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This being inducted Ru aerial machine are beingand. g across the that, “Trav- friendship ubt I would clearly ned, even as she aro d, of course, there are t d lin s ba gal joi my sai I do Na om and-c t tested in the raging fire containe re. as she share ght me about which had I been home she on to add, “who knew es when I require infirs o als , forest fire s good news to have does not end he elling has tau pect- it have had, gst people goes fessionally tim ace" (I’ll be While it’ the issue of forest fire we stand in terms humility and res pect and just amon le with.” about being prost aid, or se- "quiet sp ut it), and this is y, fir res tho ere tab on the 7th daould make us think wh ich, technically speak- taught me how to board I am comfor e also re- trained on rtificate and a sane wi e I read, write and Rather, it sh g our environment, wh y a cleaner onO of my To this end, sh of her pro- curing a ce e one is given the tim t equall of protectin . mbers one m college, license befor d to fly? This think.” en she is not flying, in the recen as I would the CE me ity ers v di life car Wh ck fro eing the green ing, is our aginable loss of bio le of this generation company.” ieve the baof brain y fessors ba ‘b The unim mething the peop best we can con- Working in a compan m who told them that, dis- job needs a lot Brain to she tries to ach as catch on r. so fro lp us such how forest fire is er upon and think of incidents from hap- of almost 7000 crew goes around people he tter and and will powe ember, the sics first, do her laundry, , e nd be rem ate es ep sh po , es d v sle tun l ld cad rld an s r de rse he shou rt such unfor k years and for her famou take in evall over the wo re with study first cover ou tribute to ave near future. What too area had been wildly on to say, “when the s is I couldn’t agree mo real- will power to thrown at cook and sit d aloo fry dine, dal an Once these pening in the ity conservation in the Imagine, how much estion a stranger ask it him because I now ved as erything that is ric . of biodivers just a matter of days. the loss, caused by a qu here are you from?", ize how I have evol ofes- you.” ner or lunch complished, ow , there are "w pr ac consumed in it take us to rebuild portant to kn ty, a person and this d me Apparently for a cabin goals are d about Doha, on is very im longer wouldof fire. normal days ht is un- she is out an movie spree, d to call up k one's roots and identi or sion has also helpe ha no t en nm ark ’ small sp that the state gover reflection of the lac remain grounded, hone my PR skills. s a crew. “Each flig n way, be it on a g a book she wa predictable in its ow ers. shopping, readin catchThe fact tain the fire is also ch calamity. That to will be just one of cabin Yet, when con ng ve we just working as save th su the Centre to mechanism to deal wi w prepared we are else es that serve them , nobody would ha r thanks to the passe pas- in her room or ends. ly They are d to kid ssion not on w to travel an go r to the be in he th her fri of our own us to the question of ho nment mechanisms the facen with rice.” ined her to cause, as It won’t matteu just had the ing up wi uld also abso- This profeenues of meeting cre ve enough money to ag s ver im ick reng go the ch g d bri an wo nk ttin -sa av yo Be home also the She e more open also the duty e would thi ers strike. Pu erse backs sengers if oes today. their own when disast ething else but it is y a part in saving the On flight attendant is sh says, “as a child, I wa biggest heart break of had lutely encourag join a people from div o help in back to d start up their d to t als just try an law firm, life of a th glamour she in place is somof every citizen to pla schievous an ga youths ry or you per- coun grounds bu e in one filled wi while that naughty, mi s. I don’t have centu riod because what- Na ssion like hers even ieving one's own the very own private r studies/ rol e v i sponsibility act highe y a pro I had nturou ss that ach le, and ave profe your pe environment. ople can especially pla tem, our biodiversity, and sty true to a certain adve mories of owning a er it may be, you "h s- while putting acro l and sonal dreams. with a finance for ion or open up a Young pe heritage, our ecosys ness, by first of may be ofession is any me a dress, I was out ev end to your pa s job pays to trave r privilege of flying micro- specializat pr att a thi aware our extent, the t without chal- Barbie or t exploring the fa- to" ers. Period. You will t only that, she furtheon lawyer from Cairo, n and clinic. ntd. on page 2 preserving way in creating more themselves. hra no d ou ng Co and lead the tious, careful and aware an entire forest. And certainly no hen I get ready and ab lak river near our se babies crying non- adds, “you get to spen and biologist from Te m South ve all, being cau ly a little spark to burn ection can certainly lenges. “W am clueless of mous Mi olony in Mokok- ha hyper active holiday yourself, help out here n also a Doctor fro a few).

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) today informed that it has partially modified its earlier notification dated September 12, 2014 with regard to NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Service (Main) examination 2014, that the commission will allot equal marks to all the candidates in respect of the 119 questions in the General Studies Paper –I. A press note from the NPSC Secretary, Sarah R Ritse informed that as a result of the modification equal marks will be allotted to questions 1; 3-5; 12-50; 55-57; 59; 90-139; 142 and 150-170, from the said paper. This modification, the NPSC informed, has been done in compliance with the High Court Directive, issued on November 27, 2014.

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LS Speaker to grace 50th anniversary of NLA NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): Lok Sabha Speaker, Sumitra Mahajan is the Chief Guest for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly at NLA Complex, Kohima on November 29. A press note from the Press and Information Bureau said that the Speaker will also inaugurate a photo exhibition titled ‘Nagaland Legislative Assembly in Transition.’

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Job vacancy encourage creativity among naga children For batch 2014

NTACT FOR DETAILS CO HIMA 27 DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER KO L L I H S ’ OFFICERis an9862artist; (MExN): “Every child 8 / 667159 17 98 49 97 8 : o. one N remain an the problem is how Phto artist once he/she grows up,” said the famed artist Pablo Picasso.

Quoting this line, an organization called the All Nagaland Drawing Teachers Association (ANDTA) today called for the promotion of the arts in Nagaland and to foster the creativity and imagination of Naga students.

In a statement, the President of the ANDTA, V Hetoi Swu, lamented that education on the arts is “declining” in the schools of Nagaland state. To counter this decline, he urged upon parents to encourage children towards spending time on art related activities. “Art activities are meant to enhance student creativity in all spheres of life,” he stated and encouraged Naga society to recognize art as a way to “make the invisible visible and the unknown know.”

Commercial artists on the streets of Kohima and Dimapur, the ANDTA President informed, are making a daily earning of Rs 5000. However, he lamented that 90 percent of these artists are non Nagas. He cited this as a challenge to promote the development of the arts in Nagaland, thereby providing a platform for self employment for young Nagas.

To ensure that quality art education is imparted to students in the state, the ANDTA appealed to the Director of School Education “not to make backdoor appointments against the post of drawing teachers.” It called for the conduct of proper interviews “to get the right candidate who will be able to deliver the benefits of the arts to students.” It further called for correspondence between the School Education Department and the drawing teachers to work towards helping Naga students competitive on this field.

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Looks like our sleeping pillars woke up. See, our town is shining. Potholes are Centre gone. Modi is a great moti- Nagaland Job in Nagaland vator indeed!

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ADB reluctant to fund border road projects NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 27 (PtI): A Congress member contended in Lok Sabha on Thursday that Japan is now backing out of funding the border roads in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh, a project on which China has raised objections and questioned what the government would do now. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ninong Ering claimed that following an agreement between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at APEC, Tokyo has now become against the funding. He recalled that the Asian Development Bank has been reluctant to fund the project due to the Chinese objections.

In such a situation, he sought to know how government would go about early completion of the border roads at a time when the Border Roads Organisation has drawn a roadmap.

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The two Members of Parliament from Nagaland state, Neiphiu Rio and Khekiho Zhimomi have written to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, urging for the latter to announce a Prime Minister’s Package for the state.

The letter, appended by Lok Sabha MP, Neiphiu Rio and Rajya Sabha MP, Khekiho Zhimomi, informed the PM that despite completing fifty years of existence, Nagaland state continues to remain a “backward” state with poor infrastructure and lack of facilities on several fronts. The letter informed that Nagaland does not have any national or regional project “worth the name,” and called upon the Indian PM to take cognizance of this predicament.

The MPs recalled that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit to the state “is still fondly remembered by the Naga people,” and that he had announced “an economic package to the tune of more than a thousand crores.” “He had made the historic statement at Kohima, where he said India understands and respects the unique history of the Nagas,” the MPs added. However they lamented that his “seriousness towards the peace process and his economic package could not be fully realized by subsequent governments at the Centre.” Most significantly, his announcement for a four lane highway between Kohima and Dimapur and a thermal power plant in Dimapur remains unrealized till today, they said.

Till date, they informed that Nagaland state does not have a medical college and therefore the health facilities in the state have been “poor.” The MPs proposed that the centre take up this project as a fully funded national project.

They further stated that the state requires “quality Hindi language teachers as the population, especially in the hilly belts are still not comfortable with Hindi.” In this regard, they urged the centre to consider establishment of a high quality

Hindi Language Institute in Nagaland.

The Nagaland MPs then reminded that during the visit of former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then PM had announced a youth employment package which made the Nagaland state government launch the ‘Year of Youth Empowerment.’ They urged the present PM to consider a youth employment package in order to overcome unemployment challenges.

With regard to connectivity, the MPs stated that Nagaland is struggling with facilities especially in broadband services.

This, they stated, has hampered all sections of society, especially good governance, entrepreneurship, press and media, education, creativity and the

ed that this precarious financial position of the state was a result of the normative approach undertaken by the 13th Finance Award.

Regarding the Foothill Road, they informed that the Nagaland state government plans to connect Nagaland with a four lane road that runs from the south of the state to the northern corner. The road, they stated, will run through the mineral belts of Nagaland and also connect to the Tran Arunachal Highway and the East-West Corridor while also being a feeder road for the Tuli Paper Mill. The MPs asserted that the economic impacts of developing this road are “tremendous” and will “significantly improve physical connectivity while expanding the scope for the Nagaland Special Development Zones and possible smart cities in the future.” They urged that the project be taken up as a national project.

The MPs also touched on rail connectivity and urged that the proposed railway line to Kohima must be expedited as a national project, which can further be extended to Manipur into the international border.

Meanwhile, they added that the state’s lone airport in Dimapur has a limited scope for expansion. As such, they informed that the state government has proposed for construction of a new airport between Kohima and Dimapur.

This proposal may be considered for construction of an international standard airport, they urged. The MPs lamented that poor air connectivity in Nagaland has become a matter of serious concern. “At all levels we have taken up with the Government of India but there are still no marked improvements. Steps must be taken up to improve air connectivity and extend better facilities in this area,” they stated.

The MPs expressed confidence that the PM would take their suggestions in a “positive manner” and looked forward to his visit to the state.

Nagaland MPs call for a significant economic package, proper infrastructure and national projects services section, particularly tourism. They asserted that the centre must take steps to improve internet connectivity and make broadband services available to the grass roots.

Lamenting that Nagaland still does not have a single national or regional educational or capacity building centre, the MPs called for setting up a university of skill development and capacity building, along with a section for the service sector.

Reminding that the centre had announced a special economic package for the eastern part of Nagaland, the MPs lamented that an announcement to this end is yet to materialise.

“This is the most backward region of the State and needs special focus and attention,” they stated.

Informing that the state is in “urgent need of a special package for shortfalls in salaries,” the MPs asked that a special grant be made to ease the financial position of the state. They stat-

Most land conflicts in India due to acquisition by state, study reveals

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KOLKAtA, NOVEMBER 27 (IANS): At least 25 percent of India’s districts are affected by some form of land conflict and a majority of these arise because the state takes over the lands, often on behalf of private investors, a study has said.

A land map prepared by the Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development (SPWD) and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) indicates 252 conflicts in 165 of India’s 664 districts. “A new map of land conflicts in India shows that at least one quarter of India’s districts are affected by some form of land conflict,” said a release attributed to RRI. “Most of these conflicts arise from state land takeover of lands, often on behalf of private investors. The takeovers include acquisition of private land, diversion of forest land, or transfer of common lands,” the release said. RRI is a global coalition of 14 partners and over 150 international, regional and community organisations advancing forest tenure,

policy and market reforms.

These developments raise questions regarding India’s ability to address complex social problems at home while pursuing a fast-track development agenda, punctuated by an accelerated land giveaway to investors and recently announced dilutions of India’s Forest Rights Act. “This raises serious doubts about whether the current model of land takeover - where bureaucrats make decisions behind closed doors to displace or impoverish millions of people - is sustainable in the long run,” Kundan Kumar, said director of the Asia Regional Program at RRI. “Given India’s complex land and forest tenure history, transparent and accountable decision making as well as respect for people’s rights are vital missing elements.”

The map tracks takeovers from January 2013 to June 2014 and is based on information collected through a survey of media reports and court cases.

Researchers forecast civil unrest in response to major projects planned for the next 15 years, which require over 11 million hectares of land and will affect tens of millions of people.

According to the report, “the trend has shown little respite in spite of legislations such as the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act and the Forest Rights Act, which aims to make land takeover more democratic”. In practice, compliance and enforcement are inconsistent while the legislations are themselves inadequate, it said.

“Increase in number and intensity of conflicts indicates that India’s current development model is onesided and excludes people on the ground in decisionmaking,” said Viren Lobo, executive director of SPWD. “The rise in cost of production resulting from this approach is not only reflected in the cost of enhanced security for projects, but in the rise of non-performing assets as well.”

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Nurses urged to work with dedication Our Correspondent

Kohima | November 27

Minister for health & family welfare P. Longon today urged all the nurses in the state to work with sincerity and dedication and provide healing to those who are in need of medical care.

He stated his while inaugurating the Chapel Hall cum Guest House of Trained Nurse Association of India (TNAI) Kohima Branch here at Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima.

Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that the Chapel Hall will be source of solace to those suffering from major ailments and their near and dear ones.

He said the Guest House will be of great convenience to the people who come from outside Kohima, especially the poor

Minister for health & family welfare P. Longon and others during the inaugural function of Chapel Hall cum Guest House of Trained Nurse Association of India (TNAI) Kohima Branch at Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima on November 27. Morung Photo

who cannot afford hotels.

“I commend the Kohima branch of TNAI for bringing up this facility which will benefit not only to their members but also to the patients and relatives coming to NHAK for treat-

ment,” Longon said.

While lauding the TNAI for taking social responsibility by providing amenities to the members and the public, the minister called upon them to perform their duties with sincerity and

dedication.

He said nurses today like doctors are not willing to work in rural areas and are absent from their place of posting. Some nurses are even keeping proxies, he said. He also stated even if

the government provides new buildings and equipments, without health workers, these are meaningless investment.

“This issue needs to be addressed and the government will be amending the

service rules making rural posting compulsory based on a rotational basis,” the minister said.

Longon said apart from being in the place of posting and regular in attending to duties, nurses will have to keep in mind that they are in noble profession.

Earlier, dedicatory prayer was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Vevo Phesao, president Kohima Baptist Pastors Fellowship.

Dr. G. Kemp, principal director health & family welfare and Vitoni, Retd assistant Nsg, superintendent also spoke on the occasion.

Kiyasetuonuo Solo, retd deputy director Nsg gave a report. The function was compeered by Tiakala, nursing tutor, SON, NHAK. Vote of thanks was proposed by Rita Angami, vice president TNAI, Kohima Branch.

‘We will give way any day’

NPF reaffirm position on Naga political issue Our correspondent

Kohima | November 27

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Naga People’s Front (NPF) president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu reiterated the party’s stand that in the event of an honorable solution to the Naga political problem arrived at with all groups, “we will give way any day.”

“Our stand is firm towards solution to the Naga political problem and we are ready to take any risk if our action can be of any help to any move towards this end,” he said during the NPF general convention here yesterday.

He also reminded the

gathering of how the party has taken a stand event to the extent of risking the party in the past.

He said in 1998, the Naga Hoho in its meeting dated December 18, 1997 passed a resolution calling upon the Government of India to defer the election and also calling up the Naga people not to participate in the election. They had also asked the political parties to abstain from contesting the election which was due to come on 23-2-1998. All political parties in Nagaland had agreed in the first place that Nagas wanted solution and not elections, he stated He said leaders of NPF, BJP and NDM had met the former union home minister, late Indrajit Gupta and apprised him of the situation in the state.

“In fact, the Govt. of India was requested to defer the election. But before hearing anything from the Govt. of India, the Congress party had betrayed the trust of the Naga people and went ahead to participate in the election and accordingly filed their nominations under very heavy security,” he said adding that the result of the election was, 43 of them returned uncontested, there was contest among them in 17 constituencies in which 10 Congress and 7 Independent candidates returned.

Dr. Liezietsu continued that because of its non participation in the election, the Election Commission of India had served ‘show cause notice’ to the party to de-recognise the party and freeze the symbol.

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): One person was arrested by Kohima Police on November 26 for allegedly demanding money from shopkeepers of Fancy Market, Kohima. A press note from the Kohima Police informed that based on information, the City Mobile Unit were put into task. The apprehended person was identified as one Vibulie Kimho, aged about 29 years.

On body search being made against the arrested person, 12 (twelve) numbers of information slips issued by Ministry of Chaplee (Finance) Affairs, NCSN (K) and cash amounting to Rs. 6,300/- was recovered from his possession, informed the police.

Based on the primafacie evidence, a criminal case was registered against the accused. Police further stated that the same person was earlier arrested in the year 2013 in connection with Kohima North PS and that a charge sheet is already filed against him and trail is on against him in the

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The accused under police custody.

56 APO, Jodhpur, Ajmer Line Rajasthan.” He was produced before the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Kohima today and has been remanded into police custody for conducting further investigation.

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ADC planning office shifted KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (DIPR): All Kohima DPDB members and the general public have been informed that the Office of the ADC Planning & DPDB Hall, Kohima has been shifted to its new building adjacent to DBs Court, Near the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima. All the necessary correspondences may now be addressed to the new site.

Book on Nagaland’s ecosystem to be released KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): A book entitled “The fragile ecosystem of Nagaland” by Dr. Vizovol Mekro will be released on October 28 at 4:00 PM at Cornerstone Bookstore, Belho Complex, near Axis Bank Kohima. Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu will release the same.

Governor extends Ngada greetings KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): Nagaland state Governor, PB Acharya today extended his greetings to the Rengma Community on the occasion of Ngada festival, the festival of thanksgiving, rejoicing, and merry making. A press note from the Nagaland Governor stated: “may all the past differences, hatred, enmity, animosity be erased and let the spirit of oneness, reconciliations, forgiveness, peace and harmony prevail.” On this “auspicious occasion of Ngada festival,” he prayed that “God may bestows his abundant blessing upon the Rengma community in particular and Nagas in general.”

Mass social work in Kohima today KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): In view of the visit of the Prime Minister of India to Kohima, all ward panchayats under the jurisdiction of Kohima municipality have been informed to undertake a mass social work onNovember 29 from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM in their respective colonies. Wards whose jurisdictions cover the NH-2 & NH 29 have been requested to pay extra attention on cleaning their respective stretches.

Further, due to the menace being caused by stray dog, all owners have been reminded to refrain from letting loose their pets/dogs from straying into the streets and waste bins. Wards panchayat have been directed to initiate needful action as deemed appropriate within their respective jurisdictions to prevent the menace. This was stated in a release issued by KMC administrator Kovi Meyase.

Rengmas and Pochurys perform during the Rengma- Pochury Day celebration at Kohima under the theme “Yoke together in oneness” on November 25. (Morung Photo)

7 Dimapur schools declared tobacco free

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (DIPR): The Dimapur District level Co-ordination Committee Review meeting (third question 2014-15) on Tobacco Control Programme was held at the DC’s Conference hall Dimapur on November 26. The meeting was attended by NGO’s and representatives/head of various schools and discussed for active and effective implementation of Tobacco free Zones es-

pecially in Schools and Institutions. Matters such as District anti-tobacco squad, Tobacco cessation Centre, workshop for enforcement Offices etc were deliberated.

Seven schools declared as Tobacco free were also awarded Certificates on the occasion included St. Joseph School, Chumukedima, MGM Higher Secondary School, Pilgrim School, Highland High School, AL Shad-

dai School, Vidya Bhavan School and the Government Higher Secondary School.

An activity report of DTCC Dimapur was presented by Imkumba Aier (Psychologist DTCC). The Programme was chaired

by SDO (C) Temjensangla while the welcome address and vote of thanks was delivered by District Nodal Officer NTCP, Dr. C Tetseo and Father Joe of PINF respectively.

Ministerial staffs of FTC to meet KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The ministerial staffs of the Fast Track Court Nagaland (FTC) will be having an emergency meeting on November 29 at the resident of the secretary at 2:00 PM at Chumukedima, Dimapur. All the concerned staffs have been requested to attend the said meeting without fail.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): In view of the Prime Minister Narender Modi’s visit to Nagaland on November 30 and December 1, the Dimapur Airport Authority officials and staff along with the members of Airport Contractors Union conducted social work from airport terminal to the National Highway, this morning.

The cleanliness drive was led by Mughavi Zhimomi, Airport Director, Dimapur and S. Ghosh, Assistant General Manager (Civil). Representing the administration, EAC Chumukedima Thungbemo Patton also participated in the social work.

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RD meeting with ENSF rescheduled DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Directorate of Rural Developmet has informed that a Coordination Meeting of RD Officials with the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF), scheduled on 29th November 2014 has been postponed to January 2015 due to some unavoidable official duties. The date and venue will be intimated at the earliest. All the Project Directors and Block Development Officers of the 4 eastern districts of Nagaland, namely, Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire and Longleng are requested to keep in mind and attend the Meeting positively.

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During the conduct of the social work, Mughavi Zhimomi made an appeal to the people residing along the airport road not to cultivate or throw garbage inside the demarcated property of the airport authority, so also not to encroach on the airport land.

EAC Chumukedima was of the view that people of the surrounding villages and colonies of Dimapur Airport should cooperate with the airport authority and protect the property of the airport as it is the only airport of the state.

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promptly in order to protect the property of the airport.

Hovishe Achumi, general secretary of Airport Contractors’ Union expressed satisfaction with

the present officials and staff of Dimapur Airport, stating that the developmental activities, which came to almost a standstill situation for almost last

two years have picked pace again. He said union is also equally concerned with the safeguard of the airport property and assured cooperation of the union.

Kohima Police notifies visitors to Hornbill

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): Kohima Police today informed that in view of arrangements for the Prime Minister of India’s visit at Naga Heritage Complex Kisama on December 1, no vehicle(s) without car pass will be allowed to enter the complex.

Designated Parking Areas & Car Passes include: Z and A car pass holder (Red colour) shall park above the Bamboo Pavilion, Kisama; Y and B car pass holder (Blue colour) shall park at the WW-II Museum premises; X and C car pass holder (Green colour) shall park at the left hand side of the road right after passing through gate No-1. The X and C card holder will not be allowed to cross Gate No -2.

The ‘Z’ and ‘A’ car pass will be issued to the rank of Addl. Chief Secretary and

Art & culture announce activities for Hornbill KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The art & culture department today informed that daily cultural performances will be there at the Hornbill festival 2014 stating from December 1 to 10.

Cultural troupes from all tribes will be arriving soon to showcase their traditional attires, their lively songs and dances. Artists’ Corner at the World War II museum premises will have display and sale of art works, demonstrative arts and live sketching , painting exhibition,

above, while ‘Y’ and ‘B’ car pass will be issued to the rank of Joint Secretary and above including HoD’s and ‘X’ and ‘C’ will be issued to public leaders and invitees etc. For the cultural troupe and shop vendors, separate car pass will be issued.

For those without car pass, one side of the NH29 below the Naga Heritage complex, Kisama have been earmarked as single

art competitions, slide show and talk etc.

The archive’s stall will showcase a rare collection of original documents from public records, private records, rare historical and geographical maps, newspaper clippings and rare books and sale of departmental publications etc. with reading facilities for interested students, scholars and researchers. Art & culture director Vevo Sapu extended invitation to everyone to come and experience the colourful Naga cultural heritage.

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Car Pass X, Y and Z will be applicable for December 1 only, whereas Car Pass A, B and C will be applicable from December 2 till 10. As such, Car Pass A, B and C will not be allowed to enter the Naga Heritage Village, Kisama particularly on December 1 unless they posses X, Y and Z Car Pass.

The organizers have been requested to ensure

that all participants of the Hornbill Festival get their Car Pass as per the arrangement made above. Any clarifications or doubts to be made in this regard may contact the Kohima SDPO through mobile numbers 9436002921, 8575045533 or Dy. SP (Traffic) Kohima through mobile numbers 9402696634 or 8575045550.

All concerned have been informed to apply for car

pass by contacting the Tourism office located near Badminton Stadium, Officer’s hill Kohima well ahead of time to avoid complications.

Foreigner’s Registration Counter In view of the upcoming Hornbill festival 2014, the Kohima Police has set up a Foreigners Registration Counter located opposite to SKV Petrol Pump to enable International and Domestic Tourist to do spot registration. However, they can also report at Foreigners Registration Office, Kohima (FRO) for the same. The counter is well equipped with internet facilities and printing units to facilitate all the visiting tourists, informed the police. The said counter will be operational from November 28 until the Hornbill Festival is over.

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panel to look Intelligence alert ahead of Modi Five-member into Khasi language issue visit throws police into a tizzy GUWAHATI, November 27 (THe HINDU): Intelligence input on two militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) sneaking into the city to plant a bomb in a bus threw the Assam police into a tizzy on Wednesday.

The information comes in the midst of a massive security exercise for the scheduled visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the allIndia conference of police chiefs here on Saturday and Sunday. City Senior Superintendent of Police A.P. Tiwari issued an appeal to the public to be vigilant against any suspicious movement of people. Checking of buses and other vehicles was intensified across the city to foil any sabotage plan.

As the ULFA has been observing November 28 as ‘Protest Day’ since the outfit was banned on this day in 1990, and the Prime Minister’s visit and the conference of police chiefs coming just a day after, unprecedented security measures are in place.

The PM is scheduled to arrive here on Saturday afternoon. Modi will first attend a function of the Northeast Frontier Rail-

way in Maligaon here and lay the foundation stone for the Bhairibi-Shairang railway line to be laid in Mizoram. He will also attend the Platinum Jubilee celebration of the Assam Tribune.

On Sunday, he will address the all-India conference of the DGPs and IGPs at the Assam Administrative Staff College, and later address BJP workers of Assam at the Sarusajai Stadium here.

Modi will then fly to Imphal to take part in the closing ceremony of the Sangai festival, the tourism festival of Manipur, and to lay the foundation stone of the National Sports University. He will leave for Nagaland the same afternoon where he will inaugurate the Hornbill festival that coincides with the Statehood Day celebrations on December 1.

The same day he is scheduled to visit Tripura to inaugurate the second and final unit of the 726 MW gas-based dual cycle power generation project at Palatana, before winding up his maiden visit to the region after assuming office.

Recovery of explosives, encounter ahead of PM's visit

GUWAHATI, November 27 (PTI): An ULFA (I) militant was killed in a police encounter and huge cache of explosives was recovered in two separate incidents, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Assam from November 29.

Acting on a tip-off, police recovered four rocket launchers, a carbine, 40 live cartridges and five explosives from a field in Gorsinga No 2 Tokajan village of Tinsukia district this morning, Additional Superintendent of Police Sauravjyoti Saikia said.

In another major haul, three cartons containing 30 packets of gelatin sticks, 1,800 packets of detonators and 12 packets of cordex wire hidden inside gunny bags were recovered during routine checking of vehicles on the Gauahati-Shillong Road in Dispur police station area in the early hours.

The vehicle was coming from Meghalaya and its driver and the lone passenger were detained, Guwahati City Senior Superintendent of Police A P Tiwari said.

Meanwhile, an ULFA(I) cadre was killed in an encounter with police while three others managed to escape at Betonisuk in Dibrugarh district, police said. ULFA(I) militants struck back killing an employee of a petrol pump and critically injuring two others at Khelmati in North Lakhimpur district, Superintendent of Police P K Bhuyan said.

Search operations have been intensified following intelligence inputs yesterday that two youths, possibly belonging to the ULFA (Independent), were planning to keep explosives in city buses and that ULFA(I) may indulge in violence ahead of the prime minister's visit, police officials said.

ULFA (I) demands information about 'missing' cadres GUWAHATI, November 27 (PTI): Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Assam on November 29, the ULFA (Independent) today demanded that Centre provides information about 26 cadres, allegedly missing since the operation against ULFA in Bhutan in 2003. "We demand the information about the missing cadres as both their family members and the outfit are entitled to know

whether they are alive or killed," ULFA(I) chief Paresh Asom (Barua) said in a statement here.

He said his outfit would launch an agitation if the information was not provided by January 10 next.

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Arunachal guv calls for balanced NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION harnessing of natural resources KOHIMA

ITANAGAr, November 27 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma today exhorted scientists to address challenges posed by the climate change and at the same time explore methods for balanced harnessing of the abundant natural resources.

Inaugurating a conference 'Climate Change and Natural Resources Development Strategies: Mountain Risks Management and Governance' at Rajiv Gandhi University here, Sharma said that industrialisation and lifestyle of the people have caused a huge surge in green house gas emission and the green environment, which absorbs the green house gas and checks its effects, is being reduced.

"Geologists and environmentalists have a crucial role in studying and analysing the causes, mechanisms and impacts of such geohazards and explore ways to mitigate or reduce it,"

he emphasised and suggested a special focus has to be on earthquakes, flood, droughts, wildfires, groundwater, coastal flooding and tsunamis.

Sharma called for developing scientific and eco friendly ways to harness natural resources but at the same time preserve the green cover. Geologically, he said, Arunachal Pradesh is a lesser- known region.

Mountains in the state are young and the region is prone to earthquake and at the same time experiences very heavy rainfall.

"Alongside many developmental projects are coming up in the region and many more are in the pipeline," he disclosed and appealed to the Indian Geological Congress to suggest on the design of roads, bridges, tunnels and dams with a geological perspective.

"I will be very happy if your ideas and findings are shared with state government," he said.

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CORRIGENDUM In compliance to the Hon’ble High Court directive on Civil MC.No.165(K)2014 IN W.P.C.NO.187(K)2014 issued on 27.11.2014, the Nagaland Public Service Commission is to partially modify the Notification dated 12.09.2014 with regard to the NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services (Main) Examination 2014, that the Commission will allot equal marks to all the candidates in respect of the 119 questions in General Studies Paper-I.

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SHIlloNG, November 27 (PTI): Dismissing a resolution moved by the Opposition to get the Khasi language included in the Constitution’s Eighth Schedule, Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma today announced constitution of a five-member committee to look into the matter at the Winter session of the state assembly. The committee involves members of the

Opposition, from the Khasi Author Society, Sahitya Akademi and academicians.

"The government will notify the committee tomorrow itself to ensure that pressure is exerted on the centre in this regard,” he said.

The Opposition United Democratic Party legislator Paul Lyngdoh gave input on the history of the Khasi language and reasoned if Mani-

puri and Bodo are included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, there should be a political will to do the same with Khasi language. Apart from Hills State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) legislator Ardent Basaiawmoit and UDP’s Jemino Mawthoh and the Leader of Opposition, the government chief whip Ronnie V Lyngdoh partially supported the issue.

DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION, NAGALAND

GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION November 28, 2014, Time: 11:00 AM, Venue: DSE Office Premises, Kohima

CHIEF GUEST: Shri. Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education Nagaland PROGRAMME SEQUENCE Leader : Zaveyi Nyekha, Director of School Education, Nagaland Invocation : Smti. Temsula, Dy. Director of School Education Felicitation Special No. in singing : Female Voice, i/c Monitoring Cell, DSE Releasing of Souvenir : Chief Guest Entertainment : Shri. Aremo Ezung, Dy. Director of School Education Speech : Chief Guest Vote of thanks : Shri. Limawabang Aier, Additional Director Closing Song : “Shower of Blessing” Jubilee feast follows All the surviving ministers of school education, secretaries, directors of school education, District Education Officers (DEOs) and Sub Divisional Education Officers (SDEOs) are cordially invited to attend the celebration.

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he concept of ‘Counselling’ in Nagaland is in infancy stage. Therefore there are too many challenges and misconceptions about counselling and counselors. The term ‘Counselling’ is also being used very loosely by various groups of people as many want the title ‘Counselor’. For instance, receptionists in hotels or colleges want themselves to be called as counselors. Giving a brief instruction on values or guidelines to the candidates for admission to a technical or professional course by the Church Personals, Trainers, Managers, etc, is also loosely considered as counselling, using hardly any skills of counselling or with little knowledge about counseling. In the strict sense of ‘Professional Counselling’, getting advice or seeking prayers is not counselling. It is because Professionally Trained Counselors apply the principles/theories and strategies of counselling that addresses the wellness within the parameter of the ethical codes and guidelines of the counselors around the world, whereas the so called ‘Spiritual Counselors’ or ‘Self Style Counselors’ do not follow any of such ethical principles or guidelines. So allow me to share a few personal thoughts on the many needs and challenges of counselling in our society.

Meaning of counselling: Counselling is a type of talking therapy between clients and trained practitioners who work together over a short or a long period of time to help the clients in bringing about effective change or enhance their wellbeing in a confidential and dependable environment. So counselling is working with the people who have psychological difficulties without serious mental issues. The American Counselors Association ACA (2010) has defined Counselling as “a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education and career goals.”

Types of counselling: There are three different types of Counselling used by the professional counsellors, namely, Individual counselling, Group counselling and Family counselling, though the execution or means can vary.

1. Individual counselling: Individual counselling is a process of purposeful talking between a counselor and an individual which helps the person to gain an understanding about oneself and one’s behaviours and fosters the development of skills to be used in dealing with difficulties associated with personal, academic and social life.

2. Group Counselling: Group counselling, or group therapy as it is sometimes called, is a form of therapy where a small group of clients with similar experiences/issues approaches these issues of personal growth through the use of interpersonal interaction with a professional therapist. The therapist runs the session, but generally everyone contributes in some way, listening to others and talking themselves. It’s usually focused on a particular issue, like: addiction.

3. Family Counselling: Family Counselling looks at the individual in the context of their relationships and social milieu. Family Counselling also known as Couple Therapy or Systemic Family Therapy is a means of intervention that attempts to understand and address human beings’ pain and distress within the context of the family or relationship environment.

The need of counselling: Counseling is universally recognized as a highly specialized profession.

With the change of time, the professionalism in counseling is rapidly growing. The need for professional counselling service is greater than ever due to the increasing complexities of modern day living with emotional stresses, additional workloads, stiff competitions, family problems, child abuse, peer pressures, easy exposure to social media, degradation of moral values, substance abuse and sexual abuse, to

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God was pleased with his prayer and he added to his request wealth and honor as bonus for his selfless prayer.

Unlike human business strategy of buy two and get one free, God’s policy is get your priority right and you get everything added to it in a complete package. Solomon knew well that several essential elements go into the making of a strong nation, but he also knew that the most important element was divine wisdom. He asked for it and he got more than what he had asked for. The Israelite reached the zenith of its fame and glory during the reign of King Solomon.

Nagaland, a fifty one-year old state of the Indian union, is all set to receive Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi, the 15th and current Prime Minister of India, to Nagaland on the occasion of the anniversary celebration of its statehood which is opportunely timed to be held on the day the Hornbill Festival gets kicked off.

Heads of government don’t get to visit places as and when they wish like their fellow citizens. The visit of this Prime Minister will assume another historical significance in the Indo-

Naga relationship. In this context, what can the Nagas expect from the Prime Minister? More importantly, what is going to be the message of the Nagas to him? Nagas of all tribes and political affiliations should seize this opportunity by sinking our differences in the ocean of forgiveness, and join the chorus in unison to convey our common desire as one people.

Speculation doing the round in the backdrop of Mr. Modi’s imminent visit is that he is likely to announce an economic package, and the Nagas seem to be overwhelmed with happiness, counting the golden eggs of the mythical Goose. Given the fact that Mr. Modi heads a strong government at the center, and that he can take many decisions with comfortable ease on many issues, the Naga issue stands a good chance of claiming the attention and also winning the goodwill of the honorable Prime Minister.

However, sadly, going by the general mood of the people, to this most powerful man of India who is capable of delivering a Jumbo Jet, it appears like the Nagas are all set to ask for a bicycle - a myopic vision motivated by selfish ambition.

We are unsure as to what definitive agendum is on the mind of the Prime Minister on his maiden visit to Nagaland. Whether he is coming as a

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ight from the early human civilization society existed and till today it survives with ample of changes taking place. A society as known consist of a group of people involved in persistent interpersonal relationships sharing the same geographical areas, territory and dwell under one political umbrella and cultural expectation with a defined set of norms and different set of distinctive rules which are followed. The existence of intermixed cultural society coexists harmoniously with people sharing the same interest. But with the so called period of post war era and the age of information science and technology has made it complicated, the ever increasing growth of population both in rural and urban area has resulted in economic crisis, unemployment problem and also of space accommodation. The society has also reach to the climax where competition become fierce, corruption at its peak plying from the zenith of politicians, bureaucrats

and till the lowest employees of peon and chowkidar.

The greed of men’s nature has led to drive for wealth comforts and materialism which has occupied ones lives. People become so individualistic, egoistic and lack of love and sympathy for fellow beings henceforth the feeling of oneness cease to end and whereby individual feeling dominates over the community feelings.

There are several anti social ailments creeping up in our society because people become fewer gods loving and fearing.

The degradation of moral values and ethics which regulates the instinct of men’s life has shaken, being spiritual and honest becomes an old notion that has develop in ones concept and people loves only worldly pleasures. When we introspect into the present existing scenario of our society “survival” has somehow become tough if we were to live a poor honest spiritual and idleness life without any job and status. The theory of Charles Darwin “survival of

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the fittest” can be matched into our present society today. In it he mentioned that only the best and fittest species who can adapt and adjust in the changing natural environment survives.

Comparatively even in our present stage only the rich, intelligent, high status people, educated the best of best, notorious criminal and cruellest people can survive in our changing trends of society and survival for people who don’t posses any possession, job, status and uneducated becomes tough and they are living under a pitiable condition. Our society is a classless society there is no division or different ion of people into certain strata or class. Everyone is equal into an eye of our society but living style differs due to possession of wealth status and recognition in society. The privilege class are the one who enjoy benefits, highly favoured and respected and who got maximum opportunities to exercise their liberty in terms of decision making in varied ways whereas less privilege class are those who cannot exercise their freedom freely as their participation in those are looked down by people comparing on the status he holds and possession he possess.

Though he wanted to exercise his liberty people has inferiority complex over him. Such is a condition we are witnessing though many dejected people fail to disclose their ideology to the reality scene. Due to high standard lifestyles today prices in commodities has shooting up day by day and people who are jobless

and in those rural areas that are depending solely on agricultural products for subsistence life becomes the tougher and burden for them with inequalities plying in our society. Certain funds and aids provided by central government for less privilege class people and developmental scheme are eaten up by concern departments as seen and known. Society as should be supporting upholding one another in different possible ways in times of difficulties are not practised instead the poor are exploited even to the extent of getting hold of their share. Inequality further exists with rich people getting richer and poor poorer, the well to do people only wants to associate with those who in return can help them seeking their own vested interest and avoid the companion of the poor which is a harsh reality.

Differences in society are an inevitable fact, but those can be accepted, tolerated, appreciated and cooperated. As god shapes the destiny of each one, MacIver as quoted “society is a web of social relationship” we are depended on one another and no human being can live in isolation without the interaction and help with his fellow being. The progressive, egalitarian, peaceful and coexistence of our society can be attained only when we shades off our all evils and work together by joining our hands in unison.

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political tourist to promote his own political ideology or as an apostle of some vested religious group for a pan Hindu nation remains to be known.

I only pray that he is coming with an open mind to understand our unique history and respond to the deep-seated feelings of the Nagas with utmost honesty and sincerity. No doubt, a magnanimous heart is required in order to bail out a debt-ridden state like Nagaland. Any move in this direction is a good gesture that will be met with appreciation. But what is more imperative at the moment is to heed the cry of every Naga for a lasting solution to our protracted political predicament. With our heads held high, we want to move ahead together with the rest of the world and develop our land. Yet, our dream will remain a distant dream until and unless a final settlement is reached.

Let us first seek together the welfare and the common good of the Nagas by setting aside out petty personal differences and grudges against one another. We cannot afford to bury our common dream as a people to live with dignity and respect in the eyes of the world in exchange for individual benefit of a few people. Let us strike the iron while it is hot.

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non-professional counselors is unjustifiable and fatally harmful to the clients.

Those who give or pressurize for such appointments will have to pay heavily or can be defenseless before the law in the event of any eventuality.

Another big challenge I see in our society is that, most of our people want quick-fix solutions to every problem in life. Many think that going just once to a counselor should solve all their problems which have been there for many years but working with the counselors takes time. Also there is a very strong tendency to take the patients to the Prayer Centers for fasting and prayer instead administering proper medication in time. All of us need God’s touch to get heal but taking the patients to the prayer centers delays the seeking of proper medication which usually worsens the conditions of the patients.

When the patient’s condition become too critical, the sick persons suffer and even the medical practitioners struggle more. Here, we, the church leaders, may need to educate and instruct our people that God uses those experts to heal us instead of telling them to fast and pray alone.

Besides, we consider all those who see some illusions and have hallucinations as possessed by some ‘bad spirits’ or ‘evil spirits’ even if the patient is experiencing suffering due to the result of some physical or mental sicknesses.

Everyone is born with tremendous potentialities. But these qualities have been blocked and obscured become in many people’s life as the result of the accumulated strained experiences of fear, hurt, loss, pain, anger, embarrassment, etc. So the basic purpose of counselling is to help the people in trouble to use their existing problemsolving skills more effectively or develop new and better coping skills and find solution to their problems.

mention a few.

I do see the need of many trained counselors in our state. It is because of the gap created due to easy access and utilization of the modern gadgets and means of social communication by the younger generations, of which the older and wiser people in our villages are fully ignorant about. It is also because in the lives of the present youngsters, the rich traditional cultures and the values of our forefathers such as sincerity and honesty are being substituted with the newly invented things and ideas such as internet, mobile, face-book, pornography, gun culture, substance abuse, easy money, pleasure loving, and easy going culture etc. The very advancement of science and technology is being misused for adverse purposes and thus harming ourselves in many ways.

The challenges of Counselling in our society: While speaking about the proper counselling sessions, the clients open their entire life’s story or give their lives into hands of the counselors to be molded or shaped from the sessions.

And if the counselors try to help the counselee without proper knowledge, they can be misled or make them feel much more burdensome and miserable.

This is why in the developed countries Mental Health Practitioners need to get license to practice their profession. But in our state at present, there are only a handful of properly trained counselors, practicing this profession.

Hence, most of our educational institutions are yet to have a trained counselor to help the people in trouble.

More alarming and disturbing fact about our society is that, the Posts of the counselors are filled by way of political appointments of people who are untrained. I have a word of caution to those who give these appointments and to those who pressurize for such appointments: i.e. to help a family monetarily is good but depriving those who need Mental Health Professionals’ help due to political appointments of

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54. French for “Friend” 55. Dry riverbed 56. A cherished desire 58. Ends a prayer 59. Tablet 60. Initial wager 61. Fabricated 62. Harps 63. Applications

DOWN 1. Concur 2. Submerged ridge of rocks 3. Religious splinter groups 4. East southeast 5. Assault 6. Rental agreement 7. A single time 8. Cerberus 9. Consumed food 10. Have in mind 11. Presumptuously daring 12. Gave the once-over 13. Requests 18. Prison-related 22. Pelts 24. Modify 26. Paddles 28. Showed displeasure 29. Fully developed 30. Back talk

31. Kill 32. Barbershop emblem 33. Transferred 34. Monstrously 37. Bawdy 38. Coarse file 40. Camp beds 41. “There you have it!”

43. Wolf-like 44. Stock certificates 46. Hotel offering 47. Aches 48. Overact 49. Eats 50. Travelled through water 51. Tibetan monk 53. Box 56. American Sign Language 57. Letter after sigma Ans to CrossWord 3075

I’m not against the Nationalist fighters I’m against the divided faction, taxation, extortion, bloodshed....

I’m not against the Political leaders I’m against corruption, immorality, hooliganism....

I’m not against the Officials of various departments I’m against the practise of nepotism, favortism, backdoor appointments....

I’m not against any tribes of Nagas I’m against the practise of tribalism, disunity, infringement....

I’m not against any NGO’s I’m against the divided policies, abhorrent nature, money minded org’s....

I’m not against the Law keepers (cops) I’m against the law breakers, bribery, injustices....

I’m not against the rich people I’m against their greed, selfish & arrogant nature....

I’m not against western culture I’m against the lost of: morality, honesty, ancestral values....

I’m not against any denominations (church) I’m against the proclamation of superiority of one’s own denomination.... ‘’All I’m AGAINST is the above cited lines’’ Atö Lüho (Keduvito)

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Modi to address State BJP Workers’ Meet DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nagaland Unit has informed that the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has “consented” to address the State BJP workers meeting at Chumukedima, Dimapur on November 30.

In this context, a press

note from the BJP Nagaland general secretary and spokesman, K James Vizo informed all the concerned members to contact the state office secretary Mr. Lachit Kachari for further details and submit two (2) passport photos on or before November 28.

Further, it informed all delegates attending the

said meeting assemble at the positively at Party Office, Super Market at 4.00 pm on November 30 for a briefing by the State President, Dr M Chuba Ao. Transportation for the delegates will be arranged from the Party Office to the meeting venue by the Party, the press note added.

ANIEF to seek legal recourse to recover “pending cases” of subsidy An Action Committee appointed to pursue the matter in court.

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): A general meeting of the selected industrial entrepreneur "under pending cases" of Central Transport Subsidy (CTS) and Central Capital Investment Subsidy for the year 2007, 2008, 2009 under the Department of Industries & Commerce was held on November 21 at Kohima. The meeting was held under the aegis of All Nagaland Industrial Entrepreneurs Federation (ANIEF).

According to a press note from the ANIEF president, Povotso Lohe and general secretary, Orenbe-

mo Humtsoe, the meeting thoroughly deliberated on the “plight of pending cases” of those industrial units till date and resolved to seek legal avenues to redress their “genuine grievances” in the light of adverse responses from Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Government of India.

According to the press note, the Department letter dated October 16, has reportedly stated that, “Subsidy cannot be released to those units in the State of Nagaland.”

Consequently, an Action Committee of ANIEF at the state level was created

under with Khezheto Chishi as convenor and four other membes: Talaong Sangtam (member secretary); Kivito Angami; M Y Ngullie; and W Akum Yim. “The meeting has authorised the Action Committee to engage lawyers and mobilise fund through good will contribution in order to pursue the court case,” the press note added.

The committee is also authorised to “co-opt” more members “as and when necessity arises” and will consult, coordinate and assist the office bearers of ANIEF till “justice is fully achieved.”

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Ao Students’ Union Dimapur (ASUD) will be conducting its 42nd general conference cum 11th Excellency Award on November 29 at the Indoor Badminton Stadium, DC Court Area,

Dimapur.

A press note from ASUD president Opong Longkumer and general secretary L Bendang Jamir informed that Alemtemshi Jamir IAS and Limasunep IPS will grace the occasion as the chief guest

and guest of honour respectively. The Excellency Award is sponsored by K Tsükti Jamir.

ASUD furthers informed all the bonafide members, awardees and well wishers to attend the aforesaid event positively.

Friday 28 November 2014

‘Improve approach, attitude & discipline’ KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (DIPR): Integrated Extension Training Centre (IETC) Medziphema celebrated its 50 years of existence on November 26 at the IETC complex with Parliamentary Secretary, Labour and Employment, S. Chuba Longkumer as the chief guest who also unveiled the Jubilee Monolith and released the souvenir.

The chief guest in his speech stated that IETC was the first of its kind in our land, started as a humble development which could be traced way back to 1960s. It has been giving opportunities even to the untrained people based on hard work & discipline.

He also mentioned that IETC from 1962-2003, as many as 800 people were trained and from 20142016 another batch of 65 persons were under training. Through IETC the government gave opportunities to the trainees. He applauded the pioneers past and present for their hard work. Stating that unemployment especially for the youth has been increasing day by day, the Parliamentary Secretary re-

IETC Golden Jubilee held

A press note from the BJP informed that the party’s “basic philosophy is for integral Humanism, Nationalism, National Integration, Democracy, Gandhian Approach to Socio-economic issues leading to the establishemnt of an Egalitarian Society free from exploitation on the basis of Caste, Sex, Creed or Religion, positive Secularism (Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava) and valued based politics.”

In the workshop, ev-

workers in every polling station in the district.

The BJP Wokha Unit informed all interested individuals, groups willing to enroll in BJP to give a missed call to 18002662020 (toll free) or through any of the district party worker. Any doubt or queries can be asked to the District Convener N Nchumbemo Jami @ 9862601489, Co-convener Mhonjan Lotha @ 9856001100 or District President @ 8729997481.

behalf of the District Election Officers said that he has learnt many things from the outgoing Officer who has not neglected any of the assignments given to him. He said that S. Mar is also active in many social services and hoped that he would continue to serve the people in various categories even after retirement from government service.

President NEDEA, Awa Lorin said that S. Mar Aier has been instrumental in bringing the Association into existence and termed him as a backbone of the Association. He had also served as Office bearer in various categories since its inception till 2012.

The outgoing officers S. Mar Aier in his speech thanked God for giving him good health and said that he considers himself as the luckiest person who had worked with so many good people in the Department. He hoped that the Department would see through many challenges ahead and called upon all the staff to work with sincerity and devotion to duty.

The programme was chaired by Deputy CEO, Khekugha Sema. Dy CEO, Vekho Vero earlier pronounced the invocation prayer.

Jubilee monolith on November 26.

quested the department to train Naga youth as much as possible. He also congratulated the IETC Principal and his team of officers and staff for the successful celebration of the jubilee.

The chief guest also mentioned that we have enough land, and as such any kind of development is possible but we are still lacking behind because of our decision approach, attitude and discipline. He concluded by urging all the people to come together with love and care and forge ahead with unity.

The function was chaired

by Director of Agriculture, Lhiwepelo Mero, invocation

by Pastor TBCM, Kevichulie. A Special number was presented by IETC trainees’ choir and Kevi. Welcome address was delivered by Principal IETC & Director SAMETI, Nguzonyi Wetsah while reminiscence was given by Retired Director of Agriculture and Commissioner Secretary, T. Imchen, IAS Rtd. Greetings was delivered

by Secretary Horticulture Benjamin. Note of gratitude was delivered by Lecturer IETC Vizonyu Liezie.

NSCN (IM) welcomes ‘home comers’

Naga Orpheus Hunt press conference DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The managing team of Naga Orpheus Hunt 2014 - Soyachunks, will be holding a press conference on November 29, 11:00 AM in the conference hall of Alaphra Group, near the Morung Express Office in Duncan Basti, Dimapur. This was informed on a press note from Yupangnenla Longkumer, the PR Incharge of PR Incharge.

UTNA (GNM) general Meeting KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Unemployed Trained Nurses’ Association (GNM) of Nagaland will be having its general meeting on December 5 at Chapel Hall, District Hospital, Dimapur at 10 AM. A press note from the UNTA (GNM) president, Bendangmongba and general secretary, Zululemla has requested all the members to attend the meeting positively.

UNTA (GNM) Dimapur unit informs DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The office bearer of the Unemployed Trained Nurses’ Association (GNM) has requested all its members to compulsorily attend the UNTA general meeting on December 5 at Chapel Hall, District Civil Hospital Dimapur. A press note from its president, Asungla Wati and general secretary, T Amenla Imchen further informed all its members that the Identity Card will be issued on that day and the absentees will be fined Rs. 500.

Mothu Koso Chiithu on Nov 30

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): Mao Hoho Dimapur and Mao Churches Dimapur are organizing one DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): its fold at a joint meeting of the cabinet and day prayer meeting (Mothu Koso Chiithu) on November The NSCN (IM) welcomed the following steering committee executives held at the 30 at MBC, 7th Mile here. The meeting would begin at 10:00 am. The first session would be prayer meeting and the sechome comers from various other groups into steering committee hall on November 27. ond would be panel discussion. Therefore, all the Ememei DATE OF DATE OF residing within the jurisdiction have been requested to atSl. RENAME FACTION DESIGNTN ENROLHOMEtend the program positively. Bus service would be provided No GION MENT COMING from 8:00 am at City Tower via Burma Camp, Purana Bazzar, 1 Niheto sumi UT-I FGN Major 14/02/2007 26/09/2014 Diphupar, City Tower via Kuda, Tolouzoma, Solephe, Green 2 H. Shangphunhphom Khurmi UMLA Corporal 24/12/10 30/09/2014 Park 5th Mile, informed a press release.

3 Takha Wangpan Wancho NSCN-K Corporal 06/01/2008 02/10/2014 4 Ahap Wangsa -do-doCorporal 20/08/2009 02/10/2014 PKD advent Christmas celebration 5 Hugging Sakkam -do-doSergeant 04/02/2008 18/11/2014 6 Tontang Angshon Khurmi UMLA Sgnt.Major 25/102006 26/11/2014 DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Phuyetomi KupushuKulu Dimapur (PKD) will be observing their “Advent Christmas” on December 1 at the residence of S Toiho at Chekeyi Village, Near Diphupar. A press note from the PKD Chairman, Tohozhe Awomi cordially invited all PKD members as well as “Amalimi” to attend the event positively.

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (DIPR): The Regional Passport Officer (RPO), Guwahati has informed that a two Passport Seva camp would be held at PHQ Conference Hall on December 5 and 6 from 9.30 AM. Applicants from all districts of Nagaland will be allowed to appear in the camp; however, only ordinary passport applications will be accepted.

Tatkal, Re-issue, PCC, Hold or Pending cases

will not be entertained in the Passport Seva Camp.

Applicants may visit to the website www.passportindia.gov.in for online registration.

The list of those applicants selected for the appointment on December 5 and 6 will be released on December 1 and 2 respectively at 11 AM. A total number of 150 and 120 appointments will be entertianed at the Passport Seva Camp.

Applicants have to

submit online fee, book appointment and come to the venue on the date of appointment with original documents and a set of xerox copies of all the documents.

It is compulsory for the applicants to come with 7 (seven) photographs of passport size with light background.

Applicants may contact over telephone no. 03612228547, 2264841 for any queries/assistance regarding the camp.

Kindergarten students of SD Jain Higher Secondary School, Dimapur enjoy meal during their picnic on November 25 at Mahavir Sthal, Army Supply Road, Dimapur. The School organized the picnic for fun and better coordination and understanding with the students’ parents. Separate fun games and activities were conducted for students and parents during the picnic.

Balanced ration pivotal for achieving optimum productivity in animals mals for getting optimum productivity. He also called for judicious use of available existing feed resources for improving animal performance stating that NE Region has vast potential for producing organic animal products as there is negligible use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc.

The Director of NRC on Mithun, Dr. C Rajkhowa, who was the chairman of the workshop, stated that the importance of nutrition lies in the fact that of the total cost of production, feed-

ing alone contributes about 60-80%. Dr. SS Kundu, Secretary, ANSI highlighted the activities of ANSI since its inception and explained the theme of the workshop.

In the technical session, the issues of overall scenario of livestock and poultry in North East region; balanced feeding of animals based on local feed resources; supplementation of area specific mineral mixtures for enhanced production; reproduction, immunity and health; and shelter management and nutritional strate-

Longleng DPDB meeting held LONGLENG, NOVEMBER 26 (DIPR): The Longleng District Planning and Development Board meeting for the month of November was held at DC’s conference hall on November 21. The meeting was chaired by the vice chairman DPDB & DC Longleng Nikhashe Sema. Before reviewing the last meeting minutes, new board members EE, PHED, Sashinungsang and SDFO (Fisheries), Rushulo Kent were introduced to the board.

The board discussed about the creation of SDO PWD at Tamlu ADC Hq. The board also approved the implementing committee for LADP 2014-15. The board decided that next DPDB cum advent Christmas will be held on December 6, 2014 at Yongmon River Side.

LNKR (MN) 8th general conference

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The 8th general conference of the Liangmei Naga Katimai Ruangdi Manipur & Nagaland (All Liangmai Naga Students’ Union, Manipur & Nagaland) will be held from January 20 to 23 at NTU village, Tening sub-division, Peren district with the theme ‘Together we excel.’ All the Liangmai public leaders, officers, employees, intellectuals and general public have been urged to give helping hand for the success of the programme. The LNKR furDIMAPUR, NOVEM- ther informed that there will be various competitions BER 27 (MExN): Troops like Liangmai Miss Contest, Liangmai Idol, Cultural Reof 5 Assam Rifles appre- gales, Literary Session, and Fashion Parade. hended one NSCN (IM) cadre identified as Captain CYA Golden Jubilee celebration Tongriba Sangtam Tronger in Tuensang district. A press PHEK, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Chesezu Youth note from the AR informed Association will celebrate its Golden Jubilee from Dethat based on specific input cember 10 to 13 at its Local Ground, Chesezu, Phek. from sources the troops of 5 Speaker Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Chotisuh Sazo Assam Rifles cordoned the will grace the occasion as Chief Guest and President, house of the NSCN (IM) Western Chakhesang Hoho, Vekhosayi Nyekha as the cadre on November 21 and guest of honour. In a press release, President, CYA, Vekapprehended him along hotsoyi Nyekha informed all members and well wishers with one 9 mm pistol with to grace the Golden Jubilee. magazine and one 9 mm live ammunition. The indi- Tening Village Youth vidual was handed over to Org golden jubilee police station Chare.

TENING, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Tening Village Youth Organization is celebrating golden jubilee on December 13 at Tening village under the theme “Fight for Better Tomorrow.” The occasion will be graced by Y Patton, Home Minister as chief guest, informed a press release from chairman, Jubilee Committee, Kezhaletuo and convenor, Methiusung. The organizing committee has asked all its members to participate in the programme. Further, all people hailing from Tening village gies under climate changing and residing elsewhere and all well wishers have been scenario were discussed. requested to attend the event.

Uses of chaff cutters for chaffing of roughages, prep- State BJP condoles aration of feed block etc were DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): All ranks and also emphasized.

About 60 farmers from files of Bharatiya Janata Party, Nagaland unit lead by its Dimapur Milk Union and president, Dr M Chuba have expressed their heartfelt Porba attended the work- condolence to the bereaved family of Kutoli Khulu, forshop. The road map for mer State Bharatiya Janata Mahila Morcha (BJMM) presenhanced animal produc- ident. A press note from BJP Nagaland, general secretary tivity through nutritional and spokesman, K James Vizo stated that Late Khulu, inventions was chalked as the BJMM president had immensely contributed in out “which would help the building the party wings throughout the state, for which farmers of this region eco- the party remain indebted. The Party further offered its nomically on a sustainable earnest prayer of solace to the bereaved family as well as basis,” stated a press release prayer of eternal peace for the departed soul. received here.

AR apprehends one with arms

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): A workshop on ‘Augmentation of Livestock Productivity in NE Region through Nutritional Interventions” jointly organised by Animal Nutrition Society of India (ANSI) and NRC on Mithun, Medziphema was held on November 24.

Dr. SV Ngchan, Director, ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, who inaugurated the workshop, emphasized on the need for feeding balanced rations to the ani-

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (MExN): The Kohima Village Youth Organization Christmas Bazaar at Kohima Local ground (Khuochiezie) will be held from December 1 to 24. KVYO Publicity Secretary Salhourü Chielie in a press release said that the Bazaar will include first hand, second hand garments, mela, trade fair and many more.

Registration Forms will be issued on November 28 and 29; last date of form submission will be November 30. InParliamentary Secretary for Labour and Emplyment, S terested persons may collect the form from KVYO Office Chuba Longkumer with other officials after unveiling the Probogei United Traders Building (main town).

CEO office bids farewell to Administrative Officer KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 27 (DIPR): Officers and staff of the Chief Electoral Officer, Kohima, accorded farewell to their outgoing Administrator Officer S. Mar Aier at the Chief Electoral Officer’s office on November 27. The outgoing Administrator Officer is retiring on 30th November 2014 after rendering 35 years of service.

Joint Chief Electoral Officer, N. Moa Aier in his speech expressed gratitude to the outgoing Officer for rendering his valuable services to the Department and said that he has done remarkably well for the department as well as for the people. He said that the retiring Officer has been with the Department through many tough times and further congratulated him for retiring from government service in good health.

He hoped that S. Mar Aier would continue to contribute to the society even after retirement.

Assistant Superintendent Mhiesivilhu Mor speaking on behalf of the Ministerial staff said that the retiring officer, S. Mar has a sense of responsibility and has served with sincerity and devotion during his tenure in the Office.

AEO, Kohima, R. Mhathung Ngullie speaking on

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KVYO Christmas Bazaar from Dec 1 to 24

BJP Wokha holds joint workshop on primary membership drive RPO Guwahati to organise two day Passport WOKHA, NOVEMBER and person to person to ery Mandals, BJYM, BJMM 27 (MExN): The Bharatiya apprise and explain their were asked to at least enSeva Camp at Kohima in December roll a minimum of 10 party Janata Party (BJP) Wokha doubt about the BJP. Unit held a joint workshop on massive Primary Membership drive on November 17 for District Frontals and Mandals Office Bearers along with state Co-convener Membership drive, Er. Senkathung Jami.

In the workshop the state Co-convener and Distrcit President explained about the details and motives behind the BJP Primary drive in length and breadth.

The district party are appealed to go door to door

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Roads: The bedrock of economic development!

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Elizabeth D. Samet NYT

When Is a War Over?

Alas! The road to development in Nagaland State is paved with potholes in Nagaland

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robust infrastructure is intrinsically linked with a stable and vibrant economy and considered as bedrock for economic development. A landlocked state, the socio-economic significance of healthy road network in Nagaland is easy to decipher. It is ubiquitous, providing wide and flexible choices to the users and clearly a critical enabling factor of connectivity to the remote areas. In its most basic role, the roads enable quick mobility to people to pursue their daily life’s pursuit and provide access to broader markets and, as previous editorial has underlined, engenders economic growth and social cohesion by ‘bridging the gap’ between peripheries and the centre. Alas! In Nagaland, the main arteries of our road networks are chronically choking with potholes and bad maintenance; sporadically resuscitated with a mild ‘shot of asphalt coating’, just bare enough to sustain it till the next cycle. Giving its importance, the utter neglect of the vital lifeline of the economy is simply befuddling and appalling.

Who is to be blame for such mess? The Government or the Mother Nature. My empathy lies with the latter. The development of the region is crippled by lack of adequate transport infrastructure highlighted a North East Council (NEC) mandated study last year. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit of performance covering Public Work Department (PWD) from period to 2008-2013 has revealed that the technical estimate incorporated in Detail Project Reports (DPR) were done violating the norms prescribed by Indian Road Congress (IRC) on soil survey, drainage study and environment action plan. Most appallingly, while the department maintained that it has constructed 1141.34 Km length of blacktopped roads using Non-Lapsable Central Poll of Resources (NLCPR) fund of Rs. 1022.66 crore, physical verification of 18 such projects in 11 divisions by the CAG reveals a stark reality.

As per the administrative and technical sanction, 765.54 Kms stretch was required to be blacktopped, but actual verification revealed that only 277.67 Km (36 per cent) stretch was blacktopped to meet the all weather standard resulting in 64 per cent of un-surfaced road in the 11 test checked divisions.

In its final comments, the CAG stated, Nagaland among other things, suffers from lack of focus area development, unauthorised fraudulent withdrawal in violation of standard procedure; overlapping projects; cost escalation and basically no monitoring mechanism; sub-standard workmanship; faulty DPRs and technical estimates and approval of DPR revision without due process; and payment for un-executed items of work. The Financial Express (November 26, 2014) reports of 230% cost escalation in four years without a single inch of actual work execution on border roads is nothing extraordinary but rather a “standard working procedure” for the State Government.

Instead of focusing on actual work and maintenance, the government seems to be synergising all its energy towards preparing fictitious DPRs to cleverly hide their gross incompetencies and misdeeds. The public too is oblivious to such reports as they usually gather dust at the submission level. Consequently, the roads maintenance becomes the biggest casualty.

The World Bank stressed that road infrastructure broadly encompasses relevant issues including the design, contracting, implementation, supervision, and maintenance of roads and related structures, such as bridges and interchanges. However in its absence, it not only creates enormous economic loss, but represents an increased safety hazard to the user, leading to more accidents, with their associated human and property costs. The State dubious distinction of being one of the most accident borne areas affirms such observation. What is the step forward? For starter formulate a good infrastructure policy that will not only enhance the existing mechanism but enable proper coordination among implementing agencies as well as create effective monitoring mechanism to check fund misuse and delays in project. Create transparency in tendering and awarding projects. Maintain and demand accountability! Punish erring officials and blacklist contriving contractors.

Give more teeth to vigilance agency and make general public an equal stakeholder in the building a vibrant ‘road’ to development. But the government has opted for the “road less taken” on the path to development, creating nothing along the way. We need a road driven, not festival centric government.

This editorial is part of a series on Nagaland Roads

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Aung Hla Tun and Jared Ferrie Reuters

Suu Kyi woos military lawmakers ahead of talks on Constitution

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yanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has invited military lawmakers to dinner in a bid to build ties ahead of a proposed summit on changing the constitution, which bars her from the presidency, a senior member of her party said on Thursday.

On Tuesday, parliament unanimously endorsed talks among Suu Kyi, President Thein Sein, the speakers of the two houses of parliament, military chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and a member of a party representing an ethnic minority. On Thursday evening, Suu Kyi hopes to dine in the capital, Naypyitaw, with unelected military MPs who hold a quarter of parliamentary seats, said Nyan Win, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy Party (NLD).

"It will be our first meeting with the military lawmakers," Nyan Win told Reuters. "We’re not going to talk about any serious matters, but I’m sure it will definitely promote mutual understanding."

Mutual understanding has long been in short supply in Myanmar, which emerged in 2011 from 49 years of rule by military generals who unleashed bloody crackdowns on prodemocracy demonstrators and imprisoned political activists.

Suu Kyi has endorsed reforms by the semi-civilian government of former general Thein Sein. She was famously pictured watching a military parade in Naypyitaw last year, alongside members of the previous junta that had kept her under house arrest for more than 15 years. But over the past year Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, has been critical of the government, accusing it of stalling the reform process. Her party has gathered about 5 million signatures in support of a petition to amend the militarydrafted constitution to reduce the military’s role in politics.

With just a few hours remaining before Thursday's event at a hotel in the Myanmar capital, the military lawmakers had not responded to Suu Kyi's overture. No date has been set for the proposed constitutional talks and they can only go ahead if Thein Sein and Min Aung Hlaing agree to take part, said Andrew McLeod, director of the Myanmar program at the law faculty of Oxford University.

The talks would be "significant", he said, but warned against putting too much emphasis on them, especially in light of next year’s general election. "I don’t think anybody really thinks it’s feasible to have constitutional change before the election," he said.

In this Saturday, September 10, 2011, file photo, U.S. Army Pfc. Garrick Carlton, center, of Sacramento, Calif., hikes past burning rubbish to man a hilltop observation post along with fellow Pfc. Michael Tompkins, of Wadsworth, Ohio, left, and Pfc. Austin D'Amica, of San Diego, at Combat Outpost Monti in Kunar province, Afghanistan. U.S. officials say President Barack Obama has quietly approved guidelines in recent weeks to allow the Pentagon to target Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, broadening previous plans that had limited the military to counterterrorism missions against al-Qaida after 2014. (AP Photo/David Goldman/File)

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ARS always hurry their participants, as the Roman poet Horace once wrote of the epics that recount them, “into the middle of things, as if they were already known.”

Wars plunge us violently and deeply into other people’s histories, myths and legends. Perhaps few know this better than one of my West Point colleagues, a major who recently visited my class, full of future Army officers, to discuss his deployment to the Afghan province of Nuristan, high and remote in the Hindu Kush, where ancient legacies coexist with modern war.

The end of American combat operations in Afghanistan has finally arrived. According to the plan President Obama announced in May, the approximately 24,000 troops there now will be reduced to 9,800 by 2015, and troop withdrawals will be complete by the end of 2016. This slow fade to arguably the longest war in American history presents citizens and soldiers alike with an opportunity to consider, after 13 years at war, what it means to stop. This subject preoccupies me because I have been watching my former students shuttle back and forth to the war since it began.

This fall, I tried in my small way to seize the chance to explore the culture of long campaigns and to examine the particular difficulty of recognizing the end. The context is a course on world literature. My students, juniors and seniors at the Military Academy, are perhaps more keenly interested than most in the mythologies of long wars. As they contemplate their military careers, they also need to know what it means to serve in the wake of a war. Together we have been following Alexander the Great’s line of march. This long campaign effectively began at the same time as Alexander’s succession to the Macedonian throne of his father, Philip, in 336 B.C., when he crushed a Greek revolt, and ended only with his death 13 years later in 323 B.C., at age 32.

Our armchair travels along his path have taken us from ancient Greece to North Africa, across the Persian Empire (including modern-day Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan) and east to India. We have even been to China, which Alexander never actually reached.

Such was the impact of the Macedonian’s conquest in Asia that Abolqasem Ferdowsi, the author of the 11th-century Persian epic “Shahnameh,” imagines Alexander at the Chinese emperor’s court.

As they read accounts of Alexander’s career by Ferdowsi, Arrian, Plutarch, the 20th-century travel writer Freya Stark and others, my students, conditioned to understand war as a series of 12-month rotations, have been forced to contemplate the mindset of a soldier on a 10-year deployment. Alexander’s most loyal and experienced troops, the elite Macedonian Companions, never stopped campaigning; some had fought alongside Alexander’s father.

KNOWING when — and how — to stop is a problem as old as war itself. Ascertaining the logical limits of a campaign presents not merely a strategic but a psychological challenge to its architects and its participants. The longer an expedition’s duration, the harder it becomes to know precisely what constitutes the end, as our wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate. But campaigners with a shifting purpose can derail even a comparatively short war. Disagreement over the conflict’s proper scope led to the breach between President Harry S. Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur over Korea. Truman fired the popular general, a decision for which he was initially vilified, to prevent a limited war from becoming a third world war.

“Now, many persons, even some who applauded our decision to defend Korea, have forgotten the basic reason for our action,” the president explained in April 1951. Truman “considered it essential to relieve General MacArthur so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the real purpose and aim of our policy.”

In 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld used different language to address essentially the same problem when he asked, “Are we winning or losing the Global War on Terror?” in a memo in October of that year. “Today, we lack metrics to know.” The metrics of 2014 are hardly more definitive.

Americans are uncomfortable with the prospect of an endless war yet deeply uncertain about the natural scope of the campaigns launched by the Authorization for Use of Military Force, signed into law by President George W. Bush on Sept. 18, 2001, against those responsible for the terrorist attacks a week before. This uneasi-

ness and confusion have dominated the new century.

Afghanistan was eclipsed by Iraq, Iraq by Afghanistan, and then the entire effort by what we have taken to calling war weariness on the part of a spectating public. A periodic revival of interest in Libya, Syria and elsewhere notwithstanding, much of that public long ago wearied even of watching, while a small percentage of Americans have been commuting to the wars.

After so many long conversations about ancient warriors, the cadets and I were primed to hear from a modern one the day Maj. Stoney Portis visited. A veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Major Portis first discovered the importance of communicating across cultures as a West Point cadet during an exchange visit to Bolivia. He earned a master’s degree from Dartmouth, where he concentrated in cultural studies, and is now on a two-year assignment teaching literature at the Military Academy. Major Portis is an engaging storyteller, but he’s also a careful listener and observer — tools that have served him well on reconnaissance missions as a cavalry scout in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2009 and 2010, he was deployed to Kunar and Nuristan Provinces in northeast Afghanistan, where local tribesmen recounted to him legends of Alexander and his army, which had fought in the very same place. “The blond and redheaded Nuristanis who dotted the mountainsides,” he told me, “took pride in the idea that they descended from Alexander’s Greeks and outlasted conquerors for millennia.” This wasn’t the first time he and Alexander had crossed paths: Deployed near the Tigris River from 2006 to 2008, Major Portis operated, although he didn’t think much about it at the time, in the same region where Alexander defeated the Persian army, back when that old campaign was young and full of promise.

In their 10th year on the march the Macedonians told Alexander they would go no farther. They had conquered Persia, endured three years of enervating guerrilla warfare in the mountainous terrain of northern Afghanistan and Iran, crossed the Hindu Kush, and reached the banks of the Beas River, in the Punjab. The campaign’s sense of purpose had begun to drift. The army’s march had taken it off the map into territory heretofore known to the Greek world only through rumor and legend.

Initially billing his campaign as one of Panhellenic vengeance against the Persians, Alexander united the Greek city-states, restored territories lost in the Greco-Persian Wars and liberated Greeks living under Persian control. By the time his army mutinied in India, however, this goal — only partly the stuff of spin — had been accomplished while the initial clarity of the campaign evaporated. As the secondcentury Greek chronicler Arrian reports, the Macedonians had wearied of watching Alexander perpetually “charging from labor to labor, danger to danger.”

Faced with the prospect of an apparently endless quest, they turned their thoughts toward home.

Alexander had other ideas. Educated in Aristotle’s imperfect geography, he sought to reach the outer ocean, “the further limit of which,” Aristotle wrote, “is unknown to the dwellers in our world.”

Alexander informed his disgruntled troops, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.”

He assured them that “those who labor and face dangers achieve noble deeds, and it is sweet to live bravely and die leaving behind an immortal fame.”

To which Coenus, reputedly one of the most faithful Macedonians, replied, “If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.” Persuaded to turn around despite his fury at the mutineers, Alexander meandered with his army through India’s Gedrosian Desert and Iran for another three years before dying of fever in Babylon.

Afghanistan, as Major Portis reminded my class, presented insurmountable obstacles even to Alexander’s juggernaut. As he projected pictures of the rugged, stunning terrain of the Hindu Kush, he asked us to imagine what it was like for Alexander and the Mughal conqueror Babur, for the British, the Soviets and now the Americans to operate in an area that had never seen the end of war. “No one goes to this part of the world by accident,” he pointed out. “Yet a steady stream of foreigners has flowed through Afghanistan

for centuries. Each group sought to impose their will on a people who now seem more resolute than the immutable mountains they call home. I get the feeling they won’t change for us either.”

The villages through which Major Portis and his unit moved were so isolated — “10 miles becomes an eternity with a 12,000-foot mountain standing in your way” — that his five interpreters, who spoke nine languages among them, could not understand the dialect. Finally, an interpreter and an elderly villager — one trained as an imam and the other in Shariah law — found a way to communicate imperfectly by exchanging memorized passages of the Quran.

Through this strange linguistic filter, Major Portis worked to understand the nuances of the region in which history had placed him. As he enumerated for us certain characteristics of Afghan campaigns — from spiraling casualties to troop surges to counterinsurgency — he stopped to acknowledge that we might be momentarily confused about which experience he was speaking of, Alexander’s or his own.

Major Portis commanded a cavalry troop at Combat Outpost Keating, which was almost overrun in a Taliban attack in October 2009. This battle, chronicled by Jake Tapper in “The Outpost,” was one of the war’s deadliest for Americans, with eight soldiers killed and 22 wounded. Away from the outpost when the attack began, Major Portis landed on the mountain above with a quick-reaction force, which fought its way down to Keating. But he didn’t visit us to talk about that battle or about beginnings or ends.

Instead, he illuminated something of what it means to work, live and fight in the middle of things — in the middle of a war in the middle of a long and convoluted history of wars, deep within the mountains.

Major Portis is a practitioner, a man valued in military culture for his experience, but he came back to West Point to teach because he so forcefully believes in the necessity of studying with depth and care the stories of others to fill in the inevitable gaps in our experience. One of my students told him that the visit had given him some new perspective on the literature we were reading, but at the same time that literature was now helping the major to understand his war. Major Portis alluded to several things he wished he’d known before deploying.

Had he read accounts of Alexander’s march over the narrow passes of the Hindu Kush, he might have had an even richer appreciation for the challenges of operating in these mountains, especially in the winter. Had he read Babur’s 16th-century description of the region’s silver and lapis lazuli in “Baburnama,” he might have understood more readily the predicament of the Afghan miners who arrived at Keating attempting to sell stones for a song when the bottom fell out of the gem market. Had he read from the “Shahnameh,” he might have been more fully prepared for the diversity of religious rituals and cultural practices that characterizes this region.

AMERICANS love to start over. Those old epics Horace described, which begin in medias res, are not for us. An enthusiasm for fresh starts and opening gambits is elemental to our sense of ourselves as exceptional: the authors of an entirely new book. We are, perhaps constitutionally, ill prepared whenever we find ourselves in the middle of someone else’s story and more than a little reluctant to admit the ways in which an encounter with that story potentially works changes in us. Yet when we cannot “make it new,” we are forced to determine more precisely what compromise we can achieve, what price we are willing to pay for it, and what constitutes an end.

Alexander’s conquest looms large in the “Shahnameh.” Alexander is sufficiently self-aware to understand the vanity of his quest but unable to turn back: “I see that I’m to be / Hurried about the world perpetually, / And that I’ll never know another fate. / Than this incessant, wandering, restless state!” Asked repeatedly by the rival rulers he encounters what he wants in the end, Alexander finds it increasingly difficult to come up with an answer. There’s an insight here into the psychology of long campaigns, which tend to exhaust our ability to make sense of them.

As Major Portis circulated green tea and almonds around the seminar table, just as his Afghan hosts had done for him in Nuristan five years before, I began to think that the first step toward seeing the end is to come to terms with what it means to be right in the middle.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

The Relentless Ticking Time (PART II) Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd)

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Forest Colony, Kohima

he first part of the article in the header was carried by the local dallies on 24th October 2014.

It surprisingly provoked no response from the NSCN (IM) though the subject was directly related to them. Their silence has thus kept the issue alive, prompting further speculations. Now let us add the following speculations as well.

Especially when the serious business of Winter Session of Parliament is in progress, Mr. Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, deciding to make his maiden visit to Nagaland at this pressing time to inaugurate a lesser priority Hornbill Festival and to perhaps announce a financial relief package for the saturated State of Nagaland still appear to be an acceptable camouflage up front. What may lie underneath is a matter of speculation. That his travel itinerary is inclusive of Manipur is significant for the fact that the Naga solution is inextricably linked with this State in view of our Southern Tangkhul brothers who would have no legitimate space within the present State of Nagaland sans integration...no matter what their sacrifices. Though Mr. Modi would probably be aware that an approximate amount of 24% of this 'packaged' fund would land up in the coffers of the NPGs in one form or the other, directly or indirectly, (considering the present mindboggling system of multiple taxation that is in place right under the very nose of a compliant ineffective State Government), it would amount to a small sacrifice that he would be prepared to make for the greater effort of understanding the lay of the land first hand, should he consider this economic package. One is also mindful of the fact that the Prime Minister has still not granted NSCN (IM) a time slot for them to even pay a curtsey call on him. It can only point towards a cold, calculated hard-line strategy being contemplated to address the Naga National Movement (NNM) towards a decisive conclusion. Of all the Countries in the world, his prioritised state visit to Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar had nothing to do with Tourism for sure. His intelligence feedback would have confirmed these stations as the favourite haunts for all the insurgent groups of the North East. A friendly neighbour would eliminate this discomfort for India... thus the visits. Mr. Modi has been hard at work with a definitive focus. On the other hand the Hon'ble Governor of Nagaland striking the Konyak brass bell from his corner that the final solution would be at hand within six months period is not just another inconsequential speculation of a street boy.

Putting all these scenarios into perspective, there is a likely indication that the Hon'ble Prime Minister has a serious undercurrent intention of satisfying himself of the ground realities first hand before delivering his final coup de grace on the issue of NNM within a certain time frame...weather the Nagas like it or not. With a stable, strong and loyal Central Government behind him, everything else fits the frame snugly. The sad picture in it all is the fact that the GoI, from the very inception of Independence, has shown scant human respect for the Nagas as a people, which resulted in a catastrophic miscalculation and loss of precious human lives from both sides of the fence. It is inconceivable that the Prime Minister of India, however determined and well meaning he may be, would get to appreciate or understand the inner core aspiration of the Nagas 'Christians' in a fleeting moment of his visit. The Nagas may not necessarily sum up academically in comparison to the University graduates of the Mainland in their eyes, but they need to understand that the Nagas have been groomed and hardened by no less a teacher than

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eligion in recent times has become the core of contestation. A glance at the world in which we live portrays the horror that religion unleashes. The forms and manifestations are vivid, glaring, multiple and horrendous. No religion is an exception to this: be it Christianity or Islam or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism or any other. Except a few pockets the world is gripped by religious frenzy and terror. Ultra religious fundamentalist of different shades and persuasions trigger all sorts of fundamentalist idioms to which many fall prey. South Asia, parts of Africa and Middle-East, Europe and North America amply testifies this phenomenon.

As against this backdrop we need to look into PM Modi’s utterance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi a few days ago asserted that the global community must reject any linkage between religion and terrorism so that a “genuine international partnership in the fight against all forms of terror acts.” In his intervention at the East Asia Summit, the Prime Minister also said that “it should be ensured that cyber and space remains a source of connectivity and prosperity, and not new theatres of conflict.” Leaders of 18 countries including US President Obama and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang were present at the one-day ninth East Asian Summit in the Myannarese capital when PM Modi uttered this statement.

At the end of the Summit in a joint declaration “We support the East Summit Declaration on the Islamic State (terror group).

PM Modi added that a ‘’comprehensive response against terrorism requires a genuinely international partnership against all terrorism”. Prime Minister Modi has indeed uttered one of the most profound statements that echo de-linking religion and terror. It is indeed intriguing. It is not just uttering de-linking religion from terror, but how? He invoked these to the world where the world’s most powerful leaders were present. But subsequent questions that arise after Modi’s utterance are: What about India? Does his party (BJP) and the cultural wing of BJP the RSS abide by this dictum? For these questions answers have to be sought, if possible from PM Modi.

Many in the BJP and RSS circles consider “Indian Islam” as “un-Indian” and “Indian Christianity as “alien”. Modi as the Prime

nature itself concerning life and the honour of living with dignity. Yet undermining the Naga intellect comes naturally to them as has well and truly been exemplified by the former first Prime Minister of India, Pundit J. Nehru, by his bilaterally defining the International watershed boundary between India and Myanmar without a modicum of respect that human beings called the Nagas existed in this part of the wilderness whose views were inalienably necessary. This did not happen.

The consequence was Lungwa, a Konyak Village in the border, becoming a living example of this cold-hearted dispensation... being dissected in half between India and Myanmar. One therefore has a premonition of hard times ahead for the Nagas, politically.

Having said this, the Governor of Nagaland has made it amply clear that the time has come for the State Government and the Civil Societies "to speak out on what kind of solution they wanted" (23rd November 2014 local paper publication) to supplement the ongoing peace talk. This makes good sense. Other than to continue having nightmare of AK 47, the State Government has not woken up to assess the realities around them and act assertively. The GoI has made it clear that the issues of "Sovereignty" and "Integration" shall not be placed on the negotiating table no matter how much they may proclaim the "uniqueness" of our Naga history. The NSCN (IM) too seems to have resigned itself into acknowledging this fact by publically expressing the same at the consultative public meeting at the Agri-Expo venue in February 2012. If "Sovereignty" and "Integration" is not negotiable, then what is the NSCN (IM) negotiating about? This is an elementary question doing the rounds.

If this be the case, the total complexion of the NNM shifts to an entirely different plane in which, minus the issues of "Sovereignty", the State Government derives every legitimacy to play an important role towards a final solution by taking the people into confidence as is being suggested by the Governor. The irrational stance being taken by the NSCN (IM) in keeping the stakeholders in the dark is against all norms of natural justice. Consider this very carefully...How can a handful of AK 47 wielding minority decide the destiny of the majority without a consultation with the people on the agenda of negotiation?!

The damning cowardly silence of the majority has escalated the roughshod contempt for the common man by the "Collective Leadership" thus far. The prophetic words of Edmund Burk that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ring so true to our circumstance today. This must come to an end through a transparent civilised discourse minus AK 47. The Nagas are being marooned in an island that time has forgotten, leaving us far behind all our fellow beings elsewhere around the globe. It would therefore appear to be a ripe moment for all thinking Nagas to come together and open a new candid chapter of Naga's appraisal for their future.

The very disappointing focal issue is the hardhearted stubbornness of the Leaders of the NSCN (IM) who would loudly profess "Nagaland for Christ" where forgiveness and reconciliation has no place. Their selfrighteous 'National Principle' sounds equally hollow and compromised in the face of "sovereignty" and "integration" being generally accepted as an issue beyond negotiation, even by them. Then why point a figure at other Factions for similar commission and fail to consider forgiving one another and uniting? As long as they continue to believe that they are the sole custodian of the NNM with a public mandate behind them, which is certainly not the whole truth, the issue of unity of all NPGs will not occur to them as a viable option as speculated in the previous article. Their overwhelming egocentric desire to be seen as the sole subject standing on

the Naga political podium is derailing all sensibility. Unless the Collective Leadership is totally blind they ought to be aware that most of the NPGs are raising almost the same amount of multiple taxes, buying arms and continuously recruiting and strengthening their cadres as a matter of routine. Undermining the rest as non-entities would be a costly mistake. If solution is brought by the NSCN (IM) minus "sovereignty" and "integration" Nagaland will plunge into another Civil War. Their "Red Book Communistic Socialism" theory of governance with "Collective Leadership and one party Hierarchy" system would add fuel to the fire. This is a foregone scenario that is apprehensively being envisaged. A whole generation has perished for a cause and Nagas can ill afford another generation being wiped out by a civil war within ourselves, all over again. We must find an imperative via media...which lies in unity of all the NPGs for better or for worse to achieve lasting peace in our land.

The FNR and ACAUT movement has come to existence with this objective of unity in mind.

The days of arms confrontation is done. It is therefore, equally important for the GoI to mend its questionable ways. Stop playing games with the Naga people with their 'divide and rule policy' that they have spawned over the years. It is comprehensively outdated against the present crisis. Instead they must now forge a unity of all the NPGs so that a truly lasting honourable solution can be achieved. They must do their utmost to convince the NSCN (IM) towards this end, failing which the GoI should logically open an official or unofficial line of communication with the rest of the NPGs to assess the intensity of all the other NPGs and find a moderated road that all of them can travel together at the end of it. The erstwhile agreement of the GoI in not negotiating with the other Factions other than NSCN (IM) is now redundant. It is difficult to perceive the rational of a negotiated settlement that would stand the test of time with thorns still firmly imbedded in one's flesh. The spineless State Government must also shed its indifference on this subject and mobilise public opinion and clearly determine the will of the masses.

However powerful, no power will be able to withstand the final verdict of the people. It is within their purview to raise every village in Nagaland to address simply crafted agendas for their internal debate first, and then have a conference of all the Village Councils to affirm their decision as to whether Nagas should continue on the same road or look at an alternative path. The Naga Hoho too would have been ideally situated to assist the State Government to spearhead an issue such as this if not for the fact that the Naga Hoho is floating around in the pockets of one NPG group or the other... in the process becoming a deadwood organisation that commands no respect. One however believes that once the endorsement of all the Village Councils is obtained, solution will surely find a conclusive direction. Meanwhile India must also realise that it is not making this task any easier by all the racist indulgences being flagrantly displayed of late against the North Easterners.

Not wanting to keep company with those who shows racist hatred towards another is a natural sentiment common to all mankind....Nagas are no exception.

Beyond this however, the Nagas ought to have surely realised by now... the years of unproductive lives we have led thus far. It is a sincere belief that the Nagas have reached a deserving point in time to lead a wholesome life without the fear of AK 47, provided we stand together and decide together once for all... with courage. The relentless ticking time waits for no man. Remember the saying "God helps those who help themselves"? Well, it is about time we learn to help ourselves in order for God to help us all.

Pm modi to World: De-LINK reLIGIoN, but to India…?

Dr. John Mohan Razu Professor of Social ethics, CTC, mokokchung in festivities that the Muslims celebrate. His refusal to wear a skull cap on an occasion is also an indication of his bias against Islam.

Other related issue such as “love jihad”, being taken up by several BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh is also a bid to project Muslims as “un Indian”. The gestures and utterances of Modi, Sangh Privar and several outfits connected to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its allies raked up the issue of the name of the country and posited it in relation to the religion of its majority population. The damaging statements and utterances of some in Modi’s cabinet, MPs from BJP and other ultra-rightist brigades who raised their voices reminds and signals that the minorities live in Hindustan, and therefore, it implies that all those who live here are Hindus which is a major ideological departure from the position of all other political parties.

Modi after becoming the Prime Minister gave clear indications that his ideological stance and the outfit he belongs that nurtured and eventually helped him to become the PM of this country believes in Hindutva whose political project is in establishing Ram Rajya. BJP is firmly entrenched within its ideological frame that India is a Hindu country and so it should called as Hindustan. This belief stems out of RSS’s core ideological principle of cultural nationalism. Hindustan by and large rooted in the realization of Hindu Rashtra. According to them Hindutva is the identity of our nation.

Accordingly the minorities are not part of it and so should not be accommodated.

So, it is visible that wherever BJP governs be it the Centre or States, there are no visible Muslim or Christian representations.

At the same time BJP is going all out in appropriating Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. PM Modi visited Punjab during election campaigns and endorsed

pan and invoked Buddha’s name in his ID speech from the rampart of Red Fort.

Modi and the party he represents and the organization that mentored and shaped him (RSS) candidly communicate to the Indians and others around the world that they firmly believe in cultural nationalism and in order to realize they should appropriate other strands such as Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism within the umbrella of Hinduism.

Obviously, the ultra-rights including BJP, Bajrang dal, Shiv Sena, RSS and other fanatical outfits regard Islam is un-Indian and Muslims by and large are anti-Indians.

For them Christianity is an alien religion, and therefore, Indian Christians do not belong to India. We must take these signs, gestures, utterances and statements seriously, because the implications of linking up religion coupled and combined with aggressive cultural nationalism and divisive communal political programs are bound to be disastrous. Is this not floating and sowing terror through fanatical religious mode? For instance, a Shiv Sena MP, Prataprao Jadhav, a close ally of BJP remarked in the Lok Sabha that a saffron flag should be hoisted atop the historic Red Fort as “Hindustan” belongs to Hindus because Hindu-stan is a Hindu nation.

Goa which is ruled by BJP and its deputy chief minister Francis D’Souza showed his loyalty said in the Goa Assembly on July 25th 2014 that “All Indians in Hindustan are Hindus”. He went to the extent of saying that “I am a Hindu Christian”.

Similar speeches, narratives, litanies and discourses of this nature continue. Further, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat recently remarked that Hindustan is a Hindu nation and Hindutva is its identity. On similar vein BJP spokesperson went on pushing the polemics to another tangent that those who own the Hindu heritage should

these hate speeches uttered against those belonging to diverse faith persuasions create uneasiness and insecurity.

The plural fabric that makes India what it is now. India being a diverse land with a multitude of religions, ethnicities, languages and dialects premised on such a wide canopy of richness. With all the convergences and divergences, richness and deficiencies, limitations and accommodations the plural character of India has survived for centuries. We keep hearing once again the building of Ram Temple in the disputed site of Ayothiya. Since the time the BJP came to power the voices of hatred and divisiveness are let loose. They make hate speeches, spew venom and divisiveness and go all out to divide the communities.

The present regime is not at serious about all these; rather it is indirectly encouraging these hate mongers.

PM Modi has not pulled them up or made public statements condemning such declarations and behaviors. Since BJP has secured absolute majority at the Centre they think that this is the opportune time to realize their vision of Hindustan in which majority of the Hindus (majority) enjoy the fruits of this land and others (minorities) could be given second-class citizenship and be treated likewise. Hinduism as a religion extends its essence and contents to BJP’s ideological moorings.PM Modi should de-link religion and Hindutva which he cannot because the moment he does he is out.

Unleashing hatred, divisions, threats, instilling communal tensions, pitching one community as against another are part of the game that promotes psychological, physical and existential terrors.

The Prime Minister of India Mr. Modi should come out crystal clear to what he said “De-linking religion” and the subsequent question that automatically follows “from what’’? One narrative to the world and the other to India shall never be accepted. Terror has multiple connotations. In India, communalism and fundamentalism that emanates from religion (s) ought to be annihilated by all means.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Songs of Ignorance

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Robert J. Pijpers

he recent Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has spurred a range of responses from all over the world. Some of these responses exemplify the ongoing stereotyping of Africa and Africans. Public discourse, unfortunately, still has the tendency of addressing Africa as a country, a war-ridden space full of sadness and its inhabitants as savage and helpless. But stereotypes are not limited to these images of misery.

Other stereotypes romanticize Africa and Africans, they convey an image of the exotic and unspoiled continent. Moreover, various perspectives convey an image of poor people as a noble poor.

These images may be highlighted in the context of Ebola, but they are always present. They are part of many people’s understanding of Africa, part of ignorant perspectives on the continent and the people.

Africa is a country Of course we all know that Africa is not a country, yet the idea of Africa as a country is continuously reinforced in a variety of public platforms. For example, as a response to the Ebola crisis, a variety of countries implemented strict visa regulations for people coming from all over Africa. Whereas I understand that health controls are intensified when it concerns people (black and white) coming from the three Ebola-hit countries, it is shameful that travelling becomes harder and harder even for people coming from other African countries.

In Norway, people in a plane with a Kenyan with fever on board were not allowed to disembark due to fear of Ebola. Yet, Kenya is quite far from the three Ebola hit countries. The HvA, a tertiary educational institute in Amsterdam, has even prohibited its students from travelling to the continent for internships or study. In so many cases, references to Africa are frequently inappropriate.

Due to the Ebola outbreak, there is currently increased attention to the continent: attention that is highly needed, but that also exemplifies an omnipresent stereotyping. The various Band Aid initiatives are the best examples of this. The songs convey images that might prove useful to the cause of raising money, but also maintain stereotypical views on the continent. The Dutch Band Aid’s Ebola song, for example, tell us that “It’s not a white Christmas that Africa is missing this year, their gift is who survives”, whereas Bob Geldof's Band Aid laments: “No peace and joy this Christmas in West Africa. The only hope they'll have is being alive”. As many critics have argued, these texts exemplify an ignorance of Africa and reinforce a white saviour narrative. Meanwhile, local initiatives are ignored.

Moreover, although Ebola clearly intensifies these narratives, they are always present: Africa as a country, a place of poverty and sadness, a place where there is no space for happiness and thus no Christmas joy, and a place that needs the west.

A noble poor?

Life entails more than sadness, even in the poorest African countries. Africa is not simply an arena of sadness, war, hunger, corrupt governments and development organizations. Yet, stereotyping does not only occur in the domain of misery. Some stereotypes apply a good dose of romanticism, a discourse that situates Africans as a ‘noble poor’.

The noble poor can be seen as a discourse that often portrays poor people as victims of uncontrollable, regularly external, forces that hinder their development. Of course this is part of the story: many people in the world fight for survival on a daily basis and are victims of powerful systems of inequality.

Yet, it is problematic to overemphasize this part of the story and romanticize poor people and their struggle, thereby ignoring internal issues that might be counterproductive in their daily struggle and that might even reinforce the unjust system.

Such romantic views are found in expressions that celebrate poor people’s strong will to use the few possibilities they have, despite the unfair obstacles they face. It celebrates people as survivors who are, despite their poverty, living a life close to nature, without the burdens of modernity. The noble poor might be poor, but are morally superior.

Often, these ideas are associated with different forms of community romanticism: the idea that life in small communities is peaceful, where people solve internal issues quickly, where the little they have is shared among the many that need. Commonly, these views celebrate the ‘local’ and are geared towards conserving it, while addressing development challenges. An example is the focus on African people as natural (small-scale) farmers often based on figures regarding the percentage of people that are engaged in farming or an idea of farming as a traditional lifestyle. However, just because people are engaged in farming does not mean that they like to farm: in many cases, people have always been farming because there is simply no alternative.

Other examples celebrate local knowledge as superior to external knowledge. Of course, local knowledge is highly important, yet societies continuously change and always find their worldviews and knowledge challenged by a world outside the local community. This is a very normal process. Moreover, during the Ebola outbreak, for example, it was obvious that certain types of knowledge and practices, such as funeral rituals, were not suitable to combat the outbreak. A conversation emerged from this that has proven to be constructive.

Unsatisfactory ends Despite a series of outcries, ranging from the celebrated essay by Binyavanga Wainaina, "How to write about Africa", to the website www.africasacountry.com, popular discourse on Africa finds itself on two unsatisfactory ends. One is a view depicting Africa as a place inhabited by helpless people that long for salvation; the other one a view that romanticizes communities and people and establishes an idea of a noble poor. The ongoing confirmation of a paternal and ignorant perspective, be it the helpless savage or the noble poor, will not lead to satisfactory contributions of any kind in the long run.

Ebola reveals that we still have not moved away from stereotypes. It is time to put into practice the knowledge that Africa is a continent consisting of distinct countries. All of these are inhabited by normal people: people that can be honest and deceptive, knowledgeable and ignorant. The continent’s specific problems need to be addressed in a respectful, realistic way that does not draw upon simple stereotypes, but seeks to eliminate ignorant views on Africa.

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Modi, Sharif bonhomie gives fresh boost to Saarc

KAtHmANDu, NovembeR 27 (IANS): In a final ice-breaking moment, that gave a huge boost to Saarc and floundering regional cooperation, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shook hands with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, laughed and even patted him on the arm at the closing ceremony of the organisation’s 18th summit here Thursday - to resounding applause from a relieved audience comprising leaders, diplomats and officials from the eight South Asian countries.

In a photo-op that appeared to belie the recent animosity between the two neighbours, Modi and Sharif kept their handshake for several seconds and chatted, smiling all the while, as Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, the host of the summit, looked on happily.

Modi and Sharif had shaken hands and interacted briefly during the retreat at Dhulikhel outside Kathmandu earlier in the day. The two had otherwise studiously ignored each other during the summit on Wednesday, the sixth anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that India has blamed on Pakistani elements.

As soon as Nepal Prime Minister Koirala declared the session closed, Modi turned to the immediate neighbor to his right, Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, and shook hands and chatted. He then shook hands with Maldives President Abdulla Yameen, and with Afghan President

Ashraf Ghani, as the group was joined by Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif was away from the group, talking to a Nepali minister, while Nepal Prime Minister Koirala was looking awkwardly on, standing in the midst of the two rival prime ministers.

Just when the question was on everyone’s mind will they, won’t they - Modi finished chatting with his group of Saarc leaders, turned around and spoke to the Nepali prime minister, and stepped ahead to shake hands with Sharif.

Modi and Sharif smiled warmly at each other, and kept their hands clasped all the while as they chatted like old friends. As the audience erupted into loud applause, Modi cracked what appeared like a joke, laughed and slapped Sharif gently on his arm - as the two kept their handshake on.

Both the leaders then turned towards the audience, comprising diplomats and senior officials of all the eight countries, as they continued to shake hands. A relieved Nepal Prime Minister Koirala looked smilingly on. The Himalayan Times was prompt in putting up the news on its website.

Titled “Smiling Modi‚ Sharif shake hands at Summit closure”, it wrote: “At the closing ceremony of 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani coun-

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during the 18th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, November 27. South Asian heads of state attending their first summit in three years reached a deal on energy sharing Thursday, but failed on two other economic agreements during a retreat where Indian and Pakistan leaders shook hands.(AP Photo)

terpart Nawaz Sharif shook hands with smiling faces.

“The heads of governments of two historic rivals posed for photographs during the handshake for nearly a minute. “The duo were seen talking to each other.”

Earlier, away from the glare of cameras, both Modi and Sharif held informal talks at the Dhulikhel retreat Thursday afternoon, those present said.

The effect of the informal talks was immediately reflected in the proposed agreements. The heads of the state and government agreed to sign the Saarc Framework Agreement on

Energy Cooperation and decided to sign two other pacts -- motor vehicle and railway agreements -- within three months, a big facesaver for 18th Saarc Summit host Nepal in particular and the region as a whole.

Dinesh Bhattarai, foreign relations advisor to Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koriala, who was present in the retreat, confirmed to IANS that both the leaders held informal talks after meeting each other along with other heads of the state and government.

Prime Minster Koirala pushed the two leaders to

sit for talks, at least informally now, and break the logjam in the bilateral relations as other Saarc countries feel that the India-Pakistan dispute was impeding progress on greater South Asian cooperation and understanding.

During his talks with Modi, Koirala had asked the Indian prime minister to reach out to Pakistan, given the former’s stature as Saarc leader, and its size, population and economy.

“While watching the Himalayas and taking herbal and organic food, Modi and Sharif were seen more open and close,” a diplomat said.

“The focus was on how to carry on the Saarc process and how to strengthening the bilateral ties.”

The Saarc leaders, including Modi, Sharif and Koriala, cracked jokes, planted trees and shared their personal matters with each other.

After the retreat, the leaders have agreed to sign the Saarc Framework Agreement on Energy Cooperation which will be announced in the Kathmandu Declaration later Thursday.

Because of the deadlock between India and Pakistan, the three pro-

posed agreements related to motor vehicle, railway and energy, all pushed by New Delhi, were uncertain until Thursday. After the retreat and unofficial talks among the leaders, the Saarc leaders have agreed to sign the energy deal and agreed to complete the other two agreements within three months, Bhattarai said. The 33 food items served to the leaders was totally vegetarian, perhaps in deference to the diet preferences of the Indian prime minister who is a strict vegetarian. Gujarati basundi with jalebi was served to Modi as dessert.

9 soldiers indicted for Kashmir killings SRINAGAR, NovembeR 27 (IANS): Nine soldiers have been indicted for killing two youth in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district Nov 3 and will face court martial, the army said here Thursday.

“Nine soldiers of the 53 Rashtriya Rifles (RR), including a junior commissioned officer, have been indicted for the firing incident in Chattergam area in which two youth were killed.

“The court of inquiry appointed to probe the firing has found gross violation of rules of engagement by the involved soldiers.

They have been indicted.

There has been a total failure of the command by the officer in charge,” a senior army officer told IANS here. Widespread public anger followed the killings of two youth - Faisal Yusuf Bhat and Mehrajuddin Dar - in Chattergam area of Budgam district Nov 3 by a mobile vehicle check post set up by the soldiers of 53 RR. The army had initially said the car in which the youth were travelling had not halted at the security checkpoint. Lieutenant General D.S. Hooda, GOCin-C of army’s northern command, later admitted the deployed column of the RR had overstepped its brief and violated the rules of engagement while opening fire at the car.

Black money: Opposition India moving towards 10 dead in Kashmir tax friendly regime, corners govt in Lok Sabha Arun Jaitley says militant attack

NeW DeLHI, NovembeR 27 (IANS): The government Thursday faced flak in the Lok Sabha for yet another day on the black money issue, with the opposition parties asking it to give a timeline by which the money stashed abroad would be brought back to India. The central government on its part said no such promise had been made in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) manifesto and it was former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who had in fact promised to bring back black money within 100 days.

Participating in the debate which spilled over from Wednesday, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said: “People of the country trusted you. During election campaign, you had promised and people elected you based on that promise.

After you formed the government, nothing has happened on this.”

He said the erstwhile Congress-led central government had made an agreement with Switzerland on the black money issue and from that time, much of the money has been withdrawn

from foreign banks. “Has this government tried to find out where the money has gone,” he asked.

“When will the entire money be brought back and the people punished. The government should give a timeline,” Yadav said, adding that nothing concrete has been done till now. He asserted that the people were waiting for Rs.15 lakh promised into their bank accounts once the money comes back.

“Why did you promise?”

“Both the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) and the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) know who all have the black money,” he added. Intervening in the debate, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said: “The promise of getting the money back in 100 days came from former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he had replied in the house during his tenure.”

Unfortunately the “people did not believe that government (UPA) but they believed this party (BJP)”.

He asserted that the central government has every intention of getting the

Govt stands on decision making Sanskrit third language in KVs NeW DeLHI, NovembeR 27 (IANS): The central government Thursday reiterated its position that Sanskrit would be the third language in place of German in Kendriya Vidyalayas from class 6 to 8. The government’s position came as Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi sought the court’s nod for filing an affidavit on the storm arising from its decision to replace German by Sanskrit in central schools all over the country - a move facing stiff resistance from the parents of the children who had opted for German. Rohatgi mentioned the matter before the bench headed by Chief Justice H.L.Dattu seeking permission to file the affidavit.

A bench headed by Justice Anil R.Dave had last week issued notice to the central government and Kendriya Vidyalayas Sangthan on a plea by oV.S.Ramanathan challenging the government decision to replace German with Sanskrit in the the academic mid-session. The government decision had created an uproar including queries from the German government. German was introduced in Kendriya Vidyalayas following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and Goethe Institute of Max Mueller Bhavan. The decision to scrap German in Kendriya Vidyalayas has affected over 70,000 students and also put in uncertainty the job of 700 teachers teaching the language in these schools. Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani has described the MoU as being violative of the constitution, saying that as per schedule 8 of the constitution, 22 languages were available which did not include German.

money back and the finance minister was talking to different countries on the issue. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has himself taken up the issue in a big manner,” he said.

Naidu said names would be made public when the probe is completed and the guilty will be charge sheeted.

“The government has just come. They are doing good work,” he said, adding: “The expectations are very high. I agree because they think that Modi can deliver. Everything will happen and quickly happen.”

Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge contended even though the issue was not mentioned in the BJP manifesto, it was raised several times during election campaign by senior BJP leaders, including Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Communist Party of IndiaMarxist leader Mohammed Salim said: “This is a very grave issue. SIT (special investigation team) is just the beginning. Both the UPA and NDA are saying same thing. It is equally corrupt to promise wrong things.”

NeW DeLHI, NovembeR 27 (PtI): With an aim of improving the environment for investments, India is moving towards a tax friendly regime to correct the image which had become “bad” over the years, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday. “Our tax system has to be friendly with tax payers and that is what we are trying to do step by step,” he said, replying to a debate on black money in the Lok Sabha. Advocating a tax structure which discourages evasion, he said there was a misconception that high tax rates lead to higher revenues.

“High tax rates do not necessarily mean more revenue collection ... The direct and indirect tax rates have to be brought to reasonable level so that the basket increases and there is no incentive for evasion,” Jaitley said.

The government, he said, should not lose out of revenues. “Those who have to pay taxes must pay taxes. Those who do not have to pay taxes, merely by raising demands does not serve purpose as they get stuck up in courts ... We cannot allow tax evasion or avoidance,” Jaitley said.

He further said there was a time when India had very high tax rates and the country’s growth rate was mocked at as “Hindu rate of growth”. Referring to the steps being taken by the government to unearth black money, Jaitley said government has identified 427 account holders associated with HSBC list and efforts are on to complete tax assessment by March 31, 2015.

He also said prosecution has already been launched in several cases, cases would be filed every week, and names would become public.

“When media comes to know it will note that there are influential people in the list (of foreign account holders),” Jaitley said.

Girls died by suicide, not slain by rapists: CBI

NeW DeLHI, NovembeR 27 (AP): India’s top investigative agency said Thursday that two teenage girls believed to have been raped and hanged by attackers in a north Indian village actually committed suicide because of shame over a relationship with a boy.

An earlier probe by local police and post-mortem reports were incorrect, and five innocent men were arrested, said Kanchan Prasad, spokeswoman for the Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s FBI. Six months ago, images of the girls’ bodies hanging from a tree in their village of Katra in Uttar Pradesh state shocked the country, long inured to violence against women. Local police said the girls were gang-raped and murdered. The five men were arrested and later released on bail. The federal agency took over

the probe following public outrage over the deaths of the two cousins, who were about 14 years of age. They were the daughters of two brothers.

“The CBI has come to the conclusion that the allegations of sexual assault and murder were false.

It was a case of suicide,” Prasad said. She said medical reports ruled out any sexual assault, and the parents of the girls had filed a false police report of rape and murder.

“There were no marks of violence or injuries on the bodies of the two girls, except for the ligature marks on their necks.

Also, nobody heard any cries for help though there were houses around the spot where the bodies were found hanging,” she said.

Prasad said the older of the girls had a relationship with one of the suspects

which she hid from her family. The night the girls died, the younger girl had called her cousin’s boyfriend and suggested they go to a local fair. The three left their homes after dinner, Prasad said.

Later, the older girl and her boyfriend were caught by one of her relatives as they were about to have sex in a nearby field, she said.

The girls apparently committed suicide because they were afraid of the reaction of their families and the stigma attached to what they had done, the spokeswoman said. Indian villages are extremely conservative and such a scandal would be difficult for a family to bear.

The CBI will hand over its findings to a court, which will decide whether to prosecute the families of the girls for filing a false police complaint, she said.

An Indian Army soldier takes position during an encounter with armed suspected militants at Pindi Khattar village in Arnia border sector, 43 kilometers (27 miles) south of Jammu, Thursday, November 27. An army officer says some of the militants occupied an abandoned bunker in Jammu region early Thursday and fired at the soldiers in Arnia sector in the Indian portion of Kashmir. (AP Photo)

SRINAGAR, NovembeR 27 (ReuteRS): Gunmen wearing army uniforms on Thursday attacked an Indian army base near the border with Pakistan, leaving ten people dead in the worst militant violence in in more than a year.

The incident came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif had a brief meeting at a summit of South Asian leaders in Nepal that clinched a deal to create a regional electricity grid.

Four or five gunmen split into two groups upon arriving in the town of Arnia, about 4 km (3 miles) from the border, with one group attacking an army bunker and the other holed up in a house, a senior army officer said. Three soldiers and three civilians were

shot dead, said Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, adding, “My condolences to the families.”

He said four militants were also killed.

India and Pakistan fought two of their three wars since independence in 1947 over Muslim-majority Kashmir, which they both claim in full but rule in part. Muslim separatists have been fighting Indian forces in the Indian portion of Kashmir since 1989.

India accuses Pakistan of training and arming the rebels in the portion it controls and sending them to the Indian side, a claim its neighbour denies.

The gunmen did not infiltrate from the Pakistani side of the border, a senior Border Security Force official said. “They came in a

car to Arnia and took shelter in a bunker and targeted the army,” he said.

The last major attack in Kashmir was in September last year, when nine people were killed in a gun battle a day after the leaders of the two countries agreed to meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

The incident comes a day ahead of a visit planned

by Modi to Jammu, where he will address two election rallies amid phased state polls that conclude on Dec 20.

The attack was a deliberate attempt to disrupt ties between the rivals, Abdullah said on social media website Twitter. “Some things never change,” he added. “Ind & Pak PMs at the same venue and a fierce encounter breaks out.”

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Ebola vaccine safe in first-stage testing

WAsHINGtoN, NoveMber 27 (AP): An experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday.

The vaccine is designed to spur the immune system’s production of anti-Ebola antibodies, and people developed them within four weeks of getting the shots at the National Institutes of Health. Half of the test group received a higher-dose shot, and those people produced more antibodies, said the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Some people also developed a different set of virus-fighting immune cells, named T cells, the study found. That may be important in fending off Ebola, as prior research found that monkeys protected by the vaccine also had that combination response.

Stimulating both types of immune response is “a promising factor,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose employees led the work.

The researchers reported no serious side effects.

But two people who received the higher-dose vaccine briefly spiked fevers, one above 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), which disappeared within a day.

Earlier this month, Fauci told Congress this firststage testing was promising enough that the U.S. planned much larger studies in West Africa, starting in Liberia in early January, to try to prove whether the vaccine really works.

Scientists are racing to develop ways to prevent or treat the virus that has killed more than 5,600 people in West Africa, most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Wednesday’s publication offered scientific details about the initial testing of the vaccine candidate furthest along, one being developed by NIH and GlaxoSmithKline. Additional safety studies are underway here and abroad. A different Canadian-made vaccine also has begun small safety studies.

Many questions remain as larger studies are being designed, including the best dose and how soon protection may begin, cautioned Dr. Daniel Bausch, a Tulane University Ebola specialist who wasn’t involved in the study. Plus, monkey research suggests a booster shot will be needed for long-term protection.

“The road is still long and there are many challenges but we are nevertheless one step closer to a solution,” he wrote in an accompanying editorial.

Japan issues warning as volcano continues to erupt

tokyo, NoveMber 27 (IANs): Mount Aso in southern Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture continued to spew smoke and ash 1,000 metres into the air Thursday, severely disrupting flights in the region on the island of Kyushu and forcing Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to issue a warning to those in the vicinity to stay away from the volcano, particularly its crater.

In the immediate vicinity of the volcano, which has been erupting for the first time in 19 years since Wednesday, meteorologists from the agency warned residents nearby that volcanic rocks could be launched from the crater and fall within a one-km radius of the volcano, .

On its scale, which ranges from Level 1, meaning “Normal” and Level 5, meaning “Evacuate”, the advisory given by the JMA was between 2 and 3, Xinhua reported citing officials from the agency, adding that the crater, located near the 1,592-metre peak of the mountain, should be avoided.

The JMA has not raised its warning level to 3, however, meaning the active volcano is still accessible to the public. The officials said that volcanic rocks had been detected shooting up as high as 200 metres in the air earlier Thursday and volcanic ash had blanketed the nearby city of Bungo-Ono, in Oita prefecture, and the town of Gokase, in Miyazaki prefecture, both of which lie within 50 km of Mount Aso. Aso’s eruption follows more than 60 people being killed after Mount Ontake, in central Japan, erupted on Sep 27. The 3,067-metre volcano, which is situated over both Nagano and Gifu Prefectures, erupted in the middle of a busy hiking season. Weeks before the eruption, as was the case in Kyushu, experts had detected increasing amounts of seismic and volcanic activity in the area.

Mount Aso’s huge caldera, caused by an ancient eruption causing the original collapse of the mouth of the volcano, dominates the southwestern main island of Kyushu, and as recently as last month, seismologists and volcanologists warned that a single massive volcano eruption, such as one of the seven that have occurred on the island in the past 120,000 years, could bury the region and its seven million inhabitants in deadly molten rock.

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Myanmar: Poor and besieged, Rakhine join Rohingya exodus MAUNGDAW, NoveMber 27 (reUters): For years, tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim boat people have fled this remote corner of western Myanmar for nearby countries. But another huge exodus has grabbed far fewer headlines.

Ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, bitter rivals of the Rohingya, are also leaving Rakhine State to seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand.

Small numbers of Rakhine are even following the same smuggling routes plied by the Rohingya and, like them, falling victim to human traffickers.

The exodus reflects a wider economic malaise.

Myanmar’s quasi-civilian government has launched many reforms since taking power in 2011, but hasn’t created enough jobs. “Go to Rakhine villages and you find only children and old people,” said Tun Maung, a prominent businessman in the Rakhine capital Sittwe.

“The young people have already gone.”

The exodus of both Rohingya and Rakhine accelerated in 2012, after a year of violence between the two communities left hundreds dead and 140,000 homeless - mostly Rohingya. Many displaced Rohingya now live in squalid camps along the Rakhine coast with easy access to ramshackle human-smuggling ships.

About 100,000 Rohingya boat people have left since the 2012 violence, said the Arakan Project, a Rohingya advocacy group.

The mass departure of Rakhine has been less noticeable because they usually travel by road and air, carrying passports unavailable to the mostly stateless

exploitation. In August the International Organization for Migration arranged the return of 14 Rakhine men who were trafficked onto Thai fishing boats in Indonesian waters earlier this year. The men were lured by the promise of well-paid jobs in Thailand.

A Rohingya boy and a man walk along the fence separating Myanmar and Bangladesh as they return from a fish market in Maungdaw town in northern Rakhine State. (Reuters Photo)

Rohingya. But Rakhine have also left in greater numbers since 2012, say Myanmar officials, after the unrest crippled a local economy neglected during nearly half a century of military dictatorship.

Millions of Burmese seek work abroad. About two million live in neighbouring Thailand alone, said the International Labour Organisation. Many are unlikely to return until Myanmar’s economy improves.

“WE DON’T TRUST THEM” The Rakhine exodus could worsen those economic woes and communal tensions. In much of Rakhine state, home to 3.2 million people, the Rohingya are a persecuted minority outnumbered two to one

by the Rakhine.

But in the Maungdaw area, on the state’s northern border with Bangladesh, those figures are reversed.

Out of 510,000 people, only 30,000 are Rakhine or nonMuslims, township chief Kyi San told Reuters during a rare visit to Maungdaw by a foreign reporter. As young people abandon their villages for jobs abroad, the Rakhine who remain feel besieged and vulnerable.

Hla Tun Oo, 30, has just returned to Maw Ya Waddy village after seven years working at a factory in Malaysia. In June 2012, while he was gone, the Rakhine village was burned to the ground by a Rohingya mob.

Maw Ya Waddy was rebuilt with the help of the Myanmar government and international aid agencies.

It was also militarized. Sol-

diers watch the fields from a hilltop. More soldiers are encamped at a Buddhist monastery between Maw Ya Waddy and the populous Rohingya villages along the coast.

Rakhine villages nearby have a permanent police presence, and all are linked by new, military-built roads which allow Rakhine to avoid Rohingya communities. An 11pm to 4am curfew remains in force. “I was born here and love my land. I want to protect it,” said Hla Tun Oo, explaining why he returned.

But about 100 villagers, including Hla Tun Oo’s two brothers, work in Malaysia or elsewhere, leaving Maw Ya Waddy with only 20 or so men of working age.

Relations with Muslim neighbours remain strained. Rakhine farmers

Afghan attack targets British embassy car

Afghan security forces inspect a British embassy vehicle which was targeted in a suicide attack in Kabul on Thursday, November 27. A suicide bomber attacked a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, killing several Afghan civilians and wounding more than 30 others, officials said. (AP Photo)

kAbUL, NoveMber 27 (AP): A suicide bomber attacked a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, killing at least five Afghan civilians and wounding more than 30 others, officials said.

An embassy spokesman confirmed the attack and said some people in the vehicle were wound-

ed, without providing further details. He added that the vehicle was not carrying any British diplomats.

Kabir Amiri, the administrative head of Kabul hospitals, said that at least five Afghan civilians were killed and up to 34 wounded. Afghan Public Health Ministry spokesman Kanishka Bektash

Turkistani said the wounded included five children.

The attack took place in the east of the city, shaking parts of Kabul and sending a huge plume of dust and smoke into the air. “Foreign vehicles were targeted by a suicide attacker on a motorcycle,” Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi said. Earlier, a local police officer said the attacker was in a car packed with explosives.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a brief statement.

The area of the blast in eastern Kabul has many foreign compounds and international military installations.

In recent weeks, insurgents have launched attacks on military convoys in the area and on compounds housing foreign service companies and their international employees.

Kabul has come under almost daily attack as insurgents intensify their war on local security forces and U.S. and NATO troops, who are set to officially conclude their combat role in the country at the end of next month.

no longer hire them as labourers, as they did before 2012. “We don’t trust them anymore,” said village chief Maung Maung Thein.

Yet the Rakhine have much in common with the Rohingya. Pyu Tote, 30, a Rakhine with no passport, paid a broker about $600 to smuggle him into Malaysia. Rohingya, who rarely have travel documents, also rely on brokers.

Pyu Tote was driven to southern Myanmar.

He crossed into Thailand by boat, then trekked through hilly jungles into Malaysia, a route also plied by thousands of Rohingya. Thirty people trekked with him. “Most were Rakhine,” said Pyu Tote, who worked at a Malaysian factory for a year.

Like Rohingya, the Rakhine are also vulnerable to

LABOUR ISN’T WORKING Many Rakhine families depend on remittances from overseas. Hla Tun Oo sent home about $200 a month, and had saved another $20,000 after seven years in Malaysia. But the departure of so many young Rakhine isn’t helping a local economy reeling from the 2012 bloodshed.

Rakhine State suffers from chronic poverty. Malnutrition is rife and its infrastructure is shoddy or non-existent, with factories few and far between.

After 2012, the price of vegetables and seafood, largely supplied by Rohingya, soared. So did the cost of labour. Sittwe businesses aren’t allowed to hire Rohingya, who were driven from the city and are now confined in distant camps ringed by police checkpoints.

“Violence and segregation have hit the economy hard,” said Richard Horsey, an independent Myanmar analyst. “Muslims are stuck in camps, unable to work, and the instability has made it harder to attract vital foreign investment.”

Economic growth would encourage Rakhine job-seekers to stay put. Or so hopes Tun Maung, the Sittwe businessman, who runs two restaurants and a hotel. He has advertised for staff for six months. “Nobody has applied,” he said.

New Thailand tourism strategy: ‘I Hate Thailand’ bANGkok, NoveMber 27 (AP): It’s been a bad year for tourism in Thailand, and at first glance it looked like a new YouTube video was adding to the misery. The video called “I Hate Thailand” drew more than 1 million views within days of being posted last week.

But it turned out the clip was produced by Thailand’s tourism authority, using a strategy of reverse psychology to attract tourists after the country’s image was battered by a military coup in May and the brutal murders of two British tourists on an idyllic beach in September.

The 5-minute video shows an angry British tourist on a beach.

He introduces himself as James and says his bag was stolen: “I hate this place. I hate Thailand,” he tells a handheld camera. After mouthing off to a policeman, he meets an attractive Thai woman

and finds reasons to like Thailand. In the end, the unshaven, bare-chested foreigner cleans up, puts on clothes, befriends the locals and gets his bag back — wallet, passport and all.

Several Thai newspapers reported the video as a real news item last week, prompting the Tourism Authority of Thailand to issue a press release Monday saying it was behind what it called the “romantic-comedy short film.”

“There’s been much hype and speculation following the release of the I Hate Thailand video,” TAT Governor Thawatchai Arunyik is quoted as saying. “The intention of this video is solely to depict the renowned Thai hospitality.” The tourism authority said it was inspired by research showing that “unbranded” advertisements tend to receive more interest than conventional commercials.

Spy balloons give police new view of Jerusalem JerUsALeM, NoveMber 27 (AP): Israeli police are watching from above in their attempts to keep control in Jerusalem in the face of the city’s worst wave of violence in nearly a decade.

Police have been flying surveillance balloons over the city’s eastern sector and Old City — the location of its most sensitive holy sites — to monitor protests and move in on them quickly. They say the puffy white balloons, which carry a rotating spherical camera pod, have greatly helped quell the unrest. But the eyes in the sky are unnerving Palestinians.

“They want to discover everything that’s going on. (They see) who is going, who is coming, who is that person,” said Imad Muna, who works at a local bookstore.

The Israeli company that makes the Skystar 180 aerostat system says the balloons can stay in the air for 72 hours and carry highly sensitive cameras.

Rami Shmueli, the CEO of RT LTA Systems Ltd, said his company gives police a “third

dimension” in their quest to quell tensions in east Jerusalem, where they have been clashing regularly with masked youths hurling rocks and firebombs.

“We give them an aerial view of the streets and those people who are throwing stones, we can detect them even if they hide behind buildings or in gardens,” said Shmueli. “When we see them and when we see their activity, we can direct the police forces to their location.

And even if they escape we can follow them and make sure that police catch them.”

Over the past month, 11 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks, including a deadly assault last week on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed five people. Most of the violence has occurred in Jerusalem, along with deadly attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank.

The violence has been connected in large part to continuing unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site — a hilltop compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctu-

ary. The Temple Mount, home to the ancient Hebrew temples, is the most sacred site in Judaism. Today, it is the site of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the goldtopped Dome of the Rock, the third-holiest place in Islam.

Jews are allowed to visit the site, but under a longstanding arrangement, they are barred from praying there. A growing number of visits by Jewish worshippers — some of whom seek to pray or want to rebuild the Jewish Temple there — has sparked rumors that Israel is plotting to take over the site — a charge Israel denies — and prompted violent riots by Palestinian youths. Israeli crackdowns and restrictions on Muslim access to the site, imposed as a security measure, have further enflamed tensions.

The helium-filled balloons were successfully used in Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip last summer. While various types of surveillance blimps have been used in the Jerusalem area for years, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a strategic decision was recently made to

increase their use as part of a broader effort to use the latest technologies.

He said police currently have four surveillance balloons deployed over Jerusalem, including one that monitors the Old City and its volatile holy sites, and others over Arab neighborhoods that have experienced unrest. Since the aerial deployment, he said there has been a marked decrease in street violence.

“It is tremendously important and gives us gives a 360-degree view of what is going on,” Rosenfeld said. “Our units can respond a lot quicker, a lot faster and much more effectively.”

The Skystar system is currently also deployed in Afghanistan, Mexico, Thailand, Canada, Russia, in various countries in Africa and was used for security at the World Cup in Brazil, the company says.

The balloons are part of a broad collection of surveillance equipment that includes security cameras throughout the city, including 320 of them in the Old City — as well as under-

cover units, riot-control forces and intelligence gathering.

Police have arrested some 1,000 protesters since the summer, when the violence erupted following the killing of a 16-yearold Palestinian boy by Jewish extremists in a revenge attack for the earlier killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank.

Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the imam of the Al Aqsa Mosque, said Palestinians are well accustomed to the aerial surveillance of mass prayers each Friday. But he said the new surveillance over residential areas is a problem.

“It is practically over the houses. It violates the privacy of people. There are women in the houses and these machines can photograph them,” he said.

Saleem Mohtaseb, a resident of Shuafat, an Arab neighborhood that has experienced frequent unrest, said the cameras have further frayed people’s nerves. “I asked my wife to close the curtains whenever she sees it in the sky. I know many people who have done the same,” he said.

This undated photo provided by RT LTA Systems Ltd. shows a Skystar aerostat surveillance system. Israeli police started using the system recently in Jerusalem to track clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces. (AP Photo)

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Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes loses his fight for life two days after being hit by bouncer

SYDNEY, NovEmbEr 27 (AP): Australian batsman Phillip Hughes died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday, two days after being struck on the head by a cricket ball during a domestic first-class match. He was 25.

Australia captain Michael Clarke read a brief statement on behalf of Hughes' parents, brother and sister at a packed news conference at St. Vincent's Hospital that was broadcast live around Australia.

"We're devastated by the loss of our muchloved son and brother Phillip. Cricket was Phillip's life, and we as a family shared that love of the game with him .... We love you," Clarke read, holding back tears before leaving the room. Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said Hughes was immensely talented and dearly loved: "Without doubt, he was a rising star whose best cricket was still ahead of him."

"The word tragedy gets used too often in sport, but this freak accident is real life tragedy," Sutherland said. "Just days short of his 26th birthday, Phillip has been taken away from us too soon.

"In these darkest hours, cricket puts its collective arms around the Hughes family."

Australian team doctor Peter Brukner announced the death earlier Thursday in a statement, saying Hughes never regained consciousness. The statement was issued shortly after Australian opener David Warner, one of the first players to help Hughes when he collapsed on the field, had left the hospital in tears, Hughes' mother and sister were at the match when he was he was hurt, and kept vigil at the hospital. Clarke, a close friend, was among dozens of former and current teammates and stars of the game who visited the hospital to offer their support.

The death — from a cerebral hemorrhage, or bleeding on the brain — shocked and sad-

dened people across Australia and cricket fans all over the world, and cast doubt over the first test between Australia and India due to be played in Brisbane next week.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott described Hughes as a "young man living out his dream," adding "It's a very sad day for cricket and a heartbreaking day for his family."

"For a young life to be cut short playing our national game seems a shocking aberration," he said. Messages of support poured in from all around the world after Hughes stumbled, leaned over and then collapsed after being hit behind the left ear when he mis-timed a

shot to a short-pitch delivery while batting for South Australia against New South Wales in a Sheffield Shield match. He underwent emergency surgery at nearby St. Vincent's Hospital to relieve pressure on the brain and remained in a critical condition in an induced coma.

Deaths are rare in cricket, although Hughes is the second player in two years to sustain a fatal blow.

Darryn Randall, who was 32 and a former first-class player in South Africa, was killed after being struck on the side of the head during a Border Cricket Board Premier League match in the Eastern Cape last year.

ers waved medical staff onto the pitch.

The paceman later visited Hughes in hospital and has received counselling from Cricket Australia. "Hopefully he'll be OK and can bounce back," former leg-spinner Warne added on Sky Sports News.

Former England fast bowler David Lawrence was involved in a similar incident in 1988, when he struck former West Indies batsman Phil Simmons on the temple during a tour match.

Simmons required surgery but made a full recovery. "I know what Sean is going through," Lawrence told BBC Radio 5 live. "When you turn and run in to bowl again, you are just going to have those images in your head."

The former Gloucestershire player added: "Will he ever be the same bowler again? I don't know."

Matthew Hoggard, another former England paceman told BBC Sport that the bouncer is part of a fast bowler's "armoury" and Abbott would not have been attempting to injure Hughes.

"You bowl it to be intimidating, but you don't bowl it to try and hurt people," said Hoggard. "To bowl a ball that has resulted in somebody dying has got to be absolutely devastating. Hopefully he can get the support around him and find the strength to carry on.

"I'm sure Phil would have wanted it because it was a tragic accident."

Simon Hughes, BBC Sport's cricket analyst and former Middlesex bowler, fears Abbott will "need a lot of counselling" and a break from the game.

"I've hit people before, obviously not with those terminal circumstances," Hughes said. "It's a terrible feeling when you injure anyone in sport, even though you are trying to intimidate them.

"I don't know how he's going to cope with it because it never happened before, certainly in professional cricket, where a bouncer has actually effectively killed a batsman. He's going to need a lot of counselling."

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In 1998, former India test player Raman Lamba died after being struck on the head while fielding during a domestic match in Bangladesh. Nottinghamshire's George Summers died after being hit on the head while batting at Lord's in 1870, and Abdul Aziz died after he was hit over the heart in a 1959 Pakistan first-class match.

Images of Hughes collapsing face first at the SCG were broadcast almost instantly across Australia on Tuesday, when satellite TV trucks and dozens of news crews started reporting regular updates on his condition from outside the hospital.

Australia's Sean Abbott needs help: Warne

SYDNEY, NovEmbEr 27 (AgENciES): Australia legend Shane Warne has led calls for the cricket world to support fast bowler Sean Abbott following the death of Phillip Hughes.

Hughes was struck high on the neck

by Abbott's short-pitched delivery during a domestic match and died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday.

"It's important for friends and the cricket community to get round Sean," Warne said of the 22-year-old. "I'm sure he'll be distraught, but it's not his fault."

Hughes, batting for South Australia, collapsed face first on the ground after being hit by a bouncer from Abbott during a Sheffield Shield game against New South Wales on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old had been wearing a helmet but the ball missed it, striking Hughes at the top of the neck and causing a vertebral artery dissection, which resulted in a "massive bleed" on the brain. Abbott was pictured in the aftermath of the incident cradling the batsman's head while other play-

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Phillip Hughes (AP File Photo)

Hughes played 26 test matches for Australia after making his debut 2009, but despite a sparkling start to his international career at the age of 19, he was not able to earn a regular spot in the starting lineup.

After making an assured 75 in his first test innings against South Africa at Johannesburg, he posted centuries in each innings of his second test, becoming the youngest player ever to do that in test cricket. But he struggled on the subsequent tour of England and was in and out of the Australian team four more times. He was on the verge of another test recall, with an assured 63, when he was fatally struck.

He also played 25 limited-overs internationals for Australia and more than 114 firstclass matches in a career starting in 2007.

The injury sparked debate about shortpitch bowling in the game, the level of protection offered by helmets that first came into common use at the test level in the late 1970s, and the seemingly slow reaction time of the ambulance service as Hughes was treated on the field. Bouncers, where a fast bowler aims to push the batsman back toward the stumps with a ball that lands halfway down the pitch and rears up above chest or head height, are still a regular and acceptable part of the game.

The International Cricket Council revised its laws on short-pitch bowling in the early 1990s, putting restrictions on the number of short-pitch balls allowed per over to stamp out bowlers merely using the delivery to intimidate batsmen. Hughes was wearing a helmet when he attempted to hook a shortpitch ball from New South Wales fast bowler Sean Abbott, but was hit on an unprotected area at the back of his head with the hard, leather ball, bursting an artery and causing a massive bleed.

Shaun Tait, who roomed with Phillip Hughes on international duty, told BBC World that bouncers are "part of the game" and warned against any kneejerk reactions. He added: "There is no blame being thrown at anyone.

It's a freak accident. "Whether they change the rules or whether they design new helmets, I don't know, that might happen. That's up to the powers-that-be. It's their decision, but the game rolls on. I think Phil would like the game to roll on."

Ex-Australia bowler Jason Gillespie added: "Abbott is a lovely young kid who was just running in and doing his job, bowling balls and it was one of the last things that he would have expected. "We are really feeling for him right now and everyone who was there."

Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen told Sky Sports News: "Sean Abbott's the kind of guy that needs a strong arm around him. I'm sure he's in a dark place but hopefully he con- Bowler Sean Abbott, whose bouncer hit Hughes in a freak accident, was comtinues playing our great game." forted as he left St Vincent's Hospital on Thursday.

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hey look alike and sound alike to the point that they have their own legion of fans across the world. The only difference is that they are not biologically the New Jersey glam rockers! Don’t believe it? Go check out their stuff on YouTube – you could not tell if not for the name of the group!

Yes, we are talking about Bon Giovi, one of the top tribute bands of Bon Jovi in Europe. They are incredibly authentic in their sound, musical artistry, and performance – not to mention looks! The rock group is not the New Jersey stars’ number-one tribute band for nothing. For more than 13 years now, they have rocked stadia across the entire UK. Well, we have not told you yet that they have performed for Bon Jovi fans in the Middle East all the way to Austria, The Netherlands to Germany, Belgium to Spain, and now, India, too!

Now, they will be turning

up the heat in chilly Kohima on December 9!

We the organizers of the Hornbill Music Festival, Nagaland Outdoors Club & Sky Entertainment, are excited to bring you Bon Giovi, considered one of the world’s best tribute bands doing Bon Jovi.

The rock group, with touring experience of more than a decade now, will be travelling all the way from the UK to perform for Bon Jovi rock fans in the region during the Hornbill Music festival.

Bon Giovi will be playing Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima town on December 9. To call Bon Giovi ‘authentic’ would be an understatement. In fact, they were the only UK tribute act to that made an appearance on Bon Jovi’s New Jersey tribute album “Garden State of Mind Vol. 1.”

Bon Giovi is Andrea Ojano as Jon Bon Jovi, Dean Harris as Ritchie Sambora, Wayne Harris as Davis Bryan, James Wright as Tico

Kanye West quitting music?

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Torres, and Tony Clark as Hugh McDonald. They are loud, loud and hard rocking and certainly, they will be giving you all your favorite Bon Jovi hits – no frills, just hard rock fun!

What’s more, one of Mumbai’s fiery rock

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The star wants to "step away" from recording new material so that he can concentrate on his desire to establish a clothing line. A source said to the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column: "After his next [collaboration] with Sir Paul McCartney comes out, he's going to step away from music and concentrate on clothing." And if he does turn his back on music it's hoped he can finally fulfill his Adidas commitments.

"He got a $15 million signing bonus from Adidas, but his line has been pushed back four times because he hasn't had enough time to work on it." Kanye previously had a deal with Nike but was offered more money by their rivals, and so he moved away from that deal. In the past, Kanye's explained: "The old me -- without a daughter -- might have taken this Nike deal because I just love Nike so much, blah, blah, blah, but the new me, with a daughter, takes the Adidas deal because I have royalties and I have to provide for my family... "I'm going to be the first hip-hop designer, and because of that I'mma be bigger than Wal-Mart."

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Ronaldo lifts Real to victory at Basel

DR. T. Ao TRophy November 27 Match Result (Quarter-final): Phek 2 – 0 Peren Dimapur 2 – 4 Mokokchung Wokha 2 – 3 Kohima (via penalties; 1 – 1 AET) Tuensang 2 – 1 Zunheboto November 28 Fixture (Semi-final): Phek vs Kohima @ 2 p.m.

NOA informs affiliated bodies KohimA, NovEmBEr 27 (mExN): Nagaland Olympic Association has informed that the Indian Olympic Association General Meeting, where the “activities report” of sports federations and State Olympic Associations are to be presented, is scheduled to be held on December 19 at Chennai. A press release in this regard has informed all the sports associations affiliated to the NOA to submit activities report from January 1 to December 31 2014 to T. Meren Paul, Secretary General, Nagaland Olympic Association, on or before December 5 without fail for further submission to the IOA.

Sambou double powers NE United to 3-0 win over Chennai GuwAhAti, NovEmBEr 27 (AGENCiES): Chennaiyin FC were stunned by ten men NorthEast United as they handed Marco Materazzi’s side a 3-0 defeat at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati on Thursday evening. Joan Capdevila was sent off in the 72nd minute as he picked his second booking for fouling Maurice Edu. A couple of goals from Massamba Lo Sambou and another by Durga Boro in the first half were enough to take them to fifth spot in the Indian Super League (ISL) standings with 13 points. Chennaiyin meanwhile, retain their top spot as they have 19 points from 11 matches.

The home side started brighter of the two sides as they pressed high and won a couple of corners. They were eventually rewarded in the 10th minute as Durga Boro took advantage of a poor header from Eric DjembaDjemba which hit Seminlen Doungel and dropped for him. The midfielder made no mistake from close range to smash it past Gennaro Bracigliano from close range.

In the 21st minute, Lo Sambou scored his first goal of the evening as he headed past the Chennaiyin custodian from a Koke corner-kick. A couple of minutes later, Djemba-Djemba was at fault again as he gave away a needless foul. Koke delivered an inch perfect ball into the box which saw Lo Sambou rise the highest to score his second. Chennai’s only chance of the half was when Jeje was clean through on goal but Rehenesh was at hand to avert the danger after Lo Sambou was beaten.

After the break, Materazzi introduced Jayesh Rane and Cristian Hidalgo to replace Bruno Pelissari and Jeje Lalpekhlua as he looked to revitalize his attack and claw their way back into the tie. NorthEast were reduced to ten men as Capdevila was given his marching orders as he picked his second booking of the game in the 72nd minute. Chennaiyin did try to put pressure in the final quarter of the game but failed to create any clear-cut chances. On the other hand, the home side were content playing the ball around and keeping the ball as they were intent on keeping the three-goal lead.

BASEL, NovEmBEr 27 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo's first-half goal helped Real Madrid beat Basel 1-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday, and tie a club record with a 15th straight win. Ronaldo's 71st career goal in the Champions League, in his 108th match, also equaled the previous competition scoring record long held by Madrid great Raul Gonzalez.

Both trail Lionel Messi by three after the Barcelona forward's record-setting hat trick on Tuesday.

Madrid's 15-match winning run started with a 5-1 rout of Basel on Sept.

16, and is the third in club history. The most recent was achieved three seasons ago under coach Jose Mourinho. "That we have put together a run of 15 wins is a great achievement for the club," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said.

Ronaldo scored in the 35th minute, tapping leftfooted into an empty net from Karim Benzema's cutback. The FIFA player of the

year's shot also grazed the post in the 77th, two minutes after Gareth Bale's shot struck the underside of the Basel crossbar. Victory in Switzerland means defending champion Madrid wins Group B and is seeded in the last-16 draw on Dec. 19.

Basel remains second on six points, two ahead of Ludogorets Razgrad and Liverpool who drew 2-2 on Wednesday. The Swiss champion visits Liverpool in the final round in two weeks.

"We deserved more," Basel coach Paulo Sousa said. "You can see that we can compete better and better with big teams." Madrid ended Basel's own five-match win sequence, though two teams on winning runs served up a tepid opening until Ronaldo's goal.

Basel responded forcing Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas, making his Champions League debut, into two 40th-minute saves from shots by Derlis Gonzalez and Shkelzen Gashi.

Gashi wasted a 56th-minute chance, slicing a shot on his

weaker right foot, and worried Navas when sending a 20-meter header just high.

The Costa Rica 'keeper then scrambled back to push away Breel Embolo's shot after being rounded by the 17-year-old forward.

After Madrid's stars twice struck the frame of Basel's goal, the hosts pressed for a leveler as Liverpool led 2-1 late in the game in Bulgaria. Play was held up in the 88th when three fans sprinted across the pitch, chased by stewards. In stoppage time, Basel substitutes Yoichhiro Kakitani and Ahmed Hamoudi both had efforts on goal, with the Egypt midfielder curling a left-foot shot just wide.

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Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, left, fights for the ball against Basel's Mohamed Elneny, during their Champions League group B soccer match between Switzerland's FC Basel 1893 and Spain's Real Madrid CF in the St. Jakob-Park stadium in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014. (AP Photo)

Saina, Kashyap seeded 5th, 6th for Super Series Finals KuALA LumPur, NovEmBEr 27 (iANS): Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal and leading Indian male shuttler Kidambi Srikanth were seeded fifth and sixth, respectively Thursday, for the $1,000,000 World Super Series Finals Dec 17-21. The tournament will be held in the Hamdan Sports Complex, Dubai. Srikanth, who won the China Open Super Series Premier, will play in the season-ending tournament for the first time.

There are no Indians in the doubles for men's, women's and mixed categories in the event competed by top eight players in each category.

Atletico Madrid, Arsenal reach knockout phase

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PAriS, NovEmBEr 27 (AP): Striker Mario Mandzukic scored a hat trick as Spanish champion Atletico Madrid thrashed Olympiakos 4-0 to reach the Champions League knockout phase on Wednesday, while Arsenal also went through with a convincing 2-0 win against Borussia Dortmund thanks to another superb goal from Alexis Sanchez.

Bayer Leverkusen likewise advanced despite a 1-0 home defeat to Monaco while Italian champion Juventus steered itself to within touching distance of qualifying with an assured 2-0 win at Swedish side Malmo. Atletico has 12 points in Group A and Juve has nine. Olympiakos has six points. Elsewhere, Liverpool's defensive woes surfaced again in a 2-2 away draw at Bulgarian side Ludogorets. Five-time European champion Liverpool, which has four points, is two behind Basel in Group B and hosts the Swiss side next.

Liverpool coach Brendan Rodgers was under pressure after a run of four straight defeats and things did not look like improving when Spanish midfielder Dani Abalo put Ludogorets ahead in the third minute. Rickie Lambert leveled for Liverpool and midfielder Jordan Henderson turned in Raheem Sterling's pass to make it 2-1 before the break. But when Ludogorets forced a late corner, Liverpool's defenders remained static, allowing Georgi Terziev to nod past goalkeeper Simon Mignolet.

The pressure will alleviate on Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger as the Gunners reached the knockout stages for the 15th straight season. Arsenal went ahead in the second minute through inexperienced striker Yaya Sanogo's first competitive goal for the North London club. Sanchez then curled a delightful shot into the bottom corner from 20 yards out for his ninth goal in eight games. "We were overrun by Arsenal in the first ten minutes," Dortmund midfielder Ilkay Gundogan said. Arsenal has 10 points and is two behind Dortmund in Group D. In the group's other match, Anderlecht qualified for the Europa League by beating Galatasaray 2-0, with defender Chancel Mbemba scoring twice. In Group C, Monaco and Zenit St. Petersburg are vying to qualify.

Leverkusen, which has nine points, is sure to advance because Zenit beat Benfica 1-0 in the earlier match thanks to Portugal midfielder Danny's winner. Monaco has eight points and Zenit has seven. Substitute Lucas Ocampos got Monaco's goal after good work from forward Dimitar Berbatov. Monaco next hosts Zenit and Leverkusen goes to Benfica.

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