November 17th 2014 by The Morung Express

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Dimapur VOL. IX ISSUE 317

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Wreathed Hornbills sighted at Dimapur Zoological Park DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 16 (DIPR): The Director of the Zoological Park Dimapur has informed that six wreathed Hornbill birds (Rhyticeros undulates) have been sighted at the Zoological Park, Dimapur on November 15. The Director of the Zoological Park has attributed the arrival of the birds to the wildlife protection efforts that have been initiated and to the rising awareness in the state on the need to protect wildlife. He has appealed to the people to preserve these rare birds and save them from extinction.

Travelling with a smoker increases cancer risk

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NEw YORk, NOVEMBER 16 (IANS): While simply sitting in cars with people who smoke, nonsmokers breathe in a host of potentially dangerous compounds that are associated with cancer, heart disease and lung disease, says a new research. In a significant study, 14 nonsmokers sat for one hour in the passenger seat of a parked sport utility vehicle behind a smoker in the driver’s seat. The nonsmokers showed elevated levels of butadiene, acrylonitrile, benzene, methylating agents and ethylene oxide (carcinogens and other toxins) in their urine. This group of chemicals is “thought to be the most important among the thousands in tobacco smoke that cause smoking-related disease”, said senior investigator Neal Benowitz, professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). This is the first study to measure exposure to these particular chemicals in people exposed to second-hand smoke. “This tells us that people, especially children and adults with pre-existing health conditions such as asthma or a history of heart disease, should be protected from second-hand smoke exposure in cars,” lead author Gideon St. Helen from UCSF said.

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‘Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace form reconciliation’ [ PAGE 2]

Defamation not an offence elsewhere, India reluctant to follow [ PAGE 08]

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Kohli’s century helps India sweep ODI series [ PAGE 12]

‘I’m not confident enough to do business’

Thuwu-ni steps in to strengthen farmer confidence

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life

‘Mandela always told me to use myself to help other people’

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When Aheli Sheqi (40) is asked what a ‘government’ means, she is slightly baffled. Is it a trick question? “Supply korey,” she says, after some prodding, implying that the government supplies things to the people—but people “on top” or close to local leaders get access to these ‘things.’ She has voted nearly 10 times in her life but has never met a candidate. A road to Pughoboto is the only sign that tells her that a government does this work too. What does she expect from the government? Nothing, she says, at first, but then admits that a ration card could help. For many such little identified residents of Pughoboto, Thuwu-ni, a festival for growth and progress, has come as a surprise. Aheli looks up at her Yongchak (tree beans) as the music from the Pughoboto Town local ground hosting Ahuna at Thuwuni pours in—she has heard that farmers (both men and women) from the 24 villages of Pughoboto have

set up stalls to showcase/ sell their produce. “I won’t go this year—it’s difficult to take care of my child without a babysitter and I’m not confident enough to do business,” but she has the Yongchak in mind which she sells to whoever comes by to fetch them at whatever price because “I can’t even pluck them!” Thuwuni could be her way out. She sees them as a means to escape her over dependence on an alcoholic husband. For honey producers, Vitoshe Sheqi (44) and Vitohe Swu (57), the stalls at Thuwu-ni are a boon. Since they began production, in the past 3-4 years, their honey has been marketed by the Nagaland Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM). This year, NBHM didn’t show up, but Thuwu-ni came along. “A platform like this encourages us a lot— we might have potential to produce but little chance of exposing them,” says Vitoshe, who, like other farmers finds it hard to independently market, or even store what they produce. Becoming part of the market economy is a long way still. “People have moved too far away from the fields in a bid to enter the cash economy,” explains entrepreneur Nitoshe Sheqi (30) from Mishili village, Pughoboto, who handled

Women from Mishilimi village excited about selling a wooden dao-holder to a customer on november 14 at their stall during Thuwu-ni, Pughoboto. On sale were farm produce like orange, ginger, peanut, banana, honey, pumpkins etc. apart from hand crafted wood work from 24 villages in the Pughoboto area. (Morung Photo)

the marketing aspect at the stalls. “Selling vegetables for even 10 days has the potential to earn people as much as a 4th grade government job—going back to the land is the most profitable option for the Naga people,” says a confident Nitoshe. Start small, he advices, but start. Learning business is like learning how to swim; you learn a

few tricks and then master organized production for it with practice. sale and profit is yet unclear. Thuwu-ni’s organizThuwu-ni: Festival ers aim to take small steps of growth & progress towards larger goals, from The Thuwu-ni Festival subsistence to sustenance. seeks to provide this ini“From 2014 to 2017, we tial confidence that people will follow a process whereof Pughoboto area lack. in the best produce from evFarmers, for instance, in ery village will be identified Pughoboto have produced first,” says Y. Vikheho Swu for their own consumption (47), convener of the Festitill now, so the concept of val, and Parliamentary Sec-

retary for Irrigation & Flood Control, and Election, Government of Nagaland. The focus to develop his constituency is in the three core areas of ‘farming, meat production and tourism.’ “From 2018, once we know what we produce best, we can focus on bringing technology, and then on food sufficiency, or Food for All, by 2025,” he articulates of his vision for the constituency that elected him as their leader. Thuwu-ni will follow a cyclic process where awareness is raised around the best crops for the season in Pughoboto area, and boards placed around villages to disburse information. The cycle will end with Thuwu-ni in Pughoboto as an annual fare. The cycle will also touch upon cleanliness. The focus on this aspect was clear as Vikheho Swu picked up empty plastic bottles and wrappers whenever he could. Everyone stuck their garbage to bamboo woven bins placed all round Pughoboto Town, the rest was picked up by young boys from the local community on the round all day during the two-day Festival. This remained in striking contrast to festivals in Dimapur which leave a mountain of plastic waste for magic and ragpickers to

clean up. The overall achievements will take time, admits Vikheho. “Only last year Pughoboto got a new road,” he says. “80% of the people travelling to and from Zunheboto now pass by Pughoboto,” which shows the new found level of exposure. Thuwu-ni saw visitors from Kohima, Wokha, Zunheboto and Dimapur districts. It is this exposure that will bring more people like Aheli Sheqi, still wary of how to move forward, out slowly. “By the second year of Thuwu-ni, we expect more farmers to utilize the platform, but it is by the third year that they would be truly empowered to use and extend the platform,” explains Vikheho. The level of the Thuwu-ni team’s confidence is unfettered. The route, however, is clear and they are ready to chart it. Supporting indigenous affairs (sports, music, food) yet contemporizing the events around the celebration of indigeneity, is no small feat, often muddled up with a clawing effort to modernize by giving up core identities. Thuwu-ni is a platform around festivities that can be owned by the people for their sustenance, bringing social equity and working with the environment.

UNTABA considers filing PIL on border dispute ‘Media crucial to strengthen Morung Express news Dimapur | November 16

The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) has stated that it is contemplating filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with regard to the land dispute between Assam and Nagaland states. According to the UNTABA, the case filed by Assam state in the Supreme Court in 1988 was unconstitutional. “Litigation of inter-state boundary by any court is unconstitutional,” said Hukavi Yepthomi, chairman of the UNTABA on November 16 in Dimapur. An UNTABA delegation recently visited New Delhi to bring the Prime Minister’s attention on the protracted border dispute. According to Yepthomi only the Parliament has power over boundary demarcation of a state or states. He asserted that the claim has constitutional basis as enshrined in Articles 3 and 4 of the Con-

stitution of India. The Assam Government’s insistence on the ‘1925 Notification’ of the then British Government as the binding and final boundary demarcation between the two states has no basis, Yepthomi said, while maintaining that Nagaland has genuine documentary evidence to disprove Assam’s claims. While the delegation could not meet the PM, it however submitted a 13-point representation to be forwarded to the PM, while another copy was submitted to the Union Home Minister. The delegation also met Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State (Home Affairs) and the Director of Internal Security, in-charge of the north-east. While stating that UNTABA received the “green signal” from the Nagaland Chief Minister for the Delhi visit, he added that it will be submitting a copy of the representation to the Nagaland

government soon. “Bringing back Naga territory transferred to Assam by the British Government was the core of the issue,” reiterated Yepthomi. In this regard, Yepthomi appealed to all Naga Political Groups in negotiation with the Centre “to raise the issue in the right perspective.” Maintaining that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that it cannot arbitrate on the matter, Yepthomi said that the SC has, as a result, through an interim order, directed the Home Ministry to amicably settle the matter. The Home Ministry had communicated the same to the two state governments in concern. An outcome of the initiative is a Chief Secretarial level meeting of the two states, which was initially set for November 15, will take place on November 16 in Guwahati. Yepthomi further said that the delegation would revisit Delhi to meet the PM

in person. This will however depend on the outcome of the meeting between the two Chief Secretaries, it was added. The subject of the representation to the PM read: “Demand for fulfilment of political agreements of point no.4 & 6 of ‘9 Point Agreement’ and point no. 12 & 13 ’16 Point Agreement’ vis-à-vis bringing back the Naga territories in Assam to Nagaland.” It outlined the history of the gradual transfer of a large tract of Naga territory (some 12.8 thousand square kms) to Assam during the last century, which the UNTABA asserts was merely for administrative convenience. It termed the ‘Disturbed Area Belt’ nomenclature as a unilateral declaration of the Assam state government and termed this as unacceptable, while reiterating the UNTABA’s stand of not recognising “all the interim agreements” entered since 1972.

‘Towards a better world’ Former CM Vizol’s biography released on 100th birth anniversary Our Correspondent Kohima | November 16

A biography of two time Nagaland state Chief Minister, Vizol was released today in commemoration of his 100 birth anniversary at John Government Higher Secondary School Viswema. Authored by Akhale Vizol Khamo, daughter of Vizol, the biography entitled ‘Towards a better world,’ was released by the former Chief Minister’s wife, Razoulhouii, who is 94 years old. Born on November 16, 1914 at Viswema village, Kohima district, Vizol underwent his education at Mission High School, Kohima, and graduated from St Edmund’s College, Shillong. He then served in the Royal Indian Air Force from 1941 to 1946 during the Second World War. After the war, he served as a private teacher in John High School in Viswema village. He later served as the principal

Former nagaland CM Vizol.

of the Naga National High School, Kohima, from 1953 to 1956. He joined politics and contested in 1964 from the 15 Southern Angami II Assembly Constituency and was elected as the leader of the opposition in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. He was re-elected in 1974 and served as Chief Minister from 1974 to 1975, was again chosen uncontested to the Nagaland Assembly in 1977

and became the Chief Minister for the second time from 1977 to 1980. He was a Member of the Rajya Sabha from 1992 to 1997. He was the co-founder of the Democratic Party of Nagaland which is now Naga People’s Front (NPF). At the launch event, speakers stated that during his life “Vizol led a life of simplicity, honesty and was peace loving person, which he depicted by giving living example to the rest of the people.” His motto at the age of 80 years “Towards a better world” depicted his vision for the society to have a better future, ultimately deriving the title for the biography, it was added. Dr. Dietho-o, ex MLA shared his brief experience with Vizol. M Zhasa, retired Commissioner and Secretary; KV Pusa, former Minister; Viketol Sakhrie, Commissioner and Secretary for Rural Development and KN Pusha also spoke on the occasion.

transparency in public affairs’ Our Correspondent Kohima | November 16

Nagaland along with the rest of the country today observed the National Press Day under the theme ‘Transparency in public affairs- Role of the press.’ Events were held at Kohima and Dimapur to commemorate the day. In Kohima, the event was held at the Kohima Press Club (KPC), jointly organized by the Directorate of Information and Public Relations and KPC. Theme speaker, K Temjen Jamir, Editor of Tir Yimyim and President, Nagaland Press Association said that without transparency in public affairs, people are deprived from the right to know and remove them from participation in decision making processes, even if it affects their present and future lives. He further stated that the absence of transparency creates an undesirable social and political condition that encourage corruptions, abuse of power, unresponsive and insensitive government and various form of nepotism. “The consequences of running public affairs without transparency are drastic and will impair all democratic values and makes the principle of welfare state a mockery,” Jamir said. “People have the right to know the details of the steps and measures taken by the different elements of the system,” he asserted. Jamir however lamented that the lack of transparency in the state has prevented execution of legislations passed in the assembly, increase in the

state’s financial deficit, abnormal growth of the number of state government employees and the failure of most projects undertaken by the government. To address this, he termed the role of the media as crucial. “The press is regarded as the fourth pillar of democracy and often termed as a watchdog. It is therefore natural that people have high expectations from the media in the matter of ensuring transparency in public affairs,” he said.

in society and highlight their living conditions.” Meanwhile, in Dimapur, the day was commemorated at Press Point Dimapur. Principal of City Law College, Dimapur, P Leonard Aier noted that the “press fraternity” is, by extension, a reflection of society’s health. While briefing the gathering on the various legal provisions in relation to the freedom of the press vis-à-vis the freedom of speech and expression, Aier likened the freedom of the press to the biblical “arc of covenant.” “Just as Noah’s Arc saved humanity, democracy is also saved by the freedom of the press,” he said. He further encouraged the media to play the role of inter-mediator between the ruled and the rulers to ensure transparency of process. Aier further observed that advertisement rates in local newspapers, especially for obituaries and felicitations, “have become too expensive.” Reasoning that business doesn’t always mean “exorbitant rates”, he suggested that the rates should be “made reasonable.” Editor of Nagaland Page, Monalisa Changkija encouraged journalists to “read a lot” and understand their responsibilities clearly. She also encouraged them to “move ahead” while saying, “by no stretch of imagination I am going to say we have done a great job” as journalists. “All of us need to do a lot,” she stated. DPRO Dimapur, Siewatho also spoke at the event and called for better communication with the department of IPR.

Media fraternity in Nagaland observes National Press Day Jamir added that people expect the media to highlight the government’s policies, schemes and projects and reveal the actual positions of their implementation. He continued that it should be the role of the media to highlight to the public both the successes and failures of government policies and programmes. “When we analyze the situation in Nagaland, the media has, of late been aggressive in highlighting corruptions in public affairs, though lacks proper investigative reporting, which could have helped in building a culture of openness and disclosure that has made the government more accountable,” he said. Also stating that the media should keep citizens engaged in the business of governance by informing, educating and mobilizing the public, Jamir said “The press must reach out to the most marginalized and effected groups and persons

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‘Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace form reconciliation’

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Lumami, November 16 (mexN): Conflict analysis is a must before entering into a conflict resolution, asserted Akum Longchari, Editor, The Morung Express during a one-day workshop on “Introduction to Conflict Resolution and Peace Education” held at Centre for Gandhian Studies & Research (CGSR), Nagaland University, Lumami. Speaking as a guest lecturer, he stated, “There are different roots to problem, so conflict analysis becomes important.” Stressing on the need for Some of the dishes presented during the screening round of Naga Chef Season Two held on conflict transformation and November 15 in Kohima. Twelve contestants have been selected to compete for the presti- conflict analysis, he said gious Naga Chef title. that as a student of Peace and Conflict Resolution, it is not about finding solution. He pointed out that everyone has different perspectives on the same issue and so dialogue becomes important, that is why concept of shared humanity becomes imperative. He encouraged the students of the Centre for Gandhian Studies to analyze the root causes of Naga problem. He also stressed on the concept of Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace and demonstrated Peacemaking exercises on the concept. Stating that the place where Truth, Mercy, C M Y K

Young girls selling vegetables and axone in an abandoned roadside amenity structure at Zaphumi village. The village falls under Zunheboto district and is situated along the Mokokchung-Lumami road. (Photo by Limalenden Longkumer)

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Taking note of the huge number of Bhojpuri population in Nagaland, Finance Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Kikheto Y. Sema (IAS) on Sunday appealed them to bring positive changes in the state starting with whichever district they inhabited. He said India as a nation cannot afford to be divided on the basis on casteism, religion, region etc but has to replace individualism with a common feeling of oneness. He said, “We have to replace ‘I’ ‘Me’ to the comThe Lower PWD Youth Organisation (LPWDYO), Kohima organised a social work on November 15 at the colony from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm. Around 80 volunteers took up the task of cleaning mon, ‘We’.” The chief guest and whitewashing the walls along the roadside, cleared the drainages, filled potholes and lev- also stressed on doing away eled the road, informed a press release issued by LPWDYO general secretary, Anuzo Vadeo. with discrimination of any

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Akum Longchari (extreme left), Legase Sangtem, Asst. Prof, Political Science, NU and Dr. Mollier with the students of CGSR.

Justice and Peace meets is called Reconciliation, he opined that only when Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace take place, one can meet for reconciliation. The Centre for Gandhian Studies & Research is a UGC sponsored program established at Nagaland University, Lumami, under the scheme of Epoch Making of Social Science Thinkers of India. North East being considered as

an insurgency prone region, the Center is not only the right choice, but considered to be a great challenge and acts as a Peace Theory Builder, Peace Advocater and Peace Educater, stated a press release received here. CGSR is the only Centre for Peace in the entire North East region under Central university, which offers one-year course on the theme, “Relevance of

Gandhian thought in the Modern World”. Along with academicians, the Centre works hand in hand with Administrators, Village Development Boards, church leaders, NGOs, Peace Activist, etc. based on the living examples of Gandhian principles of rural reconstruction in Nagaland. The Centre is headed by an Honorary Director, Steering Committee, and a Programme Coordina-

tor. Dr. Arenla Mollier, the programme Coordinator, is the first and only Naga to do Ph.d in Gandhian Philosophy, the release added. For further details, contact: arenlatmollier@ yahoo.com, 09862753544 (Programme Coordinator) The seminar was attended by the students of the Centre, research scholars, Peace Club members, NU and some professors of the University.

Kikheto urges Bhojpuris to effect change Dimapur | November 16

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kind in any place. Addressing the felicitation programme of Bhojpuri students 2014 at Durga Mandir Hall, Dimapur as the chief guest, Kikheto also drew similarity of the programme where successful students were felicitated to that of Ahuna festival of the Sumi community which was celebrated after a bountiful harvest. He said Ahuna was celebrated with joy, marking and reaping the success of a yearlong hardwork. He said, similarly, the successful students of various examinations were also felicitated for their hardwork throughout the year. Kikheto told the students that this was not the end and that they have

to begin their work once again for the next year. Guest of Honour, A. Pratap, DIG CRPF, Group Centre, Khatkhati Assam urged upon the Bhojpuri community to be hardworking in their endeavours and bring good name to the community. During the programme, elders of the community and leaders from different communities were also felicitated. The programme chaired by Pramod Singh was marked by several songs, dances and other entertainment programmes. This was the 4th felicitation programme Finance Secretary, Government of Nagaland, Kikheto Y. organized by Chhath Ma- Sema (IAS) lights a lamp during the felicitation programme haparv Utsav Samiti. in Dimapur on Sunday. (Morung Photo)

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GOC Spear Corps visits Doyang

Bible Hill BC golden jubilee

Kohima, November 16 (mexN): The Bible Hill Baptist Church Phek will be celebrating its golden jubilee from December 13 to 14 under the theme “Glorify his name.” Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, executive secretary, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council will be the speaker of the celebration.

ZSU (N) general session cum election

dimapur, November 16 (mexN): The Zeliangrong Students’ Union Nagaland (ZSU (N)) has informed all its units and sub-ordinate units, senior leaders and well wishers that its general session cum election of the new office bearers will be held on November 21 at People Education Network (PEN) hall, Jalukie town at 11:00 am. Therefore, the union has requested all the units to send minimum of two representatives and informed interested candidates to contact election commissioner.

PWUK observes ‘relief day of prayer’

Kohima, November 16 (mexN): The Phekmi Welfare Union Kohima (PWUK) today observed ‘relief day of prayer’ here at Capital College. PWUK president Vecisa Venuh exhorted the gathering. Vedusayi Soho also spoke on the occasion. The function was led by Kukhruneyi Venuh while Zhovolu Rhakho read the bible and prayed. Kuthovo Chizo read out the relief report while Vekukho Soho presented special number. Offertory prayer was pronounced by Suohienuo Keyho. The occasion also featured special prayer for sick and needy people.

Mokokchung Unit to join NSNA stir moKoKChuNG, November 16 (mexN): The Mokokchung Unit of the Nagaland Staff Nurse Association (NSNA) along with all the district units will be observing mass casual leave from November 24-26 as part of the 1st phase agitation against non-compliance by the State government to the demands made by the NSNA. In this regard, the President of NSNA Mokokchung Unit, Moajenla and Secretary Imsurenla have informed all registered nurses/ midwives, who are members of NSNA Mokokchung Unit to adhere with the decision made by the association. They further “deeply regretted” any inconveniences, the proposed stir might cause to the general public, but requested them to “kindly bear and cooperate” with the association so that their genuine demands are fulfilled by the government. C M

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY

of Late Imkongmeren Imchen Died on 17th Nov 2013

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GOC Spear Corps with Natural Nagas’ member at Amur Falcons roosting site in Doyang.

Vikiye of Awohumi emerged champion of the Sumi kick boxing ‘Akikiti’ held during the Ahuna festival at Pughoboto on November 14. Kashiho of Iphonumi and Henito of Awohumi were the first and second runners up respectively. Akikiti, according to a press release, is one of the most important and attractive aspects of the Sümi festival. In Akikiti, only the feet are used for both blocking and striking. The goal is to drive the opponent to his knees, or outside of the designated competition ring.

WoKha, November 16 (mexN): General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Spear Corps, Lt Gen Bipin Rawat, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM visited Doyang on November 14. During the visit, Rawat was briefed about the security aspects and progress made in vari-

ous projects undertaken for the support and welfare of the local people, a press release from Assam Rifles informed. He also visited Doyang Hydro Electric Project (DHEP) and interacted with the employees there. Further, the General Officer visited Amur

Falcon site and interacted with the members of ‘Natural Nagas’, a group promoting awareness in conservation of Amur Falcons and wildlife in Nagaland. He assured the group that Assam Rifles will extend full support in their venture to safeguard wildlife.

Nagaland University: SASRD gets new library

medziphema, No vember 16 (mexN): The new library building of SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus has been inaugurated by Prof. BK Konwar, ViceChancellor of Nagaland University. Prof. Konwar exhorted the faculty and especially the students to utilize the library as a temple of learning. C. Khalong, Director, Higher Education, Government of Nagaland, Dr. BG Unni, Chief Scientist, RRL, Jorhat, Dr. Lorin, Principal of Tetso College, Dimapur, faculty, staff, students and other invitees were present

during the inauguration. Mhonbemo Ngullie, Assistant Librarian, chaired the inaugural program and Rev. Megovotou Kuotsü, Pastor, Medziphema Village Baptist Church said the dedication prayer and read scripture, Dr. J. Longkumer, Students’ Welfare In-Charge proposed vote of thanks. The opening remarks was given by Prof. NS Jamir, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, SASRD, Nagaland University. C. Khalong also spoke on the occasion and congratulated the Vice Chancellor for his “tireless commitment” towards the

development of Nagaland University. The new library, which covers twenty thousand square feet (two storeys), was funded by UGC. JS Architect & Associates, Dimapur designed the building and the work was contracted to Pfudilhou & Sons, Kohima, informed a press release received here. The construction began in March 2012 and completed in September 2014. Prof. BK Konwar, Vice-Chancellor of Nagaland University inaugurates the new library at SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus.

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Slicing off 1,000 km, to bring Mizoram closer to the world AIZAWl, NOVEMBER 16 (ThE INdIAN ExPRESS): The road is layered with fresh mud from last night’s downpour. An earthmover has removed the small landslip that blocked it, paving the way for construction to continue, but machines trying to lay the tarmac are struggling against the mud. A steadily growing line of vehicles waits to cross the muddied patch. A worker, overseeing the construction, frantically waves at the vans and cars, trying to clear the track. Passengers have their eyes set on a steep cliff, apparently worried it might crumble any moment and deposit more mud on the road. It’s a grind that the construction workers and engineers go through every day, for five years, building a 12-metre-wide, 90-km road from Lawngtlai in southern Mizoram to Zochachhuah village on the Indo-Myanmar border, running parallel to the Kaladan river. They are now in the process of cutting out the final 5 km of road from the hills. By the time the final touches, including laying the tarmac, on the road to be called NH 502A are over, it will be mid-2016, two years beyond schedule. But it will shorten the current time taken to transport goods from Kolkata to Mizoram by three-four days, and the distance by

more than 950 km. It will also change the face of Mizoram which, like other north-eastern states, is poorly connected to the rest of the country. The benefit may extend to the rest of the Northeast as well, as NH 502A joins NH 54 to Assam. With eight-odd bridges, NH 502A will be like no other road in Mizoram. As it moves from Mizoram’s hills to Myanmar’s relatively plain topography, it becomes more levelled, wider and straighter than any other road in the state and with gradual rather than steep curves. That’s what’s uppermost on Lalthanzuala Ralte’s mind. “I keep browsing the Internet for the length of the longest container trucks and then, when I’m on site, try to imagine if they will be able to negotiate the curves comfortably,” says the PWD Executive Engineer, making a wide, winding gesture from his vantage point at Circuit House in Lawngtlai. The number of curves on the road are down from the original planned 1,081 to 764, although that’s still more than eight twists and turns every kilometre. NH 502A is part of the much larger, grander Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Transit Project (KMMTTP). Launched in 2009 by the UPA as part of its ‘Look East’ policy and now being pushed under the NDA’s

Northeast Briefs BJP urges Centre to review power projects in Arunachal ITANAGAR, NOVEMBER 16 (PTI): BJP has alleged irregularities in the MoUs signed by the Arunachal Pradesh government with various hydro power developers and urged the Centre to review them. In a letter to Union Minister of State for Energy Piyush Goyal, state BJP Vice-president Sotai Kri urged him to review the MoUs signed by the state government to build dams and other hydro power projects across the state. Drawing attention of the minister to the "unsuccessful" mini-hydel projects, Kri in his letter claimed that due to embezzlement and irregularities 75 per cent of the mini hydel projects had failed to materialize. Demanding a CBI probe into the matter, he said the project opposite to the Parshuram Kund was a threat to the holy site. He requested the minister to review the project so that it could be shifted at least 5 km away from the present location.

India-Bangladesh tourism road show in Agartala AGARTAlA, NOVEMBER 16 (IANS): A four-day tourism road show "Maitri Tourism 2014" began here in Tripura to boost tourism between Bangladesh and northeast India. Inaugurating the road show here Saturday evening, Tourism Minister Ratan Bhowmik said: "A sub-regional tourism circuit linking northeastern states of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar can be established to encourage cost-effective cross border tourism and popularise historic and famous places of these areas." "Through tourism people to people contact would be further promoted," he said. Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD), Bangladesh Inbound Tour Operators Association, Tripura Tourism Development Forum in collaboration with government-run Tripura Tourism Development Corporation are jointly organising the tourism road show. "The main purpose of the event is to encourage tourists of India and Bangladesh to visit places of interest and establish tourism networks with stakeholders of the northeastern states of India and Bangladesh," said H. M. Hakim Ali, president BFTD. Ali, who led the 15-member delegation from Bangladesh, said: "Tourism is the second biggest and fastest growing industry in the world." The speakers in the road show discussed issues such as tourism tax and easing the visa process to further develop the tourism industry.

‘Act East’ programme, the overall KMMTTP project entails precisely the following: building the 90-km NH 502A to the Indo-Myanmar border; constructing a 140km highway from there to Paletwa town in Myanmar; developing a river port at Paletwa on the Kaladan river, and connecting it via a 160-km waterway to Sittwe; and constructing a deepwater port at Sittwe to facilitate a sea route to Kolkata’s Haldia port, roughly 540 km away. Though the Kaladan river runs through Mizoram as well, it is too narrow within the state for barges to travel. A total of 30 bridges will be built over the total 230 km of road route. The Myanmar end has been progressing slowly. Work on the highway to Paletwa is yet to begin, though building of the waterway to Sittwe and the development of ports at Paletwa and Sittwe is underway. Officials in Mizoram call the KMMTTP the “future gateway to South East Asia”. During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Myanmar this week, MEA Joint Secretary Sripriya Ranganathan called the KMMTTP a “totally win-win kind of a project in which we get the access that we seek to ensure to our Northeast, while Myanmar gets an asset which it will be able to use and that will benefit the people of a fairly backward

and under-developed state”. At a camp of RDS Project Limited, one of the two contractors building NH 502A, Joint Managing Director Rahul Garg is poring over a drawing board. Outside the camp are trucks, an assortment of machinery, workmen from Jharkhand and a temporary diesel pump. Wiping sweat off his forehead, Garg says, “NH 502A’s starting point — the lone fuel station at Lawngtlai — is roughly 800 metres above sea level. Where I am right now is about 350 metres above sea level. That’s a drop of 450 metres in 70-odd km. Zochachhuah, the border village nearly 30 km away, is about 80 metres above sea level. From there, it’s all small hills.” Geographical challenges apart, there are bureaucratic hurdles too. Ranjan, project manager for ARSS, hopes his workforce of 360 men can begin laying bitumen in a few

weeks. He is confident of finishing the 26 km of road allotted to his company by the revised deadline of mid-2016, but for one hiccup: a tribal farmer on the bank of the small Ngengpui stream is refusing to accept the government compensation. Till he does, ARSS will not be able to build a 100-foot-long bridge over the stream. “The bitumen is already stocked, I have my stone crushers and other machinery in place. But I can only wait now,” he says. The Mizoram PWD, the nodal agency, has asked for more funds and a second revision of project estimates. The difficulty can be gauged from the numbers: A workforce of 1,010 (including 51 cooks and 305 drivers and various machine operators) and 154 heavy machinery (including 33 excavators, 10 earthmovers and nine bulldozers) are permanently stationed at various points

Mizoram, including major ones like Lusei, Mara, Lai, Chakma and Bru, have relatives in either Myanmar or Bangladesh. In the meantime, some families have already started settling around NH 502A. In fact, 60 Bru families from Darnamtlang village have moved down from the surrounding hills to just the level of the road in spite of objections by the PWD, and even started building a school. Apart from the local tribes, businessmen can hardly hide their excitement. Expecting that one of the goods to move along the route would be narcotics, and fearing attacks from militants, the Home Department is planning to set up more police stations and check-posts along the stretch. One “illegality” is already under investigation. Residents in Lai Autonomous District (within Lawngtlai district) have been demanding compensation for “private land”. As per an initial report by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, 1,024 of these “landowners” have made compensation claims for a total of 25,940 sq km of private land. That is 4,859 sq km more than the total area of Mizoram. Lalrinliana Sailo, chairman of a five-member Estimates Committee, says compensation-related issues are partly behind the PWD asking for a revision of finances by more than Rs 100 crore.

NE woman gangraped in Delhi, four held

NEW dElhI, NOVEMBER 16 (AGENCIES): A 30-year-old woman from Assam was allegedly assaulted and gangraped by four of her neighbours in west Delhi's Mundka area, police said Sunday. All the four accused have been arrested and sent to Tihar jail, police said. The woman has been living alone in the area since her husband passed away. According to a complaint, the four neighbours had been harassing her for some time.

On November 8, they barged into her house, thrashed her and raped her. "Hearing commotion in the house, someone made a PCR call following which a police team rushed to the spot and arrested the accused," a police officer said. "The woman was rushed to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital from where she was referred to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, the officer said. The woman, who sustained grievous injuries to her private parts, was discharged from hos-

pital on Saturday. A case of gang-rape, house trespass and other relevant sections has been registered and further investigations are underway, the officer added. Police informed that the men allegedly tortured her. In a statement to the police, the woman alleged that the men barged inside her house and cornered her. She claimed that they stripped her and then inserted a stick into her. When she tried to resist the rape bid, the men

thrashed her, she told police. Police said one of the accused, Shahjahan, reportedly wanted to marry her but she had turned down his proposal. According to police, the four men did not approve of her closeness to a man from the neighbourhood. They had allegedly warned the woman to stay away from the man. “She alleged that Shahjahan was angry with her as she was having a relationship with another man. She said he

Fictional book on people of North East launched GuWAhATI, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): ‘Kéérook and Other Stories from North East India,’ written by Group Captain Mohonto Panging, VM (Retd) was launched in Guwahati on November 8. The book is a collection of ten fictional short stories based on lives and livelihoods of the people living in the North East region, informed a press release. The stories narrate the unique way of life, customs and traditions of people inhabiting an area with similar terrain, weather, flora and fauna. Three stories Indi-Chini Bhai Bhai, Odyssey to Thoubal and Exodus to the North East - are based on recent geo-political events related to people from North East India vis-à-

tion Press from Chennai and can be ordered through Flipkart.com, Amazon.com and Notion Press.com. The book was released by Air Marshal Anjan Kumar Gogoi, PVSM AVSM VSM (Retired).

her parents' struggle to find affordable treatment. They called the film Rooting for Roona. Through the campaign, they were also met with requests from people who wanted to donate towards Roona's treatment. A year on, the sustained response to the film and the issues it sought to address have prompted the makers to reexamine and redefine their brief. Roona is now three years old. Her sixth surgery was completed last month, at a super-specialty hospital in Gurgaon that responded to the media attention with an offer of discounted treatment. She has returned home with a head that is almost a normal size. Doctors have declared that she can lead a functional life. Unlike before, she shows signs of cognition, smiles, responds to external stimuli and even nods her head from side to side as her parents play music for her, says Pavitra Chalam, founder of Bangalore-based CurleyStreet Media and director of the film. "We set out to document a story of hope, and now we are following Roona as she walks the road to recovery," says Chalam. "But across the country, mil-

came to her house on November 8 with his friends to take revenge. She alleged that after barging into her house, three of Shahjahan’s friends overpowered her and took turns to rape her,” a police officer said. She also told police that the men then left her bleeding. Neighbours in the colony rushed to her house after they heard her screams and informed police. They rushed her to hospital where she was admitted for treatment.

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Rooting for Roona: A story of hope emerges from despair NEW dElhI, NOVEMBER 16 (hT): When Roona was born, the people of Jiraniakhola village in Tripura thought she was an alien, with her misshapen head almost twice as large as her body. "We couldn't even carry her because her head was so big," says her mother, Fathema Khatun. Roona, the daughter of an illiterate manual labourer and a homemaker, was born with hydrocephalus - a medical condition in which abnormal amounts of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collect within the skull, causing progressive enlargement of the head. In April 2013, a photograph of the infant, then 18 months old, taken by Agartala-based photographer Arindam Dey, was released by the news agency he works for. It was then published by several newspapers and websites, eventually being picked up by foreign publications too. The image got CurleyStreet Media, a documentary film production house, interested in her story. Through a crowd-funding project online in July 2013, CurleyStreet raised about Rs. 20 lakh in 45 days, for a documentary on Roona and

on the stretch, while contractors have set up four fuel pumps to power their operations. By the time NH 502A is complete, the PWD estimates 9 million litres of diesel would have been guzzled, 3,100 trees felled, 1,80,000 cubic metres of stones papered over with 60,000 barrels of bitumen, and 18 million cubic metres of soil removed. There have been 19 deaths since the project began — 13 due to malaria, six because of onsite accidents. Heavy monsoons here also mean that the annual work season is just eight months long. Mir Thakur, a mechanical engineer with RDS, says he sat at home in Chandigarh for four months during this year’s rains. In Myanmar, the story is the same. At Sittwe, more than 1.2 million cubic metres of soil, pebbles and rocks have to be dredged for the deepwater port, while an estimated 1,09,000 cubic metres

of sand and pebbles have to be dredged to make the Kaladan river between Paletwa and Sittwe navigable for barges. Sometimes the challenges have been big enough to force a change in course. For example, the initial plan was to link Sittwe with Kaletwa, a town north of Paletwa. Like in Mizoram, power is erratic in Myanmar, mostly three to five hours a day. And the work season is just five months a year due to flooding of the Kaladan during monsoons, when its water level rises by up to 8 metres. The Indian contractors insist they can do the job even across the border. Garg of RDS talks animatedly of a night he and his colleagues spent at Kaletwa during a reconnaissance some months ago. Unable to find a hotel, they stayed with a family in a bamboo hut. However, he adds ruefully, a joint venture between RDS and POSCO lost the bid to build the ports at Sittwe and Paletwa and the dredging contract to Essar. “We will be bidding for constructing a part of the road till Paletwa,” Garg says. Post-KMMTTP, other roads are being considered to upgrade Mizoram’s infrastructure. Last year, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla laid the foundation stone for a 120-km road from Laki in Mara-tribe-dominated Saiha district, east of Lawngtlai, to Paletwa. Most tribes in

lions of children and parents continue to battle birth defects with no credible support from the healthcare system. This is the story we now want to tell. So we are expanding the scope of our film to focus on stories from Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Tripura, of children who have not been able to find affordable treatment or care. Our aim is to create a film that not only does justice to Roona's story but also creates awareness about birth defects and how they can be prevented, mitigated and addressed." When Roona was born, for instance, her parents were told to take her to the nearest metropolis, Kolkata, for treatment. Her father, who earns Rs. 150 a day, could barely afford the journey, let alone the treatment, so he just took her home instead. Even today, her doctors say Roona's chances of normal cerebral development would have been better if surgical care had been available to her at birth. Nonetheless, she will be a beacon of hope in the film, a reminder that there is a chance for a better life for the lakhs of babies born with congenital heart or liver dis-

ease, spina bifida, club foot and cleft lip each year. Last month, the team travelled through rural Tripura, recording the struggles of affected families, talking to activists and government officials in the state. "We came across the heartwrenching story of a boy named Sajal Sarkar, who like Roona was born with a very severe case of hydrocephalus. His case briefly made news because it came to light around the same time that Roona's story was grabbing headlines. A large private hospital in Delhi initially offered to take care of Sajal's surgical needs, but later withdrew. Sajal passed away eight months later, in the winter of 2013," says Chalam. "His fate is testimony to the fact that Roona's case is not just a beacon of hope in terms of the milestones she has reached, but also an indicator of the changes we need to push for so that hope comes to every family." The film is slated for release next year. To contribute to the making of the documentary or Roona's ongoing treatment, log on to rootingforroona.org.

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November 21st & 22nd 2014 from 11 AM to 7 PM Local Ground Kohima Items available: - Fruits and vegetables from Medziphema, Khonoma, Mao Gate, Wokha, Pfutsero, Khonoma, Phogobhoto, VK area, Longra village &Tuensang town - Local rice from Jalukie & Longra village, Tuensang Dist. - Stingless bee honey from Phek & Kohima - Earthen pots from Ukhrul - Charcoal burner from Imphal - Christmas Decorations - Furniture, clothes, gadgets, flowers & more from Kohima & Dimapur Results of Raffle Draw will be announced on November 22nd at 3:30 PM

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Don’t make fortune out of poor: RBI Governor tells micro lenders

MuMbai, NoveMber 16 (MexN): Asking micro-lenders to look at only a “reasonable profit” to sustain their business while serving borrowers at the bottom of pyramid, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said that one should not think of making a fortune while serving poorest of the poor. The comments come in sharp contrast to management guru late CK Prahalad’s views in his book ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’. The concept of the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid originally appeared in an article by Prahalad and Stuart L Hart in business journal ‘Strategy+Business’ in 2004. That was followed by a book with the same title that discussed new business models targeted at providing goods and services to the poorest. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, a philanthropist who has seen so far spent millions annually to help the poor, has described the book as something that offers an intriguing blueprint for how to fight poverty with profitability. Rajan, himself is a renowned economist, said during a recent micro finance event, “I think Prahalad did a disservice by saying that there is a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. “My sense is that you cannot, in good conscience, make a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. Make reasonable profits, but if you start making a fortune, it does start raising societal anxiety about how the fortune is being made”. Following the advice of Prahalad, many companies across the world and especially consumer goods, auto and telecom marketers in the country, have begun to tap the underserved markets and made a big market out of them, Rajan said. He added however that reasonable profit must be there at the bottom of the pyramid as the business has to be self-sustaining. “If business is not self-sustaining, then entities Will make a pretence of doing the business, but they are not really going to get engaged until there are profits,” Rajan noted.

Forty pilots quit SpiceJet in last six months; auditors doubt airline’s viability NeW Delhi, NoveMber 16 (PTi): Apprehending an uncertain future for the company, some 40-odd SpiceJet pilots including commanders have quit the airline during the past six months, say sources.The airline auditors in their recent report have cast doubts over the ability of media baron Kalanithi Maran’s budget carrier to run it as a “going concern”. The airline has reported 5th straight quarter of net losses for the JulySeptember period, at Rs 310 crore, although it is down from the year-ago period when it had a net loss of Rs 559 crore. The losses came down as the airline witnessed a 15%

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this January. Meanwhile, the airline’s auditors SR Batliboi & Associated have red flagged its concerns saying, “as of September 30, 2014, the company’s total liabilities exceed its total assets by Rs 1,459.7 crore. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The auditors point out that the loss would have been higher but for non-provision of Rs 7.5 crore for interest. Including this, the net loss for the September quarter would have been higher by a similar amount. But SpiceJet has claimed that its market stimulation

has worked as its topline grew 15% year-over-year in Q2, ahead of capacity increase of 7%. “SpiceJet’s market stimulation efforts have had a positive impact on the travel industry as a whole by helping increase demand to fill seats that would otherwise go empty. This has benefitted not just the airline through incremental revenue, but also customers who are getting much more affordable fares if they are willing to book early,” the airline said. Repeated discounts launched by Spicejet have led to a 28% growth in domestic passenger traffic in September, traditionally the weakest traffic month of the year, the airline claimed.

NeW Delhi, NoveMber 15 (ageNcies): Hindustan Motor Finance Corporation Limited (HMFCL) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) on Saturday launched new Pajero Sport priced at Rs. 23.55 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi). The all new Pajero Sport is available in 4x4 manual transmission and 4x2 automatic transmission with added features. This comes on the heels of the earlier introduction of limited edition dual-tone and the Anniversary Edition Pajero Sport, the company said in a statement. “Mitsubishi has reinforced its commitment to HMFCL and India. Sales increase of SUVs will boost the business fundamentals of our operations. Volumes will grow through launch of strategic models. We expect a quantum leap in our sales with the entry of the all new Pajero Sport and garnering of sizable market share,” Uttam Bose, Managing Director, HMFCL said. He said Mitsubishi’s new ‘Stage 2016’ strategy will provide new variants and models to go on sale in India.

Tata Motors focus on customer satisfaction, to woo back buyers

NeW Delhi, NoveMber 16 (PTi): Tata Motors is going all-out to please customers, right from buying experience to after sales service to enhance satisfaction, as it looks to overcome past issues and claw back to a dominant position in the domestic passenger vehicles market. Buoyed by the response to its latest compact sedan Zest that managed to pip Honda’s Amaze in October sales, the company is also integrating its ‘quality process’ in the entire product planning system from early design stages right up to the final vehicle. “We have studied trends in customer complaints at every touch point and have worked closely with the quality team in the manufacturing facility on repair quality feedback,” a Tata Motors

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layed or at times having repeated cancellations. The airline had last week said its had reduced its fleet by 10 planes from 48 to 38 over the past few months. Repeated phone calls and a text message sent to SpiceJet spokesperson remained unanswered. For September, the airline’s on-time performance stood at 81.9%, and was only second to the national carrier Air India, which clocked a poor 75.2%. The Gurgaonbased no-frills carrier, which has failed to secure required funds to overcome the cashcrunch, has been going in for advance discounted sales to mop up working capital from time-to-time, starting

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growth in total revenue. For the past fiscal, the airline had reported a record loss of a little over Rs 1,000 crore. “The airline is losing its flight crew at a regular interval. In the last six months alone as many as 40 pilots have quit the airline, citing uncertain future,” an industry source told PTI. The pilots who have parted ways with SpiceJet include the commanders, he said adding that those who resigned did not want to take a chance, particularly after the grounding of the Kingfisher Airlines. According to the source, the quitting of these pilots have also impacted the airline’s operations significantly with its flights either de-

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Government plans to amend law to empower consumers

NeW Delhi, NoveMber 16 (PTi): With an aim to empower consumers, the government plans to amend a law to allow customers to file case against sellers from their place of residence. As per current norms, the case has to be filed at the place of transaction. Also, the requirement of engaging lawyers in the consumer forums is likely to be done away with, if the goods or services availed is of less than Rs 2 lakh value. According to sources, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs proposes to bring amendments to the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 to make it more effective. The proposed amendments would be sent to the Cabinet for approval after seeking views from other ministries, they added. The objective for bringing in amendments is to protect consumer rights by simplifying the judicial process to ensure speedy and inexpensive justice. “Currently, customers have to file case against sellers from the place where they have bought the goods. We propose to allow customers to file the case from the place where they reside,” a source said, while giving details about changes proposed by the Ministry. “No lawyers shall be permitted for both the parties (consumers and sellers) if the value of good or service is less than Rs 2 lakh,” the source said, adding that mediation between both the parties would be allowed except in certain cases. The amended Act is likely to have provisions to cover ecommerce companies and some other service providers like Railways and courier firms. To make the complaint registration procedure simpler for consumers, the Ministry has not prescribed any fixed format and the complaints can also be made online. After 21 days, the complaints would be deemed to be accepted. Concerned over the pending cases in consumer forums, sources said the department has proposed that there would be only one stage for appeal in higher forum. Recently, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan had said that the government plans to make amendments in the Consumer Protection Act to “make it more effective as protection of consumers in terms of quality, quantity and safety is of utmost importance.” The government has proposed an authority under this law to protect consumers against unfair trade practices and also to keep a close watch on various consumer services also, he had said. Sources said the Central Consumer Protection Authority would be like an investigating agency, which will take up cases suo moto or complaints involving more than one person. It will promote, protect and enforce consumer rights and even recall hazardous products.

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spokesperson told PTI. In the past, Tata Motors had faced issues related to customer satisfaction in its after sales and service resulting in poor perception. The quality teams have helped the service team to resolve repairs in the most effective manner. The move helps in a revamped customer complaints management programme that is backed now by a post-resolution feedback system to ensure lasting resolutions and customer satisfaction, the spokesperson added. Further, the company has worked on the supply side by re-working its logistics management system for speedy spare parts delivery. It has also has enhanced its distribution warehouse network with development of

a warehousing facility in Pune. “DHL has been earmarked as the Logistics Service Provider for promoting a world class logistics experience to all supply chain channel partners,” the spokesperson said. Besides, Tata Motors has also been working to enhance customer engagement it its dealerships by upgrading over 150 showrooms to improve ambiance and show-room experience. “We will continue to focus on our national presence and continue to look at our internal and partner audits to fine-tune our customer service strategy to offer more services, quick turnaround times and enriched overall experience,” the spokesperson said. The initiatives being undertaken by

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the company have started to bear fruit as its latest offering in the compact sedan segment Zest has taken third spot, overtaking the likes of Honda Amaze. Honda Amaze sold 3,482 units in October while Tata Zest sold 3,524 units during the month. “With the determination to bring products that offer great vehicleexperiences,thequalityprocess is now integrated in our system from early design stages right up to the final product,” the spokesperson said. In the latest JD Power’s Customer Satisfaction Index, the company has moved from 6th to the 4th rank. In the April-October period the company’s passenger vehicle sales had declined by 32.32% to 86,802 units from 1,28,263 nits in the same period previous period last fiscal. STD CODE: 03862 232224; Emergency229529, 229474

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Support and care for HiV/aiDS patients without discrimination

pHeK, November 16 (mexN): One-day advocacy campaign on HIV & AIDS with stakeholders was conducted at Chizami town under 17th Chizami Assembly Constituency in Phek district on November 15, supported by Legislators Forum on AIDS (LFA) and organized by PNP+ Phek. Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education and SCERT was the guest speaker. Nukhu stated that Government of Nagaland through a collective decision had formed the Legislators Forum on AIDS with framed policies to fight HIV epidemics by reaching to the grassroots level. He highlighted that due to alcohol and substance abuse, most youth are vulnerable to HIV infection, which increases HIV transmission to the general population. There-

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Parliamentary Secretary, Deo Nukhu speaking during the advocacy campaign program held at Chizami town on November 15.

fore, he called upon cross section of people such as churches, youth, women, students, NGOs and government department to come forward and disseminate the correct information about HIV/AIDS and

its effect. Dr. Vinito L Chishi, State Consultant, LFA, gave a brief overview of the objective and role of the forum. He stated that with the collective effort, the legislators’ intensive campaign

on HIV has been reaching out to the community level. He encouraged involvement of community, which he said, will effectively reduce HIV prevention and reverse the epidemics for further infection. He also urged the church to voluntarily contribute and help the infected and affected people, socially and financially in times of need. Meanwhile, Dr. R. Rose, State Consultant HIV-TB, NSACS asserted that for management and eradication of every disease, it needs a political will to address the issues. He encouraged the gathering to give care and support to the people living with HIV/ AIDS without discriminating. He also urged the parents to impart sex education and moral values to their children stating that will develop their attitude and lifestyle. He also encouraged the church lead-

ers to preach about morality to the people. Mese Letro, President, PNP+ Phek gave a testimony on behalf of the HIV+ people. He called upon the people to give care and support to the infected and affected people without discriminating them. He also requested the government department, churches, villages, women bodies to show solidarity to the affected group, socially and financially. DAPCU and Mobile ICTC team displayed and distributed IEC materials during the programme. Free HIV testing was also conducted. Around 300 people, including village council, VDB members, church leaders, youth leaders, student leaders, women leaders, political leaders, NGOs and various government officials attended the programme.

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DC Kohima supervises cleanliness drive

DC Kohima, W Honje Konyak supervising the clearing up of sewages in the capital town on November 16. (DIPR Photo)

KoHima, November 16 (Dipr): Deputy Commissioner of Kohima, W Honje Konyak in his own capacity took the initiative to clean and clear up the sewages in the heart of the State capital. Clearing up the vicinity even on a Sunday, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) said that he has been giving his outmost effort to motivate the BROs to clean up the drainage and the boulders stretched on the road side from time to time. He stated that the wages of 10 labourers engaged in the works were donated by some individuals and well-wishers at the rate of Rs. 500 per head including

WYH Condemns ‘Quit notice’ by TVCU Dimapur, November 16 (mexN): A consultative meeting of the Western Yimchungrü Hoho (WYH) and its frontal organisation comprising of Western Yimchungrü Women organisation (WYWO), Western Yimchungrü Student’s Union (WYSU) and all its Federating units on November 16 has taken “cognizance” of the “quit notice” issued by Tuensang Village Citizen Union (TVCU) to Kuthur’s citizens to vacate Tuensang Town on or before November 20. According to the resolution adopted at the meeting issued to media through WYH’s President, Tochu Yimchungru and General Secretary, Lakiumong Yimchungru, the meeting unanimously condemned the ‘quit’ notification maintaining that, “The word “QUIT” notice is never heard ever since Quit Indian Movement.” The HOHO also appealed to the concerned State Authority to probe “such sen-

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sitive matters” without any partiality and positively and book the culprit before the situation aggravates further. Taking serious note of the concerns of the student’s community who are about to sit for their final examination starting from November 20, the WYH further warned that if any untoward action occurs and prevent the students from appearing their examination, “It will no longer remain a mute spectator for any such circumstances.” The WYH further extended its full co-operation to Kuthur residence of Tuensang Town for its “bold decision” to remain still despite the “quit notice” and offered its utmost support to their stand. The WYH and its unit also unanimously decided to support the Yimchungrü Tribal Council (YTC) abstaining from Attendees of the National Press Day Observation in Dimapur. (inset) Editor of Tir YimyEastern Nagaland People Organisation im, Temjen Jamir addressing the gathering at the observation of the National Press (ENPO). Day in Kohima on Sunday.

the refreshments. Even his bodyguards, drivers and others participated in the cleanliness drive. The DC said that the work started on November 14 and is being done even on Sunday to avoid traffic congestions and other related problems. He further added that as the festive season is nearing and the State is also expecting the Prime Minister of India as well many tourists to witness the Hornbill Festival, it was an imperative to keep the city clean. The DC further assured that he will extend his support and continue the work at least for ten days.

MEx FILE DPC Raffle Draw Results

Dimapur, November 16 (mexN): The Dimapur Press Club today announced the results of the clubs raffle draw. A press note from the DPC informed that winners are: 1st Prize—180; 2nd Prize—035; 3rd Prize—008 and consolation prizes – 010; 075; 295; 208 and 205.

Kiyanilie, NPF 8th Western Angami A/C condoles

KoHima, November 17 (mexN): The Minister of Social Welfare, Kiyanilie Peseyie and the NPF 8th Western Angami Assembly Constituency have expressed shock over the sudden demise of its women wing general secretary, Neisekhoseno Dahou on November 15. In a press condolence issued through NPF 8th Western Angami A/C president Megoneilhou Viyie, the Minister and the party described Lt. Neisekhono as someone who selflessly contributed and sacrificed for the uplift of the party in the region. “The vacuum created by her death will be hard to fill,” stated the press note. Sharing their grief and pain, it further conveyed its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and prayers of eternal peace for the departed soul.

CSS organises one-day workshop in Mkg Work for the welfare of the moKoKCHuNG, Novem- than giving importance to Khensa, Ungma, Mokokchung ber 15 (mexN): Care and outside of “our” land, mean- and Longmisa villages, and Sa- people: Neiphrezo to DPDB WSBAK women conference Support Society (CSS), Mokok- ing “our” mission works need bangya Compound and Mochung organized one day workshop on mainstreaming of people with disability (PwDs) for community leaders on November 14 at Sangtemla Ward here. One person each from Aliba Village Council, Suyim Students’ Union, Watsu Unit Khensa Village spoke regarding the welfare of People with Disability. They all asserted that “we” need to emphasize on “our” homeland rather

to start from home, according to a press release from Media Cell, CSS Mokokchung. Meanwhile, resource person, Imchawati Kichu, Managing Director, CSS Mokokchung, stressing on the importance of mainstreaming of people with disability in social, church, political areas also spoke on the uplift of PwD in the society. Around 50 members from Chungtia, Aliba, Kinunger,

kokchung School Compound attended the workshop. The workshop decided to open a vocational training institute for people with disability in the coming year. A committee was also formed consisting 11 representatives from the above 7 villages and 2 compounds to carry out the task. To lead the committee, the house entrusted Care and Support Society.

Zbto observes 61st All India Co-operative Week

ZuNHeboTo, November 16 (Dipr): Zunheboto district celebrated the 61st All India Co-operative Week on November 14 under the theme ‘Co-operative Model for sustainable and inclusive growth,’ organized by ARCS Zunheboto. The chief guest, Zhekheto Awomi, Project Director, ATMA, in his speech, highlighted about successful farmers, especially at Tobu area in Mon district, and farming school at Vishepu village. He said that the farmers in those areas were fetching annual turnout in

terms of crores and lakhs of rupees. Encouraging kiwi cultivation, which has been adopted in Zunheboto and Wokha district, he urged the farmers to sell the locally produced items at reasonable price. Parliamentary Secretary, Co-operation and Sericulture, Pukhayi Sumi also sent a message stating, “I am of view that co-operative model of development is the most desirable model for us, as farmers were supported with agricultural credits and market support hand in hand with educative co-operative training.”

KoHima, November 16 (Dipr): The Kohima District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) “day out programme” was held on November 15 at Chiethu (the site for proposed airport) in Chiechama. Addressing the gathering, MLA Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu thanked the Kohima DPDB for allowing Chiechama village to host the programme and hoped that it would allow the DPDB members to assess the area for future development projects as well. He said that although the society face a multitude of problems, the most important concerns that should be taken up on priority basis include the problem of unemployment and that of the state to become a producing community. He said that organic agriculture should be promoted so that our society becomes a producing state instead of it being a consumer state. Dr. Keditsu said that he would give full cooperation to all the departments and take up new challenges in the area and expressed full confidence that all concern would work together for the welfare of the

Students of Bethesda Higher Secondary School perform during the school Parents’ Day held on November 13.

leisure,” she reminded. The chief guest, pointing out the challenges posed by technology like mobile phones, smartphones, accessibility to internet etc. also said that parents and teachers should constructively channelise children's energy and time. She urged the parents and teachers

to develop basic values among the children. Earlier, Rev. Moses Murry, Chairman, Bethesda Hr. Sec. School said the invocation prayer and welcome address. He apprised the parents of the need of teaching their children to be God fearing, “which is the pre-

requisite to have wisdom and knowledge.” The programme was attended by the Secretary and Chairman of Walford Area Council. The highlights of the daylong celebration included variety of dances, choir performance, skits, songs, choreographies and cultural dances.

Dimapur, November 16 (mexN): The Western Sumi Baptist Church Association (WSBAK) Women Department held its 40th women conference at Phuhoto Village Baptist Church on November 8 and 9 with the theme, “God’s Instrument.” The programme was inaugurated by Easter H. Shohe, Secretary, WSBAK Department by reading a bible passage (II Tim 2:21). The conference speakers Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu, Executive Secretary, WSBAK and Niholi H. Shohe, Field Secretary, NSBAK Aqakito delivered their message based on the conference theme.

Eurokids celebrates Children’s Day Dimapur, November 16 (mexN): Eurokids International School, Dimapur celebrated Children’s Day with great pomp and show, where a fancy dress competition was also organized, at the Lions Club premises here on November 14. Children from Playgroup, Nursery and Eurojunior (LKG) participated in the program. According to a press release from Sandeep K Jain, Principal, Eurokids International, the children dress themselves as princess, Colgate, grapes, army man, Mother India, Tinker bell etc. He informed that competitions such as Fancy Dress are not only restricted to the students, but also extend to the parents, “and the effort made and interest taken by the parents was evident in the costumes of the children.”

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bHSS celebrates children’s Day Dimapur, November 16 (mexN): Bethesda Higher Secondary School (BHSS), Dimapur celebrated its 18th Parents' Day on November 13 at the new school campus. The mega event was graced by Elizabeth Ngully, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur as chief guest, informed a press release. The chief guest, in her address, thanked the school management for inviting her and lauded the talents exhibited by the children through different items. She also applauded the tremendous turnout of the parents, which she said, signifies the importance of parents’ partnership in the education of their children. She, being a mother herself, asked the parents to be role models stating parents are the first teachers. “Parents should be alert and check what their children do during their

people of the state. Chairman Chiechama Village in his short speech said that the Kohima DPDB members should take up the opportunity to visit their village and assess the conditions of the villagers. Representative from the Northern Angami Public Organisation also spoke in the meeting. While deliberating on the agenda for the day, SDO (C) Sechu Zubza and Convenor of the Implementing Policy on Non-Detention, Mohammad Ali, IAS appraised the members at length on suggestions as to how the new policy of Non-Detention in schools would be best suited to the state. The committee was entrusted to carry out an in-depth study on the adverse effect on the students’ community by the new policy. The committee was also entrusted to bring out its views and suggestions for submission to higher authorities for consideration. The programme was chaired by Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, W Honje Konyak. Vote of thanks was delivered by ADC Chiephobozou, Linda Solo.

a Movement

Movement cannot run by some mere Passion or some Ignited Emotions. A Movement cannot run by a mere Human Intellect and Human Wisdom. A Movement cannot run by just few people coming together for a moment in time and everyone going different ways at other times. A Movement cannot survive the storm or withstand a quake if it is not prepared to face any eventuality and ready to endure constant and unrelenting adversity come what may. A Movement withers when personal whims and fancies become more pertinent than the common cause. A Movement fades when finding of human errors becomes the Sole Goal. A Movement finishes when some people think they're right every time while others are wrong .A Movement can never run by alone blind faith and misplaced passions. A Movement can never run if its mission has no vision. A Movement vanishes when

prayer does not lead it to guide it. A Movement dismembers when bitterness and resentment becomes its soul food and revenge becomes its thirst quencher .A Movement stifles when divided aspirations sets in for want of self appeasement. A Movement pass away when its true purpose is replaced by own interests. A Movement’s significance loses when name, fame, wealth and selfish interests becomes the main agenda. A Movement can Never Ever withstand the Change because everything changes and nothing is permanent in this world except Change ,but if God is its Guide then it overcomes any ordeal, challenges or tribulations and pass the test of time. What good is Sovereignty if we lose our Freedom? What good is Freedom if we lose our Rights? What good are our Rights if we lose our Lives? What good are our Lives if they have no Purpose?

What good is a Purpose if it does not Serve? What good is a Service if it has no Principle? What good is a Principle if it has no Vision? What good is a Vision if it has no Value? What good is Value of Humanity if it fails to give the very essence of the importance of Human Life? Because we are fools indeed when we make war with our very own Brothers-in- Arms. To be very truthful, are we fighting for the Right kind of Freedom? True Freedom means not just liberty from the bondage of some foreign occupation but living without Restraints on the Right to Life and FREE FROM ALL FEARS EXCEPT THE FEAR OF GOD, the Creator and of all things and the CONTROLLER OF ALL THE DESTINY.

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Lure of Power

Need to downsize, reset NPF govt

he Shiv Sena is already sharing power with the BJP in Delhi under the NDA Alliance and has a Minister with Cabinet rank in the Narendra Modi government. Also in the post-poll scenario in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena could have easily chosen to embrace power in alliance with the BJP under the new Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. However the Shiv Sena has taken a stand not to join the BJP government in Maharashtra and instead deciding to sit in the opposition. Not surprisingly, the Shiv Sena is getting a lot of bad press for the way it has handled the political situation, starting with the breakdown of its alliance with the BJP over seat sharing in the run up to the Maharashtra Assembly elections and later its failure to fall in line once the BJP emerged victorious in the elections, although short of a simple majority. Some analysts said that by not joining the BJP’s government, the Shiv Sena had displayed lack of political maturity while some termed the decision as a ‘shame’ and ‘alarming’. Whether or not one agrees with the political ideology of the Shiv Sena, due credit must be given to it for showing the way that ‘principle’ and self respect is more important than to hanker for power. Compare this renunciation of power by the Shiv Sena and what is happening in a Christian state like Nagaland where our leaders are power hungry and will go to any extent to achieve their goal. There is a lesson to be learned in political integrity as shown by the Shiv Sena. If it was in Nagaland, our political leaders would not think twice when it comes to the lure of power and authority. As we have witnessed many times including in the aftermath of the most recent Assembly Elections, our politicians are ready to sell their independent status, party loyalty, principles and whatever self respect they may have in order to join the ruling bandwagon. And after making their political affiliation, they will not rest till their demand for sharing the spoils of office is met. Perhaps nowhere in India do we have a situation when the Chief Minister has to allocate ministerial position to all elected ruling MLAs. Our political culture has become so desperate for power that we have stopped to appreciate the ideals of serving the people, which is actually what leaders are supposed to do as their first duty. And it’s not that we have the resource to have such a big ministry and appoint so many ministers, parliamentary secretaries, advisors etc, occupying every chair available to the extent that we even have to allocate separate portfolios for Village Guards Organization, GBs and DBs Affairs, MACROFED, Nagaland Hotels Ltd, Printing & Stationary, Prisons etc. In many ways given the state of our poor finances, thoughtless politics, governance deficit and development potholes, Nagaland is in an embarrassing situation. Only some tough decisions followed by discipline, hard and honest work can bail out the State from its present abyss we have created. The Chief Minister and the ruling party led by its President, if they are bold enough, should direct all the Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries to resign en-mass so that the CM can downsize and reset his government by appointing a small team of Ministers, like how Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done at the Centre, focusing on minimum government and maximum governance. We need to drastically cut down on our political extravagance and shed our glorified attitude which we carry as though we are super rich, when in fact we keep going to Delhi to beg. Are we in Nagaland ready for some discipline? And who knows, the present Modi government may come to our financial aid once we are able to demonstrate the course correction needed to have a strong, transparent and accountable government. (Feedback can be sent to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)

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Healing words in 'Small Victories'

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ans of author Anne Lamott know reading her work is like finding a favorite sweater from the depths of the closet on the first crisp fall day: warm, comforting, familiar and easy. Her new book, "Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace," is a collection of beautifully written essays, filled with nuggets of wisdom gathered over years of mindful living. The stories tackle some heavy topics, from Lamott's alcoholic, dysfunctional family to mourning the illness and death of friends. But Lamott's candor, and sarcastic, self-deprecating humor, lighten the content and engage readers. The author's faith is a strong part of her foundation and informs her views of the world. She infuses her Book storytelling with Christian principles and Zen insight, and manages all this without Review sounding preachy. It's this spirituality that "Small Victories: Spotting helps keep her mind open to moments of Improbable Moments grace in unexpected places, like finding of Grace" (Riverhead Books), by Anne Lamott common ground with strangers during a long flight delay, or appreciating warm gloves and shelter after a hard fall on the ski slopes. Her tone is intimate and the pace slow, allowing readers to linger over each essay, like a great meal with friends you never want to end. She boils complicated matters down to basics, and stretches the limits of emotional depth in simple stories with larger lessons. Now 60, Lamott's conversational and confessional style — sprinkled with pop culture references — feels modern and cool, like her trademark dreadlocks. A sensitive and thoughtful soul, she's also a feisty liberal — and doesn't pull political punches, taking several opportunities to bash President George W. Bush and conservatives. In separate essays about her father and mother, Lamott shares intimate details of growing up in a family that suffered from "spiritual anorexia." Her vulnerability is tangible, even years later. Forgiveness is a recurring theme as Lamott strives to let go of anger and resentment and concentrate on the present. "You sacrifice the need to be right, because you have been wronged, and you put down the abacus that helped you keep track of things," she writes. Lamott acknowledges many character flaws that ring true for anyone. In one story, she decides a fellow mom at school is her "Enemy Lite." She's certain this hateful woman — who's either exercising or baking cupcakes — is judging her, and perpetually trying to show her up. But as the relationship evolves, she realizes she was projecting all her fears of failure and maternal insecurities onto this woman. Once she sees the situation clearly, she's able to accept the woman's kindness and forgive herself for not being perfect. "I was trying to get her to carry all this for me because it hurt too much to carry it myself," Lamott writes. Lamott's subtle humor is at its best when she describes her foray into Internet dating. Her Goldilocks parade of prospects included men who were anti-religion, self-involved, apolitical and hated her politics. One wore an unbuttoned tropical shirt, another had an unbearable laugh. Alas, no love connection, but she finds satisfaction in conquering the awkwardness and fear of dating. She's learned the best you can do is try not to fix people, just show up and listen. When a friend's child is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a community of friends and neighbors offers food, rides, baby-sitting and hugs. She compares the compassionate support to building a barn around the family — a shelter against the cruel unfairness of reality. Lamott often seeks solace in nature and uses hikes in the woods or a walk on the beach as a peace tonic, and a reminder to stay in the now. She says you can reach your dreams if you're willing to "fall in love with your own crazy, ruined self." That love takes time to grow. By sharing her journey from drunk to sober, broken to mended, hungry to spiritually fulfilled, her words heal us all.

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Dakar, boom city In 50 years the capital of Senegal has grown from 300,000 to 3 million people, and will reach 5 million within a decade. It has all the problems of urban West Africa, and also drug money

odou Lo, 34, an engineer who emigrated to Milan 12 years ago, was back in Senegal for the first time, visiting his family in Guédiawaye, north of the capital, Dakar. “Dakar has changed so much, it’s unrecognisable,” he said. He was realising he was no longer a streetwise Dakar boy. “I took a taxi during rush hour and spent two hours in a traffic jam. I don’t know my way around any more... everything has changed. The houses are all a couple of storeys higher.” At three in the afternoon, Lo served glasses of green tea to his friends in the courtyard and caught up on their news, while the radio played and sheep bleated in the background. An unemployed English graduate spoke about the new mayor of Guédiawaye, elected in June: “It’s Aliou Sall, the brother of President Macky Sall, a journalist who has come out of nowhere. He will make himself rich and nothing will change — there will still be just one state secondary school for the whole of Guédiawaye, power cuts, water shortages, no work, and transport problems. We fought against nepotism, but now it’s back.” Guédiawaye is a new town on the coast, 18km from the capital, built in 1972 to rehouse people from the shantytowns of the Plateau district as part of a decentralisation policy. It became one of Dakar region’s four departments in 1996, and now has a population of 286,000. Dakar is spreading in every direction. New houses — white, yellow, pink, some tiled — are transforming old roads into boulevards. Dakar was the capital of French West Africa from 1902 and, with Saint-Louis, Gorée and Rufisque, was one of the “four communes” given special status: their inhabitants were French citizens, with their own member of the French parliament. At independence in 1960, Dakar’s population was only 300,000, barely 10% of the country’s population. Today the city is stifling, despite the sea breeze. With more than 3 million inhabitants, a quarter of the population of Senegal, Dakar is bursting. The “beating heart of Senegal”, as its mayor Khalifa Sall (no relation to the president), a socialist elected in 2009, describes it, is part of the urban expansion affecting the whole of Africa (see A continent of city-dwellers). Senegal’s new agency for the promotion of tourism wants to make Dakar a centre for business and conference tourism. Its old airport (the second biggest in sub-Saharan Africa after Johannesburg, with 1,700,000 passengers in 2012) will be replaced next year when Blaise-Diagne airport opens. The road to the new airport passes through Diamniadio, 35km from Dakar. Once a small town, it was designated an urban centre by former president Abdoulaye Wade (2000-12) to relieve pressure on Dakar. Its new conference centre will host the international summit of francophone countries in November. Building boom According to the consulting firm ECA International, Dakar has become one of Africa’s 10 most expensive cities to live in. Near the current airport, and in Yoff, Ouakam, Ngor and the chic district of Almadies, land is expensive and the cement keeps flowing. Anyone who can afford it — businesses or individuals — is building houses to rent out for anywhere between $190 and $1,900 a month. Property speculation is rife even in the congested Plateau district. The war in Ivory Coast (2002-11) has brought an influx of international officials, NGOs and expatriates from Abidjan. Dakar was small at independence, and easier to live in. Those who were young there in the 1970s and 80s found it more elegant, intellectual and perhaps more authentic, and are now nostalgic. “These days,” wrote Pape Samba Kane, former head of the

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hose your grandchildren?” asked the crossing guard. We say hello many times a week, but this was the first time we chatted. “Nope,” I responded, trying to be casual, “These are my kids: Seamus is a little over two and Madeline is almost eight months.” She was so apologetic. I waved it off. “No big deal,” I said, pointing at my messy mop of gray hair. “I get it all the time.” But when I pass that way later the same day, I consider avoiding her intersection entirely. I do get that all the time, but that doesn’t mean I like it. Age is a funny thing. I am 40. And, I have gray hair, lots of it. The crossing guard isn’t wrong to assume. I am old enough to be a grandmother without having been a teenage mother. I don’t feel like a grandma, and I don’t think I look like one, but that is what she saw: My hair says “old” to the world. When I look at her closely — for the first time — after that exchange, I see that she is younger than I am, maybe in her mid-30s. I hadn’t seen her any more than she had seen me. I saw the uniform. I tend to imbue positions of authority with age and wisdom — crossing guards, police officers, principals, dentists, reference librarians — I see them all as agelessly older, even when they are a decade younger than me. It occurred to me that we are moving so fast sometimes, cruising on autopilot, that we don’t really see each other. We take the short cut. We look for the signifiers — white hair, uni-

satirical newspaper Le Cafard libéré (The Liberated Cockroach), “Dakar grasps at riches, at the flash but empty, the fleeting gleam of the chrome of luxury cars, the vulgar glint of big sunglasses worn even on television, skyscrapers paid for with suitcases stuffed with cash. This brash Dakar of money fallen from the sky, of tight jeans, chic but soulless restaurants, exists alongside another Dakar ... where yesterday’s underground has become today’s mainstream.” Dakar now has a university with 70,000 students (48.6% of the population is under 18), a Unesco World Heritage Site (the Island of Gorée), the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa and the headquarters of the Central Bank of West African States; it has international conferences, a Biennale of contemporary art, and street culture; and it has famous residents such as designer Adama Ndiaye, who organises Black Fashion Week in cities around the world. “Growing up here gives you a diverse aesthetic, with cinema and influences from all over: the East, America, Africa,” said Omar Victor Diop, 33, a photographer whose portraits of artists are exhibited globally. The other side of the coin Yet a third of Dakar’s population lives below the poverty line (compared with 46.7% nationally, according to official figures); 80% of the country’s economic activity is concentrated in the huge industrial zone that stretches east from the port of Dakar (the ninth biggest in Africa) to Rufisque, along Hann Bay. Dakar attracts people from rural areas, but also immigrants from Guinea, Mali and Niger; they all move into shantytowns built of wood and corrugated iron, or rent rooms in Pikine and Guédiawaye. During the rainy season in August, these two overpopulated suburbs are flooded, and residents and the local authorities have to pump out the stagnant water, increasing the risk of malaria and cholera. (In 2009 the government launched a project to clean up Hann Bay, the most polluted area of the country.) It is hard to work out who is managing this urbanisation, since there are so many levels of decisionmaking in an administration modelled on the French system. Different urban development plans have become jumbled and the situation needs to be sorted urgently, as the population is expected to reach 5 million in the next decade. Khalifa Sall has criticised the latest phase of the decentralisation started in 1990, which this year transferred powers, including procurement, to district councils. (Dakar has been divided into 19 districts since 1996.) The mayor is concerned that projects started by the city will be frozen through lack of funds, and that the city council has to compete with central government to manage these projects. Upmarket developments have spread along the seafront, privatising beaches and blocking views of the Atlantic. The association SOS Littoral is suing the luxury hotel Terrou-Bi which has seized the “chil-

dren’s beach” and now charges people to use it. The association has stopped the singer Aby N’dour, sister of the singer/composer/businessman Youssou N’dour, from building a restaurant in the seaside district of Fann-Résidence, on one of its last green spaces. The honorary president of SOS Littoral, Pierre Goudiaby, alerted the local mayor when the singer sent bulldozers in August to dig up public land. A former mayor had given her the necessary permits, which have since been withdrawn. “It’s ridiculous — she had all the necessary papers and was completely within the law. Mayors hand out these permits, because it makes them money, and take decisions they don’t understand,” said Goudiaby. In its latest report, the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa notes that Senegal is on the cocaine route between Latin America and Europe, and worries about “an explosion in house-building, particularly in Dakar and in tourist areas, which is not compatible with the economic realities of the country”. “We don’t want anything to do with drugs money,” said Goudiaby. He is the owner of construction company Atepa and, as an architect, is known for large-scale projects across Africa. He designed the new national theatre, built with funding from China, close to the railway station (a superb colonial-era building). He also designed the African Renaissance Monument, a statue built by a North Korean company in return for a few hectares of land. “In Senghor’s day,” Goudiaby said, “there was a national town planning committee that met twice a year, and got everyone together from the president to the firemen. Things were clear then — Senghor used to say: ‘The minister of town planning, that’s me.’ The committee has not met for 30 years. The result is, everyone just does what they want.” Even Almadies, where Goudiaby, Youssou N’dour and other celebrities live, cannot escape the chaos: Goudiaby said an unsightly eight-storey building had suddenly appeared there, in the garden of a French billionaire. There has been some success in managing urban transport, with interchanges and motorways built during Wade’s presidency, for the 2008 Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit. But a new tunnel dug along the coast road means tourists cannot reach the art and craft village opposite the Soumbédioune fish market easily, and that affects the artisans. If the energy and initiative of Dakar’s inhabitants were properly channelled, they could enhance urban management. “Dakar is made up of big villages,” said architect Bécaye Blondin Diop. “You can still see it in some places, like Yoff, Ngor and Soumbédioune. Town planning should take account of this village state of mind, but also of the needs of the inhabitants. The entire northern coast, more than 100km from Yoff to M’Boro, still needs to be developed, but with projects that are not just elitist.”

Don’t call me Grandma: The struggle of going gray in a youth-obsessed world Frida berrigan Waging Nonviolence form, whatever — and base our assumptions on that. The crossing guard’s apologetic response reminded me of how people act when they mistake Madeline for a boy. “I am so sorry! I just saw the blue stripes.” She is wearing a little blue dress, but okay. “I love your hair,” said the woman coming up behind me crossing First Avenue on the Lower East Side in New York. “I wish I could let my hair go natural.” This comment is both more flattering and more problematic than being mistaken for my children’s grandmother. I wanted to say, “Then go for it, lady. Let your white shine through.” I could have taken the opportunity to launch into a polemic on resisting and overturning the impossible beauty ideals and eternal youth aspirations that our culture imposes on women. I could have lectured on the destructive environmental consequences of all those sexy auburn and sunny blonde and raven black chemicals that wash the gray right out of your hair. I could have issued my declaration of freedom from the salon indus-

trial complex right there on a Manhattan street corner. But I didn’t. Instead, I said something like “thank you” and walked on swinging my hair with just a hint more swagger. The culture does a number on women. In 2008, the YMCA produced a really important report that should be updated and reissued, called “Beauty At Any Cost: The Consequences of America’s Beauty Obsession on Women and Girls.” Here is a fact worthy of a banner headline: We spent $7 billion a year on cosmetic products, $1,200 a person. It says a lot about who we are as a society, doesn’t it? If we opted out of our monthly mani/pedi and invested that $50 in an IRA instead, we’d have saved $12,000 in 10 years. I am saying “we” even though my last pedicure was a year ago — a very special treat — and I can’t remember my last cosmetic purchase. Now that I have little kids, my gray hair gets in the way all the time. They pull on it and chew on it and put their food in it for safe-keeping. It sheds all over the place. I am picking my hairs

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out of their neck folds and from between their toes constantly. My head sheds enough dust-bunnies and tumbleweeds throughout our house to be cozy inner layers of hundreds of birds’ nests. It is gross. Anne Kreamer, who wrote “Going Gray,” estimated that she spent $65,000 dying her hair before giving it all up for gray. The choice (if that is even the right word for letting nature take its course) is definitely economical. But it is not just about money, right? As the YWCA report observes, “The pressure to achieve unrealistic physical beauty is an undercurrent in the lives of virtually all women in the United States, and its steady drumbeat is wreaking havoc on women.” And still, I am not immune from all the messages our culture beams at women. I have my vanity even if I don’t do most of the lady things that TV tells us to do. But I don’t want to cut off all my hair like so many mommies and women of a certain age tend to do. Then I would really look like a grandma. I don’t even wash or moisturize my face. Since the kids have come along, I manage to brush my teeth twice a day and floss most nights and (almost always) put on deodorant. Sometimes I wish I was different. My imaginary version of me is 20 pounds thinner, less splotchy and embodies an effortless elegance. But she still has a big mess of gray hair and she is working hard to see past the signifiers and into the real people in her world.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

We’ve got our eye on you Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American

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evelations on US National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programmes based on Edward Snowden’s cache of its data files caused “fundamental, irreversible changes in many countries,” wrote journalist Glen Greenwald, who brokered many of the disclosures. In 2013 Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil took public stands against US privacy invasions — they had personally been victims — and the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to affirm online privacy as a human right. In June 2014, responding to the EU, the US Justice Department promised to send legislation to Congress that would grant European citizens many of the (inadequate) privacy protections accorded to US citizens. But to grasp fully the importance of the Snowden affair, we must broaden our focus beyond the transgressions of an overbearing superstate and examine the impact of his revelations on the forces shaping the global political economy, structured around the US. The NSA’s spying functions are an integral part of the apparatus of US military power. Since 2010 the director of the NSA has shaped US offensive operations through his concurrent appointment as head of the US military’s Cyber Command: both agencies are housed in the US Department of Defense. Admiral Michael S Rogers, the newly appointed head of both the NSA and the Cyber Command, confirmed the position when he explained to a New York Times reporter “how the United States might use cyberweapons ... as part of ordinary military operations, like cruise missiles and drones”. This military apparatus operates within the more far-reaching context of US strategic alliances. Since 1948 the core of the US’s global signals intelligence programmes has been the UKUSA (United KingdomUnited States of America Agreement), in which the US is designated the “first party” and the NSA specifically “is recognised as the dominant party”. The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are “second parties”. Each of these nations, besides assuming primary responsibility for signals intelligence collection in a region, and bolting itself to the US through joint facilities and joint operations, is granted access to pools of collected intelligence on terms set by the US. These UKUSA countries — the “Five Eyes” nations — worked together for decades to wage a global cold war. The prime adversary was the old Soviet Union, but the growing success of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and even anti-capitalist movements throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America inspired the US to develop a worldwide intelligence-gathering capability. The alliances that anchored this system went far beyond the “Five Eyes”. On the Soviet Union’s eastern and western flanks, Japan and Germany were among the treaty’s “third parties”. After the Snowden revelations, Angela Merkel requested that the US begin to share intelligence with Germany on terms comparable to those enjoyed by “second parties”; the Obama administration rebuffed her request. Intelligence relationship with China The number and identities of “third party” signatories has fluctuated, though all are accorded a lower level of access to intelligence. Iran, well placed to observe the Soviet Union’s southern territories, served until its 1979 revolution. The US then sought, and found, an alternative: Henry Kissinger’s secret April 1970 visit to the People’s Republic of China began a US intelligence relationship with China which became institutionalised. Xinjiang Province was convenient for eavesdropping on the USSR, and Deng Xiaoping, who masterminded the opening-up of China’s economy, permitted the CIA

to construct two monitoring stations there, as long as they were run by Chinese technicians. These sites, operational by 1981, functioned at least into the mid-1990s. The fact that no country beside the US possesses a pervasive, global spying system proves that the argument that “all countries do it” is specious. From satellites in the late 1950s to the Internet infrastructure today, this unparalleled US global surveillance complex has been continuously modernised. But since the fall of socialism in the early 1990s, it also has been repurposed. Its function is still to combat challengers, and would-be challengers, to a global political economy that is built around US interests. Today, however, the threats come from non-state actors, from less-developed countries intent on profit opportunities or on pursuing alternative developmental paths, and, crucially, from developed capitalist rivals. To clarify this strategic shift we must also highlight an economic aspect of the US intelligence system that is linked to wider digital capitalism. An unaccountable industry of cyber-war and signals collection and processing has been built up over recent decades, and it includes Snowden’s former employer, Booz Allen Hamilton. Concerted and sustained privatisation has routinised “intelligence outsourcing”, transforming a longtime governmental function into an expansive joint effort by the state and corporate capital. As Snowden demonstrated, the US surveillance complex now penetrates to the heart of the US Internet industry. There is good reason to think that Silicon Valley companies participated systematically, and mostly fraternally, in at least part of the top-secret NSA “Enduring Security Framework”. An expert on military communications applauded the “close ties of American companies ... to the US national security establishment” for facilitating “access to international traffic by the National Security Agency” in 1989. This structural relationship remains. Though we may not assume that the corporate interests of most of the leading US Internet companies are fused, let alone identical, with those of the US government, there is little question that most of them have been indispensable collaborators. More than a year after Snowden’s disclosures began, the NSA director conceded “that the majority of corporations that had long given the agency its technological edge and global reach were still working with it”. Distancing themselves from the spooks After Snowden, however, Google, Facebook and others scrambled to distance themselves by professing outrage. Their protestations had little to do with political principle: US Internet corporations have built their businesses around mass spying for commercial purposes, on their own account and for their patrons, big advertisers and marketers. Large-scale corporate data collection is not a natural or intrinsic net feature. It had to be enabled, by reworking the early Internet’s technical design. During the 1990s, when the World Wide Web was first being woven into social and cultural life, Internet companies and corporate advertisers overpowered public interest groups in lobbying the Clinton administration to minimise privacy restrictions, so that they could re-engineer the Web to enable commercial surveillance of users. Social networks, search engines, service providers and advertisers repulse even modest efforts at data protection, and continue to press for commercial surveillance to be pervasively integrated online, hence their promotion of cloud computing services. In this way a few thousand giant corporations have become able to capture information about the world’s population every hour of the day. As Evgeny Morozov explained, these companies’ profit strategies are utterly reliant on user data — it is that simple. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says they constitute “surveillance engines”. These profit strategies are the basis of digital capitalism’s continuing development. The impulse to capture personal life electronically is strengthened by economic and political pressures. But mass surveillance also faces a dual vulnerability, which Snowden’s disclosures highlighted. After the European Court of Justice ruled this May that individuals have a right to request the removal of search results linking to “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” personal data, Google received 41,000 “right-to-be-forgotten” requests in four days. Even more telling is that 87% of the 15,000 people polled in 15 countries by public relations firm Edelman Berland this June agreed that there should be laws “to prohibit businesses from buying and selling data without my opt-in consent”; the top threat to online privacy was thought

to be “businesses using, trading or selling my personal data for financial gain without my knowledge or benefit”. The White House sought to prevent this view from becoming a political current by releasing a report recommending limits on the corporate use of data about customers; but the Obama administration determinedly agreed with big business that “big data will become an historic driver of progress”. Rejection of US corporate and state dominance of digital capitalism went beyond poll data. For those who sought to fight back against US Internet companies, Snowden’s disclosures presented unanticipated opportunities. Some had been waiting a long time. An extraordinary 2014 “open letter to Eric Schmidt”, Google’s executive chairman, from the CEO of one of Europe’s biggest publishers shows this. The Axel Springer Group’s Matthias Dopfner charged that Google, which then had a 60% share of online advertising in Germany, aimed to become an unaccountable “digital superstate”. Dopfner explained that Europe remained a sclerotic force in this important domain, and sought to enlarge the manoeuvring room for German business interests (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton supplement, 17 April 2014). That the global political economy remained locked in chronic stagnation only intensified corporate and state combat over prized sites of profit growth. On one side were the US Internet providers and corporate users, the praetorian guard of a US-centric digital capitalism. Microsoft deploys more than a million computers in over 40 countries to deliver its services from more than 100 data centres. Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems together accounted for a 96% share of the smartphones shipped globally during the second quarter of 2014. Europe’s performance remained lacklustre, as it has lost dominance in the mobile phone market and its Galileo project to create an independent global positioning system has stumbled. The range, dynamism and profitability of onlineenabled digital capitalism were extraordinary not only in the industry, but across automobile manufacturing, medical services, education and finance. Which units of capital, headquartered in which jurisdictions, would appropriate the resulting profits? ‘Undermining confidence’ Snowden’s disclosures added an unpredictable element to this, as contingencies and challenges erupted around US cyber-dominance. Within weeks of the first stories, speculation increased that Snowden’s leaks could hurt the international sales of US technology companies. This May, the CEO of the US tech equipment company Cisco wrote to President Obama to warn that the NSA scandal was undermining “confidence in our industry and in the ability of technology companies to deliver products globally” (Financial Times, 19 May 2014). Citing Snowden’s revelations, some states moved to alter economic policy, and this threatened US Internet businesses. Brazil and Germany proposed to allow only local providers to store their citizens’ data, and Russia already had legislation to this effect. The German government terminated its longstanding telecommunications service contract with Verizon, directing its business to Deutsche Telekom; two weeks later it expelled the head of US intelligence in Germany. A Christian Democratic leader suggested that German politicians and diplomats should use manual typewriters for sensitive documents. Brazil and the EU, which plan to construct a new submarine cable network as an alternative to reliance on US cables for intercontinental communications, granted the contract to Brazilian and Spanish companies. Brazil talked of abandoning Microsoft Outlook in favour of an email system using Brazilian data centres. This economic policy backlash against US Internet capital has not abated. Germany banned the Uber taxisharing smartphone app in September. In China, the government is trying harder to promote national corporate champions by calling US Internet equipment and services a security threat, and by leaning on nationallybased companies to stop buying them. US Internet companies went on a public relations offensive, and also raced to reorganise their overseas operations, to reassure worried foreign customers that they were complying with local data protection measures. IBM committed over a billion dollars to building additional data centres overseas, hoping to ease customer fears that their data was not safe from the US government’s surveillance. But then the US authorities demanded that Microsoft hand over emails stored on its servers in Ireland, and everybody was frightened again. The US government still aims to renew and augment the advantages of US Internet capital. The US Attorney

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General filed formal charges in May against five Chinese military officers for commercial cyber-espionage, with the “justification” that China was using flagrantly illegal competitive tactics. The Financial Times disclosed on 22 May that the US indictment had “struck a chord in German industry, where there is disquiet over the theft of intellectual property.” This might have been the effect for which US officials had hoped. Why did the US choose that moment to act? US leaders have vilified China for its alleged cyber-attacks against American businesses for years, just as the US has placed its own traps and backdoors into routers and other equipment supplied by the Chinese company, Huawei. It is easy to see a political motive: in an election year, a Democratic administration was able to claim China was a predator, taking jobs from US workers through theft of intellectual property. Showcasing China’s transgressions subtly underlined that, among allies, the status quo of a US-centric digital capitalism remains the best alternative. Heart of the matter This is the heart of the matter. Snowden reportedly hoped that one effect of his whistleblowing would be to “provide the support needed to build a more equal Internet”. He hoped not only to ignite debate over privacy rights and surveillance, but also to influence an opaque — but fraught — controversy over the Internet’s unbalanced structure. That structure has always favoured the US. There has been international opposition sporadically since the 1990s. It intensified between 2003 and 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society, and again in 2012 at a multilateral meeting convened by the International Telecommunication Union. Snowden’s disclosures escalated this conflict over “global Internet governance”. Their result was to weaken “Washington’s ability to shape the debate about the Internet’s future,” concluded the Financial Times, quoting “a former senior US government official” as stating “The US has lost the moral authority to talk about a free and open Internet” (21 April 2014). After Dilma Rousseff protested over NSA transgressions at the UN General Assembly in September 2013, Brazil announced that it would host an international meeting to review the US-centric institutional policies for the global Internet. NETmundial, the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance” convened in São Paolo in April. This conference drew comments from 180 participants, including governments, companies, and civil society organisations. A few weeks before NETmundial, the US pre-empted what might have been an attempt to overhaul the fundamentals of governance, by promising to relinquish its formal role in overseeing the Californian nonprofit corporation that manages some of the Internet’s essential functions; though it imposed important conditions. The US-based Software and Information Industry Association welcomed the outcome: “The language on surveillance was measured ... this meeting provided no cover for those who favor inter-governmental, ie United Nations, control over the Internet”. Geopolitical-economic conflicts and nascent realignments shaped the Sao Paolo meeting, its outcomes and its aftermath. Brazil deferred to the US, but Russia and Cuba did not agree to Netmundial’s final document, Russia claiming that US rhetoric about “Internet freedom” rang hollow. India unhappily declared that its assent would be contingent on additional consultations with its government. China charged — not inaccurately — that the US maintained a “cyber hegemony” (China Daily, 21 May 2014). Activist groups, notably the Just Net Coalition, recommitted themselves to taking back the Internet “from the alliance of global corporate interests and the US.” This perception now resonates internationally. The Group of 77 plus China, taking note of NETmundial, has called for “intergovernmental entities to discuss and review the use of information and communications technologies to ensure that they fully comply with international law” — and has demanded an end to extraterritorial mass surveillance. There is a deepening structural conflict over the shape and mastery of digital capitalism. The disparate interests ranged against US corporate and state power have gained momentum, but the US is set on renewing its global dominance. Henry Kissinger, a stalwart US supremacist, wants Americans to ask: “What do we seek to prevent, no matter how it happens, and if necessary alone? What do we seek to achieve, even if not supported by any multilateral effort?” But states, corporations and their adherents are not the only political actors, as Snowden has reminded us.

pOLL rESuLTS

Will the Ebola epidemic affect inflow of tourists to The Hornbill Festival 2014? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Yes it will affect. The point I want to make is that it may not necessarily affect the number of tourists but just imagine if one person affected with Ebola turns up for the Hornbill Festival. It would be catastrophic. With no precautionary measures taken by the Nagaland government, it will be costly for Nagaland. • Yes, B'cos there might be infected person.. • Yes it will definitely affect the Hornbill Festival. The affect may not be in terms of the numbers of international, Indian and local tourists, but it has exposed our health system and our tourism department. The epidemic shows that our health care system is not prepared to deal with any health crisis that is in a mass scale. Also our tourist department is only concerned about themselves and the festival. Tourism also means good health care. They are look-

ing at tourism from a very narrow concern, our look out. manner and so I dont think our • No. But Nagaland govt should be more vigil... tourism will flourish in future. • Yes, in the long run it is going 57% to affect because Nagaland has no proper health care

Ebola outbreak are unlikely to appointment is the arrogant and visit Nagaland, a good sign since irresponsible attitude of the Nagawe don't have the technology to land government. Their unwillingscreen the tourists. ness to take any responsibility is • No because any tourists a shame for all. This shows just from abroad will have to pass how drunk with power they are. through many layers of all sorts • Of course most of those who reof hurdles before entering here spond will say No because it is Some of those who voted and as India has no reported really difficult to make any asno had this to say: case of Ebola there is no dan• No it will not affect the hornbill sessment. It is no doubt a serious ger there. As for them being concern and I wish the government fest. This is a good question scared Nagaland is one of the should take more measures. We because it opens our eyes and makes us think. most isolated states in India. have all kinds of tourists come in 27% • Of course many of us will vote So again there is no reason from all different parts of the world, NO because we dont really for Ebola to affect the inflow so who can say what. I guess we know the actual status of the of tourists. I guess that's good will know the real answer only after Ebola epidemic in Nagaland news although I hate the hornthe Hornbill festival. or for that matter in India. We bill and the concept. • 4get about Ebola, beware of 16% are all romantics and think AIDS...(in short)... that it will not affect our little Some of those who voted • Even in India there is not proper state and none of us actualOTHERS had this to say: system to detect Ebola. Actually ly want to think that it will af• It is difficult to say because in most countries there is no propfect the Hornbill Festival. Lets there is so little awareness on er mechanism in place. So actukeep our fingers crossed. Ebola in this side of the globe. ally we will not know if there are YES no OTHERS • No. Nagaland has so far no foreign tourists that are affected It may affect international tourreport of Ebola, and it will not by the virus. Also our government ists, but not domestic tourists. be their (tourists) problem in any • No. Nagaland is safe, free from • Whether it affects Hornbill or not is precautionary measures are just eventuality. So it should be our Ebola. Tourists from countries of not so much my concern. My disnamesake. We will never know.

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Abrogation of Article 370 will lead to massive unrest: Farooq Abdullah

loNDoN, November 16 (PTi): Health woes have kept Farooq Abdullah far away from home but the three-term Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir says that his bigger worry today is BJP’s “sinister” plan to abrogate the state’s special status which will lead to “massive unrest”. For the first time in nearly four decades, the 77-year-old President of the ruling National Conference, who is in the UK for the last three months for treatment of failing kidneys, is unable to lead his party’s campaign in an Assembly election. “I am a batsman under treatment but raring to go back to the field,” he said in an interview to PTI here, explaining that he was unlikely to be in a position to go back home before February next, well after the Nov-Dec polls. “But believe me my bigger worry is the known agenda of the BJP to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution which gives our state a special status for which commitments were given by Mahatma Gandhi and by the Government of India. “They (BJP) will do anything to achieve their objectives. They will polarise this sensitive state as they have done in the rest of the country. They will strike deals with anyone,” Abdullah said. Warning of serious implications of abrogation of Art 370, he said, “there

Will do only what people want: BJP on Article 370

SriNAgAr, November 16 (PTi): Reacting to apprehensions that BJP may abrogate Article 370, the party on Sunday said it would only do what the people of state want with regard to the provision of the Constitution that grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. “On this issue (of Article 370), everyone, from our Prime Minister to our spokespersons, has clarified... I want to assure you that BJP will do only what the people (of the state) desire,” the party’s in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir Avinash Rai Khanna told reporters here. Khanna was responding to the worry expressed by National Conference President Farooq Abdullah that BJP has a “sinister” plan to abrogate the state’s special status which will lead to “massive unrest”. On Abdullah’s worries, the BJP leader said the leaders of the state were “trying to build an atmosphere” of apprehensions over the issue. Khanna also responded to Abdullah’s criticism of BJP’s attempts to rope in separatist leader Sajad Lone who recently met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying “we should be happy if the minds of such people have changed”.

Farooq Abdullah. (File Photo)

would be massive unrest in younger minds and we will never achieve peace.” About Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the veteran politician said, “I do not know whether he can go against the dictates of RSS on Art 370. It will be a great day for the entire nation when he understands the heartbeats of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.” Criticising BJP’s attempts to rope in separatist leader Sajjad Lone who recently met Modi, Abdullah said, “people who have been strong supporters of an independent Kashmir are being wooed by the BJP.

Were they not the people who created hell in the state?” Abdullah regards the current election as “very significant” because it will decide the future of the state as to whether Jammu and Kashmir will continue to enjoy autonomy within the Constitution of India or Art 370 will be dismantled. “My appeal to the people is to forget all differences, all pains and tribulations of the past and stand together against forces determined to dismantle Kashmiriyat,” he said. The former chief minister appealed to the separat-

ist Hurriyat Conference not to boycott the election as “that will not help the situation but will only help those out to abrogate our special status”. He said that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are one state and “they have to stand together for the future progress of the state”. He urged “my Hindu brethren not to forget the slogan of NC — Hindu, Muslim, Sikh itehad (unity)” and added, “it is vital that the secular fabric of the state is not disturbed”. Abdullah urged his party workers to stand behind his son and current Chief Minister Omar in this cru-

cial election. Asked how he rated Omar’s performance, the veteran leader said, “he has done well with all the difficulties that come in a coalition government. He has tried to serve the people sincerely and with dedication. He is honest and upright.” He referred to the recent devastating floods describing them as an unprecedented natural disaster. “My heart goes out to the people who have suffered. The state government is doing whatever it can to rehabilitate them. I know there has been some criticism of the state admin-

Defamation not an Al Qaeda banking on SIMI to recruit educated Indian youth offence elsewhere, India reluctant to follow

New Delhi, November 16 (iANS): India is way behind other legal systems that have long junked defamation as a criminal offence, retaining it only as a civil offence involving exemplary costs. Most developed and even some developing democracies have turned their back on the law which criminalizes defamatory utterances, but India’s legal fraternity is surprisingly chary of letting this go. Several legal eagles of redoubtable commitment to personal liberty and freedom of expression seem to favour continuing with the 150-yearold-law, framed by Thomas Macaulay in 1860, in the face of a challenge to it in the Supreme Court. The court is yet to examine the plea by the brilliant maverick of a politician and now BJP leader Subramanian Swamy. Swamy has urged the court to read down the law so that no one is convicted for criminal defamation. Instead, exemplary costs could be imposed if the charges was proved beyond doubt. The law, as it stands now, epitomized in Section 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), carries a jail term of up to two years or a fine or both. Swamy wants the top court to do away with this penal clause. He has also urged the court to strike down Section 199 (2) (prosecution for defamation of those holding public positions) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani only partially agrees with Swamy. He was reluctant to countenance a view where defamation was reduced to a mere civil offence, but agreed that the law cannot treat those in public office and others on a different footing. “Just because you are a higher public servant, why should law make a difference? But completely doing away with it as a criminal offence was a matter of policy since Macaulay made it,” Jethmalani told IANS. “Some defamation is so wicked and wild that criminal punishment is desirable,” he added. Senior advocate K.T.S. Tulsi, however, said that functionaries defined under Section 199(2) require protection from motivated and irresponsible utterances. “Constitutional functionaries have to be protected from the ignominy of irresponsible criticism and utterances if the peoples’ faith in them and democratic institutions has to be preserved,” Tulsi told IANS. Several international covenants favour the abolition of criminal prosecution in defamation cases, but why is India reluctant to do away with a provision that has been used to gag dissent? Former Delhi High Court chief justice Rajinder Sachar said that tarnishing someone’s reputation was in many ways worse than inflicting an injury. “You cause a physical hurt or give a blow on my nose. The hurt will heal and the scar will go. But loss of reputation is a serious matter,” Sachar told IANS. “Reputation is my life, my existence. If it goes, everything goes. I can’t exist. Prima facie to me it (Swamy’s stance) looks like an extreme view. If monetary compensation is the only alternative, it will be a vulgar thing to happen and prone to mischief,” he added. Another former judge of the Delhi High Court, Jaspal Singh, questioned the logic of lobbing everything to civil courts. “Supposing the victim is not interested in compensation in terms of money? A civil suit would be an exercise in futility. The criminal justice system is faster and retributive,” Jaspal Singh told IANS. However, the rigour of the law could well be toned down without striking down the law itself, suggested senior advocate Bishwajit Bhattacharya as an alternative. “Any harsh provision by itself may not always be liable to be struck down as ultra vires of the constitution. It is up to the criminal court to be extremely cautious and circumspect while dealing with such provisions,” Bhattacharya told IANS. Whether or not it continues to be a criminal offence in India is more a matter of executive policy and legislative wisdom, he added.

New Delhi, November 16 (iANS): Al Qaeda, which has announced plans to target India, is keen on recruiting youth trained in computers or aeronautics for its terror designs and is taking the help of banned terror outfit SIMI for this, officials with access to intelligence inputs have revealed. Sources said intelligence inputs shared by central agencies with the police in some major cities including Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai talked of Al Qaeda not only planning to recruit disgruntled youth but had a target to pick up those familiar with use of computers or having knowledge about aeroplanes. They said that Al Qaeda, which was responsible for the Sep 11, 2001, attack on New York’s World Trade Center but has no reported presence in India till now, is using Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives in Pakistan to establish contacts with the sleeper cells of SIMI to recruit educated Muslim youth. “A recruit with some technical skill can prove to be more lethal than others. Al Qaeda wants to add manpower and gain capabilities,” an official, who did not want to be named, told IANS. Sources said that Al Qaeda has plans to cause blasts and other disturbances in India. Intelligence officials said that members of Al Qaeda were in touch with Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal, founder

members of Indian Mujahideen who are believed to be in Pakistan. The sources said there was evidence of growingtiesbetweenAlQaedaandIM. IM has worked in close association with SIMI in the past and its sleeper cells were sought to be used by Al Qaeda. SIMI was formed in Aligarh in 1977 and had several thousands of members and offices in almost every district of Madhya Pradesh before it was banned in 2002. The group is said to believe in fundamentalist Islam and to spread its values. In 2007, the Supreme Court of India described SIMI as a “secessionist movement”. Osama bin Laden’s successor Ayman al-Zawahri had in September announced the formation of Al Qaeda’s branch for the Indian subcontinent. He had said that it would spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of jihad” across the subcontinent. Zawahiri said the wing will defend the “vulnerable in the Indian subcontinent, in Burma, Bangladesh, Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad, and Kashmir” from “injustice and oppression.” “Not only in India, security establishments across the world have concerns about the rise of Al Qaeda and its attempts to recruit Muslim youth,” another security official told IANS. Sources said that police forces have also been asked to keep a tab on any efforts at the radicalisation of youth.

istration but I also know that Omar plunged fully into relief and rehabilitation efforts,” Abdullah said. Abdullah said the NC’s experience with its coalition partner Congress had been both good and bad. “The biggest stumbling block has been Saifuddin Soz, the state Congress President, who always created hurdles.” Asked if there was a possibility of NC and Congress again coming together after the election, he replied, “time alone will tell.” Abdullah was severe in his criticism of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s PDP which

he called “BJP’s trojan horse”. “PDP is the creation of RSS and BJP to fight the National Conference. Behind the doors they are very much part of BJP. It is Team B of BJP,” he claimed. As for his own party, the NC leader ruled out any truck with the BJP. “We were part of NDA under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was a different person and those were different times.” Talking of the larger Kashmir issue, Abdullah said that New Delhi will have to find a solution through dialogue with Pakistan. “Efforts must be made to settle the long-pending

dispute in the best interests of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan. There will have to be give and take on both sides. There cannot be one winner,” he said. Abdullah also said that borders cannot change and both Vajpayee and his successor Manmohan Singh had initiated the process of finding a solution with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf based on no change of borders. He urged the Modi government to look at the option of restoring the state’s autonomy about which the state Assembly had passed resolutions during his tenure as the Chief Minister. “Let them discuss it in Parliament. If any section weakens the Centre-State bond it can be done away with after that discussion.” Meanwhile, he favoured opening of the border between the two parts of Kashmir for all. “Let them (people of PoK) see how much progress we have made.” Asked if he had any regrets during his long political career, Abdullah responded with, “lots of regrets” before going on to list his failure to bring Kashmiri Pandits displaced by militancy back to their home. “Unless that happens Kashmir will never be the same.” He concluded the interview by saying that although he was not well, he hoped to be back with the people “to fight for a better future”.

Saradha probe suggests Rs 2,500 crore-scam just tip of iceberg

New Delhi, November 16 (PTi): As a multiagency probe continues in Saradha scam, findings of one official investigation suggests that the group floated at least 279 companies to channelize money collected from gullible investors as part of a vast ‘ponzi’ network. Most of these firms have been found to be ‘inoperational’ and were utilised for the sole purpose of multirouting of funds to hide the money trail, while close to Rs 2,500 crore were raised by just

four companies. The probe, conducted by the Corporate Affairs Ministry’s white-collar crime investigation agency SFIO, also found that these four companies collected 96 per cent money from small investors who deposited less than Rs 50,000 each. The money was mobilised through a vast network of nearly 3 lakh agents, sources said citing an over 500-page SFIO probe report. The scam, wherein lakhs of investors in West Bengal and neighbouring states were lured

into illegal money pooling activities, came to light early last year amid allegations that a section of Trinamool Congress leaders were involved. Initially, it came out to be known as ‘Saradha chit fund scam’ although none of Saradha group entities were registered as ‘chit funds’. However, it has become the first major case in India to officially get a ‘ponzi’ tag after submission of final probe report of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to the government.

An exhibitor, center, gestures as she talks with a visitor inside a Turkish stall selling various artifacts at the India International Trade Fair in New Delhi on Sunday, November 16. The annual event runs till November 27. (AP Photo)

G20 endorses India’s concerns on black money

briSbANe, November 16 (iANS): The G20 Summit concluded here Sunday with its leaders endorsing India’s concerns over black money, while promising a new global transparency standard that will modernize international tax rules and allow automatic exchange of related information between governments to curb illicit outflow of money estimated at over $1 trillion annually. India, being represented at the summit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, immediately called this development an unprecedented success, and said the next step will be the delivery of an action plan, along with the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The two forums represent 44 countries and 90 per cent of the world economy. “We are taking actions to ensure the fairness of the international tax system and to secure countries’ revenue bases. Profits should be taxed where

economic activities deriving the profits are performed and where value is created,” the G20 leaders said in a joint communique at the end of the eighth summit, promising to finalise work by end-2015. This was precisely what Prime Minister Narendra Modi had specifically said and sought during a session on “Delivering Global Economic Resilience” on the second day of the summit in this west Australian city, while also wanting systems that will help countries in getting back the ill-gotten monies stashed away abroad. “At this Summit, G20 Leaders have endorsed a new global transparency standard that will leave no place for tax cheats to hide. More than 90 jurisdictions will begin automatic exchange of tax information, using a common reporting standard by 2017 or 2018,” said Australian Prime

Minister Tony Abbot, the summit chair and host. India has no official estimates of illegal money stashed away overseas, but the unofficial ones range from $466 billion to $1.4 trillion. In fact, according to Indian

ternal affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted. He and Minister Prabhu even termed the outcome “unprecedented success”. “The G0 communique addressed concerns going beyond G20, developmental issues -employment, IndiaÂ’s prime concern, was a central issues of discussion,” Prabhu told reporters at a postsummit briefing here. The tax and related black money issue apart, several other issues which New Delhi pursued vigorously in Brisbane found echo at the G20 Summit -- reducing the cost of remittances from abroad, of which India is the largest beneficiary at $70 billion annually, collaborations on energy, infrastructure financing, inclusive growth, job creation and energy security. The communique also specifically welcomed the breakthrough between India and the United States at the World Trade

World leaders promise new global transparency standard interlocutors, such strong words on illicit money and imposition of curbs in the communique would not have been possible without India’s intervention, since the original draft did not contain a language that was satisfactory for India. They said the prime minister and his official team led by his Sherpa, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, got strong endorsements for New Delhi’s stand, notable Brazil and South Africa, to make this happen. “India scores at G20,” the ex-

Organisation (WTO) and saw this as paving the way for a pact that will help ease the processes involved in global commerce, and move forward in addressing the concerns of developing countries on food security. The G20 promised strong, practical measures to reduce the global average cost of transferring remittances to 5%, which goes up sometimes as high as 10%. The communique also promised to raise global growth to deliver better living standards and quality jobs for people across the world to ensure financial inclusion. It specifically set a target of raising the output of G20 members by around 2.1 percent by 2018 and the necessary steps towards achieving this. India said this was significant. “We have $2 trillion of extra global economic growth, which will happen because of this 2 percent growth rate, that we are talking about. I think India would benefit, but India will also contribute,” Prabhu said.

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G20 commits to growth, fight climate change BRISBANE, NOVEMBER 16 (REUTERS): Leaders from the G20 group of nations agreed on Sunday to boost flagging global growth, tackle climate change and crack down on tax avoidance but ties between the West and Russia plummeted to a new low over the crisis in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin left the G20 summit in Brisbane early as U.S. President Barack Obama accused Russia of invading Ukraine and Britain warned of a possible "frozen conflict" in Europe. Several Western nations warned Russia of further sanctions if it did not withdraw troops and weapons from Ukraine. "I think President Putin can see he is at a crossroads," said British Prime Minister David Cameron. "If he continues to destabilise Ukraine there will be further sanctions, further measures. "There is a cost to sanctions, but there would be a far greater cost in allowing a frozen conflict on the continent of Europe to be created and maintained." Obama said Russia's isolation was unavoidable. "We would prefer a Russia that is fully integrated with the global economy," he told a news conference. "But we are also very firm on the need to uphold core international principles....you don't invade

other countries or finance proxies and support them in ways that break up a country that has mechanisms for democratic elections." Before leaving the G20 Summit, Putin said a solution to the Ukraine crisis was possible, but did not elaborate. "Today the situation (in Ukraine) in my view has good chances for resolution, no matter how strange it may sound," Putin said. He skipped a working lunch at the summit to leave early, citing the long flight home and need for sleep. Russia has denied any involvement in the conflict in Ukraine that has killed more than 4,000 people U.S. President Barack Obama, center, with European leaders during their meeting at G20 Summit to discuss transthis year. CLIMATE CHANGE Security and climate change overshadowed G20 talks on boosting global economic growth at the summit, although the leaders did sign off on a package of measures to add an extra 2.1 percentage points to global growth over five years. "This will add more than $2 trillion to the global economy and create millions of jobs," said a communique issued at the end of the meeting, which also committed to tackle global tax avoidance denying government's billions of dollars in revenue. The United States and other nations overrode host Australia's attempts to

atlantic trade and the situation in Ukraine on Sunday, November 16 in Brisbane, Australia. With Obama are from left to right, Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, France’s President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

keep climate change off the formal agenda. Australia is one of the world's biggest carbon emitters per capita. The final communique called for strong and effective action to address climate change with the aim of adopting a protocol, with legal force, at a U.N. climate conference in Paris in 2015. "The most difficult discussion was on climate change," an EU official told reporters on condition of anonymity. "This was really trench warfare, this was really step by step by step. In the end we have references to most of the things

Work starts in Ukraine to collect MH17 wreckage HRABOVE, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): Workers in rebelcontrolled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down. The operation is being carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The recovered fragments are to be loaded onto trains and taken to the government-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The investigation into the cause of the crash is being conducted there and in the Netherlands. Alexander Kostrubitsky, the head of the emergency services in the rebel-held areas of Donetsk region, said at the site that gathering debris could take around 10 days. The debris is being sawn into smaller pieces to facilitate its transportation, Kostrubitsky said. All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down July 17 over a rebel-held area. Charred remains of the aircraft are scattered around fields over an area of 8 square miles (20 square kilometers).

The first batch of plane debris was delivered from an area near the village of Hrabove to a lumber warehouse in the town of Torez shortly after lunchtime Sunday. They were due to be put onto cargo trains later in the day. Efforts to conduct investigations and recovery operations have been delayed amid continued fighting between government troops and separatist fighters. A truce was agreed in September, but hostilities have raged on nonetheless. Ukraine and the West have blamed the downing of the MH17 flight on Russia-backed separatists using a ground-to-air missile. Russian state television has released a satellite photograph it claims shows that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But the U.S. government dismissed the report as preposterous and online commentators called the photo a crude fake. The photo released Friday by Russia's Channel One and Rossiya TV stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in the direction of the MH17. The channels said they got the photo from a Moscow-based

organization, which had received it via email from man who identified himself as an aviation expert. Several bloggers said the photograph was a forgery, citing a cloud pattern to prove the photo dates back to 2012, and several other details that seem incongruous. Some saw the photo as a propaganda effort intended to deflect criticism over the tragedy that Russian President Vladimir Putin faced as he attended the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. Putin was the first leader to depart the summit Sunday. He told reporters that he left ahead of a final leaders' lunch because he wanted to rest before returning to work. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been particularly strong-worded in his criticism of Russia since the Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down. Abbott said he and Putin had engaged in a "very robust" discussion about the situation in Ukraine. "I utterly deplore what seems to be happening in eastern Ukraine," Abbott said. "I demand that Russia fully cooperate with the investigation, the criminal investigation of the downing of MH17, one of the most terrible atrocities of recent times."

we wanted." Obama put climate change squarely on the G20 agenda with a speech on Saturday calling on all nations to act, and committing $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund. Japan pledged $1.5 billion to the fund on Sunday. World leaders also agreed to unite in the fight against Ebola, which Britain's Cameron said was not only a humanitarian crisis but also a security threat. "The best way we can keep out people safe from Ebola is by tackling it at source," he said.

RUSSIAN SANCTIONS Sanctions against Russia aimed at sectors like oil and banking, as well as individuals close to Putin, are squeezing its economy at a time when falling oil prices are straining the budget and the rouble has plunged on financial markets. "At this point the sanctions we have in place are biting plenty good," Obama said after the summit. "We retain the capability, and we have our teams constantly looking at mechanisms in which to turn up additional pressure as necessary." Earlier in the day,

Obama, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lined up together against Russia, vowing to oppose what they called Moscow's efforts to destabilise eastern Ukraine. European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel also warned of more sanctions unless Russia ends its support for pro-Russian separatist rebels. EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to consider further steps, including additional possible sanctions on Russia.

Putin denies he fled summit pressure BRISBANE, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin made an early exit on Sunday from a two-day summit of world leaders where he was roundly criticized over Russia's escalating aggression in Ukraine, but brushed off suggestions that he had felt pressured. Putin was the first leader to fly out of Brisbane on Sunday afternoon as his fellow leaders in the G-20 club of wealthy and developing nations shared a lunch and before they released the communique to cap off their annual summit. He also departed Australia shortly before President Barack Obama and European leaders opened their talks on Ukraine, where Russia is backing separatist rebels in the east of the country after annexing Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in March. In July, A Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down, killing all 298 people on board, while flying over a rebel-held area of eastern Ukraine. Putin explained he left early because he wanted to be rested before returning to work. He began the half-hour news conference by praising his host, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, for providing a "nice, welcoming and good working atmosphere." "On Monday I must go to work. I hope to have four or five hours to sleep," Putin said shortly before leaving Brisbane. "I told this to Tony and he was very understanding so I didn't give it a second thought." New Corp. newspapers in Australia reported Sunday that Putin was the day before considering an early departure in response to the cold shoulder from world leaders. But Abbott's office said the early afternoon exit had been scheduled. The U.S., Australia and Japan issued a statement condemning Russia for its actions in Ukraine, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper reacted to an offer of a handshake from Putin by responding, "I guess I'll shake your hand, but I have only one thing to say to you: You need to get out of Ukraine."

Graphic IS video claims US aid worker beheaded BEIRUT, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): The Islamic State group released a graphic video on Sunday in which a black-clad militant claimed to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, who was captured last year. The militant was standing over a severed head, but it was not immediately possible to confirm that it was Kassig, 26, who was pictured in the video. U.S. officials said they were working to determine the video's authenticity and the Kassig family said it was awaiting the outcome of the investigation. The video, which was posted on websites used by the group in the past, appeared to be the latest in a series of blood-soaked messages to the U.S. warning of further brutality if it does not abandon its air campaign in Iraq and Syria. "This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen, of your country; Peter who fought against the Muslims in Iraq, while serving as a soldier," the militant says near the end of the nearly 16-minute video. He speaks in an audible British accent despite his voice being distorted to make it more difficult to identify him. The video identifies the militant's location as Dabiq, a small town in the

This undated file photo provided by the Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A new graphic video purportedly produced by Islamic State militants in Syria released on Sunday November 16 claims U.S. aid worker Kassig was beheaded. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File)

northern Syrian province of Aleppo, near the Turkish border. The video also shows what appears to be the mass beheading of several Syrian soldiers captured by the group. The militants warn that U.S. soldiers will meet a similar fate. "We say to you, Obama...you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago," the militant said. "Here you are: you have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies," he said, apparently referring to West-

ern-backed Syrian rebels, Kurdish fighters and the Iraqi military. "Here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq, eagerly waiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive." Kassig, a former U.S. Army Ranger, was providing medical aid to Syrians fleeing the civil war when he was captured inside Syria on Oct. 1, 2013. His friends say he converted to Islam in captivity and took the first name Abdul-Rahman. Previous videos have

shown the beheading of two American journalists and two British aid workers. The latest video did not show the person identified as Kassig being beheaded. Unlike previous videos, it did not show other Western captives or directly threaten to behead anyone else. The group also holds British photojournalist John Cantlie, who has been shown in several videos delivering long statements in English on the group's behalf, perhaps under duress. Kassig's family said in a statement they were aware

of the reports of the video and were awaiting confirmation from the U.S. government. "The family respectfully asks that the news media avoid playing into the hostage takers' hands and refrain from publishing or broadcasting photographs or video distributed by the hostage takers," they said. "We prefer our son is written about and remembered for his important work and the love he shared with friends and family, not in the manner the hostage takers would use to manipulate Americans and further their cause." The White House said the U.S. intelligence community was working to determine the authenticity of the video. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said that if the video is authentic, the White House would be "appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American." The White House expressed its deepest condolences to Kassig's family and friends, Meehan said. The video emerged just minutes after President Barack Obama departed Australia for the U.S. The president was in Australia for the Group of 20 economic summit.

Chileans design a 'bike that can't be stolen' Pak Army says 1,200 militants SANTIAGO, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): It's a bicyclist's dream: a bike that can't be stolen. The "Yerka," a prototype designed by three young Chilean engineering students, is the latest entry in a recent trend of bikes that can be locked using some of their own parts. They include Brooklyn-based "Seatylock," which uses its saddle seat as a lock, and Seattle-based "Denny," which is locked with its detachable handlebars. But the inventors of the Yerka have made a twist in that approach. The bike's lower frame opens up into two arms that are then connected to the seat post and locked to a post, so thieves would have to destroy a Yerka to get it unlocked, leaving it valueless. "That's why our motto is 'a bike that gets stolen is no longer a bike.' What we have here is truly an unstealable bike," said Cristobal Cabello, who came up with the design during a college engineering class with childhood friends Andres Roi Eggers

and Juan Jose Monsalve. Cristobal Galban, who holds a doctorate in naval and environmental engineering and is director of the sustainability research center at Santiago's Andres Bello University, said a study by his team in 2013 found that "the use of bikes has doubled among Chileans" in five years. "The main problem in Chile and elsewhere are the robberies, so the Yerka could help solve this," said Galban, whose own bike was recently stolen. Tony Hadland, coauthor with Hans-Erhard Lessing of "Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History," called the Chileans' design "very clever." There have been relatively few attempts to incorporate anti-theft precautions into bicycle design, the British writer said. Leaving aside the familiar shackle locks and chains with locks, most anti-theft accessories have been bolton devices, he said. The latter usually involve a piece that passes between the spokes to stop the wheel rotating, but they can still be easily picked open by a thief, he said.

In this Novenber 8, 2014 photo, a rider pedals on a bike trail next to the “Yerka Project,” a prototype design for an “unstealable bike” in Santiago, Chile. Commuters in Latin America and elsewhere have been taking advantage of the construction of designated cycling lanes, storage racks and bike share programs to ditch cars for bikes, which are cheaper and environmentally friendly. The big setback is that they’re easy to steal. Now, three young Chilean engineers have set out to put a brake on that with a design that allows the rider to connect the tube seat with the lower pole so the bike can’t be stolen without breaking it. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

"The most effective strategy commonly used in London today is to take the bike into the office with you," Hadland said. "The Brompton folding bicycle, now almost an icon of London, is so compact and so easy and reliable to fold that many cycling commuters take their Bromptons into the office." "Other anti-theft strategies involve using a bike that looks so unattractive that nobody will want to steal it," he said. The young Chilean engineers said they began experimenting with their idea after Roi's bicycle was stolen. First they built a PVC model, then constructed a working prototype. Now, while waiting for the patent to be approved and carrying out more tests on the bike's resistance to thieves, the team plans to launch a crowd funding campaign seeking to raise funds. They're also looking for a partner who can invest $300,000 needed to produce a first batch of 1,000 bikes that they hope will be sold by mid-2015.

killed during 5 month offensive

MIR ALI, NOVEMBER 16 (REUTERS): The Pakistani army has killed 1,200 suspected militants in an anti-Taliban offensive during the past five months, seriously reducing the group's ability to carry out attacks, senior officers said on Sunday during a rare trip to the conflict zone. The ongoing operation has targeted the militant stronghold in North Waziristan, a mountainous region that borders Afghanistan and has acted as a staging post for deadly attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The offensive was launched as Western forces began withdrawing from Afghanistan. In the centre of Mir Ali, the second largest town in the region, there was hardly a building untouched by the fighting. Major General Zafarullah Khan, the officer in charge of North Waziristan, said that a widely-predicted wave of violence in response to the operation

had failed to materialise. "The action which was expected has not come," he said on Saturday, picking his way through shattered buildings as he pointed out places he said were used for torturing prisoners or producing propaganda videos. "Significant successes have been made." The military had killed nearly 1,200 militants since the operation began, he said, but refused to show their pictures out of respect for the dead. Another 230 had been arrested, and around 132 tons of explosive recovered so far, he said. Large amounts of weapons, ammunition and many vehicles had also been seized, he said, showing off a U.S.-made Hummer jeep whose windscreen had been shattered by bullets. Many of the areas the military moved into had been booby trapped, Khan said, and soldiers were going house to house to de-

fuse bombs. "They have planted (them) in houses, they have planted (them) in the streets, they've planted (them) even in the trees," he said. The militants generally rely on bombs and ambushes to engage the military rather than risking an open battle. On Sunday, officials said four soldiers were killed and at least eight were missing after an attack on their check post in North Waziristan's Datta Khel region. Khan would not be drawn on how long the operation might take. Most of the civilian population of North Waziristan - estimated are around a million people - were ordered to leave before the operation began. Many now face a harsh winter away from their homes and businesses, reliant on food aid and cramped quarters with relatives. When they return, many will find their homes destroyed in the fighting.

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Loyem Trophy: FS Lokhung Centurion Rooney scores emerge as champion as England beats Slovenia

FS Lokhung, who emerged as the winner of the Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship 2014.

TUENsANG, NOVEMBER 16 (MExN): Friend’s Sporting Lokhung edged over Kongkai San FC on November 15 in the final match of the XXII Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship in a penalty shoot 5-4 as both the teams could not score any goals in the stipulated time. Neitholilie, who saved the solitary goal in the penalty shootout, was honored the Golden glove award of the tournament. Multiple attempts by both the teams in the 35thand the final match that turned out to be the most stirring contest could not be converted into goals. A few attempts by both the teams in penetrating the ball passing through the custodians and into the net were whistled off-sided.

The winner was awarded Rs. 1, 00,000.00 along with a silver trophy, medals and certificates. Runnersup received Rs. 60,000.00 along with medals and citations. Semi finalists were rewarded Rs. 5000.00 each and match fee of Rs.2500.00 given to teams from knockout stage onward. Golden Ball was awarded to Salu Rengma and Golden Boot to Yhansulo for scoring 17 goals in the tournament. Both belonged to Kongkai San FC. Recipients of Golden Ball, Golden Boot and Golden Glove were awarded Rs.5000.00 each along with citation. The tournament is organized by the Confederation of Chang Students Union (CCSU). Earlier, closing ceremony was held with Chuba Wati

Chang, Project Director, DRDA, as the Chief Guest who expressed his appreciation to the organizers, administration, police and all involved in making the tournament a grand success. Reflecting on the theme “Kickoff isms”, Chang stated that nothing positive has been brought about by isms in the society and asserted that ism is a common enemy for all Nagas. Affirming that isms only create division, conflict and unhealthy differences, he encouraged all to ponder and understand the theme of the tournament so that a better society is built. He also askED the competitors to play with character and discipline and wished the best team would win. Welcome address was delivered by Imti Choba

Chang, President, CCSU. Dwelling on the theme, he also stressed on shedding our differences and isms and move forward. He stated, “What binds us together is not the color of the skin, not our cultures or the tenets of our faith or origins of our names. What makes us one is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made centuries ago i.e., ‘we are Nagas’” Moala and friends entertained the crowd with the song “21 guns” by Green Day and vote of thanks conveyed by P. Yanger Chang, Convenor, Loyem Memorial Trophy. The program was compered by Senti Chang. A retreat by the Haühlim Chuba’s Band Platoon was displayed after the prize distribution ceremony.

Squash gold for Harinder Sandhu PHUkET, NOVEMBER 16 (IANs): India's Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu held his own to defeat Hong Kong's Yip Tsz Fung in three games in an exciting squash final to claim the gold medal in the Asian Beach Games here Sunday. Earlier, Kush Kumar and Aparajitha Balamurukan won the bronze each

to take India's squash haul to three. Like in the Incheon Asian Games, Harinder showed his resilience and class to once again emphasise his growing stature as he won 7-2, 5-7, 7-3. Harinder said: "This is a superb tournament and I am proud to win a gold medal for my country. It

has been a memorable week. First I was honoured when IOA selected me to carry the Indian flag at the opening ceremony and now I am going home with a gold medal. Playing in the outdoor setting was special." Summing up the event, technical delegate Cyrus Poncha said: "I wish to

thank the WSF, OCA, ASF and ASBA and all the participants including the Competition Manager, Akarin Hiranpruecks for the huge success. The big response is proof that squash is a truly global sport and can be played anywhere and anytime. The sport is here to stay in the Games."

LONDON, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): Wayne Rooney scored for England on his 100th appearance before Danny Welbeck's double secured a 3-1 victory over Slovenia in European Championship qualifying on Saturday. As Roy Hodgson's Group E leaders made it four wins out of four, San Marino earned a landmark 0-0 draw against Estonia, ending a run of 61 consecutive losses for world football's lowest-ranked team. The milestone match for Rooney at Wembley saw the England captain net his 44th international goal — canceling Jordan Henderson's own goal — to go five behind Bobby Charlton's record 49. "It was tough because they took the lead and we had to show our character," Rooney said. "It was a great reaction from the players." England surged six points clear of Slovenia, Switzerland and Lithuania. The Swiss beat visiting Lithuania 4-0, with winger Xherdan Shaqiri scoring twice. Before the game in London, Rooney collected his commemorative golden 100th cap from Charlton to cheers, but the atmosphere became subdued as England labored throughout the first half, looking disjointed. The game came to life 10 minutes into the second half when England finally found the target, with Phil Jagielka's header saved by goalkeeper Samir Handanovic. But at the other end, Henderson inadvertently flicked Milivoje Novakovic's free kick into his own goal when a headed clearance went wrong. Just as quickly, the action was back in the Slovenia penalty area, with Rooney earning the penalty following Bostjan Cesar's challenge and scoring from the spot. Rooney is England's joint-third highest goal-scorer alongside Jimmy Greaves.

England's Wayne Rooney celebrates after scoring against Slovenia, during their Euro 2016 Group E qualifying soccer match at Wembley Stadium, London on November 15. (AP Photo)

"It was a fine piece of play by Jack Wilshere to set it up, but it was a very good run from (Rooney) into the box and that put us right back in the game," Hodgson said. England's fortunes had turned, and Welbeck punished Slovenia twice. Adam Lallana cut in from the right and a deflected shot that was parried by Handanovic, but Miso Brecko's headed clearance went straight to Welbeck. His scuffed shot put England in front in the 65th. It was a slicker build-

up to Welbeck's second goal. Kieran Gibbs played in Welbeck, who played a neat one-two with Raheem Sterling before knocking the ball into the net in the 72nd. England heads to Glasgow for a friendly against Scotland on Tuesday, although goalkeeper Joe Hart is being given time off, leaving Fraser Forster or Ben Foster competing for the starting spot. Beaten by England and Slovenia to open the group, Switzerland has had back-

to-back 4-0 wins against San Marino and now Lithuania. All the goals came in the second half, with visiting goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis gifting the first in the 66th minute by fumbling a Shaqiri corner into his own net on a rainy night. D e f e n d e r Fa b i a n Schaer finished neatly two minutes later after another Shqairi corner was not cleared, and the Swiss star scored with a header and flick from right-flank crosses in the 80th and 90th.

Brazilian Werdum Bangladesh beats Zimbabwe by 186 beats Hunt in UFC 180 CHITTAGONG, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): Bangladesh completed its first ever 3-0 series sweep, and only its third ever series victory, as it cruised to a 186-run win over Zimbabwe on the fifth day of the third test Sunday. Zimbabwe was bowled out for 262 chasing an unlikely 449 runs for victory as the Bangladeshi bowlers put up a disciplined and accurate performance to pick up wickets at regular intervals on the final day. It was the only third time Bangladesh has won a test series after a 1-0 series win against the same opponents in 2005 and a 2-0 victory over the West Indies

in 2009. Regis Chakabva offered some resistance and scored an unbeaten 89 with seven fours and six as he led Zimbabwe's slim hopes of saving the Test and avoiding a series whitewash. Sikandar Raza scored a fluent 65 while Hamilton Masakadza made 38 but Zimbabwe lacked a long partnership to anchor the innings and lost its last three wickets for just one run as the tea break approached. Overnight unbeaten batsmen Raza and Masakadza started the day confidently after Zimbabwe resumed at 71-1. Raza brought up his second fifty in the test with a boundary against

Shuvagata Hom to be the first Zimbabwe opener to hit a half-century in both innings of a Test since 2001. Part time off-spinner Shuvagata Hom however put Bangladesh on top in the morning session. Hom made the breakthrough dismissing Hamilton Masakadza with a slower delivery and then followed it with the crucial wicket of Raza from a full toss. Raza, after playing confidently throughout his innings, offered a simple catch to Taijul Islam at mid-wicket after hitting nine fours and two sixes in his 75 balls knock. Leg-spinner Jubair Hossain then removed skipper Taylor for 24 and Elton Chigum-

bura (5) in quick succession to help Bangladesh edge closer to the historic milestone. Regis Chakabva resisted delaying the inevitable, while Craig Ervine also looked confident until a superb ripper from Mhamudullah trapped him lbw on 16. Taijul Islam took out Richmond Mutumbami (5) and the fast bowlers Rubel Hossain and Shafiul Islam then cleaned up the tail to cruise Bangladesh to a victory before the tea break was taken. Fast bowlers Rubel Hossain (216), Shafiul Islam (2-17), leg-spinner Jubair Hossain (2-56) and part time off-spinner Shuvagata Hom (2-66) claimed two wickets apiece.

Klitschko floors Pulev in 5th round

New Zealand's Mark Hunt, left, battles against Brazil's Fabricio Werdum from during a UFC 180 interim Heavyweight title fight in Mexico City, Saturday, November 15. Werdum won the fight by KO/TKO. (AP Photo)

MEXICO CITY, NO VEMBER 16 (AP): Fabricio Werdum won the interim heavyweight title when he stopped Mark Hunt in the second round on Saturday night at UFC 180. Werdum (19-5-1) got off to a slow start, but hit Hunt with a right knee to the face to secure the win in the UFC's debut in Mexico. It was the fifth consecutive victory for the Brazilian fighter. "I respect Mark Hunt, he hit me hard, but I stayed here a long time in Mexico to win this title, this one is for my family and all of Brazil," Werdum said. The event was supposed to be a showcase for Cain Velasquez, the Mexican-American champion who has a strong following in Mexico. Instead, the oftinjured Velasquez hurt his

right knee and dropped out of his bout against Werdum last month, sending the UFC scrambling for something to show the 21,000 fans who sold out the Arena Cuidad de Mexico in eight hours. Hunt (10-9-1), a 40-year-old Australian brawler with a history of thrilling fights, got the call from the UFC one month after he stopped Roy Nelson in Japan for his fifth win in seven fights, losing only to former UFC champion Junior Dos Santos in that stretch. But Hunt was unable to continue his positive stretch. "I didn't see that one coming," Hunt said of the knee that ended the fight. Velasquez was part of a sold-out crowd at the rau-

cous Arena Ciudad de Mexico. The Mexican fans, who had waited for years for the UFC to come to their country, sang the Cielito Lindo, a tradition for any big event, and chanted "oles." Prior to the main event, rising Mexican-American welterweight Kelvin Gastelum (11-0) took care of veteran title contender Jake Ellenberger (29-9) by submission in the first round. In the undercard fights, Mexico City(asterisk)s Augusto Montano had a strong UFC debut by defeating Chris Heatherly (8-3-0) by TKO in the first round of their welterweight fight. Hector Garcia defeated Edgar Garcia by submission in the first round, also in the welterweight division. Featherweight Ricardo Lamas also won.

HAMBURG, NOVEMBER 16 (AP): Wladimir Klitschko knocked out the previously unbeaten Kubrat Pulev in the fifth round to retain his four heavyweight belts on Saturday. Klitschko sent the Bulgarian flying back with a huge left punch to his jaw, leaving him sprawled on the canvas and giving referee Tony Weeks no option but to end the bout. Klitschko, taller with a longer reach, dominated from the start and had the IBF's mandatory challenger down twice in the opening round, first with a left jab. Pulev stood up again, stuck out his tongue and stood on one leg to show he was OK, but the Ukrainian knocked him down again straight away. Klitschko dropped him to the canvas again in the third, which Pulev did well to finish with a bloody left eye. Just when the challenger seemed to be improving, Klitschko finished the bout abruptly, 2 minutes, 11 seconds into the fifth. Klitschko recorded his IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO world boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko from Ukraine, right, 54th KO in 63 wins, with knocks down challenger Kubrat Pulev from Bulgaria in the fifth round of their IBF heavythree defeats, and he ded- weight world championships title bout in Hamburg, Germany on November 15. (AP Photo)

icated his latest victory to the Ukrainian people, "who are going through tough times." "To Pulev's fans I want to say, you have to be sporting, Pulev fought a good fight," the 38-yearold said. "It was hard to work, the left jab. Pulev prepared well." Pulev, who dropped to 20-1 (11 KOs), said Klitschko was "lucky." "Wladimir is a really good opponent, but he was lucky. I want a rematch. I'll win the next time," Pulev said. "There's luck in boxing. He's a good boxer but he's unsporting. There were a lot of tricks." Pulev was warned more than once by Weeks for punching to the back of Klitschko's head. In his 26th world championship fight, Klitschko retained his WBA, IBF, and minor WBO and IBO heavyweight belts. He hasn't been beaten since a fifth-round defeat to Lamon Brewster on April 10, 2004. The fight was originally scheduled for Sept. 6, but was postponed after Klitschko hurt a left bicep in training.

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Angelina Jolie looks super slim at first spotting since wedding

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Has Aniston forgiven Pitt for cheating on her?

Angelina Jolie speaks on stage at the Hollywood Film Awards at the Palladium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

ewly wedded actress Angelina Jolie made her return to the red carpet at the 2014 Hollywood Film Awards since marrying Brad Pitt. The parents of six tied the knot in August, reported Us magazine. Jolie, 39, looked super slim in a strapless Atelier Versace black gown. She accessorised with a bracelet and stud earrings, and wore her brunette locks in an elegant updo. Jolie was on hand to present the New Hollywood award to Jack O’Connell, who stars in her upcoming WWII film ‘Unbroken’. Jolie was busy in filming her latest movie, ‘By the Sea’, with Pitt in Malta.

ennifer Aniston may have ended the long going feud with former husband Brad Pitt and wife Angelina Jolie. While talking to the Harper’s Bazaar, the 45-year-old actor said that one has to let things go even if people had done some unforgivable things, hinting towards Pitt’s alleged affair with Jolie while she was still married to him, the Telegraph reported. When asked if she was a forgiving person, Jen replied, “I absolutely am. I think it’s extremely important to forgive. Otherwise it just builds up like toxic waste. There’s nothing worse than holding a grudge. Listen, people can do unforgivable things, but you have to let it go and say, ‘Look, we’re all human beings. We make mistakes.’ To hold any kind of resentment is like taking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.” The former Friends star’s marriage to Pitt, 50, had ended in 2005, after he claimed to have fallen in love with Jolie, 39, during Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Jolie and Pitt, who have six children together, only recently tied knot in the south of France in August. Aniston, who’s now engaged to actor and writer Justin Theroux, 43, also gushed about her fiance, saying that he was one of the most humble, decent human beings with pretty eyes, and they could never get bored with each other. Jennifer Aniston (AP File Photo)

Salman’s sister’s wedding preparations Abhishek, Aishwarya’s WAS HE DRUNK? complete, PM, President to attend daughter turns three Johnny Depp lights up social media with

bizarre speech at Hollywood Film Awards

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alman Khan’s sister’s wedding preparations complete, PM, President to attend the marriage on November 18. Salman Khan has a habit of doing everything in grandest manner. And so when it comes to the marriage of his little sister he is not expected to do it in small way. So Salman Khan has made the grandest arrangement that is going to be memorable in more ways than one Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s sister Arpita Khan is tying the knot with Aayush Sharma, is a businessman with longstanding politican connections dating back to more than five decades. Aayush Sharma, a Delhi-based sbusinessman is the son

of Anil Sharma, a Congress leading Congress leader of Himachal Pradesh who is also a minister in the state government. He is also the grandson of Sukhram Sharma. All the top political leaders are going to be present during the wedding in very large number. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to be there with several other cabinet ministers. Besides President Pranab MUkherjee is also going to attend the wedding. The marriage is going to be truly grand as the whole Falak Numa Place f Hyderabad has been booked for two days for the wedding. The minimum 1 night room charge there is Rs 40000 plus taxes.

tar couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai’s daughter Aaradhya turned three Sunday. Aishwarya, who celebrated her 41st birthday earlier this month, had shared that she has plans for her daughter’s birthday. Born in an influential family of the film industry, the three-year-old often travels with her famous parents. She accompanied her mother to the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival this year. She

was also spotted with the Bachchan clan in Jaipur to cheer for Pink Panthers, a Pro Kabaddi League franchise owned by her father. Aaradhya’s father thanked his fans for wishing the little one. “Thank you all for such wonderful wishes for Aaradhya. Truly means a lot. Thank you,” Abhishek tweeted Sunday. The little one’s grandfather and megastar Amitabh Bachchan has also been receiving warm wishes from his fans. He has retweeted some of the posts of his fans.

hile presenting an award on Friday night, the Oscar nominee gave a slurred, rambling speech that had many fans comparing him to his ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ character Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp kicked off awards season with an odd moment that caught fire on social media. The Hollywood Film Awards are the first awards show of the season, with the 18-year-old event making its television debut on Friday. The Oscar nominee made it one to remember when he presented an award for the documentary “Supermench: The Legend of Shep Gordon.” As soon as he took the stage, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star seemed noticeably out of it. “That’s the weirdest microphone I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said, the audience laughing as he took

is more like a papa; Gianni [Versace] was more like a brother,’ she said. As one of the 90’s supers, which also included Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, Campbell’s life has rocked and rolled between extremes but she is, above all, a survivor. ‘I don’t have to justify myself to anyone. I took off almost five years from work,’ she said. ‘But I’m a Gemini and I like to keep moving and doing things and being there for friends. If I go against my instincts, there is always a consequence.’ And one special man has

helped her along the way and now she wants to help others. ‘[Nelson] Mandela always said to me: “Use yourself to help other people.” ‘I feel that now more strongly than ever before and I try to do that in the best way I can,’ she said. She is certainly doing just that - she’s raised millions for causes including Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake. In response to the current Ebola threat, she has launched the #CrushEbolaNow campaign with other celebrities, which aims to educate and raise funds Tali Angh performing at the promotional concert for his to help fight the spread of recently released debut album ‘Take it Slow’ on November 16, Sunday in Dimapur. (Photo by Caisii Mao) the deadly virus.

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a few moments to fumble with the mic stand. “I’m not very good at this kind of thing,” he continued, and then dropped an expletive that was bleeped out. After giving a stumbling

introduction to Gordon’s documentary in which his voice often sounded slurred, Depp wrapped up the awkward moment by saying, “Can somebody (bleep)?” “I mean, it’s one of those nights,” he added.

aomi Campbell is without a doubt one of the fashion industry’s most famous faces. Scouted at the tender age of 15, Naomi is still one of the world’s most in-demand models despite working in the industry for nearly 30 years; it’s no she’s dubbed a ‘super’. Despite her unprecedented success - she’s worked for every major fashion house - Naomi, 44, admits that even she gets nervous before a catwalk appearance. Her biggest fear, she says, is fear itself. ‘If you feel fear, fear will come to you. Fear is a terrible thing to have and I’ve been aware of that since I was a kid. It can stop you doing things in your life. I don’t want fear to get hold of me.’ Luckily for Naomi, she’s been able to share the experience with her ‘fashion family’ - a starry host of models, designers and photographers, who have helped nurture her along the way. ‘I definitely spent more time around her but 3 countries in a them than around my week is too much travel- own blood family as I was ling. Daddy time will be traveling and working so much better,” she added. much… Azzedine [Alaïa]

Kim Kardashian to visit India

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merican reality TV star Kim Kardashian will be on her maiden trip to India next week as part of her perfume world tour. The 34-year-old ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star has begun the tour in Australia to promote her fragrance Fleur Fatale. Her next stop will be India followed by Dubai. Ka rd a s h i a n t o o k to Twitter to share the news with her fans. “Just touched down in Australia!!! My perfume world tour begins for my new fragrance Fleur Fatale! Next stop India then Dubai! All in 1 week!” she tweeted. Kardashian is travelling alone leaving husband Kanye West, 37, and

one-year-old daughter North at home. “Missing my baby girl so bad already! Was going to bring

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Kohli's century helps Saina, Srikanth win China Open titles India sweep ODI series

rANChI, November 16 (IANS): India skipper Virat Kohli led from the front with a smashing unbeaten century to guide his team to a three-wicket win in the fifth and final OneDay International (ODI), clean-sweeping the series 5-0 at the JSCA International Stadium here Sunday. On a day of captains, Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews hammered a brilliant 139 not out to guide the visitors to a challenging total of 286/8 after electing to bat. However, despite a few hiccups, Kohli's knock of 139 not out off 126 deliveries -- his 21st ODI ton -- guided India home with eight balls to spare. After hitting his first ODI century, Mathews gave Sri Lanka a brilliant chance in the match as he bowled Indian openers Ajinkya Rahane (2) and Rohit Sharma (9), who hit a world-record 264 in the previous match at Kolkata, with the score reading 14/2 in the fifth over. Ambati Rayudu (59) and man of the series Kohli joined hands to strike an important 136-run thirdwicket partnership to stabilise the reeling Indian ship. Rayudu hit a smooth half-century, which included eight boundaries and a six, with Kohli giving him good company. However, a terrible misunderstanding led to Rayudu's run-out with India's score at 150. Ajantha Mendis' spin became a mystery for Indian batsman as the 29-yearold made a brilliant turnaround for the visitors, giving them a real chance to salvage a win. Mendis took the wickets of Robin Uthappa (19), debutant Kedar Jadhav (20), Stuart Binny (12) and Ravichandran Ashwin (0) to turn the tables on India with the target suddenly looking monumental with their score at 231/7. Kohli, however, slowly kept the run-flow going and finally found support in lefthander Axar Patel (17 not out). Once he got the support he needed, the standin India skipper hit a flurry of sixes and boundaries and the target kept getting closer and closer till Kohli hit a six to win the match -- and clean-sweep the series.

Virat Kohli becomes quickest batsman to hit 21 ODI centuries

irat Kohli became the quickest batsmen to hit 21 ODI centuries, after his hundred against Sri Lanka at the JSCA Stadium in Ranchi on Sunday. With the century coming in just his 138th innings, he comfortably beat Sachin Tendulkar who had taken 200 innings to get to 21 hundreds in the one-day format. Kohli got his first 50-over ton against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens back in 2009. It comes as no surprise that the Islanders are his favourite opponents, with 6 of his centuries coming against them.

Earlier, Sri Lanka got off to a decent start with opener Tillakaratne Dilshan (35) in punishing mood. Debutant Niroshan Dickwella (4) was the first to be dismissed in the fifth over. The visitors suffered another setback in the next over as the dangerous Dilshan was sent packing by the innocuous medium-pace of Binny. Sri Lanka lost some impetus after Dilshan's dismissal and lost further ground following two more quick strikes by India. Wicketkeeper batsman

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Out of the 21 ODI centuries the 26-year-old has scored, India have lost only twice – against England at Cardiff in 2011 (on D/L method) and against New Zealand at Napier earlier this year. The Delhi batsman is now joint 5th on the list of batsmen with most ODI centuries alongside Herschelle Gibbs and Chris Gayle, with Sourav Ganguly firmly in his sights. Kohli is just 1 short of Ganguly’s mark and with age on his age, it is a certainty that he will overtake the former Indian skipper.

Dinesh Chandimal's (5 runs off 31 balls) struggle at the crease was brought to an end by Patel, who picked up two wickets. Former captain Mahela Jayawardene's (32) blossoming innings came to a pre-mature end as Sri Lanka slumped to 85/4 after 18.3 overs. Man of the Match Mathews and Lahiru Thirimanne (52) got together and stitched a 128-run stand for the fifth wicket to bring the islanders back in the game.

Fuzhou, November 16 (IANS): India's leading shuttler Saina Nehwal clinched the women's singles title of the $700,000 China Open Super Series Premier but compatriot Kidambi Srikanth grabbed all the headlines by pulling off the biggest upset of his career when he beat twotime Olympic champion Lin Dan to win the men's singles title here Sunday. While sixth seeded Saina won her second Super Series title of 2014, after Australian Open in June, by overcoming Japanese Akane Yamaguchi 21-12, 22-20 in 42 minutes, Srikanth stunned the fivetime World Champion Chinese 21-19, 21-17 in 46 minutes at the Haixia Olympic Sport Center. Srikanth on the eve of the summit clash said that it was his childhood dream to play 'Super' Dan in a final, that too in his own backyard. Come Sunday, he not only fulfilled his dream but went one step better by ousting the legendary Chinese in straight games to earn his first win in three outings against Dan. Srikanth, ranked No.16 in the world, took off well and fast by going into a 9-4 lead in the first game. However, Dan, in his usual style, took time to get into his rhythm to close the gap at 15-all. It was neck-andneck till 19-all but Srikanth held his nerves to take the next two points and bag his first ever game against Dan, often called the great-

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India's Saina Nehwal poses with the trophy on podium after she won the women's singles final against Japan's Akane Yamaguchi in China Open Badminton in Fuzhou in southeast China's Fujian province Sunday, November 16. (AP Photo)

est ever shuttler. The second game was a tighter affair with Dan also coming out with tougher competition. However, the Indian youngster found legs and matched each stroke of the Chinese great to take it to 15-all. The 21-year-old Hyderabadi, just like the first game, came out with his best strokes just when it mattered most to clinch six of the next eight points

and earn the biggest win of his career. Earlier in the women's singles final, Saina totally dominated her World No.35 Japanese opponent in the first game. At one point the World No.5 Indian took seven successive points to take a 15-7 advantage. It was only a matter of time before Saina sealed the game in her favour. However, the 17-yearold Akane upped the ante

in the second game and Saina had to come out with her best to keep the Japanese's points in check. The Indian was given a scare when the unseeded Akane reached gamepoint at 2019. But Saina doused the lead and won the next two points to bag her first China Open title. Saina had also won the Australian Open Super Series in June and the India Grand Prix Gold in January.

The Sri Lanka skipper smashed 10 sixes on way to his maiden hundred and, thanks to his blitzkrieg at the fag end of the innings, the visitors managed to score 73 runs off the final five overs despite losing three wickets. Dhawal Kulkarni picked up three wickets but received some stick from the Sri Lankan batsmen, conceding 57 runs off his eight overs. Patel and Ashwin chipped in with two wickets each while Binny took one.

DImAPur, November 16 (mexN): The Nagaland Table Tennis Association (NTTA) has informed all district partners that there will be selection for the upcoming 76th Senior Nationals and Inter - State Table Tennis Championship to be held at Pondichery from January 12 to 17. All the District Associations have been requested to send their players for selection on November 24 at Indoor Stadium Kohima. For further information contact 09856231249 or 09436001949.

Kerala Blasters beat Delhi Dynamos 1-0

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NeW DeLhI, November 16 (AGeNCIeS): Delhi Dynamos continue to be rooted to the bottom of the Indian Super League (ISL) table as they suffered their fifth defeat of the season with Kerala Blasters being the victors with a 1-0 scoreline at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi. Substitute Penn Orji’s strike around the hour mark was enough to seal three crucial points for David James’ outfit. Both the sides were in desperate need of a win and it was evident in the manner in which they kicked-off proceedings. The home side’s swift one touch passing was pleasing to watch, but as has been the case throughout the tournament, it hardly resulted in anything fruitful. Towards the midway of the first half, Kerala had a penalty turned down as Anwar Ali’s high foot inside the box which saw Hume go tumbling down. The home side should have taken the lead towards the end of the half, when Junker’s cross found Del Piero, but the Italian’s deflected header was cleared off the line by Cedric Hengbart. Mulder had a chance on the rebound but it was blocked by Gurwinder Singh. Veldhoven’s side suffered a late blow towards the end when Wim Raymaekers was taken off following a hamstring injury as the home side ended the half with ten men. A minute after the re-start, Junker’s cross found Del Piero and Malswamtulunga inside the box but poor coordination between the two saw the chance go begging as they came in each other’s way. In the 52nd minute, Del Piero found Junker on the right whose cross for Mulder was headed away just in time by Sandesh Jhingan. Delhi continued their habit of missing chances as Anwar Ali's free run to the Kerala box ended with the center back hitting the ball away for a goal-kick. The frustration on Veldhoven's face summed their performance as they continue to find it difficult to breach the opposition’s defense. Meanwhile, Kerala kept their fourth clean sheet of the season.

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