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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it DC reviews preparation of Mkg Town 125 years celebrations

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‘Clock ticking to catastrophe’ UN Secretary General Ban urges strong climate deal

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Yesterday he won the ghost chilli challenge.....Hey, Champ, How’s the morning treating you?

Press conference on Wuzu firing incident on Dec 15 KOHImA, DecembeR 7 (DIPR): The Chairman of the Inquiry Commission regarding the July 16, 2015 Wuzu firing incident has called for a press conference with the local media on December 15 at 11:00am at the GA Rest House, Meluri.

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Tatar Hoho approves Framework Agreement

German power metal band Helloween performing at the Hornbill Music Festival at IG Stadium, Kohima on Monday, December 7.

Nagaland CM TR Zeliang summoned before court

KOHImA, DecembeR 7 (mexN): Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang has been summoned to appear before the Court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kohima on January 7, 2016.

This was stated in an order dated December 7, 2015, passed by the Court, in relation to a complaint registered against the Nagaland state CM alleging that he had filed a “false declaration” in his affidavit while submitting nomination form to the Returning Officer during the 2013 As-

sembly Elections.

The Magistrate, examined the records produced by the acting Registrar of the North Eastern Hill University and the Principal, Kohima College on the educational qualifications of the respondent, TR Zeliang.

“The records showed that Taditui Zeliang appeared in BA exam in 1979, bearing roll no 598, but failed in all subjects.

In 1980, there is no record showing TR Zeliang having appeared BA exam under NEHU. Further, the re-

DImAPuR, DecembeR 7 (mexN): The Tatar Hoho winter session of the NSCN (IM) held on December 4 has unanimously approved and fully supported the August 3 Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM). This was informed by the Speaker, Tatar Hoho, Zarsie Nyuthe through a press statement today. It further appealed for an early fructification of the Framework Agreement to its logical conclusion honourable to both the parties.

New DelHI, DecembeR 7 (IANS): The ongoing tripartite peace process among the pro-talk faction of ULFA, Assam government and the Centre is likely to see a new agreement being signed in six months, a senior ULFA leader said. mON, DecembeR “Our peace process is going on 7 (mexN):The Konyak very smoothly. Recently we have Union (KU) today ex- had nice talks with the central govpressed concern that work ernment and there are no differfor drilling and installa- ences as of now... we have mutualtion of deep tube well at ly agreed on several issues. We are the Mon District Hospital likely to see a solution in the next has not been executed by six months,” Raju Baruah, a senior the concerned contrac- member of ULFA’s pro-talk faction, tor. A press note from the told IANS. KU President, S Manlip Konyak and General Secretary, Y Hosea Konyak informed that the work was awarded to Global Tube Wells Regd.No.CGWA/ NER/007/0707 amounting to Rs.32,77,700 for drill- DImAPuR, DecembeR 7 ing and installation of one (mexN): The NSCN (IM) on Monday deep tube well at Mon Dis- issued a clarification on the reported trict Hospital under State abduction of a 60 year old woman in Plan. The KU stated that connection to a land dispute case at for completion of works 6 Eralibill Village, Dimapur. months time has already Kilonser and Central Adminisexpired, and “it has come to trative Officer (CAO) of Union Terlight that, without execut- ritories-1, Khoselie Nagi in a rejoining any drilling & installa- der to the news item appearing on tion works the money had December 5 issue of the local dailies been released.” As such, said the case in question was on the it apprised the Principal issue of a plot of land sold twice by Director, Health & Family the landowner.

Welfare and the concerned It stated that in 2009, Kiusimong contractor and Global Tikhir, a ‘Major’ in the NSCN (IM) Tube Wells to “exercise all and his wife had bought a plot of your might to complete land from the owner, whereas sale the assigned works within deed was executed. one (1) month time on or In 2011, the owner executed a before January 7, 2016.” gift deed with Kiusimong’s “now es“Failure to comply on this tranged wife without his consent.” notification, the Konyak Likewise in 2013, another sale deed Union (KU) shall not hesi- on the same land was executed to antate to initiates any legal other buyer, who was also a resident action against concerned of Eralibill, the NSCN (IM) stated. contractor as deemed fit,” With the same land being sold to the KU cautioned. two persons with signature append-

cords showed that Taditui Zeliang has been enrolled as student of NEHU in the year 1975-76, bearing registration no A0004 and signed by him on the record register on 4.9.1975,” stated the court order.

Having examined the records, the court declared that “it is a fit case to proceed further. Therefore, the summon is hereby issued to the accused person to appear in person before this court on January 7, 2016.”

The complainant, Maziezokho Nisa was represented by Senior Advocate,

New deal with Centre likely in six months: ULFA leader

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Emphasising on the need to include deported ULFA leader Anup Chetia in the peace process, Raju Baruah, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the outfit, said Chetia would join the peace talks once his judicial custody is over.

Chetia was sent to 14 days’ judicial custody by a special court in Guwahati. He will be produced in the court again on December 9. Stating that the pro-talk faction of ULFA has also given a time frame to complete the peace talks within the time, Raju Baruah said: “We are almost sure that we will complete the peace talks in a very short duration.”

NSCN (IM) clarifies over Eralibill ‘abduction’ and land dispute

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ed by the owner, the NSCN (IM) said its Regional Judiciary Board (RJB) had summoned the landowner on several occasion but she failed to appear.

Consequently, a warrant of arrest was issued for non-compliance to the directive and her failure to classify on the land dispute case which led to the arrest on December 3. She was then kept under custody for “interrogation and classification,” the press statement said. It also maintained that the issuance of the arrest warrant was notified to the GBs of Eralibill village.

However, with the protest by a joint forum of Eralibill, Ekranipathar, Aoyimti, Dobagaon and K Hollohon villages on December 4, the landowner was released unconditionally, it said.

In this regard, the NSCN (IM) has asked the general public “not to misunderstand and protest against the government without knowing the real reason.” It also informed that the case was yet to be settled.

KN Bal Gopal and the respondent was represented by advocate Joshua Sheqhi.

The respondent’s counsel raised objection as to the maintainability of the case “as it is barred by the limitation period and the complaint petition should be dismissed.”

On this, the court stated that “as per the provisions of Sec 469 (b) (2) and Sec 473 of CrPc, this court is inclined to take cognizance of the alleged offence and in the interest of justice, the question of limitation does not arise.”

PARIS, DecembeR 7 (ReuteRS): Warning that the “clock is ticking toward climate catastrophe”, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged governments on Monday to agree a strong deal to limit global warming and transform the economy to greener energy.

“Outside these negotiating halls, there is a rising global tide of support for a strong, universal agreement,” Ban told environment and foreign ministers at the start of an intense home stretch of the talks, due to end on Friday.

He urged delegates from almost 200 nations not to duck the hard choices they face as four years of often glacial-paced negotiations peak. The talks are aimed at producing the strongest agreement yet to bind both rich and poor to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“The world is expecting more from you than half-measures and incremental approaches,” Ban told the negotiators, calling for “a transformative agreement.”

Ban said a final deal should include a review of national pledges at five year intervals starting before 2020. Some developing nations are reluctant to commit to such an early timetable.

He also said the private sector needed a clear signal that a shift to low emissions was “inevitable” and told rich nations to lead in cutting emissions. Ban said emerging nations also needed access to $100 billion a year promised by 2020 to help them tackle climate change.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, dispatched to secure a deal meant to cement President Barack Obama’s legacy as a guardian of the environment, will work alongside ministers from almost 200 nations this week to try to secure a deal.

Negotiators approved a pared-down draft text on Saturday, and handed over the

toughest questions to their bosses, who will spend the week hammering out thorny issues including a system for funding developing nations and the mechanisms for monitoring national pledges to reduce emissions.

Almost every nation will make brief speeches this week outlining national policies and hopes. They are due to reach a final accord on Friday, but the talks are widely expected to run into overtime, as previous summits have.

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While officials have been pleased with progress halfway through the two-week summit, Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar cautioned that “substance-wise, we are not midway but ... at a crossroads”.

He reiterated New Delhi’s demand that richer nations must shoulder the biggest curbs to “pay back their debt for the overdraft that they have drawn on the carbon space”, highlighting one of the most difficult obstacles to a deal.

To speed things along, the host, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, has formed working committees headed by ministers to tackle the biggest themes, which include “differentiation” (the distinction between rich and poor nations, critical for questions of financing) and “ambition” (how to improve on national efforts in future).

Some form of agreement seems all but certain, with major powers eager to avoid the failure of the last summit in Copenhagen, six years ago.

Still, all sides say the deal will not be enough to prevent global temperatures rising past a dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

Just how strong the accord will be remains to be seen. Some nations want a commitment to phase out fossil fuels by the middle of the century; others see that as unrealistic. Some of the most vulnerable countries, such as low-lying islands, want firm language on how rich nations who have emitted the most will pay for the future damage caused by rising seas

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Ability despite disability

The NSDF stall at Hornbill 2015 promoting a ‘barrier free environment for everyone’ Morung Express News Kohima | December 7

“Despite our disability, we are abled in other areas,” says 30 years old Catherine Rolnu from the Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF). The forum which has set up its first stall at the Hornbill Festival, Kisama this year sells products for disabled people or families of the disabled. However, to make their stall more disabled friendly, they set up their stall above the road near the Water tank at Kisama where people with loco motor disabilities are able to visit. To start the stall, the Forum borrowed money to sell calendars to raise funds.

The stall was also set up with the help of the Naga Territorial Army, Jakhama who pitched the tent, provided coffee machines, tables, chairs etc. The profits sold from the stall will go to the villages where the disabled people have made the products.

With maximum of the State’s disabled population consisting of loco motor disability, the Forum started a poster campaign at the Hornbill Festival, Kisama since day one, where they have been pasting posters all over prominent places in the Festival saying ‘Hornbill Festival is not disabled friendly’, ‘Where is the way for wheelchair users?’, ‘We don’t need your sympathies and empathies. We need your support in creating a bar-

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One of the pamphlets distributed by the Nagaland State Disability Forum during the ongoing Hornbill Festival in Kohima. (Morung Photo)

rier-free environment for everyone’.

“We have distributed pamphlets freely to the people but it was a little heartbreaking to find those pamphlets thrown on the road,” said Rolnu, adding that the pamphlets were given out to make people more aware about the plight of disabled people.

The Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF) was formed in January 2014 following a series of meetings, trainings and workshops facilitated and supported by CBR Forum Bangalore in partnership with NGOs from Nagaland namely Development Association of Nagaland (DAN), People in Need Foundation (PNF), Prodigals’ Home (PH) in Dimapur, Youth Action for Rural Development (YARD) in Kohima and Care & Support Society (CSS) in Mokokchung.

As per census 2011, Nagaland has 29,631 people with Disabilities in the state. NSDF currently has 70 Village Level Disabled People Organisa-

tions (VDPO).

When we look at others from other states, we realized that we’ve been lagging behind despite Nagaland being one of the first states in the North East, says Kezhaleto Zecho, President of the Forum and because of the social stigma, mostly created by family and society, the case in Nagaland remains a pathetic one.

“Most of the public buildings are not accessible for us.

At the least what the government can do for us is to create ramps for wheelchairs in public places,” adds Zecho.

Further, Nagaland has a Disability Commission with its own Director without any office.

Rolnu views that in Nagaland, disabled people are very often neglected by both society and government.

“Nobody wants to be disabled in life but we are all God’s blessings. Only the disabled know the needs of the disabled. Sometimes parents are not even aware of the

needs of their own disabled children. We do not want the rest of the next generation to suffer like us. We want them to live a life of dignity. We want them to come out of their house and not hide their disability,” asserts 29 years old M. Wangshok from Mon. Critical of what society always tell them about everyone being equal before the eyes of God, Zecho adds, “We are God’s children but they don’t know our needs and to make us equals they have to provide our needs.”

The forum is also critical of many NGOs who misused funds meant for disabled people. “People will forget us until the next World Disability day comes again. We don’t want charity, we want our rights. We want opportunities and we want to make sure that the disabled people in Nagaland are not denied of their basic rights to education, rights to health which is a very neglected aspect, right to work and reservation of jobs,” says the Forum.

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DC reviews preparation of Mkg Town 125 years celebrations

Richü Youth Organisation 25th anniversary on Jan 2

JaKhama, December 7 (DiPr): The Richü Youth Organisation (RYO) would be celebrating the 25th anniversary (Silver Jubilee) of the pre dawn annual community prayer seeking blessing and forgiveness from the Almighty on January 2, 2016 at Tazwe kita, R. Khel, Viswema Village. RYO has requested the members of R.Khel to pray for the program and also to attend the worship program on this day.

The RYO has further requested all the members to attend the annual Youth Day program to be held on January 4, at the Rachümi Panchayat building, R.khel, Viswema.

All the members have moKoKchuNg, Dealso been informed that cember 7 (DiPr): Depthe open Wrestling tournauty Commissioner& Vice ment of RYO would be held Chairman Mokokchung on January 9, 2016. The traDistrict Planning & Develditional wrestling game will opment Board (DPDB), Sube in two categories, namely shil Kumar Patel reviewed senior and junior. The junior the preparations for celcategory will be below 18 ebrations of Mokokchung years of age, interested jutown 125 years scheduled nior candidate are required to commence from Decemto produce birth certificate ber 12 to 19 at its monthly for age proof. The RYO will meeting. DC requested the provide allowance to all the Mokokchung District Art & participants apart from the Culture Council (MDACC) prize of the position holders. to brief the members about All the interested candidates are requested to submit their the progress of the overnames to the RYO Execuall event management. tives on or before January 5, MDACC General Secre2016. For more information tary, Allen Mark informed kindly contact Mobile No. The blacktopped driveway from College Gate to Dimapur Government College Principal's the members that prepara943660744/9856864826.

Office constructed by DMC under the initiative of Atokhe Aye, CEO, DMC. tions are going on smooth-

ly and hoped that the weeklong celebrations would be a grand success.

Sushil Kumar Patel who chaired the meeting called upon all the Head of Offices in the district to actively participate in the ongoing preparations and asked all Heads to compulsorily attend the inaugural programme on 12th December along with their officers and staff where Chief Minister, Nagaland T.R Zeliang will inaugurate the celebrations at Imkongmeren sports complex at 11:30 AM. The meeting also recommended a representation submitted by Tuli Area Joint Council Forum who

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are seeking establishment of Feeder Road Division at Tuli permanently. In the representation the Joint council forum said that the Feeder Road Division under E.E commenced from 1989 by transferring EE (Design) from Chief Engineer Office (PWD) Kohima and it still continuing without making it a permanent establishment. The meeting decided to forward the recommendation to the Commissioner & secretary R & B. The meeting also recommended registration of Merangkong Senso Drivers’ Union to the government.

LLRPO laments poor health care services Sazolie College conducts career guidance seminar

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WoKha, December 7 (mexN): Lotha Lower Range Public Organization has drawn the attention of the Principal Director, Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Nagaland on the poor health care services in the government established health centres under Bhandari-Sub-Division.

“We are all aware that proper functioning of any health centre depends on the strength of doctors and subordinates staffs but in the case of community health centre Bhandari, primary health centres Yimpang and Yanmhon Villages, problems are frequent for patients in availing health services either

due to shortage or absence of doctors for reasons best known to the department,” stated a press note issued

by LLRPO A/President Chenirao Jami and General Secretary R Kemerio Yanthan.

LLRPO stated that Community Health Centre Bhandari renders health care services to Administrative HQ. Bhandari and its adjoining villages but is presently managed only by two regular doctors including the SMO, besides three other doctors, who are assigned for specific health programs. “Worst is the case with Primary health centers Yanmhon and Yimpang villages, these health centres were supposed to

have one doctors each but doctors posted are on study leaves without relievers for years now. This step-motherly treatment towards the citizens amounts to denial of health rights and breach of law,” added the Organisation.

The LLRPO has appealed the department concerned to seriously ponder upon the problems faced by the people and deploy doctors as per the requirements of the health centers without delay in the service of the people. “In the event situation arises out of non deployment of doctors to the health centre, the department shall be solely held responsible,” LLRPO further stated.

Nomination call for Peace Award

DimaPur, December 7 (mexN): Local NGO, Peace Channel would be conferring the 8th Peace Channel award to individuals who have made exceptional contributions in peace building and related issues in Nagaland. The award will be given away during the National Peace Convention 2016 scheduled to be held on February 1, 2016 at Town Hall, C M Y K

Dimapur.

The award is opened to all the people irrespective of religion, sex, age and tribe. All nominations are expected to be submitted with a full bio data and write up of the person’s achievements/contributions to the society with some photographs in both hard and soft copy.

The information provided must be duly sup-

ported with adequate verifiable evidence and signed by the nominator or nominators. Nomination should reach the Peace Channel office latest by January 10, 2016 at the following address, Director Peace Channel, Bishop’s House, Circular Road , Post box- 03, Dimapur, contact- 9856093469 or email : peacechannel05@gmail. com, cpanto@gmail.com

Jotsoma, December 7 (mexN): A one day career guidance seminar for students was conducted at Sazolie College, Jotsoma on December 5.

The resource persons were Robin Temsü, Assistant Professor, Sazolie College; Colo Mero, Director, Life Sports/Ministries; Nenchulo Woch, Development Officer, LIC, Kohima; and Nezelü Nyekha, Freelance Trainer and Researcher.

In the first session, Robin Temsü spoke on “Importance of Career

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ing for admission in universities after their graduation.

Colo Mero, dwelt on the topic, “Entrepreneurship: Being Your Own Boss”, where he said that education and occupation should go hand in hand.

However, he lamented the fact that many remain unemployed and dependent on their parents even after graduation. He said, “Truly educated people cannot be unemployed”.

He told the students not to only try for government jobs as there are various

other opportunities in life.

He spoke about the perks and advantages that one can enjoy being in one’s own business, however, he said that it can also come with a lot of responsibilities as it requires a lot of hard work and discipline.

He urged the students to remain honest and truthful in whatever ventures they undertake in life.

Nechulo Woch, speaking on the topic, “Earning while Learning”, also stressed on the importance of hard work to achieve success in life and

gave the students some areas where they can earn while studying. He urged them to be bold enough to experiment and undertake different ventures while they are still young. He also gave a presentation of the avenues in LIC where students can also become financial advisors and earn.

After the brainstorming sessions, the programme ended with a discussion and interactive session. The programme was chaired by Aphrenuo Mozhui, Assistant Professor, Sazolie College.

SIPMIU informs on augmenting Modernization of meat water supply distribution network shop at Mokokchung

Kohima, December 7 (mexN): The Government of Nagaland with loan assistance from the Asian Development Bank is presently replacing and augmenting the water supply distribution network in Kohima Municipal Council area with a modern system of network and has engaged M/s Tantia Construction Ltd., as the contractor.

A joint meeting between District Administration, Kohima Municipal Council, SIPMIU officials and Chairmen of the 19 wards was held on November 24 in the Conference Hall of Administrator, Kohima Municipal Council regarding the digging of the trenches along the roads/ footpath and footsteps for laying of the pipes.

SIPMIU Kohima Program Director Motsuthung Lotha informed in a press

M/s Seyie Gas Service acknowledges best customers

Kohima, December 7 (mexN): M/s Seyie Gas Service, Kohima while celebrating advent Christmas, acknowledged three of its best customers, at a solemn function held at its premises on December 7. Amenla, Zakiekhoü and Easter Kikon were the awardees for 2015.

Representatives of the Gas Service from 48 villages and colonies, besides all their staff were also appreciated for their contribution and presented with gifts.

Meanwhile Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) awarded Khan, one of its staff members as the ‘best driver of the year.’

Associate Pastor, Peraciezie Baptist Church, Kevichalie Metha invoked God’s blessings.

The programme was chaired by Kevinourheno Seyie, wife of the proprietor. Refreshment was Seyie Gas Service proprietor, K. Seyie and his wife Kevinourheno Seyie, Associate Pastor PBC, Kevichalie Metha along with Best Customers. served to all its customers.

Dedication of Koinonia Prayer Centre, Tsiesema

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Planning”. He urged the students to carefully plan their careers and set certain goals in their lives, as it will give them a purpose to work hard and strive for success. One cannot succeed without planning one’s career, he said.

Nezelü Nyekha, who is an alumnus of the college, spoke on the prospects and importance of pursuing higher studies.

She gave some guidelines to the students, along with some do’s and don’ts, which they can follow and keep in mind while apply-

Koinonia Prayer Centre located at NH-2 near the Assam Rifles Camp, Tsiesema was inaugurated on December 5, 2015. The prayer centre dedicated by Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, Senior Pastor and Principal Kohima Bible College - is a ministry of Koinonia Baptist Church established with the vision and heart for reaching the lost souls, physical and spiritual healing, deliverance and an anointing centre.

Delivering the message on the theme: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples...” Isaiah 56:7, Rev. Zotuo said that the prayer centre first amongst the Baptist churches, at this place is ‘divinely ordained’ as it came about through a revelation from prayer warriors way back in 1972, that God would work something great here. He said that the prophesy has been fulfilled and the centre would bring about renewal, happiness and blessings, to those who seek God with purity and obedience. He also welcomed one and all to its premises and announces that it will start in full swing in January 10, 2016 onwards.

Koinonia Prayer Centre expresses heartfelt gratitude and acknowledged all the well wishers who contributed magnanimously towards the Koinonia Prayer Centre, Tsiesema.

release that apropos to the joint meeting, SIPMIU make known to all the concern that the restoration of the roads/footpath and footsteps shall be done as per the specifications and under the supervision of SIPMIU officials.

Therefore, an appeal is made to all the citizens of Kohima to co-operate with the Contractor.

Any advice or grievance may be addressed to: The Addl. Program Director, SIPMIU Old Secretariat Complex Kohima – 797 001, Nagaland Tel: 0370 2292103 (o) Mob: +91 9436 00096 Email: sipmiukohima@gmail.com

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moKoKchuNg, December 7 (DiPr): Five meat shops have been upgraded to modernized meat shop from the existing grade of meat shop and are already operational under Mokokchung Municipal Council.

The project was directly sponsored by the Department of Industries and Commerce, Nagaland, Kohima, under the National Mission of Food Processing Industries under Ministry of Food Processing Government of India.

Technical assistance for civil works and arrangement of the required machineries were assisted by a competent committee constituted by MMC consisting of Dr. Aoyimsen, from District Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Department, Nochet, Inspector from District Industries & Commerce, Mokokchung and P. Tia Kichu, Inspector MMC. The ADC & Administrator, MMC, Bendanglila directed all beneficiaries and the committee members to ensure implementation of the scheme successfully to fulfill the food safety rules and regulation.

Book Review

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The Reluctant Daughter Reviewed by Longrangty Longchar

Author: N Jamir Price: Rs. 300/ Available in all major bookstalls in Nagaland

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he title enough is catchy. The contents of the book, to be quite honest, quite disturbing. In fact, it is one of the most disturbing books I have ever read. But that does not mean that I did not enjoy it. After all, a book that does not tickle your emotions and make you laugh, or sad, or disturbs you to the verge of questioning yourself, is not a good book at all.

The Reluctant Daughter by N Jamir is one book that will leave you quite disturbed. It will either make you angry, sad (perhaps, even humored) or simply wake you up to reality; that depends on how you take a book. Starting from the front matter pages where the author states - This book is based on true incidents. Please keep in mind that some parts of the book might be emotionally disturbing – is enough to keep you engrossed.

Now, let me tell you how I enjoyed the book. It’s a story about a young contemporary lady, who was sexually abused by her uncle’s friends when she was just a young child of four years. It’s a story about her life, her struggle, and her journey to self-discovery and…

Ummm, I think, you would hate me if I summarized the story for you, right? I would, if you do that.

It would surely be like someone who joins you while you are watching a nail biting thriller movie and tells you the ending part. So, let me not take out the excitement of you reading ‘The Reluctant Daughter’.

I do not have much to say about the underlying message in the book because I am not an expert, and because I have not personally come across sexually abused persons in my life. Maybe I have, maybe not. But, now I am thinking, have I? Anyway, as an avid reader, I really admire the way the author, N Jamir, has created the character of the protagonist – Zuni. The book is about the life of the young lady named Zuni, and the whole story circles around her.

Towards the beginning of the book, I wondered whether Zuni is portrayed on the lines of Ashley Patter-

son from Sydney Sheldon’s novel ‘Tell Me your dreams’, because, Zuni is portrayed as a young traumatized lady, beautiful, intelligent but with an ostensibly psychotic problem.

Then, at one part where Zuni confesses that she puts matchsticks on her writs and burn her skin made me wonder whether Zuni is like that character ‘Max’ in Jonathan Nasaw’s thriller ‘The Girls he adored’.

But No. As the book draws to an end, I couldn’t help but wonder whether, the life of Zuni, her thoughts, her speeches to her heart (yes, this much I can tell, she speaks a lot to her heart) is a walk along the dark alleys of Mr Heathcliff. I did take out Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (it remains one of my favorites) and read it again. But again No. Zuni is not Mr Heathcliff.

N Jamir’s ‘Zuni’ is a character of her own. The author does not describe her; she leaves it to the readers’ imagination. But, Zuni can be surmised in a simple sentence: she is bold, beautiful and enigmatic.

Zuni can be angry sometimes even to the extent of hurting herself; she is intelligent and educated that she is gainfully employed; she can be quite empathic to the extent of listening to the sad story of a stranger, an old helpless man, in a train compartment; she is an emotional lady whose eyes is filled with tears on hearing the sad demise of her friend who committed suicide. But above all, she is one bold lady who could burn the dairies as a symbol of saying ‘goodbye’ and even confront her uncle, her past.

Now, imagine such a character like Zuni in your mind. It’s interesting.

N Jamir, with her lucid writing, simple usage of words and her power to sway the reader along with the mood swings of Zuni, The Reluctant Daughter makes one very compelling, evocative and interesting read.

Oh yes, the author also gives a brief academic highlight about what is sexual abuse, its effects, its remedies as an epilogue (if I might call it) in the book.

Anyway, as for me, as always after reading a good book, I want more. So, I ask the author, N Jamir, what happens to Zuni Avishir afterwards. Eagerly, waiting for a sequel of the book. Well done, N Jamir, salute.

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bandh disrupts life Assam Speaker suspends 6 BJP MLAs, 9 inKSO Manipur's hill districts from Cong backing it for Winter Session Our Correspondent

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Guwahati, December 7 (Pti): Six BJP MLAs and nine from Congress, who had recently declared their allegiance to the opposition party, were suspended from Assam Assembly for the 5-day Winter Session on Monday by Speaker Pranab Gogoi for disobeying his ruling and creating noisy scenes.

Just before the beginning of the Question Hour on the first day of the session, the Speaker gave the ruling that all the BJP members and those from Congress supporting it, have been suspended from the House for the entire Winter Session.

BJP’s six MLAs and nine Congress MLAs who recently announced their decision to join the party were all suspended. The strength of the Assembly is 126.

Earlier, when the House assembled, BJP MLA Jadav Chandra Deka demanded scrapping of the Question Hour and holding of a discussion on the “deteriorating law and order situation” in the state.

“The law and order situation is deteriorating day by day. Hindi-speaking people are being tortured and Jehadi activities are on rise. Allow us to discuss the issues by today itself,” Deka said.

When the Speaker did not accept his demand, all BJP MLAs stood up and shouted in support of their demand.

Immediately, all Congress MLAs, including the ministers, countered the opposition demand by shouting back.

The BJP MLAs then rushed to the Well of the

Gogoi assails Assam BJP leader's allegation Guwahati, December 7 (Pti): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today termed as "baseless and politically motivated" the allegation by BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma that the Speaker of the Assembly was influenced by him. Gogoi said, "It is really unfortunate that Himanta Biswa Sarma chose to hurl wild allegations against me that I have influenced the Speaker."

In a statement, he said, "It is a blatant lie. This is a grave insult to the Hon'ble Speaker who always maintains neutrality and impartiality. He has also desecrated the sanctity of the House." Gogoi challenged Sarma to prove his allegation and said that if he failed, he would have to apologise publicly.

He also hit out at Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal for his remark that the Assembly had been turned into a Congress' office. "The comment made by Sonowal against the House is disgraceful, shocking and outrageous," Gogoi said in the statement.

House and pressed the Speaker with their demand.

They were joined by the Congress MLAs, who had recently declared their allegiance to the opposition party but had not resigned from the ruling party.

Thereafter, ll Congress MLAs also rushed to the Well and shouted slogans against BJP, leading to a face-off be-

tween the members.

With no signs of cooling of frayed tempers, the Speaker called the Marshals, who took the BJP MLAs out of the House, and announced his decision to suspend the members for the Winter Session period.

Congress MLAs then returned to their seats and normal business began.

Outside the House, the expelled BJP members shouted slogans against the state government and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who holds the Home portfolio.

The opposition members also demanded immediate resignation of the Chief Minister for failing to improve the law and order

situation in the state.

However, the Congress MLAs, supporting BJP, have not formally resigned forcing the ruling party to seek termination of their membership just before the start of the Winter Session.

After the Question Hour ended, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rockybul Hussain again demanded action against the nine Congress members.

“Some of our MLAs walked out with BJP members and they have not resigned from the party. It proves that they have defected. There are many recommendations against defection in India. I request you to take action against them accordingly,” Hussain told the Speaker.

On this, the Speaker said, “I will take action as per rules.”

Normal life in the hill districts of Manipur was seriously disrupted due to a 48hour bandh called by Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO) to protest the alleged assault of one of its leaders and two village chiefs by personnel of Assam Rifles on December 5.

One loaded-DI Tata mini truck was reportedly torched by suspected bandh supporters in Khoupum area of Tamenglong district around noon today. The strike started last midnight. Sources said all five hill districts witnessed near total bandh.

Traffic on all National Highways linking the state was seriously affected by the strike. Vehicular movement on Imphal-Moreh road, Imphal-Dimapur road and Imphal-Jiribam road was blocked by bandh supporters.

Convoy of the 24 Assam Rifles led by its Command-

ing Officer was barred by a large number of KSO volunteers from passing through the Imphal-Moreh road (National Highway 102) section at H Kotlenphai village near Pallel, sources informed.

They threw stones on the convoy forcing it to turn away from the spot.

According to KSO, the two village chiefs and president of the student body's Chandel district unit were harassed and beaten up by personnel of the 24 Assam Rifles, including a JCO and a Major, on December 5 at Khudengthabi check-post along the Imphal-Moreh road. KSO president Paokin Lutheng told the Morung Express the bandh, backed by All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM), was almost total in the hill districts.

He said KSO leaders are meeting representatives of the Manipur government and Assam Rifles tomorrow over the issue.

Assam, Nagaland to slug it out in trial B'desh upgrades diplomatic mission in Agartala Guwahati, December 7 (the Sentinel): The ‘original suit’ on the AssamNagaland border dispute filed by the then Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) government at the Supreme Court in 1988 has reached the trial stage.

An official in the Assam Home department said that this is the ‘first original suit’ at the Supreme Court to reach a trial stage, after all efforts – institution of a boundary commission, ap-

aGartala, December 7 (ianS): Bangladesh has upgraded its diplomatic mission in Agartala to an assistant high commission and posted Sakhawat Hussain as the first assistant high commissioner to further boost bilateral relations, a Bangladesh official said on Monday.

"The Bangladesh diplomatic mission and visa office in Tripura capital Agartala has been upgrad-

ed. Dhaka will soon set up a deputy high commission in Guwahati in Assam," he said.

Both the steps are aimed at boosting bilateral trade and economy and people-to-people contacts, he said. The formal inauguration of the assistant high commission in Agartala is expected by the monthend.

Sakhawat Hussain was earlier consular head of

Bangladesh High Commission in Madrid (Spain).

After taking over his current assignment on Monday, he left for Dhaka to meet Bangladesh foreign ministry officials. "He will return before December 16 for the celebration of Vijay Diwas (the victory day of Bangladesh liberation war in 1971) in Agartala," the official added.

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Assam journalists demand law for security

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Guwahati, December 7 (Pti): Journalists in Assam today demanded a national legislation for their protection in view of the rising incidents of physical assaults on their fraternity, besides killings.

In a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Journalist Association of Assam demanded enactment of a law protecting journalists

pointment of an interlocutor and an appeal to both the States to sort out the difference – failed to yield any results. Original suits are State versus State cases, pertaining to issues like territory, water disputes etc.

At the trial stage, both the parties will produce their witnesses. Nagaland government has submitted a list of around 250 witnesses before the apex court, but the neighbouring State

as in Assam "at least one journalist has been fatally attacked every year during the past 14 years for refusing to file report as per the instructions of either the terrorists or the police".

"In Assam our members have rejected the demand of both militants and the authorities to report as dictated by either party even as many were silenced by the practitio-

has been directed to cut down the number.

Assam claims Nagaland has usurped 59,159.77 hectares of its’s territory while Nagaland says these tracts historically belong to them.

Nagaland has been insisting on a resolution on the basis of history and traditions.

The boundary dispute between the two states dates back to 1963 when Nagaland was carved out of Assam as a separate state.

ners of the gun culture", said the memorandum sent through Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner.

"Reporters, cameramen and other media personnel are always exposed to vandalism and physical assaults by groups feigning victimization."

"The police do not intervene in time or effectively more often they reach the spot long after

the occurrence despite getting informed," it said.

The journalists also demanded medical benefits, life insurance coverage and pension. Besides, they demanded constitution of a Media Council to help, guide and make the fourth estate strong and ethical "keeping in view the present media situation, the unhealthy trends in both the print and electronic media and the

new challenges of the on line media as well as the emerging trends in various sections of society impacted by the media".

The Association also demanded for journalists full concession in railways and state buses in Assam, housing facility and land to homeless journalists on seniority basis, implementation of Wage Board, security of services among others.

Documentary on ex-ULFA activist screened at Delhi film fest new Delhi, December 7 (ianS): "Rebellion Bejewelled", a documentary on the life of a former ULFA militant who later devoted his life to community development, was screened at the fourth Delhi International Film Festival here on Monday.

Directed by Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, additional director general of Assam Police, "Rebellion Bejewelled" is based on the grit, determination and integrity of Monimanik Gogoi, who was once a rebel with allegiance to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).

A man who has always had dreams of a better life for his people, Monimanik Gogoi at an impressionable age found in the ULFA a platform he thought would help meet his goals.

Gogoi hails from Salmari Digholia village of Tingkhang, a suburban area of Dibrugarh district in upper Assam.

Though he joined the ULFA with a zeal to bring about a transformation in the society he was part of, he was soon disillusioned with the ways of the outfit.

Over the years, the ULFA saw several upheavals within. That, along with a sustained and determined state action coupled with the outfit's dwindling international network, the ULFA is now a pale shadow of itself.

Rejecting its terror tactics and doubtful integrity, its erstwhile constituency of the Assamese people also have withdrawn their support to the organisation.

When Gogoi was released from jail, unlike most of his comrades, he did not surrender for financial gains nor did he go back to the organisation.

Instead, he chose a third path. He did not take to arms but only focussed on work on community organisation, drives for gainful employment of the youth and women, and projects for amity among social groups.

The districts of upper Assam, particularly Dibrugarh, are rich in natural resources with some of the biggest production centres of tea and petroleum in India.

Oil India Ltd. (OIL) with its headquarters in Duliajan, about 40 km from Tingkhang, and the government machinery have come to repose great trust in Gogoi as a "community consultant".

With tremendous work ethics, display of integrity and a deep concern for justice and fair play, Gogoi not only could rally the community around his vision but also facilitate a paradigm shift in the approach of the industry and government machinery to take the people along as primary stakeholders.

The documentary has a foreword by ULFA chairman Arabindra Rajkhowa and so-called foreign secretary Sashadhar Choudhury about the organisation along with inputs from senior journalists of Assam.

Interacting with viewers after Monday's screening here, director Mahanta said that politics has been deliberately kept out of the documentary.

"Monimanik's way of life is very simple," Mahanta said.

"He has never shown any inclination for politics. If there is one Monimanik in every district of Assam, you will not even need a government to run the state," he said.

NE cinema finds a special place at IFFI

KOhima, December 7 (Pib): The North East Region (NER) received special focus at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which entered into its 46th edition this year. Organized by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, in association with the State Government of Goa, the IFFI is an endeavour to understand the various social and cultural ethos through the eyes of cinema. The festival which this year saw a special retrospective on ace filmmaker Padma Sri Aribam Shyam Sharma of Manipur, who is also recipient of 15 National Film Awards.

In the second section, films of the new generation filmmakers from the NE including ten films were showcased. The films included M Maniram’s ‘Xandhikhyon’ (Assamese) from Assam; Suraj Duara’s ‘Orong’ (Rabha) from Assam; Jadumani Dutta’s ‘Pani’ (Assamese) from Assam; Sange Dor-

jee Thongdok’s ‘Crossing Bridges’ (Sherdukpen) from Arunachal Pradesh; Napolean RZ Thanga’s ‘MNF’ (English/Mizo) from Mizoram; Kivini Shohe’s ‘Oh My Soul’ (English/Ao) from Nagaland; Wanglen Khundongbam’s ‘Pallepfam’ (Manipuri) from Manipur; Dominic Meham Sangma’s ‘Rong’kuchak’ (Garo) from Meghalaya; Tiainla Jamir’s ‘The Honey Hunter and Maker’ (English) from Nagaland; and Sanjib Das’ ‘On a Roll’ (Tripura).

The NE also came into focus with the Women Director’s section having Bobby Sarma Barua’s ‘Adamya’ (Assamese). Homage was paid to Indra Bania and Bidyut Chakravarty Dwaar. In the Non-Feature Film category, English, Ao Nagamese film ‘Every Time You Tell’ a Story directed by Ruchika Negi and Amit Mahanti and ‘Phum Shang’ a Manipuri film directed by Haobam Paban Kumar were selected.

new Delhi, December 7 (Pti): JICA is providing official development assistance of Rs 4,923 crore to fund five road projects in north-eastern states of India, Parliament was informed today."Five subproject proposals of North East Connectivity projects have been posed to government of Japan/JICA for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) official development Assistance (ODA) loan for Rs 4,923 crore," Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

A Rs 1,687 crore loan was sanctioned for improvement of NH-54 (Aizwal to Tuipand in Mizoram); and Rs 285 crore for improvement of NH-51.

JICA has appraised loan for NE road network connectivity improvement project (phase I) for Rs 3,631 crore, she added.

mood Ali said at a seminar in Kolkata recently that his country's government was increasing its diplomatic and consular presence in north-east India to promote multi-sectoral engagements with India.

"We are looking at greater economic integration between Bangladesh and India's north-east for mutual benefit. It will particularly facilitate northeast's socio-economic

development and better connectivity with the rest of India," Ali added.

Bangladesh has diplomatic missions in New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. New Delhi has opened assistant high commissions in Khulna and Sylhet in Bangladesh.

India and Bangladesh earlier decided to upgrade the existing 27 custom stations in Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

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In India, corporate transparency comes with puzzling questions mUmbAi, December 7 (reUTers): Indian regulators have launched an unprecedented drive to boost corporate transparency, bombarding firms with disclosure demands, but clumsy execution has created suspicions of a box-ticking exercise that may not entirely achieve its aim.

Poor disclosure among India-listed firms is a turnoff for foreign investors, a weakness Asia’s thirdlargest economy can ill afford as competition for overseas capital heats up among emerging markets in expectation of higher U.S. interest rates.

A Reuters review shows Mumbai’s National Stock Exchange, India’s biggest bourse, issued 934 requests for clarification to its top 500 listed companies since revamped disclosure rules took effect in Sept. 30 last year.

That is almost double the 492 requests the top 500 received over the

course of the entire preceding decade.

Requests in the past 14 months have ranged from queries on market rumours to news reports, but repetitive and sometimes misdirected questions mean that firms, analysts and some investors are questioning the impact of the campaign.

“There’s just no fantastic value added in this entire process,” said the chief financial officer of one of India’s 20 largest listed companies.

“We are going through the motions of the efforts because we can’t be seen as being indifferent to the queries raised.”

To be sure, many inquiries are pertinent and investors say there has been a gradual improvement in corporate governance in recent years, but executives say the disclosure drive is littered with redundant, time-wasting requests.

For example, BSE Ltd,

India’s second-biggest exchange, queried HCL Technologies on an acquisition that the firm had disclosed the previous day..

In other cases, analysts said, exchanges confused the impacted units or even the companies at stake: sending a clarification for information to Electrosteel Steels instead of Electrosteel Castings, or to Vedanta-owned Cairn India instead of the separate, UK-listed firm Cairn Energy.

ANXIOUS EXECUTIVES India’s two biggest stock exchanges enforce disclosure rules at the behest of the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

The National Stock Exchange’s chief regulatory officer, V. R. Narashimhan, said exchanges were fulfilling their regulatory obligations and were conscious of not overstepping the mark.

“Such disclosures are

steps towards achieving better governance. Corporate India will learn,” chief regulatory officer V. R. Narashimhan said.

Asked about criticisms of the disclosure campaign, the BSE said in an emailed statement that it was responding to SEBI’s directive to seek clarifications from companies.

“The duty of seeking clarifications from companies regarding unpublished price-sensitive information has been cast upon the exchanges by SEBI,” BSE said.

Since his appointment five years ago, SEBI chairman U.K. Sinha has made corporate transparency a priority, attempting to shake off India’s decadesold reputation for murky governance.

Investors acknowledge SEBI’s efforts.

“As more companies’ standards improve, the scope of investment, especially for some of these foreign investors, can in-

crease,” said Mahesh Patil, co-chief investment officer at Birla Sun Life Asset Management which manages around $20 billion, including foreigner funds.

Under the new rules, Indian regulators have drafted seven broad categories of price-sensitive company information that would require disclosure to the market, including details on changes to ownership and the outcome of board meetings, which must now be released swiftly after the event.

In the stricter regulatory environment, executives also worry that unfounded penalties could get more of their firms tangled up in India’s lengthy and complex appeals process.

Reuters reviewed 83 appeals this year against SEBI penalties in which there has been a clear verdict. Of these, SEBI won 36 cases and lost 23, with split verdicts delivered in the rest.

Government aims to move five more reforms to labour laws New Delhi, December 7 (AgeNcies): The government is striving to introduce five more labour reform legislations in the winter session of Parliament, including the bills to introduce a new wage and industrial relations code and amend laws governing child labour and bonus payments.

These are in addition to the amendments to the Factories Act of 1948 that the government had

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listed for introduction in the Lok Sabha last week, but eventually wasn’t tabled.

The only new bill to be introduced in Parliament’s lower house so far in this session is the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2015.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that the Opposition party with 45 MPs in the Lok Sabha would not allow dilution of labour laws by the NDA government just as it had thwarted its attempts at changing the land acquisition law.

“If time permits, we want to at least table the Bills to introduce the Wage and Industrial Relations codes, the new law for small factories and the amendments to the Child Labour and Payment of Bonus Acts,” a senior official in the union labour and employment ministry told The Hindu.

“We may not be able to pass all these bills in the time left in this session, but if the bills have to be studied by parliamentary committees, at least that process should start once they are tabled,” the official added, stressing that the key thrust of these reforms was creat-

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The government has also proposed to introduce the Child Labour (Protection and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 in the Rajya Sabha this week. The Bill proposes that children below fourteen years of age may only be allowed to work in their own family enterprises.

It also bars employment of children in hazardous occupations till the age of 18 years. Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has, however, raised concerns about the Bill reducing the list of such occupations from 83 to just three – mining, inflammable substances and explosives and hazardous occupations as per the Factories Act. This would leave the door open for children to be employed in sectors that are largely family-run like the carpet industry, embroidery and agriculture, Satyarthi said at a national consultation on the law in November.

New Delhi, December 7 (ANi): About 60 to 70% of dietary supplements being sold across India are fake, counterfeit, unregistered and unapproved, besides it is extremely difficult to identify them, noted a recent Assocham-RNCOS joint study.

Dietary supplements market in India is currently estimated at about $2 billion (nearly Rs 13,382 crore) and is likely to almost double to $4 billion (nearly Rs 26,764 crore) by 2020, thereby, clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 16% during the course of next five years, projected the study titled ‘Indian nutraceuticals, herbals and functional foods industry: Emerging on global map’, conducted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) jointly with business consulting firm RNCOS. The study, however, highlighted that vitamin and mineral supplements will form major areas of opportunities for nutraceuticals players in the coming years driven by rising demand from an evolving customer base, with the middle-class population being the major consumers in this regard.

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New Delhi, December 7 (PTi): Shang Liguang, Cangzhou Party Secretary, Cangzhou Municipal Party Committee said: “We would like to focus on this cooperation in the open policy and encourage our enterprises to go abroad for investment and attract business into China with advantages of funds, technologies, patents and management.”

India is a big potential market for China and there is an enormous scope of economic cooperation between the two nations, a Chinese embassy official said on Monday. “India is a big potential market for China. More and more Chinese companies are coming to India,” Second Secretary, Chinese Embassy in India Li Rong Rong said.

Referring to the visit of Indian Prime Narendra Modi to China and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India earlier, she said these would “definitely promote cooperation between the two neighbours. In 2013, China took over as India’s largest trading partner. India’s growth is fastest in the world this year.

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Hope businesses from Cangzhou expand their activities in India,” she said while addressing the Cangzhou and India Economic and Trade Cooperation Promotion Conference.

Shang Liguang, Cangzhou Party Secretary, Cangzhou Municipal Party Committee said: “We would like to focus on this cooperation in the open policy and encourage our enterprises to go abroad for investment and attract business into China with advantages of funds, technologies, patents and management.”

“We will push both sides (India and China) to cooperate in different fields, especially in petrochemical and pipe equipment for a win-win cooperation and mutual development.” Cangzhou’s steel pipe equipments occupy 60 per cent market in China and are exported to more than 90 countries.

In petrochemicals, Cangzhou has over 1,100 enterprises covering the fields of exploitation of oil and gas exploration, petrochemical, chemical materials, pharmacy, chemical fibre, rubber and plastics.

In 2014, the import and export volume between Cangzhou and India stood at $130 million (Rs 8.66 lakh crore) in the fields of petrochemical, pipe equipment, ore products, machinery and vehicle parts, among others.

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Hornbill Festival 2015

Tourists trek to Dzükou valley

Tourists during their trek to Dzükou.

Kohima, December 7 (mexN): With the theme ‘Conserve Dzükou’, Nagaland Association for Adventure Mountaineering and Education (NAAME) supported by Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organised a trek to Dzükou on December 5 as part of the Hornbill Festival.

The programme was flagged off at Naga Heritage Village, Kisama by Supongnukshi, IFS, Conservator of Forest, Northern Territorial Circle. The trekkers were from USA, Bangalore, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Delhi, Uttarakhand etc. Many other tourists/ trekkers from different countries are also visiting Dzükou this Hornbill Festival, according to a press release from NAAME Founding President, Ruokuovikho Chale. More than 100 trekkers had visited Dzükou as on December 6.

The release added that NAAME roping activities at Dzükou were efficiently handled by experts like Surchand, Neichükedo Neihu, Mohon, Henri and Mhalezole. Chale further expressed hope that with the cooperation of the Government and local people, more of such programmes can be organised in a more organised manner to showcase “our” rich biodiversity - not only Dzükou but other places of interest too.

Third Friendship Motorcycle Rally

Dimapur, December 7 (mexN): The 3rd Friendship Motorcycle Rally was flagged off by Abu Metha on December 7 in Dimapur.

Around 110 Royal Enfield riders, including 40 national riders, rode from Dima-

pur to Khonoma where they stopped for lunch. The riders left for Kisama Heritage Village and then to Kohima Village. The Friendship Rally is organized by the Nagaland Motorcycle Club in collaboration with

the Department of Tourism. The event, coinciding with the Hornbill Festival, is held with an aim to promote tourism in the State and also to include motorcycle riders from India and aboard to be part of the Hornbill Festival.

Highlights of December 8 * Cultural performances by various Naga tribes - 10:00 am to 11:00 am * Tug of war competition - 12:00 noon * Exhibition cum sale of handloom & handicrafts products continues - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm * Naga Hipfest Photo Competition 2015 continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * Floral galleria and farmer’s mela continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * Naga Chef- The Entrepreneurial Round continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * Craftscape 2015 continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * Artist’s Corner continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * Ziplines continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * NAAME’s Adventure activities continues - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm * Cultural performances by various Naga tribes - 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm * Hornbill Night Carnival continues - 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm * Kohima Inter Municipal Ward Solo Singing Competition - 5:30 pm

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MEx FILE One body recovered Dimapur, December 7 (mexN): Dimapur Police recovered one unidentified dead body of a man (non-Naga) aged about 60 years from Dimapur Railway Station Platform No-1 near RMS Office on December 6, 11:50 pm. The deceased was wearing a blue jacket, sky blue shirt with white vest, white dhoti, Assamese scarf and a red slipper, said PRO, Dimapur Police in a release. “The deceased is suspected to have died due to illness and by its appearance, presumed to be an Assamese,” stated the release. The body has been kept at District Hospital morgue for post mortem examination and identification. For more details, contact the O/C, Government Railway Police Station, Dimapur.

DCC Dimapur to celebrate advance Christmas Dimapur, December 7 (mexN): The District Congress Committee, Dimapur will observe advance Christmas at Congress Bhavan on December 11, 2:30 pm. Christmas greeting will be delivered by K. Therie, President, NPCC. Therefore, DCC General Secretary has invited all the party workers from the respective constituencies to come and be part of the function.

CYO Khezhakeno golden jubilee on Decmber 19 Kohima, December 7 (mexN): The Chisomi Youth Organization Khezhakeno will be celebrating its golden jubilee on December 19 at Lozapa Taza-a.

All the citizens of Chisomi Khel and women married to other villages have been requested to attend the event.

Inskiur village renamed A drawing and painting competition was held at Kids Carnival arena, Naga Heritage Village today under the theme “Kohima - A smart city” for classes 10 to 12 students.

Gukha A Achumi from Livingstone Foundation Higher Secondary School bagged first position and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 8000 along with a gift voucher. KuolHigh Court judges on Sunday visited Kisama and expressed admiration at the rich culture of the Nagas. According iezhü Khamo, also from Livingstone Foundation Hr Sec to a press release from the Nagaland State Legal Services Authority, Justice BK Sharma, Executive Chairman, As- School, came second and won a cash prize of Rs. 5000 sam State Legal Services Authority, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, Judge, Gauhati High Court, Justice Ratnaker Bhengra, and a gift voucher. All the participants were given a gift Jharkhand High Court witnessed the Hornbill Festival and enjoyed the rich culture of the Nagas. voucher and a participation certificate. (Morung Photo)

YTC accuses Assam Rifles of causing mental trauma Kiphire, December 7 (mexN): Yimchungrü Tribal Council (YTC) has alleged that Assam Rifles personnel had cordoned Pungrunger village under Kiphire district without reasonable cause on November 30 around 5:00 am.

“To the utter surprise, they (AR personnel) began to blank fire their guns rampantly along with the cracking of several crackers,” stated a press release issued

by YTC Press & Information Secretary, Z Akiuba. “They soon apprehended one GB of the village and started to intimidate him to the extent of assaulting physically.”

YTC stated that the arbitrary firing and bursting of crackers has caused mental trauma and fear psychosis to the innocent villagers.

“Despite of the continuous pleas and corresponding con-

demnation against the atrocities, the AR seems to be going too astray from respecting the sentiments of the Nagas. They do not feel guilty or regret for the act of terror by rather trying to inflict more severe damages.”

Lamenting that the “voice of ENPO and the Naga society remained deeply buried in their deaf ears,” YTC said the Administrators and Police also have the role to book the culprits under relevant sections of the law as a deterrent measure to dissuade the perpetrator of crime from further committing the crimes.

“To our reasonable presumption, the MHA or the superiors in command may not have authorized them to terrorize the people of Nagaland,” hence, YTC said handful of delinquents walking under the guise of AR must be penalized befittingly after necessary investigation.

RDNÜMS celebrates Pre-Christmas Kohima, December 7 (mexN): Rev. Dr. Neiliezh-ü Üsou Memorial School (RDNÜMS) on Saturday exhibited a brilliant show during its 4th PreChristmas cum Grandparents’ Day at The Heritage, Kohima.

Speaking on the topic, “Soaring Above and Beyond”, Akobu Üsou stated that although the journey of their late father, Rev. Dr. Neiliezhü Üsou fell too short, his good works while on earth, his love for God and people continues to soar above and beyond, inspiring, guiding and strengthening every single day of their lives. Towards this end, she noted that “to have the innocence and purity of the children at RDNÜMS reflecting the good life of our late father is the biggest treasure that we can inherit.”

The event gave emphasis to grandparents as tributes were paid to the grandparents of the RDNÜMS children in the form of special gifts. The other high-

Thangthure Baptist Church was dedicated by Rev. C. Lima Sangtam, Executive Secretary, USBLA on November 29. The dedication programme was attended by citizens, church workers and well wishers. Rev C.Lima asked the citizen of Thangthure to use the building for the extension of his kingdom.

Open healing crusade at Tening Town pereN, December 7 (mexN): There will be an open healing crusade at Tening Town from January 15-17. To be held under the theme "Not by might nor by power, says the Lord Almighty" (Zachariah 4:6), the crusade will have Rev. Neivotso Neikho, NEI Mission Director NCRC, Evangelist Ado Kezo, Director, Beautiful Feet Ministries, and Bro. Mezhiisevi Zhiitso, Joint

Secretary (Literature), NCRC. The service will be chaired by Kailadinbo, Chairman ZCRCC and Wilubo, treasurer, ZCRCYF. Praise and worship team will be led by CRC Youth AG Road, Kohima. All the advance prayer groups have been asked to reach the venue on January 14. The organising committee has also appealed to all the believers to pray and attend the meeting.

Kohima College ministerial staff orientation prog held Kohima, December 7 (mexN): Kohima College conducted a one day orientation programme for ministerial staff on December 4 at the EDUSAT room. In the first session, Principal of the College Dr. Watijungshi gave the welcome and introduction address, which was followed by a talk. Moanungla Kevichusa, Associate Professor & HOD, English & Co-ordinator NAAC spoke on “Duties and Contributions of Ministerial Staff towards NAAC”. In the second session, Zetso Sakhrie, Vice-principal, gave the welcome and introduction speech. The speaker of the second session was Menuokholie Kire, Joint Director, Higher Education, who highlighted on “Office Procedure, Rules & Co-ordination of Ministerial Staff for the success of the Office”. The first session was chaired by Evothung Ezung, Assistant Professor, Economics Department and the second session was chaired by Thinuokhrienuo Tseikhanuo, Associate Professor, Education Department.

MMC informs public Children of Rev. Dr. Neiliezh-ü Üsou Memorial School perform a Nativity play on December 5.

light of the day was a nativity play titled “The Manger held it all” arranged by Aleü Üsou.

The occasion was marked by impressive performances by the children of RDNÜMS as well as Ameü Üsou Zao & the Choir accompanied by Neikhrieo Üsou,

James Basnet & the Band and Üsou’s Instrumental, apart from others. Earlier, greetings and prayer was said by Asenla Temsu, Principal of Chandmari Higher Secondary School, while Azi Tetseo Nienu spoke on behalf of the parents.

WSBAK holds Mass social work in Asetkong range conference moKoKchuNg, December 7 units took part in the cleanliness drive at Dimapur, December 7 (mexN): WSBAK held its 57-U annual conferencecum-41-U women conference from December 4-6 under the theme ‘New identity in Christ’ (Eph 4:24). The conference speakers were Rev. Dr. ZK Rochill, Sr. Auxiliary Secretary, BSI Dimapur, Kakheli Inato Zhimo, Women Pastor, Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi, Executive Secretary, Rev. Aheto Sema, Secretary Youth Department. Nikhashe Chophi, Secretary, Science and Technology, Government of Nagaland, G. Akheto Sema, IPS ADGP, Nagaland, Vikheho Chishi Swu, Minister Road & Bridges Nagaland, Er. Picto Shohe, Parliamentary Secy, Law & Justice, Nagaland also exhorted during the programme.

Kiphire, December 7 (Dipr): The Government of Nagaland has changed the name of Inskiur village in Kiphire district to Yingshiiku village with immediate effect.

This was issued by the Home Department with the approval of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

(mexN): A mass social work covering the whole range of Asetkong was organised today by the Asetkong Students’ Conference (Asetkong Kaketshir Telongjem Mungdang) as part of its social responsibility.

According to a press release from AKTM, hundreds of volunteers from all

the Asetkong-Tsusangra road, the only road which connects the whole range.

The volunteers also filled up potholes in certain part of its area were vehicles find hard to ply.

Approximately 10 kilometer was covered during the day long mass social work, the release said.

WYSU visits school in Jalukie Som

moKoKchuNg, December 7 (mexN): Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) has informed all the ward authorities not to dump things and branches of trees and hedges, earth and dead animals into the garbage dumping boxes or on the road side. The ADC & MMC Administrator Bendanglila said that MMC sanitation workers will not attend to it and no complaint or request for removal of such waste shall be entertained.

Bendanglila further said parking of vehicles blocking the MMC dumping boxes should be avoided as it disturbs the collection of garbage in time.

NLA secretariat informs Kohima, December 7 (mexN): The Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) Secretariat has informed all the members of the Committee on Public Undertakings, NLA that the first meeting (2015-16) has been fixed on December 9, 11:00 am in the Assembly Committee Hall. The meeting has been called for consideration and adoption of 76th, 77th, 78th, 79th and 80th Reports on Nagaland Handloom and Handicraft Development Corporation under industries and commerce. All the committee members have been requested to attend the meeting.

NPF, DAN meeting Kohima, December 7 (mexN): A meeting of the NPF legislators will be held at the State Banquet Hall, Kohima on December 11, 11:30 am to be followed by the meeting of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) Legislature Party at 12:30 pm. The meeting has been convened to discuss business matters relating to the Tenth Session of the Twelfth Nagaland Legislative Assembly, which is scheduled for December 14, informed a release from Chief Minister's Office. All members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Scouter/Guider reunion

WYSU officials with students of Mount View School during their educational tour.

Dimapur, December 7 (mexN): The Western Yimchungru Students’ Union (WYSU) during its educational tour visited Mount View School located at Jalukie Som on November 29.

The union urged upon the school administrator and the teaching staff to

carry on their duties with sincerity and honesty, which will invariably uplift and motivate the younger generation.

The Jalukie Som village is yet to be recognised by the State Government even though it was established in the year 1995, stated a press release is-

sued by WYSU President, Amos and General Secretary, Tsukhumong. The WYSU has requested the authorities concerned to speed up the recognition process at the earliest as the village is facing untold hardships and the most affected are the students' community.

Kohima, December 7 (mexN): Scouter/Guider reunion (Adult Leaders in Scouting & Guiding) will be held from December 12 to 14 at the State Headquarter, Life Members’ Building, Bayavü Hill, Kohima. The meet has been called for all trained adults to come together and update one’s knowledge in Scouting/Guiding, renew one’s promise and make new friends. Asangla Imti, Director, Youth Resources & Sports and Vice President NSBSG, will be the chief guest at the inaugural session while Governor of Nagaland & Chief Patron, Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides will grace the closing function as the chief guest. State Chief Commissioner Khyomo Lotha, ex MP in a press release has invited all trained Unit Leaders from all the districts of Nagaland to attend the meet. The State Associations will celebrate Golden Jubilee in 2017, therefore, the meet will elaborate on the preparations for the same.

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The Power of Truth

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Holding Naga Political Groups Accountable for Human Rights ‘The culture of impunity is exercised not just by the State, but also by non-State armed groups’

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n December 10, Human Rights Day 2015 will be celebrated internationally under the theme 'Our Rights Our Freedoms Always.' This one-year campaign is to commemorate two international treaties that were adopted 50 years ago: The International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

In the process of exercising our rights and freedom, highlighting our accountability to one another becomes paramount. Generally, civic, social and political responsibility can only be ethically ensured when accountability is based on principles of transparency and justice. Creating this ethical climate is essential for stabilizing conflict affected societies, and is usually more challenging to initiate while a protracted peoples’ struggle for freedom is ongoing. While it is important to hold State machinery accountable to universal standards of human rights, it is equally important to do the same to nonState entities because the transparency’s application and effectiveness must be practiced in its wholeness.

In the Naga context, the non-State entities are the various groups that represent the Naga national movement. Although, it is crucial that legislation such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is repealed, it is equally important that the Naga groups (aka “factions”) take proactive steps to ensure that any cadre which disrespects or violates the people’s human rights is held accountable. This begins by the groups’ self-examination and structural changes within their organizations before they can genuinely convey their commitment to ordinary Naga people. Then, in order to further strengthen the climate of transparency, the Naga groups themselves need to assure the people of their genuine sincerity and resolve to end the perverse and undermining culture of impunity.

The focus and approach to protecting human rights has evolved over time. In the past it was primarily defined within the State’s context and responsibility as the protector of rights, which included being responsible for violations as well. Over time, this perspective has undergone changes since human rights violations around the world continue to be perpetuated by both State actors and non-State armed groups. Though the State continues to be the primary institution responsible and accountable for human rights, the international community has increasingly broadened the definition of human rights violations to include both State and non-State groups engaged in armed conflict.

In situations of sovereignty and self-determination based conflicts, it is evident that the State’s approach for addressing peoples’ aspirations has been the primary cause of violence and conflict. The intensity of the conflict, however, has increased due to the counter-violence carried out by non-State armed groups. Very often, in these cases, the civilian population bears the brunt and consequences of violence inflicted from both sides meaning the State, as well as, non-State armed groups. While the violence is the result of broader unresolved political issues, it is also equally true that the day to day violence takes the center stage because its effect is more immediately felt by the public. Invariably, the culture of impunity is exercised not just by the State, but also by non-State armed groups.

In close-knit indigenous community societies like the Nagas, the urgency of the situation requires proactive measures to be taken both concretely, as well as, symbolically to ensure that human rights violations are addressed. While it is important that symbolic expressions of saying ‘Sorry,’ seeking ‘forgiveness’ by Naga groups to each other and to the public are fundamental to the process, yet, they have been insufficient.

They need to be supported demonstratively in a manner that their political and moral will ensures that their cadres fully understand, respect and honor the people’s human rights. This means that when a cadre violates a citizen’s rights, corrective measures need to be taken publicly.

The challenge is for Naga groups to muster the political will and conviction to take full responsibility in addressing violations committed from within their own ranks. The healing nature of justice is restorative. However, in order for this to manifest, its actions need to take place through a public process that allow for healing to take place in the context of liberative institutional and societal transformation. Situations of armed conflict, political violence on the ground requires a comprehensive approach that reflects and addresses this reality. In a future where domestic and international jurisdictions are fluid and contested, and where sovereignty is fragmented, the most effective and sustainable approach for preventing human rights violations in armed conflict, is to find solutions to the core issues that have led to the political violence in the first place.

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Drivers using cellphones despite knowing dangers

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eenagers do understand the dangers of using cellphones while driving -- but they still use them, new research has found.

Car crashes kill more teens each year than anything else, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Teenagers think about what they do behind the wheel in very different ways than we think about teenagers behind the wheel," said Marilyn Sommers, professor at University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing.

For the study, the researchers got 30 teenagers engaged in conversations on distracted driving. Across the board, the teenagers said they understood the dangers of texting while driving, but they still engaged in the behaviour. Some teens said they did not do it -- until the researchers dug a little deeper and found out what that really meant.

"The definition of 'texting while driving' is not the same for everyone," Catherine McDonald, assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing, said. "For example, in their responses the teenagers would indicate that they did not text and drive, but then later would say something like, 'At a red light, I'll check my phone'," McDonald noted.

The interviewees made a distinction the interviewers had not. The data also helped the researchers understand how teens differentiated between texting and social media use -- checking Twitter, for example, was not texting while driving. Sommers called it a classification system, a continuum of sorts, whereby some actions are too dangerous to ever happen but others, though generally considered unsafe, fall into a grey area.

The study appeared in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention.

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Melanie Cura Daball

UN peacekeeping: blue banner for hope, or red flag for abuse?

For decades the ‘Blue Helmets’ have been sexually exploiting and abusing those they were sent to protect.

The UN is complicit in creating an environment in which these abuses can flourish unfettered

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hen ma asked me to go to the stream to wash plates, a peacekeeper asked me to take my clothes off so that he can take a picture. When I asked him to give me money he told me, no money for children, only biscuit.” (cited in UNHCR & STC 2002) As part of its commitment to maintaining international peace, the United Nations has tasked thousands of peacekeepers with protecting vulnerable populations affected by conflict. While the UN’s ‘Blue Helmets’ are often welcomed with relief and hope, they have also inflicted even greater harm, sexually exploiting and abusing those they were sent to protect.

Allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation (SEA) first surfaced in the context of peace operations in Cambodia and Somalia in the early 1990s.

Ever since, peacekeepers of a wide variety of nationalities – including citizens of some of the most stable democracies in the western world – have been involved in SEA during peacekeeping missions in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Sudan, Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Recent allegations have centred around the Central African Republic (CAR), where French peacekeepers sexually abused orphaned boys searching for food.

The cancer in our system On 13 August 2015, Ban Ki-moon declared his ‘distress and shame’ over the reports of SEA at the hands of UN forces. He reaffirmed his commitment to the organisation’s “zero-tolerance policy” on SEA (introduced in 2003) and referred to sexual abuse as a ‘cancer in our system’ requiring radical treatment.

Acute underreporting of SEA is endemic due to fear of stigmatisation, economic dependency, and the lack of an investigatory apparatus. In 2006, after years of turning a blind eye to sexual crimes committed by UN forces, the organisation began recording allegations of SEA. Even this publically available but limited data makes clear that SEA is not a rare or isolated matter: more than 200 allegations were made under MONUC/MONUSCO alone. Knowing that the real figures are likely to be much higher, it is clear such abuse cannot be attributed to the random acts of a few rogue individuals. However, instead of critically assessing its own role in providing an environment in which these sexual crimes can flourish, the UN has overwhelmingly directed its resources at diverting attention away from fundamental questions about its peacekeepers.

raped during wartime and that the presence of the military has seriously fuelled the sex industry. It should come as no surprise that superior officers find it difficult to thwart behaviour considered commonplace in other settings, where soldiers are not held to the same standards as Blue Helmets.

Limited supervision, loose control-structures and numerous cases of collusion between commanders and subordinates have considerably contributed to opportunities for sexual misconduct by UN peacekeepers. According to the Save the Children, during UNMIL ‘the lack of senior and international staff presence in the camps was reportedly allowing junior agency staff to behave with impunity’.

Human Rights Watch reported that in Somalia victims of SEA entered AMISOM soldiers’ accommodation through ‘official and guarded gates’, and some were even given official badges enabling easier entrance to the facilities. These practices suggest that SEA were tolerated and even organised by senior officials.

Immunity and impunity The vast majority of SEA allegations have been made against members of national contingents, which have absolute immunity in the host jurisdiction. In theory, the Blue Helmets enjoy functional immunity: they are immune to prosecution for crimes committed whilst on duty. Crimes falling outside their official functions - such as sexual abuse - are technically subject to the criminal and disciplinary jurisdiction of their sending nations. In practice, however, peacekeepers who “go rogue” have little to fear.

The UN does not publish details of reported attacks, or the names or nationalities of perpetrators, mainly to avoid embarrassing countries who send troops for peacekeeping since the UN, without its own standing army, is wholly dependent on these contributions. In the rare cases that (often incomplete) information on peacekeepers’ misconduct is made available to the sending nation, Member States have overwhelmingly allowed most perpetrators to go unpunished or have handed out extremely lenient sentences. To name but one example, Amnesty International criticised the conviction of three UN peacekeepers in Haiti was a ‘travesty of justice’. They were found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy and were each sentenced to one year in prison. To date however, even this example is a rare exception and the overall number of peacekeepers officially charged and punished for sexual abuse and exploitation remains inconsequential.

Unequal power-relations and limited supervision The immense purchasing power of the Blue Helmets in comparison to the local population in countries ravaged by war contributes to sexual exploitation. The daily allowance of most peacekeepers often exceeds the per capita annual income in the host country. During their mission in the DRC peacekeepers received around $138 per day in Mission Support Allowance, which is between 500 and 1000 times the average capita income of the Congolese population. With sex costing as little as $1-3 per encounter, it is easy to see how peacekeepers’ purchasing power translates into sexual exploitation.

Another factor is the staff chosen by the UN for peacekeeping. Military personnel form the biggest part of peace operations. It is commonly Serious disconnect between words and actions stated that soldiers of all ranks have almost always The UN is plagued by a serious contradiction be-

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he candles still burn across this city at the massacre memorials to the more than 130 people killed by armed militants identified with the Islamic State (which, many Muslims point out, is neither Islamic nor a state), from the Bataclan theater to the restaurants attacked nearby and the national stadium. Flowers, messages, French flags, photos and mementos of the dead, reproductions of the now-iconic peace sign with the embedded Eiffel Tower—all are arranged in a heartfelt outpouring of grief where these acts of violence occurred.

It is in this context that one of the most significant global summits in history is happening: COP 21, the 21st “Conference of Parties” to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Here, almost every nation on the planet is represented as negotiators attempt to forge a treaty by Dec. 11 to stave off irreversible, catastrophic climate change.

COP 21 is supposed to be a culmination of more than two decades of work at the U.N. to transform society, ending the fossil-fuel era and shifting to renewable energy and drastically reduced greenhouse-gas emissions.

A mass march was organized in Paris for Nov. 29, the day before the climate summit was to begin, with more than 400,000 people expected. But French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency after the attacks, banning all demonstrations. Many critics say that the warming planet is another state of emergency - and that

tween its discourse on a zero-tolerance policy and its actions when tackling the problem amongst its ranks.

The UN continues to issue condoms to peacekeepers to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS - while laudable, such a gesture flies in the face of the UN’s absolute prohibition on sexual contact during the mission.

Each year, new accounts of the UN covering up scandals emerge: it seems the UN has zero-tolerance for whistleblowing, rather than for sexual abuse.

In April 2015, concerns were raised about the way allegations of misconduct by UN peacekeepers were handled. Anders Kompass leaked confidential documents to the French authorities detailing the sexual abuse and rape of abandoned orphans in the CAR

by French peacekeepers. Instead of implementing a zero-impunity scheme to apprehend the perpetrators, the UN actually suspended Kompass from his post as director of field operations. The UN’s Paula Donovan, co-director of Aids Free World, told The Guardian: “The regular sex abuse by peacekeeping personnel uncovered here and the United Nations’ appalling disregard for victims are stomach-turning, but the awful truth is that this isn’t uncommon. The UN’s instinctive response to sexual violence in its ranks [is to] ignore, deny, cover up, dissemble.”

Just months later in July 2015, yet another case of the UN’s failure to take appropriate action in the face of SEA surfaced. According to a strictly confidential report leaked to The Guardian, the UN discovered that members of the Russian Aviation Company UTair had drugged, raped and sexually tortured a teenage girl before dumping her naked and unconscious at a helicopter base in 2010. The incident was held to be ‘indicative of a wider culture of SEA at the company’. Copies of the report have allegedly been circulated among top UN staff, including the NY office of the Secretary-General. Upon learning about the incident, the UN did not end its contractual relationship with UTair, as its zerotolerance discourse would suggest. Instead, it actually extended its billion-dollar contract with UTair for missions in Lebanon, Western Sahara, the DRC, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Somalia and Mali.

Rather than engaging with these problems, the UN has repeatedly ignored the systemic nature of SEA among its peacekeepers. It refuses to recognise its own role in creating an environment of impunity, choosing to simply reiterate its hollow discourse on zero-tolerance. The organisation’s continued failure to deal with the problem headon undermines the very foundations of peace operations and will ultimately bring the whole notion of peacekeeping closer to crisis.

Paris—and the World—Is Burning amy Goodman and denis moynihan commondreams dissent is the only thing that will save us.

Over the weekend, 10,000 Parisians and international activists formed a human chain stretching for blocks in Paris. After that action ended, they defied the French ban on protests and tried to march to the Place de la Republique, where thousands had placed candles and flowers in remembrance of the terror victims. While the French president blamed the protesters for destroying the memorial, “Democracy Now!” video footage showed protesters joining arms to protect the memorial from hundreds of riot police as they moved in with tear gas, concussion grenades and pepper spray.

The next day, inside the climate summit, we bumped into Yeb Sano, former chief climate negotiator for the Philippines. We last saw him in 2013 at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw, while Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest cyclones in recorded history, devastated his country, killing thou-

sands of people. At the time, Yeb made headlines with an emotional plea to the world body to take immediate action on climate change: “Typhoons such as Haiyan and its impacts represent a sobering reminder to the international community that we cannot afford to delay climate action. ... It must be poetic justice that Typhoon Haiyan was so big that its diameter spanned the distance between Warsaw and Paris.”

He implored his fellow negotiators, “If not us, then who?

If not now, then when? If not here, then where?” He had just learned that his brother, A.G. Sano, had narrowly survived the typhoon in his devastated town of Tacloban.

The following year, as yet another deadly storm battered the Philippines, Yeb Sano was unexpectedly absent from the U.N. Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, shocking many. He had been pulled from the delegation at the last minute, leading to speculation he had been targeted for his outspokenness amidst pressure from wealthier countries, like

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the United States. At the time, he tweeted: “They can silence my mouth. But they cannot silence my soul.”

This year, Yeb Sano is back at the U.N. climate summit, not as the chief negotiator for the Philippines, but as a grass-roots activist. He had just walked 900 miles over 60 days from Rome to Paris on a People’s Pilgrimage for Climate Action. At his side was his brother, A.G. A street artist, along the way he painted six beautiful murals depicting pilgrims from around the world walking to Paris. Since he had no official credentials to access the summit, I interviewed him outside the secure zone. A.G Sano offered a tribute to a friend of his, killed in Typhoon Haiyan: “I came here to bring the voice of my dead friend. I’d just like to tell the world the name of my friend, Agit Sustento. Climate change is as real as Agit Sustento. I was with him the night before, and the last thing that I told him was to take care of himself and his family because that’s the strongest typhoon in recorded history that we’re about to face, and that was the last time that I ever talked to him. He lost his wife, his little boy, his mom and dad. My promise to him is that I’ll tell the world about his name. His name is Agit Sustento, and he will never get to see the sun rise again.”

A fitting honor to those who died here in Paris, and to the countless victims of climate change, would be a fair, ambitious and binding agreement at the climate summit, to help make the world more safe, equitable and sustainable.

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100 years later: 5 timeless lessons from Joe Hill Nadine Bloch

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hundred years ago on November 19, 1915, the song writin’, cartoon scribblin’, parody pushin’ Industrial Workers of the World organizer Joe Hill was unceremoniously executed by firing squad in Utah. Ah, but you might say, the only thing I know about him is that “Joe Hill ain’t never died,” quoting the words of a popular folk song. While it is true that not many folks outside of the embattled labor movement and associated circles know much about Joe Hill these days — that’s a crying shame.

Joe Hill’s struggles for worker’s rights, free speech, the right to a fair trial, and against the inequality of our economic order are still significant today. Born in Sweden on October 7, 1879 as Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, Joe Hill left behind a legacy of activist songs as well as innumerable words to live, and die, by. In fact, when the deputy who was directing the firing squad at Hill’s execution said to his men “Ready, aim,” Hill shouted out “Fire, go on and fire!”

— calling the shots until the end. He was not only tasking the state, but also the rest of us, to hurry up and act already.

Hill came to the United States in 1902 and spent the next 13 years organizing workers and agitating for change from New York to California. As the impacts of labor organizing and the Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW, strikes were felt, the “copper barons” and corporate cronies were not too happy. Government crackdown on the Wobblies, as members of the IWW are known, was personified in the accusation and then execution of Hill for the murders of a businessman and his son in Salt Lake City. At the time, huge national attention was focused on his case, which was murky at best. Hill’s refusal to testify on his own behalf no doubt contributed to his guilty verdict; reportedly, Hill believed he would be worth more dead than alive to the union cause. Given that 100 years later folks are still talking about him and singing his union songs, odds are good he was right about that.

It’s also true that Hill managed to organize and agitate even beyond the firing squad. Not wanting to be “caught dead in Utah,” he asked to have his body sent to Chicago where it was cremated. His ashes were then distributed, by mail, in 600 envelopes to IWW members, unions and supporters around the world. Reportedly, some ashes were confiscated by the U.S. Postal Service (and just released in the 1990s), some used in building materials (which still can be found in a wall in a Swedish reading room), some were eaten (most recently by Billy Bragg), and some were scattered at events or on the winds of change in Nicaragua, the United States, Canada, Sweden and Australia. So Hill literally lives on not only in song, but also in other remarkable artists and activists. Here are five lessons from Joe Hill that still resonate today.

There is power in a union Hill believed in the power of a united working class, of organizing to fight the system, not other people. He joined the IWW because it was open to all workers — people of color, women, the un-skilled and foreigners, who were excluded from the AFL at that time. The early 1900s were the

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Persistence

To build your movement, be inclusive “Nothing in the world can take the Recognizing that building people power requires growplace of Persistence. Talent will ing a movement’s numbers, Hill wrote songs to inspire not; nothing is more common than solidarity in the ranks and recruit new members. He was unsuccessful men with talent. Gean early feminist, at least as much as one can tell from his words about union membership and the important role nius will not; unrewarded genius is women could play in class struggle. In “The Rebel Girl,” in- almost a proverb. Education will not; spired by the phenomenal radical Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, he penned a targeted lesson to his fellow union brothers. the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination are He wrote: omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ Though her hands may be harden’d from labor, And her dress may not be very fine; has solved and always will solve the But a heart in her bosom is beating, That is true to her problems of the human race.” class and her kind.

(Calvin Coolidge) And the grafters in terror are trembling, When her spite and defiance she’ll hurl.

Md. Tabrej For the only thoroughbred lady, Is the Rebel Girl.

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St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama Creativity gets the goods As a songwriter, poet, public speaker and organizer, he conventional definition of persisHill was a cultural worker who knew the power of harnesstence is “Refusing to give up or let go; ing creativity and catchy tunes to spread a message where persevering obstinately; firm or obtraditional media would fall flat. The Wobblies embraced songs, comics, strikes, soapboxing, and other creative tac- stinate continuance in a course of action in tics in reaching out to unorganized workers as well as in spite of difficulty or opposition.” Persistence direct actions on the job site. “A pamphlet, no matter how is the fundamental difference between a sucgood, is never read more than once, but a song is learned cessful outcome and a failed outcome.

Here are some tips on developing persisby heart and repeated over and over,” Hill wrote in a letter to the editor of Solidarity in November 1914. “And I main- tence or perseverance. tain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into Tips on How to Develop Persistence:a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will suc Decide what you want to accomplish ceed in reaching a great number of workers who are too and set goals. unintelligent or too indifferent to read a pamphlet or an We all know how important setting goals editorial on economic science.” is for achieving success in any endeavour, so take some time to figure out what it is you You can’t eat promises In several songs, it was clear that Hill believed that want. Do you want to graduate from college, promises of future gain were no substitute for a better life run a marathon or be a business success? In a in the here and now. His parody “The Preacher and the study done in New Year several years ago reSlave,” of a Salvation Army hymn, “Sweet Bye and Bye,” was searchers surprisingly found that people who the origin of the phrase “pie in the sky,” which stands in for set clear, concise goals succeeded in achieving them 95% of the time. Interestingly, the a false promise or unattainable goal. one caveat or stipulation was that they only You will eat, bye and bye, achieved their goals if they refused to quit In that glorious land above the sky; and continued to bounce back from difficulWork and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die (and that’s a lie). ties along the way. Indeed, no significant feat has ever been accomplished without the trials and tribulations that go along with it.

Don’t mourn, organize Perhaps Joe’s most famous directive and organizing prin Prepare for Obstacles and Setbacks. ciple was captured in one of his last communications, a teleKnow and accept that there will be obgram to union compatriot Big Bill Haywood on the eve of his stacles and setbacks; then prepare for them. execution. It lives on in the work of nonviolent activists across Nothing important was ever accomplished the globe from Beirut to Paris, and rings especially true as we without adversity, setbacks and difficulties to struggle to move beyond violent acts of terrorism and revenge contend with along the way. Henry Ford went to dismantle the systems of oppression that drive evil and in- bankrupt three times before he managed to equity. “Goodbye Bill,” he wrote. “I die like a true blue rebel. design his first automobile. As we all know Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.” and are grateful for, he subsequently sucThank you Joe Hill, and those that continue to keep his ceeded to become one of the richest men in lessons alive by carrying on the work. the world. He said, “Failure is merely an opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

Thomas Edison is said to have tried10,000 times to create the light bulb before he succeeded. His attitude was: “I have not failed; I have just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”

Persistence is definitely the difference beboom, Ersin Salman, a public relations profes- tween a successful outcome and a failed one sional — with a group of regular citizens from due to giving up. all walks of life — reached out and received sup Take the first step. port from about 60 print columnists who then You cannot persevere; much less succeed, spread information about the mobilization. if you never try to accomplish something. So The goal of the movement was to presmany of us procrastinate, fear failure or are sure the government to take specific measures too frozen in our tracks to take the first step against corruption and links between the state towards achievement.

You will not fail if you and organized crime. In many ways the campaign succeeded, as mafia leaders, police, mil- don’t try something, however, you will never itary and business officials were brought to tri- succeed either. As the popular saying goes, al. Although collaborators in the government “The only real failure in life is the failure to were set free, citizens changed the profile of the try.” parliament in the following election. Further Review, re-evaluate and revise. more, a series of nonviolent campaigns folIf things do not work out the way you lowed on issues including university entrance hoped then review the steps you took and exams, the privatization of water, and nuclear the process you followed. Re-evaluate by exreactors, among others. The “One Minute of amining what went wrong and where. What Darkness for Constant Light” altered the rela- did not work? What could you have done bettionship between Turkish citizens and power ter? Did you have all the necessary skills and holders. “Now even generals are answerable to tools? Your findings will be most illuminating the people,” Salman said. and in turn, allow you to set up a better, more The synergy between anti-corruption ef- comprehensive approach. You will revise and forts and peacebuilding that Beyerle depicts improve the current strategy. is particularly interesting. Despite their differ Garner support and encouragement. ences, both have overlapping long-term goals Stay away from negative persons; instead — like social and economic justice, government accountability and the protection of human seek advice from those experienced in your rights. Beyerle argues that in places like Afghan- field of endeavour and those who want you istan, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Repub- to succeed. They can assist you by making lic of Congo, where those involved in organized suggestions and recommendations based on crime reap the benefits of instability and easily their experience and expertise. You will still win seats in parliament, a successful transition have to do the hard work, but there is nothing to democracy and stability is difficult to achieve, more encouraging than positive reinforcement. although it is nevertheless possible.

The various campaigns covered in the book  Maintain Focus. do not follow one specific “magic formula” to One of the obstacles to attaining success root out corruption, but in each case organiz- is losing motivation and focus. A good way to ers put significant energy into strategizing and maintain focus is to visualise yourself accomplanning. Furthermore, toward the end of the plishing your goal no matter what it takes. book, Beyerle offers 15 general lessons gleaned Vividly see yourself accomplishing your goalfrom the campaigns she documents. I found a keep your eye on the prize. Likewise, avoid few of these lessons particularly important, like getting caught up in negative or unproducunity, which involves building coalitions that tive thinking such as, “This will never work.” increase diversity and lead to high levels of par- “I can’t do this.” Instead, keep inspiring sloticipation. Another point that she highlights is gans, handy pictures of those who have perthe importance of using low-risk mass actions, severed in life, and whatever else will motiwhich help citizens to overcome fear in hostile vate and boost your drive. environments. She argues that there are also  Enjoy intangible qualities that can be cultivated, such The greatest feelings of accomplishment as an honest image, which builds credibility and stimulates wide support, and legitimacy, which prevents intimidation derive from knowing you’ve overcome oblike she skillfully describes in her case studies of Afghani- stacles and conquered adversities to achieve your goals. Your ultimate success will be exstan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, India, Italy and Uganda.

The overall message of the book is one of hope. It is ponentially more satisfying and fulfilling nonviolent, strategic and collective action that creates when you know what it took to get there. shifts in attitudes. Across a diverse set of the cases, Bey“A RIVER CUTS THROUGH ROCK, NOT erle shows regular citizens moving “from resignation to BECAUSE OF ITS POWER, BUT BECAUSE action,” and succeeding in their struggles against corOF ITS PERSISTENCE” (Jim Watkins) ruption in the process.

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heyday of the Wobblies, who were very effective at speaking to people about the necessity of banding together in “One Big Union” to wield power against the corrupt capitalist system to create an industrial democracy.

Unfortunately, the IWW refused to participate in politics at this time — leaving this arena to more conservative socialists who generally scared off the U.S. public. They also refused to sign contracts with bosses, seeing them as too much of a compromise, which meant they were unable to solidify gains won through strikes. Due to these factors, divisions within the IWW, and severe government crackdowns, membership tanked by the mid 1920s — and the union never recovered.

Still, Joe Hill wrote some visionary and cutting words to traditional tunes that live on to tell the glory of the working class. In “Workers of the World, Awaken,” he wrote: Workers of the world, awaken! Break your chains. Demand your rights.

All the wealth you make is taken by exploiting parasites.

Shall you kneel in deep submission, From your cradles to your graves?

Is the height of your ambition, To be good and willing slaves?

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation! Fight for your own emancipation;

Curbing corruption with civil resistance Elena Volkava

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orruption is a widespread and global phenomenon, ranging from “narcocorruption” in Central America to “petty corruption” in Eastern Europe, such as candidates buying votes with buckwheat and sunflower oil before elections. Rather than focusing on the issue itself, Shaazka Beyerle explores how corruption is being curbed with civil resistance in her new book “Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice.”

Beyerle documents and analyzes civic grassroots initiatives that have expressed clear demands, reached their objectives, employed an array of nonviolent actions, and were sustained over a period of time. Twelve fascinating accounts are presented in the book with countryspecific context, campaign attributes and outcomes.

Beyerle begins by conceptualizing the link between corruption and violence. One place that corruption flourishes is in post-conflict settings in which illicit structures profit through the arms trade, and the trafficking of drugs and people — causing much human suffering. For instance, since the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo began in 1998, 3.5 million lives have been lost, while military and rebel groups have enriched themselves off of the country’s resources. Beyerle explains that civil resistance by citizens who are impeded by the nexus of paramilitary groups and organized crime sometimes leads to successful campaigns.

Every case study in the book takes place over the last 20 years, and some are still ongoing. The geographical scope includes Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Korea, Turkey and Uganda. Beyerle argues that the collective power of citizens who strategically use nonviolent actions created political will where it did not exist before, and developed social accountability for improving government processes.

For instance, in Brazil in 2008, a coalition of 44 civic groups, including religious, professional and trade organizations, collected 1.6 million handwritten signatures to introduce legislation to Congress that would prevent individuals with a criminal record from running for elected office.

This was followed by massive digital civil resistance, which included mass emails sent to legislators and an online petition in favor of the bill signed by two million people, among other nonviolent actions. Beyerle sites one of the campaigners, Graziela Tanaka, who said, “the movement took on an air of people power omnipresence, congressmen could not run away from it.”

Beyerle said she was inspired to pursue this multi-year project after she heard about the 1997 “One Minute of Dark-

ness for Constant Light” campaign in Turkey at a conference, which she also included as a case study in the book.

This civil resistance campaign mobilized 30 million people through low-risk mass actions — like turning off lights simultaneously (hence the name of the campaign), banging pots and pans, holding candlelit vigils, mailing “stolen” copies of the high court inquiries to legislators — and succeeded in empowering citizens to overcome their fear of confronting the criminal syndicate ruling the country at the time. Since the campaign happened before the Internet

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Paris a reminder india risks missing lessons from Mumbai attack MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (rEUtErs): Last month, during an exercise to test India's readiness for a militant attack, teams of coast guards approached Mumbai and surrounding areas by sea, just as assailants did before deadly strikes in 2008. Several teams slipped through undetected.

Officials say the response to the mock assault in Maharashtra was not a disaster, but the shortcomings it exposed were a reminder of India's vulnerability to the kind of violence that hit Mumbai seven years ago, when 166 people were killed, and Paris only last month.

"There was a mixed result," said a navy spokesman in Mumbai, describing the midNovember exercise that, by coincidence, came days after gunmen targeted Paris on Nov. 13, killing 130.

"We do find weaknesses, but over the years the number of people who can go through (our defences) is much less."

The atrocity in France drew immediate comparisons with events in Mumbai in 2008, when 10 gunmen landed on the city's shores by boat, split into pairs and attacked various high-profile sites using semiautomatic weapons.

cause no plane could be found.

Poorly armed, trained and equipped police first-responders were no match for the heavily armed gunmen who simultaneously attacked multiple targets. The drama evolved into a hostage crisis that dragged on for three days.

Members of the Force One Commandos from Maharashtra police demonstrate their skills during their inauguration ceremony in Mumbai, in this November 24, 2009 photo. (ReuteRs File Photo)

In response, Mumbai police got better equipment, and a unit of the National Security Guard (NSG) was deployed to the financial capital. Fishermen have been made aware of the seaborne threat and can call a helpline if they spot anything suspicious.

NatioN Briefs Now, order medicines clicking a picture of your prescription NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (IANs): Netizens will now be able to order their medicines online by just clicking and submitting a photo of their medical prescription on a newly-launched app Pluss. The app, launched on Monay, lets users order medicines, personal care, baby care and pet care products and getting them delivered at their doorstep, a company statement said. Pluss, the statement said, offers short transaction processes, free exchange, return and cancellation without a single question asked, faster delivery and no delivery charge or minimum order criteria.

Govt formulates umbrella scheme for ST students NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (IANs): The union tribal welfare ministry has formulated an umbrella scheme for education of Scheduled Tribes (ST) students by merging a few centrally-sponsored schemes, parliament was informed on Monday.This information was given by Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava in a written reply in the Lok Sabha."Based on the past experience and evaluation, the revised scheme has been designed to cater to specific needs of states and UTs. The merged scheme has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee in the year 2014. However, approval of the cabinet is awaited," said Vasava.

The centrally-sponsored schemes are pre-matric and post-matric scholarship for ST students, setting up of Ashram schools in tribal sub-plan area, scheme of hostels for ST boys and girls and schemes of vocational training in tribal areas.In another written reply, Vasava said the ministry was implementing a gender-specific scheme for ST girls "Strengthening Education among ST Girls in Low Literacy districts.

NCERT panel formed to review history textbooks has submitted NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (PtI): The government today said a committee of experts had been constituted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to review its history textbooks for removing any errors and the panel has submitted its report. "NCERT constituted an expert committee, consisting of experts from various universities/institutions in the country to take a quick review of history textbooks of NCERT to remove any mistake or controversial material, if any, mentioned therein. The Committee has submitted its report," HRD Minister Smriti Irani said today.

She said this in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, where a member had sought to know if steps had been taken to form a experts' committee to address complaints related to these textbooks. Irani also said that representations have been received from time to time with regard to history textbooks. The representations, as and when received, are forwarded to the concerned for taking appropriate action, she said.

Pvt telcos not improving services; Stern steps on calldrop:Govt NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (PtI): Private telecom companies are increasing their customers but not improving services which are "very bad", government said in Rajya Sabha today and while asserting that it will take "stern" steps to address the menace of mobile call dropping.

Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the private telecom companies have been asked to improve the infrastructure and the government is monitoring it. After the issue was raised by Naresh Agrawal (SP) during Zero Hour, Prasad said he shared the concern of the member and the Parliament over the problem. "I understand the concern raised by the member on the issue and Parliament's concern. I and my government have taken this issue very seriously...I am concerned over the issue and we are rectifying it.

For last two-three years, the issue was not taken seriously. I want to assure you that the effective steps taken now by me have never been taken earlier," he said.

"I am a strong minister and will take more stern steps to improve the services," he said.

Maharashtra also set up its own elite counter-terrorism police unit: Force One. But the initial zeal with which the threat was treated has faded, security experts said.

"A lot of effort goes in at first.

But over time, people lose interest. Momentum is lost. There is

no leadership continuity," said Govind Sisodia, a senior commander of the NSG at the time of the Mumbai raid.

Sisodia, now retired, was unable to scramble his elite force from its headquarters in New Delhi for 12 hours after the start of the Mumbai attack be-

POLICE ACADEMY Seven years after the attack, Force One has yet to move into its promised purpose-built headquarters outside the city.

For now, it protects one of the world's largest metropolitan areas from a modest office on the fourth floor of a shabby low-rise building which it shares with a police academy.

Lines of drying laundry hang from the windows.

"From every incident, we take a lesson, we revise our protocols," said Sanjay Saxena, the inspector general of police running the unit, when asked about the Paris attack.

Saxena gave little away about how his squad operated, including how he might scramble his hand-picked team from a northern suburb to districts in Mumbai's historic south along the city's jammed roads.

Some of the commandos in Force One, modelled on Germany's GSG 9 special forces,

are allowed to live at home. According to some officials, the 600-strong force trains on a police parade ground.

A critical worry, say security experts, is that tactics used by militants are evolving.

While the attack on Paris echoed elements of that in Mumbai, it also differed, for example in the use of suicide belts to maximise casualties and rule out capture.

"Mumbai ushered in a new era," said G.K. Pillai, India's home secretary after the Mumbai attacks. "This is a new type of terrorism: multiple, very welltrained teams striking a variety of targets.

"The lesson was that in cities you need to have a few hundred of these elite commandos available within 10-15 minutes, whether it is Paris or London."

NEEDLES, HAYSTACKS Historically, India has not been a hotbed of Islamist militancy, and its main security focus has been on containing a separatist insurgency in Kashmir, which it disputes with archrival and neighbour Pakistan.

Intelligence agencies have little handle on tens of thousands of Indians working in Iraq, the Gulf and beyond.

According to the govern-

ment, there are 18,000 Indians in Iraq, parts of which are under the control of Islamic State, although some experts say the real number may be much higher.

"Our data (on labourers) working abroad, especially in the Gulf, who are usually targeted for joining IS, is woefully inadequate," said Vappala Balachandran, a senior foreign intelligence specialist who led an inquiry into the Mumbai attacks.

"This is a serious cause for worry."

A recent Indian intelligence report found Islamic State had recruited 23 Indians, but the radical group considered them to be "inferior fighters".

The main threat to India, security analysts say, is from militants crossing from Pakistan, as was the case in the Mumbai attack and in a July raid on a police station in Punjab that killed at least nine.

Urban settings are seen as their most likely targets.

"Any urban area remains a target," said P. Chidambaram, who took over as India's home minister just after the Mumbai attack. "In a city anyone can burrow themselves and remain invisible for weeks, months, even a year."

HC dismisses pleas of Gandhis in National Herald case English education can’t instil patriotism: RSS

NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (PtI): In a blow to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, Delhi High Court today dismissed their pleas challenging summons issued to them in the National Herald case in which they have to appear before the trial court tomorrow.

"Petitions are dismissed," Justice Sunil Gaur said in his judgement while also declining another of their plea for exemption from personal appearance in the lower court.

The Gandhis and the other five accused--Suman Dubey, Moti Lal Vohra, Oscar Fernandez, Sam Pitroda and Young India Ltd--will have to appear in the trial court tomorrow, before which the case will come up.

It also refused to extend the August 6, 2014 interim order by which the summons were stayed.

"No," Justice Gaur said in response to oral pleas by senior advocate Harin Raval, appearing for the

Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and lawmaker Rahul Gandhi. (ReuteRs File Photo)

accused, that either an exemption from personal appearance be granted or the August 6, 2014 order staying the summons be extended.

The court, in its judgement, has also questioned the need for extending interest-free loan to Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) the publishers of National Herald. "Where was need to

extend interest free loan," it said.

The trial court had on June 26 last year summoned all the above accused to appear before it on August 7, 2014 on Swamy's complaint.

The Congress leaders had, thereafter, on July 30, 2014, moved the high court which had stayed the summons on August 6 last year.

Thereafter, on December 15, 2014, the court had stayed the summons till final disposal of the petitions.

The summons were issued on a criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of now-defunct daily National Herald.

PANAJI, DEcEMBEr 7 (tNN): Education in English is insufficient to teach humanitarian and patriotic values, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said here on Sunday, after opening for public viewing a statue of KB Hedgewar, the founder of the right-wing volunteer organization.

"English education can only train us enough to be able to earn our daily bread. These are the words of Swami Vivekananda. We don't need such schools but those that teach us to serve for the betterment of other human beings," Bhagwat said.

"Veer Savarkar had said, 'If I cannot spread the fragrance of my education for the betterment of our country, then my education would be useless... Even donkeys can go around bearing the weight of books'," Bhagwat said, close to Dr K B Hedgewar School campus.

He spoke in the presence of Goa chief minister and education minister Laxmikant Parsekar, with education officials in the audience, including Goa University vicechancellor Satish Shetye, GU registrar V P Kamat and director of education G P Bhat.

Playing safe, Parsekar later said Bhagwat's speech won't influence the government while deciding on the medium of instruction (MoI) issue at schools. Parsekar said, "I don't feel it will have any effect, positive or negative."

Forum for Rights of Children's Education (FORCE) has been demanding that the government pass an Act providing grants to schools with English as their MoI, while Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) has demanded the government discontinue grant-in-aid to English-medium primary schools, owned and managed by minority institutions and restrict grants only to primary schools run in Indian languages as listed in the Eighth Schedule.

India's foreign minister to visit Pakistan for first time since 2012 NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (rEUtErs): Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj will hold talks with Pakistan on Wednesday, the first visit by India's top diplomat to its rival in three years, part of efforts to restart a peace dialogue plagued by militant attacks and distrust.

Swaraj will lead an Indian delegation to Islamabad for talks on Afghanistan, India's foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said on his Twitter page.

Top Pakistani foreign affairs official Sartaj Aziz said Swaraj would meet him and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

"This is a good beginning, that the deadlock that was present has to some extent been removed," Aziz, the prime minister's adviser on security and foreign affairs, told reporters.

The visit comes after the collapse of talks in August that raised questions about the ability of the nucleararmed rivals to overcome

SC declines to hear PIL for uniform civil code, warns petitioner NEW DELHI, DEcEMBEr 7 (IANs): The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a public interest petition seeking direction to parliament for enacting a uniform civil code to end alleged discrimination being faced by Muslim women, telling the petitioner to approach parliament and not waste the court's time.

A bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice A.K.Sikri and Justice R. Banumathi said that it is for parliament to take a call on the issue and it was not in the realm of the apex court to issue a direction (to parliament) on this.

Chief Justice Thakur, in a disapproving note, told senior counsel Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the petitioner, that if such petitions were filed without regard to the law, the court will come down very heavily.

Pointing out that the legal position on the issue was "very well settled", the court told the petitioner advocate he was "wasting the court's time".

"You are wasting our time", the bench said..

The petitioner was advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who is also the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit.

The court asked why none of those who are being allegedly discriminated against have come forward for redressal. If an aggrieved woman comes to the court, we may still consider examining it, the court said questioning the locus of the petitioner to raise the issue.

animosity that has festered since their independence from British rule almost seven decades ago.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sharif resumed high-level contacts with a brief conversation at climate change talks in Paris last week and their national security advisers met in Bangkok on Sunday.

Kanwal Sibal, a former Indian foreign secretary, said the foreign minister's visit showed the Modi gov-

ernment had softened its hardline stance towards Pakistan after realising that the lack of sustained talks yielded no returns.

"The countries can agree to disagree, but they will have to start talking," Sibal said.

Taken by surprise, Indian opposition parties questioned the government's on-off approach to talks and a former foreign minister from Modi's party said the policy was being conducted in the shadows.

Since taking office in 2014, Modi has authorised a more robust approach to Pakistan, giving security forces the licence to retaliate forcefully along their disputed border and demanding an end to insurgent attacks in Indian territory.

Swaraj's visit is the first ministerial-level visit to Pakistan since the then foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, travelled to Islamabad in 2012, which was before Modi became

prime minister.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since 1947, two of them over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which both claim in full but rule in part.

India has for years accused Pakistan of backing separatist Muslim rebels in India's part of Kashmir.

Despite considerable evidence, Pakistan denies the accusations and blames India violating human rights in Kashmir and fomenting unrest in Pakistan.

Warehouse blaze sweeps through slum in Mumbai MUMBAI, DEcEMBEr 7 (rEUtErs): A warehouse fire swept through a slum in Mumbai on Monday, triggering a series of gas cylinder explosions, fire brigade and police officials said. Broadcaster NDTV reported two people died in the fire in a northern suburb and a Reuters photographer said he saw one body in the wreckage. A city hospital employee said at least four casualties had been brought in by rescue workers, but fire fighters said others had been taken to private hospitals.

Fire fighters said cramped conditions in the slum, which houses a number of shacks used for storage, made it difficult for the fire brigade to reach the blaze. They feared residents might have become

Thousands of huts gutted as fire hits Mumbai’s Kandivali East area. (express Photo)

trapped in the wreckage.

More than 100 huts were destroyed, said the Reuters photographer at the scene, adding that residents were picking through the smoking remains of their homes as fire fighters doused the last of the blaze.

Witnesses on Twitter had reported multiple explosions in Kandivali, the northern suburb, posting photographs and film footage of a plume of thick black smoke rising above the area.

Fires caused by gas explosions and short circuits

are not infrequent in Indian cities, where shoddy building work and haphazard electrical installations are common. The chief fire officer of the Mumbai fire brigade was killed in May after fighting a blaze in the southern part of the city.

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We will overcome it: Barack Obama

WASHINGTON, december 7 (reuTerS): President Barack Obama on Sunday laid out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no U.S. policy shift to confront what he called a “new phase” in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California.

In a rare Oval Office address, Obama sought to calm a U.S. public increasingly jittery about the fight against Islamist militancy that once appeared to be waged overseas. His remarks failed to quiet Republican critics who have long accused him of underestimating the militants’ strength and staying power.

Speaking in a measured tone, Obama used his 14-minute nationally televised appearance to draw a careful line about what he would and would not do. He pledged, for example, to “hunt down terrorist plotters” anywhere they are. But he insisted: “We should not be drawn once more into a long and costly ground war in Iraq or Syria.”

Obama spoke just four days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire on a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. The pair were killed hours later in a shootout with police.

Obama condemned the attack as “an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people.” But he also said San Bernardino showed that “the terrorist

NATO rules out ground troops to fight IS

US President Barack Obama speaks about counter-terrorism and the United States fight against Islamic State during an address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on December 6. (REUTERS Photo)

threat has evolved into a new phase” as Islamic State used the Internet to “poison the minds” of potential assailants.

Obama also made a connection between national security and the need for gun control following America’s latest mass shooting.

The FBI is investigating the paramilitary-style attack in California as inspired by Islamic State, which controls swaths of Syria and Iraq and has shown an expanded reach beyond its Middle East strongholds, including complicity in the Nov. 13 assaults in Paris that killed 130 people.

But Obama, whose restraint contrasted sharply with French President Francois Hollande’s impas-

sioned words after the Paris attacks when he vowed a “merciless” response, said there was no evidence the California assault was directed by a militant group overseas or part of a broader conspiracy at home.

Nevertheless, Obama sought to show his administration was on top of the crisis, despite new questions raised about the country’s defenses against homegrown extremism.

“The threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it,” Obama said.

Obama’s Republican critics, including the party’s presidential candidates, quickly panned his speech, just the third he has delivered from the Oval Office since he took office in January 2009.

“People are scared

not just because of these attacks but because of a growing sense that we have a president that is completely overwhelmed by them,” Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination for the November 2016 election, told Fox News.

DIGITAL DEBATE LOOMING WITH SILICON VALLEY Delivering his speech from a lectern, Obama called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online.Obama also seized the opportunity to make the case again for U.S. gun control, something he has done

ZurIcH, december 7 (reuTerS): NATO has ruled out sending ground troops to fight against Islamic State militants in Syria, NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg told a Swiss newspaper, stressing the need to bolster local forces in the conflict.

“That is not on the agenda of the coalition and the NATO allies,” he told the Tages-Anzeiger paper when asked about dispatching ground forces to accompany air strikes.

“The United States has a limited number of special forces. In the foreground, however, is strengthening local forces. This is not easy, but it’s the only option,” he added Stoltenberg stressed that the conflict was not a war between the West and the Islamic world, but to little avail because of stiff Republican resistance, following numerous shooting sprees during his presidency.

“We also need to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons like the ones that were used in San Bernardino,” Obama said. “What we can do - and must do - is make it harder for them to kill.” A senior administration official said Obama had no immediate plans to visit San Bernardino.

At the same time, Obama cautioned against overreaction to the militant threat at home.

“We cannot turn against each other by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam,” he said, alluding to the incendiary rhetoric by Re-

rather against “extremism and terrorism”.

“Muslims are on the front line in this war. Most victims are Muslims, and most of those who fight against the IS are Muslims. We can not carry on this struggle for them,” he said.

Stoltenberg pointed out that NATO would help Turkey improve its air defenses after Turkey shot down a Russian military jet last month. The alliance will adopt a package of measures for Turkey before Christmas, he added.

He emphasized the need to calm the standoff with Russia after the plane was shot down.

“Now it is important to de-escalate and to develop mechanisms to prevent similar incidents in the future. We see a significant build-up of

publican presidential candidates like Donald Trump, which is seen by critics as fear-mongering against the Muslim community.

Given that the California couple were not on the U.S. national security radar before they launched their shooting spree on Wednesday, Obama faced the challenge of convincing the U.S. public he is doing everything possible to deal with an evolving militant threat.

There was mounting evidence that the pair were “lone wolf” assailants who may have become radicalized by Islamic State propaganda and then acted independently, making it all the more difficult for authorities to track them.

Last week’s massacre, if proven to be linked to or motivated by foreign Is-

the Russian military presence from the far north to the Mediterranean.

There, too, we need to avoid similar incidents such as in Turkey,” he said.

He called for Russia to “play a more constructive role in the fight against IS. So far, Russia has attacked other groups and focused on supporting the Assad regime.”

U.S. President Barack Obama said last week his decision to send more U.S. special forces to combat Islamic State in Iraq was not an indication that the United States was heading for another invasion like the one in 2003.

Obama has said his strategy to fight the militant group in Iraq and Syria does not include U.S. ground combat troops, but the Pentagon announced it would send a new force of special operations troops.

lamist militancy, would be the deadliest such incident on U.S. soil on Obama’s watch and since the Sept.

11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on New York and Washington.

Obama’s address came amid growing pressure from Republicans and even some Democrats for a tougher response to Islamic State now that the San Bernardino shootings have raised fears among Americans about the threat of more attacks at home.

Obama’s last speech in the Oval Office, a symbol of presidential power, was in August 2010, when he hailed the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, a milestone in his campaign promise to extract the United States from the war there.

His policy was upended, however, with the meteoric rise of Islamic State.

Since late last year, Obama has deployed about 3,500 U.S. troops back to Iraq on a train-andadvise mission. The Pentagon announced last week it was sending scores more in a special operations expeditionary force against Islamic State. Critics are calling for more aggressive action.

Among the few specific requests in his speech was for Congress to pass legislation that would block individuals who are on the government no-fly list from purchasing guns. That would not have stopped the California couple, however, since they were not on any government terrorism watch list.

Jimmy Carter says cancer gone from brain China issues first ever ‘red alert’ on air pollution

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

(REUTERS File Photo) Colleen Jenkins Reuters

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unexpected message on Sunday to the several hundred people gathered at a Baptist church in Georgia for his Bible lesson - his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer.

Carter, 91, started treatment in August for melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain. A previous MRI test showed the four spots of cancer that had developed on his brain were responding to treat-

ment, he said.

“When I went this week, they didn’t find any cancer at all, so I have good news,” Carter told the crowd at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, according to a video from NBC News.

The former Democratic president, known for his unassuming style, offered a quick smile as people who had come for the Sunday School class he teaches gasped and clapped. In a brief written statement afterward, Carter confirmed his most recent brain scan “did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones.”

He said he would continue to receive regular doses of pembrolizumab, a new treatment that is part of a promising class of drugs that harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer. The immunotherapy is manufactured by Merck & Co under the brand name Keytruda.

While about 30 percent of patients treated with the drug experience significant shrinkage of their cancer, only approximately 5 percent experience complete remission, said Dr. Marc Ernstoff, director of the melanoma program at the Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute in Ohio.

On average, the immunotherapy treatment extends a recipient’s life expectancy by a year and a half. “But

people that are in complete remission tend to live significantly longer,” said Ernstoff, who is not involved in Carter’s care. Carter, who said after his diagnosis last summer that his fate was “in the hands of God,” has defied expectations before.

Critics derided his 1977-1981 presidency as a failure, although he played a key role in negotiation of the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt. He lost his 1980 re-election bid to Republican Ronald Reagan.

But the former peanut farmer built one of the most successful post-White House legacies, winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and remaining active into his ‘90s in causes such as fighting disease in Africa and building homes for the poor. He said in August that his cancer treatment, which has included radiation, would require him to cut back dramatically on his public schedule.

But Carter has continued to teach Sunday School classes and participated in at least one Habitat for Humanity home-building event this autumn. In October, he announced he was also working with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s heirs to help mediate their dispute over whether to sell their father’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried during the civil rights movement.

beIjING, december 7 (reuTerS): China’s capital on Monday issued its first ever “red alert” for pollution, as the city government warned that Beijing would be shrouded in heavy smog from Tuesday until Thursday.

China’s leadership has vowed to crack down on environmental degradation, including the air pollution that blankets many major cities, following decades of unbridled economic growth. The move comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned a Paris summit of nearly 200 nations against a “climate catastrophe”, urging governments to reach a strong deal to limit global warming.

In an online statement, the Beijing city government ordered all outdoor construction work to stop on red alert days, besides urging schools to close.

The notice, issued after days of heavy smog last week, also puts traffic restrictions on certain types of vehicles in the city of 22.5 million people.

Venezuelan opposition shatters Socialists’ hegemony cArAcAS, december 7 (IANS): Venezuela’s opposition coalition has won a majority in parliament in Sunday’s legislative elections, the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) said on Monday.

CNE President Tibisay Lucena said the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) has won 99 out of 167 seats in the national assembly, while the propresidential United Socialists Party of Venezuela has taken 46, Xinhua reported.

Lucena said the results for 22 remaining seats had not been confirmed yet.

The result strengthened the opposition’s hand against President Nicolas Maduro though it was short of the super majority the MUD had hoped for.

Maduro acknowledged the defeat.

“We have come with our morals, our ethics to acknowledge these adverse results, and to accept them, and to say to Venezuela that

Supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro react as a man wears a shirt with an image of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez during a legislative election, in Caracas on December 6. (REUTERS Photo)

the constitution and democracy have triumphed,” said Maduro.

Maduro also spoke highly about the country’s electoral process, saying “it has been a perfect system ... without a doubt one of the

most wonderful creations of the past 17 years.”

Henrique Capriles, a former presidential candidate and one of the leading figures in the opposition coalition, tweeted: “We won Venezuela! We always

said that this was the way, humility, maturity and serenity.”

Capriles, current governor of the state of Miranda, lost to Maduro in the 2013 presidential race.

After his loss to the latter,

Capriles refused to admit defeat, sparking months of violent protests that left 11 people dead.

Henry Ramos Allup, a new MUD deputy, said the government’s “days are numbered”, suggesting plans to curtail Maduro’s term which ends in 2018.

“Start the countdown.

The government is falling apart, it will have trouble reaching its end,” said Allup.

Around 75.25 percent of the country’s nearly 19.5 million eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday in one of the most watched legislative elections in recent years.

The results meant the ruling leftist coalition will have to govern with 52 fewer seats in parliament than it had during the 2011-2015 legislative period.

The MUD, meanwhile, has won 30 more seats, gaining a simple majority, defined as half the 167-seat assembly plus one, with a total of 84 legislators.

Policemen wear protective masks at the Tiananmen Square on an extremely polluted day as hazardous, choking smog continues to blanket Beijing, China December 1.

(REUTERS Photo)

“Construction waste, excavation transport vehicles, cement trucks, gravel transport vehicles and other large-scale vehicles are prohibited from driving on roads,” authorities said in the notice.

The warning was an upgrade from an orange alert issued over the weekend, part of China’s four-color warning system that includes yellow and blue levels for less polluted conditions.

Beijing residents took to the Internet to criticize authorities for not issuing a red alert during last week’s episode of heavy smog, which exceeded hazardous levels on pollution indices.

Environmental Protection Minister Chen Jining on Sunday vowed to punish agencies and officials for any failure to quickly implement a pollution emergency response plan, the state-run Global Times

tabloid said.

Chinese researchers have identified pollution as a major source of unrest around the country.

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

Blocking Muslim refugees supports terrorism, says UN GeNeVA, december 7 (reuTerS): Countries rejecting Syrian refugees because they are Muslims are fuelling Islamic State and other militant groups, U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday.

“When people say they cannot receive Syrian refugees because they are Muslims, those that say it are supporting terrorist organisations and allowing them to be much more effective in recruitment of people,” he told a news conference.

At least one of the men who carried out suicide attacks in Paris last month came through the Balkans to western Europe posing as a Syrian refugee, counter-intelligency and police sources have said.

But before the Paris attacks, many European countries were already talking about closing their borders to refugees or actually doing so - because of the sheer weight of numbers.

Much of the rhetoric connecting refugees and acts of violence has come from the United States, where Ben Carson, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, likened Syrian refugees to “a rabid dog running around your neighborhood,” and said admitting them would put Americans at risk.His rival candidate Donald Trump suggested shutting mosques to prevent Muslims in the United States from becoming radicalised.

After the attacks in Paris, the U.S. states

of Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and Michigan said they would close their doors to Syrian refugees, and the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to suspend President Barack Obama’s programme to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees and intensify the process of screening them.

Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, said he was sympathetic to governments’ impulse to rely on counter-terrorism strategies, but it would be an illusion to think that counter-terrorism and military action alone would solve the problem. “An essential part of this is to convince the potential recruits of terrorist organisations that that is not the way to express their own anger or their own concerns or their own perspectives,” said Guterres, who was speaking at the launch of a record $20.1 billion U.N. humanitarian appeal for 2016.

Attacks in Europe may be linked to one or two people who had entered with the huge refugee influx, but it was essentially a home grown problem that would not be solved by closing borders, he said.

“The more it is said or the more it is done in hostility to Syrian refugees because they are Muslims, the more the chances for (Islamic State) and other groups to recruit within the borders of European countries people to do the kind of nasty things we are now witnessing.”

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SPORTS

sainik school punglwa conducts sports day

Brig SV Devasthali, BGS Info Sys, 3 Corps giving away Athletics Championship Trophy to Melak House.

DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 7 (MExN): The 8th Annual Sports Day of Sainik School Punglwa was held on December 5. Brig SV Devasthali, BGS Info Sys, 3 Corps, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.

The week long sports meet of various track and field events which showed a stiff competition among the six mother houses ended with Melak House lifting the overall athletic championship trophy while Tizu House was adjudged the 1st runners up. Gp Capt Sanjay Gaekwad, the Principal welcomed the gathering. In his welcome speech the Principal stated that participation in games and

sports builds self-esteem, confidence, inculcates social skills and encourages goal setting in life. The Chief Guest in his address asserted that education is all round development and school such as sainik schools provide platform for such development. He reminded the cadets that they are the nation’s resource, treasure and future.

He advised the cadets to pass out as complete men but above all as leaders. Old Boys Association (OBA) of Nagaland, dignitaries, parents and village elders were present for the event.

Dynamic exercise, flag drill, chair tricks, gymnastic and band display by cadets

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JoY oF WriTiNG

ne of the finest ways to explore your own self is by writing. You reveal your true identity in your writing. It frees your mind to wander and gives you the passion to create imaginations. Writing is something that everyone can take up for the simple pleasure of it all. You don’t have to decorate your words with fine sounding arguments but offer raw expressions of what’s inside you. Nobody is more creative than others-it is simply the use of it that makes the difference.

Writing has done much good to mankind. It has opened our eyes to behold the unseen things, stirred men to action and revolutionized our Adam’s race.

Have you ever wondered why the Divine communicated to mankind through the medium of writing? There is something about writing that man cannot grasp fully. It speaks more volumes and last much longer than the oratory. It stays forever. “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write,”

Martin Luther would state. In writing, there is no caste, rich or poor, high or low that comes into play. From the top to the bottom, writing has no discrimination.

Writing shapes the mind and brings life into the lives of the writer as well as the readers.All the knowledge of men has been made possible simply because a person choose to put those thoughts into writing. Hominids are created with the potentiality to think and reason. It is this that makes human, humans. Writing should go beyond the ordinary happenings of life. It should be a flow of all that is within one’s soul. The mysterious nature of the worth of men is treasured in writings as every single soul has the capacity to think differently from person to person.

Writing should not just be pursued by skilled or professional journalists, freelancers, novelists, writers but should be the common pursuit and passion of everyone because it is in writing that our true souls are discovered. Children, young and old alike should be encour-

aged to write what’s on their mind. There are loads of minds that are rusting away without use. Our minds are ready to be exploited and it is realised through writing. Writing helps us to remove the cobwebs of unnecessary thoughts, details and events in life. It gives us a priority look into the work details and affairs. Not all writers may be leaders but all leaders are influenced by writers.

Therefore, the gift of writing is to be pursued with ink and paper. It does not cost much but is too costly for one to miss out.

Our soul may die but never our writings. It is in the noting of our thoughts and imagination that makes us a superior animal. Finally, no man should die without writing a book because your existence in this world has made a tremendous impact and you are the only one unique person among the many millions that will never pass by again. So, it is with this interest that I put these thoughts into writing. God bless the readers, Amen.

Vebu Khamo, Kohima Bible College

Open Letter to State Disability Commissioner Government of Nagaland

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y humble respect Sir, I, on behalf of Special Education Teacher working under IEDSS schemes. Happy to learned that International Day of Persons with Disabilities observed across the States on 3rd December 2015, that the U.N has declared as disabled day since 1992, and Nagaland government also celebrated the World Disable Day under the theme, "Inclusive matter" with the rest of the world.

That Sir, we the special Education Teacher had worked so far in the eyes of God to nurture those disabled students in the school for their purposeful life. But, today I am sad to declare that 17 months no Salary for IEDSS teacher, No provision, No training and No allowances for travelling purposes those disable students . You know they are the section of society but the Nagaland government has neglected their rights. As a Christian state it is a matter of concern to look into their grievances. Even they had the right to vote permitted by the constitution of India.

Iraipeu Zeliang, Spl Education Teacher, Dist. Peren Nagaland

drew applause and admiration from the gathering.

Zeliang folk dance by a cultural troop from Punglwa village and Free Fall Para Jump by Special Forces of the Indian Army added colours to the occasion.

Inter House Drill Competition was also conducted. Vote of thanks was proposed by Lt Col Jitendra Dogra, the Vice Principal where he made a special mention of Special Forces, 37 Assam Rifles and 18 Assam Rifles for providing material and logistic abbits can be prone to certain common support. The Chief Guest disease conditions often resulting from declared the 8th Annual inadequate managemental practices Sports Day closed and the and overlooking the signs and sympfunction drew to its close toms of illness. Farmers are encouraged to know with the National Anthem. the normal behavior for the rabbit and observe rabbit's behavior, activity level and droppings daily. Preventive measures can undoubtly save the rabbits and add to the farmer’s income. Following the most common disease condition encountered by rabbit farmers (backyard and commercial) that can be prevented.

LONDON, DECEMBER 7 (REUTERS): Respiratory infections: Rabbits can be susArsenal know exactly what they need to do ceptible to contracting respiratory infections. against Olympiacos Piraeus in WednesInfections and allergies of the upper respiraday's do-or-die Champions League tie tory tract are a particularly common problem. and the club will give their all to qualify for Sneezing, wheezing and sometimes breathing the knockout stages for a 16th consecutive fast or noisily, a discharge coming from the eyes year, manager Arsene Wenger has said. and nose are usual symptoms. Close contact The Gunners need to beat the Greek with an infected rabbit can easily transfer the champions either by two clear goals, or disease. The disease can infect other areas of by any margin with Wenger's men scorthe body as well, including ears (resulting in ing at least three goals to progress from the a head tilt), abscesses (seen as lumps on the group stages. If they fail to do so, they will body) and uterine infections. drop into the Europa League.

When a rabbit is under stress, such as when a new diet is introduced or if overcrowding oc"Personally the record means a lot becurs or due to another health problem or movcause it's important for the club and for the ing their cage to a different location, the displayers. I want to win and I want to qualieases crop up. Reducing stress for healthy as fy. For me our job is to win the next game, well as infected ones are good ways of preventand do what is requested," Wenger told the the back. ing introduction of the disease or recurrence "It is in our hands -we know what we club's website (www.arsenal.com).

A progressive rabbit farmers from Gidemi village of Phek District "There is one positive thing for us -- we have to do. We have to choose the right of signs. It is always advisable to quarantine all new rabbits for a 3 week period before mixing times to do that but we will always create know exactly what we have to do. We know with the stock. Rabbits that show continuous tion that can be caused by a variety of factors. ing electrolytes (salts) will increase water conthat we have to go for it from the start. So opportunities -- just hopefully we can stop chronic symptoms of the disease should be The cause may be a simple infection of the in- sumption. let's do that and hopefully we can get them, keep a clean sheet and grab a couple culled(rejected/eliminated). ner ear to more serious and potentially lifeCannibilism: Rabbit cannibalism a vice through." Midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who of goals ourselves," Ramsey said.

Diarrhoea: This is one of the most com- threatening illnesses such as Pasturella(a bac- may result from various conditions. This con"I have made no secret that I prefer to mon conditions seen in rabbits. Signs include teria), which are extremely serious and require dition can occur when a doe becomes excited excelled playing in midfield and scored in Saturday's Premier League 3-1 win over play in the middle and hopefully now I can lack of energy, rough coat, dehydration, often immediate treatment. Ear mites are another by an environmental change or when the staSunderland, said Arsenal must not get stay there. Hopefully I can keep building a bloated abdomen, staining around the hind common parasite in rabbits. Mites irritate the tus of nutrition, generally water is limited. The ahead of themselves and get exposed at on that now to play where I prefer to play." end, and death. The causes of soft or pasty stool lining of the ear and cause a watery fluid and most common cause is when a doe get frightinclude hairballs, various types of bacteria, vi- thick brown crusts inside the ear ( a condition ened around the time of kindling (i.e when she ruses and other intestinal parasites. Diet, anti- called “ear canker”) Infested rabbits scratch gives birth). Noise, strange people, predators biotic treatment, and other factors create insta- and shake their head and ears. It tends to lose near the rabbit house can cause of stress for bility of the naturally occurring bacteria flora of weight and may develop infections. It can dam- the doe. The chances of rabbit cannibalism are the gut and may make rabbits more susceptible age the inner ear and result in “wry neck” (a increased by a low-calorie or restricted feedtwisting of the neck to one side, resulting in the ing. There are some rabbit lines or families that They've just proved that the to intestinal disease with resulting diarrhoea. head being tilted) are more panicky or scared than others. Lack of Rabbit's cage and other living areas should harder you work, the luckiMineral oil—a drop or two in each ear, once maternal instinct also has a familial tendency. be thoroughly sanitized time to time. Feeding er you get."

If a doe is destroying a second successive and watering utensils must be cleaned and a month—is an option for preventing an infesMcClaren wanted his disinfected daily to prevent them from be- tation of ear mites. Regular deworming is rec- litter, it is advisable not to allow her to breed team to "get back to the coming contaminated with animal droppings. ommended as intestinal parasite may migrate thereafter. A doe known of its excellent materbasics of work-rate and or- Hutches should be kept dry and the droppings to brain causing damage to tissues resulting in nal instincts should be bred into the line. Pelganisation" and they did so removed often (twice a day is recommended). head tilt. Unaffected rabbits should not be al- let ration, ample fresh and clean water should to good effect in matching Fresh and clean water should be made avail- lowed to come in contact with rabbits that have be provided. Make use of vitamin/electrolyte Liverpool's pressing game. able to the stock. Wire cage bottoms should be ear canker. Any protuberance in the cage that supplements in the drinking water during hot With the home side con- brushed daily with a wire brush to help break could cause injury should be removed and periods. Water consumption is increased with tent to sit back and Liver- the life cycle of the parasites. Ammonia (10%) padding or a jute sack can be used to provide addition of electrolytes to the water. Animals and visitors from entering or roaming near the pool unable to break them solution is the best choice to disinfect cages or soft surfaces.

Hutch burn(urine burn): Hutch burn is rabbitry should be checked. other equipment exposed to the droppings. down, the game took a Hairloss or alopecia: Fur loss in rabbits with long while to warm up and High-fiber diets appear to help prevent the dis- caused by wet and dirty hutch floors. The area surrounding the anus and genital region no other lesions can have different causes that ease in weaned rabbits.

Adding copper sulfate threatened to become the becomes inflamed. This is followed by infec- include fur-plucking, barbering, parasitic probfirst goalless draw between to the diet of young rabbits may help prevent tion with disease-causing bacteria. Brownish lems, nutritional defect (especially protein and enterotoxemia(a common bacterial disease). the sides for 41 years.

Reducing stress (such as crowding) in young crusts cover the area and a bloody, pus-filled fibre deficiencies) and inflammatory condiThe visitors made rabbits is essential. Rabbits that recover fre- discharge may be present. tions. Alopecia can occur because of normal nothing of a crop of early quently become carriers, hence should be Hutch floors should be cleaned regularly shedding patterns (twice a year). A pregnant doe corners and until Jordon quarantined or house separately. Veterinarian and kept dry. will pulling tufts of fur from her chest, belly and LONDON, DECEMBER places, after only their sec- Ibe swung one over in the should be consulted regarding the preventive Sore Hock: The condition may occur due to sides to build nest. The primary sign of alope7 (REUTERS): Liverpool ond defeat in the 12 games 22nd minute there was not medications. pressure on the skin from bearing the body weight cia is unusual hair loss. Symptoms may progress missed the chance to close since the German took took a sniff of a scoring chance.

Hairballs (Trichobezoars): Rabbits are on wire-floored cages or trauma to the skin from suddenly or slowly. In some cases alopecia may in on the Premier League's over from Brendan Rodgers Centre-half Dejan Lovren self-groomers. The habit leads to ingesting stamping, with infection of the dead skin. be the result of a behavioral problem known as The problem can be prevented by providing “barbering.” This is where a dominant rabbit will top four when they suf- in October. headed it down invitingly large amounts of hair into their digestive sys"We were not good but Christian Benteke lifted tem mostly during times of molting. However, floor mats, resting boards or nest boxes so that chew or pull the hair out of its fellow cage-mate; fered a shock 2-0 defeat to lowly Newcastle United at enough today," Klopp told the bouncing ball over the as rabbits cannot vomit, hair must be able to your rabbits have a comfortable place to rest. hair loss predominantly appears on the flanks.

Normal natural molting will not require any St James' Park on Sunday. Sky Sports. "I don't know bar from barely three me- pass through the gut. If it fails then it will form Additionally, toe nails should be clipped short treatment. The shed areas will regrow fur as the Dutchman Georginio why. We could do bet- tres out. Newcastle took the an obstruction and serious complications. Rab- if possible Heat Stroke: Rabbits are extremely sensi- old coat falls out. Each mature rabbit should be Wijnaldum, signed from ter. We should play much lead after 69 minutes when bits will eat less over a period of days or weeks. tive to high temperatures, and rabbit housed caged individually with adequate living space.

Eventually rabbits completely stop eating.

Ofmore football, our pressing PSV Eindhoven in the Moussa Sissoko's cross ten affected rabbits will be bright and alert for outdoors will need ample protection in order Farmer should ensure sufficient and balance close-season, forced Mar- was not good. We were not was slightly mis-controlled several days after they stop eating. As the con- to stay sufficiently cool during periods of hot feeding. Clean drinking water round the clock tin Skrtel into an own goal compact, there was a lot of by Wijnaldum but he still dition progresses the rabbit becomes increas- weather. Excessively high temperatures above should be made available. A clean, dry and hyin the 69th minute and things we did not do well." managed to fire in a shot ingly lethargic, depressed and ultimately can 85oF and high humidity (above 70%), obesity, gienic house and its surrounding will prevent Newcastle's manager that Skrtel deflected in. then added a second himdie Hairballs are so common that they should poor ventilation, insufficient water and crowd- occurrences of alopecia of bacterial and paraSteve McClaren, in conself in added time.

Klopp had been dis- always be considered as a problem in any rabbit ing will cause heat stress. Reddening of the ears, sitic origin. It is always best to consult a veteriThat gave Newcastle trast, was delighted with satisfied enough to make a that is lethargic and not eating. panting, lethargy, salivation, weakness, slow narian early to control and contain the alopecia only a second home win of what he claimed was a vic- double change with an hour Hairballs are more likely to become a movement and convulsion are indication of from spreading in the stock.

Rabbit farming can be a gainful enterprise. the season and took them tory for hard work -- a qual- played, sending on Daniel trouble if there is a problem with the gastro- heat stress It should be always ensured that the rabbit Like all other farm animals, they are susceptible above neighbours and rel- ity the club's supporters Sturridge and fellow Eng- intestinal tract (gut stasis) or they are not reegation rivals Sunderland have accused their players land international Adam ceiving adequate fibre in their diet. Dark leafy is housed in a cool place away from any sun. to various diseases. However, understanding of lacking recently. in the bottom three.

Lallana for Benteke and the greens(lettuce, carrot tops, mustard green, oat Dampen the ears with cool water as this will the basic managemental procedure and time"They do care, there equally ineffective Roberto grass, wheat grass etc) are recommended for help to bring down his/her body temperature. ly disease mitigation measure will undoubtly All that Liverpool could point to after a disappoint- is desire there but they're Firmino. The two substitutes their fiber content, high moisture content and Oscillating fans also help to keep your rabbit minimize the incidences of common ailments cooler during warm temperatures when they ing display was a wrongly- young players, and they've were involved in a rare scor- nutritious value. All these aids in keeping the are housed indoor. Other concerns include a in rabbit. It will augment farmer’s confidence and financial gain. To put it briefly “An ounce of digestive track moving normally.

It is recomdisallowed goal by full-back got to learn," he said. ing opportunity but Stur- mended that at least 3 different types of greens check of the water supply system to assure that prevention is worth a pound of cure” Alberto Moreno that would "That's what you've got ridge pulled his shot care- be added to the diet to provide a variety of nu- adequate amounts of fresh, cool water are availDr Debojyoti Borkotoky have brought them an equal- to do to win a game in the lessly wide. And Wijnaldum trients and tastes. able and use vitamin/electrolyte supplements Subject Matter Specialist(Animal Sc.) iser 10 minutes from the end. Premier League, work real- made sure of the points whe KVK, ICAR-NRCM, Porba, Phek, Nagaland Head tilt: Head tilt is the name of a condi- in the drinking water during hot periods. AddJuergen Klopp's side remain ly hard, and crawl back into he clipped Sissoko's perfect seventh, six points behind the dressing-room. "Now through ball over keeper SiReaders may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form. the Champions League we've got to maintain that. mon Mignolet.

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IndIa end South afrIca'S reSIStance India crush South Africa by 377 runs – their biggest win in terms of runs in whites Sunil Gavaskar surprised by The 3-0 series win also enabled India to climb up to No 2 in the ICC Test rankings. India's clean sweep in Tests

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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 7 (REUTERS): Hosts India overcame South Africa's dogged resistance in the final session to beat the visitors by 337 runs in the final test at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium on Monday and complete a 3-0 win in the four-match series.

AB de Villiers batted for about six hours, much of it with a swollen thumb, for his 43 to fuel South Africa's faint hopes of salvaging a draw after extraordinary stonewalling from the visitors in their remarkably dour second innings.

India struck back in the final session, claiming five wickets to bowl out South Africa for 143 runs in 143.1 overs to seal victory and vault into the second place in world test rankings.

Resuming on 72-2 on a hazy morning, South Africa employed the same ultra-defensive strategy that marked their batting on Sunday.

Determined to eke out a draw, captain Hashim Amla and de Villiers continued frustrating the Indian bowlers with resolute stonewalling.

The number of bowlers Virat Kohli employed rose to eight, including the India skipper himself, as he grew desperate to try and separate Amla and de Villiers.

Kohli surrounded the batsmen with up to six close-in fielders for his spinners but success eluded the hosts until the 13th over of the day.

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja earned the breakthrough in the fifth over after the hosts had taken the new ball, spinning one past Amla's tentative bat to hit the top of the

off-stump before embarking on a celebratory run.

Amla departed after nearly five hours of dour defending, scoring 25 painstaking runs from 244 balls in what was the slowest ever test inning of 200 or more balls. The 27 runs he added with de Villiers in 253 balls was also the slowest test partnership of 175 balls or more.

New man in Faf du Plessis displayed the same obduracy with the bat and took 53 balls -- seven more than skipper Amla -- to get off the mark.

Jadeja, who sent down 17 consecutive maiden overs in the second innings, struck again after the lunch break, trapping du Plessis leg before for 10, ending the batsman's twohour vigil.

Ravichandran Ashwin (5-61) dismissed the scoreless JP Duminy but de Villiers and Dane Vilas (13) joined hands to thwart the Indians to ensure the test spills into its final session.

The hosts struck immediately after tea with Yadav sending back Vilas before Ashwin dealt the biggest

blow, ending de Villiers' marathon 297-ball stay with Jadeja taking the catch at leg slip.

It was one of the slowest innings by de Villiers, who holds the record for the fastest 50, 100 and 150 in one-day cricket, made more remarkable by the fact that he had been hit on the thumb by an Umesh Yadav delivery.

Once de Villiers departed, South Africa came completely unstuck and lost their last five wickets for seven runs in the space of five overs.

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 7 (PTI): India's 3-0 whitewash of South Africa in the four-match Test series has surprised former captain Sunil Gavaskar even though he feels that the Proteas were incapable of playing on Indian pitches. "I expected India to win the Test series but not 3-0. But the boys have achieved that and it shows their character, considering the team lost the T20 and oneday series," Gavaskar said. Gavaskar reiterated that the excessive focus on pitches used in the series was not needed.

"When India lose a series overseas, does anyone say that they lost because the pitch was fast and bouncy?

South Africa lost the series because their batsmen were incapable to play on Indian pitches. As simple as that," he said.

Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin ended the series with 31 wickets to earn his fifth man of the series award in a 32-Test career, equalling the record of Sachin Tendulkar (200 Tests) and Virender Sehwag (104 Tests). The offie's stupendous success doesn't surprise Gavaskar.

"It doesn't surprise me one bit. He has improved tremendously in the last one year. He has adapted and adjusted well and doesn't try to bowl six different balls in an over. Not to forget his contribution as a batsman. I would like to see him batting at number six, ahead of Ravindra Jadeja and Wriddhiman Saha," said the batting great.

He also heaped praise on speedster Umesh Yadav, whose three-wicket burst got India closer to victory on the fifth and final day of the Delhi Test that the hosts eventually won by 337 runs. "He has sharpened up on his pace.

And the good thing is that he swings the ball consistently, without losing pace. He always had a good outswinger but now he has developed a potent inswinger too. India will have a good overseas attack with Ishant Sharma and a fit Mohammed Shami," Gavaskar added.

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India can't wait to host U-17 World Cup: Tendulkar

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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 7 (PTI): He has no qualms in admitting that football is nowhere near cricket on the popularity chart in India but the iconic Sachin Tendulkar says the country cannot wait to host the U-17 FIFA World Cup as the sport's following has increased post the Indian Super League.

Tendulkar, who coowns the Kerala Blasters team in the ISL, asserted that football's popularity is on the upswing in the cricket-obsessed country.

"Absolutely massive. Everyone is looking forward to it, everyone is excited and the guys are waiting to welcome the World Cup to India. It's going to be massive, it's good for India because people are appreciating ISL and FIFA coming to India is a big, big thing," Tendulkar was quoted as saying by 'fifa.com'.

Tendulkar said the ISL has helped in creating a

new fan base for football.

"Football is getting popular - it's nowhere near cricket, but I don't like comparisons. It's about appreciating each and every sport - the skills, the hard work and the sacrifices the players make. Each individual should be respected for that and Indian people are appreciating ISL in a big way," he said.

"I'm thrilled that their response has been special and people are following not only the foreign players but the domestic players too...overall that is how football in India is going to grow. With India's billionplus population, if it grows it's definitely going to have a positive impact on football all over the world," he said.

Asked why he chose to involve himself in football, Tendulkar said, "I feel India is embracing other sports in a big away and this was a great opportunity to be

involved with football and contribute in whatever possible manner in Kerala and then promote football there. The response has been phenomenal we have had huge average crowds - so it's been fabulous." Tendulkar said football has the potential to be a big sport in India.

"I think the infrastructure of how football is run in India is going to become critical. How the season is played also becomes very important -- you want to try to make your domestic season as competitive as possible and then find the best talent who are part of the ISL. "With the exposure of having rubbed shoulders with some of the top footballers from all parts of the world, the Indian team will eventually benefit as well.

I have no doubts that the change is going to happen and happen for the better," he said.

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PBL auction: Saina Nehwal goes to Awadh, Chong Wei to Hyderabad

Pistorius to apply for bail in South African court on Tuesday

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 7 (IANS): India's Saina Nehwal and Malaysian veteran Lee Chong Wei were bagged by Awadh Warriors and Hyderabad Hotshots, respectively, for $1,00,000 each in the Premier Badminton League (PBL) players' auction here on Monday.

The third most expensive player was double World championship bronze medallist P.V. Sindhu who was snapped up by Chennai Smashers for $95,000 -- $45,000 more than the talented Indian's base price. Delhi Acers and Mumbai Rockets fought till the end before Chennai took the 20-year-old.

World No.9 male shuttler Kidambi Srikanth also received a strong bidding and was sold for $80,000 to Bengaluru Top Guns.

His compatriot, No.14 Parupalli Kashyap had to be content with a price of $35,000. The 2014 Commonwealth Games champion went to Hyderbad. While Srikanth had a base price of $50,000, Kashyap's base price was $25,000.

With $1,00,000 being the maximum bid for a player, the bidding for the two established players saw several franchises offering the highest purse for them.

In the end, according to the PBL rules, a lottery was held and it was decided that Olympic bronze medal winner Saina will play for the Lucknow-based side while two-time Olympic silver medallist Chong Wei

JOHANNESBURG, DECEMBER 7 (REUTERS): Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will appear in court on Tuesday to apply for bail following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the justice department said.

"The bail application hearing for Oscar Pistorius has been set down for tomorrow at 9.30 am (0730 GMT) at the Pretoria High Court," the department said on Monday.

The future date for Pistorius' sentencing will also be announced on Tuesday, the department said.

Pistorius, known as "Blade Runner" because of the carbon fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence.

The Supreme Court last Thursday upgraded the 29-year-old athlete's sentence to murder from "culpable homicide", South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter, for which he had received a five-year sentence. Pistorius was released from jail on Oct. 19 and had been meant to serve the rest of that fiveyear sentence under house arrest at his uncle's house in a wealthy suburb of the capital Pretoria.

The athlete killed Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013 after firing four shots through a locked toilet door. He said he mistook Steenkamp for a burglar, while prosecutors argued that he had intended to kill her.

will turn out for Hyderabad.

Saina, earlier, played for Hyderabad in the now disbanded Indian Badminton League (IBL).

Badminton Association of India (BAI) president Akhilesh Das Gupta revealed that the auction for Olympic bronze medallist Saina and Chong Wei happened on Sunday and as many as five franchises wanted to buy the 25-year-old Indian. Das Gupta said all the franchises were consulted on the decision. Saina will play the opening match of the tournament in Mumbai, the BAI president confirmed.

Meanwhile former No.1 Chong Wei attracted bids for Hyderabad

and Mumbai.

No auction took place for established doubles players Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa.

Jwala and Ashwini were sold for their base prices each of $25,000 to Hyderabad and Bengaluru, which also bagged B. Sumeeth Reddy for $25,000. Among the overseas players, No.12 Tommy Sugiarto of Indonesia was bought by Delhi for $74,000 - a jump of $24,000 from his base price.

Russian Vladmir Ivanov was bagged by Mumbai for $42,000, while Malaysian doubles specialist Koo Kiet Kan went to Delhi for $36,000.

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