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Russian athletics doping row could spread to other sports

The lady who saved the falcon

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As the winter season approaches, scarcity of water has hit many parts of nagaland. A boy helps his sister carry the water basket as they go on their way to fetch water in Mongsenyimti village under Mokokchung district. Photo by Temjenlemba Longchar

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TUeNSaNG, November 11 (mexN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) in an emergency presidential meeting today decided that it would initiate indefinite agitation against the state government starting November 24.

A press note from the ENSF informed that this decision has been taken due to They? They’re all asleep.

We’re the ones bursting the the state government’s failure to abide by the Novemfire crackers. ber 26, 2013 agreement, The Morung Express wherein 302 teachers under were supposed to be Poll QuEsTion RMSA posted in schools of eastVote on www.morungexpress.com ern Nagaland on day one of SMS your anSwer to 9862574165 the first academic session 2014. Two years since the Will you be willing to provide your private agreement, the ENSF said land towards road that schools in eastern Naconstruction and galand are “still sustaining development in your area?

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YTC bans movement of weapons and people in camouflaged clothes

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TUeNSaNG, November 11 (mexN): The Yimchunger Tribal Council (YTC) has imposed a “blanket ban” on the movement of individuals or groups with arms, ammunition, dangerous weapons and camouflaged clothes within its jurisdiction. A press note from the YTC stated that this has been done based on the “purported movement of anti social elements and the sensitive nature of the areas.” The YTC has asked all the Naga political groups, villages and neighbouring tribes to extend necessary co-operation and accordingly “dissuade” individuals and groups moving around with weapons and camouflaged clothing.

Former Nagaland CS wins in Bihar polls

DImaPUr, November 11 (mexN): Former Nagaland Chief Secretary and Interlocutor to the IndoNaga peace talks, RS Pandey has won from 4th Bagaha A/C in the recently held Bihar elections. Pandey, who stood on a ticket from the BJP, defeated his nearest rival, Bhishm Sahani from the JDU by a margin of 8183 votes. Pandey polled 74476 votes, while Sahani polled 66293 votes. RS Pandey was Chief Secretary of Nagaland state from 2000 to 2004. He was also the interlocutor to the Indo-Naga peace talks from 2010 to 2013.

without sufficient teacher.”

It reminded that the Nagaland CM had also assured that if RMSA and SSA failed to provide the required posts of teachers, then the state government would provide it.

“Today, the issue might be concentrated only on 302 Teachers but its infliction is more hazardous upon 20000 students’ career which is undoubtedly curtailing all dreams and ambition of the poor students in the class room,” the ENSF cautioned.

The ENSF said that if the demands are not met with, their agitation would affect examinations within the jurisdiction of the 6 eastern tribes of Nagaland.

Therefore, it informed all the 6 federating units to be “mentally prepared for any incidences that may arise.”

“No Nation is built without imparting good education,” the ENSF stated, while lamenting the “multi-facial game played upon by the state government in depriving the children from being taught in the classroom.” “The state government had not only manipulated the agreement but violated the right to education which is an educational offence under the law,” it said. It cautioned that the state government would be held “fully responsible for dismantling such dreams and aspiration.”

We have to learn to stand on our own feet: SI Jamir Morung Express news Dimapur | November 11

As a tax payer we have the right to complain but if we don’t give anything to the government, we have no right to criticize it, asserted SI Jamir, Advisor to Nagaland’s Urban Development department today.

“You complain about road, water, sewage but what do you give to the government?” he questioned as the chief guest of the Residency Colony Silver Jubilee Celebration here today at Unity College Premises, Dimapur.

He claimed that Naga abhorrence for tax incepted during the formation of NNC has remained. “That mentality still exists today,” Jamir maintained, adding that “We have to learn to stand on our own feet.”

Are we paying for electricity, roads, sewage, electricity or other public utilities, the Advisor, Urban Development asked, and added, “We complain but do not give.”

“Even for electricity, the public pays only for usage, but its infrastructural development is borne by the government,” Jamir informed.

Further, he updated that in the past decades Dimapur City area has been neglected in the developmental process, though other parts of the district, like Medziphima and Chumoukedima, have seen huge development. Dimapur II constituency with 13 Wards and villages is most neglected, he said.

Talking about the rampant corruption in Nagaland State, he recalled that during the 1987 election, the expenditure for erstwhile Nagaland Nationalist Organisation’s (NNO) youth wing was mere

Rs. 87. “Since then corruption has increased exponentially by volume in every preceding election,” he claimed.

Corruption started from Mokokchung, he alleged. “I even know the constituency, but will not name it.”

Taking the argument a step further, he postulated that we pay 10% as tithe. If I as a minister take 10% from a project as a commission, the Secretary, Directors and other in the hierarchy takes their share, every project will suffer, he maintained.

“Contractors are not doing social works, if 50% goes up in air, how can they work properly,” he insisted, “We have become such a society.”

In order to cure the menace of corruption, he said non-violent “revolution” is need of the hour. To that effect, he extended his utmost support to ACAUT’s fight against the menace.

He also informed that he stopped going to functions or events, a conscious personal decision as well as the outcome of the order of the day.

Ministers, contractors, government servants who can “steal more” are often called as chief guests, since they pay more, he further maintained. If we don’t stop this culture, we won’t progress.

He also admitted that the Local Area Development Fund (LADP) is often used to assist party workers and workmanship suffers as a result.

If I develop something today, will the public ask for money in future election? Jamir posed.

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New DelhI/Dhaka, November 11 (IaNS): Outlawed ULFA’s fugitive leader Golap Baruah alias Anup Chetia was on Wednesday handed over to India by Bangladesh, 18 years after his arrest -- a move that is expected to give a push to peace talks in Assam.

According to a top official, Bangladesh Rifles handed over Chetia to the Border Security Force (BSF) at Dawki -- a border trade centre between India and Bangladesh -- in Meghalaya around 2 on Wednesday morning. He was later flown to New Delhi by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

India described this as a major breakthrough and said it would help the authorities crack several other major cases related to the outfit and its affiliates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina “and thanked her for the help in fighting terrorism”.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju told IANS: “It’s India’s team effort led by the prime minister... and as far as the handing over of Chetia is concerned, it will be decided by relevant agencies.”

India has been of late successful in getting custody of underworld dons Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan and Abu Salem, and ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.

Chhota Rajan, once a close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested in Indonesia in October and brought to India on November 6. Abu Salem, wanted for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was brought to India from Portugal in November 2005.

Rajkhowa was brought to India from Bangladesh in December 2009, after he surrendered before Indian authorities at Dawki in Meghalaya.

A PMO official told IANS, requesting anonymity: “He (Chetia) has been handed over to India following the request of Prime Minister Modi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.”

“The Central Bureau of Investigation will take custody of Chetia. (Chetia) will have to face trial in India for

Golap Baruah alias Anup Chetia (File Photo)

various crimes committed by him in Assam, which include murder, kidnapping and extortion,” he said.

Chetia is wanted by India to stand trial in various criminal cases of extortion, kidnapping, murder and attempt to murder. Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal confirmed in Dhaka that Chetia has been handed over to India.

“Chetia has been handed over to India legally after completing his prison term,” the Bangladesh home minister told IANS. Chetia being handed over to India is seen as an effort to speed up the paralysed peace talks between the Indian government and the pro-talks faction of ULFA led by the outfit’s former chairman, Rajkhowa, who along with a group of other senior ULFA leaders had surrendered to the Indian authorities in 2009.

Both the Assam government and the members of the pro-talks faction of ULFA have been demanding the extradition of Chetia since the peace process got underway in 2010.

The deportation of the 48-yearold founder member of ULFA comes after a extradition treaty was inked between India and Bangladesh in 2013. The treaty’s absence was the major reason behind the delay in the deportation of the insurgent leader.

Chetia and his two bodyguards were arrested from his plush apart-

Diwali diyas cause major fire in Kohima

ment in North Adabar under Muhammedpur police station in Dhaka on December 21, 1997, for illegally entering Bangladesh and for illegally carrying foreign currency and a satellite phone. Chetia was tried and sent to jail. His prison term ended on February 25, 2007, and he was kept in the Kashimpur Jail on the outskirts of Dhaka since 2012 in view of a Dhaka High Court directive to keep him in safe custody until the Bangladesh government decided on his plea for political asylum.

The rebel leader was earlier arrested by Assam Police in 1991, but released later on the intervention of then chief minister Hiteshwar Saikia, after which the ULFA leader fled to Bangladesh. In Assam, Chetia faces charges of extortion, murders and attempts to murder.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi called the development a great achievement and said he will write a letter to the central government to hand over Chetia to Assam Police as soon as possible.

“I am happy... we have been demanding his extradition for so long.

He is very influential and his presence will help the India-ULFA talks see a solution. He is more influential than the chief of ULFA anti-talks faction Paresh Barua,” Gogoi told a TV channel. Chetia founded the ULFA in 1979 with five other leaders, including the outfit’s commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah who is now believed to be hiding somewhere in China or Myanmar, having escaped Bangladesh earlier.

The Assamese separatist leader had sought political asylum in Bangladesh on three occasions - in 2005, 2008 and in 2011. He also applied to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for political asylum in Bangladesh, contending he had been fighting for a sovereign Assam.

But later Chetia sought that his application for political asylum in Bangladesh should be cancelled as he wanted to be part of the ongoing peace talks between the government of India and the ULFA. Related news on page 3

A major fire broke out at Kiezekie (north Block), below north Police station, near bus parking in Kohima this evening. The fire reportedly started at around 6:15pm and engulfed an entire three storied wooden house.

Fire department sources informed that the fire was caused

by Diwali diyas. no injuries or casualties were reported. sources informed that at first two fire trucks reached the spot, but they had to return as the trucks were not fully loaded with water. They returned within a few minutes and were reinforced with more trucks. With the help and neighbours, the fire fighters helped prevent the fire from spreading to nearby houses. sources further informed that the damage caused by the fire could amount to Rs 50 lakhs.

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NE air pollution sets alarm bells ringing

GUwahaTI, November 11 (TNN): Some cities in Assam and the northeast have reported a drastic drop in air quality over the past few years.

This was revealed in World Health Organization’s ‘Ambient (outdoor) Air Pollution (AAP) in Cities Database’ released in April this year.

Experts termed the pollution situation here ‘borderline alarming’ and sought effective pollution-curbing policy from the government for the sake of people’s health.

The report covered 1,600 cities across the world and focused on data collected from monitoring stations in residential, commercial and other areas between 2008 and 2013. The report termed New Delhi ‘the

most polluted city on the planet’.

The air quality in the cities of the northeast was measured in terms of the presence of annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5, i.e., particles smaller than 10 and 2.5 microns, respectively) in the air. Particulate matter or PM are coarse or fine particles present in the air that people breathe and most of the particles cannot be seen.

They can be in any shape or size and are present in both solid or liquid droplets.

The main difference between PM 10 and 2.5 is the size of the particles. Bigger particles are placed between 2.5 and 10 micrometer. The smaller particles, PM 2.5, are smaller than 2.5 micrometer

and are 100 times thinner than human hair. The coarse particles of PM 10 mostly comprise smoke, dirt, dust from factories or farms and construction of roads, while PM 2.5 particles comprise those making up automobile exhaust, heavy metals and toxic compounds. They are lighter, float in the air longer and have the ability to traverse long distances. The health risks they pose are many as PM 2.5 can travel deep into human lungs and cause cancer and respiratory problems.

Guwahati, Roha, Sivasagar, and Silchar in Assam, along with Dimapur in Nagaland, reported 40, 53, 48, 40 and 40 microgram of PM 2.5 per cubic meter annual mean, respectively. The WHO’s safety

threshold of PM 2.5 for humans is 10 microgram per cubic meter annual mean.

On the other hand, Roha, Nalbari, Nagaon, Guwahati, Dimapur, Sivasagar and Silchar reported 121, 82, 79, 92, 92, 109 and 91 microgram of PM 10 per cubic meter annual mean, respectively.

Sharad Gokhale, professor of environmental engineering in the department of civil engineering at IIT-G, said, “An effective policy in terms of improving traffic infrastructure is the need of the hour. The situation here is not as severe as that in some other cities of the country. But pollution is on the rise here and will ring alarm bells in the near future if it is not tackled.”

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The lady who saved the falcon Bano Haralu saves and protects Amur falcons in Nagaland

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(LEFT) The Advisor of Urban Development, SI Jamir unveiling the Jubilee’s souvenir. (RIGHT) The Mother’s Association of Residency Colony presenting a special number during its Silver Jubilee Programme at Unity College Premises, Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

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Haralu convinced people to stop hunting Amur falcons. Photo: Ramki Sreenivasan/ Conservation India Ananda Banerjee

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s you read this, one of nature’s greatest spectacles is unfolding in the breathtakingly beautiful North-Eastern state of Nagaland.

Thousands of Amur falcons, small birds of prey, are congregating at the Doyang reservoir in Wokha district, having flown thousands of kilometres from Siberia. This is their annual stop at the reservoir; they rest and roost there before flying off to their final destination—South Africa. In total, ornithologists believe, these falcons clock almost 22,000km of flying time in a year.

Every year, then, the Doyang reservoir witnesses the single largest congregation of Amur falcons anywhere in the world.

But it wasn’t always so.

It was in October 2012 that Bano Haralu, now 52, a managing trustee of the Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust, led a small group of conservationists, including colleague Rokohebi Kuotsu, Shashank Dalvi, a research associate at Bengaluru’s Centre for Wildlife Studies, and Ramki Sreenivasan of Conservation India, to the Doyang reservoir to check whether large-scale hunting was taking place in the area. “I first heard about the Amur falcons while visiting the Doyang reservoir during a bird survey trip in the last week of March 2010. But it was finally in October 2012 that Rokohebi and I were able to organize a trip with Ramki and Shashank to the killing fields,” says Haralu.

What they witnessed that balmy October day shook them to the core. Falcons had been slaughtered en masse, for food and for sale in markets across the state. Nagaland was and still is infamous for hunting, but this was something even the conservationists had not bargained for.

She recalls that day. “Everywhere we looked we saw dead falcons—villagers hawking the birds on the roadside.

Some were carrying stacks of birds on their shoulders to sell them elsewhere.

The homes we visited had heaps of dead falcons. Then there were live ones kept under mosquito nets for the markets. Live birds fetch a better price than dead ones,” she explains on phone.

Till 2012, it is estimated, 10-15% of the Amur falcon population was being hunted each season in Nagaland.

Conservationists consider Amur falcons a “keystone” species whose role is very different from that of other birds of prey. These birds are insectivorous and it is estimated that in South Africa alone, they consume 2.5 billion termites every year. So their role in agriculture and ecology is crucial. Any significant reduction in their numbers, it is feared, may have substantial consequences for South African agriculture, as well as the ecology in their breeding and non-breeding grounds.

India is a signatory to the Convention of Migratory Species and must ensure safe passage for all migratory birds. So, without wasting time, Haralu petitioned Neiphiu Rio, then chief minister of Nagaland, and urged him to visit the area.

Haralu’s perseverance paid off.

“Bano was convinced that the killings were completely unacceptable (even by Nagaland standards), and she persuaded a wide range of stakeholders—from ministers and senior bureaucrats to key people in the local community who were engaged in hunting. She spoke to other important opinion leaders in the Church and community elders to help spread the message. In a short period, Bano was able to make the people of Nagaland adopt the Amur falcon as a source of

‘pride’ for the state,” says Sreenivasan, a wildlife photographer and co-founder of Conservation India, a Web portal dedicated to wildlife.

In a remarkable turn of events, no killings were reported from Nagaland in the October-November 2013 migratory season.

Haralu’s conservation journey began in 2009, when she quit her career in television journalism after working with Doordarshan and NDTV for over two decades. “In 20 years of television reporting from the North-East, I had the privilege of sharing the stories of its myriad communities. Even while reporting on the bloody insurgencies, the sweeping demographic changes, the neglect in development of infrastructure, the annual scourge of the Brahmaputra floods over the plains of Assam, the numerous incidents of rhino poaching, mowing down of baby elephants by speeding trains…the beauty of the land always haunted me,” she says. “For several years, I had been thinking how I could marry my two loves—journalism and environment.”

The opportunity came when the forest department approved the Nagaland Wildlife Conservation Project. Haralu got involved in a biodiversity survey and a book project simultaneously.

In 2010, she coordinated a guidebook on the birds of Nagaland for the tourism department.

In the last six years, Haralu has spearheaded several conservation initiatives in the state—from bird surveys to mapping biodiversity hot spots and conservation threats. She also works with the government to coordinate a statewide conservation education programme.

The Save the Amur Falcon programme provided an opening to interact with the community. Interestingly, Haralu’s dialogue with the hunters helped scientists study the falcons’ migratory path. “In November 2013, scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India and the United Nations Environment Programme, accompanied by state forest department officials, were camped in the Doyang reservoir to satellite-tag the Amur falcons. One evening, I got a call from a worried hunter from Pangti village. He and his hunter friends were surreptitiously watching the scientists, who were trying their best to capture these falcons using fine-quality mist nets without any success. The hunter said the scientists were wrong in their method and if they were to catch these birds they must use the local way,” says Haralu.

So Haralu arranged for a meeting and the hunters successfully netted over 30 birds for the scientists. Eventually, three birds were ringed with satellite tags and released on 7 November 2013. They were named Pangti, Naga and Wokha after three villages around the Doyang reservoir.

The satellite tags have provided valuable information about the Amur falcons, including the distance travelled, the route and number of days taken. Naga and Pangti have completed a second cycle of migration, covering a distance of around 44,000km in two years. Wokha lost its tag in the first year. This year, says Lokeswara Rao Madiraju, principal chief conservator of forests, Nagaland, Naga and Pangti reached Doyang on 29 October.

“We have heard of (other) initiatives to protect the Amur falcon. The community in Yongyimsen village in Longleng district, the drive in Niuland under Dimapur district and in faraway Tamenglong in Manipur, which has organized the Amur Falcon Dance Festival. A change has definitely set in; how wide or focused that change is, is not clear but, as Bob Dylan said, the answer is blowing in the wind,” says Haralu.

Invoking the last 25 years of cooperation and unity, the Residency Colony Dimapur celebrated its Silver Jubilee here today with an ardent call to step into the future as a harmonious close-knitted family.

The celebration was held at Unity College premises with SI Jamir, Advisor Urban Development, Government of Nagaland as the Chief Guest along. Dr Ilyas KPA, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dimapur Zone-2 and DUCCF president, L Supong Ao also attended the programme.

Formerly known as Tribal Colony, it was offi-

cially recognised as Residency Colony in 1990 and presently the colony has 270 household and 1363 residents, informed a souvenir released at the event.

Welcoming the gathering, the Convener of the Planning Committee, Dr Maongsangba said that though the colony was small in terms of area, population and resources, it is aiming to be a model village in Dimapur. Remembering the early pioneers, he also honored their contributions and urged the inhabitants to step into the future in peace. “Many people who started the colony are dead, and many present here will be so in next 25 years. Let’s forgive and celebrate the silver jubilee in peace” he exhorted the people.

Giving a biblical interpretation to the event, Rev. M Tongzuk told the audience that Jubilee implies four meanings namely –

release of slaves (or those in our bondage); cancelling of debts; returning of 1/3 properties to original owners; and refraining from hitting or cheating each other. In this context, he appealed the gathering to ‘forgive and forget’ and loving one another for a peaceful living.

Congratulating the colony on its joyous occasion, DUCCF president, L Supong Ao maintained that the success of any colony depends upon the cooperation by general public through – physical, moral and financial cooperation- and batted for its continuity.

Phyophio Odyuo, GB Residency Colony espousing for cohesiveness and unity within the inhabitants ardently requested them to consider the colony as their family and village. “Visit one another, share joyful as well as sorrowful occasion, help one

another in sickness and good health,” he advocated adding that life in this earth is short and we all have cut ticket to leave though our departure varies.

Releasing the Jubilee’s Souvenir and speaking on the occasion, SI Jamir informed that though he does not attend events in regular interval these days, he came to the colony’s celebration taking it as an opportunity to meet up old friends as well as visiting his own constituency.

For past 30 years (since his first election in 1987), I have been staying with you and receiving your kindness, I hope you will do the same in future” Jamir said.

Considering the colony as a family member, he asked, “Decide whether you want cash or developmental programmes, I am here to help.”

Taking a cue from the chief guest speech, Simon Kelio, the Chairman of Residency Colony and the

GIDD week observed in Kiphire District

Participants of essay competition with CMO staffs and teachers

KIPhIRE, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): Observation of Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (GIDD) week kick started with an awareness meeting conducted at CMO Office by District Health Society Kiphire on November 6. The invitees of the programme were pastors and women leaders of Kiphire District.

Dr. W. Punsokiu (CMO) gave the keynote address and briefly spoke on IDD. He said, “Iodine is one of the important elements that our body requires, and disorders caused due to iodine deficiency are preventable. We have to make sure that iodised salt is consumed and not common salt.” He appealed to the

pastors and women leaders to convey the message to the community as they are always in touch with the public.

Dr. Khelito (DTO) gave an insight on the symptoms of iodine deficiency and spoke on the importance of consumption of iodated salt. “Iodine is essential for physical and mental

growth,” she added. She also mentioned that if a person suspects symptoms of iodine deficiency, one can get checked at the health units.

Children and pregnant mothers are more susceptible for detection of iodine deficiency disorders.

Sensitization programme for school students and community members were conducted at Phelungre and Longthongre. Resource persons, Dr. Mukhamchem (MO, MHT) and Dr. A. Amos (MO, SHP) educated the attendees on iodine consumption and deficiency disorders. IEC materials were also distributed and demonstration of iodated salt testing was done.

GIDD week concluded with students from schools of Kiphire participating in an essay competition held on November 11. Manish Sahu (JNV), Apong (Elbeth High School) and Tsarili (Loyola Higher Sec School) who secured 1st, 2nd and 3rd position respectively were awarded certificates and cash prizes.

Chair of the programme requested the Advisor of Urban Development to expedite the repairing of roads in the colony.

Earlier the programme started with an invocation

by Visezol Neika, Pastor CCRC and a welcome song by the colony youth. It programme with concluded with vote of thanks by Francis Patton, Member Silver Jubilee Planning Committee and benediction by CH Stephen Rao, Pastor, Dimapur Telegu Baptist Church.

The highlights of the programme also included an uplifting and melodious sing rendered by the Residency Mother’s Association. The chair of the programme also led the gathering in observing a one-minute silence to pay homage to departed soul of the colony.

A sumptuous community after the formal programme capped the Silver Jubilee celebration.

National Education Day in Longleng

LONgLENg, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): Longleng district along with the rest of the nation celebrated National Education Day cum Competition for Girl Students at DC’s Office Complex Longleng on November 11. The programme was organized by District Task Force (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao) and attended by girl students studying in various schools of Longleng Town.

The programme was chaired by Kevingoto Kulnu, EAC Sakshi. A brief introduction on the importance of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme was delivered by Shri. Tahong, CDPO Longleng. Temsusenla, SDEO Longleng gave the keynote address.

A short play on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao was staged by Phom Lempong School.

This was followed by extempore speech competition, painting competition and word find. The programme concluded with prize distribution along with certificates to the winners.

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Ethnic Moment opens in Dimapur

Abu Metha inaugurates the Ethnic Moment restaurant on November 11.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): With the idea to promote Naga food culture and nurture traditional food and beverages, a three-people team has launched Ethnic Moment restaurant. Located in the heart of Dimapur town, along Church Road, Ethnic Moment is a joint venture of three childhood friends who started the venture with the central aim to promote traditional cuisines of various Naga communities on a single menu.

The eatery was inaugurated on November 11, by founding-editor of Eastern Mirror, Abu Metha. Inaugurating the restaurant, Abu Metha remarked that food identifies a culture and the Naga people have since time immemorial been ‘culturally proud.’ However he pointed out that the people had failed to expose and promote their food culture. However, he hoped that the venture would promote local cuisines. Also, remarking that a journey starts with small steps, Metha called upon the proprietors and those involved with Ethnic Moment to instill hospitality and serve customers with dedication.

During the event, the proprietors of Ethnic Moment said that they aimed to ‘serve food lovers through their stomach and dedicate their service to the society with healthy and hygienic food.’ True to its name ‘Ethnic Moment’, the restaurant will also make available authentic herbs that purportedly have medicinal value.

Naghutomi villagers residing in Dimapur celebrated Ahuna, post-harvest festival of the Sumi Naga at Ikeshe village, 5th Mile, Dimapur on November 11. The celebration was hosted by Z. Howoto Wotsa, retired Joint Director, department of Agriculture and was graced by K. Khekiye Sema, IAS, retired Principal Secretary, Government of Nagaland as chief guest.

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ATMA Dimapur Medziphema block inaugurated a fishery farm school at Vidima village on November 10 with Dr. Aseno (BTM) as resource person. She spoke on the advantages of integrated fish farming, fishery pond manure fertilizer and fish feed management. She also highlighted the importance of liming. The programme was chaired by Temsu Longkumer, HO and BTT convener.

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Chetia's extradition to help Centre-ULFA talks Guwahati, November 11 (iaNS): The repatriation of jailed ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia from Bangladesh after about 18 years is likely to have a positive impact on the ongoing tripartite parleys between the central and state governments and an ULFA faction led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.Chetia's extradition has been one of the main demands of the pro-talks faction of ULFA leaders, participating in the peace process with the government since 2010.

A senior Assam Police official said Chetia's two other colleagues - Lakhi Prasad Goswami and Babul Sarma - are also likely to be brought back to the state. He, however, said it might take a day or two to bring Chetia to Assam as some central security agencies were likely to quiz him.

Modi shouldn't take credit for Anup Chetia's deportation: Assam CM Gogoi New Delhi, November 11 (iaNS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not take credit for ULFA leader Anup Chetia's deportation from Bangladesh. He said that it was he who continuously demanded the rebel leader's extradition to help ongoing ULFA peace talks with the central and state governments.

"I do not think this (deportation of "However, we are going to bring him (to the state) as most cases against him are registered in Assam," he said.

Bangladesh-based newspapers on Wednesday reported that Chetia - lodged in Bangladesh jails since 1997 - was handed over to a team of Indian officials on

Chetia) is the success of Modi. It is because of the land bill and me. It is because of my persuasion and continuous demand to bring back the (ULFA) leader so that the peace talks between the government and the pro-talks faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) could progress," Gogoi told a TV news channel.

Gogoi said he would write to the central government with a request to hand over the ULFA leader to Assam.

Wednesday morning.

Chetia, born in Jerai Gaon in Tinsukia district of Assam, is one of the key leaders of the banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). A founder-member of ULFA, he was arrested on December 21, 1997, from a house in Mohammedpur area

of Bangladesh for illegally entering the country on a forged passport and possessing illegal foreign currency, firearms and a satellite phone. Subsequently, he was tried and sentenced to jail terms varying from three to seven years by a Bangladeshi court.

The Indian government

could not bring Chetia back for long in the absence of an extradition treaty between the two countries.

However, the process of Chetia's extradition began after an extradition treaty was signed between India and Bangladesh in 2013.

Chetia had volunteered to be repatriated rather than be kept in protective custody of Bangladesh.

ULFA's peace negotiations with the central and state governments began in 2010 after Bangladesh handed over to the Indian authorities the separatist outfit's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, deputy chief of the outfit's armed wing Raju Baruah and several other top ULFA leaders in 2009.

Rijiju on Wednesday said ULFA General Secretary Anup Chetia's deportation from Bangladesh would help crack many cases related to the banned outfit. "Handing over of jailed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader Anup Chetia by Bangladesh to India is a major breakthrough.

Chetia is a top leader of ULFA and his handing over will lead to cracking of many cases. The central agencies and the Assam Police will investigate him," he told the media here.

Rijiju said there were several issues related to finances and help in setting up camps in areas of India bordering China and Myanmar that needed to be probed.Prime Minister Deportation will help Narendra Modi tweeted his crack ULFA cases: Rijiju thanks to Bangladesh PreMeanwhile Minister of mier Sheikh Hasina for helpState for Home Affairs Kiren ing India fight terrorism.

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Security forces nab 3 cadres in Manipur Our Correspondent Imphal | November 11

A team of the 24 Assam Rifles arrested one cadre of the proscribed United National Liberation Front (UNLF) near Khudengthabi Checkpost along Imphal-Moreh road yesterday.

The UNLF cadre has been identified as Mutum Soni, 22, hailing from Nambol Oinam in Bishnupur district, a police source said Wednesday.

In a separate operation, a combined team of the 20 Assam Rifles and Thoubal Police commandos nabbed an active cadre of the banned Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) from Pallel bazaar along the Imphal-Moreh road, a section of the National Highway 2, on November 9.

A release from the PRO of Manipur Police identified the arrested as Mayengbam Ango (20), resident of Langathel Khunou in Thoubal district.

Another UNLF cadre was apprehended by a team of the Red Shield Division in Salamkonjil area of Bishnupur district during search operation on November 8, according to a statement from the PRO (Defence).

The statement identified the UNLF activist as Sanasam Prem, 29, resident of Salamkonjil Part-II under Moirang Police Station.

Separate cases have been registered with the concerned police stations and investigations are on.

Meghalaya govt seeks for more 90:10 funding pattern to be maintained for NE OKING HOSPITAL, KOHIMA formed to study the funding pattern November 11 tributed by the state concerned. central forces to fight militants aGartala, There are 11 states in India for the northeastern states." (iaNS): The NDA government has ShilloNG, November 11 (iaNS): The Meghalaya government has sought more central forces to fight militants in the insurgency-hit districts of Garo Hills, Home Minister Roshan Warjri said on Wednesday.

She said the prevailing law and order situation in Garo Hills does not warrant to impose the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in that area since police were making all effort to tackle the militancy situation.

"The situation in Garo Hills does not warrant for imposition of AFSPA. Our police are putting in all efforts to fight militancy, despite a lot of constraints," Warjri said. The minister, however, felt that the central government should sanction additional central forces to assist police in the ongoing combing operations against various militant outfits.

"We have repeatedly been writing to the Centre to provide additional central armed police forces, besides financial assistance for upgrade of police stations and enhancement of manpower by raising two more Indian Reserve battalions besides sanctioning funds to Special Force-10 to deal with internal security challenges," Warjri said. Garo Hills comprises of five districts in western part of Meghalaya.

AP govt taking steps for implementing NFSA itaNaGar, November 11 (Pti): Making food security a high agenda of his governance, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Tuesday took principal decisions to implement the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the state. The state government is all geared up to implement National Food Security Act-2013 with effect from December 1 next, an official communiqué said here today. Chairing a high level meeting of Food and Civil Supplies department, Tuki called for a holistic approach to ensure proper implementation of the Act which ensures 5 kg of rice per individual and 35 kg per family per month at Rs 3 per KG. The state shall constitute a Food Commis-

sion under section 16 of the Act and for the time being till regular commission is put in place, it was decided that the Arunachal Pradesh State Women Commission will be delegated with the state food commission’s functions and activities.

agreed to provide central funding for the core Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) to the northeastern states with the same ratio as earlier, an official said here. The chief ministers of the 8 northeastern states ruled by the Congress, Left and regional parties, through a unanimous resolution, had earlier urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to maintain the special category status for their states. The funding pattern for the special category was in the ratio of 90:10, where 90% of the total expenditure was borne by the central government and 10% con-

clubbed under the special status category - the eight northeastern states, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand. "Union Minster of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said that the central government has mostly resolved to keep on with the 90 to 10 ratio funding pattern for 17 Core CSS and would follow the 80 to 20 ratio pattern for non-core CSS schemes for the northeastern states," an official of the North Eastern Council (NEC) told IANS. "The funding pattern would be retained based on the recommendations of the Shivraj Singh Committee

The union minister held a meeting with the senior officials of all 8 NE states, NEC, Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region (DONER) in Shillong on Monday and reviewed the performance of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna, CSS and other centrally sponsored programmes and projects. "The minister said for the development of the northeast, money is not a problem. The DoNER ministry has funds of Rs.2,369 crore while the World Bank is ready to provide funds for the development of the region," the official added.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Rajan appointed as vice chairman of BIS

mUmbAi, November 11 (AgeNcies): Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has become the first Indian central banker to be appointed as vicechairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) -the bank for central banks. The appointment is expected to give stronger voice to Rajan, who has been repeatedly calling for more coordination among central banks in monetary policy.

Rajan was elected to the number two position for a period of three years from November 10, 2015 at a meeting of the BIS board.

Rajan had joined the BIS board in December 2013.

As vice-chairman, Rajan will work with BIS chairman Jens Weid mann, who is also president of Germany’s Bundesbank.

Rajan has for long been

pens, there will be volatility . I worry more about the consequences of staying in the ultra accommodative ... world. I think there will be volatility, but I think we have to bear it,” he said.

Prior to Rajan, former RBI governor Y V Reddy had a key role as chairman of the BIS Asian Consultative Council which comprised all governors of BIS member central banks in the Asia-Pacific region.

As an organization of central banks, BIS seeks to bring more predictability and transparency in monetary policy . The framework for regulations that prescribe capital requirement for banks is also prescribed by the BIS. The capital norms are known as Basel norms, named after the location of the BIS headquarters where they were framed.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan delivers a lecture at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on November 6. (REUTERS Photo)

a critic of central banks in the develo ped world opening up the monetary sluice gates and flooding emerging markets with capital flows. Rajan once even had a face-off with former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke when he said that powerful central banks

should pay attention to how their policies affect other countries.

On Tuesday , speaking at Frankfurt, Rajan forecast volatility when the Federal Reserve raises rates. However, he said that the consequences of the inaction by the Fed would be even more severe.”When it hap-

Now, book tickets 30 minutes prior to departure of train New Delhi, November 11 (PTi): Come November 12, you can book a railway ticket online 30 minutes prior to the departure of a train. In a passenger-friendly move, Railways has also made changes in its system of preparation of chart, which would now be prepared twice.

The first reservation chart would be prepared four hours prior to departure of a train while

the second and the final one 30 minutes before the train departs, a senior Railway official said.

According to the revised rules, booking will be allowed on internet as well as at reservation counters for a particular train, subject to availability of berths, even after the preparation of first reservation chart.

Railways has also made it mandatory for the concerned department

to finalise the reservation chart four hours before the departure of train from November 12 in order to facilitate passengers to know the status of their ticket and plan their journey well in time.

This is a significant move to provide additional booking facilities enabling passengers to buy tickets even after the preparation of reservation charts, the official said.

A second and final

chart of reservations will be made available before departure of train and handed over to onboard ticket checking staff.

This exercise will ensure optimum utilization of train accommodation as well as enhanced earnings, the official said.

Also, there were complaints of delay in finalisation of reservation chart giving scope to touts for indulging in illegal ticketing activities.

Centre starts constituting new Tea Board KolKATA, November 11 (The hiNDU): The Board constitutes 31 members drawn from parliamentarians, tea-producers, traders, brokers, consumers, and representatives of governments from the principal tea-producing States, and trade unions. The Union Commerce Ministry has kicked off the process of reconstituting the Tea Board of India after a considerable gap of 19 months. The term of the last board had expired in March 2014. The notification, appointing the members was issued on November 2, 2015.

The list includes names of exofficio officials representing the teagrowing states of Assam, West Bengal Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura and Sikkim. It also includes owners’ representatives from most of the tea-growing States.

The Board constitutes 31 members (including Chairman) drawn from parliamentarians, tea-producers, traders, brokers, consumers, and representatives of governments from the principal tea-producing States, and trade unions. The Board is reconstituted every three years.

While initially the delay was linked to the alleged policy paralysis of the UPA government, hopes of expeditious action with the coming to power of BJP led government too were belied. This led to apprehensions whether the government had some plans of recasting the industry regulator. This fear, as much among the Tea Board officials as the industry, was fed by the gap in naming a fulltime Chairman for the Board. Since the resignation of M. G. V. K. Bhanu in December 2013, there has been no full-time Chairman of the Board.

IPO preparations underway in India: Vodafone Indian Team bags NASA Japan’s first commercial jet in loNDoN, Novem- day said its service revenue for several years, but has Award for tyre technology 50 years makes maiden flight ber 11 (PTi): Vodafone - excluding the regulatory held back because of reguGroup Plc today said it has started preparations for an initial public offer (IPO) of its Indian business.

India is a significant contributor to the Vodafone group and it is the largest data traffic market by volume as well as the third-largest contributor to the group’s service revenues.

“We have recently begun preparations for a potential IPO of Vodafone India, subject to market conditions,” the Londonbased Group said in a statement.

Last month, Vodafone Group chief executive officer (CEO) Vittorio Colao had said that the company had started preparatory work for the IPO. “I cannot give you a date, but I can tell you (that) we are positively inclined to an IPO and have started some preparatory work,” Colao had said on his visit to India in October.

The telecom major to-

impact - in India has grown 11.2 per cent to Rs 22,902 crore for the first half of the ongoing fiscal, driven by customer additions and robust growth in data against Rs 20,601 crore in April-September 2014.

Vodafone India’s mobile customer base grew 8.2 per cent to 188.2 million at the end of September 2015 against 173.8 million in the year-ago period.

The group had in May asked investment bank Rothschild to compile a report about the benefits of a possible IPO, which would provide the company with cash for its India plans.

The share sale will also offer investors an opportunity to reap dividends from a market where wireless growth is outpacing that of more mature countries such as Vodafone’s home market, the UK. The company has been considering an Indian IPO

latory and tax issues in the country.

Vodafone is India’s second largest wireless mobile operator with a market capitalization of about 9.3 billion pound, and an enterprise value of 11.4 billion pound, according to analysts at Citi.

The Indian division’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization reached 1.28 billion pound on sales of 4.3 billion pound in 201415. India accounts for about 10 per cent of the group’s revenues.

Vodafone in January said that it has invested more than 12.8 billion pound in India since 2007.

In 2013, it committed to invest about Rs 8,500 crore annually.

In addition, the company acquired spectrum for about Rs 25,959.74 crore in March and has plans to expand 3G service network from 9 circles to 16 circles.

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ToKYo, November 11 (reUTers): Japan’s first commercial jet in half a century made its maiden flight on Wednesday, in a breakthrough for the country’s long-held ambition to establish an aircraft industry that can compete with some of the major players in global aviation.

The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) took off on a one-hour return flight from Nagoya Airport to test Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp’s ability to bring the 100seat class plane into service after three years of delays.

The unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which built the World War Two-era Zero fighter, is hoping the $47-million regional jet will help it oust Canada’s Bombardier Inc as the world’s second-biggest maker of smaller passenger jets behind Brazil’s Embraer SA. The MRJ is Japan’s first commercial passenger aircraft since the 64-seat YS-11 entered service 50 years ago.

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New Delhi, November 11 (AgeNcies): Tyre punctures and blowouts have always been the bane of motorists and there have been countless cases where they have led to fatal accidents, especially when the vehicle is moving at a fairly decent speed.

However, a group of Indian scientists might just be able to solve the problem in a cost-effective manner.

TycheeJuno, a team from Odisha, has come up with a solution called BPPC (Burst Prevention and Puncture Curative) which recently bagged an award from NASA at the Create the Future Design Contest 2015 in New York.

TycheeJuno’s BPPC technology decreases the possibilities of tyre bursts and also helps to prevent punctures. In fact, it can even help a punctured tyre run like a normal one on the road. In addition to all of this, the technology improves dynamic wheel balancing, increases fuel efficiency and the life of the tyre.

The team has developed a multi-chambered tube and a multi-chambered tubeless tyre filled with a liquid layer of sealants, rubber particles, etc., which prevent leakage of air in the case of a puncture.

“There have been technologies for limiting the impacts of punctures. However, there was no solution to decrease the chances of a burst due to tyre over-heating in a localised area, except perhaps our BPPC,” TycheeJuno team leader Sameer Panda, who is doing his PhD from VSS University of Technology (VSSUT) in Odisha’s Sambalpur district, said.

Udit Bondia, Dr KN Panda and Smitiparna Satpathy are the other members in his team.

Thousands of young scientists from 60 countries participated in the international contest, which was conducted

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The biggest single purchase, for 100 aircraft, was from U.S. regional airline operator Trans State Holdings.

Mitsubishi says the MRJ burns a fifth less fuel than aircraft of similar size, thanks to new-generation engines from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.

Japan’s last attempt to establish itself as a commercial aircraft maker ended in failure. Production of the YS11, built by a consortium that included Mitsubishi Heavy, finished after only 182 planes were built.

That programme however helped Mitsubishi Heavy and other companies forge ties with Boeing Co, turning them into major suppliers and partners of the U.S. aircraft maker and helping revive an aerospace industry that was dismantled after World War Two. Those Japanese companies build 35 percent of Boeing’s advanced 787 carbon-composite jetliner, including the wings, the most complex part.

Japan’s biggest carmaker, Toyota Motor Corp, and largest trading company, Mitsubishi Corp, each own a 10 percent stake in the MRJ venture.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

RMSA candidates asked to be patient

DimapUr, November 11 (mexN): The executives of the Nagaland RMSA Written Exam 2014 Qualified Candidates Forum has requested all its members to “understand the ground reality and have patience for some few more days”, while highlighting the problems shared by the Department of Education during a meeting held on November 11 with Yitachu, Minister of Education. The meeting, held at the official residence of the education

Candles surround a shop on the occasion of Diwali in Dimapur on November 11. One of the biggest Hindu festivals, Diwali signifies the victory of good over evil. Nagaland celebrated the festival with much fireworks along with the rest of the nation.

85 years Khuza & Metsale boundary disputes settled Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The 85 years old pending boundary disputes between Khuza and Metsale villages under Phek district has been settled amicably, informed the Phek Area Public Organization (PAPO), who expressed gratitude to Phek Deputy Commissioner Murohu Chotso, Phek EAC

Vekusheyi Rhakho and Rashetho Katiry PA to DC Phek and his Dobashis for amicably settling the disputes, thereby fulfilling the long felt wishes of the people in the area.

PAPO President Vezhehu Vero and Vice President Nekhusa Venuh in a press note thanked the people of both the villages and their

leaders for coming openly and extending their cooperation sincerely with the administration to solve all the pending disputes. “The organization does hope that this kind of gesture will surely strengthen brotherhood relationship and set as an eye opener to all towards our shared goal,” PAPO stated.

minister regarding the delay in the declaration of the RMSA viva-voce result, was also attended by Senthang, Additional Director and HoD, Department of Education.

In the meeting, the minister highlighted some issues arising due to the directives and guidelines of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) which now need to be taken up at the cabinet level and will require some time.

A press note issued

by Convenor Kakika Z Sumi informed that the Forum agreed to cooperate with the government for another 10 days. If no positive outcome surfaces after that, the Forum will continue with its indefinite agitation which was called off on October 27. The Forum earnestly hoped that the government will speed up the work on their part and fulfill their demand without any further delay.

Anganwadi staff oriented on Swachh Bharat Kiphire, November 11 (mexN): The Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), Kiphire conducted orientation programme on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan with Anganwadi workers on November 5 at Hopongkyu Memorial Hall here. More than 75 Anganwadi workers under ICDS Kiphire attended the programme.

Highlighting the importance of Swachh Bharat Mission, CDPO & DWO incharge, ZT Sangtam asked

the Anganwadi workers to inculcate a healthy habit of sanitation and hygiene.

He also told the workers to bring difference in their respective centers so that standard of living is improved.

Further, sharing the ways of keeping the centre clean, Sangtam said Anganwadi centers can be free from waste through proper waste management and taking care of the environment around the centre.

He added that personal hy-

giene involves taking care of oneself and also the well being of others.

He also asked the workers to maintain the IEC programme and keep the centre child friendly and healthy as it is one of the main centres where the needs of children are taken care of.

Yangsemong, Supervisor, asked the Anganwadi workers to maintain 11 MIS register properly which is to be submitted in the last part of every month.

New office building at Nagaland Zoological Park Feast of St. Peter and Eucharistic DimapUr, November 11 (mexN): The new Range Office at Nagaland Zoological Park, Rangapahar was inaugurated by the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest & Head of Forest Force, M. Lokeswara Rao on November 10.

Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland, Director of the Zoo and officers and staff of the department we also present.

A press release informed that since the inception of the Zoo, the Range Office was functioning from the Zoo Director's office building. With the inauguration of the new building, the administration and management of the Zoological Park is set to improve visibly in the future, the release stated.

Director of the Zoo, Sentichuba Aier during the inaugural programme thanked the Principal Chief

precession held at Tesophenyu

Principal Chief Conservator of Forest & Head of Forest Force, M. Lokeswara Rao inaugurates the Range office building.

Conservator of Forest for providing fund for construction of the building and urged upon the staff to work sincerely for the success of the Zoo. Meanwhile, Rao congratulated the Director and

his staff for the successful completion of the building and further encouraged the staff of the department to be sincere and disciplined.

He said that without discipline the department cannot function efficiently.

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): St. Peter’s Church, Tesophenyu celebrated the feast of St. Peter, the patron of the Church, and had Eucharistic procession along the vicinity of the Church on November 8. Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima was the main celebrant at the ceremony, which was attended by priests, sisters and laity from Lazami, Tseminyu, Kohima and Chiephobozou.

Bishop said that although the feast of St. Peter and Paul is celebrated together on June 29, the feast was kept for November 8 for the convenience of the local church.

He further asserted that both St. Peter and St. Paul are important for different reasons, a press release informed. Peter is important because he was the first Pope and kept the church united which was

growing very rapidly in the years following Pentecost. In the first years after Pentecost, it was Jews who accepted Jesus as the Savior and so the early church was a very Jewish church. But as time went on, Paul, who was specially called by Jesus, began to preach also to non-Jews, the Gentiles as they were called, the Bishop said. “All of us are Gentiles. His preaching was very successful and he brought huge numbers of non-Jews into the church, so much so that the number of Jews in the church was greatly outnumbered by non-Jews.”

Both Peter and Paul had very important tasks in the early church – Peter maintained the unity in the church which during his lifetime had already spread throughout the Middle East and Europe, and Paul taught the Jews that Jesus is the fulfillment of their Old Testament hopes and

taught the non-Jews that Jesus is the Savior.

Stating that God called them to use their personalities to spread the Gospel, Peter to use his impetuous love to look after the flock, and Paul to use his training as a Pharisee, the Bishop said it is a reminder to that our talents and weaknesses too can become God’s means of helping others if we allow God to work in our lives. During the celebration, the sacrament of confirmation was administrated to 22 faithful and 20 children received the first Holy Communion. One hour Eucharistic procession was also held with special intention of praying for the peace, justice, honesty to prevail in our society.

A short reception for Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil for his pastoral visit was also organized by the Catholic community.

Mezo-Phetsu GPS celebrates 50 years NTCA annual general

mezoma, November 11 (mexN): Mezo-Phetsu Government Primary School, Mezoma observed its 50th anniversary on November 7 at the school premises.

Gracing the function as chief guest, Visayieca Chüsi, SDEO, Chiephobozou stressed on quality education and urged for concerted effort from the teachers, parents and students. “In order to bring quality education, the students, teachers and parents should share equal responsibility,” he said.

He observed that many parents tend to neglect their roles and blame the teachers when their children do not perform well. In this, he particularly urged the parents to give more time for the well

being of the pupils and not to rely wholly on the teachers. While observing that many of the teachers focus too much on course completion, he advised the teachers stating “course completion is not the top priority, but the teachers should keep on assessing the performance of the students.”

“Once a student fails to catch up in the class, he/she feels left out. And this leads to drop-outs,” he remarked, adding “it is the responsibility of the teachers to teach the basics to the pupils.” He also told the parents to learn to appreciate the sacrificial efforts of the teachers.

Speaking to a host of village leaders, parents and students, he urged all the stakeholders to con-

tribute largely towards bringing up good schools in the village. “A well managed school in a village positively impacts the village, even to the extent of lifting the village economy as the students don’t need to go outside for their studies if there are good schools in the village,” he added.

During the programme, a brief history about GPS Mezo-Phetsu was delivered by V. Jalie Krose.

The programme commenced with invocation pronounced by Thepfüvisie Krose, while the welcome address was delivered by Rokoselhou Kehie, teacher-in-charge. A special number was presented

by GPS Mezo-Phetsu and vote of thanks tendered by Neinguvoto Krose.

conference from Nov 14

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The 14th annual general conference of the Nagaland Theological Colleges Association (NTCA) will take place from November 14 to 15 under the theme “Theological Praxis: Living out the Authentic Christian Faith” at Platinum Hall, Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Bayavü, Kohima.

The conference will start at 12:00 noon, which will be led by NTCA president Pete Z. Krose.

There will be a panel discussion on the conference theme. The panelists will include Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, president, Kohima Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship, Rev. Dr. Rabi Pame, principal, United

College of Theology & Missions, Rev. Dr. Sanyü Iralu, principal, Shalom Bible Seminary and Wabang Moa, managing director, Highland Dawn Media. Rev. Thebemo Yanthan will deliver message at the worship service at 6:00 pm.

On Sunday, Dr. V. Atsi Dolie, executive director, ABCC will deliver a message. The conference will also be marked by release of NTCA journal and installation of new executive members.

All the member colleges have been requested to send their delegates according to the membership status.

Pughoboto SDPDB Don Bosco Tech starts 15th batch of skill training Novemholds monthly meeting DimapUr, ber 11 (mexN): Don pUGhoboto, No vember 11 (Dipr): Sub-divisional Planning & Development Board (SDPDB) Pughoboto held its meeting on November 7 under the chairmanship of Minister for PWD (R&B) Vikheho Swu. The meeting started with a two-minute silence in respect of Lt. Qhehozhe Kitho, SDO, PHED Pughoboto, who passed away on October 30.

SDO (C) and Convenor of “Clean Pughoboto Campaign” highlighted the verification process carried out to choose the cleanest village; the award for which will be given away during the Thuwuni festival on November 13 & 14 at Pughoboto.

The chairman requested the Power Department to initiate connection to

the new PHC site at Ghathashi. Swu also explained the concept and modalities on management and functioning of “Eco Rides” (bicycles), which will be launched during the Thuwuni festival. Informing that bicycles will be given away to the villages under Pughoboto sub-division, he encouraged the members to make use of the eco rides during their village visits to encourage the public on healthy living and environment friendly practices.

The board also decided to pursue the matter on posting of Senior Medical Officer, APRO, SDO Irrigation and SDO, PHED. ADC, Pughoboto, Avelu Ruho announced that there will be mass social work on November 12 for the schools and government offices.

Bosco Tech, AIDA Centre inaugurated the 15th batch of skill training programme for unemployed youth of Nagaland on November 10.

Dr. KPA Ilyas, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone II, Dimapur district was the chief guest. He encouraged the trainees stating, “You have wonderful inborn traits like discipline, beauty, simplicity and respect for community, which is scarcely found in other communities.” Meanwhile, he cautioned the trainees to discipline themselves and develop and carry forward the good inborn qualities in them. He encouraged the trainees to be happy in what they do in their everyday life.

“Happiness is not what we achieve at the end but happiness comes in whatever we do everyday and by doing it in the right way,” he added.

Rev. Fr. CT Varghese, rector and administrator of

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MEx FILE ANCSU appeals to control noise pollution Kohima, November 11 (mexN): All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has appealed to the general public, all responsible wards, colonies and town areas to control noise pollution in view of the forthcoming degree examination under Nagaland University, which starts from November 12. The union also appealed to the power department to make all possible measures to provide uninterrupted electricity during the examination. The union further wished the very best to all the students for their exam.

CM visit to Mangkolemba moKoKChUNG, November 11 (mexN): Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang will inaugurate the new office building of the ADC Mangkolemba on Friday, November 13. Mangkolemba sub division, which is located about 70 km from Mokokchung town, is one of the most important ADC Headquarters in Mokokchung district as it overlooks 3 ranges- Changkikong, Tsurangkong and Japfukong. On the same day, the sub treasury office and tourist centre Mangkolemba will also be inaugurated. Meanwhile, citizens of Mangkolemba led by ADC, Imtiwapang Aier, and the public of the three ranges have made elaborate preparations to welcome the CM on Friday. Right after the inauguration, the CM will address the public at public ground Mangkolemba at 12 noon.

AKMWP conducts social work Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The Association of Kohima Municipal Wards Panchayat (AKMWP) organized a social work in Kohima Town in co-ordination with Kohima Municipal Council and the Department of Municipal Affairs Cell, Government of Nagaland on November 11. Lauding the citizens of Kohima Town Panchayats for their co-operation, AKMWP said that the objective of organizing the social work was to create awareness in view of the Smart City and upcoming festive season. AKMWP further reminded the wards Panchayat to participate in the social work called by the Angami Students Union (ASU) on November 14.

AYO convenes meet with youth organizations Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) has convened a meeting with ward/colony youth organizations of Kohima town on November 13, 1:00 pm at APO Hall, Kohima to discuss about the ongoing developmental works in colonies and social work. Two representatives from each ward/ colony youth organisation have been requested to attend the said meeting.

Cultural club to perform in Jamshedpur DimapUr, November 11 (mexN): The Hornbill Cultural Club of Nagaland will be participating at a programme in Jamshedpur on November 14 by presenting two series of war dance and Hornbill dance. The troupe comprising 21 members will leave Nagaland on November 12, a press release from the Club informed. The programme is being organized by Birla Tata company.

Kohima DC appeals on mass social work Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The Kohima District Administration has appreciated the initiative of Angami Students’ Union (ASU) in organizing mass social work in Kohima Town on November 14. In this connection, deputy commissioner of Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor has appealed to all the departments to render pro-active support in terms of machineries, manpower and available resources to the ASU volunteers for the successful cleaning of the state capital.

Post Graduate Students’ Union, Lumami renamed LUmami, November 11 (mexN): The Post Graduate Students’ Union, Lumami has changed its nomenclature to Nagaland University Students’ Union, Lumami, abbreviated as NUSU (L). This was done during the first General Body Meeting of the Union held on November 4. In addition to the change of nomenclature, Tribal Fellowships were also added as constituent unit of the Union. “The idea for the change of nomenclature came in line with the Lyngdoh commission report and was first mooted during the Executive Council meeting which was then forwarded to the General Body for further approval,” stated a release from the union president, X Chophika Sumi and secretary, Merenyanger Jamir. Besides the amendment of the constitution, several issues concerning the welfare of the students were also deliberated, the release added.

WCSU appeals WoKha, November 11 (mexN): In view of the forthcoming exams, the office of Wokha Circle Students’ Union (WCSU) has appealed to all the concerned citizens and individuals of Wokha town to restrict loud music, concert and disturbance, which may hinder the peaceful atmosphere during the exam. Meanwhile, the union also urged the power department for uninterrupted power supply during the time of exam for the students in particular and the citizens in general.

Scooter recovered Trainees (15th batch) of Don Bosco Tech, AIDA Centre.

Don Bosco campus, Dimapur, who graced the function as the guest of honor, encouraged the trainees to work hard to be successful.

Earlier, Bro. Sunny Joseph, Executive Director of AIDA, gave a brief report on Don Bosco Tech’s activities across the country. He said till date Don Bosco Tech in Nagaland has trained over 3000 unemployed rural youth in Hospitality, Beauty & Spa, Food & Beverages services, Housekeeping and ISMO. “It is the deliberate decision on the part of Don Bosco Tech to work for the

less privileged youth with minimum educational qualification. But that has not in any way prevented the entry of these candidates into companies of international standard,” he stated.

He said that the Tech has placed its trainees in companies such as Taj group of Hotels, Resorts and Palaces, ITC Hotels, JW Marriot hotels, Le-Meridien hotels, Westin Hotels, Raddissions hotels. He further asserted that Don Bosco Tech focuses on the overall development of the individual rather than just providing

few skills to the person.

Niloli, one of the trainees, welcomed the gathering and Kusato Khesoh shared his life testimony on behalf of the trainees.

The audience witnessed Angami and Nepali folk songs, Chakhesang and Sangtam folk dances performed by the trainees.

Sadamtoshi proposed the vote of thanks.

After the inaugural function, parents-staff meeting was held, during which, the parents were informed about the training process.

DimapUr, November 11 (mexN): The Operation Acceleration Dimapur Town, NSCN (IM) recovered one abandoned black Bajaj scooter bearing registration number WB-56-A-1447 and chassis number 06FBDL 80796 at Half Nagarjan here on November 9.

Therefore, the rightful owner has been asked to produce valid documents to claim the same within seven days from the date of this publication. For further enquiry/ information, one may contact 9862823450.

NPF women wing meeting Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The women wing of NPF (Central) has convened a consultative meeting with the president and general secretary of all divisions and A/Cs on November 20, 10:30 am at the Capital Convention Centre, near Secretariat complex. Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu, NPF president and TR Zeliang, chief minister of Nagaland, will address the gathering. Therefore, NPF women wing central president has directed all members to attend the meeting without fail.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express X issue 308X issue 185 Thursday 9volume July 2015 volume By moa Jamir

The battle is won but the war remains

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wo recent elections, though geographically apart, have riveted global attention in equal terms. Their outcomes are considered ‘momentous’ having significant implications to ideology and statecraft; and regarded as the victory of people’s democratic rights over perceived and actual autocratic or majoritarian politics inherent in the ruling dispensation.

The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar and the huge mandate given to the Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance under Nitish Kumar in Bihar represent the ‘underdogs’ beating the odds against dominant State machineries.

True, the context under which the former operates in Myanmar under Military Junta’s rule for past 50 years cannot hold analogous to Bihar, where the incumbent chief minister won for the third time. But it does not negate the fact that the battle in Bihar was viewed not just as a state election but with widespread ramifications for the Indian State—a battle between divisive and inclusive politics.

Concurrently, the defeats are considered the demolition of the aura of ‘invincibility’ possessed by the ruling dispensation and an ardent assertion of people’s democratic rights.

Myanmar held general elections on November 8, after nearly 50 years of military rule, and the main opposition leader spent nearly 15 years under virtual house arrest. Coming on the heels of a huge historic mandate it enjoyed in the last year Lok Sabha Election, the defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was a personal setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the idea of India under his tutelage.

The Bihar election was also seen, as an Indian Express Editorial argued, not only as a vote for social welfare and economic development, but also a vote against all forms of divisive politics of communal hate and religious intolerance and triumph of pluralist vision.

While Suu Kyi was a symbol of peaceful resistance and the win a triumph in the face of oppression and extreme adversity, the victory in Bihar was noted by other analysts as a vote against hubris and hate-mongering.

However the analogy does not end here. The roads ahead offer similar paradigms and challenges.

Commenting on the election, the Economist opined that most voters in Myanmar’s election expressed two emotions: joy at having this chance and nervousness about whether they would be cheated of victory again. “While the promise of a new era has sparked euphoria, next it will be at best an anticlimax, at worst a terrible disappointment,” it noted.

The apprehensions of the voters are not unfounded. Keeping its leader under house arrest and rejecting a convincing win by NLD in 1990 election, political institutions are considerably controlled by the Military establishment.

In addition, the 2008 constitution which brought about a nominal – civilian government in 2011 has virtually ruled out Suu Kyi as president ostensibly on the ground that her two sons have foreign passports. It also sets out a complex process through which the Hluttaw (parliament) chooses a president.

The parliament still consists of elected representatives of the Lower House, the elected representatives of the Upper House, and the military representative’s still retaining control of key government ministries.

“The democracy ‘midwifed’ by these powerful actors excludes and undermines the welfare and interests of the country’s jailed student and labour activists, farmers, ethnic minorities in the civil war zones, and the disenfranchised Rohingya people and other Muslims,” Maung Zarni asserted in The Guardian. Besides, the increasingly vocal Buddhist groups’ proclivity to majoritarian politics holds extreme challenges. The economic development and its trade-off with environment will also offer another litmus test.

Likewise, clever ‘social arithmetic’ also played a key role in the outcome of Bihar election. Therefore, it will be a huge challenge for Nitish Kumar to maneuver the thin line between caste politics and his developmental agenda. Often derogatorily and mistakenly referred as by adversaries as “jungle raj,” Bihar’s development path and governance, albeit with significant progress in recent years, is still a daunting task.

When the relevant political and social institutions are deeply ingrained with deep rooted tradition –military or social—often the institution of governance and administration are influenced by it. The biggest mission for both Bihar and Myanmar is to recognize and rise above these inherent bottlenecks to meet the aspirations of the people.

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Cacao tree will survive climate change: study

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heer up! The cacao tree from which chocolate is extracted is not going to die out in the near future, as was feared by the industry, suggests a new reassuring study that finds that cacao tree is much older than previously realised.

The main problem faced by the chocolate industry is the lack of genetic variation in cultivated cacao, which makes it vulnerable to pests and blights. The lack of genetic variation also puts cacao trees at risk from climate change, jeopardising the long-term sustainability of the industry.

However, the species' early evolutionary origin is good news - it suggests that cacao has had enough time to diversify genetically, with each wild population adapting to its local habitat.

"Here, we show for the first time that the source of chocolate, Theobroma cacao, is remarkably old for an Amazonian plant species," said study's lead author James Richardson from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Richardson and colleagues found that Theobroma cacao chocolate produced from this tree is one of the most popular flavours in the world - is one of the oldest species in the genus Theobroma, having evolved around 10 million years ago.

Therefore, researchers observed, wild populations of cacao across the Americas may be treasure troves of genetic variation, which could be bred into cultivated strains to make the latter more resistant to disease and climate change, and perhaps even create new flavours of chocolate.

"After 10 million years of evolution, we should not be surprised to see a large amount of variation within the species, some of which might exhibit novel flavours or forms that are resistant to diseases," Richardson explained.

These varieties may contribute towards improving a developing chocolate industry," he added.

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David Stanway and Kathy Chen Reuters

The unbearable lightness of Chinese emissions data

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o get a sense of how hard it is to measure greenhouse gas emissions in China, it pays to visit the Deqingyuan poultry farm on the outskirts of Beijing, where streams of chicken manure are piped from wooden sheds to an industrial gas digester that rises above the ground like a tethered balloon.

Turning waste into kilowatts qualifies Deqingyuan for valuable carbon credits under a UN-backed scheme known as the Clean Development Mechanism. The digester turns all that chicken slurry into natural gas, powering a nearby electricity station and supplying fuel to 39 surrounding villages.

Yet calculating those emissions requires a 54-page, UN-certified rulebook, a methodology that factors everything from the amount of methane removed from the manure to local temperatures and animal weight to come up with a figure.

And that cumbersome process can mean Deqingyuan’s emissions savings vary wildly - sometimes by as much as 20 per cent.

"I don't know how they calculate the figure but there were many researchers from universities who came to assess it," said Vincent Wei, a marketing manager at Helee Bio-Energy Technology, which built the plant.

Precise data collection is a tricky business everywhere, as the Volkswagen scandal over discrepancies between the German auto company's emissions claims and the real world performance of its engines has shown.

But getting accurate emissions data is crucial for governments seeking a global climate accord in Paris this December. Negotiators say that, to succeed, any agreement must be built upon "measurable, reportable and verifiable" statistics in order to assess whether countries are on track to meet their emissions targets.

And getting a better grasp of the right numbers is particularly crucial in the case of China, which is widely assumed to be the world's largest carbon emitter. China's energy use is so great that even minute errors in data can translate into a difference of millions of tonnes of emissions.

No one currently knows how many tonnes of carbon China emits each year. Its emissions are estimates based on how much raw energy is consumed, and calculations are derived from proxy data consisting mostly of energy consumption as well as industry, agriculture, land use changes and waste.

Many outside observers view the accuracy of those figures with skepticism.

"China's contribution (to the global climate plan in Paris) is based on CO2 emissions but China doesn't publish CO2 emissions," said Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo. "You're left in the wilderness, really."

Demands for better data played

with the Yale School of Forestry And Environmental Studies, who has researched the poor quality of Chinese data.

"China claims they don't have the human capacity to maintain and run the monitors," she says. "But they were monitoring air quality for over a decade; they just didn't release it because they were worried that it would lead to social unrest."

Buildings in construction are seen among mist during a hazy day in Rizhao, Shandong province, China, October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer/Files

a major role in the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen conference, when China and several developing nations balked at providing the rest of the world with detailed data, claiming it would be an intrusion on their sovereignty.

The last time Beijing produced an official figure was in 2005, when it said its emissions stood at "approximately" 7.47 billion tonnes. And while it has promised that emissions will peak by 2030 at the latest, experts say the statistical uncertainty is so great that forecasts on what that peak means can vary from 11 to 20 billion tonnes a year.

That margin is greater than the entire annual carbon footprint of Europe.

COUNTING CARBON At the moment, no country has the technology or the budget to completely track exact greenhouse gas emissions in real time.

The International Energy Agency and other energy organizations operate a centralized reporting and analysis system using unified statistical methodologies and reporting schedules.

The European Union’s emissions trading market, for example, also operates mainly on estimates based on the amount of carbon in energy burned.

But the Europeans say monitoring and measurement of the roughly 11,000 power stations and industrial plants in 31 countries that comprise the system are stricter than what occurs in developing nations.

"Every single source that could have emissions connected to it has to be identified and controlled," said Halvor Molland, director of information at Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro which also follows UN guidelines and says its numbers are verified by outsider companies.

"Even if we have a fire drill and we use diesel to set a small fire we have to calculate the amounts," he said. “These are chemical reactions so we know that if you set fire to one litre of diesel you know how much carbon will come out."

China's data reporting is managed by hundreds of organizations, and the

methodologies and data at the local government and industry level often conflict with the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. For example, coal production data accumulated from 26 provincial governments in 2013 was 500 million tonnes more than the NBS report of 3.65 billion tonnes.

There are different understandings about which firms should be monitored. Small-scale businesses that fall below the NBS threshold are routinely excluded from calculations, and many small, illegal coal mines conceal their production in order to avoid shutdowns.

China is the only country apart from Russia to use raw coal production rather than sales to calculate overall output, which fails to account for the losses that accrue during processing and transportation and also ignores waste products like gangue, which could account for around 18 percent of raw coal output.

These gaps could mean that China's emissions are actually being overestimated, a government researcher said.

All this riddles the system with imperfections. A study published last month by the magazine Nature suggested China's emissions could have actually been exaggerated by as much as 14 percent because of faulty assumptions about the quality of China's coal.

Bureaucratic rivalries also lead to clashing data. Climate negotiations are run from the National Reform and Development Commission [NDRC], which determines what data to publish.

"All the emission estimates officially come from the NDRC rather than from the statistics bureau," says Dabo Guan, a professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia. "The NDRC is in charge of the whole climate change negotiations and they have to fight for the best position for China, so they have their concerns about what can and cannot be published."

"The Chinese government likes to hold authority over data for fear that different numbers than those from official sources could lead to social unrest," says Angel Hsu, a professor

PROMISES Officially, China says it recognizes the need to produce better data. It promised the United Nations in June to train auditors to collect better data and to produce "regular" national carbon numbers.

"The Chinese government has been funding studies into the carbon inventory - it needs to know its real level of emissions in order to reduce it," said Xi Fengming, a researcher with the China Academy of Sciences (CASS) who has spent the last six years researching the country's total carbon levels.

Xi says China had made great strides since 2012 to improve the way its numbers are collected, including crackdowns on illegal coal production and the statistical fraud by energy-intensive enterprises. It has been experimenting with drones to detect carbon dioxide build-ups in urban areas, and has launched pilot projects to measure energy consumption levels in realtime at industrial facilities.

Researchers say that measuring emissions from the energy sector, which amount to around 70-80 percent of China's total, is critical to getting a good overall picture of the country’s overall emissions.

"If China's energy data is good, then the carbon data will be more or less accurate," said Xi. Another impetus for improvement is China’s impending cap and trade carbon market, which the country has promised to create by the end of 2017: markets require accurate baselines and data to operate properly. Some observers blame the failure of China’s attempt a decade ago to create an emissions market - this one in sulphur permits models on the US sulphur market - on the lack of accurate acid rain data.

Getting there remains a daunting task.

"There are more than 30 provinces and 2,000 cities and we need more companies to do third-party work and more specialist staff at companies who know how to report the data," said Xi. And real-time emissions monitoring is unlikely - in even the mediumterm.

"So far there is no regulation to force companies to install direct GHG monitoring devices on site and I don't think that will be the trend any time soon," said Richard Mao with the Environomist carbon consultancy in Beijing.

In that regard, China faces the same constraints as the world’s leading economies in the West.

"It may," Mao says of the technology needed to get it right, "just be too costly."

Human rights and social justice—a false dichotomy?

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David Petrasek

hould human rights NGOs work on social justice issues? Can human rights activists work with the global social justice movement? Some believe that human rights advocates must tackle problems like global wealth inequalities, while others warn that doing so will compromise their core task of defending civil and political rights. In the middle are those looking for ways to use human rights advocacy to improve the lot of the poor and marginalized, even if not fully embracing radical demands for global social justice.

Yet, it makes little sense to contrast “human rights” or “human rights advocacy” to “social justice” or “social justice activism”—these are all malleable concepts. Demands for human rights and demands for social justice are different but also overlapping. The degree to which they overlap will depend on how each concept is defined, and this in turn depends on who is doing the defining.

Thus, for those demanding an end to corporate control of democratic institutions under the label “social justice”, the rights to political participation, freedom of association, information and equality in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) at least partially support such a demand. Similarly, equality and non-discrimination guarantees in the UDHR and other standards provide a principled basis for many social justice demands regarding the emancipation of women or downtrodden castes, or

for ending discrimination against the poor qua poor.

At the same time, economic and social rights (ESR) like the right to food, water and an adequate standard of living could be cited in campaigns for a living wage, against privatization of water services or for climate justice.

Those campaigning on ESR will find a fair degree of overlap between the human rights canon and social justice demands; those who take up only civil and political rights will of course find less. But even with a very narrow definition of human rights, there will still be some overlap.

Indeed, consider what might be achieved for “social justice” if we sought only to apply the rights in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Its explicit promises of equality, nondiscrimination, protection of minority rights, and freedom of association, alongside its implicit rights to information, to equal access to government services and to full participation in political life—if fully respected and protected—provide a useful set of tools for any movement fighting for greater socio-economic equality, or challenging economic and social marginalization.

This would result even before one applied a more progressive reading of the ICCPR; for example, one that would interpret its right to life and security of the person as extending to government policies that failed to avert famine or persistent hunger, or to exercise due diligence in tackling preventable

disease, or to prevent dangerously unhealthy work environments.

Similarly, there are no agreed rulebooks differentiating human rights and social justice activism. Some say the legal bias of human rights advocacy, expressed through impartial fact-finding and reporting, is ill suited to social justice activism. But this is only one form of human rights advocacy; there are a myriad of others, some of which use the law very sparingly, or not at all.

Consider two of the great, defining struggles for justice of past decades: the anti-apartheid movement and the civil rights campaign in the US. Was the campaign against apartheid in South Africa a human rights struggle, a battle for social justice or both? Many of the grievances that led to key turning points in that struggle were matters of economic and social justice.

Similarly, in the “civil rights” struggle in the US, human rights principles were certainly at the core of the campaign, yet at the same time many African-Americans were fighting for matters of socio-economic justice. It would be odd if the human rights aspect of either campaign only described litigation in the courts, or the publication of UN reports. Why wouldn’t human rights activism include civil disobedience, strikes, sanctions, disinvestment, political organizing and so many other tactics used in these struggles?

To a Western audience at least, a dominant form of human rights advocacy is focused on invoking international legal standards and seeking le-

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gal reform and accountability. Where those standards prescribe a clear course of action, simply demanding that government’s follow it does insulate (at least somewhat) that advocacy from the charge of political bias or preference. But many ESR claims can be advanced strictly within the framework of obligations established in international law—there should be no debate on the issue of free, universally accessible primary education.

The claim that a move away from law will “politicize” rights claims needs to account for the fact that many mainstream human rights organizations have for decades championed positions that are not firmly grounded in international law, but rather amount to very progressive interpretations of that law, or in fact are claims that new legal standards are needed.

Setting a false dichotomy between social justice and human rights calls to mind the remarks of the great American satirist, HL Mencken, who when asked if he believed in baptism replied, “Believe in it? I’ve seen it done!” There can be little doubt that the global human rights framework as it exists today is ill equipped on its own to achieve global social justice. Nor will human rights litigation halt climate change. Yet insisting on the inadequacy of human rights tools, or on the inappropriateness of applying them to these issues, seems pointless when so many people do place an emphasis on human rights in campaigns for social justice. Given the scale of the misery they confront, who are we to say that they’ve chosen the wrong language in which to do so?

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Will we find the resources to create a better world?

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Dr. Palitha Kohona

he UN General Assembly adopted the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a global summit of world leaders in September. They agreed on 17 new universal goals, and 169 targets that will provide the framework for economic and political policies of UN Member States over the next 15 years to make the world a better place for humanity.

The indicators, against which their performance will be measured, will be finalised by March 2016.

Some, including the UK and Japan, wanted fewer goals. The trillion dollar question, despite the familiar hype that follows the launch of any UN initiative, is whether the resources so necessary for the realisation of the SDGs would be generated through the goal: revitalisation of global partnerships.

The SDGs are expected to seamlessly expand on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Agreed by governments in 2000, the MDGs, numbering eight, were also to be accomplished in 15 years. Impressive successes were recorded by some countries with regard to these goals, mostly through their own efforts.

The MDGs were essentially intended to accelerate the development of developing countries in the eight sectors identified. The substantial non-realisation of the last goal, global partnerships, including the non-delivery of the expected level of development assistance by developed countries, impacted on the full attainment of the other goals in many poor parts of the world.

The SDGs will apply to every country. Even their partial attainment in the coming 15 years will pose a gigantic challenge to all of humanity. In a world where, embarrassingly, more than 1 billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day, more than 800 million go to bed hungry, 57 million children have no access to education, 2.4 billion live without proper toilet facilities, 663 million lack access to safe water, one third of all schools lack safe water and toilet facilities, millions of women still die in childbirth and many more children do not live to reach their fifth birthday, the SDGs may turn out to be simply too daunting.

One pressing and distracting challenge ballooning from a destabilised Middle East is the massive outflow of displaced persons across borders. More than 38 million remained displaced the world over in 2014.

The targets, assiduously refined by the negotiators, have given substance to the SDGs. A target under goal one, for example, includes reducing by at least half the number of people living in poverty by 2030, and eradicating extreme poverty (people living on less than $1.25 a day).

The enormous cost of meeting these goals has not begun to be fully absorbed yet. Even if the world will eventually pat itself on the back for achieving some of the goals, the cost of reaching them is simply mind boggling.

Rough calculations made by the intergovernmental committee of experts on sustainable development financing have put the cost of providing a social safety net to eradicate extreme poverty at 66 billion dollars a year, while annual investments to improve infrastructure (water, agriculture, transport, power) could be up to 7.0 trillion dollars globally.

The Addis Ababa conference on Financing for Development (FfD) last July, which preceded the SDG summit, formulated conclusions with a view to identifying funding sources for the SDGs. The UN ritually hailed the Addis Ababa action agenda (AAAA for short) as containing “bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investment” for tackling the challenges of sustainable development.

On closer analysis, the commitments made by the multilateral financial institutions, the UN agen-

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cies, the private sector charities and the bilateral donor community, though impressive, do not appear to come even close to the sums required to achieve the SDGs. The search for funding for the SDGs continues to be constrained by thinking based on an old framework that really did not deliver the desired results.

A worryingly emerging development is the determined effort by traditional donor countries to shift responsibility to entities that are difficult to hold to account internationally (e.g. private charities and corporations), signalling an abrogation of their long recognised obligation to provide development assistance.

If history were a guide, it is unlikely that even a meaningful portion of the estimated costs will be met through bilateral and multilateral development assistance. The 40-year-old commitment to transfer 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) to developing countries, despite the recommitment in Addis Ababa, is still an elusive goal for most developed countries.

Even with the imaginative accounting practices adopted by some donors in recent times, including counting environmental assistance in development financing, the target remains distant for most.

The international community may have reached a point where it is necessary to acknowledge the elements and approaches that failed in previous development exercises. Likewise it needs to recognize the approaches that succeeded and are sustainable. Little Singapore at one end of the spectrum and large China at the other end offer examples of success. But what succeeded in one place may not necessarily work elsewhere.

While it is expected that developing countries themselves will raise some of the necessary funding, including through the building of strong institutions, better taxation, reduction of corruption and stemming the illicit outflow of funds, these measures will not necessarily produce significant results in the short term.

A widely hawked policy approach to development encourages public-private partnerships. Since the financial crisis of 2008, state involvement in the economy is no longer dismissed even by the conservatives. While some developing countries will follow

this path with success, it is difficult to imagine that many, especially the smaller ones, with their limited economic opportunities, would or could.

The lack of personnel trained in modern economic management, costly and usually imported energy sources, economic limitations that do not encourage the ready flow of foreign investments are critical constraints. Bilateral development assistance will continue to play a role, especially for the large number of such small developing countries.

Many of the SDGs interface with others. For example, the goal on climate change with its cross cutting importance, impacts, directly or indirectly, on a range of others. Ending poverty and hunger, ensuring food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture, managing water resources and sanitation, achieving sustainable economic growth and employment and sustainable industrialisation, and using renewable energy, among them.

The oceans, inter alia, are the major influence on weather patterns, the biggest sink for GHGs, the predominant source of protein for humanity and a major employment generator. The sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources will need to be kept in mind when addressing climate change.

A holistic and proactive approach to the SDGs could also be a catalyst for innovation, development of new technologies and establishment of new industries.

Countries will meet at the end of November in Paris to address the now undeniable threat of climate change. This meeting cannot be only about GHG emission targets, however ambitious.

The SDGs, especially sustainable production and consumption patterns, among others, will need to be confronted with honesty in Paris. Unless efforts are made to identify realistic funding sources, especially for the less developed countries, and the requisite technologies, we may have to leave Paris with more regrets than achievements.

Dr Palitha Kohona, Sri Lanka’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, was also Chief of the UN Treaty Section.

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ress freedom in this Southern African nation has been shaken abruptly, this time surprisingly, with members of the police force heavily descending on journalists working for state-owned media But even then, the police crackdown on news reporters had already spiralled out of control here, raising the ire of rights and media freedom lobby groups.

The siege on journalists here apparently gathered momentum on March 9 this year at the disappearance of one renowned reporter who doubled as a human rights defender, Itai Dzamara, after he led protests calling for the immediate resignation of the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for shattering this country’s economy.

Dzamara’s whereabouts are still unknown to this day.

Human rights defenders here slammed the recent arrests of the three reporters, who work for state-owned Sunday Mail newspaper.

Editor, Mabasa Sasa, his investigations editor, Brian Chitemba, and journalist Tinashe Farawo were arrested on November 2 facing charges of publishing falsehoods after implicating some senior police officers as part of a syndicate behind elephant poaching in the country’s Hwange National Park.

“This sends a clear message that the state is ready to embark on a blitz to any journalist who threatens the interests of the status quo. Again journalists in the private media should brace for the unthinkable as they are the real shooter box,” Terry Mutsvanga, an award winning Human Rights defender, told IPS. Mutsvanga agrees with journalists here.

“The sad development of the arrests of state journalists here is just a tip of the iceberg that as independent journalists we are set to be heavily moni-

tored and controlled by state security agents,” freelance journalist, Tafadzwa Muranganwa, told IPS. The three journalists were charged under Section 31 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. They appeared in court on November 4, handcuffed and chained together under heavy police guard, but have however since appeared in court on charges of publishing falsehoods and granted 100 dollars bail each. They will reappear in court again on November 27.

The journalists’ ordeal is despite this country’s 2013 constitution enshrining the “freedom of expression and freedom of the media.”

Ironically, the recent arrest of Zimbabwe’s state journalists fell on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, as proclaimed by a United Nations General Assembly Resolution adopted at its 68th session in 2013.

Through the resolution, the UN’s member states were urged to promote a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference, to ensure accountability, and to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against the media.

Despite this call and the adoption of a Day against Impunity, the harassment of journalists in this Southern African nation continues unchecked.

Three days after the arrest of the three state journalists here, freelance photo journalist Chrispen Ndlovu was beaten by police in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, for taking photographs of running battles involving police and taxi rank marshals.

Earlier in June this year, another Zimbabwean journalist, Patrick Chitongo was also arrested and sentenced to one year imprisonment for publishing an unregistered newspaper, the Southern Mirror.

Chitongo stood accused of violating Zimbabwe’s Section 72 (1) of the

Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), although he was later released on 200 dollars bail.

“It’s the return to the old order of media repression meant to induce fear and self-censorship within the media.

State institutions that include the police are increasingly showing disregard for the rule of law, more so very clearly pronounced constitutional guarantees on press freedom,” independent political analyst Rashwit Mkundu told IPS. The mounting intimidation of scribes has also left media lobby groups timid.

“We are very shaken indeed. In the past, the trend has been to harass journalists from the private media. We have received a rude awakening when journalists from the government-controlled media, which all along has been portrayed as sacred cows, are arrested. We have to be afraid, very afraid,” Foster Dongozi, Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, told IPS. Amnesty International, a day after the arrest of the Sunday Mail journalists, condemned their arrest, calling the move a shocking attempt to threaten press freedom.

“Arresting journalists on the basis of ‘publishing falsehoods’ has a chilling effect that may restrict the ability of the media to expose alleged criminal activities by the authorities,” Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa, Muleya Mwananyanda, said in a released press statement.

The arrests came hard on the heels of Zimbabwean President Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba’s remarks that the law was set to catch up with independent journalists whom he accused of behaving as political commissars of opposition political parties.

Whether or not the recent crackdown on state journalists will boil down to independent scribes remains to be seen.

Political analysts, however, believe it will. “If government can intimidate

state journalists, it means it is capable of doing the worst to independent journalists,” Mlondolozi Ndlovu, an independent political analyst, told IPS. Ndlovu also said factionalism in the country’s ruling Zanu-PF party may have fuelled the persecution of journalists as politicians scramble to assert their powers at every iota of the Southern African nation.

True to Ndlovu’s word, President Mugabe last month moved to attack the country’s press freedom when he berated private newspapers for reporting on factionalism that is threatening to rip his ruling Zanu-PF party.

Even Charamba went on record upping the private media onslaught, accusing local independent newspapers of being “appendages of the opposition wishing ill on the ruling party.”

But the attack on press freedom is not alien to Zimbabwe. Eight years ago, freelance journalist Edward Chikombo, who until 2002 worked as a cameraman for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), was murdered by unknown assailants for allegedly smuggling video footage of a badly-beaten Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.

Chikombo was also believed to have sent to foreign media images of police brutality against supporters of the opposition MDC. The fear gripping journalists here has cascaded down to civilians, who dread they may also be the defenceless target amid the mounting intimidations of media practitioners here.

“If state security agents can arrest journalists who drive the information in the country, it merely means even our freedoms to express ourselves on matters affecting us as ordinary people are not guaranteed and police may also pounce on us,” Lina Chikosha, a resident from Kuwadzana Extension high density suburb in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, told IPS.

he importance of education for economic growth is very much recognized and well-accepted in all developed countries. Even multilateral organizations, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF have all acknowledged that education plays a very important role in not only reducing poverty but also in creating more stable governments and more tolerant societies. As early as 1990, the World Conference on Education, convened by most of these bodies, set universal primary education as a goal for every country by the year 2000 (a goal that has been missed by many countries).

At the same time, there are also many examples of highly educated countries where economic performance has been miserable. For example, Russia and most Eastern European countries could boast about excellent performance at their primary and secondary levels for most of their populations, but those economies have been in much poorer conditions than other developed countries and, in some instances, even worse off than some developing countries where education may still be lagging far behind. But the reason for their poor economic conditions may have more to do with flawed political system, where entrepreneurs cannot really thrive in the absence of private property rights.

But assuming that, under the right institutional conditions, education is an important factor for a growing economy, the question is whether economies can earn a greater return overall from concentrating their educational investments among a particular section of people, or whether a more universal approach is better. For example, India is focusing more on the former model (a targeted approach) as her financial investment on higher education and skill development is increasing, while funds for school education and literacy have been reduced by 2 percent in the 2015 Union Budget, leaving hundreds of millions still unable to read or write. In contrast, Southeast Asian countries like South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan put greater emphasis on providing universal primary education when they were at similar stages of economic development. According to the economist and Nobel laureate Gary Becker, “these so-called Asian tigers grew rapidly by relying on a well-trained, educated, hard-working, and conscientious labor force.”

Educationis what makes individuals productive, and productivity is what determines our standard of living. But many low-income countries have weak public educational systems, so workers are unable to follow the “how-to-do” instructions.

Few workers acquire the skills necessary to use the latest technology. Or, sometimes children may drop out of school at an early age, even though the benefit of additional schooling is very high, simply because their labor is needed to help support the family. For reasons such as these, many low-income countries remain poor. In the United States, each year of schooling has historically raised a person’s wage on average by 10 percent. Thus, one way government policy can enhance the standard of living is to provide good schools and to encourage the populations to take advantage of them.

Some economists would argue that education is particularly important for economic growth because it provides some positive externalities, which are effects, say, of one person’s actions for the benefits of others. An educated person, for instance, might generate new ideas about how best to produce goods and services. If these ideas enter society’s pool of knowledge so everyone can use them, then the ideas are an external benefit of education. In this case, the returns of schooling for society are even greater than the returns for the individual. This argument would justify the large government subsidies or investments to public education.

To be sure, education alone is not a sufficient condition for the growth of an economy. Sometimes government corruption and unstable political situation, among other factors, can offset any growth-enhancing impact of education. Or, sometimes corruption can result in driving away the highly educated and successful individuals for higher-income countries, where they can enjoy a higher standard of living, thereby leaving their home countries in a situation of brain drain. This happened to India because of government corruption and excessive bureaucratic interferences until recently. But now as corruption is being checked more vigorously and the Indian economy is growing, many NRIs are returning home. In addition, today’s India is having more entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists deciding to remain in India rather than leave for the U.S. or other highincome countries.

Education is likely to be more critical for economic success in the future than ever before. The founders of some of the leading Internet-based companies---Amazon, eBay, Google, and Yahoo---were all college graduates. Looking ahead, it seems quite unlikely that the future commercially applicable advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology, neurotechnology, and information technology will be made by high school graduates.

On the contrary, innovations in these sectors, along with others, are likely to be developed either in some university settings or by individuals with advanced university education, especially in math and science.

Indeed, we are living in a time of great opportunity. There are already numerous proposals for change coming from within academia itself. Some advocate Web-based distance learning and the elimination of campuses. Others argue that we need more technology in higher education, or colleges should be opened up and made free to all. There are also renewed calls to abolish teaching tenure, and even to replace traditional departments with a few sets of problem-focused disciplines. But whatever structures or systems of education may emerge in the future, they will radically affect businesses, governments, and people everywhere.

A nation’s economic growth is determined not only by its level of educational attainments but also by the quality of its on-the-job training programs (skill-development & apprenticeship). Skilled workers generate economic growth by creating new jobs or doing old jobs better. However, skilled workers usually need other skilled workers to succeed. For example, someone who is trained as a heart surgeon can succeed only if there are well-equipped hospitals, trained nurses, firms that sell drugs and medical supplies, and a large enough population with sufficient funds to spend for medical treatment. In other words, those who become skilled find that they can make more money or be more successful in a region or country with a higher proportion of skilled workers. That’s why skilled workers tend to stay away from poor countries where they are only few skilled workers. As World Bank economist William Easterly has written, the result can be a vicious cycle: “If a nation starts out skilled, it gets more skilled. If it starts out unskilled, it stays unskilled.”

To sum up, education yields benefits to society beyond those who have attained it themselves. More educated people are not only more informed citizens, thus improving the working of democracy, but a more educated society produces more innovation, thereby enhancing economic growth. That is, as societies become more educated, or more accurately, as their labor forces become more skilled, their economy can grow faster.

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PM visits Britain, seeks to bounce back from election blow NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (rEutErs): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mass rally on a visit to Britain this week that supporters hope will help him spring back from a humiliating election loss and reassert his authority on the global stage.

India and Britain could announce deals worth 8-12 billion pounds ($12-$18 billion) during the visit, according to diplomats, with Modi keen to buy 20 more BAE Systems Hawk trainer aircraft to be made in Bengaluru.

Britain is home to an Indian diaspora of 1.5 million, and the two nations share the English language, historical ties and an obsession with cricket. Yet Modi has, in his first 18 months in power, made a priority of courting global powers like the United States and China.

"UK-India ties are economically strong, but strategically weak," said Shashank Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. Seeking to regain the initiative after crashing to defeat in Bihar election at the weekend, Modi eased foreign investment rules this week in 15 sectors, including mining, defence and civil

aviation.

"By introducing these reforms the government is certainly spelling out why India is an attractive destination," said Nalin Kohli, a spokesman for Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The centrepiece of the Nov. 12-14 trip will be a mass rally and firework display at Wembley Stadium on Friday for an estimated 60,000 supporters - three times bigger than the crowd he drew to New York's Madison Square Garden last year.

Yet Modi's popularity is being challenged at home, after the BJP lost an election badly in Bihar, home to 104 million people.

Three party elders, including former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani, released a statement late on Tuesday questioning the direction of the BJP, which risks embarrassing Modi just ahead of his visit.

REVAMP SOUGHT British Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking to revamp economic ties with fast-growing Asian nations, including India, as part of his push on business-focused diplomacy. Modi's trip marks a

Any issue relating to OROP can be taken by judicial panel: PM NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (PtI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sought to assuage protesting military veterans against "diluted" notification of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme saying any issue relating to it can be taken up with the judicial committee set up by government to make it "fool-proof." "I would like (to see) that the inputs, if any, are given to the committee," Modi said while visiting military installations associated with the 1965 Indo-Pak war and interacting with the troops on the occasion of Diwali. Several war veterans have returned their medals as part of their protest against "diluted" OROP. He said his government was the first to have set up a committee along with the OROP notification to make the scheme "foolproof."

Modi also said that he wanted to see his "dream" of OROP implementation in a meaningful manner.

Mayank Gandhi quits AAP national executive mumbAI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): The AAP's key Maharashtra functionary Mayank Gandhi on Wednesday quit the party's national executive as he was "losing interest in politics". Gandhi, who has been embroiled in public brawls with the top leadership of the Aam Aadmi Party, announced his move in a terse tweet in the afternoon and requested he be relieved with immediate effect. Among other things, in the recent past, he had accused party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of indulging in "gutter politics and destroying the party".Gandhi had been associated with the Maharashtra AAP and was previously on the core committee of the India Against Corruption movement spearheaded by social activist Anna Hazare. On many occasions, he had criticised the party through blogs amid allegations that the Maharashtra and Mumbai units of the AAP were plagued by factionalism and favouritism. He had vociferously protested the sacking of AAP founder-members like Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the party's PAC in March this year and accused Kejriwal of silencing dissent.

India's communication satellite GSAT-15 successfully launched bENgALuru, NovEmbEr 11 (PtI): India's latest communication satellite GSAT-15 was successfully launched by Ariane-5 rocket in the early hours today from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana. The European launcher blasted off at 03:04 a.m (IST) and hurled the GSAT-15, designed to deliver telecommunications services, as well as dedicated navigationaid and emergency services, into space in a flawless flight. GSAT-15 was launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) after its co-passenger Arabsat-6B (BADR-7) was injected into space. "Arianespace successfully launched two satellites this evening (local time): Arabsat-6B (BADR-7) for the operator Arabsat, and GSAT-15 for ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)," Arianespace said. GSAT-15, weighing 3,164 kg at lift-off, is a high power satellite being inducted into the INSAT/GSAT system. It carries a total of 24 communication transponders in Ku-band as well as a GPS-Aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) payload operating in L1 and L5 bands, ISRO said. It said GSAT-15 is the third satellite to carry GAGAN payload after GSAT-8 and GSAT-10, which are already providing navigation services from orbit. It also carries a Ku-band beacon as well to help in accurately pointing ground antennas towards the satellite. GSAT-15 is the 19th payload launched by Arianespace for ISRO. Speaking at Kourou, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) Director M Annadurai said, "GSAT-15 satellite signal has been acquired

by Master Control Facility at Hassan (in Karnataka).

The initialisation commands are in process and the satellite health is hail and healthy." He said the launch of GSAT-15 will enable ISRO to provide continuity of service to Indian users in Ku-band and the navigation payload GAGAN of GSAT-15 will provide in orbit backup to ensure safety of life navigation services in civil aviation sector as well as other location based services to various services in the Indian region.

Annadurai also said other two communication satellites GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 are getting ready for launch by Ariane vehicle in the next year.

remarkable turnaround for a man who was banned from Britain for 10 years over his alleged role as chief minister of Gujarat in riots that killed about 1,000 people in 2002.

Britain ended a boycott of Modi three years ago after he emerged from being a provincial politician to the likely leader of the world's largest democracy. He has denied wrongdoing and was exonerated by an inquiry ordered by India's Supreme Court.

His three-day visit is likely to be marked by protests over those riots and concerns over recent incidents in India where Muslims have been targeted by Hindu extremists.

Several groups were planning demonstrations outside Wembley Stadium during the rally and near Cameron's Downing Street office to coincide with Modi's visit there.

About 45 British lawmakers, including opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, recently signed a parliamentary motion to debate India's human rights record.

Modi has also attracted negative coverage in the British press, with the left-leaning Guardian newspaper branding him a "divisive manipulator who charmed the world".

The Financial Times predicted his visit would be overshadowed by troubles at home including "a surge of sometimes violent Hindu chauvinism and a slowdown of economic reform".

However, many in Britain's Indian diaspora were eager to celebrate Modi, with a website called "UK welcomes Modi" promising to deliver "the loudest, greatest and most vibrant welcome he has seen outside of India" at the Wembley rally.

Modi's bilateral visit, the first by an Indian prime minister since 2006, follows a pompladen visit the British government gave China's President Xi Jinping last month that yielded $62 billion of deals.

Britain has gradually lost ground to other nations in an effort to increase trade with its former colony. In 2000, it was India's third-largest trading partner. Since then Britain has slipped to 18th, behind Belgium and Kuwait.

"There is a sense of things being jaded between the two countries," said Neelam Deo, a former diplomat and director of Gateway House. "For India, Britain is a middle-ranking power – it doesn't seem to have an independent foreign policy."

Modi marks Diwali with army men along Pak border AmrItsAr/NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited forward areas in Punjab, close to the IndiaPakistan international border, to spend time with army personnel on the occasion of Diwali.

The visit of the prime minister was kept under wraps by defence authorities. "People celebrate Diwali with their family members and loved ones. I too have come to celebrate it with you," he said while addressing army personnel after paying homage to martyrs at the Dograi War Memorial at Khasa near Amritsar.

It was at this site that Indian troops fought one of the toughest battles against Pakistani troops and triumphed 50 years ago. "I am honoured to be among you today on the occasion of Diwali," said Modi, sporting an army cap. "I spent time with our soldiers and we had a wonderful conversation," Modi tweeted. "The Battle of Dograi on September 22, 1965, was one of the toughest battles fought and won by our forces," he said.

A defence spokesman said Modi, accompanied by army chief Gen. Dalbir Singh, visited

PM Narendra Modi with troops at the Dograi Memorial in Amritsar.

(Photo tweeted by Narendra Modi)

the 'Land of the Martyrs', which is under the area of responsibility of Vajra Corps. "It was on this land of Vajra Corps where all major and decisive battles of 1965 India-Pakistan war were fought thus earning the name of 'Defenders of Punjab'," the spokesman said.

Modi also visited the Barki War Memorial at Ferozepur town, close to the India-Pakistan border, and laid a wreath there to pay homage to martyrs.

He also paid homage to Param Vir Chakra awardee Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid at the war memorial at Asal Uttar near Amritsar.

The prime minister arrived at the Halwara air force base on Wednesday morning from New Delhi. He went to forward areas in Amritsar and Ferozepur districts by an Indian Air Force helicopter.

Modi was accompanied to Halwara by Air Chief Marshall Arup Raha. The prime minister addressed IAF personnel at the base.

The Punjab frontier has borne the brunt of the 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan with a number of heroic battles being fought by determined troops to ward off evil designs of the Pakistan Army.

Punjab shares a 553-km-long barbed wire fenced international border with Pakistan.

Rain kills twenty-seven in Tamil Nadu "Mamata creating political CHENNAI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): Twenty-seven people have lost their lives in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district in the last two days due to floods following incessant rain, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said on Wednesday.

In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said 27 people lost their lives due to floods in Cuddalore district, around 230 km from here.

She said relief efforts were on in full swing.

A solatium of Rs.4 lakh to the family members of each of the deceased was handed out on Wednesday, the statement said.

However, there was no official figure as to the total number of people who lost their lives due to rains in the state in the last two days.

Unofficial estimates put the number around 40.

According to Jayalalithaa,

Cuddalore district -- against a normal rainfall of 697 mm during the northeast monsoon between October-December -- received 500 mm rain till date this year resulting in heavy floods.

Meanwhile, the state government is trying to restore electricity supply to villages in Cuddalore district through diesel-run generators as power supply was disrupted by heavy rain.

The government has also deployed personnel from other districts to help resumption of power supply.

On November 9, a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal crossed near the Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coast, resulting in heavy rain and consequent flood in Cuddalore district.

The official statement said the government was ensuring safe drinking wa-

ter supply through tankers in the flooded areas.

According to the Cuddalore administration, 35 health camps have been set up in the district and the affected people administered injections and tablets to prevent spread of waterborne diseases. People living in the flood-affected areas have been shifted to camps and food packets are being distributed among them.

However, relief measures are yet to reach some pockets in the district, according to reports here. Roads and railway lines have been damaged due to flood waters.

"Flooding of residential areas has become a recurring feature in Cuddalore district," an affected person told a television channel.

In other parts of the state, standing crops were

damaged by the heavy downpour.

The Indian Coast Guard has deployed Dornier aircraft and patrol vessels to locate around 120 unmanned fishing boats drifting in the sea.

Fishing boats anchored in the Gadilam river at Devanampattinam in Cuddalore district were dragged away to the sea by the huge waves.

According to the Tamil Nadu government, the Coast Guard has located 40 boats in two locations and efforts are on to retrieve them.

Meanwhile, DMK president M. Karunanidhi flayed the AIADMK government for allegedly not taking precautionary measures despite weather department's warning of impending rain.

He said the state government has not given definite figures of the toll from rain in the state.

CBI yet to get details of Chhota Rajan's many cases NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): As underworld don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan cools his heels in CBI custody, details of his alleged involvement in over 85 cases registered in different states are yet to be provided to the central agency.

While Rajan was involved in over 85 criminal cases of murder, extortion, smuggling and drug trafficking in Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat - including 69 cases in Maharashtra alone - the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has only a fake passport case on the basis of which he has been put in CBI custody.

The central agency booked Rajan on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, impersonation and forgery under the Passport Act and Prevention of Corruption Act. He is at present in a 10-day CBI custody.

Mumbai police faced acute embarrassment on November 5 when the Maharashtra government officially declared to hand over all its cases against Rajan to the CBI. "Our officials are in constant touch with the top brass of Mumbai police and other states' police officials regarding cases against Rajan. But we are yet to get any document to investigate all cases against him," a CBI source told IANS. "Now, our officials are investigating only the case in which Rajan has been booked by us," said the source.

Officials said they were still awaiting the documents pertaining to the home ministry and department of personnel and training orders on probe into all cases against the don.

On the other hand, Mumbai police said the decision to transfer cases to the CBI had brought all their efforts

to a nought.

"We had begun to look for case papers and even witnesses in old cases since cases registered between 1980-90 are difficult to locate; but with the government's decision to transfer the cases to the CBI, all those efforts have gone in vain," a Mumbai police official said.

Chhota Rajan, 55, was deported to New Delhi on November 6, after his arrest in Bali on October 25.

Sources said Rajan got an Indian passport (No. G9273860) made in the name of one Mohan Kumar, resident of 107/B, Old M.C. Road, Azad Nagar, Mandya in Karnataka. The passport was made in Harare in Zimbabwe on September 22, 2003. The CBI is now probing this case.

The CBI registered the case against Rajan on October 31, before its team proceeded to Bali in Indonesia to get him deported to India.

FBI rules out 'polonium poisoning' in Sunanda death case, Tharoor may soon undergo narco test NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (PtI): Adding a fresh twist to the Sunanda Pushkar death case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday said in its report sent to Delhi Police that the wife of senior Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor did not die due to poisoning by polonium or any other radioactive substance.

The FBI report has triggered speculation that Shashi Tharoor may soon be called for polygraph test for more leads.

In its eight-page report sent to the Delhi Police, the FBI said that no radioactive substance has been found in Pushkar's body.

Reacting to the FBI report, Delhi Police chief BS Bassi said, “Radiation levels in Sunanda Pushkar's viscera samples were within the standard safety norms.''

Delhi top cop BS Bassi said that the report from the Washington DC-based laboratory would soon be handed to a

medical board for it to be examined before further action is taken on the highprofile case.

"I understand that the report has been received. The FBI lab had conducted analysis of various substances.

And this should give an indication (as to the reason behind her death) once the doctors go through the report," Bassi told reporters.

Asked about the radiation levels in the samples, the Delhi Police Commissioner said that it was "within the standard safety norms". He added that the findings would have to be "correlated with the post-mortem report".

According to sources, the FBI report, received nine months after the samples were sent for examination, has named the alleged poison that led to Sunanda's death two year's ago.

The viscera samples were sent to the FBI lab in Washington in February to determine the kind of poison that

killed her after an AIIMS medical board identified poisoning as the reason behind her death but did not mention any specific name.

Reacting to the developments, AIIMS forensic head Sudhir Gupta stuck to his opinion that poisoning was the cause of death.

However, he added that the "domain is much more large" when specifically asked whether Polonium-210, a radioactive isotope, had caused the death.

"There are findings that confirm that the death was due to poisoning.

We concluded by eliminating the other causes of her death," Gupta said.

Sunanda was found dead inside her suite at a five-star hotel here on January 17 last year, a day after she was involved in a spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on Twitter over the latter's alleged affair with Tharoor, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram.

intolerant atmosphere"

KoLKAtA, NovEmbEr 12 (PtI): Mocking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her protest against "intolerance", CPI(M) politburo member Mohammed Salim today accused her of establishing a "political intolerant" atmosphere in Bengal.

"Who herself (Mamata Banerjee) is intolerant is talking against intolerance. She and her party have created a political intolerant atmosphere.

Had Modi and BJP won in Bihar, Banerjee would have sent her flowers. Because Nitish (Kumar) has won that is why she is trying to side with grand alliance. She has been part of BJP-led NDA earlier also," Salim said. "The TMC and Mamata Banerjee herself are intolerant and there are various instances of intolerance that the people of Bengal have seen in the last four and a half years," Salim said.

Salim alleged that "Mamata Didi" and "Modi Bhai" were "hand in gloves and that is why TMC helps BJP in passing several bills in Rajya Sabha covertly"."The BJP and TMC are hand in gloves.

TMC is helping BJP in passing bills in Rajya Sabha," Salim said. Banerjee, after the victory of grand alliance in Bihar, had termed it as a defeat of intolerance in a tweet.

Yashwant meets Advani; Gadkari wants action against 'irresponsible' remarks NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): Former finance minister Yashwant Sinha met BJP patriarch L.K. Advani on Wednesday, a day after the BJP's old guard including Advani took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, and demanded "thorough review" of the Bihar assembly poll debacle.

Meanwhile, union minister Nitin Gadkari defended Modi and Shah and demanded action against leaders who make unwarranted statements.

However, there was no official word either from Advani or from Sinha, but sources said that the old guard of the BJP were not satisfied by a mere statement issued by the party on Tuesday night after their joint statement.

The meeting took place at Advani's residence and lasted for around 40 minutes.

Sources said union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and former Delhi mayor Arti Mehra were also present at Advani's residence when Sinha reached there.

In a virtual challenge to Modi's leadership who became the prime minister in May 2014, former party presidents Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, former union minister Yashwant Sinha and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Shanta Kumar said on Tuesday in a joint statement that the Bihar defeat showed that the BJP had learnt nothing from its crushing defeat by the AAP in Delhi in February.

The BJP, in a statement, later said it was "fortunate" to have been led by leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Advani for decades, and welcomed any guidance and suggestion from the party's "seniors" on victories and defeats.

Meanwhile, Gadkari defended Modi and Shah, saying everyone in the party was responsible for the Bihar debacle.

"We are not a party of mother-son, father-son.

Neither are we a party of a specific family. The BJP is a party of cadres. It's not a party of any leader. When we win, the party wins and when we lose, the party gets defeated," Gadkari told reporters.

He also said the BJP had lost elections under Advani's leadership too.

"The BJP lost elections under party veteran Advani too," he said.

"The Bihar debacle is the collective responsibility of the party and not of any individual. I have told party chief Shah to initiate stringent action against those making irresponsible statements and causing damage to the party's image," Gadkari said.

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Suu Kyi reaches out to military with win in sight YANGON, NOvember 11 (reuters): Myanmar’s democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, moving closer to an absolute majority in parliament on Wednesday, requested a meeting with the president and the powerful military chief to discuss national reconciliation.

Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has won over 90 percent of the seats declared so far in the lower house and is well ahead in the upper house and regional assemblies.

If the final results confirm the trend, Suu Kyi’s triumph will sweep out an old guard of former generals that has run Myanmar since the junta handed over power to President Thein Sein’s semi-civilian government in 2011.

The armed forces continue to wield considerable power in Myanmar’s political institutions, enshrined in a constitution drafted before the end of nearly 50 years of rule. It is unclear how Suu Kyi and the generals will work together.

In letters to the commander-in-chief and the president dated Nov. 10 which the NLD released to media on Wednesday, Suu Kyi requested meetings within a week to discuss the basis of “national reconciliation.”

“It is very important for the dignity of the country and to bring peace of mind to the people,” Suu Kyi said in the letter.

Information Minister and Presidential Spokesman Ye Htut said on his Facebook page: “In response to the letter from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the president this morning replied

Myanmar army will keep privileges even with defeat YANGON, NOvember 11 (AP): Three days after Myanmar’s historic election, official results were trickling in at a snail’s pace Wednesday but it was clear that the military-backed ruling party faced an overwhelming electoral defeat at the hands of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy party.

What’s also known — even before the elections — is that regardless of the result the military involvement in this nation’s politics would not end. Far from it.

The military, which took power in a 1962 coup and brutally suppressed several prodemocracy uprisings during its rule, gave way to a nominally civilian elected government in 2011 -- with strings attached.

“Sunday’s poll does not mark democracy’s triumph in Burma,” said Ellen Bork of Foreign Policy Initiative, a U.S. think-tank.

Aside from installing retired senior officers in the ruling party to fill Cabinet posts, the army granted itself constitutional powers that enshrine its influence over

Aung San Suu Kyi. (Reuters File Photo)

to her that the meeting would be coordinated when the UEC (Union Election Commission) election-related task is finished.”

Relations between Suu Kyi and armed forces chief Min Aung Hlaing are said to be strained.

One of the biggest sources of tension between Suu Kyi and the military is a clause in the constitution barring her from the presidency because her children are foreign nationals.

Few doubt the military inserted the clause to rule her out.

increasingly defiant on the presidential clause as the scale of her victory has become apparent.

She has made it clear she will run the country regardless of who the NLD elects as president and described the constitution as “very silly”.

“We’ll find one,” she told the BBC in an interview on Tuesday, referring to her choice of president. “But that won’t stop me from making all the decisions as the leader of the winning party.”

Results so far gave Suu Kyi’s party 134 of 149 seats declared ‘MAKING ALL DECISIONS’ out of the 330 seats not allocatWhile her letters seek con- ed to the military in the lower ciliation, Suu Kyi has become house. Under the junta-craft-

ed constitution, a quarter of the seats in both chambers are unelected and reserved for the armed forces.

To form Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since the early 1960s, the NLD needs to win more than two-thirds of seats that were contested in parliament.

The NLD has said it is on course for over 250 seats in the lower house, well above the 221 needed to control the chamber.

Reuters was not able to independently verify the party’s estimates of its own performance.

The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), created by the junta and led by retired soldiers,

government no matter who is elected. In a state of emergency, a special militaryled body can even assume state powers.

Another provision bars Suu Kyi from the presidency because her sons hold foreign citizenship. Right now, though, the focus is on the stunning, if not yet official, victory of Suu Kyi’s party over the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party in Sunday’s polls. In an interview with the BBC, Suu Kyi said her National League for Democracy expects to win 75 percent of the seats it contested in the 664-member two-chamber Parliament.

It staked its claim even though the state Union Election Commission by Wednesday had announced results only for 88 lower house seats and 33 upper house seats, giving 78 and 29 to the NLD, respectively, and five and two to the ruling party. Smaller parties and independents got the rest. The commission has given no explanation for the slow results.

“The NLD’s big victory is best seen as

has conceded defeat in a poll that was a major milestone on Myanmar’s rocky path from dictatorship to democracy.

Suu Kyi also requested a meeting with former USDP chairman Shwe Mann, the lower house speaker. He lost his seat, but before the election had been seen as a presidential contender.

He antagonised the military while in parliament and built close ties to Suu Kyi, arousing the suspicion of many in his party.

CONTROL OF BUREAUCRACY In addition to his bloc of parliament seats, the commanderin-chief nominates the heads of

the first step of a negotiation that is going to play out in the coming weeks and months between the elected power of the NLD, and entrenched, constitutionally guaranteed military power,” says Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of New York-based Human Rights Watch.

When the former ruling junta drew up the 2008 constitution, he says, “they built a political structure that keeps Aung San Suu Kyi out of the presidency and locks in their influence and prerogatives — with things like 25% of the seats reserved for the military, a 75% approval bar to amend the constitution, no legislative scrutiny of military budgets, and ensuring only military men can lead the most powerful ministries, like Defense, Home Affairs and Border Affairs.”

Because the military still controls important political decisions, says Toe Kyaw Hlaing, an independent political analyst in Myanmar, the NLD and other political parties have to cooperate with the military.

three powerful and big-budget ministries - interior, defence and border security.

The interior ministry gives him control of the pervasive bureaucracy, which could pose a significant obstacle to the NLD’s ability to execute policy.

Among other formidable challenges for Suu Kyi is trying to put an end to decades of conflict with armed ethnic groups.

Thein Sein failed to do that despite protracted talks that led to a ceasefire with some groups.

The government’s chief ceasefire negotiator, Aung Min, was among the heavyweight politicians that lost in the elections.

Sunday’s vote was Myan-

mar’s first freely contested general election since Thein Sein ushered in a period of reforms that prompted a partial lifting of international sanctions.

Money from abroad flowed in quickly afterward. Foreign direct investment stood at $8 billion in fiscal 2014/15, more than five times the flows recorded just two years earlier.

Washington welcomed the election as a victory for Myanmar’s people, but said it would watch how the democratic process moved forward before lifting the remaining U.S. sanctions.

Final results are due no later than two weeks after Sunday’s poll.

‘Up to Philippines to heal rift over South China Sea’ beiJiNG, NOvember 11 (reuters): China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the Philippines’ case against China at an arbitration tribunal over rival claims in the South China Sea had strained relations between Beijing and Manila, and that it was up to the Philippines to improve ties.

The arbitration case against China in the Hague “is a knot that has impeded the improvement and development of Sino-Philippine relations”, a statement on the Foreign Ministry’s website cited Wang as saying in Manila.

“We do not want this knot to become tighter and tighter, so that it even becomes a dead knot,” Wang, who was in the Philippines for talks on Tuesday, told reporters in Manila.

“As for how to loosen or open the knot, (we’ll) have to look at the Philippines.”

Beijing’s claim to almost the entire South China Sea is shown on

Chinese maps with a nine-dash line that stretches deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia. Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also claim parts of the waterway.

For years, China has insisted that disputes with rival claimants be handled bilaterally.

In a legal setback for Beijing, the arbitration court in the Netherlands ruled late last month that it had jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the Philippines had filed against China over disputed areas in the South China Sea. The Philippine government has welcomed the decision and its Foreign Affairs department said on Wednesday it would pursue the case “to its logical conclusion”.

“China’s nine-dash line claim is expansive, excessive and has no basis under international law,” said foreign affairs spokesman Charles Jose.

“If left unchallenged, we could lose about 80 percent of our EEZ (exclusive economic zone).”

China has boycotted the legal proceedings and rejects the court’s authority in the case.

Jose said on Tuesday after a meeting in Manila between Wang and his Philippine counterpart Albert del Rosario that the two countries agreed to resume foreign ministry consultations after a two-year break to explore areas where relations can move forward despite the territorial row.

Manila filed the case in 2013 to seek a ruling on its right to exploit the South China Sea waters in its 200-nautical mile EEZ as allowed under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

“The person who caused the problem should solve it,” Wang said. “We hope that the Philippines Debris is pictured in Bento Rodigues district, which was covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP can make a more sensible choice.” Billiton Ltd burst, in Mariana, Brazil on November 10. (REUTERS Photo)

Afghan Hazara step up protest after beheadings Nepal’s economy sinking, supplies shouldn’t

Men mourn over the coffins for the seven people who were killed by unknown militants, during a protest procession in Kabul, Afghanistan on November 10. (REUTERS Photo)

KAbuL, NOvember 11 (reuters): Thousands of members of Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority demonstrated on Wednesday against government inaction over the killing of seven members of their community

by Islamist militants who dumped their partially beheaded bodies.

The mainly Shia Hazara have long faced persecution in Afghanistan, with thousands massacred by the Taliban and al Qaeda in the 1990s, but a series of murders and kidnappings this year has stoked a mood of growing despair.

The demonstration in a mainly Hazara area in the

west of Kabul was peaceful but there was an angry mood in the crowd that was directed both at the Islamist militants blamed for the killings and the government that failed to prevent them.

“The only way to prevent such crimes in the future is to take over all government offices until they wake up and make a decision,” said demonstrator Sayed Karim, 40, one of thousands who filled the whole of Mazari Square.

As well as adding to the daily toll of killings, the deaths of the seven Hazara, who included three women and two children, have heightened the risk that sectarian hatreds will fur-

ther poison the climate in a country made up of different ethnicities.

Bearing the greendraped coffins of the dead and carrying banners with slogans like “The Taliban are committing crimes and the government is supporting them”, the crowd began to make its way to the presidential palace in central Kabul.

President Ashraf Ghani has condemned the killings and promised an investigation but they have added to a mood of insecurity that has grown since the Taliban briefly seized control of the key northern city of Kunduz in late September.

The United Nations

Special Representative Nicholas Haysom also issued a statement, saying the killings violated international law. “These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable,” he said.

The killings in the southern province of Zabul occurred amid fighting between rival Taliban factions and Islamic State militants that has underlined the risk of further fragmentation, complicating any reopening of the peace process and creating the risk of more generalised anarchy.

Demonstrators said Hazara people were being killed every day on the dangerous roads between Ghazni, Bamyan and Wardak provinces to the west of Kabul, where the Taliban have control of much of the countryside.

In addition to the Taliban and Islamic State, many Hazara have directed their anger more broadly against the Pashtun, the largest ethic group from which the Islamist movements recruit most of their followers.

“We’re from this country. We have to have the same rights as other citizens,” said a demonstrator who gave her name only as Sohaila. “If the government doesn’t give us the right of citizenship, we will leave this country to the Pashtuns and other groups.”

be linked to politics: Nepal Ambassador says

New DeLhi, NOvember 11 (iANs): Nepal’s ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyay has said his country’s economy was sinking and there was need for immediate steps for restoring supplies from India, which have been disrupted due to agitation by Madhesi parties over the new constitution.

Speaking at a round-table Tuesday evening on “The New Nepal Constitution: A View from the Ground” here, Upadhyay said supplies to his country from India should not be linked to politics.

“Supply is one thing, politics other thing... No politics will be successful by keeping people in problem,” Upadhyay said.

Striking a conciliatory note, the envoy said some mistakes had been made and if concerns of people in Terai region of Nepal about the country’s new constitution were addressed earlier, there would not be such difficulties.

Madhes parties have been agitating in Nepal against the new constitution, promulgated on September 20, leading to supplies from India getting severely impacted. India has said there is no blockade of Nepal and supplies have been disrupted due to agitation by Madhesi parties.

The round-table was attended

by Nationalist Congress Party leader D.P. Tripathi, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, former Nepal Minister Prakash Saran Mahat and Anil Jha, leader of Nepal Sadbhawana Party.

The conference was organised by South Asian Dialogues for Ecological Democracy (SADED) at the India International Centre.

Upadhyay said Nepal, which

faced a massive earthquake earlier this year, was “burning”.

“Nepal’s economy is sinking. It is difficult to revive an economy if it sinks,” he said. “The problem has to be tackled diplomatically, politically... It is has to be solved at the earliest due to interruption in supplies,” Upadhyay said.

He said there could be misunderstanding for some days but the bilateral relationship has to be brought back to its “usual level.” Upadhyay said the Himalayan country’s relations with India cannot be compared to any other country.

Jha said Madhes parties had agitating for the past nearly three months and several people had been killed but their sentiments were not being understood by the present Nepali leadership.

“Nepal government is not ready to address our concerns. That is why we are agitating,” he said, adding that if solution was not found, the “next battle could be radical.”

Jha said that the agitation on border with India had been going on for the past 48 days. “That is called indirect blockade,” he said.

Jha supported the stance of India which has been urging Nepal to find a political solution to the problems facing section of its own people. He said Madhesi parties had concerns on issues such as those pertaining to citizenship and representation on the basis of both geography and population.

Mahat, who is a leader of the Nepali Congress, said his party was pressing some amendments to find solution to the present imbroglio.

“The way it is presented as big dis-

crimination (against people in Terai).

It is not like that,” he said.

He said Nepali people were suffering due to disruption in supplies.

“We need to do something immediately,” he said.

Ramesh, a former Indian minister, said there was need to focus on “political process” and urged the convening of a “Friends of Nepal” meeting comprising experts, MPs, and former MPs, which can emerge as a pressure group. He said such a group can help manage anti-India sentiment in Nepal while also ensuring that India shows more sensitivity towards the land-locked country.

Ramesh said India should have welcomed the promulgation of constitution in Nepal while listing its concerns. He also said India’s stance on Nepal could not be seen in isolation from the Bihar assembly polls. He said the RSS and BJP president Amit Shah wanted to send a strong signal that “we are with Madhesis.”

The Congress leader said the Nepalese political establishment had not shown magnanimity in formulating the constitution. “Population is generally accepted as principle of representation. It cannot be ignored,” he said referring to a major concern of Madhesi parties that represent people who are of Indian origin.

He said the necessary changes should be made by bringing amendments to the constitution.

Vijay Pratap, honorary convenor of SADED, said the Indian establishment should not indulge “in factional micro management” in Nepal.

“There is need to address Madhesi sentiments (by authorities in Nepal),” he said.

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WASU’s 3rd Zasinihu memorial trophy Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The Western Angami Students’ Union(WASU) has scheduled the third edition of Zasinihu Memorial Trophy from December 14-16 at Khonoma village.

Zasinihu Memorial Trophy is an acclaimed football tournament of Western Angami region played biennially under the aegis of WASU in tribute and remembrance of Late Zasinihu Zinyii, the first President of Naga Students’ Federation.

Zasinihu is the eldest son of Dr. Khosa Zinyii and Ukieii hails from Khonoma village. He was a sports lover and a keen footballer. As a footballer he represented the then Naga Hills to Manipur and a number of districts in the then undivided Assam. With the insurgence of Naga nationalism in the background and the declaration of Naga independence on August 14,1947, Naga students organized themselves under the name and style of Naga Students’ Union in 1948; and Zasinihu (Ahu) Zinyii was elected President.

Later on NSU has changed its nomenclature to Naga Students’ Federation (NSF). As such, Zinyii was virtually the first president of Naga Students Federation.

In a press release, WASU president Kevisetuo Rhitso and sports secretary Kevizase Kehie stated that it is compulsory for all the units students’ union under WASU to participate in the tournament. Besides, the tournament is open to any Team/Club under Western Angami Area/Villages.

It also stated that forms will be made available at M/s Z.P. Enterprises, TCP Gate Kohima and the last date for submission is fixed on December 5.

For more information, contact 9615934471/ 9856849782.

saina Nehwal, sindhu win, defending 5th Hornbill Half Marathon on Dec 6 champion srikanth out of china open

FUZhoU, November 11 (iaNS): Leading Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal edged past her Chinese opponent Sun Yu 22-20, 21-18 to move into the second round of the China Open here on Wednesday. Though it was a neck-andneck affair, the top seed held her nerve to win the gruelling battle in 49 minutes.

In the first game, it was Yu who started in top gear, picking up four quick points. Saina, the defending champion, made a swift comeback to make it 6-7 but the Chinese surged ahead again.

Yu led 18-14 and looked all set to bag the opener. But the Hyderabad-born shuttler stormed back with four backto-back points to make it 18-18. They were locked at 20-20 too but then Saina picked up the last two crucial points to pocket the game in the tie breaker.

In the second game, Saina carried forward the momentum gained after winning the first and was very quick to respond to anything that Yu produced.

She led from the start and after some hiccups in the middle of the game, finished on a strong note, taking it 21-18.

In the men's singles, Ajay Jayaram lost to World No.1 Chen Long 12-21, 11-21. The No.25 shuttler was hoping against hope to upset Long, who was just too good. In neither game Jayaram looked like giving his opponent a scare.

Long dominated easily and quite convincingly clinched the encounter.

It was a sad outing for defending champion Kadambi Srikanth too as he crashed out of the tournament after losing his first-round encounter to Hu Yun of Hong Kong 21-12, 21-18. In the first game Yun led from the beginning till the end but Srikanth tried staging a comeback in the second. It was all even at 16-16 but then the Hong Kong shuttler pipped Srikanth to clinch the issue. In another men's singles match, Prannoy Kumar battled hard

but ultimately lost against his Chinese opponent Guo Kai 14-21, 21-17, 19-21 in a first round match that stretched for an hour and three minutes. In another women's singles match, P.V Sindhu beat her Russian rival Ksenia Polikarpova in straight sets 21-14, 21-9. Sindhu had it easy in the first game, and brushed aside Ksenia's challenge. It was locked at 2-2 but then Sindhu led till the end. In the second game, Sindhu was a class apart. Though Ksenia managed to make it 5-5 but the Indian proved too strong and won quite easily.

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The 5th Hornbill Half Marathon will take place on December 6 in Kohima as part of the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland.

It will be organised by 3E Nagaland and supported by Tourism Department, Gov't of Nagaland.

The event will be certified

by Nagaland Athletics Officials Club.

There will be three race categories - Half Marathon 21 KM for men and women; Great Hornbill Run 11.9 KM for boys and girls of Class 8 & below; and Special Lap for persons with special needs under the theme "Championing Disabilities".

The start and finish point for all race categories will be New Sectt. Junction.

Runners from different parts of the country as well as abroad are expected to take part. Last year, men's category was won by David Kiptoo from Kenya.

Registration for all categories is going on in 3E office Kohima and various

outlets across the state.

Fo r m s c a n a l s o be downloaded at www.3enagaland.org and the same can be filled up and sent to the organisers. Total cash prizes is Rs. 3,44,000/- in addition to gift hampers to be given to all participants of the special lap. Timing certificates will be awarded to top runners of Half Marathon and Great Hornbill Run. This is perhaps the only half marathon recognised in terms of standard distance and class to be listed in the Indian calendar of all national and international marathons across the country.

The timing certificates awarded in Hornbill Half Marathon are also accepted during registration in highly reputed races such as Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, Mumbai Marathon, etc. Runners from Nagaland who clock timing close to national records are sponsored by 3E Nagaland to take part in other races outside the state.

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Whose cooperation matters?

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f late, the Govt. officers including the Chief Minister of Nagaland have been appealing to the public of Kohima town in particular to extend their cooperation to the proposed transformation of Capital Kohima into a ‘Smart City’. According to Webster Dictionary, Cooperation means ‘To operate ogether for a common object.’ To Cambridge it means “To work together with someone in order to achieve the same aim.’ The word cooperation is therefore the most befitting vocabulary to be used by those authorities in their appeal for getting peoples’ support while contemplating to give facelift to Kohima town with few hundred crores of rupees.

No better opportunity may come than what this flagship of ‘Smart City’ which is now in the offing as for Nagaland Govt. to make the State capital Kohima presentable worth its name.

It is time for people in power to make a comprehensive master plan for the proposed improvement. It is time for the Govt. to consult the experts, if any, and sift for the best and sustainable basic programs for the durable improvement. Should there be any want, it is also advisable to seek opinions of those technocrats from outside so as to avoid wasting fund for futile and temporary eyewash.

Few private individuals voluntarily shared personal opinions for Kohima Smart City via media. As layman myself, I would like to join them as I deeply feel that the focus should be on the basic traditional indispensables rather than high profile items.

1. Are the authorities serious about land slide prone zones in Kohima Town. Will there be any priority for its preventive measures? It is not rubbish to talk about landslides in Kohima. Lest adequate preventive measures are considered, all our intensive capital investments can be washed down in a monsoon.

2. Everyone is talking about roads in the State of Nagaland. Some of the roads are 52 years old. Many roads are several years old. All are roads under State PWD or BRTF are aging with potholes. The so called carpeted roads give tougher ride than noncarpeted roads. I hope the nodal authorities are sincere enough to have comprehensive plan to convert Kohima Town roads into durable roads which can become catalyst to the other areas that will follow in future.

Without durable good roads, Kohima will never become smart.

3. Water supply to Kohima Town has to be improved. I don’t trust the water pumping project at Sidzu river to be a success. If the project becomes operational, still I will not trust the water quality which may do more harm to health than good. I am sure there is a way out to bring good and sufficient water from somewhere.

Kohima Town will not become smart unless sufficient water is made available to common man.

4. During the last few months, Kohima Town has been feasting on very regular power supply. Prior to the advent of Smart programs to Kohima, it has already become smart for the time being as far as power sector is concerned. Having no technical knowledge and yet, is it advisable to go for underground cable system for power supply in Kohima? My simple desire is, if the overhead criss-cross power cables in the town disappear, it will give new look. I am sure it will be capital intensive.

5. Sanitation has to be given priority too. Drainages have to be streamlined. Drainage system in plain sector like Dimapur is intricate, and yet it is simple for hilly terrain like Kohima.

Yet, even when the infrastructure is improved, our town may not look cleaner unless we educate people not to litter around. Repeating what I said earlier, what a hopeless regular battle it is for a hundred sweepers in Kohima to overcome thousands who litter around unconsciously and carelessly everyday. If sincere attention is paid to these aspects as improvement of drainages and education of general public on the importance of sanitation, it can give a different look.

With the above basic needs improved and without immediate installation of CCTVs, Kohima will become smarter. High profile gadget like sophisticated CCTV installations at Kohima and Dimapur without quality roads, without drinking water and without regular power supply will make our towns only dud and dull. Without uninterrupted supply of power, CCTV will be decorative piece. CCTV is not useless. Yet, the primary objective of CCTV installation is to detect the illegal activity of anyone which evades human eye.

Good, denizens deserve freedom from such menace and therefore its eradication matters.

Nevertheless, what ails the Naga society today? The dishonesty, selfishness and greed prompt people in power to do broad daylight robbery of the public exchequer. Can CCTV detect who are siphoning not thousands but lakhs and crores away by which Nagaland is reduced to a bankrupt State? Are the planners interested to detect and view the sparrows pecking at the few seeds of the drying paddy at the periphery of the mat? What about detecting the big fat rats that are eating and finishing the paddy in the barn?

My belief is very traditional. Initially, instead of CCTV, motivate Police forces to be smart and proactive.

Do the DGP and the hierarchical Police officers know that the whole work force is a demoralised lot today?

Which Police sepoy will sacrifice service and life for public security when he is not backed up by his superior officer? Who the hell will the sepoy remain a fool and give dedicated service when all the perks due to him are eaten by the star studded comrades?

What moral strength the work force can be expected to have when hardly a uniform without spare is provided once a year? Have change in the attitude of the responsible Police officers towards their sepoys in the sense that the morality of Police sepoys has to be boosted. If so, they can act more effectively than CCTV. For want of space let me be brief though I have something more relevant to say.

One upon a time in Nagaland, the Minister in-charge of Education purchased Operation Tables and you know where do one uses the Operation tables. Not in schools definitely as no operation takes place in classrooms. Again, when the much publicised 500 bedded Referral Hospital in Dimapur was under construction, flash doors were bought and brought to the site. Since the structures were under construction, it was not possible to fix the flash doors and had to allow that very, very expensive item to decay. And again, what did the land owners know the technique, but the field officers taught the innocent land owners to dig pits in their waste lands

to be taken over by NEPCO for Hydropower at Doyang. Filling the pits with bamboo mugs filled with water and in each of those flower pots, fresh cut orange tree branches were installed.

Such fields looked like valuable orchards and thus pictures were taken when the plants looked fresh for the purpose of compensation at higher rate. These are few instances out of innumerable by which Nagaland has been walking backward.

We all recently read about the disclosure of the proposed ropeway at Kohima. The main purpose is to ease the terrible daily traffic chaos.

I personally do not oppose such innovation. When I came across the story, I was immensely amused by the imagination. That the cable cars are operational only with electricity.

When cable cars are in operation, if load shedding is suddenly imposed, the cars will automatically get stranded high up in the air. Then alarm bell has to be rang followed by emergency rescue teams for stranded passengers. The whole Kohima town will then be placed under chaos including the traffic. That is not all but the next day, the news papers will be front-paged with stranded car photos with irritating criticisms why the Govt. has introduced risky transportation service. Is it going to lend additional problem than easing out the existing ones?

I hope the political leaders and the bureaucracy will not adopt similar strategies as above (the previous para) while smarting Kohima with substantial receipt of fund. For transforming Kohima Town into the most smart habitation, KVC, APO and AYO are ready as found. As the Govt. of Nagaland has sought cooperation from the denizens, whether the land owners or anyone who has become Kohima citizen will not hesitate to give the best cooperation because who will not like to be part of smarter Kohima.

Yet, my question is whether the Govt. of Nagaland will cooperate with itself is the hardest job. Siphoning funds out of pilferages like percentage deduction for party fund, percentage deduction for factions, percentage deduction for elected representatives, percentage deduction for officers and so on will be self non-cooperation.

Compromising the quality workmanship, namesake and cosmetic patch-ups in any undertaking will be self non-cooperation. Prioritizing the high profile but useless items at the expense of the prerequisite schemes with sheer intention to manufacture easy money will be self non-cooperation.

Rs.400 crores is a good money. If this much fund is to be honestly spent on the requisite items for the sake of the State Capital, we will definitely see change. But should there be any failure it will be not because of the non-cooperation of the general public but because of the non-cooperation from the decision makers and the field officers. Should there be partial or full percentage failure, it will be because of abuse of power for greed.

Nagaland’s capital Kohima deserves better treatment definitely. This is the opportunity for her to get that treatment as deserving.

It is time for the general public to be watchful over the activities of making Kohima smarter and react appropriately on time with gut for our own sake. Shall we watch the happenings as mute spectators or shall we make it happened.

Z. Lohe

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lets football

oal! Mendoza strikes. Podumachigoalu! This is chennaiyin FC scoring a goal; Passion and joy at its best.

The Hero India Super League has brought a lot of alacrity and attention lately, with soccer lovers from India and around the universe peeking neatly to get a better insight. Everyone wants to know what is really going on here. On my part of adulation; it is skyline. It would be cynical on our part to infuse it is a failed project.

With all issues aside my humblest Acknowledgement rings out to the IMG Reliance and its partners for taking up such an audacious task. Needless to say their grass root level activity of upbringing Indian Players is impeccable.

As the second season of ISL 2015 picks up its pace with every single match played, our Hearts are all but with northeast united FC. I jump from couch to couch as I watch my team (NEU FC) score goals and conceded many. Granted, our regional team is not performing to the very best in the league, yet still our hearts are with them.

The most alluring thing about football in India is that the base of football largely depends on players from our region. True to it, we can see northeast players in every ISL team, running and dribbling away with delight. As far as I know and I have seen, players from our region have a lot of potential in wide areas, be it defending or attacking. If we are to follow and develop our self with greater experience and opportunity then a day is not far when we will see our players playing in top tier leagues in Europe.

Having said much about our Northeast players on the rise, it however pains me to see no players from our State playing in the league. What is more painful is the fact that we the Nagas also have real passion and a big

heart for football, yet we never make it to the center stage. In every town and village of our state we see people playing soccer with passion, whether be it small kids playing with a polythene Bag made football or those young adults with boots and jerseys of clubs and country from across the globe. Sometimes it looks like a world cup being played by 22 players on a single pitch. Yes, it is there for all to see and feel the ‘one love’.

The question about our absence is a question in itself. It will be a mistake on my part to pin point one reason alone. Yet then opinions still remain. Few fortnights ago I visited the website of the Northeast united FC and I checked on their activities and workshops in the region, and I was dismayed to see that no workshops was ever held in Nagaland; the reason best known to them. Never the less it does not give a fair opportunity to us.

The truth that stands out is that we also have many good talented players in and around and us wasting those precious talents is a waste in itself again. Football is also a profession and we the Nagas must also approach it professionally and learn to be proficient in it. The buyout clause of some north east players will gives us more light about it – FC Pune- Eugenson Lyngdoh(Meghalaya) Rs 1.05 crore, Chennaiyin FC -Thoi Singh (Manipur) Rs 86 lakh. The figure speaks for itself here.

The sleeping giant of Nagaland will not wake up on its own, come to that we have to wake it up ourselves, with support and encouragement from every section of the society. It would be my eager enthusiasm to see the Naga premier league resumed again with a good sponsorship, logistically well planned and well handled platform. It would be a game changer on a note if the Sports department, Nagaland also take up radical initia-

tive to develop the game even farther and to foster it with more enthusiasm. To add more steel in the game it would be very appreciable on the Govt of Nagaland’s part to come forth and take the initiative to raise funds wherein to build at least one world class stadium (not like the Sovima cricket Stadium) in a viable location.

Good infrastructures are always a stepping stone for a better tomorrow.

Tomorrow will never come if we keep waiting. I believe; we have slept enough, laid dormant enough and just being a fan enough. On an Honest note, we will start taking sports like football seriously only when we launch local players to the center stage. (Reminisce the time when a Naga Lad was included in the reserve team of the Kolkata Knight riders in IPL? How many of your chins were held high?) Talking of center stage, what bigger stage do we want than The Hero ISL? It is not just a league but a blessing in disguise for us. It is now up to us whether we would like to take ourselves a step ahead or to sit back and just be contented being a fan.

Hitherto I have never shouted a Naga name before but yes I would love to shout the name of a Naga with a bumping fist as I watch this beautiful game. I am not talking about it when am watching UEFA Champions league, EPL, Bundelsliga or even A- league for that matter, but at least let us not derive ourselves when we watch Hero ISL. Today I would like to earnestly call upon all like thinking Nagas to ponder upon it and lend your voice for it in your own capacity; and god willing we will see at least a single player from our state in the next edition of ISL, and when that day really comes we can truly say ‘Lets Football Nagaland’.

Chenithung D yanthan Wokha, Nagaland

a plea to Naga Women

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s much as I hate the very idea of Indian electoral politics which is corrupt one cannot escape the fact that as of now everything that happens in India has a direct or indirect impact on the lives of the Nagas and its polity. Thus my great interest, in the happenings in India’s political narrative and of Burma. Having studied the two most talked about and significant elections this year in India were the Delhi polls and the recently concluded Bihar polls two very important factors caught my attention. One was the presence of a viable political party in both these states unlike Maharashtra and Haryana (Where elections were held this year but the only party was the utterly incompetent and useless congress lead alliance). But my focus here is the second factor that changed the tide of elections into a total rout of the saffron alliance.

A very important factor if you believe in the social media/electronic narrative for the saffron debacle in Delhi was the overwhelming support the AAP got from women and the youth. Even according to statistics that elections saw more women participation than ever. Coming to Bihar I am certain that the statistics again will show that the percentage of women voting was much higher

than before. While listening to the many interviews I saw on television one thing was clear a large section of the women supported the grand alliance under Nitish Kukmar because of the many pro women programmes that he initiated during his rule.

But I will not get into the nitty gritty of why women voted in such numbers during this elections as I am not doing a thesis. Suffice to say that women played a very important role in these two elections and its outcome which fooled even the most experienced of Indian political observers.

Now coming to Nagaland and other Naga areas let us be clear about one thing the women do count very much in changing the course of politics here too but this has not been observed at least as far as I know. In Nagaland as probably in other Naga areas the ratio of women to men voters favor the women but sadly unlike what we saw in the two Indian states(Where the grip of patriarchy is even worse than in Nagaland and among Nagas) here the women are divided just like the men. On this matter I would like to request all right thinking women to start educating each other on the rights and power the women vote so that we can bring about a more equitable society where

both men and women contribute as much to the building of the Naga Nation. On this matter creating a bi partisan platform where women’s issues are discussed would be a great start.

In India this was done by organizations like the Jago re foundation (correct my spelling). My dear mothers, sisters and daughters you are half the population and you need to step up in and utilize your power of vote to bring about changes in the society. You are doing a great deal but in order to do even more you need to empower every girl and woman in our land with knowledge about their rights.

This is not a call to wage war on men but a call to empower yourselves in a patriarchal society like ours and using this tool called elections to create equality so that we men and women can walk hand in hand as equals to bring progress in our society. When women in societies which are much more patriarchal than ours can show their power to bring about decisive change, why can’t you. Naga women are second to none as proved by you flourishing in every field you touch that if you set your minds to it. Let us together break this last barrier of decision making so that together we show the world what Nagas are capable of.

KUKNALIM Aotemjen Jamir

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

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Benedict NguNyiNg ApouNg is Miss MoN 2015 Cumberbatch receives honor from queen

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enedict Cumberbatch has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his services to the performing arts and to charity. The 39-year-old actor wore a traditional morning suit to receive his Commander of the British Empire award in a ceremony Tuesday. The “Sherlock” star, who was also nominated for an Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of computer scientist Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,” told reporters afterward that the experience was “quite nerve-wracking.” Cumberbatch, who recently finished a stage run playing Hamlet at London’s Barbican Theatre, has been supporting charity appeals to help Syrian refugees, and helped raise more than 150,000 pounds ($227,000) in donations for Save the Children.

Miss Mon 2015 Ngunying Apoung flanked by fist runner up Mongkhao Mercy (R) and second runner up N Ngeamying (L).

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gunying Apoung has been crowned the Miss Mon 2015. She also won the Miss Beautiful Skin title. The first runner up title went to Mongkhao Mercy, who also won the Miss Photogenic.

Second runner up title was bagged by

N Ngeamying.

Meanwhile, Miss Congeniality, Miss Perfect Ten, and Miss Talented titles went to Ngappon, Ngepkai, and Shuiyan respectively.

The Miss Mon 2015 contest was held on November 3 at Council Hall, Mon Town under the theme ‘Essence

of Women’. Organised by Konyak Nyupuh Sheko Khong (KNSK), the apex body of Konyak women, the event was graced by Member of Parliament Neiphiu Rio as the chief guest.

The welcome address was delivered by B Lomei Konyak, KNSK president.

Katy perry is H&M’s

festive new face

B Naga artists are seen performing at the NAGA FEST, which was held in Mumbai on November 8. The Fest, which was initiated by the Music Task Force Nagaland, was organized in association with True School of Music and Blue Frog Mumbai. The concert was produced by Ate Kevichusa, engineered by Thejakielie Zuyie, and coordinated by Dream Corp.

shah Rukh records statement with Enforcement Directorate

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ollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan recorded his statement before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here over the alleged undervaluation of shares of his co-owned IPL cricket team, Kolkata Knight Riders, official sources said here on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Shah Rukh responded to the second summons in six months issued by the ED in mid-October pertaining to the probe into the alleged irregularities in the sale of shares of Knight Riders Sports Pvt. Ltd (KRSPL) to a Mauritius-based company. The ED is investigating whether the shares of the team were allegedly undervalued as it could be violative of the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Manage-

ment Act (FEMA).

Earlier, the ED had served a notice to Shah Rukh in May this year but the actor did not appear before the agency. Prior to that, Shah Rukh was quizzed in 2011 for allegations that KKR had received illegal money transferred from certain foreign tax havens.

The company, KRSPL, which runs the KKR team, is jointly owned by Shah Rukh, actress Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta. It is alleged that five million shares of KRSPL were sold to Mehta's Mauritius-based company, Sea Islands Investments Ltd., in 2008 and were reportedly undervalued by eight-nine times.

In 2011, Shah Rukh was directed to provide relevant documents including the purchase of players, revenues, advertising details and the team's shareholding pattern. During Tuesday's questioning, officials said Shah Rukh cooperated with the investigators and also provided relevant documents pertaining to the deals.

'spectre' sets guinness World Record for Largest Movie Explosion ever

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may not be the biggest James Bond film ever, but it does set a new world record.

The Guinness Book of World Records has announced that one of the scenes in the sequel to "Skyfall" includes the largest film stunt explosion of all time.

The massive explosion, which lasts more than 7.5 seconds, was filmed in Morocco. It takes place at the central part of the story in which Bond (Daniel Craig) and Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) are in the mid-

dle of a desert only to see a massive criminal facility explodes. According to Guinness' press release, the explosion spent 8,418 liters of kerosene along with 33 kilograms of powdered explosives.

"The James Bond movies are synonymous with pushing cinematic boundaries. The latest film, 'Spectre', has again captured the imagination of global cinemagoers, and this will certainly be due in part to the phenomenal stunts," said Guinness editor-in-chief

almania was so last week; now H&M has moved onto all things Christmas, with a little A-list sparkle by way of Katy Perry. The 31-yearold pop singer is the face and sound of the Swedish retailer’s festive campaign, for which she stars in a TV ad singing a specially-created song, Every Day is a Holiday. The commercial, which sees Perry cavort with life-sized gingerbread men, giant teddy bears and oversized presents won’t be unveiled until November 23, so in the meantime we have a sneak peek of Perry posing in H&M’s festive attire.

Of course, lashings of sequins and Christmas jumpers feature as part of the collection, and Perry calls the Elfie Selfie knit that she models her “favourite”.

The festive collection will be in stores from mid-November.

Perry finished her Prismatic world tour last month, which saw her perform 151 shows across five continents. She beat fellow artist Taylor Swift to take the top spot in Forbes’ highestpaid women in music for 2015, with estimated annual earnings of $135 million (£90m). But the Californian hasn’t always been blessed with such riches, and looked to the high street for bargains as a teenager. "H&M has been a part of the evolution of my personal style since I was 13, when I would start to incorporate fun, affordable H&M pieces into my vintage wardrobe.”

H&M is playing its part in supporting impoverished children in Myanmar this Christmas by donating five per cent from its specially-designed gift cards to UNICEF. Along with the H&M Conscious Foundation, the charity hopes to provide quality education for 350,000 vulnerable children in the country, where there is urgent need to improve access to basic education.

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Craig Glenday. "The scene featuring the world's largest film stunt explosion is spectacular and will live long in the memory as one of the outstanding moments in the Bond franchise."

Released on November 6, "Spectre" nabbed the second biggest Bond debut of all time, grossing $70.4 million at domestic box office. It surpassed "Quantum of Solace", which opened to $67.5 million in 2008, and came just behind "Skyfall", which launched to $88.4 million in 2012.

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Loyem Memorial Tournament

Players in action- Keshang XI and Frenzy XI. Photo by Imojen I Jamir

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TUENSANG, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): On the 21st day of the 23rd Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship, Golden Star FC defeated Morningstar 2-1 in the first match. Arong (10) of Golden Star FC struck an early goal in the 3rd minute while netting another goal in the 32nd minute. The solitary goal for Morningstar FC was contributed by

Imtisekum (9) in the 45th minute. The second match was declared a walk-over match in favour of Frontier FC as DEF, Tuensang did not show up.

The third match of the day was played between Frenzy XI and Keshang XI, where Osha (15) quickly netted a goal in the 2nd minute for the former. Just 3 minutes after the first goal, Lashung (12) booted

the first goal for Keshang XI while Somba (10) scored another goal in the 32nd minute taking the final score to 2-1 in favour of Keshang XI. The first match on November 12 will be played between Hongpong XI FC Haak and Zenith FC at noon while Blue fraternity will take on Tenyimia FC at 2:00 PM in the second match.

Russian athletics doping row could spread to other sports

MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 11 (REUTERS): The international investigation into alleged drug cheating inside Russian athletics could draw in other Russian sports since they used the same laboratory that now stands accused of covering up failed drugs tests.

In a report commissioned by the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA), investigators described a state-sponsored drugs culture in Russian athletics. "There is no reason to believe that athletics is the only sport in Russia to have been affected," it said while acknowledging its own remit was limited to athletics.

The allegations of drugtaking in athletics - and the prospect Russian athletes could be barred from the Rio Olympics next year as a consequence - is already the biggest sporting scandal to hit Russia for several decades.

But if the affair snowballs to include other sports, including some that are hugely popular, it could cut even deeper into Russian pride which in the past few years has been riding high after a run of sporting successes.

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2nd W Nokdenlemba Volleyball Trophy underway

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(LEFT) Referee Amenla, a veteran volleyball player and coach, officiating one of the matches at the 2nd W Nokdenlemba Volleyball Trophy 2015 at Multipurpose Sports Complex, Mokokchung. (RIGHT) Chief Guest, Dr Temsuwati, retd Addl Dev Commissioner (left) being felicitated by AKM president L Jemdi Longchar (right) at the inaugural programme of the 2nd W Nokdenlemba Volleyball Trophy 2015 at Multipurpose Sports Complex, Mokokchung on November 11. (Morung Photos) Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 11

Mokokchung, November 11 (MExN): The 2nd W Nokdenlemba Volleyball Trophy 2015 organized by the Ao Students’ Conference (AKM) was formally kicked off by Dr Temsuwati, retired Addl Development Commissioner at Multipurpose Sports Complex here this morning.

Altogether, twelve teams from all over Mokokchung district are participating in the trophy which is held after every three years. This year the trophy is being held on the theme, ‘One Team One Spirit’.

Speaking as the chief guest, Dr Temsuwati, encouraged the youths to identify one’s God given talent and use it for achieving one’s goal in life.

He said that the days of getting education and searching for a government or office job is over, and nowadays, it is time for seeking professions in dif-

ferent fields like in sports.

In this connection, Dr Temsuwati said that as sportsperson, one should not focus only on the district level but to aim for competing in the state, national and international levels too. But to do that, one needs to be determined and most importantly, maintain good health and a healthy lifestyle by abstaining from using harmful substances like alcohol etc.

He further encouraged the participating teams to play in the spirit of sportsmanship and urged them to let their participation bring about unity and progress in the society.

The AKM president, L Jemdi Longchar, while delivering the welcome address, said that the AKM is focusing not only on volleyball but also at other sports and activities. He also said that the AKM is prepared to give due recognition, and award cash prizes and certificates to those who bring laurels to the community in the

national and international levels. He therefore, urged the youths to excel in their respective fields and excel and bring more laurels to the society.

Meanwhile, in the first match played between Longsa Sporting Club and Longjang Compound Young Club, the Longsa Sporting Club won the match in two straight sets.

The trophy will conclude on November 13, 2015 with MLA Imkong L Imchen as the chief guest.

Perhaps, the first time in a male dominated local sporting event, a woman coach is officiating the 2nd W Nokdenlemba Volleyball Trophy 2015 along with her male counterparts. The female referee, Amenla from Merangkong village is the coach for Mokokchung district female volleyball team.

She has been playing volleyball for the past more than ten years, and is now employed in the Youth Resources & Sports department. She has also played in the state and national levels.

IOC chief expects Russian athletes to compete at Rio

MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 11 (REUTERS): Olympics chief Thomas Bach expects Russia will comply with doping regulations in time for its athletes to compete at next year's Rio Games despite calls for the country to be banned amid allegations of state-backed cheating.

An independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) recommended Russia's athletics federation be banned from the sport following allegations of widespread corruption and collusion by Russian officials, which include covering up positive drug tests. The International gations in the 323-page report centres around a laboratory in Moscow which processed blood and urine samples from Russian athletes on behalf of the athletics federation, and tested them for banned performance enhancing drugs.

The report alleged that the laboratory destroyed samples despite being told by WADA to preserve them, and that its staff took bribes from athletes or their coaches in exchange for covering up drugs tests that showed up positive.

Russian authorities said

Olympic Committee (IOC) said it wanted disciplinary procedures to be opened and warned that any competitors, coaches or officials mentioned in the WADA report who were proved to have violated doping regulations would be punished and stripped of medals.

In an interview with New Zealand television on Wednesday, IOC President Bach would not speculate on whether all Russian athletes should be banned from the 2016 Olympics.

He said it was up to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to determine if

WADA itself asked them to destroy them.

The Kremlin has dismissed the doping allegations as groundless, while sporting chiefs alleged the international furore over doping was politically motivated.

MULTIPLE SPORTS According to the Internet site of the Russian antidoping agency, Rusada, the Moscow laboratory also processed tests for at least 20 other sports besides athletics. These included such sports as ski jumping, cross-country skiing, pow-

sanctions were necessary.

"I will not speculate on this," Bach said. "Now we have this enquiry about athletics, the international federation will draw its conclusion and will take the necessary measures."

Bach added he had full confidence that new IAAF President Sebastian Coe would take action to clean up the sport and also expected Russian officials would comply with all procedures to ensure their athletes compete in Rio. "We're convinced that the president, Sebastian Coe, will do whatever is necessary," Bach said.

er-lifting, boxing, rowing, ice hockey, soccer, biathlon and bobsleigh.

Some of those sports have had experience with drug cheats. In 2013, three Russian swimmers were handed bans after they breached anti-doping regulations. Several Russian skiers have tested positive for banned substances in the last few years.

This year, Russian biathlete Alexander Loginov was banned for two years for doping offences, while two female biathletes, Irina Starykh and Ekaterina

Iourieva, were banned in 2014 for testing positive for Erythropoietin, which enhances performance by boosting oxygen levels in the blood.

The world anti-doping body has signalled in the past that it had concerns about the work the Moscow laboratory was doing testing competitors outside athletics.

In 2013, it demanded the laboratory make improvements to its procedures before the Olympic Winter Games the following year in the southern Russian city of Sochi.

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Swimming icon Phelps aiming high for Rio Olympics Barak FC, Dejavu FC storm into quarter finals

WAShINGTON, NO VEMBER 11 (IANS): American swimming legend Michael Phelps aims for more glories at next year's Rio Olympics after coming through the toughest period of his life.

Phelps, who has won 18 Olympic titles, suffered a setback in September 2014 when he was arrested for drink-driving after a night out at a local casino in Maryland -- the second time he had been found to be driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, reports Xinhua.

He pleaded guilty to drunkdriving and was given oneyear suspended sentence and 18 months' probation, but was spared jail.

The 30-year-old Phelps says after the arrest he spent four days in his Maryland home before realising he had to get his life back on track. "I was in a real dark place. Not wanting to be alive anymore," he told American magazine Sports Illustrated.

"I look back now, I lived in a bubble for a long time," he said. His coach Bob Bowman believes Phelps is healthier than ever and is on target for a further six gold medals at the 2016 Games in Rio. He has not drunk alcohol since his arrest, and has vowed not to drink until after the Rio Olympics next August.

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A match in action between Barak FC and Headwinds FC on November 11. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | November 11

Registering win in their respective prequarter finals match, Barak FC and Dejavu FC today moved to quarter finals of the ongoing 21st Classic Cup 2015 here at Khuochiezie under the aegis of Classic Club Kohima.

In the third pre-quarter finals match, Dejavu FC beat Vanguard FC 3-2 on penalty shoot-out after both teams remained goalless draw within the stipulated 60 minute play.

Barak FC drubbed Headwinds FC 4-0 in the 4th quarter finals match and con-

firmed ticket for quarter final rounds.

Barak FC opened its account through Tingyek Konyak in the 33 minute. Yami Longbah netted the 2nd goal in the 44th minute while Kezhose Mathew Khizho contributed two goals to the team in the 47th and 51 minute.

Barak FC will now face Dejavu FC in the quart finals on November 14 (2nd match).

FIXTURE FOR NOVEMBER 12

5th Pre Quarter-finals: 12:00 Noon Nagabazar YO vs Medziphema United 6th Pre Quarter-finals: 1:30 PM Chiiziema FC vs HQ IGAR (North)

Younus Khan announces ODI retirement

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ISLAMABAD, NOVEMBER 11 (REUTERS): Pakistani batting stalwart Younus Khan has announced his retirement from one-day internationals, saying Wednesday's match against England in Abu Dhabi would be his last. The 37-year-old remains a batting mainstay in test cricket but has not been in great form in one-dayers with the last of his seven centuries in the shorter form of the game coming in late 2008.

"I feel satisfied and grateful to almighty for showering numerous blessings on me," the former captain said ahead of his 265th and final limited overs international.

"It is one of His great blessings that I, by my own will, have taken this decision to retire from ODI cricket after having retired from T20 cricket already," Younus added.

The right-hander quit the 20-over format immediately

after leading Pakistan to their maiden World Twenty20 triumph in 2009.

Younus goes into his final match having scored 7,240 runs, putting him sixth on the list of Pakistan's highest ODI scorers.

He was omitted from the one-day team for a home series against Australia last year but earned selection to the World Cup squad before being dropped again after managing just 43 runs in three matches.

"During my 15-year long association with ODI cricket, I always tried my best to play positive cricket for my team both as captain and as a player. But now I feel that the time has come when I should call it a day from one-day cricket," he said.

Earlier this month, he overtook Javed Miandad to become Pakistan's most prolific test batsman, scoring 9,116 runs in 104 tests.

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