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We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are — Max de Pree Peace worker Lhusi Haralu passes away

France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria

17.08.1932 ~ 17.11.2015 PAGE 5

reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

Fourth day’s play also called off in Bengaluru Test

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together as one; peace as the language

Nagaland Peace Centre commemorates 50 years Work for one common goal: CM since inception with tribute to past peace-makers our Correspondent

feel the pain and ache of life because they have been far removed from civilization and only hope for one thing- to be free from the domain of those who try to take advantage of their freedom, their inborn freedom to stand for what is right and live a life that is liberating.

November 17 | Kohima

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Dimapur to Kohima? Accha, if you take today’s 5:00am Dmr-Kma bus ..er, you’ll reach Kma in Feb 2016!

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Vote on www.morungexpress.com SMS your anSwer to 9862574165 Rather than taking honest responsibility for failures and challenges are Nagas hiding behind the cloak of religion?

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Assam bandh today

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): Six tribal organizations comprising of Tai Ahom, Moran, Motok, Chitia, Kuchh, Rajbongshi and Tea Tribes have called a 12- hour Assam Bandh effective from 6 am November 18 in protest against non fulfillment of awarding ST status to them by the government. Bandh impact is expected to be very high in the districts of Golaghat, Jorhat and Sivasagar. Nagaland travelers have been advised to avoid travelling via Assam’s road.

GPRN/NSCN investigating Nov 15 shooting incident

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN, which is currently in ceasefire with the Government of India, has extended condolence to the family of four of its cadres, who were killed in a shooting at Leongkonger village, Tuensang on November 15. The ‘Ministry of Information & Publicity’ of the GPRN/NSCN, in a press release, while stating, “Naga history has been time and again marked with such atrocities,” added that the GPRN/NSCN is investigating the incident thoroughly and the findings of which will determine its reaction. While asking the Indian military to “provide information about the actual facts” the MIP said that the incident was a question of “insincerity” and was “provoking the integrity of Nagas towards the Ceasefire agreements.” The Assam Rifles had termed the killing as “accidental.”

The Morung Express extends condolences

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The Morung Express conveys our heartfelt condolences to Bano Haralu, a fellow journalist and former Editor of Eastern Mirror on the passing away of her mother Lhusi Haralu on November 17.

In this time of profound pain and sorrow, The Morung Express extends its support to the bereaved family; and offers our prayers, that your family will find solace and be surrounded by the grace and love of God. May peace, courage and comfort find you and your family during this very difficult time!

And may her soul rest in peace.

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Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) general secretary, Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho on Tuesday called upon the people to come together as one and speak the language of peace in unison.

Speaking at the 50th anniversary of Nagaland Peace Centre (NPC) here at The Heritage, Keyho asserted that the NBCC has always worked for peace and it will continue to do so as its mission. He said peace in Nagaland that was established 50 years ago is a hard earned commodity.

“It speaks volumes of the sacrifices and the efforts put into it. What we are today is because of those who took the pain, the courage, and the initiatives 50 years back. We are what we are today because of them. We owe them our gratitude and we salute them for what they did to save our people from the dagger of destruction.

What we are not is not of their fault,” he said.

In a homily, Keyho said peace is not the absence of war but the presence of trust. “When there is no trust there can be no peace.

When trust is established peace will automatically flow and flourish,” he said.

Elaborating further, Keyho noted that sincerity gives birth to trust and today

Peace cannot be imposed

Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho addressing the 50th anniversary of nagaland Peace Centre in Kohima on november 17 in Kohima. (Morung Photo)

what is lacking is this aspect in our talk about peace.

“What raised the hope of the people who lived in fear and in apprehension 50 years ago must be made a reality today. The laying down of arms must follow with sincere dialogue, a dialogue that sees the weaker and the lesser as equals,” he emphasized.

And to bring this into reality demand boldness and statesmanship of those who see themselves

as stronger as and mightier than the other counterpart, he added.

On the other hand, Keyho said peace cannot be build with a threatening attitude nor for that matter at gun point, that is not peace but a challenge to war like situation.

In peace like situation, one must be willing to look at the other face to face and feel the heart beat and sense the pain deep inside, he underlined.

Framework of engagement Commenting on the Framework Agreement signed between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India, Keyho said the said agreement has become a catch phrase in the present Naga society.

According to Keyho, this phrase must be regenerated contextually into a framework of engagement with the common people who

Keyho said peace cannot be imposed, it has to be embraced. He explained: “what must be embraced is internal and what is imposed is external.”

Towards this, the NBCC general secretary dwelt on the need for internal transformation in our pursuance for peace. “If we truly long for peace and I believe we are, we cannot negate this aspect in our journey as people. For true peace comes from God and God alone,” he averred.

But peace other than true peace which comes from God alone will lead us to become our own god.

This pseudo peace-liketalks and peace-look-alike invitation will only lead to selfishness and fragmentation, Keyho pointed out.

“For to embrace peace is to embrace each other as equals…And unless we do so, Nagas as one, as a people and a nation under God cannot be accomplished nor be achieved,” he averred.

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today issued a clarion call to the Naga people to come together, forgive and forget the past and work together for the common good of the people.

Speaking as chief guest at the 50th Anniversary of the formation of NPC at Kohima, Zeliang said the Naga political issue has entered a new era with the signing of the “Framework Agreement” between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) on August 3, 2015. “At this crucial juncture of our Naga political history, the situation demands that we sink all our petty differences, and forget and forgive the past bitterness and pains, and come together for our common good and our common goal,” he said.

“I appeal to all tribal hohos, NGOs, churches, civil societies and even commoners to encourage and appeal all Naga Political Groups to come together and talk with GoI to resolve the decades old Naga political problem,” the chief minister said.

Recalling the history of the Peace Centre, he stated that the ceasefire Agreement of 1964 had its origin in the Baptist Church Convention held at Wokha during January 31 to February 2, 1964. He informed that it was during this convention, the Naga Peace Mission was formed, consisting of three famous personalities- Jayaprakash Narayan, Rev Michael Scott, and BP Chaliha.

Through the dedicated efforts of the Naga Peace Mission, supported by the prayers and resolutions of the Baptist Church Convention led by Rev Longri Ao, a ceasefire agreement between the GoI and the NNC was arrived at on May 23, 1964 at Sakhaba village in Phek District. But it was officially declared and made effective from September 6, 1964.

In the following year, the NPC was established in Kohima under the patronage of Jayaprakash Narayan and the NBCC to pursue the peace process, and work for the establishment of permanent peace in Nagaland, he added.

N Theyo, Chairman, NPC in his welcome speech dedicated the jubilee to all the past and present leaders who made great sacrifices to centre what it is today. He also added that the celebration will not simply be an occasion to revisit the past but a time to look forward with confidence and hope. He challenged all to promote peace and make Nagaland a land of peace.

A moment of silence was observed in memory of Lhusi Haralu, Executive Director NPC who passed away today at 1:30 am just hours before the NPC commemorated its 50th anniversary, for which she had taken active part as its Executive Director.

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‘nagas tired of gun battles and bloodshed’ IJF in solidarity with Nagaland Editors ENWO appeals security forces and NPGs to maintain peace and tranquility

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland Women Organisation (ENWO) has appealed both the security forces and all Naga political groups to maintain peace and tranquility in all length and breadth of Nagaland, and ENPO jurisdiction in particular.

It expressed resentment and dismay over the November 15 unfortunate incident at Leangkonger Village, under Shamator Sub Division, in Tuensang District where four (4) cadres of the NSCN (U) were killed.

“The people are tired of gun battles and bloodshed everywhere, causing fear psychosis in the minds of every common man, thereby, af-

fecting normal lives of everyone, especially the innocent and young budding generation,” lamented ENWO in a press statement received today.

It reiterated appeal to the security forces to exercise utmost restraint while carrying out their duties, keeping in mind that there are always innocent lives affected in the event of firing and killings amongst themselves.

While acknowledging the many Samaritan works done by the security forces for the welfare and uplift of the economy of the Nagas, the ENWO pointed out that it should also continue to maintain their motto ‘Friends of the Hill People’ in true

spirit and also look upon Naga brothers and sisters as friends and not as enemies.

Both the security forces and the Naga armed cadres must respect the December 18, 2007 resolution wherein ENPO jurisdiction has been declared as a ‘peace zone,’ it stated.

ENWO also appealed the Naga armed cadres to refrain themselves from intimidating and threatening people of various professions and to respect the sentiments of the common people by not roaming about in public places with arms, as such movements invite unwanted situations leading to loss of many precious lives.

Nagaland swamped by backdoor appointment

KSU allege 7,737 backdoor appointments in Nagaland Home dept from 2005 till date

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): More allegations of “backdoor appointments” in the Nagaland Home department have surfaced, this time with implication on five Director General of Police (DGP) and three Home Ministers.

In a telling revelation, Kyong Students’ Union (KSU) said on Tuesday that a total of 7,737 backdoor appointments were made in the State Home department since the year 2005 till date. The information was received after the KSU reportedly filed an RTI seeking details from the PHQ on the appointments made.

According to the press statement received here, a total of 1727 appointments were made between the years 2005-2007 which was during the tenure of Thenucho as the Home Minister. The DGP was late Changkija during that period of time.

From year 2008 till 2012 when the Home Minister was Imkong L Imchen, a total of 5036 backdoor appointments were made, the KSU said. Z Kire and O Alem were DGPs during the time.

Between 2013-2014, when G Kaito was the Home Minister and B Kezo the DGP, 715 backdoor appointments were made, the press statement said. In 2015, with Y Patton as the Home Minister and Doungel as the DGP, 259 backdoor appointments were allegedly made, the KSU statement informed.

“Backdoor” appointments in the Home department from 2005 till date 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total:

416 381 930 1081 1563 850 925 617 206 509 259 7,737

Data source KSU

Only recently, the Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) had alleged of 3930 backdoor appointments in the Home department. However, the figures were a tally made from the year 2010 onwards.

The CSU had also decided to take legal recourse

against its fight against alleged backdoor appointments in the State Police Department after the State Government failed to initiate any action within the given ten days deadline which concluded on November 14.

Meanwhile, KSU while asserting that it stands behind the CSU in their fight against backdoor appointment, however said the latter’s stand of pointing out only 1 (one) department “appears to be driven by vested interest and tribalism attitude.”

“If this is a social cause and not driven by nepotism and tribalism, CSU will not give the cut off year as 2010 for investigation,” it alleged while pointing out that Thenucho, a Chakhesang, was the Home Minister from 2005 during whose tenure more than 1700 were directly appointed by him.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates - the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and the National Union of Journalists, India (NUJI) on Tuesday condemned the directive made to Editors of five Nagaland-based media houses by a Colonel of the General Staff for Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force on October 24.

The directive issued by the Assam Rifles, the oldest paramilitary force in India, bans the re-publication of press statements from the banned organization, NSCN (K). The directive said that ‘publication of press statements of a banned organization was complicit in the illegal activities of the banned organization.’

Responding to the notification, the Editors had stated that ‘the role of the media in an environment of conflict is a critical component in the search for peace and

justice.’ They also said that ‘By implying that the Nagaland-based media is supporting a particular banned organization, the Assam Rifles is jeopardizing the personal safety and well being of the Editors and the media fraternity in Nagaland.’

On November 16, National Press Day in India, three daily newspapers in Nagaland carried blank editorials to protest against the directive.

In this connection, the press statement received from the IFJ said the directive stifles press freedom and urged that it be immediately withdrawn. It stated that the paramilitary force has no right to directly communicate with the Editors regarding the content and coverage of the media.

The IJU has protested against the notice to editors last week and is taking up the matter with the Press Council of India, it also informed.

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Did not issue any gag order: AR DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Assam Rifles today claimed that it had in no way issued any “gag order” on the Press.

A statement received today from PRO, AR alleged that the sequence of events over the past couple of days appears to be a “well conceived plan by vested interests to use the press and muzzle the voice of the Assam Rifles, which is the only organisation having faced the full brunt of terrorist actions and achieved tangible results against a terrorist organisation.”

The AR maintained that it had written the letter to the editors of five media houses of Nagaland highlighting the fact that NSCN (K) has been notified as an Unlawful Association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and amplified some of the clauses of the gazette notification which have its own legal implications.

It said publishing an “extortion notice of a banned organisation against business establishments is akin to abetting the banned organisation in collection of funds which will be used to carry out subversive activities against the government agencies and security forces.

“If media houses feel it is correct to issue them to public through their medium,

it’s their call and answer to the Press Council of India for violation of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967,” the AR statement read.

It also stated that the media houses are free to publish any article about the NSCN (K) organization which would add to the peace process, air their opinion about the security forces and their conduct of operations.

At no stage has the media been asked to dilute their free reporting, the AR statement asserted while maintaining that the contents of the advisory making the media houses aware of the MHA notification and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act are being deliberately misinterpreted.

The intent of the letter was to prevent contact of NSCN (K) with the public for conveying their extortion demands or extortion threats through medium of mass communication, it claimed.

“Even today, as in the past, the editors are free to publish any press release they receive from NSCN(K), however, it would not be possible for them to feign ignorance of the MHA notification declaring NSCN(K) a banned terrorist organisation and any consequent legal repercussions leading to it,” the AR informed.

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MAT presentation ceremony held Morung Fest 2015 on Dec 3 and 4

Recipients of the 22nd Mayangnokcha Awards for Academic Excellence along with the chief guest and trustees of MAT at Town Hall, Mokokchung, November 17. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 17

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The 22nd presentation ceremony of Mayangnokcha Awards for Academic Excellence was held here today at the Town Hall with Nagaland minister for School Education and SCERT, Yitachu as the chief guest.

Organized by the Mayangnokcha Award Trust (MAT), the roll of honour of the 2015 awards included the Mayangnokcha Award for Academic Excellence Overall Topper which was awarded to Chentisangla Longkumer who passed out here NBSE/HSLC 2015 exams from G. Rio School, Kohima with an aggregate

of 96.66%. She was also awarded the MAT-EFoM (Education Forum of Mokokchung) Award for Subject Topper in Mathematics for securing a 100% It may be recalled that Ponthungo Odyuo from Mezhür Hr. Sec. School, Kohima and Chentisangla Longkumer jointly bagged top second position in the NBSE/ HSLC 2015 exams. Ponthung Odyuo was awarded the MAT-Tir Yimyim Award for the Subject Topper in Science, who also scored a cent percent in the said subject.

Meanwhile, the MATNE Sun Award for the Subject Topper in English was awarded to Kesino Thorie

KYS Kigwema jubilee health camp held

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KigWema, November 17 (mexN): The Khamima Youth Society (KYS) Kigwema, Platinum Jubilee Organising Committee held it’s jubilee health camp cum jubilee message on November 15 at Khamima Zake. A brief programme was chaired by Er. Siechalie Yhoshü (Secretary Organising Committee) while an introductory message was delivered by Er. Diethoselie Zhasa (Convenor Organising Committee). The health camp was conducted in various fields such as Medicines specialist, Child specialist, ENT specialist, Cardiology, Biochemistry, Dental surgeon and General Doctors.

Altogether 532 patients were checked and free medicines were provided. The jubilee organizing committee thanked the 12 (twelve) doctors from different departments along with the staff nurses and other medical staff especially MEDICOS from other tribes, village and health centre/ hospitals. The health camp was headed by Dr. Dietho Yhoshü, Medicine Specialist and Dr. Neiketou Kiso. The health camp concluded with the Jubilee message shared by Rev. Mekhale Yhoshü. The vote of thanks was delivered by Visazo Bio, G.B.

Tobu SDPDB holds meeting moN, November 17 (DiPr): Tobu SDPDB meeting was held on November 13 under the chairmanship of Bamboo Mission Advisor and NEPED, Naiba Konyak. The chairman asked all the members to be present at the station regularly at all times in order to render all possible help and work together as a team for the benefit of the general public. A brief report was presented by Medical Officer (Ayush), CHC Tobu, Dr. Meyachungla Jamir. The meeting discussed construction of youth hall at Tobu HQ, recognition of Shalom organisation and total ban on dice games at Tobu HQ.

of Trinity School, Kohima while MAT-Rockdale Award for Subject Topper in Ao (MIL) went to Imsuonen of Clark Memorial HSS, Impur. Esther N Odyuo of Don Bosco HSS Wokha was awarded the MAT-YSRD Award for the Subject Topper in Social Sciences.

Chentisangla Longkumer, Ponthung Odyuo and Kesino Thorie are all presently doing their higher secondary studies at Kohima Science College (Autonomous), Jotsoma while Esther N Odyuo is continuing in the same school in her hometown. Imsuonen after passing out from Impur is now doing his higher

secondary studies at Don Bosco HSS, Dimapur.

The chief guest while speaking at the awards presentation ceremony appreciated the trustees of MAT for promoting education and unity among the Nagas. He also said that though Naga civilization dates back to 50 BC, it was only in 1872 that Nagas were first introduced to modern education and Christianity. “It means that our education should be Christian oriented. Our education system must have its foundation on Christian principles,” he added, saying that that is where “education is rooted.”

He also said that when

talking about education, “we can’t forget where and how education came and what we must do.” He also regretted that education in Naga parlance today is just a means to “get a job” and urged that “jobs should be secondary.” He also conveyed to the Naga people that they should not be timid at facing and accepting change and that they should strive for unity. He also emphasized on promoting gender equality.

Earlier, president of MAT, Akok Walling while delivering his welcome address stated that MAT was instituted more than two decades ago “for general good and progress of Nagas” at a time when it was untraditional and unconventional to talk about promoting academic excellence and education as a tool for progress and development. He also stated that the awards are being awarded, for the time being, to the Nagas of Nagaland state and to toppers of HSLC/NBSE only for “convenience in management.”

The Mayangnokcha HSS Choir presented ‘The Educationist’, the awards’ theme song. Chubamanen Longkumer presented a special number while Teisovi Gerard Meyase, former recipient of the awards and presently working as Asst Prof of Mathematics at Kohima Science College delivered a short speech.

The awards presentation ceremony was sponsored

by The Gattani Bread, Jorhat, Assam.

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Organizers of the ‘Morung Fest 2015’ addressing the media at a press conference in Dimapur on November 17. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | November 17

The second edition of the “Morung Fest 2015” organized by Ao Sudents’ Union Diphupar (ASUD) is coming out with a bigger and more attractive format to showcase the vibrant culture and ethnicity of different tribes of Nagaland.

This time the two-day festival (December 3 and 4) to be held at Agri Expo complex, Diphupar, coincides with the Hornbill Festival. The festival aimed at fostering feelings of unity among different Naga tribes and celebrating the common heritage and culture, will have Lok Sabha MP, Neiphiu Rio, as host; parliamentary secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control, Jacob Zhimomi, as co-host and former minister, Kuzholuzo Nienu, MLA, as the chief patron.

Addressing media persons on Wednesday afternoon, the organizers of the ‘Morung Fest’ said the added attractions of this year’s edition include quiz, painting and photography competitions.

Food, games and music, the main ingredients of any tribal festival, will be the main highlights of the Morung Fest too.

The Morung indigenous food competition will dish out the exotic culinary fares of the various Naga tribes, the volleyball tournament will provide a platform to the young sportsmen to exhibit their talent and also inspire them to aim higher.

The indigenous food competition will be judged on criteria like aesthetic presentation of dishes, originality, flavor, indige-

nous ingredients used and hygiene, judges of the cooking competition informed.

Open choir completion will replace the previous indigenous choral competition to ensure more participation, especially the youth.

The competitions open to all Naga citizens come with attractive cash prizes and gift hampers.

The organizers informed the quiz competition will be of national standard and a renowned quiz master from outside the state will come to oversee the competition.

The photography contest will be based on the theme of the festival “Vibrance of the Nagas” and the participants of the contest have to capture the myriad scenes and moments of the festival.

With preparations of the festival in full swing, the organizers expressed optimism that the second edition of the festival will draw bigger crowd including visitors from outside the state.

Prizes of the various competitions: Volleyball (for men): First position– Rs. 50,000; second –Rs. 25,000 and individual prizes Indigenous cooking: First –Rs. 25,000 and three consolation prizes of Rs. 5000 each Open Choir– First– Rs. 50,000 and three consolation prizes Quiz– First–Rs. 25,000; second– Rs. 12,000 and gift hampers Painting – First –Rs. 8,000; second – Rs. 5,000, third – Rs. 3,000 Photography– First – Rs. 5,000

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Farming community urged to adopt new techniques DimaPur, November 17 (DiPr): Farmers Field Day under National Food Security Mission (NFSM) was organized under the aegis of District Agriculture Office Dimapur at Singrijan Village on November 17.

Deputy Commissioner Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome (IAS) who graced the occasion as the guest of honor exhorted the farming community of Singrijan Village to follow/adopt the new farming techniques taught to them by the Agriculture department to achieve higher yield.

He reminded that our forefathers had no luxuries of life in the past, yet survived through their hardwork. Observing that though there has been decrease of farming population in every corner of the world, yet there is increase in productivity due to technological intervention.

“In our state the farming population is decreasing so also the productivity of yield and for which we import paddy from

other states,” he regretted and asked the gathering of farmers to ponder on the issue. He further asked the gathering to take full advantage of the many logistic support extended to them by Agri department and to work in unity as far as agriculture activity is concerned so as to raise their standard of living.

“The better you perform, the more support from the government will be given,” he maintained.

Delivering the keynote address Deputy Director, Agriculture Department, Kohima, Sosangmar termed Farmers Field Day as a special occasion for the farming community, where experiences, difficulties etc could be shared.

"Without the Field Day, the mandate of NFSN will not be sucessful', he remarked.

He further said that when farmers shows interest, it becomes an integrated approach because all the Agri and Allied departments comes foward to help. He observed dynamism of farmers as a key factor for

DC Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome IAS addressing during the farmers field day at Singrijan Village on November 17. (DIPR Photo)

paving many other ways for the benefit of farming community. "Nagaland is self sufficient in all other foodgrains besides paddy where there is deficit of 33%", Sosang said.

Further reminding 'Food Security" as the vision of Agriculture department he said, "We cannot increase the land but can work towards higher yield to fulfill our vision with

technological intervention".

APP, Dimapur L. Mongsanger, who gave a brief report on NFSM said that NFSM has made significant progress in Dimapur district in terms of production and productivity of rice, acceptance and adoption of new production technologies and also new implements and machineries.

He also informed that un-

PHED informs on dismantling of pipelines

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DimaPur, November 17 (mexN): The office of the EE PHED (Urban Division) Dimapur has issued a information in connection to the press release issued by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Dhobinala-SignalThahekhu (DST), which was published on November 15 issue of the local dailies.

Er. P. Khetoi Awomi, EE PHED (Urban Division) Dimapur stated in the note that the EE PHED (Urban Division) Dimapur, in response to a letter received from the office of the EE PWD (R&B) Dimapur Division ref.No.EE/DMR/TB-29/2015/16 dated 19th Oct 2015 requesting to conduct survey and shift the existing water pipelines, had deputed its officials and necessary survey was carried out.

Accordingly, a project estimate of the cost of undertaking the above-mentioned work of relocating the existing pipelines was prepared. It was estimated that while constructing the road, the following pipelines would be damaged: 1. Control Box near Thahekhu Gate 2. 100 mm dia. G.I. Pipe Thahekhu Village main pipeline 1200 metre length 3. 150 mm dia. C.I. Pipe Kashiram village 30 metre length 4. 80 mm dia. G.I. Pipe 800 metre fitted along the road for Kevijau Colony 5. 100 mm dia. G.I. Pipe 1500 metre for Lhomithi colony and Sematilla water supply main pipe The note stated that since these pipelines are very old and not fit to be reused once dismantled, new pipes along with fitting equipments and materials will be required to lay down new pipelines amounting to the tune of Rs. 64,75,000/(Sixty Four Lakhs Seventy Five Thousand),

which is to be compensated to the PHED by the PWD (R&B) Department as is the norm because while executing developmental works, one Department cannot destroy the structures belonging to another Department without due compensation. As such, the project for laying new pipelines along with abstract of cost has already been submitted to the office of the EE PWD (R&B) Dimapur vide Ref.No.EE/ PHE/URBAN/WORKS/2015-16/494-500 dated Dimapur, 26th Oct 2015.

It is also to be stated that although 7 (Seven) days time was given to the PHED to dismantle its pipelines, most pipeline(s) laid deep underground cannot be retrieved because the road construction works were not halted and earth filling was carried out, which has only rendered the existing pipelines deeper.

It further added that keeping in mind the developmental needs of the public of the said area, the Department has already begun dismantling of the pipelines w.e.f.

16/11/2015 and the supply of water to Westyard Colony, Sematilla Village, Lhomithi Colony and Kevijau Colony have already been cut off due to the road construction works. In the coming days as the road construction work progresses, more villages to be affected by non-availability of supply water include Thahekhu Village, Signal Angami Block-II, Nepali Kashiram, Kachari Gaon, Indisen, Industrial Village, Lengrijan etc for which the Department requests all the affected villages to bear with the inconvenience until such time new pipelines are laid down as the work will be executed only after the Department receives compensation from the PWD (R&B).

der Dimapur district NFSM is being implemented in 35 clusters covering 4 blocks.

Mongsanger was of the view that NFSM has contributed significantly in accelerating food grains production in the district. He also mentioned that Singrijan village is one of the best performing villages and for which the Farmers Field Day is being conducted in the village.

Progressive farmer from Singrijan Village, Tik Bahadur while sharing his experiences with NFSM said that traditional method of farming and farming with technological intervention has vast difference in terms of productivity.

Sharing his personal experience he said that last year with the application of line transplanting techniques his yield of paddy cultivated in one bigha was 1200 kgs where as cultivating same area with traditional mode of farming, the yield was 720 kgs only.

Another progressive farmer from Shozukhu Village, Hotoshe Sumi

also lauded the Agri Department for training the farmers and for providing all logistic support to the farming community.

Agri Officer, Ronchamo Kikon presented demonstration on cutting/yield report. He said that crop cutting experiment was a regular feature for every specific crop to observe the efficacy and supremacy of line transplantation and also to assess yield per hectare.

On the occasion G,B. Singrijan Village expressed gratitude to the Agri Department for conducting the "Farmers Field Day" at Singrijan and further encouraging the farmers.

DAO Dimapur, Bendangtemsu who chaired the programme also delivered the welcome note while SDAO, S.K. Kemprai proposed the vote of thanks.

In the 2nd session, A.O. Rokovotsole demonstrated on seeds treatment for winter crops and Wochamo, A.O. distributed winter crop seeds, micro nutrients and bio fertilizers to the farmers.

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ANTA Kohima annual picnic

Kohima, November 17 (mexN): The ANTA Kohima unit will hold its annual picnic on November 18 at Kimipfiiphe Ground, Kigwema, near Dimori Cove from 10:00 AM onwards. All the taxi drivers and owners under ANTA Kohima been asked to turn up the same. According to the Association, taxis playing on that particular day will be treated as defaulters and will be penalized. The Association requested the public to bear with the inconvenience.

Coordination meeting at Changtongya

moKoKchuNg, November 17 (DiPr): The annual meeting cum picnic of Changtongya sub-division departmental co-ordination forum was held on November 13 at Dikhu river, Yoangyimsen village. Delivering the welcome speech, chairman and SDO (C) Changtongya, Chumlamo Humtsoe welcomed all the members present. He said the main objective of organizing the meeting cum picnic was to interact and build friendly relationship amongst the members. He also appreciated the cooperation showed by all the members. A short speech was delivered by chairman of Yoangyimsen village council.

The programme was chaired by APRO Changtongya, Meyisusu Jamir, who also delivered vote of thanks. Special song was presented by Malem, Dobashi.

Quiz on Swachh Bharat Mission in Wokha

WoKha, November 17 (mexN): The District Administration of Wokha is conducting a district level quiz for students of schools in and around Wokha town on November 19. The venue for the said quiz is Don Bosco School Auditorium and is scheduled at 11 AM. The prizes for the winners, first and second runners up are Rs. 10000, Rs. 7500 and Rs. 5000 respectively. The quiz is part of an ongoing Swachh Wokha Drive jointly undertaken by the Town Council, Wokha along with the district administration.

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Modi and Ravi invited to Lui-Ngai-Ni No need of AFSPA in Garo Hills: M'laya CM Dimapur, November 17 (mexN): The Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL), as a host and on behalf of United Naga Council has officially invited R.N. Ravi as the special Guest of next year Lui-Ngai-Ni festival on February 15. The invitation was officially made when the TNL delegation lead by its president Weapon Zimik calls on the Central interlocutor on November 16. TNL had earlier invited the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi as the Chief Guest for the event.

“The President expressed his satisfaction in knowing keen interest and positive response given by Ravi on UNC and TNL invitation,” stated a press note issued by TNL President’s Office.

The visit of Modi and R.N. Ravi “at this crucial phase” in resolving the “longest armed movement” in South Asia will usher a strong foundation to the new relationship that the new parties seek to establish, TNL maintained.

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(Left to Right) Weapon Zimik, President, TNL and R.N Ravi, Naga Talk Interlocutor.

noted to “build a new relationship for the brighter future of Nagas and all other section of Indian population.

The discussion and the invitation letter, it added was also a reflection of the “New Act East” policy and how Nagas and rest of India can work as a partner and maximize the dreams of all section of the population.

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Indefinite economic blockade to resume on Imphal-Jiribam road Our correspondent Imphal | November 17

Perturbed by the alleged indifferent attitude shown by the Manipur Government towards its demand, the Jiribam District Demand Committee (JDDC) has announced to resume its suspended indefinite economic blockade along Imphal-Jiribam road from midnight today, Tuesday.

A JDDC statement said the plight of the people of Jiribam subdivision in Imphal East has been ignored by the Government.

It said the Manipur Government is keeping mum on the demand for conversion of Jiribam into a fullfledged revenue district.

Subdivisional headquarters Jiribam is about 220 km west of Imphal.

Neglecting the legitimate demand for years has excited the people of the subdivision to anger, the statement said.

Top NDFB leader killed guwahati, November 17 (iaNS): In a major success against the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a joint team of army and Assam Police on Tuesday gunned down the outfit's Sonitpur district commander, Khamkhang. The militant was killed in a gun battle at Batasipur in Sonitpur district around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, a defence spokesman based in Guwahati, said.

"Khamkhang had become a synonym for terror in the area and he was particularly known for kidnapping for ransom, extortion and killings. He was a key figure involved in planning and execution of the gruesome Adivasi massacre last year," he said. A pistol and some live ammunition were recovered from the slain militant. "The army had got specific intelligence input that Khamkhang was moving in the area. Based on the information, an operation was planned to nab him," the spokesman said. "The militant, however, attacked the security forces by lobbing a grenade and opened fire," the spokesman said, adding that he was eventually killed in the gun battle.

He also said that the NDFB faction's top brass was considering Khamkhang's name for appointment as commander-inchief in order to rejuvenate the group and boost the flagging morale of the cadres which is at its lowest ebb due to the relentless operations by the security forces.

The committee stated that indefinite economic blockade imposed along the National Highway 39 (Imphal-Jiribam road) was suspended on November 9 in view of Ningol Chakouba festival which was celebrated on November 13.

"The strike will be resumed from midnight of November 17. We seek support from all sections in enforcing the blockade," JDDC added.

It added that the Government has given enough assurance time and again and that the people have been betrayed. "The committee is now not in a position of trust. People of Jiribam along with the committee has taken the firm decision to resort to agitation," the statement said.

JDDC had earlier imposed economic blockade along the highway for weeks over the demand in 2011.

er delegates also expressed gratitude to “very positive outlook” shown by the interlocutor regarding the current negotiation with the NSCN leadership and the future Indo-Naga relation which he noted “must be founded in compassion, understanding equality.”

The Interlocutor was further reminded of the strong sense of “Naga identity consciousness” across

different administrative jurisdiction and to take that seriously in their effort to end the protracted political conflict, it said.

Lui-Ngai-Ni is the biggest festival of all the Nagas living within the jurisdiction of Manipur State and most important platform for all the 16 Naga tribes along with Tangkhul Naga from Somra Track, Myanmar to come together as one and celebrate the festival in oneness, TNL added.

It further expressed optimisms that their visit to the festival, which is popularly known as the seed sowing festival, will reflect the Nagas’ hope in the new initiative of the Government of India under the leadership of the Prime Minister Narendra and the Interlocutor and a team of dedicated collective leadership headed

by Yaruiwo Isak Swu and Ato Kilonser Th. Muivah.

“It is the cherish dreams of all the Nagas to reap the good harvest as the two parties attempt to sow the seed of peace, development and a new partnership between the Nagas and the rest of India” TNL opined.

ShilloNg, November 17 (iaNS): There was no need for imposition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in the insurgency-ravaged Garo Hills districts of Meghalaya as the state government was capable of dealing with the militants, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said on Tuesday.

"We are capable of dealing with the insurgency problem in the state.

Unlike in the past, we have busted and dislocated joint training camps of the United Liberation Front of Asom, Garo National Liberation Army and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland in the thick jungles of Garo

Hills," Sangma told journalists here.

He said the government has also been able to prevent many youth from the Garo Hills from joining the militant outfits after initiating sustainable livelihood programmes.

"We have shared our data with the central government on the number of militants who have surrendered, arrested and were killed in gunfights.

Therefore, the government's stand is abundantly clear that we are capable in dealing with the situation," he said.

Moreover, the people's opposition to AFSPA reflected that they have faith in the state government.

"The government is already dealing

Arunachal speaker's live-in partner files police complaint itaNagar, November 17 (iaNS): Arunachal Pradesh assembly Speaker Nabam Rebia's live-in partner has filed a police complaint against him for physically and mentally assaulting her and forcing her to abort several times, a lawyer said.

The first information report (FIR) was filed with the state police after the speaker failed to reply to a legal notice sent on November 8 by the woman's counsel, Tabing Lamgu, who sought

his client's "restitution of conjugal rights" within seven days. The woman, the speaker's live-in partner of four years, has accused Rebia of making false promises to marry her since 2011, as well as of cheating, breach of trust and fraud.

IANS repeatedly tried to contact Rebia, elected from Doimukh assembly constituency in Arunachal Pradesh, but was unsuccessful. A man who answered his mobile phone heard the question from

'Special cell for forests, environment of NE states' ShilloNg, November 17 (iaNS):Union Minister of State Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said a "special cell" would soon be set up to ensure forest and environment are protected while sustainable development also takes place in eight north-eastern states.

"We will soon set up a special cell in the ministry to ensure that forest cover and environment are protected while allowing sustainable development to progress in the north-east-

ern states," Javadekar told reporters on inaugurating the regional office of his ministry of environment, forests and climate change here.

"We will work with the state government in the north-eastern states.

I will also appoint a committee to go in for issue of private forests and community forests" and see the way out to benefit people and still protect environment and forest, he added.

Javadekar said his ministry would

also launch a programme to map the forest cover in the north-eastern states in the interest of the tribals in the region. Stating that the central government would introduce minimum support price (MSP) for the minor forest produce sold by tribal people, Javadekar said, "Unless we ensure minimum support for the minor forest produce, the tribals won't get justice and towards that some states have started taking interest. All states should also follow."

Stranded Mizo officials finally leave for home aizawl, November 17 (pti): After being stranded for over a week in an office building in Mamit town, Mizoram officials assigned to conduct special summary revision of voters list in Bru relief camps in Tripura, were able to leave for home.

Election officials from Mamit, Kolasib and Lunglei districts were supposed to revise electoral rolls in the six Bru camps, but were stranded at Mamit deputy commissioner's office since November 8 as civil society activists blocked

roads to prevent them from leaving for Tripura.

Mizoram Joint Chief Electoral Officer F J Liantluanga said they could finally leave for home as state Chief Electoral Officer Manisha Saxena asked them to do so as the time for revising voters' list in Bru camps was over yesterday. Saxena's instruction came after he returned from New Delhi to Aizawl today following his meeting with Election Commission (EC) officials over the situation.

Hundreds of volunteers opposed the EC's move to have blocked the roads conduct revision of voters' in and around the Mamit lists in the Bru relief camps.

DC's office since Sunday night to ensure that the officials could not leave the office premises. The EC had SALe: ReD 2008 i-10 instructed the state election department to send officials to six relief camps in North Tripura district to conduct special summary revision of voters lists which was objected by the civil societies in Mizoram.

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with insurgency at the root cause. We have launched a number of sustainable and livelihood programmes besides setting up residential schools to thwart the school dropout problem," he said.

Indicating that a number of militant outfits have responded to the government offer for peace talks, Sangma said the government was aggressively working to find out interlocutors to facilitate the peace talks with the government.

However, he made it clear that the state government cannot initiate a peace process with the banned outfits as it requires the approval of the central government.

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IANS and immediately disconnected. Since then, no one has been taking calls on that cell phone. "Nabam Rebia had upheld conjugal relationship with (the lady) from 2011 to 2015 because of which she had to severe all other relations of hers. However, for a few months you (Rebia) have been avoiding her. Even after persistent reminding, you failed to support her and give her the status of a legally wedded wife," the notice issued to Rebia said.

Lamgu told IANS: "There was no reply from Rebia... so we filed a case against the politician. We will fight the case and get him punished." The counsel alleged that Rebia "assaulted the woman on several occasions" when he was only a legislator and later "repeatedly pressurised her to undergo an abortion". The woman also charged his family with damaging her reputation by engaging in a "disinformation campaign".

GOVeRNMeNt OF NAGALAND DIRecRtORAte OF INDuStRIeS & cOMMeRce ADVeRTISeMeNT Dated Kohima, the 16th Nov. 2015

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All the participants are directed to strictly adhere to exhibit only local indigenous products for Exhibition cum Sale of Handloom & Handicraft products during the Hornbill Festival at Naga Heritage Village, Kisama (Kohima) from 1st to 10th December 2015. The Exhibition cum Sale is organised by the Directorate of Industries & Commerce, sponsored by the Development Commissioner (Handicraft), Govt. of India, New Delhi Sd/-, (I. Bendangliba), Director of Industries & Commerce

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G20 summit outcome positive for global economic recovery AntAlyA (turkey), november 17 (IAnS): The G20 Summit concluded with broad consensus on ways of achieving inclusive and robust growth of the global economy, which is still recuperating from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis.

The major economies on Monday agreed to strengthen coordination of macroeconomic policies, promote trade and investment, stimulate employment and boost investment in infrastructure. These measures, if fully implemented, will give a powerful boost to slow economic recovery, Xinhua quoted analysts as saying.

The G20 leaders made a dim assessment of the global economic situation in a communique released at the end of their two-day summit in Antalya, a seaside resort in southwest Turkey.

“Global economic growth is uneven and continues to fall short of our expectations, de-

spite the positive outlook in some major economies. Risks and uncertainties in financial markets remain, and geopolitical challenges are increasingly becoming a global concern,” the communique said.

However, the G20 leaders said they remain committed to lifting collective G20 gross domestic product (GDP) by an additional two percent by 2018, a target set in the last G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia.

Wang Xiaolong, the Chinese foreign ministry’s special envoy for the G20 affairs, said that against the backdrop of the sluggish global economic recovery, people have pinned high hopes on the summit, which is a primary forum for international economic cooperation.

“The summit sent a clear message... Although the global economy is experiencing some difficulties, we are still confident in the prospect of its mediumand long-term growth,” he said.

The annual gathering of the G20 leaders also displayed the partnership among the G20 members, which is especially valuable at a time when the world economy is not in a good shape, Wang said, adding that the leaders also agreed on a series of concrete measures to stimulate growth.

All of this will contribute to the achievement of a strong, sustainable and balanced growth of the world economy, he predicted.

With a possible interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserves in the coming months, the G20 leaders promised to “implement sound macroeconomic policies in a cooperative manner” to achieve a robust growth.

The anticipation of an imminent interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserves has sent shock waves across emerging economies in the world, whose currencies have weakened sharply against the US dollar in

the past year.

“There is a clear need to continue a cooperative approach at the G20 level on global macroeconomic policies, with the aim of strengthening the recovery, lifting potential growth and enhancing financial resilience,” said Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, in a statement.

In a bid to increase youth employment, the G20 leaders agreed to the goal of reducing the share of young people who are most at risk of being permanently left behind in the labour market by 15 percent by 2025 in G20 countries.

The communique also showed that the G20 economies have developed ambitious country-specific investment strategies in order to boost much-needed infrastructure investment.

Citing an analysis by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the communique said

these strategies would contribute to lifting the aggregate G20 investment to the GDP ratio by an estimated one percentage point by 2018.

The G20 leaders pledged to work together for a successful Nairobi ministerial meeting on world trade and called for the prompt ratification and implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.

The G20 leaders also agreed to step up the fight against corruption and plug tax loopholes exploited by multinational companies, as part of the efforts to enhance the resilience of financial institutions.

“The G20 represents 80 percent of the world economy, you can’t make it happen in any other forum. Although the G20 is not a decision-making forum, but once a consensus is reached you can carry it forward wherever a decision has been made,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said.

try so that the non-IT literate citizens are trained to become IT literate.

Kumar said over 1 lakh common service centres are imparting digital training under government’s mission to make every member of family digitally literate by 2020 and industry is also actively participating in the mission.

At the event, Nasscom Foundation and business software firm SAP announced partnership for opening 25 NDLM centres.

“At Nasscom Foundation, we had target to open 100 NDLM centres. With SAP partnering us we will have 125 centres by end of this fiscal.

“Together these centres will train 1,000 people every year,” Nasscom Foundation Chairman Ganesh Natarajan said. Nasscom Foundation has 75 centres as of now.

“The Foundation is well on its way to achieve digital literacy for 5 lakh citizens as earmarked by the government and this partnership gives us enough confidence to aim towards doubling the number. The level 1 course is imparted free of cost to people,” Nasscom Foundation CEO Shrikant Sinha said.

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year to move from 300 to 400 million users. Clearly, Internet is mainstream in India today,” the report said.

This number is expected to further surge to 462 million by June next year as more people come online, especially through their mobile devices. The total Internet user base stood at over 300 million in December last year, which grew to 375 million by October this year.

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This is expected to grow to 219 million (urban) and 87million (rural), respectively. It also found that of all the Internet non-users surveyed in the 35 cities, 11.4 million said they are willing to access the Internet in the next one year with over two-thirds intending to do so through mobile phones.

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ATMA Kohima conducted Farmers’ Scientist Interaction on November 17 at DAO training hall, Kohima. Resource persons for the programme were Michael Pienyü (Scientist, Plant Protection, KVK, Tseminyu), Khekali (Scientist, Horticulture, KVK, Tseminyu), Mhasikhotuo (A.O-II) and Dr. Vibeilie Keretsu (BTM, Tseminyu ATMA). Topics covered were on cultivation and pest management practices of cole crops, preparation of nursery and economic importance of horticultural crops and the importance of de-worming and vitamin-mineral supplement were discussed. Four farmers from each blocks attended the programme.

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new DelhI, november 17 (PtI): Tomato prices in the national capital have gone up by about 50 per cent in the last one month to Rs 62 per kg, due to decline in supplies. According to official data, in Delhi, tomatoes were sold at Rs 41 per kg a month ago which has jumped to Rs 62 per kg. Similarly, the average prices of tomato across all major centres have also zoomed to Rs 42.5 per kg from Rs 30 per kg a month ago.

However, according to traders at Azadpur Mandi, wholesale prices of tomato have started to decline from last two days with rise in supplies.

“Tomato supplies have come down sharply in the last week or so due to vacation during the festive season and as a result prices have shot up in the market,” said Subhash Chuk, a tomato trader at Azadpur mandi.

Chuk said the high quality tomatoes in the wholesale market are selling at Rs 20-25 per kg, less than yesterday’s price of Rs 30-35 per kg.

“In the coming days, prices are expected to come down as supplies have improved”, Chuk added.

Meanwhile, the retail prices of onion in the national capital has come down to Rs 43 per kg from Rs 57 per kg on account of increase in supplies.

Traders are of the view that the prices of onion may further come down as the new crop has started entering the market.

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Govt to impart digital literacy training to 52.5 lakh people by 2016 new DelhI, november 17 (PtI): Over 1 lakh common service centres are imparting digital training under government’s mission to make every member of family digitally literate by 2020 and industry is also actively participating in the mission.

Government has advanced the deadline for making 52.5 lakh people digitally literate, under National Digital Literacy Mission, by a year to 2016 than end of 2017 fixed earlier.

“We target to make 52.5 lakh people digitally literate by 2017 under National Digital Literacy Mission. Now, we are looking at meeting this target by 2016.”

“Already, we have certified 10 lakh people and next 8 lakh are in process,” said Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary, Department of Electronics and IT, at a Nasscom event.

The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme has been formulated to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi and ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers in all states/UTs across the coun-

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new DelhI/mumbAI, november 17 (reuterS): India’s food safety authority has appealed to the country’s top court against a regional court order overturning a nationwide ban on Maggi instant noodles sold by the local unit of Nestle SA (NESN.VX), a lawyer for the authority said on Monday.

Nestle India (NEST.NS) resumed selling its popular Maggi noodles this month after getting the green light from government laboratories, as mandated by the Bombay High Court in August.

The appeal, if admitted by the Supreme Court, could upset the Swiss food giant’s plans to revive Maggi sales after Indian regulators reported in May that some packets of the noodles contained unsafe levels of lead.

Nestle India can continue selling the noodles for now.

“We have filed the plea in the Supreme Court,” Mansoor Khan, a lawyer for the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), a government body, said. He said the appeal had been filed against the Bombay High Court verdict in favour of Nestle.

The FSSAI petition in the Supreme Court says the regional court erred by asking Nestle itself, instead of asking a neutral authority, to provide the fresh Maggi samples for testing at the government laboratories, according to the Hindu newspaper.

“It has been brought to our attention that the Supreme Court website has posted that the Food Safety and Standards Authority has filed a case against Nestle India Ltd and others,” a Nestle India spokesman said in a statement.

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Peace worker Lhusi Haralu passes away Morung Express News

Condolences offered to bereaved family

Dimapur | November 17

Early November 17, 83-year-old Lhusi Haralu breathed her last in Kohima just hours before the Nagaland Peace Centre commemorated its 50th anniversary, for which she had been taking active part as the Centre’s Executive Director.

Lhusi Haralu was born on August 17, 1932 to A. Kevichüsa and Manie Kevichüsa. She was the eldest daughter in her family and the widow of Late Padmashree Thepfoorya Haralu, IFAS. “It is a great loss for us today,” said NMA president, Abeiü Meru, who said that Haralu was one of the founding members of NMA. It was Haralu who worked tirelessly for the drafting and registration of the Youth and Women Welfare Society, an initiative of NMA which now runs the Cradle Ridge, AIDS Hospice for HIV/ AIDS orphans.

Advocate Ashu Theyo, Member, Nagaland Peace Centre noted that Haralu was a very “dedicated and strong woman”.

Haralu was a homemaker and a social worker who served various offices such as the Nagaland State Social Welfare Advi-

sory Board, Nagaland Council for Child Welfare, Family Planning Association of India, Kohima Branch as Chairperson, President and Vice President respectively.

She was also a Founding Member of the Indian Red Cross Society, Nagaland branch and served as Vice President in its first term.

She was associated with the Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA) as president of its Registered Wing and later as Advisor to the main body. In 1984, the Nagaland Peace Centre inducted her as Executive Director, an office she continued to hold till the day she passed away.

Lhusi Haralu leaves behind 3 sons, 5 daughters, 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Kohima, November 17 (mexN): Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang today expressed shock and pain at the sudden demise of Lhusi Haralu, executive director, Nagaland Peace Centre (NPC) early this morning.

Haralu died on the day NPC was scheduled to celebrate its golden jubilee, the preparation for which she was actively involved in. She was the driving force at NPC and had played a crucial role all these years, Zeliang stated.

Zeliang recollected that just the other month, Haralu and her team met him at his residential office in Kohima and discussed about various issues at length, including the NPC golden jubilee. Haralu opined that peace should be ushered in as soon as possible so that the Peace Centre should be made redundant and a relic of history, the CM said.

Remembering the deceased as “always a gracious lady”, Zeliang said, she was at the same time firm in her beliefs for peace and social justice. “I remember her telling me when we last met that even though the truth might hurt, Nagas need to sit together and talk the

truth, accept the truth and let the truth prevail and that only then would it be possible for the various Naga groups to come together as one family and voice out their common goal to the Government of India and the world.”

Zeliang added, “It is a cruel irony that she should pass away just hours before the Golden Jubilee function of the Peace Centre of which she was to be a part and for which she had contributed so much.”

The CM, on behalf of the people of Nagaland and his family, prayed to the Almighty to grant solace to the family members of the deceased. “May her soul rest in eternal peace, and may the good works that she had done towards the betterment of the society be remembered for generations to come.”

DPC: Dimapur Press Club (DPC) has also mourned the death of Lhusi Haralu, mother of Bano Haralu, former editor of Eastern Mirror. DPC prayed that the Almighty God will grant strength and comfort to the bereaved family members in their hour of pain and sorrow.

NSCW: The Nagaland State Commission for women (NSCW) also expressed shock and sadness at the sudden demise of Lhusi Haralu, “a prominent woman leader and a dedicated advocate for bringing peace to our troubled land.” In a condolence message, NSCW acknowledged that as the executive director of Nagaland Peace Centre, Haralu rendered invaluable service towards building a peaceful Nagaland for many years. “The Peace Centre has lost a great mentor and leader and a remarkable social worker, especially the women.” NSCW further offered condolences to the bereaved family and prayed to God to give them the strength.

Kuhoi Zhimo: In a separate note, Kuhoi Zhimo, ex-member, Ward-5, Dimapur Municipal Council stated that the sad news of the sudden demise of Lhusi Haralu has come as a great shock to him and his family. “I have known her as a very strong lady who was ahead of her time and a role model for many,” Zhimo stated. “In her death, we have lost a motherly figure and her

YAA supports demand to GPRN/NSCN to celebrate 8th unification anniversary Novem- ating units, all student bod- are expected to speak to the to fulfill the political aspiratransfer roads to BRO Dimapur, ber 17 (mexN): The ies in Nagaland, inter de- people of Nagaland and the tion of the Naga people and TueNsaNg, November 17 (mexN): Yimchungrü Akherü Arih-ako (YAA) has extended support to the demand of ENSF to transfer major roads within Eastern Nagaland from Public Works Department (PWD) to Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for the greater benefit of the people living within its jurisdiction.

A press statement from YAA president, Akiuba TS and general secretary, Shikiula stated that the workmanship and the work quality of the state PWD has always fallen short of the expectation across Eastern Nagaland since the task of road was handed over to state PWD from BRO. “Road connectivity and maintenances is the only life line of Eastern Nagaland but most of the routes have been cut-off by various aspects but the state PWD has failed to restore the damages road condition,” YAA lamented.

“Due to the road condition, the patients of the region failed to reach the hospital safely in time and most of the government employees take excuses in proper performance of duties.”

Consequently, it said, the innocent public has faced difficulties in availing good education, amenities and related economic rejuvenation over the years.

Therefore, the YAA has requested the State government to accede to the demand of the ENSF in the greater interest of people of the area.

GPRN/NSCN will celebrate its 8th Unification Anniversary at Designated Camp Khehoi on November 22 at 10:00 am.

The Collective Leadership of the GPRN/NSCN has invited to the celebration all NGOs and civil societies, concerned Naga citizens, intellectuals, all tribal Hohos in Nagaland under NTC, ENPO, CNTC, Tenyimi Union and affiliating units, GBs & DBs and affili-

nominational apex church organizations in Nagaland and units, non-Naga community welfare associations in Nagaland, Naga well wishers, press fraternity in Nagaland and beyond.

A press release from Kilonser Akato Chophy, Convener, 8th Unification Org. Committee through the MIP informed that the GPRN/ NSCN chairman Gen. (Retd) Khole Konyak and general secretary N Kitovi Zhimomi

Naga “brethren” living in different states in India and Myanmar on the “Naga political issue that was reduced from Sovereignty issue to Integration issue and further, with 3rd August Peace Accord, trimmed down to rehabilitation issue.” Opinions, views and visions for the future will be welcomed, it added.

Having pledged to understand each other and to uphold common goal and

as signatories to various MoUs, the GPRN/NSCN also extended its invitations to other Naga Political Groups - NNC (Royim/ V Nagi), FGN/NNC (Shingnya/ Zhopra), NNC (Kiumukam/ Hangping), NNC (Temjen Yanger/ Hozheto).

It also solicited Naga people’s prayers.

Order of the programme will be published in the local dailies on November 20 and 21, it was informed.

Zeliangrong Baudi: Zeliangrong Baudi (Hoho) Dimapur on behalf of the Zeliangrong people of Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland has expressed shock over the demise of Lhusi Haralu calling her “beloved mother”. “She was a prominent Zeliangrong mother whom we love, admire, and honour as a true leader,” stated a condolence note from ZBD secretary and advisor, Zeliangrong Baudi (Assam, Manipur, Nagaland), N Diswang Hau. “She had burned and toiled with all her capacities to give bright future to our Zeliangrong people and to help Nagas to become a nation. Words are not enough to express her selfless contributions to our Naga society.” Saying that the Zeliangrong community will always cherish the inspirations and humanitarian service she rendered to the society in various fields, the Baudi conveyed condolences to the bereaved family.

MEx FILE Chhath Puja greetings Dimapur, November 17 (mexN): The president and members of Dimapur Bengali Samaj have extended greetings to all the citizens of Nagaland and the Bihari community in particular on the occasion of Chhath Puja, which is basically the worship of Sun God. A press release from the Samaj president, KK Paul wished that the worship of rising and setting sun materialize into the well-being, prosperity and progress of all.

NLRBOA condemns

Dimapur, November 17 (mexN): The Nyamo Lotha Road Business Owners' Association (NLRBOA) has condemned the assassination attempt on the owner of Apna Hotel, Ritika Mehta, who is also the vice president of NLRBOA. “Such dastard act upon business community especially on a woman needs to be outrightly condemned and the culprit awarded stringent punishment,” stated a release from the association general secretary, Khekishe Aye. It further appealed to the police to apprehend the accused at the earliest and expressed solidarity with Ritika for general secretary report, and the fear and pain she is going through.

Vikho Domeh presented brief report as finance sec- 62nd All India Cooperative Week retary.

A new team of office bear- Kohima, November 17 (mexN): The closing function of ers of RPOK for the tenure the 62nd All India Cooperative Week will take place on Novem2015-2018 was also inducted. ber 20, 11:30 am at RCS conference hall, Kohima. Velasa Nakro, The team will be led by Darhu Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Nagaland will grace the ocShupao as president and Da- casion as chief guest. punyi Zholia as general secretary.

RPOK 22nd general session-cum-annual picnic held Kohima, November 17 (mexN): The 22nd general session-cum-annual picnic of Razeba Public Organization Kohima (RPOK) was held on November 14 at Razeba Community Hall, Keyake, Kohima.

Deo Nukhu, parliamentary secretary for higher & technical education was the chief guest at the event, which was

attended by prominent public leaders, government officers, and church leaders from Razeba area.

Chisalu Nukhu, Additional Secretary, Horticulture, who is also the president of Chakhesang Women’s Welfare Society, distributed sweets to the children on the occasion which coincided

with Children’s Day. Khrutalu Domeh was awarded a prize for securing top second in MA English, Nagaland University. Kekhwengulo Lea, general secretary, Chakhesang Public Organization exhorted the gathering. Danyi Domeh presented the presidential address, Darhu Shupao gave

Youth organizations in Kohima condemn killing of member

Members of Smartvalue Mokokchung - (from left to right) Lanuwapang Tzüdir (Senior Consultant Mkg.), Isfakur Rahman Talukdar, Naveen Kumar Gupta and Senior Associates of Mokokchung - pose for lens after the launch of new products ‘Noni’ under the umbrella of ‘Nurture’ at the Mega Training held at Metsüben Hotel in Mokokchung on November 17. The products introduced were of personal care. The company has already launched more than 150 different products during the last 15 years.

Kohima, November 17 (mexN): The Pezielietsie Youth Organisation (PYO) has condemned the murder of its active member Khrieketou Chiese. The Organisation urged the investigating agencies to expedite the investigation process and deliver justice at an early date. It also warned anyone trying to bail out the guilty party.

Extending condolences to the bereaved family of the departed, the Central Youth Organisation North-block Kohima (CYONB) also condemned the killing of Khrieketou Chiese,

an active member of the organisation, by “some mindless and anti-social elements.” CYONB has demanded the authority concerned to speed up the investigation and give stern and exemplary punishment to the guilty. The organisation further cautioned young people of “heavy consequences” while advising them not to indulge in late night partying and loitering in the jurisdiction of the organisation which encompasses Pezielietsie, Keziekie, Mission Compound, and Kenuozou Colony of Kohima Town.

Thousands celebrate Chhath Puja at Dhansiri River Dimapur, November 17 (mexN): Thousands of people from the Bihari and other Hindu communities today paid obeisance to Sun God as they observed Chhath Puja at the banks of Dhansiri River and other water sources here.

Observed on the 6th day of the Lunar month after Diwali, Chhath festival is celebrated as a thanksgiving to the Sun God for giving the bounties of life on earth and for fulfillment of wishes of believers. It is a festival of reverence to the solar deity, the only festival in the world where devotees offer salutations to the setting sun and then again ends with offering prayers to the rising sun the following morning.

Women fast continuously for 3 days and break their fast on the 3rd day after offering prayers to the rising sun.

Thousands of devotees today gathered on the banks of Dhansiri River here to offer the prayers. In the afternoon, clad in beautiful clothes women, children and men carrying baskets full of fruits, sweets and prepara-

absence will be felt by all of us, more so by those who have been close to her.”

Zhimo along with his family extended condolences to the children and family members of the departed.

Hindu women offer prayers during the Chhath Puja on the banks of Dhansari River in Dimapur on November 17. Photo by Caisii Mao

tions made of wheat reached the river banks where they prayed to the Sun God till sunset.

After sunset, they returned to their respective homes, where another ritual was conducted. In

this particular ritual, women prepare a canopy of sugar-cane and underneath, they light earthen lamps and sings hymn in praise of the Sun God and Chhat Maiya maintaining strict fast.

Early Wednesday morning, the devotees would go back again to the river banks and welcome the sun with folded hands. The offerings include sandalwood, vermilion, rice, fruits, usually

covered with saffron colored cotton cloth. They offer 'Arghya' and chant mantras and hymns from the Rig Veda and commence the puja. The devotees break the fast after the sun rises.

Chhath is the festival of truth, non-violence, forgiveness and compassion. Chhath is the only time when the setting sun as opposed to its rising is celebrated for its glory as the cycle of birth starts with death.

Over the years, the number of people celebrating this festival in Dimapur has increased, which is evident from the congregation of the devotees at the banks of Dhansiri River near ISBT, Oriya Colony and other places. The festival, significant to the people of North India, has been traditionally important to the migrant population, who reside in and around Dimapur, but people from other communities have also joined the celebration in the recent years.

Nagaland Bhojpuri Samaj and Chhath Puja Committee have made all arrangements at the banks of Dhansiri River for the devotees to offer prayers.

Lotha Literature Committee informs

WoKha, November 17 (mexN): The Lotha Literature Committee is planning to compile spelling pattern in Lotha language. Therefore, interested persons from Lotha community have been requested to write the spelling pattern from 'A' to 'Z' and submit it to the secretary, Lotha Literature Committee, R Ekonthung Lotha on or before December 10, 2015.

Dimapur Police arrest two Dimapur, November 17 (mexN): Anti-extortion team of Dimapur Police under Zone-I arrested two persons after they were found collecting monetary tax in the name of ‘Dimapur District Pick-up Van Owners & Drivers Union’ on November 16. The two, arrested at Murgipatti area, have been identified as Khukishe Kiba and Nitoka Awomi, informed a press release from PRO, Dima-

pur Police. Several tax coupons and other incriminating documents and cash were recovered from their possession.

ILP defaulters detained Dimapur Police manning Chumukedima check gate detained 8 (eight) persons who were found without valid ILP on November 17. They have accordingly been forwarded to the court.

Workshop on SBCC for routine immunization in Kohima Our Correspondent Kohima | November 17

A one day sensitization workshop of key senior officials and four day state level training of master trainers on Social & Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) for Routine Immunization (RI), supported by UNICEF got underway here this morning at Hotel Vivor.

Delivering keynote address, Dr. Sukhato A Sema, MD, National Health Mission, Nagaland said that immunization is one of the most successful public health initiatives globally.

Routine Immunization (RI) programme in India cater to a birth cohort of 27 million infants and 30 million pregnant women. He stated that full immunization coverage in India is 61% as per CES 2009, while in Nagaland it is 36% as per DLHS IV. He expressed happiness to take forward the trainings based on the concept of SBCC,

especially to strengthen RI in the state.

He said the objective of the workshop is to learn the art and science of facilitation for conducting effective training sessions, explain the salient features of RI and Mission Indradhanush and show its linkages with SBCC, understand and explain the contours of SBCC and be able to apply it to work situation, make a communication plan and implement the same for improved RI coverage and practice, able to mobilize communities for appropriate social and behavior change for overall improvement in RI to achieve the state goals for Nagaland.

Earlier, Bhawani Shakar Triparthy, Communication-forDevelopment Specialist, UNICEF India office highlighted the status of RI, while Nisar Ahmad, executive director, Envision Institute of Development briefed the purpose of the workshop.

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Search for Common Ground Freeing the Press X issue 314X issue 185 Thursday 9volume July 2015 volume

By dr. asangba Tzüdir

“Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” - Edmund Burke

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t a time when the flow of news and information defines our times, one is still made to wonder why the popular refrain, “Free the press!” keeps coming up. It only marks a deep and profound cynicism on issues related to ‘freedom of the press’. One simple reason is that the press is a site of power that produces and disseminates knowledge and subsequently becomes a powerful agent. As such, where there is power there will be other powerful agents to control or try to curtail their independent and free functioning especially when there is struggle for power.

Generally the “freedom of the press” gives journalists the right to be honest, fair without being biased and courageous in gathering, interpreting and disseminating information. And it is in such spirit that the press becomes an integral conduit to freely exercise their right of disseminating news without any constraint through external control. Seated atop a responsible pillar of democracy as the Fourth Estate, they carry a social and moral responsibility in being a quasi-public agency created for a public purpose. The media as the ‘fourth estate,’ in par with the executive, legislative and the judiciary in terms of responsibility, should be fully empowered towards the ideal of disseminating right knowledge and information that goes beyond the general definition of ‘news.’

The biggest social responsibility of the media is to make a success of democracy by creating a value based system through a democratic process of disseminating ‘news’. The presence of a viable media system where the press can freely express towards the end of shaping and promoting democratic ideals becomes a necessary condition for media to function freely. In the evolution of news and information, there is bound to be contesting knowledge claims and counterclaims, contesting views, competing interests, and power struggle, but, any attempt at hijacking free expression of the press only undermines their ‘rights’ and independent functioning in performing their social duty.

Today, power has become the pass code for establishing dominance and control. Within the many locus of power, one such is that those who own power, create dominance and control and thereby enforce certain ‘rights’ in their own terms. In the current struggle for power where media houses in Nagaland were constrained by the Assam Rifles on the issues related to publishing only draws a gloomy picture of a ‘Charlie Hebdo’ wherein democracy is hanged and more so a tragedy to the “freedom of the press”.

In a society marred by sensitivity like ours, often such curtailment only draws the press to a backseat and thereby gets caught up at a threshold between the ‘speak-able’ and ‘unspeakable’ or where the ‘speak-able’ is silenced and becomes ‘unspeakable’. Thus, the knowledge which becomes integral to create a democratic space is not allowed to surface. It also creates a strong impingement on the “freedom of the press” which also implies the ‘right’ of the public to be informed.

There cannot be absolute freedom. There are limits to everything but the “freedom of the press” as a right to expression should not be constrained in any manner towards their independent and free functioning because media especially the press, as watchdogs, has a moral and social responsibility both towards the public as well as towards its own integrity and identity as the ‘Fourth Estate’.

What is seen wanting in the current ‘hijacking of press freedom’ is the creation of a democratic process which is a shared responsibility and this calls for a sincere dialogue rather than the exercise of suppressive measures. This comes in the larger interest of the public and in the promotion of a democratic and harmonious society.

(Dr. Asangba Tzüdir is an Editor with Heritage Publishing House. He contributes a weekly guest editorial to the Morung Express.

Feedback and comments can be mailed to asangtz@gmail.com)

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Short of breath? Get screened for COPD November 18 is World COPD Day

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f you find it unusually hard to breathe during exercise or just after taking a flight of stairs, better get screened for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive lung disease, suggest doctors.

COPD is a common lung disease caused by tobacco, smoking and exposure to industrial pollution, fumes and other environmental pollutants. Vastly under diagnosed, COPD will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2030, the World Health Organisation predicts.

"If you are above 35 years of age and live or work in areas where there is smoke, noxious gas/fumes, ask your doctor for simple screening test to rule out COPD," said J.C. Suri, chest physician at Safdarjung Hospital here.

Due to common tobacco and smoking habit in people and environment pollution, COPD causes four times more deaths in metro cities of India as compared to the US and Europe, Suri pointed out. After pollution, lack of awareness about this condition is the major reason for increased risk of COPD deaths.

Studies indicate that 25-50 percent of people with clinically significant COPD do not even know they have it. That is because the early stages of COPD are often unrecognised.

"The early symptoms of COPD are chronic cough, bringing up sputum, and breathlessness during physical activity such as exercise or walking up a flight of stairs," Suri said.

He pointed out that people might discount these symptoms as a normal part of getting older, but they can be signs of a serious disease that needs treatment. Therefore it should not be neglected.

Moreover, both asthma and COPD patients have common complaints of difficulty in breathing. Therefore, this lung disease is often detected when it reaches an advanced stage or attacks the lungs. Lung attack becomes a life threatening condition for the patient, Suri informed.

He explained that there are now simple tools available for early screening of symptomatic COPD patients.

In six seconds, doctors can either rule out COPD or evaluate with further tests to confirm COPD. The earlier COPD is detected, the more effective treatment can be, Suri said.

In a recent study, published in the journal Chest, researchers from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here found that yoga exercises provide improvements that are just as effective as traditional pulmonary rehabilitation methods in improving lung function of patients with COPD.

A still from one of Search for Common Ground's videos, featuring a debate between candidates for office in Sierra Leone. (Credit: Emrys Savage)

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olitical debates are good even when they’re bad. Even when candidates are cringe-worthy, they’re cringe-worthy in public view. And voters learn about all the candidates, not just new ones. In the United States, for example, Hillary Clinton has been center stage in political life for 24 years.

Donald Trump is the very definition of “overexposed.”

Still, the debates tell us new things about them — their positions, temperament, grace under pressure (or lack thereof), charisma and political skill. How much more could voters benefit from debates in countries where they know next to nothing about the candidates?

Identity politics are everywhere. Instead of voting for candidates because they are competent or honest, or voting for those with congenial views on important issues, people often reflexively support the politician who shares their religion, ethnicity, race, tribe, clan or geography. But identity politics are strongest precisely where they can do the most damage. In countries divided by ethnic hatreds or fears, this kind of voting worsens the tensions that can lead to violence. It gives politicians no motive to be effective or upright, because they know that these qualities don’t matter to voters. On the contrary, corruption and patronage can help them keep a majority group’s support.

We assume that this is unchangeable. To some degree, it surely is. But what if this kind of voting is in part a response to the fact that voters know nothing else about their candidates? They don’t know candidates’ backgrounds, experience or education, much less their record or policy positions. So they vote on what they know: he or she is “my” candidate. Debates can help voters get the information they need. Matt Dippell, the global debate program adviser at the National Democratic Institute (he runs the website Debates International) said that at least 65 countries hold presidential or other national-level debates. Among them are many developing countries, including Nepal, Peru, Haiti, Maldives and Mongolia. And many are in Africa. “Africa is a leader in this movement,” he said. “In the last 10 years there has been a remarkable wave of debates, and interest in holding more.”

But presidential debates aren’t enough. Voters often do know something about presidential candidates. And they know something about local candidates, because these candidates are often neighbors.

There’s a big knowledge hole, however, in the middle: about candidates running for Parliament or Congress.

Dippell said that at least 13 African countries have held or attempted some parliamentary or local debates, including Liberia, Nigeria and Malawi.

Elsewhere, Haiti recently had a series of six parliamentary debates, with 24 candidates taking part.

They were carried live on radio, TV and the Internet.

Parliamentary debates are still rare, because holding them presents a far bigger challenge than presidential debates. Each constituency needs its own debates, and has very few resources to work with.

So it’s worth looking at the recently published results of an experiment in Sierra Leone’s last elections. A nongovernmental group called Search for Common Ground held parliamentary debates in 14 competitive districts in the 2012 elections, and three researchers conducted a randomized control trial to see how much the debates changed the behavior of voters, candidates and elected officials.

Search for Common Ground is a global organiza-

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he potential of an assembly like the Parliament of the World’s Religions — where I spoke last week in Salt Lake City, Utah — is its ability not just to celebrate religious diversity, but also to provide the opportunity to get to the heart of urgent matters that people of faith must address.

The banner on the stage read, “Reclaiming the Heart of our Humanity.”

And one might wonder, at an interfaith gathering like this one, why the organizers devoted a major plenary session to the issue of income inequality.

Surely it’s an economic issue, as our systems structure wealth towards the wealthy at the top. Clearly it’s a political issue, as wealth and the wealthy shape and control our politics.

But if you believe that every human being is made in the image of God — imago dei; if you believe that every individual person represented in economic statistics is a child of God; if you believe that in nearly all religious traditions, loving your neighbor as you love yourself follows directly after loving God; and if you believe, regardless of your conception of God, that human beings are all brothers and sisters tied together, then income inequality is a spiritual issue, a moral issue, and a religious test of our belief.

A great example of this from my own Christian religious tradition is the story of the Good Samaritan. Here’s a man robbed and mugged, left by the side of the road — just as so many today are “mugged” and left behind by the global economy. Various religious leaders pass

tion that works on conflict prevention in 35 countries; it has been in Sierra Leone for 15 years. The researchers came from Stanford University’s graduate school of business and two other American organizations, Innovations for Poverty Action, which managed the study, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Sierra Leone’s presidential candidates debated in the 2007 election, but in 2012 the major parties boycotted and no real presidential debates were held.

Also in 2007, Search worked with local groups and youth groups to organize some 15 live debates in parliamentary elections. “When I.P.A. and J.P.A.L. approached us to study debates, we thought, this is great,” said Ambrose James, who was country director for Search in Sierra Leone (he’s now getting a master’s degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government). “We know candidates will come to the meetings, but we never knew about the impact.”

Search started by getting the go-ahead from the national electoral commission and leaders of the major parties. As is often the case, challengers were eager to debate, but incumbents — who usually hold the advantage — were not. In the end, all but one candidate, an incumbent, agreed to participate. (He not only disrupted the debate; he managed to get the participants and Search staff arrested on a false accusation that they were buying and selling voter registration cards. He won the election.)

Most of the 45-minute debates were held outdoors, with the candidates sitting on chairs under a tree. A moderator from Search began by asking candidates to describe their background, education and interests: Do you have children? Do you play football? “We started them with what they were familiar with, just to release tension and get them confident,” said Saa Bandabla, the Search program manager for Sierra Leone, who headed the debate project.

The substantive questions started with national policy — on a new health care initiative and a proposed gender quota in public office, and candidates’ ideas for helping jobless young people. Next were two questions about local issues, tailored for each district. Candidates also had to explain how they would have spent (or had spent, if they were incumbents) the roughly $11,000 each member of Parliament received from the government for district projects.

The sessions were actually question-and-answer, but at times turned into real debates. “One candidate was explaining that he used his M.P. money to buy fuel to visit his constituencies, and others argued that the money was supposed to be for development, not transportation,” said Bandabla. “We allowed them to argue based on the issues we raised.”

Search videotaped the debates. But how could voters see the recordings? The villages that the researchers most wanted to reach had neither televisions nor electricity. So Search trucked screening equipment from village to village. When roads were impassable, villagers helped Search staff members carry the equipment in.

The main screenings were at night, with the video projected onto the side of a building — often the one where people would vote. “Chiefs would send town criers to call everyone to come out and view the videos,” said Bandabla. The atmosphere was usually festive, with people whooping and hollering for their

candidate. The typical crowd was 100 to 200 people, said Rachel Glennerster, one of the researchers on the study and the executive director of J.P.A.L. The debates were all held in Krio, Sierra Leone’s trading language. In most communities, the debate was shown twice — first with pauses for translation into the local language, and a second time, sometimes without translation. In total they were screened in nearly 200 communities, reaching some 19,000 people.

The debates increased voters’ knowledge of the candidates and issues, and appear to have changed the way people voted. Compared to voters in the same parliamentary district whose village did not see a debate, debate-watching voters were more likely to vote for the “best” candidate — defined as the one the audience judged to have won. They were also 9 percentage points more likely, a huge difference, to vote for a candidate who shared their own political views.

Researchers tested other media. To some voters who had not watched debates they showed only the candidates’ “get to know me” part of the video.

They also interviewed voters who listened to a radio report that simply summarized the policy positions candidates took during the debate. In both cases, voters increased their knowledge — but did not learn enough to change their voting habits. “Radio is hugely accessible and democratic,” said Mike Jobbins, the director of global affairs and partnerships at Search, in Washington. “But people listen while they’re cooking, while they’re having conversations.

It doesn’t always capture the public like video.”

Candidates, too, changed their behavior because of the debates. They moved quickly to increase their campaigning in villages where the debate had been screened. They spent more time there, and gave these districts more gifts. Members of Parliament who debated spent 2.5 times more of their $11,000 on verifiable development projects for constituents than legislators who didn’t debate. (Given that the money is paid directly into each legislator’s personal bank account, it is remarkable that they spend anything on the district.) Once elected, the legislators also spent more time in villages that had watched the debates.

Why did politicians pay more attention to debate villages? “People were not necessarily going to vote along the patronage or ethnic lines that had historically characterized Sierra Leone’s politics,” said Jobbins. Politicians who had always counted on identity now knew they would be judged on more criteria.

They had to campaign. Policy debate was new to village life. “Candidates are appointed by their parties,” said James. “There is normally nothing around policy, nothing really substantial. They go around giving out bags of rice and T-shirts.” The debates, he said, brought issues to the community level. “This was an opportunity for people to actually listen to talk about gender, mining policy, transparency, what will you do with the money.” Government is far away and abstract, he said.

“But this brings government down to people.”

And the people were not always pleased. “If someone performed badly” in the debate, said Badabla, “people would say: ‘In Parliament they’re going to be talking about laws. How can it be that this person would go?’” Parliamentary debates could have a ripple effect. Katherine Casey, the Stanford researcher, found in her earlier work that voters are willing to vote across ethnic lines when one candidate is sufficiently superior — but only when they have enough information.

“What if debates were taken to scale and made mandatory?” said Casey. “If candidates knew in advance there were going to be debates all over the place, I wonder if it would change the type of people who run for public office.” Dippell points out that especially for countries emerging from violence, debates show a different way of solving problems. “You have two candidates in a pitched battle, and you can show them on stage with a sense of mutual respect, while still disagreeing,” he said. Often, he said, the moderators’ first question is whether all candidates pledge to respect the election results or, if they contest the results, to do so using only the established channels. The most important finding of the Sierra Leone study is that voting because a candidate shares a race, religion, ethnicity or patronage network may not be inevitable. “People change their behavior in response to information,” said Glennerster. “It’s telling us maybe lack of information is playing more of a role — it’s not just that everyone is being bought and doesn’t care about policy.

It’s that they can’t vote on policy.”

Inequality as a Religious Test Jim Wallis Sojourners him by on the other side of the road, refusing to lend their aid. But then a person from a different culture, ethnicity, and race does stop and does help. He risks his security, his resources, and his time to lift this beaten man up to a new life. That Samaritan exemplifies what a neighbor does, says Jesus.

However, there is some good news regarding global inequality. A few weeks ago, writer Nicholas Kristof pointed out in a New York Times column that extreme global poverty has been cut in half in the last twenty years.

This is one of the greatest stories that does not get told nearly enough.

As a result, women and girls are being educated at rates never before seen.

Girls reading books are a greater threat to men wielding guns than other men with guns: in the 1980s, only half of girls in developing countries completed elementary school; now, 80 percent do.

And fewer children (though still far too many) are dying of preventable causes — in 1990, more than 12 million children died before the age of 5. This toll has since dropped by more than half.

The dramatic decline in extreme poverty reflects the UN commitment

to cutting poverty in half by 2015 in its Millennium Development Goals, as well as global markets and movements involving people of all religious traditions, that have helped raise many families out of poverty. Religious participation has been critical to progress on key issues of human dignity, like debt transformation, HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention, global agriculture development, medical care, and reducing hunger and poverty.

Now, nations at the UN have just pledged to finish the job — making a commitment to Sustainable Development Goals that focus on ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2030. For the first time in history, experts in this field are now saying that ending extreme poverty is finally possible. And when we reduce poverty, inequality can be reduced as well.

But economic growth, by itself, is not enough to end extreme poverty.

That growth must be directly aimed at ending poverty, as World Bank President Jim Kim said in his video address to the Parliament. Strikingly, both the World Bank and the UN are saying they now have the “evidence” of what works and doesn’t work to end extreme pov-

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erty, but they don’t have the moral authority or the constituencies to generate the political will to make this crucial and moral goal happen — and faith communities do. And that’s why these institutions are seeking alliances with us. There is a great opportunity here for religious communities.

Of course, some inequality will always be part of the human condition and our societies. But as inequality has become so stark, it is time for people of all faiths to exercise our prophetic mission and energy, calling for the kind of equity, fairness, and justice that our faiths require of us. It is time for us to require serious political accountability from our public leaders.

I believe we can address inequality through three core issues central to all faith traditions: human dignity, stewardship, and the common good.

A commitment to interfaith dialogue is important, but not simply for its own sake or to admire each other’s diversity. Interfaith dialogue should be in service of these three goals, especially for the sake of those who are the most vulnerable in our society and around the world — exactly who our faith traditions agree we should be most concerned about.

This will be the true test of a moral global economy. We convene our religions to celebrate diversity. Can we also convene our religions to help end extreme poverty by 2030 — and end shameful poverty in the United States?

That would certainly be a goal worthy of a Parliament of World Religions.

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WednesdAY 18•11•2015

PERSPECTIVE

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My Idea of Smart City M any denizens of Kohima are elated over the news that Kohima is in the list of selected cities to be developed into smart cities by the Narendra Modi government. But what actually is a ‘Smart City’? Apparently, in the present context, a smart city seem to imply a city which is designed and built in a manner where the inhabitants have access to wide and good quality vehicular roads, enough parking space, pedestrian footpaths, zebra-crossings at strategic locations, proper drainage system laid out across the length and breadth of the city, well-planned and strong bridges and over-bridges, uninterrupted electricity, regular water supply, adequate medical facilities etc and etc. Of course there is no doubt that all these will go a long way in making the lives of modern men more satisfying, efficient and counter-productive. But Kohima being a hilly town and totally different in its topography from the plain cities of mainland India, it would certainly take a much more different methodology, strategy and planning to actually turn our capital city into a real modern and smart city where the above mentioned facilities will be a reality for its citizens.

Most Nagas seem to think and imply that Kohima can be turned into a smart city when huge amount of currency is released from Delhi for the said purpose. But I am a little apprehensive about this because our past experiences with mammoth money released from Delhi tell a totally different story. When Deve Gowda visited Kohima as Prime Minister in the mid 1990s, he announced a gigantic financial package for Nagaland. But I am not aware of the Nagaland state government bringing about any noteworthy change with that money. Again in 2003 when AB Vajpayee visited Nagaland, he also promised to sanction the needed money to convert the Kohima-Dimapur highway into a high-class super highway. Now it has been 12 years since that visit by Vajpayee, but the Kohima-Dimapur highway remains devoid of any impressive features. So our past experiences with mammoth Indian currency sanctioned and released from Delhi are not very pleasant and worth-cherishing. In fact, living in expectation of the money that comes down from Delhi every now and then has only made most of us lazy, corrupt, greedy, selfish, intolerant and arrogant. And it certainly gives a picture of a Naga society that is totally dependent and completely at the mercy of the Indian government.

Therefore, as far as the concept and idea of Smart City is concerned, I would like to think on a different pedestal …..because deep inside my heart, I believe that Nagas have the full potential and resources to turn their towns into smart cities with or without assistance from Delhi. After all, even if our towns are adorned with the most sophisticated trademarks of a modern city, it would only imply a pathetic scenario if the inhabitants are lethargic, lazy, undisciplined and a confused lot without any sense of pride in their history or culture and do not mind living totally dependent on outsiders’ money and prerogatives.

Yes, I believe that even without receiving a single penny from Delhi, we can still contribute towards making our beloved Kohima a Smart City in the real sense. And the good news is that we can do this by simply carrying out some of our daily chores and responsibilities with dedication, discipline, punctuality and commitment even when nobody is watching or applauding us. And for this, we have to again return to the most basic things and activities that we always preach but seldom practice. Some of these most simple and basic things could be the followings: 1) One can contribute towards making a Smart City by learning to value public property as his own private property.

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ichel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most influential intellectuals of our era.

His work on sites of power-knowledge such as asylums, schools, hospitals, prisons, and factories continue to resonate and inspire empiricalpolitical work in sociology, politics, geography, anthropology, as well as gender studies, international studies, urban studies, citizenship studies, postcolonial studies, and, cultural studies.

Until recently, perhaps with support from how Foucault occasionally portrayed himself as an archivist, a bookish image of him prevailed. With the publication of his many lectures and speeches in Dits et Ecrits (1994) a rather different image of Foucault emerged. We have yet to name this image – I would be inclined to call it ‘activist intellectual’ as opposed to ‘public intellectual’ – but it involves performing as a speaking subject in interviews, press conferences, meetings, gatherings, and other sites where the task is ‘confronting governments’.

In these performances ‘government’ is neither an addressee as such nor an object of analysis but something that the speaking subject confronts as a political subject.

Foucault became quite concerned about the relationship between the governed and governments. The distinction for him would not have been analytical but a strategic one. For it was he who taught us that whether in ancient Greece or modern France the exercise of power required political subjects to be both governed and governing.

Foucault taught us that the activity of governing involved both governments and the governed if not symmetrically, at least in a contesting manner. To some extent, the main analytical point he made repeatedly in different writings was

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A government servant can contribute towards making a smart city by reaching his office before 9:30 in the morning and staying there till late in the afternoon.

A driver can contribute by learning to park his car responsibly rather than parking in the middle of the road.

Organizations and associations can also contribute their part by learning to uphold and propagate the real values and issues instead of selling lottery tickets, calendars, conducting sales day and holding dinners on payment.

Many can also contribute by realizing and practicing that the gospel of Jesus Christ is much more than church-construction, tithes, donations, noisy prayers and jubilee celebrations.

Many rich and middle-class families can also contribute by making a commitment not to buy a new car every 2-3 years.

Many can also make their contribution towards the smart city project by learning not to spend more than what they earn. Keeping our expenditures well below our earnings can save many of us from unnecessary headaches, tensions and troubles.

Many Nagas also can contribute towards the smart city project by learning to save money rather than dreaming about loans, projects, schemes and subsidies.

Youngsters can also contribute by simply learning to sleep at the right time and wake up at the right time.

The state government can also make a big contribution by taking the banking culture to every nook and corner of the state whereby people can learn to save at least some amount for their children’s education, unforeseen medical expenses and future emergencies.

Change and progress will certainly dawn on us if many of us also realize that there is no substitute to hard work, patience and endurance. The search for short-cuts in all and everything has ruined the lives of many Nagas.

Marriage is an important component of every human society. For without marriage there would be no procreation and thereby no fu-

ture society. But it would do wonders for Nagas if we realize that a successful married life can happen even without an extravagant and flamboyant wedding if the couples are committed to one another and to God. A wedding is the celebration of the union of a man and a woman and not a time to display our wealth, house, compound or all that we have earned or saved in our lifetime.

13) Public officials heading the many departments and overseeing massive projects can make the utmost contribution by realizing that ‘public money is public money’ not to be used in any manner for their personal expenses and that they would be held accountable sooner or later for any wrongdoings.

I have certainly no inhibition in saying that all these core human elements have to be in place first before we set about trying to convert our towns into smart cities. If these human elements are first nourished and cultivated, Kohima will certainly become a smart city even before Delhi gives us a single penny. All these are signs of smart inhabitants inhabiting a town and when the people are smart, smart city will automatically happen sooner or later.

How can the Nagas expect to see a vibrant, colourful and prolific society when the root beneath the ground itself is rotten and decomposed? Modernity and development are essential cores of modern lives no doubt. But ultimately it is the human element that counts and matters. All modernity and developments are for the humans inhabiting the towns and cities. Therefore unless the human element is stirred and activated in the right direction and by the real worthy values and goals, all so-called and catchy tunes like modernity, development, progress or ‘Smart City’ will bear no fruit.

It is indeed worth celebrating that the Indian government has decided to make Kohima a smart city. But as of now, I can only hope and pray that this does not become a case of the Indian government trying an impossible task of imposing a smart city project on some corrupt, greedy, irresponsible, undisciplined, arrogant and ungrateful people who are yet to nurture their core human elements and who have no sense of pride in their history, culture and past struggle…..

Michel Foucault as an activist intellectual Engin Isin

Foucault's 1982 - 3 lectures presented his thoughts on the subject of parrhesia, or the truth-telling subject. He found himself confronting governments through speech acts in ways that we have yet to understand that power relations traversed political subjects as transmission points rather than fixed nodes and these relations involved both governments and the governed.

But strategically, if not performatively, Foucault increasingly found himself problematizing the relationship between the governed and governments as a confrontation. And when I say he ‘found’ himself I really mean sites of power where he found himself confronting governments through speech acts. All the occasions Colin Gordon mentions in his introductory piece on these speeches involves such sites of power. And as Gordon makes it clear, there were many other such occasions.

It is important to emphasise though where Foucault seems to have developed a nuanced understanding of himself as an activist intellectual, he also seems to have consistently avoided Sermons from the Mount as an expert.

This did not mean that he would remain silent. On the contrary, he seems to have found a space where as a truth-telling subject he was indeed speaking truth to power by confronting governments, but his

truth-telling seems to have avoided authorizing himself as an expert truth-telling subject.

The deliberate avoidance of any reference to his published work seems to have enabled him to practice freedom as a speaking political subject, in fact, a citizen, perhaps even a citizen to come – not only exercising his rights and duties as a political subject but also calling upon new ones by exercising them.

This is precisely why I emphasize that Foucault was practicing a nuanced performative politics as a political truth-telling subject rather than exercising judgement as an expert.

I don’t mean to suggest that Foucault somehow separated his work and speech and that his speech acts were not motivated by his work. It is just that he refused to authorise his speech acts by his expert knowledge as it might have been received. This raises the question why many of his speech acts came to light only later, so that we have begun to understand Foucault as a speaking subject relatively recently, as Philippe Artières has argued.

This is also why I think of his speech acts bringing into being an activist intellectual rather than a public

intellectual. While the latter is authorised to bring knowledge to bear on public issues as an expert, the former engages with political events as a citizen with rights and duties.

So then reading these speech acts and Gordon’s excellent introduction to them I get the feeling that just when Foucault was indeed working in the archives on parrhesia, he was actually performing it outside. His 1982 course of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain and 19821983 Lectures in Collège de France presented his thoughts on the subject of parrhesia, or the truth-telling subject. To me his speech acts and his work on parrhesia are intimately related in ways that we have yet to understand.

I have written about his speech in Geneva and I consider it a significant text. In Citizens Without Frontiers I drew on the three principles that Foucault outlines in this speech.

I especially focused on his point that organizations such as Amnesty International and Medécins du Monde have created new rights to act across borders. I thought Foucault would have been intrigued by the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech by James Orbinsky, then director of Médecins Sans Frontières, when he said ‘. . . we push the political to assume its inescapable responsibility’. Arguably, as I more recently argued, this speech had a significant performative force.

I consider the two speech acts that Colin Gordon has beautifully rendered into English here are two examples of Foucault’s parrhesia. The speech in Geneva is an illustration of how Foucault makes connections between here and there and then and now by crossing these boundaries, and by bringing a political subject into being through the solidarity of the governed. The interview affirms the solidarity that the speech urges: it places it in a context that grounds it.

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The Newspaper with an Opinion The Morung Express

For nearly 70 years, the history of the Naga people has been filled with tragedies and atrocities.

Countless number of dialogues and agreements have been made between the Government of India and the people of Nagaland. A lot of viewpoints and opinions have emerged and everyone has an opinion on the latest framework agreement but they are also apprehensive to voice it out.

For a lot of the younger generation in the colleges and schools today, they have no first-hand experience of what transpired in the 70’s and the 80’s. Accordingly, a glimpse into the minds of Generation Y was provided during theTetso Autumn Festival 2015. An essay competition was held on the topic “Give your views on the signing of the accord between the NSCN(IM) and the GOI. Will it result in a viable solution to the question of Naga sovereignty?“Below is a compilation of the two winning essays. Kindly note that the views expressed are an attempt by the youth to understand the situation. While every attempt has been made to check any factual information stated in the essays, errors if any are inadvertent and regretted.

Naga Peace Accord: A Young Mind’s Perspective Anubhav Tiakaba Kar (BA 5thSem English Hons) and Ahyulo Khing (BA 3rd Sem Political Science Hons)

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agaland has always been independent long before the British came to our lands. When India received its independence in 1947 from the British, the British government had also agreed to make Nagaland an independent state.

But the British left India without giving sovereignty to the Nagas. It was the greatest betrayal..Since then Nagas has been fighting for its freedom from the Government of India for decades.

Many Nagas have lost their lives and families, villages have been burnt to ashes. Countless women have been tortured and raped.

Under the leadership of A. Z. Phizo(President of Naga National Council), the Nagas have fought hard to regain its freedom and realize the dream of all of being an independent state. Over the years many groups have come up in Nagaland with the aim of attaining independence from the Government of India.

On 11th November, 1975, The Shillong Accord was signed.

It was an agreement made between the Government of India and representatives of Nagaland's underground organization, to accept the supremacy of Constitution of India without condition, surrender their arms and renounce their demand for the secession of Nagaland from India. Many people in Nagaland who believed in forming an independent nation saw this accord as a denial of their rights.

NSCN was formed on 31 January 1980 by Isak Chishi Swu, Thuingaleng Muivah and S.S. Khaplang opposing the Shillong Accord. In 1988, NSCN split into two with NSCN-IM headed

by IsakChishi Swu &ThuingalengMuivah and NSCN-K headed by S.S. Khaplang.Peace-talks amidst incidents of violence pursued ever since. A ceasefire was finally signed between the Government of India and the NSCN-IM in 1997 as a way to peacefully negotiate terms.

The NSCN-IM has become the main focus of media attention after signing another Peace Accord with the Government of India on 3rd August, 2015. “We are making a new beginning today. 60 years is a long time of fighting, the wounds are deep,” Modi, standing alongside NSCN-IM secretary general and co-founder Thuingaleng Muivah, said in a press conference following the signing of the Accord. This agreement is said to be a landmark agreement in the history of the Nagas and is supposed to lead the Naga people to sovereignty, but even though months have passed, the people do not know the exact details of the agreement.Though this agreement is supposed to decide the future of thousands of people, the public seem to be kept in the dark and they still don’t know what was decided between the leaders.

This mysterious agreement also raises other questions. Will Nagaland receive its sovereignty through this Peace Accord?

Who do we turn to for answers? Hypothetically, if the Accord clears the pathway for India to grant sovereignty to the Nagas, will the public agree to be an independent nation? If the Accord prevents the Nagas from demanding a free nation, then perhaps it isn’t a great thing after all. By the looks of it, right now, keeping in mind how the details of the agreement are still unclear, the talk about sovereignty may be sidelined for a while.

Why have Nagas still not achieved independence? When these questions arise, there are many views which can be discussed. Firstly, the factional groups through taxes, extorting money from the public, threatening of the people has caused havoc in our society, our society is filled with chaos and confusion as to whether to trust the factional groups or to be on our own. Secondly, there are still those who work sincerely for true cause of our land and the remaining simply spoil the system. Suspicion, mistrust, uncertainty has led our people into chaos. Unless the Nagas as a whole are united, there is no meaning of attaining or achieving sovereignty as it would lead to more conflict and chaos in the future.

This so called ‘solution’ that has been debated about for so many years now, still seems to be far away. As long as the leaders continue to be secretive and keep the people in the dark, no real solution can be achieved. In the end, it is the people who should have the authority and freedom to make the right choice for themselves.To arrive at a real solution,public opinion, voices, and grievances should have been heard and taken into account while framing the Accord. Therefore, this “Framework Agreement”, needs to be scrutinized and explained in detail to the Nagas.

Thus, this alleged “Landmark Agreement” maybe a milestone in Nagaland’s race towards sovereignty, but it is still only a milestone, and the destination is still far away. Let us not forget that. May we never giveup hope, but strive for a better world where we all have our rights, and are treated equally, and live in a free Nagaland, free from oppression of any kind. Our dreams are yet to be achieved. But if it comes down to this recent agreement, I hardly believe it is going to solve our problems.

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INDIA

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

VHP leader Ashok Singhal is dead

GurGaon, november 17 (IanS): VHP leader Ashok Singhal, who was one of the key architects of the mass campaign that led to the razing of the Babri mosque in 1992, died here on Tuesday. He was 89.

In an acknowledgement of his stature in the Hindutva movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Singhal’s death at a hospital here “a deep personal loss” and described him as “an institution in himself”.

Singhal, whose aggressive championing of a Ram temple at the Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya helped the BJP to scale new heights, breathed his last at Medanta-The Medicity, doctor Yatin Mehta told IANS. “He passed away at 2.20 despite our best efforts,” the doctor said.

Singhal was admitted to the hospital on November 13 with heart and kidney problems. He was also suffering from breathlessness. He will be cremated here on Wednesday afternoon.

The VHP leader was earlier admitted to the hospital for a fortnight from October 20.

A passionate votary of Hindutva, the Agra-born Singhal, son of a government official, joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1942.

He worked mainly in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana before the RSS deputed him to one of its then lesser known affiliates, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), in 1980.

Singhal became its working president in 1984, the year the VHP organised a “Dharam Sansad” (Religious Parliament) which sowed the seeds for the emotive campaign to destroy the 16th century Babri mosque - that Hindutva votaries said was built at the site where Lord Rama was born.

1984 was also the year when the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged just two seats in the Lok Sabha after prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination.

Singhal’s aggressive promotion of the anti-Babri movement made him one of the best known faces nationally, and gave oxygen to the BJP to raise its Lok Sabha tally to 89 in 1989.

Even as the BJP, under L.K.

‘Modi's Britain trip as much about showmanship as diplomacy' ISlamabad, november 17 (IanS): Everyone wants a share in India with the country being projected as the next global power, said a Pakistani daily which noted that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Britain was "as much about showmanship as it was about diplomacy".

An editorial "The Modi show" in the News International on Tuesday said that coming "at a time when India’s growing intolerance under the BJP government is making the news, the visit of Modi to the United Kingdom garnered sufficient controversy". "...as prime minister, Modi had the red carpet rolled out for him on his visit to the UK - complete with lunch with the Queen, a stay at Prime Minister David Cameron’s country retreat and an address to the British parliament."

The daily said that as over 800 protesting Indians greeted Modi at Downing Street, the British prime minister ended up serving as the Indian prime minister’s first line of defence.

"The reason is simple.

"At the end of the visit, Cameron and Modi have announced 20 business deals worth $13.7 billion between the two countries."

The editorial said that everyone wants a share in India "with the country being projected as the next global power, and Modi’s trip to the UK was as much about showmanship as it was about diplomacy".

In London, the Indian prime minister addressed 60,000 people at the Wembley Stadium.

Modi’s chief aim seems to be to build ‘Brand India’.

"With the visit coming after the ruling BJP’s embarrassing defeat in Bihar and the return of a number of awards

by Indian writers and artists in protest, Modi is using his foreign trips to sprinkle glamour on the serious issues that plague India domestically," said the editorial.

"After the US, the UK has also played another uncritical host to the Modi show."

Need new approaches to manage climate change risks: President PantnaGar (uttarakhand), november 17 (IanS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday stressed the need to preserve natural resources and advocated new approaches to manage the risks of climate change and loss of bio-diversity.

"Injudicious exploitation of natural resources has already put the earth system at risk by leading to climate change and bio-diversity loss. We need new approaches to manage these risks. The climate is changing and is bound to change, but should it change so fast," he asked while addressing the convocation of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology here.

About 120 million hectares of land in the country was in various stages of degradation, he said, adding that imbalanced application of fertilisers, mostly nitrogenous, had impacted crop productivity and soil health.

"Adoption of more sustainable land use systems and soil management practices has become essential.

Agriculture must return to its roots by rediscovering the importance of healthy soil, drawing on natural sources of plant nutrition and using fertilisers judiciously and effectively. It also calls for greater investment in technology development and its on-farm adoption, deepening of markets and remunerative prices to farmers," he said.

The president pointed out that agriculture, being the mainstay of Indian economy, had always been accorded top priority in policy formation as the country needed to feed its growing population.

"Agriculture has always received top priority in our policy formulation because early in our planning process, we recognised that we ourselves have to feed our growing population that today stands at 1.28 billion," Mukherjee said.

"We surmounted the food security challenge then.

But what about now, when we are confronted with decreasing land availability for agriculture, coupled with a rising population? When deterioration in soil health and water quality is reducing agriculture productivity," he said.

Advani’s leadership, came out openly in support of the Ram Mandir movement, Singhal led a massive crowd during the first assault on the Babri Masjid on October 30, 1990.

That bid was beaten back by security forces. But the unrelenting VHP eventually brought down the Babri Masjid in just six hours on December 6, 1992, triggering one of the worst outbreaks of HinduMuslim violence.

Unlike most BJP leaders who distanced themselves from the Babri razing, Singhal remained proud of the destruction - and vowed to end, one day, the secular character of the country that he said must be a “Hindu Rashtra”.

Critics dubbed him a Hindu

fundamentalist and India’s Ayatollah Khomeini. But Singhal - who held a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the Banaras Hindu University Institute of Technology - made it clear that issues related to Hindu faith cannot be decided by the judiciary.

At home both in English and Hindi, Singhal was widely respected for his mastery over ancient Hindu scriptures. He was at ease in the company of Hindu ascetics and was a strong votary of the movement to build a grand Rama temple on the ruins of the Babri mosque.

He was deeply unhappy over BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s refusal to embrace Hindutva ideology after becoming the prime minister. The VHP leader beamed when Narendra Modi became the prime minister in 2014.

On Tuesday, after Singhal’s death, Modi said he was “an inspiration for generations”.

“I was always fortunate to receive Ashokji’s blessings and guidance. My condolences to his family and countless supporters,” Modi tweeted.

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy said Singhal brought about “Hindu unity” and “a great change in Hindu mentality”. The MP added: “It will be a true tribute to Singhal if (Rama) mandir is built (in Ayodhya).”

VHP spokesman Surendra Jain told IANS: “Singhalji was a great visionary. We will take forward his vision for fulfil his dreams.”

'UN should consider cultural, religious backgrounds for human rights dialogues' unIted natIonS, november 17 (IanS): Universality of human rights is not the same as uniformity of values and the UN should consider the regional, cultural and religious backgrounds to hold dialogues with member states, India told the General Assembly Monday. Speaking at a discussion of the report of the Human Rights Council, India's Deputy Permanent Representative Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi sought to put the focus on the right to development as a component of human rights.

"The Council must ensure that the indivisibility, inter-relatedness and interdependence of all human rights, including the right to development must be treated in a fair and equal manner," he said. Bishnoi stressed the need for "constructive international dialogue" to realise the human rights of all.

"While the universality of rights should not be construed as uniformity of values and systems, the Council must bear in mind the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds in its constructive dialogues with the Member States," he added.

In recent times the UN has come into conflict with deeply held religious beliefs and cultural values of some countries as it seeks to expand the ambit of human rights, especially in the area of gay and transgender rights, even as many basic elements of human rights continue to be violated around the world.

All Islamic nations and several other countries with conservative social values have mounted unsuccessful attempts to block these efforts. In September last year Islamic nations and many African countries voted against a Human Rights Council resolution on combating discrimina-

tion against gays and transgender people.

India abstained from voting on the resolution, which was passed by the Council.

India voted for a General Assembly resolution introduced by Russia in March that opposed giving spousal benefits to same sex couples working for the UN. Islamic countries and many other conservative countries also backed the resolution, which was defeated.

About the role of the Council, to which India was re-elected last year, Bishnoi said, "We need to retain its universality and further improve its efficiency and impact by rationalizing recommendations and avoid using it for imposing specific thematic issues that are yet to acquire universal acceptance."

The annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued in May but was not among the reports conidered Monday, noted the progress made by India on rights of transgender people. "The Supreme Court of India affirmed the right of transgender persons to determine their own gender, and called upon the government to ensure equal rights for transgender persons, including in access to health care, employment and education," the report said.

Emphsasising the right to development as a human right, Bishnoi said, "With the Government of India's motto 'sabkasaath, sabkavikas,' meaning 'together with all and development for all,' the foremost priority is to ensure rapid, sustainable and inclusive development to achieve full realization of all human rights for all its citizens, with equality at its core.

Our new policies and programmes are rooted in human rights standards and lay special emphasis on the poor and marginalized, including women and children."

Centre issues advisory to all states/UTs on possible ISIS attack new delhI, november 17 (tnn): Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said India was alert to the threat from Islamic State (ISIS), close on the heels of a central advisory warning all states and Union territories about the possibility of an ISIS-sponsored action on Indian soil.

"ISIS is not a threat for any particular country, but for the entire world. India is alert about ISIS," Rajnath told reporters here.

His statement comes in the wake of the security agencies scaling up

the threat perception from ISIS in the light of the Paris attacks and India's declaration of its support to France's retaliatory strikes on ISIS territory.

"Though the ISIS has not been able to establish any significant presence in India, its success in radicalizing some youth, attracting certain sections of the local population or the Indian diaspora to physically participate in its activities or the possibility of piggy-backing on terrorist groups operating in India have opened up the possibility of ISIS-sponsored

terrorist action on Indian territory," said the advisory issued by the home ministry on Monday to all the states/UTs. The advisory specifically asked the state police to review inputs on ISIS and identify plans, target areas vulnerable to attacks by the outfit and take appropriate action to neutralize the threat, if any.

The advisory called for suitable preventive measures at diplomatic missions and other foreign offices, particularly ones belonging to the governments of France, US, UK,

Germany, Russia, Australia, Turkey and Israel.

The states were also told to secure tourist sports and community facilities frequented by foreign nationals.

Around 20-odd Indians are now believed to be in Iraq-Syria fighting for the ISIS. They include two youths hailing from Kalyan in the outskirts of Mumbai, an Australia-based Kashmiri, a man from Telangana, one from Karnataka, one Oman-based Indian and a Singapore-based recruit.

Last year, a youth from

Kalyan had returned home after spending about sixmonths with ISIS. He was arrested upon his arrival in Mumbai. Among the six Indians who fought alongside ISIS and were killed were three Indian Mujahideen cadres, including Sultan Ajmer Shah and Bada Sajid who joined its ranks after being in Pakistan, two men from Maharashtra and one from Telangana.

Over the past couple of months, some youth of Kerala origin have been deported from the UAE after they were detained there

for being in touch with active ISIS members and suspected recruiters on the social media. The UAE had also sent back a 37-year-old woman Afsha Jabeen, alias Nicky Joseph, who was allegedly involving in recruiting men for ISIS. In January, Salman Mohiuddin was arrested at Hyderabad airport when he was preparing to board a flight to Dubai on his way to Syria via Turkey. So far, 17 young men, mostly from Telangana, have been prevented from travelling to Syria, ostensibly to join ISIS.

Can re-investigate 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Tytler, says CBI new delhI, november 17 (IanS): The CBI on Tuesday told a court that it can further investigate the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which it had filed a closure report and given a clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

The Central Bureau of Investigation's statement came while replying to an application filed by the Shiromani Akali Dal where the party told the court that it will provide the addresses of three material witnesses.

The probe agency in its reply said it was prepared to investigate the matter further on the court's permission.

The CBI had earlier informed the court that these witnesses were not traceable.

The court on October 30 reserved its order on deciding on the closure report filed in a riots case against Tytler.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler, who was scheduled to pass the order on Tuesday, was on leave.

The court has fixed December 3 to decide on the closure report and other applications filed in the case.

Advocate H.S. Phoolka, appearing for victim/complainant Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed during the riots, said that in view of the seriousness of the offence, the court should not accept the closure report.

The court was hearing a petition filed

by Kaur against the CBI's closure report -its third -- giving a clean chit to Tytler for his alleged role in the violence.

Phoolka said the CBI's investigation was "faulty, tainted, dishonest and perfunctory".

Earlier, the agency gave a clean chit to the Congress leader twice.

In April 2013, a sessions court rejected a closure report and ordered the agency to further investigate the killings.

The CBI did that but filed another closure report on December 24, 2014, saying Army personnel rescuing people during their flood relief operations in rain-hit areas of Chenthere was no sufficient evidence to pro- nai. As many as 71 deaths have been reported in various rain-related incidents, including ceed against Tytler. electrocution and drowning. (PTI Photo)

Lung cancer not of men or smokers alone, warn doctors new delhI, november 17 (IanS): Lung cancer is no more a smoker's disease and has moved to the top of this category of lifethreatening ailments among Indian males and the coming years will also see females too getting affected, doctors maintain, adding early detection is key to its cure.

"Of late, lung cancer has moved to Number One position among cancers in males in India.

But the coming years will see that happen among females as well," said Arvind Kumar, chairman of Centre for Chest Surgery and director of Institute of Robotic Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

"Overall the coming decade is going to be one of lung disorders in our country. Timely corrective action and suitable treatment facilities may help tame the ill effect of this disaster waiting to happen," Kumar said, as the world observes lung cancer awareness month in November.

As doctors and healthcare

staff in hospitals the world over prepare to build better understanding about this ailment, their biggest concern is that the dreaded disease often goes undetected due to lack of awareness among the afflicted patients.

Symptoms like persistent cold, cough, accompanied by sputum or blood, and signs of breathlessness call for a visit to an experienced medical practitioner, they maintain. But these conditions are often attributed to changing weather, prompting home remedies like hot milk with turmeric.

In reality it delays a visit to the doctor and thereby the chances of timely detection. A simple sputum test or an x-ray prescribed by family physician helps to rule it out. But often, it is also found that even experienced general practitioners mistake it for tuberculosis.

"Nicotine in cigarettes is as addictive as heroin or cocaine.

Out of the 4,000 chemicals in

them, over 50 are highly carcinogenic. A carcinogen is something that causes cancer. And we all know that cancer is a disease that often kills those who have it," Kumar said.

While smoking is a known risk factor, pollution, passive smoking and hazardous work environment -- like asbestos, mica, coal and bauxite mining -- also affect the lung's health, said L.M. Darlong, head - thoracic surgery at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre here.

According to him, lung cancer among non-smokers, younger adults especially women who have been initially treated for tuberculosis is very prevalent in India. Therefore, the message: The Lung cancer is no more solely a smoker's disease.

To eliminate all doubts, doctors prescribe a screening, low dose CT Scan or biopsy, also referred to as tissue diagnosis, done by taking a small part of lung tissue for a test. Irrespective of the

method of detection, doctors stress early detection still holds the key.

They said surgery is the best method to remove cancerous tissue that manifests in the form of nodules or lesions visible in XRay or a CT Scan. Regular postsurgery follow-up tests are also recommended for further treatments like radiation or immune therapy, if needed.

Ali Zamir Khan, head Medanta Institute for Robotic Thoracic Surgery, said: "Smoker's cough is not to be taken lightly as it may be early signs of cancer."

Cigarette smoke, he said, destroys the special tracheal hair designed to trap germs and other foreign particles that enter the airways when a person breathes.

This prevents the trachea from throwing out phlegm, hence causing cough."

Doctors said lungs are the most fragile part of the human anatomy, playing a critical role in supplying oxygen to the blood.

Smoking leaves carbon monoxide in the lungs for as long as eight hours after the last puff is inhaled, leaving that much less space for oxygen in the lungs.

Khan, who has been practicing computer-assisted lung surgery for several years, said he invests time with senior school students to explain the ill-effects of smoking and its causal role in cancer.

"I often speak to gatherings of general physicians on the need for prescribing reliable tests to rule out cancer before putting patients on anti-tuberculosis treatment," said Khan, explaining this helps in reaching out to a larger target audience.

Doctors said robotic surgery -- as being propogated by the Michigan-based non-profit Vattikuti Foundation -- was also picking up as the preferred option to treat various cancers due to minimal blood loss, shorter hospital stays, quicker healing of wounds and healthier post-operative life.

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France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria PArIs, NovEmBEr 17 (rEutErs): France and Russia both staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday as Paris formally requested European Union assistance in its fight against the group behind last Friday’s bloody attacks on the French capital.

French warplanes targeted a command post and a recruitment centre for jihadists in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in the second consecutive night of strikes ordered by President Francois Hollande, a military command spokesman told Reuters.

A French government source said Russia hit targets in the same area, a day after Hollande appealed to Washington and Moscow to join in a grand coalition to fight the Islamist group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.

In Brussels, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian invoked the EU’s mutual assistance clause for the first time since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty introduced the possibility, saying he expected help with French operations in Syria, Iraq and Africa.

“This is firstly a political act,” Le Drian told a news conference after a meeting of EU defence chiefs. The 28 EU member states accepted the French request but it was not immediately clear what assistance would be forthcoming. Britain is agonising over whether to join air strikes in Syria, while Germany is reticent about joining military action outside Europe.

A manhunt was continuing in France and Belgium on Tuesday for one

Republic will destroy terrorists: Hollande

French fighter planes prepare to take off from an unidentified location in this still image taken from handout video released on November 16, 2015. French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. REUTERS

of the eight attackers who killed 129 people in shooting and bomb attacks on restaurants, a music hall and a sports stadium in the Paris region on Friday.

French police staged 128 raids overnight in the hunt for accomplices and Islamist militant networks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Police found a third Belgianlicensed car believed to have been used by the attackers and sealed off the area around it in Paris’ 18th district.

Cazeneuve told France Info radio police were making rapid progress in their investigation into the attacks but declined to give details.

Investigators searched a house in the suburb of Bobigny that had been rented by one of the suicide

Three-five cups of coffee daily lowers early death risk NEw York, NovEmBEr 17 (IANs): Three to five cups of coffee a day may lower the risk of dying prematurely from some illnesses than those who do not drink or drink less coffee, new research suggests.

The researchers from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that drinkers of both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee saw benefits, including a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, neurological diseases, Type 2 diabetes and suicide.

“Bioactive compounds in coffee reduce insulin resistance and systematic inflammation,” said first author and doctoral student Ming Ding. Researchers analysed health data gathered from participants in three large ongoing studies. Coffee drinking was assessed using validated food questionnaires every four years over about 30 years.

During the study period, 19,524 women and 12,432 men died from a range of causes.

In the whole study population, moderate coffee consumption was associated with reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and suicide. Coffee consumption was not associated with cancer deaths. The analyses took into consideration potential confounding factors such as smoking, body mass index, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and other dietary factors.

“This study provides further evidence that moderate consumption of coffee may confer health benefits in terms of reducing premature death due to several diseases,” said senior author Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology. However, more studies are needed to investigate the biological mechanisms producing these effects, the authors noted in a paper that appeared online in the journal Circulation.

Yoga may reduce side effects of prostate cancer treatment NEw York, NovEmBEr 17 (IANs): Practicing yoga can improve quality of life of men with prostate cancer who are undergoing radiation therapy, says a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher.

The researchers found that general quality of life and measurements of side effects often experienced by prostate cancer patients - including fatigue, sexual health and urinary incontinence - were stable throughout a course of outpatient radiation therapy among the men participating in an intensive yoga programme.

“Data have consistently shown declines in these important measures among prostate cancer patients undergoing cancer therapy without any structured fitness interventions, so the stable scores seen with our yoga programme are really good news,” said Neha Vapiwala, associate professor at Abramson Cancer Centre, University of Pennsylvania in the US. The possible explanation for the benefits of yoga seen in the study stems from physiologic data demonstrating its ability to help reduce cancer-related fatigue and to strengthen pelvic floor muscles and increase blood flow.

These latter aspects may in turn improve erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence, Vapiwala said.

Between May 2013 and June 2014, the study participants attended twice-weekly yoga classes of 75 minutes each, taught by trained Eischens yoga instructors.

“Eischens yoga incorporates ideas from movement theory and kinesiology and is accessible to all body types and experience levels,” said Tali Mazar Ben-Josef, certified Eischens yoga instructor and researcher at Abramson Cancer Centre. Most yoga participants reported a sense of well-being at the end of each class, Ben-Josef said.

bombers who blew himself up in the attacks but found no useful evidence, a judicial source said.

The French strike on Raqqa involved 10 fighter jets launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Defence officials said the United States had stepped up intelligence sharing, enabling Paris to identify more specific targets.

A French government source said Russia, which until this week has mostly been striking Westernbacked groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, had also hit IS targets in Raqqa on Tuesday.

The action, which was not immediately confirmed by Moscow, came hours after the Russian Federal Security Service

confirmed that a bomb had exploded a Russian tourist airliner over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula last month and President Vladimir Putin vowed retribution. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Sinai bombing as well as the Paris attacks.

One top suspect, Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, 26, remains at large after escaping back to Belgium early on Saturday and eluding a police dragnet in the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek, where he lived with his two brothers.

Hollande has declared a state of emergency allowing administrative arrests and searches without a warrant following the bloodiest attacks in French history.

The president met visiting U.S. Secretary of State

John Kerry on Tuesday morning to press his call for separate U.S.-led and Russian-led coalitions in Syria to combine forces and give priority to fighting Islamic State.

“DON’T SCAPEGOAT REFUGEES” The U.N. refugee agency and Germany’s police chief urged European countries not to demonise or reject refugees because one of Friday’s Paris bombers was believed to have slipped into Europe among migrants registered in Greece.

“We are deeply disturbed by language that demonises refugees as a group,” U.N. spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said after government officials in Poland, Slovakia and the German state of Bavaria cited

PArIs, NovEmBEr 17 (IANs) “The terrorists will never destroy the republic, because the republic will destroy them,” French President Francois Hollande said in a speech addressed to the two chambers of parliament. “The acts committed on Friday night were acts of war. They left at least 129 people dead and many others injured,” Xinhua quoted Hollande as saying on Monday. “We are in a war against jihadi terrorism which threatens the whole world,” he said in reference to the attacks in Paris which included simultaneous shootings, explosions at six places.

Following the air strikes carried out by the military on Sunday in Raqqa, Syria, Hollande announced that France would intensify its operations in Syria.

“We will continue the strikes in the coming weeks,” he said, adding that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean which would “triple our capacity of action.” “There will be no respite, no truce,” stressed a resolute Hollande. He prothe Paris attacks as a reason to refuse refugees.

The head of Germany’s Federal Criminal Office said there was no sign that Islamist militants had entered Germany posing as an asylum seeker to commit an attack.

On Monday, Hollande told a solemn joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles that France was at war, promising to increase funds for national security and strengthen anti-terrorism laws in response to the attacks.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Hollande would travel to Washington and Moscow next week to press his case for an alliance in Syria. At present, Russia is supporting Assad’s forces in conjunction with Iran and Lebanese Hizbollah militia, while the United

posed the security council of the UN to meet as soon as possible to adopt a resolution to destroy Islamic State (IS).

In the meantime, Hollande would meet the US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin to form “one great coalition” facing the terrorists in Syria, he said. In order to ensure the security of French territory, Hollande said the reductions of army personnel would be suspended till 2019 “for the safety of compatriots”.

He also announced France would create 5,000 more police and gendarmes jobs in the coming two years as a security measure to protect the people leading to a total of 10,000 new posts in the next five years. Although the new security measures would greatly increase the state budget, Hollande said that security was more important than tending to the budget deficit.

He also expressed his wish to extend the current state of emergency status in the country to three months and invited parliamentarians to vote on the bill by the end of the week.

States and France are in a coalition with Sunni Arab states opposed to Assad.

Valls said Paris would spare no expense to reinforce and equip its security forces and law enforcement agencies to fight terrorism, even though that was bound to involve breaching European budget deficit limits.

“They will necessarily be exceeded, because the resources we are giving the security services will not come from other budgets.

We have to face up to this, and Europe ought to understand,” he told France Inter radio.

The European Commission said it would show understanding to France if additional security spending pushed up its deficit.

The EU executive will reassess the French budget

plan once Paris has put figures on its additional defence and security costs.

STEPPED-UP SECURITY Britain announced on Tuesday it would nearly double spending on cyber security to prevent Islamic militants launching online attacks on the country and increase the number of spies.

Hollande announced on Monday he would create 5,000 jobs in the security forces, boost prison service staff by 2,500, beef up the depleted unit of anti-terrorism magistrates and avoid cuts in defence spending before 2019.

Prosecutors have identified five of the seven dead assailants -- four Frenchmen and a foreigner fingerprinted in Greece among refugees last month.

They’ll think we are the enemy: refugees in Germany fear backlash BErLIN, NovEmBEr 17 (rEutErs): Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Germany fear that the attacks in Paris could further shift public opinion against the Berlin government’s welcoming asylum policy.

About a dozen men, smoking heavily, discussed the deadliest attacks in Europe since 2004 outside Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, an imposing structure built

by Hitler to showcase Nazi power and now functioning as a shelter for asylumseekers.

The backdrop to their conversation on Monday was a chorus of demands by right-wing European politicians to halt the flow of migrants into Europe, which some see as providing ideal cover for Islamic State to smuggle in militants -- even if there is as yet no proof.

Nabil, 27, a Syrian from Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, finds it hard to believe a

Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the Paris gunmen. He believes this was a conspiracy, a common thought in the Arab world.

“And France is known for having extremists. I worry about public opinion,” he added, tucking his hands into the pockets of his red jacket on a cold evening, as two children aged no more than six walked past in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops.

Nizar Basal, a Syrian from a town near Hama, was surprisingly frank.

“There are of course ticking bombs coming in with the refugees,” said the 49-year-old, who worked as a private teacher of computer science in Abu Dhabi before coming to Germany last month.

“But the question is, what will happen to us?

What will people think about us? They will think we are the enemy.”

The German govern-

ment said after the attacks, in which at least 129 people were killed on Friday night, that its security agencies had intensified monitoring of radical right-wing activists, fearing a backlash against refugees.

German media also reported that the government wants to tighten security at refugee shelters. German police have detained an Algerian man at one shelter in connection with the Paris attacks, officials said on Monday.

There have been more than 690 arson and other attacks on refugee centres so far this year, as Germany expects up to one million asylum seekers. The influx has increased pressure on the government to reverse some of its welcoming policies and strained German Chancellor Angel Merkel’s coalition.

Mohammad, 31, who worked in a sweet shop in Syria before the war there, fears a hardening of German

People hold signs during a pro-refugee demonstration in downtown Hamburg, Germany on November 14. (REUTERS Photo)

public opinion. “We fled death, we don’t want anyone to die. This is a problem that will affect the refugees,” he said. Falah, 48, who owned a watch shop in Baghdad before fleeing to Turkey, put things into perspective.

“There is a suicide bombing every 15 minutes in Iraq,” he said. He then pointed to a picture of Merkel on his mobile phone and said: “She is our hope.”

Basal, the teacher, said he would have attended

a weekend vigil in Berlin for the Paris attack victims if he had heard about it in advance. “We don’t have much time to think about it.

There are no showers here, we haven’t had a shower for two weeks.”

China says it has shown restraint in South China Sea BEIJING, NovEmBEr 17 (rEutErs): China has shown “great restraint” in the South China Sea by not seizing islands occupied by other countries even though it could have, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday ahead of two regional summits where the disputed waterway is likely to be a hot topic.

Beijing has overlapping claims with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei in the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in shipborne trade passes every year.

Reclamation work and the building of three airfields and other facilities on some of China’s artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago has alarmed the region and raised concern in Washington that China is extending its military reach deep into maritime Southeast Asia.

But China was the real victim as it had had “dozens” of its islands and reefs in the Spratlys illegally occupied by three of the claimants, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told a news conference in Beijing.

He did not name the coun-

Manila for APEC while Premier Li Keqiang will represent China in Malaysia.

Liu said China did not want the South China Sea to be the focus of the East Asia Summit. But he noted it would be hard to avoid and that some countries would raise it.

Activists chant slogans as they display placards during a rally regarding the disputed islands in the South China Sea, ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting next week, in Manila on November 12. (REUTERS Photo)

tries, but all claimants except Brunei have military fortifications in the Spratlys.

“The Chinese government has the right and the ability to recover the islands and reefs illegally occupied by neighbouring countries,” Liu said. “But we haven’t done this. We have maintained great restraint with the aim to preserve peace and stability in the South China Sea.” Tensions over the South

China Sea are likely to dominate the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur later this week. While not on the formal agenda of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Wednesday and Thursday in Manila, the South China Sea is expected to be discussed on the sidelines.

U.S. President Barack Obama, who arrived in Manila on Tuesday, will attend both meetings.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in

LONG AIRSTRIPS BENEFICIAL China’s island building in the Spratlys was not about militarisation, Liu said, adding for example that too much attention had been placed on the length of China’s airstrips. Satellite photographs show construction is finished on a 3,000-metre-long (10,000-foot) airstrip on Fiery Cross Reef. Security experts say such an airfield would be able to accommodate most Chinese military aircraft.

“Actually, the larger they are, the more civilian benefits they will bring,” Liu said, pointing to the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 last year as evidence of the poor state of search and rescue capabilities in the South China Sea. Rescuers initially focused their search on

the waterway before moving to the Indian Ocean.

Liu also repeated Beijing’s standard line that while China’s building work is for defence, its main focus is civilian. China is building facilities such as lighthouses, while protecting the environment, Liu added. He said the focus of the East Asia Summit should be development.

“Hyping the South China Sea issue is not conducive to cooperation,” Liu said. Disagreement between the United States and China over how to address rival claims in the South China Sea marred a gathering of regional defence ministers earlier this month, with a joint statement scrapped after officials failed to agree on its wording.

The United States had lobbied for inclusion of a reference to the waterway, while China had argued it had no place in the statement. Despite tensions between Beijing and Washington over the issue, the Chinese and U.S. militaries are still maintaining cordial relations and open lines of communication, with a U.S. warship docking in Shanghai on Monday.

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Process Of Democratization In Myanmar And Its Relation To Naga Politics – Part IV

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he long awaited 2015 Myanmar General Election has finally taken place relatively free and fair in Myanmar on November 8, 2015. On 15th Nov, Union Electoral Commission, one week after the elections, has officially finished announcing the results which show NLD, the Lady's party has won with another landslide victory securing 880 parliamentary seats for both Union and Regional/state parliaments, out of 1,139 seats which yet do not include more than 600 cancelled polling stations in conflict zones. In union level, there are 491 seats for both Upper House and Lower House and NLD has won 387 altogether for both the houses. For Upper House, NLD has won134 out of 163 seats and 253 out of 315 seats for Lower House. This is, indeed, a landslide majority like that of 1990's! But no body, even Aung San Suu Kyi herself, renown experts and specialists on Myanmar, had predicted that NLD would be able make that unbelievable margin over the ruling party - Union Solidarity and Development Party. Their prediction was just 60% maximum looking at the ground which is under the control of military generals. However, Myanmar is a country in the world where unpredicted things frequently occur. As the official announcement from UEC has come to the end, the results show that NLD the Peacock with the threshold of a solid parliamentary majority has unbelievably defeated USDP, the roaring Lion party.

While NLD celebrates her unimagined staggering victory

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over the ruling party, leaders of USDP realize that they have misunderstood and miscalculated voter preferences in both proper Burma and ethnic areas. They thought over 50 years of systematic control is sufficient to easily paralyze the opposition party in 2015 General Election. But the result is a big NO and the same miscalculation was done by ethnic parties, except SNLD – Shan Nationalities' League for Democracy and ANP – Arakan National Party, who dream sitting on their armchairs that their fellow ethnic voters will turn up for them on the Election Day. Experts maintain that this election is a historic event in the history of Myanmar ending military dictatorship in 50 years. It is also a huge subject of interest in the world because of the Lady's struggle for democracy for more than 25 years and Myanmar as a strategic place where China, India and the West meet. Earlier, NLD, the opposition party and pro-democracy were concerned about the election scenario, especially with Union Election Commission whether it would hold the elections free and fair. To judge this General Election in terms of "free and fair", one can comment it is relatively transparent and genuine from overall point of view. It is also commendable that UEC has allowed international observers such as The Carter Center, EU, etc. and local observer sassuring that it would give the best example; it also marks Myanmar that allows the highest number of observers from both international community and local

community for the elections.

While NLD celebrates her victory over the elections, it is not the end but the beginning of the long journey dreamed for half a century in Myanmar. This victory has embarked NLD onto a new path to show what the party has for the country. The Myanmar people and the world are extremely eager to see what kind of change Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is going to bring about as she used the slogan "Time to Change" during her campaigns.

Change in Myanmar should not mean just for selective sectors but for all because every sector of Myanmar needs a change that will guarantee a sustainable future of the country.

President Thein Sein and USDP leaders including the military generals have stated repeatedly that they will transfer the power to her without breaking their promise unlike in the 1990. Power transfer will most likely happen without much problem because the military generals have made the foundation – the 2008 notorious Constitution, the only constitution on earth that gives a special status for military to sit in the parliament without being elected and also special power to them. It is also possible that the military will not try to jump out of the 2008 Constitution and go back to the old path where they severely faced opprobrium from the International Community for several decades. The path for NLD seems uneasy with the newly elected representatives who are not experienced in governmental affairs and the army who acts on its own following its own rules

– the key holder. A few days before the elections, Central News Asia reported during NLD's campaign at Thuwana ground that NLD had Sea of Red supporters. Now the leader of Sea of Red in the new government has to face sea of issues such as ethnic issue, unending armed conflict issue, IDPs issue, federal issue, etc. NLD is will be very soon leading Myanmar for a new history and it will be interesting to see how NLD is going to nurture the nascent democracy in Myanmar until it gets mature for the country.

After knowing the election result, Suu Kyi is under way meeting with the key leaders such as President Thein Sein, Thura Shwe Man the House Speaker and Min Aung Hlaing Commander in Chief of the Army and hoping that she will be able to strike a political pact for a safe future as she leads the government. The immediate issue NLD will have to face is most probably ethnic armed conflict; never ending clashes in Kachin and Shan states are still left at the mercy of military generals even without honoring the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signed on 15 October between the government and the 15 ethnic armed groups in which the warring parties such as KIA/KIO, SSP/ SSA, TNLA and AA are not included. However, these warring armed groups, though they did not sign the NCA, have given their statements that they will work with the new government to bring about a lasting and honorable solution to this long running political imbroglio in the country. Yet, without

a proper treatment to ethnic issue in the country, the conflict torn situation in the country will never be improved and it is a serious matter to be looked into for a sustainable future of the socalled Myanmar Union. Some critics maintain that NLD will not be able to fulfill dreams of the people in the country as the NLD candidates are very new to above mentioned sensitive issues in the country. Nevertheless, people believe that NLD will do better than the military backed USDP which is why they have voted for NLD. On the one hand, it might be inappropriate to expect that NLD will bring all the answers longed for over 50 years.

Changes in the mainland have brought relatively a huge attention this time in terms of election politics inMyanmar made Naga Self-Administered Zone where the two main parties USDP and NLD contested for ten seats in total: one seat for the Upper House, three seats from the three townships for the Lower House and six seats for Sagaing Regional Parliament. Out of ten seats, NLD, Naga Region has won 9 seats leaving only one seat for Samu of USDP from Lahe, No. 2 Constituency for Sagaing Regional Parliament. The winning candidates in Naga region are: 1. Mr. Min Naing –Upper House 2. Mr. Kyaw Htay – Lower House from Layshi Constituency 3. Mr. Thet Naung – Lower House from Lahe Constituency 4. Mr. Wan La – Lower House from Namyun Constituency 5. Mr. Gahsirang –Regional Parliament from No. 1 Con-

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t is a known and accepted fact that after the Shillong Accord the GPRN Socialist IM emerged and holds the helm which they continue to scrape their way to more than sixty round Delhi talks then to the Framework Agreement.

Whereas the other factions remain slumber statically in their original political state and nothing the horizontal expansion and vertical extension to the Delhi round talk like the IM than their peace camp and transit camp and designated camp except that they remain active in their usual culture of money collections. It is a curious one whether this sovereign collection is spread far and wide to Pan Naga level or confine to Nagaland alone; this collection culture which has gone out of its normal tract degenerated to dreaded threats and all these happen after the Shillong Accord. Can this be approved right by saying that this is the way the revolutionary sovereign use to do on its own people? It is an acquisitive that this Framework Agreement will be an agreement with the arm factions alone or along with the public as a whole and also how to frame out an acceptable solution with that of the impediments the Pan Nagas

which is one thing and exclusive Nagaland which is another.

Nagaland which should keep holding the trump cards on the united strength has deteriorated to rot after the Shillong Accord and is now heard of ridden by the existence of nine factions in all, plus the fractional Nagaland tribes and to have a solution landed in it at present, it will not be a true, peaceful, honourable and acceptable solution but in return it will be a land mine to Nagaland factor. For any landed solution it should not be in the one-dimensional perspective of encircling only one faction or the nine factions. It is the centre which should absorb the citizens of the land and the NGP’s who are now on their anchor hold in their comfort harbours together into one and bring them all to the table on any settlement.

As far as the Naga political struggle goes the formation of Naga club in 1918 is the manifestation of Naga political instinct and the submission of memorandum to Simon Commission on 1.10.1928 is the materialisation of Nagas’ destined political aspiration. This memorandum is the foundation of Nagas’ politics and better not think of a better foundation than this and that upon this foundation we move

on as NNC Federalist and GPRN Socialist. It is a belief that most of the signatories are God fearing people and the memorandum is the God’s inspire memorandum.

On rumination to the memorandum it was all on the political base expressional movement and there is nothing the sort of arm conflict and not a slightest track of revolutionary aspect movement involving the revolutionary champion men and women. There is a wonder struck point where it is asked the British Government to let Naga community to come under its protectorate on seeing the insurmisable number of Hindus and Musalman surrounding them and are despised because of pork, beef and want of education and when the protectorate proposal is to fail it asks the British Government to return the Naga back to their ancient time for a self determination.

This protectorate proposition is identical to the modern day political version as to the International level relationship the Israel is to USA and what do they know of this in their time.

Coming to the term, Share Sovereignty under the Framework Agreement, it appears to be a beautified and defined political designated definition which

prompted one to the conjectural aspect of its transcendence that how much it is well above the heights of the present sixteen point agreement in the context of Nagaland. It comes to be true in the words of ex PM Rao, “An indecision is a decision,” as such that at present the people of Nagaland decided to be undecided, and this is a decision, but what will be the cost, what will be the eventuality when the fishing net is dragged out of water; what kind, what size, how much the fish or an empty net, that is when the blue or white paper is published what a day it will be, whether to shout at the top of our voice, At last! We have found what we want or Alas! We are lost.

This Framework Agreement is a dark room where no one can perceive whether it is inclusive the Nagas or exclusive Nagaland, to the full or not but can see where the gold, the silver and the brass and can speak.

The days of peace process is over and now comes the Framework Agreement and we are to go on all the ways on all the days; Framework Agreement, Framework Agreement along with the revolutionary sovereign bill.

PY Vihoto Senior Citizen Ato Area, Niuland

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Pacer Johnson retires from international cricket Second test drawn

Perth, November 17 (IANS): The curtains came down on the career of one of the best pacers to grace the game in recent years as Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson retired from all forms of international cricket at the end of the second Test against New Zealand here on Tuesday.

Johnson, the country's fourth highest Test wicket-taker, informed his teammates of his decision on Monday night, saying that after 73 Tests he felt it was the right time to walk away from the game.

"I feel now is the best time to say goodbye," Johnson said in a Cricket Australia

Perth, November 17 (reuterS): The second test between Australia and New Zealand ended in a draw on Tuesday with the tourists 217 runs short of their victory target of 321 on a rain-disrupted fifth and final day at the WACA. The tourists had made 104 for two when bad light brought an end to the game, leaving Australia 1-0 up in the series. Australia skipper Steve Smith had declared for the fourth time in four innings in the series an hour before tea after the hosts had made 385 for seven. New Zealand's 624 had given them a 65-run first-innings lead over Australia's 559-9 declared.

Paceman Mitchell Johnson took 2 for 20.

(CA) statement.

"I have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful career and enjoyed every moment of playing for my country. It’s been an incredible ride. But the ride has to come to an end at some point and to do so here at the WACA is very special," the left-armer added.

Johnson dismissed New Zealand openers Tom Latham and Martin Guptill on the final day to finish his career with 313 Test wickets. The 34-year-old sits behind only Dennis Lillee (355), Glenn McGrath (563) and Shane Warne (708) on the list of Australia's greatest wicket-takers.

He was the key figure in Australia's 5-0 Ashes sweep in 2013-14, claiming a staggering 37 wickets across the five Tests and leaving an indelible mark with his pace and intimidation.

Johnson was also a useful lower order batsman, scoring 11 half-centuries and one century to amass a career haul of 2,065 runs.

He was given a guard of honour by the New Zealand fielders and an ovation from the crowd as he emerged for his last Test innings shortly before lunch on the final day.

"My career has certainly had its up and downs but I can honestly say I have given it my all and am proud of everything I have achieved. To win an Ashes series and a Cricket World Cup is something I will treasure forever," Johnson said. Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar was among several current and former cricketers who heaped praise on the Australian pace spearhead.

stituency, Layshi 6. Mr. Rittin – Regional Parliament from No. 2 Constituency, Layshi 7. Mr. Samu – Regional Parliament from No. 1 Constituency, Lahe 8. Mr. Law Yone – Regional Parliament from No. 2 Constituency, Lahe 9. Mr. Tseng Mong – Regional Parliament from No. 1 Constituency, Namyun 10. Mr. Kesai – Regional Parliament from No. 2 Constituency, Namyun.

Among the above mentioned elected candidates, except Mr. Samu, the rest are from NLD. Out of ten Naga MPs, four of them will be representing Nagas at the Union level and the remaining six MPs from regional parliament will form the selfadministered government with the other 4 appointed representatives: two military candidates (as per the 2008 Constitution, 25 percent of every government will be filled in with the military candidates), one representative from General Administrative Department and the remaining one will be appointed to be included in the self-administered government with the approval of the sixelected representatives from the three townships.

While people are eager to see the Central NLD for its political agendas and activities in the next five years, Nagas are also curious to see how Naga NLD candidates will be doing in Naga region with their political agendas and policies.

Naga NLD government has to play a very important role for peace in the region as NSCN-K has withdrawn from NCA with

the reason that Nagas stand for sovereignty alone. This is crucial because Naga USDP earlier claimed that only they would be able to bring solution to this conflict. During their campaign, they told the people that there would be war in Naga region like in 1980's if NLD comes to power. Therefore, Naga NLD will have to prove how genuine they are to the common Naga cause that involve the Nagas who live across the border.

Alike many other ethnic peoples in the country, it is going to be crucial for the Nagas too.

Suu Kyi, who grew up in India in her early life, knows Nagas and Indo-Naga-Burma political conflict more than any other in the country. As she is a strong pro Human Rights, Nagas have to be prepared to present our case so that Nagas will not miss the chance during her time. Nagas in stead of squabbling over petty issues must take a pragmatic step to sit with Suu Kyi and hammer out an honorable solution in the region. The hour has come for all the Nagas to come together to raise the common issue without dwelling on boundaries and borders made by outsiders without our consent. Naga politicians of both NPGs and state must make a practical step forwarding this juncture because Nagas can never expect a true and sustainable development in the region without solving the Indo-Naga-Burma conflict that has left more than 500,000 people dead in the past decades.

Athong Makury Observer to Myanmar-Naga Politics

Assam Rifles and Freedom of Press - The Truth

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ssam Rifles had written the letter to the Editors of five Media Houses of Nagaland on 24 Oct 2015, highlighting the fact that NSCN(K) has been notified as an Unlawful Association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and amplified some of the clauses of the Gazette Notification which have its own legal implications. A copy of the MHA Notification was enclosed with the letter.

Assam Rifles in no way have issued any "gag order" on the Press. The Editors were requested to publish articles of NSCN(K) in consonance with the Act quoted above.

Publishing an "Extortion Notice" of a "Banned Organisation" against business establishments is akin to abetting the "Banned Organisation" in collection of funds which will be used to carry out subversive activities against

the govt agencies and Security Forces. If Media Houses feel it is correct to issue them to public through their medium it's their call, and answer the Press Council of India for violation of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The Media Houses are free to publish any article about the NSCN(K) organisation which would add to the Peace Process, air their opinion about the Security Forces and their conduct of operations. At no stage has the Media been asked to dilute their free reporting. The contents of the advisory making the Media Houses aware of the MHA Notification and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act are being deliberately misinterpreted.

The intent of the letter was to prevent contact of NSCN(K) with the public for conveying their "Extortion Demands" or "Extortion Threats" through a medium of mass communica-

tion. The sequence of events over the past couple of days appears to be a well conceived plan by vested interests to use the Press and muzzle the voice of the Assam Rifles, which is the only organisation having faced the full brunt of terrorist actions and achieved tangible results against a terrorist organisation. Even today, as in the past, the Editors are free to publish any Press Release they receive from NSCN(K), however, it would not be possible for them to feign ignorance of the MHA Notification declaring NSCN(K) a banned terrorist organisation and any consequent legal repercussions leading to it. It is their moral call to unleash "Extortion Demands" and "Self Proclaimed Killings/ Threats" of NSCN(K) to the Naga civil society from their esteemed Media Houses.

PRO, Assam Rifles Kohima, Nagaland

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he Yimchungrü Akherü Arih Ako (YAA) is deeply saddened over the firing incident occurred at Leagnkonger village which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of four persons from GPRN/NSCN faction. The personnel of the 15th AR could have averted the incident only if they have the true heart of maintaining peaceful atmosphere in and around the vicinity. Without ascertaining the facts, intruding the peaceful zone only to unleash the terror merely basing upon hearsay or suspicion is a clear instance of high-handedness and terrorism. Reports flows from the reliable sources that the incident was never a case of encounter or retaliation but purely an ambush form the side of the AR personnel. None of the underground cadres present in the place of incident had fired a single shot and the allegation leveled against the deceased as a case of retaliation in self-defense was fabricated statement so as to justify the terror acts and also to gain support from the readers of the imputation. No law on earth would legitimize the act of murdering human in worst than human-animal relations after being captured or arrested. The apparent bulletridden corpses of the deceased are clear evident that they were being murdered several times after the original murder. The deceased neither tried to escape nor intended to cause harm to the AR personnel since they were apprehended and emptyhanded at the point of time. Thus, the action of the security forces has clearly violated “Human Rights” guaranteed by the creator of this universe.

The deceased were killed in a sadistic and playful manner. When a person kills an animal for fun he may have the liberty, without hesitation or compassion, to inflict any amount of wounds upon the prey even if it laid death.

The claim of the AR as a mistaken encounter could not justify the ghastly actions. Under the

shadow of mistaken identity it would be unbecoming for many innocent and peace-loving personnel from different NPG to silently become victims in the hands of the Indian security forces. Writing in the newspaper or rendering verbal statement as “mistaken” must be very easy for anybody but it would not bring the life back to the deceased and the damage could not be undone. The detesting trick of the AR personnel in placing weapons either upon or near the corpses of the deceased is an insult to the departed souls when, in fact, they were emptyhanded at the time of capturing, man-handled and firing. It was like a dead man rose to obtain or to snatch the weapons after actually being killed. Ceasefire Ground Rules should be respected but it cannot justify the brutality of the AR in the instant case because breaching of the rules does not mandate the personnel of AR to go about rampant killing and disturbance of the peaceful environment. The YTC and YAA have been continuously assisting the security agencies of the state and the central government in all necessary ways. When there was a probable movement of anti-social elements or the NPGs detrimental to the peaceful environment, the local authority, administration, police or the civil organizations of the locality could have been approached for assistance; the latter being willing to assist in all difficulties. On the pretext of NSCN (K), we never know how many times the people of Nagaland would suffer. The AR should have known that the students are now preparing tooth and nail for their final examination. Their action has done enough damage to the students’ community who otherwise deserves affable environment for their examination.

B John, Vice President Khiungmong, Press & Information Secretary

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

Wednesday 18•11•2015

India-China Handshake Concert 2015

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'Voices of Hope' led by their Director Nise Meruno after an enthralling show at Minzu University, Kunming. They represented the country at the CITM, 2015 which was held from November 11 to 15.

Seen here with them is the Consul General of India, Yunan province, Silas Thangal.

Adele's '21' named greatest album of all time

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scar-winning singer Adele's "21", that released in 2011, has been named the greatest album of all time by Billboard. The album topped magazine's Billboard 200 album list for its lengthy chart run, reported Entertainment Weekly. "Adele's

Steven Spielberg awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

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irector Steven Spielberg, singer James Taylor and multihyphenate Barbra Streisand are set to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Obama administration said. Producer Emilio Estefan, singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan and conductor Itzhak Perlman are also among Hollywood notables who will receive the honor on November 24 at the White Housem, said the Hollywood Reporter.

Composer Steven Sondheim, who was awarded the honour last year but wasn't able to attend the 2014 ceremony, will be awarded the honour this month.

"I look forward to

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presenting these 17 distinguished Americans with our nation s highest civilian honour," said the President in a statement.

"From public servants who helped us meet defining challenges of our time to artists who expanded our imaginations, from leaders who have made our union more perfect to athletes who have inspired millions of fans, these men and women have enriched our lives and helped define our shared experience as Americans."

Last year, mogul Oprah Winfrey, actress Meryl Streep, singer Stevie Wonder and anchor Tom Brokaw were among the recipients.

blockbuster 21 tops the Billboard 200's all-time albums ranking, fueled not only by the set's 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list (the most weeks at No 1 for an album by a woman), but also its lengthy chart run in the upper reaches of the tally," read a post on Billboard.

The second in the list was the soundtrack to "Sound of Music," while Michael Jackson's "Thriller" came third. Having hits like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Set Fire to the Rain," the 27-year-old singer earned six Grammys, including Album of the Year for "21".

he 4th international edition of the Handshake Concert billed as “India- China Handshake Concert 2015” will be held on November 27 in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China.

The Rattle & Hum Music Society (RHMS) Nagaland told media persons here today.

It will be held under the aegis of People’s Government of Kunming Municipality, Yunnan Province and The Consulate General of India, Guangzhou China in collaboration with RHMS. The artists for this Handshake Concert will comprise of Voices of Hope, Tetseo Sisters, Purple Fusion, Reuben Mashangva, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Himanshu Bal Khrishnan Mohan.

It will be led by parliamentary secretary for youth resources & sports, music task force & state lotteries Khriehu Liezietsu.

The Handshake Concert, which began as a means to celebrate friendship and culture, and pro-

RHMS officials addressing press conference in Kohima on November 17. (Morung Photo)

motion of goodwill through music, has come quite a journey from where it first began.

The idea was born out of the North East India Music Festival, coinciding with the World Music Day and organized by RHMS under the patronage of North East Zone Culture Centre on June 21 during 2008 at Shilpgram Guwahati.

Owning to success of the Handshake Concert, RHMS decided to organize an annual music festival to celebrate music and culture.

Also in the following year in 2009, the Handshake concert was officially launched in Mumbai on World Music Day. Picking pace, the concert was

held in New Delhi in 2010 and consecutively taking it forward to Bangalore in 2011. It was taken abroad to Bangkok in 2012, Jakarta in 2013, Yangon Myanmar in 2014.

It has been the endeavour of RHMS to create platforms for the talents of the country to showcase the rich cultural heritage of the country to the international community through the medium of music, dance and performing arts.

The event is also a platform for acclaimed musicians to perform to international audiences. Apart from participants from different parts of India including the states of Rajasthan, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, New Delhi etc,

the concert has also highlighted artists and performers from Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and Russia.

Further, in recognition of the fact that art, culture and music have no language but transcends all boundaries because of its universal aspect, the Handshake Concert is a medium toward creating a better impression of our art and culture as well as for our people to appreciate other people’s culture as they go along the way, according to RHMS. Those who addressed the press conference includes Ababe Ezung, Neingulie Nakhro, Ruguokhrietuo Kesiezie, Wenyitso Kapfo and Thejakielie Zuyie.

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Spectre’s villain Dave Bautista Salman Khan fan commits suicide after not getting ticket for Prem Ratan Dhan Payo DARES Varun Dhawan!

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ave Bautista will go headon with James Bond in Spectre soon and we are sure there are many who wants to see this battle unfold on the big screen soon enough. According to reports, he isn’t just any other evil-minded burly villain but one who is decent looking and uses his brains to nail threats.

While he was busy trying to look for ways to axe Bond, he was also searching a young actor in India who can accept his fitness challenge. After looking into many such actors, he has now chosen Varun Dhawan. MMA and WWE star Dave Bautista found Varun Dhawan as the one who he is fit for his open fitness challenge!

Bautista who is promot-

ing the upcoming Bond film Spectre, dared Varun to a pull-up match openly on social media. We have the actor’s video message ready for the ABCD 2 actor which is really something.

He calls out to him saying he either accepts the challenge or accept he is a Dar Pook (Darpok, coward).

A source told a daily, “He reaches out to Varun in the video asking him if he is game for a pull up challenge. We are sure Varun will be very excited about this as he is a huge fan of the Bond franchise and he is a Bautista fan as well. He will definitely be a sport and take it up.”

According to the daily, Varun has received and accepted the challenge.

He tweeted about it saying, “Will respond to @ DaveBautista tomorrow #BatistavsVarun.”

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alman Khan’s Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is breaking all records at the box office. The movie has garnered a whopping Rs 130 crore in the opening weekend, thanks to bhai’s massive fan following. Despite negative remarks by critics, the ardent fans are watching Salman’s movie again and again to make it a block-

buster. But unfortunately this fandom proved fatal for a diehard Salman fan, who hung himself after he failed to watch the first day first show of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.

As per media reports, the man, who is a resident of Bajrang Nagar, Madhya Pradesh, reached the theatre to watch Salman’s movie.

But he was denied a ticket as

the show was sold out. He then engaged in a tussle with the manager of the cinema house but couldn’t succeed in getting the movie ticket.

Not being able to watch Bhai’s movie made him sad and disappointed. As a result, he hung himself without thinking twice. Being a fan is good but taking your life for fandom is totally not worth it.

Charlie Sheen says he has HIV virus

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ormer "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen has the HIV virus.

In an interview Tuesday on NBC's "Today," the 50-year-old Sheen said he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. But when asked by "Today" co-host Matt Lauer if he had transmitted the disease to others, he declared, "Impossible. Impossible."

He said he was diagnosed about four years ago.

He said one reason for going public with his condition was to put a stop to shakedowns from prostitutes and others who threatened to out him. He said he had paid "enough to bring it into the millions" — perhaps as much as $10 million — to buy their silence and now was seeking to "put a stop to this barrage of attacks and sub-truths."

He said one prostitute took a photo of the HIV-related drugs in his medicine cabinet and threatened to sell it to the tabloids. "Are you still paying these people?"

Lauer asked him. "Not after today I'm not," Sheen said.

With his public pronouncement he said he hoped to reduce the stigma still felt by some diagnosed with HIV. "I have a responsibility now to better myself and to help a lot of other people," he said. "And hopefully with what we're doing today, others may come forward and say, 'Thanks, Charlie, for kicking the door open.'"

The disclosure was only the latest chapter in Sheen's headline-seizing behavior.

In recent years, drug and alcohol use led to his being kicked off CBS' "Two and a Half Men" in 2011 after an explosive meltdown that included calling the show's

producer "a contaminated little maggot."

His escapades also included the revelation that he spent more than $50,000 as a client of "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss' prostitution ring. "Two and a Half Men" debuted in 2003 and starred Sheen as womanizing bachelor Charlie Harper.

It made Sheen one of TV's highest-paid actors and at its peak was TV's mostwatched sitcom. It ended its run earlier this year, after Ashton Kutcher stepped in for the fired Sheen. In 2012, Sheen returned to TV in "Anger Management," an FX sitcom adapted from the movie of the same name.

Sheen has been wed three times, the first time to model Donna Peele in the 1990s. He and actress Denise Richards were married from 2002-2006 and have two daughters. Sheen and real estate investor Brooke Mueller wed in 2008 and divorced in 2011; they have two sons.

Sheen said he had informed her of his diagnosis.

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21st CLASSIC CUP 2015 Nbung goal takes Barak to the final

Don't want to live in fear before Davis Cup final: Murray london, novemBer 17 (IanS): World No.2 tennis player Andy Murray said on Tuesday he doesn't want to be in a state of fear each time he gets on to the court ahead of the Davis Cup final match between Great Britain and hosts Belgium to be held in Ghent from November 27 to 29.

Ghent is a city 35 miles from Molenbeek, the municipality in Belgium's capi-

tal city Brussels, which is at the focus of a manhunt for one of the suspects involved in the Paris terror attacks.

"I don't want to live in fear each time I step on a court," Murray was quoted as saying by times.co.uk on Tuesday. The aftereffects of the Paris attack has already accounted for Tuesday's football friendly match between Belgium and Spain, scheduled to be held in

Brussels, that was cancelled because of security reasons.

The 28-year-old Scott has been named in the provisional five-man squad for the tie against Belgium. Besides Murray, James Ward, Kyle Edmund, Jamie Murray and Dominic Inglot are also on the list for Great Britain's final against Belgium.

The Belgium government has raised the terror threat level to three in the

country, and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) president, David Haggerty, said security would be increased for their forthcoming tournaments.

“Following the tragic events over the last few weeks all sporting events require heightened levels of security and this includes the Fed Cup and Davis Cup finals," Haggerty was quoted as saying by The Times.

Belgium cancels football friendly over security concerns

The match patron with Classic Club officials, match officials and the players of the first semi-finals match on November 17. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | November 17

Barak FC today downed Naga FC 1-0 to enter the final of the 21st Classic Cup 2015 here at the Kohima Local Ground. The sole goal of the match came

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through Nzauhut Nbung in the 16th minute.

As losing semi-finalist, Naga FC was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 25,000.

Mayosing Khongreiwa of Barak FC and Alomei Panmei of Naga FC won the titles of ‘Hero of the Match’

and ‘Swift Movement of the Match, respectively. The special awards were introduced for the first time by the Classic Club to encourage players.

Kevipodi Angami, PD, DRDA Kohima was the day’s match patron. Meanwhile,

the Challenger Cup between Kohima Press Club and Classic Club will take place on November 19 at 2:00 pm.

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BruSSelS, novemBer 17 (IanS): The Paris terror attacks have prompted the Belgian football authorities to call off Wednesday's international friendly against Spain due to concerns over the security of players and fans.

The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) announced that the match, which was scheduled to be played at the Stade Roi Baudouin here, was called off following consultations with the Spanish federation.

"In consultation with the competent authorities and the Spanish national team, the Belgian FA has decided to cancel the match. At the very end of the evening the Belgian FA was contacted by the government, who made the recommendation not to play tomorrow's match.

This is because the terror alert level is high and with the current leakage of a suspicious person," the RBFA said in a statement on Tuesday.

The mastermind of the

attacks in Paris -- which have left around 129 people dead -- has been traced to Belgium with Brusselsborn Salah Abdeslam thought to be one of the key suspects.

The Stade de France was targeted during the Paris attacks last Friday while an international friendly between France and Germany was in progress. Three people were killed in that incident after a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up outside the stadium.

There were security concerns over the match in the Belgian capital as well.

The Belgian government raised the terror threat level to three on Monday, indicating a serious threat.

"We deeply regret that such a friendly match between two motivated teams has been cancelled so late and we understand the disappointment of many supporters. However, taking into account the exceptional circumstances, we cannot take any security risk with players and fans.

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Groundsmen walk under an umbrella after steady drizzle washed out the entire second day's play in the second test cricket match between India and South Africa in Bengaluru, India, November 15, 2015. (REUTERS)

Bengaluru, novemBer 17 (IanS): The fourth day's play in the India-South Africa second Test match was called off without a ball being bowled due to rain at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Tuesday.

"The play has been officially called off. Another day lost to rain. If weather

permits, tomorrow the play will start at 9:15 A.M. #IndvsSA," Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) wrote on Twitter.

There was no sign of rain till 1.40 p.m as the umpires announced the delayed start because of a wet outfield by inspecting the ground twice at 11.30 am

and 1 pm. After the second inspection, they took the decision that the game can be resumed at 2 pm.

But a light drizzle forced the ground to be covered, and the umpires to call off play. Play was also called off on Sunday and Monday and with Tuesday too washed away, as many as

nine sessions have been wasted because of rain.

India, at 80 for no loss, were trailing South Africa by 134 runs at the end of Day One with openers Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan batting on 28 and 45 respectively. Earlier, India bowled out South Africa for 214 runs in the first innings.

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TuenSang, novemBer 17 (mexn): Chongpo Vikings FC ‘B’ handed a 7-0 drubbing to Zenith FC in the second quarter-finals match on November 17 to advance to the semi-finals of the 23rd Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship. Lanu was the star of the match, who scored four of the seven goals. Yanger, Awang and Akum chipped in with a goal each. Desingam of Chongpo Vikings FC ‘B’ and Ato of Zenith FC were cautioned with yellow cards.

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NoVEmBER 18 3rd Quarter-finals Tenyimia FC Vs Frontier FC (1:00 PM)

FC Goa thrash Mumbai City There is no doping in EPL: Wenger novemBer 7-0 to maintain top spot london, 17 (IanS): Admitting that

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FaTorda (goa), novemBer 17 (IanS): FC Goa continued their dream run in the Indian Super League (ISL) second season as the hosts crushed hapless Mumbai City FC 7-0 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Tuesday.

Thongkhosiem Haokip and MacPherlin Dudu scored a hat-trick each while Reinaldo netted in the dying minutes of the game to help the side enter the record books as they registered the biggest margin of victory in an ISL match.

With this win, the home side held on to the top position in the points table with 18 points from 10 games, having won five, drawn three and lost two.

On the other hand, after a miserable performance from the visitors, they found themselves in the sixth position with 12 points from 10 games, losing four while winning three and drawn three.

Nicolas Anelka's Mumbai side made two changes for the game, brought in Lalcchuanmawia Fanai and Sunil Chhetri for the injured Brandon Fernandes and Subash Singh.

While Mandar Dessai, Jofre Mateu and Dudu Omag-

bemi made their way into the starting 11, Narayan Das and the injured duo of Bikramjit Singh and Rafael Coelho were replaced for Goa. The carnage started in the 34th minute when Haokip opened the scoring for the home side to put Mumbai in the backfoot.

From there on, there was no looking back for legendary Zico-coached side as they went on scoring one after the other to put their name in the record books.

Soon after the 34th minute goal, Dudu scored the second for the side in the 42nd minute to go into the break with 2-0 lead.

Coming into the second half, the home side went in an all attacking mode by scoring in the 52nd minute (Haokip) to take 3-0 lead.

From there on, the fourth goal (Dudu) came in the 64th minute followed by the fifth (Dudu) in the 67th minute, the sixth (Haokip) in the 79th minute and the seventh and the last goal scored by Reinaldo in the 90th minute.

Goa next face defending champions Atletico de Kolkata in an away match on November 22 while Mumbai travel to Guwahati to face NorthEast United FC on November 20.

he is unhappy with the current level of drug testing in football, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger asserts that he does not see any signs of doping in the English Premier League.

The coach had earlier claimed that he has faced many sides who, he suspects, have used performance-enhancing drugs to aid their players.

Arsenal were beaten 1-2 by Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League in September, with one of the Croatian side's star men, Arijan Ademi, later testing positive for a banned substance.

The English Football Association is keen to hold talks with the Arsenal manager over his previous claims that he has faced teams with players who have taken performance enhancing drugs.

“No, I’m not happy with the current level of drug tests in football. I don’t think in England, in the Premier League, I don’t see any signs of doping at all,” Wenger was quoted as saying by beIN Sports on Monday.

“I’m not satisfied with the level of testing because

I believe blood tests should be done. If you want to go into a bit more sophistication you have to do blood checks. Urine checks are superficial and not deep enough to say absolutely sure that we have no doping problem in football,” the veteran manager said.

The 66-year-old further said, “I think no and I wish no but on the other hand, can you have 740 football players at a World Cup and come out with zero alert on any doping? It’s a little bit surprising. I hope it is true but I think to be completely sure about it, you want to go into deeper tests.”

The Arsenal coach has also denied witnessing doping first-hand and believes the current rules in place make it almost impossible for governing bodies to catch players who are

cheating.

“I recently made statements that I never doped or try to dope anybody in my career and it helps me to sleep much better than if I had done it. Did I witness some strange things during my career? I say, without any doubt, yes.

There’s always a big difference between having suspicions and proving it and that’s why I’m not in a position where I can make a statement, ‘I’m sure that he doped,” he added.

“For example, now you have three doping tests after the game. If one of the players is doped, the result of the game is not changed.

You need two to be doped to have a result of the game changed but if you test only three, it is nearly impossible that you catch a second one.”

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