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nagaland Vision Document 2030 aims big on employment our Correspondent Kohima | December 11

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Dengue cases rise to 134 Morung Express news Dimapur | December 11

The number of Dengue cases has risen to 134 as per the latest test results. These were out of around 750 suspected total samples tested. According to Dr Moa Jamir, Dimapur District Programme Officer, NVBDCP, 10 samples were tested positive out of 43 during tests conducted on December 3. Officially, there is no incidence of fatality in record except two reported Dengue-related deaths at two private hospitals in Dimapur. Dengue-carrying mosquitoes are said o loh ! now our Christmas is adulterated with some good to subside as atmospheric temperature drops during the winter. Terming the latest governance day. detection (out of 43) as a “bit on the higher The Morung Express side”, Dr. Moa hoped that incidence would

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Nagaland BJP Spokesperson and former Prez honoured DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 11 (MExN): Two significant BJP members from Nagaland State have been appointed as a high ranking official and awarded with a national award. Vihoshe Sumi, Spokesperson for Nagaland BJP has been appointed as the representative of the Russian Federation with the Power of Attorney to represent four key Russian industries to India. A press note from the BJP Nagaland State Unit informed that all the concerned industries are associated with cutting edge high end scientific technologies. Vihoshe Sumi is scheduled to leave for Russia as part of the Union Railways Minister’s entourage in the following days. Meanwhile, Dr M Chuba, former President of the Nagaland State BJP, who is a proprietor and administrator of St. Mary’s Mount school and college, Chumukedima has been awarded with the Bharat Vikas Award for contribution towards economic growth and social development by the Institute of Self Reliance, Bhubaneswar.

subside as the winter progresses. Meanwhile, it has been a week since daily fogging operations have been suspended. Dr. Moa though informed that it is continuing in a few selected areas, while adding that fogging will be stepped up if the frequency of detection does not subside. The fogging operations were further hampered by machines encountering problems. As per Dr. Moa, atleast 2-3 out of 5 serviceable fogging machines encountered “technical problems” and had to be put out of service for repairs. The main vehicle-mounted machine weighing some 300 kg is not in working condition for years now. Dr. Moa said that if it had been in working condition, it would have greatly aided fogging operations covering a wider area quicker and more intensively.

The Nagaland Vision 2030 document, which was recently released by the Nagaland State Government, envisions the desired developmental directions and goals of the state of Nagaland in various significant sectors. It proposed that substantial investment along with up-scaling the communitization process should be undertaken for reconstruction and upgradation of the old school and hospital buildings including accommodation facilities as part of the government plan and programme within the next five years. Promoting the participation of the private sector for improving the social services has to be a part of the government policy, the document added. Meanwhile, it also pointed out that one of the thrust areas is employment, especially of the growing numbers of educated youth. It is estimated that about 13,000 educated young people enter the job market annually. Taking into account the 3% attrition rate of government employees per annum, employment opportunities of about 3500 to 4000 would emerge in government sector every year. This implies a need for creation of employment opportunities of at least 10,000 annually. Emphasis on skill development of the youth to enable them to meet the demands of the emerging job market in India is essential, the document said. Against this backdrop, the Sixth Economic Census indicates that there are about 1, 62,000 people employed outside farming and the government sector. Given the employment elasticity (0.58), the vision document envisages the Gross State Domestic Product to grow at the rate of 10 per cent per

Vision document 2030 is an inclusive document: Kronu

KohIMA, DECEMBER 11(MExN): Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Coordination, Evaluation, Monitoring & Taxes, Neiba Kronu has stated that the Nagaland Vision Document 2030 is an inclusive document incorporating the collective aspirations of the people of the state. “Nagaland is rich in natural resources but its real wealth lies in its young demographic profile. Therefore, the vision document dwells on optimizing its strengths and opportunities; its agricultural base and employment of the youth; its strategic geographical location in the ambit of the Act East Policy of Government of India and the emerging possibilities of the state becoming an economic hub have also been captured. In essence it encompasses all sectors of the economy. It is an ambitious but achievable road map with strategies,” Kronu noted. annum so as to enable creation of at least 9000 to 1000 new job opportunities in the state every year. A look at the present economic status of the state indicates that industrialization will take some time to take place. It is envisaged to materialize after 10 years when the necessary infrastructures and enabling environments are created. Accordingly, in the next ten years perspective, the focus area for development is the agriculture sector with concentration on specialization and commercial scale production while simultaneously, keeping in mind the need for food security. ‘Triple- IACs’ (IIIACs: Integrated, Intensive, Inclusive Agriculture Clusters) have been suggested. This approach would not only mean coordination amongst the agriculture and allied sectors but also with the infrastructure departments such as power and roads with close involvement of the industries for promoting processing and entrepreneurship. These clusters require to be given attention for the potential also for skill development and employment generation, the document stated.

In the power sector, the vision document stated that the immediate requirement is the upgradation and improvement of the transmission and distribution systems. In the long- term perspective the generation potential in the state, especially hydro and new and renewable energies, have to be fully developed within 2030. It also stated that the IT connectivity up to the village level, which is crucial, should be put in place within the next three years. Development of infrastructure will promote trade and commerce and will also enhance the services sector that will open up large employment opportunities, the vision document observed. In the social sector especially pertaining to education and health, it observed that the infrastructure so far created has been quite substantial and the need in the next 5 to 7 years is to improve the quality of services provided by the various public institutions such as schools and hospitals. For this, the focus should be on improving and upgrading the skills and capacities of the service providers such as teachers and health care workers.

Nagaland Govt clarifies on allegations of PDS Rice scam counter fir against AcAUt

DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 11 (MExN): The Government of Nagaland today issued a clarification to reports of an alleged PDS Rice scam in Dimapur involving the Food and Civil Supplies Department. A press release from the Secretary to the Nagaland State Government, Ramongo Lotha informed that the State Government has been appointing State Stockists for procurement of food grains from the FCI for timely availability of funds as well as limitations of godown space. In this context, it pointed out that the Department is expected to lift the food grains within the stipulated time given by the FCI, failing which the allocation lapses. “It is for this reason that the Stockists are appointed for implementation of NFSA. Hence, the State Stockists have been actually

assisting the department in keeping custody of the food grains which is regularly inspected by the departmental officials,” it added. The press note informed that the food grains in the godown of the State Stockist raided on December 9 and subsequently sealed by the Police is “meant for despatch to the districts/ FPS.” It informed that only Mokokchung, Mon and Tuensang have FCI Food Storage Depots (FSD), while other districts are fed through FSD Dimapur. Responding to allegations that the food grains are being diverted, it informed that such allegations have not been brought to the notice of the Government. “If such allegations are true, there is no reason why the Government will not take action...however, the same has to be based on some finding of pri-

ma facie illegality...” it said. On allegation of packaging of food grains in plastic bags that were found in the sealed godown, the government clarified that the Stockist had sought permission from the Department for repackaging into plastic bags “since gunny bags in which the rice is received from the FCI are torn while loading/ unloading during transit, resulting in spillage/wastage.” It revealed that this issue of wastage was raised to the notice of the centerduring the meeting of Secretaries of NE States at Guwahati in October. “The Union Food Secretary clarified there were no provisions for making good the losses. Hence, in order to avoid such wastage and to ensure that the PHH get their allotted entitlement, permission was granted for repackaging of the rice into plastic bags,” it added.

for alleged trespassing Morung Express news Dimapur | December 11

A new twist was added to the ACAUT exposing an alleged PDS rice diversion racket on December 9 after a counter FIR was lodged against the ACAUT. The FIR was reportedly filed by one of the two godown proprietors on December 10. The FIR was registered at Sub-Urban Police Station. Subsequently, arrest warrant was also reportedly issued against the individuals, who participated in the December 9 exposé. While it could not be ascertained whether the reported arrest warrant was issued, the police on Sunday confirmed registering a case of “criminal trespass” based on a complaint filed against the

December 9 godown exposé. The police declined to comment any further on the matter. The ACAUT meanwhile appeared unperturbed with the development and as the state government issued a clearly hurried clarification on Sunday justifying its position on appointing “state stockists” for procuring rice from the FCI. “There is no question of hiding. If need be we’ll court arrest,” responded ACAUT co-chairman, Joel Naga on Sunday evening when queried on how the anti-corruption body would respond. Maintaining the ACAUT is being targeted on mere allegation of trespassing, the ACAUT cochairman said that those involved in siphoning PDS items are being let scot free.

Naga theological institutions need to confront “structures of domination” Morung Express news Bade | December 11

At a time when Nagaland State is precipitating with an ever-increasing level of multifaceted social, economic and political challenges, there is a pressing responsibility for theological institutions to don the role as truth-telling institutions. This was a clarion made by Dr Aküm Longchari, Chief Editor of The Morung Express to theological students at the 3rd Annual Lecture of the Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS), Bade Village, Dimapur on December 9. The lecture, which centered on the book written by Dr Longchari, ‘Self Determination: A Resource for JustPeace’ was organized by the Foundation for Church and Society, which is an initiative of OTS and is part of the yearlong activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Seminary. In such a stage of histori-

cal conflict, discord, subjugation and dominance by the rich and powerful, Dr Longchari said theologians cannot stand as mere spectators. He said they (theologians) ought to become the credible voices and to confront those oppressive structures of domination, which has been denying rights to the people. Dr Longchari said theologians or its institutions are not “naming the powers that be” whether be it in the political, cultural or social spectrum and have only been raising voices in veiled languages. “Is it possible for theologians to even begin by naming the powers that be?” Can theologians create an opportunity to engage the powers that be,” he challenged. Emphasizing that theological seminaries, divinity schools should be institutions of truth telling and its students to engage their research and sermons on truth telling, Dr Longchari

Dr Akum longchari engaging with the students during the presentation of the oTs annual lecture at Bade Village on saturday. (Morung Photo)

believed that it is for theologians to “name the truth, open the eyes of mercy, help us understand that justice is not revenge, but right-relationships and above all taking a position of peace.” Moreover, at this juncture when Naga’s journey to self-determination is headed to an unknown

destination, Dr Longchari, addressing the OTS students said it is all the more pertinent for theologians to enable consciousness by creating a space of envisioning a shared Naga future and leading the Naga people forward. “We should begin soul searching to encounter truth, so

that the truth could be a spark in the dark,” he said. An alternative imagination of self-determination Giving a talk on his recently released book, Dr Aküm Longchari mooted for an alternative imagination of self-determination on the Naga history.

Likening the Naga political issue to a Naga caravan, which has been steered off course by external forces while on its journey towards self-determination, Dr Longchari said the more the Naga caravan travels, the farther it goes away from its original destination and therein lays the peril of more confusion among the already confused Nagas. He said the Naga political issue was already in a stalemate, confounded with uncertainty on how the different Naga individuals can collectively express the will of the people. Dr Longchari suggested that the Naga peoples could create an alternative imagination of self-determination on the Naga history instead of following the conventional ‘pastpresent-future’ trajectory on its journey to a common solution. The idea is for Nagas to reconceptualise time by first looking at the future

instead of engaging from the past. “There can only be hope, vision and aspiration if we start from the future,” Dr Longchari asserted. If the Nagas were to start looking from the past, there are too many truths and polarized interpretations that would make it a thorny affair for the people to come to a shared understanding and arrive at a consensus. He therefore suggested a ‘future-past-present’ paradigm of time by agreeing on a shared and inclusive vision to address the burdens of the past in a constructive way. The encounter between the future and the past, he stated, will inform us what needs to be done in the present. After the lecture, OTS students Kayilu Pfuze, Niirii Kapfo and Vitoka Chopi gave spoken responses to Dr Longchari’s book, followed by interaction with the students and teachers of the Seminary.

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Trainer of Trainers Program on Sign Language Kohima, December 11 (mexN): The Department of English, Nagaland University in collaboration with Rotary Club of Kohima and Ali Yavar Jung Institute for Speech and Hearing Disabilities, Mumbai is organising a ‘Trainer of Trainers Program on Sign Language’ for teachers, special education teachers, social workers, parents, church workers, youth leaders and others from December 13 to 16 at the Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema. The training will be held from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm daily in the Ladies Common Room at the campus. Resource persons will be from the Ali Yavar Jung Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities, Mumbai and Kolkata. Certificates will be awarded after completion of the training. Interested individuals have been requested to contact the HoD, Department of English, Nagaland University at 8974248224 at the earliest as seats are limited.

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Winter Carnival heralds ‘Become building blocks Christmas season in Mkg for peace,’ youths urged Morung Express News

Mokokchung | December 11

Virtually welcoming the festive season in Mokokchung, the Mokokchung Arts & Aesthetic Management (MAAM) successfully organized a four-day Winter Carnival at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex from October 8-11 where the citizens of the town and others were given a treat of the bests of Mokokchung Town. The MAAM, which is a non-profit organization formed by likeminded citizens of the town, organized the carnival on the theme ‘Creating Opportunities’ with an aim to promote the entrepreneurs, the youths and Self-Help Groups. The organizers had actually planned for a three day carnival only; however, due to popular demand from the public, it was extended for one more day till Sunday. The youths and SHGs availed the opportunity and opened food and games stalls and opened stalls for games etc. “We are overwhelmed by the response from the public. We did not expect such a huge turnout,” said Asola

Ozukum, the president of MAAM. She expressed heartfelt gratitude to the public of Mokokchung, the district administration and police and also the partakers of the carnival. “Isn’t it so nice to see so many talented youths taking part in different activities? We don’t have much platform, otherwise given the chance, the youths can excel in any field,” quipped Asola. “We wanted to create a space for everyone of all ages, that’s why we have game stalls, the food stalls for families to dine, and even the kids fashion show for the children to showcase their talents,” said the MAAM president. Her colleague, MAAM secretary Imsulemla Aier also aired the same view, “We are very encouraged to see so many youths coming out and enjoying the festive season in a very decent manner.” She further disclosed that the carnival was extended till Sunday since there were many families who wanted to bring their children and enjoy the festivity, the food and games. Besides the stalls, a center of attraction was the kids fashion show where

young kids took the ramp and impressed the spectators. The karaoke corner was also another added attraction where singers and wannabe singers took the microphone and sang their hearts out. This Winter Carnival is another major activity of MAAM which has successfully organized two editions of the Miss Mokokchung beauty contest the previous years. It has also set up a poor patient fund for cancer patients being treated at IMDH and also regularly initiates other philanthropic activities. With the success of the Winter Carnival, the 2016 Christmas season in Mokokchung is all set to be another season of festivity with a host of other events like concerts, Christmas carol competition (popularly called C5), Cake race etc lined up to be held in the town. Adding to the Christmas spirit, different colonies have decorated their respective wards with lights, Santa Claus, and Christmas stars giving colorful light to the town especially at night. It’s Christmas time once again in Mokokchung.

9th North East Youth Peace and Cultural Festival concludes

Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): The 9th North East Youth Peace and Cultural Festival culminated with a valedictory programme at DBIDL Hall, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School campus here on December 11. Dr. Fr. C.P. Anto, Director, Peace Channel urged the members present to become “building blocks for peace”. He asserted that the experience of being a Peace Club member should help in shedding the negatives like an eagle which sheds its feathers, talons and beaks to start a new life. Quoting Mahatma Gandhi who spoke about being the change “we” want to see, he said the learning from the Peace Festival should help in bringing about small changes in “our” personal lives. “We need to start becoming a block for creating peaceful environment,” he added. Dr. N. Simon, who was the guest of honour, spoke on the need of involving youth in the process of peace building. He re-

Guests and participants at the valedictory programme of 9th North East Youth Peace and Cultural Festival on December 11 in Dimapur.

flected on studies and experience based on conflict areas and pointed out that youth are very much influenced to become either victims or perpetrators in any conflict situation. He suggested that there should be platform and avenues for structured dialogues which will facilitate youth to be involved in the process of peace building, informed a press release from Peace Channel desk. “The involvement of youth in peace building is increasingly felt by the NGOs

and Civil Society bodies. It is a welcomed sight to see NGOs coming forward to include youth in the peace building efforts,” Dr. Simon noted. Meanwhile, Dr. Ilyas, IPS, DCP II, Dimapur, the chief guest, spoke on the need of inculcating values like religion, love and fraternity which are crucial for building peace. “Peace has a strategic value; this value of peace is recognized and made use by peace activist like Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther

King and Mahatma Gandhi in their fight against injustice,” he pointed out. He explained on the social capital of peace. “History has proven that non violent movements have the capability to create a far reaching effect whereas violent movements tend to die faster.” He asked everyone present to take the value of peace seriously as peace is a powerful tool to achieve what we strive for. The highlights of the programme included cultural dances and folk songs.

Sumi and Chakhesang brotherhood fellowship Our Correspondent

Kohima | December 11

Re-dedicating the brotherhood between Sumi and Chakhesang to God, the Sumi & Chakhesang Brotherhood Fellowship took place here today at Sumi Baptist Church Kohima. The Sunday service programme was held under the aegis of Sumi Hoho Kohima and Chakhesang Hoho Kohima. Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, Senior Pastor, Chakhesang Baptist Church, Minister’s Hill Kohima, who was the speaker, called upon the two tribes to rededicate themselves to God Executive Secretary of Phom Baptist Church Association, Nyengching Longleng, Y. Nuklu Phom on Saturday dedicated the new church building of Hukphang Baptist Church. The and also to ask forgiveness for any

CHK President, Theja Therieh, SHK President, Dr. Vinito Chishi with Y. Kikheto Sema, Secretary, Department of Land Resources at the Sumi & Chakhesang Brotherhood Fellowship in Kohima on Sunday.

misgivings in the past. greetings. Therie said the brotherChakhesang Hoho Kohima hood between Sumi and ChakhePresident, Theja Therieh shared sang should continue to be

strengthened and the two should care for each other both in good times and even in difficult times. He also encouraged to continue helping each other and be an example in uniting all the Nagas. Dr. Vinito Chishi, President, Sumi Hoho Kohima welcomed the guests at the programme, where Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) President, Kekhwengulo Lea was also present. The service was led by Kitoshi Kiba, Associate Pastor, Sumi Baptist Church Kohima. The service was followed by brotherhood feast hosted by Sumi Baptist Church Kohima and Sumi Hoho Kohima.

church was designed by Environ Assemblers Architects- Engineers Dimapur.

Acharya wishes best to Indian president Dimapur Night Carnival

Kohima, December 11 (mexN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya on behalf of the people of the State and his wife extended best wishes and warm greetings to the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee today on his birthday. “We value your special concern to the people of North East. Your concern and reiteration that ‘despite their small population, North East has made immense contribution

to the Nation’ has inspired us to work hard,” Acharya stated in a message to the President. Saying that the people of Nagaland vividly remember the President’s last visit to the State in 2013, the Governor added, “We eagerly wait for your second visit.” “We all pray that Almighty God give you long and healthy life and continue to lead the Nation to reach the great heights in the comity of the Nations,” he wished.

stall allottees informed

Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): The organizing committee of Dimapur Night Carnival (DNC) 2016 has requested all the stall allottees, including companies and firms, to be physically present at 8:00 am on December 13 at Naga Shopping Arcade for “earmarking and physical stall allotment.” They were further informed to come prepared for mass social work with DMC and organizing committee at the venue. In the event of absence and failure to get stall allotment, the organizing committee will not entertain any complaints, stated a press release from DNC convenor, Hokivi Chishi and secretary, Hyderabad’s Nagas continued their bonding by observing pre-Christmas at Tetso College, Dr. Khekugha Muru. Dimapur on Saturday. Missionary couple Peter Jamir and Soyang joined in the celebrations

SDO (C) Monyakshu Town presents study materials to students

and recalled their stay in Hyderabad with Peter, who had earlier served as Chairman of the Naga Christian Fellowship (NCF), Hyderabad, delivering a short message on Christmas.

moN, December 11 (mexN): Sentilong Ozukum, SDO (C) posted in Monyakshu Town organized a short program at Bejing School Tobu for the students of both Bejing School Tobu and Govt. High School Tobu on November 21. He handed over solar lamp, instrument box, pen and other study materials to all the students. MA Wanmai, Head Master, BST congratulated all the students selected for writing the HSLC exam and thanked Sentilong for his immense contribution and dedication rendered towards the students community in Tobu area, a press release informed. The program was attended by The 6th women triennial convention of Yimchung Baptist Borü Amukhungto was held from Chaplin, Police Baptist Fellowship, Youth Director, TTBC December 9 to 11 at Showuba Baptist Borü. The speakers of the three-day convention were and staffs of both the schools. Visasieü Dolie, Women Secretary, NBCC and Tsüyimla Ramji, former Women Secretary, YBBA.

Music, merriment in Jalukie Town Morung Express News Jalukie | December 11

Sounds of music and merriment heralded the festive season in Jalukie Town with the ‘Musical Night’ organized by the Njauna Students’ Union (NSU) in the heart of Jalukie Town on December 10 night. Masangum Heikha, PS to the Chief Minister who graced the Musical Night as chief guest, in his address said 2016 has been a year of blessing to citizens of Jalukie Town as the town recently celebrated its golden jubilee. He said jubilee is a time to forgive one another, bury past hatchet and look forward to the coming New Year with hope and jubilation. Extending greetings to the Njauna Students’ Union (NSU) on their upcoming golden jubilee celebration, Masangum termed Njauna Village as one of the most peaceful villages in Peren district with no boundary disputes or conflicts with neighbouring villages. He also said people from Njauna are peace-loving, PS to Chief Minister, Masangum Heikha, speaking at the ‘Musi- hard working and enterprising. He said since students and youth are cal Night’ organized by Njauna Students’ Union at Jalukie Town.

the leaders of tomorrow, NSU should strive to achieve greater heights as they prepare to celebrate 50 years of existence. “Don’t only dream of becoming somebody. But if you have a dream, start acting and do something to become that somebody,” he said. And in order to achieve or do something, one has to be happy and healthy, mentally and physically, he added. Masangum also termed “jealousy” as the bane of Naga society, while maintaining jealousy is an ailment which cannot be cured by any medicine but can only be removed from the mind. A host of Zeliang artists and musicians including Nangkamlak Pame, Kitopungle, Angeule Zeliang, Nemdeiching and Pezet Newme entertained the audience with contemporary songs and old hits. The free-will donation received from the musical event will go towards funding of the upcoming golden jubilee celebration of NSU. Earlier, administrator of St. Xavier’s College Jalukie, Rev. Fr. Shaji Mathew, invoked God’s blessings and NSU president, Inrei Namrei, gave a brief history of NSU.

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UNC intensifies blockade in Manipur

Imphal, December 11 (IaNS): Intensifying its economic blockade following the creation on Thursday of seven new districts in Manipur, the United Naga Council (UNC) in Senapati district headquarters forced vehicles carrying paramilitary personnel, proceeding to escort trucks and oil tankers stranded on the highway, to return to Imphal on Saturday night. Hundreds of loaded trucks and oil tankers remain stranded in Assam, Nagaland and near Manipur's border along National Highways 2 and 53. The blockade of supplies has led to severe shortage of fuel, consumer items and life-saving drugs in the state. The UNC had enforced the blockade on the highways on November 1 in protest against the Okram Ibobi Singh government's move to upgrade Sadar Hills and Jiribam to full-fledged districts. Sadar Hills is one of the seven new districts, albeit under a new name -- Kangpokpi district. The Manipur government on Thursday announced formation of seven new districts -- Jiribam, Kangpokpi, Tengoupal, Pharzol, Kakching, Noney and Kamjongin -- in the state. Meanwhile, UNC said that a meeting of the Nagas will be held on Monday to take stock of the situation arising out of the creation of the seven districts. There have been low-key sit-in protests and demonstrations demanding the release of the two arrested UNC leaders, including Council President Gaidon Kamei. Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh has refused to budge saying that the law will take its own course. Manipur High Court has also issued directives on three occasions, the most important being one directing the state government to deploy "adequate" security forces along the highways to ensure safe movement of vehicles.

Moderate quake hits northeastern states ShIlloNg, December 11 (IaNS): A moderate earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale hit the northeastern states on Sunday morning, an official said. There were no reports of any casualty or damage, the official said. The tremor was felt at 7.27 a.m. with an epicentre determined at Meghalaya's West Khasi Hill district, an official from the regional seismological centre said here. The seven northeastern states -- Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur -- are considered as the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.

Farmers forced to sell potato at 1 per kilo gUwahaTI, December 11 (TNN): Farmers of Jinjia in Biswanath district of northern Assam are throwing away their potatoes on the streets as huge stocks of potatoes remain unsold in cold storage. Local farmers said the decline in potato sales to wholesale buyers from Jinjia is a result of demonetisation as people are buying lesser amounts of potato due to the shortage of lower denomination currency notes in the last one month. Farmers are being forced to sell potato at Rs 1 per kg. "In Jinjia, farmers preserve potatoes in cold storage. But unlike previous years, huge stock of potatoes remains unsold this time," said peasant activist Pallab Hazarika. Consequently, he said, farmers are in a hurry to sell last year's potato stocks.

Manipur gets Rs 22,000 crore package Imphal, December 11 (ageNcIeS): With elections around the corner in Manipur, the BJPled Central Government is going all out to woo voters of the state with special packages and sops. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari today announced a special package of Rs 22,000 crore for 19 different road projects in Manipur during a ceremony for dedicating road projects at the 1st MR parade ground here. The projects, among others, include the Imphal-Kohima highway, Imphal-Moreh road, Imphal-Jiribam road, Ukhrul-Tolloi-Tadubi road, and Tamenglong to Peren.

ZUF questions Manipur govt 48-hour ultimatum to release UNC leaders, on declaration of new districts withdraw decision to form new districts

Imphal, December 11 (mexN): The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) today questioned the declaration of seven new districts, including Kangpokpi and Noney (Longmai), “by cleverly crafting new names by the government of Manipur without taking the confidence of all the stakeholders.” A press release from A. Longmei, Information & Publicity Secretary, ZUF termed the “ploy” of Government of Manipur “nothing less than putting of old wine in the new bottle to fool the people.” It asserted that the concern of Zeliangrong people in particular and the Nagas in general is not the name of districts but further division of their ancestral land. “The Government of Manipur must produce a ‘white paper’ on the jurisdiction/boundary of Noney, Jiribam and Kangpokpi districts for public consumption at the earliest,” it demanded. The Front cautioned that if the jurisdictions of the newly created districts of Kangpokpi and Jiribam infringed on the ancestral lands of the Zeliangrongs and other indigenous people, “those respon-

sible persons in the Government of Manipur who took such undemocratic decisions would have to face the consequences.” The Government of Manipur, it said, claims that the creation of new districts is for the sake of administrative convenience, “but people clearly understood that such hasty decision was taken to take political mileage on the eve of Assembly Election.” Unless the government produces a ‘white paper’ on the jurisdictions of the new districts, the ZUF stated it will take all necessary initiatives to stop the operation of Congress party and its agents in all the Zeliangrong inhabited areas. It affirmed that the Zeliangrong people will never surrender even an inch of their land. In this crucial juncture, ZUF appealed to all the Zeliangrongs to be vigilant and remain alert against any element which may pose a threat to “our” land. “Our land is the most precious gift that we inherit from our ancestors and the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) will defend it at all cost for the sake of our posterity,” it added.

New DelhI, December 11 (mexN): The Committee for Joint Naga Civil Societies, Delhi (CJNCSD) has issued a 48-uour ultimatum – with effect from midnight of December 12 – demanding the “unconditional release” of the two UNC leaders and also the “immediate withdrawal” of the Manipur government’s decision to form seven new districts. Strongly condemning the forceful creation of seven new districts – Jiribam, Kangpokpi, Tengnoupal, Pherzawl, Kakching, Noney and Kamjong, despite staunch protest and opposition from the Nagas, the CJNCSD issued the ultimatum warning the Manipur State Government of facing “compelling consequences and eventuality” in case the demands are not fulfilled. Claiming that Naga areas are being “rapidly militarised to terrorise and suppress” the legitimate demands of the Nagas, the Committee, in a statement released to the media, alleged that the State Government has been championing broad daylight robbery, lawless violence and anarchy by instigat-

ing the counter-blockaders to vandalise, harass, torture and loot the innocent Naga civilian passengers. Also hitting out at the Government of India (GOI), the CJNCSD questioned if this is the solution promised to the Nagas in the historic Framework Agreement. “The Indo-Naga conflict is a political conflict between two high contracting parties and the fate of the Nagas is to be dealt with the GOI’s prerogative alone,” the Committee stated. “However, the shocking silence of the GOI on the issue till date speaks volume about its political insincerity,” it added. Insisting that Nagas have been “compelled to defend their ancestral land, identity and nationhood against the aggressive anti-Naga politics being ruthlessly pursued by Ibobi Government,” the Committee warned that Nagas “will not hesitate to resort to force again if compelled”. “GOI alone shall be responsible for instigating such volatile ethnic situation within the Naga ancestral territory,” it added. Alleging that the political intent

of the drastic decision to create seven new districts is simply to dissect the Nagas into pieces, the CJNCSD argued that the creation of new districts would result in Nagas losing ownership over their own ancestral land. “The nature of the ethnodemographic distribution is also a deliberate design to reduce the Nagas to a mere minority group in all these districts,” it maintained. Stating that no District Reorganisation Commission was constituted to submit a detailed research report on the issue, the Committee pointed out that the State Government did not even consult the Nagas. CJNCSD reiterated the stand of UNC, ANSAM and NSF that “not even an inch of the Naga ancestral territory shall be touched upon, parted with, dissected, carved out, bartered, usurped or included in any of the new district formation”. In this regard, the CJNCSD appealed the Nagas to stand firm with UNC and be prepared to meet any eventuality “in defending their land, identity and culture tooth and nail.”

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gUwahaTI, December 11 (IaNS): The Assam government on Saturday honoured the family members of 855 martyrs of the Assam agitation at a massive function in Guwahati and reiterated the commitment of the government to protect the indigenous people of Assam by giving them constitutional safeguards. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal reiterated the BJP-led government's commitment while speaking at the function organised by the government to honour the family members of the 855 martyrs of the six year-long Assam agitation, the non-violent students' movement that sought to detect and deport illegal foreigners from Assam and put an end to the infiltration from Bangladesh. It is for the first time that the state government has organised a function to honour the families of martyrs. The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) that spearheaded the movement, observes December 10 every year as Shahid Divas (Martyrs Day) across the state. The agitation, which was started in 1979, came to an end after the signing of the Assam Accord between the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a delegation of AASU in 1985. "The Assam Agitation

was a non-violent democratic agitation to maintain the integrity of the country. Led by the students of the state, Assam agitation reflected the firmness of mentality of the people of Assam to the world leaders," Sonowal said while addressing thousands of people at the Veterinary College Ground in Khanapara area of the city on Saturday. "As per clause number 6 of Assam Accord, constitutional safeguard will be provided to all indigenous people of the state," he said. The government also gave Rs 5 lakh to the family members of the martyrs of the Assam movement on Saturday. "There has been no evidence of such a long driven agitation based on Gandhian philosophy anywhere in the world. The agitation not only maintained the territorial integrity of Assam but also aimed at protecting the integrity and sovereignty of our country. So, Assam agitation needs to be evaluated in the real sense of the term and all have to make a coordinated effort," Sonowal said. "Assam agitation con-

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tributed greatly to strengthen the process of giving rise to a greater Assamese identity. If we want to let the seven hundred crore people of the world know about the Assam agitation, we have to protect the individuality and uniqueness of our tradition. If we are keen to show love towards our nation, the younger generation will have to make themselves aware of the Assam agitation," he said. Sonowal also assured that the government would take steps to preserve the 'Martyrs Column' located at several places in the state. He said that a memorial will be constructed in the memory of the martyrs of the agitation. "We need to accept the challenge from illegal foreigners and if we can go forward showing our truthfulness, honesty and devotion, we can very easily overpower their evil design. We need to safeguard all the ethnicities and sons of the soil. As public representatives we need to work for the betterment of the whole community," Sonowal said.

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Imphal, December 11 (pTI): The earthquake that hit Manipur earlier this year damaged the iconic Ima market building but the spirit of women entrepreneurs here stands tall as they associate the commercial hub as a source of livelihood and independence. Also known as the Ladies' or Mother's market, the market is said to have been established around 1500 AD and is run solely by women of different communities of the state. Seen as a 'mini Manipur', the market employs over 4,000 women. It is the lifeline of the state and serves as an important trading centre. Women either own a particular section of the area to set up a shop, or they have to rent the place in the complex. But the shops had to be

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Govt to amend RBI Act to cancel old high-value currency notes New Delhi, December 11 (PTi): The central government is likely to amend the Reserve Bank of India Act to make old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 invalid. The amendment can be made effective from March 31, sources said. A reference will also be made in the Union Budget. “In 1978, when the currency was banned, the law to annul the validity came before. This time the government acted under 26 (2),” the sources said. According to the section, the central government could declare that a banknote will no longer be used as legal tender by a notification in the Gazette of India. Asked about the amount of money that did not get into the system, sources said it would add to bottom line of the RBI and it would be in a position to pay the government in the form of higher dividend or special dividend. Banks have received Rs 12 lakh crore demonetised currency notes. The central government expects Rs 13 lakh crore to come back into the banking system. Higher dividend from

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don’t have cards to use, Jasuja said, adding SBI Cards will offer them secured cards in about two-three months. “Since this move (demonetisation), there is surge in the usage of cards both in terms of number of transactions and volume. Our plan was to grow by 900,000 to 100,000 cards in one year but with this change, it will be extra by at least 20-25 per cent new set of customers,” he said. Jasuja said that even Jan-Dhan account holders can be potential customers. SBI Cards is also in the process of speeding up customer acquisition process by reducing the delivery period so that more and more people are added to the network. “Today, the delivery time is 9-11 days, what we are doing is that we are trying to reduce it to 2-3 days, that is the minimum,” said the official.

not extinguish any of RBI’s balance sheet. Therefore, there is no implication on the balance sheet as of now. The question of a special dividend automatically does not arise as of now,” Patel had said. The RBI has issued currency notes worth over Rs 4.27 lakh crore to public through banks and ATMs following the demonetisa-

of the top 10 most valued companies surged by Rs. 56,112 crore last week, as the benchmark indices recorded their best gains since September 2, with ONGC and RIL emerging as the biggest gainers. Barring TCS, which saw a market cap erosion of Rs. 5,999.87 crore to Rs. 4,32,197.39 crore, the remaining nine companies saw rise in their market valuations for the week ended December 9, totalling Rs. 56,112.71 crore. The market valuation of ONGC advanced by Rs. 13,389.36 crore to Rs. 2,62,568.3 crore, becoming the top gainer in the chart. RIL’s market valuation zoomed by Rs. 10,087.57 crore, to Rs. 3,32,922.08 crore, while m-cap of SBI soared by Rs. 9,004.85 crore to Rs. 2,06,490.48 crore. ITC added Rs. 8,968.35 crore to its market capitalisation to Rs. 2,85,775.45 crore, while, market valuation of Infosys rose by Rs. 5,340.38 crore to Rs. 2,26,788.37 crore and HDFC added Rs. 4,311.96 crore to its market worth, which then increased to Rs.

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New Delhi, December 11 (PTi): After a TV channel and a website to promote digital payments, a nationwide toll-free helpline number '14444' will be launched soon to educate people and provide support related to cashless mode of transactions. The service is expected to be operational within a week. "The government had sought Nasscom's help in providing support on a mass scale to people. We had requested for a single nationwide helpline, which is now assigned by the DoT as 14444. We are putting call centre support at the back-end. It is fairly in the advanced stage of operation," IT body Nasscom President R Chandrashekar said. "The helpline will assist people at the first level to zero in on the option which is most suitable for them, depending on the availability of feature phone, Aadhaar number and bank account of the person," Chandrashekhar added. To educate people on digital transactions, Ministry of Electronics and IT on Friday launched free-to-air channel DigiShala which will be available on Doordarshan's DTH platform and 'CashlessIndia' website to educate people about digital transactions. As per IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, digital payments have increased in the range of 400 to 1,000 per cent since November 8 after the scrapping of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes. When asked about timelines for operationalising Cash Mukt Bharat Abhiyan helpline number, Chandrashekhar said, "We are hoping that before the end of next week, it will be available." He said that once people will start using a particular methodology then helpline of particular digital payment service provider will also be made available through the helpline.

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6. Exposed 7. Mimics 8. A stopping 9. Donkey 10. Sharpshooter 11. Appearing every year 12. Relating to urine 13. Sleep in a convenient place 18. Tablet 22. Not barefoot 24. Left 26. Goulash 28. Deploy 29. Beige 30. Cravings 31. Comply with 32. Whimper 33. Making known 34. Leathers 37. Went under 38. Baroque composer 40. Shallow metal containers 41. Brusque 43. Watch and direct 44. Shoulder firearms 46. Bicker 47. Duck down 48. Mountain crest 49. Disorderly revelry 50. Anagram of “Buds” 51. Diva’s solo 53. Terminates 56. Regret 57. Astern Answer to Crossword 3800

Monday 12•12•2016

NAGALAND

St. Xavier’s Church Zhawame inaugurated One FGN cadre arrested Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): The newly built St. Xavier’s Church Zhawame was blessed and inaugurated by Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima December 11 during a It was combined with a special Thanksgiving Mass on the occasion of the Perpetual Profession of Rev. Srs. Savirhii Esther Dukru and Krosalii Rose Hesiih held at Porba on December 10, informed a press note from the Bishop’s Secretary. Inaugurating the newly built church, Rev. Dr. Thoppil congratulated the Zhavame community for great optimism, hope and their untiring work to complete the Church despite the great tragedy which destroyed the previous Church completely on October 18, 2014. Sharing his homily, the Bishop reflected on the writing of St. Paul in the Corinthians, “You are God’s temple;”“Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit;” and “We are the temple of the living God.” He also invited the

New church blessed at Tsupfume

community to make themselves the living temples by their way of life. “While thanking God for the gift of this beautiful and big church, we must be more grateful to God for making each of us the living temple by baptism because of which we are called to offer true and genuine sacrifice and worship in spirit and truth with our upright and gospel based life,” the Bishop added. Earlier the service began with prayers for the blessing of the Church where the Bishop blessed the walls of the Church and then main door of the Church, signifying Christ

as the door of sheep fold through which sheep come and go and find pastors. He also blessed the crucifix symbolizing the redemptive work of Jesus, the ambo signifying the table of the word from where one is nourished by the teaching of the apostles. The altar that represents the table of the Eucharist was also dedicated, anointed and incensed. The Zhavame choir presented a song which beautifully heightened the spiritual and sacred atmosphere of the celebration. Rev. Dr. James Thoppil also congratulated Rev. Srs. Rose Hesuh (Krosalü) and

Kohima, December 11 (mexN): St. Peter’s Church, Tsupfume was blessed by Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima and inaugurated by Rev. Fr. Philip, SJ, Parish Priest, Pfutsero in the presence of fathers, sisters, catechist, village leaders and invited guests. Rev. Fr. James Thsipongkiu, Parish Priest, Razaba mentioned it was a long awaited dream to have the good church for the Catholic faithful of Tsupfume. He thanked Bishop, Frs. George Punnolil, Jose Sebastian, Catholic community of Tsupfume for the tremendous efforts taken to complete the church. The Bishop thanked God for the blessing that the community and the church are receiving from the benefactors. He requested the community to pray for them

Esther Dukru (Savirhü), for their final commitment in religious life in the Marian Congregation of the Houses of Charity and assured them of the community’s prayers and continued support. Rekha Rose Dukru anchored the short felicitation programme during which CYA Choir of Zhavame felicitated the two finally professed sisters with their melodious tunes. Rev. Sr. Savirhii Esther ex-

and also applauded Rev. Fr. James Thsepongkiu and the Catholic community for efforts taken to complete the church. During the Holy Mass, he reflected on St. Paul’s saying “…You are God’s temple” (1Cor. 3:16); “…Your body is a temple of the Holy spirit” (1Cor 6:19); “…We are the temple of the living God” (2Cor. 6:16). “The real Church, therefore, my brothers and sisters, are we. We are the living temple of God. We must build this temple every day. God must dwell within us. This of course is not easy and yet it is our prime duty,” he stated. The Bishop further expressed “our” love for Jesus is proven by keeping his word. “The ultimate way that we keep God’s word is by focusing our mind on his word to the point of obedience. The fruit of obedience is God revealing Himself to us.”

pressed words of gratitude to all who promoted in her vocation and to those present. Among others, Rev. Fr. James Thsepongkiu, Parish Priest, Razeba; Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education and his lady wife; Rev. Sr. Ines, Major Superior of Minor Carmelites of Charity from Italy; Sr. Mary, Regional Superior, Rev. Fr. David, responsible of the Mar-

ian Congregation of the Houses of Charity, India; other Fathers and Sisters from various parishes in Nagaland and delegates from DAN, NCWA, NCYM, many invited guests and the community take part in the celebration. Sarhiinyi John, Local Catechist proposed vote of thanks while the concluding prayer was pronounced by Salunyi Joseph Shupao and ended with common meals served to all.

Workshop on digital payments systems held

In view of impending Christmas celebration, the Western Sumi Students’ Union (WSSU) conducted a cleanliness drive on December 10 in and around Dimapur Town cleaning hospitals, government offices including DC office complex and main junctions in the town. About 500 students and volunteers from all the units under WSSU, who were divided into small groups, carried out the cleanliness drive.

MarkSheet found A HSSLCE marksheet (Arts Stream) belonging to Shekivi Swu was found near Dhobinala, Dimapur. Rightful owner may contact 9856435083 with other related documents.

Teachers in Chiephobozou EBRC attend training

chiephobozou, December 11 (mexN): A one-day training on Performance Indicators (PINDICS) for elementary school teachers and a two-day Shaala Siddhi training for head teachers and teacher-in-charge of Government Middle Schools and Government Primary Schools under EBRC Chiephobozou was conducted at

Badminton Stadium Hall, Chiephobozou from December 5 to 7. The training was conducted by the EBRC Chiephobozou under which there are 6 GHS, 12 GMS and 22 GPS. According to a press note, 288 teachers attended the training on the first day while and all the head teachers and teacher incharge attended the second day and third day.

Kohima, December 11 (mexN): As directed by the Government of India to promote digital payment systems, NIELIT Kohima organised awareness workshop on digital payment systems with a theme ‘Go Cashless, Go Digital’ at NIELIT Kohima and its extension centre at Chuchuyimlang on December 8 and 9. L. Lanuwabang, Director i/c of NIELIT Kohima informed in a press release

that the main objective of the workshop was to promote digital payment options as an integral part of Government’s strategy to transform India into a cashless economy and to inform citizens about government policies and about digital financial options available to them. Hands-on demonstrations on cashless modes of payment such as USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data),

UPI (Unified Payment Interface), AEPS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment Systems), e-Wallet and POS/ Card were shown by the technical team of NIELIT and State Bank of India officials, the release said. The workshop was attended by public, merchants and students. Re s ou rc e p e rs o n speaks at the workshop organised by NIELIT Kohima on digital payment systems.

Therie calls for preserving culture, language KUWA celebrates 12th annual ‘Metsü Mehpu’ Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): NPCC President K Therie, on Saturday, emphasized the need to preserve one’s own language and culture. He said this while speaking as the ‘We Tetshü Tarho’ Kehtsüo’ at the 21st Annual ‘Metsü Mehpu’ cum ‘Rünyi Festival’ of Kuzhami Welfare Association Dimapur (KUWA) held at Chumukedima on December 10. Ignorance has overtaken our culture, he said lamenting that the respect for elders are gradually losing out in the modern society. Do not sit and perform

your duty in the office alone, but extend your help and to support to the upcoming generations to face different challenges ahead, the NPCC President further exhorted the Kuzhami Government Servants. He also expressed concern over the fast changing society in Nagaland where unemployment has reached its peak. Unless the people join a political party and participate and function under

the party, the society will not change, Therie reminded the gathering and urged them to elect God fearing leaders from any political party so that he/she will deliver justice to the public. Meanwhile, new team for KUWA for 2016-2019 tenure was inducted during the event. The new team will be headed by Dr. Eyekhweshe Kepfoh as President, Kewethro Kapfo and Kevelo Doulo as Vice President and Neipete The-

rie as General Secretary. Earlier the program was chaired by Kekhrongulo-ü Kapfo, while the Presidential address was given by Wekhape Letro, President KUWA. The significance of Rünyi Festival was shared by Mikha Lomi, President Kuzhalhu Zawe. It also featured special number and folk tune performances by Krowemi Union Dimapur and Lasumi Union Dimapur while Rev. Dr. K. Kapfo, Pastor Kuzhami Baptist Church Chumukedima pray for the event. The main programme was followed by Rünyi feast, informed a press note from KUWA General Secretary Pretso Therie.

Slight traffic disruption near Khar on Dec 14 St. Joseph’s College concludes college week

Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): There will be slight disruption of vehicular movement between Milak river Khar side to Khar village due to a motor rally for 2 hours

from 1AM-12 Noon on December 14. Mokokchung District Sport Council (MDSC) in a press note has requested all commuters to bear the inconveniences for the

given period. It further informed all the participants for the motor adventure rally to report at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex on December 13 for a briefing.

Sechüma Youth Org celebrates 50 anniversary th

Kohima, December 11 (mexN): The Sechüma Youth Organisation (SYO) organized a thanksgiving service to commemorate its 50th anniversary at Sechüma Village Council Hall. Rüüngutuo Sechü, Finance Secretary, Naga Hoho, the main speaker of the day, said, “In attaining this milestone, it is time to retrospect the journey that we have travelled. Nevertheless, let us be reminded of our responsibility that lies ahead, and continue to march with greater zeal and spirit in responding to the challenges of our times.” “The progress of a society will depend much on how we respond during our times. Therefore, let us take decisions wisely in order to contribute positively for the well being of our people at large.” He reminded the youth members to observe the jubilee as a time of true thanksgiving to the almighty, and also a time to forgive and forget if there

JaKhama, December 11 (mexN): The college week of St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama concluded with prize distribution on December 9. The event began on December 5 with PF Zeliang (IPS), IGP, PHQ Kohima gracing the inaugural function as the chief guest. He exhorted the students to be people of integrity, honesty and well equipped in all walks of life. The more than 3300

students of the college were divided into eight teams: Cold Blood, Frozen, Fusion, Ignitors, Mighty Ninjas, Munich, Pirates and Rajnikanth. These teams competed in various events like track events, outdoor games, indoor games, cultural events, theatrics and others. During the Cultural Day, Mr. and Ms. Josephite were selected. Miss Nagaland 2015, Nenghoilhing Hansing did the opening

of the show with special appearance by Vilhousa Movi, winner of the Northeast Ethnic Fusion Designer Competition. On the concluding day, Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima as the special guest gave away the prizes to the winners. The overall championship went to team Fusion followed by first and second runners-up won by team Munich and team Rajnikanth.

Feast of Mary Immaculate celebrated

Rüüngutuo Sechü, Finance Secretary, Naga Hoho along with other public leaders and SYO officials after unveiling the SYO 50th anniversary monolith on December 10.

had been any misunderstanding or personal differences amongst the people and villagers. “Let this also be a time to remember the sacrifices and contributions of our pioneers who have taken great pain and effort in guiding the youth body till this day,” he said, reminding the youths to carry on the legacy set by the past leaders. Earlier, the Naga Hoho

leader unveiled the SYO 50th anniversary monolith. The programme, chaired by Rokoneikho Rhatsu, commenced with prayer pronounced by Roziekolie Nipu, pastor, Sechüma Christian Revival Church. Greeting was delivered by Pelevisie Rhatsu, chairman, Sechüma Village Council, while Sechüma Women Society presented a folk song.

Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): The Daughters of Mary Immaculate (DMI) Sisters and Missionaries of Mary Immaculate (MMI) Fathers celebrated the feast of their Patroness, Mary Immaculate, on December 8 in the campus of the newly established St. Joseph University, Dimapur. Fr. Justine MMI introduced the feast of the Immaculate Conception. He informed that on December 8, 1854, through the papal bull ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX declared, “the Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved, in the first instant of her conception, from all stain of original sin.” Thus,

the observance of the feast of the Immaculate Conception became universal. The celebration of the Holy Eucharist was presided over by Fr. George Punnoli, financial administrator of the diocese of Kohima, while 19 other priests concelebrated with him. Fr. Chacko Karinthayil, Rector of Good Shepherd Seminary and one of the diocesan consulters, preached the homily. Over 25 Sisters from various religious congregations in and around Dimapur as well as many lay Christians participated in the Eucharist, informed a press release issued by Jonas Kerketta from Bosco B.

Ed College, Dimapur. Fr. Ashok MMI presented a brief history of the DMI Sisters and MMI Fathers. Rev. Fr. J. E. Arulraj founded the Congregation of the DMI Sisters in 1984 in Tamil Nadu. He then founded the Congregation of the MMI fathers in 2000. In just 32 years, the DMI Sisters number 450 while the MMI Fathers have 200 members in just 16 years, he stated. Both Congregations jointly run seven engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu. They have three universities in the African continent – one each in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. In January 2017, 33 deacons will be ordained priests for the MMI Congregation.

Dimapur, December 11 (mexN): Acting on a specific input, the 41 Assam Rifles along with police representatives in a joint operation today arrested one NNC/FGN cadre from Nihokhu Village, Dimapur. An AR press note identified him as Toshevi Sema

of NNC/FGN, a resident of Nihokhu village. One Pt. 22 Rifle, one magazine, 14 rounds of live ammunition and 132 fired case cartridges were recovered from him, it said. He was later handed over to Nuiland Police Station, Dimapur for further investigation, it added.

9 AR recovers marijuana pheK, December 11 (mexN): 9 Assam Rifles recovered 190 kg of marijuana from a TATA Sumo bearing registration number NL 01T 7783 in Pfutsero on December 9 at 8:45 am. Based on specific input regarding movement of contraband items from Phek to Kohima in a TATA Sumo, a team of 9 Assam Rifles had established a special Mobile Vehicle Check Post near Forest Gate in Pfutsero from where the contraband was recovered. The apprehended person identified as Viketou (50) along with the seized articles were handed over to Police Station, Pfutsero on December 9 at 12:30 pm.

2K Hotel located at Officers’ Hill Colony, Kohima illuminated with lights complementing the festive season. (Morung Photo)

Meetings & AppointMents AKM executive meeting The 6th AKM executive meeting will be held on December 14 at AKM Conference Hall in Mokokchung. Therefore, all the tribunals, seniors and executive members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

NASU 44th biennial general conference The Northern Angami Students’ Union (NASU) will hold its 44th biennial general conference from December 16 to 18 at Rüsoma village under the theme ‘Innovate, Integrate and Motivate.’ Minister for Forest, Environment & Climate Change, Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire will be the chief guest. Neilasa Sopfü, DIG, Fire & Emergency, Nagaland will be the guest of honour. The conference speakers are Theja-o Vihienuo, Mission Director RMSA, Dr. Kezhalezo Angami, and Neisakuolie Mere Kesiyie, pastor, Central Baptist Church Kohima.

KMC pre-Christmas The Kohima Municipal Council pre-Christmas cum annual ward/shop felicitation programme will be held on December 15 from 1:00 pm at KMC conference hall, Kohima. Khrienuo C. Metha, Commissioner & Secretary, Home Department (RR & NSDMA) will be the chief guest. A press note from KMC Administrator, Kovi Meyase has requested all the wards to be present. Unlike previous years, no awards will be given if wards are not present in the function, it added.

Phekmi Welfare Union Kohima session The 8th general session cum picnic 2016 of the Phekmi Welfare Union, Kohima (PWUK) will take place on December 13, 10.30 am at Zogazou, Tsiesema Basa, near 5 Sector, Assam Rifles. Vezuhu Keyho, principal, Capital College of Higher Education will be the guest speaker. PWUK general secretary Kuvehu Soho has invited all its members, students, in-laws and well wishers to be part of this programme. Bus service will be provided by the union at the following points. Mohonkhola junction at 9:00 am, PHQ junction – 9:15 am, PWD Traffic junction – 9:20 am, Old MLA hostel junction – 9:25 am, Kezieke (Tata Parking) – 9:30 am, Pezielietse (Tinpati junction) – 9:35 am and High School junction – 9:40 am.

ANDMSA Zunheboto unit meeting The ANDMSA, Zunheboto unit has convened an emergency meeting on December 14, 11:00 am at DC conference hall, Zunheboto. All departments have been requested to send at least 2 representatives to the meeting without fail.

Awareness prog on ICDS The Department of Social Welfare is organising a community awareness programme on Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme at Town Hall, Bhandari Town on December 16, 12:00 noon headed by Jt. Director and State Programme Officer, Social Welfare. Bonathung Ngullie, Child Development Project Officer, Bhandari has invited all village council chaimen, GBs, VDB secretaries and woman representative from villages covered by ICDS Anganwadi scheme under Bhandari project to attend the programme.

Prayer fellowship for revival of the Nagas The Jericho Prayer Ministries in association with Kohima Town Area Prayer Groups is organizing three-day prayer fellowship for revival of the Nagas (The Lord’s programme) from December 16 to 18 at Nagamese Church, Nagabazar, Kohima. The speakers of the fellowship will be Rev. Dr. D.L. Sanchu executive secretary, ACRCC Kohima, Rokozelie Pienyu, president, House of Prayer Ministry Kohima, Gloria Pienyu, founder, Jericho Prayer Ministries Kohima, and Lasao Kath, founder, Nazareth Prayer & Healing Centre, Kandinu.

DBC platinum jubilee The platinum jubilee celebration of Dzülhami Baptist Church (DBC) will be held from December 17–18 at Dzülhami Baptist Church. The main speakers for the event are Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, general secretary, Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, executive secretary, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council, and Rev. Khrütsoyi Lürüo, president, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council. The DBC has extended invitation to everyone, including Dzülhami in-laws.

Monday 12•12•2016

IN FOCUS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 341 By moa Jamir

misplaced priorities

aga ‘menfolk’s’ passion for politics and power is indefatigable. The hitherto perceived supremacy over ‘womenfolk’ and hierarchal societal order and polity, therefore, is akin to the ‘divine right’ – an enduring legacy of time ‘immemorial’ as political legitimacy. Any challenges to the status quo are met with doughty resistance. This in essence explains the fervour with which two malecentric Naga organisations served a ‘15 days ultimatum’ to the State Government on December 10, adding yet another saga to the protracted Women’s Reservation Bill in Nagaland. With singular display of unanimity, the two organisations, in a confrontational mode, asked that State Government to convene a special session and restore the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA)’s September 22, 2012 Resolution - revoked at the 14th session of the 12th NLA on November 24, 2016. The resolution had exempted Nagaland from the application of Article 243(T), Part IX A of the Constitution, dealing with reservation of seats in municipalities citing infringement upon certain special provisions guaranteed under Article 371(A) of Indian Constitution. The JACWR (Joint Action Committee of Women Reservation) had taken a legal recourse over the issue. Action will be initiated against the State Government if it fails to meet the demand, it cautioned further restraining the issuance of Election Notification. It also directed the government to tell the ‘womenfolk’ to withdraw the PIL filed in the Supreme Court of India. Almost all the leading tribal organisations in Nagaland have opposed the same Women’s Reservation Bill. Lavishing effusive praises on the idea of ‘egalitarian’ Naga society, it hedonistically asserted that the 33% women reservation policy of India in their fight against the “cursed caste system” cannot be equated with “the social practice of the Nagas.” “No single Naga father denies his daughter to go to school. Likewise, each and every Naga man longs to see his daughter becoming a successful lady,” it argued. A wounded male ego is one of the most dangerous forces in politics with extensive repercussions, it is often opined. The journey of Women’s Reservation Bill is a classic illustration. While extending and giving full support for women equality considering it as an inherent social endowment, they tried to undermine argument for reservation by trivialising the issue as “few women claiming to be representing the whole of Naga women.” Such atrociousness is the height of male chauvinism. Consequently, diatribes directed at ‘womenfolk’ they claim to nurture with utmost ‘equality’ were fired by implying that they are breaking their “ancestral Naga social fabric” and imperilling Naga’s identity by demanding reservation. Such absurd arguments are irony personified and a tragic comedy, buried and blinded by their blunt opposition to the issue. Many argue that women should win by merit, not reservation invoking the principle of democracy where everyone is given an opportunity to contest in a ‘free and fair’ election. Often they harp on abstract notion of proverbial 'reverence' and 'equal' status enjoyed by Naga women to oppose any policy oriented reservation in Nagaland. But if such a 'fair and lovely' system so far has failed to generate any productive participation of women in politics, then there is a colossal disconnect between the abstract assertion and practical reality. Something is fundamentally amiss with the system. Reservation is not the panacea for all political maladies but keeping the status quo will take us back to time ‘immemorial.’ Elsewhere, another scam has been unearthed in Nagaland. Rest assured, it will be conspicuously greeted with a ‘deafening silence’ from leading organisations and general public, whose priorities are misplaced elsewhere.

For any comment, drop a line to moajamir@live.com

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Chris Arsenault Thomson Reuters Foundation

Nature reserves in Central America push out indigenous people - report

he creation of protected areas and parks in Central America aimed at conserving tropical forests has pushed indigenous people off the land they have nurtured for generations, researchers said on December 9. Protected areas are more effective when the rights of indigenous people living on the land are formally recognized, said the report released on the sidelines of a U.N. conservation conference in Cancun, Mexico. A lack of consultation between governments, environmental groups and indigenous communities hurts conservation efforts and leads to land conflicts, said researchers from Mexico, the United States and El Salvador which analyzed five conservation areas across Central America and Mexico. "A wall has effectively grown up around many protected areas, shutting out the people who depend on the forests for their survival," said Andrew Davis, a researcher with the El Salvadorbased Prisma Foundation and one of the study's authors. In northern Guatemala, indigenous Q'eqchi communities occupied the Semuq Champey park earlier this year, saying they had not received any revenue from the park entrance fees as they had been promised. Security forces used tear gas on the protesters leading the death of a community elder in the popular tourist destination of freshwater turquoise pools and natural limestone formations. Some guardians of region's protected areas are starting to respond to the concerns of indigenous people, however. In Honduras, the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve is moving towards recognizing land rights for traditional inhabitants, following protests from Muskitia indigenous people, Davis said. "There is enormous potential to make protected areas more effective if they respect territorial rights," Davis told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. A study published in October by the Washingtonbased World Resources Institute found that giving indigenous people land title deeds is one of the most costeffective ways to preserve South America's endangered rainforest and combat climate change. This is because indigenous communities who own the territory are more likely to conserve the forest than other land users. Some governments and environmental groups argue that indigenous people need to be moved out of protected areas because they "overgraze and overuse natural resources," Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N. Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples Rights, said in a statement. "Such perception fails to recognize the complexity of ecological and social relationships of many indigenous peoples with their ecosystems," Tauli-Corpuz said. Protected areas, when properly managed, allow indigenous people to harvest plants and animals, co-existing with the environment and making a living the way they have for hundreds of years, the report said. Indigenous groups and local communities have legally recognized rights to about 65 percent of the forests in Central America and Mexico, according to Prisma's research, a better record than in other regions.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Guadalupe Olivier and Sergio Tamayo

Liberation pedagogy in social movements Education understood as a pillar of political activity, on the basis of criticism and resistance, becomes a fundamental means for struggling to end poverty, marginalization, slavery and exploitation

exico offers a clear illustration of the impact of globalization. It affects some more than others and is implemented by structural reforms, notably privatization in areas such as education and the dismantling of labor rights. Teachers, indigenous Zapatista communities and young people who have graduated from teacher training schools have created citizen-based projects and established education as the solid foundation for the pedagogical construction of alternative futures – although not without difficulties. Education brings together symbolic proposals for emancipation and social transformation. Schools, as the concrete, formal arena of education, become triggers for forming consciousness, and creating new political subjects, with an identity based on community work. Here we focus on four Mexican states where alternative education projects have gained momentum in recent years: Oaxaca, with its Education Transformation Plan (Plan para la Transformación de la Educación en Oaxaca—PTEO); Michoacan, with its Integral Schools (Escuelas Integrales); Chiapas, with the Zapatista Autonomous Education (Educación Autónoma Zapatista) project; and Guerrero, with the University of the Peoples of the South (Universidad de los Pueblos del Sur—UNISUR). The first two have arisen from local teachers’ struggles, based on dissident sectors of the national teachers’ union (Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación—CNTE). The last two result from community struggles mostly waged by indigenous populations.

A primary school in the Zapatista village of oventic, the southern state of Chiapas mexico

is a project for elementary education promoted by the local section of the teacher union. The labor union political project considers the construction of an alternative education project as one of its fundamental tasks. It defends public education and is inspired by “The pedagogy of indignation” by Paolo Freire that proposes a new form of organizing schools on the basis of collectivity. In Michoacan the fight to change the official education project began in the 1990s. A political agreement was reached with the state to create an alternative pedagogical space with the installation of eight experimental schools in different regions. The Integral Schools model is based on a theoretical-practical relationship. It focuses on preparing the social subject in a comprehensive manner, with work as a central aspect. Work is understood as the factor that links the individual with the community, and integration with the community through work is very important in this project’s configuration. This educational proposal criticizes the neoliberal model of schools, and considers these as closed spaces that legitimize the capitalist state’s perspective while ignoring society’s genuine needs. By contrast, promoters of the alternative education project consider that schools should be constructed as triggers for a process of emancipation, and they are explicitly recognized as political institutions for social change. This rationale is based on the theory of “resistance in education”. The “New School” is a space for democratic education, with joint participation by the community, faculty and students. The goal is a democratic culture built by the people from the bottom up: “In the school we envision, a new rationality of life will be promoted, one that recuperates the joy and hope in which new forms of operating strengthen the exercise of popular selfgovernment, a rationality that emancipates us from capitalist ideology. The intention is to dignify man as a rational, transformative, creative and supportive being” (Proyecto General de las Escuelas Experimentales Integrales. Escuelas Integrales de Educación Básica, unpublished). Michoacan’s education project proposes the transformation of inequality, at least at the local level. It also aspires to a global impact. Utopia takes shape in a new conception of a transformative, liberating school. The need to strengthen identity is established, based on the recuperation of community cultural roots. The project is also rooted in the recuperation of some principles of public education specified in Article 3 of the nation’s Constitution, including: free, secular education, against servitude, against all types of religious dogma and fanaticism, and based on science. Tracing back to the Revolution of 1910, the goal of achieving popular education is based on the interests of the people, with teachers who serve as both workers and popular educators. Michoacan’s education project proposes the transformation of inequality, at least at the local level. It also aspires to a global impact. Educational content must not be constructed in a particular social setting. This project has as its model a democratic, popular school linked to social transformation processes with a close school-work relationship. The goal of integral schools is to transgress the social structures of domination. For R. Rodriguez, integral schools are nothing less than a tool for revolution.

Oaxaca’s Education Transformation Plan (PTEO) The PTEO was created when local actors decided to move from a sociopolitical insurgency to a cultural, pedagogical and ideological strategy for emancipation. The Plan’s key aspect is the re-signification of the cultural roots of Oaxaca’s peoples. The popular teachers’ movement promotes education as a mode of resistance and fosters discussion around a different educational model within the Oaxaca State Public Education Institute (Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública del Oaxaca). The Oaxaca teachers’ movement took the idea of communality as the guiding principle in their proposals for elementary education. Against the dominant model of education and the worldview and social structures that support it, they create a space in which participants’ knowledge and action is legitimate. Participants are encouraged to claim their identity on the basis of their own cultural and historic roots. As W Mignolo states, to “un-learn” hegemonic knowledge, which has been imposed and colonizes peoples’ mind, an inverse process is necessary. A re-learning process takes place by valuing lessons that are not necessarily new but are rooted in the very substance of community life. Oaxaca’s education transformation project is focused on collective experience and on the resistance to cultural, linguistic and epistemic colonization. Therefore, knowledge conceived only from one particular perspective is rejected. “Communality” is defined as the cultural construction in which native peoples live and socialize, and which serves as the basis of collective action. Rather then a curriculum imposed by external experts and state agents, autonomous and specific curricula are created in a participative way at each school, based on the interests and particularities of communities, its culture and its interaction with the territory in order to “transform the reality of educational practice”[4]. This educational transformation involves social change that not only confronts the official discourse of the national curriculum but implements a concrete educational reform opposed to the way in which the neoliberal capitalist world and asymmetrical relations of power are managed and interpreted. The teachers’ movement emphasizes an educational content defined by the reality experienced by those living in the communities, and subjects’ feelings around re-learning a principle of collective living that “signifies unity for resisting processes of cultural deconstruction”[5]. In this perspective, ancestral identity can be turned into a Guerrero and the University of the tool for resistance. Peoples of the South (UNISUR) This project’s antecedents can be Integral Schools in Michoacan In the western state of Michoac- traced back to the 1980s, with the conan, Integral Basic Education Schools vergence of two movements in the re-

experiences at the secondary school, it was agreed that a single plan would be defined for the entire Los Altos region. The Zapatista System is organized around three educational levels in multi-level groups, and its pedagogy is based on praxis. The SERAZ-LN is coordinated by ten promoters, who are responsible for organizing activities and for training promoters. The system prioritizes the peoples’ own culture, and this means placing all aspects associated with indigenous culture at the center of the pedagogy used. Areas of learning are designed on the basis of the communities’ demands: languages, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, humanism and production, and caring for the environment. Teachers are members of Zapatista Support Bases. Courses begin with an introduction to the life of the peoples, with an explanation of their internal rules. The next course begins with an initial level of four topics: Autonomous Governance I, Autonomous Governance II, Women’s Participation in Autonomous Governance, and Resistance. While each community evolves in its own way, all of the communities share the basic demands stated in the San Andrés Agreements: land, housing, work, food, health, culture, independence, democracy, liberty, justice, peace, the right to information, and education. Today, there are 62 elementary schools distributed throughout the region with 3,300 students, over 135 in middle school education, and also adult education, with some 300 promoters. Teaching is on a volunteer basis, and is understood as: “what must be constructed to change the world.” This reflects a definition of principles as established in 1997, as a “strategy of resistance”. They don’t accept any funds from the national government, maintaining that accepting the “bad government’s” participation would jeopardize the movement’s and the communities’ autonomy. A strong impulse has been given to the autonomy of elementary schools in Zapatista zones since 1998. Autonomy implies the strengthening of the political, ethnic and peasant identity with an eye toward the construction of a new collective identity. It also aims at facilitating direct democracy rooted in indigenous and peasant culture. It is based on a liberating teaching ethic with the intention to educate reflective and critical individuals. There are no traditional plans or programmes per se, but the principles, values and practices linked to peasant culture and the perspective of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) are evident. The pedagogicalpolitical methodology used is rooted in experience. In pedagogical terms, the methodology is formulated as “to walk asking questions”. In political terms, it is constituted as “lead by obeying.” Both aspects are established in Municipal Agreements for Zapatista Autonomous Education plans and programs. Education is understood as a pillar of political activity. It transforms itself, as it transforms reality, on the basis of criticism and resistance. It becomes a fundamental means for struggling to end poverty, marginalization, slavery and exploitation.

gion: the teachers’ struggle, primarily rooted in the indigenous sector, and the struggle known as Council of 500 years of indigenous, black and popular resistance in Guerrero, which demanded recognition of the rights and culture of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples. In response to the lack of opportunities for native peoples, they decided to set up an education project with a humanistic, ethical focus, and with the intention of presenting an option for higher education A university institution, UNISUR aims at training professionals who will contribute to solving community problems and promoting the regions, currently one of the poorest and the most unequal in the country. UNISUR is totally independent of governmental authorities. It entails three entities: • The Community Authority, formed by the Intercultural Council, community members who are prominent due to their integrity, commitment and social struggle. • The Board, formed by community members who are known for their wise use of resources. • The Academic Association, formed by University professors. In 2007 UNISUR began with four Bachelor’s degrees in: Community Development and Management; Governance of Municipalities and Territories; Memory, Culture and History; and Justice and Human Rights. UNISUR’s program is partially on-site, and is based on practices linked to communities. The idea is to constantly question the reality experienced by students. It offers a four-year program and includes research. Since 2007, some 300 professors from other Mexican higher education institutions have taught at UNISUR. The teaching staff does not receive a salary and makes its contribution to the project in solidarity. UNISUR has survived due to the work carried out by communities and the Academic Association. UNISUR is seeking an official recognition of the study careers it offers. They maintain that the state has a political and moral obligation to offer public university education (free and secular) to indigenous peoples. The UNISUR model is connected to its surroundings, its culture and needs. It is a proposal for intercultural education that was made long before the government’s proposal for intercultural universities. The UNISUR project was approved following an extensive process of consultation and Final Remarks In the four cases analyzed, educadecision-making, with 250 community assemblies and state councils of inter- tion is established as the basis for resistance and the creation of an altercultural education. native future. It is a mean for fighting The Zapatista Rebel Autonomous Ed- against poverty and exploitation and ucation System of National Libera- achieving a future with liberty and equality. Education is understood as tion in Chiapas The Zapatista Rebel Autonomous a pillar for constructing the utopia Education System of National Libera- that will motivate those dominated to tion (SERAZ-LN) emerged from armed work for political change. These projects are based on critical conflict and the Zapatista movement. It results from the displacement of peo- pedagogies. They are anti-capitalist in ple following the 1994 uprising, which nature, based on each one’s particular included many teachers who had left perspective, depending on their contheir schools. Between 1995 and 1997, nections to social and political organia Zapatista education strategy was zations. The movements in Oaxaca and used to prepare dozens of educational Michoacan are maintained within the promoters, with assistance from civil State’s margins, generating agreements organizations and students from the with authorities, and seeking to open National Autonomous University of up spaces for formalizing their projects. These projects are maintained through Mexico (UNAM). Since then, the proposal estab- public financing, although precariouslished in the village of Oventik has set ly. By contrast, the UNISUR movement up an education project focused on in Guerrero and the Zapatista moveindigenous autonomy, fully indepen- ment in Chiapas assert their political dent from the government. Various as- autonomy. However, the education resemblies with peoples’ representatives form approved in 2013 by the current outlined a proposal for education origi- government is placing the survival of nating in communities and responding these projects at more risk than ever. to their needs. No arbitrary education Today’s education struggle in Mexiimposed top-down would be allowed. co is at its highest point of mobilization In 2000, the Zapatista Autonomous and resistance, but unrestrained vioRebel Secondary School began its op- lence and complex mechanisms of state erations with a three-year plan. After repression are at the same high level. an evaluation of the initial pedagogical Utopia faces a stormy path ahead.

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The Morung Express POLL RESULTS

Do you feel that the Hornbill Festival needs fresh innovative thinking and creative implementation? How?

Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Yes, definitely Yes! The Hornbill festival definitely needs fresh innovative thinking and creative implementation. So many years have passed by, and we have been holding on to the same old rituals of celebrating this festival. Are we even looking at the various negative and positive consequences of hosting this festival? So much money is spent on renovating the whole place, whole Kisama, every year. It has become an unnecessary spending and a total waste of resources. Why not form a committee to take care of the venue throughout the year and look after the maintenance of the area instead of wasting another few crores on renovating the whole place. That would not only employ the jobless but also open up a new tourist destination for travelers who come to Nagaland all year round. The “Heritage Village” can be a new Tourist destination available for the whole year and not just Ten days. Also the festival lacks so much of creativity and innovation. The committee that plans and executes this festival should look for people with fresh ideas and experiences in this field. Students acquainted with tourism studies can play a massive role in this festival, and enhance this festival in providing the best of what Nagaland can offer to the world, as it has been names an International Festival. We need to upgrade this festival to meet the standards of the title “International.” And going Global can be met with newer ideas and creativity. • Yes. Hornbill should stop being an annual affair. Make it triennial. Distribute the funds equally between all tribes and let them celebrate in the respective headquarters in the 2nd year, during their respective tribes festival. It will start a healthy competition to revive and preserve our culture. Then, give opportunity to every range, region, zone, area to celebrate it amongst their respective community members in the 1st year. In such a scenario tourist can flow into the interiors and districts in manageable numbers and over different periods of time. Funding should be on same lines again. Equal distribution but not wholly on the Government. The 3rd year can be the grand finale at Kisama. And please the suggestion to hold Hornbill festival at other district headquarters is totally impractical. • Yes. First don't make it an annual event. Second reduce the day of the festival. 10 days festival is too long. At least reduce to 7 days which is quite good. And

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to separate 1st December to observe Statehood day. Hornbill Festival can begin from 2nd December onward. • Yes, the events are become monotonous and it is losing its originality. Rather than introducing new creative events each year, the festival seems to be regressing and becoming stale. The practice of awarding events to the same event management and people every year is the reason why there is a shortage of new events. It is time to introduce some innovative events that represent the cultural richness of the Nagas. • Yes. its not the naga culture but mixed with odd and sods to make something out of noting and lots of money is eaten by outsiders to come and perform here. what a waste full government we have • Yes... bring it down to dimapur • Yes... need to check all price. its so expensive... its an extortion • Yes. Kohima is too burdened. Infra deficiency, accommodation, traffic paralysis... weather etc Pathetic to display our inability. This is not real. We can do better but not so given the limited conditions of Kisama aa a location Narrow lanes etc... we are killing the brand Way past time to spread it to other areas ... Tuensang Dimapur Mokok Wokha etc ... at least spread the items ...Make it more authentic • Yes... There should be a limit on non cultural programs. The tourists are here to witness our culture not concerts, fashion shows et al. Stalls should be given subsidy so that tourists are treated as guests not as customers. Most tourists travels on budget so treat them like a guest which is part of our hospitable culture instead of selling things to them at exorbitant rates. • Yes, not just freshened innovative ideas but more importantly, an overhaul of the whole system. If that's not done, we better abandon the mega event because it's only a burden upon ourselves... • Yes. A fresh makeover is urgently required. People are not excited about Hornbill Festival anymore. The passion is definitely missing. Everybody seems exhausted. Organizers appear to have run out of ideas to make the event as fresh and exciting as it used to be when it first began. Visiting stalls or events has become like a mundane chore. Stalls are unnecessarily expensive. The props & paraphernalia are shoddy, tasteless and look embarrassingly cheap. The success of any cultural festival depends not only on the fun value it offers but

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sicians and performers like Tetseo Sisters, Reuben Mashangva, Abiogenesis to name a few. • Yes. The hornbill festival should be reviewed. It’s a festival, but the govt need not involve the whole Nagaland governmental machinery. In Kohima everything literally comes to a standstill. Is that how festivals are celebrated elsewhere? We talk of tourism and economic development, how do we expect that, when every guest is a VIP taken care of by the govt. Along with hornbill festival comes weddings and Christmas adding to non functioning of govt for a whole month!!

Some of those who also on the aesthetical experience it voted NO had this to say: promises. Hornbill Festival appears to • No need. Simply closed it before have lost its very raison d'être i.e of proyounger generation get more spoiled, viding an opportunity, for both Nagas more younger girls get unwanted pregand tourists, to get a feel of a traditional nancy, abortions, alcoholics ... etc... Naga sense-of-life. There is nothing auetc before their actual age. This hornthentic or inspiring in the cultural pabill festival is getting dirtier n dirtier. rades. The government's aim to sell our As Christians we are not to worship or cultural wealth and commercialize exfollow a bird years back from a prayer oticism has utterly failed. Commercialcenter it was revealed that NAGAS ization has only made way for disperwill worship a bird... So true that it sals of shallow representations of Naga has come to our hornbill. dear people culture which has not only taken away think and act wisely. the aesthetic charms but has also diluted the reverence and pride we have Some of those who for our traditional heritage, rituals and voted OTHERS had this to say: practices. The lack of warmth, vibrancy • Fresh Innovative Ideas be Like ... Presand enthusiasm is clearly visible. This ently there are just too many problems extravagant Cultural exhibition has deto deal with in Our State, so better if we graded into a self-demeaning exercise. don't celebrate Hornbill festival and inTourists also deserve at least a hospistead try to Use all the available fund table locale when they come visiting. we have in development activities ... Bad roads and dusty streets appear to development activities like building suggests that we are not very happy good black topping roads, buying new welcoming our guests. Our Naga sense transformers to cut load shedding, and having a good sanctuary protected by of hospitality has really gone for a toss. well paid forest rangers to PROTECT Is it in our culture to invite guest into OUR OWN VERY ALMOST "EXTINCT a dirty home?! Culture is more than a HORNBILL" ... and some other issues one time - merrymaking 10 days in a like paying Our unpaid Teachers and year - affair; it should be a way of life. others Staffs like NRHM staffs and any Organising international event without other staffs who work but yet paid till basic infrastructure in place is more now... just my opinion though... and than embarrassing; it is also irresponone more thing... Lets stop buying sible. It's time the government put an NEW CARS dear Politicians and Buend to this madness! reaucrats... • Yes. Go back to the roots. Many are • Hornbill festival has outlived Kohima, tired of patiently listening and tolerata lot of my friends and people I know ing those who try to ape the West in evcame to kisama in the past but non erything. Let's strive to be original. For of them ever came back, it is a gentle a change, let's have FOLKTALE STOway of saying it's mediocre .The horRY TELLING contest of different Naga rible road, dirty town, over priced evcommunities told in simple English erything from hotel to food to items, without compromising unique Naga our people just lack management ethos. We can also have folk song conskills from development to organising tests in duets and quartets. Thus, we an event. For example, in Shillong auwill learn to articulate our own age old tumn fest and weekender annual fesvalues to the outside world. And we tival is going from strength to strength. have have a surge of indigenous mu-

Shillong and Kohima have pretty much the same topography and easily accessible by tourist but the former has amazing infrastructure, clean and well organised, while the latter is total opposite. I love Kohima, it deserve to be much better. • Need to privatise. Just because of Hornbill whole office in Khm goes empty. • Hornbill festival in its 10 years, if it is still manage under deficits must be stopped. In ten years, it should be generating profits. A good venture without benefiting the NAGAS is totally useless. All I see is some handful of individuals earn while the state coffer runs dry. • Hornbill represents all Nagas not just Angamis. Why not shift the venue every year in every district so that even other tribes can get the necessary privileges tourism good roads etc. • Pay the pending salaries of different department first and plan the next. That is more important. • The popularity of the festival has grown leap and bounds but so far it lacks innovative thinking from all corners. In fact it has only become a money bag for some of the officers involved in the festival. Just file an RTI in the tourism dept post the festival and you will know what I mean. • The government should atleast make some profits to ease their financial burden of the state... Government expenses are so much and individual + selfish politicians + high ranking government officials earn so such. The state should not suffer for handful people. Change and innovative ideas is a continuous process and we all see it year after year. But ... 1. The length of the festival makes it more expensive and boring. It will be better to make it short and sweet. 2. Strict regulation of time as happens when students are busy for exams. 3. Proper planning and regulation of Traffic and Taxi Fares. 4. Hotels and guest houses to be checked properly as some youths tend to be mischievous with late night parties etc. Lastly, MORUNGS which are beautifully should be respected by all visitors and also utilised meaningfully. It would be really nice if there are some tribal elders explaining the importance of MORUNGS in olden days , sharing folk tales, old stories, origin of the tribe , village, tribal festivals, importance of one's own language... Maybe a projector kept outside screening some videos and images of the festivals, traditional attires, food habits etc... The young people should be taught the good values of our old tradition. We have a tradition which was handed down to us orally and I feel we can continue doing it for good. So also interested people can interview our grandpa's who are ready to share gems of olden times...

Cuba is Not What You Think

Fair Observer

ubans live in a country far more serene than those living in countries that have been and are still struggling to realize America’s selfserving vision for them. Fidel Castro’s remains have been interred in Santiago de Cuba, near where the Cuban Revolution began. That revolution was an incredible odyssey with a legacy that endures in a land both enriched and scarred by that revolution. Meanwhile, in the United States, the specter of privileged Cuban Americans dancing on the proverbial grave of Castro may have energized some, but it disgusted me. I was in Cuba less than a year ago. I traveled across a good bit of that country on my own, enabled by Spanish language capability to go where I wanted and communicate freely. During my stay, I engaged with Cubans proud of their revolution and struggling like many of those in the rest of the world to make the most of what they have while appreciating how they got to where they are. (For an account of that trip, see here.) Over the years, Cubans have learned well how to embrace the struggle for the common good, a lesson they could teach many in America, especially their former brethren sipping their rum and smoking Dominican cigars wallowing in delusional lust for a place that never existed. As I have noted previously, there is a refreshing “culture of solidarity” in Cuba today that has survived intact for over 50 years. That solidarity is a good part of what has carried Cubans through their recent past and is very likely to provide a firm foun- A painting of Cuba's former president Fidel Castro is seen at a factory in Havana, Cuba November 26, 2016. REUTERS dation for the political, social and economic changes that are underway. prosper without stultifying influence from the Unit- try was also born of revolution, built on the backs of brutalized African slaves, and expanded to “greatness” ed States. Cuban Revolution through genocide of Native Americans. So, before writFor context in judging the Cuban Revolution, it Often overlooked through the myopic US-cening a history that focuses on Castro’s “brutality,” try filbears remembering that successful revolutions are tric lens is what Cuba was before the revolution. By 1959, Cuba was one of many tropical “paradises” never neat and clean. They are almost always born tering your historical vision of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson through the eyes of the losers in the floating in the Caribbean Sea overrun by an influx of armed and brutal conflict with consolidation of gains leaving ugly scars and the winners fighting on American Revolution. of US government-sponsored anti-communist minFidel Castro and his revolution rescued his to preserve victory and establish order. Today, the ions, profiteering organized crime henchmen, and loudest voices of criticism of Fidel Castro’s “bru- country from an oligarchy riddled with thugs and American tourists seeking splendid cultural isolatality” are the Cuban Revolution’s losers and their US-organized crime figures whose only interest was tion by the sea. The Cuban Revolution upended this supporters in the country to which they have exiled in raping a once proud nation. Hundreds of thoufairy tale and set in motion an effort to create a Cuba themselves. sands in Cuba will openly mourn the passing of a that would recapture its own cultural heritage and In America, it is convenient to forget that our coun- hero of their beautiful and vibrant land. They well

know that their rich culture will never be defined by a mob of faded oligarchs in Miami and their vapid progeny. So while Americans are fed a steady diet of what might have been in Cuba, Cubans themselves live in a country far more serene than those living in countries that have been and are still struggling to realize America’s self-serving vision for them. Ignorance and Misconceptions About Cuba Without a doubt, the long-outdated US embargo of Cuba has artificially retarded potential economic growth on the island. However, it has had the beneficial impact on Cubans and their government of hardening resistance to American cultural dominance and avoiding the negative impact that unrestrained capitalist economic expansion has had in so much of Latin America. The enduring message may be that if you want a Big Mac, stay home or go to Costa Rica. The hard part about understanding Cuba today is that no snapshot is complete, and few outside of Cuba can discuss the country without preconceptions born of willful ignorance or misconceptions driven by external influence. I was struck by the vitality and resilience of the Cuban people and the obvious pride they take in the education of their children, the health care available to all, and the struggle to preserve the island’s extraordinary natural beauty while increasing access and recreational use. But there is so much more to know. A good place to start to understand and appreciate Cuba, believe it or not, is the CIA World Factbook, a compendium of countryspecific and comparative information about the world. If you take the time to learn about Cuba from the many available resources and then visit, the rewards are many. I can tell you from my experience there that at the least you will find warm and welcoming people. You will also find a nation where you can walk the streets freely day or night without fear of crime, where firearms and illegal drugs do not menace daily life, where a sense of racial harmony pervades, and where anyone who can will help you discover something new. You will also find a nation that exports with pride medicine and doctors to impoverished lands instead of a steady stream of arms and drones. Walk that land for a while, and you may actually feel freer than you have in a long time. This article is being republished with the permission of Fair Observer. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Fair Observer’s editorial policy.

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Will end 'gundaraj' in UP if voted to power, says Modi bahraIch (uP), December 11 (IanS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the BJP will end the 'gundaraj' (lawlessness) in Uttar Pradesh if it is voted to power in the state in the assembly elections due early next year. Addressing a 'Parivartan Rally' (transformation rally) here through mobile phone, Modi said: "Today there is 'gundaraj' in the state. Everyone is fed up of this lawlessness. Even police is unable to stop the 'gundas' (goons)." "If you have to take your state forward, you will have to throw out those backing these 'gundas'. And the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will do that," Modi said, targeting the ruling Samajwadi Party. The Prime Minister said he cannot understand the discomfort of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) at the central government's fight against black money. "They (SP and BSP) are seldom on the same page

President launches '100 Million for 100 Million' campaign

Mayawati hits back at Modi for blaming oppn Lucknow, December 11 (PTI): Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi charged opposition parties with trying to "suppress" truth by blocking debate in Parliament on the note ban issue, BSP supremo Mayawati today said it was a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. "By blaming opposition parties, the prime minister is running away from government's responsibility and answerability...But his remarks are totally wrong. 'yeh ulta chor koton an issue. But nowadays, they are speaking in one voice. I can't understand the reason for their discomfort at the fight against black money," he said. Modi addressed the rally through mobile phone from the state capital as his chopper could not land here due to low visibility and returned to Lucknow. The Prime Minister was scheduled to address the rally at 1.00 p.m, but he could finally address it only around 3.00 p.m. through

wal to dantey jaisa hai' (it is like pot calling kettle black)," she said in a statement. Mayawati said Modi was harping on the same tune and his speech at BJP's Parivartan Yatra in Bahraich, addressed through mobile phone from Lucknow, was no different. The BSP chief was referring to Modi's remark that since he was not allowed to speak in Parliament by opposition parties, he was compelled to speak outside on demonetisation.

a mobile phone, which was placed near the microphone at the venue, as other senior state BJP functionaries, including state party unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya, stood in rapt attention on the dais. Slams opposition for stalling Parliament Modi accused the opposition of stalling Parliament and not letting the government put forth its viewpoint on demonetisation. "We are ready for a de-

"It is absolutely wrong on the part of the prime minister to say like this," she said. "This is a wrong statement and does not behove the leader of the party in majority in Parliament to speak like this and mislead people," she said. Mayawati said when the prime minister of a country accuses the opposition of not allowing him to speak in Parliament, it is a charge against him and not against the opposition.

bate (on demonetisation) but we are not being allowed to present our views by those very parties that have been rejected by the voters," he said. However, Modi said that his fight against black money and graft would go on and all those hoarding unaccounted money would be caught in the coming days. "My government is all for the poor," he stressed. This was the fifth Parivartan Rally Modi ad-

dressed in Uttar Pradesh, where elections to the assembly are due early next year. He has already addressed such rallies in Ghazipur, Agra, Kushinagar and Moradabad. The Prime Minister's next rally is scheduled in Kanpur for December 19. Strict security arrangements were in place for the Prime Minister, with the local police and security personnel forming multiple layers of security around the rally site here.

President Pranab Mukherjee flagging off the ‘100 Million for 100 Million’ Campaign' at Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 11. (Rashtrapati Bhavan/Twitter)

new DeLhI, December 11 (IanS): Joined by a host of Nobel laureates and world leaders at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday launched "100 Million for 100 Million" campaign that strives to change the future of millions of children worldwide. Conceptualised by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, the campaign was flagged off by Mukherjee in the presence of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, Nobel laureates Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and First Lady of Panama Lorena Castillo. Lauding the campaign, Mukherjee hoped it will have a path-breaking impact on millions of children across the globe. "This global endeavour of mobilising 100 million youth and children is the beginning of change that was long overdue. It is only appropriate that the campaign begins from India which has the largest popula-

tion of youth in world," added Mukherjee. The campaign aims to bring together 100 million young people and educate them about their rights and the rights of thousands of other children, similar to them. "The 5-year campaign strives to inspire 100 million children to speak and act for the numerous other unfortunate children living in terrible conditions and will motivate them to build a child-friendly world, where every child is free and safe to learn and to have an equal chance in life," said Satyarthi. The campaign also brought curtains to the two-day 'Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit' that brought together the collective leadership of around 25 Nobel laureates and leaders for creating a childfriendly world. participants in the summit included Princess Charlene of Monaco, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan and Princess Laurentien of The Netherlands and Nobel laureate and former President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta.

Get ready to pay more; Pilot killed as pvt chopper crashes in Mumbai K'taka official arrested over driver's suicide bengaLuru, December 11 district's Maddur on Tuesday, acDecember 11 Railways mulls safety cess mumbaI, (IanS): Karnataka revenue officer cused Naik of helping Reddy convert (IanS): A private helicop-

new DeLhI, December 11 (PTI): Train passengers may have to shell out more as Railways is mulling increasing fares in a bid to raise resources after the Finance Ministry rejected its proposal of a special safety fund. According to the proposal, a safety cess will be levied to generate funds for strengthening track and upgrading signalling system and elimination of unmanned level crossings among other safety-related works to prevent mishaps. Earlier Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had written a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seeking Rs 1,19,183 crore to create the special Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh for undertaking various safety works. However, the proposal did not find much favour with the Finance Ministry and it asked the Railways to raise resources on its own by raising fares. The Finance Ministry agreed to provide only 25 per cent and suggested that Railways raise 75 per cent resources itself for the special safety fund, sources said. "Though the Railway Minister is not in favour of raising fares at this juncture when passenger bookings are falling and fares of AC-2 and AC-1 are already on higher side, the reluctance of Finance Ministry to provide a bail-out package has left the minister with no option," a source said. According to the plan, the cess on Sleeper, Second Class and AC-3 will be higher while it will be marginal for AC-2 and AC-1. A final decision on raising fares is yet to be taken as modalities are still being worked out, sources added. Railways is witnessing train derailments on almost regular basis - two in quick succession in the recent past causing heavy casualties. Experts say these mishaps have taken place due to the lack of upgrading and proper maintenance of track and signalling system. The basic thrust in the Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh proposal is to go for modern signalling system and elimination of all vulnerable unmanned level crossings to prevent accidents. Since majority of accidents happen at unmanned level crossings it is essential to eliminate those level crossings through construction of road over bridges and under bridges. Since Railways has decided to increase the average speed of trains, it is important that rail track and rail bridges are also strengthened along with signalling upgrade. Apart from increasing speed of passenger service, Railways has also decided to run freight trains with 25 tonne axle load for which strengthening of track and rail bridge is essential.

Message on dangers of smoking not getting through: Cardiologist new DeLhI, December 11 (IanS): The message about the dangers of smoking and its correlation with heart attacks is not getting through to the public strongly enough, a leading cardiologist has warned and added that younger smokers are at the greatest risk. While the government can resort to punitive methods or declare substances as illicit, the best strategy is to improve our health education, recommends Dr (Col) Anil Dhall, Director of Cardiovascular Sciences at Venkateshwar Hospital here. Awareness of the risks of smoking is undoubtedly an important public health message, because it potentially allows targeted intervention -- especially to younger smokers -- with consequent reductions in mortality and morbidity, the doctor asserts. Compared with people who have quit or never smoked, current smokers face a significantly higher chance of developing heart attacks, and as striking new data show, the risk from smoking appears to be greatest in the young individuals. The numbers highlight the importance of increasing public health messages about the cardiovascular risks associated with tobacco use rather than focusing primarily on lung disease, said Dhall citing researches. In a recent study, compared with former and neversmokers, current smokers of all ages had triple the risk of heart attacks. Smokers who were younger than age 50 had the worst discrepancy in risk of all -- more than eight times that of former and never-smokers.

ter on a joyride crashed and erupted into a fireball, killing the pilot and injuring three others, at an isolated spot in the Mumbai suburb Goregaon on Sunday. The helicopter, a Robinson R44 belonging to Aman Aviation Pvt Ltd, was on a sight-seeing flight over Mumbai when it suddenly crashed inside the forested Aarey Milk Colony and caught fire around 12.15 p.m., said the BMC Disaster Control. According to witnesses, hundreds of people from nearby tribal hamlets inside the Aarey Milk Colony and some other settlements rushed to help the victims even as fire tenders rushed to the spot. People and police per-

Firefighters spraying water at the crash site. (IANS Photo)

sonnel extricated the victims from the burning chopper and rushed them to the Seven Hills Hospital in Andheri East. While pilot Prafulkumar

Mishra was declared dead, a co-pilot and two passengers including a woman are reported to be in critical condition, a hospital official said.

Bhima Naik was arrested on Sunday for abetting the suicide of his driver, who had accused him of helping mining baron G. Janardhan Reddy convert Rs 100 crore of black money for his daughter's wedding, said police. "A 4-member investigation team led by Sub Inspector Ravi Kumar arrested Naik along with his other driver Mohammed from his relative's house at Kalaburgi," Mandya's Superintendent of Police Sudhir Kumar told IANS. Naik is land acquisition officer in Bengaluru Rural. "Naik and Mohammed are being brought to Mandya under escort from Kalaburgi for interrogation by the CID to which the case has been transferred as it involves money laundering charge too," the SP said. In his six-page suicide note, his driver K.C. Ramesh, 31, who consumed poison in a lodge in Mandya

black money into white ahead of the latter's daughter's wedding here on November. The note also claimed that Naik had laundered the black money for about 20% commission from Reddy after Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were demonetised on November 8, while Ramesh said that he was forced to take his life following death threats as he had information on how Reddy had converted the black money. Naik was on the run since an FIR for abetment of suicide was filed on December 7 on a complaint filed by Ramesh's brother K.C. Mahendra on the basis of the note, recovered from the lodge room where Ramesh was found dead. Reddy, a former BJP minister in the state, performed the marriage of his only daughter in the Bangalore Palace grounds at an estimated cost of Rs 500 crore.

23% Jan Dhan a/c still without 'No differences, Cong list for Punjab polls next week' DeLhI, December 11 which is ruling in Punjab in al- scrutiny committee have already balance; deposit surge abates new (IanS): Denying any differences linace with the Bharatiya Janata been held. Thereafter, we go to the

new DeLhI, December 11 (PTI): Despite a huge surge in total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts following demonetisation, about onefifth of these still continue to have no balance. Net addition in the 25.8 crore Jan Dhan accounts was just Rs 288 crore during the week ended December 7, taking total deposits to about Rs 74,610 crore. The percentage of zero balance account however remained flat at about 22.9% despite the addition of Rs 29,000 crore in total deposits in about 30 days after demonetisation of high value notes took effect on November 9. After the initial surge, total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts have seen a decline week after week. As much as Rs 1,487 crore was parked in these accounts during 7 days ended November 30, as against Rs 8,283 crore in the previous week. The accretion was Rs 18,615.54 crore a week after demonetisation which moderated to less than half to Rs 8,582.57 crore during the 7-day period November 17-23. Deposits in the 25.8 crore such accounts totalled Rs 74,609.50 crore at the end of December 7, as per the Finance Ministry data.

with the Congress high command over the selection of candidates for the 2017 Punjab assembly elections, state Congress President Amarinder Singh on Sunday said the list will be out next week. "No differnes with the Congress high command on tickets. These are false reports. The list of candidates will be announced next week." Amarinder Singh had earlier said the first list of candidates will be out on December 4 and the second by December 8. Last week, he said the list will be finalsed by December 8 and announced on December 9 or 10. The Shiromani Akali Dal --

Party since 2007 -- released its first list of 69 candidates in November. The Aam Aadmi Party too has released the names of 98 candidates. Punjab has 117 assembly constituencies. The former Chief Minister said that since the Congress is a large party, it needs to go through systems and processes to ensure proper ticket allocation. He denied there was a delay in shortlisting of candidates. "The Badals have a family and they decide it (allocation of tickets) within the family. We go to the state first and then to the scrutiny comittee. Two meetings of the

CEC (Central Election Committee of the party). We have already had two meetings of the CEC. We have already cleared a number of candidates," Amarinder Singh said. "Once the scrutiny committee sends the final names, it will be decided. We still have enough time. Our candidates will have at least 45 days to campaign," he added. Asked if former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu will join the Congress, Singh said: "I hope so. I have full confidence. I had a good meeting with him. It was very positive." Party sources said Sidhu will be joining soon, and his late induction was a strategic decision.

'Native wisdom of hill folk can reduce adverse climate impact' ShImLa, December 11 (IanS): The knowledge of street-smart folk who live in the mountains, combined with research, can work together to develop effective responses to climate change and its impact on ecosystems and livelihoods, experts say. There is potential to mobilise traditional knowledge to provide place-based evidence on climate change and its impact on ecosystems and livelihoods, said researchers Nawraj Pradhan and Abhimanyu Pandey of the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Similarly, local knowledge and research could work together to develop effective responses that sustain biological and cultural diversity for adaptation in future. "If managed well, various facets of tangible and intangible cultural heritage

can be long-term assets. They can represent an innovative way of achieving sustainable development goals and, as such, produce better livelihoods, food and water security, and effective climate change mitigation efforts," they said in a report, "Mountain Cultures : Celebrating Diversity and Strengthening Identity for Years". Pradhan is Associate Coordinator with Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative, while Pandey is Cultural Services Analyst in the Livelihood Theme. The Paris Agreement of December 2015 recognises that adaptation actions should follow a "participatory and fully transparent approach, taking into consideration vulnerable communities and ecosystems". Mountains cover nearly 27 percent of the world's land surface and directly

support 22 percent of the world's people. They serve as water towers to the world, providing for the freshwater needs of more than half of humanity. The Hindu Kush Himalayas are one of the world's most diverse mountains

social, economic and environmental changes. The Hindu Kush Himalayas present some of the most austere geo-climatic conditions in the world, encompassing the barren wilds of the Tibetan Plateau, the cold semi-arid zones of

an intangible, even spiritual, connection to the elements of nature. However, in recent decades, global media connectivity and the inclusion of once fardistant regions into national planning has ushered in the forces of globalisation, consumerism and, often, topdown governance regimes. This has accelerated the pace of change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, often upsetting the particularities of the mountains and their socio-ecological balance. Of course, not all the change has been negative. Modern advances in healthcare, education and economic opportunity have improved mountain livelihoods and often worked to dissipate some oppressive traditional socio-economic hierarchies. However, these advances have also caused some ruptures in tradition-

December 11 is International Mountain Day systems, spanning 4.3 million sq. km. of land across eight countries -- from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Over millennia, communities in these landscapes have maintained a close relationship with the natural resources and surroundings that provide their livelihoods. The researchers said the mountains were not studied as cohesive systems, but in recent decades, research is providing a more holistic understanding of mountain environments, and how they contribute to overall human well-being in the context of

northern Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the sweltering rainforests of northeastern India and Myanmar. Such diverse climate, however, has not deterred vast migrations, interactions and evolution of human communities in the Hindu Kush Himalayas over the course of history. Until recently, said the researchers, traditional knowledge and practices provided the basis for the well-being and livelihood of indigenous mountain communities. Consequently, mountain communities enjoyed

al community fabrics and a loss of interest in preserving local knowledge and cultural traditions. "Therefore, it's critical for research institutions like ICIMOD to take a serious approach to understanding the traditional cultural worldviews of mountain communities," the researchers said. The Hindu Kush Himalayan region extends 3,500 km over all or part of eight countries and is the source of 10 large Asian river systems, including the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra. The basins of these rivers provide water to 1.3 billion people, a fifth of the world's population. In India, the Hindu Kush Himalayas and adjacent mountain areas include 11 mountain states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

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Turkey vows vengeance after Kurdish militants blamed for twin bombings ISTANBUL, DecemBer 11 (reUTerS): Turkey on Sunday vowed vengeance against Kurdish militants it said were likely behind twin bombings that killed 38 people and wounded 155 in what appeared to be a coordinated attack on police outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul. The blasts on Saturday night - a car bomb outside the Vodafone Arena, home to Istanbul’s Besiktas soccer team, followed by a suicide bomb attack in an adjacent park less than a minute later - shook a nation still trying to recover from a series of deadly bombings this year in cities including Istanbul and the capital Ankara. There was no claim of responsibility, but Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there was “almost no doubt” the attacks were the work of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has carried out a three-decade insurgency, mainly in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast. Thirteen people have been detained, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. “Sooner or later, we will have our vengeance. This blood will not be left on the ground, no matter what the

In a statement, the proKurdish HDP condemned the attack and urged the government to end what it called the language and politics of “polarisation, hostility and conflict”.

A damaged vehicle is seen after a blast in Istanbul, Turkey on December 10. (REUTERS Photo)

price, what the cost,” Soylu said in a speech at a funeral at the Istanbul police headquarters for five of the officers killed. President Tayyip Erdogan was present but did not speak, although he greeted and hugged some of the family members. Soylu also warned those who would offer support to the attackers on social media or elsewhere,

comments aimed at proKurdish politicians the government accuses of having links to the PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States, Europe and Turkey. “To those trying to defend the perpetrators from podiums, over the media or internet, and trying to make up excuses. There is no excuse for this ... Know

this: the blade of the state stretches far and wide.” In recent months, thousands of Kurdish politicians have been detained including dozens of mayors and the leaders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), parliament’s second-biggest opposition party, accused of links to the PKK. The crackdown against Kurdish politicians has co-

incided with widespread purges of state institutions following a failed coup in July that the government blames on followers of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric. Turkey says the measures are necessary to defend its security. Rights groups and some Western allies accuse it of ignoring the rule of law and trampling on freedoms.

RIOT POLICE AND PARK Soylu, the interior minister, said the first explosion, which came around two hours after the match between Besiktas and Bursaspor, was at an assembly point for riot police. The second came as police surrounded the suicide bomber in the nearby Macka park. Thirty-eight people died, including 30 police and seven civilians, he said. One person remained unidentified. A total of 155 people were being treated in hospital, with 14 of them in intensive care and five in surgery, Health Minister Recep Akdag told a news conference. Flags flew at half mast, and Sunday was declared a day of national mourning. A march against terrorism had been called in Istanbul. President Erdogan cancelled a planned trip to Kazakhstan, his office said. “What we must focus on is this terror burden.

Our people should have no doubt we will continue our battle against terror until the end,” Erdogan told reporters outside a hospital where he had been visiting some of the injured. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Turkey’s allies should show solidarity with it in the fight against terrorism, a reference to disagreements with fellow NATO member Washington over Syria policy. The United States backs the Syrian Kurdish YPG in the fight against Islamic State. Turkey says the militia is an extension of the PKK and a terrorist group. In addition to the Kurdish insurgency, Turkey is battling Islamic State as a member of the U.S.-led coalition against the jihadist group. Less than a week ago, Islamic State urged its supporters to target Turkey’s “security, military, economic and media establishment”. ‘MY SON WAS MASSACRED’ Video purporting to show the father of one of the victims, a 19-year-old medical student who had been in Istanbul for a weekend visit, went viral on social media in Turkey.

“I don’t want my son to be a martyr, my son was massacred,” the footage showed the father saying. “His goal was to be a doctor and help people like this, but now I am carrying him back in a funeral car.” Security remained tight in Istanbul, with police helicopters buzzing overhead in the Besiktas district near the stadium. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg condemned what he described as “horrific acts of terror”, while European leaders also sent messages of solidarity. The United States condemned the attack and said it stood with its NATO ally. The bombings come five months after Turkey was shaken by a failed military coup, in which more than 240 people were killed, many of them in Istanbul, as rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and fighter jets in a bid to seize power. Istanbul has seen several other attacks this year, including in June, when around 45 people were killed and hundreds wounded as three suspected Islamic State militants carried out a gun and bomb attack on its main Ataturk airport.

Running is actually good for knee joints: Study NKorea’s Kim guides special operations drill targeting South New YOrk, DecemBer 11 (IANS): Contrary to popular perception, running actually reduces inflammation in knee joints and slows the process that leads to osteoarthritis, a study said. “This idea that long-distance running is bad for your knees might be a myth,” said study co-author Matt Seeley, Associate Professor of exercise science at Brigham Young University in Utah, US. In the study published in the European Journal of Applied Physiolo-

gy, the researchers measured inflammation markers in the knee joint fluid of several healthy men and women aged 18-35, both before and after running. The researchers found that the specific markers they were looking for in the extracted synovial fluid -two cytokines named GM-CSF and IL-15 -- decreased in concentration in the participants after 30 minutes of running. When the same fluids were extracted before and after a non-run-

ning condition, the inflammation markers stayed at similar levels. “What we now know is that for young, healthy individuals, exercise creates an anti-inflammatory environment that may be beneficial in terms of long-term joint health,” said study lead author Robert Hyldahl from Brigham Young University. Hyldahl added the study results indicate running is chondroprotective, which means exercise may help delay the onset of joint degenerative diseases such as osteoarthritis.

More than 100 killed in church collapse in Nigeria UYO (NIgerIA), DecemBer 11 (re UTerS): At least 100 people were killed by the collapse of a church in southeastern Nigeria, a resident and photojournalist who visited the town morgue said on Sunday, a day after the incident. “At Uyo teaching hospital where I am now I could see over a hundred corpses, many are heaped on top off each other on the floor,” said photojournalist Ini Samuel. “Eye witnesses also said yesterday corpses were packed in four each bag.”

Gary Ubong, a resident, said the church’s roof had collapsed on worshippers while a pastor was being consecrated as bishop in the presence of government officials. “I saw more than 100 dead bodies brought out on loaders,” said Ubong, who said he had rushed to the scene after the accident. “I also went to two hospitals and saw heaps of dead bodies difficult to count.” State police spokeswoman Cordelia Nwawe said 27 had been killed and 30 injured when the

Reigners Bible church in Akwa Ibom state capital Uyo collapsed during a service on Saturday. State emergency agency NEMA said in a statement that six people had been killed and 115 injured. State governor Udom Emmanuel, who escaped unhurt from the church service, ordered the arrest of the building contractor, state news agency NAN said. Buildings collapses are frequent in the West African nation and often blamed by officials on lack

of construction permits and the use of cheap materials amid widespread corruption. Critics say Nigerian authorities tend to understate the death toll at such accidents or suicide bombings by the Boko Haram jihadist group in the north of the country. During at gas plant blast in southern Nigeria a year ago the presidency said “tens of people” had been killed while witnesses counted more than 100 bodies. Police had then just confirmed eight dead.

SeOUL, DecemBer 11 (reUTerS): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a special operations drill targeting the South, the North’s media reported on Sunday, as rival South Korea remained on alert for any attempt by the North to take advantage of political turmoil in the South. The North’s KCNA state news agency report did not say when North Korean forces conducted the combat exercise, nor did it mention the South Korean parliament’s vote on Friday to impeach its president, Park Geunhye. Pictures in a Sunday report on the exercise in the North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed what appeared to be a mockup of South Korea’s presidential Blue House as a target. Park will remain in the Blue House, though her powers have been suspended and assumed by the South’s prime minister while the Constitutional Court weighs parliament’s impeachment vote. South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn has urged a high state of military alert in case of any provocation by North Korea, including possible cyber attacks. “We are ready to retaliate if North Korea makes any provocations and we condemn its malicious threat,” a South Korean military official told

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides the combat drill of the service personnel of the special operation battalion of KPA Unit 525 in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on December 11. (REUTERS Photo)

Reuters. Tension on the divided Korean peninsula has been high this year after two North Korean nuclear tests and an unprecedented flurry of ballistic missile tests. The North’s tests have brought tighter U.N. Security Council sanctions but no indication North Korea and its young leader Kim are willing to compromise on its nuclear and missile programmes.

The Rodong Sinmun pictures included one of Kim observing the exercise through binoculars. “Watching the brave service personnel independently and proactively perform their combat duty destroying specified targets of the enemy, he said with a broad smile on his face: ‘Well done, the enemy troops will have no space to hide themselves, far from taking any counteraction’,” KCNA cited Kim saying.

Trump calls ‘ridiculous’ reports Iraqi Christians confront painful memories in town’s clean-up Russia helped him in election

QArAQOSH, DecemBer 11(reUTerS): For decades, the Immaculate Conception Church in Qaraqosh was the heart of Iraq’s largest Christian town. After two years under Islamic State rule, it lies scarred and desecrated. In the church’s inner courtyard, Islamic State fighters set up a shooting range for target practice, leaving behind bullet-riddled female mannequins and hardboard figures when they were driven out. The yard’s arches and walls are cratered. At one end, empty shell casings carpet its flagstones near piles of trash and sheets of hymn music; a wooden pulpit for sermons sits pockmarked and cracked by bullets at the other, now with a small pink “Hallelujah” flag posted on top. More than a month after Iraqi forces regained Qaraqosh, the church’s spire cross still hangs at an angle, its inside is blackened by fire and its walls are daubed with Islamic State slogans and militant names scrawled on its pillars. Mass has been held in

are burned out and ransacked. Water or electricity have yet to return. Walls in the town centre are sprayed with “NPU” - the 500-strong Christian paramilitary brigade Nineveh Plains Protection Units that protects Qaraqosh under the auspices of the Iraqi army. Christianity in northern Iraq dates back to the first century AD. The minority gradually fled the violence after the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein. When Islamic State arrived, many abandoned their homes and fled to Kurdistan. NEW DEFENCES

Iraqi Christians come to visit the heavily damaged Church of the Immaculate ConcepG eneral Behnam tion after Iraqi forces recaptured it from Islamic State e in Qaraqosh, near Mosul, Iraq Aboush, who helped form on December 9. (REUTERS Photo)

the Immaculate Conception for the first time in two years and Christians are visiting to see what remains. But few think of returning for good to Qaraqosh, which once had 50,000 residents but is now all but a ghost town. “Perhaps they should leave it like this and people visit and see what Islamic State did,” said Aram Alqastoma, a student who came

from a nearby Christian enclave in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region with friends to help clean up the church. “They destroyed everything. And it destroyed my heart to see this.” The army retook Qaraqosh in late October as part of the campaign to recapture nearby Mosul, Islamic State’s largest Iraqi stronghold, two years after the group swept across the north of the coun-

try to form its self-declared “Caliphate” there and over the border in Syria. Families come briefly to Qaraqosh to check on burned out homes and collect belongings from a town that was one of the earliest sites of Christianity. Mechanical diggers sit ready in the town centre to help rebuild, and main streets have been cleared of rubble. But many of its shops

the NPU to fight for Qaraqosh, said his units were protecting the Christian town to free up the Iraqi forces trying to take back Mosul, 30 km to the northwest. He said Christians would return to their towns and villages only if Christian forces provided security rather than Iraqi Arab or Kurdish forces like before, and if they had some guarantees of international protection. “Always we have

lost our land. We will stay if we guide our own security,” he said. The NPU is funded by the central government and gets its weapons from the Iraqi army. A newly bulldozed earthen barrier surrounds the town as protection against Islamic State infiltration from the Nineveh plains. Residents say two men on motorbikes were stopped recently, suspected of being Islamic State suicide bombers. But even victory against Islamic State and the possibility of a permanent Christian force in the town will not be enough for many. Alhan Mansour returned to Qaraqosh just for a second time to pack more clothes and her son’s toys from the family home into their car. Her sister’s home was used by the militants and later destroyed, she said. But memories are too much now. “We’re going to emigrate. We just came to see our home and our memories, it’s too sad,” she said before driving away. “It’s hard to leave your memories, but I don’t trust living here anymore.”

wASHINgTON, DecemBer 11 (reUTerS): U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he didn’t believe reports that intelligence agencies concluded Russia intervened in the presidential election on his behalf, according to an interview broadcast on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think it’s ridiculous. I think it’s just another excuse. I don’t believe it,” Trump said in the interview, taped on Saturday. He blamed Democrats for putting out the media reports and said he did not believe they came from the Central Intelligence Agency. A senior U.S. intelligence official told Reuters intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that not only did their Russian counterparts direct the hacking of Democratic Party organizations and leaders, but they did so to undermine Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The Republican president-elect questioned whether the CIA was behind the reports that indicated Moscow wanted him in the White House. “I think the Democrats are putting it out,” he said in the interview. Two leading Republican voices on foreign policy in the U.S. Senate, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, joined two Democratic senators on Sunday in expressing concern over the reports on Russian interference and saying that cannot become a partisan issue. “For years, foreign adversaries have directed cyber attacks at America’s physical, economic, and military infrastructure, while stealing our intellectual property. Now our democratic institutions have been targeted,” the senators, including Democrats Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed, said in a statement. “Recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American.” U.S. intelligence agencies have told Congress and the administration of President Barack Obama that Russia has grown increasingly aggressive in Syria and Ukraine and has stepped up activities in cyberspace including meddling, sometimes covertly, in European and U.S. elections. “This cannot become a partisan issue. The stakes are too high for our country,” the senators said in a statement.

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Vardy shreds Guardiola's City Costa sends Chelsea back

London, december 11 (AFP): Jamie Vardy broke his three-month goal drought with a hattrick as Premier League champions Leicester City sensationally inflicted a humiliating 4-2 defeat on Pep Guardiola's Manchester City on Saturday. At a rain-sodden King Power Stadium, Vardy hit his first top-flight treble and Andy King also found the net to ensure Leicester atoned for their 5-0 Champions League mauling by Porto. "We wanted to make sure we were competitive today and see the team fighting for the cause and we have done that," Vardy, whose side climbed to 14th place, told BT Sport. City, who replied through Aleksandar Kolarov and Nolito, had previously fallen to a stormy 3-1 loss at home to Chelsea and lie four points below Arsenal, who beat Stoke City 3-1. Nolito's late goal spared Guardiola from his jointheaviest league defeat as a manager, but the game exposed huge flaws in a defence that has registered just one clean sheet in 17 matches. "Long balls, second balls, they won the second balls and scored fantastic goals," Guardiola told the BBC. "Football is a game with mistakes, especially today.

Jamie Vardy rounds Claudio Bravo to make it 3-0. (Reuters Photo)

Our game is not bad, but in the box we have a lot of problems." With Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho banned after being sent off against Chelsea, Guardiola had to reshape his team, with Kelechi Iheanacho and Fernando selected to deputise. But his plans fell apart in less than five minutes as quick-fire goals by Vardy and King put the champions in charge. With less than three minutes on the clock, Riyad Mahrez's pass was helped on by Islami Slimani for Vardy, who drilled home his first Leicester goal since September 10.

Two minutes and 15 seconds later, City failed to clear a long throw-in and Slimani teed up King to arc a fine shot into the top-left corner. After Slimani had volleyed over, Leicester added a third, Mahrez's exquisite cushioned pass releasing Vardy to round Claudio Bravo and roll in his second. City, who remain fourth, bossed the second half, but Vardy completed his hat-trick in the 78th minute after seizing on a wretched John Stones back-pass, rendering Kolarov's free-kick and Nolito's goal anecdotal. The match completed a day that featured 29

SSP Sports Meet concludes dimAPur, december 11 (mexn): The 9th Annual Sports Meet 2016 of Sainik School Punglwa came to a close on December 10 with Er Khupi Natso, Engineerin-Chief, Govt of Nagaland gracing the closing ceremony as Chief Guest. On arrival at the sports venue, to spread the spirit of sportsmanship balloons were released by the Chief Guest. The chief guest also released the half yearly magazine of the school – “VYWOM Voice of Young Warriors of Morong’, which showcases the creative expressions of the cadets and different activities undertaken in the school. On the concluding day

"We got a very unlucky penalty against us, because it is not even a foul in my opinion. But we have showed great mental strength," said the Arsenal manager. Italian striker Stefano Okaka scored his first Watford goals as Walter Mazzarri's side came from behind to beat Everton 3-2, leaving Ronald Koeman's men with one win from 10 league games. Romelu Lukaku netted twice for Everton but Okaka's double -- the first a brilliant, volleyed flick -- and a Sebastian Proedl header earned the hosts victory. Swansea City climbed off the bottom at Sunderland's expense with a 3-0 home win over the northeast club in which Fernando Llorente scored twice. Wilfried Zaha starred as Crystal Palace rescued a point in a topsy-turvy 3-3 draw at fellow strugglers Hull City. The former Manchester United winger won a penalty, scored a sizzling solo goal and set up Fraizer Campbell to head in Palace's 89th-minute equaliser. Meanwhile, Jeff Hendrick's brilliant flick-andhit volley set Burnley up for a 3-2 home win over Bournemouth.

of IX annual athletics and sports meet, finale of some of the track events viz 100 meter, 800 meter, 4x100 meter and 200 meter race for cadets in different categories were held. During the award ceremony, the Chief Guest gave away the medals and certificates to the winners and the Overall Sports trophy that was bagged by Melak house. Japfu house was adjudged as the best Marching Contingent. The Chief Guest, who is an alumnus of Sainik School Goalpara, read out the message Minister for Road & Bridges, Y Vikheho Swu, to the cadets and wished them luck.

goals in six games, with all six home teams scoring at least three goals. Mesut Ozil's crafty header inspired Arsenal to a comeback victory over Stoke. Charlie Adam's penalty put Stoke ahead at the Emirates Stadium, but Theo Walcott equalised before Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain teed up Ozil to float a delightful header over Lee Grant in the 49th minute. Alex Iwobi completed the victory. Victory came at the cost of a first-half injury to Shkodran Mustafi and Wenger was aggrieved that Stoke were awarded a penalty after Granit Xhaka caught Joe Allen with his elbow.

on top with ninth win in a row

London, december 11 (reuters): Diego Costa made the difference as Chelsea overcame a defensive West Bromwich Albion 1-0 to return to the top of the Premier League with their ninth victory in a row on Sunday. The Spaniard's second-half strike sent the Blues three points clear of Arsenal, who had taken the overall lead on goals scored on Saturday after seeing off Stoke City 3-1 at the Emirates. With the game heading for a goalless stalemate at Stamford Bridge, Costa seized on a defensive error to break the deadlock with a superb shot into the top left corner in the 76th minute. It was the league top scorer's 12th goal of the campaign, as many as he scored in all of last season. Chelsea, who have now won nine Premier League games in a row for the fifth time in their history, have 37 points to Arsenal's 34 after 15 games.

Antonio Conte's men created very little in the first half against a stubborn side who had taken 10 points from their last four games, but the introduction of Cesc Fabregas as a 74th-minute substitute provided a breakthrough. Fabregas played a long ball to the corner and hesitant West Brom defender Gareth McAuley, with time to clear, was dispossessed by Costa who gave goalkeeper Ben Foster no chance. Chelsea had only one other shot on target, a long-range David Luiz free kick, although the tireless N'Golo Kante had another effort deflected wide. West Brom, with just one shot on target, had not won at Stamford Bridge in the top flight since 1978. They are eighth with 20 points. "It was a tough game and we prepared for this situation," said Conte. "We have won nine in a row which is fantastic because this league is very tough."

Mkhitaryan helps United beat Spurs mAnchester, december 11 (reuters): Henrikh Mkhitaryan's first Premier League goal earned Jose Mourinho's Manchester United a much-needed 1-0 victory over high-flying Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Sunday. The Armenian, who was carried off on a stretcher with 10 minutes remaining after a heavy tackle left him clutching his ankle, blasted home on 29 minutes after Ander Herrera intercepted a sloppy Harry Kane pass in midfield. Herrera fed the ball through and Mkhitaryan, a 25 million pounds ($31.43 million) close-season buy from Borussia Dortmund who was left out in the cold earlier in the campaign, did the rest with a rocket of a shot over keeper Hugo Lloris.

The unmarked Victor Wanyama missed a good chance to grab an equaliser for Spurs following a free kick in the 56th minute, his header going inexplicably wide, while Paul Pogba struck the woodwork for United in the 64th. The hosts remained sixth with 24 points, three behind fifth-placed Tottenham who might otherwise have overtaken Manchester City -- beaten 4-2 at champions Leicester City on Saturday -- on goal difference. United remain one of the two current Premier League teams that Kane, last season's top marksman, has yet to score against. The victory was United's first at home in the league since September.

MDCA edge ADC Tuli XI by 4 wickets in exhibition cricket match

mokokchung, december 11 (mexn): The fourth and the last exhibition cum Promotional match initiated by the Mokokchung District Cricket Association with the theme “Instilling aspirations” was played on Saturday between MDCA XI and ADC Tuli XI at Don Bosco School Ground, Tuli. Despite a low scoring encounter, the match was evenly contested and did not lack any sort of excitement or drama. But in the end, it was MDCA XI which emerged as winners as they won by 4 wickets.

ADC XI, winning the toss, elected to bat and got off to a steady start but couldn’t capitalize much in the power play overs.

They also lost their opener early but middle order batsmen Rongsenwati (24 runs) and Chungshi (26 runs) steadied the inning

and later displayed some big hitting over the boundaries. At the end ADC XI Tuli managed to score 93 runs on the board losing all

wickets in the 20 overs. For MDCA Sachin managed to take 3/31 in four overs while Ato Chang chipped in with 2/10 in 4 overs.

MDCA XI’s run chase started in a disaster as they lost both openers for cheap. At one stage, a struggling MDCA XI was reduced to 17/4 with all their top order batsman back in the pavillion. However, Aloto (32 runs) and Sadammeren (14 runs) build a good partnership to take MDCA XI to victory in the 16th over. Lanu of Tuli ADC XI was the pick of the bowler with 2/12 in 4 overs while Sungkum also took 2 wickets. Aloto of MDCA XI was named the Man of the Match for his all-round performance with both bat and ball.

India close in on victory after Kohli's double ton James explodes as Cavs topple Hornets mumbAi, december 11 (reuters): India captain Virat Kohli struck a sublime double century before his bowlers picked up six England wickets to put the hosts on course for a series-clinching victory in the fourth and penultimate test at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Trailing 2-0 in the series, England needed a win in Mumbai to keep alive the series but the tourists now require something extraordinary to even save the match following Kohli's batting masterclass. India piled on 631 in their first innings on the fourth day, a lead of 231 runs over England, after Kohli's third double century of the year. The touring side were 182 for six in their second innings at stumps, still trailing by 49. Jonny Bairstow was unbeaten on 50 with nightwatchman Jake Ball falling for two in the last over before the close. Paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed first-innings centurion Keaton Jennings for a golden duck and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja sent back England captain Alastair Cook for 18 and Moeen Ali for nought to leave England tottering at 49-3 at tea. Joe Root and Bairstow hit brisk fifties during their stand of 92 for the fourth wicket before the former fell leg before to off-spinner Jayant Yadav for 77. The wickets of Ben Stokes, who made 18, and Ball to off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin towards the end further dampened England's hopes of saving the match. Bairstow was given out by umpire Bruce Oxenford first on 32 and then on 37 but the England wicketkeeper managed to overturn the decisions both times on review. Earlier, the 28-year-old Kohli was out for a career-best 235 and added 241 for the eighth wicket, the highest for India, with Yadav, who scored 104, his maiden test hundred. Kohli, who was on 147 overnight, and Yadav continued to torment the England bowlers who went wicketless in the first session after India resumed on 451 for seven. The right-handed batsman has now scored a double hundred in all three series India have played in 2016

Los AngeLes, december 11 (AFP): LeBron James became the first frontcourt player to reach the 7,000 assist milestone as he scored a season-high 44 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 116-105 win over the Charlotte Hornets. James hit the magic number Saturday in front of a crowd of 20,500 at the Quicken Loans Arena by skipping a nifty pass to teammate Tristan Thompson who was driving to the basket. The 44 points was his best outing since returning to Cleveland and equalled the 44 points he scored in a game one overtime loss against the Golden State Warriors in the 2015 NBA finals. The Cavaliers delivered two home wins this weekend, and be-

sides eclipsing 7,000 career assists, James also moved into ninth place on the all-time scoring list during the victories over the Miami Heat and the Hornets. Kemba Walker scored 24 points and Cody Zeller had 17 points and nine rebounds for the Hornets, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. In Memphis, the host Grizzlies shocked the Golden State Warriors 110-89 for its sixth straight win, holding the Warriors to a season low for points. It was only the second time this season that the Warriors failed to score 100 points. Their previous low for points this season was 97 in a 20-point setback to the Los Angeles Lakers on November 4.

Centre Marc Gasol finished with 19 points, eight rebounds, six assists, two blocks and a steal for Memphis, who scored 30 points off 23 Warrior turnovers. In Chicago, Jimmy Butler scored 31 points, Dwyane Wade finished with 28 and Taj Gibson added 13 as Chicago beat Miami 105-100 at the United Center. It was another moment of retribution for Wade who left the Heat at the end of last season to return to his hometown after Miami gave up on the aging veteran. In Los Angeles, Chris Paul scored 20 points and dished out a seasonhigh 20 assists, and Los Angeles extended the woes of New Orleans with a 133-105 rout at Staples Center.

Real set 35-game unbeaten record

India captain Virat Kohli bats on the fourth day of fourth Test against England in Mumbai (AFP Photo)

-- in West Indies, against New Zealand and now against England. Kohli, who has already scored 640 runs in the series at an average of 128, drove Ball for a straight four on the fifth delivery of the day to get past 150, signalling another harrowing session for the England bowlers. Kohli, who hit 25 fours and a six in his knock, got past his 200 with a single to mid-wicket off leg-spinner Adil Rashid but his celebration was quite muted compared to when he completed his hundred on Saturday.

He raised both his hands while completing the run and took off his helmet before acknowledging the applause from the sizeable Sunday crowd at the ground, overlooking the Arabian Sea. Kohli accelerated after the fall of Yadav and was out caught at the cover boundary off Chris Woakes. Yadav, whose previous highest score was 55, hit 15 boundaries in his knock and looked in discomfort only against a couple of short deliveries from the England fast bowlers.

mAdrid, december 11 (AFP): Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos produced more late drama by powering home a stoppage-time winner to beat Deportivo la Coruna 3-2 as the European champions set a new club record of 35 games unbeaten in all competitions. Two goals in two minutes from Joselu just after the hour mark looked set to end Real's unbeaten streak stretching back to April after Alvaro Morata's opener. However, even without the rested Cristiano Ronaldo, Real maintained their six-point lead at the top of La Liga as Mariano Diaz equalised six minutes from time before Ramos's late intervention. "When you fight to the end, these things happen," said Ramos, who also netted a last minute equaliser against Barcelona last weekend. "It wasn't a great perfor-

Sergio Ramos celebrates after scoring Real Madrid’s stoppage-time winner. (Getty Images Photo)

mance. We made mistakes which were costly, but at the end we managed to turn it around." Zinedine Zidane's men have now surpassed Real's previous record mark of 34 games unbeaten from the 1988/89 season under Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker.

"Mentally it helps to have gone 35 games unbeaten. It gives you strength," said Zidane. "Sergio is special because it is not the first time. "He is our captain and with many others he is the soul of this team." Barcelona remain second as Lionel Messi

scored twice in their first La Liga win in four matches, 3-0 win at Osasuna, earlier on Saturday. At the bottom Valencia fans clashed with their players on return from a 3-2 defeat at Real Sociedad which leaves them outside the relegation zone only on goal difference.

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Photos by Vibi Yhokha Musik-A (Alobo Naga School of Music) is having its Students Debut Recital Concert on December 12 at NEZCC, 4:30 pm onwards. The most spectacle show of the event is its children choir performing numbers from the famous musical show LES MISERABLES, classical guitar ensemble and piano recitals. The concert will feature students and faculty members performing together on stage.

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(Left) Konyak Nagas at the closing ceremony of Hornbill Festival at Kisama. (Right) Abiogenesis perform at the closing ceremony of Hornbill Festival at Kisama. (Morung Photo)

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ountain Music Academy’s (MMA) endeavour to help educate and guide music students continued on Sunday with the second edition of “Le Connect: Inside the mind of an artiste” featuring Dr. Vivee Peseyie, Dean of Margaret Shishak School of Music (MSSM). Director of the academy, Bethel Tsuzu, introduced the Music Talk Show, held at Furtados, Dimapur, as a space to help musicians connect and communicate and learn from each other. “Whether you are part of a band or an orchestra, a soloist, a music teacher, a music director, your artistic ability can become stagnant and lack growth if you stop communicating and connecting with fellow artists,” Tsuzu viewed adding that ‘Le Connect’ strives to provide a space for students to be professional musicians “and not just hobbyists”. Born into a family of musicians, it is no surprise Dr. Peseyie took to music. With a violinist father and a pianist mother, Dr. Peseyie, who grew up in Kohima, also had uncles and aunts who played trumpets, clarinets and even the piccolo way back in the 1950s. A recipient of numerous citations and awards, Dr. Peseyie comes with vast experience in the field of music pedagogy, piano performance, study of folk music, music composition, chorale teaching and managing church music ministry. Notwithstanding the many accolades, Dr. Peseyie’s philosophy on music is straightforward: “To glorify God”. “To make music for the Church and for God is one of the most rewarding things,” she stated. Giving her observations on the music scene in local churches, she revealed that most churches struggle with tempo and rhythm. She further pointed to a decline in the standard of hymn singing among youngsters while observing that “elders sing very well”. To improve this, Dr. Peseyie maintains that there is a need for dedicated people who are musically equipped and “willing to learn”. Dr. Peseyie during the Music Talk Show further pointed to two kinds of music mak-

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ers – those who enjoy and take music as a hobby and those who love music. “Classical music is no joke,” she viewed, stating that one has to spend a lot of time and effort to be able to get the nuances – like rhythm, notes etc. – right. “You must love it to be able to do it,” she insisted. On her future plans, the Dean of MSSM says she looks forward to taking a break soon and retiring someday. “I haven’t taken a break for 12 years,” she revealed. She hopes to further research on Naga folk music and hopefully write something. Hojevi Cappo joined in the programme and displayed some of his self-made bamboo percussions and flutes. A Secretary in the Music Department of Western Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhkulu (WSBAK), Cappo has a passion for discovering traditional music and using it in local churches. The programme capped off with a delightful performance of Naga traditional folk music with the adroit Cappo deftly juggling between the bamboo percussions and the flutes, while accompanied by a graceful Dr. Peseyie on the piano.

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