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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance World Bank: Poverty to rise without climate action PAGe 9

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BCCI chief Manohar to replace Srinivasan as ICC chairman

Governor addresses Rajya Sainik Board annual meeting PAGE 2

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soul searching for Modi after humiliating Bihar poll defeat

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An Amur Falcon, a migratory bird seen in flight at Pangti area in Wokha district. Travelling up to 22,000 kms a year, the Amur Falcon, a small raptor of the falcon family, roosts in specific areas in Nagaland during their flight to South Africa from Mongolia. This year, the Amur Falcons were also spotted roosting in large numbers at Hakhizhe village area under Niuland in Dimapur. Photo by Manen Aier

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

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You have changed a lot. I miss the way you used to be. I think you should de-activate your whatsapp account and move back to the village.

Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high

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GENEva, NovEmBEr 9 (IaNs): The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2014, according to a new report released by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Monday. The report said that between 1990 and 2014 there was a 36-percent increase in radiative forcing -- the warming effect on our climate -- because of long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from industrial, agricultural and domestic activities, Xinhua news agency reported. “Every year, we say time is running out. We have to act now to slash greenhouse gas emissions if we are to have a chance to keep temperatures to manageable levels,” the WMO noted.

Nagaland govt orders food safety inspections

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KoHIma, NovEmBEr 9 (mExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has asked the Governor of Nagaland to set up an ‘impartial Enquiry Committee’ to verify information furnished by Chief Minister of Nagaland in an election affidavit. The working president of NPCC, P Ayang Aonok, submitted a memorandum to PB Acharya, alleging that TR Zeliang has “furnished false information in the affidavit in Form-26 that, he has passed BA in 1980, while filing his nomination paper before the returning officer for election to the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assem-

bly from 7 Peren (ST) Assembly Constituency.” Zeliang is also reported to have affirmed in the Form-26 affidavit that he passed BA from Kohima College under North East-

liang “who assumed the highest office in the state by taking oath under the Constitution of India, is not only answerable to NPF party alone but to the people of the state.” The NPCC thus demanded that the Governor’s office “immediately” set up an impartial ‘Enquiry Committee’ and verify the said affidavit in Form26 filed by TR Zeliang and the relevant documents marked as Annexure-‘A’ & ‘B’ obtained through RTI pertaining to him. The NPCC also asked for the ‘Enquiry Committee’ report to be “made known to all in the larger interest of justice.”

NPCC asks Governor to set up Impartial Enquiry Committee

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nagaland cM election affidavit is challenged

KoHIma, NovEmBEr 9 (mExN): The Food and Safety Cell of the Nagaland Directorate of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW) has directed all designated officers (CMOs)/Food Safety Officers of the districts to inspect hotels, restaurants, canteens, bakeries, tea stalls including temporary stalls and other eating places, and street food vendors to food safety. This is being done in view of the approaching festive season and the forthcoming Hornbill Festival. The directive stated that inspection may be carried out in consultation with the concerned district administration, town council and other appropriate authorities. It ordered that the exercise be completed by November 30 and that action report be submitted by December 10.

ern Hill University in 1980. According to the NPCC, an RTI filed by them has found that the Chief Minister of Nagaland “appeared BA from Kohima College, under North Eastern Hill University in 1979 and failed and he did not appear BA Examination in 1980.” Aonok stated that Ze-

NEW DELHI, NovEmBEr 9 (rEutErs): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to reverse course and engage with opposition leaders if he is to salvage his economic reform programme, senior aides said on Monday, after he suffered a humiliating state election defeat. Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was hammered in Bihar by a regional alliance, even though the 65-yearold leader addressed more than 30 rallies across the poor eastern state of 104 million people. The setback destroys any hopes Modi might have had of securing control of the Rajya Sabha in this five-year term, barely 18 months after he won India’s strongest national mandate in three decades. “It’s going to make his life really difficult - he will struggle to form a majority in the upper house,” said Shilan Shah, an economist at Capital Economics. “The next step is to put aside some of the really polarising issues and form alliances.” At a meeting after Sunday’s Bihar results, in which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s “grand alliance” won 178 seats to 58 for the BJP and its allies, close aides urged Modi to reach out to opposition heavyweights he has until now shunned. “There is a realisation that he will have to negotiate,” one senior adviser said, requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. It remains to be seen whether Modi follows his

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally in a cricket stadium in Srinagar, November 7, 2015. (REUTERS)

aides’ advice. Since storming to power, he has made a point of trying to crush the ousted Congress party and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that leads it. If Modi is to make headway, aides say he will have to wean himself off the company of friends from Gujarat, which he ran for over a decade, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu movement that is the BJP’s ideological parent and moulded him as a politician. “If they don’t manage to get that consensus, we won’t have sustained and stable reforms,” said M.R. Madhavan, president of PRS Legislative Research and a leading observer of parliamentary politics. POLARISING CAMPAIGN Also under critical scrutiny is the polarising campaign strategy of BJP presi-

ANCSU ‘ultimatum’ to CM on ‘NPCC a flexible party release of pending scholarships without any principle’ DImaPur, NovEmBEr 9 because of non-payment made (mExN): The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has served an ultimatum to Nagaland Chief Minister to release pending scholarships for students on or before November 19. In a representation addressed to the CM, the ANCSU said payment of Post-Matric Scholarship (PMS) for ST students is yet to be cleared in favour of 3615 eligible students due to the non-release of 10% state matching share. Further, payment of scholarship to 7217 eligible students for the year 2014-15 under the state merit scholarship and research scholars is also pending,

by the state government, it informed. It lamented that despite several organisations and individuals pointing out this issue; the state government has failed to respond to the aggrieved students. A number of appeals, reminders and representations have already been served to the department of higher education for the timely release of scholarships, the ANCSU reminded. Therefore, to avoid further misunderstanding and misconception, ANCSU appealed the CM to address the grievances seriously and take necessary steps on or before the afore mentioned date.

DImaPur, NovEmBEr 9 (mExN): In a continuing war of words, Nagaland BJP on Monday retorted back to Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) that it must stop fooling the people of Nagaland by playing “both ruling and opposition roles and creating unhealthy democratic atmosphere.” BJP Media Cell in a counter rejoinder said NPCC should have pulled out its 8 MLAs from the DAN – III government or expelled them before opposing its coalition constituent in a manner of opposition party. It also said the Congress party being part of both the ruling and opposition benches simultaneously only proves that it is a flexible party without any principle. The BJP also held Indian National Congress (INC) responsible for the extreme influx of “Bangladeshi immigrants into the North-eastern region and Nagaland through Assam for the sake of vote banks” and said this has destroyed ethnic fabrics of mainlanders and reduced them to minority.

Myanmar: Suu Kyi heads for historic win

NaYPYItaW/HINtHaDa, NovEmBEr 9 (rEutErs): Myanmar’s ruling party conceded defeat in the country’s general election on Monday, as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that would ensure it can form the next government. “We lost,” Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) acting chairman Htay Oo told Reuters in an interview a day after the Southeast Asian country’s first free nationwide election in a quarter of a century. The election commission later began announcing constituency-by-constituency results from Sunday’s poll. All of the first 12 announced were won by Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy (NLD). The NLD said its own tally of results from polling stations around the country showed it on track to win more than 70 percent of the seats being contested in parliament, more

Myanmar’s National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at her party headquarters after general elections in Yangon, Myanmar November 9. (REUTERS)

than the two-thirds it needs to form Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since the early 1960s. “They must accept the results, even though they don’t want to,” NLD spokesman Win Htein told Reuters, adding that in the highly populated central region the Nobel peace laureate’s party looked set to win

more than 90 percent of seats. DEMOCRATIC JOURNEY The election was a landmark in the country’s unsteady journey to democracy from the military dictatorship that made it a pariah state for so long. It is also a moment that Suu Kyi will relish after spending years under house arrest.

Although the election appears to have dealt a decisive defeat to the USDP, a period of uncertainty still looms over the country because it is not clear how Suu Kyi will share power with the still-dominant military. The military-drafted constitution guarantees onequarter of parliament’s seats to unelected members of the armed forces. Even if the NLD gets the majority it needs, Suu Kyi is barred from taking the presidency herself under the constitution written by the junta to preserve its power. Suu Kyi has said she would be the power behind the new president regardless of a charter she has derided as “very silly”. The military will, however, remain a dominant force. It is guaranteed key ministerial positions, the constitution gives it the right to take over government under certain circumstances, and it also has a grip on the economy through holding companies.

dent Amit Shah, who irked many by saying firecrackers would go off in Pakistan if the BJP lost in Bihar. The jibe appeared to be intended to mobilise the party’s core Hindu support base against Muslim-majority Pakistan, India’s arch rival. It was Shah, an old friend from Gujarat, who scripted the BJP’s Bihar strategy exclusively around Modi: the party did not put up a candidate for the post of chief minister. “We should have projected a local face as our chief ministerial candidate,” one regional BJP leader told Reuters, adding that the party should have done a better job of pitching its message of development and steered clear of controversy. Criticism has rained down on Modi and Shah for trying to turn Bihar into

a referendum on the prime minister’s leadership, leaving him vulnerable to a strong campaign by Kumar and ally Lalu Prasad that addressed voter concerns in a state riven by complex divisions of caste and religion. “The BJP will hopefully learn the lesson that communal politics does not yield returns in the long run. But it is not going to be easy,” political analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta wrote in the Indian Express. Two days before his party crashed to defeat, Modi hosted RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat for lunch at his residence. One source familiar with their table talk said Bhagwat asked whether Modi wanted to carry on as a campaigning prime minister or instead focus single mindedly on running the country. HYPE AND REALITY As Modi prepares to visit Britain, where he is due on Friday to address a sellout crowd at London’s Wembley Stadium, the gulf that has opened between expectation and achievement has widened. On his return, Modi will be reminded that acquiring 15.9 million Twitter followers is easier than getting reforms through parliament, which convenes for its winter session on Nov. 26. One senior leader of the Congress party, which also made gains in Bihar, said the opposition would not drop its blockade unless the BJP renounced its divisive policies.

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KES Concert: Education for the Naga children

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(From Left to Right) Charles Chasie, Lily Das and Dr.P Ngully.

Morung Express News Kohima | November 9

“Education is a good cause. There is nothing more empowering than education,” said Dr. P Ngully during a press conference held on November 9 at Ura Hotel, Kohima for the upcoming Kohima Educational Society (KES) Concert to be held on November 11. The KES concert which will be held on November 11 at RCEMPA, Jotsoma will feature renowned artists Euphony choir, Alobo Naga, Tetseo Sisters, Tali Angh, Methaneilie and Purple Fusion with T R Zeliang as the Chief Guest and Khriehu Liezietsu, Parliamentary Secretary. Present at the conference was Lily Das from UK, a Trustee of KET who was the brainchild behind the concert. Das briefed the media persons on the formation of KET/KES and how funds have been raised in UK in the past by war veterans and relatives of the veterans. Das asserted that the aim of the concert is to help the education of Naga children since there are many needy people in Nagaland, especially people in the villages. The aim according to Das is, “to give them a good solid foundation, to equip them to make choices in future and to give them the freedom of choice.” The KES believes that education and the kind of education provided will decide the future of Naga society. It stated that time has come

for Nagas to shoulder the responsibility of educating their own children. “They know the needs of their society better than others and what kind of education their children need. This is a major reason we are holding this concert to raise funds for the education of Naga children so that we will have a better society tomorrow,” notes the KES. So far KES scholarships have benefitted 162 students and covers students in all the districts of Nagaland. On the day of the concert, a documentary film will also be screened before the concert. The film titled ‘Kohima: an exploration of War, Memory and Gratitude’ made by David Percy is a film on the Battle of Kohima, which takes the viewers back to the WWII battle of Kohima with real battle scene footages and then traverses through a journey with veterans and people involved in the war. “Let’s make it a good success so that our children will benefit from the concert,” appealed Lily Das. Apart from providing scholarships and other notable works, the KET/KES has also released the first Naga Glossary and set up the first annotated Naga bibliography. One major upcoming activity of the KET/KES will be the Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature which will start in 2016. The award is open to any Naga in India or abroad and is aimed at fostering a love for reading as well as writing to recognize and award those who provide ideas to society.

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