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• Nagaland seeks 300 crore lower denomination notes from RBI • It may take days for replenishment, says SBI official Morung Express News Dimapur | November 11

The demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currencies has put banking institutions and the commonman in a very sticky situation, which might turn into a full-blown crisis.

On November 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made the sudden announcement on demonetization of Rs 500 & Rs 1000 currencies in an effort to curb circulation of black money. Banking institutions remained closed the next day and resumed business from November 10.

On Friday, there was huge rush in the banks, particularly in State Bank of India branches as people in the hundreds thronged to deposit the demonetized notes and withdraw usable ones.

At SBI branches, customers were given a mixed bag of Rs 100, Rs 50 denominations along with the newly printed Rs 2000 notes. By evening, it was learnt that currencies of lower denominations had run out of stock.

Assistant General Manager of Regional Office, SBI, Thangboi Lunkim speaking to The Morung Express on Friday confirmed this.

“Whatever we had, we have already given out. The problem of availability of lower denomination notes were there from before, but it has become more prominent with the demonetization of the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currencies, Lunkim pointed out.

On Thursday alone, the bank had given out more than Rs 17 crore. On Friday, many of the public and private banking institutions were handing out only Rs 2000 notes to its customers.

According to the SBI official, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Guwahati Branch has also run out of Rs 100 currency notes and other lower denominations with demand coming in from all the seven NE states.

A meeting of banking officials along with Nagaland Chief Secretary and the Finance Department was also held in Kohima today to assess the situation. The outcome of the meeting was that an intent letter was dispatched to the RBI for 300 crore of lower denominations for the state.

Lunkim however said it may take days for the money to reach the state if the RBI gives consent to their request. Besides, the money has to be imported from RBI, Kolkata, where the currencies are print-

ed. “Transfer of funds takes time.

There are number of logistics to take care of - booking, security and other arrangements which have to be coordinated with different agencies,” Lunkim revealed.

Lunkim, who looks after the five districts namely Dimapur, Kohima, Kiphire, Peren and Phek said SBI has already received 120 crore of Rs 2000 notes for these districts. The SBI is also coordinating with NST department to dispatch currencies to the districts of Peren, Kiphire and Phek via chopper.

Only a handful of the ATMs in Dimapur were functioning on Friday but were closed after cash ran out within no time. The SBI official said 70% of the ATMs have been configured (evacuating of devalued notes and putting in new ones) and by Saturday most of them would be up and running. However, with the scarcity of Rs 100 notes, customers can expect only Rs 2000 notes to be withdrawn from the money dispensing booths.

Banking staffs working over time

Since the announcement of the demonetization, employees in the banking sector have been slogging overtime and undergoing head racking time. “We called back all the employees who took leave, and even those on sick leave,” Lunkim stated.

Since the last few days, the em-

ployees are in the office by breakfast time and leave office only at 9-10 pm. At the SBI branch Lerie Colony, Kohima, the staff were compelled to work till 1AM in the morning to reconcile payment and receipt.

People find Rs 2000 notes intimidating

Customers experienced on Friday that the newly introduced currency Rs 2000 is so “intimidating” that some people are not ready to accept it as legal tender.

At one the billing office of the Electrical department in Dimapur, a cashier refused to accept the Rs 2000 currency from one of the consumer who wanted to pay electricity bill. According to witness, the cashier looked at the Rs 2000 notes “doubtfully” and then asked the consumer if he had other currencies of the devalued kind- Rs 500 and Rs 1000 with him. Then the cashier handed over the Rs 2000 currency and accepted the demonetized currencies.

Due to acute shortage of small changes, Samuel, a graphic designer, spent the whole of Friday in the market trying to buy something with the Rs 2000, without any success.

“I went from shop to shop but they (shopkeepers) did not have enough change to give me in return of the Rs 2000,” he stated.

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KVC condemns November 10 firing

‘Peace is the need of the hour’ ‘NSCN (IM) celebrate

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): The Kohima Village Council (KVC) today condemned the November 10 firing incident where one person was shot at in Kohima Village by armed miscreants. A press note from the KVC appealed to all the different Naga Political groups to respect the call of the Naga public and “refrain from killing one’s own brothers.” There is no greater sin on earth than killing one’s own brother, it is not only a crime against humanity but is also the greatest sin before God, so we sincerely urge the political groups to stop committing this hateful crime,” it urged. “We often come across news of fratricide amongst the Naga political groups, an act apposed and condemned by all peace loving citizens of Nagaland yet the groups have again shown that they neither respect the appeals nor the sentiments of the public,” the KVC lamented. Kohima, it affirmed “is a place chosen by God to be our state capital, a place for all Naga tribes to live together in harmony and tranquility, so I strongly urge all the Naga political groups not to turn Kohima into a killing field.”

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today celebrated the 87th birth anniversary of its former Chairman, late Isak Chishi Swu at CHQ Hebron under the theme ‘Forgiveness, Love & Peace.’

A press release from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) stated that “peace is the need of the hour.”

Everyone is yearning for peace, it affirmed, yet lamenting that “somehow it is illusive because there is lack of forgiveness and love among the Naga people.”

“If only we have forgiveness in the hearts of every Naga people, peace will prevail. So, former Chairman late Isak Chishi Swu pleaded for peace and forgiveness and to pass on this message to all the Nagas,” it pointed out.

In his opening remark, Kilo Kilonser, Rh Raising stated that

87th birth anniversary of late Isak Chishi Swu

birthday celebration “is only feasting if it does not talk about a message one brings with.” “Man will live forevermore because of Christmas Day,” he quoted while stating that this is a “strong and far reaching message that touches the heart of every listener. Ino Isak Chishi Swu came with the message of freedom, forgiveness, love and peace.”

“Nagalim for Christ is not about a romantic slogan of man, it is a covenant of God with the Nagas. It is not about a dogma, but the will of the Lord in Nagalim. It is not about theocracy, but the trust of the Nagas in God, the author of history,” Raising said.

He recalled that Isak Chishi Swu “led hundreds of national workers in Alee command, walking thousands of miles on foot with heavy loads on his back with or without food for days or weeks. He was stalked and hunted everywhere by the enemies within and without, but that could not stop him from doing

his mission.”

Eustar Chishi Swu, Steering Executive member, expressed gratitude to the CNC and the NSCN for shouldering the responsibility in organizing the program. She said that “if the Nagas choose to live in our own way rather than following the path of the Lord, the Nagas will perish.”

Meanwhile, Rev Puni Mao, Member, Collective Leadership said that “forgiveness is an equipment every Naga must possess. If the Nagas practice forgiveness, we have peace, and when we have peace we have everything.”

The celebration saw special numbers, poems and distribution of Plaque of Appreciation & Memento by Eustar Chishi Swu. Several tribe hohos, civil societies, student leaders, Church leaders, well wishers, family members, NSCN members and public from neighboring villages attended the celebration, the press note informed.

‘NE is the Cancer capital of the country’ Morung Express News Kohima | November 11

The 32nd Annual Review meeting of the National Cancer Registry program is underway in Kohima.

It began on November 9 and will continue till November 12. The program which comes under the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (Indian Council of Medical Research) is being hosted by the Naga Hospital Authority Kohima. During the inaugural session, PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland and P Longon, Minister, Health & Family Welfare graced the occasion.

The Northeast region can be called the cancer capital of our country, said Dr. AC Kataki, Director, Dr. B. Barooah Cancer Institute Guwahati in his welcome address, because of the high incidence of cancer rate in the NE states. Informing that there are only 11 Cancer Registry programs in the NE, Dr Kataki urged the delegates to work together collectively to ensure that the central schemes of the Government of India are properly implemented.

“We have to ensure that whatever is provided by the GoI to the poor people released in the various state governments should be

utilized judiciously, to ensure that we can avail the benefits of health and family welfare in India. There are schemes for the treatment of poor patients instituted by the GoI called Health Minister Cancer Treatment fund. Unfortunately many of the states have failed to utilize the initiatives of the GoI. I fervently appeal to all of you to judiciously utilize the fund released so that it can benefit public,” stated Dr. Kataki.

Two areas that need emphasis in the prevention of early detection of cancer are awareness on cancer and the provision of resources and infrastructures in the NE region.

Asserting that it is the duty of the Cancer Registry program to take up research and find out the cause of cancer in the NE, Dr. Kataki outlined the need for a holistic approach to treating cancer as well as preventing it. These measures include ensuring pediatric care, support to cancer patients, psychological support etc.

Dr. Prashant Mathur, Director, National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research, ICMR Bangalore informed that since 1981, the ICMR has been running the National Cancer Registry Project to establish cancer registration in the

country. “What started as a small effort with few centers has now blossomed into 29 population based cancer registries and 29 hospital based cancer registries,” said Dr. Mathur. He added that ICMR is able to initiate policy dialogues with program and policy makers both at the central level as well as in the states.

“It is not just about data and statistics. To act we need data, to showcase problems,” said Dr. Mathur. The NCRP also pays special emphasis to the NE, where it invests not only in building capacity in the region but provides funding for critical projects.

Pointing out that the cancer registry in the NE is collecting good data of high quality, Dr Mathur pointed out that this reflects the need to utilize this data for action towards setting up treatment facilities.

He further pointed to rapid modernization and urbanization leading to contamination, pollution, change in dietary habits, exposures to tobacco and other addictions, which leads to lifestyle diseases like blood pressure, diabetes and cancer.

“Many of the cancers are very aggressive and curtail life in short

time but they leave an indelible mark not only on the family but in society as whole. One cancer patient in a family deprives an entire family for generation,” said Dr. Mathur. Dr. Mathur also assured of providing Nagaland the best technical assistance.

Cancer incidence in Nagaland

In Nagaland, the leading types of cancer (2012-2014) in males were Nasopharynx (15.3%), stomach cancer (12.3%), and Oesophagus cancer (10.4%). The leading types of cancer in females were cervix cancer (16.7%) followed by breast cancer (12.6%), stomach cancer (11%) and Nasopharynx cancer (10.8 %.)

Nagaland has the country’s highest incidence of Nasopharynx cancer (AAR) in both the male and female population. Internationally, Nagaland is placed 3rd in male prevalence and 2nd in female prevalence of this type of cancer.

Meanwhile, approximately 300 cancer patients are referred outside the state for treatment annually. The state government also does not have facilities for radiotherapy treatment, despite the data showing that more than 600 new cases of cancer are detected every year.

mineral resources: Petroleum Ministry

Union Petroleum Ministry says Article 371 (A) is not a source of Legislative Power of the State Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 11

The ongoing case regarding the PIL filed against the Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas (NP&NG) Rules and Regulation witnessed a new development as the Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India filed a counter affidavit as one of the respondents in the case.

It may be noted that the PIL was filed by the Lotha Hoho and 2 others against the State of Nagaland and 7 others.

As respondent number 8, the Government of India filed a counter affidavit at the Kohima Bench of the Guwahati High Court. The affidavit provided the centre’s interpretation of Article 371 (A) and said that the Nagaland Legislative assembly has no jurisdiction to make laws over oil fields in the state.

The Ministry, in its affidavit disagreed that the State of Nagaland has any power to make law for development of oil fields and mineral resources. It further submitted that the Parliament has “exclusive power” to make laws on the said subject.

It claimed that Article 371(A) “does not even restrict the Parliament to apply any of its laws on oil fields and mineral resources in the State of Nagaland and no resolution from the State of Nagaland is required to apply the Parliament’s law on oil fields and mineral resources in the state.”

The Ministry hence stated that any existing law made by the State of Nagaland on oil fields and mineral oil resources is “liable to be struck down, the same being without jurisdiction and ultra vires to the Constitution of India.”

It stated that “the exploration of oil and natural gas is a subject covered by entry 53 (regulation and development of oil and mineral oil resources; petroleum and petroleum products; other liquids and substances declared by Parliament by law to be dangerously inflammable) List 1 of the Union List and therefore, the Parliament alone has the powers to legislate laws on this subject.”

The Ministry also questioned whether the subjects mentioned under Article 371 (A) as “existing customary and religious laws of Nagaland” and subject for which the state is empowered to make law under state or concurrent list includes development of oil fields and mineral resources, “considering the fact that the said subject does not fall under state or concurrent list.”

It further stated that the “plain words of Article 371 (A) and the constitutional history of amendments would show that 371 (a) was meant to be a restriction of application of Laws of Parliament and not a source of Legislative Power of the State.”

Time to be united: Dr Imtiwapang Meanwhile, reacting to the counter affidavit filed by the Union Ministry, Nagaland Parliamentary Secretary for Geology & Mining, Dr Imtiwapang cautioned that the privileges provided under Article 371 (A) would be stripped away by the Central Government if the Naga people are not careful.

Interacting with media persons at his private residence here at Sungratsu village today, the Parliamentary Secretary lamented that over the years, the central government unilaterally shifted Nagaland State from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Ministry of Home Affairs, and also stopped funding to the state from the Consolidated Fund of India.

The latest move of the Government of India to question the validity of the NP&NG Rules and Regulations, he stated is a sad reminder that the clauses in the 16 Point Agreement and provisions in Article 371 (A) are being systematically diluted.

He urged all stakeholders to be united and show solidarity with the state government so that this issue can be solved with the Government of India politically and not through the court of law.

“This calls for an out of court solution,” said Dr Imtiwapang, urging that the PIL be withdrawn. “If the central government through their interpretation of the laws takes away our petroleum, oil and coal; then the Nagas would be left with nothing,” he said.

Meanwhile, it has been learnt that the Nagaland State Government is also preparing a counter affidavit of its own.

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The cash madness continues Morung Express News Dimapur | November 11

The phrase ‘Aya!’ has been a on every lip since the November 8 announcement of demonetisation of Rs 500 and 1000 notes by Prime Minister Narendar Modi, to wipe out black money and corruption in the country.

From salaried workers to daily wage earners, from neighbourhood panwallas to swanky eateries, the recent demonetisation move has had an effect.

Two days since the announcement, things have not changed, as people struggle to come to terms with a new financial reality.

When the banks opened on Thursday, people swamped to banks across the country to either deposit or exchange their notes. Nagaland was no different, with many people here preferring to keep currency in hand.

Those residing in rural areas or travelling during the intervening period were hit the most.

Travellers passing through Assam have harried tales about their journey.

Most people had to forego their meal, as they were not carrying enough change. Some travellers alleged said that certain hotels are taking Rs 1000 or Rs 500 notes but demand Rs 100 as “commission” for exchanging the money.

A resident of Mokokchung Town said most hotels serving travellers and inhabitants were closed for the day due to the current situation. Unconfirmed reports further stated that even the public buses were not issuing tickets were notes of high de-

LFA Executive Committee meeting on November 15

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): An executive meeting of the Legislators Forum on AIDS (LFA) has been convened in the Residential Office of the Chief Minister on November 15, 10:00 am. According to a press release from the State Consultant LFA Nagaland, Dr. Vinoto L. Chishi, the meeting will discuss important matters relating to HIV/AIDS in the state.

The following are the Board Members: Chief Minister TR Zeliang (Chief Patron), NLA Speaker Chotisuh Sazo (Patron & Convenor), Tokheho (Co-convenor, P. Longon, Kiyanilie Peseyie, CL John, C Kipili Sangtam, Neikiesalie Kire, N Jacob Zhimomi, Khekaho Assumi, Kuzholuzo Nienu, CM Chang, S. Pangyu Ph o m, M m h o n l u m o Kikon, Namri Nchang, Merentoshi R. Jamir, co-opted members Commissioner & Secretary NLA, Commissioner & Secretary Health and Family Welfare, Deputy Speaker (Treasurer LFA) and State Consultant LFA. All members are requested to attend positively.

nomination.

Reports said that many in rural area are hit the most since people here do not have a bank account or vehicles to travel to the nearest banks.

Meanwhile, despite the banks opening, only Rs 2000 notes were made available adding to the woes. A Dimapur resident stated that he could not buy household goods as shopkeepers could not provide change for the Rs 2000 notes.

This could be seen in many shops here, with most customers being turned away for the lack of change.

One resident stated: “Today, I covered the whole new market and couldn’t buy a kilo of tomato as none of the vendors were accepting 500 notes.”

In some neighbourhoods, many residents have started taking the neighbourhood Kirana due to shortages of change.

Even though petrol pumps and hospital were asked to accept the old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes till November 11, things did not function smoothly in these places as well.

By Wednesday evening, most of the fuel outlets were not giving change, or asking customers to fill up either Rs 500 or Rs 1000 worth of fuel.

In one petrol pump, an auto driver was asked to fill up for 500 rupees. When the auto’s tank was filled to the brim at Rs 450, the attendants refused to pay back the remaining 50.

A leading hospital in Dimapur also put up a notice outside stating that Rs 500 and Rs 1000 are not accepted.

Mokokchung is the beacon for Nagaland Mkg Business Meet 2016 held Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 11

(left) Neichute Doulo, CEO Entrepreneurs Associates Nagaland and (right) Assistant General Manager of NEDFi Head Office, Guwahati speaking at the Mokokchung Business Meet. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 11

India’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Neichute Doulo today remarked that it will take time for the state government to understand the importance of investment in entrepreneurial development and that there was very little that can be done to change the attitude of the banks. “Therefore, we have to change ourselves,” he said. He regretted that there was no conducive “ecosystem” for entrepreneurship in Nagaland today but expressed hope that it would improve in the future. He encouraged Naga entrepreneurs to manage their books of accounts well, to work hard, be patient, invest and create jobs. He said Nagaland’s economy was dependent on government spending but was optimistic that the state’s eco-

nomic situation would improve and added that he “look forward to the day when commercial banks will come knocking your doors,” expressing dismay at the half-hearted role played by commercial banks in the current scenario. Neichute also claimed that there were at least 28 commercial banks in Nagaland today and that these banks, excluding the SBI, has a Credit Deposit Ratio of a paltry 12% as against the all India CD Ration of 76%. . He observed that the problem with entrepreneurship in Nagaland was that the entrepreneurs have no access to capital.

The renowned Naga entrepreneur recognized Mokokchung as the “beacon for Nagaland” in terms of entrepreneurship development and assured that the Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) Nagaland would strive to rope in more invest-

ment to Mokokchung. Since 2003, EA has promoted more than 300 Naga entrepreneurs in Mokokchung. He compared entrepreneurs without finance to musicians without musical instruments.

It was highlighted that during 2003, Naga entrepreneurs comprised of 5% in Dimapur which improved to 20% in 2014.

During the same period, Naga entrepreneurs comprised of 33% in Kohima which improved to 40% in 2014. In Mokokchung, Naga entrepreneurs improved from 25% in 2003 to 70% in 2014.

In this regard, he considered Mokokchung was fortunate to have NEDFi coming to the state’s third major urban centre. Neichute said this while speaking at the Mokokchung Business Meet 2016 jointly organized by NEDFi and EA Nagaland here today at Longkumer Kilem.

In a first of its kind in Mokokchung, the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (NEDFi) and Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) Nagaland co-organized a Business Meet in Mokokchung today at Longkumer Kilem.

A total of 14 local entrepreneurs were awarded financial assistance in the form of term loan by NEDFi as part of the business meet.

Vimeyiel Richa, NEDFi Dimapur Branch Manager, while delivering the keynote address said that NEDFi does not only finance entrepreneurs but also guide and mould them. He, however, cautioned the entrepreneurs that loans should be judiciously invested to leverage their businesses or it would become liabilities in which case the entrepreneurs would be like working for the financers with nothing left for themselves. Saying that this was the first patch of NEDFi beneficiaries in Mokokchung, Richa asked them to ensure timely recovery of the loans so that NEDFi can escalate their investment in Mokokchung in the future with confidence.

Neichute Doulo, CEO Entrepreneurs Associates Nagaland and Tsukti Longkumer, President MCCI also delivered short speeches while O.S.Meetei, AGM, NEDFi Head Office, Guwahati presented a Powerpoint presentation on the various schemes and programs of NEDFi which was followed by a discussion hour.

Tsukti Longkumer appreciated NEDFi for coming to Mokokchung and assured that the later won’t be disappointed while also cautioning the beneficiary entrepreneurs that “loan is not a grant-in-aid” and to prudently and judiciously invest the loan, saying that Mokokchung cannot afford to lose NEDFi’s trust. He also congratulated Neichute Doulo on being awarded India’s Social Entrepreneur of the year 2016.

Meetei meanwhile said that banking system has now become an “integral part of our lives” and urged the local entrepreneurs to become adept in banking sector. Saying that NEDFi being a developmental bank, Meetei said the entrepreneurs and the bank ought to “grow together” and that it was time for togetherness. “You have ideas, we have capital,” he added, implying NEDFi was ready to invest in genuine entrepreneurs.

Tia Longchar, Board Chairman EATACOL pronounced the vote of thanks.

‘Myanmar Government committed to Dimapur gets first Child-Friendly Police Station bring development to Naga areas’

Myanmar Vice President – 1, U Myint Swe (seated center) with others during the visit to Khamti, Head Quarter of Naga Region in Myanmar held on November 7.

Dimapur, November 11 (mexN): Myanmar Vice President – 1, U Myint Swe visited Khamti, Head Quarter of Naga Region in Myanmar on November 7. A press release received here stated that the Vice President was accompanied by Union Health Minister, Union Education Minister, Sagaing Region Chief Minister, North-Western Arm Commander and Ke Seng, Chair of Naga Self-Administrative Zone government.

The Vice President and his team called on Naga Yoya/Naga Cultural and Literal Committee (Central) in Khamti. The meeting was attended by the

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Naga Yoya Chairman Aung Htut, Patron Par Soe Gyi and Patron Naung Khum and other CEC. The condition of health and education sectors in Naga areas was mainly discussed during the meeting. The Vice President said, “The Government of Myanmar is committed to bring development to the Naga areas especially in health and education sectors.”

Sagaing Region, Chief Minister, U Min Naing also said in the meeting that developing road connectivity in Naga area is one the main programs for Sagaing Region Government.

Naga Yoya, Chairman, Aung Htut said that the

meeting with Vice President was positive and hopeful that government will take seriousness to upgrade road connectivity and other fundamental sectors such as health and education sectors.

The Vice President trip to Nanyun, Layshi and Lahe townships was called off as finding difficulty land the chopper due to weather condition. It is likely that the Vice President will pay a visit during Naga New Year Festival in Lahe in January.

The Nagas in Myanmar are living in Naga Self-Administrative Zone, Sagaing Region and Kachin State with approximate population of five hundred thousand.

Dimapur, November 11 (mexN): CHILDLINE Dimapur as part of its CHILDLINE SE DOSTI campaign inaugurated the first ‘Child-Friendly Corner’ at Women Police Station Dimapur under the concept of Child-Friendly Police Station under Juvenile Justice Act and contributed First aid kit, books, play materials and decorated the Child Friendly Corner with paintings, posters and stickers.

Lozua Kape, Center Coordinator in a press release informed that Child Friendly Corner is a physical place within the space of the respective police station designed and decorated in a child friendly manner, where the child would feel safe and comfortable in a child friendly environment while interacting with the police.

Subonenba Longkumer, Nodal Director CHILDLINE sensitized the Women Police personnel on the concept of Child friendly Police Station and urged to continue their positive support towards CHILDLINE in its future endeavors.

He further shared on the concept that Child Friend-

(3rd from left) Subonenba Longkumer, Nodal Director CHILDLINE with police personnel and others during the inauguration of the first ‘Child-Friendly Corner’ at Women Police Station Dimapur.

ly-Police should not be in uniform while dealing with child, speak in polite and soft manner-not use harsh or forceful language and shall maintain dignity and self-esteem of the child, where questions that may lead to discomfort of the child are to be asked, such questions shall be asked in tactful manner. Dolls and/ or drawings can be used to communicate with the child to bring out and identify element of abuse.

He added that no accused/suspected accused shall be brought in contact with the child and a board detailing offences against

children and rights of the child, displayed at a prominent place in the police station. The interaction with the child shall take place in the presence of the child’s parents or a trusted adult or para legal volunteer or representative of identified voluntary organization.

The concept also adds that an immediate need assessment of the child will be conducted in terms of the need for food, clothing, emergency medical care, counseling, psychological support and the same shall be immediately extended to the child at the police station.

Resources in the ChildFriendly Corner includes availability of drinking water; availability of first-aid kit; availability of toys or play materials; list of Child Welfare Committee; list of Child care Institutes; list of District child protection officer.

CHILDLINE Dimapur extended its gratitude to the Commissioner of Police Dimapur, DCP Zone II and Officer-in- charge Women Police Station Dimapur for their positive cooperation and support towards the implementation of the Child Friendly Corner/Child Friendly Police Station.

‘Many clerical, other allied appointments due to pol pressure’ PAPO general session held Livingstone Foundation Hr Sec School annual exhibition 2016 held

LATE VILAZONUO FLORETTE 14.05.1962 - 02.11.2016 Words are inadequate to express our gratefulness for all the heart-warming kindness and support extended to us during the demise of our most beloved one.

Thank you for sharing our grief during this most difficult time.

And to those who knew her or were her friends, Thank you for making her life truly blessed and beautiful.

We are deeply touched by your affection and respect for her.

We regret that we are unable to thank each one of you personally.

But it is our prayer that the Almighty, in all His goodness, will bless you all abundantly.

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Dimapur, November 11 (mexN): Speaking at the Livingstone Foundation Hr Sec School (LFHSS) Dimapur annual exhibition, Parliamentary Secretary, Irrigation & Flood Control Jacob Zhimomi was critical of the fact that the educated unemployed section of Nagaland always runs after government jobs and do not venture in to other lucrative career sectors with immense opportunities.

This, according to him, has resulted in the present condition of the State Government where due to “political pressure, there are many clerical and other allied appointments which are unwarranted and irresponsible resulting in huge expenditure on the part of the State Government on salaries alone,” stated a press release issued by the Information Desk, LFHSS, Dimapur.

Jacob Zhimomi, who was the chief guest of the event held on November 11 under the theme ‘Ability is nothing without opportunity’, was of the view that skilled labour is an impor-

Parliamentary Secretary Jacob Zhimomi visits the exhibition stalls put up by the students along with their mentors during the annual exhibition 2016 of Livingstone Foundation Hr Sec School on November 11.

tant entity for the development of any sector. But unfortunately, especially the modern generation of Nagas has total disregard for work culture or Dignity of Labour thus leading to employment in the more lucrative private sectors like constructions and other projects being taken away by non-Nagas who, according to him were well equipped in terms of skills and also since they have dignity of labour. Thus, uneducated but skilled workers working in Nagaland from outside the state are earning in terms of Lakhs of Rupees as compared

to educated Naga youths who earn only 5 to 10 thousand Rupees in a month.

Some of the highlights of the inaugural programme were invocation prayer by Ani Yepthomi, Director of LFHSS Junior High Section, welcome address and felicitation of chief guest by Andrew Ahoto, Chairman cum Principal of LFHSS, and declaration of annual exhibition 2016 open by the chief guest and special number by LFHSS Band. The compere for the opening programme was Vernon Fernandez, Asst Teacher. Khekaho Assumi,

Parliamentary Secretary for Information & Public Relations was a special guest.

Earlier, welcoming the gathering of dignitaries, parents and well-wishers along with the students, the Chairman of LFHSS, Andrew Ahoto spoke on the lines of the theme.

The annual exhibition 2016 was an extravagant affair with as many as 42 different exhibition stalls put up by the students along with their mentors, which included exhibits from chemistry, physics and biology from science, bamboo craft, art & painting, literature on burning topics like global warming and germs and infection, ill-effects of smoking, etc.

Some of the exceptional models on display during the exhibition included electricity generation through speed breakers, storage of current through bicycle, rain water harvesting, magic fan, homemade projector, fire alarm and emergency mobile charger.

Separate stalls were put up for display and sale of art & painting works as well as bamboo crafts.

Azo and others during the release of PAPO constitution in Phek on November 11. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent and one of the strongest backPhek | November 11

Former minister and MLA Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu today said that the aim of any argument, discussion or difference should not be aimed at victory alone but should be aimed at progress, improvement and amicable solution.

Addressing the 7th general session of Phek Area Public Organization (PAPO) at SIRD Training Extension Hall, Azo said the people of Phek area should whole heartedly stand united in all fronts and not politics alone. “We need to come together not only in politics but also in economic and social life,” he said and also urged upon the people of the area to learn to appreciate each other and stop criticizing.

He regretted that there is no space for encouragement in Naga society today. Stating that PAPO being one of the oldest and biggest areas existing

bone of Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO), the former minister also lauded the efforts of the office bearers and pioneers of PAPO and urged upon them to continue to work in the interest of the area and not forgetting the general interest of the Chakhesang and Nagas as a whole. Adoption of PAPO constitution was led by Nesucho Keyho, member constitution drafting committee, which was later released by Azo. Ex-MLA Chekhutso Rhakho, CPO ex-vice president K. Shevotso Rhakho and Zhopra Vero, Kedalo NNC/FGN also addressed the session. Earlier, PAPO president Vezhehu Vero delivered presidential address while the function was chaired by PAPO vice president Niekhusa Venuh. Welcome address was delivered by PAPO vice president Nekhuzo Khamo.

Brief report of PAPO was given by PAPO general secretary Zechete Mekrisuh.

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Demonetisation: Situation in NE cities better than in rural areas

AgArtAlA/guwAhAti/AizAwl, November 11 (iANS): The unprecedented cash crisis which hit the people due to demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination currency notes is gradually easing in urban areas but persisted in the rural and remote areas of northeast India on Friday.

Senior bank officials claimed on Friday that the currency notes problem is almost over in the cities and urban areas and the situation would become completely normal by Saturday-Sunday, when the banks will remain open to further ease the situation.

As tribals in northeast India are exempted from income tax, the situation in the tribal-dominated states of Mizoram, Meghalaya,

Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh is different.

Tribal people constitute 28 per cent of northeast India's 45.58 million population.

"The situation is almost normal in the cities, urban and semi-urban areas and it would get normalised in the rural areas too by tomorrow (Saturday)," United Bank of India's (UBI) Chief Regional Manager and Deputy General Manager Mahendra Dohare told IANS in Agartala.

He said: "In many places of northeast region, the new Rs 2,000 denomination currency notes are now available. We are yet to get the new Rs 500 notes. I do not know when they will reach us."

"Also, many ATMs are now functional in cities and

Two Bangladeshis held at Agartala airport AgArtAlA, November 11 (pti): Two Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from Agartala airport for travelling without valid documents, police said today.

Officer-in-charge of airport police station, Rana Chaterjee said Abdul Momin Sheikh (24) and Sajid Alam were nabbed by CISF officials last evening.

They were scheduled to go to Mumbai via Kolkata on a SpiceJet flight.

On suspicion, the CISF officials asked them to show their identity cards and they showed Indian Pan Cards and Aadhar cards, but the addresses in their cards were not the same, Chaterjee said.

During preliminary interrogation they admitted that they hailed from Noakhali district of Bangladesh.

The CISF then handed them over to the Agartala airport police station.

Abdul Momin Sheikh works in a Mumbai Mosque as an Imam and Sajid Alam is his younger brother and both of them had obtained forged Pan Cards and Aadhar Cards from Mumbai, he said.

They had gone to their ancestral home in Noakhali and were returning to Mumbai yesterday.

Chaterjee said both of them were being interrogated by the state police and Central intelligence officials.

Aizawl | November 11

New Land Use Policy (N LUP ) Impl ementing Board Chairman and Champhai ‘S’ assembly constituency MLA JH Rothuama today commissioned the Kelkang water supply scheme which is said to be the biggest solar pumping project in India.

The launching programme which was held at Kelkang village community hall was witnessed by PHE Minister Zodintluanga.

Speaking at the inaugural function, JH Rothuama expressed gratitude to the people of Kelkang village for their hospitality in serving outsiders at the time of gospel revival at the village.

He said that Kelkang village received the blessing of God due to their hospitality at the time of spiritual revival.

He said that the state government has assisted the village through its flagship programme NLUP by constructing water tanks, toilet and distributing dustbins and measure is also being taken to provide the village better water supply for especially hosting large number of guest.

He said that the companies engaged in Kelkang water supply scheme believe that this project is the biggest solar pumping project in India and even in the whole of Asia.

He asked the locals of

sion. The decision might create some problems for the people temporarily, but in the long run it would be good for all Indians."

In Silchar (Southern Assam's main commercial city), the situation is similar to Tripura.

Assistant General Manager of State Bank of India (SBI) Himanka Bihari Roy and UBI's Chief Regional Manager Hirendra Narayan Ghosal urged the people not to panic as the situation would become normal soon.

The banks in southern Assam, comprising five districts, are somehow dealing with the situation with the old stock of smaller denomination currencies.

"We are yet to get the new Rs 500 notes. We expect that the RBI in Gu-

wahati and Kolkata would supply the new currency notes and smaller denomination notes soon," Roy told reporters.

Top Tripura government officials held a series of meetings with officials of RBI and nationalised banks on Thursday and Friday to review the situation.

"The banks and RBI officials have assured the Tripura government that the situation would normalise within the next three-four days. The RBI regional office in Guwahati has despatched truckloads of smaller denomination currency notes by road to various northeastern states to deal with the currency crisis," a top official of the Tripura Finance Department quoting RBI officials told IANS.

KohimA, November 11 (mexN): An Integrated Cold Chain Project (ICCP), a cold storage with a capacity of 3000 metric tons with the state of the art facility, the first of its kind in Manipur, located at Mao Gate, Senapati district, will be formally inaugurated on November 12. O. Nabakishore Singh, Chief Secretary, Manipur will be the chief guest.

Angry Manipuri villagers burn down bridge after girl reported missing

imphAl, November 11 (iANS): Angry villagers in Manipur's Arong village on Friday burned down a wooden suspension bridge after a 12-year-old girl was reported missing earlier in the day while saving a drowning child and mother.

The incident occurred at the Mayang Imphal and Hiyanglam constituencies border, after a three-year-old girl slipped through a gap in the bridge which had some missing planks, following which her mother also jumped into the river to save the child.

Both of them were about to drown when the girl, identified as Memton, 12, jumped in the swift flowing river and managed to push them to the bank -- but she herself was swept away by the strong current.

Minister K. Ratankumar, representing

Foundation stone for Sairang railway station laid Newmai News Network Aizawl | November 11

In a historic event, Union Minister for Railways, Suresh Prabhaker Prabhu who arrived in Aizawl this morning on a special flight from Guwahati, laid the Foundation Stone of Sairang Railway Station at a function organised in the vicinity of the proposed station area in the presence of Governor of Mizoram, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma and Chief Minister of Mizoram Shri Lal Thanhawla.

Sairang station is about 20 km from Aizawl and about 12 km from the lone Lengpui Airport.

Speaking at the function, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhaker Prabhu said, “It is our commitment now to make sure that infrastructure development happen in Mizoram along with other 7 states of North East India.”

He pointed out the strategic location and importance of Mizoram and said improving connectivity to Mizoram is critical. “Mizoram will continue to strive and will be in the top in capital income,” he said.

Expressing his admiration for the hard working and happy nature of the people of Mizoram, he said Mizoram is the state of not only hard working people, but also the most peaceful state in the country. He said these things along with human capital are recipes for development

Biggest solar pump project commissioned in Mizoram Newmai News Network

urban areas and those in the rural and remote areas would be functional by tomorrow (Saturday) and the day after (Sunday). Banking and RBI (Reserve Bank of India) officials and employees are working extra time to help the customers to cope with the situation," Dohare added.

In Mizoram too, normalcy is gradually returning, with a section of traders now accepting the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination currency notes, though some are still refusing those.

Zoramdinthanga, Chairman of a local urban body, told reporters in Aizawl: "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden announcement of scrapping of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes was a very wise deci-

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Kelkang to treat the project as their treasure and maintained it properly as it will be the source of their socio-economic development.

PHE minister Zodintluanga who present on the occasion also congratulated the people of Kelkang village for receiving such blessing from God and expressed happiness for the fact that PHE department has been utilized by God for a channel of blessing for the people.

He said that the project could be materialized due to the initiatives taken

by NLUP Implementing Board and PHE department and the assistance received from NABARD. Constructed with Rs 631 lakh funded by NABARD, Kelkang Water Supply Scheme was started in December 2015 and the project has been completed in seven months against the targeted 18 months.

The water supply scheme will harness solar power to pump water from Bangla stream where a dam with a capacity to store 20,000 litres of water has been constructed.

From the dam, water would be pumped to main reservoir at Kelkang built at 520 metres high. The pump is powered by 204 solar plates. It is designed to supply water to 2000 people. It is expected to pump 82,000 litres of water per day throughout the year.

Will direct railway officials to design railway stations in the region keeping in mind the local ethos of the place so that it reflects the iconic heritage: Railway Minister

and the only thing needed is infrastructure.

Talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s concern for North Eastern states, the Union Minister said the Prime Minister has vision for development of North Eastern states.

He said that the central government gave top priority to development and enhancement of infrastructure in all North Eastern states and all the North Eastern capitals will be interconnected with the help of railway.

“NE states will be taken care of more than rest of the country,” he added.

Prabhu who came to Mizoram for the first time after taking charge as union minister for railway said the North East region has been neglected for so long in term of development and this region surely deserve development. “We must invest more of our time, energy and resources to make the region develop and make the Prime Minister’s vision realized in this region,” he said.

Citing that the central govern-

ment will try to make NE as an ideal model part of the country, Prabhu said the region should be looked for not only transit route but also a destination.

He said that he would direct railway officials to design railway stations in the region, in future keeping in mind the local ethos of the place so that it reflects the iconic heritage and the ecology of the area. He added that the local people must benefit from infrastructure development.

Touching on the abundant bamboo resources of the state he stressed on the need to create value addition on bamboo and asked the railway officials to explore the possibility of using more bamboo products, which he said would create more demand for bamboo products and in the process the Indian Railways would not only be an engine for growth but for also a catalyst for social transformation and economic empowerment.

Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain who accompanied the union minister also spoke on

the central government’s commitment in connecting all capital cities of North Eastern states by 2020 and expressed satisfaction on the progress of work on the railway project in Mizoram despite the difficult terrain and the prolonged monsoon.

Also speaking at the function, Mizoram governor Nirbhay Sharma emphasised on the need to open up Mizoram in all directions using all means of connectivity and applauded the ongoing railway project of national importance connecting Mizoram to the rest of the country. He further said that Sairang would be the logistical node of Mizoram and requested the Railways Minister to provide special dispensations to the surrounding areas such as a hospital and a central school.

Calling the laying of the foundation stone for Sairang Railway Station as a proud and momentous occasion for the people of Mizoram, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said this project would remove Mizoram’s isolation, open up better integration of the state with the rest of the country and would provide a boost to the economy of the state.

Sairang Railway station building is planned as a modern iconic building depicting peace and progress. It will be a terminal station with all facilities including three passenger platform, foot over bridge, food plaza and other passenger amenities.

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Whereas you are intentionally evading Service of summons it is hereby notified that if you shall not defend the case on the 28th day of November 2016 the day fixed for final disposal, it will be heard and determined Ex- Parte.

Given under my hand and sealed of the court, this 23rd day of October 2016.

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Mayang Imphal, and E. Dwijamani of Hiyanglam declined to make any comment on the action of the villagers.

"Minister Ratankumar had promised to get the bridge repaired but never kept his word," said Ibemhal, a village woman.

A political activist, who is planning to contest the assembly elections, said: "Before the 2014 by-elections in Hiyanglam, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh assured us that the bridge would be repaired.

"But he forgot soon after the elections."

In view of the tension among the villagers, no fire tender or police came to the spot when the bridge was burned down.

There is no alternative bridge for the villagers of Arong. The villagers said that so far three persons have died there. Besides, numerous two-wheelers had fallen into the river due to the wide gaps in the bridge.

Dearth of doctors at Assam Medical College Dhruva Saikia

Guwahati | November 11

Assam Medical College (AMC), formerly Barry White Medical School in Dibrugarh, Assam, completed 70 years on November 3 this year. The tertiary hospital for upper Assam and neighbouring states was upgraded to a Medical College in 1947 though its history dates back to the nineteenth century.

One of the oldest Medical Colleges in Asia, AMC allegedly still suffers from inadequate staff and facilities even after seven decades of glorious existence. Assam in the last few years has added a few more medical colleges, yet 69 posts of doctors, 17 posts of nurses and 63 grave IV posts are lying vacant in this premier medical college and hospital.

In reply to an RTI petition filed by senior journalist Sarat Chandra Neog, it came to light that in the vital department of medicine 2 post of professors and in the department of radio dialysis 1 post of professor are lying vacant for the last 12 years.

Similarly 6 more equivalent posts have not been fulfilled in other departments, affecting medical care of patients as well as academic activities of the medical college. It is also learnt that this college is

running without personnel in 14 such posts which are essential according norms set by Medical Council of India. Total number of vacant grade IV posts is 63.

In November last year 107 nurses were appointed after requisite recruitment tests, but they have not drawn salaries for the entire year. Assam Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma assured to solve the problem within 10 days when he visited AMC on August 15 last, but nothing has happened even after expiry of 100 days.

It can be seen that the wards in AMC are in dilapidated conditions and people purchase medicines and other materials on their own. The hospital suffered negligence during the last Health Minister Nazrul Islam’s tenure but things have not changed even after change of guards in Dispur.

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Pathfinders is organizing a seminar titled “Awareness on National Food Security Act”, to bridge the gap between the different entities as a facilitator. The main purpose behind this seminar is that every stakeholder can come and talk on this issue, to come to a conclusion and give suggestions to improve the distribution system. This Seminar also aims to promote sustainable policies for our society and create awareness on National Food Security Act related problems, motivate commitment at the highest level for their solution, and thus promote better management.

We cordially invite all the representatives of the following; DIMAPUR 20. CHAKROMA PUBLIC ORGANISATION 1. DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND CIVIL 21. CHAKROMA STUDENT UNION SUPPLIES (GOVERNMENT OF 22. YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF NAGALAND NAGALAND) DIMAPUR AND KOHIMA DISTRICT KOHIMA 2. GB UNION DIMAPUR 1. ALL KOHIMA MUNICIPAL WARD UNION 3. NAGALAND GB FEDERATION 2. KOHIMA VILLAGE YOUTH 4. NTC (NAGALAND TRIBE COUNCIL) ORGANISATION 5. DUCCF (DIMAPUR URBAN COUNCIL 3. KOHIMA DISTRICT GB UNION CHAIRMEN FEDERATION) 4. ALL KOHIMA MUNICIPAL WARD 6. DNSU (DIMAPUR NAGA STUDENT PANCHAYAT UNION (PRESIDENT) UNION) 5. ANGAMI PUBLIC ORGANISATION 7. DNSU (DIPHUPAR NAGA STUDENT 6. RENGMA HOHO UNION) 7. RENGMA WOMEN ASSOCIATION 8. NAGA WOMEN HOHO 8. RENGMA VILLAGE COUNCIL 9. NAGA COUNCIL DIMAPUR CHAIRMAN FORUM 10. DIMAPUR DISTRICT CITIZEN FORUM 9. FAIR PRICE SHOP UNION (KOHIMA) 11. CONSUMER RIGHTS FORUM 10. KOHIMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & 12. ACAUT (AGAINST CORRUPTION AND INDUSTRIES UNABATED TAXATION) 11. NAGA STUDENT FEDERATION 13. SN (SURVIVAL NAGALAND) 12. KOHIMA VDB UNION 14. CTYO (CHUMUKEDIMA TOWN YOUTH 13. ANGAMI GB UNION ORGANISATION) 14. TSEMINYU & CHUNLIKHA VDB 15. DDCF (DIMAPUR DISTRICT CITIZEN ASSOCIATION FORUM) 15. KDLSA (KOHIMA DISTRICT LEGAL 16. DALT (DIMAPUR AO LANUR SERVICE AUTHORITY) TELONGJEM) 16. ANGAMI YOUTH ORGANISATION 17. CAVCA ( CHUMUKEDIMA AREA 17. ANGAMI STUDENT UNION VILLAGE COUNCIL ASSOCIATION) 18. KOHIMA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL 18. ENSUD (EASTERN NAGA STUDENT 19. MEDIA- NAGALAND POST, NAGALAND UNION DIMAPUR) PAGE, MORUNG EXPRESS, EASTERN 19. DDLSA (DIMAPUR DISTRICT LEGAL MIRROR, /APN/GLOBAL CHAPTER, SERVICE AUTHORITY) CITY CABLE Note:• To confirm your participation kindly contact Pathfinders Dimapur, Nagaland on 13th and 14th of November 2016 from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

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‘Production & processing of Aloevera for value addition’ training held

Manesh Jat, Managing director, MAet, Jaipur, rajasthan demonstrates the preparation of Aloevera soap to the participants.

Dimapur, November 11 (mexN): Two-day farmers training on ‘production & processing of Aloevera for value addition’ was organized by Central Institute of Horticulture, DAC & FW, Ministry of Agriculture, GOI, Medziphema in collaboration with Akivi Multipurpose Co-op.

Society Ltd. at Chekiye Village, 3rd Mile, Dimapur on November 8 and 9. A press release said that the objective of the training was to train the local farmers and entrepreneurs to produce and process various value added products from Aloevera for self employment and more income generation.

Addressing the programme Dr. Lallan Ram, Director, CIH stated the importance of Aloevera as medicinal plant and the demand of value added products of Aloevera in the market both National & International. He deliberated the need of such kind of training and encouraged the farmers to make the best use of these 2 days training programme to equip themselves with the latest technology for improvising the quality of the produce so that it can meet the demands of the market.

Manesh Jat, Managing Director, Manesh Agro-Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan was the resource person

and he presented on various topics like Introduction to Aloevera Organic Farming, Benefit of Aloevera Farming, Method of harvesting of Aloevera, Processing & Value Addition of Aloevera for preparation of Juice, Soap, Shampoo, Handwash & Gel. During the valedictory function, Dr. Lallan Ram, Director, CIH also exhorted the participants to work diligently and expressed hope that the information gathered and knowledge gained during the training programme will go a long way for generation of more income and improving the livelihood of the people.

Khezeli, Chairman of Akivi Multipurpose Co-op. Society who has been initiating the handmade preparation of Aloevera soaps and detergents also thanked the institute for conducting the training programme and also requested the institute to help in providing the machinery so that the society will be able to meet the demands of the market. Certificates along with training materials were distributed to all the participants. Altogether 40 participants from various localities of Dimapur attended the training programme.

The training programme was coordinated

by Shisarenla Aier, Training Coordinator, CIH, Medziphema.

Nagaland students interact with Advertisement Guru -Prasoon Joshi Kohima, November 11 (mexN): Building on their brand promise of a Digital Life, Jio had arranged a Digital Interactive Event for college students Kohima Science College, Nagaland with Advertisement Guru -Prasoon Joshi on November 11 at Kohima Science College, Kohima. Sungkum from the College interacted with the Ad Guru through this digital platform.

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While India plugs black money holes, Indians find leaks mumbai, November 11 (reuters): Indians are inventing ingenious ways to try and hide their money from the tax inspector, as the government attempts to flush out vast undeclared wealth by abolishing high denomination bank notes.

The shock announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gave people only a few hours to spend or deposit 500 and 1,000 rupee bills before they were abolished, although plans are in place to allow a more gradual conversion to new notes. Those plans involve depositing old bills in bank accounts, however, where they can be seen and analysed, and, as millions of Indians scramble to convert savings using this method, some with piles of so-called “black money” are looking for loopholes.

Retailers and wedding planners say they have been inundated with frantic calls from people looking to bring forward large-item purchases from anyone willing to accept the old notes. In Mumbai,

New Delhi, November 11 (Fe/pti): Flying is set to get costlier as Narendra Modi-led government on Friday announced new levy for regional connectivity scheme. To fund its plan to connect smaller cities in the country, the government has announced new fees that will have to be paid by airlines on popular routes. But if your flight is full, you’re unlikely to pay more than Rs 50 each way; if all seats are not sold out, you’ll pay an extra Rs 100.

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up to 1000 km, Rs 8,000 for flights between 1000 to 1500 km and Rs 8,500 for flights beyond 1,500 km will be imposed.” The government hopes to collect Rs 400 crore from this levy which will be used to promote regional air connectivity, says the channel. The levy amount would be for an entire flight and the price of each ticket could go up depending on the number of seats in that particular flight.

Civil Aviation Secretary R N Choubey today said the levy would be up to Rs 8,500 per flight depend-

ing on distance. The ambitious scheme — UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) –seeks to connect small cities by air as well as make flying more affordable for the masses. To provide viability gap funding for the flights operated under the regional connectivity scheme, the Ministry would impose a levy on every departure on major air routes such as the national capital, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Kolkata.

“The levy for an up to 1,000 kilometre length of scheduled flight will be Rs

BlackBerry’s got one last keyboard smartphone for its fans seoul, November 11 (bloomberg): BlackBerry Ltd. has officially stoppedmakingitsownphones,butthecompanyhasonelasttreatfordie-hardfans:anew phone sporting its trademark physical keyboard.ChiefExecutiveOfficerJohnChenhad hinted at the phone in September, but hadn’t confirmed it until Thursday, when he spoke toEmilyChanginaninterviewonBloomberg TV.“WehaveonekeyboardphoneIpromised people,” Chen said. “It’s coming.”

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TRAIN TICKETS A jeweller in Mumbai said he Other unusual methods of exchanging cash are appearing on stopped accepting cash payments social media. One tweet described after someone he believed to be a how people were paying agents revenue official lingered outside for expensive first-class train tick- his shop. Jewellers stayed open into ets with old bills and then cancel- the early hours of Wednesday, and ling them later to get reimbursed one well-placed industry source in in new notes, all in order to get Mumbai estimated that about 250 kg of gold, worth an estimated 750 around the tax man.

State-run Indian Railways was million rupees at spot prices, was one of the few places still allowed sold in the city within a few hours of to accept the old notes until Friday. the ban. The source said jewellers Anil Kumar Saxena, spokes- were paid anywhere between 20 man for Indian Railways, said tick- and 65 percent above the going rate et purchases for first class, air-con- by buyers snapping up the precious ditioned compartments, the most metal with old notes.

Meenakshi Goswami, Comexpensive category, had surged.

“We usually sell about 2,000 tick- missioner of Income Tax, underets every day,” he said. The day af- lined how hard it was for the auter the demonetization measures thorities to detect such activity. were announced, that rose to “I’m not aware of anything going on,” she told Reuters. “But (the) 27,000, Saxena added.

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PSU condemns threat Nagaland observes National Education Day by GPRN/NSCN cadre

Nagaland Education Association formed Our Correspondent

Kohima | November 11

The education degree holders of Nagaland during the observance of National Education Day here today unanimously formed an association under the name ‘Nagaland Education Association.’

The objective of the Association is to provide a platform for education degree holders to safeguard the interest of educationist and educators, provide leadership in education, proZavise Rume addressing National Education Day in Kohima on November 11. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | November 11

Nagaland today observed National Education Day in commemoration of the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India.

In the state capital Kohima, the education degree holders of Nagaland observed the day at Ura College of Teacher Education.

Delivering keynote address, Dr. Zavise Rume said National Education Day is an annual observance in

India to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who served from August 15, 1947 until February 2, 1958.

The objective of celebrating National Education Day is to strengthen educational institutions and to raise the quality of education to greater heights.

The day provides a platform to remember Maulana Azad’s contribution in laying the foundations of the education system in an

mote professionalism in education, to extend professional help towards improvement of quality in education and policy making process, promote linkages with institutions, agencies, department related to education etc.

The office bearers of the Association for the tenure 2016-19 are: president- Zavise Rume, vice president- Kevizakielie Suokhrie, general secretary- Dr. Bweyhunle Khing, joint secretary- Sanjay Sinha, treasurerMarkangla Jamir and information & publicity secretary- Viseizolie Yashü.

'Quality is required in educational set up' Pfütsero, November 11 (mexN): Tewelhi Medo Tyrannus Hr Sec School, Pfütsero celebrated National Education Day on November 11. The celebration began with a song dedicated to the educators all over the country. In his greeting message,

independent India as well as to evaluate current performance in this field.

Touching on educare, (Dr) Fr. Peter Salew, SDB, Parish Priest, Christ King Church Kohima village said “educare” means to bring up, to rise, and to nourish, to train or mould.

Principal Reynald Pyngrope thanked the students of Class XII for organizing the event and said that that the development and growth of a country totally depends on the citizens of the country. Further, he spoke about the students of today being educat-

“The child has to be brought up like a plant in the garden by the teacher.

His potentialities should be developed with proper care and nourishment,” he said. He added that educare offers youth development programmes to help children realize their

Mt. Tiyi College Wokha gets Legal Aid Clinic WoKha, November 11 (mexN): On the occasion of National Legal Service Day, Wokha District Legal Services Authority (WDLSA) inaugurated Legal Aid Clinic and conducted debate competition on ‘Reservation of women is a positive step for the development of our society’ at Mt. Tiyi College, Wokha on November 9.

In her keynote address, WV Patton, Secretary WDLSA emphasized on the importance of having legal awareness in order to know one’s right and help sensitize others as concerned citizens of society.

She asserted it is a prime responsibility of each individual student to acquire maximum knowledge as they would be leading the society tomorrow, stated a press release received here.

Short speeches were delivered by Principal, Mt.

Students with WDLSA members and faculty at Mt. Tiyi College, Wokha on November 9.

Tiyi College, Abeni and EAC, Aitepyong, Imliakum Sanglir. Both called upon the students to be equipped fully when opportunities are thrown at them and face the world with preparedness.

Imliakum Sanglir, who was the chief guest, also inaugurated the Legal Aid Clinic in the presence of school officials, Secretary WDLSA, Panel Lawyers, PLVs and the students. He urged all to utilize the clinic

to the maximum and reach out to the unreached.

This was followed by the debate competition, where eight students participated - four for the motion and another four against it. Clear instructions and procedures were read out before the participants and the judges. Five minutes each were given to each participant as opening remark and they were judged based on their performance and quality of speech. Michael

Zunheboto district administration undertakes road maintenance drive ZuNheboto, No vember 11 (mexN): The Zunheboto district administration undertook a road maintenance drive at Akuluto on November 10.

Villagers of Akuluto participated actively assisted by the Company Operating

Base of 5 Assam Rifles. According to a press release from the AR, the drive was initiated with a view “to spread awareness about importance of proper road communication and the need to maintain it.” The release stated that the road

Advisors: Vipralhou KesiezieRetd director, SCERT Nagaland, C. Khalong Ao- Retd director, higher education, Dr. Lungsang ZeliangHoD, Education department, Nagaland University, John Lohe- Retd joint director, school education, (Dr).

Fr. Peter Salew, parish priest, Christ King Church Kohima village and Dr. Bendangyapangla, principal, State College of Teacher Education.

Constitution drafting committee members are Ikali Chishi, Jievitho Nyuwi and Neizekhonuo Liezietsu.

Ezung of Mt. Tiyi College, Mharonthung Patton of Mt. Tiyi College, Chonchithung Y. Emungrui of Bailey Baptist College won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions respectively. The winners were given certificates and cash prizes.

Altogether, 150 students participated in the event.

ed but having no quality. “Quality is required in educational set up if we want our society, state and country to progress. Moreover, this celebration will not have its meaning if all of you did not give importance in your studies," he stated

full potential and succeed in life. He quoted Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Also speaking on the occasion, John Lohe, (Retd) State Project Director, SSA urged the teachers

to be agent of change in the education system. He said that education planning should start from the grassroots level, adding that the primary level should be given due importance.

Lohe also urged the teachers to focus on improving education system.

condition between Lumami and Akhuluto Town under Zunheboto district had worsened after monsoon “with increasing number of potholes and water logging” thereby making vehicle movement slow and arduous.

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): Modern Institute of Teacher Education (MITE) launched its Red Ribbon Club on November 11 at the college auditorium.

The programme commenced with invocation

by Thungchibeni Humtsoe and welcome address from Devanand Sinha, Principal, MITE. Brief orientation

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): Commander of Chakabama Company 9 Assam Rifles organized an interaction programme with GBs, chairmen and youth presidents of six places of Kezocha sub division, namely Kezo Town, Kezoma, Kezo Basa, Kikruma, RD Block and Kidima on November 8. A press release from Assam Rifles informed that the interaction focused on present security situation, issues of forceful taxation and ways to further enhance cooperation between security forces and villagers. Valuable suggestions were brought out to further improve the relationship between both the security forces and general population during the meeting, which ended with both parties vowing to stand together to work for long lasting peace and prosperity in the region, the release added.

of 9 Assam Rifles conducted the medical camp, wherein children and staff of the Children Home were treated, informed a press release from Assam Rifles. All children were screened for various ailments of throat, ear, eyes chest etc. Vision test was also conducted for all

the children. In addition, blood and routine urine test were conducted and de-worming was done for all the children. Apart from providing medical assistance, basic knowledge on health education including precaution from common viral diseases was also imparted.

about the Red Ribbon Club aims, objectives, activities and outcomes was presented by Ainato Yeptho, Assistant Director (Youth Affairs), NSACS. Alipoker Aier, Assistant Director (Voluntary Blood Donation), NSACS provided information and awareness regarding HIV and AIDS. He also spoke on how to prevent them. Kholi

Dolf, President, Voluntary Blood Donor Association, Kohima stressed on certain facts, importance and health benefits of donating blood. Doubts and queries on blood donation were also clarified to the audience.

A press release from MITE said that the programme concluded with voluntary blood testing.

Capacity building programme on catchment area treatment plan

DC Mokokchung Sushil Kumar Patel speaking during the launching of Girls Residential Hostel under SSA in Mokokchung Town on November 11. (DIPR Photo)

moKoKchuNg, November 11 (DiPr): Under the initiative of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Girls Residential Hostel was formally inaugurated at Arkong Ward, Mokokchung Town by Deputy Commissioner and Chairman, District Mission Authority, SSA, Sushil Kumar Patel on November 11.

Patel said that government has given all out efforts to uplift the educational system in the country;

therefore, the main objective of the students should be to perform well thereby showing certain outcome to the government.

Encouraging the students, the DC said that being in the hostel is an opportunity to inculcate discipline among themselves, for one must know how to behave with people besides getting good marks.

DEO & Coordinator, District Mission Authority,

SSA, I. Satemmenla delivered the welcome speech while special number was presented by the hostellers.

Assistant District Coordinator, District Mission Authority, SSA, I. Chuba proposed the vote of thanks.

The hostellers were selected from among the economically and socially deprived sections of people.

At present, there are 24 girls from four Middle Schools in Mokokchung Town in the hostel.

DimaPur, November 11 (mexN): A two day capacity building programme on implementation of integrated catchment area treatment plan was graced by Pukhayi Sumi, Parliamentary Secretary, Soil & Water Conservation at the conference hall of the Directorate of Soil and Water Conservation, Kohima.

According to a press release, the chief guest also released the Soil and Water Conservation Management and GIS Application manual published by the Department.

In his address, Sumi appealed to the departmental officers and field staff to work with a vision

Phek Town to Losami village road to be repaired PheK, November 11 (DiPr): Phek District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) resolved to repair the road from Phek Town to Losami village during its monthly meeting held on November 10 at DC’s conference hall, Phek. Earlier, the chairman DPDB and Parliamentary

Secretary for Higher Education & Technical Education, Deo Nukhu welcomed all the members followed by reviewing of the last meeting’s minutes.

He also introduced and welcomed the new members. Horticulture and Social Welfare presented their department activities.

Y. Patton, Home Minister of Nagaland called on Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Gangaram Ahir in New Delhi and congratulated him on his new assignment on November 9. As the Union Minister of State is in-charge of Police Modernization, Patton discussed with him all the pending projects related to modernization of police forces and improvement of the existing police infrastructure facilities in the State. Patton also invited the Minister to inaugurate 13 IRB at Yachang and also witness the upcoming Hornbill Festival, which the Union Minister accepted.

MITE launches Red Ribbon Club

SSA opens Girls Residential Hostel in Mkg

NSCN to investigate and take stern action against its cadre. “We cannot tolerate such activities of our nation worker for self interest,” PSU stated.

Meanwhile, PSU supported Lüruri Students' Union (LSU) for “bringing out such unwanted activities that would hamper our peaceful living and a sense of insecurity under the hands of our national worker.” The union further appealed to all NPGs to restrain themselves from such activities and to be vigilant upon its cadre so as to avoid such incident/ accident. It asked to let the innocent civilians live in peace and harmony.

Interaction between AR and village leaders

AR conducts medical camp at children home

Kohima, November 11 (mexN): 9 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ 5 Sector Assam Rifles conducted a free medical camp at Bright Morning Star Children Home, Kohima on November 9. A specially constituted medical team under CMO Dr. N Sandhyarani

meluri, November 11 (mexN): Pochury Students’ Union (PSU) has condemned what it termed as immature act of Major Lopong from GPRN/NSCN in threatening Shapongtsü, Chairman of Lüruri Development Council (LDC) on November 4 at Süsü village under Meluri sub-division.

The union in a statement issued by its president, Er. Joyson Pfithu questioned the GPRN/ NSCN authority “how such individual in the name of a nation worker has the authorization to threaten or murder any public leader in the mere interest of an individual.” It has appealed to the authority of GPRN/

and with all sincerity and also be accountable for the responsibilities assigned to them. He encouraged the participants to recommit themselves to their duties and contribute to the rebuilding of our society in their own capacity.

The Director of Soil & Water Conservation, Peter K. Rengma in his speech, apprised the trainees on the purpose of the training and also dwelt on the importance of adopting corrective measures to reduce sediment load and increase the sustainability of the catchment area.

The keynote address was delivered by Khekiho Shohe, SCO (Forest), who

stressed on the importance of a comprehensive plan for judicious management of natural resources, for controlling silt erosion and minimizing the sediment to a minimum level.

Project Approaches and Implementation was dealt by Vilehu Nguzhu, Jt. Director while T. Mar presented on Soil Testing and Mapping and importance of Soil Health Cards.

Hands on exercise on GPS and GIS application were carried out at the directorate compound.

Over 60 technical field staff from four districts of Kohima, Dimapur, Phek and Zunheboto registered for the two days training.

Decision final and binding on Abel: NSCN (R) DimaPur, November 11 (mexN): The NSCN (R) today responded to the clarification of Abel, its former cadre who “defected to GPRN/ NSCN with huge money of NSCN (R)”, stating that “nothing can justify the crime Abel had committed.” The NSCN (R) asserted that its decision on Abel is “final and binding and no forces can stop action on him.” It stated it will not write nor hear any rejoinder anymore against any accusation

by Abel under any circumstances.

14th NLA session Kohima, November 11 (mexN): The Business Advisory Committee (BAC) today finalized the provisional programme for the ensuing 14th session of the 12th NLA. The Committee has decided to have two days session from November 22 to 24. During the session, the following businesses will be taken up: Obituary References, if any; Laying of Reports/ Papers/ Rule; Introduction of Government Bills, if any; Introduction of Government Resolutions; Adoption of Government Resolutions; Unfinished Business, if any. This was informed in a press release issued by N Benjamin Newmai, Commissioner & Secretary, NLA.

Meetings & AppointMents Committee on Subordinate Legislation Dr. TM Lotha, MLA and Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation has convened a meeting for the consideration and adoption of 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, and 52nd Reports of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation on November 15, 11:00 am in the Committee Room of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. Therefore, all the members of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation (2016-17) have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

DNSU assembly All the constituent units, seniors, ex-officials and members of Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) have been informed that the first Assembly of the union for the tenure 2015-1017 will be held on November 15, 11:00 am at Theja Fort conference hall near DNSU office. Therefore, all the constituent units, seniors and concerned members of DNSU have been requested to attend the assembly without fail.

Er. Levi convenes meeting Er. Levi Rengma, Parliamentary Secretary and Chairman of the Select Committee on the Nagaland Lokayukta Bill, 2015 has convened a meeting on November 16, 11:00 am at the Assembly Committee Room. Therefore, all the Select Committee members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

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What President Trump Will Mean for Earth’s Climate Robinson Meyer

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f he fulfills his campaign promises, President-Elect Donald J. Trump and his future administration could prove cataclysmic for the planet’s climate.

Trump’s policies will likely ensure that the global mean temperature rises higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius. While that may seem like a small amount of warming, it would have devastating effects on a planetary scale, pushing weather patterns far outside what human civilization has previously experienced and ensuring mass extinctions.

How could one president have so massive an effect?

First, because Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the first international treaty to mitigate global warming.

This could shatter the international consensus on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, similar to how the second Bush administration’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol effec-

tively ended that treaty’s functional life within the United States. It could enable other countries to abandon their commitments and emit greenhouse gases at much higher rates.

“China, Europe, Brazil, India and other countries will continue to move ahead with the climate commitments they made under Paris no matter what the next president does, because these com-

mitments are in their own national interest,” said Alden Meyer, the director of policy and strategy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an email.

While the Paris Agreement became international law this week— making it technically impossible for a president to withdraw before 2019 or 2020—Trump could simply refuse to recognize the agreement’s obligations, the vast majority

of which are non-binding. Trump also said, late in the campaign, that he would cut off American support for UN climate science.

Second, Trump will almost certainly terminate President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a set of EPA regulations meant to reduce emissions from the power sector. Lux Research, a global energy consulting group, estimated before the election that

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library building on one side, a canteen on the other, students huddled in groups, drinking tea, chatting and the college photocopy shop-these are all essentials of an Indian university campus. So, Rameshwari Photocopy Service, in the Delhi School of Economics (under Delhi University) campus, does not warrant special attention. It is, after all, your basic photocopy shop, helping students access limited, expensive books at a nominal price. Until August 2012 that is, when it became the site of a long-drawn copyright infringement suit.

Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis lodged a copyright infringement case against the shop as well as the University of Delhi in Delhi High Court. They claimed damages of Rs.60 lakh.

Their contention: The practice of photocopying parts of various copyrighted books into unauthorized course packs and selling them for 'commercial gain' was an infringe-ment of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957. The original books, whose excerpts are used in the course pack, could cost anywhere from Rs.5,000-7,000, whereas the photocopied course packs, priced at Rs.50 paise per page, are a fraction of that price. They contended that the university was party to the offence as well, because the course packs were based on syllabi prescribed by the university, which was aiding the photocopy shop by issuing books from its library to prepare these compilations.

In October 2012, Justice Kailash Gambhir passed a temporary injunction halting the sale of these photocopied course books. '… The objective of the plaintiffs is not

to stop the students from photo-copying, but to stop the systematic photocopying of their publications,' the counsel for the publishers argued. The reproduction of the work was not being done by students or teachers, nor was it in the course of instruction, they added.

The counsel for Delhi University contested the suit: ' …copying certain pages for educational purpose is necessary because purchasing individual books is expensive and several of the books are also out of print or not available in India …

Copyright Act is a piece of welfare legislation and the rights of authors and owners are to be balanced with the competing interest of the society' Does the photocopying of copyrighted books for the use of students, who otherwise would not have easy access to them, constitute copyright infringement? You be the judge.

THE VERDICT On 16 September 2016, the Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw ruled against the publishers and dismissed the copyright suit: 'Copyright, specially in literary works, is thus not an inevitable, divine or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public ...'

Citing his student days, he advocated, ' … with the advancement of technology the voluminous books can be photocopied and at a very low cost. Thus the students are now not required to spend day after day ... copying pages after pages … When the effect of the action is the same, the difference in the mode of action cannot make a difference so as to make one an offence.' The publishers have challenged the ruling.

man survival, the nations of the world can, must, and will hold the United States to its climate commitments,” said Carroll Muffett, the president and CEO of the Center for International Climate Law. “Donald Trump now has the unflattering distinction of being the only head of state in the entire world to reject the scientific consensus that mankind is driving climate change,” said Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, in a statement. “No matter what happens, Donald Trump can’t change the fact that wind and solar energy are rapidly becoming more affordable and accessible than dirty fossil fuels. With both the market and grassroots environmental advocacy moving us toward clean energy, there is still a strong path forward for reducing climate pollution even under a Trump presidency.”

Indeed, Brune’s statement hints at the next steps for climate activists. The Sierra Club has successfully retired more than 190 coal plants since 2003, leading a campaign

that has relied more on local activism than federal support. Even if Trump seeks to expand the construction of coal-burning plants, those campaigns will likely continue.

Activists are also likely to seek the creation of emissions-restriction plans in individual states.

While Washington defeated a carbon-tax referendum last night, that measure was opposed by the state’s left. Other state efforts at mitigating climate change have found more success. Earlier this year, California passed a series of state laws that will dramatically alter that state’s energy profile, granting its state agency the freedom to cut emissions by 40 percent by 2030. It seems likely that environmental leaders will seek similar measures in other states.

As Brune mentioned, wind energy and solar energy are also increasingly price-competitive with fossil fuels, especially in the sunny southwest and on the coast. If the United States embarks on the major round of new infrastructure construction that Trump has promised,

then it would make economic sense for the country to build huge new wind and solar power plants.

“While there are divisions between the Democrats and Republicans on climate policy, there is bipartisan support for investments in clean energy and climate resilience.

The infrastructure initiatives that both Trump and Clinton put forward during the campaign present the opportunity to address both of these needs,” said Meyer.

Indeed, a recent Pew poll found that 89 percent of Americans approve of expanding solar power.

Eighty-three percent want to expand wind farms.

Constructing renewableenergy infrastructure across the country would increase U.S. manufacturing’s skill at building new solar and wind technologies, help reduce the cost of electricity for ratepayers, and entrench support for clean power among both parties.

Whether Trump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell sign on to such a plan, though, may be another story.

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Trump’s policies would lead to the emission of an additional 3.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as compared to Clinton’s.

These two factors alone could push the world over the edge. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that the planet could only stand another five years of emissions at current rates before it would become impossible to keep the global mean temperature from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius.

If emissions increased under a Trump administration, as Lux projects, then the world could overshoot that carbon budget well before 2021.

Trump appears to doubt the existence of climate change itself. Though he later denied saying it, Trump tweeted before the campaign began that climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese government to depress American industry.

“The Paris Agreement was signed and ratified not by a President, but by the United States itself. As a matter of international law, and as a matter of hu-

Start on a new note. Help your children nurture their inner goodness Dr Shelija Sen

my own children and the kids resentment.

While on a mission to cut the hat do we typically do I work with, and it has worked wonders.

The three main aspects negative, the parent looks for evwhen we find our chilery opportunity to energize the dren doing something of this approach are: positive in the child. This is done we don't approve of? We become • Refuse to energize negativity. through persistently appreciatreactive parents. We criticize, complain, compare (How dare • Relentlessly energize their pos- ing the goodness in the child in itives. the smallest of ways: You were you do this? Your sister never put us through this), we're sarcastic (You must be so proud of yourself) and catastrophize (You will never be able to get through college admissions). Often, we pepper our reactions with lectures and nagging sessions. When none of it works-and predictably so-we end up screaming and dole out a punishment. And our children react with an equal measure of negativity, through rebellion, anger, resentment and a 'can't-bebothered' attitude.

Not only do these reactive strategies fail, I think they can be quite damaging for our children's growth. Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh put it beautifully when he described how each child has both negative seeds-of anger, despair, hatred, fear and vi- • Reset: Do not react negatively really generous about sharing and stay calm when the child your pizza with your sister; I apolence-and wholesome seeds-of does something wrong. preciate the hard work you have love, happiness, compassion and Let me explain how this works: put in your project; It takes courforgiveness. According to him, what will blossom depends on the Parents following this approach age to stand up to a bully. If you commit to not saying or doing observe, the appreciation is not seeds we nurture. anything that may fuel negativ- about saying "excellent", "amazity in the child (refer to the reac- ing" or "good", which is really an TRy a nEw appRoaCH A parenting and educational tive measures mentioned earlier). empty praise and does not speak approach that's gaining a large And any time the parent feels that much to the child. Qualifying a following internationally, called she/he is becoming reactive, she/ praise, on the other hand, gives the Nurtured Heart Approach he resets, moves away, refusing to the child direction and she/he (NHA) by Howard Glasser, is very energize the child negatively. But begins to understand what qualimuch in keeping with this Zen ap- the parent has to make sure she/ ties, values and strengths are approach. I have been using it with he does this without any anger or preciated. These are also neces-

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sary ingredients for life skills and success. posITIVE pay-offs This approach is not merely about noticing when the child is being good, it is about recognizing the child's worth at every step. It's about aligning his energy in believing that he has great qualities, which are being identified and validated by the parents at every step. The basic belief is that when the kid is energized through regular strength-based recognition; he realizes that there is no point choosing negativity, as there are no pay-offs in it. So start building your child's inner wealth-there is nothing to lose but loads of negativity. nURTURED HEaRT appRoaCH The NHA focuses on creating healthy relationships. It lays bare the workings of a relationshipwhat makes it work, what makes it go awry-and helps develop awareness and understanding to improve the ways we interact with others and ourselves. It shines a spotlight on greatness rather than problems. It inspires challenging children to focus their intensity and energy in ways that will help them lead passionate and purposeful lives.

The author is a Delhi-based child and adolescent psychologist, family therapist, co-founder of Children First and author of All You Need is Love: The Art of Mindful Parenting.

Down in jungleland: Survival of the Fittest Ranij Lal

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ature may be red in tooth and claw, but why do television programmes stoke our fear of the wild?

Back in the “old” days, it was relatively easy for parents to get kids interested in nature and the natural world. They simply said, “Go out and play and don’t come back till lunch time”, and bundled you out of doors. With or without friends, you roamed around climbing trees (and falling off of them, sometimes), getting bitten and stung and chased, and, occasionally, if a great hunt was a success, returned proudly home with the battered corpse of some poor lizard which you were ordered to throw out. (You obeyed and stopped hunting altogether because what was the point, if you were not allowed to make fire and eat your kill?)

It was also on such expeditions that you watched, enthralled, a butterfly emerge

from its chrysalis, crows mobbing owlets, dragonflies patrolling grassy tracts like World War I biplanes and trying to lay their eggs on reflective tarmac (thinking it was a water body), snakes swimming sinuously across ponds, ants conducting stupendous feats of weightlifting, fish ignoring your paper clip hooks and little balls of atta, and thunderstorms building up and booming like an artillery bombardment right overhead. And always, of course, you had to keep an eye out for the kites that would suddenly tumble down from

the sky and deftly relieve you of your sandwich, parantha or biscuit. Over a period of time, you learnt that if you didn’t interfere with the lives of insects and reptiles and mammals etc, they didn’t interfere with you and either ignored you or ran away. You learnt to watch quietly and, hopefully, not be seen by them at all.

Without even realising it, you became involved — directly or indirectly — in the lives of other living creatures, and shared the world with them.

These days, of course, kids are glued to their smartphones,

tablets or TV screens, so many parents simply shrug and say, “Well then, watch something nice on Discovery or National Geographic or Animal Planet.”

Which, you might think, is the best option they have. Also, there was the additional benefit of the child actually learning something. Well, I did a quick run through the “natural history” programs listed these days and this is what I found.

Tell me if you’d like your kids to watch this kind of stuff in order to develop a love and respect for nature and the natural world: Shark Attack, Nature’s Deadliest, When Animals Attack, Gangland Wars, Speed Kills, Animal Fight Club, Deadly Jaws, Predator Battleground, Creatures of the Night, Battle of the Beasts, My Pet’s Gone Viral, Rabid Beasts, Lair of the Killers, Predators up Close, Wild Wars, Mahayudh, Fatal Attraction, Man Vs Wild, Man, Woman, Wild,… and I’m running out of breath!

And yes, you can be sure there’s plenty of blood and gore in these programmes:

animals tearing each other to shreds, the crunching of bones, people being ruthlessly stalked and ambushed by animals, cannibalistic honeymoons…the lot, all backed up with suitable sound effects and deep-throated voiceovers.

Producers will say that action and a plot with strong characters is what attracts eyeballs and sponsors.

And they’ll add virtuously that nature is red in tooth and claw, with laws such as “kill or be killed”, and “eat or be eaten”. But what’s the overall message that comes out of these programmes? Watch Man Vs Wild or any such programme, where people (usually city folks like you and I) are dumped in the wild and told to fend for themselves. The first message that comes through is: “Watch it, buddy. Every living creature here, every iota of flora and fauna, has only one thing on its mind: to bite, sting, dismember, disembowel and eat you alive!” You’ll be told how one person, 12 years ago, was bitten by so-and-so spider

and nearly died, the implication being that you’re next on the list, so watch it.

Most creatures will, of course, do their damndest to get as far away from you as quickly as possible, but, well, if you put your head into a beehive, or try to share a bed with a hibernating bear, only you can be responsible for the consequences.

Then, of course, there’s the matter of how some of these “action” programmes are made.

How many times have we got cheap thrills and watched immaculately coiffured and beautifully backlit mice or rats, emerge from their holes, look around sparkle-eyed, while nearby a gorgeously polished snake slides sinuously towards it, its tongue flickering like the epitome of all that’s evil? The camera angles and lighting are perfect, as always.

How many times have we seen kaleidoscopic chameleons flick out their tongues in slow-mo to lasso a strategically placed grasshopper? There was one famous shot of a chee-

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tah (or leopard) in face-to-face attack mode with a desperate baboon, which had its teeth bared in a desperate rictus of fear as it counter-attacked: it was as the photographer admitted, completely staged.

And let’s not get into the issue of grown men wrestling and wrangling crocs or putting their heads into the mouths of kitty-cat lions All that many of these programmes seem to do is to ignite a pathological fear and horror of nature, and children, with their vivid imaginations, are prone to this. (At the same time, they may also enjoy the violence, which is another troubling prospect!)

Of course, nature is red in tooth and claw — and there will be (rare) occasions when people are at the receiving end of a wild creature’s angst (usually in response to something unspeakable that’s been done to it or its baby). But certainly, that will be much less often than you and I being subject to some maniac’s road rage or drunken recklessness — with or without dire consequences.

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Self-Determination Resource for JustPeace A FOREWORD BY

JOHN PAUL LEDERACH* Few books I have reviewed in the past five years make as significant a contribution to the field of peacebuilding and our global family as these pages you will read from Aküm Longchari.

Some years back, well-known singer songwriter Paul Simon released a tune called Hurricane Eye. His purpose in those few minutes of melody and lyric sought to explore the underbelly of American history, to raise forward questions about the assumptions the vast majority of our history books have made over the centuries written from the experience of the privileged and the supposed victors. The song’s final question was this: You want to be a writer? Find a quiet place. Use a humble pen.

Aküm’s sharing dreams, strengthening visions in Self-determination – Resource for JustPeace rises from the soils of grounded authenticity and hard won experience. To speak from the place and experience of Nagaland seeks to give voice to the too often silenced and invisibilized plight of indigenous peoples. To take a humble pen does not refer to subservience, or to moderating the critical eye.

In fact the opposite is true. The humble pen requires a commitment to engage carefully with truth, reality as it is, while refusing to fall prey to arrogance; to raise the challenge of common humanity while noting where our collective language, action, and social structures have lost sight of the peoples, yes in plural, they should, in dignity, serve.

Three significant contributions emerge from Aküm’s place and pen. I suggest these provide correctives and contributions long awaited in our wider field of peacebuilding.

First, this book has successfully built a bridge across the chasm that often separates the right to self-determination for minority and

indigenous people and the practical challenges of peacebuilding in settings of structural and direct violence. Characterized by many forms of exclusion these settings rarely find common ground in the language, purpose, or practice between the demand for ‘rights’ and the Westphalian claim to rightful domain. Well documented with interviews, existing literature, and theoretical discourses, Aküm weaves seamlessly through a process that re-establishes the fundamental notion that inclusion, respect, and dignity can create, or perhaps better stated, re-create an already existing common ground.

His attention to detail and re-languaging, particularly with the notion that ‘rights’ signal the impulse to nurture and solidify ‘right relationships’ evoke a more profound engagement of what appears and at times is manipulated into superficial divides. In building this bridge this book fills a significant gap in our exiting literature.

Second, among the greatest contributions of this book, we find the commitment to develop ideas and proposals from the grounding of lived, indigenous experience.

Aküm’s approach not only suggests a range of ways our core peacebuilding paradigms can be re-thought, he illustrates those with practical application in people-to-people engagement and dialogue, the walking and talking caravan of Naga efforts over the years in India.

In the late 1990’s when I first met Aküm he made a significant impact on my own language and understanding when he suggested in constructive critique that where deep damage had been done between dominant states and indigenous peoples. It was not possible to ‘un-do the history,’ but it is always possible to ‘re-story’ our interwoven relationships that includes holding the imaginaries of our past history with the capacity to remember forward together.

This grounded indigenous worldview, rich in respect and imagination, is what has so often been missing from our formal, mostly

It was not possible to ‘un-do the history,’ but it is always possible to ‘re-story’ our interwoven relationships that includes holding the imaginaries of our past history with the capacity to remember forward together.

Western notions of building peace as a rational-analytical and problem-solving endeavor. Here, Aküm invites us into a provocative journey of creativity that re-think our temporal horizons and practical pathways.

Finally, in these pages I suggest you watch carefully for the ways Aküm builds the bridge between rights and Justpeace. He has unwavering commitment to deeper purpose that may provide one of the most significant contributions to our wider body of peacebuilding literature. Of the many terms and concepts woven throughout the book perhaps the most prominent builds around the centrality of humanization. This emerges from his full embrace of collective-self that at once is Naga place and people, embedded within a long history of loss and dominance.While the tragedy of exclusion for too many indigenous people has much to do with a loss of participation in the social, economic and political decisions that affect their lives, the deepest harm of ‘state-craft’ has roots in the personal and systemic violence of dehumanization.

When re-casting ‘rights’ as ‘right relationships’ necessary for catalyzing and sustaining a Justpeace, Aküm brings forward the challenge facing all of us across our wider global family – the challenge of forging the processes of re-humanization that we must walk together if we are to heal our collective wounds.

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Dr. John Paul Lederach serves as Senior Fellow for Humanity United and Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame. Widely known for his pioneering work in conflict transformation, Lederach is involved in conciliation work in Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal, plus countries in East and West Africa. He has helped design and conduct training programs in 25 countries across five continents. He is author of at least 22 books including The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford University Press).

8 foods that boost your immunity and keeps cold away

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lot of people like the winters and nursing a warm cup of coffee during the season. It is the onset of festivals and of course, there’s happiness and cheer in the chilly air during this time.

However, what people do not like about the winters is the seasonal cold that it brings along with it. No matter what, people are susceptible to falling ill and suffer from cough and cold, especially at the onset of the winters.

Most times, the ubiquitous cold that goes on for weeks is known to be contagious. So there are high chances that if someone around you has a runny nose and a bad cough, you might get affected too. And since it is next to impossible to just lock yourself up in a room and avoid all kinds of contact, it is important to take good care of your immunity system. The good news is, this doesn’t involve rocket science and you can actually avoid catching the dreaded cold by just inculcating some wonder foods in your diet and meal.

Dr Pankaj Pahwal, Chief Medical Officer at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi talks to indianexpress.com about eight immunity booster-foods that can help us fight winters.

Vitamin C foods – Citrus fruits like oranges, lemons, grapes; brussels sprouts, tomatoes, broccoli and strawberries contain ascorbic acid that is known to boost the immune system by attacking the nucleic acid of the virus.

The antioxidant present in Vitamin C-rich foods fight the immunity-attacking bacteria until they’re dead.

Honey – Honey is known to be an immediate coolant for sore throats. The ingredient has antimicrobial properties and is very effective in fighting off infections. It contains a higher level of antioxidants and nutrients that help in building immunity levels. Taking a spoonful every day will boost up the immunity with its enzymes. It is however advised that children below 2 years of age must not be given honey as they can develop the condition of infant botulism.

Garlic – This spice contains allicin, an ingredient that helps fight infection and bacteria. Not just that, it also contains calcium, sulphuric compounds, and potassium that get rid of unwanted bacteria. The food is also known to lower the risks of colorectal and stomach cancer to a great extent.

Eggs – These are whole foods that are good sources of proteins and fat soluble vitamins. Eggs contain Vitamin A, which is an important antioxidant that helps strengthen the immunity. It is important to consume at least one egg a day to ward off cold and cough during winters.

Meat – Good source of cell-building and strengthening proteins, meat contains iron, which is an important powerhouse of immunity. The food must be preferably had roasted or grilled so the nutritional value is not affected.

Oats, barley and other whole grains – These are rich in Vitamin B-complex which is a composite of eight vitamins — B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12. These vitamins play an important role in cell metabolism and providing energy to the body.

Sea food – Sea foods like oysters and salmon are excellent sources of minerals, especially zinc, which is known to build the immunity of the body.

Peanuts, almonds and Brazilian nuts – These are very nutritious and must be included on a regular basis in the diet. It is important to consume nuts in variety. They can be chopped and added to the main course, can be used as garnish on salads, etc. These nuts contain Vitamin E, vitamin B, zinc, and iron. Brazilian nuts contain selenium (of the Vitamin E family) and are highly beneficial for the immunity system.

(Source: The Indian Express)

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Aküm Longchari

SELF DETERMINATION A Resource for JustPeace

FOREWORD BY

John Paul Lederach

Aküm Longchari has crafted an exquisite conceptual compass. His book Self Determination – A Resource for JustPeace sets new direction through contested terrain. It is imaginative, robust and useful, exploring the dream of self-determination from the perspective of a Naga man searching for nonviolent paths out of occupation. Indigenous leaders and reflective practitioners accompanying liberation struggles, not just from Nagaland but across the globe, from West Papua to Western Sahara, will find much to stimulate and deepen thinking about how self-determination can be a resource for a just and sustainable peace. Aküm Longchari presents us with a philosophy and praxis that invite the reader into deeper experiments to undo colonization and re-make the world.

- Jason MacLeod, author of ‘Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil resistance in West Papua'

This is an insider story on the importance of self determination; and the role that measured analysis and dialogue can play in prioritizing a peaceful solution to the disorder that conflict wreaks. It is an important book because the author has lived experience of the subject matter, and so it is a powerful narrative of hope and resilience.

- Rebecca Spence, Director of Peaceworks and a Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies

With a compelling indigenous voice, Aküm is urging us to cast away fear and to be more creative, imaginative and audacious when reexamining the global system of nation-states as a key source of conflict. His study calls for a fundamental rethink of contemporary approaches to building justice and building peace from the ‘cages’ in villages to the ‘cages’ in the halls of the United Nations. And, as the author rightfully asserts, the paradox of self-determination as either a cause of conflict or a source of JustPeace, will invariably depend on how we deconstruct its existing concept and refashion its application to address contemporary challenges.

- Babu Ayindo, Storyteller, Writer and JustPeace Activist

The Naga Blog is a forum on Facebook where Naga’s from Nagaland and around the world network, share ideas and discuss a wide range of topics from politics and philosophy to music and current events in Nagaland and beyond. The blog is not owned by any individual, nor is it affiliated to or associated with any political party or religion. The only movement it hopes to stir is the one raised by the voices of the Naga’s every step of the way, amassing perhaps to mass consciousness one day. www.facebook.com/groups/thenagablog

Appeal to the government and public in choosing our representatives in elections Rozelle Mero: With elections at our doorstep sooner than we think, people should look at all the new candidates who want to join elections of the local bodies as well as the state level! Take a serious look at their backgrounds and contribution, just because your dad was a politician does not mean the legacy is to be handed to you with your stolen accumulated wealth.... people teach such candidates a lesson.. Most of these people who have never contributed or participated hands on in community interests nor come down from their high and mighty lofts as if they are above station of everyone else, who have no inkling of what it is for people to struggle on a daily basis, who have done nothing to prove their worth ever but suddenly they are experts who can make decisions for the region they represent or are laden with new found wisdom and energy to fight for the constituency... Watch out for these parasites! (Please understand that this really does not include those who actively participate and look after the welfare of the people for there are some good ones too) Another thing that rankles me are the Heads of department who are about to retire. They already make plans to go into elections as soon as they retire and start creating a vote bank by randomly appointing hundreds of people as they leave office even though they know very well they are doing something illegal and also burdening an already debt ridden state with more salary addition. They very cleverly try to manipulate their current opponents position and the government to take the fall when such illegally appointed people are removed from office by blaming their to-be opponents. Such manipulative peo-

ple should be recognised and never brought to power as you can only imagine what vengeful cunning behaviour they can get into if brought into power... and don't forget the amount of public money they may have siphoned off in anticipation of expenses for their political entry!

That is money that should have been rightfully used to develop the state not to be hidden away as his or her private wealth!

GON please pass a law that prohibits people in Government Offices from going straight into elections as soon as they retire or are relieved of their Government run duties. Please make sure that they are prevented from it for at least 5 years after their retirement! Enough of stealing from one coffer and then jump straight into another one to divest whatever they may have left behind! Political entry should be a lifelong prepared career just like any other career at best and at worst only after they are given enough time to live as ordinary citizens. Please, Please any of our policy makers who know this to be absolutely true and are in this page or read of it, get this done before the next band of thieves decide to join other existing band of thieves and take our state back to a worse state than it already is!

WE HAVE HIT ROCK BOTTOM and our greatest fear is anyone and everybody will start selling their very souls!

Wetsho Lasushe: Today, I believe in, 'See Change, Bring Change and Be The Change.'

Politically speaking, look for someone who can make a difference, bring him/her to the system and we be the change. :) We need reformed leaders and not just political leaders.

Peter Molemshu: For those of us who are literate enough to read and learn the system, it is clear and understood how to act. Choosing a sincere leader and voting for them is easier. But

I believe 50 percent or more voters are not so literate enough.

For them, the election is time for bringing conditions to the candidates, who could ensure employment, or at least provide an instant assistance when needed. For instance, one who could give a 1000 rupee when asked or 5k or 10k and on. For people like me who vote along with my fellow rural area voters, it is a big challenge to make them understand. Good roads, electricity, schools, health care and others are just dreams they don't see happening. And according to me, the bigger challenge lies there. Perhaps this is the main cause for wrongly electing a representative. And the situation in urban, literate areas, I don't know, maybe they trusted the representative but the trust is broken. How should we tackle this issue at rural areas. I wish I could cast all the votes in my village by myself, which amount to some 2000 and more.

Victor Kevilhouthie: Nowadays even if a person is so intact in his personality and values and deserving to stand for elections, it is so difficult to support and encourage the person because we have experiences with many good and promising leaders who have failed us after winning elections. They all join the chorus with the other fellow politicians. This makes me to wonder "is politic a hub for grooming people otherwise"?

Is the election procedure so wrong that it tempts the candidate to choose unfair means later? Is the political environment or the political fraternity so unconducive and unhealthy that it challenges one's integrity and moral ethics? Or are all the above challenges lies only with the good judgment of the candidate himself/herself or all to do with the electorates for this menace?

But yes, good should overcome evil. So let’s continue to support the good and deserv-

ing candidates, after all if ever there comes a day of change and transformation in Nagaland, it will be all because of those few good ones (both politicians and laity) who will stand their ground firm on the principle of what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong.

Participation of youth in Election Process Diku Zeliang: Article 326 of the Indian Constitution through The Indian Constitution (Sixtyfirst Amendment) Act, 1988 has lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years in order to let the youth take active part in electoral processes and elect your own leader – your constituency representative.

Youths of our Generation are mostly literate and wise enough to decide what is wrong and right. Wise enough to know the causes of social disorderliness in the society- socially, economically, culturally, politically and educationally.

However, it is unfortunate to learn that most of these young minds that are aware of the socio-political problems in the society cannot take right decision and do not participate or participate very less in making the society better in all the above aspects.

One of the most effective and reformative strategies to bring a drastic change in our society can be achieved through just and fair revolutionary movement of the youths who can sacrifice their own individual interests for the interest of the society.

In order to bring an overwhelming positive reformation in our society, we need to honestly exercise our constitutional rights of voting wherein, it implies that we understand who is to represent us and will voice out our concern in the government political decision making.

Election in Nagaland will hit again by 2018 and we should prepare ourselves to actively

take part in the electoral processes and for this, we need to first enrol ourselves in our constituency.

Many youth of our generation thinks election is the time to make money and have fun doing it running around, boozing around and riding around in the name of election campaign.

It is high time we change our approaches to this phenomenon and strive – really strive to bring positive changes in our own society in particular and our area in general if not the whole of our state.

We, the YOUTH, can be the game changer, if we can honestly and sincerely practice moral politics in our times.

If the politicians can play their politics with us, we should start adopting our own policies to play with them and show them our generation is not a corrupted generation easily enticed by certain goodies.

Let us not be easily fooled and lured by the corrupted politicians, but with our honest and sincere political strategies show them the miracles of our generation.

If they can speak about their political propaganda for about an hour or two, we should show them that we can do more than they did.

Let us not embrace ourselves to suffer another five years of chaos, criticism, gossiping, worrying, hating which ultimately will bring enmity among us, but let us strive with sacrifices to see the positive change in the next five years after the election.

Let us together strive to build our society into a fine and civilised hospitable society where everyone lives in harmony and with no complaint like that of bad road condition, poor electricity services, corrupted government agencies or officers. Let’s stop the blame game and look into ourselves for bringing positive changes. It's a big challenge to change for better, but no challenges are too big to overcome.

GOD BLESS NAGALAND!

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India, Japan sign landmark nuclear deal

toKYo, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): India and Japan on Friday signed 10 agreements, including the landmark civil nuclear accord, following the annual bilateral summit headed by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe here.

"A landmark deal for a cleaner, greener world!

PM @narendramodi and PM @AbeShinzo witness exchange of the landmark Civil Nuclear Agreement," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted.

The new agreement provides for bilateral cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. This would provide for the development of nuclear power projects in India and thus for strengthening energy security of the country, according to the External Affairs Ministry.

The present agreement would open up the door for collaboration between Indian and Japanese industries in India's Civil nuclear programme.

"New strides in Special Strategic and Global Partnership. The leaders also witnessed exchange of agreements in wide range of sectors," Swarup said in another tweet.

A memorandum of cooperation (MoC) was signed between India's Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on the manufacturing skill transfer promotion

Strong Japan-India ties can help stabilise the world: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2nd L) and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe (L) bow to national flags as they review an honor guard before their meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Japan November 11. (REUTERS Photo)

programme.

It envisages training 30,000 Indian youths in the Japanese styled manufacturing in the next 10 years.

This would be achieved through the programmes of Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing (JIM) and the Japanese Endowed Courses (JEC) in select engineering colleges, according to the External Affairs Ministry.

Japanese companies would be encouraged to set up JIM by utilising their CSR fund while JEC will be

supported by the Japanese government through technical experts. Programmes under this MoC would contribute to the Indian government's flagship programmes, Make in India and Skill India.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between ISRO and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on cooperation in the field of outer space.

It provides for cooperation in satellite navigation,

34 per cent prison positions vacant nationwide Devanik Saha IndiaSpend and IANS

An underlying issue of the controversial killing of eight Muslim undertrials after they killed a police officer and broke out of a jail in Madhya Pradesh is the staff shortage in Indian prisons, where 34% of positions (27,227) were vacant, as on December 31, 2015, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of national prison statistics.

Of 419,623 inmates across all jails nationwide, 282,076 (67%) are undertrials, whose cases take up to five years to come to trial, illustrating the slow speed of justice in India.

Questions have been raised about the post-prison-break firefight, with many describing it as an extrajudicial killing of eight alleged members of the proscribed group, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The eight men were incarcerated in Bhopal jail, pending trial for several crimes, such as planning the assassination of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, making and supplying bombs, and involvement in the 2008 Ahmedabad bombings that killed 57 people.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan described the jailbreak as "very serious" and announced the suspension of five jail officials, including the jail superintendent. As a demand is made for a court-monitored inquiry, the underlying issues are the poor condition of Indian prisons and the delays in trying those accused of crimes.

No state was as short of prison staff as Bihar, which has 2,654 of the 7,860 personnel it should have, a shortage of

66%, followed by Delhi (47%) and West Bengal (41%). In Madhya Pradesh, the shortage is 28%.

The capacity of Indian jails is 366,781, but there are 419,623 inmates in these jails -- which means jails are 114% over capacity. Dadra & Nagar Haveli jails were 277%over capacity, followed by Chhattisgarh (234%) and Delhi (227%).

High occupancy rates in jails can be linked to the large population of undertrials. Of 419,623 inmates across jails nationwide, 67% (282,076) prisoners are undertrials-those detained in prisons during trial, investigation or inquiry --pointing to the slow speed of justice in India.

The large number of undertrials in India can be correlated to the lack of adequate judges in Indian courts, as lower-court vacancies are a leading cause of pending trials.

In absolute numbers, Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of undertrials (62,669), followed by Bihar (23,424) and Maharashtra (21,667). In Bihar, 82%of prisoners were undertrials, the highest among states.

Undertrial prisoners in India are equal to the population of the Caribbean nation of Barbados.

In 2014, the Supreme Court ordered the release of all undertrial prisoners detained for at least half the maximum sentence prescribed for the offences they were charged with. Many who were languishing in jails because they could not pay sureties and bail bonds benefited.

Two million cases have been on trial for a decade or more as on December 2015.

planetary exploration and space industry promotion; joint missions and studies; joint use of ground systems for mutual support; joint workshops and training; and personnel exchange.

Another MoC was signed between India's Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to deepen the bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture and food industries that includes food

value chain networking and protecting geographical indication (GI) of agriculture products.

An MoU signed between National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport and Urban Development would enable cooperation between the two organisations in promoting investment in infrastructure projects in railways and transportation; port ter-

toKYo, NovEmbEr 11 (rEutErs): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday praised the "growing convergence" of views between his nation and Japan, saying strong ties will enable them to play a stabilising role in Asia.

India, Japan and the United States have been building security ties by holding three-way naval exercises, but Trump's "America First" campaign promise has stirred concern about a reduced U.S. engagement in the region an approach that could draw Modi and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe closer.

Modi told Japanese business leaders that the 21st century is Asia's century, urging them to invest in India.

"The growing convergence of views between Japan and India and our special strategic and global partnership have the capacity to drive the regional economy and development, and stimulate global growth," he said.

"Strong India and strong Japan will not only enrich our two nations, it will also be a stabilising factor in Asia and the world."

The nuclear agreement, which Modi and Abe are set to sign later in the day, minals; toll roads; airport terminals; urban development; logistics; and any supporting industries for these sectors. It would also enable the two sides to explore opportunities to set up a joint fund.

Another MoU between India's Ministry of Textiles and the Japan Textiles Products Quality and Technology Centre (QTEC) is aimed at improving quality of Indian textiles for conformity assessment for the Japanese market.

follows a similar one with the United States in 2008 which gave India access to nuclear technology after decades of isolation, a step seen as the first big move to build India into a regional counterweight to China.

The Yomiuri newspaper said the main accord will likely be accompanied by a separate document stipulating that Japan, the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, will suspend nuclear cooperation if India conducts a nuclear test. Initially, Japan wanted that inserted into the agreement itself, but India resisted, it said.

India has declared a moratorium on such testing since its last explosions in 1998.

The two countries have also been trying to close a deal on the supply of amphibious rescue aircraft US-2 to the Indian navy, which would be one of Japan's first sales of military equipment since Abe lifted a 50-year ban on arms exports.

India's Defence Acquisitions Council met earlier this week to consider the purchase of 12 of the planes made

by ShinMaywa Industries, but failed to reach a decision.

One MoC seeks to promote bilateral cooperation in the field of art and culture which includes exchange of exhibitions and personnel in performing and visual arts; cooperation in preserving the cultural heritage; exchange of exhibitions and experts from museums; and to promote people-to-people exchanges.

An MoC between India's Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology seeks to provide a framework for bilateral cooperation in the field of sports ahead of the forthcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

An MoU was also signed between the Gujarat government and Hyogo prefectural government of Japan to promote mutual cooperation between them in the fields of academics, business, cultural cooperation, disaster management and environmental protection.

Rs 500/1,000 notes valid for Court denies anticipatory bail key utilities till November 14 to AAP leader in gang-rape case NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (PtI): Government today extended use of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for paying household utility bills, fuel, taxes and fees as well as purchases from co-operative stores by another 72 hours to November 14 as it struggles to make available alternative currency.

While withdrawing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes from the night of November 8-9, the government had allowed use of the old currency at government hospitals, railway ticketing, public transport, airline ticketing at airports, milk booths, crematoria/burial grounds and petrol pumps for 72 hours.

This list was later expanded to include payments for metro rail tickets, highway and road toll, purchase of medicines on doctor prescription from the government and private pharmacies, LPG gas cylinders, railway catering, electricity and water bills and ASI

monument entry tickets.

The time limit set was to expire mid-night tonight, but it has now been extended by another 72 hours, top government officials said.

The government has allowed use of the old currency to make payments at co-operative stores subject to valid identity proofs being provided. Public utility bills include only household bills. Court fee will also be allowed to be paid in old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

Old Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes will be accepted for payment of fees, charges, taxes, penalty to central and state governments, including municipalities and local bodies. Such old notes will also be accepted for payment of utility charges like water and electricity. The official said while the old notes were allowed to be accepted for highway toll payment, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has freed national highways of any toll charges till November 14.

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): A local court here on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ram Pratap Goel, accused of gang-raping a woman after luring her with a party ticket to contest MCD elections. Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Aggarwal rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Goel, saying that the custodial interrogation of applicant Goel is necessary to ascertain facts related to the case. The court observed that the complaint was registered after accused Goel started blackmailing the woman by threatening to make her sex MMS viral. Although nothing adverse in respect of the antecedents of applicant (Goel) has been stated on behalf of the prosecution yet, the probability of investigation getting hampered and witnesses being influenced cannot be ruled out, it added Complainant's counsel Pradeep Rana and Delhi Police have opposed the plea saying that the accused can tamper with the evidence. The other accused in the case is AAP MLA Rakhi Birla's father Bhupender. An FIR was registered against Goel and Bhupender for allegedly raping the 24-year-old married woman. The accused, meanwhile, have termed the allegations as "baseless" and said the case is politically motivated.

Countrywide campus protests on Nov 15 for missing JNU student NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (IANs): The JNU Students Union (JNUSU) on Friday called upon major student organisations across the country to hold campus protests on November 14-15 and to intensify the fight for Najeeb Ahmed, student of the Jawaharlal Nehru University missing from campus here for last 26 days.

At a conference organised on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus by the students union denounced the varsity's inaction and "total abdication"

in its duty to bring the culprits to justice, and deliberated the ways in which the protest movement could be intensified.

The JNU students have been staging protests since Ahmed went missing after an alleged brawl with a few activists of the RSS's students organisation Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at the campus hostel on the night of October 14-15.

"We have organised the national leaders' meet as a step towards intensification of our movement to fight for

Najeeb. We have decided upon reaching out to campuses countrywide and tomorrow we will be burning effigies of the Home Minister and Vice-Chancellor (VC) in the campus," Rama Naga, former JNUSU General Secretary, told IANS. The agitation is likely to spread to Hyderabad Central University (HCU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and campuses in other states.

The leaders spoke about the impunity with which ABVP students, who report-

edly assaulted Ahmed, have been shielded from any inquiry and meaningful interrogation by both the Delhi Police and JNU authorities.

They also spoke about ABVP's increasing hooliganism on the campus and the accused it of enjoying patronage of the central government.

"The government of the day has waged a war on campuses and on all marginalised sections and dissenting voices across the country. Yesterday it was Rohith Vemula pushed to

suicide, then it was JNU students charged with sedition and jailed, today it is Najeeb," a statement released by the JNUSU on Friday said.

The meet was attended by many student parties such as far-Left All India Students Association (AISA), the CPI-M affiliated Students Federation of India (SFI), the CPI's All India Students Federation (AISF), and the Congress backed National Students Union of India (NSUI), among others.

Smog lifts, but companies' view of polluted Delhi skies is dim NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 11 (rEutErs): As New Delhi grappled with its worst smog in 17 years, the head of India's largest mobile payment firm got on a plane and left, one of thousands of professionals escaping pollution that could cost the capital and the broader economy dear.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of PayTM payment start-up, left last Sunday for a temporary stay in Mumbai, worried about the impact of hazardous clouds of dust, smoke and fumes that hang over Delhi during the winter months.

"It became very visibly clear that it is going to be tough in Delhi, especially with young kids," Sharma said in Mumbai.

"We were worried that it could create long-term

(health) problems."

His company, which has considered moving from its base outside Delhi, has installed air purifiers, brought in plants and masks and offered extra health assistance.

Telecoms operator Idea Cellular and others have allowed more employees to work at home, and hired buses so that car traffic is reduced - all at their own expense.

A few companies are thriving from the heavy smog hanging over the city earlier this month - providers of face masks and air purifiers have seen sales soar.

But others, like the car manufacturers, are in the firing line of local and national politicians who want to reduce the deadly haze,

while estate agents and tour operators have complained of a slowdown in business.

Delhi, home to around 17 million people, is among the fastest growing states in India. Its $84 billion economy has been expanding at more than 8 percent for the past two years, faster than a 7.4 percent national average.

Its air quality, meanwhile, has deteriorated, even by the standards of a country with some of the world's most polluted cities. Conditions had improved by Friday, but the problem is perennial and has been particularly acute this winter.

Companies have yet to tot up the cost of a week of coughing, spluttering and watering eyes, but local industry lobby group

Assocham estimates "several billions of dollars" of new investments are under threat.

A study by the World Bank shows Asia's thirdlargest economy lost 8.5 percent of its GDP in 2013 due to air pollution.

"WORST ON EARTH" Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), a global real estate services firm serving large corporates, said some clients were reconsidering Delhi as a base, as costs of working there rise.

"This is increasing their operational costs as they are being made to spend more to provide a healthy workplace to their employees," said Santosh Kumar, a senior executive at the firm.

Delhi's image is deteriorating more widely, a

headache for tour promoters and a government touting "Brand India".

Some local tour operators say they are already receiving requests from overseas partners to redraw the itinerary of foreign tourists to avoid even an overnight stay in Delhi. Business travellers say they are cancelling trips.

"The ongoing tourism season, which is yet to pick up, could see a maximum hit," Assocham said.

Expatriates are also thinking twice about living in the Indian capital. JLL's Kumar said more smog could see foreigners packing their bags, a blow to real estate as well as employment.

Lisa Akerman, a Swedish national who lives in an affluent Delhi neighbourhood, said authorities

needed to do much more than they were.

Akerman moved to the city two years ago with her family and has taken measures to ensure clean air in her apartment for her two small daughters. Still, the choking smog left her worried about their health.

Earlier this week, she decided to take them out of the city for a while.

"The pollution level is too much for the children," she said by 'phone from Goa, where she is camping with her kids. "While I love Delhi, its air quality will be a major consideration in deciding whether we want to extend our stay here."

public anger at pollution that has caused choking, wheezing and breathlessness.

Licences are being withdrawn for diesel-powered vehicles older than 15 years, and authorities are considering resuming an "odd-even" scheme, under which cars can only travel in the city on alternate days depending on their registration number.

Those steps, and the risk that India's courts will impose stricter rules on emissions, are a potential blow to foreign and domestic carmakers, some of whom have asked for greater clarity.

But not everyone is complaining about the NOT EVERYONE LOSES smog.

The local government Japan's Daikin has seen has taken steps to reduce sales of air purifiers intraffic amid widespread crease by up to three times

since the Hindu Diwali festival, and its stock that had been expected to last until March is exhausted.

To meet growing orders, the Osaka-based air-conditioner maker increased shipments from its Thai factory by 50 percent.

Nirvana India, which distributes the Vogmask face mask in South Asia, reported soaring sales.

It sold 300 to 400 pieces a week around this time last year, but since Diwali at the end of October, it has sold 5,000-8,000 a week and is seeking emergency stocks from Singapore, China and Korea.

"Earlier, only expats, patients and government departments would buy these masks," said chief executive Jaidhar Gupta. "Now everyone is buying."

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Trump and Obama set campaign rancor aside

WASHINGTON, NOvember 11 (re uTerS): U.S. President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met on Thursday for the first time, setting aside the deep rancor that dominated the long campaign season to discuss the transition to the Republican’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Their 90-minute meeting in the White House Oval Office, with no aides present, took place just two days after Trump’s stunning election victory over Hillary Clinton, Obama’s former secretary of state.

Obama, who vigorously campaigned for his fellow Democrat to succeed him, had repeatedly called Trump unfit for the president’s office, while the businessman had often dubbed Obama’s eightyear tenure a “disaster.”

But in separate postelection remarks on Wednesday, both men appeared to seek to help the country heal from a bitterly divisive campaign, and that tone continued into the White House meeting.

Seated next to Obama after their talks, Trump told reporters: “We really discussed a lot of situations, some wonderful, some difficulties.” He said Obama explained “some of the really great things that have been achieved,” but did not elaborate.

“It was a great honor being with you and I look forward to being with you

for the White House and dangerously unprepared to have access to U.S. nuclear codes.

Asked at a White House briefing on Thursday whether the meeting had eased any of the concerns about Trump that Obama expressed during the campaign, Earnest said: “The president was never in a position to choose a successor. The American people chose his successor.”

President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss transition plans in the White House Oval Office in Washington. (REUTERS Photo)

many, many more times in the future,” Trump said, with a tone of deference.

Trump, a real estate magnate who has never held political office, later met congressional leaders, including U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican who has had a strained relationship with Trump.

“A fantastic day in D.C. Met with President Obama for first time. Really good meeting, great chemistry,” Trump said on Twitter late on Thursday.

Amid the efforts to bury hatchets, there were protests in a string of U.S. cities against Trump for a second day on Thursday as demonstrators expressed concern that Trump’s election would be a blow to civil rights.

“Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” Trump tweeted.

Obama said he had offered assistance to Trump over the next couple of

months, and urged the country to unite to face its challenges.

“We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, then the country succeeds,” Obama said, adding he and Trump discussed a range of domestic and foreign policy issues and details related to the transition period.

“The meeting might have been at least a little less awkward than some might have expected,”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters.

The two men’s relaxed, cordial demeanor in front of the cameras was in stark contrast to the months of harsh rhetoric during the campaign.

Trump used Obama as a punching bag during his campaign speeches, repeatedly attacking the president’s policies from healthcare to an Iran nuclear deal. Both Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attacked Trump as temperamentally unfit

ON THE HILL Trump went from the White House to Capitol Hill for meetings with Republican congressional leaders, most of whom had a frosty relationship with Trump during a campaign where he tore into the Washington establishment.

Republicans retained control of the Senate and House in Tuesday’s election, meaning at least some of Trump’s agenda may find friendly terrain in Congress.

Trump emerged from meeting Ryan, along with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, to tell reporters: “We’re going to lower taxes as you know.” He added, in reference to Obama’s signature healthcare reform of 2010 that is a common target of Trump and congressional Republicans: “We’re going to fix healthcare and make it more affordable and better.”

Ryan has sought to smooth over his relationship with Trump and his

spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said he was “excited for the potential for unified Republican government and eager to get to work with Mr. Trump.”

Trump also met for an hour with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying afterward that he had told the senator his top three priorities were better control of immigration and the borders, healthcare and jobs.

In what seemed like a possible early pivot by Trump, controversial campaign proposals, including his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, disappeared for a while on Thursday from the president-elect’s campaign website. His campaign later blamed a technical problem and the statements were returned to the website.

Trump declined to respond when asked by reporters after meeting with McConnell if he would ask Congress to ban Muslims from entering the country.

On another Trump campaign pledge, a top Trump aide, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told NPR he did not expect him to spend much time trying to make Mexico pay for a proposed wall along the U.S. southern border, but “it was a great campaign device.”

Such proposals, along with his free-wheeling tone and frequent insults of critics and rivals,

earned Trump the disapproval of not just Democrats but many in the Republican establishment during the election campaign.

Trump’s camp also showed signs it was beginning building a government, with names for top Cabinet positions being leaked. Steve Bannon, Trump’s campaign chief, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus could be named chief of staff.

Trump has long hinted that his Treasury secretary could be campaign finance chair Steven Mnuchin, formerly of Goldman Sachs, but there were reports U.S. Representative Jeb Hensarling and J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon were also being considered.

Thursday’s start at fence-mending also included meetings between Vice President Joe Biden and his future successor, Pence, and between the current and future first ladies.

Michelle Obama met privately with Trump’s wife, Melania, in the White House residence. Michelle Obama has raised two daughters in the White House and the Trumps have a son, 10 year-old Barron. The two women discussed raising children at the White House, Earnest said.

“Melania liked Mrs. O a lot!,” Donald Trump said on Twitter.

Life-threatening superbug spreads globally in cystic fibrosis patients Most child deaths concentrated in LONdON, NOvember 11 (reuTerS): A multidrug-resistant superbug infection that can cause life-threatening illness in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) has spread globally and is becoming increasingly virulent, British researchers said on Thursday.

In a study published in the journal Science, the researchers said the bug, a species of multidrugresistant bacteria called Mycobacterium abscessus (M. abscessus), can cause severe pneumonia and is particularly dangerous for

patients with CF and other lung diseases.

“The bug initially seems to have entered the patient population from the environment, but we think it has recently evolved to become capable of jumping from patient to patient, getting more virulent as it does so,” said Andres Floto, a Cambridge University professor who co-led the study.

Cystic fibrosis is a relatively rare genetic disorder that affects the respiratory, digestive and reproductive systems. It causes patients’ lungs to become clogged up

with thick, sticky mucus and makes them vulnerable to respiratory infections.

In this study, researchers from Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequenced the genomes of more than 1,000 samples of mycobacteria from 517 CF patients at specialist clinics in Europe, the United States and Australia.

They found that the majority of patients had picked up transmissible forms of M. abscessus that had spread globally.

Further analysis suggested the infection may

be transmitted within hospitals via contaminated surfaces and through the air, the researchers said presenting a serious challenge to infection control practices in hospitals.

Because the superbug has already become resistant to many antibiotics, it is also extremely difficult to treat successfully, Floto said. Patients infected with it need 18 months or more of treatment with a combination of powerful antibiotics, and fewer than one in three cases is cured.

Julian Parkhill of the

Sanger Institute, who worked on this study, said that while its findings were alarming for CF patients, they did also provide a degree of hope.

“Now that we know the extent of the problem and are beginning to understand how the infection spreads, we can start to respond,” he said.

The sequencing data has thrown up potential new drug targets, he explained, and the researchers now plan to focus on seeking to develop new medicines to beat the bug.

Don’t forget Crimea & Aleppo, German minister warns Trump berLIN, NOvember 11 (reuTerS): Germany supports a dialogue between the United States and Russia, but Donald Trump must not ignore Russian actions in Crimea and Aleppo when he sits down with President Vladimir Putin, the German defence minister said on Friday.

Speaking at an event in Berlin, Ursula von der Leyen also said that NATO would be “dead” if any one of its members refused to come to the defence of another that was under attack.

Trump, who defeated Demo-

crat Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election this week, praised Putin repeatedly during his campaign and questioned whether the United States should defend NATO allies that were not shouldering their fair share of the financial burden in the alliance.

“It is a good thing when the new American president immediately seeks a dialogue with the Russian president. It is good and it has our full support,” von der Leyen, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, said.

“What can’t happen is forget-

ting - forgetting the annexation of Crimea, forgetting the hybrid war in Ukraine which continues, forgetting the bombardment of Aleppo,” she said.

Trump’s election has deeply unsettled the government in Berlin, which has been the driving force behind EU sanctions against Russia for Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine and has strongly condemned the bombing of civilians in the rebel-held Syrian city of Aleppo

by Russian-backed forces.

Russia is hoping the united front between Europe and Wash-

ington on sanctions will crumble under Trump. On Thursday, a Kremlin spokesman described Trump and Putin’s approach to foreign policy as “phenomenally close”.

Von der Leyen acknowledged that Trump’s victory meant Germany and Europe would likely have to take on more responsibility for their own defence.

But she said the German government was still struggling to answer the question of what a Trump presidency meant, saying “we know next to nothing”.

Xi vows zero tolerance for separatist movements

China’s President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a conference commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Sun Yat-Sen, widely recognised as the father of modern China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 11. (REUTERS Photo)

beIJING, NOvember 11 (reuTerS): China will never allow any part of its territory to break off, President Xi Jinping said on Friday, within a week of reining in Hong Kong independence moves and ignor-

ing Taiwan's urging to heed democratic aspirations in the Asian financial hub.

Xi made the comments at an event in Beijing's Great Hall of the People to mark 150 years since the birth of Sun Yat-Sen, Chi-

na's latest bid to exploit the legacy of a man many view as the founder of the modern nation.

"We will never allow any person, any group, any political party, at any time, in any way, to split from

China any part of its territory," said Xi, who is also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party.

"To uphold our national sovereignty and territorial integrity, to never let our country split again and to never let history repeat itself - these are our solemn promises to our people and to our history."

China's parliament on Monday passed a ruling effectively barring two elected Hong Kong proindependence politicians from taking office, Beijing's most direct intervention in the territory's affairs since the 1997 handover.

Recalling Sun Yat-Sen's belief in a united nation, Xi urged people in China and Taiwan, as well as ethnic Chinese around the world, to oppose independence for Taiwan.

"Any Taiwanese political party, organization or individual – regardless of what they have advocated

for in the past – as long as they recognise the "1992 consensus," as long as they recognise the mainland and Taiwan are one China, we are willing to associate with them," Xi added.

The "1992 consensus", agreed with Taiwan's previous China-friendly Nationalist government, acknowledges Taiwan and China are part of a single China, but allows both sides to interpret who is the ruler.

Beijing has halted official communication with self-ruled Taiwan because the government of President Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), refuses to acknowledge this "one China" principle.

In the Chinese capital this month, Xi met Hung Hsiu-chu, the chief of Taiwan's opposition Nationalists, who has said the party holds out the possibility of a peace pact with China.

10 Asian & African nations: study

Homeless children reach out from behind a fence as they wait to collect free clothes at a local charity in Siliguri. (REUTERS File Photo)

KuALA LumPur, NOvember 11 (THOmSON reuTerS FOuNdATION): Sixty percent of the world’s 5.9 million children who died before their fifth birthday last year were in 10 countries in Asia and Africa, said a study published on Friday, prompting calls for action to reduce the mortality.

The study published in The Lancet medical journal said the latest data highlights the inequality in children’s death among the 194 countries it studied, even though the number of under-five deaths has fallen by 4 million compared to 2010.

Of the 5.9 million deaths last year, 3.6 million happened in 10 Asian and African countries - India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, China, Angola, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Tanzania.

The two leading causes were complications due to premature birth and pneumonia, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization.

The researchers said child survival has improved substantially, although countries failed to meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goal to cut the rate of under-five deaths by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. The rate fell by 53% over the period.

The slow progress to reduce newborn deaths - in the first 28 days of life - hampered the MDG target, the researchers said. Of the 5.9 million under-five deaths in 2015, 2.7 million were newborns.

“The problem is that this progress is uneven across all countries, meaning a high child death rate persists in many countries,” said the study’s lead author Li Liu, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the U.S. “Substantial progress is needed for countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia to achieve the child survival target of the Sustainable Development Goals,” she added. Under the Sustainable Development Goals, which replaced the MDGs last year, all countries aim to reduce under-five mortality to no more than 25 deaths per 1,000 births by 2030.

Hand-held ‘breathalyser’ could now diagnose diabetes LONdON, NOvember 11 (IANS): Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new, portable breath analyser that could someday help doctors diagnose diabetes without painful pinpricks, needles or other unpleasant methods.

Many studies examining the hallmarks of diabetes in exhaled breath have shown that elevated levels of acetone are strongly linked to diabetes.

Detecting the concentrations of any given substance in breath in a simple way, however, is a major challenge.

Breath contains a complex mix of compounds, including water, carbon dioxide and methane, that can

throw results off.

A technique called mass spectrometry can do the job, but it is not very practical for point-of-care testing. Robert Peverall from University of Oxford and colleagues wanted to fill that void.

The researchers created a hand-held device with an adsorbent polymer that can trap acetone from exhaled breath, then release it into a cavity where a laser probes its concentration.

“The device features a seven cm long high finesse optical cavity as an optical sensor that is coupled to a miniature adsorption preconcentrator containing 0.5 g of polymer material,” the researchers said.

They tested the accu-

racy of the device on the breath of healthy participants under different conditions, such as after overnight fasting or exercising, and compared results with mass spectrometry readings.

The measurements were a close match and covered a wide range of concentrations, including those that would suggest a patient has undiagnosed Type-1 diabetes, or has problems controlling their blood glucose, said the study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Analytical Chemistry.

Adding to the practicality of the device, the researchers said it could be re-used many times.

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brazil, uruguay march towards 2018, Argentina crash again

MoNtevideo, No veMber 11 (aFP): Brazil thrashed arch-rivals Argentina to tighten their grip on South America's 2018 World Cup qualification campaign as Uruguay maintained their push towards the finals with a hardfought defeat of Ecuador.

Barcelona superstar Neymar outshone clubmate Lionel Messi with his 50th international goal for Brazil in Belo Horizonte as the five-time World Cup winners romped to a 3-0 win in the Estadio Mineirao.

It was a sweet return to the venue for Brazil, who were humiliated 7-1 at the same ground by Germany in the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup. Neymar's landmark strike was sandwiched by a spectacular effort from Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho and a second-half finish from China-based midfielder Paulinho.

The win was a remarkable fifth consecutive qualifying victory under the reign

of new coach Tite, who took over following the sacking of Dunga in June following Brazil's Copa America Centenario debacle, when they failed to advance from the group stage.

Brazil now have 24 points from 11 games, one clear of second-placed Uruguay who have 23 points.

The Brazilians are six points clear of third-placed Colombia and seven points clear of Ecuador and Chile, who are level on 17 points after 11 games.

Argentina meanwhile are languishing outside the qualifying places in sixth with 16 points.

The two-time world champions -- who have taken just two points from their past four qualifiers -- now face a crucial game at home to Colombia next Tuesday which they must win to avoid falling further off the pace.

Uruguay meanwhile stayed firmly on Brazil's shoulder with a 2-1 defeat of Ecuador at Montevideo's

Lionel Messi and Neymar vie for the ball during the first half. Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

Estadio Centenario.

The Uruguayans took the lead on 12 minutes when former Liverpool defender Sebastian Coates bundled in a corner from

close range for his first international goal.

Espanyol striker Felipe Caicedo then rounded off a sweeping Ecuador counter-attack to equalise just

before half-time. But Uruguay responded immediately, Diego Rolan stabbing home a low finish on the stroke of half-time to restore the home side's lead.

- Injury scare for Bravo Elsewhere Thursday, Copa America Centenario champions Chile had captain and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to thank for a

hard-earned point in a 0-0 draw against Colombia in Barranquilla.

The Chileans, missing injured Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez, needed two superb saves from Bravo to keep Colombia at bay in a gritty game played in sweltering conditions.

But Bravo's display was tempered by an injury which forced the Manchester City goalkeeper off the field midway through the second half.

Bravo had earlier produced two fine blocks to deny Oscar Murillo and Miguel Borja as Colombia were struggled to break the deadlock.

Colombia's Argentinian coach Jose Pekerman bemoaned a lack of precision in front of goal but was buoyed by the return of talismanic striker Radamel Falcao, who was introduced as a half-time substitute.

"We tried everything and we had chances but we lacked precision," Pekerman said.

"But the most important fact of the game was the return of Falcao."

In other games, Paraguay suffered a 4-1 mauling against Peru in Asuncion to derail their qualification campaign.

Paraguay took an early lead through Cristian Riveros after nine minutes but Peru hit back with secondhalf goals from Christian Ramos, Edison Flores, Christian Cueva and an Edgar Benitez own goal to run out convincing winners.

Paraguay coach Francisco Arce attempted to put a positive spin on his team's loss. "We're still in the race to qualify," Arce said. "We don't think we're dead, we just need to pick ourselves up and get on with it," he added.

Paraguay, who are two points outside the qualifying positions, face Bolivia away in their next game.

Venezuela meanwhile scored their first win of the qualifiers with a 5-0 thrashing at home to Bolivia, with Josef Martinez scoring a hat-trick.

Wade beats Heat in Miami Gutierrez confirms his exit from Haas F1 team return, durant streak ends

Dwyane Wade #3 of the Chicago Bulls waves to the crowd during the first quarter of the game against the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena on November 10 in Miami, Florida. (Getty Images)

MiaMi, NoveMber 11 (aFP): Dwyane Wade made two clutch free throws in the final seconds to help lift the Chicago Bulls to a 98-95 win over his former team in his first game back in Miami.

Wade spent 13 seasons with the Heat before joining his hometown Bulls on a two-year deal worth an estimated $47 million. His return to Miami on Thursday night marked his first visit to AmericanAirlines Arena since his departure.

"What a game," Wade said. "I am glad it is over, but more important I am glad we got a win." Wade finished with 13 points, seven rebounds and four assists in 32 minutes of playing time.

But his two free throws with 13 seconds left on the clock helped seal the victory for the Bulls in front of a crowd of 19,600.

Jimmy Butler had 20 points and Robin Lopez and Rajon Rondo added 16 points each as the Bulls improved to 5-4.

Hassan Whiteside led Miami with 20 points and 20 rebounds. It was his sixth double-double in seven games this season.

Wade had seven points, three assists and three rebounds in the first half as the teams played to a 5353 tie. There were 12 lead changes in the first half.

Through three quarters, it was a 70-70 tie. The teams went through 18 lead changes in the first three quarters. The teams were so closely matched through three quarters that they even had the same shooting percentage -- 41.5 percent on 27-for-65 from the floor. Heat point guard Goran Dragic injured his left ankle in the third quar-

ter when he came down on the foot of Chicago forward Doug McDermott. Dragic did not return and finished with six points and four assists in 22 minutes.

In Denver, Stephen Curry was back to his old self, hitting seven threepointers en route to 33 points, and Golden State took an early lead and then coasted to a 125-101 win over the Denver Nuggets.

A week ago Curry went zero-for-10 in a 117-97 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.

On Thursday, Curry also finished with seven assists and five rebounds in just 30 minutes and Klay Thompson scored 19 points.

- Durant streak snapped Kevin Durant had 18 points and saw his streak of scoring 20 or more points end at 72 straight games. It's tied with Michael Jordan for the fourth longest in NBA history. But Durant wasn't bothered by the end of the streak. "It really didn't mean a thing for me," he said. "I think it was cool for the fans to see, but for me I was going out there and doing what I'm supposed to do.

"It was cool while it lasted, up there with some great names, but I have bigger goals in mind."

Rookie Jamal Murray had 14 points to lead the Nuggets, who were coming off a five-game road trip and playing just their second home game in the first three weeks of the season.

In Milwaukee, Anthony Davis scored 30 points as New Orleans won for the first time this season, beating Milwaukee Bucks 112106 at the Bradley Center.

Davis hit 12-of-25 shots and went eight-for-eight from the free throw line while also grabbing eight rebounds. He scored 12 of his points in the fourth quarter for the Pelicans, who shot 43.8 percent from the field. The Pelicans dropped their first eight games of the season.

Sao PaULo, NoveMber 11 (reUterS): Mexican Formula One driver Esteban Gutierrez accepted on Friday that he would not be racing for the U.S.-owned Haas team next year.

"Dear friends, I want to share with you that I will no longer be with Haas F1 team for the next season," the 25-year-old said in a statement on his Facebook page. The announcement came after Renault's Danish driver Kevin Magnus-

sen was widely reported to have signed a multi-year deal to join Haas as partner to France's Romain Grosjean.

Gutierrez, who has not scored a point in 19 races so far this year, thanked the Ferrari-powered team and owner Gene Haas for the opportunity to drive for the F1 newcomers in their debut season.

"I wish them all the best. There are two races left, which I intend to enjoy

to the fullest and as always, I'll give my best," he said.

Haas principal Guenther Steiner said at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Thursday that he expected the team to announce their 2017 lineup within days..

Gutierrez's chances of staying in Formula One look bleak, with only Mercedes-powered Manor now having a declared vacancy after their French driver Esteban Ocon was announced on Thursday

as part of Force India's 2017 lineup.

Struggling Sauber have yet to confirm their drivers but both Brazilian Felipe Nasr and Sweden's Marcus Ericsson look likely to stay.

Gutierrez had a tough time with the Swiss team in 2013 and 2014, despite scoring his only points to date with them in 2013.

The Mexican spent 2015 as a Ferrari reserve and has always driven for Ferraripowered teams.

McGregor fires up NYC ahead of UFC205

New York, NoveMber 11 (aP): Conor McGregor looked he may have strolled straight off a New York fashion show catwalk in his white Gucci mink coat as he raised a steel chair high over his head and took aim on Eddie Alvarez's skull.

UFC president Dana White interjected and snatched the top of the chair before McGregor clocked his UFC 205 main event foe. McGregor could only smirk as he asked a frothing crowd at Madison Square Garden how much a chair shot would cost him in a fine.

McGregor was once docked $150,000 for tossing a water bottle at a press conference. He could keep the cash this time — McGregor had his eyes and hands on Alvarez's lightweight championship belt.

McGregor was tardy to Thursday's press conference — hey, New York only waited more than two decades for a UFC debut, so what's 15 more minutes — and Alvarez had stormed off waiting for the challenger to show up.

McGregor arrived quite fashionably late, skipped across the stage, and promptly swiped the belt Alvarez had left behind at the podium.

"This is what confidence looks like," McGregor said as thousands of fans erupted in cheers.

Banished for years by the state, Ultimate Fighting Championship is stoked for its legalized return and loaded UFC 205 card with three title fights and some of its biggest stars on Saturday night.

UFC president Dana White, centre, stands between fighters Eddie Alvarez, left, and Conor McGregor during a news conference Thursday ahead of Saturday's UFC 205 in New York. (AP Photo)

McGregor, the Irish fighter with the brash public persona that made him one of UFC's top draws, could have sold out the Garden on the strength of his name alone on the marquee.

McGregor and UFC seem poised to smash the arena's gate record set in a 1999 boxing match between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield. The bout drew $13.5 million and more than 21,000 fans stuffed the Garden.

UFC offered a sneak preview of the insanity ahead when McGregor, Alvarez, UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley, UFC women's strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk and other fighters joined White on the stage.

New York fans lined up outside MSG more than three hours before they were allowed inside

for the public press conference.

Fox Sports 1 taped an episode of a sports debate show outside the arena to keep fans occupied. The bars and restaurants in the immediate area around MSG plastered with ads to come watch, drink and party on Saturday night were as ubiquitous as the Duane Reades on every corner.

Alverez booed off stage The "Notorious" Irishman remained backstage once White kicked off the press conference. Alvarez, making his first title defence since he smoked Rafael Dos Anjos for the belt in July, grew impatient waiting. Fighting out of Philly, Alvarez taunted the New York crowd that about booed him off the stage.

Alvarez barked, "Where's my opponent? Where's he at?"

"When he comes, you give me a

call," Alvarez said.

He dropped the mic and walked off the stage.

McGregor — who sank a basket on the MSG court a day earlier — skipped out in delight in an outfit straight out of central casting of the old HBO show "Hookers at the Point." The predominantly young, white and male crowd freaked out for the biggest late entrance at the arena since Willis Reed limped through the tunnel in the 1970 NBA finals.

"I operate on my own time, and I'm running early on my time," McGregor said.

The faceoff melded the titlefight gravitas of the 1971 Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali bout at the Garden with the steel-chair silliness of Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs.

Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff in the first WrestleMania.

"This is not like any other fight," White said. "This is a massive enormous show."

UFC 209 announced for Brooklyn The promotion wasted no time in announcing it would return for UFC 209 on Feb. 11 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. No fights were announced.

State lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed in April to end the two-decade old ban following years of failed efforts

by MMA supporters. The law authorizing the sport took effect in September.

"Finally we're here," White shouted. "The biggest, baddest fight card in UFC history!"

public discourse

education department Needs reformation

Renponi Kithan

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s an aggrieved teacher who had to participate in the First and Second phase of NSSATA Agitation on account of nonpayment of salary for 6 months, coming back to class now after missing nearly a month, inclusive of Durga Puja Holidays etc, my heart is heavy, mind busy and I am totally trapped in the process of imparting the best knowledge to the students as deserved by them.

But unfortunately, although I am able to complete the Syllabus as required, yet, a sense of dissatisfaction lies within my soul since fast track completion of the syllabus is not sufficient enough for a true teacher to declare 100% satisfaction.

To the Government who pays my

salary regularly or irregularly, I can submit my performance record as satisfactory but to the King in Heaven above, I cannot truthfully justify that I did my duty to the fullest. Now, coming to that, please do not limit your judgment to the fact that Teachers' agitation alone is the cause of my grievances.

We received textbooks late - only in the last week of April. Before we received it, we tried arranging old books and taught with it but since we could not arrange for all the students, it did not serve the desired purpose. So, classes started full swing albeit with textbooks on the desk only by May. Certain subject textbooks having as many as 23 lessons were never received by the students even till today.

With summer vacation for a month, we hardly had 5 months to do justice for the students. But tell me,

how can any teacher impart quality education without textbooks and salary for months delayed altogether?

How can the students learn this way when everything has to be dumped on them within a limited period of time? We are talking about Education and the process of learning; not food that one can digest even if chewed in hurry. I bear a guilty conscience for wasting their academic year like this.

But this blame and responsibility is collective. As a teacher and a mother, I feel the greatest pain for the students from Eastern Nagaland who come out from their villages leaving behind their childhood and their families to work as helpers in people's house with a dream to atleast receive education but end up in the vicious cycle of such rotten and rejected quality of Education. We as Elders, as Citizens

and most importantly as fellow human beings are grievously punishing them for no fault of theirs and destroying a generation which will only be a by-product of such a rotten system, should we so remain mere silent spectators indifferent to this issue just because our children study in expensive private schools and not Govt schools. This problem is not the problem of mere SSA or RMSA teachers but is inclusive of all the teachers whose schools received textbooks late in April only. Just because they are not writing or are getting paid regularly does not mean they will deny this fact. I am sure any sincere teacher will agree to this fact that cries out the injustice served to the Government School students.

This academic year is ending but we still have 2017 to welcome. I hum-

bly request the Government and all the student bodies to kindly check and deliver a system of Education where such undue injustice and harassment does not occur in future.

Please do come and check teachers keeping proxies, Midday Meals and teachers' quality of teaching also.

Sadly, numerous announcements and press releases on such issues were read in the Newspapers many a time but the real problem at the grass root level needs to be seen and felt to understand the effects on the innocent students who are the endreceivers of such issues that plague the education system.

A nation may delay infrastructural development but Human Resource Development should not be delayed and compromised. Neglecting the students' academic life will bring di-

saster for the State in future. SSA and RMSA teachers are now debt-ridden teachers, not just to shop keepers but also our tithes which have piled up! "Modern slaves are not bound in chains but in debts" is how a famous saying goes and as such the affected teachers can be accurately described as "modern slaves" forcefully given birth to by the Govt due to its apathy.

Teachers' irregular salary is not just an issue of empty sugar and salt containers at the homes of the affected teachers but is a grave issue of the defective quality of the education system in our State which needs to be seriously checked. The entire system is in need of an overhaul with corrective measures formulated and implemented for the future of the children and the welfare of the Society as a whole.

Kuknalim!

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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen passes away

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egendary Canadian singersongwriter Leonard Cohen died at the age 82 according to his official profile on the social network Facebook. "We have lost one of the most venerated and prolific visionaries of music," the text said on Thursday night, which did not report the place or cause of death. A highly-respected artist known for his poetic and lyrical music, Cohen wrote a number of popular songs including the oftencovered "Hallelujah", CNN reported.

Sony Music Canada tweeted, "The Sony Music Canada family joins the world in mourning Leonard Cohen's passing." His 14th studio album, "You Want It Darker", had just been released on October 21. Apart from his successful musical career, Cohen also wrote novels and numerous collections of poetry. A memorial will be held in Los Angeles at a later date, the Facebook post added.

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ette Midler, Justin Timberlake and Russell Crowe are among the stars to have paid tribute to Leonard Cohen. The 'Hallelujah' hitmaker has passed away at the age of 82 and the hugely influential singer-and-poet has sparked a flood of videos, lyric quotations and heartfelt messages on social media.

Bette posted: "Leonard Cohen has died. Another magical voice stilled." Justin described the singer as "a spirit and soul beyond compare", while Carole King

simply wrote 'R.I.P' Leonard Cohen and Canadian singer Alanis Morissette typed his name alongside a crying emoji.

Russell Crowe thanked the 'Suzanne' singer for his work. He posted: "Dear Leonard Cohen, thanks for the quiet nights, the reflection, the perspective, the wry smiles and the truth #towerofsong (sic)" Former Velvet Underground member John Cale, who covered 'Hallelujah' for a 1991 tribute album - the version the late Jeff Buckley based his

famous rendition on - is "very upset" by the news.

He tweeted: "very upsetting news 2 learn of Leonard's passing. the world has 1 less gentle soul tnight. we thank u 4 the multitude of gifts u left us. jc (sic)" And Jamie Lee Curtis urged her followers to listen to Jeff's cover in tribute.

She wrote: "Listen to Jeff Buckley sing Hallelujah by the late, great Leonard Cohen. #poetryemotion (sic)" US singer-songwriter Ben Folds was another urging people to listen to Leonard's

music in tribute. He wrote: "Kids. Take a moment to listen to Leonard Cohen's song Going Home when you can.

RIP L Cohen and thank you. (sic)" Comic Sarah Silverman feels the singer's passing will point people in the direction of songs that seem fitting for the moment, likely referring to Donald Trump's recent presidential election victory. She tweeted: "RIP Leonard Cohen. Ugh. It feels pointed, this death. It's making us remember songs like Come Healing which is a good one for these days."

Canadian stars Kiefer Sutherland and Ron Howard also paid tribute to their fellow countryman.

Kiefer posted: "A brilliant Canadian artist passed today. Leonard Cohen, rest in peace. Hallelujah."And Ron tweeted: "One of my favorite singer-poets. RIP Legendary Musician Leonard Cohen.(sic)" A number of stars, including Broadway actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actress Mia Farrow simply tweeted lyrics from the singer.

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Review on the short film ‘Blissful’ Shilpa Shetty Kundra ‘proud’ about son Viaan’s TV debut

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he undying dream project of Bendang Walling (Director) and Aakum Den (Editor cum APO) under the aegis of OFF ON Production Pvt. Ltd. screened their short film with the mentors and film fellows in the recently concluded Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) 2016 held from November 3 to 6. Here is my journey with the film along with my film fellows and mentors.

Bendang Walling's finely crafted film 'Blissful' is about a boy who wants to own a bicycle.

The film stays clear of the usual practice of extracting the boy's 'cuteness' and delves into the boy's desire with the sincerity the subject deserves.

In doing so, the film takes us through an unpredictable journey with the boy.

Filmmaker Anupama Srinivasan found the film

full of surprises, never falling into the predictable trap. Filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni admired the film for not sentimentalizing the subject, as some children's films do. Bendang Walling's clarity about the subject of his film is praise worthy. It is his first film but it does not look like a first film. 'Blissful' is a well rounded film which exudes great control and clarity about its subject.

and included by his peers.

Never does the film let on that Adang is sidelined for lack of owning a bicycle. In the end when he does get one, however dilapidated it might be, his friends' reaction is what warms our hearts and steals the show.

-Mehak Jamal, a filmmaker from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir

'Blissful' is a young film that dares to be innocent yet relevant in a time of More reviews: hysteria.

'Blissful' as a film en- Vishal Langthasa, a compasses the idea of hu- filmmaker from Haflong, man desire in the most Assam innocent way. The film's protagonist (Adang) is 'Blissful' takes you back driven by his desire for a to your childhood days, bicycle so that he, too, can when you ran naked withexperience what it means out giving a damn about to own a bicycle, like his the world. friends do. The sheer joy - Tourangbam Andy, that he associates with the a filmmaker from Imphal, attainment of the bicycle is Manipur much more than owning (Abhijeet Phartiyal is a a physical commodity. It's filmmaker from Almora, Uttarakhand) also about being accepted

ctress Shilpa Shetty Kundra's four-year-old son Viaan appeared on the stage of dance-based reality TV show, leaving her proud and excited.

Viaan will be seen on the Children's Day episode of the Sony TV channel's show "Super Dancer".

Shilpa is a judge on the show with filmmaker Anurag Basu and choreographer Geeta Kapur.

The 41-year-old actress says she could completely relate to the other mothers who see their children perform on stage.

"It was so much fun to see Vi-

aan perform on the show...I could completely relate to how proud and excited the other mothers feel to watch their children perform on the show," Shilpa said in a statement.

The "Phir Milenge" actress' husband Raj Kundra planned the impromptu surprise and was waiting in the wings along with son Viaan.

Viaan will be seen performing one of his favourite songs "Tattad tattad" from filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela", starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone.

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Writer JK Rowling has hinted that the sequels to Fantastic Beasts will throw light on the relationship between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald.

After confirming that the next Fantastic Beasts movies would feature several characters from the Harry Potter universe, the British author said she would as well explore the powerful wizard's sexuality during his youth, reported Aceshowbiz.

"I'm very comfortable with the question. I can't tell you everything I would like to say because this is obviously a five-part story, there's lots to unpack in that

relationship. You will see Dumbledore as a younger man and quite a troubled man. We'll see him at that formative period of his life.

As far as his sexuality is concerned... Watch this space," Rowling said.

Till now no actor has been roped in to play the Hogwarts headmaster.

Johnny Depp will portray Grindelwald and he will make a brief appearance in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them before starring in the sequel.

Starring Eddie Redmayne as the lead character, Newt Scamander, the movie will hit the theatres on November 18.

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Pujara, Vijay hit tons as India reach 319/4 Teams evenly poised at

raJkoT, November 11 (reuTers): Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara hit centuries and shared a stand of 209 to lead India to 319-4 in their first innings on the third day of the opening test on Friday, trailing England by 218 runs.

Local boy Pujara struck his ninth test hundred before he was out for 124 while Vijay fell in the penultimate over of the day for 126 after his seventh century.

India captain Virat Kohli was unbeaten on 26 after nightwatchman Amit Mishra fell without scoring in the last over bowled by left-arm spinner Zafar Ansari. It was a tough day for England's attack. They toiled through a wicketless second session but picked up three after tea.

The touring side, who posted a huge 537 in the first innings of the fivematch series, made an early breakthrough after India had resumed on 63-0 when paceman Stuart Broad trapped Gautam Gambhir leg before with his first delivery of the morning.

The left-hander missed a straight delivery from Broad, who is playing in his 100th test, and was out for 29.

Pujara joined Vijay at the crease India's Murali Vijay (L) celebrates after scoring his century. (REUTERS) and soon found his rhythm with some

crisply driven boundaries.

The 28-year-old Pujara, considered a specialist test batsman, thrived against England's spin bowlers but needed all of his defensive guile to negotiate a hostile spell from Chris Woakes when the fast bowler hit him three times on the helmet.

Pujara scampered for a single off Woakes to get to three figures and the sparse crowd applauded.

He was finally dismissed when he guided Ben Stokes to England captain Alastair Cook at slip.

Vijay, who hit nine fours and four sixes, reached his century with two boundaries off Broad and put on 41 with Kohli for the third wicket.

Broad should have had Vijay's wicket when the batsman was dropped on 66 by 19-year-old debutant Haseeb Hameed as he dived to his left in the covers.

Pujara was given out leg before off Ansari on 86 but overturned the umpire's verdict through the Decision Review System (DRS) that is making its debut in a bilateral series in India.

Reviews showed the ball was going over the stumps.

Leg-spinner Adil Rashid got Vijay's wicket when he was caught at short leg by Hameed.

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Classic Cup: Lerie Youths, Tyrants, Addax register wins Our Correspondent

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Lerie Youth Football Club, Tyrants FC and Addax FC today registered wins on the second day of the ongoing 22nd Classic Cup 2016 here at the Kohima Local Ground.

In a closely contested first match of the day, Lerie Youth defeated Crony FC in the sudden death after both teams were locked in a 2-2 draw during the stipulated 60 minutes of play. They were also tied 4-4 in the tie breaker before LYFC prevailed in sudden death.

LYFC took an early lead within the four minutes of play through Wanghe, who went on to double the lead in 10th minute as they led 2-0 at half time.

Crony FC came back

Players in action between Tyrants FC and Keziekie FC on November 11. (Morung Photo)

strongly in the second half and scored through Vilhouvoto and Mezizoto in the 39th and 54th minute respectively.

Lerie Youth FC will now clash with the formidable Barak FC on November 16.

Tyrants FC blanked Keziekie FC by three goals in the second match. The match remained goalless for a large part of the game Tyrants scored three late goals in quick succession. Vitha Sale netted two

scoring on either side of Poito Vimeyiezo goal. All the goals came in the last 6 minutes of the game – 54th, 56th and 57th minute.

Playing the last match of the day, Addax FC overwhelmed Upper Chand-

Players of Assam Rifles and Sikkim Police in action on Friday.

Chumukedima, November 11 (mexN): In the ongoing 65th B.N. Mullik All India Police Football Championship 2016, all the teams in the different Groups, except Group A, are evenly poised in the point tables with no clear winner emerging today.

On Thursday, defending champions Punjab Police from Group A became the first to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Championship being played at the Police Complex, Chumukedima.

On Friday, Tamil Nadu Police took on CISF to vie for the second position in Group A and it was the Tamil Nadu Police who came out on top as they won by a solitary goal.

In Group B, BSF tops the table with 6 points while Manipur Police, also with 6 points, trail behind by goal difference.

In Group C, Assam Rifles clinched a November 12 Matches win by a solitary goal over a spirited Sikkim Boys FC vs Rising Star Police today. With this win, Assam Rifles Meriema (10:00 am) and Sikkim Police have 6 points each with Adroit Boys Sechii Zubza one game remaining for both the teams. vs Ziekezou SC (11:30 am) Arunachal Pradesh Police overcame Radiant FC vs Head Madhya Pradesh in Group D by 3-0 while Hunter (1:00 pm) Odisha Police defeated Tripura Police by a

similar margin in Group E. Jammu and Kashmir Police narrowly clinched a winner against Gujarat Police by a solitary goal in Group F and tops the table with 9 points and are probably eyeing a qualification to the knock-out stage.

Maharashtra Police overcame a competitive West Bengal Police in Group G by 1-0.

Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh Police in Group H were locked in an evenly poised and exciting match with Delhi Police winning by a score of 2-1.

In the same Group, Meghalaya Police overcame Goa Police through a solitary goal in the dying minutes of the match.

mari Youth Organisation 6-1 with Khriekethozo producing the first hat-trick of the tournament. The floodgates were opened within three minutes of play through Khriekethozo. He scored two more in 48th and 53rd minute while Tseizo, Kikrusetuo and Neikethozo Yhome added one each in the 29th, 32nd and 43rd minute. The lone consolation for Upper Chandmari came through Thejasezo in the 35th minute.

Addax FC will now play with Tyrants FC on November 16.

November 11 fixtures Morning (8:00 am) Haryana vs Chhatisgarh Telangana vs Bihar Kerala vs Assam Jharkhand vs Meghalaya Afternoon (2:00 pm) Uttarakhand vs Lakhsadweep BSF vs Manipur Rajasthan vs Chandigarh Mizoram vs RPF

Warsaw fans United deny Smalling could miss six more weeks Legia banned for Dortmund trip

Dimapur District Anglers’ Association meeting dimapur, November 11 (mexN): In view of the formation of Dimapur District Anglers’ Association (DDAA), a general body meeting of all the anglers under Dimapur district has been convened on Monday, November 14, 2:00 pm at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur.

According to a press release, the DDAA Constitution and Logo will be presented and approved during the meeting. All concerned anglers are informed to attend the meeting positively.

Whuorie enters semis of International tournament dimapur, November 11 (mexN): Edward Kenisezotuo Whuorie competing in an International Tennis tournament in Bhutan has entered the semifinals in the Men's singles event. He will play the finals on November 12 at Timphu. Meanwhile, reigning Tennis champion of the Niathu Sports Festival Tennis, 2016, Vilasier Khate, playing in the North East Tennis Tournament at Imphal has entered the semifinals of the Men’s singles event. He also booked a berth in the quarterfinals along with his partner Metba Phom in Men’s Doubles.

3rd Peren Inter Departmental Badminton Tourney held pereN, November 11 (dipr): The 3rd Peren District Inter Departmental Badminton Tournament was held on November 10 and 11 at Indoor Stadium, Jalukie Town with Deputy Commissioner, Peren, Zarenthung Ezung as the Chief Guest.

Speaking at the inaugural function, the DC maintained that sports is an essential component of human resource development and pointed to the need for the society to provide opportunities for youngster to develop their sporting skills which would equip them with the right mindset and values for a world of continuous and dynamic change.

Further, DC also said that the primary objective of conducting inter departmental badminton tournament is to provide a platform where the officers and the staff of different department get to mingle and interact with one another.

Guest of honour for the closing function was Superintendent of Police, Peren, V. John who gave away the cash prizes along with citation to the winners, runners-up and all the participants.

Anozo Viswentso (Jail) emerged winner in the Men’s Single category while Chungkhokai Singson (SDEO) bagged as Runner’s up. Nengneihoi Singson and Aziliu bagged 1st and 2nd position respectively in the Women’s Single category. Competitors from 20 Department participated in the tournament. A total of 87 players comprised of 64 men’s and 23 women’s took part in the tournament.

LoNdoN, November 11 (reuTers): Manchester United have denied a British newspaper report that said defender Chris Smalling could be absent until late December with a broken toe.

"We don't comment on rumours or speculation but I can say that the story in the (Daily) Mail isn't true," a club representative told Reuters on Friday without elaborating.

Smalling has not played since the 4-0 defeat at Chelsea last month.

Manager Jose Mourinho appeared to question the commitment of Smalling and left back Luke Shaw after the two England internationals missed Sunday's 3-1 win over Swansea City.

The Portuguese said Smalling "doesn't feel he can play 100 percent without

pain", adding there was "a difference between the brave, who want to be there at any cost, and the ones for whom a little pain can make a difference".

Both players were overlooked for England's World Cup qualifier against Scotland at Wembley on Friday with interim manager Gareth Southgate telling reporters "they are not fit and that's ruled them out for us this time".

He did not specify what the injuries were.

"Obviously it's a difficult one because I don't know the reason for the comments Jose's made," said Southgate.

United, who are sixth in the Premier League and trail leaders Liverpool by eight points after 11 matches, play their Manchester United's Chris Smalling during the UEFA Europa League next fixture at home to fourth- Group A match against FC Zorya Luhansk at Old Trafford, Manchester, placed Arsenal on Nov. 19.

England. (Reuters)

ZuriCh, November 11 (reuTers): Legia Warsaw have been fined 80,000 euros ($87,000) for crowd disturbances and their supporters banned from the club's next Champions League game at Borussia Dortmund on Nov. 22, UEFA said on Friday. The incidents occurred during the 5-1 defeat at Real Madrid on Oct. 18. European soccer's ruling body UEFA added that the Polish team's fans were also provisionally banned for two more away matches in European competition, deferring that additional sanction for a probationary period of one year.

Legia supporters were involved in clashes with police outside the Bernabeu stadium last month and the reverse fixture on Nov. 2 was played behind closed doors because of previous crowd disturbances. It was the fourth time they had to play behind closed doors in Europe following three punishments in the Europa League since 2013. Legia are bottom of Champions League Group F with one point from four matches, nine points behind leaders Dortmund.

Dimapur Press Club Sports Meet 2016 concludes RESULTS

dimapur, November 11 (mexN): The two days Annual Sports Meet of the Dimapur Press Club (DPC) concluded on Friday, November 11 at Indoor Stadium, Dimapur with Chandu Agarwal, former district Governor, Rotary International District 3240 and chairman IRCS Dimapur district as the chief guest.

Addressing the media persons, Agarwal acknowl-

edged the strenuous job of collecting information on the latest happenings around the world and presenting it on a public platform. He lauded the press fraternity for taking time and organising such event despite their demanding job and expressed hope that the press fraternity will continue to organise such events annually.

Applauding the winners,

Agarwal conveyed that sports, particularly team sports create purposeful and meaningful social relationships. Quoting the maxim ‘Man is a social animal’ he said men need to socially connect with others and that social interactions with friends and workmates provide us highly desirable security, belongingness and happiness. He therefore reminded the press fraternity

that happiness originating from participation in sports is highly cherished.

Meanwhile, the DPC expressed gratitude to the Editor of Morung Express and Executive Editor of Eastern Mirror for their active participation at the sports meet. The DPC also expressed gratitude to all its members for their active participation at the two days sports meet.

Badminton Singles Women • Winner- Akangjungla • Runners Up- S. Henlly Phom Badminton Men’s Singles • Winner- Asungba • Runners Up- Sopei Table Tennis Men’s Single • Winner- Asungba • Runners Up- Imti Longchar Table Tennis Men’s Doubles • Winner- Moalemba and Sopei • Runners Up- Asungba and Among Badminton Women’s Doubles • Winner- S. Henlly Phom and Amongla • Runners Up- Temshinaro and Akangjungla Badminton Mixed Doubles • Winner- Aheli Moitra and Among • Runners Up- Temshinaro and Paudi Chess • Winner- Filip Sumi • Runners Up- Moa Longkumer Carrom (Men’s) • Winner- Filip Sumi • Runners Up- Moa Longkumer Carrom (Women’s) • Winner- Temshinaro • Runners Up- S. Henlly Phom

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