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HLC to probe Benreu incident KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 7 (PTI): The Nagaland state government has constituted a four member High Level Committee (HLC) to probe into the firing incident which occurred on October 31 at Benreu Village of Peren District, officials said today. In the incident, Constable Moakumzuk Jamir of the 3rd NAP escorting the Chief Minister of Nagaland during the celebration of Langsimngyi Festival at Benreu Village was killed. The HLC is headed

by Special Secretary, Home L Singsit as Chairman and DIG (Range) Liremo as Member Secretary while the members are Joint Commissioner Vikiyie Kenye, and Joint Secretary, Justice & Law Ngamjok Konyak. The committee would enquire into the causes and circumstances leading to the incident. It would also make recommendations as to how such incidents can be avoided in future. The Committee, constituted on November has been asked to submit its report to the State Government within 30 days.

Mizoram teacher arrested for sexually abusing 32 students

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AIzAwl, NOVEMBER 7 (IANS): A government school teacher was arrested in Mizoram on charges of raping and sexually abusing 32 students, police said here Friday. “Saichal village (Champhai district in eastern Mizoram) primary school teacher Lalhmingmawia, 30, was arrested Friday after first information reports were lodged with the police by parents of two victims,” a police official said.

The official said that subsequent inquiry and interrogation of the teacher revealed that he had either molested or raped 30 more girl students in the past three years in the same school. The victims are aged between 8 and 12 years and they did not report the abuse out of fear as the teacher had threatened them with dire consequences. The teacher has been charged under the concerned sections of both the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

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nagaland cM harps on development and peace

wOKHA, NOVEMBER 7 (MExN): Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today used the celebration of the Tokhu Emong festival of the Kyong Nagas in Wokha as an opportunity to reiterate his rhetoric on why oil exploration will “benefit” Nagaland state. Speaking as the Chief Guest in Wokha town on Friday, the Nagaland CM also spoke on the need to settle the Assam-Nagaland border dispute amicably through “people to people” dialogue and mutual understanding as suggested by the Supreme Court of India.

While claiming that oil exploration in Nagaland will “benefit the people and state as a whole,” the CM asserted that Nagaland “cannot continue to sustain and grow by solely depending on the Centre.” “Time has come for Naga people to explore all available resources to stand on its feet for growth and development,” the CM was quoted as saying.

Reminding that Nagaland is the only state in India which has its own Petroleum and Natural Rules

and Regulations and where profit of oil exploration goes to the people, he urged the people to take advantage of the “freedom” given by Government of India.

Border Issue: Assam opts for court settlement On the border issue, the Nagaland CM disclosed that the Supreme Court has set December 3, 2014 as the dateline for both Assam and Nagaland States to settle the dispute through mutual understanding between the two Governments and people at the border. He further informed of his meeting with the Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi held recently in this relation, in which the Nagaland CM apprised Gogoi of his willingness to settle the issue amicably.

However, he lamented that the Assam CM “has opted for a court settlement.”

If the two states fail to settle the dispute before the expiry of the dateline set by SC, the CM informed that the issue will go back to the Court. “If we hand over the case to Court we don’t know when the settlement will come. It may take an-

nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang addressing the gathering at the Tokhu Emong celebrations in Wokha town on Friday.

other century again and unexpected situation will keep erupting anytime and people of the two states at the border will be the sole sufferer”, the CM stated.

While applauding the Kachari Boro dancing troupe and Assamese dancing troupe of Friendship Forum of Golahgat and Wokha district who participated at the Tokhu

Emong celebration, the CM expressed confidence that exchange of cultural programmes will continue and help foster peaceful coexistence.

Encourages strengthening customary practices The Nagaland CM further asserted that the DAN Government is committed to preserving Naga tra-

ditions and cultures. He called upon the Nagas to preserve their traditions and culture and hoped that festivals would strengthen customary practices, especially customary laws. With the passing of time Naga customary practices are gradually weakening because Nagas choose to go to High Court or Supreme Court without giving much

velopment, CL John, who was the guest of honour, said that without festivals no tribe, state or country is complete. He added that religion, culture and festivals are an integral part of all communities. Appreciating the dancing troupes from Assam for taking part in the Tokhu Emong celebration, CL John said that Nagas and Assamese have been friends since time immemorial and urged for strengthening of this bond.

He further called upon people not to be swayed by “false rumors” regarding the government. He asserted that the present government was formed with “full understanding,” and that it would complete its full term. “Nagas like to talk only politics and waste their time without doing real works. So don’t believe all these rumour about the Government”, he said.

The Tokhu Emong festival, termed as the festival of ‘Love and Forgiveness,’ is a post harvest festival. In Wokha, along with several RD Minister tells people not other parts of the state, the to be swayed by rumors festival was celebrated with Minister for Rural De- pomp and color.

importance of our customary practices, the CM said.

He further encouraged that “village culture and traditions should be encouraged and further strengthened.”

Terming Wokha as a “blessed district,” the CM then lauded Pangti and its neighbouring villages for taking steps to preserve the Amur Falcon. He further announced 2 days restricted holiday from next year onwards for the Kyong community to celebrate Tokhu Emong.

The Nagaland CM further stated that time has come for Nagas to “reflect the joy of all achievements in the festival and not a symbolic celebration of the past.” “In the past, Nagas celebrated festival only to share the joy of bountiful harvest of our fields, but today a time has come for us to share the joy of all our achievements which includes economic, social, intellectual and cultural growth during the festival”, he said.

Veineinem Singsong is Miss Nagaland 2014 ‘NE cultural centres will sensitise people’ Our Correspondent Jotsoma | November 7

Charming 25 year old Veineinem Singsong was crowned as Miss Nagaland 2014 today at the Regional Centre of Excellence for Music and Performing Arts, Jotsoma. This year’s Miss Nagaland pageant was held while simultaneously commemorating 25 years of the title and the Beauty & Aesthetic Society of Nagaland (BASN).

Miss Nagaland 2014, Singsong aims to be an administrative officer and feels strongly about social and economic development. Altogether, 17 girls vied for the coveted crown this year.

Kaheli Chophy and Muluvesalu Keyho bagged the 1st and 2nd runners up spots respectively while Lululu Khesoh and Vilokali Sumi also made it to the five top finalists.

The pageant was cosponsored by the National

Miss Nagaland 2014, Veineinem Singsong flanked by 1st runner up Kaheli Chophy and 2nd runner up Muluvesalu Keyho. (Morung Photo)

Health Mission, Government of Nagaland. Sponsors included the Departments of Forests, Ecology, Environment & Wildlife, Land Resources and Agriculture, Seven Six Provision, Mixed Bag, Vian Enterprises, Fit & Fine Gym, Sami Direct, M/S Naagaamiitech and other well wishers. Retired Nagaland Chief Secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir also made a

‘Development and environment protection can go hand-in-hand’ NEw DElHI, NOVEMBER 7 (IANS): The global certification for Kerala’s Ashtamudi estuary for sustainable fishing shows that development and environment protection can go hand-in-hand, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said Friday.

Ashtamudi estuary became the first fishery in the country to get the certification of the global body Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for sustainable fishing. The certification is much valued due to increasing awareness of sustainable fishing, particularly in Europe.

Javadekar told reporters here that the certification showcases to the world that development and environment protection can go hand-in-hand

and participatory approach at a local level in managing biodiversity is an important aspect of it.

He added this achievement also gives scope to other fisheries in India to work towards MSC certification, which would enhance conservation and sustainability of the resource while providing greater economic returns.

The MSC is an international non-profit organisation set up to help transform the seafood market to a sustainable basis. The MSC runs the only certification and eco-labelling programme for wild-capture fisheries. Ashtamudi short neck clam fishery is only the third fishery in Asia to have received the recognition.

special appearance.

The Miss Nagaland crown was sponsored by Toshimongla Metha while Lemon gave mobiles to the three winners of the pageant and Fit &Fine Gym offered gift voucher to Miss Nagaland. Oriflame extended gift hampers to the three winners and to all contestants. Shoe designer Filafi Fithu also gave gift hampers of her designs to

Miss NagalandVeineinem Singsong Ist Runner-upKaheli Chophy 2nd Runner-up Muluvesalu Keyho Sami Direct Queen of HeartsB. Sangki Konyak Miss PhotogenicMuluvesalu Keyho Miss Perfect 10Teisovinuo Krocha Miss TalentL.C. Paunen Phom Miss Nagaland.

Sub title sponsors included Sami Direct Queen of Hearts- Sami Direct; Miss Photogenic- Dream Looks beauty Parlour; Miss Perfect 10- Mix Bag and Miss Talent-Jat Restaurant.

Further, Trinity Communication sponsored Spice Smart Phones to all four sub title winners and Sami Direct sponsored gift hampers to all sub title winners.

NEw DElHI, NOVEMBER 7 (IANS): As crimes against people from the Northeast continue to rise, experts Friday stressed that having northeast cultural centres in cities will go a long way in sensitising people and removing ignorance about the area.

“As part of the Bezbaruah committee recommendations, we had proposed having multi-faceted cultural centres for the northeast. These will help provide a centre of connection with the northeast and its rich culture,” said M.P. Bezbaruah, while taking part in a discussion during the northeast festival here.

He added: “These will provide a common platform for the people of the northeast to showcase their handicrafts, culture and also help the people from other parts of the country to learn about them.”

Robin Hibu, joint commissioner of police and

NE states should not beg for money, says Rijiju

NEw DElHI, NOVEMBER 7 (IANS): Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Friday said the government was on the job to get the recommendations of the Bezbaruah Committee implemented. “The committee itself has said that its recommendation will take time when it comes to proper implementation.

However, we are on the job and will make sure these are properly implemented by all state governments,” Rijiju said at the inaugural ceremony of four-day North East festival here.

Stating that the NE states deserve better attention, Rijiju, however, sent out a strong message to the chief ministers of the states to not beg for money from the Centre. “The states should not beg for money but should perform. There is corruption at the political and bureaucratic level in the states so the chief ministers should try removing it,” he added. Rijiju also urged the people of the state to not give personal fights racial colour. nodal officer for the northeast community in Delhi added: “When there can be an Islamic Cultural Centre in the capital, why not have a northeast cultural centre?

It is already a part of the recommendations and we have

to keep on raising the issue now with the government.”

Experts also reiterated the need of having an antiracial discrimination law and integrating the culture of the northeast through syllabus and textbooks.

Myanmar commanders charged with war crimes

YANGON, NOVEMBER 7 (AP): Military activities carried out by Myanmar's powerful minister of home affairs when the country was under dictatorship could constitute war crimes, a new study charges, saying there is evidence that he and two other generals were responsible for the executions, torture and enslavement of civilians by troops during a large-scale offensive against ethnic rebels.

Human rights researchers at Harvard Law School said in the report released Friday they spent three years collecting information about the government's 20052006 counterinsurgency efforts in Myanmar's Karen state along the country's eastern border.

They said there was enough to justify the issuance of an International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Home Affairs Minister Ko Ko and his two high-ranking colleagues. The government responded by saying much of what happens during times of conflict is unavoidable and this is a time to look forward, not back. "We are

FILE - In this June 26, 2011 file photo, Myanmar Home Affairs Minister Lt. Gen. Ko Ko attends a ceremony to mark “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Military activities carried out by the powerful minister when the country was under dictatorship could constitute war crimes, a new study charges. (AP Photo)

going through a democratic transition," said Nay Zin Latt, one of the president's political advisers and an ex-army officer. "Everyone should be encouraging the reform process rather than putting further obstacles along the way." The Harvard findings come at an especially sensitive time, as a civilian government — which is still dominated by

the military — that took power in 2011 grapples with a transition to full democracy after nearly five decades of military rule.

Ko Ko is now in command of internal security, overseeing the police force. His two colleagues at the time, Brig. Gen. Khin Zaw Oo and Brig. Gen. Maung Maung Aye, have also been promoted to positions of

greater responsibility. "Ko Ko oversaw egregious rights violations in eastern Myanmar," Matthew Bugher, global justice fellow at Harvard Law School and a principal author of the report told The Associated Press. "His prominent position in Myanmar's Cabinet calls into question the government's commitment to reform."

The investigation by the law school's International Human Rights Clinic covered offenses committed in Thandaung Township of Karen State. Charges include "the war crimes of attacking civilians, displacing civilians, destroying or seizing the enemy's property, pillage, murder, execution without due process, torture, and outrages upon personal dignity, and the crimes against humanity of forcible transfer of a population, murder, enslavement, torture, and other inhumane acts."

Myanmar has been engaged in bitter armed conflict for more than six decades with armed ethnic minority groups seeking greater autonomy.

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A festival that bridges generations: two grandmothers and a teenage girl watch the festivities of Tokhu Emong, the premiere festival of Lotha Nagas, held at Lakhuti village ground in Wokha district. (Morung Photo)

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Lotha man and woman folk performs traditional dance during the Tokhu Emong, a post harvest festival of the Lotha tribe in Dimapur, on November 7, 2014. The post harvest festival celebrated by the Lotha Naga invokes the blessing of god for an abundant harvest and mark the end of harvesting of crops. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

Tokhu Emong to be celebrated two days from next year Morung Express News Dimapur | November 7

Decked out in traditional attire and accessories, the Lothas in Dimapur – young and old – today celebrated Tokhu Emong at State Stadium here. The post harvest festival of the Lothas is a festival of thanksgiving, reconciliaWomenfolk of Lakhuti village taking presenting a harvest song during the Tokhu Emong tion, and forgiveness. celebration at Lakhuti village, Friday. (Morung Photo)

Home Minister Y Patton announced that Tokhu Emong will be officially celebrated two days from next year – November 6 and 7.

Encouraging the crowd to forgive each other and also him in the name of Tokhu, the minister spoke on pertinent issues taking place in Nagaland.

On the oil issue in Wokha district, Patton highlighted that previously, ONGC extracted 1.5 million tonnes oil, but the landowners received only Rs. 64 lakh as their share.

However, he assured that according to the present modalities, the landowners will receive Rs. 329 crore.

Speaking on the border issue in Ralan area, Patton asserted he is doing his part for the welfare of the Lothas. He stated Assam government has 36 police outposts in the area, whereas Nagaland has only 6. In this regard, he informed that efforts are on to redeploy the withdrawn State police outposts in the Disturbed Area Belt.

Meanwhile, he also said

that a proposal has been made to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi to declare the Foothill Road as a national project. Modi is coming to Nagaland on November 30, he informed.

Further, Patton refuted the apprehension that land of the Nagas will be taken over by outsiders once the Nagaland Special Development Zones comes into effect. He stated the land patta will still belong to the landowners, however they can lease out the land to whoever comes to estab-

lish business.

Patton also made his stand clear that he is for the nomenclature Lotha.

He asserted that as long as he is in the office, he would not approve any appeal for renaming of Lotha to Kyong. To change the nomenclature, ‘clearance’ has to be taken from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, he informed. He appealed to all the Lotha apex organizations to meet and settle the nomenclature issue at the earliest.

KUK deliberates on ‘cultural Zbto SDEO informs Hindi teachers Tokhu Emong at Naharbari heritage and influences’

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KoHima, November 7 (mexN): A Youth Seminar analysing the cultural influences and legacy was organised by Kuzhami Union Kohima (KUK) on October 25, at Golden Jubilee Hall, Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kohima with the theme, “Revitalization of the our Culture”.

According to a press note from KUK’s Publicity & Information Secretary, Neitshulo Kapfo informed that, the seminar discussed topic included Significance of Kuzhami, Traditional Attires and Its Value, and Influence of the Language and Culture on Personality Development.

The resource persons were Dr. Kewe Lohe, vice-principal, Baptist College Kohima; Kekhrongulo-u Kapfo, member, CWWS Atires Committee; and Dr. Niezo Puro, Professor, Nagaland

ZuNHeboto, November 7 (mexN): verification with all documents at the DirecThose Hindi teachers under Zunheboto torate of School Education Kohima between district who were on Medical treatment and November 11 to 15. H. Ghokiho Zhimomi, Maternity leave, and could not present for Sub Divisional Education Officer, ZunheUniversity.

Stressing on the pres- Physical verification on October 27 and 28 boto informed in a press release that failure ervation of culture and tra- are informed to appear for final physical to comply will be own responsible. dition and hard work in his keynote address, the Commissioner and Secretary of Labour, Employment & Craftmen Training, Wepretso Mero pointing at a particular shawl informed the gathering that it was not LoNgLeNg, Novem- operate and all the mate- among Longleng farmers, for everyone but worn by ber 7 (mexN): Spoilage of rials required to make the two days long hands on those who “earn it” through fresh fruits and vegetables is cool chamber are available training cum demonstrasheer hard work and share a great problem in Longleng. locally, easily and cheaply. tion on “Construction of the same with the fellow vil- Cool storage can prolong the Even an unskilled person low cost scientific storage lagers with a feast. He also life of fresh produce, but re- can install it at any site, for fruits and vegetables” highlighted the skill devel- frigeration equipment is ex- as it does not require any was conducted at Lintak opment course offered by pensive to buy, expensive to specialized skill. Most of the village of Longleng district his department, added the run, and expensive to main- raw materials used in cool during September 5 and tain. In order to overcome chamber are also re-usable. 6, 2014. Er P Chowdhury, press note.

The cool chamber can re- SMS (SWCE), conducted KUK President, Neilo the problem of on-farm duce the temperature by the demonstration on constorage, low cost environKhape close the session by ment friendly Zero Energy 10–150C of ambient tem- struction of Zero Energy summarising the proceed- Cool Chambers (ZECC) perature and maintain high Cool Chamber (ZECC). Aling of the seminar and ex- were developed. relative humidity of above together 12 farmers attendhorted the gathering to The greatest impor- 90% throughout the year ed the training programme. uphold the good culture, tra- tance of this low cost cool- that can increase the shelf During feedback session, dition and language as these ing technology lies in the life and retain the quality of most of farmers had shown attributes aare “the very fact that it does not require fresh horticultural produce. interest to construct such To make awareness chamber on their own. any electricity or power to foundation of the society.

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Lotha GBs and elders exhibit traditional fire making at Naharbari Village Sports Complex on Friday. (Morung Photo)

Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): Along with the rest of the Lotha community, the Lotha Union Purana Bazaar Area (LUPBA) also celebrated its 21st Tokhu Emong festival at Naharbari Village Sports Complex with participation from various colonies under East Dimapur.

The festival was marked with various traditional performances and competitions including folk song singing competition by women and tug of war. In the women folk song singing competition, Naharbari village bagged the first position, Padumpukhuri 2nd, Mount View

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Sechu Zubza | November 7

CMO along with Award Winners Health Committee mem- Several students includbers during the Annual Health Committees Communitisa- ing public today joined tion Conference under Dimapur District held on November 7. sanitation rally cum advo-

place while Tenyiphe SC and Duncan SC were judged Second and Third respectively.

Cash prizes were presented as award money to these winning Health Centers.

Various Programme Officers highlighted and oriented the Health Committees on their activities such as Anti-Tobacco Campaign, Leprosy, Vector Borne Diseases and Immunization so that the Health Committee members may inform their communities to avail the free

health services provided by the Health Department so as to accelerate various health programme activities reaching the grass root level.

Dr. Moa Jamir, DPO (NVBDCP), chaired the function, welcome address delivered

by Dr. M.A. Wati, CMO and vote of thanks by Dr. Imchameren Jamir, DY.CMO. The progamme ended with the discussion session where health Committee members discussed their issues and experiences.

The family members of Lt. HAUGUM.N.HAU, Old Jalukie would like to convey our sincere acknowledgement and appreciation to all who stood by us during the sudden demise of our beloved Father on 3rd November 2014 at Old Jalukie Village at 5:30 P.M. The consolations we received in terms physical presence, materials support, financial assistance and prayers during the grieving hours has comforted and touched us immensely physically and spiritually. We regret our inability to thank each and every individuals and organizations.

It is our prayer that God Almighty blesses each one of you abundantly.

Loving Wife, Children, Grand Children, Great grand Children and relatives.

Colony 3rd and Model Colony and Purana Bazaar ‘B’ jointly bagged 4th position. Lotha GBs and elders also exhibited traditional fire making.

GB Ntonsi spoke on the significance of Tokhu at the programme, which was chaired by LUPBU Chairman, Zaremo Kikon.

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Phek division Rally cum advocacy workshop NPF general convention on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan resolves

Students vow to secure a clean, healthy, beautiful Nagaland

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Training on Zero Energy Cool Chamber at Longleng

Sahoi is ‘Best Functioning Sub-Centers in Dimapur dist’

Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): The Annual Health Committees Communitisation Conference under Dimapur District was held at District Hospital Chapel Hall on November 7.

Dr. Lanuakum, DPO (RCH-UIP) Officer in his keynote address re-oriented the health Committees members on the goals of Communitisation and the strategies to achieve these goals. He discussed the guidelines to be followed during the constitution of Health Committees and the criteria for selection Committee members.

The Best Functioning Sub-Centers in Dimapur District under Communitisation were selected based on the participations of the community, Recording & Reporting, Staff Performance and Health Care delivery. As per these criteria, Sahoi was adjudge First

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cacy workshop on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan held here and vowed to secure a clean, healthy and beautiful Nagaland.

In the form of pledge, the students also vowed that they will not go for open defecation as “this is harmful to the community,” will always keep toilet clean, will not throw waste here and there but always put them in waste bins and “will always clean up my own mess and not be a part of polluting my town of pride.” Among the many placards carried by the students during the rally included; “To live in a clean village is my right; Keeping it clean is my duty,” “ Build a toilet, build good health,” “ No water No life,” “Live clean, live healthy! etc etc.

Earlier, Sechu- Zubza SDO (C) M.A. Saheb, IAS, in his address urged upon the students and general public to cultivate a habit of sanitation and cleanliness. He also called upon the teachers to propagate hygienic education to the students. “We have to be visibly clean,” he said and at the same time urged upon

Students carry placards during a rally cum advocacy workshop on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at Sechu Zubza in Kohima district on November 7. (Morung Photo)

the students to be an ambassador of sanitation.

Saheb termed the existing WATSAN committee in all villages of Nagaland since 2002 as energetic system on the ground, adding that such set up at the grass root level is not found in other parts of the country.

Viewing that the concept is to keep the village clean, he made a fervent appeal to the WATSAN, GBs and village councils to rededicate themselves to make the system more dynamic and energetic.

Hoping that such commit-

tee will generate a great impact towards the success of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, he called upon each and every individual to put a concerted effort to show the best result and be role model to the country.

Keynote address was delivered by Er. Jakpou Khiamniungan, executive engineer (PHED), Rural Division Kohima. Adi Nakhro, IEC consultant WSSO and Dziesetsino Kiso, chemist PHED dwelt on “Good sanitary practices,” and “Water quality monitoring,” respectively. Dreamz

Unlimited performed a play on sanitation. The programme was chaired

by Rebecca Ngullie, IEC consultant, DWSM PHED while vote of thanks was proposed by Er. Tia JE Kohima Rural PHED. Thepfulie administered pledge to the gathering.

The programme was organized by WSSO, PHED Nagaland as part of its extensive awareness programme in compliance with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, GOI under Swacch Bharat Abhiyan programme.

KoHima, November 7 (mexN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) Phek Division held its general convention at Pfütsero today and adopted various resolutions besides approval of the new team of office bearers. The convention approved the Office Bearers of the Divisional Unit, Frontal Office Bearers Youth /Women/Farmers nominated by the Division Nomination Committee for the tenure 2014-19. The Convention pledged its full support to the new team in carrying out the activities of the Party.

The Convention also extended its support to the ongoing Indo- Naga peace processes and also urged the Government of India for expeditious and logical conclusion of the process for an inclusive and honourable settlement.

The convention placed on record whole hearted support to the leadership of T.R Zeliang as the Chief Minister of Nagaland.

Further, the Convention places its faith in the leadership of Dr. Shurhozelie Lezietsu for steering the Party to consecutive three wins in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly and continuous mentoring and stewardship of the party.

While reiterating its faith in his leadership, in the past and present, it also pledged support for his Presidentship of the Party for the tenure 2014-19.

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Mizoram to ban firecrackers during Christmas, New Year

AIzAwL, NovEmbER 7 (PtI): Mizoram government would ban import, sale and use of firecrackers during Christmas and New Year celebrations, state Home minister R Lalzirliana said here today. Lalzirliana told media persons that the state government had successfully banned firecrackers during festive season for five years resulting in prevention of wastage of huge amount of money, controlling pollution and creating serene atmosphere for the sick and elderly people during the festivities. He hailed the role of the law enforcement agencies, some government departments, NGOs and the media for cooperating with the government on the issue. He said that entertainment programmes would be organised in every locality in Aizawl on New Year's eve and prizes would be given to the best organised programmes. The minister said that the Deputy Commissioner of Aizawl district would send a displeasure note to the Assam Rifles authorities in Aizawl for reported extensive use of firecrackers during the last Diwali despite appeal from the local authorities.

Central team reviews Meghalaya floods

shILLoNG, NovEmbER 7 (tNN): A central team, which was on a visit to the flood-hit areas of the Garo Hills, met chief minister Mukul Sangma and apprised him of its findings during the two-day visit. The team comprised officers of the Union ministries of home, agriculture, animal husbandry, power, road transport and highways, rural development, finance and health. "The CM told the members that the recent floods were unprecedented and unexpected and, owing to the extent of damage, submitting a report from ground zero was not possible. The floods had thrown a huge challenge to the rescue teams to reach out to the affected families," a government spokesperson said. "The chief minister, however, said well-wishers' support was overwhelming and people donated generously to the state relief fund," the official added. "The CM informed the team about the need for strong buildings which can withstand earthquakes, keeping in mind the great quake of 1897," he added. According to the official, the team members were satisfied with the flood reports and said the extent of damage was well-documented by the respected districts. The team discussed the temporary and permanent restoration of the flood-affected areas. Several villages had been washed away and over 50 people were killed by the devastating floods in September this year.

Bangladeshi burglar lynched in Tripura

AGARtALA, NovEmbER 7 (IANs): A thief from Bangladesh was lynched by an irate mob in Tripura, just over a week after three Bangladeshi cattle thieves were hacked to death in the state, police said Friday. "A gang of six burglars came to the border village of Durgapur in Sipahijala district Thursday night. While they were fleeing back with the engines they removed from two parked auto-rickshaws, a villager saw them and alerted other people," a police officer said. Many villagers immediately reached the spot, but most of the robbers managed to cross over to Bangladesh. One thief was caught and hacked to death by the villagers.

The deceased was identified as Ashed Mian, a 30-yearold from Aryanapur village in Comilla district of Bangladesh. Theft of vehicle engines by Bangladeshi robbers are rampant along the border towns and villages in India as these engines are used to mechanise boats.

Earlier on Oct 28, three Bangladeshi cattle thieves were lynched by an irate mob in Tripura. On April 6, three Bangladeshi cattle thives were also hacked to death at a village in western Tripura.

across the rail tracks that run alongside, causing drivers of the slow-moving "Toy Train" to sound a warning hoot.

The World Heritage railway, opened in 1881, is a tourist magnet for a leisurely ride on narrow gauge tracks, offering splendid views of cloudcapped hillsides and people going about their daily routines. Take the 8 a.m. joy ride from Darjeeling to Ghum, India's highest railway station at an elevation of 2,258 m. The two-hour return journey (for Rs. 400) includes stopovers at a rail museum and a spiral rail loop with panoramic vistas.

It's advisable to book tickets online before you visit.

Backpackers and budget travellers can take a room at the government tourist lodge, next door to St. Andrews, an Anglican church built in 1843. The well-heeled can spend their days at the Windamere, a heritage hotel that started as a boarding house for British tea planters in the 19th century. Room tariffs start at Rs. 9,500 a night, with meals.

It also is possible to stay at some of the tea plantations. One of the estates advertising rooms is the Glenburn Tea Estate & Boutique Hotel (www.glenburnteaestate.com).

Mountain Sights Catch a glimpse of snowcapped Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain with an elevation of 8,586 m. Hun-

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Conflict widows: Left to fight social battles Rahul Karmakar Hindustan Times

Excluding minors up to six years of age, Manipur has more females than males – 1,194 according to Census 2011. The numerical edge perhaps translates into more suffering for women in a militancymauled state. For some, it means out of the frying pan of conflict and into the fire of social stigma.

Take the case of Nitan Elangbam whose husband Hijam Sanjoy, 26, was killed by Manipur Police commandos in an alleged fake encounter on 28 June 2008.

Widowhood virtually claimed the space Nitan, 29, had at her inlaws’. She returned to her maternal home to live in the past until she met Inaobi, 34-year-old widower, at a workshop for conflict victims

last year. The two decided to marry, but it was easier said than done.

Many members of both families objected to their marriage, the older women being most vociferous. It was ironical for a society where Meira Paibi (Torchbearers) is a grassroots organization of adult women that acts as a watchdog of civil rights violations at the community level.

Nitan overcame opposition to marry Inaobi. Others haven’t quite been able to live life their way. They include Renu Takhellambam, president of Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families’ Association Manipur (EEFVAM).

Renu, 31, became a widow after Manipur Police commandos shot her husband Monghangjo and two others in an ‘encounter’ on 6 April 2007. EEFVAM

was formed three months later to reach out to conflict widows. “We aren’t just fighting the system for justice; we are fighting social battles too,” Edina Yaikhom, general secretary of EEFVAM and a petty trader, says.

The association has 40 members with an average age of 30 years and two-five children.

The membership is increasing, and this is something EEFVAM doesn’t want. “Whenever someone joins us, we realise how relevant Irom Sharmila’s struggle is. Had there been no AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act), there would have been no fake encounters, no conflict widows and no misery,” Edina, 31, says. A combined team of police commandos and Assam Rifles had take her auto driver husband

Anand Ningthoujam from a college campus in Imphal and shot him in a village 40 km away.

“There is a pattern to how most encounter victims are caught in khudai (Manipuri lungi) and found dead in battle fatigues. Their widows in turn are victims of the system and the society. Many struggle to eke out a living and are vulnerable to domestic and workplace abuse,” women rights activist Sobita Mangshatabam says.

The cases pertaining to the conflict widows are in a list of 1,828 extrajudicial killings a coalition of rights groups submitted to a UN mission in March 2012.

These cases, ironically, serve as a reference for the armed forces to argue in favour of AFSPA. “The local police and its com-

mandos are named as perpetrators in a majority of these cases. So AFSPA, not applicable to them, is basically a non-issue,” an Assam Rifles officer said. He pointed out how in July this year, people in the state’s Ukhrul district reposed more faith in the armed forces after Manipur police personnel gunned down two Naga youth during a demonstration.

Manipur police chief S Ahmed and other senior officials were incommunicado. “Maybe we have come into the picture more since 2004 (after the Assam Rifles allegedly raped and killed Thangjam Manorama in custody) when counter-insurgency operations began to be conducted jointly among the security forces,” a mid-rank police officer said.

Manipur: Minor allegedly raped More rice for Tripura via Bangladesh?

ImPhAL, NovEmbER 7 (PtI): An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her 24-yearold neighbour in Manipur's Imphal West district following which the villagers attacked the accused leaving him seriously injured. Police said the incident occurred on Wednesday in Tharoijam Maning Leikai area when the girl was sent by her aunt to deliver tea to her mother who was working at a nearby paddy field.

On the way, the girl was intercepted by her neighbour, identified as Chingangbam Samjai (24), who allegedly raped her before strangulating her, said police.

When the girl did not return from the field, her family started a hunt. Local residents rushed to their aid and when village youths were questioned, the needle of suspicion pointed to Samjai. The accused confessed to his crime whereupon he was attacked by the angry villagers.

He was later rushed to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital here where his condition was stated to be serious, police said. The villagers lodged an FIR against Samjai at the local police station on Thursday.

Police said they were investigating the matter.

AGARtALA, NovEmbER 7 (IANs): The Indian government may ferry another 35,000 tonnes of rice for Tripura via Bangladesh as train services in the northeastern States have been stopped till March 2016 due to gauge conversion, a minister said here on Friday.

Train services in Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam have been suspended from Oct 1 for track conversion from meter gauge to broad gauge being undertaken by the Northeast Frontier Railways and scheduled to end March 2016.

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Mizoram: over 1,300 deaths in last 2 yrs

AIzAwL, NovEmbER 7 (INDIAN EXPREss): Almost 2,500 new cancer patients from Mizoram were detected in the past two years even as more than 1,300 cancerrelated deaths were reported in the same period, a top health official said Friday.

Dr Eric Zomawia, principal investigator under the health department’s NonCommunicable Diseases wing, said 2,483 new incidences of cancer were detected in the state in the last two years, and that 55 % of these were male patients. He also said at the department’s Cancer Awareness Day program at Aizawl that 1,330 people died of the disease in the same period, of which 60 % were male patients.

Since 2001 when the first cancer data was compiled for the state, Mizoram has been the state with the highest per capita incidences of cancer in the country. That year, it was found that six of the state’s eight districts ranked among the top ten cancer incidences across India, with 209 out of every one lakh residents of Aizawl district alone suffering from various forms of cell malignancy to make Mizoram’s most populous district the most cancer-ravaged district in India.

The state has till now consistently topped

the country-wide cancer charts. Mizoram with a population of just under 11 lakhs has a cancer incidence rate of 189.5 for every one lakh resident. And Aizawl currently tops all other districts in the country with highest incidence rates for cancer among both male (273.4:1,00,000) and females (227.8:1,00,000).

The most common cancer among males is stomach cancer and the most common among females is lung cancer.

While the most prevalent types of malignancy are of the stomach, lungs, cervix, liver and nasopharynx, Dr Zomawia said.

“Besides rampant tobacco use, various factors including food habits such as a regular diet of fermented and smoked meat and a huge number of people chewing paan are the main causes of this unenviable position in the national cancer registry.”

Health Minister Lal Thanzara said it is “extremely unfortunate” that Mizoram continues to be the state with the highest cancer incidence rates, saying “two-thirds of the cancer in Mizoram are preventable.

The question is, are we a community of brave people or a community of idiots to keep consuming some of the carcinogenic items we consume on a regular basis?”

Tea, trains and tales from Darjeeling DARJEELING, NovEmbER 7 (REutERs): Darjeeling, for many people, means tea, but the eponymous hill resort nestled in the Himalayas in India's northeast is also a gateway to spectacular views of the world's third highest peak as well as a rare glimpse of snow leopards and red pandas.

There also are reminders of India's colonial past, including a narrow-gauge railway known as the "Toy Train" that makes a tourist run into the hills under power of a steam locomotive.

Visitors willing to make the extra pilgrimage to Sikkim, the Indian state to the north of West Bengal, where Darjeeling is located, can get a taste of Tibetan culture without visiting the Chinese-ruled region.

Here are tips for getting the most out of a trip to Darjeeling and nearby areas from Reuters, whose 2,600 journalists in all parts of the world offer visitors the best local insights.

Darjeeling The closest airport, Bagdogra, is 90 km from Darjeeling. Perched at an altitude of 2,134 metres, Darjeeling is said to have derived its name from Dorje-ling, which means "land of the mystic thunderbolt". The best time to visit is October to November or February to April. It's never too warm in Darjeeling and there is often a drizzle. Taxis ferrying tourists often jam the narrow lanes, and cabs sometimes dash

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dreds of tourists visit Tiger Hill, 13 km from Darjeeling, for a magnificent view of the sunrise; some arriving 4 a.m. to beat the rush.

Beware, though, the fickle weather often shrouds the mountain in a veil of fog.

For something more dependable, drop in at Glenary's bakery for their signature cakes and chocolates. Enjoy non-spicy continental and Chinese fare in the restaurant on the first floor where an average meal for two would cost about Rs. 500. Try and get there early for dinner as service starts winding down at 9 p.m. in this earlyto-bed town.

On the pedestrian Mall road, try on hand-knitted sweaters, browse souvenir shops and buy some of Darjeeling's famous tea, plucked from the verdant estates that dot the hillsides.

A Snow Leopard For A Snip Head to the Darjeeling zoo - tickets start at Rs. 40 - where the snow leopard and red panda are the pick of the lot. Outside the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and museum, next door to the zoo, stands a memorial to Tenzing Norgay, the first man to scale Mount Everest along with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.

And for a spectacular view of the tea plantations, take a ride on the Darjeeling cable car (tickets start at Rs. 150.

Day-Tripping Nearby

Kalimpong is a threehour drive away, but on the way stop at Lovers' Meet for a breathtaking view of the confluence of the Teesta and Rangeet rivers. Also take a break at Lamahatta and laze in a landscaped garden surrounded by fluttering Buddhist prayer flags. Try chicken momos or steamed dumplings served with pepper-hot sauce at the roadside stalls.

In Kalimpong, don't miss Deolo Point for a panoramic view of the Himalayas. If you are in the mood for adventure, the town is situated at an altitude of 1,200 m and is a popular paragliding and riverrafting destination. You also can see the imposing Mangal Dham temple, or mingle with novice monks playing football at Buddhist monasteries.

AFFIDAVIT Regd. No: 1557/2014 Dated: 16/10/14 I, Shri. T. Hatpha Wangnao @ Tingkup Hatpha Wangao @ Hatpha Wangnao age above 33 years S/o Shri. B. Tingkup Wangnao @ Bengam Tingkup Wangnao R/o Block – 03, Chumukedima Dist.- Dimpaur Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and a resident of above mentioned address.

2. That my name id entered recorded as Shri. Tingkup Hatpha Wangnao or Hatpha Wangnao in some of my official documents/official records and whereas Shri.

T. Hatpha Wangnao is entered in other remaining official records/documents.

3. That my father is know by both the names that is Shri.

B. Tingkup Wangnao @ Bengam Tingkup Wangnao both are the names of one and single person.

4. That Shri. T. Hatpha Wangnao/Tingkup Hatpha Wangnao/Hatpha Wangnao both are the manes of one and single person i. e, me.

5. That this affidavit is madeto declare that I will be using my name as Shri. T. Hatpha Wangnao for all the purpose in future correspondence/ official/records/documents.

That statements made para(1to4) are true to the best of my knowledge.

Solemnly sworn before me on the day of 16th day of October 2014 DEPONENT Notary Public Nagaland

Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha told reporters: "The Indian government is holding talks with Bangladesh government to transport another 35,000 tonnes of rice for Tripura via Bangladesh."

He said: "Tripura government has urged the central government to carry rice for the state regularly via Bangladesh till the railway's gauge conversion works are completed."

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) recently ferried 10,000 tonnes

of rice in two phases from Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh via Bangladesh. "Several ships carried the rice from Visakhapatnam port to Kolkata port, then to Ashuganj port in (eastern) Bangladesh. From Ashuganj port, Bangladeshi trucks ferried the rice to FCI warehouses in Nandannagar near Agartala," FCI official Nilanjan Chowdhury told IANS. Ashuganj port over the Meghna river in eastern Bangladesh is around 40

km from Agartala. Saha said: "The rice is being ferried via Bangladesh to avoid the long and mountainous surface road to Tripura via Assam and Meghalaya." The 8 northeastern states, including Sikkim, are largely dependent on Punjab, Haryana and other bigger states in India for foodgrains and essential commodities.

The Indian government has also floated bids to import rice from Myanmar for Manipur and Mizoram.

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More pain ahead for Indian banks as bad loans pile up mumbai, November 7 (reuTers): India’s state-owned banks warned growth in bad loans may continue into next year as they posted a rise in troubled loans for the September quarter with a weakening economy causing debt-laden sectors such as infrastructure to default on payments. The bleak assessment means these and other banks, including private sector banks, may have to make higher provisions in their books against the souring loans which could eat into their profits at a faster pace.

It also means lenders will need more capital to act as a buffer against the losses from the bad loans. The lenders are already estimated by analysts to need as much as $110 billion in new capital through March 2019 to comply with new global regulations.

Bank of Baroda and Bank of India, two of India’s biggest state-controlled lenders, were among those that announced this week higher bad loans for the quarter ended Sept. 30 and forecast further deterioration in asset quality in the current fiscal year to March 2015. State Bank of India, India’s top lender, will report next week.

India’s banking sector is sitting on roughly 6 trillion rupees’ worth of stressed loans - or nearly 10 percent of the total advances - according to estimates from credit rating agency Fitch’s local unit.

About 45 percent of the loans have already gone sour, while the remainder is in the “restructured” category - troubled, but for now requiring banks to set aside only minimal reserves.

But from April, new rules will abolish

the “restructured” category and prompt banks to either chase customers for payment or set aside billions more in reserves.

As India’s economic growth slipped below 5 percent in the past two fiscal years - the weakest spell since the 1980s - banks’ bad loans jumped to more than 4 percent of their total assets this year from 2.4 percent in 2011.

Credit growth, meantime, has fallen to its lowest in more than a decade. “The stress in the sector may continue for at least one or two quarters (more),” said P. Srinivas, an executive director at No.2 lender Bank of Baroda, which saw a fall in profit and higher bad loans. He expected additions to bad loans to be at current levels.

The pace of economic growth is widely expected to quicken this fiscal year and next as a new government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi speeds up clearance for big projects and implements reforms to attract investments.

That recovery, banks hope, will begin to feed through to corporate balance sheets. But results on Friday showed there will be pain to be endured until that comes through.

Of the 34 lenders that have reported their earnings for the fiscal second quarter to end-September, 25 reported a rise in bad loans as measured by gross nonperforming loans as a percentage of total, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters. India has 40 publicly traded lenders, with 24 of them majority owned by the government. Sectors such as metals and mining, infrastructure and textiles have been major stress areas for banks.

Income inequality, jobless growth key concerns for leaders: WEF

New Delhi/geNeva, November 7 (PTi): Income inequality and jobless growth are two of the most significant challenges facing the world today, says a World Economic Forum report. According to the Outlook on the Global Agenda, deepening income inequality and jobless growth head the top 10 trends for 2015.

Top 10 trends for 2015 are deepening income inequality; jobless growth; lack of leadership; rising geostrategic competition; weakening of representative democracy; rising pollution in developing world; rising occurrence of severe weather events; intensifying nationalism increasing water stress and growing importance of health in the economy.

The trends are based

on a survey of almost 1,800 experts from the Forum’s network of global agenda councils as well as other communities within the World Economic Forum on what they believe would preoccupy leaders over the coming 12-18 months.

Amid growing severity of economic and political trends the ‘lack of leadership’ as a trend has gained significant prominence this year as this has climbed from 7th last year to 3rd place this year, the report said. However, the challenges facing leaders are not limited to economics and politics alone, but also environmental.

Experts flagged rising pollution in the developing world (6th), increasing occurrence of severe weather events (7th) and increasing

water stress as severe concerns. “All these have the potential to inflict further social, economic and political instability globally,” the report said.

Rounding out the top 10 trends is “growing importance of health in the economy”, which is an opportunity as well as a challenge. Increasing importance of health in the economy is indicative of the symbiotic link between a healthy population and a healthy economy, the report said.

It also represents an opportunity for leaders, with technology opening up possibilities for better and more cost effective healthcare, which could in turn lead to sustainable economic growth and greater prosperity, the report added.

Ten Days of Sin

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o, another issue to take up, and another pessimistic letter to my favorite paper with the intention to hurt as many people, especially those at the administration and bureaucratic level - small time officers excused this time, but if someone wants to self-inflict, they are welcome. Why not!? I trust in democracy and freedom of choice.

I love Nagaland during winters! It is cold, it is fresh. Towns, villages and all the corners inhabited by humankind are lit-up and decorated. The air has a strong smell of smoke from the fireplaces and bonfires slightly mixed with the aromas of baking and meat. People seem to get friendlier and better dressed as the year draws to its end, and shops are open till late. There is a party here and a party there, and every evening till January 2nd (or even more for some unstoppables) of the next year can be a time for gallivanting all across the neighborhood and all over the place.

I cannot think of a more perfect winter place than Nagaland, no, not even the mighty Tsars’ Winter Palace! The best attraction for me is the stars. Almost every home raises a star to mark the birth of Christ manifested by a star in Bethlehem more than 2000 years ago. Singing, praying, ‘churching’, donating, Amens, Praise the Lords, Hallelujahs flow without restrain. “Christmas naam parah maap saap dia asey” “Christmas discount” “Christmas bokshish” and so much of “on-behalf-of-Christmas-concessions” take hold of us. Suddenly, our land gets replicated into a land of wild honey and manna. Profound apologies as well as gratitude are due to all the animals, led by pigs, for getting groomed the whole year, only to sacrifice themselves to satiate our gastronomic indulgence, which inadvertently increases many fold. ‘Orwell’s pigs were of a different kind, Nagaland pigs are humble and sacrificing.’ One cannot put the entire panoramic beauty and pleasurable experience in Nagaland during winters in mere mortal language.

Of course, due to the luxury of such ambience, many lives are cut short, but that’s another story for another sunny day.

So far, I feel like an unpaid tourism promoter for going on in this manner, but stay with me and I shall take a sharp turn henceforth. Here is a comment from an aunt I know: once on our way to church we saw three David stars raised in one of the local “wine bars”, it was also taller than all the other stars raised in the vicinity that year. As soon as she saw it, she said “Jesus bi tatei janaam hoishi naki”. Our whole land

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agaland Government Hindi teachers put to fast for 182 days at the behest of the Nagaland Government financial instability. But enough fund for extravaganzas. Is the Government of Nagaland more serious to go ahead with the hectic preparation for the extravaganza winter festivals or fulfilled the plead of the dedicated people who have scarifies their time for the Human resource development on behalf of the Government. What about the welfare and security of the teachers who are employed under both State Government and under Central Sponsored programmes. As we go around the state of Nagaland the most dedicated and sin-

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resonates with this statement. We try to undo our yearlong wrong-doings in one go- during Christmas time with one Big Bang. Outsiders will think “Jesus bi Nagaland tei janaam hoishey naki!”. Our means are limited, so we must be forgiven, for we know not what we do!

We are mere mortals, and simple citizens.

There is a group of people who knows what they are doing, and yet, they persist in doing it.

They should not be forgiven and their transgressions should not be easily absolved! These people I am referring to, will masquerade hiding behind their thick skins and the innumerable artificial bonanzas they organize for the masses. A period of 7 days of fun and feasting has now been extended for 10 days! This episode boasts of popular enticements for the citizenry such as the usual food, music, a Miss Nagaland contest, cultural programmes, talent hunts, night bazaars, and countless desirable spectacles. ‘Foreigners’ love to experience what we offer, and therefore, they will throng in. For a brief time Nagaland will resemble any cosmopolitan place on this planet, at least until the celebrations take a bow and everything detracts back to normal as though those few odd days never happened! Thereafter, “Same Face” everywhere!

At times I hate to be clubbed along with the masses. Our naivety knows no limit and we end up falling head-over-heels in love with their make-believe fantasy world. At times, I would comfortably agree that we the masses are more foolish. But this is also another issue to be tackled another sunny day.

In any case, the unforgivable act is that of masking behind a veil of funfair. Let me use a quick, small, but suitable example. I think the idea behind introducing make-up and cosmetic products is to accentuate women’s beauty.

Similarly, the government’s role is to beautify our state in every possible way. Naga women have learned it professionally and perfected the art. Nagaland Government is 150 years behind Naga women. Even some young men seem to have gone 25 years ahead of the government in this art of beautification. Here is one reason why. When we, the masses bring forth the issue about the horrific condition of our roads, we do not mean a ‘single-coating’ of tar on top of mud. But just before the 10 days carnival begin, the concerned authority will start the process of single-coating the tar on top of mud day in and day out. Round the clock, they will work like donkeys just to bring out a distorted version

of reality. I reiterate this is just a one example among many.

A friend of mine had visited Nagaland during winters and off-winters. What priceless observations he had about Nagaland, especially Kohima! Hornbill and Christmas were seasons of boundless joy, the other times were just endless doldrums. The veracity of work done is not visible after the festival. Ask any women and some men on how to beautify. Even for a small face or a tiny nail, it takes half an hour to some hours. It is as if Hornbill is celebrated to single coat the deplorable roads, Hornbill is to cover the entire main town and main streets with lights as if we have enough power supply, Hornbill is to let alcohol flow in abundance without checks and balance as if ours is not a dry state.

For Your Kind Information (FYKI), NBCC and moral police should act, if they must act at all, during this season. They will catch a thief here and there, but they will catch loads of their ‘sheep’ too, in drunken situations, and many in compromising positions. But this again is another story for another sunny day.

In the light of jubilation, the masses forget their poor surroundings and make-overs and celebrate unconditionally. How intelligent are this group of people! They know that by the time the hornbill celebration ends, Christmas spirit would have already descended on us and our spirits would have ascended somewhere near a “heavenly pedestal” and hence we will bask in the spirit of “Christmas laga naam parah” concessions. People while pursuing the greatest pleasure tend to forget the government and the officers for sometime because they are busy with gifts, visitations, or eternally greeting one another, spreading goodwill. But, Alas! The zing factor will relapse and the people will realize that everything we had fun with, were just screen-savers and inflated beyond our means because the celebrations were organized from the foundation of “begging bowl.”

Perhaps the time has come to rename the Hornbill Festival as “Artifactual Festival of Nagaland”. Whatever happens in 10 days stays for 10 days! I want to end with a rhetorical question; Is it because of the 10 days of “indulgence in sin” that we end up suffering in every aspect of our dreary lives throughout the year? *7 days.10 days…same difference.

Toshi Longkumer New Delhi

Non-payment of salary

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cere employee of the government are the teachers, who have no additional incomes, no extra incentives like the other employee who never attend offices or attend once in blue moon.

The non-payment of Salaries for Teachers and Medical staffs are an alarming issues confronting general public specially the grass root people. The Academic session of the Schools are coming to an end and the Hindi Teachers of Nagaland who have not drawn their salary and wages for nearly 182 days ( 6 months ) begins their agitations showing their resentment to the Government for not releasing their salary and denial of their basic increments and incen-

tives. If the agitation continues what will be the fade of the poor students. When the employee who hardly attends their offices draws the salary regularly right after the end of the month, what about those pity poor sincere and dedicated teachers who attends the school and sits with children’s for 5 hours and not less than 20 days in a month lives without salary for 6 Months. Wooaahh!! Government shall we still go on talking about development of Human resources and upliftment of our younger generation without paying the wages of the people who have scarifies their career, energy and time. Shall we Naga people and Government once and for all

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do away with this culture? When people who are dedicated to what they are assign for do not get their wages, shall we continue to pay the wages of the ghost who do not attained their job. I sincerely hope that an organization like ACAUT and other Naga organization shall raise their voice and deliver justice to the victims.

The Government of Nagaland and department of School education should listen to the plead of the dying condition of the teachers for the brighter future of the younger generation.

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Dimapur district gets new SP Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): Meren Jamir (NPS) has taken over as the new Superintendent of Police, Dimapur. He has called upon officers and men of DEF Dimapur to exhibit the same spirit of dedication and devotion to duty. He has also sought the continuous co-operation and support from all organizations to usher in a peaceful Dimapur for all citizens, according to a press release received here.

Meanwhile, a farewell programme for the outgoing Superintendent of Police, Dimapur Videlalie Zashumo (NPS) and other officers was held on November 6 at SP Office. It was attended by administrative officers, leaders of various Dimapur based civil organizations, business communities.

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Outgoing SP of Dimapur (right) handing over the charge to the new SP, Meren Jamir.

In his speech, the outgoing SP lauded the sincerity, dedication and devotion to duty exhibited by all ranks and files of DEF Dimapur, NAP & NAP (IR) Bn, District Administration

MEx FILE Phek DEO informs

phek, November 7 (mexN): All head of institutions of both government and private schools under Phek District have been informed to submit the bank account number and photocopy of first page bank pass book of those students who have applied for pre-matric scholarship during 2014. Nuchisalu, Deputy District Education Officer, Phek in a press release said the documents need to be submitted to District Education Officer, Phek at earliest for disbursement of pre-matric scholarship. Failing which, the head of the institutions will be held responsible for any discrepancies that may arise, the release warned.

Phushito village bans fishing and hunting

Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): The Council of Phushito village under Aqahuto area has banned fishing and hunting within the village jurisdiction with immediate effect. Informing this, Phushito Aye, head GB of the village said a penalty of Rs. 10,000 would be imposed against anyone found fishing or hunting within the village land.

and other sister agencies in containing criminal activities and anti-social elements and in maintaining a conducive atmosphere, the release said. He also expressed his appreciation to

different organizations in Dimapur for their co-operation and support extended to the Police in its efforts to curb criminal activities and also towards developmental activities.

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State sanitation tour reaches Sechü Zubza

Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) with a play on sanitation by the Dimapur based youth group – Dreams Unlimited, has been touring all the districts of Nagaland State under the theme, “Creation of public awareness on good sanitary practices.” They have been educating public on sanitation through dramas, songs and literature. The tour team reached Western Angami area today at Sechü Zubza under Kohima district.

A press release informed that the PHED Nagaland has been organizing advocacy workshop and public rally in compliance with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, GoI, under the initiative of Water and Sanitation Support Organisation (WSSO), to make all citizens secure proper sanitation in the State.

The tour focuses on the need of totally doing away with the bad practice of open defecation, the importance of washing hands with soap, need of keeping villages clean with proper solid and liquid waste management, etc, the release said.

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Hindi teachers boycott classes Govt. asked to meet teachers’ demands by Nov 10 Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): The Aggrieved Hindi Teachers (2012-13) batch of Dimapur and Niuland, who have been boycotting their duty from November 5 for non payment of their salaries have warned that they will intensify their movement if the demands are not fulfilled by November 10. In a press note, the Hindi teachers informed that they will be “compelled” to agitate or go “picketing” at the DEO/SDEO office under Dimapur and Niuland if their demands are not met before November 10. The teachers are demanding their pending 6 months salaries and implementation of 6th RoP and arrears from the date of appointment.

AHTK to picket Kohima DEO, SDEO office Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Kohima (AHTK) has ordered the government to immediately release the pending salaries of 6 months including 6th RoP along with the arrears on or before November 10. Failing which, the AHT stated, it will be compelled to boycott classes if their rightful demands are not met.

The AHTK also warned that if the authority concerned fails to meet its demands, it would be left with no other option, but to picket DEO/SDEO office. In a press release, the unit representatives Kelhouzokho Tepa, Kenikhrielie Suokhrie, Kekhrizelie Kiwe, Dzüvilhoukho and Vitsaho have directed all the teachers concerned to be present on November 11 at 9:00 am at Kohima DEO/SDEO office.

Tokhu Nite: A time to spread the message of love & forgiveness Morung Express News Dimapur | November 7

The daylong Tokhu Emong festivity in Dimapur culminated with the Kyong Nchumchio Okho (KNO) organising an entertainment programme at the State Stadium later in the evening. Christened ‘Tokhu Nite’, the entertainment programme, with a touch of the modern and the ethnic, has become a regular feature of the Tokhu Emong celebrations in Dimapur for the past five years.

The KNO described the event as a platform for young Lothas to expose their talents and also a time to unwind after a day of festive fervour.

Y. Mhathung Murry, Additional Commissioner of Taxes graced the evening programme as the chief guest. Murry, in his address, termed the occasion (Tokhu Emong) as an apt opportunity to spread the mes-

sage of love and peace. “(Let’s) carry the message of love and forgiveness all through our lives and not only on this occasion,” said Murry. While lauding the KNO for organising the event, Murry said that the event would open the mind and heart of people to come together as one.

Stating that we have to give thanks to the Almighty he said that at the same time “we have to love one another.”

In tandem with display of individual talents by young performers, a singing competition was held, while it witnessed special performances from Wodenbeni Ovung, Bankathung Humtsoe, Chichanbe Amen Murry and a comedy dance group from Senjum village. The judging panel comprised Andrew birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Jee was celebrated on November 6 at Dimapur Gurudwara Ngully, Ronni Odyuo and Abemo 546th Sahib. President Harjinder PS Ahluwalia presented Siropa to V.Z. Angami (2nd from right), SuperEnyie. intendent of Police, Dimapur on the ocassion.

BHSS Mangkolemba students go on study tour

Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education on November 7 donated a female barking deer to the Nagaland Zoological Park, Rangapahar.

maNgkolemba, November 7 (mexN): The students of Baptist Higher Secondary School (BHSS), Mangkolemba went on a study tour to Longkhum village and Clark Theological College, Aolijen under Mokokchung district on November 6. The students visited the famous Longlangba site at the village, informed a press release. They also visited the cemetery of late Imkongmeren, former vice president of the Naga National Council, the newly constructed Imrong Library, the Ao Students’ Conference tower, and the rose nursery at Longkhum village.

The school children were briefed about the historical background of each place visited by Imtimeren Longkumer, president of Mokokchung Longkhum Students’ Union, who assisted as the tour guide.

“I have learnt so much and believe now the past histories better after seeing the places and the relics,” the release quoted Watimongla of class 12 as saying.

The team made a stopover at Clark Theological College, Aolijen on their return. 36 students from class 10 and 12 accompanied by 5 teachers made the trip, informed the release.

NBC Sechü Zubza 25th anniv celebration

kohima, November 7 (mexN): The Nepali Baptist Church (NBC), Sechü Zubza will celebrate its 25th anniversary from November 11 to 12 at the church premises under the theme “Walking in the Path of Righteousness”.

The speakers for the celebration are Rev. Dr. Dhanbir Rai, lecturer, Clark Theological College, Mokokchung, Dr. V. Atsi Dolie, executive director, Angami Baptist Church Council and Dr. Sanyü Iralu, principal, Shalom Bible Seminary, Sechü Zubza.

The dedicatory prayer for the jubilee monolith will be done by Rudra Ramauli, executive secretary, Association of the Gorkha Baptist Churches Nagaland (AGBCN) on November 11 at 3.40 pm, while the anniversary magazine would be released during the inaugural service by Khriengulie Kuotsu, pastor Sechü Zubza Baptist Church (SZBC).

There will also be an ‘extravaganza nite’ on November 12 at 7:00 pm featuring Gorkha Xu Rock band, The Chronicles and

also laughter moments with Carnilous Gurung and friends.

Youth departments from NBC Midland, Sechü Zubza Baptist Church, Baptist Mission Church and students of Shalom Bible Seminary will also present special numbers during the celebration.

Informing this, the organizing committee secretary Sovino Thapa and co-convenor Anil Rai have invited all well wishers to be part of the celebration and also pray for the success of the programme.

Finding peace through developing youth Phek DEF undertakes sanitation drive in all colonies Dimapur, In the meeting, Peace Channel-IGSSS November 7 (mexN):

kohima, November 7 (mexN): The District Executive Force (DEF) Phek, under the authority of Additional SP Imtimeren and SDPO, Dr. Ilyas (IPS), has initiated sanitation drive in and around Phek Town.

According to Mission Compound Colony Youth Association (MCCYA) president, Kudukhoto Tetseo, the DEF Phek started

sanitation drive from Mission Compound Colony on November 1 with 54 police personnel. “This type of sanitation drive initiated by the police personnel in all the colonies for the well being of the public is first of its kind in Nagaland, which sets a good example to the public,” said Tetseo in a release. This sanitation drive will cover

all 11 colonies (i.e. 1 colo- officers, ranks and files of ed towards the welfare of ny every Saturday) before DEF Phek for help extend- the public.

January 26, 2015.

According to MCCYA president, this kind of service and good will gesture towards the citizens of Phek Town is commendable and is appreciated and acknowledged by one and all. Meanwhile, MCCYA has thanked Addl.

S.P. and all the subordinate Phek DEF personnel during sanitation drive at Phek Town.

Peace Channel Nagaland under IGSSS Project Coordinator, Ahel Vitsu also held a coordination meeting on Novem- briefed the youth about the goals and obber 5 with stakeholders and youth of Rail- jectives of the Peace Channel projects and also the various activities such as Peace way Bazaar Dimapur.

Peace Channel IGSSS Project Anima- Celebrations, Zonal Capacity Building, tor, Sani Murry spoke on the various is- Leaders Training, Coordination meeting, sues prevailing in our society. He stressed Youth Action programs etc. He requested on the unemployment problem that is the participants for their cooperation and most common among the youth today, support in running the project smoothly a press release informed. Stating that the in their area so they may become a model issue can be solved through developing society in promoting peace and harmony, oneself, Murry asked the youth to start not only in Dimapur but all over Nagaland.

The youth president, Railway Bazaar, venturing out and make a living even if it is to start from scratch, rather than staying Adang Haining and GB Nating also assured at home and depending on the parents. He their full support and cooperation in upliftalso said that peace is possible if the youth ing the youth. The meeting was attended by are developed into responsible citizens for the Railway Bazaar GB, Colony Youth Advi“they will shy away from corruption and sor, Youth President and his colleagues and youth members of the area. edgeable, a leader must also be unwanted activities.” intuitive. Intuition is also the ability to act, recognize hunches and act on ideas, the church leader said. Experience and building on past successes were also two other qualities of good that the speaker elaborated.

Attributes of leadership Pochury Gazetted Officers’ Forum (PGOF) organized a seminar under the theme “Leaders Arise” on November 6 at Pochury Baptist Church Kohima (PBCK) with Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung as the resource person.

Rev. Yimsung emphasized on the need for strong and Godly leaders in Naga society. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, assertive or sensitive. (L-R) Mongo (ADC Mon), Aketo (AEO), Kesonyu Yhome, and DC Mon. (DIPR Photo) The Observer informed responsible for making It’s about having a particular set of moN, November attributes –and chief among them 7 (Dipr): Observer for of the function and duties electoral roll clean.

Deputy Commissioner are humanity, character, relation- Electoral Roll on Special of BLOs and gave general ship, knowledge, experience, atti- Summary Revision, 2015 information to all the po- and District Election Offor Mon District, Kesonyu litical parties on summary ficer Mon Angau I Thou tude and ability.

He enlightened the gather- Yhome, Additional Secre- revision. He entrusted the highlighted on de-duplicaing on building a winning team, tary, Health & Family Wel- political parties to appoint tion and non local image. time management, displaying of fare, had general meeting BLA for smooth summary BLOs must perform strictly emotions according to situations, with the political parties, revision if any elector is and sincerely during sumsetting prioritizing, managing en- BLOs and key NGOs of the missing in the electoral roll. mary revision every year ergy, words and managing one’s district at DC’s Conference Furthermore, he insisted so duplication would not that the NGOs are equally arise, she stated.

Hall, Mon town. personal life.

‘Nagas need to choose godly leaders’

Leaders Arise seminar held in that the clean election campaign was far from successful going by Dimapur & Kohima the amount of money spent durDimapur, November 7 ing the election.

“We had the opportunity, but (mexN): Stressing on the importance of choosing the right leader- we missed the bus. And now our ship to lead the Nagas forward, Rev. focus is on the next general elecLuoliehu Yimsung, Coordinator, tion. Are we honest to ourselves by Global Indigenous Prayers Net- beating around the bush,” he wonwork, Australia and Initiator and dered.

Speaking to a group of entrepreAmbassador-at-large, Overseas Naga Organisation and founder, neurs on the topic “Radical leaders Leaders Arise Nagaland (LAN) has for critical hour”, the reverend emquestioned whether the Nagas are phasized the need of “right people serious with leadership. He ob- and right relationship”, and thereserved that the failure to choose fore urged the entrepreneurs to “godly leaders” have been one of hold responsibility to address the the reasons behind “our setbacks”. burning issues of our homeland.

“When only you take respon“The need of the hour is to choose godly leaders, and this is a crying sibility to contribute for the well being of the society, you come to need.”

He was speaking at a seminar know yourself that you will need organized by the Business Associa- to do more and more. A thousand tion of Nagaland (BAN) under the miles starts with a single step,” said banner “Leaders Arise Seminar” Luoliehu. He further advised the at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur. The businessmen on effective leaderclergy man also felt that the Church ship. “As leaders, let us have the is equally responsible in choosing ability, understanding, creativity, intuition, sense of teamwork to the right leadership.

He regretted that the Nagas lead others. If you are not strong had missed an opportunity in the and don’t have the ability as a leadrecent general election held in the er, then it gives insecurity to your early part of this year. He observed people,” he underlined.

‘A leader ought to have good character’ A person in leadership, but possessing no good character is not a leader, asserted Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung during a ‘Leaders Arise’ seminar organized for leaders of Dimapur civil organizations at Ana-ki here recently. “True leadership always begins with the inner person, the goodness of character.”

Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung reminded that a leader ought to have good character. “Character is very important. Charisma is good – it can make people cry or laugh but without character, a leader is not a leader.”

According to the speaker, a good character with knack for building relationships and connecting with people make for good leadership.

He said enough of the right kinds of leadership must be built not for numbers, but for quality.

Likewise, another quality a good leader must possess is knowledge. “Information is vital to a leader. You need to grasp the facts, an understanding of dynamic factors and timing, and vision for the future,” the speaker stated.

As important as being knowl-

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Germany after Berlin Wall: Not always best in the West Kirsten Grieshaber associated Press

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n the German city of Dresden, trumpet player Ludwig Guettler takes pride in the soaring spires of the Baroque Frauenkirche church, rebuilt from the ruins of World War II, and sees them as a symbol of his city's vibrant economic and cultural life.

Some 275 miles (440 kilometers) away in Dortmund, Ilse-Margarete Bonke tries to save her decaying city from a drug scourge by picking up heroin needles from the streets, but finds her work impeded by kids who sneak up on her, pulling off her curly wig and spitting in her face.

The two cities have met contrasting fates since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago — with Dresden becoming a magnet for high-tech firms and a cultural center, and Dortmund sinking into deep economic depression. What may be surprising about this picture is that Dresden is in the former communist east and Dortmund was once a symbol of the economic might of the capitalist west.

Overall, the west still remains more prosperous than the east: Unemployment is higher in the east, disposable incomes are lower and populations are older as the young move west for better opportunities. But the east has been catching up, and in some key cases there has been a reversal of fortunes.

That is largely due to the still mandatory "solidarity fees" instituted after reunification to help raise the former East Germany's living standards — payments that are becoming increasingly controversial as swaths of western Germany fall into decline.

In Dresden, one of former East Germany's biggest cities with about 530,000 inhabitants, the economy is humming and universities are attracting students, who often stay on after graduation to work in Dresden's myriad research institutions and computer chip producers. Unemployment is at 8 percent, compared to an average of 9 percent over all of the former East Germany; the city has been out of debt since 2006.

"Dresden is a prime example of a structural transformation done well," Deputy Mayor Dirk Hilbert told The Associated Press.

Some 75,000 jobs, about a third of the city's workforce, were eliminated after the communist system collapsed in 1989. But

A man jogs behind empty frames for wall crosses in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. German police say a set of crosses commemorating people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall has been stolen, days before the 25th anniversary of the barrier's fall. Police were alerted early Monday that the seven white crosses on the Spree riverbank, near the Reichstag parliament building in central Berlin, had gone missing. Similar crosses stand at several points along the former border. A group calling itself the Center for Political Beauty claimed it was behind the crosses' disappearance. It said it wants to draw attention to the plight of refugees trying to get across modern Europe's external borders. At least 136 people died between 1961 and 1989 trying to cross the wall that divided communist-run East Berlin from West Berlin. The wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989. (aP Photo)

the city managed to persuade new employers like Volkswagen and international chip manufacturers to open plants in Dresden.

Since reunification, some 1.5 to 2 trillion euros (1.9 to 2.5 trillion dollars) were funneled into the former communist east to turn ailing collective farms and state-run factories into competitive capitalist businesses. The lion's share of the money came from western Germany's citizens, towns and states.

The millions in subsidies were important to the city's revival, Hilbert said, but they weren't everything.

"Here in the east, we made harder cuts than they were ever willing to make in the west," he said. Hilbert referred to privatizations of former municipal property, staff cuts of more than 1,000 city employees and reductions in public assistance benefits.

One undeniable role of the solidarity money: helping to turn Dresden into an in-

ternational tourist magnet.

In the old city, the Royal Palace of Saxony's former rulers, Dresden's majestic city hall and the Zwinger museum complex with its famous Rococo touches were given a complete makeover thanks to western funding. Also spruced up was the Semperoper opera house, which was rebuilt during communist times after being demolished in the Allied firebombing of 1945 chronicled in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five."

Guettler, a prominent trumpet soloist, was a leading promoter of the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche church.

"I'm grateful and happy for what we have reached in the last 25 years," he said. "That there are problems elsewhere is logical. ...

But we didn't receive any of this as a present."

That view is not widely shared in Dortmund. Once an industrial powerhouse in Germany's western Ruhr Valley, its unem-

ployment rate today is 12.4 percent, nearly double the national average. The city is millions of euros in debt. It's such a shocking contrast to Dresden that Dortmund Mayor Ulrich Sierau told the AP that he can no longer explain to his city's residents why they must pay the solidarity fees.

"The 'soli' should no longer be given according to cardinal direction," he said, referring to the fee by its slang term. "It should go to whoever needs it most."

When the Berlin Wall came down, thenChancellor Helmut Kohl famously promised East Germans they would soon be living in "blooming landscapes." But Dortmund's urban sprawl has turned into a blighted landscape, as high unemployment fuels a drug and crime epidemic.

Bonke picks heroin needles out of sandboxes on public playgrounds, so children won't be infected with HIV or other dis-

eases. The kids have for years affectionately dubbed her "Oma Bonke" — or Granny Bonke. But lately, Bonke has come to fear for her safety as teenage gangs pester her during her rounds.

"I'm really scared," Bonke said, but added defiantly: "I'll never move away from here."

Her city in a region once famous for coal mines, steel production and breweries has lost tens of thousands of jobs since the Wall came down, although the decline began before the end of communism. Unlike Dresden, it's still struggling to replace lost industrial jobs by attracting new employers.

"In the beginning, the subsidies for eastern Germany were much needed and indeed they managed to make their cities very pretty with all that money," said Sierau, the Dortmund mayor. "But it is unfair that they still keep getting money transfers while many cities in the west have much bigger problems and financial worries."

In Dortmund's Nordstadt neighborhood, where Bonke collects needles, the lines in front of the Kana soup kitchen have been getting longer over the years. A recent influx of poor immigrants from the Balkans — drawn by the city's low rents — has exacerbated problems, overcrowding dilapidated buildings and further straining city resources. About 83,000 of Dortmund's 580,000 inhabitants receive some sort of social assistance. Street prostitution, substance abuse, homelessness and crime are rampant in many parts of the city.

"A lot is being done here to help, by all kinds of initiatives, but it is upsetting that people still have to subsist in such conditions," said Ansgar Schocke, a Catholic priest who has been taking care of the poorest of the poor for years.

Some experts say that when the current subsidy program ends in 2019, it should be revamped to include all economically weak regions of Germany — not just the east. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, this week praised western German states for their support in rebuilding the east. And she painted a glowing picture of Germany 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

"Today, we have the blooming landscapes that Helmut Kohl promised at the time," Merkel said. "Therefore I believe that finally what belongs together, grows together."

tibet's exiles: the constant search for home People text and drive knowing the dangers Tsering Topgyal

In this Friday, June 6, 2014 photo, Exile Tibetan Dorjee Tashi adjust the beret he calls "Che Guevera cap" as he poses for a photograph in front of a flag of Tibet in his room in New Delhi, India. Tashi had just returned from a protest rally when he received news of his father’s death in a voice message stored on his phone.

His one wish was to meet his father again and considers this unfulfilled wish as part of his karma.

(AP Photo)

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hen I was 8 years old, my parents paid a smuggler to take me across the Himalayas, a weekslong walk over the mountains from Tibet to India. It was a trek that tens of thousands of other Tibetans have taken since the Dalai Lama fled a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule.

My parents must have had their reasons to send me here; they must have had the best of intentions. But 18 years later, I still don't know why they did it. They are not political people. They are small farmers who raise barley and a few yak in a rural area not far from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. I have not seen them since I left.

As a boy, I hardly thought about them. I was in a new country, part of a communityin-exile the Dalai Lama had created in India. I lived in a school with hundreds of other Tibetan refugee children. But as I grew older I began to long for them.

Today, we occasionally talk on the phone, and that has helped keep us together despite the distance. But long silences often fill our conversations.

Over the years, our relationship has only grown more complex, more limited. It is a relationship so many Tibetan refugees understand. These photos, all of Tibetans who have not seen their parents since coming to India, are my attempt to understand the ideas of family, home, belonging and nostalgia. Some of us cling to family artifacts, some cling to old photos. We learn not to cry as our mothers weep on the telephone, fearing we will make them feel even worse.

Across the years, and with so much distance, everything changes. Time heals many wounds, but also works in strange ways.

Tsering Choephel, a Tibetan who left home 23 years ago, said he sometimes dreams of seeing his family again. Often, he mourns the fact that he barely misses them. "The great tragedy of my life is not being separated from my family, but being separated from the sensibility of missing them, after living without them for decades."

In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 photo, Tibetan exile Tsering Topgyal sits for a self-portrait in New Delhi, India. When he was 8 years old, Topgyal’s parents paid a smuggler to take him across the Himalayas, a weekslong walk over the mountains from Tibet to India. But 18 years later, he still does not know why they did it. He has not seen them since. (AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 photo, Kalsang, 19, poses for a photo at a Tibetan college library near Dharmsala, India. She escaped from Tibet into India in 2004 and says she misses her parents more as she grows older. Kalsang is currently studying Buddhism and says it helps her understand the world and to be in control of her emotions. (aP Photo)

In this Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 photo, Tibetan monk Dorjee, 38, displays a photograph of his father, left, and himself, center, taken in Tibet, in Dharamsala, India. Dorjee said he held back his tears when he spoke with his parents on the phone after a separation period of 27 years. He exchanged a few words with his father but said his mother fainted on hearing his voice. (AP Photo)

Barbara Ortutay

aP technology Writer

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early everyone agrees that texting and driving is dangerous. Most people do it anyway.

In a new survey, 98 percent of motorists who own cellphones and text regularly said they were aware of the dangers, yet three-quarters of them admitted to texting while driving, despite laws against it in some states.

Two-thirds said they have read text messages while stopped at a red light or stop sign, while more than a quarter said they have sent texts while driving.

More than a quarter of the texting drivers believed they "can easily do several things at once, even while driving."

The telephone survey of 1,004 U.S. adults was released Wednesday by AT&T Inc. as part of an anti-textingand-driving campaign. AT&T designed the survey with David Greenfield, founder of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction and a professor at the University of Connecticut's School of Medicine.

The survey came as AT&T expanded availability of a free app that silences text message alerts and activates automatically when a person is moving 15 miles (24 kilometers) per hour or faster. (Passengers can turn it off.) The DriveMode app is coming to iPhones after being previously available on Android and BlackBerry phones for AT&T users only. The iPhone version will be available to customers of competing carriers as well, but some functions will work only on AT&T devices.

The study in May was of cellphone owners ages 16 to 65 who drive almost every day and text at least once a day.

It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Researchers conducted surveys with people on their cellphones, and it's possible those who would have picked up on a landline might have different attitudes.

Greenfield said the survey is the latest to show a discrepancy between people's attitudes and behaviors.

It found a broad range of reasons why drivers text. Forty-three percent of the texting drivers said they want to "stay connected" to friends, family and work. Nearly a third did it out of habit.

thing important if they don't check their phones right away.

• More than a quarter believes that their driving performance is not affected by texting, and just as many people said they believe that others expect them to respond to texts "right away."

• Just 6 percent answered that they are "addicted to texting," although 14 percent admitted that they are "anxious" if they don't respond to a text right away, and 17 percent feel "a sense of satisfaction" when they can read or respond to a text message.

Reggie Shaw was 19 in 2006 when he caused a car accident while texting, killing two people. Today, he speaks out against texting and driving.

"It's something I struggle with every day," he said. "I know that I need to go out and talk to others about it. I don't want others to make the same mistake I did."

Shaw does not remember what he was texting about right before the accident. Back then, he said, "being on my phone when I drove was something I did all the time. It was just driving to me. I guess you'd call it ignorance but I never understood that it was dangerous. How could me being on the phone cause a car accident?"

Today, his phone is off when he's driving. Never in the past eight years since the accident, he says, has he gotten a phone call or text message that was so important that it couldn't wait until he stopped the car.

Greenfield, who studies the effects of digital technology on the brain, likes to call smartphones "the world's smallest slot machines" because they affect the brain in similar ways that gambling or drugs can. Dopamine levels increase as you anticipate messages, and that leads to higher levels of pleasure. Getting desirable messages can increase dopamine levels further.

While all distractions can be dangerous, much of the focus has been on texting and driving, Greenfield said, because "it's ongoing and because there is an anticipatory aspect to it."

Greenfield said people should not use their phone at all while driving, but acknowledges that this might not be realistic. Apps, public education and laws that ban texting and driving, he said, will all help change people's Among other reasons behavior, just as anti-drunken-driving for texting and driving: laws and public education campaigns • Twenty-eight percent said they are have reduced drunken driving over worried about missing out of some- the past few decades.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

8 NOVEMbEr, 2014

Morung Youth Express

Religion, Politics, John Thomas and the Nagas T

he Christian religion that we Nagas profess has its roots deeply entrenched with the American way of professing, and it is rightly so, as it was the American missionaries who first and foremost showed us the light.

Christian denominations, as I learned and understood, in the United States are usually divided in three large groups, Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. Christian denominations that do not fall within either of these groups are mostly associated with ethnic minorities, i.e. the various denominations of Eastern Orthodoxy.

Evangelicalism is difficult to date and to define. Scholars have argued that, as a self-conscious movement, evangelicalism did not arise until the mid-17th century, perhaps not until the ‘Great Awakening’ itself.

The Great Awakening refers to that northeastern American Protestant revival movement that took place in the 1730s and 1740s. The fundamental premise of evangelicalism is the conversion of individuals from a state of sin to a "new birth" through preaching of the Word. The supporters of the ‘Awakening’ and its evangelical thrust - Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists - became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century. By the 1770s, the Baptists were growing rapidly both in the north where they founded Brown University, and in the South.

Opponents of the ‘Awakening’ or those split by it - Anglicans, Quakers, and Congregationalists - were left behind.

After independence the American states were obliged to write constitutions establishing how each would be governed. For three years, from 1778 to 1780, the political energies of Massachusetts were absorbed in drafting a charter of government that the voters would accept. One of the most contentious issues was whether the state would support the church financially. Advocating such a policy were the ministers and most members of the Congregational Church, which received public financial support, during the colonial period. The Baptists tenaciously adhered to their ancient conviction that churches should receive no support from the state. The Constitutional Convention chose to support the church and “Article Three” authorized a general religious tax to be directed to the church of a taxpayers' choice.

The “Second Great Awakening” was a Protestant movement that began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. It was past its peak by the 1840s. It was a reaction against skepticism, deism, and rational Christianity. Millions of new members enrolled in existing evangelical denominations and led to the formation of new denominations. Many converts believed that the ‘Awakening’ heralded a new millennial age. The “Second Great Awakening” stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society. During the “Second Great Awakening” new Protestant denominations emerged such as Adventism, the Restoration Movement, and groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormonism.

While the “First Great Awakening” was centered on reviving the spirituality of established congregations, “the Second Great Awakening” focused on the unchurched and sought to instill in them a deep sense of personal salvation as experienced in revival meetings. The principal innovation produced by the revivals was the camp meetings. When assembled in a field or at the edge of a forest for a prolonged religious meeting, the participants transformed the site into a camp meeting.

Singing and preaching was the main activity for several days. The revivals were often intense and created intense emotions. Some fell away but many if not most became permanent church members. The Methodists and Baptists made them one of the evangelical signatures of the denomination.

The Christianity of the black population was grounded in evangelicalism. The ‘Second Great Awakening’ has been called the "central and defining event in the development of Afro-Christianity." During these revivals, Baptists and Methodists

converted large numbers of blacks.

However, many were disappointed at the treatment they received from their fellow believers and at the backsliding in the commitment to abolish slavery that many white Baptists and Methodists had advocated immediately after the American Revolution. When their discontent could not be contained, forceful black leaders followed what was becoming an American habit—they formed new denominations. After the Civil War, Black Baptists desiring to practice Christianity away from racial discrimination, rapidly set up several separate state Baptist conventions. In 1866, black Baptists of the South and West combined to form the Consolidated American Baptist Convention. This Convention eventually collapsed but three national conventions formed in response. In 1895 the three conventions merged to create the National Baptist Convention. It is now the largest African-American religious organization in the United States.

In the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, there has been a marked rise in the evangelical wing of Protestant denominations, especially those that

becomes a pre-requisite towards being a Naga.” Therefore, this theology is limited by a narrow focus on individual salvation, which reiterates a colonial logic of “saving the savage,” thereby taming the understanding of the Naga self. As such, it is inadequate to understand the complexities of the social, political and cultural specificity of the Naga situation, Thomas argues.

Even though American and British missionaries entered Assam in the 1820s and the 1830s, they could not make much headway in converting the “tribes” inhabiting the hills surrounding the Assam valley. They faced stiff resistance from the Nagas until the 1870s when they made some gains. Missionaries entered Assam as conduits of colonialism and were in collaboration with the British in “pacifying and controlling the tribes.” Of course, the primary motive for missionaries was the desire to evangelize the regions beyond Burma, into China and Central Asia. The British annexed this region primarily to consolidate their control of the frontier region that separated the British Indian empire from Burma. “The Making of a Christian

are more exclusively evangelical, and a corresponding decline in the mainstream liberal churches. The 1950s saw a boom in the Evangelical church in America. The post - World War II prosperity experienced in the U.S. also had its effects on the church.

Church buildings were erected in large numbers, and the Evangelical church's activities grew along with this expansive physical growth.

In the southern United States, the Evangelicals, represented by leaders such as Billy Graham, have experienced a notable surge displacing the caricature of the pulpit pounding country preachers of fundamentalism. The stereotypes have gradually shifted. Although the Evangelical community worldwide is diverse, the ties that bind all Evangelicals are still apparent: a "high view" of Scripture, belief in the Deity of Christ, the Trinity, salvation by grace through faith, and the bodily resurrection of Christ.

During the 19th century, several American Baptist missionaries evangelized in the northeastern parts of India. In 1876, Dr. E. W. Clark first went to live in a Naga village, four years after his Assamese helper, Godhula, baptized the first Naga converts. Rev. and Mrs. A.F. Merrill arrived in India in 1928 and worked in the southeast section of the Garo Hills. Rev. and Mrs. M.J. Chance spent most of the years between 1950 1956 at Golaghat working with the Naga and Garo tribes. Even today the heaviest concentrations of Christians in India continue to be in the Northeast among the Nagas, Khasis, Kukis, and Mizos.

Allow me the liberty of reproducing herewith a John Thomas’ dissertation, “Missionaries, Church and the Formation of Naga Political Identity, 1918 – 1997.” The dissertation historicizes the formation of Naga political identity. It examines the intersection of religious and national identity in the formation of the Naga self by critically evaluating missionary, colonial, and nationalist representations of Naga political identity.

Thomas is critical of a particular theological perspective, produced

by American and Naga Baptist missionaries that mediated this identity formation. This theological perspective is based on a particular interpretation of Christianity based on a fundamentalist variety of Evangelical Christianity that emphasizes “a historical and fundamentalist reading of the Bible; solely interested in questions of personal sin, morality and salvation; aggressively exclusive in relating with secular ideologies and other religious faiths; and yet supportive of preserving the existing status quo”. This kind of fundamentalist, evangelical understanding imposes a particular religious identity on national identity, “wherein, being an evangelical Christian increasingly

Civilization,” describes the expansion of American Baptist missionary activity through mission fields, schools, and preaching tours. These activities were initially challenged by the Nagas as it devalued their customary cultural and ceremonial practices and, instead, preached a particular theology of salvation through Christ alone that also celebrated the exceptionalism of white Christian America. Eventually when the missionaries were able to gain some followers, it created rifts between converts and non-converts in the villages. However, conversion to Christianity was quite slow, with only twenty percent of the population converting until the 1940s.

Here, Thomas deftly demonstrates the everyday workings of power that mediated the missionary civilizing mission.

Resistance to conversion was also followed by attempts from within the Naga community to reform certain customary and cultural practices to keep up with the changes introduced by colonialism. One such movement was the political and cultural movement initiated by Jadonang and Gaidinliu in the 1920s and 30s. This anti-colonial movement, with its own vision of an alternative modernity, first articulated the notion of a Naga Raj that would unite all Naga tribes and declare independence from both colonial rule and rulers from the plains. This period also saw the formation of another group, the Naga Club, formed by men educated in mission schools who articulated a modern vision of a Naga national identity different from the one envisaged by Jadonang and Gaidinliu.

Members of the Naga Club eventually formed the Naga National Council, which became representative of a collective Naga national identity. Disagreements between the Indian state and Naga nationalists on the question of Naga sovereignty resulted in a face-off, where the Indian state responded with military force. The Nagas were left with no alternative except to participate in an armed struggle. This period of the 1940s also saw the largest numbers of Nagas converting to Christianity, almost fifty percent of the population. Conversion was part of a process that enabled the Nagas to access structures of modernity in opposition to the colonial and Indian nationalist constructions of Naga “primitivism.” It also came in the wake of growing attacks on churches, pastors, and evangelists by the Indian armed forces, such that attacks on religion seemed like attacks on Naga national identity. This is an important argument that counters the conventional history that argues that the spread of Naga nationalism and conversions was because Chris-

'Both the British and the Americans came with the intention to colonize us.

The only difference was the motive.

While the motive of the British was to take anything worth taking, the motive of the Americans was to give something that was selfless.'

tianity fueled separatism amongst the Nagas. This was far from accurate since “it was more the case that Naga nationalism found the access to modernity provided by Christianity relevant only at that particular historical juncture where constructing a modern national identity was important.” Thus, Christianity was hardly a priority for the Naga national movement in the initial period, though it gained more significance later as a way of opposing Indian nationalism.

The growth in Christian population also led to the emergence and influence of local ecclesiastical organizations like the Nagaland Baptist Church Council. Their slogan of “Nagaland for Christ” was an affirmation of the American missionary project that anticipated converting the entire Naga population. This articulation also mediated the efforts of the Naga National Council in its imagining of a Naga nation, which would be inclusive of other religious persuasions. In the 1960s and 70s the Church was involved in mediating armed conflict between the Indian state and the Naga national movement. However, the limitation imposed by an American evangelical theology contributed to the taming of the political movement leading to the signing of the Shillong Accord (1975) by a section of the Naga National Council and the Indian state. The signing of the Shillong Accord led to dissatisfaction amongst a group of Naga nationalists who formed another organization, The Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), which continued the armed struggle against the Indian state demanding sovereignty for the Nagas. The Church and the Indian state’s allegation that they were communists led the NSCN to increasingly demonstrate their commitment to “Nagaland for Christ.”

This was followed by the adoption of strict moral code by individual cadre members within an evangelical framework in the initial years.

Faced with the increasing fragmentation of the Naga movement and other national movements in the region following the counterinsurgency policies of the Indian state, the Church was increasingly involved in efforts to mediate between the Naga nationalists and the Indian state. The Church was initially reluctant to deal with issues of human rights violations, but had to confront these issues because of the severity of human rights abuses.

However, this effort was limited by an individualized moral and political philosophy espoused by this theology. Thomas’ dissertation makes a critical contribution to the debate on historiography in India’s Northeast.

He challenges colonial historiography that represents Naga history as a movement from “Darkness to Civilization.” He demonstrates the contradiction of a Naga nationalist history that coexists with this missionary history, which disparages the Naga past. Naga nationalist history, on the other hand, attempts to reclaim a proud pre-colonial past in which the Nagas were a brave and independent people un-subjugated either by the British or by the rulers of the plains. The missionary and Naga nationalist attempt at writing history is further complicated by Indian nationalist efforts to incorporate the Nagas into the new Indian nation-state as “tribals” and not as a distinct nationalist group, thereby reflecting the unequal process by which they were incorporated into the newly decolonized Indian nation-state. This Indian nationalist perspective on the Nagas is shared by the Indian state, Indian administrators, historians, anthropologists, and the military, which prioritize the Indian nation-state. At the same time, Thomas is also critical of contemporary attempts at writing transnational and post-frontier histories, which do not seem to historicize the formation of Naga political identity. Thomas’ dissertation is a muchneeded critical historiography of the Northeast, which can help us engage with Naga history on its own terms. A must read in its entirety.

A tailpiece: Both the British and the Americans came with the intention to colonize us. The only difference was the motive. While the motive of the British was to take anything worth taking, the motive of the Americans was to give something that was selfless.

Benito Z Swu

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TNB Christmas Giveaway Atsung Imchen: The Concept: The TNB Christmas Giveaway aims at those families whose lives are a constant struggle, where making ends meet is a daily fight with kids to feed and nurture. Our Giveaway may include anything from Cash, Goods, Household items; whatever we can lay our hands on as per TNB’s budget and of what willing Donors may donate.

We may not be able to help them on the days ahead but at least during Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, we want those families to have a sense of relief even if it’s just for a day without the worry of what will be of tomorrow. And also to let each and every one of us feel the Joy of giving and sharing the happiness with others.

How will this work?

Bloggers are requested to submit details of families whom you’ve come across or know in your locality that maybe hit with hard times.

Their address and a short description explaining about their situation.

Bloggers can share the information by posting on the blog(which no one can see unless approved) or inbox any of the Administrators after which the Administrative Team will get back to you. Those Bloggers who shares information’s, their identity will not be revealed unless told so by the said blogger. Apart from bloggers sharing information, family members or siblings of a family, if you think your parents have been toiling hard for a long time and they can spent some time off without the worry of the next day, please get in touch with us. The identity of the individual sharing us details like mentioned before will not be shared unless he/she wants it to be otherwise.This initiative is not District specific, it could be anywhere in Nagaland where TNB bloggers are available because YOU represent TNB and during the time of handing over whatever we can to those families we may require Bloggers to lend a helping hand.

Where is the Revenue or what can we Donate?

TNB has a very limited fund, which is too small for any mega event, however we will share whatever we can from it and also we call upon the Bloggers to share whatever you think will be helpful for a family down with hard times. This is not limited only to cash but anything from Food items, cakes, Greeting cards, Clothes, Kitchen Utensils, books, pencils pen anything. You can always mention your name or so and so family in whatever you donate as we believe that will serve a better gesture, however if Donors want to remain anonymous they can do so.

Distribution of those items including cash will be divided as per the location and the availability of Bloggers to handover the items to those families.

When can we submit the Details? & when will the Goods and Cash be handed over? :Bloggers can send details by end of November to first week of December that is from November 24th till the 6th of December 2014. (If any blogger willing to share details any sooner they can do so, we are ready to assess those information even now) The items can be handed over between 20th of December to 23rd of December. Further information will be shared as we get more updates.

We're looking for TNB volunteers and possible Drop points in all the Districts, Shops and especially if any Churches want to participate on this and if we can avail their venue as drop off points. Kindly reach out to us.

Expectations: This initiative is planned for every year around the same mentioned Date.

Even though all of us are fighting for our daily bread and butter there are many who have it at a very saddening and heart breaking way. This is just a small “HERE IS SOMETHING FOR YOU THIS CHRISTMAS”.

We hope we can all share this idea of helping one another especially for those whose lives are not that easy. We urge all the members to participate no matter the deed, no deed is small in the eyes of those who only dreams of it. Through our small gesture even though it’s a daily fight for them they will carry on with a smile on their face knowing there are others who can lend a helping hand when needed.

VezitoTetseo: Hornbill Festival is not far away again yet we will see another influx of foreign tourists during the festive season in an around kohima and Dimapur, but are we aware of a transmittable deadly diseases Ebola?

Is our Nagaland govt ready to take up any safety measures in these regard?

It is a matter of great concern for all of us!

Sierra Leone has now become a worst place on earth where only few people are not been infected by these deadly diseases, many doctors and nurses are losing their life while treating Ebola patients, it has become a very contaminated place and now the outsiders are not even allow to get in neither people there are allowd to get out.

Black death, a very serious infectious diseases (Bubonic Plague) which killed many millions of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th Century, around 60% of the total population in Europe were killed by these deadly diseases.

"Prevention is better than cure", Lets all fight together to prevent the entry of these deadly diseases into our land.

Adam Naga: Recently my father in law discovered that someone withdrew 20,000 from his account through ATM Below SBI NST Branch, Kohima. He went to North Police Station Kohima and filed FIR. It appears that there are many cases of that sort happening recently. Actually ATM card was with father-in-law then how could anyone withdrew money through ATM. It really beats me. Beware friends! If you anything of such sort happen to you or anyone you know please comment.

Nukshi Alice: Don't know how far crime is there, but my card got clone at an ATM machine and was used but my bank found out all details on which cash machine it was cloned and all locations this card was used.

Cloning happens when criminals insert a very fine chip inside the card slot where all your card details are copied. Usually they also locate themselves some where in person or via camera to record the pin you are entering, once informations are extracted all they have to do is clone.

Next time in Atm just make sure there is nothing suspicious in the card slot or its tampered and always cover your hand when inputting pin.

Pavito Swu LazaIyinu: Skimming is an act carried out by fraudsters,that involves the stealing of card details at thetime of an ATM transaction, by means of a hidden device in the card slot that scans and stores the information. Be extra vigilant and equip yourself with all the know-how.

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Dimapur

NATIONAL

Saturday 8 November 2014

The Morung Express

Politics fuels religious riots in secular India

In this October 30 photo, Indian Muslims look at security personnel standing guard a few days after rioting between Hindus and Muslims in the area in New Delhi, India. Rioting started on the evening of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights after a drunken brawl broke out near a makeshift Hindu shrine set up just across the local mosque. Religious conflagrations are still surprisingly common in a secular country where tolerance is enshrined in the constitution. Even now, two weeks after the fighting broke out, there is a palpable air of unease in Trilokpuri. Many of the small brick homes are locked up with families seeking safety with friends or relatives in other parts of the city. (AP Photo)

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AP): First, the rumors start. Maybe a Muslim man threw garbage outside a temple, or a Hindu boy teased a Muslim girl. No one has any names or specifics, but that doesn’t stop people from taking the rumors as fact.

Crowds gather on both sides. Slogans are shouted, stones are thrown. A car goes up in flames.

And just like that, or so it seems, a religious riot rips through an Indian neighborhood.

Thirty years after the

notorious anti-Sikh riots in 1984 — the worst communal violence since the bloodshed that followed the partition of the subcontinent at the time of India’s independence in 1947 — religious conflagrations are still surprisingly common in a secular country where tolerance is enshrined in the constitution.

But while religion may spark violence in this diverse country filled with religious and cultural tensions, it is often politics that allow it to spiral out of control.

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Political parties across the spectrum have used religious differences to manipulate both the country’s majority Hindus and its Muslims and other minority groups, exploiting the idea that a polarized electorate is often more pliable.

The most recent riots erupted late last month in Trilokpuri, a largely poor neighborhood on the eastern edge of New Delhi. The fighting started on the evening of Diwali — the Hindu festival of lights — after a drunken brawl broke out near a makeshift Hindu

shrine set up across from a mosque.

For hours, large groups of men fought pitched street battles, hurling rocks and stones at each other and injuring dozens of people. A Muslim-owned shop was set on fire, Hindus pelted the mosque with stones, and dozens of angry Muslim men attacked Hindu homes.

Beyond that, the stories vary depending on which religious group you ask. Local Hindus say some drunk Muslim men smashed liquor bottles

near the shrine. Muslims say the brawl was between Hindus and Muslims who had been drinking together, and that such fights are common in the neighborhood and usually settled quickly by police.

This time, however, the brawl inflamed religious tempers on both sides. Hindus and Muslims blame each other for starting the violence, but they agree that police arrived only after the worst was over. Police defend their response, though they concede it took them hours to intervene.

Even now, two weeks after the fighting broke out, there is an air of unease in Trilokpuri. Many of the small brick homes are locked up and empty; the residents have sought safety with friends or relatives in other parts of the city. Small knots of police are everywhere.

It’s not clear how a local brawl erupted into a fullblown riot within hours, although politics is certainly on everyone’s mind. In a few months, Trilokpuri and the rest of the Indian capital will go to the polls to elect a new state legislature.

This wasn’t Trilokpuri’s first riot, or its worst.

In 1984, Nazar Singh, then 20, watched his father’s mutilated and charred corpse lie beneath a street light for three days,

too afraid of marauding rioters to retrieve his body.

His father was among hundreds of Sikhs butchered in Trilokpuri, the scene of some of the worst rioting that swept the country after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Sikh bodyguards assassinated her on Oct. 31, 1984. Mobs of Hindus went from house to house across northern India, pulling Sikhs from their homes, hacking many to death and burning others alive.

“They came with iron rods and knives and swords. They pulled him out of the house, cracked his skull and sliced open his stomach. Then they took kerosene from inside our house and poured it over him and set him on fire.

My mother saw it all happen in front of her eyes,” he says. “The police stood and watched.”

Largely-Hindu India’s constitution promises equality and religious freedom to all its citizens, but politics and religion have a complex and troubled relationship in this diverse nation of 1.2 billion.

“Controlled violence creates an obliging polarized electorate,” says Mukul Kesavan, a historian at the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi.

In elections about two months after the 1984 riots, Gandhi’s Congress

party won its largest victory ever. Victims identified Congress party members as leaders of many of the bloodthirsty mobs. News reports from that time said that the police did little or nothing to end the violence. Yet three decades later, only a few people have been prosecuted.

Rights groups say the seeds of India’s religious riots were likely sown in the violence of 1984 and the lack of accountability and justice in their wake.

“The Indian government’s failure to take even rudimentary steps to bring to justice the authors of the 1984 violence has perpetuated a climate of lawlessness,” Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch, said in a recent statement.

“Thirty years since the horrific massacre,” Ganguly said, “communal violence still breaks out in India, raising the same concerns about accountability.” Politics have cast a shadow over many of the large-scale riots in the ensuing years.

In 1992, tens of thousands of Hindu extremists razed a 16th-century mosque in northern India, claiming that it stood on the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama. Nearly 2,000 people were killed across the country in the riots that followed.

The religious polarization that followed saw the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party emerge as the single largest party in India’s Parliament. The Congress and other regional parties courted Muslim votes by painting themselves as defenders of minority rights.

In 2002, the western Indian state of Gujarat erupted in violence when a train filled with Hindu pilgrims was attacked by a Muslim mob in a small town. A fire erupted — it remains unclear whether it was arson — and 60 Hindus burned to death. In retaliation, more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the state.

Narendra Modi, now India’s prime minister, was Gujarat’s chief minister at the time. In elections that followed the riots, he played up his image as a defender of the state’s Hindus and won a resounding victory.

In each case, victims accused the government and police of doing little to stem the violence. “India may be a secular nation but the instruments of the Indian state are fairly majoritarian,” Kesavan said.

The aggressiveness of mob behavior is “always based upon how much patronage the state will give you,” he said. “There is a very clear signal from the state.”

President gets tumultuous welcome in Bhutan

THImPHu, NovEmbEr 7 (IANS): For the second time in five months, Bhutan hosted an important visitor from India, as the dragon kingdom SrINAgAr, NovEmbEr 7 (IANS): The Indian pulled out all stops to demArmy Friday took responsibility for the killing of two onstrate its special ties with youths and injuries to two others in the Nov 3 firing at a the country and warm feelcar in Jammu and Kashmir, and said it will cooperate in ings towards President any inquiry.

Pranab Mukherjee. He has Addressing a media conference at the 15 Corps come here on a state visit headquarters in Badami Bagh cantonment here, the that reinforces the “high army’s Northern Command chief, Lt. Gen. D.H. Hooda importance” New Delhi atsaid: “We sincerely wish that the killing of civilians taches to this relationship. wouldn’t have happened. We share the sorrow of the The President’s visit families.” “An inquiry has already been ordered,” he said. came within five months Two youths - Faisal Yusuf Bhat and Mehrajuddin Dar of Prime Minister Naren- were killed in Chattergam village of Badgam district dra Modi’s June 15-16, less Nov 3 in firing on a speeding car by soldiers of the 53 than three weeks after asRashtriya Rifles. Two other youths travelling in the car suming office in what was were injured. Lt. Gen. Hooda said 15 civilian witnesses his maiden foreign visit have recorded their statements, apart from those from as prime minister. It was, the army. however, the first presiHe said the army’s inquiry will be completed in dential visit from India to around 10 days, and added that the army would cothis country of fresh mounoperate with any other inquiry being conducted into tain air, pristine beauty and the incident. “We will cooperate in any other inquiry. culturally proud people in Circumstances of the firing are being investigated.” “We over a quarter of a century. take responsibility of what has happened,” the Northern Although the President, Command GOC-in-C said. “Compensation of Rs.10 lakh in an interview to the naeach for those killed and Rs.5 lakh each for the injured in tional newspaper Kuensel, the firing has been approved by the defence ministry.” emphasised in response to Lt. Gen. Hooda said rehabilitation of the injured a question that his visit “has would be taken care of by the army. “I admit that mistake has happened, otherwise why would two civilian boys have been killed like this.” The army had earlier said the driver of the car jumped the vehicle check posts set up in Chattergam following information that guerrillas were moving in the area in a car. Police later confirmed that none of the four youths travelling in the car had any militant record.

There has been a public outcry following the incident. Police registered a complaint for murder against NEW DELHI, NovEmsoldiers of the 53 Rashtriya Rifles responsible for the bEr 7 (rEuTErS): firing. All the four youths belonged to Nowgam area of When a bomb went off last Srinagar district. Sporadic clashes between angry promonth in West Bengal, potesters and police have been taking place in Nowgam lice at India’s leading counsince Nov 4 after the bodies of the youths were handed terterrorism organisation over to their families. had to hail taxis to get to the scene because they did not have enough cars.

The admission by two officers from the National Investigation Agency underlines how poorly equipped it is to fulfil its role of investigating the most serious terrorism NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (rEuTErS) - A torpe- cases, cutting off funding to militants and putting susdo recovery vessel sank off the coastal city of Visakhapatpects on trial. nam killing at least one person, the navy said on Friday, The NIA’s woes are in the latest accident to raise concerns about the Asian symptomatic of an overpower’s ageing fleet. Four other crew members are miss- stretched intelligence neting from the 28 personnel on board when the ship sank work at a time when Prime late on Thursday, a navy spokesman said.

Minister Narendra Modi “The remaining 23 personnel were rescued by the must counter the growing search and rescue ships,” the spokesman said. The vessel threat of Islamist militants was on an exercise to recover practice torpedoes fired by from al Qaeda, and possifleet ships, when flooding occurred in one of the combly also Islamic State, gainpartments, the navy said in a statement. The navy has ex- ing a foothold in the world’s perienced a spate of accidents at a time when it is trying largest democracy. to modernize and expand its reach to keep up with the The NIA has no offirising maritime ambitions of neighbour China. cers specialising in cyber The torpedo recovery vessel, a TRVA-72, was built surveillance, explosives by the Shipyard Limited in 1983, according to media or tracing chemicals and reports. Most of the country’s fleet of more than a dozen has been forced to ask submarines is in urgent need of modernization. The companies to decrypt new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has computers recovered at vowed to upgrade India’s military equipment, much of crime scenes, officers which dates back to the Soviet era, as well as boosting said. “The government has its budget constraints; domestic defence manufacturing.

no connection with BhutanChina talks”, that Beijing was an elephant in the room and its persistent attempts to leverage the talks to its strategic advantage that would be detrimental to India has been a point of concern for Indian policy makers.

Bhutan has no diplomatic ties with China but Beijing has been trying to put pressure on Thimphu for the last few years to allow it to open its mission in Thimphu, which the latter has been resisting.

That Bhutan considers its historic ties with India “special” needed no better affirmation than the surprise presence of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and Queen Jetsun Pema at the airport to receive President Mukherjee, bypassing protocol. Earlier, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay was scheduled to receive the head of Indian state.

Mukherjee came Friday morning by a special Indian Air Force plane to Paro, from where he drove

in a ceremonial carcade to Thimphu, a 56 km route that was lined by flag-waving schoolchildren, villagers and even lamas in traditional maroon-and-yellow robes while colourful flags and buntings representing the five elements decked the route along with large portraits of the President and the king.

At places along the route villagers brought out ceremonial offerings of fruits, flowers and incense in honour of the visiting dignitary, an honour reserved for only special guests to this country.

Mukherjee, said aides, had a 40-year relationship with this country and has been held “in high esteem by its leadership and common people”. Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh described the people’s turnout for President Mukherjee as “unprecedented”.

Later, with cymbals, gongs, drums and trumpets, played by lamas in traditional gear, Mukher-

jee was formally welcomed by the king and the queen at the Tashichhodzong, the magnificent seat of Bhutan’s government which also serves as the king’s office besides housing a famous monastery.

A chipdrel procession of colourfully dressed dancers that is said to date back to antiquity escorted the President into the dzong, that has also served as a fortress against foreign invaders in the past.

The President is accompanied by several members of parliament, including BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who is expected to be sworn in as a minister on Sunday, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and senior officials.

On a packed day, the President held 45-minute talks with the king where the security aspect of the relationship came up, officials said. King Jigme was quoted as saying that “Bhutan’s security was in-

terlinked with India and what happens in India affects Bhutan”.

On record, officials sought to play down the China factor, saying it did not figure in the discussions, but several reports suggested that India has been worried about China’s keenness to resolve its border dispute with Bhutan in order to gain strategic access to the Doklam plateau. In the event of hostilities, this can give China military ability to cut off India’s only connection to its Northeast through the so-called “Chicken’s Neck”, a narrow strip of land that is also known as the Siliguri Corridor.

The President, who will return to Delhi Saturday afternoon, witnesses a special presentation on hydropower cooperation between the two countries.

Hydropower is one of the main pillars of bilateral cooperation and three hydropower projects, built with Indian help, are already exporting electricity to pow-

er-starved Bihar.

In 2008, the two governments agreed to further develop a minimum of 10,000 MW of power generation capacities by 2020 and identified ten more projects. Power is an important sector of the Bhutanese economy and contributes 12 percent to its GDP. The foreign secretary said that “India would always be able to buy up the power that Bhutan generates”.

An MoU was also signed between the two countries on Bhutan’s support and participation in the revived Nalanda University in Bihar that will help “advance the concept of an Asian community” and help in re-establishing the institution as an international centre of excellence in this region.

Educational advancement and technology cooperation form other pillars of the multifacted ties between the two countries and MoUs were signed in these areas as well.

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Navy ship sinks off east coast, one killed, four missing

we have done quite well in cracking cases with the resources at our disposal,” NIA head Sharad Kumar told Reuters in an interview.

When NIA officers eventually arrived at the scene of the blast in West Bengal, bordering Bangladesh to India’s east, what they discovered was important. Two members of a banned Bangladeshi militant group had blown themselves up building bombs, and the NIA believes they were part of a series of plots to destabilise Bangladesh.

The NIA, which had only opened its West Bengal branch five days earlier, was caught by surprise by the blast, as were other Indian intelligence agencies.

It is now investigating the case and says it is struggling to find a dozen senior militant leaders who it said had fled the area after the explosion.

SHOESTRING BUDGET The NIA was created in response to the siege of Mumbai, India’s financial capital, when Pakistani gunmen killed 166 people in a commando-style as-

sault on two luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish centre in 2008.

The agency is seen as India’s answer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism wing, although, despite a population four times that of the United States, it has about 0.5 percent of the funding of its American counterpart.

Before the Mumbai attack, India’s security agencies were so riven by conflict and miscommunication that they failed to process warnings about the threat of a sea-borne assault, the government said later, vowing to revamp the state machinery.

Six years later and Modi has yet to lay out plans to overhaul the structure of the security services or improve the information flow between agencies, according to police and intelligence officers. Since winning power in May, his domestic security focus has been to boost surveillance of suspects in the Muslim community following the rise of Islamic State and to improve intelligence ties with the U.S. and Israel, government officials said.

So far his government has not responded to the NIA’s request made months ago to double the staff, recruit more specialists and create a national centre of excellence to train officers. A home ministry spokesman declined to comment on those requests, part of a blueprint to overhaul the NIA. Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, said there had been “aggression from the new government in its statements and its posturing on terrorism. “There is no sign of a dramatic transformation in its approach, and until we get that, then the best you can hope for is for the same people to do a little better.”

INFIGHTING AMONG INTELLIGENCE GROUPS Like many countries, India has several intelligence and investigation agencies. The Intelligence Bureau is the domestic unit and the Research and Analysis Wing is an external spy agency. The military runs its own intelligence wing and so do paramilitary organisations like the Border

Security Force.

Infighting continues to hinder India’s ability to prevent attacks and agencies are often reluctant to share information, according to intelligence officials at these organisations as well as experts.

“The Indian intelligence services have long been plagued by stove piping and failure to share information,” said Bruce Riedel, a former senior CIA expert on South Asia who has advised President Barack Obama on policy in the region. “Modi’s new national security adviser, Ajit Doval, a long-time intelligence professional, will have the job of making the services perform at a higher level.”

The NIA was supposed to be complemented by a National Counter Terrorism Centre that would sit above other agencies and sift through what they provided, as well as a national intelligence database accessible by other agencies. But the plan has been stalled by opposition from the states concerned about giving up powers to central government.

India’s constitution makes law and order primarily a state issue, and NIA officers say part of the problem is that they need help in intelligence gathering from local police, who are typically poorly trained and ill-equipped.

At present, when the police arrest suspects there is no way to check if they are wanted, a problem that has led to embarrassing blunders. Police arrested Yasin Bhatkal, accused of orchestrating a series of deadly bomb blasts, as one of the cofounders of the militant Indian Mujahideen group.

Bhatkal spent months in a West Bengal jail for handling forged currency before he was released four years ago because police were unaware he was on the NIA’s most wanted list.

He was finally re-captured in a hideout on India’s border with Nepal last year.

The government is working to build a national computer database linking the country’s 14,000 police stations. This will allow officers for the first time to check a suspect’s background based on fingerprints or iris scans.

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US pressure urged over jailed Myanmar

journalists

WASHINGTON, NOvember 7 (AP): Myanmar’s transformation from pariah state to aspiring democracy has been kind to blogger Nay Phone Latt. He was freed from a 20-year prison term imposed for his coverage of anti-junta protests. He now has a weekly program on U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia and runs an internationally praised campaign against sectarian hate speech. But he has a sobering message for U.S. officials he’ll meet in Washington on Friday. While the nation’s media have more freedom than in decades, the powerful military is still “untouchable.” President Barack Obama visits Myanmar next week, and Nay Phone Latt and fellow dissident writer Ma Thida say he should call for the release of a mounting number of journalists facing stiff jail terms — one of the troubling signs that the political reforms in Myanmar, championed by the Obama administration, have stalled.

“Words are not crimes,” said Ma Thida, who speaks from experience. She spent five years in prison in the 1990s for her prodemocracy activities under the former ruling junta, on charges including distributing unlawful literature. She contracted tuberculosis in prison and was eventually released on humanitarian grounds. Today, she and Nay Phone Latt lead PEN Myanmar, a branch of an international charity that represents 190 writers in the Southeast Asian country. It’s an organization that couldn’t have operated under the former regime, and it is a positive sign of the times that former dissidents are free to travel abroad. They will meet with senior officials at the State Department and the White House.

Easing state control of the media has been one of the most significant achievements of Myanmar’s transition from authoritarian rule. But optimism has ebbed since Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar two years ago, and journalists are increasingly punished under antiquated security laws. Ma Thida, 48, who edits “Echo,” a current affairs weekly magazine, contends that the recent jailings are meant to intimidate a fledgling free press, which is already struggling because of commercial pressures and a lack of training. Those concerns could intensify as the country, also known as Burma, prepares to hold general elections late next year.

According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the military and media are increasingly at odds over the reporting of information perceived as sensitive. The authorities typically defend arrests as a matter of national security. Among the recent high-profile cases: Freelance photojournalist Aung Kyaw Naing died after he was detained by the military last month while covering clashes between the army and ethnic rebels. His wife Ma Thandar said his body, which was exhumed Wednesday, showed signs of torture. The military said last week they shot him dead Oct. 4 as he tried to reach for a soldier’s gun during an attempted escape.

Four reporters and the chief executive of the nowdefunct Unity journal are serving seven year jail terms for a January report about an alleged chemical weapons factory that the government said was false. Three journalists and two publishers of Bi Mon Te Nay journal, who got two years for a July 7 front page story, reporting an activist group’s false claim that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic leaders had formed an interim government to replace the current quasi-civilian administration of President Thein Sein.

Ma Thida attributed the misreporting to a lack of professionalism rather than political intent, and asks: “How does the government expect journalists to gain more skills when it puts them behind bars?” Nay Phone Latt, 34, who was among 1,300 political prisoners who have been freed in the past three years, said the military remains isolated from the rest of society and above criticism, setting limits on Myanmar’s new democracy and freedom of expression. “We have freedom, but it is a limited freedom,” he said.

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Taking credit for killing bin Laden sparks debate

A framed Montana Standard newspaper article on Robert O'Neill of Butte, Mont., signed by O'Neill, is seen on the wall of the Metals Sports Bar in Butte on Novomber 6. O'Neill, a Butte native and ex-Navy SEAL, told The Washington Post that he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, a story he first recounted in February to Esquire magazine, which identified him only as "the shooter." One current and one former SEAL confirmed to The Associated Press that O'Neill was long known to have fired the fatal shots at the al-Qaida leader. The article is signed, "Never Quit." (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, NOvember 7 (AP): Some special operations service members and veterans are unhappy that one of their own has taken credit publicly for killing Osama bin Laden. Others say they have gotten used to the idea that their brethren might break the code of silence and seek to profit from their deeds.

That internal debate gained intensity this week when retired Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill acknowledged that he had fired two rounds into the forehead of the al-Qaida leader during the 2011 raid on his secret compound in Pakistan. O’Neill says more and more people were becoming aware of his role and that his name was bound to become public anyway.

O’Neill had recounted his version of the bin Laden raid in February 2013 to Esquire magazine, which identified him only as “the

shooter.” In a story Thursday, The Washington Post identified him by name as he described shooting the leader of the terrorist group behind the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001.

One current and one former SEAL confirmed to The Associated Press that O’Neill was long known to have killed bin Laden. Defense Department officials confirmed that O’Neill was a member of SEAL Team Six and was part of the raid, but they said they could not confirm who fired the fatal shot, noting that other SEALs on the mission also fired at bin Laden.

If O’Neill discloses classified information during the interviews he could be subject to an investigation or action by the Justice Department, the Defense Department officials said.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to dis-

cuss the matter by name.

O’Neill told the Post that shots also were fired by two other SEAL team members, including Matt Bissonnette, who described the raid somewhat differently in his book “No Easy Day.” His lawyer said Bissonnette is under federal criminal investigation over whether he disclosed classified information in the book, which he did not vet with the military. In the Esquire piece, O’Neill makes no mention of Bissonnette shooting bin Laden.

Well before the Post interview, O’Neill discussed his role in the raid during a private meeting with relatives of victims of the 9/11 attack on New York’s World Trade Center before the recent opening of the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum. He donated the shirt he was wearing in the operation, which is now on display there.

O’Neill is scheduled to be featured in lengthy segments next week on Fox News. He told the Post he decided to go public because he feared his identity was going to be leaked by others. Indeed, his name appeared Monday on the website SOFREP, which is operated by former special operations troops.

The actions of both O’Neill and Bissonnette have drawn scorn from some of their colleagues.

In an Oct. 31 open letter, Rear Adm. Brian Losey, who commands the Naval Special Warfare Group, and Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci, the top noncommissioned officer of the group, urged SEALs to lower their public profile. Their comments were widely perceived as being aimed at O’Neill and Bissonnette.

“At Naval Special Warfare’s core is the SEAL

ethos,” the letter says. “A critical tenant of our ethos is ‘I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.’”

The letter added, “We do not abide willful or selfish disregard for our core values in return for public notoriety or financial gain.”

Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon, attended the 9/11 museum ceremony. She said O’Neill, whose name was not divulged at the event, offered the families clarity on conflicting information they had received about the raid.

She said she didn’t have an opinion about whether SEALs should disclose information about their deeds. “Whatever that (SEALs’) ethos is, is between the SEALS,” she said.

“The 9/11 families are the beneficiaries of any rules he might have broken or whatever lines he might have crossed.”

“He went through the mission in really in great detail. All that information was very helpful to me because this is a figure in a terror organization that has loomed large in our lives,” she said, adding that she listened to him so intently that the 9/11 commemorative coin she was clasping tightly in her hand left a bruise.

Rick Woolard, a former SEAL team commander who previously urged his comrades to avoid discussing recent operations, said active-duty SEALs are “pretty much very disappointed and I’d have to say angry with guys who have used their deeds and those of their companions for personal gain.”

“No Easy Day” was published in 2012 under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

Bissonnette recounted on CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes” program that he sent a text

to the commander of SEAL Team Six after its publication. He said the commander replied, “Delete me.”

At the same time, Woolard said, there is frustration among some special operations soldiers that senior government officials have left office and written memoirs revealing and profiting from actions involving troops who are sworn to secrecy. However, one active-duty SEAL officer, who declined to be quoted by name because he had no permission to speak publicly, said some SEALs had grown accustomed to some of their members seeking to profit from their connections to the elite group, upon retirement.

Senior Pentagon and CIA officials cooperated extensively with the makers of “Zero Dark Thirty,” a film that depicted both the CIA’s yearslong hunt for bin Laden and the SEALs raid that killed him in Pakistan.

In the Esquire piece, O’Neill said he was one of two SEALs who went up to the third floor of the building where bin Laden was hiding. The first man fired two shots at bin Laden as he peeked out of the bedroom, but O’Neill says those shots missed. The man then tackled two women in the hallway outside of bin Laden’s bedroom.

O’Neill went into the bedroom, he recounts.

“There was bin Laden standing there. He had his hands on a woman’s shoulders, pushing her ahead, not exactly toward me but by me, in the direction of the hallway commotion. It was his youngest wife, Amal.”

O’Neill added: “In that second, I shot him two times in the forehead. Bap! Bap! The second time as he’s going down. He crumpled onto the floor in front of his bed and I hit him again. Bap! Same place. ...

He was dead.”

Malaysian court scraps cross-dressing ban

KUA L A LU m P U r , NOvember 7 (reUTerS): A Malaysian court on Friday gave transgender Muslims the right to cross-dress in a landmark decision overturning an Islamic sharia law ban that could trigger similar challenges.

Muslim-majority Malaysia represents itself as the global face of moderate Islam, but at home it has experienced a gradual Islamisation that makes minority groups worry their rights could lose out in a clash beIJING, NOvember 7 (reUTerS): China should between sharia law and the release at least 76 people, detained on the mainland for constitution.

Several cases challengsupporting Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, before the start of next week’s Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Beijing, rights group Amnesty International said on Friday. Students calling for full democracy for Chineseruled Hong Kong have blocked roads leading into three of the city’s most economically and politically important districts for weeks, drawing condemnation from Beijing ITU, NOvember 7 (AP): It’s been nearly a month and the Hong Kong government. since Diomar Pereira has Leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama, had running water at his Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Presihome in Itu, a commuter dent Xi Jinping will gather for the Nov. 10-11 Asia Pacific city outside Sao Paulo that Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the Chinese is at the epicenter of the capital. Preliminary meetings are already underway. worst drought to hit south“APEC leaders must end their recent silence on the eastern Brazil in more than crackdown against mainland Chinese activists expresseight decades. ing support for Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters.

Like others in this city Political convenience should not trump principled acwhose indigenous name tion,” said Roseann Rife, East Asia Research Director at Amnesty International. “The leaders should take this op- means “big waterfall,” portunity to speak out and urge President Xi to ensure all Pereira must scramble to those detained solely for exercising their right to freedom find water for drinking, bathing and cooking. On a of expression and peaceful assembly are immediately recent day when temperaand unconditionally released,” she said in a statement.

China’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a tures hit 90 degrees (32 Celsius), he drove to a comrequest for comment on Amnesty’s statement. munity kiosk where people Beijing has ruled Hong Kong since 1997 through a with empty soda bottles “one country, two systems” formula that allows wideand jugs lined up to use a ranging autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the water spigot. Pereira filled mainland. The protesters are demanding fully democratic elections for the city’s next chief executive in 2017, several 13-gallon containers, which he loaded into not the vote between pre-screened candidates that Beijing has said it would allow. Amnesty said the deten- his Volkswagen bug.

“I have a job, and five tions in China have been especially concentrated in Beijing, as well as the southern cities of Guangzhou and children to raise and am Shenzhen that abut Hong Kong. People have been held always in a rush to find water so we can bathe,” said for putting pictures online with messages of support, planning to go to Hong Kong to take part in the protests Pereira, a truck driver who makes the trip to get water or shaving their heads in solidarity, it said. every couple of days. “It’s The government has stepped up security in Beivery little water for a lot of jing ahead of the summit. Amnesty said some activists people.” had been forced to leave the city, including prominent Brazil is approaching dissident Hu Shigen. Xi has presided over a sweeping crackdown on the rights community since taking office the December start of its summer rainy season with two years ago and, while he has promised to improve the rule of law, the Communist Party will remain firmly its water cupboard nearly bare. More than 10 million in charge of the judicial system.

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ing Malaysia’s religious law in civil courts have been quashed in recent years, despite guarantees in the constitution on the freedom of expression, religion and gender equality.

On Friday, the Court of Appeal said the law against crossdressing by Muslim men contravened the country’s constitution and did not take account of male Muslims affected by gender identity disorder. The law and its punishments were “degrading, oppressive and inhuman”, the three judges added.

Rights group Human Rights Watch has listed Ma-

laysia as one of the worst countries in which to be a transgender person, due to systematic abuses by religious authorities and police. Activists welcomed Friday’s ruling. “Now the transgender community know they have their rights to challenge the law and not just plead guilty to charges,” said Nisha Ayub of Justice for Sisters, an LGBT group.

The prosecution declined to say if it would file an appeal in the country’s highest court, the Federal Court. The case was launched by four transgender individuals in the western state of Negeri Sembi-

lan, three of whom went in appeal against a lower court’s decision in 2012.

“This is a win for all Malaysians, as the constitution protects us all, irrespective of ethnicity, gender and class,” said Ivy Josiah of the Women’s Aid Organisation. “Surely no court, civil or sharia, can refute the fact that human dignity is paramount,” Josiah told Reuters.

In Defence Of Islam Religion is a sensitive topic for the Malaysian government. Ethnic Malays, who are Muslim, make up 60 percent of a population

of roughly 29 million. Chinese account for more than a quarter and ethnic Indians form a substantial minority. Christians account for about 9 percent.

Last year, Malaysia’s highest court ruled that a Catholic newspaper may not use the word “Allah”, the Arabic word for “God”, for Malay-speaking congregants. Police and religious authorities drew fire this year for bold moves that involved confiscating Bibles that used the word “Allah” to ignoring court orders about child custody between Muslim and nonMuslim couples.

Last month, the country’s attorney general said a Muslim activist’s call to burn Bibles with the word “Allah” was not seditious and its aim “was only to defend the purity of Islam”.

Friday’s decision is a precedent for transgender individuals to challenge the Islamic sharia ban in other Malaysian states, said Aston Paiva, the lawyer for the petitioners. “The state law is still there and they can still continue to make arrests, but you can now go to the high court and challenge this,” Paiva told reporters, as the state law has yet to be repealed.

Brazil city desperate for water in drought people across Sao Paulo state, Brazil’s most populous and the nation’s economic engine, have been forced to cut water use over the past six months. A reservoir used by Itu has fallen to 2 percent capacity and, because its system relies on rain and groundwater rather than rivers, the city is suffering more than others.

In Itu, desperation is taking hold. Police escort water trucks to keep them from being hijacked by armed men. Residents demanding restoration of tap water have staged violent protests.

Restaurants and bars are using disposable cups to avoid washing dishes, and agribusinesses are transporting soybeans and other crops by road rather than by boat in areas where rivers have dried up.

“We are entering unknown territory,” said Renato Tagnin, an expert in water resources at the environmental group Coletivo Curupira. “If this continues, we will run out of water. We have no more mechanisms and no water stored in the closet.”

The Sao Paulo metropolitan area ended its last

rainy season in February with just a third of the usual rain total — only 9 inches (23 centimeters) over three months. Showers in October totaled just 1 inch (25 millimeters), one-fifth of normal.

Only consistent, steady summer rains will bring immediate relief, experts say.

But they also place blame on the government, which they say needs to upgrade a state water distribution network that loses more than 30 percent of its resources to leaks. Advocates also call for treatment plants to produce more potable water, along with better environmental protections for headwaters and rivers flowing into reservoirs.

Tagnin and others say the government ignored calls to begin rationing water months ago because it didn’t want to take such a step before the October elections and risk losing votes. The government, however, maintains there will be no need for rationing. It says its measures to conserve water are working, such as offering discounted water bills for

those who limit usage and reducing water pressure during off-peak hours.

But activists and consumer groups complain the government has done too little too late and failed to keep consumers informed.

The state’s largest utility, which supplies water to more than 16 million people in Sao Paulo’s metropolitan area, for months avoided acknowledging the looming shortage. Only recently did the Sabesp utility release maps showing which neighborhoods were at risk of water cuts, and was careful to avoid using the hot button term “rationing.”

In Itu, where the taps have been dry for weeks, residents dream of rationing — at least that would mean some water for their homes.

“I forgot what water looks like coming out of the faucet,” said Rosa Lara Leite, a woman carrying a few gallons of water in each hand at one of the city’s crowded drinking fountains.

Authorities forced the city of 160,000 to cut its daily water consumption

In this October 29 photo, men walk on the receding banks of the Guarapiranga dam which is responsible for providing water to the Sao Paulo metropolitan area in Brazil. The sign reads in Portuguese "Don't dive into the water." Sao Paulo is suffering the worst drought to hit southeastern Brazil in more than eight decades, and more than 10 million people across Sao Paulo state have been forced to cut water use over the past six months. (AP Photo)

from 16 million gallons (62 million liters) to 2 million gallons (8 million liters).

Dozens of water trucks are deployed to bring in water from far off towns. Huge 5,000-gallon tanks have been set up around the city.

“We understand that people’s basic need is water. They need it,” said Marco Antonio Augusto, spokesman for a government task force created to manage Itu’s water supply. “We are bringing water from every possible place.”

Baker Franciele Bonfim

is storing whatever water she can get her hands on in every possible place. She and a neighbor recently paid $200 to buy water from a private water truck, storing it in two big tanks and about 20 plastic buckets that once held margarine for her cakes.

“It’s an added expense but at least I am good for 15 days,” Bonfim said, as she used a thick hose to pour water into each bucket. “It has taken me a long time to use all this margarine. But water runs out fast.”

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Mkg Sushil Kumar Patel Hamilton ready to DC chairs DPDB meeting feel the love in Brazil

Lewis Hamilton (AP Photo)

sao Paulo, noveMber 7 (reuters): Lewis Hamilton can expect the passionate Interlagos crowd to be on his side when the Formula One championship leader seeks his sixth win in a row, and 11th of the season, in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix.

That has not always been the case at the Sao Paulo circuit, where the local drivers can count on strong support, but this year the title battle comes down to a straight duel between Hamilton and Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg.

Hamilton, a huge boyhood fan of the late triple world champion Ayrton Senna who died in 1994, is now finding a lot of Brazilians are rooting for him -- including some of Senna's own family.

The Briton has already been presented with a large mock-up of a Brazilian pass-

port -- complete with his details -- and a national soccer shirt courtesy of television comedy show 'Panico'.

"Tudo Bem (how are you)?," were Hamilton's opening words as he faced reporters at Interlagos on Thursday. "I've got a Brazilian passport now. I need to learn Brazilian." The good humour was a far cry from 2008, when Hamilton ultimately prevailed over Brazilian race winner Felipe Massa by a single point to take his first title with a last corner overtake.

Six years ago, when Hamilton was at McLaren, the same comedians had tried to present him with a shirt of the Vasco da Gama club -- famed for finishing second in the championship. They also threw an unlucky black cat toy towards him at a sponsor event, urging him to pick it up.

"Anything other than 2008 is a good feeling because back then I felt it was sunny everywhere but I had this black cloud over me and it was raining," Hamilton recalled on Thursday.

"And no matter which way I moved this cloud was still raining on me. "It was obviously a really intense weekend because everyone was supporting him.

I really feel over the years I've seen a lot of growth in my support here in Brazil, and of course it helps I'm not going up against a Brazilian in the championship.

"I generally feel I will have a great support this weekend, and we will generally as a team," said Hamilton. The Briton, who leads Rosberg by 24 points with 75 still to be won from Brazil and the finale in Abu Dhabi, spoke also of his admiration for Senna and what it meant to be racing in his home town.

As a boy, he said, he would go home after a kart race and watch over and again a video tape about Senna called "Racing is in my blood". "He really inspired me as a kid and he still does today. I've always said I'd love to emulate him as a driver," added the 29-yearold, who has a similar yellow helmet to the Brazilian. "The fact that every now and then someone may mention my name in the same sentence as his, I feel really proud and honoured by that.

8th Peren Dist Legislators Football Tournament held

Parliamentary Secretary Dr. Longrineken during the inaugural function of 8th Peren District Legislators Football Trophy. (DIPR Photo)

Peren, noveMber 7 (Mexn): Parliamentary Secretary of Geology & Mining Dr. Longrineken inaugurated the 8th Peren District Legislators Football Trophy on November 5 at Local Ground Peren.

Speaking on the occasion, he exhorted the participants to develop a spirit of unity through sport. Sports

is much needed for development of physical fitness, he said and urged the players to abstain from using tobacco and alcohol which not only damage their health but also shortens the span of their career. He also encouraged the players to develop themselves so that they can represent the state at the national

level also.

Earlier, Rev Father Philip proposed invocation.

Ernest Sephen, President PDRA, delivered welcome address while Agumbe Nda presented special number. Namgwa delivered vote of thanks. In the first match, USC Samziuram played against Jalukie Town Youth Organisation.

NSCA election of new office bearers

DIMaPur, noveMber 7 (Mexn): The Nagaland Sports Coaches’ Association (NSCA) will hold its annual picnic cum elec-

tion of new office bearers for the tenure 2014-2019 on November 15 at Midway Resort near Piphema. All the members are request-

ed to reach the venue by 9 a.m. positively. This was informed in a press release issued by NSCA Secretary, Visabiupeseyie.

6th Noksen GMS & GPS tournament

noksen, noveMber 7 (Mexn): The 6th Noksen GMS & GPS tournament organized by Noksen Area Teachers’ Union will be held at Local Ground Noksen Headquarter start-

ing from November 11 to 13. MLA C M Chang will grace the occasion. A press note issued by Ashongba, President and Y. Asonla, General Secretary has requested all the executive

officials of NATU to reach the station to attend the meeting on November 8 at the Treasurer’s residence.

For further information contact the event co-ordinator- 8974633091

WWII Peace Rally & Hornbill International Motor Rally 2014 kohIMa, noveMber 7 (Mexn): Nagaland Adventure & Motor Sports Association (NAMSA) in collaboration with the Government of Nagaland will be organizing the 5th Edition of the World War II Peace Rally on 2nd December and the 8th Edition of Hornbill Motor Rally on 4th and 5th of December 2014.

The World War II Peace Rally is held to commemorate the Battle of Kohima, where vintage WWII vehicles and participants will compete for different category of prizes. The participants will be allowed to

wear only WWII army fatigues and other wartime paraphernalia. The WWII Peace Rally will be flagged off from Dimapur and culminate at Kisama, Naga Heritage village.

The Hornbill Motor Rally route will be Tarmac and Dirt Roads and will run in Time/Speed/Distance (TSD) format on a Non-Cumulative basis, and will be in compliance with the International Sporting Code of the FIA, National Competition Rules (NCR) of The Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI). There will be Scrutiny

and Documentation on the 4th of December and the Motor Rally will be flagged off on 5th December from Dimapur and culminate at Kisama, Naga Heritage village. Many participants from outside the state as well as other countries are expected to compete in both the events.

NAMSA will also be organizing a Navigational Workshop by FMSCI officials as resource persons for the benefit of our local Rally drivers on 29th November. Time & Venue will be announced at a later date through the local media.

Mokokchung, noveMber 7 (DIPr): The monthly meeting of the Mokokchung District Planning & Development Board, was held on November 7 in the ADC Planning conference Hall with DC and Vice Chairman of the DPDB, Sushil Kumar Patel on the chair.

After reviewing the minutes of last meeting the Vice Chairman made a power point presentation on reviving mountain springs in Mokokchung district with a focus to minimize scarcity of drinking water in the district particularly in towns during lean period. The DC who recently attended training on Climate Change in New Delhi emphasized on the method/technique of sustaining water sources in the hills and suggested that PHED department should do more on conservation of water by way of identifying springs in the district preserve it in an environment-friendly manner.

SDO (C) Rajesh S informed the members about ongoing India Disaster Resources Network (IDRN) activities in the district and expressed his gratitude to all heads of offices for their cooperation. He further sought cooperation saying IDRN activity is not one time but continual action to respond effectively at the time of disaster in the district.

Two officials from New Delhi, partners of ‘Indian Environment Law Office’ who work with UNDP attended the meeting and shared the purpose of their visit to the district to make jhum practices in Nagaland more sustainable. The two officials Vaidya and Shawalia Siddiqui said they were looking at existing laws and policies which have a bearing on jhum cultivation to see if any changes/ amendments are required to ensure jhum cultivation sustainable. The meeting decided that visiting official should have discussion with line departments to make it more fruitful. On the proposed Ring Road construction in Mokokchung Town, R&B Department informed the House that survey work is on, and it is expected to complete by November 2014. The Mokokchung Farmers Union sought an effective mechanism to see that loans are given to the needy farmers. The Vice Chairman asked departments dealing with it to make effective mechanism to extend loans to the needy farmers. Tsukti Longkumer, Chairman of the Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium (MEC) highlighted the achievements of the MEC. He said so far MEC has provided loan to 84 local entrepreneurs and the recovery of loan is 95 % success. The MEC also distributed their progress report to all the members.

Implementing Committees for LADP 2014-15 were also constituted during the meeting.

Dimapur DP&DB meeting conducted

On October 28, a team from Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) visited few private and government primary schools in Chungtia, Aliba, and Kinunger villages in Mokokchung under the theme, ‘Inclusive education in the institution.’ They met with the staffs and encouraged them to allow CwDs (Children with Disability) to study in the schools and there should be disable friendly environment in the school premises. The team found that most of the schools they visited have admitted CwDs.

Constant shortage of LPG in the State capital Kohima continues, while it is available 24X7 in black market, where the prices are hiked to Rs.1500 to 2500.

District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) team led by Project Director Kevi-Podi inspecting various development programme implemented under G.I.A, MGNREGA, IAY flagship programme at Sishunu Village, under Chunlikha Block, Tseminyu on October 29.

DIMaPur, noveMber 7 (DIPr): The Dimapur District Planning & Development Board (DP&DB) meeting was held at DC’s Conference on November 5. ADC, Dimapur Elizabeth Ngully, chaired the monthly meeting.

Reviewing the last DP & DB meeting minutes the Board agreed to give recommendation to the concerned department for opening of a Theological Institute “Covenant Institute of Theological & Mission” at Dimapur. The department of Taxes gave a power point presentation on the activities of the department and further requested all the departments to co-operate with the department in clearing all tax liabilities to augment revenue of the state.

Other agenda which were discussed included constitution of Niuland Town Council from the present Adhoc Town Council status which was presented by ADC Niuland, V. Lovitoly Sema. After deliberation the board Parliamentary Secretary IFC & Election Y. Vikheho Swu inaugurated the Mishilimi Village agreed to forward the matter to the concerned authority Council Hall on November 4 last at Mishilimi village, under Pughoboto sub-division. The up approval. For installation of Photography of Yashit- council hall was constructed under MGNREGS during 2012-13 to 2013-14. sungba Ao inside the Dimapur District Sports Council gallery it was decided that the matter would be referred to the DC Dimapur who is also the Chairman of DDSC and the Council Member for bringing out criteria for display of Photography in the DDSC gallery. Other highlights of the meeting included screening of video on migratory bird Amur Falcons roosting at the Doyang Hydro-Project area produced by the Department of Forest and Wildlife Conservation to create awareness of the conservation among the members. The Department of Excise and Labour were directed to give presentation on departmental activities in the next meeting.

Mangkolemba SDPDB meeting held MangkoleMba, noveMber 7 (DIPr): Mangkolemba Sub Divisional Planning & Development Board (SDPDB) meeting was held on November 5 at the Customary Court where ADC, Limawapang conducted the meeting. In the meeting, recognition of Mankolemba as a full fledged township was discussed and the house agreed to pursue the matter with the Government. Mangkolemba, which is supposed to be under urban area is yet to get recognized township and still remains neither an urban nor a rural area and for that matter there has not been any fund assistance from government.

The ADC proposed to organize a mass social work, to commemorate the celebration of the forthcoming Statehood Day and to usher in the festive season on 28th November 2014 from 9:00 a.m. -12:00 noon, which the house agreed to. He further reminded all heads of offices and staff to take part during the social work without fail. The ADC also informed that there will be a meeting between the Coal Union and the PWD Department on 11th November 2014 at 11:00 a.m. to discuss on the urgency of repairing the road at Longnak stretching for a distance of 5 kms. The next SDPDB meeting would be held on 5th December 2014.

The ADC informed all Heads of Offices to attend the meeting without fail as work distribution for Republic Day 2015 would be discussed, besides the other agenda.

Hollotoli School, Dimapur staff and Class 10 students with members of St. Joseph children Home, Burma Camp seen after the social work conducted by the students for the children Home on November 7.

The NSS volunteers of St. Xavier College, Jalukie, joined in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on November 5. Other students of the college also took part in the cleaning of class rooms, verandahs, drainage, and surrounding of the college. While addressing the students, the principal, Fr. Jose Lukose said it is the responsibility of every educated person to put into action what we have learnt especially on cleanliness and teach others the same. “We should live by reason and not by instincts as animals do.”

GMS Sungkomen, Mokokchung celebrated its Golden Jubilee today with S Chuba Longkumer, Parliamentary Secretary, Mangkolemba Baptist Church Youth department had successfully concluded a youth revival Labour & Employment, as the Chief Guest. Seen here is the for the Laonu Area Baptist Youths at Hasse Russa Arunachal Pradesh on October 24 to 26 Chief Guest releasing the Jubilee Souvenir, November 6. with Dr. Akok Amer (Pastor) and Toshi Tzudir (Youth Director) as the main speakers.

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ew Zealand authorities made an embarrassing about-face on Friday when prosecutors dropped a murder-for-hire charge against AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd, saying there was not enough evidence to proceed.

But the 60-year-old member of the popular Australian band still faces a serious charge of threatening to kill, which comes with a maximum prison term of seven years. He also faces charges of possessing methamphetamine and marijuana.

Police had initially accused Rudd of trying to arrange for a hit man to carry out two killings, and had charged him with attempting to procure murder, which comes with a maximum 10-year sentence. But when prosecutors took over the case, they quickly dropped the charge.

“The file was obtained today and reviewed,” Tauranga Crown Solicitor Greg Hollister-Jones said in a statement Friday, adding he had “made the decision that there was insufficient evidence to proceed with the charge of attempting to procure murder.”

Rudd’s lawyer Paul Mabey said the damage to his client had been incalculable and he was considering possible remedies.

“The charge alleging an attempt to procure murder should never have been laid,” Mabey said in a statement, adding “Mr. Rudd has suffered unnecessary and extremely damaging publicity as a result of widespread and sensational reporting of a very serious allegation, which on any basis was never justified.” Mabey said

Rudd would defend the other charges against him.

Bill Hodge, a law professor at the University of Auckland, said the events suggested police had overreached. “Usually you’d expect police to lay a basic charge, a holding charge,” he said. “Then, maybe when they’ve got more witnesses and evidence, they could go for a more complicated charge. I don’t understand the rush.” Hodge said Rudd could have a good case for seeking financial damages if the case against him fell apart altogether, but he may have little recourse if convicted on the threatening to kill charge.

Police on Friday declined interview requests.

Fans noted Rudd’s disheveled appearance and gaunt face in media images of his court appearance.

Many Down Under have listened for decades to the straightforward hard rock of AC/DC, often affectionately called “Acca Dacca.” Rudd was released on bail Thursday pending a second court appearance later this month. He has yet to enter a plea.

AC/DC released a statement saying band members had “only become aware of Phil’s arrest as the news was breaking.” “We have no further comment.

Phil’s absence will not affect the release of our new album ‘Rock or Bust’ and upcoming tour next year.”

“Rock or Bust” is due to be released on Dec. 2 and will be the band’s first new studio album in six years.

The band plans to promote it during a world tour next year. Rudd and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

“Featuring guitarist Angus Young as their visual symbol and musical firebrand, they grew from humble origins in Australia to become an arena-filling phenomenon with worldwide popularity. They did so without gimmickry, except for Angus’s schoolboy uniform, which became mandatory stage attire,” said the Hall of Fame’s biography.

According to the biography, Rudd first joined AC/ DC in 1974, the year after it was started. Other reports indicate he left the band in 1983 but rejoined again in 1994. The Bay of Plenty Times reported that Rudd first moved to New Zealand in 1983, during the period when he had left the band, and in 2011 bought a Tauranga restaurant he named Phil’s Place.

Diethoseno Whiso, proprietor/teacher of Balada Music Institute along with students who performed at the piano recital organised at Christian Youth Centre, Kohima Science College Jotsoma on November 6.

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ome festive December this year, the people of Peren district is in for the biggest extravaganza of the year and once in a life time experience with the august presence of renown singer and composer Methaneilie and his band from Kohima. They will be staging a live concert in Jalukie in aid of Jalukie Students’ Union Golden Jubilee slated for later part of December 2014.

Jalukie valley and Peren district will go musical and

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Education Connection and Barkweaver are releasing Eastrine Kire’s new book, ‘My Book of Angels’ on November 8 in Kohima.

reverberate with indigenous tunes and popular songs on the evening of December 16 at Ibaung Thou Memorial School ground from 4 pm onwards.

The Jalukie Students’ Union appeals to all concern to come participate and help the cause of the students’ through the event. Concert tickets are being made available at various places with its central outlet at Mpom Pharmacy Jalukie.

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Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, left, poses for a photo with Germany's Andrea Petkovic, right, after a draw for the Fed Cup tennis Final between Czech Republic and Germany in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, November 7. (AP Photo)

Mary Kom backs pregnancy tests, says it's for safety

NeW DeLHI, NOvember 7 (PTI): Olympic bronze medallist boxer M C Mary Kom came out in support of the controversial pregnancy tests conducted

by Sports Authority of India on World Championshipsbound women pugilists, saying that it was good for the safety of the players.

She said that conducting the tests was not a new development as she herself had undergone the same.

"I myself has undergone these tests. I am not involved in these recent tests but in my opinion it is good for the safety of the boxers themselves. Noth-

ing much should be read on these tests," Mary Kom said on the sidelines of a felicitation programme by Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.

"Moreover, these have been done under the guidelines of the AIBA and applied worldwide," she added.

Eight women boxers, who are set to compete at the World Championships in Korea next week, were subjected to pregnancy tests by SAI under the new requirements of AIBA though the move was criticised by experts. The invite sent to Boxing India by the AIBA to take part in

the World Championships at Jeju Islands, South Korea, specifically sought a non-pregnancy form to be issued for the women boxers by a doctor.

The five-time world champion said that in the last few years, these pregnancy tests were not made mandatory for all international events and sometimes only a declaration by the boxers were enough in some cases. "In the last two-three years, some international tournaments would require pregnancy tests and some would not not. So, a declaration was enough for some events.

Now, if the AIBA says it is mandatory, then we should follow it," said Mary Kom. Asked if pregnancy tests could be a matter of concern for unmarried women, May Kom simply said, "In my opinion it should be OK for them also. These days, women are smart and they know what is going on around." Thirteen sportspersons from the Northeastern region of the country, who have won medals in the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, were today felicitated with cash awards by the DONER Ministry at the North East Festival.

KOLKaTa, NOvember 7 (aGeNCIeS): Atletico de Kolkata's unbeaten run in the Indian Super League (ISL) came to an end as they were defeated 1-3 by FC Pune City on Friday evening at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata.

Goals from Dudu Omagbemi, Kostas Katsouranis and Davide Colomba sealed victory for the visitors. Fikru Tefera scored from the spot for the hosts to herald a brief comeback.

The first chance of the match fell to the hosts in the 11th minute when after a bad pass by Magliocchetti was headed to Fikru by Ofentse Nato. The Ethiopian striker controlled the ball with his chest and made enough space to take a powerful shot, but it was off target.

The away side utilized their first chance brilliantly to break the deadlock in the 35th minute. The Italian winger Davide Colomba whipped in a brilliant cross for Dudu Omagbemi from the left flank and the Nigerian nodded the ball home ahead of his marker Ofentse Nato.

In the added minutes of the first half, Gossens had the ball just in front of the penalty box after it was laid off to him by Dudu, but his shot was saved brilliantly by

ANCSU Collegiate Meet concludes

Pangti FC players celebrate after lifting the 20th Late Nyamo Lotha & Late Daniel Lotha Memorial Football Running Trophy 2014 at the State Stadium, Dimapur on November 7. The defending champions successfully held on to the trophy defeating Kyong Colony Football Club 3-2 in a tightly contested final match. The tournament had begun on November 1 and the final match of the tournament coincided with the Tokhu Emong festivity organised by the Lotha Hoho Dimapur and the Dongphi Chokae Okho. (Morung Photo)

DImaPur, NOvember 7 (mexN): The All Nagaland College Students' Union (ANCSU)’s 19th Inter College Sports Meet cum Music Fest concluded here today. N.S. Jamir, Pro Vice-Chancellor, SASRD, Nagaland University was the chief guest at the closing function. A press release received here informed. "Games and sports are very important in our daily life because it develops healthy body and sound mind which is desired by everyone. It also helps us in building up our characters and all round personal development" Jamir said in his speech as chief guest. Earlier, Aien Jamir performed a special number.

Sakus Mission College emerged as the football champion defeating Eastern Christian College in the final. In girls’ volleyball, Sakus Mission College again emerged champions while Salt Christian College bagged the runners–up title. Oriental College was awarded the best disciplined college. On Wednesday, Peren Government College won the Beat Contest while Patkai Christian College was declared runners–up.

Kostas Katsouranis of FC Pune City celebrates scoring the second goal for Pune during match 24 of the Hero Indian Super League between AtlŽtico de Kolkata and FC Pune City held at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on the 7th November 2014.

Subhasish, who dived to his right and thwarted the danger. Ten minutes into the second half, the away side doubled their lead through Greek international Kostas Katsouranis. The Greek midfielder charged through the middle and utilized the space ahead of him to take a shot that swerved wickedly to leave Subhasish ballwatching as it nestled in the top right corner.

Arindam’s worst mo-

ment of the game came as he rushed off his line and fouled Fikru, giving away a penalty in the 83rd minute.

The striker himself stepped up to send the goalkeeper the wrong way and halve the deficit. The joy of the home crowd was shortlived though as Davide Colomba sent the ball through the wall to score the third for his side after the referee awarded Pune a free-kick just outside the Atletico

penalty box.

Despite a couple of promising runs from substitute Jakub Podany down the left, the away side held on to their lead and climbed to third spot in the table. Atletico on the other hand, suffered their first defeat of the tournament though they are still on top of the pile, having played two matches more than second placed Chennaiyin FC.

NBA: Rockets stop Spurs as Howard nets 32

HOuSTON, NOvember 7 (aP): Heading into a game with the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale had his eye on a few matchups. A specific one that caught his eye was getting Dwight Howard in the post.

The plan worked. With San Antonio missing big bodies Tim Duncan, who was rested along with fellow veteran Manu Ginobili, and Tiago Splitter (right calf tightness), Howard dominated the interior from the opening tip, scoring 32 points and grabbing 16 rebounds in leading Houston to a 98-81 victory.

Howard "rolled hard and got some late at the rim. He was really devastating on those high passes," McHale said. "It's important that he gets in a rhythm and plays. It doesn't matter who is out there playing for them, he's got to play well for us."

The win runs Houston's

record to a league best 6-0 while dropping San Antonio's mark to 2-2.

With no Duncan or Splitter inside Houston had a decided advantage down low and exploited it from the beginning, feeding Howard at every turn.

Whether on the pick-and-roll, at the elbow, or on alley-oop passes, Howard was the target and had a double-double — 20 points and 12 rebounds — by halftime as he exploited a vulnerable Spurs interior defense where Matt Bonner, Jeff Ayers, and Aron Baynes struggled to keep up.

When Howard was not scoring inside, James Harden filled the stat sheet, adding 20 points, six rebounds and six assists for the Rockets. While he had his share of points, Harden was clear after the game about the advantage of having a force inside.

Spurs started the game

sluggishly, going scoreless in the first six minutes.

While San Antonio rebounded and pulled to within 18-15 at the end of the first quarter, that was as close as the Spurs would get. The tough night finished with the defending NBA champs, who trailed by as many as 31, shooting just 34.4 percent from the field. "It was a bad night tonight and I couldn't hit a shot," Tony Parker, who finished with just six points, said. "Defensively, we did OK, but we never got into an offensive rhythm."

At Portland, LaMarcus Aldridge had 20 points as Trail Blazers routed the Dallas Mavericks 108-87. Portland trailed 50-46 at halftime but outscored the Mavericks 35-18 in the third quarter and Dallas couldn't catch up. Dirk Nowitzki led the Mavericks with 17 points, including 15 in the first half.

Tendulkar hints at major sporting plan with Modi

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LONDON, NOvember 7 (PTI): Iconic Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar today hinted that a major proposal on sports, which he has submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is set to be unveiled soon.

At the UK launch of his much-hyped autobiography -- 'Playing It My Way' -- Tendulkar said the details of the plan would be released soon.

The Rajya Sabha MP ruled out any plans of entering politics but confirmed that he has been in talks with the Modi government on a proposal which he will reveal soon.

"I was a sportsman and will be a sportsman forever. I have handed over a proposal recently which presents my vision and the PM has been receptive," he told reporters at a launch event at the Lord's Cricket Ground. "I have already given one proposal some time ago to the government.

Recently also, I met the PM and shared my vision with him and he was extremely receptive and immediately afterwards met with his team. We are working on something which you will know soon," he said.

While Tendulkar did not completely rule out coaching the Indian crick-

Retired cricket great Sachin Tendulkar speaks after launching his autobiography,"Playing It My Way," in Mumbai, Wednesday, November 5. (AP Photo)

et team in the future, he stressed that he has already been unofficially sharing his knowledge with current players and will continue to do so. "Twenty-four years with cricket is a long time to spend away from family. I feel players are approachable to me and I am approachable to them. We have been discussing over the phone on various issues and there were also a few players who ended up coming to Mumbai to work with me and we had a couple of sessions each, trying to figure out what could be

corrected," said Tendulkar.

"It's about sharing your knowledge, sharing your thoughts and that's what I have been doing and I don't think I need a post to be able to pass on that message. The response that I have always received from players has been special because they respect me and the respect is mutual. The 41-year-old batting legend said that the players were receptive to his advice. "Whatever I say, they listen to me and there's a healthy discussion on that. It's not that whatever I say is the final word. It's

nice to talk cricket. As long as I am able to do that, it really doesn't matter whether I am the official coach of the team or not."

The former Indian cricketer was joined at the London launch of his book by ex-England cricket captain Nasser Hussain, who Tendulkar described in his book as "the best captain" he has played against.

Hussain asked him about the toughest aspect of writing the autobiography, given how private he is as a person.

"I've covered most of

my life I would say. The toughest bit for me to cover was my personal life with Anjali, which nobody knew about. That was really difficult," Tendulkar responded. "The icing on the cake was when we won the 2011 World Cup, which I have covered extensively, including how I had a flower in my ear as I danced with my wife with a bottle of champagne in hand. It [book] is a good insight into what I have been through in my life," he said.

Regarding the impact the book has already had in India, he said, "I have not tried to create controversies intentionally. Certain statements I make in the book have made headlines but the idea was not to make headlines.

"During my playing days, I felt all my energy should focused in one direction, which is scoring runs and winning matches for India.

And I honestly didn't have the time or energy for anything else. But now my career is over I thought it was only fair I brought this out and let people know what I have been through," Tendulkar said. The publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, have claimed that the book has already broken all records for a hardback in India.

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