Sarga Jyoti (Youth Festival) was to create a supreme environment for the students to test their intellectual and artistic proficiency, simultaneously opening a venue for sharing mutual experience, skills and talent in the field of culture, literary and other activities on a common platform.

Hundreds of students took part in different competitions like solo, speech, essay, quiz, storytelling, calligraphy, music, recitation, spelling, drawing, painting, memory test, fancy dress, skit, mime, etc.

In the closing ceremony, Varkey VJ, Managing Board Member gave away the certificates and prizes to the winners and appreciate the management, principal, teachers and students for organizing Sarga Jyoti Students performing during the ‘Sarga Jyoti’ (Youth Festival), an arts and literary competition held in a grant way. at Saint Savio School, Chumukedima.

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NSLSA conducts legal awareness seminar

DiMAPur, August 23 (Mexn): A legal awareness program for womenfolk of Dhansiripar Village was conducted at their Village Community Hall on August 22, which was jointly organized by Nagaland State Legal Service Authority, Dhansiripar Women Society and Prodigals’ Home.

Four advocates, Duvelu Soshi, Limasenla, Sentimenla and Zacharia, representing the Nagaland State Legal Service Authority (NSLSA), briefly dwelt upon domestic Violence Act, RTI, Special Marriage Act, Juvenile Justice Act, Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act, Consumer

Womenfolk of Dhansiripar Village and others during the legal awareness program held on August 22.

Rights, Gender Equality, Lok Adalat, limitations of customary laws, and Art 371(A) of the Indian Constitution. The Advocates

from NSLSA also distributed to the participants, a handbook containing various information about law and relevant Acts (Titled

“Introduction to Law”) compiled by NSLSA in concise form for lay persons.

The interactive program facilitated by Limasenla, an

Advocate from NSLSA had a significant outcome where the NSLSA representatives recommended setting up of a legal aid cell which NSLSA representatives would visit periodically and take stock legal issues of the public in the area. Besides the Legal Aid Cell, they also invited nominees for para-legal volunteers. To both the suggestions, the participants agreed in spirit and conveyed that they would discuss the same with their village leaders and get back to NSLSA. The program is part of NSLSA’s campaign to create awareness of basic human rights across the nooks and corners of Nagaland.

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Born: 20/12/1950 Died: 19/08/2014 We the bereaved family members would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the well wishers who stood by us unceasingly physical, financial, material and prayer and support during his brief illness and at the sad demise of our beloved Late. Repketchujang Tzudir of Changki village on 19th August 2014.

We regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually, but it is our earnest prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving Wife, family members & relatives.

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Restore normalcy in Ukhrul: NPMHR & AIPP petition Union HM KOHIMA, AUGUST 23 (MExN): The Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) along with 28 organisations and individuals have appealed the Union Home Minister (HM) to withdraw the imposition of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in Ukhrul and its surrounding areas. In a petition addressed to the Union Home Minister released to media here, the organizations express deep concerns over continued “suspension of freedom of movement and association in and around Ukhrul town,” arguing that it amounts to “penalizing” the public and provoking them to “create a volatile situation motivated by

vested political interests.”

Highlighting the chain of events leading to the present circumstances, the letter stated that an onthe-spot investigation and assessment by local civil society organizations immediately after the killing of Ngalangzar Malue, a member of the Autonomous District Council (ADC) on July 12, had found “no imminent threat of public unrest resulting from the incident.”

Despite communicating the positive assessment, the letter alleged that on July 13, the Government of Manipur (GoM) “raided the public liaison office of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) and arrested 8 cadres who were present in the office” and im-

20,000 Methaphetamine tablets seized in Mizoram AIZAWl, AUGUST 23 (PTI): 20,000 tablets of Methamphetamine were today seized by the Mizoram Excise and Narcotics department officials here.

The contraband, believed to be smuggled from Myanmar, was stuffed in 50 packets, state Excise and Narcotics Department spokesman Peter Zohmingthanga said.

The Methamphetamine tablets were meant to be sold in Aizawl at Rs 31 lakh, he said, adding that the name of the trafficker, who was arrested and booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, was not released to the public as it could hamper further probe.

Officials said Pseudo-ephedrine, legally made in India, was the main precursor for illicit manufacture of Methamphetamine and huge quantity of tablet to be smuggled to Myanmar was seized in Mizoram and other northeastern states in past few.

PM Modi sanctions Rs 2 lakh to kin of each dead in floods in four states NEW DElHI, AUGUST 23, (PTI): Condoling the loss of lives in floods in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Assam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sanctioned Rs two lakh for the next of kin of each of the deceased.

Modi also sanctioned Rs 50,000 for each of the seriously injured from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund, a PMO statement said.

"The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has condoled the loss of life in the floods in the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Assam," the statement said.

Floods have ravaged Uttar Pradesh and caused damage in Uttarakhand, Bihar and Assam. At least 89 people have died in floods in UP alone.

posed Section 144 CrPC in the district Headquarters.

Subsequently, Naga civil society organizations have protested against the “undemocratic action” of the GoM and submitted several memorandums to the state and central authorities, it added.

Accusing the GoM for taking the issue out of context, by arguing that the state of Manipur is outside the ambit of “ceasefire signed between Central Government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM),” the organisation maintained that the imposition of Section144 CrPC has no relationship with the ceasefire or the peace talks and wondered why the GoM is “dragging in” the issue of

ceasefire and peace talks in this context.

Contending that the imposition of the freedom of movement and association based on the “apprehension of public nuisance and disturbance of public tranquility is utterly baseless and arbitrary in this particular case,” the organisations appealed for Union Home Minister’s intervention on the issue and demanded the revocation of Section 144 CrPC; the withdrawal of the Manipur Police Commando (MPC) and Indian Reserved Battalion (IRB) stationed in and around Ukhrul district; and apology from the GoM to the people of Ukhrul district “for its arbitrary actions and causing social trauma.”

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Assam flood situation worsens

GUWAHATI, AUGUST 23 (PTI): Assam’s flood situation in severlyhit Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts today further worsened as river Subansiri in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh was in spate.

The death toll in the current wave of flood has risen to three with one person washed away at Chauldhua village in Lakhimpur last evening, an official report said here today.

Heavy rainfall has led to the overflowing of Subansiri, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, forcing more than 500 families in Lakhimpur district to take shelter in relief camps set up by the district administration.

The district administration has made arrangements for providing shelter to the affected families and provide them with necessary relief materials, a senior oifficial of the district administration said.

In neighbouring Dhemaji district, a breach in the embankment of River Jiadhol, another tributary of the Brahmputa, at Tekjuri has affected around ten thousand people.

The Brahmaputra and all its tributaries in the district were flowing

Incessant rains trigger flash floods, landslides in Arunachal Pradesh ITANAGAR, AUGUST 23 (PTI): Incessant rains and an unprecedented rise in the water level of the Subansiri have triggered landslides and flash floods in Arunachal Pradesh with the swirling river water leaving a trail of destruction. The Subansiri river recorded an unprecedented rise in the water level at Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district on Thursday night.

"The water level of the river rose between 6-7 feet on Thursday night but receded Friday morning," Upper Subansiri DC T Tagu said.

District Information and Public Relation Officer (DIPRO) N Namchoom said that the flood water from the Subansiri submerged the villages located on its banks, damaging over 200 dwellings and washing away livestock. There was, however, no human casualty, she said. The affected areas include, Sikarijo, Pagarijo, Laila Majnu Colony and Dilidi village in Daporijo, Sippi, Menga, Kuporijo, Dumporijo and other areas. above the danger level and nearly 2.15 lakh people have been affected by the current wave of flood, Dhemaji Deputy Commissioner Monalisa Goswami said.

In other parts of the state, the Brahmaputra was flowing above the danger level in Jorhat, Goalpara and Dhubri while its tributaries Dhansiri, Jia-Bharali and Kopili was flowing above the danger level at Golaghat,

Sonitpur and Nagaon respectively, according to a report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

The current wave of flood has severly affected the districts of Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Morigaon, Dibrugarh, Kamrup, Goalpara, Nagaon and Nalbari with nearly thousand villages inundated.

Manipur Government’s stand on prevailing issues IMPHAl, AUGUST 23 (NNN): Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam said, desisting from ‘game blame’ and working together to would be more effective find a way to resolve the issue of Inner Line Permit (ILP).

Attending at the concluding day of a two-day sensitisation programme on ‘human rights of indigenous people’ here hosted by Centre for Human Rights & Duties Education, Manipur University, Gaikhangam said, “setting up turmoil among us and indulging in blame game over ILP issue will be a futile plan.”

He said, “We need to protect all indigenous people of Manipur including the Diasporas. But we should approach the Centre in a diplomatic way with utmost care if we want to fulfill our demand for implementation of ILP system in the state,” he said. The twin issues of ILP and foreigner are thorny in nature, he said, adding Manipur Government have detected foreigners in Ukhrul district, Moreh in Chandel district

JCILPS, Women Wing volunteers storm Cong Bhavan IMPHAl, AUGUST 23 (NNN): Volunteers of the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), Women Wing stormed the Congress Bhavan here on Saturday demanding implementation of ILP in the state.

JCILPS Women Wing Convenor, Lourembam Nganbi said the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) had assured the group that the party’s decision on the issue would be declared within ten days.

Earlier in the day, the protesting volunteers of the group took out a rally in Kwairamband market shouting slogans like “Implement ILP system” and “Resign and Imphal East’s Jiribam subdivision in the past, but most of them were turned out to be Myanmarese Muslims.

Former Assam Chief Minister and Assam Students’ Union (ASU) leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta tried very hard to implement ILP in his state, but it was failed due to blame game among political parties, Gaikhangam claimed and added

MLAs and ministers who are unable to introduce ILP.” The protesters then attempted to storm the Congress Bhavan at BT Road, but a large number of police foiled it. Afterwards, some representatives of the group met MPCC general secretary Bidyapati Senjam at the Congress Bhavan.

Lourembam Nganbi said MPCC leader Bidyapati had promised that the committee will announce its final decision on the issue within August 10.

Nganbi vowed that agitation over the demand of implementation of ILP in Manipur would continue until it was met.

that, the 30 percent of the total population of that state is now constituted by outsiders. “Disparity among us over the ILP issue would show our weaknesses to the Central Government,” he said.

The All Political Party ILP Committee is making all-out effort to find ways to resolve the issue, he said. The state Government has been holding review meetings regularly in its ef-

NE sisters nibbling away at our land: Gogoi GUWAHATI, AUGUST 23 (TNN): Ever since four hill states Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram - were carved out of what was then the composite Assam province, not one has come to terms with its boundaries leading to frequent clashes and encroachment claims. Tripura and Manipur, erstwhile princely states not annexed to the Assam Province by the British, don't have a grouse over their borders.

The latest round of Assam-Nagaland boundary clashes at Uriamghat in Assam's Golaghat district began on August 12. It raged for two days, turning into a major law and order problem. For Assam CM Tarun Gogoi, this flare-up has been the most serious crisis since he took charge in 2001. As people and rivals held him responsible for failing to control the

violence, he told TOI: "We moved SC to end disputes with Nagaland and Arunachal. Border commissions were set up to settle issues with Nagaland, Arunachal and Meghalaya but none of them accepted commission recommendations. We're waiting for the SC verdict. These commissions can only give recommendations but can't make them binding."

Nagaland was first carved out of Assam in 1963, then Meghalaya in 1972 followed by Mizoram which attained UT status in 1972 and became a state in 1987.

Gogoi said, "Assam stands by the constitutional boundary defined at the time of the creation of these states. But, they (Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal) say they'll not accept the constitutional boundary but only the historical

NE emerging connectivity with Bangladesh India-Bangladesh trade conclave in Dhaka on Sunday

GUWAHATI, AUGUST 23 (IANS): The India-Bangladesh Business Conclave will be held in Dhaka Sunday with a focus on enhancing bilateral trade and tapping Bangladesh's business potential with West Bengal and the northeastern states.

Gen. (retd) V.K. Singh, minister of state for external affairs and for the Development of the North Eastern Region (DoNER), is leading a 31-member delegation from the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, Tripura's Industry and Commerce Minister Tapan Chakrabarty, ICC director general Rajeev Singh and government officials will meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday evening.

The ICC and the IndiaBangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) with support from the Indian High Commission in Dhaka is organising the conclave.

"The conclave will cover different topics including increasing connectivity between the two

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countries, development of border trade infrastructure and removal of trade barriers, which will prove beneficial for entrepreneurs of the two countries," Rajeev Singh said in a statement.

Bangladesh shares a 4,096-km border with the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Mizoram and Meghalaya.

Bangladesh is one of India's important trading partners.

"India is the largest trading partner of Bangladesh. While 15 percent of Bangladeshi imports come from India, export from Bangladesh constitutes less than one percent of India's import basket," the statement said.

During 2012-13, Indian export volume to Bangladesh was Rs.280 billion, with 52 percent growth over the previous year against import of only Rs.35 billion and its 24 percent growth, it said. Even though the trade imbalance has persisted over the years, "corrective measures are being taken".

The conclave will discuss all these issues, it said.

The statement said Bangladesh with its natural resources has the po-

tential to enhance trade ties with West Bengal and northeast India. Commodities having "comparative trade advantage" include coal, limestone, stone chips, bamboo, cement, palm oil, wheat, sugar, fruit and vegetables, plastic goods, readymade garments, processed food and drinks, it said.

"India has taken a lot of trade liberalisation measures with Bangladesh and has also been reciprocated, paving the way for a much more enhanced and robust bilateral relationship," it said.

Pankaj Saran, India's high commissioner in Bangladesh, and the DoNER minister will address a session on "East and North East India's Emerging Connectivity".

Salman Zaidi, country director for World Bank in Bangladesh, Nazrul Islam, transport specialist at the Asian Development Bank, and Masihur Rahman, economic affairs advisor to the Bangladesh prime minister, will address another session on development of border trade and infrastructure. Ministers and officials from Megha-

laya, Mizoram, Assam and Tripura will take part in this session.

Indian and Bangladeshi investors and entrepreneurs will also discuss issues like development of infrastructure and removal of existing bottlenecks in border trade at the Benapole-Petrapole border.

boundaries." By historical boundaries, these states mean demarcations that existed before Independence.

The flash point of the AssamNagaland clashes has always been Merapani in Golaghat. In 1979, 70 Assamese villagers were killed and questions were raised over the role Nagaland Police played. In 1985 a clash between police forces of the two states left 50 dead.

Assam government records claim that since 2001, Nagaland has encroached upon 19819.619 hectares of its land, Arunachal 5756.02 hectare and Meghalaya 65.62 hectares. But apart from the hill states, Guwahati too rejected recommendations of SC-appointed mediators.

"The mediators suggested we give up some areas to these states, but we refused," Gogoi said.

forts fulfill the public demand for introduction of ILP system. The ILP Committee is now working actively and waiting for the suggestions and opinions sought from legal experts and intellectuals, Gaikhangam, who is also the chairman of the ILP Committee, said.

Commenting on the life of antiAFSPA campaigner Irom Sharmila, Gaikhangam who is also the Home

Minister said the society needs a courageous, dedicated and committed person like her. “The life of Sharmila is very dear, and that saving her life is “our duty,” he said. She was re-arrested because the Government wants to save her life, he said. “I appeal to Sharmila that she should call off her 14-year-old hunger strike in order that we can work unitedly to fulfil the demand for repeal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,” he said.

Gaikhangam said he hoped that if Sharmila raises her voice against the violence unleashing in the state, the wrong doers would listen to her.

He said if there is peace in the state, there will be no need for AFSPA. Deployment of additional security personnel in the district of Ukhrul has been opposed by All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) and United Naga Council (UNC), but the people in the district have been appreciating the Government policy, he claimed.

Sangeet Natak Akademi awards conferred in Agartala

AGARTAlA, AUGUST 23 (IANS): Tripura governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya and Sangeet Natak Akademi chairman Leela Samson presented the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar awards for 2012 here Saturday to 32 young artists from across the country.

The awards, which carry Rs. 25,000 and a citation, for the first time have been given at a function outside Delhi.

Sangeet Natak Akademi is endeavoring to find out talented artists in music, dance and drama including folk and traditional performing arts of northeastern region, Sangeet Natak Akademi's secretary Helen Acharya told reporters here Saturday.

WANGKHAO GOVT COLLEGE FELICITATES The Wangkhao Govt College Teachers’ Association (WCTA) conveys its exultation and heartfelt congratulations to Shri.

Akok Walling, Principal of Wangkhao Govt College, Môn, on his receiving the prestigious Governor’s Award for his distinguished service towards enhancement of quality Education in Nagaland, on the Independence day.

We sincerely believe that his untold toil, exuberance in endeavour, undaunting determination with futuristic vision paved a unique mile stone in the field of quality education. We can visualise all round germane transformation in Nagaland.

We shall be looking forward to see him scale more heights in the days to come.

Sincerely submitted by (Mr.S.B.Moses Chandrasekaran) President, WCTA, Mon.

She said: "To find out the skillful artists and also to support them in numerous ways, the Akademi has set up centres in Manipur capital Imphal and Assam's main city Guwahati."

The Sangeet Natak Akademi had set up the Sattriya Kendra (a centre for Sattriya dance, music, and theatre traditions) in Assam's main city of Guwahati in July 2008 to promote, propagate and preserve these traditions.The Sangeet Natak Akademi had also set up its northeast centre in Shillong in August 2008, for the purpose of preserving the traditional and folk performing art traditions of NE India. The centre has recently moved to Guwahati and is housed in the Sattriya Kendra premises.

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

NOTICE Dated, Dimapur the 22/08/2014

No.M-861/14/6797-98/ Notice is hereby given to Shri. Ketoulhou S.Paira, S/o Late. Prakash Paira, R/o Midland, Dimapur: Nagaland under rule 50&51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for mutation of land described in the schedule below:The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 22/09/14.

SCHEDULE OF LAND AND BOUNDARY Name of Patta Holder : Shri.Y.Vikheho Swu Village/Town Block No : 11 Patta No. : 115 Dag No. : 210, 651, 6/1442, 7/1443 Area : 08B-01K-08LS North : Land of Vikheho South : Land of Shikato East : Land of Vikheho West : Land of Ketoulhou & Approach Road.

Sd/Deputy Commissioner

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Tenants - Landowners Conflicts in Ralan Area

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he troubles and tensions in Ralan Circle of Wokha district is not at all a Border Dispute between Assam and Nagaland. The area in question is well within Wokha district of Nagaland, no other argument whatsoever. The area is Plains Sector of Ralan Circle of Wokha district of Nagaland, cultivated fields of the Lotha/Nagas of the area. Previously, the deep jungle area was a reserved forest of the adjoining Lotha/Naga villages.

Naturally hills people everywhere have sparse population. And this was the reason, that the deep jungle forest was inhabited by wild elephants, tigers, man eating bears etc and leeches and mosquitoes infested place.

That is why previously the people of the area could not extend their cultivation in the absence of the so-called modern amenities of life. The area in question was used, therefore, for hunting and fishing and also for collecting log posts, canes, bamboos etc for household uses. People from the Assam side were not even allowed for fishing in the Zupza (Rengmapani) river on which banks the present Uriamghat town had been established.

The most prominent member who established the Uriamghat was Late Abraham Ovung Lotha from Pyangsa village of Wokha district, Nagaland.

The entire area from NEF Railways line (on the North) to the Zupza river and Doyang-Zupza confluence (South) were sparsely populated by migrant Nepalis and Miris and therefore, very few houses existed. The area was never counted as Assam state and no Assam government’s administrative machinery was there before 1956 as the Assam people counted the entire area as Nagas’ Land. The forest department of As-

sam exercised nominal supervision of the area (the Plains Sector).

But when the Nagas started armed-resistance against the Indian Army in 1956, the Naga armed personnel raided many small villages in the area between Railways line and Zupza-Doyang river mainly in search of guns. These raids of the Nagas alerted the Assam government and in panic the authorities and leaders of Assam started to encourage the landless people in Assam and illegal migrants to settle in the said area to create buffer zone between Assamese and the Nagas. These acts of the Assam government was not only in the present trouble area but entire stretch of the Plains Sector of Nagas Land, say, Merapani Circle, Jangpang Circle of Wokha district, Mokokchung district, Longleng District and Mon district. These acts of the Assam government were starting point of the so-called Assam-Nagaland border dispute. Before 1955 and early 1956 I had been frequent visitor as a school boy of Sarupathar (Horopathar) and Borpothar on foot for marketing. When we sold anything across the Railways line bazaar, taxes were levied from us. But when we sold our goods at the Railways line without crossing it, then bazaar taxes were not levied from us saying that we were in the land of the Nagas. I am a living witness still. The Assam people should go down to history why and how names Horopothar and Borpothar were given. What is the meaning of Pothar in Assamese?? Is it a town or a city??

Coming back to the present conflict area - When development dawned in Nagaland after the creation of Nagaland state in 1963, people of the Ralan Circle and some willing partners began to cultivate

the area as wet fields. The clearing of the jungles against all odds started by the people from early 1960s. From 1967/68 wet fields of the Lotha Nagas started to appear here and there.

The entire area (wet fields) was cultivated mostly by the Lotha Nagas.

They gradually used to employ some landless people from other parts of India mostly the so-called Adivasis.

The local people, the landowners started to keep the tenants to cultivate their fields on share basis. At first the tenants were all loyal and given the due shares of the landowners every year without default.

But gradually some devil-possessed persons and hypocrites entered among them and bad blood filled many of them. They started to defy the directions of the landowners and year by year they refused to give the due shares of the landowners. The dishonesty and disloyalty of the tenants were causes of frequent conflicts between the tenants and the landowners. To aggravate the situations the Assam government and the Assam police stepped-in. The Assam leaders and authorities emboldened and encouraged the tenants to defy the directions of the landowners and also forced them not to give the due shares to the landowners.

The Assam armed police personnel always supported and protected the tenants. The so-called central ParaMilitary forces as neutral force always sided with the landless tenants.

Such actions/attitudes of the people in authority were not based on legal or moral force, but emanated from the animal passion of disregard and hatred towards the Nagas. In such situations, the Naga leaders and authorities slumbered on their wealth and comforts. Therefore, how can the helpless hundred landowners

withstand thousand landless tenants backing by the Assam government and armed personnel?

I also had about 18 acres of land, cleared the jungle and cultivated the land by the hands of my family members. Later on, I also employed and kept four houses of tenants. They never failed to give me my due shares for 31 years starting from 1969. But in 1999/2000 the Adivasis union and the Assam police forced them not to give me due shares. I have two affidavits signed between me and the tenants.

Some 5/6 years back, the Nagaland Border Magistrate of the area basing on my rightful claims pleaded with her Assam counter-part not to forbid my tenants to pay me my due shares.

But the Assam Border Magistrate was adamant and gave his stonewalled defense to the claims of the illegal migrants. This is only an example experienced by me.

There is no single inch of Adivasis land in the present troubled area.

The entire area belongs to the Lotha/ Nagas. The land is our ancestral land, no arguments and not to be disputed.

In which century and in which generation did the Adivasis acquired this land?? Shameless hypocrites! If the so-called All Adivasi National Liberation Front (AANLA) want land and inheritance, they should go to the Central India from where they came and fight for their ancestral land there as we Nagas are fighting for our land and rights here. Why they came to Nagaland and create unnecessary troubles among the peaceful people?? Or they may demand land from the Assam tea garden owners or from their former British masters.

Secondly, All Assam Gorkha Student’s Union leaders should also see left and right, front and back and act responsibly, otherwise we will be

compelled to speak a different language.

Thirdly, Abhijeet Asom, the socalled Chairman, ULFA (I) should think how and why ULFA was organised and how AGP in Assam was formed. ULFA was formed on the migrant’s issue. The Assamese people felt that they were becoming a minority in their own land and because of this the Assam Patriots formed the ULFA by learning something from the Nagas. Therefore, Abhijeet’s defense of the Assam migrants specially the Adivasis is very unfortunate. He has completely deviated from the aims and objectives and principles of the ULFA. He is answerable to the Patriots of Assam.

The Genesis of the present problem started from Lishayan, established sometime in 1968 by one Mr. M. Kithan and family. Since, they occupied a larger area and employed some more tenants. They (tenants) and their family members became a larger group of people. Sometime after one Catholic priest known as father Mathew (we don’t know his exact name) came and stayed with the tenants. He also opened a school.

His mission to evangelize and educate the people is to be appreciated.

But he had done a great damage to the area and the people. He instigated and encouraged the tenants, the Advasis not to regard the landowners and give their shares, rather they should own the land. This action was imitated by the Adivasis of the so-called Rajapukhri village in New Jantalashung jurisdiction. Hence the credit of the frequent quarrels, hostilities and killings in this area goes to father Mathew.

In the present trouble area (Plains Sector) there are more than ten villages, Viz. Raland old established in

1928, Yampha, Ronsuyan, Jantalashung B, Jantalashung New, Liphanyan, S. Wochan (Sophamo), Wochan (Kilopvuo) Tchujanphen (Matao), Yanlum (Tsanthungo), Soshan (Nchomo), Lishayan (Mhondamo) etc. The present so-called Kholapani oil drilling centre is exactly at the cultivated land of Tsumongo-Rapvuo brothers. This is well within Ralan Circle of Wokha district. This oil drilling centre is on the south bank of Zupza river. And beyond Zupza river on the north bank of the river, there are Sumi (Sema) villages. So how could it be Assam’s land?? Why not the government of Nagaland places claim on it??

The solution to the present crisis – Assam government should withdraw all the tenants (Advasis) from the area. There is practically no ground for the tenants to claim the lands.

The other last resort - All the tenants, without exception, should be made to sign agreements before Assam and Nagaland government authorities in the presence of Post Commanders of armed personnel to pay the due shares of the landowners every year.

Since, the area is well within the Ralan Circle of Wokha district of Nagaland, the Nagaland government should, without hesitation, send sufficient police force for the security of the people and their wet fields.

The above statement is not a notion nor assumption nor speculation, nor a simple press write-up. It is a testament, and a living witness. Accept it or reject it. It is upto to the readers and the concerned authorities. I will not entertain any question or rejoinder relating to the statement above.

A. Z. Jami Senior Citizen Nagaland

Will illegal migrants outnumber North East indigenous people in 30 years?

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decade ago, then Assam Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajay Singh made a startling revelation that about 6000 illegal Bangladeshis were entering into Assam daily. If his statement was correct, then the fate of the northeast people is terribly at stake. Now after 10 years, one can simply imagine what will be the current rate of daily illegal infiltration into Assam from across the International border. Now, it may be anything around 10000 illegal infiltrations into Assam on daily basis.

Say, if 6000 illegal Bangladeshis infiltrate into Assam daily, it will be 1,80,000 Bangladeshis in a

month and 21,90,000 annually. The State will have 2,40,90,000 illegal Bangladeshis by 2025, outnumbering the entire indigenous population of the region excluding Assam and the whole northeast indigenous people will be reduced to a minority in 30 years’ time.

The complexity involved here is that this country has over 100 million genuine Indian Muslims. It is about one-fifth of the whole population, besides the Government has earlier estimated that 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were in India.

Though there are no official figures of actual numbers of Bangladeshis

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the Students’ Union signed a pact in 1985, but clauses on the deportation of foreigners have still not been implemented.

Though there are genuine Assamese Muslims and mainland Muslims, the present influx of illegal Bangladeshis in the State has not only affected the demography of that State but also the entire region, leading to serious threat to the survival of the region’s indigenous people and the country’s internal security as well.

Tripura is a gone case and Nagaland is the next target because large number of these illegal immigrants from across the International border has

been swarming the State.

In the last few years, there is a dramatic change in the socio-economic feature of the State. The locals’ almost lack of work culture, easy money and easy life style, etc. is the main cause that these illegal immigrants mostly coming from Assam have taken opportunities to stay in Nagaland.

All the manual works, construction works, taxi driving, rickshaw pulling, cultivation works, mechanical jobs, etc. are mostly done by these immigrants of doubtful identities today.

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“Effective steps have been taken to check infiltration,” he said. “Anybody found crossing the border is pushed back and those entered after March 25, 1971, as per the Assam Accord would be detected and deported.”

It may be mentioned that the powerful All Assam Students Union (ASSU) had launched a bloody campaign to push Bangladeshis back to their land.

Indigenous people who feared they would be reduced to a minority in their own land massacred thousands of Bangladeshis, including women and children, across the State.

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Although Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi rejected his then Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajay Singh’s seemingly inflated claim, the fact is the unabated illegal immigrants from across the international border have been infiltrating into his State over the years. He, while talking to press in Guwahati at that point of time, however, admitted that infiltration from Bangladesh

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DOWN 1. Armored vehicle 2. Hodgepodge 3. Margarine 4. A door fastener 5. Place 6. Spirals 7. Median 8. Clairvoyant 9. Imitation 10. Native 11. Not earlier 12. Gratings 13. Cravat 21. Symbol of authority 25. Laugh 26. Impetuous 27. Dogfish 28. Following

29. Merges 34. Explored a cave 36. Accomplished 37. Distinctive flair 38. Sodium chloride 40. God of love 42. Small islands 45. Otalgia 48. Foursome 51. Sir, in India 52. Nonpoetic writing 53. Passageway 55. A firm open-weave fabric 58. Risqué 59. Was a passenger 60. Notion 61. Resound 62. Throw Ans to CrossWord 2980

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The long stretch of Assam forest bordering Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh has over the years disappeared and been systematically occupied by the illegal immigrants. The trouble is most of these settlers are well equipped with valid land holding documents issued by the Assam administrations. Sources say most of the State’s reserved forest in the border areas has vanished and its now occupied by the illegal immigrants and not by the real Assamese people.

The Nagaland Government often alleges that these illegal immigrants occupying the Disputed Area Belt (DAB) are the main causes leading to frequent border skirmishes.

The latest border violence between Assam and Nagaland shows crystal clear that the people of the two states have to do a lot of exercises. And we should rather hasten the process for the fact that the nature of issue we have seen from the latest incidents has clearly shown that we have been sitting on a place waiting to explode. In fact, various intelligent agencies had, in the past, warned of serious consequences if immediate attention to the illegal immigrant issue in the region was not tackled.

Some years back, the exodus of Bangladeshi suspects seen from upper Assam following threats through SMS and leaflets by some unidentified people are evident of the illegal Bangladeshis’ presence.

Region’s economic underdevelopment coupled with Center’s prolonged negligence and the continuous insurgency and the chasm that existed between the people of the region and the mainland people are some of the reasons that have given room to the illegal immigrants and outside elements to exploit them.

There is certainly genuine mainland Muslims in the region but their interest to settle in the region is slim. So their influx is out of question.

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on the infiltration of illegal Bangladeshis into Assam was exaggerated or not, the Chief Minister had also admitted that there was still infiltration of illegal Bangladeshis into his State.

The illegal Bangladeshi infiltration into Assam and elsewhere in the region has changed its (region) demography and now it has become a serious threat to the future survival of the region’s indigenous people and also the internal security problem for the nation as well.

To identify the illegal Bangladeshis will not be very difficult once the citizens are properly educated. Assam has larger role to solve the illegal immigrant issues and the actions taken there will have maximum impact on other parts of the region.

So long, illegal immigrant issue of Assam remains unresolved; there is no point for other States in the region to think of. Because most of these supposed to be illegal immigrants who are coming to other States of the region are well equipped with domicile certificates allegedly issued by Assam administrations.

At the same time, New Delhi also should be held equally responsible of the influx of illegal immigrants from across the International border because of their abject failure to fence the long porous border with Bangladesh. It may take years to complete because of the long stretch of border but if we have the political will; we can even finish construction of border fencing in few years’ time. If we believe that the dreaded illegal immigrant issues can essentially be solved by constructing border fencing, then we must push for it.

Today, the country has already celebrated 68 years of her Independence. Are we going to take another 68 years to construct border fencing? By the time, northeast indigenous people will be refugees in their own soil.

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Rejoinder to NFHRCC press statement

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hough waging a paper war is not our intent the Naga People’s Front (NPF) 19th Phek Assembly Constituency, is once again compelled to issue a write up to the statements of the so called NFHRCC and pose some questions which needs to be answered.

Since the NFHRCC (as claimed) is constituted by 10 tribal Hohos, does that mean that the 10 tribal Hohos approved the committee to demand for the removal of Minister for R&B? And on what grounds? If it is so, wouldn’t it be the most inappropriate thing for a tribal Hoho to get dragged into a political mess which the state doesn’t want at this point of time?

Since the NFHRCC is charging the Minister of corruption, why is it so worried of the Defamation cases? Why can’t you just substantiate your charges in a court of law?

With due apologies to the CSC, the NFHRCC needs to be made aware that the Defamation case is a personal matter and as such the decision rest on the persons concerned. The question of demanding the Esteem CSC for withdrawal of the case does not arise. It is also for your information that the police personals that move around with a VIP are not called muscle men but security guards. To end with a positive note at least we agree on one point. The people will judge for themselves.

NPF 19th Phek A/C Api Vadeo President Nuchicho Kezo General Secretary

Sunday 24 August 2014

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NLTP Act of 1989: A Prohibitive Hypocrisy T

his NLTP Act of 1989 do not actually prohibit nor was able to prohibit liquor as everyone knows, but they bring about a state of hypocrisy. The question of lifting or not lifting the act never arises nor makes any reasonable sense, as liquor is available everywhere. The debate itself amounts to the inability of the act to control the flow/consumption of liquor, a complete failure of the act itself. Yet to not lift the act will merely only be a continuation of a hypocrisy that practically serves no logical purpose, rather a hypocritical massage of its own ego of all those against it, with vested interest of some few people bent on profiting on adulterated liquor at the cost of the health of its own people. How can we ignorantly still be discussing about the ill effects of lifting the act when liquor is so freely available?

As all know the main political objective of prohibition is power, and its purpose being the control of the individual. This Act is manipulated by opportunist (i.e in elections) for control to power, becoming one of the roots of systematic corruption of man's moral values and degradation of its social system. (Quote by Max Stirner; What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self). A privilege entitled to all man by birthright yet denied through few people's misinterpretation of right. This act is an insult of liberty, justice, equality, dignity of the basic rights of all man. It is the unethical control of man and his free-will, and can never be deemed as morally right.

As stated in the paper many times of alcohol being the root cause of all evil. If as reasonable people we are to find the universal root cause of most evil. To state it by nature it would be greed as intention, want as desire, need as cause with materials such as money as the means and power as the end. The eternal struggle where all men are immorally actually drunk in, the actual source of most social crimes, atrocities, violence and dis

harmony. The biggest crime of this being poverty, the real cause of much human misery/suffering. Poverty stems from the unequal distribution of social and economic goods; it is the manipulation of the system by the privileged few at the cost of the majority. To simply state the ills of poverty of the human condition is a creation of man's greed. (J.B. Osbourne quote on Alcohol; The abolition of poverty and better education for the masses, are the only remedies for the disease of alcoholism). Uncontrolled human greed is to state the mother/source of all ills/evils by nature. Why not there be a hypocritical act against human greed too!

To site an example even in a place like Israel, beer is available in grocery stores, clubs stay open without time limits. Beer festivals are held annually in Israel, of which one of the largest is in Jerusalem. Just wondering why are we Naga's being so religiously radical with shallow principles. Even westerners who brought Christianity to us aren't as radical as we are today.

To quote from the Bible, the miracle of water to wine in the new testament; fact is the trans-mutation of water to wine by Jesus proves and also points to the people of that period as wine consumers. What one should be asking is; Is it a Christian principle to force? Is it right or is there some vested interest still in play?

All the hue/cry over Christian principles and righteousness till now, but if we are to pick any one of the laws of the ten commandments such as ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill,’ the irony of it all, under the same Christian principles we the Naga's are killing each other. It is necessary to be courageous, honest, unafraid. We have had enough of base misrepresentation, rotten hypocrisy.

What we really need now is honesty of purpose and courage of conviction.

Certainly no one would advocate the prohibition of water because people get drowned; nor the abolition of the vehicles and roads because people are killed and maimed by accidents. If the evils of drink exist,

so do the evils of gluttony, and it will not be denied that more people die from causes arising from over eating than from drink, yet who would propose a law to close the butcher shops, and prohibit the consumption of salt, sugar, tea, coffee etc.. in the name and for the good of improving the physical well-being of the people.

How many idle unemployed youth in our society today? To help to relieve the suffering and misery of the unemployed should be more of a concern to the government then prohibiting the rights of its people. It is the inability to find work that will bring the many idle man and woman to their plight and distressing conditions to the drink habit. If men want liquor, they will invariably get it from anywhere.

As all know the history of the human race is a constant struggle for liberty, the struggle for economic, social and political rights. The purpose of government should be to safeguard the rights of all man through reason.

When it comes to controlling or regulating the thought of the individual, power of the government is limited. A government has no moral right to say when, where, or what, citizens should eat, drink or wear. Wise governments would promote conditions under which the people would have plenty to eat, drink, wear and good houses to live in. What he should eat and drink as well as the amount and kind, or the color of the clothes he should wear, should be the function of the individual.

Prohibition is becoming one of the roots of systematic corruption. Prohibition in government will only create more negative impacts, it will increase bribery; cause public officials to be more double-faced; will make more sneaks, liars and hypocrites out of men; opening the way for more illegal traffic/smuggling activities, and fostering an immoral negligence of law and order! And in addition to all this, it will not lessen drunkenness.

We should study the effectiveness of this act of prohibition on the mor-

al health of the people of our society.

With the inability to control the flow of liquor, with the availability of it everywhere. The public see law defied and mock at, they see the compromising of an impotent law/prohibition act with religious principles. With the indifference of the people the (unconcious/ concious) law breakers; in turn gets the peoples moral values compromised and corrupted by its own systems futile hypocrisy. To simplify it with every consumption under prohibitive law we are creating a whole generation making a mockery of the prohibition, of law of the land too; becoming then the unconscious/concious law-breakers. In time the individuals; moral values gets corrupted and eroded. People consciously disregard law and order with every consumption (its values already compromised). The beginning of a systematic degradation of an individuals moral values/principle; the result of an already compromised law/(principle- religion).

Prohibition turns an individual to become confused, rebellious and defiant; for it conflicts with its will to choose what it deems as right and societies standards to enforce what it wants to control (the individuals will) as right. Prohibition is essentially a repressive measure and history proves that repressive measures always fail.

(Quote by David Guerin; Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.) In aiming to do away with one evil we are setting up a greater one.

We are breeding a corrupt system, doing more harm as good to the moral health of the people plus physical well being of the consumers of adulterated liquor - the product of prohibition. By the theory of cause and effect the moral responsibility for the detioreating health caused by this illegal flow and slow poisoning by adulterated liquor should rest with all who support this failed prohibition act.

Alcohol, guns, swords, knives, sticks, vehicles, bricks and stones etc.. being inanimate objects, as things in itself has no value without man using it to abuse or misuse; hence cannot be termed as evil. To site an example if a man picks up a stone to kill a man; what would evil be then? The very intention of the man or the stone used; the thing. To sum it up in the final analysis one ought to realize that all evils are connected with life itself, for evil is not in things, but in men or women who abuse or misuse things.

If we are to consider the viability of this prohibition by the theory of cause and effect, prohibiting strikes at effects not at causes, its as ridiculous as to put the cart before the horse. If men want liquor, they will invariably get it from anywhere. (Quote by Bishop Hall, Prohibition drives underground the mischief which it seeks to cure).

Rather then by emotional sentiment but by the sound judgment of our reasoning ability should we govern to guide our thoughts for actions in moral justice to accept responsibly; the development of this act till now as a complete failure as it is. To be rid of this prohibitive hypocritical menace which is out to corrupt the morals of our society. (Quote by John Quincy Adams; Seek not to enforce upon your brother by legislative enactment the virtue that he can possess only by the dictates of his own conscience and the energy of his will).

I am against this NLTP Act of 1989 and every right thinking citizen should oppose it. This NLTP Act of moral hypocrisy should be lifted. There are no pros and cons of prohibition but of creating moral ills in society as is prohibition, one of the roots of corruption in general. The effects of prohibition should be reasoned and prevailed as it is a failure, and this failed hypocritical NLTP Act of 1989 should be done away with, so real effective reform along moral, social and intellectual lines would begin.

Menitso Chuzho Naga Naharbari, Dimapur

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KLLRU demands permanent UAVU undertakes second phase road repair settlement in border areas

Kohima, august 23 (mExN): Kohima Lotha Lower Range Union (KLLRU) has condemned the “violent attacks on innocent Lotha villagers by mob of Adivasis and illegal immigrants,” violating the various peace agreements.

KLLRU Chairman C Kikon and Vice Chairman Alex Humtsoe in a press release today stated that, “over the years, taking advantage of our good gestures and patience, the illegal immigrants backed by their underground outfits and with the tacit understanding with Assam police and neutral force, kept on provoking and threatening the innocent life and properties in the entire border areas that led to the present unrest.”

The union accused the Assam government of backing and rehabilitating the “illegal immigrants

and landless labourers” in the border areas and using them as human shield. It also alleged that the present imbroglio is not a border dispute between the two states, but rose out of misunderstanding between the landowners and tenants. “The tenants who are supposed to work under certain terms and conditions of the landowners are trying to become the master in our own land, therefore, the question of land disputes between Assam and Nagaland does not arise as the lands belongs to Lotha Naga since time immemorial,” added the KLLRU. The Union also stated this is not the only concentrated area where such incidents occur, but the whole stretch of lower range of Wokha district has been affected and “a large portion of our lands are being en-

croached by Assam by harboring the immigrants. It is a wakeup call for the Nagas, to bury the hatchet and stand united to defend our lands and its peoples where our life seemed to be insecure even in our own lands today.”

While endorsing the demands made by United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA), such as, “immediate posting of armed Nagaland police in the entire border areas on permanent basis; disband or shifting of all armed Assam police posts inside Nagaland; establishment of border guards in line with village guards; and strengthening of border affairs department,” the KLLRU appealed to the State government to take up the issues urgently and bring permanent settlement in all border areas.

KLLRU added it is also

right time to reassess/ retrospect various border agreements, including DAB, which has become “irrelevant and mockery.”

The union cautioned the State government stating, “Any future dialogues between the two States should not be to our disadvantage like in the past, unless and until all the encroached lands are returned and the encroachers evicted there is no point of conducting negotiations.”

The Union further urged the people of affected areas to be alert and prepared at all times to face any eventualities and said, “We should not allow those Advasis tenants to return for resettlement by any means, let us not repeat another blunder like the Merapani war where we were victorious but gained nothing due to shortsightedness of state Government.”

Dimapur, august 23 (mExN): In a “wake up call” to the state government and PWD (R&B) department, public of 13 villages under the banner Urra Area Villages’ Union (UAVU) undertook and completed the second phase of mass social work to repair the DimapurDoyapur road from Tuolazouma village to Kiyeto village, a 20 km stretch.

In the second phase social work which was held on Friday and Saturday, villagers of the area repaired the road from Urra village to Kiyeto village. Saturday’s mass social work witnessed a record participation of womenfolk from the neighbouring villages. In a show of solidarity, students of Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS), Bade, led by a couple of teachers also volunteered in the mass social work.

Talking to media persons, UAVA president, Thrilongse Sangtam, and general secre-

Former parliamentary secretary, Azheto Zhimomi (4th right) along with public leaders and villagers of Urra Area taking part in the mass social work to repair the DimapurDoyapur road from Tuolazouma village to Kiyeto village, on Saturday.

tary, Ruoluozhalie Rutsa, termed the social work as a success not only in terms of giving a facelift to the road stretch but also in bringing the villages together for a common cause.

“We especially thank the OTS for volunteering and joining the social work even though we did not ask them to help us. Today, the participation of womenfolk in large numbers was a huge encouragement and their contribution was more than the machineries

we hired”, said Thrilongse.

Former parliamentary secretary, Azheto Zhimomi, who represented Dimapur-III A/C under which Urra area falls, said the social work is also a way of showing that the public should not always depend on the government when it comes to taking initiatives for the common good.

“Yesterday, we put into action 13 dumpers and 2 JCBs for collecting sand gravel and we worked till 8 pm. Today, we are filling

and leveling the sand gravel. All this would not have been possible without the support and cooperation of the villagers and well wishers. We especially thank our leader Azheto Zhimomi who has been with us throughout the social work by rendering both physical and financial support”, UAVA members said.

UAVA also conveyed gratitude to the R&B department for deputing officials and machineries for the social work.

3rd edition of Rock Reign launched at Mokokchung Our Correspodent Mokokchung | August 23

The third edition of the popular rock music competition, Rock Reign, was launched

by Nagaland Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources and Sports and Advisor to Music Task Force, Khriehu Nagaland Youth Resources and Sports Parliamentary Secretary Khriehu Liezietsu (fourth from right) officially released the Progress Report 2014 of the Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium at Cosmos Hall, August 24. The publication contains details of activities undertaken by Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium. Also seen in the image are members of the Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium.

NSCN (IM) 'welcomes' 14 cadres Dimapur, august 23 (mExN): 14 cadres from different groups have joined the NSCN (IM). A press release from the Kilo Ministry stated the cadres “decided to join the Naga political mainstream and have been accorded a warm welcome” at the Joint council meeting held at

council headquarters, Hebron, on August 21.

The following are the names and ranks of those who have joined the NSCN (IM): Lieutenant Nuvuto Kusoh, 2nd Lieutenant Vikiho, Corporal Pensukiu and John Sangtam, Joint Secretary, from NSCN (U); Zukimong Sangtam, Deputy Kilonser, S. Yangt-

sa Sangtam, Jt.Secretary, Vitozhe, PRO, Captain Chuba Yimchunger, 2nd Lieutenant Kiutsu A Tikhir, Ramtsuthong Tikhir, Khapur, Wanham, Leacy, from NSCN (K); Anovi Achumi, Dy. Secretary and 2nd Lieutenant Lirese Sangtam from FGN; and Sergeant Major Pujakaba Khumba from NNC.

Liezietsu, here tonight at Cosmos Entertainment Hall, Mokokchung. The competition, Rock Reign 3.14 is being organized by the Cosmos Entertainment Inc. Speaking at the launching ceremony, Liezietsu acknowledged the effort put in

by Cosmos Entertainment

Inc., saying that the organizers have been working very hard for promotion of good music. He also said that the success of the previous two editions of Rock Reign had made an impact on the music scene in the state.

He said that Nagas have a rich cultural heritage where

music is an integral part of their lives and added that the government of Nagaland has set up the Music Task Force to promote the growth and development of music in the state. “The MTF will continue to support the process of music education and training at all levels and to facilitate the

KBAN supports continuation of NLTP Act Dimapur, august 23 (mExN): The Kuki Baptist Association Nagaland has come out with a statement in support of continuation of the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLTP) Act 1989.

KBAN Executive Secretary Rev. H. Minlien Singson in a press release stating that the ever increasing number of anti social activities in our society is “primarily due to the huge inflow of liquor,” said that upmost priority and support must be given to the

continuation of Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLTP) Act 1989.

NLTP which came into existence after much effort and perseverance has reach the 25 years milestone and continuation of the prohibition has led in creating an awareness of its evil effect, KBAN stated.

It maintained the need to live up to the tag ‘Nagaland for Christ’ and added, “It is against Christian ethic to indulge oneself in intoxicating substances, alcohol

being that prime.”

“All things come with a price tag and this act too is not far from criticism, however we see more of its advantages from disadvantages as more life are being saved or spared due to this rigid act being implemented,” it stated.

Urging people not to forget that drinking has led to a number of domestic violence and “many other evil practices in our society,” KBAN stated, “Every now and then, we hear an

alarming increase of crime in our state, which has been committed primarily under the influence of alcohol. We also see a number of people abuse alcohol or other sub-stances.”

“However, with the role played by the Churches, many have become stronger and have started to live ‘Their lives’,” KBAN claimed and asserted, “Therefore, it is important that this act remain intact for the greater interest of the Christian and for the public as a whole.”

harnessing of creative and economic potential within the music industry,” he said.

He also reminded the organizers and the participants that the winner of Rock Reign 3.14, like in the last two editions, will get a ‘direct entry’ slot for the Hornbill International Rock Contest 2014.

BiRTHDAy GREETinGS

Dear Nzan

Many many happy returns of the day.

God bless you

4m loving Dad, mum, lanu n family

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Attack Alcoholism & Bootleggers; Not Church & Bible

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he reignited debates over the Prohibition Act has heated up again because of the hated alcohol’s notorious track record as a powerful chemical, if misused, to seduce, enslave and destroy its users and ultimately destroy our families as well, is overwhelmingly fearful.

Advanced, developed societies with more experience of coping with changes and resources available do manage to handle the issues of the problem with less controversy.

But, for our young Naga society wrestling with the complicated challenges of growth is a more difficult task to deal with. Our concern is will the tremendously fast increasing tempo of the debate help our society wrestling to grow for good or bad?

Some of the allegations levelled against the Church’s considered position by some of the individual writers are unexpectedly wild and too sweeping. Accusing the Church that it is unreasonable, deeply proud, high handed, pharisaic, archaic, dogmatic, dictatorial, fanatical, preposterous, not be willing to accept its failures, blocking clean liquor, responsible for killing alcoholics with spurious drinks, indifferent to Govt.’s lack of funds, misleading, disturbingly unrestrained, lacking clarity of purpose and much more. Who knows, the Church and its members may be even worse before God. But the Church is fighting a battle it is compelled to fight to clarify its position on what it believes is important for our Naga society, as Christianity is aimed to fulfil the purpose of our creation. And to describe the battle position of the supporters of NLTP on alcohol which is based on their knowledge of the destructive consequences of the lethal chemical’s misuse as “dictatorial and fanatic” because religion remains one of the critics main arguments as if the Church becomes an issue is their confused thinking. The result is arbitrary misinterpretation in general of what Christianity is, and unfair accusation of the supporters of NLTP who are wrongly judged by a particular learned writer in print media as: “have a tendency to forget that ours is a secular nation, wherein religion is a matter of choice and religious laws are secondary to those laid by the constitution”.

Those impatient with the Church for whatever reasons must know that the NBCC knows it is the Govt.’s responsibility to either review the NLTP or not, as it judges best. The NBCC also knows it cannot stop the Govt. from carrying out its decisions according to its considered conclusions. It is wrong to accuse the Church due to subjective reasons when it exercises its right of ‘Freedom

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of Thought and Expression’ and what it considers to be its responsibility to vigorously articulate its concerns, fears, convictions and vision for its members and for our Naga society. If the Church is condemned for doing so it is tantamount to suppression of its ‘Fundamental Rights’. The Govt. and society must recognize the haphazard passing of the Prohibition Act, thereby leaving major “LEGAL LOOPHOLES” in the crisis situation that prevailed at that time is entirely responsible for our present crises, therefore immediate rectification is needed instead of lifting the Act. If we can acknowledge these loopholes, we will resolve our common crisis with more mutual understanding and less recrimination. Looking at the heated discussion that has built up on the Act, the following points are given for reflection by the public.

(1) Ancient Wine is totally Different from Alcohol: The wise men of Israel were aware of the dangers of strong drinks. Their so called wine in the ancient world, according to the renowned Bible scholar William Barclay composed of only 6% alcohol. Whereas today’s alcoholic drinks are totally different – beer has up to a composition of 18% alcohol, brandy, vodka, rum and whisky has up to 58% alcohol, apart from its present dangerous adulterants. Why go for alcohol unless you wish to depart early from this world which needs your help? The Bible does not justify alcoholism as claimed by various writers in the present debate. My Bible says, not to look at the wine when it is red, Prov 23:31; it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder, Prov 23:32; and woe to those who are champions at mixing drinks. Isa 5:22.

(2) Legal Loopholes Must be Rectified at all Cost: In 1989, a few days before NLTP Act was enacted by the NLA, one of the most powerful ministers then who was also a lawyer said with derisive laughter, “We are burdened with all of our problems, the Church leaders are very selfish, instead of praying for us they would fast onto death, after all they would go to heaven after death”. Mocking the Church or Bible is not a new thing yesterday and today however, the Christians ever move forward stronger instead. Under these circumstances the Act was enacted without any commitment from the Govt, so the Act was left till date with some major Legal Loopholes, such an example to be mentioned here is that there is no different degree of punishment between the illegal import or export of only one bottle of alcohol or for a full truck load or more. The defined commercial quantity as laid dawn under the NDPS Act is not applicable in this Prohibition Act. The bootleggers know these Legal Lacunas and get away scot free even

when they are arrested with huge quantities of illegal liquor. They are only afraid of their names being published in papers but that is normally not done. Punishment for commission of the offence under the Act is too light and lenient to be of any use at all.

Even seizure of a large commercial quantity of illegal liquor is bailable and it becomes a matter of right for the bootleggers. There are certain exemptions for medical reasons. But without any “Restricted Liquor Stores” provided in Nagaland to take care of those exemptions, confuses the whole Act and thereby encouraged illegal sale of alcohol comes into existence to meet the need. The Act is not a total prohibition. Total prohibitions are the ones existing in the middle-eastern countries. Ours is a partial prohibition with a wide scope of exemptions irrespective of age and sex liable to be checked by qualified doctors.

(3) Blatantly Encouraging Minors to Drink: Instead of rectifying those “Legal Loopholes” or implementing the “State Prohibition Council“ and “Prohibition Committees“ as envisaged under the Act which were repeatedly requested by the Church and NGOs, in some of our traditional festivals organised by some of our political leaders, the young generation, including minor children, are blatantly encouraged to drink. Today alcohol is often served openly at the residences of many high officials even at early morning hours. Even some Church leaders defending alcoholism in the present debate certainly adds to our existing alcohol problems. On the other hand some public leaders seem to be more interested in liquor shop licence rather than solving the liquor problem of our Naga society. If you want anything for yourself, whoever you may be, whatever you do or say increases our “Naga Problem”.

(4) Licensed Alcohol or Opium for Sale?

Alcohol, opium and marijuana have medicinal property; however we cannot treat lightly the question of making them available in our fragile Naga society for sale by license. Therefore the licensing should be for medical purpose only. The NBCC’s deep concern is that our society and its Govt. should be cautious on this matter and must not be interpreted to mean the Church is ignorant that the nation is secular or it is denigrating other religions as alleged by some of its critics.

(5) Licensing Cannot Stop Adulteration : The writers who are advocating for lifting of the NLTP Act seem to believe that licensing can stop adulteration of alcohol, its high price and provide clean alcohol to the alcoholics. We must first see what is happening in Nagaland before blindly believing in this theory. All petroleum retail outlets in Nagaland do have licences but almost all of them

Beyond the Borders

n the backdrop of the recent turmoil of border conflict along the AssamNagaland border areas, I am remembering my recent visit to Longleng district of Nagaland was scheduled during the summer of June this year. For me, Nagaland is the second home after Assam. In last 10 years of my travels in the North East Region, Nagaland has been the most memorable and hospitable inspite of inhibitions and differences. I took the train from Guwahati till Furkating and then proceeded from Golaghat outskirts to Longleng in a shared sumo. It’s a distance of around 202 kms which took some 6 hours from Golaghat to Longleng. The route was taken by the sumos through Mariani, Titabor, Amguri, Tuli, Merangkong, Chongtonya and finally Longleng. The journey through the plain areas was comfortable till the slopes of Tuli and Chongtonya.

But as I started from Chongtongya to Longleng, our sumo driver warned me and said, now the road is not going to be like your plain areas. It is going to be difficult. He was so true for the next 2 hours the road was terrible and a journey of 34 kms seemed to be endless. By the time I reached my destination, the road condition had a toll on my back and knees. The scenery along this road was awesome but I could hardly take a good look at the surroundings.

Many thoughts crossed my mind while crossing the stone crushing machines, scrapped skin of the hills dug intensely for extracting coal and gravel stones. I was wondering what if the roads were not there, we could not have traveled this far. At the same time I also pondered that how can people be resilient to such pathetic conditions of the roads.

All those who are affluent and those traveling by trucks may not feel the pangs of these roads but those who travel in local public transport like the Sumos will really have a hard time. I kept wondering about development and its aftermath. We are craving for development of infrastructure and other such amenities but what happens after the resource is created. Why can’t it be maintained in a way that it is convenient for all sections of society. Our indifference and resilience has taken deep roots and we are used to the culture of silence in terms of lack of quality in the resources. We can settle for very little and always under-estimate the needs of our own people. We are busy catering to the world with the best standards when it comes to exports or resources, intellect and services, but when it comes to the most disadvantaged sections of the society, we like to do away with all the frills and luxury. Is this a form of inequity or some sort of social exclusion?

Inequity as the resources sharing process is very much one-sided. It only favours the haves and the ones with power. Resources like land, water, rivers, minerals, roads, electricity and forests are exploited in such an indiscriminate ways that it will cater to the rapid growth and urbanization mirage. People in the margins are strategically excluded from the inclusive growth parameters of the powerful rungs of society. In the struggle for identity and freedom how does common people of Longleng district are coping with the changes is indeed a big question.

Longleng town strangely has good road connection within its periphery. Like any other big town or small city in north east India, approach roads to the towns and cities are difficult. Inequity has an impact on people for future as well not just in the present.

Somehow social justice for all categories of people seems a far cry in this kind of development process.

Inequity means lack of quality in goods, resources and services for different sections of society. People

have diverse needs and their aspirations keep growing, to be able to cater to the changing needs and aspirations without being partial to one individual or group would constitute an equitable process of growth. But in Longleng district, equitable sharing of resources seems to be still an unknown agenda.

In Longleng, Jhum agriculture is practiced in most of the areas. Traditionally Jhum farming practice helped the farmers to maintain an agrobiodiversity eco-system with more than 25 varieties of crops but gradually this process is shifting to cash crop monocultures. Farmers are very keen on growing high-market value trees, crops and plants which will fetch them good money. They are gradually transforming their Jhum fields into cash crop fields with rubber, teak, pine and cardamom plantations. Interestingly farmers produce food crops for self consumption and cash crops for the market in the same Jhum field. I managed to meet a women’s self help group who worked in their farms owned individually by their respective families but as a group engaged in cardamom cultivation. The women seemed very enterprising and initiate savings activities in their village and worked very hard in their farms. They spent almost 8-10 hours in a day working in their farm lands and later worked in their homes for the regular household chores for more that 4-5 hours every day. If a woman farmer is engaged in productive labour for both farm and at home, they deserve to be compensated with adequate wages and social security measures. The wage-rate for agricultural labour in the Tukpang village is Rs 60 for the women and Rs. 200 for the men. Men get more wages as they have to remove big stone boulders and similar agricultural work as the women. Infact, women spent much more time in the field and engages in labour intensive and back breaking drudgery. This kind of wage disparity can lead to adverse forms of violations of human labour and dignity. Women too deserve to be compensated well for their toil and struggle for survival. Technological innovations have only resulted in sophisticated software, but the irony is that such innovations have not yet led to equity, justice and lessening of human hardship for growing food. With the advent in mechanization of agriculture, women farmers are getting more and more excluded from the mainstream development paradigm. Women grow herbs, diverse food crops, leafy vegetables of high nutrition value and other food crops to sustain their families and communities in Nagaland, which is the root of well-being and good health while all other forms of agrarian reforms have been making a few people rich. Technological innovation also has to cater to the needs of the most disadvantaged groups in farming communities. More specifically since more than 80% of the farming in Nagaland is done by women farmers, their specific needs have to be taken care of while designing farm tools through technological innovations. Changes in the agro industrial sector has to benefit the local skills, needs and markets along with that this sector have to develop the eco-system in the sustainable manner as all natural resources are limited and easily perishable. Any development planning and stra-

sell adulterated oil or the meters are manipulated. The Nagaland business community is not expected to behave differently just for alcohol business. Therefore the accusations of the Church blocking the availability of clean alcohol and thereby responsible for killing alcoholics with spurious drinks is unfair and farfetched.

(6) Students’ Better Performance after the Prohibition: It is clear that our students’ performance in matriculation and pre-university examinations was much better every time after the Prohibition Act. NBCC’s published survey and investigation revealed that after the Prohibition the incidence of alcoholism dropped down drastically, women folk became safer at home or outside and the rate of alcohol related accidents came down, although its impact was not satisfactory in many areas, however sends out a big message of strong condemnation of alcoholism for those who are ready to listen to the call of PROHIBITION. (7) Hidden Realities behind Motivating the Renewed Debate: The constant claim of the Govt. losing crores of rupees in revenue due to Prohibition Act has gone on since the enactment of the Act. The Govt. has inherited the heavy burden of a thoughtlessly enacted NLTP Act on a crucially important issue on one hand and the financial chaos due to rampant corruptions on the other. The burden has been getting heavier over the years. The perception of the public in general is that it now wants to be rid of the hated burden without performing its bounding responsibilities as the representatives of its people. But the economy or the quality of governance will not improve in any case by just shedding the burden with the help of groups of people with vested interest in controlling the flow of alcohol into Nagaland. This raised the questions when will the searchlight be thrown by the Govt. on the enormous amount of money embezzled in the various Govt. Depts by our politicians, bureaucrats, contractors and suppliers inside Nagaland and outside that should have gone to developing Nagaland for everyone? The many crores said to be lost in revenues recoverable from alcohol if prohibition is lifted get all the attention in the present Naga society. But, the funds stolen by so many to satisfy their greed would exceed by much greater amount than that of the expected sale taxes recoverable from alcohol. These realities are part of the controversy related to alcohol’s impact on our society. It is not surprising that the raising of moral and spiritual issues by the NBCC at the heart of the controversy is categorized as pharisaical, dogmatic, archaic or worse and more by its critics.

tegic move towards such sustainable use and regeneration will ensure a healthy and self sufficient Naga farming society.

Drudgery and rough terrain in the hills of Nagaland have made an impact on the daily lives of the local population.

Young generation does not like to engage in land based activities. They are more interested to migrate for higher studies, better jobs and a decent standard of living.

Older generation in Nagaland are rooted to the traditions and cultural heritage so deeply that they can never imagine any change in their existing living conditions. The other forces which define boundaries and territories based on sour historical pasts and conflicting current realities look out for transformation of the ecosystem and the livelihood pattern so that they can ensure a better future for their future generations. This kind of assertion is considered to be selfish by some and sometimes also considered to be a reflection of self-respect by many.

Land, water, rivers and forests are integrally interconnected irrespective of political, geographical and national or international boundaries. These natural resources are layered in such a way that internal cooperation and collaborations between human agencies can only restore and replenish these resources. In our current reality of Assam-Nagaland border conflict where people are struggling against natural and human forces of difference and discontent, it is extremely urgent that we understand the community culture of co-existence. Divisive forces use various platforms to assert, reinforce and reduce human ethics of resource sharing and compromise. Our resources are limited and we need to ensure that human lives and ecological entities are also given safety in the most crucial moments of existence. We are all struggling to sustain our identities, ethnicities, cultures, ecosystems and rights, any form of human rights assertion cannot be rooted in violence of thoughts, words and actions. Even the reconciliation processes and dialogues have to respect the voices of dissent with dignity and not with violent force. Resource and power sharing has to be established amicably in consultation with the aggrieved communities. Both communities with discontent have to ensure that the contextual and situation specific approach is more important that the blanket generalization approach which follows after any such incidents of mayhem. People, organisations voicing the public agony and media also need to maintain restraint in ensuring non-escalation of future enmity between the larger mass of people in either parts of the border areas. People are already burdened with the pangs of daily existence in extremely fragile livelihood systems in the border areas. One can only hope for better understanding between neighbouring states for better survival. There are many common stories of survival from people from across the border who have been struggling for little bit of food crops, land use or water sources. If the forest dependent communities of Nagaland had not conserved the forest ecosystems and the river sources, the farming communities in Assam would not have been able to sustain their farms and river ecosystems. It is a matter of natural interdependence for survival and struggle when it comes to the survival of the common people of both the states.

These are the people who do not have any voice to share their real feelings, do not have any force to protect their livelihoods and do not have any resources to recover from the irreparable losses.

Samhita Barooah (Researcher and Traveler)

(8) Delegate Policing Authority to Public as Envisaged in NLTP: We all know that evil consequences of alcoholism do not affect the drunken man alone. The lives of other innocent people are jeopardized by those whose minds and reactions have been impaired by long abuse of alcohol. Prohibiting the sale of liquor by law without practical follow up action as in our present case is not effective at all, if the enforcing agency prefers to play safe with the Legal Loopholes and there is no strong general public disposition to support the law. Only if there is a practical legal enactment based on people’s welfare, security and sentiment which is sincerely backed by the Govt. with commitment and integrity; can the implementation of the provisions of the Act be effective enough in dealing with the rampant violators. This, we know from what our Naga society has suffered thus far because of the exploitation of the Legal Loopholes by a few individuals who think only of “Dirty Profit” for themselves regardless of the consequences. Since, the Govt. cannot provide enough men power, therefore the Govt. is requested to rectify the Legal Loopholes at the earliest as well as implement the long awaited “State Prohibition Council“ as has been envisaged in Section 27 of the NLTP Act, 1989. The section provides for the constitution of “State Prohibition Council” and “Prohibition Committee” in the districts to supervise the enforcement of the NLTP Act. It is suggested that the State Govt. may immediately constitute the Council and Committees for each district and delegate necessary authorities to the duly constituted public committees in the districts to enforce the Act. It is further suggested that the State Prohibition Council may study the NLTP Act of 1989 in detail and suggest the various loopholes to be amended. This venture is worth sacrificing and is the reason of our support for the prohibition Act inspite of the aforesaid loopholes.

(9) NLTP Act Is Our Naga Property: NLTP Act is the property of everyone for our own uplift – morally, physically, economically, educationally, spiritually, politically and for our character development. So we all must give our very best to let the State Govt. rectify the Legal Lacunas and we on our part take the Prohibition Act in letter and in spirit as a Naga peoples’ movement against the destructive power of alcohol to redeem our society instead of staying at our present level of blaming and hating each other. In order to win this present debate on NLTP Act, let us not divide and tear ourselves apart from our big Naga happy family by anything of which we cannot be proud of today and tomorrow.

OIL EXPLORATION NOW OR NEVER

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esumption of oil exploration in Nagaland State after a cap of two decade is an audacious initiation undertaken by the present DAN Ill leadership. In fact, the policy of the state Government to uplift the economic standard of the people through oil business is highly commendable. The oil bearing villages, especially those who own oil wells have a reason to celebrate, also there is a general acquiescence in the Government initiative.

Lucrative businesses as such issues are bound to happen sooner or later. The recent issue raised by the Kyong Students Union (KSU) over allotment of permit to MOGPL for oil exploration in Wokha Zone is something to be pondered about. Interestingly, the issue was a case of vacuity and lackadaisical attitude maintained by both the party. Whatever the case it hardly had any impact on the stands of the oil bearing lack of development and ever increasing backwardness of the region made the people realized that resumption of oil exploration is a desperate need. While the people neither favours nor discriminates any company. It is to be noted that certain lea cal demands of the people has to be fulfilled before exploration. It is also to be noted that if any exploitative policy of the company is detected, it would invite serious reprisal which would even lead to withdrawal of NOC/MOA. The query by KSU on the credentials and credibility of the allotted company and subsequent launching of agitation was rather a hasty decision. The company's investment potentials and its past experience would certainly project positive image and also boost people's confidence. Nevertheless, the efficiency of the company, in all front, should be better determined at the later stage of extraction.

The escalated row between the state Government and the students' community should also be a serious concerned for all. This issue could prolong the oil exploration, perhaps by another decade. It has also polarized the public opinion, thereby given way for politicking the issue. Therefore, if the stalemate continue the door to progress and development will be shut which one cannot afford to lose it.

Of all the charter of demands, installation of oil refinery is the non-negotiable point of the oil bearing villages. However, one must be aware of the fact that there is a criteria for its establishment. So, in order to fulfill that criteria logistic support to the company is much needed. One MOA has already been signed on June 26 2014, between the company and the landowners which was witness by the state Government and the tribal Hoho. As per that agreement oil refinery is to be established near the oil bearing areas on reaching the prescribe criteria. In the late 20th century, when ONGC were doing oil extraction in Naga soil, there was no Government set of rules and regulation on natural resources. Even MOU signed with the landowners was done in haste and without proper case study.

So, ultimately the situation favours the ONGC to take all the advantage. However, now the NP & NG rules and regulation 2012 is right in place. Hence, the apprehension of being exploited is less perceived.

In conformity with the rules 15 (2) NP & NG 2012, the company had to sign an agreement with the landowners. The inclusion of this clause speak volumes on the sincerity of the state government.

Had there been no such provision in the rules and regulations, it would have needed an urgent review. All concerned should, therefore, spend more time and energy over this special privilege as to what points of agreement are to be linked with the company.

Having issued the official permit to the MOGPL company for ten years, do you think the government would easily succumb to the pressure of the public and cancel the permit? What about the permit fee paid to the state government? By now the company must have invested crores of rupees in Nagaland. Obviously, the company will explore all possible means to retain its position. In the process, tussle and hustle will continue and even if new company take over, there might be another pressure group to oppose the Government. Therefore, all concerned should take serious consideration and must think twice over this issue, as unlike in the past, oil business in Nagaland is made a partnership venture between the landowners and the company.

Nzanthung Kikon, Former President Lotha Middle Range Students’ Union

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

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INSPIRATIONAL STORIES, MESSAGES, POEMS & SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES

The three How to counsel a Devil Worshipper? weapons of Satan

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PART I

have to define the term counsel here. I am using the term with two nuances. First is the typical meaning, to give advice. Second is not typical, it refers to the process of deliverance of a Devil worshipper. So, “to counsel” here would mean the process of deliverance and the giving of advice subsequently.

Latterly I heard of stories of people having Satanic panic at churches, camps, and crusades. These people will mean fresh theological students and graduates, youth leaders, church leaders and even some Pastors. With the unwelcome advent of Devil Worship in our land for the nightmare of many, the story of Satan was revised all over again.Possessions are more frequent than usual.

There is a grave need for more people who will be able to counsel the Devil Worshippers. Apparently, many cannot do it. This was why I had to see, many theological students and graduates and church leaders bite their nails in utter panic when they saw the Devil Worshippers manifesting. Recently, I heard some theologians running away from Devil Worshippers because they couldn’t handle them and some others were afraid of them for worse.

I am not aspiring to train anyone here just with this write up to how to counsel a Devil Worshipper. That said I will give some practical information regarding what happens during deliverance. I will give a list of don’ts in and for deliverance.

Some common happenings in Deliverance • It will be a real horror show and you will be a part of it.

• It will be rough and tough. Things can go wild and aggressive.

• They (Devil Worshippers) will be using all foul language for Jesus and God. • They will laugh and ridicule Christianity. They will call you a hypocrite.

• They will curse you and even hit you if

Mezhiisevi Mark Ziitso

My nous on Nagas and the Bible

The writer is currently doing his Master of Theology (Th.m) majoring in Biblical Theology in Asian Christian Academy and also works with Christ in Youth Team, Kohima. they can.

• They will use all the words that are not very nice to hear.

• They may lie in all they can.

• They will try to intimidate you with their words and actions.

• They will seek attention.

• They will be emotionally very unstable.

• They will be stubborn.

Some Spiritual Characteristics in Deliverance Devil Worshippers will have demons in them without a doubt. They work with demons. Demons are their friends and helpers. They have relations with demons. They have invited the demons in themselves.

But when the power of God hits them they will start manifesting and this is where deliverance comes to play. Some typical characteristics because of possession that you will witness in deliverance: • They will be physically very strong.

• They will be mentally disturbed. Some of them will be in their right minds others will be completely controlled by demons.

• They may speak with a different voice than themselves. They may refer to themselves in the third person.

• They mayshow supernatural knowledge. They may even tell your stories, the stories you don’t want people to know to intimidate you.

• They will resist the things of God. • They will hate to listen to the love of God. And the name of Jesus will be torturous to them.

• They will be angry when you pray for them.

Some don’ts you should know in Deliverance • Don’t go alone for a deliverance session. Some reasons for that are; it is not safe especially when you are physically weak and small. You cannot control them physically alone. It may take longer than you think it will and you will be exhausted.

• Don’t go alone especially when it is the opposite sex. They won’t care or know at most times what is happening with them. It can get real awkward because you have to catch them and hold them. At extreme cases, they won’t care if they are nude.

• Don’t close your eyes when you are praying or counseling them. They may run away. They may even slap or punch you and you can’t hit them

back. You may want to…

• Don’t be afraid of them no matter what they do. They may roll their eyes eerily. They may twist their neck more than you think they can. They may crawl like a snake. They will be stronger than usual, at times very very strong. They may make sounds which can make your hairs all rise and many things.

• Don’t believe what they say unless you have facts or the Holy Spirit inside you validates it. They may tell stories of themselves or others. They will cook up stories about the spiritual realms and happenings. They may say they have a dinosaur as their ride. They will try to show you demons and angels.

All their stories won’t be false but it is not worth believing them when they are in the process of deliverance. Just remember they have demons in them.

• Don’t try to deliver them in the church or public meeting unless the Holy Spirit tells you to do so. Some reasons for that are; they like to have attention. The spirit may bounce on people who are weak in faith. It will trigger fear and terror in the hearts of people. They will take advantage of the crowd. You never know if they have partners in the crowd which will help them spiritually. They won’t care for the people. They may use words or actions which are very inappropriate in the public. Best thing, take them to a room.

• Don’t doubt when you pray and counsel them in Deliverance. They will say to your face you cannot deliver them.

Demons will call your name and laugh at you literally and say you don’t have enough anointing to cast them out. They will challenge you to cast them out. When you command them to come out in Jesus name they may say no directly at you. Just remember, it is not you who is going to do it but the power of God, so never doubt. In addition, they like lying.

In the next article, I will list what you should do and say during deliverance.

Elected into the Assembly of God

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he very purpose of our existence is to do the will of the Father and to live in His Way by having an intimate relationship with Him. We were created that we might partake in His holiness and have fellowship with Him at all times. But the evil in us created the “Wall of Separation” between us and God. The barriers had to be lifted and the walls had to be broken, and God made it possible by conquering death on a cross (Colossians 2:5). As the scripture states “ Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One man the many will be made righteous (Romans 5:18-19 ). The old law of sin had been done away with for those who are in Christ and there is no condemnation for those who loves Him. The divine sacrifice in itself was an act of love, which was done to redeem mankind from the curses of God’s wrath.

In the past, the cross was considered as a symbol of curse, but God in His love conquered the power of darkness by dy-

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2nd Peter 1:3

ing on the cross. The Word of God also says “ He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness. (1st Peter 2:24). It is clear to us of what God did for us and it is also important that we abide by the laws which God gave unto us.

In the Government of the World . the representatives are chosen by the people but in the government of God the representatives are chosen by God. Regarding this, the scripture states “ You did not chose me but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will last…( John 15:16a ). God did not chose us because we were important but because our salvation was important. In view of this the sacred scripture states “ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works so that no one can boast ( Ephesians 2:8-9 ). What

we are now is that we are children of God saved by grace to do His will. The spiritual and godly virtues are given unto us so that we may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires ( 2nd Peter 1:4 ). Every believer has to be aware that though we are chosen by God, we are yet to be elected into the Assembly of God. Just because we are citizens of a powerful nation, we cannot consider ourselves as law makers and bureaucrats unless we are truly designated to those post of honor. God has said that He will give to each person according to what he or she deserves.

In the second epistle of Peter, Peter states “therefore my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom

of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ (2nd Peter 1:10-11 ). The Holy Spirit urges us to desire the godly things and to make our calling and election sure. It further promised us that we will be secured in salvation and will be warmly welcomed into the Assembly of God. In addition to this, the scripture states that the man who loves God is known by God ( 1st Corinthians 8:3 ). Being certain of this, we know what we should ask for. If we desire the greater things, our works should justify our wants. Knowing that we are called by God, if we live by the dictates of His Word, our reward in heaven will be great. It was God who chose us, and it will be Him who will reward us. just as Jesus came to do the Will of the Father, we are also called to do the will of God so that we may also share in His glory.

The Lord watches over us, and on the appointed day everyone will get what they deserve. Desire to be inducted into the Assembly of God. The Church of Christ patiently waits for Christ, as we desire the greater things.

Ambrose.J. Chakre Founder President Ambrose Foundation in Christ Ministries Kohima Nagaland

Selie Visa

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erpents don’t have the power of speech. So how dowe explain a serpent talking to Eve? The speech and the reasoning powers suggest that it was not a real serpent but Satan was the real tempter. The serpent is identified as the Devil and Satan in Revelation 12:9 and 20:2.

“And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

A part of Satan’s deception is his subtlety of visage. He can put on any disguise and appear attractive and alluring.

When he tempted Eve, Satan did not unleash all his weapons at once. Observe the stages of the temptation of Eve in Genesis 3:1-5 and gauge his high level of cunningness.

(1) First, he arouses Eve’s interest by speaking to her.

(2) Next he raises a doubt about God by the question:Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden?”

(3)John 8:44 says that Satan is a liar from the beginning and we get the proof here. In Genesis 2:16& 17God commanded Adam that he is free to eat from any tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If he does he will surely die. But Satan contradicts God’s word by saying “You will not surely die.”

(4) Then he challenges God’s authority by telling Eve, “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

One interesting fact we often overlook is that Eve deflected from the truth even before she ate the forbidden fruit.We find this in Eve’s reply to the serpent in Genesis 3:2 & 3. Eve said to the serpent thatthey may eat from any fruit from the trees in the garden, but they must not eat the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. Eve added that they must not even touch it or they will die.

God only commanded them not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God never mentioned anything about touching the tree or the fruit. Eve was telling a lie. Eve was portraying God as a tough task master. The seed of sin was already planted in her heart. Talking with the serpent was a big blunder. After being deceived by Satan, both Adam and Eve became aware of their nakedness (Genesis 3:7). Sin entered man; God’s consciousness was replaced by self-consciousness. They went into hiding. It was not merely shame; it was also a sense of sin that drove them away.

If Satan will come after Jesus, he will certainly come after us.Jesus taught his disciples to pray, “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” It is perfectly proper to ask God to spare us from trials and temptations because on our own we may fail under the test.

Passion, pleasure, and pride are three major incitements to sin. Their appeal is universal. Satan uses these three weapons to tempt Eve. Satan’s strategy has not changed he still uses these three things to deceive and made us believe that wrong is permissible. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life are mentioned in 1 John 2:16:“For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--come not from the Father but from the world.”

Satan employed the same strategy in the Temptation of Christ which is recorded in Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13. The comparison of the temptation of Eve in the Garden of Eden and Jesus Christ in the wilderness is summarized below.

Temptation of Eve: (1) The fruit of the tree was good for food.

(2) Pleasing to the eye.

(3) Desirable for gaining wisdom.

Temptation of Christ: (1) Turn the stone into bread.

(2) Shown the kingdoms of the world.

(3) Throw yourself down from here.

How do we defeat Satan and his demons? The Bible instructs us to rely upon God to deliver us from our enemy. “Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). Before we can resist the Devil, we must first submit ourselves to God. We must resist him. Resisting Satan means opposing him, turning away for him, and having nothing to do with him and the temptations that he throws at us.The ultimate weapon is “The Word of God” and “The Power of the name of Jesus.”

Jesus, when tempted by Satan, conquered Satan by the power and authority of God’s Word. We need to read and remember Bible verses so we can defeat Satan. To defeat Satan, we are not only to quote Scripture, but we are to use the power of Jesus’ name. There is power in the name of Jesus.

Who will stand up for the Christians?

Ronald S. Lauderaug | The New York Times

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HY is the world silent while Christians are being slaughtered in the Middle East and Africa? In Europe and in the United States, we have witnessed demonstrations over the tragic deaths of Palestinians who have been used as human shields by Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls Gaza. The United Nations has held inquiries and focuses its anger on Israel for defending itself against that same terrorist organization. But the barbarous slaughter of thousands upon thousands of Christians is met with relative indifference.

The Middle East and parts of central Africa are losing entire Christian communities that have lived in peace for centuries. The terrorist group Boko Haram has kidnapped and killed hundreds of Christians this year — ravaging the predominantly Christian town of Gwoza, in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, two weeks ago. Half a million Christian Arabs have been driven out of Syria during the three-plus years of civil war there. Christians have been persecuted and killed in countries from Lebanon to Sudan.

Historians may look back at this period and wonder if people had lost their bearings.

Few reporters have traveled to Iraq to bear witness to the Nazi-like wave of terror that is rolling across that country. The United Nations has been mostly mum. World leaders seem to be consumed with other matters in

this strange summer of 2014. There are no flotillas traveling to Syria or Iraq. And the beautiful celebrities and aging rock stars — why doesn’t the slaughter of Christians seem to activate their social antennas?

President Obama should be commended for ordering airstrikes to save tens of thousands of Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion and have been stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq, besieged by Sunni Muslim militants. But sadly, airstrikes alone are not enough to stop this grotesque wave of terrorism.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is not a loose coalition of jihadist groups, but a real military force that has managed to take over much of Iraq with a successful business model that rivals its coldblooded spearhead of death. It uses money from banks and gold shops it has captured, along with control of oil resources and old-fashioned extortion, to finance its killing machine, making it perhaps the wealthiest Islamist terrorist group in the world. But where it truly excels is in its carnage, rivaling the death orgies of the Middle Ages. It has ruthlessly targeted Shiites, Kurds and Christians.

“They actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick” a ChaldeanAmerican businessman named Mark Arabo told CNN, describing a scene in a Mosul park. “More children are getting beheaded, mothers are getting raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.”

This week, 200,000 Aramaeans fled their ancestral homeland around Nineveh, having already escaped Mosul.

The general indifference to ISIS, with its mass executions of Christians and its deadly preoccupation with Israel, isn’t just wrong; it’s obscene.

In a speech before thousands of Christians in Budapest in June, I made a solemn promise that just as I will not be silent in the face of the growing threat of anti-Semitism in Europe and in the Middle East, I will not be indifferent to Christian suffering. Historically, it has almost always been the other way around: Jews have all too often been the persecuted minority. But Israel has been among the first countries to aid Christians in South Sudan. Christians can openly practice their religion in Israel, unlike in much of the Middle East.

This bond between Jews and Christians makes complete sense. We share much more than most religions. We read the same Bible, and share a moral and ethical core.

Now, sadly, we share a kind of suffering: Christians are dying because of their beliefs, because they are defenseless and because the world is indifferent to their suffering.

Good people must join together and stop this revolting wave of violence. It’s not as if we are powerless. I write this as a citizen of the strongest military power on earth. I write this as a Jewish leader who cares about my Christian brothers and sisters.

The Jewish people understand all too well what can happen when the world is silent. This campaign of death must be stopped.

Ronald S. Lauder is the president of the World Jewish Congress.

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

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India, Pak trade gunfire in Kashmir; 4 dead

sRiNAgAR, August 23 (AP): India and Pakistan traded gunfire in the disputed Kashmir region on Saturday, killing two villagers on each side and wounding several others, officials said. Dharmendra Pareek, a top official with India’s paramilitary force, said Indian forces retaliated after Pakistani troops fired guns and mortar rounds on more than a dozen Indian border posts and at least three villages in the Ranbir Singh Pura region.

Pareek said two Indian villagers were killed, including an 8-year-old boy.

One Indian border guard and three civilians were wounded, but their injuries were not life-threatening, he said. Television images showed Indian villagers taking shelter in bunkers.

The region is about 300 kilometers (185 miles) northwest of Srinagar, the main city in the Indian portion of Kashmir. In Pakistan, a senior army officer said two villagers were

killed when the Indian border security force “resorted to unprovoked firing” along the border near the city of Sialkot in the Pakistani portion of Kashmir.

The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Indian Defense Minister Arun Jaitley said cease-fire violations by Pakistan had increased in the region, adding that “both the Indian army and the Border Security Force are fully vigilant and they effectively respond to each violation.”

Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, and the rival neighbors claim the disputed Himalayan region in its entirety.

They have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir. The two sides have largely followed a 2003 cease-fire accord, but sporadic violations have occurred.

Tensions have escalat-

An Indian woman displays a mortar shell allegedly fired on a residential area from the Pakistan side of the border in Ranbir Singh Pura region, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Jammu, India on August 23, 2014. (AP Photo)

ed in Kashmir since India earlier in the week called off diplomatic talks with Pakistan because the Pakistani ambassador in New Delhi met with separatist leaders from the disputed

region.

India said the meeting undermined efforts to thaw relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors. But India has tolerated such meetings in the

past, which suggests the country’s new government is taking a hard line against Pakistan.

India accuses Pakistan of arming and training insurgent groups fighting

for Kashmir’s merger with Pakistan or independence from India since 1989. Pakistan denies the charge and says it offers only moral and diplomatic support to them.

Border area villagers fear ceasefire violations will end truce agreement

sRiNAgAR, August 23 (Pti): Villagers in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir live under constant fear that frequent ceasefire violations would terminate the decade old truce agreement, putting their lives in peril. “We live under constant fear of death. We don’t know when a mortar bomb shell fired by Pakistani forces could hit and kill us,” said Om Prakash, a resident of Karotona Khurd.

“We want ceasefire initiated by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003 to stay, so that we can live in peace. In the last

two years, there has been a massive spike in ceasefire violations that have made our life hell,” Preetu Devi of Abdullian village said.

Prakash, who had a close shave after a 82-mm mortar bomb shell tore open the roof-top of his house and landed in his room, said, “we are rattled by frequent shelling and firing by Pakistani forces.

The villagers are at their wit’s end and they fear that the border truce would collapse, putting their lives in peril.”

Harnam Singh (40) and Rani Devi (43) of the Vidipur village, located

barely 2 kms away from IB and Ajay (20) of Karotona Khurd, however, could not escape the violence as splinters of shells injured them Thursday night.

In the neighbouring village of Jora Farm, the pall of gloom descended on the Gujjar community dominated border hamlet, where a mortar bomb brutally killed Akram Hussain and his 13-year-old son Aslam while three other persons were injured.

The residents of 27 border hamlets along the IB have either migrated or were evacuated, leaving behind one or two mem-

bers of each family to take care of their house and cattle. “We have sent our entire families to safe shelters set up by the government in R S Pura. We stayed back to take care of our homes and cattle,” Hans Raj of Abdullian village said, adding that the condition of most of the villages close to the IB was similar.

Jammu’s border belt of RS Pura and Arnia has been turned into a battle zone. Pakistan Rangers have targeted over 30-40 BoPs and over 20 odd villages during 16 ceasefire violations in past 12 days, drawing strong retaliation

from BSF. Dressed in battle fatigues and bullet proof jackets, jawans of the Border Security Force criss-cross through their Posts and Ditch Cum Bandh (DCBs) ready to retaliate strongly.

“We are giving a befitting reply. The moral of Jawans is high”, BSF officer Vinood Yadav said, adding that troops have been alerted in view of the vicious design of Pak Rangers.

Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), R S Pura, Devender Singh, who is supervising the evacuation, said that firing has been going on for past 12

days ceaselessly.

Three people have been killed, 15 injured including 6 jawans in the ceasefire violations, shelling and firing by Pak troops along Indo-Pak border in past fortnight. “We have made arrangements for safe shelters for the border people. They have been shifted at put in schools and ITI here,” Tehsildar, R S Pura, Manoj Kumar said.

The Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Shant Manu said that 3,000 people from various border villages have been evacuated and shifted in safe shelters till today.

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Sri Lanka must ensure justice for Tamils: Modi

New Delhi, August 23 (iANs): In a clear sign that India has not washed its hands off Sri Lankan affairs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday urged Colombo to ensure “justice and self-respect” to its Tamil minority. Modi told a delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Sri Lanka’s main Tamil political party, that Colombo must address the “aspirations of the Tamil community”. This, he said, needed to be done by building on the India-backed 13th amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution that seeks to devolve autonomy to provinces - by extention the Tamils who dominate the island’s northeast. The TNA has accused the Sri Lankan government of attempting to dilute the provisions of the 13th amendment and of trying to change the demography of the northern and eastern provinces, the former war zone.

“The prime minister stressed the need for a political solution that addresses the aspirations of the Tamil community for equality, dignity, justice and self respect within the framework of a united Sri Lanka,” an official statement here said after the Modi-TNA meeting. Modi urged “all stakeholders in Sri Lanka to engage constructively, in a spirit of partnership and mutual accommodation, towards finding a political solution”. The prime minister also assured the TNA delegation of his government’s support to provide relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction in the north and east of Sri Lanka where tens of thousands were displaced by war.

He said New Delhi would focus on projects relating to housing, livelihood generation, capacity building, education, hospitals and infrastructure. The statement underlined that the visit of TNA leaders “is part of India’s continuing engagement with the government and political parties in Sri Lanka”. It was the clearest indication after Modi became prime minister in May that the BJP-led government would not depart from the policy of the earlier Congress-led government vis-a-vis Sri Lanka. Delegation leader R. Sampanthan said after arriving in India that Tamils in Sri Lanka had their roots in India. “Their culture is India and everything is Indian. So I think India is one country that can play a major role (in Sri Lanka).”

The TNA delegation briefed Modi on the situation in Sri Lanka and their assessment and expectations regarding devolution as well as national reconciliation following the end of the military conflict. The delegation met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and former prime minister Manmohan Singh Friday. The delegation also includes Mavai S. Senathirajah, K. Premachandran, P. Selvarajah, Selvam Adaikkalanathan and M.A. Sumanthiran, all MPs. mPresent at the meeting Saturday were Nripendra Misra, principal secretary to the prime minister, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh.

The TNA was for years considered the political front of the now vanquished Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which was crushed by the Sri Lankan military in 2009.

After the end of a quarter century of conflict, Sri Lanka battles charges of not engaging with the Tamil leaders and of killing tens of thousands of innocent Tamils towards the end of the war. India deployed troops in Sri Lanka’s northeast in 1987 in a bid to end Tamil separatism. The troops ended up fighting the LTTE and returned home in March 1990 after losing nearly 1,200 men.

Party of promoting ‘love jihad’ in UP ‘Government to help BJP accuses Samajwadi Laxmikant Bajpayi ac- out in the state and inform Amit Shah had, on his first VRiNDAVAN, August people of the work initiated visit as BJP chief to the state, cused the SP government 23 (iANs): The Bharatiya school dropouts Janata Party (BJP) Satur- of disturbing communal by the Narendra Modi-led had told workers Aug 19 to pledged to oust the peace and harmony in the central government and be prepared to take over the complete education’ day “anti-people” Akhilesh stat in its “blind pursuit” of work to get back the lost glo- reins of power in UP. The party will also under- Teenaged girl gangMuMbAi, August 23 (iANs): The centre will intro- Yadav-led Samajwadi Par- minority votes. He also ex- ry of the party in UP.

duce a new programme this year to enable financially weak school dropouts to return and complete their education right up to doctorate level, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said here Saturday. The policy will be rolled out by December which will help those who had to give up education for work due to financial difficulties to complete their academics, up to the PhD level, she said, addressing students of Vivekanand Education Society, Chembur, Saturday afternoon. “Women, tribal children and those from other backward or scheduled castes cannot afford higher education...Many drop out as they have to get employment. I also left education as I had no money,” Irani said.

Under the proposed plan, those who were compelled to leave the education system at the VIIIth standard would be facilitated to return to education. The government would make the framework of equivalence for their degrees and vocation up to the doctorate level, she assured. The minister informed that the government has recently launched ‘Ishan Vikas’ programme involving students between Class IX and XI, who have the potential to become researchers or scientists, to visit top-class technical institutions like the IITs and IIMs for orientation. “Around 2200 students shall be taken to these top institutes in two batches every year for orientation,” she said.

“Our National Education Policy was last made in 1986.

Now we are planning a new policy as the road-map for the future...We will roll-out a schedule to gather inputs from all. I am hoping ‘Yuva For Seva’ will be a part of it,” Irani said. m‘Yuva For Seva’ of the VES Institute of Management Studies & Research, involves management students going to villages for three weeks as part of their curriculum, said its director Satish Modh. Irani added that the government would develop government schools and promote use of technology in their routine affairs within a year. mThis would enable parents of children attending government schools to know in real-time on their mobile phones when the child reached school, his/her days events at school, what assignments are given and whether these have been completed or not, etc.

ty (SP) government in Uttar Pradesh, accusing it of “promoting and patronizing love jihad” in the state.

At the first day of its twoday state executive meet in the temple town in western Uttar Pradesh, senior party leaders upped their ante against the SP and accused it of not only protecting people behind “love jihad” - a term coined by Hindu groups for allegedeffortsbyyoungMuslims reportedly target nonMuslim girls for conversion to Islam by feigning love - but also patronizing them.

BJP’s state unite chief

horted party workers to be prepared to oust the SP government and reclaim power in the state, which underpinned the party’s political success story in the 1990s and now again in 2014.

BJP president Amit Shah, who was scheduled to address the inaugural session of the convention, did not turn up owing to “pressing political engagements” in Delhi and was represented by union minister Kalraj Mishra. Terming the SP government as “incompetent and anti-people”, Mishra asked workers to spread

“People of UP have shown their faith in us by giving us 71 of the 80 seats in UP and we have not only to repay their trust but also build on it,” he told workers.

The BJP’s Uttar Pradesh executive is meeting less than three months after the party swept the Lok Sabha election in the state, winning a staggering 71 of the 80 seats.

Its ally won two seats.

Party leaders said the meeting will roll out a roadmap for assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh due in 2017 but which many in the BJP hope will take place earlier.

take a major membership drive across the state from next month where it plans to expand its support base further and consolidate its existing cadres. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to address the state executive Sunday.

Meanwhile, reacting to the BJP’s accusations of promoting ‘love jihad’, SP general secretary Naresh Agarwal trashed the charges and said that in its bid to communally divide the state polity, BJP was finding politics and religion even in an innocent emotion like love.

Mobile phones cause changes in metabolism

New Delhi, August 23 (iANs): Mobile phones are certainly causing some changes in the human body’s metabolism unlike claims made by cellular operators, medical experts have said.

“Cancer is not the only health issue linked to mobile phones. Fatigue, sleep disorder, lack of concentration and poor digestion have been found to be linked with mobile phone usage,” said Manoj Sharma, professor of radiation on-

cology at the Maulana Azad Medical College here.

Speaking at a discussion on “Mobile Phone Radiation and Health” at the India International Centre here Friday evening, Sharma said no proper research has been conducted on the long-term health effects of mobile phone usage. He claimed that close proximity to the brain while talking on a mobile phone created a possibility of brain tumour. “There doesn’t seem to be any worry about

the looming disaster. If we don’t take care now it will be too late like in the case of tobacco,” he added.

Sharma said that like in the US, cell phone operators in India should use advanced technology to reduce radiation. Naresh Gupta, another professor at the Maulana Azad College, said: “It is true that the metabolism in the body is affected by using mobile phones.” Mobile phones, he said, were an evolving technology and most of the

crime. But investigations, first by regional police and then by the CBI - India’s counterpart to the U.S. FBI - failed to substantiate the relatives’ accounts.

The new report from Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) further complicates the case, as it contradicts an earlier post-mortem that concluded that the girls had been raped. “We have come to know that the girls were not sexually assaulted,” CBI spokeswoman Kanchan Prasad told Reuters on Friday, adding that the agency had asked a three-member medical board to review the report.

Even before the CDFD report surfaced, regional police had cast doubt on

whether the girls had been sexually assaulted and instead suggested they could have been victims of socalled ‘honour’ killings. A.L. Banerjee, a senior officer in the Uttar Pradesh police, reiterated that stance, telling Reuters that the preliminary investigation had raised suspicions about such killings.

“I had said very clearly that it’s not a case of gang rape ... the media was not ready to listen to us. Instead they chose to start a media trial,” Banerjee said in Lucknow. With the latest report ruling out rape, the victims’ families have started questioning the investigation.

“I fail to understand what has transpired between the Uttar Pradesh police and the CBI - the

entire findings are getting twisted,” the father of one of the two victims told reporters. A series of leaks, sourced to unnamed investigators, surfaced in the Indian press after the CBI took over the case in June.

In one, newspapers reported that the suspects had passed lie-detector tests, while relatives of the victims had not.

The investigating agency declined to comment on such leaks. Authorities last month considered exhuming the bodies for further examination, but heavy rainfall that inundated the burial area prevented them from doing so. Prasad said the medical board that is assisting the CBI would now decide if there is a need to

exhume the bodies now.

CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN Controversy surrounding the killings had stoked political tensions between newly-elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the state government in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. For one, the surnames of four of the five suspects identify them as members of the same caste as state premier Akhilesh Yadav. Modi’s nationalist party inflicted heavy losses on Yadav’s party in the April-May general election.

Modi, who initially remained silent over the killings, spoke out against rape during his first Independence Day speech

bhubANeswAR, August 23 (iANs): Police Saturday detained three people for questioning in connection with the gang-rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Odisha’s Ganjam district, police said. “We have detained three persons in this connection. They are being questioned,” sub-divisional police officer R.C. Sethi told IANS. The barbaric incident occurred Thursday night near Balisahi village, about 170 km from here. A post-mortem examination conducted on the body, recovered Friday, revealed that the girl was raped before being murdered.

Quoting her family members, police said the girl had gone to a nearby field with her father Thursday, and left for home alone. Her father returned home in the evening but did not find her. Family members and other villagers searched for her and found her dead near a mango orchard with her hands and legs tied. Two heavy stones had been placed on her body which also bore injury marks.

Villagers Friday informed police who rushed to the site and sent the body for post-mortem examination.

“The preliminary investigation indicated that she was strangled after being raped by more than one person. We have not arrested any one so far. Investigation is still underway,” the official said.

research into their health effects was funded by the private companies manufacturing them. “We don’t have any independent research,” he said.

However, S.B. Gogia, a plastic surgeon with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said mobile phones have a positive effect on health also.

“Many a times, lives have been saved in case of accidents and other medical emergencies due to mobile DoMkAl (west beNgAl), August 23 (iANs): phones,” he said.

Calling for focusing on women’s education, President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday asserted that by 2030, India will have an edge over other countries in supplying skilled manpower to the world. In an address after inaugurating a new building of the Domkal Girls’ College at Domkal a week ago, saying India in Murshidabad district, the president, emphasizing on was shamed by increasing the necessity of women’s education, said an educated reports of sexual violence girl plays an active role in the socio-economic developagainst women and girls. ment of the country. He also stressed on the importance The number of reported of quality education starting from primary to post gradurapes in India rose by 35.2 ate level, saying it would enable local boys and girls take percent to 33,707 in 2013 maximum advantage of the premier educational institufrom the previous year, ac- tions. Mukherjee said by 2030, one fifth of the world’s total cording to the National work force would be in India.

Crime Records Bureau.

With the average age of an Indian being less than that India toughened its rape in countries like China, US and Britain, India will have an laws after the gang-rape and edge over other countries in supplying skilled man powmurder of a 23-year-old stu- er to the world by that time, he said. The president also dent on a moving bus in called for making efforts to train and skill 50 crore peoNew Delhi in 2012 led to ple by 2025 as envisaged by National Skill Development nationwide street protests. Scheme. He later inaugurated the 6th edition of Kamada Still, sex crimes against Kinkar Mukherjee Rural Football Tournament, named young girls and women re- after his father, at Raghunathganj in the district. main widespread. Females Mukherjee, who witnessed an exhibition match befrom poor and marginal- tween Eastern Railway Sport Club and Bhawanipur Club, ized communities are often noted the popularity of football especially in rural areas.m among the victims, activ- The president, who is a two-day visit to West Bengal, will ists say, while many such Sunday be inaugurating the Indian Institute of Engineercrimes go unreported or are ing Science and Technology (IIEST) at Shibpur in Howrah not properly investigated. district, before returning to the national capital.

Forensic report complicates double rape, murder case

New Delhi, August 23 (ReuteRs): The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) is analysing a forensic report that found that two teenage girls, earlier believed to have been raped before they were murdered, were not sexually assaulted. Images of the cousins, still hanging from a mango tree in a village in Uttar Pradesh, shocked the world in May and threw light on an enduring culture of sexual and caste violence in India.

Based on testimony from relatives of the girls, who belonged to a lowcaste community, three brothers were quickly arrested. Two policemen were also held on suspicion of trying to conceal the

raped, killed in Odisha, three held

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Paris to celebrate end to Nazi rule 70 years later

PARIS, AuguSt 23 (AP): Her code name was Rainer and she had a gun she called Oscar. Not yet 20, she aimed her weapon at a Nazi officer and shot him to death on a Paris bridge on a Sunday afternoon.

That deed on July 23, 1944, was Madeleine Riffaud’s summons to Parisians to rise up. “Everyone saw that a young girl on a bicycle can do this,” she recalled in an interview with The Associated Press.

Riffaud’s solitary act provided an opening salvo for a popular uprising in Paris, which was spurred by the Allied landings in Normandy following four years of Nazi occupation. When American and French troops liberated the City of Light on Aug. 25, 1944, it came against a backdrop of jubilation and chaos.

On Monday, Paris will mark the 70th anniversary of its freedom from Hitler’s Third Reich with a day of tributes, including an outdoor ball, a speech at City Hall by President Francois Hollande, and a sound and light show re-enacting the day of liberation.

The commemoration underscores how much has changed in a Europe, and wider world, that is confronting new dangers with echoes of the past.

“I think there is a cer-

tain degree of forgetting precisely what the right wing across Europe in the 1930s actually meant,” said University of Nottingham historian Karen Adler, who draws a parallel between that dark time and the rise of far-right parties across much of Europe today.

Some Parisian elders who lived through the occupation now advocate unity and dialogue among Europeans to ensure that extremism can never take hold of the continent again.

“What happened was monstrous,” said Jacqueline Courret, now 85 and living at the Liberty rest home in Paris.

During the occupation, Courret lived in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood on the Rue de Rivoli.

She recalled how the Nazis’ regular roundups of Jews meant that her school eventually closed because so many pupils had disappeared, including a friend.

Some 77,320 Jews were deported from France during the war.

From 1940 to 1944, a European capital that had epitomized culture, bounty and the sweet life fell to its knees as humiliation, hunger, cold and distrust became the measures of daily life. Long food lines, black markets and coveted ration tickets marked the memo-

ries of those years.

Courret and two other women at the Liberty care home described how agebased food tickets determined their daily rations.

Potatoes, rutabagas, soup and milk for the children were standard fare. Meat was a delicacy. Sometimes, Courret said, her parents served up cat meat.

“There wasn’t a cat left in Paris at the end of the war,” she said, chuckling.

Understanding how ordinary life goes on in an occupied country can be hard for outsiders to grasp.

“Ordinary things go on as well as the terrible things and the spectacular things,” Adler said. “People are still getting married. ... They’re still having arguments with their spouse.” Life, she said, “is not always being lived at an incredibly high pitch.”

With fuel scarce, bicycles provided taxi services.

The family of 83-year-old Michele Le Meleder tried warming up in winter around an electric toaster.

Scarcity bred a thriving black market for goods, some smuggled from the countryside. Parisians honed their bargaining skills. “One person had shoes; another had butter.

We bartered,” said Josepha Bercau, 93. Her family’s fabric store helped put food on the table by trading fab-

on August 25, 1944 photo shows French civilians with their hastily made American and French flags singing the "Star Spangled Banner" as they greet U.S. and Free French troops entering Paris, France, after Allied liberation of the French capital from Nazi occupation in World War II. (AP Photo)

ric or clothes, some made from curtains.

When their silk stockings failed, ladies resorted to using make-up on their legs to imitate the look of the stockings. Yet worries about whom to trust tainted relations and snuffed out the legendary ambiance of the city. Fears that neighbors could be collaborating with the Germans restrained conversations.

Identifying the collaborators was no easy task.

“Collaboration works at so many levels. It was every state agency, if you like, every ministry, every government agency,” Adler said.

Paris police carried out the Nazis’ dastardly tasks until they rebelled on Aug. 19 as the uprising spread six days before the liberation.

Women who consorted with Germans, derided as “horizontal collaborators,” were paraded through the streets with shaved heads after the liberation. Adler

offered a rough estimate that at least 20,000 women suffered this humiliation, even though some of them simply had a “visible” relationship with a German, even as a maid.

Small-scale sabotage was part of life for some, from giving incorrect directions to a German soldier to drawing on a wall the Cross of Lorraine, the sign of Free French Forces leader Gen. Charles de Gaulle, then based in London.

Riffaud, who turned 90 on Saturday, carried out more daring feats. As a member of a Paris resistance group of medical students, she put pamphlets in mailboxes and passed secret messages using the numbers on Metro tickets as a code.

When Riffaud shot the German officer, she said, she waited until he turned — so that he wouldn’t be shot in the back. She was arrested, tortured and

eventually freed in a prisoner exchange. “We always knew we couldn’t win alone,” she said.

The D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, fueled the fervor of Parisians and opened the way for American troops of the 4th American Infantry Division to march on Paris alongside the 2nd French Armored Division.

“All the emotions suppressed by four years of German domination surged through the people,” veteran AP correspondent Don Whitehead wrote on Aug. 25, 1944, in the first eyewitness account of the liberation. That joy was immortalized in iconic photos showing young ladies kissing American soldiers.

Whitehead’s dispatch describes the liberation as messy, chaotic and dangerous with shooting from Germans making their last stand. “Machine guns and rifles cracked on all sides as the column I was with drove within a block of the Luxembourg (Gardens),” Whitehead wrote.

Riffaud saw one of her comrades fall dead from a gunshot wound at the Place de la Republique. “Everyone was hugging and kissing,” she said. “People were happy. All the while, we were picking up dead bodies.”

Hamas backs bid to join ICC Obama taking less

Palestinians inspect the damage of their house after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike late Friday, in Gaza City on August 23. (AP Photo)

gAZA CItY, AuguSt 23 (AP): Hamas has signed a pledge to back any Palestinian bid to join the International Criminal Court, two senior officials in the group said Saturday. Such a step could expose Israel — as well as Hamas — to war crimes investigations.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has debated for months whether to join the court, a step that would transform his relations with Israel from tense

to openly hostile and could also strain his ties with the United States.

The decision by Hamas to sign a document in support of a court bid removes a major obstacle, though it’s not clear if Abbas now will go ahead. A hesitant Abbas has said he would not make any decision without the written backing of all Palestinian factions. Last month, he obtained such support from all factions in the Palestine

Liberation Organization.

Hamas, which is not a PLO member, has said it would study the idea. Its decision to support the court option came after almost seven weeks of a deadly cross-border war with Israel and several failed cease-fire efforts.

Since the war erupted July 8, more than 2,090 Palestinians have been killed, including close to 500 children, and about 100,000 Gazans have been

left homeless, according to United Nations figures and Palestinian officials. Israel lost 64 soldiers and four civilians, including a 4-yearold boy killed by a mortar shell Friday.

During the war, Gaza militants have fired more than 3,800 rockets and mortar shells at Israel, while Israel launched about 5,000 airstrikes at Gaza, the military said. Israel has said it has targeted sites linked to militants, including rocket launchers and weapons.

U.N. and Palestinian officials say three-fourths of those killed in Gaza have been civilians. On Saturday, an airstrike on a house in central Gaza killed two women, two children and a man, according to medics at the Red Crescent. Six strikes also hit a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza, causing severe damage but no injuries, Gaza police said.

Since the start of the Gaza war, Abbas has come under growing domestic pressure to pave the way for a possible war crimes

investigation of Israel.

Last month, he told senior PLO officials and leaders of smaller political groups he would only go ahead if Hamas supports the bid.

If Abbas were to turn to the court, Hamas could be investigated for indiscriminate rocket fire at Israel since 2000. Israel could come under scrutiny for its actions in the current Gaza war as well as decades of settlement building on war-won lands the Palestinians seek for a state.

Izzat Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said Saturday that Hamas was not concerned about becoming a target of a war crimes investigation and urged Abbas to act “as soon as possible.”

“We are under occupation, under daily attack and our fighters are defending their people,” he said in a phone interview from Qatar. “These rockets are meant to stop Israeli attacks and it is well known that Israel initiated this war and previous wars.”

However, it is not clear

if such arguments would hold up in court. After the last major round of IsraelHamas fighting more than five years ago, a U.N. factfinding team said both Israel and Hamas violated the rules of war by targeting civilians — Hamas by firing rockets at Israel. Hamas’ decision to back a court bid came after meetings on Thursday and Friday in Qatar between Abbas and the top Hamas leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment. Israel opposes involving the court, arguing that Israel and the Palestinians should deal with any issues directly.

A former International Criminal Court prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, told The Associated Press earlier this week that he believes drawing the court into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might be a positive step. “I think the ICC could contribute to a solution” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he said.

WHO warns of ‘shadow zones’ & unreported Ebola cases try if two incubation periods, or 42 days in total, have passed without any confirmed case, a WHO spokesperson said.

A man, right, working for a humanitarian group, throws water in a small bag to West Point residents behind the fence of a holding area, as they wait for a second consignment of food from the Liberian Government to be handed out, at the West Point area, near the central city area of Monrovia, Liberia on August 22. Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and, in an alarming development, they are outside the group of caregivers who treated an airline passenger who arrived with Ebola and died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Friday.(AP Photo)

g E N E VA / M O N R O VIA, AuguSt 23 (REutERS): Families hiding infected loved ones and the existence of “shadow zones” where medics cannot go mean the West African Ebola epidemic is even bigger than thought, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Some 1,427 people have died among 2,615 known cases of the deadly virus in West Africa since the outbreak was first identified in March, according to new figures released by the WHO on Friday.

However the U.N. agency, which has faced criticism that it moved too slowly to contain the outbreak, said that many cases had probably gone unreported.

Independent experts raised similar concerns a month ago that the contagion could be worse than reported because some residents of affected areas are chasing away health workers and shunning treatment.

Despite initial assertions by regional health officials that the virus had

been contained in its early stages, Ebola case numbers and deaths have ballooned in recent months as the outbreak has spread from its initial epicenter in Guinea.

“We think six to nine months is a reasonable estimate,” Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s Assistant DirectorGeneral for Health Security, said during a visit to Liberia, speaking of the time the agency now believes will be required to halt the epidemic.

An Ebola outbreak will be declared over in a coun-

INVISIBLE CASELOAD Under-reporting of cases is a problem especially in Liberia and Sierra Leone, currently the two countries hardest hit. The WHO said it is now working with Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to produce “more realistic estimates”.

Nigeria, the fourth country affected, confirmed two new cases on Friday, bringing the total number of recorded cases there to 14. The country’s health minister said both patients caught the disease from people who were primary contacts of the Liberian man who first brought it to the economic capital Lagos.

The stigma surrounding Ebola poses a serious obstacle to efforts to contain the virus, which causes regular outbreaks in the forests of Central Africa but is striking for the first time in the continent’s western nations and their heavily populated capitals.

“As Ebola has no cure, some believe infected loved ones will be more comfortable dying at home,” the WHO said in a statement

detailing why the outbreak had been underestimated.

“Others deny that a patient has Ebola and believe that care in an isolation ward – viewed as an incubator of the disease – will lead to infection and certain death.”

Corpses are often buried without official notification. And there are “shadow zones”, rural areas where there are rumors of cases and deaths that cannot be investigated because of community resistance or lack of staff and transport.

In other cases health centers are being suddenly overwhelmed with patients, suggesting there is an invisible caseload of patients not on the radar of official surveillance systems.

FLIGHTS BLOCKED On Friday, the WHO said it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat the disease in West Africa, and details would be released early next week.

David Nabarro, Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola, who was traveling with the WHO’s Fukuda in Liberia, said the strategy would involve ramping up the number of health workers fighting the disease.

“It means more doctors, Liberian doctors, more nurses, Liberian nurses, and more equipment,” he

said.

“But it also means, of course, more international staff.”

The affected West African countries were already struggling with few doctors and fragile healthcare systems before the Ebola outbreak. And health workers have been among the hardest hit by the disease.

The head of MSF, which has urged the WHO to do more, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday that the fight against Ebola was being undermined by a lack of international leadership and emergency management skills.

In a sign of spreading regional alarm, Senegal, West Africa’s humanitarian hub, said it had blocked a U.N. aid plane from landing and was banning all further flights to and from countries affected by Ebola.

Gabon also announced on Friday its suspension of air and sea links to the four affected countries, following the lead of a number of regional nations who have defied WHO advice in an attempt to isolate themselves from the disease.

The World Health Organization has repeatedly said it does not recommend travel or trade restrictions for countries affected by Ebola, saying such measures could heighten food and supply shortages.

vacation, but way too much for some

CHILMARK, AuguSt 23 (AP): President Barack Obama’s two-week break on a Massachusetts island and his hours on the golf course have his detractors teeing up as they highlight the slew of foreign policy crises currently facing the United States. The criticism has the president’s aides confronting a question it faces whenever Obama gets away: Is there ever a good time for the commander in chief to take a few days off? Since becoming president, Obama has taken 20 vacations lasting two to 15 days. As of Friday, he has spent all or part of 138 days on “vacation.”

By the same point in his second term, President George W. Bush spent 381 partial or complete days at his ranch in Texas and another 26 at the Bush family compound in Maine, according to CBS News reporter Mark Knoller’s widely respected record keeping on the presidency. Other recent American leaders also spent more time away.

But images of Obama playing leisurely rounds of golf as the U.S. strikes Islamist militants in northern Iraq have been jarring to some, particularly his fiercest national security critics. After delivering an angry statement Wednesday condemning the beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State group, Obama headed straight to the greens. m“Every day, we find new evidence that he’d rather be on the golf course than he would be dealing with the crisis that’s developing rapidly in the Middle East,” former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News this week. mObama has played eight rounds since arriving on the resort island Martha’s Vineyard 12 days ago. He went golfing last week after addressing the nation from his vacation home on Iraq and the civil unrest in Missouri linked to the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer. He plays most weekends when he is at the White House, joining many of his predecessors who also enjoyed the game.

Some of the negative reaction reflects that the White House occasionally allows media to photograph the president when he is playing golf. By contrast, there are no photos of him playing basketball or during his regular gym workout. With the U.S. engaged militarily in Iraq, and struggling to secure a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza and ease tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the White House released photos of Obama early in the vacation being briefed by top aides, including national security adviser Susan Rice and Attorney General Eric Holder. Other images captured him on the telephone with world leaders. mObama’s aides counter criticism of his vacations by saying he travels with what essentially is a mini-White House. The entourage comes complete with top advisers and senior staff, and communications equipment needed to do the job from wherever he may be. “Just because the president is in a different location doesn’t mean he’s not doing his job,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz, who accompanied Obama on vacation. “He’s been deeply engaged on issues both domestically and abroad.”

Cheney contrasted Obama’s continued vacation with British Prime Minister David Cameron suddenly returning to London during his time off. Cameron returned from vacation in Portugal to chair an emergency meeting on the humanitarian crisis in northern Iraq. He departed this week on the second part of his scheduled vacation to Cornwall, in southwest England, but headed back just a day later for crisis meetings after Foley’s death. Cameron resumed his vacation the following day. Obama also interrupted his vacation, returning to the White House for meetings Monday and Tuesday. The break was planned long before U.S. airstrikes in Iraq started or Missouri became a hotbed of civil disobedience. Obama resumed his vacation on Tuesday. He leaves the island Sunday. mOther presidents have vacationed during foreign policy flare-ups.

The Morung Express 10 LOCAL/SPORTS Bayern beats Wolfsburg in Bundesliga Inter school- cum- Kohima District Table Tennis C’ship 2014 Dimapur

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FRaNkFuRt, august 23 (aP): Bayern Munich began the defense of its Bundesliga title on Friday by beating Wolfsburg 2-1 with goals from Thomas Mueller and Arjen Robben shortly before and after the interval.

Bayern dominated the match until a goal by Ivica Olic in the 52nd minute that breathed new life into Wolfsburg's game.

Wolfsburg wasted a tremendous late opportunity to earn a point and Robben hit the crossbar in stoppage time.

"It would have been difficult for us if they had made it 2-2," Bayern director Matthias Sammer said.

Both teams were missing several injured players. Bayern was without Franck Ribery and Bastian Schweinsteiger, among others. But central defender Holger Badstuber returned to the Bundesliga after missing 20 months with a knee injury and two operations.

Bayern coach Pep Guardiola gave 17-year-old Gianluca Gaudino, son of former Germany international Maurizio Gaudino, his Bundesliga debut and the teenager had a good game, nearly setting up a goal. New Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski failed to score and was substituted late in the second half.

Guardiola had predicted that his team would face a difficult first half of the season due to the many injuries and because many players were still getting into shape after the World Cup. But he started with five of his six Germany players, plus Robben, who also

played throughout the World Cup with third-placed Netherlands. And Robben was one of the top players in the season opener. Lewandowski set up Mueller early but Mueller tried to play back the ball instead of shooting and the Wolfsburg defense cleared.

Gaudino then chipped a pass and Lewandowski attempted an acrobatic firsttime effort but Wolfsburg's goalkeeper Max Gruen palmed the ball over.

Bayern opened the scoring in the 37th when Robben faked Luiz Gustavo and sent in a low cross that was knocked in from close range by Mueller.

Mueller began the move that led to Bayern's second goal in the 47th, feeding Lewandowski, who launched Robben. Josuha Guilavogui appeared to move aside and Robben had the space he needed to slot the ball inside the post.

Wolfsburg got back into the match when Olic picked up a throw-in and fired onto the underside of the crossbar and into the net of his former team.

Junior Malanda should have salvaged the point for Wolfsburg in the 79th. He raced in to connect with a low cross from Maximilan Arnold but the ball hit Bayern and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's leg and bounced off the crossbar. It fell to Malanda but he hit it with his shin and managed to miss the target from just one meter (yard) out.

Bayern's substitute Sebastian Rode found the net in the 84th but the play was called offside in a questionable decision.

Our Correspondent Kohima | August 23

The Inter School- cum- Kohima District Table Tennis Championship 2014 under the aegis of the Kohima District Table Tennis Association (KDTTA) concluded here this afternoon at the Indoor TT Stadium. Dr. Neiphrezo Mepfhüo, Diabetologist, Naga Hospital Authority Kohima graced the valedictory function as the guest of honour and gave away prizes to the winners.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Mepfhüo challenged the players to be committed and strive hard to excel in any field.

Urging the players to give their best, he also called upon them to bring laurel to the state at the various levels and at the same time asked them to be productive to the society.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Jutshutho Phoji.

Earlier, the tournament, held from August 20 till 23, was formally inaugurated by parliamentary secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, Music Task Force and New & Renewable Energy Khriehu Liezietsu.

Around 60 players joined the tournament.

The sponsors of the tournament included; The Naga Diner Restaurant, Metekhrielie & Company,Victor Ezung NTTA, Max Pucho, Vikuo Metha, Kethose Chuzo and IPR.

Winners of Inter school- cum- Kohima District Table Tennis C’ship 2014 with guest of honour and officials of the KDTTA on August 23. (Morung Photo)

RESULT OF KOHIMA TT OPEN 2014

Youth Boys Singles Winner: Seyievilie Seyie. Runnerup: Kevilevor Metha Womens Singles Winner: Thejavinuo Rio. Runnerup:Viphretuonuo Meze Youth Boys (Doubles) Winner: .Kevilevor Metha & 2.Dzesevituo Metha. Runner-up :Akenye Seb & Pelelhusie Rino Junior Boys (Singles) Winner: Dzesevituo Metha. Runner-up: Thineum Imchen

Sub-Junior (Singles) Winner: Metevito Kintso. Runner up: Ihubuing Haikube Mens Doubles Winner: Kerihosa Natso & Vikuo Metha. Runner-up: Athisu Andrew & Juthsutho Phoji Mens Singles Winner: Seyievilie Seyie. Runnerup: Kevilevor Metha

Girls team Winner: Vineyard (Viphretuonuo Meze, Thejavinuo Rio & Vizosuno Sophie). Runner- up Merhulietsa (Imtinaro Imsong & Avitoli Yepthomi).

Boys Team Winner: Model Hr.Sec.School (Metevito Kintso, Ihubuing Haikube, Moanungsang Jamir, Hruyikho Shenachena). Runner INTER-SCHOOL BOYS &GIRLS up: Vineyard (Hokivi Su-u and TT FINAL RESULT-2014 Petevizo Rio).

Thanksgiving mass for Sr. Toms Maria SABS KVK Phek organizes SAC meeting

Jakhama, august 23 (mExN): St. Joseph Adoration Convent, Jakhama, celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Sr. Toms Maria’s first profession in the congregation of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on August 18 by Most.

Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima, and was concelebrated by a number of Priests.

Sr. Ranit, Vice Principal of St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama welcomed all dignitaries and past students of Sr. Toms Maria to the occasion and gave a short sketch of Sr. Toms Maria’s life. She stated that Sr. Toms Maria made her first profession on April 20, 1965 and her final profession on May 27, 1969 and offered her life fully in

Sr. Toms Maria with her past students after the thanksgiving mass

the service of the Lord. She was a Mathematics genius and taught in many schools especially teaching for 15

years in St. John’s School, Tuensang from 1971 to 1986. She served the province in different capacities

as Headmistress, Superior and Accountant. She concluded by expressing her sentiments of love and grati-

tude to Sr. Toms Maria.

Rt. Rev James Thoppil, the Bishop of Kohima, in his homily remarked that Sr. Toms Maria’s “strength is definitely her gentle ways.”

And that “prayer is her secret to 50 years of religious life and union with the Lord”. He concluded by encouraging all present to “strive to know the depth of God’s love and share it with our people”.

Superior General of the Adoration Congregation, Mother Rosekate, General Councillor, Sister Lizy and the Provincial Superior Mother Sibia also graced the event. Mother Toms Maria thanked all wellwishers especially her past students for their presence.

The celebration was followed by dinner.

Kohima pharmacists hold Phek District Planning and 14th general session Development Board meet held kohima, august 23 (mExN): The 14th General Session of the Kohima District Pharmacists’ Union was held at the Para- Medical Training Institute, Kohima on August 8 with Dziesevotuo, President, Nagaland Pharmacists’ Association, as special invitee. A press release from the General Secretary Neila Solo informed.

Dziesevotuo in his exhortation stressed on the need to equip the members on the latest development in the profession of Pharmacy in order to delivery better health care to the people. Boto, Member, Nagaland State Pharmacy Council enlightened the members on the outcome of the National Meet held at Delhi on August 3.

During the Business session the association resolved to urge the de-

partment to establish Drug Information Centre in all District Hospitals of the state. It also informed members yet to register with the Nagaland State Pharmacy Council to do so immediately. The session also resolved that in the case of hospitalisation of members or death, the union office bearers will visit with cash of Rs. 1000/-.

New office bearers for the session 2014-17 were selected during the session.

The team will be led by Apula Chang as president, M. Chuba Jamir as vice-president, Novivono as general secretary, Abenle as joint secretary, Nrilo as treasurer, Temjen as finance secretary. The executive members include M. Phyobeno Odyuo, Caroline, Chubayangla, Visapale.

The advisors are Zakiesolie and Neila Solo.

KVK organises training for civil society members tsEmiNyu, august 23 (mExN): One day training for members of civil societies was organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Kohima at FAITH garden, Tseminyu village on August 21. The main objective of the programme was to empower through knowledge on agriculture and allied sector, utlilize the knowledge and skill through this training. A press release from Dr.Akashe Zhimomi, Programme Co-ordinator KVK, Tesophenyu, Kohima District, informed.

In the power point presentations, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Subject Matter Specialist (SMS) Dr.Temjennungsang spoke on topic ‘Swine production and management’ where he explained the different breeds of pig, housing system, selection of stock, management during weaning, health care and nutrition.

Agronomy Subject Matter

Specialist (SMS) Imtisenla, presenting the topic ‘Nutrient management in organic farming’ explained the minimal use of off-farm inputs such as crop residues, weed biomass, animal manures, green manures, compost manures, biological inoculants, bio fertilizers, crop rotation etc. in organic farming.

Agriculture Extension Subject Matter Specialist (SMS) Longmayanger highlighting on the topic ‘Common salt as a weedicides’ emphasized on the pros and cons of the use of common salt as a weedicides in jhum fields. He further said that application of common salt should be judicious and efforts should be made to optimize the jhum fields, increase the jhum cycle, plant multipurpose trees etc. for maintaining the ecological balance.

Later a short film on pig production scenario in North East was also shown to the participants.

PhEk, august 22 (DiPR): The monthly Phek District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) was held on August 21 at DPDB conference hall, Phek under the chairmanship of DPDB Chairman & Parliamentary Secretary for School Education, Yitachu. Speaker Nagaland Assembly, Chotisuh Sazo and Parliamentary Secretary Deo Nukhu also attended the meeting.

The chairman welcomed the members and the house reviewed the last DPDB meeting minutes and had a discussion on food security 2014, for which detailed programme will be chalked

out with the DC Phek.

In the meeting, Agri & Allied departments highlighted the paddy cultivation affected by the monsoon season. The Speaker of NLA and the house requested the KVK Phek, Soil Conservation department or Agri department to provide the necessary alternative seeds for cultivation in these affected fields since the people of Phek district and Kohima district are dependent on paddy cultivation. The board approved the LADP 2014 schemes and recommended private business projects to encourage self-survival. The board set up selection committees for judging most

Hygienic Cleanest Village/ Colony in Phek district.

The Superintendent of Taxes, Phek, L.Yanbeni Humtsoe gave a power point presentation on its activities. The questions on registration of dealership and tax revenue collection were expressed by many members.

The DPDB chairman informed that the next DPDB meeting will be held at Pfutsero Town and PHE and Co-Operative departments were asked to present the departmental activities in the next DPDB meeting. The meeting concluded with thanks and appreciation from the chairman.

PhEk, august 23 (mExN): The 8th Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting was convened at KVK building Porba, Phek.

Programme Coordinator, Dr R. K. Singh, initiated the programme with a welcome address. He also highlighted the achievement of the KVK in the previous year.

The action plan 2014-15 was presented by Hannah K Asangla, Subject Matter Specialist (Agronomy).

The meeting was chaired

by Dr. N. Haque, Principle Scientist (NRC on Mithun) who expressed satisfaction on the performance of KVK-Phek. He emphasised on growing high value fruit crops in and around the perennial water bodies. He also advised to study rapeseeds and evaluate the nu-

tritive value of oilcakes as a component of pig feed.

District Agriculture Officer Hewoto Sema stressed upon lentil cultivation as a contingency measure following the prevailing draught condition in the district. Chairman NOAH-GRANDPA (NGO) and member of the SAC also called upon scientific staff to communicate the information on central scheme on agriculture and rural development to the farming community. He also emphasized on setting up a cold storage facility and assess its feasibility in the district.

Achule Kaneo, Ex. Director Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS) advised the KVK Scientist for capacity building of the farmers towards through

long term skill based vocational trainings, while Vitseno, representative from North East Network (NEN), Chizami suggested conservation of local seed varieties and also to organize Agro Biodiversity festivals to sensitize farmers of the district. The official of line departments, NGO, public leaders and progressive farmers present in the meeting put forward their valuable suggestions for the development of agricultural sector in the district. The programme concluded with a thankful note from Dr Prakash Ranjan Dutta , Sr. Technical Officer NRCM Porba who expressed gratitude to the member of the SAC and farmer representatives for their presence and valuable advice.

Minister Dr. Nicky Kire with officials of SBI Lerie Branch during a computer donation program on August 22 in Kohima. The State Bank of India (SBI), Lerie Branch, Kohima under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) today donated computer to Public School Dzüvürü here in the presence of minister for forests, environment & wildlife Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire. Dr. Nicky formally handed over the computer to the school. (Morung Photo)

Training on Hydroger Installation & Maintenance

DimaPuR, august 23 (mExN): The Nagaland Empowerment of People through Energy Development (NEPeD) has successfully conducted a three day workshop on 'Hydroger Installation and Maintenance'. The workshop culminated on August 13 at the Centre for Excellence in Renewable Energy Systems Studies (CERES), Dimapur.

A press release from Ayong Chang, Member, Project Operations Unit, NEPeD, informed.

Hydrogers are small portable machines which 4-5 persons can carry and require small streams or rivers to power the machines making them ideal for villages and other populated areas in the hills which have an adequate water source.

The release informed that NEPeD is now indigenously manufacturing the 'Hydroger' at its research and production facility called CERES in Dimapur.

The workshop was specially conducted by Yanger Imchen, Manager, NMTTC and Co-ordinator, NEPeD, for a 5-member delegation from Meghalaya who

were trained in identifying sites having potential for Hydroger installation, installation fundamentals, Hydroger maintenance and general repairs etc.

The delegates consisted of members from the Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) and the State Council of Science, Technology and Environment, Govt. of Meghalaya (SCSTEM), the release informed.

Besides these, the release informed, Ayong Chang trained the delegates on issues associated with Hydroger installation like economic upliftment arising out of additional productive time through lighting and energy, need for conservation awareness to protect the catchment areas in particular, sanitation to improve health, Women empowerment through setting up of an Energy Committee in every beneficiary village wherein a minimum of 2 women representatives is required etc.

S. L. Mawphlang, Asst. programme officer, SCSTEM, said that Meghalaya

having similar topography to that of Nagaland along with the availability of water sources to power the Hydrogers, has immense potential for 'replicating' what NEPeD has achieved and said that the delegation would now be able to confidently undertake installation and repairs of the machines within their respective places. Fullmoon Lyngdoh Kynshi, Programme Associate, MBDA, appreciated the workshop and said that they had heard of Hydrogers and NEPeD from a village called 'Sakhri' in Meghalaya where NEPeD has already installed a Hydroger and are now keen on being able to install and carry out maintenance works on their own, without having to depend on NEPeD team members every time, the release stated.

The release further informed that apart from Nagaland, NEPeD has successfully installed the Hydrogers in neighbouring states like Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Mizoram, besides Orissa.

Sumi Officers' Union Nagaland (SOUN) general secretary, Y. Kikheto Sema IAS addressing a joint meeting with Western Sumi Hoho. The meeting discussed about ways to promote peace and tranquillity in the society. The meeting was in continuance of SOUN meeting with Sumi Hoho in April earlier this year. (Morung Photo)

J.N Aier college Diphupar, Dimapur celebrated its 3rd Freshers Social Meet on August 22.

P.James Swu, EAC Dimapur as the Guest Motivator, graced the ocassion. Kihika Zhimo and Senchumlo Kikon were adjusted as Mr & Miss Fresher respectively.

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Entertainment

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‘Confidence took time’ Katie Holmes speaks out about being her own worst critic

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AVING had a lacklustre film career over the past decade Katie Holmes has spoken out about being an anxious mother and her own worst critic in a tough industry. The 35-year-old lives in New York with Suri, eight, her daughter with former husband Tom Cruise but says it took a while for her to become a confident parent and focus on her day job. "I totally admire women who go back to work six weeks after giving birth but when Suri was little I was not ready," says Katie. "I was a very nervous mother - like, sleeping next to her crib and I was in that mode for a long time."

Katie, who stars in new film The Giver alongside Meryl Streep, tells DuJour magazine that she appreciates she works in an unpredictable industry. "It is the life of an actor. We don't really have a lot of choice in the matter," says Katie. "You have dry spells and then you have times when there is a lot of opportunity." She also admits she put too much pressure on herself in younger years: "I could never get it out of my head. I'd be thinking, 'I have to get the job.' "And even when I had the job I was afraid that I was going to get fired.

"But the more projects you do, the older you get, the more life experience you get, you start to understand storytelling better. You're not afraid of getting fired - you just want to contribute."

Purple Fusion released their new album titled, Folk Reminiscence in Dimapur on August 23, Saturday. Special guests Moa and Aren from Abiogenesis were also present at the launching event. (Imcha Jamir)

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ick Cannon is reportedly claiming that he walked out in his marriage to Mariah Carey amid concerns for

her 'emotional state'. Cannon recently confirmed reports of trouble in the couple's six-year marriage as he admitted they are no

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he 45 year-old songstress is open to the idea of tying the knot for a fourth time. It could be a possibility that Jennifer Lopez has given up on the idea of being happily married as she has already been involved in three divorces, but the 45 year-old singer is still open to the idea of tying the knot for a fourth time. This past Thursday (Aug 21th), Lopez appeared on her friend Chelsea Handler's talk show 'Chelsea Lately,' and was forced to answer questions about her well-publicised past romances, as well as finding a new man in the future.

In the very open discussion, the Grammy-Award winning singer admitted that she "would get married again," after the host probed her on her future love life. "I like being in a relationship, I do," she continued. "I'm not one to whore around, that's not my thing." And when the studio audience began laughing at her response, Lopez reminded them that "this is late night TV, it's okay!" before turning to Handler to say, "You've cursed like 25 times already."

J-Lo first got married to a Cuban waiter called Ojani Noa in February 1997 but ended shortly after in January 1998. She then tied the knot with former back-up dancer Cris Judd in another short partnership, they were together from September 2001 until June 2002.

Lopez's final marriage was with fellow singer Marc Anthony in June 2004, they would go on to have twins, a boy and a girl, who were born on February 22nd 2008. They announced their split three years later in June 2011.

However, most recently the 'Anaconda' actress split from her boyfriend of two and a half years, Casper Smart, who was who is 18 years her junior, after simply growing apart. This prompted Handler to ask her guest, "Do you like older guys ever?" "I date mostly my age, but then I dated one younger guy," she said. "I dated Beau, that was my last relationship." "So you have no preference then," Handler said, to which Lopez replied, "I go with the connection with the person ... I don't really plan things out, they just happen."

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longer living together with sources close to the performer telling TMZ that it was Nick's decision to end their union and he is worried about their threeyear-old twins Moroccan and Monroe.

According to TMZ: 'Nick has made it clear to all involved ... he's deeply concerned about Mariah's emotional state and is ending the marriage for the well being of their kids.

He believes the environment around Mariah is toxic and fears for his kids.'

MailOnline has contacted representatives for the stars for comment.

The sources added to the website that Nick is also worried Mariah's handlers are most concerned with her making

money and do not care about her well-being. He is also said to want to create an environment for the twins which is free from the 'chaos' of Maria's life.

Speaking with The Insider on Thursday, Cannon, 33, explained,: 'There is trouble in paradise…we have been living in separate houses for a few months.' After shooting down rumours that cheating caused the break, the star said his three-year-old twins are his 'main focus'.

The next day a representative for the 44-yearold icon told Us Weekly, 'Mariah is focusing on her children and her upcoming tour.' The beauty's longtime spokesperson prefaced her remark by

saying, 'I don't comment on Mariah's personal life.'

Nick and Mariah married in 2008 following a whirlwind two month romance. They appeared to have a blissfully happy marriage but TMZ recently reported Mariah was furious when Nick revealed a list of five celebrities he had slept with during a very candid interview with Power 106 radio.

Mariah was left feeling 'humiliated' following the interview, which also featured him revealing when he first had sex with his wife. Sources close to the couple say their marriage started to unravel in March following Nick's interview, when he reflected on his short romance with Kim Kardashian back in 2006.

Miley Cyrus concert banned in the Dominican Republic

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iley Cyrus’ twerking has been deemed too offensive for the Dominican Republic government, which has banned the singer from performing on “morality grounds”. The country’s commission that oversees public performances has banned a concert Cyrus was due to play as part of her Bangerz world tour on 13 September.

In a statement, the commission said it took the action because Cyrus often “undertakes acts that go against morals and customs, which are punishable by Dominican Law”.

The singer’s Bangerz world tour sees her wear a cannabis-patterned leotard and simulate fake oral sex on a Bill Clinton impersonator. Cyrus has also previously smoked cannabis on stage, an illegal act in the Dominican Republic.

Tickets ranging from $27 to $370 for the concert in the capital Santo Domingo are said to have been on sale since July. A representative for Cyrus did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Concert organisers in the Dominican Republic also did not comment on the ban. In the past, the commission has banned songs it considered vulgar from the country’s airwaves, including some by Calle 13 of Puerto Rico.

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civil court has asked Bollywood actor Aamir Khan to file a reply to a civil suit filed against him seeking a ban on the poster and release of film PK, where he is seen in the buff standing on railway tracks with a radio.

The direction was given by Civil Judge M S Sharma who yesterday asked Khan to file a reply by August 25. The Judge also asked the plaintiff`s lawyer R N Kachave to satisfy the court whether a case of obscenity and vulgarity was made out against the actor who allegedly posed nude.

The suit, filed by activist Hemant Patil, prayed for a permanent injunction from the court from releasing the film all over India with a ban on publicity and advertisement of the nude picture of Aamir Khan until such time the objectionable scenes are removed. The defendants are Censor Board office bearers, actor Aamir Khan, film`s producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and director Rajkumar Hirani.

According to the suit, the nude poster which has been circulated all

over is vulgar and obscene and has the tendency to corrupt the minds of the people. This poster is being shown in newspapers and television and also on internet since last one month, the plaintiff claimed.

The plaintiff said that Aamir is a good actor and a host of popular TV show `Satyamev Jayate`. He has a good and clean image in the eyes of public.

However, by appearing nude in this poster for the sake of publicity, the actor had done a shameful act and hence he should withdraw such obscene images immediately.

The Supreme court had recently dismissed a Public Interest Litigation which sought a ban on the exhibition of posters in which a semi-naked Aamir stands on rail tracks for promoting the film `PK`. The apex court was of the view, If you don`t like then don`t watch the film but don`t bring religious facets in it, adding that, these are matters of art and entertainment and let them remain so.

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Rosberg takes pole position for Belgian GP

sPA, August 23 (AP): Nico Rosberg will start the Belgian Grand Prix from pole position after holding off a strong challenge from his Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton in qualifying on Saturday. Hamilton was ahead of Rosberg on the first two time splits of his final lap but then drifted back, allowing Rosberg to clinch a fourth straight pole and sixth in the past seven races. The German driver leads Hamilton by 11 points in the overall standings. Rosberg clocked 2 minutes, 5.591 seconds in difficult conditions, with the Spa track drenched following a heavy downpour shortly before qualifying started.

"It was just Lewis I had to focus on," Rosberg said after his 11th career pole.

"It makes it easier when there's not a whole bunch, only one guy."

Hamilton finished in 2:05.819 and Sebastian Vettel got a much-needed boost with the third quickest time — although the fact that he was 2 seconds behind the Mercedes pair offers the Red Bull driver little hope of securing a first win this season.

"It helped us that it was wet. The gap was a lot bigger and our car was really dominant," Rosberg said.

"It was amazing to see that, how quick our car is." Twotime F1 champion Fernan-

Nico Rosberg (AP Photo)

do Alonso was fourth in his Ferrari ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, the only non-Mercedes driver to win a race so far this season. Hamilton has won five, Rosberg four and Ricciardo has clinched two in an impressive first season with Red Bull.

Hamilton had not qualified on the front row since the Canadian GP in June.

"We have a great car here and we're leading the way here. So cool to see that," Hamilton said.

"We definitely have good chances for tomorrow."

However, the 2008 champion was again plagued by technical problems — just like in the previous four races, where he started from 22nd, 20th, sixth and ninth on the grid and still got on the podium every time. "I was nervous going into qualifying, not knowing if the car was going to get through it," the British driver said.

Atletico wins Spanish Super Cup

MADRID, August 23 (AP): A 2nd-minute goal by striker Mario Mandzukic gave Atletico Madrid a 1-0 win against Real Madrid in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup on Friday and overall victory with a 2-1 aggregate score.

The first match was a 1-1 draw. A long kick by Atletico goalkeeper Miguel Moya was headed skywards by Madrid defender Raphael Varane and Atletico's midfielder Antoine Griezmann then directed the ball toward newly-signed striker Mandzukic, who beat goalkeeper Iker Casillas with a powerful shot.

Atletico had already begun strongly with two fast-paced attacks in the first minute. Madrid's new signing James Rodriguez began the match on the left wing with Cristiano Ronaldo rested on the bench alongside new goalkeeper Keylor Navas. It was not until the 25th minute that Madrid threatened Moya's goal with a shot by Rodriguez. The last time Atletico won the Super Cup was 29 years ago. "To have won this match against a rival as important as Real Madrid gives us energy to focus on what will follow," said Atletico coach Diego Simeone, whose team lost to Madrid 4-1 in the Champions League final in May. Angel Di Maria and Sami Khedira were not included in the squad by Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti.

Atletico Madrid players pose with the Spanish Super Cup trophy after defeating Real Madrid on the second round soccer match at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Aug. 22. (AP Photo)

The Italian coach had previously said Di Maria had rejected Madrid's offer for an extension and was hence looking to transfer to another club, with Manchester United reportedly keen on the Argentine winger.

France winger Griezmann hit a long shot in the 15th minute that was deflected for a corner, a move that

led to a period of pressure on Madrid's goal.

With Atletico defender Juan "Juanfran" Torres off the field receiving treatment for a cut lip that had stained his jersey with blood, Madrid launched a rapid attack that ended when Moya saved Rodriguez's 25th minute shot.

Shortly afterward, the ref-

eree ejected Simeone for dissent after the Atletico coach had vociferously called for Torres' rapid reincorporation onto the field because his treatment had finished. Madrid tried to keep the pressure up and Rodriguez headed just wide of the post in the 36th, and two minutes later Gareth Bale

shot just wide from a pass supplied by the Colombia forward.

Ronaldo came on in the second half but Atletico maintained the pressure and Garcia came close to scoring the second when his 48th-minute shot was tipped by Casillas onto the frame of the goal. Madrid threaded a skillful passing

Villa holds Newcastle to goaless draw Second Mokokchung Auto-X held

LONDON, August 23 (AgENCIEs): The headline on Newcastle United's official website before the visit to Villa Park had Alan Pardew defiantly insisting "We've Got Goals In Us". Yet his players failed to live up to the pre-match hyperbole and Pardew surely needs to persuade owner Mike Ashley to supply some funds for another forward.

The return of Loic Remy to Queens Park Rangers, after his 14 goals last season, already appears damaging and though Pardew has been backed significantly in this transfer window, his squad still appear toothless.

Newcastle also had defender Mike Williamson sent off in the final minute in a stalemate that always appeared the likely outcome, with Brad Guzan brilliantly denying substitute Siem de Jong in the final minutes.

Villa seem a different proposition this season, with more experience and nous, but the return of Christian Benteke from injury cannot come quickly enough. Tim Krul, the Newcastle goalkeeper, did not have a save to make all afternoon.

Lambert has spoken of his determination to turn

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Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor, left, and Newcastle United's Fabricio Coloccini battle for the ball during the English Premier League match at Villa Park, Birmingham on August 23. (AP Photo)

Villa Park into a fortress, for the last three years it has resembled more of a kids' playtent. The swathes of empty seats were no surprise, considering the club-record 10 home defeats last season, but there is now a sense of optimism that has not been evident for some time. After beating Stoke last weekend they remained assured

and resolute, with Charles N'Zogbia - restored after an Achilles injury kept him out for all of last season - and summer signing Aly Cisskoho presenting problems to Newcastle on the flanks.

An early N'Zogbia header arched onto the roof of the net before the winger almost caught out Krul with a 25yard free kick.

The second Mokokchung Auto-X, an autocross and motocross event, organized by the Adventure and Motorsport Association, Mokokchung (AMAM) was held here today at Imkongmeren Sports Complex. Competitions for the autocross event were held in three categories of vehicles, Below 1000cc, Above 1000cc and SUVs, while the motocross event was Open.

A total of 79 competitors participated in the Mokokchung Auto-X, a record for highest number of participation in any Autocross event in North East India region as claimed by the organizers. The chief guest of the event was a Mokokchung based social entrepreneur, Along, while Nagaland Youth Resources and Sports Minister Khreihu Liezietsu graced the event as AMAM chief patron.

Thousands of spectators turned up to witness the competitions, a relatively new kind of sport in the region yet gaining immense popularity among the locals. The roaring machines, a lot of mud and dirt, and a thundering crowd – Mokokchung Auto-X 2014 was a

A competitor in the above 1000CC category negotiates a curve during the autocross event of the second Mokokchung Auto-X organized by Adventure and Motorsport Association of Mokokchung held at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, August 23. A total of 79 competitors participated in the Auto-X, a record for highest number of entries in any autocross event in the North East region of India.

huge success and by the look of things, motorsport is here to stay. AMAM chief patron is also reported to have announced that three permanent motorsport venues will be developed in Nagaland, one each in Mokokchung, Kohima and Dimapur.

In the autocross below 1000cc category, Aviu Rutsa clocking 2.25.25 emerged the winner while Unoka Assumi and Imtisanen were adjudged the runnerups clocking 2.25.81 and 2.27.53 respectively.

In the Above 1000cc autocross category, Ana Solo clocked at 2.05.88 to win the first place while Roko Kense and Lanu Jamir were came in at second and third

places respectively.

In the SUV autocross category Angozo, Lima Jamir and Peter Rutsa took the top three honours respectively. In the twowheeler motocross open

category, Ketoukhriezo was declared the winner clocking in at 2.05.18 while Imliakum and Mesa came in at second and third places clocking 2.07.15 and 2.11.41 respectively.

attack past Atletico's midfield in the 61st, but it ended with Moya saving Ronaldo's shot.

With Simeone pacing in the stands, Ronaldo hit a free kick into the defenders' wall in the 68th. This was followed by another period of pressure from Atletico that saw two shots go just wide in three minutes.

20th CLASSIC CUP 2014 August 23 matches result Tiema Khe Kidima beat Luminous SC 4-0 Twenty 14 FC beat Street Hawks FC 3-1 Hurricane Boys beat Ablaze FC 1-0 Mele FC beat Billy Graham FC (A) 4-2 via tie-breaker Matches for Aug 25 Chizami Boys FC vs A. Yhome FC @ 10:00 am HQ IGAR(N) vs Chetheba Town Students Union @ 11:40 am Colt United Boys vs Football Club, Chiechama @ 1:30 pm New Market vs Invictus FC @ 3:30 pm

Ledecky breaks world record to overshadow Phelps

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gOLD COAst, August 23 (REutERs): It's not often that Michael Phelps gets upstaged in the pool, especially when he wins. But that's exactly what happened at the Pan Pacific championships on Saturday.

Phelps won his first individual gold medal at an international meet in two years to show that his comeback to swimming is gathering momentum and he is on course to add to his stockpile at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

But the greatest swimmer of all time was overshadowed by his American team mate Katie Ledecky, who smashed her own world record in the women's 400 metres freestyle final.

Just 17 and getting better each time she dives in the water, Ledecky was in a class of her own at as she cruised to victory in three minutes, 58.37 seconds. She slashed almost half a second off the previous world record she set in California earlier this month, despite being under world record

Katie Ledecky (AP Photo)

pace with 100m to go. "It's a good feeling," she said in a poolside interview. "I was just racing my best time and trying to swim faster."

Ledecky also holds the women's world record for 800m and 1,500m freestyle and is riding high on a wave of success. Already a world and Olympic champion, she

Michael Phelps (AP Photo)

has picked up four gold medals at the Pan Pacifics - the 200m, 400m and 800m individual events plus the 4x200m relay - and is emerging as the sport's biggest star.

For the past two years, another American teenager has been the hottest kid on the blocks but Missy Franklin has had a wretched time

at Australia's Gold Coast this week.

She almost pulled out of the meet because of back spasms but with the Pan Pacs doubling as the U.S. trials for next year's world championships, she decided to swim in pain.

Franklin achieved her goal of qualifying for the world championships despite being beaten in each of the three individual events she won at last year's worlds. On Saturday, she faded to finish outside the top three in the 200m backstroke, four seconds off her own world record, with the victory going to Australia's Belinda Hocking.

Phelps won the 100m butterfly - an event he captured at three successive Olympics - in 51.29 seconds, after reaching the halfway mark in sixth place then unleashing a devastating burst. "I guess it feels good to win again, it's been a while," Phelps said. "I'm pretty happy and it sets me up for a pretty good worlds.

"What brought me back is the desire to be in the pool. It's not that I still need it, it's that I still want it."

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