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BCCI chief Manohar to replace Srinivasan as ICC chairman

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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.”

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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.”

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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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Governor addresses Rajya Sainik Board annual meeting

kohiMa, noveMber 9 (DiPr): The 21st annual meeting of Directorate of Sainik Welfare & Resettlement of Rajya Sainik Board was held on November 9 at Raj Bhavan, Kohima under the chairmanship of Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya.

Governor, PB Acharya in his speech stated he is happy to be discussing welfare issues pertaining to Ex- servicemen, widows and dependents, as our soldiers have spent their prime time in defence of our mother land and that it is the responsibility of all citizen and Government to look after their welfare and well being. He said that re-settlement/re-employment of retiring soldiers is of utmost importance and it is necessary to assist Ex-servicemen in setting up of Self Help Adventure of Small Scale Industries, Cooperative Society and Fair Price Shops etc. In this regard District Administration at ground level plays an important role; the Governor stated and added that ex-servicemen fraternity should develop skill and voca-

tional training to fit into various jobs that may be available as their second career.

The Governor stated that the aim of Rajya Sainik Board is to provide welfare measure and re-settlement of Ex-servicemen fraternity and accordingly, welfare measures have been drawn up in the State Managing Committee (SMC) to facilitate avail maximum benefits by Ex-servicemen, widows and dependents. Special emphasis has been made on the growth of dependent. Rs. 7.94 Lakhs approximately have been spent as part of welfare grant in 2014-15.

Besides, WW-II Veterans have been given Rs. 36,000/- each as a penury grant, thus a total of Rs. 28.09 Lakhs. On 8th October 2015 an Ex-servicemen Rally was also organized at Zakhama with the help of Army authority.

The Governor also thanked the State, Home and Finance Departments, HQ 3 Corps, IGAR (N) and MoD for their assistance from time to time.

He also said that Rajya Sainik Board, Nagaland is a front runner to start Digital Life Certifi-

Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya address the 21st annual meeting of Directorate of Sainik Welfare & Resettlement of Rajya Sainik Board held on November 9 at Raj Bhavan, Kohima. (DIPR Photo)

cate (DLC) in the North-East for Ex-servicemen fraternity.

The Governor complimented Brig KK Roy Choudhury and his team for providing free coaching and guidance to dependent and Naga youth for recruitment in the Defence Forces and also providing vocational training to dependent and Naga girls, taking proactive measures to revitalize Zila Sainik Welfare Offices for welfare of Ex-servicemen

fraternity.

Governor, who is also the President Rajya Sainik Board, encouraged the Districts Deputy Commissioner to involve more in creating different things to bring eco-relations within the citizens. The Governor also apprised the Sainik Welfare to give good facilities to the school children and give quality education for one to compete with other state in the

country.

Minister for Social Security & Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs, Kiyanilie Peseyie, who read out the Vice Presidential address of the Chief Minister in his absence, stated that the Directorate of Sainik Welfare and Resettlement was established in the year 2012 to look after the welfare aspects of all ex-servicemen in Nagaland.

He expressed his gratitude that

regular interaction by the Directorate of Sainik Welfare and Resettlement with ex-servicemen and widow is being carried out even in remote localities to bring about awareness and also address their problems.

He expressed his hope that the intake of Naga youth in armed forces would continue to gather momentum adding that a large number of Naga youth participated in the recruitment rally and a record of 125 youth were enrolled in the regular army. He complimented Brig.

K.K. Roy Choudhary (Rtd) Secretary, Rajya Sainik Board and Director, Sainik Welfare and Resettlement and his team for taking many initiatives stance to improve all facets of welfare of ex-servicemen, widows, independents, as well as World War II veterans.

Secretary, Kendriya Sainik Board, Ministry of Defence New Delhi, also spoke in the meeting and assured to look after the points discussed in the meeting. A two minute silent was also maintained as a respect to the 16 ex-servicemen who expired

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during the year. New members were also welcomed.

The last meeting minutes of the Rajya Sainik Board were unanimously passed by the house. It was stated that the multifaceted State Sainik Rest house to be constructed at Kohima near Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat. Employment in the State government in 5% reservation policy in public sector for the ex-servicemen within the state of Nagaland and ex-servicemen contributory health schemes Kohima were passed. Other resolutions were army housing welfare organization project at Dimapur with relating to article 371A of the Indian Constitution, State level ex-servicemen rally to be held at Rangapahar Dimapur, to establish Zila Sainik welfare office in Mon and Tuensang and the budget allotment grant in aid to enhance 20% to the welfare, enhancement of World War II veteran penury grant and ex-gratia relief benefit to the battle casualties of the defense service from the state government.

MDLSA organizes essay competition Kikheto calls for healing mental sickness on National Legal Services Day Morung Express News Dimapur | November 9

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Students participants in the essay competition organized by the MDLSA on the occasion of National Legal Services Day at Mokokchung Law College on November 9.

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Mokokchung, noveMber 9 (Mexn): Along with the rest of the country, the Mokokchung District Legal Services Authority (MDLSA) observed the National Legal Services Day by organizing an essay competition for school students at the Mokokchung Law College on November 9 on the topic, ‘Fundamental Rights & Duties of a citizen’.

The essay competition was held as per the directives of the Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) and the main aim of conducting the essay competition was to create awareness among the students about the legal rights and duties of a citizens in a democratic country like India.

Altogether twenty students from the High School and Higher Second-

ary sections from different schools in and around Mokokchung town enthusiastically participated in the essay competition which began from 10 AM onwards.

The essays will be judged by a panel of judges from the MDLSA. The results will be declared on Friday, November 13. The prize distribution will be held during the training-cum-sensitization programme for the stakeholders of Legal Services which will be held on November 13 and 14 at conference hall, Longkumer Kilem, Mokokchung.

The training-cum-sensitization programme, scheduled later this week, will be attended by top officials from the Guwahati High Court, Kohima Bench and also others officials from the state government. The first three winners of today’s essay competition will be awarded cash prizes and certificates. Certificate of participation will also be awarded to all the participants of the competition.

Meanwhile, the MDLSA expressed deep gratitude to the different school authorities for encouraging their students to participate in the competition, and at the same time acknowledged the young students for partaking in the competition which is aimed at bringing out more conscientious citizens in the society.

This was stated in a press release issued by MDLSA Retainer Lawyer I Imkong Jamir.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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MAO aged 94 years (Retired S.D.O (PWD) 43.

Nagaland), who breathed his last on the 5th 44. of November at Kohima after a brief ailment, 45. would like to express our deep and profound 46. gratitude to everyone that have extended help to us in vari- 47. ous ways during his illness and after his demise. Besides the 48. below mentioned Organizations/Association/Unions, we are 49. especially grateful to the following individuals. We ask for your 50. forgiveness as we are unable to mention all the individual 51. names of the well wishers that have helped us financially, 52. materially, physically and through prayers. It is indeed our 53. sincere prayer that the Almighty God our Heavenly Father 54. will bless you all bountifully for your kind and noble deeds.

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1. Mao Council 2. Mao Baptist Churches Association 57.

3. Mao Hoho Nagaland 58.

4. Mao Union Kohima 59.

5. Dr. Nicky Kire 6. Mr.& Mrs. Zeibou Kire 7. Rev. Pastor Losii Mao

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Wife, Son, Grand Childre n, Daughter in–Law & Grand Daughter in- Law

On the occasion of Golden Jubilee celebration of Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (SBAK) Church Leaders’ Fellowship (CLF) at Nito Mount, the Secretary (Finance) to Government of Nagaland, Kikheto Y. Sema IAS has called for healing of mental sickness.

According to Kikheto, for various physical diseases there were medicines to heal and cure but to heal mental sickness such as revenge, jealousy, ill-feeling etc, forgiveness was the way.

Speaking on Sunday service, Kikheto said that the golden jubilee reflected a sign of maturity and that the Church leaders as matured people should take the jubilee time to forgive each other of any misdeeds and misgivings. “Like a broom that

Secretary, Finance, Government of Nagaland, Kikheto Y. Sema exhorts the congregation at Nito Mount on Sunday.

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sweeps all dirt in a room, people should receive this jubilee as a broom to clean all mental illnesses within” he added.

He also called upon the Church leaders to reflect on whether their calling was the outcome of personal desire to serve God

or due to pressure from others. “Being in a very influential platform even in social life, Church leaders should be able to point out the misdoings in the society without fear or favour,” Kikheto said.

With the ever advancing world, Kikheto said,

the evil forces were also strengthening its wicked designs and that the Church leaders should update themselves even in the way they preach to counter the evil works and win back lost souls.

Sumi Baptist Convention, Director, Rev. Dr. Khehovi Shohe delivered the word of God on the topic, “Akikili tiqheli lo Alhou tsa kutho kuzu phuni” (Seeking God’s word indepth with the changing generation). In his message, Rev. Dr. Shohe spoke about how to sincerely and strongly follow the word of God by keeping oneself fit physically, mentally and spiritually. He encouraged the Church leaders to be unwavering in their efforts to save souls.

The jubilee programme was attended by hundreds of Church leaders and a host of dignitaries.

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Introduction of Pentavalent Vaccine in Kiphire

kiPhire, noveMber 9 (Mexn): Introduction of Pentavalent Vaccine into Routine Immunization has been formally launched at District Hospital by Dr. W. Punsokiu, CMO Kiphire on November 6.

Dr. W. Punsokiu welcomed the parents present at the hospital and briefly spoke on the introduction of Pentavalent vaccine and said, “We are very fortunate to have this vaccine introduced as it will provide the children added protection against pneumonia and meningitis.” He also added that the advantage of the introduction of this vaccine is that the child will have protection against five diseases with just one prick now. Pentavalent combines five different vaccines in a single vial to protect a child from 5 life-threatening diseases: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DTP), hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib). Before getting the first child immunized with Pentavalent vaacine, he appealed to the parents to get their child completely immunized.

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First child receives Pentavalent Vaccine at District Hospital in Kiphire on November 6

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e, the bereaved family of Late Thekruneituo Kire (Tuobu), would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who have tremendously helped spiritually, financially and stood by us during the illness and untimely demise of our beloved father.

We would like to especially thank the following: 1. Baptist Mission Church, Kohima 2. Baptist Revival Church, Kuda 3. Kuda Baptist Church, Dimapur 4. Naga Christian Fellowship, New Delhi 5. Angami Krotho Delhi 6. Angami Students Union Delhi 7. Mr & Mrs Neibalie Rio 8. Principal Resident Commissioner and Staff, Nagaland House, New Delhi 9. Shri.Temjen Toy, Principal Secretary to CM, Govt. Of Nagaland 10. Officers and Staff of the Department of Industries & Commerce, Nagaland 07/07/1955 – 04/11/2015 11. Youth of Kuda Village 12. Chairman and Office Bearers of D-Khel Council (Kohima Village) We regret our inability to thank each and everyone of you personally but it is our humble prayer that God almighty bless you all abundantly.

Loving wife, Children and Grandchildren

KCCPO first general session kohiMa, noveMber 9 (Mexn): The Kohima Centre Chakhesang Public Organization (KCCPO) is organizing its 1st general session on November 11 at Highland Park, near IG Stadium, Kohima at 11:00 AM. Z. Lohe, ex-speaker Nagaland Legislative Assembly will address the session as the speaker. The session will be marked by tug of war between gazetted officers and social workers, lucky draw and mass feast. All the members of the Centre Chakhesang residing in the state capital have been requested to attend the session without fail. Bus service shall be provided at the various locations. New Reserve- 8:30 AM, BOC9:00 AM, Old MLA Hostel junction- 9:20 AM, Below North Police Station- 9:30 AM, Tin Patti- 9:40 AM and High School Junction- 9:50 AM. This was stated in a release issued

by KCCPO general secretary Zaveyi Kezo.

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Eastern states should jointly Will address concerns of all sections: Mha pursue common issues: Gogoi

DImAPur, November 9 (mexN): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given the assurance that it would “endeavour” to address the issue of three controversial land bills passed by Manipur Assembly in the “best interests of all sections of the population of Manipur,” a PIB press release informed today.

The bills passed by the Manipur State Legislature on August 31 are “The Protection of Manipur People Bill, 2015”, “The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (Seventh Amendment Bill), 2015” and “The Manipur Shops and Establishments (Second Amendment Bill) 2015.

The Governor of Manipur has referred land bills to the Government of India for Presidential assent, the release added.

It further stated that delegations from Manipur under the aegis of Joint Action Committee (JAC), All Tribals Students’ Union of Manipur (ATSUM) and Manipur Tribal’s Forum, Delhi (MTFD) have also met the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and other MHA officials expressing their concerns over the Bills.

Manipur Govt holds talks UNC direct Nagas to with Churachandpur JAC boycott Sangai Festival Our Correspondent

Imphal | November 9

In a positive move to end the over twomonth long stir over three ILP Bills passed by the state assembly, Manipur Government representatives met leaders of the Churachandpur JAC on Monday.

In the meeting the JAC side is understood to have exerted pressure on the Government team led by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh to withdraw the three controversial Bills.

Shortly after the passing of the Bills intended to regulate the unchecked influx of migrants into the state, a violent protest erupted in Churachandpur district on August 31 last. The protest left nine people dead and several others injured in standoff with security forces.

Houses of tribal MLAs were burned down by the protesters showing anger against them. The tribal legislators were accused of failing to safeguard the interest of the tribal communities by alThe Ministry of Home Affairs informed that it will consult all stakeholders including the State Government, hill and the valley people and other interested parties on the issue before arriving at any decision in the course of examina-

North east Briefs

Sex racket busted in Tripura, 34 people arrested

AgArtAlA, November 9 (IANS): Thirty-four people, including 20 students - mostly young boys and girls - were arrested as police busted a major sex racket in Tripura, police said here on Monday. "Acting on a tip off, police raided three restaurants in Agartala city on Sunday night and arrested 34 people, mostly young girls and boys," a police official said.The arrested people include, one girl student each of National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Agartala Government Medical College and a nursing institute and two 17-years-old girls.Police also arrested owners of three restaurants. All the detainees presented in a local court on late Sunday night. It sent 32 people in judicial custody and two to juvenile home as their age was under 18 years under the provisions of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.

74 candidates in LADC polls AIzAwl, November 9 (PtI): A total 74 candidates are in the fray for election to the 25-member Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC) scheduled to be held on November 26. Lawngtlai Deputy Commissioner and returning officer for LADC polls J Hmingthanmawia said of the 81 nomination papers filed one nomination was rejected during scrutiny and 80 nominations were declared as valid. Five independent candidates and candidate of the Zoram Nationalist party (ZNP) withdrew their nominations on the last date today, he said. Ruling Congress and opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) is contesting all seats, while BJP has fielded candidates in 11 seats. The ZNP, which fielded two candidates now have only one nominee in the fray and the Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) contested two seats.

lowing the assembly to pass the 'antitribal Bills' by a simple voice vote.

The JAC is still refusing to claim the bodies of the nine protesters lying in the Chrachandpur District Hospital mortuary.

The talks between the two sides began around 1.30 pm at the Chief Minister's Bungalow, which lasted for an hour, officials said.

Details of the meeting were not available, but sources informed that the Government representatives demanded the JAC side to point out and clear its claim that the contents of the Bills hurt the sentiments of the tribal groups in the state. Despite opposition from the tribal communities, the Manipur Government has insisted that the Bills do not harm the interests of the tribal people.

The meeting comes after the Manipur Government accepted to conduct 'Hiamkhaam,' a precondition to adhere to a tribal tradition for holding talks on November 2.

tion of the Bills, it said.

“It will be the endeavour of the Ministry of Home Affairs to address the issue in the best interests of all sections of the population of Manipur.”

The release also noted that the three Bills are being

opposed by some sections of Manipur population, “who have been agitating over the issue since the last two months” adding that 9 people have died during these agitations and their last rites have not been conducted till now.

ShIlloNg, November 9 (AgeNcIeS):With just nine days to go for the Nongstoi bypoll in Meghalaya, the campaign trail is gaining momentum as candidates and party workers are wooing voters to elect their respective candidates.

Altogether there are four contestants who have thrown their hat into the electoral ring and will fight to represent the prestigious seat, which had been represented by Hill State Peoples Democratic Party (HSPDP) legislator Hoping Stone Lyngdoh for decades. The byelection was necessitated following the demise of Lyn-

gdoh on September 26.

The opposition HSPDP which fielded Diodstarness Jyndiang, a close-aide of Lyngdoh, is putting all efforts to retain its fort at Nongstoi.

While the ruling Congress is aiming for a record win, it would face a tough battle in the byelection from its own rank and file within the party after former health and family welfare minister Advisor Pariong was denied ticket in favour of Gabriel Wahlang.

Apart from Jyndiang and Wahlang, Mosklandar Marngar from the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the lone woman contestant who has joined

the fray as an Independent nominee, Fenela Lyngdoh Nonglait are the other contenders. If HSPDP sources are to be believed, Dr Pariong, who also had a large follower at Nongstoi assembly constituency, has thrown his support to the HSPDP nominee. While the president of Congress Umsw Primary Unit Serlising Nongphud has quit the Congress along with his members to rally behind the HSPDP. Altogether 29,509 voters, including 14,985 women voters, would vote across 39 polling stations including one woman only polling station in Nongstoi assembly constituency.

Killer of IB officer gives Police a miss ShIlloNg, November 9 (IANS): Meghalaya Police on Monday came close to nabbing the prime accused in the kidnapping and killing of an Intelligence Bureau officer, but the assailant managed to escape with bullet injuries, an official said.

How e ver, Sp e cial Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos arrested A'chik Songna An'pachakgipa Kotok (ASAK) commander Seng-

bat D. Shira's aide Tartiush Sangma in an operation.

"We had laid a trap to arrest the ASAK militants by asking them to collect the extortion money they had demanded from a local businessman at Samanda," Davies Marak, district police chief of East Garo Hills, told IANS. On reaching the spot, three militants opened fire at the decoy police team which led to a gun fight.

"In the gun battle, we

CM claims unprecedented development under him ItANAgAr, November 9 (PtI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Monday claimed that the pace of development in the state in the last four years under him has been "unprecedented".

"We did not make so much progress in the past 30 years that we are doing now ... It was unprecedented.

"I congratulate all officers and people at the ground level who have made it happen," he said reviewing the on-going programmes being implemented under Special Plan Allocation (SPA) in the state.

An official communique said Tuki during the review insisted on continuous monitoring by concerned heads of the executing agencies.

He, however, expressed concern over some projects being delayed due to litien strong exception to dissident activity by 21 Congress MLAs who abstained from the recent CLP meeting.

Narayanasamy also revealed that Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha had during a recent visit to Itanagar adjudged the financial status of the state as excellent.

He said that the sole aim of Prime Minister Modi was to try to disturb elected governments in the seven north eastern states and

ganized or sponsored by the State Government.

The UNC further justified the non-participation according to the 3rd Naga Peoples’ Convention held at Tahamzam (Senapati) on July 1, 2010 which had declared to severe all political ties with the communal government of Manipur “as our land, history, culture, tradition, identity and time honored tradition institutions could not be safely secured.”

The government is pretentiously inviting the tribal people for its participation in the Sangai Festival, 2015 just to impress outside views and opinions, UNC claimed questioning the manner and attitude of the State Government in handling the 9 (nine) tribal death bodies. The bodies are still lying at the morgue of Civil Hospital, Churachandpur for more than 2 months, it said.

Consequently, the UNC do directed all tribe Presidents and tribal hohos not to allow anyone from their tribe to participate in the official program of the Sangai Festival 2015, being sponsored by the State Government.

“Anyone defying this directive shall be at his own risk,” the council warned.

By-election campaign trial heats up in Meghalaya

Arunachal CM Tuki has full backing of his MLAs, say Cong central observers ItANAgAr, November 9 (AgeNcIeS): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress Party leader Nabam Tuki has the majority support of his MLAs, and there is presently no need for a leadership change in the state, said All India Congress Committee general secretary V. Narayanasamy and secretary Dr. K. Jayakumar, who are in charge of Arunachal Pradesh at the party level.

Asked to comment on reports that MLAs were calling for a change of leadership, Narayanasamy said, "24 MLAs endorsed the leadership of Tuki. It is under his leadership that the state is progressing rapidly, and it is our opinion that some of the schemes that have been introduced by the present state government have been path breaking. This government (led by Tuki) is 100 percent stable."

Insisting on party discipline, Narayansamy further warned that any legislator going against the party directive would face disciplinary action. He cited the example of disciplinary action being taken against Kalikho Pul. The central Congress leadership, he said has tak-

DImAPur, November 9 (mexN): Accusing the government of Manipur (GoM) of being anti-Naga, the United Naga Council (UNC) today directed all the Naga people living in the present state of Manipur not to participate in the official program of the ‘Sangai Festival 2015,’ being organized and hosted by the GoM. In a press statement issued by its general secretary, S Milan, the UNC said the ‘boycott’ was a consequent of the passing of the “anti Naga tribal Bills and Resolution” by the Manipur Legislative Assembly on August 31 and subsequent killing of 9 (nine) civilians including a minor afterwards while “defending the inalienable tribal rights.”

To meet its political agenda, UNC alleged, the GoM has been ceaselessly passing the Bills, Acts, Notification, Orders and Publication for “suppressing, oppressing and exploiting tribal peoples’ rights on land” and encouraging state sponsored terrorism as well as militarization in the Naga territory.

In this regard, it argued, there is no justification for the tribals to participate in any of the events being or-

gations and asked executing agencies to resolve all issues so that development of the state did not suffer.

Tuki asked all government departments to conduct an audit of government land and submit reports on status whether possession is secured and take necessary remedial measures if not, the communiqu added.

In the last seven years 2141 projects have been sanctioned under SPA in the state of which about half were taken up after Tuki took over as chief minister of the state in November 2011.

Rs.483272.68 lakhs has been sanctioned for these projects and Rs.361506.66 lakhs has been already utilized. The utilization certificates of the completed projects have been forwarded to the Centre.

even accused Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju of working against the Tukiled Congress Government.

He also said that State Governor Rajkhowa's move to write a letter to the Centre to cancel the green field airport project in Hollongi without consulting the chief minister was unconstitutional.

"The governor has turned the Raj Bhawan into the BJP headquarters," Narayanasamy alleged.

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suspect that Shira sustained bullet injuries and managed to escape along with another aide," Marak said. Shira is wanted for the kidnapping and killing of Intelligence Bureau officer Bikash Singh and cloth merchant Kamal Saha in South Garo Hills district, bordering Bangladesh.

The bodies of Singh and Saha were recovered on October 27, a month after they were kidnapped from a forest near Bolchugre village.

CHANGE Of NAME I CHICHAMO ODYUO, by a affidavit before the Notary of Kamrup(Metro), Sl./Instrument No. 201.A. dated 05/11/2015, have changed my name from T. NCHUMBAMO to CHICHAMO ODYUO for all purposes hereafter.

guwAhAtI, November 9 (IANS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday appealed to the chief ministers of eastern states like Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha and the northeastern states to come together on a common platform to pursue issues pertaining to the region.

At a press conference in Guwahati, Gogoi said he would take up the matter with all the chief ministers so that everyone can be brought on a joint platform for better development of the region. "Eastern India is still underdeveloped.

The states located in the eastern part of the country hardly get any importance at the national level and so it is important for all of us to take up the issues jointly to achieve the goals," he said.

Gogoi attacked the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the centre and said it has done gross injustice to Assam after coming to power. "They have withdrawn the special category status from Assam and other northeastern states, changed the funding pattern and deprived us of the dues we are supposed to get, leading to unemployment," he said. On the Bihar polls, Gogoi said the win of the JD-U led Grand Alliance was a victory of the people against divisive and communal forces. Asked if a 'Mahagathbandhan' will work in Assam, he said the Congress was going to the polls alone next year.

"The situation in Assam and Bihar are different and here we can have a 'Maha Understanding'," he said.

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Objection are hereby invited from any persons having any objection or claims for drawl of the said dues by the applicant within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this Notification. No petition will be entertained after the expiry of the given period.

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The Phüsachodümi Students’ Union and Phüsachodümi Students’ Union Kohima do convey our profound gratitude to the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) for acknowledging the service of Dr. Chekhovei Cho-o, Associate Professor OTS Dimapur, rendered in the Ministry and conferring him with highest Baptist religious title 'Reverend'.

The Union with immense pride and joy also extend our heartiest congratulation to the following person for their achievements and to all the successful candidates in their respective examinations and bringing laurel to the community.

1. Er. Shevezo T. Vadeo, S/o Mrs.& Mr. Rüdashuyi T. Vadeo, for being qualified as Junior Engineer (Electrical) (Cl-II Gazetted) under Power Department through NPSC (CTE-2015).

2. Er. Vedupa Kotso, S/o Mrs & Mr. Müloshu Kotso, for being qualified as Junior Engineer (Electrical) (Cl-II Gazetted) under Power Department through NPSC (CTE-2015).

3. Er. Avezo Rüho, S/o Mrs. & Mr. Shetsüyi Rüho, for being qualified as Forester- I under deppt. of Environment, Forest & Climate Change through departmental examination.

4. Mr. Vimethol Khamo, NSS on being promoted to under Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland.

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Hyundai Motor to unveil self-driven car in December Seoul, November 9 (iANS): South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is set to unveil its first self-driven vehicle in December, a media report said on Monday.

Hyundai plans to roll out the latest version of its “Genesis” luxury sedan equipped with the so-called highway driving assist (HDA) system.

The HDA system is designed to keep a car within the lane, maintain a safe distance from the car ahead and provide a navigation-connected system that gives warnings of maximum and minimum speeds on highway sections, Yonhap News Agency reported.

It is designed to enhance the driver’s ability to cope with diverse situations that could happen on highways.

A Hyundai official said the company’s launch of the model will usher in the era of autonomous driving in South Korea.

According to the official, Hyundai plans to apply the autonomous driving function to its other vehicles from 2020, which will “maximize” the safety for drivers in numerous road conditions.

The planned launch is part of Hyundai Motor’s efforts to develop next-generation smart cars that combine automated driving with high-tech features.

Nestle announces Maggi’s re-launch, pact with Snapdeal New Delhi, November 9 (iANS): Nestle India on Monday said it has begun the roll-out of Maggi noodles in 100 cities, terming the fivemonth ban as “one of the biggest crises” it has faced in the 32-year history of the brand in the country. It also announced a pact with Snapdeal for online sales.

“The return of Maggi Noodles on the auspicious eve of Deepawali and on the day of Dhanteras is a moment of celebration for all of us,” Nestle India chairman and managing director Suresh Nayaranan said, announcing the re-launch, after it was taken off the shelves on June 5. “The crisis we went through is a big one for Nestle India. But we were always confident about the quality and safety of Maggi noodles. It is an important brand for the company,” Narayanan told a round-table with journalists to announce the relaunch.

The first to hit the shelves will be the masala variant and

others will follow later, he said.

“Maggi noodles has special relationships and strong emotional bonds with consumers across the country and I am confident our bonds will grow stronger,” he said. “Separately, Nestle India is pleased to partner with Snapdeal to roll-out online offers to mark tis special occasion.”

On June 5, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had ordered a pan-India ban on the company’s noodles on the ground that these were “unsafe and hazardous” for humans due to the presence of lead, allegedly beyond permissible limits.

After a five-month legal battle, Nestle said last Wednesday that the “masala” version of Maggi noodles will hit the retail shelves as early as this month having cleared all tests ordered by the Bombay High Court at three accredited laboratories.

The re-launched popular snack would be exactly the same as it was pre-crisis, and

would be have the same product formula, Narayanan said, adding: The packaging, however, will not have the line “noadded MSG (monosodium glutamate)” which, too, had become a contentious issue.

Referring to the crisis after some tests conducted by the food safety authorities allegedly found more-thanpermissible levels of lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG), the Nestle India chief said the MSG in the packs was in its natural form, withour additives or taste enhancers.

Pointing out that Maggi noodles alone contributed 25-30 percent of the India business, Narayanan said the company will take up extensive marketing campaigns for the product.

Now what remains to be resolved is the Rs.640-crore class action suit filed by the government for allegedly misleading the public and indulging in unfair trace practices.

This case is scheduled to come up again before the apex consumer court on November 23.

ATMA Niuland conduct activities for farmers DimApur, November 9 (mexN): To encourage the success of vermicomposting and demand of organic manures in the present day, ATMA Niuland Block conducted demonstration programme to the interested women farmers at Niuland town on November 2 on the topics “Vermicomposting & its Marketing” and “Soil Health Management” with James Kikon, SMS (Soil Science), KVK (ICAR), Jharnapani as the resource person. He spoke on the steps of vermicompost preparation and its marketing prospects.

He said that the sustainable use of fertilizers will have to be based on sound principles and practices.

Farm women’s Food Security Group (FSG) were formed named as “ACHIPI FSG” comprising of 16 women members whose main activity include vermicomposting and selling its compost in markets. Demalu Hasnusa, BTM, Niuland Block highlighted on the concept of FSG and encouraged them that being a ‘Model FSG’ to set an example and impart knowledge to other women farmers and SHGs in terms of farming activities from village to entire block level. Vermi beds and tools were distributed to the SHG group.

On November 4, at Kuhoxu

village, demonstration programme on “Package of practices for Mustard & Peas” was conducted with Temjentoshi, AO, Dept. of Agriculture (Niuland SDAO) as the resource person. During the training session the resource person stated that being a major rabi (winter season) oilseed crop and having an advantage of soil moisture conserved during monsoon, it has greater potential to increase the availability of edible oil from the domestic production. He also illustrated on the cultivation practices of garden peas that included propagation, soil preparation, seed treatment, planting, spacing, irrigation, weed and pest control, etc. Mustard seeds (M 27) and garden peas (Arkel variety) were distributed to the participants.

At Zuheshe village on November 6, a training programme was conducted to the SHG members on the topic “Swine Feed Management” with Dr. Aseno Sakhrie, BTM (Medziphema block) as the resource person. She said that feeding contributes 70-75% of total production cost of the pig farm and therefore should be balanced and economical and also highlighted on the various energy and protein requirements of swine at

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Further, V. Kenny Rhetso, SMS (Home Science), KVK (ICAR) demonstrated on the process of extracting fibres from the pseudo stems of banana, pineapple and Ramie. She said that these fibres are natural with high strength; they can be blended easily with cotton fibre or other synthetic fibres to produce blended fabric and textiles. The raw materials are available in plenty and during extraction of fibre; significant amount of succulent biomass is left which can be utilized for animal feed or Vermi composting. She showed various finished products made of it and encouraged the farmers and SHGs to be involved as it is cost effective and simple. The programme ended with a vote of thanks by Sentibenla, ATM, Niuland Block chaired by Moakumzuk, ATM, Niuland Block.

ATMA Kma conduct farmer’s inter district tour KohimA, November 9 (mexN): ATMA Kohima with an objective to expose farmers to new and successful agricultural practices and to motivate and encourage them to take up such practices, organized farmer’s exposure tour to Wokha and Mokokchung from Jakhama, Kohima, Chiephobozou and Tseminyu block from November 4 to 6 led by Dr. Vibeilie Joseph Keretsu (BTM) and co-functionaries.

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KohimA, November 9 (Dipr): The Government of Nagaland has constituted a State Level Monitoring Committee for monitoring and enforcement of the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 vide Order No.F-1203/1/2007BC.II dated 19th February, 2008 and NoF.3102/1/2008-BC-H dated the 28th July, 2008, with the following as Chairperson and members, with effect from 2nd Nov. 2015:1. Secretary, Information & Public Relations - Chairperson 2. Representative of the DG of State Police - Member 3. Secretary, Social Welfare Department - Member 4. Secretary, Women Resources Development 5. K. Ella, Prodigal’s Home (Representative of a leading NGO of the state working for women;(nominated by the Chief Secretary) - Member 6. Limachan TCK Kikon (Academicians/Psychologists/

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work and proper management of various crop packages grown in their research station. The project officer emphasized on the importance of millets and asked the farmers to take up millets cultivation as it is a climate smart crop.

The farmers learnt how to managed poor soil by growing more of legumes and green manuring crop from KVK Wokha.

Apart from farm visit the team has visited ABAM, Impur, Mopunchuket village and Doyang Hydro Project.

Sociologists;(nominated by the Chief Secretary) - Member 7. Director, Doordarshan Kendra (State Capital Kendra) 8. K Temjen Jamir, President, Nagaland Press Association (Representative from Journalists’ Organization/Local member of Press Council of India) - Member 9. Director (Directorate of Information & Public Relations) - Member Secretary The nominated members shall have a term of two years and shall not be eligible for re- nomination. Any vacancy can be filled up by nominating a new member for a fresh term. The Committee shall meet at least once a year and submit a detailed annual report for the state, including district-wise data of Cable Operators registered within the State and estimated number of TV homes/viewers in the State to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India before 31st December each year.

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Oil cakes, wheat bran and lime bags were distributed to the farm school teacher.

To provide indepth knowledge to the progressive banana farmers of Tokishe, Zutoi and Zhekishe villages under Niuland Block, a demonstration programme on “Banana Fibre Extraction” and a training programme on “Biological control of pests in banana cultivation” were organized by ATMA Niuland Block at KVK training hall, Jharnapani. Resource person H.D. Singh, SMS (Horticulture), KVK (ICAR) enlightened the farmers on the various cultural, mechanical and chemical controls of pests

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Nagaland para legal volunteer wins awards

‘Promotion of rural affairs crucial to growth’

SARAS fair underway

Morung Express News Dimapur | November 9

NK Keny, Para Legal Volunteer (R) and Member Secretary, NSLSA (L) receiving the certificate and mementoes from Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.

KohIma, november 9 (mexn): NK Keny, Para Legal Volunteer (PLV) attached to Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) has won the double distinction of being the Best Para Legal Volunteer among all the States & Union Territories of India and the Best Para Legal Volunteer for North East Zone in the regional category.

The award was handed out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the National Legal Services Day & commendation ceremony organized by National Legal Services Authority (NLSA) on November 9 in New Delhi. The award consisted of commendation certificates, commendation mementos and gift hampers.

The Nagaland State

Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) participated in the ceremony, which was graced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as chief guest.

The Zunheboto District Legal Service Authority (ZDLSA) was adjudged the best performing legal service authority in the State of Nagaland for the period 2014-15.

The event was attended by the Executive Chairmen and Member Secretaries of the State Legal Services Authorities (SLSA) from all 29 States and 7 Union Territories. The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) of Faridabad in Haryana was adjudged the Best Performing DLSA among all the States & Union Territories. In the regional category, Kamrup District

Legal Services Authority of Assam State was adjudged the Best Performing DLSA in the North East Zone.

The NSLSA was represented in the event by Justice N Choudhury, Judge Gauhati High Court & Executive Chairman, NSLSA, and Nino Iralu, Member Secretary, NSLSA & Judge TDP- Vigilance and KT Koza, Additional Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland, Department of Law & Justice, and representative of the chief secretary, Govt. of Nagaland. Chairperson of ZDLSA and District & Session Judge, Zunheboto, Khesheli Chishi, and ZDLSA Secretary and Judicial Magistrate First Class, Zunheboto, Atoka Achumi were also present at the event.

The 2nd SARAS Regional Fair began today at the Urban Haat, Dimapur.

SARAS, which stands for Sales of Articles of Rural Artisans & Societies (SARAS), an initiative of the National Rural Livelihoods Mission, is being organised by the Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM), department of Rural Development and sponsored by the Union Ministry of Rural development.

The main objective of the fair is to promote rural products and capacity building of Swarozgaris (SHGs). According to the NSRLM, “The fair is an avenue for providing exposure to rural artisans, en-

Minister of Rural Development, CL John interacting with participants at the Regional SARAS Fair at Urban Haat, Dimapur on November 9.

trepreneurs and officials dealing with SHGs to develop markets for products manufactured by the rural community and to create awareness amongst urban consumers about rural

products.”

More than hundred Self Help Groups (SHG) from the 11 districts of the State are participating in the fair, which will continue till November 20. SHGs from Ker-

ala and Mizoram are also participating. Rurally-produced handicrafts, textiles, artwork, furniture and other items will be on display for sale and promotion.

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velopment, CL John was the chief guest at the inaugural programme. “As India is largely rural, promotion and development of rural affairs is very significant for the betterment of the Nation as a whole,” stated John, while adding that the SARAS Fair has come a long way in giving exposure to rural artisans.

While stating it is encouraging to see hard working Naga artisans participating, he said that Nagaland can grow only through a culture of “work and eat” and “dignity of labour.” On the inter-state nature of the event, he expressed confidence that the participation of Kerala and Mizoram will go beyond material exchange. “It is hoped that through such platforms, the joint efforts of every stakeholder will succeed in assisting rural artisans… as well as exposing the richness of products from the rural poor to the emerging urban markets.”

INSPIRE science exhibition and project competition 2015 KohIma, november 9 (mexn): Director of SCERT has informed all student nominees and school authorities that the district/ state level INSPIRE exhibition will be held at SCERT on November 13 at the main seminar hall at 11:00 am positively.

This refers only to the awardees of 2014 (63 children approx) who had

failed to participate at the previous exhibition. This category of awardees had received warrants/ cheque in 2014 from Ministry of Science and Technology under INSPIRE Awards Scheme through SCERT, Nagaland, Kohima. As usual, from the award money, Rs. 2000/- may be used for preparation of the project and Rs. 3000/- for the TA/

DA of the teacher guide and student. Free board and lodging will be given to the participants who require it, the director said in a release.

For the awardees who have been selected by Ministry of Science and Technology under INSPIRE Awards Scheme for the year 2015-16 ( 144 awardees approx), separate exhi-

bition and project competition will be organised in the month of August 2016.

The District Nodal Officers/ DEOs have been requested to take note of this as Ministry of Science and Technology has already released award money of Rs. 5000/- each to the awardees which is electronically transferred; some awardees are yet to receive mon-

ey in their bank account.

School authorities may also take necessary action and inform the children awardees and teacher guide to be mentally prepared, the release added.

Concerned person may contact State Nodal Officer, Daniel Thong Seb at 9436000597 for further information and related queries if any.

KDLSA commemorates National Legal Services Day 2015 Our Correspondent

Winners of the essay competition First : Lithrongba, TM Govt. Higher Secondary School Second: Keneitseinuo Pienyu, Seikhazou Govt. Higher Secondary School Third : Themshao, Ruzhukhrie Govt. Higher Secondary School Foruth : Vedulu Ringa, TM Govt. Higher Secondary School Fifth : Nokton, TM Govt. Higher Secondary School

Kohima | November 9

In commemoration of the National Legal Services Day, Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) today organised an essay competition on the topic “Fundamental Rights & Duties of a citizen.”

Rovilato Mor, Deputy Commissioner Kohima & Ex-Officio Member, KDLSA lauded the KDLSA for organising the event. He said the National Legal Services Day is observed throughout the country to inculcate the importance of legal services.

“It is very clear that law was in existence since time immemorial without which our society cannot survive the different stages of life. It is of utmost importance that each and

KDLSA members with the essay competition winners.

every citizen should know the law and abide by it,” he said.

While taking the example of traffic laws, he lamented that besides other problems of heavy traffic congestion in Kohima, it is sometimes the citizens who add to the traffic problems by not obeying the traffic regulations and rules. He stated that as a citizen one should be law abiding citizens so the society lives in peace and harmony.

Chairing the function, Sunjib Rana, Panel Lawyer, KDLSA gave the background on how the legal services started. In 1987, Legal Services Authorities Act was enacted to give statutory base to legal aid programmes throughout the country on a uniform pattern which was enforced only on November 9, 1995. As a result, every year on this day, the National Legal Services Day is observed.

Mezivolu T Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kohima & Secretary KDLSA in her introductory remarks thanked the principals of the 3 Government Higher Secondary Schools - TM Govt Hr Sec School, Seikhazou Govt. Hr Sec School and Ruzhukhrie Govt Hr Sec School – for allowing the students to actively participate in the essay competition.

She said that the essay competition was conduct-

ed by the three schools, which sent their best 5 essays to the DLSA, from which, five best essays were shortlisted. Altogether, 269 students of class 11 & 12 participated.

Delivering short speech, Lebu Krose, Principal, Ruzhukhrie Govt.

Hr Sec School, Kohima, said that every person talks about peace and development but without realising that it can be achieved only when we perform our Fundamental Duties.

“We should not only talk about our rights but perform our duties at the same to make things better,” she said, adding that even in schools, if teachers and students perform their duties then it becomes easy to run the institution.

Cash prize of Rs. 3000, Rs.2000 and Rs. 1000 was awarded to first, second, and third winners respectively of the essay contest, while two consolation prize winners received Rs. 500 each.

Governor extends Kali Puja, Diwali greetings Mokokchung Police clarifies KohIma, november 9 (mexn): Governor of Nagaland & Assam PB Acharya has extended greetings and best wishes to the people on the occasion of Kali Puja and Diwali.

Governor said that Kali Puja along with Durga Puja is the biggest Goddess festival celebrated in many parts of India. This festival is observed on the new moon day of Ashwin month of Hindu calendar.

Goddess Kali is prominently worshipped by Bengalis, Assamese and Oriyas, he

added. On this occasion, people worship idols of Goddess Kali with various tantric rites and mantras. According to rituals, devotees observe meditation throughout night until dawn.

Meanwhile, Acharya said that Bhagwan Krishna slayed the demon, Narakasura, to liberate the troubled masses from immorality, greed and bad tendencies. Diwali symbolises this conquest of divine thoughts over all evil tendencies. “Diwali can be

rightly said to mean igniting the flame of one’s soul with spiritual passion, by reducing all worldly attachments. The increased power of piousness will result in happiness to everyone.”

He wished that the festival of lights be the harbinger of peace, joy and prosperity. “May this Diwali dispel all darkness from our state and shed the light of unity, amity and brotherhood amidst all so that there can be all-round progress and prosperity in Nagaland.”

Parents’ Day at Model Hr. Sec. School

Parents’ Day celebration at Model Hr. Sec. School on November 7.

KohIma, november 9 (mexn): Model Hr. Sec. School Kohima celebrated Parents’ Day on November 7 at the school premises.

Around 400 parents attended the programme, where all the students came in their traditional attires to honour them.

The celebration began with an invocation pronounced by Daniel, School Chaplain, followed by a welcome song from the

teachers. The principal, Pradosha Kumar Swain, in his report highlighted the school’s achievements during the year 2014 till present.

The administrator of the school, Easter Arücho in her welcome address to the parents thanked them for their continuous help and support in making the school a solid learning environment. She added that the parents are the

ones behind the children, building and shaping their foundation academically as well as in all walks of their life.

Students presented poem recitation, dances, songs and a musical drama. The programme came to a close with vote of thanks by Vice Principal Athihrii. This was followed by refreshment, sale of SUPW items and other entertainment item.

moKoKchung, november 9 (mexn): PRO of Mokokchung Police today informed that on the last day of 3rd Mokokchung AutoX on November 7, some of the winners returned their prize money claiming that the cash was counterfeit.

The finances for Adventure & Motor Sports Association Mokokchung (AMAM) were sourced through various donations from patrons and well

wishers which were utilized throughout the event, the PRO, Yanrenthung Ngullie, who is also the Additional SP, said.

The AMAM eventually handed over the doubtful money to the police and filed an FIR to ascertain the genuineness of the currency notes (bearing serial no – 2EW 9623012EW 962500 in continuous series/serial). Subsequently, the Mokokchung Police on Monday clari-

fied from the SBI Main Branch in the presence of the Chief Manager that the cash was found to be genuine.

The Chief Manager of SBI Main Branch clarified that the notes were genuine except that the alignment of the currency was not proportionate like the standard note and further issued a clearance certificate about the genuineness of the said currency notes, the release added.

Schools directed to conduct cleanliness drive KohIma, november 9 (mexn): As per the directives of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Pollem Tep, Additional Director of School Education has directed all the government and private schools in Nagaland to conduct one day cleanliness drive in their respective schools within November 15. Four schools under Kohima town will conduct cleanliness drive around the WW-II memorials/ monuments in and around Kohima Town.

Meanwhile, DEO Kohima has been asked to work out in inviting six schools (three private and three government schools) for debate/ extempore competition. Nodal school will be identified for co-ordinating the competition. Tseminyu sub-division may also conduct debate/ extempore competition for which ambassador for Kohima district may be invited, the of-

ficial said in a release.

The following ten district headquarter towns - Dimapur, Mokokchung, Mon, Tuensang, Wokha, Zunheboto, Phek, Kiphire, Longleng and Peren - may invite required number of schools and conduct competition on any one of the following: Debate, drawing and extempore speech.

DEOs have been asked to ensure success of the activities.

Meanwhile, seven town councils - Chumukedima, Medziphema, Jalukie, Pfutsero, Tuli, Changtongya and Naginimora - may invite required number of schools and conduct competition on any of the following: Debate, drawing and extempore speech.

For this, town councils, the SDEOs have been entrusted to ensure smooth and successful conduct of the activities.

It was informed that

all the activities should be completed by November 15. Brief report along with photograph should be submitted to the SBM (urban) directorate within November 2015 for onward information to the Ministry.

The services of the ambassador in-charge for the districts shall be utilized wherever indicated, the release said. Respective municipals and town council administrators may be consulted to avoid overlapping of activities and also their services may be utilized wherever required, it added.

Banners and logos of SBM shall be used in all activities while the themes of all the competitions shall be related to sanitation or cleanliness. Expenses on logistic arrangement and prizes can be collected from the Additional Director, School Education, Nagaland, Kohima.

Road repairing works in progress in the state Capital Kohima. (Morung Photo)

Crackers prohibited in Zbto Zunheboto, november 9 (DIPr): Zunheboto District Administration in view of unprecedented law and order situation has prohibited import, sale and bursting of crackers within Zunheboto district with immediate effect. SDO (C), Shanavas in a circular has warned that any individual found indulging in such activities will be arrested and legal action will be taken.

Dimapur allows fire crackers only from November 9-11 DImaPur, november 9 (mexn): In view of the Diwali celebrations, the deputy commissioner of Dimapur has informed that bursting of fire crackers will be allowed only from November 9 to 11 and not beyond 11:00 pm every day. Public have also been informed to adopt strict safety measures to avoid any injury or fire.

CSDD meeting on Nov 11 DImaPur, november 9 (mexn): All members of the Consumer Society Dimapur District (CSDD) have been informed that there will be a general body meeting on November 11, 10:30 am at the Society office at Millennium building, top floor, 2/3 Dimapur. The meeting has been called by the ex-president of CSDD, Hetoyi Yeptho in accordance with the Judgment order of the District & Sessions court dated 6.11.2015 to deliberate on important issues concerning the Society. Therefore, all bonafide members of the Society have been asked to attend the meeting without fail as “the decisions taken in the meeting will be binding upon all concerned.”

IASON, NCSA, NSSA meeting today KohIma, november 9 (DIPr): An emergency joint executive meeting of the IAS Officers’ Association of Nagaland (IASON), Nagaland Civil Service Association (NCSA) and Nagaland Secretariat Service Association (NSSA) will be held on November 10, 2:00 pm in the Secretariat conference hall, Kohima. All Executive members of the three Associations have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

Khumtsu village to conduct mass social work WoKha, november 9 (mexn): Khumtsu village under Wokha district is organising a mass social work on November 11 at its village community plot from 8:00 am. Therefore, the village council chairman has informed all to participate in the social work so as to inculcate sense of cleanliness and responsibilities.

KSUD informs DImaPur, november 9 (mexn): The Khiamniungan Students' Union Dimapur (KSUD) has convened its handing and taking over programme on November 10, 9:00 am at the KSUD treasurer’s residence. All office bearers of the tenure 2014-2015 and the newly elected/ selected for the tenure 2015-2017 have been directed to attend the programme without fail.

LCC general meeting DImaPur, november 9 (mexn): General meeting of Lotha Colony Council (LCC), Dimapur has been convened at its Council Hall on November 11, 9:00 am.

It is mandatory for one member from each household to attend the meeting, a press release from LCC secretary, K Mhachio stated. Further, households that are yet to submit their annual Welfare Fund of Rs. 100 were informed to submit the same on the day.

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IN FOCUS The Power of Truth

The Morung Express

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

C O M M E N T A R Y

Philip Yancey

Boomerang Prayers - Back at you

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With the People!

In the ongoing struggle between ideas, some will pursue monopolizing power from the top while propagating good-governance; on the other there are those struggling for just and democratic power relations while advocating self-governance

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oday, the culture of silence, complicity and complacency is taking a toll on the lives of Naga men and women.

The deafening silence has weakened the human resolve to resist being drawn into a cycle of cynicism and negativity.

This pervasive silence has a lingering traumatic effect, which is a form of violence by its very nature. This silence and complacency is stifling young people’s voices as they are becoming increasingly alienated from decision making processes.

At the individual level many young people have stopped dreaming, hoping, thinking and examining their purpose for existence. This has led to confusion and chaos. The violence of silence has stripped away their dignity and has conditioned a culture of conformity that accepts the abnormal as the norm.

Consequently, under these conditions many young people are losing their sense of self-respect, and have stopped experiencing what it really means to have self-respect and to live with dignity.

Within this reality Nagas need to creatively take responsibility for their problems which can start by talking to each other. Difficult as it maybe, having a place where people can meet is essential for planning and acting together in order to name the forms of violence and the causes that have led to it. It is equally important to analytically deconstruct the current situation in order to unmask the truth. Eventually, pathways will evolve through which the process of finding creative solutions to transcend the status-quo will emerge.

During this unpredictable transitionary period, it is important for young people’s hopes and aspirations to be heard.

In the ongoing struggle between ideas, some will pursue monopolizing power from the top while propagating good-governance; and at the same time there will be those struggling for just and democratic power relations while advocating selfgovernance. The confrontation between these two ideas has created an impact, not just on conventional politics, but in all areas of life. The lines between the two are quite clearly demarcated. Under such overwhelming circumstances, it is vital for young people to speak of their hopes for the future.

The struggle, therefore, is not about building an ideal, but involves creating a process that respects and upholds life-giving values that are imperative for the Naga future. It is about changing the nature of institutions and making them more inclusive, humanistic, democratic, and future oriented. This involves encouraging institutions and system to builds bridges to support negotiating differences and creating shared realities in which the diverse Naga nations (tribes) can dwell together as one people in mutual respect. It is critical for young Nagas to embark in the search for alternatives, so that it may lead to a shared future which is based on the people’s values.

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Thea Paneth CommonDreams

Is This War World III?

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here are 60 million refugees in the world, the same number as were refugees at the end of WW II. On October 31 in an unprecedented joint warning, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross called for "states to stop conflicts, respect international law and aid refugees." Criticizing the global response to the refugee crisis, Ban Ki-moon said, "In the face of blatant inhumanity, the world has responded with disturbing paralysis."

Despite the "unprecedented" warning, it has not received enough news coverage (a Google search turned up one hit on a news story in the Guardian UK and a post at Common Dreams) compared to the many hits any celebrity scandal generates.

The chill goes down my spine when I think it's like the world inaction when Hitler was exterminating Jews across Europe.

Is this WWIII? I don't know what the criteria of WW III would be, but when I sat down to make an list of current factors that could be considered, this is what I came up with and it's not looking too good: • Multiple confrontations between the U.S. and Russia on more than one front (Ukraine and Syria) • Ongoing confrontations between the U.S. and China in the South China Sea • A renewed nuclear arms race in which all nuclear nations are modernizing their nuclear arsenals instead of fulfilling treaty obligations to disarm • Politically unacknowledged failure of all U.S. war policies in the Middle East and across Asia; universal continued pretense by the U.S. military and political elites that more war will fix the disasters • The global arms trade in which the U.S. accounts for threequarters of the global arms market • Global military expenditure are $1.711 trillion, the global arms trade is $100 billion/annually, AND military spending in the Middle East in 2014 rose by 75% to $173 billion • Japan has scotched its peace constitution • The refugee crisis shows no sign of abating and every sign of growing and continuing to be ill-managed by the global community complete with terrible percolations of hatred towards the refugees in nations experiencing the influx • Economic belligerence by wealthier nations towards less wealthy nations (one example: E.U. towards Greece, there are many other examples of rich nations bleeding poor ones) • Nations and mass populations remain stubbornly indifferent to the series of crises with few exceptions • Climate change is happening, seas are forecast now to rise up to 3 feet and probably more (even as much as 10 feet in a century or 2) and upcoming Paris talks are widely expected to fail • There is continued suppression of dissent by surveillance, persecution of whistle-blowers and journalists with repressive police tactics used at protests around the world The conflicts driving people to hit the road or the seas are not going to be solved by any nations dropping more bombs, putting "boots on the ground" or arming one or more sides.

Unfortunately, the U.S. bears the most responsibility for the current crises as the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world" – as true today as when Martin Luther King said it in 1967. At the same time, U.S. peace organizations are all struggling to raise needed funds to continue our efforts – marginalized though we are. This is a substantial problem that needs to be resolved. To solve these crises we need to bring the wars to a close.

If we are so inured to the suffering endured by our fellow human beings that we do not address the current refugee crisis, we are in great danger. Human empathy is a road to transformative change – that which we would not want to happen to ourselves is something we must work to prevent happening to our fellow brothers and sisters. This goes for wars as well as addressing climate change to our greatest collective ability.

When we fail in our responsibilities to this fundamental aspect of our being human is when hatred ascends and wars spiral out of control. Is this the current moment and if so what are we going to do about it?

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ecause I wrote a book with the title Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? I receive letters and emails from readers who give wrenching accounts of unanswered prayers. A man quit his job at a printing plant when it began printing pornography and, despite his urgent prayers, never landed another job. A couple desperately wanted a child and found themselves infertile. Another woman got her wish for a child, only to have her daughter die of a rare disease before reaching the age of two.

I wrote two chapters on unanswered prayer, but frankly, all words seem impotent against the mystery of why such prayers go unanswered. When prayer seems more like struggle than relationship, when I find myself repeating the same requests over and over and wonder, "Is anyone really listening?" I take some comfort in remembering that Jesus, too, had unanswered prayers. Four come to mind.

As Luke records, Jesus spent an entire night in prayer before choosing the inner core of twelve disciples. Yet if you read the Gospels, you marvel that this dodgy dozen could represent an answer to prayer. They included, Luke pointedly notes, "Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor," not to mention the pettily ambitious Sons of Thunder and the hothead Simon, whom Jesus would later rebuke as "Satan."

"O unbelieving generation," Jesus once sighed about these twelve, "how long shall I stay with you?

How long shall I put up with you?" I wonder if, in that moment of exasperation, Jesus questioned the Father's response to his night of prayer.

The particular makeup of the twelve may not truly qualify as an unanswered prayer, for we have no reason to believe that any other choices might have served Jesus better. Even so, I find it comforting that while on earth Jesus faced the same limitations as does anyone in leadership. The Son of God himself could only draw from the talent pool available.

A clearer instance of unanswered prayer occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane when, as Luther put it, "God struggled with God." While Jesus lay prostrate on the ground, sweat falling from him like drops of blood, his prayers took on an uncharacteristic tone of pleading. He "offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death," the Book of Hebrews says— but of course Jesus was not saved from death. As that awareness grew, Jesus felt distress. His community of support had all fallen asleep. "Could you not keep watch for one hour?" he chided.

We have few details about the content of Jesus' prayers, since any potential witnesses were dozing.

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havarasa Utharai’s most treasured belongings are stuck inside several plastic bags and tucked within old traveling bags.

Inside, wrapped in more plastic sheets, are old fading photographs, scrap books, legal documents and even some old bills. These are the only processions the 36 year old mother of two has to show of her husband. He went missing on March 20, 2009 while returning home after tending to his cattle. No one really knows what happened to him.

“They took him, I know they did, I know the person who did it also,” Utharai says of suspected abductors who she says were linked to government military. The abduction took place as a three decade old bloody civil conflict was drawing to an end and government forces were poised to achieve a decisive military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The separatist LTTE had fought successive Sri Lankan governments to achieve a separate state for the country’s minority Tamils like Utharai.

Utharai hails from the remote village of Pavakodichennai, in the eastern Batticaloa District about 350 km from the capital Colombo. But distance and lack of public utilities like transport and a functioning public service have not prevented her from seeking justice.

She has sought the intervention of police, a Presidential Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to gain any morsel of information on her husband. So far she has hit a blank wall, except when an officer with Criminal Investigation Department suggested that if she register her husband as deceased her family would be eligible for Rs 100,000 (700 dollars) in compensation.

“Why should I? I will seek the truth,

Perhaps he reviewed his entire ministry on earth.

The weight of all that went undone may have borne down upon him: his disciples were unstable, irresponsible; the movement seemed in peril; God's chosen people had rejected him; the world still harbored evil and much suffering.

In Gethsemane Jesus seemed at the very edge of human endurance. He no more relished the idea of pain and death than you or I do. "Everything is possible for you," Jesus pleaded to the Father; "Take this cup from me."

The third unanswered prayer appears in an intimate scene recorded by John, the disciples' last supper with their master. Jesus expanded the scope of his prayer far beyond the walls of the Upper Room, to encompass even those of us who live today: My prayer is not for them (the disciples) alone.

I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me.

Disunity virtually defines the history of the church. Pick at random any year of history—pick now, with 45,000 Christian denominations—and you will see how far short we fall of Jesus' final request. The church, and the watching world, still await an answer.

The fourth unanswered prayer appears in what has become known as the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught as a model. It includes the sweeping request that "your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Surely that prayer remains unanswered today.

On television I watch the long lines of migrants fleeing war—some 42,000 displaced every day—and think of their prayers for peace and the simple yearning to return to their homes someday. I am haunted by the image of twenty-one Egyptian Christians kneeling in orange jumpsuits by the Libyan surf, their heads bowed in prayer as, one by one, each is beheaded by ISIS. God's will is not being done on earth as it is in heaven—not yet, at least.

I sense a partial clue into the mystery of unanswered prayer in what I call boomerang prayers.

Often when we pray, we want God to intervene in spectacular fashion: to heal miraculously, to change evil hearts, to quash injustice. More commonly, God works through us. Like a boomerang,

the prayers we toss at God come swishing back toward us, testing our response.

I think back to Jesus' unanswered prayers. The disciples? Eventually, except for Judas, the twelve submitted to a slow but steady transformation, providing a kind of long-term answer to Jesus' petition. John, a Son of Thunder, softened into "the apostle of Love." Peter, who earned Jesus' rebuke by recoiling from the idea of Messiah suffering, later urged his followers to "follow in his steps" by suffering as Christ did.

In Gethsemane, Jesus did not receive what he requested, removal of the cup of suffering. His plea for intervention looped back like a boomerang. Hebrews affirms that, though Jesus was not saved from death, nevertheless "he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered." It was God's will that Jesus had come to do, after all, and his plea resolved into these words: "Yet not what I will, but what you will." Not many hours later he would cry out, in profound summation, "It is finished."

How many times have I prayed for one thing only to receive another? I long for the sense of detachment, of trust, that I see in Gethsemane. God and God alone is qualified to answer my prayers, even if it means transmuting them from my own self-protective will into God's perfect will. When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death, he did not get that salvation; he got instead the salvation of the world.

The final two prayers, for unity and for seeing God's will done on earth as it is in heaven, put Jesus' followers in the spotlight. "It is for your good that I am going away," Jesus assured the disciples. "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." He turned over the mission to us, as ill-equipped and undependable as that original band of twelve.

In Vanishing Grace I wrote about hearing the musician Bono of the band U2 describe his short-term mission to an orphanage in Ethiopia. For a month he and his wife Ali held babies, helped nurse them back to health, and then donated money to equip the orphanage. Bono said that after his return to Ireland his prayers changed, taking on an angry, defiant tone. "God, don't you care about those children in Africa? They did nothing wrong and yet because of AIDS there may soon be fifteen million parentless babies on that continent.

Don't you care?!"

Gradually Bono heard in reply that, yes, God cares.

Where did he think his idea of a mission trip to Africa came from? The questions he had hurled at God came sailing back to him, boomerang-like, as a prod to action. Get moving. Do something. The role of leading a global campaign against AIDS held little appeal for Bono at first—"I'm a rock star, not a social worker!"—but eventually he could not ignore what felt unmistakably like a calling.

Over the next years politicians as varied as President Bill Clinton and Senator Strom Thurmond, and then Tony Blair and Kofi Annan and George W. Bush, found a musician dressed all in black and wearing his signature sunglasses camped outside their offices waiting to see them. In a time of economic cutbacks, somehow Bono managed to persuade those leaders to ante up fifteen billion dollars to combat AIDS. With government support assured, Bono went on a bus tour of the United States, speaking to large churches and Christian colleges because he believed that Christians were key to addressing the global problem of AIDS. He invited others to participate in what God wanted accomplished in the world, and many did.

My understanding of prayer has changed. I now see it less as trying to convince God to do what I want done and more as a way of discerning what God wants done in the world, and how I can be a part of it. Mystery endures, but a different kind of mystery: What tiny role can I play in answering Jesus' prayer for unity, and in doing God's will on earth as it is in heaven? The boomerang circles back.

Philip Yancey is the author of many books, including Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church. This essay was posted on his blog site on October 18, 2015.

Sri Lanka: A Ray of Hope for those Looking for War Missing amantha Perera Inter Press Service I owe it to him,” the slightly built woman says with a feisty tone.

Her circumstances however are not rare in the former conflict-zone. Tens of thousands are still looking for their missing loved ones six years after the guns fell silent. The number of the missing has remained contentious since the war ended. A Presidential Commission on Missing Persons that has been conducting interviews since 2013 has so far received over 20,000 complaints, including over 5,000 of missing members of government forces. The ICRC, which has been registering missing persons since 1990, has recorded 16,064 cases. An Advisory Panel to the UN Secretary General put the death toll during the final phase of the war at 40,000. Research by the advocacy group University Teachers for Human Rights from northern Jaffna increased that figure to 90,000.

“It really does not matter how high or how low these figures are, for each family it is vital that they get to know what happened to their loved ones,” Vallipuram Amalanayagni said. She has been searching for her husband since he went missing in February 2009. He went missing while at his

paddy field.

Amalanayagni also acts as a community leader for families of the missing. She says the last six years have been some of the hardest in her life.

“We were hounded like criminals because we looked for our family members.”

As the then Mahinda Rajapaksa government fought off wave after wave of international scrutiny on the conduct of the final phase of the war, it did not encourage any action that could fuel international pressure – looking for the missing or tabulating them was one of them. During the last months of his administration, Rajapaksa loosened the grip a bit but not by a lot.

All that changed in January this year, when a new president, Maithripala Sirisena, took office. The new government has renewed engagement with the UN and has pledged to strengthen efforts to trace the missing and provide compensation.

It will set up a missing persons office and also issue Certificates of Absence. Last week it also released a report by a Presidential Commission looking into allegations of abductions and disappearances. The

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commission has acknowledged that disappearances did take place while persons were in military custody and that military linked groups were involved in abductions.

“This is not a political gimmick, we are serious about what we have set out to do,” Minister Rajitha Senarathana, the cabinet spokesperson told IPS. The minister said that investigating the thousands of missing cases was a pledge that President Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe and their loyalists made while they campaigned to oust the Rajapaksa administration “For a nation to heal we must know the truth, however difficult and uncomfortable it may be,” Senarathana said.

Given the media hype, expectations have also risen that there could be fast tracked action. But Sri Lanka watchers caution not to raise hopes too high and to give the current government enough time to feel politically secure.

“It would be slow progress, the government has shown its inclination that it wants to act on these, it has international support right now, but it would need time to convince everyone,” Jehan Perera, Executive Director National Peace Council, a national advocacy body.

Diplomatic sources in Colombo also say that the Sirisena government is still wary of the Rajapaksa factor and the former president’s core support base of ultra-nationalists from the Sinhala majority.

For the families of the missing, there is at least a new ray of hope.

“Some of us have been looking for loved ones for decades, imagine living without any kind of knowledge of your husband for over a decade, that is a terrible tragedy, at least now there should be closure,” Amalanayagni said.

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That Angami girl!

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herry trees were beginning to blossom on the way to her house below the Science College campus, Jotsoma. We drove up a steep incline and reached the architectural delight that is her brother-in-law’s handiwork.

That Angami girl! Diethono Dee Nakhro now lives in the sylvan surroundings of the woods of Jotsoma, having relocated from Dimapur in the last 18 months or so. Outside her window the wooded areas of the forest reserve are her first view every morning. The sounds of bird calls accompany that scene, though she admits that sometimes birdsongs are also the last thing she hears before she falls asleep, a fall-out from her newspaper editing days when the day ended around 1 or 2 am or even later.

That Angami girl! is the name of the blog that she has been writing; it has become very popular among younger readers. The themes are topical and relevant and they reveal who she is and what she dares to take on. But for Diethono, the biggest challenge has been to take on what life threw at her totally out of the blue one evening. A vehicular accident which resulted in horrific injuries to her spine and the morbid pronouncement that she might have to prepare to spend the rest of her life as a near vegetable – it was as though her courageous young voice was going to be snuffed out. But through those dark days, Diethono was surrounded by loved ones who lifted her up spiritually, and even as she gained strength from their support she found the courage to fight back until she could regain an unexpected percent of mobility.

When life hands you lemons “For 3-4 months I was completely paralysed.

I was unable to make any movement. The only movement that was possible was in my upper limbs but there was no coordination. I had to go through passive physiotherapy,” Diethono narrated. She went on to describe the passive physiotherapy that she went through: “Right at the beginning when the doctors were assessing the extent of my injuries, I was asked to move my toes. Since I could not feel anything I only had the power of my mind to try and do their bidding. I remember grunting and pushing in my mind, and they said they noticed a slight movement in a couple of my toes. That gave a glimmer of hope, but for about three months or so there was really nothing. I could not move anything by myself, so the physiotherapists would move my limbs up and down and turn my body from side to side. This was to keep my muscles from wasting away, and to try and trigger some reaction.

During this period I had to work my mind overtime to try and will any part o my body to move. Finally, one day as my therapist was taking me through the routine on my hands, there was suddenly a slight flutter on my fingertips. That was the start and feeling began coming back from then on, and slowly my whole body regained the sensation of feeling. Within four to five months after the initial movement things happened one by one. I could slowly sit up, and then stand upright and after about a little over a year and a half, I was back at work at the paper.”

Diethono’s injuries were very severe and she was not expected to make the recovery that she has made. What a testament to her indomitable spirit! This brave, beautiful young woman willed herself to walk again and made a comeback which has not been celebrated publicly. The joy over her recovery has hitherto been confined within her family and intimate friends circle because she is a very private person. The Lemon Tree Helen Keller award recognises a remarkable life and the courage of the person living that life!

The Eastern years Diethono had been working as Assistant Editor before the accident at The Eastern Mirror. When she had recuperated sufficiently, the newspaper invited her back to take over as Editor.

So her life began again as she went back to full time work as Editor of a daily paper. It meant stressful and irregular working hours to meet the daily deadline for the paper, overseeing reports from the districts, sifting through agency reports, and networking with news sources and myriad little tasks that a daily newspaper is made up of. It even included stabilising the economic condition of the newspaper which is an action that determines life or death for a newspaper. She managed all this in spite of the fact that she was now a 65 percent quadriplegic.

While working at Eastern Mirror and in the period after she left the paper, another role was thrust upon her by virtue of all that she had experienced via the accident that left her with the ‘disabled’ label. She was asked to speak at various meets for the differently abled, and visited institutions as well as the Hornbill festival to speak on the need for providing facilities for the disabled, especially easy access to public areas. She bravely spoke on the government’s need to provide the most basic needs for accessibility to physically challenged persons.

She has been speaking in different forums including addressing an audience on Disability day at the Hornbill festival, Kisama in 2013. She has also addressed and inspired groups of disabled children in the state, beginning in Dimapur. The round of her speaking engagements has recently increased to include educational institutions in Kohima.

With her personal experience of what it is to be newly disabled and her eloquent presentation, she touched hearts wherever she spoke.

The talks made the public aware for the first time of an area that had been grossly neglected by local authorities and the population at large: there had been no effort to include those who were differently-abled in public discourse and all walks of community life. This is Diethono’s major contribution: spreading awareness about the problems that the disabled face in daily life. At the same time, she does not just harp on the problems; she also takes care to make people understand what can be done to make life easier for the physically challenged members of our society.

“Arena of Mind” portrays a space for idea germination, a field where ideas from multi-disciplinary viewpoints fertilize the world of intelligence. The writers aspire to envision a new future by exploring the mind, discovering new seeds of insights and unleashing them to enlightenment.

“THE BURNING UNSPOKEN” Hingba Paul Assistant Professor St. Josephs’ College, Jakhama

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Diethono and her son Khrieto

Speaking to students at Kross College

nition that goes to a very deserving candidate and does the Naga people proud. She is the first in the Northeast to receive the prestigious award for a role model disabled person.

When she started writing her blog with the intriguing title, it made readers very curious. Who was this young woman who wrote with such intimate knowledge of Naga life and always had an interesting and unusual perspective on things we take for granted or have come to accept as necessary evils?

“Home was always our New Market residence” Born in the sixties in their family home in New Market, Kohima, Diethono spent her early years moving back and forth between her father’s official residences and their New Market home. Diethono’s father was T.N.Angami, the second Chief Minister of Nagaland from 1966 to 1969. His political career began with his election as the first speaker of the NLA. After that he became the chief minister and in the next elections he returned as Minister for two more terms.

“We moved from one official quarter to another one,” recalls Diethono. “Our new Market house was a comfortable little cottage. Every time we could move back home we were so happy. That was home, not the big official residences where my family had to live when Father was a minister or CM or Speaker. Our best friends in those days were the driver’s children, cook’s children, and we have stayed in touch since then.”

The charming old wooden house from British times which was the official CM’s residence has since burnt down. The tragedy was a well publicised event and Diethono movingly says it was as though a chunk of her childhood had burnt down.

Family: a cameo from the late sixties When she was five years Diethono was admitted to the Little Flower School, Kohima where her older siblings had already begun. Back at home, they were three girls and four boys so it was a full house which she describes in her delightful article, “Sunday and family on my mind.”

It details rushing through breakfast and fighting over bathroom space in order to get to church on time. In her own words: “The kitchen bustle over and done with, the bathroom rush would begin. You would have imagined that those who managed to wiggle out of the kitchen buzz would have gotten that business out of the way and freed the bathrooms for those who got caught in the organised chaos called Sunday morning breakfast preparation.

No, of course not...everyone dashes for the bathrooms at the same time causing a huge traffic jam – seven siblings and two parents when everyone’s at home, though some had the grace to make themselves scarce far away in boarding school for the better part of the year.

After much harried chatter, last minute ironing and frantic searches for misplaced stuff, we’d finally troop out of the house in our Sunday best to arrange ourselves strategically into the family vehicle. The family’s transport changed over the years – Willy’s jeep, Mahindra jeep, Ambassador car and so on and so forth."

That endearing picture of family life has altered somewhat with a sister and a brother passing on and the rest of the siblings settling far from the family home. Even Khrieselie, the youngest member of the family is now a businessman in Dimapur. The family home in Kohima has been inherited by N.T’s son. Diethono concludes that those were, “Beautiful times, beautiful memories!

And it kept our family close and our ties strong. It kept us connected and together through the ups and downs of life. But it was not just our family.

Back then, families spent time together...they actually talked and did things together.”

Diethono is mother to a son, Khrieto, who she is rightly very proud of. Khrieto is a trained Hospitality professional and has worked for one year at the Le Meridien in Bangkok. He is now looking forward to some further training to become a full fledged pastry chef. Mother and son have a wonderfully close bond. They have weathered their share of storms in DiethoFirst awardee from the Northeast no’s accident, and that has brought them even And now she is being honoured with the Lem- closer to each other. In Jotsoma, her older sison tree Helen Keller award which is given to dis- ter Viseno and brother in law, Ningusalie Talie abled persons who are role models. It is a recog- have opened up their home to her.

Three year old Diethono with her mother

As a young schoolgirl

In college After her accident, her return to full time work gave inspiration and encouragement to many physically challenged members of the community to seek jobs on a full time basis.

Diethono works currently as a member of the Nagaland Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

In her blog she writes about life, not just life as a disabled person. She also openly addresses social problems, and her honest tackling of taboo issues have won her a growing following amongst young readers. Her blog can be viewed at: www.thatangamigirl.com Nick Vujicic says: “What is hope? It is where dreams begin. It is the voice of your purpose. It speaks to you and reassures you that whatever happens to you doesn’t live within you. You may not control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond.” I celebrate Diethono Dee Nakhro’s life of hope and invite you to join in.

ike most people in this weary world I denote a depression of social menace of our society. The survey of our society depicts the levels peak of our dreaded existence. Where, you see them, yet not seen.

We hear day after day to which you feel it’s bad and need to be changed, but that not being your Shoes / duty. Where your duty as responsible a person, you missed that opportunity. For duty of other that keeps you away. Still burning with remorse, yet you made them just move on as you see and not seen them. You see your fellow next to you crying in anguish and disparate of the condition. Where you wish you could help and show a path that everyone does to anybody. But one’s again you failed your opportunity. Today you see that someone else, but that could be you, your bother, your son, your daughter, your wife, or anyone of your beloved. Who knows all the same could fall on your dear and near one’s. Or who can say if it is you that has fallen as the same victim.

For sure and précised not one is ever born rich with never changing fate and destiny and not one is born ever poor as to suffer forever.

Why is our society so ignorant, thou are not? What is your education that you aimed for a change, for good of all? What if you are educated yet remain ignorant, you know almost all the need and know nothing of thing and conditions that you ought to know the most of your interdependent sustenance and co-existence. Where you count on the few and forget the millions who really are in need of you the most. For when you are misled and you still mislead. Then whom are we looking on for, for everything remains or sink to the worst. Why not help the list of your Brotheren when you are privileged, then regret for the rest of your life. The human instinct of selfishness and greed no over rule and kill your possible miracle of bringing a change for all times to honour and remembered.

We learn and update with all that had happen and is happening, and why let all keep happening? We speak and views on the Naga peace accord, framework agreement, back door appointment, human exploitation, deprivation of rights and freedoms and what not.

The clean election in the state and the country as a whole, but knows not clear working of the system. We speak of all problems and issues in our society. Will all these society and individual problems and issues fly away itself? For you know it and you have no heart to say, I will stand and strive for it. We still say our government is so corrupted and you keep on fuelling to gain your selfish and irrational easy going dreams and ambitions. You blamed your society and your army, and who are we? You are one among that yourself blamed. Why not, we walk an extra mile initiating, which would be followed by those millions. Let us not seat still and only feel but unleash them all.

Who is Anna Hazare, Obama, Gandhi, Ashoka, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln and Dr, Abdul Kalam, these great honoured souls of mankind? What they achieved has no less inspiration and motivation to the world wide. So, is our society of the remote and left out areas can achieve the same highs if cultured with good work culture. Where students and educated are not less useful to physical labour and works than those mare farmer who are totally ignorant about education and modern farming techniques. For no physical labour lowers your human resource power and ability. But add further to the progress and development of the society. For the same let us not help our society just not for one meal but teach and help in enable feed for life in valuing labour and hard work that will unleash the burdens of the society.

Our society speaks of Sovereignty and Autonomy, where does it come from gush not by breaking the law but in accountability. Work is not only for week days alone but any moment you get the opportunity not spearing Sundays. Money is not the solution for everything for it runs from one pocket to another that will in long run empty the coffers.

Today the Indian government has gone high in aiming and striving for the best and why we the North East still be brain washed and smile only on the monetary we received and feed after feeding on all useless feeds and die of stroke and heart attack. Why not look in for our infrastructure and industrial scope for growth in competition with the world. Why fancy only for personal car, clothing, houses and beautify only our four corner walls. We are to be seen by the external that surround us, as to transport and communication facilities that are established and are serving to the needs of the general public. Why are we not maintaining our drainage system knowing the importance of the same, and blamed a bad road to the government and department for all years’ long good quality road and transport? Water problems in the city in spite of its surplus sources that we have in our land left unutilised. Why not have proper maintenance of our public houses, ground, hall and other with a clean city method. For outsider will not came and clean and maintain all of it for us.

The national informatics centre has developed internet based application for paperless communications. India has proclaimed ‘Digital India’ to the world to promote and gear up for big digital revolution. The aim with empowerment and privilege for the disadvantage and remote section of the country, under BJP lead government. Today our job in these societies of ours is to make the impossible, possible. Towards the end, each a self appointed guardian of our society’s safety responsibility is us. Let us raise our voice in deafening chorus and web out all anti social menaces’ that drag’s us for that long and see for new fortune of our today and tomorrow welfare interest of all sections social, economy, political, education, empowering all round development in the society.

Let us be optimistic and venture into risky challenges for a better slice of like. We can build our society tougher than that conscious living. The society can terminate those egos and attitude of stumbling block and improve understanding in the dignity of labour and human life.

If Malala’s life could encounter and change the Islamic system, you have more learnt life value, follow the heart and live life to the fullest, rather than just exist. When the world is booming in economy and opportunities why are we in our society crumbling down with deficiency of multi opportunity issues.

We stand proud of saying that society of our, is a land for Christ but not spiritual seal we find in our land. We are holy and pious in the church and worship houses but out of it we march on the opposite direction. For we all believe that the lord judges and longed for his entire appearing righteous judge.

We call on for anti corruption but we fuelled them. You murmur on disgusting road and infrastructure but you maintain them not. We question on water scarcity but you bother not on the necessity. You live in poverty but you care not, still further our society suffers but we care not. We say power problem and pay no bill or not on time. We feel we have bad leader, we still elect them. We see our dear one fall sick and death you don’t work out to save them. We feel our wealth and money are drained but you do not fit yourselves into the necessity. You seem our social original culture and morality is on decline, you still make them worse. You say we are bank corrupted and you save none. You say government did not fund and have not even utilised the list of your government funding as opted. You feel the world don’t know you, for you did not make yourself known. We know we have multiple resources we use them not for its perfection. You are not less than any of the achievers but we are too lazy to the core. Your have big dreams but never realise. You have ability but never use them. Opportunity can all be yours but we fail to take them. We see no growth, for you pull them all down unto the dusk. You have the brain but never use them to the list. We have establishment but you pull them all down. You have respect but you disown that respect. You have talent but you hide them. You want the best of you state and society but you deprived them of their opportunity. You see your generation getting spoiled and further, you spoiled them the more. You see our society faced with gab and you further them.

Is our move back from bad to worse a tradition, have we not sense to break through? If not you are a slave for the same and you will be forever.

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Swraj Paul's son falls to death in Britain loNDoN, November 9 (iANS): Angad Paul, son of Swraj Paul -- an India-born Britain-based business magnate and philanthropist -- died after falling from his eighth-storeyed penthouse home here, a media report said on Monday.

Angad fell eight storeys on Sunday night, landing on the roof of another building below. Paramedics pronounced the 45-year-old dead at the scene in central London, Mirror Online reported. Police on Sunday night said there were no suspicious circumstances and they were investigating the incident.

Angad was the CEO of Caparo Industries steel firm situated on Baker Street in London. Caparo Industries is reported to be on the brink of going into administration as a fallout of the UK steel crisis. Caparo reported an annual operating loss of 700,000 pounds for 2014 as compared with the previous year's profit of 3.1 million pounds.

Its UK operations posted much higher losses at 2.5 million pounds, compared with the 1.7 million pounds profit made the year before. Its interests include manufacture of car components and steel pipes, hotels and hospitality.

Several other projects include manufacture of superfast cars, films and design. Britain's steel industry has fallen into a deep crisis due to cheap Chinese imports, higher energy costs and the current strength of the pound sterling.

Losses at UK's largest steelmaker, Tata Steel, have forced it to announce 700 job cuts in Yorkshire and several hundred layoffs at its South Wales plant. The company's losses doubled last year to 768 million pounds.

Caparo, which had an auto ancillary unit in Singur in India's West Bengal state, still has 18 acres of land in the area.

Angad married media lawyer Michelle Bonn 10 years ago. He was also the executive producer of a hit movie titled "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".

Bihar (results) to change course of national politics: Shiv Sena

mumbAi, November 9 (iANS): A day after the Bihar elections results, the Shiv Sena said on Monday the outcome "could change the course of national politics in the days ahead".

Openly "celebrating" its ally Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) rout, the Sena said Bihar represents national politics and all the forecasts by many "chanakyas" were proved wrong after Sunday's votecount when the results came on "expected lines".

The Sena said undoubtedly "the Bihar outcome would impact national politics and also create an upheaval within the BJP", with deep introspection as its downfall comes just oneand-a-half years after the Lok Sabha victory.

"We must remember that Jayaprakash Narain, the man who ensured the downfall of Indira Gandhi, hailed from Bihar... Those who took Bihar elections for granted, better take the outcome seriously," the Sena warned in a stinging edit in the party mouthpiece, Saamana, on Monday.

Commending the Nitish Kumar-Lalu Prasad Yadav duo for their stupendous victory, the Saamana took a jibe at BJP, saying after the premature celebrations in New Delhi and Patna BJP offices, their activists soon beat a hasty retreat and disappeared.

"It was always a straight fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar... Despite employing mon-

Bihar mandate is against Modi: Lalu PAtNA, November 9 (iANS): The mandate in Bihar is against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will impact national politics, RJD leader Lalu Prasad said on Monday.

"The mandate we have got is to fight Delhi, Modi," the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former chief minister told the media, a day after the Grand Alliance routed the BJP combine in assembly polls.

"Communal and fascist forces are ruling Delhi. To keep them in power even for one more day will amount to breaking up the country," he said. "This is my view, others may agree or not," he added.

The RJD leader reiterated that the sweeping victory of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), the RJD and Congress over the four-party combine of the BJP would impact national politics.

Lalu Prasad blamed the Modi government for rising prices of food and even train and air travel. "Traders and businessmen are terey power and official machinery, the declaration of a huge Rs.1.50 lakh crore package, the people rejected BJP and Nitish-Lalu partnership came up trumps," the edit said.

The BJP, which held 91 seats in the outgoing house, was reduced to less than 60 with its allies, but Lalu Prasad Yadav, accused by BJP of bringing "jungle-raj and corruption" bagged the largest number of seats.

Similarly, the Congress whose Vice-President Rahul Gandhi who was labeled as a 'pappu' (simpleton) - bagged 27 seats and the party will now join the government.

The Sena said Bihar elec-

rorized today. Nobody is feeling safe. Everyone is terrorized." He said the reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2014 Lok Sabha election was because its leaders "fooled everyone" with false promises. "They talked about 'achche din, achche din' but such bad days have come."

He also criticized political pundits and analysts who called him "chara chor (fodder thief)" and "criminal" in television debates, saying his win would mark a return of "jungle raj" in Bihar. "We have taken this in bad taste," he said. "I want to tell all these people to try to understand Bihar better. Ultimately, people are the best judge."

Lalu Prasad again thanked the people of Bihar for giving the Grand Alliance a landslide win and said the coalition government in the state "will work fine under Nitish Kumar's leadership". "We will use Bihar's resources properly, we will also fight against Delhi for our rights."

tions were reminiscent of the October 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections in which the BJP entire top brass starting with Modi, party president Amit Shah, all union ministers, party chief ministers, legislators and parliamentarians and others swooped on Maharashtra, but despite all efforts the Sena secured 63 seats.

"You can win one election with money and government power, you can fool the people once... Modi's trusted man and architect of the BJP Lok Sabha victory Amit Shah had to bite the dust in the Bihar elections," the Sena said.

All this was possible be-

cause Nitish Kumar "did not make tall or false claims", he carried the people with him, he did not show off money power or misuse government machinery and poor people of Bihar voted for his honest face.

On its part, the Shiv Sena, which contested the Bihar elections independently secured more votes than Nationalist Congress Party and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, "which is a victory of sorts for us".

"The future belongs to Shiv Sena... If elections are held in Maharashtra tomorrow, we shall win hands down," the Sena declared, throwing the gauntlet at ally BJP.

BJP defeat is good news: Pak daily

iSlAmAbAD, November 9 (iANS): The BJP-led coalition's defeat in Bihar is "arguably the first good news to come from India in the last few months", a Pakistani newspaper said on Monday.

The News International also said in an editorial that the election result "is a timely reminder for the BJP that fuelling the politics of hate is not a strategy that will work in the long term".

It said India-Pakistan relations had been hit in recent times by violence in Kashmir, cross-border firing, issues related to beef and Muslims, and protests against Pakistani singers.

"There was little surprise then that when Bihar went to vote, neighbouring Pakistan was more than usually interested," it said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party's defeat showed that despite coming into power on the basis of a powerful economic narrative, "within a year the BJP-led government has begun to alienate key segments of the country.

"The defeat in Bihar sets the stage for the next four years of campaigning, with anti-BJP alliance politics - as tried out in Bihar - likely to become a key strategy for opposition parties," it said.

The BJP defeat has also shattered the aura of invincibility built around Modi, the daily said.

"The fact that Modi led the campaign in Bihar, the loss will be considered a personal defeat for the prime minister."

The Grand Alliance of the Janata DalUnited (JD-U), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress defeated the BJPled four-party alliance in the Bihar assembly elections on Sunday.

With 'Sabka Vikas', there must be 'Sabka Nyay': Modi Protesting against govt’s OROP provisions, defence veterans to start returning medals

New Delhi, November 9 (iANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expanded his government's 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' motto to include 'Sabka Nyay', assuring free legal aid for the vulnerable sections of the society.

"I believe in 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' and with that there must be 'Sabka Nyay'," Modi said, urging that the spread of legal awareness should be merged with awareness about judicial institutions.

"Along with legal awareness, there must be institutional awareness. People must know systems that are in place."

Addressing the legal fraternity on Legal Services Day, Modi said people were unaware of services rendered by the judiciary and legal in promoting legal literacy and securing the rights of the most disadvantaged sections of the society.

He admitted that he himself was not aware of this dimension of judiciary until now.

Appreciating the more than 8.5 crore cases settled by Lok Adalats since the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) was consti-

tuted on December 5, 1995, Modi said they should be part of research projects for students in the national law universities so that they understand their functioning during the course of their education.

He said students should do research on Lok Adalats in different areas and submit their project reports with suggestions.

Pointing out that no institution can remain in a situation of status quo, Modi said everything must change as status quoist situation was fraught with stagnation.

He gave the instance of the successful implementation 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yogna' where 40 percent people were brought within the fold of country's banking system by opening their accounts with zero balance.

Recalling the contribution of the NALSA in spreading legal awareness, Justice T.S. Thakur, who will succeed Chief Justice H.L. Dattu as Chief Justice of India on December 3, said: "No system, no society, no polity can survive if you don't ensure justice to poor.

"It (justice to poor) is uphold-

ing the constitutional mandate."

Justice T.S. Thakur said the settlement of cases through Lok Adalats was not just a win-win situation for parties to the dispute, it also reduced the burden of many cases as matters settled before Lok Adalats cannot be challenged.

He dwelt on the seven areas on which the NALSA will now focus involving women and child trafficking, drug abuse, securing the rights of unorganised workers and mentally sick, effective implementation of poverty alleviation schemes and child friendly legal services.

Justice Anil R. Dave, chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC), pointed to the ever increasing burden of pending litigations in courts, saying one of the reasons was less number of judges.

While in the US, there are 104 judges for every 10 lakh population and 75 judges for 10 lakh people in Canada, Justice Dave said that in India, it was just 15 judges for that many people.

"That is one of the reasons for our arrears," he said.

Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said every lawyer's contribution to free legal aid must be counted before designating him as a senior lawyer and subsequently considering him for appointment as a judge.

In his message, Chief Justice Dattu said: "A robust and effective legal system, that fearless upholds the rule, of law is one of the foundational pillars of democracy."

"It is of equal importance that the legal system itself is democratised, which would ensure that every citizen of our country has equal access to the legal system - equally swift, equally effective and equally impartial."

Pointing to the "diversity and complexity" of the society, Chief Justice Dattu said that while great strides have been made in breaking down area old barriers but many sections of our society continue to be vulnerable to abuse and exploration in various forms.

"It is essential that these vulnerable sections be provided equal and effective access to Justice" and the same is the mandate of the Article 39A of the constitution, he said.

New Delhi, November 9 (Pti): War veterans will start returning their medals from tomorrow to protest the government notification on implementation of ‘one rank-one pension’, which they have rejected, and hit back at Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for his comments that not all their demands can be met.

“We have one and only demand and that is OROP. It was the government who inserted provisions that has made the issue complicated. We want OROP as per the definition. No junior should get more pension than his senior.

“In protest against the government notification, we will start returning our medals from tomorrow. On November 10-11, ex-ser-

vicemen across the country will start returning their medals. They have already informed the District Magistrates about this,” Group Captain V K Gandhi (retd), general secretary of Indian Ex-servicemen Movement (IESM), said.

The government had on Saturday formally notified the OROP scheme for the over 24 lakh ex-servicemen and six lakh war widows in the country, which was rejected by the protesting exservicemen.

Parrikar had said earlier in the day that everyone has the right to make a demand in democracy but not all demands can be fulfilled. He said “maximum” demands of the veterans have been fulfilled and that the judicial commission to be set up by the government will look into

Son’s post on how he helped defeat his mother goes viral Rajesh Kumar, a police constable in Kerala, writes that his postal vote against his mother, a BJP candidate, was among the reasons that contributed to her defeat.

New Delhi, November 9 (iNDiAN exPreSS): In a Facebook post that has gone viral, Rajesh Kumar, a police constable in Kerala, has written about how he ‘contributed’ to his mother’s defeat in the recent local body elections in the state.

Kumar’s mother Jagadamma, a BJP candidate, lost by seven votes and ended up in the third position behind the LDF and UDF candidates in ward 6 of the Thamarakkulam panchayat in the Alleppey district.

In the post that has been shared more than 4,000 times and has attracted over 1,000 comments, Kumar writes that his postal vote against his mother was among the reasons that contributed to her defeat.

“I consider more nationalistic than any 56-inch man. And I am concerned and worried about my 125 crore brothers and sisters,” writes Kumar in an evocative post.

He goes on to argue that Gujarat, which was ruled by the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 12 years, was in the 28th position in ranking of primary educa-

tion and that 70 per cent of the rural population in the state defecates in the open.

“Let this post be a reminder to my mother, who as a school teacher, may have forgotten the very ideals that she taught me and to all my brothers and sisters in the country,” he wrote.

Kumar, later in a telephone interview, says his intention is to seek a referendum among the public through social media on the state of politics in India. “I want to initiate a debate where the society can discuss politics in the deepest sense,” he says.

Kumar, who enjoys political conversations with his mother, says that a stream of friend requests and comments have been pouring in since his post went viral.

On the other hand, Jagadamma, who has been a BJP member for the past 22 years, says she is not disappointed that her son voted against her. “I have never told him to vote for me. He has his own independent opinion and he does not get influenced by anyone,” she says.

But Jagadamma alleges that her defeat in the ward came in the wake of extensive booth capturing and fake voting by LDF cadres. “Everyone told me that I would win. But the LDF workers threatened people and distributed money. There was nothing we could do,” she says.

In the local body elections this year, the CPM-led LDF made a stunning comeback winning majority of the panchayats, municipalities and corporations in Kerala denting the prospects of the Congress. BJP has also made major inroads creating upsets in Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur corporations.

their “problems”.

In Delhi, the medals will be returned outside Terminal 1 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) tomorrow, Gandhi said, adding selecting crowded places for the purpose was meant to educate the common man about the issue.

The protesting ex-servicemen also met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and briefed him about the OROP notification.

“He called us today and asked us to brief him about the government notification. He has said in coming days he will take up the issue, address press conference and also visit the protesting ex-servicemen at Jantar Mantar,” Gandhi said after meeting Kejriwal.

Nepal asks India to remove border obstruction

People help a man carry his two-wheeler on a cycle cart as they wade through a waterlogged subway in Chennai. (PTI Photo)

'Cong workers want Rahul to head party' New Delhi, November 9 (iANS): After the decisive victory of the Grand Alliance in Bihar, there is a general feeling and desire among Congress workers that Rahul Gandhi should immediately take over as the party president, party leader C.P. Joshi said on Monday.

"The manner in which Rahul Gandhi ji has played the role of a sutradhar (stage manager) in the victory of this Grand Alliance, the party workers are enthused about it and there is a desire and general feeling among them that he should immediately take over

as the party president," the Congress spokesperson said.

Joshi also indicated that the Congress would be part of the government formation in Bihar.

On the issue of entering into an alliance in other states, he said: "It will depend on the political challenges and organisational strength of the party in those states."

The Grand Alliance of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress won a whopping 178 of the 243 seats, leaving the BJP -- which campaigned hard

to oust Nitish Kumar -- and its allies with just 58 seats.

Talking about the victory, Joshi said: "It's a victory of virtue over arrogance in Bihar. Victory of brotherhood over hatred.

And a victory of democracy over tantra-mantra."

Speaking about the goal of the Grand Alliance, Joshi said: "The primary goal of this alliance was to defeat those who spread the politics of hatred and take up the issues of development for the poor, the farmers, the backward classes and all sections of the society."

KAthmANDu, November 9 (iANS): Nepal on Monday asked India to remove the ongoing obstruction at its border and resume the supply of fuel and essential commodities to the Himalayan nation.

A meeting chaired by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli passed a special resolution and asked New Delhi to end the obstruction of medicines and gasoline supply at the India-Nepal border.

"The government urges the Indian government to contribute toward maintaining a cordial relation with Nepal by resuming fuel and essential commodities (supply) to Nepal," Prime Minister Oli's media advisor Pramod Dahal told Xinhua news agency.

Thousands of Nepal-bound cargo vehicles and tankers carrying medicines, basic commodities and fuel have been clogged at the Indian side of the border. Nepal said the Indian government had imposed an embargo against it since September 22, just two days after the promulgation of the new constitution in Nepal.

"India's reservation on our new constitution is completely irrational as the constitution is purely an internal document of Nepal. We urge India to end the ongoing economic blockade and treat us as a friendly neighbour," Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal Chandra Prakash Mainali said.

Nepal had been fully dependent on gasoline imports from India for years. However, India has denied any kind of embargo against Nepal and cited ongoing protests

by Madhesi parties of Nepal behind such obstructions at the border.

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World Bank: Poverty to rise without climate action BARCELONA, NO vEmBER 9 (ThOmsON REuTERs FOuNdATiON): Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.

In a report, the bank said ending poverty - one of 17 new U.N. goals adopted in September - would be impossible if global warming and its effects on the poor were not accounted for in development efforts.

But more ambitious plans to reduce climatechanging emissions aimed at keeping global temperature rise within an internationally agreed limit of 2 degrees Celsius - must also cushion poor people from any negative repercussions, it added.

“Climate change hits the poorest the hardest, and our challenge now is to protect tens of millions of people from falling into extreme poverty because of a changing climate,” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement.

The bank’s estimate of 100 million more poor by 2030 is on top of 900 million expected to be living in extreme poverty if development progresses slowly.

In 2015, the bank puts the number of poor at 702 million people.

Climate change is already hurting them

Climate change could add 100 million poor by 2030

through decreased crop yields, floods washing away assets and livelihoods, and a bigger threat of diseases like malaria, said John Roome, World Bank senior director for climate change.

He described ending poverty and tackling climate change as “the defining issues of our generation”.

“The best way forward is to tackle poverty alleviation and climate change in an integrated strategy,” he told reporters.

Poor families are more vulnerable to climate stresses than the rich be-

Grilled or barbecued meat may up kidney cancer risk NEw YORk, NOvEmBER 9 (iANs): If you love panfried, grilled or barbecued meat read this carefully as meat that is cooked at high temperatures or over an open flame may impact kidney cancer risk, researchers warn.

The risk is high in individuals with certain genetic variants who are more susceptible to the harmful effects of cancer-causing chemicals that are produced when meat is cooked at high temperatures or over an open flame.

“A meat-rich diet may increase the risk of developing kidney cancer through mechanisms related to particular cooking compounds,’ the team from University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Centre noted.

To reach this conclusion, a team led by Dr Xifeng Wu studied the dietary intake and genetic risk factors of 659 patients newly diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) - the most common form of kidney cancer in adults -- and 699 healthy controls.

The researchers found that kidney cancer patients consumed more red and white meat compared with cancer-free individuals. Also, cancer patients consumed more cancer-causing chemicals that are produced when meat is pan-fried, grilled or barbecued.

“Our study provides additional evidence for the role of red meat and white meat in RCC etiology. It is the first to evaluate the impact of RCC susceptibility variants, identified via genome-wide association studies, on the association between intake of mutagenic compounds and RCC risk,” Dr Wu explained.

Investigators suspect that factors related to a western lifestyle -- such as a diet high in meats, processed foods and starches -- may play an important role in this trend.

“Reducing consumption of meat, especially when cooked at high temperatures or over an open flame, might serve as a public health intervention to reduce the risk of developing RCC,” the authors cautioned. The incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer in adults, has been increasing in the US and other developed nations, said the study that appeared online in the journal CANCER.

Poor air quality increases heart attack risk: Study NEw YORk, NOvEmBER 9 (iANs): People with heart disease can face an increase risk of a serious heart attack on poor air quality days, a new study warns. There is a strong association between bad air quality days -- those with a threshold above 25 micrograms of fine particulate matter per cubic metre of air -- with a greater risk of STEMIs, the most dangerous type of heart attack, the study said.

A ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a serious form of a heart attack in which a coronary artery is completely blocked and if left untreated for too long, would damage the heart muscles and cause irreparable damage or death.

“Our research indicated, during poor air quality days, namely those with high levels of PM 2.5, patients with heart disease are at a higher risk of suffering from a STEMI heart attack,” said Kent Meredith from Inter-mountain Medical Centre Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.

The study included nearly 16,000 patients who suffered three types of heart attacks -- STEMI, non-STEMI, and unstable angina. Researchers compared air quality measurements to the number of patients treated for heart attacks between September 1993 and May 2014.

“By making this association, physicians can better counsel their heart patients to avoid exposure to poor air quality, and thus decrease their chances of suffering a heart attack on days that they are potentially at highest risk,” explained Meredith.

“The study suggests that during yellow air quality days, and all red quality air days, people should limit their exposure in the air by exercising indoors, limiting their time outdoors, avoiding stressful activities, and remaining compliant with medications,” Meredith added.

cause their main assets are often badly built homes and degrading land, and their losses are largely uninsured, the report said.

Low-income households in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are particularly at risk of having their hard-won gains wiped out by climate-linked disasters, forcing them back into extreme poverty, it added.

The report warns that, between now and 2030, climate policies can do little to alter the amount of global warming that will happen, making it vital to invest in adaptation measures and

broader ways to make people more resilient.

When Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu this March, a payout from a regional catastrophe risk scheme helped speed the response. When drought in Ethiopia led to a hunger crisis in 2011, a national programme providing food and cash in return for work on community projects was quickly expanded.

Better social safety nets and health coverage for all, together with targeted improvements such as flood defences, early warning systems and hardier crops,

could prevent or offset most of the negative effects of climate change on poverty in the next 15 years, the report said.

“We have a window of opportunity to achieve our poverty objectives in the face of climate change, provided we make wise policy choices now,” said Stephane Hallegatte, a senior World Bank economist who led the team that prepared the report.

Roome highlighted the need to roll out good policies faster, and ensure development projects consider climate projections,

How climate change make people poorer?

BARCELONA, NOvEmBER 9 (ThOmsON REuTERs FOuNdATiON): A new report from the World Bank finds that the poorest people are more exposed to climate-related shocks such as floods, droughts and heat waves than those with average incomes. Poor people also lose much more of their wealth when they are hit, the report said.

Here are some facts and figures on why and how that happens: • More than 100 million extra people could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to climate change impacts, with sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia the hardest-hit.

• The biggest impact of climate change on poverty comes through agriculture. Climate change threatens global crop-yield losses as large as 5% in 2030 and 30 percent in 2080, models show.

• The next strongest drivers of climatelinked poverty are health effects such as higher incidences of malaria, diarrhoea and stunting, and lower labour productivity due to extreme heat.

• The number of people exposed to droughts could increase 9-17% by 2030 and 50-90% by 2080.

• Global warming of 2 to 3ºC could increase the number of people at risk of malaria by up to 5%, or more than 150 million people.

• Climate impacts could hike the burden of diarrhoea by up to 10% by 2030 in some regions.

• Poor people lose more to disasters, as they are often more vulnerable. When Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in 1998, poor people lost 3 times more than others, and when heavy rains flooded Mumbai in 2005, poor households lost twice as much.

• Poor people get less social support.

Only a third of sub-Saharan Africans have access to financial services, while less than 10 percent of the poor in low-income countries are covered by social safety nets.

• People in poor nations have little access to health insurance and pay more than half their health costs out of pocket.

• Climate change could add 12% to 2030 food prices in Africa, where food consumption of the poorest households amounts to over 60% of their total spending.

(Source: World Bank report, “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty”, www.worldbank. org/climate)

so that new infrastructure is Bank said. not damaged in the future.

Some of those will have benefits for the poor, such ADAPTATION LIMITS as cleaner air, more energy Beyond 2030, the efficiency and better public world’s ability to adapt to transport. unabated climate change Others could increase will be limited, warned energy and food prices, the report, released ahead which represent a large of a U.N. climate sum- share of poor people’s exmit from Nov. 30-Dec. 11 penditures, the report noted. where a new deal to curb But policy shifts need global warming is due to not threaten short-term be agreed. progress against poverty To rein in the longer- provided they are well-determ impacts on poverty, signed and international immediate policies are support is made available, needed that bring emis- it added. sions to zero by the end For example, savings of this century, the World from eliminating fossil

fuel subsidies could be reinvested in assistance schemes to help poor families cope with higher fuel costs.

Or governments could introduce carbon or energy taxes and recycle the revenues through a universal cash transfer that would benefit the poor, the report said.

The international community can help by providing financial and technological support for things like insurance schemes, crop research, public transport and weather forecasting systems, the report said.

‘Amnesty trying to protect war criminals in Bangladesh’ British women “work for The Supreme Court free” from now until 2016 dhAkA, NOvEmBER Quader Chowdhury and sion of the war crimes trials.

War crimes suspects handed death sentences 9 (iANs): Amnesty Inter- Ali Ahsan Mohammad Munational is trying to protect war criminals in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

Accusing the international rights body of taking money for defending the war criminals, the prime minister called the act “despicable”, bdnews24 reported on Monday.

The Amnesty, in a media statement on October 27 before the final verdict on war criminals Salauddin

jahid, said “serious crimes by freedom fighters” during the Liberation War have gone unpunished.

“We’ve strongly condemned it (statement) and will continue to do so,” Hasina said.

“They received something big for it,” Hasina said, implying that Amnesty was bribed into making the statement.

The prime minister also urged for an early conclu-

were put on trial after the formation of the first war crimes tribunal in 2010. A second one was constituted two years later to expedite the trials.

But the government merged the two tribunals after many cases were resolved and the number of pending cases decreased.

Most of the war criminals are from Jamaat-e-Islami, which opposed Bangladesh’s independence.

to wartime Al-Badr chief Jamaat leader Mujahid on June 16 and Chittagong’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Chowdhury on July 29.

The full verdicts were published on September 30.

The convicts have sought a final review of the verdict before execution. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the pleas on November 17.

Science’s ‘Breakthrough’ winners earn over $21 mn in prizes sAN FRANCisCO, NOvEmBER 9 (REuTERs): Academia just turned a little more glitzy for a select group of scientists. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner handed out $21 million Sunday in 7 Breakthrough Prizes, the award for scientific accomplishment he created three years ago alongside technology giants including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 23andme founder Anne Wojcicki and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The prizes are worth $3 million, around three times the sum a Nobel Prize winner receives.

For one group of Breakthrough recipients, the honor will carry more

prestige than cash. Some 1370 physicians are being honored as part of a single $3 million prize for their work confirming the theory of neutrino oscillation, a phenomenon in quantum mechanics. Seven team leaders will split two-thirds of the prize.

That leaves $1 million to split among the others, or around $700 to each physicist.

“I would love to give $3 million to each one, but we’re not there yet,” Milner said in an interview. Increasingly, he added, breakthroughs are made through vast consortiums rather than a handful of scientists working in relative isolation, raising the chances of

such shared prizes in future.

Five prizes went to researchers in life sciences for advances in areas ranging from optogenetics to sequencing of ancient genomes. A prize in mathematics went to a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for work in low dimensional topology and geometric group theory.

Eight scientists early in their mathematics and physics careers won awards of $100,000. Milner has set his sights on giving the sciences the same cultural resonance as sports or entertainment, but on Friday, he said it was too early to see if his work was having any effect.

LONdON, NOvEmBER 9 (ThOmsON REuTERs FOuNdATiON): British women are effectively working for free from now until the end of the year because of the lingering “pay gap” between what they and male colleagues earn, researchers said on Monday. Women working full-time take home about 5,000 GBP ($7,500) less a year than men, according to a report by the Fawcett Society, a campaign group promoting women’s rights in the labour market.

This year’s Equal Pay Day, which marks the day after which women “work for free” due to the pay gap, comes 52 days before the end of the year compared to 56 last year, it said. The gap between male and female earnings stands at 14.2% according to the research, an improvement on 15.7% last year. Just over half of British women said equal pay was their biggest concern in the workplace in a major poll published last month by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

It was also cited as the biggest concern by women in the United States, France, Canada, Brazil and Australia in the poll of more than 9,500 women in the G20 nations conducted by international pollster Ipsos MORI. “There has never been a better opportunity to close the pay gap for good,” said Fawcett Society chief executive Sam Smethers. “We could speed up progress towards the day when we can consign it to history.”

Prime Minister David Cameron, who has called the gap “a scandal”, has pledged to force large companies to publish the average pay of male and female employees.

“It is time to have the conversation and ask your employer if they are ready for the new pay gap reporting requirements,” said Smethers in a statement.

The Fawcett Society also said employers should promote flexible working arrangements, and that the government should invest more in childcare. In 2014, the last year for which figures were available, Britain went from 18th place to 26th in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap Report.

As floods hit, Kalasha fear for their way of life ChiTRAL, NOvEmBER 9 (ThOmsON REuTERs FOuNdATiON): For Akram Hussain, unprecedented monsoon floods that drenched his Hindu Kush mountain valley this year were a danger to more than just homes and crops.

His 4,000-strong Kalasha people, who live in three remote valleys in north-west Pakistan, preserve an ancient way of life, including animist beliefs at odds with Pakistan’s dominant Islamic state religion.

That has led to threats by the Taliban, who call them kafirs, or non-believers.

Outsiders, looking for arable land, also have increasingly moved into their high mountain valleys.

Now, worsening extreme weather linked to climate change is making efforts to preserve the old ways even harder, the Kalasha say.

“Our culture and language were already under threat and now these floods

have devastated half our valley,” Hussain said.

Torrential rainfall in July in the district – an area that usually falls outside Pakistan’s monsoon belt – sent floodwater pouring down steep mountainsides, damaging infrastructure in the valleys of Bumburet and Rumbur.

Birir, the third valley inhabited by the Kalasha, was spared. The floods damaged tourist hotels, shops and houses near the nullah (mountain stream) on the valley floor and swept away crops of ripe maize and orchards full of fruit trees.

“This winter is going to be very difficult for us,” Hussain said. Around the world, extreme weather and rising seas linked to climate change are presenting a growing threat not just to lives and homes but to cultures, from nomads in the drought-hit Sahel to Pacific Islanders who fear the loss of their entire nations.

DESCENDANTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT? For Pakistan’s Kalasha, struggling to preserve their culture is nothing new.

They are the last survivors of the people of Kafiristan, who were mostly converted to Islam in the nineteenth century.

Their neighbours across the mountains, in the Afghan province of Nuristan, are the Taliban, who hold sway in parts of that country.

Among the Kalasha, prayers are offered during festivities that commemorate the changing seasons. Their elaborate rites demand the sacrifice of dozens of goats, which is becoming increasingly expensive, particularly as crops are destroyed by extreme weather. “When the livestock comes down for the winter what are we going to feed them? If our livestock goes, our culture goes,” Hussain said.

Greek interest in the Ka-

lasha stems from the belief that they are descendants of the army of Alexander the Great which marched through these mountains centuries ago. The centre was spared by the floods, thanks to a strong stone wall built around its perimeters. For the most part, the effects of climate change simply compound other problems the Kalasha have faced recently as migrants move into their valleys.

“Some of these migrants are brainwashing the Kalash people. There have been several conversions to Islam this year alone,” Hussain said. The winter ahead – when the valleys are cut off from the rest of the country by snow – will be long and hard this year, the Kalasha warn.

In the village of Krakal, Shahida, a young Kalash woman explains: “We live on goat’s milk, cheese and beans during the winter months. Now with our crops washed away by the

floods and no fodder for volunteers would travel to our livestock we are very the Kalash valleys to help worried.” with construction and other charitable work that conDEFORESTATION tributed to their cultural PROBLEMS preservation. In 2009, one With all the reconstruc- volunteer was kidnapped tion that will take place by the Taliban and released before the winter snow ar- only after eight months in rives in December, even captivity. No further volmore trees will be felled to unteers have come from rebuild hotels and houses. Greece since then.

Shahida feels that defores“That was a big blow to tation is a part of the prob- our community since he lem in the Kalash valleys. was doing good work for the “I think the main rea- Kalasha. The second blow son for the floods is the cut- was when one of our shepting of trees. There were so herds was brutally murmany forests up in the high dered on the border with pastures and they are gone Nuristan a few years ago. now. If the government Luckily the army has moved cannot control deforesta- in and we have better secution the floods will keep rity now,” said Shahida. coming and become more But “it’s not the Taliban severe,” she said. that is the main threat,” The Bumburet valley said Quaid-e-Azam, a Kaattracts thousands of tour- lash community leader ists each year who come to from Rumbur Valley. “It is see the Kalasha, especially climate change. We need during their festivals, when to start planning for future there is dancing and mul- disasters, otherwise life is berry wine flows. going to be very difficult For many years, Greek for us.”

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Arsenal earn late point against Spurs, City stay top

LONDON, NOVEMBER 9 (REUTERS): Arsenal's hopes of leapfrogging Premier League leaders Manchester City were frustrated when they drew 1-1 with London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday after City's surprising 0-0 draw with bottom club Aston Villa.

Tottenham, who moved up to fifth, had looked on course for a rare away win against their neighbours when they led through Harry Kane's first-half goal but substitute Kieran Gibbs equalised for the Gunners with 13 minutes left.

Juergen Klopp tasted defeat for the first time since taking over as Liverpool manager, his side beaten 2-1 by Crystal Palace at Anfield.

Manchester City, who hit the bar late on against a resolute Villa side under the command of new boss Remi Garde for the first time, have 26 points from 12 matches, the same as Arsenal, but have a better goal difference.

Tottenham, unbeaten in the league since an opening day defeat by Manchester United, have 21. Liverpool have 17 points in 10th with Crystal Palace two points better off in eighth.

The Premier League now takes a twoweek breather for a raft of international matches. Injury-hit Arsenal, without the likes of Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey, had a gilt-edged chance to go into that break top, especially after City's stalemate at Villa Park in the day's early kickoff, but in the end were relieved to avoid only a second home league defeat by Tottenham in the last 23 meetings.

INTENSE GAME "It was a very intense game," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. "In the second half we had a great mental response and we were determined not to lose. "Whe you're 1-0 down it's a mixture of relief and regret because if we were really clinical in the last 15 minutes we could have won, but 1-1 was probably a fair result.

"City dropped points, we dropped

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 9 (MExN): The Nagaland Badminton Association (NBA) will be organizing a two-day state level ranking tournament on November 21 and 22, 2015 at Dimapur District Badminton Association (DDBA) indoor stadium at Nagarjan and Kuda Indoor Badminton stadium, Lane 17, Nagarjan. The tournament has been organized by Elite Badminton Club, Padampukhuri in co-operation with Dimapur District Badminton Association (DDBA). The different age categories will include – under 17 years, under 19 years, seniors, 35 plus, 40 plus, 45 plus, 50 plus and 55 plus, both boys and girls. All age categories will have both single and double. Winners of all categories will be provided with prize money and incentives. Hence, all district associations are requested to submit player list to the organizers before 18th of November 2015 for necessary preparations. The respective association presidents may contact the organizers at 9774006269 and 8131079711 for further queries.

3 from Nagaland selected for national shooting c’ship points, Liverpool lost to Palace, it just shows what a hard league this is."

Arsenal started brightly but Tottenham responded and took a deserved lead after 32 minutes when Kane raced on to Danny Rose's long pass and beat Petr Cech with a cool finish.

The Gunners improved after the break, having taken off a "dizzy" Santi Cazorla, and Olivier Giroud headed a chance against the top of the crossbar and an even better one wide.

Tottenham, though, remained dangerous, threatening a second goal with Christian Eriksen, Kane and Toby Alderweireld all denied by the impressive Cech.

Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris made a great save from Costa Rica striker Joel

Campbell but would have been disappointed not to keep out Arsenal's equaliser when Gibbs crept in at the back post to meet Mesut Ozil's delivery and bounced the ball past the Frenchman who seemed to have it covered.

"We should have won but I feel very proud of the players. We played very well. You need to kill the game. When we were 1-0 up we had chances to score again," Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino said.

Villa manager Garde was also proud of his new charges after his side hung on grimly for a morale-boosting point after a seven-match losing sequence in the league.

They had to ride their luck in the second half when Brad Guzan kept out

ment which is supposed to be one of the most adapted to the latest changes, acts like some medieval agency and demands these documents several times in a year. Now everybody wonders what happens to all these documents that are collected every time? Don’t they ever maintain any record or preserve them in a file or a register in each respective offices of DEOs, SDEOs? One simple advice to the DoSE and the head of the districts is, they should open a website and store it all there whatever information of each employees are required and obtain from there whenever they need it. Environmental Education how to save trees and contribute in factors like cli-

mate change and and global warming by saving trees and preserving the environment, so why unnecessarily waste so many paper, ink, energy every now and then? Stopping this practice will not only save the above things but save time harassment of the teaching faculty by its employer every now and then. We are now living in the 21st century and in an age of computer, please don’t apply ancient methods and unnecessarily harass the teachers every now and then.

They also have so many other important things to do too. May this method be changed immediately for the convenience of all. Thank you.

Salang Ao, Dimapur.

VISION MOKOKCHUNG 2040

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nitially set up as a small British administrative and military outpost during the late 19th Century, the town has grown exponentially to its present size today. Its character and nature has also transformed over the decades. It has become an important trade centre and has geo-strategic importance. It was a forerunner in several aspects of Naga society, and has contributed immensely in religion, education, politics and sports. It has also contributed immensely to the Art & Culture and aesthetics to the Naga society in general. In due recognition, Mokokchung is now called the “Land of Pioneers”. This is the challenge that we face today.

Pioneering is a continuous process. It is a necessary condition for a society to progress. If Mokokchung and the Aos have contributed pioneering efforts in all aspects of Naga society in the past, the future beckons a greater and higher challenge.

It is within this context that “Vision Mokokchung 2040” has been envisioned. How and what we would like to see Mokokchung achieve by 2040, i.e 25 years from now, needs to be a collaborative effort of all concerned citizens, and not just merely a document prepared by a few.

This collaborative process shall take place over the next one month through the print media, social media, paper presentations, discussions at different levels and platforms etc. and will culminate on the 15th Dec 2015 with an interactive panel discussion at Cosmos Hall Mokokchung.

The views & opinions so expressed, shall be compiled and edited to form the “Vision Mokokchung 2040”document in a book form. This is a part of the 125 Years Celebration of Mokokchung Town. The Mayangnokcha Award Trust (MAT) is privileged to be entrusted by the Organising Committee to oversee this collaborative effort.

As we face several challenges today, it is our belief that human’s response to the environment that surrounds him and interactions with it has brought forward many new ideas

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 9 (MExN): The Modern Institute of Teacher Education, Kohima celebrated its Sports Prize Distribution-cum-Fete Day on November 9. On this occasion, prizes were distributed to the sports personalities of M.I.TE and different stalls were opened to exhibit and sell products prepared by the MITIANS. A Food Corner was also arranged to exhibit and sell a variety of traditional food items. The program ended with an interesting Lottery draw.

NBA ranking tournament

How Many times,dear DoSE?

ime and again the DoSE ask every DEOs ,SDEOs and the respective heads of the institutions about the list of teachers every year. This trend has been going on even for more than a decade now. Doesn’t the DoSE themselves has a list of its own employees in each respective districts, sub-divisions, villages, schools etc.?

Surely the directorate do have the list of all the number of schools, teachers and their places of posting, year of appointment, educational qualifications, whether trained or untrained ,year of retirement etc.

In this age of technology and modernity, the school education depart-

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Sl. Theme ConTexT 1 Socio-cultural Evolution, impediments, progress and development Entrepreneurship and business, infrastructure, 2 Economic hinterland.

Patriotism, Governance, leadership & participation, 3 Political peoples relationship.

Creating a conducive and supporting environment 4 Education – social, economic, accessibility, educational infrastructure and quality. and advancement throughout history. Each generation has contributed immensely to the environment that we live in today. Now, it is the turn of the present generation to leave our footprints in the echelons of history, which can be fulfilled by setting certain achievable goals. This is a responsibility that we need to take up at this point of time, with all earnestness.

Within the context of Mokokchung - its people, location and its history, the following four broad themes are being proposed for people’s opinion and suggestions; By “Mokokchung” the key focus is the Town, as the occasion itself is its 125 years anniversary. However, we should also understand it from the larger perspective of Mokokchung district as a whole.Thus, in the above four areas/themes, how would you like to see Mokokchung by 2040?

The above themes are fairly large and sufficiently open. But the key words given under the “Context” column, shall provide some guidance.

For instance, under Socio-cultural, we are referring to theAo socio-cultural “evolution” over the century, some of the impediments that we face due to ‘conflict’ between tradition and modernity etc. Non-Aocitizens who have also made Mokokchung their home, would also be welcome to contribute their views and opinion about their socio-cultural aspects.

Under “Economic”, we shall not be taking much about monetary or fiscal policies of the RBI or such similar areas. But specific to our context, how can we build up entrepreneurship and develop the town to serve not only its population, but also the

hinterland area of neighboring districts and beyond. For this, we shall need to look at not only the town per se, but also development of satellite townships, including development of Tuli and Tzürangkong townships in the foothills.

Under “Political”, we need a paradigm shift away from ‘electoral politics’. This theme is not about electoral or party politics, but about the art & science of governance. This is one area in which we feel we seriously lack today. Therefore, how can we effect such a shift?

Education is one such critical component for human resource development. If so, can Mokokchung position itself to provide quality education? What would be the supporting environment required to achieve such a status? Ability to provide quality education can also lead to socioeconomic benefits of the town by attracting students from different parts of the region. It will also produce quality human resources, leading to a natural process of development in all other aspects.

We have roughly shared our initial thoughts on the themes, and all are welcome to give their views & opinion on the same, through any appropriate channel. We shall however welcome your feedback through the print media, so that a healthy exchange of ideas and discussions can be started, involving all citizens. We shall provide some further specific position papers on key issues over the next few days as well.

You could also email your feedback to “moaaier@gmail.com” or “akok_n@yahoo.co.in” Mayangnokcha Award Trust.

a close-range Raheem Sterling effort with his head, Kevin De Bruyne missed an open goal and Fernando shook the crossbar with a bullet header.

"You have to be lucky but to be lucky you have to work hard," former Arsenal midfielder Garde told reporters.

"Luck is not coming knocking on your door, you create that, the situation and the behaviour that you need to get lucky."

Klopp will have plenty to ponder during the international break after Scott Dann's late goal condemned his Liverpool side to defeat after Philippe Coutinho had equalised following Yannick Bolasie's Palace opener. "It's important to learn. Today was not enough -we can do better," the German said.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 9 (MExN): Three shooters from Nagaland (Merang Jamir, Hito Swu and Kimatsung Jamir) of the Nagaland Rifle Association have been selected to represent the state in the 59th National Shooting Championship Competitions 2015, in small bore rifle & pistol events. The championship is to be held at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Ranges, New Delhi from December 1 to 5. A press note from the Nagaland Rifle Association informed that the selected shooters are permitted to carry the under mentioned weapons (.22 rifle-3118765, air rifle-40905, and air rifle-732597) under Licence No. 0234/NL/DMR/NDAL/2015 valid upto 12-09-2018 & ammunitions from Dimapur to New Delhi and back by road/flight/train.

Corrigendum to Ato Area GBs’ Trophy Apropos to the news item under the caption Ato Area GBs’ Trophy which was published on November 2015, the women’s championship title of Shekuto Suu Memorial Badminton Trophy was won by Nikhekhu village team and not by Nihokhu village team, as mentioned.

Registration opens for Yoddha Fighting Championship in Mkg

MOkOkchUNg, NOVEMBER 9 (MExN): For the first time in Mokokchung town, the Yoddha Fighting Championship (or MMA – Mixed Martial Arts) will be held at the Multipurpose Sports Complex on November 27 and 28 where more than fifteen fighters will take part in the championship.

Organized by the MFC, the Yoddha Fighting championship, which is one of the most popular fighting championships, is being brought to Mokokchung as a promotional event for MMA India.

The championships which will be held for two days will be fought in three categories: Fly Weight (50-57 kilogram); Bantam weight (58-61 kilogram); Feather Weight (62-66 kilogram) categories. The organizers have earmarked a total cash prize of more

than Rs 1,00,000 (one lakh) for the winners in the different categories.

Altogether, there are more than ten local fighters from Mokokchung who have already registered for the Championship. Besides, there will be another 10 – 15 fighters from outside the state (from all over India) who will be participating in the championship.

Most interestingly, there will two exhibition matches which will be played between professional Mixed Martial Artists.

The MFC is bringing this championship, keeping in mind the huge interest among the present youths in the society, especially with the gaining popularity of the UFC matches being telecast on television.

The MFC hopes that in the fu-

ture, some of the competitors in this championship would be able to perform in a bigger stage in the national and even international arena.

The judges, the referees and the cage for the championship will be provided by MMA-India, Dimapur Unit.

The tickets priced at Rs 300 (admit one for one night) is already out and can be found in Mokokchung.

Besides, there is a donor card priced at Rs 1000/- admit two.

The organizers, MFC has requested those interested persons to contact at phone number – 07085474783.

The last date for registration for the championship is Saturday, November 14, 2015. Right after the closure of the registration, the local competitors will be trained by professionals for the great fights.

NAGA ARCHIVES & RESEARCH CENTRE (NARC) A Welcome Address

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he book of Ecclesiastes says, “I know that everything God has done will last forever, you cannot add anything to it or take away anything from it” (3:14).

I am deeply moved to see the Naga quarters represented here this morning to celebrate the sacrifices of countless souls for Naga nationhood and to honor their memory. On behalf of NARC, I welcome you and embrace you from the depth of my soul. Thank you! The pursuit of freedom has cost us sweat, tears, and blood; however, this endeavor has produced a legacy of hope for the future. The Archives, therefore, sustains optimism, but diametrically provokes mournful reminiscence through pages of its collections. In the same vein, the act of inauguration rightfully occasions us to lament and mourn those souls, who, from the extreme ends of our country, waged many battles, side by side on perilous ridges only to fall together in arms. The shed blood of the brave sons of the soil, and the spot where they stood and fell in defense of their motherland is dear to us. Would not it be appropriate to remember them today? Let this day be a national day of mourning! In 1960, the Nagas who went overseas under “Alee Commission” explicitly announced their conviction why ultimate sacrifice was deemed necessary, “The Naga people want peace, but they cannot afford to let their land be occupied by sheer military force of aggression, and as long as the invading forces remain, the Naga are bound to fight.” The struggle continued and many brave souls sacrificed their precious lives with uncompromising conviction. Some died in foreign lands and their bones are not brought to their homeland yet.

We dare not forget them! Reflecting on the Naga past, we are reminded of Ronald Reagan, the former President of United States, who, in his presidential address said, “It is going to be pouring blood into my head with patriots’ blood who die from the battle.”

I have seen creative and soul-searching monuments and memories for fallen braves. The one at Kohima War Cemetery reads, “We gave our life today for your tomorrow.” The entrance of the monument of Great Britain reads: “the Unknown Soldiers who died for the nation”; whereas the Japanese carved out from a huge rock in the forest in Osaka a national monument for World War II. Likewise, we honor our own with this Archives, as modest as it may seem.

I want to make a point by citing an episode in history.

The Glosnot State Policy of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Russia opened up the top secret KGB files that were kept dormant for half a century. It came to light that Stalin Secret Police murdered 20,000 officers of the Polish Army. On receiving the news, Polish President Lech Walesa broke down on

national television and the Polish nation wept with him.

Likewise, if we are to call roll of our honored fallen patriots, what will the Naga nation response be? I wonder!

To this day, in my assessment, the Nagas have not shown enough tribute and gratefulness to those lives that had gone into the making of the very foundation on which we stand. If our generation and the one behind forget this indisputable reality our future will remain shallow. In all honesty, ungrateful nation cannot prosper. In the words of Daniel Webster, “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.” May this age continue to uphold liberty and embrace the responsibilities that come with it in the spirit of love for the nation. We deeply trust this historic occasion will help Naga people to realize that much of their future depend on how they make of the past. A mature understanding of the precedent is so important for Naga unity and timely political settlement, among others.

This morning, list of our gratefulness runs deep. To mention few, we are very thankful for Tokheho Yepthomi, our honorable Minister for PHED, who at the eleventh hour had to represent T.R. Zeliang, the Chief Minister of Nagaland. We want to let you know that your gracious participation and support has elevated our cause to a new degree, and we deeply appreciate you. To Dr. Parag Thakur, the Vice President and his colleagues at Asom Sahitya Sabha, the apex socio-cultural and literary organization of Assam who also had to represent its President Professor Dr. D. J. Borah; and Dr. Lokendra Arambam, Professor of History, and his colleagues from Manipur University, your presence as respected scholars, thinker and active searcher for the long-term common good of our region, will add immense significance to the fledgling attempt we are making to preserve some collected documents of our history, and more importantly to live as loving neighbors.

What you will say today will encourage and enlighten us for the next steps. We thank you for your readiness to sacrifice your precious time and energy to be with us.

To the Naga civil component, you are our backbone, and we cannot stress enough the importance of your participation. We thank you very much! To our Naga Political Groups, we are indebted to you for creating a meaningful history and setting the foundation for Naga nationhood and persisting with it, the reason for our gathering today.

We salute you and we honor you!

We have no reason to doubt that this Archives & Research Centre will serve generation to come and enlighten them to walk in the footsteps of their fathers. Through this endeavor, we deeply believe that the world will come to know the determination and courage of our people.

May NARC truly be the “Legacy of Hope.”

May the good Lord bless us all.

Rev. Dr. V. K. Nuh Chairman, NARC

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

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John Lennon's lost guitar sells for millions at auction

n Acoustic Guitar Once Owned

By Late Beatles Legend

John Lennon Has Shattered Auction Estimates And Sold For A Record $2.4 Million (£1.5 Million).

The 1962 Gibson J-160E was used by Lennon to record several early Beatles

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ctress Nicole Kidman found her return to the stage “horrific”, but now feels a great deal of exhilaration. The 48-year-old actress this year made her stage comeback in London’s West End production of Photograph 51. It had been more than 15 years since Kidman acted live and she certainly felt the nerves when returning, reported Contactmusic. “Oh, horrific. Terrifying. I don’t think I could go through it again. The adrenaline is just unbearable. I don’t know how athletes run races in the Olympics. I think that fear factor has got worse as I’ve gotten older,” Kidman said. “There wasn’t a lot of excitement at that point – I had a strong case of stage fright.

Now there’s a lot of exhilaration. But I just pushed myself on, which is what I tend to do in life anyway. Like there’s no way out.”

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hits, including I Want to Hold Your Ha n d , S h e Loves You, Please, Please, Me, All My Loving, From Me to You and P.S. I Love You, and was one of a pair of guitars purchased by the late rocker and bandmate George Harrison.

The guitar, which went

missing following a Fab Four concert in London in 1963, was deemed "the most important Beatle guitar ever to hit the auction block," by organisers at Los Angeles-based Julien's Auctions, and was expected to sell for between $600,000 (£375,000) and $800,000 (£500,000).

However, bidding on the instrument soared way

past its valuation as it was snapped up by a mystery buyer over the weekend (07-08Nov15), setting a new record for rock memorabilia.

Meanwhile, the drum head used by the band in its first U.S. performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 was also a big draw, selling for more than $2 million (£1.25 million).

glenn close blasts misconceptions about mental illness

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ctress Glenn Close believes there are too many destructive misconceptions surrounding mental illness and insists most people battling the condition aren’t dangerous. The 68-year-old actress, who co-founded the non-profit Bring Change 2 Mind after her sister Jessie and nephew were diagnosed with bipolar disorder, has blasted the stigma about mentally ill people, reported People magazine.

Speaking at the WebMD Health Hero Awards, the “Fatal Attraction” star said one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the issue “is that people

Echoing hills:

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he Echoing Hills, a Culturetainment concert brought various acts from Nagaland namely Gluttones, Zensilo Tep, Mac Shijoh, Azen Rengma, Jano Nyesha, Toshimoa Jamir, Imtiakum, Rokoseno Zhasa and Abiogenesis along with the compere Amber Oung to celebrate the series of the 10th Anniversary year of Bamhum at Soul Speak Hall, Dimapur on November 7 at 5.30 pm onwards.

Purniken, the winner of the first Naga Laughter Sensation also made a guest appearance at the end of the concert adding humour to the show with his witty and funny jokes.

Zhokoi Chuzho the Naga Bollywood actor who is presently shooting Force 2 alongside leading actors John Abraham and Sonakshi Sinha was invited to the stage who spoke to encouraged and praise the performers.

Guest of Honour Som Kamei (IPS), Director, Indian Postal Service at both

Kohima and Shillong gave away a Bamhum each to all the acts including Purniken and Zhokoi.

Echoing Hills was organised by Abiogenesis Society and supported by the Ministry of Culture, GOI and Indihut was the Social Media partner.

As part of its celebration year, Indihut conducted an online competition where three winners were awarded a Bamhum each and Abiogenesis performed and played Naga Folk Fusion music with the Bamhum at the North East Festival at IGNCA, New Delhi on 17th October 15. Next in line is the performance of a 100 piece Bamhum Ensemble at the upcoming Mongsenyimti Baptist Centenary celebration on 19th December 2015 at Mongsenyimti village. The workshop to play the Bamhum for the 100 Bamhum ensemble players has been conducted and rehearsals are underway with great enthusiasm. More celebration programmes are to follow which will be announced soon.

with mental illness are dangerous.”

“There are so many headlines and so many tragedies that have happened because there is no system in our country that will help those people from falling through the net, from becoming isolated,” Close said. “But the number of mentally ill people who commit crimes is a very, very small percentage, but unfortunately it leads to other people getting hurt and it makes our job a little bit more difficult because it can build up the stigma.”

But Close hopes attitudes are beginning to change.

'Blake shelton and Pharrell Williams were there for me’

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wen Stefani has heaped praise on her new boyfriend Blake Shelton and their fellow the voice judge Pharrell Williams for helping her through the pain of her marriage split. In a new radio interview, which will air on Monday (09Nov15), the

No Doubt singer told 103.7 KVIL's #Uncorked hosts Leigh Ann and Courtney she'll always be grateful for the two pals who helped pick her up after she announced her 13-year union with rocker Gavin Rossdale was over in August (15).

"There's been loads of

people that have helped me with this tragedy," Stefani says. "There's definitely key people that have pointed me into the right direction. Blake really helped me... and Pharrell was literally, like, a guardian angel."

The mother-of-three

went public with her new romance earlier this week (beg02Nov15) and she and Shelton were spotted holding hands at a party following the CMA Awards in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday night (04Nov15). Her spokesperson confirmed the news,

High Court refuses to stop advertisement starring

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he Delhi High Court has refused to stop a Gillette razor advertisement starring Deepika Padukone on a plea by Reckitt Benck-

iser which claimed the ad disparages its hair removal cream and was affecting its business. A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva issued notice to Procter

and Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd and Gillette India Ltd and sought their responses on Reckitt's petition challenging a single judge order refusing to grant it any interim relief.

The bench listed the matter for hearing on November 20, a day after Reckitt's plea is to be taken up for hearing by the single judge. The single judge had on November 3 issued notice on Reckitt's plea and listed it for hearing on November 19 while refusing to pass any interim order staying the advertisement.

Reckitt has claimed that Gillette's advertisement 'Venus Razor' disparages the reputation of its product, Veet hair removal cream as the video terms its product as "same old".

It said the video shows its trademark spatula, to be used with the cream, and sought that if the video's telecast cannot be stayed then at least the spatula be masked or blurred. It said there was "complete rejection" of its product in the video starring Padukone.

Reckitt claimed it is currently the leader in the hair removal business with a 60 per cent market share and the advertisement would seriously harm its business if allowed to go on. The division bench, however, refused to pass any interim order as sought by Reckitt, saying "let the other side be here first".

telling media outlets, "Gwen and Blake are longtime friends who have very recently started dating."

A month before Gwen and Gavin announced their split, Blake and his nowex-wife Miranda Lambert shocked the music world by revealing they were di- Cultural Vibrants from Kohima village perform during the pre- celebration of Nagaland Wrestling Association 25th tournament anniversary at Phezhu vorced.

Jotsoma on November 7. (Morung Photo)

Simon Cowell apologises for Zayn Malik joke

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edia mogul Simon Cowell has apologised for mocking former One Direction member Zayn Malik during an awards ceremony. The music mogul was handed the Music Industry Trusts Award in London by Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson, and

after accepting the gong, Simon quipped, “Who misses Zayn?” He was then targeted by angry One Direction fans, and Cowell was forced to apologise. He later admitted that he had been “hammered” while making the speech. The “X Factor” judge said, “I just kind of thought, when I was standing on stage

with them, that they were back to being five and I saw myself being a part of One Direction for a moment.

“That’s when I made that quip, ‘Who needs Zayn?’ which of course backfired hugely. So I apologise to any Zayn fans out there – it was meant as a joke.”

Malik has yet to comment on the incident.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my extended family, friends and well wishers for their love, support and encouragement and helping me win the title of Miss Mokokchung 2015.

I especially thank the members of MAAM for nurturing me tirelessly throughout the Miss Mokokchung 2015 journey.

I remain profoundly grateful. Do continue to pray and support me in my future endeavors. Thank you.

Ayusangla Jamir.

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BCCI chief Manohar to replace Novak Djokovic vows more Srinivasan as ICC chairman

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MuMbai, NoveMber 9 (iaNS): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday appointed its president Shashank Manohar as the new chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) removing incumbent N. Srinivasan for the rest of the term.

Srinivasan, who was elected for a two-year term, was scheduled to head the ICC till June 2016. The decision to replace him with Manohar was taken at the board's Annual General Meeting (AGM) here on Monday. Srinivasan's position as the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) is also under the scanner.

"BCCI's representative to ICC will be Manohar.

He will take over as the ICC chairman. All members of the BCCI are unanimous to the decision taken and will work transparently in the upcoming days. Everybody in the meeting spoke about clean and clear work in the board," BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said.

Manohar said that to look into the complaints regarding conflict of interest, former Chief Justice of India A.P. Shah has been appointed.

India cricket team director Ravi Shastri has been removed from the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council. However, he will continue to be team India director until the World Twenty20 in March 2016 in India.

The earlier Governing Council had 13 members but BCCI has trimmed it down. The new members in the Governing Coun-

cil include Ajay Shirke, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sourav Ganguly and Rajeev Shukla (who remains chairman).

"IPL governing council is headed by Rajeev Shukla and other members are Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Shirke, M.P. Pandove and Sourav Ganguly. With regard to conflict of interest, an imbursement has been appointment by the board and former Chief Justice of India A.P. Shah will look into the complaints if any," Manohar said.

The BCCI AGM also decided to remove Anil Kumble from the technical committee of the board and have appointed Ganguly as the chairman. Kumble is now a TV commentator while Ganguly, president of Cricket Association of Bengal.

"So, whatever I had said after my appointment a month before, that we would clean up the systems and would try to run the board in transparent manner, we have done what we could and other things will be put in place in a short while from now."

Srinivasan, whose company India Cements owned Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK), ran into trouble due to a series of controversies over bribery and spot fixing in the IPL as he was charged with conflict of interest by the Supreme Court.

The former BCCI president's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan -- the team principal of CSK -was indicted for being involved in betting and spot fixing. He was banned for

life from all cricket related activities.

The Supreme Courtappointed Justice Lodha Committee also suspended CSK and Rajasthan Royals from the IPL for two years.

The BCCI president mentioned there will be 12 Tests conducted at home in 2016, adding that Pune, Vizag, Ranchi, Rajkot, Indore and Dharmasala were the six venues which were given Test status.

"There will be 12 Tests played at home in the next year and Pune, Vizag, Ranchi, Indore, Rajkot and Dharmasala are the six venues which have been given Test status. As these stadiums have all the facilities to conduct a Test match, so we have given the Test status to them," Manohar said.

Speaking on the decision to remove Roger Binny from men’s senior selection committee, Manohar said, "The perception should change.

There should not be injustice on Stuart Binny also. If he is a deserving player, you should not get a flag from the media that as because he is Roger’s son he is playing. So we can’t destroy his career," Manohar said. BCCI chief Manohar did not rule out the chances of a series between India and Pakistan in December but made it clear that government of both countries have to step in for revival of cricket. “To revive series between India and Pakistan both the government should step in and have to take a decision. We have to talk to the government and the decision taken by the government will be the decision of BCCI," he said.

BCCI secretary Thakur also mentioned that if Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) fails to submit all cleared permission by November 17 to the board, the fourth and final Test match of the ongoing series between India and South Africa scheduled to be held in Delhi from December 3-7 will be shifted to Pune.

The Delhi Test, to be staged at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground, is in jeopardy following problems between DDCA and the Delhi state government.

"It has been decided in the meeting that, if DDCA fails to solve problems with the state government within November 17 and submit clear reports then the fourth Test match will be shifted to Pune," Thakur said.

to come after wonder year

PariS, NoveMber 9 (aFP): Novak Djokovic says he has reached the peak of his career by taking a "holistic approach", leaving nothing to chance.

The 28-year-old Serb put the finishing touches to one of the greatest years in tennis history on Sunday when he swept aside old rival Andy Murray 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the Paris Masters.

The tournament was the final one of the ATP regular season and the victory etched his name in the record books.

The first man to win three Grand Slam titles and six Masters Series titles in the same year, the first man to reach eight out of nine Masters Series finals and the first man to record 14 straight finals in the same year, all en route to a win-loss record of 78-5 -the achievements are phenomenal.

Djokovic, who is now firmly in the mix with Rod Laver, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for the label of the greatest player ever, insists that on sheer talent alone he would never have hit such dizzy heights.

"I think there are a few reasons why I have managed to reach my peak at this stage of my career this year," he said after his defeat of Murray.

"I think in terms of physical and mental ability, I have reached my peak experience?wise.

Nagaland Police sports meet from November 12

DiMaPur, NoveMber 9 (MexN): The 36th Nagaland Police duty cum sports and athletics meet 2015 will be held at the NAPTC stadium, Police Complex, Chumukedima from November 12. The opening ceremony will be held on November 16 and the closing ceremony will be held on November 20.

Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang is set to be the chief guest for the opening and closing functions. Further, a family welfare competition is also scheduled to be held at the hockey ground, Chumukedima from November 16 to 18. The stalls for this will be inaugurated

by Kevizenuo Rangkau, wife of the Chief Minister.

World number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia poses with the trophy after beating Britain's Andy Murray in their men's singles final tennis match at the Paris Masters tennis tournament November 8. (REUTERS)

"Of course I did go through certain periods that had more doubts and, you know, I wasn't as successful. It all served as a great lesson, as a way to improve and to get better.

So this season, everything got together. "I'm a married man, and I'm a father, as well. I think I have a nice balance and serenity in my private life that reflects on the professional life, and vice versa.

"I have this belief that

the holistic approach will definitely get the best out of yourself.

"I'm still determined to improve, to get better. Nobody can be perfect, but, you know, if you are going for the perfection, you might reach excellence.

"That's the kind of mind set I have. Try to work every single day with a purpose."

It was not always so controlled and driven for the Serb, who had to leave his hometown of Belgrade

at an early age to train in Germany and who had to overcome both physical and mental obstacles when he first entered the pro scene. There were even charges that he was a choker and a bit of a hypochondriac as he struggled to deal with the physicality of Nadal and the legend of Federer. But all that changed with his maiden major win in the 2008 Australia Open and then his wonder run in 2011 when he won the

Australian and US Opens as well as Wimbledon.

He now has 10 Grand slam titles, four shy of Nadal's haul and seven away from the all-time record of Federer. But at 28 and in the peak of his career, overtaking them both is a very realistic target.

"I have been through stages in my life where I struggled a lot physically, especially in the beginning of the professional career.

But, all those experiences in the past have helped me to get stronger, to learn from those experiences, to understand myself, my body," he said.

"I try to take nothing for granted. I try to work on it all the time, because I know that that is the only way I'm managing to stay successful, is to continue progressing. "I'm not trying to keep the status quo, because for me then that's a regression.

"I just try to progress, improve all the time, work on certain things in my life and my game, and hopefully get better in the process, which I feel I'm doing now."

Progressing for Djokovic now means winning the ATP World Tour Finals in London for the fourth time in two weeks' time. "I look forward to it, especially because of the fact that I have had the season that I have had, and the way that I'm feeling confidently. Hopefully I can finish off the season with another great win," he said.

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BCCI upgrades Rahane, demotes Raina in new contracts

MuMbai, NoveMber 9 (iaNS): Struggling middle-order batsman Suresh Raina was downgraded to Grade B in the new Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) centrally contracted players for year 2015-16, while batsman Ajinkya Rahane was rewarded for his recent performance with promotion to Grade A on Monday.

Left-handed Raina was in Grade A in 2014-15 year but was demoted to Grade B due to poor form. The Uttar Pradesh player has not been picked for the Test squad recently and has also performed poorly.

On the other hand, limited-overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Test captain Virat Kohli, star off-spinner Ravichandran

Ashwin continued their stay in the Grade A and will receive Rs.1 crore annually.

Players in Grade B are Ambati Rayudu, Rohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Moham-

mad Shami who will receive Rs.50 lakh a year.

Grade C players are Amit Mishra, Axar Patel, Stuart Binny, Wriddhiman Saha, Mohit Sharma, Varun Aaron, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, K.L. Rahul, Dhawal Kulkarni, Harbhajan Singh, Sreenath Arvind

who will receive Rs.25 lakh.

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said India women cricketers were brought under contract for the first time and will be divided into two grades A and B with salary of Rs.15 lakh and Rs.10 lakh annually.

"I am happy to announce that India women cricketers were brought under contract for the first time and will be divided into two grades," Thakur said here. In Grade A, senior players Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, M.D. Thirushkamini were named.

In Grade B, Smriti Mandana, Rajeswari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bist, Veda Krishnamurthy, Niranjana Nagarajan, Poonam Raut were named.

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21st CLAssIC CUP 2015

• Mt. Youth Club, Head Hunter enter pre-quarter finals • Pre-quarter final matches from today

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A match in action between Head Hunter and Nokmei FC on November 9. (Morung Photo)

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Mt. Youth Club and Head Hunter today found prequarter finals berth after registering win in their respective matches in the ongoing 21st Classic Cup 2015

under the aegis of Classic Club Kohima here at Kohima Local Ground.

In the first match of the day, Mt. Youth Club blanked School Education FC 5-0.

Orlando scored a hattrick for Mt. Youth Club, registering 4th hattrick scorer

of the tournament. Honaito and Hekato contributed a goal each to the team.

In the last leg of the first round played today, Head Hunter downed Nokmei FC 4-0. Khampei opened the account for Head Hunter while Haotinmong

PRE-QUARTER FINAL MATCHES 10th November – 1st Pre Quarter-finals –Fraternity FC vs Lhisemia Youth Organization 2nd Pre Quarter-finals – Hurricane Boys, Phesama vs Naga FC 11th November – 3rd Pre Quarter-finals –Vanguard FC vs Dejavu F C 4th Pre Quarter-finals –Barak FC vs Headwinds FC 12th November 5th Pre Quarter-finals – Nagabazar YO vs Medziphema United 6th Pre Quarter-finals –Chiiziema FC vs HQ IGAR(N) 13th November 7th Pre Quarter-finals – Dzuvuru XI vs Alfa Squab Chedema 8th Pre Quarter-finals -MT Youth Club vs Head Hunters Thomsong scored a hattrick for the team.

Thomsong is the 5th hattrick scorer of the tournament. Alemse, the custodian of Head Hunter saved a penalty-kick in the 2nd half.

With today’s win, Head Hunter will now clash with Mt. Youth Club in the prequarter finals on November 13 (2nd Match).

Meanwhile, pre-quarter finals matches will start from November 10.

It is pertinent to mention that the grand finale of the tournament will take place on November 20.

The champion will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000 while the runnerup will pocket Rs. 80,000.

Rs. 2 lakh is set for individual prizes to encourage the talented players. Besides individual prizes for player of the tournament, highest scorer, best goal keeper, best defence and best midfield, the Club will sponsor three most promising players and will be taken to the mainland to expose them in the form of training and witnessing national and international tournaments.

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FIXTURE FOR NOVEMBER 10

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PRE-QUARTER FINALS Ist Match (12:00): Fraternity FC vs Lhisemia YO 2nd Match (1:30 PM): Hurricane Boy’s vs Naga FC

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