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A festival to trigger an ‘economic revolution’ ‘Thuwu-ni’ festival to focus on sustainable growth, development and progress at the grass root Morung Express news Pughoboto | November 13
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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 13 (MExN): A team of officials from the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), Ministry of Shipping and from the Nagaland state planning department visited the Tizu River to examine the viability of undertaking a hydrographic survey all across the length of the river. This will form the basis for preparation of a Detailed Project Report for further development of the river under Centrally Sponsored Scheme. A press release from Thomas Thailu, OSD for the department of Planning and Coordination, New Delhi informed that the team of officials arrived in Nagaland on November 6 and observed that the river has very good potential for development of Inland Water Transport (IWT) operation. They noted that the river could provide India and the state of Nagaland connectivity with the Hthimathi Port of Myanmar, through the Chindwin River. The IWAI officials, represented by Arun Roy, Director North East, IWAI and Thomas Thailu, OSD, of the state planning department, along with other team members, briefed the Nagaland state Chief Minister during a meeting held at the CM’s residence on November 11. Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Coordination, Evaluation and Monitoring, Neiba Kronu, KG Kenye and Lalthara, Advisors to the Chief Minister and Dr Vesapra Tinyi, Project Coordinator were also present during the meeting. The Tizu River originates in the hills of Nagaland and flows across major section of the state and finally enters Myanmar near the International Boundary Pillar (IBP) No. 133 at Avankhu Village and joins the Chindwin River in Myanmar.
A unique festival “Thuwuni” introduced for the first time in Pughoboto sub-division under Zunheboto District is set to trigger an economic revolution based on sustainable growth, development and progress b Centre at the grass root. Nagaland JoThe 2-day festival, in Nagaland Job Opening which (1 post)coincides, with the ok 1. CoSumi Naga “Ahuna” festirden 10+2 (1 post) 2. Hostel Wa te kicked val off with much ua ad Gr Or ocal) n-L (no t nis (1 post) fanfare at Pugho3. 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Di-sustainable farmthe existihe dressed to the 3. Servi th name and officia ard Tribes shall be as pr cant and ad t wi ckw by the appli is to focus on three prid of departmenservation of seats of ba Nagaland parliamenne ing importantly, take responsibility and Jimomi’s powerpoint presen- feed from our own farms, she notsig y l paper du ing documents:in 4. Re Department. pla in d AR follow submitte fied by the P&e Applications may be d accompanied by the eet. mary aspects: economy, tary secretary for Irrigation ownership of the growth and pro- tation focused on the various as- ed, scientific calculations could be 5. Th es & Commerce, an uate with mark sh rity. & Flood Control (I&FC)rector•ofIndAdusmitritCaCerdsrtificofateHSLC/P.U/Grad uedbyCompetentAuthosocial equity and environ- duction from the region. pects of local farming and produce, used to try out what gives best re• Birth enous Certificate iss of office‘Organic and Election, Y Vikheho Founder of Naga“Sustainable farming is about which could be marketed if only sults. This could determine local the e. ST/Indig ment. in . ng ha ed ate • v fic ent exc r Certi be recei ving the employm cations shall . The last date for recei uld For batcNh 20AGE14 INCOME • • CoRempgisutetraland, tion Card of otograph’s. Abokali d. The appli P.M s sho Swu, who is also convenor explained working together,” said Jimomi, there was more importance given solutions that have remained evaapplication d. ord ph all be summarily rejecte urs from 10:A.M to 2: d daJimomi, e TO TIO Th ssw 000/ 5 ICA te. pa RS. t LIF en ANCY QUA • 2 rec plete applications sh erce, during office ho ved after the specifie ll be summarily rejecte BELOW 26 20500/- PER TO ei om & Comm catfarmers which it wi from 24 villages of 6. Incthis of “Thuwu-ni” in59VAC aFEMALE10“Vision YEARS s shall be rec speaking in the local Sumi dialect to local produce instead of depen- sive. “Farmers have to be aware of of Industries 14to MONTH DUATE OR appli ion the applicant without te o GRA N ora . ect -20 Dir ss of 24-04 MALE / EQUIVALENT Kire) ions shall be ntact Number and Addre paper” on the festival pre- theapconplicattaiPughoboto area present at Thuwuto farmers both male and female, dence on outside produce from the their rights,” she said, but they also hekrunietuo Commerce T Co Er. of ls /-( tai Sd de & of Industries NTACT n Directorate sented on the inaugural FOR DETAILS CO HIMA ni today. She was speaking at a sem- as many nodded along with her market. Local storage facilities, as need to think beyond getting some L KO programme of the festival, OFFICER’S HIL 9862667159 inar titled ‘Sustainable Farming’.For points. She explained the mean- well as more reliable local buyers seeds and subsidies from the gov178 / said Pughoboto subdivi98 indigenous farmers of the region, ing of the word ‘development’ to and sellers, she said, are the need of ernment, and work towards deter49 97 8 : o. Phone N sion is economically, very this would mean the preservation the participants, taking examples the hour. To improve the local con- mining their own frameworks to strategically located shar- of indigenous seeds, being sensitive of destructive and sustainable de- text, the communities also need to sustain indigenous and sustaining borders with Angami, towards neighbouring communi- velopment, asking them to choose consult experts. When problems able systems. Chakhesang, Rengma and Lotha tribes, giving the Su- production and tourism. said farmers should uti- liamentary secretary said tionally too, livestock has culture along with beautimis of Pughoboto access “These three areas are lize their land for various the agriculture produce of been a very integral part of ful topography. We need to a wide variety of culture not new to us. All we need productions and not limit the area, which is purely or- Naga society’s existence. to capitalize on this God and traditional practices. to do is give more attention themselves only to rice ganic, will have high market Stating that less than 25% of given gifts for upliftment of Addressing a mam- and prioritize it so that qual- cultivation through ‘jhum’ demand in the increasingly Nagas’ meat requirement Pughoboto area.” moth festive gathering, itatively and quantitatively, practice. He also stressed health conscious society. is produced locally, Vikheo “To achieve the aforethe parliamentary secre- positive changes can occur on the need to tap rain wa- “We are fortunate that our said large scale piggery and mentioned vision or goals, tary who also represents leading to progress and de- ter and creating artificial land is still free of chemicals cattle farming must be pro- 2014-2017 has been dePughoboto assembly seat velopment”, Vikheho said. lakes and water bodies for and we must strive to re- moted through strategic clared as the years for ecosaid people of Pughoboto On farming, Vikheho cultivation through drip main organic and fully avail and systematic planning. nomic development. Some area must initiate taking up said Pughoboto area is and sprinkler irrigation. this potential”, he said. On tourism potential, projects are already initiatplanned activities in three abundantly blessed with Dwelling on the posThe second thrust area the parliamentary secre- ed and more will be implemajor areas to progress to- fertile soil and climate suit- sibility of production of is meat production since tary said “We are a people mented in the years to come. wards economic develop- able for growing vegetables vegetables and fruits on a Nagas are prodigious con- who have been blessed By, 2017, we are conment, viz. farming, meat and fruits of all kind. He commercial scale, the par- sumers of meat and tradi- with a rich and vibrant fident of accomplishing
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these programmes, which will facilitate our endeavour to attain self sufficiency”, Vikheho said. Vikheho further informed that towards achieving the vision, the programmes initiated include “Skilling Pughoboto” under which school dropouts and unemployed youths are imparted various vocational trainings and financial assistance, machineries and livestock extended to artisans, craftsmen and farmers. He also said the “Best village produce” project will spur each village to produce and develop its best indigenous product or produce in agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts, woodworks and horticulture. Other programmes initiated are clean village campaign, “Back to my village” project, touring programmes for entrepreneurs and farmers, river and forest conservation. Earlier, in the morning, the parliamentary secretary also flagged off the “Clean Election Campaign” jointly organized by District Election Officer, Pughoboto, and Thuwu-ni festival organizing committee. Joint CEO, Nagaland, N Moa Aier also addressed the participants on the occasion. Highlights on day one of the festival included traditional fire making, folk fusion presented by Mughami Melos, ‘Taste of Aphuyemi” or traditional cooking completion (vegetarian dish), “QhetuboKimli” (greased pole climbing contest), seminar on sustainable farming and ‘Akikiti” (Sumi kick fight). In the evening, a documentary on Thuwu-ni, traditional love song competition, skits and special numbers by Sumi Singing Star 2014, Lino Awomi,andthefamedAlobo Naga&theBand,entertained the gathering.
Crimes against NE people: nearly 70,000 children U-15 Shooting in 139 FIRs registered in Delhi suffer from diabetes in india Ralan area, Morung Express news Dimapur | November 13
Delhi Police have registered 139 First Information Reports (FIR) of crimes committed against North East people. The data from January 1, 2014 to November 12, 2014, was made available at the Facebook page ‘Delhi Police for North East Folks’ – a forum maintained by Delhi Police to reach out to those hailing from the North East region. According to the data, out of 847 calls received, 645 were crime related calls. Of the 645 complaints, FIRs have been registered in 139 cases. A District wise analysis showed that South Delhi with 259 complaints received the highest number of complaints. In the area wise analysis, Vasant Vihar Police Station with 58 complaints registered the highest number of complaints followed by Sufdarjung Enclave Police Stations at 48 complaints. Of the list of complaints, 56 included Eve teasing, 13 molestation cases involving women, 22 Cyber Crime
cases (Racial Discrimination through social media), 15 anti-obscene cases, 10 rape/attempt to rape cases (6+4) and 4 murder/attempt to murder cases (3+1). Other cases involved threat, cheating, harassment, domestic violence etc. Reported cases of violence against people from the North East have been on the rise over recent months, with the Delhi police and the central government coming under scrutiny from various NE based bodies. In the face of rising incidents of crimes against NE people, Minister for state for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju has assured that the Home Ministry will implement recommendations of the committee headed by MP Bezbaruah, which has looked into various concerns of the people of the Northeast region living in different parts of India, especially metropolises. The committee was set up after the assault on Nido Tania, a student from Arunachal Pradesh and his subsequent death in New Delhi, earlier this year.
NEw DElHI, NOVEMBER 13 (IANS) : Five-year-old Krati Dhawan often complained of abdominal pain and even lost weight. She underwent a series of tests for stomach infection, which tested negative. It was only after the girl’s mother said her daughter was drinking a lot of water and urinating frequently that she got bloodsugar tests done which confirmed type 1 diabetes. Krati, who had to be immediately put on insulin which if not started could have pushed her into coma - is not the only one. An increasing number of children are developing diabetes, with up to 90 percent of all childhood diabetes being type 1, where children are dependent on insulin for survival. “Most children with type 1 diabetes are not diagnosed on time. The awareness levels about the disease are not as high as they should be, a common assumption being that diabetes affects adults and not children,” I.P.S Kochar, paediatric adolescent endocrinologist and diabetologist at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, told IANS. According to Richa Chaturvedi, diabetologist and endocrinologist at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute (PSRI) Hospital, though there has not been an increase in type 1 diabetes among children in India, type 2 diabetes has recorded an increase, which she attributes to
rising childhood obesity. Chaturvedi said it was also because children were having a “high caloric diet, junk food, there is a lot of inactivity, less outdoor games and more of indoor games”. “Around 70,000 children under the age of 15 suffer from type 1 diabetes. Another 40,000 have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and this figure is growing by five percent each year. “Sixty-eight percent urban children don’t exercise regularly. Obesity is also a common factor. Nearly nine percent of adolescents between nine and 18 years of age have more abdominal fat,” Chaturvedi said. According to the Diabetes Foundation of India, about 50.9 million people in India suffer from diabetes, and this figure was likely to go up to 80 million by 2025, making it the ‘Diabetes Capital’ of the world. Manoj Chadha, consultant endocrinologist at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai, told IANS that type 1 diabetes in children was in large majority, with certain pockets in the south and the northeast reporting equal incidence of both types in children. Listing a few symptoms, Chadha said: “Excessive urine, thirst and hunger, unexplained weight loss and fatigue are some of the common symptoms. All of these occur due to insulin deficiency.” Anup Misra, chairman of the
Fortis C-DOC centre of excellence for diabetes and metabolic diseases, said: “Diabetes is beginning to appear much earlier in life in India, meaning that chronic long-term complications are becoming more common.” “There is a 100 percent rise in diabetes in the age group of 20-40 years,” he said, adding that many patients were below 20 years. Abhishek Kulkarni, paediatric and adolescent endocrinologist at the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai, said the diet of children with type 1 diabetes should have age appropriate calories with normal proportions of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Experts said only type 2 diabetes can be prevented with a healthy lifestyle, exercise and avoiding obesity. While type 1 diabetes can be well managed and detected early, the experts all unanimously called for greater awareness levels. “The society and government should promote healthy lifestyle through advocacy and legislation, if required,” Ajay Kumar Ajmani, senior consultant, endocrinology, at BLK Super Specialty Hospital, told IANS. He said schools and teachers can also adopt a few measures like focussing on the quality of canteen food, replacing junk food with light, healthy food and also giving preference to outdoor games.
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Morung Express news Dimapur | November 13
After a lull, unrest gripped Ralan area in wokha district as border related violence flared again on November 13. One person was confirmed to have died and an unconfirmed number of people were injured in a shooting incident at Chandalashung, in the Ralan area of Wokha district on Thursday afternoon. According to sources, the shooting occurred at a disputed patch of paddy field in Chandalashung. One man, reported to be an adivasi tenant of the field was killed in the firing, the sources said. An unspecified number of people were also injured, it was added. The Wokha police have confirmed the shooting incident, while stating it was yet to ascertain the number of casualty. The dead body of the man was taken by the Assam Police, the wokha police informed. According to the Assam Police, two people were injured in the firing though it could not be confirmed, the Wokha Police said. Nagaland police officials camping in the violence-affected area informed that further details of the incident could be provided only after the completion of the preliminary investigation.
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State level painting competition
Kohima, November 13 (DiPr): The Ministry of Power, Government of India through Bureau of Energy Efficiency is organizing a State level painting competition for the year 2014 on energy conservation. The programme will be conducted at the premises of War cemetery on November 15.
ANTA Dimapur unit raising day on Nov 18
BJP Wokha joint meeting on Nov 17
WoKha, November 13 (mexN): The Bharatiya Janata Party Wokha District convened a joint meeting with co-convener membership drive, Er. Senkathung Jami Vice President BJP Nagaland State on November 17 at 12:00 noon. The meeting will be held at the Co-Convener’s residence in Etsutchukha Colony Wokha Town. All the frontal office bearers, mandals president and general secretary are directed to attend the said meeting without failed for the district membership drive.
FONSESA general conference on Nov 18
Kohima,November13(mexN):TheFederationof Nagaland State Engineering Services Associations (FONSESA) is holding its general conference on November 18 at Capital Convention Centre near Secretariat Plaza, Kohima at 11:00 am. The Minister, PWD (R&B) and Parliamentary Affairs, Nagaland has consented to be the chief guest. Members (Engineers) from constituents Associations of PWD/PHE/POWER/I&FC/G&M/NST are all requested to attend the function. This was informed in a press release issued by FONSESA President Er Khose Sale.
NDMSA general meeting on Nov 15
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Kohima, November 13 (mexN): The Nagaland Directorate Ministerial Service Association (NDMSA) will have general meeting on November 15, 12:00 noon at the CANSSEA Conference Hall. The meeting shall deliberate on: High Power Committee (HPC) constituted by the Government to examine various grievances, demands of the Association; Encadrement of Steno Gr.-II (Jr) to the post of UDA in the Directorate of Agriculture; and any other issues, pertaining to the welfare of the Directorate Ministerial staffs. Therefore, the Registrar, Superintendent and all the concern members are requested to attain the scheduled meeting without fail and also submit the name of their Department’s representatives."
Toshi Longchar Photography Former Nagaland state Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir officially releasing the album. Morung Express News Dimapur | November 13
Tali Angh’s debut music album titled ‘Take it Slow’ was released here today at the IMC Hall. An eclectic gathering of musicians, dignitaries and well wishers attended the album release, which was described by many as the culmination of years of dedication and hard work. The event kicked off with Tali Angh and his band performing a song
from the album. Addressing the gathering, Tali acknowledged all those who supported him throughout his life. He provided anecdotes from his journey as a musician, his path to original composition, and the story behind his first song. Former Nagaland state Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir, who attended the release as the Chief Guest, lauded Tali Angh as a musician with a purpose. He stressed on the need for musicians in Nagaland to
develop their own musical philosophy and style. This, he stated is integral to developing the state’s music scene. Lamenting that there is too much “despair” in Naga society, the former Chief Secretary, acknowledged the lack of development in the state. However, he also harped on the ‘state’ rhetoric to focus on positive aspects in Nagaland as well. He later officially released Tali Angh’s debut album. Guest of Honour, Gugs Chishi stated that the music scene in Nagaland is still taking its “baby steps.” He however expressed optimism for the future. As a reason for his optimism, Chishi noted that musicians like Tali Angh are examples that frustrations and setbacks can be overcome with the right atti-
tude and dedication. Later, Pastor Shan from the Faith Harvest Church Kohima pronounced a prayer to conclude the launch programme. The album, priced at Rs 245, has a total of ten songs and was recorded at Element Indie Studio. It features Tali Angh on vocals and guitar, Kevi Neibulie Kiso and Moatemjen on guitar, Meyasunep on bass and percussion, Kevin Savino and Akok Imsong on keyboard, Joey Woch on violin and backing vocals by Aren Sayer, Jungtina Angh, Sarah, Moatemjen, Kevi Pucho and Imnok Sayer.
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Kohima, November 13 (mexN): Seyiekuolie Angami has been appointed as acting president of Nagaland Government Registered Class- 1 Contractor’s Union. This was resulted as per the resolution No/E/M NGRC-1CU/2007-08 (pt) 175 dated 10.11.2014 of the executive meeting held at the union office, according to a release issued by NGRC-1CU joint secretary L. Mhalie Zatsu. The former have been requested to take charge with immediate effect.
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Tali Angh addressing the gathering at the release of his debut music album titled ‘Take it Slow’ in Dimapur on November 13.
Students made aware on prog available in NU HIV transmission highest through sexual route
NPF Wokha division consultative meet held
WoKha, November 13 (mexN): The NPF Wokha Division along with central leaders from Wokha division held a consultative meeting on November 6 at the Wokha division office. The house unanimously resolved to support the leadership of TR Zeliang. A press release issued by the NPF Wokha division said that Ekymo Kikon, secretary, NPF Wokha division I/c urged the party workers not to sway away by cheap rumours spreading across the State.
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DimaPur, November 13 (mexN): All Nagaland taxi Association Dimapur unit is celebrating ANTA raising day cum annual picnic on November 18, at 11:00 am onward at Green Park, 5th mile Dimapur. ANTA Dimapur unit officers in a press release has requested, all owners and drivers to attend the programme positively. There will be a lucky draw for the drivers. Further, any taxi plying on that particular day shall be imposed with heavy action against the defaulters. The unit also requests the public to cooperate for the inconvenience on that particular day.
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Dr. Manoj E. Prabhakar and Er. Ayangla Jamir with SDO (C ), K Thavaseelan and other officials during the awareness programme organised by district administration, Wokha on November 13. (DIPR Photo)
WoKha, November 13 (DiPr): In a first of its kind initiative, the District Administration, Wokha organised an awareness programme for students of Wokha for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes available in Nagaland University on November 13. More than 400 students attended the programme which was held at Mt. Tiyi College. Welcoming the students and resource persons, SDO (C) Wokha, K.Thavaseelan, IAS mentioned that a lot of opportunities available in Nagaland are not being utilized by the students. He added that the School of Engineering, Technology and Management (SETAM), Dimapur has been at the forefront
of Engineering and Management Education in Nagaland and has been successful in placing its students in reputed companies. The Chief Guest of the occasion, ADC, Wokha, Hotolu Swu thanked the resource persons for creating awareness amongst the students of Wokha district. The resource persons from SETAM, Dimapur, Dr. Manoj E. Prabhakar and Er. Ayangla Jamir made separate presentations on MBA and Engineering courses available at SETAM, Dimapur under Nagaland University. They also elaborated on the various career opportunities that are available once they complete their education. They stressed on the
fact that a degree from a reputed Central University like Nagaland University carries more weightage than a degree from a private university. The fees is also very less when compared to the fees in private Colleges and Universities. They encouraged the students to make use of all the opportunities available in Nagaland University. Presenting the vote of thanks, EAC Wokha, T. Kupa mentioned that the government has only limited capacity to absorb students and that they have to be open to opportunities in the private sectors as well. This initiative is the first in a series of initiatives planned by the District Administration of Wokha for the students.
DimaPur, November 13 (mexN): Dimapur District Quarterly Meeting of District Health Society, District AIDS Prevention Control Committee DAPCC cum HIV-TB co-ordination meeting was held at Deputy Commissioner’s Conference Hall on November 12. Dr. Imchameren Jamir, Dy. Chief Medical Officer in a press release stated that Wezope Kenye, D.C & DHS Chairman chaired his first District Health Society, DAPCC and HIV-TB Co-ordination meeting. He also extended his welcome to all members present. Orenthung, District Supervisor, DAPCU gave a presentation on the scenario of HIV/AIDS in Dimapur District. Wezope Kenye pointed out that the HIV transmission through sexual route is the highest amongst other routes thus he suggested that focus on awareness on the preventive measures would be the most effective way of preventing new infection. The members also suggested that awareness could be done using the school and church platforms. Dr. Lanuakum, DPO (RCHUIP) re-oriented the members on WIFS programme activities. He highlighted on the management
plan and the roles of the Education and ICDS Departments in the implementation of WIFS programmes and urged the implementing officials to improve the coverage. He also presented a comparative study on Routine Immunization. He further requested the Programme Officers for timely submission of reports and to encourage the AWWs to assist the Health department during Village Health and Nutrition Day to specially improve the immunization coverage. WezopeKenye reiterated the importance of timely submission of data to the Nodal Officer of various Department or programme so that the performance of the district is not hampered. Dr. Toshirenla, ZLO presented the quarterly performance and activities under National Health Mission. She highlighted the achievements of various programmes in the last two quarters. The meeting was attended by Chief Medical Officer and staff, Medical Superintendent and staff, represented various departments such as Education, Social Welfare, Rural Development, Administration and NGOs- Chavara Home, Guardian Angels, CAD Foundation and NEDHIV.
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Seen in these images, is the ongoing construction of a godown of Food Corporation of India (FCI) at Phesama, Kohima district, which is expected to be completed this December. The area along National Highway 29 houses two other godowns, which have earlier been completed along with an office block. The total area spreads to about 6 hectares. It has also been learnt that the General Manager, FCI, Dimapur and DGM, FCI Guwahati have given a lot of interest and focus towards the construction of the godown at Phesama. On completion, the FCI godowns at Phesama will stock food grains for Kohima, Wokha and Manipur respectively. It is expected to start functioning by January 2015.
H&FW dept to observe ‘Bal Swachhta Mission’
Kohima, November 13 (mexN): The Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland, will be observing the ‘Bal Swachhta Mission’ on November 14. The Department will be observing the 6-day campaign from November 14 to 19, by conducting free comprehensive health check-ups of school students and hand-washing demonstration in various Government and Government aided schools in all the 11 districts. During the campaign, all the District Mo-
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bile Health Teams under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK)/School Health Programme of the National Health Mission (NHM), will be visiting schools under their respective districts to carry out the activities. National Health Mission, Kohima Mission Director Dr. Nandira Changkija informed in a press release that at present, the Department has 22 Mobile Health Teams for schools, 2 teams per district, consisting of one Medical Officer and one Nurse for each Health team.
Tenyimi student leader’s get-together
DimaPur, November 13 (mexN): Tenyimi Students’ Union Dimapur is organizing ‘Get-Together Programme’ for the Tenyimi student leaders with a motive to create oneness among the Tenyimi leaders and strengthen ties with other communities on November 15 at TL Angami Park, Chumukedima, at 10:00 am. Therefore, all the office bearers of the respective tribal units, sub-ordinate bodies, advisors and senior leaders have
been requested to attend the said gathering. Transportation service will be made available by the 29 AR Head Quarter, 6 Sector, Assam Rifle Kashiram Basti, at Tenyimi Complex Dimapur, at 7:30 am for to and fro. For further information, contact President-9089362610, General Secretary-9862675997, edu & statistical Secy.- 8974293696. This was informed in a press release issued by TSUD President, Kedinlung Newmai.
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SBI Kohima Branch employees along with members of United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) observing all India strike on Wednesday (November 12, 2014), at Kohima demanding immediate wage revision.
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Chinese incursion into Arunachal not serious issue: Defence Minister PANAJI, November 13 (PTI): Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said reported incursions by China into Arunachal Pradesh were "not serious" and being effectively tackled by Army on day-to-day basis even as he underlined the need to set up infrastructural back up to handle "these kind of problems". "Chinese intrusion is not a serious issue. It is a serious issue for media. The incidents of incursions by China are a small issue that is being tackled by Army chief or the concerned commander in that area," Parrikar told reporters at a press conference here on his first visit to his home state after taking charge as Defence minister. Parrikar said there are large tracts of land along the imaginary border and many a times the forces cross it. "The issue should be
considered as serious when they (China) set up their camps in our territory," he said. Parrikar said the incursions like the one reported in Arunachal Pradesh "happen many a times in many sectors and are tackled within a day or couple of days." "It is not correct to call them as major intrusions. They are breach of LAC," he added. Launching a scathing attack on Congress, Parrikar said most of the defence deals executed during the erstwhile Congress-led regime got "stuck up" due to lobbying, vested interest and kickbacks involved. Underlining the need to remove procedural bottlenecks, Parrikar said if not done it would affect the procurement process. "The issue of procurement for armed forces has been taken on priority. This is very crucial to built the capability of the armed forces," the defence minister said.
Manipur journalist beaten up ImPHAL, November 13 (THe HINdu): A reporter of the Hueiyen Lanpao group which brings out three newspapers was reportedly beaten up by a top-ranking official of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Imphal on Wednesday. Rameshchandra Mutum, is reported to have taken some photographs of the official’s car which had a red beacon, on Wednes-
day. By a recent government order only top ranking Ministers are permitted to use red beacon. Irked over this, the MHA official asked his body guards to ask the reporter to delete the photographs. They also tried to snatch the camera. The issue was sorted out after a meeting between the All Manipur Working Journalists' Union and the official.
Mizoram Assembly passes Lokayukta Bill AIzAwL, November 13 (PTI): The state assembly Thursday passed the Mizoram Lokayukta Bill, 2014 introduced in the legislature by Law Minister Lalsawta. While opposition members slammed the bill as 'toothless' and 'ineffective' in combating corruption, the ruling Congress members contended that it was one of the best Lokayukta bills in the country. Lalsawta said that the drafting committee took many suggestions from the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, regarded as one of the best Acts in the country. According to the Mizoram Lokayukta bill, all public servants including the Chief Minister were within the ambit of the Lo-
kayukta and a separate Investigating Directorate would be set up under it. While a provision for protection of the whistleblower was incorporated in the bill, there was a scope for punishment of those who file false or frivolous or vexatious complaints to the Lokayukta. An anti-corruption watchdog - People's Right to Information and Development Society of Mizoram (PRISM) slammed the bill and earlier urged the Speaker to prevent its passage in the legislature. PRISM President Vanlalruata described the bill as toothless which would encourage corruption rather than punishing the corrupt people.
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Interestingly, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju had last month denied any incursion by China's People's Liberation Army in Taksing area of Arunachal Pradesh in recent times. "It is a natural phenomenon as troops from both the sides usually trespass into each other's territory by mistake as there is no definite demarcation of the border," he had said. Speaking on defence procurement, Parrikar observed that more you tighten procedures around them the more complicated they become. "The best way to avoid complications is to ensure transparency in the purchases," the defence minister said. Parrikar said his ministry's priority was to check whether the armed forces were ready with logistics, infrastructure and manpower. "We have to make sure that
no one should dare to fire at the Line of Control. Intrusions keep on happening, but we have to ensure that they don't happen. We have to see our preparedness," he said. Parrikar said he had been briefed daily by the Army chief on various issues. To a query, he said the issues of technical snags in fighter planes, resulting in their crash, are largely resolved. "There are no incidents reported in the 2014 of plane crashes. There were some issues in past but they are sorted out," Parrikar stated. "Sometimes in a fighter plane, the pilot, while doing difficult manoeuvres, crashes the plane as he is not trained for it," he said. Union government will promote Indian companies, except for exceptionally sophisticated defence equipment, Parrikar said in response to another query.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Beauty and Aesthetics Society of Nagaland would like to mention their genuine appreciation to the following for the support and contribution made towards the recently concluded Miss Nagaland Pageant.
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Health specialists raise pneumonia alarm in NE GuwAHATI, November 13 (TNN): On the occasion of World Pneumonia Day on Wednesday, health experts here said, Assam, along with some other NE states, needs to reevaluate its health policies to curb the growing number of pneumonia cases and ensure effective implementation of intervention programmes. On the occasion, the 2014 Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report was released by the International Vaccine Access Centre at
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US. The states have been ranked based on their Global Action Plan and Prevention for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) scores. Meghalaya is the lowest-performing state scoring only 38%. The low scores can be attributed to a delay in introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) or rotavirus vaccine and poor coverage of pneumonia intervention programmes. According to the 2012 monthly health condition re-
ports from the directorate of health services of states and Union Territories, Assam recorded 25,816 pneumonia cases, with 100 deaths. The data showed more men being affected. Neighbouring Meghalaya recorded a total of 13,601 pneumonia cases and 42 deaths. Manipur recorded a total of 1,714 cases with 10 deaths, Tripura registered 3,458 cases with 56 deaths. Only Nagaland recorded six deaths out of 2,227 cases. Arunachal Pradesh registered 2,109 cases with 11 casualties.
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This is for general information of all concerned that there will be a seminar on the topic “ Motivational Challenge” with Apostle Rev. luoliehu Yimsong as the resource person at JMC Lerie, Kohima on the 17th Nov.2014 at 4 PM followed by dinner. Therefore, all the members of the Kohima Ao Officertem Telongjem (KAOT) are earnestly requested to attend the same positively. sd/(beNDaNgYaNger) gen. secretary, KaOt
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Happy Childrens Day
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oday marks the birth anniversary of independent India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The reason why his birthday has been chosen for the celebration of children is because of his love and passion for children. Pandit Nehru is also regarded as the country’s special child to have been the first Prime Minister, after her long struggle for independence. The day is marked with a lot of activities for children. But the fact remains that only a section of the country’s children actually have an opportunity to celebrate their existence. Schools organize events and activities that their students thoroughly enjoy, but there is an entire populace of young ones that are left ignored on this special day the downtrodden street children. Instead of celebrating it with pomposity in schools and clubs and hotels, why not bring a difference into the lives of children who are unprivileged. While celebrating being a child, the fortunate ones should be reminded about their good fortune to have all that they are endowed with, while there are others who can barely feed or clothe themselves. Thus, while this day was globally instituted to provide children with basic Rights, maybe one can
make a difference to a child’s life by doing something special. Parties and celebrations happen all the time, but how about taking the fortunate children to homes that shelter street children and have them befriend those kids, donating clothes, toys, stationery, books, etc. Another way of celebrating this day differently would be to have your children, whether as teacher or parent, organize a party for some underprivileged children. In fact, if this is done in every neighborhood, imagine how many smiles there will be across the nation. Childhood is about innocence and playfulness. It is about joy and freedom. Maybe on this day you can make your own child sign up to sponsor the education of an unprivileged child, either through a person dedicated to educating and providing better living conditions for street children, or maybe you could do so for your employee’s child. Celebrating Children’s Day is about giving children the right to enjoy and grow into healthy and educated citizens of the country, and if you can teach your child the value of sharing with others what they are lucky to have, then not only your child will grow into a responsible human being, but also another child who otherwise
could have ended up being a delinquent, had it not been for your thoughtfulness. As mentioned earlier, Children’s day in India is celebrated on Pandit Nehruji’s birthday as a day of fun and frolic, a celebration of childhood, children and Nehruji’s love for them. As a tribute to his love for children, Nehruji’s birthday is celebrated all over India as ‘CHILDREN’S DAY. Children are the future citizens of the country. The future of the country depends upon the present children. If the children do not develop in a proper way, the country’s future will be ruined. This was rightly realized by our late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. So, he advised the people to stop observing his birthday on the 14th November and to observe this day as the children’s Day. Since 1956 the 14th November is every year, observed in India as the Children’s Day. On the Children’s day the neglecting people will get an opportunity to think of the future of their children. The whole society will think of its duty and responsibility towards the children. They will think of what have been done for the children in the year past and what should be done for them in the year coming. People will know that every in-
dividual in our society has a sacred duty towards the children. Today People gather in meetings to discuss over the future of the children. They discuss over how to build children as the ideal citizens. They discuss about how to make the child healthy physically, mentally and morally. Because if the students be not properly built, the future of the country will be in ruin. So, they take pledge not to neglect their children. The Children’s Day makes them realize that child is the father of man. On the Children’s Day, the children are given new garments and rich food. They are given picture books. Children are the future of our country. They are the future of our nation. So, every individual should realize the importance of the Children’s Day. His great love for roses as well as children is a well-known fact. In fact he often compared the two, saying that children were like the buds in a garden. They should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they were the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. He felt that children are the real strength of a country and the very foundation of society. Most importantly he did not discriminate between the sexes and believed in giving equal op-
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portunities to girls and boys. In fact his own little girl grew up to be the third Prime Minister of India. Quite naturally, he was the ‘beloved’ of all the children who gave him the endearing name of ‘Chacha Nehru’. As a tribute to this great man and his genuine love for children, his birthday is celebrated all over India as ‘UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY’. A day of fun and fanfare. It is not only a national holiday, but is celebrated with singing, dancing and storytelling in schools and colleges as well as on radio and television. Special functions are held to honour children all over the country. But amidst all this pomp and glory, we should not lose sight of Chacha Nehru’s real message. That is providing our children with a safe and loving environment in which to grow as well as giving them ample and equal opportunities through which they can take great strides and contribute to the progress of the nation. This day serves as a reminder to each and every one of us, to renew our commitment to the welfare of children and teach them to live by their Chacha Nehru’s standards and example. Fr. C. Joseph
Blame the racists, not the victims
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n a pathological society where gender prejudices dictate the society’s moral assumptions and perceptions, girl-victims of crimes are often stereotyped and denounced by the society as “cheap” and “loose”. The morbid reaction of male hypocrisy towards the recent racist-murder of late Juliet Zonunmawi in New Delhi was utterly pathological and dehumanising. Morality seems to be irrelevant so long as racist hate crime relates to a son in this gendered world, but the moment it strikes a daughter, something must be wrong with her morality and lifestyle. When the all-malevictims Michael Haokip, Ngamkholen Haokip, Rocky Kipgen, Aloto Sumi and Awang Newmai were brutally attacked in Bangalore-Gurgaon, the collective conscience of the society was unanimously directed against the racists as such without any pre-
conceived notion of contributory moral fault on the part of the male victims. However, this impersonal social indignation immediately got transformed into a pattern deeply bias, sexist and discriminatory when the sole-female-victim late Juliet Zonunmawi was reportedly found murdered inside her apartment in New Delhi. Society began by questioning her morality as though “virtuous” women in the cities do not go to where racist hate crime happens and such hate crime happens only to immoral women. For reasons gender as stemming from the deeper asymmetric moral assumptions between men and women which permit men to do whatever while it is inappropriate for women, the male-dominant society is quick to relate her lifestyle with the happening of the hate crime. Some online bloggers went to the extent of savouring the idea of the
incident as a lesson for all the assumed “loose” ladies out there in the cities. She was thus, for reasons of her own gender, morally tried, condemned and buried by the society with the same guilt of her own racist-murderer. Such social stigmatisation sadly discourages women from freely reporting incidences of racist hate or sexual crime, thereby more often leaving the criminals run scot-free. Nevertheless, the society is reluctant to concede that morality and lifestyle of the victim has no causal connectivity whatsoever with the offender’s criminality and more importantly in sexual jurisprudence for that matter, a woman’s moral history is irrelevant inasmuch as irrespective of how “cheap”, “loose” or “provocative” might her lifestyle be, one cannot in law be sexually provoked to violate a woman’s body and her modesty. While the good intent
of the moralist sermons are not disputed, what is utterly missed by them to differentiate is that it is one thing to assume certain lifestyle as likely to invite racist attack, but it is absolutely erroneous to juxtapose that lifestyle as the cause of racism or to blame the victim as morally responsible for what he or she does. It may be likewise not wholly inappropriate to caution the Northeast to avoid certain lifestyle habit as a measure of safety tips, but it is an absolute madness to relate such tips as substitute to legislative solution to the problem of racist violence. Thus, what is absolutely misplaced is the false projection of racist violence as moral and personal rather than structural, social and political. Emboldened by such distorted moral arguments, some sophists conveniently attempt to dismiss the issue as lifestyle problem of the Northeast, thereby pushing the issue to its absolute absur-
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dity that Northeast has to renunciate all her ways of living, lifestyle, habit and culture such as Northeast has to live within the moral expectations of the “mainland Indians” in order to be morally acceptable as equal Indians. However, the moot question is who are these “mainland Indians” to judge and censure the Northeast way of living, lifestyle, habit and culture within the hindu-conceived notion of Aryan morality and whose cultural monopoly is it that determines what notion of morality is “indian” and “unindian” in India. The point is moral and lifestyle sermons should never be mixed with the debates of racism, they are necessarily separate and distinct and the one should not be confused with the other, and more so because even assuming arguendo that Northeast lifestyle is problematic, lifestyle or moral problem howsoever “de-
linquent” or “deviant” for that matter does not confer on the racists the right to lynch, pick and beat anyone. Nevertheless, dispensing with the mandate of going to the police, the “mainland Indians” assume that it is permissible for them to lynch, pick and beat any native Northeast for any perceived lifestyle “nuisance” by taking the law into their own hands. Be that as it may. Racism has always been out there lurking to strike at its prey irrespective of whether its victim is “cheap” or “chaste”. Thus, the problem of racist violence cannot in any sense be the Northeast way of living, lifestyle, habit and culture, but the perception that “Northeast way of living, lifestyle, habit or culture is the problem” itself is the problem and that very perception itself is what racism is all about in India. Sira Kharay New Delhi
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t the peak of 18th century and the era that followed, there were times when the first born child was sacrificed in the name of God in the river Ganges or a newly born child usually chosen to be either brought up or killed depending on its gender. What were children to them? The reasons for which the deeds done were never justified. Those were the dark days. We look back at them in despise and label them as one among many evil practices. Decades have passed since then we cannot but lament over the fact that many souls have been rudelessly terminated in ignorance which in turn unstablized the existence. We never realize until today that those faithful souls could be or probably be the agents of change that we always wanted to see. Few years back, there was a big argument between former P.M., Morarji Desai and blessed Mother Theresa on the issue based on family planning. A controversy without result but it remained a fine probe into the minds of many even today uniqueness takes over the reality of life. No child is born by chance for every soul is a precious being and has the purpose equivalent to all. Sadly, the worst incarnated form today is the Abortion which has taken a new phase altogether. It is no longer a problem to the solution but more of a problem to further problems. Nevertheless, we strive on and work for the better. Children’s Day is on and about. What makes this day so special is what makes us a precious being. Apparently, it took many years to remember the children once in a year for the schedules of life even today has its own excuses to cover our negligences. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru initiated this auspicious day because he realized the purity of purpose, a quality of life in a child/the children. The Rose may mean nothing as compared to what the child could give but definitely, Nehru saw the truth behind it that had profoundly impressed him. A child represents a budding rose that will beautify the garden of life. It can ultimately turn into a wild one unless it is cared for and looked after. I believe, this celebration is not only of the living children but for the dead as well, controversial indeed but the fact is that the want for the purity and innocence of the little children remains the same. To be righteous, one needs to be like little children, “Let the little children come to me; unless you become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.” As it is rightly said that the children come through us but not from us. So, it is our duty to look after their well being for they represent the future. Karlil Gibran tells us, “Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you; and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow; which you cannot visit. You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you; for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness; for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” A child is the incarnation of love, a manifestation of maturity that it becomes. The incarnated love can or grows to become what the world has ever been in want. The children indeed hold the wealth and treasure of our present and future and it makes us rich in them and with them. This day’s nostalgy takes us to the timeless hour of love for the children and we continue hoping for the world that really has the quality of a child, for the only remedy to better future is its quality. It, at the same time, reminds us that we were children, we are with the childhood of the past and we will or should always have them hence. May God bless them all and I wish you all a very Happy Children’s Day. C.N George DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:
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The Morung Express
Friday 14 November 2014
ANAHTA corroborates Hindi teacher stir continues ACAUT press statement DimaPUr, November 13 (mexN): The Aggrieved Hindi Teachers’ picketing of district education offices and boycotting of classes will continue as the meeting between the Aggrieved Hindi teacher and the Department of School Education (DSE) today could not produce any feasible solution. According to a source, during the meeting with the "Aggrieved Teachers", the DSE requested the agitating teachers to call of the strike by offering them “immediate” payment of one month salary or two months “as far as possible”. They were reportedly told that they have to wait again for three more months if they want their
ASU ‘baffled” with delay of salaries
Kohima, November 13 (mexN): The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) while extending its support to the aggrieved Hindi Teachers today expressed its “bafflement” with the department for the delay clearing the pending salaries. The Union also conveyed its disappointment over the terming of “picketing and dharna” as “negative approach.” “When the government is yet to initiate any measures to redress the crisis, justifying the matter by simply full salary payment. “The director offered a system called ‘notional system’ which we don’t have any clue about,” added the source. The aggrieved
stating “it is neither the fault of the department but due to procedures is absurd”, stated the ASU. A press note issued by Tsiu Seyie, Secy Education and Khriezelhou Vitso, Secy Publicity & Info stated that “It is neither the fault of the teachers, who has been made to suffer for six months without salary” and the government must owe responsibility and take necessary measures to clear the pending salaries with due exigency.
teachers rejected the offer demanding only full payment. They were also "asked" to called off the agitation and wait for two more days pending a “de-
partmental meeting.” Meanwhile, till the filing of the report, the Aggrieved teachers informed that they will continue with the agitation on Friday
Kohima, November 13 (mexN): The All Nagaland Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Associations (ANAHTA) 2012-13 batches today corroborated the statement made by ACAUT Nagaland, that a sum Rs. 2000 and Rs. 2500 amounting to several lakhs of rupees was deducted from the aggrieved Hindi teachers by the department of school education (DSE). In a press note, ANAHTA stated that the association is well aware that teacher’s salaries were deducted from “at source” in the respective DEOs in the districts and a matter of “serious concern” that should be should be
thoroughly investigated. “It is up to the DSE to enquire into the whole matter and bring guilty officials to book if at all the departmental heads are unaware of this gross misconduct as claimed by the department,” the press note stated. Further, on the issue of National Pension Scheme (NPS), the association maintained that, despite deduction of 10% of their salaries that were supposed to be deposited into their PRAN account, there is “nil balance” on their account and ACAUT Nagaland has every right to raise the issue.
DimaPUr, November 13 (mexN): The Ao Kyong Sumi Students Union (AKSSA) has changed its nomenclature and will be now called as Central Nagaland Students Association (CNSA). This was decided at the recent general conference of Ao, Kyong and Sumi apex students association. Sources from the students body has informed that the change occurred with the adoption of body’s Constitution at the conference. Along with the constitution, a set of six resolutions was also adopted at
the conference and nomination of a new team of office bearers to lead the association. The resolution among others includes: - to work towards a self reliant society in holistic manner; to extend full support to the Nagaland Foothills Road Construction Committee and the state government for the successful construction of the ‘Nagaland survival road’; to protect the rights and interests of its members; and to urge the state government/concerned authority to settle the border issue between Nagaland and Assam at
the earliest. The house also nominated the following office bearers for the tenure 2014-2017. President – Charles Lotha;Vice president – Nihoyi Kinny; General Secretary – Imlanger Jamir; Finance Secretary – Khuketo Yetho;Publicity and Information Secretary – Penthungo Y Yanthan; Culture Secretary – Vacant (AKM). The CNSA advisors will be Imtiakum, Aheto Yeptho and Dr. P.Ngullie. The next general conference of CNSA will be hosted at Wokha in 2017 by the Kyong Students’ Union.
Committee formed to oversee ‘For A Cleaner Kohima’ campaign Kohima, November 13 (mexN): A joint meeting of all Angami frontal organisation held on November 12 has decided to organise a Mass Social Work in Kohima on November 22. This is in continuation of a resolution adopted earlier at the 31st AGOK General Conference ‘For A Cleaner Kohima’ on November 8. The convenor of campaign, K.Neibu Sekhose in a press note stated that an organising committee for social work was formed with immediate effect and re-
quested the entire citizen of Kohima Town to cooperate with committee and more so, in view of the visit of the Prime Minister to Kohima. The convenor of the organising committee is K.Neibou Sekhose and includes the following members:- Vilelie Khamo; Pele Khezie; President, AGOK; President, AMK; General Secretary, AMK; President, AYO; Speaker, ASU; and General Secretary, AGOK as the Member Secretary.
Two arrested with banned substances Kohima, November 13 (mexN): A huge haul of approximately 2500 capsules of banned drugs, "Spasmo-proxyvon" were recovered from a Dimapur bound Tata Winger (Passenger vehicle) bearing registration No. NL07T-0341 during routine frisking and checking of ve-
hicles at Khuzama Check Gate on November 12. According to a press note form SDPO, Kohima & PRO, DEF Kohima, Atu Zumvü, two persons identified as Kusahülü Therieh (42) of Pholami village Phek and a resident of Paramedical, Kohima; and Avolü
Khamo (42), Pholami village, Phek and a resident of Lower Chandmari, Kohima. A case under drugs and cosmetic Act has been registered against them and they were remanded into police custody for further investigation informed the press note.
Stolen bike recovered: one arrested DimaPUr, November 13 (mexN): A Bajaj Pulsar bike (135CC) bearing Regd No. NL07J/3432, reportedly stolen on November 12 was successfully recovered from the posses-
sion Yeshito Awomi (21) of Kuhokhu, PO/PS- Nuiland, at Dimapur Railway Station Area by Dimapur Police. A press note from Addl. Superintendent of Police/ PRO, Dimapur, Chinese
Chakhesang NPS informed that a case under Dimapur East PS C/No. 242/14 U/S 379 IPC has been registered and the police is carrying out further investigation.
Affairs: Role of the Press’. Editor of Tir Yimyim and president of Nagaland Press Association, K Temjen Jamir will be the theme speaker while Secretary IPR, N Hushili Sema will be exhorting the press fraternity. The
CM conveys Ahuna’s Greeting Kohima November 13 (mexN): The Chief Minister of Nagaland, T R Zeliang today extended his warm greetings and best wishes to the Sumi community on the auspicious occasion of Ahuna festival. “This festival marks the beginning of new things to come in the year ahead. I hope festive occasion will strengthen the bonds of unity and mutual goodwill not only amongst the community, but also among the whole of Nagas society” stated a press note received from the Chief Minister office here.
GPRN/NSCN assigns RAO of Chang Region
DimaPUr, November 13 (mexN): As per the recommendation made by the Regional Authority, Chang Region and approved by the Hon'ble Deputy Kilo (Home) Kilonser, the Office of the Kilo Affairs GPRN/NSCN has assigned C Khomong Chang, Leacy from Tuensang Village as the RAO (Regional Administrative Officer) Chang Region, till further order. A press note from MIP (Ministry of Information & Publicity), GPRN/NSCN informed that the Assignment was issued through MemoNo.02-66/ ASSG/MKA/2014, signed by the Kilo Secretary Ghukiho T Jimo, dated by November 3. The concerned official also directed to report to the Secreprogramme is being or- tary, Kilo Affairs on receipt of aforesaid order, stated ganized jointly by the Ko- the press note. hima Press Club and the department of Informa- KMC preparation for tion & Public Relations. All the members of the visit of Prime Minister Fourth Estate have been Kohima, November 13 (mexN): In view of the invited to attend the pro- forthcoming festive seasons and also the forthcomgramme. ing visit of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, the Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) directed all the shopkeepers/institutions, establishments, agencies etc. within the jurisdiction of Kohima municipality to paint/white wash the front side of the building and shops facing the roadside on or before November 23 to face-lift the capital city of Nagaland. The KMC furDimaPUr, Novem- ther requested the shops/business establishments to ber 13 (mexN): The display the signboard/light in front of their respective Eastern Nagaland Peo- shops without fail. This was stated in a release issued ples’ Union Dimapur (EN- by KMC administrator Kovi Meyase. PUD) has vehemently condemned the alleged “rape” BJP Phek district appoints of one minor at Bor Lengri on November 8 by Hankiu- Kohima, November 13 (mexN): The BJP Phek mong Yimchunger, resident District had a meeting on October 30 and appointed the of New Showuba village and following members as BJP Phek district office bearers Alex Sangtam, resident of and frontal chief with immediate effect. Vice presidents: Kevese Lasuh and Veposayi Resiih, general secretarChongtor village. In a press note issued ies- Deo Movi (Administration) and Khoseta Rhakho, through its vice president, secretary- Pupe Akami and Wachutho Pochury, BJYM Tsapongkiu Sangtam, the president- Zaveyi Kezo. This was stated in a release isENPUD further urged the sued by Phek district BJP president Eduzii Theliio. law enforcing agency to award befitting punishment FRO Kohima notifies on to the alleged “rapists” as per the law and not to grant bail arrival of foreigners under any circumstances. Kohima, November 13 (mexN): As required The union also called upon under section 7 of Foreigners Act, all the hotels, guestall right thinking citizen to house, institution etc. under Kohima District are once voice against such barbaric again reminded to mandatorily report matters to Koacts in a civilised society. hima Police about the arrival of foreigners which is an obligatory U/S 7 of Foreigners Act. If any person (s) contravenes the provision of this act or fails to comply with the referred instruction, he/she will be liable to be penalized U/S 14 of the Foreigners Act 1946. This was informed in a press release issued by Joseph Hesso, NPS Sr. Superintendent of Police & Foreigners Registration Officer Kohima, Nagaland. linear transmission of electricity and burning of fuels Tobu SDPDB meeting held in automobiles’. Asecho’s research provides insights moN, November 12 (DiPr): The Tobu Subinto heat and its effect on Divisional Planning & Development Board meetenvironment, work energy, ing was held on November 11 under the chairmanwork energy which will be ship of Advisor NEPED and Chairman SDPDB Tobu, of great interest to scientists Naiba Konyak. At the outset the chairman welcomed the board members. The house also welcomed the and enthusiasts. In 2010, Asecho was new member, Imliyanger CDPO, Tobu. Some of the selected for pilot training points discussed in the meeting were to open bypass which he took up for three road connection between Shamnyu village and Tamyears but after he was diag- kong village, maintenance of road from Tobu headnosed as temporarily un- quarter to Yongkhao village, maintenance of water fit for physical fitness, he supply sources both at Pokyang post 6 NAP D. Coy came back to Nagaland in and Shamnyu village, to open school, installation 2014 and started his BSc of transformer and opening of sub-health centre at from Kohima Science Col- Wangshu Tankhao village. lege. Asecho is also working on a mechanical device to BJP Wokha appeals produce electricity without WoKha, November 13 (mexN): The Bharatiburning fuel or using solar ya Janata Party Wokha District applauded the three power, on the conversion MLAs for being victorious in their endurance and leof free energy to energy that galizing as BJP MLAs in the State Assembly. The Discan be used. trict Party workers assured them of full cooperation to cohesively work for the betterment of the party in the district as well as in the state. Meanwhile, the BJP Wokha District also earnestly appeal the Nagaland Legislative Assembly Speaker, Chotisuh Sazo to “morally relinquish” his assigned duties as the Division Bench of Guwahati High Court has termed the Speaker's Order as illegal under the Law and subsequently quashing his August 25, 2014 Order in disjor problem for all distribu- qualifying the three MLAs. tors at Kohima as we do not receive even 50% of our al- Kyong Hoho Mkg elects lotted quota many a time. moKoKchUNg, November 13 (mexN): The With regards to Con- new team of Kyong Hoho Mokokchung will be led by sumer’s Quota, as men- Chairman-Nyamo Z. Yanthan with Vice Chairmantioned by Mr. Abe, I wish Robin Shitiri; General Secretary-Joseph Patton; Finance to clarify here that in the Secretary-Robert Ngullie; and Treasurer-Lumchio current year he has availed Ngullie. A press note stated that the Search Commitonly three cylinders and tee in consultation with senior citizens and concerned not four, till October or in members of the Kyong community of Mokokchung 7 months. However he still elected the team. Others include has five months more to go for the remaining 9 cyl- Releases of books inders. This will be almost Kohima, November 13 (mexN): Books on “ impossible for someone to Learning disabilities, identification, remedies and teachreceive 9 cylinders just in ing strategies for BA, B.Ed, MA, M. Ed, degree students & 5 months unless there is a research scholars, Universities in India,” and “A complete sea of change. As distribu- guide book on psychological bases of education bachtor we are at the mercy of elor of arts degree course, Nagaland University,” will be the supply chain for fulfill- released on November 17 at DUDA Guest House, Kohiing customer satisfaction ma at 12:00 Noon. Vipralhou Kesiezie, director SCERT as we are not manufactur- Nagaland will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Auers as mentioned above. thor Dr. Bweyhunle Khing. Associate profession, Kohima Management: College, Kohima will deliver speech.
MON DC laments ‘proxy practices’ ENPUD condemns moN, November 13 (mexN): The Mon District Level Conference on Communitization for VHC/ HCMC was organised by the District Health Society (DHS) on November 12 with Dr. UK Konyak CMO, Mon as the chair and the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Mon, Angau I Thou (IAS) as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, DC Thou, who is also the Chairman of DHS diagnosed the flaws with the Health Sector and asked the gathered medical staffs, “We are all Christians, but are we living in that? Are we doing justice to our people?” Deploring the practice of keeping “proxies”, she maintained that, such practices are “outside the ethics of medicine” and an
alarming reality in some parts of the district. She also warned that, strict that disciplinary action has to be taken to cure those flaws and the doctrine of “no work, no pay” has to be implemented in toto. Applying the concept of ownership can determine the actions of organization contributions to community development efforts and all the HCMC/VHC Chairmen should have the sense of ownership to ensure that the respective community is in safe hands, she exhorted the gathering. She also give to award to three best performing Village Health Committees for their initiative and excellent participation: 1st – Totok Chingkho; 2nd – Longching; and 3rd - Chenmoho.
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Light, Heat and its effect on the Environment: Asecho Cosmos Phinyu Morung express News Kohima | November 13
‘Light, Heat and its effect on the Environment,’ a research on the case of global warming by Asecho Cosmos Phinyu was released on November 13 at Model Christian College, Kohima. 25 years old Asecho hails from Kidima village and is currently pursuing BSc from Kohima Science College. Theories indicate that light is absorbed by earth through resonance. However Asecho’s research and observation which took him 10 years to complete, concludes that the explosion of photons produces light. Ever since his eight standard, Asecho developed a keen interest on rel-
ativity and light and how sunlight produces heat and started his research for the love of science and the clarification and better understanding of light and heat and their effects on the environment. “There is no proper platform to guide and pave way for the Nagas in the field of Science,” said Asecho at the book release and further expressed the need for a platform for Science to progress in Nagaland. With a concern to work in a well equipped laboratory with a research centre, Asecho released the book and is aiming to work on the principle of free energy, specifically work energy, with the hope of discarding ‘long distance
Public SPace
On LPG distribution and Online Booking: A Response
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n response to the press statement against M/s Yhome Gas Agency by Mr. Abe Tsope in the local media on 5.11.2014, I hereby issued this rejoinder, not to justify the hardships that the customers are facing but just to clarify certain wrong notions the public have on the LPG distributors. Firstly, the management fully sympathizes with all esteem customers who have to go through great hardships not just recently but almost every year because of non availability of gas which is absolutely beyond our control in spite of our sincere efforts. The LPG business is perhaps a complex business partnership of four different parties playing in differ-
ent antagonism direction. The union government at the top who is the mandated policy making body but is neither the manufacturer nor the producer, frames the rules and enacts the laws to benefit the citizens with a political mind. The Second party is the producer, the Oil Company which is profit making oriented body and has to do business at a loss to follow the guided policies of the Government. The Distributor is the third party, the extended hand of the Oil Company and often the punching bag, squeezed in between the systems. Even if you have crores of rupees for charity, you cannot bring LPG for distribution to meet the shortfall of subsidized cylinders unless the supply is made available by the Oil
Company. How much a customer should get in a year is decided by the Union Government and how much or when it will be make available to customers depends on the supply made by Oil Company and not the distributors. The fourth is the customer who can be very happy when gas is available or very angry when gas is not made available and it doesn’t make a difference whether he is your relative or your best friend. They know their rights immediately from media and demand their due shares even before distributors get intimation from company of such privilege, however, the fighting of their rights is perfectly fine with us but such demand should be made to the authorities
concerned which made the commitments. The 12 Nos of subsidized LPG cylinders per customer per year at any time of the year as was referred by Mr. Abe, is absolutely impossible with reference to the present LPG supply scenario unless a drastic change take place for mass production and supply. Mr. Abe has also stated that “...discrimination and unfair distribution of government subsidized goods like LPG is uncalled for” wherein he has again clarified in our favor in subsequent para as “ I am not an exception, many people are also complaining that they have not receive any message more than a month after.” His own second statement clarifies our
helpless position better than what we could do to the public that there is no discrimination and unfair distribution of LPG whatsoever from our end. Scarcity of LPG in the market is not the result of ‘online booking’ as alleged by Mr. Abe but is due to shortages in supply chain from company source. Online facility is aimed to give transparency and better service to customers. However, presently we are doing manual booking also for the e-illiterate customers apart from online booking. Online booking customers will get sms only when their serial number comes matured and gas is available for delivery. Presently we have too many backlogs to be cleared which is the ma-
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The Unknown Citizen WH Auden To JS/07 M 378,
This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports of his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of the old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the war till the day he retired He worked in a factory and never got fired, But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views, For his union reports that he paid his dues, (Our report of his union shows it was sound) And our Social Psychology workers found That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink. The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day, And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way. Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured, And his Health-card shows that he was once in hospital but left it cured. Both Producers Research and High–Grade Living declare He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A gramophone, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of the year; When there was peace he was for peace; when there was war he went. He was married and added five children to the population, which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
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The Colosseum: Ancient ruin or the modern venue?
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on't expect gladiators to make a latter-day comeback. And soccer has already been ruled out. But an archaeologist's proposal to return the Colosseum's storied arena to the state it was in when gladiators sparred with lions, has sparked a lively debate over appropriate uses of the monument that symbolizes the glories of ancient Rome. Critics have fretted that the Colosseum would be turned into a venue for events like rock concerts, viewed as both unbefitting of its stature as an ancient wonder and likely to inflict damage to the structure already weakened by earthquakes, notably in 443 and most recently in the 1700s. Archaeologist Daniele Manacorda of Roma Tre university said his suggestion to replace the arena's long-disappeared floor is aimed at restoring the Colosseum to its original state so visitors can better appreciate its ancient splendor — not turning it into a heavily trafficked concert venue. "It's the most normal idea in the world," Manacorda said. The proposal lay dormant, tucked inside the July issue of the specialized Archeo periodical, until Italy's culture minister endorsed it with a tweet Sunday. "It just takes some courage," Dario Franceschini said on Twitter. Franceschini quickly found himself rebuffing modern-day fantasies, like that of the AC Roma president to play soccer in the arena, while defending Manacorda's proposal. "Where is it written that you can't protect the value of the Colosseum while also making it more dynamic and useable?" Franceschini said this week. He has placed the idea under study for both costs and feasibility. Visitors entering the Colosseum today can look down into the stadium's labyrinthine belly to the rooms where bears and lions were once caged, and where gladiators prepared for mortal battle. Those utilitarian spaces were covered by the wooden floor of the arena itself during the nearly five centuries that the Colosseum functioned as a center of entertainment, with spectacles including exotic animal hunts and sea-battle re-enactments. "The absence of the floor is not the result of history that exposed this majestic monument," Manacorda said. "It is the product of archaeological digs in recent centuries." With the excavations completed, Manacorda said it is time to consider "restoring the monument to the way it always was so that everyone can experience the monument with more ease and clarity." The proposal does not envision restoring the stadium seating. Italians are not in principle against using their ancient monuments as backdrops for entertainment. Verona's Arena, a Roman amphitheater, attracts thousands each summer to its opera series, and performances are set regularly among the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The Colosseum itself has housed occasional performances, and is visited every year by the pope during the Stations of the Cross. The Colosseum, however, enjoys a unique status as the most predominant symbol not only of Rome, but of Italy, making sensitive any discussion about altering the status quo. "It is so important and bulky in its presence, that to transition it into a venue where you perform opera is beneath its dignity," said Giorgio Croci, a structural engineer who is one of Italy's leading experts on the Colosseum. "The image of the Colosseum needs to remain beyond that practical use. It needs to remain an icon, a point of reference with all its history and its past."
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Steve Rushton
We need free education to unleash society’s potential
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ducation can engender critical thinking, innovation and creativity, providing a platform on which people can shape alternatives for society. Arguably, the need to amplify blue sky thinking has never been stronger: the globalised society faces multiple systemic crises, such as climate, inequality and debt; not to mention the systemic failures with democracy, usurped by corporate domination. Free and critical education could be an engine to remedy and reverse these problems, but it is currently accelerating in the other direction. The Westminster- City of London axis is the driving force behind the suppression of free education in England and Wales. In universities, increasing tuition fees are central as students are becoming consumers rather than free explorers of academia; as is the violent crack-down on university protests, challenging the idea of universities as autonomous political zones; but this is not only about higher education. In schools, the National Curriculum has moved away from critical thinking, arts and creative subjects, in its place there is an emphasis on preparing children to become workers, returning to Victorian values like learning by rote. In effect, education is geared to serve the needs of big business, maintaining the system for the 1%. We need free education to unleash society’s potential and build alternatives.
company promised tax breaks to start a fracking revolution in Britain. Not only could Browne be accused of taking with one hand from the public to give to himself, but his company are also engaged in another serious issue with education: its lack of independence from corporate influence. The government is presenting studies to argue it will be safe and beneficial to frack the country. But investigations show that the fracking industry sponsors these very studies. This contradicts the post-Enlightenment cornerstone that science should be independent. Cuadrilla’s involvement includes financially backing Professor Joe Howe to research the socio-political benefits of fracking in the North East. Howe is director of the University of Central Lancashire, he also chaired the UK ”Shale Gas Environment Summit" in 2013 and advises the UK Environmental Agency. Shell’s sponsorship of Oxford University’s ‘Shell Geo-Science Laboratory’ is yet another example of how big oil can invest a small proportion of the tax breaks they use to direct education. This gives the oil giant direct influence, including an oversight over what PhD can and cannot be undertaken. As this company has interests in fracking and tar sands, it seems logical to think that through corporate education’s impact, future studies of these highly polluting industries are being watered-down or silenced. Even in schools, oil companies are muddying scientific integrity. The oil giant BP makes series of flashy lesson plans which teachers can download. In a lesson about ’Science at Work, students will ‘learn’ how BP shipping executive believes “A healthy ocean is a key to a sustainable universe”. Neglecting how the company caused the biggest ever marine based oil spill. In “Climate Change Student Booklet”, teaching material from BP, the students are presented with the impression that climate change ‘might be happening’, and that it ‘may be’ caused by humans. Big oil spends billions to create climate change doubt and denial – it is obscene that these destructive corporations should be allowed to influence and toxify students’ minds as part of this project. It is not only in science, where there are examples of how education is being used to maintain the elites’ power. There have been broad criticisms that the government is rewriting the history of World War One on its centenary to glorify war and justify future British wars and imperialism. Former Education Secretary Michael Gove has come under particular criticism, including repeating the myths and propaganda that justified going to war in 1914, such as Germans were 'ruthless' and 'expansionist’. More Broadly, Gove pushed history to focus even more on white, upper class men, which reaffirms their current privilege and power within the current structure. Delving deeper into Gove’s conflict of interests, there is a sinister potential explanation for him wanting society to champion war over peace. He is a member of the Henry Jackson Society, a think-tank that pushes military intervention in the Middle East to push the interests of capitalism, especially weapon makers and big oil. Eminent education academic Ken Robinson is a leading voice on both the problems with Britain’s school system and solutions. He highlights how schools need to move away from expecting children to all develop at the same time and place, plus that endless rote is a waste of time. He suggests having lots of 40 minute lessons means the flow of creativity is constantly broken. He asserts that at school there should be no hierarchy of subjects. At the moment maths is considered far more important than music, for example. Another barrier to learning, Robinson explains, is there are too many tests based on getting the ‘single right answer’, with a focus on conformity and therefore suppressing intellectual risk-taking. To summarise these problems together, it seems that education has become a production line or conveyor belt, which pushes conformity and stifles creativity, also pushing the narrative and interests of the corporate elite.
The crises of education Studying a degree today costs an average of over £40,000, accruing debt that will last most graduates into their middle-age. This price tag seems only set to rise, with ongoing plans to sell off the student loan book, plus plans to further increase the tuition fees, beyond their current £9,000 per year cap. We are creating a 'Debt Generation’, as Fanny Malinen explained in an article for Contributoria: graduates under the new student loan system will be locked into debt that could lead to both personal catastrophes and severe problems for the economy. Studying at any university was free across Britain between 1962 and 1998, with grants to assist with living costs. In 1998, the New Labour government ended this by implementing tuition fees, a plan attempted by the previous Conservative regime, but deemed too unpopular. This Conservative government did though start the freezing of grants, paving way to the nearly totally loan-based system of today. New Labour set the price for a degree at £1,000 per year, a figure they tripled in 2003. Despite pledges to reverse these measures from both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, after coming to power in 2010 the coalition U-turned, tripling fees again to £9,000 per year. Fees put the cost of education onto the student rather than the state. This changes the way we view education: as a personal investment rather than a chance to expand the mind and learn to enrich the whole society. The bet is, will a degree lead to a job that can provide enough to repay the debt: a very difficult choice in today’s ’precarious’ world. Of course, those from wealthy backgrounds can still choose whatever course they want. Consequences of this commodification include that creative subjects, critical thinking, languages and particularly non-European languages have seen their admissions decrease the most sharply, with students opting instead for “degree courses which lead to lucrative professional careers.” In a country already ravaged by massive inequality, it seems almost perverse to gear the education system towards amplifying this money-focused culture. Speaking to university lecturers, I have heard examples of the impact of the commodification in action: especially how students are becoming less critical. One lecturer from University of London recounted that a student told how they felt they had already gained their degree before it had commenced, when the loan application paperwork was processed. The decision on whether to gamble creates a barrier to poorer students. If they cannot take on the debt the only chance is to qualify for a rare scholarship. Critical economist John Weeks sums up this class injustice: “The rich can be dumb and help themselves to a university degree, while the poor must qualify as ‘clever.’” The latest tuition fee rise was authored by Lord Browne, a non-elected senior government execu- Another education system is possible tive. He is also chairman of Cuadrilla, the fracking You do not need to travel far to see that education
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ummingbirds are giving up some of their secrets. The perfecting of placing tiny numbered bands on their legs in the last decade has led researchers to discover hummingbirds can live longer than 10 years as opposed to the two or three once thought likely. And astonishing migrations have been found, with a Rufous hummingbird caught in Florida one winter showing up the following summer more than 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) away in southeast Alaska. Some birds have even been discovered wintering in areas where temperatures drop below zero degrees Fahrenheit (minus 18 degrees Celsius). "We're learning a lot about hummingbirds through banding we never would have learned otherwise," said Bruce Peterjohn, chief of the bird banding laboratory for the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. Federal and state permits are required to capture hummingbirds, which are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. In the United States, Peterjohn said, there are some 225 hummingbird banders. About 125 are considered master bird banders because of the years they have spent perfecting the technique. An additional 100 banders trained by a master bird bander have sub-permits, though they are allowed to capture
could be done in another way. Using the powers devolved in 1998, Scotland has maintained education free from tuition fees. Economist Joseph Stiglitz spoke recently in Glasgow about how Scotland is on the path to a new period of Scottish Enlightenment, due to the absence of fees and its rejection of much of the shifts of the English/ Welsh education system. The enlightenment period of the 18th Century was characterised by world-leading output in science and technology, based on the growth of progressive and inclusive education. Another country close to home and similar in size to England and Wales combined shows that it is possible to scrap tuition fees even after they are introduced. Like Britain, Germany in the past had universally free education. But over the last decade it brought in tuition fees across many of the federations, only to be abandoned due to strong public objections. Like in Germany, Britain has the means to fund university without tuition fees. The funding could come from ending corporate tax evasion, scrapping trident, stopping subsidising the big oil or stopping aggressive military conflicts. And these are only a few ways that Britain could re-address the growing inequality to fund free education and other policies to benefit the people and planet. How can we free education? To unleash education we need to reverse the policies, many discussed, that education should serve business or worse still be manipulated by business. Instead, we need to celebrate how it could serve society. This means advocating for state-funded universal education, with no fees. It would mean returning to the values of independence for academia by removing corporate sponsorship. From my own background working in schools, I am aware how it would be beneficial for far less tests to be imposed in schools, and rather than stressing the whole system on maths, English, Science and IT, share the importance of all subjects. Philosophically, I think many teachers would agree that the school system should enable students (and teachers) far more ownership of the learning experience. One leading example of unleashing creativity, already happening schools is the new spoken word poetry subject. This new programme trains poets to become teachers. In the classroom the lessons are child-centred, giving the student the opportunity to create from the soul. The impact of these lessons is that the emotional confidence creates more academic enthusiasm. Making free education happen But to gain this shift, most importantly the whole of society needs to begin to value free education. Comparing Germany to England/ Wales, the reason that they have returned to free education is that there was a broad mass movement against tuition fees. In Britain we do not yet have this movement. One up and coming focus for this potential shift will be the rally on Wednesday 19th November called: “Free Education: No fees. No cuts. No debt.” Interestingly the National Union of Students, which was to a great extent marginalised in the anti-tuition fee protests, has only since April this year taken a position backing an end to tuition fees. Another means to create a shift is to replenish the idea of life-long learning, not least as the new fees are most deterring mature students. To achieve this, one proposal could be to open up lectures in universities to the general public. Additionally we could utilise the space of schools and universities when they are empty to enable more free public educational opportunities. Organising free talks, workshops and skillshares on a range of subjects, and often by academics has been achieved in spaces created by the Occupy movement such as the Free Education Space, the Bank of Ideas and Tent City University. These spaces are inspiring and show the value of critical thinking to young and old alike. It seems that rather than not being able to afford free education, the country cannot afford not to make education free.
Insights on hummingbird travel, life span revealed Keith Ridler Associated Press hummingbirds unsupervised. have also been made in trapping Despite the obstacles, the num- equipment. Just as important, said Jesber of hummingbird banders has in- sica Pollock, a research biologist with creased from about a dozen in the mid- the Intermountain Bird Observatory at 1990s. That's about when Fred Bassett Boise State University, have been restarted banding hummingbirds. "They finements in gathering information to know exactly what's going on," said give it greater relevance. Bassett, 68, a master bird bander who "You need to have a standardized caught 1,900 hummingbirds in Idaho protocol," she said. "You just can't be last summer but spends much of the willy-nilly." Her group last year caught winter at his home in Alabama. "They a record 635 hummingbirds, including know humans are sup105 recaptures, during posed to put up the nine capture days befeeders. They consider tween May and August us to be their personal on private property loservants." Bassett flew fighter jets be- cated about a mile (1.6 kilometers) fore retiring from the U.S. Air Force in south of Idaho City. Key to capturing 1988 and still finds hummingbird flight hummingbirds, she said, is to go where amazing. "I envy them greatly for be- there is an established feeding site put ing able to fly like that — how they can up by humans that has had time to atmaneuver, go from 0 to 50 miles (0 to 80 tract generations of hummingbirds. kilometers) per hour in about 10 feet (3 "They'll bring their kids, and their meter)," he said. baby hummingbirds will bring theirs the Besides advances in the tiny metal next year," Pollock said. "So you just get bands — which banders have to pre- more and more every year." Carl Rudeen, pare themselves — breakthroughs another hummingbird bander in Idaho,
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captured a record 768 hummingbirds in the state. He's discovered that a new species of hummingbird, the Anna's hummingbird, is starting to move into Idaho. "This year we caught two juveniles in August," he said, "the first documentation of juveniles in Idaho." His theory is that the species, which thrives in urban environments with human helpers, is moving from coastal areas to Idaho expecting to find hummingbird feeders at the ready. All the new information has led to yet more questions. For example, Peterjohn said, it's not clear if hummingbirds on their long migrations fly hundreds of miles at a time and make long layovers to refuel, or if they are making relatively short 30-mile (48-kilometer) flights. The longevity of hummingbirds is also unknown, with Peterjohn predicting birds in their teens will likely start showing as the banding program continues. A lack of banders in Mexico and central America is a problem though, he added. And in Idaho, local banders are at a loss to explain why record numbers of hummingbirds were captured last summer. Some possibilities, Pollock said, range from a better breeding year to better migrating conditions. But researchers can only speculate. "Our knowledge has increased and made us realize how little we know and how much there still is to learn about hummingbirds," Peterjohn said.
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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
WHEAT PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR NAGALAND Anamika Sharma, Ch Roben Singh, Kolom Rabi KVK Dimapur, ICAR Nagaland Centre
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n the realm of food crops in the world, wheat (Triticum spp.) occupies the number one position. India is one of the principal wheat producing and consuming countries in the world. Its importance in Indian agriculture is second to only rice. Wheat flour based products, such as the chapatti, are part of the staple diet in most parts of India - particularly in northern India. Wheat straw is also used for feeding cattle. Green Revolution, which was initiated in the country in late 1960s, has had a very significant effect in increasing the yield of wheat. The output ratio of wheat to rice has steadily increased 1:3 to 4:5. Since 1991, the Ministry of Agriculture has been giving massive thrust to boost its output in the country. At present Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana are the three major wheat producing states. They account for nearly 70 per cent of the total wheat produced in the country. Though Uttar Pradesh has the highest production, it lags behind Punjab and Haryana in terms of productivity. Better irrigation facilities in these states supports higher yield. In Haryana, 98 per cent of the area under wheat is irrigated and in Punjab it is 96 per cent. However, in Uttar Pradesh, 88 per cent of the area under wheat is irrigated.
Area and Distribution in Nagaland -Wheat is another cereal crop of Nagaland grown in almost all the districts of the state with cool winter and hot summer climate, irrespective of elevation and irrigation facilities. It is cultivated over an area of 3150 hectares with production of 5390 Metric tonnes and productivity of 1.71Mt/ha. Status of Wheat in Nagaland 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
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Wheat cultivation in non-traditional states like Na- Tips for increasing production galand is also being popularized by improving irriga- • Soil testing has to be done after harvesting of tion facilities and developing new varieties suitable for Kharif crop .i.e. paddy or maize. Soil sample cultivation in north eastern plain zone. The suitable from all the four corners of field at 30-40 cm soil varieties recommended by Directorate of Wheat Redepth; need to be collected and mixed. The soil search, Karnal, Haryana, for north eastern plain zone sample weighing 500 gm needs to be tested at which include Nagaland also, are: nearby Soil testing Laboratory. Soil test is being done to know the fertility status. Such soil North Production condition Varieties (potential yield samples are being analysed at Soil testing Lab. eastern in q/ha) Medziphema, and also at ICAR Research ComDBW- 39 (55.2), CBW -38 plain zone Timely sown plex for NEH region, Jharnapani, Medziphema, st rd (1 week of Nov. to 3 (57.9), Raj -4120 (50.0), with nominal fees week of Nov.), Irrigated K -307 (51.9), HD- 2824 • The wheat seed are to be sown in Zero tillage for with high fertility (65.0), PBW-443 (52.7), conservation of soil moisture and to reduce the PBW- 343 (61.0), HDcost of cultivation. 2733 (56.2),HUW -468 • Use quality seed of newly developed varieties of (52.8), K-9107 (55.0), HPwheat suitable for the region/state. 1761(47.0) Late Sown (sown HW- 2045 (41.9), DbW- 14 • Fertiliser requirement for irrigated timely sown after 30th Nov.) –with (42.1), NW -2036 conditions is 120:60:40 kg N:P2O5:K2O/ha in irrigated and medium (41.9), HD- 2643 (47.7), NEPZ whereas for late sown it is 90:60:40 kg level fertility condition NW -1014 (40.0), HP N:P2O5:K2O/ha. Full P and K with 1/3rd N are to -1744 (39.4), Halna (35.0) be applied as basal and the rest 2/3rd N should Timely sown under HD -2888 (38.3), K- 8027 be applied at first node stage at around 40-45 rain-fed condition with (37.0) days after seeding. In general, all the fertiliser low fertility @ 90:30 kg N:P2O5/ha is applied at the time of Late Sown under rain K -9465 (30.0), K- 8962 sowing as basal under rainfed conditions. fed condition with low (23.5) fertility • Seed rate of 100 kg/ha at 38 g/1000 seeds is required under irrigated timely sown conditions. For late sown and rain-fed conditions seed rate should be increased to 125 kg/ha. Seeding depth should be around 5±2 cm with a row spacing of 20-23 cm. For late sown wheat reduce the line spacing to 15-18 cm. • Crown root initiation and heading stages are most critical to moisture stress. Four to six irrigations are enough for wheat crop. Depending upon the water availability, irrigation should be applied as per the requirement of the crop. • Use clean wheat seed that is free from weed seeds, sow early and adopt closer row spacing for better weed control. • Apply Pendimethalin @ 1000 g/ha at 0-3 days after sowing in 500-600 litres of water/ha as
CoNCePT oF INTeGRATeD FARmING SYSTem (IFS) K. Lily Rangnamei, SMS (Horticulture) increase productivity per unit area per unit time by virtue of intensification of KVK Longleng crop and allied enterprises and by usarming systems approach is a ing time and space concept. 2. Profitability- Integrated Farming “highly location specific approach involving appropriate system increases the profitability by recombinations of complimentary farm ducing the cost of production due to enterprises viz., cropping systems, use of the product, waste of one comlivestock, fisheries, forests, poultry and ponent as input of another component the means available to the farmers like at the least cost. 3. Potentiality/ sustainability- In Inlabour, capital, energy and other resources with the farm family at the cen- tegrated Farming system, organic supter managing agricultural and related plementation through effective utilizaactivities to raise them for profitability. tion of byproducts of linked component Farm family functions within the limi- is done, thus providing an opportunity tations of its capability and resources, to sustain the potentiality of production the socio – cultural setting, and the in- base for much longer period. 4. Balance food- In Integrated teraction of these components with the physical, biological and economic fac- Farming system different components produce different sources of nutritors. tion viz. protein and fat from animals, carbohydrates from cereals, minerals The concept It should involve a set of com- from fruit and vegetables, etc which ponents/enterprises, components provide balance food to farm family. 5. Environmental safety - Effective should interact among themselves, farm should be a playground for in- recycling of waste materials and reducteraction and farmers should play the tion in use of chemicals by adopting role of mediator for interaction. So, ul- biocontrol measures reduce the envitimate concept is “there should not be ronmental pollution. 6. Income round the year- Inteany farm waste, which can become a grated Farming System provides flow useful input for other component.” Integrated farming system should of money to the farmer round the year be Holistic - improving the productiv- by way of disposal of egg, milk, mushity of existing components in totality room, fruits, vegetables, fish, meat. and Innovative - improving the exist7. Adoption of new technologying farming systems with user percep- Because of flow of income round the tion based new introduction of compo- year , small and marginal farmers gets nents for increasing the profitability. the opportunity to adopt the new technology which needs more capital inAdvantages vestment. 1. Productivity – Integrated Farm8. Saving energy- Production of ing system provides an opportunity to biogas by using organic waste/cattle
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dung reduces dependence on fossil fuel. It also reduces the use of fertilizer due to organic waste recycling. 9. Saving fuel, fodder and timberGrowing of perennial fodder legume trees in the border and water would meet the fodder requirement. Integrated Farming System, by linking agro forestry appropriately the production level of fuel and industrial wood can enhanced without detrimental effect on crop activity in the field. 10. Employment generationCombination of a number of enterprises would increase the labour requirement significantly and help in reducing under – employment to a great extent and makes complete use of farm labour round the year. 11. Increasing input use efficiencyIntegrated Farming system provides good scope to use the inputs in different components very effectively leading to greater efficiency and higher benefits cost ratio by exploiting farm resources synergistically and complementarily. 12. Reduction of risk- Diversification in use of production resources helps in reducing and spreading socio economic risk. As the risk is better spread, the failure of one component will not affect much to the system as a whole. 13. Increasing the standard of living of the farmers- Once provisions are made at the farm level to generate bio energy, produce edible mushroom, fruits, egg, milk, honey, vegetable etc. for the family use of the farmer apart from commercial purposes through Integrated Farming system, creates a feeling of security among the farmers. Higher profitability and year round income help in meeting
the requirement of the farmers and enhance the standard of living of the farmer. Thus Integrated Farming system helps in increasing standards of living and socio – economic status of the farmers. Location specific farming models A4 or A3 or A2 Model of Farming [Aquaculture + Agriculture + Animal Husbandry + Apiculture] Veg-Fruit-Pig- Fish Model , FishRice-Fruit–Vegetable Model, FishMushroom Model, Fish-Rabbit-Veg Model, Fruit- Fish-Goat Model, Cattle – Fish Model, Fish-Agroforestry-Horti-Agri-Animal Husbandry-Apiculture Model, Fish-Vegetable-Fruit Model, Fodder-Vegetable-Fruit Model, PaddyFish Model, Dairy- Horti- Fish Model, Fish- Pig Model, Poultry/Duckery - Fish integration Model,Vegetables – Fish Model, Pineapple based agro horti farming system Model, Paddy cum mushroom integrated farming system Model Conclusion Therefore, challenges before us are, to produce more & more foods in the years to come under an environmentally degraded, fragile and shrinkage cultivable area to meet the ever increasing million mouths of the country. So, we have to think for a new viable technology for it - how to integrate farm enterprises for optimum utilization of resources, minimize environmental pollution, increase farmer’s income and create regular employment opportunities throughout the year. Farming system perspective is the most opportune, and perhaps the only pathway that can ensure food security under the constrained conditions.
pre-emergence. • For control of mixed weed population Sulfosulfuron @ 25.0 g/ha in 250-300 litres of water/ha can be sprayed at 30-35 days after seeding. In resistance free area, combination of 2, 4-D @ 500 g/ha and isoproturon @ 750 g /ha can also be used. • For control grassy weeds only Clodinafop @ 60 g/ha or Fenoxaprop-ethyl @ 100 g/ha) in 250300 litres of water/ha should be applied.
• If only broadleave weeds are present then apply 2,4-D @ 500 g/ha or Metsulfuron methyl @ 4 g/ ha in 250-300 litres of water/ha. • Foliar blight and brown rust are the main crop health problems in this zone. For effective management of the diseases, cultivation of recommended varieties, like HD 2985, HI 1563, DBW 39, CBW 38, NW 1014, NW 2036, K 9107, HD 2733 (resistant to LB), DBW 14, HD 2888, K0307, DBW39 and HUW 468 should be encouraged. • Loose smut control measures should be undertaken in view of the horizontal distribution of the seed material among the farmers and the use of carry over seed. Seed treatment with a combination of the reduced dosage of fungicide and T. viride is made. The bioagent fungus, apart from enhancing the efficacy of the fungicide, also leads to better germination, growth and protection against diseases through induced systemic resistance. For this purpose, seed treatment should be done with T. viride @ 4 g / Kg seed in combination with carboxin (Vitavax 75 WP) @ 1.25 g / Kg seed or tebuconazole (Raxil 2 DS) @ 1.0 g / Kg seed. Seed treatment with T. viride alone @ 4 g / Kg seed is also helpful as it reduces the rust severity. Following these tips the wheat growers can expect to harvest a good crop taking into account the necessary precautions.
Weather based integrated agro advisory for the month of November Crops
Advisories Undertake sowing of crops like pea, toria and lentil after harvesting of rice under zero tillage condition for utilization of residual moisture.
•Winter vegetables
Apply farm yard manure 10-15 days before sowing or transplanting of crops. mulch the crops with available biomass (rice straw, weeds etc) at 5t/ha to conserve soil moisture. Timely sowing should be done for all the vegetable crops to reduce the incidence of pests.
•Paddy
Do not allow paddy crop to dry very much to prevent it from shattering. Dry the grains properly and regularly before storing to reduce storage insect pests and fungus. Paddy grains can be mixed with neem leaves at the time of storage to reduce storage pests.
•Mustard
In mustard field, place honeybee colonies@3-4 colonies/ha increase honey yield and crop productivity.
•Seed storage
Mixing Zinc phosphide with dry fish and little mustard is a good bait for rats. Keep baits at 15m distance around storage godowns.
Livestock • Measures should be carried out to prevent the entry of virus into the swine herd by – Keeping the sty doors closed and only allow essential personnel to enter, equipments should be cleaned and disinfected, vehicle movement should be restricted and vehicles that enter the farm yard should be cleaned thoroughly. • Ration of the pigs should be changed at different stages of growth but the shift from one ration to another should be done gradually in order not to upset the normal feeding behavior of the pigs. Always allow a transition period of atleast one week before making changes. • Do take care of your pond every day when you take food to your fish, make sure the pond remains full of water, do not let weeds cover more than one quarter of the surface. If there are too many weeds, clean your pond. • Coccidiosis caused by eimeria sp. occur mostly due to high moisture with Relative Humidity 70-90%. Common symptoms are reddish faecal, emertiated, mortality 20% and morbidity 60-80%. Treatment:- anticoccidiosis like coccinil plus, Amprolium, supercox with vitamin & mineral supplement. Prevention:- Litter material should be dry and clean. Prophylaxis measure can control this disease. • Keep contacts of local veterinarian in handy for emergency.
SEED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR WINTER VEGETABLES
VK Mon has standardized the vegetable seed production technology of winter season vegetables for Nagaland, as well as identified the proper time of planting of the seed crop and its harvest period Dr. M.S. Sachan1 and Dr. Ruokuovilie Mezhatsu2 for hilly condition so that farmers/ growers may take 1. Subject matter Specialist (Plant breeding) 2. Programme Coordinator necessary precautions to protect their seed and could Krishi Vigyan Kendra, mon (Aboi) harvest the vegetable of desired quantity. Seed is the primary component of crop production and without better quality seed, desired production cannot be ex- manure (FYM) and 25 kg nitrogen, 35 kg P2O5 and 25 Rapeseed (Lai patta): Seed is raised in nursery in mid pected. The important aspects of seed production thus kg K¬2O/ ha before harrowing so that the manure and September to October and the seedlings are transplanted considered are: fertilizer gets mixed up well in the soil. The remaining at a spacing of 60 x 60 cm in mid October. The crop is left for 25 kg nitrogen per hectare is applied before flowering seed production after leaf pickings two times, the crop will Isolation Distance for seed crop as top dressing. Proper channels should also be made be ready for harvest of seed in second week of March. Thus Isolation can be maintained by providing physical in seed plot for better drainage and maintaining proper the green leaves as well as seed are obtained. barriers of optimum height around the seed producmoisture level in the plot which is congenial for crop tion plot or cross pollination may be checked by adoptFenugreek: Seed is sown directly in last week of Sepgrowth. It is very important to note that the FYM used ing different time of sowing for different varieties so that tember and 50 cm row spacing is maintained. Proper should be well rottened otherwise it will invite the white their blooming period will not coincide with each other thinning is done after germination to maintain proper grubs which may damage the crops. Irrigation is given by growing seed of one variety in one location. Mainplant spacing. After one picking in early stage the crop from time to time, so that the nutrients are made availtaining recommended minimum isolation distance is left for seed production. Thus it provides green leaves able to crop besides meeting its water requirement. (meters) for seed production of different vegetable as well as seed. The crop will be ready for harvest by seccrops from other varieties of the same crops (Table 1.) Sowing and harvesting of winter ond week of April. is as follows: vegetable seed crops in hills Coriander: The seed is sown directly in second week Cabbage: Nursery is sown in mid September to October unof September to mid October and 45 cm row spacing is Table 1. Recommended isolation distance (in meter) Vegetables Foundation seed C e r t i f i e d der protected condition and transplanting is done in second maintained. Thinning is done to maintain proper plant week of October to mid November by maintaining distance spacing. After one picking at early stage the crop is left seed of 75 x 75 cm. After the heads attain full maturity and during for seed production. It helps in better branching thus Cabbage, radish, 1600 1000 January a plus mark cut is given on the top of head to allow green leaves as well as seed is obtained. The crop gets spinach sprouting of reproductive shoots. The lower leaves which get ready for seed harvest by mid April- May. Pea 20 10 dry are removed from time to time to avoid rotting. The seed Rapeseed/ mustard 50 25 Spinach: The seed is directly sown during mid Septemcrop will be ready for harvest by third week of May. Fenugreek, Coriander 10 5 ber to mid October and row spacing of 45 cm is maintained. After one picking the crop is left for seed proField preparation and maintenance Radish: Seed is sown in mid September to October and duction. The crop gets ready for seed harvest by mid The seed production plots need uniformly main- the crop is allowed to grow for proper root formation. After April to May. tained beds which have desired fertility and proper wa- the roots mature, 2/3 portion of roots are removed and the ter drainage management. Thus to make the seed beds, remaining portion along with the shoots are re-transplant- Pea: Seed is sown directly in field and spacing of 45 cm the field should be ploughed properly followed by one ed by mid December at a spacing of 1m x 1m for seed pro- row to row and 10 cm plant to plant is maintained. The harrowing apply 4-5 tonnes of well rottened farm yard duction. The seed crop will be ready by mid April. sowing is done in third week of September to October
Agro Met Field Unit ICAR, Jharnapani, Medziphema
and crop gets ready for seed harvest by end of April to May. Delay in sowing reduces the seed size and yield. Requirement of maintenance breeding for seed multiplication chain- a guideline In order to produce the seed, having genetic purity, it is necessary to avoid cross pollination, segregation and admixture to start the seed multiplication chain, the different classes of seeds are maintained by following the under mentioned norms. Basic nucleus seed Seed of the notified variety with all passport information collected from the evolving institute is the basic nucleus seed. This seed is sown by keeping more row to row and plant to plant distance than the normal recommendation at required isolation distance. The off types and diseased plants are rogued out at seedling, before flowering, flowering and at physiologically matured stage. The true type plants are marked with contrast coloured thread and observed regularly. The desired marked plants are harvested separately and its seed is used as nucleus seed for next year. The discolored and diseased seeds are removed. Remaining bulk is used for breeder seed. Maintenance of nucleus seed year after year First year: Required numbers of true type plants are selected and tagged plants are repeatedly observed for the ancillary and distinguishing character. The diseased plants are invariably rejected. The seed of one plant is kept in one envelop. Second year: Seed of one selected plant is sown in one row keeping more plant and row to row distance than normal. Individual plant progenies are visited regularly to observe the off type plants and are immediately rejected. The diseased plants are also rouged out. At maturity the seed characters of individual plant are confirmed. The produce of selected line is bulked and used as nucleus seed for production of breeder seed.
The Morung Express in collaboration with the ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Nagaland Centre will be publishing articles with regard to Agriculture and the farming community on the first Friday of every month. Readers may please note that, the contents of the articles published on this page do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.
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Reject linkages between religion, terrorism: Modi
NAy Pyi tAw, November 13 (iANs): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday spoke strongly on the issue of terrorism at the East Asia Summit, calling for a “genuinely international partnership against all terrorism” and to reject any linkage between religion and terrorism. On day three of his engagements in the Myanmar capital, Modi also spoke of the need to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea. He met a string of leaders, including first time meetings with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. Addressing the East Asia Summit, Modi said India supports the East Asia Summit Declaration on the Islamic State jihadist group. The rise of jihadist group Islamic State, which indulges in brutal killings and has declared a caliphate in areas overrun by it in Syria and Iraq, is a major cause of concern in the world. Modi also said the challenges of terrorism and extremism have increased and we “have to ensure that cyber and space remain a source of connectivity and prosperity, not new theatres for conflict”. In reference to the territorial conflicts in the South China Sea, he said: “Following inter-
Modi meets Chinese premier, gets China invite
NAi Pyi tAw, November 13 (iANs): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday had his first meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang who invited him to visit China. “Keen to have you visit China. Look forward to seeing you in Beijing - Premier Li to PM at 1st meeting,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted. Modi has earlier met Chinese President Xi Jinping, including during the latter’s visit to India in September. But the two prime ministers had never met. Modi and Li discussed issues of bilateral interest, and also discussed Xi’s visit. Modi told Li that the visit of the Chinese president “will be remembered as a memorable visit”,
the Prime Minister’s Office said. Li concurred, saying Xi’s visit was “a high success”. Li also said that China was looking forward to welcoming Modi. “Keen to have you visit China. Look forward to seeing you in Beijing,” Li was quoted as saying by Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Syed Akbaruddin. Both leaders are here in Myanmar to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and the East Asia Summit. Li is also on a bilateral visit to Myanmar. Modi will meet Xi in Brisbane where both are heading to attend the G20 Summit. Modi will late Thursday night leave for Australia to attend the G20 summit.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks past ushers upon his arrival ahead of the East Asia summit plenary session at Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.(AP Photo
national law and norms is important for peace and stability in South China Sea as well.” “In a world of inter-dependence and globalisation, there is no option but to follow international laws and norms,” he said. Referring to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, he said it has highlighted the importance of international cooperation in combating pandemics. Modi informed the gath-
ering that India has contributed $12 million in the efforts against Ebola. On India’s outreach to Southeast Asian countries, Modi said his government has moved with “a great sense of priority and speed” to turn the ‘Look East Policy’ into the ‘Act East Policy’. “No other forum is so critical for peace, stability and prosperity in Asia-Pacific and the
world,” he said of the East Asia Summit which brings together more than 18 leaders -- the 10 ASEAN leaders and eight others, including the US, China, Russia, South Korea, Japan and Australia. He suggested that countries could “start major initiatives on energy partnership, for example, in the area of solar energy with the objective of bringing affordable, clean energy within
the reach of all”. Modi said a “balanced Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement which gives equal emphasis to goods and services, could be a springboard for regional integration and prosperity”. The RCEP trade agreement is being negotiated by the EAS countris. Ahead of the summit, Modi began the day with a bilateral
meeting with Medvedev, that comes ahead of the bilateral summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in December in New Delhi. He also met China’s Li and Widodo during separate delegation level talks. Modi addressed the Indian diaspora in the evening before heading for Brisbane in Australia for the G20. Over the past two days,
Modi has met a host of leaders from the Southeast Asian countries, including from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and also shook hands with US President Barack Obama who called him “a man of action”. In Australia, he would be holding more meetings with world leaders and then after a bilateral with Australian leader Tony Abbott, he would fly to Fiji.
India wins US support for food 8-yr-old Indian-origin CEO to give lecture at cybersecurity summit scheme, ends WTO blockade New Delhi, November 13 (reuters): India won U.S. support for a massive domestic food stockpiling scheme on Thursday, rescuing the biggest global trade deal in two decades and giving new Prime Minister Narendra Modi a victory without major concessions. Under the pact with Washington, India will lift a veto on a global agreement on streamlining customs rules that is likely to add $1 trillion to the world economy as well as 21 million jobs, 18 million of them in developing countries. Modi, elected in May, had pulled the plug on the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement four months ago because he objected to a related deal on food security. Washington, which was the principal opponent of India’s food scheme on the grounds that it distorted trade, hailed Thursday’s deal. Trade Representative Michael Froman said it would “give new momentum to multilateral efforts at the WTO” and predicted the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) struck by the WTO last year in Bali, Indonesia, would now win quick ratification. Yet, at a conference call to brief reporters on the deal, Froman declined to answer questions on what concessions India had given in return. In talks to break the deadlock, India stressed the importance of ensuring that its 1.25 billion people, many of them poor,
have enough to eat. It won an open-ended commitment from Washington to protect its food purchase and distribution scheme from any challenge under WTO disputes procedures. Without the clause, India could have been vulnerable to attack by trade partners over exports of any surplus grain stocks accumulated in government warehouses. New Delhi’s blockade had plunged the WTO into its worst crisis in two decades, leading Director General Roberto Azevedo to float the idea of abandoning the consensus principle on which the 160-member group operates. Modi’s tough line jarred with the ‘Make in India’ pitch he has taken to investors abroad in his first five months in charge. He could have been isolated at his first G20 summit of world leaders in Brisbane, Australia, this weekend. But India, home to a sixth of the world’s population, is one of the few bright spots in a flagging global economy and Modi was vindicated in his conviction that its promising market for cars, mobile phones and medicines would not be cut adrift. “This is a huge plus for the world trading system - it uncorks TFA and potentially other deals,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian Economics Research at HSBC in Singapore. “From Modi’s perspective, it’s a major victory to say
we’ve got an indefinite stay of execution on our food subsidy scheme.” QUIET CONFIDENCE Modi instructed aides early last week to strike a deal. Throughout the impasse, Indian officials expressed quiet confidence that Azevedo would not win enough backing to follow through on his threat. India had called for a permanent ‘peace clause’ to protect its food stockpiling scheme, subject to certain conditions, until a permanent solution on the issue was found at the WTO. Under the Bali accord, the peace clause would have expired after four years. India refused to bow to calls to scale back its scheme to buy wheat and rice from its farmers, despite criticism that this encouraged overproduction. A food security law passed by the last government actually expanded the number who were entitled to receive cheap food grains to 850 million. In a recent disclosure to the WTO, India said its state food procurement cost $13.8 billion in 2010-11, part of the total of $56.1 billion it spends on farm support. Wheat stocks, at 30 million tonnes, are more than double official target levels. The India-United States compromise should now go before a Dec. 11-12 meeting of the WTO’s General Council, its highest decision-making body, for ratification, Indian trade minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
New Delhi, November 13 (Pti): An eight-year old Indian-origin child prodigy is among experts who will address a cybersecurity conference starting tomorrow where minister of state for external affairs VK Singh is also listed as a keynote speaker. In his address at the summit on November 14, the US-based whizkid Reuben Paul will highlight and demonstrate the need for developing the current generation with cybersecurity skills, according to the organizers of Ground Zero Summit to be held here. The organizers said, “8 year old Reuben Paul gives
keynote at Houston Security Conference.” “I started learning about computer languages around one- and-a-half years back. Now I design my own projects,” Reuben told PTI. The prodigy has been trained by his father, Mano Paul, in Object C programming language and is now learning Swift programming for Apple’s iOS platform. Mano Paul, born and brought up in Odisha, moved to the US in 2000. Reuben in August started Prudent Games, his own gaming firm and is designated as CEO of the company. Mano Paul
is his partner in the company. “This will be Reuben’s fourth conference where he will be giving lecture on cybersecurity. He will talk about need to create awareness about cybersecurity among young kids as well as demo white page hacking,” Mano Paul said. The other keynote speakers listed for the summit include home ministry joint secretary Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi, special commissioner police (Traffic) with Delhi Police Muktesh Chander and National Technical Research Organization director of cybersecurity operations Alok Vijayant.
Sonia targets Modi govt, says Nehru’s ideology under attack New Delhi, November 13 (iANs): Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday launched a strong but veiled attack on the BJP-led government, saying a determined bid was being made to decimate the contribution of Jawaharlal Nehru, who was the epitome of secularism. Addressing a gathering at the Talkatora stadium here to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of Nehru, Sonia Gandhi said there was an attempt not only to target the personality of Nehru, but also his ideology, vision, struggle and contribution. Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party or its affiliates, Sonia Gandhi said there was a need to create a public movement to preserve the ethos of tolerance for which Nehru struggled all his life. “We have to go with a resolve that we will fight those individuals, ideologies and institutions who want to destroy the edifice of liberal India given by Nehru. “We have to go with a new resolve that we will give a new force to the legacy of Nehru in
Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, center, flanked by her son and Vice President Rahul Gandhi, left, and former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh applaud after a performance by children during celebrations marking the 125th birth anniversary of the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi on Thursday, November 13. (AP Photo)
the present context,” Sonia Gandhi said. She said if Nehru was present, he would have asked party workers to be united, strengthen the party organisation, go to people and connect with them on their issues and relate to their joys and sorrows. “He would not have hesi-
tated to say that ‘fight communal forces on all sides, become brave secular soldiers to preserve the soul of India’. Are you ready to do all this?” Sonia Gandhi asked the party workers. “India’s parliamentary democracy, secular society, progressive social change, rule of
law, economic development and independent foreign policy... apart from this, there may be only a few areas where he did not contribute,” the Congress president said. She said Nehru laid the policies which have enabled India to send satellite to Mars.
Tainted drugs suspected in sterilisation surgery deaths
R.K.Gupta (L), who performed sterlisation surgeries at a government mass sterilisation ‘camp’, sits at a police station as police and the media look on in Bilaspur, in Chhattisgarh, November 13. (Reuters Photo)
PANDAri, November 13 (reuters): Tainted or sub-standard drugs probably led to the deaths of 13 Indian women after
sterilisation surgery at a family-planning “camp”, and owners of the factories that produced them have been summoned for ques-
tioning, a senior official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the doctor who carried out the sterilisation of 83 women in under three hours at a hospital in Chhattisgarh denied reports the equipment he used was rusty or dirty, and blamed adulterated medicines for the tragedy. “I am not the culprit. I have been made a scapegoat. It is the administration which is responsible for this incident,” Dr. R.K. Gupta told Reuters in a dimly lit police hostel room after being taken into custody on Wednesday night. Gupta said health workers gave the women ciprofloxacin, a commonly prescribed antibiotic, and the painkiller ibuprofen after operations conducted at the weekend in a grimy room of an unused private hospital in a village called Pandari. Thirteen have died and scores are in hospital.
Some of the sick women were operated on by another doctor at a second camp, which Gupta said was evidence he was not to blame. The government of Chhattisgarh, one of India’s poorest states, banned medicines used at Gupta’s sterilisation camp, including Indian-made brands of ciprofloxacin and ibuprofen. “Owners of the companies responsible for the sale of drugs have been summoned,” Chief Minister Raman Singh told reporters. “They will all be questioned and we have sealed their factories.” State health officials said police raided a local company, Mahawar Pharma, which had provided the antibiotics. The company’s director, Sumit Mahawar, declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.
sies since Saturday’s tragedy said the post-mortems were inconclusive and recommended chemical analysis for a clearer picture. “It is a mysterious case,” said the doctor, who declined to be named. “It can be drug toxicity, infection. We believe some mistake has been (made) but it’s purely accidental.” India is the world’s top steriliser of women, and efforts to rein in population growth have been described as the most draconian after China. Indian birth rates fell in recent decades, but population growth is among the world’s fastest. With more than four million Indians sterilised every year, a system of quotas encourages officials and doctors to cut corners, activists say. Rights groups say In“MYSTERIOUS CASE” dia’s sterilisation proOne of five doctors who gramme is coercive behave conducted autop- cause ill-educated women
are often offered money to accept surgery without knowing the full risks. State government officials who run the programme are pressed to meet quotas. Lalit Mohan Pant, a surgeon who claims to have carried out the highest number of sterilisations in the world, defended the use of quotas as necessary to motivate government employees. Pant, who lives in central India, holds the record for sterilising 816 people in one day and says he has sterilised over 330,000 patients in all, helping prevent, by his estimate, the births of almost one million Indians. “I am doing god’s work,” Pant told Reuters. NINETY OPERATIONS A DAY Gupta, who says he has conducted more than 50,000 female sterilisations, faces charges of caus-
ing death by negligence. Visibly upset, he said it was the government’s duty to control the numbers turning up at the family-planning camp. “If they kept in that place 83 women, it is my moral responsibility to operate on all the women,” said Gupta, awarded a state honour 10 years ago for his sterilisation work. Gupta said he generally took between two and five minutes on each operation, but gave his assistants time to clean scalpels. “They are dipped in spirit after an operation and then re-used. If I feel it is not working, well, I change it. I do about 10 operations with the same knife.” Protocols state doctors should spend at least 15 minutes on each operation and perform a maximum of 30 in a day. Several doctors told Reuters it was common to perform up to 90 sterilisations a day, leav-
ing little time to maintain hygiene. Gupta said it was the responsibility of the government to clean the operating room, which police say was filthy, hung with cobwebs and littered with bloodied sheets after last Saturday’s operations. The room was sealed when a Reuters correspondent visited on Thursday. Black mattresses and a few stretchers were visible through a broken window. Outside there were piles of medical waste including used syringes and blood-stained cotton swabs. Women who survived the operation said they had been promised 600 rupees ($10), but several said they received less or nothing at all. Mangli Bai, recovering on a drip at a nearby hospital, said she was given 230 rupees. “The health worker duped us, saying the rest was for photocopying and conveyance.”
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Enough evidence to hold N.Korea’s Kim accountable: UN SEOUl, NOVEMBER 13 (REUTERS): A U.N. investigator said on Thursday there was enough evidence to hold North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accountable for “massive” human rights atrocities committed by the state. The comments by Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, were some of the strongest yet from U.N. officials about Kim’s responsibility for what they say are widespread abuses in the isolated country. A U.N. inquiry concluded in a Feb. 17 report that North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Kim himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings that were comparable to Nazi-era atrocities. The report “was able to point unequivocally to the responsibility and the culpability (for) these massive human rights violations to a single source of policy decision-making in the country,” Darusman told a forum in Seoul. “And therefore it’s only now that we are in the position to in fact directly put culpability on the supreme leader for these massive human rights violations.” A U.N. resolution drafted by the European Union and Japan urges North Korea’s referral to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. It does not single Kim out by name. North Korea has dismissed the U.N. inquiry as part of a U.S. plot aimed at destroying the country’s political system. Its diplomats have also been on a vigorous campaign in recent months to counter the moves to drag North Korea to the ICC. “That, perhaps, has somewhat agitated the North Korean delegation,” Darusman said, referring to the focus on Kim. The draft resolution will likely go to a U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with human rights as early as next week. If it is approved, it will be put to a vote at the General Assembly in December. Only the 15-member Security Council can refer the situation in North Korea to the ICC, but diplomats say China, North Korea’s main benefactor, would likely veto such a move.
Car bombs target Egyptian, UAE embassy in Libya TRIPOlI, NOVEMBER 13 (AP): Car bombs went off outside the Egyptian embassy and that of the United Arab Emirates in the Libyan capital on Thursday, causing some damage to the buildings, long-shuttered in the wake of the violence roiling Tripoli, officials said. No one was hurt in the near-simultaneous explosions that rocked the city’s upscale neighborhood housing foreign missions, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media. Both the Egyptian and the Emirati embassy, along with most diplomatic missions, foreign and international organizations have been closed for months as Islamist-allied militias seized Tripoli after weeks of fierce fighting. Egypt condemned the attack, saying it harmed the “historic, blood ties” between the two nations. “Terrorist groups are using violence to reach political goals,” Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The blasts occurred a day after three car bombs, including one driven by a suicide attacker, struck in the eastern Libyan cities of Tobruk and Bayda where the nation’s elected parliament and government are temporarily housed. Six people died and 21 were wounded in those bombings. Initial reports said five people were killed but a person wounded in one of the blasts later died of the injuries. Libya has descended into what has been the country’s worst bout of violence since dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster and death in 2011. The fighting has killed hundreds, displaced tens of thousands and forced foreign diplomats and organizations to leave the country. The Islamist-allied militias, which have taken Tripoli and the country’s second-largest city, Benghazi, accuse the UAE and Egypt of backing their non-Islamist rivals. The militias’ push into the two main cities and the fighting that engulfed much of the country has forced the elected parliament, dominated by non-Islamist lawmakers, and the government the house approved, to move to the Tobruk and Bayda, which had remained mostly quiet until the attacks Wednesday.
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Myanmar troubles jeopardize a big Obama goal
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Myanmar President Thein Sein ahead of the 9th East Asia summit plenary session at Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.(AP Photo
NAYPYITAW, NOVEMBER 13 (AP): For President Barack Obama, Myanmar’s stalled progress on promised political and economic reforms is jeopardizing what was to be a crowning achievement for his foreign policy legacy. Obama arrived in Myanmar’s capital of Naypyitaw on Wednesday amid persistent questions about whether the government would follow through on its pledges — and whether the U.S. had made too many overtures to the longisolated country too soon.
Myanmar won wide sanctions relief from Obama after its sudden and unexpected shift from a halfcentury of military rule, but there’s little certainty about the country’s future. “Progress has not come as fast as many had hoped when the transition began,” Obama said in an interview with Myanmar’s “The Irrawaddy” magazine. “In some areas there has been a slowdown in reforms, and even some steps backward.” White House officials say Obama has al-
ways been realistic about the challenges ahead for Myanmar, a country that in many cases lacks the infrastructure and capacity to enact the reforms its leaders have outlined. But critics of the administration’s policy say the U.S. gave up its leverage too quickly by rewarding the government for promises rather than results. “With so many avenues for pressure lost, it can indeed seem like the U.S. doesn’t have a lot of cards left to play,” said John Sifton, the Asia director at Hu-
Phone use may lead to brain cancer
lONDON, NOVEMBER 13 (IANS): The longer someone talks over the phone - in terms of hours and years - the more likely is he/she to develop glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, says a new study. Brain tumour rates were three times more among people, who spoke on cell or cordless phones after more than 25 years than those who did not use them, the findings showed. “The risk is three times higher after 25 years of use. We can see this clearly,” Lennart Hardell, lead researcher and oncologist from University Hospital in Orebro in Sweden was quoted by Daily Mail as saying. Swedes who talked on cell phones for over 25 years had three times the risk of one type of brain cancer, compared with people who used those phones for under a year.
For the study, Lennart Hardell and his colleague Michael Carlberg matched 1,380 patients with malignant brain tumours to people without such tumours. They also compared their phone use. People who reported using cordless or mobile phones for 20 to 25 years had higher risk of being diagnosed with glioma as compared with those who reported using them for less than a year, the study found. However, no link was found between wireless phones and malignant brain tumours besides glioma, pointed out the study. A World Health Organization (WHO) panel of 31 scientists from 14 countries classified mobile phones as ‘possibly carcinogenic’ in 2011. The study appeared in the journal Pathophysiology.
man Rights Watch. Critics also contend that the president got caught up in the notion that opening Myanmar to the outside world would be a central part of his legacy as America’s self-proclaimed Pacific president. Indeed, a successful democratic transition would fit neatly into Obama’s broader Asia strategy, which includes deepening U.S. political and economic partnerships in the region, particularly with countries seen to share America’s values. The so-called pivot to Asia has raised concerns in China — Myanmar’s neighbor and largest trading partner — that the U.S. is seeking to contain Chinese influence. Despite Obama’s hopes for Myanmar, optimism within the administration has faded somewhat since the president’s trip here in 2012. He was the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country, and aides still fondly recall the massive crowds that lined the streets to watch his motorcade pass. Yet there’s little question Myanmar has failed to make good on the promises its leaders made to Obama during that short visit. More than any other issue, White House officials
say it’s Myanmar’s persecution of minority Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state that threatens to alienate the U.S. and other nations that have been drawn to the country. Attacks by Buddhist extremists since mid-2012 have left hundreds of Rohingya Muslims dead and 140,000 trapped in dire conditions in camps. With presidential elections in Myanmar looming next year, the status of the Rakhine state has become mired in politics. The Rohingya are deeply disdained by many in Myanmar, and most officials dare not publicly call for better treatment, not even the country’s pro-democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi. Obama planned to meet with Suu Kyi at the end of his trip. He joined world leaders Thursday morning for a pair of AsiaPacific summits and met with Nguyen Tan Dung, the prime minister of Vietnam, before heading to sessions with members of parliament and civic leaders. He also had a meeting planned Thursday night with Myanmar’s President Thein Sein. White House officials have acknowledged that Obama almost certainly wouldn’t be visiting Myanmar at this point had the country not been hosting
the Asia-Pacific summits that he had pledged to attend as president. Beyond concerns about the Rakhine state, the U.S. is warily watching the lead-up to Myanmar’s presidential election next year. The country’s constitution currently bans Suu Kyi from participating in the election. The U.S. has sought explicitly aligning itself with a potential Suu Kyi candidacy, and Ambassador Derek Mitchell called her inability to run for the presidency “strange.” Obama’s schedule here clearly signals his preferences, given that he is holding hisnews conference in Myanmar with Suu Kyi, not the country’s current president. The administration argues that the mere promise of a broader Myanmar relationship with the U.S. gives Obama leverage. American businesses are waiting for more political certainty before investing in Myanmar, officials say, and there are still U.S. sanctions that have not been repealed. “The United States can best move that forward by engagement,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser. “If we disengage, frankly I think that there’s a vacuum that could potentially be filled by bad actors.”
Police officers fire tear gas to disperse protesters during a student protest against the government’s plan to raise fuel prices in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Thursday, November 13. The Indonesian government plans to raise fuel prices about 45% to avoid a budget deficit due to expensive fuel subsidies. (AP Photo)
Bangladesh man gets death for war crimes Liberia won’t extend Ebola
DHAKA, NOVEMBER 13 (AP): A special Bangladesh tribunal on Thursday sentenced an opposition politician to death for his role in killing people and other crimes during the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan. M.A. Zahid Hossain Khokon, of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is a fugitive and believed to be in Sweden with his son and daughter. He was convicted of leading the killings of people, looting and arson attacks during the war. A.T.M. Fazle Rabbi, the head judge of a three-member panel,
told a packed court that the tribunal had found Kohkon guilty of 10 of the 11 charges he faced. Bangladesh blames Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators for the deaths of 3 million people during the nine-month war. An estimated 200,000 women were raped and about 10 million people were forced to take shelter in refugee camps in neighboring India. Thursday’s verdict was the 12th in which 13 people have been convicted after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up the special tribunal to try war crimes suspects. Most of the charges have been against
leaders of the country’s main Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, which openly campaigned against independence but denies that its leaders committing atrocities. Hasina has called the trials a long-overdue effort to obtain justice four decades after Bangladesh split from Pakistan. Critics say she is using the tribunals to weaken the country’s opposition parties. Khokon’s lawyers say he was deprived of justice, but according to the law, he cannot appeal the verdicts to the country’s Supreme Court unless he first surrenders.
state of emergency, says Prez MONROVIA , NOVEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Thursday she would not seek an extension to a state of emergency imposed in August over Ebola, which has hit the country harder than any other this year. Her announcement is a sign of progress in the fight against the disease, which has killed more than 2,800 people in Liberia since breaking out in West Africa in March. The decision effectively ends the state of emergency that officially expired earlier this month, though Sirleaf said a night curfew remains in force. “The progress we
have witnessed coupled with the various measures and ongoing interventions ... have combined to reposition our country to sustain the fight against the virus,” Sirleaf said. “Notwithstanding these gains, a number of our compatriots are still lying in ETUs (Ebola Treatment Units), hot-spots are springing up in rural areas, and a few more of our compatriots are still dying of Ebola.” The current outbreak has infected more than 14,000. There are signs that the incidence of new Ebola cases is declining in Guinea and Liberia, though there are still steep increases in Sierra Leone.
Syrian rebels in the south emerge as the West’s last hope BEIRUT, NOVEMBER 13 (REUTERS): With moderate rebels facing defeat by al Qaeda in Syria’s north, groups holding a corner of the south are seeking a higher profile and more help, as the last Western-backed forces holding out against both President Bashar al-Assad and the jihadists. The southern rebels, described by Western officials as the best organised of the mainstream opposition, say they are the last hope for a revolution hijacked by jihadists. In recent days they have laid out a transition plan for a Syria without Assad, taking on a political role that in the past they left to others. Washington says backing “moderate” rebels is central to its new strategy to defeat the jihadists without helping Assad, put in place since the United States began bombing Sunni Islamist fighters from Islamic State in Syria in September. But since the U.S. bombing began, many Western-backed rebel groups have been hammered by both the government and jihadists. Last week, al Qaeda’s Syria branch, the Nusra Front, routed pro-Western rebels in one of their final strongholds in the north.
Assad’s forces control Damascus, the Mediterranean coast and much of the area in between. Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot, controls the east, while Nusra controls much of the northwest and is expanding at the expense of moderates. The southern provinces near the Jordanian border are an exception, where rebels calling themselves the “Southern Front” still control territory and have managed to resist Assad while avoiding direct clashes with the Nusra Front. Last week, 15 groups in the Southern Front drew up a political programme, a step which separates them from the exile-led opposition widely seen across Syria as a failure. As the rare non-jihadist movement which still controls territory, they hope to receive more aid from the West to avoid suffering the same fate as Western allies who have been crushed by jihadists and government forces elsewhere.
the largely exile-based National Coalition, which meets in Turkey. But leaders of the Southern Front say they have decided to take political issues into their own hands. “We did not get involved in these matters before. We left them to others. But now it is time. We can no longer risk squandering Syria,” defected army officer Abu Osama al-Jolani, 37, southern commander of the Syria Revolutionaries’ Front, told Reuters in an interview over the Internet. Their plan, still unpublished but disclosed to Reuters, calls for turning the Southern Front rebels into a civilian security force. National institutions including the military would be safeguarded, and a technocratic interim authority would be set up to be followed by elections. The plan emphasises protection for all Syrians regardless of religious, cultural or ethnic affiliations - language apparently aimed at reassuring Assad’s Alawite sect and Christians who fear the alternative to him NOW IS THE TIME is a radical Islamist government. In the past, rebels on the ground It could be in line with thinking in have mainly steered clear of politics, Washington, where CNN reported a subject left to umbrella groups like Obama wants a policy review, realising
Islamic State may not be defeated without a transition and Assad’s removal. Abu Hamza al-Qabouni, a rebel leader from Damascus and part of the Southern Front, said the group had decided to move ahead with a political plan because there was no longer any point waiting for the war to be resolved countrywide. “The problem of the north is very complicated. If we wait for a solution to it, years could go by without us solving the Syrian crisis.” The movement could later grow to include other groups that also hold real power on the ground, said Bashar al-Zoubi, whose Yarmouk Army is one of the strongest groups in the south. “The factions mentioned are some of the biggest, and this alliance will expand. Any transition or political process needs people on the ground to safeguard it.” CHALLENGE The effort presents a challenge to the Western-backed opposition coalition based in Turkey, which has little sway on the ground but claims political authority over the “Free Syr-
ian Army” (FSA) uniting mainstream rebel fighters. The southern rebels “want to present themselves as a viable alternative to the Free Syrian Army in the north and the coalition, which was stillborn,” said Fayez al-Dweiri, a retired Jordanian general who follows the Syrian war closely. Apart from in the south and pockets in Aleppo, “the FSA has been effectively decimated and no longer effectively exists,” Dweiri said. A short drive from Damascus and bordering Jordan and Israel, the south is strategically important. Countries that oppose Assad could increase pressure on him by arming rebels there. But foreign support has so far been limited, helping the rebels hold ground but not allowing a major advance northwards. Meanwhile, Nusra Front is moving in. It set off an international crisis in September by seizing dozens of U.N. peacekeepers on the Golan Heights. So far, Nusra has fought alongside the southern rebels against Assad’s forces, although the rebels say there is
no coordination. Dweiri, the Jordanian general, said Nusra had not tried to impose its sway over the southern rebels because the south was the one area where the non-Jihadists were stronger. Nevertheless Jolani predicted a battle ahead. Nusra had declared a war on all “national forces”, he said: “It started in the north and will soon apply it to the south.” Jordan’s tight control of the frontier means the south has not been infiltrated by foreign jihadist fighters to the same extent as the north, where Nusra and Islamic State have gained from the arrival of hundreds of militants via Turkey. Aid to southern rebels flows through Jordan, where a joint operations room of Western and Arab states funnels support to vetted groups, according to officials familiar with the process. Arms began reaching the southern rebels earlier this year. “Support brought excellent results, particularly the TOW missiles which reduced the effectiveness of their tanks,” said Zoubi. But he added: “We need more”. “From the south, we can build the nucleus that will be the hope for Syria.”
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NAC to organise first ever DAN TI chare launches ‘Great Hornbill Adventure Trail’ Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Kohima, november 13 (mexn): In a bid, to spread the wings of the annual Hornbill festival to other districts of the state, a five-day long event under the banner ‘The Great Hornbill Adventure Trail’ on wheels managed by the Nagaland Adventure Club (NAC) and supported by the Department of Tourism Government of Nagaland will be held from December 5 to 10. A first of its kind event in the state heralding a new beginning in the field of adventure sports the 5 days adventure trail scheduled to be held during the month of December at the sidelines of
Hornbill Festival is expected to be a major event for the tourist who flock the state during the festival. A meticulously planned road map which will serve as guide line for the Nagaland Adventure Club to carry out the event in the best possible way, putting on wheels the wonderful initiative put forward by the Government of Nagaland, NAC officials informed that the 5 day trail would be open exclusively for tourists, expressing disappointment over the inability to cover all the districts of Nagaland due to time factor the Club assured that over the next coming years
the trail would be re-routed in an attempt to include all the Districts/Tribes as part of the programme so that the entire state benefits from the festival. The route of the trail has been designed to take the participating tourist into the hub of cultural confluence whereby they have a firsthand experience of the unadulterated tradition and culture of the state of Nagaland. The Nagaland Adventure Club also has taken care to make sure that the route taken for the trail crisscross through the ever appealing scenic beauty of the state which will defi-
nitely enchant and mesmerize the tourist With an aim that the participating tourists can act as messengers for the state in proclaiming to the world about the abundant beauty that bestows the land of Nagaland, a land embedded with wonderful people, blessed with rich tradition and ever ready to welcome any one into its loving arms, the NAC hopes that the unique experience will go a long way in bridging the gap between the state and the rest of the world. A grand total of Rs 10 lakh is on the offing as prize money for the winners too.
Naiba Konyak graces KNSK conference
mon, november 13 (DiPr): Chairman NEPED & Honey Mission Naiba Konyak graced the sports session of the KNSK conference at Mon on November 12 as the chief guest. In his inaugural speech, Naiba appealed to the KNSK an apex women organization of the Konyaks to have a corruption free organization without dis-
crimination and nepotism. Asserting that a good family reflects the good role and responsibility of a good mother, Naiba said that loving, caring and sharing are the three essence aspects of a good mother that builds a good family and society. He informed that women are equally important as men in the present civilized world; they are also
accountable to other social activities besides their normal family responsibility back at home. He also informed that in order to give privilege to the women the Government has taken up various programme for Empowerment of Women and appealed to avail the opportunity and marched forward with unity and prosperity.
He also declared the games open. Earlier, invocation was proposed by Advisor KNSK Pheakmeth, President KNSK, Lomei delivered the welcome speech, Vice President Mongyo chaired the function. In the opening football match Naginimora XI defeated the Tobu XI by solitary goal in a penalty shootout.
Students, public leaders and others during the launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at Chare Town in Tuensang on November 12.
Tuensang, november 13 (mexn): The Development Association of Nagaland (DAN), Targeted Intervention (TI) Project, Chare, launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on November 12 at Chare Town. This is a first of its kind sanitation campaign launched in and around Chare area, according to a press release from project director, DAN TI Project, Longkhim-Chare, Kyupise S. Sangtam. The press release said that DAN has been work-
ing for promotion of clean and green environment since the implementation of TI Project under Longkhim-Chare. Reminding the launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan recently by the central government, it added, “It’s a campaign to clean our environment. We can interact and network with the local politicians, bureaucrats, different Church leaders, gaunburas, public leaders and student organizations.” To promote the cause, the release has urged all to
commit by always keeping one’s premises clean, have green surroundings, which means planting as many plants and trees as possible, stop using polluted crackers during festive seasons and keep campus and surroundings plastic-fee. “By committing to follow this campaign on cleanliness and sanitation drive, we are directly contributing to the reduction of carbon emission, which is in fact one of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations,”
said Kyupise S. Sangtam. All the institutions, main roads, drainages, campuses, public toilets and private surroundings were cleaned during the daylong campaign, the release informed. The campaign was jointly launched with OST Miracle Union, Evergreen Welfare Society, State Bank of India Chare, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Chare, and Ebenezer Mission Society Chare. GBs from different villages and public leaders also participated.
Aghunato co-ordination meeting held
A fellowship service for aged people was held on November 9 at Old Age Care center (OACC) Dimapur, which is under Ebenezer Welfare Society Dimapur. Tiala Amri, Managing Director (OACC), explained on how to extend help and take care of the aged. Rev. Dr. Noksangla (87), the main speaker stressed on the spiritual uplift of old people. She also challenged the congregation to focus for heavenly vision and view.
aghunaTo, november 13 (DiPr): Aghunato Co-ordination meeting was held on November 11 where it was decided to organize mass-special work on November 15 in order to keep the town neat and tidy. It has also discussed to put up streetlights in the town area where the members agreed to approach the Parliamentary Secretary for Co-operation & Sericulture, Pukhayi Sumi for assistance in this matter. The members also decided to direct every household in the town to put up light bulbs in their house premises. The co-ordination meeting was presided over by EAC Aghunato, H.
Berimong. Appraised by the Police Department, the members deliberated on the increasing cases of rampant theft and extortion in Aghunato Town and agreed to take stern action against the offender as per provision of law. The members further reminded the concerned department to stop bailing out the culprits before stipulated time for punishment. While discussing various issues in relating to improvement and development of the town, Hoito Achumi V/Chairman Town Committee highlighted on the shifting of the SBI Aghunato Branch from Zunheboto within a month time. It was learnt that AGM had
also given assurance for shifting the bank at the earliest which will be followed by Treasury Office. Discussing on the agendas for undergoing four lane road connecting Longsa–Suruhuto–Aghunato, the members deliberated on the issue and agreed to extend full cooperation. It was also resolved to take strong action upon any person causing disturbances that may be theft, extortion or blockade. For further affirmation in this matter, a meeting is scheduled to be convened on 25th November 2014 which will be inclusive of all the villages from Satami to Shevishe Lukikhe village and all concerned depart-
ments headed by Administration Department. In regard to construction of Sub-Divisional Information Office (SDIO) and construction of Assistant Public Relations Officer’s Quarter Aghunato, the members felt the importance for the construction of the office building and also felt necessary for the construction of APRO quarter and forwarded the matter to the higher authority for necessary action. Surprise checking of Government Offices was carried out immediately after the meeting got over, where several offices at Aghunato were found to be under lock and key. There-
fore the members warned all head of offices that there will be a surprise checking of offices from time to time at the irregular intervals. The members also decided that if any head of offices is found absconding from the station it will be viewed as willful negligence and the matter would be immediately forwarded to the higher authority concerned so that stern action could be initiated upon the erring incumbent. The meeting was attended by Administrative Officers, head of offices, Town Committee members, GBs and Elders of Aghunato town and concluded with a vote of thanks from the chair.
Nagaland suitable for sugarcane cultivation TBSUD annual meeting held
The in-service teacher trainees undergoing Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) at SCERT Kohima organized a Teaching Learning Material (TLM) Exhibition cum Role Play on child rearing methods at SCERT on November 10. Vipralhou Kesiezie, Director SCERT was the chief guest. The Teaching Learning Materials were developed and made by the teacher trainees with low cost no cost materials for Language, Physical, Cognitive and Creative development of children. A role-play was staged depicting the democratic, authoritarian and permissive child rearing methods.
Kohima, november 13 (mexn): Sugarcane growers representing all the districts of Nagaland attended a one-day State level training on sugarcane cultivation organized by the Department of Agriculture, Nagaland at Directorate of Agriculture, Kohima on November 11. The inaugural function was chaired by G. Ikuto Zhimomi, Deputy Director of Agriculture. Stating that the agro-climatic condi-
tion of the State is suitable for sugarcane cultivation, he encouraged farmers to take up sugarcane cultivation which can generate additional household income. Meanwhile, the Director of Agriculture, L Mero, in his address, pointed out that sugarcane is also one crop which can sustain livelihood and encouraged the trainees to set an achievable target only. He further stated that at present scenario, educated and
qualified person should also take up farming where new technologies can be introduced, which can reduce labour cost and increase production. Dr. Depak Chetri, Sr. Technical Officer (Agriculture) took the technical session, where PowerPoint on scientific method of sugarcane cultivation was presented. The program ended with discussion and recommendations for sugarcane farming.
VCCs directed to observe Rozgar Diwas
DimaPur, november 13 (mexn): Regarding implementation of the Nagaland IEC Action Plan for MGNREGA 2014-15, S Samuel Phom, Block Development Officer, RD Block Dhansiripar along with K. Kihoto Achumi, SO, visited the block headquarters on November 10. Stressing on the need Youths and elders of Lotha community in Dimapur cleaned up the State Stadium in Dimapur on November 12 morning. The Tokhu Emong celebration on November 7 had left the entire for creating awareness area littered with paper plates, plastic bottles and other waste. The group was Led by TL Merry, Chairman, Lotha Hoho Dimapur.
The District tobacco control cell and YES Bank Dimapur Branch jointly organized extempore speech on ‘Tobacco on health’ at Holy Cross Hr Sec School Dimapur. 12 students participated in the competition. The Branch Manager YES Bank Dimapur Ruuvilie Angami enlightened the students about the importance of saving and said that money should be saved for future use instead of spending it for tobacco products. YES Bank sponsored the prizes for the winners and consolation prizes.
among rural people about MGNREGS and to streamline job card registration process, record grievances and redressal of the issues through appropriate authorities, Samuel Phom spoke to a gathering of about 300 villagers comprising GBs, VDB members, VDB women members, village council members and SHGs. Terming Rozgar Diwas
as employment guarantee day, Samuel directed the village council chairmen/ VDB secretary to observe the day on a monthly basis as per the guidelines. While interacting with the officials, the beneficiaries expressed satisfaction with the system and implementation of various schemes taken up in the block, stated a press release received here.
DimaPur, november 13 (mexn): Tamlu Buhu Students' Union Dimapur (TBSUD) held its 10th Bapu annual meeting with the motto- "Go the distance" on November 8 at the residence of its treasurer Phongshak ex-minister. The programme, attended by parents, alumni, student members and wellwishers commenced with a bible reading and opening prayer by B.Bongphen fellowship i/c Tamlu Buhu Union Dimapur (TBUD), following welcome address by L. Denaok President TBSUD while C. Bakup performed song. A. Angdok Former President Tamlu village students' Union (TVSU) while exhorting the students reminded that every individual is unique, talented and gifted by God in one or the other way and encourage them to identify its potentiality and utilize the same in a better way. Further, he challenged the students to be a responsible citizen and emphasis on student’s
contribution for change in society. He also state that change should start from an individual and also reminded the students to adhere civic sense wherever one may dwell since it is an initial step for all round change in society. He also recalled on how the modern technologies are influencing the youngsters and therefore suggested to understand its negative consequences. Mungmela Fellowship i/c supply colony gave away the meritorious certificates to the outstanding students for bringing fame and laurels to the union. She encouraged the students to maintain good moral character and added, “well built moral character is the most beautiful person in the world.” Meanwhile, general secretary, finance secretary and statistical secretary presented the annual report respectively. It was followed by review of resolutions and concluded with mass benediction.
Zeme churches resolve to support PLWHAs
Peren, november 13 (mexn): A seminar on HIV & AIDS advocacy for local area church leaders – an interdenominational initiative – was held on November 8 at ZBCC Mission Centre, Peren. Organized by the Youth Department of Zeme Baptist Church Council (ZBCC) and sponsored by Legislators’ Forum on AIDS (LFA), the seminar was graced by Namri Nchang, MLA & Chairman DPDB, Peren as the chief guest. The participants resolved to care and support the People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in their struggles by developing a positive attitude of love for them, to abstain from factors that contribute to HIV & AIDS
infection and to give help, care and support in case any individual declare themselves as PLWHA. The chief guest in his keynote address defined HIV & AIDS and their misconception. He said that Nagaland is the 6th highest prevalent state regarding HIV infection. He also said that LFA’s immediate goal is Zero New Infection and Zero AIDS. He urged the youth to educate the people from grassroots level. Dr. Asappe, one of the resource persons spoke on ‘Facts of HIV & AIDS- Medical perspective.’ He explained the difference between HIV & AIDS and stressed on the factors that influence HIV & AIDS infection, signs, symptoms and preventive measure. He also ex-
plained the factors that influence the failure in prevention, stigma and discrimination. Izieteilung, Executive Secretary, ZBCC spoke on “Stigma and Discrimination- Church Response”. He expressed that HIV & AIDS related stigma and discrimination refers to prejudice, negative attitudes, abuse and maltreatment towards PLWHA. He elaborated on: Factors that contribute to HIV & AIDS related stigma, effects of stigma and its consequences and the Church response. He advocated that the church must respond to the issue of HIV & AIDS through Mission, which is defined as the movement of God to the world. Iheule, Youth Secretary, ZBCC
spoke on the topic: Care and Support for PLWHA- a way forward. She said that people living with HIV & AIDS face problem and crisis caused not only by the illness, but also by emotional stress, economic crisis and most of all social stigma and discrimination. Hence, she advocated two following care and support system: Home Care, Hospital Care and Hospice Care and its significance; and AIDS and Palliative Care. She also highlighted the three essential elements of this system as teamwork and partnership, psycho-social support and symptoms relief. Altogether, 115 participants representing different churches under ZBCC attended the seminar.
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OC & Sky Entertainment are excited to announce to you this: Go grab your tickets before somebody else gets the seat next to Alice! On December 3, British country rock legends Smokie will be performing to fans in India in Kohima, Nagaland’s capital, as part of the Hornbill International Rock Contest. The Billboard Smash Hit hoggers who shook the US, UK and Europe during the ‘70s and mid ‘80s, will be performing a show on the evening
of December 3, for the first ever time for fans in this side of the subcontinent. NOC & Sky Entertainment have readies the tickets and they are on sale now in several urban locations across Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung and Wokha. However, because owing to the size of the venue, tickets to Smokie’s show are limited. Therefore, we request all the music fans to avail the tickets sooner. Talking of pass, the management of the NOC & Sky Entertainment requests fans to note of a number of
aspects about the tickets to the concert: In the first place, the tickets are not ordinary tickets but high-security code tickets that have color encryption and lock systems. Once manipulated or breached in any way, unless at the site of the venue and before concert ticket collectors, the tickets will become invalid. Hence, we request fans to take care of the tickets until inspection by the organizers at the concert. Important points for fans to note: 1. The tickets have color security codes embedded in them; duplication of the tickets is not possible 2. The tickets have a lock system each. Ticket holders are not to lock the tickets for any reason out of either curiosity or experimenting because the lock will break and once the lock is broken, the ticket becomes invalid
3. Due to the size of the venue hosting the British band’s performance, tickets are limited so please hurry to claim yours 4. Any retailer who is interested in selling the tickets to Smokie’s show can approach the office of the organizers, NOC & Sky Inc, in Kohima town. The NOC & Sky Inc’s office is located at Vuto Motors, along Secretariat road Outlets (Kohima) • Big bite (Jail colony) • Ozone cafe (Razhu Point) • Corner Stone (PR Hill) • NOC & Sky Inc., office (Vuto Motors, Secretariat Road) Outlets (Dimapur) • Crescendo Music (Nuton Basti Junction) • Fu r t a d o s Mu s i c (Nagarjan junction)
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North East Icons walk the ramp to promote NE
One of the most popular Fusion Rockers from Nagaland 'Purple Fusion' is taking Naga Folk Fusion music to a whole new level as Germany based Naga music producer MoTo(Moa Toshi) collaborated with the band to release their track 'Holo Ha' on indihut and spotify. After the release of their album Folk Reminiscence, Purple Fusion is spreading Naga folk fusion music to various countries around the world including Tokyo Japan, Rio De Janeiro, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles where the band's music is aired in several radio channels. Purple Fusion and MoTo's rendition of 'Holo Ha' is dubbed as one of the most promising track from Nagaland to take on the world music scene globally. 'Holo Ha' can be downloaded for free from www.indihut.com
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pur, the celebrities show cashed NE’s rich and attractive dresses with colorful designs. The lineup of celebrity icons included 3 Time Everest Summitter Anshu Jamsenpa, Asian Games Gold Medalist Boxer Shiva Thapa, Former Mr Universe Mahadev Deka,
Assamese Film Director, Producer & Actor Rajni Basumatary and Singer Zubeen Garg. Thousands of cheering fans thronged the venue to witness the Celebrity Ramp Walk and the follow up Fashion Show by top models from North East. The programme was aptly themed- ‘Connecting
people, Celebrating life’. Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister Govt of India was the Chief Guest of the function. Robin Hibu, Joint Commissioner of Police and Tsering Wange, President AMASA were also present in the VIP gallery as Special Invitee. The North East Festi-
val 2014 was organized by Trend MMS in association with North East Community Delhi, Ministry of DoNER (GoI) and Ministry of Home Affairs from November 7 to 10 at New Delhi. The inaugural function was attended by Hon’ble MoS Gen V K Singh, MoS Kiren Rijuju & Olympian Mary Kom
uitar virtuoso Vinnie Moore’s Master Class in Dimapur will take place on December 8. The session will be a great opportunity for musicians, guitar enthusiasts in particular, to get a front row view of the fine world of guitar intricacies through the eyes of the legend himself. Participants taking part in the class will not only get to personally interact with the master but also experience and witness Moore’s forte – guitar, technique and music. In addition, each participant will receive certificate of acknowledgement personally signed by Moore. The last date of registration for participating in the Master Class with Vinnie Moore has been fixed for December 4. Registration card have been made available at vari-
ous outlets. In Dimapur, the card can be availed at Hillspraise Music Academy (9612170131), Furtados (03862232447), Encore (9436431564), Crescendo (9436012590) and Café Destination (9856449412). In Mokokchung, it will be availed at M/S Footwear near Supong shopping mall (9436006326).
For further queries and information visit www. facebook.com/hillspraisemusicsociety. The organizers can be contacted at hillspraisemusicsociety@gmail.com or at 9612612084, 9612170131. This was informed in a press release issued by Hillspraise Music Academy, Chairman, Manen Jamir.
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Marc Anthony marries Shannon De Lima
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inger Marc Anthony, whose divorce from Jennifer Lopez was finalised in June 2014, has now married model Shannon De Lima in the Dominican Republic. The "I need you" singer has tied the knot with the Venezu-
elan model in front of close friends and family Tuesday in a resort at Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, reports dailymail.co.uk. The duo, who got engaged in March, were dating each other since 2012.
Robin Williams driven
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ew information about Robin Williams' death suggests that Lewy body dementia contributed to the Hollywood funnyman's decision to commit suicide. People who suffer from the disease, which affects deposits of protein in the brain, may suffer from hallucinations, reported TMZ online. Lewy Body Dementia also accompanies patients with Parkinson's Disease. The condition, however, may be negatively affected by the medicines for Parkinson's. Shortly after the Night at the Museum actor committed suicide, his wife told officials that
he complained about his medicines and the way it made he feel. A source said that Lewy body dementia was a "key factor" in the actor's death. His doctors reportedly agreed that it contributed to his decision to commit suicide. Williams committed suicide by hanging on August 11 at his San Francisco home. His family said the Dead Poets Society star suffered from Parkinson's Disease and depression prior to his death at the age of 63. An autopsy report released last week confirmed that the actor only had "therapeutic concentrations" of medication in his system.
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264 Breaks Sehwag's record of Highest runs in an ODI innings (219)
Rohit Sharma's historic double ton guides India to 153-run win over Sri Lanka
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List oF top-ten highest individuaL scores in odis pLayer Rohit Sharma Virender Sehwag Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar Charles Coventry Saeed Anwar Viv Richards Martin Guptill Sanath Jayasuriya Gary Kirsten
runs 264 219 209 200* 194* 194 189* 189* 189 188*
KolKata, November 13 (ageNcieS): Rohit Sharma on Thursday created history by smashing the highest individual ODI score with a breathtaking knock of 264 as India thrashed Sri Lanka by 153 runs in the fourth cricket one-dayer to take a 4-0 lead in the fivematch series, here today. Courtesy Rohit's mayhem, India scored a mammoth 404 for five and then easily bowled out the is-
BaLLs 173 149 158 147 156 146 170 155 161 159
strike-rate 152.6 146.97 132.27 136.05 124.35 132.87 111.17 121.93 117.39 118.23
landers for 251 in 43.1 overs. Returning after a 10week injury lay-off, Rohit had everything going his way after being let-off on individual score of four. The Mumbaikar paced his innings to perfection as he first got set during the initial 50 runs before exploding against a clueless Lankan attack, as he scored his 264 off only 173 balls that had 33 fours and seven sixes.
against Sri Lanka West Indies Australia South Africa Bangladesh India England England India UAE
date & venue Kolkata, 13th Nov, 2014 Indore, 8th Dec, 2011 Bangalore, 2nd Nov, 2013 Gwalior, 24th Feb, 2010 Bulawayo, 16th Aug, 2009 Chennai, 21st May, 1997 Manchester, 31st May, 1984 Southampton, 2nd June, 2013 Sharjah, 29th Oct, 2000 Rawalpindi, 16th Feb, 1996
In the process, Rohit also broke compatriot Virender Sehwag's earlier world record of 219 runs, which he had set against West Indies in Indore, back in 2011. Rohit is also the only batsman to register two double centuries in ODIs and also now holds the record for highest number of boundaries during his innings. The epic milestone was reached when Rohit hit an elegant cover
drive off Nuwan Kulasekara to become the first batsman with two double hundreds in ODIs. Rohit did have 'Lady Luck' going his way as he was dropped twice after reaching his double hundred. The stylish righthander was all set to carry his bat through before he was holed out in the longoff region off the final delivery of the Indian innings. Fittingly, he received a
'Guard of Honour' from his teammates, who stood on both sides outside the dressing room with spectators also giving him a standing ovation. It couldn't have been a more memorable innings on the 150th anniversary of the hallowed ground which has seen many outstanding individual performances. Rohit's magnificent knock will rank among the very best played at this ground by the likes of VVS Laxman, Mohammed Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar to name a few. The fifth and final match of the series will be played at Ranchi on November 16. Stand-in captain Virat Kohli, the other day, termed Rohit as the 'X-factor' going into the World Cup and was vindicated after a knock which was class act. 405 was never going to be easy after Lanka lost their first wicket for naught with pacer Umesh Yadav giving the breakthrough by claiming Perera (0) in the second ball. Yadav next took the big scalp of Jayawardene cheaply as Lanka were 42/3 as the victory looked very near. Skipper Angelo Mathews was the top-scorer for the visitors with 75 from 68 balls (9x4, 1x6) and shared 118 runs with Lahiru Thirimanne (59) but it was too little looking at the monstrous target. Yadav (2/38) once again was the pick of Indian bowlers even as Dhawal Kulkarni decimated the middle and lower order with best figures of 4/34. Stuart Binny and Axar Patel too chipped in with a couple of wickets each. They say records are meant to be broken, and at Eden Gardens today something similar was experienced. On any given day, and on any surface, 264 was once considered a fighting ODI target. And as it turned out, Lankans could not even get past Rohit's individual score and were bundled out for 251 in 43.1 overs to concede an embarrassing defeat. The innings was not only a mix of elegance, class and timing but luck too played a big role with Sharma tumbling records after records making the Lankans look like school boys. If the ground was 'Very Very Special' for VVS Laxman after his career-defining 281, Rohit, who had made his Ranji debut here too made this his second 'home' having scored hundred on Test debut. Incidentally, the Mumbaikar, who scored 109 in the last IPL here, has hundreds in all the three formats here, and today he had the record score in his first ODI appearance at Eden Gardens.
Loyem trophy: Friends SC to meet Kongkai San in final
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Players of Chongpho Vikings FC and Friends SC in action during the 2nd semifinal of the XXII Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship. (Photo by Imojen I. Jamir) Our Correspondent Tuensang | November 13
In one of the most exciting matches played in the current edition of the Loyem Trophy, Friends Sporting Club, Lokhung prevailed over Chongpho Vikings FC via a penalty shootout after both the teams managed to score a goal each in the stipulated time and scoring none in the extra time. Friends SC converted 4 of their penalty kicks into goals while Chongpho Vikings could not get any of their attempts from the spot past the Friends SC goalie. The final score read 5-1 in fa-
vour of Friends Sporting Club, Lokhung. The highly stimulating match was witnessed with lots of attempts from both the teams as both played equally well. Todo (11) of Friends SC booted a striking free kick in the second minute from about 40 yards to record the first goal of the match while Ngullie (9) of Chongpho Vikings FC headed in a pass to equalize. Many players got injured in the match. Chaba (8) from Friends Sporting Club and Imlong (10) from Chongpho Vikings FC were cautioned with yellow cards. Earlier, guest of honour
W. Chingamak, President of Tuensang District Football Association, exhorted the players to give their best efforts in the tournament. He appealed to both the players and the spectators to play and witness the match in the spirit of the game respecting the theme “Kick-off ism”. The final match of the XXII Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship being organized by the Confederation of Chang Students’ Union will be played between Friends Sporting Club and Kongkai San FC on November 15 at Parade Ground, 1:00 p.m. after a brief programme.
Veteran Football Tourney from Dec 5
Dimapur, November 13 (mexN): The Dimapur District Veteran Football Association will be organising an Open Veteran Football Tournament from December 5 to
9. In this connection, interested clubs and associations have been informed that forms and bylaws can be collected from DDSC Sports Complex, Room No. 5 during office hours
on or before November 23. Teams expected from outside the state are Manipur Veteran Team, Diphu Veteran Team, Golaghat Veteran Team and Jorhat Veteran Team.
FC Goa crush Delhi Dynamos 4-1 in ISL
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New Delhi, November 13 (iaNS): FC Goa crushed hosts Delhi Dynamos 4-1 in a league clash between the two bottomplaced teams of the Indian Super League (ISL) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here Thursday. Goa defender Youness Bengelloun scored twice while their marquee player Robert Pires (penalty) and striker Tolgay Ozbey completed the misery for a Delhi side who were hopelessly found wanting in every department of the game. Gustavo dos Santos reduced the margin through a consolatory penalty goal, which they perhaps didn't deserve. The win helped Goa jump above their opponents to seventh in the league ladder with eight points from as many matches. Delhi dropped to the last spot, managing seven points from eight outings. FC Goa were faster off the blocks with their fiveman midfield, spearheaded by former French star Pires. Their lone striker Ozbey was also lively upfront and came close to scoring but his shot was blocked by goalkeeper Kristof van Hout for a corner. The ensuing corner resulted in the first goal on 18 minutes. Defender Andre Arnolin's header, off an Andre Santos' corner, was partially blocked by van Hout only for stopper Youness Bengelloun to bundle in the rebound from close range. The goal sprang the dozing hosts into life. Till then, they were struggling to build any meaningful at-
tack but seven minutes after conceding, right winger Steven Dias was able to whip in a dangerous centre but his team-mate Robert Lalthlamuana's shot went narrowly wide. It was the only time Delhi threatened to score in the first half. On the contrary, it was their full backs who were kept busy by Goa's impressive Indian wingers - Bikramjit Singh and Mandar Rao Dessai. Delhi needed an early goal to inject energy into their performance after the breather but was undone again by the Santos-Bengelloun combination in the 48th minute. Bengelloun headed home from a Santos free-kick, utilising the indecisiveness and hesitancy of the Delhi deep defence, keeping goalie van Hout stranded. The match went completely beyond Delhi five minutes later when Tolgay's dangerous goal mouth run was stopped by an onrushing van Hout to give away a penalty which Pires calmly converted. It was the former Arsenal star's first strike in the tournament and the margin was made even sweeter by the swift Ozbey who capped off a noticeable performance with a fine solo effort on the hour mark. Delhi managed to reduce the lopsidedness of the scoreline through a Gustavo dos Santos penalty, obtained after substitute Francis Fernandez's centre was blocked by a trailing arm of defender Debabrata Roy, but by then Delhi's humiliation was complete.
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