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NEHU running without a VC for more than a year SHILLONG, NOVEMBER 2 (MExN): The North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, has been running without a regular Vice-Chancellor for the last one year and four months. This was brought to attention by the teaching and non-teaching staff in a memorandum to the President of India, the Visitor of NEHU, Shillong, on October 29. They requested the President to take “immediate steps to appoint a good, honest, efficient, dynamic and learned educationist as regular Vice-Chancellor of NEHU.” The memorandum was signed by Prof. XP Mao, Chairperson, Joint Action Committee, NEHU and president of NEHU Teachers’ Association, and Fredrick Kharbuli, Vice-Chairman of the JAC, NEHU and president of NEHU NonTeaching Staff Association. It informed that Prof. A. N. Rai, the then Vice-Chancellor left NEHU in the month of June, 2013. Since then Prof. P. Shukla, the senior most professor is working as acting Vice-Chancellor. “In the absence of most important statutory officers; Vice-Chancellor, Registrar and Finance Officer in NEHU, the day to day functioning of the University has been seriously hampered,” stated the memorandum. It also suggested that “it appears that the MHRD, Govt. of India, has failed to take cognizance of our problems by delaying the appointment of a regular Vice-Chancellor.”
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Nunmawi Hmar (50) from Mualhoi village of Dima Hasao district in Assam has been selling meat at the Haflong market for more than 10 years now. While at times the meat is local, most of her supply comes from Guwahati or Lanka. “We have no option, or no other job,” she says, from which to support her family. Depending on when the meat is completely sold out, her work hours range from 8 to 12 hours per day. (Morung Photo)
Modi vows to bring back black money
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 2 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged in his radio address Sunday to bring back “every bit” of unaccounted wealth stashed abroad and said his Clean India drive had become a mass movement. Speaking on a variety of subjects in the 20-minute programme, the prime minister said that Khadi Gram Udyog Bhavan authorities had reported a hike of 125 percent in sales since he urged people earlier to go for khadi. Addressing the nation for the second time in a month on All India Radio -- the address was heard on Doordarshan too, Modi said his government was on the right track to bring back black money and
there would be no bias. “I reiterate that, as far as black money is concerned, please have faith on this ‘pradhan sevak’ (prime servant) of yours, and it is an article of faith for me. “Every bit of the money of the poor that has been stashed abroad has to be brought back. This is my commitment,” he said. Modi said there could be different opinions on the process to bring back the unaccounted wealth. But “based on my knowledge and understanding of the subject, I can assure you that we are on the right path”. The Modi government has submitted to the Supreme Court a list of 627 Indians holding accounts in foreign banks. Modi touched upon a
range of subjects including on people’s feedback on the Swachh Bharat or Clean India campaign and on the human resource development ministry’s effort to help disabled children in the wake of his reference to them in his last radio talk Oct 3. Modi said he would discuss the effects of drugs in his next radio address. He asked people to share information with him on the subject. He also said that citizens who do not have access to social media and the internet can write to him at Akashwani and he would seriously consider various suggestions. The prime minister said his reference to the needs of the speciallyabled children during his
last radio address had inspired the human resource development ministry to think of schemes to help such children. One scheme was to provide 1,000 such meritorious children with scholarships to study in technical institutes. The other was to provide Rs.1 lakh to each Kendriya Vidyalaya and central university to create infrastructure for the disabled such as ramps and special toilets. The prime minister expressed happiness at the results of the Swachh Bharat campaign, which he said had taken the form of a “jan andolan” or mass movement. He said people, even children, were now taking care to throw chocolate wrappers in dustbins.
COPENHAGEN, NOVEMBER 2 (AP): Climate change is happening, it’s almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the U.N.’s panel on climate science said Sunday. The fourth and final volume of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s giant climate assessment didn’t offer any surprises, nor was it expected to since it combined the findings of three earlier reports released in the past 13 months. But it underlined the scope of the climate challenge in stark terms. Emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, may need to drop to zero by the end of this century for the world to have a decent chance of keeping the temperature rise below a level that many consider dangerous. Failure to do so, which could require deployment of technologies that suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, could lock the world on a trajectory with “irreversible” impacts on people and the environment, the report said. Some impacts are already being observed, including rising sea levels, a warmer and more acidic ocean, melting glaciers and Arctic sea ice and more frequent and intense heat waves. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the report’s launch in Copenhagen. Amid its grim projections, the report also offered hope. The tools needed to set the world on a low-emissions path are
there; it just has to break its addiction to the oil, coal and gas that power the global energy system while polluting the atmosphere with heat-trapping CO2, the chief greenhouse gas. “We have the means to limit climate change,” IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said. “All we need is the will to change, which we trust will be motivated by knowledge and an understanding of the science of climate change.” The IPCC was set up in 1988 to assess global warming and its impacts. The report released Sunday caps
gerous. After a protracted battle, the delegates couldn’t agree on the wording, and the box was dropped from a key summary for policymakers to the disappointment of some scientists. “If the governments are going to expect the IPCC to do their job,” said Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer, a lead author of the IPCC’s second report, they shouldn’t “get caught up in fights that have nothing to do with the IPCC.” The omission of the box meant the word “dangerous” disappeared from the summary altogether. It appeared only twice in a longer underlying report compared to seven times in a draft produced before the Copenhagen session. But the less loaded word “risk” was mentioned 65 times in the final 40-page summary. “Rising rates and magnitudes of warming and other changes in the climate system, accompanied by ocean acidification, increase the risk of severe, pervasive, and in some cases irreversible detrimental impacts,” the report said. President Barack Obama’s top science adviser, John Holdren, called the report “another wakeup call to the global community that we must act together swiftly and aggressively in order to stem climate change and avoid its worst impacts.” The report is meant as a scientific roadmap for the U.N. climate negotiations, which continue next month in Lima, Peru. That’s the last major conference before a summit in Paris next year, where a global agreement on climate action is supposed to be adopted.
‘There is no ambiguity. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side’ its latest assessment, a mega-review of 30,000 climate change studies that establishes with 95-percent certainty that nearly all warming seen since the 1950s is man-made. Today only a small minority of scientists challenge the mainstream conclusion that climate change is linked to human activity. Delegates approved the final documents Saturday afternoon after a weeklong line-by-line review in Copenhagen that underscored that the IPCC process is not just about science. The reports must be approved both by scientists and governments, which means political issues from U.N. climate negotiations, which are nearing a 2015 deadline for a global agreement, inevitably affect the outcome. The rift between developed and developing countries in the U.N. talks opened up in Copenhagen over a box of text that discussed what levels of warming could be considered dan-
Nido Tania’s case: Charges Nagaland financial health in ‘deep coma’ under SC/ST Act dropped Prosecution failed to establish that it was a case of “racial slur” NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 2 (TNN): In a setback to the CBI, a trial court has dropped charges under the stringent SC/ST Act against the four adult accused in 19-year-old Nido Tania’s death, saying the prosecution failed to establish that it was a case of “racial slur”. “There is no evidence to show the victim was a member of scheduled caste or scheduled tribe,” the court said. It also pulled up the probe agency for hiding crucial facts regarding Tania’s death from the court. The four have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and common intention under sections 304 and 34, respectively, of the IPC. Proceedings against the three juveniles involved in the matter are being conducted by the Juvenile Justice Board. Had the accused been convicted for sections under the SC/ST Act, the punishment would have been nothing less than life imprisonment. The
public prosecutor had submitted that the fact that Tania was from Arunachal Pradesh was apparent from his features. “The accused persons could imagine very well that he belonged to Northeast, which is an abode of scheduled tribes. Making remarks against a person by calling him ‘chinki’, was meant to insult and induce him in the name of his origin/caste. Hence, an offence under the special act is made out,” the prosecutor had said. Additional sessions judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, however, rejected the claim that most people in Northeast belong to the SC/ST community and discharged the accusedFarman, Pawan, Sunder and Sunny Uppal under the provisions of the special law. “I am unable to find out any provision of law, where all communities residing in Northeast are declared as scheduled tribes or scheduled castes. Even if the deceased belonged to any such caste, this fact was not known to any of the accused,” the judge said. The court reprimanded the prosecution for initially not filing certain documents in the court. It, however added that later those documents were filed by the agency. “Reasons
for withholding these documents from the court are beyond my comprehension. It is not clear if any manipulation has been done in the documents. This is not even the plea of defence counsels. However, a premier institution like CBI is not expected to be casual. The act is highly condemnable,” the judge observed. After framing of charges, the trial in the case has commenced recently and is likely to be conducted on a daily basis from this month. Nido Tania, who had an altercation with a few shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar on January 29 this year, was found dead inside his house the next day. Tania’s death had evoked angry reactions from people of the northeast living in the national capital who alleged police had failed to protect him. Delhi Police, which was earlier probing the case, had slapped murder charges on the four adults accused in the case after Tania’s postmortem revealed he died of head and facial injuries caused by a blunt object. The case was transferred to CBI after Tania’s parents met Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi to demand speedy justice.
DIMAPuR, NOVEMBER 2 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president and MLA, SI Jamir, stated today that the “financial health of the state has gone into deep coma for the past year while misgovernance and misuse of public funds continue unabated.” Pointing to the “misgovernance” of the NPF led DAN government in the past 12 years “without any signs of improvement,” the NPCC president stated in a press note that delay in payment of salaries to State Government employees has “become the norm” with some employees struggling without pay for 5-6 months. This, he noted, has been “put to blame” on the 13th Finance Commission by the Chief Minister and his party leaders “forgetting that they are solely responsible for emptying the state treasury.” Even after then CM Neiphiu Rio “decided to escape the mess created,” asserted Jamir, “it was expected that the new incumbent CM will instill fresh ideas and approach but has miserably failed so far to salvage the pitiable condition of the state.” “While the NPF govt remains clueless to steer the state out of
the present crisis, it was also equally pitiable to see the state ministers making innumerable trips to Delhi pleading for additional funds with the BJP govt at the centre,” stated the NPCC president. He pointed to the “irony” with which the NPF has paid “scant regards” for the State BJP which is “conveniently forgotten when in Delhi.” The State BJP, he observed, has now “woken up after a decade of deep
ing the people into confidence,” which could create “another recipe for disaster.” The NPCC president then pointed to the manifestation of the “communal agenda” of the BJP in the recent months “since Narendra Modi took over as BJP Prime Minister.” “While Prime Minister Modi propagates progress and development at every given platform to mask his real agenda, the RSS and its affiliates have quietly gone about with the task of propagating Hindutva ideology that is now slowly being imposed in all spheres of governance and public life,” he alleged. Till date, he said, the PM has “failed to condemn even a single communal riot that has become a regular occurrence in different parts of the country ever since the BJP came to power in May 2014.” Jamir quoted the example of the recent “communal clashes” in Trilokpuri area of Delhi “orchestrated by outside elements.” “The Congress had always maintained the religious minorities and oppressed castes have no place in the BJP-RSS idea of nationhood and the actions of the BJP govt in recent months substantiate the stand taken by the Congress party,” stated Jamir.
NPCC president points to ironies of NPF led government slumber to throw its tantrums while still clinging on as desperate coalition partner of DAN govt despite repeated humiliations by the NPF.” Reflecting on the ‘Naga Political problem,’ Jamir stated that “Over 17 years of ceasefire and talks with a particular NPG has stretched all limits and the patience of the public is fast running out since the contents of talks are still shrouded in secrecy.” He further said that the BJP government will be held “solely responsible” if the “present trend continues and culminates into any solution without tak-
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