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World losing the battle against climate change Global emissions gap could still be 12 bln tonnes in 2030: UN

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A woman seen threshing paddy at the terrace fields of Khonoma village, located 20 kilometers away from Kohima. (Morung Photo)

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India orders Greenpeace shut down over fraud

NEw DELHI, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): India has cancelled Greenpeace International’s license to operate and gave the group 30 days to close down, citing financial fraud and falsification of data, the environment watchdog said on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has turned the spotlight on foreign charities since he took office last year, accusing some of trying to hamper projects on social and environmental grounds.

Last year, Modi government withdrew permission to Greenpeace to receive foreign funding, saying the money was used to block industrial projects.

Under the latest order issued by auAnd all you back door ap- thorities in Tamil Nadu where Greenpointees, bring your own peace is registered, the government said chairs, tables and build it had found that the organisation had vioyour own cubicles. lated the provisions of law by engaging in fraudulent dealings.

The Morung Express Greenpeace denied any wrongdoing

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KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 6 (DIPR): Nagaland state Governor, PB Acharya had a brief interaction with the delegates of French companies this morning at the Raj Bhavan where he called upon them to promote sustainable urbanization on economic, social and environmental fronts and to help transform the local communities. He also invited the delegates to the forthcoming Hornbill festival to witness the different lifestyles of the Nagas, their culture and the agricultural organic products. He also presented Naga shawls to the 14 delegates during the breakfast hosted by him. The French delegates reportedly said that most French companies are well established in India and were keen to bring their contributions for the development of better urban services and infrastructure to the country in different cities of Indian states. It was stated that the companies cover all the sectors of a sustainable and intelligent city, contribute integrated and transversal projects and could use their expertise related to urban transport, renewable energies and electricity, water, waste management, urban planning and development city lighting and street furniture, information communication technologies or in construction.

and said the closure was a “clumsy tactic” to silence dissent.

“This is an extension of the deep intolerance for differing viewpoints that sections of this government seem to harbour,” Vinuta Gopal, the interim executive director of Greenpeace, said in a statement.

A government official confirmed that the closure order had been issued on Wednesday but did not elaborate.

Greenpeace India has campaigned against coal mines in forests, genetically modified crops, nuclear power and toxic waste management. In recent months the federal government has toughened rules governing charities and cancelled the registration of nearly 9,000 groups for failing to declare details of overseas donations.

Meanwhile, Greenpeace India said it would fight the cancellation of its registration by the Tamil Nadu government in the legal forum.

LONDON, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 could still be up to 12 billion tonnes more than the level needed to keep global warming within 2 degrees Celsius this century, a United Nations report estimated on Friday.

The sixth annual U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) report analysed the impact of countries’ climate policies and emissions pledges ahead of a global climate deal to be signed in Paris next month and whether they are enough to limit global temperature increases to within 2 degrees C this century.

To stay within the 2 degree limit, global emissions levels should not exceed 42 billion tonnes in 2030.

However, even if all countries’ conditional and unconditional plans for emission cuts are implemented fully, emissions could rise to 54 billion tonnes in 2030, leaving a gap of 12 billion tonnes, the report said.

“The current (pledges), combined with policies over the last few years, present a real increase in ambition levels and demonstrate an historic level of commitment and engagement by member states in tackling this major global challenge,” UNEP executive director Achim Steiner said in a statement.

“However, they are not

sufficient to limit global temperature rise to the recommended level of 2 degrees Celsius this century, and thus head off the worst impacts of climate change.”

Last week, the United Nations said plans by around 150 countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions were not enough to limit a rise in global temperatures

to 2 degrees, a threshold seen by scientists as avoiding the most devastating effects of climate change.

The plans, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), will be the building blocks for a U.N. deal expected at a summit set for Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 to fight global warming in the years from 2020.

Poorer nations, which might be the most vulnerable to climate change, have said negotiators should not abandon hope of limiting temperature rises to below 1.5 degrees even if targets on the table in Paris are less ambitious.

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Global warming is moving mountains NEw YORK, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Researchers have discovered a strong relationship between global and local climate change and a mountain’s internal tectonic plate shifts and topographic changes.

The study unveiled a strong interaction between climate shifts and increased internal movement in the North American St. Elias Mountain Range. “To understanding how mountain structures evolve through geologic time is no quick task because we are talking millions of years,” said one of the researchers Eva Enkelmann from University of Cincinnati in the US. “There are two primary processes that result in the building and eroding of mountains and those processes are interacting,” Enkelmann noted.

Looking at the St. Elias Mountains, Enkelmann noted how dry it is in the northern part of the mountain range. But the precipitation is very high in the southern

area, resulting in more erosion and material coming off the southern flanks.

So as the climate change influences the erosion, that can produce a shift in the tectonics. The researchers found that the way a mountain range moves and behaves topographically can also change and create its local climate by redirecting wind and precipitation. The repercussions of these changes can in turn, accelerate the erosion and tectonic seismic activity of that mountain range.

As an example, Enkelmann cited the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 -- the world’s second largest earthquake recorded to date -- that also resulted in a tsunami.

“Our biggest concern today is the continued potential for earthquakes that can also result in tsunamis,” Enkelmann pointed out.

The findings were presented at the 2015 Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.

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School children air minds on energy conservation State BJP acting like RSS apologists: NPCC our Correspondent Kohima | November 6

School children on Friday expressed their message on energy conservation through creative art works at the State level painting competition on energy conservation held here in Kohima.

“Switch off light when you are not using them, even for just a minute,” carried a message with an apt art work by a student participant. Another painting endorsed the “Use CFL or led bulbs to save electricity.”

Several school children joined

the competition, which was held under National campaign on energy conservation, Ministry of Power, Government of India. Some paintings stressed on the need to remove plugs when not in use to save electricity “so that we could light in each and every village house.”

“Use bicycle for short distance to conserve a drop of fuel,” “Use windmill to save energy,” “Save Energy, Save Earth,” “Use natural light, save electricity” were among the many messages carried through paintings as the medium of expression.

Commissioner & Secretary for

School Education & SCERT, F.P Solo who inspected the painting works was impressed by the creativity, imagination and talents of the students showcased through the paintings.

“It is our responsibility to preserve and protect planet earth and also it is our responsibility not to destroy it but to preserve it for future generation,” Solo told the students adding, anyone can contribute towards conservation and protection of the environment.

Challenging the students to put in their best effort in their own ways to contribute to the im-

provement of the environment, Solo suggested that one contribute in many ways, for instance, by planting trees, not throwing “High time for a waste here and there and followState like Nagaland ing a healthy lifestyle.

“Art is learning to love what predominantly is good and beautiful that brings inhabited by about positive development in the child,” said All Nagaland Fine Christians to send Arts Teachers Association (ANFA- strong message to the TA) president V. Hetoi Swu. nation and the world He added that the Association is committed to deliver the opti- that we do not accept mal benefits of arts to the young intolerance” students with due support of the DIMAPUR, NOVEMpeople and the government.

BER 6 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Friday appealed to the public to extend solidarity with other religious minorities and oppressed castes across the country livIMPHAL, NOVEMBER 6 ing under the “talibanised (IANS): On the 15th anni- version of BJP-RSS rule.” It versary of Irom Sharmila’s also slammed the State BJP hunger strike, the Interna- for acting like “RSS apolotional Commission of Ju- gists” and brushing aside isrists (ICJ) on Friday urged sues of public importance.

“At no point of time, citithe Indian government to repeal the controversial zens of India were equally Armed Forces Special Pow- unhappy like the present ers Act (AFSPA) without situation,” Media Cell, NPCC any “further delay”. “The in a press statement claimed while giving a clarion call that AFSPA has facilitated gross time is now ripe for the Naga human rights violations people to voice out against by the armed forces in the propagation of fascist ideolMembers of LiveNow Events areas in which it is opera- ogy by the RSS to silently gain cure with ample parking spot while ets will be available at The Garden; tional. It is a repressive and foothold in the state. avoiding traffic snarls, the event Encore, Café Destination, Synergy draconian law that should “It is high time for a State managers said, adding that it is tak- Systems, La Premier, Furtados, Sta- have no place in today’s In- like Nagaland which is preing a step further on how shows are tionery World and Bake My Day at dia,” ICJ Asia-Pacific direc- dominantly inhabited by organised here in Nagaland.

Diphupar, Hipo Store at 5th Mile and tor Sam Zarifi said.

Christians to send strong The concert venue, according Computer Emporium at ChumukeICJ is an NGO which message to the nation and to the organisers, can accommo- dima. In Kohima, the tickets can be aims to promote and pro- the world that we do not acdate 13000 people approximate. availed at Trap, Ozone Café, Unitex tect human rights through cept intolerance, the ConThe band will land in Dimapur on and Big Bite Café. In Mokokchung, at the rule of law, by using its gress said.

December 14 and leave on the 16th, M/S Shanpan & Sons and in MokokcThe Congress also critiunique legal expertise to the day after the concert. hung at The Restaurant and Aria. cized the State BJP by terming develop and strengthen The ticket price ranges from Rs. The concert is scheduled for a them as “RSS apologists of 800 to Rs. 10,000. The special Rs. 6:00 pm start while the gates will national and international Nagaland writing under the 10, 000-ticket is for two people and open at 2:00 pm. In the interest of justice systems. ICJ’s de- guise of BJP Media Cell to decomes with the added incentive of convenience and to avoid large mand came after human fend the intolerance shown “dinner with MLTR” at Niathu Resort minute rush at the gates, the organ- rights activist Sharmila towards the religious minoriafter the show. Front row tickets are isers have requested concert-goers completed her 15 years of ties and oppressed castes priced at Rs. 1500 and for the middle to reach the venue well ahead of the indefinite fast demanding ever since it came to power in row, Rs. 800. In Dimapur, the tick- scheduled start.

May 2014.” for repealing of AFSPA.

MLTR’s ‘Someday’ is December 15 for Nagaland Morung Express News Dimapur | November 6

There are songs that get lodged in the head like rivets. The tunesloathe or love them-keeps playing over and over in the head like a never-ending music box and often one can’t help but succumb, humming along to the tune. Michael Learns to Rock (MLTR) was and still is the kind of band that produces those kinds of songs.

A phenomenon of a band that emerged from a non-English speaking country called Denmark but sings in English, while captivating millions of non-English speaking listeners for over two decades is finally going to set foot in Nagaland.

The venue will be none other than the scenic NEZZC ground at 3rd Mile, Dimapur; the date – December 15, 2015. The band’s other dates in India include Kolkata, Delhi and Guwahati.

LiveNow Events, a Nagalandbased event management company that is behind the December 15 gig, promises to give concert-goers a show worth the money spent. While concerts have come to be associated with boisterous stadium-sized events, the event managers said that the NEZCC landscape will add to the ambience. The venue will be se-

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It lamented that “when the country is facing an unprecedented show of resentment by intellectuals, writers, free-thinkers, scientist, historians, economists, artistes, industry leaders and even the RBI Governor over the growing intolerance perpetrated by the fringe elements of RSS under the patronage of BJP government, our own people in the State BJP chooses to ignore the writing on the wall.”

Citing instance, it said even the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee expressing his concern on three different occasions within the past month over growing intolerance sums up the whole mood of the nation gripped under fear psychosis unleashed by RSS. In this connection, the Congress reminded the State BJP that issues of public importance cannot be brushed aside just because of some internal party matters which they (BJP) have no business poking their nose in the first place.

“We understand that the State BJP leaders, majority of whom are political wanderers without any roots are ready to embrace the fascist ideology of RSS in the hope of sharing the spoils of power, but when reality beckons, they will truly regret joining hands with BJP-RSS, as our people will never fit in their idea of nationhood that has no place for religious minorities and oppressed castes,” the statement further read.

The Congress also suggested that the State BJP members “resign enbloc if they do not agree with the wave of intolerance gripping the nation unleashed by their communal masters in which Nagaland cannot be insulated for long.”

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Participants undertake field trip Morung Express News

Ruzaphema | November 6

Participants and resource persons with officials during the training workshop held at Ruzaphema. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Ruzaphema | November 6

A seven days training workshop was organized on “exploring improved water management practices in the north eastern Himalayan region focusing on spring shed” with initiative of Land resource department, Nagaland and People’s Science Institute Dehradun with support of Arghyam foundation, Bengaluru and ACWADAM, Pune on behalf of The National Spring Initiatives. The participants from 4 northeastern states, viz. Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Manipur from various government and non-government organizations participated.

In Himalayan region, the drinking water dependence is mainly on spring.

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With climate change scenario and anthropological factors, springs are dying creating an acute drinking water scarcity. Hence the workshop was organized to enhance and build capacities of concerned agencies and local NGOs in Nagaland and other north-eastern states based on the regional needs and potential interventions. It shared the experiences of successful spring shed development activates across Himalayan states and PGWM carried out by The National Spring Initiatives.

The training imparted the practical knowledge on understanding basic hydrogeology, groundwater science, water quality, sanitation; spring-shed area treatments, community mobilization and need for supply and demand side management. The motive

is to create a pool of talent at various levels, right from government departments to community level in the less-explored field of Himalayan hydrogeology and participatory ground water management.

During the course of training, the need for spring shed development was realized by all concerned departments and representatives of respective states.

Mhathung Yanthan Director, LRD has shown keen interest on initiating pilot programme across all the districts of Nagaland states in collaboration with concerned departments and resource organizations.

Given that Nagaland is coming up with water policy, it is a good time to incorporate the spring shed development is the state level policy for long term water security. The collective ef-

forts and collaboration of stakeholder departments will be required to comprehensive water security plan. Along with supply side, demand side management will be crucial.

During panel discussion, the panelist suggested that capacity building and mass sensitization motivational programs collaboration amongst various organization and departments.

However, the panelist also felt, Land use pattern and Ownership of lad are the main problem hindering faced.

Members of Tata Trust suggested spring shed can only be successful when there is involvement of the community.

Tata trust members also opined that unless water budgeting and water policy is framed funds will not be sanctioned on water

As part of the ‘consultative meeting followed by training on participatory ground water management’ organized by PSI in collaboration with LRD at the LRD’s R/centre, Ruzaphema participants were taken to different locations on November 2.

The field trip was held with the aim to learn and understand geological formation, type of rocks, fracture and bed of rocks, use of Brenton, and measurement of dip, amount and direction of exposed rocks faces.

Kaustabh Mahamuni, scientist from ACWADAM Pune taught the participants how to sketch a map and also the strike and dip direction in order to locate underground flow of water.

He explained about the different kind of rocks, which also determine the quality of water. He also asked the participants to collected the rock samples from different locations and were shown

how water flow depending on the permeability and permissibility of water in rock.

Participants were also taken to spring locations at Medziphema village where demonstrations were held on discharge measurement of the wells and springs, slope and recharge area, different types of interventions/structures for runoff

and to this the representative of department of Geology and Mining said, the department has framed the water policy of the state and forwarded to the government for approval.

Director of Land Resources Mhathung Yanthan assured the department is going to take up 11 springs shed in the IWMP projects as pilot projects, which will go further de-

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Apart from reading of latitude longitude and elevation of the site with the help of GPS, Water quality, parameter on pH, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and temperature readings were also conducted during the field visit.

Dr. Anil Gautam PSI taught on the Water quality, parameters and demonstration were done.

pending on the outcome.

Some of the participants shared that the aquifer in Nagaland is mostly perch and said, it is not contributing much to the streams and the springs.

Members from PSI said the objective of PGWM is to make awareness of the invisible to visible and asked the participants to take forward the learning to the field.

ASU organizes seminar on wildlife conservation and Smart City Kohima | November 6

Participants with others during the state level painting competition on energy conservation under National Campaign on energy conservation. (Morung Photo)

spectively.

They will represent the state at the National level competition scheduled for December 12.

Consolation prize winners include; Sneha Kr. Gupta, SD Jain HSS Dimapur, Rohit Kr. Sah, Ram Janki HSS Dimapur, Joel Medeo, Corner Stone Zunheboto, Olivili H. Yepthomi, Holy Cross HSS Dimapur, Moumoni Roy,

Pranab Vidyapit HSS Dimapur, Parmita Sharma, Livingstone Foundation HSS Dimapur, Aotila, Jubilee Memorial School Mokokchung, Reena Yadav, St. Mary HSS Dimapur, Watimeren, Hill View HSS Mokokchung and Yoban, Azedon HS Kohima.

They pocked Rs. 2500 respectively.

In Group B, Bursenla Imsong of Little Flower

HSS Kohima bagged Ist position while Yimyangluba of Town HSS Mokokchung and Riariala Thou of DBS Dimapur stood 2nd and 3rd position respectively.

They pocketed Rs. 20,000, Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 10,000 respectively.

Consolation prize winners- Kaina Dutta- Livingstone Foundation HSS Dimapur, Vesii- GHS Chozuba, Vanjano- Fernwood

School Kohima, Yove Kezo- Holy Cross HSS Dimapur, N. Kheroda Chanu- JNV Tongha, Longleng, Chanchithung- SMB School Wokha, Anand Gupta- SD Jain HSS Dimapur, C. Ajila- DPS Dimapur, Swagata Deb- St. Mary HSS Dimapur and Senbani D. Sanjona- VKV, NEEPCO Doyang.

They pocked Rs. 2500 respectively.

Chaff Cutter distribution to livestock farmers launched

Kohima, November 6 (DiPr): Director Veterinary and A.H, Dr. R. Thungchamo Ezung, formally launched the Chaff Cutter on November 6 and handed over to the District Veterinary officers (DVO) for distribution to the beneficiaries across the state.

During the programme, Dr. Thungchamo asked the DVO’s to conduct awareness training in their respective districts, on the usage and benefits of chaff cutter. He also

water retention and ground water augmentation etc.

Water quality analysis were also demonstrated from some of the springs and Rajesh Kumar from PSI ask the participants to collect Water samples for quality testing, measuring of velocity, density and yield of water were also done during the field trip.

Morung Express News

Kohima | November 6

The state level painting competition on energy conservation under National Campaign on energy conservation, Ministry of Power, Government of India was held today at 2nd World War Cemetery.

Commissioner and secretary for school education & SCERT F.P. Solo graced the closing function as the chief guest and gave away prize to the winners.

In category A , Chokyienchila from Living Stone Foundation HSS Dimapur stood Ist place while Kayepu H. Yepthomi from Holy Cross HSS Dimapur and Rongsenwala Jamir, Hope Academy Dimapur bagged 2nd and 3rd position respectively. They pocketed Rs. 20,000, Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 10,000 re-

Participants during the field trip

stressed on the need for educating the farmers to enable them to stand on their own feet and towards this he emphasized on the importance of quality feeding. Stating that different types of animals requires different feeds, he advised the DVO’s for disseminating proper professional information to the farmers. He was optimistic that through the usage of the machineries and fodder seeds provided by the department, the farmers

would be able to maintain their livestock successfully.

Programme Officer, Feed and Fodder, Dr. Longri in his introductory note informed that the programme for distribution of chaff cutter and fodder seeds is a part of National Livestock Mission scheme, designed to increase productivity of production through application of technology in the field of Animal Husbandry.

He further said that

under the scheme three (3) components has been taken up during 20114-15 which are: Procurement and distribution of fodder seeds; Procurement and distribution of Hand driven chaff cutter and Silopit making unit.

For implementation of the programme, public/ private participation is a must Dr. Longri observed and expressed optimism that through the launching of the programme livestock farmers would be

benefitted to a large extent.

Both power driven and hand driven chaff cutter were distributed to the DVO’s of all the eleven (11) districts. The DVO’s will select beneficiaries in their respective district where 15% of the cost of the machinery has to be borne by the beneficiary, 10% by the state government and 75% by the Central government.

The programme concluded with vote of thanks proposed by Jt. Director, Dr. Myingthungo Shitiri.

The programme was held at the Chief Veterinary Office Complex, Burma Camp, Dimapur.

The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) organised as seminar on November 6 in collaboration with the Department of Forest, Environment and Climate Change and the Kohima Municipal Council. The seminar was held at the Conference Hall of the District Forest Office Complex, Kohima.

It further focused on two topics namely General Awareness on forest and wildlife conservation and Smart city.

The resource persons for the seminars were Sidramappa, IFS, DFO Kohima who spoke on Departmental activities and conservation of forests, Khelo Sing, IFA, Tseminyu who spoke on Jhum cultivation and its consequences and alternatives, Limoikim, Chiephobozou range who spoke on Hunting and its consequences and alternatives and Velatso Demo, ACF, Kohima range who gave the concluding remarks.

Sidramappa, in his session updated the participants on the various activities of the department which is involved in

plantations, forest conservations, awareness programs in rural areas etc.

While talking about wildlife conservation, Sidramappa noted that hunting in the past was a recreational activity among Nagas which is increasing in the present scenario, there the DFO expressed the need for alternative activities. Also noting that there is hardly any scope for recreational activities in Nagaland such as zoos, parks etc Sidramappa suggested the importance of recreation with conservation in Nagaland where students can actively take part.

The importance of Community Conservation Areas (CCA) was also highlighted in the session where Sendenyu village was indicated as a model village in CCA. Further taking up Dzükou valley as an example which have witnessed huge catastrophe over the years due to uncontrollable fire, Sidramappa conveyed the need for a unified management system for the conservation of Dzükou.

The resource persons for the Smart City session were Kovi Meyase, Administrator, KMC and Kezhachole Rhetso, Asst.

Director, Municipal Affairs.

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Guv calls for promoting culture

Governor, P.B. Acharya poses with students and teachers in Dimapur on Friday. (MorungP) Morung Express News Dimapur | November 6

Governor of Nagaland and Assam, P.B. Acharya has called for promoting and preserving one’s own culture and tradition and also stressed on the importance of language.

Speaking at the Parents’ Day programme of St. Mary’s Montessori & Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, Acharya

emphasized on education, electricity and empowerment as the main tools for any state to progress. He also spoke on the diversity of India which remains united and urged people to uphold the principles of democracy.

During the programme, students of various classes enthralled the audience with varied performances symbolizing the diverse culture and tradition of the country.

Workshop on ‘Indian Army: A Noble Profession’ held

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DimaPur, November 6 (mexN): A seminar cum workshop on Indian Army: A Noble Profession was conducted on November 6 at Unity College, Dimapur.

Brig. Brijesh Dhiman, Commander, 6 Sector, Assam Rifles graced the occasion as the chief guest.

The programme chaired by Lieut. Cecelia Humtsoe, ANO Girls’ Wing, started with the College Pledge. This was followed by the welcome speech from the Principal, Dr. S K Chhabra. Mhayani Patton, 7th rank holder in the Nagaland University B.Ed Exam 2014 was also felicitated. The Chief Guest also released ‘Vibrant’, the 3rd Edition of B.Ed Annual Magazine. Later, in his presentation, he highlighted

Brig. Brijesh Dhiman, Commander, 6 Sector, Assam Rifles with the others at Unity College, Dimapur.

the prospects of Army life, citing that it is not just going for warfare but there are immense facilities and opportunities in the Army.

The Chief Guest urged the

students to come forward to join by citing the examples of Capt. Kengruse, a Naga daring officer who gave his life for the nation in the Kargil war. The seminar

was a very productive one.

The chief guest also encouraged the faculty to be an agent of change for the students who are of tomorrow. He also donated a water Dispenser to the college and presented a Momento.

Besides the presentation, there was also a display of arms and ammunitions.

The seminar cum workshop was followed by the inauguration of the New Girls’ Toilet Complex which was constructed as part of the Sanitation Campaign “Swacch Bharat Abhiyan” and as part of Observation from November 1 to 5,2015 as ‘Cleanliness in Education Sector’ in compliance to the direction received from Government of India, Ministry of Urban Development.

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Pak making digital inroads into Assam GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 6 (TNT): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of ‘Digital India’ and ‘Smart Police’ faced a major jolt in Assam as at least 26 state government websites including that of Assam police, Sarba Siksha, Elementary Education, Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission, Public health engineering, Accountant General and Assam Higher Secondary Educational Council are still struggling to load on the web for almost one month now.

Thanks to a Pakistan based hacker known as Faisal Afzal, popularly known as Faisal 1337, who had launched a virtual attack on various Indian government websites, the neighbouring country has managed to sneak into some 26 Assam government websites and succeeded to deface them on October 7.

Faizal who sneaked into the government websites through a weak link provided in one of the websites, though did not succeeded to fiddle with the data

base, but defaced them and uploaded an image “Hacked! Pakistan Zindabad’, security is an illusion”. However, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) which hosts these websites somehow succeeded to unload the image. Since then these websites’ homepages have been displaying ‘The requested URL could not be retrieved’ message.

“The NIC is fixing all the weak patches available in these websites and it’s taking a little long.

But we want the government websites to be fully protected,” said a senior Criminal Investigation Department (CID) official who is probing the case. The CID registered a case following the hacking.

The hacking war between India and Pakistan began in the last week of September when Faisal hacked the official website of the Kerala government first and claimed it worldwide on his Facebook page. Even the website of Chhattisgarh Police was also reportedly defaced.

“Hours later, a gang of hackers from India, identifying themselves as -The Mallu Cyber Soldiers, claimed to have hacked more than 100 Pakistani websites,” the official added. According to cyber experts, the websites could be hacked because they were not updated with the latest security patches.

But it’s not the Pakistani hacker that the state’s cyber crime cell of CID needs to be worried about.

The growth of the cyber crime in Assam has gone up to many folded.

IT’S A NUMBER GAME This is the percentage increase in the number of cybercrime cases in Assam. The latest home department figures showed that cases registered under the provisions of Information and Technology Act, 2000, leapfrogged from 154 in 2013 to 379 in 2014.

The records too highlighted how the cyber criminals have fished internet users’ personal details to break the security walls

of their banks’ e-accounts.

There were 27 cases of cyber crimes recorded against the charges of financial greed in which the cyber criminals have managed to sneak into the victim’s bank details and swindled money from them.

This was the number of cyber crime cases recorded last year for fraud charges. Details in these cases highlighted that in most of the fraud cases, the criminals duped public money by floating fake websites and luring people to invest in some schemes.

The records said, “Last year, some six cases of cyber crimes were registered in which the criminal tried to take revenge upon the victims on web world.

Three cases were registered against charges of blackmailing and only one in which the accused tried to harm the modesty of a woman.” In most of these cases, the intention was personal and the criminals used popular website of Facebook as the major tool.

In numbers of cases, an unknown sender sends friend request or a hyper link of promotional offers like free mobile recharge or online shopping to most of the respondents. In one of the cases, a culprit after hacking the personal details of a woman here, downloaded all her images and then morphed them with porn images. Then a message was sent to the victim saying that if she doesn’t pay Rs one lakh, her images would be made viral all over the internet.

“Whenever someone clicks on the link or accepts the request, his or her personal information available over the Internet is fished out by the sender,” the official added.

What is the matter of concern is that despite the hackers and cyber criminals are becoming equipped with high tech tools to sneak into others web accounts, the state police are yet to update itself. The deficit of a pool of tech expert officers is a major concern for the security agencies.

9 Congress MLAs in Assam join BJP GNLA militants abduct policeman, GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 6 (PTI): Amit Shah in New Delhi in September last. trader in Meghalaya's Garo Hills On August 30, Assam Congress presiNine Congress MLAs in Assam joined the BJP on Friday, within two months of onetime Congress strongman and dissident leader Himanta Biswa Sarma joining the saffron party. The nine legislators joined BJP at a special function in its state head office attended by the party's national general secretary Ram Madhav, state unit president Sidhartha Bhattacharjee, Himanta and other party leaders.

The MLAs are Bolin Chetia, Pradan Barua, Pallab Lochan Das, Rajen Borthakur, Pijush Hazarika, Kripanath Mallah, Abu Taher Bepari, Binanda Saikia and Jayanta Mallah Barua. The nine known Himanta loyalists had met BJP national president

dent Anjan Dutta had suspended Jayanta Mallah Barua, Pijush Hazarika, Pallab Lochan Das and Pradan Barua from party membership and issued show cause notice to Abu Taher Bepari, Kripanath Mallah, Rajen Borthakur, Binanda Kumar Saikia and Bolin Chetia for 'anti-party activities'.

Action was taken against the nine MLAs for their anti-party activity of welcoming their former party colleague and ex-minister Himanta Sarma at the Guwahati airport when he was returning to the city from Delhi to join the BJP on August 28.

'PM must speak against growing intolerance' AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi must react over "growing intolerance" in India since after the NDA government came to power, National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman P.L. Punia said here on Friday.

"After the BJP-led NDA government came in to power at the Centre, intolerance erupted in a large way. The

PM remained silent on the grave issue," Punia told reporters. "In various parts of the country, many incidents of intolerance and violence against weaker sections people happened, but Modi remained silent," he added.

A NCSC team led by Punia came to Tripura on a three-day visit to study the state government's programme and schemes for the the Scheduled Caste

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people. "The BJP people accused the agitating intellectuals as the Congress people, this is just unjustified. Modi must open his mouth against the serious situations of intolerance in India," Punia said. "Such incidents of intolerance never happened in India before. Such occurrence of intolerance never happened during the rule of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee," he said.

SHILLONG, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Militants of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) on Friday abducted a policeman and a trader in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region, police said. Havildar Khomraj Bhattarai and an unidentified trader were kidnapped by a group of heavily armed GNLA militants from Dobima on the Mendipathar-Songsak road in North Garo Hills district, Inspector General of Police (western range) F.D. Sangma said.

"A group of GNLA rebels waylaid a vehicle the duo boarded from Mendipathar area to Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills, and kidnapped the two," Sangma told IANS. The militants left other passengers and the vehicle driver unharmed.

Sangma said ransom was the motive behind the abduction. "A search operation is on to rescue the two but so far we have no inputs

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The brand new character Mapui Kawlim is a coy girl bestowed with superpowers and she hails from Aizwal, Mizoram.

13-year-old Mapui Kawlim, is a crime fighter by night but is burdened with homework, hates Math, and enjoys slumber party. Just imagine the number of children who would relate to this new avatar of Tinkle. Mapui who transforms into a 'wingstar' by night, with help of gadgets, is aided by her father who is an inventor working for the Space Development Arm of the government.

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on their exact location," the police officer said.

Friday's kidnapping is significant as the Meghalaya High Court has directed the central government to consider the use of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, and deployment of paramilitary forces to control deteriorating law and order in Garo Hills.

The high court order followed the recent kidnapping and killing of In-

telligence Bureau officer Bikash Kumar Singh and businessman Kamal Saha by militants of the A'chik Songna An'pachakgipa Kotok and abduction of government official Jude Rangku T. Sangma by GNLA militants. Sangma was released on Tuesday.

GNLA has been fighting for a separate Garoland in five impoverished districts of Garo Hills in western Meghalaya.

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Pregnant woman found murdered Our Correspondent Imphal | November 6

A missing 37-year-old housewife was found brutally murdered in Wangoo area under Waikhong Police Station in Thoubal district. The body of Yumlembam Ongbi Sorodhoni, wife of one Y Sanjoy of Nungpakthabi Leikai under Waikhong Police Station, was found floating in Wangoo section of Thoubal river early Friday morning, according to police reports. The reports added that Sorodhoni was six-month pregnant. Her hands and legs were found tied with clothes. She had gone missing for the last three days untill she was found dead in the river, family sources informed. A case has been registered with the Waikhong Police Station regarding the death of the woman and investigations are on, the police said.

Heroin worth Rs 5 lakh seized AIZAWL, NOVEMBER 6 (PTI): Special Narcotic Cell of Mizoram Police seized over 156 grams of heroin from Electric Veng locality in Aizawl last night, Police said. Police said that the contraband worth over Rs five lakh in the local market was seized from Kamkhanmung (38) of Tahan in Myanmar. The accused reportedly told his interrogators that the heroin was smuggled from Myanmar via Champhai district. He was booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

Bandh disrupts life in New Lamka Our Correrspondent Imphal | November 6

A dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the Young Paite Association (YPA) in Churachandpur district's New Lamka affected normal life on Friday. The bandh was imposed by the association demanding the Manipur Government to bring all culprits involved in the killing of a youth on October 6 last to book. YPA is insisting that Thangliansiam was murdered by unknown people. The strike was by and large peaceful. Police informed that a woman accused had been arrested in connection with the death of the youth. Thangliansam,20, was mysteriously found hanging from a tree near Pangzawl village under New Lamka.

But his death was not a case of suicide as multiple cut marks were found all over his body, YPA said. During the shutdown YPA organised a public meeting at New Lamka Ground and later submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. The memorandum demanded the authorities to book all culprits involved in the murder of Thangliansiam and punish them. It warned of further agitation if the demand is not met at an earliest.

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Apple watch launched in After pest attack, some Indian farmers shun GM cotton India at a price of Rs 30,900

Bhatinda, novemBer 6 (reuters): Indian farmers are for the first time abandoning genetically modified cotton after a devastating pest attack ravaged their fields, sowing doubts about the crop technology that had been hailed as a panacea.

The whitefly attack on the Bt cotton variety in Punjab and Haryana has caused a rural crisis: at least three farmers have committed suicide around the city of Bhatinda and tens of thousands protested to demand state aid.

These are some of the same farmers who more than a decade ago reaped the first bumper harvest of GM cotton that quickly caught on because it dramatically increased yields and raised living standards.

Cotton output has jumped fourfold since commercial cultivation of GM cotton was allowed in

2002, transforming India into the world’s top producer and second-largest exporter.

That run may now falter, raising the risk of slower sales for Monsanto which has sold Bt cotton seeds to more than 7 million Indian farmers, mainly through local seed firms operating under licence.

“We poured all our money into buying pesticides and worked day and night to save the crop. But it failed miserably,” said Thana Singh, 67, whose son died after taking poison during a protest outside a government office in Punjab.

Singh and many other farmers plan to switch to food crops such as lentils to rebuild their livelihoods.

“My son was unable to overcome the stress.

We were staring at massive losses caused either

by the Bt cotton seeds, or maybe by fake pesticides,” said Singh, who choked up with emotion as he walked through a field whose cotton pods and leaves were covered with whiteflies.

“I don’t want to touch Bt seeds until I have a firm answer.”

The whitefly outbreak has intensified a debate over GM crops just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office reviews a proposal to allow farmers to grow GM mustard, an oilseed.

To lift India’s woeful farm productivity, Modi has asked scientists to work closely with farmers to introduce high-yielding crop strains.

But a farmers’ body affiliated to Modi’s ruling party is bitterly opposing GM crops and is lobbying senior officials for a ban on Bt cotton and to block GM mustard.

HIGH STAKES The stakes are high for Monsanto, which licensed a gene that produces its own pesticide to kill bollworms, the pest most lethal to cotton, to a number of local seed companies in lieu of royalties.

Monsanto also markets these seeds directly, but has a market share of just 2-3 percent. The local licensees together command 90 percent of the market.

Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Pvt Ltd (MMB), a joint venture with India’s Mahyco, said that Monsanto and the licensees have marketed their product as resistant to bollworms, but not against other pests.

“This technology is effective only against specific types of bollworms that are known to cause boll damage leading to yield loss and economic dam-

age to the cotton crop and India and Pakistan have not other sucking pests,” a helped the pest spread. spokesman said in com“Bt cotton seeds are ments emailed to Reuters. as effective against bollworms as they were in SPURIOUS SEEDS, 2002 and the widespread PHONEY PESTICIDES? whitefly attack was priPunjab and Haryana marily due to a prolonged have launched investiga- dry spell,” said Bhagirath tions, raiding the offices of Choudhary, director of the some seed companies and South Asia Biotech Centre, pesticide makers to collect a not-for-profit scientific samples of the products society. sold to farmers.

Farmers grow GM cotLast month, police ar- ton on 95 percent of the torested the director of the tal 11-12 million hectares Punjab state agriculture under the crop. Punjab university suspected of and Haryana together proinvolvement in allowing duce about 4 million bales the sale of 19 pesticides (1 bale = 170 kg) of India’s that were found be inef- total output of nearly 38 fective. million bales.

The federal farm min“I don’t see any signifiistry said it was consider- cant drop in output being ways to limit the num- cause we haven’t heard of ber of GM cotton hybrids any pest attack in Gujarat, being widely sold in India Maharashtra, Telangana to eliminate those most and Andhra Pradesh,” prone to whitefly.

Choudhary said, referExperts say that dry ring to the top producing conditions in northern states.

new delhi, novemBer 6 (Fe): Apple officially launched its watch in India at a price of Rs 30,900 with watch OS2 ahead of Diwali. The Apple watch was announced on September 9, 2014 and it began shipping from April 24, 2015 in US. The Apple Watch comes in two sizes, both with three variants–Apple Watch, Apple Watch sport, Apple Watch Edition. The 38MM Apple Watch Sport is priced at Rs 30,900, Apple Watch will start at Rs 48,900 and the Apple Watch Edition will cost Rs 8,20,000.

In the larger 42MM, the Apple Watch Sport will be priced Rs 34,900, Apple Watch at Rs 52,900 and Apple Watch Edition at Rs 9,90,000. The high-end Apple Watch edition has a 18-Carat Rose Gold Case with White Sport Band.

The Apple Watch can be customised and allows you to alter almost everything from watch faces to notifications. It comes comes in multiple sizes and variants.

Apple recently announced the tie up with France based luxury firm Hermes that makes leather straps and a custom watchface. However, whether it’s coming to India or not is not confirmed yet.

Genesis becomes Hyundai’s Indian economy better placed now Xiaomi sells over 1 million stand alone luxury car brand than when we took over: Modi handsets in July-Sept quarter new delhi, novemBer 6 (Fe): Hyundai Motor has seen a tremendous rise in its global market share over the past decade, but the Korean carmaker somehow failed to strike a chord with luxury car buyers despite having two really capable products like Genesis and Equus. Now in a bid to rival luxury players, the company has announced to launch ‘Genesis’ as an all-new luxury car brand under which the company plans to have six rearwheel-drive models by 2020.

While Genesis will become the brand name, the company will adopt a new alphanumeric naming structure for its models. All the future models will be named by combining the letter ‘G’ for Genesis with a number, 90, 80 or 70 etc., representing the segment.

S oon-to-be-launched Equus replacement will be called the Genesis G90, and the current Genesis saloon will become the G80. Genesis lineup will be badged with a new

wing-type logo, which is nothing but a slightly redesigned version of the emblem used on the current Genesis sedan.

“We have created this new Genesis brand with a complete focus on our customers who want smart ownership experiences that save time and effort, with practical innovations that enhance satisfaction. The Genesis brand will fulfill these expectations, becoming a market leader through our human-centered brand strategy,” said Euisun Chung, Hyundai Motor Company Vice

Chairman.

Hyundai Motor’s new ‘Prestige Design Division’ will be responsible for developing distinctive design for the new Genesis brand. This division will be headed by Luc Donckerwolke, who has earlier worked with Volkswagen Group for desiging Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Seat and Skoda models.

The work of Prestige Design Division will be overseen by Peter Schreyer, as part of his group-wide design responsibilities as President and Chief Design Officer (CDO) of Hyundai Motor Group.

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Modi also said his government has managed to reduce wasteful expenditure through innovative methods like the use of technology and use Aadhaar for targeted subsidies to the deserving. He said India has enormous entrepreneurial energy.

“This needs to be harnessed so that we become a nation of job creators rather than job seekers,” he said at the conclave that is being attended by economists from India and abroad.

Noting the success of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana under which 190 million people have been brought under the banking net, he said that there is a strength at the bottom of the pyramid.

The Prime Minister said that the JanDhan accounts at present have a total balance of almost Rs 26,000 crore.

He also said that the country’s indigenous RuPay Cards enjoys a market share of 36% in the debit card segment while this was dominated by foreign players.

He added that the for the first time, the government has entered into a monetary framework with the Reserve Bank of India to curb inflation.

“We embarked on a course of fiscal consolidation, we entered for the first time into a monetary framework agreement with RBI to curb inflation,” Modi said, adding that the need of the hour was to think beyond conventional remedies. “Our idea of reform should be inclusive and broad-based... The goal of reform is not better headlines in the big papers but better lives for our people.”

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new delhi, novemBer 6 (ht): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said reforms must be undertaken not to grab headlines but to touch the lives of all Indians, especially the poor.

Inaugurating the sixth Delhi Economics Conclave, Modi said the economy was doing better in all parametres than it was 17 months ago when the National Democratic Alliance government came to power at the Centre.

“By almost every major indicator, India is doing better than when we took office 17 months ago... GDP growth is up and inflation is down, foreign investment is up and CAD (current account deficit) is down, revenues are up, the fiscal deficit is down and the rupee is stable... This did not happen by accident, this success is a result of a series of well-thought policies,” Modi said, describing the reform initiatives to transform India as “a marathon and not a sprint.”

Modi, underlining the importance of the JAM—Jan Dhan, Adhar, Mobile-vision, said that it was about ‘Just Achieving Maximum’. “For me JAM is about achieving maximum -- achieving the maximum values for every rupee spent, maximum empowerment and maximum technology penetration among the masses,” he said.

“I firmly believe that India’s people are far more mature and far more publicspirited than arm-chair critics and experts give them credit for. An important governance issue is a mutual trust between citizens and the state,” the PM added.

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new delhi, novemBer 6 (Pti): Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has sold over a million units in the quarter ended September 30, growing about 45% sequentially. “We have had our best ever quarter (JulySeptember) with sales of more than 1 million units. We have been witnessing about 45% sequential growth for the last 3 quarters,” Xiaomi India Head Manu Jain said.

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Contraband drugs and liquor destroyed Dimapur DPDB recommends

several societies, schools

Excise & Prohibition officials led by Commissioner V. Maria Yanthan alongwith district administration and police officials during the disposing of contraband drugs and liquor in Dimapur on November 6.

Morung Express News The destroyed items According to the SuperDimapur | November 6

The district Excise, Dimapur destroyed an assortment of confiscated contraband in Dimapur on November 6. The destruction was carried out at the premises of the Directorate of Excise & Prohibition in the presence of district administration officials, the police and the judiciary.

comprised 28,550 bottles of assorted liquor, 141.4 kgs of ganja, 8000 tablets of alprazolam, 2700 tablets of diazepam, 5002 capsules of spasmoproxyvon, 659 tablets of nitrosun, 20 grams of brown sugar, 27 phials of codeine-based cough syrup, and 185 pieces of yeast cakes. The street value of the destroyed items was estimated at Rs. 33,00,000.

KMC informs Kohima, November 6 (mexN): The Kohima Municipal Council has informed all concerned that while the NBCC Sanitation Committee has been undertaking an all year long beautification program within Kohima Town, it has observed that certain individuals/organizations would intrude into their assigned locations and put up banners /decorations etc. The KMC has requested all to desist from intruding into each other’s location and space.

Meanwhile, all wards

have been informed that a mass social work will be held on November 14 jointly organised by KMC and Angami Students’ Union (ASU) to facelift the town for festive season. All have been requested to participate in the sanitation and further the wards were requested to send their respective wards sanitation vehicles to assist in clearing the accumulated dirt. The POL expenses will be borne

by KMC office, informed Kovi Meyase, KMC Administrator.

intendent of Excise & Prohibition, Chotingse Sangtam, the contraband was seized during the period February 2015-September 2015. A total of 983 cases were registered with as many as 19 cases forwarded to court.

An amount of Rs. 21,96,000 was exacted as monetary penalty from the defaulters and submitted to the government, it was added.

Dimapur, November 6 (Dipr): The monthly District Planning and Development Board meeting of Dimapur was held here on November 5 in the conference hall of deputy commissioner’s office.

With regard to registration of societies, the Board recommended Amazing Grace Mission and United Rongmei Friends of Music, Namgalong, Burma Camp. The registration of Dimapur Urban Council Chairmen Federation was not recommended as the members felt the need for further detailed examination. Acts Institute Dimapur registration was also not recommended as setting up of infrastructure is necessary before applying for registration.

Meanwhile, in view of the justifications given by the department and recommended by the committee convenor, all four proposals for opening

new schools were recommended. The schools are: Little Buds School, Kuda B village, Charis High Academy, Chumukedima Town, Quest Fulfill School, East Dimapur, Purana Bazaar, and Eastern Public School, Erabill.

The proposal for upgradation of Grace Academy, Thahekhu Block 3 was also recommended by the Board. The house also recommended change of nomenclature of G.W. Memorial School to Viphuho Foundation High School, Model colony, Purana bazaar.

The proposal for opening of Commercial Vocational Computer Centre at Burma Camp was not recommended as there was no verification report from the committee. Further, the house also recommended the proposal for registration of Association of Offroaders, Nagaland.

Apart from the agendas,

the traffic jam problem between police point near the State Bank of India (Main Branch) to District Hospital was discussed. The CMO (Medical) informed the house that because of the traffic jam, it was difficult for patients to reach the hospital on time. He stated that only one side parking by the police should be allowed for the convenience of the sick people for easy access to the hospital. It was decided that the matter will be taken up with the Commissioner of Police for taking necessary action As entrusted in the last Board meeting, Social Welfare department gave their departmental presentation. The Board entrusted Horticulture Department and Tourism Department to give their departmental presentation in the next DPDB meeting. The meeting was chaired by ADC Hq, Dimapur, Elizabeth Ngully.

Longleng DPDB meeting held; HoDs asked to be sincere LoNgLeNg, November 6 (Dipr): DPDB Longleng held its monthly meeting in the Deputy Commissioner’s conference hall on November 4.

Parliamentary Secretary BS Nganlang, who is also the chairman of the Board, encouraged all the members, especially HoDs posted in the district, to be sincere in their duties. He said that since Longleng is a newly created district, all officers should work hard for the uplift of the district and also share their problems and difficulties, which

can be taken up to the relevant directorates for further necessary fund assistance and implementation of schemes.

Local Area Development Programme (LADP) 2015-16 was deliberated upon and the house approved schemes for 49th A/C Tamlu and 50 A/C Longleng. Common pool schemes under LADP were also discussed. Construction of temporary bridge between Salulemang-Mongtikang road was discussed and it was decided that Rs 25,000/-

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MEx FILE NFHRCC meeting today Dimapur, November 6 (mexN): There will be an emergency meeting of Nagaland Foothill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) on November 7, 3:00 pm at its treasure's residence. Therefore, all the committee members have been requested to attend positively.

Tokhu Emong greetings Dimapur, November 6 (mexN): Dimapur District Citizens Forum (DDCF) has extended heartiest greetings to the Lotha community on the occasion of Tokhu Emong, the premier festival of the Lothas. “We wish the Lotha community a joyful and fruitful celebration. We also hope and pray that this festival foster better relations among the members of the tribes and bring peace and prosperity in the land,” stated DDCF president, Joseph Lemtur.

KSUD clarifies Dimapur, November 6 (mexN): The Khiamniungan Students' Union Dimapur (KSUD) has clarified to all concerned students, former leaders, Khiamniungans, well wishers and parents that the Freshers’ Meet, General Session cum Parting Social will be held on November 7, 10:00 am at Town Hall and not as published earlier.

Broadway musical at Town Baptist Church Dimapur, November 6 (mexN): The youth department of Town Baptist Church Dimapur will be showcasing a Broadway musical called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Loydd Webber on November 8, 4:00 pm at Town Baptist Church. The show is coming on stage after 20 years and some of the original cast will be making a special guest appearance - Moanungsang (Naga Idol) as Pharoah and Dr Kethoser Kevichusa, who played the young Joseph twenty years ago. A press release informed that Joseph will be played by Diethozo Thakro and the musical is conducted by Kenei Mepfhuo (of Colored Keys) and hosted by Asalie Peseyie. All have been welcomed to attend the show which is free entry.

It will be first come first seating and a free will offering will be collected at the end of the show. The proceeds will go to the annual youth winter camp.

were approved for forwarding to the department concerned: Opening of new school (Blooming Bud) Longleng, creation of new ICDS project at Sakshi & Yongnyah block, creation of district cultural office Longleng, and up-gradation of GPS Sakshi (A) to GMS. Horticulture and Sericulture departments presented their departmental activities. Soil and Water Conservation and Fishery CMO Zbto informs office heads Department will present ZuNheboto, November 6 (Dipr): Chief their departmental activi- Medical Officer, Zunheboto, Dr. Hokishe Sema has ties in the next meeting. informed all Heads of Offices under Zunheboto district that District Medical Board will be conducting examination for Declaration of Invalidity/ Permanency of Service on November 26 and 27 from 11:00 am onwards. Therefore, all Heads of Offices have been directed to submit the list of Grade III & IV regular staffs on or before November 21. Forms can be obtained from Kiphire, November 6 (Dipr): The CMO office during working hours by producing relmonthly meeting of Kiphire District Plan- evant documents. ning & Development Board (DPDB) was held on November 5 at Deputy Commis- DAKK’s General Board Meeting sioner’s conference hall here.

The board discussed agenda on the Dimapur, November 6 (mexN): The Dimapur construction of approach road, major Ajiqa Kughuko Kuqhakulu (DAKK) has convened a road repairing proposal from Pungro to General Body Meeting on November 8, 1:00 pm at the Mimi Village covering 72 Km, which was residence of its banker, Akali Zhimomi at Xuvihe Coldecided to be forwarded to the govern- ony, Dimapur. A press notification from DAKK general ment. Financial assistance for Kiphire secretary, Akito Kiba requested all the members to atDistrict Combat Sports Association was tend positively. deliberated and the Board decided to forward to District Sports Council to look into the matter.

NCSU general meeting postponed Financial assistance under LADP 2014-15 for repairing of footsteps at Ba- Kohima, November 6 (mexN): The Nagaland zaar Ward, Kiphire was discussed and Contractors' & Suppliers' Union (NCSU) Head Office endorsed to the chairman of the Board Kohima has informed all its bonafide members that for consideration from his end. Approval the general meeting scheduled on November 11 at of various schemes under LADP 2015- the conference hall at 12:00 noon has been postponed 16 of 59 A/C Sitimi - Seyochung and 60 to November 12 due to Diwali Holiday. The time and A/C Kiphire - Pungro was presented to place will be the same. The Union has requested all its the Board in detail, including the com- members to attend the meeting positively. mon pool. In this regard, after thorough screening of various schemes, the board decided to submit it to the Planning & Co- Pre-Christmas Carnival in Phek ordination department. pheK, November 6 (mexN): A pre-Christmas Fishery and Sericulture departments Carnival 2015 will be held at Phek Town from Decempresented their departmental activities ber 4 to 5. The celebration will be marked by sack race, through PowerPoint. The Department greased bamboo pole climbing competition, balloon of Food & Civil Supplies, Sub- Divisional and Education Officer (SDEO) were asked hug, pork fat eating, balloon fight, skit competition, to present their departmental activities in carol competition, cake race etc. next monthly meeting.

each would be contributed from the Parliamentary Secretary and Chairman of DPDB Longleng and MLA Phangyu Phom towards the bridge construction.

The district administration of Longleng was entrusted to write to the Commissioner, Government of Nagaland to seek machineries and fund for maintenance of the road from Longleng to Changtongya and Merangkong to Tamlu, which is under SARDP scheme and the work is yet to be started.

Following proposals

Community initiative to protect wildlife & Amur Falcons Kiphire DPDB approves LoNgLeNg, November livered by Denngan Avennoho, a press release received here of Lemsachenlok. various agenda Dr. VB Mathur expressed joy 6 (mexN): Wildlife and Amur Deputy Commissioner, Long- stated. As such, since 2012 Falcon Watch Tower was inaugurated at Lassa Road, Yaongyimchen village in Longleng district by Dr. VB Mathur, Director, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun on November 6.

The programme was chaired

by Y. Nuklu Phom, chairman of Lemsachenlok. Rev. Dr. L. Anjo Keikung, Chancellor, North East Christian University, invoked God’s presence, while Sajong Phom, chairman of Yaongyimchen Village Council welcomed the guests.

S. Pangnyu Phom, MLA from 50 AC Longleng thanked the guests coming from outside and exhorted the gathering. Short speeches were de-

leng, Satya Prakash Tripathi, Chief Wildlife Warden, Government of Nagaland, and Kamdi Hemant Bhaskar (IFS), Wildlife Warden, Kiphire.

Dr. SK Khanduri, Inspector General of Forest (Wildlife), Ministry of Environment, forest and Climate Change released a booklet titled ‘Lemsachenlok towards prolific development’, which was sponsored by Langshem Foundation.

Yaongyimchen, Alayong and Sanglu Village Community Bio-Diversity Conservation Area have been conserving a huge forest area, preserving different wild species and also conserving rivers and streams,

Amur Falcons started roosting in its Conservation Area and the Community have been taking initiatives to give safe asylum to different wildlife, specially the Amur Falcons.

In recognition of the initiatives undertaken by the Community under Lemsachenlok, Dr. R. Suresh, Scientist, Department of Endangered Species Management, Wildlife Institute of India read the Recognition and Appreciation Certificate of Raptors Memorandum of Understanding issued by United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) and Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and handed it over to the chairman

and gratitude to the Community who has worked so hard for many years without any external support in creating a huge biodiversity area which could give asylum to the Amur Falcons and other wild species. He expressed that the conservation and preservation initiatives undertaken

by Lemsachenlok can be a model for the rest of the country.

The programme was also attended by H Leisha, president, Phom People’s Council, YB Angam, president, Association of Phom Graduates and Officers, officials from Doordarshan and All India Radio, government officials, public leaders and well wishers.

Kipili Sangtam attends power ministers’ conference Kohima, November 6 (mexN): Nagaland minister for Power, C. Kipili Sangtam is attending the conference of ministers of State/UTs in charge of Power, New & Renewable Energy and Mines being held at Kochi, Kerala on November 6 and 7. The meeting has been convened

by Union Minister of State with Independent Charge of Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal.

According to a press release, issues being discussed are coal production & supply, power generation, transmission planning, promotion

of renewable energy, energy conservation, power sector reforms, rural electrification, power procurement etc. Also, it is focusing on the thrust given

by Govt. of India for 24X7 power supply, progress in Deen Dayal Updhaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY) and Integrated Power Development Scheme

(IPDS) as well as other initiatives taken by ministries of power, coal and new & renewable energy.

The Nagaland delegation includes KI Yanger, Secretary (Power), Govt. of Nagaland and Er. Khose Sale, SE (Distribution), Dept. of Power, Nagaland.

Kohima District Level Former director Thekruneituo Kire laid to rest Kala Utsav today Our Correspondent

Kohima | November 6

Kohima, November 6 (mexN): The Kohima District Level Kala Utsav 2015 will be held at Rüzhükhrie Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima on November 7 involving students of Classes 9, 10, 11 and 12 of various government higher secondary schools within Kohima district.

Kala Utsav is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to promote arts in education by nurturing and showcasing the artistic talent of school students at the secondary stage in the country, according to a release from District Education Officer, Kohima.

In the context of education of Arts (Music, Dance, Visual Arts and Crafts), the initiative is guided by the recommendations of the National Focus Group Po-

sition Paper on Arts, Music, Dance and Theatre for National Curriculum Framework 2005 (NCF2005), and by the report of the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) Subcommittee on Integration of Culture Education in the School Curriculum.

Kala Utsav will be a pioneering celebration of art forms in the school system and shall continue as an ongoing programme.

The Kohima District Level Kala Utsav 2015 is structured as an art festival which will include performances and display of exhibits along their art projects specifically under the two areas of art– Music and Visual Arts. The winning teams in the two areas of this district level competition will represent Kohima district at the State Level Kala Utsav 2015.

Several people today paid their respects to late Thekruneituo (Tuobu) Kire (07.07.1955 – 04.11.2015), retired director of industries & commerce.

In the funeral service held here today at Seikhazou, D. Khel, Kohima village, Dr. Nounengulie Kire, Zakielietuo Kire and Abei-o Kire spoke at the service.

Abei-o Kire thanked each and every individual for their support and paying respect to the departed soul. “How grateful to all of you we are,” he said and prayed to Almighty to bless one and all abundantly.

The funeral service was led by Atuo Whuorie, pastor, Baptist Mission Church, Kohima and Rev. James C. Neikhrienyii, pastor Baptist Mission Church Kohima as minister.

Earlier, Chief Minister

Residential camp for diabetes

moKoKchuNg, November 6 (mexN): A six days residential camp for complete investigation, treatment and rehabilitation of diabetes will be held at Impur Christian Hospital from November 23 to 28.

A team of specialists in diabetes, heart, eye, physical rehabilitation, physiotherapy and general medicine will attend the camp to provide complete coverage. Any person willing to join the camp may contact Impur Christian Hospital in the following numbers: 0369- 2262214 (hospital), 9856273953 (Dr. Bendang), 9436270492 (Wati), 9436011818 (Dr. Sashi), 9436006134 (Dr. Kika).

Village inaugurated at Thonokhyu

Abei-o Kire speaking at the funeral service of Lt. Thekruneituo (Tuobu) Kire in Kohima on November 6. (Morung Photo)

TR Zeliang in his condolence message stated that late Thekruneituo Kire joined service in 1979 and served the state in various capacities till his retirement on February 28, 2014 as director, industries & commerce.

Chief Minister described late Kire as an upright officer who always took an unwavering principled stand in public inter-

est besides contributions towards good governance in the department.

In condolence message, Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio described late Kire as a dedicated, disciplined and committed person who carried out his responsibilities and assignments with utmost sincerity and added that even after retirement Kire continued to serve

the people through his active engagements in society.

Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president Kewekhape Therie in a condolence message described late Kire as a sincere and upright man who was diligent in executing his duties while serving the people in various capacities during his time in service.

tueNsaNg, November 6 (Dipr): Newly government recognized village, Thangoun under Thonokyu Hq, was inaugurated by Minister of Health & Family Welfare, P. Longon on November 6. Parliamentary Secretary Land Revenue, VG and Women Resource development, L. Khumo was also present.

Speaking on the occasion, Longon expressed his gratitude to the government for recognizing the village and also advised the villagers to live in peace and unity and asked them to give cooperation to the government for the development of society. He also said that more importance should be given to educate the youngsters so as to lead the village. Parliamentary Secretary L. Khumo gave assurance for early creation of village guard at Thangoun. Additional Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Humtsoe, Dr. Ahou SPO, Dr. Thanghoi, Joint Director, and other officials accompanied the minister.

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PeoPle, life, etc...

Let Girls Learn ight now, 62 million girls worldwide are not in school. They’re receiving no formal education at all—no reading, no writing, no math—none of the basic skills they need to provide for themselves and their families, and contribute fully to their countries.

Often, understandably, this issue is framed as a matter of resources—a failure to invest enough money in educating girls. We can solve this problem, the argument goes, if we provide more scholarships for girls so they can afford school fees, uniforms, and supplies; and if we provide safe transportation so their parents don’t have to worry that they’ll be sexually assaulted on their way to or from school; and if we build adequate school bathrooms for girls so they don’t have to stay home when they have their periods, and then fall behind and wind up dropping out.

And it’s true that investments like these are critical for addressing our global girls’ education crisis. That’s why, last spring, the president and I launched Let Girls Learn, a new initiative to fund community girls’ education projects like girls’ leadership camps and school bathrooms; educate girls in conflict zones; and address poverty, HIV, and other issues that keep girls out of school.

But while these investments are absolutely necessary to solve our girls’ education problem, they are simply not sufficient. Scholarships, bathrooms, and safe transportation will only go so far if societies still view menstruation as shameful and shun menstruating girls. Or if they fail to punish rapists and reject survivors

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Michele Obama

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Addressing the global crisis in girls’ education requires not just investment, but challenging cultural beliefs and practices.

For the Atlantic

of rape as “damaged goods.”

Or if they provide few opportunities for women to join the workforce and support their families, so that it’s simply not financially viable for parents struggling with poverty to send their daughters to school.

In other words, we cannot address our girls’ education crisis until we address the broader cultural beliefs and practices that can help cause and perpetuate this crisis. And that is precisely the message I intend to deliver this week when I travel to the Middle East. I’ll be visiting girls at a school in Jordan— one of many schools in that country educating both Jordanian children and children whose families have fled the conflict in Syria—to highlight the power of investments in girls’ education. But I’ll also be speaking at a global education conference in Qatar where I’ll be urging countries around the world to both make new investments in girls’ education and challenge laws and practices

that silence, demean, and brutalize women—from female genital mutilation and cutting, to forced child marriage, to laws that allow marital rape and disadvantage women in the workplace. We know that legal and cultural change is possible because we’ve seen it in countries around the world, including our own. A century ago, women in America couldn’t even vote. Decades ago, it was perfectly legal for employers to refuse to hire women, and domestic violence was seen not as a crime, but as a private family matter. But in each generation, brave people—both men and women—stood up to change these practices. They did it through individual acts like taking their bosses to court, fighting to prosecute their rapists, and leaving their abusive husbands—and through national movements and legislation that brought changes like the 19th Amendment, Title IX, and the Violence Against Women Act.

Cultural shifts like these can spur countries to make greater investments in girls’ education.

And when they do, that can cause a powerful ripple effect that can lead to even greater cultural and political progress on behalf of women. Girls who are educated marry later, have lower rates of infant and maternal mortality, and are more likely to immunize their children and less likely to contract HIV. Educated girls also earn higher salaries—15 to 25 percent more for each additional year of secondary school—and studies have shown that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP. And when educated girls become healthy, financially secure, empowered women, they’re far better equipped to advocate for their needs and aspirations, and challenge unjust laws and harmful practices and beliefs. So really, this can be a virtuous cycle.

But ultimately, for me, this issue isn’t just about politics or

economics—for me, this is a moral issue. As I’ve traveled the world, I have met so many of these girls. I’ve seen firsthand that every single one of them has the spark of something extraordinary inside of them, and they are so hungry to realize their promise. They walk for hours each day to school, learning at rickety desks in bare concrete classrooms. They study for hours each night, holding tight to their hopes for the future, even in the face of heartbreaking odds.

These girls are no different from my daughters or any of our daughters. And we should never have to accept our girls having their bodies mutilated or being married off to grown men as teenagers, confined to lives of dependence and abuse. We should never have to raise them in societies that silence their voices and snuff out their dreams. None of us here in the U.S. would accept this for our own daughters and granddaughters, so why would we accept it for any girl on our planet? As a first lady, a mother, and a human being, I cannot walk away from these girls, and I plan to keep raising my voice on their behalf for the rest of my life. I plan to keep urging world leaders to invest in their potential and create societies that truly value them as human beings. I plan to keep reaching out to local leaders, families, and girls themselves to raise awareness about the power of sending girls to school. And I plan to keep talking about this issue here at home, because I believe that all of us—men and women, in every country on this planet—have a moral obligation to give all of these girls a future worthy of their promise and their dreams.

and gaps in Indian education when it is already achieving so much? Haven't you heard that the economy is moving nicely forward, and that our first boys are celebrated all over the world and even envied?

The most foundational issue is, of course, one of injustice.

Not to be able to read or write or count or communicate is a tremendous deprivation and a great violation of the elementary freedoms that we all have reason to value and want. Serious issues of justice arise not only when a great many people are denied the opportunity of enjoying these centrally important freedoms, but also-going on from there-when the facilities to develop our basic capabilities are so unequally distributed by the society and the State. I shall try to say a bit more on this presently, but let me consider, before that, the aggregative-allegedly 'social'-perspectives that are often invoked ('fine economy', 'well-trained people', 'India twinkling', even if we musthush, hush-avoid the polluted word 'shining'). They serve to keep our eyes firmly shut on what are dismissively called 'individual concerns'. Aren't we meant to be socially oriented?

How can we miss the big picture of the nation's success, and whine about some who are left behind?

So, what does the aggregate picture look like? The Indian economy may be doing much better than before in many different ways, and yet it is still paying quite a heavy price for

having a far less educated general labour force (as opposed to holders of special skills and recipients of technical training) than, say, China. For example, the commodity pattern of Indian exports is still very dependent on traditional products that need very little education to make, in addition to what can be well produced with the help of specialized skills of the privileged Indians (such as information products, electronic software, or call centre services that draw on fluency in English and the affability of style that the Indian middle classes can easily master). India has great difficulty in competing in a whole range of simple products the making of which requires basic education (and an ability to follow written instructions, but not much more), including elementary gadgets such as clocks and calculators and even computer hardware (no great mathematical skill needed there), in which China excels, and which were among the mainstays of the earlier 'East Asian Miracle'.

I have discussed elsewhere, along with Jean Drèze*, the China-India contrasts, as well as those with other high economic performers, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and other dynamic economies. The lack of general education is still, alas, an important economic constraint, and will be more and more strongly felt as the size of Indian exports expand and we need to go beyond relying on traditional merchandise and the narrow range of products fashioned out

of the highly trained skills of a limited group of people.

It is also worth noting that even the extent of the success of higher or specialized education must be dependent on the expanse and previous training of what we may call the 'catchment population' from which it draws its recruits. Given the number of people who receive no school education, and the number who get really below-par instruction at school, the quality of entry into higher or specialized education is severely reduced, and this cuts into the effectiveness of these 'later' educational activities. Our first boys may have to work quite a bit harder, if they were to retain their comparative position, once those disqualified by class or gender or location or social position can enter effectively to compete with the present-day champions. The enormous waste of massive talents resulting from bad-or no-school education cannot but be relevant even for the aggregative picture.

Even without raising the central issue of social justice, there are, thus, significant aggregative and efficiency considerations in assessing what India loses through its educational disparities, particularly from the inadequate coverage and frequently deficient quality of school education. However, questions of justice are very central in assessing the asymmetries and inequalities in Indian education, and this is where the unacceptability of the present situation becomes utterly and manifestly clear.

The First Boy Syndrome

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Amartya Sen

T EVERY LEVEL, Indian education is obsessed with the first boys. In the classroom, in society and in the making of public policy.

In each class, the teachers revel in the success of the first boys, and many of these young wonders recollect throughout their lives that they were first boys-no less-in their class. I remember being really struck many years ago when one of the great men India has produced, who was then the Union Minister for Education and would later become the Prime Minister, could still remember-and was able to tell me-the marks he had received in school and college.

Even though, I should explain, his marks were excellent (if I am any judge), I was impressed by what could only be described as his immense modesty in remaining so captivated by his studentday grades (similar to those of other brilliant students across the land), even after he had left nearly every Indian behind in the political life of India (aside from being-I am afraid I am giving away too many clues here-a talented novelist). No, the 'first boy syndrome' is certainly big in our country, and afflicts even persons of truly exceptional achievement outside the classroom.

For individuals this may, in fact, be no more than an amiable peculiarity which need not distract us from our admiration for the persons involved. But when the first boy syndrome takes over an educational system (as I fear has happened in India), there are reasons to be seriously alarmed.

The priorities can get oddly distorted when the focus is so narrow, and the concentration of public policy is so strongly on looking after those blessed with opportunity and success. Not only do the educationally advantaged go, as we would expect, to schools, colleges, universities, and distinguished technological institutes (while hundreds of millions of Indian children do not manage to get primary education), but also the educational establishments they go to are, often enough, very fine (sometimes superb), in contrast with the low (sometimes dismal) quality of Indian schools and colleges in general.

We can find a nice chain of actions and reactions here. The system makes sure that some young people, out of a huge pool of the young, manage to get privileged education. The picking is

done not through any organized attempt to keep anyone out (indeed, far from it), but through differentiations that are driven by economic and social inequality related to class, gender, location, and social privilege. The privileged, to their credit, by and large do very well-they don't waste opportunities. Their wellearned success comes, first, in the educational establishments themselves, and then in the world at large, impressing Indians and foreigners alike. The country then celebrates with abandon the 'nation's triumphs'.

Furthermore, not only do the first boys do well in life, they can also relish-of course with becoming modesty-the homage they receive for having 'done their country proud'. Meanwhile, the last boys, and particularly the last girls, can't even read, not having had the opportunity of going to a decent school-or any school at all. But even they, when they learn about the great accomplishments of well-educated Indians, also celebrate their achievements and take pride in 'India's success'. So everyone, it appears, is happy, and no one jumps up and down in anger.

I should explain that I have nothing against the first boys.

We certainly do need them for many different purposes: for academia to flourish, for businesses to prosper, for science and technology to move on, for medicine to progress, for people to feel self-reliant and capable, and, of course, for the cultivation of quality and high standards. My questions do not arise from any sense that the first boys are letting us down, or not doing what they might be expected to do.

They are doing just fine for themselves and even for others, given the circumstances, and cannot be generally accused of rapacity or cupidity.

The question that has to be asked, however, is how unequal can the edu-cational hierarchy be, without being not only terribly unjust to the people who are neglected and left out, but also extraordinarily inefficient when it is judged as a general social system. It is in that structural perspective, combining considerations of efficiency with equity, that we can best understand how-and how much-the country loses through its extraordinary concentration on first boys.

Aggregative Penalties of Disparity Why should we, the question can be asked, particularly grumble about inequalities

Electric Shock:

An exhaustive history about Pop From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music review

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eter Doggett’s ambitious history of pop opens with the author having a terrible time in the “air-conditioned limbo” of a 2003 Merseyside shopping mall: 30 years on from a youthful epiphany brought on by an infamous Bob Dylan bootleg, he reacts with horror when the self-same holy music floats out among the unholy simulacra of Next, Starbucks and Vodafone. Doggett must be aware he is drawing what amounts to a self-caricature: the grumpy old duffer who is nostalgic for a lost world of coupons cut out of crinkly music papers, the Queen’s head on envelopes, bootlegs inside brown paper packages tied up with string.

He yearns for solid things, authentic things, and a time when buying pop music was somehow a rebelliously anticonsumerist gesture.

Such a glum episode may strike some readers as an odd way to kick off a celebration of the joyful fizz of pop music. “Here we go again,” they may well sigh: “another pale, middle-aged, record-collector bloke bleating about the Good Old Days.” But Doggett’s negative epiphany introduces his basic thesis: how uproariously fast things change in pop, not just the music itself but the whole manner in which it is delivered and consumed. He takes us all the way back to the end of the 19th century, to so-called “coon songs” and ragtime fever, to waltzes and vaudeville; to a pre-jazz era when even those with a decent income were more likely to have a piano in their parlour than a “phonograph or gramophone”.

Chapter by chapter he inches us towards the mid or late 1950s birth of rock’n’roll.

One of the reasons the date is disputed is that it was the product of so many disparate influences; pop music has always been a thing of hybrids and mutants, rip-offs and retreads.

The 720 pages of Electric Shock add up to an incredibly detailed history. I admire anyone capable of writing a book requiring such dogged application. On the face of it, I’m Electric Shock’s ideal reader: another pale, middleaged, record-collector bloke, whose home is collapsing under a vast amount of pop-culture detritus. So why did I find the book such a terrible slog?

Doggett is one of those pop/ rock writers (Johnny Rogan – who pops up in Doggett’s acknowledgments list – is another) who cannot be faulted for their research, dedication and productivity, but could never claim to be an especially elegant or exciting writer.

The material might have worked better had it been spread across a few, shorter, more enticing books. (I would definitely read a study of the misty world of pre-Bing Crosby crooners he briefly describes.)

I had a lot more fun with two of Doggett’s previous works (Are You Ready for the Country and The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s).

Traversing three discrete epochs – pre-modernity, modernity and post-modernity – Doggett has to cram reams of

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information into successive tight, highly condensed overviews. There is little space for detail. His descriptions often amount to bullet-point lists that don’t exactly make you want to rush off and play the music again. Would his description of the Beach Boys’s “I Get Around” as a “complex harmonic blend, supporting lyrics of stunning banality” send anyone racing off to their old copy or new download ofEndless Summer? (Also, I think he is wrong about the lyrics.) In the space of a few pages, we tourist-coach past Nelson Mandela, Winifred Atwell, Dusty Springfield, the Daleks, Sonny and Cher, “The Ballad of The Green Berets”, Noël Coward, Ray Davies, Janis Ian, John Lennon’s “bigger than Jesus” quote, Kris Kristofferson, Vietnam, Nina Simone, marijuana, LSD and “the Mexican Bob Dylan”.

Two recent books I loved – Bob Stanley’s Yeah Yeah Yeah, and Tracey Thorn’sNaked at the Albert Hall – both prove that you can take great swaths of pop history and out of the jangly chaos cultivate a revealingly personal argument; I went back and skimmed a page of Yeah Yeah Yeah and instantly wanted to reinvestigate five different artists. There are plenty of other examples of books that are both readable and thought-provoking, focusing on one tiny area as their subject and, as a result, making you question all you think you know about music history: Joseph Lanza’s Elevator Music, say, or Wayne Koestenbaum’s The Queen’s Throat, or Nick Tosches’ Where Dead Voices Gather. If you don’t have a revolutionary new argument, then you simply must write like an angel.

I gained the impression from advance publicity that the Rosebud behind Doggett’s own retrospective quest was the technology of popular music itself: a reassessment of all the paradigm shifts involving methods of recording and forms of playback. This is hinted at in the early sections, but once the demanding historical march is under way, the whole matter seems to more or less fade from view, and we settle down to a rather conventional linear history. Of the present, Doggett claims: “This is a unique moment: for the first time, modern technology allows us to construct our own route through documented history.” But he doesn’t explore this idea in any depth, and never tells us what this distinctive new form of history is like, where it can be found or whether it’s a good or bad thing.

Electric Shock is not a bad book – it’s not sloppily written, I didn’t find any glaring errors – but it represents one more uninspiring addition to the current vogue for Archive Mania. It reads like an act of flawless research for a TV series: one to be enlivened at a later date by somebody else’s heavily opinionated point of view. Someone should take his research, tear it to pieces and stick it back together in an unexpected way, to evoke more of the revolutionary thrill of pop music than Doggett ever does.

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Sneha Sharma is not only India's fastest woman racer, she's also a pilot Aashmita Nayar HuffPost India

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uelled by her love for speed and machines, Sneha Sharma knew exactly what career she wanted to pursue even when she was 16 years old. Today, this 25-year-old is not only the fastest woman racer in the country, she is also a pilot with Indigo Airlines, and balances both worlds seamlessly.

“My mother took me go-karting when I was 16 to a local track in Mumbai called Hakone (it no longer exists),” the Formula 4 racer said in an interview with HuffPost India. "I remember that she was worried about my safety. I wasn’t.

I like speed, always have," she said.

In an interview with HuffPost India, Sharma shares her extraordinary journey that, like any race track, has had its own twists and turns. Her parents were the first roadblock in the course of her dream career. They were simply not convinced about her career choice at such an early age. Forced to lie to pursue her passion for car racing, Sharma would visit the karting track twice a week, and carried her schoolbooks around with her to study.

In just two weeks, Sharma started clocking the quickest times at the karting centre, but her hunger for the sport was slightly dampened by the lack of education in the field. “People in the country are more focused on cricket, but I am seeing a change, and more appreciation for racing,” says Sharma who hopes to travel to Germany next year (under 60 per cent sponsorship) for the ADAC Cup. She was invited this year, but could not make it because of her job.

The drivers abroad are (comparatively) far superior in terms of experience, facilities and support, and it is essential for an Indian driver to travel to gain some ground.

Not being able to find a trainer, she would pay marshallers with her pocket money in exchange for some education on cars. Eventually her hard work paid off. In a sponsored race, where she secured a podium finish, Sharma was asked to join the Rayo Racing national championship team. “I was in my 12th and it was a tough call, but I decided to join them,” she remembers.

In 2009, Sharma earned the tag of India's fastest woman racer in the Mercedes Young star driver programme: she secured 6 race victories and 9 runner-up position and karting. Earlier this year, she finished in the 11 position at the Formula 4 event, and was one of the two women competing. She will also be making her presence felt at Formula 4 on November 26 at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida.

But sponsorships are not easy to come by. Racing is an expensive sport, says Sharma who, in the past, cleaned cars to earn some extra cash. “My parents gave a little bit of money, but I used to work part

time with my team handling odd jobs such as keeping accounts.”

Today, she is the only Indian driver to be sponsored by JK Tyres and by Indigo Airlines and as a pilot she is able to finance herself as well.

The race track has also prepared her well: “I have learnt to focus single mindedly, and make quick decisions – the latter has also helped with my flying,” she says, also adding how her tolerance for high temperatures and challenging work environments stand her in good stead.

Sharma claims that racing encourages men and women to compete on the same platform.

But men she says are at a natural advantage because they’re stronger in build for this physically demanding sport. She has lost over 30 kilograms just for racing, and follows an exacting diet and exercise regimen. “You need serious neck muscle power,” she says, revealing that she has to work out in the gym with her helmet on to strengthen her neck.

Apart from the gym where she focuses on free weights workouts,

Sharma alternates between swimming, badminton, running and power yoga. “You need a lot of upper body strength and flexibility, which translates into a lot of stretching, free weight workouts like burpees and pushups,” she says.

Sharma hits the gym right after her round of flights – at times she wakes up as early as 3 am. She also avoids any forms of sugar or aerated drinks, but loves her greens and a bit of dark chocolate. Her routine has left her without much of a social life, she admits, but Sharma highlights that none of these things are a sacrifice of any sort.

“I want so much to succeed so I don’t feel like I have given up much,” says the young lady, earnestly.

With the sport picking up attention in the country, Sharma hopes to see more women drivers, aside from herself and just a couple of other women (the young Mira Erdaand Alisha Abdullah). "There’s a heavy age-range – people from 19 to 30s come to race, but there’s not many women,” says Sharma.

Off the field, Sharma drives a diesel Hyundai Verna, but stays away from automatic drives. “I love manipulating the rev of the engine," she says and grins.

A big advocate of safe driving, Sharma passes on a few tips to drivers on Indian roads: Know the braking capacity of your car, because it’s not about how fast you can go, but how fast you can stop if things go wrong. To avoid hydroplaning, light tap brakes in the water to make for a better grip, and always check tyre pressures for changing weather conditions – it’ll help determine how much grip you get in the corners when you’re taking turns on the road.

Even as she learns new tips and tricks, there is one important lesson that stays constant in her life and should apply to everyone, Sharma says: Success always happens outside the comfort zone.

Why hangovers get worse as we grow older Nishant Arora

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he next time a hangover hits you hard the morning after a late-night party, look in the mirror to see if your hair is turning white or your hairline is receding.

Yes, age is a major factor in the way drinking affects you. Worsening impact of hangovers are a reminder that drinking in moderation would be a better idea, say health experts.

“The capacity of our liver to cope with alcohol reduces with age. The alcohol metabolising enzyme reduces and the body fat increases reducing muscle mass, thus increasing the effect of alco-

hol,” Dr Rahul Tambe, general physician from Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital in Mumbai told IANS in an email. According to Dr Yogesh Batra, senior consultant (gastroenterology) at BLK Super Specialty Hospital in New Delhi, with age, there is an accumulation of substances like acetaldehyde in the liver which are the byproducts of alcohol metabolism and are one of the "incriminating agents" responsible for hangovers.

“There is brain degeneration with age and the toxic products tend to hit the brain harder. There is a tendency towards dehydration as the ageing population tends to drink less water which leads to hang-

overs,” Dr Batra said.

Is there a cure for hangover?

“Eat more before and after the alcoholic consumption. Besides eating, drinking loads of fluids will also help. Lime water is the best fluid which can be consumed before and after the alcoholic consumption,” advises Dr Deepak Verma, general physician from Columbia Asia Hospital in Ghaziabad. Alcohol consumption can irritate the stomach lining, leading to gastritis. So, food and fluids taken before and after alcoholic consumption help to reduce the gastric irritation, the experts note.

There is, however, no definite cure for hangover.

It is best dealt with adequate sleep or rest, plenty of liquids and food.

“Painkillers like aspirin relieves headache but may increase acidity. Number of household remedies are being tried but they often worsens the hangover. One thing that definitely should not be tried is drinking again in the morning,” informs Tambe. Drinking early morning to get over a hangover is one of the first signs of alcohol dependence and requires urgent help from a de-addiction specialist, experts warn.

As we age, the supply of alcohol dehydrogenase (the enzyme which is required for digesting alcohol) decreases. “Women are

more prone to hangovers than men because of the difference in alcohol metabolism,” says Dr Rajnish Moonga, senior consultant (gastroenterology) at Paras Hospital in Gurgaon. “There is no specific guideline for prevention and cure of a hangover. The only way to prevent hangover is to control your drinking habits,” he points out.

Those who feel that losing weight will control hangovers are probably wrong. “Losing weight leads to even worse hangovers. Since the effective alcohol concentration in the body is going to be more hence those who lose weight should reduce drinking,” says Dr Batra.

8 mountain trails you could undertake this month Sneha Mahale

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inter is coming, and November is a great time to step out and explore the outdoors. Here, mountaineers pick their favourite treks in the Himalayan and the North East region of the country, and tell you why each one is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

that 10-day journey, I found many things — crazy stamina, amazing friends and above everything — myself. But the experience I cherish the most is the sight from one of the passes, with the Amarnath range behind and the beautiful valley in the front. That sight brought tears to my eyes, and I call that connecting with nature,” says Harshit Bavisi, co-founder of Happy2Refer, and a trekking enthusiast.

Kuari Pass For first-timers, this trek promises to be an enthralling experience. “It has it all — from captivating views of the Himalayan ranges to glimpses of green valleys and raging rivers. At a height of 4,265m above sea level, the pass itself is situated in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Uttarakhand. It is rather easy trail that takes trekkers across three lesser-known passes and five rivers, and on offer are the magnificent views of Trishul, Kedarnath, Kamet, Nilkantha and Badrinath, among other peaks,” says Vishnu Singh, a marketing executive and amateur mountaineer.

Sandakphu Trek If there’s one trek that can offer you a grand view of peaks like Everest, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu, it is this one in West Bengal. “At just 3,636m, the trek to the highest peak of the state is perfect for a first-timer looking to experience Himalayan trekking.

Since the climb is along our border with Nepal, it traverses through the country at times. During the hike, trekkers are awed by Kalapokhri — a black pond — that never freezes, and is considered holy by the Buddhists,” says Rakesh Pant, partner and founder, Trek The Himalayas.

Great Kashmir Lakes This trek comes highly recommended for anyone looking for a mix of beauty and serenity.

“They say those who are looking to find meaning in their lives need to get lost first. And there couldn’t be a better place to get lost than the Great Kashmir Lakes. During

Japfu Peak and Dzukou Valley Trek Nagaland is a lesser-explored area for trekking, and offers a lot of scope for enthusiasts in search of adventure. “This northeastern state is a narrow strip of mountain territory blessed with an abundance of natural beauty. It is a land of green valleys with meandering

streams, rivers, high mountains, gorges, and astonishingly rich variety of flora and fauna. The Japfu Peak is the second highest peak in this region. Another highlight here is the rhododendron tree, which stands tall at 130ft,” says Prateek Deo, CEO, Life Away From Life.

Dodital trek This is one of the few pure winter trek sites, as one has to walk through snow on most days. “It offers a great experience to someone looking to explore the Himalayas in the winter months. A big plus is that there are fixed camp sites in this area of Uttarakhand. And the best part is that the trail is not that difficult,” says Anuja Karnik, a lawyer and trekking enthusiast.

Goechala Trek At around 16,000ft, this trek gives you an opportunity to explore the unhindered nature of Sikkim. “The state hides its beauty in the deep and serene ranges of the Himalayas.

During the 11 days of the trek, you’ll be overwhelmed by the dawn you’ll witness over the Kanchenjunga.

As you move towards the Goechala Pass, touch the clouds from the Thansing or Lamuney meadows.

However, the trek is considered difficult, and not recommended for a first-timer,” says Pant.

inspires awe. “I have not met a single person who has looked at the Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya, and not stared dumbstruck, or at least paused to wonder at the novel idea and stunning implementation. The wonderful, nature-loving people of the hills have found a novel way to build what are now known and exhibited as “living root bridges”. Basically an extension of the roots of the Indian rubber tree, the local Khasis have invented a way to use them to their advantage instead of building bridges that collapse or are washed away by rain or raging rivers. These bridges take anywhere between 10-15 years to build, and last well past five centuries,” says Akul Tripathi, a trekking enthusiast.

Chanderkhani Pass This trek takes you to one of most beautiful passes of the region.

“You start at the heritage village of Naggar, and pass through rustic areas of the Kullu valley, beautiful meadows, thick forests of pine and oak, and grasslands, from where you get a view of the surrounding snow-clad mountain ranges. Then, a carpet of flowers takes us to the Chanderkhani Pass. At a height of 3,660m, it is heaven for a nature lover. You can also visit a unique habitation, the village of Malana, which has maintained its own sysLiving Root Bridges Trek tem of government for centuries,” For many, the end of a long says Chandan Sharma of Trek Inwalk or a trek must be a sight that dia Outdoors.

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Christianity should go beyond the boundaries of church David Sema: What is happening inside the church is commendable. Worshipping God, prayers, donation, singing devotional songs, dancing etc.

However, it is time Naga Christianity which has come of age must think beyond the 4 walls of church and its compound.

The huge budget made from the fund collected from govt. employees, businessmen and landlords must not be used only to expand the infra-structure of church and employment of huge staff like the state govt. We can learn from the minority community existing in Dimapur how they make their presence felt in times of natural calamity, disasters, accidents and also day to day basis to the poor and needy.

By decreasing the number of its employees and extracurricular activities like travelling/tour and incessant development of infra-structure like building construction we can save huge amount of money for many good works like the following : 1) ROAD - It is obvious that church cannot make highways for the whole state but atleast the roads near the palatial building of churches can be repaired and maintained upto some extent.

2) MEDICAL - Church may not be able to open and run a hospital but atleast a day in a month (if not week) can be kept for inviting a medical specialist wherein a voluntary govt. or private doctor can come see the poor patients in the church. For patients who cannot afford their fee.

3) SCHOOL - If a church cannot open school then Church can atleast appoint maths and science teacher for govt. schools in villages(since there are no maths and science teacher in many schools) till the govt. sends a regular teacher.

4) EMERGENCY FUND - Some fund can be created in the church which can be used exclusively during emergency situation in the town or village. Example fire, endemic spread of disease and flood etc.

5) ONE ORPHANAGE IN EACH DISTRICT - Finally to help orphans, the Baptist churches of respective tribes can collaborate with each other to run an orphanage in each district.

Thank you.

Imtihopong Chang: nstead of raising mansions and buying boleros, the church should first cloth the naked and feed the needy like mother Teresa did otherwise it contradict to Christ teaching. Misconception should not dominate over Christian true way of life Zech Wetsah: I stopped giving tithes/donations to the church. Instead I give it directly to whosoever I find worthy of receiving. Right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. I will follow my heart.

Nokchem Angth: This post should reach all the church leaders. It's time for us to call our church leaders to set an example and to live exemplary life. I really appreciate Kohima Ao Baptist Church for their commendable job done to our society. Many a times, I come to know about them and their contributions to the society, they don't just ministered at Kohima alone but they go beyond that. One good example and it's really related to this post point no.2.

KABC run voluntary camp every weekend at Chandmari Kohima, where the poor and needy patients were treated by professional doctors/ specialist in free of cost. I think, this is one good example that all the churches in Nagaland should follow up. We always talk about other denominations but when we think broadly, we are not less than them. When natural calamity takes place, I see only other denominations visiting and donating the victims and not the so called Baptist.

Aier Jong: Very true. It’s sad to see many churches, not doing anything humanitarian. I live near a church and I haven't seen it doing anything laudable.

Yea they've done a good job by constructing a church for new converts in another state. Built a 3 storeyed guest house cum office building costing almost a crore. Bought a bolero. And now all set to start constructing another multi storeyed multi-purpose building in a commercial hub. I sometimes wonder whether the church is more concerned about constructions & buildings than winning and saving souls. Am not a member of that church though I sometimes go there. The church's seating capacity must be atleast 2000, but i have never been in a congregation of 200. Sad. Mahriili Osah: Just watch out, many Church elders will start asking its member not to use Facebook, WhatsApp to talk about Church and Association activities. Really most of the Church and Association role become so pathetic that the feel good factors of their existence become so low and therefore we see more of immoral conducts from young to old these days..

Super high time to wake up and be relevant to Christ teaching in the interest of Naga society.. Without it, it is simply corrupting and degrading our high Naga values.

Thaam Thai: Many authentic Christian leaders are preaching that we are at the crucial stage of Joel 2; 28, so why are we still very busy in narrow minded church politics instead of reaching out in Jesus's name to win more souls for God's kingdom? A magnificent showy building can never attract hurting souls to enter it but a loving hand, soft or hard and calloused reaching out can win many! "if nobody reaches nobody gets touched" Don Gossett.

Pathetic public health service John Khing: To get the basic health care is the right of every individual- we the rich or poor. However the public health services offered to the people is worse than the services offered to animals in other states. Nagaland, sadly is a state where "most" of the health care givers appointed by the government spend more time in the own private clinics filling up their own pockets than helping the general public, many of whom face a lot of financial problems to afford treatments from privately run clinics. Nagaland is a state where more than half of its population is engaged in agriculture with majority of them being just self sufficient and have no extra cash in hand to spend. Many poor villagers in the interior areas of our state face a lot of hardship and worries when a loved one falls ill; a major reason being the unavailability of doctors and the cost of the treatment. We the public are partly responsible for this situation as it is the ignorance in us that is taking the better of us. We get the same amount of funds as the other states.

In fact I believe we get better allotment being a minority state than the others. However, most of our district hospitals are worse than even the primary health center of other states. The health standard provided are at its worst and at times the hospital which is supposed to be a place to cure turns out to be a source of infection. Essential drugs are being denied, basic maternal and child health are at its worst. In fact there are so many schemes for maternal and child health and other common illness which are meant to be provided at free of cost which sadly is not so a trend in our state. The question now arises that if all the schemes and laws are being implemented in other states, why are we denied of these rights? Health is wealth we say, but today very sadly, our health is being politically played with. Many of the appointment (postings) of doctors are being given to those with political backing rather than appointment of people who are more deserving. We spend a lot of money on treatments outside our state but maybe this scenario can be changed if the right and deserving people are appointed. It is high time we the public voice out against this injustice and march together to end this for the betterment of our society. It is time we realize that it is our right to obtain the best and free medical services from our state. Personal views.

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Chhota Rajan brought to Delhi, in CBI custody

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Long-absconding underworld don Rajendra Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan was brought to the national capital from Indonesia on Friday, officials said.

Rajan, who was arrested by Indonesian police on October 25, arrived in a special aircraft around 5.30 a.m. at Indira Gandhi International Airport here from where he was taken to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters, escorted by special commandos and a SWAT team, police said.

The aircraft carrying Rajan, along with a team of CBI offices and others, departed for India around 8 p.m. (local time) from Indonesia's Bali on Thursday.

Rajan, 55, reached CBI headquarters around 6 a.m. All routes leading the the CBI headquarters have been sealed by Delhi Police.

Besides, the security of CBI headquarters, which is looked after by the Central Industrial Security Force, has been increased.

Rajan, who has been absconding from India for two decades was arrested in Indonesian on a request of CBI in Bali, following a

Plain clothes policemen escort gangster Rajendra Nikalje (C), widely known as Chhota Rajan, as they head to the airport for deportation to India, at the police headquarters in Denpasar, Bali island November 5. (REUTERS Photo)

tip-off by the Australian Federal Police.

Rajan was kept in a lockup in CBI headquarters and his medical examination was conducted later.

The mafia don will be presented before a special CBI magistrate through video conferencing, who will officially hand over his custody to the investigating agency, sources said.

"Rajendra Szadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan alias Mohan Kumar has been successfully brought back to India on deporta-

War with India not an option: Nawaz Sharif ISLAMABAD, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said war with India was not an option as tensions escalate between the two neighbouring countries, a media report said on Friday.

During a meeting with President Mamnoon Hussain in Islamabad on Thursday, Sharif said his government desired friendly ties with India, all its neighbours and the world at large for sustainable development, the Nation reported.

Sharif wished to resolve all the outstanding issues with India through dialogue as he believed the use of force could only worsen the situation, an official who attended the meeting said. “They discussed the regional situation and reiterated Pakistan’s resolve to have friendly relations with all the neighbouring countries for peace and prosperity in the region,” the official said.

“India’s support for insurgents and the terrorists came under discussion and they vowed to expose India’s real face if it did not stop the activity.”

Nawaz said the US and world powers wanted a Pakistan-India dialogue but it was New Delhi which was not cooperating. “We have always been for talks,” the prime minister said.During the meeting, Sharif also briefed Hussain on his recent visit to the US and his meeting with President Barack Obama.

“The prime minister was largely satisfied with the Obama meeting. He felt the US had supported Pakistan’s stances on Kashmir and the resumption of dialogue process with India,” the official added. The meeting was attended by Tariq Fatemi, special assistant to the prime minister on foreign affairs and Asif Kirmani, special assistant to the prime minister on political affairs.

Plea dismissed for law prohibiting cow slaughter, beef sale NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a law to prohibit cow slaughter and sale of beef and its products across the national capital region (NCR).

A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath dismissed the plea saying the petition is "misconceived" and the Delhi government has informed that it already has an act called Delhi Agriculture Cattle Preservation Act, 1994, to prevent such acts. The public interest litigation was filed by self-proclaimed monk Swami Satyananda Chakradhari.

"Delhi government already has Delhi Agriculture Cattle Preservation Act. There is prohibition of slaughter of agricultural cattles. It covers everything. There are already shelters. Five such shelters are there with capacity of 23,000 cows and they have 10,000 cows there.

There are number of private cow shelters also," the Delhi government's advocate said asking the court to dismiss the plea.

Chakradhari's plea had also sought directions to the Delhi government to enact a law similar to the 1932 Ranbir Penal Code, applicable in Jammu and Kashmir, which states that "slaughter of cows and alike animals" was punishable with up to 10 years in prison as well as financial penalty. "Direct the respondents (Delhi government, Lt. Governor and Delhi Police) to consider enacting a law prohibiting slaughter of cows, their import/export and sale of beef and its products across Delhi and NCR," said the plea.

"The state government should set up a Gokul Gram on the government-proposed land and to be used to rehabilitate old cows, bulls and bullocks. The Gokul Gram should be set up with central government aid," it added. The Maharashtra government recently banned the possession and sale of beef and violators in the state can be punished by up to five years in prison, the plea added.

tion from Indonesia today (Friday) morning. He is in custody of CBI-Interpol.

Legal formalities are in process," the CBI said in a statement. Hours after his arrival in the city in an Indian Air Force Gulfstream-III aircraft from Bali, the security of Rajan, considered as a "friendly don" because of his earlier tip-offs to Indian security agencies about the movement of Dawood and his aides, has been increased.

In 2000, there was an attempt on Rajan's life when

Dawood's men tracked him to a hotel in Bangkok but he managed a dramatic escape by jumping from the first floor of the hotel.

Once close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, Rajan separated from his gang before the 1993 Mumbai blasts were conspired.

Earlier, Rajan's deportation was delayed due to unfavourable weather conditions across Bali caused due to volcanic eruption at a nearby island which led the international airport in

Bali to be shut down.

After authorities declared the airport open, the Indian team comprising CBI, Delhi and Mumbai Police officials began the process of deportation Rajan, who had fled India in 1988 for Dubai. Maharashtra Additional Chief Secretary K.P. Bakshi on Thursday announced it had handed over all its cases against Rajan to the CBI, hours before the fugitive was deported

by Indonesian authorities.

After the Maharashtra government declared transferring all its cases against Rajan to the CBI, Delhi Police also handed over its cases to the premier agency for further probe.

Rajan is wanted in over 80 crimes ranging from murder, extortion, smuggling and drug trafficking.

Mumbai Police have nearly 70-75 cases registered against Rajan, including 20 of murder, four cases under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, one under Prevention of Terrorism Act and over 20 cases under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. Delhi Police have six cases registered against Rajan.

India cracks down on Kashmir separatists ahead of Modi visit SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Security forces have detained nearly 400 Kashmiri separatists to prevent them marching in protest during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on Saturday, police said, raising tension in the disputed territory.

Modi is making his first trip this year to Kashmir where militant violence continues, although it is nowhere near the level of the 1990s when armed revolt against Indian rule erupted. Nuclear powers India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars since independence over Kashmir. India has long accused Pakistan of pushing separatist Muslim militants into India's part of Kashmir to foment revolt in the disputed Muslim-majority region. Pakistan denies those accusations.

Kashmiris have in addition been protesting about the lack of federal government aid more than a year after the worst flooding in over a century devastated half a million homes. Police rounded up top separatists after hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani called for a million people to walk to the centre of summer capital, Srinagar, near a stadium where Modi will address a rally on Saturday. "Our rally will be a message to India to read the writing on the wall that Kashmiris are against

Indian security personnel stand guard during restrictions in Srinagar on November 6. (REUTERS Photo)

Indian occupation," said Ayaz Akbar, a spokesman for the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of separatist political and religious parties.

Over the past week, 389 people have been taken into preventive custody, most of them separatists but also activists who have in the past led stone-throwing crowds in anti-government protests, an officer said. Soldiers patrolled the streets of Srinagar on Friday while police set up barriers around the city, inspecting vehicles. Cellphones will be blocked during Modi's visit, the Indian army said.

Militants have in the past sought to carry out highprofile attacks whenever a top Indian leader has vis-

ited the Kashmir Valley.

On Thursday, militants attacked a paramilitary camp in Srinagar with grenades, wounding 11 soldiers.

Modi, whose party shares power in the Jammu and Kashmir region, is expected to unveil an economic package to help the state recover from the floods. But a state government minister said he expected the Indian leader to also reach out to the disaffected youth. "The PM's visit can't be described in economic terms alone," said Education Minister Naeem Akhtar. "It is true that Kashmir needs economic impetus but it is equally true that political engagement especially with youth is essential."

Ex-servicemen to return Indo-Nepal border crackdown deepens constitutional standoff medals, observe 'black Diwali' BIRGUNJ, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Nepal's busiest entry point for goods from India has witnessed a new wave of unrest after police failed to clear a border blockade, the attempt only strengthening the resolve of protesters to fight the Himalayan nation's new constitution.

Knots of demonstrators gathered around piles of smoldering tyres in Birgunj, the latest flashpoint in agitation across the southern Tarai-Madhes strip, speaking of their anger at a federal setup enshrined in the new basic law.

The lowlanders, many of them ethnically distinct from Nepal's hill and mountain groups, complain their region has been carved up, denying them a say in running the nation of 28 million as it seeks a new start after years of instability.

Stones and pieces of brick littered the streets around a clock tower on Thursday, marking where police had fought previous battles with protesters. Burned-out cars and motorbikes lay by the side of the road to the deserted bus station.

"We light fires in the morning, they (the police) come in the day and shout abuse at us, charge us with batons and shoot tear gas or bullets. We throw stones back, and sometimes petrol bombs," said Abdul Rahman at one of the fires in Birgunj.

"All of us in this crowd voted for the mainstream parties in the last election after they promised to give

us a Tarai province. Now we know they have lied to us, and we are out on the streets."

The middle hills and the capital Kathmandu have suffered fuel and cooking gas shortages after protesters in the south switched to blocking supplies from India, Nepal's largest trading partner, almost two months ago.

Many in Nepal accuse India of supporting the protesters - a charge New Delhi denies. India has expressed its dissatisfaction with parts of the constitution, although it also says it cannot allow trucks to enter Nepal while conditions are unsafe.

An Indian national was shot dead

by Nepali police on Monday during a protest that erupted after police cleared protesters from a highway.

In a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bid to improve neighbourhood relations, Nepal has turned to China for help, getting an emergency consignment of fuel and opening seven border crossings to traders.

BATONS, TEAR GAS AND BULLETS Since Monday's killing, police have fought running battles with protesters who threw stones and petrol bombs by the clock tower and in side streets. Around 300 protesters were camped out on the 'friendship bridge' that runs through the last section of no-man's land to the border.

Many in the Tarai have family ties across the border, although those on

vigil at the bridge played down the support they receive from India.

"They have given us places to cook, and sometimes given us food during the last month. But this is natural. We have very close kinship ties," said Mahadev Kushwaha, a local high school teacher.

"The media from Kathmandu don't understand this, and say the movement is being run by India. Tarai-Madhes is a part of Nepal just like the hills are.

"But where are we in the government? In the army? In the police?

Would there have been as many deaths in the last few months if more of the police in Tarai-Madhes were local people?"

Nepal's new constitution has provisions for disadvantaged groups, including Madhesis, but the gulf between Kathmandu and Tarai-Madhes is widening in the face of violence that has taken more than 40 lives.

"The promise of inclusion is completely hollow," said Ram Kishor Yadav, a leader from the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal, a Tarai-based party, who was at the bridge.

Protesters say that if the government was willing to concede to their main demand – the separation of the new provinces in the southern plains from those in the hills – the agitation would end: "We need to keep up this struggle until we are guaranteed our share in all parts of the government," said Yadav.

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Ex-servicemen agitating for 'One Rank, One Pension' (OROP) scheme on Friday said they would return their galantry and other medals across the country on November 9-10 and observe a "black Diwali".

"We have unanimously decided to return our medals across India," said Group Captain V.K. Gandhi (retd), general secretary, Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement, during a protest held at Jantar Mantar here.

The armed forces' veterans decided to intensify their agitation which continued for 145th day on Friday. "The government is willing to provide us OROP, but it is full of discrepancies and is not as per its definition. In protest, all ex-servicemen sporting their medals will line up in a disciplined and dignified manner in each district on November 9-10," Gandhi told reporters here.

"The district magistrate concerned will collect the medals, and if he doesn't come to collect, the medals will be left behind. The DMs will be requested to guard the medals and send these either to Prime Minister Narendra Modi or President Pranab Mukherjee," he added.

The threat to return the medals is seen as a way to pressurise the government to notify OROP as per its definition. The government is already under attack from a number of writers, filmmakers and others who have returned prestigious awards to protest against "rising intolerance" in the country.

Maj. Gen. Satbir Singh (retd), who has been spearheading the Indian ex-servicemen's movement on the issue, said ex-armymen in Delhi would hand over their medals at the arrival halls of T1 and T3 terminals at the Delhi international airport between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on November 9-10. "Ex-servicemen living abroad will go to the respective Indian embassies with their families and return their medals to the ambassadors," he said.

"The government had been changing the goalposts from time to time. They are not issuing the notification.

We apprehend that the government does not want to give us OROP as per the definition," Gen. Singh said. Gen. Singh also said the veterans would observe a "black Diwali" this year in support of OROP.

Condom shortage hampers India's AIDS fight NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Sex worker Shaalu is using fewer condoms when she meets her clients in New Delhi -- not out of choice, but because a funding crunch and procurement delays in the state-run HIV/AIDS programme have disrupted supplies of free condoms.

"I am more scared of HIV now," said Shaalu, 32, who often resorts to unsafe sex as free condoms are scarce and she is hard pressed for funds to repay a debt of $4,500.

India provides free condoms under its community-based AIDS prevention programme that targets high-risk groups like sex workers. That strategy, the World Bank estimates, helped avert 3 million HIV infections between 1995 and 2015.

But government data released last week showed about two-thirds of India's 31 state AIDS units had less

ter Prime Minister Narendra Modi slashed federal AIDS funding in February by a fifth. Modi hoped states would fill the gap, but the cut came as regional AIDS units faced bureaucratic payment delays.

An official at India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), which runs the programme, blamed the condom shortage on the federal cuts and a delayed procurement tender that was recalled due to technical discrepancies.

A volunteer (R) from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) distributes free condoms to villagers during an AIDS awareness campaign on the outskirts of Agartala on November 6.

(REUTERS Photo)

than a month's supply of condoms. Some states only have enough for a few days.

Reliable supplies are key - experts fear that the shortage could lead to more unsafe sex and increased infections, especially among the poor.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS can be transmitted via blood, breast milk or unprotected sex.

The incurable infection killed 130,000 people in India and 1.5 million globally in 2013, the World Health

Organisation says.

"Not having the only barrier method at the doors of those who need it is catastrophic," said Mona Mishra, an activist who runs a national AIDS Momentum campaign.

The shortages come af-

NATIONAL WOES Condoms in the open market are cheap, but female sex workers often hesitate to buy them from a medical store due to social taboos.

Mostly from poor families, these women were under pressure to have unsafe sex if clients didn't carry their own condoms, said Kusum, head of the All India Network of Sex Workers that represents 200,000 women.

In the western state of Maharashtra, the stock of free condoms was oneeighth of its monthly requirement of 3.3 million condoms on Oct. 17.

Despite recent hiccups, India's AIDS programme has won praise globally HIV prevalence among female sex workers almost halved to 2.67 percent during 2007-2011 and new infections have fallen in recent years. The NACO official in New Delhi said free condom supplies should improve in the next 15-20 days.

But for Shaalu, who only gave her working name, AIDS budget cuts and condom shortages are a double shock - she last received her 3,000 rupees ($46) monthly salary for promoting safe sex as a "peer educator" in April. " The government should at least give us condoms so that we can earn money," she said. "If we get infected, we will die."

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Chemical weapons used by fighters in Syria

THE HAGUE, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents were battling another group, according to a report by an international watchdog seen

by Reuters.

A confidential Oct. 29 report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a summary of which was shown to Reuters, concluded “with the utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulphur mustard” in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, on Aug. 21.

“It is very likely that the effects of sulphur mustard resulted in the death of a baby,” it said.

The findings provide the first official confirmation of use of sulphur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, in Syria since it agreed to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, which included sulphur mustard.

The report did not mention Islamic State, as the fact-finding mission was not mandated to assign blame, but diplomatic sources said the chemical had been used in the clashes between Islamic State and another rebel group taking place in the town at the time.

“It raises the major question of where the sulphur mustard came from,” one source said. “Either they (IS) gained the ability to make it themselves, or it may have come from an

undeclared stockpile overtaken by IS. Both are worrying options.”

Syria is supposed to have completely surrendered the toxic chemicals 18 months ago. Their use violates U.N. Security Council resolutions and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.

The report, which will be formally presented to U.N. Secretary General Ban Kimoon later this month, adds to a growing body of evidence that the Islamic State group has obtained, and is using, chemical weapons in both Iraq and Syria.

Kurdish authorities said earlier this month that Islamic State fighters fired mortar rounds containing mustard agent at Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq during clash-

BEIRUT, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Air strikes by Russian warplanes on the Islamic State-held Syrian city of Raqqa killed 42 people earlier this week, including 27 civilians, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.

Fifteen Islamic State fighters made up the remainder of the death toll, the Britain-based Observatory said, after a series of strikes on Tuesday that hit the group’s Syrian stronghold.

The bombings add to a civilian death toll from Russian strikes, which the Syrian Network for Human Rights, another monitoring group, said on Monday stood at 254 people killed in just over a month.

It was also a rare heavy Russian bombardment targeting Islamic State rather than other insurgent groups.

Russia’s air force intervened in Syria’s four-year civil war on Sept. 30 on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, launching a campaign it said targeted Islamic State.

The United States says Russian raids have mostly hit other Syrian insurgents, including foreign-backed and more moderate groups.

The Russian intervention has marked a new phase in the war, intensifying fighting in the country’s west and northwest between rebels and pro-government forces backed also by Iranian troops and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.

Russian strikes have hit Islamic State-held areas further east, but have been mostly concentrated in the west.

Its air force said on Tuesday it had flown 1,631 sorties and struck 2,084 militant targets since the start of the campaign.

More than 120,000 people have been driven from their homes since Moscow’s bombing campaign started, the United Nations says. The war has killed an estimated 250,000 people and driven more than 11 million from their homes.

es in August. They said blood samples taken from around 35 fighters who were exposed in the attack southwest of the regional capital of Erbil showed “signatures” of mustard gas.

SPECIAL SESSION A team of OPCW experts has been sent to Iraq to confirm the findings and is expected to obtain its own samples later this month, one diplomat said.

A special session has been called by the OPCW’s 41-member Executive Council to discuss the Syrian findings and it will be held in The Hague on Nov. 23, sources at the OPCW told Reuters.

Sulphur mustard which causes severe delayed burns to the eyes, skin and lungs - is a so-

called Schedule 1 chemical agent, meaning it has few uses outside warfare.

A second report by the OPCW fact-finding mission to Syria said the team had so far been unable to substantiate claims from the Syrian government that its forces had been targeted by insurgents using chemical weapons.

The mission “cannot confidently determine whether or not a chemical was used as a weapon” by militants in the Jober area on Aug. 29, 2014, it said.

Syria agreed in September 2013 to destroy its entire chemical weapons programme under a deal negotiated with the United States and Russia after hundreds of people were killed in a sarin gas attack in the outskirts of the capi-

For Myanmar’s Muslims, little 2 dead, dozens missing after dam bursts in Brazil MARIANA, NOVEMBER 6 (RE- rated” and victims arriving by helicopter to cheer about historic election UTERS): Casualties from a collapsed were being sent to nearby Ouro Preto.

SITTWE, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): In a refugee camp outside Myanmar’s provincial capital Sittwe, Soe Hlaing was holding a pink card, the most coveted of the rainbow of documents indicating citizenship status, which gives him a vote in Sunday’s historic election.

But the 44-year-old Muslim said he will not be exercising the right, in protest against the disenfranchisement of most of the 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims amongst whom he lives. Soe Hlaing is a Kaman Muslim, not a Rohingya.

The Kaman are one of Myanmar’s recognized 135 ethnic groups and entitled to full citizenship rights by birth, unlike the persecuted Rohingya. But Soe Hlaing ended up in a refugee camp with mainly Rohingya during brutal antiMuslim violence in 2012. Since entering the camp, the authorities have subjected him to the same restrictions on freedom of movement as his Rohingya neighbours.

“Unless everyone can vote, I will not vote,” he said, sitting outside his rattan home in the Ohn Daw Gyi camp on the outskirts of Sittwe. Even his wife, he said, was left off the camp’s short voter list. As Myanmar heads to the polls on Nov. 8 the plight of its Muslim minority remains a blot on what is billed as the country’s first free and fair election for 25 years. The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) is widely expected to do well in the election, but the milestone for political reforms an NLD victory would represent will be lost on much of the Buddhist-majority country’s Muslims.

Radical Buddhist monks have stoked anti-Muslim tensions in the run-up to the election and the NLD is not fielding any Muslim candidates for fear of intimidation.

There are very few Muslim candidates standing for any party, even though Muslims make up about five percent of the 51 million population.

About 150 people are eligible to vote out of nearly 100,000 Muslims living in 20 camps surrounding Sittwe, the Rakhine capital, according to the state’s election commission chair, Aung Myat.

DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED Many Rohingya held temporary citizenship documents known as white cards until February, when President Thein Sein abruptly announced the cards would be nullified. That stripped the Rohingya of the right to vote.

Many Muslim candidates were also disqualified from standing as candidates this year.

The Arakan National Party (ANP), a powerful organisation of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, maintains that Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite many living in Myanmar for generations.

It led the successful lobbying of the national government to have them disenfranchised, to the dismay of the United Nations. “I am deeply disappointed by this effective disenfranchisement of the Rohingya and other minority communities,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. “Barring incumbent Rohingya parliamentarians from standing for re-election is particularly egregious.”

For many Rohingya who cast ballots in the past, losing their ability to vote is just the latest in the erosion of their basic rights.

Exiting the camps or restricted villages in which they live, even to reach better equipped medical facilities, requires permission from authorities.Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD has steered clear of Sittwe and the refugee camps. She has said little about the contentious issues surrounding the lack of freedoms for the Kaman and Rohingya.

dam at a Brazilian mine owned by Vale and BHP Billiton mounted on Friday after rescue teams worked through the night to find the dozens missing in mudslides that devastated a nearby village.

A spokesman for firefighters in the rescue confirmed 30 injuries and at least two deaths, but said the count was likely to rise as the search advanced slowly after mudslides knocked out roads and cellular towers.

“In reality there are a lot more, but we can’t confirm any more than that. We don’t even know that we’ll find everybody,” said firefighter Adão Severino Junior in Mariana. He said the local hospital was “satu-

BHP Billiton Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mackenzie said at a news conference that full assessment of casualties and damage was hampered by nightfall that came a few hours after the incident on Thursday.

Vale directed questions to officials at their Samarco joint venture, which said in a statement it had not yet determined why the dam burst or the extent of the disaster. [nL1N1303CA] The dam was holding tailings, a mining waste product of metal filings, water and occasionally chemicals. It was located near the Gualaxo do Norte river, adding to fears of potential water contamination.

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China supplies Cambodia with anti aircraft hardware in new military aid PHNOM PENH, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): China have provided Cambodia with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, Cambodia’s defence minister said on Friday, as the two countries agreed on new military aid to boost close ties.

Cambodia is one of China’s most stalwart allies in Asia, routinely backing China’s position at international forums in a region where China and United States vie for influence.

“The visit of the defence minister of the People’s Republic of China has achieved good results,” Defence Minister Tea Banh told reporters after a signing ceremony with his visiting Chinese counterpart, Chang Wanquan.

Tea Banh attended a meeting of defence ministers from the region this week where they scrapped plans for a joint statement because they failed to agree on whether to include a reference to the disputed South China Sea, which China had objected to.

Tea Banh made no mention of those negotiations but said China had recently delivered shoulder-fired missiles.

“We don’t need warplanes because in the current situation, we have already set up anti-aircraft system to defend our airspace,” he said.

He gave no details about the type of missiles but said Cambodia was seeking longer-range hardware.

“We need to be additionally equipped to fire long range or even fast planes can’t escape,” he s aid.

He said China would also help with training and would build military academies.

Chang told Tea Banh that China would continue to help Cambodia develop and modernise its armed forces, deepening cooperation on every level, the Chinese Defence Ministry said in a statement.

Russian air strikes kill 42 in IS held Raqqa, Syria

A rebel fighter from the Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement takes a position as he aims his weapon at Morek front line in the northern countryside of Hama on March 16. (REUTER File Photo)

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tal, Damascus.

The last of 1,300 tonnes of chemical weapons declared to the OPCW was handed over in June, 2014, but several Western governments have expressed doubt that the government of President Bashar al-Assad declared its entire arsenal.

With Syria’s civil war in its fifth year, chlorine has also been used illegally in systematic attacks against civilians, the OPCW found.

In the Idlib province south of Aleppo, the report said, there were several incidents between March and May of 2015 which “likely involved the use of one or more toxic chemicals”.

A U.N.-OPCW joint investigative mission has been assigned to determine who was behind those attacks.

Hong Kong court extends press gag in test case for freedoms HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 6 (REUTERS): A Hong Kong judge on Friday extended a press gag order in a case involving one of Asia’s top universities, renewing concerns about press freedom in the Chinese-controlled city in the wake of last year’s pro-democracy protests.

The injunction, initiated by the chairman of Hong Kong University’s governing council, bans media from reporting on the council’s closed-door meetings, after members voted in September not to promote a former law school dean, despite him having been the sole nominee for the post.

The decision was widely perceived as political interference. A student member of the council broke his confidentiality agreement to summarize what had been said in the meeting and by whom, and secret recordings of the meeting were leaked to a local broadcaster.

The court retained the press gag but said it only applied to council meetings between June 30 and the date of the injunction on Oct. 30. The gag order had previously applied to all council meetings.

The case is due to resume on November 24. The Hong Kong Journalists’ Association condemned the injunction, saying it was a test case for Hong Kong’s freedoms.

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Ibe on target to maintain Sania living up to World Liverpool momentum No.1 tag: Mahesh Bhupathi

Jordon Ibe celebrates after scoring the first goal for Liverpool. (Reuters)

MERSEYSIDE, NO VEMBER 6 (REUTERS): Liverpool's revival under manager Juergen Klopp continued to gather steam as the Merseyside club notched up a third win in a row with a 1-0 away victory over Russian side Rubin Kazan in the Europa League on Thursday.

Liverpool's first win in the competition, following three successive draws, left them second in Group B, two points behind Swiss side Sion and on target to advance to the knockout stages if they beat Bordeaux at Anfield on Nov. 26.

Jordon Ibe scored his first goal for the club, running on to Roberto Firmino's pass to slot home in the 57th minute, but Klopp was quick to assert that the 19-year-old was far from the finished product.

"He has a lot to learn,

but has a really good base.

Like everyone, he has to work hard... he has to learn and if he is prepared to listen, everything will be good," the German told reporters after the game.

Rubin had never lost to an English side at the Kazan Arena, claiming the scalps of Wigan Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea in the past, but Klopp's men dominated throughout in difficult conditions.

"The result and the first 80 minutes were really good.

"It's a really good place to play football but the pitch is not in the same shape as the rest (of the stadium).

"We did really well, we had our chances and could have had more (goals).

"It is not the biggest surprise Rubin Kazan were very well organised. I think we played much better (than in the 1-1 draw at An-

Boxing more dangerous than mixed martial arts TORONTO, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Boxing poses a greater risk of serious injury than mixed martial arts that has a reputation for being one of the most brutal and bloody of all contact sports, claims a new study. "Yes, you are more likely to get injured if you are participating in mixed martial arts, but the injury severity is less overall than in boxing," explained lead study author Shelby Karpman, sports medicine physician at Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, University of Alberta in Canada. "Most of the blood you see in mixed martial arts is from bloody noses or facial cuts; it doesn't tend to be as severe but looks a lot worse than it actually is," Karpman noted.

The researchers reviewed a decade's worth of data from medical examinations following mixed martial arts and boxing matches and found that mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters face a slightly higher risk of minor injuries. Boxers, however, are more likely to experience serious harm from concussions and other head trauma, loss of consciousness, eye injuries, smashed noses and broken bones. The study involved review of post-fight records from 1,181 MMA fighters and 550 boxers who fought matches in Edmonton between 2003 and 2013.

The researchers found that 59.4 percent of MMA fighters suffered some form of injury in their bouts -- significantly higher than the injury rate of 49.8 percent for boxers. Most of these injuries were bruises and contusions.

But boxers were more likely to experience loss of consciousness during the bout (7.1 percent compared with 4.2 percent for MMA fighters) or serious eye injuries.

Boxers were also significantly more likely to receive medical suspensions due to injuries suffered during bouts. The research was published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.

field in the first encounter between the sides)... that's normal because we've had four weeks together -- we have more experience together," he added.

Klopp travelled with a strong team, signalling his intent to take the competition seriously, unlike predecessor Brendan Rodgers.

"I only build teams or make squads to win the next game, not to give someone a rest if he doesn't need it. That's what we did today. "We had Adam Lallana and (Philippe) Coutinho with some problems, not the biggest ones, and so they were on the bench.

They could have played but we didn't risk it." Liverpool, who are eighth in the Premier League, will hope to keep the momentum going when they host 10thplaced Crystal Palace on Sunday.

NEw DElhI, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): Indian tennis great Mahesh Bhupathi has lauded fellow player and former on-court partner Sania Mirza for her tremendous season this year which saw her clinch 10 women's doubles titles across the globe, including two Grand Slam events.

"Yes, I agree she has been on a roll. She is the World No.1 (in women’s doubles) and playing like one. She is playing some great tennis and she has developed a very close partnership with Martina Hingis," Bhupathi told IANS in a telephonic interview from Dubai.

"I hope this partnership flourishes even more and they go on to win more tournaments next year.

To win 10 tournaments in a year is a great achievement. I wish them continued success." World No.1 Sania won nine titles, including Wimbledon, US Open and the year-ending WTA Finals, with Swiss ace Martina and another with American Bethanie Mattek-Sands this season.

On his own professional career, Bhupathi still hasn't taken a call. There has been talk of him retiring from the sport but the 41-year-old hasn't confirmed anything yet.

"Right now I am extremely busy and have not really thought about my future. I am just totally focussed on the Internation-

al Premier Tennis League (IPTL)," said the winner of 12 Grand Slam titles, who is also the director of Sports365.in -- a Bengaluru-based sports driven portal serving as a one-stop shop for all sports and fitness related requirements.

This year too, Bhupathi has played sporadically in only seven tournaments.

In all, he played in nine matches, winning two but losing seven!

The first Indian to win a Grand Slam event in 1997, Bhupathi is currently completely focussed on the second edition of the IPTL, to be held from December 2 to 20 in Kobe, Manila, New Delhi, Dubai and Singapore. "My schedule currently is very hectic. There is a lot that has been going

on. The IPTL is on track but we will have to wait and see how it turns out this time and how different it will be from last time. We have Rafael Nadal this time as well as Kei Nishikori playing.

Plus we also have another franchise in Japan Warriors," said Bhupathi.

It was recently announced that Bhupathi will partner Sania to play three exhibition matches on November 25, 26 and 27 against the old time famous pair of Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova in Kolkata, Hyderabad and New Delhi.

"It is basically for the promotion of the IPTL. There will be three matches that will be played on back to back days. It is for the fans," concluded Bhupathi.

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tions flared, a mob formed, a (Muslim) target was identified, and a horrific act turned into international news. Over the next couple weeks, at least two other Muslim men were attacked: one over rumours that he was transporting beef, the other for allegedly smuggling cows. Thirdly, numerous writers have returned their prestigious Akademi awards to protest a lack of action.

Even India's central bank governor, Raghuram Rajan, made a rare foray into noneconomic matters by calling for mutual respect and tolerance in public discourse.

The President of India also mentioned in a speech on increasing intolerances in the country. "Muslims can continue to live in this country, but they will have to give up eating beef." -- Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana and member of the BJP. "If by any chance the BJP loses ... [fire] crackers will be burst in celebration in Pakistan." -- Amit Shah, BJP President.

These are only few examples of the many incidents that have happened.

Award Wapasi – Are these people insignificant and trivial that we can just write them off as if they don’t have weight or credence? The Naga intellectuals should seriously ruminate upon it and address the people in written and voice.

BJP is a party, a political wing of the

Human civilization distort the minds of people Corrupt, envy and craziness Obsess with materialism Insane with fame and honour Love and peace diminish.

But fore - fathers content, And joyful of what they inherit and owned Sharing and helping hands everywhere, Friends everywhere Love and peace toss like a breeze Oh what a golden age has gone Teach and emulate our fore-father's legacy Oh come build and rooted on Our traditional values Nothing can replicate.

Tokhu emong, tokhu emong, tokhu emong God given opportunity To acknowledge the creator Retrospect and press on for unity Remainder of our oneness and Rich cultural' heritage Shaking hands as symbol for same origin Same language as same procreator Merry making as a banner to Sad together at any circumstances Show the world of our origin As brothers and sisters Oh God on the clay of Tokhu Emong Renew and restore us, Fasten our brotherhood, To spread the message of Love and peace To our beautiful land.

(Y. Thunglanbemo Ezung)

Pre-celebration of NWA 25th tourney today

kOhIMA, NOVEMBER 6 (MExN): The Pre- celebration of Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) 25th tournament anniversary will take place on November 7 at 11:00 AM at RCEMPA, Phezhu Jotsoma. Minister for social welfare and parliamentary affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Welcome address will be delivered by NWA president Neikhrolo Khalo.

Andrew Symonds. Warne also wound up with the dream pace trio of Courtney Walsh, Allan Donald and Wasim Akram.

"It was great to be in the same room with all of these amazing players today. We are all good friends off the pitch, but we are also fiercely competitive," Tendulkar said in a release on Thursday. "It will be exciting to play on the same team as some of my former rivals,

and of course, it will be great to face Shane again. What makes it even more special is that we will be playing in Major League Baseball Stadiums in America in front of new and existing fans," the 42-year-old said.

"These are some of the greatest players in recent cricket history. You can’t go wrong with any of these guys on your team. Either way the draw went, I would consider that a fantasy

team. Warne's Warriors will be ready for a great game on Saturday,” Warne said.

The first match of the three-match series will be played on Saturday at Citi Field ground in New York.

The second match will be on Wednesday, November 11, at Minute Maid Park in Houston. The final match in the series will be on Saturday, November 14, at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

IntoLerances: a vIew and query

ntolerance in other words is narrowmindedness, fanaticism, etc. In so far as I can see, the tolerances and intolerances debate over India has created havoc on paper and electronic media. But the people of Nagaland and the Government of Nagaland don’t seem to give any heed to whatever is going around us.

Do we care? What would be the consequences if the Hindutva (RSS, VHS and its policies are implemented and becomes unpreventable from coming to force)?

What if the minorities are cowed down and weakened with force like the way our fight for sovereignty was over shadowed by Indian military might?

Let’s look at the facts of intolerance happening in India today. In August, the Kannada language scholar M. M. Kalburgi was gunned down by a visitor to his residence. Mr. Kalburgi was a well-known critic of idol-worshipping, a practice adopted by most Hindus. The second trend is that of an increasingly violent reaction to Indians who consume beef. In September, just a two-hour drive from New Delhi in Dadri, a Muslim man was beaten to death by his Hindu neighbours. The reason? There was a rumour that a carcass of a cow was seen nearby. When an announcement was made at the local Hindu temple, emo-

Days and nights goes without counted Months and years passes without memory Life of man vanish at the twinkling of an eye Generations goes and generation comes Wine of change took place But tokhu emong always Remain its etymology to the fullest.

The wealth and knowledge soaring high to its apex.

Beauty and modern appliance flourishes Skyscrapers and luxurious car's mushrooming Fashion and design sweep at a glance But incomparable to our bare footed-forefathers Totality of their fife is crystal as oasis Paint's their rift with human virtues Possessed- with golden heart, Oh what amazing and astonish of our origin And our incipient fore-fathers.

tendulkar clubbed with Lara; warne draws akram in all-stars t20 series

NEw YORk, NOVEMBER 6 (IANS): They are considered among the two greatest batsmen of all time and will now get a chance to bat together as captain Sachin Tendulkar drew Brian Lara's name along with 13 other players as part of the Sachin's Blasters squad against Shane Warne's Warne Warriors for the Cricket All-Stars Twenty20 series starting at Citi Field here on Saturday.

Tendulkar drew Lara as well as former Indian teammates V.V.S Laxman, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag during a draw on Thursday. Tendulkar also picked Australian pacer Glenn McGrath for his side in a bowling group that also includes Curtly Ambrose, Shaun Pollock, Muttiah Muralitharan and Shoaib Akhtar.

On the other hand, legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne selected some of his former Australian teammates to play for his side, including Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting and

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RSS..... Is there anyone to react to that? If there is, let them explain and convince the people of Nagaland or for that matter the Northeast Indians that we can live according to the ways and means of BJP’s thoughts and beliefs. It is understood by the intellects of the Indian citizens that BJP MPs, Ministers and the RSS units are creating an atmosphere of intolerance with committed intentions. When people protest against their ideologies, instead of pacifying the matters they threaten those who voice concerns.

The basic structure and foundation of a secular and republic India, where freedom of expressions, religion and faith is enshrined in the constitution is visibly under assault. People are fearful of what the future lies ahead and minorities are always at the receiving end. The silence of the most powerful man of India (MODI) is a signal of accommodating and consenting to intolerances.

Nagaland has being placed under Internal Affairs Ministry from External Affairs Ministry and now nearly snatched-off the special status and has being sidelined on budget allocations. Can we then expect any benefit in the years to come from this Union Government?

We have virtually become a begging

State, if there is no Naga begger on the streets of India, it could well be because we are all beggers. We shamelessly fight each other for our own share out of the generous tips from the Indian Government; we don’t bring our heads together to achieve some infrastructural and meaningful development to enrich our resources and enable ourselves to be a sustainable and independent state. Aren’t we entirely dependable on India?

The root causes of Naga disintegration and crumbling are lack of unity, unforgiving nature, egoistic character and arrogance and aloofness. There is no medicine to cure these problems except for own wilful repentance and committing to God’s teaching without hypocrisy and pretence.

Yet, it will be difficult, will it leaders?

We need to voice our rejection on intolerances and the intolerable Hindu agendas. Leaders are expected to work and speak for the interest of their people. Silences only expose their feebleness. Greed and avarice should not compromise the interest of the general public. I hope leaders will rise above their comfort zone and start sharing their real inner feelings with the public in the days to come without fear and favour. With great expectation, this simple message is forwarded.

Ri Rilo Therie , Kohima

NAGALAND FOR CHRIST? THINK THRICE!!!

And then... there are "committed" Christians who goes to Church regularly and participate in church activities regularly but at home steals Electricity ; does some magic on the electric meter box so that the electricity bill comes less than it should be. there are " committed" Government Teachers who does not go to their place of posting and serves as Sunday school teachers in the Church. there are " committed" Bureaucrats who does not go to their place of posting and serves as Deacons in the Church. there are the Hallowed Reverends, Pastors and Church elders who preaches about Jesus on the stage but keeps mum when their children gets jobs through backdoor appointments. i can go on and on...

Look if this is how the situation is how do we expect Nagaland to grow spiritually?

NAGALAND FOR CHRIST? THINK THRICE!!!

Kevitho Kera

Mr. Chief Minister, scholarship poisa toh kotjaishe ho?

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t’s been months that students of Nagaland are yet to receive their scholarship. They’ve been waiting and waiting, and guess what? They’re still waiting, patiently. I suppose their patience is running thin. We both know that patience has its limit too. You might put the blame on the Education department but as the leader and representative of Nagaland, you cannot run away. Sorry for putting it rather bluntly like that. You see, students are suffering a lot because of the easy-going attitude of the government, especially students studying outside Nagaland.

How can you sleep peacefully when you know that a grave injustice is being meted out to your very own people, your very own children? You guys in the government can buy new cars, hike your allowance and salary, send your children tons of money but when it comes to doing a simple job of releasing scholarship to the students of Nagaland, you just go full stop.

I must remind you that today’s youths of Nagaland are not passive and ignorant like the ones of your generation. Today’s youths are more aware, eager, willing and determined. Time will come when Nagaland will witness a sea of change brought about by the youths of Nagaland and when it happens, let’s hope we’re not at the wrong end of the line. This is not a threat, Mr. Chief Minister. It’s the truth and as we are both aware, a lie has many variations but truth, none. I am anguished by this particular issue. I feel so much for the students who haven’t received their scholarship yet. For some, it’s the only means of buying books or materials. For some, it’ll be their pocket money for a month or two. Aren’t you disturbed by this? I wish you start taking immediate action with regard to this issue. Hornbill Festival and your smart city project can wait in line for a while. Please solve this issue at the earliest.

Finally, I hope you’re not offended or angry by this write-up. If you’re angry, imagine the anger of the thousands of Naga students.

May good sense prevail!

I Longkumer, Dimapur

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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Counting His Lucky Star There are a very few Naga actors whose work can be applauded. Do we blame it on the lowbrow Nagamese film industry? Or the lack of creative platforms, exposure and technical expertise? Should we, instead, point fingers at the unappreciative, criticising audience? Presenting the story of Zhokoi Chuzho, who has been acting in Nagamese films for over a decade. He did not let all of the above mentioned deterrents quail his passion for acting, but instead effectively used it a platform to reach to Bollywood.

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o choose acting as a career is a daunting task, be it in Hollywood or Bollywood, let alone our Nagamese film industry. Very few get to walk the hallowed red carpets.

Representing Nagaland in the Bollywood film industry, Zhokoi Chuzho is from the Chakhesang community, based in Dimapur. As an actor, Zhokoi is well-known for his action scenes. His martial arts background has definitely helped his acting portfolio. He is a Black belt 2nd DAN National Gold Medalist.

So far, he has featured in Nagamese films Dukhiya Manu, Revenge, Kushi Din, Tales of an Orphan Boy, Butterfly Life, Detective Atoulie and his Forensic Team, Lichabas Daughter, My Brother Jack (Doordarshan) and in Bollywood movies Te Amo (yet to be released), Detective Byomkesh Bakshi, and Force 2 (in process).

The acting bug caught on at an early age for Zhokoi. As a young boy, he got inspired from watching Bollywood movies. Faced with the problem of lack of platforms, he started participating in School and community Church dramas etc.

It was a much needed opportunity for him when he attended an intensive drama workshop conducted by the National School of Drama (New Delhi) in collaboration with the North East Zone Cultural Centre (Dimapur). This, he credits as the biggest step that catapulted towards taking his acting career seriously.

Once he was certain that he wanted to choose acting as a career, he decided to commit fully into the Nagamese film industry.

He got his first break starring in Nagamese film “Revenge” which was released in 2003.

Since then, Zhokoi has come a

long way. He admits that the journey was a laborious and difficult one. He has faced a lot of disappointments along the path. He recalls, now, how instead of encouragement and appreciation he was hurled with criticisms and discouraging feedback. But he managed to maintain a positive attitude to all this and shares that never once has he thought about giving up.

He attributes this to his family and friends, whom he counts as his biggest supporters.

Finally, his resilience and sheer passion for the love of acting paved the way towards Bollywood. He got the breakthrough he was looking for with “Te Amo”, a Bollywood film.

Zhokoi would like to encourage aspiring young actors to not lose faith and follow their passion for acting. He advises to attend acting classes/workshop whenever op-

portunities arise.

The actor also laments that only if Nagaland has its own satellite channel then our film industry will grow and many talented people will get the right platform to explore their talents and make their career in film industry. On his own, Zhokoi has big plans for his future.

He desires to set up proper film production house in Nagaland in collaboration with the Bollywood film industry. He also dreams of being able to watch Nagaland’s own satellite TV channel when he switches his television on.

This once-upon-a-small-townboy with starry dreams in his eyes has managed to make his dream come true - to work in Bollywood films as an actor. Now, he has one more dream. To work with top Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. We leave Zhokoi to keep counting his lucky stars.

Hallelujah chorus competition in Wokha Hollywood Car Crusader George Barris Dead

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part from indigenous games and sport, Team Metamorphosis organized a choral competition on ‘Hallelujah’ during its Wokha Festival of Music & Indigenous Games/Arts held from November 4 to 6 at Wokha Town.

Eleven groups participated in the competition, where Wokha Village Baptist Church emerged as the champion. Mount Tiyi College Wokha bagged the 1st runner up and Phiro Village Baptist Church came third. Altogether, 1305

The Wokha Village Baptist Church choir performing in the competition.

singers participated in the competition.

After the competition, all the singers joined voices and sang the Halleluiah chorus which was con-

ducted by Chonbenthung Odyuo, SDEO Wokha. The first prize was given away

by Vandanshan Lotha Additional Director, Employment & Craftsman. The sec-

ond prize was given away

by Robin A Lotha, Deputy Commissioner, Wokha and the third prize was given away by Er. Mhondamo Ovung, General Secretary,

Don’t women, no cry – Play depicts abuse of women

Lotha Hoho.

The choir with best attire was awarded to the NST sector church and the best disciplined choir was given to AG Church Wokha.

arris was the brains behind the original Batmobile which Adam West drove on TV and he also designed motors seen in The Munsters, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Time MAChine, Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest and Thunder Alley. His Batmobile, which he built in days for $15,000 (£9,400) sold at auction in 2013 for over $4 million (£2.5 million). Barris died on Thursday (05Nov15).

He was 89 years old. Paying tribute to his dad in a statement, Barris' son Brett writes, "Sorry to have to

post that my father, legendary kustom (sic) car king George Barris, has moved to the bigger garage in the sky. He passed on peacefully in his sleep... surrounded by his family in the comfort

of his home. He lived his life they way he wanted till the end. He would want everyone to celebrate the passion he had for life and for what he created for all to enjoy."

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Scene from ‘Don’t women, no cry’ presented on November 6 at IMC Hall, Dimapur.

Morung Express News Dimapur | November 6

‘Don’t women, no cry’, a play depicting the struggle and pain of women in the Naga society was presented

by Khar Students’ Union Dimapur (KSUD) in association with Hill Theatre Friday evening here at IMC hall.

Directed by Bendang Walling, alumnus of National School of Drama, the play received much appreciation from the evening audience comprising of young and old alike.

The play revolved around the everyday abuse, ill treatment and rejec-

tion endured by women in a male dominated Naga society. It depicted that men seem to turn a deaf ear to the all resounding screams and cries of women undergoing all sorts of physical and mental harassments.

The play finally threw a poser – Why cannot women live as equals? Is there no cure for the malady?

Earlier, chairman, Nagaland State Mineral Development Corporation (NSMDC), Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, MLA, who witnessed the staging of the play as chief guest in his address admitted that though Naga society treats and respects women as equal,

women have not received due recognition or representation when it comes to organizations and running affairs of the state.

The NSMDC chairman said there was a need to rethink on actual status of women as the latter form the backbone of any society or family.

Chairman, Nagaland Bio Resource Mission, Dr. Longri, MLA, also graced the play. Hill Theatre, founded in 2012 by Walling, works on the motto “Love through creativity” and has been engaged in production of street plays, skits, one act plays, dance ballets and mime plays.

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Crafty Ashwin puts India DTO sports meet underway on top against South Africa

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Mohali, NoveMber 6 (iaNS): Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin claimed his 150th Test wicket with an impressive five-wicket haul to put India in command against South Africa at the end of the second day of the first Test at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium here on Friday.

Ashwin created history by becoming the first Indian to reach 150 Test wickets in just 29 matches, going past legends Erapalli Prasanna and Anil Kumble who did it in 34 games.

He also claimed his 100th wicket at home when he dismissed Imran Tahir, the last Protean batsman to fall in their first innings.

Right-hand bat Cheteshwar Pujara (63 batting) consolidated on Ashwin's commendable work, helping the hosts reach 125/2 in 40 overs in the second innings at stumps.

Pujara and skipper Virat Kohli (11 batting) remained unbeaten at stumps as India's overall lead swelled to 142 runs post their first innings score of 201.

Earlier in the day, South Africa got off to a sluggish start as Ashwin dismissed both overnight batsmen Hashim Amla (43) and Dean Elgar (37) after the duo put on a 76-run thirdwicket partnership.

The 29-year-old, who finished with figures of 5-51, went on to wreck the visitors' batting order to bundle them out for just 184 in the first innings. He was well assisted by fellow tweakers Ravindra Jadeja

Federer downed

by Isner, Nadal lucky to survive PariS, NoveMber 6 (reUTerS): A long season took its toll on Roger Federer on Thursday as the Swiss was knocked out of the Paris Masters following a 7-6(3) 3-6 7-6(5) third-round defeat by big serving John Isner. The third-seeded Swiss held serve throughout but lost two tiebreaks against his American opponent, who will face Spain's David Ferrer in the quarter-finals.

Federer seemed to be cruising after breezing through the second set, but Isner pushed him to another tiebreak, using his devastating serve to prevail in the deciders. Isner, who fired down 27 aces, ended the contest on his fourth match point with a service winner.

Federer's defeat was the first upset at Bercy after world number one Novak Djokovic and second seed Andy Murray were joined by Rafa Nadal in the quarter-finals. Nadal saved a match point before subduing South African Kevin Anderson 4-6 7-6(6) 6-2.

The seventh seeded Spaniard appeared to be on his way out but a risky forehand winner allowed him to save match point at 5-6 down in the second set tiebreak. Anderson, who served 20 aces, cracked in the final set as Nadal secured a meeting with fourth seed Stan Wawrinka after the Swiss eased past Serbian Viktor Troicki 6-4 7-5.

Djokovic's serve suffered a second-set malfunction against Gilles Simon but the Serb stayed on course for a third consecutive title on the banks of the River Seine with a 6-3 7-5 victory.

He dropped serve four times in the second set but Simon could not capitalise as Djokovic set up a quarter-final against Tomas Berdych, who defeated local favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3 6-4. Djokovic, however, will need to raise his game if he is to win a fourth title here as his possible final opponent, Murray, looked in ominous form.

Ravichandran Ashwin of India appeals for the wicket of Hashim Amla captain of South Africa during day two of the 1st Paytm Freedom Trophy Series Test Match between India and South Africa held at the PCA, I.S Bindra Stadium in Mohali, India on November 6. Photo by BCCI

(3-55) and Amit Mishra (255).

The Amla-Elgar duo was cautious but made steady progress on a slow and low wicket. The duo was surrounded by closein fielders but negotiated

the spin threat from the Indian bowlers.

Ashwin extracted a lot of spin from the wicket and forced Dean Elgar (37) into an error. The left-hander attempted a sweep, succeeding only in offering a catch.

Elgar's 123-ball stay at the wicket was laced with just two boundaries.

Ashwin then made further inroads, picking Dane Vilas (1) to leave the visitors in a spot of bother at 107/5.

The visitors never looked like settling down, losing wickets at regular intervals to hand the hosts the advantage.

AB de Villiers (63) top scored for the visitors but was running short of partners with the Indian spinners dismissing the tailenders cheaply.

Vernon Philander (3), Simon Harmer (7), Dale Steyn (6) and Imran Tahir (4) all fell in quick succession to give India a vital 17-run lead before coming into bat in the second innings.

South Africa's only hope, de Villiers, after scoring a fine half-century on a spin-friendly wicket was bowled by leg-spinner Mishra.

India intended to start strongly in their second innings to build a big lead.

But pacer Vernon Philander got the early breakthrough again, dismissing Shikhar Dhawan in the third over, to complete a miserable match for the Delhi left-hander who was dismissed for duck in both innings. But the experienced duo of Murali Vijay (47) and Pujara held on firmly, pitching in with crucial runs to help their team take their lead past the 100run mark. Leg-spinner Tahir gave the visitors something to cheer about when he dismissed the well set Vijay at the fag end of the day.

Mounting injuries give Wenger headache ahead of derby day

loNDoN, NoveMber 6 (reUTerS): Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is "very concerned" with a mounting injury list and confirmed that Hector Bellerin will miss Sunday's North London derby against Tottenham Hotspur, while Laurent Koscielny faces a late fitness test.

Arsenal have a number of first-team players out injured, including right-back Bellerin and central defender Koscielny, whose absence was felt in the 5-1 midweek defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League. "We might have Laurent Koscielny back but Hector Bellerin won't be available," Wenger said at his prematch news conference on Friday.

"I'm very concerned. Because we are only in November and we have so many players out. We go into the Christmas period and I am concerned because we

have too many players out." Alex OxladeChamberlain (hamstring), Theo Walcott (calf ), and Aaron Ramsey (hamstring) are out until after the international break, while Jack Wilshere (ankle) is expected to return in mid-December.

Long-term absentees Tomas Rosicky (knee) and Danny Welbeck (knee) are scheduled to return in January The Gunners go into the derby hoping to recover from their midweek mauling in Munich, which has left their hopes of progressing to the Champions League knockout stages hanging by a thread. The manager also gave keeper Petr Cech a vote of confidence despite conceding five goals against Bayern.

"He is gifted, super-talented and one of the greatest goalkeepers ever seen in this country," Wenger said.

Participants of the 100 mt race (Women) at DYO “Heat 2015” Our Correspondent Kohima | November 6

A two day long sports meet of the Dapfhiitsumia Youth Organization (DYO) billed as “Heat 2015” got underway here this morning at D. Khel Ground, Kohima village.

Gracing the inaugural function as the chief

guest, Naga Hoho speaker Medoselhou Keretsii said that sports bring unity and friendship. He urged upon the sports persons to maintain constant practice to excel in the field of games and sports. He said to become a good sports persons, one has to be self disciplined and exhibit self control.

Also touching on the

environment, he called upon the youth to preserve the fauna and flora.

He also urged upon the people to have will power to control the indiscriminate burning of jungles and hunting.

Earlier, DYO president Mhalezolie Kire chaired the inaugural function while DYO games & sports secre-

tary Kelhouneisa Khezhie administered oath to the participants.

Athletic events marked day one. Wrestling events will take place on November 7 from 9:00 AM onwards. Pelesielie Khezhie, president Nagaland Contractors & Suppliers Union will grace the closing ceremony as the guest of Honor.

Mokokchung AutoX flags off

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Parliamentary Secretary, Dr Benjongliba Aier flagging of the 3rd AutoX at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex on Friday, November 6. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Mokokchung | November 6

The Adventure & Motor Sports Association Mokokchung (AMAM) , in commemoration of 125year anniversary of Mokokchung town, successfully organized the “Tour de Hills 3 & Jubilee Adventure Trail” on November 4 an 5. On Friday, the most exciting of motor sport, the 3rd Mokokchung AutoX, was held at Imkongmeren Sports Complex where a total participants fifty eight (58) participants in the 4 wheeler and two wheeler segments.

Altogether, there were forty participants in the

4-wheeler segment – 13 participants below 1000cc; 14 participants above 1000cc and 13 participants in the SUVs. In the two wheel category – there were two segments, novice and expert – with a total participation of eight bikers.

Earlier, the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and NSAMB, Dr Benjongliba Aier, who flagged off the 3rd Mokokchung AutoX, highly appreciated the Adventure & Motor Sports Association Mokokchung (AMAM), the district administration and the Mokokchung district sports council for this grand initiative to celebrate the 125 year of Mokokchung town.

The Parliamentary Secretary, while recalling the contributions of the pioneers of Mokokchung town, pointed out that the pioneers must have faced a lot of problem while laying down the infrastructure for this ‘great town’. He therefore urged the citizens of the town to give all thanks and respect to the pioneers of Mokokchung town for their sacrifice and contributions, the fruits of which we are enjoying today.

He also highly appreciated the Adventure & Motor Sports Association Mokokchung (AMAM) for successfully conducting the ‘Tour de Hills’ and heralding the message of the

125 year anniversary to all the Town Hq and villages and inviting them to be a part of the grand celebration in December second week. He further hoped that the contributions of the AMAM towards motorsport and the society would continue in the days to come.

The first day of the 3rd AutoX ended in a high note, but with results to be declared on the last day (Saturday, November 7), the citizens of Mokokchung, especially the younger generation are thirsting for more, and more adventure in that arena called, Imkongmeren Sports Complex.

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21ST CLASSIC CUP 2015

Nagabazar YO, Medziphema United, Chiiziema FC wins

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A match in action between Chiiziema FC and Ablaze FC on November 6. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent

NOVEMBER 7 FIXTURE

Kohima | November 6

Nagabazar YO, Medziphema United and Chiiziema FC today registered win in their respective matches of the ongoing 21st Classic Cup 2015 under the aegis of Classic Club Kohima here at Kohima Local Ground.

In the first match of the day, Nagabazar YO defeated Meriema United 4-3 via tie-break.

Ist Match (10:00 AM): Pfuratsie FC vs HQ IGAR (North) 2nd Match (11:40 AM): New Market B vs Dziiviirii XI 3rd Match (1:30 PM): Prege FC vs Alpha Squab Kekhriengulie Usou netted a goal for Meriema United in the 35th minute while the equalizer for Nagabazar YO came through the boot of Neiphivilie Seyie in the 52nd minute.

After 1-1 draw, the match was decided

through tie-break in which Nagabazar YO overpowered the opponent 4-3.

Medziphema United defeated 4th NAP Youth FC by a solitary goal in the second match of the day.

The winning goal for Medziphema United came

through Khriese Terhiija in the 8th minute.

Medziphema United will now clash with Nagabazar YO on November 12.

In the last match of the day, Chiiziema FC blanked Ablaze FC 5-0.

Menguzelie scored a hattrick for Chiiziema FC in 11th, 21st, and additional time while Viphrielie and Avilie contributed a goal each to the team in 7th and 52nd minute respectively.

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