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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it Rajnath calls for combined efforts to tackle terrorism

Pangti Village Council receives RBS Earth Heroes Awards

Jolie ‘open’ to a career in politics

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US hands-off stance on future of Suu Kyi

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Our Correspondent Kohima | November 5

Do not open this box until all of them are married off.

NSCN (K) cautions regional authorities

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NEw YORk, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa could prove to be much widespread and deadlier that what is currently believed, an analysis shows. The outbreak’s fatality rate is over 70 percent - rather than 50 percent as previously claimed by the World Health Organization (WHO) - and that the total number of affected individuals could exceed 1 million by early next year. The study highlights the inadequate global response to the outbreak. As long as the number of infected people rises exponentially, the likelihood of exporting Ebola to other countries does as well. “If trends continue for a few more months, the global community could be forced into a terrible ethical dilemma - either risking the escape of Ebola to other poor countries or sealing off borders to countries in West Africa, with unimaginable humanitarian consequences,” said Allen Hunt, professor at Wright State University in the US.

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nagaland chief Minister for a comprehensive power policy

By Sandemo Ngullie

Ebola deadlier, more widespread

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reflections

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 5 (MExN): The President of the NSCN (K), SS Khaplang has directed every regional authority to “co-operate with the central authority functioning in one’s respective regional areas.” A press release from the MIP of the NSCN (K) informed that “in connection to execution of central Chaplee Ministry’s directive, the road construction machineries belonging to certain contracting company in Zeliangrong region were destroyed for failure to comply with the central directive.” It further stated that “Hopson, Regional Chairman, Zeliangrong region NSCN/GPRN, without consultation with the Central authority issued denial of NSCN/GPRN’s involvement regardless of the fact that the said action was initiated as per the central direction.” The NSCN (K) termed such “irresponsible statement by a regional authority,” as “tantamount to contempt of central authority for which Hopson is strongly warned.” It further issued an “explanation call notice to the CHQ/Presidential office with immediate effect from the date of publication of this note.”

“The regional authorities are further cautioned that, henceforth, stern disciplinary action shall be shall be initiated in the event of creating any obstacles or unnecessary interferences in the functioning of the central authority,” it added.

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Typhoon survivor Emily Sagalis kisses her baby Bea Joy inside her modest home at a coastal village in Tacloban city, Leyte province in central Philippines Wednesday, November5. Bea Joy, who was named after her grandmother Beatrice, who perished at the onslaught of super typhoon Haiyan, has made headlines for being the first known baby to be born at the damaged improvised clinic November 11 of last year. On Saturday, Nov.8, the country will mark the first year anniversary of super typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) that ravaged Leyte, Eastern Samar and other provinces in central Philippines that killed thousands of people and left a wide swath of destruction. (AP Photo)

Suspected ULFA cadres apprehended near Saring MOkOkcHUNg, NOVEMBER 5 (MExN): Personnel of the 31 Assam Rifles today apprehended two suspected ULFA cadres during a search operation near Saring village, under Longchem Police Station under Mangkolemba Sub Division, Mokokchung district. The dead body of another suspected ULFA cadre was also recovered from the same location.

Sources informed that the search operation was

conducted at 4:18pm on Wednesday. The apprehended individuals have been identified as one Babon Teka, s/o Sumuram V/o Khagabari district, Utalguri and one Preanjal Nath s/o Niren Nath v/o Jelehua istrict, Golaghat.

The deceased was identified as one Prakesh Baruah.

Sources further stated that the deceased was suspected to have been injured during the operation and succumbed to his injuries.

It was informed that arms and ammunition including one 303 Rifle, seven 303 ammo, one K- 10, three magazines with 100 RDS, one hundred and two cartridges and fourteen detonators were also recovered.

One Rifleman of the 31 AR, identified as BB Singh, reportedly sustained an injury to his hand during the operation and was evacuated to Jorhat. It was further reported that some cadres escaped during the search operation.

Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today advocated that a comprehensive power policy is required to give direction for coordinated development of generation, transmission and distribution of power in the state.

“Framing a power policy must be the concern of everyone, be it the technocrats, the planners or the policy makers,” he said and requested the department to initiate the process of framing a new state power policy at the earliest.

Gracing the golden jubilee celebration of the Nagaland state Power Department here today, the Nagaland Chief Minister said that electricity is not only essential for lighting up homes but has also become the driving force in every aspect of people’s lives and the engine of growth for any developing economy.

Consumption of electrical power is an indicator of progress in the agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors, and also of the well being of the people, he said. The CM added that no major economic activity can be sustained without adequate and reliable power supply.

Informing that the transmission and distribution handling capacity of Nagaland state is about 110 MW, the CM added that in developed states, this quantum of power could easily be absorbed by a

Nagaland Power Dept completes fifty years

Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang with Minister for Power, Kipili Sangtam releasing the Jubilee souvenir during the Power department’s golden jubilee celebration in Kohima on Wednesday. (DIPR Photo)

Did You Know?

• In the 60s, Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung were electrified with diesel engines.

• Nagaland state’s per capita consumption is about 250 units, the lowest in the country.

• Nagaland became the first state in the NE to achieve 100% electrification of villages in 1988. single or two medium industries alone. He further informed that the state’s per capita consumption is about 250 units, which is the lowest in the country, indicative of the state’s poor economy.

“I am also aware that the state’s own generation is negligible and that our power requirement is met largely with import from outside,” he said adding that this status of the power sector should be a challenge for all stakeholders, be it the policy makers, planners or technocrats.

The CM further urged

the state power department to adopt the latest technologies to manage its networks, energy billing, revenue collection and consumer servicing. He then extended best wishes to the department in their endeavor to provide 24X7 quality service to the people of the state.

Nagaland Minister for Power, C Kipili Sangtam said that the state government is looking forward to the fruition of the 180MW Dikhu project on a PPP mode for which negotiation on land acquisition is in progress. Besides, the

Detailed Project Report for Tizu and Zungki is under preparation, he informed.

The Minister lamented that due to the lack of adequate funding support, development of transmission and transformation capacity has been a bottleneck to increasing availability, thereby restricting demand and growth. However, there is optimism that the North Eastern Regional Power Grid System Improvement Projects (NERPSIP), funded by the World Bank and the Government of India, will help the power scenario in the state. The Minister informed that the projects will double the existing capacity of transmission and sub-transmission network in the state.

The department will also explore the possibility of coal or gas based generation projects on confirmation of available reserves and notified regulation modules, the minister added. The coverage of anti power thief mobile squads has to be enlarged and sustained to deter power theft and create awareness, he added.

Three retired chief engineer (Power), Er. Lanu Toy, Er SI Longkumer and Er DA Shishak spoke on the occasion while the welcome address was delivered by Er K Miachieo, Chief Engineer (T&G) Power.

The function was chaired by KI Yanger, Secretary for power; while the vote of thanks was proposed by Er Imli Ao, Additional Chief Engineer (D&R).

Redefining the future through ‘green tech’ CANSSEA demands action on

School of Engineering & Technology, NU, festival TechAura 2014 from Nov 5-8

Govt should not sleep over global warming

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Dimapur | November 5

Dimapur | November 5

The Naga people and the Nagaland State Government should not sleep over the issue of global warming, said Nagaland Minister for Roads & Bridges and Parliamentary Affairs, Kuzholuzo Nienu today. He was speaking as a chief guest at the opening of TechAura 2014, a festival hosted by the School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University.

“No amount of human resource development will be enough is we have no place to live,” said Nienu. Quoting ‘scientist predictions,’ the Minister said that global warming could lead to the Bay of Bengal rising by almost 20 inches which could lead to the displacement of nearly 6 million people. “Where will they go?”

Nienu then admitted that the State Government was being unable to tackle the “influx of a few lakh” people into Nagaland every year, and if even 3 million of the global warming-displaced people come to Nagaland (higher ground), “where will we go?”

He stressed on the importance of preserving forests, flora and fauna, as well as the region’s biodiversity, so that the environment will be conducive for human beings to inhabit in the long run.

A bunch of third year Agriculture Engineering and Technology students explained a model they created of an Integrated Farming System—where a village is able to generate its economy from local produce as well as protect the environment. Their work is a part of the only technical festival in Nagaland called ‘TechAura,’ organized by the School of Engineering and Technology (SET), Nagaland University, at PWD Colony here.

Into its 5th edition, with the motto of ‘Redefining the Future,’ the festival provides a platform to students who seek to also promote social cohesion through their technical, but green, models.

“Sensing the need for furthering technical education and innovation in Nagaland, the TechAura concept was designed and implemented since 2010,” informed Convenor of the festival, Kanato H. Ayeh. The theme of ‘global warming’ this year is meant to steer students towards furthering technical knowledge with this in mind. Technology needs responsibility and ethics, as President of the SET students union, Vikipu Kiho, explained in his welcome address today. The festival is being held from November 5-8, with technical and non technical students participating in it from various schools in Nagaland. Redefining the future using technology, as Dean of the School, Prof. DP Chaturvedi said, needs this solidarity, as well as support from companies, the government, entrepreneurs etc. The SET

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Students of the School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University, Dimapur, display their ‘Integrated Farming System’ model at TechAura 2014, being held from November 5 to 8. (Morung Photo)

was established in 2007 for developing human resources in Nagaland State in the field of technology.

While stressing on the need for engineering and other technical graduates to join Nagaland State administrative services, the guest of honour, Nungsanglemba Chang (member of NPSC, retd. NCS), however, was clear that “not everyone can get a job, but everyone can earn a livelihood.” This requires, he noted, devotion, hard work, discipline and willingness to serve society. Chang informed that candidates appearing for the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) examinations are mostly from private institutes these days.

Irked by the attitude of young people towards Naga society, he said that instead of sitting idle after getting a degree, “go back to your villages and see what is happening there; this will redefine the future.” Chang lamented how even those who get

government jobs do not want to put in the hard work of working in the interior regions. At interviews, most state their preference to work in Dimapur and Kohima—“we have no respect for our people.” Today many doctors and engineers are coming back to work in India, he asserted, asking students to learn from this.

“Political leadership has to do something about people not wanting to serve in rural areas,” he maintained.

This is all the more important because corruption in Nagaland is not just economic and political, but systemic. It is easy, said Chang, for some people to earn thousands of lakhs here but for the majority, even getting Rs. 100 is a tough call. This is where the youth needs to step in and initiate change by creating innovative livelihood options.

Perhaps the students participating in TechAura 2014 will keep this in mind over the next four days of the festival.

concerns of state employees

kOHIMA, NOVEMBER 5 (MExN): The Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees’ Association (CANSSEA) has submitted a representation to the Nagaland Chief Secretary urging for immediate action with respect to various issues affecting state government employees.

The representation informed that that several State Service Associations such as the Nagaland Civil Services Association (NCSA), Nagaland Secretariat Service Association (NSSA), Nagaland Assembly Secretariat Service Association (NASSA), Nagaland Finance & Accounts Service Association (NF&ASA), Federation of Nagaland Engineering Services’ Association (FONSESA), Nagaland Civil Secretariat Grade IV Employees’ Association (NCSGEA) and the Directorate & District Stenographers Association (DDSAN) held a joint Co-ordination meeting on September 19 at the CANSSEA Conference Hall and resolved to entrust CANSSEA to pursue the concerned issues with the Nagaland government.

The representation demanded that pending D/A & ADA for the State Government employees from January 1 to December 31 be released immediately.

It said that the associations are “in support of the Nagaland Retirement from Pub-

lic Employment Second Amendment Act, 2009 and that the same be enforced for some more years in order to completely weed out age tempering by government employees.”

With regard to the qualifying years of service for promotion in various categories of the state government departments, the representation informed that “O.M No.AR-3/Gen174/2007 (pt) dated May 18 2012, issued by the Government of Nagaland is defective.” It lamented that “only certain employees are benefited whereas many are denied promotion in-spite of available vacancies.” It urged the Nagaland government to revoke the said OM and relax the length of service in between two different grade post for promotion cases of state government employees in order to maintain parity.

The representation further stated that the 6th ROP, which should have been affected from January 1, 2006 was not implemented on timebytheNagalandgovernment.ItinformedthatCANSSEA was compelled to intervene for implementation of the 6th ROP in 2010. Referring to the MoU dated June 29, 2010 (a copy of which was enclosed with the memo), it requested the government to ensure implementation of the 7th ROP at par and effective date & year of the Central Services Employees 7th ROP.

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Pangti Village Council receives RBS Earth Heroes Awards

Pangti, november 5 (mexn): The Pangti Village Council has received the Royal Bank of Scotland Earth Heroes Awards 2014 in the RBS 'Save The Species' Award category.

The award has been given away by Union Minister of Environment and Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadkar to Ronchamo Shitiri, Chairman Pangti Village Council and M Lokeswara Rao Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of the Forest Force on November 4 at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) New Delhi.

Pangti village elders R. Obemomo Jami, Head Union Minister of Environment & Forests and climate change Prakash Javedkar giving away Gaon Bura of Pangti Village, award to Ronchamo Shitiri.

Nribemo Lotha, Member vative model to stop the of time due to the efforts The jury includes exof Pangti Village Amur Falkilling and conserve the of Pangti Village Council. perts from the field of con Committee, Y. PhyosAmur Falcon by working The jury, while recom- conservation, bio-diverao Jami, Member of Pangti cohesively with the For- mending Pangti Village sity, science, government, Village Amur Falcon Comest Department, local Council for the awards, media, The Royal Bank mittee and Chumdemo Police and Civilians. observed that the protec- of Scotland N.V, National Ngullie and Obed Bohovi Swu Forest Officer were • Rather than forceful con- tion of Amur Falcon, Falco Biodiversity Authority and servation measures, ef- amurensis during its mi- the Bombay Natural Hispresent during award cerforts were made to make gratory halt in Nagaland is tory Society. The jury will emony. The Award carries people understand one of the most outstand- evaluate the nominations a citation and a cash award about the importance ing conservation success- and select a finalist for each of Rs.1,50,000. of conservation and co- es. They stated that it is the award. operation sought so that outcome of the concerted M Lokeswara Rao, Pangti Village Council rea long term conservation efforts of its key stakehold- Principal Chief Conservaceived the award under process is initiated. ers that includes political tor of Forests and Head of ‘Save the Species category’ • Arrival and roosting of leadership, Government the Forests has congratufor the following reasons: • Leading innovative and the Amur Falcon is a of Nagaland and Nagaland lated and all the villagers of spectacular phenom- Forest Department, the Pangti village community extensive efforts to proenon that will be wit- people of Nagaland in sev- for getting the Royal Bank tect the Amur Falcon. nessed for a long period eral villages, organization. of Scotland Earth Heroes • Implementing an innoC M Y K

Award 2014 in the RBS Save The Species Award Category. He added in a press release that, “This award is in recognition of the tremendous and exemplary contribution of all the people of Pangti this award will boost up the conservation efforts of flora and fauna by the communities in different villages in Nagaland.”

Earlier, on November 3, RBS has arranged meet the press where Chairman Pangti village council and PCCF and HOFF interacted with press. RBS has institutionalized the RBS ‘Earth Heroes’ Awards from 2011 to recognize and honour individuals and institutions who work exceptionally hard to preserve and protect our critical eco-systems. The RBS Foundation India, as a not-for-profit entity of RBS is actively supporting conservation by providing sustainable livelihoods to forest dependent communities especially in the ecologically fragile landscapes and other locations in the country. The livelihood projects are helping poor households enhance their incomes from alternative sources of livelihoods, undertake natural resource management and thereby pave way for a constructive relationship between communities and efforts towards conservation.

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Adinno Phizo pays homage to forgotten freedom fighter

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Adinno Phizo laying a flower wreath at the grave of Visar Angami.

Eric Miachieo Jakhama | November 5

Naga National Council (NNC) President Adinno Phizo today paid homage to one of the forgotten pioneers of the Naga freedom movement, late Visar Viswentso Angami, the third president of the NNC, at his grave at Jakhama village, which is currently in the process of being converted into a monument in memory of the late freedom fighter.

After laying a floral wreath, Adinno Phizo, accompanied by her colleagues, paid a visit to the home of the sole surviving nephew of Visar, Kevilezho

Viswentso, where she had interactions with leaders and elders from the village.

During the interactions, the villagers reminded Adinno about the contributions of late Visar in the Naga freedom struggle and how his name has become almost forgotten.

Visar Viswentso Angami had served as the NNC President just before the legendary A. Z Phizo, father of Adinno.

Meanwhile, works are underway by the Jakhama village council to convert the non-descript and decrepit grave of the late freedom fighter into a monument where a huge

monolith will replace the existing headstone.

Later, addressing a meeting of the Angami Regional Council of the NNC at the Jakhama ground, Ms Phizo said the desire of the people is peace with honour and advised the people to choose the right path so that we are subdued. Emphasising that the most important agenda of the Nagas is to ensure the survival of our race, she called upon the Nagas to progress and exist as a distinct people in this fast-changing world.

Gen.(Retd) Viyalie Metha, Kedahge, FGN and other noted Naga leaders also addressed the gathering.

‘Convert talent in positive energy’ Employment Guarantee Day observed at Jakhama Jakhama, november 5 (DiPr): Rozgar Diwas (Employment guarantee day) Mahatma Gandhi National Guarantee scheme programme was held at Jakhama RD Block on November 4 at BDO Jakhama office premises with Project Director, RD Kohima, Kevipodi as the speaker.

Project Director in his speech said that VDB Secretaries, VCCs, VDB women were like drivers and

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handymen who are going to carryout development activities in the villages.

They should have proper planning, set a target and should be income generating and planning should be done according to the availability of resources. He also advised the village leaders to maintain proper records, put up signboards where development activities are taken up. He said that out of 100% fund allotted 25% and 20% are reserved for women and

youths respectively. He called upon all the leaders to utilize funds judiciously for any developmental activities and help the department in forging ahead.

BDO Jakhama, Khovi Thaprü said that 1st Tuesday of every month would be observed as Rozgar Diwas day in every village from now on and called upon the village VCCs & VDBs to be proactive and act actively so as to observe the day meaningfully. Ev-

ery job card holder should register their names and at least 20% of job card holders should come as participants during Rozgar Diwas day.

He also advised the VDBs and VCCs to print out sufficient application forms for the public distribution.

BDO also highlighted the aims and objectives of MGNREGA. The programme was attended by more than 70 leaders from 12 villages under Southern Angami Area.

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Entrepreneurship cum skill development prog on food processing underway

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Merentoshi Jamir addressing ANCSU sport meet-cum-music fest in Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

DimaPUr, november 5 (mexn): Merentoshi Jamir, advisor, SIRD & Chairman NSMDC has encouraged the youth of the state to convert talents in positive energy and contribute to the society.

Addressing the inaugural function of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) inter-college sports meet-cum-music fest at Don Bosco Higher

Secondary School, Dimapur on Wednesday, Merentoshi said that the youth should voice out against the wrong things in society and also suggest measures on what should be done. He said the fact that the youth comprise about 60% of the population in the country spoke about the amount of contribution that can be made by them.

He urged the students

to foster unity and strength during such programmes of sports and music. Stating that being in college was a decisive stage, he advised the students to take a conscious decision for their future.

Naga Students’ Federation, Speaker, Jollyson also spoke briefly at the programme. Altogether, 16 colleges are participating in the event.

kohima, november 5 (mexn): Six-week entrepreneurship cum skill development programme on food processing started at Little Flower Women Empowerment Centre (LFS Kohima) with the joint venture of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Dimapur, NYK Kohima and LFWEC Kohima.

A total of 31 women participants attend the programme. The resource persons are Diana Kuotsu and Mabel Gothorp, Adaphro Rosemary, Bank and Financial institutes, DIC, KVK Entrepreneurs.

John Makhabo DYC, NYK, Kohima will animate the training sessions.

In the inaugural session, Pushpala FMA welcomed the officials and the participants. She also gave a brief account of LFWEC where young women who are school dropouts are helped to acquire skills for their livelihood by way of tailoring, embroidery, basic in computer, soft toy

Participants and others during the inaugural of the six-week entrepreneurship cum skill development programme on food processing at Little Flower Women Empowerment Centre (LFS Kohima).

making, gardening, spoken English, cooking etc are been imparted to the trainees. She stated that since the commencement of the training centre in 2010, it gave skills trainings to 210 young girls where the course is one-year period.

The official from MSME Govindaraj, Asst Director, MSME, Dimapur spoke on the need of building

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.

So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.”

Romans 14:8

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We the family of Lt.Rev.Lhousuohie Yashü of Dihoma Village would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each Individual, Churches, Organisations, Neighbours, Friends and well-wishers from far and near who stood by us physically, morally ,financially, materially and in prayers support during the sickness and at the sad demise of our beloved father on 23rd Oct.2014.

We regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually but it is our humble prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren & Relatives.

skills to develop Micro and medium enterprises to cater the high demand of big companies. He also gave success stories of TVS Company, which was building only a part for supply to the company, but latter on it ventured out into a big company and as of now it has many TVS industries in various parts of the country. He also cited Nir-

ma soap company which got started with a working capital of Rs. 300/- only and it has become multi-crore company. He exhorted the participants to start small enterprise to roll out into big companies.

The master trainer, Diana Kuotsu stated to the trainees that food processing is the transformation of raw ingredients by physi-

cal or chemical means into food or food into other forms. Food processing reduces poverty among villagers and saves food from wastage and spoil of perishable products. She also reiterated that Food Processing Enterprises is significant for reducing unemployment.

Food has become a high profit industry by reason of the scope it offers for value addition.

District Youth Coordinator, John Makhabo exhorted the participants to explore the locally available resources to capitalize the market. He said that we have many local products with value addition we can market it to the whole world as our products are usually organic. He called upon the youth to be job creators and not to be job seekers.

The programme got started with opening prayer led by Mabel FMA, welcome song was sang by the participants and vote of thanks was given by Adaphro Rose Mary FMA.

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Chief Medical Office Peren conducts review meeting Peren, november 5 (mexn): The Chief Medical Office, Peren district under the chairmanship of Dr. Tiala, Dy CMO, Peren held district review meeting on November 5 at IDSP Conference Hall, Chief Medical Office, Peren.

District programme officers, medical officers and health workers, attended the meeting. Pezanguno Celine Secii, District Media Officer Peren in a press release stated that at the outset, Dy CMO welcomed and expressed her appreciation to all the members for attending the monthly meeting.

Dr. Tiala further contributed urging the concerned health workers and medical officers to conduct, monitor and supervise VHND regularly. She reiterated about the action to be taken for absentees during the review meeting and it was decided that instead of withholding the

Dr. Dennis Gynaecologist Athibung PHC presenting power point during the review meeting held at Peren District on November 5.

pay, fine would be charged per Health Unit.

Dr. Tiala and Dr. Khrielasanuo, DPO RCH/UIP discuss about the HMIS reporting -comparative analysis for the month of Sept & Oct 2014. They also urged the health workers to cross check their reports and that most of the health unit’s reports performance

are degrading rather than improving. It was also decided that training would be given on Partograph for Health Workers by Dr. Dennis in the next review meeting. Dy. CMO also informed that Village Health Committee Conference would be held on November 27.

Dr. Dennis H Chingpen, Gynaecologist, Athibung PHC gave a power point presentation on Obstructed Labour-Risk and Management. He highlighted that obstructed labour is one of the cause of increase maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in developing countries. its causes, effects on the mother, prevention, antenatal detection of high risk factors, intranatal, signs of uterine rupture in obstructed labor, principles of management, method of relieving obstruction. He stressed on how to identify and diagnosed obstructed labor and early referral.

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When Operation Bluebird struck terror Senapati, november 5 (HinduStan timeS): Pius Varay ducks instinctively whenever a child pops an empty Tetra Pak carton or a motorcycle misfires.

The sound is a traumatic reminder of soldiers firing in his village of Oinam in Manipur 27 years ago.

The 36-year-old Varay may be the youngest survivor of Operation Bluebird, a brutal counterinsurgency operation launched by paramilitary soldiers in July 1987, but the scars still remain.

According to an Amnesty International report, many men were maimed, tortured and women raped between July and October 1987 after the military launched the operation following an attack

by National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) rebels on Assam Rifles’ Oinam outpost. The rebels killed nine soldiers and escaped with 150 guns and 125,000 rounds of ammunition.

Operation Bluebird was os-

tensibly aimed at catching the rebels and recovering the firearms. But activists say the soldiers ended up exacting revenge on the innocent people of Oinam and 35 surrounding villages for more than three months. The villagers were also forced to make food for the soldiers for 65 days until they exhausted their granaries.

As a nine-year-old student of Oinam Government High School, Pius was spared the torture of what activists call the “Holocaust” of India. But security forces made him talk because he was among those the rebels ordered to carry the stolen guns to a forest hideout.

“Most of us sang, but the rebels shifted before the Assam Rifles located their camp. The officers just did not believe we could cover the distance across a harsh terrain and return home in a night. We had it bad both ways,” Pius says.

Nearly three decades on, many people in Oinam are still struggling to cope with the trauma of one of the darkest episodes in the revolt-hit state’s history.

Several villages were turned into virtual prisons during this period as security forces, armed with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958, allegedly unleashed a reign of terror in the area.

Human rights activist Irom Sharmila has been on indefinite fast for 14 years to demand the repeal of the archaic law, which gives security forces wide powers to shoot-at-sight, search and detain anyone suspected to be involved in the armed revolt in Manipur. The military says the law is necessary for it to tackle insurgency.

Church deacon Ngaoni Shangne, now 94, says the Amnesty report understates what happened in Oinam in Senapati district, 95km north of the state

capital Imphal. The village was hit by the Japanese invasion during World War 2 and Shangne, who the Japanese used as a porter, thought the worst was over when the war ended.

He was wrong. He recalls the second horror saying, “We were made to carry 50-kg loads from one village to the other without food or water. Some men were hung upside down and thrashed while women were buried up to their necks. Pregnant women, kicked and abused, were made to deliver in the field as the soldiers watched.”

Some village headmen were blindfolded and executed with their hands tied behind their backs. Naga rights groups put the number of deaths at 27 but the official figure was 15.

Oinam was made out of bounds for local authorities too.

Manipur chief minister Rishang Keishing wrote of how excesses

Tuki: Strictly Four NSCN(IM) cadres killed in encounters monitor flagship guwaHati, november 5 (pti): tants were active in areas around MalanNSCN (IM) cadres were killed in gpa village in the district, they said the reprogrammes Four separate encounters with Assam Rifles coveries include two AK series rifles and itanagar, november 5 (pti): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Wednesday asked top ranking officers to strictly monitor implementation of all state government flagship programmes as per guidelines in an impartial and transparent manner.

Attending a day-long workshop Emerging Challenges in Governance in Arunachal Pradesh for field-level IAS officers, he said government welfare schemes depend solely on the administrative officers for implementation.

Civil servants are the backbone of the government. While the political class forms policies, they implement these at the ground level. Therefore, the quality of governance depends on their capacity, sincerity and honesty, Tuki said and asked them to understand the socio-cultural aspect of the people to improve quality in service delivery.

Referring to transparency and accountability, he said Arunachal government has already enacted the Lokayukta Act 2014 which would not only curb the menace of corruption but also maintain accountability in delivery of public service.

Arunachal Pradesh, he said, was the only state in the northeast to take such bold step even as it implemented the provisions of Right to Information Act 2005 and Citizens Charter to ensure transparency in public services, he said.

The government is determined to provide fixed and secure tenure to officers performing efficiently. The state has already constituted Civil Services Board (CSB) for officers of Indian Forest Service this year. The board has started functioning and is mandated to provide fixed two year tenure to the officers in normal circumstances.

The CSB for IPS officers is already functioning and now the government is actively considering constitution of CSB for IAS officers.

"I have also given instructions to concerned departments to ensure timely filling up of annual performance appraisal report (APAR) of civil servants so that no one is deprived of their legitimate claim to further promotion in higher grade," Tuki said adding the SPARROW project of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Training had been fully implemented.

and the police in Dima Hasao district and arms recovered from them, Defence sources said today.

The Assam Rifles in an operation yesterday near village Robi Basti, four km from Haflong, engaged in an encounter resulting in the death of three NSCN (IM) cadres, the sources said. Stating the mili-

'Make offences against victims of witch hunting cognisable' guwaHati, november 5 (pti): The Gauhati High Court today directed the Assam government to make offences committed against victims of witch hunting as cognisable and special along with other provisions of IPC. A division bench comprising Chief Justice (Acting) K Shreedhar Rao and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said the

provisions should be such that the police are aware of them and arrest all witch doctors who incite such offence. They should be tried for abetment and arrested.

Asking the government to tackle such offenders seriously, the court also said that the steps taken by the state till date have not prevented killings in the name of witch hunting. It asked Home Secretary G D

Tripathi to apprise the steps taken to control the menace of witch hunting in the state.

Tripathy assured the court that the killings in the name of witch hunting would be included in the proposed new legislation Assam Organised Crime Act, which will be shortly given effect to. The next date for hearing of the case was fixed for December 6.

DU college to build hostel for northeast women new delHi, november 5 (pti): Delhi University's Kalindi College is constructing a double storied 250-bedded hostel meant for girl students belonging to the northeastern states. "Realising the security and safety concerns of the students from northeast, we decided to have a separate hostel for them so they do not have to hunt for accommodation outside," Dinabandhu Sahoo, Governing Body (GB) Chairman said while laying the foundation stone.

The hostel is expected to be operational from the 2016 session. While it is meant exclusively for students and teachers from northeast, the rooms remaining vacant would be available to other students.

Over 3,500 students are en-

rolled in various undergraduate courses offered by the women's college. There is no other hostel available on campus for the students yet.

"The fee would be subsidised so the students can avail the facilities at much cheaper rate than private accommodations. There will also be facility for the guests to stay on campus when they are visiting the students," Sahoo said. For the estimated 1.8 lakh students enrolled with DU, altogether there are only about 9,000 seats available in its hostels for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. While there is 100-seater hostel for northeastern women situated in the varsity's North campus, Kalindi will be the first offcampus college of the varsity to have the facility.

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A team of cardiologists from NEIGRIHMS headed by Doctor Amit Malviya will be visiting

Mokokchung Civil Hospital on 7th November, 2014 and Zion Hospital, Dimapur on 8th November, 2014.

Time:9 AM onwards at Mokokchung Civil Hospital 3 PM onwards at Zion Hospital, Dimapur

fREE pacemaker clinic and all cardiac patients may approach on the above mentioned date and time.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

STATE BOARD OF TEACHER EDUCATION NAGALAND, KOHIMA

No.SCERT/SBTE/PSTE/ADVT/1/2010-11/892 Dated Kohima the 5th Nov 2104

INFORMATION This is to inform all the repeaters of the 2 year D.Ed-Inservice and 2nd and 4th semester D.EdPreservice that the back paper examination will be held from 26th November to 4th December 2014.Therefore they are requested to report to the respective DIET centre and fill up the back paper form.

(VIPRALHOU KESIEZIE) Director SCERT, Nagaland, Kohima

Judicial remand of six arrested in Burdwan blast case extended mumbai, november 5 (pti): The judicial custody of the six persons arrested from Assam's Barpeta district for alleged involvement in the October two Burdwan blast in West Bengal was today extended by a further 14 days.

They were produced in the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court which remanded them to judicial custody for another 14 days.

They are father-son duo of Shiraj Ali Khan and Shaikhul Islam, Rafikul Islam, Jahuruddin, Golam Osmani and Sarbesh Ali, all residents of different villages in Barpeta district.

The six, arrested on October 10, are allegedly part of a module operating under the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, according to preliminary investigation.

Shaikhul Islam alias Abdulla is allegedly a key member of the module operating in Assam and an associate of Shakil Ahmed alias Shamin, a JMB activist who died in the Burdwan blast.

Shaikhul had been trained in Jihad in Simulia Madrassa in Burdwan district of West Bengal and also in another Madrassa in Murshidabad, a police

OFFICE OF THE

PANCHAYAT LOWER CHANDMARI COLONY KOHIMA: NAGALAND

PLCC lauds P.H. E. D The Panchayat Lower Chandmari Colony express our profound gratitude to Chief Engineer P.H.E, Executive Engineer, S.D.O & J.E Urban Division P.H.E Kohima for their noble service to the colony by fitting of new water pipe line at Lower Chandmari, as our colony has been facing acute water scarcity since its inception. Further our colony look forward and pray that concern department will bring more facilities to the consumer in the state capital and solve the problem.

Chairman, PLCC

73 rounds of ammunition.

In another operation near village Kopilo, the day before, on the junction of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, the sources said. In the encounter one was killed and an AK-47 rifle, one Lathod rifle, one hand grenade and over 100 rounds of ammunition were recovered from him.

committed by Assam Rifles paralysed the civil administration in a September 1987 letter to Union home minister Buta Singh. “The deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police were wrongfully confined, humiliated and prevented from discharging their official duties by the security forces,” he said.

The legal fight to bring the Assam Rifles personnel to book ended in March 1992 without the final hearing. One of the judges was transferred after recording thousands of pages of arguments from the petitioners and Assam Rifles. He has not been replaced, nor has the date of the next hearing been set in these 27 years.

“If this country cannot provide justice, God will,” says 57-year-old Bluebird survivor Shangvao Rong. “They (the soldiers) will die too, hopefully not like the way they made our brothers and sisters die.”

Dimapur

Secretary, PLCC

spokesman claimed. ments, foreign coins and lakh reward to anyone givInstructions had been bank passbooks. ing information on Alom allegedly given to Shaikhul NIA has declared a Rs 5 leading to his arrest. to look for potential Muslim youths to be motivated for Jihad.

Government of Nagaland Deceased Shakil State Child Protection Society Ahmed had visited BarpeDepartment of Social Welfare ta on several occasions unNagaland, Kohima der the cover of conducting No SW/SCPS/NGO-CCI/2011- 787 Dated 03 November '2014 garment business for motivating the youths for terrorNOTIfICATION ism, the spokesman said.

In compliance to the Section 34 (3) of the Juvenile Justice Care An investigation was on and Protection Act 2000 and upon the directive of the Ministry of to identify members of the Woman and Child Development, New Delhi, the undersigned is please to inform all the Child care institutions run by Government module and to arrest them, or Non Government organisations providing institutional care for he said. children in need of care and protection to get registration under Meanwhile, NIA has the State Child Protection Society Nagaland, Kohima. Failing searched the house of to comply, the due process of the above referred section, the institution shall be treated as illegal. abs conding Sahanur Alom alias Doctor, one For registration, forms are available at the Office of the State Child Protection Society Nagaland; near SP Kohima Office, of the main accused in Officers Hill Kohima Nagaland. For further information kindly the Burdwan blast case, contact us in scpsnagaland@gmail.com in Barpeta district and Secretary Dept. of Social Welfare seized illegal docuChairman, State Child Protection Society Nagaland, Kohima

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TUENSANG :: NAGALAND

ADVERTISEMENT NO. NO.EST/DLRB/14-15/1859

Dated, Tuensang the 1st November 2014.

Applications in plain paper are invited for filling up the following vacancies under the establishment of Deputy Commissioner Tuensang district in the manner prescribed below.

Item No. 1 15 posts of LDA-cum-Computer Assistant Item No.2 11 posts of Driver Item No.3 29 posts of DB Item No.4 6 posts of Peon Item No.5 8 posts of Dak Runner Item No.6 6 posts of Chowkidar-cum-Sweeper Item No.7 2 posts of Sweeper Qualification: Item No.1 - 10+2 in any discipline including Divinity from a recognized university.

Age as on 30/11/14 For Item No. 1,2, & 3 minimum 21 and maximum 30 For Item No.4,5,6, & 7 minimum 18 and maximum 35 All vacancies in the district shall be filled up on 50:50 basis between the in-service and fresh candidates.

Note : 1. The upper age is relaxable by :(a) 5(Five) years for SC/ST candidates. (b) Age relaxation for serving Govt Employees shall be allowed the equal no. of years they are in service subject to a maximum of 5(years) (c) The upper Age limit for physically handicapped persons will be relaxable by another 10(ten) years.

All posts are reserved for indigenous inhabitants of Tuensang district.

The last date for submission of application is 30th November 2014. No applications shall be entertained after 30th November 2014.

The date and venue of examination will be intimated later.

Sd/- T.MHABEMO YANTHAN Deputy Commissioner Tuensang

BATTLE OF THE BANDS Hillspraise Music Society & Zip Sound Appreciates

Hillspraise Music Society and Zip Sound would like to take this opportunity to express heartfelt gratitude to all well-wishers and associates for the support rendered during the planning, managing and organizing of the Battle of the Bands contest. The success of the event was all a result of the unceasing help received from them.

Though we cannot mention in person all the individuals, we would like to cite certain names and firms, who generously came forward with help either in cash or in kind.

Our special thanks go out to: MLA Dr. Imtiwapang Aier, who was kind enough to spare time to grace the event as the Chief Guest, His support and no less encouraging words will be remembered and will continue to inspire the youth of Nagaland, in particular the performers, who partook in the contest. His generous contribution of Rs. 50, 000 will greatly benefit the growth of the Battle of the Bands.

Mr. Khriehu Liezietsu, Advisor, Music Task Force, for the support rendered by him to organize the event. The Honourable Parliamentary Secretary has committed a financial package of Rs. 50,000/- towards the Battle of the Bands contest for which the organizers will remain ever grateful.

The sponsors – Mr. M. Sangtam, Director of Employment and Craftsmen Training, Kohima; Furtados, Crescendo, Encore, Modicare, and Fine Windows Company.

And our heartfelt appreciation to Mr. Mongkum Jamir, Managing Director of Symbios Pvt Ltd; The Garden, Metal Gear, Tribes Music Media Lab, DUDA Guest House, Kohima; last but not the least the judges and the host of the Grand Finale, Mr. Alo Wanth.

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Rather Reviving To Relive The Past

e have been continuously disturbed by violent christs and preferable state-of-the-art lucifers. This is the worst and the dirtiest hand eating the Nagas’ heart out and bleeding white today. We profess Christ’s religion and worship different gods. This creates what we are not we dislike to be. We blame: Politics and many others. Yes, they have their share of spoil in a way and others, benefit of advertising indulgences to replace enduring reality they think as obstacles to their own ambition and convenience as well.

Some judgment, consciously --- unconsciously too --- often interferes to agitate our reasoning support; and when modern political thoughts decorated with evangelical facades, the coalition gains ground and converts original Naga into a mix of evangelical-democracy. Results are not redemptive; they are, rather, confusing. Too abrupt this shift has smeared the original beauty! We are where we did not attempt to land up.

This has upset virtue and indigenous elements that always stake practical decision of the past. Doesn’t this unbridled rush running the society amount to subduing what used to be premium, and overwhelm to discard possession of precious values past?

The grossness of majority and institutionalizing church and organized structure inside Naga’s kitchen is as good as political repression and active invasion against docile and yet intrinsic, endemic elements in Naga erstwhile Village Republic. This new persuasion garbed with outer linen often --- with phenomenal tendency --- crowns itself enlightened and the old remnant, backward and obsolete. The former makes lot of sounds

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That ‘old Naga’ was often swayed by temptation to align with the new-found faith and its godly activities amidst thrills, without yet denouncing creation-centered and belief of realness of the Prime Mover, some of course, later to backslide and renew with the old-age die-hard; his conscious being sidestepping between half-believed and yet unwilling spirit faltering: “This is entirely new experiment,” he might have softly spoken to himself. He has lived his punishing moments owing to inaction out of irresolution. His worry multiplied as the new message haphazardly toppling resistance put up, tilting steadily and yet unstoppably, toward this new world order. He sometimes switched from Feast of Merit, Morung culture to Esther Sunday and Good Friday.

“Will religious democracy prevail over my conscience?” His elements seem escaping from his passionate self still wedded with his old in search of solace.

His deep anxiety aged as he advanced toward his autumn. “This growth will surely dominate,” he used to worry. The worry still bears worry and concern.

Fused with modern political thoughts with unauthentic evangelical interpretation has to do with Naga political messiness with crimson flash flood: result of welfare system and half-cooked doctrine. This does not mean that God was not on Naga’s side. Is God still there leading this jeremiad sojourn? Young United States of America did leap like ‘leopard’ despite its turbulent past, won two fights against erstwhile colonial empire in 25-year time because the Divine Hand was over those seven families, those that boarded their

for the latter to change for new lease.

And the ‘unenlightened’ convert, name registered in the church book having taken baptismal class, is now privileged decent Christian burial having lived unwise, total Christ-deficient life. Whether the ‘eternal soul’ or, ‘living-breathe’ to the red clay is in heaven, hell or purgatory --- personally honest I am, may be alone with pricked, uncomfortable conscience --- is opaque. But the matter has to deal with realness of Heaven, plan of redemption, crucified Savior, resurrection and second coming. If He comes to call those souls in purgatory and hell, that’s gospel; otherwise, we have reason to contradict ‘imperishable soul’ ascending yonder the day many Adams go down to the foursquare ground and the soul returning with the second coming to wake up the dust: “Dust thou art and unto dust shall thou return; now awake and let us go” Go where? The skepticism begets potential to turn cult in practice Christendom throughout for want of Bible-based truth. What and who can ever lure the erring, world-bound soul to transform and embrace the reality of existence of Heaven we have talked about with much fervor? How real is heaven? Is our idea bringing down heaven and the world new earth lived here instead of being a pilgrim here? World and heaven are obstinate opponents for people who follow Christ’s life style except that the world faithfully lived as He recommended may increase our thirst for realness of heaven if such wonderful world we have is nothing but just foot mat of His.

May Flower (the raft) and dared the unforgiving Atlantic to escape persecution from the other shore. Naga and America are not comparable except that their question of ‘God first’, of both, is. The same Mighty Hand that calmed the Atlantic did no lesser against both Nagas’ environment fury as well as human wrath. With this boisterous new Front, seriousness and sanctity of old institutions have been phased out and, in course of time, value-bearing practices were denounced to be supplanted by ‘spiritual democracy’ and unsanctioned revelries, while depravity and fiery preaching not thinning till date. Sounds do not always carry the good news: “all law breakers can now go to new and an unending life with simple and yet rational condition – come away from old and carnal heart here. Process of shedding away the old nature is possible. The promise is guaranteed in Him through humanity and, very personal. That should have been the progress right from the start, exemplified individual life unshakably and always motivated by love other than doctrine.

That did not happen. The Vital Link has been talked out and missing in person. We see today hundred fold law breaks than before the doctrine was first preached. Those pioneers brought the key to open knowledge of hygiene and diseases, the larger world and how other peoples live organized for all common good. Very good! But never enough goodness complete in itself. We do regret the old Naga was abruptly cut short of by mixture of heavenly worldliness. We

On LPG distribution and online booking

ooking and getting refilled LPG cylinder is a stressful job indeed. To put it it straight, first of all every consumer should know that they are entitled to get 12 LPG cylinder of 14.2 kg in a year at a subsidized rate(Rs.455 in kohima).

In February 2014 Government of India announced that every consumer will be entitled to get 1 (one) cylinder per month and again in August 2014 Govt. decided that consumer can avail their quota of 12 cylinder anytime of the year. If they are in need of additional cylinder after availing their quota of 12, they can purchase at the market price. Government knows well that LPG being the most basic necessity good, is making every effort to make it available at a cheaper price to every household.

The responsibility now lies with the Distributers and the supplying company to ensure that every consumer

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gets their rightful annual quota as per government of India guidelines.

In urban areas like Kohima where the only means of running the kitchen in through cooking gas, timely delivery , fair distribution and ensuring every consumer quota of 12 cylinder in a year is of outmost importance. For this year 2014, so far Yhome Gas Agency (Distributer) has issued to me only 4 (four) cylinder on the 11.02.2014, 19.4.2014, 18.7.2014 and 11.9.2014.why only 4 cylinder in 10 months? Let me remind that every costumer is entitled at least 1(one) cylinder per month. Then where is my remaining quota of 6 cylinder? can I avail it anytime of the year as per Government guidelines.

This kind of discriminatory and unfair distribution of government subsidized good like LPG is uncalled for.

The recent introduction of Online booking system has made the

situation even worse. It has brought so much inconvenience to the costumers. As per the new system I booked online on 30.9.2014 and now after more than 33 days after booking I haven’t received any message for gas delivery. On the 20th October 2014, I enquire at the agency office (Yhome Gas Agency) and they advised me to lodge a complaint at INDANE office through the toll free number. Accordingly I lodge a complaint and they said that they will reply me back after 6 days. Even after 6 days when I didn’t receive any message, I called up again, this time they politely informed me that they would look to it urgently. Till now I haven’t received any delivery message. Why should it take more than a month when we ought to get at least 1(one) cylinder in a month?

I am not an exception here, many people are also complaining that

they have not receive any message more than a month after booking.

What kind of booking system is this?

INDANE should explain. Many people are complaining about the implementation of this new online booking system. The old system of manual booking should be immediately brought back for public convenience. Though the intention is good, we have a long way to go to implement such kind of service where half of our population is eilliterates.

Since this is of outmost public importance, the Distributers and the supplying company is requested to take urgent remedial measures and make the service more public friendly and give better service for the welfare of the general public.

P. Abel Tsopoe Lower Bayavu, Kohima

no-other-choice passing phase of time that cared the least about tribal feelings with blend of ambitious politicking, church group majority. Overwhelming was the unusual sense of oneness that the invaders were often galvanized to adopting the maximum, forcing out beasts available in human. The bastion of these ‘unmanageable savages’ as always proscribed by the other, was the fact that there was no pact or agreement to stand on the way between the fiercely territorial forest people as ‘unconquered Sovereign Village Republic’ and voluntary Unions. There is no ground for coercion or rhetoric to further claim established reason.

This must be rectified sooner or later.

The preceding sequences are still visible: The then Naga Club did sired the idea of better societal benefit and enhanced responsibility and progress under organized structure and, of course, with assurance of absolute freedom from interference without.

It envisioned the trust of freer Naga than discrimination and rejection amid prejudiced and over-arched mindset that could never ensure future security necessity and fair political governance critically based on republicanism. There was no other better option than: “Leave as alone as in our ancient times.” Here we do share a common hope along with uncommon dreams today. This could be, I dare guess, the first step to our Journey of Common Hope, let alone the sounds of freedom blended with the songs of salvation and the blare of horns to give sites for front pew. Nothing can hold all of us back except pride and selfishness, to remarry our home sweet Naga Hills!

are truly its by-products. Religious tolerance or deafening blow of trumpet can never retain God in religious institutions. God must be lived by individuals who have their leader elect leading, self denounced and absolute obedience singing. Who do we see in us: devil or Christ? The devil is not a stupid tyrant. He is never a fool and signs compromise to give effect when it comes to question of the ultimate: eternal damnation or endless life. He was once a morning star. His appearance still casts doubts and constantly upsets and harasses truth-believing souls. It is very difficult for us to distinguish our professed ‘princes of peace’ from this master of deception. Either one of the two must occupy and dwell to do the judgment, not on face show. Nagas’ camps of conflict have the same flags with fivepronged-star and majestic rainbow splashed east-west across with heavenly blue background, an awesome show of firmament beyond where our eternal Home is promised. Both have garnered abundant supporters mostly suffering night blindness while most of the official duties are performed under the hood of night.

Are we against Christ and free salvation He gives? Never! The old Naga turned head and looked his shoulder.

He no longer suffers from premature articulation. Hindsight has had the better of him now. He wants to reintroduce the discard. He will surely sell his idea over again.

Old Naga’s guest for justice and peace was not motivated by thirst for leadership. It was unified, spontaneous and unstructured response from

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One In A Hundred?

t was on 3rd November at around 4:00 PM that I received a call on my phone from an unlisted mobile number. At first, I hesitated to respond the call, but then, with the mobile network playing spoilsport the call was cut short after only two (2) rings. Again, the same unlisted number called back, and got disconnected after a single ring. Curiosity got the better of me. So I called the unlisted number. To my surprise, the voice of a girl at the other end asked me if I had lost any paper/documents. To which I replied that I had lost my wallet with documents sometime back.

In fact, I had already filed FIR at the North Police Station on 16th September 2014, since no call was forthcoming about finding my wallet (wishful thinking?). Anyway, it so happened that on 3rd November, while young Ms. Keneiü Whuorie of

Meriema was returning home from the field, she chanced upon an old brown envelope which was folded and thrown by the roadside around Chiesema (the old envelope contained my lost PAN Card, EPIC, Driving License, Car Registration Card, ID Cards etc. while the wallet was missing). Well, young Ms. Keneiü Whuorie then took upon the burden of calling my number (found from my ID Cards) and also took the trouble of bringing me my lost documents back to me on 5th Nov. 2014 around 10:00 AM. She also declined and refused even a token reward I was to offer. Is she one in hundred? Thousand?

May the likes of Kenei Whuorie increase in our ever increasing dishonest society. Anyways, God bless us all!

Kopelo Krome, Kohima

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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Hindi teachers demand pending Hindi teachers’ agitation in salary; warns to boycott classes Mongkolemba enters 3rd day

pereN, November 5 (mexN): The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers’ Union (ANHTU), Peren unit has appealed to the Nagaland state government to release pending salaries up to October 2014 along with arrears of 6th Revision of Pay (RoP) at the earliest. “Aggrieved Hindi teachers have been facing all the hardships till date and performing their duties without salaries for many months,” ANHTU Peren unit president PK

Dimapur unit have asked the department concerned to release 6 months salaries along with pending arrears of 6th RoP on or before November 10. ANHTU President Vetovi Sumi and General Secretary Daniel H in a press note warned ANHTU Dimapur that the teachers would go unit appeals Stating that the Hindi for agitation and neither Teachers (2012-13 appoin- take classes nor conduct tees) are in “deep financial the fourth Quarterly Ascrisis and in miserable con- sessment Exam, for which, Hindi teachers agitate outside SDEO office in Mangkolemba. dition,” the Aggrieved Hin- the department concerned moKoKchuNg, No- 3 against non fulfillment has warned that if their dedi teachers and ANHTU would be responsible. vember 5 (Dipr): The of their demands by the mands are not fulfilled they agitation of the ‘Aggrieved Government to release six- will not declare the final Hindi Teachers’ under month pending salaries. quarter result and the agiMangkolemba sub–divi- 56 teachers under Mang- tation will continue. Their sion entered third day to- kolemba are participating demands also include regDimapur, Novem- of individuals and families. tinued those who accept Je- day, outside SDEO office. in the agitation at SDEO ular payment of salaries ber 5 (mexN): On the He added, “When we are in sus Christ as their personal The teachers launched the office, where the office re- and salary to be paid in the fifth day of Transforma- sin we are never at peace savior, the Holy Spirit will agitation on November mains locked. The Union 6th ROP pay scale. tion Crusade today at State but God has a special love live in them and will always Stadium, Dimapur, Rev. Dr. for us that is why he sent protect them. “God can heal N Paphino preached the his son Jesus Christ to die you so Love your God with all your heart and soul.” sermon. He spoke on how for our sins.”

Asserting that nobody Earlier, the Watchman God sent his son to die on the cross for “our” sin. He can love “us” as much as team led the congregation said when sin came into God, he reminded the con- in worship and Chubala the world, different kinds of gregation that Christ has re- Sangtam said the offeratory Kohima, November be mortgaged or sold be- ratio of farm power availproblem started and cruse deemed “us” from curse of prayer. Wati T Longchar led 5 (Dipr): District Agri- fore 6 (six) years from the ability. Any business model can be adopted for expandculture Office, Kohima has date of its establishment. started coming in the life the law. Rev. Paphino con- the programme.

According to the terms ing the reach of mechainvited young agriculture entrepreneurs of the dis- and conditions, the mutual nization through custom trict, having work experi- benefit between the farm- hiring centres. It would be ence in farm machineries ers and the Farm Machin- necessary to maintain, upand keen interest to uplift ery Banks stakeholder will grade the CHCs from time farming community, to ap- be maintained while op- to time. Only tested brands ply for setting up one Farm erating the Custom Hiring from the Farm Machinery Machinery Bank for Cus- Centre. The CHC should Training & Testing Institom Hiring Centre (CHC) have the capacity to cover tutes (FMTTIs) of desigwithin Kohima district. minimum area of 10 ha/ nated Institute from DAC The beneficiary’s share, day and at least 300 ha in should be used and proi.e., 60% of the project a cropping season. CHC curement for machines & cost, will be deposited to should be set up on specific equipments would be from the department which will crop based, cost based and the approved suppliers/ be released to the benefi- cluster based approach. manufactures. For further ciary according to the cost Selection of village/ town details, one can contact the Patkai Christian College band performing at the All Nagaland College Students’ Union ‘Inter norms. The established for setting up of custom Office of the DAO, Kohima College Music Fest’ held Wednesday night at Sakus Mission College, Dimapur, on the theme “Exploring hidden talent.” Six college bands took part in the music fest with Peren Govern- Farm Machinery Banks for hiring centres should be in during office hours on or Custom Hiring should not the area where there is low before November 7, 2014. ment College and Patkai Christian College emerging winner and runner-up respectively.

Luny Zeliang said in a press release. “Due to the prevailing situation, families of affected and govt. must ensure streaming of pay system in near future…,” the release added.

Fifth day of Transformation Crusade

Applications invited from young agriculture entrepreneurs

National seminar at “Young and Christian” music concert on Nov 7

Nagaland University Lumami, November 5 (Dipr): A national seminar will be held at Nagaland University, Lumami on the topic ‘Historicity, Cultural Diversity and Identities in Northeast India’ on November 11 and 12. Nagaland University (NU) and Indian Council of Social Science Research (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India), New Delhi are jointly funding the seminar organised by Tribal Research Centre and Department of Sociology, NU. The Northeast Region of India with its strategic geographical location, physiography, ecological setting and climatic conditions is home for more than 166 tribes and ethnic groups depicting their distinct structural, cultural and linguistic identities.

The region has had around 2000 km bordering with Bhutan, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh and connected with the rest of the country by a narrow stretch of 20 km in West Bengal which is also known as the ‘Chicken’s Neck’ Over the years, the northeast region has witnessed numerous issues ranging from infiltration of foreign nationals, land acquisition and the issues like history and preservation of identity and fight for separate nationhood.

The themes of the seminar are: “Theoretical framework on diversity and multiculturalism; Illegal Immigration and emerging issues; Historicity, land and identity formation; Revivalism and Demand for autonomy; Regional disparity and dynamics of development.”

Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): Shalom Bible Seminary is organizing the third edition of its annual “Young and Christian” music concert on November 7 at the Shalom Amphitheater in SechüZubza at 5:00 pm. The concert will feature wellknown Christian bands and performers, namely UDX, Visato Yhoshü, and

Shalom students. The Faith in Action Taekwondo Team will also make a special guest appearance at the event.

Shalom Bible Seminary Sechü-Zubza, Principal Sanyü Iralu has stated in a press release that the event is annually organized by Shalom to promote healthy interaction and recreation, especially for young peo-

ple, with the main idea that, “in an increasingly post modern world where treasured Christian values are apparently going ‘out of fashion,’ it is still very much okay to be ‘young’ and be a ‘Christian.’” This year, the event assumes more significance for the fact that Shalom is planning to launch an M. Div program in Youth Ministry and Family from

July, 2015, he added. “Recognizing the urgent need to refurbish our homes, families and our precious young people, Shalom plans to introduce this crucial ministry training at its beautiful campus in Sechü-Zubza.”

Various foodstuffs with wide range of tastes will be on offer at the venue. Everyone has been welcomed to attend the event.

Papers invited for Tetso College journal

Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): The Tetso Interdisciplinary Journal (ISSN 2319 - 2925) has invited papers and articles for its third edition. The journal is a peer reviewed annual publication of Tetso College, Dimapur that aims at providing an ideal platform for academicians, teachers, and research scholars to

publish research articles/ papers, critical summaries and literary theories, which will impart a comprehensive understanding of the issues raised in the respective papers, informed a press release received here.

Authors may submit research papers or manuscripts dealing with theoretical, methodological, empiri-

cal and application-related findings pertaining to areas of Social Sciences and Humanities, Commerce, and Sciences. The writings must be of original research and reflect quality scholarship.

According to the release, authors must follow the 7th Edition of the MLA Handbook while drafting their papers. The paper must range

from 2000-5000 words. An abstract of not more than 300 words must also be submitted. Last date of submitting papers - January 5, 2015; Acceptance Notification January 12, 2015; Printing of issue- February 2015 The papers may be emailed to: admin@tetsocollege.org. Call (0)8414805818 for queries.

Kisan Morcha highlights issues in agri sector

The Pungro Town District Administration and Police along with Yimchunger Women Organisation, Pungro Unit conducted a raid in shops/booze joints at Pungro Town on November 3.

During the raid, large quantities of local brew, yeast and IMFL were seized. The seized items were later destroyed in the presence of the Administration, DBs, Police, GBs, Adhoc Town Council members, YWO and Church elders after a debriefing by the ADC Pungro.

Longtho Police Station bids farewell to SDPO moKoKchuNg, November 5 (Dipr): A farewell programme for the outgoing SDPO of Mangkolemba, Biren Lotha was organized by the Longtho Police Station under Mangkolemba Sub Division at its office on November 4.

Biren Lotha thanked the

officer-in-charge and the jawans for their co-operation and sincerity during his short stay and further urged them to continue to work as a team and leave no stone unturned for the security of the public.

Me a n w h i l e, OC, Longtho, Nzanbemo Shiti-

ri shared his experience working with an “experienced and efficient officer” and thanked the outgoing SDPO. He further expressed gratitude for his help and assistance and applauded him for his achievement during his 2 years posting at Mangkolemba.

‘Concerted effort needed for clean election’ Our Correspondent Kohima | November 5

Parliamentary secretary for election & irrigation & flood control Y. Vikheho Swu today met Deputy Commissioners of all districts and election department here at the Commissioner’s Office and shared views and opinions to have a clean election in the State.

Swu reminded DCs about the recent seminar on

clean election conducted by the department, wherein it touched about the pledge card, churches to dedicate one service for clean election, poster campaign, short documentary film on clean election campaign etc.

The DCs and participants from YouthNet and Naga Blog felt that a concerted effort is needed to have a clean election and at the same time the need to have a clean electoral

roll. They also highlighted the need to educate the citizens and propagate a message that taking money during election is “sin.”

To make election cleaner, some suggested that voter slip should be half size of A4 paper.

The participants also opined that awareness campaign should be conducted at the grassroots level so as to sensitize the people on “One man one vote.”

Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): The BJP Kisan Morcha, Nagaland State unit held a meeting on November 1 at State BJP office with National Secretary, Kisan Morcha and Observer of Nagaland, Palit Kr Borah.

The meeting deliberated on various issues of centrally sponsored schemes and flagship programmes taking place in Nagaland under the Agri and allied departments and observed that Nagaland was “lagging far behind” compared to other states.

A press release from BJP Kisan Morcha Nagaland general secretary, Munthin Newmai, informed that the State Kisan Morcha requested the National Secretary to look into the matter and the latter assured that he will appraise the various problems with the Central Agriculture Minister soon. Borah also advised the State Kisan Morcha officials to obtain Right to Information (RTI) from the departments concerned

Mangkolemba SDPDB meeting held

moKoKchuNg, November 5 (Dipr): The Mangkolemba Sub Division Planning Development Board (SDPDB) meeting was held on November 5 at the Customary Court.

In the meeting, recognition of Mankolemba as a fully fledged township was discussed and the house agreed to pursue the matter with the Government. Mangkolemba, which is supposed to be under urban area is yet to get recognized as township and still remains neither urban nor rural area, hence there has not been any fund assistance from government.

Meanwhile, ADC Limawapang proposed to organize a mass social work to

commemorate the celebration of Statehood Day and to usher in the festive season on November 28 from 9:00 am -12:00 noon. The ADC reminded all HODs and staffs to take part during the social work without fail. He also informed there will be a meeting between the coal union and PWD department on November 11 at 11:00 am to discuss on the urgency of repairing the road at Longnak, stretching 5 km.

The next SDPDB meeting would be held on December 5. The ADC informed all HODs to attend the meeting without fail as work distribution for Republic Day would be discussed besides other agendas.

at the earliest. He also proposed to the Kisan Morcha officials to have meeting with the Union Agriculture Minister very shortly to discuss various problems and issues related to the farmers of Nagaland.

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MEx FILE BJYM appeals Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Nagaland State Unit has appealed to the authority concerned to take up the matter of commercial vehicles charging the same rate even after cut in fuel price. BJYM general secretary, Mathew K Janger and president, Anthony Yepthomi in a press release underlined that the price of fuel has been consecutively cut since the month of August 2014, but the passenger fares and essential commodities carrying charges still remain the same “without taking any consideration from the public.”

BJYM has urged the authority to deal with the matter instantly for the welfare and safety of the public at the earliest.

Meeting of ‘Remaining 193 aggrieved teachers’ Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): There will be an emergency meeting of the ‘Remaining 193 aggrieved teachers’, who have filed a court case, at ISBT, Purana Bazar in Dimapur at 10:00 am on November 8. A press release from convenor of ‘Remaining 193 aggrieved teachers,’ Xukuto Kinimi informed that compulsory attendance is required to sign in some documents.

Advocacy workshop on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Kohima, November 5 (mexN): The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is organizing a rally- cum- advocacy workshop on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on November 7 at WAPO Hall, Sechu Zubza from 9:30 am onwards. M.A. Seheb, SDO (C) Sechu Zubza will grace the occasion as chief guest. Keynote address will be delivered by Er. Jakpou Khiamniungan, EE PHED, Rural Division Kohima. Dreamz Unlimited will perform a play on sanitation. Adi Nakhro, IEC consultant WSSO, and Dziesetsino Kiso, chemist PHED, will talk on “Good sanitary practices” and “Water quality monitoring” respectively.

Sugarcane growers’ training Kohima, November 5 (mexN): The Department of Agriculture, Nagaland is organizing a one-day sugarcane growers’ training programme in the conference hall of the Directorate of Agriculture, Kohima on November 11 at 11:00 am. Therefore, the Director of Agriculture has requested all the nominated sugarcane growers of Nagaland to attend the said training.

ZB and ZYF mourn Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): The Zeliangrong Baudi (ZB) and Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF) have mourned the demise of Pou D. Dikambui of Tamenglong district HQ today. In a joint condolence message, the organizations said that Pou D. Dikambui was former president of the Zeliangrong Union (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland), former Chairman, Zeliangrong Union, Tamenglong Zone, former Chairman, ADC Tamenglong etc. “His untimely death is a great loss for Zeliangrong community,” the note said and shared grief and sorrow with the bereaved family members of the deceased.

AUD Silver Jubilee cum Ahuna Festival

Dimapur, November 5 (mexN): The Aotsakilimi Union Dimapur (AUD) is celebrating its 25 years of existence coinciding with Ahuna Festival on November 11 at Er. Vihokhe Shikhu’s residence, Unity Village, 5th Mile, Dimapur with the theme “Küsükidikulu Jukuchho” (The foresight of Unity). Er. Vihokhe Shikhu is hosting the event.

A press release from AUD secretary, N Kughaho Achumi and chairman, P Tokugha Achumi informed that folk song, folk dance, special songs, top spinning, cooking and sharing of newly harvested rice wrapped in Tsuzukughu

(Phrynium marantaceae leaves), Jubilee and festival feast, release of Jubilee Souvenir etc. will mark the auspicious day.

Apart from the participation of about 80 Aotsakilimi households in Dimapur, the Union has invited all the in-laws of Aotsakilimi living in Dimapur, cultural troop from native Aotsakili village under Zunheboto district, descendants of Aotsakilimi living in Dimapur area, Aotsakilimi Union Zunheboto, Aotsakilimi Union Kohima to the celebration.

The Union will also acknowledge the toppers from Aotsakilimi in various exams during the occasion.

‘Education must respond to social need, be an agent of change’ Seminar on Right to Education held Our Correspondent Kohima | November 5

A seminar on “Right to education and commercialization and communalization of education” under the aegis of All India Forum For Right to Education (AIFRTE), in association with Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) took place here today at DUDA Guest House.

Addressing the seminar, Presidium member AIFRTE Prof. G. Hargopal said AIFRTE proclaimed their resolve to wage struggle in order to achieve a fully state funded and entirely free common education system from ‘KG to PG,’ including common neighbourhood school system up to class XII through the medium of mother tongue in multi-lingual context, establish India’s languages in

Prof. G Hargopal addressing the gathering.

all sectors of national life, including trade and business and science & technology.

He stated that the holistic vision alone can pave the path for democratic, secular, egalitarian, humane and scientific education of equitable quality.

Touching on the present system of education, Hargopal said people are forced to pay huge sum of hard earned money to buy education and institutions become more or less like business centre.

Citing the example of

USA education system, he said they have common school for both poor and rich. He reminded that education must respond to social need, show the right way and should be an agent of change.

National executive member AIFRTE and NE incharge Surjit S. Thorchom and consultant and activist educationalist Mulent Lochun Kelita also addressed the gathering.

Representatives from SCERT, NBSE, ASU, NSF and other organizations also attended the seminar.

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Avoidable Injustices: the way to A base for the prevent violence against women THursDAy 6 NovEmbEr 2014 volumE IX IssuE 306

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‘magic bullet’

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id anyone hear Kesonyu Yhome, Additional Secretary to the Department of Health and Family, Welfare, Government of Nagaland, speak last week at the Vigilance Awareness Week?

Technology is not a “magic bullet” to get rid of corruption, he said. According to Yhome, fighting corruption needs political will, infrastructural base, a social base with free speech.

Many of us have grown up in a time where we began from colour television. From there, the journey to online media to social control of technology has not been a very long ride. Yet, only those of us privileged enough to have had access to each of these steps, however quick, would be geared up for what technology has, or not, on offer— what it can, or cannot, achieve.

Technology has enabled many people and communities to reach out their voices that civilisations have historically been blind towards. The mythological and religious texts, or the history of movements, were written by men, for instance, keeping women at far margins. Technology has helped women today bring out the social narrative that contextualises their experience of history and current affairs. It has helped the voice of the Dongria Kondh people living in present-day Odisha to tell the world that the Niyamgiri is their soul, not to be mined for profit minerals. The Dalits Media Watch, a Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre, has delivered to our inbox the previously unknown and uncared-for atrocities meted in India untouched.

But the ownership of technology has also had the opposite effect. More efforts have been spent in developing car technology instead of, say, ethics of public transport or walking.

It has brought fanatic bells ringing in our heads like never before. Mostly owned by men, media, for instance, has projected ideas of how women “get themselves raped” in a fingernailsscratching-a-blackboard pitch defeating the purpose of human pursuit for higher intelligence. Not a month goes by in Nagaland sans these drones—with technology (say, social media), these fanatic ideas spread in minutes.

This is where Kesonyu’s point gains currency. All over the world, bureaucracies have cheated the highest of technical monitoring systems—instead of imbibing ethics of responsibility towards the community, technology has played into the hands of the capitalist system that seeks to make it look like the machine is working at least. Through, say, number games, which indicate immediate results but, as ground conditions show, continue to marginalise and corrupt. So while the Vigilance Cell in Nagaland could look to “combat corruption” to an extent through the use of technology, it first needs to have a government that has the political will to reduce corruption.

A base, as Kesonyu stated, of social and economic (and political) security, around which technology could revolve.

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After 5 reports: Future of UN climate body debated

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fter a six-year scientific marathon that involved about 4,000 authors, contributors and reviewers and 30,000 climate studies, the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has published its latest assessment on global warming. Now many wonder what's next.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has answered the most important question on global warming — whether humans are causing it — with 95 percent certainty: Yes. Next year, the IPCC is set to make a decision on its future and even the panel itself is asking whether it makes sense to embark on another mammoth climate report, which would be its sixth since 1988.

The painstaking and time-consuming work of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group has meant that some of its findings are already out of date by the time its reports are published.

On the sidelines of the IPCC meeting in Copenhagen, The Associated Press asked climate experts inside and outside the IPCC process about the value of the panel and its giant reports. Here is what they had to say: RAJENDRA PACHAURI, IPCC Chairman: "There is need for a sixth report. ... There always will be areas where you need to know much more. You also need to reinforce and, may I say, re-establish what was known earlier on the basis of new research, new information. ... Therefore I would say the IPCC not only has a future, it has a very bright future."

MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER, Princeton professor and lead author of the second part of the latest IPCC assessment report: "There are some issues with IPCC. One is this cumbersome approval process. Another is that it drains a lot of scientific time. Scientists who otherwise would be doing research. You have to ask yourself: is that the best way they should be spending their time? And the third thing is it's so long and cumbersome in its way that by the time it comes out there's a bunch of new research. ... All those are things which could be remedied if we did fewer of these comprehensive reports and more shorter, crisper or pointed interim reports."

SAM SMITH, leader of environmental group WWF's climate and energy initiative: "I think the unique value from WWF's perspective of the IPCC is this: It represents a very conservative consensus between an enormous number of the world's best scientists and all of the world's governments. And so it provides this measuring stick which is irrefutable. You can't say 'it only represents a few scientists, or a few governments, we don't agree with it.' It's like a brick. ... If you want something that no one can deny, also at a political level, then you need something like the IPCC." JOHN CHRISTY, climate scientist at University of Alabama, Huntsville, and former IPCC author who is skeptical of mainstream science's claim that global warming is a major problem: "Something needs to change as these reports are biased and out-of-date by the time they are released. The system now gives almost complete control of the text to authors who have been selected by their politically-aware governments to write it and who do not reflect the enormous ignorance we still have of the climate system."

KAISA KOSONEN, climate policy adviser at Greenpeace: "I think we need a process like this in the future as well that sort of compiles the whole story and takes the time to bring that together. ... But I do think that there would be value perhaps for the IPCC as well to do also shorter, very focused reports on certain specific issues that are advancing very fast."

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ne in three women in the world will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime from an intimate partner, or sexual violence from a non-partner. Horrific stories such as the public raping to death of a woman on a bus in New Delhi, or the perverse cyber-space celebration of images of a young black woman raped in Texas are sadly only tips on the iceberg of a much more common experience for girls and women everywhere. Statistics point to a reality that your mother, your sister, your bank manager, your daughter, your neighbour, your doctor, your parliamentarian, and your friend may all experience one or multiple forms of violence simply for being a girl or a woman in a world run in the interests of patriarchal power. And while comprehensive efforts are needed to respond to the immediate and longer-term impacts of this violence on women themselves and on society, stopping this needless injustice from happening in the first place is glaringly vital.

But is preventing violence against women possible? The results of a new study on the SASA! approach to violence and HIV prevention and HIV risk reduction conducted in Uganda suggest that it very much is.

The study itself was a collaboration between Ugandabased Raising Voices and its national partner the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) who implemented SASA!, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Uganda’s Makerere University. The method, a cluster randomized controlled trial in two communities in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, was designed to meet the highest standard of academic rigor. It is also the first research of its kind in Africa looking at the impact of preventative anti-violence programming on communities. And while the release of the SASA! research results feels ‘quiet’ compared to the cataclysmic news releases of the moment, it is cause for major celebration. In fact, it is some of best news that the world has heard in years.

Communities and critical thinking SASA! stands for the four phases of programming (Start, Awareness, Support, Action), but it also means “now!” in Kiswahili- a name expressing the willingness to get on with the work of change. It is a community-based programming approach, founded on the presumption that it is possible to prevent violence against women and reduce risk behaviours around HIV infection by engaging and transforming the root causes of the problems – unequal gender power relations. The SASA! method does this by actually getting people to speak about power: how it can be expressed in ways that harm, how we can build power within us to question social norms that condone violence and disrespect, how we can cultivate power between us in solidarity, and how we can articulate agency for positive change.

Using a community activist approach common in social movements, SASA! also encourages the practice of these more equitable ways of dealing with each other including in its own approach. We are all now used to anti-violence messaging that relies on didactic messaging ( ‘this is bad, don’t do it’) and shock visuals. While important in making the issues public and drawing a public line around what we may consider acceptable, this vein of messaging does not in itself nurture critical dialogue. It is also usually produced and delivered by messengers outside of our actual lived communities. With SASA! it is volunteers in the local area, rather than external ‘experts’ that serve as mobilisers, creating spaces across the community to build a ground-up desire for change in how women and men relate, and how violence against women is perceived and treated. Lori Michau, Co-Director of Raising Voices who spearheaded the development of SASA! explains that the method evolved from a process of careful observation within communities, “watching and listening to how people in the commu-

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few days ago, I posted a note on Facebook about my scheduled concert next week at Carnegie Hall honoring the late South African singer Miriam Makeba, who was known widely as Mama Africa. I was saddened to see the following comments appear: “Instead of mama africa it should be mama ebola” and “I wonder if she is bringing aby Ebloa [sic] with her?”

Overnight it seems that all the naïve and evil preconceptions about Africa have surfaced again. Ebola has brought back the fears and fantasies of Africa as the Heart of Darkness and the fearmongering about the disease threatens to reverse decades of progress for Africa’s image.

I’ll always remember the night Mama Africa entered my life. I was about 9 years old and there was an old turntable standing in the corner of the dining room of our house in Benin.

I was browsing through my brother’s vinyl-record collection and discovered a Makeba album called “Pata Pata.” On the cover, Miriam’s shoulders were bare; she had a gentle but determined smile. I carefully dropped the needle and an irresistible groove literally jumped out at me. I couldn’t help dancing.

Ms. Makeba became my role model. Every night I dreamed that one day I would be like her, travel the world, meet powerful people and address the United Nations like she did in 1963, when she denounced the South African apartheid regime in front of the whole world.

That an African person — a woman — could accomplish all this and

We want to end violence against women, but is it really preventable? New research from Uganda adds scientific muscle to the political argument that we can, if we transform the gender power relations that sustain it nity reacted to this issue, what brought people together and sparked interest, how to create trust, to frame the issues in ways that they could be heard, and how to encourage critical thinking and discussion rather than information giving”.

Striking results The decision to undergo this type of collaborative research was significant for the NGOs involved given the institutional resources required and the reality of limited funding and a small staff cohort. “We decided to do a trial because for years we had lots of stories and examples of how change was happening but this wasn't sufficient proof for policy-makers and funders -- they wanted evidence” explains Lori Michau, “since Raising Voices developed the methodology we also felt the ethical responsibility of really knowing the impact of SASA!”.

The results, achieved in just under three years of programming, are compelling. To begin, actual rates of physical violence by men against their women partners decreased, with violence 52% lower in communities using the SASA! approach. Social attitudes to women’s right to say ‘no’ changed, with 28% more women and men in SASA! communities than control communities believing that a woman has a right to refuse sex. Solidarity for women experiencing violence increased, with women in communities using SASA! three times more likely to experience support from the community compared to those in control communities. Importantly for work on HIV, men’s sexual behaviours also changed with 45% of men reporting that they had concurrent sexual partners in control communities compared to far fewer (27%) of men in communities exposed to SASA! This scale of change was unexpected. “We were very surprised to achieve a reduction in male reports of multiple sexual partners” says Lori Michau. “SASA! doesn't message around fidelity or faithfulness and doesn't address sexual concurrency head on -- yet through the discussions of power and good relationships the topic came up often in communities”. On the degree of reduction in actual physical violence, Michau reflects that “this highlights the power of having a social norm change approach that works to create a broader environment supportive and encouraging of change -- rather than just a few individuals within a community thinking new things about power, women and rights. Encouraging critical thinking was pivotal. In the words of Tina Musuya, Executive Director of CEDOVIP who implemented the SASA! program, “both men and women realized the benefits of having violence free relationship and the beauty of bonding as partners… We avoided using difficult and loaded terms such as ‘Let us stop gender-based violence’, so the conversations got really personal, provocative and reflective, making community members get critical about the injustices towards women”.

Officer at CEDOVIP is reflective on how men involved in SASA! programming grappled with the challenge to their socially-reinforced authority over women. There was indeed resistance. However allowing men who were skeptical about equality time to process their fears and have their own views challenged by fellow community members was catalytic in encouraging more progressive views. Kiwanuka explains: “Men from the SASA! intervention communities were initially resistant to the idea of preventing VAW. We realized that it was because they were really thinking about their power and trying to come to terms with what it would mean to balance power in their relationships. After intensive reflective discussions around power and how to use it, the benefits of non-violence and the harm that VAW brings, the men began to realize that their relationships and lives will improve when they prevent violence. They saw balancing power as gaining something – not losing something”.

In what has now become a heavily technocratic field of development and social justice, upping the inspiration quotient in community work is ever more vital, particularly when the work depends on generating momentum for deep social change. Janet Nakuti, Senior Programme Officer at Raising Voices speaks to the potency of taking an activist approach: “SASA! was implemented by activists- the regular men and women who live or work in that community and had an interest in reaching out to others with the ideas. So when community members saw fellow community members not strangers or experts coming to them, it looked exciting and they were able to ask questions and to trust them”.

The significance of SASA! To date much of the thinking about how to address violence against women weighs heavily on the side of addressing violence after it has happened- through services and law and policy. Government responses in particular have tended to focus on revising law and increasing punishments.

The End Sexual Violence in Conflict Summit supported by the UK government earlier this year is one example of this overly legalistic push to ‘end violence’ by prosecuting perpetrators. The SASA! research results point a finger in a braver direction. Alongside securing legal justice, ending violence will require all of us to roll up our sleeves and engage the messier questions of gendered power and the normalization of men’s entitlement to women’s bodies. It means supporting active questioning at a popular level around whether we do tacitly or explicitly support gendered violation- and why. It means following the lead of activists that emerge within communities and galvanize momentum to change how we think and act towards women and girls. It means considering how we talk about the other health and justice concerns that arise and are amplified by violence – like HIV/AIDS. It will also require us, as donors, programmers and policy-makers, to bring community back into the frame, and support movements to end violence against women, as we make space for the social and political questioning that comes with community-based activism.

In broader frame, the findings of the SASA! research add scientific muscle to the political argument made by feminists across the world for decades that the way to end the violation of women is not just to relieve the symptoms but to heal the source. We need to work on building communities that respect girls and women’s lives, bodies and choices and take joy in their collective responsibility to sustain these values. As build this constructive social path, we The microdynamics of change commit to redefining our gendered social imaginaIn challenging deeply helped norms around gender tions. The great news is that we now have one more we tend to expect resistance – even to the extent of or- piece of evidence, and a template for practical proganized backlash. Deus Kiwanuka, Senior Programme gramming, to show that it is possible.

Don’t let Ebola Dehumanize Africa Angelique Kidjo

could stand up for her people even though her life had been defined by hardship was amazing to me. She was exiled twice: first from South Africa by the racist apartheid regime, and then from America while she was married to Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panther activist.

Ms. Makeba managed to transform, in the eyes of the world, the image of the African woman. She gave us a human face — a strong face that went beyond all the clichés carried by movies and TV shows. As I kept singing her songs throughout my career, I always felt that my mission was to keep her legacy alive — especially today.

Fifty years after the independence of most African states, and 20 years after Nelson Mandela came to power in South Africa, the image of the continent is once more under siege because of Ebola.

But what is the true root of the Ebola crisis? It’s nothing evil or dark, but rather the precariousness of the health care infrastructure of some West African countries.

When you don’t have enough doctors, nurses or hospital beds, a disease isn’t easy to stop. Instead of panicking about the spread of the disease in the

New York subway system, we should worry about how quickly families in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone can receive the basic equipment that will allow them to care for their sick relatives in a dignified way, without risking their lives. That is what will ultimately halt the spread of Ebola.

Meanwhile, in the West, rumors and fear are spreading like fire. When I jumped into a taxi in New York recently the driver asked me where I came from. When I said: “I’m West African,” he just muttered one word: “Ebola.” The situation here has only gotten worse with the news that a young American doctor returning from Guinea has contracted the disease and had traveled around the city while he was potentially contagious.

Meanwhile, for the approximately 10,000 Liberians and other West Africans who live in the borough of Staten Island, life is becoming a nightmare. Last week, the media reported that many Liberians on the island are starting to change their daily habits to fight the stigma of Ebola. They are seeking to avoid any physical contact — even casual handshakes with neighbors. Many say they are being ostracized by

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friends when they come back from Africa. On Twitter, the hashtag #IAmALiberianNotAVirus testifies to many of those sad situations.

And the fear and misconceptions aren’t limited to New York. A few weeks ago, I was giving a lecture at an elementary school in Florida. The students were asking me many relevant and funny questions. Among them a young child asked me: “Are all the African kids skinny? Can you always see their ribs?”

I told him that not every African child was like that, and smiled. But inside I wanted to cry. I realized that 30 years after the legendary song “We Are the World” was recorded to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia little has changed in the way Africa is perceived.

Yes, some parts of Africa are still underdeveloped socially and economically, and that must change. But Africa is much more than emaciated children and poverty. Africa is first and foremost a continent of culture, beauty, art and, of course, music.

Much of the music we are listening to today has its roots in Africa.

Even Bach was inspired by the dances of slaves when he composed his “sarabandes.” Newspapers and textbooks carry a responsibility to show a more balanced image of the continent and its rich history.

When I sing in tribute to Miriam Makeba at Carnegie Hall next week it is because Africa, our motherland, deserves better than to be dehumanized by our ignorance and our fear.

Angélique Kidjo is a singer and songwriter from Benin, a Unicef good-will ambassador, and the author of “Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music.”

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Salvador detective won't let the dead lie silent A

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hundred yards below a private cemetery where generals have gathered for a military funeral, ghostly figures in white protective suits are digging up a clandestine grave next to a fetid river.

It is painstaking labor in a land littered with secret graves. This is the 30th excavation this year for criminologist Israel Ticas, who leads the teams that search for bodies still missing from a decades-old civil war, and for those killed more recently by street gangs who hold most of El Salvador in their clutches.

The remains often are unidentified, but this time Ticas knows he is looking for members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang who were snatched from a bus station days before. In an unusual break, police captured three of the rival 18th Street gangsters and chased others into the arroyo with the fresh graves.

Ticas is working against the clock. By law, the government has 72 hours to collect the corpses and produce evidence of murder, or else the suspects will be released. But it is slow going, as the bodies have been beheaded and dismembered, and though they are not long dead, worms have begun to feed on them.

The air is thick with the smell of human decomposition, and perhaps with fear. Police stand guard against gangsters who would stop the search if they could.

When shots ring out suddenly, panic grips the crew before they realize that the gunfire comes from an honor guard at the military funeral overhead.

Ticas is up to his armpits in dirt, as he sometimes is several days a week. Hour after hour, he moves bits of earth with an archeologist's precision, his face streaked with sweat and soil. Late in the day, with October skies threatening rain, he urges two assistants to make haste, but not to repeat the errors of the previous evening. In darkness, he says, a crew from the morgue took away a torso but forgot the head.

"This is not just an exhumation. It is a crime scene," he reminds them. They are working for the attorney general, who must have bodies to make a case for murder.

Some would argue that digging up graves is a fool's errand in El Salvador, a country with the world's second highest per capita homicide rate after neighboring Honduras. But this is a vocation for Ticas, who calls himself the "lawyer for the dead." In fact, he is a systems engineer turned police detective who taught himself forensic science. Most address him by his academic title, "Engineer."

Short and solidly built, he looks younger than his 51 years. Ticas speaks in the street slang of the gangsters who occupy his neighborhood, but looks the part of a plainclothes cop. When not in biohazard gear, he wears a leather jacket and dark glasses, or a double-breasted suit with a tie held in place by a gold clip.

He was a young police intelligence agent during the US-backed government's war against Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas in the 1980s. Today, those former guerrillas hold the presidency, and Ticas works for an independently named attorney general as the department's only criminologist.

Ticas knows the risks of his work better than anyone. He sees the evidence of gang rape and sadistic methods of murder such as crushed skulls or "the pinata," in which a victim is hung upside down from a tree and hacked to death with machetes, like children batting a candy-filled pinata.

He considers all killers to be devils, no matter their affiliation. He calls himself a lawyer because he seeks justice for the dead, whoever they might be and who-

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ou cannot blame Bhavana Vaja, 12, for telling you that the first aeroplane was invented during the mythical Dvapara Yuga, when the Hindu God Ram flew from Sri Lanka to Ayodhya in India with his wife Sita and brother Laxman in a Pushpaka Vimana - a swan -shaped chariot of flowers.

By claiming that they familiarise students with India's ancient heritage, some books printed by the education department of western Gujarat state teach children that aeroplanes existed in India since Lord Ram's era. And that is just a sample of how religious content is included in science, history, environment, and mathematics books.

"Every week we are asked to do projects in our science and social studies classes. We refer to these books then," says Saras Solanki, age 9.

The Gujarat government has introduced nine new books this academic year for classes 1 to 12. These books, written by Hindu nationalist ideologues, have been delivered to 42,000 elementary schools across the state free of cost.

Eight out of the nine books have been penned by Dina Nath Batra, founder of the Hindu nationalist organisation, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti. Batra was responsible for forcing Pengiun India Publishers to withdraw all copies of Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus in February this year.

Enthused by its success, Batra went on to force two other publishers - Aleph and Orient Blackswan - to withdraw books that he deemed "hurtful to Hindu religious sentiments".

'Supplementary reading' Taking a leaf from Batra's book, India's prime minister and former chief minister of Gujarat state, Narendra Modi, last week said that genetic science existed in ancient India.

In fact, Modi wrote a foreword in Batra's books saying his "inspirational literature will inspire students and teachers".

Education in India is the responsibility of both the state governments and the federal government. A state textbook board formulates curriculum based on the guidelines specified by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT). However, these nine books deviate vastly from those guide-

ever may have killed them. It so happens that gangs are doing the lion's share of killing to enforce their control, and going to great lengths to conceal the dead, many of them women and discarded girlfriends.

He calculates that in the last 12 years he has opened about 90 common graves with more than 700 bodies, about 60 percent of them women and girls. That is a fraction of what's out there, he believes, but Ticas does not have the time or staff to find all of them.

Body counts also serve as political ammunition. In 2012 and 2013, El Salvador's previous leftist government helped negotiate a truce between the gangs, during which time it claimed that homicides fell by 60 percent. But detractors, including Ticas's boss, Attorney General Luis Martinez, saw the truce as government collusion with criminals. They argue that the dead simply were dumped in clandestine graves by the country's tens of thousands of gang members.

Ticas insists he does not want to play this political tug of war. Rather, he is a technician serving the rule of law from a small office that looks like a museum of horrors, with models of skulls and limbs, and walls papered in photographs of severed heads and salvaged bodies.

From his desk, Ticas pulls out a dozen dog-eared catalogues of violence, one for each year he has worked. They are filled with hand-written notes and color drawings that record how many bodies per grave, their locations, positions, conditions and measurements. The books provide a meticulous accounting of the extent of the killing across El Salvador, which is why he guards them jealously.

In many cases, he interviews protected witnesses who provide details of murder: "She was killed because she knew too much about gang movements and security houses," according to one account. "A 14-year-old girl was impregnated by a gang member... They did the 'pinata' to her," says another.

The number of missing in El Salvador is a subject of debate, with estimates ranging from 600 to 2,000 per year.

Many of those reported missing may well have fled to the United States, while the disappearance of many other Salvadorans goes unreported out of fear of the gangs.

But that doesn't mean families aren't looking. Ticas pulls a metal box out of his desk stuffed with photographs, identity documents and letters from desperate mothers who come knocking on his door at all hours of day and night. "'Is this where Israel Ticas lives, the one who looks for the dead?' they ask. 'Look, they disappeared my daughter and I need to find her even if she's dead,'" Ticas recounts.

And then he adds without affect, "I get scared because I realize the whole world knows where I live."

Ticas is passionate about his craft and never misses an opportunity to teach it to assistants, or even to the police guards next to them. The gangs are good at covering their tracks, he says, so you have to locate graves by "tattoos on the land" — broken plant roots and loosely packed soil. Bodies in decomposition swell at first, slackening the earth. Then they begin to breakdown and the ground sinks.

"Look how the color of the soil changes when there is a burial," he says near one grave. A few feet away he pokes a stick into another suspicious area then shakes his head. "There's nothing here."

Ticas started in the field by making drawings of the dead and models of crime scenes. He studied forensic science on his own and in 2002, convinced the attorney general to give him an office and authority for excavating clandestine cemeteries.

In reality, he is still a detective trying to extract information from the dead where many of the living are too afraid to talk. "We have to learn to observe what the silence of the dead is telling us," he says.

One of his innovations, he says, is to dig parallel to

the graves rather than on top of them. His team digs deep, L-shaped trenches around the bodies, leaving them on a kind of earthen plinth. In this way, the crew avoids disturbing evidence and can be sure not to jar the bodies from where they fell.

Early on this day, they unearth one body, its head, legs and arms separated from the trunk, and cover it with black plastic. They can see it is a male adolescent and Ticas notes that "those who knew him in life still will be able to identify him."

Then they discover another head, and uncover it bit by bit with a paintbrush until they can observe the manner and angle at which it was separated. The cut is consistent with a machete, they say. Ticas makes notes, and a form is filled out before it is sent to the morgue.

The work takes a psychic toll, Ticas admits. His chatter is rapid-fire. He sometimes clowns around with skeletons, and even once had a birthday cake graveside. He cracks dark jokes that he calls his "comic shield" against the witnessed horrors that keep him awake at night. Yet, he is offended at any suggestion that his humor shows disrespect for the dead. "When someone has dug up a thousand bodies, then he can talk to me about respect for the dead," Ticas says.

The Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gangs were created by Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants to the United States and were exported back home after the war, then spread like a deadly virus. Here, they fight each other in an unending war for territory and the drug market. They extort businesses and households, rape and murder randomly.

Sometimes their violence is fueled by drugs but more often, gang experts say, it is fed by a hunger for power. They use terror to dominate the general population, and also to control their own; forcing members to participate in the killing ensures their loyalty.

Scarcely a neighborhood is beyond the gangs' reach, and few Salvadorans have been spared this all-pervasive violence. Ticas is no exception.

On his way home during Easter Week a couple of years ago, he got off of a bus alongside a young woman he didn't know and they were surrounded by gangsters.

Two of them held him down with a 9 mm pistol in either side of his chest while others hauled the woman off to a nearby field and raped her.

For two hours, he wondered whether she was the target of the attack or he was, or if it was just an average assault. Would they be allowed to live, or would they die and join the disappeared?

"Do you have children?" he finally asked his captors.

"What's it to you?" they answered.

"I have two. Think of your mothers and how they would suffer if you were killed."

Perhaps that is what saved them that day, or perhaps the gangsters just weren't in the mood to kill. He'll never know why he didn't end up in a grave like the three he has just found next to the Metalpa River, in the San Jacinto neighborhood of the capital.

Ticas finishes this job on a Friday afternoon and rushes to his office to file a report to the attorney general. His work is done. He is not there when three 18th Street gang members are released from jail, then rearrested by plainclothes police just outside the door and charged with murder based on the evidence he unearthed.

He does not know how the Mara Salvatrucha gang reacts when they find out the bodies of three of their members have been recovered, or what they may be planning to do in revenge.

Ticas does, however, believe that the gangs want him to keep digging. That's what they tell him, anyway.

"Sometimes the gangsters come up to me and congratulate me and say, 'Engineer, when they kill me, you find all of my body and deliver it to my mother."

hindu right rewriting Indian textbooks Raksha Kumar Source: Al Jazeera

lines by relying heavily on religious subjects and mythology.

Hence, they have been introduced as "supplementary reading" for the students. These books are stored in the libraries and are made available to students any time they want. Use of these books for extracurricular projects and presentations are encouraged.

"I find that children want to show off their knowledge. More often than not, they are averse to textbooks. Though, they are happy to sit in the library and leaf through other books so their presentation can be better than others in the class," said Jayashree Ben Solanki, a 6th grade teacher at a municipality school in Ahmedabad, the capital city of Gujarat state. "Therefore, these books end up being read more widely than textbooks."

"Gujarat is an experimental ground," said Gaurang Jani, a professor of sociology at Gujarat University. "The BJP and the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] will test their methods in the state and if found successful, will replicate it throughout the country," he told Al Jazeera.

"The move to infuse right-wing ideology in mainstream curriculum has been started by printing books with a religious bias using taxpayers' money. If the books are received without major opposition in Gujarat, they will introduce such books at the national level as well," Jani said.

right-wing government was sworn in this May, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, a former TV actress, issued her first statement saying the Vedas, the Upanishads and other ancient Hindu texts should be introduced in the classrooms.

Consequently, in July, a consultative body called The Bharatiya Shiksha Neeti Ayog (Indian Education Policy Commission) was constituted by the Hindu nationalist organisation, RSS and is mandated "to study the present education system and suggest corrective steps to make it Bharat-centric." Bharat is the Hindi word for India.

"The problem is that they are equating India to Hindus. What about the India that houses the Muslims, Christians, Jains, Sikhs and other religions? India's defining character is its diversity - including religious. That will be subtly and efficiently destroyed by introducing religious content in school books," said Sveta Joshi, a former professor at Delhi University who has done extensive work on the 2002 religious riots in Gujarat.

One of the nine books in question urges students to visit Hindu pilgrim places like Jagannath, Badrinath and Rameshwaram to "cleanse themselves".

"Students who are slightly older do question the lack of any Muslim or Christian places of worship," Solanki, the elementary school teacher, said.

"Four of the nine books are titled Prerna Deep, they are meant to have short biographies of 'inspiring Indians'." Dalit, Jain, Sikh, and Buddhist heroes are mentioned prominently.

The mention of Muslim and Christian heroes is almost negligible though," said Jani of Gujarat University.

'Saffronisation' There is already some talk of changing the school and college curriculum at the national level.

In Indian political context, "saffronisation" is used to refer to the policies of right-wing Hindu nationalist organisations, which, according to critics, are divisive. The term refers to the saffron-coloured robes worn by Hindu sages.

Questioning perspectives Barely four days after India's new Since 1952, when it founded the

first Saraswati Shishu Mandir (nursery school) in Gorakhpur in northern Uttar Pradesh state, the RSS, the ruling party BJP's mother organisation, has always had schools that propagate its ideology.

In subsequent years, the RSS founded Vidya Bharati, an umbrella body for thousands of educational institutions based on Hindu values, from the nursery to the post-graduate levels.

"Until now, the Hindu system of education was running parallel to the regular NCERT curriculum, which was formed collectively by eminent scholars from all walks of life. But now, the danger is that they want to merge the two," said Jani.

"The Sangh ideology is slowly becoming the state ideology," he adds.

"If children are taught from a young age about Hindu supremacy and glory, they will not question it at a later stage in their life," said Lila Visariya, a scholar at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, at a conference organised in Ahmedabad last month.

Achyut Yagnik, founder of the Centre for Social Knowledge and Action, said that the "saffronisation of education" began in Gujarat slowly and subtly since the BJP established power in the late 1990s.

A report by NCERT states: "While communal perspectives have been present in textbooks in earlier periods too, studies done of textbooks rewritten from this perspective, for example in Gujarat, highlight their ready potential to contribute to a culture of divisiveness between religious communities ‌" Gujarat was witness to gory religious riots in 2002, which killed about 1,000 people, mostly Muslims. Religious faultlines in the state, however, go back several centuries.

Last year, the Committee for Resisting Saffronisation of Textbooks protested against the textbooks in another Indian state, Karnataka, which, they said, strengthened stereotypes of Muslims and Christians and subdued the voices of women, Dalits and non-Vedic traditions.

The textbooks remain unchanged.

"If anyone has problems with any of the books, I urge them to go to court," said Harshad Patel, the media coordinator for Gujarat BJP. "Let them do what Dinanathji did. Get the court to pass orders to withdraw the books," he told Al Jazeera.

Beer, wine flow in West Bank Christian hamlet

In this Tuesday, Octoner 28, 2014 photo, a woman works at Palestinian Taybeh brewery in Taybeh, West Bank. A tiny Christian enclave in the overwhelmingly Muslim West Bank has for years crafted the only Palestinian beer and brought thousands of visitors flocking to its annual beer fest. Now, it is adding wine to its list of libations, hoping a boutique winery will be another tourist draw and contribute to keeping the small village afloat. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

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tiny Christian enclave in the overwhelmingly Muslim West Bank has for years crafted the only Palestinian beer and brought thousands of visitors flocking to its annual beer fest. Now, it is adding wine to its list of libations, hoping a boutique winery will be another tourist draw and contribute to keeping the small village afloat.

While Christians around the Middle East have seen their numbers dwindle due to conflict and the lure of better economic opportunities abroad, Taybeh has remained an exclusively Christian village, the last in the West Bank.

The family behind the wine and beer says they are carrying out "peaceful resistance" by investing in their homeland and staying put.

"This is how we believe the state of Palestine can be built: by people like us to invest in the country and encourage other Palestinians to come and invest in their country," said Nadim Khoury, who founded the brewery and winery.

Taybeh, home to some 1,400 people, has put itself on the map because of its eponymous beer, which is sold around the world. Israelis, far from the checkpoints that divide them from the West Bank, also can be found sipping the honey-hued Palestinian draught.

Despite the West Bank's majority Muslim population, which often shuns alcohol for religious reasons, Taybeh's annual Oktoberfest, first held in 2005, has ballooned into one of the region's must-see events, hosting diplomats, aid workers, journalists and local, mostly Christian Palestinians. The two-day festival has drawn some 16,000 people.

The festival has morphed over recent years to include the sale of local products like honey, olive oil and colorful embroidery. Organizers say that approach gave vendors a much needed boost in sales. The summertime Gaza war prompted organizers to cancel the event this year, saying the tense atmosphere was an inappropriate time for a jubilant beer festival.

Khoury said a winery was the natural next step in his business' expansion, especially since the family has been making its own wine at home for decades.

The wine, named Nadim, which means "drinking buddy" in Arabic, is produced in an expansive room, with gleaming stainless steel equipment and oak barrels flown in from Europe. Seeing opportunity in the droves of tourists drawn to the beer festival, Khoury also built an 80-room boutique hotel on top of the winery.

Beginning next year, visitors can drink the locally produced wine and then stagger up to their sleekly-decorated rooms overlooking rolling West Bank hills speckled with olive trees.

Khoury and his son, Canaan, who runs the winery, worked last year with an Italian winemaker to produce the first batch, made from merlot, syrah and cabernet varieties. The wine label will be launched at the end of November.

The economic development presents a rare bright spot for Christians, who now make up only about 2 percent of the population of the Holy Land. Some 38,000 Palestinian Christians live in the West Bank, among more than 2 million Muslims. An estimated 80 percent of Christian Palestinians live abroad, according to the local Roman Catholic church.

Christian-Muslim relations in the Palestinian territories are far better than in many other parts of the Middle East, and communal violence is extremely rare. But Christians in the Holy Land say they suffer from Israeli restrictions and have expressed concern over the rise of political Islam across the region.

Taybeh has remained entirely Christian, said David Khoury, Nadim's brother and a former mayor, because residents refrain from selling their land to non-Christians if they leave. The brothers say they have not faced antagonism from Muslims over their products, and have offered up a non-alcoholic beer for teetotalers as well.

Politics also has seeped into the wine business.

A West Bank winery run by monks is at risk because of Israel's separation barrier, which may cut off farmers from their vineyards. Canaan Khoury also said he wants indigenous Palestinian grape varieties to be recognized as such internationally and not have the names appropriated by Israeli vintners. Israel already has a globally lauded wine-making industry.

"We felt the need to establish a winery in Palestine," said Canaan Khoury, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate.

The Khourys say they plan to remain in their ancestral village, despite the difficulties of doing business under Israeli restrictions. Nadim Khoury said his shipments, including his wine-making equipment, have been delayed because of Israeli checkpoint inspections.

Taybeh Mayor Nadim Barakat said the winery, hotel and the beer festival are what's needed to boost the village's economy and perhaps keep Christians from leaving.

"The economy is the major point and nothing else," he said. "We have to improve the economy in Taybeh so that people will not go, will not migrate. This is the only thing we can do."

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Economic reforms will be a “long journey”

NEW DELHI, NovEmbER 5 (REutERS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday structural reforms to India’s economy could only progress slowly, adding that he backed relaxing labour and land laws hated by business, along with more privatizations.

Speaking to an audience of foreign investors, Jaitley said people still needed to be convinced that making it easier to hire and fire workers would create jobs. He did not set deadlines -- possibly disappointing some in the audience at the Indian edition of the World Economic Forum hoping for a quick reform burst.

“There is a lot that has to be done ... I am quite satisfied with the beginning we have made but it’s a long journey,” Jaitley said. He cautioned against rushing into big bang reforms that could trigger a political backlash and derail the government’s agenda. “Reform is the art of the possible,” he said, while promising not to take decisions that would send negative signals to investors.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to office in May with a mandate to create jobs and kickstart Asia’s third largest economy after a long period of low growth.

‘Reforms are continuous, not about one sensational idea’

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, left, listens to Klaus Martin Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, during the opening plenary of India Economic Summit in New Delhi on Wednesday, November 5. (AP Photo)

Expectations are mounting that the government will take steps between now and the budget in February to stimulate investment.

India recorded betterthan-expected growth of 5.7 percent in the quarter ending in June, but industrial output and investment has not yet picked up in a sustained way.

The government has already taken some steps to make doing business easier and reduce red tape

and subsidies. However, Modi has not moved ahead as fast on privatizations or welfare and tax reform as some of his supporter had hoped. Anand Mahindra, managing director of tractors to tech conglomerate Mahindra Group (MAHM. NS: Quote, Profile, Research), said that investment in the economy would pick up once companies saw big infrastructure projects restart.

“It takes a little while to

gather momentum, and the momentum I sense is very positive,” he told reporters.

“When you get backhoe loaders out there digging up earth again visibly, you will see a rush of investment,” said Mahindra, whose company also makes backhoe loaders. A land acquisition law passed by the last government and supported by the BJP while in opposition dramatically increased compensation to farmers for land. Stringent rules re-

quiring consensus among sellers have made it difficult for industry to buy land.

Jaitley said he supported the higher compensation but wanted to loosen other barriers to land purchases.

ZOMBIES In addition to an ongoing process of selling off government shares in state-run companies, Jaitely said he was open to privatizing so-called “zombie” companies, many of which

NEW DELHI, NovEmbER 5 (IANS): Economic reforms are a continuous process and are not about one big idea Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Wednesday.

“Reforms are not about one sensational idea. We need to pursue a positive direction,” Jaitley said at the India Economic Summit here. “Reform is the art of the possible. There is a lot that has to be done. I am quite satisfied with the beginning we have made but it’s a long journey,” Jaitley said at a Q and A session at the summit inauguration.

The finance minister said he hoped to have the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill passed in the winter session of parliament. Jaitley highlighted the government’s seriousness to reform by citing the ordinance on coal blocks deallocated by the Supreme Court.

“Discretion in the hands of the state have hundreds of employees paid by the government but produce nothing.

“There are still a large number of companies which are almost on the verge of closure where people are going to lose employment,” Jaitley said.

“Given a choice between them continuing in the present state and getting them privatized, the second would be a preferable option.” He did not give more details and it was

has almost disappeared. We are also planning to introduce similar reforms for other minerals,” Jaitley said.

As per this ordinance, while stateowned organisations like NTPC and state electricity boards will be allocated blocks according to their requirements, actual users of steel, cement and power from the private sector will bid for the blocks.

“Thereafter there would be commercial mining if the government so desires,” he added on the cancelled coal blocks. Jaitley had said the aim is to conduct the whole process in a fully transparent manner through e-auction, without any discretionary powers of the government in the matter. India recorded a GDP growth of 5.7 percent in the first quarter ended June, but industrial output and investment has not yet picked up in a sustained way.

unclear how much private sector interest there would be in companies that include a British-era uniform factory and a government watch-maker.

Jaitley said he hoped a long-delayed bill to allow up to 49 percent foreign investment in the insurance sector would be passed by parliament within weeks, and said he would consider allowing more foreign investment in railways.

Unveiling first steps to re-

form labour last month, India simplified employment rules and eased the way for people changing jobs to move social security funds.

The government also announced a series of coal field auctions last month, replacing a policy of discretional allocation. Jaitley said the government planned to introduce a similar mechanism for other minerals, without giving details.

Congress faithful question Delhi assembly dissolved, Gandhi leadership in India by-elections cancelled

NEW DELHI, NovEmbER 5 (REutERS): Rumblings of dissent are growing against the Gandhi family that leads India’s hapless Congress party, five months after the most resounding electoral defeat in the party’s 129-year history.

The Gandhis’ troubles are helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he seeks to further his agenda of economic and social reform by winning control of the upper house of parliament.

Disgruntled Congress members pasted newspaper over portraits of the mother-son team of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi at a party office in Tamil Nadu on Monday, after a party veteran shunned their leadership and formed his own splinter group.

G.K. Vasan, a former minister, was the latest in a series of regional leaders to quit the party, which was pushed out of office in May, clinging to just 44 of 543 seats in parliament. Vasan’s departure triggered more criticism of the Gandhis and their perceived lack of introspection.

On Wednesday, Karti Chidambaram, the son of previous finance minister, said the Congress leadership should give state chapters of the party more freedom.

“We must rethink this high-command observer culture,” he said. “We cannot wait for Delhi to show the path in every single way.”

Congress faced further embarrassment at the weekend when Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, shoved away the microphone of a journalist who asked him about allegations he profited from sweetheart land deals.

Vadra was pilloried for his responses of “Are you serious?” and “Are you nuts?” which became Twitter sensations. Analysts said the incident was a reminder of the stand-offish attitudes that led many people to reject the party in May. “The Vadra incident simply smacks of the ar-

rogance of power,” said Sandeep Shastri, a professor of political science at Bangalorebased Jain University.

‘Congress Free India’ Modi has repeatedly promised a “Congress-free India” to end the domination of a party that has ruled India for most of the 67 years since freedom from British rule.

He blames the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that began with Rahul’s great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru for the country’s slow development.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party took control of two economically important states from Congress in regional elections last month, and is expected to deal the party further pain in another group of state polls that end in December.

Congress General Secretary Shakeel Ahmad told Reuters the party is thinking about ways to improve communication, including better use of social media. He gave no details. Modi’s adept use of technology was widely credited with helping him win the support of millions of young Indians. Congress has taken to Twitter and Facebook more actively since the election but still has a long way to go.

The party’s website promises to factcheck statements by Modi’s ruling nationalists “every day”. It was last updated on May 7. In the last seven days, Rahul has been holding meetings with state heads and other party members, brainstorming and inviting suggestions to strengthen Congress in New Delhi. The party aims to increase its membership across India, Ahmad said.

“Recovery of the party is not like an electric switch, it will take time,” Ahmad told Reuters at his New Delhi residence.

“We are waiting and watching people’s disenchantment (with Modi), strengthening the organisation and analysing why we failed.”

NEW DELHI, NovEmbER 5 (IANS): The Delhi assembly has been dissolved, it was announced Wednesday, and the Election Commission cancelled by-elections in three assembly constituencies in the capital.

The Election Commission had Oct 25 announced that Mehrauli, Tughlakabad and Krishna Nagar would go to the polls Nov 25. BJP legislators from the three places were elected to the Lok Sabha in May. Delhi has been under President’s rule since Feb 17 following the resignation of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who headed a minority Aam Aadmi Party government for 49 days.

A Rashtrapati Bhawan spokesperson said the president has signed the proclamation dissolving the Delhi assembly. The union cabinet Tuesday recommended the dissolution of the 70-member Delhi assembly where no political party had enough numbers to form a stable government.

The decision was taken after leaders of the Bharatiya Janata party, AAP and the Congress told Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung that they wanted elections to end months of political uncertainty. The Delhi election of December 2013 threw up a fractured mandate.

Rajnath calls for combined efforts to tackle terrorism

moNAco, NovEmbER 5 (IANS): Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday called on governments across the world to collectively address the issue of safe havens for organised criminal and terrorist groups.

“Governments across the world have to collectively address the issue of safe havens for organised criminal and terrorist groups and their tainted money,” said Rajnath Singh at an Interpol ministerial meeting and general assembly here.

He added: “Lifting banking secrecy and the corporate veil in corruption and terrorist-related cases would go a long way in bringing

the criminals to book. States must refrain from organising, instigating, facilitating, participating in, financing, encouraging or tolerating terrorist activities.”

Addressing the meet in Hindi, Singh said there was a need for far greater vigilance and stricter provisions so as to make off-shore jurisdiction more transparent.

He also called on evolving a strategy to tackle cyber-crime. “In the recent years, the internet and social media are being increasingly used to instigate communal riots to destabilize the state.

We need to strengthen our strategy relating to cyber-crime on this momentous occasion of the

Taliban group threatens to attack India PESHAWAR, NovEmbER 5 (REutERS): A new Pakistani Taliban group behind this week’s devastating suicide bombing on the Wagah border said on Wednesday the attack was as much aimed at India as Pakistan, suggesting that Indian targets might be next.

At least 57 Pakistanis were killed during a popular flag-lowering ceremony on Sunday when a bomber tried to get as close as possible to the border in a possible attempt to cause casualties on the Indian side as well.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, a prominent militant and spokesman for the group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat Ahrar (TTPJA), said he had warned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that attacks in India were in the pipeline.

“I have already conveyed it to Modi ... that if our suicide bombers can carry out attacks on this

side of the border, they can easily do it on other side of the border in India,” he told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. “I told him that his hands are red with the blood of Kashmiri mujahideen (fighters) and innocent people of Gujarat for which he would have to pay the price.”

He earlier tweeted in English: “You (Modi) are the killer of hundreds of Muslims. We wl (will) take the revenge of innocent people of Kashmir and Gugrat” (sic). An Indian intelligence official said the account appeared genuine.

Kashmir is a disputed Himalayan territory over which India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars. Gujarat - misspelt in the tweet - is a state where more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, were killed in interreligious rioting in 2002, when Modi was its chief minister.

India has long accused

Pakistani militants of trying to attack its targets, particularly after the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed when Pakistani gunmen went on a threeday rampage in India’s financial capital. Ehsan said however that the Sunday attack was specifically aimed at the Pakistani military.

The elaborate border parade, which draws hundreds of people every day, is conducted by the military of both sides, making it a target for Taliban militants fighting to topple the Pakistani government and establish an Islamic theocracy. “We have proudly stated that our target was the Pakistani security forces and their installations in which we succeeded,” Ehsan told Reuters.

The central Pakistani Taliban group, known as the TTP, has effectively disintegrated this year and split into a range of smaller groups such as TTP-JA who appear to be exploit-

Women activists of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) scuffle with policewomen as they are prevented to proceed during a protest against recent incidents of rape of schoolgirls, in Bangalore on Wednesday November 5. Two people have been arrested by police in two separate incidents of rape of a 3 -year-old and 6-yr-old girl of two different schools last month in this technology hub of India. Indian officials, who for decades had done little about sexual violence, have faced growing public anger since the December 2012 fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, an attack that sparked national outrage. (AP Photo)

ing their ties to al Qaeda to broaden their mission beyond Pakistan. Ehsan said that unlike the TTP’s narrow focus on war in the tribal areas on the Afghan border, his outfit sought to attack countries around the region.

“The TTP focuses on Pakistan only, while we have a global agenda of jihad and therefore we have people from all over the world including the Arab and Western world for this mission.”

AL QAEDA THREAT TTP-JA has announced its support for the Middle Eastern group Islamic State, whose belligerent anti-Western ideology has begun to inspire militants across South Asia. The group’s openly anti-Indian rhetoric differs from that of the mainstream Pakistani Taliban, who are mainly focused on their insurgency against Pakistani security forces in the volatile tribal northwest of the country.

A successful attack on an Indian target would severely affect the already frosty relations between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Shelling on their disputed Kashmir border is an almost daily occurrence, a constant reminder that a full-blown conflict is always a threat.

Further unnerving India, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, said to be close to TTP-JA, has announced the creation of a South Asia wing of al Qaeda, threatening to stage attacks on countries across the subcontinent.

The new group’s first major attack was a botched attempt in September to hijack a Pakistani warship and attack a U.S. navy vessel at a base near the port city of Karachi. On Tuesday, India’s navy withdrew two warships from the eastern port of Kolkata after intelligence agencies warned of an attack on the port and the city.

centenary year of the Interpol,” he tweeted.

The minister highlighted that the internet of late has become the “principal means of communication for extremist groups”. “These specific internet forums act as a virtual firewall to help safeguard the identities of those who participate. To counter violent extremists, there is an urgent need to strengthen the Global Counter Terrorism Architecture,” Singh said.

The home minister also pointed out that the 21st century has seen a significant increase in international criminal activity. “In the 21st century, there has been a significant increase in the range and

scope of international criminal activity. The dynamics of globalisation and financial transactions across borders have enabled international crime groups to expand their global reach.

“The world is also witnessing some cataclysmic changes as lethal non-state actors fired by toxic ideology turning into state themselves,” Singh wrote on Twitter.

Calling on the need for the police and judicial systems to evolve continuously to meet new challenges, the minister said: “Outdated laws have to be weeded out with effective legislations that can address corruption, recovery and confiscation of ill-gotten wealth.”

Government to curb misuse of press registration NEW DELHI, NovEmbER 5 (IANS): With over 99,500 registered publications in India and only around 20,000 of them actually filing their annual statements, the government is planning to bring in legislation to curb the tendency to register a publication in order to just book the name.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, releasing the Press in India report 2013-14 here Wednesday, said it was heartening to note that last year over 5,000 new publications were registered -around 30 every day. But among the many who register their publications, “how many actually run the paper?” he asked.

He added that in the process, many people block the domain names of publications by sitting on them for years without coming out with an issue. Javadekar said there was a proposal under active consideration that if a publication does not come out with an issue six months to a year after registration, then “the title will be freed” for future use.

Stressing on the need for “responsible freedom” for the press, Javadekar also noted that the Press Council of India’s (PCI) censure on media has been largely ignored. He said whenever the PCI passed direction on a media outlet for carrying an addendum by way of censure, it had not been adhered to, and indicated that the

PCI would be given more teeth.

The minister said with the rise in income levels and literacy rates, more people were reading newspapers. Though people watch news on TV, at the end of the day people prefer to read the written word, which holds great promise for the print media, he said.

Javadekar also proposed that the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) would soon launch an online submission of applications for filing for publication titles.

He said this would save people from continually having to go to the RNI office.

Those who file online would also get an SMS informing them of the status of their application.

He said that the RNI was creating an online database of the email and contacts of owners of newspapers and periodicals.

He said the regional language media was doing well, which he said was a good example of press freedom in India.

According to Press Registrar and Head of Department RNI S.M. Khan, an amendment is proposed in the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1987, for de-recognition to those who repeatedly indulge in “paid news” and those publications that do not file annual statements. He said that currently the fine for not filing the annual statement was Rs.500.

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China warns Tibet party members not to harbour separatist “fantasies”

beIJING, NOvember 5 (reuTerS): A top Chinese official has vowed to severely punish members of the ruling Communist Party in Tibet who “harbour fantasies” about the troubled region’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, state media said on Wednesday.

In a front-page article in the Tibet Daily, Tibet’s party chief Chen Quanguo said China would stamp out any separatist inclinations.

“As for cadres who harbour fantasies about the 14th Dalai Group, follow the Dalai Group, participate in supporting separatist infiltration sabotage activities, (they will be) strictly and severely punished according to the law and party disciplinary measures,” Chen was quoted as saying.

Chen’s denunciation of the Dalai Lama signals a hardening stance against the Nobel Peace Prize winner whom they label a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” who seeks to use violent methods to establish an independent Tibet. The Dalai Lama had expressed hope last month about making a pilgrimage to China, saying that he had discussions with Chinese officials about a possible trip, according to media reports.

The Dalai Lama, who fled to India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, says he simply wants genuine autonomy for Tibet, and denies espousing violence. Human rights activists say China tramples on religious freedom and culture in Tibet, which it has ruled with an iron fist since People’s Liberation Army troops “peacefully liberated” the region in 1950. Photographs of the Dalai Lama are banned in what China calls the Tibet Autonomous Region.

China rejects such criticism, saying its rule ended serfdom and brought development to a backward, poverty-stricken region. Chen’s comments could also signal a broader clampdown on religious freedoms in China. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party’s discipline watchdog, which recently sent an inspection team to eastern Zhejiang province, said it found “several party members who were religious believers”, the website of the People’s Daily, the party’s official mouthpiece, said late on Tuesday.

Religious freedom is enshrined in the constitution but the officially atheist Communist Party has no qualms about crushing those who challenge its rule.

Party members are banned from believing in religion.

Beijing maintains a tight grip over religion, especially in its ethnic minority regions such as Tibet, where monks have been jailed for supporting the Dalai Lama, and Xinjiang, where it says it is fighting Islamic fundamentalism. Authorities in Wenzhou, the capital of Zhejiang, have torn down crosses from several churches this year, according to media reports. Wenzhou has a large Christian population.

Radiation may cause brain tumours later in life

NeW YOrk, NOvember 5 (IANS): Exposure to radiation either as a result of a nuclear accident or during treatment of diseases may increase the risk of brain tumours in people under the age of 30, says an Indian-origin specialist.

“People who have been exposed to large doses of radiation to the head face a small risk of later developing brain tumors,” said first author of the study, Vikram Prabhu, a neurosurgeon at the Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago in the US. “If such a person experiences symptoms associated with brain tumours, including headaches, seizures, vomiting and blurry vision, he or she should see a doctor,” Prabhu added.

Researchers analysed records of 35 patients, who were diagnosed with a form of brain tumour called meningiomas before the age of 30. Five had been exposed to ionizing radiation earlier in their lives. Two patients received radiation for leukaemia at ages 5 and 6 respectively; one who received radiation at age three for a brain tumour known as medulloblastoma; and one who received radiation for an earlier skull base tumour that appeared to be a meningioma.

The fifth patient had been exposed at age nine to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Ukraine. Twenty years later, he was diagnosed with a meningioma. “The results of this preliminary study have prompted us to look closely at radiation’s effects on the brain,” Prabhu said.

They are doing a follow-up study on patients of all ages who have been treated at Loyola for meningiomas. Researchers so far have identified 14 meningioma patients who were exposed to radiation earlier in their lives. They include three patients who were exposed to Chernobyl radiation and 11 patients who received therapeutic radiation for such conditions as leukaemia, medulloblastoma tumours and fungal infections of the scalp.

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US hands-off stance on future of Suu Kyi WASHINGTON/YANGON, NOvember 5 (reuTerS): Despite hailing Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as “an icon of democracy,” U.S. President Barack Obama is quietly acquiescing to the government’s decision to bar her from running for the presidency in next year’s election, U.S. officials say.

Obama, who visits Myanmar next week, appears to be balancing his push for democratic reforms with a desire to maintain influence with a government that remains deeply suspicious of Suu Kyi and is led by some of the same former generals who kept her under house arrest for 15 years.

U.S. reluctance to press for assurances that the Nobel Peace Prize winner can contest next year’s general election is sure to disappoint her supporters, some of whom spent years in prison until the Southeast Asian country ended 49 years of direct military rule in 2011 and launched reforms.

Whether or not Suu Kyi is allowed to run is “not the standard we’re setting” to judge whether the 2015 electoral outcome is credible, a senior U.S. official told Reuters. Clarification of Washington’s hands-off stance on Suu Kyi’s political future comes at a time when Myanmar’s leaders have been widely accused of backsliding in the transition process.

“What’s important is that the people of Burma debate what the future of their democracy is,” the senior official said in Washington, referring to Myanmar by its former name. “We can’t prejudice the outcome, nor would we as a modern democracy. We’re not going to weigh in and say a certain person should run in the election.”

Suu Kyi is ineligible for the presidency because Myanmar’s military-drafted constitution bars candidates with a foreign child or spouse. Her late husband was British, as are her two sons. The military’s significant presence in parliament gives it veto power on any attempt to change the constitution.

‘Reforms have stalled’

Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a press conference at National League for Democracy party headquarters Wednesday, November 5, in Yangon, Myanmar.

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The official said, however, that Obama would press for an election that is “free, fair, open and credible” and seek unspecified constitutional changes.

Obama will also press Myanmar’s leaders to end persecution of religious minorities including Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine State, the official said.

“They’ve made a number of meaningful steps in the reform direction but we’re very cleareyed about the fact that the progress has been uneven and we have significant concerns,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

After decades of ostracism and economic decline, Myanmar’s military leaders moved to shed the country’s pariah status in 2011 by lifting restrictions on political opponents, freeing political prisoners and relaxing other rules.

The shift, after years of sanctions and other U.S. pressure, was seen as a rare foreign policy achievement for Obama. But he is now trying to deal pragmatically with the quasi-civilian gov-

ernment amid signs that reforms have stalled and it is failing to curb tensions between majority Buddhists and Muslims.

Those trends, which have taken hold since Obama’s 2012 visit, have raised the stakes for his return on Nov. 12-14, when he will attend a regional summit and meet with Myanmar’s leaders and 69-yearold democracy champion Suu Kyi. A backdrop to Washington’s decision not to press too hard on behalf of Suu Kyi is China, Myanmar’s giant northern neighbor.

During its long isolation, Myanmar relied on Beijing as its closest ally, but concern has deepened over China’s growing influence over Myanmar’s economy, partly prompting the shift to improve ties with Washington.

The risk for U.S. policymakers is that pushing reforms too aggressively could backfire and lead Myanmar back into Beijing’s embrace.

YANGON, NOvember 5 (AP): Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a message for President Barack Obama and other world leaders as they head to Myanmar: The international community’s faith in its military-dominated government came too early and too fast, and democratic reforms stalled long ago.

A regional summit next week in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, will shine a spotlight on the country’s progress toward democracy since an elected government took over from a military junta three years ago.

The United States and other Western nations have lifted most sanctions they imposed against the repressive former junta to reward and encourage the current government’s reforms. But Suu Kyi said at a news conference Wednesday that President Thein Sein’s reform process has stalled and Washington has been overly optimistic about its gains.

Sein, a former general he once lauded for leading the country’s transition. There will be no announcements of further easing of sanctions, no removal of names from the U.S. blacklist and no new military-to–military cooperation, according to Obama aides, reflecting the view that now is not the time for rewards.

The military, whose unelected delegates occupy a quarter of the seats in parliament, has been accused of torture and rape, mainly in areas where ethnic groups have fought for autonomy.

Obama spoke by phone with Thein Sein on Oct. 30, pressing him on constitutional reforms and on the need to do more to end ethnic conflict and address the situation in Rakhine, where Rohingya Muslims live under apartheid-like conditions.

“What we’re looking for is clear steps toward devolution of political power from the military, steps toward civilian conNO REWARDS YET trol,” said Colin Willett, Obama’s U.S. officials insist Obama will Southeast Asia adviser. not go easy on President Thein Next year’s general election will

be the first that Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) will contest since it won by a landslide a 1990 vote that followed massive, bloody protests. The result was ignored by the military.

Although some of her popularity has weakened since her release from house arrest in 2010, Suu Kyi would probably win a presidential race if she were allowed to run. Her party spokesman has said Obama should pressure the government to amend the constitution to ensure Suu Kyi can stand in the race.

Senior party members told Reuters in September that if Suu Kyi were barred, the party would enter the polls without a presidential candidate and might even back a former general from the ruling party, which could further divide the opposition.

Suu Kyi continues to have widespread grassroots support as well as international appeal, but cracks have formed in her image at home, with some former supporters saying she has isolated herself from capable advisers.

Hong Kong students fine-tune plan to take democracy call direct to Beijing HONG kONG, NOvember 5 (reuTerS): Students calling for full democracy for Chinese-ruled Hong Kong are hoping to take their protest to Communist Party rulers in Beijing and are expected to announce details of their new battle plan on Thursday.

The move signals a shift in the focus of the protests in the former British colony away from the Hong Kong government which has said it has limited room for manoeuvre. But China is highly unlikely to allow any known pro-democracy activists into Beijing, especially if the trip coincides with this weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Beijing.

“I think one of the ways we can solve this problem is to go to Beijing personally and have a direct dialogue

with Beijing officials on this matter since the (Hong Kong) government claims that all decisions have to be passed up to the NPC,” Alex Chow, leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS), said last week, referring to China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress.

The protesters blocked key roads leading into three of Hong Kong’s most economically and politically important districts for weeks.

The campaign drew well over 100,000 at its peak and hundreds remain camped out at the main protest site in Admiralty, home to government offices and next to the main financial district.

The HKFS has not yet said whether its planned trip was to coincide with APEC, which would mean, if allowed, it would take place in front of an audience of

world leaders. Another student leader, Nathan Law, said details would be revealed on Thursday. China has ruled Hong Kong since 1997 through a “one country, two systems” formula which allows wide-ranging autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland.

The protesters are demanding fully-democratic elections for the city’s next chief executive in 2017, not the vote between prescreened candidates that Beijing has said it will allow. A survey by Hong Kong University’s Public Opinion Programme on Tuesday showed that the HKFS has become the most popular political group in the city. But pro-Beijing groups have increasingly criticized the impact the protests are having on business. Data on business conditions in the city’s

A pro-democracy protester walks at a main road in the occupied area of the Causeway Bay district in Hong Kong Wednesday, November 5. Hong Kong student protest leaders are considering to visit Beijing while it hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this week to press their demands for greater democratic reforms. (AP Photo)

private sector economy released in the HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) show the strongest pace of deterioration in October in

3 years. The chairman of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, Tam Yiu-chung, said on Tuesday

he would help convey the students’ message to Beijing if they stopped occupying key roads, broadcaster RTHK reported.

Republicans win control of US Senate

Ancient women manipulated male behavior to survive wars

WASHINGTON, NOvember 5 (IANS): We have gone through studies that focus on the problems warfare poses for men and how they shaped human male cognition.

Now, a novel study based on traditional stories from across the world highlights how wars have affected women. According to researchers, ancestral women developed certain strategies to increase their odds of survival and their ability to manage their reproduction in the face of warfare.

“These included manipulating male behaviour, determining whether the enemy’s intent was to kill or capture them, and using defensive and evasive tactics to sidestep being murdered or to escape captivity,” said Michelle Scalise Sugiyama from the University of Oregon in the US. Through the ages, women have suffered greatly because of wars. “Consequently to protect themselves and their offspring, our female ancestors may have evolved survival strategies specific to problems posed by warfare,” Sugiyama added. She studied a sample of forager and forager-horticulturalist societies by looking at archaeological and ethnographic research on raiding. This helped her to compile a list of five “fitness costs” - ways in which warfare impedes women’s chances of surviving and reproducing.

These occur when a woman is killed, a woman is captured, her offspring is killed, a mate is killed or captured, or an adult male kinsman is killed or captured. The study then reviewed traditional stories about raids that had been handed down for generations by word of mouth. Sugiyama analysed a cross-cultural sample of war stories from 45 societies and found that the five “fitness costs” often feature within these story lines. The war stories included tales from various North American Indian tribes, the Eskimos of the Arctic, Aborigine groups from Australia, the San of Southern Africa and certain South American tribal societies.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., celebrates with his supporters at an election night party in Louisville, Ky.,Tuesday, November 4. McConnell won a sixth term in Washington, with his eyes on the larger prize of GOP control of the Senate. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, November 5 (AP): Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate, capturing seats from Democrats in elections Tuesday shaped by deep voter discontent with President Barack Obama.

With Republicans strengthening their majority in the House of Representatives, Obama will

spend his final two years as president contending with a Congress fully controlled by opponents who have been determined to block his policies.

Republicans won at least seven seats now held

by Democrats, while Democrats failed to pick up a single Republican seat.

That assures the Republi-

cans of at least 52 votes in the 100-member chamber.

They were also on track to expand their majority in the House of Representatives to near-historic levels.

And they won two highprofile gubernatorial races, in Florida and Wisconsin, where Democrats thought they had a good shot at defeating the incumbents.

Among the Republicans re-elected Tuesday was the man who would likely become majority leader if the party captures the Senate: Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Democrats once had high hopes of defeating him, but he pulled away in the final weeks.

Voters are “hungry for new leadership. They want a reason to be hopeful,” McConnell said.

The shift in control of the Senate will likely result in a strong Republican assault on budget deficits, additional pressure on Democrats to accept sweeping changes to the health care law that stands as Obama’s signal domestic accomplishment and a bid to reduce federal regulations.

Obama’s ability to win confirmation for lifetime Supreme Court and oth-

er judicial appointments could also suffer.

Republicans were more fired up in this election, united in opposition to a president they see as pushing the government too deeply into American lives.

But dissatisfaction went beyond the party. Americans tend to be disgruntled these days, seeing the economy as stagnating or growing worse and besieged by troubling news, such as the beheading of Americans

by Islamic extremists and worries about Ebola. While exit polls show voters dissatisfied with Republican leaders, it’s the president who gets the brunt of the blame.

Opinion polls show Obama’s popularity falling and, though he wasn’t on the ballot, Republicans made him the focus of their campaigns. “I’m just waiting for him to be gone,” said Kristi Johnson, a 36-yearold pharmacist from North Carolina.

It was bound to be a difficult election for Democrats. Governing parties historically lose seats in midterm votes and a number of Democrats were defending seats in states that

lean Republican. Some were first elected to sixyear terms in 2008, riding the wave of excitement over Obama’s initial candidacy.

By contrast, Democratic candidates in this year’s most competitive Senate races did whatever they could to distance themselves from the president.

Obama largely limited his campaigning to candidates in solidly Democratic territory. In a sign of the grim outlook for Democrats, the party had to scramble in the final days to help incumbents who suddenly found themselves in danger.

Overall, at stake Tuesday were 36 of the 100 Senate seats, all 435 House districts and 36 of 50 governors’ seats. The spending was unprecedented for a non-presidential year. Congressional races alone cost an estimated $4 billion.

Republicans needed a pickup of six seats to take control of the Senate.

Democrats had braced for a tough night, but hoped that gubernatorial races might be a bright spot. But they had setbacks in two races with implications for the 2016 presidential race.

The victory in the Senate means McConnell will likely fulfill his longtime dream of becoming majority leader, one of the most powerful positions in Washington. McConnell is a conservative with little charisma, but sharp political skills. He’s opposed Obama on health care reform and other issues, but also helped broker bipartisan deals that ended last year’s government shutdown and averted a 2011 federal default.

Obama was at the White House as voters remade Congress for the final two years of his tenure — not to his liking. With lawmakers set to convene next week for a postelection session, he invited the congressional leadership to a meeting on Friday.

Republicans will face challenges of their own as they take over the Senate.

They won’t have the 60vote supermajority that’s needed to pass major legislation. And they will face a tougher Senate election in 2016, when Republicans elected in the anti-Obama wave of 2010 will be defending seats in states that lean Democratic.

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Anderlecht fights back to draw with Arsenal

LONDON, NOvember 5 (AP): Arsenal threw away a 3-0 lead and an early place in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday after Anderlecht launched a stunning comeback to draw 3-3 with a lastminute equalizer.

With only half an hour left, goals by captain Mikel Arteta from the penalty spot, Alexis Sanchez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had put Arsenal in complete control of the Group D match. With Borussia Dortmund beating Galatasaray, Arsene Wenger's side appeared certain to join the Bundesliga club in the knockout stages with two games to spare.

Instead, two goals from Anthony Vanden Borre, the second from the penalty spot in the 73rd minute, hauled Anderlecht right back into the match as Arsenal's defense collapsed.

Aleksandar Mitrovic then completed the comeback by heading in the equalizer in the 90th minute, before celebrating in front of the euphoric visiting fans. It was a stark reversal from the game in Anderlecht last month, when Arsenal scored two late goals to snatch a 2-1 win.

Wenger blamed bad luck, tiredness and, most of all, bad defending for the collapse. "You have to give them (Anderlecht) credit,

Anderlecht's Aleksandar Mitrovic, third from right, scores his side's third goal during a Champions League, Group D soccer match between Arsenal and Anderlecht, at the Emirates Stadium, in London, Tuesday, November 4. (AP Photo)

they did fight until the end and we had a poor defensive performance from the first minute to the last today," Wenger said. "We never felt comfortable and somewhere we got punished. A bit because of bad luck, the first (Anderlecht) goal was offside clearly, but defensively our performance was not good enough."

Arteta, who was substituted due to a hamstring

India stun World Champions Australia to level series PertH, NOvember 5 (PtI): The Indian men's hockey team bounced back in style against Australia, beating the World Champions 2-1 to level the fourmatch Test series at 1-1 on Wednesday.

India started aggressively and kept the opponents' defence busy in the first two quarters. They managed to sneak into Australian defence-line and created good opportunities.

However, Australia drew first blood in the 30th minute when forward player Matt Gohdes deflected a shot and sent the ball into the goal, taking the lead before the end of second quarter.

In the third quarter, Australia earned a penalty corner which was well-defended by India before the visitors counter attacked the Australian D through a long pass. It was Sardar who cleverly forwarded the ball to Ramandeep Singh, who made no mistake in netting the ball, helping his team equalise in the 33rd minute.

The equaliser saw India increase their tempo as they attacked yet again the very next minute through a long pass into the opponents' D. This time, it was SV Sunil who single-handedly took the ball to the circle and cleverly put it past the goalkeeper, giving India the second goal and the lead. In the fourth and final quarter, both India and Australia fought neck-and-neck. India continued their attacking game till the last minute and tried to create more chances but they were now up against a defensive Australia, who managed to hold the scorecard till the final whistle. The third match of the series will be played on November 8.

injury, was equally critical of the performance. "We can't afford to make these mistakes, it is just not good enough," Arteta said. "It was a massive night for us to ensure our qualification to the last 16. We threw everything away tonight and did not perform to the expected level of this football club. Luckily we have two more opportunities to amend this."

Dortmund's 4-1 win over Galatsaray sealed its place in the knockout stages with second-place Arsenal on seven points, Anderlecht with two and the Turkish side on one.

Anderlecht coach Besnik Hasi felt the turning point came with his side's first goal. "We made a few changes and at 3-1 we gained in confidence," he said. "I also have to thank

our fans tonight — even at 3-0 down they gave us confidence, and then we started to play. At 3-2, Arsenal started to have a doubt. So we really pushed forward and we scored the goal.

"This game is going to stay in my memory for sure. ... I'm very, very proud of my team. They were fantastic today." Two weeks after Arsenal was fortunate to snatch a late victory in

Belgium, Tuesday's performance at Emirates Stadium looked highly convincing — at least for the first hour.

The first goal came after Anderlecht center half Chancel Mbemba felled Danny Welbeck with a clumsy challenge in the area in the 25th minute.

Arteta coolly chipped his spot-kick down the middle as keeper Silvio Proto dived helplessly to his right, and

the home side had taken a step toward the last 16.

Another step followed just four minutes later, after Sanchez took a free kick that struck the Anderlecht wall. The ball looped high in the air and back to the Chile striker, who smashed home a volley that Proto got a glove to but couldn't keep out. It was Sanchez's fifth goal in his last three matches.

Arsenal kept up the pressure after the re-start and was rewarded when Sanchez won back possession outside the Anderlecht area, releasing Oxlade-Chamberlain for a penetrating run and a curling shot past Proto into the far corner.

However, defensive frailties have marked Wenger's side this season and they again proved costly. Substitute Davy Roef broke down the right flank in the 61st minute and sent in a low cross that Vanden Borre turned in from pointblank range — with Arsenal appeals for offside waved away by the referee.

Vanden Borre then narrowed the deficit even further from the penalty spot, giving Szczesny no chance after Nacho Monreal had pulled down Mitrovic in the area. At this stage, the home side was barely clinging on to a victory and a place in the knockout stages. That already loose grip was broken completely when Mitrovic brilliantly headed home Andy Najar's cross into the corner of the Arsenal net in the last minute.

"Maybe we underestimated subconsciously Anderlecht and got punished," Wenger summed up. "That's the Champions League. You need to be at the mental level ... and certainly we were not."

Atletico moves past Malmo Dhoni, Kohli included

mALmO, NOvember 5 (reuters): Atletico Madrid's Koke and Raul Garcia secured a 2-0 victory at Malmo for the Group A leaders in their Champions League clash on Tuesday after the Swedes spurned several excellent chances.

Having soaked up considerable pressure, Koke broke the deadlock for last season's runners-up on the half-hour, sweeping Juanfran's low cross from the right into the net with the inside of his heel after a swift counter-attack.

Raul Garcia killed the game in the 78th minute, firing home Filip Helander's botched clearance.

"Obviously, it's important to play nice football but what makes me proud is when we win," he told reporters. "That is what I want to give the fans, the team, the supporters - victories."

Atletico lead the standings with nine points from four games followed by Olympiakos Piraeus and Juventus on six points after the Italians beat the visiting Greek side 3-2 on Tuesday. Malmo's defeat leaves them bottom with three points.

Having demolished the Swedes 5-0 at the Vicente Calderon, Simeone's Atletico side added their first away win in this season's

in ICC ODI team

Atletico Madrid Diego Godin, left, and Malmo's Isaac Kiese Thelin battle for the ball during their Champions League Group A soccer match at the New Stadium in Malmo, Sweden, Tuesday November 4. (AP Photo)

competition by hitting Malmo on the counter attack. The Swedish champions did create plenty of openings as they poured forward in search of an equaliser, with Isaac Kiese Thelin, Emil Forsberg and Anton Tinnerholm all going close.

Penalty Appeal Malmo coach Age Hareide thought they should have had a penalty when Markus Rosenberg's second-half free kick appeared to strike an arm in the defen-

sive wall but referee Mark Clattenburg waved away appeals as the captain fired the rebound onto the post.

"What they did to us they do to most teams but that is no comfort to us," Hareide told a media conference. The second half exploded into life with a flurry of yellow cards for Atletico with Miranda, Diego Godin and Juanfran all booked in a three-minute spell, leading to nervousness on the Atletico bench before Raul Garcia struck the second goal.

"For 20 or 25 minutes at the start of the second half Malmo pressed well," Simeone said. "They didn't create any really clear chances apart from the one off the post, but when our 2-0 goal came it was a relief and we could relax." Simeone praised the Swedes and said that they still had a chance to go through.

"Anything can happen. No team has lost the chance to win or to go through. You have to be very attentive and take the next match as if it was a final."

DubAI, NOvember 5 (IANs): India captain MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and pacer Mohammed Shami have been included in the ICC ODI team of 2014 while Rohit Sharma got into the list as the 12th man. However, Indian cricketers had to face disappointment as none were named in the ICC Test Team of 2014.

Dhoni has been selected in the ODI team for the seventh year in a row. He has been appointed captain for the fifth consecutive year.

Players previously selected in the team are AB de Villiers (2010, 2011 and 2013), Kohli (2012) and Ajantha Mendis (2009).

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews has been named captain of the Test side that also features two other Sri Lankans in Kumar Sangakkara and Rangana Herath.

This is the seventh time since 2006 that Sangakkara has been selected in the Test team. He missed out in 2009 and 2013.

Dale Steyn has also been selected for a record seventh successive year while de Villiers has been selected for the fifth time (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014).

Stuart Broad (2009, 2011 and 2012) and Mitchell Johnson (2009) are the other players who have previously been included in the Test team.

The squads were announced at the ICC headquarters by a specially appointed selection panel chaired by ICC Cricket Committee chairman and former India captain Anil Kumble.

"I would like to congratulate all the players for their selection in the teams of the year. It is an achievement to be proud of and a recognition for their good performances in the qualifying period," said Kumble.

"We have selected the best possible sides which are well balanced and capable of beating any side on any given day in any given conditions."

Kumble was joined on the panel by Jonathan Agnew, former England international, ex-Sri Lanka opener Russel Arnold, former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming and Betty Timmer, former chair of the ICC Women's Committee.

ICC Test Team of the Year 2014 (in batting order): David Warner (Aus), Kane Williamson (NZ), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), AB de Villiers (SA), Joe Root (Eng), Angelo Mathews (SL) (captain), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Stuart Broad (Eng), Dale Steyn (SA), Rangana Herath (SL), Tim Southee (NZ), Ross Taylor (NZ) (12th man).

ICC ODI Team of the Year 2014 (in batting order): Mohammad Hafeez (Pak), Quinton de Kock (SA), Virat Kohli (Ind), George Bailey (Aus), AB de Villiers (SA), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wicketkeeper-captain) (Ind), Dwayne Bravo (WI), James Faulkner (Aus), Dale Steyn (SA), Mohammad Shami (Ind), Ajantha Mendis (SL), Rohit Sharma (Ind) (12th man).

U-16 Cricket: Nagaland Rockets move to 5-0, top Heat 108-91 wins inaugural match

Nagaland (A) under-16 Team with Arunachal Pradesh under-16 along with match officials before the match.

DImAPur, NOvember 5 (mexN): The inaugural match of the bilateral Under-16 One Day cricket series between Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh ended with the host side earning a comfortable sixwicket win on Wednesday at the NCA Stadium, Sovima, Dimapur. Organised by the Nagaland Cricket Association, the series is aimed at giving a push to junior cricketers of the state.

Earlier Arunachal won the toss and elected to bat.

ScoreS Arunachal Pradesh 120 all out in 36.3 overs (Kago 30 runs, Nadim 16, Hritik 14; Anio 3 wickets, Raman 4 wickets) Nagaland 121/4 in 27 overs (Rohan 29, Anizo 17, Bipin 16; Karbug 3 wickets)

ba (Dimapur) Nagaland Manager: Sobu Mechieo (Kohima) Umpires – Bappi Rana (Zbto) & Somuth Alley (Wokha) Match Refree – Moses Khruomo

Tommrows match @9 A.M. Nagaland U-16 (B) vs Nagaland Coach: Temsujung- Arunachal U-16

Arunachal started strongly but neat and tidy bowling

by Nagaland captain Aniezo, who picked 3 wickets, and Raman, with 4 wickets,

helped skittle Arunachal for 120 runs. Nagaland easily overhauled the target in 27 overs losing only 4 wickets.

mIAmI, NOvember 5 (AP): James Harden had 25 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds, and Dwight Howard added 26 points and 10 boards as the Houston Rockets remained unbeaten with a 108-91 win over the Miami Heat 10891 on Tuesday.

Trevor Ariza added 19 points for the Rockets (5-0), who used a 13-0 run late in the fourth quarter to pull away.

Chris Bosh scored 21 points for Miami (3-1). Dwyane Wade added 19, and Shawne Williams and Mario Chalmers each scored 12.

Portland's Damian Lillard snapped out of a shooting slump with 27 points as the Trail Blazers held Cleveland star LeBron James to just 11 in a 101-82 win over the Cavaliers.

Lillard was nursing an abdominal strain but had 15 points by halftime. He averaged just 13.7 points on 11-for-41 shooting in the first three games.

Wesley Matthews finished with 21 points as the Blazers (22) snapped a two-game losing streak.At Los Angeles, Gerald Green scored 26 points off the bench and Markieff Morris had 23 points and 10 rebounds, as

Phoenix overcame Kobe Bryant's 39-point performance to beat the Lakers 112-106 and keep Los Angeles winless. Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points in a reserve role for the Suns, who survived a fourth-quarter surge led by Bryant to beat the Lakers for the second time in seven days. Bryant went 14 for 37 for the Lakers, who are off to their first 0-5 start since the 1957-58 Minneapolis Lakers lost their first seven games.

The Toronto Raptors defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 100-88 after DeMar DeRozan scored 16 points and Patrick Patterson had 14. Lou Williams scored nine of his 12 points in the fourth quarter and Tyler Hansbrough got eight of his 12 at the free-throw line as the Raptors improved to 3-1. Serge Ibaka had 25 points and 11 rebounds for a short-handed Oklahoma City.

In other games, Pau Gasol had 16 points and 13 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls beat the winless Orlando Magic 98-90, the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Indiana Pacers 87-81, the Washington Wizards downed the New York Knicks 9883 and the New Orleans Pelicans Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) dunks the ball against Miami Heat forwere 100-91 winners over the ward Chris Bosh (1) during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game, Charlotte.

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Band list for Hornbill Int’l Rock Contest 2014 is out

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fter months of auditions and screening, 29 bands have been selected to compete in the 2014 edition off the Hornbill Internatonal Rock Contest.

A press release from the Media and Publicity Manager of the Hornbill Music Festival stated that the three themes of musicality i.e., melody, technical proficiency, and artistry, are what characterizes most of the bands who will be performing. The menu is from the blues to protest, Indian Carnatic to the metal ‘80s, pop rock to post-rock.

Left to right) Veteran guitarists Andrew Ngullie, Abemo Enyie, and Thejove The shortlisted bands Medeo seen here in discussions at NOC & Sky Entertainment’s office in Koinclude four from Naga- hima during the October 31-November 1 screening. land, and scores from as far Selected BAndS as Bangalore and Darjeeling.

Sl. no name of the band Address For two straight days from 1 VISHNU DELHI morning to evening on Oc2 THE MONGRELS CACOPHONY KOLKATA tober 31 to November 1, the 3 THE DOPPLER EFFECT DELHI judges / selectors Andrew 4 THE BETA FUNKTION CHENNAI Ngullie, Abemo Enyie, and 5 TAPE TOWN MADNESS BANGALORE ThejoveMedeoviewedhours 6 SILVER PUNE of video footage, listened to 7 SERENADE KOLKATA audio samples and debated 8 3 TON CAPACITY BANGALORE on which band deserved a 9 RESTLESS DESIRE TURA slot. Creative personnel and 10 RED SKY PIRATES DARJEELING leaders of NOC and Sky Inc. 11 HIDDEN TRUTH KOLKATA were present during the mu12 CHROME O SOUL CHENNAI sical brainstorming.

13 BLACK DOG MACHINE GUN DARJEELING The pioneering musi14 THE ROYAL FLUSH ARUNACHAL cians then fished out a list, 15 FINAL SURRENDER BANGALORE which we, NOC and Sky 16 THE FAMILY CHEESE MUMBAI Entertainment, now assure 17 NIGHTMARES SIKKIM that you are going to have 18 MUSES OF AUTHORITY SILIGURI the time of your life when the 19 HYPNOSIS WEST BENGAL music begins on the evening 20 HIDDEN IDENTITY KOLKATA of December 4, in Kohima.

21 GREY SHACK CHENNAI For further details and 22 CRAZY WEATHER DELHI clarifications, contact the 23 ADROIT MEGHALAYA 24 RAGE HYBRID NEPAL A&R Manager Khriesazo 25 CONDEMNED HOUR TURA Liezietsu, at the phone 26 PAPER SKY NAGALAND number +91 9615170264.

27 TECHNICOLORS NAGALAND For those wishing to stay 28 STEREO TYPE NAGALAND updated on Facebook, visit 29 TUNE IT AGAIN NAGALAND www.facebook.com/hirc.

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Anytime Fitness announces grand opening in Dimapur 24-hour co-ed fitness club offers convenience and affordability

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nytime Fitness, the world largest and fastest growing 24-hour co-ed fitness franchise, is pleased to announce, it is open for fitness in “OURS” Building ADC Court junction. A grand opening celebration will take place on Saturday, November 8 from 4:00 pm onwards with ribbon cutting ceremony at 5:00 pm.

“For many people, joining a gym can be an intimidating experience” said Thungbemo and Serena Murry, Anytime Fitness club owner. “Our gym is small enough that we can provide personalized attention for all of our members. Whether weight-loss is your goal, or increased strength or improved balanced and flexibility – or a combination of some of those things – at Anytime Fitness, we’re able to help you achieve whatever results you seek.”

Nationwide, the aver-

age Anytime Fitness club has about 900 members.

The gyms are staffed roughly 10 hours a day, but members can access the club whenever they like – even during unstaffed hours – using a computerized keyfob system.

“We make it easy for our members to exercise whenever and however they like,” said Murry. “The gym will always be clean and well-maintained, featuring the best exercise equipment available. We have personal trainers available to help you learn how to use all of the equipment and to develop an individualized workout plan, if you like. We also have a ‘Fitness on Request’ system that allows members to choose from dozens of video classes whenever it’s most convenient for them.”

Membership at one Anytime Fitness club gives members access to over 2,600 clubs worldwide as

well as access to AnytimeHealth.com, the most comprehensive online wellness support system available.

The layout of each club is designed for quick and effective exercise. At the Anytime Fitness club in Dimapur members have full use of top-quality equipment and amenities, including: • Circuit and resistance training machines • Free weights • Cardio equipment, including treadmills, elliptical machines, and stationary bikes • Group fitness classes, including boot camps etc • Private bathrooms, changing rooms and showers To celebrate its grand opening, Anytime Fitness is offering upto 15% discount.

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Gyms are now open in all 19 countries, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, Grand Cayman, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, Qatar, India, Chile, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. All franchised gyms are individually owned and operated. Join one gym and use them all.

25 years of Miss Nagaland celebration

Jolie 'open' to a career in politics

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Miss Nagaland pageant has been co-sponsored by National Health Mission, Government of Nagaland.

Sponsors include Department of Forests, Ecology, Environment & Wildlife, Department of Land Resources, Department of Irrigation and Department of Agriculture. Other sponsors include Seven Six Provision Store, Mixed Bag, Vian Enterprises, Fit and Fine Gym, Sami Direct, M/S Naagaamiitech and well wishers.

Toshimongla Metha • Lemon will gift Lemon mobiles to the three winners of the pageant • Fit and Fine Gym will give a gift voucher to Miss Nagaland 2014 • Oriflame will give gift hampers to the three winners and to all contestants • Shoe designer Filafi Fithu will give gift hamper of her designs to Miss Na• Miss Nagaland 2014 galand 2014 Crown is sponsored by • Sub title sponsors for

Miss Nagaland 2014 are as follows: • Sami Direct Queen of Hearts – Sami Direct • Miss Photogenic – Dream Looks Beauty Parlour • Miss Perfect 10 – Mix Bag • Miss Talent – Jat Restaurant • Trinity Communications will be sponsoring Spice Smart phones to all four Sub Title winners.

Sami Direct will sponsor gift hampers to all Sub Title winners.

he has found a new purpose through her humanitarian work.

And now, Angelina Jolie has revealed, she is 'open' to making that passion into a career in politics.

But Angelina, who stars on Vanity Fair's December cover, told the magazine she believes her Hollywood career may hinder the possibility of seeking an elected or appointed office.

'When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility,' the Maleficent star said.

'But I honestly don’t know in what role I would be more useful— I am conscious of what I do for a living, and that [could] make it less possible.' Besides her wildly successful acting career, Angelina is known for her extensive humanitarian efforts and as a prominent United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. After being pressed further if she'd pursue a life in politics, the mother of six relented by saying, 'I am open.'

Angelina also opened up about her relationship

with Brad Pitt, with whom she finally tied the knot in a surprise wedding in August. And she revealed being married 'does feel different', admitting 'it feels nice to be husband and

wife'.

The A-list star wed her longtime partner in a surprise ceremony at their French estate on August 23 and had their

brood of children write the wedding vows. 'They did not expect us never to fight, but they made us promise to always say, "Sorry," if we do.

So they said, "Do you?," and we said, "We do!,"' the Oscar winning actress recounted.

The busy actress has recently been exercising her talents behind the camera with her upcoming directorial feature Unbroken, about Olympic runner turned World War II hero Louis Zamperini.

And she's now prepping to do double duty directing and starring opposite her husband in By The Sea. This will be the newly married couple's first collaboration since the 2005 film that brought them together, Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

And while she's excited about the upcoming romantic drama, Angelina also know it comes with the potential for much scrutiny.

'A few friends asked if we were crazy... [A film about] a married couple going through some difficulties... and I’m directing him.'

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Pop singer Pink, 35, climbed up from No. 8 in 2013 to third with $52 million. "Beyonce played 95 shows during our scoring period, bringing in an average of $2.4 million per city," said Forbes, citing data from the Pollstar trade magazine.

The R&B singer's

self-titled album released last December and endorsement deals pushed her earnings up further assuring her the top spot. Barbados-born Rihanna, 26, with $48 million and Katy Perry, 30, who earned an estimated $40 million, rounded out the top five on the annual list.

Madonna, 56, ranked No. 1 last year, failed to make the top 10 in 2014.

Lady Gaga, 28, slumped from No. 2 in 2013 to ninth place this year with estimated earnings of $33 million.

Forbes compiled the list after estimating pre-tax income calculated for the 12 months from June 2013 to 2014 based on record sales, concert tickets, touring information merchandise sales and interviews with concert promoters, lawyers and managers.

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Retired cricket great Sachin Tendulkar, left, shares a lighter moment with his wife Anjali during the launch of his autobiography,"Playing It My Way," in Mumbai, Wednesday, November5. (AP Photo)

MuMbAI, NoveMbeR 5 (PtI): Sachin Tendulkar’s much-awaited autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’ was today launched in the presence of some of his former teammates, celebrities and family members at an engrossing ceremony here.

The book, the first copy of which he gave to his mother Rajni earlier in the day, was unveiled by Tendulkar himself amid thundering applause by the gathering. At the launch, Tendulkar presented a copy to his mentor and childhood coach Ramakant Achrekar in the presence of his daughter Sara.

“I would like to present the first copy after launch to

somebody very special in my life, Tendulkar said before handing over a copy of the book to a wheelchairbound Achrekar.

Before the launch of the book, cricket analyst and host for the evening Harsha Bhogle had three panel discussion sessions with Tendulkar’s former teammates and family, who significantly feature in the book.

The first panel discussion was attended by former India captains Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri and former Mumbai cricketer Vasu Paranjape, who played a crucial role in shaping Tendulkar’s career.

Gavaskar remembered how he met Tendulkar for

the first time and was impressed by his talent at the first look. “Hemant Waingankar and Anil Joshi introduced me to Sachin and asked me to see him bat.

Probably, I have finished my cricket at that stage. He was batting at the Wankhede nets against Raju Kulkarni, who was a very slippery customer. In the nets you don’t really think about no balls and Raju was doing the same. But the manner in which Sachin was punching the ball off the backfoot towards mid-off and midon that impressed me,” Gavaskar recollected. Asked what if he got the chance to bat alongside Tendulkar, Gavaskar said: “I think as far as running between the

wicket we would have been very good.”

Former Mumbai and Indian skipper Vengsarkar said he handpicked Tendulkar to play for the team after watching him easily negotiating India’s best fast bowler at the time, Kapil Dev, in the Wankhede Stadium nets, where the Indian team had come to play against the touring New Zealand team. “I was the captain (of Mumbai) that time and I heard a lot about him. Vasu (Paranjape) brought him and introduced him to me. Vasu said you should go and watch Sachin play. I said not now but Vasu said no no you should go,” Vengsarkar said.

“I was playing my 100th

Test and we were practicing at the CCI. I asked Kapil, Maninder to bowl at him and at such a tender age he played them with ease.

Then I told (Mumbai) selectors we should pick him at least in the 15 but in the next three days he didn’t come for practice. I was a bit livid with him. I told Vasu to ask him the reason and he said I had an exam.”

Shastri, who watched Tendulkar from close quarters during the master batsman’s classic 148 not out at Sydney in 1992, said according to him that innings was the best of his career.

“In the tour of Pakistan in 1989, Sachin made his debut but got out early. I was lying down in the dressing room and was livid with my dismissal. He took his time and walked upto me after an hour. By the time I calmed down and and he said to me ‘I was in a hurry’. “(During that innings) the time he was at the crease he looked like a fish out of water, but a month later he looked a big shark in the water and continued to be so for the next 25 years,” he said.

Talking about Tendulkar’s epic 148 not out in Sydney Cricket Groud, his first and one of the best on the Australian soil, Shastri, who was batting along side the master blaster said: “I was just 22 yards away and it was the best place to witness such a wonderful innings. I was witnessing someone just 18 was over to become the first overseas player to score a 100 in Australia. Tendulkar’s Sydney innings was strokeplay of the highest order.”

ISL: Mumbai FC edges Delhi Dynamos

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MuMbAI, NoveMbeR 5 (AGeNCIes): Nicolas Anelka's calm finish meant Mumbai City FC earned bragging rights against Delhi Dynamos after the two teams from the most populous metros in India clashed for the first time in the Indian Super League.

Mumbai City's Subhash Singh touched the ball past his challenger, beat him with raw pace and laid on a perfect low ball for Anelka to finish first-time on the bounce — a goal which finally brought to life a match which saw one of the most drab first halves of the ISL so far.

Delhi Dynamos introduced Alessandro del Piero immediately after the goal and he was part of a number of build-ups as the visitors went in the search of an equaliser. Del Piero caused chaos in the box with a corner and a freekick and milked the crowd with a lovely 360 turn — but he couldn't finish with his head from point-blank range in the 90th minute as his team succumbed to a second straight defeat.

Mumbai were partly at fault for allowing Delhi to stay in the match till the last minute — spurning a hat-full of chances as Harm Van Veldhoven's team were stretched in the final quarter at the DY Patil stadium.

Subhash was the biggest recipient of all these chances. First, he hit his effort straight in to a defender from a short Moritz pass after intricate work in the box. Moments later, he decided to go on a run down the right channel when Anelka was in acres of space in the middle.

Squeezed between these two chances was a Moritz effort in the 81st minute — which he dragged wide with his favourite left foot.

Subhash had yet another chance at the death after an Anelka pass, but the Indian forward found goalkeeper Kristof Van Hout with his finesse shot.

They could even have taken the lead earlier when

Anelka was put through on goal by Moritz in the first half — a chance which the Frenchman missed — along with losing out in a sprint with goalkeeper Van Hout in the 89th minute.

At the other end, Delhi's Mads Junker had no reason to be disappointed with service — right winger Steven Dias sent in some delightful crosses but the tall Danish striker couldn't reach most of them. The only time he did manage to judge the delivery better than the rock-solid Subrata Paul was in the 34th minute but the attempt went over.

If the second half saw a flurry of chances, then the first 45 minutes couldn't have been more contrast- Gustavo Marmentini dos Santos of Delhi Dynamos FC on the attack during match 22 of the ing. The match was teeter- Hero Indian Super League between Mumbai City FC and Delhi Dynamos FC City held at the ing on the edge of boring — D.Y. Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai, India on the 5th November. with both teams showing no intent to attack until the 15th minute when Anelka ran onto a hopeful Lalrindika Ralte lobbed through Theme : “Arise & Shine” Isa. 60:1 ball which Van Hout gathDate : 29th October – 6th November 2014 ered with ease.

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reach knockout round

Real Madrid's Karim Benzema, right, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during a Group B Champions League soccer match between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday November 4. (AP Photo)

MADRID, NoveMbeR 5 (ReuteRs): Holders Real Madrid breezed into the last 16 of the Champions League with two games to spare when a Karim Benzema strike secured a 1-0 win in their Group B match at home to a toothless Liverpool on Tuesday.

Benzema clipped a Marcelo cross high into the net from close range in the 27th minute, the France forward's fifth goal in this season's ompetition, to maintain Real’s perfect record in the section with 12 points from four games.

It was the record 10-times European champions' 12th win in a row in all competitions and followed their 3-0 success against Liverpool at Anfield last month.

"We have done our homework and we can now focus on La Liga, the King's Cup and the Club World Cup," Real captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas said in an interview with Spanish television. "We are very pleased," added the Spain international, who was making a record 144th Champions League appearance.

"We have had some very tough and difficult matches recently and once we went 1-0 ahead we controlled the game." A major surprise was the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo failed to

get on the scoresheet and he remains one goal short of the Champions League scoring record of 71 set by former Real and Schalke 04 forward Raul.

FC Basel are well placed to join Real in the knockout round after they beat Ludogorets 4-0 to move onto six points, with Liverpool and the Bulgarian champions on three each.

BREEZY BERNABEU Real were close to full strength for the clash at a chilly and breezy Bernabeu, while Liverpool coach Brendan Rodgers made a host of changes from the team that lost to Newcastle United in the Premier League at the weekend.

Captain Steven Gerrard, Coutinho, Raheem Sterling, Jordan Henderson and Mario Balotelli were all on the bench, while Gareth Bale, who is coming back from injury, was among the Real substitutes.

Real had an early chance when James Rodriguez forced a good save from Simon Mignolet in the fourth minute before the visitors settled and started to play some neat football without threatening the home goal.

A mistake by Liverpool captain Martin Skrtel in the 10th minute gifted possession to Benzema and he set

up Ronaldo, but Mignolet pulled off another fine stop to deny the Portuguese. A well worked move yielded Real’s opening goal. Isco sent Marcelo clear on the left and his pinpoint cross was turned high into the net by Benzema as the Liverpool players appealed for a non-existent offside.

Liverpool failed to muster a shot in the first half to Real’s 13 and the European champions continued in the second period where they had left off with Ronaldo going close in the 49th minute. Alberto Moreno had Liverpool's first effort when he forced Casillas into a save in the 56th minute and Adam Lallana fired wide two minutes later.

Bale, who had replaced Rodriguez nine minutes earlier, turned a Marcelo cross onto the bar in the 71st and although the introduction of Sterling with about 20 minutes left gave Liverpool extra zip they did not come close to an equaliser.

"I knew what I was doing with the team selection and we are disappointed with the result but it was a good performance," Liverpool coach Brendan Rogers, whose side host Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday, said on UEFA. com. "We showed great composure and a courage to want to play," he added.

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