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BreAKinG tHe HiV/AiDs BArrier •Tuensang Town Chang Baptist Church responds to HIV/AIDS stigma by making it a gospel imperative •Government stops funding, Church continues to manage HIV programme with own resources Imti Longchar Dimapur | November 30

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IV-related stigma, often a byproduct of religious mores, is seen to be at the heart of many failed efforts - both religion and secular - to respond to HIV, particularly to overcome the silence and denial surrounding the existence of HIV in communities.

Many interventions, whether for HIV prevention, care, support or treatment, have also been less than effective due to HIVrelated stigma and discrimination.

Against this backdrop, in 2001, when the world viewed with a jaundiced eye at everything allied to HIV, Tuensang Town Chang Baptist Church (TTCBC) took up the ‘damned’ yoke, and committed itself by responding to HIV and making it a gospel imperative.

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Chang Baptist Church was not alone. Initially, in an alliance, Baptist churches of Sangtam, Yimchunger, Ao and the Khiamniungan tribes also took up the challenge to make HIV mission a part of their ministry.

At this stage, Tuensang district was already suffering from the onslaught of the HIV pandemic.

“It was the worst hit town by HIV, not only in Nagaland but even in the country. Incidence among antenatal mothers was as high as 8% only next to Namakal which was considered the highest in India,” recalled Rev Chingmak Kejong, who heads the Eleutheros Christian Society (ECS). He is the man responsible for bringing the churches together to tackle the HIV endemic.

Rev Chingmak realized that rather than dealing with the virus, ECS had to confront the Church first.

“This, we felt would soften the rough edges

and numb the excitement of HIV, which we felt, was counterproductive and further alienating people with HIV from accessing help,” he said.

But it was not at all an easy task in making the Churches HIV/AIDS friendly.

BREAKING THE BARRIERS “It was very tough to break the barriers. The congregation said this is not Church work. That HIV/AIDS infected people are sinners, they disobeyed and they got infected and so they deserved it,” said Rev H Sangkap Chang, who was the pastor of Chang Baptist Church.

The pastor had to convince the deacon board, the trustee members, the different committees, mission boards, elders and then finally the congregation.

“Initially, even the pulpit was not allowed to be used for speaking about HIV/AIDS. I had to use the

Kohima | November 30

Restriction for security personnel in uniform

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 30 (MExN): Nagaland Home Department, in a directive, has informed that no security personnel in uniform accompanying VIPs/Government officials shall be allowed to enter the Hornbill area, Kisama except PSOs in civies with small arms. This directive was issued by ADCP/PRO, Dimapur Police on behalf of the Police HQ, Nagaland on Tuesday.

Scholarships released; ANCSU call off agitation

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 30 (MExN): Nagaland State government on Tuesday full filled the demands of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) for release of Merit, Research and PostMatric scholarships. Informing this, ANCSU in a press note said all correspondence letters relating to transaction was made available in details to its office and disbursement of the same to the students account was also processed with immediate effect.

With this development, the college students’ union has called off the proposed Phase-3 agitation and has asked students to bear and cooperate during the process of transactions to their respective bank accounts.

floor below. I was even told that there won’t be any yearly increment on my salary if I worked with the HIV people,” Rev Sangkap said.

As the saying goes that patience is a virtue, the congregation gradually became willing partners.

“What eventually became more and more apparent was that the concern shown by the Church not only made HIV more acceptable but also most importantly HIV seemed a normal disease,” Rev Chingmak said of the outcome.

District Court examines witnesses in TR Zeliang qualification case Morung Express News

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A nurse (L) hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World Aids Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo. (REUTERS/Files)

After the complaint over the authenticity of Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang’s qualifications arose, Tuccuno Vamuzo, Judicial Magistrate First Class, District Court Kohima, summoned witnesses to the Court today. The Registrar of North East Hills’ University (NEHU) and Head Assistant from Kohima College appeared for the examination at the Court on November 30.

As per NEHU’s record, as furnished

by Acting Registrar of NEHU, Taditui R Zeliang who appeared in BA examination bearing Roll no. 598 may have failed in 1979. “We do not have any record of the year 1979 showing any TR Zeliang having passed,” stated the record, as read out by the Advocate.

KN Balgopal, Advocate for the Complainant, stated during the Court proceeding that the accused has a duty to appear before the Court. “Court has to maintain impartiality to maintain principles of justice,” said Balgopal.

However, the Court has not “issued process,” which means that the accused is yet to be directed by the Magistrate to appear in Court to defend his case.

President of District Congress Committee, Peren District, another witness, today stated that the matter was revealed to him in July 2015 in an RTI application filed by NTC. An RTI was filed again on August 7, 2015, a reply to which was received on August 12, stating that Roll no.598 appeared BA exam from Kohima College but failed in English, Alt. Eng-

lish, Economics and History in 1980.

When asked by the Advocate if he had intimated any authority, the witness said that he had written to the Election commission. In his nomination papers, the accused had said he passed his BA examination from Kohima College in 1980.

The witness stated that the Chief Minister, the Chief Executive Head of State, should be honest and that the representation made by him will send wrong signals to the Naga people.

Advocate KN Balgopal stated that the case is a point of morality and a point of legality. “This is a case where there is a moral wrong and a legal wrong,” stated the Advocate, maintaining that it is to be considered if a “false declaration” was made in the nomination affidavit to the 2013 Nagaland Assembly elections.

“These allegations are corroborated by official records and statements. It is now for the accused person to come and give his word,” said the Advocate.

Zeliang is liable to being tried for an offence under the Section 125 (A) of the Representation of People Act 1951 which states that the penalty for filing false affidavits/ false information/ conceal any information can be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine or with both.

The ball now lies in the court of the Judicial Magistrate. The order to “issue process” is yet to be passed.

The Chief Minister today was represented by Joshua Sheqi who was standing on behalf of A. Zhimomi.

“People with HIV began to come out in the open and access services.

The environment of acceptance enabled families to accept the person and see beyond the disease.

But most importantly the ownership of the issue by the Church was the most important outcome of this entire process of community hand-holding,” he pointed out.

All the pastors of these churches served as consultant counselors. There were times when the Church

USSC calls for 12-hour protest bandh against killing of student DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 30 (MExN): The United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) has called for a bandh of Kiphire town on December 2 to protest against the killing of a class VIII student by cadres of GPRN/NSCN (R) on November 26. A press statement from Justin Khatomong, executive chairman, USSC said a class VIII student (name withheld) of Loyala Hr Sec School was shot dead by one captain Atsase Sangtam of GPRN/ NSCN (R) and his accomplice, one Pitase. It said such action was a challenge to the entire students’ community irrespective of race, creed and religion and an indication of the complete breakdown of law and order machinery in the district, thereby creating fear psychosis amongst the public.

The bandh call will be from 6am to 6pm. District administration, media, security forces, medical, power, PHED, fire and emergency have been excluded from the purview of the bandh.

number of posts from 960 to 532; RMSA candidates seek clarification DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 30 (MExN): RMSA written exam 2014 qualified candidates forum has sought clarification from the Education department in connection to a number of anomalies detected in the provisional results published on November 30 in the local dailies.

The forum, in a press statement informed that as per December 13, 2013 advertisement, a total of 960 teachers post was published but the provisional results of November 30, 2015 showed only 532 post were filled. It has therefore sought clarification on the huge reduction of posts.

It also questioned on what basis preference were given to B.Ed candidates and not to candidates possessing Honors in the particular subjects

as per the advertisement.

Cut off mark for the backward tribes was 40% in graduation but in the result, candidates from the backward tribes possessing less than 45% though securing high marks in the

were not selected on ground of possessing less than 45% in graduation.

It also sought clarification for the non-conduct of viva-voce for the sports instructor candidates though the advertisement for the same was published along with the subject teachers on the same date.

It has therefore demanded a tentative date for conduct of the same.

The forum said the indefinite agitation called from December 1 onwards would only be suspended after the concerned department explains its stand on the clarification sought and that it is accepted by the candidates.

It has also requested all selected candidates not to submit the acceptance letter until the department clarifies on the above stated issues.

Indefinite agitation from December 1 if the dept does not explain its stand written exam were not selected, the forum also informed and sought clarification on the same.

The criteria for language teachers-Sumi, Ao, Lotha and Tenyidewas any graduate with preference to diploma holder in the language, the forum therefore wanted answers as to how candidates holding diploma

even buried people with HIV disowned and abandoned by the family.

Then the congregation started giving. Rev Sangkap remembers how even the poorest Church members, in their earnest concern for the people living with HIV/ AIDS, came forward to donate a cup of sticky rice or a bottle of kerosene, the only commodities they could afford to give.

The Church closely worked with the Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS). Realizing that

the fund granted by National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) through NSACS was not enough, the Church even mobilized its own resources by chipping in 10% of the amount given by NACO. Once the Church intervened, the rate of HIV prevalence came down drastically. By 2005, Tuensang, which was on the top of the list of the highest prevalence, came down to thirdafter Dimapur and Kohima.

Some months later, it again dipped down farther to fourth after Mokokchung (As per NSACS record of the ICTC), said Rev Chingmak.

STANDING ON ITS OWN In 2010, with the launching of the new 4th phase

by NACO, the government closed down all DICs (Drop-in-Centres) attached to the Church and CCCs (Community Care Centres) funded by NACO. The move by the government was to gradually streamline the services to the health facilities of the state and to make the hospitals the primary care giver.

For most NGOs in Nagaland, this news of closedown of the DICs came as a bad decision; primarily

because people with HIV were not prepared to face the open space, since stigma was still apparent.

Despite this move, Tuensang Town Baptist Church (Chang) resolved to continue to run the DIC fully funded by Church. Despite no funding by the government since 2010, the Church continues to manage the programme on its own till today.

The DIC even runs a fully functional care and counseling service for people with HIV and even an independent testing unit to cater to the Church members. The Church has also included World Aids Day, special candle light service, HIV prayer nights, special camps for children with HIV etc. in its working calendar. Every year, the Church also reserves one devotional worship service as PLHA’s prayer day.

“What do you think?

If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.” Mathew 18: 12-13

is there reason to celebrate Dec 1?

There are more reasons not to celebrate because we cannot even meet the basic needs of our common people PART - I

Morung Express News Dimapur | November 30

When the 16 point agreement, and eventual statehood, was in the offing, a Naga woman once spoken to was in her prime.

Hearing the good news, the village began to prepare for a celebration. But even before the bamboo mug could be tilted, it was learnt that the border of the newfound Nagaland State would not reach their gate.

Life went on, though the “this state, that state” feeling did not completely seep into the Naga psyche till the 1990s when the unemployment iceberg began to show its head, she reflects.

Based on such reflections, The Morung Express asked the people of Nagaland State if there is any reason to celebrate December 1?

Forward backward

“Yes, of course! Because it is the day we achieved statehood,” says Chingmak Chang, former president of the Eastern Naga Peoples’ Organisation. But statehood brought little benefits to Eastern Nagaland.

The dividing lines of “forward” and “backward” that were earlier brought when some tribes learnt to read and write before others (through Christianity), were further etched out with the coming of a State.

“We are going from bad to worse. All top level decisions in the State are made by forward tribes as they have more bureaucrats. We may not have been as educated as the advanced tribes when statehood came but they should not have taken advantage of our position,” asserts Chang.

So, to celebrate or not?

“It depends,” says Dr. Lanusashi Longkumer, an educationist and activist.

“Those who are privileged to enjoy the facilities brought by statehood have reason to celebrate but those marginalised, both inside and outside Nagaland State, have none,” he notes.

Even for those celebrating, it is important to retrospect if there is meaning in celebrating where we are socially, economically and politically today, feels Dr. Longkumer. Most development in the State is superficial, more infrastructural than structural—how has the human and social quality developed? Can we consider ourselves developed human beings or parasites? If we are indeed parasites, then there is no reason to celebrate at all, he maintains.

Recognition & corruption

Recognition of statehood, on December 1, is needed especially to remind the younger generation of our history, says Esther Rhakho, former general secretary of the Naga Students’ Federation. While this will also serve as recognition of how

the 16 point agreement is just a point in the political struggle of the Naga people, a pompous celebration played out every year is unbecoming of a State in such financial crisis, she holds.

Many feel that the financial crisis, corruption, unemployment, indebtedness and poverty among Naga people were hastened through the formation of a State. It brought the idea that easy money could be had through a government job, leading people away from community-sustaining fields, and its concurrent worldviews. The transition from the plough to the pen was sudden and the State Government failed to provide adequate platforms to understand, and appropriately apply, changes. Nonetheless, the State also provided for independent enterprises to take root, give employment and provide alternative platforms.

Journalist Merina Chishi feels “50-50” about celebrating statehood. While “our political approach has matured over the years,” she echoes, “our economy has been ruined by corruption.” Statehood may have brought greater literacy and other related opportunities, says Chishi, yet there is a need to “truly understand the 16 point memorandum, Article 371-A and statehood. Without the examination of these, we have become economically, socially and politically bankrupt—that is nothing to be joyous of.”

Modernise culture

While a rudimentary form of education exists, the State has been unable to provide general empowerment opportunities to all. It helped people grow in some intellectual sense but jumped the gun on how development really unfolds.

“What is the application of square roots, I used to wonder as a child who had to go in groups to work on fields or build houses,” laughed a young man who preferred not to be named. His math teacher, a Bengali man, expected him to be an engineer. This escaped him, as it does many others. “We need to modernise our culture, not add preservatives to pickle it, nor accept an imposition from the West,” he feels of the direction statehood day celebrations often take.

According to Y Nuklu Phom, a church worker who has done extensive work with people in rural areas, “A celebration is Remembrance or Commemoration of an achievement in one’s history. We must celebrate over something we have achieved and not over past glory... here we are simply singing the same songs our pioneers left for us.”

For him, Nagaland State has contributed more towards “extinction of good values including our natural resources.”

“I find more reasons not to celebrate than celebrate because when we cannot even meet the basic needs of our common people, like salaries; when our economy, governance, law and order, inter relationships and other developmental activities accumulate in the Intensive Care Unit, without giving life to them, celebration has no life,” says Phom.

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SKK Platinum jubilee concludes Sanuoru Subway along Nagaland

Dimapur November 30 (mexN): The 4-day long SKK Platinum jubilee celebration concluded on Sunday with grand “Closing Ceremony cum Bonfire and Musical Extravaganza” at DSCZ ground.SKK president Holuvi Chophy lighted the bonfire followed by the 75 rounds fireworks display.

Livingstone Foundation Higher Secondary School displayed a drama as a curtain raiser. Thousands of people thronged the DSCZ ground to witness the grand culmination programme.

Earlier, the morning devotional service, parliamentary secretary for Fisheries, Printing & Stationeries, Shetoi Sümi exhorted Sumi elder HS Rotokha delivers the last jubilee blessings the gathering and dwelt on the current political benediction.

developments and challenged the students to be wise in choosing the leaders. He also urged them to embrace God for the success in their endeavours.

WSBAK mission promoter Rev Aheto Sümi was the resource person.

The seventh session and evening valedictory service of the 4-day Jubilee commemoration was chaired by Himahito Chishi while former SKK president S Zhevihe Sümi who is also the secretary PBPJ extended the vote of thanks.

The valedictory service concluded with the "mass singing of Jubilee Song" led by Jubilee choir NTC followed by the benediction and jubilee blessing prayer by octogenarian HS Rotokha.

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The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save.

He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing - Zephaniah 3:17

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Minister for Roads & Bridges Y. Vikheho Swu and others during the inauguration of Sanuoru subway in Kohima on November 30. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Road & Bridges and the people of Na- the funds made available from urban Kohima | November 30

Living upto his word, the construction of an alternative Sanuoru subway along Nagaland Secretariat Road has been completed and inaugurated by minister for roads & bridges Y. Vikheho Swu this morning.

The subway shall be open for light vehicles only till proper soil stabilization is achieved.

The department of road & bridges requested all the road users to cooperate with the traffic regulations and bear with the inconveniences and also requested the traffic police to monitor and control the traffic accordingly.

Stating that lack of public awareness and dumping of waste in the streams, drains and culverts has led to the blockade of the cross drain which resulted in the stagnation of water in the river, Swu said that any infrastructure that has or is being constructed should have a maintenance cost so that the property is maintained well.

This block of the drain has been an eye opener for the Department of

galand as a whole and requested the public to keep their drains clean and the Department to maintain their road and bridges to prevent further incidents which has caused much difficulty to everyone.

The minister thanked L. Khel for their co-operation and support and also the different departments.

He also thanked the Chief Minister, environment, forest & climate change minister Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire and parliamentary secretary for youth resources & sports, music task force and state lotteries Khriehu Liezietsu for extending their full cooperation and support during the construction of the new subway.

The minister further urged the people of Nagaland to have confidence in the department of road & bridges.

Giving technical report, Limanaro said the approximate estimated cost for the construction of 150.00 M sub-way including protection works and emergency excavation works to drain out the water is Rs. 2 crores, out of which Rs. 1 crore was utilized from

development department.

The balance Rs. 1 crore was sanctioned by the Nagaland State Disaster Management Agency.

She mentioned that the scope of work included excavation works to drain out the stagnated water; provision of H/P Culverts to provide temporary foot bridge for the pedestrians and Construction of Protection Works on both sides of the river. Protection works include - Sausage Wall, Composite Retaining Walls, Stone masonry Retaining Walls, Construction of RCC Slab Culvert of 4 M Span and 2 numbers of H/P Culverts. Earth and Boulder Filling to raise up the road level, Pavement works - GSB, WBM and Premix carpeting. The carpeting works have not been provided in the entire length now so as to allow proper settlement of the filled up soil.

Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilatuo Mor and Tsieramia Council chairman Neichalhoulie Dzuvichu also delivered short speech.

The function was chaired by Er. S. Zao, CE PWD (R&B), Kohima.

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We wish to thank all Individuals, Groups, Organisations and Churches for your expression of sympathy, prayer, support, service, monetary contributions and generous donations of your valuable time.

We realise how truly blessed we are to have such wonderful friends and well wishers. Your love and support for our family has been very much appreciated and will never be forgotten.

May God bless each and everyone of you.

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“Naga Cultural Milieu: An adaptation to mountain ecosystem” written by Prof.

Vikuosa Nienu was released on November 30 at The Heritage, Kohima. The book was launched by Shürhozelie, President, Ura Academy.

The 339 paged-book is a result of research, experiences, studies and travel which started way back in the 1960s as the Author notes in his introduction that most of the experiences dealt with in this book are based on ‘first-hand knowledge corroborated with information gathered from highly knowledgeable natives as well as documented officials reports, diaries and memoirs…’. Comprising of eleven chapters, the books deals with the natural physical environment, the Naga concept of natural environ-

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Kohima | November 30

he Wife and Family of Late Shri. T. Sentichuba would like to take this opportunity to express T our heartfelt gratitude for the thoughtfulness and love we have been given during our time of bereavement.

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V. Nienu (third from left) along with Shurhozelie, Deo Nukhu, Azo Nienu, VK Nuh and other dignitaries posing for the lens during the release of the book. (Morung Photo)

ment, Nagas adaptation to cold climate, the origin of the Nagas, fundamental elements of Naga Social structure, Naga cosmology and world view, headhunting as an adaptive mechanism, habitat and settlement patterns, subsistence systems, symbols in Naga culture and Traditional Naga technology.

During the release, Shürhozelie Liezietsu stated that the book was a detailed and thorough research work from the beginning to the end. “It is a very serious research work on Naga culture which contains enormous value of records and fascinating details about traditional Naga life. This will remain a treasure to future generation,” added Liezietsu.

Stressing on the importance of understanding

one’s cultural root, Liezietsu cited the importance of the root of the tree which enables the tree to stand firm. The same can be applied in the human life.

The book is unique, added Liezietsu, because the writer was brought up from a rural setting and because of that background he knows the culture of Nagas very well. He also lauded Prof. Nienu for his work despite being away from home for almost 40 years yet is deeply engaged in cultural values. “This is one of the greatest gift offered to the Nagas,” said Shürhozelie in conclusion.

Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary, Higher & Technical Education who chaired the launch also noted that the book is a must read for all Nagas.

Prof V. Nienu is a re-

nowned scholar from the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his Masters Degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology and served as a Research officer in the Department of Art and Culture from 1967 to 1974.

Prof. Nienu received his Ph.D from the University of California in 1983 and is also a recipient of John D Rockfeller III Fund fellowship, Asian cultural foundation. Prof. Nienu is a Conservationist and currently a member of the Napa county, California Wildlife Conservation Commission as well as an Advisory Member in the Council of Local Food Production (Agriculture) Priced at Rs. 1650, the book will be available at all leading bookstores in Kohima, Mokokchung, and Dimapur.

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Gogoi for 'grand understanding' against BJP Major tragedy averted, 5 kg IED detected Our Correspondent

Guwahati, November 30 (iaNS): Notwithstanding its sparkling show in the 2014 Lok Sabha and subsequent local body elections in Assam and desertions from the Congress, the forthcoming assembly polls could turn out to be a tough task for the BJP, particularly in the wake of the ruling Congress' call for a "maha (grand) understanding" against the saffron outfit.

With the polls slated to be held early next year, the Congress has even tried to reach out to archrivals like the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Left, as it strives to fight off anti-incumbency in a state it has been ruling for the past 15 years.

The BJP picked up a much improved seven out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam last year, establishing lead in a majority of the assembly segments, and then followed it up with some good performances in the subsequent panchayat and local body polls in the state.

The party, which won only five assembly seats in 2011, got another shot in the

arm when it roped in former heavyweight minister and Congress strongmanturned-dissident Himanta Biswa Sarma in August.

Within months, ten Congress legislators, all Biswa Sarma loyalists, also switched allegiance and joined the BJP. As the stage seemed set for the BJP to give a big push to its ambitious "Mission 84" - aiming to win 84 or two-thirds of the seats in the 126-member Assam assembly - came the Bihar poll drubbing.

With arch-foes Nitish Kumar of the Janata DalUnited and Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal coming together in a "grand alliance" that also included the Congress, the BJP-led formation was decimated in Bihar.

The Bihar results boosted the Congress' morale in Assam, with its leaders now scouting for allies.

The BJP has also been forced to change its electoral tactics and bring back Union Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Sarbananda Sonowal as

state unit chief.

The response to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's appeal for a novel "maha understanding" could hold the key.

"What I am saying is not an alliance. All the parties will campaign for their own party but for the greater interest of Assam and considering the communal nature of the BJP, we must tell voters not to vote for the BJP. The voters should be told to vote for any party but not for the BJP," said Gogoi.

However, sources indicate that the Congress has almost finalised an understanding with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) led by perfume trader Moulana Badaruddin Ajmal, which has a strong support base among the Bengali-speaking Muslims in lower Assam districts.

Apart from the three principal political forces BJP, Congress and the AIUDF - parties like the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland People's Front (BPF) are also likely to play an important role in

the forthcoming polls.The AGP, on its part, has turned down Gogoi's suggestion of a "maha understanding" and is working on cobbling together an anti-BJP and anti-Congress front to face the electorate. Senior AGP leader and former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said his outfit will maintain equi-distance from the Congress and the BJP. The BPF, which had severed its ties with the Congress last year, has made it clear that it would extend its support to whichever party forms the government in Dispur for the sake of development of the Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD).

Faced with a strong challenge, The BJP is trying to cash in on two issues - granting scheduled tribe (ST) status to six communities and the peace parleys with the pro-talk faction of the Ulfa leaders, which have almost reached the final stage.

The BJP-led NDA government has already stated that the six communities -

Koch-Rajbongshi, Moran, Muttock, Sootea, Tai Ahom and the tea tribes communities - that are currently in the other backward classes (OBC) category, will be given ST status.

"The Congress has been fooling the people of Assam.

It is the NDA government, who after assuming power in New Delhi, fast-tracked the issue of granting ST status" Assam BJP spokesman Rupam Goswami said. He said the people of Assam and different organisations had for long been demanding extradition of Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia from Bangladesh for success of the ongoing peace process with the government of India.

"During Congress rule, nothing was done. But within one year of assuming power, the NDA government signed an extradition treaty with Bangladesh and brought back Chetia to Assam and he has consented to sit for the talks," said Goswami.

Still, at the bottom line, it's a race that could go either way.

people suspected to be militants, lobbed a hand grenade in the courtyard of a private contractor in Koirengei area under Imphal West, but it did not explode.

The incident happened at the residence of a contractor identified as Ahongsing Neishui around 2:30 am. A team from Heingang Police Station retrieved the grenade and defused.

Sources believed the militant group Manipur Naga People's Front (MNPF) was behind the incident. They said this was the second time that suspected militants tried to attack his residence by hurling grenade. MNPF claimed responsibility for a powerful IED blast that oc-

Imphal | November 30

The BSF on Monday detected a 5 kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) averting a major tragedy in Etham Moirangpurel area of Imphal East. The roadside timer bomb was detected by a foot patrol party of 49 BSF around 7:30 am, a police report said.

The personnel of the border guarding force blocked the road for sometime and retrieved the IED with the help of bomb experts.

The bomb, believed to have been planted by militants to target the BSF jawans, was later defused at a spot nearby.

Meanwhile, unknown

Senior ANLA leader arrested in M'laya ShilloNG, November 30 (Pti): A senior leader of the armed Achik National Liberation Army (ANLA) militant outfit was arrested along with his accomplice, a police official said today. Acting on a tip-off, police conducted raids in Upper Rongjeng village in Meghalaya's Garo hills region after which Binod A Sangma of Anchengbok, self-styled finance secretary of ANLA,

Assam, Tripura records Vigil along India-Myanmar border to be tightened Three members of November 30 the official added. in the region in tune with a family die in fire increase in new HIV cases aizawl, (iaNS): Concerned at the Mizoram, which shares the 'Act East' Policy of the

Guwahati, November 30 (Pti): Assam and Tripura are among the North Eastern states that recorded the highest rate of annual increase in HIV cases, according to the Assam States Aid Control Society (ASACS). Assam has registered a rate of increase from 0.04 per cent in 2007 to 0.07 per cent in 2011 with the number of cases increasing from 1,219 to 2,408 during the same period, ASACS Project Director Dhiraj Choudhury told reporters here today on the eve of World AIDS Day tomorrow. In Tripura, the number of cases has increased from 567 cases in 2007 to 951 in 2011.

Miners switch to turmeric farming in M'laya coal belt Khliehriat, November 30 (Pti): The National Green Tribunal ban on coal mining and transportation of coal in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills region has resulted in many of those engaged in the activity switching to turmeric farming for their livelihood.

For the past one year, these coal-miners, who previously practised unscientific mining and transportation of coal, have taken to cultivation of famed curcumin-rich Lakadong turmeric varieties at their villages in East Jaintia Hills District.

Almost 90 per cent of the residents of the village were totally dependent on money that came from coal. Rathole coal mining took over in the early 90s and in a span of 20 years, one could see holes dug up everywhere in the village land in search of coal and even paddy fields were not spared.

The April 2014 order of the NGT came as a game changer as people started looking for alternative source of income.

District Horticulture officer G Dohling says that the department has come up with a turmeric hub to promote cultivation of the famed Lakadong variety of turmeric.

The hub was built at a cost of Rs 50 lakh, funds from the 13th Finance Commission, and will benefit the

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Meghalaya produces over 8,000 MT of turmeric in a year and majority of this production is concentrated in Jaintia Hills and Garo Hills region because of the favourable micro-climatic and soil conditions.

According to horticulture department officials, there are at least 1,000 farmers engaged in turmeric cultivation and the number is likely to increase.

incidence of trans-border illegal activities, a top army General has urged tightening of vigil along Mizoram's border with Myanmar, an official said here on Monday.

Lt Gen Abhay Krishna, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 3 corps, issued the directive to the para-military Assam Rifles guarding the IndiaMyanmar border, the official said. Gen Krishna assumed charge of his new command recently.

"General Abhay Krishna during his two-day visit to Mizoram met senior Assam Rifles officials and discussed about the strengthening of security along the India-Myanmar border along Mizoram," a Mizoram home department official said.

"Gen Krishna gave strategic instructions to the para-military officials and troopers to check transborder illegal activities,"

CAREER GuIDANCE AND COuNSELING SEMINAR AT IMMANuEL COLLEGE DIMAPuR A seminar on how to choose the right career path based to one’s aptitude was conducted at Immanuel College Lengirjan Dimapur to provide counseling and guidance to students concerning their future career on 28th November 2015 at 1:00 P. M. The theme of the seminar was “Nurturing Dreams-Guiding our Children for their Future” and the team of Resource Persons was led by a trained and experienced Psychologist Ms. Susan Lotha and other two experts Dr. Aola Imcha a dental surgeon and Er. Rohit Jain, Director (Business Development) at P. K. Travels.

Ms. Susan Lotha a Psychologist and currently working at Maple Tree school as Counsellor, started her presentation by highlighting the importance of being aware of the phenomena of ‘cultural shock’.

She stressed that a student must adopt a right mindset and valuesystem before leaving Nagaland, so that the student do not face any problems arising due to ‘incompatibility’ with the ‘local’ culture.

If a student is able to adapt and mingle with the local culture and at the same time is able to retain his or her culture, it results in increase of maturity and self-confidence of the student. She highlighted the different career options from the perspective of arts stream.

Dr. Aola Imcha spoke on the different professional career options available for the Science students and the requisite qualifications necessary for pursuing them. Thereafter Dr. Aola Imcha focused more elaborately on the medical and its allied profession. In addition, she stressed that a science student has the additional advantage of even taking up career path that normally an Arts or Commerce student pursues.

Er. Rohit Jain, elaborated the career options when a student studies Engineering with a certain specialisation. He mentioned that it is very important to develop a ‘goal’ at quiet an early age and the goal must be SMART Goal. S stand for Specific, M stand for Measureable, A stand for Achievable, R stand for Realistic and, T stand for Time Bound nature of this pursuit. He stated that when a student possesses “The Power to Choose” and while choosing must make sure that it is “The Right Choice”. He also mentioned that in this era of Globalisation the world has no space for mediocrity and each student is expected to compete at the global level therefore, in order to survive students need to excel in their chosen field.

Earlier, the programme started with the invocation prayer by Ms. Elone Asst. professor English department, and the welcome address was delivered by Th. Sharatchandra Singh Principal.

The interactive session was moderated by the Chairperson Ms. Pf. Nishani Asst. Professor English department. At the end of the interactive session the Chairman of the Governing Body, Dr. A Loso Chalai, presented the summation of the seminar on choosing the right career which was followed by the expression of gratitude by the Dean of Students’ Welfare Loli Athisü. The seminar culminated with the benediction pronounced by Ms. Eyingbeni student of Immanuel College.

a 510-km border with Myanmar and a 318-km frontier with Bangladesh, has become a corridor for arms and drugs smuggling.

Assam Rifles troopers guard the Myanmar border while the Border Security Force (BSF) are posted along the Bangladesh frontiers.

Assam Rifles troopers are posted along the 1,643-km India-Myanmar border abutting Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km).

The official said Gen Krishna spelt out the concerns of the armed forces towards trans-border illegal activities in the northeast and stressed the need for establishment of peace

central government.

Gen Krishna, who was accompanied by Brigadier M.V. Suchindra Kumar, also met Mizoram Governor Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma (retd) in Raj Bhavan here and discussed the security situation in Mizoram.

Gen Krishna assumed command of 3 Corps in Rangapahar in Nagaland recently. The corps, also known as Spear Corps, plays a major role in counter-insurgency operations in the Indian Army's Eastern Command.

The 3 Corps is the largest field formation of the army and comprises troops deployed in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

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curred at Somdal village in Ukhrul district on November 27 evening.

Somdal which is about 100 km from Imphal is the native village of several top leaders of NSCN (IM) including its general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah.

MNPF in a statement said that the explosion was a warning given to all NSCN (IM) functionaries from Somdal to desist from 'misleading and trading ' the Nagas of Manipur for their own benefits. The outfit further warned the NSCN (IM) to immediately stop 'suppressing' Nagas in Manipur and to put an end to fomenting tension between different communities in Manipur.

was arrested, IG (Operations) G H P Raju said.

Monesh's arrest was made today based on the lead given by his accomplice Saddam A Sangma of Gambilaga village to a police team from Dainadubi last night, he said. Saddam informed the police of Binod's profile and rank in the ANLA and eventually led them to his house too, the official said.

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aizawl, November 30 (Pti): Three members of a family were charred to death when their house was gutted in a fire at Champhai town in Mizoram early today.Gongaihhluni (65) and her grandsons were burnt to death when they were sleeping after the house caught fire at 1.20 AM, a police official said. 3 other family members survived the fire.

One person was arrested in suspicion, the official said adding that the cause of fire is yet to be ascertained.

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Training on e-governance for IT nodal officers held

Kohima, November 30 (DiPr): Training programme on e-Governance for Information Technology for Nodal Officers of all departments was held on November 30 with Chief Secretary, Nagaland as the chief guest at Capital Convention Centre, Kohima. The programme was jointly organized by the Dept of IT&C in collaboration with e-Governance Academy, Estonia.

Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar while delivering a short speech said that information technology has been doing a significant role in providing services to the people.

He stated that computerization of Treasuries and Accounts, Public Distribution System, commercial taxes etc have been successfully implemented and the people of

Nagaland are now aware of multiple benefits of IT such as online distribution students’ scholarship, online payment of tax, online application of examination forms etc. He urged the officials from various departments spearheading the e-governance to provide connectivity at the village level for the rural people.

Delivering a brief introduction to the trainees, Commissioner & Secretary, IT&C, K.D. Vizo, ITS said that the awareness training is important as proper understanding of the subject of information technology is required to extend the benefit of IT and e-governance to the general citizen. Stating that elsewhere in the world, those countries who have taken up IT and e-governance as

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moKoKchuNg, November 30 (DiPr): Nagaland Chief Minister, T.R Zeliang will formally inaugurate the 125th anniversary celebrations of Mokokchung Town at Imkongmeren Sports Complex on 12th December 2015 at 11:30 a.m. It was earlier scheduled to be held on 14th December.

Besides addressing the people of the town, chief minister will unveil the Jubilee monolith and release the souvenir.

Minister for National Highway, Mechanical & Election, Nuklutoshi will deliver the welcome address while Ao Senden President, Imolemba will make a “Clarion Call” during the inaugural programme.

Former Mokokchung Town Committee Chairman, Bendangnukshi will address the gathering on the theme ‘Reminiscing Mokokchung town’.

Cultural display will be presented by troupes from Mokokchung district and

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WoKha, November 30 (mexN): Three days on Pre-Cocoon Technology on Muga Culture for Integrated Sericulture Development Programme under North East Regional Textile Promotional Scheme (NERTPS) 201516 was conducted at Bhanadari Town Hall from November 16 – 18 last. The programme was chaired

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An excise gate has been erected at Phesama along National Highway to check the inflow of IMFL during Hornbill Festival of Nagaland. It may be recalled that Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilatuo Mor recently informed all the concerned that sale of IMFL in any form is strictly prohibited in all the festival venues particularly Naga Heritage Village Kisama, IG Stadium, Night Carnival and RCEMPA Jotsoma areas during the Hornbill Festival 2015.

He also informed that to mark the Hornbill Festival and to conduct stringent checks regularly, a Special Task Force has been constituted by the Government of Nagaland for prevention of infiltration of IMFL and abuse. The release further stated that any defaulter found will be penalized as per the law.

Pre-Cocoon Technology on Muga Culture for Integrated Sericulture Development Programme under NERTPS 2015-16 was conducted at Likya Community Hall, Wokha from November 19 to 21. The resources persons were N. Wocho Yanthan (S/D) and Nyamo Lotha(E.O). Altogether, 50 farmers attended the programme.

At the on-set of Christmas and New Year season, the church staff and the youth department of Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church led by S. Vitoshe Swu, Senior Pastor conducted social work at Old Flyover on Monday. Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church will decorate the old fly-over to welcome the birth of Christ and the New Year.

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its neighbouring Tuensang, Zunheboto and Wokha district during the inaugural programme.

A special moment of prayer for Mokokchung town in all the churches in the town, Fellowships, different faiths of Mokokchung, food fests,, farmers fair, kids carnival & fun stalls, Inter-ward tug-of-war and volley ball tournament, panel discussions on “Vision Mokokchung 2040”, Naga Orpheus Retro Nite, elders meet and many others will be featured during the main celebrations from 12thto 17th December.

Meanwhile hectic preparations are going on for the celebrations which will be concluded on 17th December with a concert where Shillong Choir will be on stage.

The celebrations will finally culminate with the annual Christmas Cake Race and Watch Night programme on December 31.

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A six days Residential Diabetic and Master Health Check-up camp was held successfully from November 23 to November 28 at Impur Christian Hospital, Mokokchung. The camp was organized by Dr. Sashimeren, Convenor Board of Trustee, Impur Christian Hospital.

According to a press note from its Medical Superintendent, ICH informed that Dr. Mapu (Diabetes), Dr. Temjen Pongener (Cardiologist), Dr. Imli Ozukum (PMR, Physiotherapy), Dr. Phyantsüthung (Eye), and three nurse from Dimapur & Kohima assisted the camp.

The Hospital Staff and the Midwifery Assistant Student were also involved in assistance, it added.

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It is a nice, sweet and moving story.

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and IT. He also expressed his appreciation to the resource persons on e-Governance from Estonia for enlightening the people of Nagaland about the wide spread benefits of embracing IT and eGovernance.

Resource persons at the workshop included Physicist and Former Cabinet Minister, Estonia, Dr. Liia Hanni, Executive Director and Chairman of Management Board, e-Governance Academy, Dr. Arvo Ott, Head of e-Governance Trainings, e-Governance Academy, Annela Kiirats, Senior Expert, e-Governance Academy, Masipedak, Estonia.

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Integrity of country at stake in North East: Acharya Regional conference on ‘National Health Priorities with special reference to the Northeast’ held Morung Express News Dimapur | November 30

Nagaland Governor today underscored the importance of national integration and said the integrity of the country is at stake in the North East Region. The Governor said the NER with more than 200 militant and insurgent outfits and surrounded by four countries has always remained a potential threat to

the integrity of the country.

Acharya said the NER with its vast natural resources can make India a great nation and echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment that development of North East is vital to the progress of the country.

The Governor was addressing the inaugural function of the regional conference on “National Health Priorities with special reference to the Northeast” held here at Hotel Acacia. Acharya said the North East has got enough resources including hydro power, petroleum, coal and other minerals to propel the region in all fields of de-

Governor greets on 52nd Statehood Day

DimaPUr, November 30 (mexN): On 52nd Nagaland Statehood Day, Nagaland governor PB Acharya has extended greetings to the people of Nagaland. The Governor, according to a DIPR report, said Statehood gave the people of Nagaland a distinct identity and individuality besides providing ample opportunities to shape the destiny of their land.

He said Naga youths are already velopment. However, the region has lagged behind mainly due to the attitude of the people who always look upon the respective governments for their ev-

engaged in making Nagaland a progressive and prosperous one and the State has made rapid strides in various fields during the past 51 years and has emerged a pioneer in the country. Meanwhile, Acharya said backward areas like Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire and Longleng require special attention for equal development.

Maintaining that the day marks not merely the end of a problem, but the beginning of a new era with the

ery need and comfort.

Likewise, he said India is rich country but Indians are poor and India is a literate country but Indians are illiterate. Suck kinds

signing of the historic Framework Agreement between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM), the Governor asserted that this agreement is a “shining example of what we can achieve when we deal with each other in a spirit of equality, trust and confidence.”

Acharya also appealed to all the Naga political groups to join the peace process for a graceful and permanent solution to the Naga problem.

of contradictions can only be removed when people change their mindset and learn how to take initiatives on their own and not only depend on the government

or external agencies.

Secretary, North Eastern Council (NEC), Ram Muivah, the guest of honour of the inaugural programme, in his address said

one of the bottlenecks why the country is not progressing at a faster rate is because of discrepancy of staff in different departments. The NEC secretary said according to a World Bank report, the country is overstaffed in many departments, especially the Group C employees. WB in its report suggested doing away with most of the Group C staffs (clerical) and focus on acute shortage of primary school teachers, nurses and judges.

Emeritus Prof. Dr. KC Mohanty delivered the keynote address on the topic “Health care in India at the cross road.” Adviser, Health NEC, Dr. Bamin Tada deliv-

ered the welcome address and Dr. Sedevi Angami of CIHSR, proposed vote of thanks.

The conference was organized by North Eastern Council and Nagaland Department of Health & Family Welfare under the auspices of Environmental Medical Association of India (EMA).

Renowned Indian medical specialists and doctors shared their knowledge and expertise on latest medical breakthrough in diseases such as AIDS, diabetes, malaria, psychiatric disorder, dermatology, TB and onco-surgery in the day-long conference.

Hornbill Festival from today 150 Naga students go home after scholarship fails to arrive Our Correspondent

Carnival, Hornbill Night Carnival, NIAPA’s Culture in Motion Season 3 and The 16th edition of Horn- launch of Hornbill Interbill Festival starts today, national Music Festival.

December 1. The inaugural function will start Updated Hornbill Festival 10:00 am at Naga Heritage traffic regulation Village, Kisama. NagaKohima Police have land Governor PB Acha- made the following addirya will be the chief guest, tion and correction in the while Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Hornbill Festival traffic Union Minister of State regulation: (Independent Charge), • On December 2 and Tourism, Culture & Civil 7, all upcoming vehicles on Aviation will be the guest NH-2 will be diverted from of honour. Chief minis- Meriema junction towards ter TR Zeliang will be the New Secretariat from 4:00 chief host, parliamen- pm till the concert is over tary secretary for tourism • All VIP escort vehicles C. Apok Jamir will be the will be cut off from Gate No. host. Y. Phonlong, Angh of I of IG stadium and parked Longchang Village, Mon along NH-2 facing towards will pronounce traditional Meriema side below Gate blessing.

No. II (exit) The day will be marked • From ‘Y’ junction beby inauguration of floral low old MLA Hostel till galleria and stalls at Hor- Southern gate of Kohima tiscape, Kisama at 8:30 Local Ground and from am, inauguration of exhi- Northern gate till Razhu bition-cum-sale of han- Point, no vehicles will be dloom and handicrafts allowed to park from 4:00 products at Bamboo Pa- pm till the Night Carnival/ vilion by 8:45am, inaugu- Bazar is over from Decemration of craftscape 2015 ber 1 to 10 at 9:00 am, inauguration • All vehicles coming of artists corners at 9:30 for Night Carnival will be am, followed by Hipfest parked at Kohima Local photo competition, Naga Ground Chef- The Entrepreneurial • At Kisama, only cars Round, Ziplines, NAAME’s having car passes ‘A’ and adventure activities, Kids ‘B’ will be allowed entry at Kohima | November 30

Gate No. II and may take new exit road. Cars having car pass ‘C’ will take the old exit road • All heavy vehicles will not be allowed entry into Kohima town from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm from December 1 to 10.

Naga Chef: Team Doyang wins Group Round The Group Round of Naga Chef Season Three was held at the Heritage village, Kisama. The top four contestants were divided into two, Team Doyang and Team Barak.

Chief Minister TR Zeliang, the Chief Patron of the competition, was the chief guest of the evening. Zeliang emphasized that the Naga Chef is giving important platform to its participants. It has opened window for young talents in pursuing their passion for cooking. The judges were Chef Joel Basumatari, Sentila T Yanger, Guest Judge Imnanungsang Imsong and a special guest judge Kevi Zeliang, wife of Chief Minister and President of Nagaland Women Volunteers’ Association. The Chief Minister declared Team Doyang as the winner of the contest and they were presented with gift hampers.

meerUT/Kohima, November 30 (TNN): Over 150 students from Nagaland had to leave a college of engineering and technology in Modinagar, UP, midway into their course after their scholarship, promised by the government in Kohima, failed to arrive. They had run up a bill of Rs 1.86 crore.

On Sunday evening the students quietly boarded three buses and left for Ghaziabad.

Deepankar Sharma, director of Divya Jyoti College of Engineering and Technology, confirmed to TOI on Monday that the Naga students had indeed left campus. "The total strength of the college is 800 and around 150 students are Scheduled Tribe students from Naga-

land. The students came here on a scholarship programme, under which the Nagaland government was supposed to pay their entire tuition fees, which is Rs 1 lakh per annum. The students had to only pay Rs 60,000 as hostel fees. They had been paying their hostel fees in installments but have not paid any tuition fees since the last academic session started in July 2014.

Two semesters of the last academic session and one from this session have passed but we let the students stay. The scholarship amount has not come to this day."

Back in Kohima, sources in the government told TOI that Nagaland had indeed not paid the institute for some time now and owed

the college "about Rs 1 crore".

A senior official in the government said they were, however, not aware of the students being turned away from the engineering college for failing to pay the fees. "We are not aware of any such reports. But the state government will look into the matter," he said, adding that the students were sponsored to study at the institute.

Both students from the first semester and those in the third have left the college, their dues adding up to close to Rs 1.90 crore. P Hiska, a BTech student and one of the group to have packed his bags, said, "In 2014, we got in touch with a career counselling NGO in Dimapur who informed us of the scholarship. We

went to Delhi for an interview with officials at the Union ministry of tribal affairs and were told that we had been selected and the funds would be transferred to our state government soon. The state government was supposed to transfer the funds to us. In December 2014, we learnt that the funds had been transferred to the state government.

But there was nothing from them after that."

Hiska added, "On my last trip to Nagaland, I even went to Kohima and spoke to officials in the state education ministry. They said they had received the funds but they did not know how much money had come. Because of this, our future is hanging in the balance."

Chief Minister inaugurates Naga Heritage village exit road Chizokho Vero Kohima | November 30

Chief Minister TR Zeliang today sought the support and cooperation of the landowners and citizens of the State to take Nagaland forward. Inaugurating the 3km Naga Heritage village exit road at Kisama between Phesama and Kisama, Zeliang lauded Phesama village for extending the land free of cost for construction of the said road.

He also cited that in order to provide drinking water fa-

cility for the denizens of the State capital, the government has been approaching villages, and some have willingly come forward for the cause.

Making an indirect reference of landowners hindering the process of development, he said “Nagas land holding system is there but if we go ahead with such spirit of sacrifice for the welfare of the people, development and progress and dreams of smart city is achievable.”

Appreciating Phesama village and department of

roads & bridges for construction of road and infrastructure for welfare of the people, Zeliang expressed concern over the degradation of the natural beauty.

“Development is important but joint effort should also be made by the department and villagers to regenerate the natural beauty of the area by planting trees of different species along the road side,” he said.

He also said Naga elders should think of taking the youth forward to be progressive, constructive and cre-

ative and not to be destructive so that they can lead the Naga people forward.

He said Government of India has serious concern for theNagapeopleandtherefore has recognized the uniqueness of Naga history. “When others are serious about the Nagas, why should we take the back seat,” he asked and called upon the Naga people to come together to resolve the Naga political issue.

He said the inauguration of the exit road will not only be a good passage for those people coming for Hornbill

Festival but it would also serve well the commuters of Manipur state.

Minister for road & bridges Y. Vikheho Swu said the proposal for construction of the exit road was brought by Phesama village after a major landslide occurred this year in the village and the department of roads & bridges too felt the necessity to have proper exit road.

MLA Er. Vikho-o Yhoshu and Angami Public Organization (APO) president Dr. Vilhousa Seleyi also spoke on the occasion.

NSEAOA to begin agitation on Dec 3 Congress greets BJP spokesperson Dr. Hoshi resigns on religious grounds • Mass casual leave from December 3-5 • Total cease work from December 7 DimaPUr, November 30 (mexN): Nagaland School Education Administrative Officers’ Association (NSEAOA) has resolved to protest against not promoting deserving candidates in the department of school education.

A press release from NSEAOA secretary, Chonpa Pochury and president, Y Khetoshe Yepthomi said that the department of school education, govern-

ment of Nagaland has been reiterating that promotion will be taken up only after DPC (Departmental Promotion Committee)'s approval.

However, promotions have been given recently to six officers without DPC approval, whereas many deserving senior incumbents have been denied promotion although there are vacancies in the department since many years.

In the light of the above, the association had submitted a representation to the government on November 24 to give promotion to the deserving officers on or before November 30, 2015.

On the basis of the memorandum, the association held an emergency meeting on November 30 and resolved to begin the agitation.

In the first phase of the agitation, all officers under NSEAOA from the rank of JEO will apply for mass casual leave from December 3-5. Second phase will be total cease work from December 7 till the demand is fulfilled.

All the members of the association have been informed to strictly comply and co-operate with the resolution.

on Statehood Day

Kohima, November 30 (mexN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee on behalf of All India Congress president, Sonia Gandhi and vice president, Rahul Gandhi has wished Happy Statehood Day to the people of Nagaland. A release from NPCC president, K Therie said, "Today, Nagaland people with special protection under Art 371A have been able to protect their identity and traditions in a vast and diverse nation due to the foresightedness and sacrifices of our founding pioneers."

DIMUL for fulfilling demand and nutritional needs Morung Express News Dimapur | November 30

Dimapur District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (DIMUL) registered a sales turnover of Rs. 948.75 lakhs for the year 2014-15. A slight decrease from the Rs. 987.59 lakhs it registered in 2013-14, the sales was still higher than in 2012-13 when the dairy group clocked Rs. 895.85 in sales. DIMUL, Nagaland’s best known dairy group, has witnessed a steady growth in sales during the past 5 years.

“Seizing the opportunity of the demand-supply gap for milk” should be the objective of the producerfarmers, stated DIMUL chairman, V. Kehie, addressing the dairy group’s 18th annual general meeting at its headquarters – Dimapur Central Diary located at 7th Mile.

While it faces stiff competition from multinational companies and private traders, there is still scope for growth, he said, adding that increasing production and maintaining quality would not

only help the growth of DIMUL but would also secure the economic status of the producers.

“As population increases and income levels rise, much more milk needs to be produced to meet rising demand, as also to fulfil nutritional needs.” Accelerating progress will be the key to meet this, which can be achieved by closer cooperation between the Union and the producers’ cooperatives, he said.

Awards were also handed away to associates and members of the

tioned that if their pending salaries are not released as stipulated, they would be forced to follow the policy of “No pay, No work.”

The NRHM employees expressed apprehension that they will be faced with the same scenario recently made to bear, with the State government releasing their December 2014 salary only in April, 2015; January and February salary in May, March

salary in June, April and May salary in June and June to August salary only in November.

It further reminded of the move of the Central government of transferring the NRHM funds directly to the State treasury instead of the medical department bank account so as to give more power to the State government and to avoid misuse of the funds.

The centre had also di-

The former BJP spokesperson said he had even walked out from a party program on August 27, 2015 in protest against the display of one of the Hindu goddesses’ image and RSS attempt to impose idolatry on Christian members there.

“It was a clear manifestation of RSS hidden agenda to saffronize the Christian state of Nagaland,” Dr K Hoshi alleged. He also termed the justification made by BJP Nagaland

State unit president over the issue as ‘appalling.’

Meanwhile, in a show of solidarity with the resigned BJP spokesperson, six office bearers of district and mandal levels along with entire primary members resigned from active membership. With this en-block resignation, the mandal of 19th Phek A/C and all its units stand dissolved, a separate press statement informed.

IGNOU term end examination starts today Kohima, November 30 (mexN): The Term End Examination of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will be held from December 1-30. The University has established 877 examination centres, including 22 overseas and 82 in jails for jail inmates.

Hall tickets (Examination Intimation Slips) have been issued to 4,89,391 eligible students. The hall ticket is available on IGNOU website www.ignou. ac.in. Students may download the hall tickets from

dairy group in recognition of their contribution to the milk industry in Dimapur.

Kikhruru DCS, Chumukedima was declared the Best Dairy Cooperative Society, while Pom Bahadur of Everest DCS, Chumukedima was awarded the Best Producer. RK Chodhury was awarded Best Retailer, while Sanmati Traders was declared the Best Distributer. N. Our Correspondent Sharma was awarded the Best Worker, while Chatra Kohima | November 30 Thapa of Bhola DCS, Singrijan was declared the Kohima Science College Best Secretary.

(Autonomous), Jotsoma today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Surindra Rajabhat University (SSRU) Thailand at rected the State govern- Regional Centre for Excelment to release the funds lence of Music & Performmeant for NRHM within a ing Arts, Jotsoma. stipulated time of 15 days The MoU declared a once it reaches the State formal understanding of treasury. cooperation and friendDespite this, the NRHM ship which intended to furemployees lamented that ther academic objective of State government was not following the directives of each institution and to prothe centre and instead had mote better understanding resorted to either diverting between the faculty and the funds meant for their students of KSCJ and SRRU. The MoU signed by salary or keeping it in fixed principal, KSCJ Dr. I. Andeposits.

NRHM employees say no pay no work DimaPUr, November 30 (mexN): Nagaland employees of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) have demanded that State treasury release their pending salaries from the month of September till November, 2015 before the end of December.

Stating that the Centre has already transferred funds meant for their salary, employees of NRHM in a press statement cau-

DimaPUr, November 30 (mexN): BJP spokesperson Dr K Hoshi on Monday tendered resignation from the membership of BJP while citing reason that he cannot “compromise on his religion.”

“My conscience does not allow me to associate with an organization that has complete ideological contrast with my faith, Dr K Hoshi said in the resignation letter addressed to BJP Nagaland State unit president.

the university website and appear in the examination.

The examination centres have been instructed to allow students to appear in examination even if they do not possess the hall ticket, but their names exist in the list of examinees for that centre.

Meanwhile, students have been advised to be in possession of the valid Identity Card issued by the university during the examination. Mobile phones are not permitted inside the examination hall, a press release informed.

Separate hall tickets will be issued to the students of BCA & MCA for Term End practicals. Students have been advised to contact the respective Regional Centres in the last week of December, 2015 for their practical examinations. For BLISc. (Library Science), all Theory Examination Centres are not activated for the conduct of Practical Examination. Students have been advised to contact the Centre Superintendent and see the Notice Board for Practical Examination

Centre.

Under Kohima Regional Centre, 2823 students are appearing exams at 9 Centres in Kohima, Dimapur, Mokokchung, Mon, Longleng, Zunheboto, Tuensang and Kiphire. Students who have applied for Exam Centre-2019 (Bosco College of Teacher Education, Dimapur) and Exam Centre-2020 (Salt Christian College of Teacher Education, Dimapur) have been allotted to Exam Centre-2033, SD Jain Girls College, Dimapur.

Kohima Science College signs MoU with SSRU Thailand ungla Aier and acting president, SSRU Dr. Acharya Phanurat stated that the two institutions will proceed to implement the various areas subjected to availability of funds and personnel and approval of competent authority of KSCJ and SRRU, through various activities.

It added that the programmes will feature joint cultural exchange programmes, exchange of faculty members, students, joint research activities, participation in seminars and academic meetings, exchange of academic materials and other information, short term academic programmes and exchange of administrative manag-

ers/coordinators.

The MoU shall remain in force for a period of three years and it may be further extended or amended with the written agreement of both parties.

It may be mentioned that SRRU offers a wide range of courses up to the master level. Emphasis is on tourism (a local industry), and business studies, however, there is a full range of curricula, including teacher education, management, computers, and English studies. Originally, this university was a teachers college.

Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education Deo Nukhu while acknowl-

edging both the institutions for entering into MoU expressed that the MoU would help and promote both the institutions.

Principal KSCJ in her address thanked SRRU for coming forward for the MoU and said the MoU was signed to expand higher education. She added it was a step forward to achieve the vision to upgrade post graduate in the college.

SRRU acting president Dr. Achara Phanurat in her brief address acknowledged KSCJ for entering MoU with SRRU and invited KSCJ to visit the university and also assured to do its best on the MoU.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express

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Statehood Day & the Hornbill Fest

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ince the formal inauguration of Nagaland as a state on December 1, 1963, the Government of Nagaland has been observing December 1 as Statehood Day. By most accounts, the basis of Nagaland State – the 16 Point Agreement of 1960 – has been shrouded in controversy and has generated heated debates. Historians, political commentators and researchers have repeatedly questioned the very democratic basis and political legality of this Agreement.

While some may argue that the Agreement is an instrument that helped the Nagas attain some form of autonomy in the form of a state; others argue, that it negated Naga historical and political rights and bypassed democratic processes which is considered to be the cause for creating political divisions among the Nagas. Nonetheless, despite these differing opinions, the common viewpoint shared by many is that the 16 Point Agreement and the present state of Nagaland does not fully reflect and represent the Naga aspiration. And hence, is only in transition towards a comprehensive process that enables resolution, reconstruction and reconciliation in the Naga context.

With the Nagaland Statehood Day now coinciding with the first day of the 10-day annual state Hornbill Festival, the underlying message seems very telling. With the Statehood day being projected as the representation of political life and the Festival that of the cultural life of the Nagas, December 1 seems to denote a day in which the political and cultural – both of which constitutes the basis of Naga rights – has been assimilated and co-opted by dominant forces. While the official government ceremony on the Statehood day represents the acceptance of a union that is not of our making, the Hornbill Festival by default reduces Naga people and culture to a state of exhibitionism and commodification – and in essence reduced to a museum of living artifacts. Hence, what exactly are the Nagas celebrating on December 1? Can this form the basis of a shared future? The last 52 years of Statehood clearly shows the need for an alternative value-based discourse on Naga issues that requires a new basis for engagement both within and without.

The 16 Point Agreement which was entered into between the Naga People’s Convention and the Government of India certainly did not address the Naga people’s core aspirations that were expressed through the Naga Voluntary Plebiscite.

And, the Sixteen Point Agreement was signed without the Naga peoples’ consultation and participation in a political vacuum that was created by sustained military operations.

Hence, most importantly, this Agreement did not end the unequal power relations, nor did it alter the Indian State’s desire to exert authority and control over the Naga people. Rather, it only legitimized a system of politics and governance, thereby denying people their right to decide not only the form of government, but also the right to decide who should govern them.

While the Agreement provides “special provisions,” it also arbitrarily decided who was a Naga on the basis of territorial boundaries. In this way, the collective Naga fabric was disrupted by creating new territorially based identities, and to further demoralize the Naga spirit by allowing a limited Naga population to and enjoy these “special provisions.”

In order to establish legitimacy over the Nagas, specific provisions of the 16 Point Agreement were incorporated into the Constitution of India under Article 371 (A). However, these “special provisions” under Article 371 (A) confers no creative power to translate the Naga peoples’ aspirations into lived reality. The scholar Kumar Sanjay points the irony that it only grants what may be considered a form of autonomy that is essentially a gift by the Indian State and not the result of a political negotiation to redefine the relationship between India and the Nagas.

In effect, implications of the 16 Point Agreement suggest that the principles of justice were reduced to “special provisions.” Consequently, the Nagas were not only divided, but also ruled. Furthermore, an underlying political intent of the Agreement reduced the Naga status of a “peoples” to a “scheduled tribe” under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. This has far reaching consequences as it means that Nagas are no longer perceived and honored with the status of a peoples, but that of a scheduled tribe.

This December 1, on the occasion of the Nagaland Statehood Day and commencement of the annual Hornbill Festival, we, the people, need to ask and reflect on what exactly are we celebrating?

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Tales of crime and struggle

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have lost a lot of people I knew to crime," says George Kiru, nursing a drink at 2 in the morning in a bar on the edge of Nairobi's Korogocho slum.

Music blares as he lists childhood friends who joined gangs, many of them now dead or in jail.

“Personally I always said no to crime,” says Kiru, who buys and sells second-hand goods and picks up occasional work as a minibus driver to feed his two daughters and send them to school. “It never ends well if you choose to become a criminal.

Eventually, you will get killed.”

Around 2 million people have made their homes in the shantytowns packed in around Kenya’s capital - Korogocho, its bigger, equally infamous near neighbours Mathare, Mukuru kwa Njenga, Kibera and others.

The neighbourhoods are bustling and bursting with energy. Churches are packed, young men hang out at neighbourhood gyms and friends gather at roadside stalls serving chicken. But crime and unemployment are high. Basic services and sanitation are scarce.

People in ramshackle dwellings of wood and corrugated iron describe a daily struggle to eke out a living. Some turn to prostitution and other crimes.

Alice, 20, says her partner was killed in a shoot-out five years ago. Left with no means to support herself and her newborn baby son, she started working as a prostitute. Claire, 17, said she has been a sex worker since she was 14.

Four policemen have died in shoot-outs in the past two years, says one officer on a night patrol in Korogocho, Dandora and Makadara, declining to give his name.

“We need to be tough or the situation will get out of control ... Every week there is a shooting, a robbery, and a murder. Every second day some criminal here commits a serious crime.”

But residents say it is they, not the officers who face the brunt of the violence.

One Korogocho man says his 20-year-old son was killed during a police operation last year. The government has urged residents to report corrupt or violent police officers. But the man asks not to be named for fear of reprisals.

Drug and alcohol addiction is a common problem. An illegal brew called Chang'aa is prepared over open fires in oil drums in Mathare. In Huruma, Stanley and Saaid are heroin addicts. Stanley, 36, is a rubbish collector and Saaid, 32, gathers unused metal to sell for recycling.

“It is a hard life here,” says Kiru, nursing his drink in the Korogocho bar. Across the room, staff serve drinks, separated off from customers by a grid of metal rods.

The Journey towards achieving forgiveness

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hen another person hurts us, it can upend our lives.

Sometimes the hurt is very deep, such as when a spouse or a parent betrays our trust, or when we are victims of crime, or when we’ve been harshly bullied. Anyone who has suffered a grievous hurt knows that when our inner world is badly disrupted, it’s difficult to concentrate on anything other than our turmoil or pain. When we hold on to hurt, we are emotionally and cognitively hobbled, and our relationships suffer.

Forgiveness is strong medicine for this. When life hits us hard, there is nothing as effective as forgiveness for healing deep wounds. I would not have spent the last 30 years of my life studying forgiveness if I were not convinced of this.

Many people have misconceptions about what forgiveness really means – and they may eschew it.

Others may want to forgive, but wonder whether or not they truly can. Forgiveness does not necessarily come easily; but it is possible for many of us to achieve, if we have the right tools and are willing to put in the effort.

Below is an outline of the basic steps involved in following a path of forgiveness. As you read through these steps, think about how you might adapt them to your own life.

1. Know what forgiveness is and why it matters Forgiveness is about goodness, about extending mercy to those who’ve harmed us, even if they don’t ‘deserve’ it. It is not about finding excuses for the offending person’s behaviour or pretending it didn’t happen. Nor is there a quick formula you can follow.

Forgiveness is a process with many steps that often proceeds in a non-linear fashion.

But it’s well worth the effort. Working on forgiveness can help us increase our self-esteem and give us a sense of inner strength and safety. It can reverse the lies that we often tell ourselves when someone has hurt us deeply—lies such as ‘I am defeated’ or ‘I’m not worthy’. Forgiveness can heal us and allow us to move on in life with meaning and purpose. Forgiveness matters, and we will be its primary beneficiary.

Studies have shown that forgiving others produces strong psychological benefits for the one who forgives. It has been shown to decrease depression, anxiety, unhealthy anger, and the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. But we don’t just forgive to help ourselves. Forgiveness can lead to psychological healing, yes; but, in its essence, it is not something about you or done for you. It is something you extend toward another person, because you recognise, over time, that it is the best response to the situation.

2. Become ‘forgivingly fit’ To practice forgiveness, it helps if you have worked on positively changing your inner world by learning to be what I call ‘forgivingly fit’. Just as you would start slowly with a new physical exercise routine, it helps if you build up your forgiving muscles slowly, incorporating regular ‘workouts’ into your everyday life.

You can start becoming more fit by making a commitment to do no harm – in other words, making a conscious effort not to talk disparagingly about those who’ve hurt you. You don’t have to say good things; but, if you refrain from talking negatively, it will feed the more forgiving side of your mind and heart.

You can also make a practice of recognising that every person is unique, special, and irreplaceable.

You may come to this through religious beliefs or a humanist philosophy or even through your belief in evolution. It’s important to cultivate this mindset of valuing our common humanity, so that it becomes harder to discount someone who has harmed you as unworthy.

You can show love in small ways in everyday encounters – like smiling at a harried grocery cashier or taking time to listen to a child. Giving love when it’s unnecessary helps to build the love muscle, making it easier to show compassion toward everyone.

If you practice small acts of forgiveness and mercy – extending care when someone harms you – in everyday life, this too will help. Perhaps you can refrain from honking when someone cuts you off in traffic, or hold your tongue when your spouse snaps at you and extend a hug instead.

Sometimes pride and power can weaken your efforts to forgive by making you feel entitled and inflated, so that you hang onto your resentment as a noble cause. Try to catch yourself when you are acting from

that place, and choose forgiveness or mercy, instead.

If you need inspiration, it can help to seek out stories of mercy in the world, examples of which can be found at www.internationalforgiveness.com.

3. Address your inner pain It’s important to figure out who has hurt you and how. This may seem obvious; but not every action that causes you suffering is unjust. For example, you don’t need to forgive your child or your spouse for being imperfect, even if their imperfections are inconvenient for you.

To become clearer, you can look carefully at the people in your life – your parents, siblings, peers, spouse, co-workers, children, and even yourself – and rate how much they have hurt you. Perhaps they have exercised power over you or withheld love; or maybe they have physically harmed you. These hurts have contributed to your inner pain and need to be acknowledged. Doing this will give you an idea of who needs forgiveness in your life and provide a place to start.

There are many forms of emotional pain; but the common forms are anxiety, depression, unhealthy anger, lack of trust, self-loathing or low self-esteem, an overall negative worldview, and a lack of confidence in one’s ability to change. All of these harms can be addressed by forgiveness; so it’s important to identify the kind of pain you are suffering from and to acknowledge it. The more hurt you have incurred, the more important it is to forgive, at least for the purpose of experiencing emotional healing.

You may be able to do this accounting on your own, or you may need the help of a therapist. However you approach looking at your pain be sure you do it in an environment that feels safe and supportive.

4. Develop a forgiving mind through empathy Scientists have studied what happens in the brain when we think about forgiving and have discovered that, when people successfully imagine forgiving someone (in a hypothetical situation), they show increased activity in the neural circuits responsible for empathy. This tells us that empathy is connected to forgiveness and is an important step in the process.

If you examine some of the details in the life of the person who harmed you, you can often see more clearly what wounds they carry and start to develop empathy for them. First, try to imagine them as an innocent child, needing love and support. Did they get that from their parents? Research has shown that if an infant does not receive attention and love from primary caregivers, then they will have a weak attachment, which can damage trust. It may prevent them from ever getting close to others and set a trajectory of loneliness and conflict for the rest of his life.

You may be able to put an entire narrative together for the person who hurt you – from early child through adulthood – or just imagine it from what you know. You may be able to see their physical frailties and psychological suffering, and begin to understand the common humanity that you share. You may recognise them as a vulnerable person who was wounded and wounded you in return. Despite what they may have done to hurt you, you realise that they did not deserve to suffer either.

Recognising that we all carry wounds in our hearts can help open the door to forgiveness.

5. Find meaning in your suffering When we suffer a great deal, it is important that we find meaning in what we have endured. Without seeing meaning, a person can lose a sense of purpose, which can lead to hopelessness and a despairing conclusion that there is no meaning to life itself.

That doesn’t mean we look for suffering in order to grow or try to find goodness in another’s bad actions.

Instead, we try to see how our suffering has changed us in a positive way.

Even as one suffers, it’s possible to develop shortterm and sometimes long-range goals in life. Some people begin to think about how they can use their suffering to cope, because they’ve become more resilient or brave. They may also realise that their suffering has altered their perspective regarding what is important in life, changing their long-range goals for themselves.

To find meaning is not to diminish your pain or to say, ‘I’ll just make the best of it’ or ‘All things happen for a reason’. You must always take care to address the woundedness in yourself and to recognise the injustice of the experience, or forgiveness will be shallow.

Still, there are many ways to find meaning in our suffering. Some may choose to focus more on the beauty of the world or decide to give service to others in need. Some may find meaning by speaking their truth or by strengthening their inner resolve. If I were to give one answer, it would be that we should use our suffering to become more loving and to pass that love onto others. Finding meaning, in and of itself, is helpful for finding direction in forgiveness.

6. When forgiveness is hard, call upon other strengths Forgiveness is always hard when we are dealing with deep injustices from others. I have known people who refuse to use the word forgiveness because it just makes them so angry. That’s OK – we all have our own timelines for when we can be merciful. But if you want to forgive and are finding it hard, it might help to call upon other resources.

First remember that if you are struggling with forgiveness, that doesn’t mean you’re a failure at forgiveness. Forgiveness is a process that takes time, patience, and determination. Try not to be harsh on yourself, but be gentle and foster a sense of quiet within, an inner acceptance of yourself. Try to respond to yourself as you would to someone whom you love deeply.

Surround yourself with good and wise people who support you and who have the patience to allow you time to heal in your own way. Also, practice humility – not in the sense of putting yourself down, but in realising that we are all capable of imperfection and suffering.

Try to develop courage and patience in yourself to help you in the journey. Also, if you practice bearing small slights against you without lashing out, you give a gift to everyone – not only to the other person, but to everyone whom that person may harm in the future because of your anger. You can help end the cycle of inflicting pain on others.

If you are still finding it hard to forgive, you can choose to practice with someone who is easier to forgive –maybe someone who hurt you in a small way, rather than deeply. Alternatively, it can be better to focus on forgiving the person who is at the root of your pain – maybe a parent who was abusive, or a spouse who betrayed you. If this initial hurt impacts other parts of your life and other relationships, it may be necessary to start there.

7. Forgive yourself Most of us tend to be harder on ourselves than we are on others and we struggle to love ourselves. If you are not feeling lovable because of actions you’ve taken, you may need to work on self-forgiveness and offer to yourself what you offer to others who have hurt you: a sense of inherent worth, despite your actions.

In self-forgiveness, you honour yourself as a person, even if you are imperfect. If you’ve broken your personal standards in a serious way, there is a danger of sliding into self-loathing. When this happens, you may not take good care of yourself – you might overeat or oversleep or start smoking or engage in other forms of ‘self-punishment’. You need to recognise this and move toward self-compassion. Soften your heart toward yourself.

After you have been able to self-forgive, you will also need to engage in seeking forgiveness from others whom you’ve harmed and right the wrongs as best as you can. It’s important to be prepared for the possibility that the other person may not be ready to forgive you and to practice patience and humility.

But, a sincere apology, free of conditions and expectations, will go a long way toward your receiving forgiveness in the end.

8. Develop a forgiving heart When we overcome suffering, we gain a more mature understanding of what it means to be humble, courageous, and loving in the world. We may be moved to create an atmosphere of forgiveness in our homes and workplaces, to help others who’ve been harmed overcome their suffering, or to protect our communities from a cycle of hatred and violence. All of these choices can lighten the heart and bring joy to one’s life.

Some people may believe that love for another who’s harmed you is not possible. But, I’ve found that many people who forgive eventually find a way to open their hearts. If you shed bitterness and put love in its place, and then repeat this with many, many other people, you become freed to love more widely and deeply. This kind of transformation can create a legacy of love that will live on long after you’re gone.

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Rebranded modern slavery fight struggles for definition

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t first glance a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong, a Rohingya migrant toiling on a fishing boat, a sex worker walking the streets of Mumbai and a child labourer cutting bamboo in a plantation in the Philippines have nothing in common.

But all four could be slaves, trafficked and exploited by criminals and employers profiting from the world's fastest growing illicit industry, estimated by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to be worth $150 billion a year.

In the 15 years since a global treaty to combat human trafficking was adopted, modern slavery has gradually taken over as a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation.

The term has helped to ignite outrage among the public, but some experts argue the rebranding of human trafficking as modern slavery over-simplifies the complex reasons why millions have been forced to work in brothels, farms, fisheries, factories and homes.

"By applying the modern slavery label to all these abuses, it's easy to pitch it as a problem of good and bad, of innocent victims and evil perpetrators," said Janie Chuang, a professor at the American University Washington College of Law. There is no globally agreed definition of modern slavery. Not all children who are exposed to hazardous work are slaves, and not all workers who are paid unfairly are forced labourers, yet both are often referred to as victims of modern slavery.

LACK OF COORDINATION Legally sound definitions are crucial to improving coordination of national, regional and international efforts to stamp out slavery, experts say.

They also help efforts to collect better data on the number of slaves, a hotly debated issue as estimates range from 21 million to 36 million, depending on the methodology of surveys.

The Walk Free Foundation, creator of the Global Slavery Index, which puts the number of slaves at 36

million, said it took a strategic decision to use the term modern slavery rather than human trafficking.

"For an everyday audience it tends to be pretty well understood whereas with other concepts you need to give a lot more context," said Fiona David, a lawyer and director of global research at the Australian foundation.

"It meant we could work with as many organisations as possible, while also recognising the legal concepts behind human trafficking, forced labour, slavery or slavery-like practices," said David.

RISK OF "EXPLOITATION CREEP" Chuang argues that modern slavery is a term without a legal base, and that its inflationary use undermines prosecutions and trafficked persons' rights to remedy and assistance.

She noted cases in the United States where the use of slavery images by defence lawyers in trafficking prosecutions had raised jurors' expectations of the harm done to victims.

"People will expect that to be a victim of modern slavery you will have been chained and beaten and as a result the less violent abuses are likely to trigger less empathy," said Chuang.

Another risk of such "exploitation creep", as Chuang puts it, is that the reasons for modern slavery are neither recognised nor rectified in a structured manner.

"It's a useful distraction for those who would rather not look at the structural reasons behind these issues," she said.

While researchers agree growing inequality in global labour markets has created a fertile ground for human trafficking and exploitation of migrants, there is little evidence of concrete coordinated steps being taken to address the issue.

"The critical issues of migration, citizenship and border control are all closely connected to trafficking and forced labour but not many nations are willing to think about it in that way," said Marie Segrave, a criminologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

David said the Walk Free Foundation tried to address the complex reasons for modern slavery by including 37 indicators such as discrimination against

immigrants, income inequality and access to financial services in its index.

"A stronger evidence base is a critical part of the way forward," she said.

MEASURING CHANGE In the Asia-Pacific region, which has the largest number of forced labourers in the world at 11.7 million, forced labour and trafficking are closely linked to migration of people in search of better lives.

"It's acknowledged that this is a problem but there is not enough cooperation and so many different concepts now of what constitutes modern slavery," said Marja Paavilainen, a chief technical adviser at the ILO in Bangkok.

The ILO is leading efforts to create decent work conditions to reduce migrants' vulnerability to being trafficked and getting trapped in jobs where they are abused.

Clear definitions are also necessary to measure changes in the number of modern slaves, as the ILO found in its efforts to monitor child labour.

It took ILO member states, workers' and employers' organisations more than two years to settle on a definition of child labour when they negotiated a new convention to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, passed in 1999.

The convention, ratified by 180 countries, distinguishes between children who are held in slavery, debt bondage, serfdom, are trafficked or subjected to forced labour and those in hazardous work.

An ILO estimate in 2013 found that child labour had decreased by a third to 168 million over 12 years.

"By agreeing that not all child labour is modern slavery we have been able to track this issue much more effectively. It's a good example why definitions matter," said Paavilainen.

Experts said the inclusion of a modern slavery target in new U.N. development goals agreed in September was also a step forward by calling for effective measures to eradicate forced labour and to end modern slavery and human trafficking.

The target also calls for the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including the recruitment and use of child soldiers.

ne midsummer noon, half-listening to the symphony of cicada, crickets and chirping of birds that neutralized the cacophony emerging from the next class sat a little boy within the four walls of vast knowledge; far away from the traffics of mindless chatters.

'The School Boy' by William Blake came a familiar welcoming tone through the larynx of his literature teacher.

The boy remained hypnotized on his teacher’s wise phizog.

His teacher with his gesture and deep-insights would often bring in the whole Nature to life. Together they mirrored life and travelled not only the harsh realities, but reached the utopian world. They learnt about men, not just as what they were or what they are; but what they can be and what they ought to be. They saw not only the acts of men, but also his good dreams and ideals. His teacher was an encyclopedia of endless knowledge. He wanted to be like him, and that very thought gave birth to a secret ambition that of becoming a teacher himself. He did become and learnt that the role of a teacher goes beyond the books and to clothe himself with a great sense of responsibility.

To be a teacher one had to be a quintessence of dignity and an epitome of a gentleman/gentle-lady. His task is not only to teach, but also to lead and to teach them how to apply what they have learnt in life, otherwise he remain just as a mere literate, and not educated. A teacher’s call is to bring out well refined educated personality, not just to increase literacy rate. An educational institution is not a factory to manufacture students who can grab good marks in exams, but most importantly to produce good human beings.

To achieve all these, a teacher has to transform himself for the better, he has to learn first. If students are expected to attend the school/college in proper dress code, then a teacher has to be decent and learn to carry himself well. Every day is an exam day for a teacher; he become a missionary, living more for others than to live for oneself, standing in the path of the pupils as a moral sign-board. Somehow it feels good to inherit a small portion of ‘Heaven on Earth'. “Live for others, and you will live again” - Bob Marley.

That was something on teaching and the passion of it, which I believe is rare and gradually dying even in some endangered passionate ones. Many young and vibrant youths of Nagaland have entered the profession with great enthusiasm, but when their salary became irregular, corruption like a cancer cell began to deteriorate their passion. We often quote, students are the future of society; and in it, the teachers become their present. If we do not feed the present, I do not see any prospect for the future. Hitherto, our slogan has been – “No Work, No Pay’, but now irony has taken its toll with the helpless cry – “No Pay, No Work”.

Thanks to Dr S. Radhakrishnan, who chose to turn his birthday into a remarkable day where teachers would be celebrated for their hard work, dedication to education and teaching. And yes, Teacher’s Day will be celebrated every year; it will live long. But at this rate, what about the teachers? Will they live long? At least the passionate ones; will their passion survive?”

It is indeed a sorry jest for us, and the irregularity of teachers’ salary continues till date. With unpaid salaries, the irony continues. For instance, with the dawn of December, the State Government would lavish the State resources on Hornbill Festival which could have been utilised to fill the existing loopholes. Hornbill Festival is a treat for all of us, something we look forward to and to showcase our cultural identity; get in touch with the outlanders: young talents get a platform; promotes tourism, avenues to earn. And most importantly, I hope it generates revenues for the state; OR DOES IT?? Who benefits from the Mother of Festivals in the Land of Festivals? Sorry for my ignorance, but this ribbon of questions remains a mystery to the minds of laymen.

Education is progress and the degree of progress can be measured through advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth which education itself untwist it. And for this sanity, an investment in education should come first so that we get the best interest, a better generation and enlightenment and perhaps could fathom why the world wags and what wags it. Lastly, to quote T.S. Eliot: “The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”.

Addressing pneumonia: The deadly childhood illness Shobha Shukla

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espite being preventable, pneumonia continues to be a top killer of children under five. It also wreaks 'breath-taking’ havoc in the lives of adults, particularly the elderly, and people living with HIV. According to the 2015 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report released recently by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a projected 5.9 million children around the world will die in 2015 before reaching their 5th birthday.

Pneumonia is responsible for 16% and diarrhea for 9% of these deaths, making them two of the leading killers of children worldwide. Pneumonia alone killed an estimated 922,000 children in 2015 with 99% of these childhood deaths occurring in developing countries.

In a webinar ‘Every breath counts: Stop pneumonia now’ organized

by CNS (Citizen News Service), Dr Amita Pandey, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at KG Medical

University, lamented that incidence of pneumonia in children under five is estimated to be about 156 million new episodes each year worldwide, of which 151 million are in the developing countries. With 2,97,114 children’s deaths due to pneumonia and diarrhoea, India tops the list of these countries. According to her mortality due to childhood pneumonia is strongly linked to malnutrition, poverty, and inadequate access to healthcare services.

Causes Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs. It could be caused by bacterial, viral, and fungal infections.

Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type-b (Hib), are the two leading causes of bacterial pneumonia in children. It is also caused by respiratory syncytial virus and Pneumocystis jiroveci, particularly in HIV-positive infants.

The illness can be caused by bacteria and viruses already present in the body, or it can be transmitted from an infected person through droplets in the air following a cough

or sneeze, or through blood, such as and only one-third of pneumonia during childbirth. cases are addressed with the proper antibiotic treatment.

Symptoms When a person has pneumonia, Prevention the air sacs in the lung, called alveoli, Pneumonia is both preventable are filled with pus and fluid, which lim- and curable. Providing immunisaits oxygen intake and makes breathing tion against Haemophilus influenpainful. Symptoms of viral and bac- zae type-b, pneumococcus, measles terial pneumonia are similar. In chil- and whooping cough, is an effective dren under 5 years of age, who have means of preventing pneumonia. The cough and/or difficult breathing, with Global Coalition Against Childhood or without fever, pneumonia results Pneumonia estimates that increased either in fast breathing or retraction, vaccine coverage in the world's 73 rather than expansion of the chest dur- poorest countries could prevent 2.9 ing inhalation. Wheezing is more com- million deaths and 52 million cases of mon in viral infections. Other symp- infection attributable to the disease. toms include fever, phlegm producing Economically, such a move would cough, fever, sweating and shaking avoid $51 billion dollars in health chills and fatigue. costs and productivity losses.

Apart from access to vaccination Treatment and appropriate antibiotics, Dr PanThe antibiotic of choice is dey also insisted upon other equally amoxicillin dispersable tablets that important factors for prevention and can treat pneumonia for less than control of childhood pneumonia.

US$0.50 and avoid a majority of These include exclusive breastfeedpneumonia deaths. Hospitalization ing for the first 6 months of life; propis recommended only for severe er care of the infant; adequate macases of pneumonia. Yet only 60% ternal nutrition; & prevention of low of caregivers seek out adequate care birth weight; good sanitation and hyfor suspected pneumonia cases, giene practices such as regular hand

washing, and eliminating parental smoking and indoor air pollution.

Talking about pneumonia in neonates, Dr Pandey informed that neonatal pneumonia could be acquired during pregnancy from maternal infection, or during delivery by passage through an infected birth canal, or after delivery from contact with an infected mother/healthcare staff/ hospital environment. Mortality rate of early onset pneumonia acquired antenatal or intra-partum (in <3days old infants) is 3%-40%; while that in late onset pneumonia, usually acquired from the environment in preterm >3days old infants is 2%-20%.

Fatality rate is 2 to 4 times higher in LBW infants than in full-term infants.

Lois Privor-Dumm, Director, Policy, Advocacy & Communications, IVAC and one of the authors of the Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report 2015, said that Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhea (GAPPD) aims to protect (by achieving 50% coverage for exclusive breastfeeding for six months), prevent (by achieving 90% vaccine coverage) and treat (by achieving 90% coverage for care and treatment).

GAPPD scores have also been developed—they are a calculated average of countries’ coverage levels for the ten GAPPD indicators, using the most recent data available. These GAPPD scores are used to assess and compare progress over time in the highest-burden countries with the greatest number of pneumonia and diarrhea deaths in children under the age of five years.

Talking about India, Lois said that even as the country ranks 1st globally in terms of pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths, there has been some political commitment from the government to immunize all children within the next 5 years and also to increase efforts for monitoring of data and progress. However, many challenges remain to be overcome.

There is still very low coverage of Hib vaccine, particularly in high burden states, as well as low levels of access to appropriate treatments.

For sustainable development in the post 2015 era, governments, communities and families will have to make all out efforts to protect our future generation from a disease that is curable as well as preventable.

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There is some amount of intolerance: Venkaiah Naidu

NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): Admitting "some amount of intolerance" exists in the society, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday that the issues need to be "localised and dealt with firmly".

The minister, however, added instead of that, issues are being generalised, showing India in a "poor light". "There is some amount of intolerance in the society in different areas, that has to be identified, that has to be localised, it has to be dealt with firmly," Naidu said while participating in a discussion on 'Commitment to the Constitution' as part of 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Bhimrao Ambedkar.

"Instead of that, we are trying to make it generalised, which in turn shows India in a poor light which is not in national interest," he said. "Keep that in mind and then when intolerance debate takes place in the house, there are other seniors who will participate in that. I am only appealing. Let us all be tolerant to each other, and then tolerant towards the mandate of the people," he said.

Struggle against intolerance to continue

NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): Writers who had returned their awards in protest against what they felt was growing intolerance in the country say that the struggle would continue.

"It is a long struggle. We are planning many things. We will chalk out state-level meetings too," poet Ashok Vajpeyi told IANS on the sidelines of the Indian Language Festival, Samanvay. Vajpeyi had returned his Sahitya Akademi award last month The first artist to return the Sahitya Akademi award Maya Krishna Rao said the movement to return awards had created a "sense of nervousness" in the government.

"I can sense bitter nervousness in the government as resistance is coming from various quarters. Some of it is quietly churning," Rao, the Delhibased artist told IANS after the Festival which ended on Saturday.

Rao had received the award in 2010 and had returned it last month citing the Dadri lynching and rising intolerance in the country. In Dadri, "According to me, biggest tolerance, biggest respect to thed constitution is respect of mandate of people," he added. "This is also an important aspect that there has to be respect to verdict of the people. Respect to the other man's be-

near New Delhi, a person was killed after being accused of storing and eating beef at home.

Vajpeyi, who was a part of the delegation which met President Pranab Mukherjee early this week, expressed satisfaction over the positive reaction of the President. "The President was gracious enough to tell us that the returnyof awards by writers and intellectuals was evidently spontaneous and a way of protest that has triggered a nation-wide debate on the issue of intolerance, said Vajpeyi.

The poet said that recent attack against film star Aamir Khan for his comments was uncalled for. "The comment of the film star was cleverly misinterpreted. The dangerous aspect of the people who ask others to leave the country is that they are saying 'you are not the nation, we are the nation'", Vajpeyi said.

He said it was the duty of the government to protec everyone and that people in India were imbibing everything. "No single religion can claim this country," he warned.

lief," the minister said.

Naidu also said there have been incidents of intolerance under different regimes and it is not that it started happening after Narendra Modi became the prime minister. "...All these things have

He also dismissed allegations that writers became silent after the Bihar elections. "We are not silent after Bihar elections. It was after elections that Odisha poet Jayanta Mahapatra and Kannada writer Devanuru Mahadeva have returned their Padmashri. Though award wapsi was a coincidence, Bihar was a good lesson for the ruling party," affirmed Vajpeyi. He emphasised that the struggle would continue.

Rao said that allegations of a 'manufactured rebellion' did not apply as the protests had come from business persons, top scientists in the country. "Personalities like Kiran Majumdar Shaw (chairman and managing director of Biocon) and Raghuram Rajan (RBI governor) can't be politically motivated. There are also a number of leading scientists who have returned the awards, which is a very significant move," she said. She said the dissenting voices from top business houses in the country was not a good sign for the government.

not happened overnight after Narendra Modi has become the prime minister. These things have been have been happening in different parts of country.

I am not trying to justify anything. The atrocities on Dalits, are they happening

now?" he asked.

Referring to former finance minister P. Chidambaram's comment that banning Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses was a mistake, Naidu said there should be a uniform policy on banning books and

even banning "feelings".

"Chidambaram said it was wrong on their part to ban Salman Rushdie's book. There are two things: One, people writing books should not arouse social tension. But at the same time about freedom of expression and freedom of speech, people have got right, but there has to be a broad consensus how do we go about it. You ban Salman Rushdie's book, people are happy, somebody ban Shivaji book, then there is protest," he said. "In that also different angles coming... HinduMuslim angle, this angle that angle. Let there be a policy to go about banning the books or banning your feelings also," the minister added.

Earlier, the minister said that it was time for all to think how far the expectations of the founding fathers of the constitution had been achieved. "It is the responsibility of all to address the problems of the people relating to regional imbalances, religion, caste and creed and reservation for women in parliament."

Naidu said the real tribute to Ambedkar would be to follow his vision for the country's development.

BSF trooper held for spying sent in 7-day police custody

BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed (R) and Kafaitullah Khan, who were arrested on the charge of supplying confidential information to ISI, being produced at the Delhi Police Crime Cell office, in New Delhi on Monday.

NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): A Delhi court on Monday sent in seven-day police custody BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed arrested on the charge of supplying confidential information to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal remanded Rasheed in police custody till December 7 to allow Delhi Police to question him.

Rasheed, posted with the Border Security Force's intelligence wing, was arrested along with Kafaitullah Khan alias Master Raja of Rajouri district on the charge of obtaining secret information related to India's national security and passing it on to the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan.

Police told the court that his custodial interrogation was required for unearthing the espionage conspiracy.

They said Rasheed was required to be taken to various places in Jammu and Kashmir, including Rajouri district, to find out about his other accomplices.

Rasheed's questioning would also help in ascertaining the money trail in the whole affair as well as payments he made for the supply of sensitive documents, police added.

Police claimed Rasheed - working in the intelligence wing at the BSF headquarters in Jammu - was supplying secret documents to his handler who too was arrested.

When the court asked if there was any involvement of any senior officers in the espionage case, police said they were yet to come across any such involvement till now though they were probing this issue.

Jan Lokpal tabled in Delhi assembly Rich nations must lead in combating climate change: Modi NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): The ruling Aam Aadmi Party on Monday tabled the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi assembly over which it had resigned in its previous 49-day tenure since the measure was blocked by the opposition.

Tabling the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill 2015, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said it was "historic moment" and the legislation was akin to the one demanded by social activist Anna Hazare who had launched an anti-graft stir in 2011.

Sisodia said that this was the "most effective" Jan Lokpal Bill to be brought by any government.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated Sisodia.

"Congratulations Manish for presenting the strongest anti-corruption law of independent India - Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill 2015. A historic day," he tweeted.

According to the Bill, the threemember Jan Lokpal will "may proceed to inquire or investigate into the allegation of 'corruption' occurring in the National Capital Territory of Delhi."

It means besides chief minister and Delhi government officials, the central government officials and others working in agencies like Delhi Police that report to the Centre will come under its purview .

This could become another sticking point between the Delhi and the central governments whose relations have already hit rock-bottom.

According to the Bill, a person involved in corruption will face maximum of life imprisonment and the fine imposed will be five times the loss caused to the public exchequer.

Apart from it, the Bill says that higher the post the more the penalty.A The three member, including the head, will be appointed by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung after the recommendation of a four-member panel.

The four member selection panel, headed by Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, will include Delhi chief minister, Delhi assembly speaker, Opposition leader.

Countering the charge of ousted AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav that the Delhi government had weakened the selection panel by making political, Sisodia said the body had people of highly-dignified post.

"There could not be more independent body than the one whose chair is the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court," he said.

The ombudsman, proposed in the bill, will have the power of civil court and will complete its investigation within six months. In the rarest of rare cases, the investigation will have to be completed within a year.

The candidate for the Janlokpal chairperson's post has to have served as a judge in the Supreme Court or any of the high courts.

Besides, Lokpal will have its own prosecution wing. The anti-graft institution could also give protection to the whistle blowers who blow lid off the corruption.

"Every person who willfully or maliciously makes any false complaint under this Act, shall, on conviction, be punished with rigorous imprisonment which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees or with both," he added.

The tabling of Bill was appreciated with thumping of the desks by AAP legislators who also raised slogans in its support.

After the suspension of BJP lawmaker O.P. Sharma, two lone members were not present since opposition leader Vijender Gupta was marshalled out.

Gupta had called Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel as "partial" for suspending Sharma.

Injectible polio vaccine launched in India NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): India's first injectible inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was on Monday launched by Health Minister J.P. Nadda as part of the country's commitment to global polio eradication. The minister announced that IPV injection will be given to children below 1 year of age, along with the third dose of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) at the routine immunization sessions free of cost.

"At this momentous milestone, India remains committed to global polio eradication. India is introducing IPV into its routine immunization programme along with oral polio vaccine," said the minister. In the first phase, the vaccine will be introduced in 6 states - Assam, Gujarat, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, new evidence shows that IPV and OPV together will further strengthen children's immune system and provide double protection against polio. The introduction of IPV in routine immunization is as per recommendation made in the World Health Assembly in May 2015.

India was declared polio free in 2014. "IPV will roll out to 126 countries which are only using OPV in the national programme and it will be the largest and fastest globallycoordinated vaccine introduction project in history," said Nadda. Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF representative to India, commended the strengthening of India's immunization programme by introduction of IPV and termed this a "monumental step".

ParIs, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): Outlining India's target of 175 GW of renewable energy in seven years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told a global summit on environment that while his country was doing its bit on climate change, the world must also act with urgency, led by rich nations.

"The entire world, 196 nations, have come together to shape the future of this world and the health of our planet," said Modi, who is here for the 21st Session of the Conference of Parties (COP-21) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"We want the world to act with urgency. We want a comprehensive, equitable and durable agreement, which must lead us to restore the balance between humanity and nature, and between what we have inherited and what we will leave behind," he said.

Among his engagements, the prime minister opened the India pavilion at the conference to showcase the country's commitment on renewable energy and climate change while also seeking to demonstrate that the world also needs to look beyond to focus on climate justice.

"India's progress is our destiny and the right of our people. But we must also lead in combating climate change," said the prime minister, while assuring 40 percent of India's installed energy capacity from nonfossil fuels by 2030.

"We have a target for renewable generation of 175 Gigawatt by 2022.

We have got off to a good start, with nearly 12 GW likely to be installed by 2016, more than three times the current capacity," he said.

India has already submitted for the consideration of the conference, what is called the Intended Nationally Determined Contribu-

tions sought from the 196 member states of the convention, offering to cut its emission intensity by 33-35 percent by 2030.

"So, we approach the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in a spirit of partnership -which must be based on the principles of equity and common, but differentiated responsibilities," the prime minister said.

Alluding to what rich nations needed to do to protect the environment, Modi made it clear that a pact reached in Paris must be one of partnership, where resources and technology are shared with poor and developing economies, so as not to deprive people who live between want and hope.

The prime minister also launched at the India Pavilion a coffee table book, entitled "Parampara", with Environment Minister

Prakash Javadekar and Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal.

Modi was also due to unveil a book authored by him on innovations, "Convenient Action", attend a innovation summit, speak at the summit and jointly launch with French President Francois Hollande a global alliance of 121 nations to promote greater use of solar energy.

Ahead of the summit, the prime minister had sought to remind the developed world, through an article in The Financial Times of London, that it has a moral imperative to lead the fight against global warming.

"Principle of common but differentiated responsibilities should be the bedrock of our collective enterprise. Anything else would be morally wrong," he wrote, adding: "Justice demands that, with what little carbon we can still safely burn, developing countries are allowed to grow."

Bengal safe haven for terrorists under Mamata: BJP KoLKata, NovEmBEr 30 (IaNs): Charging West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress with encouraging infiltration, the BJP on Monday said the state has become a safe haven for terrorists under the Mamata Banerjee government.

Referring to last year's blast in Khagragarh in Burdwan district in which a Bangladeshi terror outfit was involved, as well as Sunday's arrests of three suspected agents of Pakistan's ISI, Bharatiya Janata Party national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh accused the

Trinamool of having terror links.

"In the last four years, terror activities in Bengal have been growing under the Trinamool. The Khagragarh blast occurred in the house of a Trinamool leader while of the three ISI agents arrested on Sunday, one is a student leader and another a union leader of the Trinamool," Singh said addressing the BJP's 'Utthan Divas' here.

"Mamata Banerjee knows no one will vote for her inside the country. So she is bringing in infiltra-

tors for the sake of her votebank. Under Mamata, Bengal has become a safe haven for terrorists," alleged Singh, the party's co-in-charge for Bengal.

Attacking the Trinamool over the Saradha scam, Singh who had given the call of 'Bhag Mamata Bhag' (run Mamata run), called upon the people to make true that call in the 2016 assembly polls.

"Finally, Mamata has admitted that her party leaders are involved in the Saradha scam," Singh said, referring to Banerjee's Monday address

in Howrah where she asserted that there can be individual thieves but that doesn't make the party a thief.

"I don't know if her confession is owing to the fact that the CBI is tightening the noose around the Trinamool and also looking at the role played by Madan Mitra's son," said the BJP leader.

Former state transport minister Mitra is one of the accused in the multi-crorerupee scam and is currently in custody.

"Last year, I had given the call 'Bhag Mamata

Bhag', and now it is up to you to make that true. It's now time for the people to make Bengal terror free by overthrowing the Trinamool," added Singh.

Speaking in the same vein, BJP national secretary Suresh Pujari too said there was a reign of terror in Bengal under Mamata Banerjee.

"Today, we are celebrating Utthan Divas, but next year on this day, we will be celebrating Vijay Divas as by then, the people of Bengal will overthrow this reign of terror," said Pujari.

Smog chokes Delhi, Beijing as climate talks begin BEIJING/NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 30 (rEutErs): The capitals of the world's two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog on Monday as climate change talks began in Paris, where leaders of both countries are leading participants.

China's capital Beijing maintained an "orange" pollution alert, the second-highest level, on Monday, closing highways, halting or suspending construction and prompting a warning to residents to stay indoors.

The choking pollution was caused by the "unfavourable" weather, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Sunday. Emissions in northern China soar over winter as

urban heating systems are switched on and low wind speeds have meant that polluted air has not been dispersed.

In New Delhi, the U.S. embassy's monitoring station recorded an air quality index of 372 - which put air pollution levels well into "hazardous" territory. A thick smog blanketed the city and visibility was down to about 200 metres.

Air quality in the city of 16 million is usually bad in winter, with thousands of coal fires lit by the poor to ward off the cold.

However, the government has not raised any alarm over the current air quality and no advisories were issued to the public.

Thirty thousand runners took part in a half marathon at the weekend, when

pollution levels were just as high.

In Beijing, a city of 22.5 million, the air quality index in some parts of the city soared to 500, its highest possible level. At levels higher than 300, residents are encouraged to remain indoors, according to government guidelines.

The hazardous air underscores the challenge facing the government as it battles pollution caused by the coal-burning power industry and will raise questions about its ability to clean up its economy at the talks in Paris.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are both in Paris and both were scheduled to meet U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to give

momentum to the two- jing has been completely week negotiations. enveloped in smog...and for every breath, getting up "WHEN A CHILD every morning, your throat IS BORN, WE PLANT will feel particularly unA TREE" comfortable," said Zhang Modi wrote on Monday Heng, a 26-year-old archithat: "The instinct of our tect. culture is to take a sustainThe Beijing Environable path to development. mental Protection Bureau When a child is born, we said on Sunday that it had plant a tree. requested factories to limit "Since ancient times, or suspend output and had we have seen humanity as also stopped construction part of nature, not superior work throughout the city. to it," he wrote in an opinThe ministry said the ion piece for the Financial number of cities affected Times. "This idea, rooted in by heavy pollution had our ancient texts, endures reached 23, stretching in sacred groves and in across 530,000 square km, community forests across an area the size of Spain, the land." but a cold front beginning For Beijing's residents, on Wednesday would see the poor air makes breath- the situation improve. ing hard.

State-run Xinhua news "This sort of weather, agency said more than you can see that all of Bei- 200 expressway toll gates

in east China's Shandong province were closed on Monday due to smog. The province issued a yellow alert.

China launched a "war on pollution" last year following a spate of smog outbreaks in Beijing and surrounding regions.

China has vowed to slash coal consumption and close down polluting industrial capacity, but environmental officials admit that the country is unlikely to meet state air quality standards until at least 2030.

Reducing coal use and promoting cleaner forms of energy are set to play a crucial role in China's pledges to bring its climate warming greenhouse gas emissions to a peak by around 2030.

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World leaders launch bid for climate breakthrough in Paris ParIs, NovEmbEr 30 (rEUTErs): World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth’s rising temperatures, with French President Francois Hollande saying the world was at a “breaking point” in the fight against global warming.

Some 150 heads of state, including U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, will urge each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining to steer the global economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels.

They arrived at United Nations climate change talks in Paris armed with promises and accompanied by high expectations.

After decades of struggling negotiations and the failure of a previous summit in Copenhagen six years ago, some form of landmark agreement appears all but assured by mid-December.

Warnings from climate scientists, demands from activists and exhortations from religious leaders like Pope Francis, coupled with major advances in cleaner energy sources like solar power, have all added to pressure to cut the carbon emissions held responsible for warming the planet.

Most scientists say failure to agree on strong measures in Paris would doom the world to ever-hotter average temperatures, bringing with them deadlier storms, more frequent droughts and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt.

Facing such alarming projections, the leaders of nations responsible for about 90 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have come bearing pledges to reduce their national carbon output, though by different rates.

For some, it has already become a pressing issue at home. As the summit opened in Paris, the capitals of the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog, with regulators in Beijing asking factories to limit output and halting construction work.

A protester holds posters while people take part in a protest about climate change around New York City Hall at lower Manhattan, New York, November 29, 2015, a day before the start of the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21). (REUTERS Photo)

Success in agreeing what would be by far the strongest international pact yet to commit both rich and developing nations to the fight against global warming “is not yet achieved, but it is within reach,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, chairman of the meeting, told delegates.

On the eve of the summit, hundreds of thousands of people from Australia to Paraguay joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history, telling world leaders there was “No Planet B” in the fight against global warming.

“To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough,” Hollande said. “We are at breaking point.”

SMOOTHING THE BUMPS The leaders gathered in a vast conference centre at Le Bourget airfield, near where Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft in 1927 after making the first solo trans-Atlantic flight, a feat that helped bring nations closer.

Whether a similar spirit of unity can be incubated in Le Bourget this time is uncertain. In all, 195 countries are part of the unwieldy negotiating process, espousing a variety of leadership styles and ideologies that has made consensus elu-

Taiwan and China swap jailed spies after leaders’ historic meet TaIPEI, NovEmbEr 30 (rEUTErs): Taiwan has swapped jailed spies with political foe China in an unprecedented goodwill gesture following this month’s historic meeting between the leaders of the two sides, the island’s government said on Monday. China released Colonel Zhu Gongxun and Colonel Xu Changguo of Taiwan’s Military Intelligence after they had been held for more than nine years, while Taiwan gave advance parole to Chinese spy Li Zhihao, according to a statement from the office of Taiwan’s president.

“This is based on a mutual goodwill gesture delivered by the Ma-Xi meeting,” presidential spokesman Charles Chen said in the statement. “President Ma (Ying-jeou) hopes cross-strait mutual exchanges can continue and make more concrete achievements in the future,” Chen added.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office could not be reached for comment by telephone. Ma and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in November for the first time in more than 60 years for talks that came amid rising anti-Chinese sentiment on the self-ruled democratic island and weeks ahead of elections.

How cocaine use gives you that high LoNDoN, NovEmbEr 30 (IaNs): The burst of energy that comes with a cocaine high is a rather accurate reflection of what is going on in the brain of users, a study has found. Through experiments conducted in rats exposed to cocaine, the researchers mapped out the network of circuits that cause wild firing of neurons that produce dopamine -- a neuro-transmitter that regulates movement and emotion.

The findings also explains how cocaine use eventually leads to desensitisation, said researchers from Bordeaux University in France. “Unravelling the neuronal circuit is a necessary first step in understanding the resulting behavioural changes induced by cocaine,” said senior author Francois Georges.

The researchers used tracer molecules to follow electrical activity in the brain in rats exposed to cocaine. They found that a hub of neurons in the extended amygdala (the brain’s motivation or learning centre) acts as a relay between activation of the ventral subiculum (the brain’s addiction centre) and the hyperactive release of dopamine.

Since this change happens within the amygdala, it may explain some of the long-term effects on the behaviour and motivation that occur after prolonged cocaine use. The findings might be helpful for understanding and even changing the perception of natural rewards like those related to food or exercise

sive in the past. Key issues, notably how to divide the global bill to pay for a shift to renewable energy, are still contentious.

Signaling their determination to resolve the most intractable points, senior negotiators sat down on Sunday, a day earlier than planned, to begin thrashing out an agreement. They hope to avoid the last-minute scramble and all-nighters that marked past meetings.

The last attempt to get a global deal collapsed in chaos and acrimony in Copenhagen in 2009. It ended with Obama forcing his way into a closed meeting of China and other countries on the gathering’s last day and emerging with a modest concession to limit rising emissions until 2020 that they attempted to impose on the rest of the world.

Anxious to avoid a rerun of the Copenhagen disaster, major powers have tried this time to smooth some of the bumps in the way of an agreement before they arrive.

The presidents, prime ministers and princes will make their cameo appearances at the outset of the conference rather than swooping in at the end.

In a sombre city where security has been tightened after Islamist militant attacks killed 130 people on Nov. 13, Hollande said he could not separate “the

fight with terrorism from the fight against global warming.” Leaders must face both challenges, leaving their children “a world freed of terror” as well as one “protected from catastrophes”.

Each leader is allowed a brief opening speech, just a few minutes long. The goal is to build momentum for consensus and avoid the messiness of past talks when diplomats put off the hard political choices until their bosses arrived.

NEW APPROACH But there are other significant changes in approach.

The old goal of seeking a legally binding international treaty, certain to be dead on arrival in the Republicancontrolled U.S. Congress, has been replaced by a system of national pledges to reduce emissions.

Some are presented as best intentions, others as measures legally enforced by domestic laws and regulations.

The biggest difference may be the partnership between the United States and China. The world’s two biggest carbon emitters, once on opposite sides on climate issues, agreed in 2014 to jointly kick-start a transition away from fossil fuels, each at their own speed and in their own way.

The United States and China “have both determined that it is our re-

sponsibility to take action,” Obama said after meeting Xi. “Our leadership on this issue has been absolutely vital.”

That partnership has been a balm for the main source of tension that characterised previous talks, in which the developing world argued that countries that grew rich by industrialising on fossil fuels should pay the cost of shifting all economies to a renewable energy future.

Now even China, once a leading voice of that club, has agreed to contribute to an internationally administered Green Climate Fund that hopes to dispense $100 billion a year after 2020 as a way to finance the developing world’s shift towards renewables.

If a signed deal now appears likely, so too is the prospect that it will not be enough to prevent the world’s average temperature from rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

That is widely viewed as a threshold for dangerous and potentially catastrophic changes in the planet’s climate system.

Instead, the summit will produce a “long-term framework” for additional reductions down the road, Obama said in a Facebook posting on Sunday, with “targets set by each nation, but transparent enough to be verified by other nations.”

How and when nations should review their goals -and then set higher, more ambitious ones -- must still be hammered out.

One sign of optimism was that Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi, a key player because of his country’s size and its heavy dependence on coal, will announce an international solar alliance of more than 100 sun-kissed countries, with the aim of raising India’s profile on solar power.

A handful of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, including Bill Gates, have pledged to double the $10 billion they collectively spend on clean energy research and development in the next five years.

In rural S.Africa, AIDS treatment gains ground - but so do infections QUDENI, NovEmbEr 30 (ThomsoN rEUTErs FoUNDaTIoN): When HIV-positive patients first came to seek treatment at the rural Uthungulu district health clinic in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province in 1998, their records were kept in brown folders, the colour designated for the disease.

In a country where the stigma of carrying the virus that causes AIDS runs high and many people keep their status a secret, that folder - held by a nurse calling out a patient in a crowded waiting room – was a major disincentive to seeking help.

“People used to struggle to go to Nqutu instead,” a larger community 50 km (31 miles) away where they were less likely to be recognised, remembers Sister Jacqueline Nludla, who manages the Uthungulu clinic in Qudeni, a village 200 km from Durban.

Now, however, the folders for HIV patients at Uthungulu are yellow – the same colour used for all chronic diseases – and the rows of plastic chairs in the small waiting room of the red brick clinic are full. Altogether, 228 community members are on antiretroviral treatment at the clinic.

Treatment for HIV patients in South Africa has made huge strides in the last decade but concerns remain as the number of newly infected people each year still outnumbers those who gain access to treatment, with girls and young women most at risk.

“We need new prevention tools if we are to escape this epidemic,” Naledi Pandor, the country’s minister of science and technology, admitted at an AIDS conference last year. South Africa has the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, with more than 6.8 million people in the 53 million population living with HIV and 2.7 million taking a daily pill that, mostly, turns the infection from a killer into a manageable condition.

GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN AT RISK Since February, no HIV patient receiving care at the Uthungulu clinic has died, Nludla said proudly. When the clinic opened, she said, it saw 10 deaths a month.

Transmission of the virus from infected mothers to their babies also was zero this year, largely as a result of the clinic testing all pregnant mothers for HIV and ensuring those with the virus start – and stick with – treatment, she said.

“If people don’t come in we jump on the computer and trace them, phone them or their families, and then they turn up,” said the nurse, in her crisp red clinic jacket and white skirt. In a community where many people struggle to afford bus fares and walk long distances across valleys to the clinic,

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she allows people to take home treatment from the day of diagnosis, violating government protocol requiring a return trip.

“I decided we are not going to follow the guidelines,” she said, noting that getting people on treatment – and keeping them there – is what matters in a community devastated by hundreds – if not thousands – of AIDS deaths over the last decade.

Nludla said her biggest worry is that the number of people on treatment at her clinic continues to rise, despite widespread education campaigns and boxes of freely available condoms. Most new infections are among girls and young women, she said.

In Qudeni, about half of families in the community are polygamous, she said, and if one wife or girlfriend turns up HIV-positive “usually they all are infected”.

Across South Africa, violence against women, and poverty that lures young women to trade sex for cash or gifts are also problems, experts say. U.N. AIDS, the international agency tasked with quelling AIDS globally, has set a goal to reduce the number of new HIV infections and AIDSrelated deaths by 90 percent by 2030.

By 2020 the agency wants 90 percent of people to know their HIV status, 90 percent of those HIV-positive to be on treatment, and 90 percent of those on treatment to be “virally suppressed”, meaning they are unlikely to pass on the virus.

PEPFAR – the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and a major funder of anti-AIDS initiatives in Africa – is also seeking a specific 40 percent reduction in HIV incidence in adolescent girls and young women by the end of 2017 in some of the hardest hit regions of Africa.

In South Africa, despite major advances in fighting AIDS – from stronger political support for treatment to cheaper drugs and the discovery that male circumcision can cut transmission rates – those goals may be hard to meet, experts say.

Brian Brink, the former chief medical officer for mining group Anglo American and one of the earliest advocates for AIDS treatment in South Africa, said drop-out rates from HIV treatment remain a particular worry. These are estimated at around 25% as those who take the drugs begin to feel better or as drugs aren’t delivered on time to rural clinics. Brink said this could spur resistance to cheap frontline treatment drugs. In a country where 40% of the population is under the age of 20, keeping young people – particularly young women – free of HIV will be the marker of success, he said.

“That’s the group we need to protect. That’s the generation that has to be HIV-free. That is the challenge,” he said. “We cannot afford to take new infections into the system.”

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Marathon to build better relationship Police-Public Marathon to become an annual event to build stronger relations with the public

Kohima, novembeR 30 (diPR/mexn): The first ever Police-Public marathon was held on November 28 in collaboration with the State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) with the motto “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” (Save Girl Child, Educate Girl Child).

The marathon race was flagged off by the DGP Nagaland, LL Doungel at the High School Junction. The DGP in his brief address said that the ultimate aim for police and the people is a peaceful society and that the main purpose for organizing the first ever police and public marathon is to bridge the gap between the police and the public. The DGP further added that the effectiveness of modern policing will be determined by its relationship with the citizens, while stating that the police department has

Category A (10.5 km open 18 years & above) 1st - Pache Khiam (164 TA) (33.49 min) 2nd - N. Puchong Khiam (164 TA) (33.53 min) 3rd - Thungti Chang (3rd NAP) (34.39 min) 4th - Jonathan 5th - Mecie 6th - Ruyito Venyo 7th - N.Suvisie

DGP Nagaland, LL Doungel flagging-off the first ever police-public marathon in Kohima on November 28.

been able to gain active support of the people.

Mission Director, State Resource Centre for Women, Nagaland, Daisy Mezhür called for chang-

ing mindset towards the girl child and to take more initiative. She mentioned that it would bring the police and public closer, which would ultimately

Kobe bryant to retire at end of season Frank Pingue Reuters

Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant, arguably the best player of his generation, announced on Sunday he will retire after the 2015-16 National Basketball Association season.

Bryant, who is struggling through the worst season of his illustrious 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, said in a piece posted on the Players' Tribune website that "I'm ready to let [basketball] go."

The decision was not totally unexpected as the 37-year-old Lakers guard has been plagued by injuries in recent seasons and had recently said he was considering retirement.

"I can't love you obsessively for much longer. This season is all I have left to give," wrote Bryant. "My heart can take the pounding, my mind can handle the grind, but my body knows it's time to say goodbye."

Bryant,asurefirefirst-ballot Hall of Famer who is third on the NBA's all-time scoring list, has a career-worst 31.5 shooting percentage through his first 12 games of the season on a Lakers team that has the second worst record in the league. Named Kobe by his parents after they spotted the popular Japanese cut of beef on a restaurant menu shortly before his birth, Bryant is now a fivetimes NBA champion having won titles in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2010.

He was drafted out of high school with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets but was traded shortly after the Lakers for Serbian Vlade Divac.

He has appeared in 17 All-Star games, was named

the Most Valuable Player for the 2007-08 regular season and landed MVP honors in the 2009 and 2010 Finals when he led the Lakers to consecutive championships. Bryant has also won gold medals with the U.S. basketball team at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

'THRILLING MEMORIES' During his career, Bryant made a habit of draining game-winning shots despite being double or triple-teamed by opponents and has established a reputation for being one of the best closers in the NBA. In his essay, Bryant talked about being a boy who would use his father's rolled-up socks to shoot imaginary game-winning shots at the Great Western Forum, where the Lakers played from 1967 to 1999. (http://www.theplayerstribune.com/dear-basketball) "I'm ready to let you go," wrote Bryant, who trails only Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone on the NBA's scoring list. "So we both can savor every moment we have left together. The good and the bad. We have given each other all that we have."

Bryant was sidelined nearly eight months in 2013 with a torn Achilles'

tendon, then played just six games during the 2013-14 season because of a severe knee injury.

Last season, he played 35 games but increasingly suffered soreness in his knees, feet and back, prompting coach Byron Scott to cut back significantly on Bryant's playing time going forward while altering his on-court role.

Lakers head coach Byron Scott, who was Bryant's teammate during the latter's rookie season, said he was shocked when his player told him of the decision on Saturday. "I think he still loves this game. He still has a passion for it. He's still a competitive young man," Scott said on Sunday.

"His purpose is to finish out this season and play." NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, in a statement released moments after Bryant's news surfaced, called the Lakers guard one of the greatest players in the game.

"Whether competing in the Finals or hoisting jump shots after midnight in an empty gym, Kobe has an unconditional love for the game," said Silver. "I join Kobe's millions of fans around the world in congratulating him on an outstanding NBA career and thank him for so many thrilling memories."

bring positive results.

Nagaland Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar who graced the occasion as the chief guest for the closing ceremony held at the PHQ

Rio de JaneiRo, novembeR 30 (ianS): Two-time Olympic badminton champion Lin Dan will scale back commercial activities in a bid to turn his focus squarely on next year's Olympic Games, has said.

Lin outlined his plans after winning the Brazil Open men's singles title - which also served as badminton's official Rio 2016 test event by outclassing Spain's Pablo Abian 21-13, 21-17 on Sunday, reports Xinhua. "The competition for places in China is ferocious," Lin was quoted as saying by Rio2016. com after the match. "Starting with my training this winter, I will be working systematically. Next year, I will become totally focused on the competitions."

Sunday's result comes at the end of an inconsistent year for the Chinese star.

The five-time world champion was eliminated from the Hong Kong Open, China Open and French Open in the lead up to the tournament here. China also clinched gold in the women's singles final on Sunday when Shen Yaying defeated compatriot Li Yun. The organisers hailed the event as a success despite concerns that air conditioners affected the shuttlecock's flight path. "We are very aware of this question," Rio 2016 badminton competition manager Helena Gomes said on Sunday. "During two days we ran a series of tests, measuring the air currents at different heights. We will have the results next week and from this we will devise the plan for Games time."

Champions, Naga FC and runners-up, DGP XI with the DGAR, Lt. Gen. HJS Sachdev AVSM, SM and IGAR (North), Maj. Gen. MS Jaswal, YSM, SM and others. (Morung Photo) Kohima | November 30

Naga FC lifted the champion’s trophy of the Capt Kenguruse, MVC All Nagaland Memorial Football Tournament 2015. Semi-finalists at the recently concluded Classic Cup, Naga FC triumphed over the formidable DGP XI 3-0.

K. Thopi and Taliakum were the stars of the final, who struck all the three goals with Thopi scoring two and Taliakum one. Alongwith the Capt. Kengruse Trophy, the champion’s won a cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000. The runnersup had to be content with Rs. 80,000 as second prize.

Mokokchung District Football Association and the 164 TA Headhunters Naga, who lost in the semi-finals, were awarded Rs. 50,000 each, while every participating team in

Category B (5 km 14-18 years) 1st - Iteipetbo Nkie (Government Higher Secondary School) (19.36 min) 2nd - Imanyasipong (Nagaland Police Central

School) (19.45 min) 3rd - Repinkiu Tikhir (RG Higher Secondary School) (19.57 min) 4th - Zuta 5th - Keyinehigongpe 6th - Rampousiupoing 7th - Konchamo T. Ngullie Winner among Girls Masinbui (Government Middle School, Meriema) (26.01 min)

its motto, the Police Department intends to make the Police-Public Run an annual event, the release stated.

The release further expressed regret for not having separate categories for women and girls at the marathon, while adding that the DGP has assured to include categories for women and girls from the next event onwards.

Around 550 runners participated in the marathon. The winner in Catego-

ry A was awarded Rs. 20,000, while the first and second runners-up received 15,000 and 10,000, respectively. In Category B, the winner was awarded 12,000, while the first and second runners-up won Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 8000, respectively.

Meanwhile, the winners were informed to collect the Certificates from Room 312, PHQ, PR Hill, Kohima, during Office hours from December 12 onwards.

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added that the initiative taken by the Police department shows growing coordination with the active participation of the citizens and appreciated the efforts

of bringing the citizens closer and building better relationships.

M. Tungoe, SP (Crime) & PRO PHQ, stated in a press release that the ADGP (Law & Order), Rupin Sharma was impressed with the time clocked by the winners. The ADGP, who also participated in the marathon, encouraged the winners to aim to become national level runners.

With ‘building stronger relations with the public’ as

Winner among Women - Linukjungla Imsong (RG Higher Secondary School) (44.45 min)

the tournament received Rs. 5000 each.

The tournament was organized by the Inspector General of Assam Rifles (North) under the aegis of the 3 Corps. Director General of Assam Rifles (DGAR), Lt. Gen. HJS Sachdev, AVSM, SM graced the closing ceremony as the chief guest.

Best Player: Khwetelhi Thopi (Naga FC) Best Goalkeeper: S. Narzary (IGAR) Golden Boot: Rhithso Mero (Naga FC) Best Defender: Kewillungsubo (Falcon FC) Most Promising Player: Arong (MDFA) Playmaker of the Tournament: Sinenlo Kath (Vanguard FC) Most Valuable Player: Mezhe (DGP XI) Best All Rounder: Haotinmang (Head Hunters) Best Referee : Meyieto

Nagaland Sepaktakraw Junior Team (Boys and Girls) will participate in the 19th Junior National Sepaktakraw Championship from December 3 to 6 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

NAMSA WWII Peace Rally 2015 on December 2

Kohima, novembeR 30 (mexn): Nagaland Adventure & Motor Sports Association (NAMSA) in collaboration with the Department of Tourism will be organizing the 6th Edition of the World War II Peace Rally on December 2. The World War II Peace Rally is held during the Hornbill Festival to commemorate the Battle of Kohima and also to promote

Peace and Unity.

The WWII Peace Rally will be flagged off from Dimapur Stadium at 7:00 am by Asangba Chuba Ao, IAS, Commissioner of Taxes, Government of Nagaland after invocation prayer

by Imnatoshi, Youth Director, DABA. Wreath laying Ceremony will take place in the War Cemetery, Kohima at 11:00 am. Wreaths will be laid by

Shetoyi Sumi, Parliamentary Secretary of Fisheries and WWII veterans.

The convoy will culminate at Kisama, Naga Heritage village for the grand finale at 1:00 pm. C. Apok Jamir, Parliamentary Secretary Tourism, will grace the prize distribution function as the Chief Guest. The Master of Ceremonies for the event will be Tokaho Kinimi, DFO.

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here are different layer of exclusion. Persons with disabilities experience a peculiar form of exclusion in our society. It is said that about 10% of the human population has some deformity or other, yet they seldom receive any attention. In many societies persons with disabilities are treated as second-class people, objects-ofcharity or even abandoned. They are subjected to prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory acts by the ablebodied majority. Persons with disabilities are the most marginalized social group. They do not exercise and enjoy the same basic rights as their non-disabled counterparts. In the context of economic competition, the persons with disabilities experience discrimination in employment opportunity because employers in both public and private sectors regard persons with disabilities as weak, helpless and incompetent to perform work. Globalization is further making the situation of the disabled very vulnerable. The economic growth oriented approach to development, privatization, competition, and emphasis on standardization of labour will further marginalize disabled persons. The preference given to smartness, efficiency, swiftness, beauty, etc. will do greater damage to the life and work of persons with disabilitiesTherefore, persons with disabilities are usually the first to be discharged and the last to be hired in any form of employment.

There is also a close linkage between poverty and disability - disability causes poverty and poverty causes disability. Persons with disabilities constitute a disproportionate number of the poor in the developing countries. 97% of children with disabilities who live in the developing world do not have any form of rehabilitation and 98% do not receive any education.

In many families persons with disabilities are not be given due respect.

Even if the person is the eldest if he/ she has disability then he/she will not be allowed to involve inthe decision making processes of the family. This is linked to the belief that people with disabilities are inadvertently men-

tally disabled and therefore unable to make right decisions. What this does is creates a division in the family and is an outright violation of a basic human right of the persons with disabilities. It undermines the persons’ intelligence as well. Some of the common discriminatory exclusion experienced by persons with disabilities in society are: a)Inheritance: Disabled persons cannot inherit properties of their parents. A disabled person would not be considered when a family gives a share of land to the children especially the male. b) Stigmatization: Disability connected to superstitions culminates in stigmatisation. They are looked upon as inferior, sinners or impure/imperfect beings. c) Infanticide – In some societies children with disabilities are being killed on the ground that there is some evil or sinful connection to them and the family’s prestige/status needs to be protected. d) Abandonment – In some cases children with disabilities are abandoned simply on grounds of keeping away `the curse’, or stigma. e) Confinement: Often as a means of hiding what is perceived to be a disgraceful aspect in the family, a disabled child is kept in seclusion from those who visit that home who never learn of the presence of the disabled child. f) Illiteracy: Persons with disabilities are not given equal treatment in accessing the right to education. g) Disease – Due to lackor denial of adequate treatment many people with disabilities are left to die from disease as a means of getting rid of the handicap in the family.h) Denial – They are denied political, economic and education rights. Some churches have even denied ordination of the disabled on the ground that a disabled minister may distract others whom he/she is supposed to serve.

Among many societies, there is a strong belief that nothing just happens but that bad things or unfortunate events are caused by evil spirits and good things are the result of the blessings from good spirits. If something happens in one’s life e.g. serious suffering, death, accident, disability, even death of an animal or a poor harvest people always considered this as a consequence of bad action, e.g. the killing animals while one’s wife is pregnant, giving false

witness on land matters, killing of innocent person, telling lies, violation of religious observance, violation of restricted days, taboos, etc. Some societies see disability are a result of children conceived out of incest or wedlock, an expectant woman doing certain practices that are taboo (e.g. eating certain fish or eating the meat of cat, tiger, etc), having sex outside marriage; killing animals, and laughing at the person with disability. Others believe that failure to respect and appease one’s ancestors results in disability. `Blindness’, `cripple’, `still born’, `mental imbalance’, `demon possession’, etc. are associated with those evil practices. If such a person is given a place in the community, the whole village community is affected.

Thus, society does not give any opportunity for disabled people to live normally even though it can. Even today persons with disabilities are not taken in political matters or not allowed to be involved in religious matters. In some contexts, they are not even allowed to speak in public.

In many societies, having a disabled child born in a family is seen as a bad omen. The birth of a child with impairment or who is impaired later in life is viewed with suspicion, is associated with the wrongs committed by parents or grandparents against God, the gods or ancestral spirits. Efforts to trace the wrong doer often leads to blame spouses, usually a man accuses the woman. In some societies, the presence of disability at birth was often considered to be reflective of a broken relationship between the family and God. Often “the child was killed and sent back to God so that He might send another child without disability.

Such children were killed with the full approval of the community and the question of infanticide never arose.”

Such understanding still dominates many societies and excludes them in the church and society. Unfortunately, culture colludes with scripture that the living condition of people with disabilities suffers many forms of discrimination and isolation in society.

As Nagaland prepares to celebrate international day of disability on 3rd November, it is time that we re-examine some of our negative attitudes towards persons with disabilities and create an inclusive society for all.

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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