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Nagaland remains a ‘laggard’ investment destination

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nagaland regressing into kleptocracy?

How to get away with a 100+ crore pension fraud in Nagaland – Part II Morung Express news Kohima | October 31

You’re still in service, your retirement date is 2030, but someone is already drawing your pension. Accha, and your complaint is?

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Vote on www.morungexpress.com sMs your answer to 9862574165 Is a Uniform Civil Code applicable and acceptable in Nagaland State?

The pension fraud in Zunheboto is just an indicator of the scale of corruption in Nagaland. For a State that may be regressing into Kleptocracy (Rule of thieves), it is easy to get away with fraud and corruption. Here are some reasons why: “To me, corruption is selfishness, and today people are becoming more selfish to the extent of making money for themselves in the name of certain NGOs, public, union, association, federation, etc. The selfish people in power do not care for others, which leads to scams and corruption,” said Kezhokhoto Savi, Advocate and Assistant Professor at Kohima Law College.

away without accountability and using political connections or using whatever connections they have in order to get away from the penalty of the crime. It is not supposed to be so, as far as a normal government is concerned,” said Sema.

According to him, Christian values and principles no longer guide the people, which make it easier for people to commit wrongs.

“They are getting bold basically because there is no real accountability,” said Sema, adding that in such an environment nobody is afraid of the system, which in turn emboldens the perpetrators.

Government’s apathy “The government is least bothered and so are the bureaucrats,” commented a government official, who wished to remain anonymous. This statement is further supplemented by Sema remarking that the system today is plagued by “a very unfortunate kind of feeling”—a delusional concept of authority and responsibility. “If you have power and authority and not use it for your own benefits then you are a fool.”

This attitude, according

Lack of accountability Khekiye K Sema, IAS (Rtd), viewed that the lack of accountability in the State machinery makes it easier for people to commit crimes without hesitation.

“All these are becoming more rampant without any DIMAPUR, OCTOBER hesitation because many of 31 (MExN): The NSCN the people committing this (IM) in its emergency Joint kind of crime are getting meeting of the Council of Kilonsers and the Steering members on October 31 at Hebron took strong exception to the reported plan by Morung Express news the Manipur State Government to declare Sadar Hills Dimapur | October 31 and Jiribam as districts. A press note from the MIP of The Special Investigation Team (SIT) the NSCN (IM) informed probing the fuel adulteration case that the house took a unan- has filed charges against 14 accused imous decision to oppose arrested following the June 27 raids “such provocative move to in Dimapur by the police. The SIT the last.” It further affirmed head, IGP (Range) Wabang Jamir inthe “ownership of the land formed on October 31 that the “first that it is a part of ances- charge sheet was filed against the actral Naga domain.” “Un- cused arrested so far” on October 25. less rightful ownership of It was filed at the court of the Chief Juthe land is acknowledged dicial Magistrate, Dimapur.

Following the raids, a total of 14 by the settlers, the NSCN/ GPRN shall never tolerate people have been arrested while any move that infringes two separate FIRs were registered at upon the rights of the own- Diphupar and West Police Stations. er (Nagas),” it stated. The 6 were arrested by the Diphupar PS NSCN (IM), nonetheless and 8 more by West PS. IGP Jamir said that the investistated that it is “prepared to negotiate on any pro- gation will continue, while the SIT posed agenda if ownership is duly acknowledged and respected.”

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NSCN (IM) opposes creation of Sadar Hills and Jiribam districts

say no to corruption: Vigilance commissioner DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 31 (DIPR): “Corruption is cancer which every citizen must strive to cure,” stated the Vigilance Commissioner, Nagaland, KT Sukhalu IAS (Rtd) while presenting the keynote address on the first day of the Vigilance Awareness Week, here in Dimapur.

He observed that many new leaders on coming to power declare their determination to eradicate corruption, but soon they themselves become corrupt and start amassing huge wealth.

Sukhalu said he was disheartto Sema, is pervasive in the corridors of power, especially in the bureaucracy.

He added that if this misconceived notion towards holding public office continues, the corruption cycle will never stop.

“The State Government is never serious about corruption and least bothered about controlling it,” affirmed Savi, citing the delay in the establishment of institutions such as the Lokayukta or even a State Human Rights Commission. While movements and organisations against

ened to see corrupt people, who after taking bribe, talk about high moral standards. He further said that there was a time when bribe was paid for getting wrong things done, but now is paid for getting the right things done at right time.

Corruption, he said is not occurring at the highest levels of governance alone, but at every level.

Terming election as the root of corruption, Sukhalu appreciated the NBCC’s call for clean election.

He was optimistic that various affiliated associations and churches across the state will carry forward

corruption exist, administrative heads hardly make any wholehearted move, he added.

Stating that corruption in governance is criminal in nature, he noted that it is within the authority of administrative heads of departments to lodge criminal cases against corrupts officials, which is rarely the case.

The normalcy of corruption in Nagaland. Is the public getting used to it?

A police officer, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the

the message to their respective members. He however, felt that the church should also introspect on the source of its funds.

He further urged NGOs to raise awareness and educate the public on corruption. The Commissioner termed the RTI as a powerful means to prevent corruption.

While acknowledging that there are success stories of the RTI being used to tackle corruption; he however lamented that huge sums of money are being offered to the applicants and that document are being manipulated while being

people are used to corruption to the point of acceptance.

Sema agreed with the view. He further cited “tribalism.” “If they are connected to somebody or the other, within the community, the community becomes a little indifferent to it because they happen to be of the same tribe.”

Savi said that this acceptance of corruption has become so alarming that most people have become “indifferent as long as they acquire wealth for themselves.”

furnished by department officials.

Sukhalu pointed out that corruption came into being because a few individuals wanted to take a short cut and bend the rules for personal gain. Corruption persists, he said, because it continues unquestioned and because in every succeeding generation there have been people willing to pay for breaking the rules and also people willing to accept such payment.

We must remember that however much the corrupt insist on corruption, it can be rooted out by the public saying “No,” he stated.

Failure to carry out bounden duty Corruption is present in the government set up but measures to check it have been rare. The pension fraud is just one of many signifying a government’s failure to carry out its duty. The department of Treasuries & Accounts has a ‘Monitoring Cell’, which, according to the department, is an important tool in detecting malpractices.

According to an official, who also wished not be named, the irony is that most often officers, who

are supposed to check malpractices, are themselves corrupt.

Moreover, all five accused in the scam have successfully petitioned for bail on medical grounds.

The case which comes under the ‘Criminal breach of Trust’, Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code, by a public servant/banker/ merchant or agent is punishable with life imprisonment, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and will be liable to fine.

Fuel adulteration: Charges filed against 14 accused State BJP unhappy with NPF; resents

SSA salary: State govt expects centre to release funds by Nov

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): Nagaland Commissioner and Secretary for School Education, FP Solo today informed that the state government expects funds for pending salaries, including arrear of Sarva Shiksha Abiyan (SSA) Teachers to be released by the centre in the first week of November. While speaking to The Morung Express, the Commissioner and Secretary stated that if the centre releases the funds on time, the salaries to the teachers would be made available in the month of November itself. It may be noted that the aggrieved Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) had served an ultimatum to the State Government to fulfil their four-point demand, which includes payment of pending salaries of 5 months from May to September 2016. SSA teachers from across the State are assembling in Kohima to partake in the agitation to express resentment.

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waits for more reports from “various agencies.” Among the reports awaited by the SIT includes the forensic reports of hydrocarbon and other chemical samples collected from the suspected adulteration sites raided by the police.

Without disclosing much, Jamir added that a total of 75 samples were sent for laboratory analysis with the SIT so far having received the reports of 26 samples. He added that supplementary charges will be filed after assessing other evidences and reports. Asked how the forensic reports would implicate the investigation, Jamir maintained he cannot comment at this stage.

During the October 18 meeting of the Chief Minister with the Coordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration (CCoFA), the CM had asked for 7 days

to allow the SIT to file charges. At the meeting, the CM was quoted as stating that if the charge-sheet was not upto expectation, an independent inquiry will be initiated. The CCoFA had also maintained that the department of Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) should also be included within the parameter of the investigation.

At the time it was also reported that the ‘Terms of Reference’ of the SIT was expanded to include the (F&CS). Information though remains vague on how far the SIT has investigated the Food & Civil Supplies complicity on the adulteration of fuel.

Meanwhile, the CCoFA has yet to see the charge sheet filed on October 25. One CCoFA member said that the committee cannot make any comment “till we see the charge sheet.”

Amend Municipal Act: Ao Senden

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): The Ao Senden today asked the Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang for amendment of Municipal Act, 2001 by deleting section 120 (1) (a) – ‘tax on land and building’ along with relevant sections to it; and amendment to reservation of seats for women in municipalities.

In a letter to the CM, the Ao Senden said that the section relating to taxation would, “snatch away ownership of land and building from Nagas by the government, within areas covered by municipals and town councils.” As a result, it cautioned that Nagas would become “landless/slave in their own land.”

The concerned section of the Act specifies that tax on land and building may be levied from residents of towns to raise revenue for Municipality performances of its functions; said tax be specified by the government from time to time; that the government direct the Municipality to levy any tax and if the Municipality fails to carry out government order, the government shall operate on behalf of Municipality to levy the tax; rate of the tax be determined by the government; tax on land and building shall not exceed 15% of the annual value; and for vacant land – annual value shall be fixed at 5% of the estimated market value of land.

Related sections also involve recovery of taxes on land and building by attachment of land and building of the occupier for failure to pay tax; defaulting tax on land and building will be published twice within one month (30 days) and the land and building be sold by public auction to the

highest bidder.

Regarding reservation of seats for women to various constitutional bodies, especially in the instant municipality forum; the Ao Senden suggested that voting right “may be granted to women nominee without contesting the election to the municipality in order to let the social, custom and usages of the Nagas intact by amending the existing provision of law.”

“As for Aos, there is no status distinction between man and woman in our society,” it claimed.

The Ao Senden stated that “deletion of section 120 (1) (a) and women nomination seat in municipality act is the voice of the people and therefore, the competent authority be pleased to make the laws in the interest of the people’s voice.”

If not, it cautioned that the issue would “certainly invite the constitutional remedies in proper forum being the existing law for imposition of tax on land and building is a clear contradictory with the constitution.”

“As an apex body of a tribe, the Ao Senden is very serious about the said act, the Municipal Act 2001 u/s 120 (1) (a) as one day our people will definitely question the present Naga leaders for selling out our rights in the name of development,” it added.

The Ao Senden asked that the said Act be amended at the earliest so as to conduct the municipal election. It stated that unless the “aspiration of the people” is fulfilled with regard to the aforementioned Act, the Ao Senden “will not compromise on the matter and will not allow the municipal election to be held in Ao Land.”

dismissal of Mmhonlumo as Parl Secy

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): The relations between the State BJP and NPF appear to be “not so stable” contrary to the claim made by BJP stalwart Johny Rengma, who is the National BJP vice president of Schedule Tribe Morcha, on Sunday.

In what appears to be a wide crack emerging from the dismissal of BJP MLA Mmhonlumo Kikon, from the Parliamentary Secretary-ship by Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang through an abrupt notification issued by the Cabinet Secretary on October 28, the State BJP on Monday said, without mincing words, it strongly resented the action and was greatly displeased.

Contradicting the claim made by Johny Rengma that the “relations between the State BJP and ruling NPF was as stable

as has been in the past,” the State BJP, in a press statement issued by its spokesman, M Yanghose Sangtam on Monday expressed “great displeasure and strong resentment” over the “unceremonious dismissal of Mmhonlumo Kikon from the post of Parliamentary Secretary, Labour and Employment and Skill Development.”

The State BJP rejected outright the statement made by one of its own- Johny Rengma- who appears to have used the art of being tactful in the wrong time, as “nonofficial and unauthorized” for which the party would not be held responsible, adding that his statement is purely his individual opinion. Instead, an affronted State BJP said it was unhappy with the DAN partner for such arbitrary decision and expressed in plain words that it has “decided to review the DAN coalition in due course.”

GPRN/NSCN to start formal talks with GoI by March 2017 Morung Express news Dimapur|October 31

GPRN/NSCN, National Political Affairs Committee (NPAC), Convenor, Kughalu Mulatonu has said that the formal talks with the Government of India (GoI) is expected to start by March next.

He disclosed this information to media persons on the sidelines of the 31st session of the Ato Area Sports Association at H. Khehoyi Village on Monday.

“Our (GPRN/NSCN) top leaders are lobbying in Delhi and the formal talks with GoI are expected to start before March next year for which we are doing our homework,” Mulatonu said.

Stating that the NPAC was consulting with the people on the issue, Mulatonu said the Committee has held 18 rounds of talks/consultations with various Naga tribal hohos including the Gorkha community who are indigenous inhabitants of the state of Nagaland. The NPAC is to meet the ENPO, NTC and CNTC in their next consultations with the civil societies of Nagas of Nagaland.

Mulatonu said that the NPAC was compelled to talk only about the Nagas of Nagaland and accordingly deal with the Naga civil societies of Nagaland since the NSCN (IM) and United Naga Council, Manipur has settled for Autonomous District Council for Nagas of Manipur while NSCN (K) has also settled for the Sagaing Division for the Nagas of Myanmar.

GPRn/nsCn, nPAC Convenor, Kughalu Mulatonu. (Morung Photo)

“We do not restrict anybody to talk about the Naga issue but we will not allow any stranger to decide the fate of Nagas of Nagaland. Without asking us (GPRN/NSCN), any settlement about Naga political issue will not be possible,” the NPAC Convenor asserted.

He said that the Naga national movement first started with the objective of achieving sovereignty and that the talks with GoI would begin on this agenda. “The talks will begin with the issue of sovereignty and let us see where it leads,” Mulatonu added.

Asked whether the GPRN/NSCN would separately hold talks with the GoI or hold combined talks including NNC/FGN (Zhopra Vero) since the

two groups unified/merged in principle on July 15, 2010 at Monyakshu village, Mulatonu said the Co-Ordination Committee of the two groups would start working on it by November-December and see how to go about it. Nevertheless, he added that whether the talks are held separately or jointly, the agenda would remain the same.

NPAC member, Yimto Yimchunger said that the NSCN (IM) had held more than 100 rounds of talks with the GoI but without any fruitful result.

He alleged that the NSCN (IM) was working towards solution only for the Nags of Manipur and that GPRN/ NSCN would work for the Nagas of Nagaland.

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28 probationers complete CIP Lamsimngyi celebrated with pomp Chizokho Vero

Benreu | October 31

Participants of the valedictory function for 28 probationers from IAS, NCS, NPS and all Allied Services, 2015 Batch, who completed their Common Induction Programme (CIP) today at the ATI in Kohima.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): 28 probationers from IAS, NCS, NPS and all Allied Services of the 2015 Batch completed their Common Induction Programme (CIP) today at the ATI in Kohima.

Voluntary speeches were presented by the probationers, who, according to a press communiqué from the ATI Deputy Director, thanked the Government of Nagaland and the ATI for arranging “such an enriching programme for them.”

All the probationers,

numbering 28, who will go on to serve in significant positions in the state machinery, presented a special number ‘Kelhou Kevira’ in the Tenyidie dialect.

It may be noted that the induction programme began on October 18.

Besides the class room activities, the probationers engaged in group discussions on various topics.

The topics, according to the communiqué, included: ‘Tackling unemployment problem in Nagaland and brain drain,’ ‘How to regain Public Confidence,’ ‘Fos-

tering Tribal Unity,’ ‘Need for Clean Free and Fair elections,’ and ‘Ways to improve the performance of public servants.’

Each group presented their findings on the last day. The probationers were also involved in a field visit to Tuophema Tourist village and a Swachh Bharat exercise in the ATI Campus.

Renowned personalities from different fields, including retired government officials, educationists, professionals in the fields of law, administration, police etc, exhorted

the probationers on different issues.

The valedictory function was graced by Abhijit Sinha, Home Commissioner to the Government of Nagaland as the Guest of Honour. He congratulated the participants and encouraged them to work towards positive growth and not to avoid trainings that may come their way in their service life.

Participatory Certificates were distributed to all the participants by the Guest of Honour. The program ended with a lunch.

7th NAP gets commandant's office after 3 decades

WOKHA, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): The 7th NAP Battalion headquartered at Bhandari, Wokha has finally a proper office building for the unit's commandant. The building was inaugurated by Home Minister Y. Patton at a programme on October 31 at Bhandari.

The unit's home base was established in 1985 with personnel strength of 30. Initially, the NAPTC acted as its temporary headquarters before a government directive was issued in 1988 to permanently station at Bhandari. It however took another 6 years to complete the relocation. "(On one hand) it is disheartening to say that a proper commandant's office building could not be constructed even after a lapse of 31 years (on the

Home Minister Y Patton with other officials in Bhandari on October 31.

other) it is indeed a proud moment for fulfilment of a long felt dream," said Patton at the programme. He added that the infrastructure development would act as a morale booster for the commanding officer and the 7th NAP. While stating that the issue of land

ownership has become a major concern in Nagaland, he said that unless land is made available, there cannot be development. He though lauded the landowners of Bhandari for not creating hindrance towards developmental activities.

People in traditional dresses and fineries today gathered here at the picturesque Benreu village under Peren district for a commemorative celebration of 50th year of declaring “Lamsimngyi” as a Zeliang restricted holiday.

Lamsimngyi is one of the most popular Zeliang festivals, which is celebrated with much pomp and gaiety, usually during the last part of October or early November.

Lamsimngyi was declared as a Zeliang restricted holiday by SC Dev, the then Deputy Commissioner of Kohima, while gracing the festival as the chief guest at Benreu village on 31st October 1966, said the celebration committee secretary Heirang Lungalang.

In today’s programme organized by Benreului Baudi, the people enthusiastically participated in ululate, leaping, long and high jump, shot put and wrestling.

Lamsimngyi or Kwapwangyi is a festival of rekindling of the loving relationship between parents and married daughters/sons families; between families of sisters and brothers; and between family of married niece and the chosen maternal uncle’s family; and competition in games and sports for boys and youth.

On the first day, they cook the best delicacies and share it with each others’ families called Kwakpwa & Hetamram.

In some villages, the day belongs to the brides, who gather and spend and enjoy the day for the last time before finally turning into a woman. Also, the womenfolk, according to their age groups, gathers in groups

Two wrestlers participate in a bout during the commemorative celebration of the 50th year of declaring “Lamsimngyi” as a Zeliang restricted holiday in Benreu village on October 31.

‘Use festivals to foster bonds’

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 31 (DIPR): Chaga Gadi and Lamsimngyi, a premier festival of the Zeliangs, was observed at the NSF Solidarity Park, Kohima on October 31 with Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya as the chief guest and Chief Minister TR Zeliang as the chief host.

PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland, in his speech said that he is honoured to participate in the auspicious festival.

He said that the cities and towns are shining but in the villages the fruits of Independence are yet to reach. He further stressed on the need to remain connectand enjoy the day in each other’s company, while the menfolk look after the household chores and take care of the children.

The second day belongs to the young boys and men, who compete in various games and sports. In run up to the games and sports competition, young boys and men of different clans form groups and take turns to feed each other with fresh meat and practice in the games and sports for this day.

All households maintain abstinence, so that no injury or harm befalls anyone while they compete on the day of Lamsim. Women and

ed to ones culture.

The Chief Host, Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang urged the gathering to re-discover the value and dignity of labour and hard work. The Chief Minister called upon all to try and use festivals to foster community bond amongst members of the community and also between members of various tribes and stated that the need of the moment was unity and brotherhood. “Only through our unity and oneness can the Naga political issue can be resolved in a peaceful and satisfactory manner,” he commented.

girls stay indoor, observing the hour for good luck to the male members from their family so that they bring laurels to the family/clan.

However, if a death has taken place during the year or a domestic animal had given birth the previous night; boys or men of that household do not take part in the competitions, and even avoid mingling with the others, till the competitions are over.

The competitions start with ululating by the whole menfolk of the village. After that, young boys & men plough the jumping pit, then start the long jump (Hezwa) competition.

When the winner is declared, the youth compete in the leaping (Nsau); then high jump (Heram); then shot put (Chugi).

Finally, everyone settles down to watch the wrestling competition. The champions in the different disciplines are looked upon with respect by the people, as they are considered as persons capable of guarding the village as good and abled brave warriors.

Today’s celebration was also marked by Lamsimngyi feast and a musical extravaganza. November 1 event will feature trekking to Paunalwa.

Prominent businessman Hukato Naga laid to rest ‘Consumer is King': PDVCO organises seminar Morung Express News

PEREN, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): The Peren District Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (PDVCO) organized a one day seminar under the theme ‘Consumer is King’ at Athibung town council hall on October 29.

Senior activist on consumerism, Haideuted Zeliang spoke on the rights of consumer and how the public as a consumer have to be aware of the various rights and responsibilities. He stressed on the importance of checking the MRP

Dimapur | October 31

The funeral service of prominent Naga businessman and contractor, late Hukato Naga, was held at his private residence at Ikishe Village on Monday.

Hundreds of people from all walks of life attended the funeral service to bid adieu to late Hukato, who passed away at Queens Medical Centre, London, on October 25 last.

Public leaders, family, friends and well wishers paid tribute to the Naga businessman who was not only a successful businessman but also actively involved in the social, political and religious arenas.

Among those who attended the service and paid condolences included Governor of Odisha, Dr. SC Jamir; Lok Sabha MP, Neiphiu Rio; PHE Minister, Tokheho Yepthomi; Minister for National Highways, Nuklutoshi; Parliamentary Secretary, Pukhayi Assumi and, representative from the Nagaland Church Baptist Association.

Friends from abroad Rev. Tonny and Kim Shi

and expiry date of goods, products and services. He also spoke in length on the importance of local economy, when in our society, certain illegal taxes and open extortion happens in the market, the public as a consumer is always at the receiving end. In order to check the MRP and the quality, standards of goods and products a consumer must be aware of his/her rights.

Highlighting on the importance and value of money he cited an example that when a person as a

consumer do not give value to even 50 paise or one rupee it becomes difficult for a consumer to fight for his rights.

Other resource persons were Keyigabuing Ndang, General Secretary PDVCO and Advocate Josia Zeliang. Miss Peren 2016 also spoke on the rights and responsibilities of consumer. Short speeches were delivered by chairman Athibung town and Head GB respectively.

Chairman Athibung town and vice president Kuki Students’ Organisa-

tion Nagaland requested the executive of PDVCO to have a sub-unit of Consumer Association at Athibung town under the banner of PDVCO. Vote of thanks was delivered by Plamdibo Nchang (Finance Secretary) PDVCO. A press release stated that altogether 97 participants could attend the programme including school students from Christian School Athibung, chairman, student leaders, elders, and GBs from neighbouring villages.

Kobulong becomes first Nagaland Secretariat observes National Unity Day OCTOBER 31 (DIPR): A that it is also the birth anniversary of Indira LED town in Mkg district KOHIMA, combined programme of Rashtriya Ekta Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India

Prominent Naga businessman Hukato Naga’s wife speaking during the former’s funeral service held in Dimapur on October 31. (Morung Photo) MOKOKCHUNg, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): With the Diwas (National Unity Day), Rashtriya who was also remembered on the significant

Hwan from South Korea also paid their condolences.

Rev. John Roughton, ministered the funeral rites and Rev. S Vitoshe Swu, chaired the funeral service programme.

Born on February 18, 1964, at Aghulito village in Zunheboto district, Hukato did his early education in Zunheboto and later pursued higher education in Dimapur, where he also started his career as a businessman and established ‘The Naga Constructions’,

which later expanded to ‘Hukato Naga Company’.

According to a short resume, Hukato immensely contributed to the society in every possible way through humanitarian and philanthropic works. In the later part of his life, he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal saviour and with the conviction began to spread the love of Christ.

Late Hukato is survived by his wife Deepika, son Tessica and daughter Vivienne.

successful launched of ‘UJALA’ Scheme by EAC Kobulong Trongdiba Tongpi today, Kubolong town has been declared as the first LED (Light-emitting Diode) town under Mokokchung district.

Kubolong town, the sub-division for the Asetkong range is some 20 kilometers away from the District Headquarter Mokokchung and has a populace of around 100 households. Around 300 LED bulbs were distributed to the citizens’ of Kobulong after a brief programme at the town centre. The scheme initiated by the EAC Kobulong will soon cover the whole villages under Asetkong Range; today’s launching programme was the first phase according to Trongdiba.

According to Trongdiba, Kobulong consumed around 4050 units in a month, however with the introduction of LED bulbs in each household it is assumed that the power will be slashed down to half of the present consumption.

Sankalp Diwas and Vigilance Awareness was held on October 31 at the conference hall, Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima under the chairmanship of the State Chief Secretary, R.B. Thong IAS. On the occasion, the Home Commissioner Abhijit Sinha IAS gave a short speech on the significance of the day. Regarding the National Unity Day he said that the nation on this day remembers Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a prominent leader and a freedom fighter of the country. He has contributed for the national integrity and unity in bringing together the three (3) princely states in India and therefore regarded as the father of united India, he added.

On Rashtriya Sankalp Diwas, Sinha said

day for her great contributions towards the country. He also said contributions, especially about diminishing the difference among the people of the country and towards the peaceful coexisting and unity, is remembered on this day. With regard to vigilance Sinha said that democracy had to sustain to bring about development and a corruption free in the country and also said that government has an important role to play in this regard.

Chief Secretary RB Thong, IAS led in administering of the 3 (three) different pledges respectively which was followed by singing of the National Anthem. The programme was attended by the officers and staff of various departments in the Secretariat.

Nagaland observes Vigilance Awareness Week

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 31 (DIPR): Along with the rest of the country, Nagaland also observed the Vigilance Week 2016 under the theme "public participation in promoting Integrity and eradicating corruption" on October 31.

In Mon, the resource person, Tumben P. Tsanglao, EAC (P) analyzed corruption at the grass root level presenting a power point on the theme ‘Public participation in Promoting Integrity & Eradicating Corruption’.

He gave an overview of central vigilance commission, Nagaland state vigilance commission, ethics and integrity in work place, public participation, institutional framework of the vigilance commission, why corruption is harmful and a way forward towards single standard morality.

An essay competition was also held on the topic in

the theme of vigilance week 2016 where Shatwang Konyak GHSS'A' secured 1st, Teihzei Konyak GHS'c' 2nd and Mankai GHSS'D' secured 3rd respectively. The winners walked away with cash prizes.

In Longleng, the District Administration & SBI Longleng Branch observed the occasion, with Y Nuklu Phom, Executive Secretary Phom Baptist Christian Association (PBCA) as the Guest Speaker. The speaker in his key note address encouraged the gathering to maintain & uphold their integrity and work towards eradicating corruption. Further, he emphasized on the need of reforming oneself and thereby affecting positive changes in the society.

The occasion was marked in Wokha on the theme ‘Public Participation in Promoting Integrity and Eradicating Corruption’.

The Vigilance Awareness Pledge being read out in Wokha on October 31. (DIPR Photo)

Speaking from a student’s point of view on ‘Corruption according to me and how it can be tackled,’ Bideno Humtsoe BA 3rd Semester, Mt. Tiyi College, Wokha highlighted on the issue of corruption in many organisations where funds/schemes meant for the poor and the citizens are misused for personnel gain, and opined that Nagaland

being a Christian state, churches need to play an important role in capping the menace.

She also appealed to the concerned citizens and individuals to voice out and join hands to make a corruption free society.

Thungdemo Kyong, Chief, Team Metamorphosis, Wokha said irrespective of creed, colour and status we should be

bold enough to fight corruption. “If we want to have better generation we need to joint hand and appealed to come together because we unless we unite we cannot fight corruption,” he stated.

Along with the rest of departments and government establishments, the Department of Information & Public Rela-

tions, Nagaland also observed occasion.

Director IPR, Limawati Ao mentioned that people usually think of corrupted politicians and officials in developmental departments who are constructing massive buildings in Dimapur and elsewhere. “Corruption is not just taking bribes; not coming to office on time or being absent without leave are also corruption” he said.

“We have failed on our part if we do not serve the public efficiently because we derive our salaries from the tax paid by the public, People hardly pay taxes here so we do not really care about corruption when it comes to Government’s money which is public money,” he said.

The Director also expressed happiness over the record maintained in the IPR Department where no major corruption case was reported. Urging

the staff, he said even a small department can make a difference in the state by being a good example.

Nagaland University (NU) meanwhile organised a programme to mark the occasion with Prof. MK Sinha, Finance Officer, NU stating that the result of vigilance should negate nepotism and nexus; campaign around the results should be built up so that awareness is spread across; and enforceable.

The Vigilance Pledge was led by Prof. T. Lanusosang, Registrar, NU. The programme was attended by faculty, administrative staff, and students.

In Kohima, the Vigilance Awareness Week will be observed on November 1 at the DC's Conference Hall. The program is being organized under the theme "Public Participation in Promoting Integrity and Eradicating Corruption".

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148 cadres from different groups join NSCN (IM)

The people from different Naga political organizations who have joined the NSCN (IM).

Dimapur, OctOber 31 (mexN): The NSCN (IM) today informed that 148 members from different Naga political organizations have joined the NSCN (IM), “where it lies the future of the Nagas.” The Joint Council of NSCN (IM) consisting of Steering Executives, Cabinet Kilonsers, Dy. Kilonsers and Heads of Department while welcoming them appreciated the “bold decision they have taken keeping in mind the aspirations of the Nagas,” stated a press release from MIP, NSCN (IM).

Speaking on behalf of the GDRN/NNC (Non-Accordist), Ato Kilonser Hangping Zeliang said, “It’s the people’s need of demand for oneness which can only bring meaningful solution. Nagas have had enough through division and the only key to achieve our aim is through unity as such we have taken the step to merge with NSCN (IM). It’s an honor to be a part of it and we are proud to be under this banner.” On behalf of the GDRN/NNC, he further assured that “we shall no longer affiliate ourselves with other organization other than NSCN (IM) hence we declare our allegiance and

that the GDRN/NNC (Non-Accordist) shall no longer exist,” according to the release President of the GDRN/NNC (N/A), Khumcho Chilimong in his speech said that unity within “our brethrens” can only bring solution, hence, they have moved en masse with the NSCN (IM). Both the civil and Army wings of the GDRN/NNC (N/A) have been officially dissolved, he said.

The release further said that Hotovi Awomi, Dy. Kilonser, GPRN/NSCN “begged for forgiveness from the Nagas for wandering in the wrong direction.” He said the GPRN/NSCN “does not represent the Nagas as it was a fruitless organization.

Therefore, they decided to come together morally and physically,” the release added.

Exhorting the gathering, Kilo Kilonser of NSCN (IM), Rh. Raising reiterated that “salvation of the Nagas lies with the NSCN and it’s the only true way to our destination.” He also urged the “home comers” to re-dedicate themselves and to possess a revolutionary spirit.

The “home comers” were all from NNC (N/A), GPRN/NSCN, NSCN (R), and NNC.

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NSF reiterates stand against creation of Sadar Hill district KOhima, OctOber 31 (mexN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) in a memorandum to the Manipur State Chief Secretary reiterated its stand against the creation of Sadar Hills district.

The NSF, it its memo, recalled the initiative taken by the Government of Manipur with various Naga Civil Organisations with regard to the understanding and agreements of the various MOUs on the stated position of the Nagas against the creation of the Sadar Hills District without the consent of the Naga people.

The NSF drew attention to certain issues, which it stated needs to be attended to as critical imperative for Nagas and for the peaceful co-existence of the vari-

ous ethnic groups in Manipur.

It reminded that the NSF has been against the creation of any district from the present districts predominantly inhabited by the Nagas.

It further asserted that the consent of the Naga people in any matter related with the creation of the Sadar Hill District should be convincingly understood to avoid any untoward outcomes with regard to any government action.

As such, the NSG asked that corrective action be taken regarding the matters mentioned and also ensure that the climate in Manipur is conducive for peaceful co-existence “as always espoused by the Naga people.”

Volunteers of the United Naga Council (UNC) enforcing the bandh near Senapati on Monday. The 48-hour bandh has affected life in Naga areas in Manipur.The UNC has imposed the 48-hour "total shut down" followed by indefinite economic blockade on national highways including the banning of the construction of Trans Asian Railways, Jiribam to Tupul and other national projects in all the "Naga territories" in Manipur with effect from midnight of October 30 against the "lopsided decision" to create the so called Sadar Hills and Jiribam into full fledged districts and against "state sponsored terrorism by the communal government of Manipur". (NNN Photo)

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Sikkim leads the way in celebrating noise-free, pollution-free Diwali GaNGtOK, OctOber 31 (iaNS): Next Diwali if you want to escape the noise and toxic air associated with Diwali, head for Sikkim. The small, northeastern state, with a population of a little over 610,000 with 82 per cent literacy, has managed to do what other states and administrations have failed - ban the use of firecrackers and celebrate a clean, 'green' Diwali, with active support of an enlightened citizenry.

Diwali was celebrated in Sikkim with lights and sparkles but minus the noise and chemical pollution that has come to be associated with the festival of lights elsewhere in the country.

"Our young people have been in the forefront of the campaign to ban noisy and toxic firecrackers," P.D. Rai, the lone Sikkim MP in Parliament belonging to the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) of Chief Minister Pawan Chamling, told IANS. In 2014 there was a public outcry because that year the noise levels and the

Naga Forum Delhi delivers relief materials to Nagas in Myanmar

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Delhi, OctOber 31 (mexN): Responding to the call made by the Nagas of Myanmar for help in the recent measles epidemic, the Naga Forum Delhi (NFD) delivered massive relief materials for the people who were affected by the epidemic. The disease that spread across the township of Lahe and Nanyun in Myanmar had killed more than 85 children, according to a press release from Publicity Wing, Naga Forum Delhi.

The project, ‘Transcending borders breaking barriers’, under the aegis of the Naga Forum Delhi was completed on October 28 at Longwa in Mon district of Nagaland. The relief materials consisting rice, sugar, dal, tea leaf, milk powder and medicine were handed over to the Nagas of Myanmar by the president of the Naga Forum Delhi, Neiphiu Rio (Lok Sabha MP) on behalf of the Nagas in Delhi and various cities and towns.

Speaking at the gathering, Rio said that the initiative was made successful because of the overwhelming response of the public, churches across India and various students’ bodies. The Naga Forum Delhi had sought help from various churches and students’ bodies, public leaders and individuals for the project.

After the send-off programme held on October 15 at Nagaland House, New Delhi, a team consisting of six volunteers including the president, headed for various destinations. The team for the Khonsa-Laju, Arunachal Pradesh was led by Wanghring Anal. In Laju, more than 300 Nagas came to receive the relief materials. The team for Pangsha- Moklale, Nagaland was led by Anthony Kaje and Karinpam, where 55 Nagas from Myanmar came to receive the materials. The final and the biggest consignment were delivered at Longwa, Mon, where more than 100 people from 22 villages from Myanmar came to receive the materials.

The initiative was executed under the advice and logistic support of the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organization (ENPO), Eastern Nagaland Students’ Federation (ENSF). Logistic support for Pangsha was extended by Khiamniungan Tribal Council and Khiamniungan Baptist Council of Noklak, while logistic support for LajuArunachal was guided by the Eastern Naga Students’ Association, a student body of the Nagas from Myanmar in India and the Ollo Baptist Church. The Konyak Union and the Konyak Baptist Church Association took up the responsibility of logistic support and mobilization along with EMSA executive at Longwa, Mon.

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Who after Ratan Tata? The real succession question of Tata Group New Delhi, OctOber 31 (bt): A lot has been said and written about the Tata Group in the past seven days, more than probably said and written in the past seven years. The reasons for the sudden replacement of Cyrus Mistry, the possible pain points, financials, potential successors, past follies, future strategy and corporate governance issues - all have found their way to the press.

The manner and speed at which Ratan Tata could execute his decision on that Monday evening clearly showed who was always in control. Mistry’s leaked letter only confirmed it. Tata Sons has said Mistry was empowered adequately. Evidently, such empowerment was just short of what was required to protect his job.

The structure of the shareholding of Tata Sons is fascinating. I believe it is by no means a coincidence. The break-up is as follows.

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) owns 113,067 shares or 27.98 per cent.

From a company law perspective and voting rights, this is special.

SDTT remains the only Tata Sons shareholder with an individual veto (which requires 26 per cent).

Anyone who controls SDTT controls this veto. The second largest shareholder is Sir Ratan Tata Trust with 95,211 or 23.56 per cent. Note that the combined holding of these

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two biggies comes to 51.54 per cent, an absolute majority.

In case, you need a two-thirds majority, the earlier limit to pass special resolutions, the smaller trusts came into play. The JRD Tata Trust had 16,200 shares (4.01 per cent); Tata Education Trust and Tata Social Welfare Trust had identical holdings of 15,075 shares (3.73 per cent each).

RD Tata Trust owned 8,838 shares (2.19 per cent), followed by Sarvajanik Seva Trust with 396 shares (0.1 per cent). Thus, the seven sisters held 65.29 per cent in Tata Sons.

Add to this Ratan Tata’s personal holding of 3,368 shares (0.83 per

cent) and the voting power crosses 66 per cent or two-thirds. Younger brother Jimmy Naval Tata holds another 3,262 shares (0.81 per cent) and MK Tata Trust owned 2,421 shares (0.60 per cent). These three holdings are not part of the promoter group.

Then come the holdings of five operating companies. Tata Steel and Tata Motors own 12,375 shares each (3.06 per cent each).

Tata Chemicals, Tata Power and Indian Hotels hold 10,237 (2.53 per cent, 6,673 (1.65 per cent) and 4,500 (1.11 per cent), respectively.

Again, it is no coincidence that the

chairman of Tata Sons is usually the chairman of these companies.

That link, now broken, creates another set of possibilities.

One thing that emerges clearly from all this is that though there was succession in management four years earlier, there was no succession in ownership. And, the emphatic return of the owners, the trusts led by Tata, to active management means even the halfhearted succession planning that played out four years ago has been effectively nullified.

At 78, Ratan Tata is not as young as he was when he first got the reins of the group 25 years ago. By giving himself only a four-month tenure as interim chairman, he has indicated a new management would soon be in place. That would be the smaller of the Street’s worries.

The bigger worry for hundreds of institutional shareholders and numerous smaller ones, and other stakeholders such as employees and business partners, would be what would happen to the ownership after Ratan’s time. What is the succession plan for the 263,862 Tata Sons promoter shares owned by seven Tata Trusts and other holdings of Tata brothers? Would a younger family member inherit?

Would the professionals managing the trusts take over? Or would there be an international search?

Harley takes the ride to ‘India to get electricity from smaller cities, looks to tap NE offshore wind energy in 5 yrs’ New Delhi, OctOber 31 (pti): American iconic bike maker Harley-Davidson is riding on a wave of increasing popularity in smaller towns in India as it experiences a faster rate of growth in these places compared with metros.

The company, which has been hard-selling its Harley- Davidson riding experience, is now looking to tap India’s North-East as part of its strategy to have presence across the country.

“Like in any other global market, our metro sales are higher in terms of volume, but we are experiencing a much faster growth rate in smaller towns in India,” Harley-Davidson India Managing Director Vikram Pawah told PTI. He said the company has been placing equal emphasis on the smaller cities as much as the metros while expanding the Harley-Davidson sales network. “Our latest showroom is in Guwahati, again another smaller city. It will serve as the hub to cater to the entire North-East region, where we believe there is a cultural sync with Harley riding experience,” Pawah said.

Reiterating the significance of the smaller cities in the company’s growth strategy, he said the last 6 new HarleyDavidson showrooms in India have been in such places.

Harley-Davidson sells 13 bike models in India that are priced between Rs 4.69 lakh for the entry level Street 750 model, going all the way up to Rs 49.32 lakh for the imported CVO Limited. It assembles nine models at its Bawal facility in Haryana.

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SiNgApOre, OctOber 31 (pti): India will get electricity generated by wind-propelled plants installed in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu in about five years as part of the country’s green energy development programmes, an energy expert has said.

“We are preparing India for offshore wind (and) providing MNRE a road map for offshore wind for Gujarat and Tamil Nadu,” said Mathias Steck, Executive Vice President and Regional Manager at DNV GL, an international renewable energy group.

“It would take three to five years that we see commercial offshore winds projects in India,” said Steck who is an expert in renewable energy at DNV GL, which has a 30-consultant team in India and made its entry into the Indian market in 1989.

A 100-megawatt pilot project will likely be installed in ocean off Gujarat in about three years, he said on the sidelines of the Singapore International Energy Week held last week.

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FOWIND is supported by Euro 4 million grant from the Indo-European Cooperation on Renewable Energy programme and Euro 500,000 contribution through the Gujarat Power Corp Ltd (GPCL).

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The project is being implemented in close cooperation with Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and National Institute of Wind Energy.

“Over the time DNV GL has been in India, we have looked over 50-gigawatt of onshore wind projects,” he said, adding “this is a market leading position” as DNV GL works for a large number of clients in renewable energy projects.

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New Delhi, OctOber 31 (iANS): Many telecom service providers have executed the 100-day plan to tackle the call drop menace and achieved positive results, Rajan S. Mathews, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said on Monday.

“Many of the operators have executed the 100-day plan. There is substantial reduction in call drop problem now,” Mathews told IANS ahead of Communications Minister Manoj Sinha’s November 1 meeting with CEOs of telecom companies to take stock of the call drop issue.

“But problems still remain in some areas, like Lutyens’ Delhi, south Delhi and some other places,” he added. Earlier, Telecom Secretary J.S. Deepak said the sectoral regulator -- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) -- has informed that there has been a substantial improvement in the call drop situation.

“We had a meeting in June, they (telecom

service providers) gave us a 100-day plan.

Therehasbeen,webelieve,fromTRAIfigures lot of improvement in call drops. There were 54 networks which were not performing up to the standard in December 2015, and now it is down to only 19,” Deepak added.

The telecom companies had given a 100-day roadmap to the government in June to improve the call drop situation.

“They assured us that the target for the 100-day programme, as committed to the (telecom) secretary, will be met. They indicated that from the beginning of June 10 (when the 100-day programme started), there will be addition of around 60,000 BTS (base transceiver station) in 100 days across the country, out of which 48,000 have been installed in the first 45 days,” Manoj Sinha said on July 25.

The service providers have committed an investment of Rs 12,000 crore for installing 60,000 BTS to address the situation by arresting call drops.

Banks to report frauds of Rs 1 cr and above to CVC New Delhi, OctOber 31 (pti): With several high-ticket alleged frauds like Vijay Mallya loan default case coming to fore, Central Vigilance Commission has now made it mandatory for the public sector banks to report to it all such matters involving funds over Rs one crore.

Based on the reports, the anti-corruption watchdog, which has hired four General Manager ranked officers from bank as advisors, will recommend whether CBI probe can be ordered.

According to CBI data, in 2015, the agency had probed 171 cases of bank frauds involving funds of Rs 20,646 crore. In addition, CBI is also investigating the

Ponzi schemes involving funds of over Rs 1.20 lakh crore.

The Commission will also call regular monthly meetings of senior officials of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), CBI and banks to monitor probe in suspected bank frauds of Rs 50 crore and above.

The banks have been asked to share their reports of Fraud Monitoring and Reporting (FMR) mechanism with the CVC in the suspected fraud cases of Rs one crore and above.

Till now this report was shared with the RBI only, Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin said.

The banks will also now have to report the modus operandi of all the alleged

frauds to the CVC which will share these details with other banks to ensure that systemic changes can be brought in to prevent such cases being repeated, he said.

“Frauds were being reported by the Central Vigilance Officers of the banks to the RBI through the Fraud Monitoring and Reporting (FMR) mechanism. Now the Commission has decided that fraud of Rs 50 crore and above will be regularly followed up by the CVC. “For this purpose, we will convene regular meetings where concerned people of CBI and RBI will be called and BSFC concerned banks,” T M Bhasin said.

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Nagaland remains ‘laggard’ DoSE team up with ECS for effective implementation of Mid Day Meal scheme destination for investment Our Correspondent Kohima | October 31

• Nagaland bracketed under “jump start needed” category • Andhra Pradesh, Telangana top in 2016 all-India ranking Morung Express News Dimapur | October 31

While Nagaland slightly improved its position in (U&Ts) in ‘The Ease of Doing Business rankings’ released on October 31, the State remains a distant investment destination; it was ranked in 26th position among list of 32 States and Union Territories (UTs) in India.

Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the list in New Delhi on Monday.

A press release by the Commerce Ministry through PIB said that the ranking were based on the results of the Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms 201516 jointly conducted by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the World Bank Group.

Assessment Criteria The Assessment studies the extent to which states have implemented DIPP’s 340-point Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) for States/UTs 2015-16, covering the period July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, it said.

The Action Plan includes reforms on 58 regulatory processes, policies, practices, or procedures spread across 10 reform areas spanning the lifecycle of a typical business, and data for the assessment were collected from respective State Governments.

The highlight of current assessment includes: Single Window Systems, Tax reforms, Construction permits, Environment and labour reforms, Inspection Reforms, and Commercial disputes and paper-less courts.

At least 32 State and UT Governments submitted evidence of implementation of 7,124 reforms, the Ministry said.

Ease of Doing Business in Nagaland and NE According to the Report, Nagaland was ranked 26th position with 1.19 % implementation of the reforms. A slight improvement from last year when the State was ranked 31st.

The State has managed to implement 5 measly reforms out of 340-point BRAP. The reforms area included initiating single window systems and

dedicated body or bureau for doing business as well as implementing online scheme on tariff.

Tripura scored the highest among the north eastern states with 16.67 per cent and was ranked at 22nd followed by Assam at 24th with a score of 14.29 per cent.

Manipur (1.19 per cent) was ranked at 28th while Mizoram (0.89 per cent) and Sikkim (0.60 per cent) were ranked at 29th and 30th respectively.

Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh were ranked the lowest at 31st position with 0.30% of implementation.

All India Ranking Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have jointly topped the ease of doing business ranking while Gujarat has slipped to the third position from the first rank last year. Chhattisgarh with 97.32 per cent and Madhya Pradesh with 97.01 per cent followed were ranked 4th and 5th respectively followed by Haryana with 96.95% implementation.

Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra completed the top 10 positions.

The national imple-

mentation average stands at 48.93 per cent, significantly higher than last year's national average of 32 per cent, the Ministry informed.

Based on the implementation of reforms, the States and UTs were categorized as Leader (90100%); Aspiring Leaders (70-90%); Acceleration Required (40-70%) and Jump Start Needed (0-40%) Nagaland was included in the last category along with Kerala, Goa, Tripura, Daman and Diu, Assam, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Puducherry, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chandigarh, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep.

The Ministry said that present evaluation highlights the need to properly communicate, monitor and evaluate these reforms to ensure that their impact is being felt on the ground and aimed at promoting competition among states with a view to improve business climate to attract investments.

A detailed report will be published in November, it added.

To implement the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) in Tuensang effectively and with the vision to achieve the highest quality, the Department of School Education signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Eleutheros Christian Society (ECS), Tuensang, a voluntary organization on October 31 at the conference hall of the Chief Secretary, Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima.

Terming the signing of the MoU as “historic,” FP Solo, Commissioner& Secretary, Department of School Education (DoSE) felt that the success of the agreement will lead to the implementation of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode of providing MDMS in other districts.

With the recent controversies relating to MDMS, Solo appealed for transparency and accountability, which will require the co-operation between the government and head of institution/school management committee. Solo also emphasized on accurate U-DISE figure of the student enrollment to ensure the proper implementation of the MDMS. Solo hoped that the signing of the MoU would be a success story that can be used as a model for other States. “We are at the bottom as far as MDM is concerned. We have a very poor image in the eyes of

Signing of the MoU between ECS & School Edu department.

the Government of India,” said Solo.

A brief report on Eleutheros Christian Society was shared by Rev. Dr. Chingmak Chang, Secretary, ECS, Tuensang. The work of the ECS is that of a catalyst, one, between the government and the community and, on the other to invest in individuals within government who will pursue that engagement. ECS was founded in 1993 in Tuensang with a special focus on health (mainly drug users, HIV and AIDS) in the district.

The MoU agreement is for 3 years during which the ECS will be the agency through which MDMS is implemented on PPP mode. Some of the responsibilities of ECS pointed out in the MoU are the formation of Mid day meal committee comprising of Church, SHG Federation, VEC, mothers, parents forum and the ECS members in the village level, to assist DEO and SDEOs for formulation of the District Annu-

al plan, conduct trainings, capacity building for stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Rev. Dr. Chingmak Chang also informed that a representative from the tribal bodies would act as MIS (Management Information System) who will report to the DEOs & SDEOs. FP Solo and Rev. Dr. Chingmak Chang signed the memorandum.

Nagaland improving performance in Math subject During a press conference after the signing of the MoU, the DoSE was asked on how to ensure quality of food in MDM. Solo said for testing the quality of food grains, samples are collected and monitored. “If there are such complaints it should be brought to our office,” he added.

On the question of delay of payment of cooking costs and honorariums to cooks, Solo admitted that in many schools, cooks were not properly appointed, and due to low budget for cooking cost, mid day

meals are not provided regularly.

“In the past there was delay in the release of funds from the Ministry, from finance department, and from planning department, the reason why we were not able to pay regularly. However, in the State Level Steering Committee meeting, we have decided that we will not give arrears to the cooks but build a corpus fund so that they are paid regularly,” Solo informed.

Solo was also vocal that in the past, many school enrolments “were inflated” just to avail schemes such a MDM, free textbooks.

However, after coordinators were sensitized to be more accurate, truthful in the collection of data, last year the number fell by more than 40,000, Solo revealed adding, "Because of inaccurate data, we have been facing embarrassing situation."

Solo also mentioned that, as per the National Achievement survey, the performance of Nagaland during 2016 has been termed as “good.” Last year, the performance of students in Nagaland in Math was below average, but in 2016 performance in Math and language are above average, he stated.

The Commissioner and Secretary also encouraged the schools to send complaints to the department if it does not receive the required entitlements in MDM.

Police station accused of torturing a juvenile MSU urges Governor to take action against 28 Assam Rifles DIMaPUr, october 31 (MexN): The Swurotsomi Clan Youth Organization Thenyizu has demanded justice over what it alleged as police misconduct by a duty officer of North Police Station, Kohima by physically harassing a juvenile, who was taken into custody after being accused of theft.

The juvenile, who hails from Thenyizumi village, was arrested by the duty officer of North PS basing on a complaint filed by a government teacher on October 24 and was physically

tortured the whole night.

The youth organization, in an open letter to the DGP Nagaland, has alleged that the duty officer used six (6) police baton to beat up the accused, a juvenile, thereafter he was taken outside to shoot his video footage in which the duty officer again allegedly abused the boy verbally.

During the intervening time, the complainant found out that his money was only misplaced and not stolen as suspected and came seeking for the release of the juvenile.

In this connection, the youth organization has made several demands.

While seeking justice it has asked for a copy of the video footage shot by the duty officer; to arrest and hand over the complainant to them; and an interpretation on the nature of law as exercised by the duty officer to a juvenile as per the constitution.

The youth organization has warned that it would be forced to exercise “our own right with our own choice” if the concerned failed to respond to its demands within 10 days.

Agitation against NACO, NSACS DIMaPUr, october 31 (MexN): The Network of Nagaland Drugs and AIDS Organisation (NNagaDAO) and Nagaland Targeted Intervention Employees Forum (NTIEF) will launch their agitation against National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India and Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS), Government of Nagaland from November 1, 2016 onwards.

The agitation is against

Wokha, october 31 (MexN): The Wokha unit of ACAUT Nagaland today extended support to all the SSA and Hindi teachers in their fight against non-payment of salary, while appealing to the government to release all the teachers’ pending salaries at the earliest. In a press statement, ACAUT Wokha unit stated, “The government’s agenda is empowering the youths through better job and employment but when employment is given to them after all those tiresome scrutiny and test instead they are only making them paralyze, non progressive and rebellious in nature by making them go to the extent of saying ‘no pay no work’.” It asserted that the issue is not just about the teachers’ livelihood, “but the empty quality of education that also needs to be viewed and checked thoroughly.” The authorities concerned, the press statement added, are not

the non-fulfillment of the demand made by the two organizations to NACO and NSACS to release the liabilities of four months fund for the last fiscal year 201516 by October 31, 2016.

In this connection, NNagaDAO President Abou Mere in a press note on Monday informed that the two organizations would launch its “democratic and peaceful protest” across the state by closing all the Drop-In Centres and HIV and AIDS

intervention (HIV Prevention and Harm Reduction) program from November 1-3. It would also start noncooperation movement to NACO and NSACS. A protest rally with People Living with HIV (PLHIV), People who Use Drugs (PUDs), health activist, outreach workers, peer educators and wellwishers would also be held in Kohima to demonstrate and express their resentment, the press note said.

Wokha, october 31 (MexN): Mekokla Students’ Union (MSU) today urged the Governor of Nagaland to take necessary action against the 28 Assam Rifles for their “forceful occupation” of Mekokla Baptist Church under Wokha district recently.

In a letter to the Governor, PB Acharya, MSU president, Benrithung Kikon and general secretary, Zirenthung Yanthan recounted that on October 22 around 8:30 pm, troops of 28 Assam Rifles Bn. in

“full combat-mode” occupied the Mekokla Baptist Church and made the church their base-camp to carry out military operation in the area.

“Sensing impropriety of their presence in the Church premises, the Pastor of the Church denied them access, citing that the Church cannot be used for military purpose.

However, the commander of the AR troops insisted on camping in the premises, while threatening the Pastor to a certain extent,

that, Mekokla village falls under his jurisdiction, so he can do as he likes and his decisions shall be binding on the village,” the letter stated.

“This forceful occupation and arbitrary action of the 28 AR against the wishes of the Pastor and members of the church has deeply hurt the sentiment of the people, as Mekokla Baptist Church, is a sacred place of worship - highly respected and revered by all sections of the society,” added the letter.

The students’ union maintained that the 28 AR’s action was in sheer violation of the various covenants and International Principles of Human Rights and the resolutions and protocols adopted by the United Nations in protecting places of worship and educational institutions for military purpose, as military use of place of worship can put these premises at high risks of vulnerability. It also undermines the secular principles enshrined in the Constitution of India, it

added.

The MSU on behalf of the Mekokla people urged the Governor to take necessary action against the 28 AR in accordance with law “as their actions was also in violation of the strictures laid down by the Supreme Court of India.”

The MSU also appealed to the Governor to take appropriate measures to deter and curtail military use of place of worship by security forces consistent with UN Security Council Resolutions.

ACAUT reminds F&CS director to cancel tender DIMaPUr, october 31 (MexN): ACAUT Nagaland today alleged that the director of Food and Civil Supplies (F&CS) despite an appeal to cancel and rectify the tender called to transport PDS under National Food Security Act (NFSA) covering entire blocks of Nagaland “went ahead with total disregard to the rules and procedure.” The director was appealed to cancel the tender “pointing out anomalies and procedural flaw in the

NIT and for bending the rule of the game for conies and syndicate,” ACAUT stated in a press release.

“The Director further went a step ahead by bending rules to protect those cronies and syndicates creating history in tendering process for wrong reason by adding a clause under terms and condition which was neither listed in the tender document nor in the NIT. This clause signed by the Director was made known

to the participants inside the tender opening hall,” it claimed. The clause, according to the release, reads, “After opening of tender, no complaint shall be entertained.” ACAUT termed the clause “an attempt to make his manipulation foolproof.”

ACAUT further questioned the Tender Committee as to how some firms with same truck registration and numbers were made to qualify technically for multiple

districts when the tender guidelines clearly says that, “A tendered should have a minimum of Ten (10) numbers of trucks attached for carrying food grains.” It wondered if contractor with 10-15 trucks is awarded contract for multiple districts, then whether it will be feasible for the contractor to carry all the food grains.

It also demanded that the contract work should be split into separate 75 blocks rather than 11

districts, “so that many educated unemployed youth can gainfully engage themselves as selfemployment rather than few powerful individuals.”

Meanwhile, it reminded the director to cancel the tender immediately and make changes as suggested by ACAUT. “Failure to comply with the demand the Director who is NIT calling authority will be fully responsible as stated in our earlier letter to the Director.”

Demand to release teachers’ salaries grows

only harassing the teachers and students alone but also the entire future generation of “our” society. It also requested the government of Nagaland to make necessary arrangement to pay the teachers’ salaries regularly from the state fund and retrieve the said amount on release of fund by centre.

ANGPTA Zunheboto: In a separate statement, All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers' Association (ANGPTA), Zunheboto unit also urged the Department of School Education to end the current imbroglio caused by non-payment of salaries to SSA and Hindi teachers. “The concerned department should find out the ways and means for early solution of this problem as it has inflicted immense hardship to the students who have been attending the school but not been taught properly due to shortage of teachers

NSF writes to Chief Secretary

DIMaPUr, october 31 (MexN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has written to the Nagaland State Chief Secretary seeking action on the non payment of salary to SSA and Hindi teachers under CSS. In its letter, the NSF lamented that the teachers concerned have been working without salary for the past several months despite appeals and representations served to the government and the department conThe Wokha unit of Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) left for Kohima on October 31 to attend the second phase of NSSATA agitation which begins on November 1 at Directorate of School Education. All members of the unit have expressed resentment over the non-payment of salary for six months, from May to October, informed a press release. Seen here are members of the unit before leaving for Kohima.

in the schools all across the state on account of SSA and Hindi teachers agitation,” demanded ANGPTA Zunheboto unit. It maintained that the manner in which the SSA and Hindi teachers “have been left to starve for so long is unjustifiable and unacceptable.” It also expressed pain to see the “poor students” studying in Govt. Primary Schools, Govt. Middle Schools and even High schools across

the state “whose career has been drastically affected, specially at this peak time when students are preparing for end term exam...” It requested the department concerned to immediately release the pending salary of SSA and Hindi teachers and also urged the different parties to sit together to chalk out pragmatic solution in order to avoid the recurrence of this kind of problem in the future.

CNTC: The Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) also extended support to the “genuine” demands of the aggrieved teachers (NSSATA/RMSA/ Hindi teachers) to release their salaries pending for the last 6 to 9 months. “Teachers under the various central flagship programmes have been suffering greatly and being denied of their basic salary which is a gross violation of human rights,” stated

a press release from Media Cell, CNTC. Asserting that the State government cannot keep on giving the usual excuse of “No funds from the centre”, the CNTC further urged the State government to deliver the pending salaries to the aggrieved teachers without delay.

CSU: The Chakhesang Students’ Union also appealed to the authority concerned to immediately look into the ongoing boycotting of classes all over Nagaland by the Nagaland SSA Teachers Association and the All Nagaland Hin-

cerned. It said that the teaching community are “selflessly rendering their services for quality education and improvement of human resources,” but are not being paid and “made to face untold hardship.” It urged the Chief Secretary to take this matter with utmost seriousness and address the issue at the earliest. The NSF cautioned that failure to do so would compel the federation to take its own course of action.

di Teachers Association. It expressed sadness that the authority concerned failed to give to the teachers what are rightfully theirs. “It is indeed very saddening to mention that most of the schools, especially in villages were run by the SSA Teachers whereby many schools are being suspended since it cannot continue without the teachers being present.” The union reminded the authority concerned that the academic year is coming to an end but many schools are still without adequate teachers

to complete the syllabus.

“If this trend of system continues then ‘Quality Education’ will in no way be discussed as a topic anymore,” it added. The union appealed to the competent authority to look into the matter immediately and with all sincerity to avoid such issues in the days to come. While extending support and cooperation to the aggrieved teachers’ bodies, CSU also requested both the associations to reconsider their decision, keeping in mind the future of the students.

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IN FOCUS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 300

Human Rights at a Crossroad

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otions and principles of self-worth and dignity have been the touchstone of human progression. Principles of human rights were elucidated as a common heritage and inherent right of all peoples and nations when they were codified into a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). Subsequently, since that time numerous other covenants and laws have broadened the scope of human rights for the purposes of recognizing and upholding the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family based on freedom, justice and peace.

The various instruments of human rights had within them advantages and pitfalls. To make human rights instruments contextual and effective, it became necessary for regional initiatives to formulate human rights principles such as those in Africa and Asia. They empowered peoples and nations to hold respective governments and States accountable on issues of human rights. However, exercising these rights became limited to government prerogatives, thereby raising serious concerns of democratic participation and the equal exercise of human rights by nations and peoples.

While the UN has reached a common understanding that, “these rights and freedoms are of the greatest importance,” the enjoyment of these rights remains elusive for many peoples.

One drawback lies in the fact that the UN is not a Union of Nations, but rather a Union of States. Since the UN is a union of states, its main objective lies in protecting the interest of its member states, even if it has meant marginalizing the rights of people. This ironic characteristic has been the primary obstacle for all members of the human family to realize their inalienable rights. This amounts to the absence of a justpeace.

Disregard for human rights is profoundly evident in situations of armed conflict, where gross violations of human rights

by State and non-State actors are a constant feature. In such situations, human rights exist only in documents. This lack of safeguarding human rights becomes all the more compelling because States have often resorted to introducing legislation that legitimizes human rights violations. For a long time governments got away with passing draconian legislation on the grounds of them being domestic affairs. This situation seemed to be changing with the shifting notions of State sovereignty. However, with the ongoing global war on terror, the scope and exercise of human rights values and principles have been most affected.

The path towards human rights is at a cross-roads. More interventions are needed in addition to an inclusive UN to strengthen upholding human rights in all contexts. This will require the active participation of all nations and people; and, more importantly it needs the commitment of non-State actors to also uphold and respect the people’s rights. An active social movement that promotes freedom, human security and justpeace is needed for Nagas to nurture and uphold a culture of human rights. Both State and non-State actors need to be held accountable for upholding human rights of all its citizens. Fundamentally, this requires an inclusive cultural and political framework that respects the dignity of all people.

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Dhruva Saikia

Mahanta echoes Hasina in Assam

JPC hearing on Citizenship Amendment Bill — Part I

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inally AASU and AGP presented their opinions on the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) led by Satyapal Singh on 25 October who was met by Chief Minister Sonowal the same day to be assured that that the JPC would visit Assam on November 2 and 3 to hear more organizations from Assam who find it a bit difficult to travel to New Delhi.

The November 2-3 JPC hearings would be held in Guwahati and Silchar.

The AASU-AGP JPC presentation day was marked by former CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s press conference in Guwahati after his Bangladesh visit and a declaration in Dhaka by Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina that Hindus are safe in Bangladesh, Durga Puja is patronized generously. Mahanta, the erstwhile champion leader of six-year long Assam movement against Bangladeshi influx was echoing Sheikh Hasina in Guwahati the same day.

AGP (Asom Gana Parishad) and AASU (All Assam Students Union) are among the plethora of organizations in Assam dubbed by the media and intellectuals as national organizations. These two bodies, one political party and the other a student body, are deemed protectors of Assamese nationalism who uphold a theory that not religion but the language is the prime criteria that determines who is an Assamese and who is not. People belonging to any religion who speak Assamese is an Assamese is the cardinal rule for them.

That the identity of Assamese depended on mother tongue had attracted disapproval in the 60s and 70s from those sections who pointed out Assam was the homeland for numerous tribes and ethnic groups with own dialects and naturally for them Assamese was not the mother tongue. But recurring Assamese-Bengali clashes over medium of instruction and status of official language overshadowed the tribal-ethnic group aspect and the Assamese speaking people on the whole remained firm believers in language oriented nationalism. This resulted in consolidation of Assamese nationalism, brewing of resentment among indigenous ethnic groups and tribes and acceleration of Assamese-Bengali antipathy. For the propagators of Assamese nationalism, Assamese antipathy for Bengali was the capital, without which there seemed no room to profess love for Assam and its people. Since the bloody Assamese-Bengali clashes in 1960 and 1972, bitterness between the two sections of people assumed such a dimension that an Assamese comedian once quipped the three annual festivals of Assam are bihu, flood and Bengali thrashing.

However, Assamese-Bengali clashes, an annual affair for decades, came to a halt in 1985 when AGP, the champion of Assamese nationalism, captured power at Dispur. Nonetheless, the cross views on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill threatens to reignite the dormant anti-Bengali feeling in Assam, if the role of vernacular print and electronic media on the ongoing JPC hearing is any indication. The JPC has received 9000 opinions from across the country, individuals and organizations from various parts of the country have expressed their desire to be a party to the hearing and they are being extended invitation in phases.

But when the Bengali organizations from Assam were given the opportunity to present their cases ahead of AGP and AASU, the local media here raised a hue and cry, clealy with an eye on anti-Bengali feeling among the Assam. The sensible Assamese has censured the media for its detrimental role.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Serge Halimi Le Monde diplomatique

At the centre, but on the margins

Can an outsider like Donald Trump beat a candidate with the experience and backing of Hillary Clinton? That will depend on the votes of a working-class constituency no major party cares about except at election time

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he system is rigged.’ We already knew that the candidate with the largest share of the national vote does not always become US president; that the race for the White House ignores three-quarters of the states, in which the outcome of the election seems a foregone conclusion; that almost six million Americans with criminal records have lost their right to vote; that 11% of potential voters lack the identity papers required to cast a ballot; that the electoral system gives the two main parties a decisive advantage. Nor were we unaware that money, the media, lobbies and redistricting distort the democratic process.

But there’s more to it in this election: a feeling that crosses party divisions, an anger expressed in the primaries by the 12 million people who voted for Senator Bernie Sanders and the 13.3 million supporters of Republican billionaire Donald Trump.

They reckoned the system is rigged because politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, have launched wars in the Middle East that have impoverished the US without bringing victory. Rigged, because a majority of the population continues to pay for the consequences of an economic crisis that has cost those who caused it nothing. Rigged, because President Obama has disappointed the huge hopes of change generated by his 2008 campaign. Rigged, because Republican voters saw little difference after they mobilised to take control of the two Houses in Congress in 2010 and 2014. The system is rigged because nothing changes in Washington, because Americans feel dispossessed of their country by an oligarchy that holds them in contempt, because inequality grows and the middle class is beset by fear.

The election ostensibly began so well. On the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton’s party nomination was supposed to be a cakewalk, a dynastic succession power-assisted by Obama, but it turned into a struggle against a maverick septuagenarian, Sanders. He surprised everyone by successfully mobilising millions of voters among the young, the rural population and the working class with an anti-capitalist campaign. And money was no obstacle: he raised huge sums from millions of small donations, circumventing one of the most hated ways in which US politics is rigged. This surprising outcome seemed all the more promising as Donald Trump also spent far less on his primary campaign than several of the Republican opponents he crushed.

An outcry against government has characterised the majority of previous presidential campaigns, but today even conservative voters are calling for greater state intervention in the economy. The perennial homilies about reducing welfare budgets, pension ‘reform’ and cutting unemployment benefits are not part of Trump’s programme. And on free trade — the central theme of his campaign — he wants to tear up the treaties negotiated by his Democrat and Republican predecessors and impose tariffs on US companies that move offshore. What’s more, both he and Hillary Clinton agree that government should fund the very costly reconstruction of the country’s transport infrastructure. So the bipartisan globalist consensus has been smashed. Corporate America, through its cynicism and greed, has destroyed the pretence of an automatic link between its prosperity and that of the country.

Even if Clinton has promised to entrust her husband Bill (the main architect of the Democratic Party’s shift to the right 25 years ago) with important economic tasks, the party no longer looks like the one the couple fashioned when they last occupied the White House. Democratic voters are more leftwing and less attracted to accommodations with the Republicans: the term ‘socialism’ no longer alarms them. And Hillary has had to make concessions to Sanders supporters on four key aspects of the 1990s swerve of the ‘new Democrats’ to the right: free trade treaties, the big hike in the prison population, financial deregulation and wage restraint.

SmaShing the tabletS of Stone Trump’s diatribes against Mexican immigrants and Islam, his sexism and his racist rants provoke such disgust that other things he says sometimes go unnoticed. Yet when it comes to welfare spending, trade policy, gay rights, international alliances or overseas military engagements, Trump has so determinedly smashed the Republican tablets of stone that it is hard to imagine GOP leaders backtracking on any of these issues any time soon. Unless they intend to definitively sacrifice ‘their’ base, which has already signalled its impatience by voting in the primaries for a candidate not known for pulling his punches, even when talking about his party. ‘Our politicians,’ Trump says, ‘have aggressively pursued a policy of globalisation. Globalisation has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache.’ This is a piquant observation from a billionaire who divides his time between a Manhattan penthouse and his private jet, yet it’s not a bad summary.

All this might suggest that, after all, the system isn’t rigged — that, as Francis Fukuyama suggested recently in Foreign Affairs, American democracy is functioning, since it is reacting to popular anger, complicating the Clinton dynasty’s plans, humiliating the Republican barons, and putting the issues of inequality, protectionism and deindustrialisation centre stage in the election.

Perhaps it also sounds a knell for two political deceptions. Over time, the Democratic Party has become the tool of the educated middle classes and professionals, but has retained the vast majority of the black and Hispanic vote by displaying signs of its ‘diversity’. And with the support of the unions, it has kept a working-class electoral base. Yet its vision of

progress has ceased to be egalitarian: it is sometimes individualist and paternalistic (‘try harder’) and sometimes meritocratic (‘study more’), but it offers no future to the peripheral America of the heartlands which, far from the coasts, remain cut off from the prosperity of the great global cities. This America is witnessing the disappearance of the industrial jobs that had long been the mainstay of a middle class with little college education yet confident in its future.

Before Trump, the Republican Party had little to offer them either. The party’s priorities were reducing taxes on businesses and letting them export capital and outsource production. But by talking about country, religion and morality to workers and the white proletariat, and by encouraging the American heartlands to believe their decline was caused by pampered minorities and arrogant intellectuals, the conservatives ensured that the designated victims of their economic and business policies served as their electoral canon fodder for years.

Trump’s popularity with these people works differently. He barely talks about the Bible and ‘traditional values’, and insists on defending industry and revoking trade agreements. Clinton did little to reclaim the affection of many of his voters when she lumped them into a‘basket of deplorables’ who are ‘racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.’ She offered this diagnosis at a New York fundraiser before a ‘basket’ of people who were surely admirable, as they had paid a lot to hear her speak.

Is it possible that an election notable for such ideological upsets — and even a desire to up-end the whole applecart — will still deliver victory for the status quo candidate? Yes, since Trump is an outsider who is even more hated than she is. And that, ultimately, may be the main way the system is rigged.

The US is not unique in this. France may experience something similar next year: popular anger at globalisation, social segregation and the connivance of elites, but which is short-changed by a political game whose sorry result unfailingly follows the buttered toast rule.

Since nothing very unexpected will come from Clinton because she is surrounded by experts, pollsters and PR people, and calculates everything to within a fraction of an inch, Trump has shaken things up by ditching his party’s decreed strategy.

The re-election of Barack Obama in 2012 took the Republican leadership by surprise. They concluded that to win they would have to reduce the Democrats’ electoral advantage among the black community — though here Clinton has less purchase than Obama — and especially among Hispanics, who represent a growing percentage of the population. As Hispanic Americans have often been alienated by the Republicans’ restrictive immigration policy, the party reckoned it should show more openness and offer an amnesty to some illegal immigrants. Theoretically, since electoral loyalties are not DNA-encoded, nothing prevents a Hispanic American from voting for the right if he opposes abortion or resents paying taxes.

Polish, Italian and Lithuanian immigrants used to vote Democrat until they switched their support to Republican Ronald Reagan; in 2000, 70% of Muslims backed George W Bush, but eight years later 90% voted for Obama.

Stoking fear of immigrantS Instead of scrabbling for a few votes from the Latino and black electorate, who are hostile to the Republicans, Trump has chosen to bank on increasing his advantage among non-Hispanic whites. They may be a shrinking percentage of the population, but they still accounted for 74% of the electorate in 2012.

To mobilise this group, especially manual workers and employees with little college education, Trump has stoked fears of an influx of immigrants threatening security and a loss of national identity, and hammered on about an industrial renaissance (‘Make America great again’). Such rhetoric resonates with social groups that the Democrat establishment largely neglects, since it doesn’t associate them with digital modernity or demographic diversity, probably because it reckons that these groups struggle

along in a culture and universe whose days are numbered, and which are declining and ‘deplorable’.

The metropolises account for a growing share of the US’s prosperity and production of ideas, yet the peripheral states will decide the election. For several months, California and New York have been left in the shade, as their result — Democrat — is already known by all and the electoral margin of victory does not matter. Meanwhile Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin occupy the limelight, they are being courted because the outcomes in these states are more uncertain; they’re being listened to and heavily courted. And what do the candidates hear? That these states, whose populations are whiter, older and generally less educated than average, have lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to offshoring and competition from China and Mexico, that industrial wastelands are spreading, and that they have benefited less from the economic upturn than the rest of the US. Trump’s language of protectionism and anxiety goes down well here; Clinton has a tougher time selling President Obama’s record.

There may soon come a time when US world cities have expanded still further and immigration has transformed the US into a country where ‘minorities’ are in the majority. Then the Democrats may be able to do without the working-class Midwest, as they have previously done without poor Southern whites. But that time is not now. This year it’s still too risky for the Clintons’ party to scold all those who react badly to the problems the Democrats created, and to suggest that they seek training or a new career, or relocate. Because, with Trump in the ring, the Democrats can no longer be certain that they are the sole electoral refuge for what remains of a working-class base. Clinton, the personification of a political elite which for over a quarter of a century has led the working-class world towards catastrophe, must therefore take account of people whose economic fate is threatened and who are terrified by the loss of social status. Her CV is unmatched, but in 2016 many Americans seem to want to ditch the whole system and use a stick of dynamite called Donald Trump to do it.

So suddenly the suffering white population matter again, and are being scrutinised as the black lumpenproletariat were half a century ago. And we discover that life expectancy is declining for Appalachian miners, Virginia tobacco farmers, all those who’ve been forced to change jobs and become security guards at Walmart at a third of their former salaries. Life expectancy for white men with no college education is now almost 13 years lower than for their university-educated counterparts (67.5 years compared to 80.4); and for women, a little over ten years (73.5 against 83.9). Pawnshops and check-cashing stores are no longer only found in black ghettos, and the same is true of young single mothers on welfare, high levels of obesity, drug addiction and suicide.

For this population, Clinton’s ‘experience’, and her respect for the way Washington works, are not necessarily assets.

What will the ‘post-industrial’ future mean for them when all the coal mines have closed down, when the taxi and truck drivers have been replaced with driverless Google vehicles, when the supermarket clerks are all barcode scanners and robots do the rest of the work? Will they all become programmers?

Waiting staff? Self-employed food delivery bikers for a smartphone app, renters of Airbnb rooms for tourists, organic gardeners or home helps? Clinton is not responsive to this worry; she probably sees it as a rejection of progress. Trump harps on about it, trying to get people who are scared by the coarseness of his personality and his lack of knowledge to ponder ‘What have you got to lose?’

Rigged or not, we will soon know whether the US system has become so fragile that it may yield to a man like Trump. But if another terrorist attack, a bad TV appearance or the discovery of more compromising emails between now and the election keeps Clinton out of the White House, it would prove not just that the party of the status quo could not fight the authoritarian right, but that the latter derives much of its energy from the failed policies of the neoliberal left.

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The Case for Outcast Media

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f you were an ordinary citizen of Azerbaijan, you’d have little reason to doubt the official casualty count from your country’s recent skirmishes with Armenian separatists.

Long used to a state-sanctioned narrative of events, you might have taken part in wave of patriotism that subsequently washed across the country. After all, your strongman president, Ilham Aliyev, painted the fighting last April — the latest flare-up in nearly three decades of hostilities over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic — as a military success.

But one scrappy media outlet did the math. Meydan TV, an independent website headed by Azeri dissidents that casts itself as one of the few critical voices reporting on Azerbaijan, reached out to the directly affected families. “The numbers that the ministry of defense was giving did not match the numbers we were receiving from people who had lost their loved ones,” says deputy program director Zarona Ismailova.

Per Meydan TV’s count, the real number of dead was about three times higher than the 31 reported by the government. The outlet published the full list of names on its website, which was then shared more than 17,000 times on Facebook. And it coordinated the effort from its base in Berlin.

Doing so from inside Azerbaijan, an exSoviet republic which democracy watchdog Freedom House classifies as “Not Free,” would’ve been all but impossible.

Critics say the Aliyev government has used its vast oil reserves to fund an increasingly corrupt and authoritarian regime that muzzles the media and jails political dissidents and others who dare to speak out.

Earlier this year, prominent investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was released from prison after a year-and-half behind bars for her reporting on the widespread corruption in the Aliyev family.

Such are the circumstances that pre-

vent Meydan TV from operating freely inside the country. A brainchild of political exile Emin Milli, the project was first launched in 2013 as a television station broadcasting into Azerbaijan from Germany. Having been repeatedly jailed in Azerbaijan for his public criticism of the regime, Milli moved to Berlin in early 2013 and received political asylum there. But the program lasted only a week before the authorities jammed the signal, forcing Milli to change tack. That’s when it turned into an operation that has grown, in his words, “from a bunch of bloggers … into a professional online media outlet” that focuses on hard-hitting reports. Recently, it gained attention for an interactive project that illustrated how various sights along last June’s Formula 1 route in Baku were tied to instances of official malfeasance.

But Meydan TV’s case also illustrates an important — if somewhat disheartening — point: In countries ruled by authoritarian regimes, such as those of the former Soviet Union, remote media projects are often the only source of critical or accurate information. Stifling restrictions on free speech and media mean that journalists inside those countries can’t report openly, at least not without taking on massive risks. Instead, outlets like Meydan TV are forced to rely on the Internet and often anonymous stringers to gather information. In so doing, they serve curious — though usually still small — audiences determined to break out from behind their governments’ information blockades.

Reaching out to audiences in authoritarian states from afar isn’t exactly a new principle. During the Cold War, the U.S. government used outlets like Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty and Voice of America to break through the Iron Curtain and counter Soviet and Warsaw Pact propaganda. After a new generation of autocrats took over across much of the post-Soviet space, they built regimes that incorporate many features of their Soviet predecessors. In states such as Azerbaijan or the closed autocracies of

Central Asia, the executive’s rule is absolute and the state exercises virtually total control over the media. If an activist, critical journalist, or any other free-thinker speaks out, criminal charges — usually manufactured — are filed against them. “The main goal is to force a person to stay quiet,” says Daniil Kislov, editor of a Moscow-based website, Fergana News, that reports on the countries of post-Soviet Central Asia.

Meydan TV’s success is due in large part to a growing network of what it calls “citizen journalists” — locals who feed editors news tips, stories and other developments that would never make it into state-controlled media. For instance, when the government sought to downplay a deadly oil rig fire in the Caspian Sea last December, Meydan TV posted a report featuring relatives of missing workers complaining about ineffective officials and conflicting information. It even obtained footage of the fire apparently from a rescuer dispatched to the scene.

The Aliyev regime has taken notice. It has launched a criminal investigation into the outlet and levied travel bans, as well as other forms of harassment, against local Azeri journalists who have contributed to it.

While access to Meydan TV isn’t blocked inside Azerbaijan, it has experienced a number of DDoS attacks that crashed the website for several hours at a time. But Milli says that’s a good sign: “Every attack against us is an acknowledgment of our success, and no attack against us will stop us from doing what we’re doing, which is just journalism — nothing less, and nothing more.”

Some believe it’s more complicated than that. On one hand, the outlet provides a desperately-needed counterbalance to powerful state propaganda. On the other, Azerbaijan’s restrictive atmosphere creates such a sense of desperation that simply getting the information out is often a high-stakes act of bravery for those on the ground. Katy Pearce, an assistant professor at the University of Washington who studies communication in post-Soviet regimes, points out that much of Meydan TV’s most resonant work has come

during times of crisis — such as the oil rig fire — when the urgency of the situation can trump the ability to verify every piece of information. Milli and his colleagues say they fact-check their stories and are committed to the standards of professional journalism.

But their goal, according to Pearce, is more than just journalism. “These are people who are activists first,” she says.

As with virtually any modern media organization, finding adequate funding is a challenge. For now, Meydan TV relies largely on grants from NGOs. The outlet’s leadership was disheartened by Germany’s refusal last year to provide federal funding on the basis that it might damage diplomatic relations with the Azeri regime. In the long term, Milli hopes to wean his outlet off donor funding and onto a more sustainable social business model, in which it would build partnerships with non-media businesses or invest in other wealth-creating projects.

Ultimately, Meydan TV — and other outlets like it — rely on a local readership that’s hungry enough to seek out alternative sources of information. Milli estimates that, in one way or another, Meydan reaches up to 20 percent of the population in Azerbaijan. By comparison, Western broadcasters such as RFE/RL, Voice of America, and the BBC reached up to 25 percent of adult population by the final decade of the Soviet Union, according to a recent book-length study. But observers hope that, in an increasingly connected world, the desire for accurate information will win out over authoritarian governments’ information blockades.

“I think the audience understands, most of the time, what is right and what is wrong,” says Kenan Aliyev, executive editor of Current Time, a news program produced by U.S.-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and beamed into Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union. “Propaganda can be useful to a certain degree, but in the long run, people figure out what’s actually going on.”

OUR ANCESTORS: The Original Entrepreneurs Christian Weaver

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Cultural Survival

he idea of entrepreneurship isn’t a new concept among Native people. Our ancestors have always practiced entrepreneurship—it was called survial. Farmers, hunters, fishermen, women, artisans, and traders were all entrepreneurs because it was how they provided for their people.

Growing up I always struggled with choosing a profession.

Should I be an architect, an attorney, a public relations executive, an exotic dancer? My father has always said, “Figure out what you love doing first; then figure out how to make a living from it.”

Those words I’ve heard all my life didn’t click until the year I turned 30. Then it hit me: I can do whatever I want with my life—and it doesn’t have to be just one thing.

One of my passions is art. I am a painter, designer, and writer. I have a lot of Native artist friends who travel around from powwow to powwow and art show to art show trying to sell their art. It’s a very tiresome and taxing job. I saw a problem that needed solving.

How could I help my fellow Native artists create a more sustainable

living from their craft? How can I vastly increase the marketability of these artists? How can I make sure they are seeing the greatest rate of return from their work?

Then...boom! About four years ago I had a vision of creating a vehicle that allowed Native artists, designers, and crafters to have their own online store where they can sell to the entire planet. After a lot planning, trial and error, and hard work, NDNcraft.com was born. NDNcraft.com is an online marketplace that allows people to create their own e-commerce store for literally pennies. We are all creating positive change, creating opportunities.

NDNcraft allows people to be their own boss. They control the prices, the inventory, and their own marketing. It’s a vehicle that retains culture, fights against cultural misappropriation, and doesn’t take advantage of artists, designers, and crafters.

We’re more affordable than Etsy; we offer a specific market for our buyers, and we’re Native owned and operated. It’s a vehicle for the people. We are the people!

Designing is a passion of mine.

I love designing beautiful things from furniture, clothing, and home goods. It has been a dream of mine since I was a youth to

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In the photo, Emin Milli, director of Meydan TV, speaks at an event hosted by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Berlin on April 27.

Foreign Policy

Gorbachev Appeals for Sanity, Dialogue Inter Press Service

resident Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, has appealed to world leaders to reduce the dangerous tensions, which today threaten to plunge human civilization and the biosphere into an all-destroying nuclear war.

In an October 10 interview with RIA Novosti, Gorbachev said: “I think the world has reached a dangerous point, I don’t want to give any concrete prescriptions, but I do want to say that this needs to stop. We need to renew dialogue. Stopping it was the biggest mistake.”

“It is necessary to return to the main priorities. These are nuclear disarmament, the fight against terrorism, the prevention of an environmental disaster,” he continued.

“Compared to these challenges, all the rest slips into the background.”

Later the same day, in Iceland, President Gorbachev said: “The worst thing that has happened in recent years is the collapse of trust in relations between major powers, The window to a nuclear weapon-free world…is being shut and sealed right before our eyes.”

“As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a danger that someday they will be used as a result either of accident or technical failure or of evil intent of man, an insane person or terrorist,” Gorbachev said.

In authoritarian states, foreignbased media can be the best source of reliable information — as one exiled Azerbaijan news outlet proves

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create a line of clothing. My dad subscribed to GQ and I used to read those magazines from cover to cover, dreaming of being the next Calvin Klein, Valentino, J Crew, etc. One my favorite ways to express myself is through my attire.

Being an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Nation, I love the woodland floral patterns of my tribe and all the woodland tribes across the country clear into Wisconsin and Minnesota. They flow beautifully, and are bold and powerful. With all the non-Native clothing companies exploiting our styles and designs, I decided to create a line of clothing and home goods that celebrated our woodland designs in a positive way. I wanted to give people from all walks of life something they could wear proudly and in good conscience. In 2015 I created Eastwoods Apparel & Home Goods. We started with a line of unisex shirts with a beautiful print designed by Ojibwe artist Jessica Show Pony Gokey. Today we’ve expanded to dresses, headwear, and women’s shirts, with still a lot more to come. As the owner and creative director, I have the unique opportunity to collaborate with many Native artists and manufacturers to give the people

products that are authentic and beautiful.

Entrepreneurship is important to me. It allows me to create my future. The harder I work, the better results I see. I didn’t have a lot of money when I started these companies. I just studied, read, listened, and did it. Starting something is half the battle.

It comes down to being a good steward of your time. I don’t own a TV; to me it’s a waste of time, and time is the only true luxury.

I get so much more done by not owning a TV. Georgetown alumnus and NBA all star, Dikembe Mutombo, gave me that advice over lunch several years ago. Here’s a guy whose father made $36 a month as a teacher in the Congo. Mutombo went to Georgetown on an academic scholarship. He actually hated basketball. Not only is he is a scholar and former NBA all star, but he’s a philanthropist, ambassador, husband, and father. His advice to me was to throw my TV away. That was some of the best business advice ever given to me.

This road hasn’t been easy, and is still bumpy. I didn’t take out a loan from a bank or borrow from a venture capitalist because I wanted to retain full ownership of my companies. That meant building

them slowly and saving penny by penny. It had to be done. There is motivation for me to be successful because of the current small number of Native business owners and mentors. I know that there are people watching me. My family is watching me to set a positive example. If other ethnic groups can join forces to build their communities, we can too.

I would like to encourage everyone reading this to consider becoming an entrepreneur. You don’t have to have a lot of capital to start, just passion, discipline, and the will to not give up. You will fail.

You may fail five to ten times, but you must keep going. You must!

Own something for yourself. Create a legacy for future generations.

Be a role model. Be a warrior.

As our ancestors look upon us, let us be the answers to their prayers. Let us create avenues for tribal sustainability. We can bring more power to the people, for we are the people. As for myself, I’ll never stop building and creating. I have a world to clothe and a daughter to feed. Tell Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren that I’m coming for ‘em!

Christian Branden Weaver (Shinnecock Nation) was born in Brooklyn and resides in Denver, CO. He is a visual artist, designer, creative director, business developer, DJ, philanthropist, and powwow dancer.

Alyn Ware Agrees Alyn Ware, the International Co-ordinater of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, commented: “I would concur with the assessment of Gorbachev.”

“I have been at the UN General Assembly October sessions (Disarmament and International Security) every year since 1988.

This year was the most acrimonious I have ever seen. The tensions between Russia and NATO/Ukraine/US spilled over into the deliberations with accusations and counter accusations flying in many of the sessions.

And these were not the only tensions. Syria/Yemen/Middle East, India/Pakistan and North Korea v South Korea/Japan/USA were also vitriolic towards each other.”

“Tension reduction, confidence building and diplomacy are vital at this time”, Alyn Ware continued, “Without this, disarmament is unlikely to occur and further armed conflict is very likely.”

The New UN Secretary General Hope that the current extremely dangerous tensions can be reduced comes from the appointment of former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres as the new UN Secretary General. The Security Council was united in making this appointment, thus giving us hope for better cooperation in the future.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr. Guterres said that ending the conflict in Syria would be one of his greatest challenges. “I believe it is the international community’s first priority is to be able to end this conflict and use this momentum created by it to try to address all the other conflicts that are interlinked,” “I hope people will understand that it’s better to put aside different opinions, different interests and to understand that there is a common, vital interest to put an end to these conflicts, because that is absolutely central if you want to live in a world where a minimum of securities are established, where people can live a normal life,” he said.

Nuclear War Would Be a Catastrophe The danger of a catastrophic nuclear war casts a dark shadow over the future of our species. It also casts a very black shadow over the future of the global environment.

The environmental consequences of a massive exchange of nuclear weapons have been treated in a number of studies by meteorologists and other experts from both East and West.

They predict that a large-scale use of nuclear weapons would result in fire storms with very high winds and high temperatures, which would burn a large proportion of the wild land fuels in the affected nations.

The resulting smoke and dust would block out sunlight for a period of many months, at first only in the northern hemisphere but later also in the southern hemisphere.

Temperatures in many places would fall far below freezing, and much of the earths plant life would be killed. Animals and humans would then die of starvation.

Professor Bernard Lowen of the Harvard School of Public Health, one of the founders of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), said in a recent speech: “…No public health hazard ever faced by humankind equals the threat of nuclear war. Never before has man possessed the destructive resources to make this planet uninhabitable… Modern medicine has nothing to offer, not even a token benefit, in the event of nuclear war…”

“We are but transient passengers on this planet Earth. It does not belong to us. We are not free to doom generations yet unborn.

We are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past or dim its future. Social systems do not endure for eternity. Only life can lay claim to uninterrupted continuity. This continuity is sacred.”

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INDIA

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Eight SIMI undertrials shot dead after Bhopal jailbreak

Bhopal, octoBer 31 (IaNS): Police on Monday shot dead eight undertrial activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in an alleged gun battle, hours after they escaped from a high-security jail here.

Police said the members of the banned Islamist outfit allegedly killed a police head constable with a sharpened spoon, took another guard hostage, broke the gates of their cell, scaled high walls using ropes made out of bed spreads and escaped out of the Bhopal Central Jail early in the morning.

A high alert was immediately sounded through out the state. Police also sealed all state borders as a manhunt was launched to nab the escapees, Home Minister Bhoopendra Singh told IANS. Four of the inmates were accused of being involved in dacoity, loot and treason. They had earlier escaped from Khandwa Jail and were later arrested from Odisha. After an eight-hour search, police said, the terrorists were cornered in a village, Achapura, about 30 km north of Bhopal.

Bhopal police chief Yogesh Chaudhary said

A securityman pastes wanted posters at a railway station after eight suspected SIMI members escaped from a Bhopal jail. (PTI Photo)

villagers informed them about the presence of some suspicious men washing their faces in a pond.

Chaudhary said police surrounded the men and asked them to surrender. "They fired at us and all eight were killed in the crossfire." It was not immediately clear how the escapees acquired firearms.

The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the National Investigation Agency (NIA)

would probe the jailbreak incident. "I have already spoken to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and he has agreed to order an NIA probe." He said five jail officials have been suspended and the Additional DIG (Jails) shifted to police headquarters.

Opposition questions shootout, BJP defend However, details of the operation remained shrouded in mystery with

opposition parties suspecting that it may have been staged.

A video of the alleged gun fight also appeared on social networking sites which was telecast by national news channels. The short clip, whose authenticity could not be verified independently, shows a policeman shooting at a group of men lying still in a deserted strip.

The men, wearing jeans and sports shoes, were said

to be the escaped SIMI activists. It also shows a policeman pulling out a knife from one of the dead men.

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told IANS that the "facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged jailbreak raise questions". Tewari pointed to the video and said perhaps the encounter was not what the police was making it out to be.

"It appears to be a fake encounter. Therefore this entire matter should be probed by a sitting Supreme Court judge for the truth to emerge."

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi also sought an inquiry by a Supreme Court judge and termed the entire incident "very surprising" and "shocking".

"People who escaped from prison after killing a guard only had spoons. To any normal person, this theory is unbelievable and that is why I am of the opinion a proper and independent investigation has to be done."

CPI-M politburo member Brinda Karat also questioned the "highly dubious and suspicious and full of self-contradictory statements" of the government.

"To get to the truth it is essential to have an indepen-

dent probe under a high court judge," she said.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also demanded a Supreme Court monitored probe.

The dead SIMI men were identfied as Abdul Majid, Mehboob Guddu, Zakir Hussain, Amjad Khan, Mohammed Aqeel, Mohammed Khalid, Mohammed Saliq and Mujeed Sheikh.

Meanwhile, the BJP on Monday accused the opposition parties of appeasing terrorists and gangsters as the latter questioned the veracity of the gunning down of eight SIMI activists in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

Pointing to the demand of the Congress, Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for a judicial probe into the killing of the eight activists who earlier escaped from the Bhopal Central Jail, BJP spokesperson G.V.L. Narsimha Rao said the opposition parties were attacking the morale of the security forces. He said the BJP urged all political parties to shun the path of vote bank politics.

Otherwise, this perverse politics is bound to meet its political Waterloo, he said.

6.54 crore Indians never attended school: Census New DelhI, octoBer 31 (ptI): As many as 6.54 crore people in the age group of 5-19 years in the country have never attended any school while another 4.49 crore have dropped out of schools in the last decade.

According to the 2011 Census data, there is 38.01 crore population in the age group of 5-19 years of which 26.98 crore (71 per cent) is attending educational institutions. 4.49 crore (11.8 per cent) people have attended schools earlier while 6.54 crore (17.2 per cent) have never been to a school.

There were about 65.7 lakh disabled people in the age group of 5-19 at census 2011 in India, according to the census data.

17.5 lakh (26.7 per cent) of the disabled population has never attended any school, eight lakh (12.1 per cent) has dropped out of schools in the last decade while 40.2 lakh people (61.2 per cent) are attending educational institutions.

The proportion of disabled persons who never attended any educational institution in 2011, was found to be highest among persons with 'multiple disability' (54.4 per cent), followed by 'mental illness' (50.3 per cent) and 'mental retardation' (41.2 per cent) whereas persons with 'any other disability' (17.7 per cent) show the least percentage.

Further, out of 40.2 lakh disabled persons attending educational institutions, 22.8 lakh (56.7 per cent) are males and 17.4 lakh (43.3 per cent) are females.

In 2001, about 33 lakh (50.5 per cent) out of 65.3 lakh disabled persons in the same age group reported attending educational institutions. There is an improvement of about 11 percentage points for the disabled persons attending schools in the age-group 5-19 during the decade 2001-2011.

It is further noticed that disabled persons with 'any other disability' show the highest percentage (71.2 per cent) in attending educational institution followed by 'seeing' (68 per cent), 'hearing' (67 per cent), 'movement' (59.6 per cent), 'speech' (58.9 per cent), 'mental retardation' (47.2 per cent), 'multiple disability' (37.2 per cent) and least with 'mental illness' (34.1 per cent).

Maximum percentage of disabled persons who attended educational institution earlier is seen in 'movement' (17.7 per cent) followed by 'mental illness' (15.5 per cent), and least in 'multiple disability' (8.4 per cent).

Maharashtra most farmer friendly state: NITI Aayog Index Kejriwal alleges judges' phones being tapped New DelhI, octoBer 31 (ptI): Maharashtra has been adjudged the most farmer friendly state in the country followed by Gujarat and Rajasthan, according to NITI Aayog's index on reforms in the farm sector.

In a first of its kind of exercise, NITI Aayog has prepared 'Agriculture Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index' based on initiatives taken by the states in implementing farm sector reforms.

"The state of Maharashtra achieves first rank in implementation of various reforms. The state has implemented

most of the marketing reforms and it offers best environment for doing agribusiness among all the states and UTs," an official statement said.

It further said that almost 20 out of 29 states, including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Assam, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and J&K, have done poorly with regard to agri-sector reforms.

As per the states' score in the Index, Madhya Pradesh ranked fourth, followed by Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Goa and Chattisgarh. The Index is aimed

at helping the states to identify and address problems in the farm sector, which suffer from low growth, low farm income and agrarian distress.

The areas identified for action by NITI Aayog with a view to double farm income include agriculture market reforms, land lease reform, and reforms related to forestry on private land.

"Detailed study of the reforms in various states and UTs show that reforms have remained patchy, partial, sporadic and implemented in very diluted form," the statement added.

Why Global TB Report a Wake-up Call for India?

Sachi Satapathy IANS

The just-released Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report-2016 is a shocker for India. The report reveals the spread of this curable disease is larger than previously projected and moreover, the country accounts for 24% of the global cases.

India's effort to check the disease is falling far short of what is required. The new figure finds 50% more TB cases in India than previously assessed; so the total cases have gone up from an estimated 9.6 million to 10.4 million cases globally. Six countries -- India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa -- account for 60% of

the global total.

The new report is a wakeup call for India to break the status quo on how TB and its drug-resistant forms are being diagnosed and treated.

Close to 480,000 people contracted multi-drug resistant TB in 2015 -- more than half of them stay in India, China and Russia.

The most critical aspect of the disease unfolding in the new report is quite serious -- that many people with multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB are not able to access proper treatment in their respective countries. The treatment success rate of MDR TB cases was < 50% in countries with the largest cohorts: India, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, South Africa

and the Ukraine.

This is primarily happening because of high death rate in India, South Africa and the Ukraine; high treatment-failure rates in the Russian Federation and the Ukraine and high rate of loss of follow-up or missing data in India, the Philippines and South Africa.

Globally, 7,234 patients with XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistant TB) were enrolled on treatment (more than twice the level in 2014).

Most of these cases in 2015 were notified in India (2,130), the Ukraine (1,206), the Russian Federation (1,205) and South Africa (719). Among six countries with XDR-TB cohorts of more than 100 individuals, mortality was highest (>40%) in India and

Help us! Women in mill pen letter describing sexual abuse at work DINDIGul, octoBer 31 (thomSoN reuterS FouNDatIoN): A letter from six women at a spinning mill in Tamil Nadu, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help, exposes the widespread exploitation of women in the multi-billion-dollar textile industry, campaigners said.

"He forces himself on us, constantly hugging us and squeezing our breasts," the women write, describing the behaviour of their male supervisor.

"Any worker who resists his advances loses part of her salary. We need this job and don't know who to talk to about the abuse we face everyday. Please help us."

Sent to the social welfare officer in Dindigul, a district in Tamil Nadu, the eightpage letter dated Aug. 29 is a plea for help from abused and exploited women, rights campaigners said.

"Women normally

share their experiences only after quitting their jobs," said S. Thivyarakhini of the all-women Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union.

"This is the first time, we have such raw details of ongoing exploitation.

The letter has exposed the underbelly of the textile industry in the region."

The mill management said they were unaware of the letter and had not received any official complaint.

"There were unsubstantiated allegations against the same person around a year back by a woman worker," said K.R. Shanmugavel, senior manager at the Rama Spinning Mills.

"We gave him a warning and also terminated the (employment of the) woman worker to avoid further problems."

India is one of the world's largest textile and garment manufacturers.

Many of the workers em-

ployed in this $40-billiona-year industry are trapped in debt bondage, face abuse or are forced to work long hours in poor conditions, activists said.

More than 2,000 units employ an estimated 300,000 people, most of them young women from poor, illiterate and low-caste or "Dalit" communities.

There are around 100 women working in the Rama Spinning mills near Nallamanarkottai village in Dindigul district.

The women said that they were unable to communicate their problems with the mill owner, who lives in a different city and relies on the manager for feedback.

Dindigul social welfare officer G. Shanti told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that they were in the process of putting together an enquiry committee to inspect the mill premises and look into the allegations.

South Africa.

It is a great worry for the Narendra Modi government as out of 5,000 TB deaths daily at the global level, India accounts for 1,400. The Indian government can no more afford to allow 1,400 of its people, mostly the poor, die every single day because of a disease that is curable and for which treatment is available.

There is no other option left before India but to urgently map out where these new infections are coming from, run after them to find those cases, identify them and begin their treatment.

The author works with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases -- The Union.

New DelhI, octoBer 31 (IaNS): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed there were allegations that phones of judges from the Supreme Court to High Courts, were being tapped.

His claims were promptly rejected

by Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Addressing the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Delhi High Court here, Kejriwal, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur among others, said if true, then tapping of judges' phones would be the biggest assault on independence of the judiciary.

"There are opportunities when you get to talk to judges, and during one of those, I heard two judges telling each other not to talk over phone because the phones are being tapped. When I said that this cannot happen, they said from the Supreme Court to the High Court and District Courts, all of the judges' phones are being tapped," said Kejriwal.

"I don't know if this is true, but if it is true, then this very dangerous.

In such a scenario all the judges can be influenced. Even if a judge has indulged in any wrong doing, even that doesn't justify phone tapping.

Other means can be used to gather evidence against them," said Kejriwal, leading to loud murmurs among the audience.

"Independence of judiciary is paramount. And if true, phone tapping would be the biggest as-

sault on the independence of judiciary," said Kejriwal, who also questioned the Centre's delay on implementing the Supreme Court Collegium's recommendations for filling up vacancies in the courts.

"I don't know what is the reason behind the central government not implementing the Supreme Court Collegium's recommendations for filling up vacancies in the courts. But this is giving rise to rumours.

"There are rumours that only because certain minister's (preferred) men will not be given the opportunity, the Centre is not implementing the recommendations - and similar such rumours.

Such rumours are dangerous for democracy.

"Even 001 per cent of executive interference is not good for judiciary. Since executive is very, very powerful, an independent judiciary is paramount for keeping checks and balances," said Kejriwal.

He also called for a law to ensure implementation of the Colegium's recommendations within 48 hours after they are sent to the Centre, as well as codifying the relation between the executive and the judiciary.

GOvernment denies Speaking at the event a little later, Law Minister Prasad, who earlier held the Communication and Information Technology Ministry, categorically denied Kejriw-

al's claims of phone tapping and asserted the Modi government's commitment towards independence of the judiciary.

"I don't want to join an issue today, but I have to put the record straight. I have been the Communication Minister for more than two years and wish to deny with all command and authority that phones of judges were tapped," said Prasad.

Taking on Kejriwal, Prasad asserted that independence of judiciary was "unimpeachable and uncompromisable".

"Right from Prime Minister Modi to other ministers like Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and myself, we have fought against the Emergency for upholding three freedoms - individual, media and judiciary.

"So as the Law Minister let me categorically declare the Modi government's commitment towards independence of the judiciary. It is absolute and complete.

The independence of judiciary is unimpeachable and uncompromisable," added Prasad.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday denied reports that phones of judges from the Supreme Court to High Courts were being tapped. "MHA strongly denies media reports alleging tapping of telephones of some judges. There is no truth in these reports. These reports are baseless and unfounded," said a ministry statement.

Smog chokes Delhi as pollution hits hazardous levels

New DelhI, octoBer 31 (reuterS): Residents of New Delhi woke up to a blanket of smog on Monday as air quality deteriorated sharply overnight in India's capital, triggering warnings that even healthy people were at risk of respiratory problems.

New Delhi ranks among the world's most polluted cities, with air quality usually worsening at this time of year, when smoke from firecrackers celebrating the Hindu festival of lights and crops burnt in nearby states envelops the city of 16 million.

Drivers crawled through a thick fog as experts warned people to avoid outdoor exertion.

"Last night, levels hit the severe category, which is the worst. You could see and sense how the visibility had come down and there was a choking haze all around," said Anumita Roychowdhury at the Centre for Science and Environment.

Municipal workers push a cart in a public park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi on October 31. (REUTERS Photo)

Levels of PM 2.5, tiny particulate matter that reaches deep into the lungs, more than doubled within a few hours to 750 micrograms per cubic meter in the city's worst affected parts, India's Central Pollution Control Board said.

That is 30 times a mean guideline of 25 micrograms

per cubic meter on average over a 24-hour period set by the World Health Organization (WHO), which says outdoor air pollution killed 3.7 million people worldwide in 2012.

The U.S. embassy in New Delhi said its air pollution index had late on Sunday breached the "haz-

ardous" level upper limit of 500, at which it stops measuring levels of PM2.5. The index had rocketed to 1,126 by 2 a.m. (2030 GMT) Roychowdhury said data was not available to assess if Delhi's air was worse on average than in prior years. Air quality is usually poorest in Delhi's

winter months of December and January.

Authorities have responded with measures such as a ban on old trucks from entering the city and briefly trialing a scheme that limited private vehicle usage to alternate days, but experts say they have done little to reduce pollution.

India is home to four of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution, the WHO said in May. New Delhi ranked 11th.

Almost one in seven children live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, U.N. children's agency UNICEF said.

China shuts schools and offices if air quality deteriorates to extreme levels for three consecutive days, but India has not yet taken similar steps.

"Where is the plan for short- and medium-term action, and for emergency action?" Roychowdhury said. "We need one very urgently."

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FBI obtains warrant to examine Clinton emails

WASHINGTON, OcTOber 31 (reuTerS): Federal investigators have secured a warrant to examine newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clinton’s private server, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday, as a prominent Democrat accused FBI Director James Comey of breaking the law by trying to influence the election.

The warrant will allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to examine the emails to see if they are relevant to its probe of the private email server used for government work by Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Comey came under heavy pressure from Democrats on Sunday to quickly provide details of the emails, as Clinton allies worried the prolonged controversy could extend beyond the Nov. 8 election and cast a shadow over a Clinton transition if she wins the White House.

Comey’s disclosure of the email discovery in a letter to Congress on Friday plunged the final days of the White House race between Clinton and Republican Donald Trump into turmoil. Clinton had opened a recent lead over Trump in national polls, but it had been narrowing even before the email controversy resurfaced.

The unexpected turn in the email controversy shook financial markets’ conviction of a Clinton victory in the election and the U.S. dollar slipped against major currencies in early Asian trading on Monday.

U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid sent a letter to Comey on Sunday suggesting he violated the Hatch Act, which bars the use of a federal government position to influence an election.

As Clinton struggles, Trump tries to raise doubts

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks off the stage at a campaign rally at the Manor Complex in Wilton Manors, Florida, U.S. on October 30. (REUTERS Photo)

“Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law,” Reid, a senator from Nevada, said in the letter to Comey.

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook questioned Comey’s decision to send a letter notifying Congress of the email review before he even knew whether they were significant or relevant.

Comey’s letter was “long on innuendo, short on facts,” Podesta said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, and accused the FBI chief of breaking precedent by disclosing aspects of an investigation so close to the election.

“We are calling on Mr. Comey to come forward and explain what’s at issue here,” Podesta said, adding the significance of the emails was unclear.

“He might have taken the first step of actually having looked at them before he did this in the middle of

a presidential campaign, so close to the voting,” Podesta said.

Comey’s letter was sent over the objections of Justice Department officials.

But those officials did not try to stop the FBI from getting the warrant, a source familiar with the decision said, because they are interested in the FBI moving quickly on the probe.

Sources close to the investigation have said the latest emails were discovered as part of a separate probe of former Democratic U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Weiner is the target of an FBI investigation into illicit text messages he is alleged to have sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The FBI already had a warrant to search Weiner’s laptop in that probe, but needed a warrant to look at the material that might be related to Clinton.

ALbuQuerQue/WASHINGTON, OcT 31 (reuTerS): Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is fighting to raise doubts about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as she struggles to get past a new firestorm over her emails that have posed a sudden danger with eight days to go until Election Day. The announcement by FBI Director James Comey that his agency is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server has upended the presidential race and given new hope to Trump that he can make an improbable comeback and win on Nov. 8.

“When we win on Nov. 8 we are going to Washington D.C. and we are going drain the swamp,” Trump said on Sunday night at a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging that Clinton represents a corrupt political system.

“Hillary Clinton is not the victim. You, the American people are the victims of this corrupt system,” he said. Clinton’s controversy became more problematic on Sunday when a source familiar with the matter said the FBI has secured a warrant to examine newly discovered emails related to Clinton’s private server.

The Clinton campaign and its many influential supporters in the Democratic Party have all but declared war on Comey, who was appointed FBI director by Democratic President Barack Obama in 2013.

Clinton’s problems have taken the focus away from Trump’s own troubles. He has battled to rebound from release of a 2005 videotape in which he boasted about groping women. Trump had already narrowed Clinton’s lead in national opinion polls and is leading in some battleground states where the election is likely to be decided.

‘CHECK ON CORRUPTION’ Sources familiar with the matter said FBI agents working on the Weiner investigation saw material on a laptop belonging to Weiner that led them to believe it might be relevant to the investigation of Clinton’s email practices.

Trump has highlighted the issue as proof for his argument that Clinton is corrupt and untrustworthy.

“We have one ultimate check on Hillary’s corruption and that is the power of the vote,” Trump told a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday. “The only way to beat the corruption is to show up and vote by the tens of millions.”

Comey, who announced in July that the FBI’s long investigation of Clinton’s emails was ending without any charges, said in his letter the agency would review the newly surfaced emails to determine their relevance to the investigation of her handling of clas-

sified information.

Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, said he filed a complaint over Comey’s actions with the Office of Special Counsel, w hich investigates Hatch Act violations.

“We cannot allow F.B.I. or Justice Department officials to unnecessarily publicize pending investigations concerning candidates of either party while an election is underway.

That is an abuse of power,” he said in a column in the New York Times.

But Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at Columbia Law School, called the allegations that Comey improperly tried to influence the election “inane.”

“Comey’s critics cannot show his letter violated the Hatch Act unless they can prove that the FBI director was intending to influence the election rather than in-

Turkey detains editor & top staff at opposition newspaper ISTANbuL, OcTOber 31 (reuTerS): Turkish police detained the editor and a dozen senior staff from the main secularist opposition newspaper on Monday, a day after 10,000 more civil servants were sacked over suspected links to a failed July coup.

Turkey’s crackdown since rogue soldiers tried to seize power on July 15 has alarmed Western allies and rights groups, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup attempt to crush dissent.

More than 100,000 people have been sacked or suspended and 37,000 arrested over the past three and a half months.

The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said the staff from the Cumhuriyet daily, one of few media outlets still critical of Erdogan, were suspected of committing crimes on behalf of Kurdish militants and the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric.

The prosecutor’s office said the detentions followed an investigation into allegations that the newspaper had published material justifying the events of July 15.

Cumhuriyet said on its website that 12 of its staff had been detained and some had their laptops seized from their homes. Footage showed one writer, Aydin Engin, 75, being ushered by plain clothes police into a hospital for medical checks.

Asked by reporters to comment on his detention, Engin said: “I work for Cumhuriyet, isn’t that enough?” A further 10,000 civil servants were dismissed and 15 more media outlets ordered closed on Sunday over suspected links to Gulen’s network and militant groups.

A court also jailed, pending trial, the co-mayors of the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.

The government says the measures are justified by the threat

posted to the state by the coup attempt, in which more than 240 people were killed. Erdogan says the crackdown is crucial for “cleansing” the state apparatus of Gulenist influence.

“COUP AGAINST DEMOCRACY” Cumhuriyet’s previous editor Can Dundar was jailed for publishing state secrets involving Turkey’s support for Syrian rebels. The case sparked censure from rights groups and Western governments worried about worsening human rights in Turkey under Erdogan. Cumhuriyet said Dundar, who was freed in February and is now abroad, was one of those facing arrest.

Opposition groups say the purges are being used to silence all dissent against Erdogan and the governing AKP party in Turkey, a NATO member which aspires to membership of the European Union.

“The AKP’s coup against democracy is continuing,” Sezgin Tanrikulu, a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People’s Party, wrote on Twitter. “This is an operation targeting the corporate identity of this paper. It is an effort to punish the critical publications of this paper, which is as old as the Republic itself and one of its biggest symbols,” he said.

The government this month extended a state of emergency imposed after the coup attempt for three months until mid-January.

Erdogan said the authorities needed more time to wipe out the threat posed by Gulen’s network as well as Kurdish PKK militants who have waged a 32-year insurgency.

Ankara wants the United States to detain and extradite Gulen so that he can be prosecuted in Turkey on a charge that he masterminded the attempt to overthrow the government.

Woman at centre of South Korea political crisis begs forgiveness

Choi Soon-sil (C), who is involved in a political scandal, reacts as she is surrounded by media upon her arrival at a prosecutor’s office in Seoul on October 31. (REUTERS Photo)

SeOuL, OcTOber 31 (reuTerS): The woman at the centre of a South Korean political scandal begged forgiveness on Monday as she arrived to meet prosecutors investigating allegations she used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs and gain benefits.

Choi Soon-sil, wearing a hat and scarf and covering her face with her hand, pushed her way through a

scrum of journalists and protesters demanding her arrest and Park’s resignation, losing a shoe in the melee, to enter the prosecution building in Seoul.

“I committed a crime I deserve to die for,” said Choi, according to pool reporters who followed her into the building, using a Korean expression to convey deep remorse.

“Please forgive me.”

Choi returned to South Korea early on Sunday

from Germany, where she had been staying, and was ready to answer prosecutors’ questions, her lawyer said earlier.

She had been under intense pressure to return as the political crisis engulfed Park over allegations that she allowed Choi to use her friendship to exert improper influence and reap benefits.

Thousands of South Koreans rallied on Saturday seeking Park’s resignation over the scandal. They said Park betrayed public trust and mismanaged the government, and had lost a mandate to lead.

Opposition parties have demanded a thorough investigation but have not raised the possibility of impeaching the president.

Park is in the fourth year of a five-year term and the crisis threatens to complicate policymaking during the lame-duck period that typically sets in toward the end of South Korea’s single-

term presidency.

RESIGNATIONS In response to the scandal, eight of Park’s aides including her chief of staff and three advisers who tightly controlled access to her, have stepped down, her office said on Sunday.

Choi’s lawyer, asked if she was admitting guilt by asking for forgiveness, said she was just expressing her feelings, not stating a legal position.

“It wouldn’t be right to take it as any kind of legal statement,” the lawyer, Lee Kyung-jae, told reporters outside the prosecutors’ office.

Park apologised last week for giving her friend access to draft speeches during the first months of her presidency but it did little to deflect demands that the president reveal the full nature of her ties with Choi and whether she enjoyed favours because of her friendship with the president.

Park, the daughter of a former president, Park Chung-hee, said she had consulted Choi with good intentions and Choi was someone “who gave me help when I was going through a difficult time”.

Choi, in her first comments after weeks of reports about her ties with Park, told a newspaper last week she did get drafts of Park’s speeches after Park’s election victory but denied she had access to other official material, or that she influenced state affairs or benefited financially.

Choi’s lawyer said she was in poor health and may be suffering from a heart condition, which he would discuss with prosecutors.

An unidentified man was taken into custody after dumping a container of what appeared to be animal dung at the door of the prosecutors’ office after Choi went in, demanding that prosecutors undertake a proper investigation.

form Congress, which was Comey’s stated aim,” said Richman, who said he had advised Comey on law enforcement policy but not this issue.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Sunday showed Clinton with a statistically insignificant 1-point national lead on Trump. About a third of likely voters in the poll said they were less likely to back Clinton given Comey’s disclosure.

Clinton, who told a Florida rally on Saturday that Comey’s letter was “deeply troubling,” did not address the issue directly on Sunday but referred vaguely to voters overcoming a “distraction.”

“There’s a lot of noise and distraction but it really comes down to the kind of future we want and who can get us there,” she told a packed gay nightclub in Wilton Manors, Florida, where hundreds of supporters who could not get in lined the streets outside.

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One in seven children suffer high air pollution: UNICEF

Students walk along a street as they are released from school to return home earlier due to the haze in Jambi, Indonesia’s Jambi province, September 29, 2015 in this file picture. (REUTERS File Photo)

OSLO, OcTOber 31 (reuTerS): Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are most vulnerable to damage, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said on Monday.

UNICEF called on almost 200 governments, which will meet in Morocco from Nov. 7-18 for talks on global warming, to restrict use of fossil fuels to give twin benefits of improved health and slower climate change.

About 300 million children, or almost one in seven worldwide, lived in areas where outdoor pollution was highest, defined by UNICEF as at least six times international guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO), it said.

Of the total, 220 million lived in South Asia. It identified the regions with satellite imagery developed by NASA. UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake said air pollution was a “major contributing factor in the deaths of around 600,000 children under five every year”, causing illnesses such as pneumonia.

“Pollutants don’t only harm children’s developing lungs - they can actually cross the blood-brain barrier and permanently damage their developing brains - and, thus, their futures,” he said in a statement.

“Air pollution affects poor children the most,” Nicholas Rees, a UNICEF specialist on climate and economic analysis who wrote the report, told Reuters.

Worldwide, the WHO estimates that outdoor air pollution killed 3.7 million people in 2012, including 127,000 children aged under five. Factories, power plants and vehicles using fossil fuels, dust and burning of waste were among sources.

Indoor air pollution, often caused by coal- or woodburning cooking stoves used in homes in developing nations, killed even more people, 4.3 million, of whom 531,000 were aged under five, it said.

UNICEF called on the U.N.-led meeting in Morocco to hasten a shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energies such as wind or solar power, to improve children’s access to health care, limit children’s exposure to pollution and to step up monitoring of the air.

Messages on Vigilance awareness week GOVERNOR I am glad to know that the State Vigilance Commission under the aegis of the Central Vigilance Commission is observing the 'Vigilance Awareness Week' from 31st October 2016 to 5th November 2016 with the theme "Public participation in promoting Integrity and eradicating Corruption."

Integrity is the basic fundamental quality in the discharge of one's official duties having strong moral principles. Corruption is a serious unethical practice that undermines the trust and confidence in public officials. In order to attain a corruption-free society, the citizens, both government servants and general public must share the responsibility for creating awareness on the ills of corruption and refrain from indulging in unethical acts.

The fight against corruption cannot be won without citizens' support, participation and vigilance. There is a need to generate public awareness, advocacy of reforms and active participation of civil societies against the evil of corruption that has seriously affected governance and stalled development.

There is an urgent necessity to form Lokayukta by our Government.

On the occasion of the Vigilance Awareness Week, I appeal to the citizens and the public officials to raise their voice and actively fight against corruption by pleading to work with honesty, integrity and sincerity to eradicate corruption from our society.

I wish the State Vigilance Commission all the best in its endeavour to combat corruption.

(P. B. ACHARYA)

CHIEF MINISTER 1. The 'Vigilance Awareness Week' is observed yearly throughout the country with an objective to reaffirm our commitment to fight corruption and strive to bring about integrity and transparency in all spheres of our activities.

2. This year, the 'Vigilance Awareness Week' is observed from 31st October - 5th November, 2016, under the theme "Public Participation in Promoting Integrity and Eradicating Corruption" and I am happy to learn the State Vigilance Commission is observing the 'Vigilance Awareness Week' along with the rest of the country.

3. The basic requirement for any citizen who wants to fight corruption should himself be honest/person of integrity. It is, therefore, necessary that a citizen must decide that he will uphold his own moral character and will not give in to any corrupt practices. The fight against corruption cannot be won without citizens' support, participation and vigilance. There is a need for the Government to actively engage the cooperation of NGO's, seeking the expertise and option of civil societies on good governance and delivery mechanism on development. The media, civic bodies, business associations and other non-governmental organizations play a crucial role in fostering public discussion on corruption and increasing awareness about the impact of corruption. They are important in scrutinizing the performance of the Government and public servants.

4. As we observe 'Vigilance Awareness Week', I would urge upon the citizens to maintain personal integrity while taking up the challenge of fighting corruption.

5. I also urge upon the State Vigilance Commission to maintain high standard of integrity and transparency in its fight to eradicate corruption, and I wish them all the best in its endeavour to combat corruption.

(T. R. ZELIANG) Issued by: DIPR

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31st Ato Area sports begins RESPONSE TO IRALU'S “REPLY TO SILVERSTEIN”

GPRN/NSCN, NPAC Convenor, Kughalu Mulatonu (C) and other GPRN/NSCN high ranking officials attending the inaugural programme at H. Khehoyi village on Monday. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | October 31

The 31st Ato Area Sports Association tournament for GB’s football trophy (Lt. Nikhekhu memorial), volley ball (Lt.

Shekuto Suu) and badminton (men\women) began on Monday at H. Khehoyi village with GPRN/NSCN National Political Affairs Committee (NPAC), Convenor, Kughalu Mulatonu as the chief guest.

In his speech, Mulatonu urged upon the players to be disciplined in the sporting field and show positive examples to fellow players. Stating that playing football was not a new thing for the Nagas whose forefathers also engaged in the game and various other similar games, Mulatonu encouraged the youngsters to take sports to a higher level.

He urged upon the players to put in their best efforts and bring laurels to their respective areas and community.

A host of NPAC members, Kilonsers and Deputy Kilonsers from the GPRN/NSCN accompanied the chief guest.

Altogether 10 villages are participating in the tournament which will culminate on November 5.

St. John's Hr Sec School Tsg kicks off Annual Sports & Games

TUENSANG, OCTOBER 31 (MExN): The thee-day annual sports and games of St. John's Hr. Sec. School, Tuensang was inaugurated by Brig.

Manindar Singh Sidhu, the DIG, 7th Sector Assam Riffle, Tuensang with the Most. Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima, as the Guest of Honor on October 31.

The Chief Guest unfurled the school flag, which was followed by the School Anthem sang by the students. Rev. Fr. Dominic Selosie, Vice Principal invoked God’s blessing.

Rev. Fr. Johnson V.U., Principal, accorded the words of welcome to the Chief Guest,

Bishop James and to all the invited guests, parents and students.

The Chief Guest in his speech encouraged the students to take part in the sports with a competitive and a sportsman’s spirit. The Bishop exhorted the students to be competitive and cooperative not at the expenses of putting down others but taking others along in a spirit of service.

The competitive spirit must bring out the best in each one and each one contribute one’s best for the team. In this way, though there is only one prize, yet all are winners. St. Paul tells us that we must all run

the race not for a wreath that perish but one that will last forever, he said.

The students by their colorful march past according to the various houses, the fantastic aerobic display, and the cultural steps fused into one and in unison enthralled the audience. The inauguration function ended with the inspection of the various houses by the Chief Guest and others and each house welcomed them cordially. It was noted that no plastic materials were used in the making and decoration of the tents of various houses and thus being true to be a plastic free campus.

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n an article by me titled, “Life versus truth and justice,” appearing in The Morung Express on October 12, 2016 and in the Nagaland Post on October 13, 2016, I stated, early in the article, “I consider Kaka Iralu a friend..... [W]hen we met near the end of June, 2016, at The Hotel Vivor in Kohima, I found him to be a warm, caring, and openminded man, a man who obviously loved his fellow Nagas very much.”

I now have serious doubts about what I said in the last clause of the above sentence, that Iralu “obviously loved his fellow Nagas very much.” In the face of my allegation, which he has never denied, that, whether the Nagas deserve a separate sovereign nation or not, the government of India (GoI) will never agree to such a nation, he writes article after article using words like the ones he closed with in the article I am now responding to: Political suppression with economic gifts by India is what is destroying Nagaland today.Here, I will fight the political suppression rather than fight to have a lion's share of the economic gifts. [Iralu is referring to my pointing out that most Nagas have taken advantage of the “gifts” offered under the Indian constitution and statutes to a “scheduled tribe.”] As far as I am concerned, only a TOTALLY UNPATRIOTIC MAN with no sense for the dignity of his national and geographical identity would WALLOW in the enemy's gifts of seductions to subjugate him.

I will not collaborate with the enemy, when the enemy has NULLIFIED MY VERY RIGHT TO LIFE, FREEDOM AND LIBERTY even within the territories of my own country. [My caps – that is, my emphasis.]

Earlier in his article he states, “...I am not interested in my enemy's gifts of even the whole state with its entire infrastructure WHICH HAS LULLED MOST NAGAS TO SLEEP FOR OVER SIX DECADES. For me, this state is just a farce and a shadow of the real image of a truly independent country.”

(My emphasis, again.) And yet in an ar-

BOOK REVIEW

SHIMREINGAM L. SHIMRAY, Public Theology: Religion, Human Rights and Politics Ukhrul, MN: Shiren Publication, 2016 (ISBN: 978-81-925485-1-7) Price: INR 500/- (Hardbound); Pages 233+ix

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he volume Public Theology

by Rev. Dr S. Shimray, Professor of Christian Ethics at Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, meets the definition of public theology as a discourse that delves into “public” spaces to discover issues that confront people and societies with an aim to responding to the issues within the framework of Christian virtues. India in general and Northeast region in particular is no stranger to religion being muddled with other identities and its citizens being abused to the extent of negating the intrinsic value of being human. This has resulted not only in loss of lives and properties but in human dignity and rights.

The book, consisting of ten chapters, including conclusion, is a full package in terms of identifying problems of religious fanaticism and violation of human rights in India, particularly in Northeast, and the role of Christian religion in assuaging both.

In chapter one he discusses the general methodological shifts in doing theology. While on one hand he identifies Social Analysis as a discipline that provides a basis for reflection. On the other hand, he emphasizes the need for multifaceted focus in doing theology so that inclusiveness of God can be adequately and practically represented in theological constructions.

Chapter two addresses the issue of intolerance in India on the basis of caste and ethnicity. The idea of “majoritarianism” Shimray rightly maintains, is “an attempt to dehumanize the weaker section of the society/nations” (41). The counter response to that is, he believes, the doctrine of humanity as bearing the image of God. His assertion of the imago Dei (Image of God) as relevant is founded on its substantive interpretation which sees human beings as being intrinsically equal from the moment of creation.

The same thought is continued in chapter three wherein the author explores the appropriate meaning of Human Rights in the context of political conflicts vis-à-vis the Christian doctrine of the imago Dei. Chapter four underlines the history of Universal Declaration of Human Rights - UDHR (1948) and the irony of its tokenism. Thereafter, he explains the understanding of human rights that is individualistic (western), collective (Marxist) and liberative (third world).

Chapter five further elaborates the content of UDHR and offers a critique of the same. The author identifies the individualistic, materialistic and elitist nuances in the articles as serious flaws. Another problem, he pointed out, is the lacuna between human rights and legal institutions/ government due to the apparent lack of implementing policy to safeguard the former by the latter. The consequence is the continual suppression

of the underprivileged even after nearly six decades of its declaration.

In chapter six Shimray articulates theological and biblical bases for affirming relationality between Christian faith and human rights.

He shows that the Christian church has consistently defended religious liberty, as concomitant with human rights. But beyond religious liberty he acknowledges World Council of Churches (WCC) Nairobi’s Assembly as a milestone in demonstrating the Church’s concern for advancing hu-

man rights in its totality. In the later part of the chapter, he argues that human rights as a Christian concept is grounded on these biblical witness: humanity is equally created by God in his image, human rights originates with God, and Jesus’ words and deeds manifest his protection of the basic humanhood in every person.

Chapter seven is a Christian perspective on the question, “why violation of human rights is wrong?” Referring to the positive stance of several churches on the affirmation, Shimray concludes that Christian theology plays vital role in a deeper understanding of human rights owing to its rootedness in Christian thought – directly linked to God. Thus, he asserts that a Christian is covenant-bound/ obligated to respect the dignity and rights of fellow humans.

The eighth chapter discusses church’s role in politics with focus on tribal churches. Criticizing the tribal churches’ apathy to socio-political concerns, he argues that concern for human rights is imperative to secure social justice and peace and thus crucial to the Church’s mission.

Chapter nine analyzes tribal problems in the light of UDHR and Universal Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous People -UDRIP (2007). The author recognizes the complexity of issues confronting tribals of Northeast India and yet finds their communitarian principle and practices by different NGO’s, to safeguard human rights in its totality, as responses in the right direction. The

call to the government to do likewise is significant.

The concluding chapter reiterates the importance of theology in embracing the issue of human rights and reaffirms the role of the church in bringing structural changes in order for protect life – “the most precious gift of God” (233).

The strength of the book lies in its honest appraisal of UDHR and the place of Christian theology in realizing the articles therein. Though there is no apparent indication that the formal adoption on the protection of human rights precedes a UN document on human rights, the arguments are rife with the idea that it is as eternal as God himself.

The idea of Human rights as having its origin in God is a consistent affirmation. This emphasis will go a long way in motivating churches and Christians, irrespective of theological leanings, to ensure that every person’s human rights are defended.

In the tribal society, the segregation between rights of an individual and rights of a community often yields unpleasant results.

In advocating a communitarian approach to defending human rights this dimension should not go unaddressed. However, the scope of human rights that is aimed at securing the totality of life is a move in the right direction.

The author’s commitment to human rights as a Christian ethicist is commendable; more so when the poor, the lowly, the oppressed and the silenced are made objects of concern. It takes courage but also a heart to pause and attend to their plight.

Apart from it being an academic document, this book conveys the need for a humane approach to power, privilege and responsibility. This volume is a reminder that all is not well in our world, especially in this part of the world, and that the Church has a missional task to fulfill in terms of making humanity realize the intrinsic value of every human who are created equal by God. This message offers hope to the despairing as well as convicts the oppressors, the Church and the Christian community of any lackadaisical attitude towards those denied of their basic humanity. The urgency with which Christian theology must relevantly answer to the question of human rights violation in India, particularly in Northeast, has found a good start with this book.

The book is recommended for social activists, students, teachers, pastors and everyone who feels the pain of a suffering humanity and consciously seeks to understand and be guided theologically towards aspiring for their fellow human’s liberty and freedom. It is available at Christian Literature Center (CLC), Dimapur.

Reviewed by Dr Eyingbeni Hümtsoe-Nienu Senior Lecturer, Clark Theological College, Mokokchung, Nagaland

ticle I wrote that appeared in The Morung Express on October 27, 2016, titled, “Reply to Kaka Iralu's 'The desecration of political truths and justice in Nagaland',” he, over the same lunch that I mentioned in my opening paragraph, agreed with me, that Nagaland, were it to ever become a separate sovereign nation, would “simply be a poor corrupt nation instead of a poor corrupt state.” The reason he agreed with me when I stated that is because he had just informed me that corruption was such an intimate and integral part of Naga society that it could never be eradicated.

Now it is time to focus on what all of the above means, putting Iralu's words together, words that are contradictory and incoherent. He shows complete contempt for all the Nagas who “wallow in the enemy's gifts....” Is it “wallowing” to want your children to have a good education and a good job? Are all the individuals who accept these things “totally unpatriotic”? That is what he says.

He shows no empathy for all the men and women who want their families to have all the benefits that many of them never had. He puts his principles before his fellow Nagas. He does not deny that I am right in saying that the GoI will never allow the Nagas a sovereign nation. He in effect states that, whatever may happen, they are “unpatriotic” fools if they do not accept his priority of a sovereign nation over the “gifts” of education and jobs, even over life itself.

I have stated, in previous articles, that to continue to push for a sovereign nation will lead to the destruction of the Naga people.

I will not repeat all the reasons for that, but Iralu has not denied that I am right. What is clear is, he rather be dead than under the Indian constitution, dead rather than compromise. That's all fine and good for HIM, but he has made it clear that if he has to drag all Nagas to their deaths for his goal of a sovereign nation, that is fine with him. After all, to do otherwise would concede that it is all right if the “enemy has nullified my very right to life, freedom and liberty ….”

Iralu is not interested in asking “most Nagas” whether they view their present

situation as one in which the GoI is depriving them of their “very right to life, freedom and liberty,” and he will NEVER ask them, because he knows that they may disagree with him.

They may in fact agree with me that the loss of life and liberty in the Naga communities of Nagaland, Manipur, and elsewhere is more the fault of the corrupt and violent NSCN-IM and their corrupt and cowardly partners in the state assemblies and elsewhere than the GoI. Remember, Iralu agreed with me that a free and sovereign Naga nation would just be a poor and corrupt Naga nation instead of a poor and corrupt Naga state. And those who are corrupt and violent now would still be the same ones who bleed the Naga people of their lifeblood in a new Naga nation.

I recommend to Iralu and all who read this article that they read, “Bitter Wormwood,” by a Naga writer, Easterine Kire. It is an excellent novel about the Naga relationship with the Indian soldiers and the terrible conflicts and atrocities over the decades. But the most significant thing in the book to me is her Appendix V, a real speech given by a namesake of Kaka Iralu, Niketu Iralu. Kire has a note to the speech, titled, “Historical Rights of the Nagas and their Quest for Integration,” in which she says, “The best analysis of the struggle: author[.]”

May the wisdom of Niketu Iralu's words be passed on to my friend Kaka Iralu and to all others who read them. Here they are: ....Delhi is in no position at all to talk on sovereignty, not because the Naga case is wrong or legally and politically invalid, but because India is too young a democracy still in a chaotic stateof formation to handle the issue. And Nagas have done virtually nothing to speak to the minds and hearts of the Indian people whose understanding alone can solve the problem. [Page 262.]

If Nagas are prepared to negotiate for something other than sovereignty despite the full legal legitimacy of their claim for it, because they understood India's difficulty on the issue, it should be not too difficult for Delhi to accept what Nagas mean by “honourable, acceptable settlement.” [Page 264.]

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y Armageddon with Silverstein in the local Papers relating to Naga Political Movement and a few other collateral matters is exhilarating; I presume it would interest quite a few Naga, their Organizations including the Naga National Workers and me.

If I could discuss the Issue with Silverstein in my own TENYIDIE (Angami Language) I would have been much more comfortable. Silverstein has a slight edge in English over me. Anyway, I have read his earlier honest Writings, they made me feel he would honestly speak from his heart and head, and that suits me very well.

In my view, the Actions, Happenings, and Principles of the Past have very important effect on the Present. In my view, the present State of Israel would not have possibly come into existence had Hitler not put to death 6 million Jews during his Regime. The 6 million Jews that perished in the Gas Chambers in the 1930s tremendously touched the living for the creation of Jewish State of Israel in 1948.

After 2 millenniums of Diaspora in many Nations of the world, the Jews, at last found they would never get their protection enough from any Nation not their own.

They felt the Jews must have an Independent Nation of their own to protect themselves in future. The Parents of the present generation from the many Nations gathered and sacrificed for the creation of the State of Israel -the size of Manipur- for the future generations.

After the war of Independence 1948 and some half a dozen wars with their neighbor adversaries, the Jews securely established the State of Israel as a most stabilizing State today in the volatile Middle East in just one generation.

Muivah of the NSCN (IM), in his initial manifesto, claimed, ‘Revolution with the Barrel of the Gun is the only answer to Naga Aspiration’ and this Idea practiced in violent Revolution became the mother of tremendous trouble to Nagaland, even to the Northeast.

Then in 35yrs (1980-2015) of Socialist turmoil, Muivah suddenly and fortunately made a U-turn and now speaks Peaceful Means to solve the Indo-Naga Issue. During the 35 yrs of Socialist burden, I felt and expressed “the Pen is mightier than the Barrel of the Gun”, that attracted death threats and attempts at my abduction.

For one generation, the Socialist Gun so completely dominated and bewitched the Naga and Nagaland that the Naga Society appears Hypnotized and Drowsy. Nagaland appears a bewitched failed State. The fear of the Gun has become a Curse to Naga Society and the desire to lift this CURSE FROM THE BROW OF THE PEOPLE has become a heavy millstone on the Neck of the People.

I do not entirely agree with Silverstein in what he honestly said, “Your fellow Nagas are treating you much worse ............ than the GoI has ever done”. The Harm some Naga National Groups have done to their own Naga People is indeed very bad, however that is different from the harm of Hindu Treatment on the Dalits.

The Dalit have every RIGHT TO THE DIGNITY OF LIFE. That is the main Issue. Their liberation from the slavery of the Hindu Caste System is so subtle and much more heavy, there seems to be no end to it!

Silverstein said he “worked for months on mainland India, in slums and elsewhere, and studied the treatment of Dalits ............ and there is no evidence that India is now, or will in future, treat Nagas as they treat Dalits”.

This is a very big Statement and is in my view an over optimism from a person who had worked in India only for months, India has mistreated the Dalits sometimes worst than Animals, for 3000 years. The GoI did not do so; but the Hindu Religion did.

The Scheduled Tribes and Dalits are officially put in the same GoI Class, and the majority population in India equates the Schedule Tribes as Dalits and views them as such.

The Constitution of India bans Act of Untouchabilities, there are Laws against its practice, but Dalits do not live with the Law Books or the Constitution Books, they do not live in Prime Minister’s House. The Dalits live in the Hindus Society.

The recent merciless public violence on innocent nonresisting Dalits for removing dead Cow Carcass from the

Property is stark evidence Silverstein might have overlooked.

The treatment meted out to Dalit leader Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar –“first Untouchable to receive Ph.D in Economic from Colombia University, New York”, afterwards a Minister in the British India Bombay Presidency, Author of Independent India’s Constitution is a classic story of Caste inequity in the Hindu Society.

In spite of being the Chief in the Ministry, people would not give Ambedkar any House in Rent because of his low Caste. Dishwashers in the Hotel refused to clean his Cup, Peons in his Office would not tough his hand, they would drop the Files on the Table and he was banned from going to the other Rooms.

Ambedkar wrote “The Hindus do not ill-treat lower Castes by reasons that Hindus are worst than other Human Beings. In fact, the Hindus are as good or bad as any other people on earth. The Hindus practice caste and untouchability because it is part of their religion. Therefore, the only way to annihilate caste is to cease being Hindu.

I was born a Hindu, I had no choice. I will not die a Hindu because I have a choice”. In 1956, before his death, Ambedkar took 3,00,000 Dalits in one lot and converted to Buddhism.

Mahatma Gandhi claimed himself a Dalit by personal Choice, but one Hindu high Caste becoming a Dalit by Choice enhances only his or her own Reputation more than a staunch supporter of Caste System in India! Gandhi himself staunchly supported Caste System and said the Untouchables in their Service to the Higher Caste earn Blessings from God. The Naga God and Mahatma Gandhi’s God must be different!

Gandhi went into “Fast to Death” to deprive the Dalits the privilege of electing their own Representatives. The Hindus are no better or worst human beings but their Religion prevents them to love their own People.

Gandhi becoming a Dalit by personal choice does neither harm or helps in anyway the Dalit destiny. A Hindu fanatic violently eliminated Gandhi and the RSS the gravitational Centre of the BJP today, is even out to make Nathuram Godse a National Hero.

Long before the Idea of Pakistan came into being and 2 years after Ambedkar publicly burned MANUSMRUTI -Code of Manu- the Brahmins use to propagate Caste System, the Naga in 1929 demanded the Simon Commission to let the Naga live separate life of their own, because of the attitude of the vast Hindu and Muslim majority in India.

‘Dalit Life Matters’ just like “Black Life Matters”, in civilized the USA! The Dalit will not get “Freedom” from India’s Hindu Caste Society because it is not so much the GoI that discriminates the Dalits but the Hindu Society. The only way to liberate of the Dalits from the indignities is the come out of the Hindu Circle of life. Yet, sizable number of States of India (Bharat Hindu Nation) prohibits it with Freedom of Religion Law. On the Issue at hand of the Right to Dignity of Life, the Writer would rather learn from the Dalit’s bitter experiences of 3000 years in India than Silverstein’s optimistic advice based on his few months experience in some slums of India. The Naga should decide for himself.

When I expressed my view that “the Naga will never accept the Status of the Dalit in India”, I did not mean to preach a violent Revolution against India starting from tomorrow. I may be foolish but not enough to believe the David Naga can defeat nuclear Giant India in a joust of Arms, but the Naga would continue to fight for a separate Naga Life, by means the Naga thinks best.

It is my sincere belief that the millions of Jewish lives lost in the holocaust gave the Jews everywhere in the World the Resolve to create a Nation of their own for the security of Jews in the Future.

I did not intend the mention of the Dead of the Past for the Future to “set up a false dichotomy to support his (my?) view of reasonableness of dying for those in the future and the souls of those in the past” as Silverstein averse.

On the Issue of Corruption in Nagaland however, my view is nearer that of Silverstein that whether a comfortable State Government Dependant or an ACAUT Dependant (Against Collection of Arbitrary Unauthorized Tax), it is the Responsibility of every Naga to eliminate Corruption in Nagaland.

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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Eric Martin to rock Dimapur today

American rock singer, Eric Martin, front-man of the famed band Mr Big during a press conference in Dimapur on October 31. He is set to perform under the aegis of ‘Eric MartinThe Voice of Mr Big’ at Niathu Resort in Dimapur on November 1 at 7:00 PM. The event is managed by LiveNow events. A second show is scheduled to be held at the main arena, Heritage Village, Kisama on November 2.

Bappi Lahiri forays into Hollywood with animated film

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appi Lahiri, the original Disco King of Indian music, is all set to enter Hollywood with an upcoming musical. He will croon a foot-tapping number in the fun-adventure animated film. Interestingly, the song is titled 'Shona' (gold), something Bappi da openly displays his love for.

Besides the track, he will also lend his voice for the character of Tamatoa, a giant crab who has a penchant for hoarding shiny treasures.

The singer-composer enthuses, "It's a great pleasure

to associate with this film. I am always looking forward to new things. This is the first time I'm dubbing for an animated character, and Tamatoa is very similar to me. I hope people will enjoy this avatar of mine; it's truly a golden memory."

Starring Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, the film showcases the lifechanging journey of a tenacious 16-year-old, who teams up with a mighty demigod to fulfill an ancient quest.

7 Records Ae Dil Hai Mushkil created

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ust the opening weekend and Ranbir Kapoor’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is a smash hit at the overseas market.

Despite getting mixed to positive reviews from critics, the Karan Johar directed romantic drama has successfully drawn in enough audience to give a record breaking performance. Yep! The movie is smashing records not just set by previous films but also by Ranbir Kapoor and Karan Johar themselves. Trade analysts did see this coming, there is no denying that.

Karan anyway knows what the international audience wants and with every film he manages to deliver. Gorgeous faces, designer clothe, exquisite locations and melodious music – all the key elements of a KJO saga are present in ADHM as well. Also, names like Fawad Khan, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan bring in a separate fan base to the theaters. so without further adieu, here are the records that Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has smashed in the opening weekend. # Second Highest Opening Collection in UAE Despite first review in UAE panning the film as the love child of Kal Ho Na Ho and The Fault in Our

Stars, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has given a record breaking performance. Earlier this year, Salman Khan starrer Sultan became the film with the highest opening collection. By minting US $5,54,000, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is just one position behind Sultan.

screens. In Australia, the film opened with a collection of Rs. 79,00,000 from 33 screens. Canada collection stands at Rs. 36,00,000 from 9 screens. Overall overseas collection of the film totals to Rs. 2.40 crs! # Highest opener for Karan Johar ever Ae Dil Hai Mushkl has beat the records set by Student of the Year (Rs 9.25 crore) and My Name Is Khan (Rs 8.25 crore) and has become the highest opener for Karan Johar.

Time for celebration!

# Highest overseas day one collection The romantic drama with unrequited love being the crux of the plot, has managed to score top position when it comes to being highest opening day collection internationally.

New Zealand collections # Highest opening weekare Rs. 22 Lakhs from 21 end internationally for

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Hilary Duff, beau apologise for insensitive Halloween costumes

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inger-actress Hilary Duff and her beau Jason Walsh have apologised for their insensitive Halloween costumes. The couple landed into trouble for dressing as a pilgrim and a Native American chief respectively at the Casamigos Halloween Party on Friday.

"I am so sorry to people I offended with my costume. It was not properly thought through and I am truly, from the bottom of my (love emoji) sorry," Duff wrote on Twitter shortly after receiving a lot of backlash and getting accused of being racist, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Walsh also regretted his fashion faux pas. "I meant no disrespect. I only have admiration for the indigenous people of America.

In hindsight I would not have made that decision. I apologise to anyone I may have offended," he wrote on Instagram.

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Karan Johar The film has brought the most successful opening weekend for both, Karan and Ranbir, by minting Rs 41.05 crores, internationally. # Highest opening weekend internationally for Ranbir Kapoor Earlier Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani held the record for highest opening weekend for Ranbir. ADHM has broke that record as well.

Interstingly, YJHD also was a Dharma Productions venture so no loss there. # Highest opening weekend for Karan Johar

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orman R. Brokaw, a trailblazing talent agent who represented Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and other top Hollywood stars, has died at age 89. Brokaw's son, David, says his father died after a long illness on Saturday in Beverly Hills, California.

Brokaw ascended from the mail room of the William Morris Agency to become its CEO in 1989.

Along the way he helped steer actors to work in the fledgling television industry in the 1950s and later signed politicians such as Gerald Ford and Alexander Haig so they could chart careers after they left public service.

His television plan involved teaming up underutilised film stars with directors who were skilled at delivering low budget movies within a few days, his family said in a news release.

The formula led to the creation of early television series such as 'Racket Squad' and 'Public Defender'.

He later represented the producers behind hit shows such as 'The Andy

# Highest international opening weekend for a Fawad Khan film Fawad’s Kapoor & Sons was the highest weekend collector when it came to international market. Kapoor… Rs 26.35 crore at the domestic box office to give Fawad Khan his BIGGEST weekend opener of his career. But ADHM has clearly beat the record with a collection of Rs 35.60 crores.

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Sania Mirza retains No 1 doubles rank for 2nd year

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HYDErAbAD, OCTObEr 31 (PTI): India’s tennis star Sania Mirza retained her numero uno status in women’s doubles for the second consecutive year, despite failing to defend the WTA Finals Singapore title with partner Martina Hingis.

Defending champions Sania and Hingis had lost to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the semi-finals of the WTA Finals Singapore yesterday.

Makarova and Vesnina then defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova to lift the doubles title today and denied Mattek-Sands the Number One spot.

“I am very happy. It’s an amazing honour to be number one for the second year. It has been an amazing journey for me,” Sania told PTI today from Singapore.

During the year, Sania has won titles, including Australian Open with Hingis, Cincinnati Masters with Barbora Strycova. Sania had split with Hingis but they paired up and made an unsuccessful bid to defend the WTA Finals Singapore. “For me, this has been an unbelievable journey and the kind of stuff that dreams are made of!

I’ve always felt that reaching the pinnacle in any sphere of activity is a huge achievement but staying there for a prolonged period is even more difficult than getting there for the first time,” Sania said.

“The fact that only 3 legends of the women’s game – Navratilova, Black and Huber – have had a longer consecutive stint at the top in the history of women’s doubles tennis makes it even more satisfying for me,” she had said after celebrating her 80th consecutive week as the women’s doubles World Number one.

Lewis Hamilton wins in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, OCTObEr 31 (rEuTErs): Lewis Hamilton won the Mexican Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, his landmark 51st career victory cutting Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg's overall lead to 19 points and keeping the German waiting for a first title.

The pole-to-flag victory was the triple world champion's eighth of the season and put him level with France's Alain Prost in the all-time lists of winners.

Only Michael Schumacher (91) has more.

Rosberg, who would have clinched the title had he won and Hamilton finished 10th or lower, crossed the line 8.354 seconds behind to anchor champions Mercedes to a sixth onetwo finish of the season.

The German can still clinch the title with a race in hand if he wins at Sao Paulo's Interlagos circuit in Brazil in two weeks' time.

"Lewis has been too fast this weekend," said Rosberg. "I just have to accept second place."

The race was largely processional until it exploded into controversy in the final laps with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finishing fourth and then promoted to the podium before demotion back to fifth.

Red Bull's Max Verstap-

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates his race victory atop a competitor's car. (REUTERS)

pen was third on the track but was then handed a five second penalty for gaining an advantage by going off, pushing him down to fifth before Vettel's penalty for dangerous driving lifted him back to fourth.

That left Australian Daniel Ricciardo in third place but without a podium appearance and the chance to pour the champagne into his boot for another trademark 'shoey' celebration.

The Vettel-Verstappen-

Ricciardo controversy provided the major talking point of the day, with bad language flying and accusations going to and fro.

"He has to let me go, he has to let me go," Vettel, who had been trying to pass Verstappen on the 67th of the 71 laps, exclaimed furiously over the team radio as the Dutchman refused to concede the place.

Vettel also directed a foul-mouthed outburst at race director Charlie Whiting, which was heard on

television and for which he apologised, and then swerved across to the Red Bull driver after the finish with a finger raised and wagging.

"I was using a lot of sign language. You have to understand the adrenaline," said the four-times champion. Verstappen said Vettel should go back to school.

"I don't know how many times he is using very bad language," said the teenager. "I will speak to him because this is how

ridiculous he is handling it, he is just a very frustrated guy at the moment."

TIME PENALTY Verstappen joined the Mercedes drivers in the waiting room before the podium ceremony but was hauled out after his penalty was imposed, with Vettel running hastily down the pit lane.

The arguments and accusations continued afterwards, with Vettel and Ricciardo then summoned to

stewards and the German accused of changing his line while braking as Ricciardo tried to pass him.

In a race that saw all but one of the 22 starters finish, the safety car was deployed on the second lap when Mexican Esteban Gutierrez tagged Pascal Wehrlein's Manor and pushed him into Marcus Ericsson's Sauber. There was more drama at the front where Hamilton made a good getaway but then locked up and trekked across the grass, cutting the first corner.

That incident, which left him battling serious tyre vibrations until his first pitstop, was held up by Verstappen as inconsistent stewarding, with the Briton also gaining an advantage but escaping any sanction.

Verstappen and Rosberg also made contact at the start, with the Dutch driver trying to find a way through on the inside from third place on the grid, but stewards took no action.

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was sixth, Nico Hulkenberg seventh for Force India and the Williams pairing of Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa eighth and ninth.

Mexican Sergio Perez, the crowd favourite, took the final point for Force India in 10th place after a long battle with Massa.

Khm Lotha Toku Emong Football Trophy underway Bangladesh blues just the start for England

KOHIMA, OCTObEr 31 (DIPr): The 3rd Kohima Lotha Tokhu Emong Football Trophy was inaugurated by the Kohima Lotha Hoho Chairman, Nchumbemo Tungoe at the local ground Kohima on October 31.

Speaking as the chief guest, Tungoe urged upon the 16 teams

from various colonies around Kohima to play with a sporting spirit for good health and sound mind. Citing example of Kohima village and their well managed sporting events like wrestling without seeking help from the government, Tungoe called upon the community to vie with

each other for unity and harmony. 79 Years old Zubenthung Odyuo is the oldest player in this tournament.

In the opening match, Midland Colony defeated KNZ by 5-0. The programme was chaired by football tournament organizing chairman, Andress.

MuMbAI, OCTObEr 31 (rEuTErs): If England's struggles in Bangladesh are anything to go by, they could be in for an even rougher ride in India over the next couple of months when they take on the world's number one side in a five-match series in similar spin-friendly conditions.

England narrowly won the opening test against Bangladesh in Chittagong by 22 runs before losing the second by 108 runs in Dhaka, their first defeat to the South Asian side in 10 tests.

Alastair Cook's men looked well placed to maintain their perfect record against Bangladesh by reaching 100 without loss at tea while chasing 273, but lost all 10 wickets in the final session to lose inside three days.

Bangladesh are ranked ninth among the world's 10 test playing nations and had won just seven of their 94 tests before Sunday -- five against minnows Zimbabwe and two against second-string West

Indies sides.

Joe Root's meagre average of 24.50 was the highest of England's top five in the batting order in four innings in Bangladesh, with Cook, Ben Duckett and Moeen Ali all averaging in the low 20s while Gary Ballance could muster only 24 runs.

"We showed our inexperience in these conditions," Cook said after the defeat.

"A lot of these guys have not played many test matches and when that ball got rolling we found it very hard to stop.

"You lose a couple of wickets, then men come round the bat and the crowd get into it.

Being able to deal with it and get through it is crucial."

England, who will travel with the same squad, can expect more of the same in India. Under Virat Kohli India have won their last four test series, including a 3-0 win in a four-match contest against South Africa last year and the recent 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand at home.

STOKES CRUCIAL Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 58 wickets in those seven home tests against South Africa and New Zealand and will be licking his lips at the prospect of bowling against the English batsmen after their struggles against Mehedi Hasan.

Off-spinner Mehedi, who made his debut and turned 19 during the series, finished with 19 wickets in the two matches.

England are the last team to win a test series in India when they beat the hosts 2-1 in a four-match series in 2012.

Spinners Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar had a huge impact on that series, ably supported by England's most prolific wicket-taker James Anderson, who has been left out of the 16-man squad due to injury and is expected to only join the tour later.

All-rounder Ben Stokes scored the most runs and was joint highest wicket-taker with Moeen against Bangladesh.

His role will be crucial for the

side against India, who will use the Decision Review System on a trial basis during the series.

The influential Indian board (BCCI) has long been a staunch opponent of the DRS system, which aims to reduce umpiring errors by detecting edges and predicting the ball trajectory to ensure correct catch and leg-before decisions. With the England spinners being out-bowled by their Bangladesh counterparts, Cook has no qualms in accepting that his side will travel to India as 'heavy underdogs'.

"We're not hiding behind the fact that we haven't got world-class spinners," Cook rued. "It doesn't mean our spinners are bad bowlers.

"We've got guys who can bowl some really good balls and spells. But we can't quite control well enough at the moment. We don't hold our length and line well enough.

"We bowl jaffas, but we're easy to knock off strike and we don't build the kind of pressure we'd like."

Hazard and Costa fire warning of Chelsea's title ambitions Man City cannot afford second defeat by Barca

LONDON, OCTObEr 31 (rEuTErs): Chelsea's points tally after 10 games shows they are twice as good as they were at this stage of last season's Premier League campaign, which considering the form of Eden Hazard and Diego Costa is hardly surprising.

They were both on target on Sunday as Chelsea outclassed Southampton 2-0 to move into fourth spot with 22 points -- just one behind Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool.

The poor form and questionable appetite of both Costa and Hazard was blamed partly for Chelsea's dire start to last season that ultimately cost manager Jose

Mourinho his job.

However, the duo who helped fire Chelsea to the 2014-15 title are thriving once again in Antonio Conte's 3-4-3 system.

Hazard's opener after six minutes meant he has scored in three consecutive Premier League games and has five for the season.

This time last year he had failed to register and did not score his first league goal until April.

Likewise, Costa, looking again like the marauding bruiser who ran defences ragged when he first arrived at Stamford Bridge rather than the disinterested figure he cut early last season, already has eight league goals to his credit.

It took him until January to reach that total last season and he had managed just two in the league when Mourinho was sacked.

His second-half effort, a curling shot from 25 metres, was sublime but it was his work rate across the pitch that rubbed off on the Spain international's team mates.

"When you see Eden and Diego, and Pedro, working very hard during the game, you are happy," Conte said of his front three.

"They are strikers and usually it's a bit difficult for the strikers to work for the team, but their commitment and work-rate is fantastic." Chelsea's defending too has been unrecognisable this season.

They have conceded nine goals compared to the 19 they had already leaked after 10 games under Mourinho a year ago.

Even with skipper John Terry fit to return on Sunday, Brazilian David Luiz was again preferred alongside Gary Cahill and Cesar Azpilicueta and did not put a foot out of place.

"I'm very happy after this performance. I saw great commitment, work rate -- with the ball and without it. For the fourth game we keep a clean sheet, it's fantastic," Conte said. "It's early for us to speak about title contenders. We have to work very hard to continue. We can improve a lot. We must improve."

Germany coach Loew extends contract to 2020 MuNICH, OCTObEr 31 (rEuTErs): Germany coach Joachim Loew has extended his contract with the world champions by two years until 2020, the German football association (DFB) said on Monday.

The 56-year-old, who will become the second-longest serving Germany manager behind Sepp Herberger, has been in the job since 2006 and led his team to victory in the 2014 World Cup. They have reached at least the semi-finals in the last five major tournaments, winning 94 of his 141 games in charge.

"The aim is the repeat in Russia in 2018 the success of Rio in 2014," Loew told reporters. "Beyond that is the European title. That is a special challenge. We did not make it this year. For me it is a big aim," Loew added.

"We have a vision and things we want to achieve in the future and I think this mo-

ment was a good one to extend the contract."

Loew's previous contract had run to the 2018 World Cup in Russia and he will now lead the team's Euro 2020 campaign.

DFB boss Reinhard Grindel said the early contract extension would help in preparing for the 2018 World Cup with Germany on track to qualify.

"He is the best coach which we could imagine for our team," Grindel said.

"We have common goals we want to defend our world title in 2018 and we want in 2020, after coming close this year in France, to be European champions."

An assistant to predecessor Juergen Klinsmann from 2004-2006, Loew has only limited Bundesliga experience, having coached VfB Stuttgart before jobs in Austria and Turkey prior to working with the national team.

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Manchester City cannot afford another defeat on Tuesday at home to Barcelona, who thumped them 4-0 two weeks ago, having taken just one point from their last two Champions League Group C matches.

That third successive win for the Catalan passmasters means they need only a draw in the return game to ensure their annual qualification for the knockout stage.

City, however, are in danger of losing second place in the table to Borussia Moenchengladbach, who sit one point behind them going into a home tie with Celtic.

Although they beat Borussia 4-0 on matchday one, Pep Guardiola's side still have to travel to Germany for a game that could decide which team qualifies with Barcelona.

Former Barca coach Guardiola was as chastened after the Nou Camp loss, when Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick and City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was sent off, as he was on a previous return there, which resulted in a 3-0 loss

for his Bayern Munich team in the 2015 semi-final.

At least Bayern recovered some self-respect by winning the second leg 3-2 on that occasion and a repeat would suit him perfectly.

Achieving it would also be a historic result for the Premier League leaders, who have lost all five previous meetings between the clubs, including round of 16 games in 2014 and 2015.

At least they ended a run of six matches without a win -- the worst of Guardiola's managerial career -- in emphatic fashion on Saturday, romping to a 4-0 success at West Bromwich Albion, where Sergio Aguero and Ilkay Gundogan both scored twice.

Aguero was surprisingly left out of the game at

the Nou Camp, but Guardiola will need him at his best on Tuesday. "Aguero is a special player, we need him a lot," the manager told reporters after the West Bromwich game.

"He is one of the best.

I am going to help him to be much, much better. We know how important he is for us when he can convince us how good he is and how important he is for this club."

While City will believe they can make inroads into a makeshift defence still missing Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba and Aleix Vidal, there will be greater concern about how their own back-line will cope with the dazzling trident of Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez.

That may well prove to be the key to the contest.

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