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53 ATMs recalibrated in Dimapur

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The Morung Express Poll QuEsTion

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Nagaland govt issues advisory

Finance department cautions against “parking money” DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 18 (MExN): Finance Department, Government of Nagaland has cautioned all “tribals” who are exempted from paying income tax “not to allow non-tribals to park their money in their accounts, that is the accounts of the tribals, as this is illegal and amounts to conversion of black money into white.” It reminded that “the Central Government has warned of strict action against those involved in converting black money into white.”

Informing this in an advisory, Principal Secretary & Finance Commissioner, Temjen Toy, also said the deposit of the demonetized Rs 1000 and Rs 500 currency notes in one’s own bank is permitted upto December 30, 2016, thereafter, deposit of old notes shall be permitted only at designated branches of the Reserve Bank of India. It also stated that all cash deposits of Rs 2.50 lakh and above shall be scrutinized and deposits not matching income will be questioned.

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‘Nagaland imports 213 crore meat production’

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Despite long queues in the banks and ATMs, people in the urban areas of Nagaland have been able to handle the setbacks and inconveniences created by the demonetization move. But the same cannot be said for people in the rural and far flung areas.

Limited banking institutions coupled with lower financial inclusion and an informal economy is creating a problem of large proportion in the interior areas.

Cash crunch is more acute in upper Konyak area, a resident of Aboi Town told The Morung Express.

“There is only single bank in the upper region of Konyak district which has around 70-80 villages. At least half of the Konyak population is suffering,” the Aboi resident pointed out.

Alang Sakang Wanghim, Assistant General Secretary of Aboi Area Students’ Union (AASU) while describing the suffering faced by the demonetization move said during the past week, there were around 6-7 death in the area but the families had no money even to spend for funerals.

Villagers from the region are compelled to walk on foot all the way to

Nagaland received 276 crores from RBI Morung Express news Dimapur | November 18

At least 53 Automated Teller Machines (ATM) have been recalibrated in Dimapur and is now dispensing the new Rs 2000 currency notes along with the 100-rupee notes. The remaining ATMs, which are yet to be recalibrated, continue to dispense 100-rupee notes, Assistant Manager, Regional Office SBI, Thangboi Lunkim informed on Friday.

The SBI official also said there was sufficient cash at hand with the delivery of 276 crore by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to People lined outside Central Bank of india, Tizit under Mon district to deposit and ex- Nagaland on November 15. The Finance change their old currency of higher denomination.

Department, Nagaland Government had Aboi Town with their Rs. 1000 or 500 notes early in the morning in order to reach the bank on time.

The problem does not stop there. The most common problem faced by the villagers is to fill up the forms to exchange their money without any identify card or bank account. “This step is only hurting the innocent poor,” Wanghim said.

Demonetisation has also turned the villages in the interior areas into islands, rendering the villagers hapless to even make a trip to the nearest subdivisions to buy their daily

needs.

Students are also at the receiving end. With educational institutions refusing to accept the devalued currencies, a number of students are faced with the challenge of even filling up the forms for their final exam for which they need to pay an amount.

Seeing the problem face by the rural population, the AASU said it has been assisting the illiterate and handicap. While the new Rs 2000 notes reached Aboi on Friday, Wanghim said they are now faced with a bigger problem- get-

ting smaller change out of the intimidating high value currency.

In Tizit, one Khamhi Konyak said many organisations whose annual reports are being prepared are also facing problems.

“There are difficulties in showing the details of finance report of various departments due to current situation because they could not do current updates of their passbook,” Khamhi stated.

The severe problems faced by the villagers under Tobu subdivision as a result of the recent demonetiza-

tion move by the Government was one of the pertinent issues discussed at the 8th annual conference of the Tobu Area GB Association.

A press note from the Association informed that most of the villagers do not have a bank account and the nearest bank at Mon HQ is more than 150 km away.

“So it is impossible for the villagers to exchange their hard earned cash. Therefore, we are requesting the Government to arrange an alternative solution for our sub division,” President of Tobu Area GB Association

sought Rs 300 crore from the RBI after the demonetization move on November 8.

The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dimapur had also convened a meeting on November 17 to assess the situation. The SBI has also launched Cash@POS terminal in Dimapur in an effort to meet the financial needs of its customers on November 15.

New Rs 2000 new notes of cash were dispensed to approximately 150,000 customers through 74 ATMs in Dimapur and Kohima on Friday. Indelible ink was also used in most of the branches while exchanging notes. On Saturday, exchange of notes will be exclusively done by banks for senior citizens as per government notification, Lunkim said.

Mini Mobile ATM services have also been extended to NAPTC Chumukedima, Referral Hospital, Eden Hospital, Zion Hospital and ICAR Medziphema.

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Elsewhere in Tuensang, the lone SBI ATM is crowded the whole day with people making a mad rush to withdraw money. Those without a bank account or ATM crowd the two SBI bank in the town.

“How can a lone ATM serve the whole town and the surrounding areas?” an understandably worried Topuchungchuba Chang, a Tuensang citizen and Assistant General Secretary of Eastern Nagaland Students’ Federation questioned. The citizen said an indication for a new ATM

was put up near the District Government Hospital since 2015, but it is yet to materialize. The other at Assam Rifle camp is not easily accessible to common people.

In Pungro area under Kiphire district, a citizen said things have settled down after the initial rush but a number of problems persist- “With shortage of lower denomination currency notes, when you go to a shop, if you are not buying goods for the whole amount, the retailer asks us to keep the remaining amount for another day.”

NPSC urged to reconsider reserved post India has most urban-dwellers without sanitation: Report for BT to be open for all based on merit

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 18 (MExN): A number of associations have appealed the Nagaland State Government to reconsider the corrigendum related to Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) advertisement published on October 26, 2016, and to allow the post reserved for Backward Tribes be open to all the candidates based on merit in the upcoming exam.

A joint statement issued by Graduate Electrical Engineers Association (GEEAN), Association Of Mechanical Engineers Nagaland (AMEN), Unemployed Civil Engineers Association Of Nagaland (UCEAN), Forestry Graduate Association Of Nagaland (FGAN), Agriculture Engineers Graduate Association Of Nagaland (AEGAN), All Nagaland Unemployed Veterinary Doctors Association (ANUVDA), Electronics & Communication Engineers Association Nagaland (ECEAN) said the decision as per the NPSC corrigendum where some of the posts have

been reserved particularly for a Backward Tribe is affecting the technical graduates of branches like Mechanical Engineering, E&C, IT, CS, Agriculture Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Forestry Graduates.

It went on to state that in some of the branches like Mechanical, E&C, CS and IT there is hardly any advertisement and giving away that one post advertised in the recent NPSC (CTE) to “one particular Backward Tribe cannot be considered fair and transparent enough.”

The associations also reminded that as per the reservation policy order no. RCBT5/87(pt-II) annexure B-I 125 point rooster table, the first vacancy is reserved for all indigenous inhabitants and only then comes the reservation for Backward Tribe.

It also said the order RCBT-5/87(pt-II) nowhere mentions that in case of only one vacancy it should be reserved for a Backward Tribe.

KOCHI, NOVEMBER 18 (PTI): With the breakneck speed of expansion of cities, India has the greatest number of urban-dwellers in the world without safe, private toilets and practising open defecation though the government has made sanitation a priority, a report by a global NGO says. “India ranks top for having the greatest number of urbanites living without a safe, private toilet— 157 million – as well as the most urban dwellers practising open defecation— 41 million,” the report by WaterAid, a UKbased charity working in the field of safe water and sanitation, says.

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A smAll new beginning Prison Department in Nagaland embarks on innovative reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners Morung Express news Kohima | November 18

On a Friday afternoon, inmates at the Kohima District Jail are busy making laundry detergent powders and aloo puris. In one room, a section of the inmates, donned with masks and gloves are seen mixing ingredients to make the detergent powder while in the kitchen, the rest of the inmates are busy kneading dough and cooking aloo sabzi (potato curry). It is indeed a heartening sight.

“This is small beginning,” said Rupin Sharma, IPS, Director General of Prisons under whose initiative the skill developments are taking place. When Sharma was appointed the DG (Prisons) last month in September, he met the inmates of the Kohima District Jail and asked them what they do in jail. The answer was ‘Nothing’.

After engaging in personal interactions with the inmates and going through their backgrounds, Sharma found out that many of the inmates were bread-earners in their families.

inmates of Kohima District Jail making laundry detergent powders .

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Believing that prisons needs to reform and rehabilitate the inmates, and with a vision to make positive changes through small steps, Sharma introduced the skill development trainings in the Prison Department to train the prisoners on short term skills at the District jail such as making detergent powders and learning basic cooking skills.

The first production of the detergent powder was sold to some of the senior government officials.

Priced at Rs. 90 (per 900gms), the

productions will soon be available at the District jail where a counter will be opened for the public to come and purchase the products.

The profits will go to the savings of each of the inmates. For this, bank accounts of all the inmates will also be opened very soon. “The whole idea is to let them save some money and also offer public service; the profits will be put in their accounts. So when they go out of jail, they will have something to sustain themselves,” said Sharma.

The aloo sabzi and puri will be

sold for Rs 20-25 in police departments. Currently it is being sold at the Prisons canteen where employees have their lunch during breaks.

With only a small amount of fund kept aside for such projects, the idea for laundry detergent powder and aloo puri came up since it does not need much investments and the task is also easier to complete. This will in turn help inmates to continue the economic activity after being released from prison. The Prison Department also welcomes the public in contributing to the reformation of the inmates by providing gloves, masks and strainers.

Similar training will also begin in Dimapur Jail by next week, Sharma revealed.

With prisons in the country gradually evolving into centres of correction, reformation and rehabilitation, Sharma said activities such as psychological counseling for the inmates, imparting basic education may soon be introduced in Nagaland prisons. Talks are under way to appeal educational institutions to provide old textbooks, he added.

There are around 110 inmates in the Kohima District Jail. When they have money, their families can also withdraw from their accounts, Sharma asserted. “It is nothing big but I hope it can bring some positive changes.”

State of the World’s Toilets 2016’, released on the eve of World Toilet Day being observed on November 19, also says the high population density of urban areas means that diseases spread fast in the absence of good sanitation.

The report says the

problem was so big that the daily waste produced on the streets of India’s towns and cities was enough to fill eight Olympic-sized swimming pools, or 16 jumbo jets with poo every day.

Even though the government has made sanitation a priority, the numbers

of urbanites living without sanitation has swelled by 26 million since year 2000 as cities expand at breakneck speed, the report, which examined the problems facing more than 700 million urban dwellers around the world living without decent sanitation, says.

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‘Nagaland imports 213 crore meat production’

AH & Vety on process of increasing animal livestock production and attain self-sufficiency by 2025 Morung Express News Kohima | November 18

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services along with the Nagaland Livestock Development Board (NLDB) in collaboration with the National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (ICARNBAGR) organised a one day brain storming session on Animal Genetic Resources in Nagaland on November 18 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima.

S. Chuba Longkumer, Parliamentary Secretary, AH & Veterinary Services graced the occasion as the chief guest.

MK Mero, Commissioner & Secretary to Government of Nagaland, Department of AH & Veterinary Services who chaired the inaugural session mentioned that Nagaland is still short of meat production with a total of 213 crore production imported. The Department is on the process of increasing animal livestock production and come out with self-sufficiency with its plan of policies on pig

breeding to attain self sufficiency by 2025.

Dr. I.P Khala, Director, AH & Veterinary Services state that many are not aware of the fact that Nagaland is the habitat to various animal genetics resources of which undocumented species or breed could have been even wiped out or undergone genetic dilution.

“There has been drastic change in the outlook of livestock rearing, small and tiny local indigenous animals and birds which was once available everywhere and acclaimed as more disease resistant, low cost management and whose meat and milk being very tasty are now available only in some pocket areas, this calls for setting up of gene banks/nucleus herds, preferably in the breeding tracts before imminent extinction,” said Dr. Khala.

However local indigenous livestock being the backbone of the rural economy, Dr. Khala hoped that the session will in turn identify the state unique animal genetic resources and

Officials and special guest attending the one day brain storming session on Animal Genetic Resources in Nagaland held on November 18 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima. (Morung Photo)

further document, characterize and register the resources so that appropriate breeding strategy evolve for further development and conservation.

Stressing on the management of genetic resources, Dr. Arjava Sharma, Director, ICARNBAGR, Karnal stated that management of these resources goes beyond production and consumption. With the consumption pattern chang-

ing globally, the consumption of livestock has also increased.

However India being an agriculture country, with other sectors growing in recent years at the cost of agriculture development, Dr. Arjava reminded that despite the many developments in industries, service sectors etc, India will remain primarily an agricultural country.

Agriculture is still producing 40 percent of, livestock 4 percent

to the country’s GDP. A highly diverse country like India has almost 529 million livestock, 719 million poultry which together makes about1500 million equivalent to the population of India.

“Now it is for us to use them and manage the genetic resources.

Should we consume it with our greed or should we use them for sustainable development, so that our posterity can also

consume?” asked Dr. Arjava pointing out that it is in this areas where the need for management comes. Dr. Arjava however posited that management is poorly understood in India.

Management is not just about rearing livestock, consuming or selling the livestock. We think that we are managing them very well but that is not complete management or scientific management, asserted Dr. Arjava mentioning that management is when one understands the utility of livestock and conserve it for the future.

“Conservation can only be understood when you really know what you have got. You can conserve something only when you can understand the economic worth of something.

Economic worth cannot be defined in terms of one aspect only,” viewed Dr. Arjava adding that livestock and poultry are economically important for more than one reason. There are many aspects in terms of efficiency, ability to survive in harsh climate, or social attri-

bute to human beings. The core objective is to understand the wealth of livestock, device certain ways to use and consume it and help other states by providing input to other states.

While stating on the diversity of varied species on animals in India, Longkumer also mentioned on the different breeds of livestock and poultry with many non-descript animals in the State too. Longkumer also acknowledged the ICAR-NRC on Mithun Jharnapani for their tremendous achievements especially in the area of Mithun and for pioneering in many areas with NBGAR for characterization and documentation of indigenous animals, the parliamentary Secretary also thanked SASRD Medziphema (APM) Department and NBGR for the characterization and registration of Tenyi Vo. “There is a need for proper documentation of the local animals before diluting with exotic blood, so that the potentiality of the local animal can be conserved and well studied for its best future use,” said Longkumer.

KLCSU 36th annual parting social held ‘ASPIRE 2016 Management Fest’ Our Correspondent

Kohima | November 18

The 36th annual parting social of the Kohima Law College Students’ Union (KLCSU) was held here today at Red Cross Complex with Minister for Power C. Kipili Sangtam as the chief guest.

Speaking on the occasion, he called upon the law students to understand the subject matter well and extend good service to the society. He also called upon the law persons to know their responsibility and play their role in an effective manner. The Minister asked them to be very sincere in their approach, saying that sincerity is the best medicine of life.

He also released KLCSU magazine.

Kohima Law College principal Visevonuo P. Pienyu said that Kohima Law College was established in 1979, which is the oldest law college in Nagaland. She said that Kohima Law College since its

inception has produced and strives to produce a vibrant cadre of lawyers with professional competence and social commitment. This college is the centre of excellence in legal education, she said.

KLCSU president Laknyei Phom in his presidential address regretted that the state is not having even a single law college so far and urged upon the state government to establish the same. Further, he said, there is no law department in Nagaland University as well till date.

Legal knowledge is the need of the hour today, he said. Aliba Ozukum spoke on behalf of the outgoing students.

The function was chaired by Sepikyu J. Sangtam. Limkhushi prayed for the programme while Baman and Aseno presented special numbers. Kohima law college evangelical union presented farewell song while vote of thanks was proposed by Hikavi H. Kinimi. The programme was fol- Minister for Power C. Kipili Sangtam releases KLCSU magazine lowed by entertainment session. in Kohima on November 18. (Morung Photo)

8th annual Tobu Area GBs conference concludes

M o n, n ov e M b e r 1 8 (Mexn): The 8th annual conference of the Tobu Area GB Association concluded here at Changlangshu Village, Mon on November 17 with MLA and Advisor NBDA/NEPED Naiba Konyak as the chief guest and Rev. Dr. Chingmak Kejong, Secretary ECS, Tuensang as the main speaker.

Taking a reference from the book of Exodus in the Bible about

how God called Moses out of a burning bush to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage, the Reverend pronounced that every profession is holy in the eyes of God and exhorted the GBs and Village Council Members under Tobu sub division to perform their assigned duties and responsibilities diligently and be accountable in the eyes of our creator. He further encouraged the congregation to broaden their

horizon and work together with a renewed vision in meeting the challenges of the present times.

Earlier, the MLA encouraged the GBs of the subdivision to remain united and work for the progress of the area they represent.

More than 100 GBs from 18 villages under Tobu subdivision participated at the conference.

Short speeches were delivered by ADC Tobu, SDO (Civil) Monyakshu, BDO Tobu and

Konyak Union President, Tobu Unit followed by various cultural presentations.

The following new office bearers of the association were selected for the tenure 2017-2021: President: B.N Wanmai; Vice President: S Bechung Homang; General Secretary: Sheangpong; Joint Secretary: Thongo Mangnyak; Finance Secretary: Neangba; Executive Chairman: Changsin.

Students get tips on entrepreneurship Morung Express News Dimapur | November 18

‘ASPIRE 2016 Management Fest’ was organized on Friday at C-Edge College, Dimapur where the Executive Editor of Eastern Mirror, Wapongmeren Longkumer delivered a talk on business and management studies as the guest speaker.

An entrepreneur himself, Wapong dwelt indepth about entrepreneurship and said that any entrepreneurial activity involves management. Given the cut-throat competition scenario, he said, one has to know something about everything and be masters in their primary field.

Addressing scores of college students from Dimapur and Kohima, Wapong sought to dispel the general feeling that the success of a business depended on shady deals.

“Such old concepts are slowly changing” he said and added that people need to open up to new thoughts and avenues.

Pointing out that 70% of the state’s population was rural, Wapong said

Executive Editor, Eastern Mirror, Wapongmeren Longkumer addressing students at C-Edge College, Dimapur on Friday. (Morung Photo)

too much focus on urban population was less likely to yield entrepreneurial success.

He advised aspiring entrepreneurs to take calculated risks and remain motivated. “In life, without motivation, one cannot be successful,” he added.

However, Wapong said that motivation alone cannot bring success and that it must be accompanied with initiative to take action upon the motivation.

He also stressed on perseverance, efficiency,

knowledge and quality of product, integrity, accountability etc as essential components to derive success in business.

Further, Wapong advised aspiring entrepreneurs not to waste their time on problems which were beyond their control.

During the programme, the students competed on activities like, mad ad, selfie ad, face off, business plan, painting and others.

The management fest was held under the theme, “Esprit De Corps.”

Familiarization Exercise in Tuensang underway ANTA Mokokchung observes Raising Day Morung Express News

Mokokchung | November 18

The All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA), Mokokchung observed it’s Raising Day cum Cleanliness Drive in collaboration with Swachh Bharat Mission at Imlong place, Mokokchung.

The Governor of Nagaland, BP Acharya who was Participants of the Familiarization Exercise underway at Tuensang District from November 14 to 21.

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Temsuwangshi Jamir and District Project Associate Rozikyu Sangtam will be carrying out the exercise in Kuthur village, Chingmelen village, Khudei village, Tuensang village besides conducting demonstration on disaster management with Government Officials, NGOs, DEF, SDRF, 3rd

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Khrienuo Metha, Secretary to the Government of Nagaland in a press release stated that the team also conducted a mock drill at Tuensang village on November 18 where the public participated enthusiastically.

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the chief guest, stressed on cleanliness and hygiene in his speech stating that we should not only have clean habits but also a clean mind. He talked about the importance of toilet in public places and said that cleanliness should be given utmost importance as it ensures proper health. He also appreciated the people of Nagaland for their

interest in Swachh Bharat Mission and how cleanliness is in embedded in the Naga culture. He further encouraged the taxi drivers to become owners of their own cars by making use of Jan Dhan Yojana and other various bank loans launched by the Indian government.

The state ambassador of Swachh Bharat Mission,

S. Supongmeren Jamir and M.B Longkumer, Chairman SBM Mokokchung were also part of the programme along with other district officials and dignitaries.

“Keep your Town Clean” car sticker s and dust bins were launched by the Governor which was followed by cleanliness drive in and around Mokokchung town initiated by ANTA.

Need to restructure education system: Acharya

MoKoKchung, no veMber 18 (DiPr): Nagaland Governor PB Acharya stated that Nagaland University and all educational institutions should not focus on imparting education only but it should be a true centre of empowering young people with knowledge and centre of development. He said unless people are empowered with knowledge, Nagaland state will not progress. He stressed on the need to restructure the education system focusing more on areas which could help to explore untapped rich resources of the states and become self sufficient state.

He was addressing the students of Fazl Ali College, one of the premier colleges in the State, in its college auditorium on November 18 during his two-day visit of Mokokchung from 17th November 2016. He was accompanied by his wife Kavita Acharya.

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Governor PB Acharya addresses the students of Fazl Ali College at the college auditorium on November 18. (DIPR Photo)

sands of Naga students studying outside state in big cities in different parts of the country the country, governor said education system in the state should be revamped to keep in tune with the needs of the state. “Inspite of enough institutions there are thousands of students studying outside the state. What is happening in Nagaland?”

Acharya commented adding that ‘our education sys-

tem should be made capable of addressing the needs of the State. He called upon the students of Fazl Ali College to wake up their minds and asked to think of what they could contribute to help progress the society.

Fazl Ali College Principal, Chubayangla in her welcome address briefed the visiting Governor about the college and its achievements since its establishment in 1959. She informed the Gov-

ernor that besides Science and Arts, Commerce stream would commence from next academic session.

The Governor also visited Government High School, Mongsenyimti and addressed the teachers, students and the public.

Governor in his address said ‘visit of a village by the Governor is visit of the entire Nagaland State saying Kohima and Dimapur, the two major towns do not always reflect the image of the state. He also presented red blanket to all Gaonboras in the village.

The Governor also visited State Agricultural Research Station Yisemyong and had interaction with the officials headed by Project Officer, Dr D.K Chetri. Acharya inquired about their research and experimental activities and how farmers are getting the benefits out of their research in the field. He encouraged them to do result oriented research works.

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Centre’s Bangladeshi influx figures Costly rituals lead Arunachal tribes triggers off fresh debate in Assam towards religious conversion

Guwahati, November 18 (eNS): The recent statement of the BJP-led government in Parliament that there are around two crore Bangladeshi migrants staying illegally in India has triggered a fresh round of debate over the vexed issue in Assam, the state worst hit by infiltration from the neighbouring country.

While Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday told the Parliament about the two crore Bangladeshi infiltrators, the Congress party in Assam has asked what the Modi government had done in the past two years and more to detect and expel them.

“If the government knows that there are two

crore Bangladeshi infiltrators in the country, then why doesn’t it detect and expel them?” asked veteran Congress leader and three-time Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi. “What is the BJP government doing if there are really such a large number of Bangladeshi infiltrators in India? Why don’t they identify and expel them?

What steps has the government taken to identify them? Didn’t Modi say during the 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign that the Bangladeshis would have to pack up and quit the day he assumed office as prime minister?” Gogoi asked.

The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) too has reacted strongly to

APSC chairman remanded in 14 days judicial custody Guwahati, November 18 (Pti): Assam Pradesh Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Paul was today remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a special court here. Paul was arrested on November 4 in connection with an alleged cash-for-job scam and other cases of corruption in the Commission and his 14-day police custody ended today. Special judge A Bhattacharya directed that he be produced on December 3. The judge also directed that proper medical facilities, including regular checkups along with proper food and lodging be provided to Paul during his stay in jail. Pauls lawyer Angshuman Bora said the arrested chairmans bail petition has not been placed in the court to help the police in investigating the case as Paul wants a thorough investigation and would fully cooperate with the police. Pauls arrest led to two more persons being nabbed - Commission member Samedur Rahman and Assistant Controller of Examinations Pabitra Kaibarta. Paul was picked up from his office before his arrest and interrogated at the 4th APBN where he was stated to have disclosed the names of politicians, government officials and film personalities involved in the APSC recruitment racket. The Assam government at a Cabinet meeting here on November 9 adopted a proposal to be moved to the state Governor for suspension of Paul.

193 dengue cases in Aizawl aizawl, November 18 (Pti): There is an endemic situation in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl city with 193 dengue cases being detected during the past few months, State health department officials said on Thursday. Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP) State Nodal Officer Pachuau Lalmalsawma told PTI that while no loss of life had been reported from anywhere, over 30 local councils within the Aizawl Municipal Corporation area were affected. “Of the 193 dengue patients, 29 were from an area under one local council,” Lalmalsawma said adding, only four cases were detected in the nearby villages and were also suspected to have been infected while in the capital city. He, however, said the situation had improved as no new reports of infections were received during the last two days.

BJYM hails money exchangers Dhruva Saikia Guwahati | November 18

Assam state BJP Youth Morcha (BJYM) has hailed the individuals who braving the arduous task of standing in queues for hours together exchanged their currency notes in the wake of the demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. Members of BJYM in Guwahati today fanned out to a number of ATMs and bank branches and helped the people queuing up with drinking water and snacks, a press release issued BJP media cell coordinator N Sarma informed. The BJYM volunteers would continue with the service till the situation warrants, the release added. Sarma said the Prime Minister has taken a revolutionary step to unearth black money and people’s response has been encouraging. BJYM today covered 3 SBI branches and a number of ATMs with their service.

Assam CM directs survey of Wakf properties Guwahati, November 18 (Pti): Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today directed the Minority Welfare Department to make a survey of the existing properties in possession of the Assam Board of Wakf. The survey has been ordered to get a clear estimate of the encroached lands of the Board and revenue that can be made from the Board's properties, an official release said. In a meeting to review different activities of the Minority Welfare Department, Sonowal directed it to issue notices to the people and organisations encroaching the properties of the Wakf Board. He also told the department to take necessary steps for setting up a model school campus with modern educational facilities to uplift the religious and linguistic minorities of the state. Sonowal said the school should also offer different skill trainings and other professional courses for holistic development of the students belonging to minority communities. The Chief Minister also directed the department to identify a proper place and prepare a budget proposal for setting up a Haj Bhawan with modern amenities in the city, the release said.

Besides, Sonowal directed the department for a proper investigation of the alleged Rs 6.5 crore fund anomaly in the construction of existing Haj Bhawan in the city.

Rijiju’s statement. “The Home Minister’s statement has not only vindicated the AASU stand, but has proved that the situation is going from bad to worse.

The AASU has been shouting since 1979 that there are lakhs of Bangladeshi infiltrators in Assam. We want to know from the government what plans it has to identify and expel them,” said AASU president Dipanka Nath.

The AASU also said that the government’s responsibility does not end just by saying that there are two crore Bangladeshis. “The government must take action and show that it is concerned about influx,” Nath said. The Prabrajan

Birodhi Mancha, a newly-floated group headed

by Supreme Court lawyer Upamanyu Hazarika on the other hand claimed that the number of Bangladeshi infiltrators in Assam would be around 80 lakh.

“In July 2004, Shriprakash Jaiswal, then Union Minister of State for Home had told Parliament that as of 2001 there were 1.2 crore Bangladeshis in India, of which 50 lakhs were in Assam, which meant Assam had 40 per cent of the illegal Bangladeshis in India.

Since the total population of Assam is around four crore now, the number of Bangladeshis will be no less than around 80 lakh,” PBM convenor Hazarika said.

mechukha, November 18 (ht): An indigenous faith that swears partly by solar energy is fast losing members in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s land of the rising sun.

The major beneficiary is Christianity, whose adherents – the 2011 census says – are 30.26% of the frontier state’s 1.3 million people, up from 18.7% in 2001. Arunachal Pradesh had no Christians in 1951.

Though there were 5.56% fewer Hindus during this period, the 4.5% drop in the population of followers of indigenous faiths such as Donyi-Polo worries the state’s tribes more.

Donyi-Polo means

worship of the sun and the moon. The 1981 census said the state had 51.6% followers of Donyi-Polo and other indigenous faiths in Arunachal Pradesh.

The conversion rate picked up in the 1990s.

Some of those who converted then say costly rituals involving animal sacrifice made them switch religion. Others attribute conversion to the “healing powers” of the church.

“Our village of 115 people converted 20 years ago because missionaries healed the sick with prayers and medicines and not with mumbo jumbo involving sacrifice of chicken, pigs or mithuns (semi-wild

bison). Inability to afford such rituals costing Rs 75,000-150,000 made us become Christians,” Tali Yorma, a Pailibo tribal from Lipo village, told Hindustan Times. Lipo is 75km south of Mechukha, the sub-divisional headquarters of West Siang district bordering Tibet.

Of the five tribes inhabiting Mechukha, the Membas are Buddhist. Almost 90% of the other four tribes – Pailibo, Tagin, Ramo and Bokar – have converted from Donyi-Polo to Christianity.

In districts such as Tirap and Changlang, where Naga rebel groups are active, the percentage of

Christians is more than 50%.

Tachuk Padu, a Ramo tribal of Padusa village 35km from Mechukha, said many like him have not sacrificed the traditional way of life despite embracing Christianity to “escape from elaborate, expensive pujas that Donyi-Polo priests demand”.

The church has, however, denied taking advantage of the state’s socio-political situation to entrench Christianity.

“We are not against any religion and we are not enticing or forcing people to convert,” said Father Felix, media in-charge of Miao (Arunachal) diocese.

Sadar Hills Congress councilors mass resign

SaDar hillS, November 18 (NNN): Reaffirming their decision taken on during the last meeting at Members’ Lounge in the Administrative building of Sadar Hills Autonomous District Council (ADC) at Kangpokpi on November 2 over Sadar Hills issue, the Congress councilors today tendered a mass resignation from the party today.

The mass resignation letter was submitted to the President, Manipur Pradesh Congress

Committee this afternoon.

The Congress councillors stated that "we feel betrayed and humiliated by the state Government’s last minute cancellation of its plan for inauguration of Sadar Hills as a full-fledged district".

It also said that taking into account the sentiment of the people for over 40 year long "betrayal" and failure on the part of the state Government "we are compelled to take this drastic

decision of leaving the Congress party which we owed allegiance and loyalty with trust for years till today".

Among others, the Congress councillors who appended signature on the mass the resignation included Chairman Haokholal Hangshing, Vice Chairman Thangjakam Misao, who is also the President of District Congress Committee, Sadar Hills, Executive Member Lunthang Haokip, who is also the Vice

Arunachal goes digital

itaNaGar, November 18 (Pti): In an another attempt to make the state go digital way, Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu today inaugurated the e-Office training programme for all ministers and parliamentary secretaries at the Civil Secretariat here.

The Department of Information Technology and Communication is committed to make the entire civil secretariat paperless by the end of this year as per cabinet decision of August 20 last, an official communique informed.

The e-office mission mode project has been taken up by the union Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) department in order to improve efficiency in government processes and service delivery mechanisms.

NIC is the technology partner of DARPG for implementing e-Office mission mode project.

E-Office is aimed at increasing the usage of work flow and rule based file routing, quick search and retrieval of files and office orders, digital signatures for authentication, forms and reporting components.

E-Office framework (premium version) presently consists of e-File, eLeave, e-Tour, Knowledge Management System, Personnel Information System, Collaboration and Messaging Systems, the communique said.

Khandu inaugurated e-Office by signing an efile for Department of IT & Communications on August 16 last.

Simultaneously, the Department of Information technology, Admin-

istrative Reforms and Personnel were taken onboarded in eOffice.

Arunachal is among one of the first states in the country to incorporate esign as part of e-office.

E-sign includes Aadhar based Digital Signature and doesn't require any USB dongle. One can do esign from any platform and any device easily.

The first digitally signed orders regarding implementation of e-office were issued by all the ministers present during the training.

Khandu appreciated the efforts of the NIC team and IT&C department to deploy e-office in all the departments of the secretariat.

He also instructed all head of departments to ensure immediate completion of the training, the communique added.

JAC questions rationale behind counter blockade on Churachandpur bound vehicles Newmai News Network Imphal | November 18

The Joint Action Committee Against Anti Tribal Bills (JAC-AATB) has questioned the rationale behind the counter economic blockade enforced on the goods vehicles bound for Churachandpur district which is the only district that does not fall under the jurisdiction of the United Naga Council (UNC).

The JAC-AATB asserted that it will not remain mute from November 21 if the counter blockade on Churachandpur bound vehicles continues in the Manipur valley.

"The Manipur Government’s ‘assurance’ to grant full-fledged district status to Sadar Hills and Jiribam subdivision that met with a stern opposition from the United Naga Council (UNC) more than a fortnight ago in the form of economic blockade on Manipur valley continues unabated," the JAC-AATB said, adding, "Although the blockade was imposed by the UNC in all Naga dominated districts, there have been repeated incidents of

counter blockades by the dominant valley-dwelling Meitei community on vehicles ferrying goods to all the tribal districts including Churachandpur district, the only tribal hill district not covered by the UNC’s economic blockade".

In its press release, the JAC-AATB said that it "failed to comprehend the move of the dominant valley community" stating, such counter economic blockade only "brings to the fore the deep divide and irreconcilable differences between the indigenous hill tribes of present Manipur and the dominant valley-dwelling community".

The JACAATB asserted that it will not remain a mere spectator to such "communally motivated activities of the valley dwellers solely aimed at bringing hardships to the tribal peoples of Churachandpur district. "Any further reports of counter blockade incidents on all vehicles carrying goods to Churachandpur district shall result in a much more severe blockade on all vehicles carrying goods from

Churachandpur district to Manipur valley from November 21", it cautioned.

UNC started the stir since October 30 midnight over the proposed creation of two new districts of Sadar Hills and Jiribam following which the Manipur government aborted the plan.

Meanwhile, United Committee Manipur (UCM) president Elangbam Johnson told a local TV channel that "the Government should resign rather than being a doubleedged sword". Johnson also said that the Government should have a clear understanding of the prevailing issue rather than contemplating on political compulsion.

He then criticized the UNC for indulging in blockade stir over “trivial issues” on several occasions.

Johnson was perturbed at the silence maintained by the Government over the blockade and condemned it for "inaction despite the Manipur High Court’s direction issued in 2015". The Government needs to take immediate action now and stop giving assurances, he added.

President of District Congress Committee Sadar Hills.

Earlier, Seikhosat Kipgen, elected member of 4-T. Waichong District Council Constituency tendered his resignation from the Congress party yesterday to the General Secretary, Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee.

Altogether, 19 Congress councillors including Dama Vaiphei, who is yet to append his signature, tendered their resig-

nation from the Indian National Congress (INC).

Meanwhile, during the emergency meeting the Congress councilors also formed an alliance christened as ‘Sadar Hills Democratic Party’ with immediate effect.

The JAC Sadar Hills also said that an emergency meeting of JAC Sadar Hills will be held tomorrow, Saturday, at Kangpokpi at 11 am but he did not disclose the agendas of the meeting.

Manipur pumps resume dispensing fuel

imPhal, November 18 (NNN): After more than two weeks of being shut in the wake of an indefinite blockade along National Highways called by the United Naga Council (UNC), select fuel stations in Manipur started dispensing fuel on Friday morning.

UNC kicked-off the stir from October 30 midnight to pressure both the state and central governments to abandon the plan for declaration of Sadar Hills and Jiribam as full-fledged revenue districts. The Naga group intensified the blockade stir after talks on the issue with officials of Union Home Ministry in New Delhi became inconclusive.

Parents are now especially concerned with closure of schools in the state where annual final examinations have almost reached now. School trans-

port service was suspended on November 10 following the non availability of fuel in the outlets. Thereafter, all schools were declared holiday indefinitely.

Most schools are likely to resume classes in the next few days as the state government has made arrangements to ferry more fuel from Assam. Trucks are now taking Imphal-Jiribam highway under heavy security arrangements.

On Friday, 160 KL of petrol and 216 KL of diesel were distributed at 59 spots, according to IOC, Imphal.

Cash disruption following withdrawal of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes by the Centre coupled with the acute shortage of essential commodities caused by the protracted blockade have turned a traumatic situation in the state.

Long queue of vehicles could be seen at pet-

rol pumps across Imphal.

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India charging thrice the normal If hardship due to demonetisation Air fare from senior citizens booking online continues, there may be riots: SC 2500 petrol pumps to dispense cash up to Rs 2,000

New Delhi, November 18 (iANS): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay, for now, the petitions against demonetisation pending before different High Courts and subordinate courts as it cautioned that if hardship continues, there may be riots.

Asking the government to ease the situation, the court observed if hardship continues "we may have riots" as "people have become frantic" through standing in queues for long hours.

"That only shows the magnitude of the problem.

The problem is serious. You can't shut them from coming to courts. People are frantic to get money. People are affected. We may have riots in the streets. Let them go (to the courts)," said a bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Anil R. Dave as Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi urged the court to stay all such proceeding in High Courts and subordinate courts.

The court said that government could not dispute that "there is suffering and difficulty."

At the outset of the hearing, the bench asked how it is that swapping of demonetised currency notes with the new ones has been brought down from Rs 4,500 to Rs 2,000,

New Delhi, November 18 (Pti): In a bid to ease cash crunch, the government on Thursday allowed dispensing cash of up to Rs 2,000 through debit card swipe at select petrol pumps. The facility will be available at 2,500 petrol pumps. "It has been decided that an amount up to Rs 2000 per day per person in cash can be dispensed against

swiping of debit card from select petrol pumps where Point of Sale (POS) machines of State Bank of India are already available," an official said. POS machines are the machines which are generally used for debit or credit card transactions. This facility is to be extended to 20,000 petrol pumps where Rs 2,000 per person per day can be dispensed.

EC asks FinMin to do away with indelible ink rule New Delhi, November 18 (buSiNeSS StANDArD): The Election Commission (EC) has asked the Union Finance Ministry to do away with the policy of marking people who were depositing and exchanging money at banks with indelible ink in light of the problems it could create for the upcoming state Assembly polls, news agency ANI reported.

Earlier, on Tuesday, in a letter to the Finance Ministry, the EC had said five states are going for bypoll on November 19 and the government should ensure that use of indelible ink on people depositing money in banks does not create problems for the voters in these states. even as it had asked the government to take steps to ease the hardship being faced by the people.

Adjourning the matter for November 25, the court asked the Attorney General to move transfer petitions, which the court will consider for transferring cases to Delhi.

The Narendra Modi government had on No-

Earlier in the day, the government had announced that it would apply indelible ink on people depositing and exchanging money at bank branches following the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes.

According to electoral law, indelible ink is applied on the left index finger of the voter to prevent voter fraud.

If the voter does not have an index finger it is applied on the other finger.

In case the voter does not have a left arm the same principle is applied on the right hand. If a voter does not have both the arms, then the indelible ink is applied on the toes.

vember 8 demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency note to "curb black money and corruption".

Pointing that people were moving the courts because of they are suffering, the court observed: "We can't shut them out from the court."

"It is a serious matter, people should not suffer," observed Chief Justice

Thakur as Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the court that government was monitoring the situation "day after day, hour after hour".

He told the court that government had already issued directions for giving Rs. 50,000 to traders, farmers, Rs. 2.5 lakhs for weddings and so on.

As Rohatgi gave the de-

tails of two lakh ATMs, 1.25 lakh bank branches, and petrol pumps from where people could get money, senior counsel Kapil Sibal told the court that 75,000 ATMs were not functional and a large number of them are not calibrated to dispense the new currency notes.

Appearing for one of the petitioners, Sibal said that currency worth Rs 23 lakh crore is to be printed and currency worth Rs 14 lakh crore have been demonetised and there is no replacement. He said currency worth nine lakh crores was in circulation.

Describing Sibal's statement as politically inspired, Attorney General urged the court "to go and see, the queues have become shorter".

As Sibal defended his position, Rohatgi shot back: "I have seen your press conference". Sibal is one of the senior spokesmen of the Congress.

During the course of the hearing, the bench inquired as to why currency notes of Rs 100 denomination were not being made available, Rohatgi told the court that currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination that have been demonetised formed 85 per cent of the money in circulation.

India can become world’s most digitised economy in 7 years, says Bill Gates New Delhi, November 18 (iANS): Noting that India has great potential to become the most digitised economy globally in mere seven years, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has dubbed the government's demonetisation measure as a "bold move" that will help in deflating the Indian shadow economy.

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For a senior citizen booking a ticket urgently under the concession, this fact would inevitably escape their attention. It also suggests that Air India has virtually eliminated concessions to senior citizens.

The airline’s spokesperson, however, said: “It is wrong to say we don’t have a concession.” He sought to know of a senior citizen who used the facility: “Show me any senior citizen who uses the concession.”

An email was also sent to the Air India management seeking details of the number of senior citizens who booked under the concession category on a higher fare without realising that the normal fares were lower.

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The government-run airline seems to have charged these people at much higher rates than usual, even as they are entitled to concessionary airfare. What is more disturbing is the fact that most of these elderly people would have booked these ‘exorbitantly priced concessionary tickets’ unsuspectingly.

Particularly hit have been the elderly people travelling long distances.

Many senior citizens who have to spend 36 hours or more to travel by trains usually go for Air India’s concessionary fares to avoid the discomfort of travelling by rail for long distances.

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A normal ticket on the same day for the same flight was priced at Rs 3,647. In effect, the “concessionary fare” for a senior citizen comes to more than three times the normal airfare.

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Mother and child intervention Do away with power theft: Kipili programme launched in Nagaland Our Correspondent

Kohima | November 18

Kohima, November 18 (mexN): Abhijit Sinha, Commissioner & Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare and Home Commissioner, Government of Nagaland on November 18 launched the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) and Mother’s Absolute Affection (MAA), a mother and child intervention programme, at the conference hall of Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Kohima. A team from Vitamin Angels, a developmental partner which is providing Vitamin-A and Albendazole for children in the State, the CMOs, Medical Superintendents, DIOs, and the State UNICEF and UNDP team were present at the launch.

A DIPR report stated that Abhijit Sinha stressed on the importance of a healthy mother which will ultimately lead to a healthy

child. He pointed out that despite all the efforts made from all aspects the figure of antenatal care is low in the country. Even though the figure of MMR, IMR and TFR are low in the State, he stated, “We need to stay consistent in keeping up the figures and also improving it further.”

He also called upon the officials present to make efforts on combating the challenges of low Institutional Delivery figures in the State and suggested roping in the private doctors and hospitals. “Collective efforts should be made from both the side of medical practitioners and information disseminators on the successful implementation of the program and later when they are reviewed we should show that, Nagaland have done better than rest of the States,” Sinha added.

Delivering the vote of thanks,

Dr. Thanghoi Lam, State Program Officer, National Health Mission, Nagaland pointed out that the most crucial population in a society is mother and child and expressed gratitude to developmental partners like Vitamin Angels, UNICEF and UNDP for their intervention in the State on mother and child health issue.

PMSMA is being launched in the country as a result of lack of quality Ante Natal Care (ANC) and detection of high risk pregnancies in the country. It aims to provide a fixed day, assured, comprehensive and quality ANC to a target group of all pregnant women in their 2nd and 3rd trimester by specialised health care personnel. The key feature of PMSMA is to focus on women who have not registered their pregnancy or drop outs. Special ANC in addition to routine ANCs will be provided to

National seminar on peacemaking and dialogue

them. ASHAs and ANMs will prepare a line list of eligible women and mobilise them. Comprehensive assured services under PMSMA are - All applicable diagnostic services including one USG, screening for the applicable clinical conditions, appropriate management of any existing clinical condition such as anaemia, pregnancy induced hypertension, gestational diabetes etc.

MAA has been launched to reemphasise on the importance of breastfeeding, which if followed, prevents 20% of newborn deaths, 13% of under-five death, results in 11 times lesser chance of diarrheal mortality, 15 times lesser chance of pneumonia related mortality.

Breastfeeding also has benefit of raising I.Q, preventing non-communicable diseases, lesser hospital stay of newborns, maternal benefits (cancer prevention).

Minister of Power C. Kipili Sangtam today expressed deep concern over the issue of power theft in the State and called on all concerned to do away with it.

He said the department will check power theft with all seriousness and cautioned that stringent action will be taken against defaulters. The

garding a stolen vehicle.

“When queried about the status of the vehicle from NCRB database, it was ascertained that the registration No. NL10-0576 is allotted to a Maruti Gypsy (Hard Top) registered in the name of Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Government of Nagaland,” the release said.

Meanwhile, the driver could not produce any val-

DimaPUr, November 18 (mexN): The Council of Nagalim Churches (CNC) on Friday informed that its staff members, prayer partners and well-wishers are going to take up a watch-predawn prayer for a moment at 3AM every day for seven days from November 2127, 2016. The prayer will be

id document of the vehicle and on physical verification of the vehicle, the chassis number was found to be tampered, according to the release. Subsequently, the driver identified as Nieduyi Venuh (29) was arrested.

In this connection, a regular case vide South P.S Case No. 0072/2016 U/S 468/471/474/482 IPC was registered against the arrested person.

ABDSS propagates Arya Samaj activities in NE

Rev. Dr. Packiam T. Samuel, Director, Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad delivering the keynote address at the national seminar on peacemaking and dialogue at Clark Theological College, Aolijen on November 18. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 18

A national seminar on ‘Peacemaking and Dialogue: Religious approaches in the quest for an Interfaith Relation,’ organized by the Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action got underway today at Clark Theological College, Aolijen, Mokokchung. The two-day seminar will conclude on November 19.

On November 18, the keynote address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Packiam T. Samuel, Director, Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad. He said that we live

in a wonder world, a world of super human performances but a world full of pain, violence, suffering and deaths, which mostly comes from religion-based belief systems, ideologies, ethnic and regional differences and equality created by globalization. Rev. Dr. Packiam affirmed that the search for a just and egalitarian world order as an alternative to the present paradigm has therefore become an urgent imperative.

The speaker also mentioned about the four word mantra solution to make dialogue a transformative

way of life – believe, connect, stretch and eliminate.

He concluded by saying “when we believe in God as the God of love and unity and when we imitate Jesus, we become agents of transformation to create a new world.”

Toshi Aier, Senior Lecturer, CTC was the devotion speaker and Rev. Dr. Marnungsang, Principal, CTC, delivered the introductory and welcome address at the inaugural programme.

The technical session at the seminar saw a number of papers being presented by hosts of resource persons from all over the nation.

DimaPUr, November 18 (mexN): Akhil Bharatiya Dayanand S e w a s h ra m Sa n g ha (ABDSS) is organizing a foundation stone laying ceremony of its school named Dindayal Vidya Niketan at Purana Bazar, Dimapur on November 21 at 9:00 am. The function will be graced by the Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, Chief Minister TR Zeliang, Chairman, MDH, Mahashay Dharampal, Chairman, Dollors Industries, Dindayal Gupta and

many other dignitaries.

To propagate the activities of Arya Samaj in the states of the North East, ABDSS is also organising a Vedic conference at Dhansiri district, Karbi Anglong, Assam on November 20, 9:00 am at the premises of the school and hostel building (a very ambitious project for the welfare of tribal students in Assam and Nagaland) of Mahashay Dharampal MDH Dayanand Arya Vidya Niketan, which will be inaugurated simulta-

neously, informed a press release from Acharya Santosh Shastri, NE Coordinator, ABDSS. The function will be graced by Governor of Assam, Banwarilal Purohit.

Both the institutions in Dimapur and Karbi Anglong will function under the aegis of Akhil Bhartiya Dayanand Sewashram Sangha, New Delhi.

All the community leaders, members and well-wishers have been requested to be part of the events.

Late Bishop Abraham remembered Kohima, November 18 (mexN): The Catholic Church in Nagaland remembered and prayed for the repose of the soul of Late Bishop Abraham Alangimattathil SDB on his 19th death anniversary. He died on November 18, 1997.

Most Rev. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima diocese celebrated a Holy Mass and prayed for Bishop Abraham’s eternal re-

ward. The mass was concelebrated by priests and participated by lay faithful in Mary Help of Christian Cathedral, Kohima. In his homily, Bishop James Thoppil also recalled the yeomen service rendered

by Late Bishop Abraham to the people and the Church.

A press release from Fr. Sojan Xavier, Bishop’s House, Kohima mentioned that Most Rev. Abraham

Alangimattathil became the first bishop of the diocese of Kohima-Imphal in the year 1973 and served the diocese until 1997. “He was a man of great vision and an administrator par excellence. He was fondly loved by his people, the one who truly tried to bring Jesus into the Naga Culture.

One example of such is the magnificently built Cathedral Church at Kohima,” it stated.

All India Cooperative Week in Phek SJC women interact with Maria Theresa PheK, November 18 ies should function for the and invocation prayer was (DiPr): The 63rd All India Cooperative Week was held at Phek Town Council on November 18 with Deputy Commissioner, Phek, Murohu Chotso as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, the DC said that “we need to improve in all fields so that we can catch up with the rest of the world.”

Stating that there may be many registered societies, the DC said the societ-

betterment of the society and asked the participants to upgrade oneself in order to improve in all areas. He further advised the gathering to maintain accounts properly and get it audited yearly to have transparency in all financial transactions.

He also advised the cooperative societies to work as a team.

The programme was chaired by Thungchanbeni Patton, ARCS, Phek

Meetings & AppointMents CSU year end meeting The year end official meeting of the Chakhesang Students' Union (CSU) will be held on November 19, 3:30 pm at its president's residence in Old Minister's Hill Colony, Kohima. All the executives, Assembly Organs and Tribunals have been asked to compulsorily attend the meeting. A press release from CSU president, Dode Nakro further invited new agendas and activities for the year 2017 from the union officials.

CM calls DAN Legislature Party meet In view of the 14th session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly scheduled from November 22, Chief Minister TR Zeliang has convened a meeting of the members of the Legislature Party of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) on November 21, 11:00 am at the State Banquet Hall. Therefore, the CM requested all the members to attend the meeting.

pronounced by Vekulu, treasurer, Doto Weaving CS Ltd. Phek. Welcome address was delivered by Kevilhousa, SICS Phek, who spoke on the topic ‘Role of Co-operative in Sustainable Development Growth’.

NSCB Ltd. Phek presented on ‘Technology Adoption

by Co-operatives’. Short speech was delivered

by Moze Nyekha, BDO, WEAFED Ltd and Chairman PDWACU Ltd.

JaKhama, November 18 (mexN): Women’s Forum, St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama had a special interaction with Maria Theresa, who worked as a Professor and also for the Government of Germany with her specialization in Communication, on November 16 at the college conference hall. It was attended by the Coordinators of the forum, Executives and the women represen-

tatives of all classes.

Theresa highlighted about the conditions of women in Germany and the challenges they face.

She pointed out the gender differences and the patriarchal nature in the Naga society; compared the stance of women in Germany and Nagaland and the challenges they face and stated that educated women are the assets and agents of change in a so-

ciety. She challenged the women of SJC to be the agents of change in the society. She also lauded the Women’s Forum, SJC for the various activities undertaken in and around the villages.

Mention may be made that she is the wife of Robert, a retired professional football coach from Germany, who is also currently in the college coaching the football players.

DCBK Quiz-Time 2016 conducted Kohima, November 18 (mexN): Don Bosco College, Kohima (DBCK) organized the DBCK QuizTime on November 17 for the college students at DBHSS Hall. It was initiated and organised by Fr. Dr. AJ Sebastian SDB in coordination with four teaching staff of DBCK. In the final round, ten students competed for the championship. The competition consisted of four rounds, i.e. questions rounds and visuals rounds.

Nikhil, Manikho of B.A 4th Semester emerged as the champion of DBCK QuizTime 2016, followed by

are so much criticism doing the round in the Naga society, he stressed on the need to avoid negative criticism and adopt a constructive criticism to build a better Naga society.

He also stressed on the need to have a peace of mind and maintain unity "so that nothing will go wrong in the society."

“Let us see that the state must not be in lawlessness,” he added.

CNC pre-dawn prayer appeal

Kohima Police arrest one with stolen vehicle Kohima, November 18 (mexN): Kohima Police personnel from South Police Station arrested one person with a stolen vehicle at Lower Forest Colony, Kohima. A press release from SDPO (South) & PRO, Kohima Police informed that the vehicle, a Mahindra Bolero bearing registration number NL10-0576, was intercepted based on specific information from reliable source re-

minister said this during the 36th annual parting social of Kohima Law College Students’ Union (KLCSU) here at the Red Cross Complex.

He challenged the law students to speak the truth, adding that nothing can challenge the truth.

“The society will never go wrong if we speak the truth. We must tell the truth,” he urged.

Lamenting that there

focused on the well-being of Th Muivah, the chief negotiator of the Nagas, for good will of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, interlocutor RN Ravi and all the Indian authorities and leaders irrespective of members in ruling and opposition and for sanctity of the Naga family, CNC general secretary Rev Seksim

Kasar stated in a press note.

It has therefore urged every NSCN (IM) member, both civil and military, to take up this prayer responsibility “as if you were under the pain of death.” Any concerned Christian citizens who are willing to join with the prayer warriors have been urged to do so as per the prayer schedule, it added.

MEx FILE NPYC working president replaced Kohima, November 18 (mexN): The president of Indian Youth Congress (IYC), Amarinder Singh Raja has appointed Vilhousielie Kenguruse as the working president of Nagaland Pradesh Youth Congress (NPYC) replacing Hitilo Tep with immediate effect.

This was informed in a press release issued by Media Cell, NPCC.

NNC/GDRN (N/A) informs DimaPUr, November 18 (mexN): The Government of NNC/GDRN (N/A) has informed the general public and business establishments not to entertain certain individuals and groups collecting tax/donation in the name of NNC/GDRN (N/A) UT1 in and around Dimapur. In a press release, NNC/GDRN (N/A) UT1 chairman, Kihovi Ayemi warned of stern action against any persons, national workers or others, indulging in “unauthorized” taxation/collection taking the name of the organization. For information on this issue, all concerned have been asked to contact NNC/GDRN (NA) UT1 chairman at +919863075985, 9612445766.

KMC issues notification Kohima, November 18 (mexN): Administrator of Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has issued a notification to all the traders and public of Kohima municipality that sale and use of glass-coated, metal, plastic or other sharp “Manja thread” for kite flying is strictly banned. This is issued in pursuance of government order No. MA-13/2015 (Pt-II) dated August 16, 2016, the Administrator stated, asking all traders/public concerned to comply accordingly.

Entry restricted for public gathering in Kisama complex Kohima, November 18 (mexN): The Directorate of Tourism, Nagaland has informed that due to hectic preparation going on at Naga Heritage Village, Kisama for the forthcoming Hornbill Festival 2016, the entry to the complex will be restricted to the public for public social gathering, picnic etc from November 20 till the Hornbill Festival is over or till further order/notification.

Urban Development designates officers for DAY-NULM Kohima, November 18 (DiPr): The Urban Development has informed that Government of Nagaland has designated the following officers for maintaining Information Education & Communications (IEC)/ Publicity activities on Deendayal Antyodaya YojanaNational Urban livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) in the State with immediate effect: IEC Expert at State level - Abaü Suokhrie, Consultant (SUDA); IEC In-charge at District/ULB level - District Urban Development Officers cum Vice-Chairman, DUDA.

Services Association of New & Renewable Energy Dept formed Kohima, November 18 (mexN): Officers and staff of the Directorate of New & Renewable Energy in a meeting held on November 9 formed an association called ‘Services Association of New & Renewable Energy Department’ (SANRED) with its motto ‘Together we serve’. The association was formed with intent to foster unity amongst association, stated a press release received here. The following members were elected as office bearers: President - Er. Kimaba; Vice President - Er. James Khala; General Secretary - Lhoubizo Kesiyie; Joint Secretary - Er. Kekhriezhalie Sorhie; Finance Secretary - Longri; Treasurer - Imlitemjen Jamir; PRO - Neizeno Peseyie Vasa.

BJP 6th Tening Mandal holds meeting PereN, November 18 (mexN): The 6th Tening Mandal of BJP had an executive meeting-cuminduction programme under the directive of district president, Huzantadbo Meriamai on November 15 at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) district office in Jalukie.

Scrutiny of MDM

Winners and participants of DBCK Quiz-Time 2016 with others on November 17.

Vesulü Rakho and Behule Kent of B.A 4th Semester in the 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.

Manager, Federal Bank,

Kohima Branch graced the competition as chief guest and Fr. Roy George SDB, Rector was the special guest.

A press release informed

that the initiative was undertaken to promote General Knowledge among the students and to prepare them for competitive exams.

PereN, November 18 (mexN): The Department of Vigilance and Anti-corruption, Nagaland undertook a massive exercise of scrutinizing the Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme for 2010-2016 in Peren. “It has been an eye-opener to the teachers of Peren district where most of our shortcomings were brought to light,” stated Kirang, the convener of government schools (Mid-Day Meal Beneficiaries), Peren district on behalf of the government schools in Peren district. “We hope that the exercise undertaken would be brought to the desired conclusion for the sake of posterity.” The convener lauded the department for the scrutiny.

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PeoPle, life, etc...

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DeFeat Diabetes now

It is estimated that over 100 million Indians will suffer from diabetes by 2030. Alarming as it may sound, experts emphasize that simple lifestyle measures can prevent diabetes. Here's the lowdown

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Kathakoli Dasgupta

Joshi, endocrinologist, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai; Dr V. Mohan, chairman, Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai.

small boil on his forearm 12 years ago transformed L. Srinivasa Gopal's life. The Chennai-based IT professional was advised a minor surgery, and pre-surgery tests revealed that he had high blood sugar. He was 37, overweight, had poor eating habits and a stressful job involving night shifts. Even with diabetic parents at home, he didn't think he was at risk.

He is not alone. According to latest estimates, a staggering 69 million Indians have diabetes and another 80 million prediabetes.

What's more, awareness about the condition is dismal. According to the recent ICMR India Diabetes Study, about 58 per cent of the urban respondents were aware of the condition and about 56 per cent of the general population knew it was preventable.

Why is diabetes b ecoming an epidemic?

Indians are genetically more susceptible. We have the 'thrifty gene'-primed to store energy as abdominal fat. It helped cope with food shortage in the distant past, but now when food is plentiful, it increases diabetes risk. But experts agree that genes alone cannot explain why the numbers have shot up dramatically in the past 40 years. They hold our lifestyle-the tendency to remain sedentary and overeat, along with stress, which throws our hormones out of whack-and environment responsible.

It is the interplay of genes, lifestyle and environment that determine our diabetes risk (see box on p 64). Experts say that healthy choices can outsmart our genes, and armed with information and taking charge of our health can help protect us from the imminent diabetes tsunami.

What is diabetes?

Insulin is a hormone that regulates our blood sugar levels. Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the body cannot make or use insulin properly. Over time, uncontrolled diabetes can turn lethal by causing serious damage to blood vessels (cardiovascular disease, stroke, retinopathy), nerves (neuropathy or numbness) and organs (kidney disease).

Srinivasa was lucky: He treated his early diagnosis as a wake-up call and has been vigilant ever since. Along with medication, he followed the lifestyle advice of the team at Dr V. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre. Recognizing that night shifts adversely affected his health, he opted for a day shift.

'I was able to change my eating habits, got time to exercise and ensured better quality of sleep,' he says.

With a healthy diet and exercise, he shed seven kilos in a few months. With quarterly blood sugar and HbA1c tests and an annual health check-up, his latest reports are normal. At 79.5 kg, he is the lightest he has been in a long, long time. But the biggest pay- off has been his understanding of the condition and how to beat it.

Understanding diabetes has also helped Delhi-based EktaPaneri Gupta who was diagnosed three years ago at age 30. While researching online, she realized that her untreated Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) was a possible culprit. 'I was diagnosed with PCOS about 10-12 years ago but the gynae didn't make a big deal of it. Also, I let my weight spiral out of control,' Ekta recalls.

Gupta's doctor suggested a three-pronged

are you at risK? Risk Factors Family history, abdominal obesity, excess weight, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits (calorie-rich food, high in simple carbs and fat, and low in protein) and a history of gestational diabetes put you at risk. You can assess it with the simple Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) at cadiresearch.org.

approach-medication, diet and exercise. She swapped three big meals for five smaller ones, gave up sugar, started cooking with minimal oil, switched to wholegrains, and ditched processed foods and saturated fats. She also took up running and yoga. In the past three years, she has dropped 20 kilos and her medicine dosage.'I was militant about the lifestyle changes to start with, but I have learnt that a steady approach works in the long term.' can diabetes be reversed or cured?

Recent studies show that weight-loss (bariatric) surgery can induce remission in diabetes patients. A 2013 study by Medanta-the Medicity, Gurgaon revealed that more than 90 per cent of obese patients were able to go off their diabetes medication following a surgery, even prior to significant weight loss.

Researchers from Newcastle, UK employed this principle and successfully used severe calorie restriction (600-700 calories over eight weeks) to reverse diabetes. Twelve out of the 30 patients remained diabetesfree six months later, despite resuming a normal diet. Though it remains unclear how long the 'cure' will last, doctors are hopeful.

In the long term, experts believe weight loss may be the main factor responsible for better diabetes control and cure. catch it early Of course, the best place to intervene is in the detectable process that precedes a diagnosis-predia-betes. This is a condition where blood glucose level is high, but not high enough to be in the diabetic zone.

Studies indicate that without intervention, most people with prediabetes will get fullblown diabetes within 10 years. However, with changes in lifestyle, including modest weight loss (as little as 5-7 per cent of current weight), people with prediabetes can prevent or delay the development of the condition by 54 per cent three years later.

Your 'beat diabetes' plan

bad fats with good ones, choosing small and frequent meals and ditching refined foods are the principles that stave off rise in blood sugar levels. Along with calorie reduction, slow absorption of foods should be your goal. move more Exercise helps torch calories, slash weight, lower your blood sugar levels and improve insulin sensitivity. The minimum recommendation is 30 minutes a day, five days a week, though experts recommend more.

According to a recent study, prolonged sitting can double the risk of diabetes-even in those who exercise regularly-due to enzyme changes in our muscles. So, get off your chair every hour-for two minutes, walk, stretch or do a few lunges. While aerobic exercise is excellent, strength training twice a week will build muscle which will help burn more glucose. You don't need to hit the gym-simple exercises such as squats, lunges and push-ups are effective. ease stress Stress causes your blood sugar levels to skyrocket, giving you the energy to fight or flee. But with chronic stress, extra sugar is released conti-nuously without being used up by the body. Moreover, the stress hormone cortisol triggers cravings for high-fat, highsugar comfort foods. A study from Duke University, USA found that stress management techniques can help you control blood sugar levels. Try relaxation techniques like deep breathing, meditation and mindfulness.

sleep better Sleep helps to stabilize blood sugar.

Fewer than six hours a night is associated with a three-fold increased likelihood of elevated blood sugar levels (prediabetes), says a study published in Annals of Epidemiology. Inadequate sleep also contributes to weight gain: The Nurses' Health Study tracked 68,183 women for up to 16 years and found that those who got five hours of eat Wisely sleep or less, weighed about 1.14 kg more Portion control, eating high-fibre foods, and were 15 per cent more likely to become wholegrains, adequate protein, swapping obese. Poor sleep is also associated with

symptoms See a doctor if you notice excessive thirst, frequent urination (especially at night), fatigue, and sores or cuts that won't heal. He will suggest blood tests for a diagnosis.

• Tests The Fasting PlasmaGlucose (FPG) range-done after fasting for eight hoursfor non-diabetics is less than 100 mg/dL. For prediabetes it is between 100-125 mg/ dL and for diabetics above 126 mg/dL. • The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test(OGTT) determines how your body processes glucose: below 140 mg/dL is considered normal; 140-199 mg/dL indicates prediabetes, and more than 200 mg/dL is a signal of diabetes. hunger hormones that make you eat more.

Get the recommended seven to eight hours • TheHbA1ctest indicates blood glucose levels over a period of time. A result beevery night. low or equal to 5.6 per cent is 'normal'.

Prediabetics may show the range as 5.7don't smoKe 6.4, while diabetics show 6.5 or above.

According to a study involving men, published in Diabetes Care, smoking cigarettes was associated with a significant increase in managing diabetes With drugs Metformin is the backbone of diabetes diabetes risk, even after adjustment for age, body mass index (BMI) and other potential treatment. Sulphonylureas is equally popuconfounders such as physical activity. If you lar. However, the past decade has seen the development of many new diabetes drugs. smoke, seek help to quit now.

No doubt expensive, these drugs not only ensure weight loss, they also prevent weight gain drinK sparingly It's wise to be cautious-especially if you and stop hypoglycaemia (sudden dip in blood are trying to lose weight. Recent NHS, UK sugar levels). They are also known to cause guidelines recommend restricting consump- fewer gastrointestinal side effects. Diabetes tion to 14 units per week, spreading it out being a chronic condition, over time you need over three or more days. (A bottle of red wine to combine drugs to manage blood sugar better. Here's the latest in diabetes medication: = 10 units; a pint of regular beer = 3 units.)

Incretin-based therapies: These novel drugs activate the incretin hormonal sysmeasure up An expanding waistline is a strong pre- tem in our gut, stimulating insulin producdictor of insulin resistance and Type 2 dia- tion and inhibiting glucagon (anti-insulin) betes. Abdominal fat (or visceral fat) is high- production from the pancreas in response ly metabolic. It breaks down quickly, travels to food in the stomach. around the body, parking itself on various tissues including those of the pancreas-the they come in tWo forms: GLP1Injectibles: These include twice-ainsulin production house of the body.

To cut risk, women should aim for a day injections (exenatide) and once-a-day waistline below 80 cm (31 inches) and men liraglutide. The weekly injectibledulaglutide 90 cm (35 inches). BMI-a rough calcula- was introduced this year.

Oral DPP-4 inhibitors: This class of tion of body fat, based on your weight and height-is a fairly good indicator of diabetes drugs is designated as gliptins (sitagliptin, vildagliptin). They have often been added to risk too. The normal range is 18-23 kg/m2. metformin.

SGLT-2 inhibitors: These oral tablets get tested Beginning in your 30s, an annual blood push out glucose through urine. These insugar test is an absolute must. If you are clude canagliflozin, dapagliflozinand emoverweight or have a family history of dia- pagliflozin.

Insulin: People with Type 1 diabetes betes, start earlier.

Expert Panel (in alphabetical order): and some with Type 2 diabetes need to take DrAmbrishMithal, chairman & head, Endo- insulin via an injection or pump. Animalcrinology and Diabetes Division, Medanta- based insulin has given way to human (pure The Medicity, Gurgaon; DrAnoop Misra, insulin) and analogues (designer insulin). chairman, Fortis CDOC Hospital for Dia- Pure insulin is available in fast-, mediumbetes and Allied Sciences, New Delhi; Dr and slow-acting forms. Designer insulin is BinayakSinha, consultant, Endocrinology, rapid-acting (lispro, aspart, glulisine), ulAMRI Hospitals, Kolkata; Dharini Krishnan, trashort (buccal spray) and long-acting consultant dietician, Chennai; Dr Shashank (glargine, detemir, degludec).

48 Hours in Facebook’s unreality Mark Zuckerberg thinks it’s a ‘crazy idea’ that fake news on Facebook helped put Trump in the White House. He should take a gander at the most shared stories of the last two days.

Ben Collins

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The Daily Beast

n the fact-free world of what trends on Facebook, everything is going swimmingly in Donald Trump’s America over the last 48 hours—even if none of it is true.

America’s biggest celebrities are flipping to Trump, manufacturing plants are shutting down in Mexico and moving back to Ohio, and Barack Obama is admitting to mountains of treasonous activities on Facebook since Monday morning.

But none of that is happening in reality, a distinctly different place from the news on the most popular social network on earth, even if millions of its daily active users—and Facebook’s CEO—are unable to recognize the disconnect.

Mark Zuckerberg has been in the crosshairs this week, even from within his own company, for saying he believes “it’s a pretty crazy idea” that “fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of content, influenced the election in any way.”

He should take a look at the most shared stories on his website, according to trend analysis site Trendolizer, and see if he can reconcile his PR statement with the truth.

At least a dozen stories with no basis in reality—most of them favoring Donald Trump—broke Facebook’s trending algorithm Monday and Tuesday, as the new president-elect took to his own Twitter account to repeatedly deride fact-checked newspapers like The New York Times.

Early Monday, exclusively on Facebook and a series of websites likeAmericanNews. com, one of America’s biggest celebrities, Denzel Washington, offered up a full-throated endorsement of Trump.

“Denzel Washington Backs Trump in the Most Epic Way Possible,” the headline read.

“Denzel is now Team Trump!”

The story was shared 10,000 times from a single source— American News’s Facebook page—in its first six hours on the web. The post garnered 80,000 likes in a half of a day.

Nothing about the post is true, but that didn’t seem to matter to American News, which has 5.5 million followers and an account verified by an employee at Facebook.

American News, which on Tuesday posted stories like “Michelle Obama Exposed for the Pervert She Really Is” (the website calls her “Moochelle” in its posts), “‘The View’ Is About to Get Shut Down,” and “BREAKING: Hillary Clinton

to Be Indicted… Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” has 700,000 more subscribers than The Washington Post on Facebook.

None of those stories are true.

But American News is nowhere near the lone source behind the intentionally fake news that took over Facebook in the last 48 hours.

According to Trendolizer, a variation on EndTheFed’s story “Since Donald Trump Won the Presidency… Ford Shifts Truck Production from

Mexico to Ohio” trended three times over the last 24 hours.

Ford shifted its truck production from Mexico to Ohio in August 2015, not this week, and the move had nothing to do with Trump. That didn’t seem to matter for EndTheFed, whose post was shared 15,000 times, orViralLiberty. com, whose nearly verbatim post trended later on Monday.

By the timeDonaldTrumpNews.co’s headline “BREAKING: Since Donald Trump Won The Presidency Ford Shifts Truck Production

From Mexico To Ohio” racked up 20,600 shares, there was a startling development in the real world.

Ford CEO Mark Fields announced his company was doing the opposite of the viral reports on Facebook. “Ford Motor Co. is moving ahead with plans to shift production of small cars to Mexico from Michigan,” Reuters reporter Alexandria Sage wrote at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

That story—entirely true— had 233 shares on Reuters’ Facebook page at press time.

Current President Barack Obama also had a busy day in the fake news world, when his “lawyers” were forced to “officially admit [his] birth certificate is fake,” according to the Facebook pages Conservative Country and The American People News, whose stories have pushed past 6,000 shares and 50,000 likes since Monday.

The story is a total fabrication.

In Facebook’s universe, “3 million illegal aliens” are also “Under Investigation for Voting… After Obama Told Them It Was OK.” The group 100 Percent FED Up netted more than 18,000 shares in the last 48 hours with that headline.

Obama, for what it’s worth, did not tell undocumented immigrants to vote, and 3 million people are not under investigation.

Of course, this has no effect on the pop-up websites—often one-person operations—that can earn up to $3,000 a day by appealing to the emotions of Americans on Facebook with quasi-official-looking “news,” but without any of the facts.

As BuzzFeed News reported days before the election, more than 100 pro-Trump sites were created by Macedonian teenagers attempting to skirt labor laws and earn a paycheck on the web by appeasing an easy-to-dupe American

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electorate.

BuzzFeed then reported this Monday that “renegade Facebook employees” have formed a task force to challenge their CEO on his public position that fake news poses no problem to the company’s users.

“It’s not a crazy idea. What’s crazy is for him to come out and dismiss it like that, when he knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season,” one anonymous Facebook staffer told BuzzFeed.

By the end of the day Tuesday, even fake-news sites had become more self-aware than Zuckerberg.

A trending story headlined “BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Breaks Silence—Is Preparing to Fight for the White House!” on RealtimePolitics.com begins like this: “One of the top reasons Democrats feel Hillary lost, is due to the vast amount of fake news sites that cram Facebook with their sensationalistic headlines, such as ‘Hillary Will Be Indicted By The FBI—Your Prayers Have Been Answered!’” the post reads. “Now, the Clinton team plans to fight back.”

The Clinton team does not plan to fight back. And neither, for now, does Mark Zuckerberg.

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Thomas Hardy, the Poet of Winter

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homas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush used to be many a school-child's introduction to Hardy. He reappears on college and university syllabi only in his novels or a random handful of poems.

Upon the growing gloom.

There is a defiant note here which cannot be violent because the thrush is such a small bird.

Awkward Carol Nevertheless, Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush has its place assured in the archives of literature, where it still The century’s corpse outleant, arouses interest for its evocation of winter and its acHis crypt the cloudy canopy, companying images of bleak desolation. No other The wind his death-lament, poem represents the season quite as accurately as The ancient pulse of germ and birth this poem. Winter in Hardy country has become evWas shrunken hard and dry ident now in starkly leafless trees, and grey lifeless And every spirit upon earth streets.

Seemed fervourless as I. Any other poet could also recreate those images. But Hardy goes one step further and captures In the second stanza, he uses words like corpse, the song of the thrush, that lone birdsong soaring up above a dying earth, like an awkward carol, so incon- crypt and death-lament to describe the dying century. An earlier title of the poem was “The century’s gruous because its setting is so joyless: end, 1900.” Trepidation about the changes a new century would likely bring, the death of a century "I leant upon a coppice-gate and the pre-birth of a new one, all these are tremuWhen Frost was spectre-gray lously felt here. This is one poem that also strongly And Winter's dregs made desolate links winter to death.

The weakening eye of day.

The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Upward Movement Like strings of broken lyres However, the next two stanzas suddenly lift the And all mankind that haunted nigh reader's spirits upward. From the first line of the third Had sought their household fires." stanza, Hardy uses the word arose, and goes on to add others such as, full-hearted evensong, joy, and Winter and Death The first stanza of the poem is gray and lifeless; fling his soul. it is an all-too familiar landscape, and its music is At once a voice arose among discordant notes as symbolised by the ‘tangled bineThe bleak twigs overhead stems.’ Winter is indeed the "dregs" of the year, and In a full-hearted evensong the scene of leafless trees before snowfall is the sadOf joy illimited; dest picture of the season. It is followed by more picAn aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small tures of depletion in: In blast-beruffled plume Had chosen this to fling his soul The land’s sharp features seemed to be

In the closing stanza, the song has grown into an ecstatic sound and a blessed hope that lifts up the whole poem and redeems the world from the gloom that was trying to suffocate it.

So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy goodnight air Some blessed hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.

The hard fact of death The poem begins with death, death of the year and of the century. Hardy is after all, the writer of dark tragedies. His lovers rarely end up together and death is a hard fact of life in all his writing. Yet in this poem, there is a blessed hope, even if it is hope that only the bird knows of. At this point the poem takes on a sublime quality and the bird appears to almost be a citizen of another zone, carrying within him a message of joy and hope that the winter-bound world has no knowledge of. It is not difficult to think of the suggestion of winter as a symbol of spiritual darkness covering the earth, and the birdsong as the hope of deliverance.

Thomas Hardy is the ever-melancholic soul. He is the poet of Winter. The thrush of his poem is very different from Shelley's skylark or Hopkins' windhover.

It is an aged thrush, frail, and gaunt with blast-beruffled plume. Make no mistake, this is no beautiful morning bird. But even while being true to himself, Hardy has managed to prescribe piercing the spirit of despondency with a vigorous carol of the soul. A message that still holds in today’s wintry world.

Why women are better at multitasking than men

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ultitasking is harder for men because they need to mobilise additional areas of their brain and use more energy than women when switching attention between tasks, says a study.

"Our findings suggest that women might find it easier than men to switch attention and their brains do not need to mobilise extra resources in doing so, as opposed to male brains," said one of the researchers, Svetlana Kuptsova from National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.

Such differences are typical of younger men and women aged 20 to 45, according to findings published in the journal Human Physiology.

Regardless of gender and age, task switching always involves activation in certain areas of the brain, more specifically, bilateral activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal areas, inferior parietal lobes and inferior occipital gyrus.

However, experiments conducted in this study demonstrated that in women, task switching appears to require less brain power compared to men, who showed greater activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal areas as well

as the involvement of supplementary motor areas and insula, which was not observed in women.

The experiments involved 140 healthy volunteers, including 69 men and 71 women aged between 20 and 65.

The participants were asked to perform a variety of tasks. In one of the experiments using functional MRI, they were asked to perform a test that required switching attention between sorting objects according to shape (round or square) and number (one or two).

The use of functional MRI allowed the researchers not only to observe the participants' behaviour, but also to see what was going on in the brain as the participants switched between tasks and detect differences in brain activation between men and women.

The researchers found that the gender differences in the extent of brain activation when switching between tasks only occurred in participants younger than those aged 45 to 50, while those aged 50 and older showed no gender differences either in brain activation or speed of task switching. (Source: IANS)

THe making of a ruPee: made for india but not entirely made in india Maria Thomas

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t costs a lot of money to make money.

The special papers and inks, security features, and printing processes require specialised facilities and a hefty sum every year. So it’s no surprise that a number of countries, from Denmark to Kuwait, look to outsource the printing of their currencies.

But India, the world’s second-largest producer and consumer of currency notes (after China), isn’t one of them.

The country prints all of its notes. However, until recently, it used to import many of the raw materials needed to make money. For instance, it got around 95% of the watermarked paper required for currency notes from companies such as Germany’s Giesecke & Devrient and Britain’s De La Rue, among others.

India uses around 22,000 metric tons (MT) of such paper every year and that accounts for at least 40% of the total cost of manufacturing money. For the year ended June 2016, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) supplied 21.2 billion banknotes and printing costs came to around Rs3,421 crore($502 million).

That high cost is likely one of the reasons prime minister Narendra Modi was keen to include India’s currency in his “Make in India” project, putting an end to outsourcing. In 2015, he urged RBI to start producing more of the required paper and ink, with the eventual goal of keeping the entire production process within the country.

This week, Indians are gradually getting their hands on the new Rs500 and Rs2,000 notes produced at RBI’s press in Mysuru, Karnataka. What’s interesting is that part of the paper used to make them was produced in India, though RBI refused to reveal exactly how much.

This paves the way for India to eventually become self-sufficient in producing all its currency notes, an important milestone that comes nearly 90 years after the country first began printing its own paper money.

From England to Nasik When the British colonial govern-

ment first issued rupee notes in India in 1862, it sourced them from the UKbased Thomas De La Rue which started out printing playing cards and postage stamps before entering the currency business. Today, the nearly 200-yearold company, now known as De La Rue, is the world’s largest commercial bank note printer and also supplies much of the paper used to make them.

In the 1920s, the British decided to print money in India. In 1926, they began constructing the region’s first-ever currency printing press in Nasik, Maharashtra. The city was picked for its stable climate and close proximity to a key railway line that connected it to the rest of India, according to Rezwan Razack, coauthor of The Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money.

Two years later, the Nasik press began operations, printing a Rs5 note of the same design previously brought from England. Over the next few years, this press would go on to produce new designs of notes in denominations of Rs100, Rs1,000, and even Rs10,000, which could be used all over India.

Long after the British left in 1947, the Nasik facility was still India’s only

bank note printing press. But as the economy developed, the demand for money increased and a larger production capacity was required. In 1975 the government established the country’s second press, this time in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, which produced more hitech notes with better security features to prevent counterfeiting.

By 1997, these two presses together were printing all the notes India required. However, with a growing population and more economic activity, demand was again outpacing their combined capacity. So, the government decided to place a massive printing order of 3.6 billion notes with American, Canadian, and European companies (including De La Rue) to fix the shortfall. That was an expensive move, costing around $95 million and attracting heavy criticism amid concerns over potential security risks.

After this episode, the government established two more such presses, one in Mysuru in 1999 and one in Salboni, West Bengal, in 2000.

Through it all, India’s sole facility to produce the paper needed for new notes was the Security Paper Mill in Hoshang-

abad, MP. It was established in 1968 as a step towards bringing India closer to its goal of becoming self-sufficient in producing its currency. But with its capacity of around 2,800 MT, it could only meet a small part of India’s paper requirement; the rest had to be sourced from countries such as Britain, Japan, and Germany.

It has taken nearly 50 years for further change.

Following Modi’s urging, the government and RBI’s printing and paper production subsidiaries stepped up their capacity in 2015. A new production line was added to the Hoshangabad mill and operations finally began at a second mill in Mysuru, close to the printing press. This new mill was built with a capacity of 12,000 MT and, together with the Hoshangabad line, was expected to meet pretty much all of India’s bank note paper requirements, while also knocking off around Rs1,500 crore from its future import bill.

While it’s not immediately certain whether the new rupee notes officially mark the beginning of a completely “Made in India” phase, they do mark a big move in the evolution of printing money in India.

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The menace of loud cars and bikes

Takum Mokholee: It is with the experience of living near the main road I pen down this dismay over those persons who ride those modified cars and bikes with the overly irritating loud exhaust pipes. You might think it is cool or you might feel you are being macho and in your mind you might feel like you are living the life of "Fast and the furious" but it’s not cool. Civilised people never like it. It’s cool if you drive it for sports events but most of them drive going round the locality 10-15 times/night every night. People need sleep, students need to study, etc etc. Ride to your destination and come back that's ok. We will bear it. But just for the sake of your ride going up and down the whole night is not right.

It is very surprising that in this era this sort of common sense and manners should be pointed out. They should have the sense of understanding if they are old enough to own a bike and ride it Here in this regard I wonder why don't the traffic police/colony in charge book these sorts of person for noise pollution? In one particular place some bikers were made to stop by police and made to listen to their own bikes near their ear and asked if it’s pleasurable.

Peter Rutsa: 1. The over speeding cars with racing motifs are those that never raced or won a race!

2. The loudest cars and bikes revving in the streets are the ones who have no guts to risk their lives and machines at the tracks!

3. The loudest bullets (Royal Enfield) are those who hardly leave the district or state!

Naga Christianity: The slow fade to redundancy Kaina Zhimomi: Nagaland boasts of more than 90% of its population as professing and practicing the Christian faith, but how many of us can really vouch for its relevance and its positive impact on our society today? Blame it on the complacency or the apathy of the religious leaders who are capitulating on the idea that we have somehow lost the war to liberal progressive ideology and want to desperately hold their profiles by invoking high sounding terminologies- when their authority is challenged- just so they sound relevant. Or maybe, the followers have a collective role in the churches losing its relevance by playing along to their 'complacency' and 'hypocrisy' - two deadliest enemies of faith and the ones who want to remind me of SIN! Hold your horses! We are all sinners, no? Allow me to frame my argument on why Naga Christianity is slow fading into redundancy from complacency and hypocrisy.

1. Everything minus apologetics: Naga Christianity has everything going on from events, services, crusades, meetings, concerts, et al. But in instances when the legitimacy of our faith is challenged, we bring twigs to a gunfight. And we cry foul when the atheists commit intellectual snobbery by branding us with the phrase ‘not the sharpest tool in the shed’. 1st Peter 3:15 [Google this Bible passage, this experience might come handy when you’re pitching for a seat in heaven] The word “answer” in Greek is apologia, the etymology from which we draw the word “apologetics”, meaning the careful, logical defense of the Christian faith against the attack of its adversaries. Socratic method has been the most popular and logical form of a debate but our complacency and non-desire for Excellency has made most of the Naga Christians settle for self-referencing form of arguments like – why do you think The Bible is the word of god? Because God said so, why do you believe there’s a God? Because The Bible says so- which immediately cancels out the legitimacy of our arguments when we are asked to defend our faith among people who bring thousands of fossil remains dating millions of years to explain how life began from a primordial slime. Maybe it’s time we stop representing Christianity with emotional arguments and clichéd quotes in shirts and start learning about quantum cosmology, the evolutionary theory and learn some of its flawed premises and assumptions which the atheists invoke to ‘veraciously refute the notion of God’ and refute some of their fallacious claims and prejudices against faith . Meanwhile, we also have to accept the empirical facts like, the earth is spherical in shape and revolves around the sun and if any of our Christian brethren refuse to accept these empirical truths, we must be the first ones to fire flaks at them. We are living in the 21st century, cave party is over.

2. Misplaced priorities: The Range Rover! or in Nagaland, the great Mahindra bolero- by the way, Mahindra has rolled out its new Mahindra bolero power plus variant with 1.5 litre mHawk d70 turbo diesel engine. The churches can go to the dealers and get one soon, so you can boast about it - don't understand the craze for this particular car - ohh!!! Practicality! Most of the churches seem to have lost their grip on prioritizing affairs. I still hear stories of missionaries working in remote regions of mainland India who go without two decent meals in a day. I know of many pastors and church leaders in the remote areas of Nagaland who are frighteningly underpaid- trust me, many people in our own Nagaland wear denims and accessories that cost more than the salary of those leaders [just to give you all some perspective, nothing wrong with expensive clothes or accessories, or buildings or cars, who don’t want to own a Lamborghini or a Nissan GT-R?]. I know a lot of deserving brilliant theologians who deserve to be sponsored and sent to Princeton, Harvard, oxford etc to gain more knowledge and experience and lead our churches in this fast changing ‘era of the internet’. I also know a lot of churches who are financially stable enough to provide our missionaries two decent meals in a day, and pay the pastors and church leaders serving in the remote areas decent amount for their easy survival, and I also know a lot of churches who can sponsor deserving theologians to get quality education from top universities so they can come back to Nagaland and serve our churches and believers better but they would rather invest in buildings and cars and properties over people. I was taught in my theology class that the ‘believers’ were the CHURCH and what we commonly refer to as ‘Church’ was just a building structure. Guess I was taught by a heretic professor.

There are churches thriving around many places in Nagaland and my intent is not to undermine the service and relevance of its leaders and believers. This is a foreboding drawn from my observations as an outsider-as someone who is presently not employed by the church -and the general perception on the image of the Naga churches from discussions on the state of Naga Christianity. Condescension not to be inferred from this mildly satirical piece.

NOTE: The Range Rover reference was a read bait. ~wink~ Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Naga Blog.

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Parliament sees disruptions, adjournments over demonetisation

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (IANs): Both the houses of Parliament on Friday saw heated exchanges between the government and the opposition over the demonetisation issue, leading to disruptions of proceedings and eventually adjournments for the day.

In the Lok Sabha, the opposition demanded a debate on the government's November 8 demonetisation decision under the parliamentary rules entailing vote.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the poor were suffering due to the spiking of the Rs 500 and 1,000 currency notes. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar, however, said that the people supported the measure aimed at curbing unaccounted wealth and corruption in the country.

As the opposition members created a ruckus, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the house till 12 p.m.

The scene was no different when the house re-assembled, after which Mahajan adjourned the house for the day.

The Rajya Sabha saw heated exchanges as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members demanded an apology from Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad over his remarks on Thursday likening the deaths of those standing in queues outside banks and ATMs post demonetisation with the deaths of soldiers in the Uri terror attack.

As soon as the upper house assembled at 11 a.m., a united opposition started raising slogans against the government.

"This statement by him (Azad) has sent a wrong message in the whole country...

Our appeal is the Congress and the Leader of Opposition should apologise to the nation," Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said amid pandemonium.

"How he (Azad) has (disparaged) this big revolution, this big mission by the Prime Minister who is the champion of the poor, the weaker sections," Naqvi added as opposition members created a din.

The agitated members refused to listen to the chair's repeated requests to calm down and created uproar, leading to the adjournment until 11.30 a.m.

As the house re-assembled, the opposition parties demanded apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue, leading to a second adjournment, this

time until 12 noon.

Similar scenes were witnessed once again as the house re-assembled. Rajya Sabha Chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari pleaded with the members to go back to their seats, assuring that their concerns would be taken care of, but the bedlam continued, forcing the chair to adjourn the house for another half hour.

The situation was no better when proceedings resumed. The Chairman asked the agitating members to maintain peace and let the house function, but they did not pay attention to his pleas, forcing him to adjourn it.

As soon as the house assembled in the post-lunch session, opposition members assembled near the Chairman's podium again, raising slogans against the government. "Jan virodhi Narendra Modi, mafi mango mafi mango (Anti-people Narendra Modi, apologise to people)," they chanted.

Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien, meanwhile, allowed a few private members bills to be introduced and also announced the removal of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2015, from the register of bills pending in the council, calling it a money bill.

"After going through the provisions of the bill carefully, and the considered advice given by the Ministry of Law and Justice on the issue, I hold that the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2015, is a financial bill within the meaning of Clause(1) of Article 117 of Constitution," he said.

"Accordingly, I terminate further discussion on the bill forthwith and direct that the bill be removed from the register of bills pending in the council," he announced before adjourning the house till Monday.

The Rajya Sabha had a day-long debate on the demonetisation issue on the very first day of the on-going winter session of Parliament, but opposition parties became restless when Modi did not show up in the house during the debate.

From Thursday onwards, they started demanding presence of Prime Minister Modi in the house, saying the Prime Minister should be there as it is an issue of national importance.

The winter session of Parliament began on November 16.

Navy rubbishes Pak Navy claim that it stopped Indian sub from entering waters

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (PTI): Dubbing it as "blatant lies", the Navy today denied the Pakistani Navy claim that it had prevented an Indian submarine from entering its territorial water. "Indian Navy categorically denies the statement of Pakistani Navy as blatant lies," Navy spokesperson Captain D K Sharma said. He added that the Indian Navy did not have any under water movement in the said waters as claimed by the Pakistani Navy.

A statement issued by Pakistani Navy had claimed it has proved its vigilance and operational competence by detecting and blocking an Indian submarine from entering Pakistani waters. "The unsuspecting submarine was detected and localised south of Pakistani coast on November 14 (rpt) 14. Thereafter, despite submarine's desperate efforts to escape detection, it was continuously tracked

by Pakistan Navy Fleet units and pushed well clear of our waters," the statement had said. On Tuesday, Pakistan Navy said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor's first cargo containers were safely escorted in the Arabian Sea towards their destination to the Middle East and African countries. Pakistan Army's powerful Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif had on Wednesday claimed that his men killed 11 Indian soldiers in cross border firing across the Line of Control (LoC). This statement too was denied by the Indian Arm.

Boy killed, 7 injured in wall collapse in Delhi

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (IANs): A 12-year-old boy was killed and seven other persons were critically injured after a wall belonging to North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) collapsed at Karol Bagh, the police said on Friday. The boy was identified as Poochi and the injured persons have been admitted to Lady Hardinge Hospital in critical condition, a police officer said. The wall collapse occurred around 11.25 a.m. on Desh Bandhu Gupta Road when a tree was being cut down by North DMC workers. "The tree accidentally fell on the wall, which collapsed on the eight locals, including the minor boy, Poochi, standing near to it. We are investigating the case and necessary action will be taken against the guilty," Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Manjeet Singh Randhawa said. Sanjeev Nayyar, Mayor of North DMC, told IANS," I have inquired about the matter. To my knowledge, no one has died due to the incident. Only one person has been injured."

Rajya Sabha member's bill declares Pakistan terrorist nation

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (IANs): Independent Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday introduced a private member's bill to declare Pakistan a terrorist state. "I had promised that I will do this after the September 18 Uri attack. The reason behind the bill is to put the spotlight on the need for India to take a strong view on Pakistan as a terror state. The main objective is to urge the government to take appropriate action to brand Pakistan a terrorist nation," Chandrasekhar told IANS. 'The Declaration Of Countries as Sponsor of Terrorism Bill' states that "Pakistan propagates and harbours agents of international terror who have repeatedly attacked the territory and people of our country... (It) poses a continual risk to the peace and security of the region". The bill also provides for imposing legal, economic and travel sanctions on citizens of the neighbouring country. The bill seeks to prohibit citizens of such country, which is declared a terror state, including its Head of the State, from travelling in India. It also asks for prohibition on trade, receiving or making grants, financial remittances, investments and assets along with maritime activities and overflight over India. The bill states that immunity of officials of such countries shall be revoked and they shall not be offered immunity from any legal case in India.

India's move to curb black money a 'disaster' for rural women: activists

MUMBAI, NoveMBer 18 (ThoMsoN reUTers FoUNdATIoN): India's move to withdraw high-value rupee bills from circulation to crack down on corruption and counterfeit currency has hurt rural women particularly hard, as most of them are outside the banking system, activists said.

The shock currency move cancelling 500- and 1,000-rupee ($14.6) notes from circulation overnight, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, aims to bring billions of dollars worth of unaccounted wealth, or "black money", into the mainstream economy and check corruption.

But it has also curbed consumption, hurt the agriculture and real estate sectors, and triggered long lines at banks and ATMs as people wait to deposit cash, withdraw money and exchange old notes. At least a dozen people are reported to have died while standing in queues across the country.

The move has had a disproportionate impact on women, more than three-quarters of whom are outside the banking system. Daily labourers and informal workers, who tend to save their money in cash, have also been hurt, activists said.

"The impact on such women is disastrous; they are facing a severe financial crisis," said Kiran Moghe, national joint secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association. "Women in villages and in tribal areas use only cash, and they scrimp and save to put aside money. Now they cannot even buy daily necessities," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Women often put aside money without the knowledge of their husbands, building a nest egg for themselves and their children, and as a safety net for emergencies, Moghe said.

These women do not have bank accounts as they do not have

Village women work at a dry pond under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Vastara village on the outskirts of Kolkata. (REUTERS//Files)

the minimum amount required, or because their husbands have an account, or because they lack the necessary documentation, according to a World Bank study of rural Jharkhand state.

Demonetisation will hurt India's informal sector workers, numbering about 482 million, who earn cash incomes, according to consulting firm Deloitte.

In Mumbai's red-light district of Kamathipura, commercial sex workers who get paid in cash have had to settle for smaller payments and rely on brothel owners to exchange their money, leaving them vulnerable to further exploitation, said Manju Vyas, director at Apne Aap Women's Collective.

'SACRIFICING THEIR OWN NEEDS' While banks are exchanging old notes for new, making the trip to a bank may involve seeking permission from the husband or employer, the loss of a daily wage and perhaps the loss of the nest egg itself, Moghe said.

"This is not black money - it's their hard-earned money, put aside with a great deal of sacrifice.

Now suddenly, they are left with useless notes," she said.

In villages, daily-wage workers are out of work or are not being paid on time, said Lalit Babur, who works with an agriculture co-operative in Sangola in Maharashtra state.

"The women are often the last

Easy ways to break bad toilet habits

November 19 is World Toilet Day

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (IANs): As World Toilet Day is marked on November 19, make sure to pledge to give up bad toilet habits like spending leisure time in bathroom, kicking toilet handles to flush, and urinating on the toilet seat and then not cleaning it.

K.E. Ranganathan, President, Sales and Marketing, Roca Bathroom Products Pvt Ltd, has listed some of the bad toilet habits that should be avoided: * Flushing is a good habit but keeping the seat cover down while doing so is better. Germs and other particles become airborne when flushed with the lid open. Various studies have found that flushing with the lid open can splash water

particles as far as six feet away from the toilet, causing outspread of bacteria in the bathroom atmosphere. To limit this, lowering of the lid before flushing is an essential habit that one should adopt. * Keeping your hands clean and flushing with your feet or shoes is a common practice which goes unnoticed most of the time. This keeps germs off your hands but not from the bottom of your shoes or feet, which later end up on the floor of your homes and personal spaces. Thus, making this exercise a futile one. Washing your hands thoroughly with soap after flushing is a good practice one should adopt as an infection control measure. * Living in the world of smartphones: Regular texting or scrolling through your mail in the toilet is common nowadays. But we are not aware that sitting for more than five minutes

on the toilet, can increase the blood pressure in the anal veins. Apart from it, any object used or brought in the bathroom for a long time gets indirectly infected with the bacteria. You can always wash your hands after every bathroom break, but cannot disinfect the phone before you put it near your face for an incoming call. * One of the most common unhygienic bathroom practises is urinating with the toilet seat down. This leads to spreading of bacteria on the seat which later transmits to our body when you use it next. Every individual needs to wipe off the toilet seat after using it to maintain the required amount of hygiene and cleanliness in the bathroom. * A good fragrance doesn't harm anyone. A musky or a flowery air freshener -- whatever suits your senses -- is a good way to vent off the bad odour in the toilet.

priority for employers, so they are suffering more," he said by phone.

"Yet it is the woman's responsibility to feed the family. They are doing so by sacrificing their own needs," he said.

Not everyone is critical of the currency move. Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has welcomed the action, saying it would also help curb human trafficking and child slavery.

But for women in India's villages and for migrant workers who do not have bank accounts, it may take a while to recover, Moghe said.

"This sort of a blow can have a long-term impact on the women.

Nothing has prepared them for something like this," she said.

Muslim body stages protest against common civil code New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (PTI): Expressing opposition to a common civil code and raising a host of demands including rescue of the missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, the All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam, the apex body of Sufi Sunni Ulema, staged a protest at Jantar Mantar here today.\ The demonstrators also tried to march towards Parliament but were stopped by police.

Later, a memorandum addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other authorities was handed over by its president Maulana Mufti Ashfaq Hussain Qadri to a police officer. The memorandum stated that "the Law Commission's questionnaire to gauge public opinion on triple talaq and other antiwomen practices across religions is a fraud and Islamic society boycott it." The memorandum also demanded that Home Minister Rajnath Singh directly deal with the case of disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Jung. It demanded that the government ensure his safe return. The protesters also opposed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin's visit to the country.

32 children die of Encephalitis in Odisha Collegium has reiterated 43 names BhUBANeswAr, NoveMBer 18 sumption of these beans can cause severe (IANs): At least 32 children have died of childhood illnesses with acute hepato- for appointment as HC judges: SC

Japanese Encephalitis in Odisha, which occurs by consuming "bada chakunda" beans, experts said.

A total of 96 deaths have been reported in Malkangiri district of the state. Of thes, 32 children died of encephalitis, and the remaining 64 due to other reasons, including Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), according to the state government.

According to an expert team which visited the district Encephalopahty disease was found in Malkangiri.

"Consumption of beans of Cassia occidentalis, locally known as 'bada chakunda', may be the reason behind continuing deaths in the area," said Jacob John, who headed the team. According to him, con-

myo-encephalopathy syndrome.

In some cases, children with acute encephalopathy in the tribal dominated district have close similarity with Encephalopathy found in western Uttar Pradesh districts. However, the expert team has called for further investigation into relative contributions of Japanese Encephalitis and Encephalopahty along with other causes that may affect central nervous system. Health Secretary Arti Ahuja said the state government was taking all possible steps to curb the disease. Ahuja said that 96 deaths were reported in 180 villages and Malkangiri municipality area while 229 cases were discharged from hospital after complete recovery.

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (IANs): The Supreme Court on Friday said that its collegiums has reiterated 43 names that were earlier recommended by it for appointment of judges to High Courts but were returned to it by the government for reconsideration.

These 43 names were part of 77 names recommended by the collegiums for appointment as judges in High Courts. While returning 43 names, the government had cleared 34 names. "We (the Collegium) have already met. We have reiterated all the 43 names sent to us," the bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Anil R. Dave told Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi in a brief hearing. Rohatgi said that

he was not aware of it.

The reiteration of 43 names by the collegium has apparently put the government in a bind as under the prevailing Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), it was binding on the government to make the appointment of judges if the collegium reiterates its recommended names. The government has said that until new MoP is put in place, the appointment of judges to higher judiciary would be on the basis of existing MoP. The top court's constitution bench, after striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission, had asked the government to prepare a new MoP laying down transparent procedure for the appointment of judges.

Priyanka Gandhi nod to campaign gives fillip to UP Congress

After she reviewed UP strategy along with Rahul Gandhi and selected senior leaders

New delhI, NoveMBer 18 (Bs): The Congress got a fillip in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh (UP) with Priyanka Gandhi agreeing to campaign for the party ahead of the assembly polls early next year.

After she reviewed UP strategy along with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi and selected senior leaders, state unit chief Raj Babbar and poll campaign in charge Sanjay Singh said Priyanka had agreed to campaign for the party but the details were yet to be worked out.

"She has agreed to our demand and will play a major role in UP campaign. The details are yet

to be worked out," Babbar said.

"All the party workers and leaders in UP wanted her to campaign," said Singh.

Hitherto, Priyanka had restricted herself to campaigning in the Gandhi family bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli but would step out into other areas to seek votes for respective party candidates in the coming elections.

Speculation over her campaign role had soared on October 24, when Priyanka for the first time had chaired a UP strategy meet in the absence of Rahul Gandhi.

Party insiders said that she might campaign in limited constituencies where the party hopes to win.

Among the voters, Priyanka's strong resemblance to her grandmother and former Prime Minis-

ter Indira Gandhi is often talked about whenever she spends time among people.

On November 21, she will attend the opening of an exhibition on the life of Indira Gandhi at Swaraj Bhavan, the ancestral

house of the Nehrus in Allahabad, along with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Old timers still recall how Priyanka's powerful oratory demolished the political rivals with her sharp and witty comments.

In 1999, when her uncle Arun Nehru was contesting on a BJP ticket against Congress nominee Satish Sharma from Rae Bareli, Priyanka made an emotional appeal to the voters asking them how could they allow a person, who had stabbed her father Rajiv Gandhi in the back, enter the area. Arun lost the polls despite BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee campaigning for him.

The same year, she sealed the fate of BJP leader Sushma Swaraj who was contesting against Sonia from Bellary in Karnataka. Priyanka's appeal in Kannada and

the way she broke security cordon to mingle with local women dented Swaraj's campaign beyond repair.

During the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, she countered BJP Prime Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi's jibe comparing the Congress to a 128 year old woman by asking the voters if she looked like an old woman. She also attacked the BJP, who had been targeting her husband Robert Vadra over his alleged controversial land deals forcing the BJP managers to recast their campaign.

But if the Vadra tag would prove to be a limitation for her needs to be watched as many in the party feel that Priyanka's fire power should be saved for the 2019 national polls rather than deploy her in the 2017 UP elections.

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North Korea says could renew ties with U.S. under Trump if troops go

North Korean leader Kim Jung-un visits the May 27th and January 8th fishery stations, which made an unprecedented catch of fishes, in this undated photo released

by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on November 17. (REUTERS)

GENEvA, NOvEmbER 18 (REutERs): If a U.S. administration of Donald Trump withdraws troops and equipment from South Korea and secures a peace treaty ending war on the peninsula, it could lead to normalising relations with North Korea, a Pyongyang envoy told Reuters on Thursday.

But for now North Korea will pursue its policy of “simultaneous development” of both its nuclear programme and the economy, So Se Pyong, North Korea’s Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva said. “It will be continued.”

So spoke in an interview at the diplomatic mission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Geneva, as North Korean officials began “unofficial and informal discussions” with U.S. academics and former U.S. officials in the Swiss city.

“The (DPRK) delegation is here now. But as you know, it is a ‘Track 2’,” he said, referring to the latest informal meeting in a series this year. The two coun-

tries have had no official dialogue since Kim Jong Un assumed power in 2011.

Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s negotiator for the stalled talks on its nuclear programme, leads the fourperson team, he said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, rattled by Trump’s campaign rhetoric that cast doubt on longstanding U.S. alliances, meets the U.S. presidentelect on Thursday in New York for hastily-arranged talks.

“HOSTILE POLICY” North Korea has carried out repeated nuclear and missile tests in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and sanctions.

Trump told Reuters in an interview in May he was willing to talk to Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear programme - a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation but has also called for China to do more to rein in its ally.

So, asked about North Korea’s views on resuming dialogue, following Trump’s remarks, replied:

“The meeting is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader.”

“If he (Trump) really gives up the hostile policy towards DPRK, withdrawing all the military equipment from South Korea, including the U.S. troops and coming to conclude the peace treaty, then I think it might be an opportunity to discuss the relations as we did in the 1990s.”

There are about 28,500 U.S. troops based in South Korea helping to defend the country against nuclear-armed North Korea, which has remained in a technical state of war with the South since the 1950-53 Korean conflict.

The Obama administration’s lack of engagement had allowed Pyongyang to develop its nuclear programme and “lighten the weapon warheads”, said So. Trump pledged his commitment to defending South Korea under an existing security alliance during a phone call with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, her office said a week ago.

So denounced a draft resolution approved in a U.N. General Assembly committee last week condemning “widespread and gross violations of human rights” in his country. He expected the text to go before the General Assembly next month.

So, asked whether North Korea feared the Security Council could take up the issue and try to refer alleged human rights violations to the International Criminal Court, replied: “They know that without the full approval of Security Council, it cannot be done. They also know that some countries will exercise their vote, the veto. Not only China but also Russia.”

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Japan’s PM Abe meets Trump, says confident can build trust

NEW YORK, NOvEmbER 18 (REutERs): Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described Donald Trump as a “trustworthy leader” after meeting the U.S. president-elect on Thursday to get clarity on statements Trump had made while campaigning that had caused concern about the alliance.

Abe, speaking after the hastily arranged 90-minute meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan, reporters: “The talks made me feel sure that we can build a relationship of trust.” But he would not disclose specifics because the conversation was unofficial.

Japan’s leadership has been nervous about the future of an alliance that is core to Tokyo’s diplomacy and security.

Trump had fanned worries in Tokyo and beyond with comments on the possibility of Japan acquiring nuclear arms, demands that allies pay more for keeping U.S. forces on their soil or face their possible withdrawal, and his opposition to the U.S.-led 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact.

Abe had worked closely with President Barack Obama on the TPP trade pact, which was part of Obama’s push to counter the rising strength of China and a pillar of Abe’s economic reforms.

“Alliances cannot function without trust. I am now confident that President-elect Trump is a trustworthy leader,” said Abe, describing the talks as “candid” and held in a “warm atmosphere”.

Abe gave Trump a golf

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (R) at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 17. (Reuters)

driver and received golfwear in return, Japanese officials said.

Photographs taken inside the ornate meeting room at Trump Tower showed Abe accompanied only by an interpreter and Trump by his daughter Ivanka, her husband and Trump adviser Jared Kushner, and Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn whom a senior Trump official said on Thursday had been offered the national security adviser position.

Abe said he had agreed to meet again with Trump “at a convenient time to cover a wider area in greater depth.”

It was unclear if that would happen before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Trump official Kellyanne Conway told CBS

earlier on Thursday that “any deeper conversations about policy and the relationship between Japan and the United States will have to wait until after the inauguration.”

Trump officials did not immediately comment following the meeting with Abe. COMMON GROUND Back in Tokyo, Finance Minister Taro Aso commented: “The meeting ran longer than planned, which means that they were on the same wavelength and it went well.”

Some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric suggested an image of Japan forged in the 1980s, when Tokyo was seen by many in the United States as a threat to jobs and a free-rider on defence.

A Trump adviser who

spoke earlier in the week, however, stressed a more positive view and credited Abe with making changes.

“Frankly, the prime minister has been more assertive and forthright in trying to make those changes to Japan’s global posture,” he said.

Trump, a brash billionaire real estate magnate, and Abe, a political blue blood, share a stated desire to raise their countries’ global standing and both have support from rightwing constituencies.

Abe has boosted Japan’s overall defence spending since taking office in 2012.

He has also stretched the limits of its pacifist postwar constitution to allow the military to take a bigger global role. Japan’s defence spending, though,

still stands at just over 1 percent of GDP compared with more than 3 percent in the United States.

Abe was expected to see Obama at an Asia-Pacific summit in Peru on the weekend. Hours before Abe and Trump met, Obama’s secretary of state, John Kerry, and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met in Lima to discuss the Paris climate accord - a deal Trump has pledged to exit.

Diplomats and analysts say that however good the atmospherics, it will be hard to assess Trump’s policies on security issues ranging from overseas deployments of U.S. troops, China’s maritime assertiveness and the North Korean nuclear threat until Trump makes key appointments.

Climate action ‘urgent, irreversible’ Scientists develop method to mARRAKEch, NOvEmbER 18 (IANs): Nearly 200 nations have reaffirmed their political commitment to a global climate momentum that they say is “urgent” and “irreversible” at the UN climate talks that were mostly overshadowed by US President-elect Donald Trump’s comments to cut off funding to climate change programmes.

“We call for the highest political commitment to combat climate change, as a matter of urgent priority,” 197 parties to the UN’s climate convention stated in the Marrakech Action Proclamation, issued on the penultimate day of the UN climate talks here on Thursday night.

“Our climate is warming at an alarming and unprecedented rate, and we have an urgent duty to respond,” it said. “Indeed, this year, we have seen extraordinary momentum on climate change worldwide, and in many multilateral fora. This momentum is irreversible -- it’s being driven not only by governments, but by science, business and global action of all types at all levels,” they said.

“Our task now is to rapidly build on that momentum, together, mov-

ing forward purposefully to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to foster adaptation efforts, thereby benefiting and supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals,” the nations said.

The parties -- 196 nations and the European Union bloc -- also called for an increase in the volume, flow and access to finance for climate projects, alongside improved capacity and technology, including from developed to developing countries.

The developed countries also reaffirmed their $100 billion mobilisation goal. The countries unanimously called for further climate action and support, well in advance of 2020, taking into account the specific needs and special circumstances of developing countries, the least developed countries and those particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

It also talked about an increase in the volume, flow and access to finance for climate projects, alongside improved capacity and technology, including from developed to developing countries.

The proclamation also showed solidarity with the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The Paris Agreement of 2015 aims to limit average global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by cutting greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. Hailing the agreement, the countries affirmed their commitment to its full implementation and its rapid entry into force in the light of different national circumstances.

Meanwhile, Britain became the 111th country to ratify the Paris Agreement that came into force on November 4 when more than 55 countries, as well as countries representing more than 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, ratified the deal.

Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and vowed to cut off funding to UN climate change programmes. He has also said he would reduce US involvement in the Paris climate accord.

Without the US, delegates and analysts at the climate summit here were sceptical about the success in tackling one of the greatest challenges of this century.

“Coming just a week after the US election results, the Marrakech Action Proclamation sends a strong signal that parties are committed than ever to advance solutions to the most pressing global challenge of our times, despite international headwinds,” said an independent climate expert here.

Liz Gallagher, Senior Associate, E3G, said: “Today’s proclamation in Marrakech was received with thunderous applause. It just goes to show how serious countries are about getting on with their climate action plans in order to protect their economies and their people. It was a touching moment of solidarity after a bruising week.”

“It’s rare that so many countries unite to make a public declaration on any policy subject. This demonstrates just what a global consensus there now is around climate change... they will not let the election of Donald Trump hijack the important work being done to secure the safe future of our planet,” Mohamed Adow of Christian Aid, which monitors the climate negotiations on behalf of poor countries, said in a statement.

China’s Shenzhou 11 manned space capsule returns to Earth

bEIJING, NOvEmbER 18 (REutERs): China’s Shenzhou 11 space capsule landed safely in the northern region of Inner Mongolia on Friday with two astronauts aboard, state media said, completing the country’s longest manned space mission to date.

China Central Television (CCTV) showed images of the craft - whose name translates as “Divine Vessel” - on the ground flanked by Chinese flags and support teams. State news agency Xinhua said the capsule had touched down “successfully” just after 2 p.m. The two astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, spent 30 days aboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, or “Heavenly Palace 2”, which China is using to carry out experiments ahead of a longer-range plan to have a permanent manned space station around 2022.

They did not immediately emerge from the capsule as CCTV said they were undergoing medical examination, but space mission chief commander Zhang Youxia said in a televised speech that they were in good condition.

Tiangong 2 will remain in its orbit and next docks with Tianzhou 1, China’s first cargo spacecraft, which

Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft carrying astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong blasts off from the launchpad in Jiuquan, China. (REUTERS/Files)

is set to be launched in April next year, according to state media.

In a manned space mission in 2013, three Chinese astronauts spent 15 days in orbit and docked with a space laboratory, the Tiangong 1. Advancing China’s space programme is a priority for Beijing,

with President Xi Jinping calling for the country to establish itself as a space power.

China insists its space programme is for peaceful purposes.

The U.S. Defense Department has highlighted China’s increasing space capabilities, saying it was pur-

suing activities aimed at preventing other nations using space-based assets in a crisis. China has been working to develop its space programme for military, commercial and scientific purposes, but is still playing catch-up to established space powers the United States and Russia.

quickly diagnose skin cancer

mElbOuRNE, NOvEmbER 18 (IANs): Australian researchers have developed a revolutionary blood test to diagnose skin cancer much more quickly and efficiently than conventional methods.

The ground-breaking “liquid biopsy” test will be made available at Melbourne’s Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI), Victoria state’s Health Minister Jill Hennessy said on Friday.

Prior to the development of the new test, melanomas could only be identified by a complex and invasive surgery, results from which could take weeks to be obtained, Xinhua news agency reported.

The blood test can provide the same information in a matter of hours from a simple blood test, potentially saving millions of lives worldwide.

Once the skin cancer has been identified via the new test, oncologists can quickly tailor the most appropriate treatment for each individual patient, potentially preventing the cancer from

spreading to the bloodstream.

“We’re putting cancer patients first and investing in world-leading cancer research and future technologies that have the power to save lives,” Hennessy told reporters in Melbourne.

“It will mean patients can get diagnosed and treated sooner, without having to endure long and anxious waits and invasive and painful surgery.”

Frank McGuire, Parliamentary Secretary for Medical Research, said the development was the latest example of Victoria’s commitment to cancer research.

“This new blood test is a great example of how we are rapidly turning around breakthroughs in cancer research into clinical practice with real benefits for cancer patients,” McGuire said.

In addition to diagnosing the cancer quicker the blood test can also tell doctors when a treatment will stop working, allowing them to change medications before a patient’s condition starts to decline.

Curious people are more creative

NEW YORK, NOvEmbER 18 (IANs): People who show strong curiosity traits on personality tests perform better on creative tasks, according to a new study.

This is especially true for those with a strong diversive curiosity trait, or curiosity associated with the interest in exploring unfamiliar topics and learning something new, the study said.

The findings contribute to a growing body of evidence suggesting that testing for curiosity traits may be useful for employers, especially those seeking to fill complex jobs, said lead author of the study Jay Hardy, Assistant Professor College of Business, the Oregon State University, US. “This research suggests it may be useful for employers to measure curiosity, and, in particular, diversive curiosity, when hiring new employees,” Hardy said.

Diversive curiosity is a trait wellsuited to early stage problem-solving because it leads to gathering a large amount of information relevant to the problem. That information can be used to generate and evaluate new ideas in later stages of creative problem-solving.

On the other hand, people with strong specific curiosity traits, or the curiosity that reduces anxiety and

fills gaps in understanding, tend to be more problem-focused.

While diversive curiosity tends to be a more positive force, specific curiosity tends to be a negative force.

For the study, researchers asked 122 undergraduate college students, to take personality tests that measured their diversive and specific curiosity traits.

They then asked the students to complete an experimental task involving the development of a marketing plan for a retailer.

Researchers evaluated the students’ early-stage and late-stage creative problem-solving processes, including the number of ideas generated. The students’ ideas were also evaluated based on their quality and originality.

The findings, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, indicated that the participants’ diversive curiosity scores related strongly to their performance scores.

Those with stronger diversive curiosity traits spent more time and developed more ideas in the early stages of the task.

Stronger specific curiosity traits did not significantly relate to the participants’ idea generation and did not affect their creative performance.

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Harden triple double as rockets rip blazers South Africa’s Faf du Plessis

James Harden finished with 26 points, 14 assists and 12 rebounds to spark the Rockets over visiting Portland 126-109 (AFP Photo)

Washington, no vember 18 (aFP): James Harden posted his third triple double in five games to power the Houston Rockets over visiting Portland 126-109 on a night of lopsided NBA matchups.

Harden finished with 26 points, 14 assists and 12 rebounds to spark the Rockets (7-5). It was Harden's

12th career triple double and the Rockets are 10-2 when he achieves double digits in three categories.

The Rockets made 14 of 32 three-pointers. Trevor Ariza scored 16 points, Clint Capela added 15, reserve Eric Gordon netted 16 points and Patrick Beverley hit 11 in his first start since pre-season left knee surgery.

C.J. McCollum led Portland with 26 points while Maurice Harkness added 19 and Damian Lillard had 18 with five rebounds and five assists.

Harden scored 16 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out six assists in the first quarter as the Rockets led 41-29 after 12 minutes.

Dion Waiters scored 23 points and the host Miami Heat snapped a six-game losing streak, their longest since 2008, by downing Milwaukee 96-73.

Miami improved to 3-8 while the Bucks fell to 5-6.

Miami guard Goran Dragic, who missed three games with an injured left ankle, had 16 points while Heat

center Hassan Whiteside had 12 points, 17 rebounds and an NBA season-best seven blocked shots despite early foul trouble.

Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, also in foul trouble, was held to 14 points and seven rebounds.

At Washington, John Wall scored 23 points and passed out 11 assists as the host Wizards snapped a three-game losing streak by defeating New York 119112.

Washington (3-8) sank 15-of-23 three-point shots and surged ahead by as much as 27 points only to let the Knicks score 12 points in a row late and pull within seven before falling for the 10th time in their past 11 meetings with the Wizards.

Otto Porter scored 21 points for the Wizards while Bradley Beal added 18 points in his return after missing three games with a hamstring injury. Derrick Rose had 27 points for the Knicks (5-7) while Carmelo Anthony added 19.

At Minnesota, Andrew Wiggins scored 35 points and Karl-Anthony Towns added 25 to spark the host Timberwolves over Philadelphia 110-86. Dario Sacic came off the bench to score 16 points to lead the 76ers while Joel Embiid had 10 points and 10 rebounds.

charged with ball tampering

Dubai, november 18 (reuters): South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has been charged with ball tampering during the second test against Australia in Hobart, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.

The ICC announced on Wednesday that it would review footage of the match that appeared to show du Plessis applying saliva to the ball with a lolly in his mouth.

"The charge relates to changing the condition of the ball in breach of Law 42.3 and has been laid by the ICC Chief Executive David Richardson who has exercised his right to do so," the ICC said in a statement.

"Du Plessis has pleaded not guilty to the charge ... Details of the hearing will be announced in due course," the governing body added.

If proven guilty, du Plessis could be handed a maximum fine of 100 percent match fee, two suspension points and four demerit points. Two suspension points equates to a ban of one test match.

Earlier in the day, Hashim Amla was accompanied at a media briefing by the entire South African

Faf du Plessis (Getty Images)

squad and support staff to "show solidarity" with their captain.

Amla said du Plessis has done "absolutely nothing wrong".

"The reason everybody is here is to stand together and to show solidarity to what has been something we actually thought was a joke. It's not April," Amla said, hours before the ICC charge was announced.

"But the allegations against Faf were really, for us, a ridiculous thing and as a team we are standing strong. For us it is basically a joke. The boys are here, standing strong."

The 32-year-old du Plessis, the stand-in cap-

tain for the injured AB de Villiers has previously been in hot water for ball tampering.

In 2013, he was fined 50 percent of his match fee for ball tampering in the second test against Pakistan.

He was caught on camera rubbing the ball against a zip on his pocket on the third day of the match in Dubai, leading umpires Ian Gould and Rod Tucker to penalise South Africa five runs and change the ball.

Du Plessis did not contest the charge.

South Africa's innings and 80-run win over Australia in Hobart sealed the three-match test series with a game in hand.

Mayweather says he won't fight again: report UEFA bans Finland midfielder for cocaine use Washington, no vember 18 (aFP): Retired unbeaten former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather says he has retired for good and has no hunger for a ring return, adding he has too much fun traveling the world.

Mayweather told USA Today in New York on Wednesday that he has no need for the money or glory another bout could offer, especially a rematch with 37-year-old Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao, whom he defeated 18 months ago.

"A lot of fighters in the sport of boxing may want

to retire, but they have to fight because they have to," Mayweather said. "I don't have to fight.

"I just made $300 million for fighting Pacquiao.

I'm OK. Like I said before, I'm happy with my position. Once again, the money don't make me. I make money. I'm well off. I make smart moves and like I said before, I'm happy with where my career has went."

Mayweather, 39, said he attended Pacquaio's victory over Jessie Vargas earlier this month in Las Vegas "at the last minute" to "do something different" with

his daughter.

Mayweather prompted talk of a Pacquiao rematch by saying the door was "absolutely" open to a comeback after he called it quits in September of last year upon defeating Andre Berto to finish 49-0.

Mayweather admits he tosses out differing notions on the comeback possibilities depending on how he feels any given day.

"Different days, I say different things. Different days, I feel different ways," Mayweather said. "Can Floyd Mayweather contradict himself? Absolutely.

So that's why I know when I contradict myself, it doesn't mean I'm crazy.

"I'm only human. I'm not perfect. God only made one thing perfect: my boxing record."

And that's why it might not ever reach 50-0.

nYon, november 18 (aP): Finland midfielder Roman Eremenko has been banned for two years after he tested positive for cocaine, UEFA said Friday.

Traces of cocaine, which is considered a banned stimulant, were found in a sample Eremenko gave after playing for CSKA Moscow in a Champions League game against Bayer Leverkusen in September.

The result of that game, a 2-2 draw, will not be affected by Friday's ruling even though Eremenko scored CSKA's second goal.

The two-year ban is backdated to Oct. 6, the date Eremenko was provisionally suspended.

Born in Moscow, the 29-year-old Eremenko grew up in Finland and has represented the country 73 times, including in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. He won the Russian league title with CSKA last season and the Ukrainian title with Dynamo Kiev in 2009.

Eremenko can appeal the ruling. This month, the Court of Arbitration for Sport gave Algerian forward Youcef Belaili a two-year ban on appeal

for cocaine after throwing out a previous four-year sanction on procedural grounds.

Eremenko's case follows another Champions League doping case last season, when Macedonian midfielder Arijan Ademi was banned for four years when he tested positive for a banned steroid while playing for Dinamo Zagreb against Arsenal in the group stage.

CSKA is fourth in the Russian league and last in Champions League Group E behind Monaco, Leverkusen, and Tottenham.

public discourse Common Civil Code : Not Acceptable Kuolachalie Seyie

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nder the directive principles of the state policy of Indian constitution, Art 44 provides that “The state shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.” This directive principle is not amendable and cannot be erased or repealed under any circumstances so as to safeguard the interest of all. The objective behind this state endeavour as enshrined in the constitution is only to address discrimination against vulnerable, diverse, religious and different ethnic groups and to harmonise various cultural groups within the country. The uniqueness of the Indian situation is unity in diversity. The question therefore is whose family laws or cultures are to be codified as uniform civil code for the whole country to avoid plurality of family laws? It is impossible to have a common civil code without Govt coercion and intolerance.

The directive principle aforesaid should never be used to impose or force the cultural, social, religious, and customary practices of the mainland majority of India over the minorities under the cover of establishing a uniform civil code. It will inevitably end up in the suppression of the vitally important family laws and cultures of this minority peoples for the political agenda. The ultimate outcome of such imposition of mainland cultural practices, if brought about, over the minorities, will be costly and dangerous. Barack Obama’s Govt in the US tells Christian Ministers to perform samesex weddings or face jail terms and criminal fines, on ground of discrimination, if they decline to officiate same-sex marriage ceremonies; after all, the matter has been manipulated and legalised

by the abuse of power for political interest. One cannot permit such similar madness of other forms to happen. The Govt exists to protect and respect our freedoms, not to attack and end them. The Govt cannot erase these fundamental rights, freedoms as guaranteed in our constitution and replace them with its coercion and intolerant agenda based on the culture of the mainland majority at any cost.

The disputed claim of Nagaland by the new independent India on the basis of unilaterally drawn map she has inherited from the British when their empire ended was furiously resisted with spontaneous and vigorous fights till date by the claim of the Nagas that they are not Indians and their territory is not a part of the Indian Union. Only a certain unauthorised group of people itching for soft chairs went to New Delhi on their own in the name of ‘Naga People’s Convention’ entered into an agreement with the Govt of India in July 1960. As such, without authority the present state of Nagaland came into being as a part of the Indian Union, under the 13th Amendment Act of 1962 of Indian constitution, whereby the constitutional guarantee and protection of the Naga social, religious and customary practices, land and its resources are thus enshrined under Art 371A of the constitution. Further, the Indian constitution says that no Act of Parliament shall apply to the state of Nagaland unless and until the same has been approved by the Nagaland State Legislative Assembly. Therefore under any circumstance, the Naga people shall not accept the proposed probable Common Civil Code of mainland India. The Nagaland State Legislative Assembly members must fully understand their serious responsibility to protect the political and legal position guaranteed by the Art 371A provision which is the unique fact of their history.

False Moral Equivalence (or How to Rationalize Immoral Acts) Robert A, Silverstein

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n the Eastern Mirror of November 16, 2016, a speech was printed. The paper describes the event thus: “This speech was delivered by the theme speaker, Akum Longchari, Editor of the [sic] Morung Express on the occasion of the celebration of National Press Day by the media fraternity of Nagaland on November 16, 2016[.]” (Disclosure: I met Longchari this past July in Kohima, we have exchanged e-mails since we met, and his paper, The Morung Express, has published a number of my articles.)

The speech is titled, “Ethics and Professionalism,” and addresses the ethical conflicts and obligations that journalists confront on the job. The speech is an important one, because it makes clear that the credibility of the media is critical to a free society, and the decisions that working journalists make can either move a society toward greater freedom or away from such freedom, based on the truth or falsity of the reporting that they do.

But the topic I want to briefly discuss is one Longchari barely touches on, one which, for a variety of reasons, is a sensitive one for me, and should be for you too. In the article, Longchari is explaining why “Fairness and Impartiality are imperative in order to attain high standards of professional journalism.” But, later in the paragraph, he cites an exception to his rule: “...objectivity is not always possible (in the face for example of brutality and inhumanity)....” And this exception is what I want to discuss. Actually, not so much the exception, but the way we rationalize the exception.

Further on in Longchari's speech, he refers to the effectiveness of propaganda in contributing to the slaughter of literally millions of people. The two examples he gives are the slaughter in Rwanda in the 1990s and the extermination of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis in World War Two. He gives one propagandist in particular

“the greatest responsibility for the holocaust.” The word “holocaust,” in the lower case, has one definition that fits this discussion: “a thorough destruction involving extensve loss of life esp. through fire.” But when the word is capitalized, as in “Holocaust,” it is the term used to describe the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis in World War Two. One definition of “Moral Equivalency” is, “...a term used in political debate, usually to criticize any denial that a moral hierarchy can be assessed of two sides in a conflict, or in the actions or tactics of two sides.” This definition is from Wikpedia, and is fine as far as it goes. But it is my contention that it does not go far enough. To me, moral equivalency is used by all of us in our every-day lives as a psychological device to rationalize doing something immoral, to another person or group of people. It allows us to live with an act that we know to be wrong; it allows us to sleep at night.

To go back to the most extreme example used much of the time, the Holocaust, many who participated in the slaughter of Jews did not have to rationalize their participation: they hated Jews so thoroughly that there was no need to rationalize their acts. But in many of the countries where the Jews were shot on the spot or rounded up for shipment in cattle cars to the extermination camps of Poland, the native population, necessary to the Nazis for support, did not have the hatred that the Nazis had, and they felt compelled to rationalize their participation in the slaughter. Many of them thus rationalized that the Jews loaned money at usurious rates, lived in isolated groups looking down on the rest of them, manipulated others in order to accumulate great wealth, etc. These were all viewed as acts that earned them their death sentences, that is, these wrongs by the Jews were, to them, as serious as the death sentences that were now being imposed on them.

This is false moral equivalency in action. The non-Jewish community

may have wanted the houses and businesses of the Jews, which they got upon the death or departure of the Jews to the death camps, but they needed a reason to allow themselves to move forward to take the Jewish property. To sleep in someone's bed whom they just assisted in sending to their death, they needed a reason, and the reason had to be as serious to them as would justify participating in the person's death.

Prior to the building of the extermination camps in Poland, the Nazis invaded the USSR and killed as many as one million Jews, simply rounding up all Jews in a village or town, taking them out to a field, demanding that they dig a ditch, and then shooting them at the edge of the ditch. In all of these cases, in hundreds of towns, the non-Jews had to determine, for their own reasons, that the Jews deserved what was happening to them, otherwise they would have had to admit that they were cowards, too terrified to stand up to the Nazis. It was much easier to rationalize that the Jews got what was coming to them. They used the psychological tool of false moral equivalence.

But one need not use the most evil examples of moral equivalency to understand its usefulness and see how we can all rely on it to allow ourselves do something that we know to be immoral. I have a simple example from almost 40 years ago. I was getting a graduate degree in Politics at New York University in Manhattan and a fellow student used to go into the NYU bookstore, switch price tags on books (putting cheap tags on expensive books), and walking out with an expensive book at a cheaper price than was the actual price of the book. As an attorney at the time, I knew that what she was doing was larceny, a crime. But she viewed herself as a radical, and rationalized that NYU was a private capitalist university, one she decided was part of the decadent capitalist system and deserved what she was doing to it by in effect stealing expensive books for cheaper prices. To her, there was a moral equivalency to her act and NYU's participation in the

evil capitalist system.

How many of us rationalized stealing something from someone and rationalizing that it was okay because their family had a lot of money, they could afford to lose what you were stealing, and anyway, the person was spoiled and flaunted his or her wealth in your face. This is another day-to-day example of false moral equivalency.

Now let us turn to the more sensitive, yet more relevant, subject of corruption and violence against Nagas by Nagas. How do those who are corrupt or violent rationalize what they must understand is immoral? Some are just evil and do not need to rationalize immoral acts. But the vast majority of those who do these acts must say things to themselves that allow them to sleep at night.

Let me give a powerful example.

The NSCN(IM), in Manipur not long ago, ordered a man not to run for a certain office that the NSCN(IM) determined, for whatever reasons, should remain vacant. That man ran, and won, and shortly thereafter was murdered.

Was it the NSCN(IM)? Who knows? No one will have the courage to come forward and testify. But you can be sure that the next time the NSCN(IM) tells someone not to run, that person will certainly not run!

But the interesting question is, how did the killer rationalize the murder of an innocent man? It has to concern that the person running for the office was very selfish, not thinking of the movement and the fight for a nation, etc. The disobedience of the command not to run was the moral equivalence of his death, at least to the killer.

Here is one test of whether you are relying on the crutch of false moral equivalence to commit an immoral act. If the act you are committing in the name of moral equivalence benefits you, you should be suspicious of the truth and logic of your act. You must have the integrity to look into your heart to judge whether you are making a false moral equivalence for selfish reasons.

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.

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‘Emancipated’- an Ao Christian film review

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mancipated’ is an Ao Christian about a young lad who finds himself in dilemma and distress when life hits him. It is a story about a man who fails in everything and drowns himself in misery and frustration which makes him go astray. His life takes a new turn when he listens to a voice that always speaks to him and takes up English coaching classes and meets new people. His life slowly takes a positive turn and he feels himself worthy of

something. He finds himself ‘emancipated’.

With dints of humor and commendable acting from the amateur actors, this short movie is worth a watch and will make you smile. Direction, Cinematography and edition of the movie is by Lil’ Star Entertainment and the film is produced by Nuksungti, the actor himself. Released on 28 October 2016, the DVD of the film will be available at OM Book Store, Dimapur, Big Bite, Jail Colony, Kohima, Clark Literature house, Mokokchung.

8th Music Awards ff Nagaland 2016 NomiNEEs

The following are the nominees who will be vying for the coveted awards in various genres of 8th edition of the Music Awards of Nagaland which will be held as part of the annual Hornbill Festival 2016.

Dahil Pfithu Give me love (G1)

Temsumongba Ozukum feat. Temsu Aichanger Pa Aitdakjang (GL3)

Green Apple Worth special (RA1)

Made in July Got a bad feeling (RA2, PD1)

Tiawati Sometimes (RA5)

Virie & Zaza Down that road(RA6) 5 minutes from now (RA7)

Technicolors Like a fool (RA3)

Harry Potter universe just got expanded

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Cast : Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol Director : JK Rowling

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t was 15 years ago that we met Harry Potter, Hermoine and Ron on screen. We grew up with them, learned life lessons with them and bid them a teary goodbye five years back. Now, a decade and a half later, their universe is expanding.

With Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, we are entering a world where there is no Harry Potter but a lot of magic.

Can we accept Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander and his No-Maj (American for Muggles) sidekick Jacob Kowalski like we did Harry and gang?

That is the litmus test this film has to pass before we commit to live it for the

next decade for this is yet another tent-pole that will live and breathe as the original Harry Potter generation greys at the temples and head towards middle-age.

Now this is what the film has in its favour — director Davis Yates has returned to the wizarding world after helming the last four films in the franchise and JK Rowling writing its script. A talented cast and the fact that the film is confident enough not to reference Harry Potter franchise adds to your confidence.

The film opens in 1926 as a bumbling magizoologist Newt Scamander (he would write a book on magical beasts that Harry would later study at Hogwarts) arrives in

New York. he has many magical beasts in his suitcase and expects to find more while in America. Once there, he realises a dark force is destroying the city piece-by-piece.

As anti-wizard sentiment takes hold, Newt will be joined by Jacob, a witch Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) as they hunt through Manhattan for magical beasts and understand the dark force better.

And there is Percival Graves (Colin Farrell), a wizarding police officer who is too cool for school. It seems it is time to buy some popcorn and get a helping of magic.

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Robert Downey Jr getting behind the camera to direct TV drama, Singularity

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Force 2 (Hindi)

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The Shuffles Trust (RA4)

Senti Longchar (DK) Just for you (P6)

Along Jamir There for you ( P1)

Virie My summer (P7)

Kubanglung Pamei Spotlight (P3)

Hentick Konyak Joseph Konyak Teri Yaadein Kaisa nasha (PL2) (PL1)

Ruokuo Will never see Kezia Semy you again (P5) Walk in (G2)

Manacle Free Not enough (PD2)

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The Gluttones Superhero (PD3)

90s Charisma Start all over (PD4)

Buhiu B. Lam Love for our world (PD5)

ron Man star Robert Downey Jr is set to step behind the camera to produce and direct a new television drama called Singularity.

The 51-year-old actor is turning his talents to television and stepping behind the camera as he gears up to both produce and direct the new series, reported The Wrap.

Plot details are currently unknown to the public, but Anthony Michael Hall - who co-starred with Downey in 1988 film Johnny Be Good - is lined up to star in the production, and the Iron Man star will be directing the pilot episode.

The Avengers star and his wife Susan - who is a veteran in the producing field - announced the show as part of their new deal

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with Sonar Entertainment, under their Team Downey Productions banner.

The agreement “will cover scripted and unscripted content for TV and digital platforms.”

Sonar CEO Thomas Lesinski said, “We are excited about Team Downey’s vision for developing and

producing a broad scope of original premium content.

“Sonar is thrilled to partner with Robert, Susan and the entire team -- it is another example of our commitment to forge creative collaborations with the most dynamic talent in the industry.”

Source: PTI

‘Force 2’

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Powerfaith – John 3:16 (G6), Release (RM3)

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Kennedy Chiru You’re my everything Toshimoa Jamir (HR3) Getting into it (IN1)

Samuel Thabah It's only love (G4)

Sorenthung Kikon The Spotlight feat.

A blessing to Liko Phom everyone (G5) Archer Queen (HR2)

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tum bin 2 (Hindi)

Mayangtsa Tongpangji akoktsü (GL2) Kü meimla (RM1) Nükmerem (RM2) Tesayur (PL3) Floating elsewhere (IN2)

Muno Shiu Rise and walk (G3) Like the stars (P4)

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Whoops! Here we are Love Biscuit (IN3)

Gospel (Local Dialects) – GL Pop (Solo) – P Hip Hop/ Rap – Hr

Ato Nienu Jihovah medo (GL1) I miss you (P2)

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Wrapped in a white towel, there is no 'Saawariya' moment while beating the baddies to pulp. After 'Akira', Sonakshi yet again tries pretty hard to get into gun-toting mode as a RAW agent. The two are on a mission to save Bharat from the enemies. RAW agents have found commonplace in several Bollywood flicks ('Agent Vinod', 'Ek Tha Tiger' (2012)) in

the last few years, here's one more addition. Being a RAW agent means taking off to foreign shores which in this case is Budapest to take on the baddie, played by 'Mardaani' (2014) actor Tahir Raj Bhasin. He loves to play the harmonica amidst the mayhem. He shows sparks, but it's a pity that he might get typecast.

Adrenaline junkies might fancy the film, de-

spite the bizarre juxtaposition of the 'Mr India' (1987) chartbuster, 'Kaate Nahi Katte', in a Budapest nightclub. Strangely, the scantily-clad local girls can mouth the Hindi song and gyrate to it, but the next moment the lead dancer can only talk in their language.

Don't try to fathom it or the plot, just enjoy the Budapest scenery instead.

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India in control after England collapse ClassIC Cup: Naga FC, India's Virat Kohli (left) celebrates the wicket of England captain Alastair Cook on the second day of the second Test in Vishakhapatnam on November 18, 2016 (AFP Photo)

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V I S A K H A PAT N A M , NoVeMber 18 (reuTerS): England were left with a mountain to climb after India made 455 in their first innings before returning to blow away the tourists' top order on a spin-dominated second day of the second test on Friday.

England reached 103 for five, trailing India by 352 runs, at stumps with

all-rounder Ben Stokes and wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow unbeaten at the crease.

The touring side were rattled in the third over when paceman Mohammed Shami breached captain Alastair Cook's defence with an incoming delivery that split the lefthander's off-stump in two.

Joe Root and young opener Haseeb Hameed

survived a hostile spell of bowling from the Indians to add 47 for the second wicket before the latter was run out on 13 by some smart work from wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha.

England's batting mainstay Root, who hit a century in the previous test in Rajkot, made 53 before he fell to off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who also picked up the wicket

of Ben Duckett.

Debutant off-spinner Jayant Yadav picked up his maiden wicket with a review after Moeen Ali advanced and then padded the ball away.

England were 80-5 at that stage, but Bairstow, unbeaten on 12 and Stokes ensured there was no further damage. Stokes was not out on 12 and survived when a delivery from Ya-

dav kissed, but did not dislodge, his bail.

Earlier, Ashwin scored his second half-century of the series to guide India to a strong first-innings score.

Ashwin scored 58 and added 64 for the eighth wicket with Yadav (35) after England off-spinner Moeen had claimed three quick wickets to peg back the hosts.

Resuming the second day on 317-4 in the first ever test match in the port city of Visakhapatnam, captain Virat Kohli and Ashwin added 35 in a fifthwicket stand.

Stokes failed to hold on to the straightforward chance from Ashwin but made amends with the very next ball, catching Kohli when the India captain attempted a cover drive.

Kohli, who was unbeaten on 151 overnight, hit 18 boundaries in his knock of 167.

Moeen dismissed Saha and Ravindra Jadeja in the same over to reduce India to 363-7.

Saha wasted a review on a plumb lbw decision while Jadeja did not appeal his leg-before dismissal to a delivery which, replays confirmed, was missing the stumps.

Ashwin, who scored 70 and 32 in the first test at Rajkot, and Yadav then added some crucial runs to India's total.

Chelsea’s Conte, Hazard scoop Barcelona boss dismisses Premier League monthly awards Messi move speculation

Antonio Conte

LoNdoN, NoVeMber 18 (reuTerS): Chelsea's Antonio Conte was named Premier League manager of the month on Friday after leading the club to four consecutive wins in October, while winger Eden Hazard picked up the player's prize for the first time.

Conte saw his side pick up just one point in September, but after a tactical switch to the former Italy manager's preferred 3-4-3 formation, the club scored 11 goals and kept four clean sheets in October.

"It's a great honour and I will share this with my players and the club," Conte told the Premier League's website.

"It is the first time I work in another country with a different culture, and when you want to bring your own philosophy it is not easy, but now I am glad

Eden Hazard

for this choice."

Hazard, who scored three goals and claimed an assist in October, has been key to Chelsea's revival this season and said adopting a more single-minded approach in front of goal had helped him rediscover his best form.

"People said I didn't shoot enough," he said.

"Now I try to shoot and score every game when I'm on the pitch. Before I was thinking about the last pass to make an assist, now I can do it myself."

Chelsea's upturn in form has helped them climb to second in the table, a point behind leaders Liverpool after 11 games.

They travel to face 15th-placed Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Sunday.

bArceLoNA, NoVeMber 18 (AFP): Barcelona boss Luis Enrique insists Lionel Messi will remain at the Catalan giants for many years to come, but was less explicit over his own future when quizzed on Friday.

Barca boss Josep Maria Bartomeu claimed on Thursday that he remains confident Messi, 29, will end his career at the Camp Nou despite having just 18 months left to run on his contract.

"I also imagine that Leo Messi will remain for many years at Barca," said Enrique ahead of his side's clash at home to Malaga on Saturday.

"It would be beautiful for a player that left his homeland at such a young age and with such hope that he could finish his career as undoubtedly the best player of all-time at the club that gave him the opportunity.

"For me it would be the perfect story."

After extending Neymar's deal to 2021, Barca hope to tie down Luis Suarez to a longterm contract before conclud-

ing a new deal with Messi.

However, there has been no such rush to extend Enrique's deal, which expires at the end of the season, despite an impressive haul of eight trophies in just over two seasons in charge.

"I have suddenly lost my imagination," he replied when pressed over whether he saw his own future at the Camp Nou beyond the end of the season.

Barca trail Real Madrid by two points, but only a first Real win in the Spanish capital's derby over Atletico Madrid in La Liga for four seasons later on Saturday will prevent Barca finishing the weekend on top should they register a fifth straight league win.

"I would like both of them to lose," quipped Enrique on his preferred outcome of the Madrid derby.

Barca will be depleted by the absence of the injured Samuel Umtiti and Andres Iniesta, whilst Suarez is suspended.

However, Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba are both fit to return from injury.

MTYC enter quarterfinals

Players in action between MT Youth Club and FC Royals on November 18.

Our Correspondent noneikho of Intimidators Kohima | November 18

Naga Football Club and MT Youth Club moved into the quarter finals after beating their respective rivals today in the ongoing 22nd edition of Classic Cup at the Kohima Local Ground.

In an exciting encounter, Naga FC came from behind to beat Intimidators 3-1 in the first match of the day.

Intimidators scored one of the fastest goals of the tournament when Thejaseto found the back of the net in the first minute of the match. However, a minute before the half time, Senenlo managed to find

November 19 Matches Kuki United FC vs Yhome FC @ 1:00 pm Renegades FC vs Street Hawks’ FC @ 2:30 pm

the equalizer for Naga FC. In the second half, Nyithung gave Naga FC the lead in the 37th minute before Senenlo sealed the win with his second goal in the 43rd minute.

Seyiekhrietuo of Naga FC and Khriekho and Me-

were penalised in 15th, 18th and 43rd minute of play.

In the second match of the day, MT Youth Club won against Football Club Royals by 2-0.

Kevisato gave MT Youth Club the lead in the 15th minute and Lone Kiso made it 2-0 two minutes after the lemon break.

Mhalevilie of FC Royals and Khriezo of MT Youth Club were cautioned with yellow cards for unsporting behaviour in the 30th and 45th minutes of play.

MT Youth Club will now clash with Naga FC in the quarter finals on November 24.

BN Mullik All India Police Football C’ship Schedule for November 19 Closing Ceremony: NAPTC Stadium at 1:00 pm Final Match: BSF vs Assam Rifles (NAPTC Stadium at 1:10 pm) Chief Guest: Y. Patton, Home Minister Nagaland

Kiruphema YO retain Kohima District Volleyball Trophy

Our Correspondent Kohima | November 18

The 4th Open Kohima District Volleyball Tournament 2016 (Men & Women) under the aegis of Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) concluded here today at Hockey Ground, Indira Gandhi Stadium.

Defending champions

Kiruphema Youth Organization retained the coveted title in men’s category and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 30,000 along with trophy and citation.

Runners-up Zenith Club Kezo Town received a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 along with trophy and citation.

In women category, Tiema-Khe Kidima

emerged with the championship title and walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 along with trophy and citation. Runners-up Mystic Club Naga Hospital Colony Kohima received Rs. 10,000 along with trophy and citation.

The two losing semifinalists in men’s categoryShurho Mountain Club Kigwema and Super Spiker

Club Kohima – were awarded with Rs. 5000 each.

Kethovikho Zenyu of Kiruphema Youth Organization and Kedichol Pucho of Zenith Club Kezo Town were declared as best setter and best spiker respectively in men’s category and received Rs. 2000 each.

Nzanbeni of Mystic Club of Naga Hospital Colony Kohima and Nohovinii

Zecho of Tiema-Khe Kidima were decorated with the title of best setter and best spiker respectively in women’s category and pocketed Rs. 2000 each.

Earlier, Col. Jagdeep Bhogal (SM), Commanding Officer 3rd Assam Rifles graced the grand finale as special guest while Major M. Ragavendran gave away prize to the winners.

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