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nagaland and its oil impasse From challenge of permit to challenge of Rules & Regulations— how the Lotha Hoho PIL came into being Morung Express news Dimapur | November 4

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Farmer Zhang Xianping rides his pig “Big Precious” during an interview with the media, in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China, november 2. Zhang, a pig breeder, instead of killing it, decided to keep the two-year-old “Big Precious” as pet when its weight reached 600 kg, according to local media. (REUTERS)

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Nagaland BJP highlights urgent infrastructural needs of State

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 4 (MExN): The Nagaland state unit of the BJP has submitted a memorandum to the Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Transport, Nitin Gadkari on the need for infrastructure development in the state.

The memo was submitted by a delegation of the party led by BJP Nagaland President, Dr M. Chuba Ao and HK Khulu, state executive member, during the Union Minister’s visit to the state on Tuesday.

The memo pointed to certain priority works on infrastructure which are required to be implemented through the state Government in right earnest during the NDA/BJP regime. Included in this 15000 Crore package... “priority works” was the North- South ExAree! nothing for us? pressway (Foothill Road-4 Lane) on the western side of the state (Mon to DimaThe Morung Express pur/Khelma). The Nagaland BJP said that state government had sent a proposPoll QuEsTion the al for approval under NLCPR (Central), Vote on www.morungexpress.com which can be linked to the Stilwell road in SMS your anSwer to 9862574165 Arunachal in the north and to the national Quadrilateral road near Silchar in the Has Naga civil society groups (Hohos, south. It also referred to the Trans-Eastern students, mothers, etc) Highway linking the districts in the interbeen compromised national boundary with Myanmar (Monby the Nagaland state

Longwa – Pangsha –Avangkhu – Kiphire) and highlighted the need to need to link the trilateral highway being taken up from Moreh(Manipur) via Bagan (Myanmar) to Mae Sot (Thailand) to Nagaland from Dimapur via Niuland – Zunheboto –Aghunato –Pangsha(ITC) on to Lahe and beyond in Myanmar linking the Trilateral highway.

“In order to facilitate trade and commerce with Myanmar it would be necessary to open up waterway through Tizu/ Zungki River (Nagaland) which flow into the Chindwin river and onto Irrawady river in Myanmar,” it added. The party further pointed out the urgent need for a new airport of international standard in Dimapur area. “Possible areas are located towards Dhansiripar or at Razaphema – This needs to be expedited,” it said.

It also cited the circular road and bypass in Kohima as “absolutely essential,” while urging that roads to all the 11 district headquarters be taken up during the NDA regime on priority. The party then asked for two more bridges over Dhansiri River and at least two fly-over bridges in Dimapur to be built.

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Thai court orders extradition of arms dealer wanted in India BANGKOK, NOVEMBER 4 (PTI): An Appeals Court in Thailand today ordered the extradition of a Thai arms dealer who is wanted in India in connection with brokering arms deals between Chinese suppliers and insurgent outfits in India’s Northeast.

Wuthikorn Naruenartwanich, alias Willy Naru, was arrested in August, 2013 on India’s request for allegedly brokering arms deals between Chinese suppliers and Anthony Shimray, a top operative of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isac-Muivah) or NSCN-IM faction. Shimray, who was arrested on Indo-Nepal border in October 2010, had indicated that Willy had helped him to purchase weapons and ammunitions worth USD 1.2 million. Indian intelligence traced their contact and found that they had made the deal via email and an amount of USD 8,00,000 had already been paid. Willy, 57, runs a spa business in Thailand, allegedly as a cover for his illegal activities.

“The court said he should be extradited within 90 days but we hope to do so in a month,” sources told PTI.

What has become a full blown challenge to the Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules & Regulations 2012 (NPNGR&R) in the Gauhati high Court (GHC) started off with a challenge to a permit that has now been stayed by the Court.

The Nagaland State, through the Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas (NPNG) Board, granted a permit for ‘mixed operations’ (exploration, production/extraction and refining/bottling of petroleum and natural gas) in the Wokha Zone for a period of 10 years to Metropolitan Oil & Gas Pvt. Ld. (MOGPL) on February 28, 2014. Issued at a fee of Rs. 3 crore, the permit was issued on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Nagaland (GoN) and MOGPL, also signed on the same day.

This, in turn, found basis in the NPNG Rules 2012—a Ministerial Group would first decide on a company and then get the NPNG Board chairman to sign the MoU. The Ministerial Group consists of the GoN’s Cabinet Sub-Committee on petroleum and natural gas members who helped draft the NPNGR&R in the first place.

The subsequent permit, through which MOGPL could mine billions of dollars worth revenue from Nagaland, is a piece of paper anyone could have typed out (see picture).

The permit is not on a Government letterhead. It has no file number. It is signed by one person—the additional chief secretary and development commissioner to the GoN at the time, also the NPNG Board chairperson.

Owing to “wrongful” procedure in giving such an important permit, the Lotha Hoho called for its cancellation by writing to the Chief Secretary in July this year. They stated in a press release earlier that the way the permit was given “is against the state government’s standing Rule no. 4, first schedule of the Rules

of Executive Business 1980 P&AR department notification No. AR. 11/4/77 of 28/07/1980 which states that all such cases has to be issued by the concern department and in this case by the secretary, Geology & Mining department through a notification in consultation with the Finance department.”

Concurrently, in a response given in 2015 to an RTI filed in 2014, the GoN’s Department of Geology & Mining seemed puzzled at questions about the oil gymnastics. How could it have all answers? It stated that it was not consulted during the framing of the NPNGR&R. It ascertained before the Nagaland Information Commission that the Department “came to know (the details) only after the permit was issued” to the company.

When the Government forcibly reinaugurated Changpang (oil wells) in 2014 (to the extent of enforcing a curfew), the Department of Geology & Mining was left uninvited.

Earlier, the Lotha Hoho had also stated, “Expression of Interest (EOI) on which the permit was based was also notified without any file number

and that too by the NPNG Board and not by the department concerned.”

In the RTI response, the Department of Geology & Mining affirmed, again, that it had not received a copy of the EOI and knew nothing about MOGPL. These administrative high jumps were made possible by the NPNGR&R. It gave away major decision making power vis-a-vis petroleum and natural gas to a Ministerial Group and bureaucratic powers to the NPNG Board.

Thus, if the permit is not cancelled, it will lead to litigation in a court of law, intimated the Lotha Hoho to the Chief Secretary of Nagaland in July 2015. Copies were sent to top functionaries of Nagaland State Government—the Commissioner & Secretary to the Chief Minister, PS to the Parliamentary Secretary, Geology & Mining, PS to the Minister, Home, Commissioner & Secretary to GoN’s Geology & Mining, the Director, Geology & Mining. It also informed all Lotha frontal organisations of the same.

No known action was taken by the GoN, similar to its response since 2012 when the Lotha people, including landowners and apex bodies, repeatedly objected to the way things were taking shape.

In late 2015, the Lotha Hoho decided to go beyond the permit and filed a PIL in the Kohima bench of the GHC challenging the NPNGR&R 2012 itself. The PIL relies on Article 371-A of the Indian Constitution to protect the Naga people from land and resource alienation by the State—it asks the court to enforce Article 371-A as well as others.

The PIL has termed the award of permit as “arbitrary, unfair, non-transparent and illegal action.” There was a violation of established principles of natural justice and administrative fair-play, it noted, among other allegations.

On October 8, the GHC passed an order that stayed the permit granted by the GoN to MOGPL and questioned the constitutional basis of the NPNGR&R 2012.

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Maldives declares state of emergency Foodhills - organic retail outlet in Kohima

MALE, NOVEMBER 4 (REUTERS): The Maldives declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, as the Indian Ocean island nation’s political upheaval intensified following a suspected assassination attempt on the president.

Citing a threat to national security, the foreign ministry said on its official Twitter feed that the state of emergency would remain in force for 30 days. Umar Naseer, minister of home affairs, confirmed to Reuters that the

emergency had been declared.

The string of tropical islands, home to 400,000 people and a favourite of tourists, has been in turmoil since a Sept. 28 blast on board President Abdulla Yameen’s launch as it was about to dock at the capital Male.

Yameen was unhurt but his wife and two aides were injured in the blast, which the government quickly said was an assassination attempt.

The authorities have since uncovered stashes of weapons believed to

have been hidden by Yameen’s opponents, leading the police to recommend the imposition of a state of emergency under Article 253 of the constitution.

“Further investigations showed a high probability that these people have weapons and explosives,” Ali Ihusaan, a Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) official, told a news conference. “There is every possibility that these things will be seen again, and so we advised on this action,” he said.

3930 backdoor appointments in Home Dept since 2010: CSU

PHEK, NOVEMBER 4 (MExN): The Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) today submitted a representation to the Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, alleging that 3930 “backdoor appointments” have been made in the state Home Department from 2010 till date. Various documents supporting the CSU’s allegations were also submitted to the CM along with the representation The representation appended by CSU President, Seve R Vadeo and General Secretary, Ngapunyi Krocha, based these findings on an RTI filed on August 20, 2015 in the Home Department. As per information received through the RTI, the CSU said that from 2010 till date, 95 ABSI, 72 UBSI, 64 ASI, 74 Havildar, 3551 Constable and 74 Ministerial staff, medi-

Demands that Nagaland CM revoke all ‘illegal appointments’ within 10 days

cal staff (district) and LDA posts were appointed through “backdoor.”

It informed that 106 ABSIs were appointed from January 1, 2010 till date, of which it alleged that except for 11 appointees, “the rest have all been appointed through backdoor.” The CSU pointed to appointment number PHQ (B-1) 1/24/2011 dated Kohima, November 29, 2011 as evidence for this.

The CSU also said that only 9 out of 81 UBSIs were appointed through competitive exams during the period. It then informed that only 6 out of 70 ASIs appointed during the period were through proper competitive exams.

The CSU alleged that all 74 Havildar posts appointed during the five year period were made through “backdoor.” Further, it stated that no advertisements were carried out for the posts of 3551 constables appointed from January 1, 2010 till date. It then revealed that 74 out of the 75 Ministerial staff, medical staff (district) and LDAs were appointed through “backdoor” during the period.

It further stated that except for one advertisement number PHQ (B-1) 1/24/2011, dated Kohima, August 11, 2011, whereby 32 posts of ABSI (male-14), UBSI (male-8), UBSI (female-3), and ASI (male-7) were made; “the rest have

not carried any advertisement for publication in any manner flouting all norms and procedures.”

The CSU also apprised the Nagaland CM of their press statement dated August 11, 2015, regarding “backdoor appointment” of 259 posts made in the months of April and May, 2015. It expressed concern that till date, there has been no response from the department or the government.

The CSU informed that the union is taking steps to collect data of other departments as well to place before the CM, and asked him to “revoke all the illegal appointments in the Home Department as per the data furnished within a period of 10 days.” Failure to do so, the CSU cautioned that it would recourse for legal action.

Vegetables sold at Foodhills, an organic retail outlet which opened in Kohima today.

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Looking for organic vegetable/produces? Then Foodhills is the perfect outlet for you. Located opposite de Oriental Grand, Themezie, High School Road, Foofhills was formally opened today to cater to people looking for organic produces. Foodhills, which opens from 9:00am to 6:00pm, is the initiative of six families under the banner of Pfutsero Produce Marketing Organization (PPMO).

This organic retail outlet started with agricultural produces from Pfutsero of Phek district, and will later engage other produces from Wokha, Mokokchung etc.

Among the many items

available include Naga Dal, Millet, Rice, Cabbage, Potato, Tree Tomato, Potato, Beans, Maize, Axone, meat pickles, Green vegetables, Squash, Garlic, Pumpkin etc. The outlet also sells imported essential commodities.

“We want to engage produces from all over Nagaland in the coming years,” said PPMO director Wenyitso Kapfo. Kapfo stated that through this venture they also wanted to promote the youngsters in agricultural production activities.

Inaugurating Foodhills, renowned singer Methaneilie Jutakhrie said agricultural practice in Nagaland is organic by default and stressed on the need to go for large scale produc-

tion to meet the growing demand of the populace.

He encouraged the farmers to intensify cultivation and produce more.

Methaneilie also lauded PPMO for initiating Foodhills in the state capital and wished them a successful venture.

Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Coordination and Evaluation, Neiba Kronu was appreciative of the PPMO, saying that it has established Foodhills with a purpose.

He expressed hope that Horticulture Department would come forward to assist PPMO in packaging and storage aspects. Kronu also encouraged Naga entrepreneurs to venture into wild apple and honey, which has high potential in the state.

Nagaland Horticulture Director, Watienla Jamir was also positive of the PPMO venture and their seriousness in the business. Stating that the good wishes of the Department will be always there, she informed that PPMO can come forward to sit with the department pertaining to the scheme under the National Horticulture Board.

Meanwhile, PPMO CEO Wecheteu Khape has asked for support from the public for their venture.

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Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day observed in Peren

PereN, November 4 (mexN): Observing the Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day, a programme was held at IDSP Conference Hall on October 21 at Chief Medical Office Peren. Tianiu, ADC Peren graced the occasion as the chief guest with other dignitaries from the Medical Department, Zeliangrong Mipui Organization (Zeliangrong Mother’s Organisation/ ZMO), Wards GB’s, N and Chairman, NGO’s, Trade Union, Town committees and community leaders. Chairing the program Dr. Tiala, Dy. CMO welcomed all the participants and expressed her heartfelt gratitude for their encouragement by participating in the program.

The chief guest in her address expressed her gratitude and acknowledged the medical department and all the participants present in the function for being a part of this IDD Day. She highlighted on the importance Of Iodine and requested all the representatives present to spread and disseminate the information.

Addressing the key note address, Dr. Ngangshimeren, CMO gave a power point presentation ;the introduction of Observance of Global IDD Prevention Day; Importance of Iodine, its sources, daily requirements of Iodine, How Iodine is lost in the soil; Highlighted on what is Iodised salt? Salt as a medium for iodine: prevention and control IDD’s.

Thereafter, Enlongla, Food Safety Officer, Peren gave a demonstration on Salt Testing on Iodine.

Following the observance, IEC Personnel carried out Awareness campaign on IDD on November 3 and 4. The programme was conducted in five schools. The schools covered were Govt. middle school- DC colony, Government Primary SchoolKeletzai, Government middle school- Peren Town, All Saints higher secondary school and Baptist High school- Peren town. Altogether there were 590 students and 11 teachers participated.

APMC Kohima boost local farming community Kohima, November 4 (mexN): To give a fillip to the local farming community, the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC), Kohima organized a first of its kind sales day and exhibition cum competition for as many as 57 Village Marketing Committees (VMCs) under Kohima District on November 4.

Lodged at the centre point of the state capital, Old NST complex, the area was bustling with activity as villages set up stalls with varied local organic vegetables, weaves, fruits, flowers, eatables, chicken, handloom and handicrafts. It was a sight to behold as it displayed ariot of colors and presented a very aesthetic view. People thronged the venue in large numbers to get a taste of the best, be it Naga King Chilli, pumpkin, yam, ash gourd, brinjal, chow chow etc all in ‘one single place’ at affordable prices.

Chairman of APMC, Kohima district, Kevinourheno Seyie introducing the event said that it is ex-

People flock the sales day & exhibition-cum- competition of Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Kohima on November 4 at Old NST station, Kohima. This programme was sponsored by horticulture department, District Agriculture Office, Deputy Commissioner Kohima, chairman and member secretary APMC Kohima. (Morung Photo)

pected to be the first ever sales day amongst APMC’s in Kohima district, where 57 VMCs are here to sell their local organic products. “We are organizing this exhibition cum competition, to encourage the farmers, so that they will not just produce at random, but produce quality’.

Later in an interaction, Director of Horticulture, Watienla Jamir congratulated APMC, Kohima district led by Kevinourheno Seyie and her staff and added that as soon as a woman took over, positive changes are being seen. She further said that she felt encouraged to see the enthusiasm

of the farmers and hoped such activities would be organized more often adding, “it is also a good time for families to shop their wares under one roof.”

Village Council Chairman of Phekerükriema, Neilhousalie, a participant shared that it is has been beneficial taking part in

this sales and exhibition and looked forward to more of these in the coming days. He also said that this experience has been an eye opener to learn more about others and hoped to do better in future, if given an opportunity.

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Joint Director, Nosezole, Kohima Municipal Council, CEO, Kovi Meyase, ADC Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi, District Agriculture Officer, Vizonyü Liezietsu, Salhoutono Kruse, AMK advisor, Ruokuoheü Miachieo, AMK President (whoalso pronounced the invocation) Kekhrievolie Keyho, APMC member were amongst the dignitaries who attended the programme.

The programme was sponsored by the Horticulture Department, District Agriculture Office, Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, Chairman and Member Secretary APMC Kohima.

The participants were given certificates while 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners in each category went home richer by Rs.3000, 2000 and 1000 respectively.

Competitions were held on many items like cabbage, Naga King Chilly, yam, pumpkin, flowers, chow chow, ginger etc. Well known local artist Setso Liegise performed live enthralling the gathering with popular hit songs.

Peseyie call Naga villages to maintain better ties to usher in peace and development Our Correspondent

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SECHÜMA DAY

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Minister for social welfare and parliamentary affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie on Tuesday called upon the need for Naga villages to maintain better ties so as to usher in peace and development. Speaking at the 50th anniversary of Sechüma Day celebration on Tuesday as the chief guest, Peseyie stressed on the need of building up closer relationship among villages in order to let peace reign in the Naga soil.

The minister also urged upon the villagers, particularly the village leaders, to create favourable environment and platform to promote friendly relation among neighbours. He stated that the society will be able to progress to the maximum only when there is peace and unity among the people, especially amongst the villages.

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About Sechüma day (Sechüma Kenei Teisozha)

Sechüma Youth Organisation presenting a song during the jubilee celebration on Tuesday. (Morung Photo)

in the Western Angami region, Peseyie, who is the MLA of 8th Western Angami A/C, urged upon the village members to continue to live up to the rich legacy of their forefathers.

To this, he encouraged the younger generation to lead from the front so that they initiate to bring in change in the society. The minister also lauded the village for attaining the 50th year

of day formation, while he sought for God’s abundant blessings upon the village as it surge ahead.

The jubilee programme commenced with the invocation pronounced by Kevingulie Rhatsu, pastor, Sechüma Baptist Church, while the welcome address was tendered by Pelevisie Rhatsu, chairman, Sechüma Village Council.

The jubilee blessings

were pronounced by Cacha Meyatsu and greetings was delivered by Satuo Sechü, president, Sechü clan and Ekhulung Zeliang, advisor, Sechü clan.

Special numbers were presented by Neiphretuonuo Sechü, Sechüma Women Society, Sechüma Youth Organization and sisters of Sechüma village who got married to outsiders.

The programme was

chaired by Teiso Teiu, convenor, organizing comitte, while the vote of thanks was tendered by co-convenor Keneilezo Rhatsu.

On the day, the 50th anniversary magazine was also released by Theja-o Vihienuo, State Mission Director, RMSA and vice chairman, Mera-SechüRau-Thenyieu clan.

Earlier, the chief guest Kiyanilie Peseyie also un-

veiled the jubilee monolith. The dedicatory prayer for the jubilee monolith was pronounced by Toulie Nipu, former pastor, Sechüma Baptist church.

The jubilee celebration was also attended by Sechüma villagers, near and far, leaders and delegates of neighboring villages, sisters and in-laws of Sechüma village, well wishers among others.

Sechüma day (Sechüma Kenei Teisozha) was formed as part of resettlement of villagers after disbursement from the village during the most difficult time of military operations in Nagaland.

Going by Sechüma village history, the village was burnt twice by the Indian army during the years when Naga army personnel fought against the intrusion of Indian army into Naga homeland. Like every other villages in the Naga country who also suffered to the maximum during military operations, Sechüma village also stood relentlessly against the intrusion of Indian army. It was during this period where the villages found it difficult to settle in their own villages and was made to go hiding into the jungles.

After the return of some Sechüma villagers from the concentration camp at Sechü Zubza, it was during one of such times where some of them decided to observe a thanksgiving day to the Almighty God, bringing together all the village members, irrespective of underground or over-ground members.

Subsequently the village day was formed in 1965 by nine members, four of whom are still alive and doing well.

Sechüma village is also known for having so many descendants far and near. The descendants of this village have been dispersed, not only to villages within Angami area, but also to various locations such Chakhesang, Zeliang, Rengma and part of Assam.

DC Dimapur graces Tech Aura 2015 Consultative meeting on Smart City Kohima Morung Express News Dimapur | November 4

Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome on Wednesday called for thinking beyond tribal lines and broadening the horizon of humanity. Speaking at the Tech Aura 2015 as the chief guest at SETAM Campus, NU Dimapur, he urged upon science students to imbibe the beautiful aspects of science and apply it in their daily lives positively.

“What good is it if you are a science student but fails to apply scientific techniques in your lives?” he challenged the students. He lamented that people continue to confine their thoughts to tribalism and social distinctions even as Science has advanced beyond earth. “As students today, you will be leaders tomorrow and it is important to understand the critical aspect of rising beyond social lines,” he told the students.

Stating that scientific inventions

Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome lighting the torch while inaugurating Tech Aura 2015 as the chief guest at SETAM Campus, NU Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

were the result of relentless sincerity and effort, Yhome said that the 21st century belonged to professionals and has no place for people with casual attitude.

He expressed the hope that the Tech Aura 2015 would be an inspiration to reignite the spirit of profes-

sionalism and create a new chapter.

Guest of Honour, L. Sharat Singh, Principal Immanuel College and Dean NU SET & SMS, D.P. Chaturvedi also spoke during the programme which was attended by a host of invitees and students.

Kohima, November 4 (DiPr): Deputy Commissioner Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor IAS convened a consultative meeting on Smart City Kohima with the villages of Kohima, Meriema, Phesama and Jotsoma including AYO, ASU, PHE, PWD (R&B), PWD (NH), KMC and the Municipal Affairs Department at DC’s Conference Hall on November 4.

In the meeting, Deputy Commissioner informed that the State capital Kohima has been selected among the 100 cities in all India level for the scheme and to implement this scheme one’s view and opinion is required for the proposal of Smart-City Kohima for which the meeting

has been called. Informing that the Municipal Affairs Department as the Nodal Department has activated for public views and suggestions for the planning stage of the Smart-City of Kohima, he urged the members present to contribute their suggestions and opinions on the issue and also sought for support and co-operation of Kohima Village and other adjacent villages towards the developmental works in the State capital.

Additional Director & HoD Municipal Affairs Department, Dr. Toshimanen Ozukum also gave a brief highlight on the concept of Smart-City. KMC Administrator, Kovi Meyase highlighted on the activi-

ties carried out by the KMC as being the implementing agency of the SmartCity. He informed that the KMC had held a consultative meeting with the 19 Wards under Kohima district, KCCI, Mini Bus & Taxi Union, Angami and Frontal Organisations in regard to Smart-City and also highlighted the proposal on Smart-City received from the public so far. He informed that the concerned Department and the implementing agency is now in the planning stage to make proposal on SmartCity and further appealed all the members present to extend their cooperation and support without which the Smart-City would not be possible. Assistant Di-

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rector Municipal Affairs Department, Kezhochole Rhetso also gave a power point presentation on the Smart-City Mission: PanCity Smart Solution during the meeting.

Representatives from the neighboring Villages, AYO and ASU also shared their views and suggestions on the issue and assured to extend their full cooperation and support for the successful implementation of the project.

The Deputy Commissioner thanked all the participants for contributing their thoughts and suggestions during the meeting and assured to take up their suggestion towards the development of the State capital.

21st annual meeting of Rajya Sainik Board

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Kohima, November 4 (DiPr): The 21st Annual Meeting of Directorate of Sainik Welfare & Resettlement (Rajya Sainik Board) and State Managing Committee of Special Fund for Rehabilitation of Ex-servicemen, Nagaland will be held at Banquet Hall, Raj Bhavan, Kohima on November 9 under the Chairmanship of Governor of Nagaland. The meeting will be attended by the Chief Minister, Nagaland and high ranking civil and military officials.

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A farmer cut rice straw in a paddy field at Kukidolong, outskirt of Dimapur, Nagaland on November 2. Photo by Caisii Mao

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Naga Peace Accord will not harm interests Assam Police to take custody of NDFB leader in Kerala of neighbouring states: RN Ravi reassures Our Correspondent Imphal I November 4

Sentiments of all communities in Manipur and people of neighbouring states of Nagaland would not be allowed to hurt by the Naga Peace Accord, Centre's interlocutor for Naga talks, RN Ravi has reassured on Wednesday. Ravi was here in a two-day visit to the state.

His trip to Manipur aimed at clearing the air concerning the framework agreement signed between the Government of India and NSCN(IM) on August 3.

The interlocutor left the state capital at 3.20 pm. During his stay here RN Ravi met representatives of various

3 in fray for Aizawl North-III by-poll AizAwl, November 4 (Pti): Three candidates are in fray for the by-poll to Aizawl North-III seat to be held on November 21.

Two candidates filed their papers on the final date of nominations today, election department officials said. K. Vanlalvena of the opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) and former Lok Sabha member and Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) chief Lalduhawma, official nominee of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) filed their nomination papers today.The ZNP and the BJP forged preelectoral alliance under the banner of the NDA. Former Health Minister and candidate of the ruling Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) Lal Thanzara had filed his nomination yesterday. The by-poll was necessitated following the resignation of Lal Thanzara on August 18 over report of an alleged 'conflict of interests' case coming up in media.

civil society groups at Classic Hotel Grande, in Imphal.

He assured the leaders of social organisations that the Naga Peace Accord would not disrupt the interests of all communities as well as the territorial boundaries of neighbouring states of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

A team of Senior Citizen's Society also met RN Ravi before he left Imphal for New Delhi. One of its members, senior advocate Khaidem Mani said that they were reassured by RN Ravi during the meeting that the Framework Agreement would not harm the interests of all indigenous

communities of Manipur.

The Centre's interlocutor also said that all stakeholders and people of Manipur would be taken into board before the final pact is signed with the NSCN (IM), Mani quoted Ravi as saying.

From the side of the senior citizens, Ravi was also urged to disclose the details of the Framework Agreement, he said. It is learnt that Ravi refused to disclose anything about the contents of the Framework Agreement.

A state JD (U) team led by its president M Tombi also met RN Ravi who later called on NEC member from Manipur, Prof Gangmumei Kamei at his residence.

On Tuesday, RN Ravi held consultations with major civil society groups like United Committee Manipur (UCM), All Manipur Clubs' Organisation (AMUCO), United Naga Council (UNC), Committee for Protection of Tribal Rights, Naga Political Forum,Kuki Inpi and Aimol Tribe Union. A week after the signing of the pact with NSCN(IM) on August 3, RN Ravi came to Imphal to hold consultations on the Naga Peace Accord with leaders of different apex civil society groups of the state.

Ravi is expected to visit Manipur again in the last week of the current month for the same purpose, according to official sources.

One lynched for allegedly ‘stealing cow’ guwAhAti, November 4 (ht): A Muslim organisation’s refusal to bury a madrasa headmaster lynched on Monday for allegedly stealing cattle has put the Congress-led Manipur government in a fix. Md Hasmat Ali alias Babu, 55, was clobbered to death by a mob near a village in Manipur’s Imphal East district early Monday morning. Villagers had allegedly spotted him with a calf that went missing from one Khumallambam Brojen’s shed. Ali’s body was taken to the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) in state capital Imphal for autopsy while the calf is being kept at the local Irilbung police station.

“Ali, a kind-hearted and honest teacher,

was killed after being accused of a crime he could not have committed. The police know who his assailants are but are not taking action. We will not take his body from JNIMS for burial until justice is done,” Md Rajauddin, convenor of a joint action committee against Ali’s killing, told HT. He added that the committee has called for a statewide shutdown on Thursday besides appealing to New Delhi for prodding the Manipur government into action. A district police officer said tension prevailed in the Muslimdominated Keirao Makting area of Imphal East district though the situation has been brought under control. Locals had tried to storm the Irilbung police station on Tuesday.

'Implement directions for North Easterners' safety in Delhi' New Delhi, November 4 (iANS): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government and police to implement the directions it had given time and again on the safety and security of people from the northeastern states residing in the capital.

A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath disposed of the plea and asked the Delhi govern-

ment and police to adhere to directions given by it on the issue.

The court took suo motu cognizance to curb alleged hate crimes and racial discrimination against people from the northeastern states and said that the government needs to "play a proactive role" in this. The detailed order will be available later, said the court.

The court also asked the Delhi government

and police to implement recommendations of the committee led by former bureaucrat M.P. Bezbaruah constituted by the union home ministry, following a spate of attacks against people from the region living in Delhi.

The 11-member committee was formed following the killing of Nido Tania, a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh in Delhi in January 2014.

Symbolic fast supporting Irom Sharmila

Activists of North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS), North East students, members of various progressive and democratic organizations in a sit-in protest along with the hunger strike condemning the enforcement of the long abused Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) at Janta Mantar, New Delhi on November 2. NEFIS, in discussion with Irom Sharmila, organized twelve-hour hunger strikes and collective sit-ins at various places of the country to mark the 15th year of her heroic struggle against Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

New Delhi, November 4 (iANS): A group of activists from different organisations staged a symbolic day-long fast here on Wednesday to express solidarity with Manipuri civil rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu who has completed 15 years of non-stop hunger strike demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from her state.

The 15 activists from Khudai Khidmatgar, National Alliance of People's Movements, Delhi Solidarity Group, Socialist Party (India), Punjab San-

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18-year-old National Bravery Award winner, were shot dead while waiting at a bus stop in Malom town in the Imphal valley of Manipur.

They were allegedly killed by personnel of the Assam Rifles paramilitary force.

"Sharmila's weight is 35 kg now," Qamara Intekhab of SSSC told IANS at the site of the symbolic fast.

"Forget the law, we want the NHRC (National Human Rights Commission) to hear her questions at least on humanitarian grounds," he said.

Sharmila is being kept under judicial custody in the security ward of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal and being force-fed.

Last month, the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Imphal West, fixed November 9 as the next date of hearing of the case against her under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code for attempt to commit suicide.

jhewal, People's Union for on November 2, 2000 afCivil Liberties (PUCL), Save ter 10 civilians, including a Sharmila Solidarity Cam- 62-year-old woman and an paign (SSSC) and Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) staged affidavit the fast at former deputy prime minister Jagjivan By this affidavit sworn before Notary Public, DiRam's memorial, Samta mapur Nagaland Vide Registration No. - 1145/15, Sthal.

Dated 04-11-2015. I Shri. Hocto Inoto Sema/ Hocto Sharmila started her Inoto Kinimi (Old Name), son of Shri. Hocto Sema, non-stop hunger strike henceforth shall be known as Inoto Kinimi (New Name) and not as recorded.

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May his soul rest in peace.

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KozhiKoDe, November 4 (iANS): An Assam Police team is expected to arrive here to take into custody a wanted Bodo militant who was arrested here by Kerala Police, an official said on Wednesday.

The militant - Dinda - was arrested on Tuesday and is believed to be the chief commanding officer of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

According to Kerala Police, the

arrest took place after Dinda made a telephone call to his distant cousin in Assam from here. Assam Police traced Dinda's call and informed Kerala Police, which conducted a sting operation and arrested him.

A Kerala Police official traced down the hideout of Dinda, who was living here for over a month along with several people from Assam who worked here.

The Kerala Police official reached

the hideout and told the Assam residents that he was looking for a casual labourer for his needs.

The police official managed to take a picture of Dinda and after Assam Police confirmed that the person in the photo was the Bodo militant, the arrest was made.

Dinda will now be handed over to the team of Assam Police officials, expected to reach here in the coming days.

Arunachal Guv concerned over political situation itANAgAr, November 4 (Pti): Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa has expressed concern over the current political situation in the state arising out of demand for change in leadership.

Chief Minister Nabam Tuki is facing rebellion from a section of Congress MLAs who are seeking a change of leadership and are currently camping in New Delhi.

"I have been told that 27 Congress MLAs are camping at New Delhi for change of leadership. I appeal to them to shed their vested interests and work for the state and people's interest keeping in view the public mandate in their favour," the Governor said during a press conference at Raj Bhawan yesterday.

"Instead of working for the greater interest of the public, they are busy in attending to their personal duties.

The government should do public duties not private duties," he added.

He said because of political crisis, development process in the state had come to a standstill.

The governor also advised the chief minister to shun politics and to work for the development of the state.

"Stop unnecessary politics and devote time for developmental purpose since enough money has been allocated for the state. Now it is time to work," he said.

Referring to the dilapidated road condition in the state capital, Rajkhowa said that a state cannot progress without good roads.

Rajkhowa opined that the government must focus on developmental activities instead of constant politicking.

Tuki On October 6 had axed four rebel ministers from the Cabinet including Agriculture Minister Chowna Mein, Co-op-

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NO.PRN/JUD/SC/2015/159/ Shri. Haiteilung has applied for issue of succession certificate in his name to draw GPF/GIS/ Leave Encashment/Gratuity/Pension pay etc of his late Father Shri. Namleuging of Peren District.

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

(PETER LICHAMO), Deputy Commissioner, Peren: Nagaland.

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We the Hibo Students’ Union would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to our brother and sister for bringing laurels to the union.

1) Mr. Vilzo Hibo son of Lt. Hovikedü Hibo for securing Top 2nd position in MA Sociology under Nagaland University 2015.

2) Miss Vikhonü Hibo daughter of Pukrosal Hibo for securing Top 6th position in MA Sociology under Nagaland University 2015.

The union further wishes them success in future endeavours.

Shevi Hibo, Stat.Secy.

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The Funeral Service will be held on 6th Nov'15 at 10:00 am at Seikhazou, D. Khel Kohima.

erative Minister Kumar Waii, Women and Child Development Minister Wanglin Lowangdong, and Water Resources Development Minister Kamlung Mossang.

Civil Aviation Minister Thangham Wangham was also dropped from the council of ministers a few days after.

Tourism and Urban

Development Minister Pema Khandu resigned on October 26 after accusing Tuki of having "miserably failed" in governance.

The spree of resignations continued with one Parliamentary secretary and five chairmen of various state government organisations resigning from their posts in the last couple of days.

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2. Direct Admission through oral interview for students scoring 55% and above.

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Nestle says Maggi will be back this month, all tests cleared New Delhi, November 4 (iANS): Nestle India on Wednesday said the “masala” version of Maggi noodles will hit the retail shelves as early as this month, having cleared all the tests ordered by the Bombay High Court.

“We have received the results from all the three NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing Calibration Laboratories) mandated by the Bombay High Court to test newlymanufactured Maggi noodles samples,” the company said in a regulatory filing with stock exchanges. “All the samples of the Maggi noodles masala have been cleared with lead much below permissible limits,” the statement said, adding this has validated their stand, maintained all along, that the noodles were and continue to be

safe. “We will make our best effort to commence the sale of Maggi noodles masala within this month as well as continue engaging with the states where permissions are needed or specific directions may be necessary.”

In mid-October, Nestle India had said that all samples of Maggi noodles of the batches that were in question had passed the required tests as directed by the Bombay High Court, but added that it will be re-launched only after the newly-manufactured product also pass the tests.

The newly-manufactured products underwent the tests at the labs in Mohali, Jaipur and Hyderabad.

As regards the other eight variants, a spokesperson for Nestle India

said as and when the company decides to re-introduce them, the due process will be followed. He, however, did not indicate the time frame by which these will hit the market.

The company said Maggi was currently being manufactured at Nanjangud in Karnataka, Moga in Punjab and Bicholim in Goa, and that it was engaging with the state governments of Himachal Pradesh and the Uttarakhand for commencing production at Tahliwal and Pantnagar respectively.

In June, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had ordered a pan-India ban on the company’s noodles on the ground that these were “unsafe and hazardous” for human consumption due to presence of lead,

allegedly beyond permissible limits. But on August 13, the Bombay High Court gave a significant respite to the company by lifting the ban on the sale of the noodle, while also ordering fresh tests to be conducted in three separate labs to ascertain that the product complied with the country’s food safety norms.

The court order meant the original product safety certificate of the watchdog remained valid.

Nestle also said it had, on its own, conducted over 3,500 tests representing around 200 million packs in both national as well as international accredited laboratories -and that all of them had given a clean chit.

“In addition to these, various countries including the US, UK, Singapore,

Australia and others have found Maggi noodles exported from India to be safe for consumption” the statement issue on Wednesday said.

Once the noodle brand had passed the tests as ordered by the court in midOctober, a host of states that had imposed their own ban on the produce also revoked it, led by Karnataka, Goa and Gujarat.

A related case now remains. This pertains to the class action suit filed by the consumer affairs ministry against Nestle India, seeking about Rs.640 crore in damages for alleged unfair trade practices, false labelling and misleading advertisements. The apex consumer court, which had also ordered fresh tests, is expected to deliver its verdict on this on November 23.

Indian govt to issue showcause ‘Indian cos in global Climate notice to Volkswagen Group Disclosure Leadership Index’ mumbAi, November 4 (AgeNcieS): The German carmaker has been accused of using a cheating device on its disel make cars around the world, to flout emission norms. The government will issue a showcause notice to the Volkswagen Group of companies on Wednesday, Ambuj Sharma, Additional Secretary, Heavy Industries Ministry has said.

Sharma said that the India’s testing agency Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) found a significant variation in the emission level in on-road vehicles of three Volkswagen models when compared to laboratory measurements. The German carmaker has been accused of using a cheating device on its diesel make cars around the world, to flout emission norms.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) on September 18th said, the cheating device that VW used, called the defect device, detects when the vehicle is in testing conditions and operates at lower capacity, thereby emitting lesser emissions. However, in real life circumstances, it runs at full capacity for maximum performance, and hence, emits much more emissions.

Investigative agencies have said that in some cases the difference is almost nine fold.

After the Volkswagen scandal came to light, various countries including India, ordered for a proble.

The Government of India asked ARAI to inspect Indiaspec models in September, to see if Volkswagen had attempted to cheat on India’s emission tests too. There was little clarity on what the results will be as India’s emission norms are much more lax than the stringent norms in the US. Recently, Volkswagen said it will recall nearly one lakh cars in India to check for defects related to the emission scam.

New Delhi, November 4 (pTi): As many as 31 Indian companies have made it to a global list for disclosing climate change related information to their investors, including four corporates - ITC, Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra and Wipro - which have attained a perfect score of 100.

According to the annual Climate Change Report by global NGO CDP, the number of qualifying Indian companies in this year’s Climate Disclosure Leadership Index has increased to 31 from 23 last year, registering a jump of 35%.

“The constant improvement in the ranking of Indian companies in disclosing vital climate change information to the world offers good momentum, especially coming at a time when countries are gearing up for a global agreement at the upcoming Paris climate meetings,” CDP India Director Damandeep Singh said.

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Moreover, organisations like Ambuja Cement, Tata Power and Wipro are increasingly deploying renewable energy. Tata Power has invested USD 37 million (Rs 240 crore) in solar power installations while TCS spent USD 5.47 million (Rs 35.97 crore) in incorporating green building concepts.

Among others, IndusInd Bank, Infosys Limited, Tata Chemicals, TCS and Tata Global Beverages had a disclosure score of 99.

Each year, companies that participate in CDP’s climate change program are scored against two parallel assessment schemes: performance and disclosure. The performance score assesses the level of action as reported by the company on climate change mitigation, adaptation and transparency, while the disclosure score assesses the completeness and quality of a company’s response.

KohimA, November 4 (mexN): District Agriculture Office, Kohima concluded varietal and location trial for Rabi paddy under NFSM (National Food Security Mission) in Tora area on November 3. Agriculture Officers Seyievonuo, Nukhrolu and Azung along with 9 AFAs helped out the Tora farmers during the paddy transplantation.

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DimApur, November 4 (mexN): ATMA-Dimapur Kuhuboto Block conducted training on “Value addition products” and demonstration on “Pickle making & Juice preparation” at Xelhozhe Village on November 3. Resource person for the programme was Aviboli Zhimomi, research scholar, SASRD Medziphema.

The training was organised to impart knowledge of the latest technology and also to help the Self Help Groups boost their daily activities for self-sustenance.

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value added products, which is a physical segregation of an agricultural commodity or product in a manner that results in the enhancement of the value of that commodity or product. She further explained that value addition to agricultural products is the process of increasing the economic value and is an important concept and approach in today’s business environment where innovation in farming and agrifood processing are important to remain competitive. She also gave a live demonstration on pickle making and juice preparation.

ATMA Dmr conduct demo on uses of biofertilizer DimApur, November 4 (mexN): ATMA-Dimapur Kuhuboto Block conducted demonstration on “Uses of Biofertilizer”at Xelhozhe Village on November 3. Resource person for the programme was Wochamo, BTT (ATMA) convenor, Kuhuboto Block.

A brief introduction on the biofertilizer uses was first highlighted by the Resource person. He also explained that the biofertilizer are carrier based preparations containing live cells of effective strains of beneficial micro-organismslike fungi, algae, alone or in combination with sufficient numbers on which application to seeds, seedlings and in soils, they provide plant nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus through their mi-

crobial activity. He elaborated on the benefits which replace chemical fertilizer, increase in crop yield, helps in increasing availability of nutrients especially nitrogen and phosphorus.

It also enhance plant growth by release of vitamins, auxin and hormones and improves physical, chemicals and biological properties of soil. It is pollution free and eco-friendly. He also illustrated that the biofertilizer should be store in cool and dry place away from direct sunlight. The programme was concluded by demonstration and followed by distribution of biofertilizer to the participants. Earlier the programme was chaired by Ameto, ATM (ATMA), Kuhuboto Block.

Training on Soil Health Management held DimApur, November 4 (mexN): ATMA-Dimapur Kuhuboto Block conducted training on “Soil Health Management” and demonstration on “Importance of Soil sample collection & its analysis” at Old Showuba Village on October 31. Resource person for the programme was James Kikon, SMS (KVK), ICAR Jharnapani, Medziphema.

He began his topic with an awareness of soil health management which is very important to the production of healthy agricultural products. He also illustrated to the participants that Soil testing is the only way to determine the available nutrient status in soil or soilless media and the only way you can develop specific fertilizer recommendations. Yield and economic re-

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turn can be optimized when fertilizer rates accurately address the needs of a crop. Potential soil and water pollution can be minimized when nutrient application is geared to the needs of a particular crop. Soil test also determines effective fertility, composition and characteristics such as the acidity or pH level and is also used to mimic the function of roots to assimilate minerals. He concluded by giving a live demonstration on the basic steps for the collection of soil sample and how to differentiate a good nutrient soil from the bad ones plus specific recommendations as to the kinds and rates of fertilizers to apply for each crop.

Earlier the programme was chaired

by Akavi V. Holo, BTM (ATMA), Kuhuboto Block.

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“However, despite this encouraging uptrend, there were fewer companies in the top performance bands.

This could be due to technical issues which we hope to address with the companies in the coming years,” the report said.

Nearly 2,000 companies submitted information to be independently assessed against CDP’s scoring methodology. A total of 113 have made it to the list which features global brands such as Apple, Microsoft and Google, the report said. Four Indian corporates - ITC, Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra and Wipro - have attained a perfect 100 CDP disclosure score and topped the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI).

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Four conmen posing as Jet Airways officials arrested D.EL.ED trainees of Kiphire on Dimapur, November 4 (mexN): Dimapur Police on November 1 arrested four persons from Galaxy Hotel, Dimapur while they were posing as officials of Jet Airways and reportedly conducting interviews for recruitment into the company.

A press release from PRO, Dimapur Police said that the police on receiving information raided the room in which the conmen were staying and seized several “incriminating documents and items”, including appointment letters, seals of the Jet Airways. Enquiry into the matter revealed that they were conmen falsely representing the company and had already issued appointment letters to 15

The four conmen who posed as Jet Airways officials.

(fifteen) candidates, the release said. Their modus operandi included charging of registration fees from those appointed, promising direct appointment to various posts at the cost of prices fixed as per the position, etc.

The four arrested have been identified as Saurav Mehra, Chamanlal, Manoj

Sachdeva, and Deepak Suri, all from Punjab. Meanwhile, Dimapur Police has appealed to those who have been cheated in this particular case to assist and cooperate with the police by coming to East Police Station and giving their statements.

Further, an appeal was made to the public in general to be cautious of

The three fake gold merchants.

various advertisements appearing in print and social media offering employment. Any suspicious advertisement may be brought to the notice of the police for verification, the release added.

November 2, Dimapur Police arrested three persons who claimed to be gold merchants and lured innocent victims and tried to sell them gold coloured metals as gold. Their modus operandi was identifying possible buyer and tricking them into believing that one is Fake gold merchants buying gold at a throw away arrested In another incident on price from some ignorant

sellers, according to PRO, Dimapur Police. The victims are even given real gold scrapped from the body of the metal which are actually prefixed for testing, the release added. “After striking the deal and making payments, most buyers are only too late to realize that the supposed gold is some metal mould while the sellers are long gone.”

The arrested persons have been identified as Ahadul Islam, Md Raul Amin and Hussain Ali, all hailing fron Nagaon, Assam. Two gold coloured metal weighing approximately 750 gms were also seized from their possession. A case has been registered at East Police Station for further investigation.

Rio, NPCC offer condolences Vehicle stolen in Kohima recovered in Assam Dimapur, November 4 (mexN): Member of Parliament Neiphiu Rio has expressed shock and pain at the sudden demise of Thekruneituo Kire in New Delhi. “Late T. Kire was a retired Director of the Department of Industries and Commerce, Government of Nagaland. He dedicated the best years of his life in the service of the Government and retired with an unblemished and exemplary record,” Rio stated in a condolence note. Re-

membering the deceased as a dedicated, disciplined and committed person who carried out his responsibilities and assignments with utmost sincerity, Rio stated that Kire continued to serve the people through his active engagements in society even after retirement.

Acknowledging that it is a personal loss to him and his family as he was a close family friend, Rio and his family conveyed condolences to the members of the bereaved family.

Meanwhile, president of NPCC K Therie also expressed shock at the passing of T Kire. “He was a sincere and upright man and was diligent in executing his duties while serving the people in various capacities during his time in service,” stated Therie in a message. Therie on behalf of the NPCC further conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that the Almighty God comfort and console them in this difficult time of grief.

PDCC suspends ACCC of Chozuba, Meluri pheK, November 4 (mexN): The Phek District Congress Committee (PDCC) has suspended ACCC of both 18th Chozuba A/C and 20th Meluri for failing to adhere to the directives given by DCC to revamp the ACCC and also for going against the directive of party high command to abide by party’s principles and ideologies. It has constituted adhoc committee by appointing Kütipra Lohe as Adhoc president, ACCC 18th Chozuba A/C and Kekhwerü K Tarah as president, ACCC 20th Meluri A/C. This decision was made during the execu-

tive members’ meeting of PDCC on November 4 at Mini Tourist Lodge, Pfütsero Town. The meeting deliberated on various issues concerning the welfare of the party.

A press release from Media Cell, NPCC further informed that the house resolved that the DCC in continuing with revamping of the party as directed by NPCC will constitute Executive Committee, Sub-Committees and Frontal Organisations.

It also reaffirmed its full support to the leadership of K Therie, president, NPCC and that it will continue to work under him and commit them-

selves once again to party principles and ideologies.

The house lauded the NPCC president and his colleagues for the NPCC Roadmap. The DCC will take the Roadmap to the grassroots level in preparation for the coming election, the meeting decided. It also resolved that no subordinate committees will issue press release without the approval of the DCC. It further warned that any member violating the party norms or indulging in anti-party activities will face actions as per the constitution of the party.

It also resolved to follow and uphold the directives of NPCC and AICC.

Kohima, November 4 (mexN): Three persons who had stolen a vehicle from Kohima have been arrested in Borpathar, Assam. The AntiVehicle Squad of Kohima Police proceeded to Borpathar Police Station on November 2 and took custody of the vehicle as well as the three detained accused.

A press release from PRO, Kohima Police informed that on November 1, a written complaint was lodged at Kohima North PS by one Dilip Kumar, resident of TCP Gate, Kohima to the effect that his vehicle (Local Taxi) B/R. No. NL01T-8052, Chassis No. MAECA12S02851019, Engine No. F8B1N4485329 was stolen by his driver on October 29.

Accordingly, lookout notice was circulated to all State Police through the Inter-State Police Wireless (ISPW) with a request to seize the vehicle if spotted in their jurisdiction.

Meanwhile, information was received from the Assam Police that the vehicle

has been seized and three persons were detained under Borpathar Police Station.

The PRO, Kohima Police said that the driver along with two of his accomplices took the vehicle to Borpathar with an intention to sell it for a sum of Rs. 75,000/-. However, since no probable customers were readily available, they were not able to sell the vehicle at the projected amount. Later, they met a probable buyer and decided to sell it off for a nominal amount of Rs. 40,000/-. However, the buyer got suspicious as the amount quoted was too less for such a vehicle and decided to inquire from the Police Station, the release said.

He approached the Bor-

pathar Police Station to enquire about the genuineness of the Maruti car. Since the police station was already in receipt of the information passed on by the Kohima Police, the vehicle was seized and all the three were arrested. The accused have been identified as Raphael Suren (33), Raju Pradhan (34), and Vikash @ Sagar Chetri (25).

A criminal case vide Kohima North PS Case No. 0094/2015 U/S 379 IPC has been registered against them and they were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Kohima on November 3 and remanded into police custody for conducting further investigation.

of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP)Lemon Tree Helen Keller Award 2015.

Nakhro in her address said, “Disability is threatened by attitudes, prejudices and beliefs, common among non-disabled people.” Unfortunately, persons with disability might be subject to various negative attitudes and barriers within the education system, she stated.

She highlighted that lack

Kiphire, November 4 (mexN): The teacher trainees (D.EL.ED (NIOS)) of Kiphire district have informed the All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA) office, Kiphire unit that they will be unable to appear their exam in other District Study Centre as the exam commences on November 6. As per the Hall Ticket available online till November 3 morning, the examination was to be held at GHSS Study Centre Kiphire, said a press release from ANSTA vice president, Hokhevi Sumi. However, the exam centre had been changed to Kohima on November 3 evening, it added.

Highlighting the issues of the teacher trainees, the

release said that all the teachers are preparing for the final exam in all the schools, which will probably be held in second week of this month. The teacher trainees are busy writing assignments to be submitted on or before November 15, it added.

It was stated that the D.El.ED trainees of Kiphire District are ready to appear the exam in their own study centre - GHSS Study Centre Kiphire - since the hall ticket uploaded on the internet mentioned the same as the exam centre. Meanwhile, the ANSTA Kiphire Unit has requested the concerned regional Head Office NIOS to immediately change the exam centre to GHSS Study Centre Kiphire.

Colleges asked to organize sanitation drive Kohima, November 4 (mexN): The director of higher education has requested all colleges in Nagaland to observe November 1 to 15 as ‘Cleanliness in Education Sector’ under Swachh Bharat Mission. This is in compliance with the directive of Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India during a video conference on October 30. Colleges have been requested to observe the national sanitation drive by conducting cleanliness challenges within the college by cleaning the areas, including the toilet facilities, in the college campus. Colleges may select a specific date to come out together and clean their compound walls and to even paint different arts depicting the theme, stated the director. An action taken report from the colleges with a photograph may be sent to dir. highedu@gmail.com. The 3 three nominated members under Swachh Bharat in the colleges have been requested to supervise and monitor the proposed activities.

Dimapur Night Carnival stall forms

Dimapur, November 4 (mexN): Individuals /parties wanting to open stalls during the Dimapur Night Carnival 2015, which will be held from December 17 -20 at Naga Shopping Arcade, Super Market, Dimapur, have been informed that application form for stalls can be downloaded from the DNC website www.dimapurnc.in. The application forms will also be available in the office of the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), Business Association of Nagas (BAN), Duncan Basti, and East Dimapur Business Association (EDBA), Purana Bazaar. A press release from convenor of the Stall Committee further informed that the application form will be available from November 5 -14.

The list of selected stalls will be uploaded in the DNC website and selected individuals/ parties should deposit the fees (Rs.3000/- only for size 10x10 sq ft) by November 28 in the office of the DMC and collect the stall permit, the ment order (Xerox Copy), release added. regularization order, marksheet & admit card, BA/MA Directorate of school edu informs (Hindi) and Marksheet & admit card B.Ed (Hindi) on Kohima, November 4 (mexN): The Directoror before November 10. This ate of School Education has informed all the principals was stated in a release is- and vice principals of Government Higher Secondary sued by Rokovolhulie Nagi, Schools in Nagaland to submit the APARs for the missSub-Divisional Education ing years during the period from 2010-11 to 2014-15 for considering regularisation of officiating promotion. The Officer, Kohima. missing APARs for the period may be confirmed from Higher Secondary Section of the Directorate of School Education. This was stated in a release issued Wonthungo Tsopoe, joint director (HSS), School Education.

SDEO Kohima informs adhoc untrained teachers Kohima, November 4 (mexN): The Sub-Divisional Education Officer Kohima has informed all the adhoc untrained graduate teachers and primary teachers appointed with above 45% and below 45% (Graduation and PU certificates) to submit all aca-

demic documents and Ist appointment order to the office of the Sub-Divisional Education Officer Kohima for onward submission to the government on or before November 10. Graduate Hindi teachers under SDEO Kohima are also to submit their first appoint-

KROS College inaugurates Disability Committee Kohima, November 4 (mexN): KROS College held an inaugural programme of its Disability Committee with Diethono Nakhro, disability rights advocate, member of Nagaland Commission for Protection of Child Right, and patron of Disability Committee, KROS College, as the speaker.

The college congratulated Diethono Nakhro for being conferred the National Centre for Promotion

sudden change of exam centre

of accessibility and resources provided in mainstream education is already a major obstacle for students with disability although some improvements may be noted. Speaking about employment, she pointed out, although there have been a number of legislative measures aimed at helping persons with disability to participate in the labour market, challenges are still continuously being faced because of gaps be-

tween policy and practice.

In addition, persons with disability still find it harder to get a job or rather experience discrimination during their job search.

She further expressed regret that persons with disability still face lack of access to opportunities and experiences. As a result, they are still blocked from participating and contributing to society. Different causes of social exclusion include a sense of loneli-

ness, lack of social network, feeling unworthy or useless, being considered a burden, feeling very unsafe, afraid of institutionalisation, harassment, and bullying, she maintained. Young persons with disability may also find it difficult to do the kind of things other young people engage in such as shopping, going to the cinema, and clubbing. They might also lack budgeting skills or have financial restrictions, she added.

“Someone has a physical disability; it does not mean she/he cannot function like the rest of non-disabled people,” she told the college staff and students.

Meanwhile, she asserted that society needs to understand that persons with disability have the right to speak and a space to voice their concerns and “we” have the obligation of lending an ear to listen to them and comprehend what they say.

Seminar on forest & wildlife conservation, Smart City Kohima, November 4 (mexN): The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) in collaboration with forest department and Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) is organizing seminar on “General awareness on forest and wildlife conservation and Smart City” on November 6 at the conference hall of Forest Office Complex, Jail Colony, Kohima at 11:00 am. The resource persons are: Sidramappa, Divisional Forest Officer, Kohima, Velatso Demo, ACF, I/c Kohima range, Lhinghoikit Touthang, IFS, i/c Chiephobozou range, Samon Khelem Singh, IFS, i/c Tseminyu range, Kovi Meyase, administrator KMC and Kezhochole Rhetso, assistant director Municipal Affairs. Delegates have been informed to reach the venue by 10:30 am.

BBC’s ‘The Hunt’ Pongching village turns guardian of Amur Falcons Quality management Novemstandard programme features Amur LoNgLeNg, ber 4 (mexN): VolunAmur Falcons watch tower built of Pongching StuDimapur, November 4 LoNgLeNg, November 4 Council Chairman, who briefed (mexN): Ministry of Micro, Small Falcons in Nagaland teers dents’ Union have been (mexN): A wooden Amur Fal- on the immediate need and improtecting the Amur Fal-

Kohima, November 4 (mexN): The BBC has telecast a new seven-part natural history series, The Hunt, which features the Amur Falcons roosting site in Doyang, Nagaland. The Season 1 Episode 1 of the series – “The Hardest Challenge” – was telecast on November 1, 2015. The series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by Alastair Fothergill, is meant to explore how animals hunt in different and often hostile habitats, and the skills animal need to possess and employ in order to catch their prey.

Amur Falcons roosting site at Doyang has been shown as Sir David Attenborough narrates the great migration phenomenon, according to a release from M. Lokeswara Rao, IFS, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Nagaland. The narration related to Amur Falcons in the Season 1 Episode 1 of the documentary is for about 4 minutes.

BBC producers had written to Government of India for permission to shoot the documentary and Government of India in turn had written to Government of Nagaland in this regard.

The Department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of Nagaland had given permission to shoot the documentary in Doyang area and the BBC filmmakers came to Doyang and stayed in Pangti village for the same in October, 2014, the release added.

cons in its jurisdiction since 2012, but without any facilities, aid or support from any sources.

This year, through joint initiative of Pongching Village Council, Pongching Baptist Church and Pongching Students’ Union, a Watch Tower has been built, which was inaugurated on October 27. The Pongching people rejoiced the construction of the Watch Tower and awareness created regarding protection of the Falcons.

However, the villagers lamented that though Nagaland government, concerned department and others have given full concentration towards other roosting sites in the State, Pongching village has not been given attention despite the villagers reporting to the concerned department personally and even

con Watch Tower was inaugurated on October 27 at Pongching village in Longleng district

by Denngan Avennoho, Deputy Commissioner, Longleng as chief guest.

The programme was attended by Village Council, Church Board members and Student Union Office bearers of Pongching Village and neighbouring Mongtikang Village.

A welcome note was given

by N. Chonglang Phom, Village

portance of some personnel like ‘Forest guards/volunteers’ sponsored by the concerned Forest Department to monitor and protect Amur Falcons from encroachers during the roosting season and to protect the entire wildlife of the area. Short speech on “Biodiversity Conservation” was delivered by Y. Nuklu Phom, Executive Secretary, PBCA, who also played a leading role towards the construction of the watch tower.

The Amur Falcon Watch Tower at Pongching village.

through press release in the past years.

The villagers requested all the well-wishers to support them to protect the rare bird and specially requested the concerned department and stakeholders to intervene and initiate several necessary measures, developmental and promotional activities

and awareness campaign through local involvement.

Currently, the site is looked after by the volunteers of Pongching Students’ Union and the Students’ Union of neighbouring Mongtikang Village. All stakeholders have been requested to co-operate and help them.

The villagers further in-

vited all interested persons to visit the Amur Falcons roosting site at Pongching village, which is located at Yengchi-Ponghau area (covering Chitok, Shoyum areas), some 5Km from the village and 10Km from district headquarters Longleng.

There is temporary Rest House constructed near the Watch Tower and

the best time to watch the birds is evening and morning hours. The Amur Falcons normally arrive at the roosting site in first week of October and they retreat towards the end of November. Compared to previous years, there have been huge increase in numbers of the Amur Falcons this year, the villagers said.

& Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India, Development Institute Dimapur, and Quality Council of India (New Delhi) in association with Alaphra Group and Business Association of Nagas (BAN) is organizing “Quality Management Standard/ Quality Technology Tool Programme” under NMCP on November 6, 11:00 am at Alaphra Group conference hall, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur.

I. Bendangliba Ao, Director, Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Nagaland will grace the function as the chief guest. The resource person for the programme is Rajesh Mittal, Consultant, Quality Council of India, New Delhi.

Firms, agencies, MSMEs, and retailers interested to know more about ISO-9000 & Bar Code Registration have been invited to the programme. For more information about the programme, contact Tali Longchar, Deputy Director I/C, Br. MSME-DI, Dimapur at +91 9402437522.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express

C O M M E N T A R Y

Manuel Nunes Ramires Serrano

tional community, despite the many cases that persist around the globe.

Human rights are universal and political prisoners are political prisoners. Here, in Angola and anywhere in the world. The political contours of this case are unavoidable and Portugal cannot excuse itself by citing Angola’s judicial system (or lack of it).

Portugal´s historical and traditional links with Angola are no excuse. In fact, such links should reinforce Portugal commitment to ensure that Angola moves beyond decades of kleptocracy. Portugal tends to confuse respect for subservience. One think is to respect Angola’s sovereignty, another to place it over the dignity of its citizens, and in this case, over Portugal’s duty to protect their nationals, at home or abroad. This is not only a moral obligation, but also a diplomatic duty.

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Santa Came Calling Early This Year Behave Well and Receives More Goodies

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ike the proverbial Santa Claus, who is said to shower gifts to ‘well-behaved’ children on Christmas Eve, the Union Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari visited Nagaland. On November 3, he made the subsequent announcement of several road projects, adding a festive feel to many. But the gifts came cloaked in several conditions.

Devoid of such ‘largesse’ in recent times, those at the helms of affairs in Nagaland State, nevertheless, must be counting their lucky stars as it bestowed upon them a bragging point to tell their subjects. The non-announcement of any packages, economic or otherwise, during last year Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hornbill Festival, was considered as a big blow to the incumbent government and its impact on the political-economy of the State is still fairly palpable.

A news report in The Morung Express on the event further informed that the central government has promised the State Government an additional Rs. 15000 crore worth of road projects by next year if it manages to “expedite land acquisitions in Nagaland.” On its part, the State government earnestly claimed that 90% of the land needed for the four-lanes has been acquired.

By all accounts, with such promises and if the State government ‘behaves’ accordingly, in couple of years potholes and bad roads will be a just a ‘mirage’ and the ‘blessed’ citizen of the State would be zipping past in their vehicles on the four-lane road. Dimapur and Kohima will be the places to dwell in, as the Central government promised road improvement works within the city limits covering a distance of 25 km with - four lanes, expansion of bridges, paved shoulders, footpaths, and planting trees for beautification.

However, a deeper analysis and hindsight on historical precedence makes one take the announcement with a considerable dose of cynicism.

For starter, the project for four-lane along NH-39 was announced by the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpeyee who visited Nagaland in October 2003 but it took nearly 12 years to lay the foundation for the same. While politics may conveniently blame the erstwhile UPA government for the delay, it shows how the development process in the region is ‘prioritised’ by the Centre.

Secondly, the patronizing tendency of the Centre is quite blatant. Seize the opportunity and plan accordingly, the Minister admonished the State government gently, promising more projects if they follow suit as well as expedite land acquisition. It begs the question as to why every development project in the region has to be seen as a sign of the Union granting a huge favour to the inhabitants; it is a right and a bounden duty of the Government.

The contentious land acquisition bill has been a recurring headache for the Centre is beside the point.

Almost in a condescending tone, Gadkari further instructed the State government to grant all project works to local contractors. The Chief Minister TR Zeliang, on his part, like an ardent pupil, urged the local contractors to take the same as a challenge and show to the ‘master’ that they are second to none.

Nevertheless, without accountability and given the historical precedence, such award to local contractors might be a lost cause. For instance, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India’s (CAG) Nagaland Report this year (for the year ended 31 March 2014) comments that the process of planning in the State was devoid of ‘comprehensive assessment’ leading to wastage and undue delay may serve as a grim reminder.

In a nutshell, the report informed that as of March 31, 2014, there were 214 incomplete projects, with an estimated cost of Rs 2268.64 crore (actual expenditure incurred Rs 1202.70 crore) pertaining to 24 departments. Out of this, 77 projects (estimated at Rs.1126.20 crore) were due to be completed by March 2014 but remained incomplete as of October 2014.

Therefore, the projects - from start to completion- must be implemented with strict transparency and an accountability mechanism in place and Central funding to the project must not be limited to fulfilling of conditionalities and as a grant of favours. Governor P.B. Acharya was right in calling for converting assurances announced by the union minister into reality and make Nagaland march along with other more developed states in the country.

And till the State’s machinery behaves well, the Union Minister has set aside a ‘gigantic’ sum of Rs. 20 crore for repairing works and maintenance of the existing roads in the State of Nagaland.

His graciousness is boundless!

For any comment, drop a line to moajamir@live.com

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Repeal sedition law

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uman Rights Watch on Tuesday called for the repeal of a sedition law under which a folk singer has been arrested in Tamil Nadu for criticizing Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.

Police arrested S. Kovan, 52, in Tiruchirappalli district on October 30 for two songs that criticize the state government for allegedly profiting from state-run liquor shops at the expense of the poor. “The police appear to have arrested Kovan for sedition in a misguided attempt to shield the chief minister from criticism,” said Human Rights Watch. “A law that is repeatedly used to arrest singers, cartoonists and writers has no place in a democracy - and should be repealed,” the rights body said.

The Indian government should enforce Supreme Court limitations on the colonial-era sedition law and repeal the measure, which is regularly abused by local authorities to silence peaceful dissent, Human Rights Watch said. Kovan is a member of the "Makkal Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhagam" or People’s Art and Literary Association, which has long used art, music and theatre to educate marginalized communities and raise issues of corruption, women’s rights and rights of Dalits.

In his recent songs, he blamed the government for choosing revenue from liquor sales over people’s welfare. Koyan’s family alleged that plainclothes police officers, who refused to show identification, came in the middle of the night to arrest Kovan.

Kovan’s lawyer told Human Rights Watch that the police officers violated legal procedures, refusing to tell the family where they were taking him. To know Kovan’s whereabouts, his lawyer filed a habeas corpus petition in the Madras High Court, which told the police to follow legal guidelines. Kovan was then produced before a magistrate and was remanded in judicial custody for 15 days. The police also reportedly tried to arrest the owner of the website, vinavu.com, on which the songs were first uploaded. Local rights groups and opposition political parties condemned Kovan’s arrest, and his songs were widely shared on social media and republished on some news web sites.

Section 124A of India’s Penal Code prohibits any words either spoken or written, or any signs or visible representation, that can cause “hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection,” toward the government. However, in a landmark 1962 ruling, Kedar Nath Singh vs State of Bihar, the Supreme Court ruled that unless the accused incited violence by their speech or action, it would no longer constitute sedition, as it would otherwise violate the right to freedom of speech. That ruling has been upheld in numerous judgments since, but the police continue to file sedition charges. India’s sedition law is also contrary to the country’s international human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said.

How free is freedom in Angola?

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n the 20th of June, fifteen Angolan activists were arrested in Luanda accused of attempting to disrupt public order and security. Seventeen activists were formally indicted (two of them were placed under provisional liberty, Laurinda Gouveia and Rosa Conde) of planning a coup d’état to remove the President of Angola from power.

According to the attorney general, General Joao Maria de Sousa, these acts constituted “a crime against the security of the state, and in consequence, a crime of rebellion”. From his words, one might think that the activists were distributing weapons or plotting a violent revolution. Far from it. They were exchanging opinions over two books, seemingly now a forbidden activity in Angola.

The works in question were “From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, published by Gene Sharp in 1994, which suggests a set of nonviolent strategies to use against authoritarian regimes, and a book by an Angolan college teacher, Domingos da Cruz, titled “Tools to destroy a dictator and avoid a new dictatorship”.

This incident reflects the shape of Angola´s “democracy”. Simple exchanges of opinions or a critical analysis of any sort is categorized as “rebellious”. The exercise of basic rights, such as the right to protest, to associate or simply to read have been labelled as subversive. Warrants and due process are not observed, and police searches and seizures are conducted without any legal basis. In short: the Angolan government is ruling through fear.

Hunger Strike The activists, of course, refuted the accusations: they were only meeting to discuss politics and (the lack of) human rights protection in Angola. Having been placed in preventive detention for more than 90 days (20 June-20 September), the legal limit according to the Angolan law, several militants, amongst them, Luaty Beirão, started a hunger strike on the 21th of September to attract attention to their illegal detention.

Beirão is not an anonymous figure, but the son of a once important figure in the Dos Santos regime, João Beirão. His father was the first director of FESA, the Eduardo dos Santos Foundation. Accused by many of being “a son of the regime”, he often argues that he “has a brain of his own, and that the actions of his father are not his”.

Once the trial date was set for the 16th of November, the majority of the activists quitted the strike.

Luaty Beirão, however, refused to quit, as he believes the situation has not changed. All the activists remain imprisoned and Angola refuses to respect their fundamental rights.

In fact, the Supreme Court of Angola has yet to rule on a writ of habeas corpus presented on the 30th of September, which demanded that the 15 activists were taken before the court. The activists argue that their detention is unlawful and that it is not supported.

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s news coverage from conflict zones — and reporting from authoritarian regimes– continue to be occupational hazards, journalists may fast become an “endangered species.” The United Nations commemorated ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists” on Nov. 2 – even as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed the sad realities of a profession constantly under siege.

More than 700 journalists have been killed in the last decade — one every five days — simply for bringing news and information to the public, he recounted. “Many perish in the conflicts they cover so fearlessly. But all too many have been deliberately silenced for trying to report the truth.”

Regrettably, only 7.0 percent of such cases have been resolved, and less than one crime out of 10 is even fully investigated.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says impunity leads to more killings and is often a symptom of worsening conflict and the breakdown of law and justice systems.

According to CPJ, 94 percent of journalists killed are local and only 6.0 percent are foreign correspondents. Male journalists account for 94 percent of journalists killed. Early this year, the DirectorGeneral of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Irina Bokova condemned the killing of 87 journalists, media workers, and social media producers, in 2014 alone.

Akshaya Kumar, Deputy United Nations Director at Human Rights Watch, told IPS too often crimes against journalists go unmarked by the U.N. system, especially in conflict zones like South Sudan or places in crisis like Burundi.

U.N. monitors who are on the ground as a part of peacekeeping missions or the offices of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) can and should do much more to push for investigations and prosecutions of those

In a precarious health state, Luaty has finally ended the hunger strike. In a letter addressed to his fellow activists made public on 27 of October, Luaty argues that his hunger strike was a victory, and that the actions of the 17 activists facing trial have successfully put Angola on the international community radar. As he graphically states, the “mask has fallen”.

Prisoners of conscience The activists’ case has been broadcasted internationally and triggered several civil society and international NGOs protests, including Amnesty International, that has started a campaign against what certainly is a human rights violation. Several organizations worldwide are claiming that practices such as arbitrary arrests, the harassment and the intimidation of activists are halted, and that the right to freedom of association, assembly and expression in Angola is upheld.

The Portuguese civil society is also paying close attention to the matter. In an open letter addressed to the Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister, several intellectuals, artists and political figures, both national and international, have called for action. They demand from the Portuguese Government a proper response to the matter, one that puts an end to the illegal arrest of Luaty Beirão and the remaining 14 activists.

Underlying that Luaty is not only an Angolan citizen, but also a Portuguese one, the subscribers remind Portugal of its duties. They argue that the Portuguese state has an “ethical, moral and constitutional” duty to protect its citizens. Claiming that Human Rights cannot rank lower than diplomatic relations nor political ideology, the letter underlines that Portugal cannot remain as a silent witness in what they believe does not fall short of “political arrests”.

In this line, Pilar del Rio, the chair of the Saramago´s foundation, also addressed a letter to the president of Angola, asking him to save the life of Luaty Beirão and protect the freedom of expression of the 14 activists currently detained.

Additionally, vigil concentrations took place both in Lisbon and Porto, on the 21 of October (called by “Liberdade aos Presos Políticos em Angola”) under the cry of “Libertad Já!” (Freedom Now!). Meanwhile in Angola, protests in support for the #Angola15 and against José Eduardo dos Santos are being forbidden on the grounds of being a “menace to public security”.

Human rights over sovereignty Portugal has been providing the Angolan regime with what they needed the most: a layer of respectability. It is certainly true that this case entails historical, economic and cultural bonds that are not easy to contour.

Obviously, Portugal’s economic dependence on Angola’s oil and other commodities makes things worse.

However, the argument that the sovereignty of the states awards them a free pass to violate human rights does not hold anymore among the interna-

Democracy rising Luaty Beirão and his companions, also belonging like himself to the so-called “children of the regime”, have accomplished something unheard of in the history of Angola: to put its regime (locally and internationally) under public scrutiny. What begun as a solidarity wave has now become a true pro-democracy movement.

The Angolan regime wrongly believed that they could quell the people through arms. It didn’t work during colonialism. It certainly will not work now. A lack of historical memory, together with disrespect for freedom and justice, ended up creating not one revolutionary, but thousands. As Luaty writes in his letter, “this time Angolans fight, in peace, for a true social transformation”.

Gene Sharp writes in his book that “the often quoted phrase freedom is not free is true. [That] No outside force is coming to give oppressed people the freedom they so much want. People will have to learn how to take that freedom themselves. Easy it cannot be”.

Activists in Angola have certainly made this idea their own. Self-sacrifice and non-violent strategies have been used and many paid a steep price for freedom. However, they should not be fully charged for enjoying something that we all have a right to. In a globalized and interconnected world, sovereignty must surely have limits. And those limits include democratic values and human rights.

Luaty Beirão’s actions may be described by many as being nonsense, as a romantic gesture that cannot change anything. And yet for the first time since 2002, consensus around Mr. Dos Santos is crumbling. International campaigns are raising awareness over the true shape of Angola´s “democracy”.

Political prisoners are being rightfully recognized as such and the MPLA and the government is increasingly losing its grip over Angolans hearts and minds.

Protests in Luanda are being forbidden or repressed, however winds of change are blowing.

Protests in Lisbon, the international echo of Luaty´s hunger strike and the joint declaration for the liberation of the 15 activists issued by the opposition are all signs that Angola conscience, and other countries stand, is changing. Thirty-six days of hunger strike, one for each year Mr. Dos Santos has been in power, may open the doors for a peaceful transition few thought it would be possible.

As Luaty Beirão action has demonstrated, and contrary to what many people in Africa still believe, ideas and non-violent action can change the outcome of a country. Angola’s superficial veil of respectability and commitment to democratic values has been lifted and its true nature has been exposed.

The international community should take note.

Year 2015 marks the celebrations of the 40 years independence of Angola from Portugal. Let us hope that Angola, and Angolans, have something to celebrate in addition to having put their colonial history behind them. Hopefully, Luaty Beirão and all his fellow prisoners of conscience, will be free and celebrating a new dawn in Angola. One where true democracy is making the scene.

Everyone is looking at Luanda right now. And at Lisbon. And it´s about time.

Journalists Under Siege As Occupational Hazards Rise Thalif deen Inter Press Service responsible for attacks on journalists, she added. “Otherwise, when state security forces attack brave journalists like Esdras Ndikumana of Burundi and Peter Julius Moi of South Sudan, they benefit from a climate of impunity.”

In a dedication to fallen or victimized journalists, Reporters Without Borders has decided to rename 12 Parisian streets after journalists who have been murdered, tortured or disappeared. The renamed streets are those with embassies of countries where journalists have been the victims of unpunished crimes. The embassy addresses have been changed to draw attention to the failure of these countries to take action and to remind them of their obligation to do whatever is needed to bring those responsible for these crimes to justice, the Paris-based organization said in a statement released Nov. 2.

RSF (the French acronym for Reporters Without Borders) said it is using these 12 emblematic cases to highlight the fact that crimes of violence against journalists usually go unpunished because official investigations are inadequate or non-existent and because governments are apathetic.

RSF calls on the public to support the #FightImpunity campaign by visiting the http://fightimpunity.org website.

The ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ was pro-

claimed by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly to highlight the urgent need to protect journalists, and to commemorate the assassination of two French journalists in Mali on Nov. 2, 2013.

Meanwhile, CPJ said the ambush of a convoy in South Sudan and the hacking deaths of bloggers in Bangladesh propelled the two nations onto the CPJ’s Global Impunity Index of countries where journalists are murdered and their killers go unpunished. According to the report released last month, “Getting Away With Murder,” the worst offender is Somalia, which edges Iraq out of that spot for the first time since CPJ began compiling the index in 2008.

One or more journalists have been murdered in Somalia every year over the past decade, and the government has proved unable or unwilling to investigate. In Iraq, CPJ said, targeted killings have ebbed since the Iraq War. More recently, Islamic State (IS) has abducted and killed at least two journalists, but violence and fierce control of information have made it impossible for CPJ to accurately document additional cases.

Only Colombia has shown enough convictions in journalist murders and decrease in violence to exit the list since 2014. “Despite calls by the United Nations for states to take greater steps to protect journalists in situations of armed conflict and to ensure accountability for crimes

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against the press, little progress has been made in combatting impunity worldwide,” said Elisabeth Witchel, author of the report and CPJ’s consultant on the Global Campaign Against Impunity.

“More than half of the countries on the index are democracies with functioning law enforcement and judicial institutions, but killers still go free. The international community must continue to put pressure on these governments to live up to their commitments.”

“The cases of impunity that we are presenting are terrible symbols of passivity or deliberate inaction on the part of certain governments,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.

Last month, RSF referred the cases of missing journalists to the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

In a letter sent to the chairs of these two working groups, Ariel Dulitzky and Seong-Phil Hong, Deloire has asked them to open or re-open investigations into these cases and to initiate the relevant procedures with countries breaking international law in this area.

The list includes: María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe (Mexico), missing since 2009; Borja Lázaro (Colombia), missing since 2014; Prageeth Ekneligoda (Sri Lanka), missing since 2010; Ahmed Rilwan (Maldives), missing since 2014; Pirouz Davani (Iran), missing since 1998; Sofiane Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari (Libya), missing since September 8 2014; Nazım Babaoğlu (Turkey), missing since 1994; “Chief” Ebrima Manneh (Gambia), missing since 2006; Eleven journalists (Eritrea), missing since 2001.

The others named were five journalists working for Libya’s Barqa TV – an Egyptian cameraman (Mohamed Galal) and four Libyans (Khaled AlSubhi, Younès Al-Mabrouk, Abdussalam Al-Maghrebi and Youssef Al-Qamoudi). At least nine journalists from Iraq have been missing since 2014.

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Aloha to the US: Is Hawai'i an occupied nation?

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n upcoming election has highlighted the deep disagreement between native Hawaiians over what the future should look like. For some, it's formal recognition of their community and a changed relationship within the US. Others want to leave the US entirely or more accurately, want the US to leave Hawai'i.

When US officials came onto the stage that June night, they must have known they would be hearing from a hostile audience. Speaker after speaker came up to the microphone, decrying a rigged process and an occupying government with no legitimacy. "We do not need you here. This is our country." "Get out of our house! Go home." The officials weren't hearing from foreign nationals, but a crowd of citizens in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Someone began singing the opening words to Hawaii Ponoī - a national anthem of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the state's official song. "Hawaii ponoī (Hawaii's own), Nānā i kou moī (Be loyal to your king)."

Many in the room at the Hawaiian state capitol began singing along. This was the first in a series of 2014 hearings by the US interior department about whether it should offer a path to federal recognition to the Native Hawaiian community. Such a path has been long open to Native American groups on the mainland, but not to the descendants of Hawaii's indigenous people. A year later, the interior department has made it official - publishing a proposed "procedures for reestablishing a formal government-to-government relationship". The first ballots to elect delegates to a convention, or 'aha, for this purpose have now gone out in Hawai'i. Forty delegates from across the islands will meet in February to discuss whether there should be a Native Hawaiian government and what it should look like in the 21st Century.

But not everyone is happy with the 'aha. Some of those who would be eligible to vote, or become delegates themselves, have said they will boycott it. One delegate candidate has already dropped out, calling the 'aha "not pono" (upright or fair). Federal recognition has been a wish of some activists for decades, but previous attempts to do so in Congress have failed. A prominent Hawaiian in Washington, however, has moved the process forward.

Barack Obama publicly supported the last attempt to gain the recognition option through Congress.

Like other issues that have been stymied in the polarised legislature, the administration has now decided to take action through the executive branch. But for those who see Obama as their best chance, time is running out - his term ends just over a year from now.

Native American tribal governments are a nation within a nation. Such governments hold their own elections, run police departments, courts and other internal infrastructure on reservation land. American Indians are citizens of their tribe, the US and the state where they live. But tribal nations are still "domestic dependent nations" and the boundaries of their sovereignty have moved based on court rulings and legislation.

Recognition would define native Hawaiians as a separate political entity - protecting many of the federal programmes currently provided to native Hawaiians, like favourable housing loans, a land trust programme, health care, educational and cultural grants. It would also allow for an element of economic independence, although one industry that has enriched a few Native American tribes - gambling - is banned in Hawai'i. But all of this is predicated on the idea the US government is the rightful authority in Hawai'i, something a small but increasing number of Hawaiians no longer believe.

Williamson Chang, a professor of law at University of Hawai'i, is one of those Hawaiians. He argues under international law, one country can only annex another by treaty - a document which both parties sign. This is how the entire rest of the US was formed - the Louisiana Purchase, the treaties with Native American tribes, the addition of the Republic of Texas. Anything else - including what happened in Hawaii - is an occupation, Chang says.

Hawaii occupies a unique place in US history - a set of islands 2,500 miles (4,023km) away from the

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The desire for independence has grown since protests against the construction of a proposed telescope on Mauna Kea, a sacred site to Hawaiians.

mainland where in 1893, white businessmen and sympathetic politicians, with help from the US military, overthrew a constitutional monarchy. The coup leaders hoped to be immediately annexed, but President Grover Cleveland rejected the idea, calling US involvement in the overthrow an "embarrassment".

Three years later, a treaty failed in the Senate after lobbying by the deposed Queen Liliuokalani as well as tens of thousands of petitions from Hawaiians opposing the move. But the next year, with fighting in the Pacific during the Spanish-American war and a new president in office, Congress passed a joint resolution annexing Hawai'i. US military might and a welcoming government in the Republic of Hawaii helped complete the process. But if countries could be simply annexed by another's legislature, Chang says, "Hawai'i by its legislature could declare the United States was part of it." While the US has formally apologised for their role in the overthrow of the Kingdom - a 1993 Congressional resolution admitted as much - there's been no word from the US government about whether the annexation was legal. "There are definitely flaws in the way in which Hawaii and its lands were transferred to the US," Melody Kapilialoha Mackenzie, a professor of law at the University of Hawaii, says. "But for me, the question is - where do you take those claims - is there any forum in which that voice can be heard?"

In 2000, David Keanu Sai brought a case concerning Hawaiian sovereignty to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands. The court agreed to hear the case but ultimately made no ruling, saying it could not even consider the issue because "the United States of America is not a party to the proceedings and has not consented to them". Sai is also among those who believe that race or ancestry has no place in a Hawaiian bid to be free of the US. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a multi-ethnic government, and that's how it should remain, he says, something that wouldn't happen under federal recognition. What everyone can agree on is the hurt done to Native Hawaiians.

Peter Apo says he spent almost half of his 75 years "not knowing who the hell I was". "The only thing I knew about Hawaiians was what I saw in television and the tourism ads," he says. He's now one of the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency. By the time of the overthrow in 1893, the Hawaiian population had gone from at least 400,000 to less than 40,000 people - all in the space of a century, in part because of diseases introduced into the islands. After annexation, students were not allowed to speak Hawaiian in school, and the language almost died out as a result. Kahoolawe, an island considered spiritually important to Hawaiians, was used as testbombing site by the US army until the 1990s. Unexploded ordnance still remains on the island even after a clean-up attempt.

And today, many health indicators for Native Hawaiians are the worst of all the ethnic groups in Hawai'i. "I think for many native Hawaiians… it's not like something that happened way in the past," Mackenzie says. McGregor says the previous generation of Hawaiian activists struggled for the cultural

and political gains Native Hawaiians have managed so far and younger Hawaiians take it for granted. She thinks federal recognition is needed. "It was fought for and it can be lost," she says.

Joshua Lanakila Managuil, a young activist who is running for a seat on the 'aha, says he's lucky to be the product of a Native Hawaiian cultural and political renaissance, but he's worried about the ramifications of federal recognition. He points to the uneven and largely difficult situation of Native Americans. "That is not a model for me that is going to secure our safety," he says. "We need to acknowledge what was done and remedy those things instead of slapping on a [plaster]." Apo has written a number of editorials calling for a native Hawaiian government for the purposes of federal recognition.He suggests such a government could "carve out a duty free port of call", and be able to do business with other nations. "That would be huge... that would be an opportunity that would benefit all Hawaiians," even non-native ones. But Apo says he can see where the opposition is coming from.

"I guess part of the sentiment is why would you want to deal with the very people who did you in?"

While pro-independence Hawaiians dominated the microphones during interior department's hearings over the summer, the breakdown of the written comments was different. Chang estimates about 60% of those comments were in favour of federal recognition, and he suspects that percentage translates to the larger Hawaiian population. "I would say the majority of Hawaiians don't agree with sovereignty and independence - either they don't know their history or they think it's way too late to separate from the US," he says.

"It's an uphill battle for the sovereignty groups."

And it is a battle that now has a timetable. The 'aha is going forward after a federal judge ruled the organisation running the election, Na'i Aupuni, was sufficiently independent of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to make it a private election, despite receiving funds from the agency through an intermediary.

Once elected, delegates will meet for 40 days and end in April. There is division within the independence movement whether to engage with the 'aha at all, says Managuil. "Truly in legal terms - under kingdom laws - technically this is an act of treason," he says. "But right now our kingdom isn't in any place to be calling the shots." He and others "are putting ourselves into the mix in order to protect the rights of our people," Managuil says.

Despite Na'i Aupuni's reassurances, pro-independence Hawaiians feel that the 'aha is simply a vehicle to push federal recognition. "People are acting out of fear," Managuil says. "Either route, I think, demands more time."Apo has a clear preference, but whatever happens, he says, "at least it will be something that Hawaiians decided. Self-determination".

"I think if we're able to get to at least to the government-to-government relationship - the stage where we're actually negotiating - that would cap the 123 years with a good ending to the story and a great future for Hawaiians in being able to maintain their identity as a people," Apo says. "If that doesn't happen this is never going to stop."

Myanmar: A lone Muslim campaigns in the stronghold of radical Buddhism Hnin Yadana Zaw and Andrew R.C. Marshall

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he city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious centre so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable. Much easier to count is the number of Mandalay Muslims standing in Myanmar's historic general election on Nov. 8. That would be one.

Khin Maung Thein hails from an obscure little party and runs his campaign from a cluttered, twostory home that doubles as the family printing business. As the sole Muslim candidate in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city and a stronghold for Buddhist extremists, he is treading where giant rivals won't dare. Not even the front-running National League for Democracy (NLD), led by the hugely popular Aung San Suu Kyi, is fielding a Muslim candidate in Mandalay - or, indeed, anywhere else.

NLD leaders told Reuters they fear antagonising a Buddhist ultranationalist group called Ma Ba Tha, which is led by monks and wields huge influence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Ma Ba Tha says Islam is eclipsing Buddhism and has called for a boycott of Muslim businesses and a ban on interfaith marriages. Scores of Muslim candidates have been disqualified and voting rights removed from hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar.

Experts say marginalising Muslims could reignite religious unrest, embolden Buddhist radicals and undermine the credibility of what many people hope will be Myanmar's first free and fair election in 25 years. Only a dozen or so Muslim candidates are now running nationwide, mostly from Khin Maung Thein's party, the United National Congress (UNC). "Muslims have been suffering in Myanmar in recent years and this pushed us to go into parliament," said Khin Maung Thein, a stout but youthful-looking 71-year-old.

He identifies himself as Pathi, a Muslim group with Persian blood and a centuries-old history in Myanmar, and sees the election as a chance to "restore our ethnic pride".

The group, founded in 2013 and known in English as the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, is urging people not to vote for Suu Kyi and other NLD candidates for opposing four "race and religion protection" laws. Ma Ba Tha monks have expressed support for the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), who did back the race and religion laws. The USDP isn't fielding Muslim candidates either.

Khin Maung Thein's UNC party was founded in 2012 and competes in a system that seems stacked against Muslims. Earlier this year, in Rakhine State, the government invalidated the identity cards of about 650,000 Rohingya, effectively disenfranchising them. In a September statement, the U.S. State Department noted that Myanmar's election commission had disqualified about 100 candidates, mostly Muslims, "through an opaque and discriminatory process" that could undermine confidence in the election.

Among those disqualified were six of the UNC's 12 candidates, all Muslims. A week later, amid international pressure, the election commission reinstated 11 Muslim candidates, including four from the UNC. Muslim candidate Khin Maung Thein pauses during an DEATH THREATS The exclusion of Muslims as both candidates and interview with Reuters

voters feeds into growing concerns that they are beHe also wants to promote UNC policies such as ing edged out of public life.

In July, police in Mandalay arrested three peoreducing the budget of Myanmar's all-powerful miliple, two of them Muslim, from a respected interfaith tary and spending it on education instead. group after what family members said was a Ma Ba Tha smear campaign. They remain in custody. Four "OPAQUE AND DISCRIMINATORY" Muslims make up about 5 percent of Myan- others from the same group fled abroad and public mar's 51 million population. Religious violence has interfaith meetings in the city were halted. A Muslim killed hundreds of people, mostly Muslims, since activist told Reuters he had received death threats.

Muslims in and around Mandalay told Reuters a military-backed civilian government took power in 2011 after nearly half a century of dictatorship. they were afraid to go out at night and had stopped Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myan- travelling in large groups for fear of arbitrary arrest.

Khin Maung Thein, the lone Muslim candidate, mar's second-largest city of Mandalay in July 2014 killed two people and left the communities on edge. is only campaigning in Mandalay's mosques, rather Mandalay is home to a leading Ma Ba Tha monk than on its streets, concerned that Ma Ba Tha monks called Wirathu, the self-styled "Burmese bin Lad- might harass the people he canvasses. "I can't show up openly and hold campaign rallies," he said. en", who is famous for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.

f completing the required readings of certain text books, attending class lectures, and producing correct answers to questions in exams were enough to earn an MBA degree, then I would say that I had fulfilled those few requirements many years ago, because I was after the degree and there was a university offering it through an extension program. Now looking back, would I still recommend such a system of education with no extra-curricular requirements? Perhaps not!

In most universities in India, education is still largely about absorbing content and being able to recall it on exams. The teacher is essentially someone passing information to an inert audience in a one-way, linear fashion. In today’s world, and for today’s students, this model of education is not considered suitable or sufficient. If you, for instance, took a technical course in the first year of your college, half of what you learned may be obsolete by the fourth year.

So, how can educationists introduce system-wide changes to reorient student toward educating tech-savvy learners or would-be entrepreneurs?

Today’s colleges and universities need an entirely new modus operandi for how the content of higher education is created. To do this, they need to, first of all, toss out the traditional model of pedagogy (the lecture-driven teaching method) and replace it with a new model called collaborative learning. A research conducted in 2000 by Harvard Graduate School of Education shows that students who studied in groups were more engaged in their studies, were better prepared for class, and learned significantly more than students who worked on their own.It appears that when students get engaged in mutual exploration and group problem solving, they take more interests in studies and assume a greater responsibility for their own learning.

Perhaps that’s why a scandal of education is that every time a teacher simply offers a spoon-fed teaching to a student, he deprives the latter of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Since effective learning occurs when students want to learn and in a delivery style that is best for them, our education system has to change to suit our students of the 21st century. In advanced countries, and in most developing countries, young people are having access to computers connected to high-speed Internet. Therefore, instead of fidgeting in their chairs while the teachers lecture and scribble some notes on the whiteboard, today’s tech-savvy learners are exploring and discovering many things with the help of their computers. As such, the role of teachers must change with the time. In other words, teachers will be more effective if they serve as knowledge facilitators and guide students in their learning process. When this change occurs, students’ learning is more likely to improve.

Indeed, today’s students can no longer depend only on their textbooks and course materials for learning. To keep up with the fast-paced world, they must use a variety of educational resources and learning methods, such as online discussions, social media, and other tools to study any subject. This is called Global Network for Higher Learning.

For example, imagine that you, as a student, could not only read books or listen to lectures but also virtually collaborate with other students anywhere through the Internet to learn about what it is like to be an architect, an innovator, or an entrepreneur. The immersive nature of such an experience can certainly broaden your knowledge and prepare you well for the job market of the future.

If we are to reorient our entire curriculum for training entrepreneurial leaders, educatorsfrom various disciplines must collaborate so that their students can gain the “big ideas” from their disciplinary perspectives and develop a more holistic understanding of any subject or issue. In fact, an entire curriculum could be designed toward developing entrepreneurs. For example, a technology teacher who teaches an IT course could highlight the importance of networks and show how students can leverage their entrepreneurial career through the use of social media. Likewise, someone who teaches an operations management course could include a module on sustainable operations; another who teaches a marketing course might consider “green” products so as to develop entrepreneurs who will be socially and environmentally responsible. In other courses that consider global issues, such as economics and strategy, the concerned teachers couldhelp students to develop their contextual awareness so that they can someday successfully navigate changes in industries and governments. Simply put, management teachers by working together coulddevelop the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders who will shape social and economic opportunity across diverse contexts.

Higher education should place more emphasis on providing students with extra-curricular experiences (or better put, co-curricular requirements), which are activities outside of the classroom that complement the general curriculum. For example, college students taking business courses could practice to be entrepreneurs. To make things more systematic, such co-curricular learning opportunities can be divided into three phases: explore, pursue, and launch.

In the first phase, a student, under the guidance of a faculty advisor, can “explore” what he or she might like to do, what the opportunities are, and what the appropriate mode of action might be. In the “pursue” phase, the studentcan still use the same advisor and begin testing the market. If the test result is positive, then he or she can proceed to write a business plan, develop prototypes, and build a team. Finally, in the “launch” phase, the assembled leadership team can not only seek advice from external business leaders but also find people who will invest in their new business venture.

As they progress through these three phases, they can market their products and services and create a revenue stream.

Since I really believe that these above-mentioned concepts have the potential to improve learning in a big way, I am excited that the upcoming North East Christian University in Nagaland is considering to adopt an innovative pedagogy to prepare theirstudents who will meet the challenges of the 21st century (in a way this article is a response to a request from the NECU’s Pro Chancellor, Huzo Meru).

Similarly, my hope is that other educators and policymakers in Nagaland will reorient our current education model so that it will appropriately and adequately meet the needs of educating our next generation of entrepreneurial leaders who will be capable of creating many new social and economic opportunities for our people.

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India takes tough line on trafficking victims who get special US visas

wAShiNgtoN, November 4 (reuterS): When Ajay Ahir agreed to come to the United States, he had no idea the recruiter promising a highwage welding job and legal residency in America was lying. He borrowed 500,000 rupees to pay the recruiter’s fees, told his wife to wait for him in India, and set off to make his fortune.

Almost nine years later, he has not returned. When he arrived in New Orleans in January 2007, he was paid only half the $15 an hour he had been promised to work in shipyards devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

And instead of a green card, his employer, Eagle Staffing of Louisiana LLC, got him a 10-month guest worker visa for blue-collar laborers filling jobs that no American citizens want.

After that visa expired and Eagle went out of business, the U.S. government recognized Ahir as a victim of human trafficking in July 2013, granting him a rare “T visa” that allows victims of forced labor to return home, collect family and re-settle in the United States.

But he still can’t get home. His problem now is the Indian government.

Ahir’s predicament illustrates how a U.S. visa program for trafficking victims has broken down in the aftermath of a diplomatic firestorm set off by the 2013 arrest of an Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, in New York that plunged the two countries into their fiercest dispute in years.

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ments reviewed by Reuters show New Delhi has imposed restrictions over the past 16 months on Indian passports stamped with T visas. Those visas give legal status in the U.S. to trafficking victims if they agree to testify against those who smuggled them.

Between July 2014 and March 2015, at least 20 passports of Indians stamped with T visas were confiscated by authorities at Indian airports, preventing trafficking victims who returned home to collect their families from flying back to the United States, according to Jean Stockdale, a church worker who helps trafficking victims apply for the visas from her base in New Jersey.

That has now stopped. But since March, Indians who have received U.S. T visas have faced new restrictions. T-visa holders face long delays in renewing passports at Indian consulates.

They also must provide confidential information to the Indian government that they had previously submitted to the U.S. authorities, including details about who had trafficked them, according to the documents, legal advocates and interviews with T visa holders.

Legal advocates for people such as Ahir say India’s failure to recognize all T visas and attempt to seek confidential information on alleged traffickers raise the risk that victims or their families will face reprisals.

U.S. officials say they are also concerned over what they see as India’s reluctance to rec-

ognize a U.S. congressionally mandated visa for people the U.S. government considers victims of human trafficking.

“We are deeply concerned by reports that some Indian nationals holding U.S. T visas have experienced travel restrictions,” the U.S. State Department said in a response to questions from Reuters. “The current status of the policy is unclear, and we continue to ask the government of India at high levels in Washington and in New Delhi to fully repeal the policy.” The Indian embassy in Washington said in a statement in response to questions from Reuters that “many individuals seek to misuse the trafficking visa route to emigrate to the U.S” and that “appropriate measures are taken in such cases.”

India, however, is mindful of hardships "faced by genuinely affected persons” who receive T visas and provides them with consular services, it added. It declined to respond to a question from Reuters over whether the Khobragade case influenced the policy.

“It is not a blanket ban,” said a source at India’s Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi.

“We are not throwing the baby out with the bath water. The issue is: how can the U.S. be the sole arbiter of what constitutes human trafficking?” The topic is expected to be raised at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday led by U.S. Representative Chris Smith, a Republican who authored a 2000 law that led to creation of the T visas, said a

congressional aide.

“INVASIVE” ACTION Human rights advocates say the restrictions undermine U.S. government efforts to help Indians rescued from forced labor in the United States, including hundreds recruited to work in U.S. Gulf Coast shipyards after Katrina hit in 2005.

“Those applications to the U.S. government are supposed to be confidential,” said Martina Vandenberg, president and founder of the Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center. The visa problems have divided the U.S. State Department over how far to publicly reprimand India at a time of improving relations with New Delhi.

In April, experts at the State Department’s office that monitors global human trafficking recommended downgrading India to the second-lowest tier in its annual human trafficking scorecard, one notch away from the world’s worst offenders in forced labor — from North Korea to Syria.

They cited the T visa treatment, among other factors, but were overruled by senior American diplomats who kept India’s ranking unchanged, Reuters reported on Aug. 3.

The State Department’s “Trafficking in Persons” report, published on July 27, removed the experts’ references to India’s “unprecedented” and “invasive” action, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The State Department said it does not discuss details

of internal deliberations.

Once his H2-B guest-worker visa expired, Ahir was falsely assured by Eagle Staffing that it was okay to keep working even though the promised green card hadn’t arrived, he said.

After leaving Eagle in 2008, Ahir spent years living in the United States without legal status, moving job to job, often earning barely enough money to survive.

In 2012, Eagle’s business license was revoked by Louisiana authorities, state records show. It was unclear why that happened but it followed complaints by workers and a letter in March 2008 by then-U.S. Representative George Miller urging the labor department to investigate Eagle Staffing and eight other recruitment agencies.

In July, one of the biggest employers of Indian workers on the Gulf Coast, Alabama-based oil rig repair company Signal International LLC, agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims that it misled and exploited Indian guest workers brought to the United States. As many as 500 people came from India to work for Signal, court papers show. More than 225 filed suit against the company.

In September, Signal issued an apology to the workers.

STRIP SEARCH The problems with T visas follow the December 2013 arrest of Khobragade for visa fraud and underpaying a domestic worker who was later

issued a U.S. T visa. Her arrest and subsequent strip search provoked an outcry in India over her treatment by U.S. authorities.

After Khobragade was granted immunity, the United States had her essentially expelled in a flurry of diplomatic maneuvers in January last year.

A month after she returned to India, New Delhi considered whether to treat holders of U.S. T visas as violators of India’s Passports Act of 1967, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs. The Act allows Indian authorities to confiscate passports if necessary in the interest of “the sovereignty and integrity of India,” among other reasons.

In July last year, India began confiscating passports stamped with U.S. T visas. “This is 100 percent in response to what happened with Khobragade,” said a congressional source who has discussed the matter with senior diplomats at the Indian embassy in Washington.

A March 3 high court ruling in India found India’s confiscation of passports with T visas unconstitutional. A March 16 memo from the Ministry of External Affairs seen by Reuters told “all missions and posts” to relax some aspects of the policy but not repeal it.

Since the ruling, people who had their passports seized have had them returned and new confiscations appear to have stopped, said Stockdale and the congressional source.

But since then, about 20 T visa

holders have been unable to renew passports, said Stockdale, citing cases with which she has been directly involved.

At the Indian consulate in Houston, Naijo Kaiprampatt was told that to renew his passport, he needed to show proof he was trafficked by Signal. But he was recruited by another company, he says.

Kaiprampatt, 39, provided the name of that company and other information to the U.S. government, which gave him a T visa. He said the Indian consulate in Houston told him it has no authority to renew the passport of any Indian with a T visa unless that person was trafficked by Signal, and that he will have to bring proof that the company that brought him to the U.S. is related to Signal.

“They want the same documents that I gave to the U.S. government, but those are supposed to be confidential,” he said.

Ahir’s plight is similar. The Signal settlement didn’t cover him because he worked at Eagle, and by the time he received a T visa in July 2013, his wife in India had divorced him, Ahir said.

He wanted to renew his Indian passport so he could return to see his sick father, but for more than a year the Houston consulate has told him it cannot do so unless he hands over the documents he submitted to the U.S. for his T visa.

“This is information that was supposed to be for the U.S. government only,” he said.

50 million children are Ex-MP detained as daughter-in-law, three grandsons die in fire labourers today: Satyarthi New Delhi, November 4 (iANS): Education is the best empowering device but some 50 million children work even now as labourers, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Wednesday.

"Unfortunately, an estimated 50 million children are working as full-time labourers," he said in an address at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, quoting civil society estimates.

"Many of them are trapped in bonded labour, trafficking, prostitution and forced beggary," he said.

Satyarthi, who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, was speaking on the opening day of the first ever Visitors Conference that drew eminent personalities. "Education is the biggest enabler, equalizer and empowering device," he said.

India cannot become an economic power unless it becomes a knowledge power, Satyarthi said.

"Whenever I visit higher educational institutions around the world, I feel proud to see Indians holding key academic and leadership positions. "This was possible because they had the best opportunities for education. "Imagine an India where all children in the country have that opportunity for the same quality, inclusive and equitable education," Satyarthi added.

The agenda for the three-day meet includes improving the quality of higher education to bring them at par with the world's best institutions, engagement of institutes of higher learning with community and society, and promotion of gender equity.

Woman who alleged sexual harassment in TERI quits New Delhi, November 4 (iANS): A woman researcher who hurled charges of sexual harassment against environmental scientist R.K. Pachauri has quit her job at TERI, alleging she had been treated badly.

TERI denied the charge. The 29-year-old woman accused The Energy Research Institute (TERI) of treating her "in the worst possible manner" and "failing to uphold" her interests.

"Your organisation has treated me in the worst possible manner. TERI failed to uphold my interests as an employee, let alone protecting them," she said in her resignation letter. TERI said the allegations were "completely false and baseless" and said it had given her "special privileges" and "acceded to all her demands".

The think tank said: "TERI has been completely fair and totally neutral in the matter. The organization has till date accorded special privileges to the complainant and acceded to all her demands. The organization has not favoured anyone which is a fact apparent from documented records."

In February this year, the woman complained to police that Pachauri, 75, began harassing her soon after she joined TERI. She alleged that the organisation protected Pachauri and provided him "full immunity, despite being held guilty of sexual harassment" by its inquiry committee.

She said her work profile was changed with "zero explanation" and the organisation "played deaf" to her requests not to do so. TERI said the complainant had requested to allow her to work from home, which was declined as the institute's policy and sexual harassment law do not provide such privilege.

She was, however, given the option to join a TERI centre near her home in Gurgaon to ensure she worked on subjects consistent with her qualification and experience, TERI said. In her letter, the woman said: "I refuse to be associated with an organisation such as yours for the way you have mistreated me, for not standing by the law, for not having respect for my capabilities, for doing nothing to ensure that my career is not harmed and instead harmed me mentally, professionally and economically."

TERI said she was allowed 90 days special leave with full pay and benefits till May 18, which was extended till May 26, and beyond which she "preferred to stay on leave without pay". It said that during this period, the organization was not intimated when she would resume work.

hyDerAbAD, November 4 (iANS): Former Congress MP Siricilla Rajaiah, his wife and their son were detained for questioning after the politician's daughter-in-law and three young grandsons died in a fire under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday in Telangana's Warangal town.

Rajaiah, his wife Madhavi and son Anil Kumar were picked up from their house and taken to an undisclosed location under tight security, police sources said.

S. Sarika and her all three sons - Abhinav, 7, Ayan, 3, and Sriyan, 3 - were burnt to death in the fire that in her bedroom on the first floor of the house in Hanamkonda on the outskirts of Warangal, about 150 km from Hyderabad.

Police registered a First Infor-

mation Report (FIR) and began investigation as the family of Sarika blamed her husband and his parents for the "murder".

All four charred bodies were shifted to the MGM Hospital for autopsy. Police said the investigations by forensic experts would reveal if it was suicide or somebody caused the fire.

Rajaiah was the Congress party candidate for the November 21 by-election to the Warangal Lok Saha constituency.

Following the incident, he opted out of the race. The Congress leadership replaced him with former union minister of state Sarve Satyanarayana.

Inspector General of Police Naveen Chand told reporters that a gas cylinder was found from Sarika's bedroom. The police

were informed about the fire at 4 a.m. He said forensic evidence and clues were gathered from the scene and the investigation was on from all angles.

Warangal Police Commissioner G. Sudheer Babu said the former MP, his wife and son were present when the fire broke out.

"All the four died of burn injuries. Only after complete investigations, we will know if they themselves caused the injuries or others caused it," he said.

Sarika's parents, who live in Nizamabad district, said it was neither an accident nor a suicide.

The distraught family alleged that her husband and his parents killed the four and pointed out that she had earlier lodged a police complaint against them.

Women's groups alleged that

Sarika and the children were murdered and demanded action against the former MP and his son. Women's activists massed outside the house and staged a demonstration.

As the crowd of protestors continued to swell, the police shifted Rajaiah and his family to an undisclosed location for questioning. Sarika had in 2013 lodged a complaint with police that her husband was mentally torturing her seeking more dowry.

Last year, she staged a sit-in in front of Rajaiah's house, seekind justice for her and her children.

She also complained that Anil was having an extra-marital affair.

Anil and Sarika met while studying engineering in Hyderabad and went for a registered marriage in 2002. A traditional

marriage ceremony was later held with the consent of both the families in 2006.

The Congress last week named Rajaiah as its candidate for the November 21 by-election for the Warangal Lok Sabha seat.

He was elected from Warangal in 2009 but lost last year.

Rajaiah filed nomination papers for the by-election on Monday but told the party leadership after the tragedy that he was opting out of the race.

The by-election was necessitated by the resignation of Telangana Rashtra Smithi's Kadiam Srihari after he became the deputy chief minister of the state.

Sarika had also reportedly written a letter to the Congress leadership not to give ticket to Rajaiah.

Centre committed to development of minorities: Naqvi No difference between Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed: BJP MP

New Delhi, November 4 (iANS): Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Wednesday said that the Narendra Modi government was committed to the overall empowerment of minorities.

"Socio-economic and educational empowerment of minorities is our moral commitment and not a political gimmick like of pseudo-secularists," the minister said in a meeting here with various scholars, academicians and other intellectuals.

"Selfish politics over

the issue of empowerment of minorities will not be allowed to succeed," he said.

Naqvi also said some forces with "feudal mindset" were trying to disturb atmosphere of communal harmony, development and trust in the country but no destructive agenda can dominate development agenda of the central government.

"Such forces are restless due to steps taken for overall development of all sections of the society under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This is the reason that such people are trying to disturb environment of peace and development over baseless issues," he said.

He also accused the "Congress and its friends" of misguiding the people of the country on the issue of tolerance and intolerance.

"The Muslims and other minorities, who were politically exploited by so-called secular political parties for the last several decades, have seen a new ray of hope in the Modi government," he said.

"Steps taken by the gov-

ernment for development of minorities have started yielding results. The government is working to provide fruits of development to the last person of the society," he added.

Mehrajuddin, vicechancellor of Central University of Kashmir, Ashok Aima, vice-chancellor of Central University Jammu, Aslam Pervez, vice-chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), and many others attended the meeting at the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL).

India & Pak in fresh war of words at UN

uNiteD NAtioNS, November 4 (Pti): Reacting sharply to Pakistan raking up the Kashmir issue at the U.N., India has asserted that Islamabad’s unabated support to terror groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir is the main challenge to safeguard human rights of its citizens in the State.

“Pakistan’s continued support for terror groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir is the main challenge to protecting the human rights of our citizens in the State,” First Secretary in the Indian Mission to the U.N. Mayank Joshi said in the Right of Reply on Tuesday.

“In spite of this, India remains committed to resolving all outstanding issues with Pakistan in an atmosphere free from terror and violence,” he said.

He was responding to Pakistan’s envoy to U.N. Maleeha Lodhi who raised the Kashmir issue and right to self-determination of the Kashmiris in the U.N. General Assembly’s third committee debate on

rights of people to self-determination.

In her statement to the committee, Lodhi had repeated Pakistan’s call for UNSC resolutions to be implemented in the State and said fulfilling promise of self-determination to the Kashmiri people is “indispensable” to establishing lasting peace and stability in South Asia.

Joshi termed her comments “totally out of context and baseless” and said the misuse of the U.N. forum by “making tendentious references to the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir constitutes a clear interference in the internal affairs of India.”

Hitting back at Pakistan, visiting MP Rattan Lal Kataria rejected the “unwarranted” references to Kashmir, saying it was “ironical” that comments on Kashmir and self-determination “come from a country which is persisting with its illegal occupation of part of the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir and consistently denying human rights of the occu-

pied territory.”

“Pakistan should first stop human rights violations in Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir and ensure the right of self-determination for the victims before sermonising others on it,” he said in his statement.

‘Allegations of terrorism baseless’ Pakistan, exercising its Right of Reply, termed the allegations of terrorism against it as baseless.

“The purpose of Indian allegations is to force Pakistan to stop raising the issue of Kashmir at the U.N.,” Minister in the Pakistan Mission Diyar Khan said.

“If only India would agree to the U.N. plebiscite, as we do, the exercise of free choice by the people of Jammu and Kashmir would clarify as to who is the real occupying force in Kashmir,” he said.

Joshi retorted that Pakistan would “do well to introspect before casting baseless allegations against India, lest it will be drawn into its own created vortex.”

luckNow, November 4 (iANS): BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday compared Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan with Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed after the actor said there was growing intolerance in India.

The hardline BJP leader said in Gorakhpur that both Shah Rukh Khan and Saeed -- the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack -- speak the same language.

"There is no difference in the language Shah Rukh Khan and Saeed speak," said Adityanath, who heads the Gorakhpur mutt in eastern Uttar Pradesh and is known for his radical views on issues related to Hinduism.

Adityanath said if Hindus stopped seeing Shah Rukh Khan's movies, "he will be on the streets like an ordinary Muslim". The MP's comment came a day after a BJP leader, Kailash Vijayvargiya, called Shah Rukh -- as the actor is widely known and who turned 50 on Monday -- a "deshdrohi" (traitor).

Vijayvargiya said on Wednesday that his comment had been "misconstrued". Another Hindutva proponent, Sadhvi Prachi, dubbed the actor a "Pakistani agent". Shah Rukh Khan had said earlier that there "is intolerance (in India), there is extreme intolerance ... there is growing intolerance".

Adityanath said "so-called writers and artistes" had taken an anti-India stand by returning their national awards over alleged growing intolerance, and that Shah Rukh Khan had now added his voice to this group. He said while he was all for a free debate on issues, no one had a right to hurt India's international image.

Those who did deserved to be boycotted, the saffronrobed MP said. When he was told that Hafiz Saeed had invited Indians to come to Pakistan if they found intolerance in India difficult to cope with, Adityanath said: "They can go (to Pakistan). We also want them to go."

Adityanath has been representing Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha for the BJP since 1998. Also head of the Hindu Yuva Vahini group, he has sparked many controversies with his hardline comments. In June this year, he declared that those who oppose yoga can leave India. Adityanath's comments drew criticism from both the Shiv Sena and veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher.

Shiv Sena spokesman Sanjay Raut said: "Shah Rukh must not be targeted for being a Muslim. He has the same rights as we do." Kher, a known BJP supporter, tweeted: "Some members of the BJP really need to control their tongue and stop talking rubbish about Shah Rukh. He is a national icon and we are proud of him." But BJP MP and popular Bhojpuri singer-actor Manoj Tiwari said Shah Rukh Khan had always been close to the Congress and had made his statement amid the ongoing Bihar assembly elections.

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Suu Kyi looks set to win Myanmar election MYAUNGMYA, NoveMber 4 (reUters): When Aung San Suu Kyi’s candidate emerges at a campaign rally in southern Myanmar, the crowd bursts into cheers and showers him with flowers, confident that the opposition will prevail this weekend after decades of struggle against military rulers.

The scene in the town of Myaungmya, in the country’s rice-growing southern delta, is being repeated across the country as Myanmar prepares for a historic election on Sunday that is likely to be dominated by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party of the Nobel laureate.

The country has no opinion polls, but other parties are clearly scrambling to match the size and enthusiasm of crowds at NLD rallies.

On Sunday, Suu Kyi, 70, received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands as she closed out a two-month campaign to take power in a country emerging from an isolated half-century of military rule.

Decked in red, in a kilometres- (miles-) long traffic jam leading to the rally site in Yangon, teenagers danced on pickup trucks

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters while arriving at a campaign rally ahead of upcoming general elections in Yangon November 1. (REUTERS Photo)

and sang: “The junta must leave! So go! Go! Go! Go!” For NLD supporters, the vote will be a historic chance to right past wrongs. The party won a landslide in 1990, which was annulled by the junta.

Suu Kyi was by then already under house arrest, which was to last most of the next

twenty years.

She was freed in late 2010, a few months before the military handed power to a semi-civilian government led by ex-generals who launched political reforms that led to Myanmar emerging from decades of international isolation.

In Myaungmya, Soe

Moe Thu, a baby-faced doctor, is hoping to ride a wave of NLD support into the country’s lower house.

At rallies in village fields and dusty roadsides, NLD supporters cloaked in the party’s fighting peacock logo mob him with handshakes and plastic flowers.

Despite the euphoria

around the NLD as elections approach, there are signs that all will not be smooth, even if the party comes to power. Internal dissent is one problem for the NLD, which is deeply divided despite the popularity of Suu Kyi. “He’s Aung San Suu Kyi’s pet,” Bo Phyu, the

NLD’s local chief, told Reuters about Soe Moe Thu. “I was one of his top opponents.”

If the NLD wins a majority, it will seek the presidency. Suu Kyi herself is barred from the job by the constitution, but she has said she will be the leader of the government.

That could lead to a dysfunctional leadership. And the military, which has a reserved 25 percent of the seats in parliament, is not going away.

The current ruling party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is made up of influential former generals and businessmen who made their wealth through ties with the former junta.

Radical Buddhist monks, who are gaining influence in Myanmar, have called on their followers not to vote for Suu Kyi, essentially allying with the USDP. The NLD itself, with little experience in power, may struggle to make the transition from political struggle to governance.

HIGH EXPECTATIONS Signs of that have appeared in Myaungmya, in the country’s densely-populated southern delta.

The area’s lower house

seat was one of 43 constituencies the NLD won in 2012 by-elections, which also saw Suu Kyi enter parliament for the first time.

But local party officials say many voters soon soured on the local member, Mann Johnny, who was blamed for failing to direct government spending to the area.

The selection of his successor triggered acrimony, a pattern across the country since the NLD’s candidate selection was highly centralised.

Soe Moe Thu, the Myaungmya candidate, said party divisions would not affect the campaign.

“We stick together,” he said. And besides, “less people support (Bo Phyu), more people support me.”

The USDP has poured resources into retaking the constituency, running as its candidate Tint Hsan, the sports minister and a construction tycoon whose company built the decadeold parliament in the capital, Naypyidaw.

In the past year, the USDP has built 26 local schools and renovated 45.

Tint Hsan last year spent his own money on sending 224 high-achieving children from village schools on all-expenses paid trips

to Singapore and Thailand.

“I’ve been helping with development since the beginning, before the election,” Tint Hsan told Reuters. “Myaungmya believes in me.”

“PROTECT RACE AND RELIGION” The local chapter of Ma Ba Tha, an organisation of nationalist monks that has spearheaded a national campaign against the country’s Muslim minority, looms large over Myaungmya, as it does over the country’s political landscape.

The group has exhorted locals to vote for candidates who “protect race and religion” - a reference to four anti-Muslim laws drafted by the group and passed by the USDP-dominated parliament earlier this year.

The NLD opposed the laws.

Both Ma Ba Tha and the USDP deny working together.

Holding the NLD together so far has been deep affection for the woman many supporters call “Mother Suu,” said Bo Phyu, the man overlooked for the Myaungmya seat.

“But once she’s gone, for one reason or another, the party will likely disintegrate.”

‘Chemsex’ puts users at high HIV, STDs risk South Sudan airplane crashes: dozens killed LoNdoN, NoveMber 4 (IANs): The growing popularity of “chemsex” sex under the influence of illegal drugs - may be putting users at risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections as well as serious mental health problems through drug dependence, researchers warn.

Chemsex needs to become a public health priority, they argue in a paper that appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Chemsex describes intentional sex under the influence of psychoactive drugs, mostly among men who have sex with men.

It refers particularly to the use of mephedrone, gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), and crystallised methamphetamine.

These drugs are often used in combination to facilitate sexual sessions lasting several hours or days, with multiple sexual partners.

Of crystal meth and GHB/GBL users, most reported using them to facilitate sex, with around three quarters reporting injecting drug use. “Although some services are now developing specific chemsex and party drug clinics, the lack of data limits the advice that clinicians can give,” the authors noted in the paper.

“Addressing chemsex related morbidities should be a public health priority,” say the specialists working

in sexual health and substance abuse in London.

Despite the different funding streams, creating centres of excellence for sexual health and drug services “could be a cost effective solution to diminished resources in both sectors,” they wrote in the paper.

“It could also be a source of data for further research into chemsex that would help commissioners in their decision making,” they concluded.

ASEAN defence chiefs cancel statement over S China Sea row KUALA LUMPUr, NoveMber 4 (reUters): Plans for a ceremonial joint statement at the end of a Southeast Asian regional defence forum were dropped on Wednesday after differences between China and the United States over the mention of disputes in the South China Sea in the document.

Officials from Malaysia, which is hosting the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) defence chiefs meeting, did not immediately comment on reasons for the cancellation. However, in a revised schedule of the day’s programme, the signing ceremony for the ‘Kuala Lumpur Joint Declaration’ was dropped.

Earlier, a senior U.S. defence official said China was lobbying Southeast Asian nations to drop any reference to concerns over the South China Sea in the statement.

“The reason is because the Chi-

nese lobbied to keep any reference to the South China Sea out of the final joint declaration,” the official said, on condition of anonymity. “Understandably a number of ASEAN countries‎ felt that was inappropriate. It reflects the divide China’s reclamation and militarisation in the South China Sea has caused in the region.”

The U.S. official added, “This was an ASEAN decision but in our view no statement is better than one that avoids the important issue of China’s reclamation and militarisation in the South China Sea.” China’s Defence Ministry, however, blamed “certain countries” outside Southeast Asia, a pointed reference to the United States and Japan.

They “tried to forcefully stuff in content to the joint declaration”, and the responsibility for failing to come up with a joint statement was completely with those countries, the ministry said in a microblog post.

Wednesday’s gathering brought together the 10 Southeast Asian defense ministers, along with ministers from countries such as the Australia, China, India, Japan and the United States. The meeting is taking place a week after a U.S. warship challenged territorial limits around one of Beijing’s man-made islands in the Spratly archipelago with a so-called freedom-of-navigation patrol.

China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion in global trade passes every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.

Officials this week said the US and Japan were pushing to get concerns about the South China Sea included in the joint statement. Beijing had made clear as early as February that it didn’t want the South China Sea discussed at the meeting.

JUbA, NoveMber 4 (reUters): A Russianbuilt cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said. An official said three people on board survived.

The precise death toll was not immediately clear after the Antonov-12 B plane turbo prop plane crashed soon after take off, leaving chunks of wreckage, bodies and cargo strewn along a bank of the White Nile River.

The Civil Aviation Authority said the number of dead was still being counted.

A Reuters witness saw 41 bodies, some of which were covered by cloth. A police officer, who did not give his name because he was not authorised to speak to the media, also put the death toll at 41.

Another witness counted at least 32 killed.

Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told Reuters the plane was carrying 18 people, including the six foreign crew, according to official documents. He said 15 of them died and three South Sudanese nationals survived, including a child.

“This is the number

The scene of a cargo airplane that crashed after take-off near Juba Airport in South Sudan November 4. (REUTERS Photo)

given to us by the (control) tower,” he told Reuters in reference to those on board. Asked about figures suggesting a higher toll, he said it could be people killed on the ground but said he had no indication about any such deaths.

Officials said the plane belonged to freight and logistics firm Allied Services Ltd. Officials at the company could not immediately be reached for comment.

“We have rushed to the

site of crash which is located near the airport, southeast of Juba International Airport (across) the river,” said the chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority at Juba airport, Stephen Warikozi.

“We have secured the site of crash and also we are in the stage of recovering bodies and black box,” he said. “We are still now recovering the dead bodies and we cannot give you the exact number.”

The plane, registration

number EY406, had been on its way to Paloch, in the north of South Sudan, Warikozi said.

Th e p re s i d e nt i a l spokesman said the six crew were comprised of five Armenians and one Russian. He said all the others on the flight were South Sudanese.

Armenia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that five of its citizens who were members of the crew died in the crash. It cited its embassy in Egypt.

Taiwan, China leaders to hold historic meeting in Singapore tAIPeI/beIJING, NoveMber 4 (reUters): Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore on Saturday, the first meeting of leaders from the two rivals since the Chinese civil war ended in 1949.

Both governments said the leaders would discuss crossstrait ties at the unexpected but historic meeting, which comes at a sensitive time in Taiwan, with presidential and parliamentary elections being held in January amid rising anti-China sentiment.

Ma, who steps down next year due to term limits, has made improving economic links with China a key policy since he took office in 2008.

He has signed landmark business and tourism deals, though there has been no progress in resolving their political differences.

Communist China deems the proudly democratic island a breakaway province to be taken back, by force if necessary, particularly if it makes moves toward formal independence.

A combination photograph of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R). (REUTERS File Photo)

Taiwan’s main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which traditionally favours independence and whose candidate is the presidential election frontrunner, accused Ma of trying to influence the poll.

“President Ma picks this sensitive time for meetings.

How can people not think of this as a political operation intended to affect the election?”

DPP spokesman Cheng Yunpeng told reporters in Taipei.

Political experts said China

could also be working to shape the result by trying to show that ties will continue to improve if Taiwan remains ruled by Ma’s pro-China Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang (KMT).

That could backfire if there was widespread opposition in Taiwan to the meeting.

Ma’s office said in a statement the purpose of his trip was to “maintain the status quo”. He would not sign any agreements, nor issue any joint statements with China, it added.

Zhang Zhijun, head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said the leaders would “exchange views on promoting the peaceful development of cross-Taiwan Straits relations”, according to a statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency.

He called the meeting a milestone that will help manage conflict and would gain “wide support from all walks of life across the Strait and the international community”.

The two leaders were expected to have dinner after their meeting and will address each other as “mister”, Zhang said, presumably to avoid calling each other Mr. President, as neither officially recognises the other.

The meeting came about after Chinese and Taiwanese officials met in the Chinese city of Guangzhou last month, he added.

NO TO UNIFICATION Speaking to Reuters in an interview on Oct. 1, Ma said Taiwan was not ready to discuss unification with China.

While economic and social gaps between the two were nar-

rowing, their political differences remained wide, he said.

In what was seen as a backlash against creeping dependence on China, the KMT was trounced in local elections last year. Younger Taiwanese in particular worry about Beijing’s influence and don’t believe Taiwan benefits from closer economic ties with its giant neighbour.

Small groups of protesters gathered outside Taiwan’s parliament on Wednesday.

Ma has made no public comment since the midnight announcement from his office but will hold a news briefing on Thursday.

The DPP said there was a lack of transparency about the meeting, and key parliamentary leaders had not been informed.

“This kind of situation needs to be explained fully to the people,” DPP secretary-general Joseph Wu told Reuters, adding Ma needed to make clear he had not “overpromised” anything to China that would hamper Taiwan’s long-term interests. The timing of the meeting

would raise eyebrows, experts said.

“The Chinese are probably concerned that at the moment at least, the KMT is lagging far behind the opposition DPP in the polls,” said Aaron Friedberg, professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Bonnie Glaser, an Asia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Taiwanese had grown more sceptical about the relationship with China. “It’s hard to see how this (meeting) is really going to help his party remain in power,” Glaser said.

TURNING POINT? White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters it was too early to call the meeting a turning point.

“We would certainly welcome steps that are taken on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to try to reduce tensions and improve cross-strait relations,” Earnest said. “But, you know, we’ll have to see what actually comes out of the meeting.”

Previous Chinese attempts to influence Taiwan’s elections have backfired.

In 1996, then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin ordered missile tests and war games in the seas around Taiwan to try and intimidate voters not to back Lee Teng-hui, who China believed was moving the island closer to formal independence.

The crisis brought the two sides to the verge of conflict and prompted the United States to sail a carrier task force through the Taiwan Strait in a warning to Beijing.

Lee won the election by a landslide. Both China and Taiwan have good ties with Singapore. In March this year, Ma flew there to pay his respects after the death of the city-state’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. In 1993, Singapore was the location of the first direct talks between China and Taiwan since 1949.

Taiwan has been self-ruled since Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island following their defeat by Mao Zedong’s Communists at the end of the Chinese civil war.

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benzema arrested over sex-blackmail tape

PARIS, NOVEMBER 4 (IANS): Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was arrested on Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation over the attempted blackmail of fellow French international footballer Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape.

Benzema arrived in Paris from Madrid early on Wednesday morning and went to a police station close in Versailles near Paris, where he was arrested, local prosecutors confirmed, reports Xinhua.

Four other people, including former French international Djbril Cisse, were arrested last month in connection with the same case. Cisse was arrested on October 13, but was released without charge after being questioned by investigators.

Benzema's name had been mentioned in relation to the case on October 15 when the 'Le Parisien' newspaper said his name had appeared

"peripherally" in wiretaps as police investigated the case.

Valbuena, who currently plays for Olympique Lyon in French Ligue 1, had made a complaint to police in June this year, saying he had been asked to pay 150,000 euros ($165,000) in order to stop a supposed sex tape on him and his partner being posted on the internet.

It is not the first scandal Benzema has been involved in. Last year saw a French court drop a case against him and Bayern Munich winger Frank Ribery for soliciting an underage prostitute, while last Thursday he was stopped by Spanish police for driving without a license. It is the second time Benzema has been stopped for the same offense since having his license suspended in March for driving "way over the speed limit". He was also caught speeding in 2013 and had two car accidents in 2009.

Sunil Chhetri asks for patience after poor soccer campaign

MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 4 (REUTERS): India captain Sunil Chhetri has urged fans to be patient with the team and coach Stephen Constantine after the national team's yet another shambolic qualification campaign for the 2018 soccer World Cup. Long dubbed a 'sleeping giant' of world football

by FIFA, India have lost all five of their pool matches in Group D so far in the second stage of the Road to Russia 2018. They have let in 12 goals while managing to score three and lost even to tiny Guam, the U.S. territory in the North Pacific Ocean with a population of little more than 170,000.

With the matches also doubling up as qualifiers for the 2019 Asian Cup, a loss against the same opponents next week at home would snuff out India's remaining mathematical chances of qualifying for the continent's premier

tournament.

India's most prolific goal-scorer Chhetri, however, believes the team is on the right path.

"It's a transition period for the national team.

It's always difficult," the 31-year-old told Reuters on the sidelines of a promotional event organised

by Puma for his Indian Super League club Mumbai City FC. "Sixteen boys have made their India debut in the last couple of months.

It will take some time.

"It's a period which is going to take a little bit of patience and a little bit of time. It hasn't been easy.

We have to work really hard. "As players we are trying our best to give as much as possible and I will keep doing that."

It remains a mystery for many why a country of 1.2 billion, with a rich soccer history to boot, has not featured in World Cups yet.

The All-India Football Fed-

eration has brought back Constantine for a second stint with the national team after the Englishman guided Rwanda to their highest ever FIFA ranking of 64.

India started well under him by beating Nepal to progress to the second round of the combined 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers before things took a turn for the worse. Chhetri, who has scored two of the three goals India have managed in their five pool matches, had no doubt Constantine was the best man for the job. "He is somebody who really works hard. The coach needs time. We have to be patient," Chhetri said.

"It's not only him, when the team loses it's because of all of us. It's not fair just picking on one person."

Chhetri, who missed the inaugural edition of the franchise-based ISL last year, has been in sublime touch in the second edition

and has scored six goals in four matches for his team.

He was unavailable for a few matches due to national team duties and hoped the ISL can merge with the pre-existing national championships, I-League,

in the future to make it easier to synchronise India's calendar with FIFA. "Personally, yes, there should be one league in India. The I-League, the ISL, the Federation they all want (good) things for football in India,"

Chhetri said.

"I just hope they can sit together, talk it out and have a plan where there is just one league maybe in future and have one calendar. I'm sure they are going to do it soon."

public discourse

The Talukdar’s ghost that will haunt

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he other day I came across the confident expression of NSF that no medical seat was allotted to Sri. Inzamul Hogue Talukdar in 2015. Yes, it is true that all the medical quota seats received from the Centre were availed only by local Naga candidates this year of 2015. Perhaps, in the opinion of NSF the chapter of controversial selection of Talukdar for a medical seat against Nagaland quota is closed since the candidate in question could not avail the seat.

Nevertheless, Halo! shallow NSF, the controversy is far from over. Talukdar won the case in his writ petition filled in Gauhati High Court vide No. W.P.(C)No.169(K)/2015 and as per judgement passed on 29.9.2015. According to observations made by the Court on the plea, the following grounds justified Talukdar to have entitlement to get a medical seat from Nagaland quota.

I. Possessing an Indigenous certificate, Talukdar became a candidate in NSEE on 19.5.2015 and declared one of the 22 successful candidates for MBBS and BDS studies.

II. In the wisdom of nodal Department (Technical Deptt.) the re-examination of NSEE was conducted on 4.7.2015 with 6 new laid down terms and conditions. The first condition runs as this: “The 22 candidates who qualified through NSEE 2015 will automatically be eligible for selection to MBBS and BDS courses.”

This term has implied that Talukdar remains eligible to entitlement to a medical seat.

III. In the said terms, the existing 1995 Notification of debarring the non-Naga candidates from availing MBBS/BDS quota seat was not quoted. Virtually, for both the entrance examinations conducted by Technical deptt. for selection of students for technical studies, the 1995 notification was made redundant.

IV. The non-use of 1995 Notification in the adopted guidelines for the conduct of such examinations practically impeded its citing in the affidavit of the respondent (Technical Deptt.) and it was considered one of the major grounds for the judgement passed in favour of Talukdar.

V. The other major self-infringement is the offi-

cial letter written to Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI seeking for an additional medical seat particularly for Talukdar reportedly by Chief Minister of Nagaland and which was quoted in the respondent’s affidavit as follows: “At the same time, the State Government has written to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for an additional MBBS seat to accommodate Mr. Md. Inzamul HoqueTalukdar as a special case.”

Whereas, the Court has used this content in para 13 of the respondent’s affidavit as a strong point for Talukdar.

Either out of the original allotted seats or any additional seat so iven by Union Ministry at the instance of Nagaland Government for Talukdar has same implication.

In the light of above, and the way the Government of Nagaland has intentionally or casually created a cancerous precedence out of this episode which now poses a bleak future for our posterity. Yet, I wonder how serious is the Govt. of Nagaland or the Technical Deptt.

In particular in matter of perusal for a logical conclusion on the case.

If the Court’s verdict is allowed to remain unchallenged, a flood gate is opened. By 2016 several Talukdars will avail all the technical seats unstoppably.

My sincere concern is, though the Govt. of Nagaland may be contemplating to file counter writ petition, the general trend of ‘the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak’ factor may force the actors to be behind time. Or else, the Govt. of Nagaland may be treating the case to be secondary in the manner of passing the buck to one another and allow the precedent to remain. Or else, even when the petition is filed, due to casualness of the nodal authorities, the same may be repeated when hearing takes place as it happened on 29.9.2015.

Under any circumstances, the verdict in question has to be challenged and bring about a logical conclusion with nothing less than legal victory. If we fail, Talukdar’s ghost will turn Nagaland into second Tripura sooner than thought.

Z. Lohe

Market Culture and Human Person

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ometimes a good person can become the most corruptor if we measure human value from profit and gain only.

This had happened during the biblical time as well. Look at Genesis 48:13-22. We often read Joseph as a man of God with great wisdom, a man who can see the future, a good planner, steward, a person who has ability to mobilize people, a person with high morality, a God fearing person, and an able administrator. But he protected and contributed to unjust system and relationship due to his interest to accumulate wealth. The same can happen to the church today.

We are called to help and express solidarity when a person is in need. But for power monger and wealth, this is the best time to exploit the poor. Taking the advantage of famine in Egypt, Joseph made the king Pharaoh a `capitalist’, a `dictator’ and also a `landlord’.

Joseph did four things which made people slave: First, he gathered all the money from the people in exchange of grains. He made people moneyless. Second, he gathered all the properties and life-stock from the people in exchange of grains. He made people properties. Third, he gathered all the lands from people in exchange of grains. He made people landless. Fourth, he bought all the bodies of people in exchange of grains. He made people slaves.

We value things and money more than human person. The Bible plays into the hands of those vested interests to satisfy their unbridled thirst for wealth, power and pleasure at the expense of the right of humans and the earth’s resources. Biblical teaching is that any economic system that relegates or marginalizes human life falls short of the divine standards. Each person is created in God’s image and thus, is worthy and valuable for the Creator. Therefore, in economic life, any individual, class, caste, nature, gender and community, should not be regarded as an object whose value is determined by the fundamental of the market and who may be bought and sold or dispensed with

a whim or will of those who possess economic power, he or she is not to be treated as a means but as an end. The Bible demands a more equitable distribution of the world’s resources, not the accumulation in the hands of a few.

Market competition is definitely not the way of the Kingdom because it uses human beings as cheap labourers and does not respect humans as person. The Bible upholds a community where justice is expressed in equality and sharing, and affirms a community economic system with reciprocal sharing and hospitality.

The land, the river and forest have been the home and life sustaining source of indigenous people for centuries. But today they are being misused and raped to meet the growing demand of consumerism. Forest and fishing resources are depleted for quick profits. Mining companies rape resources with little regard to human persons, the environmental and social costs. The sustaining power of the earth for nurturing life is being destroyed. The whole planet is at threat.

In the context of growing inequalities, different forms of injustice and conflict under the umbrella of development, we are called to promote trade and economic co-operation on the basis of equality and sharing of life and resources; mutuality of support and respect to one another’s life; respect and protect the rich ethnic, cultural and religious diversity; sanctity of human life as well as the entire God’s creation; alternative spirituality grounded in the respect of human dignity and in the integration of creation; spirituality that promotes justice, peace and reconciliation; cultural cooperation to resist the cultural impact of market culture and to find new ways to overcome the problems of division; to promote respect of human rights in their own cultural context; to spread a spirituality of a common future that respect peace and justice, life for all irrespective of religious and ethnic differences; policy and values that guarantees the diversity as well as the uniqueness of each culture.

Wati Longchar

AFspA made dirtier by the judiciary

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he full bench of the Meghalaya High Court comprising Chief Justice Uma Nath Singh, Justice TNK Singh and Justice SR Sen in an order dated 2nd November 2015 while hearing a case relating to bandhs called by the insurgents in the Garo Hills directed “the Central Government to consider the use of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in the Garo Hills area and deployment of Armed and Para-military forces to control the situation in the aid of but certainly not under the command of civil and police authorities till life becomes normal and the incidents of rampant kidnapping and killing totally stopped”. The Court also directed the Union Home Secretary and the Defence Secretary to ensure compliance with the order and report to the Court during the next hearing, and further directed the Principal Secretary in the office of the Prime Minister to place the order before the Prime Minister for perusal and consideration.

The court sought to justify its order, inter alia, on the ground that insurgents had abducted 87 people in the past 10 months and further stated that “even under the ideal federal system of United States of America, whereas ours is only quasi federal, under the Insurrection Act, the President can deploy Armed Forces under certain circumstances including terrorist activities in the states”.

The order is bad in law, grounds are fallacious, and it is nothing but an illegal transgression into the domain of the executive by the judiciary.

Under Section 3 of the AFSPA it is only the Governor of the State or the Administrator of the Union territory or the Central Government who can declare the whole or such part of such State or Union territory to be a disturbed area but the Meghalaya High Court took up the task of the Governor upon itself. There is only one Government of India and the law and order falls under the domain of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

Therefore, the direction to place the order before the Prime Minister is an overzealous act indicting the MHA and the Ministry of Defence.

If crime statistics are to be the yardsticks, there is no doubt that the situation in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh afflicted by the Naxalites is worse than the Garo Hills. Does that mean that the Chhattisgarh High Court or the Supreme Court should direct imposition of emergency under Article 356 of the Constitution in Chhattisgarh?

The assertion that the United States is the “ideal federal system” is a debatable issue. The Swiss consider their federal system under which each Canton/province has the power to seek referendum before imposition of any law or policy as the most ideal. Under the United States’ Insurrection Act, the President of the US is authorised to deploy the armed forces under certain circumstances including terrorist activities in the states but the Supreme Court of United States is not authorised to direct the President of the United States in which situations he/she should deploy the armed forces. The AFSPA authorizes the Government of India to deployed armed forces but unlike the Supreme Court of the United States, the Meghalaya High Court went to direct the Government of India to impose AFSPA in the Garo Hills.

That the AFSPA has no place in a country governed by the rule of law requires little introduction. The judiciary a made it dirtier.

The Supreme Court in its judgement dated 27.11.1997 in the case of the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights Vs Union of India while upholding the constitutional validity of the AFSPA sanctified provisions which are in clear violation of the Constitution and non-est. First, it was with respect to the powers of the Governor vis-a-vis the Council of Minister with respect to imposition of the AFSPA under Section 3 of the Act. Even though the Governor under the Constitution discharges duties on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, the Supreme Court held that the governor is empowered to impose the APSPA without the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers. The special law was allowed to prevail over the Constitution.

This has created piquant situation. In many States the AFSPA was imposed by the Governors against and/or without the advice of the

Council of Ministers of the concerned State and with respect to Arunachal Pradesh, the Union Home Ministry was forced to withdraw imposition of the AFSPA in all the districts in May 2015. During the same month, the AFSPA was withdrawn from Tripura on the advice of the Council of Ministers. Second, in the areas declared disturbed under the AFSPA, the Supreme Court held that the central armed forces are not required to operate under the control of the State security forces while performing duties in aid of civil power of the State. The Supreme Court relied upon the Entry 2A of the Union List of the Constitution i.e. “deployment of any armed force of the Union or any other force subject to the control of the Union or any contingent or unit thereof in any state in aid of the civil power, powers, jurisdiction, privileges and liabilities of the members of such forces while on such deployment”. However, Entry 2A of the Union List makes no distinction between States covered under the AFSPA and those not covered.

The Meghalaya High Court went a step further: it took over the power of the executive to impose the AFSPA in the Garo Hills and assaulted the basic tenets of the Constitution on separation of powers between the judiciary and the executive. The task of the judiciary is to assess whether the legality of the action of the executive on imposition of the AFSPA or any other law, and not to perform the task of the executive including analysis of the inputs of intelligence agencies on law and order situation to declare certain areas as disturbed.

Unless the State Government of Meghalaya or the Ministry of Home Affairs challenges the order of the Meghalaya High Court, the Courts in India may as well direct imposition of emergency under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, a common refrain of the opposition political parties in most States. The situation in the Garo Hills might indeed be a fit case for imposition of the AFSPA but it is simply not for the judges to take the call.

Suhas Chakma Director, Asian Centre for Human Rights

Nagaland’s special provisions and protections under india: A sham or a truth?

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as the 16 Point Agreement a great agreement that brought wonderful benefits to the Naga people? Did article 371A (a) (iv) permanently secure Nagaland’s rights to her land and her resources under the Constitution of India? Or have we all been fooled into believing a lie for all these years by a farcical sham and A POLITICAL LIE? Of course outwardly, our state is a privileged state and our rights to our lands seem eternally secured under it. But let us look deeper into the matter and see what these two provisions have really given us.

1. Firstly let us realize that our state is a state without proper boundary lines. Way back on July 26, 1960, when a state was demanded by the 19 Naga heroes that went to Delhi, the question of an integrated Nagaland state where all Nagas can live under one administrative roof was indeed discussed.

It was in fact clearly spelled out in the 13th article of their 16 Point Agreement. But because of the hurried nature under which the state was created, the matter of integration though discussed, was kept in abeyance.

This hurry was because Phizo was going to address the world press on the same day of 26th July, 1960 with details of the atrocities committed by the Indian army on the Nagas. Therefore the Indian government was in a great hurry to make a settlement with the 19 Nagas in order to cover up their crime of invasion and occupation of Nagaland before Phizo met the world Press and expose India’s hypocrisy of AHIMSA. This “abeyance” business has been going on for the past 51 years

of statehood under India.

In actual reality Nagaland is therefore, a state without a defined boundary line. This is an unbelievable thing in relation to a state and its boundary lines. In the end the Indian puppet state of Nagaland is more like a “Donkey state” with two of its legs planted in Colonial Assam and Manipur and the other two legs standing in post Colonial Arunachal and the 16,000 sq.kms. Indian state of Nagaland. As for its geographical body, it hangs on these four outstretched legs swaying to the North east turbulent political winds! This is the Naga People’s Convention special gift to the Naga people. Some special statuses’ state indeed!

2. Next comes the so called land and its resources rights of the Nagas being snugly tugged away inside the warm pages of the Indian Constitution. Here, let us begin with a question to the N.P.C. Is India’s right to her land and her resources a right written in the Constitution of China? Is this the way nations and their rights to their lands are practiced in the world?

If the answer is a “No” as it should be, then what’s so special about the N. P. C. guys transferring our rights to our land from the Yehzabo of Nagaland to the Constitution of India?

Then coming to the practical realm of application of this right, when based on this special provision, we tried to extract our oil, what did the Indian Government come up with? Well, the Indian Government said that the extraction of oil comes under the Central list (under energy) as is written in the Seventh schedule. They also asserted that

schedule 7 had been written long before Article 371A and therefore Nagas cannot just extract and sell their oil independent of India’s seventh schedule!

PHOOOF! And our very special provision disappears into thin air! Need I say anything more about our Doyang Hydro electric power generation and how much mega watts is flowing from it to India and how much is being given to the Nagaland state?

The list and examples can go on.

Some very extraordinary special provisions have the NPC indeed bestowed on future generations of Nagas! Actually what they did was surrendering our future Naga economic and technological wealth to India.

Thank you NPC for your wonderful schemes with your masters in Hindustan. Jai Hind Finally, fellow Nagas, let us get this fact very clear into our heads. Though we may have all these special provisions and extraordinary right, the interpreting rights of all these provisions lies with the Indian Government, Why is this so? Well it is simply because all our so called rights are all written in the Constitution of India. In this sad scenario many of us are no longer free thinking Nagas but have become Indian subjects. But thank God, there are still some independent Nagas who are still defending their declared independence which was declared on 14th August1947.

The next question that we will be asking in our next article will be “Who is next going to surrender our political and democratic freedom to India under another grand “Shared Sovereignty scheme” with mother India?

Kaka D. Iralu

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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‘Don’t woman, no cry’: A play with a message

he Khar students’ Union Dimapur, in association with Hill theatre presents ‘Don’t women, no cry’, a play to be performed on November 6 at the IMC Hall, Dimapur at 4:00 p.m.

The KSUD believes in nurturing and showcasing young talents by providing ex-

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posure through creative platforms and the director of the play, Bendang Walling who is an executive member of the union is one such talented individual. He is an alumnus of the prestigious National School of Drama, New Delhi and the founder of the group Hill Theatre. As the artistic director of the group, he has directed noteworthy productions such as ‘the third eye’, ‘N.H 36’, ‘Chimti: the

ant’, ‘the wedding’, ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory’ and ‘Don’t women, no cry’ to name a few. For his achievements in theatre, he was awarded with NEZCC Young Talented Artist Award 2008-09 and Ao Students Union Excellency Award (Theatre).

Performing arts is a relatively unchartered territory in our state and hence this unique initiative aims to let youngsters dis-

cover the world of theatre. Founded in 2012, Hill Theatre is working with a strong motto of ‘Love through creativity’. Apart from its primary focus on theatre activities, the group has also produced short films, music videos and other audio- visual productions.

The theatre piece, ‘Don’t women, no cry’ portrays pain and struggle endured by the women in the present time. They are

often ill-treated and do not get the respect that they deserve. In day to day life, sounds of their scream and soreness bang at the doors but they fall on deaf ears. The piece finally puts up question to all the citizens, ’why can’t we live as equals? Is there no cure for this malady?’ Tickets will be available at the venue, as well as Bee Hive, foodtionary and The Lunch Room.

Robin Williams suffered from brain disease, says wife

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ate actor-comedian Robin Williams's widow Susan Schneider says he was suffering from Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) before his death. Schneider believes Williams committed suicide in August 2014 as a result of the debilitating brain disease, which is the second most common neurodegenerative de-

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fter Indian offspinner Harbhajan Singh married his long time ladylove Geeta Basra in a star-studded ceremony in Punjab on October 29, looks like another cricketer is keen to enter matrimony. And it’s none other than Yuvraj Singh.

The all-rounder, who recently succeeded in the battle against cancer, will reportedly tie the knot early next year with Bollywood actress Hazel Keech. Buzz has it that the actor had plans to get married soon after his 34th birthday (December 13), but because of the death of a relative, he had to postpone the ceremony.

Hazel has reportedly been spotted a number of times with the dashing cricketer who has a number of female fans for his good looks. For the uninitiated, Hazel Keech featured in Salman Khan’s film ‘Boduguard’ where she played Kareena Kapoor’s friend.

mentia after Alzheimer's and causes heightened levels of anxiety, delusions and impaired movement, reports people.com.

“It was not depression that killed Robin. Depression was one of let's call it 50 symptoms and it was a small one,” Schneider said.

While the Oscar winner's illness progressed rapidly in the months before he

killed himself, Schneider, who married him in 2011, believes there were some "miscalculations" in his diagnosis before an autopsy confirmed he had the disease. She said "I know now the doctors, the whole team was doing exactly the right things. It's just that this disease was faster than us and bigger than us. We would have gotten there eventually.

“I've spent this last year trying to find out what killed Robin. To understand what we were fighting, what we were in the trenches fighting and one of the doctors said, 'Robin was very aware that he was losing his mind and there was nothing he could do about it',” she added.

Po on a heartwarming journey from Master to Teacher

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he favourite Kung Fu warrior is back and this time with the blessings of Master Shifu he will take the next step and become a teacher. Our favourite Kung Fu warrior is back. This time, with the blessings of Master Shifu he will take the next step and become a teacher.

The new trailer released by Dreamworks Animation shows Po, played

by Jack Black, meets his biological father, played

by Bryan Cranston, and

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then his brethren at a hidden Panda village. Ever so reluctant and self-undermining Po steps up to the challenge laid in front of him like the dragon warrior he is.

Previous teasers were focused on the relationship between father and son. The new trailer has finally introduced the villain Kai played by Academy Award winner JK Simmons. From the looks of it, Kai has quite the penchant for engaging in pre-fight

chatter and Po is out there to bust it. Po will have to train his clumsy panda village to fight and ward off an evil villain Kai who has China terrorised.

Kate Hudson, Bryan Cranston, and JK Simmons join Jack Black and the Furious Five of the original series with Dustin Hoffman for the third outing of the franchise.

Kung Fu Panda 3 is slated to release on January 29, 2016.

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Chief Guest of the Wokha Festival of Music Indigenous Arts, Dr. TM Lotha with team Metamorphosis members Lotha Hoho Chairman and Lotha Eloe Hoho members.

I don't believe in legacy:

Shah Rukh khan

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hah Rukh Khan, who came from a nonfilm background, does not believe that his children should follow in his footsteps to pursue a career in acting. "I don't believe in legacy. My father was not an actor. I became an actor and I feel there is no need for my children to become actors. I will not tell them what they should do as I have never been told by my parents what to do.

"It does not matter what I want for my children, except what they want to be.

And if they do not become actors, I'll still love them more," he said at an event here.

He does not believe that his children have inherited Keren Sumi (Kay studio director & Gladrags model his acting ability, but said: 2011) and Model Opang Jamir with Actor Tanuj Virwani, "My son (Aryan) is studying and I want him to comson of Rati Agnihotri at candies, bandra Mumbai.

plete his graduation, but my daughter wants to learn acting, but I don't know which institute in India I should send her to."

SRK has another son named AbRam but he's too young.

Talking about his dream project, the actorproducer said: "I learnt acting when I was doing theater for seven to eight years. I luckily worked with Barry John and studied a lot about acting and that learning helped me. I wish to make an acting institute where youngsters can get to learn professional acting, and understand from international artistes what acting is about.

"But it won't be called Shah Rukh Khan Acting as I'm able to act one kind of acting which sounds very confining."

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Rooney equals Law goal record as ManU go top

MANCHESTER, No vEMbER 4 (REuTERS): A thumping header from Wayne Rooney ended Manchester United's scoring drought and secured a 1-0 Champions League victory over CSKA Moscow as they went top of Group B on Tuesday.

United seemed to be heading for a fourth successive goalless draw before Rooney met a Jesse Lingard cross and sent a bullet of a header soaring past CSKA keeper Igor Akinfeev and into the roof of the net in the 79th minute.

It was the England striker's 237th goal for the Old Trafford outfit and drew him level with Denis Law as the club's second highest scorer, 12 behind Bobby Charlton. Despite dominating possession throughout the encounter, United had struggled to break down the resilient Russians whose own attacking ambitions were limited to infrequent counter attacks.

United, who had previously failed to score in Premier League encounters against Manchester City and Crystal Palace as well as a League Cup clash

against second tier Middlesbrough, mustered little more than half chances until Rooney's winner.

The result left the group perfectly poised with United on seven points, one clear of VfL Wolfsburg and PSV Eindhoven, who won 2-0 at home to the Germans on Tuesday. CSKA are bottom with four.

"It is unbelievable because we created at least 12 chances tonight and had to wait a long time," United manager Louis van Gaal told BT Sport. "Before that they could have scored and then it is a different match. I am happy. We played well."

United began brightly, fizzing the ball around the slick surface with intent.

HALF CHANCES Their possession, however, counted for little in the opening 45 minutes with a succession of half chances coming to nothing as the home crowd grew increasingly restless.

Rooney, whose form had been questioned after scoring only two Premier League goals this season, flashed an effort fractionally wide after three minutes and

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Real Madrid, Man City qualify for Champions knockout stage

MADRID, NovEMbER 4 (IANS): Real Madrid and Manchester City secured contrasting victories to book berths in the Champions League round of 16 with victories over Paris Saint-Germain and Sevilla, respectively. But the similarities ended there, as Madrid won 1-0 despite being clearly outplayed by PSG, while travelling Man City rolled over Sevilla 3-1 on Tuesday, reports Efe. Real Madrid, who were the better team last month in a scoreless draw with the French side in Paris, owed their victory at home more to luck than quality. The much anticipated duel between Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo and PSG top striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic fizzled out, as neither man could score. Real's goalkeeper, Costa Rican international Keylor Navas, maintained his perfect record in the Champions League with four clean sheets from four matches.

Each side lost a player to injury in the first half, Marco Verrati for PSG and Marcelo for Real Madrid, and it was the Brazilian's replacement, Nacho Fernandez, who scored the game's only goal with his first touch. PSG continued to dominate possession and chances right up until the final whistle, with former Madrid winger Angel di Maria hitting the crossbar in the final minutes. Real Madrid lead Group A with 10 points, three ahead of PSG, with two matches left in the group stage. Malmo and Shakhtar Donetsk have three points each after the Ukrainian club clobbered the Swedish side 4-0 on Tuesday in Lviv.

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Vanguard FC, Dejavu FC, Fraternity FC advance to 2nd round

Van Gaal hears the jeers but says tactics vindicated

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney celebrates scoring their first goal. Reuters / Darren Staples

then almost latched on to an under-hit back pass before Akinfeev cleared the danger.

CSKA, who won 2-1 at United's neighbours Manchester City 12 months ago, were happy to keep men behind the ball and barely threat-

ened Van Gaal's well-drilled rearguard.

It looked like it would not be Rooney's night when he got the ball stuck under his feet from five metres with 20 minutes remaining, just before United keeper

David De Gea pulled off a superb save to deny Seydou Doumbia when he was through on goal.

"Denis Law is a legend at this club and to equal his record is a huge honour for me," said England's record

international goal-scorer Rooney. Having faced criticism from many quarters this season, United need only win one of their final two matches at home to PSV and away to Wolfsburg to reach the last 16.

Manchester United fans made their feelings loud and clear by jeering Louis van Gaal's decision to substitute Anthony Martial in Tuesday's 1-0 win over CSKA Moscow but the Dutch manager says his tactics were vindicated by Wayne Rooney's winner. United left it late against CSKA in their Champions League group game but Rooney headed home in the 79th minute to ensure his team avoided a fourth successive goalless draw.

United dominated possession but struggled to break down CSKA until their skipper struck to draw himself level with Denis Law as the club's secondhighest scorer on 237 goals. His header from Jesse Lingard's cross was United's first goal in 404 minutes - a run that included goalless draws against Manchester City, Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace. Prior to the goal, the Old Trafford crowd were clearly unhappy when Martial was replaced with Marouane Fellaini after 65 minutes. "I'm not deaf. That's the opinion of the fans but afterwards they shall not be disappointed," said Van Gaal. "I'm very happy because I put Rooney again in the striker's position and he scored."

Rooney's strike sent United to the top of their group and midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger underlined the importance of the goal. "It was a big moment for us because we hadn't scored a goal in the last few matches so it was very important," Schweinsteiger was quoted as saying by the club's website (www.manutd.com).

"For us it was very important to win at home. Also, in the group, we are now at the top and we have to win the next match against Eindhoven, but the situation is much better now," the German international added.

United need just one win from their last two group matches, at home to PSV Eindhoven and away at VfL Wolfsburg, to reach the last 16.

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Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel (I AS) flagging off the Tour De Hills, 2015 adventure trail rally organised by the Adventure and Motorsport Association Mokokchung in commemoration of 125 years of Mokokchung. The Tour De Hills rally will cover all sub-division of Mokokchung and will culminate on November 7 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex. (Morung Photo)

MokokCHuNg, No vEMbER 4 (DIPR): “Tour de Hills 3 & Jubilee Adventure Trial” was flagged off by Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel IAS from Imkongmeren Sports Complex on November 4.

The event is being organized by Adventure and Motor Sports Association, Mokokchung (AMAM) in collaboration with District Administration, MDSC & DDACC in commemoration of 125 years of Mokok-

chung town.

Speaking on the occasion, the Deputy Commissioner said that the event is a historic moment and a milestone in the evolution of Mokokchung town. He said Mokokchung town, being one of the oldest and fast developing towns, not only in the state but in the northeast and that it is a moment to be proud of to celebrate the 125 years of its existence.

The DC also thanked the organizers and all the participants for adding

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A message that reminds the people about the past endeavour and the challenges that lies ahead and the message of joy for reaching a milestone was sent to the people but the District Administration was also read out by the Deputy Commissioner on the occasion.

A match in action between Vanguard FC and Roster Club at the ongoing Classic Cup on November 4. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | November 4

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Vanguard FC, Dejavu FC and Fraternity FC today advanced to 2nd round after registering win in their respective matches in the ongoing 21st edition of Classic Cup 2015 under the aegis of Classic Club Kohima here at the Kohima Local Ground. In the first match of the day, Vanguard FC blanked Roster Club 6-0.

James Kelengoto and Yhunshalo Kemp netted two goals each (14th, 52nd and 19th, 59th minute respectively) to Vanguard FC while Paul Magh and Nyethong Magh contributed a goal each to the team in the 31st and 42nd minute respectively.

In the second match, Dejavu FC downed Bhaiyo’s FC 3-0. Imnarenba Longkumer, Asito Krose and Sevizo Pucho fetched a goal each to Dejavu FC in the 16th, 53rd and 54th minute respectively.

Dejavu FC will now clash with Vanguard FC on November 11. Fraternity FC secured overwhelming victory over rival Fennce FC 9-0 in the last match of the day.

Shamba Samson contributed seven goals to Fraternity FC in the 8th, 11th, 17th, 26th, 47th, 50th and 53rd minute. He earned the first hattrick of the tournament.

Keneisetuo Kire and Kevisanyii Angami netted a goal each to the team in the 44th ad 58th minute respectively.

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