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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again — Joseph Campbell Call to accelerate growth of food processing

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MALI HOTEL ATTACKED eight MlAs of nagaland cong • 10 gunmen attack Radison Blu hotel with merge with naga People’s front AK-47s and hand grenades

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BAMAKO, NOVEMBER 20 (REUtERs): At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners, that had been seized by Islamist gunmen.

The former French colony has been battling Islamist rebels for several years, and the jihadist group Al Mourabitoun, allied to al Qaeda and based in the deserts of northern Mali, claimed responsibility for the attack in a tweet.

By late afternoon, ministerial adviser Amadou Sangho told the French television station BFMTV that no more hostages were being held.

But a U.N. official said U.N. peacekeepers on the scene had seen 27 bodies in a preliminary count, and that a search of hotel was continuing. It was not clear whether any of the gunmen, who were said to have dug in on the seventh floor of the hotel as special forces advanced on them, were still active.

State television showed footage of troops in camouflage fatigues wielding AK47s in the lobby of the Radisson Blu, one of Bamako’s smartest hotels and beloved of foreigners.

In the background, a body lay under a brown blanket at the bottom of a flight of stairs.

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By Sandemo Ngullie

• Special forces storm hotel to free hostages • UN peacekeepers saw 27 bodies at the hotel

A Malian security officer armed with a pistol helps out hostage after he was freed from the Radisson Blu hotel.

The peacekeepers saw 12 dead bodies in the basement of the hotel and another 15 on the second floor, the U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. He added that the U.N. troops were still helping Malian authorities search the hotel.

A man working for a Belgian regional parliament was among the dead, the assembly said.

Minister of Internal Security Colonel Salif Traoré said the gunmen had burst through a security barrier at 7 a.m. (0700 GMT),

spraying the area with gunfire and shouting “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is great” in Arabic.

Occasional bursts of gunfire were heard as the assailants went through the seven-storey building, room-by-room and floorby-floor, one senior security source and a witness told Reuters. Some people were freed by the attackers after showing they could recite verses from the Koran, while others were brought out by security forces or managed to escape under their own steam. One of

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NPCC expels twelve members for 3 years

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has expelled twelve (12) of its members for three (3) years with effect from November 20, 2015 onwards.

It also recommended to All India Congress Committee (AICC) for disciplinary action against four members.

The expelled members include Supongmeren, Nillo Rengma, Vaprumo Demo, Konngam, Sulanthung, H. Chuba, Prasilie Pienyu, G. K. Rengma, while K. V. Pusa, Asu Keyho, Joshua Sumi and Tarie Zeliang, besides being expelled, were also recommended for disciplinary action against them.

In a press statement, NPCC president K Therie informed that the Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) constituted Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, 2003, as they have become members of the Naga People’s Front with the presentation of claim of merger as aforesaid, you are kindly requested to show them as NPF members in all Assembly records pending issuance of appropriate order by you under the said Rules,” read the notification issued to the Speaker.

The eight Congress members who are now members of the political and the legislature parties of the NPF are SI Jamir, Tokheho Yepthomi, C Apok Jamir, S Hukavi Zhimomi,

to examine the alleged misconduct of those members found that they “neither denied nor regretted their anti-party activities and misconduct.”

“They also ignored the authority of NPCC by not replying to the alleged breach of discipline and challenging its authority,” Therie added.

According to the statement, DAC had served show cause notice to the twelve members of the Congress for their misconduct during the NPCC delegates meeting at Congress Bhavan, Kohima on September 24 where general secretary, AICC incharge of Northeast, V Narayanswamy was also present. It also stated that the members “ignored the authority of NPCC by not replying to the alleged breach of discipline and challenging its authority.”

Dr Imtiwapang Aier, Imtikumzuk, Eshak Konayk and Khekaho Assumi.

This new development comes in the backdrop of infighting within the Congress party in Nagaland with new president K Therie and his supporters in one boat and supporters of the eight MLAs along with senior members of the Indian National Congress on another.

After the eight Congress MLAs joined TR Zeliang’s DAN government by voting in his favour in a ‘motion of confidence’ in the floor of the Assembly on February 6, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) had is-

sued show-cause notice and suspension order to the members for ‘violating’ its direction of not to join the NPF government headed by Zeliang, if BJP is also a part of the government.

The Congress had also filed disqualification petitions before the Speaker of NLA against its eight MLAs for attracting the provisions of the anti-defection law framed by the Assembly.

The inclusion of the Congress MLAs in the alliance and the government means there is no opposition party in Nagaland and a realization of Zeliang’s ‘all-party government’ in the State Assembly.

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NUN urges release of HIV/AIDS funds nagaland government fails

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Users’ Network (NUN) has taken a serious note of the non release of funds to fight AIDS, and said that this threatens to disrupt the service provided to the Injection drug users (IDUs) under the Nagaland AIDS Control Programme (NACP).

A press note from the NUN stated that HIV prevention and control programs are undergoing a setback due to the financial crisis as a result of the non timely release of funds by the state government to the NGOs implementing harm reduction programs.

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the rescued hostages, celebrated Guinean singer Sékouba ‘Bambino’ Diabate, said he had overheard two of the assailants speaking in English as they searched the room next to his. Twelve Air France flight crew were in the building but all were extracted safely, the French national carrier said. A Turkish official said five of seven Turkish Airlines staff had also managed to flee. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said three of 10 Chinese tourists caught inside had been rescued.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): Wiping out any remnants of the existence of the ‘opposition’ in the Nagaland State Assembly, the eight Nagaland Congress MLAs who joined the Naga People’s Front (NPF)-led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government in which BJP is also have a partner merged with the NPF. The erstwhile Congress members presented the claim of merger as per the format required under the members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, 2003 along with other supporting documents to the Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly on Friday.

Subsequently, NPF president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu and Chief Minister TR Zeliang issued separate notifications to the Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) informing that the Congress members have merged with the NPF in accordance with the law laid down by the Gauhati High Court in Writ Appeals Nos.297 & 298/2014 (judgment delivered on 12.11.2014) and thus are protected against disqualification on ground of defection.

“In terms of Rule 4 of the Members of Nagaland

NTC cautions against ‘tribal polarizations’ DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has asked that the matters of public importance should not be viewed through the “prism of tribal fabrics.”

A press note from the NTC lauded the “recent development of consciousness” amongst civil bodies and the citizens on unabated corruption, misuse of fund and manipulations, particularly issues on backdoor appointments in various government departments. Terming it as a sign of “social awakening,” the NTC assured cooperation to the “courageous moves” of ACAUT, HRLN, CSU, KSU and “public spirited citizens” who have taken matters of corruption to the courts for legal scrutiny. “The enormous trust of the people towards judicious review and expeditious delivery of justice to rectify the erroneous actions of the executives and the law makers is a way forward to build transparent and accountability measures for a healthy society that calls for radical changes,” the NCT said.

It further stated that the issues of cut-off year and yardsticks on effective coverage on legislated laws should be placed before the court of law for correct interpretation and necessary directions. “The petitioners efforts to collect evidences and establish the case of public interest is laudable and therefore require maximum restrain to view the matter through the prism of tribal fabrics and raise public speculations to defeat the genuine endeavor,” the NTC advised. “When issues are viewed through the angular prism, the refraction tempts the viewers to compromise with the targets,” it cautioned. As such, it appealed for all concerned not to bring in “tribal equations and polarizations in line of tribal differences in matters of great public importance.”

where the needle syringe exchange program is a key component in the prevention of HIV, the NUN said.

It stated that services such as counselling, referrals, abscess management, OST, and NSEP etc play a very crucial role in the life of an IDU. However, it lamented that the lack of funds make it impossible for the NGOs to deliver these services. The NUN stated that this financial crisis is a result of “lack of Political will” and also questioned the commitment of the Nagaland Government in addressing the burden of HIV/AIDS in the state.

Ketho, Coordinator of the NUN stated: “over the years, the prevalence rate of HIV among IDUs has significantly decreased due to effective harm reduction service implementa-

tion” and lauded the NGOs for their contribution. “However, such a financial crisis will let loose the AIDS virus, whereby rampant spread will occur and our fight against this epidemic will be defeated,” he cautioned.

While acknowledging the new financial policy and with the World AIDS day fast approaching on the December 1, the NUN has urged the government to fast track the file process and release the funds to NSACS, “lest the day’s observance see the display of black ribbons instead of the universal red ribbon symbol.”

The NUN further called for a long term solution to end this imbroglio so that the state does not continue to struggle every quarter due to such a financial crisis.

NSCN (IM) asks Nagas to be cautious of rumours

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today urged the Naga people to be “cautious against rumours aimed at sabotaging what is being worked out as best for the Naga people.” A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) said that “history will judge those who attempt to polarize the Naga issue and her people for vested interest.”

Referring to the GPRN/NSCN’s 8th Naga Unification Anniversary set to be held on November 22, the NSCN (IM) expressed concern that the anniversary would discuss the Framework Agreement between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India.

It stated that “such unnecessary drama to mislead and confuse the Naga people at this most crucial juncture is tantamount to reflecting their negative attitude and approach to the Naga political issue and the peace process.” It accused the GPRN/NSCN of having a “clear bankruptcy of policies, visions and showcase political nagging and childishness.”

It further alleged that the GPRN/NSCN is “no more fighting for the rights of the Naga nation but reduced to seeking positions in the puppet Nagaland state,” and as such “don’t have the rights to say on Naga national issue.” “Such undesirable crowd who are hell-bent in destroying the foundation of Naga nationhood by professing and propagating regionalism and tribalism, antagonist to the aspiration of Naga unity needs to be placed in the right perspective by the Naga people,” it added.

The NSCN (IM) affirmed that 18 years of Cease Fire and political negotiation with the Government of India had made the GoI recognize the unique history and situation of Nagas on July 11, 2002 at Amsterdam, “which means that Nagas were never a part of India either by consent or by conquest.”

Both parties, it stated, mutually agreed that there is need for an early political solution leading to the signing of the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015 at New Delhi.

“The signed document duly respects and recognises the nature of Naga history. It also acknowledges the importance of sharing sovereign powers and the need for peaceful coexistence between the two entities,” the NSCN (IM) said. It further stated that the Agreement shows “political wisdom and statesmanship of Naga leadership and GoI under the dynamic leadership of Narendra Modi.”

It reminded that after the signing of the Framework Agreement, the NSCN (IM) General Secretary, Th. Muivah had “widely open doors for togetherness to every faction to join us in fructifying the Framework Agreement in the true spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation, with clear intent to reach out to every section of our people (including other NPGs).” It further stated that the NSCN (IM) President, Isak Chishi Swu had also appealed to “let bygone be bygone and come together in the name of Christ so that Nagas can chart out together our common future based on the historical and political rights of the Nagas.”

to release scholarships

3615 Naga students still denied of scholarship, students wear black badges in protest Morung Express News Kohima | November 20

The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANSCU) began its first phase of agitation by wearing black badges/ribbons due to the failure of the State Government to release the Post Matric Scholarships despite several appeals and requests.

While students in other states received their scholarship by early May or June every year, students of Nagaland continue to suffer with the delay of their scholarships. “This year it is worse,” infromed ANSCU, with the delay being extended to more than four months now.

On February 15, the central government had already sanctioned its share for 90 percent of the scholarship amount to Nagaland. However even after 9 months since the centre released its share, the Nagaland government has failed to release its 10 percent share.

“We have served so many requests and appeals to the State Government. Recently an ultimatum was given to the State Government to release the pending scholarships on or before November 19. 10 days is enough time to complete all the procedures but they have failed,” said ANCSU President, Zhoku ThuluoduringapressconferenceheldatANSCUofficeon November 20.

“As a student organization, we believe that the investment in education

NSF slams govt’s ‘blame game’ Expressing displeasure at the government’s failure to release scholarships for students in the state, the Naga Students Federation (NSF) today stated that the “blame game among the government agencies for failing to disburse the amount is uncalled for.” A press note from the NSF stated that the utmost concern for any government should be the welfare of the student community. It demanded that the state government release the Nagaland state merit scholarship and the Scheduled Tribe scholarship without any further delay. sector is one of the best investments but it is very sad that the Nagaland Government has failed to realize the importance of education,” stated ANCSU General Secretary, Benjongakum Longchar. He further questioned why scholarships are never disbursed on time in Nagaland.

Asserting that many students depend much on the scholarship to pay their education fees, ANSCU lamented that not only does the State delay the release of scholarship but is not even able to give all the scholarships at one go. “It has become a tradition and a trend to delay,” stated ANSCU. No response has been given by any of the concerned authorities, whether it is the Department of Higher Education or the Finance Department on the delay of the disbursement of scholarships. However when the ANSCU send their appeals, assurances are always given but never delivered. “As Nagas, we believe and value commitments and assurances but we have lost faith in their assurances,” stated ANSCU. It stated that they have reached a point where they cannot even convince the students anymore.

Until the money is credited to the account of all the

students, the ANSCU has decided to agitate and remain firm on their stand.

The ANSCU submitted an appeal on May 25 and further sent a reminder on June 20. Its latest ultimatum, which was issued on November 9 expired on November 19. ANSCU in their ultimatum noted that the scholarship for the remaining 3516 students is due to the non-release of 10% state share.

Meanwhile, the Director of Higher Education, Chubatola, in a letter dated November 20, has given assurance that the State Merit Scholarship and Research Scholarship for 2014-2015 would be released by the Finance Department on November 20. The Director also notified that the 10% State share of centrally sponsored scheme of post matric scholarship to ST students will be released only in the 2nd week of December.

For 2014-2015, the Government of India under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs sanctioned an amount of Rs. 27,03,30, 887 (90%). The State share of 10 percent requires an amount of Rs2,70.33 lakh and the delay has denied 3516 students of their right to scholarships. It may also be noted that the 3516 students denied of their scholarship on time are Nagas studying outside of Nagaland.

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Call to accelerate growth of food processing

National seminar on potential of food processing in NE states held Morung Express news Dimapur | November 20

Talking at the National seminar on ‘Exploring Potential of Food Processing in North Eastern States’ with specific reference to Nagaland, Parliamentary Secretary of Industries & Commerce, Government of Nagaland Amenba Yaden highlighted concerns pertaining to food processing industry.

The seminar organized by All India Food Processors’ Association (AIFPA) in association with North Eastern Re-

gional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Ltd. (NERAMAC) was supported by Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India.

The Parliamentary Secretary said that the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India had launched the National Mission on Food Processing a centrally sponsored scheme during the 12th Five Year Plan with funding pattern in the ratio of 90:10 for North East Region.

“This was a step in the right direction to accelerate growth of food processing activities and value addition especially in the North Eastern Region,” Yaden stated during the National seminar conducted at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur on November 20.

However, post the Union Budget (2015-16) presented on 28.02.2015, the Government of India announced

that the NMFP would be delinked for Central financial assistance with effect from 1st April 2015, “which is unfortunate, especially for States like Nagaland and the rest of the North Eastern States with no resources to promote food processing activities.”

The North Eastern States lack basic infrastructure facilities like post harvest handling, efficient supply chain, adequate storage and processing facilities which lead to unacceptable wastage and value losses to the farmers’ produces.

Therefore, the Parliamentary Secretary requested the Ministry of Food Processing Industries for continuation of the National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) tailor-made especially for the North Eastern States incorporating more customized and region specific schemes; “otherwise the

nascent food processing activities in the region will drastically slow-down.”

While acknowledging the All India Food Processors’ Association for selecting Nagaland to conduct the seminar, Yaden invited them to explore the rich potentials the state has to offer in terms of food processing.

He highlighted that agriculture sector in the State, especially in the last few years, has witnessed steady growth. The State GDP has registered growth of 7.5% and 4% in the Agriculture sector. “Such growth in agriculture sector requires corresponding entrepreneurial intervention to take advantage of the potentials, and turn them into economic opportunities, both for the Indian and the global market,” added Yaden.

The Parliamentary Secretary said that there has been a tremendous

increase in the production of many horticultural products in the state and apart from food products, he maintained, there was a huge biodiversity in the North Eastern states especially in Nagaland which are yet to be explored. He also informed that to make Nagaland a totally organic state, the State government has adopted the Nagaland state Policy for Cultivation and the hill sections of the state has been declared an 'Organic Zone', which will offer huge potentials in the food processing sectors.

Commissioner & Secretary, Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Nagaland MK Mero in his address said that the government has set up food processing training centers at Dimapur and Kohima where entrepreneurs can avail the opportunity to take trainings from

Fire and Emergency Services building at Peren

Peren, november 20 (DIPr): The new office building of Fire and Emergency Services was inaugurated on November 20 at New District HQ Peren by Parliament Secretary, Fire and Emergency Services and NRE, Toyang Changkong Chang as the chief guest.

Addressing the gathering, after the inauguration of the office building, the chief guest stated that the department, though small, is a very vital department as it deals with the life of human beings apart from properties Parliament Secretary Toyang Changkong Chang speaks at the inauguration saving services. He urged the of new office building of Fire and Emergency Services at New District HQ gathering to give due appreciaPeren. (DIPR Photo) tion to the personnel and ofC M Y K

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Capacity building training workshop held at Mokokchung

mokokchung, no vember 20 (DIPr): A capacity building training workshop for strengthening decentralized governance of village council & VDBs for the district of Mokokchung, Zunheboto and Tuensang was organized on 20th November 2015 at the ADC Planning conference Hall, Mokokchung

by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) and Ministry of Skill development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs of Sports, GOI, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu in collaboration with Integrated Youth Resources Express (IYRE) Wokha and Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung.

Speaking at the inaugural function as the chief guest, DC Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel IAS emphasized on the role of the village council and VDB as the development agencies at the village level and as the ground level implementing agencies of various schemes. He also highlighted on the importance of capacity building of these institutions to ensure smooth and efficient functioning at the microlevel which will enable efficiency at macro-level.

SDO (C) Mokokchung, Lemlila Sangtam delivered the welcome address while Director IYRE, Wokha, K.P Lotha introduced the theme of the workshop.

Presentations were also given by Rajesh IAS, ADC Hq Mokokchung and Levitoli Sukhalu, EAC Hq, Mokokchung on the theme.

ficials of fire fighters for their bravery and sacrifices. In 2015 alone, the fighters saved about 205 crores worth properties as per the national data available.

He appealed to the fire fighters to leave a footprint in their carrier. Pointing out that after bifurcation from the Home Department, the department has managed to open five more fire stations in the state, which comes to a total of 13 stations as of now. There is a shortage of about 35 fire stations, he added.

The chief guest also informed the gathering that out of the four Regional Institute of fire stations, Nagaland is selected as

one Regional Institute, which is to be started very soon.

Deputy Commissioner Peren, Peter Lichamo in his short speech expressed his gratitude to the Government for availing fire services in the district and assured his cooperation to the department.

Namnabi Hegui spoke on behalf of the neighbouring villages where he appreciated and lauded the department for their dedicatory services since 17th April 2015.

Special Secretary, Home and IGP, P. Singsit pronounced the welcome address. The programme was chaired by DIG, Neilasa Sopfu.

ANFATA invites entry for painting competition

DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): Acknowledging the abundance of artistic talents but lack of adequate impetus, the department of Art & Culture collaboration with ANFATA will be organising a painting competition class 5 to 10 students to inspire and encourage the budding talents.

“The competition is intended to serve the dual purpose of nurturing the creative talents as well as

educating our students on our cultural values” stated V Hetoi Swu, president, All Nagaland Fine Arts Teachers Association (ANFATA) in a press note received here.

The competition is open for all students from class 5 to 10 and they can participate by submitting their painting works to the Directorate of Art & Culture Office, Kohima or Bright Bakery at Tinpati, D.Bs Junction Kohima, it added. The last

date for submission is December 5 and each entry must be accompanied by student’s names, standard, school and contact numbers at the back side of the painting sheet.

ANFATA further informed that the prizes for the winners will be Rs 10,000, 5,000 and Rs. 3,000 respectively for first, second and third prize with certificates.

It will also award 10 consolation prize of Rs. 1000 along with

NPF16th A/C Pfutsero induction ceremony held

NSWC to launch Fortnight Observation of Elimination of Violence against Women

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kohIma, november 20 (mexn): The Youth Net comprising of young Entrepreneur’s Network from Dimapur, Kohima & Mokokchung called on the Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang at his residence today.

A press note from the Chief Minister’s Office stated that Youth Net’s Young Entrepreneur’s Network had a long informal session over a cup of coffee and highlighted various points to CM during the discussion such as if task force for entrepreneurship can be constituted, create a one stop hub for local products and service center and exposure trip for young entrepreneur’s to attend international entrepreneur’s

ship eco system in the State and thus creating a strong private sector and changing the economy of the state. They also highlighted their activities and

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BAN meeting

DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): The Business Association of Nagas (BAN) will be holding its final Executive Council Meeting for this year on November 21 at STUDIO OURS, 3rd floor OURS Building- ADC Court Junction, Dimapur from 1PM.All the officials of BAN are requested to block the date and attend the meeting positively, informed a BAN press note received here.

ASSU meeting

DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): The Aghunaqa Area Students’ Union has convened a meeting on November 21, 10 AM at Circuit House Dimapur. AASU president, H Pito Yeptho in a press note requested all the members of its Jubilee’s Finance Committee to attend the meeting positively.

ACUAT Nagaland endorses Wokha unit’s decision

DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): The ACAUT Nagaland today applauded and extended its firm endorsement to its Wokha Unit resolution against from Abemo, an alleged NSCN (R) lieutenant. The Unit has demanded “unconditional apology through print media within seven days, to return the extorted amount and the NSCN (R) to authenticate and publish the identity of Abemo.”In a press note issued by its media cell, ACAUT Nagaland further urged all organizations and the public to standby and lend support to the cause of ACAUT Wokha and eradicate the menace of unabated taxation and culture of extortion which has becoming a norm in the society.

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Health Talk held at high school in Mkg

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NCSU Mokokchung strongly affirms

Chief Minister TR Zeliang with Youth Net’s Young Entrepreneur’s Network from Kohima, Dimpaur and Mokokchung at CM’s residence on November 20.

conference.

The young entrepreneur’s believe that taking these initial steps would help towards strengthening the entrepreneur-

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these institutes free of cost. Mero informed that a proposal has been put up with the state government for continuation of the food processing mission. Mero said that there was a tremendous potential in the whole of North East states in the form of lands where expansion of cultivation base of commercial agricultural or horticulture products can be produced but felt that without a processing unit the fresh produce even though done in an upscale production would go to waste and thus felt the need the of a proper processing unit to be set up.

Welcome speech was delivered

by Sagar Kurade, Vice President, AIFPA, theme of seminar was presented

by S. Bhattacharjee, Executive Director, NERAMAC Ltd and the vote of thanks was delivered by D.V. Malhan, Executive Secretary, AIFPA.

the certificate.

The winning entries will be showcased in a collection of the paintings on the Theme “Visual Art Motifs of Nagas” in front of the World War – II Museum at Kisama during the Hornbill Festival. The result for the winners and consolation prize will publish in news paper and through the contact numbers of winners, it added. For further query one can AHODs & HODs meeting on Nov 24 contact # 9436070315/8575724966. kohIma, november 20 (DIPr): A meeting of the Administrative Heads of Department (AHODs) and Heads of Department (HODs) will be held on November 24 at 11:00 a.m. in the Secretariat Conference Hall, Kohima. All concerned have been informed to attend the meeting positively as per a circular from the Home Comthe invocation, Dingulo ordination, Evaluation, NPF led Government durPfutsero, novemmissioner, Nagaland. Agenda items to be deliberated inber 20 (mexn): The in- Khutsoh, President-elect Monitoring Cell and Taxes ing the political crisis early mokokchung, no - clude presentation by Geology and Mining Department duction ceremony of the delivered welcome Speech. Neiba Kronu exhorted the this year. “It was a shining vember 20 (mexn): and Labour & Employment Department, presentation by new office bearers of 16th Setso Puro, Secretary, NPF party workers to stick to example of unity during Health talk on Non-Com- NSDAA and SQCB, winter session of NLA beginning on A/C Pfutsero, NPF was held Central Wing and Member the principles of the party adversity through which municable Disease (NCD) 14th December 2015, issues relating to Hornbill Festival on November 19 at Glory Secretary of the Nomina- and be steadfast in their we have come out stron- was carried out in two High 2015 and Civil List 2016. tion Committee proposed resolve to work for the gen- ger and more determined,” Schools at Mokokchung Peak in Pfutsero Town.

District on 20th Nov 2015. Assam Rifles provide medical aid A press note stated that the names of the office bear- eral welfare of the Public Kronu added.

The programme ended The resource person on the the programme was chaired ers which was unanimous- and uphold the integrity

by Neikhrolo Khalo, Secre- ly resolved and ratified the of the same. He expressed with the vote of thanks by programme was Dr Katila DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): 37 Assam Rifles his gratitude to the 16th Neirayi Theluo, Gen. Secy.- Longchar, School Health organized a medical camp at Bungsang village in Dimatary, NPF, Central Wing, House.

The Parliamentary A/C Party Workers for their elect, Area Youth Wing 16 Programme (SHP) where pur district on November 10, where a total of 280 persons Rev. Dr. Tsulingupe Kapfo, she explained in detail were provided medical aid by the unit doctor. The mediAssociate Pastor, PTBC said Secretary, Planning & Co- whole-hearted support to A/C NPF, Pfutsero. about the five most Non- cal camp was organized as part of OP Sadbhavana for the communicable disease year 2015-16. Health check up of women was also conlike Diabetes, Hyperten- ducted by female staff of the unit and free medicines were sion, Cancer, Obesity and disbursed to villagers, informed a press release from the Chronic respiratory dis- Assam Rifles. Alongside the medical camp, a friendly voleases and how to prevent leyball match between the Bungsang Village team and from it. The Programme team of 37 Assam Rifles was also organized at the central DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): The also focused on the topic ground of the village. At the end of the match, volleyballs kohIma, november 20 Women, like in the past years, Nagaland Contractors ‘and Suppliers’ Union and volleyball net were donated to the village team and (mexn): In accordance with is organizing the Launching (NCSU) of Mokokchung District Unit has ex- increase intake of Healthy prizes were awarded to deserving players. The volleyball food, increase physical the mandate of UN declaration Programme of this fortnight tended its strong affirmation and full endorsematch was organised for promotion of sports among of November 25 as Internation- at Tuensang on November 25. ment to the decision taken NCSU head office activity, Tobacco use, in- youth of the village, the release added. al Day against Violence against There will also be follow-up pro- regarding contracts for four-lane project. The take of Alcohol etc. The team covered two Schools Women and December 10 as grammes at Longkhim and Mo- NCSU head office Kohima on its 40th general namely John Douglas DNP+ holds AGM-cum-election meeting on November 12 had called for breakInternational Human Rights kokchung. The final programme High School and N. I Jamir Day, the intervening 16 days of the Fortnight’s activities will ing the four-lane project between Dimapur- Higher Secondary School. DImaPur, november 20 (mexn): The Dimapur Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (DNP+), Kohima, in order to accommodate the upcomhave been observed for the past be at Kohima on December Information materials a Community Based Organization of People Living with ing local contractors in the state.

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This year’s theme is “From 24 years as Fortnight Observasuch as leaflets on Non- HIV/AIDS in Dimapur conducted its AGM-cum-election tion of Elimination of Violence Peace in the Home to Peace in Mokokchung district unit also appreciated the Communicable Disease on November 12 at Centre for Community Transformahead office for taking up the resolution urging against Women at both local the World: Make Education Safe the state and central government to provide (NCD) were handed out tion, Bethesda Hall, Walford, Dimapur. Officer bearers and international levels to cre- for All’ necessary trainings, seminars, e-tendering to all the Participants. The were elected for a period of three years from November The invitees to these pro- and EPC mode for the local contractors. “It is programme was attend- 2015 to October 2018. ate awareness and promote adgrammes will include all Tribal a new kind for the upcoming local contractors ed by the Principals of the vocacy for the cause.

NSWC Secretary Z. Nyus- Women’s Unit, Women leaders and it will be a very beneficial for the state at School, teachers, students KDCC meeting on Nov 24 ietho Nyuthe NCS has informed from Churches, Administrators, large” the Unit further maintained in a press and the Medical team led in a press release that the Na- Police, DB’s and GB’s within the note issued by its president, L Tajen Imchen by Tarep Longchar DMEIO kohIma, november 20 (mexn): All the KDCC Office bearers and Frontal Chief are informed that the and IEC staffs. and general secretary, Toshiakum Jamir. galand State Commission for different venues.

KDCC meeting is scheduled on November 24 at 1:00 Pm at KDCC Office. Therefore all the concern are requested to attend the meeting without fail.

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different ventures they are currently into and shared their personal views and opinions.

The Chief Minister encouraged the young entre-

preneur’s on their different ventures and said more awareness should be created to promote our local products. He also added that naga king chilly is very

popular not only in India but internationally. So, he said we should advertise our local products and identify the markets where we can supply our locally produced products. He added that the task force idea presented for entrepreneurship is workable and now they should work as what will be the role of entrepreneur’s in the government, knowing that entrepreneur’s are very important stakeholders in the progress and development of the State. CM also said that we “must make our local product popular & precious”. He added that globally people run after quality products and we must make our local product a quality product.

KWO to celebrate Rünye Festival

Phek, november 20 (DIPr): Kuzhami Welfare Organisation, Phek Town is all set to celebrate its Rünye Festival 2015 with parliamentary secretary for planning & coordination, evaluation and monitoring cell, Neiba Kronu as the chief guest on December 12 at Phek local ground.

General Secretary Kelhikha Kenye will lead the sequence of the programme, while Rev. Kewezolo Mero, pastor, Nepali Baptist Church, Phek will pronounce act of blessing. Welcome address will be delivered by its president Tshulhi Khape, greetings by Phek SP Rukewelo T. Mero, special presentation will be given by Mesehiwe Mekrisuh and Kuzha Cultural Club, Zapami. Women co-ordinator Neichulo-u Tsuzu will give vote of thanks. All the Kuzhamis living in Phek Town have been requested to participate in the festival and to come with at least one traditional attire.

LFHSS Past Pupil Association meeting

kohIma, november 20 (DIPr): The General body meeting of Little Flower Higher Secondary School Past Pupil Association will be held on November 22 at 1:00 p.m. in the chamber of the School Principal. All the concerned Alumni of the school have been requested to bring any constructive agenda and participate in the meeting for the welfare of the Association in particular as well as for the School in general. The meeting will also elect a new team of office bearers.

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Cong & BJP sending bigwigs to Assam AAI to spend Rs 450 Cr to upgrade Agartala airport GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 20 (AGENCIES): After completion of the Bihar elections, electioneering is all set to state in Assam as BJP president Amit Shah and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will sound poll bugle for their parties in Assam.

BJP national president Amit Shah will address party workers in Assam later this month as the saffron party pinned all its hope in the state's 2016 assembly election after its debacle in Bihar polls.

Assam BJP general secretary Bhabesh Kalita said that Shah will address party workers in Dibrugarh on

November 27.

"The booth level workers from all corners of Dibrugarh parliamentary constituency will attend the meeting. The meeting is part of BJP's ongoing public awakening campaign against Congress rule in the state," Kalita said.

The BJP has been organizing public mobilization campaign in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies across the state in the current month.

For the first time in Assam politics BJP won maximum seats, seven out of 14 Lok Sabha seats, last year.

Senior BJP leaders said that Shah's upcom-

2 poachers gunned down in Kaziranga KOHORA, NOVEMBER 20 (ANI): Two poachers were killed in an encounter with forest guards and the Special Task Force (STF) in the Kohora area of the Kaziranga National Park on Friday. The Kaziranga National Park is the world's biggest reserve for the endangered great onehorned rhinoceros.

The thick-skinned, one-horned Indian rhinoceros is one of the five surviving rhino species in the world. Forest guards had received prior information that a group of poachers would try to enter the national park through National Highway-37.

They noticed a group of five men entering the park in the wee hours of Friday soon after which the exchange of gunfire began. Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF), Kaziranga National Park, Pradipta Baruah, said all the nearby camps in the park had been asked to maintain extra vigil. Pradipta Baruah, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Bagori Range, Kaziranga National Park, said, "We saw one group of five persons entering the national park to kill rhinos. We had an exchange of fire with them and in the due process we recovered two unknown dead bodies and on search we found two rifles, one 303 and one .315 with silencer and one axe and some food material in the bags."

ing visit is significant so far as setting the direction and boosting the morale of party workers in the state is concerned. They said that after Bihar's drubbing, BJP has put all its energy in Assam to ensure that the saffron party wrest power from Congress in 2016.

"Our national president's visit is very crucial one at this juncture. His interactions will reinvigorate our grassroots workers. The party has high expectation in Assam, and we are putting all our efforts to see BJP comes to power," a senior BJP leader said.

The Bihar election outcome has come as a shock

to the BJP in Assam at a time when the state will face the assembly polls in less than a year from now.

The saffron party in Assam were in fact anxiously looking forward to the high-pitched election campaign in Bihar as sure success for BJP making toehold in eastern India, and its impact spreading over to Assam.

Though BJP leaders have been saying that saffron party's defeat in Bihar will not affect it's prospect in Assam as political situation in both the states are quite different. However, they conceded that after the Bihar result, the

party is seriously having a relook of its poll strategies for the 2016 assembly polls.

Rahul Gandhi who was slated to visit Assam on November 26 and 27 has postponed his visit and he is likely to visit on December 11 and 12. A senior leader in Pradesh congress committee stated that Rahul has deferred his visit following winter session of parliament.

Congress in Assam which is ravaged by growing desertion is charged up after the Bihar verdict. Congress is calming that Bihar verdict will have effect in Assam polls.

Govt announces superspeciality courses for North East doctors NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 (PTI): Doctors from the Northeast will be allowed to undergo a super speciality course at leading medical institutes under a scheme launched by the government.

Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh said today that the super-specialty courses for doctors from the eight Northeastern states will include provision for Doctor of Medicine (DM) and Master of Chirurgiae (Mch) courses in medical institutions outside Northeast as well as option of short duration training of up to six months in super-specialty.

Addressing a meeting of the Principal Secretaries of Health from North-Eastern States, Singh said that to begin with, a sixmonth training in Medical Oncology and Surgical Oncology will be undertaken from January 1, 2016 at the Adyar Cancer

Institute, Chennai. The cost and financial implications of this training course will be borne by the Ministry of DoNER. The same institute will also seek approval from Medical Council of India (MCI) to start a three-year DM Oncology and Mch Oncology Surgery degree course from next academic year.

The Minister said the decision to make a beginning with super-specialty training in Oncology was prompted by the statistical figures which indicated that the prevalence of cancer is highest in the country among North-Eastern states, with Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya among the first three with the highest cancer prevalence, predominantly the cancer of head and neck.

Singh said the other non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart attack have also shown an upsurge in the region.

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 (IANS): The Delhi government has launched an inquiry into the death of a 36-year-old woman from Assam, who died of blood infection and heart attack allegedly after undergoing wrong surgery at two city based hospitals, it was announced on Friday. "We have received the complaint copy of incident from the Chief Minister's Office. We are going to write to the two hospitals and ask for their version on the issue. Once we receive it, we will further act," A.K. Saini, a senior official from Directorate of Health Services (DHS), told IANS. Anamika Ray died of blood infection and cardiac arrest at the city-based Golden Jaipur Hospital after being admitted at a critical stage. She underwent a gallbladder surgery on July 17 at city based Navjeevan Hospital where she was allegedly left unattended for several hours after the doctors said the patient suffered a cardiac arrest during the surgery.

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Dated Peren the 20th Nov. 2015

NO.PRN/JUD/SC/2015/192/ Smti. Dipale Das has applied for issue of succession certificate in her name to draw GPF/Leave Encashment/ Family Pension/Bank Account No. 11799816813 etc. of her Late Husband Molay Kumar Das of Peren District.

Public are hereby invited to file claims / objections within 30 (thirty) days w.e.f date of publication in local papers. If no objection is received from the public within the stipulated time, the succession certificate shall be issued in her name.

Dr. NANDIRA CHANGKIJA, Principal Director Dir. of Health & Family Welfare. Nagaland: Kohima

Director, Higher Education

Dimapur: Nagaland

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Dated Dimapur the 20th Nov. 2015

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

• Mr. Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secy, Higher & Technical Edn. Mr. Imjung Panger, Secy., HE, Ms. Chubatula Lkr, Director, HE and department officials.

• The Advisory Board headed by Mr. Kesonyu Yhome, IAS, DC, Dimapur and all Board Members.

• Mr. Atokhe Aye, CEO, DMC and his team • Mr. Chandu Agarwal, District Governor, Rotary club, Rotarians, Dimapur and Marwari Community.

• Mr. Geofrey Yaden and Mr. Basu Damani, IQAC, External Members.

• Er. Moameren, Executive Engineer, Dept. of Power and his Team.

• Er. C. Khawang Konyak, Executive Engineer, Dept. of Housing and his Team.

• Er. Tongpang, Executive Engineer, Dept. of PHE and his Team.

• Dr. A. Wati, Chief Medical Officer and his Team.

• The GOC, 4Crops Rangapahar.

• Press • The Alumni and Parents Associations.

• Entire family of DGC, Faculty, Staff and Students.

We pray that God's blessing be showered upon you and look forward for your continuous support and

Dated Kohima, the 19th Nov.2015.

The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Home Department, invites applications from interested candidates to fill the following post purely on contractual basis.

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Department of Higher Education also assured that the 10% State Share of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Post Matric Scholarship to ST students for the year 2014-15 shall be tentatively released in the 2nd week of December 2015.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL DIMAPUR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

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Applications are invited for in- service sponsored candidate(s) from Nagaland for undergoing 3 (three) years Post- Graduate course in MDS "CONSERVATIVE DENTISTRY" for the academic session 2016-2017 at Regional Dental College, Guwahati. Only 1 (one) seat is available. Interested candidates may apply to the undersigned.

Criteria: 1. Candidates should be domicile of the State.

2. Selection should be made on merit basis.

3. If the 1st Candidate refuses to join the course for any reason, he/she should surrender the seat in writing. In that case, the offer of the seat will go to the next waiting list candidate.

- Last date of submission of application to the Directorate is by 30th Nov. 2015.

The State Merit Scholarship & Research Scholarship for the year 2014-2015 shall be released by the Finance Department. Govt. of Nagaland on the 20th November 2015.

The Department of Higher Education shall immediately release the scholarship amount directly to the bank account of the students after completion of all the formalities in the Treasuries.

state has registered the highest internet activity relating to information on this Islamic fundamentalist group and its activities. He said, “In terms of searching about ISIS on the internet, Assam has registered more traffic than.’ Jammu and Kashmir”.

The Home Ministry said that the recent multiple terror attacks in Paris clearly indicate the intention of the outfit to expand the area of terror targets beyond the Iraq and Syria.

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Home ministry has stated that five states and four cities are said to be on the IS radar in India. States like Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Assam are said to be on IS radar. “ISIS is not a threat for any particular country, but for the entire world. India is alert about ISIS,” said Rajnath Singh in New Delhi.

Notably, Assam DGP Khagen Sharma had stated a month ago that Assam, the

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GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 20 (TNT): Top sources in the Home Ministry have revealed that the Ministry has sent an alert to Assam Home department smelling threat of ISIS. The Central government two days back had stated in an advisory that Islamic State (IS), the Syriabased banned terror group which carried out the deadly Paris attacks last week, may target major installations in India.

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Ms. Kuholi Chishi, Principal Dimapur Government College

(PETER LICHAMO) Deputy Commissioner, Peren: Nagaland

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merce in the North Eastern region and boost connectivity with Southeast Asian countries, the minister said. A master plan has been prepared for upgrading the airport and 72 acres of land acquired by the state government was handed over to AAI for expansion of the runway. "Following its up gradation, it would be able to handle 1,000 passengers per hour," he said.

Every day more than 17 flights operate in a day from the Agartala airport, which is the second busiest in the Northeast region after Guwahati airport in Assam, and will be the third international standard airport after the Guwahati and Imphal airports. The Centre has also announced that Imphal's Tulihal airport will be an international airport after its modernization.

The Dimapur Govt. College has been accreditated by NAAC, Bengaluru, with Grade B. The College expresses heartfelt gratitude to the following stakeholders, individuals, club, associations; Govt. departments for their invaluable contributions towards the overall growth and development of the institution in the pre-accessed stage; and in the run-up to the assessment process till it got accreditated.

Delhi starts inquiry into death of woman from Assam

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AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 20 (PTI): The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will spend Rs 450 crore to upgrade Agartala airport to international standards and complete it by 2016. "Ground work like survey and other related works have already been completed. The project work will be started soon," Tripura Transport minister Manik Dey said today.

Dey said the state government has urged the Centre to declare Agartala airport as an international one, with flights to Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh for trade and commerce between the two countries.

Agartala airport would be made an international airport as part of India's Look East policy to increase trade and com-

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY NAGALAND : KOHIMA

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Dated :Kohima the 17th Nov. 2015.

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Duration of Course: 3 (three) months.

Intake capacity: 30 Nos. Course fee: Free of cost, including food facility & accommodation.

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Sl. Name of the No. of Qualification RemuneraNo Post Post tion 1. Project 3 Post Graduate Degree from UGC Rs. 20,000/Coordinator recognized Universities preferably in (Fixed) Disaster Management with at least one year’s work experience.

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5. Written test, Computer test and oral interview shall be conducted for which information shall be given at a later date to the interested/eligible candidates.

6. Candidates with requisite qualification in Disaster Management will be given a 15% weightage in the total marks tally over other candidates. This is applicable only for candidates applying for the post of Project Coordinator and District Project Associate.

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8. Interested candidates may send in their applications with necessary documents to the Secretary (NSDMA), Home Department, New Secretariat, latest by 30th November 2015.

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Make in India through Cooperatives DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): Co-operative Societies in Mon district on Wednesday stressed on the need to undergo training and equip knowledge and skills on accountancy and weaving technology for further promotion of the co-operative movement in the district.

This was disclosed by the participants at the interactive sessions during observance of the 62nd All India Cooperative Week held at Mon town on November 18, under the theme “Make in India through Cooperatives.”

Resource person Rajuselie Lhousa, district program coordinator, Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRML) Mon, who is also the former vice chairman of Nagaland State Co-operative Bank (NSCB), in his address, challenged the participants to think of ‘Make in Mon’ initiatives in line with the ‘Make in India’ program and contribute to the betterment of the district.

Referring to the Swachh Bharat campaign and the pet project of the Deputy Com-

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missioner- “I Love My Mon Town (ILMMT), Lhousa appealed the participants to give their co-operative spirit and sense of ownership for the uplift Mon town and bring change in the district.

On the success story of cooperative movement in Nagaland, Lhousa said the NSCBwith cooperative societies as shareholders of the Bank— stand tall amongst all the government programs.

Also highlighting NSRLM ‘Financial Inclusion’ model, he said this scheme offer vast potential in different aspect, for growth of every citizen and the country. He, therefore, encouraged every citizen to come forward and avail the opportunities offered by the government.

Rokovisa Chase, ARCS Mon, in his keynote address said the co-operative week is a moment to look at the past, recollect and recognize how the cooperative movement is contributing to the progress of

the country.

Main highlight of the cooperative week was the interactive session with the different co-operative societies. The societies shared their experiences; problems and grievances which were taken note of.

Wokha: Wokha District also celebrated the 62nd All India Co-operative Week on Thursday at District Planning Office Conference Hall, Wokha, with SDO (C) Wokha, Mhomo Tungoe as the chief guest.

Addressing the gathering, Tungoe said when societies in other parts of the world are making so much progress without getting much support from the government; Nagas should also strive to do the same.

For this, the DC stressed that Naga people need to change mindset first and grasp the schemes and policies provided by the government to utilise the opportunity wisely

so as to make life easier.

He also maintained that co-operative societies should not focus on gaining monetary benefits alone but should start afresh and make proper use of the opportunities for socio and economic uplift of the society.

Manager of NSCB, Wokha, Masheto Nandu Rengma who also spoke during the function, highlighted on the role and services provided by the financial institutions to the societies and co-operators.

ARCS, Wokha R Bendang Ao in his introductory speech said co-operative week is observed with the objective to highlight the achievements of the co-operative sectors and sensitize the people about the co-operative movements.

Peren: Along with the rest of the country, the Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies Peren Staffs and cooperators from various societies in the district is celebrating the 62nd All India Cooperative Week Cel-

ebration by Cooperative societies under the theme “Make in India through Cooperative”. The celebration today at Jalukie was graced by SDO (C) Jalukie, Rhosietho Nguori guest of honor at Jalukie Town Hall, informed a press note from Zasevituo Angami, Senior Inspector, Cooperative Societies Peren. The weeklong celebration, spearheaded

by National Cooperative Union of India based on different nomenclature each day, started from November 14 and will continue till November 20, it added.

Mokokchung: Commemorating 62nd All India Cooperative Week celebration under the theme “Make in India through Cooperatives”, a programme was held at Ongpangkong Salang, Mokokchung on November 19 organized by the office of the Assistant Registrar Cooperative Societies, Mokokchung.

Speaking on the occasion as the chief guest, Coordinator ATMA & Asstt. Agronomist, I.

Lipokonen said that the cooperative movement was started with an objective to promote economic sustenance through mutual help and service and it is a collective endeavor to achieve sustainable livelihood.

In her keynote address, ARCs, Alangla Tonger stated that the theme “Make in India through Cooperatives” is very relevant because the role of cooperatives in economic upliftment of the nation is immense and to meet these challenges, every stakeholders should revitalize their resources.

Sr. Manager NS CB, L.Nungsang delivered a short speech while vote of thanks was proposed by Mapusosang, SCIS. Tuensang: 62nd All Indian Co-operative Week was held at CKS Hall, Tuensang on November 20 which was attended by the Chairmen and Secretaries of the Cooperative Societies of Tuensang District.

The programme was conducted under the theme “Make in

Pay panel wants merit rewarded, complacency derided NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 20 (IANS): Even as it has recommended substantial hikes in the emoluments drawn by government officials, the 7th Pay commission also wants complacency to be dealt with adequately, as much as it wants merit to be rewarded beyond annual increments.

“This commission believes that employees who do not meet the laid-down performance critera should not be allowed to earn future annual increments,” said the panel in its 88-page report that was submitted to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday evening.

“The commission is therefore proposing the withholding of annual increments in the case of those employees who are not able to meet the benchmark either for the MACP (Modified Assured Career Progression) or a regular promotion within the first 20 years of their service,” it said.

“The remuneration package is such that employees would feel they are valued and they are fairly paid and their remunera-

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“In addition, introduction of more stringent criteria such as clearing of departmental exams or mandatory training before grant of MACP can also be considered by the government.”

The panel said the benefits of its recommendations on this aspect were manifold. among them, it said, employees can traverse both vertically and horizontally within the same level by way of an annual progression and through the recommended incentives.

“This will enable him/her to visualise the career path across levels and span of service.”

Bringing cheer to an estimated 47 lakh serving central government officials, including defence personnel, as also the 52 lakh pensioners, the commission on Thursday recommended a 23.55 percent hike in salary and perks. The move will entail an outflow of Rs.102,100 crore from the exchequer.

The revision, based on what the government decides, will take effect January 1 next year.

tion is not less than the person who is similarly situated in another organisation.”

The panel said this will be a deterrent for complacent and inefficient employees, and added that the government could also give such staff an option to leave service on similar terms and conditions as prescribed for voluntary retirement.

The panel, however, said the frequency for such an incentive must continue to be administered at 10, 20 and 30 years as before, since some inherent issues in the existing pay structure that had caused widespread resentment were being set right.

In the case of defence forces, the appraisal will continue at 8, 16 and 24 years as before.

“There is, however, one significant aspect where this commission feels that a change is required. This is with regard to the benchmark for performance appraisal for MACP as well as for regular promotion,” said the panel, wanting the existing “good” to “very good” criteria to

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NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 20 (IANS): The 7th Pay Commission on Thursday recommended a 16-percent salary hike for government servants with an estimated 47 lakh serving central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners expected to benefit from the recommendations.

Following are some of the highlights: . A 16% salary hike recommended . A 24% hike in pension, besides a minimum pay of Rs.18,000 per month for all entry-level employees . Rs.2.5 lakh for the seniormost serving officer, the cabinet secretary. . Increase in pay will be 16%, increase in allowances will be 63%.

Annual increment of 3% recommended . An estimated 47 lakh serving central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners will be impacted . Proposals will entail an outflow of Rs.102,100 crore from the exchequer during the next fiscal . One rank one pension proposal recommended for all employees, including the defence personnel, retiring before January 1 next year . Rate of house rent allowance be revised to 27%, 18% and 9% when dearness allowance crosses 50%, and to 30%, 20% and 10% when it crosses 100% . House building advance ceiling proposed at Rs.25 lakh against Rs.7.5 lakh. . Health insurance scheme for central government employees and pensioners . Ceiling of gratuity recommended at a higher rate of Rs.20 lakh, against Rs.10 lakh. . For defence personnel, against the existing pay of Rs.6,000 per month for service officers, the proposal is for Rs.15,500. . Performance-related pay for all categories of central government employees

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Lamborghini Huracan LP580-2 launched in India NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 20 (NDVT AUTO): Lamborghini unveiled the Huracan LP580-2 RWD at the on going LA Auto Show and well, it’s already here in India. The RWD Huracan has been on the cards for a while now and it’s made to solely appeal to the driving enthusiasts out there. Lamborghini has priced the car at 2.99 cr.

The launch of the car in India shows Lamborghini’s interest in the market and it has seen a spurt of growth over the last couple of years. When we asked Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO, Automobili Lamborghini SpA, he said that India was a big market for the company and the SUV, Urus, will also make its way to India by 2018.

The rear-wheel drive Huracan features modified bumpers which gives it its unique character and helps us tell it apart from its four-wheel drive counterpart.

There are 19-inch wheels that will make its way on the car and they will be equipped with Pirelli PZero tyres that have been specially developed for the car.

Under the hood is a detuned 5.2-litre V10 engine that produces 580 PS, hence the serial number LP5802. The RWD Huracan develops a massive 540 Nm of torque. The car has also become 33kg lighter than the standard model and that is because Lamborghini has done away with the all-wheel drive system, so it’s lighter and hence has adequate power at its disposal.

The Huracan LP580-2 is slower than the all-wheel drive cousin by 0.2 seconds. A dash from 0-100 km/h takes 3.4 seconds and the top speed is rated at 320 km/h.

The Huracan LP580-2 has been equipped with a retuned suspension, an improved steering system as well as recalibrated stability and traction control systems.

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for meeting on NNC (NA) flays killings Venue Smart Cities changed of GPRN/NSCN cadres DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): The NNC (Non-Accordist) has criticized the killings of four GPRN/NSCN cadres by 15th Assam Rifles at Leangkonger Village recently, calling it “more or less a direct terrorist acts.”

In a press release, MIP, NNC (Non-Accordist) said Angami Students' Union (ASU) officials and seniors during their tour to Delhi paid a it has been learnt from recourtesy visit to NSCN (IM) leaders Isak Chishi Swu and Th. Muivah at their official liable sources that the four residence in New Delhi on November 20.

slain were first arrested, then “the 15th AR personnel directly acted in the manner of a real terrorist in the worst form of killings, in spite of (the cadres) showing and expressing their real identities as GPRN/ NSCN.” Expressing rage at the incident, the NNC (NA) stated it does not mind killing during a war between

or among any group, “but the ugly action upon the innocent cadres was not tolerated.”

Further, the release issued by Kiumukam Yim, President and Hangping Zeliang, General Secretary of the NNC (Non-Accordist) extended deepest concern and condolences to the family members of the fallen Naga cadres.

State BJP on AR’s notice to media houses CYF general conference underway DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nagaland State unit today expressed concern about “creating reaction in the society aftermath (the) notice served by Assam Rifles (AR) to a number of local news media.”

While honoring the “commendable contributions” made by both the Assam Rifles under civic action program and the local dailies towards promotion of society and considering the impor-

tance of press freedom as envisaged in the constitution of India, the BJP Nagaland reminded the AR to “maintain proper limitation and status quo in consistence with the constitutional provisions.”

Each of the paramilitary, the press and the Central or State government has its role to play within well-defined written constitution, stated a press release issued by Media Cell, BJP Nagaland unit.

“The contributions

CNC appeals to pray for Indian Parliament’s winter session DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): The Council of Nagalim Churches (CNC) has informed all its Unit Churches to hold a fasting and prayer service on November 25 for the Winter Session of Indian Parliament slated on November 26.

A press release from CNC general secretary, Rev. Seksim Kasar further appealed to all the churches and peace loving citizens across the land to join in the prayer endeavor. One may also take a special prayer moment in the morning and evening family devotion/worship time for the

same, it said.

The Council also appealed to all the pastors to set a special moment of prayer in the Sunday worship service on November 29. “Praying for India and her Parliament members are essential for peace and welfare of the region,” it stated.

Meanwhile, CNC said it will be appreciated if all the presidents, executive/ general secretaries, bishops and presbyters of all associations, councils, synods, presbyteries, diocese, parishes etc. direct all their member-churches to join in the prayer exercise.

made by the press media by open presentation of information needs to be appreciated and honored by all, including the AR, as our society needs to be more open about everything and promote transparency for the people to judge,” it added. “The error occurred should be rectified.”

Our Correspondent Kohima | November 20

The 9th general conference of the Chakhesang Youth Front (CYF) got underway this afternoon at CBCC Ground, Pfutsero under the theme “A true culture for the social betterment of all.”

Kewepfüzü Lohe, vice principal, Baptist College Kohima, spoke on the con-

ference theme at the introductory session.

Meanwhile, minister for school education & SCERT Yitachu will grace the inaugural function on November 21 from 10:30 am onwards.

The function will start with blowing of traditional horn and unfurling of flag followed by Zhavame traditional war dance. Chakhe-

sang Public Organization (CPO) president Sovenyi will share greetings. Act of blessing for the new office bearers will be done by Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, executive secretary, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council.

CYF president Zhopayi Nakro will deliver presidential address. Youth resolution will also be announced during the function.

Jimomi clan sets up trust for its top ten students DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): The 2nd general session of Jimomi clan (hoho) was held at Nihokhu village today under the theme “Apuh assu ngu agha, niju aje kumto.” The daylong programme was attended by village chiefs (GBs), public leaders, government officers, church leaders and bonafide members of the hoho.

N. Kitovi, Ato Kilonser, GPRN/NSCN and former minister Ihezhe Zhimomi exhorted the gathering.

Parliamentary Secretary S. Hukavi Zhimomi and former Parliamentary Secretary Azheto Zhimomi also attended the programme.

Ex-Head GB of Nihokhu village, Ghonito Zhimomi released a book on Jimomi clan. Hokheto P, former minster spoke on the account and background of the book.

Kohima, November 20 (mexN): The State level consultation meeting on Smart Cities Mission, which had been scheduled for November 23, 11:00 am in the conference hall of the Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima will be held at Chief Ministers' Residence Banquet Hall “due to unavoidable circumstances.” The date and time will remain the same. This was informed in a press release issued by Dr Maongwati Aier, Secretary, Municipal Affairs department.

NPF 60 A/C Kiphire-Pungro meeting Kiphire, November 20 (mexN): The NPF 60 A/C Kiphire-Pungro will hold an introductory meeting on November 25 at 10:00 am. Therefore, all the party office bearers, women wing, youth wing, farmers’ wing and active members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

One arrested with fake currency DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): Dimapur Police on November 18 arrested one person with fake currency notes amounting to Rs 55,000. The accused, identified as one Changlu Zeliang, was arrested at the Blue Hill station, Dimapur. A press note from the PRO, Dimapur Police informed that the seized currency consisted of 49 notes of Rs 1000 denomination and twelve notes of Rs 500 denomination. Investigation to ascertain the source and others involved is under progress, police added.

Phisami people informed DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): Phisami Students’ Union has informed all the Phisami people living in Dimapur, Kiphire, Zunheboto, Tuensang etc that there will be mass fasting and prayer meeting on December 20 at Phisami village. Prayer will be held for the younger generation, particularly for children's education and their future career. People coming for the prayer meeting can contact their respective district union office bearers for more information. All the participants have been requested to reach the venue in Phisami on December 19 without fail. The programme is being organised by Phisami Students’ Union.

Prog on international day for elimination of violence against women

Nagagenous presenting an ensemble of Naga traditional music during the 2nd general session of Jimomi clan (hoho) at Nihokhu village.

Rev. Hotokhu, Executive Secretary, SABAK, Rev. Hukugha, Executive Secretary, SBAK (Nito Mount) and Executive Secretary, NPBCA conducted special service besides delivering messages on the occasion.

Rev. Yevito, Senior Pastor, Zunheboto Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Yehevi, Senior Pastor, Thilixu Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Kavito, Principal TTC, Akuvuto and Rev. Dr. Vitoho, Pastor, Nunumi

Baptist Church were other church leaders who participated in the session.

People of host village and Nagagenous, an indigenous musical group, presented cultural songs to mark the occasion. On behalf of the host village, Ghosuho Zhimomi, chairman, Nihokhu Village Council welcomed the delegates.

Dr. Hokuto, chairman of the hoho chaired the session. Hoho secretary HK

Kohima, November 20 (mexN): The Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB), State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW), and the North East Network (NEN) will be organizing a programme on International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25 at Molu Ki, Paramedical here on the theme “Break the Chain, Stop the Violence.” It will take place from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilato Mor will be the guest of honour. NEN programme manager Wekowe-u Tsuhah will deliver keynote address while solidarity message will be shared by Bano Vinito, chairperson, NSSWB. Kohima SP Joseph Hesso will talk on “Crimes against women-status, forms and trends”, while Daisy Mezhur, secretary and mission director, NSSWB, SRCW will dwell on “Towards a gender equality-challenges & strategies.”

Zhimomi presented secretarial report, while T. Vikuto, hoho’s vice chairman proposed vote of thank.

The Jimomi hoho has also constituted a trust to felicitate and present cash award to students of the clan who pass Class 10 and higher secondary exams in top ten.

A new team of office SBTA meeting on Nov 26 bearers led by T. Vikuto as DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): The Sümi president was also elected Baptist Theological Association (SBTA) has convened during the session. a meeting on November 26 (Thursday) from 9:00 am onwards at Chekiye Village Baptist Church, 3rd Mile Dimapur. All the Office Bearers, Executive Members and Editorial Board Members have been asked to attend the meeting positively. The meeting will deliberate on the forthcoming 7th Biennial Conference of SBTA chairperson for the longest slated to be held from May 20 to 22, 2016 which will be period from 1979 -1987. “As hosted by Ghukiye Baptist Church (SBAK). Therefore, it the chairperson, she brought has requested all to come prepared to discuss ideas for her own unique contribu- the conference programme and theme for the journal. tion to the Board. She was a mentor, leader and a friend Shops robbed in Mkg; to all who worked under her,” it stated. “To many, she is an MCCI asks police to investigate inspiration, a torch nearer moKoKchUNg, November 20 (mexN): The and one of the first women Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industries of her generation to pave (MCCI) today informed that some burglars have been the way for an equal soci- breaking into shops at night in Mokokchung Town on ety.” Acknowledging that a routine basis lately. A press release from MCCI presithe Board has lost a beau- dent, Moasangba Jamir said that a general grocery shop tiful soul and ardent sup- was burgled into on the night of October 1 and anothporter, the Board extended er watch store was burgled on the night of October 7. thoughts and prayers to her Again, on the night of November 14, another shop was dear ones and all those she robbed. Another aborted burglary was reported on the same shop only three days later, it added. In this connechad worked with. tion, the MCCI has requested the police to investigate the matter and bring the culprits to book as well as restore adequate security measures in the town immediately so that such cases do not happen again, especially during this festive season. The business community has President Vitoka Awomi, also been advised to be more vigilant.

General Secretary Joshua Solo, Asst. General Sec- Smart City Mission contests result retary Semra A. Shishak, Secretary, Finance Akhe- Kohima, November 20 (mexN): The Kohima rio Lazio, Secretary, Info. Municipal Council (KMC) today announced the result & Publicity Mteisuding, of Smart City Mission Essay Competition on the topic “My Vision of Smart City Kohima” as under. School catSecretary, Social & Culture egory: First- Sungjemliba Imsong; Second- Tokaholi Yanthanthang Yanthan, Achumi; Third- Mongsentong Longkumer. General Secretary, Games & Sports category: First- Kelengoto Rhetso; Second- Dzuvisezo John Thurr, Secretary, Edu- Tetso; Third- Peteneinuo Yiese. It also announced the cation & Stat. Daniel Semy, result of marathon race held with the theme “Smart City, Secretary, Debate & Symp. Smart Health”: First- Kezhalezo Neikha; Second - Salew Akuto Yeptho; Union As- Kadete; Third- Shiangjiu Khiamniungan. Meanwhile, sembly - Speaker Mese Caimas Chachei won the Smart City logo competition.

Kapfo, Deputy Speaker Ashevei Zhemai.

DC Peren informs arms license holders NSCA, NSSWB offer condolences pereN, November 20 (mexN): Deputy Commissioner of Peren has informed all the arms license holders of Peren district that the Ministry of Home Affairs has launched National Database of Arms Licenses (NDAL), an online portal to register arms licenses, which is being implemented.

In a press release, the DC informed that under NDAL, data is required to be fed online each time a license is issued or renewed.

And, the system generates a Unique Identification

Number (UIN) for each license holder which would be subsequently pasted on the license and in the office record. The target date for completion of the exercise has been extended to March 31, 2016.

Therefore, arms license holders who have not renewed their license have been directed to renew and update it before the last date. Those who have renewed, but have not submitted for pasting UIN have been directed to deposit the licenses to the DC office for the same. Meanwhile,

those who have deposited license and have not collected have been directed to come along with two passport size photos of the license holders. Multiple arms license holders have been asked to deposit their licenses with a request letter for consolidation of multiple licenses into a single license.

The DC cautioned that his office will not entertain any complaint and queries after the last date and the license shall stand invalid as per the implementation of NDAL.

Kohima Unidentified body recovered Police arrest one Ko h i m a , N o vember 20 (mexN): Kohima Police manning Phesama check gate during routine checking detected one Mahindra pick-up bearing registration number NL-05G-0535 with forged registration card. During physical verification of the vehicle, the engine number GA71J27566 engraved in the vehicle and MA1RL2GAK71J45167 on the smart card did not tally, according to a release from PRO, Kohima Police. The driver of the vehicle identified as Noor Ali (30) was taken into police custody and a regular case vide Kohima South P.S case No. 0119/2015 U/S 379/471 IPC was registered against him, it added.

DimapUr, November 20 (mexN): One body of a non-Naga male was found near Vidima village on November 20. According to a release from PRO, Dimapur Police, the deceased is suspected to be murdered as the body bore injuries caused by blunt weapons. The deceased, aged around 35-40 years was found wearing denim quarter pant, black T-shirt and black-brown stripped shirt. The body is kept at the morgue of the District

Kohima, November 20 (mexN): The Nagaland Seniors Citizens’ Association (NSCA) has expressed shock and surprise at the sudden demise of Lhusi Haralu, Executive Director, Nagaland Peace Centre, Kohima on November 17. Remembering the deceased as deeply involved in peace work and ardent social activist, NSCA secretary in a condolence message informed that she was also one of the recipients of the Nagaland Senior Citizen State's Award in 2011.

“In her death, not only Na-

galand Peace Centre Office but the Naga people in general have lost a good and dedicated warrior of peace and also a sincere and hard working social activist.”

The Association further expressed solidarity with the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

In another message, the chairperson and staff of the Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB), Kohima expressed grief over the sudden demise of Lhusi Haralu. The note said that Haralu served the Board as

DNSU resumes office

Hospital. For more details, DimapUr, Novemthe Diphupar Police Sta- ber 20 (mexN): After betion may be contacted. ing defunct for 16 months due to the inability to conDrugs seized duct election during the Meanwhile, on No- 2014 General Conference, vember 18, Dimapur Po- the Dimapur Naga Stulice arrested one woman dents’ Union (DNSU) office identified as Tsunong Yimc- has been restored with sehunger found in possession lection of new office bearof 1,354 capsules of spasmo ers for tenure 2015-2017 afproxyvon and 20 tablets of ter the intervention of the Nitrosun. Investigation for Naga Students’ Federation charges under the Drugs & which took over the DNSU Cosmetic Act is underway at office from August 18, 2015. the West Police Station, the The NSF Committee for release added.

DNSU after round of meet-

ings and deliberations with the DNSU constituent units selected a new team for DNSU for the tenure 20152017, stated a press release from convenor, NSF Committee for DNSU, Kesosul Christopher Ltu. The oath taking of the new DNSU officials was held at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur, where Joshua Thong Seb, Speaker, NSF administered the oath to the following members: Executive Committee - President Sungkum Aier, Vice

Tuensang DPDB meeting on Nov 24

TUeNsaNg, November 20 (mexN): The Tuensang District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) monthly meeting will be held on November 24 at 11:00 am in the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner, Tuin all the Catholic schools ensang. Therefore, all the DPDB members have been from the academic year requested to attend the meeting without fail.

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The novelty of the Western Chakhesang books, according to the release, is that many of the Hoho General Session local symbols and images Kohima, November 20 (mexN): The office of the are incorporated in order Western Chakhesang Hoho (WCH) has convened its 48th to make the children learn General Session on November 25 at 11:00 am at Western better. The lessons in the Chakhesang Hoho building. Therefore, the Hoho has intextbooks have been pre- formed all the executive members, advisors, representasented in a gradual way tive to CPO and Tenyimia union, Western Chakhesang with revision exercises for Mothers Association (WCMA), Western Chakhesang the students to recollect Youth Organisation (WCYO), Western Chakhesang Stuthe earliest lessons. The dents’ Union, president and his colleagues of Western first copy was handed over Chakhesang GBs Union and representative from each unit to attend the session without fail. to Kekhrievilie Nigel.

Prayers offered for soul of first bishop of Kohima diocese Kohima November 20 (mexN): Priests, religious and lay faithful of Mary Help of Christian Cathedral in Kohima offered prayers for the repose of the soul of Bishop Abraham Alangimattathil, the first bishop of the diocese of Kohima, on his 19th death anniversary.

In his homily during the Holy Eucharist, bishop of the Cathedral, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil recalled the yeoman work done by the late bishop in

building the diocese from scratch. “He was a man of faith, conviction and hard work. Bishop Abraham spared no effort in realizing the dream he had for the diocese. The magnificent Cathedral stands as witness to this fact,” he said.

After the Holy Mass, special prayers were offered for the repose of the soul of Bishop Abraham and his tomb placed inside the cathedral sanctuary was also blessed.

A press release from Fr. Thomas Toretkiu said that praying for the dead is a practice the Church inherited from the early Christians who remembered and prayed for the dead and it has continued since then. “The reason, as the Catechism of the Catholic explains is, most of us who don’t merit hell yet still need purification before we can enter heaven will pass through a state the Church calls purgatory when we die. (CCC,

1030) With our prayers we can help their loved ones’ souls move from purgatory to heaven,” the release added On the occasion, Bishop James also released “Learning with Culture”, a new textbook series for LKG and UKG students.

The books, prepared by the Education Commission of the diocese of Kohima under the guidance of Rev. Fr. George Rino, Secretary of the Education Commission, will be used

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How Fairness Develops in Kids Around the World

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ou're sitting at a table with a friend and a stranger offers you some candy. Hooray! Who doesn't like candy?

But wait! You're not getting the same amounts. One of you gets four delicious pieces, and the other gets a measly one. Does that feel unfair? Do you bristle? Do you forfeit your candy and your friend’s candy, because they’re unevenly distributed?

For decades, psychologists have argued that the answers depend on how old you are, and whether you're the one with the bigger or smaller share. Adults seem to reject inequality of any form, and will pay a personal cost to avoid it even if they stand to get a bigger slice of the pie.

Children are more nuanced.

In 2011, Katherine McAuliffe and Peter Blake showed that 8-year-olds, like adults, will reject any unequal offer. But younger children, aged 4 to 7, only bristle at situations when they are disadvantaged. In other words, they'd take the four pieces of candy, thank you very much, and screw the other kid.

“They start out with this very selffocused idea that they recognize unfairness when it’s unfair to me,” says Blake. “It takes more years for different psychological processes to kick in before they can flip that, and say: What's unfair to you is also unfair in general.”

These and other experiments have shown that our aversion to advantageous inequity (when we get more than others) is distinct from our aversion to disadvantageous inequity (when others get more than us). These two reactions involve dif-

ferent parts of the brain. They appear at different ages. They appear in different species: Chimpanzees and capuchins don't like disadvantageous inequity, but they'll tolerate the advantageous kind just as much as 4-year-old humans.

Now, McAuliffe and Blake have found that this distinction also depends on where we come from. By running the same experiments in seven countries around the world, they showed that kids universally dislike getting less than others, but

they only dislike getting more than others in some cultures.

“I think it’s really striking and I have a hard time convincing my students about it,” says Blake. “Isn’t it strange that if we flip a coin and give one person more or less, different psychological processes are activated.”

Their latest study reflects a growing movement to study human behavior across a variety of cultures, rather than just the Western, educated, industrialized, rich and dem-

ocratic (WEIRD) countries that account for most psychology research.

With the help of several other anthropologists, McAuliffe and Blake studied 866 children, aged 4 to 15, from the U.S., Canada, India, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Uganda.

In every case, the kids were paired with a peer who got either less candy or more. If they accepted the allocations, both got their treats. If they rejected, neither received anything.

The duo found that all the kids were prepared to sacrifice their re-

wards to stop their peers from getting more than them. Even though some kids came from small villages and others lived in a big city, they all showed the same aversion. “This is something that’s foundationally human and might be even more deeply rooted in our history as primates,” says McAuliffe.

Despite this universality, the team also found some interesting variations. For example, by 4 to 6 years of age, kids in the U.S. and Canada were already balking at receiving less, but the Mexican children only did so by 10 years. Is that because those children take longer to develop a sense of fairness, or understand fairness in a different way?

Blake and McAuliffe think not.

They suggest that our dislike of receiving less stems not from some abstract consideration of fairness, but from a desire to keep a competitive edge, relative to our peers.

“It's better for me if both of us have nothing than for you to have way more than me,” explains Blake. If he's right, children should be more tolerant of smaller shares in societies that emphasize less competition between peers—like the close-knit Maya communities that the team worked with in Mexico.

Meanwhile, the team also found that children dislike receiving more than their peers in just three of the seven countries—the U.S., Canada, and Uganda. The former two made sense: Notions of equality are deeply woven into the social norms of Western countries, and children are exposed to such norms from an early age. “But Uganda doesn’t fit that pattern, and we don’t have a solid explanation for that,” says Blake.

McAuliffe and Blake caution

that this doesn't mean that some countries are fairer than others.

For a start, the children in the study might all eventually come to reject their own unfair advantages during adolescence or later in life. “We also don’t know precisely why some children reject advantageous offers,” says Blake. “It's entirely possible that they were doing it to maintain their reputations as good co-operators.

It might be more of a good strategic behavior than just a signal of fairness.”

“The paper makes it clear that while some aspects of a concern with fairness appear to be fairly universal, not all aspects are the same in every place,” saysKristina Olson from the University of Washington.

“Among other things, the study shows that some psychological motivations are exclusive to WEIRD children,” adds Joe Henrich from the University of British Columbia, who fathered the WEIRD acronym.

“Of course, it also highlights the need for taking the next step: Researchers need to go beyond merely documenting human psychological diversity and begin to move toward explaining it.”

That's exactly what McAuliffe and Blake are planning to do. They want to return to the seven societies, catalogue the social norms that the children are exposed to, and work out how much inequality they actually experience on a daily basis.

They'd also love to study smallerscale societies like the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, who live largely outside the influence of bigger economic markets and whose cultural norms have been thoroughly documented by anthropologists.

“They'd be at the top of the list,” says McAuliffe.

Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV How the Last Ocean on Earth Will Die All in the name of serving you more targeted ads

Kaveh Waddell

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he TV is on in the background, and you’re replying to a quick email on your phone nearby. You don’t know it, but the devices are communicating. During a commercial, the TV emits an inaudible tone and your phone, which was listening for it, picks it up.

Somewhere far away, a server makes a note: Both devices probably belong to you.

This information about which devices belong to whom is immensely valuable to advertisers hoping to target ads specifically to you. In a simpler time, targeted marketing was easy. Most people had a computer at work and maybe another at home. If you sent an email about your new cat, ads for cat food started cropping up. If you searched for Thanksgiving recipes, Safeway coupons for turkeys appeared in your Facebook newsfeed.

Those were good days for advertisers tracking Internet users. It wasn’t so hard to find what people were up to online, because most routinely used just one or two connected devices.

But now, between laptops, phones, tablets, wearables, and Internet-enabled cars and TVs, advertisers have access to more information than ever before for ad targeting. They

just need to figure out which devices live under the same roof.

That’s harder than it sounds. Unless you’re logged into a service on all your devices—for example, by using Google’s various services everywhere—advertisers need to get creative to stitch together a portrait of you.

Verizon’s “supercookies”— a snippet of code injected into mobile users’ web requests— silently identify and track its customers, sharing the information with AOL’s widereaching ad network. Vizio Smart TVs tie customers’ viewing habitsto a home Internet address and sell the information to advertisers. And both programs require customers, who are often unaware of the programs, to opt out of them if they don’t wish to be tracked.

But a newer method of cross-device tracking wanders into the realm of science fiction. According to a filing from the Center from Democracy and Technology, a digital human rights and privacy advocacy organization, companies have figured out how to use inaudible sounds to establish links between devices.

Here’s how software from SilverPush, a leading provider of “audio beacons,” works: When you visit a website that uses SilverPush tracking technology, the site causes your

device to emit an inaudible ultrasonic sound. If any other devices you’ve got lying around—a laptop, a phone, a tablet—has an app installed that includes SilverPush code, it’s listening for that sound. If it hears it, SilverPush knows that the two devices are close to one another and, presumably, belong to the same person.

More recently, SilverPush expanded into television advertising: Certain TV commercials include an ultrasonic audio beacon. Any nearby devices running SilverPush software will be listening for the beacon—if a device hears it, it records the match, allowing the company to figure out what ads users watch and for how long, and add that information to the user’s profile.

SilverPush product manager Piyush Bhatt says the audio tracking only operates in India, but the company, which is based near New Delhi, has established offices in San Francisco and the Philippines as well.

The creativity displayed

by SilverPush and its peers has raised privacy concerns.

The company’s audio-based tracking method is far more accurate than most ways advertising software quietly follow Internet users, because it takes the guesswork out of the device-matching process, says Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief

technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

The methods marketing companies use to discover links between users’ devices— whether it’s audio beacons or examining Internet traffic for markers that distinguish a certain user’s computer and browser—are often silent and secret by design.

(Bhatt said that the smartphone apps that listen for SilverPush audio beacons present the user with a screen asking for detailed permission before using the device’s microphone for the first time.)

When it comes to audio beacons, Hall says he’s not just worried about marketing companies tracking average consumers—he thinks their techniques could be used by governments for surveillance.

For example, if a group of dissidents in a country like China were to meet in secret, their phones might pick up a government-planted ultrasonic audio signal from a nearby TV. If hidden code on their phones relayed to the government that they all heard the tone, agents could easily tell that the dissidents were associated with one another, and meeting surreptitiously.

To address these privacy questions, SilverPush is in contact with the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Bhatt says his company is “actively engaging with all the stakeholders.”

“We are concerned about privacy and would not do something that intrudes ethical data practices,” Bhatt said.

Cross-device tracking has caught the eye of the Federal Trade Commission, which recently convened a workshop to discuss the technologies and associated risks. Hall said he hopes the FTC will issue guidelines for building transparency and control into cross-device tracking technologies. Next-generation tracking technologies like SilverPush, he says, should be required to meet a “higher bar” of warning users they’re being followed.

As new tracking technologies take hold, so too will technologies to block them. Experts are already hard at work searching for audio beacons and trying to identify their characteristics, laying the groundwork for ways to limit the reach of the ultrasonic signals that may one day populate our airwaves.

Adrienne Lafrance

M

ars wasn’t always so dry and dusty.

The Red Planet’s ancient ocean was sprayed right off the planet in violent bursts of solar wind, billions of years ago. The rest of its atmosphere was blasted away, too. Martian waterfalls, rivers, lakes, and the piles of clouds reflected in them—all gone, forever.

When scientists announced earlier this month they’d figured out the mechanisms behind Mars’s atmospheric loss, several people had the same question: Will Earth end up like Mars someday?

It makes sense to ask. After all, when a huge ocean covered about half of Mars’s Northern Hemisphere, the planet may have looked a lot like Earth does now.

Today, Earth’s atmosphere is fairly well protected by a global magnetic shield.

But it won’t be that way forever. Earth will someday lose its oceans, too. What will the planet be like when that happens? And which ocean will be the last to go?

Planetary scientists have several theories about how Earth might dry up, but little else to go on. “To my knowl-

edge there’s no evidence that it’s ever happened in the last 500 million years, for which we have good records,” said Paul Renne, the director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center. “If it did happen, it’s hard to imagine that water would survive anywhere on Earth— no lakes, rivers, glaciers. This would presumably mean 100 percent extinction of biota.”

To imagine an Earth without oceans is to visualize an unrecognizable version of our planet—not a blue marble, but perhaps a brown one. New topography would reveal itself: towering mountain ranges and vast craters that were once submerged by oceans.

Would the last droplets of water evaporate from the deepest Pacific trenches?

“Since the ocean is global, there’s really only one ocean.

So they’ll all vaporize over the same time frame,” said David Osleger, a planetary scientist at the University of California Davis.

Unless they all freeze at the same time, that is. “As long as there’s water on Earth as a liquid, there will be oceans,” Osleger told me in an email.

“The only ways that the water could be lost is via complete freezing—which may have happened long ago, a phase of

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Earth history called Snowball Earth—or via complete evaporation.”

Snowball Earth might explain why there are glacial deposits in tropical regions. A slightly less extreme variation of this theory, known as Slushball Earth, explains how life on Earth could have survived such a scenario. But neither reveals how the water that covers most of our planet might one day disappear for good.

Those who believe Earth’s oceans are on an evaporation course say they have about 4 billion years left. By then, our aging sun will have swelled into a red giant, 100 times its size.

By this point, Earth’s temperatures will be in the thousands of degrees. “The proximity of the Sun’s heat will vaporize our oceans and the entire biosphere,” Osleger said. But, humans will almost certainly be long gone by then.

In other words, when Earth’s oceans boil up, the death of the planet won’t be far behind, geologically speaking. Many scientists believe that the sun, in its own death throes, will torch our planet and then engulf it, before collapsing into a white dwarf. Just another dense point of light in a messy universe.

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I got you a Christmas tree

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t is still November I know. But I am one of those people who love Christmas and get very impatient for the season to begin. I am also known to begin before the beguine, so when my daughter wanted a real Christmas tree, I took an axe to the branch of an old coniferous tree in the dark and chopped off a couple of branches thinking to give her a nice surprise. Instead, the tree surprised me by refusing to cooperate. First, when I stood it up in a container in a corner, it would not stand up straight like all nice and politically correct Christmas trees are supposed to. My tree insisted on following the curvature that nature and the North wind had given it: resultantly the top half bent down nearly double and would not be coaxed into any other position.

It was late and I didn’t want to look for another branch, nor risk being caught by the municipality, so I settled for the bent over look, and began to hang tinsel stars, hearts and balls on various parts

of the tree. At some stage, I thought it would be a good idea to take a few photos of the Christmas surprise for my girl. So I got the camera out and took a few shots; film accentuated all the un-Christmassy aspects of the tree. To be very

honest, my Christmas tree looked more like the Loch Ness monster or, more likely, a long lost cousin of Lochie. I do grant it that it wasn’t grunting, “Coming to get you!” but its humped back and outstretched arms were scary enough! Undeterred, I continued to hang decorative items on the gangly branches.

However, now that the idea of the Loch Ness monster had been introduced, the decorations seemed incongruous and my tree looked

more and more like a monster wearing earrings, picture that if you can!

The best part was yet to come: I left the lights on and strategically positioned the tree so that when my daughter returned from class-

es, her first sight would be of the ‘Christmas tree’ standing in all its glory and welcoming her.

Not long after I heard the front door open, and then after that, the door to the lighted living room opened. I heard a long drawn out gasp which I surmised was a very brave effort not to be intimidated

by Lochie’s cousin. The gasp was soon followed by the exclamation, “Oh what a sweet tree!” before she completely lost her composure

and exploded in gales of laughter.

She had realised what I had done, but the merry sight of old Bend it like Beckham was too much. I wasn’t insulted. And the tree still stands in the living room, a testament to the abiding fact that you should never try to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, or a Christmas tree out of an impossibly arthritic old branch. At least I got a poem out of it all: I got you a Christmas tree Please come soon and see Don’t be angry it can’t stand up straight What it lacks in rectitude It amply covers up with loving attitude The fact that in the dark it looks like The Loch Ness monster’s cousin Twice removed and attached again But never mind all that, what matters What should really matter Is that mum tried to say I love you in a tree Merry Christmas daughter dear.

Signs of our times: why emoji can be even more powerful than words Vyvyan Evans The Conversation

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ach year, Oxford Dictionaries – one of the world’s leading arbiters on the English language – selects a word that has risen to prominence over the past 12 months as its “Word of the Year”. The word is carefully chosen, based on a close analysis of how often it is used and what it reveals about the times we live in. Past examples include such classics as “vape”, “selfie” and “omnishambles”. But the 2015 word of the year is not a word at all. It’s an emoji – the “face with tears of joy” emoji, to be precise.

Formerly regarded with disdain as the textual equivalent of an adolescent grunt, it appears that emoji has now gone mainstream. Even if it’s not a fully-fledged language, then it is – at the very least – something that most of us use, most of the time.

In fact, more than 80% of all adult smartphone users in the UK regularly use emoji, a finding based on a study I reported in an earlier article.

Yet predictably, Oxford Dictionaries' selec-

tion has raised eyebrows in some quarters. Writing in The Guardian, Hannah Jane Parkinson brands the decision “ridiculous”. For Parkinson, and I’m sure for many other language mavens out there, it’s “ridiculous” because the emoji is not even a word. Surely this is a stunt, they’ll say, dreamt up by clever marketing executives bent on demonstrating just how hip Oxford Dictionaries actually is. But Parkinson also objects on the basis that there are many other emojis which would make a better word of the year. She suggests the nail painting emoji and the aubergine (or eggplant) emoji as just two examples which have a stronger claim to the title.

others and enact changes to our civil and social status.

We use language to propose marriage, and confirm it, to quarrel, make-up and get divorced. Yet emoji has similar functions – it can even get you arrested!

Consider an unusual case from earlier this year: a 17-year-old African American teenager posted a public status update on his Facebook page, featuring a police officer emoji with handgun emojis pointing towards it.

This landed him in hot water: the New York District Attorney issued an arrest warrant, for an alleged “terroristic threat”, claiming that the emojis amounted to a threat to harm, or incite others to cause harm, to New York’s finest.

A grand jury ultimately declined to indict the teenager for what is arguably the world’s first alleged emoji terror offence. But the point is that emojis, like language, can both convey a message and provide a means of enacting it – in this case, an alleged call to arms against the NYPD.

that there are other emojis more deserving of Oxford Dictionaries' esteem – also misunderstands how language is evolving in the digital domain. For one thing, recent research suggests that just under 60% of the world’s daily emoji use is made up of smiling or sad faces, of various kinds. And this particular emoji now accounts for around 20% of all emoji usage in the UK (representing a fourfold increase in use over the past 12 months). It is arguably one of the most frequently used emojis today. In this sense, the “face with tears of joy” emoji is a perfectly appropriate representation of the main ways we use emoji in our everyday digital lives. Yet this specific emoji is apt for a deeper reason, too. Emoji is to textspeak what intonation, facial expression and body language are to spoken interaction. While emoji are not conventional words, they nevertheless provide an important contextualisation cue, which enables us to punctuate the otherwise emotionally arid landEvolution of the emoji scape of digital text with The second complaint – personal expression.

Missing the point But both these complaints miss the point.

Emoji – from the Japanese meaning “picture character” (a word which only entered the Oxford Dictionaries in 2013) – is in many respects language-like.

Spoken or signed language enables us to convey a message, influence the mental states and behaviours of

Importantly, emoji helps us to elicit empathy from the person we’re addressing – a central requirement of effective communication. It allows us to influence the way our text is interpreted and better express our emotional selves. One could even argue that, in some ways, emojis are more powerful than words. The “laughing face with tears of joy” emoji effectively conveys a complex emotional spectrum – which would otherwise require several words to convey – in a single, relatively simple glyph. It manages to evoke an immediate emotional resonance, which might otherwise be lost in a string of words.

So while some will unkindly accuse Oxford Dictionaries of a marketing stunt, I applaud them. We are increasingly living in an age of emoji: they are, quite literally, a sign of our times.

There’s no doubt that language is here to stay – the great English word is not in peril, and won’t be any time soon. But emoji fills a gap in digital communication – and makes us better at it in the process.

Farewell Songbird RAMBLINGS (I) I have come to learn that people who are meant to stay with you, will somehow stay, against all odds.

And yes the one you were meant to be with Will come to you no matter how far you run.

I guess the universe converges and brings back people from near and far and here and there.

And smiles in satisfaction when the job is done.

(II) As you lay your heavy heart to bed dearest, I can only say I was created this way.

- To speak my mind.

So I cannot and will not Try to ‘unmind’ your ‘mind’.

Rest still though, I can love enough.

Enough to cover what you don’t feel tonight.

ELVIS (I) It rained cats and dogs And the umbrella was too small.

But you walked besides me.

And that was all that mattered.

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Easterine Kire

pfü Lhusileü Haralu has gone home. Such finality there in the Facebook post of a family friend. It was the first news of the morning for me and I felt loss, grief, and the realisation that life at best was indeed, very brief. Like the remembered lyrics of an old hymn.

She was a songbird. One of my first memories of her was when she came to our music class to teach us a new song. But it wasn’t just any old song. I had never, in my young life, heard the chorus, “In my heart there rings a melody,” sung so gloriously before. I have never since then, heard it sung the way Apfü sang it.

Apfü Lhusileü’s voice was like a smoothly flowing mountain spring that morning so many years ago; it was like listening to a birdsong in

flight. She let the melody pour out from her heart inspiring her students to join her and try to create similar harmony.

Some years after that she moved to the colonial bungalow that is now the Heritage Residence. Her husband had become the Deputy Commissioner of Kohima and she and her family made that charming house their residence for some time. I remember my father driving us up there one morning to give her children a lift to school in our trusty Willys jeep. Apfü sailed down the stairway not unlike a slightly older Scarlett O’hara, and warmly greeted us and deposited her progeny in our vehicle. That was the picture that always came to mind when I thought of her in later years. A beautiful woman with a voice like an angel, ensconced in the old world charm of an era of

A Great Expectation It was not yesterday, It is not today, Nor it will be tomorrow; When will this yearning be fulfilled?

(II) He bought me two strings of expensive Hydrabadi pearls.

Many seasons have been seen, Why two? I asked and he said in all seriousness, Through the weary eyes of my parents; Many more have I come across too, One is from me and the other is for someone Always expecting to mould, nurture my children. who should have bought you one long ago But never did.

Never ever the longings accomplished, Never shall I give up hope ever, Hard work, striving with hopeful dreams; (The writer is a Govt. servant who writes poetry Shall ever be my endeavors. as a hobby. She is inspired by life and relationships in general)

My parents did their best for me

tasteful dinners, fashionable living and subtle sophistication. The estate of the Deputy Commissioner’s house was tended by gardeners so flowers were always blooming any time of the year. She was the jewel in that crown.

Her life after her husband’s early death was still like a birdsong but with more variants: Apfü bravely brought up her children with care, and together they weathered the hard times that crept in like discordant chords trying to upset the harmony of her heart. She was actively involved in the life of the community, serving as the Chairperson of the Social Welfare Board and participating in community affairs. Her faith in Jesus was firm to the end, and her death is actually a jubilant homecoming for this songbird: a beautiful song homing its way to the heart of her beloved Lord.

By Kamal Chetri They instilled facts of life in me Today, it is my commitment to be trustworthy Towards my children, come what may be.

Optimistic, always, I will be With prayers on my lips; And faith in God, the Supreme One! I have hope and great expectations.

I believe in the Creator Who has created all things, small and big.

There surely is a warm sunshine And beautiful nights saved for us – my great expectation.

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TNB Christmas Giveaway 2015 Nokho Nyekha Naga: “Christmas is coming, I can tell by the smiles I remember the dew drops that fell from the sky and covered the village that lay sleeping below. Thank goodness this season will never grow old…” “It’s the most beautiful time of the year”.

This is the time of the year when we open ourselves to sharing the joy of Christmas, and warming the homes of a few families. It is the time for the Annual Christmas Giveaway.

Last year, our initiative brought smiles to a number of families, orphanage homes and Sunday school children across five districts of Nagaland; some of them are no longer with us anymore. From the information we found as of today, three people who received our small donation last year, has left for their heavenly abode. The feeling that comes from the opportunity to have done something for them during their final days, and the fact that we could share an unfeigned moment with them is indescribable.

Thank you to all the members and donors who made it worthwhile.

“Do everything in Love” (1 Corinthians 16:14) If you've any doubts you can call or message on the following number: +919038046717 +919774408164 The Concept: TNB Christmas Giveaway aims at those families whose lives are a constant struggle, where making ends meet is a daily fight with kids to feed and nurture. Our Giveaway may include anything from Cash, Goods, Household items; whatever we can lay our hands on as per TNB’s budget and of what willing donors may donate. We may not be able to help them on the days ahead but at least during Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, we want those families to have a sense of relief even if it’s just for a day without the worry of what will be of tomorrow. And also, to let each and every one of us feel the joy of giving and sharing happiness with others.

How will this work?

Bloggers are requested to submit details of families whom you’ve come across or know in your locality that maybe hit with hard times. Their address and a short description explaining about their situation. Bloggers can share the information by posting on the blog (which no one can see unless approved) or inbox any of the Administrators after which the Administrative Team will get back to you. Those Bloggers who share information, their identity will not be revealed unless told so by the said blogger. Apart from bloggers sharing information, family members or siblings of a family, if you think your parents have been toiling hard for a long time and they can spend some time off without the worry of the next day, please get in touch with us.

The identity of the individual sharing us details like mentioned before will not be shared unless he/she wants it to be otherwise. This initiative is not District specific, it could be anywhere, where TNB bloggers are available because YOU represent TNB and during the time of handing over whatever we can to those families we may require Bloggers to lend a helping hand.

Where is the revenue or what can we donate?

TNB itself is without fund. We invite members to share whatever you think will be helpful for a family down with hard times. This is not limited only to cash but anything from food items, cakes, greeting cards, clothes, kitchen utensils, books, pencils, pen anything. You can always mention your name or so and so family in whatever you donate as we believe that will serve a better gesture, however if Donors want to remain anonymous they can do so. Distribution of those items including cash will be divided as per the location and the availability of Bloggers to handover the items to those families.

When can we submit the details? When will the Goods and Cash be handed over?

Bloggers can send details by end of November to first week of December. (If any blogger willing to share details any sooner they can do so, we are ready to assess those information even now) The items can be handed over on or before 20th of December. Further information will be shared as we get more updates. We're looking for TNB volunteers and possible drop points in all the districts, shops and especially if any Churches want to participate in this and if we can avail their venue as drop off points. Kindly reach out to us. The drop points, bank account details shall be updated in a few days time.

Expectations: Even though all of us are fighting for our daily bread and butter there are many who have it at a very saddening and heart breaking way. This is just a small “HERE IS SOMETHING FOR YOU THIS CHRISTMAS”. We hope we can all share this idea of helping one another especially for those whose lives are not that easy. We urge all the members to participate no matter the deed, no deed is small in the eyes of those who only dreams of it.

Through our small gesture even though it’s a daily fight for them they will carry on with a smile on their face knowing there are others who can lend a helping hand when needed.

“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?” – George Eliot “You must give time to your fellowmen- even if it’s a little thing, do something for others- something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

– Albert Schweitzer Krocha Nk: We request our members both online and offline to spread the word and spread as much as possible. We hope and pray the small seed sowed

by The Naga Blog will reach each and every corner of all Naga inhabited areas specially those needy persons.

Good roads should be part of everyday not limited to Hornbill Festival Moalila Pongen: Amazingly the journey to my college has been a smooth ride today. Yet again the National Highway 29 is getting dressed up, but for momentary beauty and pleasure. Usually the students of St. Joseph's College, Jakhama do not get this jewel opportunity of smooth rides, and we sincerely wish to celebrate Hornbill Festival every single month of the year. Forget about the landslide at Phesama, what can human force do to stop natural calamity. But the roads in IOC area are not natural calamity, they are personal ignorance. I would sincerely like to tell the concerned authority for your necessary information that thousands of students are traveling in that road everyday and our journeys always seem Rock n Roll especially with those jumps and jerks. We know Hornbill Festival is near and you desperately need to "Promote our Culture" and hasty preparation of the roads with first class visual blacktopping which will but vanish in a month would definitely give a pleasant journey for the upcoming tourists.

However, my humble question here is why bother caring for those unknown people when you don't seem to care for your own pitiful public for the rest of the year??? Don't tell us it’s a matter of State Impression- that sounds a very corrupted ideology.

Topping of chocolate cream and cherry on a 'Bitter and Burned ' cake doesn't improve the taste, because behind the beauty lies Bitter.

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Nitish again Bihar CM, Lalu's son his deputy

PAtNA, NovemBeR 20 (IANs): JD-U stalwart Nitish Kumar on Friday again took oath as Bihar's chief minister, making his ally and RJD leader Lalu Prasad's son Tejaswi his deputy as the state got its first coalition government of the JD-U, the RJD and the Congress. In a clear admission of the role Lalu Prasad played in routing the BJP in assembly elections, Tejaswi Yadav, 26, was allocated the portfolios of PWD and forest and environment while elder son Tej Pratap, 28, was named the health minister.

Nitish Kumar, 64, who headed the Grand Alliance that worsted the Bharatiya Janata Party, kept with him the home, information and public relations as well as general administration ministries.

Veteran RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui got the finance portfolio.

Congress leader Ashok Choudhary is the new education minister.

Earlier, cheered by some one lakh supporters and watched by leaders of a dozen parties, Nitish Kumar was sworn in by Governor Ram Nath Kovind at the sprawling Gandhi Maidan at the head of a 28-member ministry.

Dressed in his usual white kurta pyjama, the chief minister took the oath of office and secrecy in the name of God at an event billed as the first major show of strength by non-BJP parties since Narendra Modi became the prime minister last year.

It is the fifth time engineerturned-politician Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as the chief minister.

Lalu Prasad, whose RJD is the single largest party in the 243-member house, appeared pleased when his sons took oath immediately after Nitish Kumar.

Tej Pratap Yadav was interrupted twice by Governor Kovind after he made a slip while taking his oath.

Besides Nitish Kumar, 12 legislators each of the RJD and JD-U and four from the Congress were sworn in. Lalu Prasad's sons got the maximum cheers after the chief minister from the boisterous crowd.

A virtual Who's Who of political parties ranged against the BJP were present in strength at the Gandhi Maidan, with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi making it to the venue only 30 minutes after it began.

Those present included Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi), Virbhadra Singh (Himachal Pradesh), S. Siddaramaiah (Karnataka), Oommen Chandy (Kerala), Tarun Gogoi (Assam), P.K. Chamling (Sikkim), O. Ibobi Singh (Manipur) and Nabam Tuki (Arunachal Pradesh).

The others were CPI-M's Sitaram Yechury, CPI's D. Raja, former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad, M.K. Stalin of DMK and former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit.

Representing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the dais was central minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.

A total of 12 non-BJP parties were in attendance: JD-U, RJD, Congress, Trinamool Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, CPI-M, Janata Dal-S, NCP, DMK, CPI, National Conference and Sikkim Democratic Front.

Angry over his non-inclusion in the council of ministers, JD-U

Nitish KuMar: Bihar's 'Mr Clean' who humbled Narendra Modi

Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitsh kumar in his oath function as Bihar CM for 5th Time in Patna on Friday, November 20. (Express Photo)

leader and former minister Shayam Razak did not attend the function.

The Grand Alliance won 178 of the 243 seats in the Bihar assembly. The BJP, which had hoped to oust Nitish Kumar, bagged 53 seats

while its three allies together got five seats.

The Bihar battle was the biggest popularity test after the Delhi assembly election of February which the BJP lost badly to the AAP.

PAtNA, NovemBeR 20 (IANs): He studied to be an engineer but ended up embracing politics. And in a state where many politicians are detested, Nitish Kumar - who took oath on Friday as Bihar's chief minister - is widely recognized as a rare icon of simplicity and honesty.

Even critics of Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JD-U) grudgingly admire his many traits that enabled him to make up with his friend-turned-foe-turned-ally Lalu Prasad and deliver a huge blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP in one of the most bitterly fought assembly elections.

Born in 1951 at Bakhtiyarpur in Patna district to an Ayurvedic physician and Congress leader, Nitish Kumar plunged into politics in the early 1970s at a time when Bihar was in ferment.

The numerous street protests in which he took part slowly turned the 'Munna' (child) -- as he was known in the family -to a leader, getting elected to the Bihar assembly for the first time in 1985.

He became president of the Yuva Lok Dal in 1987 and secretary general of the then undivided Janata Dal two years later.

He entered the Lok Sabha in 1989 and went on to win five parliamentary elections from Bihar as his popularity soared.

But as he grew and grew in stature, he kept his family away from politics.

A minister of state in the V.P. Singh government, he became railway minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government but resigned when a train disaster claimed the lives of about 250 commuters. He returned to the cabinet as the minister for surface transport and agriculture.

Even as his former friend Lalu Prasad - a successful politician in his own right - earned notoriety for his brash conduct and corruption, Nitish Kumar came to be

recognized for his moderate approach to everything.

He is a teetotaller who detests tobacco.

Over time, he became an advocate of equitable development and good governance, which Bihar seemed to lack.

Nitish Kumar became the chief minister of Bihar for the first time in 2000 but his government was shortlived. He had to resign within a week as he failed to prove his majority in the assembly. By then, Nitish Kumar had come out of Lalu Prasad's shadow and charted his own course.

In 2005, he teamed up with the BJP -- a party he had opposed for years -- to take power in the state again and end the 15 long years of reign by Lalu Prasad. He led the coalition to victory again in 2010. The rise of Narendra Modi in the BJP, however, upset Nitish Kumar, who walked out of the 17-year-long alliance.

After the BJP led by an aggressive Modi swept the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Nitish Kumar made way for colleague Jitan Ram Manjhi, only to reclaim the post.

The JD-U stalwart is credited with relaying roads that had virtually ceased to exist, building over 12,000 bridges and 66,000 roads, completing long-delayed infrastructure projects, appointing more than three lakh school teachers and ensuring that doctors attended health centres.

He also cracked down on criminals with strong links to politics. Speedy trials were ordered against 85,000 criminals, many of them politicians. All this was a veritable revolution in Bihar.

When the assembly elections were called this year, it became another prestige battle between Modi and Nitish Kumar. This time, having made up with Lalu Prasad, he humbled the prime minister in an election result which most pundits said would have national repurcussions.

it is for india and Pakistan Irani education controversy: india, China agree to increase to talk Kashmir, says us Court seeks verificiation papers cooperation against terrorism Pak Army Chief raises Kashmir issue with John Kerry wAshINgtoN, No vemBeR 20 (IANs): Amid reports that Pakistani Army chief Raheel Sharif had raised the Kashmir issue with Secretary of State John Kerry, the US said it was for India and Pakistan to work out issues between them.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Thursday that he was not aware whether Kashmir or the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks by Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba had come up during Wednesday meeting between Sharif and Kerry.

"No, I'm well aware of the lives lost in the Mumbai attacks. Look, I don't have great detail in terms of every item discussed," he said when asked if the Mumbai attacks in which six American lives were lost among 164 people killed and Kashmir were discussed.

"As for Kashmir, all I would say is we continue to be concerned about any violence along the Line of Control," Kirby said.

"And we continue to urge the governments of both India and Pakistan to reduce tensions along that line and to resume dialogue to address these issues," he said. "This is for the two parties to work out."

Kirby said Kerry met "Sharif to follow up on some of the security-related conversations that he had with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in October."

"The general's consultations in Washington were part of our regular ongoing bilateral discussions with a broad range of Pakistani officials, and we appreciate the productive discussions we had regarding our bilateral defence and security relationship."

Kerry, he said, "reaffirmed our commitment to the US-Pakistan partnership and its importance in addressing issues of mutual concern and ensuring peace, stability, and prosperity across the region."

Declining to go into any more detail, the spokesman said Kerry appreciated the discussion "and was grateful for. This is an important relationship. It's a complex relationship, and it's one we want to continue to improve."

Sharif, who is here without an official invitation from Washington, also met Vice President Joe Biden at the White House Thursday. "The meeting, which followed the Vice President's October 22 breakfast in Washington with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressed ongoing efforts to strengthen US-Pakistan relations," according to a White House readout.

Biden, it said, "reaffirmed the United States' interest in building a strong partnership with Pakistan that addresses our shared counterterrorism, economic, and regional security concerns."

He thanked Gen. "Sharif for his steadfast support to counterterrorism cooperation with the United States and underscored the importance of expanding efforts to help further strengthen regional security."

"Both leaders reaffirmed their strong commitment to peace in Afghanistan and the important role that the United States and Pakistan can play to support a reinvigorated reconciliation process in coordination with Afghanistan," it said.

New DelhI, NovemBeR 20 (IANs): A court here on Friday sought documents of verification from the Election Commission of India and Delhi University in a case related to the educational qualifications of Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani.

The minister is accused of submitting false and misleading information regarding her educational qualifications in her election affidavits. The court's order came while observing that the complainant Ahmer Khan did not have sufficient documents to substantiate the allegations. Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain fixed the matter for March 16, 2016 for recording statement of complainant witnesses in the case.

Khan, in last hearing, told court that Irani, in her three affidavits filed before the poll panel for Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha polls, purportedly given varying details about her educational qualifications. Khan, in his complaint in April, sought action against the minister for allegedly lying on oath about her educational qualification.

New DelhI, NovemBeR 20 (IANs): Vowing to take their relations to a "higher level", India and China on Friday agreed to "increase cooperation on counter terrorism mechanism" and law enforcement.

Home Minister Rajanth Singh, on a six-day visit to China, tweeted after meeting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang: "We agreed to increase cooperation on counter terrorism mechanism and discussed a range of other important issues." He said he had "a fruitful meeting" with Li. The minister also met the Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China, Meng Jian Zhu. "We had a detailed discussion on a range of issues where both the countries can actively cooperate with each other," he said. Earlier, an official statement here said

the meeting between Singh and Li lasted for 40 minute and both the sides agreed that their ties would not only benefit the region but also the world. "...There is a common consensus to take bilateral relations to a higher level. In this context, it was agreed that bilateral cooperation in the field of law enforcement is very important," it added.

Rajnath Singh also invited State Councillor and Minister for Public Security Guo Shengkunto visit India early next year.

There was a general agreement between two the countries that urbanisation and technological advancements posed new challenges for law enforcement agencies.

The two sides felt there was merit in exchanging views on these challenges and initiate a process of mutual sharing, experiences and learning.

7th Pay Commission divided on supremacy of IAS, IFS over IPS New DelhI, NovemBeR 20 (PtI): The 7th Pay Commission was on Thursday split on continuing the supremacy of IAS and IFS over other services like IPS with its member and former secretary Vivek Rae differing with the recommendation of the chairman for parity.

The 900-page report of the Seventh Pay Commission also lists four points where there was "no unanimity of view" between the members of the Commission.

Besides Chairman Justice A K Mathur, other members of the commission are Vivek Rae, a retired IAS officer of 1978 batch, and Rathin Roy, an economist.

Meena Agarwal is the secretary of the Commission.

The first point where the Commission lacked unanimity include 'the edge' accorded to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) at three promotion stages from Senior Time Scale (STS), to the Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) and the NFSG is recommended by the Chairman, to be extended to the Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS).

However, Rae was of the view that "financial edge is justified only for the IAS and IFS." Rathin Roy was of the view that financial edge accorded to the IAS

and IFS should be removed.

With regard to 'Empanelment', the Commission's Chairman and Roy recommended that All India Service officers and Central Services Group A officers who have completed 17 years of service should be eligible for empanelment under the Central Staffing Scheme and there should not be "two year edge", vis- -vis the IAS. Rae, however, recommended review of the Central Staffing Scheme guidelines.

As regards 'Non-functional upgradation for organised Group A Services', the Chairman was of the view that NFU availed by all the organised Group 'A' Services should

be allowed to continue and be extended to all officers in the CAPFs, Indian Coast Guard and the Defence forces.

NFU should henceforth be based on the respective residency periods in the preceding substantive grade. Rae and Roy have favoured abolition of NFU at SAG and HAG level.

With regard to 'Superannuation', the Chairman and Roy, recommended the age of superannuation for all CAPF personnel should be 60 years uniformly.

Rae has not agreed with this recommendation and has endorsed the stand of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Fake pesticides endanger crops and human health in India FARIDABAD, NovemBeR 20 (ReuteRs): Millions of unsuspecting Indian farmers are spraying fake pesticides onto their fields, contaminating soil, cutting crop yields and putting both food security and human health at risk in the country of 1.25 billion people.

The use of spurious pesticides has exacerbated losses in the genetically modified (GM) cotton crop in northern India after an attack by whitefly, a pest, say officials. If unchecked, some of India's roughly $26 billion in annual farm exports could be hit. Made secretly and given names that sometimes resemble the original, counterfeits account for up to 30 percent of the $4 billion pesticide market, according to a government-endorsed study.

And they are gaining

market share in what is the world's No.4 pesticide maker and sixth biggest exporter.

Influential dealers in small towns peddle highmargin fake products to gullible farmers, in turn hurting established firms like Syngenta, Bayer CropScience, DuPont, BASF, PI Industries, Rallis India and Excel Crop Care.

"We are illiterate farmers; we seek advice from the vendor and just spray on the crop," said Harbans Singh, a farmer in Punjab's Bathinda region, whose three-acre (1.2-hectare) GM cotton crop was damaged by whitefly this year.

"It's a double loss when you see the crop wilting away and your money is spent on pesticides that don't work."

But S.N. Sushil, who heads India's top pesti-

cide testing laboratory in Faridabad, near Delhi, said farmers panic at the first sight of a pest attack.

As a result, they overuse chemicals, reducing their effectiveness and raising costs.

Sushil's team worked overtime after Punjab sent nearly 1,000 samples of suspect pesticides following the whitefly outbreak, finding some to be falsely labelled.

Indian officials tested nearly 50,000 pesticide samples last fiscal year, finding around 3 percent of them "misbranded", Sushil said.

He added the government was increasing inspections and looking to increase penalties, including jail terms of up to 10 years.

TOXIC RACKET

Lax laws, which punish by revoking licences or imposing short jail terms for offenders, and staffing shortages compromise efforts to track and seize substandard products.

Toxic pesticides that are banned abroad continue, meanwhile, to be sold freely in India.

India still permits the use of monocrotophos, a pesticide blamed for the death of 23 children in Bihar in 2013 after they ate contaminated free school lunches. That tragedy prompted the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to advise developing countries to phase out such chemicals.

"Use of excessive pesticides has been a cause for concern for quite some time," said Shyam Khadka, FAO's India representative.

"Now if they turn out to be spurious it's a cause for even greater worry."

Chronic exposure to pesticides can lead to depression, a factor in suicides, he said. Pesticides can also cause cancer.

In recent years the European Union and Saudi Arabia temporarily stopped buying some vegetables from India after finding pesticide residues in produce. Indian officials say such cases result from the overuse of chemicals.

RAPID GROWTH IN FAKES India's fake pesticide industry is expanding at 20 percent per year while the overall market is growing at 12 percent.

"We know that a racket is going on," said P.K. Chakrabarty, an assistant director general of Indian

Council of Agricultural Research. "But it is only when suspicion arises that people go to inspect."

He also said illegal chemicals are imported "under the garb of good material", and that there was a "definite risk" of some fake pesticides being exported from India, although there was no evidence yet.

"Theoretically it becomes a risk, but practically there are checks and balances," said Gantakolla Srivastava, CEO of CropLife India, an association of the top pesticide companies operating in the country.

KNOCK OFFS Karnataka state authorities this month seized large stocks of "Korajen", an illegal copy of DuPont's Coragen used to kill rice pests. Police are investigating similar cases elsewhere,

DuPont said.

Punjab has also filed police cases against fake pesticide makers and arrested a senior official at its agriculture university for allowing the sale of counterfeits.

Apart from counterfeiting, India is also grappling with rising cases of unmonitored chemicals passed off as herbal pesticides, said Srivastava.

India loses about 4 percent, or over 10 million tonnes, of food output a year due to fake pesticides, said the governmentbacked study.

"There has been a trend of increasing consumption of (fake)products as against the regular ones," said Manish Panchal of Tata Strategic Management Group that conducted the study.

"A l l s t a ke h o l d e r s

should be worried ... it's going to hit food security."

Last year spurious fungicides cut apple production in Jammu & Kashmir state, while farming lobbyists have linked recent farmer suicides in Odisha to fake pesticides.

Some producers say they have been wrongly targeted by government laboratories. Coromandel Agrico, for example, was accused of selling falsely labelled products.

Tests that found it selling pesticides in incorrect dosages were inaccurate, said Vipin Bisht, the company's regulatory affairs officer.

"We will not take the risk of selling sub-standard products," Bisht said. "The problem is at the dealer/ distributor level. Similar sounding products are made, mixed, sold."

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US House passes bill to slow Syrian refugees despite Obama veto threat WASHINGTON, NOvember 20 (re uTerS): The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama’s program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them.

The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people, was approved on a vote of 289-137, with 47 of Obama’s 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it.

It would require that high-level officials - the FBI director, the director of national intelligence and homeland security secretary - verify that each Syrian refugee poses no security risk.

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said the bill would pause the program the White House announced in September to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. He said it was important to act quickly “when our national security is at stake.” After the House vote, Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch, called such screening both impractical and impossible.

“To ask me to have my FBI director or other members of the administration make personal guarantees would effectively grind the program to a halt,” Lynch told reporters at a news briefing with FBI Director James Comey.

New IS video threatens attack on White House WASHINGTON, NOvember 20 (reuTerS): Islamic State militants released a video on Thursday threatening the White House with suicide bombings and car blasts and vowing to conduct more attacks on France.

The six-minute video released by Islamic State fighters in Iraq applauds last week’s Paris attacks, according to a translation of the Arabic provided by the Maryland-based SITE Intelligence Group. The latest threat comes one day after the militant group put out a video showing scenes of New York City, which suggested it was also a target.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told CNN that Thursday’s video was being examined to determine its “veracity.” “Everybody here in the United States government are taking these threats seriously,” he said. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the video.

The video opens with television news clips of the Paris attacks and then shows two militants separately speaking to the camera. Titled “Paris Before Rome,” the video shows an Islamic State fighter threatening to “pound” French monuments and vowing to strike at the White House.

“We will blow it up, the same as we blew up the idols in this good land,” one fighter says, referring to the White House. The second fighter threatens U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande. “We will grill them ... with (explosive) belts and car bombs.”

Syrian refugee children climb on a fence to watch a football training workshop in a refugee camp to provide Syrian and Jordanian trainers with football training skills, at Azraq refugee camp near Al Azraq city, Jordan, November 16, 2015.

The vote result came despite a last-ditch appeal for Democratic votes from Jeh Johnson, Obama’s secretary of homeland security, and Denis McDonough, his chief of staff.

It followed a testy exchange at a House hearing between lawmakers and Anne Richard, the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. Republicans responded with incredulity to her assertion there was only a “very, very small” threat of any of the Syrian refugees being a “terrorist”.

Some Republicans have said some refugees could be militants bent on attacking the United States, noting reports that at least one Paris attacker may have slipped into Europe

among migrants registered in Greece.

The bill, which would create the strictest-ever U.S. screening of refugees from a war-torn nation, passed with the two-thirds majority the House would need to override a presidential veto. It now goes to the Senate, also controlled by Republicans, where its prospects remained uncertain.

If it passes in the Senate, each chamber would have to muster a two-thirds majority to override any Obama veto. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said there was “no way” the House bill would pass in the Senate.

While many Americans see the United States historically as welcoming to immigrants, accepting ref-

ugees from Syria has raised concerns the newcomers may pose a national security threat in a country where about 3,000 people were killed by al Qaeda militants in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Lawmakers have been receiving an unusually large number of calls on the issue. An aide to Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman said his office got 2,710 calls between Monday and Wednesday opposing resettlement of Syrian/Iraqi refugees in the United States, versus only 58 in favor.

‘SPASM OF RHETORIC’ Speaking in Manila after meeting with Canada’s prime minister, Obama said America had always been open to allowing people from war zones to find

refuge in the United States, where they become “part of the fabric of American life”.

Denouncing the “spasm of rhetoric” over refugees, Obama said refugees already faced the most vigorous vetting process for anyone admitted to the country. He added that “the idea that somehow they pose a more significant threat than all the tourists who pour into the United States every single day just doesn’t jibe with reality.”

The White House had said Obama would veto the House bill because it would introduce “unnecessary and impractical requirements” that would hamper efforts to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people without providing

meaningful additional security for Americans.

“Our position on this piece of legislation has not changed,” an official on board Air Force One, carrying Obama to a Southeast Asian summit in Malaysia on Friday, quoted White House spokesman Josh Earnest as saying.

Comey said there was no credible threat of an attack on U.S. soil similar to the one in Paris, but his agency is monitoring dozens of people it has deemed “high-risk” for copying the attack.

Islamic State militants released a video on Thursday threatening the White House with suicide bombings and car blasts. The threat came a day after another video from the militant

group that suggested New York was a potential target.

Ben Carson, a leading 2016 Republican presidential candidate, likened Syrian refugees to “a rabid dog running around your neighborhood,” and said admitting them would put Americans at risk.

Some Democrats touted a different approach, promising legislation in the Senate to tighten a visa waiver program that intelligence experts say can be exploited by Islamic State militants or others planning U.S. attacks.

Earnest said White House staff were talking with members of Congress on reforming the program.

“This is an area where additional scrutiny and reforms could be useful in

enhancing the national security of the United States,” he was quoted as saying.

Honduras said on Wednesday it had detained five Syrians seeking to reach the United States for traveling on doctored Greek passports, but authorities in the Central American country said the men did not belong to “any terrorist cell” and four were college students.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said members of two Syrian families - two men, two women and four children - turned themselves in to U.S. authorities in Laredo, Texas, on the Mexican border. There was no evidence the Syrians had any connection to terrorism, U.S. officials said.

UN criticizes Iran of cracking down on freedom of expression North & South Korea set for talks on easing tension uNITeD NATIONS, NOvember 20 (reuTerS): The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee on Thursday criticized Iran for cracking down on activists, journalists and dissidents and its increased use of the death penalty, a rebuke Tehran dismissed as “Iranophobia.”

The non-binding resolution, which was drafted by Canada, was adopted by the 193-nation assembly’s Third Committee with 76 votes in favour, 35 against and 68 abstentions.

The resolution was not entirely critical. It also welcomed pledges by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on “important human rights issues, particularly on eliminating discrimination against women and members of ethnic minorities, and on greater

space for freedom of expression and opinion.”

However, it noted the “alarming high frequency” of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic. The resolution said Iran continued to execute minors in violation of international conventions it has signed.

It also said some juvenile executions were for offences not considered “most serious crimes.” Iran’s deputy U.N. representative, Ambassador Gholamhossein Dehghani, slammed the resolution as a “selective and politicized distortion of facts” reflective of “nothing but baseless and pure speculation and hearsay and ... Iranophobia.”

He had sharp words for Canada, saying it “stubbornly continued a deliberate policy of incitement” toward Iran.

The United States and European countries were among the resolution’s co-sponsors.

Among the countries that voted against it were Tehran’s allies Russia, China and Syria.

The resolution urged Tehran to improve conditions in Iranian prisons and ensure there was no torture. It demanded that Iran end what it said were “widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly” of dissidents and human rights defenders.

It said they were subjected to “ongoing harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention and prosecution.”

The victims of such treatment include political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights

activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists and others, it said.

Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has rounded up artists, journalists and U.S. citizens as part of a crackdown on what it has called Western infiltration.

Their campaign coincides with Iran beginning the implementation of a nuclear deal signed with world powers in July that hardliners fear will open Iran up more to the West.

Most journalists arrested in recent weeks work for media that support President Rouhani.

The resolution, along with similar ones on North Korea, Myanmar and Syria, will go to a new vote at a General Assembly plenary session next month.

N Korea expresses regret over landmine incident

SeOuL, NOvember 20 (reuTerS): North and South Korea agreed on Friday to hold talks on Nov. 26, setting the stage for the first government-level meeting focused on easing tension since the two pledged to improve ties following an armed standoff in August.

The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, its main agency handling inter-Korean ties, proposed to hold working-level contact for government talks, at a truce village on their militarised border.

The South’s Unification Ministry, which handles ties with Pyongyang, said it had accepted the proposal.

The South has proposed to

hold government talks on several occasions following the Aug. 25 agreement that ended a standoff which involved an exchange of artillery fire amid an escalation of tension following landmine blasts at the border.

The North expressed regret over the landmine incident that wounded South Korean soldiers, which Seoul blamed on Pyongyang. The South said the North’s expression of regret was in effect an apology, although Pyongyang subsequently denied it.

“Now we’re back on again, the game’s afoot,” John Delury, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul, said, adding the proposal for working-level talks would ease the way for the two sides to get on with discussions.

“Sometimes these talks break down before they even start over what level to send, so this sounds like a very pragmatic and straight-

World leaders arrive for summit amid heavy security KuALA LumPur, NOvember 20 (reuTerS): Malaysia deployed extraordinary security measures around Kuala Lumpur on Friday as world leaders arrived for a pair of weekend summits amid fresh attacks

by Islamist militants.

Malaysia’s police chief cited unconfirmed reports of an “imminent terrorist threat” in the country, following last week’s attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt by Islamic State militants.

Some 4,500 soldiers were deployed or on standby to secure the summit, in addition to thousands of police who have fanned out around the Kuala Lumpur City Centre. The site is home to Petronas Towers, once the world’s tallest buildings, and a convention centre where the summits are taking place.

The leaders of 18 countries, including U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are attending the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting followed by the East Asia Summit.

Shortly after Obama arrived, reports from the African nation of Mali said gunmen shouting Islamist slogans attacked a luxury hotel in the capital of Bamako, taking 170 guests and hotel staff hostage. It was not immediately clear who the gunmen

were affiliated with.

Obama has been briefed by his national security advisor on the incident, a White House official travelling with the President said. Both the APEC meeting and the ASEAN summit typically focus on economic issues but have been overshadowed by global efforts to combat Islamic State following the attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the weekend summit would address issues of terrorist threats abroad and locally. “These are real concerns to us in the region,” he told a meeting of ASEAN business leaders on Friday. “And we in ASEAN, we are inherently moderate people.”

In September, Malaysian police thwarted a plot to detonate bombs in Kuala Lumpur’s vibrant tourist area of Bukit Bintang, nearby the Petronas Towers. Other recent plots frustrated by Malaysian security forces included plans to raid army camps and seize weapons.

NINE-DASH LINE The weekend meetings are also expected to spotlight China’s increasingly assertive posture in the South China Sea. Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea along with the atolls and islets scattered around its strategic sealanes, which annually carry

$5 trillion worth of trade. This clashes with claims by Taiwan and ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.

In talks with Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday, Obama demanded China halt land reclamation work that is turning seven reefs in the Spratly archipelago into artificial islands. China is building airfields and other facilities on some of them. Earlier this month, U.S. B-52 bombers flew near the islands, signalling Washington’s determination to challenge Beijing over the disputed sea.

China said it does not want the South China Sea issue to be the focus of the meetings in Kuala Lumpur and a draft of the Chairman’s statement to be issued at the end makes no mention of the recent tensions. It is still being negotiated, however.

Obama has tried to emphasise the U.S. “rebalance” towards the Asia-Pacific with his signature Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and strengthening ties with Asian nations facing a more muscular China.

But he has been dogged during his swing through the region by concerns over how to counter Islamic State. He also has issues with Malaysia. Obama said he will “definitely” raise issues of human rights and corruption when he meets Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday.

forward approach,” he added.

As part of the August agreement, the two sides held reunions last month of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean war.

North and South Korea are technically still at war because the conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Relations between the neighbours have been all but frozen since the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship, which killed 46 sailors, in an incident Seoul blames on the North. Pyongyang denies any role. Later that year, the North bombed an island of the South, killing four people.

The South introduced sanctions that year that halted almost all commercial exchanges between the two sides and rolled back most of the joint projects set up since 2000, when they held their first summit meeting, aimed at advancing ties.

Order of Programme

CELEBARTION

Venue:

NPSC Office New Capital Complex, Kohima

Date:

27th November, 2015

Time:

11:00A.M.

Chief Guest

Shri. T. R. Zeliang

Invocation Prayer

: Rev. T. W. Yamyap Finance Secretary NBCC

Welcome Address

: Shri. A. Yanang Konyak Hon’ble Chairman, NPSC

Short Speech

: Successful Candidate

Power-Point Presentation : Shri. Kelhouseto Nakhro Deputy Secretary, NPSC

Release of Jubilee Souvenir & Memento Presentation

:

Special Song

: Miss. Topeni Assumi

Address by Chief Guest : Shri. T. R. Zeliang Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland Vote of Thanks

: Smti. Sarah R. Ritse NCS Secretary, NPSC

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland

Jubilee Fest N.B.: Apart from other invitees, the NPSC has taken all care to send invitation card to all former Chairmen, Members, Secretaries, Retired Officers and Staff of the Commission.

However, if the invitation card could not reach in time, all the above mentioned individuals/ family members are kindly invited to the celebration.

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Ego transplant Mokokchung Vision 2040: Aspirations and brain surgery

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t would not be a misrepresentation of facts to say that the intellectual masses are now reasonably familiar with the progression of the Naga National Movement (NNM) from the start. It would also not be a misstatement to say that the concerned citizens are now generally becoming aware of where the problem lies regarding our inabilities to find the final solution. In as far as "Framework Agreement" (FA) between NSCN (IM) and GoI is concerned, every sensible Naga heaves a sigh of relief as they would after a tiresome climb from their 'kheti' to the resting shed halfway to the village. The storm now being perpetuated by this non-transparent "FA" is whether we are being expected to go right back again to the 'kheti' down below or to carry on home from that resting shed. Without knowing anything about the content(s) being envisaged by the NSCN (IM) (the negotiator on our behalf) and the GoI, expecting the Nagas to blindly endorse the FA is downright irrational and unacceptable. It is our destiny and the destiny of our children that is being put on the chopping block and therefore the Naga people have a birthright to have a say in the proceedings. NSCN (IM) has no mandate or right to deprive this privilege to the stakeholders. This is the core issue that needs to be addressed uprightly and yet Nagas are dishonourably fumbling with this simple exercise for fear of reprisal or loss of opportunity should NSCN (IM) form the next Government.

History has amply proven that the GoI has an inherent ailment of consistently undermining and misreading the Nagas as a people...but the Nagas have also been largely responsible for reinforcing their unfortunate misconception by our optimum display of corruptive misdemeanours and disunity amongst ourselves, both within the sphere of our Naga National Workers through their divisive games and refusal to acknowledging one another as partners to the same cause on the one hand, compounded by indifferent silence of fearful majority on the other. Our first generation made their supreme sacrifice by blood. On a bigger relevant canvas our generation is now being called upon to make our share of honourable sacrifices of a different kind... that of 'solidarity' and 'unity' to achieve a greater goal together.

Yet these are words that have completely been erased from our brains and dictionary while perfunctorily professing that we are all in support of the same cause. The main stumbling block is the inability on the part of our NPG Leaderships to submerge their individual EGO problems and conveniently taking refuge behind a high sounding "National Principle" without principles. Most of them are headhunting for 'disunity' to try and exclusively go down in history as the "Father of the Nation" through their solo performance. This unrelenting ego cauldron is further vitiates by their crazy and merciless money hunting occupation for their comfort zones at the cost of the ravaged common man...a sin that each faction is clearly guilty of.

FNR has given their best effort to have the NPGs reconcile on a 'Christian principle' but in the name of "Nagaland for Christ" they have refused to unite. Their ego outranks Jesus Christ and the National interest. It is abundantly clear that Christian values are no longer relevant for our NPGs on the issue of unity that is indispensable at this point of history. It is therefore a futile exercise for the Chief Minister to be propounding that "At this crucial juncture of our Naga political history, the situation demands that we sink all our differences, and forget and forgive the past bitterness and pains, and come together for our common good and our common goal". (Local dallies November 18, 2015). It is as productive as pouring water over a solid rock that has no absorption capability. Our Hon'ble Chief Minister must be living in another planet detached from the ground realities when he further said "I appeal to all tribal hohos, NGOs, Churches and civil societies and even commoners to encourage and appeal to all the Naga Political Groups to come together and talk with the GoI to resolve the decades old Naga political problem". Such an appeal is merely blowing in the wind to serve the purpose of sounding politically correct and nothing much else.

Let us deal in truth with candid brutality: The Naga Hoho ought to have been the appropriate forum to provide honourable leadership to our people through all the other Tribal Ho Hos but their redundancy is clearly visible in their inability to commandeer all the tribal hohos under their roof. They also severely suffer from a general stigma and perception of one-sidedly being remote-controlled NSCN (IM). They have yet to disprove this general accusation by way of action. In fact their blind endorsement of "Framework Agreement" without knowing its contents validates the accusation. It is a clear description of an irrational and irresponsible partisan body that deserves to only be scoffed at. Was it Mr. T. Solo who referred to Naga Hoho as Naga Ha Ha? Since endorsement seems to be the style of the day this writer would unhesitatingly endorse the new 'framework definition' of the Naga Hoho by Mr. T. Solo and add that this is an apt description of

an organization that has placed its honour in the market place... that too... close to the dustbin where flies infest. Mr. CM Sir, relying on the Naga Ha Ha to give us leadership at a time like this is like asking the crabs to walk straight. You are betting on a wrong horse.

With all due respects, the Churches are still wrestling with the issues of what is religious responsibility, what is social responsibility, what is political responsibility and what is their role in it all... without being able to find rational actionable answers. The generally visible and definitive action on their part is to invite moneyed Politicians as chief guests in their religious conferences for obvious reason unrelated to faith. The Church has by-and-large achieved in reducing Christianity into another "Christian Tribal Clan" minus Christian faith and Christian value system. With their 'closed door' operational policy of exclusive interaction within their own theological club without honest feedbacks from the congregation they serve, answers will be hard to come by for them to act upon. Mr. CM Sir, appealing to them to find a direction to support the effort of solving our political problem would be like asking the seven blind men to define an elephant and lead the way. They have yet to discern their own kitchen problems before embarking on a journey to make our society better.

The NGOs and civil societies have no defined common agenda, more liable and prone to making compromises when their varied interests come in conflict with a given issue of common good. They are mere flotsam pieces of puzzle that is used by the players to create a greater picture on a canvas of their choosing.

As for the commoners that you appeal to Mr. CM Sir, do you know that a commoner can only see themselves as 'the common punching bag of the Government of Nagaland and the NPGs'...being 'tax-raped' in every conceivable legal/illegal position above the table, below the table behind closed doors with rubbed in insults to injury with AK 47 in every other positions while eunuch-turned-voyeur GoN watches this xxx tax rape through a peeping hole but pretend that it is not happening...Mr. CM Sir, the commoners are barely managing to keep their legs together and are afraid to howl "Rape" in a loud voice for fear of recurring AK 47 nightmare. All the above mentioned sectors are handicapped by an all encompassing 'fear factor' perpetuated by our very own home-grown NPGs who have succeeded in generating a roaring silence across the board. This is the fact of our daily lives.

Therefore, is it worthwhile for a king to be appealing to his fearful subjects for an honourable exercise that he can perform without passing the buck to those who are unable to help themselves?

The Hon'ble Chief Minister is clearly in command of Government machinery which can cause events to impact on any given issue if he has a determined unbiased heart and the clarity of thought to honestly address our present Naga political predicament instead of appealing to helpless organizations. Since all other efforts have failed to forge unity amongst our NPGs or drum some sense of propriety into the NSCN (IM), getting back to roots is perhaps the last bastion for the Nagas to evaluate our circumstance. The Naga social fabric of customs and traditions can still be relied upon if given the opportunity. In a general appraisal, the Village Chiefs (GBs) and the Village Councils still command a reasonable respect of its citizens within their respective spheres. If the Chief Minister can provide them a common platform along with all the tribal hohos, issues such as... unity amongst the NPGs, the "Framework Agreement" of NSCN (IM) with the GoI that lacks transparency thereof, the imperative need for inclusive solution to avoid another civil war in its aftermath etc... can all squarely be put on the table for them to mull over and arrive at a decisive conclusion that is bound to emerge. Their final verdict would truly become the unambiguous voice of the people compelling enough for both NSCN (IM) and the GoI to acknowledge. Without such an exercise, the GoI will continue to callously play cat and mouse games with the Nagas as long as there is no united exertion of pressure from the Naga masses beyond the NPGs which has thus far not occured. This is an exercise the Chief Minister is well within his capability to make it happen provided he is truly concerned about the final solution. It is even more opportune moment since both "Equi-distance" and "Equi-Closeness" party policies have closed ranks for "Equi-plunder" and therefore the Hon'ble CM need not be apprehensive about compromising the future of NPF party by forging a lasting path that will lead the Nagas safely home even if the glory hunting almighty NSCN (IM) is displeases with their "Equi-decision". At this stage of history it seems apparent that our NPG Leaders, especially those in the NSCN (IM), desperately needs to undergo ego transplant with a recommended brain surgery for all those who wield authority to deal with the issue at hand without fear or favour.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd) Forest Colony, Kohima.

Introduction At the outset, we must consider whether Mokokchung can achieve a vision given the situation. For that, perhaps, we can look into the very recent history of Mokokchung. We have seen its people rise up against the NSCN K in 2003 and the illegal Bangladesh immigrants in 2007 successfully. It all started with a vision for a safer Mokokchung and it worked. Hence, Mokokchung Vision 2040 is a possibility.

The concept of Mokokchung Vision 2040 is just an opening to a spate of a realistic future for Mokokchung. Educated by past inaccuracies, present challenges and future prospects, Mokokchung must rise to the confrontations of building a robust society today and tomorrow.

There arises the need for a virtuous maturity of peace, stability, wealth creation and educational headway.

The advent of Christianity in Nagaland in 1872 and the subsequent opening of the first school in the Naga Hills at Molungyimsen in 1878 laid the backdrop on which the rest of Nagaland would have to be founded. Mokokchung has been the centre of it all. Hence, it is only natural to have a vision 2040 and beyond. In the words of former Nagaland Govenor Dr Ashwani Kumar: “Mokokchung has always led Nagaland.” This is a call for Mokokchung to set goals – a series of achievable short-term and long-term goals over a continuous period of time.

Aspirations Based on the present situation and needs analysis of the Mokokchung scenario, there emerges an iceberg of key areas in need of visions and emphasis to build a satisfactory Mokokchung. Some of the areas that seem to need aspirations are briefly thought over accordingly.

Economic Aspirations Since agriculture remains the major economic domain, it needs utmost modernisation. This modernisation drive should include a variety of developmental projects. It includes roads, transport, communication systems, technology, financial management and other economic infrastructures. This should be backed by proper electricity supply, foreign direct investment, strong export-import strategy and sustained efforts. Mokokchung is the transit point for places like Tuensang, Wokha, Zunheboto and Longleng. This strategic location proves beneficial for many places within Nagaland economically.

Social Aspirations Providing adequate healthcare, water supply and sanitation still needs improvement. For example, the free governmental medical checkup for school students is still limited to government schools only. Extending this to private schools is also an aspiration for all. Nepotism still rings loudly in the government employment mechanism. Providing fair opportunities to deserving and capable people must be ensured. Besides, identifying the underprivileged and giving them access to various opportunities can go a long way in building a more secure society. HIV/AIDS people are still stigmatised,

despite the various moves to dispel this. Mar- only three colleges at the moment namely, Fazl ginalisation of women and youth must be erad- Ali College, Peoples College and Jubilee Memorial College. There is a dire need for higher icated in toto. education and technical education institutions to cater to the increasing number of students Political Aspirations There is a need to promote transparency needing such education. Besides, many famiand accountability to establish good gover- lies face extreme financial constraints and cannance. Effective management of funds is an- not support their children’s education. Hence, other felt aspiration. The aspiration for free and technical institutions must come up within fair elections, as originally influenced by the Mokokchung to cut the cost of expensive eduthoughts of Late Rev. Longri Ao and adopted cation outside. Mokokchung can become the by the NBCC later, needs to go on until the goal academic hotspot of Nagaland. is made. The concerned and educated youths can oust the weathered politicians and make Religious Aspirations The Nagaland of today has been shaped by way for new focused politicians to take the lead.

Doing away with tribalism and nepotism in the the tenets of the Christian belief system in propolitical affairs is another aspiration for Mo- moting peace, forgiveness and reconciliation kokchung 2040. The various tribal, social, tra- in a war and hatred-torn Naga society. The proditional, cultural and academic organisations cess is still going on. The church is a determinor groups can promote the spirit of patriotism ing factor for the well-being of the Naga society. to cement the dignity of the Naga people and It needs a revamping of its strategies to make ethics and morality central in all the societal the Naga nation from the inside out. deliberations in order to establish a just society.

Digital Aspirations Everything is digitalised today. It has saved A SWOT Basis An analysis of strengths, weaknesses, optime, lives, resources and made individual, society and nations more advanced and effective portunities and threats can form a building in many ways. By 2040, Mokokchung can aspire block for the projects and strategic thinking toto race with the world along the digital high- wards Mokokchung Vision 2040.

The above areas of aspirations are not an way. Besides, consistent coverage of all households, offices and academic institutions with exhaustive list but just some pointers to the ultra high speed Internet connectivity is also an possible improvements and developments of aspiration. The schools and colleges should be Mokokchung as per the needs analysis at the running classes with state-of–the-art digitised moment. Newer assets and liabilities will unsystems and highly equipped teachers. Water fold with changing times and contexts. supply, power supply, traffic regulation and other public domains need digitisation to pro- Conclusion Mary Mead, wife of Dr E.W. Clark, referring mote efficiency. to the mission that was before them in the Naga Hills, wrote while they were still based at SibAcademic Aspirations The number of schools in Mokokchung at sagar thus: “From the broad veranda of the mispresent is probably not enough to deal with sion bungalow we looked out day after day, on the increasing number of students both from and on, beyond the villages, across the paddy within and outside Mokokchung. Establishing fields, over the jungles of the plains, upon the more schools will create more job opportuni- mountains towering in silent grandeur against ties and more student population. This can up the southern sky...” There is a silent grandeur for the intellectual level of Mokokchung. Besides, Mokokchung to unfold in 2040.

Taliakum Pongen, General Secretary with more academic institutions the frequenMokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem cy of brain drain can be contained. There are

A campaign on free Franz Beckenbauer unhappy with and fair election German FA over World Cup affair

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n every election in Nagaland , selling and buying of votes is the practice and if such practice continues , the Nagas are doomed to self - enslavement and the contemporaries will owe great indebtedness to future generations .

Nearly cent per cent of the population are professed believers of Jesus Christ who is the Savior , Deliverer , Giver of freedom and liberty from the yoke of sins and wickedness . “ You will know the truth and the truth will make you free “ ( John 8 : 32 ). If we really know who God is , we will really believe in Him , fear Him and obey Him .

Truly knowing who the true God is , it is the sole power which transforms human lives into new lives . So clinging to Christ is getting free. We all have to cling to Christ to get free from enslavement of evils .

We have to realize that our complacency about the practice of selling and buying votes will bring our people to more and more in a state of as if an election is for the sake of election at the expense of the purposes . It is a very tragic thing. So by all means such self – burnt practice should be put to an end in oneness of mind .

In order to bring about a change , the following suggestions are being formulated:1. Launching a campaign to bring about a neat and clean election which is free from the practice of selling and buying vote be initiated by the State Government and let it be supported by all State level hohos , Tribal hohos ,Church councils or organizations or unions .

2. Grass root level bodies such as village councils , Khel councils , Municipal or Town councils , every church congregation irrespective of denominations in the state are to be entrusted to create awareness and educate the people in their own respective jurisdictions .

3. Both candidates and electorate , any violator of the principle of the campaign will put himself or herself into a black list and no one will escape from the web of grass root bodies .

4. The election should be a God – fearing , prayerful , sober and decorum election .

5. If the diabolical practice of selling and buying vote is restrained and the set goal of free and fair , neat and clean election could be scored , maximum election expense for a candidate may be five lacs rupees only.

And it will be the glory of God and will pave the way for brighter future of the Nagas .

Rev . L . Suohie Mhasi

BERLIN, NOVEMBER 20 (REUTERS): Franz Beckenbauer, the former World Cupwinning player and coach at the heart of a scandal surrounding the 2006 tournament, is unhappy with the German FA's response to his offer of a "personal" discussion with the association.

The DFB is eager for Beckenbauer to provide answers on several issues including a controversial 2005 payment to FIFA and a draft contract with a disgraced former vice president at soccer's global governing body.

At the heart of the affair is the 6.7 million euros ($7.15 million) payment from the German FA to FIFA that Der Spiegel magazine claimed in October was a return on a loan from then Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus to help buy votes for Germany's World Cup bid at the FIFA election in 2000.

Beckenbauer, who headed the 2006 World Cup organising committee, has rejected alle-

gations of a slush fund to buy votes for Germany's bid but has previously admitted the payment to FIFA had been "a mistake in hindsight".

In published excerpts of an interview with Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung's weekend edition, Beckenbauer said he had offered a "personal discussion" with German Football Association (DFB) bosses who did not respond to his request.

"When you know each other so long and then you do not get any reaction (to my letter) and learn everything from the television, then where are we?" he said.

"When and how is something that I will now decide calmly after discussing it with my lawyers," he said when asked if he would talk again with the DFB. The DFB, which could not be reached for comment, has said it wanted Beckenbauer to meet once more with the legal firm conducting an internal investigation and was not keen

on a personal meeting.

Suspicion surrounding Beckenbauer has grown with the DFB saying a contract between him and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, banned from football for life, was signed four days before the 2000 vote.

It offered a series of services, including friendly matches and coaching support to the head of CONCACAF, the governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean, which Warner led from 1990 to 2011.

The World Cup affair has already claimed the head of the DFB with Wolfgang Niersbach, under investigation by the Frankfurt prosecutor for tax evasion over the payment to FIFA, resigning earlier this month. Two other former World Cup organising committee members are under investigation following police raids on the German FA and private homes. Beckenbauer is not under formal investigation.

United lose Rooney, Martial, Carrick & Fellaini

LONDON, NOVEMBER 20 (REUTERS): Manchester United will be without skipper Wayne Rooney, Marouane Fellaini, Michael Carrick and Anthony Martial for their visit to Watford on Saturday when the Premier League resumes after the international break.

Manager Louis van Gaal confirmed their absences at his pre-match briefing on Friday, saying that 19-year-old James Wilson, who has only played for eight minutes in the league this season, would lead the front line. But, Van Gaal added that Wilson would not play for the whole match at Vicarage Road because he has "a lack of

match rhythm." Rooney, who scored his 51st goal for England when they beat France 2-0 on Tuesday, has not trained since because of illness, though Van Gaal hopes he will be fit for United's Champions League match against PSV Eindhoven next week. Martial, who also played in Tuesday's international at Wembley, left the stadium on crutches after taking a heavy blow to the top of his foot.

Carrick suffered an ankle injury when England played Spain last Friday while Fellaini will miss his second successive league match after picking up a leg injury.

Van Gaal added that France

international Morgan Schneiderlin and Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger could both play against Watford, despite being involved in the France-Germany friendly in Paris during last week's terror attacks which left at least 129 people dead.

"I think for every human being in this world, it was a big blow," so I don't think I have to mention what our discussions were, but Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin can play," he said.

United go to Watford fourth in the table, and have not conceded a goal in any of their last five matches, although goals have been hard to come by with only 3 scored.

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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agaland is set to witness one of the most exciting adventure sporting event in the country with ‘Hornbill Mountain Biking Festival’ which is being organized by Native Station, TNB Cycling Club and Alaphra Group.

The MTB festival comprises of Kohima Downhill Mountain Bike Race to be held on December 4 at Kisama Heritage Village and the 4th Annual Hornbill Cycle Rally on December 6 which will start from Kohima Local Ground up to Kisama Heritage Village.

Professional mountain bikers from Nepal, Himachal Pradesh,

Maharashtra, Goa, Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya along with local riders are set to compete for Kohima Downhill mountain biking (MTB) race on 4th December at the Kisama Heritage Village ‘Peach Blossom Heritage Trail’. Kohima Downhill MTB race will start from the hilltop above Kisama Heritage Village, down to the stairs in the heritage village where visitors to the festival will be treated to a new unique spectacle which has rarely been done anywhere else in the world.

The 4th Annual Hornbill Cycle Rally with the theme ‘Contribut-

ing to a safer and greener future’ envisions to promote a safer, smarter, eco-friendly and efficient means of transport towards our goal of becoming ‘Smart Cities’ which will also bring about a revolutionary change in our the generation to start pursuing a lifestyle revolving around fitness related activities to enhance the overall mental and physical health of the people.

After Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland is set to become a hot spot for eco-tourism and adventure sports enthusiasts for an enjoyable ride in the beautiful natural terrains around the State. Native

Band live in Mussoorie

Station, Nagaland had organized the 1st Kohima Downhill in 2014 which was also featured on Red Bull where more than 30 participants from North-East and Maharashtra participated where Garry from Shillong and Chingkhei from Manipur won in the elite and junior category respectively.

Participants can register for the mountain biking festival www. nativestation.in.

This was informed in a press release issued by Yanpvuo Kikon (Yan) PMC, State e-Mission Team (SeMT) Department of Information Technology and Communication (IT&C), Kohima

Never been a victim ANTB of discrimination in Hollywood: Dev Patel

p e r formed recently at Mussoorie at Wynberg Allen School ground under the theme “Musical night under the stars”.

The Dimapur based contemporary pop rock band enthralled the audi-

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he Grammy winner's first album in almost five years will be released on Friday (20Nov15), but her record label representatives have told companies such as Spotify and Apple Music that the album will not be made available to their streaming services, according to The New York Times.

"We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify," a Spotify

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spokesman said in a statement. "We hope that she will give those fans the opportunity to enjoy 25 on Spotify alongside 19 and 21 very soon."

Adele's decision comes nearly a year after Swift cut ties with Spotify and called out bosses for failing to pay artists enough money.

Similarly, in June (15), the pop star wrote an open letter to bosses of the newlylaunched Apple Music, explaining that she is with-

holding her hit album 1989 from the service, describing the company's initial artist terms as "shocking" and "disappointing". Bosses originally had plans to keep royalties from any streams during the service's threemonth free trial.

Apple bosses reversed their policy and agreed to pay artists during the trial period after reading Swift's letter, and she subsequently gave them permission to stream her album.

Moschino Barbie advert praised for challenging gender stereotypes

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fashion house Moschino, shows a blonde boy with a Mohawk showing off his new Barbie.

"Moschino Barbie is so fierce!" he says to the camera as he holds the doll's purse.

People have taken to social media platforms like

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Peshwa descendant objects to ‘Bajirao Mastani’; writes to CM

the school and they were fortunate enough to have a big band like ANTB. “ Alobo Naga said this was his 127th show this year across the world and said he still has 20 more shows to go. The band is performing next at Kohima on November 25.

"Every single person on this planet has the most incredible story behind them"

“O Festival of India (IFFI).

“I am very lucky. I am not someone who has faced any kind of discrimination in any way. It has been a good journey so far.

I am young right now. Let’s see where it takes me.”

Besides his leading role in the multiple Oscar winning movie, Dev has starred in projects like “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and its sequel, “Chappie” and “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, which is the opening film of IFFI this year.

f course it's different [playing a real person]," Woman in Gold star Helen Mirren told The Hollywood Reporter, "because you have a responsibility to look like them and sound like them and maybe walk like them and use your hands like them, but the essential journey is exactly the same, really, as with a fictional character, which is a journey of imagination and the journey of telling the story."

Mirren won an Oscar for her portrayal of a reallife character, Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, and plays a real-life character (Maria Altmann) in the film Woman in Gold.

"There's always male roles I want to play," lamented Mirren over the great film roles routinely going to men in Hollywood.

"I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, 'That could have been played by a woman, and that could have been played by a woman! There's nothing to stop that being played by a woman.' " Helen Mirren to Receive the Career Achievement Award at the Israel Film Festival "It's driven me crazy in my career to watch wonderful actresses — wonderful, brilliant actresses, my contemporaries when I was younger — really their

careers kind of diminish and disappear and mediocre actors carry on."

She argued that there is no difference in many roles as far as whether they should be male or female.

"All this crap about, 'I can't write roles for women, I don't understand them.'

It's like, you don't have to."

When it comes to finding inspiration on set, Mirren said hers comes from "babies and animals. They are so alive, and they're not messed up in their heads the way I am."

The full Actress Roundtable will air on Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 11 a.m. ET on SundanceTV.

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be kids."

Another YouTube user said they wished the advert was broadcast when they were growing up.

"This makes me so happy for the future generation and I hope it'll catch on and destroy gender stereotypes when it comes to toys," they wrote online.

According to Vogue, the highly anticipated Moschino Barbie sold out less than an hour after it went on sale for $150 in the US last week.

The doll is dressed in Moschino's standard slogan T-shirts and mesh knitwear, also with golden accessories.

In addition, the eightpiece collection, which features a pencil skirt, bomber jacket and lots of leather, has also been made available in adult-size versions.

toy manufacturer Mattel has been praised for its Moschino Barbie advert which features a young boy.

The advert, promoting the new toy which is a collaboration between the manufacturer and Italian he Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone starrer ‘Bajirao Mastani’, produced and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, has landed into controversy, with the descendant of Bajirao Peshwa I alleging that historical facts have been “altered” while portraying the late king and his wives Kashibai and Mastani in the film.

In a letter written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday (November 19), Bajirao’s descendant Prasadrao Peshwe has demanded that the government look into the matter, review the soon-to-be released film, investigate the matter and take a decision accordingly.

Peshwe said he is an ordinary citizen and wrote to the Chief Minister after watching the teasers and promos of the upcoming film.

“It has been found out that the said cinema in the name of cinematic liberty has altered original history. So also, a song has been picturised on the wife of Shrimant Bajirao Peshwe I, Kashibai and Mastani. This incident is not keeping inline with the history,” he alleged.

YouTube to express their admiration for the advert that pushes the norms of gender barriers.

One YouTube user wrote: "'This almost made me cry!' I used to play with my sister's Barbies and felt such shame afterwards. I'm so glad we can just let kids

eing an Asian actor in Hollywood is not a walk in the park, but Indian-origin star Dev Patel, who was catapulted to fame after “Slumdog Millionaire”, says his journey so far has been tough yet he has never been a victim of discrimination.

The 25-year-old British actor says he often has to put in a lot more effort into getting projects and has to work harder than others, but he has been lucky that despite all the negatives, he has managed to make a name for himself.

“One of my mottos is to see obstacle as an opportunity. I don’t mind being an ambassador to my culture. That being said, does it require a bit more hard work to put my foot in to the door? Yes. Do people scrutinize the decisions I make?

Yes,” Dev said on the sidelines of International Film

ence for over 90 minutes with their latest songs & some famous cover songs.

Prior to this show, Alobo Naga toured the school with LiveJam earlier this year. “A.C. Kurian, Senior teacher said this was the first time, the school was organizing a rock show in

freedom in 1D: Zayn Malik

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inger Zayn Malik has revealed he wanted to leave One Direction for quite a while.

The former member, 22, said there was an inability to contribute creatively to the music, reported E!Online. “There was never any room for me to experiment creatively in the band. If I would sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would always be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, so they could use that version,” he said.

“Whenever I would suggest something, it was like it didn’t fit us. There was just a general conception that the management already had of what they want for the band, and I just wasn’t convinced with what we were selling.

“I wasn’t 100 percent behind the music. It wasn’t me. It was music that was already given to us, and we were told this is what is going to sell to these people.

As much as we were the biggest, most famous boy band in the world, it felt weird. We were told to be happy about something that we weren’t happy about.”

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“Moreover, the ‘Pinga’ dance form is an integral part of Marathi culture and has been transformed into an ‘item song’ and the costumes and dance direction are on that lines,” he further alleged.

Prasadrao said the warrior king Shrimant Bajirao Peshwe and the overall legacy of Peshwas is a matter of Maharashtrian pride.

“The historical personalities are always a matter of respect. The picturisation of the said film, the historical references of the period and story appear to be perverted,” he charged.

“As I could not withstand the insult of Maratha history, Marathi ethos and Indian culture, I am making this appeal to you that the Maharashtra government pay attention, review the entire film, and with proper inquiry arrive at a appropriate decision,” he said in the letter to Chief Minister Fadnavis. As per historical records, Bajirao Ballal Bhat, better known as Bajirao Peshwa I, was born on August 18, 1700 and ruled between 1720 to 1740. He died in a battle on April 28, 1740. According to historical records,

Bajirao Peshwa I fought 43 wars and remained unconquered. Another descendant of queen Kashibai Peshwe, who wished not to be named, claimed that Kashibai suffered from an arthritis-like ailment at a very young age and was bed-ridden for most of her life. “The late queen was highly learned and had her own library. Since the late queen Kashibai suffered from a debilitating disease of the knee joints, she could never have been expected to dance. Moreover, the royal ladies never danced in public,” he said. -

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Nagaland Police duty-cumsports conclave concludes Morung Express News Dimapur | November 20

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Nagaland Home minister, Y Patton, today lauded Nagaland Police for living upto the latter’s motto of “Security, Service and Sacrifice” in the line of duty both within and outside the state.

The Home minister said officers, men and women of the Police department have been able to strike a seemingly perfect balance of performing the arduous duty of maintaining law and order and public peace and also not ignoring the finer aspects of life beyond the calling of their profession.

“It is therefore, no surprise that the Nagaland Police have been able to deliver what is expected of them-be it within the state or outside”, Patton said.

The Home minister was addressing the closing ceremony of the 36th ‘Nagaland Police duty-cumsports and athletic meet 2015’ here at Chumukedima Police Complex (Nagaland Armed Police Training Centre).

Nagaland Home minister, Y Patton (4th left), along with state DGP, LL Doungel, giving away the overall champion trophy of the Nagaland Police duty-cum-sports meet to 10 NAP (IR).

Patton said games and sports are integral part of any uniformed force as they help build mental and physical fitness and improve response, thereby promoting overall efficiency of the police personnel.

He said policemen and women are always at the beck and call of duty and this often causes stress and tension, which not only take a toll on their profession but also affects family and social life.

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“Such being the professional rigours of the Police Department, the dutycum-sports meet provides a sense of respite from the strenuous task and offers an opportunity for muchneeded recreational event wherein police men and women can afford to let down their guard and participate in an atmosphere of healthy sporting spirit”, the Home minister said.

Patton said organizing the annual duty-cum-

would go a long way in inculcating a sense of pride in one’s performance, both in and off the field.

The chief guest who took the salute of the 30 contingents of the Nagaland Police units also gave away prizes to winners of the various competitions.

Organizing secretary of the Police meet 2015, IGP (NAP), Bendang Lemtur, IPS, read out the secretary’s report.

The Home minister was accompanied by a host of his cabinet colleagues and parliamentary secretaries including Er. Levi Rengma, Deo Nukhu, Dr. Longriniken, and Thongwang Konyak.

10 NAP (IR) emerged as the overall champion of the meet.

sports meet not only provide ample opportunity to show-case the sporting talents of police personnel but also foster a sense of team spirit, camaraderie Champion units and oneness by bringing all of other disciplines: the different police units Drill completion - 15 NAP together.

(IR) Mahila He said the spirit of Weapon handling – friendly completion disNAPTC played during the meet Athletics – NAPTC would definitely have a posGames – 14 NAP (IR) itive impact on the overall Football – 14 NAP (IR) personality of every police Boxing – 13 NAP (IR) personnel and this in turn

Vilasier Khate won the Men's Doubles final at Panchgani, Maharashtra which was held from November 16 to 20, 2015. Khate and his partner Rupesh Roy beat Maninder Singh and Keneisezotuo Whuorie 6-4, 6-2 in the finals. Seen in the picture with him is Amir Khan who distributed the prizes at the closing ceremony.

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21ST CLASSIC CUP 2015

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Barak FC beat IGAR (North) to retain title

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(Left) Winners of the 21st Classic Cup, Barak FC (Right) runners up, HQ IGAR (North).

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Kohima | November 20

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INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE

Defending champions Barak FC today retained the title of the 21st Classic Cup 2015 organized by Classic Club Kohima here at the Kohima Local Ground.

In an exciting final match amidst thunderous cheers from the capacity crowd, Barak FC overpowered their opponent HQ IGAR (North) 3-2 via tie-break, after a 1-1 draw within the allotted full time play and 15 minutes of extra time.

K. Chizo opened the account for HQ IGAR (North) and the team were in the lead till the first half. The equalizer for Barak FC came through

*Best goalkeeper- Pesidibe Zeliang (Barak FC)- Rs. 5000 *Best Defender: Y. Sunder Singh (HQ IGAR (N)- Rs. 5000 *Best Midfielder: Khuanjang (Head Hunter)- Rs. 5000 *Highest Scorer: Shamba Samson (Fraternity FC) 9 goals- Rs. 5000 *Player of the Tournament: Yami Yongbah (Barak FC)- Rs. 10,000.

Mayoshing Khongriwo in the second half. Both teams failed to score even during the session of 15 minutes extra time and the match was decided through a tie break in which Barak FC emerged victorious.

Barak FC pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000 along with trophy and citation. HQ IGAR (N) donated its runner-up prize money of Rs. 80,000 to Classic Club as a sign of

encouragement to the Club to continue its tournament and various social activities.

In the final match, Tingyek Konyak of Barak FC and K. Chizo of HQ IGAR (N) bagged “Swift movement of the match” and “Hero of the Match” and pocketed Rs. 2500 and Rs. 3000 respectively.

The Classic Club also announced that three prominent

players of the tournament Dziesedilhou Yhome (Lhisemia YO), Nampibou Renta (Naga FC) and Kevikelie Pienyii (Nagabazar YO) will be given opportunity to witness the Indian Super League match at Guwahati soon.

Mi n i st e r f o r e nv i ro n ment, forests & climate change Dr.Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire graced the closing ceremony as the chief guest and gave away prizes to the winners.

Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker Chotisuh Sazo, who is also advisor of Classic Club; MLA Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, chairman NSMDC and several other dignitaries, also witnessed the match.

India bags 11 medals in Track Asia Cup cycling meet

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GPRN/NSCN INVITATION for Unification Anniversary on 22nd Nov. 2015 The GPRN/NSCN invites all NGOs and Civil Societies, Concerned Naga citizens, intellectuals, Presidents and colleagues of all Tribal Hohos in Nagaland, NTC, ENPO, CNTC, Tenyimi Union and affiliating units, GBs & DBs and affiliating units, Apex student bodies in Nagaland, Mothers’ Associations of all Naga Tribes, Inter denominational Apex church organizations and units, non-Naga community welfare Associations in Nagaland, Naga well wishers, press fraternity within Nagaland and outside, to its 8th Unification Anniversary Celebration at Designated Camp Khehoi on 22nd Nov. 2015 at 10:00 AM. MIP, GPRN/NSCN.

New Delhi, November 20 (iANS): India finished its campaign in the Track Asia Cup cycling meet by winning 11 medals, including three gold medals, three silver and five bronze medals, at the IG Sports Complex here on Friday. India were ranked third in the overall medals tally.

On the final day, India won two gold and three bronze medals. India’s young cycling sensation Deborah Herold made a fine start on the final day by winning the gold medal in the women elite sprint, clocking 13.614 seconds to beat South Korea’s Cho Sun Young (13.704 seconds).

Deborah also missed one medal opportunity as she fell down in her favourite Keiren event. On the final lap, she couldn’t maintain her balance and fell down on the track and after coming in contact of Deborah, Thailand’s Pannaray Rasee also lost her balance and collided. Deborah eventually settled for one gold and two silver medals.

In the junior women sprint final, India’s Nayana Rajesh bagged the gold medal in 13.510 seconds while Anu Chutia clinched the bronze in 13.822 seconds. The silver went Polan John, ADC Chozuba and Assistant Commandant of the 111 Bn BSF with the winners to Fatemeh Hadavand of Iran in 13.623 seconds. In the of the badminton tournament which was organised by the BSF on the occasion of its Golden men junior section, Emerson bagged the bronze medal in Jubilee on November 19 and 20 at Chozuba Town under Phek District. The game was partici- the sprint final with a timing of 12.347 seconds. The gold pated by about 50 youths of both ladies and gents from Chozuba area. medal of this event went to Thanawat Uraikit of Thailand.

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Chongpo Vikings FC ‘B’ enters final Morung Express News

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Desingam (14), Niruchand (4) and Lanu (13). Yellow Tuensang | November 20 card were shown to Steven In the first semi final match and Toshi of Friends Sportof the 23rd Loyem Memorial ing, Lokhung and Bashang Senior Soccer Open Cham- of Chongpo Vikings FC ‘B’. pionship Chongpo Vikings FC ‘B’ took down defending Tomorrow’s match: champion Friends SportFrontier FC vs ing Lokhung 3-1. Meren Hongpong XI FC Haak netted the first and the only Time : 1:00 PM goal for Friends Sporting in the 32nd minute. The Players in action at the ongothree goals for Chongpo Vi- ing Loyem Memorial Trophy. kings FC ‘B’ were scored by Photo by Imojen I Jamir.

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