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killed in Dimapur Beyond ‘time immemorial’ Businesswoman Expressing outrage, business Morung Express News

Understanding Naga Ancestral Journey through DNA Studies Morung Express News Dimapur | December 14

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How long ago is “time immemorial”? On the one hand is oral history. On the other, there are archaeological, linguistic and anthropological studies to determine when “time immemorial” begins.

To supplement the various streams of narratives, Dr. Abraham Lotha gave a perspective from the science of DNA studies. At a lecture held today at Elim Conference Hall, he presented the results of The Genographic Project’s testing of his DNA to determine deep ancestry and affiliation.

According to the results, Dr. Lotha’s DNA is 61% Eastern Asian, 37% South East Asia & Oceania and 1.4% Neanderthal. His maternal most recent common ancestor is reported to have come from somewhere in the East African region some 150,000 years ago while his paternal most recent common ancestor emerged from the Af-

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By Sandemo Ngullie

Dr. Abraham Lotha speaking at a lecture on ‘Understanding Naga Ancestral Journey through DNA Studies’ held in Dimapur on Monday, December 14. (Photo by Imojen I. Jamir)

rican region some 180,000 years ago. From here, a journey of hundreds of thousands of years took his ancestors across the landmass eastwards to where they finally settled, somewhere in Wokha district in present day Nagaland State.

The narration of this timeline is both specific and vague, much like how oral traditions are both specific and vague depending on concentration and mode of knowledge. The Genographic Project is an undertaking of the National Geographic Society and IBM since 2005 that attempts to tell the story of how our ancestors migrated from one

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DImAPUr, December 14 (mexN): The Nagaland Contractors and Suppliers Union (NCSU) today informed that the proposed Kohima Dimapur National Highway-29 bandh scheduled for December 15 will be kept in abeyance till further notice. A press note from the NCSU President, Pele Khezhie and General Secretary, John Kath informed that this decision has been taken taking into account the appeals made by the Naga Hoho and the Chief Minister’s Office and considering the “convenience of everyone in this festive season and also the ongoing academic examinations.” The NCSU however stood firm that at least one of the three-phased works for 4 Laning of DimapurKohima Road should be divided into smaller projects so that the local contractors are able to bid for the tender.

“The NCSU does not accept the Notice Inviting Tender floated by NHIDCL,” it stated. It expressed hope that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways “will listen to our requests and pleas supported by the Government of Nagaland, Naga civil societies and general public in the interest of the state in general.”

sults may vary from tribe to tribe, or region to region.

The audience included academicians, researchers, professionals, students, elders and youth.

Putting “dates and numbers”, instilling an academic touch and giving a semblance of congruency between scientific findings and the accepted oral narratives would go a long way in helping define the Naga ancestry, Dr. Lotha averred. “We cannot all the time depend on oral history… At some point of time, we have to put date and numbers. In academics, you cannot get away by saying time immemorial.”

Dimapur | December 14

A businesswoman was killed in an audacious shooting in Dimapur on December 14. The victim, Ritika Mehta (47 years), proprietor of Apna Hotel located at Nyamo Lotha Road, was at the hotel when she was shot point blank by unidentified gunmen at around 6:20 pm.

She later succumbed in the hospital to injury caused by a single bullet wound that entered through her jaw and exited from the neck.

Just a month ago, on November 13, the victim had survived an assassination bid after which armed police security was detailed for her protection.

In the previous attempt, the gunman escaped after the firearm misfired.

On December 14, her personal security officer was in civvies and unarmed. According to the police, the victim had reportedly requested the PSO not to carry any weapon and to wear civilian clothing within the hotel premises. “Immediately after the incident, the staffs and the bodyguard rushed out to chase the miscreants but lost them among the crowd,” the PRO of the Di-

community to down shutters

DImAPUr, December 14 (mexN): Expressing its outrage at the “shooting and brutal” murder of Ritika Mehta, proprietor of Apna Hotel, the business community led by DCCI has decided to close down shutters in Dimapur district from 8 am to12 noon on December 15. Taking into consideration the festive season, DCCI has abstained from downing shutters for the whole day, said a press note from Dimapur Chambers of Commerce & Industry President Hokivi Chishi adding that the bandh was impose to show its respect for the departed soul.

However, both the Nagaland Hotels and Restaurants Association and Nyamo Lotha Road Business Association shall enforce voluntary bandh the whole day, it informed.

Meanwhile, the Nyamo Lotha Road Business Association has condemned the killing in “strongest possible terms.” It appealed law enforcing agencies to nab the criminals at the earliest and take necessary steps to award them befitting punishment. A press note from NLRBA General Secretary further stated that it has called for closure of all business establishments within its jurisdiction for the whole day on December 15.

The Nagaland Medicine Dealers Association (NMDA) also condemned the killing and informed that the NMDA has decided to close down all Pharmacies in Dimapur on December 15 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in protest. mapur police stated.

The police recovered one empty shell of .32 calibre and “other crucial evidences” from the site. The bullet entered through her jaw and exited from the neck. Without disclosing the motive behind the

assassination, the PRO stated, “Investigation is on keeping all options open.”

The PRO further stated that enquiry is on to find out if there were any lapses on the part of the bodyguard. The case was registered at East Police Station.

NLA assembly session lasts 30 India ranks 130th in Human Development Index minutes; adjourned sine- die Our Correspondent

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place or the other to populate the Earth tens of thousands of years ago.

Using ‘genetic markers’ as reference points in human populations spread over the globe, the analysis further gave the closest regional population affiliations to his genes—the Chinese and Filipinos.

“We say Nagas are one people. But how connected are we through our DNA? I think projects like this can help us learn more about ourselves… our roots,” said Dr. Lotha to the audience of around a 100 curious people who turned up for the lecture.

He clarified that the re-

Shared Humanity Following a session of discussion on the subject with the audience, Editor of The Morung Express, Dr. Aküm Longchari summed up the interaction as “An opportunity for us to reflect and in the process of creating meaning together we revisit old knowledge and also explore and reflect on human knowledge.”

Asking the people to use such studies as a “point of reference,” Longchari pitched for the ‘Naga political nation’ and the ‘Naga political identity’ to be a journey towards ‘Shared Humanity.’ Acknowledging that scientific and oral narratives need not be in “contradiction” to each other, he reminded the audience that nations come into being through the political will of peoples to come together, not necessarily conjoined by ancestry.

Just as human beings may have evolved from the shared heart of what is Africa today, could the Nagas give to the world a walk towards values of a Shared Humanity that transcend divisions and embrace inclusivity, freedom, peace and justice?

The lecture was a collaborative effort of the Chumpo museum, Morung for Indigenous Affairs & Just Peace and The Morung Express.

The 10th session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) took place here today by making obituary references, reporting the assent of Governor to three bills, laying reports/ papers and rules and presentation of assembly committee report.

There was no question hour and the session lasted for around 30 minutes.

Chief Minister TR Zeliang made obituary references to the passing away of late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, Late Lt. Gen (Retd) VK Nayar, former Governor of Nagaland and Late Khekiho Zhimomi, MP (Rajya Sabha) from Nagaland while NLA speaker Chotisuh Sazo made obit-

uary reference to the passing away of late Bongnao, former member of NLA, LJ Toshi Sangtam, former member of NLA and Late T. Sentichuba former member of NLA. The House observed two minute silence as a mark of respect to the departed souls.

Commissioner & secretary N. Benjamin Newmai reported the assent of Governor of Nagaland to three bills- The Nagaland Protection of Interests of Depositors (in Financial Establishment) Bill 2014, Nagaland State Legislature Members (Removal of Disqualification) First Amendment Bill, 2015 and Nagaland Appropriation (No.8) Bill, 2015.

Chief minister TR Zeliang laid a copy of Nagaland Secretariat (Civil) Stenographers Service Rule,

2015, 46th Annual Report of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012), 47th Annual Report of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013), 48th Annual Report of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014) and 49th Annual Report of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015).

MLA Neiphrezo Keditsu member of the Committee on Government Assurances (2015-2016) presented a copy of 89th report of the Committee on Government Assurances (2nd Session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly).

The speaker adjourned the session sine-die after completing all the business.

New DelhI, December 14 (IANS): The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its latest report has placed India's Human Development Index (HDI) value for 2014 at 0.609, as the country climbed five spots to 130 in a list of 188 countries and territories.

Between 1980 and 2014, India's HDI value increased from 0.326 to 0.609 -- an increase of 68.1 percent or an average annual increase of about 1.54 percent. The HDI is a summary measure of assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development -- long and healthy life, access to knowledge and decent standard of living.

"India loses 28.6 percent HDI due to inequalities, largely due to inequalities in education (42.1 percent). Among BRICS, South Africa has the highest loss due to inequalities at 35 percent and lowest is for Russia at 10.5 percent," said a note circulated with the report. On the Gender Inequality Index (GII), India ranks 130 out of 155 countries with a value of 0.563. The GII reflects gender-based inequalities in

three dimensions -- reproductive health, empowerment and economic activity.

The 2015 Global Human Development report by UNDP, named "Work for Human Development", was released on Monday in Ethiopia.

The report encourages governments to look beyond jobs to consider the many kinds of work such as unpaid care, voluntary or creative work that are important for human development. As per the report, 2 billion people have moved out of low human development levels in the last 25 years. The report shows that providing universal social protection in India could cost an estimate 4 percent of GDP. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of direct jobs in information and communications technology in India jumped from 284,000 to more than 2 million.

As per the data provided in the report, only 39 percent of women in India were internet users compared to 61 percent of men in 2013.

The report cites that off-grid solar photovoltaic technologies will generate 90 direct and indirect jobs per

megawatt in India. For India, unpaid work, predominantly performed by women, is estimated at 39 percent of GDP. It further stated that India's workforce participation of women is declining -- from 35 percent in 1990 to 27 percent in 2013.

In 38 countries, including India, Pakistan, Mexico and Uganda, 80 percent women were unbanked.

Globally, 74 million youth were unemployed. In India, over 10 percent of youth were unemployed, the report says.

Commending the Indian government for its leadership role in the design and adoption of the Sustain Development Goals, Yuri Afansasiev, UN resident coordinator and UN resident representative in India, said: "With national development programmes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Skill India, Digital India, and Make in India in place, the government of India is on a strong footing for the SDGs. "A greater focus on work, especially for women and youth will undoubtedly ensure success in the achievement of Agenda 2030."

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MLTR To Rock DiMapuR TonighT ‘Have the courage to do what you are best at, and not what others are best at’ Morung Express News Dimapur | December 14

With over two decades of enchanting audiences throughout the world, Danish pop band, Michael Learns to Rock (MLTR) is finally set to rock Dimapur on December 15, at the NEZCC Ground.

After performing in Delhi and Guwahati the past week, MLTR members, Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz, and Kare Wancher arrived in Dimapur on Monday, and conveyed their excitement at performing live for the first time in front of fans in Nagaland.

During a press conference held at the Niathu Resort on Monday night, the band, who has sold over 11 million records worldwide,

said they were honoured to be playing in Nagaland. “It was natural to come here.

We have played in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Shillong etc,” said vocalist and keyboardist, Jascha Richter.

With the band achieving a tremendous amount of success in Asia, Drummer, Kare Wanscher said they have always had a “crush” on India, and termed it as one of their favourite places to play. On their impression of India, he stated: “We feel very full when we come here, we love Indian food and the people are very welcoming.”

Guitarist, Mikkel Lentz said that the reason MLTR has been able to survive and continue playing music for over two decades is

(L-R) Mikkel Letnz, Kare Wanscher and Jascha Richter during a press conference at Niathu Resort, Dimapur on December 14. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

because they have always played music from their hearts, while not allowing trends to dictate their creative impulses. “We have never been in touch with trends.”

Lentz said that when MLTR first began, they felt like “aliens” playing a kind of music that was different

from the ongoing musical trend. “We have continued playing what we love – classic pop....and this for some reason continues to remain relevant,” he stated with a grin.

Wanscher added that they never had any doubt about the bands potential since their early days. May-

be that helped us to survive this long, he said, referring to the band’s self belief. He however asserted that the band is not stuck in the past and has continued to create new material. “We added two new songs to the set list,” he informed.

Richter meanwhile revealed that their set list

for the Dimapur show will also contain a couple of their newly released songs, along with their hits from the early years. With a smile, he further expressed delight at the lights set up all over Dimapur for the festive season. “We feel at home here,” the trio said.

Richter let slip that that they might even play their 2004 single, ‘Upon a Christmas Night’ judging by the fervour with which people in Nagaland celebrate Christmas.

Encouraging musicians and artists in Nagaland to continue pursuing their dreams, Lentz stressed on the need to have the courage to do what one loves, and to be original. “Have the courage to do what you are best at, and not what others are best at.” While Wanscher quipped wryly: “Do not take advice from old musicians.”

The M stands for Michael Jackson Meanwhile, Guitarist Mikkel Lentz revealed that the ‘M’ in Michael Learns to Rock stands for pop icon Michael Jackson. “It’s quite simple really. You know, Michael Jackson was the King of Pop at the time,” he stated, while re-iterating the bands allegiance to what they call ‘classic pop.’ He further stated that there were previously many bands with names of persons in them, referring to the likes of British new wave band ‘Johnny Hates Jazz.’

MLTR will be playing live at the NEZCC Ground, Diphupar, 4th Mile on December 15. Gates open at 5:00pm for the concert which is being presented by ‘LIVENOW events.’ After Dimapur, the band is scheduled to perform in Kolkata and Goa, followed by shows in Taiwan and Indonesia.

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Mokokchung 125: photography exhibition cum sale underway Mokokchung, DeceMber 14 (Mexn): Joining in the grand celebration of Mokokchung Town, the Mokokchung Photography club also organized a Photography exhibition cum sale at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex where the members and other photographers exhibited their pictures at the MDACC Pavilion.

Altogether more than fifty photographs of various sizes are being exhibited at the venue with the price ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 10,000. The most interesting part of the exhibition is the participation by members of the Dimapur Photography Club who have sent fifteen exotic photographs and also post cards to be exhibited and

Mokokchung Photography Club members along with the youngest participant, Imtisenla Longkumer at the photography exhibition cum sale at the MDACC pavilion at Imkongmeren Sports Complex on December 14. (Photo: MPC)

sold to interested buyers.

The Mokokchung Photography Club is exhibiting entries submitted by both amateurs and professional photographers. The youngest participant is one Imtisenla Longkumer, a Class IV student of Model Hr Sec

School, who have also submitted a photograph to be exhibited at the stall.

Meanwhile, the photography stall was also inspected by the Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung Sushil Kumar Patel and other officials and dignitaries. On the

first day, some of the entries were already bought by interested buyers.

The Mokokchung Photography Club has requested all the interested photographers and photo enthusiasts to visit the stall and enjoy the exhibition.

Chakhesang Mission HSS celebrates Golden Jubilee

Pfutsero, DeceMber 14 (Mexn): Chakhesang Mission Higher Secondary School, T. Chikri Pfutsero celebrated its Golden Jubilee on December 12 with Chotisuh Sazo, Speaker NLA as chief guest and Kewetso Mero, IPS, IGP (Trg & Bdr) as guest of honour.

Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary and wife Vechisalu Nukhu, former student and teacher were also present at the gathering. Unveiling of the Golden Jubilee monolith was done by the chief guest where Rev. Akha Shupao, former headmaster, invoked God’s blessings and 46 school School alumni presented a special song.

Rev. Kedoungulo Mero, Mission Director, Chakhesang Mission Society who was also the first to pass in 1st Division in HSLC exam from the school was the

leader of the program. Rev. Senokhape Losou, Vice Principal, Baptist Theological College, also former student, said invocation prayer and Welcome Address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, Executive Secretary, CBCC who was also headmaster of the school.

Thanksgiving prayer was offered by Rev. Pusazo Chuzho, first headmaster of the school and present Principal Thekho Rova presented a report of the school. School students presented a choral song and a musical piece while Miss Tekhengu-ü Kenye delivered Scripture recitation. Greeting was brought from the Tunyinumi clan of Kikruma village (land donors) by Zünezo Tunyi, a former teacher of the school.

Dr. Sao Tunyi, Convenor of Jubilee Souvenir

BCK celebrates 75 years of Christianity NBSBS&G Scouter & Guider reunion held

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Pastor Jakhama Baptist Church, Rev. Zapovil Sophie with others at the unveiling of the monolith erected for the Platinum Jubilee. (DIPR Photo)

kiDiMa, DeceMber 14 (DiPr): The Baptist Church Kidima celebrated the 75 years of Christianity in Kidima village with the theme ‘Arise, Shine’ Isaiah 60:1 on December 13 at local ground, Kidima with Executive Director, ABCC, Dr. V. Atsi Dolie as the main speaker.

Earlier, the monolith erected for the Platinum Jubilee was unveiled by Pastor Jakhama Baptist Church, Rev. Zapovil Sophie. This

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monolith has been erected not only for Platinum Jubilee but also for Centenary and Quasqui Centennial for the coming generation.

Travelling Pastor, JBCC, Vilhouneio Tacü read the scripture while offertory prayer for the Jubilee was proposed by Sr. Pastor Khuzama Baptist Church, Rev. Ketsozeho Sale. Kidima Revival Church, Kidima Catholic Church and Jubilee Choir presented

special numbers. President, ABPDK, Rev. Rüdilhou Rio invoked blessing while Jubilee Trumpet was performed by Tepunol Yore and Zasivoto Rote.

Sr. Pastor & Chairman Platinum Jubilee, Rev. Keholeshü Tepa chaired the programme. Music Director, Vibeituonuo Tepa and Tepurakhu Visa were the pianist and conductor respectively. Praise and worship by Extol Team.

kohiMa, DeceMber 14 (DiPr): The Nagaland Bharat State Bharat Scouts & Guides conducted the Scouter & Guider Reunion (Adult leaders in scouting & Guiding) at Kohima from December 12-14. The objective of the reunion was to impart and to update scouting and guiding skills to all trained unit leaders and district officials, meet to renew old friendship and make new friends and to renew one’s promise.

Governor of Nagaland & Assam PB Acharya, who is also the Chief Patron Nagaland State Bharat Scouts &Guides, graced the reunion closing function as the chief guest where he said scouting/guiding is an international movement and is the largest voluntary uniformed youth force in the world. The movement is dedicated to the life of boys and girls to become good citizens and good leaders and to develop good character, good health and a sense of service to God, to the community and to the country. He said, the

founder of the movement, Lord Paden powell himself conducted the first experimental camp at Brown Sea Island in 1907 with 20 boys and today, the movement is spread over 162 countries with over 30 million scouts and 12 million guides.

Scouting had its birth in India in 1909 and in Nagaland in 1967, the state Association become independent fully fledged Association receiving its Charter from the National Association.

The state Association is attainting its Golden Jubilee in 2017 for which we need to gear up for the celebration.

Acharya said, our state has produced a lot of Governor Awardees and the state has received Rashtrapati awardees too. He also urged the trainees who were mostly adult to updated with quality skills so that once they go back to their respective district, they could able to impart the best to our boys and girls because we are building up tomorrow’s leaders of our nation. He also said while imparting quality educa-

tion to our children, schools and colleges should also impart skills development so that when they come out from colleges after graduation they become self dependent. The Governor also assured that he would come forward and assist for new construction of state unit office building.

Following are the winners of various category, the best guider 2015 was won by Kienuo Suokhrie, Mezhur HSS Kohima, best scouter by Mhonbemo Kikon Cistus School, Wokha, best DOC(G) Tovili Wati Mokokchung, best DOC (S) Khuyivi Achumi, Zunheboto, best unit Alpine open troop, Kohima scout master Imlisnup & Don Bosco HSS Dimapur, best district 2015 Mokokchung & Kiphire. The winners were awarded with certificate with a cash prize.

Altogether 46 Scouters & Guiders from nine districts attended the training programme which was held at State Headquarters: life members building Bayavu hill, Kohima.

highlighted the history of the school and the Souvenir was released by the guest of honour. Kewetso Mero who was a first batch student of the school and he shared his experiences and exhorted the students.

Chotisuh Sazo congratulated the CBCC for initiating this school, and all the administrators and teachers of the past 50 years. He dwelt on the issue of our society having so many unions and associations. He said that by doing so, we isolate ourselves and fragment our society.

He said that parents also should give attention and be responsible for the education of their children. He urged the gathering to continue to extend support to the school. It may be mentioned that the Chief Guest also taught in the school in 1985-86. Vote of Thanks was delivered by Rev. Dr.

Kowepe Kanuo, School Managing Board chairman and closing prayer by Rev. Dr. Neingupe Chiero, Pastor, Pfutsero Town Baptist Church. The programme was followed by Jubilee Feast.

A press note stated that the school was established in 1965 by the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council and it is the 2nd Baptist English School to be established in Nagaland. It was recognized as a Junior High School in 1973 and a full-fledged High School from 1982. In 2014, the school was upgraded to a Higher Secondary School.

Since 1998, the school is managed by Chakhesang Mission Centre Church.

The school has produced many prominent personalities in the field of Theology, Music, Politics, Government Service, Business, etc.

Golden Crown College holds Christmas Concert

Golden Crown College choir sings at the Christmas Concert held at Unity Sumi Baptist Church, Dimapur on December 13.

DiMaPur, DeceMber 14 (Mexn): Golden Crown College conducted a Christmas Concert with the theme, "For unto us a child is born" at Unity Sumi Baptist Church, Dimapur on December 13.

The concert begun with Carol Singing lead by Worship team followed by a short welcomed speech from Avoni Odyuo, Music Director at Golden Crown College.

A press note stated that the event was colored with various festive musical pieces, ranging from intricate choral pieces like "for unto us a child is born" to soothing jazzy tunes such as "have yourself a merry little Christmas". There were guitar and violin ensemble,

male and female voice, as well as a few solo and duet.

The concert was also blessed with a short exhortation by Thungjamo Odyuo, Joint Director Rural development Kohima, on the theme, "for unto us a son is given" where the speaker stressed on, "A child is born" and "The son is given", and the special purpose on the Son coming to this earth. He also urged all the audience to make use of this wonderful blessing.

God's grace was sufficient in the event which made the program successful the College also extend warm appreciation to Unity Sumi Baptist Church for their kind gesture and for being such an indulgent host.

PMK celebrates completion of 25 years

kohiMa, DeceMber 14 (Mexn): The Pfuchatsumiapfü Mechü Krotho (PMK) celebrated its silver jubilee at Christ King Higher Secondary School, Kohima on December 12.

In his address as chief guest, Kiyanilie Peseyie, Minister for Social Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs congratulated PMK for completing 25 years and called upon the members to introspect and retrospect their activities and do even better in the coming years.

The minister also appealed to the women to keep alive Naga traditional attires, folksongs and culture and work hand in

Kiyanilie Peseyie, Minister for Social Welfare, addressing the PMK silver jubilee on December 12.

hand with the government for the uplift of the society.

Lauding the women’s role in the society, he en-

couraged them to continue the jubilee souvenir. to play the role of maintainIn his brief speech, Zeing peace in the society. neizo Rutsa, chairman, P. The minister also released Khel, Kohima Village laud-

ed the contributions of PMK towards P. Khel and society in various fields over the years.

The function was led by Pfuchatsumiapfü Mechü Krotho president Khrieneinuo Pienyü, invocation said by Kuozeü, deaconess, Baptist Mission Church, a brief history and address was given

by Vituoü Pienyü, PMK’s first president. Further, special folk presentation was presented by jubilee choir, secretary report by Kelhoulenuo Keyho, traditional fashion show was displayed children and PMK members, while vote of thanks was proposed by Vilazonuo Rutsa.

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Neighbors Fellowship of Mission-Kezieke-Pezielietsie under Union Baptist Church Kohima during the ‘Christmas Harvest’ fellowship at Bright Morning Star Children Home, Kohima held on December 13. The programme is an annual event of UBC organized by its members in their respective colony. The program began with bible reading and invocation prayer by Ati-i Sale, purpose of visit by Mezo Chase, Christmas greeting by Rajuselie Lhousa and words of encouragement to children by Abino. In response, a brief note about the Children’s’ Home was delivered by the proprietor Abi-i and special song by the children.

1st International CRC Leaders Conference held

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DiMaPur, DeceMber 14 (Mexn): The first ever International Christian Revival Church Leaders Conference was held from December 9 to 11 at the Evangel Bible Translators NEMWA Campus, Chumukedima with the theme ‘United to Build.’

Resource Persons for the Conference were Dr. Kiyeho, General Secretary NCRC, Rev. Dr. Imcha Yanger, Mssion Director, NCRC, Rev. Dr. D.L. Sanchu, Executive Secretary ACRCC, Mr. Zapra Chakhesang, Former Chairman NPSC, Rev. Dr. Fazal Shiekh, Principal, BBIC, Bangalore, Rev. Ken Janke, Director of Global Advance.

Missionaries posted in various parts of India and abroad gave their reports. During the Vote of thanks, Rev. Vangpong Phom, Mission Secretary NCRC, mentioned that the rep[orts from the missionaries have enabled the International CRC body to enlarge their vision and increase their commitment into the work of God. He mentioned that it was decided to hold the first International CRC Convention and for which the Arunachal Pradesh CRC Council had offered to host the convention sometime in 2016. Rev. Neikeduozo Paphino was unanimously selected as the Coordinator of this Convention.

Rev. Dr.Neikeduozo Paphino stated in his appreciation speech on the concluding night that the attendance and representation from all over was beyond expectation. He thanked all the at- Some of the participants at the first ever International Christian Retendees for giving their precious time to attend vival Church Leaders Conference held from December 9 to 11 at the this conference.

Evangel Bible Translators NEMWA Campus, Chumukedima.

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Stopped from visiting Assam temple: Rahul, triggers row

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Chetia seeks 'forgiveness for past mistakes' Guwahati, December 14 (Pti): Deported ULFA leader Anup Chetia, who is an accused in a number of murder, abduction and extortion cases, today sought forgiveness from the people of Assam for "past mistakes" and said he was ready for peace talks. "I ask for forgiveness from the people of Assam for our past mistakes", the ULFA General Secretary, who was incarcerated in Bangladesh for 18 years, told reporters.

Coming out of the designated court here after being produced in connection with two TADA cases, the ULFA leader said, "I pay tribute to the people who lost their lives for opposing our revolution and pray for peace of their souls".

Asked about his support for the peace talks, Chetia said, "Many have been suspecting that I am not for peace talks (with the government). Some are also suspecting that I will run away. But I am for the peace talks".

"I am grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union Home Minister, Foreign Minister, union Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for trying to bring me back," Chetia, who returned from Bangladesh where he was incarcerated in jail for 15 years, said.

The ULFA leader was then whisked away by security personnel before he could answer further queries.

New Delhi/barPeta, December 14 (Pti): A controversy broke out over Rahul Gandhi's charge today that he was stopped from entering a Vaishanvite monastery in Barpeta by RSS workers during his recent visit to Assam, an allegation denied by the temple chief.

As the claim by the Congress Vice President triggered a political slugfest, the BJP alleged it was "fabricated", saying RSS does not run temples and without naming anyone said "wrong messages" are being spread to "mislead" people.

Rahul claimed that what happened to him at the temple during his visit to Assam last week was BJP's style of politics which was "unacceptable".

"When I went to Assam I wanted to visit a temple in Barpeta district. And at the temple the RSS people there stopped me from entering the temple. This is the way the BJP operates," Rahul told reporters outside Parliament.

"They made the women there stand in front of me and told me that I cannot enter the temple," he said, and asked, "Who are they to stop me?"

Rahul, who was in Barpeta last Friday, said he visited the monastery later in the evening when the suspected RSS workers had left the place.

The head of Barpeta Satra, the Vaishnavite monastery, dimissed Rahul's claim, saying there was no RSS worker at the religious place.

APSU wants refugee bill to be tabled in Arunachal House

AP Cabinet advises Guv to recall & cancel Dec 9 order NE keen to empower women entrepreneurs

itaNaGar, December 14 (tNN): All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union has warned that it will stall the proceedings of the assembly if the government fails to bring a bill on Chakma-Hajong refugee imbroglio in the floor of the house.

The students' organization has long been complaining about the uncaring attitude of the state over the contentious issue.

The announcement of the apex students' body came at a time when the state is passing through a political turmoil involving governor J P Rajkhowa. "We will not allow the assembly session to function normally till the government introduces a bill to oppose settlement of refugees in the state," Aapsu president Kamta Lapung said.

The union's executive panel that met here on Friday, unanimously resolved to press the government to introduce a bill in the assembly on the refugee settlement issue.

Even as Barpeta Satra Bura Satriya (head) Bakhista Deba Sarma termed the allegation as "unfortunate", Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi stuck to his stand.

"There is no RSS agent in the Satra. It is a religious place and only religious activities are undertaken here. Where does politics come into the Satra"?," Sarma said while speaking to reporters in Barpeta.

"The women here are simple people and they come twice a day for participating in the community prayers in the Satra.

They were only waiting at the Satra gate to see Rahul Gandhi.

They do not know anything about politics," Sarma said.

"Connecting a centre of religion and culture like the

itaNaGar, December 14 (Pti): The Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today resolved and advised Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa to recall and cancel his December 9 order and allow the Assembly session to be convened on January 14 next, as already scheduled.

The Cabinet discussed the opinion rendered by the Advocate General on December 12 last on the constitutionality of the order and message of state Governor for advancing the Assembly session from January 14 next to December 16 this year. The Cabinet perused the said

Satra with politics by Gogoi who is the chief minister is most unfortunate. In future, politics and the Satra should not be interlinked," he said.

Gogoi maintained that the Satra had told him that Rahul Gandhi will not be allowed to enter the monastery. "The Satra head had told me that Rahul Gandhi will not be allowed to enter the Satra. The RSS instigated it.

"Never heard anyone being prevented from entering the Satra before. I ask them even today why they prevented (Rahul from entering). Everyone has the right to enter. If RSS is not there, then why not question them why we were not allowed in," the chief minister told reporters in Guwahati. "There were 40 to

opinion and observed that it was in complete agreement with views of the Advocate General, government spokesman Bamang Felix said in a statement.

The December 9 order issued by the Governor is in contradiction to Article 174 read with Article 163 of the Constitution of India and Rules 3 and 3A of the Rules of Procedures and Conduct of Business of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the Cabinet observed while agreeing with the opinion of the advocate general and other legal experts.

Similarly, the message is contrary to Article 175 of the Constitution read

50 women preventing our entry."

BJP termed as "fabricated" Rahul's charge alleging he had become a "lying machine" and was resorting to such non-issues to disrupt Parliament.

"Earlier somebody (Selja) claimed that she was stopped from entering a temple in Dwarka and she was exposed in Parliament. What Gandhi says is fabricated and a lie," BJP leader and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters in Delhi.

Another BJP leader and Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu without naming anyone said "spreading" wrong messages and to mislead people has become the habit. "Do RSS run the temples?," he asked.

with Rule 245 of the said Rules, it said.

Moreover, the Gauhati High Court of Gauhati has fixed the hearing of the case of resignation of 2 MLAs from the Assembly on December 16 next, the Cabinet observed.

The Cabinet also resolved to endorse a copy each of the resolution and legal advice of the Advocate General to the Speaker of Arunachal Pradesh Assembly. The Governor on December 9 last had advanced the Assembly with an order to take up the impeachment motion notice against the Speaker served by 11 BJP MLAs and two independent members, as the foremost business of the house.

Jihadi in Assam link with Pak- Arrest of ISI operative: Women sponsored groups exposed body rejects police claim

Our correspondent New Delhi, December 14 (aGeNcieS): In what could be a major embarrassment to Pakistan, phone call Imphal | December 14 details of an alleged jihadi in Assam has been accessed who is boasting of a 100-strong team. As per a CNN IBN A women organisation in report, the call intercepts exposes how militants in Assam the remote village of Oinam are joining ranks with Pakistan-sponsored terror groups. Sawombung in Manipur’s The report also says that the alleged jihadi in his con- Thoubal district today reversation is claiming that he can carry out attacks any- futed the claim by Manipur where in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai.

Police that one operative of The jihadi also reportedly claims that was trained with Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services ULFA militants in Bhutan.

Intelligence) was arrested Meanwhile, six Jamaat ul Mujaheedin (JuM) mili- from the village area during tants, including one allegedly close to the Burdwan blast operation, which was widely kingpin, were arrested on December 05 from different published in local newspaplaces of Lower Assam and huge quantities of arms and pers on December 13. ammunition seized, police said.

The police had identiThe police arrested the 'jehadis' from Baksa, Chirang, fied the alleged ISI operaGoalpara and Kokrajhar districts and the prize catch was tive as Saifula Islam, hailing Monirul Islam alias Burabhai who was absconding since from Oinam Swombung, a the police busted a jehadi camp in September last, IGP Muslim village. They also (BTAD) LR Bishnoi had told PTI. claimed that incriminating Islam had allegedly visited Burdwan before the blasts documents were also recovlast year and was also attempting to set up training camps ered from his possession. for jehadis in Barpeta districts and along the AssamIn a statement, Meira Meghalaya border, he had added.

Paibi Development AssoThe arrest of the six 'jehadis' was a major breakthrough ciation, Oinam Swombung after the September 15 busting of a camp in Chirang dis- rejected the police claim GaNGtok/kolkata, trict and the arrest of ten 'jehadi' cadre, the IGP added. terming the accusation as December 14 (iaNS): Known for its distillery products, picturesque Majhitar in Sikkim will for the first time host a food and drinks festival in January to promote Sikkimese cuisine, beverages and organic products.

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‘unfortunate.’ It asked why the police failed to produce the so-called incriminating documents seized from Saifula before the media and demanded that the Police should clarify it.

It also accused the police of trying to defame the Muslim village saying it would never allow turning it into a safe haven of bad people. Muslims in Manipur have been condemning terrorism carried out in the name of Islam, it added.

TA personnel accused in youth killing Our Correspondent Imphal | December 14

A personnel of the Territorial Army (TA) in Manipur has been accused of being involved in the killing of a youth whose body was found in the Sekmai River near Kakching Ithai Maru under Tengnoupal Police Station in Chandel district on December 12.

The deceased identified

Guwahati , December 14 (aNi):In today's globalized and competitive world, women constitute a major workforce in any industry. In the north-east, women have traditionally played a major role in bringing about social and economic changes. Efforts are being made to bring women entrepreneurs to the mainstream.Be it weaving or crafting, a commodity market or a production unit, women in the Northeast have always proved their mettle as entrepreneurs.

To encourage women from the region, the first ever North-East CM's Conclave on Economic Empowerment of Women was organised by the Federation of International Chambers of Commerce of India (FICCI) Ladies' Organization in Guwahati.

The event was graced by Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya, who promised to empower women entrepreneurs through financial inclusion."Unless women are empowered, how a country can be described as a developed country," said Tarun Gogoi, Assam Chief Minister.

"The fact that this con-

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clave has been hosted here for the first time is itself a positive thing. It opens up lots of opportunities for further engagement and dialogue. And also explores the possibilities of partnering with all these potential resourceful partners who have converged to this part of the country," said Mukul Sangma, Chief Minister of Meghalaya.

Recently, the DoNER ministry also launched 'Swayam', an initiative of the FICCI's women's wing, to invite women entrepreneurs from across the country to invest in the Northeast region and take a lead in developing the region as an industrial hub.

Women entrepreneurs constitute only about 10 % of the total number of entrepreneurs in the country.

However, in the North-east region, the average is high as a large number of women are engaged in small businesses like weaving and hand crafting.

Some of them also showcased their products

to investigate the alleged murder of the youth. “All culprits must be brought to book,” they demanded.

In a separate incident, a 12-year-old boy was injured when personnel of 20 Assam Rifles of Hqs 26 Sector opened fire in their attempt to nab a militant at Beaulahram village under Tengnoupal Police Station on December 11.

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"North-east is a place where women have always been economically active, and status wise, they have a higher status than women from other parts of India. Other thing is that the Northeast is very beautiful and it has so many beautiful crafts. So we thought it will be very good if members from all over the country come here," said Archana Gupta, President, FICCI Ladies' Organization.

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Our members have come from all over the country and they are liking the market. We will promote them and it will give them very good business," said Alka Aggarwal, Member, FICCI Ladies' Organization.The government of India has also taken new initiatives to promote business, industry and create job avenues in the region.Women entrepreneurs can now look forward to sectors like organic farming and healthcare.

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India to push ahead with coal plans after Paris climate deal NeW DeLHI, DeceMBer 14 (reUTerS): India still plans to double coal output by 2020 and to rely on the resource for decades afterwards, a senior official said on Monday, days after 190-odd countries agreed to begin reining in rising greenhouse gas emissions this decade.

India, the world’s third-largest carbon emitter, is dependant on coal for about two-thirds of its energy needs and has vowed to mine more of the fuel to power its resourcehungry economy while also pledging to raise clean energy generation.

“Our dependence on coal will continue. There are no other alternatives available,” Anil Swarup, the top bureaucrat in the coal ministry, told Reuters.

“Nothing has changed (following the Paris accord).”

While India has plans to add 30 times more solar-powered generation

Labourers work at a coal stockyard in East Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya on September 16.

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capacity by 2022, there were limitations to clean energy and coal would remain the most efficient energy source for decades, he said.

Even though many international lenders are

turning their backs on financing new coal projects in favour of gas and renewable energy, India should have few difficulties in financing dozens more new mines.

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Coal India (COAL.NS), for example, has enough internal cash resources to drive more production, he said.

The global United Nations summit in Paris forged an agreement on Saturday to set the course

for an historic transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades, including eliminating net manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

The accord commits poor and rich countries to curbing carbon emissions blamed for warming the planet.

E nv i ro n m e n t a l i s t s worry that despite India’s commitment to renewable energy, its rising use of coal at a time when many Western nations are rejecting the dirty fossil fuel will tip the balance in the world’s fight against climate change.

India is targeting to more than double coal output to 1.5 billion tonnes this decade.

India says its per capita carbon emissions are far below the world average and that coal provides the cheapest energy for rapid industrialisation that would lift millions out of poverty.

SBI prepares plan to transform into full-scale digital bank MUMBAI, DeceMBer 14 (eT): The State Bank of IndiaBSE -0.26 % is readying a plan to bring its 44.7 crore customers on mobile banking and digital wallet platforms as part of the 2020 digital transformation strategy at the country’s largest lender.

The strategy involves digitising all processes, implementing green banking and upgrading the legacy network to offer speedy services to customers of the state-run bank which has an annual IT budget of Rs 3,000 crore.

“Digitisation will help customers carry out banking using self-service available on omnichannels at any time of their busy day,” said SBI’s chief technology officer Shiv Bhasin. The bank will be approaching customers using inferences drawn from their profile and transactional behaviour to offer products and services, he said.

The bank plans to declutter its branch network which currently stands at over 16,415 and enhance financial inclusion in an effective manner via its digitisation plan. SBI is also working towards simplifying financial narrative, overhauling existing network and provide banking via omnichannels and devices, said Bhasin.

SBI, which launched mobile wallet application SBI Buddy in August, will soon become the first bank in the country to launch a mobile wallet for feature phone users. The bank has about 350,000 customers on its buddy platform. It is also planning to provide digital green

debit card personal identification number or PIN to customers over SBI Quick app. Currently, the bank dispatches PIN to its customers via courier or post.

The bank projects significant growth in its revenues and loan book once all these digital processes are operationalised. “The bank will be able to combat disruptions from payments banks and carry out cross-sell of various innovative product bundles along with its joint ventures (mutual funds, equities, life and general insurance),” Bhasin said.

The bank will be able to bring process efficiencies and improve the turnaround time for various services, which will help it grow its loan book and acquire good quality assets, he said. SBI also plans to spend over Rs 200 crore to upgrade its network to improve its customer service. It plans to convert all its network circuits to 2 mbps from the current 64 kbps to eliminate network outage in the remotest areas. The bank will tie up with Airtel, Vodafone, Tata Docomo and Sify to provide alternate connectivity. Currently, BSNL is SBI’s main network service provider.

As per the digitisation plan, all processes implemented in 2015 will be suitable for the multifold transaction volume projected for 2020. Besides, the bank plans to open 250 SBI Intouch branches which offer instant savings bank account opening and personalised debit card service in 12-15 minutes. SBI has seven such outlets at present.

‘India ranks 3rd in Asia when it Wholesale prices fall again in Government may bring laws on comes to ransomware attacks’ November, but food costlier Aadhaar, bankruptcy as money bills NeW DeLHI, DeceMBer 14 (IANS): India is the third highest Asian country to receive ransomware attacks -a type of malicious software, says a new report, adding that with the growth in “Internet of Things” (IoT) industry, the vulnerability towards infections and new malware threats will only increase.

Sharing its security prediction in 2016, the US software security firm Symantec Corporation -- that produces software for security, storage, backup and availability -- said India receives ransomware attacks with over 60,000 attacks per year or 170 malware attacks per day.

Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system.

This type of malware forces its victims to pay the ransom through certain online payment methods in order to grant access to their systems, or to get their data back.

According to Symantec’s “Internet Security Threat Report” (ISTR), India has evolved from law enforcement emails (seen largely in 2013) to cryptoransomware.

According to Symantec, 86 percent of ransomware attacks in India were Crypto-ransomware.

NeW DeLHI, DeceMBer 14 (reUTerS): India’s wholesale prices fell for a 13th straight month in November, but a sharp pickup in food prices and a pending wage hike for millions of government employees are likely to keep policymakers worried about potential inflationary risks.

The wholesale price index (WPI) declined an annual 1.99% last month, driven down by tumbling oil prices, government data showed on Monday. A Reuters poll expected a fall of 2.80%. Wholesale food prices in November gained 5.20% year-on-year, compared with a provisional 2.44% rise in October.

At 5:30 p.m., November figures for the consumer price index (CPI), which the central bank closely tracks for setting monetary policy, will be released.

Consumer prices are tipped to have gained for the fourth consecutive month in November, rising an annual 5.4% on the back of a jump in food costs.

Higher food prices and anticipated higher government salaries are widely expected to stoke price pressures, making it tougher for the central bank to keep retail inflation around 5% by March 2017.

“The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) faces a tough challenge in meeting its medium-term CPI inflation target, suggesting that the rate-cutting cycle has now come to an end,” said Shilan Shah, an economist with Capital Economics. After easing monetary policy aggressively this year, the RBI kept the key repo rate on hold at 6.75% earlier this month. While a crash in global commodity prices has tamped down prices in India, the central bank remains worried about elevated household inflationary expectations.

Crypto-ransomware is a ransomware variant that encrypts and locks user files and will be released only in exchange of a payment.

Symantec recently partnered with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) to build cyber security skills in India and develop worldclass skilled and certified professionals leading to employability, especially for youth and women to check the growing vulnerability towards cyber attacks.

Aspirational project like “Digital India,” under which the country is progressing towards the establishment of its first 98 “smart cities”, has garnered the maximum attention from the IT sector as this project will rely heavily on technology because “smart cities” are technology-driven.

For this, according to a report by The Department of Electronics and IT, India eyes five-six percent share in $300 billion global IoT industry by 2020 and issued roadmap for development of machineto-machine (M2M) communication which will lay foundation for IoT in the country. A recent report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said that India would surpass the US with 402 million Internet by 2016.

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NeW DeLHI, DeceMBer 14 (PTI): Government is likely to introduce legislations on Aadhaar and bankruptcy code as money bills with a view to ensuring their smooth passage in Parliament.

“We will bring as many legislation as possible in the form of Money Bills. We will follow the same procedure for the bankruptcy law,” a senior Finance Ministry official said.

While the ordinary bills are required to be approved by the Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha, the lower house has overriding powers on the money bills.

A legislation on Aadhaar will give statutory backing to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which allocates Aadhaar numbers and issues cards to citizens.

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used for various purposes including transfer of subsidies directly to the Aadhaarlinked bank accounts of beneficiaries.

A legislation has become necessary as the Supreme Court has imposed certain restrictions on applicability of Aadhaar number with regard to implementation of the government schemes.

The apex court had permitted only voluntary use of Aadhaar for welfare programmes including MGNREGA, all pension schemes, provident fund and Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna.

Former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani too had suggested that steps should be taken to remove the sense of uncertainty regarding Aadhaar.

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A government-appointed panel headed by former Law Secretary T K Vishwnathan had underlined the need for a modern bankruptcy law to deal with insolvency cases within 180 days that might arise on account of business failures or economic downturns.

The new law is aimed at promoting ease of doing business and spurring economic activities.

The draft legislation prepared by the panel also proposes early identification of financial distress so that timely steps could be taken to revive the ailing company.

The draft bill, according to the report of the panel, “seeks to improve the handling of conflicts between creditors and debtors, avoid destruction of value, distinguish malfeasance vis-a-vis business failure and clearly allocate losses in macroeconomic downturns.”

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NCP Nagaland reacts to losing Draft policy recommendations on pig breeding an MLA and four lane project Morung Express News Dimapur | December 14

Dimapur, December 14 (mexN): The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Nagaland has expressed concern today that a “little over 20% (13/60) law makers have defected from their original party” which gave them a platform to contest the elections and subsequently get elected.

However, “till such time the Apex Court gives its final interpretation on the Anti-Defection Law, we can only rue the lack of principle and morality on the part of these legislators,” said NCP Nagaland Convenor, Miathou Krose, in a press statement.

The statement was released with regard to the recent claims of merger by a number of NCP Nagaland legislators which includes the lone remnant NCP MLA L. Khumo.

The people of Nagaland had elected 38 NPF, 8 Congress, 4 NCP, 1 BJP, 1 JD-U and 8 independent legislators to the 60 member Nagaland Legislative Assembly in 2013 General Election. Since then,

certain political developments have “drastically altered” the composition of the present house to two political parties plus independents, stated Krose.

NCP Nagaland has time and again affirmed its commitment to support the DAN III government under the leadership of Chief Minister, T.R. Zeliang and Chairman DAN Dr. Shürhozelie, reiterated the NCP Nagaland. This affirmation has been received from the central leadership of the NCP which wants to continue its support to the present DAN ministry “with or without its legislator.” The NCP Nagaland informed that it has urged its central leaders to press for an early solution to the Naga political issue.

Four lane project The NCP Nagaland expressed surprise at the issuance of Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) by MoRTH while “land compensation is yet to be paid to the affected land owners.” This was stated by Krose with regards to the proposed

NH 29 four laning project and subsequent bandh call given by NCSU. “The interest of all stakeholders in such a major project, which includes the affected landowners and contractors, must be considered so that there is no hindrance while implementing the said work,” stated the NCP Convenor.

“Our experience with multi-national companies (Gayatri-Maytas) in similar project has only resulted in bringing misery to the intended beneficiaries which should not be repeated.

Our local contractors will remain unqualified even in future, if the opportunity to improve their profile is denied to them. It may also be termed as a discriminatory approach towards Nagaland by MoRTH if the same pattern of Arunachal (as per NCSU Statement) is not applied,” he noted.

NCP Nagaland felt that these ground realities should be appreciated and acted upon urgently by MoRTH and the Nagaland government keeping in abeyance the said NIT.

8 expelled Congress leaders hold no regret for ‘speaking the truth’ Dimapur, December 14 (mexN): A joint press statement by the 8 recently expelled Congress leaders has accused K. Therie, the “ad-hoc” President of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), of “losing the confidence and cooperation” of 44 ACCCs and PCC members, and “selling out” the “identity, interest and autonomy” of the NPCC in order to “protect his chair.”

Alleging that NPCC is “breeding selfdestruction,” the 8 leaders stated that they have no regret in being expelled “for speaking the truth.”

The 8 leaders include Ex-MLAs Nillo Rengma, H. Chuba Chang, Sulanthung Humtsoe, Konngam Konyak, S. Supongmeren Jamir, Ex-INC candidates Vaprumu Demo, Prasielie Pienyu and Ex-State Chief Organiser, Seva Dal, GK Rengma.

The leaders further accused the NPCC president and Narayanasamy, General Secretary AICC in-charge Nagaland of “championing” the expulsion of the members “hoping the NPF dissidents will readily jump in and salvage the otherwise shrinking Congress Party.” “This, we refused to believe and we had reason to dispute. Only time will tell whether the NPF dissidents will likewise

bow down,” they observed.

Explaining in detail the circumstances that led to the present imbroglio faced by the NPCC, the 8 leaders contended that though communalism is a “growing national concern,” but the “pending Naga political solution has become a matter of greater urgency to the restive Naga people.”

Differing with Therie on his “adamant mindset,” the expelled leaders maintained that the NPCC’s roadmap was predicted as a “Roadmap to Congress destruction” that “pushed out” all 8 Congress MLAs, expelled 8 senior leaders and 4 AICC members inline; dismissed 3 DCC President, many PCC Officials, PCC Cell & Committee members; dissolved 4 ACCC in Wokha, 2 in Dimapur, 2 in Phek, expelled a ACCC President etc. On the other side many party workers are resigning; ACCC and DCC are being dissolved on protest “against Ad-hoc President’s reckless destruction of the party setup,” the 8 leaders said.

They also accused the General Secretary AICC in-charge Nagaland of brewing trouble in Congress party units in some states of the North East region.

A policy dialogue organised by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and North East Development Agency (NEIDA) on “Towards framing a pig breeding policy for Nagaland” was held throughout the day on December 14 at Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre, Dimapur.

The workshop was organised to discuss about the findings of a participatory breed mapping exercise and review of existing pig breeding policies of the country recently carried out by ILRI and to deliberate upon framing a breeding policy for the state of Nagaland.

During the workshop, it was stated that various studies conducted in Nagaland reported that pigs currently available in the state are the result of haphazard breeding within and between various breeds without following any systematic and scientific breeding programme.

It means there is paucity of information about the genetic potential of available breeds/ cross breeds (to perform) and the feeding and management systems that are required to support and extract best potential productive and reproductive performance from the existing pig population.

Representatives from the National Research Center on Pig (NRCP), National Bureau of Animal Genetics Resources (NBAGR), Assam Agricultural University (AAU), Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, Government

Kohima, December 14 (mexN): Kohima District Congress Committee (KDCC) celebrated preChristmas at NPCC conference hall, Congress Bhavan on December 12.

In his message, Dr. Er. Vikuotuolie Angami wished that this Christmas brings new joys, new thoughts, new vision and that one becomes a true solider of Jesus Christ forgetting about worldly fame and honour. He also maintained that if humanity is to be saved, the world has to be transformed.

Meanwhile, NPCC President K. Therie attacked the NDA and DAN governments at the Centre and

State respectively, alleging that both the governments have miserably failed on all fronts. Therie also expressed deep concern on corruption which is taking place in the State and stated that Naga society today is destroyed with corruption in many forms such as “commission, extortion, help donation, contribution, financial assistance etc.”

Stating that Congress hopes to win the forthcoming 2018 State polls, the KDCC President asserted that there are many potential candidates who want to contest on Congress tickets, but did not divulge the names.

Khriedi Theunuo, Vice President, NPCC said that the Congress party’s principle is for secularism, while BJP’s is for communalism.

He added that the Congress party always stands for the protection and welfare of minorities and Christians.

Earlier, the function was chaired by Abalie Medoze, General Secretary (Admin), KDCC, invocation prayer was given by Vikrosa Zecho, welcome address was given by Kevi Vizo, President, KDCC, special number by Sabu Sote, David and Medongunuo Vizo, while the Khriesanyu Pienyu, Vice President, KDCC gave the vote of thanks.

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uring the workshop on ‘Towards framing a pig breeding policy for Nagaland’, Thangi Mannen, Secretary & Commissioner, Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, who chaired the programme, confirmed that the State government has already taken cabinet decision to develop a breeding policy for the State and the recommendations of the workshop will form the basis for the pig breeding policy, which will be submitted to the cabinet for approval.

The Secretary led the consultative process by stating that we should take pride in the fact that Nagaland is the first to hold such kind of dialogue and initiative, and conveyed hope that we can lead the way for piggery development not just for Nagaland but the entire North East. of Nagaland, ILRI, NEIDA and some farmer representatives participated and contributed in framing the breeding policy recommendations.

Keynote addresses were given by Dr Arjava Sharma, Director, ICAR-NBAGR, Dr Alok Jha, Regional Repre-

Highlighting why formulating a pig breeding policy was the urgent need of the hour, she stated it is disheartening to know that so much efforts have been put in by the Naga people towards pig rearing, but not much progress has occurred. She stressed that pig rearing is a way of life for the people of Nagaland and it is of utmost importance to try and improve the efforts of the people, which would be beneficial towards the economic development of the State also.

She also mentioned the present scenario in Nagaland, where importance has been given to the development of pig rearing for so many years and in spite of the high demand for pork in the State, we are unable to meet the demands. She pointed out that 40 per cent of the requirement comes from outside

sentative, ILRI- South Asia and Director, (Veterinary & Animal Husbandry), Government of Nagaland. The Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department team was led by the Director.

At the end of extensive deliberation, the workshop came up with a draft

the State, hence, Nagaland is losing out and its economy is being affected because a lot of money is going outside.

“After doing some intense research and analysis for six to seven years, we have realized that unless we are able to guide the framers on what is the best type of pigs to rear or crossbreed, we won’t be able to meet the demand of the State for pork.

However, we have made sure that the policies are not only government but people oriented,” she stated.

The Secretary concluded stating that an expert committee will be formed to develop a technical programme for effectively implementing the policy. She added that the Department will extend full support to the recommendations that came out at the policy meet, which are beneficial to the farmers in the state.

pig breeding policy recommendations that are going to be officially submitted to the government in a short span of time after elaborating it by a committee comprising of representatives from Veterinary & AH Dept., NRC (Pigs), Nagaland University, Assam Agricultural

University and ILRI. The draft policy recommendations have been made in the interest of the State and is hoped to meet the needs and expectation of pig entrepreneurs/ industrialists, small farmers and farmers residing in remote rural areas.

No official visit from Dec 23-Jan 1: State Govt tells Centre Advance Christmas

Dimapur, December 14 (mexN): The Government of Nagaland has requested the Central VIP and other dignitaries intending to visit Nagaland from December 23 to January 1 to reschedule their itinerary on account of festive holidays.

All government offices will remain closed during the aforementioned period for Christmas and New Year, a press note from State Protocol Officer, Nusieta Rhakho informed. The requisition for rescheduling proposed visits is made to avoid any

inconveniences with regard to accommodation, transport, reception, security etc., it added. The Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House, New Delhi has also been informed to convey to the Union Ministries accordingly.

KDTFU supports demand for reallocation of railways wagons Morung Express News

KDCC celebrates pre-Christmas

Thangi Mannen, Secretary & Commissioner, Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, Government of Nagaland, with resource persons and participants of the workshop held at Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre, Dimapur.

(Morung Photo)

Dimapur | December 14

The Kohima District Tree Farmers’ Union (KDTFU) has extended support to Nagaland Timber Traders’ Union’s demand for reallocation of railways wagons for transportation of teak and moulding beats for the quarter December 2015 - February 2016. KFTFU president, Lhousakuolie Metha, in a release said the present allocation of wagons smacked of “manipulation” and questioned why non-Naga timber traders and businessmen were allotted wagons at the cost of genuine Naga timber traders and tree farmers.

“Even though local timber traders and tree farmers are the real owners of trees and forest, yet they have

not been allotted wagons and instead our due share has been snatched by nonlocal businessmen who do not own a single tree or timber,” the union stated.

Stating that KDTFU was not against non-Naga businessmen buying timber and exporting them outside the state, the union made it clear that wagons should only be allotted to genuine Naga timber traders and farmers. The union also questioned why the Nagaland government has remained silent so far despite being fully aware of the "gross manipulation" in allotment of wagons.

“And why is the committee set up by the government to oversee allocation of railway wagons so far non-functional? And why are rich and influential people including

former ministers, Forest department officials, non-local businessmen and even top functionaries of some Naga political groups making undue interference in the timber business?”

The union said even as genuine Naga timber traders and farmers are trying to make a living through honest and hard work, they are being forced out of business due to too many interferences and manipulations like the allotment of railway wagons. “KDTFU is fully behind NTTU in the latter’s fight for justice and rights of genuine local tree farmers.

It is high time the State government and others realize that justice and transparency can be restored only if allocation of wagons is done by the committee set up by the government.”

celebration at Raj Bhavan Kohima, December 14 (mexN): Governor of Nagaland and Assam PB Acharya today stated that the true spirit of Christmas is reflected in helping those in need, giving hope to ones in despair, and spreading peace and understanding throughout the Earth.

Speaking at the preChristmas celebration hosted by him and his wife at Raj Bhavan, Durbar Hall, Kohima, Acharya also said Jesus’ actions and words remind that service to others is central to our lives and that sacrifice and unconditional love must guide and inspire us to lead lives of compassion, mercy, and justice.

According to a press release from PRO to Governor, N Stephen Ngullie, the Governor also prayed for the well being, peace, security, prosperity, development and happiness of everyone this Christmas. “May the joy of the season renew our commitment to working together for a future of peace, opportunity, and hope,” he added.

Delivering greetings, Chief Minister of Nagaland

TR Zeliang said Christmas is a time to strengthen existing bonds, build new relationships, celebrate the joy and cheer of festivity, and most importantly, extend love and good will to one and all.

He appealed to the people to forget the unpleasant things of the past and also urged to abstain from any form of hatred, ill-will or violence during this Christmas season. “Instead, let us spread love and good will to everybody. This way, we can all contribute towards bringing peace in our society, and towards resolving our protracted Naga political issue.”

As the year draws to an end, he also lauded the government officials, social workers and members of the civil societies, tribal hohos and NGOs, who had put in honest and hard works during the year.

The CM also wished all the people of Nagaland merry Christmas and prosperous New Year.

The Christmas message was delivered by Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, President, Kohima Baptist Churches Pastors’ Fellowship.

RSU general conference Nagaland contractors lament union NCSU Phek expresses resentment Decem- the breakup of works in the presence of Nagaland Govfrom December 17-19 ministry’s failure to fulfill assurance Dimapur, ber 14 (mexN): The Na- Dimapur-Kohima four lane ernor, Chief Minister and Kohima, Dec 14 (mexN): The Rengma Students’ Union (RSU) will hold its 38th general conference from December 17 to 19 at Sendenyu village under Tseminyu sub-division. The conference will be held under the theme “Envision, Enlighten and Empower.”

Nagaland governor PB Acharya will grace the inaugural function as the chief guest, while Parliamentary Secretary for PWD (Housing) Er. Levi Rengma will be the guest of honour. Senthang, Director, School Education will be the valedictory guest.

The inaugural function on December 17 will take place from 12:00 noon onwards.

Greetings will be shared Naga Students’ Federation, Rengma Hoho, and Rengma

Mothers’ Association. The conference will be marked by song competition, glimpses of Chogin range, talk show on “Social media impact on our youth,” panel discussion on “Status of Rengmas in Nagaland,” Rengma cultural and traditional show etc.

RSU has informed that delegates must bring atleast one traditional attire to be worn on the inaugural and valedictory functions.

Free food and lodging will be provided by the host unit Chogin Range Students’ Union.

The RSU Union Assembly will be held on December 18 from 6:00 pm onwards. All official representatives and seniors of RSU and constituent units have been informed to attend the same.

Dimapur, December 14 (mexN): With regard to the Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) for the construction of DimapurKohima four lane road, the Nagaland Govt. Registered Class- 1 Contractors’ Union (NGRC-1CU) has expressed anguish and resentment against the “stepmotherly attitude” of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, towards the Nagaland State contractors.

A press release from the NGRC-1CU President, Seyiekulou and Vice President, Bendang Jamir said that on many occasions, Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and

Shipping had assured to relax the norms for the North-East contractors.

Even on the day of the foundation stone laying programme for the project in Dimapur, the minister had given his assurance to accommodate local contractors by splitting the project into smaller packages, it added.

The release recalled that the Union had earlier submitted a representation to the Prime Minister through the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) and even to Minister Incharge of Road Transport and Highways & Shipping on September 3 with a request to take up the project in separate packages

in National Highways development and even in other infrastructural development works. In this regard, the Union received official acknowledgement letter and positive response, the release added. “But we were greatly disappointed to learn that the assurances and the promises were not honoured.”

Therefore, NGRC-1CU appealed to the Union Minister in-charge of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping to reconsider the matter and postpone the NIT date and review and relax the terms and conditions, so the State local contractors can be accommodated as assured.

galand Contractors’ and Suppliers’ Union (NCSU), Phek unit has expressed strong resentment against the “bias attitude and over stepping of genuine rights of the local contractors on

national highway.” Stating that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway has failed to implement in letter and spirit the assurance given to local contractors on November 3 in the

other dignitaries, the NCSU Phek issued a “clarion call” to all its executive members and well wishers to extend all out support to the bandh called by its head office on December 15.

BJP Nagaland appeals to withdraw bandh Dimapur, December 14 (mexN): The Nagaland State BJP unit has appealed to the Nagaland Contractors’ and Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) to withdraw the 12-hour bandh called along NH29 on December 15 and allow people to freely do shopping and prepare for

Christmas without any hindrances. In a press release, the BJP assured to take up the matter with the ministry concerned to redress the grievances of the local contractors. “The party is of the view that the cause is a very genuine one and needs to be supported,” the release issued

by the Media Cell, BJP Nagaland said. “However, at this festive season, the proposed bandh may create inconveniences to the general public who have come from far and near to Kohima and Dimapur to get their Christmas shopping done, so, the timing seems to be inappropriate.”

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express X issue 341X issue 185 Thursday 9volume July 2015 volume

Revisiting the Curriculum

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iven the current chaotic state of affairs in Nagaland, and during the search for a way out of the quagmire, it is important for the Nagas also to focus attention on our educational curriculum. After all, the curriculum is the primary means where young minds first encounter the deceptive and conditioning character of statecraft.

Curriculum is an expression of the broader education policy that reflects decisions relating to selecting and organizing content, pedagogy and learning experiences. Curriculum cannot be seen in isolation as it results from the interplay of existing structures, the systems that sustain them as manifested from the educational policies’ objectives and values.

In most cases, leadership of the political administration is responsible for making policy which directly impacts building the educational curriculum.

In the pure sense, the curriculum is intended to reflect educational goals and policies, however, in practice, education reflects societal differences including values, beliefs, and educational priorities, etc., within their cultural context. Consequently, the curriculum serves as a mechanism to establish priorities, balancing between available information and the time available for learning that is essential in order for learners to optimize their learning experience. Further, because inherent tensions exist between a learner-centered approach and needsof-society approach the Curriculum attempts to balance and harmonize these two approaches regardless of the academic disciplines such as sciences, language arts, history, and so on.

Curriculum are multifaceted, for instance, the Hidden Curriculum includes all those things in an education setting that send learners messages regarding how they should be thinking and what they ought to be doing. In other words subliminal processes are transmitted through the schools’ every day, normal activities that are aimed to control, to conform and instill guilt. These processes greatly influence student’s attitudes towards accumulating knowledge, processing information, skills, practices and values in a way that is counter to becoming critical thinkers.

The Taught Curriculum is the actual intended officially recognized course work. However, very often there is a gap between the curriculum design and implementation. In other words, a gap exists between the quantity and quality of the prescribed and taught curricula which is usually referred to as the relative autonomy of teachers’ vis-à-vis structural constraints. This may occur for various reasons including an individual teacher’s personal approach, beliefs, or political position, in addition to, the learning institution’s policies.

Next is the Missing Curriculum, which refers to what is excluded, whether or not deliberately, that silenced relevant information necessary for developing an informed, active, multicultural and politically aware citizenry. The Missing Curriculum varies according to context, but generally includes those issues that are referred to as ‘controversial’. The Missing Curriculum refers to the content that may include presenting historical narratives or social events, as well as using methods that avoid inclusive, participatory or democratic methods. This omission effectively stifles nurturing and developing critical thinking processes.

In the Naga context conducting a serious assessment covering the spectrum of the Hidden, Taught and Missing Curriculum is needed. It is by critically reflecting on these three facets of curriculum that the incompatible nature of the formal curriculum and the historical, political, social and economic realities affecting all agencies and structures involved in formal and informal socialization can be addressed.

Hence, the political, economic and educational realities make it necessary for educational authorities to address not only the issues relating to curriculum, but also create multidimensional processes that examine the various aspects of the educational system. After all, curriculum development is not stagnant as it actively incorporates a body of information and knowledge with new discoveries, theories and current events which the learner can engage by using analytical and critical thinking skills.

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Hate Facebook? Learn why you meekly log in again

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ave you felt like walking away from Facebook or to shut down your account swearing never to return, only to meekly log back in a week later? You are not alone.

Researchers from Cornell University have found four key reasons why people make the pledge not to log in to Facebook but ultimately could not resist the allure of Facebook's social network. "The first reason is perceived addiction. Those who feel that Facebook is addictive or habitual were more likely to return," said lead researcher Eric Baumer.

One participant described this habitual aspect by saying, "In the first 10 days, whenever I opened up an internet browser, my fingers would automatically go to 'f.'" Another reason is privacy and surveillance. Users who felt their Facebook activity was being monitored were less likely to revert, while those who use Facebook largely to manage how other people think of them are more likely to log back in. "The third reason is subjective mood. In a good mood? You're less likely to renege on your pledge to stay off Facebook," the authors noted.

The research group also found that Facebook users were less likely to log back in if they had other social media outlets like Twitter, for instance. Those who reflected on the appropriate role for technology in their social lives were more likely to revert. "In many of these cases, people returned to Facebook but altered their use, for example, uninstalling the app from their phones, reducing their number of friends or limiting the amount of time spent on the platform," the authors noted.

The team's findings were drawn from more than 5,000 surveys issued to participants by "Just", the Dutch creative agency. The survey data was provided by 99daysoffreedom.com -- an online campaign that encouraged participants to log off Facebook for 99 days. These surveys were intended to gauge each user's mood throughout the Facebook detox.

A sampling of this data was then shared with the Cornell research team. "People who leave social media and then return provide the opportunity to understand better what's at stake when people use -- or don't use -- sites like Facebook," the authors pointed out in a paper published in the journal Social Media + Society. "These results show just how difficult daily decisions about social media use can be," Baumer added. "Facebook also serves numerous important social functions, in some cases providing the only means for certain groups to keep in touch. These results highlight the complexities involved in people's ongoing decisions about how to use, or not use, social media," the team concluded.

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David N. Livingstone Foreign Policy

Stop Saying Climate Change Causes War The dangerous I ethical

n an interview with Sky News on Nov. 23, Britain’s Prince Charles made headlines when he informed listeners of a direct link between climate change and the ongoing civil war in Syria. “There’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria … was a drought that lasted for about five or six years,” he said. His remarks came just weeks after U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced that climate change was “directly related to the growth of terrorism” and is “the biggest national security threat facing the United States.”

Both sets of remarks received widespread news coverage. But neither the Prince of Wales nor Sanders was breaking new ground. They were each echoing a refrain that has wound its way through op-eds and magazine articles, and books with titles like Climate Wars. As Gwynne Dyer, Climate Wars’ author, put it: “For every degree that the average global temperature rises, so do … the number of failed and failing states, and very probably the [incidence of] internal and international wars.”

This way of foretelling humanity’s destiny has been embraced by journalists and politicians, popular science writers and academics alike: Global warming means certain war, famine, and death — with the how and when sometimes calculated with incredible specificity. The National Geographic Channel’s 2007 documentary Six Degrees Could Change the World, for instance, explained that at 2 degrees Celsius warmer, urban Bolivians will move into rural areas in search of water; at 4 degrees hotter, we are set to experience worldwide political upheaval, economic disaster, and armed conflict as heat-weary migrants seek climate refuge in places like Northern Europe and New Zealand. Humanity’s future is laid out for us, literally one degree after another.

To be clear: Global warming is indeed a very real and present danger. And there’s no doubt that climate change can, on some occasions, be linked to violence and warfare. But this increasing trend toward what some have called the “securitization of climate change,” and the impulse to reduce conflict simply to matters of the weather, carries with it its own kind of moral danger.

How did the issue of climate change come to be so securitized? One early critical step took place in June 1988 at a major world conference in Toronto called “The Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security.” The convention, attended by policymakers and around 300 scientists from 46 countries, was the first international conference to combine climate science and public policy. What it produced was a statement highlighting the need for governments to realign “their national security and military spending priorities” by addressing “the geopolitical dimensions of climate change in resource allocation decisions,” wrote Carleton University’s Fen Osler Hampson in a paper that year. Diminishing food security, environmental refugees, political instability, and resource conflicts were only some of the prognosticated effects of climate change that would compel government strategists to turn militaristic.

Since then, the militarization of climate discourse has proceeded apace. In 2007, for example, thenBritish Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett insisted that climate change went “to the very heart of the security agenda” in her presentation to the U.N. Security Council’s first-ever debate on the subject. That same year the U.S. Center for Naval Analyses produced a report entitled “National Security and the Threat of Climate Change” by an advisory composed of 11 retired, three- and four-star admirals and generals. Among their concerns was, “Climate change will stress the U.S. military by affecting weapon systems and platforms, bases, and military operations.”

Another defense-oriented report, “The Age of Consequences,” prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for a New American Security, declared that a 2.6 degree rise in temperature will bring moral revolution as “mas-

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.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon was among the most jubilant - and most relieved - of the leaders raising their arms on a stage on Saturday to celebrate a historic agreement on climate change.

For almost a decade, Ban, 71, has travelled the world from the glaciers of Antarctica to corporate boardrooms in New York in search of photo opportunities and allies to secure an elusive global deal to curb global warming.

Saturday night marked a personal victory after a long, often thankless road, in stark contrast to a failed 29009 climate summit in Copenhagen when he sat glumly on the podium at a fractious allnight session as the meeting unravelled.

"This is the apex of multilateralism," he told Reuters of the deal reached in Paris among 195 countries that aims to end the fossil fuel era by phasing out greenhouse gases this century to rein in the rise in temperatures. "(It is) a decisive turning point in our common efforts to make the lives of peoples sustainable and prosperous as well as a healthy planet," Ban said. "We have to make sure that all these agreements should be implemented. I will spare no efforts until the last day of my term as secretary-general," he said.

Ban, now widely praised by governments for his tireless focus on climate change, will host a signing ceremony

implications of letting humans off the hook for their conflicts

sive social upheaval will be accompanied by intense religious and ideological turmoil.” At an increase of 5.6 degrees, a range of ills would converge “in one conflagration: rage at government’s inability to deal with the abrupt and unpredictable crises; religious fervor, perhaps even a dramatic rise in millennial end-of-days cults; hostility and violence toward migrants and minority groups; … and intra- and interstate conflict over resources.” In the light of this grim eschatology, the report concludes that the security repercussions of climate change constitute a “greater foreign policy and national security challenge” than “reversing the decline in America’s global standing” and “rebuilding the nation’s armed forces.”

The ease with which this straightforward connection between climate and war has infiltrated the national security establishment is troubling. Of course, it’s not difficult to discern the appeal of these sorts of story lines. They deliver, with alluring simplicity, naturalistic accounts of warfare with a specificity that gives them vividness and power. But the problem with these narratives isn’t just that they are overly simplistic. It’s that they promote a kind of climate reductionism, one that carries echoes of the deterministic theories that were once popular during the second half of the 19th century.

Consider, for instance, John William Draper’s History of the American Civil War, published in 1867. Draper, who served as president of the medical college of New York University from 1850 to 1873, was a professor of chemistry and an architect of the so-called “conflict model” of science and religion, bringing a scientist’s eye to his task. On the very first page of his book, he announced “the great truth that societies advance in a preordained and inevitable course” guided by “uncontrollable causes.” Chief among these was the climate.

Draper wanted his readers to see that the split of the American nation into what he called “a free and a slave power” had been effected “chiefly through the agency of climate.” It was climate that had “separated the American nation into two sections”; it was climate that “had made a North and a South”; it was climate that had cultivated the markedly different political instincts of each culture. It could all be captured in a formula approaching a climatic syllogism: “Climate tendencies facilitate the abolition of slavery in a cold country, but oppose it in one that is warm.” The reason was simple: “The climate of the South, through the agricultural products it permitted, favored plantation life and the institution of slavery, and hence it promoted a sentiment of independence in the person and of state rights in the community; that of the North intensified in the person a disposition to individualism, and in the community to unionism.”

For the new nation, it brought a sense of moral relief to be told that slavery and the bloody conflict between the states followed a script written in the main by climate. As Draper put it: “Now when we appreciate how much the actions of men … are determined by climate and other natural circumstances, our animosities lose much of their asperity, and the return of kind feelings is hastened.” The

climate freed political actors from the burdens of moral accountability. Naturalizing the causes of the civil war was, for Draper, a key means for fostering in the post-bellum era what he called “more philosophical, more enlarged, more enlightened, and, in truth, more benevolent views of each other’s proceedings.” By displaying to the world how climate had ghost-written different histories in the North and South, Draper, as his biographer Donald Fleming put it, “drew the sting from any moral recrimination. Indeed one might suppose that the chief convenience — and possibly the chief defect — of the ‘climatic’ view of history was to bypass ethical concerns altogether.” This, for a war in which the question of ethical culpability was salient indeed.

Some may claim that Draper’s climatic explanation of the Civil War is not exactly the same as those promoting causal links between climate change and conflict in our own day. But similar ethical echoes linger. When we shift the blame for violence to the weather and treat human struggle as simply a state of nature, we reduce the complexity of warfare to a single dimension. We also absolve the agents of conflict of moral responsibility for their actions.

For one, a focus on environmentally related violence masks other forms of social and political struggle. Climate reductionism facilitates the sense that war in the developing world can be readily depoliticized and naturalized by pushing factors like local culture and social relations to the sidelines. It provides a ready excuse to leave these issues unaddressed. Moreover, it can easily be a way of diverting attention from the West’s historical culpability for conflicts elsewhere in the world by shifting the blame to nature. As one group of researchers put it, when analysts “neglect the complex political calculus of governance,” they reach “conclusions that are little different from those ascribing poverty to latitudinal location or lessened individual productivity to hot climates, as was common in European and American scholarship about a century ago.” Most of us today rightly find these conclusions — which lend themselves to what is, essentially, racism under the guise of science — ugly and unacceptable.

There are some who have started to push back against this ubiquitous climate reductionist impulse.

A team of research ecologists based mostly at Colorado State University, for example, has challenged the suggestion that higher temperatures increase the risk of civil war in Africa. They argue that attributing such causal powers to climate “oversimplifies systems affected by many geopolitical and social factors,” and they point out that unrelated geopolitical trends — most notably, decolonization and the vicissitudes of the Cold War — tend to be ignored in climate reductionist agendas. Halvard Buhaug, a political scientist at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, also has serious reservations about climatic supremacism. “Climate variability is a poor predictor of armed conflict,” he observes, and civil wars in Africa are far better explained by ethnopolitical exclusion and a poor national economy.

Prophecy is a precariously uncertain business.

Sir John Houghton, former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, issued a word of caution along these lines when giving evidence to the U.K. House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs in 2005: “When you put models together which are climate models added to impact models added to economic models, then you have to be very wary indeed of the sort of answers you are getting and how realistic they are.”

And yet a strong sense of predestined inevitability pervades a good deal of current thinking about climate change by the national security industry.

In such visions, humanity’s future is dictated by climate, literally degree-by-degree. We should indeed be wary of this turn of events. And when prognostications offer the human race moral absolution when it comes to taking responsibility for the world’s ills — on the surface demanding action while simultaneously releasing us from blame for our role in causing conflict — it’s best to be even warier still.

For Ban Ki-moon, climate deal is personal victory alister doyle and Bruce Wallace Reuters for the deal on April 22, 2016, and follow that with a meeting in May to encourage actions by governments, businesses and civil society.

The road to that signing has had more downs than ups.

Ban said some of his key staff advised him when he took office in 2007 that his plan to focus on climate change - among challenges such as wars, economic upheaval and pandemics - would be risky with no guarantee of success.

He ignored that advice.

Among unexpected bright spots, he once won encouragement from former U.S. president George W. Bush, whose Republican administration often raised doubts about the science underpinning global warming.

BALI At a U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, when Bush was in office, the United States was the last nation to drop opposition to a plan to launch two years of talks that led to the ill-starred Copenhagen summit.

The U.S. delegation was even booed by other delegates for opposing the plan.

Ban said Bush confided to him at a private farewell lunch towards the end of the president's term in 2009 that the U.S. delegation leader had phoned him from Bali for advice.

Bush told her, "'I would appreciate if you do it as the Secretary-General of the United Nations wants'," Ban said.

"Then the U.S. agreed to this Bali roadmap. That was the most memorable

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and touching moment for me."

But Bali led nowhere, because the 2009 Copenhagen summit two years later collapsed. Left-wing Latin American nations and Sudan blocked a deal in a riotous final overnight session. Ban calls Copenhagen among the "frustrating moments".

Still, he said "I never was deterred" even though many other world leaders gave up on climate change to focus on other issues such as fixing the financial crisis. And in Copenhagen, a simple problem was that world leaders at the time did not appreciate the risks of global warming, from droughts and heat waves to more powerful storms and rising seas. "They were not even fully educated," Ban said.

But the rubble of Copenhagen did provide a basis for success in Paris, he said. Ban has hosted three summits of his own on climate change since 2007, and joined a march of what he said was 400,000 people in New York last year.

The U.N. leader grew up in a home in South Korea with no electricity and reading by a kerosene lamp.

That made him aware of the dilemma for many developing nations, where governments are trying to widen public access to electricity - usually from cheap, dirty coal-fired power plants - even as they try to cut emissions. "I myself know all of these climate problems," he said.

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any fumed when 21st June was declared and observed as International Yoga Day. The BJP government led by Narendra Modi played instrumental parts in convincing the world to observe and celebrate 21st June as International Yoga Day. Probably they did this by highlighting the basic tenets of Yoga and the benefits (physical as well as spiritual) that a person can attain by practicing Yoga.

Coincidentally or otherwise, 21st June 2015 happened to fall on the third Sunday of the month. And many Christians were infuriated and felt insulted because Christians celebrate the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day. So many Christians in Nagaland as well as elsewhere were made to wonder whether this was just a coincidence or a deliberate attempt of the BJP government to undermine Christians and Christianity.

Yoga as a form of physical exercise and activity had its origin and genesis in Hinduism. And many nonHindu people seem to be allergic to the concept and practice of Yoga because of this irrefutable fact. For many Christian Nagas, practicing yoga or having anything to do with yoga might be tantamount to practicing Hinduism and discarding their Christian faith.

Undeniably, there may be certain rudiments in yoga which have direct connotations of worshipping Hindu deities and there may also be certain postures with deep symbolic Hindu themes. And therefore when some people (non-Hindus) are apprehensive and concerned about practicing yoga, their apprehensions and concerns are all too reasonable and justifiable.

However, apart from this, I believe that practicing yoga as a form of physical exercise can do much more good than harm. Most of the body stretches, twisting and breathing done in Yoga are nothing but plain aerobic exercises. Aerobic exercises are those exercises that are intended to improve the intake of oxygen and its movement in the human body. So when we do yoga, we are actually doing aerobic exercises that are doing wonders to our cardiovascular system by improving the intake of oxygen and carrying much needed oxygen to our most vital inner organs. Physiologists would all agree that people who are involved in aerobic exercises on a regular basis are bound to enjoy a much more healthier and longer lives than others. So if one can view and practice yoga as a form of aerobic exercise only (minus its religious connotations), I believe that it can do wonders to our bodies by drastically rejuvenating our cardiovascular system and vital inner organs.

Many hate exercise because they identify exercise with getting up early in the morning and running or walking a considerable distance. Thus, space, proper environment, time and ego become hindrances even before they start their exercise routine. Some others identify exercise with body building and feel that they may have to be a part of some gym or have certain equipments with them. In these scenarios, aerobic exercises can be of great help and substitute. Some of the advantages of aerobic exercises are: 1) It does not require space.

2) It can be done anytime anywhere.

3) It does not need any equipment.

4) The chances of pulling a muscle or two are very rare.

5) It does not lead to fatigue or drowsiness.

6) It does wonders to our body by revitalizing our cardiovascular system and by taking oxygen to our most vital inner organs.

And I believe that all these attributes of aerobic exercises can also be superbly experienced through

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OT long after I moved from the United States to South Africa six years ago, I took a walk in a city called Bloemfontein.

The scale of the downtown is huge, reflecting the ambitions of South Africa’s white settlers. The avenues feel as wide as highways, the department stores soar.

Statues of military leaders and politicians from South Africa’s white-ruled past keep watch over the street corners.

But the top-floor windows of the department stores were dark. When apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, the formerly whites-only downtown rapidly became black-dominated. The department stores ceded to African hair salons, storefront churches and tailors selling the colorful dresses favored by Bloemfontein’s liberated black majority. These sellers prefer to be seen at street level.

The shops reminded me of flowers sprouting out of the hull of a shipwreck.

Above them loomed the hulks of the dreams of an earlier era, one in which Cecil John Rhodes, the famous British colonialist, could write in 1877 that “we” — the Anglo-Saxons — “are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.”

I felt awed by the way South Africa’s black majority, barred from the country’s centers of power for many years by racial segregation, had adapted, apparently very quickly, to the infrastructure that was already there. They had adjusted it to their particular, vibrant uses. But I also wondered what it felt like to live in the buildings devised by your former oppressors, among the statues of their heroes.

How long could they look at those statues and not want to tear them down?

Not that long, it turned out. South Africa has been convulsed this year by protests on this very issue: how to live as free people in the physical infrastructure of the past. The conflict is also metaphorical. In March, students at the University of Cape Town demanded that a statue of Rhodes be removed from campus, and in April it came down.

Young people called for the removal of other statues of colonial heroes in Cape Town and the capital, Pretoria. In October, after tuition increases, university students around the country boycotted

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practicing yoga.

The most vocal and prominent advocate of yoga in present day India would be Baba Ramdev. I think he came to Nagaland also sometime back and taught about the benefits of practicing yoga triggering a mixed response from many Naga Cristians. Many Christian Nagas would love to hate and despise Baba Ramdev because he happens to be a fanatic Hindu and a hardcore proponent of yoga with its deep rooting in Hinduism. Many Nagas may hate him simply because he is always dressed like a sadhu wearing saffron robes and sporting long beard.

But when it comes to the health statistics, I am afraid to say that Ramdev may be someone who is actually a hundred times healthier and vibrant than most indolent and hibernating pork eating Naga Christians.

I always feel refreshed and inspired by people with healthy physiques and Baba Ramdev is certainly one such fellow even though I am not a fan of him.

Now, the Bible says that our body is the temple of God. But I am afraid most of us are not doing enough to keep His temple pure and holy…. simply because we don’t eat the right kind of food and we don’t do the right kind of things.

There is also a saying that a healthy mind can reside only in a healthy body. This means that one can meditate fruitfully only if his body is in the right physical state. Here again, to bring our physiques to this level, one has to not only eat the right quality and quantity of food but also supplement the body with the right kind of activities and movements.

Another saying goes “one does not live to eat….. but he eats to live”. But sadly, a peep into the lifestyle of an average Naga would reveal that most of us are not eating to live but simply living to eat. A usual Naga day begins with tea and snacks followed by a heavy morning meal which is usually composed of our favourite pork curry.

After consuming this heavy morning meal to our hearts’ content, many of us usually supplement the morning

consumption by chewing pan, tamul, tobacco or snuffing cigarettes or bidis the whole day. Our evening meal is usually even heavier than the morning meal because in the evening we are usually tired from the day’s work of eating delicacies the whole day. Thus the whole day we hardly give any rest to our mouths, tongues, food pipes, esophagus, stomach, intestines etc. Coupled with all these is the fact that none of us walks these days because all of us are proud owners of posh cars. So with this kind of lifestyles, it is no surprise that cases of diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes, paralysis, heart attacks and cancers are on the rise in Nagaland. It is really sad to see even most of our middle-aged people (forget about the senior citizens) afflicted with one or the other ailment. And with the Christmas season already here, I am sure many indolent and hibernate Nagas might have already planned to spend the season by eating, drinking, sleeping and partying and the thought of indulging in any healthy physical activity might be nowhere near their realm of things.

Yet we boast flamboyantly that we are Naga Christians, believers of the true living God and people who were saved from eternal sin and death some 140 years ago when we were brought the gospel by the American missionaries. But it seems we still have not learnt to care for our body, what to eat and what not to eat, what to do and what not to do to live a long, healthy and happy life and yet, we continue to despise and ridicule others’ beliefs, culture, way of life and philosophies without first thoroughly examining ourselves. It is said that “science does not need religion to exist and religion also does not need science to exist… but man need both”. Yes I believe that there may also be ideas, ideals and practices in other people’s culture, way of life and philosophies that can splendidly supplement our way of life, thoughts and beliefs and enable us to reach even greater heights and satisfaction in our physical as well as spiritual lives…

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their classes, saying that the higher fees would harm poor, mostly black students, and moreover that their campuses still prioritized the history, the literature and the emotional needs of white students rather than black ones.

These protests are remarkably similar to those now occurring in the United States. Students in South Africa alleged that the older generation of activists had betrayed them. At the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, tearful black students surrounded a top administrator, himself a person of color — just as anguished students at Yale surrounded Jonathan Holloway, the school’s first African-American dean, on the main quad.

At Stellenbosch University outside Cape Town, students occupied an administration building, just as two dozen black students at Towson University in Maryland did in November. The debate over whether Princeton’s buildings named for Woodrow Wilson cause black students pain perfectly echoes the University of Cape Town’s conversation over its statue of Rhodes.

In America, people have been talking about student protests as if they were a particularly American phenomenon — either a result of the distinctive legacy of American racism or, as the critics would have it, a byproduct of helicopter parenting, of grade inflation, of our cultural obsession with affirmation. We coddle our kids, the theory goes, and now they’re demanding a feeling of safety from any kind of danger because they’re fragile.

But how could helicopter parenting explain the same phenomenon occurring halfway across the world in a society known for its absent parents, not its overprotective ones?

In fact, all of these students, whether they are in America or South Africa, are making their demands because they’re feeling more powerful. In South Africa, black students now make up the majority on most university campuses. They’re now willing to criticize their universities, asking for an administration attentive to their financial and emotional priorities and for the statuary and the building names on campus not to honor people associated with a history of black dispossession. They’re no longer happy to see one campus African studies center devoted to black intellectual thought, reminding them that black thought is still considered by academia to be a counterpoint and an accessory to thought itself.

They make these critiques in the form of what can seem like very insistent demands that brook no compromise.

That aggressiveness captures a yearning: to be the deciders in their world and no longer the petitioners.

In America, we’ve been focused on the first word in the phrase “safe space.”

We should be focused on the second.

These student protests are about space and who wields power within it.

They’re a subset of a bigger range of protests now erupting all over the world.

In the Netherlands, protesters have demonstrated against Zwarte Piet, the blackface jester who’s a feature of the country’s Christmas parades. Zwarte Piet’s defenders argue that the figure’s origins were not racist. The protesters’ rejoinder has been: Who are you to decide? In Australia, people in Melbourne demonstrated against racially discriminatory random visa checks. In Brazil, a new civil rights movement has emerged to give land to descendants of former slaves. The students who object to Princeton’s buildings named for Wilson represent merely a corner of a second, global anti-racism movement, one probably still in its infancy.

This movement takes on not who has the right to have access to our public squares, as the first civil rights movements did, but who owns them.

In South Africa, there’s an idea that has hovered at the fringes of the national consciousness ever since the establishment of Nelson Mandela’s first democratic government in 1994: the “second transition,” also called the “second revolution.” South Africans weren’t exactly sure what it would entail, only that another great political, economic, social, even psychological and moral upheaval felt bound to happen. For many, even some black architects of liberation, it was a frightening concept, best filed away to the unopened cabinet at the back of the mind. The first revolution, after all, had been so painful to achieve.

And yet the dissonance engendered by daily life in the post-apartheid country was too uncomfortable to ignore. On their way to and from the Cape Town train station, black workers pass through a gantlet of 19th-century white military heroes. South Africa’s secondary school curriculum is now under review, but throughout the 2000s, black students studied a history curriculum that began in the 15th century, as if places came into being only with European contact. To

be taken seriously, young black professionals feel pressure to “twang,” or speak with a “whiter” accent, on work calls. In 1994, black people achieved their freedom, yet they still lived in a society that communicated that white people’s history and habits were the ones to respect.

But everybody knew that sooner or later many features of the society itself would have to be renegotiated.

For some 50 years, since our civil rights movement, we’ve held up the idea that equality in the form of tolerance and integration is the pinnacle of justice. I sometimes wonder if that derived, in part, from exhaustion after all the grinding conflicts of the 20th century. We wanted to believe we could have a society without power struggles. This was naïve. It pretends there’s no such thing as a public culture, no such thing as territory, and no such thing as the desire to see ourselves commensurately represented within it.

As American demographics changed, as people we once consigned to minority status became more and more prominent in public life, we were never going to avoid having our own version of the “second transition.”

Even in South Africa, there’s the sense that the country is still at the beginning of its upheaval — one that could be dangerous. It threatens to both erase a culture and to sow anger and division among black and white people who still, in myriad ways, rely on and need one another.

But Bloemfontein, where I walked soon after I arrived in South Africa, contains a clue to how this cultural renegotiation might be managed. At the University of the Free State, there’s a dormitory called Karee, named for a South African desert tree. In the late 2000s, the dormitory’s student council began a project to debate and reconsider every element of the dormitory culture, from the pictures on the wall to the way festive days were handled to the tea ceremony each afternoon.

Before this project began, people thought it would be joyless. And for some students, it was. But for others, including some who didn’t expect to enjoy it, it was thrilling. These were the ones, both black and white, who brought an attitude of curiosity to the endeavor — about themselves and about the other people who inhabited their dormitory.

It was listening that made the difference.

Why is this painting important to me?

Why is that ritual valuable to you? What roots and dreams do we share?

he greatest and the most precious asset of a country is its people as it is they who exploit all natural resources and potentials of a region. These people form the wealth of a nation. It is on the quality of citizens that the prosperity of a nation depends. If we look back into the history of civilisations, this hypothesis becomes crystal clear. This was the main reason behind the economic revolution achieved by some countries, badly battered, ravaged and ruined during the Second World War. For example, Germany and Japan were virtually shattered and their economies were in a shambles. But with organisational skill, talent, vigour, inventive genius and indomitable spirit of their people, they achieved, within a short span, a measure of a momentous miracle. They not only rejuvenated their own economies, but also sent their surplus produce to the nations who needed them.

They accomplished this task by the optimum utilisation of their precious manpower. What does human resource development mean? It signifies identifying and developing the capabilities inherent in every citizen to its full extent. Health and education for a person is more important than land and capital. Illhealth brings suffering, loss of employment, inefficiency and extra expenditure.

The first priority programmes for human resource development us, therefore, extending relief to the poverty-stricken millions of our brethren so that they can overcome their physical and mental disabilities. The next task that must engage the attention of those trying to development the human resources, is to provide the requisite facilities for a purposeful training of the available manpower, so that its creative abilities are cultivated and it is equipped with the skills needed to perform a productive role and contribute to the maximum prosperity of the maximum number. This is where education and technical training step in to play their crucial role and weave a path of creativity so that these people can tread on it to accomplish their goals. After the available human raw material has thus been harnessed, productive potential can come into play in a full measure .How important this stage is, in the development of human resources, is illustrated by the Indian example. Often it is said that India had a great reservoir of manpower, second in the world to be exact. Even then, so far as productivity is concerned, the country still lags behind many countries, having less population.

Why is it so? The only answer is that the human resources of India are not adequately expoited, both physically and mentally. For this, job attitude has to be inculcated among the workers and serious attention has to be inculcated among the workers and serious attention paid to the introduction of efficient management.

The complex array of goals achieved, calls for a multi-directional effort.Fortunately, India is realising the importance of such a programme, and has now set up a separate ministry for the development of human resources. How much success we achieve in this programme will depend on how seriously the people who are at the helm of affairs in that department, take this challenge of all time and how much” vision they display in harnessing the most important precious gift of nature to any nation.”

Human resource is an important factor of economic development. As opined by Adam Smith the prosperity of a country is determined by the skill, efficiency and attitude of the labour used by that country. Many countries have been able to develop themselves due to their will, capacity and skill of their human resources. As for example, the countries like Japan, Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong have been able to achieve economic miracle by mobilising their human resource.It increase the managerial capacity and entrepreneurship. It leads to innovation.The new production technique; new market and new technology are developed. This increase the production and national income. Human resource helps directly to remove the economic backwardness. It increase labour efficiently and specialisation. It increases labour mobility from which the executing resources can be made more productivity. The development of human resources increases the knowledge of natural resources.

New production technique, market and opportunities of the economic activities. The human resources also help in the proper utilisation of imported capital. These all lead to the increase in production, employment opportunities and levels of living of people.

The utilisation of human resources compensates the deficiency of natural resources have been able to achieve high economic and human development on the basis of human resources. The more existence of physical capital is on guaranteed of development.

They should be properly utilised. They are utilised by human resource. It is essential to operate machinery and equipment and to run factories and industry. There is a close relationship between population and economic development. The more development is the human resource of a country the more developed is that country as a whole.

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'Talks with Pak will start new chapter of peace'

New Delhi, December 14 (iANS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday expressed the hope that the renewed dialogue between India and Pakistan will open a new chapter of peace and development in the region.

Making a statement on her visit to Pakistan in both houses of parliament, Sushma Swaraj said it was decided that a "Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue" will start and foreign secretaries of the two countries will work out the modalities under the "new dialogue".

"The new dialogue, we sincerely hope, marks a new beginning also for peace and development in the whole region," she said.

Sushma Swaraj said India emphasised the need to speed up the judicial process in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack by Pakistani terrorists.

The minister said her meetings with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz in Islamabad were held against the backdrop of "positive developments" of the talks earlier between the two national security advisers in Bangkok.

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India has raised the issue of 26/11 and asked Pakistan to expedite the trial process, says External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the Rajya Sabha. (File Photo)

"Both sides condemned terrorism and resolved to cooperate to eliminate this menace. There we dwelt on the need for Pakistan to expedite the Mumbai terrorist attack trial," Sushma Swaraj said.

"The Indian side was assured of the steps being taken to expedite its early conclusion."

"This government ac-

cords the highest priority to the country's security. In order to meet the threats, the government will take all steps, including through diplomatic channels," she added.

"At the same time, the government is also committed to building an environment of peaceful and cooperative relations with all our neighbours, includ-

ing Pakistan, so that the efforts for peace and development in South Asia, initiated by the government on the day of assuming office itself, are taken further forward," she said.

The minister said there were two aims of the dialogue: Addressing the issues of concern through dialogue, and establishing cooperative relations.

iSlAmAbAD, December 14 (iANS): It would be an excellent step to see permission extended to "allow Indian and Pakistani nationals to transit through each other's airports without a visa", said an influential Pakistani daily on Monday.

An editorial "Telecom agreement" in the Dawn said that the permission given by the government to communication providers - telecommunication and Internet - to sign agreements with neighbouring countries is a very positive step and should be expanded further."At the outset, the impact of the permission will be limited as private operators begin developing relationships across the borders, and growth will be constrained by the limited number of people travelling to neighbouring countries, except China.

"For example, the permission She said that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pakistan Premier Sharif during the Conference of Parties (CoP) 21 climate change summit meeting in Paris on November 30, “there was a discussion on how the two countries could build an atmosphere conducive for again re-engaging with each other”.

“Following PM's con-

could extend to providing roaming services to Pakistani cellular users in India or Iran, but the small number of people who use this facility, particularly for travel to neighbouring countries, can only mean little growth," it said. The daily observed that the agreement is an important measure to build further contacts across borders.

"In the days to come, it would be an excellent step to see the permission extended to allow Indian and Pakistani nationals to transit through each other’s airports without a visa," it said.

The editorial noted that expanding ties such as these "build durable grounds for greater economic cooperation, which ought to be a shared goal towards which both countries can once again aspire given the thaw in the relations between them ever

versation with PM Nawaz Sharif in Paris, the two leaders decided that both sides should hold the NSA-level meeting,” Sushma Swaraj said. The national security advisers met in Bangkok on December 6.

"They focused on peace and security, terrorism, tranquility along the Line of Control, and Jammu and Kashmir, the state which

since that fleeting interaction between the prime ministers of both countries in Paris recently".

It went on to say that "better telecommunication links between Pakistani and Indian providers can also hopefully grow towards greater sharing of each other’s networks for faster speed"."Pakistan’s relative isolation from its own neighbours is a crucial constraint to its growth, and overcoming this is a long-haul process that will be marked by steps of this sort. It will take far more than road links to profitably benefit from an expansion in ties." The editorial said that allowing new business models to flourish as the nature of cooperation and connectivity deepens among all neighbouring countries will be crucial to leveraging the opportunities opened up various initiatives.

has been most directly impacted by terrorism and violation of LoC," she said.

“My visit to Islamabad for the Heart of Asia Conference came two days after the constructive talks between NSAs on issues related to security, terrorism, etc. My meetings with PM Nawaz Sharif and Sartaj Aziz in Islamabad were held in the backdrop of this

positive development.”

Sushma Swaraj's statement was made earlier in the Rajya Sabha amid din as Congress members trooped near the chairman's podium and raised slogans.

While the statement was barely audible in the Rajya Sabha, the Lok Sabha was in order when the statement was made after lunch break.

Respect rights & sensitivities of minorities: President Pranab RS disrupted repeatedly KolKATA, December 14 (iANS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday called for respecting the rights and sensitivities of minorities, both in letter and spirit, and eliminating forces that divide society.

Delivering the Indira Gandhi Memorial Lecture (2013) on National Integration of the Asiatic Society here, he also stressed on the awareness about "limitations and mistakes of the past which gave rise to problems of inequality" in the country.

"Let us create on the foundation of our intrinsic unity, a strong and compassionate nation respected around the world. Let there be no forces that divide our society. Let us consolidate our thoughts around a common vision of a great nation,"

Mukherjee said.

The President said the state must do its best to reduce regional imbalances and provide a just, fair and good administration which will ensure equal treatment to every citizen, irrespective of his caste, religion, race, colour, sex or place of birth.

Mukherjee requested the citizens to rise above caste or communal loyalties and underscored the need for cultivating a secular and democratic outlook and ensuring inclusivity of every community in the national narrative.

"We must encourage a broad human outlook in all our citizens and educate them to rise above caste or communal loyalties."

"We must learn to respect the rights and sensitivities of minori-

ties, both in letter and spirit. We must cultivate a secular and democratic outlook, and promote a way of life that is inclusive and does not interfere with civic duties and rights as well as responsibilities of individuals,"he said.

"We must strive to maintain an atmosphere where every community feels a part of the national narrative," he added. The President said sometimes regional interest overtook national commitments, and urged everyone to guard against it.

"National integration demands that every citizen recognise the primacy of national interest over group or individual interests.

Sometimes, it does happen that regional interests overtake our commitment to the national interest.

We have to guard against any such tendency," he said.

The President described national integration as "essential for the idea of India to grow" and highlighted the role of the academic community to promote national integration. He urged Indians to learn about the nation's history, and spoke about learning from the mistakes of the past.

"As with every other country, our beauty, achievement and potential for future growth are peppered with some deficiencies and failures. Every Indian citizen must also be aware of our mistakes of the past and limitations which have created problems of inequality in our midst."

Mukherjee batted for ingraining the concept of unity in diver-

Twenty-four monuments Govt does away with paperwork in registration of NGOs All kinds of application forms Delhi, December 14 are untraceable in India: ASI New (PTi): In a key digitisation initia- can now be filled online, docu-

New Delhi, December 14 (PTi): As many as 24 monuments have been declared "untraceable" by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Lok Sabha was informed today. Out of these, 11 monuments are in Uttar Pradesh, two each in Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan, while one each in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. "24 monuments are missing/untraceable," Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply in Lok Sabha. He said a CAG report of 2013 had stated that 92 protected monuments were missing.

Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma , however, said vigorous efforts to locate the reportedly untraceable monuments by respective field offices of ASI found that as many as 24 monuments/sites were untraceable, adding that 42 were physically existed, 14 affected due to rapid urbanization, and 12 submerged under reservoir/dam.The Minister said the procedures to find out untraceable monuments involve verification of old record, revenue maps, referring published reports, physical inspections and deployment of teams to trace the missing monuments.

tive, Government today put the entire registration process of NGOs for receiving foreign funds online.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said all services offered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010 are made online, reducing human interface to minimum.

Singh, who launched the revamped website of the foreigners division of his Ministry, hoped the new initiative will offer applicants the seamless services of FCRA with adequate ease and facilitation. Simultaneously, the amended rules (Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2015) are also being notified.

ments can be uploaded online and even payment of fee etc. can be made online. All types of queries and replies to the applicants will be made through emails.

Even digitally signed registration certificates, prior permission sanctions will be issued to the applicants through emails.

The main changes are: applications for registration, prior permission and renewal of registration under FCRA, 2010 will be accepted online, all documents with the application will be uploaded online, all intimations will be required under FCRA, 2010 including annual

Kejriwal, Rahul, Prabhu in war of words over child's death New Delhi, December 14 (iANS): Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi were locked in a war of words on Monday over the razing of hutments here and the death of a child of one of the hundreds left homeless in the winter chill.

The grieving father of the sixmonth-old baby insisted that the girl died in the panic caused by the imminent demolition of hutments at Shakur Basti in west Delhi on Saturday where they lived. The autopsy report said the death occurred due to head and chest injuries besides shock.

Prabhu told the Lok Sabha this was untrue and that the child died before the railways started pulling down the hutments they said were built illegally on railway land to make way for new rail lines.

Since the demolition, the hutment dwellers are living in the open, at the site, under canvas tents. Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said it was determined to provide food and shelter to the poor.

On Monday, accompanied

by Delhi Congress president

HC slams railways for 'inhuman' demolition drive New Delhi, December 14 (iANS): Slamming the railways for its "inhuman" demolition drive in the capital, the Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to it, police and city government and directed them to make a coordinated action plan for rehabilitation of the displaced residents.

A bench headed by Justice S. Murlidhar sought response from Indian railways, police and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) by December 16 while hearing a plea filed by Congress leader Ajay Maken seeking direction for authorities to ensure that all displaced persons are immediately rehabilitated in temporary relief camps and shelter homes.

The bench asked the railways whether a survey was done and proper rehabilitation arrangements were made before the demolition drive in Shakur Basti area of west Delhi. The counsel for railway was unable to give a reply to the court's query.

Ajay Maken, Rahul Gandhi met the displaced men, women and children and vowed to fight for their rights.

Gandhi said: "We will try to help you... We will fight for you...

We will raise the issue in parliament."

Gandhi's office tweeted that both the central and Delhi governments were to blame for the

Observing that the railways was in a hurry to demolish the shanties in Shakur Basti, the bench asked: "What was the tearing hurry to demolish Shakur Basti JJ cluster in December?"

It also sought details of the Shakur Basti residents and asked all agencies to distribute blankets, food and medicines.

More than 500 hutments were demolished by railways authorities on Saturday, leaving hundreds homeless in the winter chill. An infant allegedly died during the drive.

Appearing for Maken, advocate Aman Panwar sought court's direction for authorities to "immediately carry out a survey and prepare a list of those affected/ displaced in the demolition drive".

"Authorities have caused serious and irreparable injury of life and property to the residents of the slums/jhuggies without providing rehabilitation as required by law," said Maken's plea.

Saturday demolition. "Now they are busy blaming each other.

"Instead, they should provide help to the people who have been displaced and rehabilitate them."

Kejriwal promptly hit back, saying Gandhi was a "kid" who did not know that the railways which carried out the razing was controlled by the central, not Delhi, government.

Prabhu promised to invite Kejriwal to discuss how people left homeless due to the demolition could be rehabilitated and how public land could be put to use.

He said the demolition was carried out after sending repeated notices to people at Shakur Basti to vacate the land.

Calling the hutments an encroachment, Prabhu said they

over Dalit atrocities

sity in the youth. "All Indians must learn about the people who came here from different parts of the world and made their own contribution to the splendid mosaic that Indian culture is.," he said.

"Knowledge about different religions and great saints who took birth here should be part and parcel of everyone's education. Every Indian must be familiar with our age-old contacts with the outside world and our contributions to world civilization."

"Most important of all, the basic unity that keeps us together amidst the immense diversity of our peoples, ethnicities, languages and cultures should be ingrained in every individual New Delhi, December 14 (iANS): The Rajya Sabcitizen, especially the youth," ha was disrupted repeatedly on Monday over what the he said.

Congress termed "atrocities" on Dalits in Punjab, as party leaders protested the gruesome chopping of limbs of two Dalit men in Abohar district.

As the first half of the day was marred by disruptions, the government tried to take up the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment returns accepted online.

Bill but that only fuelled the ruckus further.

Fee for various services will be The disruptions in the Rajya Sabha began as soon as paid through payment gateway, the house met in the morning. External Affairs Minister the condition of applying for re- Sushma Swaraj's statement on her Pakistan visit last week newal one year before the expiry was drowned in an uproar by Congress members who of existing registration certificate demanded action against the Punjab government over for associations implementing alleged atrocities against Dalits. multi-year project is removed.To As the external affairs minister stood up to read out make the receipt and utilisation her statement, Congress members trooped to the chairof foreign contribution by asso- man's podium, calling the government "anti-Dalit" and ciation transparent, associations sought the dismissal of the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiroare required to place the annual mani Akali Dal coalition government in Punjab. returns and such data quarterly The minister read out her statement amid the sloganon their website or website as eering and hence was not clearly audible. prescribed by the central govAn upset Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien told the proernment. Information regarding Facebook page, Twitter handle testing members: "It is most undemocratic, unfortunate and other personal details of the that a few members take the house to ransom."

The house was briefly adjourned but when it met office bearers of the donor oragain, the scene was no different. ganisation is also optional.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the state government will take action on the issue.

Limbs of two men were chopped off on Saturday at a farmhouse allegedly owned by a leader of the ruling Akali Dal in Punjab, as per media reports.

One of the men, Bheem Tank, died on way to the hoshad become an impediment for pital after both his hands and legs were cut off. Gurjant building a new passenger termi- Singh, who lost one hand, was admitted to a hospital in nal and were also a safety hazard. Amritsar in a serious condition.

In the Lok Sabha, AAP's Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Bhagwant Mann said the razing Azad said there was no law and order in the state. was an "atrocity on the poor".

"The (Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party) coOn Monday, the Delhi gov- alition government in Punjab is a government of drug and ernment again blamed the alcohol mafia. There is no law and order," he said. central government and the In response, Shiromani Akali Dal member Balwinder railways for the "inhuman" anti- Singh Bhunder said the man in question was not an SAD encroachment drive carried out member and added that an FIR was registered and action in the absence of a rehabilitation is being taken. programme for those evicted.

Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati called the inci"It will be difficult to compen- dent "shameful" and said the liquor mafia in the state was sate people who have been living responsible for the crime. on the (railway) land for 20-30 As the ruckus continued, the house was adjourned years," Delhi Minister Satyendra till noon.

Jain said.

The scene remained the same when the house met "This is an inhuman act. Were again, and Chairman M. Hamid Ansari adjourned the any arrangements made to reha- house first till 12.30 p.m. and then till 2 p.m. bilitate these people? It is central When the house again met at 2 p.m., Congress leader government's policy that till al- Anand Sharma said a trust holding a function to unveil ternate arrangements are made, the statue of former Kerala chief minister R. Sankar, had no demolition can take place," he invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Kerala Chief said. The minister said the baby Minister Oommen Chandy. However, the invitation to died during the demolition.

Chandy was withdrawn after pressure from the central Kejriwal said earlier that he government, he alleged. sought an appointment with Soon after, the government tried to take up the the Railway Minister Prabhu.

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention The Trinamool Congress, of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, but the opposition continwhich has sided with the AAP ued to create ruckus. on select issues, announced its The house was then adjourned till 3 p.m. When it reasreadiness to join an AAP demon- sembled, the government again tried to push the bill, but stration in parliament complex the opposition refused to relent.Kurien later adjourned the house for the day. against the demolition.

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How the world learned its lesson & got a climate deal PARIS, DecembeR 14 (ReuteRS): It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy.

Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal. The decision to reassemble in Paris to try again at getting almost 200 countries to sign a pact on cutting carbon emissions was a gamble: another collapse could the end world’s ability to forge a common approach to dealing with climate change.

And no political leader wanted his reputation stained by a repeat of the debacle in Copenhagen. So there was no detail of hospitality too small for the French hosts this time, no country negotiator who would go unflattered by Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister who presided over the conference.

Fabius had been the youngest French prime minister in history in the 1980s; now he was an elder statesman looking to carve a bigger place in it.

Over two weeks under the global spotlight, his sonorous voice and relentless optimism would come to define the public tone of the proceedings.

But behind the scenes, the talks witnessed the confrontations and five-past-midnight compromises to be expected when sleep-deprived negotiators from almost every country in the world are supposed to

French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (R), President-designate of COP21 and Christiana Figueres (L), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, embrace Laurence Tubiana, French head negotiator, as they react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris on December 12. (REUTERS Photo)

come to a consensus.

They ultimately found it, remarkably only one day later than planned. But the path to the standing ovations at the end was strewn with disputes over money, the emergence of an effective new climate coalition of states, and hours of wrangling over what “should” or “shall” be done.

Ki-moon complained that the political leaders had not been well-prepared for the Copenhagen meeting, and this time he and the French conducted extensive advance work to get other leaders personally engaged.

They also decided that, if leaders were to come to Paris, they would do so at the beginning to lend the talks some poFRENCH WAYS litical oxygen, rather than arrivFor the survivors of Copen- ing for a scramble at the end. hagen, the key to success in ParSo on Nov. 30, the sprawling is would be preparation. conference hall near the Le BourU.N. Secretary General Ban get airfield on the outskirts of

Paris hosted world leaders, who were supposed to deliver three minutes of encouragement. Fabius wandered the conference centre before they arrived, tapping microphones and checking the video monitors under a podium made of recycled wood.

“Ah, we have Prince Charles,” he said to an aide, consulting the speakers’ list.

The opening day speeches were seen as a success. UN officials were relieved at the relatively cooperative tone from Russian President Vladimir

In education push, Tanzania prepares to punish parents of children out of school DAR eS SALAAm, DecembeR 14 (thomSoN ReuteRS FouNDAtIoN): As Tanzania prepares to introduce free basic education for all, the government has warned that it will punish parents who fail to ensure their children go to school.

In a major policy shift, primary and secondary schooling will be free for all Tanzanian children from January, as the government joins its East African neighbour Uganda in offering universal education free of charge.

George Masaju, Tanzania’s attorney general, warned that parents deemed to be holding back efforts to create a literate society by keeping children out of school would face punishment.

“Causing a child to drop from school for any reason is a criminal offence because you offend his fundamental right of being educated,” Masaju said late last month at a graduation ceremony at Feza School in Dar es Salaam.

The government’s move to scrap fees in pri-

mary schools in 2002 has helped to increase primary enrolment to 94 percent of children aged 7 to 13 years in 2011 from 59 percent in 2000, according to UNICEF. But parents still had to pay for extras like school books and uniform as well as school fees for some secondary schools.

The new policy aims to free families from any fees and contributions for 11 years of schooling.

While it is already compulsory for parents to send their children to class, parents have not been penal-

Argentine police bus crashes, 42 dead bueNoS AIReS, DecembeR 14 (ReuteRS): A bus carrying Argentine border patrol officers crashed into a ravine in the northern province of Salta on Monday, killing 42 people, while nine were being treated for injuries, provincial emergency official Francisco Marinaro told local television.

“We have 42 dead so far,” he said in a TV interview from the scene, where an overturned bus was shown, swarmed with emergency workers. Nine people were rescued and being treated in local clinics.

“The bus fell about 18 meters (59 feet),” Marinaro said. The vehicle was part of a three-bus convoy carrying officers of Argentina’s gendarmerie, which patrols the

country’s borders.

Salta borders Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay. Passengers on the other two buses were the first people on site to attempt to save the officers trapped in the wreckage, officials said.

Border security has become a hot issue in Argentina as the country has emerged as part of a route used for smuggling Andean cocaine to Europe and for human traffickers sending Syrian refugees to the Western Hemisphere.

President Mauricio Macri, elected last month on a platform that included improving Argentina’s rural roads, sent his condolences to families of the victims of the crash.

ised in the past.

In a poor country where agriculture employs more than 80 percent of the workforce, Tanzanian children are sometimes kept at home to work in the fields or to sell fruit and vegetables in the cities.

From January, errant parents will be fined, but officials have yet to determine by how much, said an official at the Ministry of Education.

However, unlike in Uganda where the constitution provides for the enforcement of the right to education, in Tanzania no law criminalises parents who fail to put children in class.

Globally, the number of out-of-school children rose by 2.4 million between 2010 and 2013, reaching a total of more than 59 million, according to UNESCO. Of those, 30 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.

While Tanzania is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on education - by enrolling more than 90 percent of children in primary schools, abolishing fees and building schools in every village - teachers and experts say the education system is still struggling.

Human rights lawyer stands trial in China beIJING, DecembeR 14 (ReuteRS): he trial of one of China’s most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours on Monday, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court. Pu Zhiqiang, who has spent nearly 19 months in detention, faces up to eight years in prison if convicted, according to one of his lawyers, Shang Baojun.

As many as 11 diplomats from countries including the United States, Germany and France congregated near the courthouse seeking to observe the trial. They were refused admittance by the police.

Dan Biers, deputy political counsellor of the U.S. embassy in Beijing, called for Pu’s release and criticised the “vague charges” that have been handed down against Pu. Police tried to prevent Biers from reading out a statement near the courthouse, pushing him and foreign reporters out of the way. Dozens of police and plain clothes security surrounded the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court, where they blocked foreign journalists attempting to report on the trial.

Neither the court nor public security authorities could immediately be reached for comment. The For-

eign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

China has charged many rights activists with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, saying it is a country with rule of law and dismissing any international criticism on its rights record.

The main accusations against Pu revolve around seven microblog posts on his online accounts, his lawyers say. The posts had criticised China’s ethnic policy in the troubled western region of Xinjiang and denounced several officials.

Pu’s trial lasted a little over three hours, Mo Shaoping, another one of his lawyers, told Reuters.

“He admitted the seven microblogs were written by him, there was no issue with it, this is a fact,” Mo said, recounting what Pu said in court.

“Secondly, he said that if these microblog posts had caused injury to other people, he apologises for it.

Thirdly, he had no intention to incite ethnic hatred or pick quarrels and provoke trouble.” Mo said the court did not ask Pu specifically whether he was pleading guilty.

CLAMP-DOWN Pu’s case will be seen by rights groups and the West as a measure of what they say is the most severe clampdown on human rights in two

decades in China.“Pu’s trial is extremely important - he’s the ultimate canary in the coalmine,” said Maya Wang, a China researcher for Human Rights Watch. “If they decide to be harsh against him, I’d say it’ll signify a further escalation of hostility towards human rights activism.”

Pu has represented many wellknown dissidents, including artist Ai Weiwei and activists of the “New Citizens’ Movement”, a group that has called on Chinese leaders to make their wealth public.

Despite being pushed back by the police, about 40 supporters gathered outside the courthouse and chanted slogans to show their solidarity with Pu. Pu, 50, was detained in May 2014 after he attended a meeting in a private home to commemorate the suppression of pro-democracy protests in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989. Pu, who had participated in the protests, had vowed to commemorate the anniversary every year.

Authorities had rejected his lawyers’ request for medical parole earlier in September, his lawyer Shang Baojun said.

In the past two years, the government has launched a crackdown on online rumours, detained hundreds of human rights lawyers in a nationwide sweep, and jailed a journalist on a charge of leaking state secrets.

Putin who was among several leaders who assured Ban privately before the outset that Russia would not block a deal, UN officials said later.

Fabius pulled together a team of officials and diplomats from across the French civil service to facilitate the talks. “He treated it less like a climate negotiation and more like a trade deal,” said one U.N. veteran of past climate talks.

He also constantly praised delegates for their hard work and insights, before telling them exactly what schedule of debate they had to follow to finish by their self-imposed deadline of Friday, Dec. 11.

He gave the job of writing the accord’s preamble to Venezuela’s minister Claudia Salerno, whose country had been perhaps the harshest critic of the Copenhagen process that was seen as a collusion of big powers dictating to small countries, making her personally vested in finding compromises.

Not all developing countries were easily won over, however.

A central sticking point throughout the talks was the degree to which the agreement would be legally binding on countries, especially the rich ones who are expected to provide the hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to cover the transition to a low carbon future.

The differences were expressed in wrangles over wording. Hard, legally binding com-

mitments were proceeded in the text as items that countries “shall” do. Those items that were simply good intentions fell into the “should” do category.

HALF A DEGREE CLOSER Facing unbudging demands to put their financial commitments into legal language, U.S. negotiators knew they had to break the poor vs. rich country divide. Their tactic was to sign up to a loose coalition of countries called the High Ambition Coalition.

The European Union takes credit for starting the group as far back as 2011, when it was a loose alliance between the EU and small island states.

As Paris approached, it expanded to include African, Caribbean and Pacific nations, developing an agenda that included the goal of keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels by the end of the 21st century.

The number had almost been banished from serious discussion ahead of Paris. But the American decision to “join” the High Ambition Coalition brought the 1.5 goal back into play, sweetened with pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars to help island and developing states mitigate the ill-effects of climate change.

Although the promise is only aspirational, the re-emergence of references to 1.5 de-

grees in the Paris text brought several influential developing countries into the U.S. camp.

Soon Canada joined, then Australia and Brazil, a collection of wealthy, heavy-polluting western countries marching into the plenary hall alongside the Marshall Islands.

China’s negotiators dismissed the High Ambition Coalition as a stunt. “This is a kind of performance by some members,” said Liu Zhenmin, deputy head of the China delegation.

But the solidarity of the developing nation bloc was broken.

LAST BRIDGES AND HICCUPS Climate change summits have developed a particular theatre of their own. In one moment, it was possible to see actor Alec Baldwin expressing his fears for the planet to journalists, across from an Indonesian pavilion hosting a party to show off its pilot green energy hospitals.

But much of the real work was done by people not even at Le Bourget. After visiting at the start, US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed roadblocks by telephone, and the two countries appeared to be mostly on the same page. Other housekeeping of the text was taken care of. Negotiators insured that a specific reference to climate effects on “occupied territories” was taken out to keep the politics focused on climate issues.

Want a fat salary? Go for a PhD New YoRk, DecembeR 14 (IANS): Doing a PhD may require you to invest a few extra years in education, but the degree can help you earn higherthan-average salaries, new research suggests.

Recipients of PhD degrees in the US earn high wages after graduation, participate in national and international labour markets, and make an important impact on local economic development, the findings show.

Almost 40% of these PhD graduates enter industry, where they are disproportionately hired at large and

high-wage establishments in technology and professional service industries.

“It (the study) is an important first step in providing policymakers the tools they need to assess the broader effects of investments in science,” said one of the lead researchers Paula Stephan from Georgia State University in the US. With the help of US Census Bureau data, the researchers examined employment and earnings outcomes of nearly 3,200 PhD graduates from 8 major research universities.

The study showed more than 20% of these doctoral

recipients remain in the state where they trained, about 13% within 50 miles of their university.

Only a small percentage of the PhD recipients entered government (4.1%) and the majority remained in academia (57.1%), many presumably taking a postdoctoral research position.

Seventeen percent of the PhD recipients worked in establishments owned by firms with research and development operations versus 10.8% of the US workforce.

The researchers also found the median US establishment employing these PhD recipients has a higher payroll per worker -more than $ 90,000 -- than the median US establishment owned by a research and development firm (just under $ 61,000) and the median US establishment (just over $33,000).

Fifty-one percent of these doctoral recipients work in establishments where per-worker payrolls exceed $100,000, the findings showed.

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Wagner 'miracle' sets up ‘We are Christians but our way of life is unchristian’ 122-run win for New Zealand I

DuNeDiN, December 14 (aFP): A "miracle ball" from the recalled Neil Wagner set New Zealand up for a 122-run win in the first Test on Monday as Sri Lanka folded with the loss of seven wickets on the final day.

New Zealand had set the Sri Lankans a formidable 405-run target but with sufficient time to get there on a non-threatening University Oval wicket.

The Sri Lanka batsmen, however, failed to show the necessary patience and were all out for 282 midway though the final day.

Resistance crumbled after Wagner, back in the side after a year out of Test cricket, captured the crucial scalp of Angelo Mathews, who had put on 56 with Dinesh Chandimal for the fourth wicket.

After being peppered by short deliveries targeting the rib cage, Mathews, on 25, was taken by surprise by a full-length delivery which rattled into his stumps.

His dismissal upset the rhythm of top-scorer Chandimal (58) who only lasted another 17 balls before he was beaten by Mitchell Santner.

Sri Lankan captain Mathews, who acknowledged being caught in a Wagner "trap", described the match as a learning experience for his young side.

"Most of the batters were solid in technique.

It's just the mindset that we've got to shift around a little bit," he said.

"We've got so many inexperienced guys at the moment, it'll take a bit of time to get going."

The comprehensive victory gave New Zealand their fourth consecutive win over Sri Lanka in the past three years.

Ducking for cover After a second-innings declaration at 267-3

by McCullum, Sri Lanka had more than five sessions to reach 405 or survive for the draw.

When they resumed Monday at 109-3, and with an extra half-hour tacked on to make up for three rain breaks the previous day, Sri Lanka were 296 runs behind.

But any hopes of a salvage job were built around the experienced Chandimal and Mathews digging in for a long stay at the crease.

New Zealand tried everything to break the partnership, including Trent Boult changing his grip which saw him lose control of one ball, forcing umpire Richard Kettleborough to duck for cover as it shot towards his head.

Finally it was Wagner who broke the partnership when he fired two short deliveries at Mathews.

At lunch, Sri Lanka were 224-6 with the final four wickets falling for the addition of 58 runs in 11 overs after the interval.

For New Zealand, Southee took three for 52 while Trent Boult, Wagner and Santner finished with two wickets each.

52nd VSU sports meet from today Kohima, December 14 (mexN): The 52nd sports meet of Viswema Students’ Union (VSU) cum Lt. Dr. Vizadel Sakhrie & Lt. Visakhol Sothu Memorial Trophy will take place from December 15 to 18 at John Government Higher Secondary School Viswema.

Puvil Kikhi, Project Officer,

Department of Land Resources & president VGOK will grace the meet as the chief guest while Adu Naleo, chairman Viswema Village Council will be the guest of honour.

The inaugural function will start from 8:30 AM onwards.

The function will be chaired by sports committee convenor Nokhriil Vitsu.

Viphitsol Mekro will administer oath to the participating teams.

The four day long sports meet will be marked by football (Men) Lt. Dr. Vizadel Sakhrie Memorial Trophy, volleyball (Men) Lt. Visakhol Sothu Memorial Trophy, Sepaktakraw (Women), Volleyball (Women), Kho.

The Nagaland Sepaktakraw Team (both boys and girls) during their participation in the 19th Junior National Sepaktakraw Championship which held at Bubaneshwar (Odisha) from December 3-6. The Boys won a Silver medal in Regu Event while the Girls Team won 2 Bronze medals in Regu and Double Event informed the State Sepaktakraw Coach, Holshe Khrieo.

praise God and thank Dr. Mazie Nakhro a servant of God for giving me this precious opportunity to share a matter which I have been extremely concerned about. It is, “IN THE WAY OF CHRIST ALL PROBLEMS CAN BE SETTLED.” This is the subject matter I am going to share with you .

Our people including me were in our forefathers’ religion known as animism which is a superstitious belief. We were then in darkness but now we are in the light of Christ. Jesus Christ is the true life and light. His way of life is perfect and his teachings are perfect. He is the true Prince of peace.

We the professed believers of Christ are called Christians.

So we have to live and to do in the way of Christ . We have to delight what Christ delights and to abhor what Christ abhors.

But the sad thing is that in many ways we opt for unchristian way of life. We are Christians but our

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way of life is unchristian.

Christ is the way, the truth and the life and we are his followers and if we are His real followers , we have to follow his way and his truth . The truth is the solution to all problems , so Christ is the solution. Once I wrote “ CHRIST IS THE SOLUTION” on a piece of cloth and hoisted it at Kohima Town. The same content was written on a billboard and was put up at the Town. Christ is the solution because he is the truth.

If we follow Christ we will be always realistic and genuine and we will not hesitate to admit our own wrong and to accommodate the right of others after realizing it . But the heart and the mouth do not tally for the sake of self-interest or prestige . If the wrong is admitted as wrong and the right is accommodated, where is the impossibility to resolve the problem? To a great extent, Bible reading and prayer is a matter of formal practice.

Idolatry of seeking self interest or prestige rather than the interest of the people is the cause of split or division, factionalism, forming parallel Governments to the detriment and shame of the people and killing one another. Are we followers of Christ?

Naturally the people are afraid of diseases, sufferings, losses and satan but the people in general do not have the fear of God the Creator, Lord, Saviour, Sustainer and Shepherd in whose hand and under his power alone there is true security. Indulging in conspicuous sin is normalized as accepted cultures in many ways. We say peace , peace but how can there be peace without the fear of God? Wise is he who fears God. If the truth is in us , all land disputes, boundary disputes can be settled amicably in the way of Christ. After a century of Christianity, some boundaries still remained unsettled. With

Christ it is easy to be settled but without Christ, it will be as difficult as in the long past.

In the light of the teachings of Christ , we have to bring about change in some of the savage and paganistic cultures . For instance ; perfectly innocent persons are banished or punished for the crime committed by a member of the family . In the case when a man accidently killed a man , the whole family is to be deposed for seven years leaving the house and all properties desolate and even the house is destroyed.

“The son will not share the guilt of the father , nor will the father share the guilt of the son” (Ezekiel 18:20). “For each one should carry his own load.” (Gal. 6:5) Following Jesus Christ is the way of solution to all problems .

Rev L Suohie Mhasi (This article presented at the 'All Nagaland Think Tank' Meeting On December 12, 2015, Jotsoma)

Hornbill is gone Christmas is coming

he long awaited hornbill festival of the partial Nagas is gone and Christmas in coming.Every festival embeds history and meaning. The significance of history and meaning of festival generally remain predominantly closed to common people. Festive phenomenon by and large remains as private domain. It demonstrates as special occasion in an uncommon manner with agreement to say yes to something noticeably different from the routine of everyday life (Mueller. 1977).Hornbill apparently has becomethe State’s private domain; however, it extends the invitation to people for engaging the yes agreement between the festival and people thoughno vivid indication of how many common Nagassay yes to the festival and how many Nagas celebrate Hornbill festival every year.

In addition, how many rural areas pay attention to the significance of the hornbill festival despite the unceasing hard work of the State that pays financial and materials, more than the state spends in any festival?

Moreover, despite ensuing poverty at every corner of Nagaland, deficit infuriating at every office and institution and energy of the hungers bubble every day, State invincibly celebrated Hornbill festival successfully with no agony. Partial citizens acknowledge the state for making the history of hornbill festival 2015 accomplished joyfully with people from different parts of the world; for the rest hornbill remains unheard as the state pays less attention on enriching the education of hornbill festival to people in many rural areas in Nagaland.

Politically, the Hornbill festival delineates the integration of social structure, revenue, bureaucratic authority, money power and top to bottom leadership which controls and discriminates the powerless. The resonance of

the festival vividly displays that only the haves can climb step of Kisama and the haves not remain eternal unreachable. Recurrently the ramification of certain good aspects remains acknowledged. Paradoxically, the coming Christmas delineates the festival of the Nativity of Christ for every singly poor and rich. It remains as convicted Christians embracing the transcendent light of the world inflowing as lowly human being with divinity (Roy. 2005).

This feast is observed everywhere where one finds his/her heart saturated in the divine feeling of the presence of Christ.

To the feast of the birth of Christ, will the Nagas anticipate as enthusiastic as they anticipated for the hornbill festival? Will the State pay attention financially and materially to welcome the soon coming Christmas, for the State remains associated with Church since the embryonic of the state and the Church in Nagaland? If these happen, the kingdom of God always dwells in everyday life of every Naga for it remains offset in celebrating every festival. The coming Christmas is not a choice for any Nagas, it is the divine authority existed for more than 2000 years ago when no one really knows how it happened; the divine authority convinces to believe in what the history in the Bible says about it. Someone says “I would not go to attend the hornbill festival because it is the same old things happen every year”. This statement intertwined Max Weber’s theory of power of routinization and duty of who have been called by authority (Weber. 1968).

Was the hornbill a routine of the state with no creativity and renewal course of product that subsequently deteriorates the breath of the citizens or 2015 hornbill stands different from the former that substantiates to bring sustainable immune to people of the State from any mourning? These questionscon-

tinue to enact for the coming Christmas for every Nagas and mostly for the State. Will this Christmas be a copy paste of the former Christmas festivals or it brings rejuvenating spiritual, physical and mental strength to retrospect on the poverty status of the Christian State to rebuild and renew as dedication of submission to the celebration of divine authority, which comes as the gift from God upon the sinners? These questions induce every Nagas to propel common spiritual preparation to anticipate differences in celebrating 2015 Christmas than remain obscure of what Christmas really means every year.

Like the State apriopreparation for almost twelve months to celebrate the Hornbill festival, there is speculative anticipation of the same preparation for the Christmas since the Virgin Mary conceived Jesus Christ for the past nine months; in Roman Catholic it is the announcement day of Mary to become the mother of Jesus. In the Context of England, people celebrate this feast called LADY DAY (Henderson. 2005). Regardless of who constitutes Mary conceives Jesus, the resonance of Mary conceiving Jesus resembles every mother who conceives a child who gives overwhelming preparation to family, relatives and people around. Similarly, the anticipation for Christmas would remain imperative for the state and the citizens of the Christian state than just a repeated feeble moment. The preparation for the coming Christmas instigates reflection and retrospection of the preparation made for the gone Hornbill festival. Indeed, one of the most State anticipated festivals is gone and the most anticipated Christmas of the Nagasis coming.

LemwangChuhwanglim Researcher & Activist

Justice: Integrity: Development (This is a Paper presentation on the "Critical role of Justice & Integrity for Peace & Development" in connection with Vision Mokokchung 2040 that this author was assigned). t ought not to be such a difficult proposition for an average Christian to understand what 'justice' and 'integrity' means.

The Holy Scripture provides ample descriptions in fertile abundance.

One apt definition of justice and integrity that can be inferred from the Scripture is to: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" (Mathew:7:12). In plain simple language it means that one must possess an inborn integrity (honesty) to be able to dispense this quality of justice on others. It amplifies the importance of integrity in a Christian life that spawns justice. With a true "fear of the Lord" as "the beginning of knowledge" such an attitude can become a part of a Christian character in us all but instead we the "fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Proverb:1:7). The sad commentary of our reality today is that Christianity in Nagaland is unfortunately beginning to appear more like a second rate '17th Tribe' with depreciated integrity. The traditional Christian ethics and customary Christian value system is fast fading from our routine dealings with one another.

Peace and harmony within any given civilised community squarely rest upon the standard of justice and integrity that its citizens uphold. When 'Justice' and 'Integrity' are both admitted into the ICU, the moral health of the Christian community is bound to decline in an equivalent measure of severity. Under the present scenario, the onus of providing moral leadership rest with the Church Leaders to treat the moral degradation of its congregation in a focused manner as a dedicated Doctor would treat his patient with absolute commitment...but like everyone else our Church leaders too

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seem to be suffering from the same afflicted indifference as their congregation in their inability to attend to this terminal ailment being suffered by the Christian population across the board.

Let me emphatically state that there is a respectable percentage of decent God fearing people still alive in Nagaland...but our undoing lies in the good people of the Church opting to inactively hibernate in silence despite all the rot that has permeated deep within the social fabrics of our Naga society. This has thus encouraged corruption to thrive with arrogance without accountability. The tendency of expecting others to act for a change while we as individuals either remain complacent or instead continue to participate in wrong doings will never produce a desired change towards a just community.

This indifferent and irresponsible mindset needs a drastic wake up call.

Each God fearing Christian needs to boldly stand up against the unfair practices being committed right before our very eyes. Each God fearing Christian needs to see the wrong being committed without appraising the commissions through a 'tribalistic' prism... if we want to create a better world for the generation that will succeed our passing.

While there is no utopian quick fix solution to wiping out the inherent baser human instincts of greed and selfishness it is incumbent upon the Christian community to endeavour not to make negative contribution by discarding integrity and deliberately participating in injustice. There is no denying that as long as human beings inhabit planet earth, corruption will remain an indelible scar no matter what magnitude of input is made by the Church leaders to alter the corruptive flow. Nevertheless, our efforts must be directed towards ensuring that it does not go beyond rational limits and give chance for sustainable development to take shape. De-

mocracy was conditionally meant to be a boon for the civilised society provided one intelligently exercised one's rights and freedom with a sense of responsibility. Unfortunately Nagas want to exercise their rights and freedom without responsibility. This has adversely resulted in the successful creation of Frankenstein out of democracy that is now wreaking havoc in our lives.

The bottom line of the present day crippling predicament of poor governance begins with the defilement of our democratic rights by selling our votes during the election. Without doubt this is one glaring starting point of a vicious cycle that has seriously destabilised the governance system around us. Dishonesty, greed and ignorance is playing a significant role in the selling of one's votes both in the urban and the rural sectors with poor understanding about the disastrous consequence of one's action. The contesting political candidates mortgage their entire property and spend crores of rupees to win an election. After winning, they fight amongst themselves to gain a lucrative ministerial portfolio with the sole purpose of recuperating their damning election investment by hook or by crook with utter disregard for the existing rules and regulations.

Many a bureaucrat, whose primary duty is to provide technical guidance to the political class about the rules and regulations, leave their ethical backbones at home before going to office and eagerly carry out irregular orders of the Political Masters without question just so as to harvest "cha pani" opportunities of their own in the bargain. Since both parties (Politicians and Bureaucrats) are willing participants in this Ali Baba tournament of financial mismanagement, 'Mr. Accountability' the designated referee is determinedly locked up in the isolation ward far away from the playing field. In this context, fair deal justice gets compromised by way of

not following the regulated norms transparently for the sheer purpose of personal aggrandisement. In the absence of integrity, transparency and accountability ... development becomes the first mortal casualty and has been on a ventilator in the ICU these past few decades. This cycle of vicious reality is being replayed year after year, election after election... decidedly taking the populace down the hill towards a certain abyss... but who is complaining? Oh! Ho! Pardon me...I certainly do remember reading consistent complaints of commuters in the local dallies about the deplorable 'river bed', 'fishery pond', 'paddy field', 'pothole' roads. Oh yes of course! I have also read a great deal of complaints about favouritism, nepotism, backdoor appointments in almost every Government Departments, non-existent Healthcare facility, rampant proxy teachers, NIL results from the Government High Schools in the class X Board Exams, non-payment of scholarship to students, complaints about....if I am to list the entire field of complaints that gets reflected in the local print media to prove a point, the organisers compiling the data may require at least a few kilometres length of printing paper to accommodate the list of complaints in every sector that is related to the State Government. The point here is not very much to highlight the variety or the quantum of complaints being expressed but the utter helplessness involved in our complaints!

Granted that Mr. A complainant may not have sold his vote during the election and have a clear conscience while legitimately voicing his public grievances. While saluting him for his conscious expressions against the visible neglect of roads by the department of Roads & Bridges the system of democracy is run by the will of the majority...in Nagaland context the will of the 'vote selling majority' who have sold their rights to demand performance from the Government.

Another negative consequence that has invariably been crippling is the quality of development being carried out by the Government Departments across the board. Even before the start of a project the designated contractor pays heavy percentage to the Ministers/Parliamentary Secretaries/ Bureaucrats and the technocrats down to the peons to the tune of 7075 % from the project fund. Thereafter, the contractor also naturally does his best to earn as much profit from the leftover which leaves hardly 10% of the project fund to do the actual work. This compels him to use third rate inferior construction materials to complete the semblance of work being done. Instances of repairs being carried out even before the completion of the work are not entirely unheard of occurrences. All these are noticeable outcomes in a system that lacks integrity and pay no heed to justice that acknowledges transparency or accountability. The lack of integrity in the managers and the concept of justice and fair play being non-existent in the working system of a Government explain the kind of roads we have or the sub-standard infrastructures that is in plain sight everywhere and there is nothing the public can do because of having sold their right during the election. Wrongs can't be corrected because Mr. Accountability has been sent on a long extended vacation abroad. That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the reality we have silently lived day in day out years on end with complete complacency thereby affording corruption to flourish on a fertile soil of indifference. In today's corridors of power, the exceptionally few officers upholding honest governance are referred to as 'fools'. This is the litmus test of a society that has contracted terminal ailment.

In my humble opinion, our problem is strictly a moral issue that has desperately gone off the rail and has critically impaired our very existence in the absence of Christian integrity

and justice. It is therefore a primary responsibility for the Church leaders to pick up the challenge on a war footing to minimise perpetual destruction being caused by dishonest Christians who all belong to their congregation. This is an elementary truth that I believe the Church leaders need to acknowledge and address.

While financial concern is a universal phenomenon in order to keep the organizational management running, of which the Church is no exception, it is the extreme emphasis of focus in their quest for money that paints an unsavoury canvas. Defiling the moral sanctity of the pulpit for money is a common visible occurrence in most religious conferences. On the other hand the indispensable nucleus infrastructures...the Pastors...suffer a life of neglect in every sense of the word. Take a dispassionate look at this problem: In the matter of faith, the Pastors are the all-important key personals interacting with the congregation 24/7...yet they are the most neglected cadre within the Church hierarchy. Some are abandoned for over 20-30 years in the same village and consequently become a domicile resident of the village of posting.

Such forgotten Pastors work just as hard in the 'kheti' as the next cultivator for the upkeep of his family because of being very poorly paid. The level of commitment towards the mission service takes a secondary status to his survival. Prayerful meditation to deliver an inspired sermon becomes a distant duty that he has no time to give and yet the Church leaders expect them to perform miracles and transform the congregation into a God fearing community.

This more or less sums up the picture of reality that we live in. Without integrity and justice, peace and development will find no respectable place in the community.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd) Forest Colony, Kohima

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

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Panel talk on Vision Mokokchung 2040 in progress at Cosmos Hall, Mokokchung.

Inter-ward tug-of-war for both men and women, a crowd puller.

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ay3 of the Mokokchung Town 125 Years anniversary celebrations witnessed an array of events being held where the townsfolk were seen celebrating with much pomp and gaiety. Mokokchung Food Fest, Farmers Fair, Trade Stalls, Kids Carnival, Fun Stalls, Inter-ward tug-of-war for both men and women, Martial Arts Display, Mahattam (greatest) Muttiah and Inter-ward volleyball tournament were some of the major events today, all held at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex.

Panel talk on Vision Mokokchung 2040 was held at Cosmos Hall. Later Inter-ward volleyball tournament in progress as part of Mokokchung in the evening, ‘Unchanged Mellowdy’ a musical concert featuring town 125 years anniversary. musicians of Mokokchung past and present entertained the crowd.

Beyonce to star in Bradley Cooper's directorial

Victoria Beckham has 'incredible' friend in Eva Longoria

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ctor Bradley Cooper is set to make his directorial debut with a remake of the classic “A Star Is Born”, and singer Beyonce Knowles is on board to star with him.

A source told pagesix. com that Beyonce has agreed to join Cooper in the leading role previously played on screen by Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

“Beyoncé is a go,” said the source of Cooper’s remake of “A Star Is Born", which originated in 1937, was remade in 1954 and again in 1976.

“A Star Is Born” narrates

a story of how a young aspirant actress and singer finds love in an actor, only to be marred by alcoholism and ambition.

The source added that Cooper is still looking out for the rest of the cast.

“He’s out to find the rest of the cast, but he may take another acting role (in the meantime). He’s furiously making everything he can,” the source said.

It's likely that the “American Sniper” star will do another acting role before going into production on his remake, which will be ready by end of next year or 2017.

inger-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham says she is glad to have an “incredible” friend in Eva Longoria.

The 41-year-old fashion designer struck up a friendship with the former “Desperate Housewives” actress when she and husband David Beckham spent five years living in Los Angeles.

"I have known Eva for such a long time and she is my closest friend. I adore her. She is an inspiring, incredible human being,” Victoria said.

Meanwhile, Longoria is very "proud" of her friend and loves wearing her creations.

She said: "I am so proud of Victoria. Every time I put on one of her dresses I say, 'I can't believe you created this. They are beautiful and she has evolved so much in her life to become this powerhouse of a designer."

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usic mogul Simon Cowell says he wants to have a conversation with the burglar who broke into his house earlier this month.

Sharing that the burglary incident took a toll on him, damaging him a little psychologically, Cowell said he definitely wants to meet the person behind it, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“One hundred percent I'd like to meet the guy. If we

found him I'd want to have a conversation with him. I don't want to say too much right now because I am angry. As a dad you have to realise the psychological damage it does having someone you don't know in your home three feet away from your little boy,” Daily Mirror newspaper quoted the 56-year-old as saying.

The music mogul was sleeping upstairs in his house with partner Lauren Silverman and their 21-month-old son Eric when robbers raided their house on December 4.

"What would have happened if he had woken up? I don't want to feel too much like a victim here because this happens to thousands of people every, bloody day,” he added.

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EPL see-saw typified by Newcastle win Wenger hails unsung Giroud

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The unpredictability of a barmy Premier League season was underlined by Tottenham Hotspur's 2-1 home defeat by struggling Newcastle United on Sunday, which left bewildered home manager Mauricio Pochettino scratching his head.

On a weekend which had already seen mighty Manchester United humbled by Bournemouth, the week after the south-coast underdogs had also won at Chelsea, no result ought to really be a surprise anymore in a league that is so competitive and capricious.

Here was another mystifying one.

Spurs, on a record 14-match unbeaten run in the Premier League era for the club, seemed to be sailing to another win, which would have put them above Manchester United into fourth place, when Eric Dier headed them in front in the first half.

Yet Newcastle, who looked a demoralised crew out of ideas just a fortnight ago, somehow found the reserves of spirit and resolve to do what they had done gleefully in beating Liverpool 2-0 the previous week -- take the wheels off a bandwagon.

Yet when their manager Steve McClaren, recently public enemy number one

on Tyneside, brought on strikers Aleksandar Mitrovic and Ayoze Perez in the second half, even he could not have imagined they would prove the Magpies' match-winners. The Serb Mitrovic scored with practically his first touch, bundling home the scruffiest of goals, while the 22-year-

old Spaniard Perez struck in stoppage time with a volley which went straight through the usually solid Hugo Lloris in goal.

"Our first half was fantastic, we dominated the game. The second is not easy to explain," a baffled Pochettino told reporters.

"No-one would expect this

end to the game if you see the first half.

"We need to assess and analyse the second half because it is impossible to see the team playing in such a different way."

to explain how a team so completely woeful in the 5-1 capitulation at Crystal Palace two weeks ago could have been so excellent here.

Their third straight win at White Hart Lane repFANTASTIC CHARACTER resented an achievement Equally, McClaren that Newcastle had not acwould not have been able complished in 104 years.

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The Chief Guest with players and officials of the inaugural match.

Kohima, December 14 (mexN): The 6th Chizami Cup under the aegis of Life Sports, Nagaland kicked off today at Chizami in Phek District with Muroho Chotso, Deputy Commissioner, Phek as the Chief Guest.

Speaking on the occasion, Chotso encouraged the footballers to be disciplined and to strive to become professional footballers.

Colo Mero, Director, Life Sports, Nagaland in his keynote address stated that Chizami Cup is an initiative of Life Sports to transform the youth and community through developing

DAY 1 MATCHES RESULT The Hills FC Pfütsero beat Chizami Boys 4-3 via tie breaker Exuberance FC, Pfütsero beat Hills Boys, Thetsümi 3 – 1 DAY 2 MATCHES: (December 15) Unique Boys FC, Chizami Town vs Sakraba Town Boys FC Albatross, Chozuba vs Espoir FC, Pfütsero Young Star Sporting Club, Chizami vs United Brothers FC, Meluri football in Nagaland with special focus on rural areas since 2010.

He further announced that Life Sports will be starting a School Football in Eastern Mission High School,

Chizami in the new academic session 2016 to develop football at the grassroots. Footballers from across Nagaland and beyond will be participating in this edition of the tournament.

Sports Illustrated names Serena as the Sportsperson of the Year

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New YorK, December 14 (reuters): Serena Williams, who held all four of tennis's grand slam titles for the second time in her career and won 53 of 56 matches in 2015, was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine on Monday.

The 34-year-old accomplished her second 'Serena Slam' while battling a string of injuries, producing one of the greatest late-career runs in the history of any sport, the magazine said, hailing her a "global icon".

Arsenal's Champions League hopes burning, Giroud's latest contribution prompted Wenger to tell reporters the 29-year-old was in his pomp -- and still improving.

"I believe he is at the top of his game and he is questioned sometimes," Wenger said. "Finally, the numbers get people to realise he is a good player.

He has improved, his link play is better and when we have the option for a long ball he is a very interesting option. "(He doesn't get much praise) because he does not have electric pace. He is more of a player who plays with his back to goal and brings other people in, so maybe he is spectacular individually with his runs without the ball.

"He is very efficient and a very important player for the team. He is also mentally very strong."

Giroud himself, whose

early strike was later doubled by Aaron Ramsey's delightful breakaway team goal, was thrilled by his personal milestone.

"I'm pleased with that (the 50 goals) and I don't want to stop here," Giroud told the club's official website(www.arsenal. com). "It was a really good day. It is a fantastic week.

We're in a great position to challenge for the title.

"We did a great job in the Champions League and we really wanted to finish the week with a win to be top of league before Leicester's game against Chelsea."

Leicester, currently one point behind alongside Manchester City, can go back to the top if they beat Chelsea on Monday before Arsenal and Manchester City, the two favourites for the title according to British bookmakers, meet at the Emirates Stadium on Dec. 21.

"We haven't had a comeback win for over a year. The team have shown fantastic character," McClaren enthused.

"There's still a long way to go but after a lot of criticism the players have come back well to get two magnificent results. They showed fantastic effort, at-

titude, work-rate and we have some talented players as well. We deserved the win."

Pochettino has often mused on how Tottenham's Europa League commitments have affected their weekend form but here he refused to credit fatigue following

their Thursday win over AS Monaco as a factor in Newcastle's come-frombehind win.

"It wasn't about the energy," he said.

Rather, it was about a competitive league in which no team is equipped to dominate and nobody is ready to roll over.

Newcastle United's Ayoze Perez in action with Tottenham's Eric Dier. (Reuters / Tony O'Brien)

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LoNDoN, December 14 (reuters): Olivier Giroud says he plans to keep hitting the target in Arsenal's increasingly convincing Premier League title push after his "fantastic" week concluded on Sunday with another goal that helped the Gunners back to the top of the table.

The oft-maligned Frenchman, hailed by manager Arsene Wenger in the week as one of the deadliest marksman in Europe, received another hymn of praise from his manager after his early goal from the penalty spot in Arsenal's 2-0 win at Aston Villa.

It was his 50th Premier League goal, a landmark which Giroud has reached in fewer games for the club than all but Arsenal titans Thierry Henry and Ian Wright.

Following his midweek hat-trick against Olympiakos Piraeus which kept

"Serena has made a very strong case as not only the greatest tennis player of her generation but of all time, and after the string of performances she put together in 2015, she is one of the most dominant athletes playing today,” said Sports Illustrated (SI) Group Editor Paul Fichtenbaum.

Williams was ranked number one every week for the second consecutive year, and her three successive grand slam wins to start 2015 lifted her within one of Steffi Graf’s record 22 singles

titles in the professional era.

“This year was spectacular,” Williams said in a statement. "For Sports Illustrated to recognize my hard work, dedication and sheer determination with this award gives me hope to continue on and do better." Williams is the first woman to be recognized with the honor as an individual since Mary Decker in 1983, and the magazine took the opportunity to rename its award from Sportsman of the Year to Sportsperson of the Year.

The magazine also cited Wil-

liams as a force off the court, using her broad platform to advocate for racial justice, gender equality and equal access to education around the world. It noted that Williams made a powerful statement by returning to play a tournament at Indian Wells for the first time since 2001 when she was jeered by the crowd and, according to her family, suffered racist slurs.

Williams called her decision to play her “greatest moment in tennis.”

“Everyone always asked, ‘What was your greatest moment in tennis?’ and I always said it hasn’t happened.

"But I think it has happened now, and that was going back to Indian Wells and playing. It released a lot of feelings that I didn’t even know I had. I was really surprised at how emotional I got -- and how relieved I felt after everything was said and done.”

Williams joins an elite group to have won the award, including Muhammad Ali (1974), Arthur Ashe (1992), LeBron James (2012), Michael Jordan (1991), Billie Jean King (1972), Joe Montana (1990) and Jack Nicklaus (1978).

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Barcelona face Arsenal, Chelsea play PSG again NYoN, December 14 (reuters): Holders Barcelona will play Premier League leaders Arsenal in the last 16 of the Champions League, 10 years after the sides faced each other in the final, following Monday's draw for the first knockout stage.

Spanish league leaders Barcelona, chasing a sixth title, prevailed 2-1 in the 2006 final at the Stade de France in Paris and also

triumphed in the knockout phase in 2010 and 2011.

Chelsea, who are enduring a torrid time in the Premier League, will face French league leaders Paris St Germain in the knockout stages for the third year in succession after the French champions triumphed at the same stage last season and the London club had the upper hand in the quarter-finals the previous year.

"There is not much we

don't know about Paris," said Chelsea general secretary David Barnard.

"You only know if it's a good draw after the tie. We are ambitious, we have two and a half months to prepare," PSG sports director Olivier Letang said.

Another clash between big guns will feature former winners Juventus and Bayern Munich, while 10-times champions Real Madrid were drawn against AS Roma.

"Everybody wanted to avoid Barca and Bayern so we are not so lucky but Bayern will not be glad they drew Juve," said Juventus ambassador Pavel Nedved.

PSV Eindhoven will take on Atletico Madrid, Dynamo Kiev will play Manchester City and Benfica will be against Zenit St Petersburg. Gent, in their first participation in the competition, will take on Germany's VfL Wolfsburg.

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Dhoni, Ashwin, Jadeja hog limelight at IPL draft mumbai, December 14 (iaNs): India’s World Cup-winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni along with the likes of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin will be hogging the limelight as the two new Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises from Pune and Rajkot meet here on Tuesday to pick their five key players each from the 50-player draft.

Last week, it was Kolkata-based business tycoon Sanjiv Goenka’s group New Rising which had pocketed the bid for the Pune franchise and smartphones manufacturer Intex won the bid for Rajkot in a re-

verse-bidding process.

The two new teams replace Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) who have been banned from the tournament for the next two years.

On Tuesday, Pune will have the first chance to pick a player as they were the lowest bidders in auction to pick a franchise and, therefore, might opt to rope in iconic wicketkeep-

er-batsman Dhoni as the man to lead them from the front.

But it will be interesting to see if the present One-Day and T20 captain still has the hype surrounding him which was there when he was picked up for Rs.6 crore by Chennai for the first edition of the IPL. The two new franchises will have a purse of Rs.40 to Rs.66 crore in which they to buy the cricketers.

The players are from the two suspended franchises and they will be segregated

into two pools capped and uncapped. Each side can pick five players each. The first capped player for both teams will be commanding a price of Rs.12.5 crore and the remaining four will be picked up for Rs.9.5 crore, Rs.7.5 crore, Rs.5.5 crore and Rs.4 crore, respectively.

Uncapped players can be picked for a stipulated fee of Rs.4 crore.

Other heavyweights to watch out for in the draft will be Australians Steven Smith and Shane Watson, New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, West Indian Dwayne Bravo, and Suresh Raina and Ajinkya Rahane.

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