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Ward boy assaulted at Zion hospital Hospital authorities say matter was ‘amicably settled’ DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): A ward boy from Zion Hospital, Dimapur was “physically assaulted” on November 11. A press note from the Zion Hospital Authority informed that on November 11, at around 3:30 to 4:00am, “six boys came to the emergency department of the hospital for treatment.” The boys, who were allegedly in an “inebriated state,” had passed “offensive comments to the staff nurse,” stated the press note. When the ward boy intervened, he was “physically assaulted,” it added.

A complaint in this regard was lodged with the East Police Station Dimapur and the Chairman of Model Colony on the same day. However, the following day, informed the press note, “the matter was amicably settled between the families of the aggrieved parties and the families of the accused,” in the presence of the OC, East Police Station. The Zion Hospital Authority further clarified that the Purana Baxaar Village Council was not involved in the matter in any way. It then cautioned that henceforth, “such unruly behavior, harassing the staff on duty by patients or anyone within the hospital premises will be dealt with sternly without any compromise, letting the law take its own course.”

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Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today pointed out a very basic truth mulling in every mind, that until and unless the 60 year old protracted Naga political issue is resolved, Naga people would continue to live with uncertainty, onward on a journey to an unknown destination.

He said all dreams and prospect for progress and development that Nagas harbour with its verdant land, resources and rich cultural heritage cannot be realised if there resides no permanent peace in the land.

Zeliang, who was addressing an august gathering of the Sumi community on the occasion of Ahuna, its premier post-harvest festival at Dimapur District Sports Complex (DDSC) as the chief guest, said that to attain this elusive peace, Nagas must unify and conform to the principle of forgive and forget.

While acknowledging the Sumi community as being the driving force behind the Naga political movement and having immensely contributed towards the Naga political

struggle with perhaps bigger sacrifice, Zeliang however cautioned that harming each other in the name of ideological differences cannot be justified. “We must realise that Nagas are a small race and division amongst us only harm us and none else,” he added.

With still no progress in sight on the Indo-Naga political issue despite 17 years of ceasefire between the GoI and Naga political groups, Zeliang sought the people’s support and called upon the Sumi community to come out further to support the movement and also to restrain from inter-factional killing.

The Chief ,Minister also harped that the Naga political issue has been the number one agenda for the DAN government during its eleven years of ruling. Since taking over the responsibility as Nagaland Chief Minister, Zeliang said he had already met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi three times and Interlocutor RN Ravi twice in Delhi to discuss the Naga issue.

And with the present central leaders in Delhi verbally voicing out their desire to resolve the Naga political issue at the earliest and in a

Sumis in Dimapur celebrate Ahuna

Sumi Naga women at the celebration of the Ahuna festival, the Sumi Naga’s premier postharvest festival, in Dimapur on November 14. Photo by Imti Longchar

time bound manner, Zeliang averred that if the present GoI in Delhi can utter such commitments, then Nagas should also be able to come forward, leave behind their misunderstandings, and move forward with an objective and concrete mind.

He asserted that if the Naga people gave their full

support and engage in the Nagaland political movement and carry it forward, then 50 % of the problem would be solved.

grants and outsiders by Nagas to replace them to do their daily responsibilities or toil the fields, Zeliang cautioned that Nagas will be in trouble if this practice NAGAS SHOULD TEND was to continue.

THEIR OWN FIELDS The CM expressed reExpressing concern gret that the present genover the unbridled em- eration, unlike the earlier ployment of illegal mi- generations, employed

others to do their work on the field and wait for them to harvest in order to celebrate the traditional harvest festivals.

Because of such idle habits, the real meaning of the festival is lost, Zeliang said while adding that such practice of observing festivals with harvest done by others was making Naga society incomplete.

Whatever professions the present generation Nagas are involved in, they should tend and harvest their own fields or gardens so as to become self sufficient in food products and at the same time export it outside, Zeliang advocated.

Earlier, Home Minister G Kaito Aye who was the guest of honour said the state government has been providing financial assistance to the tribe hohos to facilitate in the celebration of their festivals with the objective of preserving their respective culture and tradition, which was vanishing gradually.

However, Kaito urged the Naga people not to be too dependent on the government for preserving their own culture and tradition. “It is our duty to preserve what has been

handed down to us by our forefathers and this responsibility cannot be relegated to any other,” he added.

Kaito also urged the people to uphold the values of Ahuna which was also a time to make peace and strengthen the ties of brotherhood among the Sumi community and other tribes.

The Chief Minister was accompanied by a dozen Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries, namely Home Minister, Y Patton; Speaker, Chotisuh Sazo; Deputy Speaker, Er Levi Rengma, P Longon, C Kipili Sangtam, Kejong Chang, Neiba Kronuo, R Tohanba, Zhaleo Rio, Dr longri Ao and Toyang Chang.

This year’s Ahuna festival was organized and hosted by the Western Sümi Hoho (WSH) under the banner of the Sümi Hoho, the apex body of the Sumi community.

Traditional dances, folk songs, indigenous games and competitions marked the celebration of the post-harvest festival which was attended by nearly 20,000 people. The festival concluded with a community feast.

nagaland BJP for welfare of DAn alliance partners

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): The Nagaland state unit of the BJP today called for arrangements to be made for the welfare of all partners in the DAN coalition. A press note from the BJP Nagaland media cell asserted that this is crucial to strengthen the alliance relationship and advised against the “dominant attitude of the bigger partner.”

The BJP questioned the NPF on “how they have come to realize only now to keep the DAN coalition together after discarding its allies, especially the BJP since 2003, on numerous important decisions of the DAN government till today.” “The NPF should have rectified their attitude towards the BJP earlier, if they wanted a strong and stable government in the state instead of hurting the sentiments of the BJP,” it added.

It further refuted reports that the party had “vowed to strengthen ties” with the NPF. The BJP Nagaland then informed that a decision to such an end has “not been discussed or deliberated by the party.” “Such opinion expressed in the media is just to confuse the common people,” it added.

Referring to a meeting of the BJP mem-

bers with the Nagaland state Chief Minister recently, it stated that “such informal meeting and a tea chat cannot be termed as an official meeting and any decision arrived at, if at all any, cannot be termed as an official decision of the party.”

While reiterating the party’s stand for over all development of the state and for strengthening the DAN government, the BJP however stated that “any resolution with regards to the well-being of the DAN has to be taken by the party after thorough deliberation within the party.”

On the issue of agreeing to keep aside all past differences and not let any individual interests disturb the decade old coalition, the BJP informed that this was “yet to be discussed by the party officials.” The party decision is final and binding on such issues and any individual comments will not be entertained and will be termed invalid, it added.

While expressing “strong resentment” over the “attitude of the NPF towards its allies, especially the BJP, over many issues in the present government,” it also “asked the NPF legislators to stop targeting the next of kin of BJP officials who are in government service for their personal vested interests.”

‘Nagaland still deficient in meat products’ Chizokho Vero

Kohima | November 14

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Nagaland is still deficient in meat products, particularly pork, despite the import value of livestock and poultry products, which stood at Rs. 375 crore per annum in 200102, coming down to Rs. 215 crore in 2013-14. This was informed by the Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang while gracing the golden jubilee celebration of the Veterinary & Animal Husbandry department here at Indira Gandhi Stadium.

The CM informed that the deficit is around 10.26 MT per annum, which is worth Rs. 92.34 crore. This he stated is a major challenge for the department.

He urged for continued efforts towards self sufficiency in meat production, as well as in milk and eggs and to provide wholesome and hygienic meat to consumers. He said efforts should be made not only to attain self sufficiency but to be in a position to export outside Nagaland. “We need to set a target to zero down the import rate of livestock,” he said.

Zeliang informed that the Government of India has approved in principle for setting up a veterinary college in Nagaland. However, due to certain technical reasons, sanction could not be accorded so far and the matter is still pending. He requested the department to vigorously pursue this.

The CM further stated that the department has made special efforts in bringing the gap between demand and supply of livestock & poultry products through various activities such as livestock production, disease control and promotion of various cooperative societies, self help groups and private entrepreneurs.

According to the 19th livestock census during 2011-12, the major livestock population of the state stands at 2.27 lakhs cattle, 30,000 Mithuns, 4.91 lakh pigs and 93,000 goats, which indicated a healthy growth rate of 4.6% per annum, which is higher than the national average.

Accordingly, Zeliang said, the monetary value of the internal domestic products of livestock had increased from Rs. 2.77 crore in 1984-85 to Rs. 1180 crore in 2013-14.

He also stated that the department has built up health institutions, animal farms and has popularized vaccination of livestock and poultry. Due to this, he claimed that the state has not encountered any major outbreak of diseases in the livestock population.

He then acknowledged that KOMUL, DIMUL and MILKON are amongst the most successful milk unions in the North East and that processed milk is being exported to neighboring states.

Parliamentary Secretary for Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, Vikho o Yhoshu informed that the department has envisaged an ambitious vision for 2025, which include self sufficiency in meat, milk and egg by 2025, upgrading the existing veterinary hospitals, making tele-veterinary services available in all districts, mapping milk sheds and meat production areas with online marketing facilities, state-of-the –art slaughter houses under PPP mode, value addition of milk, Nagaland brand of pork for export and zero malnutrition and animal protein for all by 2025.

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Participants and resources persons during the seminar on the theme "One Voice Against Domestic Violence" held at Clark Theological College (CTC).

moKoKchuNg, No vember 14 (mexN): With the to promote the eradication of domestic violence across the region, ensure the safety of survivors and hold abusers accountable for the violence they perpetrate, two days seminar on the theme "One Voice Against Domestic Violence" was held at Clark Theological College (CTC) on November 11 and 12.

Organized by the Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action (CCPRA) keeping in view the complex issues related to domestic violence, the seminar deliberated to encourage the development of victim-

sensitive laws, policies and procedures across all systems that impact survivors of domestic violence and to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to address the issue of domestic violence It was felt necessary to frame comprehensive responses, seek clarity and formulate strategies for the victims of domestic violence, with a view to empowering them to develop and assume a stronger role in healing processes and reconstruction efforts.

To gain more presence that is active as civic and religious participants in the promotion of human dignity and fullness of life

for the victims of domestic violence, was also discussed and shared during the seminar.

A press note received here stated that the topics of the seminar includes; Bible and Domestic Violence; Customary, Judiciary and Domestic Violence, Gender and Domestic Violence; Historical Narratives and Appraisal, Children and Domestic Violence, Christian and Theological Response. The resource persons were; Rev. Dr. Lallawmzuala (ATC), Meyijungla WTC, Dr. Tali Ao CTC, Dr. L. Imsutoshi Jamir CTC, Atungo Shitri CBCNEI.

A national seminar on politics of location with special reference to NorthEast India organized by the department of Political Science, Sazolie College, Phezhu Jotsoma started on November 14 and will continue till 15.

The inaugural function of the seminar was graced

by Professor A Lanunungsang Ao, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Meriema Campus, Nagaland University. Dr. Kangzangding Thou, Principal, Sazolie College delivered the welcome address while the keynote address

by Dr. Bhupen Sarmah, Professor Director, Omeo

Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati.

While lauding Sazolie College for imparting quality education in the state, Prof A Lanunungsang Ao, urged on the need to understand one’s history and location. “If there is one special course for the North east in mainland India, discrimination will stop,” said the Pro-vice Chancellor who hoped that something concrete would emerge out from the discussions and paper presentation.

In his keynote address, Dr. Bhupen Sarmah talked on the concept and idea of North East (NE) and the location of politics of the region. Sarmah gave a brief

history on the emergence of the NE region, which had no existence prior to 1826.

According to Sarmah, the Colonialists were not interested in the state of the region or the non-state because of the economy of the region which did not produce enough surplus where the costs of administration was much higher than the revenue they could produce and generate from the region.

“Colonialism excluded the hill societies as if they wanted to protect the identity of the region,” asserted Sarmah adding that Inner Line Permit was introduced for their own interests, which started to divide the people. The leadership

of mainland India did not have any understanding pr knowledge of the tribal societies and the ‘NE region’ developed by the Indian state was not much different from the notion of the region enforced by the Colonials. Further, the tendency of homogenizing the region led to identity politics and conflicts.

The political economy of the entire region has to be looked at carefully. “Money dipped into the state must be made accountable to the people because it was meant for the people,” added Sarmah pointing out that there has never been a concrete planning to the huge amounts being pumped by every govern-

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ment at Delhi which has created extremely corrupt politics in NE. Further expressing regret over the section going for higher education who do not come back because of the lack of unemployment Sarmah expressed the need to address the problem and plan ways to use the knowledge and skills. “Regional planning is completely a farce,” added Sarmah and asserted that the Look East Policy has no concrete planning. In conclusion, Sarmah urged the social science students to address the region’s problems objectively through research, come up with solutions and pave the way to keep the NE in its position.

KSU extend support AHT stir Kohima, November 14 (mexN): The Kyong Students' Union (KSU) has extended its support to the demand made by Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Association (2012 & 2013 Batch). The KSU has expressed its deep concerned for the Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Association(AHTA) for non-payment of salary for 6(six) months, it has also directly affected thousands of student's community in the district due to the ongoing stir launched by the ATHA. The union in the interest of the students’ community in particular appeals state government to fulfill the demand made by AHTA at the earliest and enable them to work their duty diligently.

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Meluri | November 14

The second consultative meeting on two-lane project (Tuensang-KiphireMeluri) NH 202 was held at town hall Meluri with Pochury Hoho, ARPO (Akhegwo Range People Organization) president and MAPO (Meluri Area People Organization) GB association Meluri, and stakeholders on November 13 at Meluri town organized by the PWD National highway Division.

Addressing the con-

sultative meeting, Phuning, EAC (HQ) Meluri who spoke on behalf of the administration expressed gratitude to the NPWD, Kiphire for taking the initiative in organizing the seminar for road development work.

Stressing on the positive outcome of development, EAC said that the expansion of the existing single lane road to 2-lane will stabilize the socio economy of the area which will reduction in prices of essential commodities and time saving. Appeal-

ing the stakeholders to extend full cooperation in their respective jurisdiction as development and progress directly depends on road connectivity the EAC said, “With the expansion of road towns and villages along the road stretch will be an important transit point even for tourist as it exposes its rich culture, flora and fauna.”

Giving power point presentation Er Hozheto Shikhu, Executive Engineer (NH) Kiphire, stressed on the benefit of development with the implemen-

tation of tow-lane project and also added, “people usually do not think beyond compensation due to which projects and development activities lays stagnant and asked the gathering to change the mindset.”

Er Shikhu also urged the stakeholders to donating their land willfully and extend full co-operation to enjoy the fruit of development in future.

All the Pochuri civil societies and stakeholders who were present at the consultative meeting assured to willfully donate their land

and extend full cooperation Geared up in traditional attire, a section of man folk waits for the arrival of the chief guest and support for execution and other guest during the celebration of Ahuna festival, a post harvest festival of the Sumi of the work for the two-lane Naga at Dimapur on November 14. (Photo by Imti Longchar) proposal work.

The meeting also agreed to the terms concerning compensation that arises in the event of dismantling or damages incurred in the process of land acquisition. Er. Gracy Anal chair and welcome the gathering while Rev. Chithosie Kajiry, Associate Pastor, Meluri Village Baptist Church and Rev. Tivise Pojar, Pastor, Baptist Church Meluri Town, pronounce benediction.

Revised edition of ‘Phizo and the Naga Problem’ released

Kohima, November 14 (mexN): The revised edition of the book entitled “Phizo and the Naga Problem” by Mhiesizokho Zinyü was released on November 14 at Red Cross Building Conference Hall, Kohima. Following invocation prayer by Mr. Khrielie Kesitsu, Director, Living God Ministry, the book was released by Mr. Chuba Ozukum, President, Naga Hoho.

The book is the first and only life story of A.Z. Phizo, written by a Naga or an Asian, despite the fact that there are hundreds of books on the Naga movement for selfdetermination written. The first edition came out in 1979. The new revised edition has 33 chapters and 13 appendices, covering the life of A.Z. Phizo (1904-1990) from his childhood till his death and his role in the Naga resurgence for sovereignty.

(There is another biography of A.Z. Phizo by Pieter Steyn, a former British Army officer who served in Nagaland and the North East during the World War II, but this book is not available in Nagaland.)

The Preface of the book describes who the Nagas are, and what is the legitimacy of the Naga’s claim for separate nationality as presented by the Naga national workers. It says the Naga Territory existed from time immemorial and it had never been conquered by any king or queen or nation.

The Nagas never had any treaty with any people, kingdom or government; not even with the British Empire which had never annexed the Naga Territory. The existence of Naga Territory as a separate entity for many centuries remained undisturbed. Jawaharlal Nehru himself had admitted way back in

August 1946 that the Naga Territory, lying between China and India, was neither part of India or China or any other Indian States. This is the historical basis of the claim of the Nagas for separate nationality.

The book presents the sequences as to how the Naga National Council took up the Naga resurgence for self-determination during the British-India period, leading to the Naga Declaration of Independence from the British Empire on August 14, 1947. One chapter is devoted to how Nagaland became a State in India.

Phizo refused to budge from his stand of claiming Independence, and later went abroad and settled in London. He stayed in London for 30 years, remote controlling the movement for Naga Independence in Nagaland.

The early chapters make interesting reading about Phizo’s childhood in his village, Khonoma; how he moved to Burma (Myanmar) and settled there with his family for 12 years. His undertaking of a financial investment at Yenangy-

aung and later at Rangoon where he came into contact with the invading Japanese Army and the Indian National Army, his prison term as a prisoner of war for helping the Japanese, and his release from the notorious Insein Jail were of interesting reading.

In 1946 Phizo returned to Nagaland well prepared with a firm resolution never to live under the yoke of British imperialism anymore and started his crusade for Naga Independence. The Naga Territory and British India existed as neighbours, and the question of quarrelling over the status of Nagaland with India was not an issue at that time. In August 1946, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru invited the Naga Territory to join Indian Union when he wrote to the Naga National Council: “It is obvious that the Naga Territory in eastern Assam is much too small to stand by itself, politically and economically. It lies between two huge countries, India and China, and part of it consists of rather backward people who require considerable help. When India is inde-

A woman helps with a little prep up before the celebration of Ahuna festival begins at Dimapur on November 14. (Photo by Imti Longchar)

pendent, as it is bound to be soon, it will not be possible for the British Government to hold on to the Naga territory or any part of it. They would be isolated there between India and China. Inevitably, therefore, this Naga territory must form part of India and Assam with which it has developed such close relations.” But the Nagas declined. They insisted on their separate nationality and sovereignty.

The book gives a description of how Phizo became the President of NNC in 1950, and immediately after that conducted a Plebiscite in Nagaland. Phizo gave dynamic leadership to the Naga National Council in Nagaland till his depar- A village youth taking part in traditional fire- Women from different villages cooking indigture for England in 1960. The sub- making at the Thuwu-ni festival celebration at enous vegetarian curry in the cooking comsequent chapters were about how Pughoboto public ground on November 13. petition at the Thuwu-ni festival celebration.

Phizo was detained in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and how he reached Switzerland and later England in 1960. Finally Phizo obtained a British passport with Nagaland as the country of residence. Phizo continued to provide the required leadership till 1990. The book is a narration of how Phizo served as a bridge between the Naga political resurgence since its inception and the present era; and it ends with the death of A.Z. Phizo when he died in London on April 30, 1990, and his body was brought to Nagaland for burial on May 10, 1990. Phizo was laid to eternal rest at Kohima on May 11, 1990.

Mhiesizokho Zinyü, was a journalist since 1974 till 1998. He first started working as a Staff Reporter of Nagaland Times, and later as Editor, Platform weekly, Nagaland Newsreview weekly, and lastly in Daily Review at Kohima. After that he took to social work, and also worked as the President of Angami Public Organisation.

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TBHJ Pre-Christmas today

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JaKhama, November 14 (mexN): The Tyrannus Boys Hostel Jakhama (TBHJ) will celebrate PreChristmas-cum-Hostel Nite with Rtn. Dr. Viketoulie Pienyu President Rotary Club Kohima, Rotary International (3240) as the resourced person at their hostel premises situated below St. Joseph's College, Jakhama, Kohima on November 15 at 3:30pm. Kezhokhoto Savi Asst. Professor Kohima Law College will bring the Christmas greeting. Lorhu TBHJ Warden has stated in a press release that this is one of the biggest event the Sumi women and men folk perform a dance during the celebration of Ahuna festival, a post Tyrannus boys celebrates every. harvest festival of the Sumi Naga at Dimapur on November 14. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

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Govt pursuing Look East Policy: Sushma Swaraj SHIllong, november 14 (IanS): India is vigorously pursuing the Look East Policy to improve connectivity and promote trade with Bangladesh and the ASEAN, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Friday.

India's northeast was strategically important as the region bordered China, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the minister said in a speech read out by a senior official.

Sushma Swaraj failed to make it to Shillong due to bad weather. "We need to factor in inputs from points of view of foreign and defence policy, internal security and internal security and international trade," she said.

"To this end, the immediate priority is to build the

required infrastructure right up to the border areas, establishing connectivity and communication links to the cross-border points."

The minister cancelled her visit to Shillong along with Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh to inaugurate the Shillong Passport Seva Kendra as an Mi-17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force carrying them failed to land at the helipad due to bad weather.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, who inaugurated the Kendra, said the passport office would greatly benefit the people of the state as they would not have to go to Guwahati to get passports.

On India's Look East Policy, Sushma Swaraj said the policy needed to be accorded

priority by all central agencies and state governments.

"This also requires resolving outstanding issues of trade, transit and investment with the countries neighbouring the region since it involves promoting Indian investment in infrastructure in partner countries," she added.

Chief Minister Sangma said the Look East Policy had become one of the most important cornerstone of India's foreign policy.

"It is important to bear in mind that India's land connection into Southeast Asia is through its northeastern region which has been long neglected primarily due to the region's disadvantages of remoteness from the mainland of the country," he said.

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Crime against women increasing in Arunachal: Police

An Indian woman harvests paddy in a paddy field on the outskirts of Gauhati, one of the world's largest grain exporters on Thursday, November 13. The United States and India said Thursday they had resolved a dispute over stockpiling of food by governments, clearing a major stumbling block to a deal to boost world trade. India had insisted on its right to subsidize grains under a national policy to support hundreds of millions of impoverished farmers and provide food security amid high inflation. The U.S. and others in the World Trade Organization, meanwhile, were more focused on ensuring their food exporters weren't disadvantaged by the possibility of surplus Indian grain flooding the world market. (AP Photo)

Itanagar, november 14 (PtI): The crimes against women have increased in Arunachal Pradesh, although the overall crime rate is on decline in the state, officials said on Friday.

The information was given to the state Home Minister Tanga Byaling by senior police officials at a meeting on Thursday evening, they said. The crimes against women, which were on rise in comparison with the overall declining rate of crime, were in the nature of abduction, molestation and domestic violence, the police officials had told the minister.

The minister directed police to register such cases promptly, provide security to the victims and take all steps to grant speedy justice, they said.

Byaling also directed the police to effectively coordinate with the army and paramilitary forces deployed in disturbed Changlang, Tirap and Longding districts to tackle insurgency.

JFA demands Mizoram to levy entry tax on 'Territorially fragmented' Zeliangrongs monitoring of print e-commerce purchases rally, seeks to highlight 'injustices' aIzaWl, november 14 (PtI): ping mall in Aizawl were forced to DImaPUr, november 14 end at Luangmai in Tamenglong, out the ‘outsiders’ among them- and electronic media Mizoram government is mulling levying tax on commodities purchased online, state Finance Minister Lalsawta said in the Assembly today.

Speaking during the question hour, Lalsawta said, "The state government do not have any intention to stop online shopping even as it has received information that many traders have suffered financially due to e-commerce."

"We even know that some shops in Millennium Centre, the largest shop-

closed down, as their business was severely hit by online shopping," he said.

However, he said that online shopping spree is one of the blessings of the modern world and the government would not like to put an end to it. The Centre and other state governments are also trying to find ways to regulate online shopping and tax the commodities, he added. According to market estimates, total business involved in online shopping in the state is around Rs 87 lakh per month.

Suspected ULFA militants kill businessman in Assam

JorHat, november 14 (PtI): Suspected ULFA militants killed a businessman at Kamalabari chariali area in Majuli island of Assam Friday, a police officer said. The motorcycle-borne assailants fired at Shivaji Prasad (36) from close range seriously injuring him, Jorhat Superintendent of Police Amanjeet Kaur said. The businessman succumbed to his wounds on way to hospital, Kaur said.

Prasad had received bullet injuries in his chest, thigh and stomach, she said and added, the bullet in his thigh was immediately extricated by operation at Kamalabari Primary Health Centre from where he was referred to Jorhat Medical College Hospital. Shivaji was called out to the Gormur-Kamalabari PWD road by the two youths to talk about a business issue before they shot at him, she said. He is the owner of a brick klin of Kamalabari in Majuli area, the SP said. So far nine persons were picked up from the area in connection with the case, Kaur said.

Meghalaya minister granted bail

SHIllong, november 14 (PtI): Meghalaya minister Deborah C Marak was today granted bail by a trial court in a case in which she was charged with taking the help an outlawed group to intimidate voters during last year's Assembly elections.

The court of chief judicial magistrate F S Sangma in East Garo Hills district granted the bail and asked the defence counsel to pay a surety of Rs one lakh.

The Social Welfare Minister's aide Tennydard Marak, who was named in the charge sheet along with the minister in the case, also got bail but has been asked not to leave the court's jurisdiction.

"After gathering enough evidence to prove that the accused had used underground elements to intimidate voters of Independent candidate Jonathon Sangma ahead of the 2013 Assembly elections, we chargesheeted Marak under Sections 102(B), 171(F) and 506 of the IPC in the trial court," East Garo Hills District SP Davis N R Marak had said.

The charge sheet was based on a complaint by the Independent candidate from Williamangar, who had unsuccessfully contested the poll, accusing her of taking the help of the militants to influence the voters to vote for her in the elections.

A week prior to the elections, posters with severe warning to voters and carrying pictures of guns and bullets were pasted in Williamnagar town in Garo language, police said. During investigation, it was found that pasting of posters was the handiwork of Deborah, Tennydard Marak and certain GNLA leaders, the SP claimed.

(mexn): Zeliangrong Citizens Forum (ZCF) and Zeliro Adventure Club (ZAC) will go on a biking expedition across Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, as a symbol of the Zeliangrong Inpui people’s protests against the injustices of being territorially fragmented and politically disempowered in the three states.

The expedition on motorcycles titled Zeliangrong Ancestral Land Expedition 2014 and themed “Treading on Historical Legacy”, as a sequel to the Homecoming to Makuilongdi, is also an attempt to bring about unity among Zeliangrong, to sensitise on the importance of the preservation of Zeliangrong Inpui culture, to exhibit the areas of Zeliangrong to our people through photos, media and documentary film, to promote adventure awareness among our youths and people and to unearth the history of Zeliangrong Inpui unsung heroes and legends. A press release from Ben Gondaimei, Convenor, Zeliangrong Ancestral Land Expedition 2014 stated that the expedition would start at Tening in Peren, Nagaland on November 20 and

Manipur on November 30.

“The Zeliangrong Inpui people embody the classic example of the disempowered and fragmented social groups due to the colonial machinations of the British and its allies. For their honour and rights, despite the wide disparity in strength between them, they rose against the colonial government,” the release stated.

“Ironically, the injustices of being politically disempowered and territorially fragmented is still not addressed in spite of their movements under Haipou Jadonang and Rani Gaidinliu. Political under-representation, land and resources alienation, poverty and under-development are the major challenges confronting the Zeliangrong Inpui society,” it stated.

“As a result, internally, their senses of identity and interest have also been informed by the asymmetric laws and privileges of the states they are domiciled in. Further, this territorial divides and the emerging asymmetric identities also lead to infightings for exclusive identities and the rights to keep

Mizo Assembly adopts resolution condemning attack on NE people

aIzaWl, november 14 (PtI): The Mizoram Assembly on Friday adopted a private resolution condemning racial attacks on the north eastern people in different parts of the country.

The private resolution, moved by opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) legislator, Lalruatkima, said that there were a plethora of incidents of discrimination and racial attacks on the north eastern people in different parts of the

country resulting in sufferings and even deaths.

The resolution strongly condemned such discrimination and racial attacks and expressed hope that such attacks would not recur.

Demand for an anti-racial law by the Centre was the main idea of the original resolution.

However, due to the objection by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and his party legislators, the resolution was amended deleting the demand for enacting anti-racial law.

Student leader assaulted in Chandel Koko Hrangbung Chandel | November 14

President of Naga Students’ Union Chandel Sr Joningam was brutally assaulted by two youths last night at Panchai village in Chandel district.

Speaking to the media at his residence today, the President said that the incident occurred at around 8 pm when he tried to rescue a minor girl from the hands of two youths, who were forcibly dragging the girl into the dark of a field close to the home of the girl.

Narrating the bitter incident the president said that he along with his friend was in the house of her elder sis-

ter at Panchai when the cry of the girl alerted his sister.

He came out of the room to find one youth at the gate. On enquiry, the youth punched and bit him. Another youth joined and beat the president black and blue. Joningam suffered injuries in the head and several bruises all over the body.

The two youths have been identified as St Chingringam Anal s/o St. Nunghlung Victor, MLA of 41-Chandel A/C and BD Aaron Anal s/o Hennary Anal, both residents of Panchai village.

Meanwhile,an emergency NSUC presidential council meeting consisting of the

eight tribes, in connection with the incident was held at the residence of Joningam.

Following the meeting, the NSUC and its unit president resolved to boycott the MLA of 41 –Chandel A/C Victor Nunghlung at all levels. It also resolved to submit several resolutions adopted in the meeting to organizations like ANSAM, CNPO, NWUC and NPF Central Committee for kind information and necessary actions.

Meanwhile, Naga Women Union Chandel has strongly condemned the incident and warned that Naga women will not tolerate such acts in future.

Feral dogs causing eco-problems in Sikkim gangtok, november 14 (PtI): The rising population of feral dogs running in wild packs is causing ecological problems in the higher reaches of Sikkim and requires concerted effort to restore balance, an organization said.

Forest officials have raised concern in the past and Sikkim Anti-Rabies and Animal Health programme (SARAH) has attempted to address this problem, but cooperation from all stakeholders are needed for a sustainable solution to the problem, Dr Thinlay N Bhutia, Programme Coordinator of SARAH Division of the Animal Husbandry Depart-

selves,” it added.

The release further stated that ZCF and ZAC believes that these challenges confronting the Zeliangrong people can be transcended only when the people are empowered politically and the territorial fragmentations are reversed.

The rally of the ZCF and ZAC will plant a UniTree near Ngam village, at the tri-junction of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland as a solemn pledge to reaffirm their indestructible bond of blood and reject any divisive forces. “The planting of the UniTree at the trijunction, one of the most backward and remote areas in the entire Zeliangrong country side, is a testimony to the negligence by the three states and a loud message that only a united ZeliangrongInpui can bring them political empowerment and the long-awaited justice,” the release stated.

Meanwhile,the Convenor of the expedition has informed interested individuals belonging to Zeliangrong-Inpui community wanting to participate in the bike rally to contact the organisers.

ment, said today.

Bhutia said the number of feral dogs had grown in open as camp-dogs of security forces and local communities had outgrown camps and moved out.

"As these dogs have been breeding unchecked, their population has increased rapidly and many now live in the wildlife parks and cold desert areas, largely independent of humans. The situation has been further aggravated by the improper garbage management of security forces and communities as more garbage will attract and provide food for more dogs and sustain bigger populations," Bhutia said.

"It is a fact that these feral dogs are having a negative impact on endangered endemic wildlife such as the Bharal (Himalayan Blue Sheep), Red Panda, Shapi (Himalayan Tahr) and Kiang (Tibetan Wild Ass) by hunting them. The dogs are also competing with the Snow Leopard and Tibetan Wolf for scarce food resources and as these dogs hunt in large packs they have a significant advantage over the leopard or wolf," he said.

The SARAH Division is implementing a feral dog control/wildlife conservation programme in the state.

This flagship programme under SARAH, which was

started in April 2008, has carried out numerous programmes in various places where more than 3,000 feral dogs have been sterilized, vaccinated and given veterinary care, he said.

But the problem could be effectively solved by a range of coordinated measures including dog population management through family planning, Pet Registration and Responsible Pet Ownership, Habitat/ Food Source Control (Proper Garbage/ Waste Disposal Programme) and Rabies Control through systemic administration of Anti-Rabies Vaccination.

For the success of the

measures, cooperation from all state holders are needed, he said.

Many places like Lachung, Bichuu, Chaten, Yumthang in North Sikkim have already been covered by such schemes in collaboration with different stakeholders like the Army and paramilitary units posted there. In East Sikkim, in collaboration with the Forest Department and World Wildlife Fund, places like Phadamchen, Zuluk, TR Junction, AP Salami, Tamzey, Kyonglasla have been covered, he said.

One team of SARAH has been working in Lachen area from the last week of Oct 2014, Bhutia said.

gUWaHatI, november 14 (PtI): Journalists Forum Assam (JFA) today demanded a media council to monitor both the print and electronic media.

The empowered media council, in the line of Press Council ofIndia (PCI) which emerged in 1966, should work as a moral watchdog to ensure press, media freedom as well as quality journalism in the country, a JFA statement signed by its President Rupam Barua and General Secretary Nava Thakurai said here today.

The demand has been raised before National Press Day on November 16 as on this day, the Press Council of India started functioning as a moral watchdog. "India today supports over 800 satellite channels, half of them are news based with thousands of FM and alternate media outlets. As the PCI has no authority over the electronic media, we would like to urge the centre for empowering the council and renaming it as Media Council of India," it said.

The Centre has already reconstituted the PCI for the next three year term though the name of the chairman is yet to be declared. "If the PCI has to function under the present structure till the completion of the term, then the government should think about a separate council for the electronic media at the earliest," the statement said.

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Saturday 15 November 2014

The Morung Express

‘Massacre’ In The Name Of Population Control

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ndia is a land of paradoxes. In the cities and towns we see mushrooming of multi-speciality hospitals.

Those who can afford come and take the advantage of high- tech private hospitals. Nowadays people from different parts of the world come for treatment.

While on the other, the majority of the population is unable to enter into these multi-speciality hospitals and still depend on Public Health Centre (PHC) run by the state governments. India after six decades of Independence still lags in public health care and the poor continue to face the brunt when faced with basic and major ailments.

India is the second most populous country in the world next to China having little more than a billion. The myth that prevails: “India is poor because of overpopulation”! In order to reinforce and legitimise they say it is the poor who add on to the population. So, some decades ago during the emergency period population control was given utmost priority and there was an aggressive campaign and drive towards controlling the population. The myth continues even now. Few days ago, the botched sterilization of women in Bi-

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he atmosphere today is ripe with the term “corruption” and many of us has said and written their views about free corruption and clean government but not a least we find any changes in our society. Today our government is talking about many reforms and also about transparent and efficient administration but the words are to be translated into practice. It is a shame to called Nagaland as Christian state where its very society off and on plunges into darkness of corruption, extortion, nepotism, manipulation, etc. which shows the lack of morally characterised government officials, politicians, bureaucrats, public leaders, etc. Perhaps, there are some highly devoted government servants, politicians, bureaucrats and public leaders who are remained only as an example but are very few to bring changes in the society. Persons working as a govt servant who were assigned the duties and responsibilities of framing right policies, executing the policy in right spirit and regulating and monitoring

laspur, Chhattisgarh has once again highlighted the murky world of such mass sterilization in India. It claimed more than 15 lives in Bilaspur and left several women ailing.

Nearly 60 of the 83 women who underwent tubectomies at the government medical camp in Kanan Pendari village had to be admitted to hospitals a day after. The surgeries were performed at the Nemi Chand Jain Cancer Research Centre in Takhatpur, which was not functioning since April. The hospital has no equipment or staff, but the department of health used it thrice for setting up sterilization camps since September. Incidentally, Takhatpur lock in Kanan Pendari, where the camp was held, is just 10km from Bilaspur which is the constituency of the Amar Agarwal who is the Minister of Health of Chhattisgarh. His constituency has a population mostly of OBCs and Santamis, who are the Dalits.

Officials said at least 60 out of 83 women who underwent tubectomy developed complications soon after the procedure. Most of them were in agegroup of 22-32. Each woman was paid Rs. 600 for the surgery.

The procedure took just two

minutes and the surgery would have hardly lasted more than twenty minutes per person.

There were no proper beds, instruments and other paraphernalia. The scenario at the macro level portrays that last year; about 4.2 million sterilizations took place in the country. But the striking fact is that almost 98% of these were tubectomies (female sterilizations). Almost 37% of all tubectomies in the world are done in India. In fact, India is the only country in the world where female sterilization predominates among various birth control measures.

This will explain why do women always become the victims. Bilaspur tragedy amply testifies it.

According to reports in the recent episode, a surgeon conducted tubectomies on 83 women in quick succession.

The women perhaps went into toxic shock because the instruments were not sterilised. The whole process contravenes to the medical procedures. According to Dr. T. Sundararaman, former executive director of the National Health Systems Resource Centre run by the Union Health Ministry states “Laparoscopic surgery requires a higher degree of skill and also

a more complicated method of sterilizing the equipment.

Using inadequately sterilized instruments will lead to infections.” He blames the increasing deficiency of health personnel in government health centres for recurring incidents of this sort. While deaths due to sterilization procedures have ranged from 153 to 184 a year between 2010 and 2012, cases of post-operative complications have more than doubled in the past four years.

This tragedy unfolds the larger truth of the government’s sterilization programs are always and almost exclusively directed at women. This is because men are under the misapprehension that sterilization will affect their “manliness” or virility. So, women are forced to get sterilized. It reveals the very deep-seated patriarchy on which the Indian society is premised. As usual the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Raman Singh has ordered a judicial probe into the botched sterilization in Bilaspur district. The government also sacked surgeon Dr.R. K. Gupta, a few with doctors and also former Bilaspur CMO Dr. R.K. Bhange. Dr. Gupta who was arrested alleged that he was be-

ing made a scapegoat and revealed that causalities were not triggered by infection caused by operative procedure but due to poor quality of drugs.

He added that the government was trying to put the blame on him to hush up its own shortcoming. He went to the extent of saying that “The CMO and other doctors responsible for purchase of drugs should have been booked on similar criminal charges”. To appease the public, the Chief Minister said all possible “angles” of the tragedy were being probed and that the cause of deaths would be known only after a detailed autopsy and analysis of seized drugs. “The guilty won’t be spared.” These are the usual rhetoric, assurances and promises from the government, but the leadership of the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh should own it. Along with the Health Minister, the Chief Minister should be made accountable.

This tragedy connotes the crude and naked violence of a system which is structural. The women went for sterilisation lost their lives. It tantamount to massacre. It further rips open our much fancied myth that “the poor add on to the popula-

tion growth and so need sterilisation”. This Malthusian notion of population theory has been scathingly critiqued by many economists and ethicists that the over-population should not be the only measuring rod/ criterion for our underdevelopment, poverty, social and economic maladies that we face today. Thomas Malthus, a moral theologian and an economist, propounded this theory to curb the population in order to achieve progress and prosperity. But he failed to connect the progress, prosperity and growth to just, equitable sharing and distribution of wealth.

Inequality gap is widening in India more than ever. It is also poor who contribute to the growth, progress, GDP and GNP. But their per capita income is still marginal that hardly meets their survival needs. Indian health system is appalling and pathetic. If we analyse the women who lost their lives belong to the vulnerable communities.

For them more children mean more economic incentives.

For them out of five or six children hardly one or two survives.

These women were treated like guinea pigs. In India the life of the poor is not at all valued. Each

life is precious and the sanctity of life is to be valued. These young women who lost their lives orphaned their children, their families and their future. The whole population control program needs to be questioned and reviewed. Those who are targeted for the program belong to the poor and vulnerable categories. It is not population, it is just and fair distribution of national wealth, resources and income. We have poverty and hunger in the midst of plenty.

Chhattisgarh episode has jolted the entire country and the world. It is a shame and a blot to the nation. Sources in the ruling BJP in the state of Chhattisgarh and at the Centre said the party’s leadership is annoyed as the tragedy has snowballed into a major controversy grabbing global attention. However, the government at the Centre may use all sorts of slogans and rhetoric, but the ground reality fails to match the rhetoric. As of now the rhetoric remain as an empty gong.

Words and works, government and governance must match.

The causes of our sick society the govt failed to provide the desired safety and stability for the society only because most of them acted as puppet in hands of powerful ministers and powerful politicians. Public leaders, churches, NGOs and other pressure group leaders who were supposed to protect the society and the interest of the people also thought it better to work in tune with corrupt top govt officials to earn name, fame and wealth. It is undeniably bitter truth of Naga leaders that they are unable to contain sustainable and stable society and maintain desired standard of living for all and they have proved totally failure in stopping corruption, nepotism and manipulation in administration as also in politics. They have on the contrary boosted up flattery and bribery culture and the future of pernicious and terror activities in our Naga society.

Before we talk about how to eliminate or curb the menace of corruption, we must first need to know what is corruption and

from where it rooted. Let us go deep into practices. Corruption may be defined as moral perverted and influencing through bribery, extortion, nepotism, manipulation, etc. It is a deep rooted menace in our society. The highest government officials, politicians, bureaucrats and even the judicial sphere have been tinged by the evil of corruption. The virus of corruption has slowly been destroyed the moral fabric of our Naga society and even education and religion.

Welly entrenched social and moral evil of corruption is not easy to root out as it breeds at the top and gradually filters down to the lower levels, eating into the vitals of society.

The philosophy of corruption operates interestingly. When corruption has taken deep root, the feeling is created that it is a way of life. The next step is to try to excuse it, or even to justify it. Not only the politician or the government servant but the individual society has such feelings too. So long

as there are people to offer bribes, there are also people to take it. They rationalise the situation and compromise themselves that easy money is a human weakness difficult to overcome.

Just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison when it is at the top of the tongue, so it is impossible for any government servant not to eat up a bit of revenue. In fact, even the government office machinery, furniture, staff cars and other facilities provided are also misused.

In such a way they console themselves and indulge in corruption ways for their selfish gain and since everyone else does it, here comes the question,” why not us?

Must we be the only angels on earth?” On the other hand, we may also regard the cause of widespread of corruption to our traditional and cultural way. The solidarity of kinship is blamed for nepotism. And the traditional loyalties to family and clan than to society or public for lack of clear demarcation between private gain and public good.

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LEISURE

Simple Rules - There is just one simple rule: “Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.”

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There is a saying, “The present day politician promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.” Gone are the days when people joints politics with the spirits of serving the public or society. But the present modern politicians are of entirely into making the best used of the opportunities they get for their self interest. Even if the honest and capable person wants to become legislators, it is not possible to compete with the money-bags.

Moreover, the present system of election is also to be blamed. Though there are limits for spending during elections, money flows like water and votes are openly purchased. Even though there are numbers of provisions existing in the conduct of rules governing the activities of the government servants belonging to the various departments, most of them are observed only in violation but not of such corrupt practices.

Here comes the need for an administrative Ombudsman. Although the tradi-

tional means of control are at different places, yet there is a need felt to create another mechanism for the accountability of the govt executive. Because day by day, the huge size of administration is growing and has become difficult to check the existing control mechanisms. Further, the nature of administrative discretion is fast changing in the fast changing environment which requires technical expertise to understand and control. Moreover, the increase in the phenomenon of delegated legislation again because of the growing size and complexity of the govt along with increased administrative discretion and administrative adjudication in matters of implementation.

When there is complete degeneration of this sickness (corruption) in the entire system it is very difficult to single out any individuals for treatment. Corruption has spread over all our society and it is not going to be an easy task to eliminate this malady in a fortnight. But if

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not now, the problem would become more acute and beyond any solution. A corrupt minister will find it difficult to catch a corrupt bureaucrat, a corrupt bureaucrats cannot have the guts to accuse his subordinate. This vicious circle goes on and result in all round corruption. Steps should be taken not only to stop corruption but all efforts should be made to ensure that the administration is cleansed by taking strict action against corrupt elements. The head of the state and the head of the government should ensure that the personal staffs working/serving with them are honest. The ministers in turn should keep a close watch on the activities of the senior bureaucrats in their ministry.

Now the Naga leaders, the government officials, bureaucrats, politicians, government servants, NGOs and other pressure groups (such as ACAUT, NBCC, NTC, NSF, etc.) and other powerful organisation and even the individual society together have to DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:

Dr. John Mohan Razu, Professor Of Social Ethics, Ctc, Mokokchung think, investigate, analyse and ascertain the pros and cons of these sickness and plan the future course of actions which will be best suited for the betterment of our Naga society. The planning has to be made very sound.

Merely a flash of publicity will not work. What is needed is a sustained, methodical, weeding out of corrupt officials, reforming the administration (to set up Lokayukta and extend its jurisdiction into judiciary), carrying out economic policies, proper functioning of Vigilance Commission so as to address governmental corruption, to root out corruption at high places prevailing in Naga polity and to ensure its people a reasonable standard of living.

Hence there is a need for an expertise doctors to diagnose this sickness. The first and foremost condition necessary to eliminate or curb corruption is a morally devoted government officials, strongly motivated leadership and vigorous public support.

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Naga Chef Season Two NSF extends support to Hunt for the top Naga chef begins Our Correspondent Kohima | November 14

Naga Chef Season Two is all set to take off. Judges for this season will be Joel Basumatati, Rovi Chasie, Himato Zhimomi, Aketoli Zhimomi and other guest judges. The screening will start on November 15 at Hotel Vivor (Kohima) from 10:00 am with the hopeful contestants individually presenting dishes before the judges.

Naga Chef is first of its kind culinary skill competition in Nagaland to promote Naga indigenous cuisine and is designed to effectively support individuals who possess genuine skill to pre-

aggrieved Hindi teachers

Kohima, November 14 (mexN): The Naga Students’ federation (NSF), while extending support and solidarity to the aggrieved Hindi teachers’ demand for their “legitimate entitlements,” have urged the Department of School Education and the Nagaland state government to release the pending salaries without further delay.

A press note from the NSF noted that Hindi teachers were recruited hima and supported by Gov- against clear post creation in 2012. “Therefore when ernment of Nagaland.

With the shortlisted contestants, the real cooking competition will be from November 18 to 22 at Naga Chef Kitchen Kohima. pheK, November 14 (mexN): Under the aegis of Phek Area Public Organization (PAPO), the frontal organizations in Phek - Phek tion Committee” set up by Area Mothers’ Association the Cabinet on the 60th Ta- (PAMA), Phek Area Goan tar Hoho, the release stated. Bura Association (PAGBA), Henceforth, all tribal Phek District Elders’ CitiHohos, Unions, Associa- zen Forum (PDECF) and tions, Federations, etc. and Phek Town Chakhesang the general public of Naga- Students’ Union (PTCSU) land have been requested had carried out an ‘Inspecto co-operate with the new- tion Drive’ at Phek Town. ly appointed Care Taker “in The organisations visited all the best interest for serving the government institutions and betterment of our so- and offices on November 12 ciety and the political ad- and 13.

There has been public vancement to achieve our outcry over irregularity of common goal.” some of the Head of Department and their subordinates in the district headquarter offices of Phek particularly,

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pare local cuisine.

The contest started its journey last October and Aketoli Zhimomi took the title of Naga Chef Season one.

It is organized by Synergy Group Enterprise (SGE) Ko-

of Rali Wali Affairs (MIP) and Tatar Hoho Secretary, G. Zhimomi in a press release stated that the newly appointed Care Taker will maintain proper administration and execute all government activities that falls under UT-I jurisdiction with immediate effect.

The Care Taker shall not act alone at this stage, but will act and implement in consultation with the members of “UT Forma-

Kohima Night Carnival forms available Kohima, November 14 (mexN): In view of the forthcoming Kohima Night Carnival, Kohima Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has informed that the forms can be obtained on November 18 from KCCI office for Main Town Carnival and Solo Enterprises, High School Junction for the High School Night Carnival. All prospective entrepreneurs, organisations, SHGs, other welfare groups and traders who

wish to operate stalls during the Carnival period at Main town and High School Junction can avail the form.

A press note issued by Akhrie Mor, Joint Secretary, informed that the Kohima Night Carnival will commence November 30 and end December 10. It will be held from 4 pm to 8 pm. The last date for submission of forms is November 21 and the selection and result will be on November 22.

Meanwhile, all trad-

paid on the basis of 5th but it is learnt that audit is being done on the basis of 6th ROP,” the NSF stated.

While acknowledging that “the entire demands of the Aggrieved Hindi Teachers may be not be fulfilled at one go,” the NSF however urged the department concerned and the Nagaland state government to “immediately release the pending salaries of those teachers who have been nurturing the younger generation without any means of livelihood for the past six months.”

Erring government employees in Phek warned

NNC/FGN appoints UT-I Care Taker Kohima, November 14 (mexN): NNC/FGN has appointed Toiho Tuccu as UT-I Care Taker for until a full-fledged UT Chairman is appointed. The appointment was made in pursuance of Cabinet Resolution on the 60th Tatar Hoho and the subsequent approval by Brig (Retd) S Singnya, Kedahge, Federal Government of Nagaland, in exercise of Article (108) of the Yehzabo.

NNC/FGN, Ministry

other teachers and employees of School Education department are getting salary, why can’t the department pay salary for 1379 teachers?” it questioned.

The NSF informed that the 2012-2013 batch of Hindi teachers were appointed in the 5th ROP scale but “were made to sign the pension of 2010 assuring that 6th ROP will be implemented from April 2012.”

“For reasons best known to the department, till the month of April 2014, salaries to these teachers were

ers have been requested to keep their shops/establishments open till 7:00 pm beginning from November 17 to facilitate festive shoppers and tourists to make their purchases.

KCCI further stated that no waste should be dumped in the designated area after the municipal waste truck lifts/collects the accumulated previous day waste in the morning hours. Wastes should be disposed only after 5:00 pm, the release said.

causing immense hardships to the public who make their journey from far and near to apprise their grievances, stated a release jointly appended by PAPO President, Vezhiehu Vero, PAMA President, Besuvolu Venuh, PAGBA President, Nepayi Venuh, PDECF President, Shesuyi Vese and PTCSU President Kedukhoto Tetseo.

During the inspection, “many HoD chairs were unattended while some offices were shutter down.”

The press note added, “in the process of inquiry it was revealed that some officers and staffs hardly come for their duty, or for a day or two probably in the first week of the month to draw their salary and disappeared thereaf-

ter.” It also alleged that there are some who never attend, but draw salary regularly credited by their “loyal accountant.”

In light of the above, the organizations have warned the officials “either to get transferred if they do not like to serve the people of the district or resume their assignment without any further delay with sincerity and dedication.” They also cautioned that failing to comply, “the public will be compel(led) to publish the names and the department of the erring officials publicly and report the same to the higher ups to initiate disciplinary actions against the erring officials for the larger interest of the public.”

AR apprehend six NSCN (K) cadres Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Six cadres of NSCN (K) were apprehended with arms and ammunitions by 33 Assam Rifles on November 12 in Naginimora. The cadres have been identified as SS Lt Yinthao Konyak, SS 2nd Lt Kepong Konyak, SS Lance Cpl Yinai Konyak, Regional Council Member (RCM) Honkai Konyak, Regional

Council Member (RCM) Manshah Konyak and Regional Council Member (RCM) Nyangpong Konyak, according to a press release from Assam Rifles. There had been complaints of extortion being carried out by factions in Tiru, Oting and Naginimora, it added.

The operation was launched based on input regarding presence of six

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MEx FILE Governor extends Ahuna greetings Kohima, November 14 (mexN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, has extended warm greetings on the occasion of Ahuna festival, which is celebrated by the Sumi community. “Let the festival be celebrated in a peaceful manner, contributing towards harmony, oneness and togetherness of all sections of the people in Nagaland,” he wished.

NSCN (IM) mourns Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): NSCN (IM) has expressed grief at the “untimely” demise of Anung Pongener, Chaplee Secretary, Ministry of Chaplee Affairs.

“He was a sincere and dedicated national worker who had given his all for the cause of the Naga nation and the government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim,” stated Isak Chishi Swu, President, GPRN in a condolence note.

“History shall remember him at all times.” The president further prayed that God will give strength and courage to his family members, relatives and friends to overcome the sorrow.

NPF legislators assure support for CM Kohima, November 14 (mexN): NPF legislators, including Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and Advisors on November 13 called on NPF President Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu. Sources said that over 20 of the NPF legislators met Dr. Shürhozelie to show their support to the present leadership of the party and the government headed by Chief Minister TR Zeliang. Sources also said that with majority of the NPF legislators standing together in support of the present leadership, there is no threat of leadership under the DAN-III government.

Social work organizing Committee meeting in Kohima Kohima, November 14 (mexN): APO, AGOK, AMK, AYO & ASU will be jointly organizing a mass social work on November 22 (Saturday) under the Theme, “Towards a cleaner Kohima”. In this regard, a meeting of the organizing Committee will be held on November 15 at 02:00 PM at KMC Conference Hall Kohima. All Committee members are requested to attend the same.

NCC (N-A) members warned not to attend Nov 15 meeting Kohima, November 14 (mexN): Home Affairs of NNC (N-A) today stated that the former general secretary, Hozheto Chophi “willfully left his high esteemed seat” and it was “not a case of separation, but desertion from group.” According to a press release from Hangping from Home Affairs, NNC (N-A), the former general secretary had claimed that he and President Kiumukam Yim declared “separation” because of their ideological differences. The release further asserted that “anyone can go as a deserted person/ persons but cannot use the Naga National reputation words as NNC (N-A) in any manner.”

In this light, it warned that any member of NNC (N-A) attending the meeting scheduled by the “deserter” on November 15 shall be deemed a “deserter.”

NSCN (K) cadres in Naginimora, "who had come for extorting money from the locals," the release stated. Two country made pistols with ammunition along with some “incriminating items” were recovered from the cadres, the release informed, adding the cadres and recovered items were handed over to NCSU on PM’s visit the civil police after initial Kohima, November 14 (mexN): The Nagaland interrogation.

Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) has welcomed the proposed visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nagaland during the Hornbill Festival starting from December 1, 2014. “The people of Nagaland are anxiously waiting with hectic preparation for the historic visit of the Hon’ble during 2012 and 2013, is it the Prime Minister, who envisions to include all the states in the Central government, State country to take the nation forward,” stated NCSU president Government, Education de- Pele Khezhie and general secretary John Kath. The NCSU partment or the Hindi them- also said the visit of Modi would be a source of inspiration for every citizen of the State as a sense of alienation and deselves?”

The Unit has strongly privation has been high in the minds of the Naga people. stated that it will not step back until they get positive KLC parting social today response with assurance Kohima, November 14 (mexN): The Kohima Law from department or the College will hold its annual parting social cum magazine Government. release on November 15 at 11:00 at the State Academy Hall, Kohima. T. Bendang Jamir, additional advocate general Nagaland will grace the occasion as chief guest.

Appeal to shift waste site at Dhansiri Peren Hindi Teachers continue agitation Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Green Succession of Nagaland State (Green-SONS) has reminded the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) to expedite the process of shifting the DMC’s dumping site from the bank of Dhansiri.

In a press note issued by its Chairman, Jess T Murry,

the organization maintained it is pursuing the issue with authority concerned since 2012 due to the potential environment hazard it generates at the surrounding areas, but so far no positive steps have been taken.

It has warned that if the DMC or the Urban Development Department does

not take any initiative before November 30, the deadline given by the Dhansiri River Flood Control Board and the Green-SONS, the twin organization shall take initiative to restrict dumping of waste material at present site from December 1 and subsequently file Public Interest Litigation (PIL).

pereN, November 14 (mexN): The Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Peren Unit has been on agitation since November 11 and will continue indefinitely until their demands are fulfilled.

While informing this, the unit Convenor, Haigu Pame said, “We rendered our service sincerely since

last six months hoping that our pending salaries will be cleared. We demanded what is ours but we are not begging for donation to the department or Nagaland Government. Why is the Government deaf to our grievances?

Who is to be blame for the delay and pending salary of the Hindi teachers appointed

KDLSA celebrates Children’s Day with students in Kohima

Kohima, November 14 (mexN): The Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) celebrated Children’s Day with the students of Govt. High School, New Market, Kohima today.

Students, teaching and non-teaching staff, head teacher and parents attended the programme.

Mezivolu T. Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kohima & Secretary, KDL-

SA, Khriengulie, Panel Lawyer, KDLSA and Tongpang L. Jamir, Panel Lawyer were the resource persons.

Therieh briefed the students on how Children’s Day came into being. She stated that in 1956, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then first Prime Minister of India, who was so compassionate about children, thought of celebrating his birthday with children. So, he dedicated that day to

the children, thus making it Children’s Day across the country. He also explained as to why Nehru always had a rose in his coat. She further spoke about the judicial structure, the Supreme Court, the High Court and the District Court, while also highlighting the difference between the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary. Stating that unless “we” abide by the law of the land, the society

will be doomed, she encouraged the students to obey the laws framed under the Constitution of India just like they follow the rules and regulations in the school.

Meanwhile, Kekhriengulie spoke on Fundamental Duties. He highlighted where the powers that the police, politician and other officers exercise derive from. He told the students that the powers

they exercise were given by the Constitution of India.

He also underlined that the supreme power of the country was the Constitution of India and nothing was above it. He stated that the three important things enshrined in the Constitution were the Fundamental Rights, Directive Principle of State Policy and the Fundamental Duties. He asserted that the students’ duty towards the society

was to protect the environment, keep the surrounding clean, safeguard the public properties, etc.

Tongpang, Panel Lawyer, spoke on Child Rights.

He highlighted on the Juvenile Justices Act, Juvenile Rights, Child Labour Act and many more topic regarding children.

The event was followed by a question and answer session, where the students actively took part.

SSSV observes Children’s Day Children with special needs celebrate

Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Sayam Sevi Sanskrit Vidyalaya (SSSV), Purana Bazar celebrated Children’s Day with the children and leaders of Dimapur East at Shiv Mandir auditorium.

Bishnu Bhattacharjee, President, NPF Minority Wing graced the programme as chief guest, informed a press

release. The chief guest, in his address, stated that Children are the heart of Nation.

Development of nation is possible only through spiritual, social, health and moral development of children, he asserted, and appealed to be honest and dignified to build the nation as youth and student.

also highlighted the contributions of Nehru towards world peace, strengthening of Non-Aligned Movements and raising India's image among the high profile industrial nations. At the function, Hollohon Chishi, general secretary, DCC Dimapur, administered an oath to the Congress workers to commit themselves to the ideas of secularism, pluralism and progressiveness espoused by Nehru, the release added.

Kohima, November 14 (mexN): State level consultation meeting on the formation of Nagaland Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) forum will be held at the Zonal council hall, Kohima on November 19 at 10:00 am. This is a follow up consultation meeting held on September 23. A press note issued by Commissioner & Secretary, Menukhol John, has invited all CCAs of Nagaland to participate in the meet to share their experiences, strategies and plans for the way forward. It further stated that the consultation is being jointly organised by Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED) and Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), India. Apart from the CCAs who participated in the previous meet, other interested CCAs may contact 8731888808/9089350399 on or before November 17.

Atu now PRO of DEF Kohima Kohima, November 14 (mexN): Atu Zumvü, SDPO Kohima have been designated as the PRO of DEF Kohima. He shall deal with all matters relating to publicity and media related issues after approval of SP Kohima.

All concerned have been asked to ensure that all matters relating to media and publicity be routed through the unit PRO. Contact details: Atu Zumvii, SDPO & PRO DEF Kohima. Ph. 8575045533/ 9436002921. Email; spkohima@hotmail.com

MHD annual general body meeting

Congress workers take oath Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): The District Congress Committee (DCC), Dimapur observed Children’s Day today. The function was attended by host of senior party functionaries. The function commemorated the life and teachings of Jawaharlal Nehru and described him as an undaunted ambassador of peace and a great visionary and statesman, a press release informed. It

Consultation meet on formation CCAs

Children with special needs, their guardians, organizers and sponsors at the Children’s Day program.

Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): With an objective of inclusion, a Children’s Day program for children with various kinds of disability was organized

by Exodus Disable People Organization Federation and Childline Dimapur at Covenant Church premises, Dimapur today.

With “Protect us with love” as the theme, the pro-

gram, sponsored by Covenant Church Dimapur, saw exhortations by Grace Savino, women leader, and Maong Jamir, Asst. Director of Prodigals’ Home.

Grace urged the parents and guardians to put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ who considers everyone as precious and equal beings, while Maong exhorted the parents,

as being the best friends of their children, to play significant role in the upbringing and lives of their children. Maong, while also thanking the parents for taking time to participate in the program, thanked Grace Covenant Church for their noble gesture, which, he stressed, should be a step followed by other churches towards

recognition and inclusion of children with special needs in both the church and the society.

Other highlights of the program were song presentations by children with special needs and the girl residents of Prodigals’ Home Women Short Stay Home, games with prizes for the winners, clothes distribution for the children.

Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Mao Hoho Dimapur has convened its annual General Body Meeting (GBM) on November 16 (Sunday), 2014 at Mao Community Hall, Ashihe Mao Colony, Kuda B (Nagarjan) at 1:30 pm sharp. Mao Hoho Dimapur General Secretary Athilu Khrasi in a press release has requested all the Ememei residing within the hoho jurisdiction to attend the meeting positively.

ANTA Kohima Unit informs Kohima, November 14 (mexN): All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA), Kohima Unit has informed all taxi drivers and owners concerned that it is organising its Raising Day cum Annual Picnic on November 18 at WAPO Ground, Zubza. All members and well wishers have been requested to attend the program positively. A press note issued by Chuba Jamir, Action Committee Secretary, Kohima Unit stated that any taxi plying on that particular day will be penalised by the Action Committee.

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US ‘soft power’ hits hard reality in Middle East John Lloyd reuters

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n Sunday, June 22, 1941, Winston Churchill’s private secretary, John Colville, woke him with the news that Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union. In a radio address that same evening, the British prime minister repeated his “consistent” opposition to communism, but said that “all this flashes away … the Russian danger is therefore our danger.” In a later House of Commons debate, Churchill quipped — “If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

Situations change, and men and women in public life are bound to change with them. Few such changes are more wrenching than turning on the dime of principle.

Stalinist communism was a system of mass murder: but in the lonely life-anddeath struggle for national survival, which Churchill led, it had to be an ally.

The nation now most prone to such diplomatic pirouettes is the United States, still the world’s greatest power. Its strength has ever been defined, in important part, as idealism, “soft” power: belief in pluralism in politics, in free speech and a free press. These institutions are held to self-evidently good for a society: and the United States, with the

European allies, has long preferred and rewarded those states which promise to follow that path.

Nowhere in the globe does idealism face a more testing challenge than in the Middle East — now burying the last hopeful remains of the Arab Spring. This is seen most starkly in Egypt. The overthrow in 2011 of the 30-year autocrat Hosni Mubarak was followed by rule by the army; then by an election which brought a government of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, headed by President Mohamed Morsi; then a popular coup against Morsi’s rackety regime, followed by more army rule – sanctified by the election, in June of this year, of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, formerly the chief of staff.

The military, which had governed Egypt through presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Mubarak since the Free Officers’ Revolution of 1952 were, after a brief intermission, back. And back tougher.

The field marshal promised democracy, freedom, an independent press and all good things.

He appeared competent; he soon gathered praise from economists for measures to improve his country’s economy. But he

Relatives of detained activists cry and pray for them as the activists stand trial at a court in Cairo, Nov. 11, 2014. An Egyptian judge ordered 21 democracy activists — including leading campaigner Alaa Abdel Fattah — to be arrested on October 27 at the start of their retrial for breaking a law against protests passed after the military ousted former President, Mohamed Mursi last year. (Reuters Photo).

shows greater competence in shutting down what had become a briefly raucous and creative civil society.

Both before and after his election, al-Sisi’s army and police suppressed demonstrations by Brotherhood supporters with savage force: well over a thousand have been killed, hundreds condemned to death, thousands more imprisoned.

Bit by bit, local and foreign NGOs have been closed

down or closed themselves. Those who protest these and other measures are arrested under laws that ban unauthorized demonstrations, or antiterrorist legislation. One protester, the popular blogger and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, got 15 years – though a retrial is scheduled for next week.

The news media — especially television — had cascaded off in a variety of sparkling directions: no

longer. Three al-Jazeera journalists received long prison sentences in July, as the Qatari channel is increasingly suspected of support for the Brotherhood: the judge said they were “guided by the devil.” Late last month, top editors and TV presenters gathered to declare that they were with the military — and promised to confront “the hostile culture toward the national project and the foundations

of the Egyptian state.” Bassem Youssef, the surgeon who became a TV satire star with a Jon Stewartstyle talk show poking — quite hard — at the Brotherhood government and at the military, gave up in June, saying, “The present climate in Egypt is not suitable for a political satire program.”

It’s clear enough that alSisi’s regime is the harshest since that of Nasser in the 1950s and 60s. But

where the latter sought to remold society to bring socialism to Egypt and unity to the Arab world — both failures — the former has another reason for imposing order. Egypt is in the grip of a sustained violent onslaught by Islamic militants, organized by those who see the overthrow of the Brotherhood government as an abomination.

The militants wish to go much further than the fumbling Morsi-led administration, to impose an Islamist tyranny on the country.

Earlier this week, the group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (‘Supporters of Jerusalem’) formally affiliateditself with the larger Islamic State, which has now moved into the spot of terrorist challenge number one. Islamic State’s stores of looted weaponry and control of some oil wells in Iraq gives it a heft that other groups need to take on an army, like that of Egypt.

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has already killed hundreds of army and police, and range from Sinai in the east to the deserts in the west — and may soon threaten Cairo with bombs and attacks. The stage is set for a long struggle And a bloody one, in which democratic freedoms and civic rights will suffer more. Egypt, with other Arab states — including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Emirates — have coalesced to op-

pose the Islamist terrorist groups, headed by Hamas in Gaza and now metastasizing into new networks of threat. In doing so, they have softened their enmity to the “natural” bogey state, Israel. Egypt, which has a longtime accord with the Jewish state, now views Hamas with the same hatred as Israel does.

And thus it is that the United States must again set aside its ideals in favor of realpolitik. President Barack Obama met al-Sisi in New York, when the Egyptian leader attended the United Nations. He raised the issue of the Al Jazeera journalists, but that was against the backdrop of increased military aid to Egypt and clear signs of closer cooperation on issues such as the fight against Islamic State.

T h e a nt i - m i l i t a nt Arab coalition may or may not hold. If it does, it shows a welcome assumption of responsibility for the peace of the region, and resistance to the extreme Islamist version of fascism, from its strongest powers. It may, in its course, bring a rapprochement with Israel closer.

It’s a great prize. It’s just that it means putting the issues of democratic rule, civil society and freedom of speech and the press, in the box marked – “See you later, Arab Spring!” The best to be hoped is that it’s not “Goodbye!”

Myanmar shows illusion of Scientists are more creative than you might have imagined diversity at Asia summit But original thinking could be declining among students because Alexandra Ossola

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NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Women welcoming world leaders stood in rows, colorfully clad in costumes representing Myanmar's many ethnic groups, some with their hair tied in high knots or wrapped in red headdresses, others donning horizontally striped longyis and silver coin-studded capes.

But none of the ushers belongs to any of the minority groups they represented.

University students bused here from Yangon, they are ethnic Burman, the majority people who have dominated Myanmar's government, military and economy since independence from Britain in 1948.

The nation is sometimes called Burma, a colonial-era name that paid tribute to the elite. It is culturally diverse, with 135 officially recognized ethnic groups making up 40 percent of its 50 million people, from Kachin and Shan to Mon and Kayan Padaung.

After a half-century of military rule, a new nominally civilian government began transitioning the country to democracy three years ago, but its efforts to project ethnic unity can falter, or expose the differences instead.

In Naypyitaw, seat of government for the predominantly Buddhist nation, churches are completely absent — despite 80,000 Christians living among the city's 1.3 million people — and streets and neighborhoods have names based on Buddhist scripture.

There are 58 Christian members of Parliament, but the closest service for them

to attend is in an old, rural church 30 kilometers (20 miles) away.

Pastor Tin Maung Aye holds five Masses every Sunday to accommodate his constituents, many of whom are ethnic Karen and Chin who migrated to the area for jobs in construction and hotels.

Naypyitaw was carved from the jungles and purpose-built as the country's newcapital. In 2005, thendictator Gen. Than Shwe announced an overnight transfer of the government from Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, 320 kilometers (200 miles) away. The city is dotted by impressive stadiums, enormous meeting halls and hundreds of villas for visiting VIPs that seem incongruous in one of the world's poorest countries.

Ethnic parliamentarians are given stark, barely furnished rooms in government-style barracks separate from the more luxurious residences of ruling party lawmakers, and they wear traditional attire representing their home communities, bear claws, feathers and all.

When world leaders gathered behind closed doors Thursday to talk about security threats and economics, 30 young women who had greeted them upon arrival took advantage of downtime to snack and rest in their lounge.

When asked their ethnicity, one-by-one each woman said Burmese.

A young woman who wore a long brass neck coil when in the welcoming line was suddenly without her adornment.

Asked where it was, she looked offended: "Oh, that's fake! Did you think I was really Kayan Padaung?"

cientists don’t usually have a reputation for being very creative. They have to adhere to the scientific method, use statistics and data, and carefully measure their results—activities that would appear to take the magic out of the creative process, like having to explain your own joke. But few would dispute that the great scientific and technological innovators were creative thinkers.

"The greatest scientists are artists as well," as Albert Einstein said.

“I think we take for granted that we rely heavily on science creativity, whether we realize it or not,” said Rex Jung, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Whether we use our advanced technology to watch cat videos or take advantage of life-saving medical procedures, scientific innovation is “incredibly important to our quality of life,” Jung said.

Society needs creative scientists for continued innovation. But does the process for teaching scientific creativity differ from artistic creativity? And can creativity be taught?

Scientists have a bad creative rap, Jung said, because their work is more tangible and “real.”

“Our work builds on previous work—you’re standing on the shoulders of giants,” he said. “We’re incrementally working to expand upon previous work, and that is deemed less creative, or somehow derivative. But I would argue that artists do the same thing.” Cubist artists built upon the foundation of impressionism, Jung noted, just as scientists innovate based on the work conducted before their own.* In 1926, social psychologist Graham Wallas wrote a book called “The Art of Thought” in which he described the four stages of creativity: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Jung, who has written a number of articles about the

of the growing emphasis on test-taking in schools.

neuroscience of creativity, noted that the stage between incubation and illumination involves a pretty big cognitive handoff.

When an idea is incubating, Jung says, you rely heavily on the neural connections your brain uses for brainstorming—a system known as the defaultmode network: “You use the regions of the brain involved in daydreaming and imagination. You’re looking inward instead of solving the problems of the world.” That allows ideas to bounce around and intersect in novel ways.

But the cognitive control network takes over once your brain wants to articulate and implement the idea. This is your brain’s error checker, where you plan and make decisions to overcome your habitual inclinations.

Jung is most interested in that tenuous transfer between the two systems, when an idea evolves from

something abstract to something it can articulate and evaluate.

“We see that the most highly creative people flip easily between the two and are better able to modulate these networks,” Jung said.

Neurologically, the creative process should look the same regardless of whether a person is an artist or a scientist, Jung says. And researchers have just begun to see this creativity in real time.

Charles Limb, an ear, nose and throat surgeon at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, scanned musicians’ brains as they improvised melodies. Limb did similar study with rap artists, asking them to improvise on the fly.** What researchers found was that the improvising brains turned off their error checkers and let the ideas bubble to the surface while they were in earlier stages. If they stud-

ied scientists, researchers would presumably see the same neurological activity, although they haven’t yet tested it.

But Jung and others who study creativity fear that it’s on the decline among students. Even though creativity is innate, it needs to be cultivated. And as schools place greater emphasis on learning material and taking tests, Jung fears that opportunities for thoughts to flow freely are fewer now than in the past.

“I always advocate for recess,” Jung said. “This is where imagination often happens. That downtime is really important—kids had their time in class, so then they need time to think about something they learned in class or absorb the material in a different way by getting away from it for a period of time.”

In a blog post on his web site, Jung notes the value of what he calls

“imaginability,” or the ability to play out ideas in one’s mind. This sort of exercise can only be done with the default-mode brain, Jung said, while the conscious mind is busy doing something else that’s not too taxing—like cooking or making sure your teeth are brushed.

“Most creative people stumble upon their tool to increase their imaginablity, whether it’s taking a bath or a walk or a drink of bourbon,” Jung said. They find some way to turn down the noise of the conscious mind so ideas can flow more naturally.

People may prefer to meditate, exercise, or just lay in bed all day, but they have to know themselves and how their minds work before tapping into their creativity systematically.

And without the time to do this as children, learning how to do it later in life may be more difficult.

Some who foster cre-

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ativity in scientists encourage students to learn these facts earlier in their scientific careers.

Ted Clark, a professor of chemistry at Ohio State University in Columbus, has been working for years to enhance creativity in his first- and secondyear students.

Students like to do research, Clark said, but most universities require at least a few years of science education before students can really get into the lab. So Clark and his colleagues created curriculum for basic science courses that involves a hands-on research component to get students more engaged.

During an entry-level chemistry course, Clark charges his students with collecting water or soil samples as part of a larger project to determine the contaminants that may be present around the city of Columbus. This kind of flexible project allows students to incorporate knowledge from other fields like architecture or history, Clark said, to figure out why a particular area might be contaminated. Clark has also been working with a number of high schools throughout Ohio to integrate creative problem solving into science classes.

Efforts to cultivate and understand the neurological processes of creativity may mean a more creative generation of scientists with stunning innovations yet to come. But to do that, they have to have the space and time to understand their own minds.

To solve a problem in science, Clark said, scientists have to think logically and linearly.

“But scientists aren’t robots. You can’t just take your data and put it in something and have the answer come out,” he said.

“That’s my top priority: How can we have some opportunities for [students to work on] authentic problems where we welcome diverse solutions? In science, we don’t begin by knowing the answer—we value the process.”

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15 NOVEMbEr, 2014

Morung Youth Express

'Education Of Policy & System' Our School Children Need More

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ational top-down education policy and system change has to do with much larger issue, never the forerunner of education home delivery for many of north east farflung villages because that is away from relative state of affairs in our context. In our case it is not changing the syllabic-policy-system alone: how to do away the sinister premises of nepotism and bribe which are roots to dirty politicization eating the heart out. Will the chain unbuckle with the onset of changed policies from the upstairs while the pillars decaying at the ground level? We had better not pretend as not to contemplate how useless trying to fetter this monstrosity of school management by mere policy change and introduction of National or North East integrated syllabi, and so on.

All India Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra reaching out Nagaland with packages of finely thought out frame works on education can be more credible if those proponents stress priorities at the grass root level. Identifying what is within and tidy up the bottom-line that is already rotten will be a defining start, serious and troublesome task too. Promoting foreign investments, accelerating activities of trade following liberal policy trends, mushrooming up of Non-governmental Organizations and oversee-funded agencies and riot of private managed schools have so far not impacted upon the actual targets rather than maintaining accountabilities and transparency between the policy management.

These new schemes partnership benefit only the partners, not the grassroots beneficiaries. We cannot afford our village schools to be a company with well developed structure. That will never address our schooling problem while school is the cradle and unquestioned backbone of every civilization and its continuous growth drawing out elements from schools of various thoughts. With private tuition, good or bad, commercial-interests-stimulated institutions incurring extra school expenses on village illiterate poor parents is nothing short of different form of taxation. Naga revolutionary people, too, promising sunnier future had sadly failed in this regard while they have means aplenty when there used to

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ecent headlines in the Local papers are fraught with conflict related issues that portray a picture of nervousness and frustration. Reading some good news of achievements has become a luxury item. Interestingly, the only current good news of cheer is the arrival of Amur Falcon to Doyang Region. Undercurrent rumors of hopes and despairs are plenty, but on the outside, nothing seems to be happening in the State and people at large are made to drag on with their daily chores but hoping against hope that sooner or later funds from Delhi will soon arrive. We have more of anxieties and doubts but less of hope and assurances, more of problems but less of solutions. Words of appeals and exhortations to the people to Work hard, March forward, Look forward, Pursue peace and so on has become ‘a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal’. It is indeed a simmering society in ‘The Land of Festivals’.

Amidst such an unsavory

be huge village-based supports. We do not quite expect the state people’s representatives to take up the broom and sweep the floor to begin with, in spite of education being concurrent List. To do this touchy job, we can get our village/community efficiently organized with the go-ahead from the government without demanding separate system or autonomous interference detrimental to education department but help cleanse the mess. This means loss of job; it is not loss in truer sense: it is forfeiting any amount bribed to their god-fathers

made of gold. Governments of India have given enough money for beloved Nagaland?” Therefore, ask him a Naga riddle: “What is the longest tongue?” If Narendra modi says “river”, and that is true, then he is, amongst thousands, a visionary. If Narendra is coming for more than HornBill, celebrating anniversary and national security reason, Naga people will just listen to him first; he is a big, busy man, he may not be interested in many of our stories except that Nagas are not forgotten.

The rest, news papers will do their

'Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit---if that will ever come to pass this time---students’ communities, church groups, mothers’ league and Naga Hoho should call attention of the PM to our governmentschools, forest-environment management and human resources development projects' for promotion of unemployables at the expense of our children-hopefuture and growth towards more useful, honorable and compassionate citizens.

There will be system management lapses no matter how high the technology today. But the system itself completely liberated from check and balancing mechanism tends to turn notorious and destructive to human progress. Make no mistake: unemployable is here separated from the dedicated, respectable and well qualified ones in the government as in childcentered, devoted private schools.

Teaching is not a mere profession; it demands commitment, sacrifice and reward, the promise of change and growth in all human fronts.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit---if that will ever come to pass this time---students’ communities, church groups, mothers’ league and Naga Hoho should call attention of the PM to our government-schools, forest-environment management and human resources development projects. Any package anticipated--and he will be more lavish this time if ‘he will sure come’---should be drained into these sectors. If we discuss with him over development, roads and other infrastructures which are in sorry state, his immediate question will be: ”Where are the roads; I thought your roads are

jobs. Naga representations in different forms may focus on insisting him to give the village level authorities the power to appoint ‘real’ teacher, remove fraud and bogus teachers, and suspend or terminate comedian-teachers. This may not infringe policy matter; this will instead help realize objectives of education in tune with and emphasizing village level autonomy and perspectives.

A new chapter in all-India-school syllabus can introduce and rediscover North East and hence minimize racial attacks. It is much more than that. Neither it is an ‘end of the spear’ evangelizing this remote region and catechizes so called ‘mainland doctrine’ of a union beyond the chicken neck corridor. North East has much more than these: Kohima war is there to introduce entirely new chapter on how things had turned around all over South East Asia through the erstwhile Crown’s Forward Policy. Had the Japanese forces prevailed that day, the precedence in political landscape would have written a different chapter from what it is today. Introduction of syllabus on North East will surely bust open captivating new world. One such will be how these so called backward ‘peoples’ were governed by unwritten and absolutely complied covenants that those forward

people today would be irritably tempted to walk backward like these irrationally termed ‘savages.’ Out of such fascinating invitations many will be unbelievably converted to the charm of truth-justice conjoined as to how these inherently patriarchal races followed stringent primeval woman rights (Pukreila in my native term) as ancient as any today’s International Human Rights Organizations to date; that women have the unquestioned power to stop the fight-to-die declared war amongst conflicting villages. If those researchers loiter around Kohima paddy fields they might discover an indigenous water management in and around such high lands and impassable terrains being technically terraced and watered, and wonder if today’s technology has anything to do with! They may be advised to call on an old Naga grandma and ask her if she has the knowledge of soil and climate suiting soybean and other lintels or all food crops the best, she will teach those scientists on climate, right season for right crops; when and how to transplant saplings, how to preserve seeds, when to saw them, how and when her forest people use trees and environment. She is equally alarmed why hunting and fishing no longer tabooed during spawning seasons. She will tell them how the Nagas settle cases and disputes under unwritten and yet strictly doas-you-are-told commandments.

She may talk about Morung life, on Naga Feat of Merits. Grandma is full of stories: Forest and land laws, ownership and transfer, legal inheritance or apparent heir, etc.

She can capsize the old contain and clean their heads afresh with new realities. The earlier pioneers’ tour diaries full of ‘wild and beautiful’ will be flipped to beauty side and the wild side perception banished.

These are our legitimate rights and our children have the right to be customized with their indigenous values. Here is Naga’s future. We must begin here. When our village schools bloom, we will surely embrace change. The road seems long and wearisome, but there is no other short cut. Smart and enterprising favored few should not be mistaken for the dormant mass.

The Milkman

A story in lighter vein environment that is detrimental to one’s health and perception, I sought an outlet to write a story of cheer to boast up the sinking morale of its readers, since readers would normally prefer to read something that is appealing or inspiring but less of insinuating in its presentation. Featuring of anecdotes of day to day humors in various forms and shapes will also help in cheering up its readers and also make paper more readable. While wrecking my brain in trying to identify a befitting story that may serve as a morale booster, I received a jerk by the sound of a knock at my door and loo! There stood our Milkman with a big smile, greeting me, “Good morning Shar”. This is his story.

He is a Milkman by profession and a proud owner of four milch cows. Every day he gets fifteen liters of milk out of them. After mixing it with water, which is drawn

fresh from the streams of the hills of Japfu, it is enhanced to 25 liters. He then divides it into three categories, the first is EK number milk, the 2nd DO number milk and the third TIN number. To EK number milk he adds very little water, to DO number milk he adds more water and to TIN number milk he adds little milk to water. To enhance flavor he also adds a pint of sugar to the milk.

Every morning he would carry the milk personally and walk for more than three kilometers and distribute it to nearly twenty families. In delivery he is very punctual for which he feels very delighted. Only one morning he did not turn up on time, but later there was a knock and when I opened the door, to my delight, our Milkman was nonchalantly standing at the door but without the milk. On inquiring why he was late, he replied, “AJ PUJA KA DIN SHAB, RASTA MAI THORA ARAM KYA”. He

was drunk. One fine morning our boy complained that the milk looked thin so I inquired the following day why the milk looked watery, he then with a disarming smile replied that recently “BHAGWAN” was so gracious that one of his cows gave birth to a calf and yesterday’s milk was obtained from that young ‘mother’ whose milk is usually watery. I then asked to which category the milk belonged to and avoiding my face he quickly replied…EK number. I had no further issue to bargain with. One day he asked me for a loan of Rs. 1000/- saying that he will be leaving for his village to see his ailing mother. He however assured me that milk will be supplied by his son during his absences. And behold, during his leave period, the quality of milk supplied by his son was much superior. Perhaps our Milkman had forgotten to teach his son the art of EK, DO and

TIN formula.

I often think about the lifestyle of our Milkman. He has his dreams, needs and responsibilities. He pursue his own joys as much as we pursue ours. He has his success and failures as much as we have ours. He has his cut out responsibilities to take care of his wife and children for which he has crafted his own style in the art of milk supply under the given constrain. He is totally immersed under the canopy of his world beyond which nothing else matters. Under such a situation for survival, perhaps the theory of dividing his milk into three categories for him became more of an act of sheer survival.

His plights had taught me about the multi-facets challenges that one face every day. I have develop a sense of profound sympathy for him, however my Milkman’s story somehow provokes me to think about the standard yardstick that we apply in our day to day performance while feeding our families.

Tali Longkumer (IAS rtd)

Cultural Identity: Folklore and its Preservation

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ust as Time and Tide waits for Here, I want to make three quick any hunch of the facial/physino one, society is transform- points. cal made-up of the characters ing rapidly. New technology 1. Folk Stories are often given in our Folk Stories? Indeed, not is unveiling everyday, are we “Lesser Grandeur” compared one have even seen it themkeeping up? For generations, our to others forms (dance/songs). selves. Still, wont it be bencustoms, traditions and way of life Most of the time, it is kept indoor. eficial to come to conclusion are passed on verbally and through Hundred times I have come through any “Best Means?” imitation. It is channelize by older across “TraditionalDance” but, 3. A “win-win” situation for all. generation to the growing feeble “Never Once” have I come across Those persons who are seasoned generation. But, with Television and “Story Narration” contest. Now is in Computer Animation might Computer around, most of the Chilit, we give equal time, platform want to take it up as a Cultural dren’s spare time is spent on elecand research to document our Project. It will serve dual purtronic gadgets. There certainly is a Folk Stories. pose, “Polishing artistic Skills” growing “Gap” in this communica- 2. Proud to have unique Folk and more importantly “Feeding tion loop now. The previous means Stories. Have we given any youngsters with our Own Idenof “transfer” is turning obsolete. thoughts on it? Do we have tity.” And one never knows, it

might even turn out a fortune.

Finally, thanks to the unflagging efforts of the Govt of Nagaland in bringing the “Hornbill Festival” to the forefront. It will attract many Dignitaries and Visitors both Indian and Foreign. At this time, if the Festival Organisers can accommodate a “Folk Story Narration” competition, in line with the spectacular “Hornbill Rock Fest.” It will spark a whole new Fervor and Excitement to the now stagnant phase.

Philip Malangmei, Tening Town, Nagaland

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Tackling the IBI Issue practically

Meg Iralu Meyasetsu: I stay in Chumukedima and after staying here for more than five months I have known a lot about the scenario about 'IBI’s' in Chumu and Dimapur. At first I did have pity on them but somehow slowly I am getting allergic to them because of their opportunistic ways, their culture and their artificial ways of concern. At present Chumukedima is developing fast and the land rates are shooting up with customer demands and I know that one day it will outrun Dimapur city because the availability of water is an advantage.

The fact is that the concentration of IBI’s is getting quite high here beating Dimapur town. I hope the tough guys are listening! Now there are problems I have faced so I decided to act and thus compel me to write! When my sister's car tyre was stolen by our servant and sold it to one miya I went there to retrieve it by paying back but instead got into duel with the so called undergrounds, the fact they harboured the miyas.

Another day when I slapped a miya in his shop for speaking rudely to me and on my way back someone inform me that miya had complain to his landlord so I went there again where hundreds of them are gathered. Thanks that landlords were supportive but in many cases it turns ugly where enmity is created among Nagas because of them. No IBI will work in paddyfield if the share of grains are not equal with the owner and that is not fair! And if they are paid to work for the job they won’t care much but they will if its shared equally. I love travelling in tempo(auto) from Chumu to Dimapur because it is cheap and natural airconditioner and I don’t know how many time I have slapped non-locals who watch Naga ladies with lust, damnit ! They just turn around and look on and again or keep looking and I would appreciate if any Naga youth teach them a lesson if u find one.

I feel the only way to keep these IBI’s under control is to create fear psychosis and teach them to respect us and deal with them formally purely out for business. All culprits even in small things should case file an FIR and send him back immediately to his village so he can’t come back due to his record and the public at least bear the cost of sending him away. Total kicking out of IBI’s in Nagaland is impossible but i feel there should be a court where if there is any disputes arises between a Naga and IBI, the IBI be terminated from the state and that is fair and the minority rights of Nagas is protected.

I am not physically a strong guy also I cannot do heavy work but as a mere citizen I will do what I can for the good of public and what I can do is that I am not going to employ IBI’s if I am a businessman or give them rent or harbour them when they are under attack nor going to take their advice when I am constructing or building something of my own! I can still say a lot and I don’t mind my grammar and I will be glad to be a part of any activity where small or great alike share and help each other tackling a major problem like the IBI problem which can actually erase the face of Nagas in the future.

A G Kip Panmei: I have already started checking their ILP in my area(Chumukedima). I don’t need someone authority to check that.

Di Katiry: These phenomena of the local siding with the IBI is happening everywhere in Nagaland. And I see that some of those who were/are protecting those IBI are acting so holy holy in many popular Naga blogs preaching to others how we should deal with them. They are the biggest Hypocrites.

The so called educated class of the Naga society are the one harboring and protecting these IBI. May God bless these "dadas."

Mhabeni Ezung: My blood boils when I shop in Dimapur, the way they talk back. Well even in Delhi I don't face such problems. I don't know why I feel alienated in my own land when I raise this issue. None around me supports me. Wake Up Nagas!! Do business deligently even if it is a small one, it doesnt matter. Don’t hate them but we have to be united and those Nagas doing businesses should be hardworking n competitive in a healthy way.

Shanchothung Kithan: My opinion on this issue is ,in addition to youth uprising, the state administration must with immediate effect start cancelling their ILP and stop renewal of their ILP’s or any other documents that guarantees those leeches business rights. The police department also needs to stop their love for balm greasing and resume their duties responsibly.

Latzan Kamei: Each Naga village should maintain a register to record the "illegal" activities of miyas staying or working in and around their village. If a miya commit three counts of "illegality", they should be kicked out or banned from that locality.

This way of "traditional naga village system" can also avoid unnecessary shout of discrimination by secular people or political party or organisations. It is high time we use our own village system or customs to tackle the loopholes of state law in such sensitive cases

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Saturday 15 November 2014

Two militants, civilian killed in Kashmir

sriNAgAr, NovEmbEr 14 (iANs): Two separatist guerrillas and a civilian were killed in Jammu and Kashmir in overnight violence that erupted again Friday, police said. A soldier was said to be in critical condition in firing that also injured another soldier and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper.

The death of the 26-year-old civilian, identified as Tariq Ahmad Bhat who succumbed to his injuries, sparked frenzied protests Friday. Police, soldiers and the CRPF launched a cordon and search operation in Chenigam village Thursday evening after coming to know about the presence of armed militants.

The security forces were fired upon by militants, triggering a gun battle that left two rebels dead. An unspecified quantity of arms and ammunition were seized from the site. A senior police officer told IANS that the renewed violence Friday broke out when a section of the people tried to snatch the bodies of the militants from the security personnel.

“There was more firing this morning in which two soldires, a CRPF trooper and a civilian were injured,” he said. It wasn’t clear who fired at the security personnel. The civilian later succumbed to his injuries.

Govt misleading people on resolving WTO impasse: Cong

NEW DElhi, NovEmbEr 14 (iANs): The Congress Friday accused the Modi government of concealing the truth and said its claim of having reached an agreement with the US on resolving the impasse in WTO was a “deliberate attempt to mislead the people”.

Congress deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma said in a statement that the BJP-led government was resorting to “one-upmanship” and the issue of public stockholding for food security was actually forced by India at the Bali ministerial meet and it had been secured and protected. “The Commerce Minister’s statement attributing that the agreement reached at Bali ministerial meeting was temporary peace clause is factually incorrect and political dishonesty,” Sharma said.

He said it was India’s strong and uncompromising stance that forced the issue of procurement of foodgrains for public stock holding on the Bali WTO agenda despite stiff opposition from the US, the European Union and other developed countries. “India fought tenaciously and succeeded in putting together a global coalition of developing countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. That forced the developed countries to cede ground, and agree to negotiate a permanent solution to change the dated WTO rules,” he said.

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After US-China climate deal, focus on India to follow suit

NEW DElhi, NovEmbEr 14 (rEutErs): After this week’s carbon deal between the United States and China, No. 3 emitter India faces growing pressure to devise a clear strategy and step out of China’s shadow during pivotal global climate talks.

India has given no sign what kind of commitment it will make to address climate change in a global agreement. Officials previously stressed that India would likely opt to slow emissions growth rather than set a peak year on the grounds it is entitled to economic growth.

That position might no longer be tenable after China - often India’s ally in resisting specific pledges at talks to reach a global accord - said this week its carbon emissions would peak by no later than 2030. President Barack Obama deepened U.S. cuts to 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, a goal it should be on track to meet with proposed new rules on power plant emissions.

India’s new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has already set renewable energy targets for the country, including using solar energy to ensure full energy access by 2019, but analysts and experts are expecting more definitive commitments.

The U.S.-China deal “frees up India to say what it believes is an equitable stance ... now that China is saying what it plans to do,” said Alden Meyer, direc-

In this Thursday, November 13, 2014 photo, an Indian daily wage laborer works at a local coal depot on the outskirts of Cuttack, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India. This week’s China-U.S. climate agreement between the world’s top two polluters puts pressure on India, No. 3 on the list, to become more energy efficient and should encourage investment in renewable energy. (AP Photo)

tor of international policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

While Modi’s pledge to boost renewable energy is welcomed by activists, New Delhi has stressed it will mine more thermal coal to get power flowing to the third of its 1.2 billion people still without electricity.

With the U.S.-China agreement widely viewed as a modest, symbolic measure, India might take the opportunity to step out of China’s shadow during United Nations climate talks next

month in Lima, Peru.

Indian officials declined to comment on the U.S.-China deal. Privately, they say Modi’s new government is finalizing the position it will take to Lima in December.

Earlier this month, Modi recast the almost defunct Prime Minister’s council on climate change, seeking to reinvigorate the body ahead of a pivotal year for global talks.

long been ardent defenders of the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility” - the concept that the burden of emissions reductions and financial assistance on climate change for poor countries belongs to developed countries, who have a historical responsibility.

The concept has often hampered global climate negotiations, especially as some developing countries became emerging econoOut Of China’s Shadow mies.

Indian delegates have Jairam Ramesh, India’s

former environment minister and chief negotiator, believes it is time to rethink that approach.

“Differentiation is essential but is this distinction made in a completely different era over two decades back still meaningful? Simply put, it is not,” he wrote in an op-ed on Thursday.

Some experts think India can now play a more prominent role as a bridge between the United States and China and developing countries.

“India will be doing a balancing act,” said Krishnan Pallassana, India director of NGO The Climate Group.

India will likely argue that its per capita emissions are around 1.9 tonnes per person dwarfed by China with around 7.2 tonnes per person and less than half the 5 tonnes world average.

This gives Delhi plenty of room to argue that its own commitment should differ from China’s as it continues to grow its economy and justify its continued use of fossil fuels.

Local environmental groups say India’s new climate strategy needs to address its reliance on coal.

“Energy poverty is no longer a justification for coal expansion,” said Ashish Fernandes of Greenpeace India.

U.S. officials are now turning their attention to India to ensure it helps secure a final UN climate treaty, which is to be negotiated in Lima and then sealed in Paris in 2015.

John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will travel to India next week to meet officials working on climate change, while former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner was in Delhi this week chairing the U.S. India Track II Dialogue on Climate Change and Energy.

Economic ties top agenda as Modi Sterilization deaths: Police arrest two meets Cameron, EU chief, Abe brisbANE, NovEmbEr 14 (iANs): Ahead of the G20 Summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first bilateral meetings with European Union President Herman Van Rompuy and British Prime Minister David Cameron where economic cooperation was top on the agenda. He ended the day with a dinner hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Modi, who flew down here earlier in the day for the G20 Summit that begins Saturday, first visited the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) here and listened keenly to the latest developments in agricultural research, and also mingled with students and researchers.

Modi held talks with an EU delegation headed by Rompuy who conveyed that the bloc was keen to “re-engage” with India in all areas, especially trade. Modi told him that the “EU should take advantage of the new economic environment in India”.

An India-EU free trade agreement is yet to be concluded. Negotiations are still stuck on key points, including the EU’s demand for significant duty cuts in automobiles and tax cuts on wines and spirits and dairy products and also a demand for a strong intellectual property rights regime. The value of EU-India trade grew from 28.6 billion euros in 2003 to 72.7 billion euros in 2013.

Modi’s proposal of having an in-

ternational Yoga Day, which he had proposed at the UN, got further impetus with Rompuy telling him that the 28-member bloc supported his initiative for a Yoga Day. “EU supports your initiative for a Yoga Day @ UN A- EU Prez Herman Von Rompuy to PM @narendramodi,” tweeted the ministry of external affairs.

The support comes as about 130 countries have joined as co-sponsors to an India-led UN General Assembly resolution recognising yoga’s benefits. His meeting with Cameron was another highlight of his engagements at Brisbane. Cameron, who is meeting the Indian prime minister for the first time, told him that relations with India were at the “top of the priorities of UK’s foreign policy” and also “Your’s is a very inspiring vision, UK wants to partner in any way we can”, according to tweets posted by the external affairs ministry.

Though he was meeting the British prime minister for the first time, the ground for an upscale in bilateral relations was laid during the visit

by British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and later Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to India in the past few months. Britain is pushing for the European Consortium to bag the multi-billion dollar Indian deal for 126 fighter jets with its Eurofighter Typhoon in case the Modi government’s negotiations for the French Rafale jets fall through. The European Consortium comprises Britain, Ger-

many, Italy and Spain.

Modi will have bilateral meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and also Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on the sidelines of the G20. He will also meet French President Francois Hollande, who is likely to push for negotiations to clinch the multi-billion dollar deal for the Rafale, which was selected two years ago for the 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) project.

The dinner diplomacy with Abe was the high point of the day as the Japanese prime minister escorted Modi to the repast where strengthening of India-Japan economic ties and exchange of views was high on the agenda. Modi had visited Japan in August for the annual summit that saw the two leaders hit it off and both sides clinched several agreements, including in railways and infrastructure.

Japan also sees India as a friend and ally after souring of ties with China following a bitter territorial dispute with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea. Earlier, after arriving in Brisbane from Myanmar where he attended the Asean-India and East Asia Summits and met with a host of world leaders, Modi visited the QUT. He wrote “Research is the mother of development” on an agricultural robot developed by the university and also undertook a tour of a QUT-India project to develop iron-rich bananas.

bilAsPur, NovEmbEr 14 (AFP): Police said on Friday that they have arrested the head of a drug manufacturing company and his son on suspicion of destroying evidence in the case of 13 women who died after a mass sterilization programme. Police said they had taken the two men into custody on Thursday after a raid on their drugs factory in central Chhattisgarh state, where dozens more women were still in hospital after undergoing the surgery.

The deaths have triggered widespread criticism of a government-run programme that offers poor women cash incentives to get sterilized, in what activists say are often horrible conditions. Superintendent Om Prakash Pal told AFP the two men, who ran a drug-making unit in the state capital Raipur, would be questioned on “the quality of drugs they were making”.

Their arrest came a day after police detained the surgeon who performed the operations, RK Gupta, who has blamed poor-quality drugs for the deaths. A local official who spoke on condition of ano-

nymity told AFP that evidence had been burned at the arrested men’s factory.

“We conducted a raid yesterday. We found drugs had been burned in large quantities,” said the official.

“Maybe they got scared and knew that we would come calling.” Gupta operated on 83 women in just five hours on Saturday — spending

an average of less than four minutes on each patient.

He has accused the government of making him a scapegoat for the controversial sterilization scheme, which pays impoverished women 1,400 rupees ($23) to go under the knife. Although no cause of death has officially been given, authorities

speculated that the women had died of septic shock.

The state has launched a judicial enquiry, and chief minister Raman Singh said the drugs the women took were being examined.

The state government has banned five drugs used at the camp pending investigations, including an antibiotic and a pain killer.

Students of a free school run under a mass transit bridge for impoverished children look at solar lanterns donated by a US donor in New Delhi on Friday, November 14. Well-wishers from the USA donated solar lanterns and uniforms and distributed them to the students on Children’s Day marked on November 14, the birth anniversary of the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. (AP Photo)

Leaders should not have animosity for political opponents: Rajnath Respond to EC report on NRIs, NEW DElhi, NovEmbEr 14 (Pti): Home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, saying no leader should have animosity towards the political opponents and parties should not try to create a sense of fear in the minds of people.

Addressing a function organized on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, he said the country’s first prime minister had no animosity to his ideological opponents and had even invited RSS to take part in the Republic Day parade in 1963.

“We should never have ill feelings towards our political opponents. We should not create any fear psychosis in people’s mind.

We should not create any sense of fear by making unnecessary statement. We should create a sense of confidence among people. All political parties must work for that,” he said.

Later when asked to explain why he made the statement, the home minister referred to the Con-

gress vice president’s statement at a similar function on Thursday. In his speech, Rahul had said that “angry” people are nowadays running the country and had a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the “Swachhta Abhiyan”, saying “photo opportunities” are galore.

“These days, the foundation of love and brotherhood is being demolished. On the one hand houses are being painted and roads are being cleaned. Photo opportunities are happening. Snaps are being taken. On the other hand, poison is being spread. The very foundations are being weakened,” Rahul had said.

The home minister said there were many people in the country who thought that members of just one family can rule the country but the greatness of Indian democracy has proved that even a tea seller can become the Prime Minister.

“India cannot be ruled with a narrow mind. Nehru understood this fact fully. He had no animosity towards political opponents. Nehru had faith in Indian democracy

and that this is not a democracy for the elite only. That is why even his political opponents liked him,” he said.

Singh said a few years after India attained Independence, it was Nehru who had involved the RSS in a food campaign notwithstanding RSS’s strong reservation on many of his policies. Recalling a recent meeting with the Prime Minister, Singh said it was Modi who told him that the NDA government must take all steps for celebration of Nehru’s birth anniversary.

“When suddenly one day, the Prime Minister told me that we must celebrate Nehru’s birth anniversary, I was taken aback. I said it is a very good idea and we must go ahead,” he said. The home minister said there might be difference of opinion and ideology but no one can ever think or dare to question Nehru’s intention to work for the welfare of the country, for betterment of India.

“We did not support Nehru’s Kashmir policy. Many people did not support his policy on China.

But no one can deny his significant contribution to nation building,” he said. Describing the country’s first Prime Minister as a national leader, Singh said Nehru did a lot for improving country’s economy as immediately after Independence, the economy was in bad shape.

“There was poverty and unemployment but he gave new direction to the economy and improved it,” he said. Singh said Nehru understood the limitations of other ideologies. “It is because of his understanding of different ideologies that he thought that mixed economy would be best suited for India,” he said.

The home minister said Nehru had promoted research in science and technology and also believed that India can give leadership in international affairs. “At that time, the world was divided between two camps -- America and Russia. It was Nehru who had laid the foundation of the Non Aligned Movement,” he said. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge was also present on the occasion.

Supreme Court to government

NEW DElhi, NovEmbEr 14 (iANs): The Supreme Court Friday asked the government to consider and respond on the report of the committee set up by the Election Commission that has recommended electronic voting or proxy voting by NRIs staying overseas.

An apex court bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice A.K. Sikri asked Additional Solicitor General L. Nageswara Rao to take instructions from the central government and revert in four weeks. At the outset of the hearing, the court was told there was a favourable report; a ballot can be sent by e-mail. The court described it as an excellent development.

Rao told the court that the government may be given time to consider

the report and place its views before the court. A 12-member committee set up by the Election Commission has recommended that NRIs staying overseas could be permitted to cast their vote electronically or by proxy. These recommendations were given by the Committee for Exploring Feasibility of Alternative Options for Voting

by Overseas Electors.

The committee, however, rejected the feasibility of NRIs exercising their franchise at the diplomatic missions. The Committee also did not favour internet voting till appropriate technology/IT applications is available and all other vulnerabilities are addressed.

The Committee in its recommendations has said that e-postal ballot where blank postal ballot is trans-

ferred electronically to NRI and same is returned by post by the NRI can be considered. The Committee recommended that the option of voting through proxy appointed by the overseas elector can be considered.

The committee was set up in the wake of the petition filed by the NRI Nagender Chindam, Naresh Kumar Hanchate and Shamsheer V.P. seeking right to exercise the franchise from wherever they are staying abroad. However senior counsel Meenakshi Arora told the court that for the recommendations to be implemented, amendments will have to be made in the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 that deal with the issues

9 InternatIonal Over 400 Barack Obama oozes cancer-causing Ukraine, Russia take centre stage at G20 Saturday

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support for Suu Kyi

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, embraces and kisses Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a news conference at her home in Yangon, Myanmar on November 14. (AP Photo)

YANGON, NOVEMBER 14 (AP): President Barack Obama mounted a warm show of support Friday for Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, voicing opposition to a constitutional rule that’s keeping the pro-democracy icon off next year’s ballot.

While crediting Myanmar for progress in its transition to democracy, he offered a blunt assessment of the distressing shortcomings that have called that transition into question.

In his joint appearance with Suu Kyi, on the back porch of her lakeside home in Yangon, Obama stopped short of an explicit endorsement for her potential campaign for president.

But his affection and deep admiration for Suu Kyi was clear, from his praise for her efforts to liberalize the government to the ease with which he whispered in her ear as they walked arm in arm into the home where she was once confined as a political prisoner.

Although Obama was quick to caution he didn’t want to dictate how Myanmar should pick its next president, he said told President Thein Sein the night before that he saw little wisdom in a rule barring the 69-year-old Suu Kyi from running next year because her children hold British citizenship.

“I don’t understand a provision that would bar somebody from running for president because of who their children are,” Obama said. “That doesn’t make much sense to me.”

Suu Kyi, a member of Parliament demure in her support for changing that provision, said it was flattering to have a constitution written with her in mind.

But she said that wasn’t how it should be done in a democracy, urging supporters not to get too caught up in whether she wins next year’s pivotal elections. “Of course any party wants to win the elections — I’m sure the president will tell you

North Korea to send special envoy to Russia SEOUL, NOVEMBER 14 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will send a special envoy to Russia next week, both countries announced Friday, in a trip expected to focus on how to boost ties at a time when his country faces deepening diplomatic isolation.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Choe Ryong Hae will visit Russia soon, but didn’t specify the dates or the exact purpose of the trip. Russia’s Foreign Ministry later said Choe would visit Nov. 17-24.

The ministry said in a statement that Russia hopes to discuss trade and economic ties, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia, and other international issues.

It said Choe will visit Moscow as well as Khabarovsk and Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East. Choe, a senior Workers’ Party official, is considered as one of Kim’s close associates. He visited Beijing last year as a special envoy and told Chinese President Xi Jinping that North Korea would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks.

Russia and North Korea maintain cordial ties, but are not as close as they were during Soviet times, when Moscow provided significant aid and support to Pyongyang.

For North Korea, better ties with Russia could provide a much-needed economic boost because its

ties with China — its longtime ally and main aid provider — are not as strong as they once were. China was angered when North Korea ramped up tensions last year with its third nuclear test and threats of nuclear strikes against Seoul and Washington. China has supported a tightening of U.N. sanctions and cracked down on North Korean banking activities.

Russia, for its part, has been seeking to bolster ties with North Korea amid a longtime effort to strengthen its role in Asia.

“Russia could be looking to increase its influence in the Far East as its relations with Western nations have taken a turn for the worse due to the situation in Ukraine,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University.

Choe’s trip also appears aimed at easing North Korea’s diplomatic isolation, said analyst Cheong Seong-chang at the private Sejong Institute. He noted this week’s announcement of a free-trade agreement between rival South Korea and China. The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee is expected to vote next week on a resolution on North Korea’s rights record drafted by the European Union and Japan.

North Korea has been pursuing improved ties with South Korea and the U.S. in what analysts say is an attempt to attract aid.

that,” she said with a grin.

What’s more important, she said, is how you win.

“I’d rather lose than win in the wrong way.”

Obama and Suu Kyi took questions from reporters on the final day of Obama’s visit to Myanmar, an impoverished country struggling to reinvent itself. Obama is heavily invested in Myanmar’s progress, having made a historic trip here two years ago to signal a strong U.S. commitment to democratization in the country and the broader region.

On this visit, prompted by economic summits in the capital city of Naypyitaw, Obama faced profound concerns by Myanmar’s citizens that its transition to democracy is backsliding. At a town hall meeting Friday with young Southeast Asians — itself a rarity in a country ruled by its military for half a century — Obama told an ebullient crowd their generation has more potential than any before to shape

Myanmar’s society.

“The future of this region — your region — is not going to be dictated by dictator or by armies,” Obama said.

“It’s going to be determined by entrepreneurs and inventors and dreamers.”

Left unaddressed by Obama during his two days in Myanmar was growing skepticism about whether Suu Kyi, his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is willing to fight as vigorously for human rights and tolerance as she is for democratic reforms. The U.S. has deep concerns about the abuse of Rohingya Muslims, a minority group deeply disdained by most in the majority-Buddhist country, but Suu Kyi has resisted calls to speak out on their behalf.

Asked by an American journalist about the plight of the Rohingya, Suu Kyi wouldn’t even say their name. That’s a position shared by Myanmar’s government, which deems the roughly 1.3 million Rohingya to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh and says the Rohingya ethnicity does not exist. “If you ask how do we propose to resolve all these problems of violence between communities, between ethnic groups, we’ve got to start with rule of law,” Suu Kyi said, speaking in general terms. “People who feel threatened are not going to sit down and sort out their problems.”

Obama, for his part, did use the term “Rohingya” and said discrimination against them wasn’t consistent with the kind of country Myanmar wants to become. “Ultimately that is destabilizing to a democracy,” he said.

Notably, Obama chose to hold his news conference in Myanmar with Suu Kyi instead of with Thein Sein, the face of Myanmar’s mixed evolution away from autocratic rule.

Sitting down with Thein Sein the evening before in his opulent, moat-enclosed palace, Obama credited his leadership for putting Myanmar on a democratic path, even as he pressed him on the Rohingya and on his slow walk on political reforms. “We recognize that change is hard and it doesn’t always move in a straight line,” Obama said.

‘hidden’ faults detected in DNA

LONdON, NOVEMBER 14 (IANS): British scientists have discovered more than 400 “blind spots” in DNA which could hide cancer-causing gene faults.

The team from Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute found hidden faults in areas that are tricky for gene-reading technology to decode. This could be a step towards developing tests to spot cancers earlier or provide new tactics for discovering future cancer treatments.

“By delving deeper into cancer’s genetic origins we can spot the ways the disease is triggered and develops. This could help us to tackle it from the root, giving more cancer patients a chance at surviving the disease,” explained Nell Barrie, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK. For the study, the team compared two giant gene databases made from cancer cells grown in labs and cross-checked all the genes that are known or are likely to be - involved in cancer to unearth the problem areas. They found that the 400 blind spots in the genes were hidden in very repetitive DNA areas which cause the genereading technology to stutter. This problem reading the genes could conceal mistakes which might play a vital role in cancer.

“The next step in our work will be to find a way to open up these areas to help piece together the full story,” lead researcher Andrew Hudson added. The work was published in the journal Cancer Research.

BRISBANE, NOVEMBER 14 (REUTERS): A showdown between Western leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely at the G20 summit in Australia starting on Saturday, following fresh reports of Russian troops pouring into eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine has accused Russia of sending soldiers and weapons to help separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine launch a new offensive in a conflict that has killed more than 4,000 people. British Prime Minister David Cameron blasted Russia’s actions as unacceptable on Friday, warning that they could draw greater sanctions from the United States and the European Union.

“If Russia takes a positive approach towards Ukraine’s freedom and responsibility, we could see those sanctions removed, if Russia continues to make matters worse then we could see those sanctions increased, it’s as simple as that,” Cameron told reporters in Canberra.

Russia denies sending troops and tanks into Ukraine. But increasing violence, truce violations and reports of unmarked armed convoys travelling from the direction of the Russian border have aroused fears that a shaky Sept. 5 truce could collapse.

In an interview with Russian state news agency TASS, Putin said the sanctions harmed Russia, but also the global economy.

He said he would not bring up the issue at G20 as “it’ll make no sense”.

[ID:nL6N0T415K] He was not asked about Ukraine in the interview.

The G20 leaders summit in Brisbane is focused on boosting world growth, fireproofing the global banking system and closing tax loopholes for giant multinationals.

But with much of the economic agenda agreed

and a climate change deal signed last week in Beijing between the United States and China, security concerns are moving to centrestage.[ID:nL3N0T17FC] Ukraine has not been a top focus during a pair of summits in Asia this week, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said, although President Barack Obama did raise it briefly with Putin when both attended the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in China.

Obama arrives in Brisbane on Saturday and will be discussing his frustration over Ukraine with a key bloc including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Cameron.

“They’ve been key towards sending a shared message to the Russians and the Ukrainian government,” Rhodes told reporters. “So it will be an opportunity for him to check in with them.”

CONSENSUS TO ALLOW PUTIN There had been some calls in Australia to block Putin from attending the summit given Russia’s actions in Ukraine and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by Russian-backed rebels, but the overwhelming consensus was against it.

News reports that a convoy of Russian warships had arrived earlier this week in international waters north of Brisbane also created a flutter.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it was unusual but not unprecedented for the Russian navy to be so far south.

“Let’s not forget that Russia has been much more militarily assertive in recent times,” he said on Thursday. “We’re seeing, regrettably, a great deal of Russian assertiveness right now in Ukraine.”

“Russia would be so much more attractive if

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it was aspiring to be a superpower for peace and freedom and prosperity, instead of trying to recreate the lost glories of Tsarism or the old Soviet Union,” Abbot said on Friday.

Merkel, speaking to reporters in Auckland, played down any threat posed by the warships but joined the leaders speaking out against Putin ahead of his arrival in Brisbane on Friday evening.

“What is concerning me quite more is that the territorial integrity of Ukraine is being violated and that the agreement of Minsk is not followed,” she said, referring to the truce accord.

As host, Australia will continue pushing its growth agenda despite growing security tensions.

“The focus of this G20 will be on growth and jobs,” Abbott said at a press conference with Cameron.

Canberra is pushing for an increase in global growth targets of 2 percent by 2018 to create millions of jobs and that goal appears on track. Over 1,000 policy initiatives proposed by G20 nations should add around 2.1 percent, the head of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said. [nL3N0T35GO] Taxation arrangements of global companies such as Google Inc (GOOG.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) have become a hot political topic following media and parliamentary investigations into how many companies reduce their tax bills.

The OECD has unveiled a series of measures that could stop companies from employing many commonly used practices to shift profits into lowtax centres. Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey said Australia had won U.S. cooperation to launch an “aggressive crackdown” on tax avoidance.

How liver can improve diabetes management LONdON, NOVEMBER 14 (IANS): Finding a way to stimulate glucose accumulation in the liver could help manage diabetes and obesity, shows a new research, paving the way for new therapies to fight these increasingly common disorders. The liver stores excess glucose, sugar, in the form of glycogen - chains of glucose - which is later released to cover body energy requirements.

Diabetic patients do not accumulate glucose

well in the liver and this is one of the reasons why they suffer from hyperglycemia, that is to say, their blood sugar levels are too high. “We have to find treatments to increase hepatic glucose because of its positive effect in diabetes and obesity,” said Joan Guinovart, head of the study from Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) in Spain.

“It is interesting to observe that what happens in the liver has direct ef-

fects on appetite. Here we reveal what occurs at the molecular level,” Guinovart explained. The researchers questioned why mice that accumulated most glycogen in the liver did not gain weight in spite of having access to an appetising diet.

In addition to observing that these animals ate less, the scientists found that the brains of these animals showed scarce appetite-stimulating molecules but rather many appetite-suppressing ones.

The key to the liver-brain link is ATP, the molecule used by all living organisms to provide cells with energy and which is commonly altered in diabetes and obesity, the researchers found. November 14 is World Diabetes Day. The World Health Organisation estimates that 382 million people worldwide currently live with diabetes and for 2035 it forecasts that one in every 10 people will have this disease. The study appeared in the journal Diabetes.

Health woes in Nepal village known for organ sales HOKSHE, NOVEMBER 14 (AP): Under crushing financial strain, Kumar Budathoki sold one of his kidneys to organ traffickers for $5,000, a sum he hoped would help set him up for a lifetime free of money problems.

Instead, he got a lifetime of health problems — and only a fraction of the money promised to him by a shady broker in Hokshe, a village of tiny farms and mud huts that has been the center of the illegal organ trade in Nepal for more than a decade.

Only about 4,000 people live here, yet at least 121 of them have sold their kidneys, said Krishna Pyari Nakarmi, who has been leading the campaign against the kidney trade in Hokshe.

Those are only the cases she has been able to document, and she believes the number could be much higher.

The scars are easily hidden under a shirt, and many villagers have moved away — possibly after going through the surgery. Despite a recent clampdown on the trade, authorities warn that the promise of easy money could easily erase any gains made against the organ traffickers. And villagers who already sold their kidneys continue to suffer the health consequences.

“I sold my kidney because I wanted to buy some land to give my family a good life,” said Budathoki, 37, outside the two-story mud home where he lives with his mother, his wife and two teenage children.

In this Thursday, Nov. 7 photo, Jit Bahadur Rai and his wife collect donations for the treatment of their son whose kidneys have failed, on a street in Katmandu, Nepal.

There are thousands of kidney patients in India, and even Nepal, who are ready to offer big money for organs, threatening the progress of campaigning by social workers to curb organ trafficking. (AP Photo)

“But now I have no job, deteriorating health and no future for my family,” he said. The black market for human organs is believed to be flourishing around the world, with kidneys the most commonly trafficked organs because they can be harvested from live donors.

In Hokshe, traffickers have operated with surprising impunity. Nearly every resident seems to know someone who sold a kidney on the black market.

Dr. Rishi Kumar Kafle of the National Kidney Center in Katmandu said while there is illegal organ trafficking elsewhere in Nepal, he knows of no place where it has been as pervasive as it is in Hokshe. The reasons are unclear: It’s not the poorest area of Nepal, nor is it particularly convenient

to medical facilities able to conduct transplants.

For more than a decade, traffickers openly stalked the village, high in the mountains outside Kathmandu, scouting for farmers and poor laborers to lure or dupe into giving up kidneys. Many residents are illiterate and were all too willing to go under the knife. Over the years, the village earned the nickname “the kidney bank.”

The donors, promised hundreds or even thousands of dollars in a country where per capita income is only $700, would then cross the border into India for the surgery, with their organs destined for wealthy patients there.

Health complications seen in the village include leg pain, fatigue, high blood

pressure and urinary problems. Even though a person can live normally with only one kidney, doctors say patients must look after their health carefully, follow a nutritious diet and drink alcohol only in moderation.

Many of the donors interviewed by The Associated Press in Hokshe said they could not afford enough healthy food if their crops fail. Others acknowledged drinking heavily or were clearly intoxicated during interviews. Many said they refuse to go see doctors because they are afraid authorities might find out that they have sold a kidney illegally, though only traffickers have been prosecuted so far.

Budathoki gave up his kidney nearly 15 years ago.

He said the broker down-

played the risks of the surgery. “The broker told me that I had two kidneys and I only needed one, the other one was a spare that was useless for me. Until then I didn’t even know what kidney was and why or how many I needed,” he said.

Once he got to India, Budathoki could not understand the doctors because they spoke to him in Tamil and Hindi. He speaks only Nepali. “I never understood what the doctors and people in India were talking about so all I did was nod and sign papers,” Budathoki said. The donors traveled to India because transplants generally were impossible in Nepal.

Until 2008 the surgery was illegal; after that, only close relatives were allowed to donate, and even they had to pass through strict government screening.

Budathoki said the kidney broker promised to pay him $5,000 but only handed over $1,000.

“I was promised I would get the full amount after the surgery,” he said. “But I was already escorted back (to Nepal) before I could heal properly. I was too weak to argue or fight back and never saw the broker again.”

Budathoki is now unable to work long hours, carry heavy things or walk for very long. Even now, he said, the incision where a doctor removed the kidney still hurts. Budathoki’s wife and younger brother are suffering, too. They sold kidneys after he did, but before the extent of his health problems became apparent. His

wife, Sabitri Ranabhat, is too weak to do farm work and now sells guava by the roadside. His younger brother, Kancha Budathoki, became unable to provide for his wife and daughter, and turned to alcohol after they left.

Budathoki’s neighbor, Mohan Sapkota, who also sold his kidney, travels nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) to the capital, Kathmandu, every month to see a specialist for his legs, which constantly ache since he gave up a kidney in 1997. “The doctor who examined me saw the kidney scar and scolded me,” he said. “He thinks all the pain is somehow related to my kidney surgery.”

Years of campaigning by social workers, along with more recent monitoring by police, have curbed trafficking significantly.

Kedar Neupane, chief government administrator of Kavre district, said there have been no cases of kidney sales in 18 months.

Volunteers trek the web of foot trails in Hokshe, going door to door, talking to the residents about the risks of selling kidneys.

It is dangerous work.

One volunteer, who asked to be identified by only one name, Radha, said traffickers threated to kill her and throw her body in a river if she continued to interfere with business. Police arrested 10 traffickers last year.

Three of them — including Prem Bajgai, considered the kingpin of the trade, are in jail. The others are out on bail and awaiting trial.

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The Morung Express LOCAL NBC Sechü Zubza celebrate 25 years anniversary

Saturday 15 November 2014

Kohima, November 14 (mexN): Nepali Baptist Church Sechü Zubza observed its 25th anniversary celebration from November 11 to 12, with the theme “Walking in the path of righteousness.”

The two-day celebration began on November 11 evening at the Church premises with the dedication of the jubilee monolith by Rudra Ramauli, executive secAHT Mokokchung (Changtongya) members picketed SDEO office at the entrance Wednes- retary, Association of the Gorkha Baptist Churches day from 9:00 a.m till 4:00 p.m demanding immediate release of pending salaries.

Nagaland (AGBCN).

The speakers of the celebration were Rev. Dr. Dhanbir Rai, lecturer, Clark Theological College (CTC), Mokokchung, Dr. V. Atsi Dolie, executive director, Angami Baptist Church Council and Dr. Sanyü Iralu, principal, Shalom Bible Seminary, Sechü Zubza.

Speaking on the theme at the morning service on November 12, Rev. Dr. Dhanbir Rai, preached the congregation about God’s

Students of Balijan Hindi English School, Bokajan display their winning awards, begged during the school annual sports meet held from October 16 to 19. The school also observed 125th birth anniversary of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru marked with speech, songs, folklore and prize distribution of annual sports meet on November 14.

NBC Sechü Zubza jubilee choir presenting a song during the 25th anniversary celebration on November 12.

unfailing love on human kind. He called the congregation to rededicate themselves to God with this jubilee and further to build a strong covenant with God. He also lauded the efforts and sacrifices of the pioneers and also congratulated all the members of NBC Sechü Zubza for having come this far and conveyed his hope that t the Church will continue to

Special Summary Revision meeting in Mokokchung held

moKoKchuNg, November 14 (DiPr): Commissioner & Secretary and Observer Election Commissioner of India, Neihu C. Thur, held a meeting with E/Roll observer, political parties and District Administration in connection with Special Summary Revision at DC’s office chamber, Mokokchung on November 13.

Speaking at the meeting, Commissioner & Secretary said that the mission is to have clean and accurate Electoral Roll thereby logically the election in the state would be smooth and peaceful and to the satisfaction of every citizen. He further said that all concern must focus on detecting those votes who On November 14, Teachers mesmerize the students by their unique jolly performances as are no more and those voters who are transthe commemorate Children’s Day depicting their tender care and love for the students. Seen ferred (shifted voters and delete multiple enin picture are some of the Patkai Hr. Sec. School teachers performing a melodious song "I tries, under age electors who are enrolled by want to break free". (Photo Courtesy/Heutinggumbe) mistake or by deliberate intent. The observer maintained that most importantly officials must made aware and provide every possible opportunities to those people who have attend 18 years of age to make themselves enrolled in the Electoral Roll.

serve for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Rajen Thapa, pastor NBC Sechü Zubza, chaired the worship service while Atuo Mezhür, managing director of Mezhür Higher secondary School, Kohima, who is also a well wisher of the church, delivered greetings and former NBC pastor Amar Subbha gave a short speech. Special songs were presented by Sechü

Zubza Baptist Church youth department, Shalom Bible Seminary students, Bina & friends and NBC jubilee choir.

Other highlights included invocation by Toulie Sechü, pastor, Sechüma Baptist Church, offertory prayer by Bikram Chetri, pastor Gorkha Baptist Church, Mon and benediction by Santabir Rai, church & mission secretary AGBCN. The

jubilee souvenir was released by Khriengulie Kuotsu, pastor, Sechü Zubza Baptist Church on November 11 during the inaugural service.

Mention be made that the new church of NBC Sechü Zubza was dedicated to the Lord on November 9, just two days before the 25th anniversary celebration, by Rev Moa Logchari, senior pastor, Baptist Mission Church, Kohima.

KVK Longleng conducts input distribution prog

LoNgLeNg, November 14 (mexN): Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Longleng, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region Nagaland Centre, Jharnapani, Nagaland conducted “input distribution programme under Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) Project 2014-15” in collaboration with SHGs federation, Longleng on October 29 at Tamlu Town, Tamlu Village and Kanching village under Tamlu block of Longleng district.

The main object of the programme was to popularize the Vanaraja poultry for livelihood development and Farm Mechanization for drudgery reduction. During inaugural session, Dr. Manoj Kumar, SMS (Agronomy) and Programme Coordinator (in-charge) KVK, Longleng delivered the welcome address and explained about the benefit of Vanaraja poultry cultivation for livelihood development. Discussing the overview and objective of the programme, Er P Chowdhury, SMS (SWCE) stressed on the farm mechanization for drudgery reduction in hill agriculture and explained about the utility of farm implement like Adjustable Row Marker, Wheel Hoe and Maize Sheller (with and without stand). The lead speaker, Tokoi Sema, EAC, Tamlu block feels that farmers of Tamlu block are reluctant about agriculture and they

must take interest in KVK extended technology for their livelihood and expressed his concern about the marketing shed problem of the block.

Total 2000nos. of Vanaraja chicks, 2nos of Maize Sheller, 1no of Adjustable Row Marker, 1no of Wheel Hoe and 50 packets of Mushroom Spawn were distributed to the different SHGs under SHG Federation of Longleng. Altogether 150 nos. of woman farmers from 40nos. Poultry rearing SHG and 10nos. Mushroom growing SHG from Tamlu Town, Tamlu village and Kankching Village were participated in the programme. At the end of the session, Dr. Manoj Kumar explained about the aims and objective of Protection of Plant Varieties & Farmers Right Authority Acts-2001(PPV & FRA) and distributed a folder (translated in Phom Language) related to PPV & FRA were also been distributed.

Shonglen Phom, General Secretary, SHG Federation of Longleng concluded the session with a vote of thanks. The main facilitators of the input distribution programme were Dr. B.C. Deka, Joint Director, Dr. M. K. Patra, Scientist (Animal Production) and Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Scientist (Agronomy) and Nodal Officer (TSP), ICAR Research Complex, Jharnapani.

Nagaland grants allowance to state govt employees

Dearness Pay. ees who are covered under the New Pension Kohima, November 14 (DiPr):The GovScheme (NPS). ernment of Nagaland has granted Dearness Al- (vi) Additional Dearness Allowance for employees drawing pay under ROP Rules, 1993: 3. All heads of offices/DDOs are hereby instructlowance/Additional Dearness Allowance with ed to carefully scrutinize all arrears DA/ADA effect from 01.01.2014 and 01.07.2014 to the State Increase of 33% w.e.f., 01.07.2014 from the exThe Western Sumi Baptist Church Association (WSBAK) Women Department held its 40th Government employees at the following revised isting rate of 682% to 715% of pay. bills to ensure that NO CASH PAYMENTS are women conference at Phuhoto Village Baptist Church on November 8 and 9 with the theme, rates and subject to the following conditions: allowed except in respect of those who have al‘God’s Instrument.’ Easter H Shohe, Secretary, Women Department inaugurated the pro1. The provisions contained in paras 1, 2, 3, 4, ready retired or died or are due to RETIRE ON gramme and gave an introductory explanation of the theme that, God can use any one of 7 & 9 of the Finance Department’s O.M. No SUPERANNUATION on or before 30.4.2015.

1st INSTALMENT W.E.F., 01.01.2014: us as His instrument to accomplish His will. The conference speakers Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu, FIN/ROP/4/84(Vol-I) Dated 1st November All such bills must be certified to that effect by Executive Secretary WSBAK and Niholi H. Shohe, Field Secretary NSBAK Aqakito delivered (i) Dearness Allowance for employees drawing 2011 shall continue to be applicable while the head of office/DDO concerned. In case of pay under ROP Rules, 2010: their message based on the conference theme. Jacob Zhimomi, Parliamentary Secretary, regulating Dearness Allowance/Additional Government servants due to retire on superIncrease of 10% w.e.f., 01.01.2014 from the exJustice & Law and Ilika SDO (Civil) Mon Town gave “words of exhortation”.

Dearness Allowance under these orders. annuation, the exact date of retirement shall isting rate of 90% to 100% of pay in the Pay2. The arrears from 01.01.2014 upto 31.10.2014 be recorded in each case. In case of gazetted Band including Grade Pay. shall be credited to the respective GPF/CPF officers claiming cash payment on account of (ii) Dearness Allowance for employees drawing accounts of the employees concerned. Cash being due for retirement on superannuation, pay under ROP Rules, 1999: payment shall be made from 1.11.2014 salcertificate to that effect indicating exact date Increase of 17% w.e.f., 01.01.2014 from the exary onwards (that is, from the salaries of Noof retirement shall be recorded on the body of isting rate of 183% to 200% of pay including vember, 2014 payable in December, 2014). the bill. The Treasury Officer shall personally Dearness Pay. No part of the arrears upto 31.10.2014 shall ensure that no cash payment of arrears in re(iii) Additional Dearness Allowance for embe paid in cash except in case of those emspect of serving gazetted officers is allowed in ployees drawing pay under ROP Rules, 1993: ployees who have already retired from serthe absence of such certificate.

Increase of 47% w.e.f., 01.01.2014 from the exvice or have died or are due to RETIRE ON 4. The amount of arrears credited to the Proviisting rate of 635% to 682% of pay.

SUPERANNUATION on or before 30.4.2015. dent Funds shall not be treated as accumuThe Government servants who have not yet lation for the purpose of temporary or Non2nd INSTALMENT W.E.F., 01.07.2014: opened Provident Fund Account can be alrefundable withdrawals till 28.02.2016. While The officials from Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima under the supervision of Dr. (iv) Dearness Allowance for employees drawlowed to draw the arrears only after the Provisanctioning temporary or Non-refundable ing pay under ROP Rules, 2010: Kevingulie Joint Director (NHAK) Nodal Officer of Longleng District, Meya Superintendent visited Longleng District for monitoring and supervision from November 10 to 13. A press Increase of 7% w.e.f., 01.07.2014 from the exdent Fund Accounts are opened so that the withdrawals from Provident Funds, the sancrelease issued by Asangla Imchen, Media Officer, CMO Office Longleng stated that Dr. Imarrears can be credited to their Provident tioning authority shall take care to EXCLUDE isting rate of 100% to 107% of pay in the Pay tiwabang Aier DPO (RCH/UIP), Dr. Thungbemo Lotha DMO and DPMU staffs, accompanied Fund Accounts. Arrears of DA/ADA may this lump sum credit till 28.02.2016. However, Band including Grade Pay. the team. The officials visited District Hospital, two PHC and eight SC. During the visit, the (v) Dearness Allowance for employees drawing have to be paid in cash in respect of those emthis condition shall not apply in case of final team inspected and verified the attendance of the staffs, equipments and services provided ployees who are not required to subscribe to withdrawal from Provident Funds in respect pay under ROP Rules, 1999: by the health units. Meetings were held with the health unit staffs and VHC. Provident Fund under the Rules applicable to of employees, who have retired, died or have Increase of 12% w.e.f., 01.07.2014 from the exthem which shall also include those employceased to be in service otherwise. isting rate of 200% to 212% of pay including

Wangshu Tangkhao village in Tobu inaugurated

moN, November 14 (DiPr): Advisor NEPED Nagaland, Naiba Konyak inaugurated Wangshu Tangkhao village on November 11 under Tobu sub-division, which was recently recognized by the State government.

Addressing the villagers, Naiba pointed out that one basic nature of human beings is they greet each other and make friendship, but later on develop animosity and fight one another. In this regard, Naiba

said that this should not be the case of a newly recognized village and urged the villagers to sow the seed of unity and friendship which would last for generations to come. He also advised the villagers to maintain close ties with their parent village and friendly relations with the neighbouring villagers. He further exhorted the villagers not to create divisions and disunity among themselves by fighting for post of village chairman, GBs or VDB

members.

ADC, Tobu, Akhup Tansing in his short speech congratulated Wangshu Tangkhao villagers for recognition of the village and welcomed them to the administrative fold. He also reminded the villagers that along with recognition and privileges come obligations and responsibilities. The ADC also told the villagers that if they desire speedy development they should follow the guidelines of the government.

Lothas celebrate Tokhu Emong at Mokokchung

moKoKchuNg, No vember 14 (mexN): A combined ‘Tokhu Emong’ celebration of Kyong Hoho Mokokchung and Lotha Hoho Alichen was held on at Electrical Rest House, Aolijen, on November 7 with Y E Ngullie, Commandant 2nd NAP Alichen as “Tokhu Chief”.

Addressing a large gathering of Lotha community from Mokokchung Town and Alichen, Y E Ngullie urged them to retrospect into the past and make cor-

rective measures for if there were some mistakes along the way. Lamenting on the decreasing trend of honour and respect for elders, he impressed upon the gathering to bestow the same to elders in order to get blessing in return. He also urged upon the community not to shy away from ones responsibilities but to be sincere and dedicate in what endeavor they pursue upon.

“Let us to learn to co-exist with different community and to be an ambassa-

dor of peace and unity with various sections of people, he exhorted the gathering.

According to a press note from secretary of the Tokhu Emong Committee, Dr. Athungo Ovung, other highlights of the celebration includes presentation of Folk songs, Special No and indigenous games followed by Grand Tokhu Feasts, where more than one thousands members and well-wishers from Mokokchung and Alichen participated.

Citizen of Wokha basked with rich culture & traditions

1st Music & indigenous games/arts fiesta held successfully

WoKha, November 14 (mexN): The first edition of the first edition of the Wokha festival of Music & indigenous games/ arts organised with the sole objective of showcasing the rich culture and traditions of the Lotha and Naga especially in the fields of entertainments and sports was conducted successfully at Wokha Town from November 4 to 5. It was also an organised as an occasion to generate a sense brotherhood among different communities and in preserving and promoting the indigenous games and arts through exhibition of the tools, local produces and wares invented by the forefathers.

Incidentally, coinciding with auspicious month of festival of Tokhu Emong and the event was saw enthusiastic response from general public and added a grand flavor to the traditional Lotha fete. The festival was organized by a local NGO-Team called Metamorphosis under the theme ‘Transcending Cultures’.

In the Inaugural function, the

chief guest Robin Lotha, DC of Wokha spoke on the importance of organizing such an important event at the time “fast disappearing” culture and tradition and lauded the team metamorphosis for its “noble thought and venture”.

Later, there were competitions on various disciplines such as spear throw, stilt bamboo race, traditional fire making, top spinning, skipping and yodeling where hundred participants came forward and participated with gusto and gaiety at the traditional games of bygone years.

One distinctive highlight of the day was the 50 participants from Pongidong Youth Forum pack their lunch in traditional style and carried the same in indigenous Naga bags. The day ended with Musical Extravaganza (for the Solo artistes) where different artists displayed their talents, mesmerizing the capacity crowd at public ground Wokha. Sulanthung Odyuo, the winner of Guitar Prodigy Nagaland was the special guest of artist of the evening.

On the second day, disciplines such as khoro karting (Naga Karting), catapult shooting, traditional cock fight, greased pole climbing competition was organised to the utmost enjoyment of the festive

crowd. The most exciting event was the khoro karting where more than 50 participants, from age group 14 to 50 years competed for the coveted title with thousands of spectators shouting with excitement at the debut of the game in Wokha.

Gracing the valedictory function, the ADC SSA Wokha, P Zubenthung Humtsoe witnessing the overwhelming response of the crowd congratulated and encouraged the organizing team to make the event an annual affair.

He also encouraged the gathering to use and speak the local dialect more efficiently and sincerely as it influences was vastly vanishing amongst the younger generations. The chief guest gave away the prizes to the winners and Winner of Voice of Wokha 2013, Tumchobeni presented a special number.

In the evening another Musical extravaganza for promoting local musicians of the district and the state featuring various bands from in and around the district was organised. A very special performance of the night was James Basnet & the Band, the recipient of IMEA’s Best Male Artist of the year & best song of the year Award 2014.

UBCA-NEI combined fellowship with jail inmates

DimaPur, November 14 (mexN): The women department of United Baptist Churches Association, North East India (UBCA-NEI) held a combined fellowship with the inmates of Sub-Jail Dimapur on November 12.

Rev. L. Hevuto Awomi, executive secretary, UBCA-NEI was the speaker of the fellowship. Speaker delivered a message based on the theme of the fellowship “wake up and listen to the call”. Vitoli Yeptho, women secretary UBCA-NEI, on behalf of the association expressed gratitude to the jail authority for allowing the association to have fellowship with the inmates.

UBCA-NEI officials also presented gift packets to the in-mates. There are more than 70 prisoners including female prisoners locked up inside SubJail Dimapur with some of the inmates serving life sentence.

Praise and worship led by an under trial prisoner, Kevi Swu touched the hearts of many who attended the jail fellowship. Playing an acoustic guitar, Kevi who did not know how to play guitar or sing songs of praise before being jailed, led the congregation with Hindi and English gospel songs. Akala Sharma, women chairman UBCA-NEI led the service, Hoyili said the invocation and Latoli read a scripture from the book of Acts.

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Meet One Direction Alobo Naga and the Band performing during the Ahuna Musical Feasta at DDSC stadium Dimapur on Friday.

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cards and saved two contestants from being eliminated. Now, altogether eight contestants will vie for the Naga Orpheus race.

The top 6 contestants who made to the finals are Albert N Hau, Limayanger, Kenei Sorhei, Marthel Jamir, Alemtemshi Imchen and Wangyat Wangsu.

Nukshijungla Jamir and Kevikhonuo Mor are the two wild card entries.

This round was purely based on the judges’ choice of song according to the calibre of each contestant.

Besides the tense atmosphere, the most endearing facet of the evening was that the contestants themselves were the backup singers whenever one of the fellow contestants sang. Yes, it was first of its kind which was carried out during a competitive round in the history of Naga Orpheus Hunt.

Especially when Wangyat Wangsu, contestant no. 11, sang Ate’s choice of song Boyzone’s No matter what, it melt the hearts of most of people in the audience and the judges too since all the contestants backed him up. Tali Angh commented that it was a “morom performance” (an endearing performance).

Meanwhile, Ate’ was the “proud mama” of the evening since most of the contestants for whom she had chosen the songs did a good job. Especially, con-

testant no.01, Albert N Hau won the hearts of the judges. He sang Gethsemane from the Broadway musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.

He not only nailed the song but his stage presence was full of energy. Ate’ was so pleased with his performance that she said she got “Goosebumps”. To which, Tali said to the audience that he is expecting Ate’s version of Jesus Christ Superstar very soon.

Some of the contestants too performed very well but their Naga Orpheus journey had to come to an end. It was an emotional moment for all the contestants since they had to part ways.

The eight contestants will be performing during the Hornbill Music Festival on December 2 and the winner will be declared on the same evening. So check your schedules and keep yourself free for you won’t regret watching these budding stars performing just for you.

The competition is based on 50% judges’ points and 50% public votes. For getting to know more of the contestants, check out our Youtube channel and also the show will be telecast on your local channels.

Moreover, the eight finalists will be performing at Mokokchung on November 17 and Tuli on November 18 as a part of the promotional tour.

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he royals came face to face with boy band royalty. Prince William and Kate Middleton made a stunning appearance for the Royal Variety Performances at the London Palladium on Thursday night, and upon their time at the event, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge finally met the boys of One Direction. Both Will and Kate flashed a giant smile as they shook hands with Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne. "I said congratulations on the bump,"

Harry said after meeting the pregnant royal, though he added that she "didn't look bumpy." The royal couple chatted with the band about their touring plans, and Prince William promising he'd been "keeping a close eye" on the young pop stars (no pressure, guys!) "It's the most nervous I think I've ever been in my life," Liam said.

Meanwhile, Tomlinson feared that he may have made a mistake when greeting Kate. "I didn't say ma'am," he said, as the royal couple made their way into

the theater. "I said—Hi. How are you? I'm Louis." Payne joked: "So he's off to a bad start." The band was due to take to the stage at the charity gala, along with Bette Midler, Ed Sheeran and the couple's wedding singer, Ellie Goulding. And, per usual, the royals looked absolutely perfect. Catherine wore a lace Diane von Furstenberg gown, which showed off her small baby bump, and her hair was pulled back in a rare but elegant updo. At her side, Prince William looked perfectly dapper in a classic black tux.

Kristen Stewart opens up about meeting Alzheimer’s patient for new film role

Taylor Swift Has No Music Heros T aylor Swift has revealed that she doesn't have any musical role models because she can't "find anyone" whose career path matches hers.

Taylor Swift doesn't have any musical role models. The 'Shake It Off' hitmaker has revealed that she has no role models in the music industry because she can't "find anyone" whose career path she has emulated. She said: "We're taught to find examples for the way we want our lives to wind up. "But I can't find anyone, really, who's had the same career trajec-

tory as mine. So when I'm in an optimistic place I hope that my life won't match anyone else's life trajectory, either, going forward." Meanwhile, the 24-year-old singer revealed that she does look up to certain females in the acting and business sectors.

She told Time magazine: "I do have female role models in the sense of actresses like Mariska Hargitay. I think she has a beautiful life, and an incredible career, and I think she's built that for herself. "She's

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one of the highest paid actresses - actors in general, women or men - on television, and she's been playing this very strong female character for, what, 15 years now, something like that.

"And Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa. I really love her business, and how she sticks to who she is, and how people relate to it."

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f you are looking for a powerful and inspiring movies to check out this weekend then make sure that you check out the documentary We Are The Giant: a movie that has been whipping up a storm on the festival circuit since it was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. We Are The Giant sees Greg Barker back in the director's chair for the first time since Manhunt. Barker is no stranger to this genre of film, with the likes of Koran By Heart and Sergio also under his belt over the years. Ordinary citizens face the same moral questions that have defined revolutionary leaders across the ages, from Jefferson to Che to Mandela. With remarkable access, the film takes its audience inside the lives of six extraordinary people who grapple with the agonizing and universal dilemmas at the heart of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight, or to advocate change through peace and non-violence.

2014 has been another terrific year for docu-

mentary movies, and We Are The Giant is one of the standout films in this genre that I have seen this year - if you are a fan of this genre of movie, this is a film that you really have to see. It is not often that the veil is lifted on brutal and oppressive regimes, but We Are The Giants is a movie that bucks that trend as Barker has collected a series of remarkable and candid interviews that paint a picture of what life is like during the Arab-Spring.

All those who feature in the movie face a brutal regime determined to crush them into submission, and each makes very different, painful choices that come to define themselves - and their struggles. This is a movie about standing up for what you believe in, fighting back, and asks whether a peaceful campaign will inevitably become violent.

We Are The Giant is one of those movie that will truly make your blood boil when you hear these stories and get a better understanding of the lives that these people are forced to live. Barker does more than

scratches the surface of these stories, he takes audiences deep into that world, getting more and more complex with each individual story that he tells. The stories are mixed with on the ground footage that is hard-hitting and unflinching as well as being incredibly moving and powerful and it is the bravery of the people who have offered up their stories that really make this movie possible and what it is. We Are The Giant is a movie that follows good people and how they can be pushed to the brink of violence and actions that they could never have envisioned as they fight for their cause and what they believe in.

We Are The Giant is a very powerful and haunting movie that is one of the best documentaries that I have seen so far this year.

This is a movie that takes us into a world that we don't understand and lifts the lid on daily struggle and what people are willing to do to bring that struggle to an end. We Are The Giant is out now.

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risten Stewart knew Julianne Moore way before they filmed their new indie drama Still Alice. "I've known her for a number of years [because] I worked with her husband [Bart Freundlich] on a movie that I did when I was really little called Catch That Kid," Stewart told me last night at the Still Alice screening at the AFI presented by Audi film festival.

She was just 10 years old when Freundlich directed her in the 2004 crime comedy co-starring future High School Musical star Corbin Bleu. In Still Alice, Stewart plays the daughter of a woman with Alzheimer's (Moore). "Everyone always says that you want to work with people that you truly have a connection with,

but it doesn't always happen," the Twilight star said.

"That's the kind of stuff that I really go after when I know that I could play her daughter because it's not a stretch. It's something that is so very much in us.

The story is powerful and sad and scary, so I was very comfortable jumping into that with her."

Moore gushed about Stewart, "I couldn't love her more. She's such a wonderful actress and she's so emotional, so full of feeling. She really has it at her fingertips, and I just love her. I love her to death." Too sweet. Preparing for the movie involved intense research. Stewart spent time with an elderly Alzheimer's patient with severe dementia. "She was

quite old, so it made sense that she wasn't fully with me," she said. "But I knew, for a second, that she had been dropped into her body, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is rare, and this is very brief.' I really held on to those few seconds, and I really appreciated it. "Cut to two seconds later, we're hanging out with her and her family, and she's trying to say something about the dinner or something, and everyone's just talking over her," Stewart continued. "I felt instantly that she has so much to offer, and she might not be able to cognitively explain how she's feeling, but she's feeling so much. I had a connection to this subject. I judged harshly people who couldn't deal."

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Kolkata play out scoreless draw against Chennai KOLKATA, NOVEMBER 14 (PTi): Atletico de Kolkata played out a goalless draw against Chennaiyin FC in a high-intensity Indian Super League fixture to maintain their top spot here on Friday.

Watched by a starry Bollywood gathering of Bachchan father-son duo and Deepika Padukone, the match had all the ingredients of an eventful contest, including a 11-minute interruption thanks to a familiar power outage at the Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan.

But a goal eluded both the teams as ATK would consider themselves unlucky after their star striker Fikru Teferra fluffing an easy chance while their marquee player and captain Luis Garcia's shot hit the crosspiece.

Even Chennaiyin FC very nearly went one-up in the 80th minute when Balwant Singh scored using a Jean-Eudes Maurice cross. But the Indian striker's deflection of his hands was quick to be spotted by referee Pratap Singh who

Luis García of Atletico de Kolkata attempts a shot at goal during the Indian Super League match against Chennaiyin FC at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata on Friday.

disallowed the goal.

Chennaiyin's star Brazilian forward Elano Blumer also had a lacklustre day, missing some

easy opportunities while his clinical freekicks too eluded him a goal. Both teams refused to play second fiddle in the top of the

table clash but it was ATK who had the best opportunity with Fikru firing it wide of the post.

In a 21st minute move,

a full charged-up ATK dished out some amazing interplay between Garcia, Nato and Fikru who found himself in front of an open

goal. But the Ethiopian let the team down firing it wide of the post in the best chance of the first-half.

If Fikru's shot broke the hearts of the 45,000odd crowd in the first-half, former Liverpool star Luis Garcia hit the crossbar after a powerful curling leftfooter on the edge of the box in the 62nd minute.

The Spaniard sent the ball curling towards the right top corner but the framework denied him as ATK had to settle for one point to retain their lead over the Chennai side on top of the league table by virtue of goal difference.

ATK made a couple of changes to their line up as their influential playmaker Jofre, who was suspended for their last match, returned in place of Kingshuk Debnath while Lester Fernandez replaced Cavin Lobo.

In their battle for the top spot, Chennaiyin FC also made two changes, bringing in Eric DjembaDjemba and Dane Pereira for Bojan Djordjic and Denson Devdas.

35th Nagaland Police Sports Meet Valiant 11th NAP overall champ for 9th consecutive time Morung Express News Dimapur | November 14

The 11th NAP (IR) emerged as the overall champion of the 35th Nagaland PoliceDuty-cum-Sports & Athletic Meet 2014 which concluded on November 14. It was the ninth consecutive time the Valiant Eleventh took the overall champion title. The unit also emerged champion in the ‘duty item’ category.

The 13th NAP (IR) finished as ‘games champion’ while the 14th NAP (IR) was declared the best disciplined unit.

Nagaland Home Minister, Y. Patton declared the 5-day long event closed gracing the customary closing ceremony as the chief guest. Patton, in his address said that the Nagaland Police has come a long way since the first state police sports meet was held in 1967. The professionalism displayed by the department in successfully conducting the event every year “is indicative of the

strong tradition, ethos and culture maintained and upheld by the Nagaland police,” Patton said.

While stating that maintaining order and peace is an arduous task, he described the annual police meet not only as a healthy way of escaping the rigours of duty but also an outlet to display sporting skill and at the same time foster team spirit, camaraderie and oneness. “The spirit of friendly competition the ‘Duty and Sports Meet’ endeavours to foster will definitely have positive impact on the overall individual personality of every policeman and woman.”

From anti-Naxal operations in the jungles of Chhattisgarh to maintaining law and order both within and outside the state, the Nagaland Police has unfailingly responded to the call of duty and yet has been able to nurture and promote outstanding sportsmen and women, Patton said. “The milestones achieved by sportspersons of the Nagaland Police are indeed worthy of admiration.”

Suspended BCCI President Anand misses opportunity, found guilty in fixing probe draws fifth game with Carlsen

NEW DELhi, NOVEMBER 14 (AP): Suspended Board of Control for Cricket in India president Narainswamy Srinivasan and three other officials are guilty of "misdemeanors" according to a panel investigating spotfixing in the Indian Premier League, India's Supreme Court revealed on Friday.

IPL chief executive Sundar Raman, Srinivasan's son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings official, Gurunath Meiyappan, and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra were the others named by the court. They were indicted in a report submitted by the Supreme Courtappointed committee led by Justice Mukul Mudgal.

"The report did suggest some misdemeanors," the court said. "The report is in relation to players and to other actors in the drama."

But the court refrained from revealing the players named by the committee.

The court said it was sharing the report with lawyers from both sides, and the four officials should submit their objections within four days. The court said it will hear arguments on Nov. 24. The BCCI annual general meeting on Nov. 20 was postponed following this development. Srinivasan was up

for re-election. He's also the chairman of the International Cricket Council.

"There's no question of Srinivasan contesting unless the issue is resolved," the court said.

Srinivasan, a director of the India Cements company that owns Chennai Super Kings, was asked to step aside as BCCI president during the investigation into spot-fixing in the 2013 IPL. He refused, and the Supreme Court suspended him. Srinivasan came under the scanner after Meiyappan was arrested for two weeks

by Mumbai Police for allegedly being in touch with illegal book-makers and passing on team information to them. According to IPL rules, a team can be suspended if its officials bring the tournament into disrepute. Meiyappan was cleared by the BCCI's own panel last year, but a petition from the Cricket Association of Bihar led to the Bombay High Court declaring that panel "illegal and unconstitutional." The CAB then took the issue to the Supreme Court, which ordered an investigation into the role of Srinivasan and 12 others in May. The Supreme Court gave the Mudgal committee all investigative powers, including search and seizure of relevant documents.

SOchi, NOVEMBER 14 (PTi): Viswanathan Anand missed out on an opportunity to press for serious advantage and settled for a draw with defending champion Magnus Carlsen in the fifth game of the world chess championship now underway here.

The third draw in five games restored the parity and the scores now stand at 2.5-2.5 with seven games still remaining in the million Euros match.

After a day's rest Anand yet again looked for an advantage with white pieces and Carlsen was pushed to the wall once more.

However, just when the world thought it could be a dangerous advantage in Anand's favour, the Indian ace erred and took a safer path, allowing Carlsen to liquidate to a drawn rook and minor piece endgame.

Opening with the Queen pawn, Anand faced a new opening for the third time in the match

by Carlsen a clear indication that the Norwegian has not been able to make up his mind and remains tentative with black pieces.

For the records, in the first game of the match Carlsen has chosen the Grunfeld defense, in the third game he had gone for the Queen'

NCSU WELCOMES HON’BLE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) overwhelmed to learn about the proposed visit of Shri. Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India to Nagaland during the Hornbill Festival starting from 1st December 2014.

NCSU wholeheartedly welcomes the Hon’ble Prime Minister, who has been aptly termed as the ‘Man of Action’ even by US President Barak Obama, to this ‘Land of Festivals’. s Gambit declined and today the world champion opted for the Queen?s Indian defense.

It was not a normal Queen's Indian as Carlsen went for some side line with early deviation giving Anand a small but lasting advantage. In the post game conference Anand revealed that he had seen 'something like this before'.

On his 16th move, Anand livened things up a little by going for a thematic central breakthrough and a handful of pieces changed hands in quick time thereafter. Carlsen took a practical decision on the 20th move by trading his Bishop for a centralised white knight and thereafter white was either playing for a win or a draw.

Carlsen definitely had seen deeper and believed in his position firmly as he went about collecting one

of white' s pawn before exchanging the queens to reach a difficult endgame. Anand got his best chance on move 26 when a correct move would have prolonged the agony for Carlsen but did not feel it was worth the try.

A pair of rooks flew off the board as a result and the players were soon staring at a deadlock with pawns on just one flank. After further trading of pieces the peace was formally signed after 29 moves.

This draw puts Anand under a bit of a pressure now as Carlsen will now get to play two white games on the trot in game six and seven. The onus is now on Anand to salvage the next two and if the Indian ace successfully does that, the tide is likely to turn in his favour. For now, its game six coming up with Carlsen playing white.

The people of Nagaland are anxiously waiting with hectic preparation for the historic visit of the Hon’ble Prime Minister envisions to include all the states in the country to take the nation forward.

The NCSU fervently appeals to the people of the State to live upto the Prime Minister’s mission of Swaach Bharat and maintain cleanliness not only of the homes and surroundings but of the hearts so as to join the upcoming festive season with joy and purity.

We also specially urges upon the citizens of Kohima and Dimapur to beautify the cities.

The NCSU would also like to request the PWD Nagaland and BRTF to hasten the process of repairing the delapidated roads.

The visit of Modiji would be a source of inspiration for every citizen of the State as a sense of alienation and deprivation has been high in the minds of the Naga people.

The NCSU greatly hopes and aspires that Hon’ble Prime Minister will fulfill the dreams of our people.

(PELE KHEZHIE) President, NCSU Nagaland: Kohima

(JOHN KATH) General Secretary, NCSU Nagaland: Kohima

Mavericks notch biggest-ever win

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DALLAS, NOVEMBER 14 (AP): The Dallas Mavericks recorded their biggest-ever win by routing the winless Philadelphia 76ers 123-70 on Thursday, though the Sixers avoided their heaviest-ever defeat by scoring the last five points of the game.

In the day's other games, Pau Gasol led Chicago to a win at Toronto, Memphis came from 26 points down to beat Sacramento with a buzzer-beater, and Golden State had a home win over Brooklyn. Dalla's 53-point victory margin surpassed its 50-point win over the New York Knicks in January 2010 as the team's biggest. Dirk Nowitzki scored 21 points while playing only 20 minutes.

At 0-8, Philadelphia is the only NBA team without a victory this season. The only time the 76ers have gone deeper into a season before winning a game was 1972-73, when they lost their first 15 games, according to STATS. The last NBA team with a longer losing streak to begin a season was the New Jersey Nets during their record 0-18 start in 2009-10.

Chicago's Pau Gasol had a season-high 27 points and 11 rebounds and Derrick Rose scored 20 points before leaving with hamstring soreness, leading the Bulls to a 100-93 win at Toronto.

The Bulls won for the sixth time in seven games and snapped Toronto's five-game winning streak in the matchup of teams with the best records in the Eastern Conference. Both teams are 7-2.

Kyle Lowry scored 20 for the Raptors, who lost for the first time in six home games this season.

Memphis' Courtney Lee scored on a lob pass as time expired to give the Grizzlies a 111-110 win over Sacramento, capping a furious fourth-quarter rally. The outcome wasn't decided until after a lengthy review by officials who were trying to determine if the inbounds pass from Vince Carter with less than a second left was tipped by the Kings, and also to determine if Lee got the shot off before the horn sounded.

Golden State's Klay Thompson scored 25 points as the Warriors defeated Brooklyn 107-99.

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Dallas Mavericks' Jae Crowder (9) gets by the defense of Philadelphia 76ers' JaKarr Sampson (9) and Chris Johnson (16) for a basket in the second half of an NBA basketball game on November 13, in Dallas. AP Photo) Published, Printed and Edited by Aküm Longchari on behalf of Morung for Indigenous Affairs and JustPeace from House No. 4, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur at Themba Printers and Telecommunications, Padum Pukhuri Village, Dimapur, Nagaland.

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