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Tropics to witness major fish loss by 2050: Study ToronTo, ocTober 12 (IAnS): large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050 as the earth and the oceans get warmer and fish shift their habitat in search of cooler waters, a research found.

Changing temperatures will drive more fish into the Arctic and Antarctic waters, the findings showed.

“The tropics will be the overall losers,” said co-researcher William Cheung, associate professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada. “This area has a high dependence on fish for food, diet and nutrition. We will see a loss of fish populations that are important to the fisheries and communities in these regions,” Cheung added. Using the same climate change scenarios as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, researchers projected a large-scale shift of marine fish and invertebrates.

This study follows previous research that looked at change in fisheries catch in relation to ocean warming since 1970. The study appeared in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.

How the Ebola virus got its name

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new York, ocTober 12 (IAnS): The deadly Ebola virus that has killed over 3,300 people in West Africa since its current outbreak was confirmed in March, was christened in 1976 after a river. The virus first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among people in what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The story of how Ebola got its name is short and somewhat random, Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the virus, recalled in his memoir “No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses”. The virus had surfaced in a village called Yambuku, so it could be named after the village, but the scientists realised that their decision could stigmatise the village forever. It was Karl Johnson, another researcher from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the leader of the research team, who suggested naming the virus after a river to tone down the emphasis on a particular place, Live Science reported. The scientists found in a map that one river close to Yambuku was Ebola, meaning “Black River”, in the local language Lingala. “It seemed suitably ominous,” Piot wrote in his memoir.

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Being Naga helped people live through conflict & fear

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Women and children wade through flood waters after heavy rainfall in Dimapur on Sunday, October 12. Photo by Caisii Mao

Rijiju assures safe environment to people from the North East new DelhI, ocTober 12 (IAnS): Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Sunday assured “safe working environment” across the country for the people from the northeast.

Speaking at the 51st annual day function of Naga Students Union here, Rijiju said: “The home ministry would ensure safe working environment for northeast people all over the country.”

“I have been a part of Naga Students Union, Delhi for long and it is a matter of pleasure that the union has been working for the students and people of the region in Delhi,” he added.

Also present at the function was Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay, who said the party would take all necessary steps to create a comfortable environment

in Delhi for northeasterners. “People from the northeast have a special place in various services in Delhi but it is a matter of deep anguish that they are differentiated against,” he said.

“Our party will work towards the assimilation of northeast people into the mainstream and we will make sure that they live in a congenial atmosphere,” he added.

A recent study has concluded that conflict and fear had a “detrimental effect” on well-being of the Naga people, and “group identification and social support” (with the Naga identity) had an “enhancing effect” on well-being.

“Identification with being Naga,” it stated, had “protective properties” for the people of Nagaland since it is “positively related to life satisfaction, self-esteem and general health.”

A paper published in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2014) titled ‘Conflict, fear and social identity in Nagaland,’ however, claimed that “Identification with Tribe seems to have notably weaker protective properties, and there are indications that identification with being Indian might even be negatively related to indices of well-being.” That stated, the paper also notes that while Naga and Tribe identification did not differ significantly from each other, they both differed significantly from Indian identification.

The study was conducted by Hanna Zagefka and Limabenla Jamir of the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK. The survey study sought to test the effects of “exposure to ethnopolitical conflict and violence and social group identification on psychosocial well-being” among a sample of 280

Nagas (across some tribes living in Nagaland), from the age bracket of 20-30 years. Variables measured were ‘exposure to conflict,’ ‘fear,’ ‘Naga identification’ alongside the perceived ‘social support’ that it brings along, life satisfaction, self-esteem and general health.

The study affirms that the “effect of conflict on well-being” is “mediated by fear, identification and social support; and that the effect of Naga identification on well-being was me-

Study reveals that conflict and fear had detrimental effect on well being of the Nagas diated by social support.”

The data “clearly show” that conflict had an aggravating effect on well-being, although the study notes that “rejection, discrimination and conflict do not always increase identification.”

In considering an alternative model, it suggests that when people are exposed to adverse conditions (such as threats, fear), the absence of rich social networks might “increase one’s sense of isolation, and hence decrease perceived identification with the ingroup.”

The study has its loopholes, and admits as much.

Cautioning the ‘generalization’ of the findings, for one, the authors state that the sample (280), albeit diverse, “was not a represen-

Affirming a shared history Chizokho Vero

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“I never thought that I will be able to see my ancestral home. It is miracle for me,” elated an elderly man Vitoho from Lazami village of Zunheboto district, during the historic Lazami (Lozumi) migration monolith erection ceremony at Khezhakeno village under Phek district on Saturday.

The monolith was erected in the presence of more than 800 people to attest the historic origin and migration of the Lazami (Lozumi) of Sumi community from their ancestral home Khezhakeno village.

Naga Hoho president, P Chuba Ozukum termed the re-union of Lazami and Khezhakeno as a reflection of their ancestral brotherhood and stressed on the need to stay connected with one another. He urged others to follow this example to ensure a conflict free society. Ozukum also called upon the Nagas to uphold the principle of “One people and One family,” and encouraged Naga scholars to undertake research on tracing the origin of the Naga people.

Former MLA, Joshua Sumi from Lazami village said “Let the erection of the monolith stone be the bench mark for all the Nagas to trace the origin together and live as brothers forever.” He recalled that, “…for Lazami, the migration of Lozu Sumi’s from Khezhakeno was passed on by our forefathers, but as generation after generation passed,

naga Hoho president and others after unveiling the Lazami (Lozumi) Migration Monolith at Khezhakeno village on October 11. (Morung Photo)

Six ‘facts’ accepted to affirm the brotherhood of Lazami & Khezhakeno • Folklore and folk stories of our ancestors are the same.

• Story of the burning of rice busking stone at Khezhakeno.

• Accepted the dead ghenna performed by the two villages is the same.

• Even during the time of Ghenna and other auspicious festival days, Lazami’s are treated like brothers.

• In Sumi dialect ‘Awou’ is the high priest performing all the ghenna and in Khezhakeno dialect ‘Muwou’ is the high priest and ghenna performance is similar between the two village.

• The performance of new year ghenna is the same. it became more and more obscure.” Before the stories were lost, he added that a “few elders in 1970’s entrusted Lt. Shikato to maintain a written records of our migration.” After the demise of Lt. Shikato in August 1995, the Lazami People’s Union (LPU) was set

up in 1998, with Akhalu S/O Khulu as President, and was entrusted the task to search for “our migration stories which was more myth” then.

He added that the task of the LPU was to authenticate the migration stories passed on by their forefathers. The

tative sample.” This, however, does not undermine the significant findings made, probably the first one to study the impact of conflict on the socialpsychological-physical health of the indigenous peoples inhabiting the current North East of India.

“We would suggest,” say the authors, “that anyone who believes that inferences about human nature in general should not be based almost exclusively on data from Western students should welcome at-

LPU president received a breakthrough by meeting Timikha Koza in 1999, at the advice of Er. N. Zhasa in connecting with Khezhakeno village. Necessary arrangement was made through Timikha, enabling the LPU, Lazami village council and other Lazami village organization and Khezhakleno village elders to meet on March 17, 2000 at a feast hosted by Khezhakeno village. The main focus of the Lazami people was to authenticate the migration stories by putting together fragments of the story.

The former MLA informed that by confirming six facts, it was accepted that Lazami departed from Khezhakeno as Lozu people.

(See Box) Vitoho Kappo, VCC of Lazami meanwhile informed that “Lozii was the youngest brother, who once lived in Khezhakeno with his beloved brothers.” He exhorted the gathering to remember and relive their shared brotherhood and said, “May the younger generation continue to uphold the good relationship bond that our forefathers shared as a family.”

Pronouncing an act of blessing, Dikha Meche Koza, oldest citizen of Khezhakeno prayed for unity and peace.

Timikha Koza chaired the function while welcome address was delivered by C. Kemvii Koza, VCC Khezhakeno.

KA Jacob, president Lazami Welfare Kohima proposed the vote of thanks.

tempts to access not only hard-done-by but also hard-to-reach populations like the Nagas.”

Further, the authors acknowledge the complexity of the conflict in the region and their inability to incorporate political details. The study does not differentiate, for instance, between the political use of violence by two separate groups, the Nagas and Indians. Instead, it states, “the present setting is more complex, with the Indian army being juxtapositioned with various Naga sub-factions.”

“The situation in Nagaland is complex, and our measure of conflict exposure measured perceived violations generally, without differentiating those committed by the Indian army and by various Naga

factions,” the paper reiterates.

From a reader’s frame, given that the age group surveyed consisted of people between 20-30 years of age (the ceasefire generation), with less experience of Indian army atrocities, differentiating between the two forms of violations could have been meaningless (unless heard narratives have left their mark).

Yet, the two forms of violence have political meaning and depth in deployment—the effects they have had cannot be undermined if the study is to indicate something as ambitious or complex as ‘Naga belonging.’ The conflict is ideological, dealt with through the political use of violence—by a Nation State to submerge peoples’ aspirations and the response therein.

Perhaps keeping this in mind, the authors call for more research on the Nagas, which “would fill an important gap.” “Given the intricacies of the tribal, regional and national identities which are of relevance, this is an ideal setting to study all kinds of identity processes, ranging from those involving superordinate identities to those of cross-cutting friendships. It is hoped that any such research would further increase awareness of the Naga situation, so that although conflict has prevailed in the region for the last 60 years, the next 60 years will not be marked by more of the same,” the paper perceptively states.

Cyclone Hudhud lashes Andhra Pradesh coast

A man jumps into the water to rescue a woman, who fell due to strong tidal waves on the Bay of Bengal coast at Gopalpur, Orissa on October 12. (AP Photo)

VISAkhApATnAm, ocTober 12 (IAnS): Cyclonic storm Hudhud hit the Andhra coast Sunday, triggering heavy rains and strong gales, which wrecked havoc in the coastal region killing three people. The heavy downpour accompanied by powerful winds with speeds reaching up to 185 kmph uprooted trees, felled electricity and communication towers and caused widespread destruction to crops.

The districts of Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam are without electricity since Saturday night. Mobile telephones were not working in the region as communication network collapsed. With trees and poles falling on highways, the vehicular traffic came to a complete halt while railways cancelled all services in the region.

The “very severe cyclonic storm” in the Bay of Bengal started crossing the coast around noon at Pudimadaka, about 50 km from this port city.

However, the intensity of the gales and rains continued till evening in Vi-

sakhapatnam city. People were confined to their homes through the day as strong gales felled scores of trees, power and communication towers and hoardings. Many cars parked on roads were damaged.

With the authorities losing contact with the radar tracking the cyclone, they were finding it difficult to provide information about the impact and wind speed.

Naidu quoted the navy as putting the gale speed at 185 kmph. Naidu said the communication system had collapsed in the region and urged BSNL, Airtel, Idea and other telecom service providers to immediately rectify the communication towers. The officials were relying on the navy radar for information.

Officials said 320 villages in four districts of Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari were affected. Two people were killed in Visakhapatnam while another died in Srikakulam district.

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Residents wade through floodwater after a heavy rain in Dimapur on Sunday, October 12. Following a downpour in the early hours of October 12, some parts of the town was inundated with rainwater. Photos by Caisii Mao

Nagaland Tribes Council completes one year Our Correspondent Kohima | October 12

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The first anniversary of Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) - cum- dedication of its office took place here today.

NTC president Lendinoktang Ao at the event stated that the council was formed under “immense pressure” to represent the voice of the Nagas of Nagaland when the State government took “anti-people decision” to recognize Rongmei as an indigenous tribe of Nagaland.

"In a time when our society is experiencing negative trend of self destruction and confu-

sion all around, the concept of having a platform like NTC aiming to represent the people and to demonstrate people's supremacy over divisive and self destructive actions is nothing short of divine intervention for our society," he said.

Highlighting some of the important interventions and programmes of NTC, he said that “hidden policy” of some sections of the State political leaders to bring more tribes from across the State thereby providing the status of an indigenous tribe to outsiders was "utterly exposed.” Throwing all established norms and vio-

lating the law of the land, the Rongmei tribe is given recognition as one of the indigenous tribes of Nagaland, he alleged.

Ao also maintained that despite the council consistently putting efforts in highlighting the issue in public domain on the “dangerous” impacts on the future of the Nagas through public rallies and several representations, the government of the day is ignoring the voice of the people and relentlessly pursuing its own “anti-people agenda.”

Terming the Nagaland Special Development Zone (NSDZ) as another "flabbergasting concept of bartering

away our rights and privileges enshrined in Article 371(A) of the Indian Constitution" in the guise of development, he said, the NTC through its in-depth studies and wide consultation with the people of the State has come out with a strong voice to protect the inherent rights and privileges of the Nagas.

“The NTC is for the Nagas of this Sate and is prepared to travel any distance to venture with the people in power to deliver what is justice and fair to the citizens of the state,” Ao stated, adding that it will also take the people on board to fight anti-people actions of any government.

Artificial Insemination Centre for cattle launched in Longleng

LoNgLeNg, october 12 (mexN): An Artificial Insemination Centre using Frozen Semen Technology for Cattle and Buffaloes has been launched in Longleng district. The centre was inaugurated on October 9 at the Office of Veterinary Hospital, Longleng with H. Leisha Phom, President, Phom Peoples’ Council as the chief guest. The centre is the first of its kind opened in Longleng District, sponsored

by Nagaland Livestock Development Board (NLDP), the State implementing Agency of Government of India’s ‘National Project on Cattle & Buffalo Breeding’ (NPCBB), a press release informed.

District Veterinary Officer (DVO) Longleng, Dr. C. Meyiwati in his keynote address expressed gratitude to Managing Director, NLDP Dr. Rongsentemjen and his subordinate officers for timely arrangement in bringing out the Centre for the people of Longleng District. He highlighted the activities and advantages of Artificial Insemination using Frozen Semen of quality bulls for their cattle and buffalo for improvement of genetic makeup in promoting more milk production, health and living standard. He also underlined the Livestock Insurance Scheme, a subsidized scheme where 50% of the Premium amount would be borne by the implementing Agency of NLDP and called upon the dairy owners to come forward and take the advantages of the schemes at any time.

"Any government that deviate from the people's mandate and fails to represent the interest of the people must be subjected to the verdict of the people," he asserted.

Further, stating that the long cherished honourable solution to the Naga political issues need to be worked out through the prism of the affected people and its desire to attain peaceful existence, he said the NTC will put its efforts to see the destiny of the Nagas of Nagaland are not allowed to be decided by the outsiders.

He also said that the NTC is presently undertaking intensive studies on Article 371(A)

and its impact on the Nagas of Nagaland and the state; the issues relating to Assam and Nagaland border and Right to Education (RTE) and its impact on Nagaland students.

He said that after making comprehensive study on the related issues, the NTC will make public its findings and invite necessary views and opinions of the legitimate citizens of the State before taking final decisions to take up with the appropriate authorities for necessary reviews and appropriate actions.

In this, the NTC president urged upon all the tribal bodies of Nagaland to take their

respective decisions on the issues that are in public domain and collectively work to deliver what is honourable and acceptable to the citizens of the State.

Short speeches were also delivered by NTC founding member, Krurovi Peseyie and NTC 1st president, Thepfulhouvi Solo.

The programme was chaired

by ECM, NTC, C. Lima Imchen, IPS (Rtd) while vote of thanks was proposed by NTC general secretary, Nribemo Ngullie.

Meanwhile, Rev. Dr. L. Tsanso, e-Evangelist (SEA) administered the act of dedication and prayer of NTC office located at Red Cross Building complex.

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An Artificial Insemination Centre for cattle and buffaloes was launched at the Office of Veterinary Hospital, Longleng on October 9.

Meanwhile, the Chief Guest of the event also thanked the Department for successful implementation of the new technology of AI Centre and exhorted the public to co-operate with the department and avail the benefits. He also urged upon the department to open a livestock demonstration Farm/Centre in Longleng and to conduct timely seminars on livestock and poultry management and production with scientific technology, as

the people of the area are not aware of the new technology. He made the appeal in order to uplift the economy of the farmers and the district in general.

The programme was chaired by Dr. Chungpongsuwa (VAS) and invocation prayer was pronounced by Rev. Ajun, Associate Pastor, LTPC, while short speech was delivered by Ephen Orangkong and Bangjum (VFA) and benediction was pronounced by B. Alloy Phom, SVFA.

Kohima, october 12 (mexN): Butchers’ Union Kohima Town observes October 15 as its “Day” every year. This year, the Butchers’ Union Kohima Town would observe the Day with meeting and feast at 12:00 noon at Touliezie P. Khel, Kohima Village, Kohima District Road with Kezhokhoto Savi, Advocate and President of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) & Convenor, ACAUT Nagaland (Legal Cell) as the guest speaker.

In this regard, Neiziengulie Rame and Kholie Keyho, President and Secretary of the Union respectively have requested all the members to join in the feast and meeting without fail. The president and secretary in a press release further ordered that no member of the Butchers’ Union Kohima Town would open their shop on October 15 in honour of the Butchers’ Day. According to the release, the guest speaker, Kezhokhoto Savi is expected to highlight the various laws protecting the business community, particularly the butchers, and also, exhort the members with regard to their dealing with the consumers.

It further notified to the public that all butcher shops in Kohima Town would remain closed on October 15.

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Various handlooms, handicrafts, cane, and bead products were on display at the ongoing Special Handloom Expo at Urban Haat Dimapur. The Expo is organized by Nagaland Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd, sponsored by Office of the Development Commissioner for Handloom, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, New Delhi. (Morung Photo)

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3 Al-Qaeda tentacles in Assam After PM Modi's push, MHA Burdwan blast: Gogoi govt faces new security challenge to formulate New Policy for NE

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guwAHAtI, OctOber 12 (DeccAN HerAlD): Highly placed home department officials said al-Qaeda is trying to set up base in Assam. Militants of several outfits in the Barpeta and Kokrajhar districts of Assam have undergone training at al-Qaeda camps, they added.

The state government has already sounded high alert. District administrations have been instructed to remain vigilant, particularly in the border areas.

A high-level committee headed by an Inspector General of Police-rank officer has been set up to study the presence and threat of militant groups in Assam.

Meanwhile, thre e persons have been detained by the police in Mankachar in the Dhubri district of Assam on Saturday in connection with the Burdwan blast case.

This brings the number of arrests in the case to nine.

The six persons arrested earlier have been identified as Rafikul Islam, Siraj Ali, Saikhul Islam, Johoruddin,

Indo-Bangla projects in Tripura making rapid progress AgArtAlA, OctOber 12 (ANI): A number of infrastructure and development projects have been jointly undertaken

by India and Bangladesh in Tripura. Recently, the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka was in Tripura to review the progress made in the entire proposed Indo-Bangla projects.

During his three-day visit to the state, Indian Deputy High commissioner in Dhaka Sandeep Chakravorty met ministers and top officials and took stock of the progress of various India-Bangladesh projects.

Following the meeting with Power Minister Manik Dey, Chakravorty revealed that the work for supply of 100 MW power from Tripura's Palatana power project to Bangladesh is progressing fast.

He also visited several proposed project sites to observe the progress and suggest ways for expediting the work. "I had a nice talk with the honourable Chief Minister," said Chakravorty.

A number of IndoBangladesh projects are currently in the pipeline, especially in Tripura.

Chakravorty informed that the project report for the development of the Ashuganj inland container port is ready and work is going to start soon. The detail progress report of the AgartalaAkhaura rail link is also expected to be completed in few weeks and the project work will get underway soon.

He also revealed that business between the two sides is rapidly increasingly, especially through the northeast region. "As far as business is concerned, lots of exports are being done from Bangladesh to Tripura and there are investments also coming into Tripura.

The business community in Bangladesh is very upbeat on business ties with Tripura and particularly with the launch of the make in India campaign we are encouraging Bangladeshi investors to invest in Northeast India and I am sure Tripura will one of the beneficiaries," Chakravorty added.

India shares a long boundary with Bangladesh, especially through the northeast region, and both the governments have been working consistently to develop better infrastructure and connectivity so as to facilitate trade and development.

guwAHAtI, OctOber 12 (tNN): For a state that has struggled through more than three decades of insurgency, the Bangladesh-Burdwan-Barpeta terror link has thrown up another security challenge for the government.

The arrest of six Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) linkmen from Barpeta district in connection with the IED blast in West Bengal's Burdwan district has only given credence to Ayman Al Zawahiri's recent announcement that al Qaida would spread its wings in Assam along with other parts of India.

While the Union home ministry and the state government have alerted security agencies to curb the growth of JMB and other Islamic terror groups in the state, police said the six linkmen were part of the module operating under JMB's patronization, which is beGolam Osmani and Sarbes Ali. They were arrested on Thursday after their names were unearthed during the investigation of other people held in connection with the October 2 blast.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate court here sent the six people to 14 days of police remand.

lieved to be behind the October 2 blast in Burdwan.

JMB is one of the terror groups which want to dismantle the seculardemocratic and Left forces in India and establish a theocratic state based on Islam. Police officers investigating the Barpeta case said one of the six arrested, Shaikul Islam (20) alias Abdull of Kahikuchi village in Barpeta district, is an important member of the module operating in Assam and was associated with Shakil Ahmed alias Shamin, a JMB activist who died in the Burdwan blast.

Police said investigation has also revealed that Shaikhul had undergone training in jihad at Simulia madrassa in Burdwan and another madrassa in Murshidabad.

"Instruction was given to Shaikhul to remain as a sleeper cell and look for potential Muslim youths to be

motivated for jihad. Shakil used to visit Barpeta under the cover of garment business for motivating Muslims in the name of Pan-Islamism.

Investigation is on to identify other members of the module and arrest them," a police official said.

Sources said NIA officials would also interrogate the six arrested men as it needs to be found out the kind of training these men have undergone and the kind of weapons that have entered Assam through the terror link. Intelligence agencies did not rule out the presence of other terror sleeper cells in the state. Security agencies are apprehensive that the sense of deprivation among Muslims, especially due to lack of employment opportunities and frequent eruption of violence in the BTAD, could have radicalized many in the community.

that terror operatives are posing as couples, the West Bengal CID has discovered yet another safe house in Burdwan district where two suspected couples were living on rent. Both couples, however, vanished soon afUltras posing as couple ter the blast, DHNS reports from Kolkata. worries Bengal CID The house’s owner, Validating its theory The two people who died in the blast are suspected to belong to the Bangladesh-based outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen.

The outfit shares close links with al-Qaeda.

Sheikh Manimul, filed a complaint with the police on suspicion after the couples' disappearance.

He told the police that around three months ago a man named Sheikh Taleb had rented the ground floor of his two-storeyed house and moved in with his wife.

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New DelHI, OctOber 12 (INDIA tODAy): Taking a tough stand against the Northeast insurgents groups, Narendra Modi government is all set to formulate a new doctrine for the region to bolster security environment.

On Saturday, newly appointed Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) chairman RN Ravi submitted "a paper on strategy and action on Northeast policies" to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh which was further discussed by MoS (Home Affairs) Kiren Rijiju. The Home Ministry has set a three month deadline to revise the Northeast policies formulated, during UPA regime, said officials.

According to Home Ministry officials, the problems of North East insurgent groups have been dragging for too long which has also led to mushrooming of many small groups.

"A targeted approach to sort out the problem is the need of the hour. We will soon consult the states and

also issue fresh guidelines for the security personnel in Northeast to deal with the situation," explained a senior official who was part of the deliberation.

India Today also learnt that during the brain storming session, it was agreed that a tough approach towards the insurgent groups needs to be adopted and they shall not be allowed to run their extortion racket.

The Home Ministry is likely to come up with the suggestions regarding the peace accord signed with various militant group in its next meeting. It may be recalled that after taking over as the Prime Minister in May this year, Modi has indicated that the government is going to bring major changes in the Northeast policy to deal with militancy and bring development in the region.

Through the feed back provided by various agencies of Northeast, it was conveyed to the Centre that the people in the region are disenchanted with militancy after which Home Minister

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Singh ordered amendments in the existing policies. "This will also include urging the neighboring countries to help India destroy the camps of insurgent groups and stop providing safe heavens," added an official.

In August this year, an ethnic violence in Golaghat in Assam that erupted over land dispute has resulted in death of 17 persons and was brought finally under control after intervention from the Centre. Therefore, it will be an uphill task for the Modi government to provide amicable solution to the problem of illegal immigration and settle boundary disputes between the states. In Mizoram, the major challenge will be repatriation of Bru migrants from Tripura to Mizoram and their rehabilitation there.

Earlier also, NDA and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was instrumental in bringing major changes in Northeast policies when many autonomous councils were set up, paving the way for talks and development in the region

Doctors waive medical Northeast Briefs bill for northeast youth 2 minor girls allegedly raped in Tripura SurAt, OctOber 12 (tNN): Twenty-six-year-old Rumir Beypi, a textile engineer from Assam, was dejected on learning about her brother's serious illness last month. Her 24-year-old brother Sarin Bey, also an engineer, was in intensive care unit of R B Shah Mahavir Super Specialty Hospital in the city and his medical bills ran into several lakhs.

Sarin, who was employed with a steel company in Valsad district, had suffered multiple organ failure after an attack of dengue. He was brought to Surat from Valsad in September. Dr Manek Asawa said, "He was in a critical condition and was on ventilator for 15 days. He underwent dialysis every eight hours." Sarin had no money to foot his medical bills. His father is a farmer in Karkok village of Karbi Anglong district in Assam. "I had joined the company just 25 days ago when I fell ill. I had not even received my first salary.

My sister too had started working in June only. When doctors learnt about our financial condition, they waived the bill amounting to Rs 5 lakh and ensured that my treatment was free of cost," Sarin said.

Rumir said, "People here have helped us a lot. My brother would not have recovered but for their help. When I used to sit alone outside the ICU praying to God, people used to come and ask me if I needed any help." Sarin is at present under treatment at RB Shah Mahavir Super Specialty Hospital. He says that he would continue to work in Gujarat after getting fully cured.

Dr Ketan Desai, kidney specialist, said, "It is our duty to help people in the time of need." Sarin, who is hospitalized since September 5, celebrated his 24th birthday in the hospital on October 02. He is expected to be discharged in another two weeks. Mahavir Health and Medical Relief Society chairperson Rupa Mehta said, "He is a young man An artisan makes a clay idol of Hindu goddess Kali ahead of Kali Puja festival in Guwahati, Assam on Sunday, from a remote area of the country. We wanted to save his life at all costs."

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Political heavyweights to attend conclave on NE guwAHAtI, OctOber 12 (tNN): A host of Union ministers and policy-makers will gather in the city during October 17-18 to highlight the investment potential of the northeast's infrastructure sector.

At the upcoming northeast infrastructure conclave, organized by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), efforts would be made to ensure that domestic and overseas investments in the field of infrastructure development pour in. Chief ministers of the northeastern states are

expected to attend the conclave.

Union DoNER minister Gen (Retd) V K Singh, Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju, Union minister of state for youth affairs and sports Sarbananda Sonowal and Union minister for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation Uma Bharti are also expected to take part in the two-day event.

PHDCCI president Sharad Jaipuria said the presence of the region's chief ministers would help in projecting it as a potential investment destination. Jaipuria added

that the participation of the chief ministers would go a long way in showcasing the region's investorfriendly policies.

Transport infrastructure, inland waterways, power, hydropower, urban infrastructure, water, telecom, agriculture infrastructure, multimodal logistics, tourism infrastructure and waste management are some of the sectors in the northeast which present immense investment opportunities, he said.

According to PHDCCI, approximately 4,590 lakh tonnes of construction material like cement

and steel, among others, would be required for the next thirty years in the northeast. "The conclave will facilitate the ongoing discussion process and support further work on infrastructure development in the northeast. It will identify gaps in implementation of relevant policies, share good practices and lessons learnt in order to work towards the development of the region so that it reaches the same level of economic growth and provides similar opportunities to its people as the rest of the country does," he said.

AgArtAlA, OcOber 12 (PtI): Two minor girls were allegedly raped at Daishyaramchowdhurypara, a remote tribal hamlet in Tripura's Dhalai district, police said today. "Two tribal girls of about 15-16 years of age were raped by two tribal youths in a jungle at Daishyaramchowdhurypara in the early hours yesterday while returning after attending a marriage ceremony," Inspector General of Police (Police Control), Nepal Das said. However, the victims could identify the rapists, he said. Sanjoyrai Reang (25) and Dhanajoy Reang (26) have been arrested in this connection, the IGP added.

Small time businessman and employee kidnapped in Assam tezPur, OctOber 12 (PtI): A small time businessman and his employee were kidnapped by suspected ANLA militants from Maujuli area in Assam's Sonitpur district, police said today. A group of four suspected Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA) militants entered the the house of the grocery store owner near Majuligarh Tea Estate and abducted him and his employee who were sleeping in the same room last night, Sonitpur superintendent of police Sanjukta Parasar said. The businessman was identified as Naba Sarma and his employee as Sandu Newar, Parasar said. A search operation was launched to rescue the two, the SP said. The ANLA was suspected to be behind the abduction as the militant outfit was active in the area, the SP said, adding no ransom note or phone call was received by the families so far. Some local people claimed that Sarma had received an extortion notice from the ANLA some time ago but had not made any payment so far. Earlier on January 16 last, the ANLA had abducted Pabhoi Tea Estate manager Bharat Singh Rathore before releasing him five days later at Nawmorah along the Assam- Arunachal Pradesh.

Rebels demand ransom for release of 11 abducted non-tribals AIzAwl, OctOber 12 (PtI): Tripura's NLFT rebels and a group of Bru militants who allegedly abducted 11 non-tribals from Mamit district on the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura border, have demanded Rs 30 lakh ransom for the release of their captives. Mamit district Superintendent of Police C Lalnunmawia said that the abductors, now suspected to be inside Bangladesh jungles, telephoned the relatives of the hostages in Patharkandi that they should pay Rs 30 lakh for the release of the 11 people. Eleven non-tribals were abducted by suspected NLFT and Bru militants combine from a place near Rajiv Nagar village on Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura border in Mamit district on Friday night, the SP said. Lalnunmawia said that 12 militants, ten of them armed and wearing camouflages, abducted a total of 15 people from Patharkandi in Assam's Karimganj district at around 9:30 PM on Friday night. The abducted persons were manual workers engaged in the construction of RMSA school building at West Phulpui village, he said, adding that four people belonging to Chakma community were released by the kidnappers later. The place of abduction is around three kilometres from the Zozampui camp where state armed police personnel were deployed in a makeshift border outpost. He said that a massive combing operation was launched by the state police but the abductors together with the victims had crossed the Bangladesh border taking advantage of the darkness and the thick forests.

Manipur felicitates Asian games medal winners ImPHAl, OctOber 12 (IANS): The Manipur government has felicitated boxer M.C. Mary Kom and other six medal winners,and participants of the Incheon Asian Games, at a grand reception here.

In the felicitation programme at the indoor stadium of Khuman Lampak Sports Complex Saturday evening, three gold medal winners, including five times world champion Mary Kom, received Rs.15 lakh each while four bronze medal winners received Rs.8 lakh each.

The other participants received Rs.2 lakh each.

Governor K.K. Paul and Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh distributed the cash awards to the sportspersons.

Besides Mary Kom (boxing), Kh. Kothajit and K. Chinglensana were the gold medallists who were honoured. They were in the Indian men's hockey team, which got the gold medal by defeating Pakistan 4-2 through penalty shootout in the Games final.

The bronze medal winners from Manipur are

Th. Chan Chan Devi and P. Sushila Devi (Women's hockey team), Yumnam Sanathoi Devi (women's sanda - 52 kg wushu) and L. Sarita Devi (boxing).

Of the 517 members of the Indian contingent to the 17th Asian Games, Manipur accounted for 57 players. There were also five officials from Manipur who went to Incheon.

Okram Ibobi Singh, who also holds the sports portfolio, termed the players as "jewels of Manipur" and said his government was keen to give more cash incentives to the

medal winners but the financial condition of the state did not permit him to be more liberal.

Referring to the incident where Sarita Devi lost her semi-final bout to a South Korean opponent, Singh said: "The people of Manipur extended full support to her. I appreciate the maturity and sportsmanship shown by Sarita."

Sarita had protested the judge's decision to name the Korean as winner and accused the judges of bias. However, later she regretted this act.

Sarita had refused to The state government near Imphal city, where accept her bronze medal also allotted her two acres she currently resides with during the Games' pre- of land at Meitei Langol, her family. sentation ceremony after controversially losing her semi-final bout to Korean Ji-na Park.

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Online shopping spree makes offline retailers cry foul

Bangalore, octoBer 12 (IanS): As online shopping trend sweeps digital India, offline retailers are a worried lot, with sales of electronic goods, consumer durables and utility products declining across cities and towns even during the peak festival season.

With e-commerce players Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon pitching for more orders, offering hefty discounts and freebies in the virtual world, vendors in the real world are crying foul of unfair competition and a non-level playing field.

“Growing competition among them (e-retailers) for ramping up sales at any cost is affecting our business, as we do not see the kind of footfalls we got even year ago and our retail sales have taken a severe hit because many asmart’ buyers prefer shop online where prices are lower than we are able to give on several goods,” manager of a leading consumer showroom told IANS here.

Though the annual sales turnover of the offline retail sector is estimated to be $25 billion (Rs.150,000 crore) as against $3 billion (Rs.18,000 crore) of the emerging e-tail sector, many retail formats are feeling the heat of

their tech-savvy counterparts.

“Unlike them (e-retailers) who sell goods at factory price and save on overheads by delivering them to buyers through courier, we have to factor intermediary costs and profit margin within the MRP (maximum retail price). They (e-retailers) also do not pay value added tax (VAT) on sales, as they claim to be just shipping the goods from source (factory) to end-user,” the manager said on anonymity.

The online price war, triggered by Flipkart Oct 6, with steep discounts, crazy deals and lucky draws on a range of products, has brought to the fore the threat the sun rise e-tail sector poses to the traditional retail sector.

Flipkart’s ‘Big Billion Day’ sale also resulted in its website crashing for hours and outrage in the social media for acheating’ its online shoppers, with deceptive offers and false promises.

Flipkart, however, claimed that it got a billion hits and sold products worth $100 million (Rs.600 crore) on the day, with a whopping five-lakh mobile handsets, five-lakh clothes

and shoes and 25,000 television sets flying off its shelves within hours of opening its discounted sale at 8 a.m.

When complaints reached the government a day after Flipkart apol-

day similar discounts and lower prices on a host of like products as Flipkart, traders expressed concerns over the fallout of cut-throat competition among e-retailers on their retail sales.

ogised to millions of its customers Oct 7 for its failures, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman said Oct 8 her ministry would look into them.

With Snapdeal also offering same

The Confederation of All India Traders also urged the commerce ministry to regulate e-retail business and trade practices of its companies, as they were offering huge discounts during the ongoing festival season.

According to a survey by Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry), online shopping growth is projected to zoom 350 percent during Diwal and may result in footfalls at shopping malls in Chennai plunging 46 percent this month.

“During Diwali alone, online shopping is estimated to cross Rs.10,000 crore and going forward, the trend will not only continue, but also grow dramatically to cross Rs.100,000 crore over the next four years,” the survey pointed out.

The survey also found that ecommerce sales in August and September grew 200 percent from 120 percent year ago (2013), with mobile sales booming 100 percent, as more and more consumers tend to shop online, which is fast, with simple payment and quick delivery service.

“This festive season, traditional retail shopping has taken a back seat. Apart from convenience, rising fuel price, security reasons, online discounts and choice of products are making consumers shop online more,” Assocham secretary-general

D.S. Rawat said in a statement, citing the survey findings.

Even small-time dealers in this tech hub and Mysore, about 150km away, have seen a 30-40 percent fall in sales of IT hardware and electronic products due to tech-savvy buyers switching over to e-retailers like Flipkart and Snapdeal over the months because of huge discounts, ease of transaction and getting the goods delivered at home or workplace in a day or two.

“We are not able to match the discounted prices offered by them (eretailers) on same products we have been selling over the years even after our buyers bargain for price reduction,” Ganesh Shetty, a dealer in the city’s wholesale market, told IANS. Worried over the impact of ecommerce on their business, many dealers and traders recently appealed to the state government to bring e-retailers under VAT net and ensure a level-playing field for their survival in the long-term.

“We can’t afford to sell below the procurement price, as we have to absorb other costs such as shop rental, staff wages, sales tax and transportation,” Shetty added./Eom/750 words.

IMF warns global economy Focus ‘Make in india’: Modi set to launch six labour schemes at risk, calls for bold action

new DelhI, octoBer 12 (agencIeS): After inviting domestic and foreign firms to make in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to unveil half a dozen schemes on October 16 that would bring much needed relief to manufacturers from the country’s cumbersome labour laws as well as provide skilled manpower to these factories.

The labour ministry is organising an event titled ‘Shrameva Jayate’ to launch six of its revamped schemes including the universal account number (UAN) for subscribers of the EPFO, on-line compliance system for labour laws, a new labour inspection system, revamped Industrial Training Institutes(ITIs), apprenticeship scheme and health insurance plan for unorganised sector workers.

“The event planned for October 16 is aimed to address the requirements of all — employers as well as workers from the cumbersome labour laws. While we have been working on these schemes An Indian woman paints earthen lamps ahead of Diwali festival in for long, they will be formally Amritsar on Sunday, October 12. People buy these lamps to decorate their homes during the annual Hindu festival of lights, which will be launched next week,” said a senior labour ministry official. celebrated on October 23. (AP Photo)

The event has been titled keeping in mind the Prime Minister’s emphasis on providing empowerment and dignity of labour, said the official, adding that it will be part of the birth celebrations of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.

For employers, the event will unveil a unified web portal to simplify compliance of labour laws where employers can submit a single common return on compliance of 16 Central labour laws. “State labour ministers will also be present at the event and will be invited to provide similar facilities so that all compliance returns can be submitted online providing ease of business,” said the official.

The Prime Minister will also launch a new inspection system that will herald the end of the inspector raj in labour laws, benefitting over 13 lakh units that currently have to file compliance returns and undergo inspections.

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General of Mines Safety will be brought under the new system where in compliance reports filed on the web portal by employers would be analysed by a proposed Central Analysis and Intelligence Unit that would pick up establishments for inspection.

“Each inspector will have to submit his report online within three days, making the process transparent and accountable,” said the official, pointing out that at present 18,000 inspectors are deployed and carry out an annual 2 lakh inspections.

“The new facilities of online returns and inspections will make our work also more focused,” he said.

Meanwhile, the labour ministry also plans to showcase its revamped ITIs with up-to-date courses, for which it is keen to coordinate with companies for not only placement of students but also setting up such institutes and tailoring training courses to their needs. “Brand ambassadors for the ITIs will be unveiled and some of the students also felicitated,” said a second official.

waShIngton, octoBer 12 (reuterS): The International Monetary Fund’s member countries on Saturday said bold action was needed to bolster the global economic recovery, and they urged governments to take care not to squelch growth by tightening budgets too drastically.

With Japan’s economy floundering, the euro zone at risk of recession and the U.S. recovery too weak to generate a rise in incomes, the IMF’s steering committee said focusing on growth was the priority. “A number of countries face the prospect of low or slowing growth, with unemployment remaining unacceptably high,” the International Monetary and Financial Committee said on behalf of the Fund’s 188 member countries.

The Fund this week cut its 2014 global growth forecast to 3.3 percent from 3.4 percent, the third reduction this year as the prospects for a sustainable recovery from the 2007-2009 global financial crisis have ebbed, despite hefty injections of cash by the world’s central banks.

European officials have sought to dispel the gloom, with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on Saturday talking about a delay, not an end, DIMAPUR

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But efforts to provide more room for France to meet its European Union deficit target looked set to founder on Germany’s insistence that the agreement on fiscal rectitude was set in stone.

The IMF panel urged countries to carry out politically tough reforms to labor markets and social security to free up government money to invest in infrastructure to create jobs and lift growth.

It called on central banks to be careful when communicating changes in policy in order to avoid financial market shocks.

While not naming any central banks, the warning appeared aimed at the U.S. Federal Reserve, which will end its quantitative easing policy this month and appears poised to begin raising interest rates around the middle of next year.

The Fed has debated a change to its commitment to holding rates near zero for a “considerable time” at its recent policy meetings, but is stepping gingerly to avoid roiling financial markets. It wants to avoid a repeat of the “taper tantrum” it touched off last year when it signaled its easing of monetary policy was drawing to a close.

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inherent Values: art workshop in Noklak

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Department of Art & Culture, Nagaland in collaboration with NEZCC, Dimapur is organizing a Demonstrative Art Workshop cum Exhibition on the theme ‘Inherent Values’ at Town Hall, Noklak, Tuensang district from October 15 to 19.

The workshop aims to explore and demonstrate the inherent creative talents of the locality as a step towards promoting artistic values in the State, said a press release issued by Director, Art & Culture Department, Vevo Chakhesang.

“Every tribe has its own

specialized arts and techniques based on distinctive cultural characteristics and environments,” the director stated, adding Khiamniungan specializes in cane/ bamboo crafts and dyeing.

The workshop, according to the release, will have local artists/ craftsmen demonstrate the art of head-gear making, cane preparation and dyeing etc. Some contemporary professional artists of Nagaland will also give demonstration and talks on painting, sculpture etc, it added.

Meanwhile, students from schools of Noklak will participate in a painting

competition on the theme ‘Nagaland – Past and Present’ and ‘Perpetual Values’ to mark the 50 years of Nagaland Statehood. There will be first, second and third prizes and 10 consolation prizes. 50 paintings will be put up for public view during the occasion to mark the 50th year of Nagaland Statehood.

“The mega art event is a first of its kind for Noklak intended to inspire hidden talents in the area to emerge,” the release stated.

L Jamithung Patton, ADC of Noklak will inaugurate the workshop cum exhibition and competition on October 15.

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ECI prohibits exit polls on Oct 15

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 12 (DIPR): Political parties, contesting candidates, news bureaus, media houses, radio, television channels and general public have been notified by the Election Commission of India that the prohibited period for conduct of any exit poll, publication or publicizing by means of the print or electronic media or dissemination

in any manner whatsoever, in connection with the current bye-election to 11- Northern AngamiII assembly constituency will be between 7:00 AM and 6:30 PM on 15.10.2014 (Wednesday) The Commission's notification also clarified that displaying any election matter including results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey, in any elec-

tronic media, would be prohibited during the period of 48 hours ending with the hours fixed for conclusion of poll in connection with the aforesaid bye- election.

All concerned have been requested to take note of the Commission's directives in the interest of ensuring free, fair and peaceful conduct of bye-election to 11-Northern Angami-II assembly constituency.

Workshop on Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Society for Cyber Security North East India (SCSNEI, in collaboration with ELLIDE Computers will be organizing a workshop on “Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security” at

Dimapur on October24 and 25.The workshop will cover topic on Hacking Computers, Facebook, Websites and other vulnerabilities online.

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Salesian Province of Dimapur Lower Agri. Organizations condemns KDPSS condemns KOHIMA, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): hima Region and an accomplice. assault on teacher felicitates Jubilarians According to release, while Akum The Lower Agri Ward Council (LAWC), KIPHIRE, OCTOBER 12

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Salesian Province of Dimapur (Don Bosco Society) celebrates the Golden jubilee of the Religious profession of Fr. Pallissery Sebastian and the Silver jubilee of the priestly ordinations of Fr. Parappilly Jacob, Fr. Palely Jose, Fr. Nellisseril Joseph, Fr. Parumala Vincent, Fr. Neernal Francis and the silver jubilee of religious profession of Fr. Joseph Cherian.

All of them have dedicated their lives to work as Educationists and Missionaries in North East India with Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal and Upper Assam in particular.

The programme began with an accord of welcome by Salesian College band and the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, offering sacrifices of thanks to God the almighty. The Mass was presided by the golden jubilarian Fr. Palllissery Sebastian. He reminded the congregation that

Lower Agri Colony Women Welfare roamed in the colony with “arms and Union (LACWWU) and Lower Agri Youth in an inebriated state”, his accomplice (MExN): The Kiphire DisOrganisation (LAYO), Kohima have vehe- fired a shot in the air from 7.65 resolver trict Private Schools Society mently condemned the “uncivilized act” to create havoc in the fete day event (KDPSS) has condemned the of some miscreants who had created pub- organized by the LAYO on October 11. assault of the headmaster of “The incident happened around 2:00 Saramati High School by Shikalic disturbances in the colony with “arms pm at a time when the citizens of the col- to, a parent on October 10. “The and in inebriated state” on October 11.

In a joint press release, the Chairman ony and neighbouring colonies young incident has not only hurt the of LAWC, Atuo Kapfo, President of LAC- and old alike were participating in the head master physically and WWU, Azonuo and President of LAYO, said event", it stated. The organisations mentally but all the teaching Aman stated that the defaulting party in- further cautioned that it would not toler- community who are rendering cluded someone who identified himself ate any kind of anti-social acts and stern selfless sacrifice to the society,” the celebration of jubilee was a as Akum, a 2nd Lieutenant of NSCN(K), action shall be initiated against perpetra- stated a press statement issued

by KDPSS President, Sebastian. time to give God thanks for all and adjutant to Town Commander Ko- tors of such act within its jurisdiction. the blessings received over the years. At the homily Fr. Nellisseril Joseph referred to the parable of talents from the gospel of St. Mathew 24.14-30.

WOHKA, OCTOBER 12 dress, the president of Deputy Commissioner of in our society. It is the youth The felicitation programme (MExN): With the objec- Kyong Student Union, Wokha, Robin Lotha, who who can bring lasting peace was held at Salesian College Paul tive of “engaging, empow- Amos Odyuo asserted that graced the occasion as the in the state and it should Bernick auditorium. Fr. Nicholas ering and enabling” the everyone has the right to as Chief Guest, he encour- begin from such initiative, Guangdiat read the address and youth to build peace in liberty and security and aged and challenged the he reasoned. congratulated the jubilarians on all conflict situations, the entitled to “live freely as we youth to realize the value Sharing her experibehalf of the province. Fr. Palely Peace Channel family of chose”. “Peace is our right- of peace and work togeth- ences, the President Eloe proposed the vote of thanks in Wokha district recently or- ful claim and to have peace er to give peace a chance. Hoho, Thungchano Tsanthe name of the province to all ganised a long celebration we should all work towards “Peace begins with indi- glao said that presently the the well-wishers who came to themed “Inspiring Change it”, he added. vidual”, he maintained, state was corrupted and pray for them and who contrib- towards a Violence Free Briefing the gathering further adding that “All our there is no respect for chiluted to the success of the pro- World” at the DBHSS about the activities of the problems can be solved dren and women leading gramme by presenting items; Youth Center, Wokha. movement, the Project Co- only when we practice and to increased vulnerabilibouquets by Little Flower Study According to a press ordinator of Peace Chan- put peace in our hearts. ties even at their home. She house, dance by Don Bosco note, during the daylong nel, Levi V Sumi stated that Peace begins with indi- emphasized on the imporSchool, Choir piece and dance progrmame, the keynote “there is no way to Peace, vidual. tance of love and respect

by Salesian College, Sangtam address was delivered Peace is the only way” The Guest of honour, among various individufolk dance by DB Tech trainees, by Mhalo Ezung who ex- (Gandhi) and reminded Wobenthung J Patton, Su- als in the society. “Peace and Jubilee Song by the students horted the youth to be the them to "remember love perintendent, Observa- should begin with family, of Bosco college of Teacher Edu- peace builders and change when we talk about peace tion Home (social welfare), respect your parents and cation. The programme was fol- makers in the society. as both are inseparable”.

Wokha, urged the the youth you will know peace is in lowed by a fellowship meal.

In his message, the act as harbingers of change your family, she appealed.

In his welcome ad-

Youth Peace & Cultural Festival held at Wokha

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MEx FILE Workshop on rights of children

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Nagaland Alliance for Children & Women Rights (NACWR), supported by UNICEF, Assam Field Office is organizing a State workshop on “Promoting Protecting and Planning Rights of Children” from October 14 to 16 at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur. A press release informed that the workshop facilitators will be Razia Ismail, Convenor, India Alliance for Child Rights and Dr. Chiranjeeb Kakoty, Director-NESPYM. The inaugural session will be held from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. Following five special guests will address for five minutes each: Imlisashi, Asst. Labour Commissioner, Dimapur; Elizabeth Ngullie, ADC, Dimapur; Dr. Tushar Rane, Chief UNICEF; Razia Ismail, Convenor – IACR; Diethono Nakhro, Chairperson, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

LHP Social Service Day

PHEK, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Lotha Hoho, Phek Town is conducting a ‘Community Social Service Day’ on October 14 at 6: 00 am with the theme, “Our place, our hospital, our responsibility” at the District Hospital, Phek HQ. In this connection, Lotha Hoho, Phek HQ vice chairman, Solumo Ezung has requested all the members of the Hoho to participate in the “Clean-up day” without fail. The programme will commence with an invocation prayer by Myinthunglo Kikon, Women Leader and Dr. Mostuthung Patton, DTO will deliver a short speech on the importance of Cleanliness, the release added.

SBAK youth leaders’ seminar

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Youth Department of Sumi Baptist Churches Association (SBAK-Aizuto) is organizing youth leaders’ seminar from October 17–19 at Sumi Christian Centre Aizuto. The resource persons for the seminar are Rev. Ghokuto Chishi, Principal, CAFGM Dimapur, Rev. Dr. Yekishe Awomi, Principal, SBC, Dimapur, and Rev. Mulato Chishi, Principal, ATC, Aizuto. The Youth Secretary Rev. Vitoshe K Aye has requested all churches to send their youth leaders to the seminar and informed all youth leaders to attend the program positively.

HSO Golden Jubilee WOKHA, OCTOBER 12 (MExN): The Humtso Students' Union (HSO) will celebrate its Golden Jubilee (1964-2014) on December 18 and 19, at Humtso Village under the theme "Celebrate the past to awaken the future.” A press release the Union informed that the Planning Committee for the celebration is headed by Yiben R Humtsoe as Chairman, Er. Chonbenthung N Humtsoe as Member-Secretary, Dr.Wobemo Yanthan and C Renthungo Humtsoe as members. The various sub-committees are headed by Renjamo N Humtsoe (Finance), Nyimthungo Yanthan (History), C Chenithung Lotha (Hospitality), B Nchumthung Yanthan (Transportation), Zubenthung Humtsoe (Statistical), Lichanbemo Humtsoe (Programme), and P Zanbeni Kikon (Souvenier). For publication in the Magazine, members have been asked to submit articles to HSU50yrs@gmail.com or Executives of the Union. For Help Desk, call +91 8413020113, +91 9615624907.

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Interpreting the Times: Is God telling us something?

n the Gospel books of the Bible, once when Jesus was talking to a huge crowd he asked them “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, it is going to rain and thus it does. When a south wind blows, you say it is going to be hot, and so it is “. So Jesus angrily says to them, “Hypocrites! You know how to interpret by the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is that you don’t know the Present Times?

There is a saying ‘It is easier to wake up a person who is really sleeping than someone who pretends to be sleeping.’ The government, civil bodies, student organisations and our churches seems to be in the latter category here. Every concerned citizen is a stakeholder to save our land from this alien invasion which is silent and slow but sure and severe. Nothing to be surprised or to wonder about it, if the present trend of the situations and events happening all around us could not make us realize or wake us up its going to be another . The issue of unabated influx of illegal immigrants in our land, which is a human catastrophe in waiting not only at our door but has already entered inside our homes. If no immediate measures and concrete actions are taken very soon, then we should be ready to perish as an extinct race or lost tribes.

Deuteronomy chapter 32:8 of the Bible clearly says that from the very beginning God created each nations and mankind, he set up boundaries for them inorder to let them settle accordingly. Mathew 12:38 says that a wicked and an adulterous nation asks for a miraculous sign but none will be given to you except the sign of a prophet! With so many spates of rapes, murders, molestations, robberies, death threats and border clashes happening all around us not to mention about our pastors and church workers being threatened to be killed , what more signs and predications about the manifestations and ramifications of this unabated influx

of illegal immigrants do we want now and more in the days to come?

Or is this a way of God trying to tell us something to wake up? If these incidents cannot wake us up, we have to brace ourselves and get ready to be swallowed and extinct within some few decades.

The editorial column of the Nagaland Post dated 24 September under the caption ‘Region of Immigrants’ has attributed three main factors that contribute to the growth of their population. Firstly, the presence of already large number of illegal immigrants who provides the newcomer immigrants an initial support in readily available trade and business they want to take up. Why? Because of our false pride, inflated egos and lack of work culture. Secondly, the readily available immigrants to work as cheap labour or farm hands. The third factor is the vote-bank politics of our unscrupulous politicians who for their selfish short-sightedness and vested interests are doing much harm to the children of tomorrow who are all going to be engulfed by the immigrant population. Time to elect some honest, dedicated, Godfearing leaders and true sons of the soil who works for the land and the people rather than their own gain.

Today’s politicians maybe elected by the people as heroes but tomorrow these leaders are going to make their people into A BIG ZERO! Yes, into a Nothing and away into oblivion!

Exhorting the gathering at the candle-light service at the Dimapur city-tower organised by the Survival Nagaland a few days back, Thenjamo Tsanglo, Associate Pastor of the Lotha Baptist Church, Dimapur said that it was God’s intention that His people live in peace, unity and prosperity in their own land. For that reason God made territories, boundaries and countries.

The young pastor however lamented that this is not happening in Nagaland and that it was the responsibility of every citizen of the state

to voice out against this insecurity.

“Our leaders should shoulder these responsibilities and it is our responsibility to voice out our grievances and at the same time, pray for our leaders so that God will grant them wisdom towards their leadership.”

As if the devil had his due ,just some months back, in the Assam legislative assembly, the very word ‘ Illegal Immigrants’ created quite a furore and frenzy. Those days are not far from us. In the earlier part of this year ,the Indian Chief of Army Staff ,Bikram Singh has admitted that the threat of the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants pose a great threat to our country’s national security.

The Supreme Court of India in a landmark judgment in July 2005, had observed that the state of Assam is facing external aggression and internal disturbance on a large scale of illegal immigration from Bangladesh nationals as enjoined in the article 355 of the Constitution. The problem of illegal immigration from Bangladesh to India has been a perennial and a long chronic problem which has various reasons attributed to it. Since India has a long porous border, Dimapur, also known as mini-India has a vast similarity which Mother India faces the same problem today and what Dimapur faces will Nagaland face too.

Illegal immigration has not only disturbed the demographic structure of our nation but our own state of Nagaland and also of law and order problem as well as threatening the very socio-economic fabric of the Nagas and our future. Of course, the region’s geo politics will undergo a sea change if we don’t do something about it very soon. Oken Jeet Sandham,a very popular journalist has written in leading journals that if the present trend of the influx is not brought under control by the year 2030 the whole demographic structure of the North-east will change completely.

It really pains my heart to see so many college students budding with

life and bubbles of joy. Indeed highschool and college days are the best days of one's life... Half of who you will be is decided at this stage. So I wish and pray for nothing but the best for you all.

However, with the already 65000 unemployed youths around, I am very worried about our coming generations. If you are learning for degrees for the sole aim of getting only white collared job, than make sure you are true to your studies. Otherwise, with the govt. jobs becoming scarce and reaching saturation point and with absolute less or no place in the economy for the Naga entrepreneurs I am very apprehensive of the coming days. 90% of our economy is run by the non-locals, with the backing of our ‘Freedom Fighters’ with their famous Syndicate System strangulating our own Naga people, choking them from the very nascent stage of their business inception..... Don't you feel sad about it? Why are we not getting chance to enter in our own market? Why are we not been able to survive in our own market? Why are we so inclined and crazy of govt. jobs only? Why do we hesitate to do other work? Where is our dignity of labour?

Why do we rather extort people and take pride but feel shy to do manual work? Why do we rather do black business than do honest business?

Have we took an oath to let Nagaland be under outsiders only? Why do we not feel and understand that we are near to being defeated? Why do we not understand that the privilege which we are giving to the IBIs is going to waste? Why do we not understand that they will never give us the same privilege in their land?

My heart pleads to all the sensible people around to kindly act fast so that we may hand over a beautiful Nagaland to our next generation otherwise be prepared to be spit on the grave by them,for handing over an IBI Nagaland...... Where our own sons and daughters will be slaves in their own land. It is a complete be-

trayal of our generation. Even God will never forgive us, neither will our children. Why are our apex organisations, student bodies, churches and national workers so silent about this issue? Don’t they understand the magnitude of the problem that our children are going to face? The everrising population, non-availability of land, unemployment, economic disparity, natural calamities and various Islamic interests draw these immigrants into India and North-east region. The reasons are none other than our inflated egos, false pride, misplaced passions, lack of work culture and absence of true leader who truly wants to work for the land instead of money and materialism.

The ever-rising population, nonavailability of land, unemployment, economic disparity, natural calamities and other interests draw these immigrants into India and Northeast region .With Tripura already a gone state with indigenous tribals reduced to a mere 10 percent minority and Assam fighting a losing battle, Nagaland seems to be the next on the list. Because Mizoram and Manipur have already taken up some proper precautionary measures by their responsible local bodies and apex organisations. Can’t we?

Dr . M. Amarjeet Singh is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, INDIA. His areas of research include Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Conflict and Development, Identity politics and NorthEast India. Migration is a global phenomenon, and will continue to do so in the near future. Every country aspires to regulate migration according to their requirements. But, not every country is successful. Hence illegal (cross-border) immigration has been a cause of concern to them.

Efforts to control and prevent illegal immigration remain highly in-

adequate in India; and likely to remain so in the coming years. But, the reality is that unabated illegal immigration has demographic and social implications, capable of creating tensions and conflict between the immigrants and the natives; and more so among the natives. This is particularly worrisome in NorthEast India, which has been the victim of unabated illegal immigration from across the border in Bangladesh. Unfortunately , campaign against illegal immigration in India also divides its people on communal lines. Hence, the future tensions and conflict will be not only between the immigrants and the natives, but also among the natives. However, in the absence of a strong political will, illegal immigration would continue despite fully knowing its long term implications. Indeed, India has chosen to ignore illegal immigration for several decades; and it will be extremely difficult for her to resolve the ‘ensuing conflict’ arising out of unabated illegal immigration. If deportations continue at current levels it will take more than 1000 years for India to deport an estimated 15 million illegal immigrants. Hence, India needs to adapt realistic timebound strategies to control and prevent cross-border illegal immigration. Nonetheless, the issue is much more serious than it seems.

All the recent happening and incidents around us are not just the beginning but are signs of the times that are coming and more of it in the coming days .As said by Jesus, let us not be Hypocrites but Understand the Present Times we are living with and as mentioned earlier about the editorial column unless the local authorities and the local people take some responsibility, no amount to check the influx will be fruitful. YES, NAGALAND MUST SURVIVE!

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Modi Rise & New Politics

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he rise of Indian politician Narendra Modi from Chief Minister of a State to Prime Minister of the country, and now the global recognition of his leadership, all point to a new kind of politics that is taking shape, one that has more to do with pragmatism and not just some political dogma. The huge reception that was reserved for Mr Modi by the Indian-American community at the famed Madison Square Garden and his other successful public engagements during his recent visits to South Asian countries, Japan and the United States are all sign of the legitimacy that has been given to Modi’s leadership, first by the Indian electorate and now by the global community. With this wide acceptability, Mr Modi can now turn attention to providing the much needed leadership. That at one time Mr Modi was seen as the face of the Godhra riots in Gujarat and his kind of politics despised not just by his political opponents in India but even by the West.

It is therefore truly a transformation that a leader once denied a visa to visit the US should be treated with admiration by the American people led by President Barack Obama. So how did this change take place? What kind of leaders do people really want to see in the 21stcentury? The answer to Modi’s rise and the new politics could well be found in these discourses.

Various factors have contributed to the rise of Modi. One is the failure of the decade long Congress led UPA governments to provide strong leadership to the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a gentleman but he did not have the strength and authority to lead a country of one billion plus people. India was yearning for a strong and capable leader.

The Congress continued to waver on the leadership issue with Rahul Gandhi reluctant to enter the fray. The BJP on the other hand came out with a clear choice of Modi as the PM candidate. So you see, everyone admires a leader with a clear sense of mission and someone who will get things done. And this perhaps explains the rise of Modi. The other aspect of leadership that requires great consideration is the need to be inclusive. Given the negative image he had carried because of the Godhra riots, Modi had to work even harder to assure that he could unite all sections of people. In a country as diverse as India where there is plurality of caste, creed, religion, language, and region yet issues of peace and development are commonality that bring people together, political leadership must also necessarily be inclusive and broad based. This applies even to the Nagas where we have so many divisions and differences.

Modi and his party the BJP is essentially a conservativeright wing party in orientation. The BJP has its own core ideology such as building of a Ram Temple at Ayodhya, imposition of uniform civil code and abolition of Article 370 (giving special guarantees to the State of Jammu & Kashmir). Now ever since Modi took office as PM, heading the BJP led NDA government, there is hardly any talk of ideology and much more emphasis has been given to things like governance, leadership, foreign policy, national security, economic recovery, institutional reforms, Centre-State relations, development programmes etc. The rise of Modi is closely linked to the erosion of ideology, at least when it comes to leadership and governance. Mr Modi would do well to continue in this path of pragmatism and inclusive model of governance if his leadership is to be acknowledged beyond the present.

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Is the Nobel peace prize a message for hardliners?

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s the world feted India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousufzai on winning the Nobel peace prize, some analysts called it a message to terrorists while others feared it could backfire.

Calling the two "South Asia's Peace Heroes," Alyssa Ayres, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, thought the Nobel committee clearly "views the hard work of education and children's rights as vital components in making South Asia a more peaceful place."

But noting "a long history of India-Pakistan civil society collaboration to try to overcome tensions in the region, she wrote: "the Nobel Committee's message isn't for those already seized with the importance of normalizing India-Pakistan relations."

"It's for those who would prevent better ties from ever developing between India and Pakistan, and who work to disrupt peace efforts when they are underway," Ayers wrote.

"It's for known terrorists like Al Qaeda and the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Haqqani Network, and myriad others."

"These groups, despite UN sanctions and sanctions under applicable US laws, remain at large in Pakistan, and particularly in the case of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, who regularly holds public rallies against India and the United States," she noted.

"It's these groups whose continued existence creates the ever-present threat of another attack on India, casting a shadow over every effort to try to make peace," Ayers wrote.

But writing in Foreign Policy, Elias Groll wondered "Will Malala's Nobel Prize Backfire?" even as he viewed Yousafzai and Satyarthi's joint selection as "an obvious nod towards the ongoing global efforts" to end long-standing India-Pakistan conflict.

"For Satyarthi, the award brings recognition to decades of work on behalf of child labourers, but for Yousafzai, the prize arguably comes with risks," he wrote.

Noting that "In some quarters of Pakistan, Yousafzai has become a symbol of Western interference in the country," Groll wrote that "huge international profile does not necessarily translate into change on the ground in Pakistan."

"If anything, those in Pakistan who are hostile toward Yousafzai may only harden in their opposition now that she has received the Peace Prize. That may set her work back more than it advances her cause," he wrote.

The influential New York Times noted "Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith, nationality and even international celebrity," the Nobel Committee had "joined a teenage Pakistani known around the world with an Indian veteran of campaigns to end child labour."

The Washington Post also suggested the Nobel Committee "had renewed attention on one of the world's most durable and dangerous standoffs by splitting its annual peace prize between a teenage Pakistani activist and a greying Indian Gandhian."

"The richly symbolic selection brings together individuals who took very different paths to the award, but who hold much in common in their outspoken advocacy for the rights of children," it wrote. "The pick also reaches across ethnic, religious and political lines to kindle new hopes for peace on the South Asian subcontinent," the Post wrote noting "a tense showdown" between India and Pakistan "has featured four major wars over 67 years."

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Nobel: 2 rival nations, 1 message of peace O

ne is Muslim, the other Hindu. One a Pakistani, the other Indian. One a school girl just starting out in life, the other a man with decades of experience.

Despite their many differences, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year-old Kailash Satyarthi will be forever linked — co-winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, honored for risking their lives for the rights of children to education and to lives free of abuse. Their selection was widely acclaimed, their heroism undeniable.

But something more was at work here: In awarding the prize Friday, the Nobel Committee also sent a blunt message to the rival nations of India and Pakistan that if two of their citizens can work for a common goal, their governments too could do better in finding common ground.

The two nations have almost defined themselves by their staunch opposition to one another. They became enemies almost instantly upon gaining independence in 1947 from imperial Britain, and have since fought three full-scale wars over various issues, including competing claims to the Himalayan region of Kashmir that sits between them. Just this week, their troops have hurled mortar shells and firing guns at one another across the Kashmir border, with civilian casualties in double digits.

The Nobel Committee's chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland, acknowledged his panel gave the prize to Yousafzai and Satyarthi partly to nudge the two countries together, though he cautioned that the impact of the award should not be overestimated.

"You can see that there is a lot of extremism coming from this part of the world. It is partly coming from the fact that young people don't have a future. They don't have education. They don't have a job," Jagland told The Associated Press. "We want to show that people in all religions can come together in a common cause."

The Indian winner immediately spoke about the potential to bridge old divides.

About Malala, Satyarthi said: "I will invite her in a new fight for peace in our region." He also said this year's choice to award one person from each of the nuclear-armed neighbors in South Asia made "a great statement from the Nobel committee looking at the present scenarios between India and Pakistan."

This would not be the first time the Peace Prize has apparently engaged in this kind of political engineering.

In 2009, the committee awarded Barack Obama after the U.S. president visited Middle Eastern nations estranged during the previous Bush administration. Fifteen years earlier, the award went to the trio of Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres after an apparent breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, though it never led to a deal.

And in 1996, the committee awarded Timorese Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta, which many believe was critical in the peaceful cessation of East Timor from Indonesia in 2001.

"Often the committee tries to bring people in conflict together and see how they can build new bridges," said Oslo-based Nobel historian Oeivind Stenersen.

It "tries to find people seeking new ways and solutions in difficult conflicts," he said. This year's choice "makes sense because the committee has been able to combine a lot of themes, including a brotherhood between India and Pakistan. They have done this in a very clever way."

But others said it wasn't likely to work.

"It is tempting to see the Nobel Peace Prize announcement as a nuanced message to Pakistan and India to stop shelling each other across the border and start protecting children," said London-based writer and human rights activist Salil Tripathi.

"Whether that will sway the hardliners on both sides is of course a different question."

Independent Pakistani political analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi in Lahore said the nations' animosity was so deeply rooted that "I don't see any positive impact of the award on two societies," especially while battles continued along the Kashmiri border.

Still, the two countries have much in common — and much of what they have in common is not good.

Both India and Pakistan today face serious challenges in lifting their people out of poverty, though each is beset by its own challenges in doing so. India, a bubbling democracy with a fast-growing economy, has been overwhelmed by the scale by which it needs to improve people's lives, with a 1.2 billion population that is still growing. Pakistan, with a gross domestic product equal to just a quarter India's stock exchange daily trade, is much further behind in generating power, building infrastructure and establishing security. It is also widely seen as being controlled by an entrenched and opaque military establishment often accused of cozying up to militant jihadists.

And as was underscored by Friday's award, child labor and abuse are widespread, and largely ignored, in both India and Pakistan.

Satyarthi has been at the forefront of a global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labor since 1980, and has led the rescue of tens of thousands of child slaves and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation. He has also survived several attempts on his life.

Malala, who now lives with her family in the British city of Birmingham, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan for insisting that girls as well as boys have the right to an education. Surviving several operations with the help of British medical care, she continued both her activism and her studies.

"The nature of the work is quiet, because it doesn't involve any violence, any strident protests or noisy demonstrations," said Ashis Nandy political psychologist and social theorist with the Delhi-based Center for the Study of Developing Society. "These children don't have any vote, so it's very difficult to politicize this issue."

In this photo combo, Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi, address the media, on Friday, October 10, 2014. Despite their many differences, 17-year-old Yousafzai and 60-year-old Satyarthi will be forever linked, cowinners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, honored for risking their lives for the rights of children to education and to lives free of abuse. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, Bernat Armangue)

Malala's improbable journey to Nobel Peace Prize Danica Kirka

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Associated Press

alala Yousafzai celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize where she always wished to be: in school.

The Pakistani girl once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education just like the boys celebrated being the joint winner of the peace prize Friday with her classmates at Edgbaston High School for girls in Birmingham, the city in central England that she now calls home.

The teenager had traveled to Birmingham for medical treatment after being targeted by the Taliban for her relentless objections to the group's regressive interpretation of Islam that limits girls' access to education. She was shot while returning home from school in Pakistan's scenic Swat Valley two years ago, almost to the day.

"This award is for all those children who are voiceless, whose voices need to be heard," she said at a press conference at Birmingham's Library. "I speak for them and I stand up with them. And I join them in their campaign."

She said it was an honor for her to share the prize with Kailash Satyarthi of India, 60, who has spent a lifetime working against child slavery and exploitation. She also invited the prime ministers of both India and Pakistan to attend the Nobel awards ceremony.

Malala's case won worldwide recognition, and the teen, now 17, became a symbol for the struggle for women's rights in Pakistan. In an indication of her reach, she spoke before the United Nations and made the shortlist for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2012.

But the journey was simply improbable.

On Oct. 9, 2012, Malala climbed into the back of a small pick-up truck used to transport Swat Valley children home from school. They laughed and talked as the truck rumbled over roads lined with pot holes.

As they approached a narrow bridge over a garbage-strewn stream, a masked man with a gun suddenly stopped the truck. Another man with a pistol jumped into the back.

"Who is Malala?" he shouted.

The girls did not answer but heads automatically swiveled toward her. The man raised his pistol.

One bullet hit Malala on the top of her head. Two other students were also hit, less seriously.

Malala was transferred to a military hospital near Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, as her head swelled dangerously. Her father, Ziauddin, was certain that his daughter would not survive the night.

He sent a message to his brother-in-law in Swat to prepare a coffin.

Pakistani doctors removed a bullet that entered her head and traveled toward her spine before she was flown to Britain for more specialized brain trauma care. She woke up a week later at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England.

She says she regained consciousness with one thought: "Thank God I'm not dead."

Malala gradually regained her sight and her voice. She was reunited with her parents. Soon there were pictures, stuffed animals at her side. She sent messages to well-wishers.

Three months later she walked out of the hospital, smiling shyly as she cautiously strode down the corridor.

"She is quite well and happy on returning home — as we all are," her father told The Associated Press at the time.

Pakistan made Malala's father its education attache in Birmingham for at least three years, giving the family stability and Malala a safe place to go to school.

She went back to school as soon as she could, In its early days, the peace prize was given for efforts to end or prevent armed conflicts. Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel said it should go to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

The committee has interpreted those instructions differently over time, widening the concept

and confessed that math was her least favorite subject. She kept campaigning for the rights of children to go to school — meeting President Barack Obama, attending rights conferences, becoming the keynote speaker at corporate events in London. She began rubbing elbows with people who had the power and the money to help her realize her dreams.

All along, she delighted many by simply being young, determined and most of all, herself.

At a Vodafone conference celebrating women, she confided that she didn't have a mobile phone. The crowd gasped, but chuckled at the notion of a teenager who admitted she had no need for a phone.

With British journalist Christina Lamb, she coauthored a memoir, "I am Malala," which revealed to the world that she was, in fact, also a regular teenager. There's a part of her that loves the TV show "Ugly Betty," whose main character works at a fashion magazine. She likes pop star Justin Bieber, watches the television cooking show "Master Chef."

And on Friday, the people who helped her on the journey — and those just touched by her story along the way — couldn't help but be swept up by the magic of it all.

"Malala is an inspiration for the many women in Afghanistan and Pakistan who have been fighting for their rights and struggling against the misogynous policies of the Taliban and local warlords," said David Cortright, co-author of "Afghan Women Speak" and a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. "As we know, people learn best from personal stories. Malala's story is a powerful antidote to extremist propaganda, and the Nobel Prize reinforces its impact."

Doctors in Birmingham offered congratulations, noting her focus and dedication. And the people of the city that threw its arms out to welcome her simply nodded their heads: No surprise at this news. She's liked here, well known. Malala has embraced the city, proudly describing herself as a "Brummie" like other locals.

"Sure, puts a bit of pride into it," said John Mullan, 78, an aluminium worker and resident of Birmingham, said Friday after the Nobel Prize news.

"She's just young girl who stood up to them. Many other people wouldn't have done that."

Malala remains determined to return to Pakistan one day and enter politics. In Birmingham on Friday, her growing polish was clear. She spoke from the heart in three languages, offering an almost uncanny combination of a teenager with a vision and a diplomat with a platform.

She did a need a box though, so that she could be seen over the podium. A small concession, but necessary to be heard.

She will split the peace prize's $1.1 million cash award with co-winner Satyarthi. Malala said the joint prize gives a message that the people of both countries — and people who are Hindu and Muslim — can work together.

"We support each other," she said.

Her parents and brothers came, too, and posed together for family photographs while the world's media begged them to look their way. Her normally reticent mother, who has more than once hidden when cameras emerged, stood alongside, looking straight ahead. Beaming.

But what everyone wanted to know was: how did she learn the news? How did a 17-year-old who just received the world's highest honor react after being pulled out of chemistry.

"I felt really honored," she said with a schoolgirl gush. There was probably some jumping up and down, but she didn't mention that.

Then she turned around and rejoined the other girls. She was back in time for physics. of peace work to include efforts to improve human rights, fight poverty, clean up the environment — and, this year, to promote children's rights. With the subtext, as well, of bringing India and Pakistan a bit closer together.

"The Nobel Committee has shown a lot of imagination," Nandy said. "I hope both sides see this as an opportunity to open up, though I'm afraid it will turn into the usual nationalist clap-trap."

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N AN UNDERGROUND vault beneath a hill overlooking Paris, behind a steel door whose lock requires three keys—only two of which are in France—and protected by three glass covers, lives the kilogram. Not a kilogram but The kilogram. For the past 125 years, this sleek cylinder of platinum-iridium has defined mass for the world.

The vault is buried under the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), a whitewashed stately home a discreet distance from Paris, with extensive gardens for physicists to roam in and views across a grand meander of the Seine. The BIPM exists to control, define and distribute the Standard International (SI) units by which science— and indeed non-science—makes its measurements: the second, the metre, the mole, the candela, the ampere, the kelvin and the kilogram. You might call it the spiritual centre of the metric system—if the rational world of revolutionary France’s metrification programme allowed room for anything as irrational as the spiritual.

Whatever the intentions of the scientists and philosophers who sought to order our planet’s measurements—doing away with the bushels of corn that varied from village to village and the king’s feet that varied from king to king—something unexpected is happening to one of our vital units. There is strong evidence that the BIPM’s kilogram, the one mass in the world that cannot be allowed to vary, is varying.

Philosophically speaking, such a statement is nonsense: it is impossible for the kilogram to be anything other than a kilogram. As Dr Richard Davis, who has worked in the laboratory’s mass department for much of his career, puts it, “Technically, if you cut it in half, it would still be a kilo.” In those circumstances everything else in the world would instantly weigh twice as much—at least when measured in kilograms.

No one is cutting the kilogram in half. Only a handful of people have been allowed to see it, and fewer still to touch it. Even so, as experimental methods get more precise, and physicists work at ever smaller scales, the vanishingly slight variations in the kilogram have become increasingly inconvenient.

At a meeting in Versailles in November, scientists will discuss whether the technology now exists to switch to a mass standard that cannot ever change. Is it time to redefine the kilogram?

THE KILOGRAM AS we know it was created at the first General Conference on Weights and Measures, held in France in 1889 and attended by 20 of the world’s more science-minded nations. As the Enlightenment progressed, spreading knowledge and developing the modern empirical methods, it became clear that, for science to work, its practitioners had to agree on units.

If an experiment in Rio de Janeiro used a gram of catalyst heated to 75 degrees, someone repeating that experiment in Tokyo needed to know that a gram and a degree meant the same on both sides of the Pacific.

Following almost a century of discussion, the conference defined the key units of measurement, and the kilogram was forged and incarcerated. In the years since 1889, around 100 daughter kilograms have been made, some in platinum-iridium, others in stainless steel. Most have been distributed around the world to provide national mass standards. Six are kept here in Paris, to be used as a check on the main kilogram.

Every few years, the members of the kilogram diaspora take turns to come home. Each country sends a senior scientist to take its national kilogram by plane, in his or her hand luggage, to the weighing room at the BIPM, where it is cleaned, checked and calibrated. The process is so exacting that air pressure has to be accounted for when comparing the cheaper stainlesssteel masses with platinum-iridium ones.

“Platinum is very high in density, so one kilogram of it has a small volume,” says Dr Davis. “Stainless steel is maybe three times bigger in volume; it is much more sensitive to changes in air pressure.”

After weeks of measurements, it is time for the daughter kilogram to return, along with a very, very small number: the difference between its mass—which calibrates every experiment in its home country—and the mass of the kilogram itself. That number is supposedly a correction to make up for imperfect storage of the national kilograms—not to reflect imperfections in the Parisian one. Yet, as far as its guardians can tell, the kilogram has been systematically losing mass, at least in comparison with the kilograms it fathered—including those in Paris that have had virtually the same treatment. The difference between the kilogram and its heaviest daughter is now about 60 micrograms.

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That is not much—a mere 0.000006% of the total. If an ant were to walk over the kilogram while it was being weighed, it would change the reading by 100 times that.

Nevertheless, the scientists are puzzled. One theory is that it’s caused by trapped gas slowly diffusing out over centuries—although it is difficult to see why this would affect some kilograms more than others. Other possibilities include mercury absorption and contamination from the cleaning process. None of the explanations seems wholly satisfactory.

Back in the weighing room, currently occupied by the Croat kilo, Davis points at the door leading to the vault. “There it is, past the moat and the alligators.”

For an object that spends decades at a time hidden from view, the kilogram has a strangely charismatic presence. Like a mafia don on the run, it operates through its lieutenants, the daughter kilograms that maintain its rigid hegemony over the world’s weights and measures. Only on the very rare occasions when it emerges to be weighed do they receive new instructions. Then it goes back into hiding for several more decades. The first of those weighings was in 1946-50, the second in 1988-92; the most recent came this summer, after my visit. Security remains a serious business.

As one scientist put it, “If anyone took the kilogram, we might as well not turn up the next day.”

After this November’s meeting, though, it could be

that talking about stealing the kilogram would be as absurd as talking about stealing the speed of light.

OF THE SEVEN SI units, the kilogram is the last to retain its definite article. “A” metre still exists in this Parisian laboratory. A rod of platinum-iridium, it was once The metre. But in 1960 it was redefined as 1.65m times the wavelength of light produced by a transition in krypton. Then, in 1983, it was re-redefined as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. These days, however much they may agree in reality, the metal version is just an approximation of the true metre, which exists as a pure concept in the Platonic ideal of SI units.

The second, too, has lost its intuitive definition. For most of chronometric history, time has been understood in terms of a division of the period between midday and midday: 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. Looked at in this way, clockmaking is the process of producing better mechanical approximations of the Earth’s rotation. But, around the middle of the last century, we produced a clock that was a million times more accurate than the planet.

Ever so slightly, the Earth is slowing. Each ebb and flow of the tides is energy coming out of its spin; in the time of the dinosaurs, the day was several hours shorter. With the creation of an atomic clock that could spot that slowing, the rotation of our planet became an inferior pendulum by which to set the global time standard.

These days, a second is instead defined as 9.2 billion oscillations of a microwave beam when tuned to the frequency required to excite a caesium atom. Because the Earth has slowed further since this value was fixed, there are now slightly more than 86,400 of these new seconds in a day. So it is that roughly once a year, in the atomic clocks that control the world’s markets and navigation systems, we have a 61-second minute.

As the other tangible SI standards fell like rarefied dominoes, the kilogram evaded redefinition, remaining the best-protected, best-defined lump of metal in the world. The kilogram as a concept had been forged in the fires of the French revolution. An enlightened country could not have a system in which weights and measures might vary, so a committee was convened to devise a replacement. At first those forges were metaphorical: in 1795, the gram was defined as “the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the metre, and at the temperature of melting ice”—a cubic centimetre of water at freezing point. A kilogram, correspondingly, became a litre of water at freezing point. With the metre itself fixed as one ten-millionth of the distance of an arc from the equator to the North Pole, at last there was a system that could be used without confusion from London to Cape Town.

When the practicalities of using ice and undulating ground proved tricky, the committee opted to produce an artefact after all. The royal jeweller was called back to Paris from exile and set to work. The upshot, in 1799, was the Kilogram des Archives, a national mass standard that would last until the creation, 90 years later, of the even more exacting kilogram we know now.

A century and a quarter later, in laboratories around the world, scientists are working once more to unshackle the kilogram from the physical and create a new definition. But

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what is the quantity that is to the kilogram what the speed of light is to the metre? There are two answers: the Planck constant and the Avogadro constant. Both share the important quality that they are, in theory at least, invariant.

AT THE NATIONAL Physical Laboratory in Teddington, west London, Dr Ian Robinson has devoted his career to creating the new kilogram. Almost 40 years ago, in the place that produced the atomic clock that precipitated the second’s existential crisis, a new kind of weighing scale was proposed: the watt balance.

“It’s a very simple system,” Robinson begins, with the misplaced optimism of a CERN physicist launching into yet another metaphor to describe the Higgs in layman’s terms. Physicists like to compare the watt balance to the classic weighing scale. On the right-hand side, you have whatever you want to measure. On the left, instead of counterweights, you have a big horizontal coil through which a current is passing, itself in a magnetic field. If you make the scales balance, you can relate mass to current and magnetic field. Perform another experiment by measuring the voltage when you move the coil at a set speed, use some equations whose development last century earned two Nobel prizes, and you can describe the whole thing in terms of the fundamental constant of quantum physics, Planck’s constant. As Robinson says, simple.

Less so in practice. “These things are murderously difficult to measure,” Robinson goes on. “The aim of all this work is to get to about one part in a hundred million.” When a watt balance is calibrated, you have to take account of altitude—at sea level the gravitational pull is greater—and latitude: as the world spins faster at the equator, the centripetal force counteracts gravity.

The instrument is so sensitive that even the height difference between separate parts of its mechanism must be accounted for, as well as the position of the Moon.

As the readings from the world’s watt balances converge, Robinson believes the technology is now at the stage where a new definition of mass is possible. “Of course it’s all difficult,” he says, “but there’s a difference between difficult and practically impossible.”

One side effect is that if it’s successful, Planck’s constant too will be fixed. At present, partly because it is determined by the kilo rather than the other way round, in theory it fluctuates slightly. This bothers physicists. “It’s a fundamental constant,” Robinson argues. “It should be constant. Why is it changing?”

At Versailles in November, this will be the crucial decision for the world’s leading metrologists: can we at last set a fixed value for Planck’s constant, and go ahead and retire the kilogram?

There’s more. A wholly different standard must also produce agreement: a set of silicon balls called Avogadro spheres. There is a permanent test version in the BIPM, and, like the obelisk in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, these small black spheres are unnervingly perfect. Spin one, and you can’t tell it is moving. Walk around it, and your eye gets befuddled, unable to focus. It is a crystal of silicon, cut and measured by lasers to ensure a precise volume. Its purpose is to measure the Avogadro constant: a value that relates to the quantity of carbon-12 atoms in 12 grams of carbon. To achieve this, the scientists plan to count the number of atoms in a fist-sized object. Via a pincer movement of fundamental constants, this will give us another route to the Planck constant and hence to the kilogram.

Leaving the Avogadro sphere, we pass the vault again. If pushed to make a prediction, Davis says it is unlikely the kilogram will be changed at this conference. But he does not expect the physical kilogram to outlast the next conference, likely to be in 2018.

Isn’t this a shame? By eliminating it we may gain a few decimal points of accuracy—corresponding to a mass even our ant would consider barely significant— but do we not lose something bigger when mass is just a concept? Davis might have been the guardian of the kilogram, but he is unsentimental about its future. “My view has always been that we need to get rid of this system as soon as possible. I appreciate what a tremendous job people did in the 19th century. They have served us well.

But when something better comes along, you use it.”

Over 200 years ago, a group of scientists envisaged a worldwide measurement system that could be described to anyone scientifically literate, recreated by any sufficiently advanced laboratory and, crucially, applied without recourse to any object—whether a lump of metal or a monarch’s body part. It has taken longer than anyone imagined, but we are almost there. The metric revolution is nearly complete.

Tom Whipple is the science correspondent of the Times

POLL RESuLTS

Does the proposeD NagalaND special DevelopmeNt ZoNe (NsDZ) iNfriNge upoN the rights iN article 371 (a)?

Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Yes, our politicians are planning to sell off our rights in the name of development. If they really want Nagaland to develop, they should stop amassing the money which belongs to the people of Nagaland. With all the money we receive from the centre, if we build and maintain good roads, railway, airport, and maintain law and order by imprisoning all the extortionist Nagaland can develop without NSDZ or any such laws.

What happened to the issue of extortion on a private airline in Dimapur? What are the problems with the only railway station in Nagaland? Who was given the contract for oil exploration in Nagaland? Who screwed up the building of highway via Zunheboto?

Seriously! Even if there are a 100000000 NSDZs in Nagaland, if there is no proper transportation, communication, power, political stability and economic viability, Development will remain in the dictionary. We don't need NSDZ for development, we just need better politicians!

• Yes. We need alternative arrangement not just blindly following this senseless SEZ or NSDZ. It may be possible in other state where land belongs mostly to the govt but in Nagaland this truly infringes ownership right protected by the special said Article.

• Definitely, yes and that is why Govt of Nagaland has invited suggestions from NGOs representing people of Nagaland.

• YES.. The government of India has given special rights to us but our government is going to modified for their personal benefits.

• Yes besides if at all they are sincere in bringing development why give the land to non-locals/Corporates,let them pay rent/ land access fee on a regular basis this will help our people in earning handsome fees as well as bring development...

• Yes, transferring our land ownership the Customary System of Land Holding projects like the Industrial complex at Gapeople. Common people of st or sc do not • Yes, its selling the birth Rights of the Nais interfered/ Relaxed, ARTICLE 371(A) neshnagar, The Tuli Paper Mill, Wazheho benefit this special quota. Similarly, if we gas to the Illegal Immigrants and Landless guaranteed by the Constitution of India is cement plant etc. Why is the Govt. of Naobserved, the land, most of the land are Labourers. automatically Infringed. galand embarking on a new project that bought and owner by few sections of own • YES. Article 371(A) is not a gift from will only drain our meager resources people where common people are being the Govt. of India. Rather, it is a rewhich would be better suited if it were tribalised and exploited in the form of result of blood and sweat of our faspent on building infrastructure. gionalism. The laws which passed during thers, it is an acceptance of the fact • If outsiders are allowed to settle and British rule can be an exploitation at this that Nagaland is different from other buy our land then it is the opposite of stage. Even the law passed during British states of India, it is a manifestation article 371A. Some big shots may be rule make Indian bureaucrats to missrule of the supremacy of our customs having their personal interest here. and mismanaged the administrative sysand traditions in our land, and it is • Not just the NSDZ but the recent tem of India. the guardian of our history, our presre-launching of the Nagaland gov- • Why don't they (govt) developed our state ent and our future within the Indian ernment to explore oil in Nagaland without selling the rights of our people. state. NSDZ is hopefully an uninteninfringes on the rights of the Nagas. • here will be both positive result and negative tional blunder of the Government of The present Chief Minister does not result. Compare both and anylyse which will Nagaland whose ramifications have seem to care about the Nagas at all. bring better result in the long run and the imnot been fully comprehended by our pact upon the generation to come. Globalilaw makers. Apart from annuling all Some of those who voted sation and cosmopolism of the society will provisions of the said Article, it sets no had this to say: keep on expanding where resistance may a dangerous precedent which could • I think no. Why and how yes decreasing from time to time. perhaps mark the beginning of the • The NSDZ is a nonsense proposal • The issue of NDSZ culminated to the Death of the Article and with it the which is nothing but a pro-rich agenda failed policies and programs of the state Rights of the Original inhabitants of to suit the Chief Minister and his likes. government. IN short, Nagaland is a Nagaland. (When Modi mentioned But the question whether the NSDZ is failed state, when it fails in everything changes in Article 370, Chif Minister violating the Article 371 A is too narlike Sugar Mill, Paper Mill, Cement plant of Kashmir replied that they will not row. The NSDZ should be seen in the and canning industries. The state governremain part of India if that happens, context of Naga rights and not the Inment fails to maintain rule of law, its fails whereas our politicians are willing dian Constitution and the fact is that to provide basic amenities like repairing to sell off our rights for some cheap the NSDZ completely violates Naga pot-holes, power, water, etc. the government allows NGOs to run government personal gains). rights. I appreciate the GPRN – Keand community policing which is totally ir• When the “The Nagaland Land and hoi group for opposing the NSDZ berelevant to the present civilized society. At Revenue Regulation(Amendment) cause it is against Naga interests.

Act 1978”is relaxed, and Nonthe moment the issue of oil drilling should nagas and the Others are given Some of those who voted never be allowed not on the basis that it Right of Permanent Settlement OTHERS had this to say: infringes Article 371 (A) but because of and of Possessions of Lands and • Today if we observed, most of the the state government inexperience and Buildings in Nagaland in THEIR land are bought by rich people. In failure to maintain any large scale busiYES no OTHERS OWN NAME and when, the ILP is many villages, people are becoming ness venture. In fact Article 371 is an act Relaxed allowing Free movement landless since land are bought away which is divisive and destructive to the of the non-nagas, and when the owner- • Yes. It not only infringes on the rights of the by few rich people. Today even schedgeneral Nagas as a whole. The present ship of Land and Property of the AborigiNagas under art 371(A) but the concept is uled tribe (st) or sc quota is the benefit of government only knows how to buy luxury nal Nagas of Nagaland and their Rights to foolhardy. When we cannot run existing highly educated and rich people of st or sc cars for bureaucrats and luxury goods.

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PM Modi assures Andhra Pradesh CM of all support People run for shelter as heavy rain and wind gusts rip through the Bay of Bengal coast at Gopalpur, Orissa, about 285 kilometers (178 miles) north east of Visakhapatnam, India on October 12.

A powerful cyclone was pounding a large swath of India's eastern seaboard with heavy rain and strong winds on Sunday, killing at least two people and causing major damage to buildings and crops, in one of two storms lashing Asia.

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Andhra using space tech to assess cyclone damages hyDerabaD, OctOber 12 (iaNS): Andhra Pradesh Sunday claimed to have become the first state in India to use space technology in disaster management. With the help of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), it is using latest technology tools to gather firsthand information about the destruction caused by cyclone Hudhud.

The government with the help of NSRC launched an Android app for a crowdsourcing project where people could upload photos from their

smartphones. NRSC said that over 3,000 downloads of app were recorded.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has appealed to people to upload pictures and videos of uprooted trees, breached roads, damaged crops and inundated areas. «The uploaded pictures will be automatically integrated with NRSA data and this will help the government in assessing the damages and mobilising required men and material to reach to the last point,» he said here.

Naidu said this would help the government in undertaking rescue and re-

lief operations in a perfect manner. People having smartphones can download the mobile app from www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in and upload the pictures.

Those having cameras and normal phones can take pictures and videos with, time and location and send the same to weblink http:// bhuvan-ftp.nrsc.gov.in (user name:hudhud123, password:hudhud123).

Naidu directed NRSC to use GIS, GPS and remote sensing technologies to spot the damage and put them on the satellite through geo-tagging.

This will enable the government to have the data on damages on the map.

He added that the government engaged four satellites to monitor cyclone - RI Sat1, RISat2, Radar Sat and Resource Sat2.

Tech-savvy Naidu urged officials to use Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Andhra Pradesh government has also created a Facebook page called AP disaster management.

It created #HudhudAP to reach out to people and get information from them on Twitter and Facebook. It is also using Whatsapp extensively.

New Delhi, OctOber 12 (Pti): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday promised Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu all possible assistance as Cyclone Hudhud made landfall in the state and neighbouring Odisha. The Prime Minister held an emergency high-level meeting on Saturday to review preparedness for the cyclone and on Sunday he spoke to Naidu and discussed relief and rescue measures.

On Saturday, he asked officials to ensure that rescue and relief operations proceed smoothly and people are informed about the cyclone on a real-time basis. Modi had also asked Home Minister Rajnath Singh to be in touch with the Chief Ministers of the states likely to be affected by it. The meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, the Principal Secretary to the PM, the Home Secretary, the Defence Secretary and other senior officials from the Indian Meteorological Department and and the PMO. Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth said the Prime Minister was concerned not only about AP and Odisha but also wanted other states, which could face heavy rains, to be alerted.

“We have done that,” Seth said, adding that while the Prime Minister reviewed

the situation on Saturday night, he himself has been reviewing the situation closely and holding meetings with Chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha twice daily.

Seth advised residents of cyclone-hit Vizag to ex-

completely out of gear as winds with a speed of 170 to 180 kmph battered Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts.

Naidu said huge damage to property was reported and next 3-4 hours will be crucial as the reverse windfall

as possible, wherever they can reach they are reaching,” Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad. The CM said that due to the impact of the heavy winds and rain, even the rescue and relief teams were unable to venture out, but until now the adminis-

Cyclone hits train movement in Andhra, Odisha hyDerabaD, OctOber 12 (iaNS): Railways cancelled or diverted many trains in north coastal Andhra and adjoining Odisha in view of severe cyclone Hudhud which hit the coast near Visakhapatnam. Train movement has come to a complete halt between Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar. All trains between Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam also remain cancelled for second day Sunday.

South Central Railway has cancelled 62 trains and diverted 50 others. The officials are monitoring the situation along the track between Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. East Coast Railway, which covers Odisha and north coastal Andhra, has also cancelled 40 trains in view of the cyclone. Officials said this was done as a precautionary measure.

With the met office forecasting heavy rains, the train movement may not resume over next two days. Cancelled trains include the Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam special, Tirupati-Bhubaneswar Express, Kazipet-Visakhapatnam Link Express and Hyderabad-Visakhapatnam Godavari Express in both directions. ercise caution till the second phase of the high wind is over even as he lauded the efforts of the central agencies and state government in meeting the challenge. Severe cyclonic storm Hudhud hit the port city of Visakhapatnam on Sunday bringing with it torrential rains in three coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh and leaving five persons dead in the state and neighbouring Odisha besides snapping power and communication lines.

Normal life was thrown

has started.

“We have yet to assess how it is crossing and also reverse windfall have started just now. Wind is moving at speed of 190 kmph with heavy rains. We have given instructions to people to stay indoors and because of it we could save a lot of lives. But there is huge damage…buildings, bridges, trees and also crops.

“Communication has totally collapsed…power and telecommunication.

We are working on rescue.

Our administration, so far

tration has evacuated more than 1.5 lakh people.

“There will be heavy rain for another 3-4 hours. Now we have to monitor closely.

Even people are unable to go out, our relief and rescue teams also. Some people were held up on an island, NDRF team has gone and rescued them. “Few hours are crucial. We warned them. One is a wall collapse and another one is tree-felling. Lakhs of people have been evacuated…around 1.5 to 2 lakh. We are continously doing that.”

Five months after poll debacle, Congress sticking to old ways

New Delhi, OctOber 12 (iaNS): Five months after its rout in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress appears not to have made any major course correction with its plans of restructuring said to be still in the works. With the Oct 15 assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana posing the first real test for both the BJP and the Congress after the April-May general election, the saffron party seems to be running a tight ship under Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a series of election rallies by its leaders. The Congress, however, seems to be sticking to its traditional method where party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi address a few public meetings while the onus of managing the campaign falls largely on the state leaders.

Since his momentous victory in the general election, Modi, 64, has continued his engagement with the people through his speeches, tweets and even a radio address.

Rahul Gandhi, 44, who is evidently going to play a major role in the Congress efforts at revival, has had no such outreach. BJP leaders said that Modi was expected to address about 35 rallies in the two states. But the number of rallies

by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi are expected to be much fewer in the poll-bound states.

There is a feeling among Congress workers that the party has much to learn from the way Modi has been able to turn around the fortunes of the BJP. “Modi has good ability at marketing. We should be able to do the same.

We were unable to project the achievements of the UPA government,” said S. Shariff, a Congress worker from Karnataka. He also said that young talented leaders should be appointed to the core team of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). “The party should have accessible, result-oriented and decisive office-bearers. Procrastination has to be done away with and there has to be strong determination to win elections,” he said.

Party leaders said that a revamp of the AICC was expected but will be done after the assembly elections. “Once elections are over, we should expect part of Congress restructuring which will have Rahulji’s stamp,” a senior leader, who did not want to be named, told IANS. He said the restructuring could not have been done earlier as the party was waiting to see which way the electoral winds blew in Haryana and Maharashtra - two states where it rules - in the Lok Sabha polls.

While Congress rules Haryana, it is part of the ruling coalition in Maharashtra. “We won only two Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra and one in Haryana. If we had done

an organisational revamp and still performed badly in Haryana and Maharashtra, the restructuring would not have had the desired impact,” the leader confessed. He reasoned that it was a five-year and not a five-month battle with the BJP. For the assembly elections, opinion polls have predicted that the BJP could be in a position to form the government in the two states.

With the focus on Rahul as the Congress’ face of the future, there have been questions about his consistency in taking up issues and his ability to connect with voters at a time when the party desperately needs to revive itself after its worst ever performance in a general election. The party has been reduced to a mere 44 seats in the present Lok Sabha from the over 200 seats it had earlier.

Party general secretary Digvijaya Singh had said in an interview a few weeks back that Rahul Gandhi should be more visible and should be heard more in this age of media and breaking news. Echoing this sentiment, an official at the AICC office told IANS that Rahul Gandhi should be more accessible like his father Rajiv Gandhi and grandmother Indira Gandhi, both former prime ministers.

“Indira Gandhi used to meet our families. Rajiv Gandhi used to interact with us. It is very difficult to meet

Pak writes to UN, seeks intervention on Kashmir

iSlaMabaD, OctOber 12 (Pti): Stepping up its attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Pakistan has written to UN chief Ban ki-moon on the security situation along the LoC and the International Border with India and sought the world body’s intervention in resolving the issue.

In a letter to UN chief Ban ki-moon, adviser to the Pakistan prime minister on national security and foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz accused India of “deliberate and unprovoked violations of the ceasefire agreement and cross-border firing” over the past weeks. n“I write to bring to your urgent attention the deteriorating security situation along the line of control in Jammu & Kashmir, as well

as along the International Border between Pakistan and India...

“As you are aware, the Jammu & Kashmir dispute

He added that Pakistan has been reminding the UN and the international community since decades to fulfill that promise, in the

India accused of ‘deliberate and unprovoked violations of the ceasefire agreement and cross-border firing’ is one of the long outstanding issues on the agenda of the UN security council, whose resolutions promising the holding of a plebiscite, under the auspices of the United Nations, for selfdetermination of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, remain valid though unimplemented to date,” Aziz wrote in the letter which was released by Pakistan foreign office here.

interest of “durable peace and security in the region.”

Referring to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address to UN general assembly last month during which he emphasized on the need to resolve the whole issue of Jammu & Kashmir, Aziz said “unfortunately, India has adopted a policy that runs counter to its stated desire to engage in a serious bilateral

dialogue with Pakistan.”

He added, “India cancelled, unilaterally and without any plausible justification, the foreign secretary-level talks that were scheduled to be held on August 25, 2014.”

Asking Ban to circulate the letter as an official document of the security council, Aziz said Pakistan believes that the UN has an important role to play in promoting the objective of peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue, including through his “good offices, which we have always welcomed, and the crucial role of the UNMOGIP on ground, which needs to be strengthened and facilitated under the current circumstances.”

Machines to replant trees for highway development

Biswa Gurung, a seven-year-old Indian boy talks to a colleague as he works at an automobile workshop in Gauhati, India on October 12. Despite the country's rapid economic growth, child labor remains widespread in India, where an estimated 13 million children work, with laws meant to keep kids in school and out of the workplace routinely flouted. (AP Photo)

India’s sanitation crisis needs innovations to work

New Delhi, OctOber 12 (iaNS): A staggering 70 percent of people in rural areas and 13 percent in urban India defecate in the open: astounding figures that are a pointer to the fact that a country which is galloping ahead in all other fields is lagging in a very basic area - sanitation.

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi through his Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India campaign) has promised to build 100 million toilets across the country, experts say the money will not be well spent unless it’s accompanied by a massive awareness campaign involving the government, non-profit groups and citizens.

According to Nikhil Dey, who has worked extensively in rural areas of India: “So far the toilets have been

given to people who did not even have basic amenities like water or pucca (permanent) houses”.

“In a place like rural Rajasthan, where women have to walk at least three kilometres to fetch water, they would not want toilets in their houses as it would be their responsibility to keep them clean,” the noted activist told IANS. For Bindeshwar Pathak of Sulabh International, a pioneer in the field of sanitation, the government’s strategy so far has been flawed as it addressed the issue from bottom to top instead of top to bottom.

“Till now most of the schemes have focussed on providing toilets to the poor or the below poverty line (BPL) people. It is difficult for the poor, who do not have land to build the

houses. Instead the rich should have been targeted first,” Pathak told IANS. Agreeing with this school of thought, Urban Development Secretary Shankar Agrawal told IANS: “What went wrong in the earlier schemes was that we did not ensure that the toilets had necessary things for smooth operation like water.” “So, most of the toilets started being used for storage purposes.

The quality of construction was also poor. Apart from this, the beneficiaries were also never consulted,” Agarwal added.

Agrawal, who is incharge of the Clean India campaign in urban India, says the government has never launched any such campaigns in urban areas earlier. “This time, we have decided to give Rs. 4,000 in-

centive to people for building individual toilets. All forms have to be submitted online,” he told IANS. He said that while 50 percent of the money would be given to beneficiaries after the scrutiny of forms, the rest would be given after the toilets are built and photographs sent to he ministry.

Pathak said that while building toilets under schemes like the Nirmal Bharat campaign, the government had ignored the quality of construction and the technology used.

“Most of the villages had one-pit toilets built which were of no use after some years as the pits made were too small,” he said.

“Even the villages which were awarded for building the maximum number of toilets have not

Rahul Gandhi,” said another party leader. But other senior Congress leaders said it was not necessary for Rahul Gandhi to be as visible as Modi. Party general secretary Shakeel Ahmed reasoned that every person had his own style of functioning. “He (Rahul) is doing things in his own way. He is taking care of the organisation. He is campaigning,” Ahmed said.

Ahmed described Rahul as “the future of the Congress”. “He is the leader for us and the next generation,” the Congress general secretary told IANS. “Sonia Gandhi is the final authority and our ultimate leader. She is the leader of Rahul Gandhi also,” he added. Launching an attack on Modi, Ahmed said the prime minister has centralized all the power and it will backfire on the BJP. “Modi has made other leaders irrelevant. It will boomerang on them. There is also overexposure (in the media),” he said. A Congress leader also said that Modi devoting time to campaigning in state elections shows that “the BJP does not have local leadership in the states.” ` But ask them about the revamping and reorganisation of the party and the larger role Rahul Gandhi would play in shaping the prospects of the party and the leaders just mumble that it is on the cards - but not just now.

maintained the momentum now”.

According to Agrawal, this time the government is ensuring that a “standard design” is followed everywhere. “We will have a look at all the good contractors, the list of whom will be finalized by the urban local bodies.”

The situation in India is so bad that open defecation is more common than in poorer countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Burundi and Rwanda.

According to data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) from a survey conducted in 2012, only 32 percent of rural households have their own toilets and less than half of Indian households have a toilet at

home.

There were more households with a mobile phone than with a toilet, the survey revealed. In fact, the last census data reveals that the percentage of households with access to television and telephones in rural India exceeds that of households with access to toilet facilities.

According to the World Bank, India’s sanitation deficit leads to losses worth roughly six percent of its gross domestic product by raising the disease burden.

Unicef says poor sanitation impairs health, leading to high rates of malnutrition and productivity losses.

Children are more affected than adults as the rampant spread of diseases inhibits their ability to absorb nutrients, thereby stunting their growth.

New Delhi, OctOber 12 (iaNS): “Trees will have to be cut,” is the constant hurdle when it comes to highway development and other infrastructure project.

The solution lies in replanting even fully-grown trees as has been done in Gujarat, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari says. The trees are picked up, roots intact, by a sophisticated machine from construction sites to the safety of a new home where the tress soon settle. The idea, Gadkari said, came from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. «Nitin tuh phade mat todh (Nitin d›ont fell tress, development at this cost is too high) Modi said to me,» Gadkari told IANS. According to Gadkari, his ministry is planning a number of environment friendly steps to ease the environment lobby›s pressure on the infrastructure development projects that are crucial for Modi›s development agenda.

All it takes are four-blade spades mounted on trucks or trailers. The hydraulically-operated units dig amd lift the trees and carry them to the re-planting site. A skilled operator can transplant at least six to ten trees a day. Each machine costs Rs.75 lakh, excluding the value of the vehicle.

The technology is used in the Asia-Pacific, South America, Europe and Mexico. Seven units are in operation in Gujarat by the likes of Adani Mining, Gujarat Alkalie, Jindal Steel, Essar and the state forestry department. «The units are used in forestry, landscaping and mining and in the construction of highways and pipelines. The end-users are satisfied. The forestry department is very pleased that they no longer need to cut down tees» Aprille Browne, regional manager (Asia Pacific) of Dorian Drake, the company which manufacturers the spades, told IANS. «The first unit we sold was to Essar. It is currently being used by the forestry department. The Gujarat chief minister (Narendra Modi) at the time attended the inauguration ceremony for this spade as we heard that he was the one who encouraged companies in India to stop the process of cutting down trees and, instead, find a method to replant them,» Browne told IANS. The environment lobby still doubts the technology, stating that the initiative will still not prevent landslides, air and water pollution and climate change impacts due to industrial projects.

«Its highly likely that it could end up wasting public money and not give any positive outcome for the environment. The success of re-plantation itself is highly questionable. Even if you keep that aside, what they are not considering is loss of biodiversity, loss of water sources, soil erosion and loss of livelihood for people dependent on the forests in that area,» Nandikesh Sivalingam of Greenpeace India told IANS. However, Browne feels that re-forestation and re-plantation go hand-in-hand.

«Where trees need to be moved due to new construction or other requirements, for example digging a coal mines, they can be replanted instead of being cut down. It is also a great idea to plant new trees in schools, universities, parks and homes, wherever space allows,» Browne added.

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Iran police airplane crash kills Seven teHrAN, OctOber 12 (AP): An Iranian police airplane flying to the country’s southeast crashed late Saturday, killing all seven people aboard, including a top police officer, the country’s official news agency reported. The propeller Turbo Commander airplane crashed in the mountains outside of the provincial capital of Zahedan and searchers later found the wreckage, IRNA reported. The agency said the flight carried four passengers and three crew members. Among those killed was Gen. Mahmoud Sadeqi, a senior police officer in charge of investigations, IRNA reported.

Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency says the plane took off from Tehran to head to southeastern Iran to investigate an incident involving an attack on police there, without elaborating. Authorities offered no immediate explanation for the crash, though Iranian airlines, including those run by the state, are chronically strapped for cash, rely on aging planes and have a spotty maintenance record. While some operate Boeing and Airbus models, spare parts for Western-made planes are often hard to come by — largely because of sanctions aimed at Iran’s nuclear program.

Some sanctions have eased in recent months, however, due to an interim nuclear deal with world powers.

Those difficulties have left Iranian airlines increasingly reliant on planes developed by the Soviet Union and its successor states, though parts for aging Sovietera planes can also be tough to get. That’s caused the country to be hit by a series of deadly crashes. In August, a commercially flown IrAn-140, a twin-engine turboprop plane built with Ukranian technology off an old Soviet-era design, crashed after takeoff from Tehran, killing 39 people. The last major airliner crash in Iran happened in January 2011, when an Iran Air Boeing 727 broke to pieces on impact while trying an emergency landing in a snowstorm in northwestern Iran, killing at least 77 people. nIn July 2009, a Russian-made jetliner crashed in northwest Iran shortly after taking off from the capital, killing all 168 on board. A Russian-made Ilyushin 76 carrying members of the Revolutionary Guard crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran in February 2003, killing 302 people aboard.

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Kurds urge more air strikes in Kobani

salesman in Tuen Mun, one of nearly a dozen New Towns built over the past few decades to try to relieve the immense housing pressure in this former British colony of 7 million people.

In this city built on commerce, the political protests have churned up deeper questions, exposing a series of economic divides and deep unease over whether the territory’s unique identity can survive in China’s ever-growing shadow.

The protesters’ central demand is the right to freely choose Hong Kong’s top official in inaugural 2017 elections, as outlined in the mini-constitution that took effect when Hong Kong returned to China’s control in 1997. But while Beijing allows far more freedom in Hong Kong than it does on the mainland, it is not leaving the territory’s’ leadership in the hands of voters, insisting that candidates for the chief executive position first be screened — as they are now — by a committee dominated by the territory’s pro-China elite.

It’s a standoff that has brought tens of thousands of demonstrators into

Hong Kong’s streets, occupying some of the city’s busiest roads.

If they don’t get what they want, “then we’ll remain here, and we’ll see who has the most patience,” said Veronica Chan, a 21-year-old marketing student who has spent weeks at the largest protest site, on the edges of Hong Kong’s financial district.

But look a little deeper, talk to people across Hong Kong, and other fault lines quickly emerge.

A few blocks away, in an upscale bar in the financial district, a young investment banker in a pinstriped suit sipped his whiskey and talked about the protests.

“What this is really about is Hong Kong people refusing to acknowledge they are Chinese,” said Raymond Tam, who co-owns the bar with friends. “It’s quite stupid. Hong Kong and China are like a quarreling couple.”

The days are gone when Hong Kong was the region’s dominant economy, when British bankers could look dismissively across the border into a China mired in poverty. These days, it’s

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Police officers, right, try to separate two groups of protesters between anti-occupy protesters, wearing blue ribbon on their clothes, left, and pro-democracy protesters, in the occupied areas at Hong Kong's Mongkok district on October 12. Students leading pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong issued an open letter Saturday to Chinese President Xi Jinping, urging him to consider political reforms in the city and blaming the city's unpopular leader for the demonstrations. The heart shape placards read "Love Hong Kong, support our police force." (AP Photo)

HONG KONG, OctOber 12 (AP): By road, the little apartments are nearly an hour from central Hong Kong and the protests that have swept through it.

Twice that long if you take the subway, which is how most people commute from places like Tuen Mun, a cluster of high-rise apartments built in a once-rural corner of Hong Kong’s sprawling New Territories.

But the apartments are MUrSItPINAr/beIrUt, OctOber 12 (realso affordable, at least in UterS): Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a the way that any real estate U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the can be affordable in one of border with Turkey. A group that monitors the Syrian civil the world’s most expensive war said the Kurdish forces faced inevitable defeat in Ko- cities. The cheapest sell bani if Turkey did not open its border to let through arms, for 2.9 million Hong Kong dollars, or about $375,000. something Ankara has appeared reluctant to do.

The U.S.-led coalition escalated air strikes on Islamic They are slightly larger State in and around Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, than the average American kitchen. Young couples are some four days ago. The main Kurdish armed group, the YPG, said in a statement the air strikes had inflicted desperate to buy them.

So when student-led heavy losses on Islamic State, but had been less effective pro-democracy protests in the last two days.

A Kurdish military official, speaking to Reuters from began roiling Hong Kong Kobani, said street fighting was making it harder for the two weeks ago, realtors saw a reflection of somewarplanes to target Islamic State positions. “We have a problem, which is the war between houses,” said Esmat thing else: the frustrations of a generation increasingAl-Sheikh, head of the Kobani defence council. “The ly unable to afford the lives air strikes are benefiting us, but Islamic State is bringing tanks and artillery from the east. We didn’t see them their parents had.

“They want to vent their with tanks, but yesterday we saw T-57 tanks,” he added. anger. Their voice was not While Islamic State has been able to reinforce its heard in the past,” said fighters, the Kurds have not. Islamic State has besieged the town to the east, south and west, meaning the Kurds’ Adam Pang, a real estate only possible supply route is the Turkish border to the north. The U.N. envoy to Syria on Friday called on Turkey to help prevent a slaughter in Kobani, asking it to let “volunteers” cross the frontier to reinforce Kurdish forces defending the town that lies within sight of Turkish territory. Turkey has yet to respond to the remarks

by Staffan de Mistura, who said he feared a repeat of the bUDAPeSt, OctOber 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. Kurdish leaders in 12 (AP): As a young poliSyria have asked Ankara to establish a corridor through tician, Viktor Orban won Turkey to allow aid and military supplies to reach Koba- plaudits for championing ni. A senior Kurdish militant has threatened Turkey with civil rights and free elections. Now as Hungary’s a new Kurdish revolt if it sticks with its current policy of prime minister, Western non-intervention in the battle for Kobani. nations are alarmed at the Islamic State “is getting supplies and men, while way he is trying to consoliTurkey is preventing Kobani from getting ammunidate power, including a tion. Even with the resistance, if things stay like this, government crackdown on the Kurdish forces will be like a car without fuel,” said rights groups.

Rami Abdelrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory One of the groups befor Human Rights, which monitors the conflict in Syria ing targeted is the Hungarthrough sources on the ground.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday ian Civil Liberties Union, that retired General John Allen, a U.S. envoy charged with which Orban himself relied on in 2007 to get him building an international coalition against Islamic State, acquitted of defamation had just returned to Washington and reported progress.

“There was considerable progress made by General Allen charges.To the conservative leader’s opponents, specifically with Turkey,” Hagel told a news conference the recent moves against in Santiago. He said U.S. military teams would hold talks in Turkey next week. “They’ll be spending a good deal (of the rights groups, including time) next week with Turkey’s general staff and appropri- police raids, are attempts to silence some of the last ate leaders going through the specifics of Turkey’s comcritical voices left against mitments to help the coalition specifically to train and his increasingly authoriequip areas of their contribution,” he added. tarian rule. He had already concentrated power for Plumes Of Smoke Turkey has been reluctant to help the Kurds defend- his Fidesz party over many other institutions in Huning Kobani, one of three areas of northern Syria where gary, including the media, Kurds have established self-rule since the Syrian civil the courts and the central war began in 2011. The main Syrian Kurdish group has close ties to the PKK, which waged a militant campaign bank.

Fidesz is expected to for Kurdish rights in Turkey and is listed as a terrorist maintain its dominance in group by Turkey and its Western allies. Tall plumes of Hungarian municipal elecsmoke were seen rising from Kobani on Saturday and tions Sunday, although the the sound of gunfire was close to constant as battles raged into the afternoon, a Reuters journalist observing left-wing opposition is likely to make some gains in from the Turkish side of the frontier said. After sunset, the sounds of gunfire and shelling continued. Red tracer Budapest and the far-right gunfire lit the sky in the eastern sector of the town, much Jobbik party hopes to win of which has fallen to Islamic State. Battles also raged at in several rural towns. With no other balloting schedthe southern and western edges of the town. uled until 2018, Orban can A Kurdish military official in the Syrian city of Qacontinue his transformamishli, another area under Kurdish control, said thousands of fighters stood ready to go to Kobani were Turkey tion of the country.

Orban defends his to open a corridor. But Ghaliya Naamat, the official, said moves against the indepenthe fighters in Kobani needed better weaponry. “Medium-range weapons is what is lacking,” she told Reuters by dent groups, which repretelephone. “According to the news and the information in sent a range of causes, from women’s and gay rights to Kobani, there is no shortage in numbers. The shortage is media freedom and antiin ammunition.” If U.S.-led air strikes fail to stop Islamic corruption campaigns. In State militants from overrunning Kobani, it would be a a speech in July, he called setback for U.S. President Barack Obama’s three-weekthem “paid political activold air campaign against Islamic State in Syria.

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often Chinese money that keeps the bankers in Hong Kong working. Tam said that as much as 80 percent of his company’s business — stock market listings, mergers, stock trading — now involve clients in mainland China.

While the protests have scared away potential clients, Tam said he still finds himself sympathizing with demonstrators “just fighting for their right to speak out.” Because in Hong Kong, the hand of Beijing can feel very heavy. “There’s still a huge difference in our culture,” he said.

It’s a statement heard repeatedly across Hong Kong, a city with the anxious pride of a down-atthe-heels aristocrat remembering the good old days. Hong Kong is, they will tell you here, a place that celebrates freedom and the rule of law, a place where orderliness is sacrosanct, diversity is welcome and protesters pick up their litter.

It is not a place for violence. So the territory was stunned when police responded one night by launching volleys of tear gas at protesters.

There were few serious injuries in the clash.

But the footage of tear gas clouds enveloping groups of young people was met with fury in Hong Kong, sending far more demonstrators into the streets.

“This shocked and horrified the Hong Kong people,” said Emily Lau, a prominent pro-democracy legislator. “We are not used to authorities using that sort of force.”

Lau sees Hong Kong’s identity rooted in its history as a haven for people fleeing the chaos of the Chinese civil war and Maoist repression.

“This is a place of migrants,” she said, a harbor of refugee pragmatism where even protesters insist they don’t want a revolution.

But that culture, nearly everyone agrees, is changing, slowly being reshaped

by Chinese money and Beijing’s power.

Wealthy tourists from mainland China are regularly dismissed here as loutish boors who cut in line, spit constantly and flaunt their newfound wealth with newfound arrogance. To the people of Hong Kong, the rich shoppers are “wong chung” — locusts — who buy whatever they can.

“They are like the locusts, destroying everything in the fields,” said Chan, the protesting student.

Like many in Hong Kong, she worries how Mandarin, the dominant language of mainland China, has been edging aside Cantonese, the dialect of the territory. She worries how the traditional Chinese writing characters used here are being slowly pushed aside by the simplified characters long favored by Beijing.

Always, though, questions of identity now brush against financial worries.

That’s little surprise in a place where a young college graduate earns about $25,000 a year, but a middling apartment can easily sell for $1,000 per square foot.

Samuel Kwok, who has two children in college, was protesting on a recent day in the gritty Kowloon

neighborhood of Mong Kok. “Once they graduate, they have few opportunities,” Kwok said of his children. “Hong Kong is just too small and it’s becoming harder and harder to make a living.”

He doesn’t worry about the rich Chinese. Instead, he fears poor Chinese strivers who cross into Hong Kong in search of work, further driving up rents.

“The Hong Kong government won’t do anything about it because the borders are controlled by Beijing,” he said.

On the far side of Hong Kong, in a hole-in-the-wall shop dispensing cigarettes and cold drinks, Chan Wing Kei stopped for a chat with the owner and a Blue Girl beer.

The protesters, said Chan, have no idea how easy they have it. He grew up in Yuen Long when it was still mostly farmland, when his parents struggled to feed their children and there was rarely money for school. Today, Yuen Long is another New Town, a thicket of high-rises home to more than 400,000 people.

His son, Chan said, shouldn’t even think of joining the protests. “I’ll beat him if he says he’s going,” said Chan. “These protesters are damaging the financial industry, the heart of Hong Kong.”

Down on the edge of the financial district, though, thousands of people flooded into the protest site Friday night, one day after the government called off talks with student leaders.

The protesters listen to speeches calling for democracy, relax with friends and do homework in study areas built beside concrete safety walls.

Banners in Chinese and English proclaim their goals: “Democracy!” ‘’Embrace Freedom in Wind and Rain,” ‘’Everyone Could Be Batman.” The largest poster, though, looks down on the scene from the side of a skyscraper.

It’s an ad for Piaget, the high-end watchmaker.

“Perfection in Life,” it proclaims. The poster shows a watch that costs more than $30,000.

West alarmed at Hungarian leader’s power tactics ists attempting to assert foreign interests in Hungary.”

Orban also went so far as to say in that speech that he wants to turn Hungary into an “illiberal state.”

In outlining his plans to make Hungary stronger, he cited Russia, China, Turkey and Singapore as examples of countries that are successful despite not being liberal democracies and “maybe not even democracies.”

With Hungary’s economy growing, some observers worry that other leaders in the region could be tempted to follow Orban’s path. The region, which inspired the world with its peaceful anti-communist revolutions 25 years ago, is already witnessing some erosion of democracy, a problem the White House has expressed concerns about lately.

Western leaders are worried about pro-Russian policies that several Central European countries, including Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria, have taken lately, mainly for economic reasons. In particular the U.S. and EU have been fighting Bulgaria’s plans to build a gas pipeline for Russian gas meant to squeeze Ukraine out of deliveries to Europe. There are also concerns about the entrenched corruption in Romania and elsewhere that denies opportunity to many.

“Across the region, the twin cancers of democratic backsliding and corruption are threatening the dream so many have worked for since 1989,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said this month,

referring to the year of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

“And even as they reap the benefits of NATO and EU membership, we find leaders in the region who seem to have forgotten the values on which these institutions are based.”

The Hungarian government’s clampdown on independent society has focused primarily on 13 groups accused of having ties to the political left and which receive money from a charitable foundation called the Norway Grants.

The fund was set up by Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein, nations not in the EU but which have nonetheless benefited from integration with the single market and want to give something back to the bloc by helping its less developed countries.

Many of these groups, like corruption watchdogs Transparency International and K-Monitor, are indeed critical of Orban, while some, like advocates for the rights of gays and women, may not fit into his vision of a conservative nationalistic state.

Orban’s office asked the Government Control Office in May to investigate how 13.5 million euros ($17 million) was dispensed by the Norway Grants to hundreds of civic groups in Hungary from 2009-2014.

Since then, the premises of groups chosen to operate Norway Grant funds have been raided by police, seen their tax numbers suspended and had piles of documents and computers confiscated.

“This current political structure in Hungary does not tolerate the existence of critical voices and has been able to eliminate most of them,” said Mate Daniel Szabo, a director of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. President Barack Obama noted in a speech last month that “from Hungary to Egypt, endless regulations and overt intimidation increasingly target civil society.”

Hungarian authorities claimed at first that the fund operators for the Norway Grants were tied to an opposition party.

But they switched arguments after those charges no longer seemed defensible. Now, the government says its concerns are about accountability, and that the fund managers are politically motivated when choosing winning applicants.

They also argue that independent organizations should stay away from politics since they are not elected by voters. “The Hungarian government has an entirely clear and firm position on the working of democracy,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said. “Exercising political power belongs to politicians, political structures, that is, based on representation.”

Orban’s actions mark a wide-ranging transformation since 1989, when he emerged as a young political star with a speech calling for free elections and the departure of Soviet troops from the country. It was a courageous step that won him the re-

In this picture taken on July 26, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech at the 25th Balvanyos Summer University and Students' Camp in Baile Tusnad, Romania. In his speech, Orban said he wanted to turn Hungary into an “illiberal state” and that his efforts were being obstructed by civic groups who were “paid political activists” financed from abroad. As a young politician, Viktor Orban won plaudits for championing civil rights and free elections. Now as Hungary’s prime minister, Western nations are alarmed at the way he is trying to consolidate power, including a government crackdown on rights groups. (AP Photo)

spect of many, given that the communists were still in control. He remained in the good graces of Western leaders for many years.

Orban, 51, has faced repeated criticism since he returned to office in 2010

with a two-thirds majority in parliament that allowed him to start centralizing power. He overwhelmingly won re-election earlier this year after changing the elections laws to favor his party.

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Benzema shines as France beats Portugal

PARIS, OctObeR 12 (AP): Fernando Santos began his reign at the helm of Portugal with a 2-1 loss at Euro 2016 host France in a friendly while Denmark salvaged a 1-1 draw in Albania in qualifying on Saturday. Striker Karim Benzema scored at Stade de France after only three minutes for his 25th international goal, and Paul Pogba doubled the advantage as Portugal failed to recover from the shock 1-0 home loss to Albania in Group I, which cost Santos' predecessor, Paulo Bento, his job last month.

Portugal was made to pay for its sluggish start but improved after halftime, causing France's defense frequent problems. Ricardo Quaresma pulled one back for Portugal from the penalty spot 13 minutes from time.

Albania came close to securing a second win in as many games and a first win over the Danes in more than 50 years after Ermir Lenjani beat goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel with a deflected shot in the 38th.

But substitute Lasse Vibe leveled from close range with nine minutes to go.

In the other group game,

winger Zoran Tosic scored a last-minute equalizer as Serbia drew with Armenia 1-1. Albania and Denmark top the group standings.

In Paris, Portugal's defense was slow to react soon after kickoff as Antoine Griezmann accelerated down the left and Bacary Sagna's rebound was tapped in by Benzema.

"It was important for me to play a big game," said Benzema, who outplayed his Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. "We got the result, but we also played with style."

Playing with pace and speed, France dominated the early exchanges although Portugal almost scored in the 21st after defender Eliaquim Mangala slipped and gave the ball away to Nani, who turned past Raphael Varane but shot inches off Steve Mandanda's left post. Griezmann intercepted the ball near the halfway line, and gave Benzema another chance, but he was caught by midfielder Eliseu in the box. Ronaldo had an equalizer chance in the 52nd, but his header of Nani's fine cross was kept out by Mandanda. Pogba made it 2-0 against the run of the play

with a low effort past Rui Patricio following a good move ignited by Patrice Evra in the 69th. Benzema provided the assist.

Quaresma ensured a nervy finish when he scored from the spot with 13 minutes left after Pogba caught substitute Joao Mario in the box.

In Yerevan, Tosic avoided embarrassment for the Serbs with a left-footed shot from outside the box after being set up by Dusan Tadic in the 90th. Robert Arzumanyan put Armenia in front with a diving header in the 73rd, and the hosts looked set for their first ever win over Serbia.

Armenia, which failed to score in its three previous games against Serbia, squandered the opportunity to double its advantage when Marcos Pizelli's penalty in the 83rd was saved by goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic.

"My players were like lions. At the beginning of the match, I would have settled for a draw, taking into account some absent players in my team, but now I am disappointed," Armenia coach Bernard Challandes said. "I am proud of my France's Karim Benzema, left, controls the ball as Portugal's Pepe runs after him, during their international friendly soccer match, at the Stade de France, team." in Saint Denis, north of Paris, France, Saturday, October 11. (AP Photo)

Masterful Marquez retains MotoGP title Cesc Fabregas pleads for

MOteGI, OctObeR 12 (ReuteRS): Marc Marquez retained his MotoGP title with a fighting second place finish in the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, the dominant Spaniard securing a fourth global title in five years at his Honda team's home Motegi circuit.

By claiming 20 points for a second-place finish, the 21-year-old stretched his championship lead over Italian Valentino Rossi of Yamaha and his team mate and compatriot Dani Pedrosa to an unassailable 82 points with three races remaining. "I am really happy to win the title on Honda's home circuit and I offer my thanks to my family and to the team for giving me the best material and motivation to win the world title," an elated Marquez told reporters.

Yamaha's double former world champion Jorge Lorenzo claimed victory on the day 1.638 seconds ahead of Marquez, who overtook Rossi with eight laps remaining and held off the Italian to secure the title. Pedrosa finished fourth. It was the second consecutive win for Spaniard Lorenzo after his victory in the rain-hit Aragon Grand Prix last month.

Catalan Marquez continues to blaze a trail

Veteran Badminton Tournament KOhIMA, OctObeR 12 (MexN): Kohima Badminton Club’s Open Veteran Badminton Tournament, a major annual event, has been scheduled for October 16 and 17 at the Indoor Badminton Stadium, Kohima, with a catchy theme “I am fit.” A press release from Er. Hotovi, Convenor, Open Veteran Badminton Tournament 2014 informed that the tournament will comprise of 3 categories: 35 and above, 45 and above, and 55 and above. It informed that that the tournament is already warmed up with players from other districts already practising at the venue.

The convenor added that the tournament, this year, will draw a large crowd as the organisers have pulled in a lot of sponsors and likeminded organizations.

The winners of the different categories will each take home Rs. 20,000 while the runners-up will pocket Rs. 10,000 each. It added that the organisers are planning on a grand closing ceremony offering music and (Naga) dinner.

Spain's Marc Marquez is sprayed champagne by race winner and compatriot Jorge Lorenzo, left, and third-placed Valentino Rossi of Italy, right, during the awarding ceremony of Japanese Motorcycle Grand Prix at Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Motegi, north of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, October 12. (AP Photo)

through every class he has raced in, first winning the 125cc title in 2010, then the Moto2 crown in 2012 before claiming back-to-back MotoGP titles. He could have settled the championship earlier in the season after registering a record-equalling 10 consecutive wins but crashes in San Marino and Alcaniz in the last two races delayed his coronation.

"It's difficult to explain right now but I have been in MotoGP for two years and won two titles. It is incredible and something I could not have imagined," Marquez said, adding that he was under pressure after the last two crashes. "I am in like a dream, it's incredible." Starting from fourth on the grid with Rossi and Pedrosa ahead of him, the

Honda rider made a decent start and overtook Yamaha's Pol Espargaro, Pedrosa and Andrea Iannone of Pramac Racing in the opening laps to get closer to the front group.

He then passed Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso, who had started on pole, and overtook Rossi on the second attempt after a gripping three-lap duel to

climb up into second position. "Maybe I was not riding like always. I don't know why but the body felt different," Marquez said.

"For me it was more difficult to overtake at the braking points because I didn't want to make another mistake because of what happened in the last race."

Rossi tried a late assault to stay in the championship hunt but Marquez was too quick. "I had a chance to keep the party open for the championship. I tried as hard as I could to keep the battle with Marc going for another race," Rossi said. "I had good pace but Marc had a little extra."

Marquez, who last year became the youngest MotoGP world champion at the age of 20, stopped on his victory lap and was presented with a ceremonial sword by a Samurai warrior flanked by a pair of kimono-clad female assistants.

He waved the sword above his head towards his supporters before returning it to the Samurai and remounting his bike to complete the lap of honour.

The Spaniard took his season tally to 312 points with Rossi and Pedrosa on 230. Lorenzo is fourth, three points further adrift. A race win is worth 25 points.

Federer edges Simon to win Shanghai Masters

ShANGhAI, OctObeR (AFP): Roger Federer edged a resilient Gilles Simon of France 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/2) to win the Shanghai Masters and claim the 81st title of his career on Sunday.

The 17-time Grand Slam winner had blown away world number one Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals but he found a stubborn opponent in Simon at Shanghai's QiZhong Tennis Centre.

The 33-year-old needed two tie-breaks before dousing Simon to making it back-to-back Masters victories following his win in Cincinnati in August.

The Swiss veteran started poorly against 29thranked Simon's confrontational baseline play and he lost his serve in the very first game. Federer changed tactics midway through the first set, tentatively approaching the net in a bid to regain the initiative. But Simon was unfazed, slamming his shots with power when Federer was in a forward position and forcing him to reconsider the tactic.

Shouts of "Come on Roger" were being drowned out by "Allez Gilles!" as the crowd sensed an upset could be on the cards. But as Simon served for the set

Roger Federer of Switzerland, right, and Gilles Simon of France pose with trophy during the awards ceremony after Federer won the men's singles final at the Shanghai Masters Tennis Tournament in Shanghai, China, Sunday, October 12. (AP Photo)

at 5-4, Federer broke back and he was in the ascendancy as he earned two break points in Simon's next service game.

However, he lost the first by dragging his shot too far to his opponent's right, and the second when Simon bravely met him at the net. Simon then forced the tie-break with an ace.

The pair were evenly matched during a tight tiebreak, but Simon finally

lost the set as he attempted a serve-volley, allowing Federer pick out a gap to his right. The players fought to a stalemate in the second set, but Federer's experience showed as he took a firm grip on the decisive tie-break to win it 7-2 as Simon netted a return.

Federer will now celebrate his 23rd Masters victory as he moves up one place to world number two, displacing Rafael Nadal, in

the new rankings released next week.

His previous best showing at the Masters 1000 event was as runner up in 2010, although he did win in Shanghai when it hosted the Tennis Masters Cup in 2006 and 2007. Meanwhile Simon will return to the top 20 on the back of reaching only his second Masters final, and his first in six years after losing to Andy Madrid at Madrid in 2008.

patience as criticism mounts

Spain's Diego Costa, right, Cesc Fabregas, center, and Paco Alcacer, left, react during the Group C Euro 2016 qualifying match between Slovakia and Spain in Zilina, Slovakia, Thursday, October 9. (AP Photo)

bARceLONA, OctO beR 12 (ReuteRS): Midfielder Cesc Fabregas has hit back at criticism levelled against Spain's newlook team and pleaded for time following a surprise Euro 2016 qualifying defeat

by Slovakia.

Spain have introduced several new players after they failed to defend their World Cup title in Brazil and results have been mixed, with a victory over Macedonia in their opening Euro qualifier coming between a friendly defeat to France and Thursday's shock result.

They have an opportunity to get back on track with another Group C clash against Luxembourg on Sunday after the Slovakia result led to captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas and striker Diego Costa coming under fire.

"In difficult moments we need to ignore what is being said about us, it doesn’t interest us and we need to be more united than ever. The media have different interests to us,” Chelsea player Fabregas told a news conference.

"We need to keep trying and looking to play our football and we will get it right. Hopefully it won’t take too long."

Midfielders Xavi and Xabi Alonso and striker David Villa, who were core players in Spain’s period of dominance when they won European championships either side of their 2010 World Cup victory, all retired from the international game after their failure in Brazil. “We want to play a style of football which is not easy to achieve," Fabregas continued. "There have only been three games since we lost some very good players and people are making out it is more like 20. "There are new faces that have to settle in but

Criticized for loss, Spain defends Casillas bARceLONA, OctObeR 12 (AP): Spain's coach and players have defended goalkeeper Iker Casillas and their tiki-taka passing style after their first loss in qualifiers since 2006.

Spain will look to rebound from Thursday's 2-1 defeat at Slovakia that ended its run of 36 qualifiers without a loss when it visits Luxembourg on Sunday as it tries to get back on track in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship.

"Now we have to be more united than ever," midfielder Cesc Fabregas said. Casillas added to his poor performances at the World Cup with another goalkeeping gaffe on Slovakia's first goal.

Considered until recently one of the world's best goalies, Casillas made blunders in Spain's 5-1 loss to the Netherlands to open its ill-fated World Cup defense in Brazil. He followed that by a sub-par showing in its 2-0 loss to Chile that eliminated it from the tournament in just two games.

Now his inability to block a free kick struck hard but directly at him by Slovakia's Juraj Kucka has awakened concerns that the best days may be behind Real Madrid's 15-season veteran. Sports daily Marca summed it up with Saturday's headline, "Casillas' Agony." It described his concession on Kucka's strike his "worst mistake as a Spain player." they will pick up the ideas, the different style and we will get going.

"Other teams like France, Italy and England have all been given time and that is all we need. We will improve and we will get the results. Obviously we rely on results. Decisions are made and then we live by the results of those decisions. "We respect that people have the right to have opinions but for us we are just concentrating on the jobs that we have to do."

Team mate Gerard Pique felt it was important that Spain maintain their trademark passing game that has brought them success in recent years. "There are always debates when we lose, but there shouldn’t be any discussion about our style of play," he told a news conference.

"It would be an error to change with the players that we have. Our style is all about possession and touch." Pique also had to respond to questions over comments he made backing a possible referendum on independence for Catalonia. He denied that his views conflicted with him representing Spain.

"I am only defending rights for Catalans, we are talking about a question of democracy which I think is important to defend. It is something totally different to me playing football and I always enjoy being with the national team where I give everything,” said Pique. "I express my opinions because I am a footballer and a citizen. When I feel I should express myself I will and this doesn’t affect my profession."

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The Guitar Academy presents: An interview with

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uitar Academy (GA): You went at it all with Alice Cooper, before replacing your childhood idol Michael Schenker in UFO. Did your guitar playing undergo change after joining UFO, or was it just an extension of your guitar sensibilities with Alice Cooper? innie Moore (VM): I think it was more of a natural evolution in my playing and songwriting and just happened without much outside influence. I have always been one to follow my muse wherever it leads me.

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When you first joined UFO, were you under pressure of curbing your personal style to maintain the UFO sound (which translates into ‘imitation’ of the Schenker sound).

No. when i joined there was never any mention of that. I think that Phil knew I would fit in with the band after he heard some of my music. From the beginning he wanted me to contribute in the songwriting and just wanted me to be myself.

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any artist to judge his own music and be objective. But with theories; some focus on the technical and lose out i would make a guess that i am more bluesy and have a on heuristic knowledge. What curriculum combinawhole different style when it comes to writing music. tion do you suggest for students particularly for guitar students?

What are you main gears for live performances Learn as much as you can. Focus on all and those you use for recording? things and find someone to teach you I have a signature model Dean guitar called which will help you get better more quickly. Also, find the “vinman2000”. i have about 5 of them and a group of friends who play because you can all learn use them live and about 90% of the time in the studio. On things from one another. tour I have been using a Marshall dsl2000 for quite a while There are chords and scales and there are now. i usually have a wah, 2 mxr carbon copy delays, an tones and sounds. You have been called a xotic rc booster, and a boss ps6 that i use for a chorusing master of speed and accuracy, and on the other had a effect. For recording i have lately been using a marshall melody weaver as you did in Time Odyssey. How can a jmp 100 watt mark II head into an engl 4x12 cabinet load- student learn to achieve both technique and musicaled with celestion vintage 30 speakers. ity?

By learning the technical things, but also by Like all guitar legends, you were a story by the listening to and learning from many differage of 12 years old when you started doing gigs. ent styles of music and players. Everything helps. You Tell us about your early education in the guitar? have to love what you are doing and have passion for I took lessons with a private instructor and he it. It you have love and passion, all other things will fall taught me about music theory, taught me a lot into place. of songs and gave me exercises to improve technique. He also turned me onto to a lot of different players and difWhat advice would you give to guitar stuferent styles of music. dents, particularly those starting out young?

Have fun with music and playing........ find a Do you think guitar students have fewer guitar good teacher......listen to many styles of murole models to look up to these days, now that sic....learn songs from your favorite guitarists....watch virtuosity is no longer a buzz? tutorials online to learn things.....jam with friends.........

Well things have definitely changed....but all there are so many ways now to learn. Always have a cuthe music is still out there for those who want riosity about music. to find it. But yes some of the newer players have a different focus.

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People have compared you to What are the most important things you feel a Yngwie Malmsteen. What is guitar student should learn when starting out the difference between you and him, both with the guitar? in technique and musicality?

First of all, the basic technique. And also I honestly dont know songs because that makes it fun. A little the answer. It is later on, music theory, and also things like very hard for scales and arpeggios and how to use them to improvise

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The Guitar Academy is committed to teach and promote Guitar to children.We are based at 4th Mile, Naga United Village.

There is theory and there is the practical.

Often, the young are too bored

Naomi Campbell congratulates ‘malaria’ for Nobel Peace Prize E nglish supermodel Naomi Campbell’s tweet congratulating ‘malaria’ for winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize has gone viral on social media. Campbell was apparently meaning to wish Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai , but the message backfired when she wrote the word “malaria” instead of Malala, Dawn online reported Saturday.

“Congratulations malaria on your #noblepeaceprize #2014 #Respect #joy #ithalljuststarted ?? http://instagram. com/p/t_-Tjlo5nw/” she wrote in the tweet. According to the report, Campbell had originally posted the message on her Instagram Saturday, but it also automatically went to her Twitter account.

She also misspelt Nobel as «noble»

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he Battle of the Bands 2nd elimination round is scheduled to be held on October 14 at “The Garden”, Supermarket, Dimapur from 2:00pm. A press note informed that the list of the selected bands with their respective codes include Funk Fuzz (Code No. 1); Third Reich (Code No. 2); The Magic Bean (Code No. 3); Legal Language (Code No. 4); D-Foe (Code No. 5); Stereotype (Code No. 6); Kenny and the Faith Band (Code No. 7); Papersky (Code No. 8); Lines of Note (Code No. 9); The Duskfall (Code No. 10) and Infinity High (Code No.11). Voting will be closed on Monday, October 13at 5:00 pm.

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ake That frontman Gary Barlow does not believe the band’s £20 million tax scandal will affect their popularity because fans are simply ‘not interested’. Barlow, 43, who invested in a tax avoidance scheme along with fellow bandmates Mark Owen and Howard Donald, as well as manager Jonathan Wild, said fans are more interested in ‘records and tours’.

It comes as the band prepared to launch their new single as a trio after Jason Orange – the only member of the group not to have invested in the controversial scheme – quit last month. Speaking for the first time since news of the tax avoidance scandal broke in May, Barlow said ‘it’s something we’ve got to get to the bottom of’. He told The Sun: ‘Our fans, they want to buy our records and watch our tours.

They’re not interested.’ Bandmate Owen, 42, added: ‘It has been a bit tricky what’s gone on – it’s not the easiest. Hopefully

by this time next year, the tax thing will be sorted out, we’ll be doing live shows and it will be a positive time for us.’

Earlier this year it was revealed that Barlow, Owen, Donald, 46, and Wild faced a multimillionpound tax bill for attempting to shelter £66 million in a tax-avoidance scheme called Icebreaker Management. While Icebreaker styled itself as a music-industry investment scheme, a judge ruled in May that it was ‘known and understood by all concerned to be a tax avoidance scheme’. It allegedly allowed the Take That members to avoid tax on around £63million made through world tours and CD sales.

In 2012, lawyers representing the four men confirmed they were investors in the partnerships, but believed they were legitimate enterprises and not tax-avoidance schemes. They added that their clients paid significant amounts of tax.

but that could be an error due to the autocorrect feature available in smartphones.

While people were quick to notice the slip-up, Campbell had apparently not noticed for hours after posting her message as the mistake was not corrected. «Naomi Campbell calls Malala, malaria. Maybe because she comes from the SWAT region in Pak,» tweeted @ajith27.

«Malaria gets Peace prize and Elephantiasis becomes endangered pachyderm,» wrote @nirvana74v. Another tweet by @TheAzzo read: «Malaria is now trending in London. Naomi Campbell is going to start a mosquito-related panic.» Malala was named the joint winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Friday along with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.

Iggy Azalea Denies Marriage Rumours

Is Iggy Azalea married? Her ex ‘husband’ Hefe Wine has filed paperwork suing the rapper for divorce but Azalea is denying any knowledge of a marriage and claims the story is “false”.

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ggy Azalea is reportedly being sued for divorce but she doesn’t seem to remember getting married and is even claiming the story is a fabrication. Hefe Wine AKA Maurice Williams has, according to reports in TMZ, filed for divorce from 24-year-old Azalea. Wine met Azalea on the night of her eighteenth birthday - back in June 2008 and they dated for two years, according to reports in the Mirror.

The former couple also reportedly lived together in Atlanta, Georgia but Wine has allegedly filed the papers in Texas owing to the state’s legislation on common law marriages. In Texas, the law states that a man and woman who live together and consider themselves to be husband and wife are effectively married in the eyes of the law.

Wine claims the mar-

riage occurred sometime in September 2008 and the divorce papers, as TMZ reports, state Azalea and Wine “agreed to be married, holding themselves out as man and wife and began residing together in the State of Texas on or about September, 2008.” Wine further claims they only began living separately last year.

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visit to a Sudanese refugee camp in Kenya had a huge impact on actress Reese Witherspoon and her teenage daughter Ava. Witherspoon took her 15-yearold daughter to the area to research her new movie ‘Inherent Vice’.

She has said that watching 250,000 people displaced, sleeping on concrete slabs, and kids who were unwell, was a ‹very emotional› experience, reports femalefirst. co.uk. However, she didn›t regret putting her daughter through this experience.

«Ava didn›t say a word the whole day. I think it›s going to affect her for a long time, as it will (to) me,» Witherspoon said. She feels technology disconnects young minds from life, and travel is the only way to change that. «As much of the world as you can show them is great,» she said.

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ISL takes off with a glitzy ceremony Atletico de Kolkata rout Mumbai City in ISL opener

Priyanka Chopra looks on as Nita Ambani declares the tournament open during The Opening Ceremony of the Hero Indian Super League at the Salt Lake stadium, Kolkata on Sunday .

KolKata, october 12 (iaNS): Aimed at establishing Indian football on the world map, the Indian Super League (ISL) kicked off with a glitzy ceremony amid a heavy presence of Bollywood and sports stars at the Salt Lake stadium here Sunday.

Bollywood beauty Priyanka Chopra dazzled the ceremony that started with a cultural ensemble of percussion instruments

from across India led by maestros like Shivamani, Taufiq Qureshi and Bickram Ghosh. Priyanka Chopra was also given the honour to introduce the eight teams who were represented by their star co-owners and marquee players.

Among the star owners were former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly with Luis Garcia for Atletico de Kolkata, cricket

legend Sachin Tendulkar with David James for Kerala Blasters, Hrithik Roshan for FC Pune City, Ranbir Kapoor and Freddie Ljungberg representing Mumbai City FC and Abhishek Bachchan and Elano turning up for Chennaiyin FC. Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and All India Football Federation

(AIFF) president Praful Patel watched the spectacular ceremony as Nita Ambani, the founding chairperson of Football Sports Development threw open the tournament. "Aami Indian Super League er subho suchno korchi (I declare the Indian Super League Open)," Nita, also chairperson of IMG-Reliance, said as the night sky glittered with dazzling fireworks.

KolKata, october 12 (aGeNcieS): Goals from Fikru Lemissa, Borja Fernandez and Arnal Llibert helped home side Atletico De Kolkata (ATK) rout the more fancied Mumbai City FC 3-0 in the opening match of the much-awaited Indian Super League (ISL) at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Sunday.

Antonio Lopez Habas’s lined up in a 4-4-1-1 formation with Luis Garcia deployed behind Fikru Tefera upfront. Josemi partnered Arnab Mondal in central defense while Borja Fernandez provided the muscle in midfield, while Peter Reid chose to line up similarly with Tiago Ribeiro in an advanced role just behind Diego Nadaya. Manuel Friedrich and Pavel Cmovs were the two centre-backs while skipper Syed Rahim Nabi played as a left winger.

The match began with much excitement and this was apparent when in the second minute, Mumbai City FC skipper Syed Rahim Nabi was awarded a yellow card for a rash tack-

Manuel Friedrich of Mumbai City FC lunges at Borja Fernandez of Atletico de Kolkata during the opening match of the Hero Indian Super League at the Salt Lake stadium, Kolkata on Sunday.

le. Mumbai City FC looked distinctly average in all areas of the pitch as Atletico kept much of the possession early on.

Baljit Singh should have helped the home side take the lead when he got onto a lovely through ball from Garcia in the seventh minute and was one-on-one with the goalkeeper. His shot though was blocked by Mumbai’s goalkeeper Subrata Pal. The first goal of ISL

came through Ethiopian striker Fikru Lemissa after beating the offside trap got onto Captain Luis Garcia's pass and chipped it over Subrata Pal. The home side doubled their lead when Borja Fernandez scored a delightful goal from outside the box in the 69th minute. Atletico added to Mumbai’s miserable outing when in the final minute of added time, Spain's Arnal Llibert found the net to complete the rout. Llib-

ert doing well to turn in Fikru's cross from the right after Mumbai City FC were caught in defense with most of their players up.

The only real action the away side saw was Raju Gaikwad using his hand to try and score off a Ralte free-kick in the 20th minute and deservedly was booked by the referee. The other chances that came Mumbai City’s way were set piece situations but those too were wasted.

Lewis Hamilton wins NSF Martyrs’ Trophy on hold inaugural Russian GP

Kohima, october 12 (mexN): In view of the requisition of Kohima Local Ground by District Administration from October 13 to 16 for the forthcoming byeelection to 11th Northern Angami II A/C, the matches for 15th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy 2014 during the said period will be suspended. NSF President Tongpang Ozukum and 15th NSF MMT convenor Kezhazer Angami informed that play will resume on October 17 onwards till the final match on October 25. The Trophy organised

by Naga Students’ Federation under the theme ‘Goal for Peace’, started on October 1.

15th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial trophy 2014 Day-12 Match Results: Rengma Students' Union defeated Tyrants FC Khuzama 4-1 (RSU: Yhunshalo Kemp 26’, 35’, Senelo Tep 37’, 46’; Tyrants FC: Vimeyieto Luho 90+’) Jovial FC Kenuozou defeated DEF Kohima 2-1 (Jovial FC: Kezhavilie 3’, 65’; DEF Kohima: Robert Lotha 6’) MT Youth Club New Police Reserve defeated Twenty XI FC Viswema 3-0 (MT YC: Hunato Awomi 11’, Atoka Sumi 55’, Kato Ayemi 57’) St. Joseph's College Jakhama defeated Chuziezou FC Thizama 4-3 (via tie-breaker; 1-1 AET) (St. Joseph's: Viho Kin 4’; Chuziezou FC: Menguzelie 24’) Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain holds his trophy after winning the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the 'Sochi Autodrom' Formula One circuit, in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, October 12. (AP Photo)

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Sochi, october 12 (aP): Lewis Hamilton cruised to victory in the inaugural Russian Grand Prix on Sunday, leading a 1-2 finish for Mercedes that clinched its first Formula One constructors' title and stretching his lead in the championship.

Nico Rosberg came second despite having to pit early in the race but now trails his teammate by 17 points in the drivers' standings, with three races remaining.

Hamilton, who was fastest in practice and qualifying, won his fourth straight race and his ninth of the season. He was presented the winner's trophy

by Russia's president Vladimir Putin, who had pushed for his country to have a Formula One race. "We've had an amazing week, Russia's been so good to me," Hamilton said from the podium. "It was kind of surreal for the president to be presenting the award," Hamilton said later.

The Briton lost the pole when Rosberg beat him to the first corner. But Rosberg had to brake hard, ruined his tires, cut a corner and was then told by his team to let Hamilton back into the lead because he had

gained an unfair advantage.

Hamilton took the flag 13.6 seconds ahead of Rosberg.

Valtteri Bottas was third in a Williams, 17.4 seconds back.

Rosberg said he was angry at himself for making the mistake. "It was unnecessary. I braked too hard, too late. The tires were square. I thought that was the end of the day for me," the German said.

Hamilton became only the fourth driver in Formula One history to win nine races in a season. He equaled Nigel Mansell's record of 31 victories for a British driver. The other three with nine or more wins in a season were Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Mansell.

Before the race, the drivers united to send a message of support to their injured colleague Jules Bianchi, who is fighting for his life following an accident at the Japanese Grand Prix one week ago. The 21 drivers gathered together shortly before the start of the inaugural Russian Grand Prix on the grid and were joined by Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and international federation president Jean Todt. They stood behind the words "Jules, we are all supporting you" inscribed into the grid.

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