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CM assures govt is stable DImAPur, November 10 (mexN): Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, today dismissed rumors that his government was likely to be toppled by November end. At a brief press conference with media persons here at his private residence in Dimapur, the Chief Minister assured that despite rumors, his government is “comfortable” and stable enough to withstand all obstacles. “We should rubbish all these rumors.

There are no differences amongst us (NPF legislators) on any issue. Maybe some groups of people are spreading rumors to vent out their vested interest, but such hearsay or rumors cannot pull down the government”, Zeliang asserted.

Admitting that in politics one cannot satisfy “everybody”, Zeliang confessed that somewhere down the line some party workers or elected legislators are bound to get dissatisfied.

“It is high time we stop politicking and spreading false rumors but concentrate on providing a stable government that is focused on development and peace,” he added.

UDD informs KohImA, November 10 (mexN): Additional Director for Municipal Affairs Cell, Urban Development Department, Dr Toshimanen Ozukum has reminded that usage of the term ‘Chief Executive Officer of Municipal Council’ is against the “clear instructions” vide OM NO.MAC/ HOME-49/ 2003 (PT.-1) dated December 12, 2013.

A press note from the Additional Director urged that the usage of Chief Executive Officer be replaced by the term Administrator. The said office memorandum, a copy of which was provided to the media, states that the respective administrators of each municipality in Nagaland state “shall be officially designated as Administrator only and not by any other style.” It was further informed that appointment of administrators to discharge the powers and functions of the municipalities was necessitated “due to non constitution of Municipal/Town Councils in the state of Nagaland owing to certain difficulties since 2010.”

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Bhopal gas tragedy survivors hold placards during a protest in new Delhi, Monday, november 10. The survivors commenced an indefinite hunger strike in the capital demanding additional compensation for those affected and revision of casualty figures after 30 years of suffering. On December 3, 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal in central India, affecting the lives of many. Activists say that thousands of children, born to parents directly exposed to the gas leak or poisoned by the contaminated water, are suffering from cleft lips, missing palates, twisted limbs. (AP Photo)

nsnA to start agitation on nov 24

KohImA, November 10 (mexN): The Nagaland Staff Nurse Association (NSNA) is scheduled to go on a three day mass casual leave from November 24 to 26, as part of their agitation against non compliance of demands made by the association. The NSNA comprising of more than 500 staffs has been pursuing for consideration of two demands to the concerned authority and the Nagaland state government for the welfare of registered nurses/ registered midwifes since September 25, 2013. Consequent upon

the non-compliance of the demands, the NSNA had also served an ultimatum dated February 21, 2014 along with a reminder letter dated July 21, 2014.

Demands of the NSNA include allowing BSc nursing staff, nurses/diploma holders to the line of teaching/tutoring or functions as specified in Sl.No. 5 to 9 of Schedule II of Nagaland Nursing Service Rules, 1988 and allowing general nursing staff nurses to the clinical line. It also includes the demand that gradation on the analogy of typists, stenographers etc. under the

state of Nagaland should be granted to the general nursing staff nurses A press note issued by President Catherine and General Secretary Tovili stated that the lackadaisical attitude of the government has compelled the association to take the step of agitation.

The first phase agitation will be in the form of 3 days mass casual leave from November 24 to 26 of all registered nurses/ registered midwifes in the 11 districts. The second phase will be decided in due course of time. All registered nurses/ registered midwifes, who are members of the

NSNA, have been informed to adhere by the decision of the association and take the leave compulsorily on the mentioned days.

The association has requested the public, especially patients of Government District Hospitals, CHCs and PHCs, to bear with the association and support in prayer for the fulfillment of its demands.

The association has also appealed to CANSSEA and all associations, federations, NGOs, groups and individuals to express solidarity with the association and voice their support.

AgArtAlA, November 10 (IANS): Arms and drug smuggling, terrorism, circulation of fake currency notes and border crimes are among the issues to be discussed when border guards of India and Bangladesh meeting Nov 17, an official said here Monday.

“The BSF (Border Security Force) officials would ask the BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) officials to dismantle the camps of northeast India terrorists, who have been running many camps in Bangladesh despite many such camps were destroyed by the security forces of that country,” a senior BSF official told IANS. He said: “At least 55 camps of northeast India militants are still functional in different parts of Bangladesh and opposite to Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam’s borders with that country.” The northeast militant outfits running camps in Bangladesh territories include National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), United Liberation Front of Asom and National Liberation Front of Tripura.

“After Bangladesh security forces undertook occasional crackdowns against the northeast India militants, some terrorists have taken shelter in the jungles of neighbouring Myanmar,” the BSF official said on the condition of anonymity.

Inspector generals of three frontiers of BSF in northeast India - Tripura, Meghalaya, MizoramCachar - would hold a fourday long border management meeting from Nov 17 with BGB officials at Tamabil in Bangladesh’s Sylhet district.

Meghalaya frontier Inspector General of BSF Sudhesh Kumar would lead the Indian team while Bangladesh delegation would be led by BGB’s Additional Director General

have seized huge fake Indian currencies and arrested a large number of people involved in circulating the fake currencies.

We would ask the BGB officials to share the information (with BSF) gathered about the fake currencies and their roots,” the official added.

In the meeting, the BSF would also propose to the BGB to hold mutual cultural and sports events on both sides of the border and adjoining cities and villages as part of the confidence building measures. The official said that the BSF would also ask their BGB authorities to take effective measures to prevent attacks on BSF troopers and Indian villagers by the bordering people of Bangladesh.

Four Indian northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share an 1,880-km border with Bangladesh.

The mountainous terrain, dense forests and other hindrances make the unfenced borders porous and vulnerable, enabling illegal immigrants and intruders cross over without any hurdle.

India is erecting a fence and putting up floodlights all along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram to check transborder movement of militants, prevent infiltration and check border crimes.

India and Bangladesh to discuss terrorism and border crimes (northeastern region) Mohammad Latiful Haider.

Senior officials of India’s home ministry and Narcotics Control Bureau would also present in the meeting.

“Smuggling of arms and drugs and using northeastern states as corridors for their illegal hauling would also be discussed in the meeting. We would ask the BGB officials to take stringent steps to prevent such clandestine trading,” the BSF official added.

He said the BSF and BGB troopers are now holding coordinated patrolling along the border and the meeting would discuss about intensifying such joint patrolling in the sensitive and porous borders.

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India: Six out of 10 men admit ENSF questions sincerity of Nagaland government violence against wives, UN says

NeW DelhI, November 10 (thomSoN reuterS FouNDAtIoN): Six out of 10 Indian men admit to having perpetrated violence against their wives or partners, with men who experienced discrimination as children or faced financial stresses more likely to be abusive, said a study released on Monday.

The report - by the United Nations World Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Washingtonbased International Center for Research on Women - polled 9,205 men, aged 18 to 49, across seven states in India to understand their views on masculinity, partner violence and son preference.

Violence was defined as emotional such as insults, intimidation and threats, or physical and sexual such as pushing, punching and rape. It also included economic abuse in which a man did not permit his wife or partner to work or took her earnings against her will.

“Many men in India act in a manner that is fairly predetermined by their gendered roles and expectations, socio-economic characteristics and childhood experiences,” said the “Masculinity, Intimate Partner Violence and Son Preference” report.

“Men who experience economic stress were more likely to have perpetrated violence ever or in the past 12 months. This may be because of norms related to masculinity, which reinforce the expectation that men are primary economic providers for their households.”

The highest reports of violence came from Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, said the report, with more than 70 percent of men in

these regions admitting to being abusive towards their wives and partners.

Physical Violence Most Common The study, which also polled 3,158 women, said more than half - 52 percent - of women said they had experienced some form of violence during their lifetime.

Physical abuse such as being kicked, slapped, choked and burned was the most commonly reported, with 38 percent of women saying they had faced such abuse. This was followed by emotional, sexual and economic violence respectively.

The reason less women reported being victims than men reported being violent was a feeling of shame or fear of social stigma, said the report. They may have also believed such acts were normal in a relationship and expected men to exert some control on their lives, it added.

Women who were discriminated against as children were three to six times more likely to experience violence. “Women who experienced and observed discrimination or violence growing up are more likely to justify it as adults and may therefore not resist circumstances that may trigger intimate partner violence,” the report said.

The head of UNFPA in India, Frederika Meijer, said that this research into the causes of violence would help to structure programmes to engage men and boys more effectively. “It identifies triggers that could enable them to become change agents in addressing gender discrimination,” Meijer said at the launch of the report on the sidelines of the MenEngage conference aimed at getting men involved in gender equality.

DImAPur, November 10 (mexN): The Eastern Naga Students Federation (ENSF) has expressed discontent at the “dead wood” attitude of the Nagaland state government to its commitments on several issues. “Such attitude can no longer be tolerated,” stated a press note from the ENSF. The ENSF reiterated its demand for NPSC prelim centres to be set up at Longleng and Kiphire and further demanded that the state government uphold and fulfil its November 26, 2013 agreement under the Department of School Education and Home Department. It also reminded the Nagaland state Chief Secretary to convene a High Level Committee on the non implementation of 25 percent job reservation.

The ENSF reminded that it had written to the NPSC Chairman on October 10 demanding the establishment of NPSC Preliminary examination centres at Longleng & Kiphire by 2015. The main purpose for the demand, it stated, was mainly the “economic aspects which affect the poor students while trying to step into the com-

petitive arena.” It however acknowledged the setting up prelim exam centres at Tuensang and Mon. The ENSF had set November 15, 2014 as the dead line for the state government to act on its assurances regarding the recruitment of 304 DEF personnel, the ENSF-Nagaland government agreement of November 26, 2013 and the assurance to strictly

• Reiterates demands for fulfilment of assurances • Detects anomalies and irregularities in govt departments implement the Mid Day Meal Scheme.

However, it lamented that the Federation has not received any official response till date. “This clearly indicates that the government as well as the concern de-

partment is neither serious nor sincere to its commitment and has rather taken the Eastern Nagas for granted with false commitment,” the ENSF stated.

The ENSF further informed that during its tour of Eastern Nagaland, “numerous anomalies and irregularities” were detected “especially in the department of Rural Development, Health & Family Welfare, PWD and Food & Civil Supply.” It alleged that “huge discrepancies and manipulation in the implementation system had deprived the rural folks in acquiring its due shares.”

In this regard the Federation has convened an emergency meeting with all the 6 federating units of the ENSF in the DUDA Guest House, Kohima at 10:00am on November 15. All presidents, general secretaries, speakers and the tribal advisors to the ENSF have been informed to attend the said meeting without fail. On special observatory bench, representatives from ENPO, ENWO, ENGOA, ENLU, ENSUK and all former ENSF executives have also been asked to attend the said meeting.

‘streamline govt machinery to tackle chaos’

DImAPur, November 10 (mexN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today called upon the NPF government to “streamline the entire government machinery” in order to tackle the “grim situation of total chaos” facing the state. A press note from the NPCC Media Cell advised that the Nagaland state government “should rather settle down to the process of rectifying its own mistakes.”

It questioned as to how a deficit of Rs 1252.45 crore “is accepted as normal when the state is currently on a plan holiday for the second consecutive year” halting major developmental works, many government not getting their salary on time and payment to contractors long due.

The NPCC further counseled against making compari-

sons with other states “when our own state is in shambles as a result of mis-governance.”

This, it stated has been “the ploy of the NPF government to hoodwink the people.” When government employees figures in Manipur is 65,000, 35,000 in Sikkim, 45,000 in Arunachal and 55,000 in Meghalaya, “how did Nagaland land up with over 1,25,000 employees?” questioned the NPCC. This, it alleged, is a result of “random political appointment carried out by the NPF government for the past 12 years without paying scant regards to the 13th FC recommendation that the states ought to spend 35% of their budget on salaries of government employees.”

For Nagaland state, the 13th FC assessment of salary payment was at Rs 1474.85 crore for

one year, but during 2012-13, a total expenditure of Rs 2570.32 crore was incurred, Rs 3119.73 crore for 2013-14 and over Rs 3580 crore estimated for 201415, informed the NPCC. It alleged that the “enormous escalation was due to the random political appointments over the years by the NPF government.” In 2011-12, it informed that the total number of state government employees was at 1,10,038, which “leapfrogged” to 1,20,819 by 2012-13, an increase of 10,781 employees appointed within a year. By 201314, another 4791 employees were further appointed taking the figure to 1,25,309 serving employees, it added. With an excess of 54,689 employees, Nagaland state needs to retrench 46,599 employees for it to maintain financial stability, the NPCC said.

However, instead of retrenching the employees, the NPCC alleged that “random backdoor appointments continued unabated,” bringing the state to a situation where the salary expenditure gobbles up 60% of the total revenue expenditure which is over and above the 35% limit set by the 13th FC. By “continuously issuing thousands of appointments through back door,” the NPCC lamented that Nagaland state is now “saddled with thousands of ghost employees who continue to claim salary without reporting for work in different offices across the state.”

A prime example of this, the NPCC said is the School Education department, “where the issue of proxy teachers has hogged more headlines than any worthwhile achievement of the department.”

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Kohima’s cleanest schools award Kohima, November 10 (DiPr): Kohima Environment & Sanitation Award Distribution Ceremony for Kohima’s Cleanest Schools will be held on November 11 at NBCC HQ, Bayavü Hill, Kohima at 3:00 P.M. Chief Minister of Nagaland, T. R. Zeliang and Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Yitachu will be the Chief Guest and Guest of Honor respectively. The programme is being organised by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council.

According to the programme, Secretary Kohima Env. & Sanitation of NBCC, Lithrongla Tongpi (NCS) will be the chairperson while President Kohima Baptist Pastore’s Fellowship, Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao will said the invocation. Adviser, Kohima Env. & Sanitation of NBCC & Gen. Secretary, NBCC, Rev. Dr. Anjo Keikung will give the welcome address while Jt. Secretary, Kohima Env. & Sanitation of NBCC & Chief Engineer, PHED, Er. Kevisekho Kruse will give a brief report on the activities of Kohima Env. & Sanitation of NBCC and Member, Kohima Env. & Sanitation of NBCC & KVC Official, Helievio Solo will give a submission of Representation on Sanitation on behalf of the Schools of Kohima.

Other highlights included special number by Baptist High, Solo by Ledilhounuo Sekhose, Awards Announcement and Benediction by Asst. Treasurer, Kohima Env. & Sanitation of NBCC & Associate Pastor, Sumi Baptist Church, Kohima, Dr. Hokheto Chophi.

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ANCSF appeal for implementation of NCDC schemes

Kohima, November 10 (mexN): While reiterating its gratitude to the State DAN Government headed by Chief Minister, the All Nagaland Co-operative Societies Federation (ANCSF) moved that implementation of National Co-operative Development Corporation (NCDC) sponsored schemes is delayed or banned may be reviewed and lifted at the earliest for implementation.

“Since the NCDC has been promoting and financing a wide range of economic activities in the rural areas as there is not World Orphans' Day 2014, which falls on every second Monday of November, was organised by Mission Love in collabora- other institution in the tion with PowerComm and the Class of 2008, Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Kohima. A total of 106 children from country which is exclusiveGilgal Orphanage, Sharon Home of Hope, Noah's Ark Ministries and El Shaddai Home participated in the Day’s event that ly meant for meeting the rewas held at Niathu Resorts, sponsored by Niathu Group. This year marks the second celebration. quirement of Co-operators

hence delaying or banning the NCDC schemes is a great loss to the State,” said President RK Mekro.

A press note issued by Mekro stated the Federation further viewed that the state is under the category of least developed. It requested the government to pay special attention to the co-operative sectors to uplift the rural economy and not to raise any further points for delaying the implementation of NCDC as a mere excuse of loan recovery since there is recovery section in the department for the purpose.

Under the cimrcumstances, the ANCSF urged the State Government to put for implementation of NCDC schemes on the right

Development agendas discussed at Tuensang DPDB

TueNsaNg, November 10 (DiPr): District Planning and Development Board Meeting was held on November 10 at DC’s Conference Hall Tuensang. The Chairman of the forum, Parliamentary Secretary for CAWD, Economics and Statistics R. Tohanba also attended the meeting. Almost all the designated members of the Forum attended the meeting.

The meeting had a review for the construction Parliamentary Secretary R. Tohanba addresses the District Planning and Development and up gradation of the CHC Chessore and was Board Meeting held on November 10 at DC’s Conference Hall Tuensang. (DIPR Photo)

decided to send the matter for proposal. The forum also discussed to put up the proposal for the construction of the recently razed down Tuensang Market to government level to take up matter in the priority concern. Proposal for the up gradation and grandin-aid to Eden School Yangli under SDEO Tuensang was also discussed for approval. The agenda for the Construction of the Convention hall at Tuensang town was also discussed to forward, and was decided to set up a committee un-

der DP&DB for the construction site verification as per the criteria and to submit the proposal.

Discussion on the repairing of the Dikhu to Tuensang Road where the Board decided to repair the same with the departmental voluntary collection to be plyable for the festive seasons. The review on the ongoing physical identification basing cabinet memorandum on Casual workers and wage workers verification was reported to all the members by the SDO(C) Tuensang.

Wokha DPDB sensitizes on NCF Chennai organizes Unplugged Rejoice 2014 November 10 (mexN): The self-certification of documents CheNNai, Naga Christian Fellowship Chennai (NCFC)

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WoKha, November 10 (DiPr): The monthly District Planning and Development Board meeting was held on November 10, at Deputy Commissioner Conference Hall. DC Wokha A. Robin Lotha chaired the meeting.

Self-certification of documents like Mark sheet, Birth Certificate etc by the applicant was explained by the Chairman and reminded all Officers to act accordingly as per directive received from the government.

Reviewing the last meeting minutes regarding submission of data and documents of all work charged, casual and contingency employees, the DC reminded the departments who have not submitted the same to submit at

the earliest, stating that the committee could not adhere with the Government Notification and finding hard to start its exercise.

The issue of acquiring Public Ground at Wokha headquarters was discussed and decided for further necessary action. DPO, District AIDS Prevention & Control Unit (DAPCU) highlighted for Blood donation with a start from the Board members. In this regard the board discussed and suggested to generalise from volunteers. It is decided that the next DPDB meeting will be held outside the district headquarter with picnic cum DPDB meeting. Screening of documentaries on Nagaland Statehood was screened during the meeting by DPRO, Wokha.

during their annual musical event 'Rejoice' organized acoustic praise and worship on November 9 where NCFC praise and worship team mesmerized the congregation with various contemporary songs and music.

Kinitoli Jakha, Temsuwapang Aier, Limanungsang Jamir, Leethongmong Chang and Octave Singers also presented special songs.

Meanwhile, the word of God was shared by pastor Wapangtoshi based on Philippians 4:4 by encouraging to rejoice always about what has gone before, present and what our future holds which is the heaven. Moreover, the special guest artists of the program me were Chennai's well-known pianist Emmanuel Samuel and noted Naga musician Mhathung Odyuo.

Participants of Unplugged Rejoice 2014 organised by Naga Christian Fellowship Chennai held on November 9.

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track and make it operational without further delay.

The All Nagaland Cooperative Societies Federation (ANCSF) conveyed gratitude to the department of co-operation and the State Government for the proper implementation of ICDP Scheme through Primary Co-operative Societies in the three districts, Mon, Zunheboto and Dimapur for the upliftment of rural co-operators.

Further, the ANSCF urge to continue this project by the State Government and may propose the district like Peren, Kiphire and Longleng for implementation to raise the poor rural areas of Nagaland and its people.

Schools under Dimapur district informed

DimaPur, November 10 (mexN): Children with lesser form of disabilities in school going children are unnoticed by parents as well as by teachers and these children may be at risk for school failure. Screening procedures are an important part of the assessment process to identify children who have disabilities.

To remedy problems of identification, Christian Institute of Health and Research (CIHSR)Dimapur have developed an screening checklist for different forms of disabilities such as intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), specific learning disabilities, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder, emotional disorder, visual and hearing impairment.

This in turn will help teachers ease the child’s burden by providing appropriate education.

Therefore, all government and private schools under Dimapur district are informed to cooperate with Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research (CIHSR) team as and when they visit your school. This was informed in a press release issued by R. Amongla Jamir, Dy. District Education Officer, Dimapur.

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Basic Entrepreneurial Skills Training graduation day held Kohima, November 10 (mexN): The graduation day function for the trainees of the Basic Entrepreneurial Skills Training (BEST) was held at DUDA Guest House, Kohima. The program saw eleven trainees successfully completing the training program.

Neichute Doulo, CEO of Entrepreneurs Associates after handing out the incentives earned by the trainees

during their practical selling skills training exhorted them to never give up as they commence their entrepreneurial journey. He also hoped to see a high success rate from this batch of trainees encouraging them to think of possibilities ahead of them and developing a 'can do' attitude.

DUDA Director K. Libanthung Lotha urged the trainees to wisely im-

plement the various learning gained from the training while also thanking EA for giving valuable exposure through the many activities carried out during the training. Project Officer Zakie Angami also gave an overview of the activities under the BADP Capacity Building and also wished the graduating trainees all success.

Following this was short speeches from all the train-

ees who were all grateful for the opportunity given to them through this training.

Shiroi Lily Shaiza, Corporate Manager gave the vote of thanks, Ela Susan James, EA Representative, chaired the program.

The two-month long BEST program was a collaboration between DUDA under Border Areas Development Program (BADP) Capacity Building 2014-15

who had nominated trainees from 7 blocks from the 4 districts under this project. Entrepreneurs Associates executed the training covering varied topics on entrepreneurship including soft skills and technical skills, market surveys, door to door selling and roped in well established and experienced First Generation Entrepreneurs as Resource persons.

EUUN executive meeting on November 13

Kohima, November 10 (mexN): The Educated Unemployed Union Nagaland (EUUN) will be holding its executive meeting on November 13 at 1:00 pm at 'The coming Generation' Conference Hall, (Tokeye Complex, Top Floor, Near HDFC Bank, Razhü Point, Kohima) to discuss some important issues pertaining to the union. A press note issued by Presdient Kevisesieno Vizo and General Secretary Tegibu Tep has requested all the office bearers, unit representatives and Advisors to attend the meeting without fail.

Children participate in various competition events during the celebration of advance Children’s Day at Chavara Home on November 9. DCPO Dimapur was the chief guest while Vipotoli, was the guest of honor.

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DM Computer, Dimapur was inaugurated by Wezope Kenye DC Dimapur and graced by Rev. N Paphino on November 8.

Homoeopathy Cum Physiotheraphy medical camp held

visWema, November 10 (mexN): The Nagaland Institute of Health Environment & Social Welfare (NIHESW) Kohima and Janjati Vikas Samity Nagaland organised free Homoeopathy Cum Physiotheraphy medical camp on November 9 at Viswema Village under Kohima district, Nagaland. About 50 patients suffering from various ailments were treated and provided with free medicines. The organiser thank shri.

Adu, Chairman,Viswema Village Council for supporting the medical camp and doing all necessary arrangement for the successful conduct of the camp. Dr. O.M. Dubey, HMD (London), Dr. Lozhoho Khanyo, BHMS and Zakieleto, Physiotherapist conducted the camp.

The organizers in a press note thank the medical team for conducting the camp successfully and look forward for their continuous support in the days to come for the sack of humanity.

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for peace talks going This MizoraM village knew no criMe: Process at good pace: UlFa chairman until a teacher’s arrest for molesting 27 SAicHAl, November 10 (THe iNdiAN exPreSS): Till last month, Saichal, a remote village in Champhai district in east Mizoram, had never reported any crime. But that changed last week, with the arrest of a school teacher, H Lalhmingmawia, 30, on charges of molesting at least 27 students — aged between eight to 12 years — since 2011.

The village of about 200 families — most of them related to one another — is still in shock. “Frankly, we don’t even know how we ought to feel,” said P L Zuiliana, a resident.

It was Zuiliana who first heard a group of school girls discussing their teacher’s behaviour on the evening of November 2. “I scolded them and told them not to accuse someone with lies, but one of them replied, ‘It’s not a lie, he touched me till I started bleeding.’

That’s when they got my attention,” recalled Zuiliana.

As word spread, some parents met that night to discuss the issue. Among

them was a retired teacher of the lone government primary school in the village — the grandfather of a girl who was allegedly raped thrice by Lalhmingmawia, the last time on October 30. “The next day, we went to the school and told a teacher about what we had heard. We started talking to the girls and made a list of all those who said they had been molested.

In all, 32 girls told us the teacher had touched them in an inappropriate manner,” said the retired teacher.

The police later said 27 girls had been molested. “I asked my granddaughter why she never said anything to me or to her parents or why she did not just cry for help. She said she was always raped behind closed doors,” said the retired teacher.

According to parents of the victims, Lalhmingmawia would ask those who did not know their lessons to stay back for extra classes. That was apparently when he used to

Northeast Briefs Bill to enable Mizo women to inherit property AizAwl, November 10 (PTi): The Mizo women will be able to inherit property and their marriages cannot be terminated at the whims of their husbands once the proposed Mizoram Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance of Property Bill, 2014, is passed by the Assembly. The Bill will be introduced in the next Assembly session beginning tomorrow, S R Zokhuma, Additional Secretary to the Assembly said. The Bill has already been submitted to the Assembly Secretariat by the government for introduction in the session, he said. Women organisations in the state have been demanding legislation on divorce and inheritance of property for a long time as the Mizo women can be easily divorced by their husbands as per the Mizo Customary law. The Customary Law also does not permit women to inherit anything except in special cases.

Arunachal needs special attention: Rijiju mumbAi, November 10 (PTi): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju has said Arunachal Pradesh needs special attention from the Center especially on the developmental front. "After 1962 Chinese aggression, Indian government paid less attention to the state. The same attitude will not be repeated again," he assured the gathering at the valedictory function of threeday tourism festival at Mechuka in West Siang district yesterday. He assured to pursue with the concerned central ministry for special funding for Adventure@Mechuka festival to attract more tourists to it and mountainous Arunachal Pradesh. Rijiju said improvement in connectivity would transform the pristine valley to a major tourist hub, an official communique said here. Responding to representations from the general people, he said Mechukha and Monigong would benefit from the proposed Tawang to Vijoynagar border road and the government was ready to invite foreign consortiums for it. On compensation to owners of land in Mechuka taken for various projects, Rijiju said he had discussed with the authority so that land donors get their compensation.

Gold smuggling racket busted GuwAHATi, November 10 (iANS): The Government Railway Police (GRP) Monday arrested three youths at the Guwahati Railway Station and recovered about 9.5 kg of gold from their possession. "The gold, in the form of ten biscuits, was recovered during a routine checking of luggage at the Guwahati Railway Station.

The youths were bound for Kolkata and had come from Manipur," GRP officials said. "The three youths had boarded the Kamrup Express bound for Kolkata," police said. In August, four persons, including two women, were arrested from the Kamrup Express at Dimapur railway station in Nagaland with 4.33 kg of gold.

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“We did not see the signs. The girls would wear leggings even when it was very warm. We would scold them, but they would insist on wearing leggings… They also hated the sessions when the teacher asked them their lessons,” said the mother of a victim.

The villagers pointed out that the teacher was an active member of the church’s local Christian youth unit, and was a father of three children — the older two attend the same school. He was hired by the village employment committee in 2011, with the villagers contributing their NREGA wages to pay his salary.

“We are a small village but we wanted to give our children a good education.

We got the primary school upgraded to an English medium school in 2011, but we only had one regular teacher who was the headmistress. There were two non-regular teachers employed under the SSA, but we thought it would be

a good idea to get a regular teacher from the village and pay him from our own pocket,” said Zohmangaiha, president of the village council.

A day after the matter came to light, the parents of all the schoolchildren were called for a meeting.

“Of course some of us were angry and wanted to go to the teacher’s house and take the law into our own hands, but most agreed that we should call the police. The girl’s grandfather reasoned that we should go by law. We respected his plea because he is one of the most educated men here and is also a leader of the church. We have never had a crime in this village, let alone something like this, so we were clueless about what to do,” said C Lalnunpuia, a community leader and vice-president of the village’s Young Mizo Association unit, the state’s largest mass-based voluntary organisation.

On the evening of November 4, Lalhmingmawia went to the retired teach-

er’s house. “He made some excuse about wanting to talk to my granddaughter…

I got very angry and told him he was not allowed to meet her,” said the retired teacher.

The same evening, a contingent of riot police arrived in the village. “We were all surprised. We did not know what they were doing in our village,” said Lalnunpuia. It turned out the child protection office in Champhai had heard of the goings-on at Saichal, and had sent a police team to prevent any violence.

“There was no violence,” said a police officer who was part of the group that arrived in the village. “The only way I can explain the situation is that these villagers are really very innocent. There has never been a crime there and they just did not know what to do.”

The police contingent arrested Lalhmingmawia and took him to Ngopa, the nearest town. Two days later, he was taken to Champhai, the district capital, and sent to judicial custody.

New delHi, November 10 (iANS): The process to hold peace talks between the ULFA and the central government is going at a good pace and a sense of optimism has emerged that Assam, by being part of India, can create a positive impact and grow together, the insurgent group's chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, said Monday.

"State and central governments are till now cooperating with us and we are hopeful that the new government at the Centre will come up with a viable solution," the leader of the protalk faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom said at a seminar on "Insurgence to Resurgence" held as part of the ongoing North East Festival here. " The government should not go on and on with the talk process and there should be a meaningful solution to this problem," he added.

Observing that the ULFA opposed the colonial attitude of the state machinery, he said that "we want an administration

in Assam and the whole northeastern region without colonial attitude".

"We do not want our culture to disappear the way ancient rich civilisation of Tigris Euphrates has disappeared," Rakjhowa said.

"We don’t want to witness bloodshed the way people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon are witnessing.”

WB to consider New DoNER minister calls Assam agri project meeting of NE CMs on Nov 19 New delHi, November 10 (PTi): The Centre has convened a meeting of chief ministers of all the eight northeastern states on November 19 to chart out a concrete time-bound roadmap to ensure equitable development and economic uplift of the region.

"A meeting of chief ministers of all eight northeastern states has been called on November 19," newly-appointed Minister for DoNER Jitendra Singh told PTI after taking over charge of the Ministry.

He has also written individual letters to each of the eight chief ministers spelling out his vision for the growth and development of the northeastern region.

Singh also said that development and concern for northeast are high on the agenda of the NDA government and he was conscious of the faith and responsibility that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reposed in him by entrusting this charge to him.

The northeastern states have their own peculiarities and adversities, Singh said, adding there was also a perception among

the people of the region that they were not getting the deserved attention.

He said he will work to ensure that the pace of progress and development in northeast are the same as that in the rest of the country.

The chief ministers whom Singh addressed individual letters are Nabam Tuki of Arunachal Pradesh, Tarun Gogoi of Assam, Okram Ibobi Singh of Manipur, Mukul Sangma of Meghalaya, Lal Thanhawla of Mizoram, T R Zeliang of Nagaland, Pawan Chamling of Sikkim and Manik Sarkar of Tripura.

He also wrote similar letters to the governors Lt. Gen (retd.) Nirbhay Sharma (Arunachal Pradesh), Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (Assam), Krishan Kant Paul (Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram), Padmnabha Acharya (Nagaland and Tripura) and Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil (Sikkim).

Earlier Singh was greeted by senior officers of the ministry led by Secretary DoNER R Vijaykumar on his arrival at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe office of the ministry.

Two locals kidnapped in Tripura AGArTAlA, November 10 (iANS): Militants have kidnapped two tribal men in Tripura, police said here Monday.

Police suspect that militants belonging to the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) might have kidnapped Alendra Tripura, 31, and Gunadhar Tripura, 22.

"Some NLFT guerrillas raided the huts of the two tribal men at Raishabari in (northern) Tripura Sunday night and abducted them," Inspector General of Police (police control) Nepal Das told IANS here.

"The rebels might have taken the hostages to Ban-

gladesh as the place is just a few km away from the India-Bangladesh border.

We have asked the Border Security Force to hold a flag meeting with the BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) to rescue the captives," he said.

Senior district and police officials along with reinforcement have rushed to Raishabari, around 200 km from Agartala, and launched a combing operation to nab the guerrillas.

Police said this was the fifth terrorist incident in Tripura this year.

The NLFT militants, who set up camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar,

have been kidnapping people from Tripura and Mizoram to collect ransom.

Meanwhile, 11 workers, residents of southern Assam, kidnapped by NLFT militants Oct 10 from Mizoram along the interstate border with Tripura, were released by the terrorists Friday.

"The NLFT guerrillas initially demanded Rs.30 lakh as ransom for the release of the 11 people. The families of the hostages despite their poverty collected Rs.5 lakh and gave it to the militants as a pre-condition to the release of the captives," a Tripura police official said.

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GuwAHATi, November 10 (PTi): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said the World Bank has agreed in principle to consider a mega project in the state under Assam Agricultural Competitiveness Project (AACP) proposed by the state.

The new project, 'Assam Agricultural Commercialization and Rural Transformation Project', worth Rs 12,000 crore, was submitted to the Centre on June 4 and the proposal has been cleared by the Ministry of Agriculture and was now pending with the Planning Commission, an official release said.

World Bank's Country Director for South Asia Region Rajni Khanna appreciated the progress in all sectors under AACP with particular reference to successful innovative activities including the establishment of a statewide groundwater monitoring system, farmer producer organization and a pilot program of using solar power for running irrigation pumpsets, the release said.

A total of 4,97,612 beneficiaries in about 1,09,406 b eneficiar y groups across agriculture, fisheries, livestock, dairy and forestry sectors have benefited so far.

The pro-talk leader, however, said that the date for the talks have not yet been finalised.

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I, Assam Rifles No. 75145, Rank-Havildar, Birsha Bahadur Chhetri, S/ o. Lt. Indra Bahadur Chhetri, Permanent Resident of Vill.- Bhakimli(Ward No. 04), P.O. & P.S.- Beni Bazar, Dist.- Myagdi, Zone-Dhaula girl, StateWest Nepal and presently residing at Assam Rifles Transit Camp, Arma, A.H. Road, Dimapur District, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as under:1. That, I am a bonafide and law abiding citizen of India.

2. That, out of mistake and ignorance the name and surname of my wife and children is mistakenly entered in my service records, Bank account and official, documents of my children. The wrong names/ surname appearing in the following ways:Sl. No. Particulars 1 Wife's Name 2 Son's Name 3 Daughter's Name

Wrong Name/Surname Nanda Kali Karki i) Tej Bahadur Karki, ii) Navin Karki Asmita Karki

3. That, the aforesaid correct name/ surname should be read and rectified in the following ways:Sl. No. 1 2 3

Particulars Wife's Name Son's Name Daughter's Name

Correct Name/Surname Nanda Kali Chhetri i) Krishna Chhetri, ii) Nabin Chhetri Asmita Chhetri

4. That ,I have sworn this affidavit to declare the correct name and surname of my wife and children and further to rectify my service records, banks account, other official documents/records etc.

Deponent Solemnly affirmed and declared before me.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION CELL)

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Dated Kohima, the 12th December, 2013

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Whereas, due to non constitution of Municipal/ Town Councils in the State of Nagaland owing to certain difficulties since 2010, the State Government has been resorting to appoint Administrator(s) in exercise of Section 83 of the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001, to discharge the powers and functions of the Municipalities.

Whereas, in view of the p[rovissions made under Section 83 (2) of the Act, the Administrator(s) can perform the duties and functions of the Municipal body under the direction and control of the State Government. Therefore, after conscious and serious examination of the matter in its entirety, the State Government in exercise of its administrative competency issue this Office Memorandum.

1. The respective Administrator shall be officially designated as ADMINISTRATOR only and not by any other style.

2. The Administrator shall perform the powers and function of Municipal body in strict compliance with the provisions made under Section 83 of the Act and shall abide by the instructions issued by the State Government in the interest of the public safety and welfare.

3. In the matter of collection of tolls and fees in their respective jurisdiction, the Administrator shall execute a LEASE DEED with the Government approved LESSEES. The State Government through the Department of Urban Development, Municipal Affairs Cell reserved the right to settle the list of LESSEES exclusively for which the Department shall issue ByeLaw periodically for 1(one) year. The scheduled of items and rates shall be prescribed by the State Government in terms of Section 120 of the Act. 4. The Administrator shall maintain proper records of tolls and fees collected in their respective jurisdiction and expenditure incurred thereof in the management of the Municipal body which shall be verified and checked by the Department appointed auditor after every 3 (three) months.

5. All the projects and plan lay out in the respective Municipal/ Town Councils shall be formulated and executed with prior approval of the State Government through the Department of Urban Development, Municipal Affairs Cell.

6. This Office Memorandum is issued in accordance with Rule 22 of the Rules of Executive Business in Nagaland.

Sd/MHONBEMO PATTON Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Nagaland

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A Noble Initiative Turned Into A Farce!

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n a bid to improve India’s image the Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyam or Clean India Mission on October 2nd to clean parks, streets, worship places, schools and public places. Modi invoked that public health is one of the most important areas of his government and considered it along with others as top priorities. He also promised that all schools will have separate toilets for boys and girls. Clean environment is the base indicator of quality life. It reflects the overall health and also the future of the nation. This is why Modi gave more importance and thus dedicated the Clean India as a mission to the nation. The whole campaign was kicked-off by the Prime Minsiter on the birth anniversary of the Father of our nation Gandhi who wanted a clean India. For Gandhi driving the colonial power was next to that of clean India.

The campaign is laudable and timely. But the reality is harsh and horrendous. For instance, about 600 million people nearly 50 percent of country’s population— defecate in the open according to UNICEF Report. Toilets (both public and private) and disposal of wastes/garbage are the dire problems being faced by half of our population. Public hygiene is pathetic in India. Many children die because of poor hygiene. Indian public by and large is quite used to throwing garbage on the streets and in other public places.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen to change this attitude with Clean India Campaign. He in a symbolic way picked up a broom and thus started cleaning a por-

tion. He spearheaded the campaign nearby a Valmiki colony in the Capital. Many enthusiastically followed suit. Prime Minister’s intention of transforming a clean and hygienic India is to be welcomed. He even went to the extent of saying that the campaign should go beyond party politics and ideological divides.

It should transcend the parochial divisions and thus instil patriotic spirit to each and every Indian. The message is clear in such ways that it should go beyond private spatial locations to public spatial locations. In India the attitude of majority of Indians is if it comes to private space they want to keep their private space spick and span. While on the other, when it comes to the public space they tend to think as if it is not theirs and so throw the garbage in the public places since it does not belong to them.

India is a country of paradoxes.

For some there are more toilets than what they require, while for 130 million Indian households do not have toilets. The same scenario prevails in the Indian schools, where majority of schools either don’t have sufficient toilets or don’t maintain them properly. Those schools that have toilets may not be having sufficient water that adds to the existing problems. So, at least at the ideational levels Clean India Campaign attempts to bridge the private-public spaces and also government-citizen under the rubric of civic sense or duty amongst all.

The five-year long drive known as ‘Clean India’ seems to have worked well during the first few weeks. Hardly a month passed by, to my surprise, the Swachch Bharat Campaign seems to be not all clean

as it looks from outside and it has become a big joke to laugh at ourselves in electing our representatives who play to the galleries just for the sake of publicity and not at all committed to the cause. Let me cite an incidence that happened in the Capital of our country. The municipality workers were brought in to litter the garbage on an area which was clean and thus to made to look like garbage with a heap of leaves. Later, the BJP leader, Satish Upadhaeyay and Sha Zia llmi posed themselves along with others as if they were cleaning huge debris. This incident took place outside the India Islamic Centre in New Delhi.

India Islamic Centre always looks tidy without any debris and litter. Since it was launched by the PM of India the bureaucrats, politicians, corporate, middle class, celebrities and others jumped into the band wagon for different reasons. While narrating the incidence to the Times 9 P.M News Channel (06-11-14) the person who represented India Islamic Centre said that the Muslim locales were to be kept clean and so the Centre was fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the Prime Minister. For any rational person, distinguishing the public space or locales as Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Jain or Buddhist or whatever is unacceptable. It dilutes the very essence and spirit of Swachch Bharat Campaign. When we talk of Clean India it implies India per se. We are first Indians and then other identities add to.

Swachch Bharat Campaign has been reduced to an event where the celebrities come and pose for photos and publicity. There are diverse interests. Some come for publicity,

others to please the PM, while a few are genuine. This episode has become a dirty joke and a mockery to an initiative which is genuine. Those who are serious about it should go to the slums and other public areas and start cleaning up the debris and garbage lying near the locales where the poor and vulnerable stay.

Not in the places where everything is clean. So, Swachch Bharat Campaign has become a farce and a national shame. The whole episode that took place was in India Islamic Centre which was stage-managed.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyam or Clean India Mission is peoples’ movement. For Clean India movement to grow and sustain, people should be committed to its very idea and purpose. It is beyond politics, and so, every Indian should be inspired by patriotism. At this juncture, I would like to take the example of North-East Region where toilets and water facilities are available in all the public places. Even in remote places when we travel by private or government buses there are comfort rooms available for women and men. The people of Northeast are conscious and aware of the fact that they are not supposed to littler or urinate in the public places. It calls for discipline and civic sense.

Unlike the North and South India, the Northeast is much cleaner and the people are much disciplined in maintaining the public spaces clean. Therefore, education and awareness will have to come first and the others automatically follow through.

Dr. John Mohan Razu, Professor, Social Ethics, CTC, Mokokchung

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New Delhi, November 10 (iANS): Healthcare providers in India are expected to spend $1.1 billion on information technology products and services in 2014, an increase of 5 percent over 2013, Gartner said here Monday.

This forecast includes spending by healthcare providers, hospitals and hospital systems, as well as ambulatory service and physicians’ practices, on internal services, software, IT services, data centre, devices and telecom services, Gartner said in a statement. Gartner is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company.

“IT services, which includes consulting, implementation, IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing, will be the largest overall spending category throughout the forecast period within the healthcare providers sector. It is expected to reach $300 million in 2014, up from

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$280 million in 2013 - with the consulting segment growing 10%,” it said.

“India has a new government and the ministry of health will closely examine ways to deliver cost effective healthcare across the country. Delivering wide access to healthcare in an affordable manner will be a top priority for the wider public healthcare system,” said Anurag Gupta, research director at Gartner.

“The organized private healthcare sector will continue its expansion across tier II and tier III cities, as well as niche sectors like maternity and child health. We expect emphasis on eHealth, mobile health, telemedicine, public private partnership and leveraging innovative delivery models,” he added. Internal services will achieve the highest growth rate amongst the spending categories forecast to be 18% in 2014.

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The bright Stars and Heroes of Naga nation

n those days 1970s, the clear intention of the Government of India (GoI) was to force the Nagas to accept Indian Constitution at gun points and thus on August 31, 1972, the GoI unilaterally abrogated the Ceasefire Agreement with Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN), which was signed on May 25, 1964, and hence escalated its brutal scorch-earth operation in Nagaland in 1975 by deploying more than five Divisions of Indian Army to Nagaland adding to existing Para Military Assam Rifles. All villages and paddy fields of Nagaland became with full of Indian Army. The villagers were concentrated in their own villages without allowing them to tend their fields. Killing, beating, torturing, raping and molesting women were being committed by Indian Army and all Nagas, irrespective of gender or age, suffered beyond human endurance at the cruel hands of Indian Army. Many Naga national workers were killed and those who could no longer withstand the repressive measure of the enemy had surrendered. Remained few Naga national leaders were cornered in their periled lives and the Naga nation reached at the brink of its doom.

In such political cataclysmic, the FGN leaders had no option to talk with the GoI for any solution and even cannot expect for national survival either.

They knew, even if they have any agreement signed with the GoI, it would be only a surrender accord. But the FGN leaders, led by Eno(Mr.) Zashei Huire, Kedahge (President) of FGN, believed themselves that they could play politics with Indian bureaucrats to save Naga nation from such periled situation. That’s proved the fact that they have no intention to surrender the nation but nodded to have peace talks with the GoI, when they were contacted by Nagaland Peace Council (NPC), so that they might have a chance to play political game in order to save Nagaland.

As a result, thirty nine years ago on this day November 11, 1975, the Shillong Accord was signed, but in the past 39 years the FGN and GoI had never held a single talk on the basis of the said accord in an attempt to solves the protracted Indo-Naga conflict. Because the two Governments (FGN & GoI) did not ratify the accord and hence the accord faced its instant death soon after it was signed. The Nagas have no political outcome of the accord except restoration of peace in the land.

As the FGN leaders have political wisdom, even if they have signed the accord, they played political game and the Naga nation had not fallen into the bound of the accord but saved from surrendering of Nagaland sovereignty, and today we are still proud of as a nation.

Not only that but also diverted our fight from the gun battle to political fight and now new generation has a chance to fight our enemy with the might of truth and historical facts through peaceful means. But the leaders of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN)

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condemned Eno Yallay and Eno Z. Ramyo, who played political game and saved the nation, as traitors.

On the other hand the NSCN leaders, who claimed themselves as saviors of the nation and heroes, are now deliberately attempting to sell out the Naga nation. In 2001, Isak-Muivah submitted their 31-point (now 33-point) competencies proposal to the GoI and based on it they have been holding talks with the GoI to negotiate for a solution within the framework of Indian Constitution. They proudly said, they have held more than eighty rounds of talks with the GoI in the past 17 years. The news on 28th October, 2014 said: (Quote) “The NSCN leadership also took the help of a number of internationally reputed legal experts to advise them on the finer points of the Constitution of India as the Government has already made it clear that a solution to the issues must be found within the framework of the Constitution” (Appeared under the caption “NSCN-IM & GoI agrees to expedite peace talks”).

(Unquote) Since the past more than sixty years hundreds and thousands of Nagas had not been sacrificed their lives for a solution within the framework of Indian Constitution but in defense of sovereignty of Nagaland. The Nagas have nothing to negotiate with the GoI but just asking to withdraw her armed forces nobly from Nagaland and solve the problem amicably instead of violence. To force the Nagas to accept Indian Constitution can never be a solution to protracted Indo-Naga conflict.

In July 1947, the father of Indian nation Mahatma Gandhi told the Naga leaders that India has no right to force the Nagas to join Indian Union, Thus the present GoI has no right to force the Nagas to accept Indian Constitution.

Yet, the fact is that since the formation of NSCN, the NSCN leaders faced no pressure or the war situation like in 1975 to compel them to accept the Indian Constitution, but after eliminating the great leaders of Nagaland they are deliberately attempting sell out the Naga nation by submitting their own proposal to the GoI without the knowledge of Naga people. The Naga people are regretted thinking what sort of the leaders they are, even attempting to kill the nation after they have eliminated Naga national leaders and innocent people.

While all these treacherous activities are flagrantly being committed against the Naga nation, I hope all right thinking Naga people will not fail to admire the great political acumen of Ramyo and Yallay who saved Naga nation with playing politics in 1970s from such overwhelmed and defeating by enemy.

Though they were condemned by imposter leaders, the Nagas regard and honor them as great leaders and true sons of the land, the bright Stars and Heroes of Naga nation.

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LOCAL AME-Nagaland threatens ‘Heralding peace through empathy’

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to stage sit-in protest

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Association of Mechanical Engineer (AME) Nagaland has decided to stage a sit-in protest, “agitating against the genuine demands falling into deaf ears.” The decision was made during the AME meeting held on November 8, 2014 regarding recruitment of mechanical engineers in various posts in PWD (Mechanical).

A press release from AME-Nagaland general secretary, Joyson Pfithu and president, Alemtoshi Imsong stated that two memorandums dated May 15, 2014 and October 17, 2014, have been submitted to the Commissioner & Secretary, PWD (Work & Housing), but the Association is yet to receive

any response regarding the memorandums.

The release also mentioned that the AME-Nagaland has been appealing to the authorities for strict implementations of the Engineering Service Rule (ESR) while recruiting various engineers in the said Department; which includes 60% through NPSC and 40% through Departmental Promotion for Assistant Mechanical Engineer and 90% through NPSC and 10% through Departmental Promotion for Junior Engineer.

The AME-Nagaland has also approached the Chief Minister of Nagaland for his intervention, the release informed, adding a positive reply is anticipated at the earliest.

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): Peace Channel organized a one-day Youth Peace and Cultural Festival at Alder College, Kohima on November 8 in collaboration with Planning and Co-ordination, Government of Nagaland and Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK). It was held under the theme "Heralding Peace through Empathy.”

Kekhriesalie D Vizo, ITS Commissioner and Secretary IT and CEO NECGS Nagaland Civil Secretariat during the inaugural function stated that keeping the empathy philosophy in mind is the most appropriate to bring peace in Nagaland as most have faced the same kind of situations for so many years and understand each other's feeling and hardship. He also emphasized that Nagaland

has to bring its own formula for durable peace, which is through Empathy.

Further, asserting that peace and security go together and advancement of human liberty and dignity strengthen the cause of World Peace, he said, peace should not be brought at the cost of human liberty and dignity. “Our forefathers were strong men and women who faced war and conflict yet they have fought and paved the way for peace for us.” He encouraged the younger generation to improve upon it through empathy not only in Nagaland, but the World at large.

The Director of Peace Channel, Fr. CP Anto also spoke on the occasion. In his message, he said youth can be the harbingers of change in the context of

violence emerging in an unprecedented manner in human society. “Looking at the world today any sensible person feels disheartened and even horrified to see the kind of violent act being committed by man against man,” he stated.

The urgent need he felt was to bring lasting peace in the minds and hearts of individuals and societal life by promoting peace education, an education to build relationships.

Lucas Meyase, former director of education spoke on theme ‘Heralding Peace through Empathy’. He exhorted the youth to be herald of Peace in the midst of violent conflicts. “One can be the messengers and advocates of peace if one is peaceful and passionate to build it. It is possible through transforming one-

self to transform the society,” he said. Cautioning against transferring hatred from one generation to another, he also stated that “peace without truth and justice is poison.”

Hovithal Southu, Director of Disaster Management ATI spoke on the topic ‘Your Culture Your Identity’. He shared personal experiences with the youth and also highlighted different elements that constitute our culture - symbols, language, beliefs and norms etc. He also enlightened the participants on the sources of identity and types of identity.

The event also witnessed cultural exchange program, talent show and Mr.& Ms. Ethnic Beauty where Ashmita Lama (LFHSS) & Niboto (RGHSS) were crowned as the winners.

ENSUD invites articles/ poems for magazine DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Union Dimapur (ENSUD) has requested its members (from all schools and colleges in Dimapur) to submit poems, quotations, or articles for the Silver Jubilee magazine before November 15 at the ENSUD treasurer’s residence located opposite Sub Jail, House No. 5.

Luklem further informed that ENSUD is organizing a seminar on child rights on November 14 in collaboration with Assisi Centre for Integrated Development (ACID) and supported by the State Child Protection Society at Sangtam Baptist Church Dimapur located at Duncan Bosti from 9:00 am onwards.

In this regard, ENSUD has requested the following to send 5 delegates Seminar on child each to attend the semirights on Nov 14 A press release from nar: Parent body, women ENSUD president, P Honko body and students’ body

of Konyak, Phom, Sangtam, Yimchunger, Chang, and Khiamniungan from Dimapur district.

It further appealed to the Eastern Naga Peoples’ Union Dimapur and Eastern Naga Women Organization Dimapur along with their units and sub-units to attend the seminar. It also requested all the Eastern Naga churches within Di- Minister for rural development & REPA CL John and others during the inaugural funcmapur district to send del- tion of electrification of Konyak Ahngjong at Vihokhu, Dimapur on November 10. egates, comprising deacon board, women department, and child education department to attend the seminar.

Naga Hoho and Ahoms to strengthen ties DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Naga Hoho and the Ahom Royal Society (ARS) have decided to have a cultural exchange programme within this year. This was decided during the meeting of the two bodies on November 8 at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur.

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a press release informed that during the meeting, both the organizations had a thorough discussion on the age old ties, folklore and recorded history between Nagas and Ahoms and also the historical matrimonial alliance between the two communities. Both the organizations, according to

the release, felt the need to strengthen the age old relationship as a neigbhouring community and to maintain peaceful and cordial relationship in the future.

At the same time, the two decided to have periodic consultative meeting for better and mutual understanding.

and they have witnessed thousands of birds arriving and getting safe passage through its territory, specifically Niuland and Kuhoboto areas. He further reiterated that the effort towards conservation is going stronger because of the stringent law passed by the government, sincere effort by the department and strong support and help coming from the village councils.

Further, stating that the innumerable numbers of bird arriving in the State from October to November demonstrate amazing evolutionary adaptations, and also carry the message of cohesive existence, the release reminded that conserving biodiversity is a shared responsibility and a renewed consciousness for conservation is the need of the hour for unity of beings.

ment. He also spoke on the importance and scope of citrus cultivation in the district.

Meanwhile, Chozulie Kikhi, Dy. Director of Horticulture shared the concept of forming Self Help Groups and activities involved in achieving the targets for self employment.

Benjamin Newmai, Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland, Horticulture

Department also encouraged the participants to take up horticulture crop farming seriously as it gives good returns. He pointed out that Peren district is blessed with good agro-climatic conditions and many horticulture crops like orange, large cardamom, Naga Mircha, passion fruit, pineapples and other horticulture crops could be grown without application

WOKHA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Limhathung Motsürüi Ekhung (LME) has urged the authority concerned to initiate action in the October 28 assault case which happened at Doyang Hydro Electric Project (DHEP) in Wokha.

A press release from LME chairman, SS Ezung and general secretary, Rhonbemo Murry informed that Renchio Yanthan, Joint Secretary of Limhathung

DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd. Dimapur is organizing National Handloom Expo at Urban Haat here for 15 days, from December 1 to15, sponsored by the Office of the Development Commissioner (Handloom), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

In this regard, Man-

Motsürüi Ekhung was assaulted on October 28 around 7:30 pm at DHEP allegedly by Y Wopan Enny and his group. Condemning the assault, the Ekhung asserted that the assault amounts to attempted murder. “The assault meted out is very beastly, savage, and inhuman.”

The victim, according to the release, had lodged an FIR at Wokha Police Station on October 28. However, it

aging Director T. Wati Ao has informed that interested co-operative societies, NGOs, apex societies, SHGs, etc. may apply to the Project Cell, NHHDC Ltd., Half Nagarjan, Dimapur, along with the copy of passport size photographs of the participants alongwith the application on or before November 25, 2014 during office hour. The application of the participants from the same fam-

MOKOKcHuNg, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): BJP Nagaland State unit organised the first phase of primary membership drive workshop at Cosmos Hall, Mokokchung on November 10. Delegates from Tuensang, Kiphire, Longleng and Zunheboto districts participated in the workshop, informed BJP general secretary and spokesperson, K James Vizo in a press release.

Speaking on the occasion, State BJP president, M Chuba Ao said that the party dream is for people from all tions. Amos also spoke on walks of lives to join in orthe system of traditional der to make a strong politidress code and its develop- cal party in the country. BJP ment from forefathers to the present and exhorted the people to live a civic life.

At the programme, cultural items were presented DIMAPuR, NOVEMby Eloe Hoho, Bhandari BER 10 (MExN): In an town, while history of the attempt to valve the evorigin of Tokhu Emong fes- er-growing popularity tival was spoken by Benri and demand of bamboo Yanthan. A tug of war com- products, the department petition also drew cheers of Land Resources in colfrom the crowd. laboration with Nagaland Earlier, the programme Bamboo Development began with an invocation Agency (NBDA) is orgafrom Pastor AG Church nizing a two-week trainChumchamo Tsopoe, spe- ing programme on bamcial song by Sulanthung boo furniture making for Humtsoe, while benedic- skilled and semi-skilled tion was pronounced by carpenters under IWMPs Associate Pastor, Baptist in Dimapur district.

Ekhumkho, Nongthothung, T h e p ro g r a m m e, followed by grand feast. which got underway this

of any chemical.

EAC, Tening also gave a short speech during the program, which was chaired by Jerry Patton, DHO Peren.

About 60 participants from 16 villages attended the program and received free seeds, tools and implements, according to a press release issued by Programme Coordinator, Horticulture Department.

Tokhu Emong celebrated in Akuk village, Bhandari Town WOKHA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): Akuk village in Wokha district celebrated Tokhu Emong at the village Government High School compound on November 7. Peter Lichamo Humtsoe, Deputy Commissioner of Peren and Er. Mhathung Kithan, Project Coordinator, Planning Department were the chief guest and guest of honour respectively.

In his address, Peter Lichamo acknowledged the accomplishments of the forefathers of the village. He stated that the forefathers have secured well for the generations of thousands Akuk people in terms of land and its resources. He also asked the Akuk people to remember the love and gift of

God for his Glory. He further encouraged the students of Akuk to be sincere and work hard in their studies to excel and bring achievement.

Meanwhile, Er. Mhathung Kithan, the guest of honour, reminded the people to understand the importance of Tokhu Emong Feast. He also exhorted the gathering to maintain honesty and punctuality in life.

A press release from Organizing Member Yanthithung informed that highlights of the program included presentation of folk songs by Hayili, Chankilan, Olongo khels, Renthan khen

by New band and Thungbenshan Kithan & party and special song by Sulanthung Odyuo, winner of the Nagaland Guitar Prodigy-2014.

The celebration was hosted and sponsored by Akuk Village Council and Akuk officers, it added.

(DIPR): Joining the rest of the Lotha community in the State, Bhandari town celebrated Tokhu Emong with traditional fervor. The Lotha community led by Tokhu Lhinsung Okho, Bhandari town organised a lively celebration exhibiting rich cultural traditions of the Kyong community at public ground, Bhandari on November 7.

Speaking during the celebration as chief guest, Principal, Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School, Rev. Fr. Amos Lotha urged the Lothas to remain united notwithstanding different church denomina-

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MEx FILE Ebola meeting time postponed KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): The Nagaland state Home Department (Political branch) today informed that the meeting convened to discuss precautionary measures regarding Ebola has been postponed to 3:00 pm on November 11. The meeting was previously scheduled to be held at 12:00 pm. The meeting will be held at the office chamber of the Principal Secretary (Home).

NTC meets CM regarding border issue KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) officials met the Chief Minister of Nagaland today and apprised him of NTC’s view on Nagaland-Assam border settlement and submitted a representation to the Government of Nagaland. In view of the firm directive of the Supreme Court of India and the sincere effort of the Union Home Ministry, the NTC urged the Chief Minister of Nagaland to react appropriately, efficiently and on time, stated a press release issued

by NTC Media Cell chairman, Theja Therieh. “This is a great opportunity for the two States to settle the dispute mutually in peace for all perpetuity,” it added. The Chief Minister, according to the release, requested the NTC to provide available documents and suggest means to effectively work out people to people talk on the border issue and assured the NTC delegate that the State government will give all efforts to bring out amicable settlement to the age-old border problem for permanent solution.

KKGKD emergency executive meeting DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): Kulolau Khukishe Ghami Kughakulu Dimapur (KKGKD) has convened an emergency executive meeting on November 12, 10:00 am at the residence of its banker, Shikaho Y Yepthomi, at Naharbari, Dimapur. Therefore, all the officer bearers of KKGKD have been requested to attend the meeting.

Hindi teachers in Kma asked to join agitation on Nov 11

Limhathung Motsürüi Ekhung demands action in assault case

ily/relatives shall not be entertained, the Managing Director said in a press release.

The stalls will be provided free of cost with lump sum daily allowances to each participant from Nagaland, and travelling allowance to & fro shall be provided to the participants from outside the State for 2nd Class Train/ Bus fare on production of original tickets.

Farmers encouraged to adopt horticulture BJP membership workshop starts PEREN, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): A team of senior level officers from Horticulture Department conducted an awareness programme on horticulture at Tening Village Council Hall, Peren on November 4.

Dr. RE Lotha, Dy. Director of Horticulture highlighted the various schemes and activities taken up by the depart-

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): All the Hindi teachers of 2012 and 2013 batch in Kohima district have been asked to attend the agitation/picketing of DEO/ SDEO office at 9:00 am on November 11 without fail.

In a press release, Aggrieved Hindi Teachers, Kohima (AHTK) representatives Keneikhrielie Suokhrie and Kekhriezelie Kiwe informed all the teachers concerned to partake in the agitation, while warning that Rs. 500 fine will be imposed upon the absentees. AHTK further said, no action has been ini- appealed to ANSTA, ANHTU, NGOs and the society to tiated by the law enforcing extend their support to bring an amicable solution. agency till date. Therefore, the Ekhung has urged upon Director of Tech Education informs the authority to take up the KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): All the students secase as per the relevant sec- lected under Merit-cum-Means Based Scholarship (Minortion of law in the interest of ity) and State Technical Scholarship for the session 2013-14 natural justice within ten and are yet to receive their scholarship have been informed days from the publication to submit their Bank Passbook (front page) photocopy to of this press release, failing the Director of Technical Education, A Kathipri on or bewhich, it warned that it will fore November 29, 2014 for the release of their scholarship. initiate own course of ac- Students may also mail scanned copies of the passbook to tion and shall not be held minoritynagaland@gmail.com within the specified date. responsible for any evenNPCC to celebrate 125 tuality in future.

DFO Dimapur asserts commitment National Handloom Expo in Dimapur to conserve Amur Falcons DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Dimapur Forest Division has asserted that it is committed to giving a safe passage to migratory Amur Falcons in its territory. A press release from the office of the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Dimapur division informed that according to the DFO, the staffs and all the officers have been vigilant and are in constant duty since October 1

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has target to enroll 10 crore members during November 2014 to March 2015. One can also enroll through mobile phone by dialing 1800 266 2020 or through booklet system, the release said.

The house resolved to enroll 20,000 members from the above districts during the first phase drive, the release said. All the BJP units in the above mentioned districts have been directed to update on monthly basis to the State Convener Yanghose Sangtam.

The second phase of workshop has been scheduled in Kohima on November 12 for the remaining districts of the State.

birth anniversary of Nehru

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) and District Congress Committee (DCC) Kohima will be celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on November 14, 11:00 am at Congress Bhavan, Kohima. Therefore, Medokul Sophie, general secretary (Admin), NPCC has requested all PCC office bearers, frontal chiefs and members of DCC Kohima to attend the programme without fail.

NSSWB pre-Christmas cum Children’s Day KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): The Nagaland State Social Welfare Board is organizing a Pre-Christmas cum Children’s Day programme for the Nagaland Adolescent Girls club on November 14. The programme will be held at the premises of Nagaland State Social Welfare Board.

Private schools in Dimapur reminded of UDISE formats DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): In reference to the pervious press release issued by Deputy District Education Officer, all Private Schools under Dimapur District have been reminded to collect and submit the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) formats on or before November 15 without fail, which is mandatory throughout the country yearly. R. Amongla Jamir, Deputy District Education Officer, Dimapur in a press release has requested all concerned to comply with the information for timely submission to the higher authority.

ENWOD condemns rape DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland Women Organisation Dimapur (ENWOD) has condemned the rape of a 7-year-old girl at Bor Lingri area allegedly by Hankiumong Yimchunger and Alex Sangtam.

Stating that “such act is totally unacceptable in our society,” ENWOD through its president, Rose Mary Nyamnyei has requested the law enforcing agencies to take immediate action against the accused and give the “highest befitting degree of punishment.” It also requested all the likeminded people to stand and fight against such crime in the future.

Training on bamboo furniture making underway morning at Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre, Dimapur, will train and equip local craftsmen and carpenters with advanced technology of bamboo crafts.

Speaking at the inaugural function, Mhathung Yanthan, Director, Land Resources Nagaland said bamboo is one resource that can be utilized to its full potential to rouse the economy of the State. Given the suitable climatic condition, he said, bamboo can be

grown easily in plenty and that gives us the edge in bamboo industry.

Stating that Nagas are artistic and talented, but are lazy and not sincere, he urged the trainees not to let this opportunity of training go in vain. He urged the trainees for sustained production and marketing of the products not only in local market but also in other parts of the country.

Meanwhile, Alem Longkumer, Deputy Team Leader NBDA talked about the prospects of bamboo

based industry in the State, stating that it has an ample scope income generating avenue for hundreds of people.

During the course of the training, two professionally trained instructors – Imlilemba Jamir and Moayanger Jamir would train 17 trainees of different villages under Dimapur district with advanced skills and techniques of making lamp shades, shelves and book racks, stools, tables and other furniture etc.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TuEsDAy 11 NovEmbEr 2014 volumE IX IssuE 311

Corrupting Corruption Turning corruption against itself

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aging resistance against corruption needs to be intensified as the vibrancy, viability and wellbeing of the Naga society is at risk of being eroded from within. Corruption is central to people’s concerns in the present state of affairs. And while corruption needs to be located against the backdrop of continuous armed conflict over many generations, the fact remains that corruption and conflict often go hand in hand. Many times they fuel one another. While armed conflict is overtly responsible for devastating human life, corruption is one means of wielding institutional violence that often contributes to society’s moral decay from within. Corruption is a deadly silent form of violence that garners strength and momentum through power imbalances, complicity and impunity that become embedded in the status quo.

The Naga situation is entrenched in a larger State structure rife with violence and corruption that only strengthens the opportunity for corruption to become the norm, as well as being institutionalized. The level of amoral practices is so blatant that many people are resigned to coexisting with them, as well as having become overwhelmed by cynicism and fear that thwarts exploring creative solutions to arrest this phenomenon. Because corruption in the Naga context has assumed a collective and societal demeanor, initiating a public discourse around it becomes problematic, even though corruption is generally acknowledged to be enveloping the Naga way of life. Perhaps Nagas have become comfortable with its uninvited presence.

Nagas cannot allow this social disease of corruption to further force its way into the Naga personhood and psyche.

It is a form of social mental illness making us feel delusional as we live a dual reality attempting to reconcile how we can continue under these conditions. Eradicating it requires a committed collective effort and full participation.

Our learned helplessness has become paralyzing because there is also a realization that the peculiar political situation and distinct social-cultural relations are an obstacle to addressing these illicit practices using conventional legal methods as they permeate the legal system as well.

Fighting corruption in Nagaland requires a radical out of the box approach. This means drawing from our own cultural context to identify possible deterrents in the Naga worldview. For instance, the notion of causing ‘shame’ continues to be an effective method to address social problems among the various Naga cultures. Hence, can ‘corrupting’ corruption be a way forward in confronting these unscrupulous practices. ‘Corrupting’ corruption is a means to expose and negate the social and cultural legitimacy that ‘the powers that be’ have usurped over time. Along with this, it will employ implementing different forms of deterrents that are socially and culturally contextual and relevant.

Overthrowing corruption in the Naga context has far reaching positive implications that go beyond questions of good governance, accountability, transparency, honesty, fairness, truth-telling and a responsive judiciary. Essentially, turning corruption against itself has the potential to recover and re-instill positive social and cultural values that can be rewoven into the Naga social fabric. Each one of us has contributed to the corruption at some level by, at a minimum by not addressing what we observe occurring in our daily lives. We are accountable to each other for reclaiming our social, political and economic space that can begin by addressing them at the interpersonal level, then as the momentum gains address it more widely throughout the Naga context.

This is the first editorial of a three-part series on Corruption

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Tom Ehrich Sojourners

When Christian Arguments Completely Miss the Point

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ike other citizens of our free land, Christians tend to divide sharply, predictably and with heated language.

We disagree about almost everything, from cultural norms to attitudes toward wealth and power; from personal behavior to what Jesus intended.

To judge by our blog posts, our comments, our letters to the editor and our remarks in public, we are appalled at what other Christians believe. How can this person have that viewpoint and still call himself a Christian? Does she not know that her words heap burning coals on her own head?

In view of our fiery words, you’d think we had explored the extremes of Christian faith and were shouting across a vast, unbridgeable chasm. In fact, we differ within a narrow spectrum, like those who debate Coke vs. Pepsi.

That narrow spectrum tends to be far removed from what Jesus actually said, did and expected. We argue about things that don’t matter because we can’t stand the things that do matter. We argue about sex, for example, in order to avoid the topic Jesus actually addressed, namely, wealth and power.

And when we do address wealth and power, we tend to affirm the individual’s right to have as much as they can get, even though Jesus said no such thing. We debate the nuances of free-market capitalism, when in fact Jesus sounded far more like Karl Marx than like Andrew Carnegie.

We debate preaching style, rather than stand under the gospel’s radical call to repentance — not the momentary remorse of a listener touched by a word, but the deep reconsideration of life that Jesus envisioned.

We argue about faith vs. works, rather than accept Jesus’ call to radical self-denial. We fuss about theories such as the atonement, rather than stand in awe at God’s love and see God’s love as normative for our own dealings with hatred and greed.

We “stand up for Jesus,” as if we were Texas A&M fans standing up for football over Texas, rather than walking with Jesus into the world’s storms.

We wax eloquent in proving the other wrong, but fail to imagine how God sees all of us. We draw borders around our preferred ways of being a Christian and define all other ways as sinful, rather than see God ignoring all of our borders.

Personally, I think we are terrified. What God wants of us is far beyond anything we are ready to give. So we fuss endlessly about the institution of church and don’t risk seeing the one who had no place to lay his head — because that one has his hand out saying, “Come, follow me, and let us be homeless, property-less, despised and misunderstood together.”

The path Jesus actually walked is marked by suffering and total reliance on God. So we debate finer and safer points, which require far less of us. Our impassioned and yet trivial disputes push God away and make God seem small.

Tom Ehrich is a writer, church consultant and Episcopal priest based in New York.

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Kai Newkirk Waging Nonviolence

Fasting for democracy: Why I’ve given up food to fight corruption

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ourteen days ago I had my last meal — if you can call it that. A cup of apple juice on a flight. Since then I’ve been living on water alone and I’m prepared to continue for days to come.

Why would someone willingly take on this kind of discomfort? I’ve chosen to do so to demonstrate through my own bodily sacrifice the seriousness of what I and more and more Americans believe to be a crisis: the utter corruption of our democracy by what Abraham Lincoln called “the money power.” I want to call on people who acknowledge this problem, but may not act on it, to take a simple step: pledge to vote this November and to do so in support of candidates who will fight to end this corruption.

In the days since I began my fast others who feel this urgency have joined me. Some for just a day in solidarity, others — like retired attorney Steve Bass in Los Angeles and civil servant Laura Rubalcalba in Sacramento — for the duration. The pool of people to whom we appeal by our collective sacrifice is an enormous one.

Indeed, a growing consensus is emerging among the American people that billionaires and corporations are essentially buying our elections and insisting that the victors they finance — Republican and Democrat alike — govern in their narrow interest rather than that of the nation.

Look at any injustice, any critical and chronic problem in America — from climate disruption to mass incarceration to student debt or outrageous wealth inequality — and a clear assessment will reveal that the wishes and needs of big money interests are being served instead of those of the vast majority of Americans. Koch brother beats grandma or your kids every time.

We must face the hard truth: America has become a plutocratic oligarchy. Our economic and political life are dominated by a tiny elite, a fraction of the wealthiest 1 percent.

This is wrong; it’s a betrayal of this country’s tremendous legacy of struggle to realize the democratic promise of its founding principles, and it threatens our future as a people. Yet, far too many of us who feel this truth at some level lack the hope or courage to take on the challenge of doing something about it. We are fasting to help change that. There is hope and courage is contagious.

The hope that I see is not in any one candidate or leader — this isn’t 2008. Instead I see hope in a movement that is growing in this land, our land. Especially in the last almost 5 years since the Supreme Court disgraced itself with the infamous Citizens United decision, people across our country have begun waking up and organizing to confront what Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig calls the “first issue” for progress in the United States: ending political corruption through fundamental reform of election funding and, more broadly, the intersection of private wealth, corporate power and public governance. In the summer of 2012, I decided after years of community organizing and political work to join this movement and devote myself to this fight.

I left my position as a deputy for a Los Angeles City Councilman to help launch 99Rise — a growing grassroots organization fighting to end corruption and win real democracy in America through nonviolent civil resistance in the tradition of the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the early trade union organizers, the civil rights workers and beyond. In the two years since then, I’ve been to jail four times — once for disrupting the Supreme Court on the eve of another shameful

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ear Missionaries, I like to tell people I’m a missionary convert, because I wear this genesis of my faith journey proudly, like a badge of honor. I heard the story of Jesus from your lips, sang the songs of worship in your language, and prayed for the concerns in your heart. You taught me how to be Christian.

I learned from your lavish generosity and boundless love and affection. I also learned how to do Christmas. One day in my freshman year of high school, I asked my Chinese parents if we could find a Christmas tree. This was before Christmas became commercialized in Taiwan, so all I could find was a tacky, tiny, plastic tree, which I set up delightfully in the corner of our living room. I arranged neatly wrapped fake presents under my wannabe tree and meticulously set up some lights. I longed for that warm feeling I felt in your homes, the atmosphere I saw in American movies. I wanted to be like you; if only I could have convinced my parents to do Christmas like you did, with gifts, candles, and prayers.

Little did I know your celebrations were crippled by your overseas living because, like me, you also could only find dinky little plastic trees. When I visited your home country, I saw the full potential of CHRISTMAS unleashed, with real trees as tall as houses and white lights, icicle lights, flashing lights, lights shaped like reindeer, elaborate nativity sets, and ridiculous amounts of presents and candy. I thought, wow, is this how the Christians do Christmas? I didn’t know then what I know now — that there was an

“go corruption!” decision, McCutcheon v. FEC — and marched almost 500 miles from Los Angeles to the California capitol in Sacramento. As thousands of others have stepped up to sacrifice in many different ways, we’ve won victories that are slowly shifting the political weather on this issue.

We see the signs of the Democratic Party and many Republicans shifting tentatively but significantly in our direction — from California and Vermont issuing binding calls for a Constitutional Convention to address it; to hundreds of cities and nearly a third of states calling by resolution or referendum for Congress to do so; to the recent Senate vote on an imperfect but serious Amendment and the proposal of a strong public finance bill in the House.

Right now, many candidates for office who have begun to feel the power of this growing movement are staking their flag on our side of this fight. The big money forces of corruption — the Koch brothers, Chevrons, and Sheldon Adelsons — see this and they are spending unprecedented millions to tighten their grip on our government before we grow much stronger. On the eve of what will be the most expensive midterm election in American history marked by perhaps the lowest voter turnout ever, people who care about democracy, about our country — about ourselves — cannot sit this one out. So, in this moment we have chosen one tool of civil resistance — fasting — to move many more to commit to stand against corruption by taking up another: the vote.

Fasting is a weapon that anyone can wield — it’s requirements are only a living body and a determined will. Indeed, while the epic fasts of historic leaders like Gandhi and Cesar Chavez are best known, ordinary people have put this tool to powerful use in movements for immigrant rights, the human rights of prisoners, and other fights for generations. While many fasts or hunger strikes demand something of an opponent or oppressor, our fast — and some of the most powerful examples in history — makes a demand of our supporters, those who agree with and even love us. By our sacrifice, we implore you to consider that which moves us to such uncommon action and — if you in fact do agree — to take action yourself.

Now 14 days into our Fast for Democracy, over 1,000 people have pledged and our message has reached tens of thousands more. The other night a friend said he didn’t recognize me — and another suggested I won’t have to dress up to be a skeleton for Halloween. I’ve lost some weight, true, and this isn’t easy. But I and those who have joined me will continue our fast until at least 28,000 people — symbolic of the 28th Constitutional Amendment for which we fight — have taken the Democracy Voter Pledge or until the polls close on November 4th. If you, the reader, are among those who agree: stand with us and sign the pledge.

The Democracy Voter Pledge is simple. It states: “I pledge to vote on or before November 4th, 2014, for pro-democracy candidates who will fight for reform to end corruption.” To help people identify pro-democracy candidates to support, we’ve developed Democracy Voter Guides that we share with everyone who pledges.

What makes a “pro-democracy” candidate?

For us, the litmus test is whether or not a candidate has voted for, co-sponsored, or made clear public statements in favor of legislation to either advance a 28th Amendment to ban big money from elections or advance public financing of elections. If yes on either, pro-democracy;

if no on both, pro-corruption. Some have asked whether this standard is strong enough and even whether participating in an election system we know is rigged makes sense. Let me respond here to them.

No promise or past behavior from a politician is a guarantee of future action. We know this. But electing those who commit to back anti-corruption reform in principle or who have taken steps to do so already helps to build a popular mandate for this change by validating our position.

And it gives us leverage as a movement to hold them accountable by further mobilizing a now more emboldened public. As Gandhi, Dr. King, and scholars like Gene Sharp have taught us, ultimately, power lies in a mobilized people. A strategy of nonviolent civil resistance is based on galvanizing both the sympathy of a majority of the public and a critical mass of active participation for a cause. When we achieve that decisive threshold of active public support, the key institutions — or pillars — that uphold the status quo are forced to shift to concede to our demands or face unsustainable political, social and economic costs.

Engaging in this election to elevate our cause and support candidates likely to stand with us is a step in that broader process. In this critical struggle, we must be prepared to use every nonviolent tool. Voting is one such tool, and a powerful one with particular meaning in this fight, which is, in one sense, a struggle to defend our very right to vote.

Indeed, the struggle to end corruption and establish political equality regardless of wealth is a struggle to ensure that universal suffrage still means something. That it is still the lever, shared equally by all adult citizens, that sets our representative government on its course. If we are dismayed by corruption, by the rigging of the game, and discard our ballot power we defame that for which we fight. And further, in my view, the blood, sweat and tears that Americans who came before us have shed in order to win that right to vote, to expand the franchise from a tiny minority of property-owning white men to Americans of any class, color or gender, makes voting a sacred right. And a sacred duty. We fast to call on all who stand with us in principle on the question of political equality to stand with us now in action: vote for democracy this November.

Join us. Pledge to vote. Help us build a movement. This is just a step in much larger struggle — but it is an important step. Whatever happens when the election results come in, our path forward is still clear: to build a mass movement of nonviolent civil resistance that galvanizes the American public and leverages our people power in a way that no plutocrat can withstand.

I know this will be miles away from easy. But when I look at the history of our country, I see a humbling, profoundly powerful tradition of nonviolent struggle that has overcome tremendous entrenched resistance to advance progress toward “liberty and justice for all” in America.

We surely face no greater obstacles than they did.

From the abolitionists to the suffragettes, from the early trade union organizers to the civil rights workers and beyond, everyday Americans have built movements and put their bodies and freedom on the line for justice. And won. Every one of us is heir in some way to that legacy of struggle — if not in this country, then in those from which most Americans ancestors came. The same strength is in us. It’s time to remember who we are, take up the same tools our ancestors did, and renew our democracy.

An Open Letter to Missionaries Cindy brandt Sojourners overlap of how you do faith and how you do American — with lavish generosity, boundless love and affection, and always going for bigger and better.

I learned you don’t practice your faith in a vacuum, but that it is couched in the context of your unique American culture and history. Inevitably, you transferred some of your culture when you communicated your faith to me. I understand this now, but sometimes I don’t think you do.

Sometimes I feel you take for granted the immense power and influence your countr y and culture has on the rest of the world. Your military presence holds a solid threat in international conflict; your economic policies reverberate throughout the world; your pop culture is consumed in our theaters, on our computers, and in our earbuds. When you speak, we listen, because your voice is strong, your resources are abundant, your presence is loud. Perhaps this is why you sometimes miss the softer cries of our hearts.

And this is the cry of our hearts: to

tell the story of Jesus from our own lips, to worship God in our own language, and to pray the concerns of our own hearts.

Sometimes the way you tell the story of Jesus is decidedly American.

You tell us we must own individual faith and live this faith as autonomous nuclear family units when most of us struggle to grasp the concept of such radical individualism. You say we must express our love to each other in your language, and yet you miss the many other ways we express love to our own people. Sometimes the things you say God cares the most about are a result of your own culture wars: climate change, freedom of speech, abortion.

I know it is terribly arduous work to work cross-culturally. I live that tension in my own marriage and life. I know it is much easier to retreat into the worldview that makes the most sense to us. But the stakes are high when you are proclaiming a gospel that transcends culture and yet can only be delivered via culture.

You humble me so much with your

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sacrificial love. You leave behind your family, your support systems, your familiar ways of life, in order to enter into our lives. You care for our poor, sick, and needy like very few other groups of people are willing to do. I am thankful and inspired. But the highest cost you pay is not giving up the creature comforts of a higher standard of living. The highest cost you pay will be holding the value system that carries your faith loosely. This is hard, because your faith is why you came. Yet the best hope for this transfer of faith to take root in our own culture is if you’re willing to let us do the slow labor of cultivating our own faith. This means you will need to allow us to make mistakes without judgment. Please remember the history of your own faith is not without blemish. Let us make our own mistakes and learn without the anxieties you bring from your context.

In return, we hope we can bless you with our own stories. Let us show you how to be Christian in ways you have never imagined before. Let us show you how big is God’s grace that covers all of our multitude of mistakes. Let us grow together as equal brothers and sisters in Christ and spur each other on towards greater love and good deeds.

Perhaps you are right: bigger is better. But let’s grow the family of Christ, not by expanding the presence of one expression of Christianity, but by adding on a diversity of stories in which we speak of God. The people you reach are like butterflies emerging from their cocoons; you don’t always know the colors of her wings but rest assured she is beautiful, and she is ready to fly.

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Climate change show and tell

The media cover individual, preferably spectacular, events but ignore long-term issues like global warming, which most threaten us

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here was much media coverage of climate change early in the 2000s, with events like sea ice loss in the Arctic making the headlines. But disaster narratives can only be sustained for so long. Soon after the UN’s Copenhagen talks in 2009, there was a sudden silence, with coverage in 2010 down 70% on the previous year. Fossil fuel lobbyists and others took advantage of the need for constant, instant news to silence the issue.

The People’s Climate March held this September just before the UN climate summit in New York showed how the media treat climate change (and the debates and actions around it) as just a short-term event, even though it was called “an invitation to change everything” and endorsed by more than 1,500 organisations internationally. Marches took place in cities across the world, with New York attracting by far the greatest media attention. The presence of UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, former US vice-president Al Gore, British primatologist Jane Goodall, French ecology minister Ségolène Royal and (perhaps most importantly) Leonardo DiCaprio guaranteed their interest.

Significantly, small media and digital channels were used extensively, and globally, to mobilise participation.

The organisers were expecting 100,000, but some 300400,000 people came to New York, and reporters called it the “largest climate change protest in history”. The pictures accompanying the reports showed tens of thousands of people occupying Manhattan streets usually packed with cars, buses and taxis. The quotes were epic: DiCaprio stated that climate change “is the most important issue of our time” while Ban Ki-moon warned ominously: “There is no ‘Plan B’ because we do not have ‘Planet B’.”

The problem with all this coverage was that mainstream media focused on the event, the celebrities, size and spectacle, rather than using the coverage to begin (or continue) a deeper discussion of climate change and its consequences. And those in the front lines of the march barely figured in the pictures and video footage — representatives of communities most vulnerable to climate change, labour unions, Hurricane Sandy victims, indigenous groups and advocates for the global poor.

The issues raised by the marchers quickly evaporated into the media-sphere, as did the story of the march itself. (Though hailed as historic, how could it compete with IS beheadings and Ebola?)

As Natasha Lennard commented, “These mobilizations can reflect or herald an uptick in street-focused political action. And I hope that is what we will see following Sunday’s climate rally. The majority of the 300,000+ people who attended will have returned home, folded away their homemade tree costumes, and will not return to the streets until the next major call is made to liberal sensibilities. But we should not foreclose the possibility of an exciting political moment emerging, rooted to climate activism and undergirded by anti-capitalism”.

Filipino activists raise their clenched fists as they lie on the streets during a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines on November 4, 2014. The group alleged the US government's culpability in the current state of the climate which brought about the unusual intensity of the super typhoon Yolanda. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

media” to ensure that long-term injustices — to people and planet — do not become invisible. One such route is museums — we could call them “slow media”, like the slow food movement — which can offer spaces and exhibits to stimulate reflection on planetary health: people visit museums at a human pace and might have a greater personal response there to major planetary problems.

Museums are better at the longer term. In the short term, they can host controversial forums, but their galleries, exhibitions and collections are long-term. Their displays must stimulate the imagination of visitors in ways that survive the first moment, invite repeat visits, and enable personal responses.

Museums have to be careful with hot political issues since the life cycle of a permanent gallery is often more than a decade, and even a temporary exhibition has a long lead-time. Only the long-term stories make it to the floor — exactly the stories that the “fast media” won’t touch. But although parameters are changing, there is no way to fix the storyline in a gallery, so the focus has to be on principles and solid research data.

Museums such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Deutsches Museum in Munich have developed exhibitions that exploit “slow media”. The Deutsches Museum — the largest science and technology museum in the world — is opening a major gallery on 4 December, Welcome to the Anthropocene, which will provide an explanation and exploration of the idea of a new geological epoch, in which human activities and fossil fuel use are driving biological and physical changes on a planetary scale. The “Anthropocene” is still a hypothetical epoch, and though the term has been used for more than a decade in technical circles, surveys of museum visitors in 2012 showed it was new to the public. Visitors were curious to learn about it ‘Slow climate violence’ Rob Nixon reminds us in Slow Violence and the Envi- and enthusiastic about a gallery devoted to it. ronmentalism of the Poor that traditional media ignore “slow climate violence” over periods longer than news ‘Melt chocolate not polar ice’ So should we resign ourselves to the fact that the cycles. So while there had been plentiful images of New York under water from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, there media-friendly, tweeted slogans of the People’s Cliwas little coverage or pictures of victims of the 10-year mate March — “May the forest be with you” or “Melt famine in the Horn of Africa, although both disasters are chocolate not polar ice” — quickly dissolved along related to climate change. “Slow violence” gets ignored with participant interest? It is worth considering ways because of the way news is packaged, and we need “slow in which the benefits inherent in “slow media” could

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ne of the thriving sectors of the tourism industry here is also one that no government would want to put on brochures inviting visitors to the country. For a small fee, companies operated by entrepreneurs like the young rapper Henry Ohanga (Octopizzo to his fans) offer guided walks through Kibera, a sprawling slum in the heart of the capital.

Tourists get to see up close the mountains of garbage and dense rows of low-slung wattle-and-mud houses that have made that township one of the most notorious urban settlements on the continent.

Mr. Ohanga is an investor in “poorism” — the business of taking well-off tourists off the beaten track to see how the destitute of this world live. It is a market niche that has grown a great deal in the past 10 years, and not just in Africa. Visitors to Brazil can join guided walks through Rio’s toughest favelas; tourists in India get to see how Delhi’s street children spend their nights; and in Johannesburg, for a fee, a visitor can explore the inner reaches of Soweto, home to thousands of struggling mine workers and their families.

Poorism’s critics are many. Not least among them are the inhabitants of these hard-bitten urban enclaves. Lillian Wambua, who ekes out a living selling mandazi, a local doughnut-like delicacy, from a tiny shack in Kibera, detests having her young son photographed by tourists. But she says she dares not raise her voice because visitors are often accompanied by local toughs working as guards for the tour companies. “I feel bad when people come from other countries to see how poor we are,” she told the Daily Nation recently.

But Mr. Ohanga, who himself rose from one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods to become a popular rapper, offers a staunch defense of his tours: “We don’t bring people to Kibera to show how poor the residents are,” he told me. “We want them to see the other side of the slum. When they come they realize that locals are clean, hardworking, normal people who simply lack good job openings.

As a result of these tours, many projects have been launched to improve their livelihoods.”

Both critics and defenders of poorism make fair arguments, but in many ways

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be absorbed into “fast media”.

There are dangers. Over the past few years, sceptical voices and climate-change deniers — including those who believe in global cooling — have become publicly visible through the media. Such interventions have ruinous effects on public opinion and action on an already complex issue. The online release of emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in the UK turned into a media event, “Climategate”. Although extensive investigations by the university proved the charges mostly baseless, polls showed the event caused many in the US to lose faith in climate change. Polls also showed shifts toward more sceptical positions in the UK. Journalistic norms of objectivity, impartiality and balance compete with tight deadlines, space, resources and a transmedia environment with multiple platforms, where the same story needs to be published after being quickly and cost-efficiently adapted to each medium. Yet even if the solution to the biggest challenge our global society is facing — climate change and environmental decay — will not come from the media, accurate public understanding of risks and necessary actions is essential.

What undermines the social impact of media coverage is that events must be spectacular and de-contextualised; and the sporadic nature of coverage fails to make the seriousness of the issue clear to listeners and viewers.

Popular culture has played a key role in this de-contextualising. Big-budget movies such as The Day After Tomorrow portray global warming and freezing as rapid, cataclysmic events, and sometimes suggest that science can offer a quick solution (which can reinforce the view of environmental deterioration as separate catastrophic events, interspersed with business as usual) or an equilibrium that can be re-instated with magic bullet science.

On the other hand, the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth was a case study in how climate change could be incorporated into mainstream storytelling, and led to a broader social discussion about global warming even among those who had not seen the film. Good documentary filmmaking is long-form — and slow — journalism.

It can help. Just as museums can sometimes use mass media techniques to attract a broader public. The key is to meld the best elements of slow and fast media to tell everybody about something that affects us all.

Ending ‘Poorism’ in Kenya Murithi Mutiga NYT

this debate is beside the point. Kenya isn’t a poor country, it’s the economic powerhouse of the Horn of Africa, with a gross domestic product of $55.2 billion in 2013, classified by the World Bank as a middleincome nation. But our national wealth is very poorly distributed and the political elites who determine national priorities have never made better housing standards a priority. Given that the urban poor, like most Kenyans, vote mainly along ethnic lines, there is hardly any political lobby to press the case for better housing.

Still, the Kenyan government has taken modest steps to make its urban slums a bit less distressing. In mid-September, hundreds of young people from the National Youth Service — a government program that offers high school graduates vocational training — were dispatched to Kibera to unclog drains, build communal toilets and set up a waste-disposal system.

Residents largely welcomed the initiative.

“Youths are kept busy,” Sheikh Yusuf Abu Hamza, told journalists, speaking outside a Kibera mosque. “We have seen a reduction in criminal activities here because the engagement with the N.Y.S. has offered the youth a source of livelihood.”

Laudable though that may be, the effort only scratches the surface of the real problem — a yawning gap between rich and poor.

The desolation in our slums is a graphic reminder that the boom that began in 2003 has not raised all boats. According to U.N.Habitat, an arm of the United Nations that deals with housing, about 60 percent of Nairobi’s inhabitants live in informal settlements that together occupy only 5 percent of the land area of the Kenyan capital.

Though new towers dot the skyline and a record number of students are pursuing higher education, Kenya and its neighbors have not managed to follow the trajectory

of the many Asian nations that have lifted millions of people out of poverty by attracting industries that spur job growth. The Kenyan economy remains reliant on sectors like real estate and financial services that do not generate high levels of employment.

Even earnings from agriculture, a major economic motor here, are primarily derived from a few large, mechanized farms.

The top 10 percent of the richest households in the country control 40 percent of the country’s income. A 2008 study by Mwangi wa Githinji of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Frank Holmquist of Hampshire College, found that while agricultural production grew at 6.9 percent in 2006, 25 percent of that growth was attributable to the flower sector, which is dominated by 10 farms, one of them producing over 50 percent of the output.

To address such problems, East African countries with good political and trade ties, such as Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, should pool resources to invest in the sort of major infrastructure projects — port expansion, efficient transport links — that attracted investors to Asia. Some efforts have been made in this direction, but clearly not nearly enough.

Many Kenyans in rural areas are subsistence farmers. Life on a hard-scrabble farm has little appeal for many young people. Every year, tens of thousands pour into the cities to find work. A visit to Kibera at dawn reveals throngs of workers traveling to low-paying jobs as laborers. Everywhere, there are signs of the bustling economic activity that prompted The Economist to declare that Kibera “may be the most entrepreneurial place on the planet,” with peddlers selling everything from bananas to phone credit cards to water.

This enterprising bent has inspired people like Mr. Ohanga, who says his business is helping others climb out of poverty. “I try to impress upon visitors to start projects here and promote existing ones,” he told me.

It’s a worthy enough effort, but it would not be necessary if the government promoted more policies designed to make “poorism” a thing of the past, instead of a growing concern.

ducation is the surest and swiftest road out of ignorance. No country or region can achieve economic development when the people are illiterate and ignorant because human resource is the active factor of production which initiates and accelerates the process of economic development with the help of other factors like land, capital and technology. The objective of education should not be merely the attainment of literacy but much more than that.

Only when the people are educated and trained any technology can be developed and used.

When the people are educated, skilled and industrious it ignites the process of development.

Educated people with their knowledge, skill, intelligence, innovation and competence are the most important resources of a country.

Illiteracy leads to the underdevelopment of the human resources. The educated unemployment caused by the mismatch between the demand and supply leads to the under utilization of human resources. Both, unemployment and under-utilization leads to the wastage of valuable human resources. To overcome these problems we need to expand our education system and make it responsive to labour market demands by increasing the supply of appropriate skills to face the emerging situation. For this we must change our attention from traditional education to useful arts and sciences. The objective of education in India is changing from increase in literacy to knowledge. However, to achieve economic development the goal of education should change from literacy to knowledge and finally to invention and innovation.

Invention means scientific discovery and innovation is the application of the scientific discovery to produce goods. Our country will become a developed country when the education system prepares the people to become innovators.

It is a fact that all the students enrolled in class one (Std. 1) will not become masters or Doctors in their subjects. Number of students, drop out as they proceed in their studies and only a small percentage of students enrolled in class one completes their master degree and get a job according to their qualification. There is much more to be done for the majority of the people who discontinued their studies on half way. Do they possess any skill with which they can get a paid job of be self employed? In most of the case there is no difference between a class four drop out and class nine drop out in terms of the skill he or she possesses. The dropout students need not be less intelligent than others but may be less interested in learning of language or social studies but may be interested in technical education. There is no doubt that more number of years of schooling helps a student to get more exposure and knowledge on various subjects. But does it give a special skill with which one can be employed or find one’s own living? If not, our education system needs to be modified to make use of the unused human resource for the development of the nation and economic wellbeing of the people.

Education should increase the skill of the people there by increasing the employability, employment and productivity of human capital leading to the reduction in poverty. Reduction in poverty contributes to the health of the people. Healthy and skilled labour force is the key factor of economic development in the modern economies. Educated and efficient manpower is a great national asset and a large number of uneducated and unproductive manpower is a direct burden on the economy and obstacle to economic development.

The experiences of several countries like Japan, Netherland, and Switzerland show that a country possessing a highly skilled work force can attain a high degree of economic development even if it does not have great natural resources of its own. Building infrastructures like roads, railways, ports, telephones, water supplies etc. will contribute to economic development.

However the development of infrastructure without the education and training of human resource may not give expected result. The modern equipments and machines may remain unused without adequate number of skilled and educated man power to operate it. In conclusion the suggestions for future educational strategy for economic development are the following: 1. Education system may be developed in such a way that it gives a specific skill and prepares the student to join the workforce or enable them to be self employed once they leave the formal education. This may be possible by introducing one course on technical education or skill development along with general education at least from high school. This will take care of the dropouts to a great extent.

2. Due importance should be given to professional and technical education and research in higher education.

3. Government may take the initiative to estimate the demand for and supply of labour in major sectors and publish it in the government websites and major news papers so that the students can join those courses or specialize in those areas where the demand is high and the supply is less. It can reduce the demand supply gap and educated unemployment.

4. Education should provide socially relevant skills, right attitude, motivation and create entrepreneurial spirit in the people to accelerate the process of economic development.

5. Finally, government needs to give more importance in the development of education in those areas where the private sector is not coming forth.

Murithi Mutiga is an editor at the Nation Media Group in Kenya.

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Nearly third of cabinet charged with crimes New Delhi, November 10 (reuterS): Attempted murder, waging war on the state, criminal intimidation and fraud are some of the charges on the rap sheets of ministers Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed to the cabinet on Sunday, jarring with his pledge to clean up politics.

Seven of 21 new ministers face prosecution, taking the total in the 66-member cabinet to almost one third, a higher proportion than before the weekend expansion.

At least five people in the cabinet have been charged with serious offences such as rape and rioting.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said any suggestions there were criminals in the cabinet were “completely baseless”. “These are cases arising out of criminal accusations, not cases out of a crime,” he told reporters on Monday, adding that Modi had personally vetted the new ministers.

Ram Shankar Katheria, a lawmaker from Agra, was appointed junior education minister yet has been accused of more than 20 criminal offences including attempted murder and promoting religious or racial hostility. Katheria was not immediately available for comment and a mobile phone number given by his office was switched off.

The inclusion of such politicians does not sit easily with Modi’s election promise to root out corruption, and has led to criticism that he is failing to change the political culture in India where wealthy, tainted politicians sometimes

find it easier to win votes.

“It shows scant respect for the rule of law or public sentiment,” said Jagdeep Chhokar, co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) which campaigns for better governance. “Including these people in the cabinet is a bad omen for our democracy.”

Modi won the biggest parliamentary majority in three decades in May with a promise of graft-free governance after the previous government led by Congress party was mired in a series of damaging corruption scandals.

New Cabinet More Tainted Than Old? Soon after coming to power, Modi called for courts to fast track cases against politicians in an effort to curb political criminality in the world’s largest democracy. Cases in India’s overstretched judicial system often drag on for years.

Yet Modi’s cabinet includes twice as many politicians facing criminal charges as the previous Congress party one.

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, the new junior chemicals and fertilizer minister, was another eye-catching choice.

He is charged with around 20 offences, including intent to wage war against India, criminal intimidation and abetting a mutiny.

Ahir did not respond to requests for comment, and it was not immediately clear what incidents the more serious charges pertained to. His secretary said the cases were politically motivated. Ahir is best known for helping un-

earth corruption in the coal industry while he served on a parliamentary committee.

Shrikant Sharma, a spokesman for Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said it was up to courts to decide if ministers were guilty, and said many of the charges related to political rivalries.

The BJP is led by Amit Shah, the closest aide of Modi, who is accused of ordering police to carry out three extrajudicial killings and running an extortion racket when he served under Modi as home minister in Gujarat almost a decade ago.

He has denied the charges. He is facing a trial in Mumbai.The number of lawmakers charged with offences has more than doubled in the last two decades. About a third of federal and state legislators face charges, the ADR said.

Politicians facing criminal charges are twice as likely to win an election as their untainted peers, making them the preferred choice of candidates for political parties in India, according to a study published last year by the group.

In office, these politicians are sometimes accused of enriching themselves or their backers by siphoning off money from government spending.

“We hear again and again the country’s leaders promise to clean up the system,” said Satish Misra, a political analyst at the Observer Research Foundation. “Self interest prevails over principles.

That is why the system never changes.”

List of ministers and portfolios New Delhi, November 10 (iANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his ministry Sunday while reshuffling portfolios of some ministers. Here is the latest list of the council of ministers and their portfolios. Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space; All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Women and Child Development Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel Chaudhary Birender Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice & Empowerment Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

Cabinet Ministers: Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping Manohar Parrikar: Defence Ministers of State: General V.K. Singh: StatisSuresh Prabhu: Railways tics and Programme ImpleD.V. Sadananda Gowda: mentation (Independent Law & Justice Charge), External Affairs, Uma Bharati: Water ReOverseas Indian Affairs sources, River Development Inderjit Singh Rao: Planand Ganga Rejuvenation ning (Independent Charge), Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Defence Affairs Santosh Kumar GangRamvilas Paswan: Consumwar: Textiles (Independent er Affairs, Food and Public Charge) Distribution Bandaru Dattatreya: LaKalraj Mishra: Micro, Small bour and Employment (Inand Medium Enterprises dependent Charge) Maneka Sanjay Gandhi:

Five of a family dies in Delhi factory fire

New Delhi, November 10 (iANS): Four children were among five people of a family who died due to suffocation as a fire broke out at a small, paper-plate making unit early Monday morning here. The fire broke out around 3.14 a.m. at the factory located in Begampur in west Delhi.

Eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot and fire fighters managed to douse the flames by 6 a.m., said a fire brigade official.

“Five people died due to suffocation, as fire broke out in a factory that made paper plates,” said a fire official. The officials were yet to confirm what caused the fire.

Shravan Kumar (17), Niranjan (5), Nilesh (11), Nitin (26), and Shivam (15) died in the fire. “All the victims belonged to Bihar. At the time of the incident, they were sleeping in the two-room factory,” Deputy Commissioner of Police, Vikramjeet Singh told IANS. Singh said that the factory was run by Pintu Shah, whose son Niranjan died in the incident. The other victims are relatives of Shah, said the official. “At the time of the incident, Pintu was at a rented accommodation situated a few metres away from his factory,” added the official.

& Ganga Rejuvenation Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Agriculture Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chemicals & Fertilizers G.M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Manoj Sinha: Railways Nihalchand: Panchayati Raj Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development Radhakrishnan P.: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel Sudarshan Bhagat: Rural Development Ram Shankar Katheria: Human Resource Development Y.S. Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth Science Jayant Sinha: Finance Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment

Shiv Sena to sit in opposition in Maha

Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy participate in a protest in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014.

The survivors commenced an indefinite hunger strike in the capital demanding additional compensation for those affected and revision of casualty figures after 30 years of suffering. On Dec. 3, 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal in central India, affecting the lives of many. Activists say that thousands of children, born to parents directly exposed to the gas leak or poisoned by the contaminated water, are suffering from cleft lips, missing palates, twisted limbs. (AP Photo

Marauding monkeys create panic in Shimla, woman dies ShimlA, November 10 (iANS): Marauding monkeys prowling in gangs on the streets of this popular tourist resort has created panic among residents and tourists with a woman being their latest victim.

A mother of two died last week after falling off the roof of her house. According to the police, Mamta Sachdeva was on the balcony when she was attacked by the simians.

She jumped off the balcony in panic. In another incident, a girl was bitten by a langur in her school Friday.

“They have been causing havoc by biting the passersby, stealing food and brawling on the streets,” said local resident Ambika Sharma. “It’s an extremely dicey situation once again as the wildlife officials tasked with managing the monkeys have failed to check the menace,” she added.

Shimla Municipal Corporation deputy mayor Takinder Panwar charged the government with failure to contain the menace.

“On an average, more than 100 dog bite and over 60

Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs Ram Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & Sanitation Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Home Affairs Sanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development

monkey bite cases are being reported every month in the Rippon Hospital (which was set up in 1884 by the British rulers and functioned as the government district hospital) alone,” he said.

Panwar said the monkey menace has reached an alarming proportion and needs to be tackled scientifically. Kuldeep Singh Tanwar, state convener of farmers’ outfit Kheti Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, said that selective killing of the marauding simians is the only solution.

“The state high court in 2011 restrained the state government’s decision to allow farmers to shoot monkeys that have been destroying their crops and fruits. Since then the previous (BJP) and the present government (Congress) have failed to convince the court about the need to declare to go for selective killing,” Tanwar told IANS. Export of monkeys, which was allowed till 1978, for research is the only option to tackle their growing numbers, Tanwar added. Coming down heavily on the state government, a division bench

comprising Chief Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice V.K. Ahuja Jan 6, 2011, directed authorities to stop issuing permits to kill monkeys.

“The state should have to protect all the beings... by giving permission to kill the problematic monkeys, the state has not understood and applied its mind to understand the basic intent of the Wildlife Protection Act and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act,” the bench had observed.

The interim order came on the petitions of the state chapter of nongovernmental organisation People for Animals (PFA) and central agency Animal Welfare Board of India, which challenged the government decision to allow killings of monkeys which have been damaging crops.

The petitions are still pending in the high court.

In localities like Jakhu, Tutikandi, Nabha, Phagli, Kaithu, Summer Hill, Tutu, Boileauganj, Chotta Shimla and Sanjauli, the residents have literally converted their houses into jails by erecting iron grills on the doors and windows

to check the intrusion of monkeys.

Himachal Pradesh Forest Development Corp vice chairman Kewal Pathania said the government has been taking measures to deal with the monkey menace. A multi-pronged strategy is being adopted so that besides preventing damage to standing crops, the common people could be saved from nuisance of the wild animals.

Pathania, quoting Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri, said the government would bring a resolution in the next legislative assembly session seeking permission for lifting the ban on the export of monkeys. More than 85,000 monkeys have been sterilized till date through seven monkey sterilization centres, he added.

Wildlife officials said around seven years ago the monkeys were trapped from Shimla and banished to the jungles and that was the best technique to reduce their population.

“Now their population has grown manifold and they need to be relocated once again,” said an official.

mumbAi, November 10 (iANS): In a sudden move, the Shiv Sena Monday announced its decision to sit in the opposition in Maharashtra assembly and not join the minority BJP government headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

“We have sent a letter signed by Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray to this effect to the legislature secretariat. In the letter we have requested that the name of Sena legislature party leader Eknath Shinde should be announced as leader of opposition at the earliest,” said party spokesperson Neelam Gorhe.

She added that the Sena’s claim to the leader of opposition post was by virtue of its position as the second largest party with 63 legislators in the 287-mem-

ber house, with the Congress having 42 and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 41 members.

The party’s decision came in the wake of the Shiv Sena chief’s two-day ultimatum Sunday to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to declare that it would not seek the NCP’s support to save his minority government in the crucial vote of confidence scheduled here Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, Gorhe indicated the party’s mood on the issue when she said that talks with the BJP on power-sharing and other pending matters have been stalled.

The Sena’s 63 members came to the Vidhan Bhavan wearing traditional Maharashtrian orange turbans, raising slogans and symbolically occupied the opposition

benches in the assembly.

The first two days of the special three-day session of the assembly are to be devoted to the members being administered oath.

The move was apparently triggered by NCP president Sharad Pawar’s reiteration of his party’s “unconditional external support” to the BJP “in the interest of political stability” in the state and to avoid fresh elections.

The Sena decision brings down the curtain on nearly two months of bitter acrimony between the two allies of 25 years which resulted in snapping of ties Sep 25, fighting the elections separately. The Sena boycotted the cabinet expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and also withdrew its nominee at the last minute Sunday.

30% of Indian school-goers face cyber crime New Delhi, November 10 (iANS): Around 30 percent of Indian school-going children accessing internet have experienced some kind of cyber harm like cyber bullying, cyber stalking, defamation and hacking, a study done by telecom service provider Uninor said here Monday.

The survey was done across 29 schools and covered nearly 10,500 children across seven states.

“At Uninor, we firmly believe that our new users should be equipped not just with the means to access internet but with the right information and support system to be able to navigate the digital world safely,” Morten Karlsen Sorby, chief executive officer, Uninor, said.

Earlier in 2013, a Telenor GroupBoston Consulting Group study revealed that 134 million Indian children would be active on internet by 2017, up from 39.5 million in 2012.

This study was done in 12 countries and showed that Indian children face the worst risk combination of high access and low resilience.

The survey reveals that 34 percent of children rarely speak to their parents about their online activities.

Based on the findings of the survey, Uninor has initiated the WebWise programme with the objective to build resilience amongst children against internet-related risks. Through WebWise, Uninor has committed to make young customers safe online.

It aims to create awareness on internet safety for children and familiarize them with habits that can give them a safe online experience.

“WebWise is an initiative with an objective of equipping children with knowledge and tools to protect themselves online. Uninor as a responsible corporate entity has taken first step towards making the children webwise,” he added.

Since March, 15,000 children have been covered under this programme. With its commitment to provide safe online experience to its customers, Uninor plans to extend this programme further and cover additional 20,000 children by January next year.

Congress questions cabinet expansion

removed AYUSH from Health and family welfare and made it a separate ministry, then are you not going back on your minimum government and maximum governance mantra,” asked Maken. Modi expanded his cabinet Sunday and brought in new ministers and reshuffled New Delhi, November 10 (iANS): The Congress portfolios of some others. party Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the rationale behind the Cabinet expansion and asked for the resignation of “corrupt” ministers.

“There is no thinking or rationale behind Modi-ji’s Cabinet expansion. Modi-ji, have you removed the health and railway minister because they were corrupt, or they were incompetent and performed poorly?

New Delhi, November 10 (iANS): The Supreme “If you have removed the ministers because their as- Court Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to sets have increased then in your cabinet there are two more rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to apministers whose asset have increased in the past three proach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex months,so what about them,” Congress spokesperson Ajay court bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu asked Maken said at a press conference here. “You have not an- the petitioner to first make an appropriate representaswered many of the questions. We hope that your corrupt tion before an authority in support of his plea. The court and tainted minister will submit their resignations soon said that the petitioner can approach it only after makand you will apologise to the nation,” added Maken. ing a representation and getting response to it. “You However, the party refused to name the “corrupt and (the petitioner) can come to us only after the authorities tainted” ministers who have been inducted into the Modi have responded to your representation or choose not cabinet. Maken also questioned Modi’s “maximum gov- to response,” the court said. Having said this, the court ernment and minimum governance” mantra. “You have dismissed the plea as withdrawn.

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Xi and Abe take steps to thaw ice Leaders of China and Japan take “first step” toward reconciliation

BEIJING, NovEmBEr 10 (AP): Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a tentative step toward easing more than two years of high tensions over contested islands and wartime history on Monday with an unsmiling handshake and a short meeting.

The two men posed briefly in front of cameras, stern-faced, and Abe briefly said something to Xi, who gave no response and looked toward the cameras for the remainder of the handshake.

They then entered a closed room at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People for 30 minutes, giving some hope that the two countries could dial down the friction in the talks arranged on the sidelines of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The spat between China and Japan over uninhabited East China Sea islands and other contentious issues has raised concerns of a military confrontation between Asia’s two largest economies, which could draw the U.S. into the fray alongside ally Japan.

Although core divisions won’t be resolved soon, Abe told reporters afterward that the countries made a “first step” toward reconciliation.

“I believe that not only our Asian neighbors but many other countries have long hoped that Japan and

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, in Beijing, Monday, November 10. President Xi and Prime Minister Abe held an ice-breaking meeting Monday on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific conference in Beijing, following more than two years of deep tensions over an island dispute. (AP Photo)

China hold talks,” Abe said.

“We finally lived up to their expectations and made a first step to improve our ties.”

China also has been angry over what it sees as Japan’s efforts to play down its brutal 20th century invasion of China, a lingering sore point for its 1.3 billion people.

Suicide bomber kills 48 students in Nigeria

PoTISKUm, NovEmBEr 10 (AP): A suicide bomber disguised in school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue attendant. Soldiers rushed to the scene, grisly with body parts, in the capital of Yobe state, but they were chased away with stones and calls by people angry at the military’s inability to halt a 5-yr-old Islamic insurgency that has killed thousands and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes.

A suicide bomb attack in the same city killed 30 people one week ago, when suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked a religious procession of moderate Muslims.

Some 2,000 students had gathered for Monday morning’s weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College when the explosion blasted through the school hall, according to survivors who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.

“We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet, people started screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body,” 17-year-old student Musa Ibrahim Yahaya said from the general hospital, where he was being treated for head wounds. Hospital workers said dozens are being treated including people with serious injuries that may need amputations.

A morgue attendant said 48 bodies were brought to the hospital and all appeared to be between the ages of 11 and 20 years old. Survivors said the bomber appeared to have hidden the explosives in the type of rucksack popular with students. Months ago Nigeria’s military had reported finding a bomb factory where explosives were being sewn into rucksacks in the northern city of Kano. Many Nigerians are angry that Boko Haram has increased attacks and bombings since the government on Oct. 17 claimed to have brokered a cease-fire.

‘Child mortality rates falling in the developing world’

WAShINGToN, NovEmBEr 10 (IANS): The child mortality gap has narrowed between the poorest and wealthiest households in more than 50 developing countries, says a new study from Stanford University’s School of Medicine.

The findings provide important information for making decisions about prioritising global health investments to effectively promote equity. “In many countries, national wealth has increased hand-inhand with increasing health inequality. That has been a signature of our time,” said Eran Bendavid, assistant professor of medicine. To compare wealth status and under-five child mortality within a country, Bendavid used data from the demographic and health surveys for 1.2 million women living in 929,224 households in 54 developing countries. He developed a three-tier wealth index using the household assets.

The three wealth categories were - poorest, middle and wealthiest. The under-five mortality rates among the poorest groups had decreased the most rapidly, found the study. “The average decline was 4.36 deaths each year per 1,000 live births among the poorest, 3.36 among the middle and 2.06 among the wealthiest,” Bendavid said. As the poorest group’s mortality rate is decreasing more quickly that the other groups, the gap in child-mortality rates is closing. The difference in mortality rates was linked with governance scores.

“The study is an important contribution to knowledge about child health improvements in the developing world,” concluded Davidson Gwatkin, senior fellow at Results for Development Institute in Washington, DC.

China’s leader must balance the need not to appear too solicitous of Japan, for his domestic audience, while still being statesman enough to host Abe ahead of Tuesday’s summit, when the two men will join 19 other world leaders including President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

China hopes to use the consensus-oriented AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation summit to assert its ambitions for a larger leadership role in U.S.-dominated trade structures.

In a break from the usual protocol, Abe was made to wait for Xi to arrive at the meeting, rather than being greeted by him on arrival.

China’s Foreign Ministry also described the meeting as being at Abe’s “request,” a phrase not used in its reports on Xi’s meetings with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and other foreign leaders Monday.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Xi urged Japan to “do more things that help enhance

Osama died afraid, says ex-US Seal Rob O’Neill

WAShINGToN, NovEmBEr 10 (PTI): Osma bin Laden “died afraid”, says a former US Navy SEAL who claims he fired the fatal shot that killed the al-Qaida chief in Pakistan in 2011. “He died afraid, and he knew we were there to kill him. And that’s closure,” Robert O’Neill says.

His decision to go public last week attracted scorn from serving and former Navy Seals, with some suggesting that another member of the elite Seal Team Six was responsible for the delivering the final shots that brought an end to the al-Qaida chief’s reign of terror during a Naval special forces raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.

But O’Neill says he does not care if people believe him. “The most important thing that I’ve learned in the last two years is to me it doesn’t matter anymore if I am ‘The Shooter.’ The team got him,” he said in an audio interview quoted by CNN. The kill-

ing of bin Laden will go down in history, O’Neill said. “But I don’t care if I’m ‘The Shooter,’ and there are people who think I’m not. So whatever.”

The audio interview follows an interview published this week in The Washington Post, in which O’Neill, 38, publicly identified himself as the SEAL who killed bin Laden.

O’Neill told the Post that other SEAL team members were involved in the raid, including Matt Bissonnette, who detailed the group’s experiences in his memoir, “No Easy Day,” written under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

O’Neill, who had been serving as a SEAL for 15 years at the time of the bin Laden raid, had participated in other missions, but he said he feared this mission would be his most difficult.

He and other team members believed they would not return alive from the mission to get bin Laden. “Well, you have to go pump yourself up to go die.

So we would talk about this,”

the mutual trust between Japan and its neighboring countries, and play a constructive role in safeguarding the region’s peace and stability.”

The two sides issued a joint statement on Friday agreeing to gradually resume political, diplomatic and security dialogues and reaffirming the central pillars of their post-World War II relations.

In the statement, Japan said it acknowledged differing views over the status of the islands, called Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japan, a concession likely to please Beijing. China has long demanded that Tokyo agree that the islands’ sovereignty is in dispute, something Japan has refused to do for fear that would open the floodgates to further Chinese demands.

China and Japan have had poor relations for decades, rooted in Beijing’s enduring sense of victimhood and Japanese fears of China’s economic and political rise.

Japan’s nationalization of the islands in September 2012 infuriated Beijing, sparking anti-Japanese riots and raising regional security fears as Chinese patrol ships repeatedly entered the surrounding waters to confront Japanese coast guard vessels.

China upped the ante last year by declaring an air defense zone over the East China Sea, including

the islands. Japan, the U.S. and others denounced the move and refused Chinese demands that their aircraft declare themselves to Beijing when passing through the area.

Abe, a conservative nationalist who was elected in late 2012, infuriated China last year when he visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine honoring Japan’s war dead, including executed war criminals, an act Beijing said showed Abe’s insensitivity to China’s suffering during the war.

China had hoped that Abe would pledge not to visit Yasukuni Shrine again while in office, although it wasn’t clear if any such commitment was made.

For its part, Japan hopes to restore robust economic exchanges with China that have suffered during the tensions, and to gain Beijing’s support for a dialogue on maritime safety in the East China Sea. While anti-Japanese sentiment remains strong among the Chinese public, Xi’s apparent willingness to set animosity aside and meet with Abe casts him in the role of global statesman, playing to China’s aspirations to be treated as a political equal by the West.

“The meeting marks a turning point in ChinaJapan relations and lays a good foundation for future developments,” said Feng Lei, a professor at the Center for Japanese Stud-

ies at Fudan University in Shanghai.

“China needs a peaceful and stable international environment for its growth and an overarching antagonism would be detrimental to both sides,” Feng said.

On Tuesday, APEC leaders are due to take up a Chinese-led regional free trade initiative despite American worries that it might distract from a separate U.S.-promoted pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Progress on TPP has bogged down in disagreements about its ambitious market-opening goals.

On Saturday, trade ministers of the 21 APEC economies endorsed a call for the group to launch a study of the Chinese-led initiative, the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. Chinese analysts say Beijing sees the initiative as a way to boost its role in trade policy.

APEC countries account for 40 percent of global trade, so any progress in market-opening initiatives could have worldwide implications.

The chief U.S. trade envoy, Michael Froman, said Sunday that Washington doesn’t see the two initiatives as “being in competition.” He said, however, that Washington wants Beijing to focus on making progress on a proposed U.S.Chinese investment treaty and a regional pact to lower market barriers to trade in information technology.

Breakthrough Prizes in Science & Math earn winners $3 mn each

O’Neill said. “...(It was a) group of guys who knew time on Earth was up, so you could be honest with each other. And we all accepted and nobody was afraid.

It was really cool.”

O’Neill’s move to go public is a controversial one, as it violated an unspoken military rule: Don’t seek attention for your service.

In the audio interview, O’Neill says he believes some details about the bin Laden mission, such as how he was killed, were no longer classified because they had been repeatedly leaked in the aftermath by high-level officials.

“Once anyone says anything at that level, it’s not classified,” he said.

23 SEALs and their interpreter launched the assault on the bin Laden compound on May 2, 2011. They shot and killed bin Laden’s two bodyguards, one of bin Laden’s sons and the wife of one of the bodyguards. They also wounded two other women.

SAN FrANCISCo, NovEmBEr 10 (rEUTErS): Academia doesn’t usually bring rich financial rewards.

But that changed Sunday for recipients of a record 12 Breakthrough Prizes, the award created two years ago by Russian billionaire venture capitalist Yuri Milner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other tech industry luminaries. Each prize is worth $3 million, almost three times the cash a Nobel Prize winner receives.

This year is the first to honor mathematicians. Five won for work ranging from algebraic geometry to analytic number theory. In future, just one prize a year will go to a mathematician, organizers say; the large number Sunday celebrates the inaugural year for math.

Six prizes went to researchers in life sciences for discoveries in areas ranging from bacterial immunity to genetic regulation. The physics prize went to a group that showed the expansion of the universe was accelerating, not slowing as assumed.

The prizes’ funders aim to generate a sense of excitement around scientific accomplishment, Milner said in an interview. “We are trying to use all means

available, including money, to get the message across,” he said in an interview.

Milner, a onetime physics PhD student in Moscow who dropped out to move to the United States in 1990, has backed some of the world’s biggest technology companies, including Facebook.

Organizers threw some Hollywood razzle-dazzle into the mix. At the ceremony, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk chatted with actress Kate Beckinsale, while Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo sat by singer Christina Aguilera. Thomas Keller, chef of famed restaurant French Laundry, catered a meal including caviar appetizers and black-truffle lasagna.

Seth MacFarlane, creator of the hit TV series “Family Guy,” hosted the ceremony. Presenters included Beckinsale, Cameron Diaz, along with actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Hamm and Eddie Redmayne.

Science could use the marketing, with portrayals of nerdy science types rife in movies and on television, a characterization MacFarlane nodded to in his remarks. “We’re so glad that you all suck at sports,” he told the roomful of scientists, adding that he hoped science would make advances such as putting a human being on Mars.

Obama puts bright face on China ties

BEIJING, NovEmBEr 10 (AP): Putting a bright face on the future of U.S. ties to China, President Barack Obama announced Monday that the two countries would start granting visas to each other’s citizens valid for up to a decade. Yet thorny issues like human rights and trade lurked just under the surface, reflecting the tough road ahead for the two economic powers as Obama began a weeklong trip to the region.

Obama, addressing Asian business leaders at a high-level summit, sought to dispel the notion that America’s interest in Asia should be a cause for concern for China’s leaders. Beijing has viewed Obama’s engagement here with trepidation, suspecting the U.S. wants to limit China’s rise, but Obama insisted that “one country’s prosperity doesn’t have to come at the expense of the other.”

“We want China to do well,” Obama said. “We compete for business, but we also seek to cooperate on a broad range of chal-

lenges and shared opportunities.” The visa announcement came just after Obama’s arrival in Beijing — a down-payment on closer ties that allowed the president to portray the U.S. and China as partnering in good faith. Obama vowed that if the U.S. and China can work together, the entire world stands to benefit. “America’s a Pacific power, and we are leading to promote shared security and shared economic growth in this century just as we did in the last,” Obama said.

Rosy predictions aside, there were abundant reminders on Obama’s first day in China of the stark differences that have left the world’s two largest economies eying each other warily from opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean. At the U.S. Embassy, Obama hosted heads of state from the 11 other countries — excluding China — that are pursuing a long-delayed trade pact.

Key obstacles to completing the deal remain, including Japan’s objection to opening its markets to

foreign competition, and U.S. officials said after the meeting that a final agreement was still a ways off.

“We’re going to keep on working to get it done,” Obama said, calling the pact “the model for trade in the 21st century.” White House officials have been more optimistic about the deal since last week’s U.S. elections. Republicans, who tend to favor trade deals, won control of both chambers of Congress, making it more likely Obama can secure up-or-down approval for a final vote on the deal.

That prospect was a rare silver lining for Obama in an election was disastrous for Obama’s party and diminished his stature as he headed to Asia.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been a cornerstone of Obama’s muchtouted effort to expand U.S. influence in Asia, but yet another irritant in his relations with China, which isn’t a party to the talks and has responded by pushing its own regional trade deal.

And in his remarks to Asian CEOs, Obama rat-

US President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One as he arrives to attend the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Beijing on Monday, November 10.

(AP Photo)

tled off a litany of issues where the U.S. views China as not playing by the rules, including cyber-theft, currency manipulation, human rights and environmental standards. White House aides have said Obama plans to bring up such concerns during his meetings with President Xi Jinping, but the presi-

dent appeared to be carefully calibrating his words to avoid letting those disputes interfere with the broader relationship.

Sitting down earlier with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Obama was guarded in his comments about prodemocracy protests that have seized Hong Kong,

urging China’s government to prevent violence there while calling the situation “historically complicated.” “We’re not going to stop speaking out on behalf of the things that we care about,” Obama said, adding that those interests must be balanced with America’s significant business interests with China.

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Nico Rosberg holds off Lewis Hamilton to win Brazilian GP

Hamilton says mistake cost him

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany, sprays champagne on the podium after winning the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix at the Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 9.

Rosberg fended off a strong charge by Lewis Hamilton to win the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday, closing in on his Mercedes teammate in the Formula One title race. (AP Photo)

SAO PAULO, NOvember 10 (AP): This time, Nico Rosberg wasn't going to let victory slip away.

A week after seeing Lewis Hamilton overtake him to win the United States Grand Prix, Rosberg fended off another strong challenge by his Mercedes teammate to secure the victory at the Brazilian GP and close in on his rival in the Formula One title race.

"It was a great weekend all in all," Rosberg said. "Just didn't do a good enough job in the race in Austin, today I managed to do that. I learned from Austin and did better, so that's a big step in the right direction. One race too late, (but) there's still all to play for." The German cut his points-deficit to 17 but Hamilton will keep the upper hand going into the season-ending race in Abu Dhabi, where the Briton can clinch his second title with another second-place finish. If Rosberg misses out on a podium spot, Hamilton can finish eighth or better and still lift the trophy. Hamilton has 334 points to 317 for Rosberg.

The championship could not be decided at Interlagos because the race in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 23 will be worth double points.

"Now I'm just hoping for (Abu Dhabi) and need to try and keep this going now," he said. Hamilton also started behind Rosberg in Texas but outpaced him during the race. Rosberg said it took too long for him to find his rhythm at the Circuit of Americas.

It wasn't going to happen again this time.

"I always needed to make sure that the gap was

always such that there was no chance of him to go for the overtake, unlike Austin, and managed to do that, so that was good." It was Rosberg's fifth win of the season and his first since the German GP in July. Hamilton was trying to win his sixth race in a row.

Felipe Massa of Williams finished third in front of his home crowd, ahead of Jenson Button of McLaren and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull. Vettel, the winner last year in Brazil, was fifth, while Fernando Alonso of Ferrari finished sixth, ahead of teammate Kimi Raikkonen, the only front driver to use a two-stop strategy instead of a threestop one. It was the 11th 1-2 finish for Mercedes, one more than the previous record set by McLaren in 1988. The team's 15th victory of the season also allowed it to match the record held by McLaren and Ferrari.

"We used to be always hunting and now we're the hunted, and that's a big change," Rosberg said. "It's great to see how the team has adapted and not slackened off, because that is always difficult, when you get to the front to then stay there. It seems that we're really going strong and that's fantastic." Hamilton was quickly making up ground to Rosberg near the mid-point of the race but his chances of getting close enough to attempt a pass were hurt when he went off the track and nearly spun at the end of the back straight — a mistake that put him more than seven seconds behind Rosberg.

"I was much quicker at the point," Hamilton said.

Hockey India announces first ever annual awards New DeLhI, NOvember 10 (PTI): In a first for Indian hockey, the national federation today decided to have the 'Hockey India Annual Awards' wherein the top players in the men's and women's categories will walk away with a prize money of Rs 25 lakh each.

Hockey India will be identifying and rewarding the most promising and potent players from the current as well as upcoming teams.

Speaking on the announcement, Hockey India secretary General Md. Mushtaque Ahmad said, "It is huge leap that we at Hockey India are preparing for.

These awards are not only focused towards the welfare of the players but will ultimately help in boosting the morale of the players and motivating them to perform even better. "The Hockey India family as an organisation takes pride in announcing the Hockey India Annual Awards for the Players and shall strive to take more such steps for the enhancement of the sport as well the players."

HI has decided to name the individual trophies after HI

"I locked the rears and it just spun me around. No one's fault but mine." Hamilton kept charging and got within a second in the final laps but was never able to make a move on Rosberg, who crossed the line 1.4 seconds in front.

"In the first stint I could see that I could control the gap and could just make sure that Lewis didn't come into the region where he could launch an attack," Rosberg said. "Once I saw that, I was very confident that I could keep controlling the gap for the whole race." Massa, who started third and ran close to Mercedes all weekend, almost threw away his chance to finish on the podium at home after a five-second stop-and-go penalty for speeding on the pit lane during his first pit stop. He also lost some time by entering the wrong pit stall in his final stop.

"I'm happy with the race, not happy with my mistakes," he said. "I thought I could lose the podium."

There were huge cheers from the crowd as Massa crossed the finish line in third place. The fans loudly chanted his name at the podium ceremony.

"It's really exciting to be here after everything that happened to me in this race," the Brazilian said.

"This crowd really deserved it. The whole energy that I had this weekend, it's difficult to explain." There were only 18 cars on the grid for the second race in a row.

Marussia was shut down on Friday, while Caterham has a crowdfunding project underway to try to return to the grid in Abu Dhabi.

SAO PAULO, NOvember 10 (AP): Lewis Hamilton said he could have won the Brazilian Grand Prix and extended his championship lead over Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg if it weren't for a mistake that sent him off the track near the midway point of the race on Sunday. "I think ultimately it cost me the win.

I was much quicker up until that point and on that lap I had gone a second quicker whilst Nico pitted," Hamilton said. "At the end of the day, I made a mistake. No one's fault but mine."

The British driver had his championship lead cut to 17 points after Sunday's result but remains favorite to clinch his second world title. Another second-place finish in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 23 will be enough. If Rosberg misses out on a podium spot, Hamilton can finish eighth or better and still lift the trophy.

The mistake came just before one of Hamilton's pit stops, when his tires were already greatly degraded. He hinted there was some confusion over the timing of his stop.

"When they told me to push I was under the impression that I only had one lap to do, so I used all of the tires that I had left. And when they told me to go by, I kept pushing but I think the rears were grained, the rears were dead and I just lost a little bit of the grip," he said. "But up until then it was looking great. I clearly had a lot more pace than Nico today. He did a good job to not make any mistakes." Hamilton was slower than Rosberg in practice and qualifying but was able to put pressure on his teammate throughout the race. He was within range of Rosberg when he made the mistake, dropping more than seven seconds behind.

He came close again in the final laps but was never able to attempt a pass, finishing 1.4 seconds behind.

Hamilton was trying to win his 11th race of the season and sixth in a row. He has never won in Brazil, although it was at Interlagos where he clinched his first world title with a dramatic last-turn pass for fifth place that allowed him to finish ahead of Felipe Massa by a single point in the overall standings. Hamilton's second title could come in Abu Dhabi in two weeks.

"I'm going to drive pretty much the same," he said.

"Hopefully I'll improve. It's everything to play for in the last race."

Atletico de Madrid's Mario Mandzukic of Croatia, right, in action with Real Sociedad's Carlos Martinez, during their La Liga soccer match, at Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Sunday November 9. Atletico de Madrid lost 2-1. (AP Photo)

Nagaland to join NE inter- state badminton C’ship Our Correspondent Kohima | November 10

Nagaland will be participating in the forthcoming North East Zone InterState Badminton Championship scheduled at Guwahati, Assam from November 13 to 16.

Nagaland team consists of 16 players (10 male and 6 female) including two match officials. They will leave the state capital Kohima for Guwahati on November 11.

In a brief fellowship held at the Indoor Stadium this evening after completion of special coaching camp, Nagaland Badminton Association (NBA) president Y. Vikheho Swu, parliamentary secretary for irrigation & flood control and election extended best wishes to all the players to bring laurel to the state.

NBA president Y. Vikheho Swu and others with the state badminton players at Indoor Stadium Kohima on November 10. (Morung Photo)

Stating that the state has high hope on them, he called upon them not to compromise in any manner.

“Wherever you go, you are symbol of Nagaland,” he said adding that all 16 players are lucky lot as they are representing the state.

Asking the players to

maintain discipline, NBA vice president Tali Jamir said “Our best wishes are with you.”

PLAYERS Ankur Sangpang Rai, Tajenkaba, Taliakum, Moatemjen, Along Jamir, Pulie, Prathana Khapangee,

Imlirenla, Uma Tamang, Riku Khape, Moamongba, Dolan Khangba, Hapongkyu, Deepika Kaushik, Yashikala and Kungri.

MATCH OFFICIALS Sungit (Team coach) C. Wali Odyuo (Team manager)

SON Nagaland bags medals in Odisha

DImAPUr, NOvember 10 (mexN): Coach Renjamo Nguille & Coach Temsuba Amri has led SON team of 28 special athletes , 4 escorts & 3 coaches to participate in the 4th National Games for Disabled held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha to compete in 5 disciplines. They include Athletics, , Badminton, Bocce, Football, and Table Tennis.

Chumremo Kikon, Mhachio Ngullie, Watimerem, Bhupender Sharma & Chingkam Konyak bagged silver in the 5 a side football. The 4X100 relay team that bagged bronze included Muwase, Ripanthong, Phamsa Konyak and Ngunlem Konyak. Special athlete Yeanto Konyak and Nokyai Konyak bagged Silver, whereas Penjeih Konyak got Gold in Table tennis.

In Badminton Chemkhak

Konyak bagged Gold and Wangshok Konyak bagged Bronze. In the 100 Meter race Ngunlem konyak won Gold, Phamsa Konyak bagged Silver and Ngontai Konyak got Bronze.

Earlier, another SON team led by Coach Woben Jami and three athletes

namely, Kilumo Ezung, Moangkaba Lkr and Vividson Sha participated in the 2nd Preparatory Camp at Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh from October 27 to November 1, a selection ground for 2015 World Summer Games to be held at Los Angelas, USA .

A press note from Arenla Tzudir, Area Director for SON Nagaland has congratulated all the winners and also encourages the rest to continue exploring one’s specially-abled skills and talents to become independent Individuals in the community.

Juventus crushes Parma in Serie A

President Dr Narinder Batra's son Dhruv, who passed away recently.

"The Hockey India Executive Board and the Indian hockey community recognise and acknowledge the major contribution that Dr. Narinder Batra in particular and his family have made to Indian hockey.

Dr Batra was also recently honored internationally by being awarded the FIH Presidents award at the FIH Congress on 1 November 2014 for his role in the development and growth of hockey in India over the recent years," he said.

"In remembrance of the late Mr. Dhruv Batra who expired on 29 October 2014, during the FIH Congress, the son of President, Dr Narinder Batra, the Board thought it was fitting to name the 'Player of the Year? awards in the category of men and women to the remarkable young man that was Mr. Dhruv Batra," Ahmad added. Each award will consist of a trophy, certificate and cash award.

The decision to announce the awards was taken in the Juventus' forward Carlos Tevez celebrates after scoring dur26th Meeting of the Hockey ing a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Parma at India Executive Board here. the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy on November 9. (AP Photo)

mILAN, NOvember 10 (AP): Carlos Tevez scored a stunning goal to help Juventus crush Parma 7-0 and retain its three-point advantage over Roma, which eased to a 3-0 win at home to Torino later on Sunday. Tevez ran most of the length of the field and beat four men to score Juventus' fourth before doubling his tally minutes later.

"We had a great game," said Tevez, who was recently called up to the Argentina squad for the first time in nearly three-and-a-half years. "It was important to win and we were good in making hardly any errors.

After the last international break, we missed so many goalscoring opportunities.

Today we made up for our previous mistakes and we were perfect in front of goal."

Fernando Llorente and substitute Alvaro Morata also both netted twice, and Stephan Lichtsteiner was also on target to send Parma to its heaviest defeat in Serie A. Lazio missed the opportunity to move third after a surprise 2-1 loss at Empoli, and was leapfrogged by Napoli which won 1-0 at Fiorentina.

Hellas Verona snatches a 2-2 draw at 10-man Inter Milan. Chievo Verona beat fellow struggler Cesena 2-1 to move off the bottom of the table, while Palermo and Cagliari had penalties saved in 1-1 draws at home to Udinese and Genoa. Parma travelled to Turin hoping it had kickstarted its season with last week's surprise 2-0 win over Inter which had ended a club record run of six consecutive defeats.

Juventus, which was coming off the back of a 3-2 victory over Olympiakos in the Champions League, took the lead in the 24th minute when Llorente rushed in to tap home the rebound after Paul Pogba's shot was parried by Antonio Mirante.

Lichsteiner doubled Juve's advantage five minutes later with a scorching 25-yard strike into the top right corner and the Switzerland defender unselfishly crossed for Llorente to volley home his third goal in as many games in the 36th. Tevez had the whole stadium on its feet with his superb individual goal five minutes after the break and he went off to a

standing ovation shortly after doubling his tally when Mirante again only parried Pogba's strike.

Morata beat the offside trap to tap home Kingsley Coman's pass, five minutes after coming off the bench, before completing Parma's misery with a volley two minutes from time. Parma is bottom of the table again as half-time substitute Sergio Pellissier scored his first two goals of the season for Chievo, heading in the winner moments after Milan Djuric's equalizer for Cesena two minutes from time.

Roma, which had won just one of its past five matches in any competition, knew it had to win to prevent Juventus from extending its Serie A lead and it got off to a great start when Vasilis Torosidis slotted home Francesco Totti's cross in the eighth minute. Miralem Pjanic sent a free kick crashing off the frame of the goal before a low strike from Seydou Keita and Adem Ljajic's unstoppable effort sealed the result. There was a standing ovation when midfielder Kevin Strootman came on for the final eight minutes for the first time since undergo-

ing knee surgery in March.

"I have always been calm," Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. "I have confidence in my lads. We won by playing our game, with good movement and enthusiasm. I saw a strong Roma team, also from a physical point of view.

"A couple of matches don't change things and we showed that tonight." In the evening's other match, it seemed as if Inter was set for more misery when Luca Toni volleyed Verona in front in the 10th minute but the home side fought back with a brace from Mauro Icardi.

Moments after Icardi's second, Verona could have leveled when Gary Medel was sent off for handball but Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic saved Toni's penalty.

Both sides also hit the woodwork before substitute Nico Lopez's last-gasp leveler.

G o n z a l o Hi g u a i n scored the only goal of the game as Napoli moved a point above Sampdoria and four behind Roma.

Higuain, who had an earlier strike ruled out for offside, fired in a poor clearance by Nenad Tomovic in the 62nd minute following a cross from Jose Callejon.

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One DirectiOn win big at the MTV EMAs

Jacqueline Fernandez makes her Hollywood debut

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he Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez who's basking in the glory of her latest release Kick with Salman Khan is all set to make her Hollywood debut. The actress has bagged a role in James Simpson's Definition Of Fear which is said to be a psychological thriller.

Jackie shared a still from the film on Twitter.

"Sneak peak from #definitionoffear can you guess my role in the movie?? Winner gets a shout out!!" she tweeted. The film also stars Katherine Barrell, Mercedes Papalia and Blythe Hubbard.

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ne Direction won big at the 2014 MTV EMAs, taking home three awards. Katy Perry, 5 Seconds of Summer and Ariana Grande picked up two Best Song: Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem gongs each. One Direction took home three awards at Best Pop: One Direction the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Best Female: Ariana Grande The boy band - consisting of Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Best Male: Justin Bieber Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik - won Best Live: One Direction awards for Best Pop, Best Live and Biggest Fans at tonight's Best New: 5 Seconds Of Summer (09.11.14) ceremony held in Glasgow, Scotland. The boy Best Video: Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse band recorded a video message to accept their award Best Rock: Linkin Park on behalf of their loyal Directioners for Biggest Fans, but Best Alternative: Thirty Seconds To Mars 21-year-old Zayn Malik was missing from the screen.

Best Hip-Hop: Nicki Minaj Harry said: ''We're so sorry we can't be with you toBest Electronic: Calvin Harris night. Thank you so much for this, the award for Biggest Biggest Fans: One Direction Fans. ''Because of that we obviously, obviously want to Best Look: Katy Perry thank our incredible fans - thank you so, so much for all Best Song With A Message: Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts your support. We can never thank you all enough.''

Best Push: 5 Seconds Of Summer 'Problem' hitmaker Ariana Grande, 5 Seconds Of Best World Stage: Enrique Iglesias - MTV World Stage Summer and Katy Perry all picked up two awards each. Isle of MTV Malta Justin Bieber, host Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé were Best Worldwide Act: Bibi Zhou - SE Asia, Mainland amongst the other winners.

China & Hong Kong, Taiwan The full list of winners at the 2014 MTV EMA is as follows: Global Icon: Ozzy Osbourne

robert Plant turns down $800

ANTB representing Indian Bands at South Asian Bands Festival 2014

Million Led Zeppelin reunion offer

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obert Plant reportedly turned down an $800 million (£500 million) offer by business tycoon Sir Richard Branson to embark on a reunion tour with Led Zeppelin.

The rock legend is adamant he would never reunite with his former group and has been embroiled in a war of words with guitarist Jimmy Page for years over the possibility of working together once more.

According to British newspaper the Sunday Mirror, Branson, a lifelong fan, tried to entice them into a 35-date reunion tour with the hefty sum but Plant refused after Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of late drummer John Bonham, had signed on.

A source tells the publication, "Jimmy, John and Jason signed up immediately... It was a no-brainer for them but Robert asked

for 48 hours to think about it. When he said no and ripped up the paperwork he had been given, there was an enormous sense of shock... There is no way they can go ahead without him.

"Branson tried to pull out all of the stops. But even his money was not enough to get Plant to sign up. He is gutted."

Led Zeppelin last performed together during a one-off gig in London in 2007.

2012 'Best Indian Act' MTV Europe Music Award winner ALOBO NAGA & THE BAND, enthralled the crowd at recently concluded South Asian Band Festival in New Delhi on November 8, 2014. Ministry of External Affairs, ICCR and Seher organized the show.

ALOBO NAGA & THE BAND performed their hits numbers like Painted Dreams; All We Have is now in front of 15000 plus crowds. The show happened at historic Purana Qila in New Delhi.

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avid Beckham's eldest son has been snapped up by Arsenal, who have signed the 15-year-old onto a shortterm contract. Brooklyn was wanted by both Manchester United and Chelsea, but after showing his skills at the Gunners' training ground, he was quickly

snapped up until the end of the season. There is also the potential for a long-term deal for Brooklyn if he continues to shine on the pitch for the under-16s.

An Arsenal source told the Daily Star: “Brooklyn is talented and he has stood out in all of the training sessions and games he has

rock bands from countries, which are members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India along with the observer country France.

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played. “He has had other teams sniffing around and it was always going to be a case of when, not if, he was signed up by a big-name club. “Next summer we may see him sign a big-money deal and with Arsenal.”

Younger brothers Romeo, 12, and Cruz, 9, have already been impressing in the Arsenal youth set-ups.

And England legend David has been seen taking his boys to the Emirates on numerous occasions, after he trained with the Gunners two summers ago to keep fit. David is said to have a good relationship with manager Arsene Wenger.

shared the stage with ALOBO NAGA & THE BAND were Indus Creed (India), The Forsaken (Bhutan), The Ska Vengers (India) and The Herb & Remedy (Srilanka).

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eteran Indian actress Shabana Azmi, who believes that art should be used as an instrument for social change, says that it is required to redefine the meaning of entertainment.

When asked about her previous statement where she said that art should be used as an instrument for social change and does she feel that art is being dominated by commerce these days, Shabana said: "That's what I believe and I can't impose my thoughts on other people."

"If somebody wants to make a film for entertainment then we should redefine as what entertainment is. You are using entertain-

ment as a goal then you should define what it is, does it has to be vulgar, loud that's what we need to look at. We should make all kinds of films that we want to," she added.

Shabana is currently in London for her play titled Happy Birthday Sunita and she is enjoying every bit of it.

"I been in London since Aug 24 doing a play. I have been here living on my own in a flat, cooking my food so it's been a great experience to save my life," she said.

"It is lovely to stay on my own completely spending time for myself," added the veteran actress who is also shooting for an English film in Britain.

he 'Horrible Bosses 2' actress credits her actor fiance - who she got engaged to in August 2012 - for helping her find a balance in her personal and professional life because he is a ''beautiful equaliser''.

She said: ''He is a beautiful equaliser. He's a really beautiful, wonderful partner. He's quite special.''

Because the couple haven't yet set a wedding date, their relationship has been the subject of much scrutiny, but the 45-yearold star insists she finds the speculation more ''comical'' than annoying.

She told 'Access Hollywood': ''I think we're just so uninteresting, we don't do anything, that there's no real narrative other than that to sort of slap onto us. ''Then, once we do [marry], then it's gonna be -well, it [already] is the babies. I mean, it's comical!''

And the former 'Friends' star insists she is feeling happier and more confident than ever.

She said: ''Everything

I've learned, life's wonderful gifts, roadblocks, joys, ups, downs, everything is just - it's true, youth is wasted on the young. There's no doubt about it. ''I look at all of my girl-

friends and friends, and I think we're all becoming more and more in our bodies. [Am I more confident?]

Yeah, for sure. 100 percent. ''It's absolutely one of the happiest times in my life.''

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Kvitova leads Czechs to Fed Cup title Loyem Memorial Soccer C'ship

PRAgUe, NOVeMbeR 10 (AFP): Petra Kvitova led the Czech Republic to a third Fed Cup title after beating Angelique Kerber in the final on Sunday. Kvitova beat 10th-ranked Kerber in a three-set thriller 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-4.

"Angie played so well and I'm just glad that I did it, it was really about one point and then she could take it," said a jubilant Kvitova. "It was really up and down from the beginning of the match and there was always a big fight for every single point."

"I was lucky in the end maybe." The first set turned into a 76-minute thriller. Kvitova squandered four break points in game two while Kerber needed a single one to break her in the fifth game before doing it again for a 5-2 lead.

But Kvitova broke her rival back twice to come level at 5-5. Kerber went on an attacking spree to earn another break and grab a 6-5 lead, before the drama peaked in game 12.

Kerber had five set points in that game but Kvitova managed to tame her before converting her fifth break point of the game to take the set to a tiebreak. In the tie-break, Kvitova rallied to a 4-1 lead, allowed Kerber to come level but finally took the tie-break 7-5 with a roaring forehand down the line. Kvitova had 31 winners but 30 unforced errors in that set, against 12 winners and 16 unforced errors for Kerber. The crestfallen Kerber lost momentum early into the second set and let Kvitova take a 3-0 lead after winning the first two games to love.

But she was quick to recover as she broke Kvitova's serve twice to make it 3-3. Kerber and Kvitova held onto their serves until Kerber earned two break points at 5-4 and converted the second one as Kvitova fired wide to take the set after 46 minutes.

Kerber broke Kvitova early into the third set as the Czech kept piling up unforced errors. But Kvitova fought back once again, broke Kerber's serve twice and closed the rubber out on her fourth match point as Kerber netted a backhand shot. "It was outstanding, whoever was down just came back and it was like that the whole match," said Czech captain Petr Pala. "I'm very proud of Petra that she fought unbelievably, she showed how good she is as a true champion but many respects to Angelique today."

Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova celebrates with the trophy during the awarding ceremony after defeating Germany in their Fed Cup Final On Saturday, Kvitova overcame Andrea Petkovic 6-2, 6-4 and Lucie Safarova beat Kerber 6-4, 6-4. tennis match in Prague, Czech Republic on November 9. (AP Photo)

InDIa SquaD fOr auStraLIa teSt SerIeS 2014-15

Indian team announced, Dhoni rested for 1st Test

Kohli to lead; Rahul, Karn, Naman, Saha, Raina in

New DelhI, NOVeMbeR 10 (AgeNcIes): The selectors have announced the Indian Squad for the fourTest Match Series starting from December 4. The major highlights in the selection for the tournament Down-Under has been the inclusion of youngsters KL Rahul, Karn Sharma; the return of Suresh Raina and giving the charge of leading the side in the 1st Test Match at Brisbane to Virat Kohli. Kohli would take place of injured regular skipper MS Dhoni in the first Test Match at Brisbane. Dhoni would return to lead the side from the second Test for the rest of tour. In absence of Dhoni, India would seek services from wicketkeeper-batsman Naman Ojha.

There have been no major surprise over the inclusion of names of KL Rahul as Lokesh Rahul has had a prolific first-class career and boasted of great Ranji season. The name of KL Rahul has been doing rounds and his name was proposed by former Indian captain Rahul Dravid. As for Karn Sharma, the leg spinner joining in the other two specialist spinners – R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. The India’s Tour of Australia 2014-15 also marks the comeback of Suresh Raina in the Test Match cricket. Suresh Raina last played against New Zealand at Bangalore in 2012. India missed the services of Raina in their away tour of England where the Indian side was shamed with a 3-1 Test series defeat. India is defending champions of the Border-Gavaskar trophy where India won the series 4-0 on their home turf. The four Test matches are scheduled to be played at Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Indian side will depart for the tour of Australia on November 21. Currently, India is playing five-match ODI home series against Sri Lanka where Virat Kohli-led side has taken the series 3-0, while Australia is playing South Africa on their home-turf. They have registered 2-1 win in three-T20I match series.

Squad for auStralia teStS: MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha, R Ashwin, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron.

Chongpho Vikings FC enters semifinal

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Match in action at the ongoing XXII Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship in Tuensang.

TUeNsANg, NOVeMbeR 10 (MexN): Chongpho Vikings FC today registered entry into the semi finals of the XXII Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship by defeating Mütten XI, 3 goals to 2.

Sunep (9) of Chongpho Vikings FC netted the opening goal in the very

first minute of the match.

The remaining goals for the club were scored by Anyak (14) and Ngulie (8) in the 80th and 88th minute respectively. Osen (7) scored both the goals for Mütten XI in the 85th and 90th minute of the game, the latter in a penalty shoot. Semenlo (12), Vicky

(15) and Moa (7) from Chongpho Vikings FC and Y. Sayang (2) from Mütten XI were cautioned with the yellow card. The last quarter final of the tournament will be played tomorrow between Friends Sporting Lokhung and Boyhood Zippers at Public Ground, 1:00 PM.

Nagaland Police duty cum sports meet underway

DIMAPUR, NOVeMbeR 10 (MexN): The 35th Nagaland Police duty-cumsports meet 2014 got here underway at NAPTC complex, Chumukedima, with Nagaland chief minister, TR Zeliang, as chief guest of the inaugural function.

The chief minister in his address said Nagaland Police has been the “Pride of Nagaland” on many occasions where they displayed exemplary courage and devotion to duty, not only within the state but outside the Sate as well.

“The NAP and IR Battalions of Nagalnd had done commendable deeds of valour in many places outside the State such as Chhattisgarh, UP, Delhi and West Bengal. We are thinking of deploying our NAP (IR) Mahila battalion to Gujarat state, as there is a demand

Nagaland chief minister, TR Zeliang, taking the salute on the inaugural day of the 35th Nagaland Police duty-cum-sports meet 2014 at NAPTC complex, Chumukedima, Monday.

from there since long time back when Shri. Narendra Modi was the chief minister”, Zeliang informed.

Proudly declaring that Nagaland Police personnel have proved themselves in the arena of sports and games, Zeliang reminded that in the modern world the battle of supremacy is

not confined to conventional battle fields alone but onto the games and sports arena and strain experienced “A policeman or woman is considered to be always on duty. And being the most visible organ of the Government, the stress and strain experienced by each one

of them is understandable”, the chief minister said.

Expressing optimism that the Police meet would provide an opportunity to the Police leadership in identifying and supporting raw and potential talents in various sports and games, Zeliang further expressed hope that the Police Department with all the infrastructure at its command, would be able to deliver the goods, bot5h in the national and international events.

Earlier, DGP (officiating), Nagaland Police, Lungriading, delivered the welcome speech in the inaugural programme chaired by organizing secretary, Bendang Lemtur, IPS, DIGP (Trg & Border).

Altogether, 30 units from Nagaland Police are taking part in the sports meet.

Rohit back, Dhawan rested for final two Sri Lanka ODIs

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pening batsman Shikhar Dhawan has been rested while Rohit Sharma, who was nursing a finger injury, has been included along with four others in a 14-man squad for the final two ODIs against Sri Lanka. Virat Kohli will continue to lead the squad in the absence of MS Dhoni who will miss the remaining two matches due to a thumb injury, the BCCI announced on Monday.

Robin Uthappa, R Vinay Kumar, Kedar Jadhav and Karn Sharma have also made the cut for the ODIs to be played in Kolkata and Ranchi. Injured pacers Varun Aaron and Ishant Sharma have been excluded while Vinay Kumar has been drafted in. Aaron hurt his leg during the first ODI in Cuttack and was replaced by allrounder Stuart Binny, while Ishant could bowl just four overs in the third ODI at Hyderabad on Sunday due to back stiffness. Allrounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been rested. For Jadhav, who plays for Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy, this will be the second time he has been called up to the national side after being included for the Bangladesh ODIs earlier this year, but didn't get a game. Wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha has been dropped and it will be a toss-up between Ambati Rayudu, who scored his maiden century in the second ODI, and Uthappa, who will don the gloves. india squad for last two odis: Virat Kohli (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Robin Uthappa, Akshar Patel, Karn Sharma, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Stuart Binny, Vinay Kumar, Kedar Jadhav Source: Agencies

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