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Pharmacist assaulted and robbed

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): One person was injured during a robbery at a pharmacy located in Chumukedima Block I at around 1:00pm on Monday, October 13. Sources informed that three miscreants barged into the pharmacy and assaulted the owner, identified as one Thepfusatuo Chatsu. According to sources, the miscreants arrived in a red motorbike and claimed to be cadres of a Naga Political Group, which they did not specify. It was further informed that they locked up the pharmacy owner for nearly an hour and took off with Rs 5000 in cash and two mobile phones.

The pharmacy owner has been hospitalized due to his injuries. Sources informed that an FIR in this connection has been filed at the Diphupar Police Station.

IT dept monitoring cash movement during polls

GUWAhATI, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): As per the direction of Election Commission of India, the income-tax department is keeping close surveillance over movement of cash or other items suspected to be used for bribing of electors during the Legislative Assembly Election, 2014.

For this purpose, the Directorate of Income Tax (Investigation), NER, Guwahati has opened a 24x7 Control Room and Complaint Monitoring Cell with a toll free number 1800-345-3619 and a telephone cum Fax Number: 0361-2340310.

Any information pertaining to movement of large amount of cash in any place in the states of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh & Nagaland during election period may be communicated to the complaint Monitoring Cell in the above Telephone Number.

This was informed by the Press and Information Bureau, Government of India.

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‘Survival of Nagaland depends on Dimapur’

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‘They are about to start work’ Morung Express News Mon | October 13

There was a time, in the 1990s, when it used to take a Nagaland State Government bureaucrat posted in Tizit only 45 minutes to an hour to reach Mon town.

Today, she is the Deputy Commissioner of Mon district, but the roads have not graduated with her—it takes nearly 3 hours to cover the distance of 44km between Tizit and Mon town by a motorized vehicle.

“It is supposed to be under repair since 2010-11,” says Angau I Thou, the DC of Mon. So what happened to it? “Perhaps the money was diverted, or has not come at all,” she guesses, decidedly unsure, of the funds promised to be pooled into the Mon-Tizit road, the lifeline road from Mon that leads into Assam and then Dimapur, by the State Government. Repair works have been done in bits and patch between two contractors who have been awarded the works but most of the road is a ride as though to bits and patch of hell.

The Mon-Tizit road used to be reportedly maintained by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) till the late 1990s, after which it was taken under its control by the Government of Nagaland’s Public Works Department (PWD). It remains unclear why this switch was made given that the State Government is unable, perhaps even unwilling, to maintain roads in Mon dis-

Roads in Mon district remain stormy and dusty

(LEFT) General condition of the Mon-Tizit road that is a lifeline of the people of Mon out of the district, into Assam and then Nagaland through Dimapur. (RIGHT) Mud-filling of the entirely damaged and poorly maintained roads of Mon town has recently been started. (Morung Photos)

trict (“Just look at the Longwa-Mon road, how well it is maintained by BRO,” says a resident). Konyak and other people are left with remains of bumps and aches, forced to be habituated to brutal roads despite being part of governance which promised them stars. And stars on earth are all they see now, alongside some more dreams.

The Konyak Union (KU) recently met the Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang, and Nagaland minister for Roads & Bridges, Kuzholuzo Nienu,

to discuss the Mon-Tizit road—they were sent away with an “assurance” of Rs. 20 crore from the State budget. The Union’s estimates suggest that Rs. 60 crore will be needed for the whole road to be repaired, though it is decidedly unsure why it has remained neglected all these years.

“The NBCC general convention will be held in Mon next year in the first week of February, and given that the work has not started yet, it looks like it will be very hard for participants,” laments S Manlip Konyak,

president of the KU. At least the participants will get a taste of what the people of Mon do all year round—the eastern corners of Nagaland that are promised funds that disappear into its largely visible black holes. Where the dust never settles, as in Mon town where the decidedly broken roads are stubbornly dusty.

“After years of neglecting it, they have decided to fill up the more-potholesthan-road with mud,” says former Konyak Students’ Union president, Methna Konyak, his friend spit-

ting some mud, turned to muck, out as he walks through Mon town on a Sunday without cars to rake up further storms. The innumerable children going and coming from Church on a dry October day cough up sticky mud particles— they thank God for the lack of rain, or it would’ve been impossible to step out, the dry storm replaced by mud banks throughout town.

There is a high sense of expecting nothing from the system. The optimistic DC says, “We appreciate the efforts of the new Ex-

ecutive Engineer—we have seen a lot of improvement since he took office. Hopefully the roads will also be black topped this time.” The numerous, seemingly neglected, black tar tins at a PWD open site in Mon town probably offer hope. But the DC is also pragmatic about the till-date missing drainage system in the town, essential for good functional roads; she, however, “cannot blame” the State Government if “field officers don’t take responsibility.”

Meanwhile, the KU president informs that a

two-lane highway, a Government of India undertaking, is to pass through Mon town. In the confusion of who-is-in-charge of the roads of Mon town, neither the Centre nor its peripheral State maintains the road. So now, Nagaland’s Department of Under Developed Area (DUDA), according to S Manlip Konyak, plans to pool in some funds to repair it. Everyone has only snippets of idea about what really is happening but everyone has been assured that “they are about to start work.”

NYO demands “probe” into IRB action ‘Let us grow and prosper’

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): The Nerhema Youth Organization (NYO) today condemned what it alleged was “the barbaric act and life attempt on two of its active members...by some jawans of the 13th Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB).” A press note from the NYO President, Medongulie Tsiirho and General Secretary, Menuoneituo Chadi informed that the incident occurred on the night of October 12 at Chiechama Village.

Congress sacks Shashi Tharoor as spokesperson

NEW DElhI, OCTOBER 13 (IANS): The Congress on Monday removed Shashi Tharoor as a party spokesperson for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a decision the diplomat-turned-politician said he accepted as a “loyal party worker”.

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) Monday took the decision following a complaint by its Kerala party unit, which, according to sources, was upset over Tharoor’s praise for Prime Minister Modi, and his decision to join the Clean India Campaign.

Tharoor was one of nine people nominated by Modi in the Clean India Campaign. “Congress president Sonia Gandhi has accepted the recommendation of AICC disciplinary committee to remove Shashi Tharoor from the list of spokespersons of the AICC with immediate effect,” said party general secretary Janar-

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dan Dwivedi in a statement.

The three-member disciplinary committee comprised Motilal Vora, A.K. Antony and Sushilkumar Shinde. Tharoor, Lok Sabha member from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, said he accepted the decision.

“I have seen the press release issued by the AICC and, as a loyal worker of the Congress party, accept the decision of the party president to relieve me of my responsibilities as a spokesman,” Tharoor said in a statement.

“While I have not yet seen the KPCC complaint referred to, and while I would have welcomed an opportunity to respond to it and draw the attention of the AICC leadership to the full range of my statements and writings on contemporary political issues, I am now treating this matter as closed and have no further comment to make,” he added.

The NYO alleged that the security personnel posted to maintain law and order at Chiephobozou for the upcoming byepolls “went on a rampage without any provocation.”

It added that “the victims who were on their way back to Nerhema Village after conveying a condolence message to the relative of a dearly departed, were waylaid by the IRBs and rained blows.” It further alleged that the victims were “taken to the

lock up cell at Chiephobozou police outpost and their statements taken for no reason at all at the risk of losing their lives.”

Taking a strong exception of the incident, the NYO questioned the “wisdom of the Chiephobozou Administration in-charge under whose very nose the barbarism happened.” The NYO further censured the “ignorance of the administration, their unpreparedness and lack of control over the armed men.”

While continuing to restrain itself and extend support to the Administration, the NYO stated that its members “cannot be intimidated by the armed men in uniforms.”

The NYO demanded that the incident be probed immediately and cautioned that “it will not be held responsible for any untoward incident arising out of the delay in probing the incident while demanding that justice be delivered at the earliest.”

KYO imposes restriction on goods trucks KOhIMA, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): Pertaining to the October 9 hit and run incident at Kigwema Village, where one person was killed, the Kigwema Youth Organization (KYO) and the family of the victim have resorted to their 1st phase of imposing restriction on movement of goods ferrying trucks in the village area.

This action, according to a press release from KYO president Mezhüvo-o Thorie and general secretary Khesakedo Phira, has been taken on account of the failure of the authority concerned to identify the truck driver and hand him over to the village body.

The press release recounted that in the incident, Vinezo Zütso, aged around 20, was killed on the spot at NH 29 in the heart of Kigwema Village, by a speeding truck bearing

registration number MN 01 A 8747. The youths of the village along with youths from the vicinity caught all the three occupants of the truck at Police Check gate, Phesama and after a brief

South Police reiterating its demand to “promptly investigate and identify the driver.” However, the release stated, “despite the patient bearing of the aggrieved youths (even after a lapse of 72 hrs) awaiting prompt actions from police personnel on the case, the authority have proved to be otherwise in revealing the identity of the errant truck driver.”

In light of “justice being denied,” the KYO stated, it is “left with no conditions but to seek justice in the streets.” Further, KYO reiterated its demand to the authority concerned to promptly investigate the case and hand over the truck driver to the village authority for a “fair” customary trial, failing which, it cautioned, it will be “compelled to resort to more stringent course of action.”

Demands justice for victim of hit and run incident civil investigation handed over the accused to police personnel on duty for a thorough and speedy investigation of the accident, it added.

However, after the incident, in a meeting with the Officer In charge of Kohima South Police and Khuzama Police, the KYO demanded “in clear term to identify the driver of the truck and to hand over him to the Village body for a fair trial on the incident as per the traditional practice of the people.”

Meanwhile, on October 10, the KYO formally lodged an FIR at Kohima

‘Thuwu-Ni’ festival to collectively improve economic and social conditions of the people

Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control, Y Vikheho Swu (4th left) along with organizers of “ThuwuNi” festival.

Morung Express News Dimapur | October 13

Sumi ancestral villages in Pughoboto sub-division under Zunheboto district are on the road to an economic revolution through introduction of a unique festival call “Thuwu-Ni”, coinciding with the Sumi Naga “Ahuna” festival.

The stage for celebration of “Thuwu-Ni” is set at Pughoboto town and the two-day festival (November 13 & 14) will witness participation of all 24 villages under Pughoboto sub-division.

The festival to be celebrated in the form of a fair will showcase finished and organic products ranging agricultural crops, tools and implements, handicrafts to a board spectrum of prospective consumers including visitors and tourists.

The focus will be on agriculture, livestock farming, songs and music, indigenous games and

sports, arts and crafts, seminars and workshops.

“Thuwu-Ni” (let’s grow or let’s progress in Sumi Aphuyemi dialect) is a conscious initiative by Pughoboto people to make a collective effort to enhance and improve the economic and social conditions of the people by optimizing production capacity and to generate solutions to common problems pertaining to translation of finished products and to develop skills into practical usage.

The festival will also strive to provide counseling facilities and impart relevant information and knowledge to the people to deal with human problems such as diseases, hygiene and inter-personal relationships.

Addressing media persons here at Hiyo Café, the brains behind the concept of the festival including Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control, Y Vikheho Swu, said

the festival will be partly funded by the Local Area Development Programme (LADP) with the understanding that the objectives of the festival is for the benefit of the people of Pughoboto sub-division as a whole and is a higher form of social-economic development.

“Efforts will be made to codify and regulate previously unregulated indigenous games, thus enabling the games to adapt to modern trends. This will also serve to provide a platform to talented sportspersons to showcase their skills and improve chances of building careers. The festival will make every effort to promote indigenous music and songs. With the collaboration of established musicians and singers, the festival will also seek to identify and promote local talents in the field of music”, stated a concept paper on the festival.

“The festival’s definitive purpose will be to eradicate the chronic economic dependence on external dynamics for sustenance and to facilitate the availing of alternative employment for the young, the skilled and the talented,” it added.

Others highlights of the festival are “Akikiti” (Sumi kick fight), greased pole climbing, wooden car race, cooking competition with only organic and local vegetables and herbs, comedy show, under-12 football tournament and ‘Ahuna Night’, a mega concert featuring acclaimed Alobo Naga & the Band, former Naga Idol Renbeni Odyuo, DGP Band, Lino Swu (Sumi singing star) and others.

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trates and sector commanders if any law and order problem arises.

In the training, ADC Kohima, Asangla Imti, advised the polling personnel to take necessary measures in order to avoid unlawful activities by co-coordinating with the magistrates. In case of machinery failure (EVMs) it has to be reported to the respective area appointed magistrates, commanders, or AEO, she added. She further said that as per the directives of ECI ‘one man one vote’ should be enforced and guide lines of election rules should be strictly followed.

AEO, Kohima, Mhathung Ngullie highlighted on maintaining proper record of votes in the register, using of photo voters slips, and ‘secrecy’ during exercising of franchise. He said that voters should produce EPIC cards or other alternative documents for identification. The AEO also reminded them to implement the ECI instructions and to assists the BLOs who are the main source in the polling stations.

District administration has made necessary arrangements to deploy Micro-Observer which would work under the direct supervision of General observer, he informed.

The master Trainers were Project Director, NEEPED, Pikato, LRSO, Vitholie, EE Youth Re-

source Department Imsuyanger, and Project Director Labour Deptt.

Chubayanger.

SDO (C), Kohima, Neilezo Tep also explained to the officials about matters relating to handing and receiving election materials.

EAC Neikesono Kevichusa chaired the training programme.

Home department informs The Home Department General administration Branch II has informed through a notification that in view of the coming bye-election to be held on October 15 for 11-Northern Angami-II Assembly constituency, all establishments including Government Offices and shops shall remain closed and declared as a paid holiday to all the employees of the constituency serving within and outside the area of 11-Northern Angami-II Assembly constituency on the day of polling. This is to enable the concerned persons to participate and exercise their franchise.

Kohima DC notifies The DC & DEO Kohima, W Honje Konyak has prohibited canvassing or propagating any election matter in any form and manner during the period of 48 hours ending with hour fixed for conclusion of poll that is from 4:00 p.m. on

October 13 to 4:00 pm on October 15. Appropriate action as per election law shall be initiated against any person who contravenes this order, it was cautioned.

11 polling stations declared ‘hyper sensitive’ For the forthcoming Bye- Election for the 11 Northern Angami II A/C scheduled to be held on 15 October 2014, so far 11 ( eleven) Polling Stations have been declared Hyper sensitive/critical, nine vulnerable and the remaining 19 will be normal polling stations. The hyper sensitive’s polling stations are: Teichuma-GPS, Nachama-GPS, Nerhema LowerGPS, Nerhema Upper-GPS, Chiechama Bawe- GPS, Cheichama Basa-GPS, Chiechama PhesazuoGPS, Chiephobozou- Don Bosco School, Tsiemekhuma Basa- GPS, Chiechama Pheluo-Community Hall Rupreo Chienuo, and Nerhe Model Village Panchayat Hall Nerhe Model Village, Sensitive/ Vulnerable are Zhadima UpperGPS, Zhadima Lower-GPS, Seiyhama- Gps, Rusoma- GPS, Rusoma Basa- GPS, Phekekriema Bawe- GPS, Kijumetouma -GPS, Dihoma-GPS and Cieswema BasaGPS. The remaining 19 polling stations are normal.

USSC concerned by condition of NH-202 Our Correspondent Kiphire | October 13

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11 NA bye-poll: final round of training concludes ‘Survival of Nagaland depends on Dimapur’

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 13 (DIPR): The 3rd and final round training for polling personnel for the 11 Northern Angami II A/c Bye- Election with Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak was held at the Zonal council hall, Kohima, on October 13.

Kohima DC, W. Honje Konyak apprised the polling officials on matters relating to necessary rules to be enforced in the polling stations and asked them to perform their duties on time and to firmly implement the rules during election processes.

He was optimistic that the polling personnel are all well equipped with the latest instructions of ECI through the master trainers. The DC further expressed gratitude to all the master trainers for rendering their services diligently during the last two successful elections held. He informed that web -cameras would be installed in all polling stations to record the polling proceedings and also said that he had constituted seven sector plans with seven magistrates and sector commanders. The DC reminded them to be more careful while executing their duties and advised them to contact the designated magis-

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Taking serious note of an accident along NH 202 Kiphire sector due to non cutting of jungle and heaping of soil along the highway, the United Sangtam Students Conference (USSC) today appealed to the Executive engineer National highway NPWD for early cutting of Jungles and clearance of soil along the Highway Interacting with this correspondent, Achum secretary USSC said that the highway does not look like a highway and is causing lot of inconveniences for people plying the highway and added that jungle cutting should be done at the earliest otherwise there will be

Accumulation of soil on the road and the overgrown jungle at NH-202 near Kiphire poses a threat to vehicles plying the particular stretch of road.

many accident at this rate. stated that almost every day cutting of Jungle along the Sumo drivers who ply many vehicles narrowly es- highway. They further say this road daily to Dimapur cape accidents due to non that though the highway is

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narrowed down to a foot path, drivers have to maintain certain speed and drive under risky conditions.

In a letter addressed to the Executive Engineer NPWD Kiphire which was appended by its president and Pithrongse Anar and Secretary Achum Thonger, the USSC informed that there have been five accident along the highway in this few days due to non clearance of jungle and heaping of soil. It further added that the highway resembles a logging area.

The USSC also appealed to the concerned department to clear the jungles and soil along the highway as this is the only life line for the people and also for the safety of the citizens.

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Landowners union bans entry into Naga Heritage Village KOHIMA, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): The Landowners Union, Naga Heritage Village Kisama has informed that in view of certain controversy arising between the department of tourism and the landowners’ of Phesama and Kigwema villages in matters relating to Naga Heritage Village, Kisama, it has resolved to impose a complete ban for entry into Naga Heritage Village Kisama, till matters pending are solved amicably between the two parties with effect from October 16 onwards indefinitely. The tourist from far and near as well as the public have been informed to take note and bear with the Landowners Union for the inconvenience created, stated a press release issued by the Land Owners union chairman Neikehetuo Sahu and secretary Seyievilhou Yokha.

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Water supply cut off in Mon Participants of the training programme by DUDA.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): The Department of Underdeveloped Areas (DUDA) conducted training on bamboo and cane furniture and handicraft at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre Dimapur. A press note from M Kichung Phom, member, NBDA informed that all together, 14 trainees representing the Eastern Nagaland tribes were trained.

Besides undergoing a two month training programme, the trainees were also provided with machineries to set up their own furniture and handicraft making units in their respective tribal areas.

The culmination programme of the training was held on October 13 at Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre, Sovima, Dimapur with the Commissioner and Secretary, DUDA, Abieu Kire as the Chief Guest.

He exhorted the trainees to make effective use of the training given to them for their own livelihood as well as be the harbinger of change and development to their respective local areas. The Chief Guest also impressed upon the department and the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency to extend required handholding support to the craftsmen trained and

to ensure that the training programme conducted by the department is not wasted in its purpose.

The culmination programme was chaired by the Director of DUDA, Libannthung Lotha and attended by a host of officials from the department and the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency.

This training programme is initiated by DUDA from the Under Developed Areas Programme (UDAP) during 2013-14, as a means of skill development and capacity building programme of the four “backward” districts of Eastern Nagaland.

MON, OCTOBER 13 (DIPR): Water supply was cut off at Mon, district headquarters ‘Land of Anghs’ and home town of Noke Wangnao, Minister for Public Health Engineering, Government of Nagaland since September 30, 2014. The denizens have been sustaining themselves from spring water and water supply from private vehicles on commercial basis. However, there is no report of acute misery due to scarcity of water. According to the official sources the main pipe was broken by the community people while cutting wood during the course of cleaning the village surroundings. The pipe will be connected after the generator is repaired for welding of broken pipe, Public Health Engineering Department sources informed.

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The 25th Anniversary of the Sanctuary Choir, Union Baptist Church was held on October 12 at UBC, Kohima. Celebrating 25 years of choral music, the choir which started in 1989 was founded by Dr. Vivee Peseyie. The concert presented the past and present members from 1989 till date.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): Sydneybased renowned motivational speaker, Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung on Monday strongly asserted that the survival and success of Nagaland depended on Dimapur which he said was the epicenter of the state.

Addressing members of the Dimapur district administration, GBs and DBs at the DC office complex during a motivational seminar, Rev. Yimsung founder of Leaders Arise Nagaland (LAN) said, “If Dimapur survives, Nagaland will survive” and added that Dimapur deserved the best officers, bureaucrats and leaders.

He also maintained that Dimapur needed a cabinet rank in the state council of ministers. Rev. Yimsung, however, sought to clarify

that there was no political intonations in his remark but that he recognized that Dimapur belonged to everyone unlike other tribalbased districts in the state.

He lamented that leaders around the world were no more leading the people but engrossed in their individualism. To be a leader, Rev. Yimsung underscored the need to maintain one’s integrity, attitude and being in control of one’s own life. “As a leader, you have to move forward to lead the people,” he added. He also emphasized on managing emotions, time, priorities, thinking and managing personal life to be a strong leader.

The speaker disclosed that a yearly Leaders’ Festival would be held from next year with the objective of building up strong Naga

In Nagaland, Amur Falcon hunters turn sworn protectors

GUwAHATI, OCTOBER 13 (THE INDIAN ExPREss): Over the last decade, Zandango and Openthung trapped and sold thousands of migratory Amur Falcons when the birds came to roost in Nagaland.

But now, interestingly the two, along with 250 other previous hunters, protect the falcons and regularly visit their roosting sites to ensure that they are safe.

During their 22,000-km flight from Siberia to South Africa, the Amur Falcons halt at Nagaland to roost. They would spend about two months before leaving for the onward journey. There is no gainsaying that the Nagas love meat the most.

So until a couple of years back, tens of thousands of the birds were trapped and killed for their meat at Pangti area of Nagaland’s Wokha district.

But the killings have now become a thing of the past, thanks to conservation initiatives of the Nagaland government, village authorities, NGOs and the Wildlife Trust of India. In 2012, in the wake of a mass hunt that threatened the bird species, village authorities had jointly taken up a resolution banning the killing of the birds in their jurisdictions. And it did mag-

ic. The village councils in Nagaland are governed by customary laws and as such, their judgements and rulings are always final and binding.

“It feels good to see that the birds are no longer killed. We all organized a series of awareness programmes in the villages where the birds come to roost. The people have realized that what they were doing all these years was wrong,” Bano Haralu, managing trustee of Nagaland Wildlife and BioDiversity Conversation Trust, told Express.

“The state government’s threat that villages where the birds were killed would be deprived of NREGS funds has also paid off,” she added. “We have sensitized the people.

So, we don’t think they will repeat their mistakes,” said a senior Nagaland government official. But Zandango said it could not be said with conviction that the birds would not be killed again in Nagaland.

“We know Amur Falcons are an international bird species and we shouldn’t kill them. For 14 years, a large number of the hunters were solely dependent on the birds. What will happen to them now? So, there is a chance that they may continue hunting,” he said.

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Nagaland launches ‘My Stamp’ facility

Road repair carried out by public ZUNHEBOTO, OCTOBER 13 (DIPR): Comprising of all the vehicle owners and the public of Alahuto Colony, Zunheboto town, a road and drainage repairing was carried out on October 11 at Alahuto Colony. It was informed that said road is also a bypass road leading towards Aghunato via Shotomi village. The road had remained neglected and unfit for plying vehicles for several years back, which caused major inconveniences to travellers as well as the public of Alahuto due to the poor road condition. In order to organize the said programme Rs. 200/- each was contributed for the vehicle owners residing at Alahuto Colony for transportation of stones/sands.

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Rev. Louliehu Yimsung speaking in Dimapur on Monday.

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leaders. Rev. Yimsung expressed high hopes for Nagaland provided that the Naga people build strong leaders for themselves. He said that the Leaders’ Festival would see conglomeration of leaders in politics, Church, bureaucrats, NGOs, grassroots level etc and learn from each other on ways to lead the people.

The LAN founder further disclosed that setting up of Nagaland Centre for Strategic Thinkers was in the offing wherein thinktank from Nagas of Nagaland would be invited to the Centre where they would deliberate issues basing on five Cs – Call, Converge, Converse, Convert and Convey.

For this year, the annual Leaders Arise seminar organized by Rev. Yimsung would be officially launched on November 12 at Hotel Vivor Kohima where Chief Minister, TR Zeliang would be the chief guest and Odisha Governor, Dr. SC Jamir would be the special guest. During the official launching, representatives of all prominent associations, organizations, union etc would be invited.

Monday’s motivational seminar was attended by DC Dimapur, Wezope Kenye, Commissioner Excise, Maongwati Aier, other district administration officials, GBs and DBs.

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KOHIMA, OCTOBER 13 (DIPR): The Nagaland Information Commission is celebrating RTI Week 2014 on the theme ‘RTI and Role of Media”. The programme will be held at Hotel Vivor, Kohima on October 17 at 1:00pm with Former Information Commissioner, Central Commission, New Delhi Shailesh Gandhi and Assistant Editor, Indian Express, Guwahati, Samudra Gupta Kashyap as speakers. The inaugural programme will be chaired by Acting Chief Information Commissioner, Nagaland Information Commission, Kevinivo P. Meru while the keynote address will be delivered

by Former Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission, New Delhi, Shailesh Gandhi. Vote of thanks will be proposed by State Information Commissioner, Nagaland Information Commission, Bukchem Phom. The closing programme will be held at 3:00pm which will be chaired

by State Information Commissioner, Nagaland Information Commission, Bukchem Phom.

Som Kamei, Director of Postal services Nagaland with Abiogenesis during the launching programme of ‘My Stamp’ in Kohima on October 13. Morung Photo Our Correspondent Kohima | October 13

Nagaland Postal Division today launched “My Stamp” facility by Abiogenesis on the occasion of Philately Day as part National Postal Week here. With this, Moa and Arenla of Abiogenesis are now featured in “My Stamp.”

Earlier, Som Kamei, Director of Postal services, Nagaland delivered the welcome address while vote of thanks was proposed by K.I. Singh, ASPO’s Kohima Sub Division. The function was chaired by Sharon Losu.

The occasion also witnessed presentation of awards: Best Sub Post office- Paper Nagar Sub Post

Office, Mokokchung Sub Division; highest revenue earning sub post officeCircular Road Sub Post Office, Dimapur Sub Division; Best Branch post office- Darogapathar Branch office, Dimapur; runnersup- Singirijan Branch office and Zeliangrong B branch office.

“My Stamp” is a facility where a person can personalize his/her photograph or any images alongside the selected postage stamp.

“My Stamp” is the brand name for personalized sheets of Postage Stamps of India Post. The personalization is achieved by printing a thumb nail photograph of the customer images and logos of institutions, or images of artwork,

heritage buildings, famous tourist places, historical cities, wildlife, other animals and birds etc., alongside the selected Commemorative Postage Stamp.

‘My Stamp’ was first introduced in India during the World Philatelic Exhibition, ‘INDIPEX-2011’.

There was considerable demand for it during the exhibition and many requests to resume its printing have since been received.

This enthusiasm from stamp lovers prompted India Post to extend the ‘My Stamp’ scheme to cover all Postal Circles. This scheme is available in selected Philatelic Bureaux and counters /Important Post offices/Post Offices situated at tourist places.

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'The Dihang Dam violates the rights Child-tracing portal hit by poor infrastructure in NE of Rights of Indigenous Peoples' UN Committee on Racial Discrimination asserts IMPHAL, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): The UN Committee on Racial Discrimination and Dibang Dam, a joint campaign organised

by North East Dialogue Forum, People’s Platform Secretariate, Village Women Coordinating Committee, People’s Action for Development, Social Action Committee etc has termed “The Dihang Dam Project” in Arunachal Pradesh as a “Racial Discriminatory project to the people in North East”.

Condemning the activities of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) on the project, the committee in a press note issued its secretary, U Nobokishore asserted that the project in its present form clearly violates UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Quoting media report, the Committee stated that nearly 5022.842 hectares of forest has to be cleared for the proposed project and will submerged large areas of Mehau Wildlife Sanctuary, a home to endangered birds of the State such as Black Parrot Bill, March

Charter of Demand - Formation of a High level Internal Expert penal to investigate against NHPC and Construction of Dibang Dam. - India should respect and protect the Rights of the indigenous people to use their land, forest, water as part of their self-determination to decide what kind of development people want to have.

- A thorough research on social, economic and cultural impact on the Upstream and Downstream of the Dibang Dam by engaging neutral Expert from University in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam or Manipur - Implementation of “FREE, PRIOR, INFORMED CONSENT” under the guide lines of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous People - Establishment of Special Investigation Team to investigate against the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and NHPC on the “planning procedure” of the project.

Babbler, Manipur Bush Quail, white Winged Duck, Large Whistling, Griffin Vulture, Grey Heron.

“The total catchment area of Dibang Dam up to the Dam site is 11276 Sq ft which lies entirely in Arunachal Pradesh. So the indigenous people like Idu Minsmi may disappear from their traditional land, Forest, river, etc”, the press note maintained.

According to the committee, the project launched in January, 2008 by erstwhile Prime Minis-

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Nagas in Chandel to fast on Oct 19 CHANDEL, OCTOBER 13 (MExN): All the Nagas living across Chandel district will go on a fast on October 19 their respective churches. According to a press note, the fasting is being organised under the aegis of the Chandel Naga Public Organisation (CNPO) with the “purposes of ending the 17 years long Indo-Naga ceasefire stalemate and to bring about early amicable solution to the IndoNaga peace talks”. They will also pray for the fitness and long life of the collective leaders and for peace and tranquility in the district, added the press note.

Arunachal CM says govt has taken measures for food security ITANAGAR, OCTOBER 13 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Monday said the state government has taken several initiatives to ensure food security. Tuki was addressing the maiden Food conclave and investors’ meet here organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in collaboration with the state’s industries department and funded by the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries. Admitting critical gaps in road, air, railway and tele-communications, the Chief Minister said the 2008 central package would fill the gap within a few years, but rued that central policies including the NE Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy of April 2007 were not being implemented effectively and a thorough review was needed. Contradictory laws were hampering tapping of the state’s huge potentials including hydro-power when India has been facing energy deficits, Tuki said urging the ICC to take steps in removing the hurdles and come forward to helping Arunachal to tap its potentials. Arunachalees are fast taking up commercial production and this initiative would benefit them with the investors assuring buyback policy, Tuki said. Like the job mela initiative for skill development which offered massive opportunities to the local youth, the Chief Minister expressed hope that this meeting would prove to be a harbinger of industrial growth. Some problems hindering conducive atmosphere for industrial growth in the state would soon be removed with enactment of new laws, he said assuring security to the investors.

ter, Manmohan Singh, is supposed to be the “highest Concrete dam in Asia and expected to provide up to 3000MW of hydro electric power and also assist in flood control in the Dibang Valley upon its completion. However, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) rejected the project’s application

by NHPC in 2013, but the Ministry has issued Environment clearance for the project upon its re-submission though it is not been officially intimidat-

ed, stated the press note.

“It is clear to everyone that the dam is to be financed by the World Bank. It is a fact that what banks do is to work for the profit. Then, the question arise here is why the indigenous people like IduMismi should sacrifice for the profit of banks who finance dam construction”, it added claiming that, the dam is strongly opposed by local and international bodies considering its potential negative environment impacts and forced relocation.

In this context, it informed that since 2007, people in Upper Assam like Tinsukia and All Assam Student Union (AASU) has been vehemently protesting against the Dibang Dam and its potential impact to the People in downstream, however they were not allowed to take part public hearing at Roing regarding the project.

“This is the clear violation of Free, Fair and informed Consent manifested by UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples and ILO convention -107”, it asserted.

GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 13 (IANS): Lack of computers in many police stations and poor internet connectivity have stopped police in many northeastern states from uploading data in TrackChild, a national portal aimed at searching missing children, say officials.

Representatives of state governments in the region raised the issue during a consultation on TrackChild, organized by the union women and child development ministry under its Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS).

"Children going missing and trafficking is a very serious issue in Assam and rest of the northeast but our police stations have not been able to make proper use of the portal yet," said Assam Social Welfare Secretary H.K. Sarma.

"One of the reasons could be that many police stations don't have a proper computer system in place.

Even if they have one, it is used in the daily activities of fighting militants and criminal activities. If the ministry can financially support our police stations to buy computer sets and put in place a proper system, things will move for the better," he said.

Launched by the ministry in January 2012, Track

Child was aimed to offer a common digital online platform to put up details including photographs of missing children and assist police, NGOs and other child care institutions across the country to track them.

It was designed and developed adhering to the guidelines provided in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and Model Rules 2007 and the provisions laid down in the ICPS. One of the tasks entrusted under ICPS to the state governments is the setting up a system to facilitate data entry and matching of missing and found children, and also enable follow up of the progress of children who are beneficiaries of the scheme. The portal also ensures proper monitoring and welfare of the children under the scheme.

"Poor internet connectivity in the region is also another problem for police and officials concerned in using TrackChild and this also hampers the investigation process," said Sarma.

"Records of northeastern states in tracking the missing children is bad so far. Data of missing children are uploaded in TrackChild only at the CID headquarters in Guwahati, instead of police stations in the districts," he said.

Make tea the national drink: Assam government GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 13 (IANS): The Assam government Monday demanded that tea be accorded the status of the "national drink" and the Tea Board head office be shifted from Kolkata to Assam, the country's most important tea-growing region. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi made the demand in his address to a stakeholders' meeting here in which union Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took part.

Gogoi also asked the Centre for a special package for the revival of Assam Tea Corporation Limited (ATCL).He said the state government would promote "Assam Tea" as a brand in the international market. The Assam government has already declared tea as the official

Centre will take up issue of minimum wages in tea gardens

GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 13 (IANS): Commerce and Industries Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday said the central government will take up with the states the issue of implementation of minimum wages in tea gardens.

She said that while some states have already taken up the matter, others have not.

While the notified wage of a tea garden worker in Assam is Rs.184 per day, they are mostly paid only Rs.95 per day as wages, besides some other non-cash components like rations.

State Drink of Assam and plans to participate in the international trade fairs outside the country to promote Assam Tea. On the need for shifting the Tea Board of India's headquarters to Assam, Gogoi said: "One reason is that in sharp contrast to all other Commodity Boards i.e. coffee, rubber, spices

and tobacco whose headquarters are located in the State where the product is mainly grown, Tea Board is the only exception as its headquarters are not located in Assam.

The Tea Board functions through its two zonal offices, one of which is located at Jorhat, amidst the major tea producing region in As-

Police raid residence of Tripura official over scam AGARTALA, OCTOBER 13 (IANS): Tripura Police Monday raided the residence of a civil service official here and seized some documents related to a multicrore scam, police said.

Auditors found financial wrongdoing to the tune of Rs.17 crore at Bishalgarh block in Sipahijala district a few months back, triggering a political storm against the Left Front government, which has a clean image on the corruption issue. "We have raided the residence of a civil service officer at Milanchakra on the

outskirts of the city and seized some documents," additional superintendent of police Sharmistha Chakraborty told reporters.

She said: "Incumbent BDO of the Bishalgarh block lodged an FIR Sep 19 against 12 officials, including the civil service officer and several engineers."The state government has asked all the 12 officials to report to police by Oct 14 to share information about the scam and assist the authorities to conduct the probe into the misuse of central government funds.

sam. This Zonal Office caters to the entire North East which produces around 54 percent of the country's tea.

"It is imperative that it plays a dynamic role in supporting the tea industry and implementing welfare schemes for the tea garden workers along with new initiatives like setting up auction centres at Jorhat and Silchar, which will help the producers in selling their produce quickly from the date of manufacture and will bring down the cost of selling, thereby attracting more producers to take the auction route," he said.

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Dearth of cancer palliative care in NE UNITY COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 13 (TNN): The North East, considered the "cancer capital" of the country because of the high prevalence of the disease in the region, is facing a dearth of proper palliative care and hospices in the region due to lack of awareness about such care.

The importance of this was stressed upon on the occasion of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on Saturday by cancer specialists and health experts at Dr B Borroah Cancer Institute, the region's premiere cancer institute.

The North East, as compared to other states in the country, also has the highest prevalence of 16 forms of cancer in either males or females or both.

Each year, the day is observed as an effort to create awareness for palliative care services in society and to reach out to raise funds for cancer patients. The theme for this year 'Achieving Universal Coverage of Palliative Care: Who cares? We do'.

Cancer specialists said most of the cancer patients in the region come for treatment only in the late stages of the disease

because of which they face many hardships and have to undergo painful treatment procedures. It is here that hospices and palliative care play an important role.

"Patients have to endure lots of hardship when there is late detection. Palliative care involves total care whether in terms of spiritual approach, treatment and even from a social point of view. It is said that in India only a minuscule section

vices," added Kataki.

In Assam, besides a palliative care centre at BBCI, there are a few hospices and satellite palliative care centres but in other parts of the region the lack of such centres is a problem for cancer patients in the later stages.

High instances of cancer is attributed to multi-factional aspects like high tobacco consumption and the population's susceptibility to long term affects of tobacco and also due to late detection in most of the cases.

As per the last Global adult tobacco survey conducted by the ministry of health and family welfare, 39.3 per cent of the adult population in Assam is addicted to tobacco. Of them, nearly 90 per cent are chewers and 10 per cent are smokers.

The onus now lies on protecting the younger generation from ill effects of tobacco and tobacco related products.

"Mizoram has topped the charts in terms of oral cancer. The high prevalence of cancer in the region can be also attributed to the fact that people often come for treatment at a late stage. Early detection is important for treatment," said a cancer expert.

"The NE is considered as the cancer capital of the country" have access to palliative care. Kerala has a feasible palliative care approach," said A C Kataki, director Dr B Borroah Cancer Institute.

"Four lakh professionals, 12 lakh volunteers and 90 lakh family carers are taking care of terminally ill cancer patients all over the world.

But to care adequately, these numbersareverysmall.More and more people should be involved in palliative care ser-

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Sarma said about 9,500 children went missing from Assam alone between 2007 and June 2014 of which only 3,840 have been recovered from different places in the country either by police or NGOs working for children.

The northeastern region has however have lagged with only 190 of about 850 police stations in its eight states - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim - putting up data of only 1,427 missing children, since the portal's launch.

Manipur, where children often goes missing or trafficked out of the region is

even yet to start the project in the state. "Infrastructure (computer and internet) is still a problem but we a re trying to start it soon," said an official of Manipur social welfare department.

Many children belonging to poor families in Assam and Manipur have been rescued from children home in south Indian states such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the past.

They are normally taken out with the promise of good education and care but were many times found living in uncongenial atmosphere. Many children even faced physical, sexual and emotional harassment.

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Regd.No: 3575 Date: 09/10/2014 By this deed I, the undersigned TONGPANG OZUKUM (New name) previously called Tongpangyapang (Old name), S/o Late Temsulepden, aged about 34 years, resident of Merhuleitsa Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows:1. That I wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former name Tongpangyapang and in place thereof, I do hereby assume from this date the name Tongpang Ozukum, so that I may hereafter be called ,known and distinguished not by my former name, but assumed name Tongpang Ozukum.

2. That for the purpose of evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceedings, dealings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever, used and signed the name of Tongpang Ozukum as my name in place and in substitution of my former name.

Deponent Solemnly signed before me by the deponent.

Notary Public, Nagaland

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE, JAKHAMA GRADUATION DAY, 2014 Felicitating Class of 2014

Time Date Place Chief Guest

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10:00 AM 18th October, 2014 SJC Indoor Stadium Mr. Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education & SCERT

Graduates of 2014 are requested to reach the College by 9:00 AM. For information about the Graduation Gown, please contact 9402424920, 9856070328 OFFICE OF THE CHAKHESANG BAPTIST CHURCH CHUMUKEDIMA

PIN: 977103, DIST. DIMAPUR NAGALAND

AKNOWLEDGEMENT

Through this column the Chakhesang Baptist Church Chumukedima would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the Churches, Well-wishers, Invitees and all those who had contributed to the grand success of the 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION held on 9th October 2014.

We convey our special Thanks to; 1) Almighty God for His Great unfailing Love and Faithfulness throughout these 25th years of our Church establishment.

2) Pioneers.

3) Land donor, Hon'ble former Chief Minister of Nagaland Lt. Vamuzo and Family.

4) Chakhesang Baptist Church Ministers' Hill, Kohima.

Our Mother Church.

5) Mr. Velü-o Shijo, Joint Director SIRD. 6) Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo.Executive Secretary CBCC. Main speaker of the Celebration.

7) 14 Churches of Western Area Chakhesang Baptist Church Council.

8) Churches from Chumukedima Area.

9) All the Invitees, Program participants, Church workers, Church members, prayer groups and Volunteers.

We regret for the inability to mention all the names of contributors towards the celebration. However, it's our sincere prayer that the Almighty God will bless each individual more abundantly.

CHAKHESANG BAPTIST CHURCH CHUMUKEDIMA

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF SERICULTURE ADVERTISEMENT Dt. Kohima the

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No. TRG/SCC/3/95-96/Vol-I :: Applications in plain paper are hereby invited from interested local candidates for undergoing 1 (one) year Certificate Course in Sericulture for the Academic Session 2014-15 at Sericulture Training Institute, Titabar, Assam under the following terms & conditions.

1. He/She should be matriculate or above 2. Application should be address to the Director of Sericulture, Nagaland, Kohima and submit alongwith the supporting documents in Xerox copies as stated below on or before 27th Oct 2014: (a) Admit Card & Mark sheet of Cl-X or above (b) SC/ST & Indigenous Certificate (c) Passport Photo - 2 (two) Nos (d) Address with contact No. of the candidate 3. Date of Interview will be held on 30th Oct 2014 at 10 A.M in the Directorate of Sericulture, Nagaland, Kohima 4. At the time of Interview, the candidate should appear along with Original educational documents 5. The Candidates who have already submitted applications earlier need not re-submit 6. No. of seats - 7 (Seven) 7. The course fee will be bound by the candidate.

8. Training is purely for self employment and there is no employment guarantee after completion of the training

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Panel for admission for 2014-15 they advised the candidate to persue for the Additional seat for B.F. Sc. course under N.E.C. Quota as there were some seats yet to be filled up for the course from the sister NE. States with the assurance for payment of the Pro-rata etc. from the concerned Department of the nominating States Govt.

Accordingly, as per the communication made from the A.A.U., there were some States which have not sent nominations as per their allotted quota and some States have requested for some additional seats. Keeping this in mind, the NEC has further distributed the additional seats of different courses as reserved seat of NEC. under A.A.U. Vide letter NO. NEC/ HRD&E/192/2005 Vol. II Dated: the 23rd July, 2014 addressed to all the Directors of Agri and Allied Departments of the NE. States for necessary actions copies endorsed to the Higher & Technical Education Department and Planning & Coordination Department respectively, wherein the B.F. Sc. seat was also included for the State of Nagaland. But it is worth to mention that no candidate(s) has been nominated / considered by the NEC. by name, but the additional seat allotment to the States were made on the condition that “The nomi-

hrough this column of press, I on behalf of the so called ‘nomination of candidates for undergoing B.F. Sc. course from Nagaland under N.E.C. Quota/ Seat under Assam Agricultural University in question and the parents of the candidate would like to draw the attention of the general public and the esteemed readers to ease the confusion from their minds and also to streamline the genuineness and transparency of the process. No doubt, there are number of media releases & reports about the nomination of candidate in question. In this regard, on behalf of the candidate & parents it is uprightly and honestly to state that, the candidate has applied for undergoing the under graduate degree programme at Assam Agricultural University directly during 2014-15. In this regard, it is worth to mention that the candidate was selected on the basis of Merit List for admission into the B. Sc (Agri) vide Token No. vZJeDw-361 as the 1st candidate from Nagaland. However, he has opted for B.F. Sc. course and surrendered the B. Sc(Agri) seat for which he has been selected. In the course of the request made to the A.A.U. Authorities and the Counselling

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he politicians and the voters set aside their religious sentiments during election time. Assurances and commitments are the most fashionable instruments through which the politicians can win the confidence of the people. On the other hand, the voters are driven to nowhere but to avail whatever is offered or promised. Even a layman can demand whatever the requirements from the candidate. Corruption has become a fact of life and has trickled down from the top to the bottom in all spheres. Collapse of standards in our public life and the decline in the quality of leadership seems to have rocked the foundation of our democratic policy, it seems today’s comfort is greater than tomorrow’s prospects.

We lack the basic conscience to interpret our fundamental principles and remain just to grab power and to gain influence over other fellowmen. There are some people who cast their votes for the general interest of the public. No doubt they are few, majority of them are poor, illiterate, individualists, opportunist and the floating votes which we regard as ‘undecided votes’.

The dramatic rights of voters and obligations of the candidates is ridiculous and, foolish for transforming power. We blame the politicians and leaders for not meeting their assurances and

nated Candidates are to attend the 2” Counselling positively on 7th August 2014 at Dr. M.C. Das Memorial Auditorium, A.A.U. Jorhat with all originals and Government sponsorship, RAWEP allowance for necessary verification and admission subject to fulfillment of all other essential criteria.”

As a result, with all clear mind and consciousness and the position explained thereto, the candidate and the parents approached the then Director of Fisheries for necessary nomination and assurance of Pro-rata payment. Thereby, considering the facts and factors, the then Director of Fisheries proposed for consideration of nomination. By that point of time, the nominated candidate from the Department of the Technical Education, Nagaland against the NEC. original seat allotted to the State of Nagaland for the session 2014-15 was already admitted in the College of Fisheries, Raha under Assam Agricultural University.

Accordingly, the candidate in question attended the prescribed Counselling and given admission on the basis of merit as mentioned, since there was no other candidate(s) from Nagaland after number of announcements/ calls made by the A.A.U. Counselling Panel 2014-15. This can rather be

commitments made during electioneering time.

But we (the voters) should also place ourselves in right relation to what we usually do with them during the elections. In some cases, the purse of the candidates was drained empty. Clinging to the post he holds, the politicians will catch the sight of that great privilege which showed him where he could find safety. Here, both are the deceivers and these are the ills of our society. It is our handiwork and to which we should admire without stir. Today, honesty is simply means a lack of opportunity to make money corruptly and the leaders forgot that they live in a borrowed time without caring for obligation.

Keduovilie Linyü

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s a supplement to many writers who had ventilated their views, both for and against lifting the said Act, I wish to pose some pertinent questions to the church leaders / preachers and also suggest a solution to the problem. (I say church leaders because there are more church members concerned for the social and spiritual issues than the leaders).

What is the Christian doctrine on drinking alcohol / liquor? Is drinking liquor against the Church’s doctrine / principle? If so, why do pro-

considered as a benefit to the State getting any additional seat other than normal allotted seat to the State Government from the NEC. for any professional technical course of studies.

Further, a meeting of the Administrative Heads and Head of 13 line Departments was held on 5th September 2014 to discuss the issues relating to selection and nomination of candidates for admission to Technical courses against State reserved seats under the Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, Nagaland and decided to Streamline the selection/nomination of candidates for all technical courses against the seats that are allotted to the State through Directorate of Technical Education as Nodal Department by a ‘Common Selection Board’ henceforth.

Therefore, through this column I earnestly appeal to all the right thinking citizens and esteemed readers once again to focus on the way forward which shall mitigate the unnecessary & unwanted paper wars, and confusion in the minds of the people and thereby unitedly support the line Departments in the right perspective for our future generations.

Temsu Ao Dimapur, Nagaland.

fessed Christians drink liquor against this spiritual teaching? What is being done to the Christian drinkers at personal and group levels?

If drinking liquor is against the church’s doctrine, the primary duty and responsibility of the church leaders / preachers are certainly spiritual and not social. Church; being faith based institution, it is not wise to push for social reforms while neglecting spiritual duty. It is also un-churchlike to take to streets for a cause that needs spiritual healing more than prohibitory law. I’m of the opinion that NLTPA would not have been an issue had our church leaders devoted more time on spiritual issue of a drinker than on the liquor.

In general, Naga drinkers are not sensible drinkers because they drink to get drunk. That must have been the reason the church had to push for prohibition law. Regrettably, the successive governments just didn’t have had the political will to implement the law successfully.

The reason is very simple. Ninety percent of the guardians of law are drinkers.

The debate on NTLPA doesn’t seem to have ending. In such a situation, it may be wise to turn our focus to an alternative law like “Right to education on liquor” where drinking is made an informed choice. The State and the church can work together on a mission mode to impart right education on liquor where the State funds the mission and the church provides the manpower. Hopefully, if the mission proved to be successful, NTLPA will die its natural death.

Dr K Hoshi

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t is very heartening to see precious Ladies present here. Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe we all understand English and therefore let me speak to you in the English language.

I greet all of us on this First Anniversary Day of Nagaland Tribes Council.

This Council was formed not in a casual ordinary manner. It was formed out of a deep desire of the people of Nagaland to have an Organization of their own without any Outside Interference.

Because of the fear of the Barrel of the Gun, such an Organization like this could not be formed for a long time earlier.

It was formed in the midst of immense constrains and difficulties on this day, one year ago on 12 Oct 2013. It was constituted with enormous affords of great people and deep personal friend like Late Azu Newmai, Mr. Pius Lotha, Mr. Ntsemo Ngullie, Mr. Yesonyi and Mr. Joel Nillo Kath. These Pioneers gave tremendous contribution in the formation of this great Council.

The entire Civil Organizations of Nagaland today appear passing through a paradigm shift of public Inquiry, Scrutiny and Estimation in the Eye of the Public and the Naga Society today yearn for a Fearlessly Neutral Organization of Humility, Reality and of Discernment, addressed entirely to the specific local need of the State.

I deeply miss my deep friend Mr. Azu Newmai, he was without greed or selfish Interest and fearful of the Lord. He was a fearless Soul. I am very sorry that some of these great personalities could not be

present in our midst today.

• A great Organization like this however must continue despite the passing away of its Kings. It will continue tirelessly under the Principle: the King is dead, Long Live the King.

• Many of you will remember under what immense difficult situations we held our first glorious Inauguration Meeting on 12th October 2013 in the Angami Public Organization Hall, Kohima.

• We give thanks to God, the State Administration and the Uniformed Personals of the Government for providing us necessary support for the historic Inaugural Meeting that memorable morning one year ago. This Organization must continue and will continue to grow to seek the good: especially and specifically for the Nagas of Nagaland and for the good of all the Citizens of Nagaland in general.

• This Council will persistently work to preserve Article 371A of the Constitution of INDIA and the Council’s own Constitution for the overall change of the Society in Nagaland, it will attempt to usher in a New Heaven and a New Earth to Nagaland; it will not daunt in Adversities, it will work for good neighborly relations with the neighboring States of Nagaland and continually work for everything good for the State of Nagaland in Peace and without violence.

• I might have exceeded a little bit of my brief in the program of stating a few words of Greetings only; Thank you very much.

Thepfulhouvi Solo

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he office of the Team Metamorphosis is compelled to issue this press release upon sheer negligence and treatment meted to its customers by Reliance Cellular phone service. I as one of the many Reliance Service subscribers right from the start would like to bring to the attention of the Company operators the plight faced by its customers. The first private cellular phone service provider that came to Wokha was Reliance.

At first, when It came the citizens embraced it like a dearest darling but gradually it started to degrade in its service quality unlike the Reliance that we’ve known which is associated with the Ambanis (Though it might or not have any connection whatsoever). As other companies also came in, I

remember very clearly in one of the functions in December organized by the youths, a young chap presented an item which was a song and as the lyrics headed their melodious tunes a line said “Reliance (mobile service provider) company, the most unreliable company”, how true remarked the audience roaring with laughter. It was an evening filled with lots of fun and yes years have gone by but ironically not much improvement been done, the point here is ‘what have the genuine Wokha customers of Reliance cellular phone done to deserve this kind of hopeless service in spite of our trust on the company till today?’. How many years have gone and what improvement have the company brought to Wokha customers. Reliance has talked

about 3G & 4G internet services but where is the reality? When all the other companies are providing better services everyday gaining the confidence of the loyal customers. In this age of technology at lightning speed we cannot afford to be complacent, if Reliance cannot provide the necessary services it should pack up and back out of Wokha otherwise delaying longer will invite serious consequences. It should not let the genuine and loyal customers wait knowing not when a commendable service will be put into action, if the company is serious show us what you got and we will continue to trust as we’ve done for so long.

Thungdemo Kyong Chief Team Metamorphosis

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UBC’s Sanctuary Choir: 25 Years of Singing E Kethoser (Aniu) Kevichusa

pistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the question of how we know things. For Christians, singing is an epistemology; in other words, singing is a mode of knowing. When we sing the praises of God, we gain the knowledge of God. For the Apostle Paul, Christians relate with God, talk to one another, and teach about God and reality through singing: ‘Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God’ (Col. 3.16).

For many young (and not-so-young-anymore) people of Kohima, the Sanctuary Choir of Union Baptist Church (UBC), Kohima, has served as an indispensable evangelistic and discipleship ministry through which they came to know God and learned to walk with Him. Sunday, October 12, 2014, marked twenty-five

The Combined Sanctuary Choir of Union Baptist Church. (Photo by Colo Mero)

years of Sanctuary Choir’s existence.

Funded in 1989 by the much-loved and well-respected Dr. Vivee Peseyie, the Sanctuary Choir was one of the first ‘proper’ choirs of Nagaland. As a versatile choral group, the Choir’s repertoire has included classical pieces, hymn arrangements, contemporary songs, and traditional tunes.

Besides being spiritually resourced and discipled, through the Choir’s ministry, many young people have acquired skills such as music reading, public performance, personal grooming, language pro-

nunciation, relating socially, and timekeeping.

A special feature of the Choir has been its crossing and surmounting tribal barriers. Although UBC was, and is, an Angami-predominant church, many of the Choir’s most notable and faithful members have been non-Angamis – members who have always been very much ‘at home’ in the Choir.

Many friendships forged during the early years of the Choir’s existence have endured to this day, with some even blossoming into romance and marriage! The deep levels of trust and camaraderie, built during the

times of choir membership, have withstood the passing years and the inevitable separations. Even the stupid in-house jokes shared during the early days remain funny to this day!

Besides UBC, many a congregation and public gathering, including the streets of Kohima which were often venue to the Choir’s traditional Christmas cantatas and occasional concerts, has also been blessed by the ministry of the Choir. Citizens of Kohima will remember those times and few will gainsay the echoes of beauty, goodness, and joy

(although negligible they may be) received from the ministry of the Choir.

The Choir has also contributed in producing notable Christian workers and other prominent citizens in various fields today. Whether notable, prominent, or not, members of the Choir have generally turned out to be responsible members of society, and faithful pilgrims along ‘The Way’ – no doubt, with stumbles and falls, warts and all.

The Choir is no longer the top-dog choral group in Nagaland. Other groups have long since surpassed it in ability and delivery. (It prob-

ably never was the best choir anyway; and it isn’t a competition anyway.) But the Choir remains open to anyone who can open the mouth – and many who open their mouths in this Choir also open their hearts to the Lord.

In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, the Sanctuary Choir organized a concert on Sunday, October 12, 2014, in UBC. For the concert, members of all ages and eras (and all shapes and sizes!) reunited for a repeat of the Choir’s most well-known stock of songs. The concert was a poignant ‘homecoming’ of sorts, evoking both nostalgia and hope. Singing to a packed audience, many of the songs were pulled off fairly well. But with busyness and rustiness getting the better of most of the older members, some of the ‘big hits’ of yore turned out to be ‘small misfires’ during the concert. Never mind. The concert was not so much a showcase of talent as it was a thanksgiving for goodness – the goodness of God in the life and ministry of UBC’s Sanctuary Choir.

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Zapami observes ‘village sanitation clean day’ Joint Council Forum of DEEHA

pheK, october 13 (mexN): Zapami village in Phek district observed Village Sanitation Clean Day on October 11 as calendar event through PHED department under the National Sanitation Awareness Campaign goal Swachh Bharat (Clean India).

Around 600 persons participated in the mass social work for cleaning and water sanitation.

The main objective of the village sanitation clean day was to inculcate better civic sense for health, dignity and development through sanitation.

The WATSAN Committee also displayed some signboards with slogans like “Keep Your Village

resolves on pertinent matters

Villagers join in mass social work during the village sanitation clean day at Zapami village.

Clean,” “Keep Your Colony Clean,” “Use Dustbin,” etc.

Meanwhile, WATSAN Committee Zapami Village thanked executive director WSSO, department of PHED Nagaland for providing materials and also it further congratulated

Govt Polytechnic Kohima holds robotics workshop

Winners, resource persons and others during the workshop on robotics organized by Government Polytechnic Kohima.

Kohima, october 13 (mexN): Government Polytechnic Kohima (GPK) conducted a twoday workshop on robotics in association with Robosapiens Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi on October 9 and 10. The event was the zonal round of Robotryst 2014-2015, an international robotics championship, informed a press release. Thirty five participants took part in the workshop, of which thirteen participants were declared winners after an intensive competition. The winners will get the opportunity to participate in the finals to be held at IIT Delhi on March 2015.

The closing programme was chaired by Er. Hangkum

Sao Chang, faculty coordinator. During the closing programme, the winners, participants and coordinators received their certificates, which were handed over to them by Er. Arjun Singh, Additional Director of Technical Education and Er. Vipulhou Lhoungu, Principal of Government Polytechnic Kohima.

In his address, the Principal expressed gratitude to the resource engineers from Robosapiens Technologies Pvt. Ltd, participants and the co-ordinators as well. He urged the audience to continue to pray for the institute and also said that the institute will be organising such workshops in the future for the benefit of the students and the public in general.

ClarifiCation We would like to clarify on a posting, titled ‘Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association (NSSATA)’, that appeared on the October 11, 2014, issue of the newspaper under ‘The Naga Blog’ weekly column of the Morung Youth Express page. The newspaper would like to state that the content under The Naga Blog weekly column comprises of postings made by individuals and groups on The Naga Blog Facebook page, some of which are selected and chosen by The Naga Blog administrators for the weekly column. The circumstances under which this particular posting was published are regrettable.

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Kethoku colony for cleanliness among four colonies in a competition. A prize was awarded to the winning colony later. This was stated in a release issued

by Kedou Wetsah, chairman of WATSAN Committee Zapami village.

ABKK ‘Evangelism Through Sports’ Dimapur, october 13 (mexN): The Angami Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (ABKK) is organizing ‘Evangelism Through Sports’ under the theme “Flame your Gift of God” from October 16 to 18 at Medziphema Town at 10:00 am. A press release from Vicavor Krose, Youth Director, Angami Baptist Church Council informed that Dr. Hovithal Sothu and Rev. Miazelie Sakhrie will be the chief guest and guest of honour respectively of the threeday tournament – Football for men and volleyball for women. There are six teams participating in the tournament: Niakracha Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (NBKK), Pesocha Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (PBBK), Japfüphiki Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (JBKK), Kohima Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (KBKK), Chakhro Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (CBKK), Dimapur Angami Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (DABKK).

Dimapur, october 13 (mexN): The Joint Council Forum of DEEHA (Dubagaon, Ekarani Pathar, Eralibill, K. Holohon Colony and Aoyimti Villages) in Dimapur has held a series of consultative meeting with its members and taken serious note on issues pertaining to the plight of the people within the physical jurisdiction of the Forum. A press release from Joint Council Forum DEEHA chairman, N Meren Yaden and secretary, V Shekishe Achumi informed that in the course of threadbare discussion, the Joint Council Forum reiterated its earlier stand and resolved on some urgent matters of importance which it said has to be im-

mediately addressed.

The Joint Council Forum denounced the practice/habits of naming Illegal Bangladesh Immigrants (IBI) with local/ tribal names, according to the release. The decision to bar naming IBI with local/ tribal name, the release said, was necessitated in order to keep surveillance against IBI from becoming legal citizens of Nagaland.

“Moreover, that in due course of time, the Indigenous/Nagas of Nagaland should not be subjected to further exploitation.”

The Joint Council Forum also resolved to impose ban on issuing Residential proof/NOC Certificate to non-locals. It therefore urged upon the

respective village council chairman/GBs to ascertain the genuineness/antecedents of the person(s) before issuing Residential proof/ NOC to any individual or parties.

The Forum further reaffirmed its earlier commitment to stand by October 31, 2013 public rally resolution of "one government one tax". It therefore resolved to ban any form of illegal taxation/collection in the name of any NPGs and NGOs etc. within its jurisdiction.

The Joint Council Forum also acknowledged the “visionary, farsighted” approach being undertaken by ACAUT Nagaland “in the pursuit for positive aspects of transcendental Naga Society.”

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MEx FILE Appeal for free and fair bye-election Kohima, october 13 (mexN): The Forum for Fair Election has appealed to the electorate of 11 Northern Angami II Assembly Constituency to participate in free and fair bye-election on October 15. The Forum prayed that every voter turn out to cast their vote and display Christian values and ethics. “It is the desire of every believer that peace should prevail on the day of polling and therefore the Forum also further encourages every voter to co-operate to fulfill the aspiration of the people,” stated the core committee, Forum for Fair Election 2014. Lest any unforeseen incident happens in any polling station, the Forum appealed to the village leaders and church workers in particular to extend their fullest co-operation to the polling officials for the smooth conduct of the election process in their respective villages. Further, the Forum requested the polling officials to strictly implement the election Code of Conduct without any bias or fear of any untoward elements for larger interest of the people.

Orgs support ACAUT Nagaland Kohima, october 13 (mexN): The Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees' Association (CANSSEA), NCSA, NSSA, NASSA, NF&ASA, FONSESA, NCSGEA, DDSAN, NSEDA had in its joint coordination meeting on September 19 at CANSSEA conference Hall, Kohima unanimously resolved to support the movement of ACAUT Nagaland against unabated taxation for the general interest of the public. This was stated in a press release issued by CANSSEA president, Takatoba Aier and general secretary, Dr. R. Elithung Lotha.

AND&DGDU executive meeting Kohima, october 13 (mexN): An executive meeting of the All Nagaland Directorate & District Government Drivers’ Union (AND&DGDU) has been convened on October 17, 11:00 am at the conference hall of the Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union, PWD Junction, Kohima to “discuss an important issue pertaining to Service Rules.” Therefore, AND&DGDU Information Secretary in a press release has informed two senior most drivers each from all the departments to compulsorily attend the meeting.

DBA warns against misusing advocates logos/stickers Dimapur, october 13 (mexN): Stating that some of the private vehicle owners have been misusing the logo/ sticker of advocates meant specifically for registered advocates, the Dimapur Bar Association (DBA) has informed that unauthorized use of advocate’s sticker/logo in private vehicles is a serious offence. Therefore, DBA president Imti Imsong and general secretary Hukavi Zhimomi in a press release has directed all the vehicle owners using unauthorized sticker/logo to remove them with immediate effect.

Failing to do so, the DBA officials warned that, the defaulters will be liable to prosecution under section 416 and 419 of IPC and other relevant laws for the time being in force.

Head teachers/teacher in-charge under SDEO Dimapur informed Dimapur, october 13 (mexN): All the head teachers/ teacher in-charge under Sub-Divisional Education Officer (SDEO) Dimapur have been informed to collect Affidavit format from the SDEO Dimapur with effect from publication of this notification during office hours and submit the same to the SDEO Office on or before October 25, 2014. Failure to comply will lead to withholding of School pay till further notice, SDEO Dimapur, S Atomi cautioned in a press release.

First inter school band contest held in Mon moN, october 13 (Dipr): Toxic Peace band organized the first Mon district inter school band contest under the banner “Harmony” on October 11 at Council Hall, Mon. Eight bands from Konjong School, Don Bosco School, St. Mary’s High School, St. John’s School, Model School, Anghljong Mission High School and Govt.

Higher Secondary School participated in the contest.

Anghljong Mission High School, the winner, walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 5,000/-, guitar, and gift hampers. Meanwhile, Konjong School bagged a cash prize of Rs. 3,000/- and guitar and St. John’s School won Rs. 2,000/- and microphone for securing the second and third places respectively.

Mannyai, Math, and

Chingmei, all from Anghljong Mission High School won the best vocalist, guitarist, and drummer titles respectively, while Khole from Konjong School won the bassist award.

A press release from Dr. Chenjei Konyak, Samuel Konyak and Sunny Amet of Toxic Peace band informed that the contest was held to provide a platform for schoolchildren to explore their talent, which would also keep them away from “anti-social” and “evil behaviours.”

The Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Mon, Angau I Thou, graced the event as Chief Guest. Terming the contest a “yeomen service” to the people, the DC lauded the Toxic Peace band members for organising the contest even though they are employed in differ-

ent sectors. She also highlighted the importance of music, adding without music life is dull. Music is a medicine and has the power to influence and change the world, she stated.

The prizes for the contest were sponsored by M/S Yange Indane Service, Angnao Bata Store, Aircel, Cotton County and Lemhu, T.M., Bharti Airtel from Mon and Cresendo and Encore Music Store, Dimapur and individual prizes were arranged by T Aaron Yingpheih. The panel of judges for the contest included Hawang Wangsa, Pangmei, Chingkai, Pangai and Sunny Amet.

The Toxic Peace band is a progressive fusion band from Mon Town that has been performing in Nagaland and outside the State since 2002.

School education director informs Hindi teachers Kohima, october 13 (mexN): Director of School Education, Zaveyi Nyekha has informed all the government Hindi teachers serving in GHSS/ GHS/ GMS/ GPS/, attached to DEO/SDEO/ GHI and Private schools/ Hindi institutes under different establishment, i.e., DEO/ SDEO/ GHSS/ GHS/ under Directorate of School education to be present physi-

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cally along with the following documents in original and one set of photo copies: Appointment order, Education Qualification, Date of birth, Present posting order, latest extension order, Regularization order etc. according to the schedule given in the box.

Photograph of all the Hindi teachers will be taken individually for authentication on the spot. If anyone

fails to present physically, their salary will be withheld and strong action will be taken against the defaulters, the director cautioned.

In this regard, all the DEOs/ SDEOs/Principals/Headmasters have been directed to pass this information to all the Hindi teachers in their respective establishment so those who do not have access to newspapers

Place for Submission in person & Photograph Dimapur SDEO office Kohima SDEO office October Longleng SDEO office (on 27th Oct.) Mokokchung SDEO office (on October 28 &29) 27 - 28 Zunheboto SDEO office Mon SDEO office Wokha SDEO office October Pfutsero SDEO office 30 & 31 Tuensang SDEO office Peren SDEO office November 1 Phek SDEO office Kiphire SDEO office

are also informed. At the same time, the director also informed to detail one clerical staff to assist the officers during the verification. The director further requested the DEOs and District headquarter SDEOs to arrange accommodation for the visiting officers. For further clarification, contact 9436604869 or email nrbps_hindi@yahoo.com

Under SDEOs Dimapur & Niuland Kohima, Chiephobozou, Tseminyu & Pughoboto Longleng Mokokchung, Mangkolemba & Changtongya Zunheboto & Aghunato Mon, Aboi & Tobu Wokha & Bhandari Pfutsero & Chazuba, Tuensang, Noklak & Shamator Peren Phek, Meluri Kiphire

A book entitled ‘Hera Sam Pa’nchui Ge kiara’, compiled and written by Rev. D. Haisuangbe, Pastor, Zeme Baptist Church, Jalukie Town, was released by Sahingmak Newme, Executive Secretary, Zeme Baptist Association at Zeme Baptist Church, Jalukie Town on October 12, 2014.

Assam Rifles apprehends five Dimapur, october 13 (mexN): Troops of 29 Assam Rifles apprehended one NSCN (IM) cadre alongwith “illegal extortion money” amounting Rs 47,130/- and 26 work permits from Hong Kong Market area in Dimapur on October 10. According to a press release from Assam Rifles, the cadre identified as SS Capt Vezolo Doulo was earlier apprehended by 29 Assam Rifles on September 17 from “illegal office cum Detention Centre (OADT) of NSCN (IM)” at Half Nagarjan, Dimapur.

He was released on bail by the Court on September 31, it added. The apprehended individual alongwith recovered items was handed over to East Police Station, Dimapur. In another operation at Rail Bazaar Colony on October 11, troops of 29 Assam Rifles apprehended one alleged tax collector alongwith “unauthorized money” and DMC cash receipt booklets. The apprehended person identified as Kika Zima alongwith items recovered from him was handed over to Sub Urban Police Station, Dimapur, the release added.

Meanwhile, a Mobile Vehicle Check Post established

by troops of 37 Assam Rifles intercepted one Mahindra Pick Up vehicle at Patkai Bridge on NH-29 on October 11. During the search of the vehicle, one point 22 Rifle, one point 22 revolver and assorted ammunition were recovered, stated the release from Assam Rifles.

The release mentioned the occupants of the vehicle as Rokosil Kintso (39), Deputy Secretary (Finance), NSCN (IM) and Rokovoto Rupreo (25), Khapur, NSCN (IM).

The apprehended individuals alongwith recovered items were handed over to Diphupar Police Station, Dimapur, it added.

Personnel of the 18 Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters 6 Sector Assam Rifles launched an operation and recovered one point 22 Rifle, one 12 Bore Rifle and assorted ammunition from an armed civilian travelling in a Mahindra Pick Up vehicle with registration No NL-07A-3833. Assam Rifles informed that the vehicle was intercepted by the troops at Zero Point, Tening in Peren District. The armed civilian was identified as one I Heigang Zeliang (52). He was handed over to Tening Police Station alongwith recovered items.

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The Power of Truth

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istory has clearly shown that it is often the oppressors, the victors of war and the ‘powers that be’ that write, define and determine its course.

This [his]story has tremendously impacted human existence, as well as affected culture and many peoples’ identities, especially struggling peoples. With far reaching consequences, the distortion of history and facts only deprives the affected people of their capacity to be makers of their own history and culture. Hence, it can be said that the power of victors’ history can impress in more ways than political activism in the ‘real’ world.

History teaches us that during the imperial era the biggest weapon wielded and actually used by imperial powers against the collective defiance of the people was the ‘cultural bomb.’ The effect of this ‘cultural bomb’ was to annihilate a people’s belief in their names, in their language, in their environment, in their heritage of struggle, in their unity, in their capacities and ultimately in themselves. It fragmented ‘nations’ into small states by redefining boundaries as policies of divide and rule. It even planted serious doubts about their moral rightness in the struggle for JustPeace which were projected as remote and ridiculous dreams. The intended results were despair and despondency. In simpler words, they were made to think they robbed of their self determining capacity.

Even today, the Naga people find themselves in such a predicament, as the current situation threatens to break the people’s will and hopes. The ‘silent Naga majority’ for too long have been complacent and conformed to the unjust status quo. As Mahatma Gandhi wisely said, ‘the most difficult thing is to do nothing’ where absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. It is time that Nagas began to constructively confront the unjust status quo. For justice, is trying to discover why this injustice exists and changing so that all can live in dignity and respect. As Max Ediger would say, ‘We should be able to recognize that not all who smile are happy, not all who have eaten are full, not all who sleep are rested and not all who exist have life.’

For the Naga people the process of confronting the status quo involves reclaiming our history by telling our stories, writing our own versions, in our own ways, and for our own purposes so that it enables us to work towards a future; one in which all peoples are fully human.

This is imperative because the Nagas have a deep understanding of what it has meant to be considered not fully human. In other words, reclaiming history is central to decolonization and rehumanization and the Naga search for Common Ground.

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Jim Wallis Sojourners

Ebola Is an Inequality Crisis

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n the past few months, the world has witnessed the worst outbreak of Ebola since the disease was first identified in 1976 — it has already claimed the lives of more than 3,400 people. But while the first cases in the U.S. and Spain have stirred fears over the past week, we don’t need to fear an unstoppable epidemic in developed countries. As World Bank President Jim Yong Kim aptly put it in a piece for the Huffington Post: The knowledge and infrastructure to treat the sick and contain the virus exists in high- and middleincome counties. However, over many years, we have failed to make these things accessible to lowincome people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. So now thousands of people in these countries are dying because, in the lottery of birth, they were born in the wrong place.

Dr. Kim makes the crucial point here — the current Ebola outbreak is much more than a public health crisis — it is an inequality crisis. People dying of Ebola in West Africa did not choose to be born in West Africa, any more than I chose to be born in the United States or my wife chose to be born in England. The Scriptures remind us time and again of our obligation to care for the widow, the orphan, and the sick. Accordingly, it is clearly our duty as Christians to do everything we can for the people suffering from this epidemic. Combatting the current outbreak is important beyond saving lives in the short term; the World Bank estimates that the economic cost in terms of lost growth that Ebola could cause in West Africa could rise into the tens of billions of dollars.

Such a scenario would make inequality between this region and the developed world even worse — making it that much more difficult for nations like Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone to experience the economic development that will be needed to reduce the likelihood and severity of future epidemics.

So fighting Ebola means much more than simply sending funding, medicine, and personnel to West Africa to contain the outbreak. This new epidemic should re-focus us on reducing the inequality between the global North and the global South that allows crises like this one to keep happening in the developing world. We need to remain committed to dramatically reducing extreme poverty and hunger, supporting a healthy civil society in developing nations, and helping to build the long-term infrastructure that will allow the global South to effectively combat and contain future epidemics.

The reason to do this is not because Ebola threatens our countries as well — as Dr. Kim says, we have the tools to contain the outbreak. Rather, we need to commit to reducing global inequality because Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and there are no national, cultural, or economic boundaries for our definition of “neighbor.” This is clearly shown in the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), which Jesus tells in response to the question, “Who is my neighbor?” Just as the Samaritan crossed all kinds of boundaries and took all sorts of risks to help someone in need, so must we commit to helping our neighbors in West Africa and everywhere in the developing world — so that future generations may inherit a world with far less inequality than the one we live in today. The Ebola crisis should be an opportunity renew and revitalize our commitment to ending massive inequality.

Jim Wallis is president of Sojourners

John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus

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Future of People Power?

I n 2000, I organized a meeting in China that brought together independent trade unionists, campaigners for corporate codes of conduct, and human rights advocates. We had spirited conversations about strikes and labor organizing and how to deal with the Communist authorities in Beijing. We didn’t worry about the government monitoring or breaking up our meeting.

True, we were in China, and the Chinese authorities have long been suspicious of independent labor organizing. But we weren’t exactly in China. We were in Hong Kong. One country, two very different realities.

When China took over Hong Kong from the British in 1997, it was under the auspices of “one country, two systems.” Beijing promised the residents of Hong Kong that they could essentially live under their own separate political and economic rules. At the time, this seemed like a great bargain for Beijing. Hong Kong was a typical entrepot, an open port city that celebrated good food, horse racing, and fast money.

Taking back Hong Kong meant symbolically overcoming the humiliations of the Opium Wars of the 1840s, when the British grabbed the southern port, among other Chinese concessions. It also meant reabsorbing a territory that could connect the mainland even more firmly to the global economy.

In many ways Hong Kong hasn’t changed after the handover. Residents still enjoy individual freedoms, including the freedom to gather every year in Victoria Park on the anniversary of the army’s suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests. The press is freer than anywhere else in China, though there have been numerous complaints of government obstruction. While the process to get a visa to the mainland can be onerous, U.S. citizens can zip in and out of Hong Kong visafree for three months at a time. Business continues as usual, and for the 20th year in a row Hong Kong tops the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. The city has more billionaires per capita than any place in the world aside from Monaco and the two flyspecks of Guernsey and St. Kitts.

But Hong Kong is not just a playground for the rich. One in five residents lives below the poverty line. The city has the worst income inequality in Asia—higher than the mainland, higher than the notoriously divided Philippines. The lack of affordable housing and living wages brought as many as 200,000 people out into the streets in July 2011 to protest on the anniversary of the handover.

Beijing can handle protests that express economic grievances. It has to deal with those all around the country. Generally, the government hopes that a mixture of economic growth, targeted investments into promising sectors, the maintenance of stateowned enterprises, and an inconsistently applied anti-corruption campaign will eventually address these problems. A rising tide will lift a billion boats.

Political grievances are a different matter. Recently in Hong Kong, 200,000 people returned to the streets as part of Occupy Central, but this time their focus was on Beijing’s attempt to maintain political control over the city and its environs. Hong Kong’s political structures are a hybrid. Eligible voters among the population of 7 million residents choose half the legislative council, while various sectors grouped by function (labor, tourism, real estate) select the other half. In the last election in September 2012, the pro-Beijing parties retained their control of the council, though the opposition actually won more of the popular vote.

But the demonstrators are more concerned about the position of chief executive, which is chosen by an “election committee” that Beijing directs.

The protestors want to choose their own candidates for the office. For the 2017 elections, Beijing is offering universal suffrage, but only after the authorities vet the candidates. Between these two options, a variety of compromises can be envisioned. But before coming to the table, the protestors had to prove that they had street power on their side. The many young people who have taken to the streets in Hong Kong have seen the success that their peers have achieved

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iscussion of France’s youth fluctuates between talk of threat and opportunity, fear and hope. Public policies reflect this ambivalence: the Conseil Interministériel de la Jeunesse (Interministerial Council for Youth) that François Hollande set up is still making do with general guidelines without the means to develop the projects on its agenda.

According to sociologist Chantal Guérin-Plantin, there are four reference models: fragile youth, messianic youth, dangerous and/or endangered youth and “citizen” youth. These models coexist, and are capable of either amplifying or cancelling each other out.

Fragile youth, the first model, is seen as needing protection by a special justice system, as well as through press and entertainment censorship.

This vulnerability can also be used to prevent minors from participating in civic life and denying them any autonomy. I attended a youth council steering committee meeting in a town in the Midi-Pyrénées region where the question of young people’s role on the committee arose. Representatives of those organisations present wanted to limit it on the grounds that the questions being discussed would be hard to understand. A researcher who was asked for an outside perspective expressed surprise that the issues were so secret or complex. He was told the young had to be “protected”, prompting him to ask whether the aim was for the young to be recipients or participants in the pro-

A protester draws on a main road in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty on Friday, October 10, 2014. A pro-democracy protest that has blocked main roads in Hong Kong for almost two weeks could drag on for days yet, after talks aimed at resolving a bitter standoff between the city's government and student demonstrators collapsed Thursday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

in Taiwan. They have seen the efforts of the “go-slow” faction in Hong Kong frustrated by the “go-slower” government in Beijing. And they are too young to have witnessed Tiananmen Square in 1989 and thus be overly cautious as a result.

The Occupy Central crowds have dwindled this week. The remaining protestors continue to block some roads, but they already compromised by allowing government workers return to their offices on Monday morning. The city authorities met on Monday evening with the Hong Kong Federation of Students and hammered out a framework for negotiations.

Some pundits have stepped forward to offer adult supervision for the protestors. “Let calm return to the City by the Harbor,” urges venture capitalist and political scientist Eric Li in The Washington Post. “Hong Kong needs problem solvers, not revolutionaries.” Li is worried about a Ukrainian or Egyptian scenario in which revolutionaries seize power and, whether they succeed or are overthrown in turn, produce “long periods of suffering and destruction.” Over at Asia Times, journalist Peter Lee confessed that “based on dismal results in places like Egypt, Pakistan, and Ukraine, I am not a big fan of the ‘student activists raise a ruckus in the main square’ brand of democracy. If Hong Kong democracy activists had wanted to give voice to the popular mood, instead of driving the opinion process through confrontational street action, they could have organized boycotts of the 2017 polls.”

Then there are the embarrassing accounts from Beijing and conspiracy-minded sites like the Center for Research on Globalization that depict what’s happening in Hong Kong as a “color revolution” manipulated by outsiders. But the young protestors are not interested in regime change in Hong Kong or secession from China. Indeed, they don’t want to be called revolutionaries. They sport umbrellas, not colors.

Li perceptively points out that economic concerns trump political ones for most residents of Hong Kong. Lee rightly notes that Beijing didn’t renege on a promise to allow universal suffrage for the 2017 election because it never planned to extend this principle to the selection of candidates. But neither of these observations should detract from the importance of Occupy Central. It is a non-violent grassroots effort to make government more accountable

to its citizens. Like many movements, particularly leaderless ones, it makes mistakes and overreaches itself. Still, it is responding to an authentic desire.

And it is open to compromise.

I too am not happy about what has happened in Ukraine and Egypt. I don’t like to see a country descend into a civil war fueled by a covetous neighbor. I don’t like to see the military take over after a democratically elected government edged into authoritarianism. But these experiences do not discredit the techniques of non-violent protest any more than the election of idiot politicians discredits the techniques of democracy.

Let’s judge the Hong Kong protests according to their specific strategies, demands, and context.

Beijing has legitimate concerns about the territorial integrity of the country. Unrest in Xinjiang and separatism in Tibet inform its view of what’s going on in Hong Kong. It continues to believe that democracy can be destabilizing, as even a small amount was for a disintegrating Soviet Union. When it took over Hong Kong in 1997, the Chinese leadership had a vision of the future that included Taiwan joining the mainland under the same principle of one country, two systems. Gradually the mainland too would democratize, and some day China would be one country with one system. Whether the one system is a freewheeling democracy like Australia’s, an “illiberal democracy” like Hungary’s, or more of the same one-party state that rules the mainland today depends a great deal on how Beijing accommodates the needs and demands of the people living in the former British port on China’s southern coast.

The residents of Hong Kong have more immediate concerns. They want jobs that pay a living wage, apartments with affordable rent, and a city that doesn’t just cater to the super-rich. They don’t want to lose the freedoms that they currently enjoy. And they want to have more of a say in their political affairs. As the discussion moves from the street to the negotiating table, Occupy Central deserves a lot of respect for showing that people power doesn’t necessarily lead to the break-up of a country or the declaration of martial law. If as a result Hong Kong can democratize its institutions and equalize its economic success, the city can point the way for the country as a whole.

John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus

Social models do not fit véronique bordes Le Monde diplomatique gramme. It was eventually agreed that two carefully selected youth representatives could take part.

There are plenty of examples of adults taking control of initiatives aimed at minors and organising them according to their own vision of society.

Young people’s responses are telling, and make their frustration plain: “We asked for the organisation of the council to change. We wanted something that was better suited to our circumstances. In the end, they told us that an already established way of working couldn’t be changed. And then they were surprised when we stopped coming.”

The second model, messianic youth, is seen as able to effect radical social transformation. Adults expect youth to bring about a revolution, at the same time fearing an attitude that is beyond their control. This idea underpinned ideologies and educational experiments in the 1960s and 70s. May 1968 and the Arab Spring are examples of this vision, though some adults believe that radical youth no longer exists.

At a meeting in a small provincial town, for example, the official in charge of a

youth mission argued that young people now expect assistance, and want activities and jobs to be laid on for them.

The third model, youth that is dangerous and in danger, is the one that is most discussed, even if it only represents a minority. Such a vision largely feeds electoral discourse, and makes security measures acceptable to politicians and the wider public. But there’s a questionable shift in meaning here: it used to be accepted that young people did stupid things, but this is now viewed as antisocial behaviour that deserves legal punishment. Society seems no longer to understand that young people need to experiment and experience a secondary phase of socialisation. Youth policy becomes youth policing. In this view, youth is no longer capable of experimenting and laying claim to ideas.

It needs to be protected, and one group of the young may need to be protected against another. Consequently, in 2006, at the time of the demonstrations against the CPE (Contrat première embauche; a “first employment contract” with reduced rights and safeguards), some politicians in government circles

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accused young people of being manipulated by the unions, and considered them to be in danger. Youth here is both dangerous (by disturbing public order) and endangered.

The fourth model, that of “citizen” youth, comes from a faith in education and the transmission of principles that provide guidance to society. That is how youth councils were conceived.

However, these bodies are too often no more than institutional talking shops.

Young people are asked to meet, generally in commissions, to come up with suggestions. But their suggestions rarely alter the behaviour of municipal leaders. Some politicians who are aware of these problems appoint an organiser tasked with steering the process. Others turn these councils into consultative bodies whose proposals are worked on with local administrations. Young people are not unwilling to get involved, but motivating them depends on the chances of seeing their often concrete plans come to fruition.

The generation that is in charge seems reluctant to share its power. Social change works for those who are older and affluent; the young have trouble finding their place. Though it is absent from the public debate, a new intergenerational pact could lead to interactions that are mutually beneficial.

But that presumes that institutions are ready to bring the young in from the cold and that adults recognise the expertise and knowledge of the young and their potential value to society.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Addressing domestic violence — together Victoria Law

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iven that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I’ve been thinking about ways in which friends, loved ones and other community members have helped support survivors in their circles. If 75 women are abused every hour, readers most likely know at least one person who is or has been in an abusive relationship. Chances are that most of us, when confronted with abuse in our communities, may feel powerless to respond, especially in ways that do not involve calling the police or legal system. While the following stories are not exact blueprints or road maps to addressing domestic violence, we can use the information as guides to building a world in which communities actively try to ensure the safety of their members rather than ignore the violence.

In my earlier column on NFL player Ray Rice, who was suspended for battering his then-fiancée Janay Palmer, I mentioned that my then-12-year-old daughter and I have both taken self-defense classes at the Center for Antiviolence Education in Brooklyn.

These self-defense techniques are not limited to physical self-defense, although those are taught. In class, women, young and old, cis and trans, also practice other ways to stay safe and defend themselves from violence, both on the streets and at home.

The Center for Antiviolence Education has a long history of challenging gender violence. It started as Brooklyn Women’s Martial Arts in 1974. The dojo was founded on the idea that all people have the right to live free from violence and the recognition that power dynamics more frequently exposed women to violence than men. “People said to us in the beginning that we were adding to the violence by learning how to defend ourselves, by learning a physical response,” recalled co-founder Annie Ellman, who still teaches at the center. “We always said, ‘If you fight back against violence, that’s not violence. That’s a physical response.’ We also believe in a very strong martial arts philosophy that you live in harmony with all other living things, so if there’s any way to not physically fight, we always choose that.”

By the mid-1970s, Ellman recalled, domestic violence was beginning to emerge from the shadows. “There was a lot of denial and a lot of shame [about being abused], so being able to talk about the number of us as women who are survivors is really, really important.”

The center offered free self-defense courses, as well as six months of martial arts training for survivors. They also ran support groups. “What’s wonderful about martial arts and self-defense is that we’re talking about how we can grow our strength and our pride,” Ellman reflected. “Whenever we’re working with people who have been abused in different communities, a big part of our program is helping people work through the violence and reclaim strength and pride and resiliency that we’ve always had.”

I got to witness this process firsthand when I enrolled in the center’s five-week self-defense course. In addition to learning ways to verbally and physically defend ourselves, each session also included discussions. During the third

or fourth week, one participant, who had survived a violent relationship, told us that she had tried to see a movie one night earlier that week. She had left her house and took public transit to the theater, only to learn that the movie was sold out. She then returned home. But, she said, this was the first time that she had felt confident and safe enough to leave her home after dark. And, she continued, that confidence had come back because of the self-defense course.

She’s not the only survivor who has felt this way. “What folks say to us is that martial arts and physical activities and self-defense training restores something that gets lost at times when you’ve been abused, that there’s very much a break,” explained Ellman. “[With self-defense training] the mind-body-spirit gets reintegrated and women again start feeling like they do have a body, and they have

a body that’s worth defending, and we have a body that doesn’t just cause us pain and shame.”

At other times, organizing against domestic violence is more situation-specific. In my earlier column, I described one instance in which Sista II Sista, a women of color collective in Brooklyn, organized to confront and stop a potentially violent situation from escalation. This tactic is neither new nor exceptional, although we rarely hear about it.

In 1985, members of the collective Vancouver Rape Relief wrote about utilizing this tactic when a disabled woman called about her lover, who was not disabled and had hit and bullied her. “She wanted to expose him and force him to stop abusing her,” the member[s] wrote in an article for the feminist journal off our backs. The woman’s situation was complicated by her economic dependence on him,

which made it difficult for her to cut off all ties with him.

“She also wanted him to continue his financial support of her and her son,” the writer[s] explained.

Members of Vancouver Rape Relief, the woman and her friends, many of whom were also disabled and economically dependent on the men in their lives, met for two months to figure out a plan of action that would both stop the violence while not leaving her financially vulnerable. These meetings were not always easy, the writer[s] recalled, but “in the course of arguing about what action, where and what effect, we learned a lot about each other’s lives as women, and had an opportunity both to support each other as well as the woman assaulted,” the member[s] recalled.

What the group finally decided upon was a confrontation at his workplace. With the help of her friends, the woman physically stood, testified to the effects his assaults had had on her and demanded that he stop. Then his friends and her son spoke about the effects of his violence. She told him her demands, including one for financial support.

One month later, when her demands remained unmet, the group met again to brainstorm other strategies. They decided to reach out to his friends. That tactic worked: the man not only stopped his abuse but also paid her each month.

The writer[s] credited their original strategy to a California group called Santa Cruz Women Against Rape, which had supported rape survivors in confronting their assailants. “We adapted a tactic, tried it, and when it didn’t get us all we wanted, we went back to analysing the power — his and ours — to see what else we could do,” the member[s] explained.

Vancouver Rape Relief, Santa Cruz Women Against Rape, and Sista II Sista are not unique in utilizing the strategy of confrontation. Women’s groups as far back as the 1700s have used the power of group confrontation to dissuade abusers, although their methods have not always been nonviolent. The confrontation tactic has also been adapted in other ways, as anti-violence activist Andrea Smith has described. In Pune, India, members of Masum, a women’s organization, intervene in domestic violence not by direct confrontation but by singing outside an abuser’s house until he stops his violence. This is especially interesting given that Pune is not a small town or village, but rather the eighth largest city in India. “Masum reports that it has been able to work on this issue without community backlash because it simultaneously provides needed community services, such as microcredit, health care and education,” Smith wrote in her book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Masum’s strategy, coupled with their other approaches that strengthened the community, positioned domestic violence not as an isolated private matter within a household, but rather another aspect of community support.

This October, let’s go beyond simply being aware of domestic violence to thinking about how we can help stop it in our families and neighborhoods. Again, none of these examples should be interpreted as a precise blueprint on what to do, but by sharing these stories I hope that it allows readers to imagine how they, too, can help stop violence and abuse in our communities.

POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS:

Can courts, lawyers and activists make a difference?

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ahatma Gandhi called poverty the greatest form of violence. The global toll of avoidable, man-made poverty—thousands dead every day, billions sick and hungry—represents a blight on the human rights movement. Yet mainstream human rights have long turned a blind-eye to poverty, focusing instead on a small group of narrowly conceived civil and political rights, with marginal relevance to the poor.

The irony is that human rights offer—in theory—such promise to the poor. Human rights comprise a unique universal framework, applying equally to all, covering all essential needs. With such broad and enduring hope in human rights, it is worth asking whether the tools of the movement—rights, courts, lawyers and activists—can actually make a difference on poverty.

When colleagues and I set out to build an economic and social rights (ESR) organization twenty years ago (the Center for Economic and Social Rights), we (and others) were pitching both a broader conception of rights and the need for new ways of working. Our concerns then—that traditional top down models of human rights work would fail to get traction on issues that challenged the reigning economic-political-legal order—anticipated the recent flurry of critiques of mainstream “Human Rights” in these and other pages. We have long known that poverty is rooted in power; and yet, traditional power-blind approaches to poverty remain predominant.

We see this across various fields. The development community spends the bulk of its resources attending to short-term crises, and avoids systemic abuses. Legal services for the poor remain wed to individual service models. Mainstream human rights groups wade gingerly and apolitically into economic and social rights, focused only on egregious violations. There is no question that these interventions can bring benefits to poor people; but they won’t transform poverty. Worse, well-meaning advocates for the poor will often end up reinforcing a sense of victimhood and dependency, and legitimizing the broader system.

There are a variety of practical (funding prerogatives, legal and political obstacles) and cultural (professional and ideological comfort) factors that lay behind the stickiness of these power-blind approaches. But there is room for hope. Developments along two other lines open new possibilities.

Legal and development communities

We have long known that poverty is rooted in power, yet traditional power-blind approaches to poverty remain predominant. Can a human rights lens and the traditional tools of the movement—rights, courts, lawyers and activists—address underlying issues of power and make a real difference on poverty?

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have reacted to top down approaches by stressing the importance of empowering poor clients in the process of serving them. This has been described as “rebellious lawyering” or “community lawyering” by the US poverty law/progressive law crowd, and a “capabilities” or “human development” approach by development advocates. If not always the tools, the rhetoric of human rights is well suited to these ends, able to free “victims” from traditional constraining mindsets, to legitimize grievances and to help spark action.

But bottom up approaches raise various challenges for human rights advocates. They require great commitments in time and resources. They run up against traditional legal roles and training and egos. They can devolve into a level of micro-lawyering or advocacy that loses sight of the forest (larger institutional power dynamics) for the trees. They are particularly tricky for transnational human rights ad-

vocacy, practiced across borders with little connection to the actual “clients”.

At the other end of the spectrum lies what might be described as “cause lawyering” or “impact litigation”. Ralph Nader describes this as lawyering without clients, with “victims” selected and instrumentalized for the purpose of the larger legal end. Many human rights advocates would associate themselves with this approach. Rights advocates have trumpeted the “justiciability” of economic and social rights, winning precedent-setting cases in front of treaty bodies and national courts on issues of health, housing, welfare, land, and so on (ESCR-Net maintains a robust database of cases). These cases can serve both legal and organizing purposes—strengthening the legitimacy of fledgling rights, raising awareness, providing a focal point for mobilizations, and creating actual political/legal power (process rights), among other things.

Still, the jury is out on “cause lawyer-

ing”. Most judiciaries are not amenable to these cases, winning them requires enormous resources and legal compromise, and actual enforcement remains a significant challenge. The US experience with impact litigation offers some caution; after much study, a consensus has emerged that even iconic victories like Brown v Board of Education and Roe v Wade may do more long term damage than good by drawing energy, leaders and resources away from grassroots and political efforts, and sparking more powerful backlash. The initial reviews of ESR cases are similarly mixed.

Somewhere between these two approaches lies a sweet spot that uses rights language liberally, but legal approaches selectively; that embeds any legal actions within existing movements as instruments of empowerment, not ends; that deploys lawyers as both “legal technicians” and “activists”; that is capable of recognizing power dynamics reinforcing poverty at local, national and international levels and able to connect those dots.

All of which begs certain questions: • Can resources be mobilized at scale to support human rights work that directly confronts poverty, inequities and vested interests? The longstanding bias of human rights funders against ESR continues to limit this work.

• Can lawyers and litigation be incorporated into grassroots struggles without co-opting them? The legal training, the proximity to power, the allure of lawsuits, the mythologies of legal expertise all conspire against good faith efforts of lawyers to serve rather than lead campaigns.

• Can transnational human rights advocates find a way to work closely and collaboratively enough with those living in poverty, while retaining a strategic focus on broader structural issues? The rise of stronger human rights groups in the global south, connected to social movements and networked to international platforms (with a helpful infusion from the Ford Foundation) represents a promising, if fragile, step in this direction.

Ultimately, the turn to rights, lawyers and courts raises the question of whether the system’s own tools can be deployed to change (rather than reinforce) that same system. Theorists will wax pessimistic, but practitioners don’t have that luxury—we need these tools and have to find ways to make them work.

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HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA – AT A GLANCE a Kennedy

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Dept. of commerce, St.Joseph’s college, Jakhama.

he 21st century is the age of knowledgebased economy, and the center-stage of change. Higher education is not without its influence and is in the process of challenge, thereby challenging the traditional system of education. The disparity in wealth and quality of life between the developed and developing world has been attracting the attention of the world. The exponential growth of population in the developing countries is matched by the exponential growth of knowledge in the developed world.

In all the developing countries, the efforts are being made by the respective Government to promote higher education. For example, in India, Central Government and state Governments are trying to nurture talent through focusing on the number of Universities and Colleges for expansion of higher education. Between the Year 1950-51, there were 30 universities and 695 colleges. This number has increased to 634 universities and 33023 colleges up to December 2011. The central government and the state governments are making more provisions to promote higher education. In the Eleventh Five Year Plan the total sum of Rs. 44,000 cr. was made for higher education, while in the Twelve Five Year Plan the total sum of Rs. 1, 80,000 cr. is made for same. Such provision is made to increase Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) related to the standard education. Every year the central Government increases expenditure on higher education. Due to increase in expenditure there is growth in the institutions which is providing higher education to the masses. Even though there is an increase in expenditure by the central government, comparatively it is less than the developed countries.

Though the number of colleges and institutions related to higher education has increased but there is disparity in the growth of higher education at the national level in India. Nevertheless a question arises in the mind of every Indian is why no university in India is placed in the list of top 200 universities in the world? As per the publication by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), a weekly magazine based in London, no Indian university is placed at the top 200 universities in the world. All the top 10 positions in the rankings list are awarded to the U.S. and U.K.-based universities with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology retaining the first position for the second year running. The University of Tokyo (Japan) and The National University of Singapore lead the packs as far as the Asian continent is concerned and are ranked 23rd and 26th respectively. The first Indian presence on the list is the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, ranked 222. IIT Delhi comes in second at 235 while those in Kanpur, Chennai and Kharagpur are in the 300 range. Delhi University comes between 420 to 430 ranks.

We proudly say that our/my university or college/institution is assessed and accredited with ‘A’ grade by the NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council). But the same university or institution is not in the list of the top 200 universities in the world. Why? Is it because the criteria that NAAC follows for assessment purpose on the universities in India differ from the criteria of those world first class universities assessed?

Or Is it because the system in National Policy in Education wrong? Or is it because the Indian educational system away from the world top educational system? Whom to blame - The government which makes policy on higher education or the higher authorities in the universities who run the universities or the UGC which regulates and monitors higher education system in India.

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, in his speech at the first convocation of a Central University of Kerala, said that Indian universities are absent from the top two hundred ranks in the world as per reputed surveys. Though our institutions are placed in higher brackets amongst Asian or BRICS nations, or in some specific disciplines, we are yet to convert these micro developments into macro successes.

A committee of Dr Babasaheb, Ambedkar Marathwada University (Bamu), formed at the university level in December 2012 has identified 26 universities across the country whose PhD and MPhil degrees as invalid. In the course of their investigation among 65 universities, they found 21 universities also as fake. If this situation continues, the quality of education in India will be at the bottom of the era of knowledge and no Indian University or institution will find place at the top 500 universities in the world.

Therefore, it is the responsibility of the U.G.C. to make more effective regulation over the higher education system in India. Merely growth of higher education will not serve the basic purpose of education policy. It is necessary to see that the Universities and colleges should provide quality education to the masses. In some Universities and colleges there is poor infrastructure, lack of skilled manpower, which are barriers in providing quality education to the age group of 18 to 22. There are also malpractices and unhealthy practices in some institutions related to the higher education. The U.G.C. should made effective regulation and try to control such malpractices. The universities and colleges should provide sufficient employable skills so that employability can improve. In the era of globalization there are more weightage for competitiveness. India’s higher education should be more reliable and proficient so that the coming generations can be more competent to face the challenges in their life.

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Maha votes Wednesday after bitter campaign

MuMbAi, OctOber 13 (iANS): One of the most bitter, high-profile and mega-stakes campaign for coming to power in 13th Maharashtra assembly elections drew to a close Monday. The state votes Wednesday. For the first time in decades, five mainstream parties were in the fray, besides many smaller parties and hordes of independents, all hoping to cash in on the voter sentiments.

The campaign ends Monday evening. Voting is scheduled Oct 15, between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., and counting will be taken up Oct 19 from 8 a.m. onwards, with the results expected by noon. With an unprecedented over 4,000 candidates in the fray, the 8.25 crore voters are spoilt for choice in all the 288 assembly constituencies and in Beed, the lone Lok Sabha constituency going for a by-poll.

They comprise the candidates from the main parties like Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. There are other parties too, like Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, MIM (of Hyderabad), and scores of smaller parties, hundreds of rebels, independents and some casual candidates.

These include a generous dose of those with a criminal past, millionaires and paupers, semiliterates or illiterates, as well as relatives of politi-

EC seizes over Rs 14.5 cr cash, liquor worth Rs 75 lakh

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cheers the crowd during a campaign rally ahead of the Maharashtra state elections in Mumbai on October 9. (AP File Photo)

cal leaders. Again for the first time, the campaign guns were fired by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi who held nearly three dozen rallies across the state’s nook and corner, exhorting people to vote for the BJP. Besides, there was a sustained campaign by Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, MNS chief Raj Thackeray, NCP President Sharad Pawar, Congress’ ex-chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.

Congress got support from around two dozen rallies addressed by party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul

Gandhi.

Modi was helped by several of his cabinet colleagues, chief ministers of all BJP-ruled states, BJP President Amit Shah and other top leaders. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh also unexpectedly helped with a strong endorsement of Modi and BJP, which the party hopes to encash by way of votes.

Unlike the past two elections (both Lok Sabha and assembly), the saffron and secular combines are fighting the elections solo. The BJP snapped its 25-year old partnership with Shiv Sena Sep 25, and within an hour that day, the

NCP broke its 15-year old ties with Congress, leading to bitterness, and blamegame.

Apparently disturbed

by Modi’s over-awing presence for so many rallies the BJP conducted a total of 600 rallies, or more than two per assembly seat - the other four main parties virtually ganged-up to attack the prime minister and the BJP for ignoring the border developments to campaign in state elections.

Hoping to create history by bagging Maharashtra independently, Modi spared none - and none spared him, either.

In fact, the Thackeray

New Delhi, OctOber 13 (Pti): Election Commission-appointed flying squads have seized over Rs 14.5 crore cash and illicit liquor worth more than Rs 75 lakh that was being transported to pollbound Maharashtra apparently to lure voters. According to latest data, Rs 14,52,37,876 cash has been seized

by EC-appointed surveillance teams in the state while over 2.8 lakh litres of liquor bottles and pouches valued at Rs 75.99 lakh have been seized.

The final figures of cash seized from candidates in the state is Rs 4.8 lakh, the data said. In its effort to curb the use of black money and illegal funds in the elections, the EC has deployed officers drawn from central revenue services like the Income Tax and Customs and Excise departments and those from the state government in all assembly seats in the state where polling will be held on October 15.

cousins and Pawars openly questioned the prime minister’s need to abandon national governance and border tensions over Maharashtra elections. But the BJP dismissed these contentions. Again, taking a cue from Modi that the days of coalition politics era is over, all the five parties unanimously sought “a clear mandate” from the people to run the government without internal pressures.

The campaign tones were varied with divine figures, saints, historical figures (Chhatrapati Shivaji, Afzal Khan, Adil Shah, Aurangzeb), ani-

mals (dogs, cats), reptiles (rats, snakes), invoked liberally by the campaigners to show their one-upmanship over rivals.

Candidates leaned on social networking sites during campaigning.

Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, SMS, emailers were used extensively to bombard the harangued voter already reeling under the cacophony of public meetings, marches, street-corner assemblies, door-todoor campaign, print and electronic media ads and editorial. Thousands of alcohol bottles and other articles were seized across Maharashtra.

BJP holds the edge in Maharashtra, NCP & Cong leaders admit MuMbAi, OctOber 13 (tNN): More than four months after Congress and NCP were routed in the Lok Sabha elections, political pundits say BJP is set to repeat its performance, or at least emerge as the single largest party in the assembly polls on October 15.

The two week-long campaign, which draws to a close on Monday, has been marked by bitter name-calling and below-the-belt jibes following the acrimonious break-up of the two major alliances. Senior leaders of both Congress and NCP are candid in saying that BJP does hold an edge over Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena and MNS. “BJP may not secure a clear majority, but we must admit it has an edge over other political parties,” a senior Congress leader said on Sunday.

Pre-poll surveys support this view with indications that BJP might make deep inroads in Vidarbha and Marathwada. In the Congress-NCP stronghold of western Maharashtra too, the voters’ mood is “fairly conducive” to BJP, said the party’s vice president, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe.

Elaborating on his contention, the Congress leader said Modi has enhanced his charisma in recent weeks.

“In Maharashtra, Modi has made the assembly polls a personal issue. It’s the first time in the state’s political history that a prime minister has devoted such huge amounts of time for assembly polls. He addressed election rallies in villages too and the response there has been unprecedented,’’ the Congress leader said.

Leader of the opposition Eknath Khadse endorsed his views. “We have drafted a comprehensive action plan.

Besides the state leaders, all the Union ministers too have been given responsibility. We are sure that the outcome of the elections will surprise many people and we will secure a clear majority,” Khadse told TOI. Congress spokesperson Anand Gadgil said Congress would be hard-pressed to retain power in the state. “Congress is not a stranger to such a situation. We are facing assembly polls after a gap of just three to four months; to retain power, we will have to put in more efforts,’’ he told TOI. A former Congress minister said that while on one hand, Modi has indeed stormed the state, Congress appears to have lost the battle even before the polls. “All high-profile central leaders are missing from action. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi did address a few meetings, but there was no impact on the electorate,” he said.

SC to hear Jayalalithaa’s bail plea on October 17 Cyclone claims 21 lives in Andhra, relief work begins

New Delhi, OctOber 13 (AgeNcieS): The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the bail plea of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case on October 17. Her plea for bail was earlier rejected by Karnataka High Court on October 7 which said that there were no grounds for bail as corruption amounts to “vio-

lation of human rights”.

The apex court agreed to hear the plea after senior advocate Fali S Nariman pleaded to the court to “accommodate” the case in this week itself. October 17 will be the last chance for Jayalalithaa to come out of jail before Diwali as the apex court will go on vacation for a week after Friday.

The 66-year-old vet-

eran politician had sought for bail on health grounds shortly after she was sentenced for four years by the court. She also denied misusing powers during her tenure as the chief minister.

The order, that came as a blow to the AIADMK chief and shocked her supporters outside, was delivered by Justice AV Chandrashekhara despite the

Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh saying he had no objections to grant of conditional bail to her.

Meanwhile, DIG Prisons, PM Jaisimha, said that the AIADMK supremo is fit and healthy and did not show any signs of a ‘broken woman’. Jayalalithaa also has been simple in her behaviours and treated jail officials kindly.

RTI activist fears threat to life in Bihar

PAtNA, OctOber 13 (iANS): An RTI activist from Bihar says he faces threats to life after exposing people who are claiming pension meant for freedom fighters though they took no part in the independence struggle.

Manohar Mishra, who is in his early 30s, said the racketers had threatened to kill him and his family members and that his terrorized aged parents were spending sleepless nights. Mishra, who spoke to IANS on telephone from Kolkata, has urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh to provide him and his family protection.

“After I exposed the fake freedom fighters, the freedom fighter mafia is after me,” Mishra said. “I am afraid they can harm me physically or can trap me in some fake cases,” he said.

In a letter to Rajnath Singh, he has demanded a high-level probe over the

non-availability of records in respect of the Swatantra Senani Samman Pension scheme.

Mishra said he had requested the departments concerned through RTI to provide a complete list of freedom fighters drawing pension in Bihar. He said he was informed that there were no such records with the Bihar government. “It is a matter of deep concern that the government is spending crores of rupees annually without any accountability.

“I can tell you confidently that nearly 90% of claims of freedom fighters in Bihar are forged. “These people are getting pension after submitting fake documents. Interestingly, 80 percent of them were not even born during our country’s freedom movement.” According to Mishra, some people running the racket in Bihar were forging documents to “create” spurious freedom fighters.

He said he was “in deep trouble” because the mafia had threatened him and his family. “I am getting calls from unknown numbers. They are threatening me with dire consequences. “They are also threatening to seize all my assets and land in my native village (in Bihar). Due to this, my parents have been living in trauma for the last two weeks,” he said.

As per 2012-13 figures, Bihar has over 23,000 freedom fighters, the highest in the country, an RTI query by Mishra revealed. Interestingly, there has been no change in these numbers in the last five years.

The home ministry has informed Mishra that it does not have records for many freedom fighters. Mishra is seeking detailed information on each freedom fighter’s role in the independence movement including documents to show they took part in the freedom struggle.

V i S A k h A PAt N A M , OctOber 13 (iANS): Cyclonic storm Hudhud claimed 21 lives, affected six lakh people and damaged over 6,000 houses in north coastal Andhra as the extent of destruction caused by it Sunday unfolded a day later. Relief operations began Monday on war footing.

Visakhapatnam, the largest city in the state which bore the brunt of the fury, remained without electricity, communication and drinking water as almost the entire physical infrastructure collapsed due to the cyclone.

The storm, which hit the coast near the port city Sunday with heavy rains wind speed of 185 kmph, left a trail of destruction, unseen and unheard by its nearly 18 lakh population.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make an aerial survey of cyclone-affected areas Tuesday. Terming the devastation as unprecedented, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu sought Rs.2,000 crore as interim relief from the central government. He also appealed to Modi to declare this as a national calamity.

Viskhapatnam district accounted for 15 deaths. Five people were killed in Vijay-

India’s foreign policy a big draw on new & social media New Delhi, OctOber 13 (iANS): The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fuelled a spike in social media and interest in his government and its policies, including foreign policy.

With a robust foreign policy agenda and some well-publicised diplomatic engagements, the Twitter handle and Facebook page of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has seen a quantum jump of 400 percent since the Modi government came in over four months ago, while its website has more than doubled its viewership.

The Twitter handle of MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin @ MEAIndia is chockful of information, constantly being updated by the spokesperson - something on the lines of the refurbished and smart Prime Minister of India (PMO) website and Twitter handle that are constantly giving blurbs of information.

Akbaruddin, who has over 140,000 followers, is prompt with tweets on any latest happening from posting links to the video of the media briefing, photos with links on Minister Sushma Swaraj’s

diplomatic forays, about any visiting dignitary, and also on the latest visit of the prime minister.

He said since the Modi government came in, there has been “enhanced interest in the website” while social media interest has “increased by 400 percent”. This has particularly happened after Modi’s recent visit to the US, where he got almost celebrity treatment from the affluent and influential Indian community, as well visit to Japan and visits to India by leaders of China and Australia.

The MEA website - www.mea. gov.in - in its attempt to reach a wider global audience is now available, besides in English and Hindi, in Spanish and Arabic, with the latter introduced a few days ago.

“It will be available in French and Russian by early next year,” Akbaruddin told IANS. Two months ago it was named among the 40 best government websites in the world for Design Inspiration, along with websites of the US House of Representatives and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Though devoted to foreign

policy, the MEA website is not just for the high-brow or those interested in international relations.

Colourful photographs on the latest diplomatic events are constantly uploaded as are interesting photo features and articles on any major event. It has seen a more than doubling of visitors since Modi came to power, with the figure at present standing at more than 26 million.

Its section on documentaries is gaining in popularity, with a new documentary uploaded every week by the Public Diplomacy Division of the ministry. The current documentary ‘Bridging Worlds: A Meeting of Minds: The Story of Indians in The United Kingdom’ has got over 1,400 views on its YouTube channel.

“Social media has added to the conventional utility of the website, the links posted on Twitter and Facebook have expanded our outreach,” Akbaruddin said.

During Prime Minister Modi’s major visit to the US, the spokesperson’s Twitter handle was a constant source of news and updates of what the prime minister was doing

or who he was meeting. The twitter handle and the website saw a huge number of visitors during this time.

“Whenever we cover the prime minister’s events on social media, we get a huge number of hits, including from people not interested in foreign policy,” he added.

The MEA page has a section devoted to its flagship magazine, India Perspectives, with the latest issue on Durga Puja, while there is another section ‘Distinguished Lectures’ where lectures by retired diplomats are posted.

It has a separate section on Minister Sushma Swaraj and also links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest ‘Make in India’ campaign, Swachch Bharat and not forgetting the most important Consular, Passport and Visa division of the ministry.

The MEA has from earlier this year also started issuing all its press releases in different regional languages - Assamese, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam - to meet the demands of a growing band of regional language media personnel who cover the briefing.

An Indian fisherman walks near the anchored fishing boats as strong winds blow a day after a powerful cyclone pounded the Bay of Bengal coast in Gopalpur, Orissa, about 285 kilometers north east of Visakhapatnam on Monday, October 13. (AP Photo)

anagarm while one person died in Srikakulam district.

Officials said most deaths occurred due to falling trees.

Parkala Prabhakar, advisor (communications) to the state government, told reporters in Hyderabad Monday evening that 6,638 houses were damaged in three north coastal districts and adjoining East Godavari.

He said railway tracks and roads were damaged at 109 places. While Visakhapatnam and Vijayanagaram districts suffered extensive damage, Srikakulam district faces

threat of floods due to heavy inflows in the rivers and breach of several tanks.

The hurricane knocked down hundreds of trees, electricity poles and communication towers in the region. The extent of devastation in Visakhapatnam, also known as Vizag, can be gauged from the fact that its airport, railway and bus stations suffered damage, crippling all modes of transport.

The airport and railway and bus stations were also hit in Vizag, which remained without electricity for a second day. With

communication networks gone, mobile phones were non-functional here. Prabhakar said 5 teams made up of senior bureaucrats had been deployed for relief and rehabilitation efforts.

With 6 people taking shelter in relief camps, 50 tonnes of material from Vijayawada and 50 tonnes from Rajahmundry have been flown to provide food. He said the government was trying to restore telecom systems by Monday night. He said work had begun to estimate crop and property loss.

‘Malnourishment declined sharply among children in India’ New Delhi, OctOber 13 (AgeNcieS): The proportion of underweight children in India might have declined from 45.1 per cent in 2005-6 to a historic low of 30.7 per cent last year, new provisional data from a survey conducted by the government and UNICEF shows.

Since 2005-6, there has been no new data on child and adult weights and heights, key in determining malnutrition, because of a delay in the National Family Health Survey, India’s key source of health data. Now back on track, new NFHS data will only be out towards the end of next year. In the interim, UNICEF and the union Ministry of Women and Child Development carried out a `Rapid Survey on Children’ in 2013-14, the key provisional data for which it made available.

According to this survey, India’s proportion of children underweight fell from 45.1% in 2005-6 to 30.1% in 2013-14.

Ending what has been referred to as a “data drought”, these provisional numbers have significantly altered India’s position in global health indices. India’s ‘hunger’ status no longer ranks as “alarming” in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Global Hunger Index, but has instead been reclassified as “serious”.

In the last decade, India has improved its

health status faster than other South Asian countries, the new data indicates, as opposed to the widespread belief that countries like Bangladesh had done a better job on reducing malnutrition than India despite India’s faster economic growth.

“In the last 10 to 15 years, what happened in India was similar to what we have seen in Brazil and China – fast-growing economies with reasonably concurrent investments in social sector programmes, leading to what we would expect to see, which is an improvement in health outcomes,” Dr. Purnima Menon, senior research fellow at IFPRI, told The Hindu. While countries like Nepal and Bangladesh conduct health surveys every three years, India has not had one for nearly ten years, Dr. Menon added.

Even so, India still has the highest number of underweight children under 5 in the world and 70% of children are anaemic. The proportion of undernourished people in the overall population has fallen from 21.5% in 2004-06 to 17% in 2011-13, according to IFPRI estimates. Moreover, state-wise differences are not yet known; it’s necessary to wait for the full results from India’s survey to get a sense of which states in India had seen faster and slower reductions, Dr. Menon said.

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Bolivia: Morales coasts to 3rd term as president

LA PAZ, OctOber 13 (AP): Evo Morales coasted to victory in Bolivia’s presidential elections, winning an unprecedented third term as voters rewarded the former coca grower for delivering economic and political stability in what has traditionally been one of South America’s most ungovernable nations.

Morales, a native Aymara Indian, received 60 percent of the vote against 25 percent for cement magnate Samuel Doria Medina, the top vote-getter among four challengers in Sunday’s election, according to a quick count of voting stations by the polling firm Ipsos for ATB television.

Official partial results were expected early Monday.

Doria Medina conceded defeat late Sunday promising to “keep working to make a better country.”

Morales’ supporters poured into the streets to celebrate the triumph, but the festive mood was partly dented by an apparent failure by the ruling Movement Toward Socialism party to retain the two-thirds control of Congress needed to push through a constitutional reform lifting a twoterm limit on presidential mandates.

In a victory speech from the balcony of the presidential palace in La Paz,

An Aymara indigenous woman burns incense in celebration as supporters wait for President Evo Morales outside the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday October 12. Evo Morales easily won an unprecedented third term as Bolivia’s president Sunday according to an unofficial quick count of the vote. (AP Photo)

Morales dedicated his victory to Cuba’s Fidel Castro and the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.

“It is a triumph of the anti-colonialists and antiimperialists,” Morales said in a booming voice. “We are going to keep growing and we are going to continue the process of economic liberation.”

Morales won eight of

Bolivia’s nine states, including the former opposition stronghold of Santa Cruz, an agribusiness center in the eastern lowlands where he polled 51 percent, according to Ipsos.

Morales is now on track to become Bolivia’s longest-serving leader consecutively in office, eclipsing 19th century Marshal Andres de Santa Cruz, a

founder of the republic in power from 1829-1839.

While known internationally for his anti-imperialist and socialist rhetoric, the 55-year-old coca growers’ union leader is widely popular at home for a pragmatic economic stewardship that spread Bolivia’s natural gas and mineral wealth among the masses.

A boom in commodi-

ties prices increased export revenues nine-fold and under Morales’ watch Bolivia accumulated record international reserves and sold bonds abroad for the first time in nearly a century.

Economic growth has averaged 5 percent annually, well above the regional average. A half a million people have put poverty behind them since Bolivia’s

first indigenous president first took office in 2006.

Public works projects abound, including a satellite designed to deliver Internet to rural schools, a fertilizer plant and La Paz’s gleaming new cable car system. His newest promise: to light up La Paz with nuclear power.

Morales had sought Sunday to improve on his previous best showing — 64 percent in 2009 — and to maintain a two-thirds control of Bolivia’s Senate and assembly needed to lift term limits.

He has not said whether he would seek a fourth term, only that he would “respect the constitution.”

A court ruled last year that Morales could run for a third term because his first preceded a constitutional rewrite. All seats were up for grabs in the 36-member Senate and 130-member lower house. Results were not immediately available but exit polls indicate he fell just short of the needed threshold.

Morales’ critics say he spent tens of millions in government money on his campaign, giving him an unfair advantage. And press freedom advocates accuse him of gradually silencing critical media by letting government allies buy them out. Morales didn’t attend the cam-

paign’s lone presidential debate and state TV didn’t broadcast it.

“There is no functional opposition, left, right or otherwise,” said Jim Shultz, executive director of the left-leaning Democracy Center based in Bolivia and San Francisco.

Morales has capitalized on his everyman image while consolidating his control over state institutions. He long ago crushed and splintered the opposition, nationalized key utilities and renegotiated natural gas contracts to give the government a bigger share of profits.

His image-makers built a cult of personality around him. Stadiums, markets, schools, state enterprises and even a village bear Morales’ name. In the center of the capital, crews are building a second presidential palace, a 20-story center complete with a heliport.

Yet Morales has alienated environmentalists and many former indigenous allies by promoting mining and a planned jungle highway through an indigenous reserve.

And despite Bolivia’s economic advancements, it is still South America’s poorest country. Nearly one in four Bolivians live on $2 a day, according to the World Bank.

Many analysts think

Bolivia depends too much on natural resources and is especially susceptible to the current easing in commodities demand from China.

The underground cocaine economy also gets credit for part of the economic boom. Peru’s former drug czar, Ricardo Soberon, estimates its annual revenues at $2.3 billion, equal to about 7 percent of gross domestic product.

Morales promotes coca’s traditional uses and claims zero tolerance for cocaine.

But the United States considers Bolivia uncooperative in the war on drugs and has halted trade preferences. Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador and Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008, accusing them of inciting the opposition, and last year he threw out the U.S. Agency for International Development.

“Evo’s balancing act will be increasingly tough to maintain,” said Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based InterAmerican Dialogue think tank. “Although Evo has proven to be a resourceful and resilient politician, who knows his country well, it would be surprising if the next five years go as swimmingly as the last five.”

SKorea warns North of ‘strong’ Jean Tirole wins Nobel Prize for economics StOcKHOLM, OctOber 13 tries, ranging from telecommunica- academy said. response after exchange of fire (AP): The economics prize completed French economist Jean Tirole tions to banking,” the academy said.

SeOUL, OctOber 13 (reUterS): South Korea said on Monday it had warned North Korea of a “strong” response if it provoked an incident similar to one last week that sparked an exchange of machinegun fire across their border.

The warning came as South Korean President Park Geun-hye reiterated on Monday her commitment to engage with the North, despite what she called “the dual nature” of ties, saying the “door was always open to dialogue”.

South Korea said the North Korean firing was a “provocative act” that had violated the truce suspending their 1950-53 war and the complaint was reiterated in a notice the South sent the North late on Sunday. “It is a stern warning of a strong response in the event of further provocation,” South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told a briefing.

The exchange of fire on Friday began after North Korea fired shots at balloons carrying leaflets sent towards the North by South Korean activists critical of the North’s leadership.

North Korea has long criticised the leaflet drops as provocative and it has threatened to respond to them with force. But before Friday,

it had never done so.

No one was hurt in the firing.

North Korea’s state media said on Saturday that expected talks with the South to try to improve ties were in danger of being cancelled because authorities in South Korea had allowed the activists to float their balloons.

“The leaflet-scattering operation ... was a premeditated and deliberate politically motivated provocation perpetrated under the backstage wire-pulling of the U.S. and the South Korean authorities,” the North’s KCNA news agency said.

North Korea sent a high-level delegation on a surprise visit to the South on Oct. 4 and the two sides agreed to reopen dialogue, which has been stalled since February, late this month or early next.

Private groups in the South, often led by defectors from the North, cite their constitutional freedom of expression in releasing their balloons.

The South’s Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North, repeated on Monday it had no legal justification to stop the leaflet drops but said authorities may try to step in to prevent them on the basis of ensuring public safety.

won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for research on market power and regulation that has helped policymakers understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few dominant companies.

Calling Tirole “one of the most influential economists of our time,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said he’s made contributions in a range of research areas. But it highlighted his role in clarifying “how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful firms.”

Tirole, 61, works at the Toulouse School of Economics in France and has a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Left unregulated, industries that are dominated by a few single firms can produce undesirable results, such as unnecessarily high prices or unproductive companies blocking new competitive firms from entering the market. From the mid-1980s, Tirole “breathed new life into research on such market failures,” the academy said, adding his work has strong bearing on how governments deal with mergers or cartels and how they should regulate monopolies.

“In a series of articles and books, Jean Tirole has presented a general framework for designing such policies and applied it to a number of indus-

Harvard University professor and economist Philippe Aghion said on France’s BFM television Monday that Tirole’s work is particularly useful to governments as they try to determine the best level of regulation, notably regulation of banks after the global financial crisis in 2008. “Tirole is at the frontier of this domain,” Aghion said.

In a 2012 interview, Tirole told the financial journal Les Echos that the 2008 financial crisis stemmed primarily from regulatory failure. “The vision according to which economists have unlimited trust in the efficiency of markets is 30 years behind the times,” he said.

It was the first economics prize without an American winner since 1999.

“I’m so moved,” Tirole said, speaking to a news conference in Stockholm on a telephone link from Toulouse.

Before Tirole, the academy said, policy-makers advocated simple rules including capping prices for companies with a monopoly and banning cooperation between competitors.

Tirole showed that in some circumstances, such rules can do more harm than good.

Drawing on insights based on Tirole’s work, “governments can better encourage powerful firms to become more productive and, at the same time, prevent them from harming competitors and customers,” the

the 2014 Nobel Prize announcements.

In Nobel Prizes awarded last week, Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai, 17, became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the peace prize for fighting for children’s rights.

French writer Patrick Modiano won the literature prize for his lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country.

U.S. researchers Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Stefan Hell of Germany shared the chemistry prize for finding ways to make microscopes more powerful than previously thought possible; while Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Japanese-born U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura won the physics prize for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes used in mobile phones, computers and TVs. The awards will be presented on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder AlfredNobel’s death in 1896.

Even though the economics award is not an original Nobel Prize — it was added in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank — it is presented with the others and carries the same prize money.

Last year the economics prize went to three Americans who shed light on the forces that move stock, bond and home prices.

Angry crowd charges Hong Kong protest barricades

A police officer tries to stop a man who removing the metal barricades that protesters have set up to block off main roads near the heart of the city’s financial district. Hong Kong Monday, October 13. (AP Photo)

HONG KONG, OctOber 13 (AP): A mob of masked men opposed to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators led an apparently coordinated assault on the protest zone in the heart of the city’s financial district Monday, tearing down barricades and clashing with police.

The chaotic scenes came after police carried out a dawn operation to reopen some key

roads blocked by protesters for more than 15 days. Police said they will continue to chip away at the occupied zone to relieve traffic, and warned that anyone who challenges them could be arrested.

Monday’s confrontations highlighted the growing tension between student-led protesters and authorities — as well as other residents aggravated by the disruptions.

The protesters, who had enjoyed widespread support when the movement began, are fighting to keep up momentum as the political crisis entered a third week.

Demonstrators have flooded several thoroughfares in central Hong Kong since Sept. 28 in a civil disobedience movement to oppose restrictions on the first-ever direct election for the semi-

autonomous Chinese city’s leader, promised by Beijing for 2017. They want authorities to drop a plan to use a proBeijing committee to screen candidates, and demand the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, the city’s deeply unpopular Beijingbacked leader.

Authorities have repeatedly urged protesters to retreat from the streets, but student leaders have vowed to keep up the disruptions until the government responds to their demands.

Protesters were rebuilding barriers Monday after about two dozen men wearing surgical masks to hide their faces tore at the metal barricades that demonstrators have put in place. The men, who used box cutters to snap the cable ties connecting the barricades, scuffled with protesters and police who tried to stop them.

An angry crowd of several hundred people then descended on the scene, rushing up to the barricades and attempting to storm the protest zone. They punched their fists in the air and chanted “Open the road!” About a dozen taxi drivers joined in, driving their cabs up to the barricades and leaning on their horns to express their anger over the traffic disruptions.

A line of police officers

held the crowd back, keeping them separated from the protesters on the other side of the barriers. It was not immediately clear who organized the anti-protest crowd, but some blamed triads, or organized crime gangs.

“Before the police came, young men wearing masks and dark clothing came to pick fights with people and we heard that some of them had weapons,” said Kevin Ng, a college student who was at the scene and saw the scuffles.

“I don’t know who the young men wearing masks were. We suspect they’re triad members, but it’s hard to say. What other kind of group would organize themselves to come attack us?”

One protester, Alex Kwok, said he received a scratch on his arm after he was attacked by several men whom he accused of being members of triads.

The tension later eased as most of the crowd dispersed. Police took away some masked men inside the protest zone who tried to pick fights with the protesters, and later said they arrested three men, aged 18 to 47, at the clashes on suspicion of assault and carrying weapons.

Police did not say which side those arrested supported. Allegations have surfaced that some people were paid to disrupt the protests.

This photo provided Monday, October 13, by the IDEI (Industrial Economic Institute ) shows French economist Jean Tirole. Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for research on market power and regulation that has helped policymakers understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few powerful companies. (AP Photo)

Islamic State magazine says group enslaved Yazidis

bAGHDAD, OctOber 13 (AP): Islamic State group militants captured, enslaved and sold Yazidi women and children, the latest issue of a magazine purportedly published by the extremists claimed, the group’s first public confirmation of the allegations.

The claim came as Human Rights Watch said Sunday that hundreds of Yazidi men, women and children from Iraq are being held captive in makeshift detention facilities in Iraq and Syria by the group.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled into the Sinjar Mountains, many getting stranded there for weeks, after the militant onslaught on Sinjar in August, part of the Islamic State group’s lightning advance across northern and western Iraq. Hundreds were killed in the attack, and tens of thousands fled for their lives, most to the Kurdish-held parts of northern Iraq.

Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry said at the time that hundreds of women were abducted by the militants, who consider the Yazidis, a centuries-old religious minority, a heretical sect. Some also alleged the Islamic State group enslaved and sold Yazidi women and children, though the group itself did not comment on it.

The issue of Dabiq magazine released Sunday stated that “the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers.” It add-

ed that “the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations.”

Most of the Yazidis are now displaced in northern Iraq, many having lost loved ones in their flight to safety. Some say that their women and girls were snatched during the militant raid.

In one section of the magazine, a statement attributed to Mohammed al-Adnani, the spokesman for the Islamic State group, read: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women,” addressing those who do not subscribe to its hard-line interpretation of Islam.

The release of the magazine came as New York-based Human Rights Watch said Yazidi men, women and children remain held by the group. Its report noted that the group “separated young women and teenage girls from their families and has forced some of them to marry its fighters.”

One woman told Human Rights Watch that she saw Islamic State fighters buying girls, and a teenage girl said a fighter bought her for $1,000, the report said. The Associated Press independently has interviewed a number of Yazidi women and girls who escaped captivity and several claimed that they were sold to Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.

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14 October 2014

NeW DeLHI, OctO Ber 13 (PtI): Olympic bronze medallist M C Mary Kom was chosen as the Most Valuable Player of India's Incheon Asian Games campaign at a felicitation of the medal winners by contingent sponsors Samsung India on Monday.

Mary Kom, who became the first Indian woman boxer to win a gold medal in Asian Games when she clinched the yellow metal in the Incheon Games in flyweight (-51kg) class, was named the MVP after a poll.

All the 11 individual/team gold winners, including the men's hockey team, were in the contest. None of the members of gold-winning men's hockey team turned up for the felicitation event while the Indian Olympic Association was represented by its treasurer Anil Khanna.

Khanna said IOA president N Ramachandran and secretary general Rajeev Mehta could not make it to the event as they had some

"prior engagements". Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, pistol shooter Jitu Rai, discus thrower Seema Punia, 4x400m relay runner M R Poovamma were among those gold winners who turned up for the felicitation event.

India won 11 gold, 10 silver and 36 bronze in the Incheon Asian Games.

Mary Kom said the gold in the Asian Games had proved that she can still be in her top form despite being a mother of three children.

"Many people had doubted whether I would be able to win a gold in the Asian Games at this situation. First, it is difficult in our society to continue this kind of sport after having three children," said the five-time world champion.

"There is a mindset that a woman after becoming a mother cannot achieve success in sport. But I think I have proven wrong this kind of thinking and mindset," she said. Reflecting on her moments of glory in

Open veteran badminton tournament in Kohima

KOHImA, OctOBer 13 (mexN): The famed Kohima Badminton Club’s “Open Veteran Badminton Tournament” which is an annual major event is being scheduled from October 16 to 17 at the Indoor Badminton Stadium, Kohima with a catchy motto “I am fit.” The tournament will take place in 3 categories i.e- 35 age/ years and above, 45 age and above and 55 age and above. The tournament is already warmed up as some players from other districts have already touched down to the venue for practice. This year, the tournament will draw a large crowd with the organizers pulling in a lot sponsors and likeminded organisations to show case this wonderful event and attractive entertainment programs besides offering prize money totaling over Rs. 90,000. The winners will take home Rs. 20,000 and there is a prizes for the losers too, as they also take home Rs. 10,000 each. The organizers are planning to display a memorable closing ceremony with grand pomp music and offering hospitable decent Naga diner.

Evangelism through sports

KOHImA, OctOBer 13 (mexN): The Angami Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (ABKK) will be organizing Evangelism Through Sports under the theme “Flame your Gift of God” from October 16 to 18 at Medziphema Town at 10:00 a.m. Dr. Hovithal Sothu and Rev. Miazelie Sakhrie will be the chief guest and guest of honour respectively.

The three days tournament will be marked by football for the men and volleyball for women. Six teams will participate in the tournament, which include: Niakracha Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (NBKK), Pesocha Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (PBBK), Japfüphiki Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (JBKK), Kohima Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (KBKK), Chakhro Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (CBKK) and Dimapur Angami Baptist Khriesarüü Krotho (DABKK). This was stated in a release issued by Vicavor Krose, youth director, Angami Baptist Church Council.

20th Lt. Nyamo Lotha and Daniel (ND) Memorial Football Trophy

DImAPUr, OctOBer 13 (mexN): The 20th Lt. Nyamo Lotha and Daniel (ND) Memorial Football Trophy 2014 will be held from November 1 to 7 at State Stadium, near DC Court Junction in Dimapur. The tournament is organized by Dimapur Lotha Students’ Union (DLSU).

The Games & Sports Secretary of DLSU in a press release informed all the interested football teams/ clubs and associations that registration form on payment of Rs. 100/will be available at N Grocery Shop, near Lotha Hoho Ki at DC Court Junction and Kiran Sports at Nyamo Lotha Road from October 20. According to the release, players should be bonafide Lotha only. For further information, call 9862530532/ 9615670127. The release also informed that this year, Volleyball Trophy could not be organized due to “unavoidable technical reason.”

My decision will seem obvious: Alonso

SOcHI, OctOBer 13 (reUterS): Ferrari's Fernando Alonso gave a teasing hint about his Formula One future on Sunday by saying the decision would seem obvious once announced and he was unlikely to drive for a Mercedes-powered team. "I'm not in a hurry...I understand the curiosity, and I understand, for the fans, the news that can be around the future," the Spaniard told reporters at the inaugural Russian Grand Prix. "But do not worry, do not worry. Just relax, enjoy, and when it's time to know it, you will know it. "My mind is set, for the last two or three months, and when you know you will understand that probably it was very obvious what I would do," added the double world champion. In a separate interview with NBC television, Alonso said "I don't think so" when asked if he would be driving for a team with Mercedes engines. Although Alonso has a contract at Ferrari until the end of 2016, he is expected to leave at the end of the year to make way for four-times champion Sebastian Vettel unless current team mate Kimi Raikkonen leaves.

Raikkonen, Ferrari's 2007 champion, has a contract for 2015 but has been eclipsed by Alonso this year. Maintaining the intrigue, Alonso also said "My decision...was to help this fantastic team, and I'm extremely happy with the things that will come."

the final bout in Incheon, she said, "When I was inside the ring, I don't think of whether I may lose or win. I just think of giving my best.

"I won a medal in 2010 Games in Guangzhou also when women's boxing was introduced in the Asian Games. Now I have returned with a gold. I am really happy to have become the first Indian woman boxer to have won a gold in the Asian Games," she said.

Yogeshwar, on his part, part said that India should aim to win more gold in the Asian Games than the lone yellow metal this time.

"I won a gold this time and that was after 28 years.

It's a long wait. I feel winning a lone gold in an edition of Asian Games is not enough. India should win more than one gold in each edition so that we don't wait for long," he said. Yogeshwar said he was determined to win a gold in the World Championships next year and then train his guns at the 2016 Olympics."I have not won a gold medal in World Championships.

That is my goal next year and then there is the Olympics next year. Every athlete wants to win a gold medal in Olympics and that is the ultimate," he said. "I have settled down myself after changing weight to 65kg.

In the three tournaments I have fought in 65kg so far, I have won gold in all of them -- the first one in Italy, then Commonwealth Games and now Asian Games."

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Glenn Maxwell snatches one-run victory for Australia

ABU DHABI, OctOBer 13 (AP): Glenn Maxwell bowled a breathtaking double-wicket maiden last over to earn one-run victory in the third and final one-day international against Pakistan and ensure Australia stayed on top of world ranking with a 3-0 whitewash in the series.

Pakistan needed just two runs off the last six balls, but Maxwell (2-41) clean bowled Sohail Tanvir off the second delivery and then tall Mohammad Irfan missed the next three deliveries before giving up an easy catch off the last ball.

Tanvir and Zulfiqar Babar had brought Pakistan within sight of victory with a 22-run ninth wicket stand before Maxwell's brilliance saw them dismissed for 230 after Australia was restricted at 231-9.

But Australia should have separated the pair and made it 208-9 when Faulkner dislodged the bails at the non-striker's end with Babar inches short of the crease, but surprisingly none of the Australians appealed.

"It's always tough to win a series overseas so very satisfying to win 3-0," Australia captain George Bailey said. "We didn't quite play our best in all three games, but it's a positive when you find ways to win

The Australian team poses with the series trophy, Pakistan v Australia, 3rd ODI, Abu Dhabi, October 12.

despite that."

Pakistan's regular captain Misbah-ul-Haq opted to sit out from the dead rubber match in one of the four changes made by Pakistan and stand-in captain Shahid Afridi did well to restrict Australia after losing the toss.

However, the brittle batting lineup continued to struggle against Australia's pace and spin and even the two replacements Sohaib Maqsood (34) and Umar Amin (19) couldn't bat around top scorer Asad

Shafiq (50).

"This game we had to win and we missed the opportunity," Afridi said. "In the batting ... the thing we are missing is partnerships, we are not finishing properly." Sarfraz Ahmed (32) and Ahmed Shehzad (26) had provided a good start of 56 in 11 overs before leftarm spinner Xavier Doherty struck with his first ball when he clean bowled Shehzad.

Ahmed was run out while going for a needless second run and Fawad

Alam fell to a brilliant anticipation by Steven Smith, who changed his position from first slip to leg slip in time and caught the lefthander without scoring.

Shafiq and Maqsood then cruised Pakistan to 154-3 by putting on 74 runs for the fourth wicket stand before both departed within four runs and Afridi fell in his usual reckless fashion by giving a skier to Smith at mid on. Earlier, Australia's total revolved around Smith (77 off 105

balls) and David Warner (56 off 63 balls) half centuries before Pakistan hit back through Tanvir's 3-40 and Afridi's 2-44. Left-arm fast bowler Tanvir, playing his first match of the series, restricted Australia's batsmen and also got the prized wicket of Smith to finish with 3-40 off 10 overs.

Afridi caught and bowled Warner with his legspin as Australia struggled to score freely on the slow wicket of Sheikh Zayed Stadium in the second half of its innings.

Warner provided a 48-run start with Aaron Finch (18) and added 54 more runs with Smith before Pakistan pegged back Australia. Warner completed his half century with a swept six over midwicket off left-arm spinner Babar before he lobbed an easy catch back to Afridi.

Tanvir bowled to a superb line and length as Pakistan leaked only 9 runs in the second batting powerplay, getting the wickets of struggling Phil Hughes (5) and Brad Haddin (2).

Smith added 40 runs for the seventh wicket stand with James Faulkner (33) before Tanvir first had Smith bowled off a full length delivery and then Amin took his second catch in the deep to dismiss Faulkner.

NBA MVP Kevin Durant has foot fracture

OKLAHOmA cItY, OctOBer 13 (AP): Kevin Durant, the NBA's leading scorer of this decade and the reigning MVP, will likely miss the first six to eight weeks of the season after fracturing a bone in his right foot.

The Oklahoma City star forward complained of an ache in his foot after practice Saturday, the team said. Tests showed he has a "Jones fracture," a broken bone at the base of his small toe. Thunder general manager Sam Presti said Sunday that surgery is likely, and that similar injuries have forced players to miss six to eight weeks.

The Thunder open the season Oct. 29 at Portland. A six-week absence could have Durant back for the start of December, with about 65 games remaining.

"We're really fortunate to be catching it when we're catching it," Presti said. "Very fortunate that Kevin notified us yesterday, and we're catching it kind of on the front end, before this became a little bit more of an acute issue."

The Thunder have a couple of high-profile matchups in December, playing LeBron James and the Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant poses for photos during NBA basketball media day at Chesapeake Energy Arena, Monday, Septem- Cavaliers on Dec. 11 and going to San Antonio for a Western Conferber 29, 2014 in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo)

ence finals rematch on Christmas.

Durant won the scoring title last season, collected his first MVP award and led the Thunder to the Western Conference finals. He skipped playing for the U.S. national team in this summer's World Cup so he could get additional rest. He played in two preseason games before complaining of pain.

On Media Day, Durant was asked about witnessing Indiana Pacers forward Paul George's grotesque broken leg during a USA Basketball scrimmage and offered perspective on injuries.

"You could get hurt walking outside," Durant said. "I know you hear that a lot, but you can get hurt anywhere. Just knowing that keeps you kind of levelheaded, and at peace with what happens on that court. If you worry about it too much, you start to get scared a little bit. So I just try not to worry about it."

The Thunder were forced to play for nearly two months last season without their other All-Star, Russell Westbrook, because of a knee injury, but remained among the West's best because of Durant.

He averaged 32 points, 7.4 points and 5.5 assists and was an

overwhelming winner of MVP honors, ending LeBron James' bid for a third straight. Durant had a run of 41 consecutive games with at least 25 points, the third-longest streak in NBA history.

He has won four of the last five scoring titles, and was at his best during Westbrook's absence from late December through the All-Star break, averaging 35 points and 6.3 assists as the Thunder went 20-7.

For the first time, Durant will have an extended absence. He has never missed more than eight games in a season, and he has missed 16 regular season games in his seven NBA seasons. Now, it will be up to Westbrook to raise his game while Durant is sidelined, or the Thunder risk falling behind quickly in the powerful West.

"You don't replace Kevin Durant," Presti said. "It's not going to be one person, it's going to be a collective mindset. We know we're a better basketball team with Kevin Durant on the floor, but we can have some influence over how good we are in the meantime.

We're certainly not going to be looking at the calendar waiting for him to get back. I don't think he'd want us to do that."

Mercedes secure one F1 trophy

SOcHI, OctOBer 13 (reUterS): The Formula One constructors' world championship trophy found a new home just down the road from Red Bull's factory in England on Sunday as Mercedes celebrated a historic first for their 'Silver Arrows' team.

Russian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton might cover the distance in a matter of minutes but it has taken more than half a century for Mercedes to add their names to the likes of Ferrari, McLaren and Williams.

If the late Argentine great Juan Manuel Fangio and his 1955 team mate Stirling Moss never experienced a similar success, despite finishing the season first and second, that is only because the championship did not exist until 1958.

Mercedes had pulled out of the sport by then, horrified by the 1955 Le Mans disaster that killed more than 80 spectators.

They did not return until 2010, taking over the Brawn GP team that had won both titles in 2009 and its Brackley headquarters.

"I have to tell you I'm a little emotional," said the team's non-executive chairman Niki Lauda, him-

Mercedes team drivers Lewis Hamilton of Britain, center, winner of the race, second placed Nico Rosberg of Germany, center left, and Mercedes non-Executive Chairman and former F1 driver Niki Lauda, center right, pose for a photograph the team after the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the 'Sochi Autodrom' Formula One circuit, in Sochi, Russia on October 12. (AP Photo)

self a triple world champion. The championship came as no surprise, with team staff swiftly donning special T-shirts to mark the occasion just as Red Bull have for the past four years, and the champagne glasses lined up in the hos-

pitality unit. If the celebrations were mild compared to some witnessed in the past, that was also out of respect to French driver Jules Bianchi who is critically ill in hospital after his crash in Japan last weekend.

With three races re-

maining and the drivers' title still finely balanced between Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, just 17 points apart, the real party can wait even if the satisfaction was evident.

"It's a good moment," declared Mercedes mo-

torsport head Toto Wolff after Hamilton led team mate Rosberg to the team's ninth one-two finish of the season and 13th win in 16 races. "It's incredible. I have to pinch myself sometimes we are part of the Mercedes-Benz history. We

won the first constructors' title for Mercedes-Benz ever and I should just feel proud, honoured to be part of the team."

Wolff paid tribute to former principal Ross Brawn, who left at the end of last year, for laying the foundations and said it was his trophy too. "He played such an important role in the team, the steps which were done in 2012, the people who joined us, and we constantly ramped our game up.

"We made the right decisions, we got the right resources, the big boys back in Stuttgart understood what it needed and since then we were on an upwards slope. Today is the result of all that."

Red Bull have won both titles in every year since 2009, a run so long it extends back to before more than half the drivers on Sunday's grid had made their Formula One debuts.

"It will be going just up the road to Brackley and congratulations to Mercedes on what they have achieved this season, they have been phenomenal," said Red Bull principal Christian Horner. "We will be working hard to take the trophy back the 12 miles to us in 12 months' time."

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Hiyalo Kath Song Title: The freedom song Code: G1

Bensinlo Kent Song Title: Everlasting addiction Code: G2 Bensinlo is a young, upcoming contemporary Gospel artist. The youngest of 7 siblings, he hails from T. Zisunyu, a Rengma village known for its pristine beauty.

Although his love for music began at a very young age, joining Patkai Christian College (PCC) in 2007 truly marked a turning point in his life. He also attained Grade V in both guitar and drums in 2008 and 2012 respectively and later served as Guitar Instructor at PCC. The desire to sing for the Lord kept him going and led him to come out with his debut album “It’s only You” in March, 2014.

Imnasenla Song Title: Wings of change Code: G3 Imnasenla Aier is a regular Christian singer, songwriter and composer. The song ‘Wings of change’ is from her debut album which she is currently working on and is scheduled to be released sometime this year.

Besides being a singer, she is also a member of Dreamz unlimited (The Theatre Society of Nagaland) where she is the lead actress. She has acted in movies like ‘Life Rewind’, ‘RTI’, ‘Campus Blues’ and will soon be releasing another Christian movie ‘The wakeup call’ this November.

Her music video “Wings of change” has also been featured on the debut episode of ‘Backyard Buzz’ – a TV program about the musicians and music of Nagaland.

Kilang AIer Song Title: A beautiful Christmas Code: G4 Kilang Aier is a contemporary Naga musician who is also an engineer by profession.

He developed a knack for writing s o n g s while he was a student and since then has been a prolific songwriter.

Although a self taught, this singer and composer is well acquainted with different kinds of music. A nominee of the previous edition of MAN, to his credit he has an album titled ”My first experience with love”.

Molung Imsong Song Title: Yob taküm ama Code: LG1 This young lad from Changtongya Village discovered his talent for singing at a very young age.

Even then, he had a vision that one day he would become a great gospel singer and missionary.

Although at first he was influenced by pop bands like Westlife, Abba, Backstreet Boys etc, he says that today, by God’s grace, he sings only gospel songs as he wants to stay true to his calling.

The song ‘Yob takum ama’ is from his debut album “Kü Kibursa Tenzüktsü” which most likely, is just the beginning as he has big plans for gospel music after graduation.

Senti Jamir feat. Imti Pongen Song Title: 1) Temeim Code : LG2 2) Tesangwa lima Code : RS3

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6TH MUSIC AWARDS OF NAGALAND 2014 NOMINEES Besides his passion for music, 24-year-old Hiyalo from Tseminyu town is also a school teacher. As a child, he always wanted to be a musician. He grew up playing the guitar, but he discovered that he had the ability to sing as well as write songs. This further led to the realization that he loved singing more than guitar playing!

His composition “The freedom song” speaks about facing various trials and tribulations and working one’s way through the darkness to find freedom in the end.

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Senti Jamir has been associated as the guitarist with well-known local acts like Mama’s Boys,

Frozen Heart, Broken Mirror and the DABA worship team. He was adjudged the Best Lead Guitarist in all Nagaland Gospel Rock Contest and Tech Aura Open Beat contest.

In addition to singing and guitar playing, he is also a certified sound engineer who has completed a course in sound management from BASE Chennai and later worked as a sound engineer in a reputed recording studio in Dimapur. Added to this, he also holds a teaching Diploma from Rockschool.

The songs ‘Temeim’ & ‘Tesangwa Lima’ sung in Ao dialect also feature well-known crooner Imti Pongen.

Diethozo Thakro Song Title: 1) Phrakeshü a siliete Code: LG3 2) Song of the knights Code: RM1 A well known singer and songwriter, Dietho Thakro started singing at a tender age and his profound love for music is what keeps him going. He regards music as his first love as it expresses so much about him and definitely wants to keep on singing till his last breath!

During the 3rd edition of the Music Awards of Nagaland 2011, his song “A kecha (My prayer)” - a Christian gospel song in Angami dialect won him the award for Best Gospel Song and was also voted the 'Song of the Year'.

This year too, he has been nominated in two categories -.Gospel (Local dialects) for “Phrakeshü a siliete” and in Rock (Metal/ Heavy) for “Song of the knights”.

Voice Blend Song Title: Goodbye Code: RS1

such as Sum41, Simple Plan and Good Charlotte.

They are best known for earlier songs like ‘Tonight’ and ‘Evening Star’ which have won the hearts of many fans both within and outside the state.

guitars, Yapang on vocals and Imlitoshi on drums.

Yanger Toshi They have been nominated for Song Title : Still moment in time their song “My Saviour” in the Rock Code : RS5 (Metal/ Heavy) category.

Their frontman Yapang’s solo This songwriter/ mu- music video “I’m flying” was also sician is also featured in Backyard Buzz, Episode 2. an Assistant commandant Wannyen Bezo in the Indo Ti- Song Title : Spread my wings betan Border Code : P1 Police Force.

Wannyen Bezo However, for this soldier, 'Music' is is an upcoming his first love. Since childhood, he Indie Pop Singfound that music gave him happier from Konyak ness, encouraged him to believe in Naga commuhis dreams and helped him overnity. Her intercome numerous challenges in life. est in singing Back in college, Yanger was in started since high a boy-band called “Intune’ which school days and performed at the inaugural Hornbill has performed in many Festival as well as other shows in the s h e programs and events. She is greatly northeast.

Yanger Toshi recently released his influenced by her Daddy who is also first music album titled ‘Still moment a music lover and encouraged her to in Time‘ containing songs which are make the music video.

“Spread my wings” is her debut very close to his heart and deal about single music video, written and comemotions like love, life and hope. posed by another well-known artist/ musician Moba Inggang. The video Imsong also has been featured in “Backyard Song Title : 1) Believe Code : RS6 Buzz” Episode-I, the TV show about 2) Freedom song Code : RM4 the Nagaland Music Scene. At present, Imsong is a singer she is pursuing her Master’s degree and songwriter who (M.Sc.) at Patkai Christian College. has the distinction of having worked with Aben Jamir bands like Regenera- Song Title : My love for you tion Bros, Native col- Code : P2 ors, Footprints, SufAben Jamir fering souls, Incipit, Blend, Phoenix Anthology and Four Fields to name is from Dimapur and is cura few.

This progressive rock musician rently doing has recently released his debut al- her BA from St. bum titled “Dream + Faith = Reality” John College.

She was which speaks about his dream turna student of the ing into reality with faith in God. well-known Alobo Naga and is now The album which brings back the good taste of pure 90’s rock contains also part of a worship team which acseven power packed songs inspired cording to her is “doing what I love the by revolutionary philosophies while most” and she dreams to spread God’s some songs delve into his personal love through her music. She respects all kinds of music but mostly goes for Pop. struggles and life experiences.

“My love for you’ is her debut single which has recently been released.

Red Alert The song kicks off with a catchy riff Song Title : Dream from inside played by Atsa Lang Roths of Hello RaCode : RM2 dio where Aben fills in with her indie pop inspired vocals to produce a very bubbly and feel-good summer song.

This three-piece pop/ alternative rock band was born on Nov 14, 2013 and consists of Lanuyanger Amir, Imnasunep Pongen and Imdongzuba Ajem. All three had played in different bands before coming together to form ‘Voice Blend’.

Lanuyanger was the vocalist for “Hybrid Theory’ and in his own words joined the current band “to keep the music alive inside me”. Imnasunep was in a worship team and used to play both gospel and secular songs. Imdong the frontman for ‘Best B4 24 Months’ – a punk band, who Red Alert was formed in April won Best Music Video in a previous edition of the awards formed ‘Voice 2013 and based in Chumukedima, Blend’ because he wanted to experi- Dimapur. They play alternative rock and are influenced by bands like 30 ment with other genres of music. seconds to Mars, Guns and Roses, Breaking Benjamin, Alter Bridge etc.

Alo Wanth The band consists of frontman Song Title: Without wings Azeu Kent, Benry Ngullie on the six Code: RS2 strings, Tiasunep Longchar on the Alo Wanth had a skins and Imkongwapang Longchar passion for music on the bass. Although the band was since childhood. formed quite recently, they have As a kid, he would performed in numerous shows and strum his mom’s gui- have a steadily growing fanbase. They tar and sing for hours, strongly feel about being original and sometimes looking at believe that with the right platform the mirror and imagining himself Naga bands can be at par with the best musicians anywhere. singing before a big crowd!

Their debut music video "Dream He has come a long way since then. Trained in contemporary music from inside" was recently released on from Dallas,TX, USA, he has released Youtube. three albums till date. Alo plays contemporary music with a Jazz, Blues The Chronicles Band Song Title : Chaheko feel tinged with Rock and Pop He has performed at Houston, Code : RM3 Dallas, and Hawaii (2007-2008) in the USA, Casablanca in Morocco (2009) and back home has been the opening act of John Schlitt‘s concerts in Dimapur & Kohima 2012. He has also performed all over India and at the Hornbill National Rock Beat Contest Achievers night, 2011.

These guys initially started out as The lineup of the band is Alo Wanth on vocals/ guitar, Alem Jamir a worship band in the year 2009 with on lead guitar, Noksang Jamir on bass a group of passionate musicians from different Gorkha/ Nepali Churchand Tulu Longkumer on the drums es to encourage the youths to live a committed life for the Lord. Early this Best B4 24 months year, they decided to form a Christian Song Title: High School Rock Band.

Code: RS4 The lineup is Raj Gurung on Vocals, Ezra Sunar on Drums, Suresh Bardewa on Bass, Cornelios Gurung on Rhythm Guitar and Robert Aley on Lead Guitar.

Their debut single “Chaheko” was recorded at Crystal Sound Studio, Dimapur and the video directed by Onnen (Lil Star Entertainment, Mokokchung). The song speaks about Best B4 24 months are past win- human wants and needs which are ners of the award for ‘Best Music Vid- never ending and relates human life eo’ in 2012 for their song ‘Tonight’. to a short journey.

This punk band from Chumukedima, Dimapur consists of Imdong Ajem Bamboo Groove (vox), Sangpo Jamir (Lead guitars), Song Title : My Saviour Imlitoshi Imsong (guitars), Yiatoshi Code : G5 Ajem (Bass), Aaron (Keys) and AjeThis newly formed Christian Rock mer Ajem (Skins). outfit based in Mokokchung comTheir main influences are bands prises of Empu on bass, Jonathan on

Shalo Kent Song Title : And we say Code : P3 Shalo writes and produces his own music. A well-known musician, he has had the privilege to perform at the opening ceremony of the Hornbill Festival 2012.

Has recently released his official debut single ‘And we say’ which is currently receiving heavy airplay on VH1. Released on 10th July 2014, it became an instant hit making it the fastest and highest downloaded song in a single day on Indihut.

One of the few electronic artistes from India, he looks to popularize his genre in the country with fresh melody-driven music.

Rajj Ismokey Proudliee Song Title : Remember those days Code : P4 Born and raised in Dimapur, this dude with a striking moniker dreams to make it big someday and change the world through his music. He says ‘If emotions have any sound, it will be called music’.

He feels that being a musician requires a lot of hard work which people who are not into music fail to understand. He therefore, aims to open their eyes through his songs which express his emotions and personal experiences.

Rajj says musicians are a different breed altogether – a bit crazy and different from other people but that is because for a musician, music is everything – something to live and die for and that without music we are nothing.

His song ‘Remember those days’ is dedicated to the broken hearted to lift their spirits and relieve them of their loneliness.

Neikuo khezhie Song Title : Memories Code : P5 Neikuo is a prolific singer mostly into Broadway and contemporary music. He has travelled the length and breadth of the country with Zowe Madrigal (the only neo classical male

chorus in the country) and has brought many laurels to the state.

According to him, his greatest achievement so far was getting the opportunity to sing for the President of India four times (twice for Prathiba Devi Patel and twice for Pranab Mukherjee).

He has also performed with Situ Singh (considered India’s best female soprano) and Christine Matovich (American School of Music).

He has done his first concert certificate under Trinity Guildhall (Classical) and also grade 8 under Rockschool and passed with distinction in both exams. Neikuo has been teaching young aspirant talents for the past four years and is currently teaching at Mountain Music Academy Dimapur and also working on his solo album which will be out next year.

Mughami Melos is a modern folk fusion music group formed in early 2013 comprising of seven members – Atoli Saghu Achumi – Soprano/ tenor, Viwotuli Kiba – Soprano/ Alto, Ghotoli Swu – Alto/ Soprano, Vitolu Swu – Tenor/ Soprano, Lovito Swu – Tenor/ Soprano, Saiji Kiba – Bass and James Inaho Swu – Bass.

The members are all from Ighanumi village, the first Sumi village in Sumi migration history. The name ‘Ighanumi’ was coined by the good neighbouring Angami, Chakhesang and Rengma villages.

The word Mughami Melos means ‘bessed people’. One of the objectives of this group is to amplify the bygone folk tunes fused with modern tunes.

Their song speaks of God’s greatness and omnipresent love.

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Aron T. Asumi Song Title : 1) Tommorow awaits Code : IN1 2) Unfailing love Code : IN2 Aron is a music teacher, composer and performer. He holds a Grade 8 in piano and grade 5 in both violin and music theory. He is the Director, Immanuel Music Academy, Zunheboto.

His debut instrumental album ‘Tomorrow Awaits’ features eight piano pieces composed and performed by him celebrating Jesus and dedicated to the Creator of music.

This is the first instrumental piano album produced in the state along with a companion book with the pieces in staff notation.

Mayang Longchar Song Title : Over the rainbow Code : P6 Fascinated by watching friends and other musicians play their guitars, drums and other instruments, he too started learning to play various instruments and a year later, also started writing his own songs.

He was inspired to sing after seeing James Hetfiled, Metallica’s vocalist do “Nothing else matters’ which he considers the best metal ballad of all time.

He listens to all music genres except Rap and Trance. He is the vocalist and guitarist for metal band ‘Dark D.A. Chasie (Atso) Vengeance’ which is managed by his Song Title : The monolith Code : IN3 brother Senti Longchar.

Atso Chasie is a 28 Wanting to try something outside year old professional his comfort zone he started expericlassical guitarist who menting and composing pop ballads was the first Naga to just to test people’s reactions. He is be certified “Grade currently also working on a pop album 8 Classical Guitar” in which will be released very soon.

2008 under Trinity College London.

PurpleFusion He has taken master classes from Song Title : Tring tring – Marks of war guitar greats such as Andres Csaki, Code : FF1 Pavel Steidl, Denis Azabagic, David Russell, Christian Lavernier and Laurent Boutros.

He has also participated in various national and international guitar Formed in mid 2012, Purple Fu- festivals and competitions and is the sion incorporates ethnic Naga folk recipient of many awards. These inmusic with genres like Blues, Jazz, clude Young Talented Artist Award Funk, Reggae and Rock to create a (NEZCC) 2014, Winner - National unique blend of music different from Guitar contest (Axe Power) 2013 bewhat we usually get to listen to in this sides many other state and regional level awards. modern electronic age.

Apart from performing, Atso has They have performed with some big names like John W Schlitt of Petra, been an independent music teacher Rahul Ram of Indian Ocean, Rabbi since 2004 and earlier taught classical Shergill etc and were the only band guitar at Symphony School of Music, from Northeast India to have per- Kohima and currently at G. Rio Secformed at IFFI (International Film ondary School.

Festival of India).

Their debut music video “Tring Kohdi Jing Tring – Marks of War“ has been fea- Song Title : R.E.D. tured on VH1 and MTV and they have Code : EDM1 Kohdiba Jinalso worked with MTV India for a music program call Mtv Sound Trip- gru Sangtam was pin S2 with vocalist Lamtsala as the born in Tuensang and raised main act for one entire episode.

Their music was also used for in Dimapur. This a documentary called “Songs of 17 year old has the Blue Hills” by a national award a keen interest in tronic winning director and which was music, particularly Elecscreened in Warsaw - Switzerland, Dance Music (EDM). He developed Sweden, New York, Italy and China. a liking for this genre of music from a Recently, PF has released their young age and as a result, took a step debut album “Folk Reminiscence” forward in this field by producing his globally via iTunes, Spotify and Ama- original debut dubstep track “R.E.D“.

As difficult as it may be, he is rezon on 27th August 2014. ally determined to follow his dream which is to pursue a career in music Alem Alia Jr. come what may. According to Kohdi, Song Title : Where I belong the Music Awards of Nagaland gives Code : FF2 Alem Alia Jamir is a him the chance to pit his creative session musician and work against that of the best in the a songwriter current- state. He is hopeful that this will give ly working at Tribes him valuable exposure and build a Music & Media Lab, strong foundation to stand upon and Dimapur. He was mu- is grateful to the organizers for prosically trained at Patkai viding this platform for the recogniChristian College and over tion of many unnoticed talents. the years has played with many well known bands in Nagaland.

DJ Ina He has collaborated in countless Song Title : Sweet Escape musical projects with the ‘who’s who’ Code : EDM2 in the Nagaland music scene and is Based in the only musician to win awards in New Delhi, DJ three consecutive editions of the MuIna is one of the sic Awards of Nagaland. first DJs from His joint projects with project with Nagaland and Ruokuovotuo and again with Kenei the only one Chale, both of Naga Idol fame won from Northeast the awards for Best Pop Song in 2011 India to have & 2012 respectively. He also won the won the presaward for Best Folk Fusion Song in tigious award 2012 with ‘Live a better life’ which he of ‘Best Genre retained last year with his song “One”.

Bender’ at the He is also the composer of the VIMA Asia Music Awards 2014 held in theme songs of the Nagaland Bam- Malaysia. In June 2012, he also bagged boo Mission as well as that of the Seri- the 1st Runner up spot at the Palm culture Department.

Battle of the DJs India held in Mumbai.

DJ Ina is popularly known for his Mughami Melos signature turntable scratches with a Song Title : This is the day relentless, catchy & groovy playlist Code : FF3 who has performed in all regions of Northeast as well as in most of the metropolitan cities of India making him the only DJ from NE to do so.

He is currently working on his debut EP album which is due for release early next year.

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ISL: North East United starts off with a win GUWAHAtI, OctOBER 13 (AGENcIES): North East United FC rewarded a ridiculously wonderful crowd in Guwahati with a hard-fought, bit-of-asmash-and-grab win over the Kerala Blasters, as Sachin Tendulkar's side, despite plenty of huffing and puffing, failed to open their Indian Super League campaign with three points.

This was a match which was dominated by the Blasters, in terms of possession and chances created, but when it came to taking your opportunity it was Koke who came to the fore, firing home a wonderful little half-volley past David James to give North East United FC a we'll-take-thateven-if-it-was-not-thegreatest-of-performances victory.

The first thing that hit you as a spectator at the Indira Gandhi Stadium was the noise – it's like the entire North East had bottled their cheers into one giant bottle at the stadium and unleashed it over the 90 minutes of the match.

The Kerala Blasters, wearing those Brazil-inspired colours, did their best to silence the crowd, however, controlling the football and dictating play.

For the first half hour of the game, there was only one team in the game with the Blasters doing all the forward-thinking.

NorthEast United just failed to get hold of possession, and when they did, they could do little with it with James Keene and Koke left very much isolated.

At the other end, Kerala's two forwards were very much involved, especially CS Sabeeth, who got the nod ahead of Andrew Barisic and Michael Chopra. Iain Hume was also a busy little bee for the Kerala Blasters, making runs in behind the North East defence or coming deep to pick up the ball and run at the defence.

However, for all of the Blasters' possession, chances were hard to come by as the experienced Penn Orji, who has been there and done that in Indian

Spanish midfielder Koke from North East United scores the winning goal against Kerela Blasters in the ongoing Indian Super League at Guwahati on October 13.

football, could not quite find his magical playmaking skills.

The Blasters, though, did find the back of the net in the 16th minute of the match, even if it was

correctly ruled out for offside. Sabeeth, running onto a through ball on the left flank, played in a nice ball for Stephen Pearson, whose perfect cross was buried into the net by

Hume. However, the Canadian international did make that run a tad too early and the offside flag was rightly raised by the assistant referee.

Sabeeth then forced a

Spain rebounds with win at Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG, OctOBER 13 (AP): Diego Costa scored his first goal for Spain in seven appearances to help the defending European champion ease to a 4-0 win at Luxembourg and rebound from its first qualifying loss in eight years on Sunday.

The placid victory put Spain back on track to qualifying for the 2016 European championship three days after its 36-game unbeaten streak in qualifying ended in a 2-1 upset at Slovakia.

David Silva steered Spain to a 2-0 lead by opening the scoring in the 27th minute and setting up Paco Alcacer for his third goal in as many games in the 42nd.

Costa missed several chances before the Premier League's leading scorer ended his frustration with Spain in the 69th.

"I was really annoyed at not having scored before.

Now it is a fresh start," Costa said. "I hope that from now on everything will go better for me. It was difficult for me to score, and in many games where I had not scored, the side lost. I have to thank the boss for all the opportunities he has given me to demonstrate what I can do."

Juan Bernat capped the win in the 88th from a pass from fellow debutante Ro-

nice save from Alexandros Tzorvas, with the Greece international having to dive across to his right to keep out an effort from the edge of the box.

North East United, at

the other end, were forced to go for long-range efforts, with David James having to very little until the 33rd minute, when the former England goalkeeper was forced into a marvellous one-handed save to keep out a 30-and-more-yarder from Durga Boro. The ball looked destined to go into the top corner, only for the fingertips of James to turn it onto the post and safety.

However, the Kerala blasters player-manager could do little to prevent NorthEast United from making it 1-0 right on the stroke of halftime, as Koke, the former Malaga and Rayo Vallecano player, swept the ball into the bottom corner brilliantly off a half-volley.

It was a little cruel on the Blasters to go into halftime a goal down, but the incredible crowd in Guwahati had got their first special moment of the evening.

The second half was all about more pressing and probing from the Kerala Blasters, but that NorthEast backline, marshalled

quite well by Spain World Cup winner Joan Capdevila, could not be pierced.

The Blasters did put the ball in the back of the net again, but one more time it was ruled out for offside, with assistant coach Trevor Morgan going into all-out attack mode in the final 20 minutes, by bringing on Michael Chopra and Andrew Barisic.

Chopra nearly got the first ever goal for the Blasters with a nice little run and shot which needed a really good save by Tzorvas.

Chopra, who will definitely start games for his side once he gets his fitness to a 100 percent, then had the best chance of the game for the Kerala Blasters in the 84th minute, with only a goalline clearance keeping the score at 1-0 to the home side.

There were a few frantic moments at either end in the final five minutes, with both teams coming close to scoring the second goal of the game, but 1-0 it remained, which suited NorthEast United and the home crowd perfectly.

Loyem Memorial Senior Championship

DIMAPUR, OctOBER 13 (MExN): The 22nd Loyem Memorial Senior Soccer Open Championship 2014 will start from October 21. The event is being organized by the Confederation of Chang Students’ Union (CCSU). A press note from

the CCSU informed that Advisor to DUDA, Thongwang Konyak will grace the opening ceremony. Interested parties can obtain entry forms from Creativity Computer near ECS office. The issue of forms started on October 9 and will go on till October 17.

with Spain, Costa had come up empty in his six matches despite his nine goals for Chelsea and excellent 2013-14 season with Spanish champion Atletico Madrid.

As expected, Spain dominated possession from the start on the rainslicked pitch at Josy Barthel Stadium. But Costa needed a plethora of chances to finally get his goal.

Of seven early shots by the Brazilian-born striker, three were saved by goalie Jonathan Joubert while the rest were off-target.

So it fell to Silva to break through when the forward controlled a long ball for Costa that a defender had headed back. Silva used his left foot to deftly control the loose ball with one touch before unleashing a strike from outside the area that sailed past Joubert.

Costa insisted but his Player of EAC XI (Red Jersey) and OCYA (Blue Jersey) at the ongoing MDFA 2014 Trophy in miss in the 31st saw him Mokokchung Monday, October 13. pull his shirt over his head October 13 Monday Match results: Hat-trick (4 goals) by Jersey No. 10 Imnain disbelief that his shot sashi of OCYA 1st Match: went well wide after he had October 14 Tuesday Matches: Telongjem FC (3) – (2) Lensar FC all the space and time he 1st Match: Arrjusanger FC Vs SSS 2nd Match: could have asked for to size 2nd Match: Y/A Marepkong Vs Citizen SC Eastern Wing FC (0) – (3) Fusion SC up Joubert.

3rd Match: Arkong SC -A Vs Walunir Ritsüng 3rd Match: Just when Luxembourg @ Imkongmeren Sports Complex EAC XI Kubolong (0) – (4) OCYA had forced De Gea in acMokokchung from 11:30 AMb2 tion for the first time, Alcacer made it 2-0 when he stroked in a short pass from Silva after Dani Carvajal made an incursion down the right side.

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Spain's Diego Da Silva Costa, left, fights for the ball with Luxembourg's Maxime Chanot, right, during the Euro 2016 qualifying match in group C between Luxembourg and Spain at the Josy Barthel stadium, in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Sunday, October 12. (AP Photo)

drigo Moreno, providing Spain coach Vicente del Bosque with proof that he is rejuvenating the national team. "We are all happy with Diego Costa's goal, and he will be a very useful player for us," Del Bosque said. "We have to continue picking up points and improving our way of playing little by little."

Elsewhere, Slovakia won 3-1 at Belarus thanks to a double by Marek Ham-

sik to remain the leader of Group C with nine points.

Spain is level with Ukraine on six points after Ukraine beat Macedonia 1-0 at home. Macedonia and Luxembourg have one point each. After aligning 11 players against Slovakia who all took part in Spain's failed bid to defend its World Cup title, Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque made four changes to his lineup and gave debuts to

Bernat and Moreno in the second half.

The most significant change was turning the goalkeeping duties over to David de Gea following Iker Casillas' error against Slovakia that has earned him further criticism after his poor showing in Brazil.

The other major move was to start Alcacer alongside Costa in place of Cesc Fabregas. While Alcacer has enjoyed a perfect start

Wayne Rooney leads England to victory

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tALLINN, OctOBER 13 (AP): Wayne Rooney curled in a 73rd-minute free kick to earn England an uninspiring 1-0 win over 10-man Estonia and a third straight victory in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship on Sunday.

Playing in his 99th international, the England captain made up for squandering two decent first-half chances by whipping a shot over the wall and inside the near post, with goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko parrying the ball against the upright but unable to keep it out.

England coach Roy Hodgson was contemplating taking off Rooney when the Manchester United striker scored his 43rd international goal that moved him to within one of Jimmy Greaves, who is third on England's all-time list. Rooney needs seven more goals to overhaul England's leading scorer, Bobby Charlton.

Estonia, ranked No. 81, had captain Ragnar Klavan sent off in the 48th minute for a second yellow card but did a good job in frustrat-

Estonia's Karol Mets, left, and Igor Morozov fight for the ball with England's Wayne Rooney, right, and Phil Jagielka during the Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match between Estonia and England in Tallinn, Estonia, Sunday, October 12. (AP Photo)

ing England in the Group E match. "The pleasing thing is we have a young team, we knew it was going to tough but we hung in well," Rooney said. "Nights like this are going to help us."

Rooney, England's captain, always looked the likely scorer for the visitors in a drab game in Tallinn.

He had eight shots in all and wasted a one-on-one opportunity in second-half injury time by shooting straight at Pareiko.

England had previously beaten Switzerland and San Marino in qualifying and tops the group.

Lithuania was looking to move level on points with

England but lost 2-0 to Slovenia, which is tied on six points with its beaten opponent. Milivoje Novakovic scored both goals in the first half. San Marino hosts Switzerland on Tuesday, with both countries without a point after two games.

Save for an early scare when Sergei Zenjov saw a low

shot deflected narrowly wide, England was in control in A. Le Coq Arena but lacked any guile in the final third to finish off good approach play.

Rooney volleyed over from a chipped pass from the lively Jack Wilshere midway through the first half and then failed to make connection from close range to a cross from Leighton Baines.

Estonia defended stoutly but its task of sneaking the biggest win in its history got harder when Klavan cynically blocked Fabian Delph as the England midfielder ran through toward the area. The referee, who had booked the defender in the 29th for impeding Danny Welbeck, had no option but to show a red card.

England struggled to open up Estonia's defense in open play, so was thankful for the intervention from Rooney, who raised his arms and looked up to the sky after the ball nestled in the back of the net. "It was a good free kick from Wayne," said Hodgson, "but it was a frustrating night for him."

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