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When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect Hornbill Bollywood Dhamaka begins with KK Live in Dimapur!

NU organises ‘Discourse on the University’s functioning’

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Hornbill festival 2016 kick-starts in Kisama

KOHIMA, DECEMBER 1 (DIPR): The Hornbill Festival began its 17th edition at Naga Heritage village, Kisama on today, coinciding with the Nagaland Statehood Day. Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya thanked the pioneers of the State who had sacrificed for the people of Nagaland during the early years of Statehood. He said festivals are an ideal way to revive the rich cultural heritage of the Naga people. It promotes the tourism industry and thereby the quality of infrastructure in the state would improve, he added.

Stating that the Naga people treat other people with respect and with a sense of forgiveness, he asked tourists to make use of the best facilities and go home with sweet memories.

Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang while delivering the welcome address greeted the people of Nagaland on the occasion of the 53rd Statehood Day. The Chief Minister said the Naga people are determined to preserve the rich culture and tradition which he described as the hallmark of our identity. He also added that Nagaland being considered as geographically isolated from mainland would soon be a thing of the past with the coming up of Look East Policy and with Hornbill Festival being recognized internationally.

The Chief Minister of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal who was the guest

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

The Governor is the head of state and he’s free to go wherever he wants? Head of state, hmm..m Since when, and why were we not informed of this earlier ?

No old notes for fuel from Saturday

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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 1 (PTI): Following reports of misuse, the government today put an end to the use of old Rs 500 notes for buying fuel at petrol pumps and purchasing tickets at airports from Saturday, while exemption for payment of toll on highways will also end tomorrow. Earlier, these facilities and the toll exemption were to continue till December 15. The government had last week extended the time period of use of invalid currency notes for making payment of public utility bills, buying petrol, mobile recharge, rail tickets and air tickets at airport till December 15. However, it has decided to withdraw the facility for use of old 500 notes at airports and petrol pumps from midnight of December 2. The ministry said that processes of production, dispatch and distribution of currency notes have been continuing and more cash is flowing into the system steadily.

sonowal underlines ties with nagaland

A cultural troupe performing at the Hornbill Festival which began at Kisama on December 1. (Photo by Atsen Murry)

of honour said that he was honoured to be a part of Hornbill Festival. He said it was a great opportunity for the people of the North East in general and the Nagas in particular to showcase the rich culture and tradition of the North East people.

He expressed hope that the Hornbill Festival would bring closer understanding within the people of Nagaland where every tribe can showcase their unique culture and tradition. He also mentioned about the cordial relationship maintained between Assam and

Nagaland during the Ahom Kingdom.

Earlier in the morning, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi extended greetings to the people of Nagaland on Statehood Day. “Statehood Day wishes to people of Nagaland, a state known for scenic beauty and talented citizens who will take it to new heights of progress”, the Prime Minister said in a message on twitter.

Traditional blessing for the festival was offered by Guru Sangyusang Pongener of Ungma village while inaugural celebrations of

‘Unity in Culture’ were presented by various groups.

Sr Pastor, Baptist Mission Church, Kohima, Rev. Moa Longchari invoked God’s blessing while Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism and Host of the Hornbill festival, C Apok Jamir proposed the vote of thanks. Organised by the Nagaland State Government, the Hornbill Festival is an annual tourism promotional event to showcase Nagaland’s traditional and rich cultural heritage in all its ethnicity, diversity and grandeur.

It is a collaborative cel-

nBcA highlight suggestions to uplift nagamese language DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 1 (MExN): The Nagamese Baptist Churches Association Literature Committee (NBCALC) has submitted suggestions for uplift and implementation of Nagamese common language within Naga inhabited areas as deliberated during the 8th NBCA annual conference at Kuda Village, Dimapur.

The NBCALC said no one can deny that the Nagamese language is the common language of Nagas in Nagaland since the British-Indian government and the same language is widely spoken in all parts of Northeast as well as in Myanmar.

In a representation addressed to C.L John, Minister of RD & REPA, the Committee has suggested that there should be only one Nagamese Bible and Nagamese songbook for the whole churches in Naga inhabited areas.

There should be only one Nagamese dictionary and grammar book and proper linguistic, alphabet and vocabulary should be worked out systematically in a very simple manner.

There shall be only one Nagamese Churches Association in all Naga inhabited areas covering Myanmar.

The Nagamese common language department should be set up separately and looked after by Education Department with a separate branch of Nagamese language to assist it for the successful implementation as Naga common language.

In order to implement effectively and to avoid any confusion, the Committee suggested that all the existing books written and printed in Nagamese language including the Bible and songbooks should be abolished/set aside and bring out a common language books based on proper and uniform structures of Nagamese language.

However, the Nagamese dictionary and grammar, Nagamese hymnal song book, Nagamese church manual, books, etc which already have been released by NBCA, NCRC, UBCA NE-I etc should be referred. A separate subject on Nagamese should be introduced in school and college level in Nagaland.

A state level committee should be formed with intellectuals and elders representing all Naga major tribes for consultation and successful implementation of Nagamese as common language.

A Naga girl in traditional attire at the ongoing Hornbill Festival. (Photo by Kevi Viswentso)

ebration of all Naga Tribes at one venue and has been coined as the ‘Festival of Festivals’. The Festival is a tribute to the Hornbill, which is the most admired and revered bird for the Nagas, for its qualities of alertness and grandeur. The majestic bird is closely identified with the social and cultural life of the Nagas as reflected in various tribal folklores, dances and songs. The awe and admiration for the bird is symbolically displayed on almost all tribal traditional headgears worn during the Festivals and is indicative of the unity

of the Nagas.

The Hornbill Festival of Nagaland is a cultural extravaganza to revive, protect and preserve the richness and uniqueness of the Naga heritage, while for the visitors to this event it is a means for a comprehensive understanding of Naga People, their land and culture.

Over the years, this event has gained in stature and scale.

It has now become a unique platform for the tourists to witness the cultural diversity not only of the Nagas but the seven other sister states of the North East.

AAP Nagaland vows to fight illegal immigrant issue DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 1 (MExN): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Nagaland has vowed to take up the issue of illegal immigrants and temporary unregistered migrants of Nagaland with the Government of Nagaland.

AAP Nagaland coordinator Dr S Amos in a press note on Tuesday said it would “force the government to cancel all voting rights, Adhaar and other rights of illegal immigrants and temporary unregistered migrants without work permit and other details.”

“This is one of the biggest burning issues of our society and if the government does not take any suitable action by end January 2017, the party shall go in for mass protest and would ask the President of India and the Election Commission to intervene into this malpractice of voters ID and Adhaar issues,” the AAP stated.

It also went on to state that if AAP Nagaland is voted to power it will cancel all voting rights, Adhaar and other rights of illegal immigrants and will give these rights to only long term migrant business, public and private sector employees who hold work permits and registered business permits under the Government of Nagaland.

Dimapur: 527 HIV cases detected in 7 months Morung Express News Dimapur | December 1

Out of 13, 286 cases tested for HIV at District Hospital Dimapur, 527 cases were tested positive during the period of April to October 2016. A total number of 7869 persons have been registered at the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centre, Dimapur as on October 2016 out of which 4879 are on ART medication and 682 persons have died since inception of ART Centre in Dimapur.

These figures were revealed by Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dimapur, Dr. Antoly Swu during the commemoration of 29th World Aids Day at Town Hall, Dimapur on Thursday under the theme, “Hands up for HIV Prevention.”

She also informed that the HIV and AIDS prevalence rate in Dimapur as of April-October 2016 stood at 5.04% while Nagaland state stood at 1.72%.

“India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world with 2.1 million People Living with HIV as of 2015,” she said.

Quoting UNAIDS Gap report 2016, Dr. Antoly also pointed out that there have been 86, 000 new HIV infections while 68, 000 AIDS-related deaths have occurred.

She said 78 million people globally have been infected with HIV till 2015 since the start of the epidemic and 35 million people have died from AIDSrelated illness till end 2015.

She informed that Nagaland was among the highest states in the country with HIV and AIDS related cases.

Speaking as the chief guest, CMO Dimapur, Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi informed that 53 NGOs were working HIV and AIDS related issues under the Nagaland State Aids Control Society.

He said more cases of HIV positive were detected owing to the grow-

ing awareness programmes initiated by both the government and NGOs. He appealed the public to treat HIV patients as normal people and denounced discrimination against them in any manner.

Dr. Vikato also appealed the several government departments which have laid down provisions for HIV patients to help the patients whenever they approach for any help with regard to benefits.

Responding to an appeal from earlier PLHIV speaker for more CD4 count machines in addition to the existing one since it did not meet the needs of the patients, Dr. Vikatosaidhewashopefulofgettinganadditional CD4 machine since its procurement was already under process.

Superintendent, Food & Civil Supplies, Jamonger Ao delivered solidarity message on the occasion. The programme was organized by District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit and supported by NSACS, Kohima.

KISAMA, DECEMBER 1 (UNI): Underlining the age old ties between the Assamese and Naga people, Assam Chief Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal today said that both Nagaland and Assam must work hand in hand to usher rapid development of Northeast region.

While speaking at the inaugural function of Hornbill Festival at Kohima, Sonowal commended the Nagaland government for developing the Hornbill Festival as a perfect platform to encourage inter-tribal interaction and to promote cultural heritage of Nagaland.

Attending the Festival as a Guest of Honour at the invitation of his Nagaland counterpart TR Zeliang, Sonowal said through the Hornbill Festival Nagaland has opened its doors to the world providing the tourists with an opportunity to experience the food, songs, dances and customs of Nagaland.

While referring to the historic ties between Naga and Assamese people, Sonowal said Ahom Prince Godapani who took shelter in Naga Hills while hiding himself from Lalukhula Burphukan, stayed for some time in some Ao Villages, proceeding to Phom and Konyak areas and married a Konyak girl named “Watlong”, popularly known as Dalimi in Assam.

“During even the Burmese invasion of Assam, the Ao Nagas, true to their tradition stood solidly by the side of the Ahoms and these incidents prove close relationship between the Assamese and Naga people,” Sonowal said.

Saying that Assam and Nagaland share a common goal towards people centric development, Chief Minister Sonowal said that both states must work together for mutual growth in the true spirit of “Sabka Sath Sabka Vikash” and take full advantage of Prime Minister Modi’s Act East Policy to drive the North East towards faster growth trajectory.

In order to tackle issues like illegal migration, life and security to the people of both the states, resolving border issues, both Nagaland and Assam would have to give impetus to increased people to people contact and facilitate confidence building measures, Sonowal said.

“I am hopeful and confident that the cultural mosaic of Hornbill Festival will further boost our age-long ties and foster peaceful co-existence,” Sonowal said.

Jio users to get free voice, data till March 31: Mukesh Ambani

MUMBAI, DECEMBER 1 (IANS): Taking Jio’s offer a step further, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, on Thursday launched ‘Jio Happy New Year’ offer for its new and existing customers.

“Starting Dec 4, 2016 every new Jio user will get data, voice, video and the full bouquet of applications absolutely free till March 31, 2017. We are calling this Jio Happy New Year offer. All existing Jio customers will get extended benefits of Jio Happy New Year offer on current SIMs,” Ambani said in an address to stakeholders at RIL’s Navi Mumbai office.

Starting its service in September, Jio has already bagged over 52 million customers, he said, adding: “In the first three months, Jio has grown faster than Facebook, Whatsapp or Skype.”

Ambani said that on an average a Jio customer was “using 25 times more data than the average Indian broadband user.”

He said under the Jio Happy New Year offer, Jio customers will get 30 times the average usage on other networks absolutely free till March 31, 2017.

Jio has signed up more than 6 lakh customers every single day in the last three months, with the help of fasttrack Aadhaar-based eKYC, which allowed SIM activation in five minutes.

“Today, Jio has successfully rolled out eKYC across 2 lakh outlets in India. To put this in perspective, this is nearly equal to the total number of ATMs in India. We are in the process of doubling this network, to 4 lakh digitally enabled outlets, by March 2017,” Ambani said.

Talking about the contentious issue of points of interconnections between Jio and other telecom operators, Ambani said “we have not received the required support from existing operators.”

“In the last three months, nearly 900 crore voice calls from Jio customers to the networks of our three largest competitors were blocked. The benefits of Jio’s superior voice technology have been denied to Indian

customers due to such anti-competitive behaviour of incumbent operators,” he added.

“While we have started getting points of interconnect, we continue to monitor this capacity so that the Jio voice calling experience remains superior. Over the past months, the call block rates has come down from over 90 per cent to nearly 20 per cent as of yesterday.”

“We are working with all our fellow operators to ensure that in the coming weeks, this will come below the specified grade of service, which is 0.2 per cent. I want to reiterate that Jio is committed to ensuring that all domestic voice calls by Jio customers will be flawless and free,” he added.

He thanked the government and the telecom regulator for enforcing the licence conditions.

Saying that Jio now fully supports mobile number portability, and all customers can retain their existing number when they migrate to Jio, Ambani added: “We have recently introduced home delivery of Jio SIMs, so that these customers, who are often too busy to visit a store, can get a Jio SIM home delivered.”

“And once delivered, the Jio SIM can be activated in 5 minutes through eKYC. This feature is being progressively launched across India through the MyJio application and will be available in the top 100 cities

by December 31, 2016.”

About 8 per cent of Jio towers have experienced congestion due to abnormally high data usage.

“As a result, customers served by these towers have experienced lower data speeds. While 92 per cent of our base stations, and customers, have been experiencing consistently high data speeds, we are not satisfied.

“We are working to decongest these 8 per cent towers, so that impacted customers go back to experiencing true-4G speeds. On the whole, Jio is not only delivering 4 TIMES more data than all other Indian telecom operators combined, but also much faster throughputs than any other mobile network in India,” Ambani said.

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NU organises ‘Discourse on Cycle rally for ‘tobacco and smoke free Dimapur’ the University’s functioning’

Lumami, December 1 (mexN): Nagaland University has come a long way, having recently celebrated its 23rd Foundation Day on September 6, 2016. Going forward, the University will be expected to shoulder even more responsibilities in the areas of higher education.

To develop a farsighted vision, meticulous planning, effective execution, and a continuous assessment is essential on the part of the two pillars of the University, viz, academic and administrative staff. “These pillars of the University must not only discharge their duties efficiently and effectively but also should have a closelyknitted and coordinated system if the University is to succeed in the goal of providing quality higher education,” NU PRO Peter Ki stated a press note issued.

Towards this end, Nagaland University (NU) organized a one-day “Discourse on the University’s Functioning” on November 29 in the Conference Hall of its headquarters, Lumami. Chaired by Dr. Upasana Bora Sinha, Associate Professor, Depart-

ment of Chemistry & Planning Officer In-charge, the discourse was attended by Prof. NS Jamir, Vice-chancellor In-charge, Statutory Officers, Deans, Heads of Departments and Controlling Officers of Sections based in Lumami.

In his introductory note, Prof. T. Lanusosang, Registrar outlined the purpose of the discourse. He stated that it was a continuation of an earlier discourse held on October 18, 2016, which then was attended only by Statutory Officers and Controlling Officers of the different Sections and Cells. He said that the current discourse was aimed at assessing the working of departments and sections, and to evolve a better coordinated and calibrated functional system.

This was followed by exchange of ideas, views, and suggestions from members present at the discourse.

Some of the important points that emerged out of the discourse were the need to speed up the processing of files, simplify procedure, and shorten the time taken to get the work done.

In his remarks, Prof.

M.K. Sinha, Finance Officer, asserted that “to improve the functioning of the University, evaluation and innovative ideas are required”. He referred teachers as generators of innovative ideas. Based on innovative ideas, he asserted, concrete policies could be put in place. He requested teachers to take note of the fact that only standard inputs lead to standard outputs. He also emphasized that targets should be to derive a maximum output from the given resources.

Prof. T. Lanusosang, Registrar also promised that suggestions made at the discourse would be taken into account, and that discourse of this nature would be made a regular feature.

Prof. NS Jamir, Vicechancellor In-charge, expressed happiness over the joint discourse involving the academic and administrative staff. Reminiscing about the difficulties faced during the formative years of Nagaland University, he pointed out that a lot of changes have taken place today due to the dedication and hard work of all concerned.

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): To create an awareness of the ill effects of tobacco and encourage people to choose life and not tobacco, Salesian College of Higher Education (SCHE) in collaboration with NTCP Dimapur organized ‘tobacco free and smoke free Dimapur’ cycle rally on Nagaland Statehood day.

The Deputy CMO Dr. Antoly Suu flagged off the pedal rally at Thehekhu Village Gate. Dignitaries present for the event from the Medical Department were CMO Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi, DNO NTCP Dr. C. Tetseo, DIO Dr. Lenu Akum, ZHO Dr. Arenla.

Deputy CMO Dr. Antoly Suu flag off the pedal rally at Thehekhu Village Gate held on December 1.

Speaking at the occasion, CMO Vikato said, “Young people need to bring change in this generation.” This cycle rally for tobacco and smoke free Dimapur will go down into the history of our common

effort to make Dimapur a healthier place to live in, he remarked.

DNO Dr. Tetseo exhorted SCHE and its students to continue to collaborate and support the Govt. movement till the

dream of making Tobacco and Smoke Free Dimapur is realised.

Principal of SCHE Fr. Dr. Policarp Xalxo congratulated all those who made this rally possible the Medical Department of Dimapur

headed by CMO, Commissioner of Police Dimapur, Liremo Lotha, SCHE Rector Fr. Tom Karthik, GSS Rector Fr. Chacko Karinthayil, Rally co-ordinator Avibou Nagi, NTCP members Medongunuo Pienyii, Akangnaro Jamir, staff and students of SCHE. A press release informed that altogether 160 cyclists with placards and led by CMO Dr. Vikato participated in this mega cycle rally which covered Thahekhu Village Gate, Westyard, Blue Hill Station, Tragopan Junction, Burma Camp, Veterinary Junction, Don Bosco Statue Junction, Super Market and Salesian College.

International Loinloom Festival from Dec 5-7

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Exotic Echo has been working on reviving the slowly diminishing art of loinloom weaving in a systematic manner, and is organizing the third edition of the Loinloom Festival at the ‘Weaver’s Place’ home stay complex in the Diezephe handicraft village (under Dhansiripar sub division, Dimapur) from December 5 to 7.

Entry to the exhibition which will be open to the public from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm is free. The annual festival is a cultural exposition

about the Naga culture and promotes the concept of ‘Livelihood through traditions.’

The organisers stated in a press release that the social mission behind this festival is to mobilize a positive action plan amongst policy makers in Nagaland about this unique form of textile weaving towards recognition by the state and central authorities. Recognition will provide the majority of the rural womenfolk of Nagaland social benefits from the Government of India and also secure a

supplementary livelihood.

Panel discussions and workshops are also being organized in an informal and non conference format amidst traditional Naga fun and festivities on ‘Livelihood through traditions’ and ‘Loinloom Design and New Products’. Leading world textile experts, independent curators, anthropologists, social leaders, officials, independent thinkers, journalists, marketing professionals, designers, loinloom weavers from the North East, photographers and other eminent per-

sonalities will participate.

The three day festival will showcase a cycle expedition, folk dances, weaver competitions and mela, music concerts by various artistes and well known bands like ‘We Four Brothers’’, ‘MenWhoPause’, Abiogenesis and Vivace etc.

For details of the public programme and events, check the facebook pages https://www. facebook.com/internationalloinloomfestival/and https:// www.facebook.com/E xoticEcho-161714153910006/

Lights out, open mic! : Bookworm Fest Load shedding in and around Kohima Morung Express News Kohima | December 1

In the hustle bustle of Kohima town, amidst the Hornbill Festival and Kohima Night Bazaar, a small group of literati gathered at the ongoing Bookworm fest for the Open Mic. As the poems were read, the lights went out but the poetry continued.

“Let our love for literature be our light,” said Rükülu Kezo, the host for the Open Mic. Poems were read out in the dark.

“My eyes ate gravy today, It was an accident but it tasted painful A ruminants of spicy colors swirling in one corner that I didn’t know existed.

It taught my eyes to feel, my nose to be curious A participant read out poem at the ongoing Bookworm fest for It moved my ears to sympathy, and my the Open Mic on December 1 at APO Hall, Kohima. (Morung Photo) tongue with jealousy

Intanki National Park Field Director cautions public

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Intanki National Park Armed Forest Protection Force is conducting regular patrolling round the clock in and around the Park. In this connection, Field Director of Intanki National Park has informed in a press release that if any group, party or individual including Security forces is found entering inside the National Park, without obtaining prior written permission with specific propose of visits from the competent authority will be arrested and any materials in their possessions will be confiscated accordingly. Further, the Director informs all the citizen rank and file that any social outing/gathering/picnic at the bank of any river/streams bordering the National Park is strictly prohibited, violation of which severe action will be initiated irrespective of their low or high profile against the defaulter.

Traffic regulations for ASA stone pulling ceremony Kohima, December 1 (Dipr): In view of the ASA golden jubilee stone pulling ceremony on December 3, as part of the Hornbill Festival where several thousand of participants from all Angami regions and VVIPs/ VIPs will take part, the Deputy Commissioner Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor, IAS has issued the following traffic regulations on the occasion: No vehicle parking will be allowed on the Stone pulling road stretch from Chali Parking (KMC parking Old Ministers Hill) to Khouchiezie local ground from 9:00 AM till the Stone Pulling is over; All vehicular movements shall be restricted on this road from 11:00 am i.e. commencement of the Stone Pulling till it ends. The Deputy Commissioner has therefore advised the commuters to take peripheral diversion routes for unavoidable movements.

DCCI directs business establishments not to pay any tax, donations, offering Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): The Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) directs all business establishments within its jurisdiction not to pay any tax, donations or offering etc to any individual, group, union, association or organisation during the festive season.

If any such person(s) seeking or demanding monetary “help” are found in the markets then the same may be brought to the notice of the police authorities and also to the undersigned immediately, informed a press release issued by DCCI President Hokivi Chishi.

In view of the onset of festive season, the DCCI also request all business estab-

lishments within its jurisdiction to whitewash and paint and decorate their establishments. DCCI President Hokivi Chishi in a press release has requested all concerned to comply and undertake the same at the earliest to beautify and give a festive look to our city.

Further, the DCCI has appreciated the Anti-Extortion Team (AET) of the Dimapur Police Zone II for apprehending two tax collectors from different areas in Dimapur on November 29 and 30. The swift and efficient action of the Police in curbing extortion is highly commendable for which the public are also requested to extend wholehearted cooperation to the police.

In short, it hurt,” read Dorothy Chasie from her poem ‘The Day my Eyes Ate’.

The poets for the open mic were Renthunglo Shitiri, Author of ‘Of Life’, Dorothy Chasie, M. A Student of Nagaland University, Holika Yeptho, M.Phil, Nagaland University, Sedevikhono Noudi, Fazl Ali College, Neingunuo Noudi, Sazolie College, Kohima and Savio Meyase, Ph.D Student of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. The poems were inspirations drawn from life, love, broken hearts, tragedy and mundancy of life. Also, present at the Open Mic, was Writer and Poet Easterine Kire.

The Bookworm Fest initiated in April this year is holding its second edition from November 29 to December 5 at APO Hall, Kohima under the theme ‘Bridging boundaries through literature’.

Kohima, December 1 (mexN): The Department of Power, Transmission Division, Kohima has informed all concerned that due to overloading of 24 MVA, 132/33 kV Transformer at Kohima Substation, the Department is compelled to impose a co-ordinated load shedding in and around Kohima town and outskirts during the Hornbill festival 2016 w.e.f December 1 to 10 in order to facilitate power

supply requirements to various activities and events of the festival.

The Executive Engineer (Transmission), Kohima has informed in the press release that power supply to the following under mentioned 33kV and 11 kV feeders shall be regulated on a one hourly basis daily subject to exigencies.

The load shedding time for various feeders is as follows:

Name of the Feeder 11 kV Bara Bosti from ITI S/S 11 kV Bazaar feeder

Load shedding time 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Alternate Days 33 kV Botsa, Lalmati, Chakha- 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm and 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm bama and 11 kV Lerie local 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm feeders 11kV Science college, Para6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm and medical and Zubza feeders 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

REM Group youth fest at Chungtiayimsen

moKoKchuNg, December 1 (mexN): The REM Group, a Nagaland business conglomeration, is all set to organize the second edition of the ‘youth fest’ at Chungtiayimsen under Tzurnagkong range in Mokokchung district on December 19 and 20.

A press release informed that the youth fest, which is being organized on the theme ‘Peace, Progress and prosperity’, is being organized by the REM Group as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.

In this regard, the Chairman & MD REM Group, Temjen Imna Along Longkumer, who is also the State Executive member & Co-convener (Finance) BJP Nagaland, accompanied by Supongmeren Hoki (State Executive Member BJP Nagaland, held a review meeting with the working committee and inspected the progress of the preparations for the Youth Fest.

The REM Group Chairman MD expressed satisfaction at the fast paced progress of the preparatory works and encouraged the workers to diligently work so as to ensure the success of the Fest. He also reminded that there would be lot of visitors from Nagaland and other states, besides well known personalities from all over India, especially from Bollywood. He encouraged the workers to keep in mind the essence of the youth fest and reminded them that the fest is being held for the Chairman & MD of REM Group, Temjen Imna Along Longkumer inspecting the site uplift of the Naga cultural identity and also to empower for the Youth Fest at Chungtiayimsen, some seventy kilometers away from Mokokthe youths towards self-sustenance and dignity. chung town on November 30. (Photo by REM Group Media)

Mother Prema Superior General visits Nagaland VLE Common Service Center

Mother Prema, Superior General and the present successor to St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata with others during her arrival at Dimapur on November 30.

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Mother Prema, Superior General and the present successor to St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata arrived at Dimapur on November 30. She is visiting all the

Missionary Sisters (MC) of her congregation.

While addressing the gathering, Mother Prema said that her prayerful wish is that we are brought together in Oneness without any dis-

tinction of language, culture, and race or religion people from all walks of life.

Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil Bishop of Kohima was the main celebrant for the Holy Eucharist celebra-

tion on December 1 which was attended by all the inmates of the house. Fr. C. T Varghese from Don Bosco School and Fr. Thomas Toretkiu joined as concelebrants.

The inmates of the Mother Teresa convent along with the people from the neighborhood gave a welcome felicitation to Mother Prema soon after the Holy Eucharistic celebration. Zeliang dance from Burma Camp, Dimapur, Dance from Adivasi community, Choreography and songs by the kids were performed and mother was dressed up in the traditional zeliang dress. Mother Prema would be staying with the Sisters for two days before proceeding to Tura to meet the sisters. She said that she would be visiting all the 27 convents of the Missionaries of Charity.

This was stated in a press release issued by Fr. Thomas Toretkiu, Bishop’s Secretary, Kohima.

clarifies on minority scholarship meDziphema, December 1 (mexN): The authorities of SFS Higher Secondary School, Medziphema are informed that uploading of documents for the minority scholarship for both post and pre Matric is not needed if the amount is less than Rs. 50,000 which is very clearly written in English in bold letter in red color, “Scholarship amount less than Rs. 50,000, no need to upload any document.

Submit copy of the documents in school/college/ institute.”

While clarifying this in a press release, VLE Common Service Center, Medziphema informed that this year the center has uploaded nearly 400 scholarships forms for students from various schools and colleges.

There is no complain whatsoever from any school, however, the VLE Common Service Center said, “I cannot understand why the authority of this school is insisting that all the documents to be uploaded and returning back the completed forms to the students that on November 29, knowing well that the

last date is November 30.”

It also informed that the complete forms along with the acknowledgement slips to the student were submitted way back in October.

However, the “wrong decision” from the School has put both the parents and the students through unnecessary harassments and created a panic like situation.

Some worried parents are coming even from far away villages just to get information. Therefore, the VLE added that “should any misfortune happen, the school will be solely responsible.”

Further, it added that students should know that it is not the school that gives the Minority scholarship but it is the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India that select and give these scholarships and the school cannot force the students to do something which is unnecessary. The school also should check the websites and get proper details before giving any information to the students.

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144 CrPC promulgated in Senapati; counter blockade intensifies Newmai News Network Imphal | December 1

Senapati district administration has promulgated CrPC 144 along the National Highway 2 in Senapati district section as "there is apprehension of breach of peace in the district by some anti social elements taking the advantage of the indefinite economic blockade imposed by the UNC along the NH-2".

Hours before the clamping of the CrPC 144 by the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati district, a large convoy of security force personnel comprising IRB and CPRF headed for Mao Gate from Imphal.

Reports said that the Manipur Government, following the High Court directive, decided to deploy adequate security along the

PoStPoneD The Vilhume Colony Raffle Draw scheduled on December 3, 2016 has been postponed to February 24, 2017. Inconvenience regretted.

National Highways in Manipur for the smooth transportation of commodities from outside the state.

A large number of loaded trucks have been stranded in the interstate border for several days now and will be escorted to the state capital any moment.

Meanwhile, counter blockade in the valley intensified today.

A goods-loaded mini truck was set ablaze by counter-blockade supporters today at Khumbong of

Imphal West as several parts in the valley witnessed intensifying the stir.

The vehicle was torched by a group of counterblockade enforcers around 1:30 pm. The incident occurred amidst the indefinite economic blockade called by the United Naga Council (UNC) on NHs from November 1 entered the 30th day on Thursday.

State police personnel intervened when the counter blockade supporters went berserk at Khum-

bong. Police fired several rounds of tear gas canisters to disperse them following which a confrontation ensued between the two sides but no one was injured.

Locals imposed counter-blockade at Khumbong, Bishnupur, Wahengbam Leikai and Khoyathong where they forced all goods carrying vehicles heading for hill districts were stopped and pulled down all items.

All goods which included rice, vegetables

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and other consumer items were destroyed after being pulled down on the roads.

The counter-blockade in the valley intensified two

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days after UNC volunteers attacked and damaged over 30 Imphal-bound loaded trucks on NH 37 in Noney area of Tamenglong district.

Declaration Regd.No: 127

Dated: 28/11/2016

I, Shri. PULOTO ZHIMO S/o YEKHUYI ZHIMO Permanent resident at Lizuto Village dist. Zunheboto: Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under:1. That l am a bonafide citizen of India belonging to Sumi Naga Community Resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That actual my name is PULOTO ZHIMO but due to ignorance and mistake in my Pan Card, Passbook, Identity card, entered and recorded as PULOTO JHIMO Which should actually be recorded as PULOTO ZHIMO. 3. That from the date of this declaration my name shall be recorded as PULOTO ZHIMO for all Official and legal purposes and at all times and occasion That the statement made above from Para 1-3 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing has been cancelled therein.

Deponent Solemnly affirm and declare before me on 23rd Nov. 2016 1st Class MAGISTRATE

Office of the Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto

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Dt. Zbto. The 28th Nov. 2016

Notice calling objection for the issue of Succession Certificate.

Shri. Y. Vishito of Amiphoto Colony, Zunheboto Town,District Zunheboto has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate /Guardianship Certificate declaring that His relative Late Zhenili Swu has expired on 11/11/2016 for closing of Ac. No.:11736629011 and replace successor Ac. No.:11736639290 It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this certificate is received from anyone within a period of 30 (thirty) days w.e.f the date of publication in press, the Certificate shall be issued, and no further complaint will be entertained for issue of the same.

Sd/- Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto: Nagaland

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No: 3065/16 Date: 29/11/2016 I, Shri. H. MUGHAHO AWOMI S/o Shri. Lt. HOKHEVI AWOMI Permanent resident at Surumi Village and presently residing at DC Hill West under Zunheboto District, Nagaland do hereby affirm and declare as follows:1. I am a bonafide citizen of Indian belonging to Sumi Naga tribe resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That due to mistake and clerical error my name has been entered as, MUGHAHO SUMI in my Pan Card 3. That the Name H. Mughaho Awomi and Mughaho Sumi are one and the same person.

4. That this affidavit is made for the purpose of correcting my name where Mughaho Sumi, is Written, it should be read, correct and understand as H. Mughaho Awomi for all purpose.

That the statement made in paragraph 1 & 4 of the affidavit are true to the best of my knowledge.

Deponent Solemnly declare before me by the deponent 29th Nov. 2016 Notary Public, Zunheboto

THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT AT GUWAHATI (The High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh)

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Dated Guwahati the 28th day of November,2016.

1. Applications in prescribed form are invited till 4:30 PM will be called against 1 (one) vacancy in the ratio of 1:10 for of 19-12-2016 from candidates, who (a) Must be holder the Final Written Examination. However, the High Court of degree in law granted by a recognized University reserves the right to fix cut off mark in the preliminary established by law in India, (b) Must not have completed, Examination and call only those candidates to appear in as on the last date fixed for receipt of applications, 38 years the Final Written Examination who obtain the cut off mark of age in the case of candidates belonging to Scheduled as may be fixed by the High Court.

Castes or Scheduled Tribes and 35 years of age in the case 9. All candidate who obtain 60 (sixty) percent or more of others for preparation of a list of selected candidates marks or corresponding grade in the Final Written as well as for preparation of an additional list for filing examination shall be eligible for viva-voce of 70 (seventy) up of 3(three) existing and 3 (three) anticipated vacancies marks. Provided that Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe in grade-III of Nagaland Judicial Service in the pay scale candidates who obtain 50 (fifty) percent of more marks of Rs. 27,700-770-33,090-920-40,450-1080-44,770 per or corresponding grade in the Final Written Examination month plus other allowances as admissible under the shall be eligible for viva-voce. This would be subject to the Rules. The total vacancy position may vary at the time of ratio of 1:3 of the rank wise list of marks obtained by the final selection. candidates in the Final Written Examination. In the vivavoce, out of 70 (seventy) marks the candidate will have 2. 80% of the posts to be filled up by direct recruitment are to secure minimum 60% marks. Selection of candidates reserved for the Naga Tribes namely Kuki, Garo, Kachari, shall be made on the basis of marks obtained in the Final Mikir or Any other, provided such persons are indigenous inhabitants of the State of Nagaland. Out of the 80% reserved Written Examination and viva-voce, subject to the cut off posts, 25% shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the mark indicated above. However, final selection shall be made following 6(six) Tribes of four districts of Mon, Tuensang, subject to overall suitability to be decided by the High Court.

Kiphire and Longleng (Category I): 10. The examinations/viva voce and all other conditions for appointment shall be as per the Nagaland Judicial Service i. Konyak ii. Phom iii. Sangtam Rules, 2006, as amended. The candidates shall have to appear iv. Yimchunger v. Chang vi. Khiamniungan in the examinations/viva voce at their own expenses, as and when called for.

Further, 12% posts out of the aforesaid 80% will be reserved for the following Tribes in the proportion indicated below (Category 11. Mere inclusion of the name of a candidate in the select list or additional list shall not confer on the candidate any right II): of appointment. i.

Chakhesang/Pochury : 6% 12.

Detail syllabus for the written examinations/viva voce is ii. Zeliang : 4% annexed with this advertisement. iii. Sumis of Kiphire District : 2% 3. No person shall be eligible for appointment to the service (a) 13. All other matters which are not specifically provided in this advertisement shall be as decided by the Gauhati High Court.

Unless he is a citizen of India, (b) If he has been dismissed from service by any High Court, Government or statutory or local authority: (c) If he has been convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude or who is or has been permanently debarred or disqualified by the High Court or the Union Public Service Commission or any State Public Service Commission from appearing in any examination or selection conducted Preliminary Examination by it: (d) If he directly or indirectly influences the recruiting authority by any means for his candidature and (e) If he/she (Objective type multiple choices) has more than one spouse living.

English, General knowledge, Aptitude, Constitution of India, 4. The policy of reservation would be as per the Nagaland Code of Civil Procedure, Transfer of Property Act, Indian Judicial Service Rules, 2006 (as amended).

Contract Act, Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, 5. The duly filled in application form in the prescribed format Indian Evidence Act and Law of Torts. along with all testimonials should reach the Registrar, The Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, Kohima Nagaland, Final Written Examination.

- 100 Marks. (Duration: 3 Hours) PIN-797001. The envelope containing the application form i. Paper-I: English a) Essay Writing and documents should be subscribed as ‘Application for b) Precis Writing direct recruitment to Grade-III of NJS, 2016’. c) Grammar etc 6. Self attested copies of all documents in proof of his/her educational qualification, Bar Council’s Registration (if any), ii. Paper-II: General Knowledge – 100 Marks. (Duration: 3 Age, Certificate of practice (if any), Caste Certificate etc.

Hours) along with 4(four) copies of recent passport size photographs a) Objective Type should be submitted along with the Application Form. Indian b ) Aptitude Test Postal Order (IPO) of Rs. 400/- (four hundred) only for General candidates and Rs. 200/- (two hundred) only in case iii. Paper-III: Law Paper-I – 100 Marks. (Duration: 3 Hours) a) Constitution of India of SC/ST candidates, payable to Registrar, Kohima Bench, b) Code of Civil Procedure Gauhati High Court, Nagaland should also be enclosed with c) Transfer of Property Act the application form. d) Indian Contract Act. 7. The envelope containing the application form and documents should be dropped in the Drop Box kept in the premises of Kohima Bench, Gauhati High Court, Kohima, Nagaland during Iv Paper-IV: Law Paper-II – 100 Marks. (Duration: 3 Hours) a) Indian Penal Code office hours on or before the last date fixed of the same may be b) Code of Criminal Procedure sent by post so as to reach the aforementioned addressee on or c) Indian Evidence Act before the last date. No application will be received/accepted d) Law of Torts after the last date fixed for receipt of application forms. The High Court shall not be responsible for postal delays etc. v. Viva-Voce: 70 Marks.

8. The candidates will have to appear in Preliminary Examination (objective type multiple choices) of 100 marks (2 hours duration) which will cover English, General knowledge, Aptitude, Constitution of India, Code of Civil

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3. Category (Unreserved/SC/ST(P)/ST(H)/OBC/MOBC/PWD): 4. Father’s Name: 5. Mother’s Name: 6. Date of birth (According to HSLC): 7. Age as on the last date fixed for receipt of Application forms: 8. Address for Correspondence: 9. Permanent Address: 10. Spouse name (in case of married candidates, Write NA, if not applicable): 11. Whether candidate belongs to Scheduled caste/ Scheduled Tribe of Nagaland? If Yes, name of the Caste or Tribe and district in which the candidate Has permanent residence:

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(If Yes, Give details): 20. Whether you have ever been terminated from service and/ or whether any disciplinary proceeding had ever been initiated against you. (If yes, give details): 21. Whether income tax assesses? If so, PAN/GIR No., If any: 22. Telephone/Mobile No.: 23. E-mail ID (If any): 24. Indian Postal Order (IPO) No.: Declaration: I hereby affirm and state that the abovementioned information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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CANSSEA Dimapur informs Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Dimapur district unit of Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees Association (CANSSEA) has requested all the Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) of the State Government offices/establishments under Dimapur district to collect and submit the yearly CANSSEA membership fee for 2016 @ Rs 50 per member on or before December 20 to the following authorized collectors: Dimapur/ Chumukedima/ Dhansiripar – L.S. Ngullie (9436266152), Limasangla (9856324043); Medziphema area – Amenla Yanthan (9862977952); Niuland/Kuhuboto/Nihokhu – Kahoto (9862080315).

Career guidance for students moN, December 1 (mexN): 35 Assam Rifles conducted career guidance lecture at UCS School, Naginimora on November 28, which was attended by 60 students from class X to XII alongwith three teachers. The students were briefed about various career opportunities. Major Devopallav Baruah of 35 Assam Rifles while speaking to the students emphasized to set goals and then work hard with commitment and perseverance to attain the same. Major Baruah also provided an insight into joining the Armed Forces as a career. The talk ended with an interactive session in which various queries raised by students were answered.

Advance Sekrenyi celebrated Kohima, December 1 (Dipr): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya attended the Japfüphiki (Southern Angami) Pfütsana (traditional religion) common pre/ advance Sekrenyi (Phosanyi) at Lerie, Kohima on November 30. Acharya called upon the gathering to improve their lifestyle and prepare their minds to change the system. He stressed on living together with unity. The meaning of Sekrenyi was highlighted by Yose Chaya, Advisor of Japfüphiki Pfütsana Krotho (JPKK), who said that the traditional religion (Pfütsana) follows the lunar moon.

Earlier, blessing was pronounced by Neisa Thol, former Chairman of JPKK.

AR Commander interacts with village leaders pfutsero, December 1 (mexN): Company Commander of Pfutsero Company, 9 Assam Rifles interacted with GBs and chairmen of nine villages of Pfutsero subdivision – Zapami, Khezhakeno, Ruiyu, Lasumi, Kikrima, Pfutsero Town, Pfutseromi, Tsupfumi and Zelmi villages – on November 28. The interaction focused on present security situation, issues of forceful taxation and ways to further enhance cooperation between security forces and villagers, informed a press release from AR. During interaction, valuable suggestions were brought out for further improvement of relationship between security forces and local population, it added. Both parties also vowed to stand together to work for long lasting peace and prosperity in the region, according to the release.

Various institutions celebrate advance Christmas

NCF Chennai: The Naga Christian Fellowship Chennai (NCFC) celebrated advance Christmas on November 27 at St. Matthias Church with special Christmas group songs from the five main Naga populated areas in the city, namely Taramani, Tambaram, Chepauk, Nungambakkam and Maduravoyal. The famous Madras Christian College Choir mesmerized the congregation with two Christmas songs and the NCF Chennai praise and worship team also presented special numbers.

Speaking on the occasion, Pastor Wapangtoshi, NCF Chennai said, “Christmas season is the best and the most beautiful season of the year. This is the reason why many people think that Jesus comes to us only during this season, but we should always remember that…he is coming to us all the time.”

KLBYE: Kohima Liangmai Baptist Youth Endeavour (KLBYE) celebrated advance Christmas on November 30 at

gramme was attended by the alumni. A press release stated that Christmas carols, songs and short speeches on “Christmas to me” were presented by the student-teachers and faculty. Depicting the true sense of love, joy and peace, the student-teachers performed a musical play. The Christmas message was delivered by Dr. Bendangyapangla. The Christmas bonfire was lit

by Kevitsieno Luho, Asst.

Headmistress of RHSS, Kohima, an alumna. The celebration ended with a A group presents song during the advance Christmas celebration of the naga Christian Fellowship Chennai held on gift exchange programme. november 28.

the church premises in D Block. Nagaland Evangelical Union coordinator, Pouduanlung Zeliang was the speaker. Pouduanlung said that Christmas season is the most beautiful and best season of the year.

However, he added, “Even if we celebrate Christmas, if we do not allow Jesus Christ to rule in our lives, the meaning of celebrating Christmas will not be fulfilled with us.” The KLBYE also held midnight service at 12:00 am welcoming the

month of the birth of Jesus prietor, Els International Christ.

Landscaping Company was the guest of honour.

Sainik School Pungl- Achet holds the titles of wa: The staff, families and best vocalist of Gospel Beat cadets of Sainik School Contest 2004, best vocalist Punglwa celebrated ad- of National Rock Contest vance Christmas on No- 2005, and second runners vember 26 with a cultural up of Naga Idol 2006. extravaganza organized by The programme bethe cadets of the school at gan with a guitar medley the school premises. Group presented by the cadets Captain Sanjay Gaekwad, of Music Club, SS PunglPrincipal, Sainik School wa. Cadets also presented Punglwa was the chief an enthralling skit, dance guest of the evening. and Christmas carol songs Achet Imchen, pro- making the celebration a

vibrant and meaningful one. A press release from SSP said that the evening was enthralled by the presence of Achet Imchen, who presented melodious Christmas songs for the audience.

SCTE Kohima: The State College of Teacher Education (SCTE) celebrated pre-Christmas on November 26 at the college campus. Along with the student-teachers, faculty and staff, the pro-

Edu dept officials visit GHS Sakraba and Porba ATMA conducts capacity pheK, December 1 (mexN): Additional Director (HoD) of School Education, Wonthongo Tsopoe along with officials from the School Education Department visited Sakraba Government High School and Porba Government High School under Phek district on November 29.

Interacting with the staffs, Tsopoe informed that in order to revamp the education system in the state, the year 2016 had been declared as the year of inspection and monitoring. Hence, the department has been continuously monitoring the schools

in all the districts surprisingly.

He said inspection and monitoring is going on very strictly and would be on surprise or through intimation.

Further, Tsopoe cautioned that the department will not tolerate teachers who deviate from duties and responsibilities in their respective posting places. He also cautioned that substitute and proxy teachers will not be tolerated and an extreme step up to the extent of termination of service will be done to those teachers.

It was informed in a press release that the two establishments submit-

ted their grievances about shortages of math, science and language teachers and also briefed about the pathetic condition of the school building, which they said, is in a very bad shape and on the verge of collapse.

They urged the HoD to look into the matter seriously for the welfare of the students.

Meanwhile, the HoD inspected the school buildings and assured to look into the matter after discussion with the minister and officials concerned of the department, the release added.

building at Zuheshe

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Aghunaqa Block conducted capacity building programme for women farmers and SHGs of Zuheshe village on November 29 under the topics “Value Addition of Fishes” that included preparation of fish finger. Resource person Adizeno, FD, Dept of Fisheries demonstrated and explained on the topic and said that most of the SHGs at Zuheshe village are involve in various farming activities out of which fishery is one such.

Majority of the SHGs consist of fish ponds and practice aquaculture these days but apart from selling fishes directly in markets should also have profound knowledge in its value addition methods that would certainly help them in revenue generation. Further Sentibenla, ATM, Niuland Block spoke on the topic of “Ginger Cultivation” and also demonstrated on “Ginger candy preparation”.

ARTC&S Sukhovi personnel render help

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Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Troops of ARTC&S Sukhovi are rendering service in crowd control and local protection to the local populace of Sukhovi area flocking to the banks and ATM at Sukhovi village in large numbers in view of the demonetisation of Rs 1000 and 500 notes, according to a press release. While SBI Sukhovi Branch staff were busy catering to the needs of ARTC personnel, their families and local populace of Sukhovi and nearby villages, ARTC&S personnel played a vital role in maintaining crowd control, order and protection of the local populace flocking to the branch and ATMs and ensured that no Consultant, Ministry of women & Child development (GoI), dr. Paramita Majumdar, Guest of Honour Lithrongla G Chiuntoward incident took place and the senior citizens and shi, IAs, secretary & director AtI and trainees at the Gender Budgeting training sponsored by Ministry of women & women faced minimal discomfort, the release added.

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Governor should be ‘little diplomatic’: NPF

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Stands by the statements made by its legislators Dimapur, December 1(mexN): Stating that the Ministerial in charge of the various Divisions (Districts) were “voicing and sharing the views, opinions and position at the grass root with special reference to their respective jurisdictions/areas,” NPF today said that it stood by the statement made by its legislators during its Central Executive Council (CEC) on November 29.

“The meeting also felt that the Governor should be little diplomatic while echoing his views as he is the head of the state,” the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) said in a statement issued by its Media & Press Bureau.

Another senior NPF Minister observance that State Governors should function according to the Parliamentary system and suggestion that the Governor’s visits “needs to be informed in advance” was only

to enable proper arrangement as would help lessen a lot of “avoidable hardships, confusion and misunderstandings” considering the fact that Governor is head of the state, it added.

The NPF statement was a rejoinder to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nagaland press statement taking offence to the comments made by NPF legislators during the CEC criticizing the Nagaland Governor on his stand on corruption and the jibe made against the BJP legislators.

The Party Constitution provides for the party’s highest platform known as the NPF ‘Central Executive Council’ (CEC) and it’s a normal “practice that all matters, and any problem vis-à-vis the party’s affairs and policies are discussed, deliberated or debated,” the NPF said.

“During the course of the proceedings of the

Meetings & AppointMents Sumi Council East Dimapur The Sumi Council, East Dimapur Hq. Purana Bazar will have a meeting on December 3 at 8:00 am at its Council Hall at Purana Bazar. All the executives members and office bearers are requested to attend the meeting positively.

State BJP meeting on Dec 3 State BJP President Visasolie Lhoungu has convened a special meeting on December 3 at Hotel Sarmati at 11.00 am. All state officer bearers, legislators, coregroup members, frontal chiefs only and senior members are requested to attend the meeting positively.

Tuensang DPDB on Dec 6

meeting, certain instances unpleasant for NPF and BJP of the DAN alliance also crept up following the State Governor BP Acharya’s statement in the media criticizing the state Government as corrupt,” it added.

Under the given situation, the discussion focused on the fact that, being Governor of a state means that the state Government is the Governor’s own Government, and whether it would be wise for the Governor to address the Assembly as – ‘My corrupt Government’.”

Further supporting the statement made by some senior NPF Minister at the meeting, the Party said that some of the points raised by the legislators, no doubt, were reported out of context in the local dailies.

While voicing out their concerns, on various issues, they touched on the activities of the Governor because of the prevailing

total communication cap between Raj Bhawan and the legislators, it justified.

Considering the need to maintain cordial relation with Raj Bhawan as imperative, a senior NPF Minister reminded all concerned members to inculcate the responsibility to call on the Governor as often as possible, rather than keeping away and blaming others, it added.

“The meeting felt that the integrity of Raj Bhawan should be upheld and no political party including BJP should misuse the Raj Bhawan,” it said.

The NPF further expressed surprised that Nagaland BJP, a close and old ally of NPF and sharing power in the NPF led DAN Government for years, was lately engaging itself in baseless “blame game and sheer falsehood” to indict its major partner NPF as corrupt or giving the state BJP a step motherly treatment.

Both achievements and failures should be jointly owned by all the DAN partners, NPF asserted adding that “BJP seems to be acting holier than thou.”

The BJP Nagaland should not feel agitated because it was BJP themselves who raked up the differences of opinion within the alliance, NPF further pointed out.

Reminding the BJP that it won just one seat in the last election, the NPF noted that the BJP Nagaland unit might have suddenly become “arrogant” due to BJP led National Democratic Alliance Government at the Centre.

Meanwhile, the NPF maintained that the confusion over the status of the Nagaland State Unit BJP President as Vice Chairman of DAN, as pointed State BJP Spokesman should be “sorted out or ascertained at the right forum.”

Kohima, December 1 (mexN): Major General Somnath Jha, VSM (Retd), who is on an epic and unique expedition to pay homage to 21000 fallen heroes of Indian Army by visiting their memorials reached Kohima today.

The decorated veteran is undertaking this expedition on a cycle on which he will be travelling over

12000 kms to every state in the country in over seven months, an AR press note informed.

The veteran’s journey commenced from Ambala Cantonment on October 19 and he reached the state capital after covering various locations in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam, it added.

The flagging of ceremony to visit various locations in Nagaland took place at HQ IGAR (North) today.

The General Officer, who hung his uniform in September this year as a Chief of Staff 2 Corps at Ambala, is accompanied by his wife Chitra Jha for the noble cause, the press note said.

Local Board Administration meet held at Sainik School EVC, ESU, EEE, WTEU condemns pereN, December 1 (mexN): The XVI Local Board Administration (LBA) meeting was held at Sainik School Punglwa on November 30 under the chairpersonship of Major General Atanu K Pattanaik SM, Chief of Staff, HQ 3 Corps and Chairpreson, LBA. Gp Capt Sanjay Gaekwad, Principal, Sainik School Punglwa and Member Secretary of LBA, presented a detailed report on various activities undertaken by the school during the last six months. The major highlights were work projects under development at the school, steps taken to improve the academics and overdevelopment of the cadets, and future projects to be undertaken with the help of Government of Nagaland and Ministry of Defence, according to a press release.

The board deliberated on issues pertaining to the infrastructure projects, development of the school and the various steps taken to improve the NDA intake of the cadets. The members of the board were apprised on the

The Tuensang District Planning & Development Board monthly meeting for the month of December is to be held on December 6 (Tuesday) 11:00 am at Deputy Commissioner Conference Hall. Therefore, all the DPDB members are requested to attend the meeting.

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): The inauguration of guest MSU 65th annual session house-cum-Pre-Christmas celebration of the Tenyimia Church, Wokha The Mekokla Students' Union was held within the Church com(MSU) informs all its members pound on November 30, with Deputhat the 65th annual session will ty Commissioner of Wokha, Wezope be held on December 26 and Gen- Kenye as the chief guest.

In his address, he acknowledged eral meeting on December 27. It the Tenyimia community serving in has been made mandatory for all the members from class 8 till edu- different capacities in Wokha discated unemployed to attend both trict and also expressed the hope that they would always work for unithe session and the meeting. Any ty and oneness among the different members failing to attend the said communities. programmes with unnecessary He also appreciated the Lotha reason will face consequences. community for the support and coUnavoidable circumstances will operation towards the Tenyimia be accepted with application and community. proof.

President of Tenyimia Union Ko-

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): The Elumyo Village Council, Elumyo Students’ Union, Elumyo Eloe Ekhung and Wokha Town Elumyo Union have condemned, in the strongest term, the alleged punishment meted out by a one 28-year old woman on her children in Wokha.

“It is beyond comprehension of how a mother could treat her children with such harsh atrocity when she ought to teach them with motherly care and support” the organisations said in a joint statement received here.

Her treatment of the children financial grant and the infrastructural of the school who qualified the UPSC cannot be treated as an "act of pundevelopment that are being taken up. (NDA) written exam and will be apThe meeting was also attended pearing for SSB interview in the forthby Col Rajveer Singh, Col GS (Edn), 3 coming month.

Corps, Sqn Ldr Sanjeev Chaudhary, Colonel Pawan Ramdev, who also Vice Principal, Pollem Tep, Additional accompanied the COS, 3 Corps, gave Director (School Education) & Nodal a motivational lecture and shared his Dimapur, December 1 Officer, Er. Kelechutuo Pienyu, Er. Ket- experiences with the cadets of classes (mexN): The Officer of the Excise & uoselie Kenguruse, and Nzeugwang 10, 11 and 12. He spoke about the of- Staff at the excise directorate organized (parents’ representative). ficer like qualities to be developed by a farewell programme to send off two Before the meeting, Maj Gen Pat- the cadets to qualify SSB and join the of its retiring officer on November 30. tanaik congratulated the two cadets National Defence Academy.

The officers – Additional Commissioner of Excise, Pitongse Sangtam and Assistant Commissioner of Excise (Enf) Ghokiho Yeptho – retired on November 30 on completion of 35 years of active government services.

Speaking on the occasion, the hima (TUW), Mathew Yhome, who Commissioner of Excise, Tarep Imchaired the prograame also lauded thee ADC Wokha, Hotolu Swu and Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): Agricultural Technology Management Project Director DRDA Wokha ThunAgency (ATMA), Dimapur, Niuland gdeno Mozhui for their material as- block conducted capacity building sistance culminating in extended in programme for SHGs at Niuland Town successful completion building. on November 30. Resource person Dr. Christmas message was shared Ebibeni Ngullie, SMS (Animal Science), Dimapur, December 1

by Pastor of Rengma Baptist Church KVK (ICAR), Jharnapani spoke on the (mexN): National BJP CoordinaWokha, Keshwenga Sep during the topic poultry management and said tion & Sagathak Kisan Morcha, programme while invocation was that chicken production under the free Panchayati Raj Hridaynath Singh pronounced by Advisor TUW Key- range and semi-intensive system is one visited Nagaland on November 30. avi Apon. of the viable alternatives for improving He conducted a series of meeting The programme also featured a the livelihood of rural household which with the party at Tourist lodge conspecial number by Rengma Baptist provide additional income and supple- ference hall Dimapur.

Church and Tenyimia Church Youth ment protein intake in rural and tribal The selected parent body team Wokha while the Convenor Building folks.She highlighted on the success sto- led by the State President comprising Committee, Tepunol Yore tendered ries of poultry farmers from other blocks of office bearers and senior leaders the vote of thanks, informed a press and districts and encouraged the partic- thoroughly deliberated with the visnote from the TUW President. ipants to practice the same. iting central leader on the issues per-

ishment but a manifestation of vile attitude and hatred" towards the children vented out in the guise of a punishment, it added.

The organisations also called upon all the right thinking individuals to condemn “such ill-attitude and action” of so called ‘mother’ and urged upon the concerned authority to award befitting punishment to the guilty mother.

The statement was appended

by EVC Chairman Zumomo Tsanglao, ESU President Y Amos Lotha, EEE General Secretary Janthunglo Tsanglao and , WTEU Chairman Elithung Ovung.

Excise dept bid adieu to 2 officers

TCW guest house inaugurated in Wokha ATMA Niuland conducts

poultry management prog

chen congratulated the two outgoing Excise officer for accomplishing 35 years of service and wished them a happy retired life. The retiring officer narrated their respective life in services and further advice the officers and staff to work in unity for welfare and interest of the public service.

Other senior excise officers also spoke on the occasion and wished the outgoing officers a healthy retired life, a press note from the office of the commissioner of excise informed.

National BJP member visits Nagaland taining to organisation and present political situation in the State. Thereafter, the frontal chiefs and Districts Kisan Morcha had a meeting with the visiting leader in the second session.

BJP Nagaland Spokesman Yanghose Sangtam in a press release said that Hridaynath Singh is a senior member of the party who has worked in different parts of the country and having a wide organizational skill and is closely associated with top ranking profiles in the party.

‘Hands up for #HIV Prevention’ Kohima, December 1 (mexN): Along with the rest of the world, World AIDS Day was observed today across the state under the theme “Hands up for #HIV Prevention.”

KohiMa: In the state capital, World AIDS Day was celebrated at main arena, Naga Heritage village, Kisama with Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang as the chief guest. The event was organized by the Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS).

During the programme, NSACS highlighted that 1.96 lakh new HIV infections were reported in 2015 and as per recent HIV estimation report, National adult HIV prevalence in India is estimated at 0.26%. Nagaland has 1.29% of estimated adult HIV prevalence.

NSACS also called upon the people worldwide to invite in the fight against HIV and also to commemorate those who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS. The Chief Minister released balloons to commemorate the observance of World AIDS Day. A pledge in support of HIV/AIDS was observed during the programme.

LongLEng: In Longleng, the Chief Medical Officer Office observed the day with a function at Yingli College under the theme ‘Hands up for #HIV Prevention.’

The programme was chaired by Dr Henshet Phom, Vice Principal Yingli College, while the lightning of the candles and prayer was said by Dr Toli Achumi. The keynote speaker for the programme was Dr Ritu Thurr, Chief Medical Officer, Longleng district. Dr Ritu Thurr presented a power point presentation on the topic ‘scenario of HIV/AIDS’ where he spoke on the history of AIDS, how it spreads its prevention, its awareness, and how one should care and support an HIV affected person.

Dr Satuo Mezhu, Senior Medical Officer, District Hospital delivered the vote of thanks. The programme was attended by the college students and staffs from Chief Medical Office, Longleng.

the victims.

District Program Officer (DPO), DACPU, Atokali Assumi in her keynote address gave a brief statistics of the present scenario of HIV/AIDS in the state and the district. The programme was organized by DAPCU, Zunheboto in collaboration with NZP+ and HIV and AIDS Facilities.

PErEn: Peren District observed world AIDS Day at Peren Town where speaking on the theme, Albert Vice Principal Peren Government College shared that the people need to be serious and come together to eliminate the disease. He shared that HIV is not

Control Unit Peren in collaboration with Peren district Music society, Peren Town Youth organisation and Red Ribbon Club Peren Govt College.

SUMi ViLLagE: As part of perception management programme on the occasion of world AIDS Day a lecture on AIDS awareness was conducted by ‘B’ Company 9 Assam Rifles at Sumi Village on December 1. A press note stated that the AIDS awareness lecture was conducted in collaboration with a NGO (Development Association of Nagaland). During the lecture a healthy interaction was done with the villagers about the menace

KiPhirE: In Kiphire District, the day was observed with a function at Sumi Baptist Church (Aizuto) Kiphire The programme was organized

by DAPCU in collaboration with Red Ribbon Club and sponsored by Nagaland State AIDS Control Society under the theme "Hands up for HIV prevention."

Speaking on the occasion, the District Supervisor ICTC TL Khiantsumong stated that the significance of observing the day was to "globally show our support for those people living with HIV/AIDS." He further spoke on the importance of proper education and sensitization right from the grassroot level and added that this day provided an opportunity to show our support and solidarity to those living with HIV. Tsiatsuvi (DPO, DAPCU) gave an insight on the district scenario and stated that approximately 40-45 individuals are tested for HIV monthly.

According to the statistics given by her, during April-September 2016, 512 males and 325 females were tested for HIV out of which 17 males and 10 females tested positive. She elaborated on the risk factors and said that individuals under the age group of 25-34 fall under the high risk group and is the most vulnerable age group.

She mentioned the facilities like ICTC and ART which helps to prevent the

World AIDS Day observed across the state

ZUnhEBoTo: The 29th World AIDS Day was commemorated at Old Town Prayer Fellowship, Zunheboto with Senior Medicine Specialist, District Hospital, Zunheboto, Dr. Akaho Awomi was the resource person for the event.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Akaho said Nagaland state has the highest prevalence rate of HIV in India and approximately 300 persons are dying due to the said disease in Nagaland every year. Exhorting the gathering not to discriminate people living with HIV/AIDS, he urged the gathering to encourage and support

only infected to certain group of people but to everyone.

The programme was chaired by Rovi Mor DPO DAPCU, Rev Father Mhonchumo Phillip Ovung invoked God’s presence, significance of the day was shared by Thonjiliu Pameai, Peren district 2016. NPDP+ shared the positive sharing, various Artists from Peren district like Fiona, keyipeisile, Ichubuing and Peren District Music Society present various songs on the occasion and vote of thanks

by Ngauzeulungbe DIS Peren. It was organised by District Aids Prevention

of AIDS and its ill effects. The villagers were informed about the measures to be taken to prevent spread of this disease.

The lecture facilitated understanding about the AIDS and villagers appreciated the Assam Rifles and the NGO for the conduct of such, educational lecture. At the end of the lecture the villagers pledged on the occasion of world AIDS Day that they will carry forward the knowledge and awareness obtained about AIDS from the lecture to each and every member of the village.

growth of the virus so that one can live longer, healthier life and reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to others.

Khupai who has been undergoing ART treatment for 6 years bravely shared her experience and urged those living with HIV to not "stigmatize oneself." She said that once she opened up, she received love and support from her family and friends, and was not discriminated as she had feared. She spoke on the importance of support received during such times as without it, one may be affected mentally.

Solidarity message was given by Dr. Purna Chandra Mishra (VP, Zisaji Presidency College) and. Ariba (Pastor, New Life Prayer Home) who requested that spreading of awareness right from our homes should be made a common agenda and not to discriminate those infected with the virus.

As the chief guest, Rezulule (Addl.

SP Kiphire) said that HIV/AIDS infects a person at the peak of their productive and income generating phase which affects the society at large. She urged that one can contribute to the society by taking care of one's lifestyle which will go a long way in HIV prevention and requested that we educate one another to work towards an HIV/AIDS free society.

A special number was also presented by members of Red Ribbon Club of Zisaji Presidency College.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 331

By Witoubou Newmai

Manipur burning under utter neglect

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he multi ethnic fissure of Manipur, once again, is portentously ripe for eruption - a classic illustration of the Central Government’s partisan and cockeyed approach in dealing with the volatile situation in the state. For a month now, the three communities in Manipur— the Nagas, the Kukis and the Meiteis— have been juxtaposed in a situation where a slight spark could spiral into a catastrophic scenario.

Regrettably, the Central Government, whose pertinent attention and intervention is imperative to defuse the situation, is still absent. When will the Central Government allow itself to make an effort to separate what is hypocrisy and what is not? Except to cut ribbons, not a single Union minister has shown urgency to visit Manipur so far to take stock of the situation.

It is not an exaggeration to say that not a single day went by without a union minister’s presence down south at the height of the recent Cauvery water impasse. This nonchalant attitude also brings to the fore the sense of alienation and disenchantment among different sections of the people of in the region.

The Central Government is not only skewing from its obligation but also fueling the alienation.

The United Naga Council (UNC) has imposed the indefinite blockade on all goods trucks plying along Imphal-Dimapur route and Imphal-Silchar route connecting Manipur shortly after the Manipur government drew up a plan to declare Sadar Hills and Jiribam as full-fledged revenue districts.

The stir has led to increase in prices of all essential commodities. Fitful transportation of consumer items under heavy security arrangements through Imphal-Jiribam highway has not been able to help solve the acute shortage of goods, including petroleum products, in a land-locked Manipur. The people have been caught up in between the issue and made to bear the brunt of the stalemate. It also resulted in counter blockade in the valley on the flow of goods to the hill districts, smothering all avenues to envision a way out of the unfolding affairs.

Even at this level of danger, however, the Central Government is still displaying its insipid attitude.

It has been New Delhi’s way to give undue emphasis to any insurgency related incident but neglect the wail of the distraught people. For seasoned observer as well an inhabitant of the region, the depressing precedence to hype over all the wrong reasons, is a perpetual norm. The despair and forlorn engulfing any of the places of the Northeast region never merits the Centre’s registration until the situation advanced into dire straits.

Things have turned from bad to worse in Manipur. After the arrest of the UNC leaders, there is a marked intensification of economic blockade in the hills and counter blockade in the valley, threatening the trend to assume a dangerous communal tone. The Government of Manipur under the leadership of O Ibobi Singh seems to have exhausted its resources to tackle the situation.

But the continued Central Government’s utter indifference to the grim scenario of Manipur is a major concern. The UNC has been saying that it cannot directly hold dialogue with the Manipur Government citing ‘severance of ties’ with the latter. The Central Government, knowing the position of the Manipur Government and the UNC, should invest meaningful and urgent intervention into the impasse.

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Stop pressuring kids over grades

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f you want your kids to become successful later in life, better avoid pressuring them over grades, suggests new research.

Parents should not obsess over grades and extracurricular activities for young schoolchildren, especially if such ambitions come at the expense of social skills and kindness, as doing so can work against helping kids become well adjusted and successful in life, the study said.

"When parents emphasise children's achievement much more than their compassion and decency during the formative years, they are sowing the seeds of stress and poorer wellbeing, seen as early as sixth grade," said study co-author Suniya Luthar, Professor at Arizona State University in the US. "In order to foster well-being and academic success during the critical years surrounding early adolescence, our findings suggest that parents should accentuate kindness and respect for others at least as much as (or more than) stellar academic performance and extracurricular accolades," Luthar noted.

The study focused on perceptions of parents' values among 506 sixth grade students from an affluent community.

Kids were asked to rank the top three of six things their parents valued for them.

Three values were about personal successes such as good grades and a successful later career, and the other three were about kindness and decency towards others.

The researchers examined underlying patterns on scores based on children's perceptions of their parents' achievement emphasis (relative to children's kindness to others).

These patterns on perceived achievement emphasis were compared against the children's school performance and actions as measured by grade point average and in-class behaviour.

Results showed that mothers and fathers perceived emphasis on achievement versus interpersonal kindness played a key role in the child's personal adjustment and academic performance, as did perceptions of parents' criticism.

The best outcomes were among children who perceived their mothers and fathers as each valuing kindness toward others as much as, or more than, achievements, Luthar said.

Much poorer outcomes were seen among children who perceived either mothers or fathers valuing their achievements more highly than they valued being kind to others.

The findings, published online in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, demonstrate the value of being socially oriented, Luthar said.

"It is beneficial for kids to be strongly connected with their social networks, whereas focusing too much on external validations (such as grades, extra-curricular honours) for their sense of self-worth can lead to greater insecurity, anxiety and overall distress," she added.

C O M M E N T A R Y

David Kaye Reuters

The high price of Turkey’s ‘witch-burning’ crackdown others), authorities are detaining 13 writers, staff and board members of Cumhuriyet, one of the most important critical media institutions since modern Turkey’s founding.

At Silivri I met five Cumhuriyet writers and executives: Hakan Karasınır, Bülent Utku, Güray Tekin Öz, Mustafa Kemal Güngör and Onder Celik. The government denied me visits with several others, including the famous writers and academics, Ahmet and Mehmet Altan, cartoonist Musa Kart and columnist Kadri Gursel.

As with Alpay and Erdogan, the Cumhuriyet staff have no access to the evidence against them. But those I met have been told that their articles or advertisements constiDemonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the arrest of tuted propaganda or fundraising for three prominent activists for press freedom, in central Istanbul,Turkey Fethullah Gülen, the ally-turnedon June 21, 2016. (REUTERS File Photo) enemy of President Erdogan whose movement is widely believed in Turecmye Alpay greeted me warmly. Dressed key to be responsible for the coup attempt. casually in a workout-style jacket and These are just a few of an estimated 155 writers, edsneakers, her spirit of optimism stood in itors and media executives in prison in Turkey today, stark contrast to the spareness of the set- most awaiting trials for apparently doing nothing more ting: the Bakirkoy Women’s Prison in Istanbul. than practicing their profession. Authorities have arAlpay has been held in Bakirkoy since the begin- rested reporters in the field as well, as they did over the ning of September. I met with her when I was in Tur- weekend by detaining (and releasing a day later) BBC key this month on an official mission as the United reporter Hatice Kamer in the Kurdish southeast.

Nations’ monitor for freedom of opinion and expresUnder the same kinds of terrorism charges, the sion worldwide. The government invited me to visit government has launched a widespread attack on back in February, before the July 15 coup attempt, critical voices. It has closed at least 12 television and before the state of emergency declared by President 11 radio stations. Kurdish media has been decimatRecep Tayyip Erdogan that same month, but well af- ed. Web pages are regularly blocked, communicater a crackdown on government criticism had begun. tions networks taken down, social media platforms Alpay is a prominent translator, linguist and writ- censored. Political opposition leaders have been er based in Istanbul. She was detained along with her harassed or arrested. Erdogan himself has initiated friend, Asli Erdogan, one of Turkey’s most accom- some 1,900 defamation lawsuits, often solely on the plished novelists and essayists. The government re- basis of ironic, mocking, or even obnoxious social fused my request to meet with Erdogan (no relation media posts. to the president), but allowed me to spend an hour I met with dozens of others caught in the vortex of with Alpay on Nov. 17. the government’s repression. Several academics told Both women were detained in late August, ap- me how they, like thousands of others, were removed parently because of their association with Özgür from their positions, accused of being Gülenists or Gündem, a pro-Kurdish newspaper shuttered by the pro-Kurd operatives without any opportunity for government that month. Ankara claims their work – challenge. Representatives of several of the hundreds guest editing, writing and membership in a symbolic of non-governmental organizations and cultural advisory board – amounted to membership of or pro- centers shut down by the government told me they’d paganda for the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which been given no reasons for their suspension. the United States, the European Union and Turkey Meanwhile, approximately two percent of Turhave designated a terrorist group. The women reject key's civil service – at least 110,000 employees – have the idea that their writing, suffused with an intense been removed from their jobs on the basis of mere aspro-peace talks orientation, could constitute terrorsertions of Gülenist connections. Thousands of prosism or incitement to violence. ecutors and judges, including two members of the In a letter she asked her lawyer to send to me, Erdogan calls her detention a “witch burning,” without Constitutional Court, have been removed on similar basis in law or reason. Alpay, in a letter she gave me grounds. And lawyers who defend any of these peowhen we we met, calls it “irrational, illogical and un- ple are themselves often investigated and detained.

My UN role gave me the opportunity to meet not real.” Prosecutors are threatening the two women only those crushed by the crackdown, but also those with life in prison.

Across Istanbul at the Silivri Prison, a massive de- dozens of officials responsible for implementing it. In tention complex for over 13,000 prisoners, the story meetings with senior officials and parliamentarians, repeats itself. There, among dozens of writers and I heard a common refrain: Turkey faces real threats. thousands of public servants (judges, prosecutors, Still reeling from July’s failed coup and major Islamic government workers, military servicemembers, and State and PKK attacks on civilians, one official after

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the other claimed that it is essential to take extreme measures.

I also met judges who expressed a deep commitment to the rule of law. I met bureaucrats who seemed genuinely committed to protecting their institutions. I came away feeling that much of the government merely implements the decisions made in the offices of the presidency and prime minister, whose officials I sought unsuccessfully to meet.

Since July 15, Erdogan has enacted nearly a dozen decrees under the state of emergency. His government has told the UN and the Council of Europe that it would not meet its fundamental human rights obligations while seeking to protect its citizens and democratic institutions. The Constitutional Court seems hamstrung in its ability to consider claims that Ankara has overreached.

I asked officials to justify their steps, for instance, to shut down media and arrest vast numbers of journalists on the basis of the emergency laws and counter-terrorism statutes. One official captured what I found to be a consensus: “We are concerned merely with media that no longer functions as media but as propaganda for terrorists.”

I get that many in the government feel traumatized by the coup, particularly those in Ankara who watched F-16s bombing Parliament. The government has every right to confront security threats. But I cannot avoid the conclusion that the government’s response goes well beyond what is necessary or proportionate.

Until recently, Turkey's allies in Europe and NATO, cowed by Turkey’s strategic position on the borders of Iraq and Syria and its leverage over Europe’s refugee crisis, have said little about this downward spiral of repression. Last week the European Parliament took the important but symbolic step to urge suspension of the discussions over admitting Turkey to the EU. Not surprisingly, Erdogan’s response was to threaten to call off last year’s refugee deal with Europe, saying, “If you go any further, these border gates will be opened.”

Turkey’s friends in the West need to do more to convince Erdogan to recommit to the rule of law. At a minimum, they need to make clear that, while they will support Ankara’s efforts to confront the threat of terrorism, the country risks its place in the Council of Europe and other institutions of global governance and human rights when it persists in such draconian actions.

Erdogan also needs to initiate a change in direction by releasing all caught up in the frenzy of collective punishment, dialing back on Turkey’s emergency laws and revising Turkey's overbroad terrorism laws.

In her letter to me, Asli Erdogan suggested, “As far as I know, I am the first writer in 21st century to be tried with ‘life sentence’ and I will not tell you how I feel.” She concluded, “We, all the victims of this MidEastern version of dictatorship, desparately need the help of international organizations that protect basic human rights and values as ‘freedom of thought and speech.’”

Not long ago Turkey was on a path of commitment to protect those very rights and values. It’s not too late to return.

David Kaye, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, is the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. The views expressed in this article are not those of Reuters News.

Labour Market and Migration in the eastern Himalayas and Northeast india Dr. Rajdeep Singha (Assistant Professor: labour studies Program) Tata institute of social sciences, Guwahati Campus

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s far as India is concerned, the region of eastern Himalayas and Northeast India remain under-developed in terms of infrastructure, industrial development and employment opportunities in the backdrop of the long drawn armed conflict situation. Under the political instability and continuing militarization of the region, industries in this region can be broadly classified into two types: agro-based industries (tea industry, sugar industry, grain mill products industry of rice, oil and flour mills, food processing industry and the textile industry) and forestbased industries (plywood industry, saw-mill industry, paper and paper pulp industry). In recent years, the “Look East Policy” of the Government of India has made North East more important and strategic in context of industry.

The process of labour market development in the region is leading to shiftof labour force from rural to urban on the one hand and from farm activity to non-farm activity in the rural areas on the other hand. This is evident of structural changes that are taking place in the labour market in the region.With low industrial growth and shrinking agricultural land and opportunities, informal sector is the only recourse for the workforce to derive

Roundtable series on Migration on December 3 Photo Exhibition on December 3-4 Time – 10:00AM Venue – Hotel Acacia, Dimapur

Youth migrants from the plantations of Assam to the coal mines in Mon District. A subsistence Jhum farmer during harvest in Wokha District. (Photos by Dolly Kikon)

livelihood. Despite having a number of industries in the region, the issues of labour in the industries remain unaddressed (except labour in tea industry and agricultural sector including the status of the subsistence agriculture in the hill states). And, so have been the case with growing informality in

the labour markets too. In this context, the labour markets in the region of eastern Himalayas and Northeast India have increasingly become dependent on migration of youth within the region (to the coal mines, plantations, and cash crop farms) and also from the region to other parts of

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the country (as manual workers or semi skilled professional), given how large number of tribal population are unable to sustain their households solely through agriculture.

What does the national data have to say in this context? According to 2011 census, 68.84% of India’s population lives in rural areas, out of which 31 per cent population was in 0-14 age group, 28 per cent in 15-29 age group, and 33 per cent in the 30-59 age group.

Large portions of rural population are primarily engage in agriculture. As per the census, out of 467 million persons comprising the total work force, 228.3 million (49 per cent) of the work force are involved in the agriculture sector. On the one hand, low return from agriculture and on the other hand, the limitations of infrastructure in rural areas have caused youths to migrate in search of jobs and opportunities. Thus, rural youth find it difficult to earn their livelihood in the rural area that meets their aspirations and dreams to succeed in life. Migration to urban areas, in this context, appears attractive. This is the trend among youth from who are migrating from Northeast India to others parts of the country. They are also increasingly exposed to urban values through the education systems and by social media. Urban centers are slowly becoming employment hubs for the youth. In addition, youth migration is also driven by socioeconomic conditions such as low wages, high rates of unemployment, and underemployment in rural areas and poverty.

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Drought: A mAtter of concern D Z. James Kikon

counteract the water loss by evapotranspiration, a borderline water deficiency in soil occurs, resulting in rought is a condition less than optimum crop yields. This under which crops fail usually occurs in humid zone. to grow and mature because of moisture defi- Effect of drought in crop production: ciency. It is the result of imbalance Drought does not affect all asbetween soil moisture and evapo- pects of plant growth and developtranspiration need of crops result- ment equally. Some processes are ing in damage of standing crops and highly susceptible while others are yield loss. Occurrence of drought far less affected. Final yield of the is mainly due to late onset of mon- crop is the integrated result of these soon, prolonged dry spells during effects of stress on water relations, the crop period, inadequate rainfall photosynthesis respiration, nutriand erratic distribution of rainfall, tion, growth and development. early cessation of monsoon and imWater relations: Drought proper soil and crop management causes several changes in the plants. practices.

It alters the water status of plants In India, as per Irrigation Com- through its influence on the physimission of Government of India as ological processes viz, absorption, well as India Meteorological De- translocation and transpiration. Inpartment, drought years have been crease in transpiration due to atmodefined as those years for which an- spheric dryness results in the loss nual rainfall is less than or equal to of turgor, which leads to poor crop 75% of the normal. Based on long growth and development. period data, if such drought occurs Photosynthesis: Moisture stress in certain areas on more than 20% reduces the rate of photosynthesis, of year, that are is designated as a chlorophyll content and leaf area. drought prone area, provided that Increase in assimilate saturation in area does not have provisions of ad- leaves results due to lack of transloequate irrigation facilities. cation.

Drought in general can be clasRespiration: Respiration insified into permanent, seasonal, creases during mild drought howevcontingent and invisible droughts. er; severe drought lowers the water Permanent drought that is charac- content and respiration. teristic of the driest climate where Anatomical changes: Periodical sparse vegetation growing is adapt- drought leads to anatomical changed to drought and agriculture is es which affect growth and developpossible only by irrigation during ment of crops through its influence the entire crop seasons. Seasonal on decrease in size of the cells and drought is found in climate regions intercellular spaces, thicker cell wall that have well defined rainy and dry due to greater development of meseasons. Natural vegetation is made chanical tissue which increases in up of plants that produce seeds dur- the number of stomata per unit leaf. ing the rainy season and die, and Metabolic reactions: Deficit in of those plants that remain alive water affects almost all metabolic rethroughout the year but became actions. Severe water deficits cause dormant in dry season. Contingent decrease in enzymatic activities. drought is dependent on the irreguHormonal relationships: Activlarity of rainfall and so is not regu- ity of growth promoting hormones lar to occur in any definite season. like cytokinin, gibberlic acid (GA) Invisible drought is that drought and indole acetic acid (IAA) dethat can occur even when there is creases under drought conditions frequent rainfall in an area. When whereas, growth retarding horrains do not supply enough water to mones like abscissic acid (ABA) SMS (Soil Sc.). KVK Dimapur

ethylene etc increases. This alteration of hormones in plants affects growth and development.

Nutrition: Drought affects the fixation, uptake and assimilation of nitrogen. Moisture stress may or may not reduce nutrient content but it reduces dry matter production considerably. As a result the uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) are also reduced.

Growth and Development: Moisture stress decreases the growth of leaves, stems and fruits. It also affects germination, leaf area.

Leaf expansion and root development however, maturity is delayed if drought occurs before flowering while it advances if drought occurs after flowering.

Reproduction and Grain growth: Drought at flowering and grain development determines the number of fruits and individual grain weight respectively. However, vegetative and grain filling stages are less sensitive to moisture stress.

Yield: Yield depends on the influence of drought on growth, flowering, and fruit set etc. moisture stress at critical stages of crop reduces the yield drastically.

attention in the management of drought, the latest being of NREGA. However to tackle drought, a two- pronged strategy is needed, a short term as well as a long term. The issues needing attention are seed for ensuing season after drought, and food, fodder, nutritional and drinking as well as irrigation water security along with compensatory programme to ensure improved access to food grains, generation of employment and crop insurance. Diversification and tree- based farming also needs our attention. Some details are discussed here.

SEED Short term: Work for the next year’s requirements, particularly of bold seeds (e.g. groundnut, soybean) under protective irrigation on the priority basis.

Long term: Develop seed banks to cover at least 30% in low- rainfall zones, 15% in medium- rainfall zones and 10% in high- rainfall zones. If the season is normal, these seeds may be sold as grains and the difference in costs is underwritten in budget. Encourage in-village seed production to make seed availability timely and so on assured quality baDrought management, and food sis. It would also be cheaper. and nutritional security Drought occurrence is common FooD GRAiNS Short term: Generate employin the rainfed areas where only Watershed Development Projects are ment and create money in hands of taken up. Presently a special dispen- the poor. Food for work (FFW) had sation is not made to mitigate effects been one of the venues. Now NREof drought. Earlier a drought used GA is put in place to ensure money to lead to famine, causing deaths. in the hands of the needy poor.

Long term: Capitalize on good Today we have moved to a situation where we are able to manage rainfall years. Develop local grain storage at the habitat level. Aim drought.

In nineteenth century Col. Baird at high productivity with a proper Smith described Indian famines as blend of soil and crop husbandry. famine of work and not of food. He pointed out that when there was FoDDER Short term: Transport of fodder no work, there was no money, and consequently adequate food was from available areas should be the not available. This situation is as first task. This should be followed by relevant even today as it was 150 green-fodder production under proyears ago. Presently food for work tective irrigation. Increase use effiand other employment- generation ciency of fodder through chaff cutter.

Long term: Improve silviProgramme have received greater

Management of winter vegetables Dr. (Mrs.) Anamika Sharma ICAR Research Complex Jharnapani, Nagaland

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inter vegetables are a large group of vegetables which includes Cole crops (cauliflower, cabbage, knolkhol, lettuce, Brussels’s sprout etc.), root crops (radish, carrot, turnip), Pod vegetable (French bean, pea, dolichos beans), Solanaceous vegetables (tomato, potato, capsicum), bulbous vegetables (onion, garlic) and leafy vegetables (spinach, fenugreek) can be successfully cultivated from Oct to March in valley or plains of Nagaland.

Management of winter vegetables in general – Cole crops, Solanaeous crops, and Onion are sown in nursery bed, when nursery is 25-30 days old they are planted in main field. Healthy nursery is very important to raise good crop. Time of sowing depends upon cultivar and temperature requirement. Nursery requires special care because temperature is not very congenial at this time.

Nursery should be thoroughly prepared by adding well-rotten FYM or compost @ of 10 kg/m 2.They should treated with 0.3 % solution of captan or thiram ( 5 liters / m 2 ). Seeds can be sown immediately after treatment. Before sowing, seeds should be treated with captan or thiram ( 3 gm/ kg ) or bavistin ( 2gm/ kg) to get rid of fungal diseases. However to control seed borne diseases hot water treatment at 500C for 30 minutes is the only remedy. About 500-700 gm of seed is sufficient to raise crop for a hectare .Seeds are sown in furrows 7-8 cm apart. Seeds are sown from September to October depending on varieties and climatic conditions. After sowing, cover the seeds with a mixture of fine soil and sieved FYM and cover the bed with dry grass or paddy straw. Grass should be removed as soon as seedling starts emerging. Drenching of nursery with captan or thiram (0.2 %) prevents post emergence of damping off. When seedlings are about one month old (3-4 leaf stage), they are transplanted in main field.

Spacing will depend on crop and cultivar.

Other crops like French beans, pea, spinach, garlic etc. can be sown in field after land preparation and application of basal dose of manures and fertilizers.

Spacing will depend on the crop and cultivars. Radish and carrot are sown in double rows at 10cm spacing, on the ridges of 40cm apart. Potato tubers are sown in

ridges of 60cm spacing. intercultural operation – when ever soil is dry or no moisture in the soil, irrigation should be given. Removal of weeds are must, otherwise there would be competition for nutrients with plants.

Mulching with paddy straw or other grasses would help in conserving soil moisture. Plant protection measures should also be followed to control insects and diseases.

1.Management of tomato– tomato is a commercial crop so proper care has to be taken after transplanting of tomato, frequent watering has to be done till establishment of plants. training and pruning- training helps is better utilization of light and air. Fruit are trained under leaves to protect them from sun scald. For outdoor crop where there is limited area, stakes are used for training. Training, pruning, or pinching are required to produce quality fruits. In indeterminate tomatoes, training increases number of fruits and maintains uniform size of fruits, increasing total yield and quality of fruits. Training is done with the support of wire, string & stakes in glass house or green house. In field crop training is done with support of bamboo sticks wire and rope. If there is excessive growth, pinching or pruning of side shoots improves size and uniformity of fruits. Pinching of main shoot at the top improves the size of terminal fruits. This is done in indeterminate varieties when plants attain maximum height. To reduce the incidence of diseases, mature old leaves are removed.

Both macro and micronutrients are required judiciously for economic yields of tomato. Application of N, P, K and B is essential.

However their quantity depends upon the availability of these nutrients in the soil. NPK 120:60:50 kg /ha should be used. However, for hybrids, higher quantity of N is applied. A high level of N at seedling stage and moderate level at flowering and fruiting stage is required. Foliar application of urea (0.4-0.6%) is very effective. A starter solution of 20 kg of 12:14:12 N,P and K in 10 litres of water should be applied with irrigation water with irrigation at transplanting.

For raising a good crop, application of green manure, farm yard manure, neem cake and biofertilizer is beneficial. Boron & zinc is very important micronutrients required for tomato cultivation.

Boron is applied in the form of borax @ 20-25 kg/ha as soil application. Spraying of 0.22-0.4% borex

at fruit formation stage helps fruit development.

Weeding, hoeing, earthingup and mulching very important. About 2-3 hoeings are essential at the initial stage of plant growth. Soil should be kept loose for better growth of plants. Two earthing-up are sufficient for optimum growth. Manual weeding is generally followed. Weeds can be controlled with the application of mulches. Straw, saw dust and black polythene are used for controlling weeds. They may conserve moisture and reduce incidence of insect pests and diseases.

Frequent irrigation is essential for optimum plant growth, fruiting and yield. Crop should irrigated at 8-12 days interval. However, in summer, more frequent irrigation is required due to higher surface evaporation. Generally open furrow method of irrigation is followed. tomato is attacked by a no of diseases and insects. Most common areLeaf curl - this disease is transmitted by white fly. Severe stunting of plants with downward rolling and crinkling of leaves are symptoms. Newly emerging leaves show light yellow or golden colour older leaves becomes brittle and thick. Apply carbofuran @ 1.5 kg /ha at the time of transplanting. Foliar application of dimethoate 3-4 times at 10 days interval. tomato wilt- wilting of plants without yellowing and collapse of entire plant. Vascular system shows browning. If segment of stem is cut and squeezed, bacterial ooze, is visible. It causes a sudden wilt and ultimately plants are died resulting a total loss. Use disease free seedling and healthy plant . follow 3 year crop rotation in infected fields by including cereals and crucifers. Application of antibiotics with Blitox -50 may help in reducing the infection.

2. Management of leafy vegetables Manuring and Fertilization As palak is a leafy vegetable, It requires more of nitrogen for crown (leaves) growth. A basal dressing of 35-40 tones of farmyard manure should be added to the soil at the time of field preparation and a top dressing of 20 kg nitrogen per hectare ( 45 kg urea /ha) after every cutting for quick growth of tender succulent leaves. irrigation- Irrigation of crop depends on soil condition and season. For proper seed germination, if sufficient soil moisture in not available, a light irrigation is done after sowing. Frequency

of irrigation more in light than in heavy soils. Spring summer crop needs frequent irrigation at 6-7 days intervals, whereas autumn winter crop requires irrigation at about 10-15 days intervals. However rainy season crop does not require much irrigation interculture –To keep away the weeds from the field and to loosen the soil for proper aeration, 2-3 hoeings cum weedings are required. Some herbicides like Pyrazone @ 2.4 -2.8 kg/ ha can also be used to control weeds in the crop as pre-emergence application 3. Management of cabbage and cauliflower 1) Raising of nursery – Cauliflower and cabbage are propagated through seed. Healthy nursery is very important to raise good crop. Time of sowing depends upon cultivar and temperature requirement. Nursery of early varieties require special care because temperature is not very congenial at this time. Nursery should be thoroughly prepared by adding well-rotten FYM or compost @ of 10 kg/m 2.They should treated with 0.3 % solution of captan or thiram ( 5 liters / m 2 ). Seeds can be sown immediately after treatment. Before sowing, seeds should be treated with captan or thiram ( 3 gm/ kg ) or bavistin ( 2gm/ kg) to get rid of fungal diseases . However to control seed borne diseases hot water treatment at 500C for 30 minutes is the only remedy. About 500-700 gm of seed is sufficient to raise crop for a hectare. Seeds are sown in furrows 7-8 cm apart.

Seeds are sown from June to October depending on varieties and climatic conditions. After sowing cover the seeds with a mixture of fine soil and sieved FYM and cover the bed with dry grass or paddy straw. Grass should be removed as soon as seedling starts emerging. Drenching of nursery with captan or thiram (0.2%) prevents post emergence of damping off.

2) transplanting : Seedlings are ready 3-6 weeks after sowing.

In early maturity, 5-6 weeks old seedlings and in mid season and late type 3-4 weeks old seedling should be transplanted. Transplanting distance varies according to variety and time of planting.

Transplanting of early maturing varieties is recommended on ridges at spacing of 60cm x 30cm.

For mid and late season 60cm x 45cm is ideal.

Har vesting –Vegetables should be harvested in tender stage otherwise they become fibrous and are not fit for consumption.

pasture system. Allow grazing on charge. Develop fodder banks. Process alternative feeds and fodders.

Develop silage system for daily cattle.

adequacies in quite a few instances.

Avoid contractorship and machinery.

Long term: Evolve shelf of projects to create permanent assets.

Also as per NREGA schedule 1, the NutRitioN poor may be helped to generate asShort term: Care for children sets for livelihood support on a susand pregnant and lactating wom- tainable basis. en. Provide mineral mixture to livestock.

CRoP iNSuRANCE Long term: Develop homestead Short term: The proposal is to farming to include leafy vegetables, compensate on rainfall distribuother vegetables, fruits, small poul- tion with reference to its distributry unit (Giriraja, Vanaraja) and tion and phenology of crops. This small dairy unit (improved breeds). pilot project needs further coverage.

Compensate tillers and not owners DRiNkiNG WAtER (if they are not the tiller). The NAIS, Short term: Reserve wells or now under implementation, needs bore- wells for drinking water. Con- fine tuning with reference to coversider the needs of livestock. age of different crops, yield indices, Long term: Evolve exclusive wa- timely payment of compensation; ter-bodies for the purpose. the livestock insurance needs further expansion. iRRiGAtioN Long term: Let insurance comShort term: Research and De- panies take over crop insurance velopment should encourage adop- scheme. Evolve achievable yield isotion of methods to enhance water- line to pay compensation. use efficiency, e.g. proper lining of channels, use of micro-sprinklers DivERSiFiCAtioN and drip systems. Provide irrigation Short term: Diversify producto match critical phonological stag- tion systems. es in crop growth.

Long term: Encourage prodLong term: Develop use of water uct processing and value addition. from various water-bodies by mutu- Maintain biodiversity (Locals are al agreement. The cropping patterns more tolerant to drought). should match available water in any given season, wherever feasible, re- tREE-bASED FARMiNG SYStEM cycling of waste-water must be enShort term: Develop tree farmcouraged. ing in homesteads to cover lean periods for earning money in crisis peCoMPENSAtoRY PRoGRAMME riods.

Short term: Stress on rabi proLong term: Ensure biomass protection systems. Also work in favor- duction through Multi Purpose Tree able areas (receiving normally more species in crop production systems. rainfall and which are better en- The tree should not only yield foddowed). der, fuel, manure and fruits, but also Long term: Work on good- be useful as botanicals in managing weather code. Develop local (in-vil- pests. lage) storage of food grains.

Thus the four-bank concept of Swaminathan must be encouraged GENERAtE EMPLoYMENt for community food, fodder and Short term: NREGA, which is water security to humans and livenow under implementation in the stock. Then fodder, seed, water and entire district, need to be stream- grain banks should be included in lined as social audit has shown in- the system.

orgAnIc fooD: IS It reALLY SAfe? Dr. Vandana Verma & Mr. Tokivi Zhimomi

5. HYDRoGEN PERoxiDE It is used to kill micro organisms present in soil or externally on plant ow a day’s market flooded parts. Seeds treated with it are hazardwith variety of organic food. ous to birds and other wild lives when It is commonly believe that they consume plant parts. organic farming do not use pesticide and harmful chemicals as fertilizers 6. LiME SuLPHuR and plant growth promoters, and orIt is prepared by boiling lime and ganic fruits and vegetables are safer to sulphur together. It is sprayed on fruit consume than conventionally grown trees to control disease such as blight, crops. Organic food is promoted as su- powdery mildew and insects like thrips perior and safer for today’s health con- and mites. Harmful for earthworms as scious people. It is claimed that they well as human beings. are pesticide free and have more micronutrients. Consumer pays more for 7. RotENoNE these products.

Consuming organic food residue of It is true that organic pesticide rotenone enhance onset of Parkinson’s comes from a natural sources but it disease. A small amount of this chemidoes not mean that they as such can be cal can kill fishes in a whole pond . used in organic farming or not harmful for us as well as our ecosystem. In or- 8. MEtHYL bRoMiDE ganic farming some pesticide and plant It is used as fungicide to combat spigrowth supplements which are rec- ders, mites, fungi, nematodes, rodents ommended safe but actually they are and insects but it effects our brain, kidfound more toxic than any other pesti- ney, nose, heart, adrenal gland, liver cide or fertilizer we use in conventional and lungs if consumed. It enhances methods of farming. global warming also by destructing the Some harmful and toxic chemical ozone layer. declared as safe for organic farming;9. AzADiRACHtiN 1. boRoN It is commonly known as Neem oil.

It is used as pesticide but prolonged It is natural but harmful for our ecosysingestion may affect the brain, liver and tem. Causes brain disease like Encephheart. It is absorbed by our skin cavities alopathy in children while handling with it and causes anThe difference between synthetorexia, weight loss, vomiting, skin rash- ic pesticide and organic farming apes and mild diarrhea. proved pesticide is that with the synthetic product you may get mountains 2. ACEtiC ACiD of safety data and regular pesticide resiAt more diluted level it is known as due monitoring while with organic apvinegar (consumable), but in organic proved pesticides you pay more money farming it is used in about 90% which to get natural product an well fabricatcauses skin burns and eye damage. ed lies that they are safer for human Sometime used as mixture (acetic acid consumption and environment too. So + salt soap) as herbicide as an alterna- if we are paying much more for these tive to Glyphosate (conventional pesti- products it should be really organic and cide) but it is more toxic than glypho- safe for us. Only those natural prodsate. ucts should be used for organic farming which are safe for us as well as our 3. CoPPER SuLPHAtE environment.

It is used as fungicide to replace Organic pesticides are that they Mancozeb. It is nasty stuff for human must come from natural sources. Acand highly toxic to fishes. At recom- tually organic farming is a method mended rates corrosive to skin and of farming which primarily aimed at eyes, causes reproductive problems in cultivating the land and raising crops birds, rodents and chickens. It affects in such a way as to keep the soil alive earthworms also (which are important and good for health by use of organic part to prepare vermicompost). Cop- waste (crop, animal, farm and aquatic per sulphate is very persistent, once soil waste) and other biological material is contaminated with copper sulphate along with beneficial microbes (biofertilizers) to release nutrient to crop there is no practical way to remove it. for increase sustainable production in an eco-friendly pollution free environ4. PYREtHRiN It is extracted from flowers but still ment. In organic farming harmful intoxic to bees and causes leukemia while puts should be avoided or excluded tohandling by a person or consume its trac- tally to protect long term fertility of soil providing crop nutrient. es indirectly with vegetables and fruit.

Research Fellow. ICAR Nagaland Centre

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Anger spills as cashless pain surges on payday New Delhi, December 1 (iANS): Already starved of cash due to demonetisation, people across India suffered more pain amid stray violence on Thursday as queues outside banks and ATMs got longer after November salaries and pensions were credited.

As the government struggled to keep pace with the demand for cash after 86 per cent of currency -500 and 1,000 rupee notes -- in circulation was declared illegal on November 8, people appeared to be losing patience in a country where nearly 80 per cent of consumer payments are done in cash.

In Uttar Pradesh, police said violence erupted at many places as mobs targeted banks and staffers after being told there was either little or no cash available to be withdrawn.

Hundreds of irate customers went on a rampage at a Syndicate Bank branch on Hapur Road in Meerut after it ran dry. Dozens of vehicles were damaged, traffic was disrupted and an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was burnt, witnesses said. Violence was also reported in at least two dozens places in the state.

Chaotic queues tested people's patience as millions in India waited in long lines for money to meet their monthly needs and pay their domestic help,

New notes worth Rs 4.7 cr seized in I-T raids New Delhi, December 1 (PTi): In the biggest seizure of cash in new currency post demonetisation, the Income Tax department today confiscated Rs 4.7 crore during searches in a dozen premises in Bengaluru and other locations. Officials said the searches were launched on the premises of two engineers, working with the state government, and some "connected persons". A team of over 50 I-T sleuths and police personnel launched operations early morning and searched premises in Bengaluru, Chennai and Erode (Tamil Nadu).

"During the course of searches Rs 4.7 crore cash in new denominations of Rs 2000 and 0.3 crore in old/smaller denominations totaling Rs 5 crore and 7 kg bullion worth approximately Rs 2 crore were found in a flat owned by a civil contractor.

"The new notes and bullion are learnt to have been obtained by exchange of demon-

People queue up outside a bank to withdraw cash in Gurugram on Wednesday. (PTI Photo)

school fees and clear their monthly grocery and other bills. People were agitated as several banks rationed withdrawals -- despite the government's upper limit of Rs 24,000 a week.

Some bank officials said they were getting cash from the Reserve Bank of India much below their needs. A banker in Delhi told IANS that on a "payday we got only one-fifth of the normal".

"Since the demand is already higher than normal (due to three weeks of cashlessness) and the supply is already low (because mints haven't been able to print enough currency), we have to ration the cash," the banker said, requesting he

should not be named.

In Kolkata, the city of joy, an angry mob surrounded the manager of a state-run Punjab National Bank branch and a section of government staff protested at the RBI office after failing to get cash.

Bank Employees Federation of India's General Secretary Pradip Kumar Biswas said bankers were putting the cap on the withdrawal limit "to serve the maximum number of customers with the available cash".

On the roads in Delhi and adjoining areas, people, anticipating massive queues, waited outside ATMs and banks since ealry morning to be among the

first to get money. But many returned disappointed.

Shiv Kumar of Noida said he reached the ICICI Bank in Sector 18 hours before it opened. "Though the limit on withdrawals is Rs 24,000, banks are giving away only Rs 5,000," he said, after a nearly threehour wait.

Chandana Bardia said she visited an Oriental Bank of Commerce branch in north Delhi five times in the last one week but was always denied cash.

"On my sixth time today (Thursday), I told them I am not returning. I had two cheques of Rs 24,000. One in my name and the other in my mother-in-law's. I was told I could only get

cash on my behalf and that too just Rs 6,000. I accepted," she said.

In Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, as people in various places queued up to get money, they were greeted to the signs of 'No Cash' outside banks and ATMs. The scenes and situations were the same almost everywhere in the country -- harassed and irritated people, helpless bank staff and no guarantee of when customers will get their hands on their own money.

In Kerala, some 42 state treasuries were running dry. State Finance Minister Thomas Issac said: "Banks do not have money to disburse."

etised notes by payment of commission of an engineer and a contractor," the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy-making body of the tax department, said in a statement here.

The sleuths also seized some notes of Rs 100, demonetised notes of Rs 500 and a few gold biscuits during the operation, it said, adding the department had to call in note counting machines and additional staff to ascertain the value of the cash.

What has surprised the tax authorities is the sheer amount of new currency stashed by these individuals at a time when new notes are not available to the common public which is queueing up to withdraw even small amounts from their accounts. Taxman has also seized documents of property purchase from the premises, even as they found a battery of luxury cars parked in these locations.

RBI cautions against fake notifications on social media mumbAi, December 1 (iANS) In view of the numerous notifications being issued by the RBI post the November 8 demonetisation measure, India's central bank on Thursday cautioned people on fake instructions being published in its name by "unscrupulous elements" on social media.

"It has been reported that certain guidelines/instructions purported to be issued by the Reserve Bank are being circulated in the social media by some unscrupulous elements creating confusion in the minds

of the public/bank personnel," the Reserve Bank of India said in a notice posted on its website.

"In the wake of withdrawal of legal tender character from the Specified Bank Notes (SBNs), the RBI has, from time to time, been issuing instructions to the banks which are sent directly to banks through an official mail. These are also placed on the Reserve Bank's official website (https://www.rbi.org.in)," it said.

"Banks and members of the public are, therefore, cautioned to be guided by

only those instructions which are either uploaded on the Reserve Bank's official website or received through the Reserve Bank's official mail," it added. The RBI advised the banks and members of the public not to rely on other unsecured/ unofficial channels like social media in which the authenticity of the documents circulated is questionable and not verifiable. Last evening, a fake RBI circular had been circulated by unknown persons on social media saying money could no longer be deposited in current accounts.

Delhi HC quashes govt ban on 344 drugs after industry petitions Government wants AadhaarDelhi, December 1 higher court. The exact reasons after the ban was announced scientific experts had found the enabled payment to replace cards New medicines lacked therapeutic (reuTerS): Delhi High Court for the stay are not yet known, in March.

New Delhi, December 1 (PTi): The Unique Identification Authority of India has planned to increase biometric authentication capacity through Aadhaar to 40 crore a day from 10 crore to encourage more use of the platform for realising a cashless society.

The government is concurrently working on developing a common mobile phone app that can be used by shopkeepers and merchants for receiving Aadhaar-enabled payments bypassing credit and debit cards, pin and password.

Through this mobile application, the handset will be used for authenticating biometrics of customers making Aadhaar enabled payment. UIDAI will eventually increase its biometric authentication capacity to 40 crore, UIDAI Chief Executive Officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey told reporters here.

He further said, "We will create awareness about this mode of transactions. We will eventually create capacity for 40 crore authentications. On Thursday, 1.31 crore Aadhaarenabled biometric authentications were reported. We will in-

crease it gradually."

He explained that these biometric authentications include attendance marked by employees of government establishments. The initiative can help the government deal with situations like recent demonetisation and curb black money menace while bringing in more financial transaction transparency. The 12-digit number has already been issued to 1.08 crore people and 99% of adults have been covered.

People can link their Aadhaar with their bank accounts and use Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) for funds transfer, balance enquiry, cash deposits or withdrawals and inter-banking transactions.

The biometric authentication capacity of AEPS is 10 crore, which will be eventually raised to 40 crore, the CEO said. AEPS allows users to make payments to merchants or shopkeepers without credit or debit cards using their Aadhaar number and biometric authentication. They just need to quote Aadhaar and authenticate it through biometrics.

The money is directly transferred from the customer's bank

account to the merchant's. Subscribers of 118 public and private banks can use AEPS at present.

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said the government is working on incentivising cashless transactions and disincentivising cash transactions.

"We are asking mobile manufacturers to see if all mobiles made in India should be inbuilt with iris or thumb identification system to help Aadhaar-enabled transactions," Kant said.

Kant is part of the chief minister's committee that will lay out a road map for implementation of digital payments over the next one year. IT Secretary Aruna Sundarajan said the ministry has kept aside Rs 100 crore to incentivise enrolment of merchants on to the digital platform to help push the drive.

"IT department is providing an incentive of Rs 100 for every merchant enrolled through over two lakh common service centres across India. The ministry will undertake a major outreach communication campaign starting from Monday," she said.

stayed on Thursday a government ban on 344 drugs that it deemed lacked therapeutic efficacy, after over six months of hearing more than 300 petitions filed by drugmakers against it.

Sanjay Jain, a lawyer representing the central government, told Reuters the government was evaluating the decision and planned to appeal at a

as the order has not been made public yet, but is expected to be uploaded on the court website.

Thursday's decision provides interim relief to several local and multinational drugmakers operating in India's $15 billion drugs industry whose business had been hit by the ban. Many, however, had obtained stay orders days

The move covered fixeddose combination drugs, which are cocktails of medicines that are used worldwide to improve patients' compliance in complicated courses of treatment, especially for conditions such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

The government announced the ban in March saying extensive deliberations with

efficacy. Most companies filed petitions arguing the government did not exercise its powers appropriately.

The reversal of the ban means companies can continue to sell these drugs. The decision is another setback for India's efforts to weed out irrational fixed-dose combination drugs from the market.

Plot claimed behind delay in Mamata's flight landing; govt denies New Delhi/KolKATA, December 1 (iANS): Raising in Parliament the issue of alleged safety lapse in an aircraft ferrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday saw a conspiracy in it, but both government and airline authorities refuted the claim.

However, aviation regulator - the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered a probe into the matter.

The Trinamool raised the issue in both Houses of Parliament, alleging that Banerjee's flight from Patna was made to hover over Kolkata airport on Wednesday evening for about 30 minutes despite the pilot reporting that the plane was running low on fuel.

"The pilot sought landing, saying he was short of fuel. But the flight was put on

hold. It was made to hover for a considerable time.

"There was not only the Chief Minister, but also hundreds of passengers onboard," Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien said as soon as the Upper House met at 11 a.m.

"The question is: is there more to it than meets the eye? Is it a coincidence? ...if a state's Chief Minister is under so much pressure, what will happen to normal people," wondered O'Brien, as opposition members, irrespective of party affiliation, supported him.

When Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien asked the Trinamool member to not level any allegations, Leader of Opposition and Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad intervened to say that O'Brien is not making any allegations.

"He is not making any allegations. If this

can happen to one Chief Minister, it can happen to others as well," Azad said.

Other opposition members, including Samajwadi Party's Ram Gopal Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party's Mayawati, Janata Dal United's Sharad Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Prem Chand Gupta, Communist Party of India-Marxist's T.K. Rangarajan, Trichuri Shiva of AIADMK and Rajiv Shukla of the Congress demanded a thorough inquiry into the matter and tabling of the report in the House.

The government vehemently denied the claims in both Houses.

Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju asserted that the flight hovered only for about 13 minutes before landing at the Kolkata airport, as he informed the Lok Sabha that a probe by the DGCA has been ordered into the matter.

14,474 cases of HIV through blood transfusion; govt in denial Nikhil M. Babu IndiaSpend and IANS

Tall, lean and dark, Jaiprakash was an average 11-year-old who loved galli cricket and chips. Then, to his parents dismay, the peppy fourth-grader from Junagadh in western Gujarat started falling ill frequently. Finally, he had to drop out of school.

On a December morning five years ago, Jai started bleeding from his nose and mouth.

Doctors at the nearest government hospital referred him to another hospital in Rajkot, about 100 km away.

He died the next morning.

It turned out that Jai, who was a Thalassemic patient since he was just a year old, had contracted HIV through blood transfusion at the Junagadh Civil Hospital. And it wasn't just him; 35 other Thalassemic children being given transfusion at the same hospital had become HIV-infected. Of them, eight died.

"All our happiness died with our child. Who do we live for now?" said 50-year-old Rafeeq Ranava, Jai's father, a dailywage labourer in Junagadh.

An IndiaSpend investiga-

tion, through a series of Right to Information (RTI) requests, has revealed that 14,474 cases of HIV through blood transfusion have been reported in India over the last seven years. It also revealed that the Indian government has yet to order a study or inquiry into this medical crisis that puts millions of lives at risk.

Not just that, there has been a 10 per cent rise in the number of such cases over the last one year -- from 1,424 in 2014-15 to 1,559 in 2015-16 -- according to documents obtained from that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), the apex government body dealing with India's HIV/ AIDS control programme.

The 10 per cent increase in 2015-16 numbers is significant because it has reversed the near-consecutive decrease in cases in the five preceding years. NACO, however, has downplayed the rise in its report on blood banks: "Due to concerted and active efforts, the prevalence of TTIs (transfusion transmission infections) has come down significantly over the years."

NACO's data are based on self-reporting by people at its Integrated Counselling and Test-

ing Centres spread across the country. Referring to this, Sobhini Rajan, Additional Director General, Blood Safety, NACO, maintained that the data are "based on responses received from people and it is (sic) not scientifically corroborated". She also added that the "figures have come down -- from around 15 per cent in the 1990s to less than 1 per cent now".

Developed countries rarely report such cases now. Canada, for instance, hasn't seen a single case of blood transfusion-related HIV since 1985, and the US, since 2008.

While in India, one in every 100 HIV patients could be a victim of infected blood transfusion, the tally in the US is one in 300,000 cases, according to data shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a US national health agency.

This means that the chances of an HIV patient in India having contracted the virus through a blood transfusion are 3,000 times higher than in the US. The data shared by the CDC said it diagnosed 312,860 HIV cases in the US between 2008 and 2014. Only one of them,

in 2008, was the result of blood transfusion.

The Indian government, meanwhile, seems to be denying its own findings.

"No," was Minister of State Anupriya Patel's answer to the question as to whether the "government is aware that large number of persons across the country have been infected with HIV while getting blood transfusions", asked in the Lok Sabha in August 2016.

Patel also denied a rise in the number of cases of HIV through blood transfusion, contrary to NACO data.

Separate RTI responses from 22 states and Union territories confirmed that none of them have conducted any studies on HIV transmitted through blood transfusions.

The Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society completely denied having such cases within its purview: "In Karnataka, there are no reported cases of HIV being transmitted through blood transfusions. The blood banks in Karnataka are regularly inspected."

But an RTI response from the NACO has revealed that Karnataka has reported 976 cases of HIV through blood transfusion

in the last seven years, and 94 cases in 2015-16 alone.

Some states such as Chhattisgarh replied that "no study on HIV through blood transfusion has been conducted", while others such as Jharkhand stated that "no such information is available".

"It's important that the government conducts a study in this regard so that it can understand what is going wrong. People also need to become more conscious during blood transfusions," said Sanjeev Sharma, a counsellor at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Delhi, who has been working with HIV patients for the past 18 years.

On the other hand, developed countries such as the US take reported cases very seriously. "Although reported cases of transfusion-transmitted HIV infection are extremely rare, CDC investigates every reported case to gather as much information as possible to ensure the multi-layered system designed to prevent blood contamination is effective," said Rachel Wingard, a spokesperson for the CDC. Gujarat reported the highest number of HIV infections

through blood transfusion in India -- 2,518 cases -- followed

by Uttar Pradesh (1,807) and Maharashtra (1,585).

The victims of the transfusions at the Junagadh Civil Hospital filed a case in the Gujarat High Court and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was instructed to probe the incident. But the agency filed a closure report in 2014 terming it a case of "negligence" on the part of the hospital. The case is now being re-investigated after the victims and their families protested.

"Most of the victims were poor and could only afford a government hospital," said Paresh Vaghela, the group's advocate.

It wasn't just the infection that victims had to deal with; there was also the social isolation. Once word was out that Jai was HIV-infected, he barely interacted with anyone. "He loved to go out and play, but in the last few months of his life, he hardly stepped outside the house," said Ranava.

Tushar, a ninth-grader, who was among the children left sick after the Junagadh transfusion, is still fighting the infection.

Rupesh, his father, said that the

family keeps the disease a secret. "If people come to know about it, my son will be discriminated against," he said.

Cases such as those of Jai and Tushar are hardly rare in India.

In May this year, a three-and-ahalf-year-old boy was found HIV positive in Assam after blood transfusion, and in August, a four-and-half-year-old boy in Odisha contracted the virus through blood transfusion.

"We've come across many such cases in Delhi, but I've never heard of anyone getting compensation from hospitals," said Sharma.

In June 2016, a Maharashtra woman who became HIV positive and lost her newborn after blood transfusion during her pregnancy was compensated after a two-decade long legal battle.

Meanwhile, Junagadh victims and their families are despondent. "We thought the CBI would help us but now we're starting to lose hope," said Rupesh.

At his rented one-room house in Junagadh, about 400 km from the state capital, Ranava makes only one demand: "We need justice for our son."

Note: Names have been changed to protect identities of victims.

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Korea: opposition Surprising monkey study could South differs on Park impeachment lead to ‘functional’ HIV cure

CHICAGO, DeCember 1 (reuters): Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn’t get too excited about the results of animal studies, and he doesn’t make house calls.

But when a drug already taken by thousands of people for intestinal conditions appeared to control the monkey version of HIV, it got the attention of the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fauci hopped on a plane to Cambridge, Mass., to personally tell Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s U.S. representatives that their drug may offer a dramatic advance in the fight against AIDS. Takeda’s drug suppressed the virus to undetectable levels in eight monkeys, some for two years. The findings raise hopes for a so-called “functional cure” – a treatment that puts the disease in sustained remission.

“The data was so dramatic,” said Fauci, who has made AIDS research his life’s work.

The drug is one of several promising ideas heading into early-stage human trials, all seeking to help patients control the virus that causes AIDS for extended periods without daily antiretroviral therapy (ART).

The studies build on research propelled by the case of Timothy Ray Brown, the so-called “Berlin patient,” whose HIV was eradicated through an elaborate stem cell transplant in 2007.

“There has been this explosion of discovery,” said Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition. “There are completely new ideas that were impossible to conceive even a few years ago.”

LIMITS OF CURRENT DRUGS HIV once meant certain death. But, for more than half of the 36.7 million HIV patients around the world, ART trans-

People gather around lit candles in the shape of a ribbon during a HIV/AIDS awareness campaign ahead of World Aids Day, in Kathmandu on November 30 . (REUTERS Photo)

formed it into a chronic disease.

Taken daily, ART suppresses the virus. But keeping up a daily medication regimen is difficult.

The drugs are expensive and toxic, causing nausea, fatigue and nerve problems in the shortterm, and insulin resistance and other problems over time.

Only about a third of U.S. patients take ART consistently enough to push the virus down to undetectable levels. “We’re going to need other approaches,” said Dr. Nelson Michael, director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute.

Much work has focused on the discovery of rare antibodies made by HIV patients that can neutralize several different forms of the virus. One trial involving an antibody called PGT121 licensed

by Gilead Sciences Inc reduced the virus to undetectable levels in 16 of 18 monkeys; the effect lasted for four months in three of them.

At Walter Reed, Michael is taking a different tack, testing whether a vaccine - being developed to prevent HIV infection can fight off the virus in infected individuals.

Last month, Michael and researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center published the results of a monkey test of Johnson & Johnson’s HIV vaccine candidate called Ad26/MVA and Gilead’s experimental drug GS-986.

On its own, the vaccine had a modest effect. But it was even more effective when it was given with GS-986, a so-called TLR-7 agonist that “kicks the immune system up to a higher gear,” Michael said.

All nine monkeys that got both treatments showed significantly reduced viral loads. In three, the combination therapy has kept the virus at bay for at least six months.

Human trials could begin within months, said Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer.

“If the cure is there, the industry will find a way to get there very quickly,” Stoffels said.

“IT WAS LIKE, ‘WOW” Fauci’s visit was a first for Takeda, a company focused on treatments for cancer, gastroenterology and the central nervous system, said Dr. Michael Shetzline, who heads clinical science for Takeda in Cambridge.

“The excitement was just clear,” Shetzline said. “It was like, ‘Wow.’” Takeda does not study HIV. But its researchers understood the basic science surrounding its drug Entyvio, an antibody engineered to attack a specific protein.

The drug, known generically as vedolizumab, is approved in more than 50 countries for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, which occur when the immune system attacks the intestines.

“Entyvio is a cell trafficking molecule that affects immune

responses,” Shetzline said. “In this instance, the GI tract is what is harboring this HIV cell population that needs to be cleared at least that is what the monkey study implies.”

Takeda is providing the drug and supporting the study. Shetzline cautioned that it’s only a pilot.

“We’d love to see this benefit patients,” he said.

If it pans out, cost could be an issue. Entyvio is priced as a biologic, similar to other IBD treatments, which range from $2,000 to $5,000 a month, according to Consumer Reports. Entyvio’s HIV trial began in August and seeks to enroll 15 to 25 people with stable disease. They will remain on daily ART drugs while taking nine infusions of Entyvio over a period of several months. Then, ART will be stopped, they will get two more infusions, and doctors will watch to see if the virus rebounds – or remains suppressed.

Manni Baez, 30, of Columbus, Ohio, travels to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, about once a month for the study.

“For me, the end game is providing the folks at NIH with the resources they need to get them closer to finding a cure or a vaccine for this plague,” Baez said.

Fauci said he doesn’t expect meaningful results until late 2017 or early 2018. Even partial success would be huge, he said. “If we discontinue therapy in the 15, and four of them don’t rebound,” he said, then “that is the best anybody has ever seen.” Fauci said he doesn’t get emotional about the data he collects, and, in any event, it’s early days for this research.

“I try to be as objective as I possibly can,” he said. “I will get really excited if we get our first seven people in human (trial), and I stop ART - and they don’t rebound.”

US struggling to win enough votes for South Sudan arms embargo uNIteD NAtIONs, DeCember 1 (reuters): The United States is struggling to secure the minimum number of votes needed for the United Nations Security Council to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan amid U.N. warnings of possible genocide in the world’s newest state, said diplomats.

A resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes to be adopted, but a senior U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said so far only seven members were in fa-

vour, while the remaining eight were planning to abstain or vote no.

While Russia and China are sceptical of whether imposing an arms embargo on South Sudan would achieve much in a country already awash with weapons, diplomats didn’t expect them to block the measure if it was put to a council vote.

“No one is talking about a veto ... There is a question about whether (the United States) can get to the nine positive votes or not,” said the senior diplomat, add-

ing that some countries had argued they wanted more time to consider the move.

The diplomat said it was hoped that Malaysia, Japan, Senegal and Angola could be persuaded to vote in favour instead of abstaining if the draft resolution was put to a vote.

Japan last week began deploying a contingent of 350 troops to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, which has been on the ground since the country seceded from Sudan in 2011.

Political rivalry between

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer, led to civil war in 2013 that has often followed ethnic lines. The pair signed a shaky peace deal last year, but fighting has continued and Machar fled the country in July.

Adama Dieng, U.N. Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, told the council this month he had seen “all the signs that ethnic hatred and targeting of civilians could evolve into genocide if something is not done now to stop it.”

The U.S. draft resolution would also blacklist South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar, South Sudan army chief Paul Malong and South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei, subjecting them to a travel ban and asset freeze.

However, diplomats said these targeted sanctions could be dropped in order to win support for an arms embargo. Diplomats also said some countries wanted to know under what conditions an arms embargo could be lifted.

reunited in death: Fidel’s remains rest at the Che Guevara mausoleum

A man rides his bicycle past a billboard to Cuba’s late President Fidel Castro in Santa Clara, Cuba, November 30, 2016. REUTERS Photo)

sANtA CLArA, DeCember 1 (reuters): One of history’s best known double acts was temporarily reunited on Wednesday, when Fidel Castro’s ashes arrived at a mausoleum housing the bones of his fellow revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, part of a three-day cortege for the Cuban leader.

Castro was cremated after he died on Friday aged 90. His ashes are being driven in a military caravan that reverses the route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana taken by his band of guerrillas in a fight to topple a U.S.-backed president in 1959.

A few thousand mourners

gathered to greet the caravan at the mausoleum outside Santa Clara, the central town where Argentine doctor-turned-revolutionary Guevara derailed an armored train in a battle against the army of President Fulgencio Batista that helped tip the war to the rebels.

A large billboard bearing Fidel’s image stood at the base of a nearly 7 meter (23 feet) tall statue of Guevara, beret on his head and marching into battle. Words on the billboard said “Until Victory, Always,” a phrase Guevara wrote in a farewell to Fidel.

On stage, folk musicians and a theater troupe gave a memorial performance.

“This is a sacred place for us, because Che rests here. Now Fidel is going to spend the night alongside his battle companion,” said Pedro Pineda, 70, a worker in a meat processing plant.

Earlier, crowds lined streets chanting “Fidel!” and waving small Cuban flags for a man who ruled Cuba for 49 years with a mix of charisma and iron will, creating a Communist state at the U.S. doorstep and becoming a central figure in the Cold War. His remains were slowly driven in a trailer behind a military jeep that set off from Havana and wound its way through several towns on Wednesday The casket containing his ashes will pause at the monument containing Guevara’s bones overnight, before continuing towards Santiago de Cuba, the southeastern city in which Castro launched his rebellion against Batista in 1953.

There, Castro will be buried on Sunday in a cemetery that is also the final resting place of 19th century national hero Jose Marti and musical phenomenon Compay Segundo.

Castro died a decade after stepping down due to poor health and ceding power to his brother, current President Raul Castro, 85.

Guevara and Fidel Castro met in Mexico, where they trained and bought guns in preparation for the Cuban revolution before setting sail for the island on Nov. 25, 1956, 60 years to the day before Castro’s death.

Guevara rose to become one

of the most important men in the rebel force and later in the revolutionary government, heading the central bank and industry ministry, meeting world leaders and finally taking up arms again to try to spark revolution elsewhere in Latin America.

When Batista fled from Cuba and Castro’s rebels swept into Havana, Guevara set up his office in the La Cabana fortress overlooking the city, where he oversaw the trials of Batista henchmen and executions by firing squad in the moats.

The fame and charisma of the handsome fighter was matched only by Castro’s and continued to grow after he was captured and executed by CIA-backed Bolivian soldiers in 1967 aged 39.

Guevara’s remains were exhumed from a mass grave and buried in Santa Clara in 1997, as the Cuban Communism he helped build struggled to survive after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

At the burial, Castro called Guevara a “prophet” and in a message directed at his late friend, said Cuba was still flying the flags of socialism.

While both men were hated by their enemies who say they ruined the economy with socialism and ruthlessly jailed or silenced opponents with a Soviet-style dictatorship, they were anti-imperialist heroes to many, especially in Latin America and Africa.

“They are two giants in our history, they fought for our fatherland and for our sovereignty,” said student Eduardo Jose Manresa, 17.

seOuL, DeCember 1 (reuters): South Korean opposition parties differed on Thursday on when to bring an impeachment motion against scandal-tainted President Park Geun-hye and were far apart from her conservative party on her offer to quit.

Park on Tuesday asked parliament to decide how and when she should step down in a dramatic turn of events in the influence-peddling scandal, an offer that the main opposition Democratic Party rejected as a ploy to buy time and avoid impeachment.

The smaller opposition People’s Party on Thursday warned against bringing an impeachment motion to the floor of parliament without ensuring the support of Park’s Saenuri Party, which would be needed for it to pass. “If the motion is voted down, it is effectively a remission of her sins,” People’s Party chief Park Jie-won told a party meeting.

But the leader of the Democratic Party, Choo Mi-ae, insisted on an immediate motion so she can be out of office by the end of January. Park Jie-won, who is not related to the president, has said he would also consider bringing the motion to a vote next Friday and indicated his party was open to negotiating how the president should leave office and when.

President Park has been under pressure to step down over allegations by prosecutors that she colluded with a friend to allow her improper influence in state affairs and in fundraising for two foundations set up to back her policy initiatives. She has denied wrongdoing but acknowledged she would need to step down to end the turmoil, amid a series of large protests bringing hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of Seoul on Saturdays.

The three opposition parties together hold 165 of the single-chamber parliament’s 300 seats and can initiate an impeachment motion. But they need support from at least 28 Saenuri members for it to pass.

The vote, if successful, has to be reviewed by the Constitutional Court, which can take up to 180 days.

Legal experts have said the review could be over in a third of that time. Kim Moo-sung, a Saenuri leader who has called for Park’s resignation, said after meeting Democratic Party leader Choo that he had proposed that Park leave office by the end of April so an election can be held around the end of June.

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DAY TWO Highlights

Guest of Honour Mr.Vinay Sheel Oberoi, I.A.S Secretary HRD, GOI 8:30 A.M. Inaugural of online Registration of Farmers 8:45 A.M. Exhibition cum Sale of Handloom & Handicraft Products 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Hornbill International Photo Fest (HIPFEST 2016) 10:00 A.M. Naga Chef Competition at Kisama 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Craftscape 2016 at Kisama.

11:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon Northeast Cultural Day

We wish to invite members of civil society in Dimapur and its neighbourhood to listen to a public lecture that will be delivered on December 3, 2016, 5:30 pm at the Acacia Hotel, Near Dimapur Railway Station by Dr. Arkotong Longkumer, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

We look forward to your presence and participation.

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Goa snatch late win in goal-fest 29th ANSKA State Level Tournament held

Jerry Lalrinzuala of Chennaiyin FC scored with a stunning freekick. (ISL Photo)

margao, December 1 (iaNS): FC Goa scripted a pulsating 5-4 victory against Chennaiyin in their final Indian Super League (ISL) football clash here on Thursday.

Both teams have failed to qualify for the semifinals and were only playing for pride at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

Chennaiyin took lead three times but Goa restored parity every time and went ahead in the 76th minute for the first time in the match .

Rafael Coelho put Goa

in lead, scoring his second goal of the game. But Chennaiyin drew level in the 88th minute after substitute John Arne Riise converted a penalty.

FC Goa scored through a brace each from Rafael Coelho (6th minute, 76th), Sahil Tavora (68th and 90th) and Joffre Gonzalez (21st).

Chennaiyin FC found the mark through Jerry Lalrinzuala (4th), Gregory Arnolin (own goal, 14th), Dudu Omagbemi (28th) and John Arne Riise (88th).

The victory took Goa's points tally to 14 but they

still finished at the bottom of the table. Defending champions Chennaiyin finished seventh with 15 points in an extremely disappointing campaign for both last year's finalists.

Chennaiyin surged ahead in the fourth minute itself when Jerry scored from a free-kick to dazzle goalkeeper Laxmikant Kattimani but Goa soon equalised as Coelho got hold of a through ball from Joffre Gonalez and then scored with ease.

Chennaiyin took the lead for the second time

in the 14th minute when Anirudh Thapa's shot that hit the post, struck Goa defender Gregory Arnolin and sailed into the net. Just like the first setback, Goa drew level for the second time, this time Joffre scoring from a penalty.

The visitors enjoyed a 3-2 advantage at half-time as Dudu Omagbemi capitalised on a defensive lapse in the 28th minute.

In the second session, Goa not just equalised through Sahil Tavora but also moved up for the first time as Rafael Coelho gave finishing touches to a brilliant long ball from Trindade Goncalves in the 76th minute.

Goa then fell back and defended but there was disappointment as Raju Gaikwad handled the ball, prompting the referee to award a penalty which Riise scored with ease.

Just when it seemed like the match would end in a draw, Sahil Tavora scored from the left, as his shot kissed the post and sailed into the net.

Dimapur, December 1 (mexN): The two-day 29th Annual State Level Tournament 2016 of the All Nagaland Shaolin Kung-Fu Association (ANSKA) was recently held at the State Stadium, Dimapur, Nagaland.

According to a press release, 220 martial artists from all over Nagaland representing the different district branches of the ANSKA contested for 63 medals in different weight categories. Besides ANSKA, a contingent from St. Joseph Orphanage Home, Dimapur, also participated and bagged a number of medals.

In Nagaland, Shaolin Kung-Fu started in the year 1973 and with 43 years of being practised and per-

formed, it is now the oldest discipline of martial arts in the state.

The Association has so far trained over one lakh martial artists in the art of Shaolin Kung-Fu over the years,

MedAL Winners

Open Category Best Fighter - Chokho Runner-Up- Anil Sahani not just from the state but from all over the country and even abroad.

It has been a fruitful journey for Deputy Grand Master Neivuo Nicholas Sorunuo (8th Degree Black Belt), who introduced the art of Shaolin Kung-Fu

in Nagaland with the establishment of Chinese Kung-Fu Association in 1973, which was later re-christened as One Star Club. It was only in 1987 that the All Nagaland Shaolin Kung-Fu Association was formally established.

The highlight of the 29th Annual State Level Tournament 2016 was a demonstration by the Shaolin Brothers – Ruokuo John Sorunuo (3rd Degree Black Belt), Albert Sorunuo (4th Degree Black Belt), David Sorunuo (1st Degree Black Belt) and Ayhunlo.

Medolhulie Rio was the Chief Jury for the tournament. The judges were –Kekhriesielhuo Theünuo, Kenneth, Ruokuo John Sorünuo, Albert Sorünuo, David Sorünuo.

public discourse

Weather based integrated agro advisory for the month of December

Land and its resources of the republic of Nagaland Periatsu Tubu Kevichusa General Secretary Naga National Council Nagaland.

Dated Urra June 29, 1994

Total rainfall received in Dimapur district during November month was 130.7 mm with the highest amount of 67.7 mm recorded on 7th November. Total number of rainy day was 3.

Advisories

Cover soil with organic matter or cover crops. For vegetables, mulching and weeding should be carried out.

Provide one irrigation, if possible for mustard-rapeseed, linseed.

Bordeaux paint should be applied on the trunk and pruned wounds of citrus to prevent pathogens attack.

Practice conservation agriculture such as zero or minimum tillage.

Follow the weather and climate forecast regularly so as to make informed decisions.

Scout for pests and diseases regularly and contact the local agricultural office for advice on best control measures.

Remove all weeds containing seeds, but keep other vegetative rests on the land because that will reduce evaporation. Timing of irrigation - rather late afternoon or early evening to reduce evaporation. Check and repair all tools and machinery especially where there are water leaks.

Livestock

Animals should be given mineral mixture along with salt regularly and wheat grains, jaggery etc. may be provided @ 10%-20% in the daily ration during winter season to meet the energy requirement of the animals Poultry: Protect poultry birds from cold winds by hanging curtain/clothing from outside the poultry shed. Use of electric bulbs for heat is advisable.

Piggery: Depending on number of pigs farmers should clean pens naturally twice in a week. Farmers should be aware about the symptoms of diseases. Like no interest in food, diarrhea, eye discharge, excessive coughing, hernia, dry skin and irregular spots on skin, excessively long hair, back bone showing etc Livestock: Follow the vaccine routine and consult with the local veterinarian.

Agro Met Field Unit ICAR, Jharnapani. Medziphema

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he Government of India; through various agencies, had carried out exploratory works on the natural resources of the Republic of Nagaland. Up till date; the activities of the Indian agencies being exploratory in nature only; the Nagas had only watch with mild interest.

Moreover the agreement between India and its servant the puppet state Government of Nagaland; was for exploration only but never for exploitation.

Under the guise of exploration; the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) which is a Government of India undertaking; looted around one hundred million tons of crude oil from Nagaland. In return; the puppet state of Nagaland received a paltry equivalent of 10 million US dollars; from the ONGC. Now it has come to the notice of the Naga people that the Indian Government is conspiring with its blue eyed boy; to rob the Nagas of their mineral wealth and resources. Accordingly; this notice

is issued for the information of all concerned.

1. Nagaland is an independent; sovereign nation. Hence Indian puppet state government has the authority to barter away the rights of the Naga people.

2. Only the collective will of the entire Naga nation, expressed through its sovereign government, can determine as to what is to be done about the land and resources of Nagaland.

3. India has no right of ownership or that of sovereign rule over Nagaland.

4. Puppet state of Nagaland is just one of the numerous factions which had been set up by India in order to divide the Nagas.

5. For a common National Institution; Nagas have given their mandate only one and sealed it with customary oath. On the same subject matter; Nagas do not take oath two times. Hence puppet state government was never set up by mandate nor sealed by customary oath.

6. The issue arising out of the invasion of Nagaland by India and the consequent armed occupation till date; is yet to be settled.

Without settling the issue of ag-

gression by India; no Naga can give permission to India to use even one drop of oil from Nagaland.

7. Due to the following criminal actions: (a) The burning of almost all the Naga villages by India. (b) The humiliation of Naga women by India. (c) The inhuman torture of Nagas

by India. (d) The desecration of places of worship by India. (e) The murdered of more than one hundred thousand Nagas

by India.

The Indian Government is liable for damages and compensation; which even the entire wealth of India would not be sufficient to adequately compensate the Nagas.

It must be noted that India has not apologised to the Nagas for the countless, abominable crimes committed on the Nagas. Instead; India has shamelessly tried to legalise its crimes by stating that all these were committed at the request of the puppet state Government of Nagaland. Hence, without settling the issue of criminal liability by India; India cannot be given permission to exploit our natural resources.

8. It is pointed out herein that the so-called Nagaland state is less than one fourth of the total geographical area of Nagaland.

Likewise the population (of Naga blood only) of so called Nagaland state is less than one fourth of the total Naga population.

Hence the puppet government of the so called State of Nagaland; which is known for the last thirty years for a government of bogus and proxy voters; and supported by the bayonet of the Indian Army; has no moral authority to speak on behalf of the Naga nation.

9. Each and every square inch of the entire length and breadh of the Republic of Nagaland is the joint property of the entire Naga nation.

On this principle; Nagas have set their blood, tears, toil and sweat.

Hence no puppet state government has the authority to enter into agreement with any government concerning lands and resources of Nagaland. Under aforesaid circumstances; it has become the duty of the Naga National Council; to caution those Nagas concerned on the exploitation of oil and natural resources of Nagaland; that they are in extreme danger of being condemned as traitors.

replY To “respoNse To roberT A. silVersTeiN” Robert A. Silverstein

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n The Morung Express dated November 23, 2016, Dr. K. Hoshi published an article titled, “Is Nagaland a failed state.”

On the same date I responded in the Express to his article with one titled, “'Is Nagaland a failed state?' YES! NOW WHAT?” In the Express dated November 30, Hoshi responded to my November 23rd article, with an article titled, “RESPONSE TO ROBERT A. SILVERSTEIN,” and I am now replying to his response.

In my November 23rd article I complimented Hoshi on the structure and substance of much of his November 23rd article, and I want to start the same way this time in relation to his November 30th one. It is lengthy and substantive, and expresses his views clearly and concisely. And although I will disagree with much of what he said, I appreciate the time and effort he put into the article. As I've written a number of articles, some published, some not, I know how much time and effort it takes to write a well-written article.

Hoshi's article consists of nine paragraphs and I will refer to those paragraphs for the clarification of Hoshi and the reader.

He starts out, in paragraph one, by calling me a “realist” and trying to prepare “the Nagas for reality check in international situation.”

I think that that summation of my intent is accurate. He then compliments me so effusively that, in my country, the USA, his compliment would be viewed as sarcasm: “I admire your power of observation, analysis and skill in presenting your points with force and precision BEYOND THE COMPREHENSION OF ORDINARY MORTALS LIKE ME.” (My emphasis, in caps.) Do I really think that Hoshi believes that the way I presented my arguments is “beyond [his] comprehension [as an] ordinary mortal [like himself]”? Does he really believe that he is an ordinary mortal, and that am not?

I don't think so. This false modesty on Hoshi's part is something to be noted, because he goes on to criticize my writing as too

real, that is too like a “courtroom case,” something that he disagrees with, even resents.

Can a person be to much of a “realist”? Hoshi clearly thinks so. And that is the fundamental problem with the whole Naga nationalist movement. It is not based on reality.

Hoshi goes on to state, still in paragraph one, that, “...such courtroom type argument will be worthless your efforts if the argument ends at your level. This is because of the fact that Naga FATE is not in your court.” (My emphasis.) Huh?? Fate?

Here is the main definition of fate, the one Hoshi undoubtedly refers to here: “1: the will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do : DESTINY …” (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, page 456. Emphasis in original.) Let me translate this into the normal Naga nationalist nomenclature.

Hoshi used the word fate in place of God. Every Naga nationalist I've read or spoken to at some point states that it is God's will that the Nagas will have a sovereign Naga nation.

Fate is just Hoshi's way of avoiding the topic of God's intervention in the affairs of man.

But the fact is, fate equals God. And once you introduce such terms into your arguments, all logic, even “courtroom” logic, is meaningless. Put more bluntly, once you rely on fate or God as the basis of your arguments, you have closed your mind to facts, to reality, to anything that disagrees with the conclusion that you want to prove. By introducing this word in paragraph one of his article, Hoshi is telling me that he has already closed his mind to any facts or any reality that I may present against the conclusion that he wants to believe in: the inevitability of a sovereign Naga nation.

Toward the end of paragraph one Hoshi says, “I only hope that your questions were with good intent and not just for the benefit of your research dissertation or for unseen powers working relentlessly to brainwash young Naga minds.” As far as dissertations, I am a retired 73-year-old lawyer with a Masters degree in Politics from New York University and

Oxford University, and am also a registered nurse, the latter earned after I retired as a lawyer. My days of dissertations are over.

But the more interesting slur thrown my way is my laboring for “unseen powers working relentlessly to brainwash young Naga minds.” Who are these “unseen powers” he is referring to? Am I working for the GoI, the Amercan CIA, who? This potential smear on my reputation serves a purpose, even if Hoshi is not conscious of it. It says, in effect, that if I am effective in pursuading young Nagas that the Naga nationalist movement is selfdestructive and doomed to fail, that that is not because my arguments are legitimate and I deserve to win the argument, but because I am using dark unseen forces to manipulate the minds of young Nagas.

But the accusation goes both ways. To the extent that Naga nationalists convince young Nagas that the Naga nationalist movement is something worth sacrificing their futures, even their lives, for in the name of fate or God, I maintain that this is even more dishonest.

I try to base my arguments on facts, that is, on reality, while most Naga nationalists base it on illusion and emotion, which is what fate and God are, after all. How many losing causes were fought in the name of God? Hoshi may be willing to die for “fate,” but people like myself prefer to introduce facts and reality to the Naga youth.

In paragraphs two, three, and four, Hoshi goes through the usual litany of Naga history justifying the Naga nationalist cause: the declaration of independence of August 14, 1947, the plebiscite of 1951, the Indian military aggression of 1954 and the years after that, including the atrocities that accompanied the Indian military invasion of Naga territory.

He states, at one point, “No outside power will erase the reality of this history from the hearts of the Nagas.” But people like me are not asking Nagas to erase Naga history from the hearts of Nagas. I'm just asking Nagas to use common sense and not act on that history as if that history decides all issues.

Let me point out again, as I've done in so many of my articles, that despite the history of

the Nagas there is not a nation on the planet that has recognized the Nagas as a nation. This is a fact, a reality, that the Nagas must acknowledge, and fate is not going to change that.

At the end of paragraph four, Hoshi states, “You might be right in saying no nation will come to the rescue of Nagas.” Then in the very first sentence of paragraph five, he continues, “Nevertheless, you will also not deny either that humanity is supreme over the state power.” What?? This is pure sentimentality with no basis in the real world. People within their own nations are being slaughtered, and “humanity is [definitely not] supreme over the state power.” Whether the country is Russia Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, or dozens of other countries, states butcher their own people. Have there been attempts to assist people? Yes. There is now an international criminal court. There are United Nations treaties that purport to assist persecuted people. But they are all at the beginning stages of development and nationalism is the most powerful force on the planet.

And when I say nationalism, I mean the GoI's claims on Nagaland. That Naga nationalists do not recognize Indian nationalist claims on Nagaland, is irrelevant to India. Neither history nor fate nor God nor anything else has been able to loosen the claims of India on Nagaland, and I do not see it happening in the future. That is fact!

In paragraph seven Hoshi quotes me as stating that the atrocities perpetrated on the Nagas by the Indian army “is irrelevant, no matter how tragic these atrocities were.” I did say that. Hoshi then states, “Your message was more than clear that you want the Nagas to forget the past and focus on the reality of life at hand. The line also proved what scant regard you have for the dead.” I did not say “to forget the past;” I said that it is irrelevant to the present, if the facts in the present preclude what he wants to accomplish. That to cite the past does no good. I do not have “scant regard … for the dead.” But I am clear that, although you should honor the dead, your main responsibility is to the living. The goal is not to view the dead in such a way that

it leads to the living dying for the dead. If his way of honoring the dead is to become a martyr for the futile cause of a sovereign Naga nation, that is fine for him. But he has no right to take others with him.

Thus, the role I've taken up in Nagaland. It is my position that the dead should not be the reason that the living should die. If the goal of a sovereign Naga nation is his excuse for his family and friends to sacrifice their lives in a cause that I view as futile, then I am on the side of the living, not the dead.

Hoshi has the courage, in paragraph eight, to agree with me that the NSCN (IM) is responsible “for the vicious cycle of corruption in Nagaland,” and expresses surprise that the GoI is willing to negotiate with the organization, something that bothers me as well. He deserves enormous credit for agreeing with me on that point. I will not be back in Kohima until February 5, 2017, but he is there now, and expressing such views publicly, as the newspapers who publish such views as ours, all deserve credit for their courage. The extirpation of Naga corruption is truly a goal worth pursing.

In paragraph nine, he closes his article with, “Finally, you may like to contest many of my points and engage me in your endless arguments but I repeat that, unless you have the power and goodwill to take Nagas beyond your courtroom, I will decline all your questions hereafter because it will be meaningless.”

I am not sure what the above means. In my world, and in his in India, a courtroom should express facts, not conjecture or rumor.

It is a place, ideally, to try to reach the truth of a situation. It is one of the wonders of a civilized world, and is lacking in Nagaland. In Nagaland there exists the rule of force and intimidation, not the rule of law. So if his statement, above, is a mandate to leave the facts and reality behind and join him in his world of fate and God, then we most certainly will not be talking. My way leads to a prosperous and peaceful future for the Nagas who exist now; his way leads to a world of sentimentality and emotion which can only lead his people to a tragic end..

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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The crafts bazaar organized jointly by Directorate of Industries & Commerce and Naga Handloom & Handicraft Development Corporation at the Bamboo Pavilion in Kisama, was inaugurated by Parliamentary Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Amenba Yaden. The pavilion has about 120 participants out of which 12 participants are from different states including Assam, Manipur and Mizoram. (DIPR Photo)

Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, C. Apok Jamir inaugurated the Naga craft portfolio craftscape at Naga Heritage village, Kisama on December 1. The exhibition seeks to highlight and create awareness on the fragile status of vanishing crafts traditions, fading away from life of patronage, infusion of cheaper alternatives and plastics and other man made derivatives.

Apart from many special exhibits include making of shawl, sling bags and male jacket from bark of woods and bamboo plates by artisans of different Naga tribes. (DIPR Photo)

Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture, Kejong Chang formally inaugurated the exhibition, sale cum competition of flowers, fruits, vegetables, spices, departmental farm products, horticulture machineries and products at Naga Heritage, Kisama on December 1. Altogether, 81 participants are taking part in the exhibition cum competition. Prizes and cash awards in the flower category will be distributed on December 3 and for the 23 categories of fruits, vegetable and spices, the prize distribution will be held on December 4. (DIPR Photo)

As part of the Hornbill Festival the Eastern Art Council is holding the Hornbill International Photo Fest (HIPFEST) under the theme ‘Colours of Nagaland which is sponsored by the Department of Tourism. It was inaugurated by Temjen Toy, Principal Secretary and Finance Commissioner along with Secretary Tourism Angau I Thou at the WW 11 Museum Area Kisama Heritage Village on December 1. Around 40 participants from different states are taking part in the photo fest.

The judges of the competition include two prominent personalities from Thailand. (DIPR Photo)

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he Naga Chef season 4 began today at Kisama as part of the Hornbill Festival. Naga Chef is organized by Synergy Group Enterprise and supported by Department of Tourism. After the preliminary round, top 8 contestants viz Renphamo Ezung, Esther, Kiheto Sema, Toka H. Chophy, L. Renchanbemo Odyuo, E Chenithung Ezung, Rokokhono Rhiitso Nyekha and Kusa Lohe were shortlisted for the Naga Chef title. The contestants completed “culinary round” which will be followed by Naga pickle round, my signature dish, mystery basket and group round. The winner of the Naga Chef Season 4 will walk away with a cash prize of Rs. 3 lakhs.

horNbill KidS CarNival uNderway Pony ride at Kisama as part of the Hornbill festival was flagged off by Parliamentary Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Service, S. Chuba Longkumer at Kisama. Chairman, Chief Minister of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated Pony Management Committee and Joint Director (Extn) Dr. the exhibition cum sale of Nagaland Coffee on December Aomangyang Walling in his keynote address mentioned that 1. The Department has teamed up with a coffee expert from Government of India gave one time grant under animal pack South Africa, Dr. Pister to promote the production of coffee animal scheme and in the year 2015-16 a Pony Management in the State. Dr. Pister will also be demonstrating the various Committee was set up for promotion of the programme. M. process of coffee making like pulping, roasting etc and prepa- Vivek Singh, International Polo player, coached the horses and ration of world class cappuccino, espresso etc. (DIPR Photo) pony for more than one month. (DIPR Photo)

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arious indigenous games and activities as part of the kids carnival cum school and higher secondary competition commenced on December 1 at Children’s Park, Naga Heritage village, Kisama. The carnival is organized by Mutukhru Events, in collaboration with Synergy Group Enterprise and supported by the State Government.

As part of the school and higher secondary, some of the different types of competition that will be held are Hornbill Junior Photography (December 2 to 8), Fancy Dress (December 5), Muffin Decoration (December 6), Essay Writing (December 7) etc. For the competition, students are categorized into 4 groups Group A (Class A to 3), Group B (Class 4 to 6), Group C (Class 7 to 9), Group D (Class 10 to 12).

Games and activities at the carnival include X Box, Burn Castle etc with emphasis on indigenous games like Baru (wooden go-kart), thulu (striking the beans), cethu vuhtsu (wooden top spinning) etc.

horNbill feStival legal Stall

ten days legal awareness stall organised by Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) was inaugurated today by the Justice Ajit Singh, Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court & Patron-in-Chief of Nagaland State Legal Services Authority and Justice AK Goswami, Judge of Gauhati High Court and Executive Chairman of Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority.

B. Yemlong Chaba, recipient of the Zonal

(North-East) Best Para Legal Volunters (PLVs) award of 2016 gave a short speech on the occasion.

The inaugural programme was attended by Y. Longkumer, Registrar, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, M. Patton, Commissioner & Secretary, Department of Justice & Law, Kheshili Chishi, Department of Justice & Law, Ajongba Imchen, Civil Judge, Phek, Registry Staff of Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, Panel Lawyers, Para Legal Volunteers, officials

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of Reserve Bank of India and host of Government Departmental Officers.

On the first day, around 1000 people visited the Legal Stall and availed free legal services such as consultations and advice on rights and duties, received free pamphlets, booklets on basic Laws, Legal rights and Schemes.

The Hornbill Festival Legal Stall at the Naga heritage village, Kisama will be functional till December 10.

hornbill bollywood dhamaka begins with KK live in dimapur!

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t was an unforgettable night for Dimapur to commemorate Statehood Day, World Aids Day, and the special launch of Hornbill International Music Festival, while listening to one of India’s top singers!

Dimapur Deputy Commissioner Kesonyu Yhome, officially launched the Hornbill Music Festival, with the presence of Music Task Force Director Gugs Chishi. The concert began with special performances by visually impaired children, Wilson Jamie, and Jano Nyekha.

Singer KK then hit the stage performing several of his hit songs. It was truly a treat for Dimapur people, as the singer interacted with the audience throughout his performance, and even asking the audience to sing along. During the show, KK expressed how he was glad to be in Dimapur, recollecting how he had visited Dimapur 16 years back, when he had come during the launch of his first album. Calling it a beautiful evening, the immensely talented singer displayed his versatile singing skills and trademark livewire energy on stage which confirms why he is so much in demand for live performances.

The concert turned out to be a treat for music lovers, a satisfactory beginning to Singer KK and his band performing at DDSC Stadium, Dimapur during the launch of Hornbill Music Festival.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Colombia crash pilot reported he was out of fuel: tape

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Medellín, deceMber 1 (AFP): The pilot of a charter plane carrying a Brazilian football team radioed frantically that he was out of fuel minutes before slamming into a hillside near Medellin with 77 people on board, an audio recording showed.

Details of the doomed aircraft's last harrowing minutes emerged on Wednesday as fans mourned the loss of all but six people on the flight, including most of the Cinderella-story Chapecoense Real football team.

An audio tape aired by the Colombian media showed that the pilot of the LAMIA airlines BAe146 radioed the control tower Monday night seeking priority to land because of a fuel problem.

The operator acknowledges the request but tells pilot Miguel Quiroga he will have to wait seven minutes to land.

"I have a plane below you making its approach ... How much time can you remain in your approach, Lima-Mike-India?"

"We have a fuel emergency, ma'am, that's why I am asking you for it at once, full stop."

Moments later: "I re-

[LEFT] A young fan of Brazil's Chapecoense football club is seen crying during a tribute to the victims of the plane crash. [RIGHT] People participate in a tribute. (AFP Photo)

quest an immediate descent Lima-Mike-India."

The timeline was not immediately clear but shortly thereafter the pilot radioed: "Ma'am, LimaMike-India 2933 is in total failure, total electrical failure, without fuel."

The operator responded: "Runway clear and expect rain on the runway Lima-Mike-India 2933.

Firefighters alerted."

The pilot is heard asking: "Vectors, ma'am, vectors to the runway." Vectors

is the term for the navigation service provided to planes by air traffic control.

The operator is heard giving him directions, and asking his altitude. "Nine thousand feet, ma'am. Vectors! Vectors!"

Those were Quiroga's last words to the control tower.

Colombia's Civil Aeronautics agency said the time sequence of the tape was "inexact," and had no comment on the content of the tape.

But the agency's air

safety chief, Freddy Bonilla, confirmed at a news conference that the plane was out of fuel at the moment of impact.

Bonilla said international rules require aircraft to maintain fuel in reserve when flying between airports, and the LAMIA plane had failed to do so.

The aircraft's "black box" has been recovered intact and in "perfect condition," said Civil Aviation director Alfredo Bocanegra, who added however

that it would take investigators at least six months to reach a conclusion about the cause of the crash.

- Cinderella team The crash killed most of Chapecoense's squad and 20 journalists traveling with them to the finals of South America's second-largest club tournament.

The unsung Brazilian club was on the way to crowning a fairytale year in the Copa Sudamericana against Medellin side Atletico Nacional.

The plane was scheduled to make a refueling stop in Bogota, but skipped the Colombian capital and headed straight for Medellin, reported Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete, citing a representative of the airline.

"The pilot was the one who made the decision," Gustavo Vargas of Bolivian charter company LAMIA told the newspaper.

"He thought the fuel would last."

Bolivian civil aviation

chief Cesar Varela told reporters "the crew had their licenses in order. Everything was in order."

British and Brazilian investigators headed to Colombia to help with the probe, authorities said.

Hometown fans in the southern city of Chapeco, population 200,000, were in shock.

"Chapeco is not a big city. We would meet (the players) in the street," said teacher Aline Fonseca, 21.

"It's hard to keep going," she said. "The city is devastated."

Fans gathered Wednesday evening in the Chapecoense stadium, which was draped in black ribbons, and in Atletico Nacional's stadium in Medellin at the time the match was to have been played.

Both stadiums were packed to capacity.

Mourners, many dressed in white, held candles in the air in Chapeco as the handful of remaining players from the team took the pitch in tears.

Brazil has declared three days of national mourning.

Other Brazilian clubs have offered Chapecoense players so it can continue competing. Special funds

have also been set up.

The Spanish football league said next Saturday's blockbuster clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be preceded by a minute's silence for the crash victims.

- Miracle survivors Six people miraculously survived the crash. Three were footballers, but goalkeeper Jakson Follmann had his right leg amputated, said the hospital treating him.

Two flight crew and a journalist also survived.

Four people missed the flight. They included Chapeco mayor Luciano Buligon, who arrived Wednesday in Medellin to oversee the return of the bodies along with Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra.

Brazil's ambassador in Colombia, Julio Glinternick, told AFP authorities hoped to have identified all the bodies by Thursday morning.

So far, 59 have been identified, according to Brazil's foreign ministry. of those 52 were Brazilian nationals, five were Bolivian, one was Venezuelan and another was from Paraguay.

The Brazilian air force will then fly them home in two Hercules cargo planes.

Chakhroma Wrestling & Indoor Sports Meet held Man United sweep past Hammers, Arsenal ousted

The CSA 2016 Wrestling champions with officials and office bearers.

Southgate confirms Rooney as England captain lOndOn, deceMber 1 (Agencies): England manager Gareth Southgate confirmed Wayne Rooney will remain captain on Thursday as he faced the media for the first time since his appointment on a permanent basis. "Wayne Rooney is the England captain," Southgate told reporters at Wembley. "I said that from the beginning of the interim period."

Southgate, 46, was appointed England manager on a four-year contract on Wednesday, having previously been in charge for four games on an interim basis.

The former Middlesbrough manager was promoted from his role as England Under21s coach after Sam Allardyce was forced to depart in the aftermath of a Daily Telegraph sting. Southgate's first game as full-time manager will be a friendly against Germany in Dortmund on March 22, followed by a World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley four days later.

diMAPur, deceMber 1 (Mexn): The 23rd Wrestling and Indoor Sports Meet of Chakhroma Sports Association was held at Medziphema Local Ground and Niathu Resort on November 29 and 30 respectively.

In wrestling, Zhasakholie Kehie defeated Seyiesalie Nakhro in the final to emerge as champion. In the playoff for third place, Rokotsizo Krose downed Neizosielie Krose.

In the indoor events held at Niathu Resort, Anozo was crowned Badmin-

ton Men’s Single champions after he defeated Khriesakedo in the final.

Khriesakedo however avenged the defeat in Badminton Men’s Doubles.

Khriesakedo and his partner Neilhouzhalie edged Anozo and Rokozo in the final.

Kevichükho Kire beat Vithoselie in Table Tennis Men’s Singles to emerge as the winner. The duo combined in the doubles category and emerged as champions defeating Menuolhoulie Shüya and Visedelie Savino in the final.

Barcelona held, Madrid romp into last 16

MAdrid, deceMber 1 (reuters): Barcelona were held 1-1 by lowly Hercules in their King's Cup last 32 first-leg match on Wednesday while Mariano scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid romped to a 6-1 second-leg victory over thirdtier Cultural Leonesa and a 13-2 aggregate triumph.

Barca's Carles Alena struck a sublime effort in the 58th minute to cancel out David Mainz's close-range opener six minutes earlier as the cup holders came from behind but had to accept a draw in a match they dominated.

The Spanish champions' struggles in La Liga followed them to Segunda B side Hercules as a much-changed side made it three domestic games without a win after a disjointed performance.

Real Madrid, playing a leg earlier than everyone else ahead of their Club World Cup campaign, held a 7-1 lead after the first game and made short shrift of their opponents at the Bernabeu, opening the scoring after 23 seconds through Dominican forward Mariano.

James Rodriguez, one of few familiar names in the starting line-up as Zinedine Zidane made eight changes with an eye on Saturday's Clasico against Barca, added a second with a header in the 23rd minute before Mariano, on his debut, doubled his tally.

The visitors pulled one back through Yerey Gonzalez's magnificent long-range effort just before the break, but Real dominated the second half, Zidane's son Enzo marking his

debut with a goal and Mariano rounding off his hat-trick with a header.

Leonesa's Cesar Morgado scored an own goal in the last minute to round off a miserable afternoon as Real, who were disqualified from last year's tournament after fielding an ineligible player, extended their unbeaten run to 32 matches.

Real, whose last loss came against Wolfsburg in the Champions League in April, are closing in on the club record of 34 games without defeat, set by Leo Beenhakker's side in the 1988-89 season.

Elsewhere, Joaquin Correa scored a hat-trick as Sevilla thumped fourth-tier SD Formentera 5-1 while Atletico Madrid stormed to a 6-0 victory over Segunda B outfit Guijuelo.

lOndOn, deceMber 1 (reuters): Anthony Martial and Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice each to help Manchester United ease into the League Cup semi-finals with a 4-1 home victory over West Ham United on Wednesday as Arsenal suffered a 2-0 home defeat by Southampton.

Martial netted twice in the second half to take the tie at Old Trafford away from West Ham, who had levelled through Ashley Fletcher following Ibrahimovic's opener after two minutes. The Swede added the fourth deep into stoppage-time.

Southampton clinched their first appearance in the last four of the competition since 1987 with powerful first-half efforts from Jordy Clasie and Ryan Bertrand against a weakened Arsenal, who made 10 changes to their side.

United were then drawn to face Hull City in the semi-finals and Southampton will play Liverpool.

United and West Ham met at the same venue in the Premier League on Sunday when United boss Jose Mourinho let his frustrations boil over and earned a second touchline ban of the season for booting a water bottle.

The Portuguese was banned from the dugout on Wednesday, but would have been delighted with the way United carved open their opponents after just two minutes with a fluent break.

West Ham opened the scoring on Sunday equally early, but they were caught cold as Wayne Rooney, one goal short of Bobby Charlton's all-time club scoring record, fed Henrikh Mkhitaryan, whose backheel picked out Ibrahimovic to dink the ball into the net.

The Swede should have doubled the lead when he waltzed through the heart of the West Ham defence before twice being denied by keeper Adrian.

That could have proved a costly miss because for all United's first-half dominance, they were pegged back 10 minutes before the break by one of their former players.

Having come through the youth ranks at United, Fletcher was allowed to join West Ham in the close season and punished his former employers by scoring from close range after David de Gea had spilled a shot from Dimitri Payet.

Payet, however, was the villain two minutes after halftime as his poor clearance was pounced on and fed to Mkhitaryan, who claimed his second assist by laying the ball off for Martial to blast past Adrian.

With 30 minutes remaining, Martial grabbed his second, tapping home Antonio Valencia's cross before Ibrahimovic added the fourth from close range.

"Goals plus performance means the real happiness," Mourinho, who would not divulge where he watched the match, told Sky Sports.

"The performance is something we are used to, we are playing very well at home.

Today was more of the same."

The League Cup has not been kind to Arsenal in recent years with the club having now progressed from just one of their previous six quarter-finals, which was perhaps the reason why manager Arsene Wenger chose to make wholesale changes to his side to face Southampton.

The Saints began the brighter and were ahead after just 12 minutes when Dutchman Clasie fired powerfully into the net for his first goal for the club.

The lead was doubled eight minutes before the break when Carl Jenkinson was outmuscled deep in his own half, allowing Sofiane Boufal to break and tee up Bertrand to drill a low finish into the bottom corner.

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