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Singing competition marks day 3 Hornbill Kids Carnival

Bhopal Gas Albert N Hau Tragedy: is crowned No accurate Naga data on deaths Orpheus 30 years on 2014 [ PAGE 08]

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise

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Hotter, Weirder: How climate has changed Earth [ PAGE 09]

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Michael Clarke’s emotional tribute to Phil Hughes [ PAGE 10]

BorDer tiff PM urged to protect sc raps centre christian minorities

Participants at the Hornbill Glocal Cosplay Contest which was held at The Heritage, Kohima Old DC Bungalow, on December 2 and 3. Cosplay, a portmanteau of costume play, is a performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character or idea that is usually identified with a unique name. (Morung Photo)

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By Sandemo Ngullie

No matter what I gotta do, I’m gonna find the person who made shopping part of Christmas and..and kick him.

‘Stop playing State politics with Naga political issue’ BJP Nagaland to Congress Story on Page 3

India’s rank on global corruption index improves to 85th in 2014

New Delhi, December 3 (pTi): India has showed some improvement in addressing corruption in 2014, ranking 85th among 175 countries as against 94th in the previous year, graft watchdog Transparency International India (TII) said on Wednesday.

Denmark retained its position as the least corrupt country in 2014 with a score of 92 while North Korea and Somalia shared the last place, scoring just 8, the organisation said.

According to the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report by TII, the CPI score for the country increased by 2 points in 2014 from its 2013 score, helping its rank move up to 85

in 2014 from 94 in 2013.

India’s score stood at 38 as compared to 36 in 2013.

The improvement in CPI for the country was driven primarily by two data sources - from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and World Justice Project’s (WJP) index. A score increase on WEF suggested businesses in the country were viewing the environment favourably with regards to their perception of corruption and bribery in India. The WJP score also went up reflecting the perceptions of public sector corruption coming down slightly in the country, the report said.

The report noted that in terms of the new government, the CPI possibly cap-

tured the anti-corruption mandate on which the new government was elected and the possibility of some new reforms in this area.

However, the data used for CPI mostly was collected prior to the change of government and therefore this will not reflect directly into any of the CPI sources, it said.

To calculate the country’s position in 2014, 9 out of 12 independent data sources specialising in governance and business climate analysis were also used. These included Bertelsmann Foundation, World Bank and WEF. They helped in measuring perceptions of corruption in public sector and cross country comparability.

Dimapur, December 3 (mexN): Churches from Nagaland have appealed to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to ‘safeguard the right to equality, and the right to freedom of all people.’

In a letter to the Prime Minister, dated November 30, leaders from various Churches in Nagaland appealed for the protection of Christian minorities in India.

“We are deeply concerned about the continued violence and atrocities against Christians in different parts of India. We are deeply pained to see our brothers and sisters targeted for no fault of theirs,” wrote the leaders. The letter was signed by Rev. Dr. L Anjo Keikung, General Secretary, Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Fr. Carolus Neishalhou, Vicar General, Diocese of Kohima, Catholic Church of Nagaland, Rev. Dr. N Paphino, President, Nagaland Christian Revival Church, Rev. Dr. TR Angami, Superintendent, Assembly of God Church, Nagaland, Khyomo Lotha, Vice President, Nagaland Pentecostal Mission, Kohima, and DS Namrei, Corps Sergeant Major, Salvation Army Church, Nagaland.

In many states, they said, Christians are deprived of their fundamental right to freedom of religion and practice of faith.

“The psychological damage done to the Christian brothers and sisters from time to time is very grave. We earnestly appeal that Your Honour takes up prompt action in such a way

as to create tranquillity and render maximum protection to the Christians in India,” wrote the leaders.

The PM was reminded that Christians in India have become “victims of malicious campaign by certain unruly fundamentalists who take the law into their own hands.” However, “Christians have never retaliated against the people of other faith.”

The Church is for Peace and Harmonious Living, stated the Churches in Nagaland. “We love our country, India and we aspire for a country that is strong and resilient. We believe that to this end the Christians in India have contributed not less than any other religious groups in the history of our country.”

Stating how Christians have been “in the forefront for nation building,” the Church leaders said that the service of Christians in the educational, social and health sector is “universally acknowledged” and “recognized by” all sections of Indian population.

“Christians are at the forefront in matters of patriotism and defence.

We are proud of what we have built together with the rest of the people.

But we feel really sorry and betrayed that we are often looked upon as a despised lot of people.”

The leaders thus appealed to the PM, and also to respective State Governments in India, to “take strong measures to curb violence caused by any group in the country.”

New Delhi, December 3 (pTi): The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Centre saying that it cannot remain a “mute spectator” to the 50-year-old border dispute between Assam and Nagaland.

“You (Centre) are the one who is supposed to act and resolve it. You have done nothing in terms of our earlier order. You cannot remain a mute spectator to the border dispute,” a bench headed by Justice T S Thakur said.

Outlining the questions relating to the dispute, it said, “There are two issues. One is what is the border? Another is what should be the border? We can decide the first issue. Second one can be decided by experts. Alteration of border is a political issue.” The bench, also comprising justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and R Banumathi, is hearing the original suit filed by Assam under a provision of the Constitution nearly 26 years ago.

During the hearing, the Centre informed the court that the Union Home Minister recently held a meeting with the chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland to resolve the border dispute. “Though you have informed that the meeting has taken place, you have not filed the response. You havenottoldusastowhethertheSurveyor General of India can do it or can the satellite imagery help in this,” it said and asked theCentretofilearesponsewithin10days.

Nagaland has been demanding some portions that it believes “historically” belong to it and seeks “restoration” of all Naga territories. However, the Assam government wants to maintain the boundary which has been decided on December 1, 1963 when Nagaland was created.

Smokie rocks Kohima...

Smokie, the legendary band from England, mesmerized fans and music lovers at the Hockey Ground, Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima, on December 3. The show started at 5pm and was opened by rock bands K3M and Highland Oracle. As per pre and concert ticket sale estimates, a crowd of around 20,000 gathered at the stadium, which remained responsive and fun throughout the rousing show. The band, a favourite with almost every car ride through the Naga hills, sang mostly classics. It will perform in Shillong on December 5. According to official sources, altogether 24,450 visitors (214 foreign, 2236 domestic tourists and 22,000 local visitors) attended the Hornbill Festival on day one. (Morung Photo/ Chizokho Vero)

Governor makes clarion call for media to fight corruption Morung Express News Dimapur | December 3

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“By virtue of being the first citizen of the State, I earnestly appeal you to fight the rampant corruption that is pervading our State,” the Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, implored the print media in Nagaland. He was speaking at a conclave titled ‘Paradigm of Socio-Economic Progress’ organised by Nagaland Post as part of its 24th Anniversary at Hotel Acacia here today.

While recalling his earlier visit to Nagaland in the late 1960s as a student activist, he commented that the

state did not have even a single daily, aside from a weekly or so. The Governor expressed delight on the “swelling progress” of print media and congratulated the Nagaland Post for being a pioneer in the medium.

However, implying that there are still many horizons for the press to conquer, he urged it to take a proactive role in “moulding a healthy society” by spreading awareness, as well as raising socio-political and economic issues pertinent to the present Naga society. “Expose corruption,” Acharya reiterated. “Nagaland is rich, but Nagas are poor,” he stated adding, “We

ourselves have created the crisis and we call ourselves religious,” chiding the gathering into instrospection.

Maintaining that the media’s achievements are “much more commendable” than that of politicians, educationists, NGOs or any other social organisation, the Governor stressed that the media has “greater responsibility” and must become the watchdog of society. “Focus on development of society and base your coverage on ground realities. Express news without fear or favour,” he encouraged.

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Hutton lectures begins at heritage conference hall The 2 day Hutton lectures 2014 began at the Heritage (Old DC Bungalow) conference hall on 3rd December 2014 scheduled in conjunction with the Hornbill festival.

The main purpose of the lecturers was to take stock of current ethnographic and sociological research more generally in the greater Eastern Himalayan region with special emphasis on the Naga areas.

Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control and Election, Vikheho Swu lighted the lamp in commemoration of the 2nd edition of Hutton lecturers which was initiated in 2013.

In his speech, he commented that Nagas have peculiar characteristics and said that many Naga tribes are unable to trace their origin and migratory routes due to lack of literature. Commissioner & Secretary, Tourism and Art & Culture, Himato Zhimomi delivered welcome address while the opening remark was delivered by convenor of the Hutton Lecturers, Michael Heneise.

Principal, St. Joseph’s college, Jakhama Fr. Abraham Lotha delivered keynote address on ‘Religious faith Christianity Ethnotheology and the Naga people’ while lecturer in religious studies, University of Edinburgh, Dr. Arkotong Longkumer spoke on ‘Christianity & Ethno theology: Remaking social worlds in Northeast India’.

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Kisama | December 3

Singing competition marked day three of Hornbill Kids Carnival competition events here today at Children’s Park.

Beremben Jamir stood first position while Vidisenuo Belho and Gurmehar stood second and third position respectively.

Managed by Synergy Group Enterprise, painting/drawing competition will take place on December 4, essay writing competition on the topics “Relevance of e-governance in Nagaland”(Classes 4-6) and “Relevance of e-tendering in Nagaland” (Classes 7 to 9) on December 5.

Baking & chocolate making and choral competition have been schedule Participants of singing competition during Kids Carnival on December 6 and 8 respectively. Miss & Master 2014 on December 3. (Morung Photo)

Parliamentary Secretary for Art & Culture, Printing and Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu graced the inaugural function of the Hornbill literature fest 2014 at the Heritage, Kohima on December 3 organised by the department of Art & Culture and Tourism, Nagaland in collaboration with Heritage publishing house and the Kohima institute.

Parliamentary Secretary in his address expressed concern over the lake of a

common literature of the Nagas which leads to an unnecessary division among Nagas. He therefore urged the writers and scholars of Naga society to put effort to bring out a common literature. It may not be an easy task but needs to be done, he said. He also encouraged the Naga writers to concentrate on a specific subject and to write with more zeal that could give a facelift to the Naga society.

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mally launched the book on Archeology of Naga ancestral site Vol I & II authored by Dr. Tiatoshi and Physical characteristics of the Nagas of Nagaland Vol I & II authored by Moasangla Jamir.

Commissioner & Secretary, Tourism and Art & Culture, Himato Zhimomi while delivering welcome speech said that Nagas have many issues to talk about and to catch up and are decades behind many.

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Kids Carnival 2014 will take place on December 9.

Winners of choral competition will win cash prize of Rs. 20,000 and the runners up Rs. 10,000.

The timing for the competitions will commence from 12:00 noon onwards and the participation has been requested to reach the venue 30 minutes be- Visitors throng the handloom and handicraft exhibition at Bamboo Pavilion, Kisama. (Morung Photo) fore the competition for reporting and registration.

The participants for the singing competition have been requested to bring their own sound track and instruments.

For the painting /drawing competition, participants have to bring their own water colours/tools.

Chart papers for painting will be provided for the participants. Registration fees for painting/drawing and essay competition will be Rs. 100.

Kropol Graces Hornbill Literature Fest 2014

A tourist going through Craft Scape (Meet Naga artisans at work) an exhibition of the crafts

He was optimistic that tradition of Nagaland at WW II Museum Compound, Kisama on day three of the Hornbill Festhrough such gatherings of tival of Nagaland. (Morung Photo) writers, scholars could provide the right path and direction to the Naga society.

Zhimomi said that writing is the most difficult expression of Art. He further called the society to be patient with the writers as it need lots of nurturing and hope that one day many talented and recognized writers will come up for the benefit of the society.

(DIPR News)

70 motorcyclists participates in 2nd Friendship Motor Rally

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A child enjoys water zorbing event during day three of the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland organized by Nagaland Association for Adventure Mountaineering & Education (NAAME) at Children’s Park, Kisama. Among the many activities included; beam balancing, ZIP lining long and short range, shoot the target not bird, obstacle- commando NET, angry bird, trampoline, Burma bridge, tent pitching, river crossing, rappelling. The timing is from 10: 00 AM to 5:00 PM daily. (Morung Photo)

2nd Friendship Motor Rally was held on December 3 at Kohima where more than 70 motorcyclists from different clubs of Nagaland, Assam and Manipur took part. The rally was flagged off from Kohima War Cemetery and the riders proceeded through NH 29 to Cherry Blossom School and did some charity works, after which, they rode to Kisama where a programme was held for the different abled people.

During the programme, the disabled people at World War II Museum premises Kisama warmly welcomed the motorcycle riders. The Convener of the Organising Committee and Vice President of the Nagaland Motorcycle Club, Khriebu in his brief address extended his thankfulness to the disabled persons for warmly welcoming the rid-

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ers. He also said that the motor riders love to ride to promote the Hornbill FesNaga Chef 2014 event at the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland at Kisama. (Morung Photo) tival. On behalf of the disabled people, one member expressed his happiness for getting such opportunity to convey their grievances to the people. He also said that disabled people should not be considered as handicapped as in the eyes of God everyone is equal and further sought support while seeking their rights. Some differently abled persons also expressed their excitement on witnessing the Hornbill Festival 2014 for the first time in their life.

The motorcycle rally is a calendar event supported by the Government of Nagaland and the 2nd Friendship Rally was a special ride for the differently abled Tourists take picture with Zeliang Nagas during Hornbill Festival of Nagaland at Zeliang people.

(DIPR News) Morung, Kisama. (Morung Photo)

Seyie Gas awards ‘Best Customers of the Year’

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Director General Assam Rifles visits Nagaland

Recipients of the Best Customer Award of Seyie Gas, Kohima with its proprietor and employees.

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Kohima, December 3 (mexN): M/s Seyie Gas Service today acknowledged six of its customers for their civility in transactions by awarding them with the ‘Best Customers of the Year’ in a simple function cum LPG safety clinic in its premise.

A press note on the event stated that the programme began with Pastor Peraciezie Baptist Church, Zakiezokho Nisa invoking God’s blessings. He later gave away the gifts to them namely Dr. Imliwabang, Pehau Zeliang, Chanchibeni, Neinyühu, Apokla and L Sailo. On the occasion, Seyie Gas employees, labourers and drivers were also given gifts for their dedication and sincerity in delegating their duties.

Kevinourhenuo Seyie reminisced that the novel

idea of appreciating some of the best, amongst many others, began last year and it has become an annual event to thank the customers for their co-operation. She thanked God for their lives and for the day. Proprietor of the Service, K. Seyie shared some thoughts on LPG safety like not placing cylinders in closed cupboard under a cooking platform, discouraging use of polythene or plastic transparent tubes, checking for crack and leakage in pipes and how to save LPG, by simmering after the food comes to boil.

He also informed the subscribers to open bank accounts for Direct Benefit Transfer of subsidy in respect of subsidised cylinders, as per directives from the centre, which is in force in other parts of the country.

Lt Gen R K Rana, SM, VSM, DGAR during his visit to Headquarters Inspectorate General Assam Rifles (North), Kohima.

The Kigwema Youth Organisation (KYO) held its Traditional Monolith Pulling on December 2 at Kipfüzha Kigwema as a launching program and commemoration to its 75th Jubilee Meet 2015. The Chief Ministers of Kachin and Saigang region of Myanmar, Lajon Ngan Seng and U Thar Aye graced the occasion as the chief guests. (Morung Photo)

Dimapur, December 3 (mexN): Lt Gen R K Rana, SM, VSM, Director General of Assam Rifles, (DGAR) visited Headquarters Inspectorate General Assam Rifles (North), Kohima on December 1 and 2.

According to a press note, during his visit the DGAR was briefed on the prevailing security situation in the State including the employment of Assam Rifles and co-ordination with other Security Forces and departments of the Government. The General Officer stressed on the need for synergy of effort at all levels and commended All Ranks for their untiring

efforts towards ensuring peace and tranquility in the State. He was thankful to the Civil Administration, NGOs and the Church for extending cooperation to the Assam Rifles in the discharge of their duties.

The DGAR also inaugurated the Unit Run Canteen of HQ IGAR, which has been renovated and installed with sophisticated and ultra modern facilities.

While attending the ‘Hornbill Festival’ the DGAR was very appreciative about the high standards visible during the conduct of the event. He complimented the organisers and artists for putting up such a magnificent show.

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'attacks on north easterners due to lack of knowledge of the region' Shillong, December 3 (iAnS): The language barrier and lack of knowledge of the culture and identity of the people of the eight northeastern states are among the major reasons for the incidents against them in the Indian capital and other metropolitan cities, experts said.

Former Nagaland chief secretary Alemtemshi Jamir stressed the importance of assimilation and awareness about the culture of the northeastern community to avoid any discrimination against them.

"Frankly, people residing in other parts of India are yet to understand the culture and way of life of a northeasterner.

Even if the government enacts

an anti-racist law, as long as people don't understand other cultures within its own territory it won't help in solving this issue. Therefore, the government should work out a policy to help the people know about northeast," Jamir told IANS. He was one of the members in the Bezbaruah panel that looked into the issues pertaining to the people of northeastern states living in different parts of the country following the barbaric murder in January of Nido Tania in New Delhi.

Sanjeev Kakoty, who teaches at the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong, felt that the struggle for employment in economic liberalization India is a major aspect

‘Stop playing State politics with Naga political issue’ BJP Nagaland reacts to Congress leader KV Pusa’s statement DimApur, December 3 (mexn): The BJP Nagaland stated today that the “Congress is answerable to the people of Nagaland for failure of UPA government to bring solution in its over decade long rule.”

Reacting to former NPCC President, KV Pusa’s statement, the BJP Nagaland said the UPA government had “all the opportunities to solve the Naga problem but chose to walk-out after creating the political mess.”

“When UPA government lacked political will to do the right thing at the right time, what right does Congress have to point fingers at the BJP?” asked a press release from the BJP Nagaland media cell.

It reiterated that there was “absolutely no need” for the Prime Minister to repeatwhatwasalreadymade known to the Nagas. “The NDA government had already made it very clear that unlike the never conclusive policy of UPA government, solution will be hammered out in a time-bound manner. If the Congress had the patience to wait for ten long wasted years, they should not be impatient now.”

The Prime Minister, the BJP State unit noted, had also made it “very clear” that whatever development needs the State has, the same has to be challenged in the State plan.

“Just because he avoided announcing any special economic package during

his visit, it did not mean that the State has been neglected. Unlike the UPA government, NDA government is serious and realistic in allocating development funds,” it maintained.

In six months of its rule, the BJP Nagaland reminded, the NDA government has “done away with the systems of middle-men (dalal) and percentage commission that flourished during UPA government. If some people had expected freebie from PM and got disappointed, BJP can only say it is a pity.”

It further asked the Congress and its leaders to “stop playing State politics” with the Naga political issue.

“Naga people have suffered thus far due to Congress’ ‘hide and seek’ policy.

The State Congress leaders had done more damage than good to the Naga political issue,” the press release stated. According to the BJP, for the State Congress, the Naga political issue was just a “tool to gain electoral mileage.” Defying public call for solution first, election later in 1998, it stated, was the “living testimony and legacy of Congress’ betrayal to Nagas.”

The BJP Nagaland also said that “Judging NDA government even before the dust of UPA government had settled was most unfair. You missed the opportunity given to you. So, do not try to dictate the NDA government but allow it to do its own work.”

The Congress, it stated, has “no moral right” to tell the NDA government to hurry “when in ten years UPA regime it failed to visit the State and was asleep that time.”

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that ignites tensions.

"The acute competition for the jobs in the job market creates tremendous tension when people from the northeast are seen as dominating certain sectors of the job markets. A northeasterner is assured of his job in any corporate house not only because of his qualifications but also of his skills," Kakoty explained.

"It is apparent that the liberal way of life of the northeasterners is in some conflict with the ultra conservative mindset of some sections in other part of the country. This has led to a stereotyping of the people from the northeast and has made them an easy prey for all types of racial crimes," he added.

Sociologist Rekha M. Shanpliang said if the ethnic and racial crimes continue, this "may prove to be unhealthy for the unity of India".

"Sociologists would, therefore, observe the issue as a case of ethnic differences which may not always be linked to ethnic violence on a large scale but this could generate wider differences and conflicts.

Moreover it requires a deeper understanding of how racism and ethnicity works," Shangpliang, who teaches Sociology at Shillong's North Eastern Hill University, told IANS. Naga author Susan Waten felt that the attacks on northeasterners were mainly because of the age-old caste sys-

tem practiced by some sections of people in parts of India.

"This irrational hatred and violence against us is like a scary sociological trend. At the root of the matter, the Indian mindset is still driven by the age-old caste system and its accompanying effects of discrimination and chauvinism," Waten told IANS. The Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim refrained from terming every attack on northeasterners as a hate crime or a racist attack, saying such random acts of crime happen every day in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and other metros.

"Is it that they are specifically targetting people from the northeast or are they

criminals per se and are the attacks at random? What's the psychology behind such attacks? When it happens to a person of the northeastern origin it gets publicity because we take it up with gusto.

We have never delved into the mental makeup of the people who commit these crimes against northeasterners," Mukhim told IANS. "Perhaps it is also because many more of us are living outside the region that we are more visible. This is a social change which the rest of India has not yet learnt to live with. They must therefore also be provided the awareness tools through different media to understand that India is a huge mosaic of people

of different races."

"Our identity is given. We cannot change it but we can learn the life skills to help us cope with the big bad world outside our safe enclaves within the region. Hence we urgently need a counselling centre for students wishing to pursue their studies or work outside the region.

They must learn and imbibe the right attitude to deal with different kinds of people (fellow Indians) who have no understanding of our cultures," Mukhim said.

Mukhim said she does not believe that more stringent laws will help because those who break the laws don't care about the consequences.

AFSPA renewed for a year in Manipur Mukul fears influx after state rail link imphAl, December 3 (Tnn): Amid continuing protests against the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, the Okram Ibobi Singh government has extended its enforcement across the state by another year, with effect from Tuesday baring the Imphal municipal areas.

Activist from the state, Irom Sharmila Chanu, has been on a fast for the past 14 years to seek the withdrawal of the military act, which gives security forces unbridled powers, including the right to shoot people on suspicion.

Notably Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not mention AFSPA in his speech during the closing

ceremony of the Sangai Festival on Sunday. BJP had promised to withdraw the act in its poll manifesto for the Lok Sabha election.

The state cabinet, which met on Monday evening, extended the 'disturbed area' status in the state which is necessitated for the imposition of AFSPA. According to Section 3 of the act, the state government can extend the 'disturbed area' status over the whole state or selected areas.

In the aftermath of the brutal murder and rape of Thangjam Manorama Devi by Assam Rifles personnel in July 2004, the state government lifted the tag from the seven assembly segments in Imphal.

Chaired by chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, the cabinet made note of the continuing violence, including bomb blasts, in different parts of the state, official sources said.

The cabinet decided to request the state governor to convene the winter session of the 10th state legislative assembly. The winter session is likely to begin from December 18.

A Supreme Court order said the state government should review the decision to apply the 'disturbed area' tag over a state or some areas of it, with due permission of the chief minister, after every six months depending on the prevailing law and order situation, the sources added.

INVITATION (1964-2014)

All the past pupils of the Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Kohima are cordially invited to the Golden Jubilee celebration on 5.12.2014 at 10:45 a.m. in the school premises.

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GUESTS OF HONOUR

DR. NEIKIESALIE KIRE Hon’ble Minister of Forest, EMVI. & Wildlife and Rev. Sr. Elizabeth Goerge FMA, Provincial, Province of Guwahati.

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Sd/(Mrs. MEZIVOLU T. THERIEH) PRESIDENT, PPA, LFHSS KOHIMA

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 1st Dec., 2014

NOTIFICATION

In pursuance of the Commission’s Advertisement NO. NPSC-1/2014 dated 3rd May,2014, Notification of even number dated 5th May, 2014, Addendum/Corrigendum dated 23rd May, 2014, Notification No. NPSC/CON-35/2009 dated 13th Sep. 2014 and Corrigendum dated 27th Nov. 2014, the Commission is pleased to declare the written examination results of NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services (Main) 2014 and the candidates bearing the following roll numbers (in ascending order) have qualified for the Viva-Voce: 7003 7047 7072 7108 7143 7178 7212 7242 7266 7300 7334 7356 7377 7403 7424 7443 7468 7491

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The state has proposed a railway line from Jogighopa to Assam's Badarpur, along the Indo-Bangla border, which will connect all Land Custom Stations.

Though there has been no opposition to the introduction of railways in the Garo Hills, a proposal to introduce railways in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills has been in limbo for over 20 years now, with some NGOs and student unions opposing it on the grounds that it would lead to influx of outsiders in Meghalaya.

Mukul Sangma said the state government is putting in place facilitation centres along all entry points to, and exit points from, Meghalaya, including the railway station, to check the influx of outsiders into the predominantly tribal state.

ZION HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE MEDICAL OFFICERS REQUIRED

Zion Hospital &Research Centre, Dimapur is looking to employee two Medical Officers.

Qualification:- MBBS Salary + Perks :- 40,000/- plus Application with relevant documents may be submitted to the Managing Director on any working day.

SHRI. P. B. ACHARYA The Hon’ble Governor of Nagaland

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Shillong, December 3 (Tnn): After Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off Meghalaya's first train, connecting Mendipathar in North Garo Hills to Dudhnoi in Assam's Goalpara district, on Tuesday, chief minister Mukul Sangma sought to allay fears about a possible rise in illegal immigration in the state.

Sangma said the state government is putting in place facilitation centres along all entry points to, and exit points from, Meghalaya, including the railway station, to check the influx of outsiders into the predominantly tribal state.

He urged North East Frontier Railway (NFR) to cooperate with the district administration in making Mendipathar the most secure station in the country.

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i. Viva-voce shall commence from 6th January, 2015. ii. Interview call letters shall be issued to the selected candidates at the time of submission of self certified or attested copies of the following documents from 4th to 16th Dec., 2014: (a) HSLC/Matriculation Admit Card for proof of age. (b) Mark Sheets and Pass Certificates from HSLC onwards till required qualification.

(In the absence of Degree Pass Certificate, Provisional Certificate of Board/ University must be submitted). (c) I.I., SC/ST, BT, Phy. Handicapped (if applicable). iii. Selected candidates will also be required to exercise their post preference and submit their particulars in prescribed format which will be issued by the Commission. iv. Candidates can also access the Commission’s Notice Board and website at www. npsc.co.in or through SMS for information on Medical Test.

(ASANGLA IMTI) Under Secretary, Nagaland Public Service Commission Kohima.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

NAGALAND STATE LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY OLD SECRETARIAT COMPLEX : KOHIMA

A National Lok Adalat is being organized throughout the Country on 6/12/14.

The Nagaland State Legal Services Authority will conduct the Lok Adalat in all the Districts from 9 AM onwards on that day in the Court premises & the Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench.

The types of cases listed below which are pending in the Court at various levels jurisdictions shall be taken up for disposal at the National Lok Adalat: 1. Criminal Compoundable Cases.

2. NI Act cases u/s 138.

3. MACT cases including Accident Information Report (AIR) cases and State Transport cases.

4. Matrimonial/Family Courts cases/Maintenance cases.

5. Civil cases-rent, bank recovery, Debt Recovery Tribunal Cases.

6. Revenue Cases.

7. Service Matters/Pension etc.

8. MISC. Appeals, Criminal Appeals, Civil Appeals, 2nd Appeals, Original Suits, Writs, MACT Appeals, Original Suits, Writs, MACT Appeals before the Hon’ble High Court.

Bank recovery matters which are not yet brought before the Courts shall also be taken up in the Lok-Adalat for settlement. Defaulters may approach the respective Banks & inform their willingness to settle the case in the Lok-Adalat.

Settlement of cases in the Lok Adalat is Free.

Member Secretary

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF HORTICULTURE NAGALAND: KOHIMA

ADVERTISEMENT NO.HR.GEN-1/INTRV/2013-14/2277-79

Dated Kohima the 2nd Dec 2014

Applications are invited from eligible Local/Indigenous Candidates for filling 5 (Five) posts of Horticulture Extension Assistant under the Department of Horticulture, Nagaland in the manner prescribed below.

1. Education Qualification : Graduate in B.Sc. Horti/Agri.

2. Scale of Pay : 5200-20200 with Grade Pay Rs, 2000/- P.M. 3. Age : Minimum 21 years Maximum 35 years.

4. Reservation of vacancies : Reservation policy issued by the Government from time to time shall be applied for Backward Tribes.

5. Last date of submission of application is 9th Jan 2025.

6. Application referring the Advertisement No. along with passport size photo, attested copy of Age Proof Certificate, Indigenous Certificate, Unemployment Certificate, Educational qualification Certificate from HSLC onwards in support of candidature shall be addressed to the Director of Horticulture, Nagaland, Kohima.

7. Incomplete documents including unsigned applications if any and application received after closing date shall be rejected.

(WATIENLA JAMIR) Director of Horticulture Nagaland, Kohima.

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LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY LPG SAfETY TIPS NAGALAND STATEWHAT IS LOK ADALAT? A

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 1. The domestic LPG connection should not be used for any other purposes other than the purpose for which it is approved by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL).

2. The cylinders should not be removed to any other location without prior approval from the IOCL. 3. Only authorized and trained persons should be allowed to handle the equipment.

4. Your installation will remain open for inspection by IOCL and also by the authorized representative of the Distributor. During inspection by us it will be assessed whether you are strictly enforcing all the safety aspects in terms with IOCL requirements. In case of any deficiency observed during the inspection, IOCL shall be within its rights to suspend supplies to you with immediate effect and without any prior notice to you.

5. You also undertake to absolve IOCL of any damages at a subsequent date in case of any mishap arising out of unsafe practices followed by you and in the event of non-compliance to the standard operating instructions laid down by IOCL. 6. It is strictly advised that no other fuel should be used in the same room/cook house where LPG connection is installed. Use of alternative fuel parallel to LPG in the same place will call for immediate suspension of supplies to you without any prejudice.

11. Always keep your cylinder in vertical position. n old statement of Mr. 12. If you smell gas, immediAbraham Lincoln in ately switch off the regulator. Do 1850. Quote “Discournot touch any electric switches, open all windows for ventilation age litigation. Persuade your neighbours to compromise and inform your distributor. wherever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winDONT’S 1. Avoid open flames and in- ner is often a real loser-in-fees flammable materials near the expenses and waste of time.

As a peace maker, the lawyer gas installation.

2. Do not place your cylinder as a superior opportunity of inside a close cupboard under being a good man. There will still be business enough.” This your cooking platform.

3. Do not put any extra pres- has not lost significance even in sure on the Pressure Regulator. the 21st century.

The institution of Lok 4. Do not use polythene or Adalat or People’s Court, as plastic transparent tubes.

5. Do not operate electric a forum for settlement of disputes has been known in India switches if you smell gas.

6. Never leave vessels unat- for ages. At a Lok Adalat, the disputes/cases pending in the tended on a burning gas stove.

7. Do not attempt self repair. court of law or at pre-litigation Always seek your distributor for stage are settled or compromised amicably. The Lok Adalat help. has been given statutory status under the Legal Services AuB. IN CASE OF LEAKAGE thorities Act, 1987 recognizing 1. Shut off main valve.

2. Ensure appliances taps are its efficiency as an expeditious, less costly and speedier system closed.

3. Remove or extinguish all of administration of justice. Under this Act, an Award made by fires or flames.

4. Disconnect the cylinders a Lok Adalat is deemed to be a taking care to put security caps. decree of a civil court and is final 5. Do not bring naked flame and binding on all parties and near the installation in case gas no appeal lies against the Award can be smelt and inform your before any court.

Lok Adalat is a nomendistributor. clature that seems to be freely bandied about by institutions C. IN CASE OF FIRE: which is improper.

1. Shut off main line valve.

Under the law, in the light of 2. Remove cylinders to a safe the provisions of Chapter VI of the place.

3. Call fire brigade and in- Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987,itisonlythelegalservicesinform the distributor. stitutions that can organize a Lok Extra care should be taken Adalat that has statutory backing while lighting the ‘LPG Canteen’ to make a binding Award. burners as given below.

Ensure that: 1. There is no smell of gas and make sure that the valve is off.

2. Then turn on the Pressure Regulator and release the gas very slowly as the pressure is high.

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Capital. The first-of-its-kind virtual store, from the stable Any other instructions of Snapdeal.com, was inaugupassed by IOCL from time to rated by Member of Parliament time has to be complied with, Shashi Tharoor. without excuses.

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A. DO’S AND DONTS DO’S 1. Close burner and regulator knobs every time after cooking.

2. Always keep gas stove on a platform above your cylinder level.

3. Put out all open flames while changing a cylinder.

4. Wear cotton clothes while cooking 5. Always simmer after the food is brought to boil for fuel economy.

6. While lighting a burner, strike match first, then turn on the burner knob.

7. Get your LPG installation checked every two years.

8. Check the rubber tube regularly and replace in case of cracks. Change tube before expiry date.

9. Always use ISI marked green label hotplate and rubber tube.

10. Always fix safety cap when cylinder is not connected to the hotplate.

What are the kinds of cases that can be brought before a Lok Adalat?

All kinds, to put it simply, except non-compoundable criminal cases. Under Section 19 of the Act, a Lok Adalat shall have jurisdiction to determine and to arrive at a compromise or settlement between parties in any case pending before or any matter falling within the jurisdiction of, and has not been brought before any Court for which the Lok Adalat is organized. “Court” has been defined in the Legal Services Authority Act as a civil, criminal or revenue Court, including any Tribunal or any other authority constituted under any law in force, to exercise judicial or quasi-judicial functions.

Lok Adalat largely at one point of time remained a court annexed process, essentially working towards cutting short pending litigation. They continue to discharge this function but have gone a step further.

The process of early settlement of disputes at the pre-litigation stage, though, has not yet caught the fancy of private or individual litigation. But it has received a tremendous response from the institutional litigants such as Banks, Power Distribution Companies etc., which have a large potential of churning out litigation.

One of the biggest advantages of pre-litigation is that, it not only quells the litigation in its infancy and saves huge costs of prosecuting litigation in Courts but it also provides

for greater scope of negotiation for the parties to settle their disputes, as at this point of time parties generally do not have a hardened stand as to their legal rights. They are prepared to negotiate on the basis of their respective interest rather than on their rights.

Amicable settlement governed by voluntariness and consensual participation has resulted in deep satisfaction and overall adherence to the settlement even in such pre-litigation matters. Thus there has been very negligible number of execution applications filled for enforcement of the Lok Adalat Awards in pre-litigation matters.

Permanent Lok Adalat In 2002, the Legal Services Authorities Act was amended to provide for the setting up of Permanent Lok Adalats for public utility services. The public utility services referred to in Section 22-A (b) of the Act are (i) air, road or water transport for goods and passengers, (ii) supply of power, light or water to the public, (iii) postal, telegraph or telephone services, (iv) system of public conservancy or sanitation, (v) service in hospitals or dispensaries, or (vi) insurance service. These services have a large share of litigations as they have a huge consumer base. Permanent Lok Adalat is a forum to resolve all the disputes which arise between an individual and the public utility services before the disputes are taken to the Court. As the name would

suggest, unlike the other Lok Adalats organized from time to time, it is a Lok Adalat which remains permanently available for anyone to approach for settling his/her dispute at a specified address with a Bench constituted for a tenure of three years. The permanent Lok Adalat is to be guided by the principles of justice, equity, fair play and other legal principles, just as the other Lok Adalats are.

Continuous Lok Adalat is a concept of recent origin. There has been a realization in the course of time that a dispute may not be resolved in a day.

People may want to think over the likely terms of settlement.

Ordinarily Lok Adalats are organized for a day and in case of failure, the disputes are sent back to the Court for resumption of trial as before. This form of Lok Adalat had been subject to criticism by some, saying, that a Lok Adalat of such nature hardly has sufficient time to make a wholehearted effort for the settlement of the dispute.

Therefore, even the disputes which have some element of settlement go unsettled. The concept of continuous Lok Adalats offers a distinct advantage of engaging the parties over a period of time and undertakes all the methods for helping them to reach a settlement. The necessity to constitute such forum arose specially to handle the Matrimonial Disputes, Commercial Disputes and disputes which are of a bit complicated nature. It has also

developed as a facility available daily in the Court campus, at the offices of the District Legal Services Authorities and now at the District Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Centres for those people who wish to opt for amicable settlement instead of litigated resolution of their disputes.

Mobile Lok Adalats In sync with the new strategy of NALSA of engaging itself pro-actively with the poor and the marginalized sections of the society, living in rural and far flung or remote areas, and realizing that it may not be easy for such people to approach the Legal Services Authorities for legal help in the case of need, the idea was developed that the Legal Services Authorities should approach them at their door steps. Thus came the Mobile Lok Adalats. The purpose of this scheme is to take the Lok Adalat set up in a Multi-utility van to different areas for resolving petty cases and also spreading legal awareness in the area.

It was also decided that a special sitting of Magistrates may be organized to dispose of petty matters which were compoundable under the Municipal laws, shops and establishment Act, Excise Act, Prosecutions for violation of labour laws such as Minimum Wages act, Excise Act prosecutions for violation of labour laws such as Minimum Wages Act, Traffic Challans etc. including for stopping of proceedings under section 258 Cr. P.C.

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But the differently abled usually do not have that opportunity. For them, it is a struggle to get to a shop, and reach the kind of product they need.

With this initiative, the differently abled can now buy products at the click of a mouse.”

Rohit Bansal, Co-founder, chines and walking sticks. specifications and make an in- Snapdeal.com, added, “Approximately 27 million peoThe store will also enable formed buying decision. the buyers to compare product Tharoor said, “We have all ple in India have a disability

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5 ‘We are capable of doing just as much as anyone’ Naga society needs solid, thoughtful, Nagaland observes International Day of Persons with Disabilities provocative books: Hornbill lit Fest

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Morung Express News Dimapur | December 3

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is observed around the world annually on December 3 to promote awareness and mobilize support for critical issues pertaining to the inclusion of persons with disabilities in society and development.

Nagaland also celebrated the day. In Dimapur, Exodus Disabled People Organizations Federation in collaboration with Prodigals’ Home, Development Association of Nagaland and People in Need Foundation observed it at Covenant Hall, Christian Higher Secondary School. In Mokokchung, the occasion was marked by 31 Assam Rifles distributing wheel chairs and crutches to the differently abled persons.

With the theme “Sustainable Development: The Promise of Technology”, IDPD 2014 aims to utilise advances in technology to improve and promote inclusion of the lives of persons with disabilities (PWDs). It further aims to promote accessibility to help realise full and equal participation of PWDs. However, in the Indian and Naga context, inclusion and accessibility of the PWDs remain a challenge. The Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2014

seeks to enable inclusion and accessibility however the bill has not been passed yet. Amongst others, the bill seeks to make all public buildings accessible for persons with disabilities.

At CHSS Covenant Hall in Dimapur, Merentoshi Jamir, Chairman SIRD & Minerals, who was the chief guest, stated that PWDs could achieve greater things if they take the disability as a challenge and not as impairment.

Citing Stephen Hawking and Stevie Wonder, who have excelled in their respective fields of physics and music, he encouraged the disabled community to have courage and determination in pursuing their dreams.

Dr. Imlitemsu Ozukum, MD (PMR), sharing from medical perspective stressed on early intervention, full participation of caregivers and right treatment. Maong Jamir, Assistant Director, Prodigals’ Home shared the initiatives of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) for People with Disabilities programme and concept of Disabled People Organizations (DPO). As per his report, Dimapur has 52 Village level DPO, three Block level DPOs, one district level DPO and one

State level DPO. In another function in Dimapur, School for Visually Impaired celebrated the occasion at their school complex in Notun Basti.

The chief guest, Elizabeth Ngully, ADC Dimapur, exhorted, “Do not be disheartened about your disabilities. Trust in God and he will open a way for you.”

In Mokokchung, Commandant 31 AR Col. Sudesh Bhangra, said that it was an honour for the Assam Rifles to help the needy. Mentioning that it was an opportunity from above to help the disabled persons, he stated Assam Rifles is always ready to help the people.

ADC Mokokchung, Bendanglila pointed out that discriminations against PWDs exist. “Every citizen must ponder upon and walk to finish what is left to be done by raising the issues and rights of the disabled people so that those differently abled people can have a better place and society to leave in.” Bendanglila also stated that special schools and institutions for the disabled in the district must be opened through the initiatives of all people.

Care and Support Society, who initiated the celebration in Mokokchung, submitted a mem-

orandum to the DC Mokokchung requesting him to implement the Person with Disabilities Act 1995 Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation Act 1995. The memo asserted that the PWDs did not need charity and sympathy, but only their constitutional rights.

K. Yabang, Principal, School for Visually Impaired, Notun Basti, Dimapur, has also affirmed that discriminations against PWDs exist. Giving an example, he cited that his Blind School had asked for presenting songs during this year’s Hornbill Festival, but were denied a chance to do so. Yabang, who is himself blind, further said that people generally are not helpful. “I cannot even cross the main road. It will take me a year to cross.”

Akito Sema, Resource Teacher for Inclusive Education for the Disabled meanwhile maintained, “Acknowledging the differently abled as equals has been very difficult for us.”

But, he said that with more awareness on the issue, people have started opening up. “People are starting to realise and accept.”

“Do not neglect or discriminate us, because we are also capable of doing just as much as anyone but we need help. So help us instead,” Yabang appealed.

With inputs from DIPR

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4 December 2014

Morung Express News Kohima | December 3

“We are decades behind everybody else. There is so much catching up to do.

We are yet to get into that ‘reformation’ period,” said I. Himato Zhimomi (IFS), Commissioner and Secretary, Department of Art and Culture, during the opening of the Hornbill Literature Festival, which started on December 3, to continue through December 4.

When there is so much competition in the digital world, Nagaland is in a very backward stage, added Zhimomi. “Our society needs solid, thoughtful, provocative books and not just re-interpretation of other books. We need something indigenous. We want our own people to understand where we exist,” asserted Zhimomi, citing the examples of how great writers in other countries have changed the course of history, and their society, through their writings.

Zhimomi also informed that every year the Department of Art and Culture is unable to find an indigenous writer to confer the Governor’s award to, for excellence in writing, because of the shortage of good writers.

The event was graced

Noted Naga writer Easterine Kire speaks during the Hornbill Literature Festival on December 3 at The Heritage, Kohima.

by Er. Kropol Vitsu, Parliamentary Secretary, Art and culture, Printing and Stationary while the keynote address was delivered by Charles Chasie.

Talking about the Literature Festival which received critical reviews in previous years, Zhimomi stated that one cannot expect a “Big Bang” for a State that still needs nurturing.

For a State that has other battles and cultural weapons knocking at our doorstep, which are all foreign, he hoped that the Lit Fest will direct the right path for the society. Zhimomi concluded that writing is the most difficult form of expression and that the power of the written word is indeed enormous.

Easterine Kire, speaking on ‘The Project of Writing

Ourselves,’ stated that Nagas have been interrupted by history in the form of three major displacements and battles: the British Invasion, the Japanese invasion and the Indo-Naga War. Most times the narration of women and children are silenced but in the case of the Indo-Naga war, there was total silencing even of the men, said Easterine Kire.

We’ve been written about but never got the opportunity to write ourselves. In the project of writing ourselves, Kire also focused on fighting labels, false labels that writers have stereotyped the Nagas with.

Two books were also released at the event, namely Archaeology of Naga Ancestral Sites Vol. I & II by Tiatoshi Jamir and Physical Characteristics of the Na-

Dimapur

gas of Nagaland Vol I & II by R. Moasangla Jamir where both authors gave a brief introduction to their books.

Physical Characteristics of the Nagas of Nagaland Vol I & II by R. Moasangla Jamir deals with the physical anthropology of Nagaland where the data collection covered 14 Naga tribes and 10 districts.

Archaeology of Naga Ancestral Sites Vol. I & II by Tiatoshi Jamir focuses on the ancestral sites of Aos, Phoms, Sangtams and certain parts of the Chang community. The book places the practice of archaeology and the colonial notions of Naga history, culture and migration and sets the motion to rethink colonial notions. The book also deals with community archaeology at Chungliyimti, which, according to the writer, is the first initiative in the region of North East India.

The book further explores the antiquity of other Naga ancestral sites by researching early agricultural history and livestock managements. One of the highlights of the book is the locating of RYK (Mimi) in the context of the mid-Holescene data set of North East India and mainland South East Asia, which is significant for rethinking early human migration to North East India.

LHD lauds Nagaland Post Transfer and One arrested for assault and robbery DDADU directs auto drivers Dimapur, December 3 (mexN): On the successful completion of 24 years of “consistent and untiring service” to the people, irrespective of class, area or faith, the Lotha Hoho Dimapur has congratulated Nagaland Post for its “hard

earned success” and prayed that it carries on to further heights. In a press release, LHD stated that the editor, Geoffrey Yaden and staff of Nagaland Post, the first English daily in Nagaland, has given “yeoman service to us all.”

Eight join GPRN/NSCN Dimapur, December 3 (mexN): The GPRN/NSCN has welcomed and confirmed eight members who joined its fold from different Naga political groups Rank Captain Lieutenant 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Lieutenant Sergeant Private Private Private

Name Janlen Khehuto Hevito Ato Thepise Akivi Manen Imli

on December 3 at designated camp, Khehoi. Following are the names and ranks of the members as stated in a press release issued by MIP, GPRN/ NSCN:

Region Arunachal Sumi Sumi Chang USR Sumi Ao Ao

From NSCN (K) NSCN (K) FGN (non-acc) NSCN(K) NSCN(IM) NSCN(K) NSCN(K) NSCN(K)

postings of NCS

Kohima, December 3 (Dipr): The department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms in a Notification No PAR4/2/2009 dated November 25, 2014, has ordered for transfer and posting of the following officers with immediate effect: Gregory Thejawelie, NCS, Joint Secretary, Chief Minister's Secretariat -transferred and posted as Joint Secretary, School Education and Mission Director, SSA vice O.T; Chingmak Chang, IAS, relieved of Mission Director, SSA; Hiazu Meru, NCS, Deputy Secretary, Food & Civil Supplies and Special Officer to Chief Minister shall hold additional charge of Deputy Secretary, Chief Minister Secretariat till further order.

Is Nagaland ready for Gross State Happiness?

Morung Express News Dimapur | December 3

Roads are made by walking, but make the roadmap yourself by taking along the people tapping into their creativity and answering the problems in a new way, stated Dasho Karma Ura, President, Centre for Bhutan Studies & GNH Research, Bhutan, espousing the notion of Gross National Happiness (GNH). He was giving the keynote address at the Nagaland Post’s “Conclave: 2014” titled, “Paradigm of socio-economic progress.”

According to him, GNH is a holistic and sustainable approach to development which balances between material and non-material values and aimed at achieving a balanced development in all facets of life, which is essential to happiness. GNH consists of four pillars: Fair socio-economic development (better education and health), conservation and promotion of a vibrant culture, environmental protection and good governance. At its core is a unique approach to national and global development emphasising on sustainable economic growth The four pillars are further elaborated in nine domains (see Box) and Bhutan has developed 38 sub-indexes, 72 indicators and 151 variables that are used to define and analyze the happiness of the Bhutanese peo-

ple through a GNH Index.

Making an analogy of similarity in cultural vibrancy and rich natural resources between Nagaland and Bhutan, Ura emphasised the need to incorporate such idea into the conceptualisation of development. “Cultural ecology is extremely profitable and helps not only in its preservation but generates predictable fund in forms of tourism which is better than having it in one go.”

Development should not come at marginalisation of others, he argued, saying that most dominant discourse on development emphasise on economic capital, while undermining social, cultural and human capital. “It only leads to more consumption rather than preservation of the society.” He added, “GDP alone is a weak indicator of development, and the well being of the people is needed to be addressed in a holistic manner.”

Quoting the King of Bhutan who said, “What we need is not a leader to lead the masses but leadership of self,” he maintained that the path to sustainable development can be achieved only through someone who can mould the next generation of leaders enabling seamless transition.

Earlier, Editor-in- Chief, Nagaland Post, Geoffrey Yaden stated his understanding of the concept as “democratic planning – dis-

The 9 domains of GNH 1. Living Standards 2. Education 3. Health 4.Cultural Diversity & Resilience 5.Community Vitality 6.Time use 7.Psychological Well-being 8. Ecological Diversity 9. Good Governance cipline implementation.”

Reflecting on the presentation, Alemtemshi Jamir IAS (retired) and former Chief Secretary, said that while the planning process always aims at increasing the well-being of the society, materialism dominates the thinking process leading to its failure.

Arguing that Bhutan and Nagaland had different trajectories of development, Jamir said Nagas are still juxtaposed between primitive and modern society and the remnants of violent creation of state still affect the essence of governance.

“Two Nagaland exist, one at village and the other at the urban level, and whose happiness we are going to plan,” he questioned, adding that the dimension and dynamics of development, therefore, should be fine tuned with realities of the societies.

For starter, he advocated accountability, transparency, responsibility and understanding of duties and rights.

Kohima, December 3 (mexN): One person was arrested for assaulting and robbing truck drivers in Khuzama on December 1. The accused, identified as Vesutonyi Rhakho (35) is a habitual offender and was earlier arrested in connection with Kohima South Police Station case no. 0012/14 U/S 384 IPC R/W 7 NSR for committing similar offence, stated a press release from SDPO & PRO Kohima, Atu Zumvü.

The release informed that on December 1, around 2:00 am, two truck drivers reported at Khuzama police check gate that three “unknown miscreants” had stopped their vehicles between Visema and Khuzama; physically assaulted them and robbed them of cash amounting to Rs. 1, 800/Accordingly, the police personnel manning Khuzama police check gate

rushed to the spot and found one of the miscreants (Vesutonyi Rhakho) already apprehended by the youths of Khuzama village, the release added.

One Maruti Zen (Silver colour) bearing registration number AS01/L 7079, chassis no. 600602, engine no. 160844, which is suspected to be stolen, along with a cash of Rs. 8, 600/- was recovered from the possession of the arrested person, the release said. A wireless transmission message has been originated to all the OCs of North East states to ascertain whether the said car is reported stolen or involved in their cases.

A regular case has been registered against the arrested person and he is remanded in police custody for further investigation, according to the release.

Dimapur, December 3 (mexN): With the Hornbill Festival underway and the flow of tourists to Nagaland in full swing, the Dimapur District Auto Drivers Union (DDADU) has directed the auto drivers to maintain all decorum and extend help to the passengers who are new to the town “since auto-rickshaws are the backbone of the transport system in and around Dimapur.”

A press release from DDADU president, K. Hokaito Zhimomi further informed all the drivers not to charge exorbitant fares or dupe the passengers, but rather be “good Samaritans” by extending all possible assistance in case of any confusion.

“By doing so, the image of Nagaland will be enhanced and more people

will visit our state in the near future.”

Pointing out that with the advent of festive season, the flow of both vehicles and people have increased in Dimapur, the DDADU president also directed all auto drivers to be alert and follow the traffic regulations to avoid unnecessary jams and avert accidents.

“While not forgetting the fact that passengers are our bread-providers, the auto drivers are requested to be humble while ferrying the passengers to their destinations when they come from different parts of Nagaland for shopping.”

The DDADU has welcomed all tourists to Nagaland and wished them a memorable stay. It also wished all a Merry Christmas and very peaceful and prosperous 2015.

Public SPace

REJOINDER ON LOTHA OR KYONG Dr. Renphamo Lotha Former Law Officer to the Govt. of India and Government of Nagaland, present Advocate

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have been greatly surprised to have read through the aforesaid article written by Ezamo Murry, a retired church worker. Unfortunately, he was not conversant on the subject matter as the subject was purely a constitutional and legal matter and never a church matter.

Hence, he has commented the subject out of context and out of ignorance. But mind you, ignorance of law has no excuse in the eye of law. Hence, I have been constrained to fill the gap to clarify the confusion created by him and few others who have been termed misguided people.

The term, “Scheduled Tribe” has been defined under Article 342 of the Constitution of India. Members of Scheduled Tribe contains in the Constitution of Scheduled Tribes Order 1950, as amended by the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Order (Amendment) Act, 63 of 1956, 108 of 1976, 18 of 1987, 15 of 1990.

Under the aforesaid provisions of the Constitution, the President of India has notified through the Home Ministry, Government of India the fourteen recognized Naga tribes. The same

notification has been issued by the Government of Nagaland through the Home Department. In the aforesaid notification, the Lotha tribe has been specified as one of the recognized Naga tribes among the fourteen Naga tribes of Nagaland.

Hence, the status quo of the aforesaid notification still remains the same despite unrecognized claims of the Kyong mistaken by the Kyong Baptist Church Association (the original Lotha Baptist Church Association and few others).

Hence, the Kyong Baptist Church Association, Kyong Academy, Kyong Senior Citizens are unrecognized, self made bodies without any legal recognition by the Government of India and the Government of Nagaland.

The Government rules by the rule of law. From the top most President down to the lowest peon is all the same in the eye of law. No one is above the rule – be it church, voluntary bodies. They can never climb above the rule of law. If they continue to do so, they are liable to be prosecuted by laws, no matter how high they falsely imagine.

As per available data, in 1923, the Lotha General Assembly decided to hold the same title, “Lotha Hoho”. On the 28th November, 2014, the general Lotha Hoho participated by 82 Villages consisting of 80 per cent of the Lotha

villages decided to continue to use the same “Lotha Hoho” without any adulteration as “old is gold”.

Thereby, the self styled Kyong Baptist Church Association adopted in 1979 at Tsingiki Village became illegal body in the eye of law. Thus, the Kyong Baptist Church Association has fully violated the law of the land and the Bible liable to be prosecuted under the rule of law.

Meanwhile, the Kyong Academy and the Kyong Senior Citizens Association also have became illegal bodies liable to be prosecuted by the rule of law. Hence, the Kyong Baptist Church Association, the Kyong Academy and the Kyong Senior Citizens Association must beg unconditional public apology in the press otherwise they may face due process of legal prosecution having done irreparable damage and inconvenience to the public by cheating and confusing them beyond repair.

Despite the wide spread confusion created by 0.1 per cent of the Lotha population, I hereby congratulate the 99.9 per cent Lotha population who hold on to the truth as per the rule of the law and the Bible. Let the 0.1 per cent black sheep come back and join the 99.9 per cent of the Lotha population with the philosophy, “unity is strength” to develop the Lothas in all fronts in the days to come.

RTI APPlICATIoN To, The Public Information officer, PWD (National Highways) Kohima, Nagaland.

Sub: Application under RTI Act, 2005 Sir,

With reference to the subject cited above, I kindly request you to furnish me with the following information regarding the works done in the financial year 2013-2014, 2014-2015 in National Highway 2 (Dimapur-Kohima) and national Highway 61 (Kohima-Mokokchung).

1. Name of the contractor, Distance allotted and Amount sanctioned.

2. Allotted areas to be repaired and those areas to be fully blacktopped and the amount sanctioned.

3. Time period to complete the work in those areas.

Enclosed application fee of Rs.10.

Yours faithfully, S. T. Yapang Lkr The information seek above regarding the road condition in both the highways and for how long it has been neglected is a well known fact to the public and the areas where it was patched is also well known. Therefore if the following information furnished by the PIO, National Highways is not up to the satisfaction; pictures of those highways will be highlighted in the print media. And the result will be judged by the public. If the quality of the works are upto the standard everyone should appreciate it, but if the quality of the work is not upto the standard then the matter will be addressed to the Chief Minister of Nagaland to blacklist or suspend those contractors or the officials concern.

I would also like to encourage everyone to use our right in using the RTI Act since most of the road conditions in Nagaland is no better than the other.

Seeking information on various issues through RTI is not an act against any individual but a right given to every citizen of India by the constitution. Likewise, people in the rural areas should also seek information from the RD department regarding the funds allotted to the VDB for developmental works in their respective villages. So in order to benefit one and all and as a responsible citizen, I am sharing this for everyone to be aware of.

The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor.

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A psychology of war Belling the mice P I THursDAy 4 DEcEmbEr 2014 volumE IX IssuE 334

by Aheli moitra

t is one of the most used of Aesop’s parables when referring to power. A group of mice come together to take collective action on belling the cat (as a way to warn them of its predating arrival). And then one mouse poses the inevitable question: who will actually bell the cat?

It is an important question to ask on collective action but misses the crucial point of collective action itself. The fact that the mice realized the essence of the solution to their problem was not to address it individually, but together as a group, holds salt.

In Nagaland, we notice a number of groups coming together to demand basic rights. This phenomenon is most common among those in a fund-based relationship with the State Government. The cat here is a bulky State bureaucracy, governed, not wholly, by political mistresses. Every year the State Government’s representatives gulp down so much, of what is rightfully the citizen’s, that every year dozens of associations and federations are formed. Teachers (school, Hindi, college, private etc.), doctors, work charge employees, pensioners, contractors, municipal workers, drivers, and now even the media, have attempted to come together to demand the most basic of rights—the right to be paid on time for work done (it is slavery otherwise, isn’t it?).

And in each of the agitations by these collective groups, we have seen a similar response from the State Government—to pull out certain individuals from the said associations and groups to negotiate a ‘deal.’ Instead of curing the disease whose scars are blackening, the collective is divided, and its action weakened with a ‘deal’ maliciously signed on its behalf with any perceived beller of the cat. They inevitably fail because the problem remains exactly where it was—a corrupt system guzzling on entitlements.

The individuals who break away from collective action need a wake up jolt. In a place like Nagaland where no one person can achieve even a basic set of rights given the level of oppression, people standing together is critical to not just obtaining rights (and filling their stomachs due to dependency on wages in most cases) but also dignity as citizens, and professionals. By turning their back on collective action, especially in such small scale call for rights, these breakaway individuals are critical to the demolition of dignity. Instead of belling the cat, they land up belling the mice.

Such short sighted actions of the Nagaland State Government, as well as those who work against strengthening small communities, are possible because the most educated lot now works to strengthen their own status, please the powerful and fill their pockets alone. These actions lead to another rhyme that kids the age of 5 chant, their hands knotted together. It ends with ‘We all fall down.’

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Mary Hansen Yes Magazine

Conflict Kitchen Conflict Kitchen serves up food from countries in conflict with the United States—and its customers think it's worth defending

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n front of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, students gather around metal tables and chairs next to a small, brightly colored building. It houses Conflict Kitchen, an unusual restaurant that features food from conflict zones. Employees in scrubs from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hustle by its counter to get lunch before rushing back to the hospital just blocks away.

Conflict Kitchen offers a rotating menu of traditional foods from countries the United States is in conflict with. The goal, says Jon Rubin, co-director of the takeout restaurant, is to encourage a different kind of dialogue about places like Iran, Venezuela, and Afghanistan, one that counters negative depictions of those places and their people. “Food is the easiest way to enter into understanding, or look into another culture,” Rubin said. “Food has all the stories of a region, a people, a culture embedded in it. You are tasting these things before you even think about these things.”

That message seems to be getting through to the restaurant’s customers. “When I first came to Pitt last year, they were serving Cuban food,” says University of Pittsburgh senior Hadeel Salameh. “I thought it was a really unique way to portray dialogue and coexistence on campus, and let people know about the ongoing struggles of others around the world, or people that we perceive as others.”

Salameh is the president of the University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. When Conflict Kitchen started planning a Palestinian menu, she and other members of the group offered to support the effort in any way they could.

They served as taste testers, volunteered to be interviewed about Palestinian food, culture, and politics and to be featured on the food wrappers, and attended a couple of events hosted

by Conflict Kitchen with others from Pittsburgh’s Palestinian community. “For me, as a Palestinian, it has been a home away from home,” Salameh said. “It tastes like Palestine.”

So, when on November 7 Conflict Kitchen announced on its Facebook page that it was closing temporarily due to death threats it received in the mail, Salameh was shaken. “I was trying really hard not to be afraid,” she said. “A death threat is very threatening to a community, not just the restaurant.”

Because of the connection she felt with Conflict Kitchen and a deep respect for its mission, she and the members of Students for Justice in Palestine felt an immediate responsibility to stand up for the restaurant.

They organized a rally outside the restaurant three days after it closed, which around 200 people attended. About 50 people spoke at the rally—including young kids, college students, and longtime Pittsburgh residents—all voicing their support for Conflict Kitchen and its mission.

Supporters covered the walls of the building in hundreds of notes with messages like “Conflict Kitchen promotes understanding in the face of ignorance!” and “Stay strong! Love will conquer fear!”

After speaking with the Pittsburgh police department, Rubin and co-director Dawn Weleski decided to reopen the restaurant on Thursday, November 13, with the notes still affixed to its walls. “We are overwhelmed by the generous support we have received this week for the project and the rights of Palestinians to present their perspectives without fear of reprisal,” Conflict Kitchen posted on their website last week. “We are deeply moved by these responses and are excited to reopen and continue our programming.”

Both Salameh and Rubin are hopeful that the support the restaurant received can be a force to promote understanding of Palestinian voices and perspectives in American political and cultural discourse.

sychology as an academic discipline in the modern research university tends toward ‘intrapsychic’ formulations, that is, study of the subject as if he or she were isolated in a laboratory. Sigmund Freud himself was a Hobbesian, committed to the belief that society was a war of all against all. His aim was to discover how this self-serving, feral beast could be tamed and incorporated into a more pacific body politic.

In the Hobbesian and Freudian scheme, a Leviathan was necessary: the sovereign state, which secured peace against human predispositions. Human nature was, like nature itself, a dangerous and chaotic force, calling for domestication and ‘civilization’. Freud interiorized this drama for individuals as a set of competing psychic phantoms: instinctual drive, ego, and superego. The instinctual drive was ‘the wolf’, the animal appetites. The ego was the I-ness, the enclosed sense of self that appeared after Descartes, which bargained between the instinctual drives and the superego. The superego was the conscience, that interiorized cop, the ‘forum internum’ that the church had invented for its members in the thirteenth century to make them self-policing citizens of the ‘societas perfecta’.

“Men are not gentle, friendly creatures,” wrote Freud, “wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but…a powerful measure of desire for aggression has to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment...Homo homini lupus.”

Jessica Benjamin criticizes Freud’s model of psychic life as fundamentally asocial, between a subject and objects. Her approach is between subjects and subjects. Benjamin’s ‘intersubjective’ approach assumes that each person inevitably develops within social relations. Benjamin is concerned with the problem of domination, and she identifies gender as the key terrain, especially during childhood development, for the exploration of domination.

The term ‘aggression’ is commonly used in intrapsychic psychology, as an internal drive. ‘Domination’ assumes a relation. Benjamin believes that gender is almost always associated with the ways in which domination emerges in our culture.

This is especially true about war.

Warfare is gendered. There is no doubt that women have committed violent acts. Nor is there any doubt that women can participate and have participated in armed combat, but this is a vulgar argument against the gendered-ness of war.

Sex and power Gender is a system that, among other things, divides power between men and women. ‘Masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ are symbolically attached to sexual dimorphism, but not identical with it. Various cultures give rise to variable conceptions of masculinity and femininity, so it is possible to use the plural: masculinities and femininities. Yet, while masculinities and femininities have multiplied over time and space, one transhistorical phenomenon has always been gendered ‘masculine’, and that is war.

Women may participate in war, but in our social imaginary, war is still man’s business. Women may fight, but fighting is still considered a ‘masculine’ virtue. The few women who fight have not undone the dominant symbolic association of passive receptivity with femininity or of masculinity with domination.

We all know what is meant when someone says, “I'm going to make you my bitch.” This language associates submission with women and ‘masculine’ sex with hostility, an association that serves as an artesian spring of misogyny.

“The point of departure,” writes Benjamin in The Bonds of Love, “is…that woman functions as man’s primary other, his opposite – playing nature to his reason, immanence to his transcendence, primordial oneness to his individuated separateness, and object to his subject…gender polarity underlies such familiar dualisms as autonomy and dependency, and thus establishes the coordinates for the position of master and slave.”

Recognition and submission Human beings need ‘recognition’: in Benjamin this is akin to validation or love. We need other people to be recognized by them as well as to grant recognition. Recognition is mutual. Both of us need to do it at once. For you to recognize me, I need to acknowledge you as a subject like myself, and vice versa, for mutuality to happen. Research with moth-

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ll life is a gift from God, and there is integrity to creation. The Genesis 1:31 holds the stance that after creating all of heaven and earth and every form of life, God saw that "… indeed, it was very good." (NKJV).

Life is all destined for different purpose and professions yet all paths leads to God. Contextually people go for fames and fancies to own credit in their life.

But behind the real scene of life there is some other life which is more influential than their life. Know why? The differently-abled people lived their life to the fullest.

Despite of their short comings and limitations the differently-abled people struggle with lives and bring out the best part of life to the world. Their act of diligence is seen crystal clear. They act a motivational role to the hopeless people. Their spiritual life content is much deep rooted than the abled (normal) people. Aren’t the differently-abled people the role model for the people who keep neglecting their life thinking life is too complicated?

Although nearly everyone faces tough times in this current life, the differently-abled people are hit particularly hard as a result of lower income,

Women may participate in war, but in our social imaginary, war is still man’s business. The few women who fight have not undone the dominant symbolic association of passive receptivity with femininity or of masculinity with domination

In this image made from a video taken in late November, 2014, Kurdish fighter Pervin Kobani rides in the back of a pickup truck through Kobani, Syria. On the front lines of the battle for Kobani, Kurdish female fighters have been playing a major role in helping defend the Syrian town from an onslaught by the Islamic State extremist group.

Pervin Kobani is one of them. She is 19 years old, a farmer’s daughter. In late November, she was part of a team holding an eastern frontline position coming under regular attack from extremist fighters trying to take the town since mid-September. (AP Photo/Jake Somkin via AP video)

ers and infants shows that this mutuality begins very early. The child is not merely an appetite aimed at a breast. Child and mother recognize one another.

They take pleasure in one another’s presence. In mutuality, psychic boundaries are permeable.

Mutuality is simultaneously vulnerability and self-assertion in tension with one another. When that tension is broken by the polarization of selfassertion, mutuality gives itself over to a power struggle. “[T]he inability to sustain paradox,” says Benjamin, “convert[s] the exchange of recognition into domination and submission.” Referring to Hegel, Benjamin summarizes this paradox as “the simultaneous need for the independence and dependence of the self-conscious.” In Hegel, this is a struggle to the death that leads to a master-slave relation, because in Hegel, as in Freud and Hobbes, mutuality is foreclosed by a view of the person as pure self-assertion. (In all three, this person is male.)

Part of the ‘tension’ in Benjamin’s thesis is the fact that the other person is held in my mind in a way that never completely accords with the other person’s own experience of existence. In a sense, the other person must continually be ‘destroyed’ in my mind then observed to have survived that destruction in order for me to reassure myself of her existence, an existence that makes recognition possible. Her independence is necessary for her to recognize me, subject to subject. Yet I know that she is independent by challenging her independence through my own self-assertion.

When this dynamic involves a ready state of forgiving invitation, power is negotiable. When one has to prevail and one submit, the dominationsubmission dynamic replaces mutuality. The submissive desires revenge. The dominator loses recognition, because his objectification of the other out of a desire for omnipotence has erased the subjectivity necessary for mutual recognition.

If one asserts her will, however, ‘destroying’ the other in her mind, and the other survives without becoming combative, without pitting the two per-

sons against one another, then rapprochement is possible. Serial experiences of rapprochement lead to ‘attunement’, and the earliest experiences of attunement, usually between mother and child, are bound to the development and experience of the erotic – a psychosomatic sense of deep attachment, not simply sexual feeling, and an experience of oneness – a permeability of boundaries.

Masculinity is indoctrinated – especially in its martial forms – as a highly policed psychic boundary, one which – like a military perimeter – is fortified against all vulnerability.

Masculinity constructed as domination eroticizes violence. The tragic paradox is that women in a society where masculinity is constructed as domination are indoctrinated to find dominance in men sexually attractive, which makes Benjamin’s study of the domination-submission dynamic, as opposed to simply domination, so important. Yet men, too, are imbricated into this polarized structure. In war, where domination masculinity is given its freest reign, there is an extreme submission to authority, a fear and adoration of dominant figures.

This might be anything from an admired infantry squad leader to the Fuhrer.

Origin myths In Freud, the origins of domination are understood as an imaginary oedipal conflict. The son overthrows the father, but the son’s fear of the lawlessness of his own son compels him to replicate the repressions of the father. This was the basis, according to Freud (and of Hegel and Hobbes, without specific references to Oedipus), of civilization.

Freud rightly introduced the idea that early precognitive experience influences the rest of our lives, but his specific account of that experience was European, bourgeois, and male.

“Analyzing the oedipal model in Freud’s original formulations and in the work of later psychoanalysts,” Benjamin explains, “we find the common thread: the idea of the father as protector, or even savior, from a mother who would pull us back into the ‘limitless narcissism’ of infancy.” Freud was an enabler of domination-masculinity. His intraspychic approach could not penetrate the cultural origin of masculinity wherein boys, who are indoctrinated into the idea that dependency is a threat to their selfhood as a male, will turn against all women as a deleterious influence. They will close the border.

“Why is the border closed between the genders?” asks Benjamin. “Feminist theory concludes that the derogation of the female side of the polarity leads to a hardening of the opposition between male and female individuality as they are now constructed.” The search for recognition is transformed into a struggle for omnipotence, understood as a flight from dependency, not by the intrapsychic drama, but by the cultural constructions of masculinity. Because boys generally form their first and deepest attachment to their mothers, this is a painful process of separation which can contribute to deep confusion, as well as resentment towards and irrational desire for revenge against women. You make me dependent! You threaten my boundaries with feminine vulnerability!

A society dedicated to war will promote a form of masculinity that celebrates violence. But as Benjamin shows, the predisposition for the domination that violence accomplishes originates as “the derogation of the female side of the polarity leads to a hardening of the opposition between male and female.”

“Power,” says Nancy Hartsock, “irreducibly involves questions of eros.” The association between eros, hostility, and domination, learned during a man’s earliest formative years, is not incidental to domination in the other spheres of life. It is vital for the reproduction of conquest-masculinity; and the normalization of conquest-masculinity is vital for a society organized by war.

“To the extent that either sexual relations or other relations are structured by a dynamic of domination/submission,” says Benjamin, “the others as well will operate along these dimensions, and in consequence, the community as a whole will be structured by domination.”

Benjamin unmasks the gendered “genesis of the psychic structure in which one person plays subject and the other must serve as object.” The invulnerable male is a fighting male. And in militaristic societies, the ultimate proof of masculinity is against enemies in war.

Compassionate Christmas: Differently-abled People vire rume

NIELIT, Kohima higher costs, fewer support services and unpredictable health conditions.

Despite of the service offered to the differently-abled people knowing their stance, the abled people produce an illegitimate and valueless comfort, which hinders them to involve in societal and other activities. The doors are completely closed for them to access into communitarian life; they are being alienated in all fields.

Here as known, stigma is the central element that creates barrier to the differently-abled people i.e. stigma from within (oneself) and from others (abled people). Generally a stigma is depicted in ignorant moments.

Beings are not aware what would hurt the other fellow beings until they undergo the situations by themselves.

Unfortunately this festive occasion

is a platform where stigma is generated to greater level. A joyous moment will rise in one’s own neighborhood; gatherings of relatives and old friends, ceremonies and anniversaries to be celebrated and so on. Here the differently-abled people are likely to be alienated from all these joyous moments if they are not a very close relative. Like the clover leaves that are hard to be found, so it is, the differently-abled people are seen very less in the midst of joyous moments. But not being invited for a party is a minor case to deal with.

However beings are so much fond of extravaganza after a tremendous feast. Since the long waited festive season has finally come, beings regardless of age and gender would definitely make merry. In this case the people

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would draw out things and items that would make everyone laugh aloud and be delighted. Comedians would appear in a weird way, sometimes they does up to the extent of flashing with the disabilities (the differently abled) in neighborhood, performing their inabilities letting the crowds laugh. The differently-abled people lives are used as a source of humour. Above all, what would be running on in the minds of the differently-abled people and their families, suppose they are to witness the show/extravaganza or others?

Won’t this Christmas change?

Can it be for the differently-abled people? This is the right season, the right time to accompany the differently-abled people to let them feel that all beings are equal before God. The message of Christmas can simply be depicted by loving and caring our fellow friends who does live their life differently abled. Offer them the love of Christ quantitatively and qualitatively: it can be through visiting them and their families or material gifts or feasting together or others. Lastly if every lips can whisper a prayer for the differently-abled people then it’s a compassionate Christmas.

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A Review of the Latest Book in Town

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n 14th November, noted journalist and social worker Mhiesizokho Zinyü released the Revised Edition of his Book “Phizo and the Naga Problem” at the Red Cross complex, Kohima (The first original edition of this book came out 35 years ago in 1979). I got a personal invitation from the author to attend the bookreleasing function at the Red Cross complex and it was an event which I did not wish to miss. But due to some other prior commitments, I could not attend the said function. However, despite my failing to turn up on the occasion, the author has been courteous and gracious enough to present me with a free copy of the book. Even if I had not received a free copy of the book from the author, it was a book I was going to buy and read anyway. But thanks to the author for helping me save Rs.850.

The book is priced at Rs.850 and has 33 chapters, 18 appendices and some very interesting and rarely-seen old photographs. In the prefatory note to the revised edition, the author acknowledges the help received from Captain Sanguto Chase of the 7th Alee Command to China and Charles Chasie while working on the revised edition. The author also conveys his gratitude to Adinno Phizo, the NNC President, for giving him long hours of interviews and Kevitsielezo Phizo for helping him with his invaluable opinion and photographs as well as noting from his family file in his effort to bring out the revised edition. Unfortunately, the only known biography of A.Z. Phizo titled “Zapuphizo – Voice of the Nagas” written by one Pieter Steyn is not available here in Nagaland. Therefore it is only befitting that in this revised edition of his book, Mr. Mhiesizokho quotes relevant lines from this book of Pieter Steyn.

I, being an ardent admirer of A.Z. Phizo, have had the honour of flipping through the pages of the book “Zapuphizo: Voice of the Nagas” by Pieter Steyn (thanks to apuo Guu Phizo who provided me with the book). And now, thanks to Sir Mhiesizokho, I am going through the pages of the revised edition of his book as well.

Due to reason of space and time, it would not be possible to give a satisfyingly comprehensive and elaborate review of the book here. However, some of the accounts / details in the book which I found to be very touching, engrossing, interesting as well as amusing I would mention. Probably these accounts enchant me the most because I am reading about them for the first time.

Firstly, it was very thoughtful on the part of the author to have included a chapter solely dedicated to Jwenle, the noble wife of Phizo. I myself grew up in Mission Compound as a neighbour of the Phizo family and as a young boy I had seen grandmother Jwenle on many occasions. In particular, I remember seeing her walking around with her cane stick and tending to her flowers in her compound. And therefore, reading this chapter on the noble woman after so many years was quite an emotional moment for me. It is indeed only because of Divine Grace that a woman who faced so many difficulties, hardships, uncertainties and dangers her whole life could live up to the age of 86 years and die peacefully at home surrounded by her near and dear ones. The accounts of how this woman spent sleepless nights praying while her husband and brother-in-law were imprisoned in Burma are very touching and inspiring. So also the accounts of how she used to walk a distance of 12 miles all the way to the Enquiry Office in Rangoon while Phizo was a prisoner there clearly brings out the fact that she was a woman tailoredmade for hardships, adversaries, determination and a person like Phizo. All the accounts of how Jwenle looked after her big family and shouldered all responsibilities in strenuous situations in places like Burma, Shillong and Kohima indeed makes her a woman whose story completely conforms to the saying “Behind every great man, there is a woman whose story is rarely told”.

Some of the other accounts in the book which I find to be quite intriguing are: 1) Once, Phizo, dressed up as an ordinary villager, was coming with another NNC volunteer from Khonoma to Kohima. Having received prior tip from intelligence source, the Indian Armed Forces were waiting for him on wayside. When Phizo found that the Armed Forces were waiting for them on the way ahead he sat down with his companion by the roadside, instead of running away, and began to take their tiffin. The Indian Army could not recognize Phizo because of his daring move and as they talked to him he kept his deformed jaws continuously busy chewing the food in order to conceal his twisted mouth.

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ast month, President Xi Jinping of China addressed a forum of prominent artists and writers in Beijing to enlighten us with his views on the arts. In a talk liberally seasoned with cultural allusions, Mr. Xi made a show of his literary knowledge and explained how he sees the role of art in today’s China.

According to the Xinhua news agency, Mr. Xi said the emphasis by artists on “quantity over quality” has led to a one-size-fits-all approach to the production of art. Culture is derivative, plagiaristic and stereotyped, he said; it produces “mechanized fast food” that is full of “vulgarity” and “lust.”

He instructed artists on how and what to create: “Use a realistic spirit and romantic feelings to illuminate real life, deploy light to dispel darkness, and goodness to defeat ugliness. Let people see the good, feel hope, have dreams.”

And he made clear where artists stand in his China: Artists should implement “the party’s policies on the arts.” Artists should not “lose themselves in the tide of market economy nor go astray while answering the question of ‘whom to serve.”’

“The arts must serve the people and serve socialism.”

The recent gathering reminded many people of the Yan’an Talks on Literature and Art in 1942, where Chairman Mao, Mr. Xi’s idol, established the principles of “party literature,” bringing Chinese literature into

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The Indian Armed Forces asked them whether they met Phizo on the way. Pretending to be giving them information, Phizo subtly told them that they had just seen Phizo going in the other direction with a bodyguard, and that they might not have gone very far as yet if they hurried off.

The clumsy soldiers made haste towards the spot where Phizo had shown them while Phizo and his companion reached Kohima without even a hair of them being touched by the army patrol on the way. (Pg. No. 84-85) It was also interesting to know that Phizo was already very active in social life of the Nagas as an activist of the Naga Club by the time the Simon Commission came to Kohima on January 10, 1929 but that he refused to sign in the memorandum as it was worded in a subservient language as desired by the then Deputy Commissioner, J.H. Hutton. (Pg. No. 24) That, on the day of his election to the Presidency of the NNC, Phizo autographed the words “I will shock the world, or what – the Indians” on the backside of his photograph and distributed it to some of his close associates including T. Sakhrie, Secretary, NNC and Jasokie, Publicity Secretary, NNC. (Pg. No. 90) It was also enlightening to read Murkot Ramunny’s comment on the granting of Naga statehood by Nehru. Ramunny who was then Commissioner of Naga Hills Tuensang Area had placed on record that the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, had acceded to the demand of Statehood “within half a minute” of introducing the issue of NPC’s demand for statehood. (Pg. No. 166) It was also thought-provoking to read that in the 1960s, when media was not allowed inside Nagaland, the Naga guerillas had even suggested that a single incident of bombing in India’s capital, Delhi, would have shocked India, and it could have made the desired publicity about the Naga case in the international media. But the idea of causing sufferings to Indian public in the capital for the crime of Indian military against the Nagas did not appeal to the NNC leadership. (Pg. No. 132) Another inspiring account is found in page no.

103 of the book where it is mentioned that Phizo was to address the Naga Youth Movement session at Mokokchung on October 10, 1952; but

since he was unable to be physically present at the session due to the deteriorating political situation, aggravated by the continuous police and para-military atrocity and intensive search for Phizo, he sent his speech on 14th August, 1952 itself, 57 days in advance to make sure it reached its destination.

7) It was also enlightening to read that T. Sakhrie printed the Plebiscite Papers at Imphal and

A.Z. Phizo in Revolutionary Style brought them in a truck to Khonoma. The Papers were rolled into bamboo cylinders and sent to various tribes. (Pg.No.93) 8) In Page No. 220 is found the condolence message of Jasokie which was spoken at the demise of Phizo in 1990. Parts of this message reads “……..

It may not be out of place to mention here that I was a close friend as well as an adversary. As a close friend, no one could hope for a better and more dependable friend, but as an adversary he could make your life a nightmare…………With his death, the Nagas have lost a great leader, the like of which the Nagas may not see ever again.

I offer my deepest condolences to the bereaved family.”

9) One also cannot help but feel sorry reading about the accounts of how Phizo got infected by facial paralysis and how he was denied medication after

being arrested while in Burma. (Pg. No. 37 – 38).

In page no.143 of the book (Chapter 23: Phizo Settles in London), the author has even quoted from one of my articles which was published in the papers a couple of years back. Well, what can I say about that? I feel exalted and overwhelmed. I do not consider myself worthy enough to be quoted in such a significant and high-profile book like this one.

However, I would take it as a pat of recognition and encouragement on my shoulder for all my articles written on varied personalities and issues. Thank You, Sir! Besides the 33 chapters, the appendices make very interesting reading and they form an undeniably impressive portion of the book. Most of the appendices are the letters written by Phizo at different times in his political career under different strenuous circumstances to different organizations and individuals. Whenever I read these old letters of Phizo, I am always left dumbstruck, numb and speechless. I find it really hard to believe that a Naga could write such kind of letters and speeches with such clarity, vocabulary and sentence-construction as early as the 1940s and 1950s when majority of the Nagas were still a primitive backward lot. Among the appendices, the interesting ones are the plebiscite speech of Phizo (the full version of which I am reading only now), Phizo’s letter to the Naga Youth Movement, August 1952, Phizo’s letter to the Naga Students Federation 1983, Phizo’s letter to one Jeffrey Evans 1982, Nehru’s letter to T. Sakhrie and of course Phizo’s famous letter to C. Rajagopalachari Governor General of India from the Presidency Jail Calcutta in1948. These are all rare and precious historical documents which bring to light the extraordinary circumstances under which Naga nationalism took birth in the 1940s and how the Nagas got entangled with the Indian government and military.

I hope that a day will come when good sense will prevail in the minds of the Naga policy-makers and our children will be made to study these significant papers in their schools and colleges.

The book also carries some very interesting, rare and never-before-seen photographs. To be precise, the book carries 28 very rare and valuable photographs. Of these photos, a most interesting one is the one showing Phizo in revolutionary style wearing glasses and sporting a beard and mustache. This picture of Phizo which I am seeing for the first time reminds me of the famous revolutionary leader Che Guevera. Another interesting one is the one where Phizo is seen with his family wearing a traditional Angami shawl (Lohe) at Khonoma camp. And the photo showing Phizo posing as the Best Man of A. Kevichüsa on the latter’s wedding day is quite fascinating and so is the one where a half pant wearing Phizo is shown blowing the trumpet along side the violin-playing A. Kevichüsa. And a most hearttouching picture is displayed in page no. 244 where an old Phizo is shown sitting at his home in London writing on a paper near his type-writer.

As a kid, I had heard so much about Phizo and even before I entered high school, I had seen pictures of Phizo and therefore his physical appearance is nothing new to me. But I came to know about the genius of Theyiechüthie Sakhrie only when I was in college. And all these years I had always yearned to see a photograph of this man but I did not even know whether a picture of this unsung hero exists to this day. Therefore, I am grateful to this new revised book for fulfilling a long-desired wish of mine. In page no. 237 of the book, the famous and historically elusive T. Sakhrie is shown standing alongside Jasokie. The accounts / details of his murder mentioned in Pages 125 – 126 are heartbreaking to read.

All in all, I feel that this is a book which should occupy a proud place in the book-shelves of all Naga homes. And for all those who want to know about the life and philosophy of Phizo and the origin of the Naga national movement, this book is a mustread……….because the book is as much about Phizo as it is about the Naga problem.

Let me conclude by quoting from the concluding chapter of the book where Mr. Mhiesizokho Zinyü writes: “Phizo was offered financial inducements with positions in exchange of his submission to India; and he could have become a great Indian as well as a millionaire in terms of wealth. But Phizo had chosen to remain poor in order to defend the rights of Naga nationality. The Naga political struggle cost him his whole life to become poor, and though poor he became a legend; and he stood the tallest among his contemporaries in his country, Nagaland. He had carved out a name for himself and for the Nagas which no amount of oppression could erase”…….

The Art of Xi Jinping the stable of Communist propaganda. Since then, all of China’s writers’ organizations have been government entities, all literary prizes have been bestowed by the state, and all published works must endure rigorous censorship. Writers and artists cannot criticize: their role is to chirp about a golden age of China, or suffer the consequences of being banned or arrested.

Following the president’s speech, a “Learn from Xi Jinping” campaign swept across the country. Artists and writers piped up, one after another on social media, to congratulate Mr. Xi for being well-read or to praise his remarks. Many artists said they found his words inspiring.

In a country like China, even casual remarks by the top leaders have an unsurpassable authority. Mr. Xi’s enthusiasm can spark new trends in Chinese letters, his criticism can mold the entire field of literature.

Few people question whether Mr. Xi has the credentials to tell writers what to do. In the past few months, he has become the best-selling author in China, perhaps even in the world. His book “New Sayings From Zhijiang,” a collection of newspaper columns based on Communist Party dogma that he wrote in the early 2000s when he

Murong Xuecun IHT was secretary of Zhejiang Province, shot to the top of the charts after his elevation to the presidency in 2012. Two follow-up books have done even better.

Ever since Chairman Mao, every party leader has been a best-selling author. Indeed, we have been blessed with a series of all-around geniuses. Mao, the revolutionary, government leader and military strategist, was also a poet, calligrapher and prodigious swimmer. Deng Xiaoping was a bridge master. Xi Jinping has been celebrated not only for his writing talent but also for his soccer skills.

Censorship is the greatest obstruction to the flourishing of writing and the creative arts. Rather than engaging the Chinese people about creative expression, Mr. Xi is just laying down the law: “Your writing must be patriotic;” “you must honor our glorious cultural traditions;” literature and art must not be contaminated by “the stench of money.”

Although these words have no legal significance, they are far more effective than any edict because, through a na-

tional campaign to “Learn from Papa Xi,” they will inevitably give birth to new guidelines for the publishing and film industries and set the standard for all kinds of prizes and awards. In the coming years, even if Chinese writing and the arts can purge itself of the so-called stench of money, after this speech, the foul smell of Mr. Xi’s words will linger.

The most dangerous aspect of Mr. Xi’s speech could be his negative appraisal of the arts. Phrases like “vulgarity,” “lust” and “sensual entertainment” could well become the slogans of a future party campaign to “rectify” the arts.

Only five days after the Beijing symposium, the Guangming Daily newspaper published an opinion article saying that writers and artists in thrall to “Western theories” need to resist “unhealthy thoughts, low tastes and mistaken ideas,” and indeed dare to “publicly and unequivocally criticize them.”

The crux of Mr. Xi’s much touted “China dream” is a peace that is intolerant of dissent. A teacher who doesn’t obey the party (like the legal scholars Zhang Xuezhong and Chen Hongguo) will be pressured to leave his university post; a publication

that doesn’t obey the party (like Southern Weekend and China Through the Ages) will be punished; an individual who crosses the party (like the lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and the rights activist Guo Yushan) will be locked up. Now the government has fixed its sights on literature and the arts. We can imagine that the government’s list of forbidden films, broadcasts and publications will swell with additional categories of banned work. Even though many of Mr. Xi’s boosters are proclaiming a new spring in the arts, I think that before that spring arrives, we will endure a long winter.

The tragedy of the early 20th century journalist and literary writer Wang Shiwei is a disturbing point of reference for many artists who value free expression. The onetime Mao supporter wrote an essay critical of the chairman and the party elite in 1942 before the infamous Yan’an forum on literature and art. He was then criticized, beaten and imprisoned for several years before being hacked to death, his remains reportedly dropped in a well.

In his fateful essay, Wang said that he had done his best “to strive for the light.”

Seventy-two years later, as today’s artists face a similar situation, how many could stand up and say, like Wang, that they’ve done everything they could to see the light?

Murong Xuecun is a novelist and blogger and the author of “Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu.” This article was translated by Harvey Thomlinson from the Chinese.

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

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FILE – In this Dec. 5, 1984 file photo, two men carry to a hospital children blinded by the Union Carbide chemical pesticide leak in Bhopal, India. Indians are marking the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy with protests demanding harsher punishments for those responsible and more compensation for the victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. On Dec. 3, 1984, the pesticide plant leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air, killing an estimated 15,000 people and affecting at least 500,000 more. Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. took over Union Carbide in 2001. (AP Photo)

Bhopal, DecemBer 3 (pTI): An NGO working for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has alleged that there are no accurate figures available on the death toll of the world’s worst industrial disaster even after 30 years and has also raised concern over the toxic waste lying in defunct Union Carbide plant situated near the densely populated old Bhopal area.

Though unofficial estimates claimed that the death toll due to the Bhopal gas tragedy had exceeded the 25,000 mark, official figure stands at 5,295 for whom the government had compensated.

“So far we have compensated for 5,295 deaths due to Bhopal Gas Tragedy,” Madhya Pradesh Department of Gas Relief and Rehabilitation deputy secretary KK Dubey told a news agency.

However, NGO Bhopal Group for Information Ac-

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Members of various organizations representing victims of the Bhopal gas leak participate in a rally on the 30th anniversary of the tragedy in Bhopal, India, Wednesday Dec. 3, 2014. On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run

by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air of the central Indian city of Bhopal, quickly killing about 4,000 people. Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. took over Union Carbide in 2001. A placard at center reads: “Supreme Court - Reconsider the appeal by Bhopal gas tragedy survivors.” (AP Photo)

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No accurate data on deaths 30 years on

tion’s (BGIA) activist Rachna Dhingra claimed that as per their information, the death toll had crossed 25,000 since the disaster took place.

“We are demanding compensation for the same, but the state government has so far compensated only for 5,295 deaths,” she said.

Notably, the Madhya Pradesh government had in 2012 demanded from the Centre’s Group of Ministers a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the kin of 15,342 deceased in the tragedy, as per revised figures in Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report, a government re-

lease had then said.

Besides, concern has been raised over non-disposal of 350 MT of toxic waste lying in the defunct chemical plant which is a major cause for pollution, especially water contamination in and around the factory.

Hearings have been going since 1999 in Southern District Court of New York against the Union Carbide Corporation, seeking that the poisonous waste should be removed from its factory in Bhopal, Dhingra said. Around 17 people, living close to the plant, supported by some NGOs, had moved the US

6 militants killed in Kashmir gunfight SrINagar, DecemBer 3 (IaNS): Six separatist guerrillas were killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district Wednesday. A soldier too died in the gun battle which was still on around 1 p.m.

“Six militants have been killed in the infiltration bid at Nowgam,” a senior army officer told IANS. The officer said a sol-

dier also died during firing exchanges and four were injured.

“Till last reports came in, the operation was still on,” he added. The army foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in same area Tuesday when people voted in the second phase of assembly polls in Kupwara. Three militants were killed in this operation Tuesday.

RTI requests more than double in 2014 New DelhI, DecemBer 3 (IaNS): The number of Right to Information (RTI) requests has seen a 120 percent surge in the financial year 2013-2014 and the numbers will continue to rise in the next year as well, latest data reveals.

Information requests received until March 2014 have shot up to 16,103 compared to the 7,335 requests received in the previous financial year, information received by RTI activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd.) showed. In the past seven years, RTI requests hovered around the 7,000 mark in the past four years and averaged about 2,000 a year in the previous three. In the current financial year, 9,580 applications have already been re-

ceived till October. Appeals filed to the chief information commissioner have also seen a similar increase of 110 percent.

The number of appeals filed went up to 1,940, up from 923 in the previous year. If applicants are not provided with information that they seek or they are unsatisfied with the information that they receive, the RTI Act has a provision for filing an appeal within 30 days. A total of 1,001 appeals have been received in the first seven months of the current financial year. The post of chief information commissioner, who is the head of the Central Information Commission, has been vacant since Aug 23, when the previous commissioner Rajeev Mathur, retired.

Uproar in parliament over minister’s remark New DelhI, DecemBer 3 (IaNS): Protests continued in parliament Wednesday over a controversial remark of union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti with the opposition demanding her resignation, disrupting the proceedings of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

A united opposition created an uproar in both houses, leading to repeated adjournments in the Rajya Sabha and once in the Lok Sabha. This was the second consecutive day when a ruckus was created over the issue. Both the houses got off to a stormy start, with the opposition members demanding the resignations of Sadhvi Jyoti who had reportedly used foul language in her speech at a Delhi BJP rally. “Aapko tay karna hai ki Dilli mein sarkar Ramzadon ki banegi ya haramzadon ki. (You have to decide if you want a government in Delhi to be led by children of Lord Ram or illegitimate

children),” she was quoted as saying. In the Rajya Sabha, the members advanced to the speaker’s podium, shouted slogans and demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s explanation on the issue.

“We feel shame in repeating what the minister has said. A mere apology is unacceptable,” Communist Party of IndiaMarxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury said. Congress leader Anand Sharma said: “We don’t accept apology; prime minister should come to the house and sack the minister. It is a cognizable and non-compoundable crime, punishable up to three years in jail.” Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien had to thrice adjourn the proceedings of the house, before adjourning the house till 2 p.m. Post lunch, opposition members continued shouting slogans and demanding the minister’s dismissal from the council of ministers.

No direct link between mobile tower radiation, health: Centre New DelhI, DecemBer 3 (IaNS): Union Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Wednesday said an expert panel set up by the central government did not find any direct link between exposure to radio frequency radiation and health. He was quoting a study by an interministerial committee (IMC) on the environmental and health related concerns.

The IMC constitutes of experts from the department of telecommunications (DoT), Indian Council of Medical Research, department of biotechnology,

and the ministry of environment and forest. “The effect of emission from cell phone towers on human health is not known yet with certainty,” the minister said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on impact of radiation from mobile towers.

He informed the house that a joint venture has been launched by Science and Engineering Research Board and the DoT to study possible impact of EMF radiation exposure from mobile towers and handsets in the non-ionizing band 200 MHz to 3 GHz - on life.

court in 1999, but the timid response to the case by successive Madhya Pradesh governments has not yielded any result, she alleged.

“It is high time that MP government should intervene in the US court and get the waste cleared,” she demanded.

In India too, an NGO moved a PIL in Madhya Pradesh High Court in 2004, after a soil sample test carried out in and around the closed factory revealed that the waste was causing air and water pollution in the surroundings having a huge human settlement. But the toxic dump couldn’t be cleared follow-

ing resistance from different environment groups.

In the last decade, the High Court directed the Centre and the state that the toxic waste should be incinerated after tests at Pithampur in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh.

But the move couldn’t see the light of the day after stiff opposition by some NGOs alleging that disposal of the waste at the incinerator will harm people and the environment of Pithampur, Alok Pratap Singh, president of NGO Zahreeli Gas Kand Sangarsh Morcha, who had moved the HC, told a news agency.

After this, the HC or-

dered that the hazardous waste should be disposed of at Ankleshwar incinerator in Gujarat. Again, the NGOs of Gujarat protested against incinerating plan in that state. The Gujarat government petitioned the apex court to review its decision, Singh said.

The Supreme Court had then directed that the waste should be incinerated at Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) plant near Nagpur after assessing its after effects, but NGOs protested again in Maharashtra following which the state government expressed its unwillingness in court on the

issue, he said.

The Maharashtra Assembly passed a resolution against the disposal of the waste at DRDO, Singh said.

Later, German company GIZ handed a proposal to the MP government to dispose of the waste in Germany, Dubey said.

However, GIZ backtracked following NGOs’ protest in Germany on the issue, he said. After this, the apex court asked that the waste should be incinerated at Pithampur and in a prelude 25-30 metric tonnes should be disposed on experimental basis, he said.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) got

similar waste of some organisation of Kochi in Kerala - like the one lying in Bhopal Union Carbide Factory - incinerated at Pithampur.

“Now we are waiting for words from CPCB to hand over the waste to them for incineration,” Dubey said.

After the June 7, 2010, verdict on Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) was formed to look into the problems related to the disaster. The GoM in June 2010 earmarked Rs 315 crore for disposal of waste.

The verdict on Bhopal Gas Tragedy came 25 years after poisonous gas leaked from the plant on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984. “...But for the people near the defunct factory, the tragedy isn’t over as they still face air and water pollution given that the hazardous waste lying in the factory was seeping into the ground,” said activist Abdul Jabbar, working for the survivors of the tragedy.

Committed to preserve CBI’s integrity: New chief

New DelhI, DecemBer 3 (IaNS): Newlyappointed CBI chief Anil Kumar Sinha Wednesday said he was “acutely aware” of the “enormous challenges” the agency faces and was committed to preserve its integrity.

Speaking at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters here shortly after taking over as the new chief, Anil Kumar Sinha said: “I am acutely aware of all the enormous challenges facing the CBI. My endeavour would be to work with my team to strengthen the cause of justice.” “We are commitAnil Kumar Sinha speaks to the media after assuming ted to preserve the integcharge as the Director of the Central Bureau of Investiga- rity of the agency. I seek cooperation from one and tion (CBI) in New Delhi on December 3. (AP Photo)

all,” he added.

Anil Kumar Sinha, who became the first CBI chief to be appointed by a panel headed by the prime minister, said that the citizens of the country have a lot of expectations from the country’s premier investigative agency and hence, he would try his best to live up to this. A 1979-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Bihar cadre, Sinha has held several important positions earlier in vigilance and anti-corruption, administration, and special branch.

He served as inspector general (IG) in the Special Protection Group and was also the additional secretary in the Central Vigi-

lance Commission and has been decorated with the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2000 and the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 2006, the CBI said.

An M.Phil in strategic studies and an alumnus of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Anil Kumar Sinha succeeds Ranjit Sinha who had a controversial tenure as the head of the agency. Ranjit Sinha had to recuse himself from the 2G spectrum investigation days before his retirement, following orders of the Supreme Court. He had taken over as CBI chief Dec 3, 2012.

Disabled women in India “locked up and abused”

loNDoN, DecemBer 3 (ThomSoN reuTerS FouNDaTIoN): Vidya was alone at home in Mumbai when three people posing as government health workers knocked on her door.

After convincing the 45-year-old to let them in, they forcibly sedated her and took her away. She woke up in a private mental hospital with barbed wire on the windows, where she was medicated against her will and forced to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

“I was like a vegetable,” Vidya said. She told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that her husband had her admitted because he wanted to divorce her on grounds of cruelty and “mental illness”.

Women and girls with disabilities in India are routinely locked away in mental hospitals and institutions where they face abuse, overcrowding, filthy conditions and medical treatment against their will, the human rights watchdog said on Wednesday.

“Women and girls with disabilities are dumped in

From left to right, Human Rights Watch (HRW) activists Shantha Rau Barriga, Meenakshi Ganguly, Bhargavi Davar from Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse, HRW’s Kriti Sharma, and Smriti Minocha from Human Rights Law Network, release a report titled “Treated Worse than Animals: Abuses against Women and Girls with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities in Institutions in India,” in New Delhi, Wednesday, December 3. (AP Photo)

institutions by their family members or police in part because the government is failing to provide appropriate support and services,” HRW researcher Kriti Sharma said in a statement. “And once they’re locked up, their lives are often rife with isolation, fear, and abuse, with no hope of escape.”

At least 70 million Indians live with psychosocial disabilities like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and more than 1.5 million have intellectual disabili-

ties such as Downs Syndrome. Yet only 0.06 percent of the country’s federal health budget is spent on mental health, HRW said in a report titled “Treated worse than animals”.

It said there are only 43 state-run mental hospitals and three psychiatrists and 0.47 psychologists per million people in India, a country of around 1.2 billion people. The lack of mental health services is acute in rural areas wheresevenoutof10Indians livebutwhereonly25percent

of the health infrastructure is located, it said.

The report was based on research in six cities - New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Mysore - and more than 200 interviews with disabled women and girls, their families, mental health professionals, government officials and police. HRW said physical and verbal abuse was an everyday occurrence in every state-run institution or mental hospital its researchers visited.

It also uncovered instances of sexual assault and exploitation, which it said were rarely reported by victims for fear of the repercussions. A welfare officer at a residential care institution for women told HRW of women who had gone to a mental hospital for three months and come back one month pregnant. “It’s happened in a lot of cases but when the woman can’t say who got her pregnant, what can we do?” the source was quoted as saying.

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Hotter, Weirder: How climate has changed Earth Seth Borenstein

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AP Science Writer

n the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder.

The numbers are stark.

Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit. Population: up 1.7 billion people.

Sea level: up 3 inches (7.5 centimeters). U.S. extreme weather: up 30 percent. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica: down 4.9 trillion tons of ice.

"Simply put, we are rapidly remaking the planet and beginning to suffer the consequences," says Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.

Diplomats from more than 190 nations opened talks Monday at a United Nations global warming conference in Lima, Peru, to pave the way for an international treaty they hope to forge next year.

To see how much the globe has changed since the first such international conference — the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 — The Associated Press scoured data bases from around the world.

The analysis, which looked at data since 1983, concen-

in sea ice in Antarctica, which has seen an average gain of 110,000 square miles (285,000 million square kilometers) of sea ice over the past 22 years.

trated on 10-year intervals ending in 1992 and 2013.

This is because scientists say single years can be misleading and longer trends are more telling.

Our changing world by the numbers: WILD WEATHER Since 1992, there have been more than 6,600 climate, weather and water major disasters worldwide, causing more than $1.6 trillion in damage and killing more than 600,000 people, according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Belgium, which tracks the world's catastrophes.

While climate related, not all can be blamed on man-made warming or climate change. Still, extreme weather has noticeably increased over the years, says Debby Sapir, who runs the center and its database. From 1983 to 1992 the world averaged 147 climate, water and weather disasters each year. Over the past 10 years, that number has jumped to an average 306 a year.

In the United States, an index of climate extremes — hot and cold, wet and dry — kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has jumped 30 percent from 1992 to 2013, not counting hurricanes, based on 10year averages.

NOAA also keeps track of U.S. weather disasters that cost more than $1 billion, when adjusted for in-

A family riding an electric tricycle bike is silhouetted against the sun setting on a coal-fired power plant in Beijing, China on Thursday, November 13, 2014. Chinese leaders pledged for the first time to cap the country’s decades-long growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Since China emits more carbon and other heat-trapping gases than any other country, the pledge boosted global efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change. Fulfilling its pledge, however, will require China to transform a booming economy that still largely depends on polluting industries such as steel production and manufacturing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

flation. Since 1992, there have been 136 such billiondollar events.

Worldwide, the 10-year average for weather-related losses adjusted for inflation was $30 billion a year from 1983-1992, according to insurance giant Swiss Re. From 2004 to 2013, the cost was more than three times that on average, or $131 billion a year.

Sapir and others say it would be wrong to pin all, or even most, of these increases on climate change alone. Population and poverty are major factors, too. But they note a trend of growing extremes and more disasters, and that fits with what scientists have long said about global

warming.

It's this increase that's "far scarier" than the simple rise in temperatures, University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles says.

TEMPERATURE It's almost a sure thing that 2014 will go down as the hottest year in 135 years of record keeping, meteorologists at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center say. If so, this will be the sixth time since 1992 that the world set or tied a new annual record for the warmest year.

The globe has broken six monthly heat records in 2014 and 47 since 1992. The last monthly cold record set

was in 1916.

So the average annual temperature for 2014 is on track to be about 58.2 degrees Fahrenheit (14.6 degrees Celsius), compared with 57.4 degrees F (14.1 degrees C) in 1992. The past 10 years have averaged a shade below 58.1 degrees F (nearly 14.5 degrees C) — six-tenths of a degree warmer than the average between 1983 and 1992.

THE OCEANS The world's oceans have risen by about 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) since 1992 and gotten a tad more acidic — by about half a percent — thanks to chemical reactions caused by the absorption of car-

bon dioxide, scientists at NOAA and the University of Colorado say.

Every year sea ice cover shrinks to a yearly minimum size in the Arctic in September — a measurement that is considered a key climate change indicator. From 1983 to 1992, the lowest it got on average was 2.62 million square miles (6.79 million square kilometers). Now the 10-year average is down to 1.83 million square miles (4.74 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

That loss — an average 790,000 square miles (2.05 million square kilometers) since 1992 — overshadows the slight gain

ON LAND The world's population in 1992 was 5.46 billion.

Today, it's nearly a third higher, at 7.18 billion. That means more carbon pollution and more people who could be vulnerable to global warming.

The effects of climate change can be seen in harsher fire seasons. Wildfires in the western United States burned an average of 2.7 million acres (1.1 million hectares) each year between 1983 and 1992; now that's up to 7.3 million acres (2.95 million hectares) from 1994 to 2013, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

And some of the biggest climate change effects on land are near the poles where people don't often see them. From 1992 to 2011, Greenland's ice sheet lost 3.35 trillion tons of ice, according to calculations made by scientists using measurements from NASA's GRACE satellite. Antarctica lost 1.56 trillion tons of ice over the same period.

THE AIR Scientists simply point to greenhouse gas emissions, mostly carbon dioxide, that form a heat trapping blanket in our air.

There's no need to average the yearly amount of

carbon dioxide pollution: It has increased steadily, by 60 percent, from 1992 to 2013. In 1992, the world spewed 24.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide; now it is 39.8 billion, according to the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium.

China has tripled its emissions from 3 billion tons to 11 billion tons a year. The emissions from the U.S. have gone up more slowly, about 6 percent, from 5.4 billion tons to 5.8 billion tons. India also has tripled its emissions, from 860 million tons to 2.6 billion tons.

Only European countries have seen their emissions go down, from 4.5 billion tons to 3.8 billion tons.

WHAT SCIENTISTS SAY "Overall, what really strikes me is the missed opportunity," Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, says in an email of the data.

"We knew by the early 1990s that global warming was coming, yet we have done essentially nothing to head off the risk. I think that future generations may be justifiably angry about this."

"The numbers don't lie," adds Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State. "Greenhouse gases are rising steadily and the cause is fossil fuel burning and other human activities.

The globe is warming, ice is melting and our climate is changing as a result."

Pope's anti-slavery drive gets multifaith support Women bargain

Anti-occupy Central protesters lift posters of jailed prisoners’ illustrations with portraits of protest leaders, from left, Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Chu Yiu-ming and Joshua Wong, outside the police station in Hong Kong on Wednesday, December 3, as the senior protest leaders surrender to police. Chan, Benny Tai and Chu, the three founders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement called for an end to street demonstrations to prevent more violence and take the campaign to a new stage, but it wasn’t clear whether student protesters, who make up the bulk of the activists, would heed the call. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Mosquito-borne chikungunya now spreading rapidly through SPacific SYDNeY, DeCember 3 (reUTerS): Chikungunya, a debilitating mosquito-borne viral disease, has taken hold in French Polynesia, spreading rapidly and threatening neighbouring Pacific nations, regional health authorities said on Wednesday.

The disease, typically found in low levels in Africa and Asia, this year has infected almost a million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the World Health Organization.

French Polynesia, with a population of more than 268,000, said four people had died and more than 18,000 people had sought treatment for the disease since October, the first outbreak in the archipelago.

“We think that about half of the population will be affected in this cycle,” said public health surveillance head Henri-Pierre Mallet, adding that the start of the rainy season would help the disease spread.

Samoa has reported more than 2,500 cases since July, while American Samoa and Tokelau had also suffered outbreaks, the

Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), based in New Caledonia, said.

“We are only half way through the chikungunya wave,” said Dr Adam Roth, an epidemiologist at the SPC. “And there is certainly a big risk of infection for the (14) countries which have not had it yet,” he said. SPC is a regional organisation that helps the development of 22 countries.

Chikungunya is spread by two mosquito species and can cause severe symptoms including fever, headache and joint pain.

There is no treatment nor vaccine.

Among mosquitoborne diseases, chikungunya has the longest period of illness with some people developing long-term debilitating joint pain that can keeping them away from work for months.

“It’s not only a big burden for healthcare systems but also for the economy,” Roth said.

French Polynesia’s $5 billion economy was hit by the global financial crisis which caused a severe drop in tourism, the nation’s lifeblood.

VATICAN CITY, DeCember 3 (AP): Religious leaders from a halfdozen faiths signed a new Vatican initiative Tuesday to end modern-day slavery by 2020, declaring that human trafficking, organ trafficking and forced labor and prostitution are crimes against humanity.

Pope Francis was joined by the Hindu guru Mata Amritanandamayi, known as Amma, as well as Buddhist, Anglican, Orthdox, Jewish, Shiite and Sunni Muslim leaders in signing a joint declaration at an unusually high-profile ceremony inside the Vatican walls.

The declaration commits the signatories to do everything in their power within their faith communities to work to free the estimated 35 million people enslaved across the world by 2020.

"In the eyes of God, each human being is a free person, whether girl, boy, woman or man, and is destined to exist for the good of all in equality and fraternity," the declaration read.

Francis has made eliminating modern-day slavery one of the key priorities of his pontificate, inspired by his ministry in the slums of Buenos Aires. Earlier this year, the Vatican launched the Global Freedom Network, a multifaith initiative to encourage governments, businesses, educational and faith institutions to rid their supply chains of slave labor.

One of the network's founding members, the Walk Free Foundation, estimates that five countries account for 61 percent of the world's population living in slavery: India, with an estimated 14.2 million people enslaved, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia.

Tuesday's ceremony, held in a palazzo in the Vatican gardens, added more faith leaders onto the network's initial roster. Francis sat between Amma, the ebullient Indian guru known for her marathon sessions hugging complete strangers, and the small, bald Sister Chan Khong, the first ordained monas-

tic disciple of Zen Master Thich Hnat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist.

Alongside them was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, head of the 77 million-strong Anglican Communion, and Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi of Iran. Also present was a representative of Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar University, one of the oldest and most revered centers of religious learning for Sunni Muslims. Their speeches were remarkable in demonstrating how different faiths all abhor slavery, but there were also some differences of opinion.

The Anglican members of the network insisted that the declaration refer to "forced prostitution," to highlight that more and more prostitutes today are victims of human trafficking and are not prostituting themselves by choice.

Francis, however, believes no one willingly goes into prostitution.

Israeli lawmakers approve dissolving parliament JerUSALem, DeCember 3 (AP): Israeli lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a motion on Wednesday to dissolve the Knesset in a preliminary vote, paving the way for early elections after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to iron out differences with coalition partners.

Israel's government, which took office in early 2013, has been riven by divisions from the beginning over major issues facing the country. On Tuesday, Netanyahu fired two rebellious Cabinet ministers and called for elections, plunging the country into a bitter campaign set to culminate in polls early next year.

Wednesday's vote in the 120-member Knesset, which passed 84-0 with one legislator abstaining, was an initial step. Further votes are expected next week that will officially disband the parliament and usher in new polls.

If the upcoming parliamentary votes pass as expected, the current legislature will have served for one of the shortest periods in the country's history.

The elections are expect-

Israel must renounce nuclear weapons: UN

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, sits during a vote at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem on Wednesday, December 3. Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to dissolve the Knesset, a preliminary step that will pave the way for early elections two years ahead of schedule. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

ed to be held on March 17 — two years ahead of schedule — and early polls show Netanyahu's Likud party leading with about 22 seats.

"The coming elections are about one question, who will lead the government amid the huge challenges that Israel faces?"

Netanyahu told a Likud party meeting. "The Likud

is the only party that should be considered."

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog said his center-left Labor party would "do everything to bring change and hope to Israel." Labor, a traditional force in Israeli politics that has lost support in recent years, is poised to pull in 13 seats, according to the early polls.

Netanyahu's fractious center-right Cabinet has been bickering for weeks over the budget, a housing tax break and a bill that would enshrine into law Israel's status as a Jewish state. Rising violence between Palestinians and Israelis has also been an issue, as have the government's Jewish settlement policies in the West Bank.

UNITeD NATIoNS, DeCember 3 (AP): The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution Tuesday calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight.

The resolution, adopted in a 161-5 vote, noted that Israel is the only Middle Eastern country that is not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It called on Israel to "accede to that treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons" and put its nuclear facilities under the safeguard of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.

The United States, Canada, Palau and Micronesia joined Israel in opposing the measure, while 18 countries abstained. Israel is widely considered to possess nuclear arms but declines to confirm it.

best in some negotiations

WAShINgToN, DeCember 3 (IANS): Contrary to conventional wisdom that men drive a harder bargain in financial affairs, women are more effective than men when negotiating money matters in certain circumstances, a study indicates.

One reason men earn higher salaries than women could be women's apparent disadvantage visa-vis men in some types of negotiations.

“But we discovered that this disadvantage is not inevitable; rather, it very much depends on the context of the negotiation,” said lead study author Jens Mazei, doctoral candidate at Germany's University of Munster.

For the meta-analysis, researchers examined 51 studies from several countries, including India, the US, the Netherlands, Germany and China - with a total of 10,888 participants of whom 4,656 were women and 6,232 were men.

They found that negotiation results depended on the situation and the person involved.

“When women negotiated on behalf of another person, when they knew about the bargaining range in the negotiations and when they had experience in negotiating, they were better at negotiating than men,” Mazei said.

Women in negotiations might feel social pressure to adhere to the female role and display gender-consistent behaviour such as accommodation or cooperation.

“Our analysis suggests ways to lessen or even reverse gender differences in negotiations favouring men," said co-lead author Joachim Huffmeier from the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dortmund, Germany.

It looks as though gender roles no longer give men a bargaining advantage if women are trained in negotiation, have information about the bargaining range and if they are negotiating for other individuals, he found.

“It remains to be seen if this effect would hold when negotiating for smaller social entities such as a team, workplace or family,” said the paper that appeared in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.

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Phil hughes funeral Michael Clarke's emotional tribute to Phil Hughes

PM Narendra Modi pays tribute

New Delhi, DeceMber 3 (PTi): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today joined the cricket world in mourning the death of young Australian batsman Phillip Hughes, who lost his life after being hit by a bouncer. "Heart-rending funeral in Australia. Phil Hughes, we will miss you.

Your game & exuberance won you fans all over! RIP," Modi tweeted as thousands gathered in Hughes' home town of Macksville to bid farewell to the batsman.

Hughes died last week after being hit on the head by a bouncer during a domestic game. Had he survived, Hughes would have turned 26 last Sunday. The India-Australia Test series schedule was reworked following the tragedy to allow the home side's players some time to grieve the loss of their teammate.

Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke, third left, helps carry the coffin of Phillip Hughes in Macksville, Australia on December 3. The funeral for cricketer Phillip Hughes turned into a celebration of his life on Wednesday despite the grief and sorrow still evident from his death. Hughes died last Thursday, aged 25, after being hit near the ear by a ball during a match between South Australia and his former state side New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground. (AP Photo)

Macksville, De ceMber 3 (aFP): Cricketing greats bid an emotional farewell to Phillip Hughes at a funeral service in his home town Wednesday, as Australia stopped to remember the batsman whose death from a freak injury sent shockwaves through the sport.

A lone cricket bat rested against the coffin at a packed service in his former high school hall in Macksville on the New South Wales coast in front of his heartbroken parents, family and friends and a shattered Australian Test team.

"Taken from the game, his family and loved ones at the age of just 25, left a mark on our game that needs no embellishment," tearful captain Michael Clarke told the funeral. "I don't know about you but I keep looking for him."

Hughes, who had played 26 Tests and was on the cusp of a recall, died from bleeding on the brain last Thursday after being hit on the base of the skull by a rising ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground during a domestic match.

His tragic death stunned Australia, where cricket is considered the national game, and prompted a rescheduling of the upcoming India Test series, while fans around the world placed bats out-

side their front doors as a mark of respect.

Clarke said he walked to the middle of the SCG on Thursday night: "Those same blades of grass beneath my feet where he and I and so many of his mates

here today have built partnerships, taken chances and lived out the dreams we painted in our heads as boys. "I stood there at the wicket, I knelt down and touched the grass, I swear he was with me... Telling me we just needed to dig in and get through to tea," he added.

'We must play on' Clarke said the tributes offered from sports stars and fans across the globe had sustained him, from a

little girl holding a candle in tribute, to masters of the game such as Sachin Tendulkar expressing sorrow.

"This is what makes our game the greatest game in the world. We must dig in and get through to tea. And

we must play on," he added.

"So rest in peace my little brother. I will see you out in the middle."

In Hughes' small hometown of Macksville, on Australia's east coast, tributes to the opening batsman hung in shop windows, while ribbons in the green and gold colours of the Australian Test team adorned telephone poles.

Macksville itself, with a population of just 2,500, welcomed greats such

as Shane Warne, Brian Lara, Glenn McGrath, Virat Kohli and Hughes' first Test skipper Ricky Ponting. Sean Abbott, the young man who bowled the fast ball which struck Hughes, also attended

supported by his parents, as did Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Tony Abbott said there had been profound grief, in part because to "be felled by a hard but fair ball in the centre of the SCG at your most exuberant, it just doesn't seem right or natural".

'Spirit of cricket' Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said over the past week the nation and the

sporting world had reeled in shock.

"Yet even within that profound sense of loss the spirit of cricket has shone through the darkness," he told the gathering.

Hughes' parents Greg and Virginia and siblings invited the whole town to the service at Macksville High School, where about 1,000 crammed into the hall and hundreds more watched on screens in overflow areas.

The funeral was a huge event in Macksville, with shops closing and residents in mourning. Just outside town, one business created a huge tribute using three cherry pickers as cricket stumps and putting Hughes' Test number 408 across them.

At Hughes's old primary school, St Patrick's, dozens of bats lined the front fence, many bearing messages remembering the hugely popular opener who was not out on 63 when he was struck.

As a summer storm threatened after a hot day, hundreds walked along the street behind the hearse carrying Hughes's coffin, some nodding their heads, others applauding, out of respect for the cricketer.

Hughes died after his vertebral artery split when hit by the ball, leading to massive bleeding in his brain.

Virginia Hughes, center, mother of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, is supported by mourners as they walk behind her son's coffin during his funeral in Macksville, Australia, Wednesday, December 3. (AP Photo)

Sachin Tendulkar pays tribute

sy D N e y, D e c e M ber 3 (PTi): Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday joined the cricket world to mourn the tragic death of young Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who passed away last on Thursday after being hit by a bouncer.

In a tribute to Hughes, who would have turned 26 last Sunday, Tendulkar wrote in his twitter page: "Will miss you Phil. Your enthusiasm to learn and drive for perfection was most impressive. #FarewellHughes." The 41-yearold Iconic batsman also posted a photograph of him along with Hughes, who was part of the IPL franchise Mumbai Indians in 2013. Former India skipper Anil Kumble also paid his tribute. "Phil Hughes RIP...#63notout cricket will miss you," wrote the spin legend in the social networking site.

Hughes was today laid to rest in his home town, Macksville in a funeral attended by thousands with friends, family and teammates paying their tributes to the young batsman, who died after being hit on the head by a bouncer during a domestic game last week.

An emotional Australian skipper Michael Clarke have an heart-rendering tribute to Hughes during the funeral which was televised live.

NSW cricketer Sean Abbott arrives for the funeral of Australian cricketer Phil Hughes in Macksville, Australia on December 3.

Hughes died last Thursday, aged 25, after being hit near the ear by a ball during a domestic match.(AP Photo)

Indian cricketer Virat Kohli left, attends the funeral of Australian cricketer Phil Hughes in Macksville, Australia, Wednesday, December 3. (AP Photo)

Mavericks win in double OT against Bulls 'Arsenal will win EPL

chicaGO, DeceMber 3 (aP): Dallas' Monta Ellis hit three foul shots with 1.2 seconds left to force overtime and made a goahead 3-pointer late in the second added period to lift the Mavericks to a 132-129 win at Chicago on Tuesday, highlighting a day of close finishes in key NBA games.

Elsewhere, Toronto extended its lead in the Eastern Conference by beating Sacramento, Portland beat division rival Denver, and Golden State made it ten straight wins thanks to a last-gasp 3-pointer from Stephen Curry.

Dallas' Ellis finished with 38 points, including his trio of foul shots that made it 108-108. He was fouled

by Kirk Hinrich soon after crossing half-court. Chicago's Derrick Rose banked in a 3-point at the overtime buzzer to force double OT. Ellis' 3 put the Mavericks up 130-129, and Chandler Parsons added two foul shots.

Rose missed a 3-point try as time expired. Dirk Nowitzki had 22 points on 8-for22 shooting in Dallas' fourth consecutive win while Pau Gasol led the Bulls with 29 points and 14 rebounds.

Toronto's Kyle Lowry scored 27 points and made a pivotal jumper with 57 seconds left to help the Raptors Dallas Mavericks guard Monta Ellis (11) shoots over Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy Butler and Pau win 117-109 at Sacramento.

Gasol (16), during the first half of an NBA basketball game on December 2 in Chicago. (AP Photo) Terrence Ross matched his

season high with 20 points and reserve James Johnson added 19 points and seven rebounds for the Raptors, who lead the East by two games ahead of Washington.

Toronto, playing a second game without guard DeMar DeRozan, led by as much as 15 but were clinging to a 111-107 advantage late in the fourth quarter when Lowry made a 20foot jumper. Rudy Gay had 20 points and a career-high 10 assists for the Kings, who have lost four straight.

Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge scored a season-high 39 points and set up the winning basket on a pass inside to Robin Lopez with 1.3 seconds left, helping the Trail Blazers rally for the 105-103 win against Denver. Danilo Gallinari's 3-pointer at the buzzer was well short as the Blazers won their seventh straight over Denver and opened a five-game lead over their nearest rival in the Northwest Division. Ty Lawson led Denver with 24 points and 13 assists.

Golden State's Stephen Curry made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds remaining as the Warriors beat Orlando 98-97 for their 10th straight win. In the most dramatic finish in their streak to date, Curry sprinted up court and lost an opponent with some crafty dribbling before pulling

up to swish the shot. Curry finished with 22 points as Golden State rallied from nine points down in the final four minutes, and moved within one game of matching the team record for consecutive wins set in the 1971-72 season. Victor Oladipo scored 27 points in a disappointing collapse for the young Magic.

Cleveland's Kyrie Irving scored 28 points to lead the Cavaliers to a 111108 victory over Milwaukee. LeBron James had 26 points and 10 assists and Mike Miller provided a much-needed spark off the bench as Cleveland won a fourth-straight game. Brandon Knight scored 24 and 19-year-old rookie Jabari Parker, the No. 2 overall pick in this year's draft, had 22 points for Milwaukee.

Phoenix's Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe combined for 61 points as the Suns earned their fourth straight victory over Indiana, beating the Pacers 116-99.

Atlanta rallied to beat struggling Boston 109-105, with Kyle Korver scoring 24 points. Oklahoma City's reigning NBA MVP Kevin Durant made his first appearance of the season after a broken foot, and scored 27 points but it was not enough for the Thunder, which lost 112-104 against New Orleans.

within three years'

lONDON, DeceMber 3 (iaNs): Arsene Wenger insists Arsenal are ready to challenge for the title and believes they will be crowned English Premier League (EPL) champions within three years.

Arsenal have endured an indifferent start to the season, winning just five times in the league, 13 points adrift of leaders Chelsea and out of the Capital One Cup after falling to Southampton at the first hurdle, reports Daily Mail.

But ahead of his side’s clash against the New Orlean Saints Wednesday, Wenger, under fire from a portion of the Arsenal supporters, insisted his side can turn their fortunes around.

Asked if he could win his fourth title as Arsenal boss before his contract expires in 2017, Wenger said: "Of course. We have not started very well, but we never had the squad together since the start of the season. It was a postWorld Cup start typically.

We have to fight like mad now to come back as much as possible to show that we can compete in every single game."

Arsenal have gone 10 years since they last won the EPL, but claimed their first silverware since 2005 after winning the FA Cup last year.

And despite Chelsea emerging as runaway favourites to win the title, Wenger insists the race isn’t over.

"We have fought many times for the title. People always remember who won it, but the fight has been very tight for long periods in the last eight or nine years. We have a big competition in England, we have to accept that," the 65-year-old said.

"The Premier League level goes always up and this season Chelsea have started very well. They will be difficult to catch, but everybody will fight to come back on them. After 13 or 14 games, you cannot say that the title race is over.

You cannot say that is not catchable."

Arsenal take on Southampton at the Emirates with injury concerns over Nacho Monreal and Kieran Gibbs, which could see Mathieu Flamini asked to play in defence. Hector Bellerin, 19, is also on stand-by.

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AlberT N HAu Two international tattoo artists for revival of indigenous tattoos is crowned Naga H Orpheus 2014

Albert N Hau, the winner of Naga Orpheus Hunt 2014 and Limayanger, the runner-up.

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he 2014 edition of the statewide Naga Orpheus has a brilliant new talent. Albert N Hau is not just a just a singer and a performer but a man worthy of the title. 28-year-old Albert, a native of Jalukie in Peren district is the Naga Orpheus of 2014.

Dimapur-based entrepreneurship Soyachunks managed the entire reality show for the year’s edition under the aegis of Mokokchung Art and Culture Council. The Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima town was the stage for the final showdown between the contestants of the music talent hunt on December 2.

Limayanger, a 16-yearold singing talent from Mokokchung district, was the runner-up.

The total number of votes that Albert received with the judges’ points converted into votes on 50-50 scale is

1, 96, 002. Limayanger garnered 1, 60, 891 votes.

With the win, Albert N Hau walks away with six lakhs, while Limayanger wins one lakh.

It is the first time in the history of the Naga Orpheus (previously ‘The Naga idol’) that the event’s finale was conducted out of Mokokchung. The show was part of the Hornbill Music festival under the aegis of Music Task Force, Nagaland.

Albert from the very start impressed the judges. The judges also pronounced him the best performer of the first round.

Albert is a Clark Theological College graduate. His love for music started in the church; he will continue singing and pursuing music as the vocation of his ambitions, the winner says.

Limayanger, still a fresh teenager, proved to be close

competition to Albert. He was energetic and full of passion, with the soul of R & B. Albert was more of a rocker at heart with the energy of the unpredictable rock sensibilities. While the early rounds saw competition amongst the contestants, the race closely stuck with the two contestants, before they ultimately took the top title of the Naga Orpheus Hunt for 2014.

Earlier, the previous Naga Orpheus Hunt winners – Moanungsang, Topeni, Toshinaro, Renbeni, Kokliba and Wabang presented a nostalgic performance, followed by the eight finalists with INCIPIT as the house band.

The occasion was graced by the Khriehu Liezietsu, Parliamentary Secretary, Youth Resources and Sports (YRS), NRE and Music Task Force as the guest of honour.

eiko Gantenberg, a renowned tattoo artist from Germany and Mo Naga of Nagaland, India are sharing a common platform at the Hornbill Festival for the revival of the indigenous tattoo art forms. While Heiko is tattooing Polynesian tattoos at the Hornbill Festival, Mo Naga is promoting the Naga Tribal Art. The exchange of information on indigenous tattoo culture is taking place here at Phesama village, 100 meters from Kisama village where the Hornbill Festival is happening.

This exchange of art and culture will culminate at the International Tattoo Convention at Frankfurt, Germany in February 2015 where Mo Naga has been invited as a guest.

Speaking on this collaboration, Mo Naga, tattoo researcher and promoter and founder of Headhunter’s Ink said, “This is a dream moment in our mission of revival and promotion of Naga Tribal art. I am very excited to host renowned German tattoo artist Heiko in Nagaland's biggest cultural festival. I believe that this intercultural exchange will go a long way in promoting the indigenous tattoo art forms of northeastern India on a global platform.”

Mo Naga is a highly acclaimed tattoo art researcher and promoter, not only in India but on an international level too. He is the first and the only Indian tattoo artist who has been chosen to be featured in the WORLD ATLAS OF TATTOO BOOK which will be published in 2015 by Yale University Press

USA. In the book, Headhunters' Ink is representing India placing Nagaland's art alongside the rich tattoo culture from different parts of the world. Another book called the WORLD’S TATTOO FLASH BOOK to be published by a famous publication house in Germany will feature Mo Naga's Naga tribal art alongside the legends like Ed Hardy, Horiyoshi III, etc. This, once again, positions Nagaland's indigenous art and culture on the global scenario. Mo Naga has also collaborated with Dr. Lars Krutak, world famous tattoo anthropologist who has done programmes on Naga tattoo culture in Discovery Channel, for his tattoo research and revival programme.

Heiko, owner Top Notch Tattooing said, “I am so happy to come across a tattoo artist of such repute as Mo Naga, who has a wonderful vision to revive the dying tribal tattoo art forms of India. There are very few countries in the world with living tattoo legends, India being one of them. I want to congratulate Mo for his mission of reviving this art form and documenting them to be shared with the rest of the world. I look forward to learn a lot about Indian art forms during my stay in India and at the Hornbill Festival”.

Heiko’s – ‘Notch the World’ is a journey dedicated to the love of tattooing and riding Motorbikes that started in May 2014.

This world tour on a Motorcycle aims to find tattoo artists along the way and to document their work.

A motorcycle seems most appropriate option for this

mission as it provides access to remote spots and assures flexibility in even the biggest metropolitan areas.

For this project Heiko has a plan to travel continuously

for two years. The journey which started in Germany will end at New Zealand via Austria, former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kara-

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korum, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. The journey later will be continued on the American Continent.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas present a united front

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o rough waters here. While the tabloids insist their marriage is on the rocks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas were showing they are still very much together at an America's Cup announcement in New York on Tuesday.

The couple helped to reveal the prestigious sailing race's location with this year Bermuda beating out

San Diego to host the regatta. While the pair did not look particularly loved up, they may have just been to engrossed in the big announcement. Catherine, 45, looked rather sombre not helped by her rather plain all-black ensemble featuring a tailored jacket and a below the knee skirt.

Her 70-year-old husband seemed in a more chipper mood as he sat in

the front row for the big location reveal. The National Enquirer reported this week that the couple - who have previously separated - were once again having troubles.

The magazine reports Catherine 'exploded in a jealous rage' over her husband's chemistry with his new Ant-Man co-star Evangeline Lilly. The pair got close while filming on Atlanta, according to a source:

'Sparks flew between the two immediately. 'While Michael knew Evangeline was untouchable because she has a boyfriend and is in a relationship, it didn't stop him from lusting after her! 'Word got back to Catherine, who became jealous and furious.

She read Michael the riot act! It plunged their troubled marriage into even deeper trouble.' Not helping was the actress gushing about work-

ing with the veteran star.

Evangeline said: 'He's just a wonderful, wonderful man and actor and was a real joy to work with. 'Michael was a big part of why I looked forward to going to work every day and taking on this project in the first place. 'There was some real chemistry between us. I would work again with him in a heartbeat. He's a real pleasure to be around and an overall good guy.'

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Sonowal pleads with AIBA to revoke Sarita's suspension New DeLhi, December 3 (iANS): Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has pleaded with International Boxing Association (AIBA) president Ching Kuo Wu to revoke the provisional suspension of female boxer L. Sarita Devi, asking him to take a sympathetic view given her humble background. "I would request you to consider the fact that Sarita Devi comes from a very humble background and has risen in her sport due to her hard work, perseverance and talent. Her suspension has had a demoralising effect on other aspiring sportspersons who would like to emulate her example and achieve sporting excellence," Sonowal said in the letter released Wednesday.

Sarita was provisionally suspended after she refused to accept her medal following a controversial semi-final loss in the Asian Games. The AIBA is yet to take a final call on the quantum of Sarita's punishment but Wu has already made it clear that her career is "as good as over" despite tendering an unconditional apology for her actions.

Citing the stern warning issued to Sarita by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), Sonowal said she has been punished enough. The 29-year-old also missed the World Championships. "Keeping in view all the factors and in the interest of promotion and development of boxing in India, I would urge you to take a very sympathetic view of the matter and take no further action against her beyond what has already been done by the OCA," he said. Along with Sarita, three coaches, including national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu, were also provisionally suspended and AIBA is yet to decide on their fate.

Dudu scores brace as Pune win Maha derby

PuNe, December 3 (AGeNcieS): FC Pune City brushed aside a hapless Mumbai City FC as they registered a 2-0 victory on Wednesday evening at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium, Pune.

The score-line could have been much worse for Peter Reid’s side had it not been for the wastefulness of Pune attackers.

Dudu Omagbemi’s second half brace ensured that Pune moved to the fourth spot on the Indian Super League (ISL) table with 17 points with another two games remaining. Mumbai City’s faint hopes of qualifying almost ended as they remain rooted at the bottom with 12 points to their name.

Lenny nearly got the hosts to a fabulous shot with a piledriver aimed directly at Subrata Paul.

The goalkeeper spilled and Dudu Omagbemi pounced on the rebound, but was adjudged offside by the assistant referee. At the other end Tiago Ribeiro nearly earned his team a penalty as Ravanan brought down the midfielder in the box.

Luckily for the defender, the referee claimed he caught the ball.

Dudu and Park Kwang-Il were at the helm of an outstanding chance for the hosts as they shared a quick one-two that saw the Ni-

MacPherlin Dudu Omagbemi of FC Pune City celebrates a goal during the Hero Indian Super League between Mumbai City FC and FC Goa held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium, Pune on the December 3.

gerian unmarked on the left. His left footed thump was fisted out by Subrata. At the Pune end, Friedrich had a golden opportunity as the in swinging corner met the head of the German, only to head wide in

the seventh minute.

Park Kwang-Il was a live wire and he tormented the Mumbai left and on one occasion, beat his marker high and dry, before crossing into the box. The half-cleared

chance fell kindly to a waiting Jermaine Pennant, who could only shoot it wide two minutes later.

The Pune attackers were pelting Mumbai with shots as the home team went for the jugular and on

14 minutes, Dudu spun his marksman brilliantly and took aim with a left foot volley that Subrata scrambled to the right and beat away.

Then came arguably the chance of the match in the next minute.

Sent clear by a long ball and aided by shocking defending, Kwang had only Subrata to beat. Such was the wastefulness of Pune that the winger smacked it far and wide from 15 yards out and a man to beat. Pune managed to find the lead. The Nigerian Dudu was on call to chest a Kostas cross at the far post and smack it past Paul in the 66th minute. However, Mumbai were seen protesting as Cmovs was asking for the ball to be put out of play as Dudu was on the ground but suddenly when Kostas crossed, he sprung into life to score, much to the annoyance of the away team’s defense.

A few moments later, Kwang was in the right position to hit a cross on the bounce but unfortunately for the home team, Paul looked impregnable as he saved another shot, parrying it away to safety. Mumbai were made to pay again in the 80th minute as Dudu made no mistake in back heeling a Katsouranis drive from the middle of the box after Cmovs’ clearance went straight to the Greek medio.

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United, Liverpool win in EPL; Madrid advances

LONDON, December 3 (AP): With a fourth successive victory, Manchester United's Premier League revival is gathering pace. Ahead of potentially tricky games against Southampton and Liverpool, United overcame Stoke 2-1 through Juan Mata's winner to stay fourth on Tuesday. Liverpool remains five points adrift, but captain Steven Gerrard returned to the starting lineup and scored a timely goal in a 3-1 victory at Leicester.

The most emphatic victory of the night in Europe came in Spain, where Real Madrid routed third-tier side Cornella 5-0 to advance to the Copa del Rey round of 16 with a 9-1 aggregate win.

At Old Trafford, United lacked creativity without the injured Wayne Rooney and Angel Di Maria. But Marouane Fellaini met Ander Herrera's cross with a towering header to put the hosts in front in the 21st minute.

Steven Nzonzi equalized for Stoke with a powerful shot from the edge of the area, but the 2013 champions' lead was restored in the second half from Mata's inswinging free kick.

Sitting in eighth, Liverpool's form is a far cry from last season — when

Manchester United's Marcos Rojo, centre right in red, watches as the ball heads goalwards as teammate Juan Mata, out of frame, scores from a free kick during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Stoke City at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Tuesday December 2. (AP Photo)

the team finished second — and the visitors had to come from behind to beat Leicester. Liverpool went a goal down in the 22nd when Leonardo Ulloa's shot hit the post and rebounded into the net off goalkeeper Simon Mignolet. But Adam Lallana leveled four minutes

later and — after Gerrard's goal — Leicester had Wes Morgan sent off for dragging down Rickie Lambert.

With a man advantage, Jordan Henderson completed Liverpool's second straight victory in the 83rd.

West Ham stayed fifth after fighting back to edge West Brom 2-1, and Swansea is a

place behind after beating Queens Park Rangers 2-0.

QPR is only being kept off the bottom by Leicester, while Burnley provisionally climbed out of the relegation zone by drawing 1-1 with Newcastle. Aston Villa claimed its first league victory since September by winning 1-0 at Crystal Pal-

ace, with Christian Benteke scoring his first goal in nine months.

In the Copa del Rey encounter, James Rodriguez led Real Madrid's attack with Cristiano Ronaldo resting, and scored twice in the first half in between setting up Francisco "Isco" Alarcon. Javier Hernandez netted the fourth in the second half and Jese Rodriguez came off the bench to score on his return after nearly nine months out through injury.

Holder Madrid and Cornella played their first leg in October so that Madrid can play at the Club World Cup later this month.

In first-leg matches, Athletic Bilbao drew 1-1 at third-tier Alcoyano, and Espanyol won 2-0 at Alaves.

In the French League, Andre-Pierre Gignac saw his goal-bound shot saved with just seconds remaining as French league leader Marseille missed several chances in a 1-1 draw at Lorient. Although Dimitri Payet put Marseille ahead with a curling shot into the top corner in the 32nd, Jordan Ayew equalized five minutes later from the penalty spot after Benjamin Jeannot was floored by goalkeeper Steve Mandanda.

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